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We will be discussing the hot topic of amendments to the IAS cadre rules, we will be seeing about gene silencing, we will talk about our webend technology and also about space debris and then we will move on to the practice questions discussion session where we will be discussing problems practice questions. So with this introduction now let us get to the first discussion. So today our discussion is going to start with the hot topic of the day which is the proposed amendments to the Indian administrative service cadre rules of 1954. These amendments have been proposed by the central government yesterday. So in this regard two news articles and an editorial article has appeared in newspaper today. We will cover these articles. Now this news article mentions that a Tamil Nadu MP has urged the central government to drop the proposed changes to the rules. And then this editorial article talks about some examples of politicization of central deputation process in the all India service officers. It also talks about the proposed amendments and how the proposed amendment will have a long impact. And finally the editorial stresses on the fact that why important should be given to cooperative federalism. And then the second news article gives us data about the decrease in central deputation of IAS officers in the recent years. So this is the essence of these three articles. So therefore today in our discussion we will see the important provisions in the IAS cadre rules. Then we will see the recent amendments proposed. And then we will see why central government has proposed these amendments. And we will also see why states are opposing it. And finally we will see the significance of all India services in the central state relations. So let us see all these aspects today. Before that the syllabus relevant to this discussion is given here for a reference. You can take note of it. So now let us start with the important provisions in the Indian administrative service cadre rules of 1954. In short IAS service cadre rules of 1954. Here the first rule we should know is about the rule four. Now this rule states that the strength and composition of each of the state cadders shall be determined by the regulations made by the central government. And these regulations have to be made in consultation with the state governments according to this rule. So here you should note the word consultation. That means here the center just needs to consult with the states and the center need not concur with the states. That is the center need not be in agreement with the states opinion. So this is stated in rule four. Now next important rule we should know is rule five. This one deals with the allocation of members to various cadders. Now the rule five clause one states that the allocation of cadder officers to various cadders shall be made by the central government. In consultation with the state government or the state government concerned. So here also only consultation is required. But the rule five clause two states that central government may transfer a cadre officer from one cadre to another cadre. And this has to be done with the concurrence of the state government concerned. So that means in case of transfer the central government has to concur with the state government. Now next comes the important rule which is rule six. This rule is important because the amendments have been proposed to a clause under this rule only. Now this rule six deals with the deputation of cadre officers. Now according to sub clause one of this rule a cadre officer may be deputed for service. They may be deputed to service under the central government or another state government or they may be deputed to a company association or a body of individuals which is wholly or substantially owned and controlled by the central government or any other state government. So they can be deputed to all these places. But the fact to be noted here is that they may be deputed with the concurrence of the state governments concerned. And also with the concurrence of the central government. So you should note that the concurrence of the state government is necessary here. And further in case of disagreement between the central government and the state government according to this rule the matter will be decided by the central government. And once the central government decides on the matter the state government should implement the decision of the central government. This is mentioned in the rule six clause one or sub rule one and the changes or the amendments have been proposed in this rule only. But that is also a sub rule two under this rule six. According to it no cadre officer shall be deputed to any organization or body except with her or his consent. That is without their consent they cannot be deputed as per this rule. So these are the important rules that you should know in IS cadre rules of 1954. Now in addition to these rules there are also some good conventions that are carried out which have helped in the healthy functioning of center state relations. One of the important convention is that no officer was sent on central deputation against their will. See this was mainly done according to rule six clause two as we just saw. And it was also done as part of the convention. In addition to this every year the states would also prepare an offer list of officers who had opted for the central deputation and while preparing this list the states normally does not withhold any names arbitrarily. So once this offer list is prepared the center would choose officers only from among this list. So that means this offer list gives the names of the officers who are on offer from the states for deputation. And once the center choose the officers from this list the states would relieve the officers at the earliest possible. So these were the common conventions regarding the deputation. But recently due to intrusion of politics in the deputation process these healthy conventions are not followed. And here we need to blame both the center and the states. For example if you take recently in 2021 the central government unilaterally issued orders for the central deputation of the chief secretary of West Bengal. This led to a major uproar why because these orders were issued just before the officers last day in service. So through this the center was on twisting the rival party in West Bengal. So here the center was at fault. Now there is another example. Here in 2014 a senior IPS officer from Tamil Nadu relieved herself from the state service in accordance with the center's direction. See here first the state government gave clearance but at the last moment the state IPS officer was suspended by the state government. So here the state government was at fault. So these two examples show that both the center and states have been politicizing the process especially the deputation process and it has been affecting the smooth functioning of the governments. Now to solve these issues and to tip the scale to its side central government has announced the amendments to IS cadre rules. And mainly four amendments have been proposed to the rule 6 sub rule 1. That is the one which deals with the deputation of cadre officers. So let us see these amendments now. The first proposed amendment says that in case of any disagreement between the center and the state the matter shall be decided by the central government and the state has to give effect to the decision of the center within a specified time. See currently in the rules the words within a specified time is not present. So because of this the states delay the implementation of this order of central government and now this amendment will put a stop to such delays. This is the first proposed amendment. Now the next amendment is proposed with reference to the first one. That is what will happen in a situation when there is still delay from state government's side in posting a state cadre officer to the center. According to the proposed amendment when there is delay it means that the state government did not give effect to the central government's decision within the specified time. So that means at this scenario the amendment proposes that the officer shall stand relieved from the cadre from the date as specified by the central government. See as of now the officers have to get a no objection clearance from the state government for central deputation. This is where the delay is caused by the state government. That is they will delay in giving the no objection clearance. But if this amendment comes into force then it will change the requirement for clearance because if even after the specified time the state government delays the deputation process then the officer will stand relieved from the cadre. Now the third proposed amendment is that the center will decide the actual number of officers who are to be deputed to the central government in consultation with the state. So this amendment actually makes it mandatory for the state government to provide a certain fixed number of IS officers for central deputation every year. Now the fourth and final proposed amendment is in specific situations where services of cadre officers are required by the central government in public interest then the state shall give effect to the decision of the central government within a specified time. So that means if the central government requires the services of a cadre officer for any public interest then the state government has to obey it. So these are the proposed amendments to the IS cadre rules. Now the central government has some arguments as to why it has proposed these amendments. First central government is arguing that the states are not sponsoring adequate number of officers for central deputation. So the number of officers is not sufficient to meet the requirement at the center. So actually as per the existing rules the states have to maintain 40 percentage of their sanctioned post in the central deputation reserve. This central deputation reserve is what is called a CDR. But the problem is states are not meeting their CDR obligations. That is they are not maintaining the 40 percentage criteria. And it could also be found that the number of officers sponsored by the states to serve the union government are much less than the reserve. Actually according to the data available with the department of personal and training the CDR utilization has gone down from 2011 to 2021. That is it has reduced from 25 percentage in 2011 to 18 percentage presently. So due to this the central government has proposed the amendment. Now the second argument put forward by the central government is that the existing rules did not have specific provisions to cater to situations when services of all India service officer may be warranted in the center. Such services may be warranted to meet specific situations such as a major disaster or national security. And that is why the fourth amendment was proposed by the central government according to it. Now the third argument put forward by the central government is that all India service officers having specific domain expertise may be required for any important time-bound flagship program or flagship project. But the current CADR rules do not have a specific provision to cater to such situations. And that is why these amendments have been proposed. So these are the arguments put forward by the central government for the proposed amendments to IAS CADR rules. But the state governments are concerned with this amendments and that is why they are opposing it. Let us see why. See the first concern is regarding the mandatory allocation of certain fixed number of IAS officers for central deputation every year. So what this means is this amendment actually compels the state government to offer IAS officers for central deputation. And secondly it compels even the officers even when they are not wishing to go on central deputation. And according to the author of the editorial the real reasons for shortage of IAS officers at the center is due to the poor working conditions in junior level posts. And even in senior level posts there are opaque and arbitrary system of empanagement. And there is also lack of security of tenure at all levels. So due to these issues only the IAS officers are not opting for central deputation. And that is why the state governments are unable to provide more number of officers for central deputation. But the central government is citing that state government is not just providing officers. And that is why they are requiring the amendment. So here author is of the view that instead of the proposed amendment the government must focus on addressing the issues in the central deputation first. Now the second concern is in regard to the amendment that states that in specific situation the central government in public interest shall seek service of cadre officers. Now here author argues that this provision will make the state governments worried. Why because this amendment does not define the specific situation. So it has the potential to be misused for political considerations. Now the third concern is that the proposed amendments will also have a long term impact. It will have grave implications for the independent security and morale of IAS officers. According to the author this could even make the states to doubt the loyalty of IAS officers. So if they begin to doubt the loyalty then the states will start to prefer officers of the state civil services to handle as many posts as possible. So this will reduce the number of IAS cadre posts and it will also reduce the annual intake of IAS officers by the states. And if this happens then in due course the brightest minds of our country will choose state services only and they will no longer opt for IAS as a carrier. So this was the third concern. And fourthly overall these amendments works against the spirit of cooperative fatalism. And that is why it will affect the center state relations. See solving this issue regarding IAS cadre rules is quite important to have a smooth functioning center state relation. And why do we need a smooth functioning center state relation. To understand that let us see its significance. See first of all Sardar Vallabhai Patel considered the all India services as essential to knit the administrative framework of the vast and diverse country like India into an integrated whole. He felt that all India service would provide a connecting link between implementation at the field level and policy making at the top level. So Sardar Vallabhai Patel considered all India services as an essential ingredient in center state relations. And secondly we know that all India service cadres serve the central government as well as the state government. So when they work with the state governments they gain grass root experience of the district and when working with the central government they take a wider view of reality. So through this they are able to redesign the state policy in tune with the national needs. And further their role is much important during a presidential role in the states because at these times the all India service officers act as representatives of the union government and they smoothen the transition. So they essentially act as a bridge between the union government and the state government. And finally the all India service provides uniform standards of administration to the country because these services are common between the central and the states. They provide uniform standards of administration from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Dwarka to Debrugad. So this helps in building cooperation between the center and states. So that is why functioning of all India services without any problem is important for center state relations. And that is why we need to first solve the problem of ISCADR rules now. So let us see what are all the other arguments put by the central government for proposing this amendment. And what are all the arguments put by the state government for opposing such amendment. So with this we have come to the end of this discussion. Today we saw the important provisions in ISCADR rules. Then we saw the proposed amendments and why central government has proposed the amendments and why it has been opposed by the state governments. So with these points in mind let us move on to the next discussion. So this news article is reporting about an incident where a Chinese satellite would have collided. It would have collided with space debris. So there was a near possible collision of this Chinese satellite with the space debris. Now the satellite which is in question here is the China's single satellite. It came as close as 14.5 meters from the pieces of debris. And according to the news article this debris was a result of a recent Russian anti-satellite missile test. In this test Russia blew up an old satellite as a part of its missile test. So the blown up pieces have been accumulated as debris there.  So USA has accused Russia for carrying out such a dangerous test which created a cloud of debris. So this is the crux of the news article. Now this space debris is becoming greater issue as it is posing many threats. So today we are going to focus about space debris and the dangers posed by them. The syllabus relevant to this discussion is given here for a reference. Now first of all what is this space debris? See generally when we say debris it means scattered pieces of rubbish or scrap. So in the same manner space debris refers to the rubbish or scrap material in space. So what could be these materials? It could be natural meteoroids or even artificial orbital debris. Now we know that meteoroids are the space rocks that range in size. They could be like dust grains or even they could be small asteroids. Why? Because most of these space rocks are pieces of larger bodies that have broken off or that have been blasted off and these larger bodies could be comets, asteroids, sometimes moons or even other planets. So meteoroids are the blast of pieces from comets, asteroids, moons and planets. Now because of this some meteoroids are rocky and some are metallic and some could even be a combination of rock and metal. And importantly note that these meteoroids orbit the Sun. Now as I just said these meteoroids are logically scrap leftover from the comets, asteroids, planets etc. So they constitute space debris. So when you say space debris it also includes these natural meteoroids. Now next it also includes artificial orbital debris. So what is orbital debris? It is any human made object in orbit about the earth and it no longer serves a useful function. Now such debris include non-functional spacecraft, abandoned launch vehicle stages, mission-related debris and even fragmentation debris. So these are human made and remember most artificial debris are in orbit about the earth and they also orbit the earth. So simply the orbital debris term is used for space debris created by humans and that is why this is important to us. Here remember the main difference between a meteoroid and orbital debris. Meteoroids they orbit the Sun whereas these orbital debris also orbit the earth. So in this manner let us see some interesting facts about space debris especially the orbital debris. Now these orbital debris are in different size because they are just broken pieces of materials. So some are even larger than a soft ball. According to the available data there are approximately 23,000 pieces of debris orbiting the earth in this size. And these debris which are larger than a soft ball they travel at speeds up to 17,500 miles per hour. And note that this speed is fast enough to damage a satellite or a spacecraft. So this is one size. And there are also debris in the size of marble or even larger that is they will be up to 0.4 inches or 1 centimeter. And according to the available data there are half a million pieces of debris which are in this particular size. And there are more than 100 million pieces of debris which are about one millimeter and larger. Here one millimeter would be 0.04 inches. And then we also have a smaller micrometer sized debris. Now the problem with such smaller debris is that even tiny paint flecks can damage a spacecraft when they are traveling at high velocities. See here when we say fleck it refers to a patch or a dot or even a strain of color. So these even tiny paint flecks can damage a spacecraft. And it should be noted that a number of space shuttle especially their windows are replaced because of damage caused by these paint flecks. Now in this image you can see a damaged window for spacecraft. And this is caused by a paint fleck. So you can see the extent of damage it can cause. Now we will think that when a debris is of greater size it will be creating more problems. But actually the millimeter sized orbital debris they pose the highest mission ending risk. Especially they pose risk to the most robotic spacecraft that operate in low earth orbit. So there are many instances in which a functioning satellite or a spacecraft was damaged by space debris. For example if we take in 2009 a defunct russian spacecraft it collided with and destroyed a functioning US commercial spacecraft. Now the problem was that initially this US spacecraft was damaged. Now in addition to this this collision even added more debris to the space debris. According to the estimates more than 2300 pieces of large trackable debris and many even smaller debris have been added to the inventory of space junk. So from this you would have understood the extent of threat posed by the space debris to the countries and their space and even to their communication technologies. So now actually why we are in such a situation. See the rapid increase of space activity has accelerated the creation of orbital debris. So it threatens the safety of spacecraft and crews. This also affects the sustainability of the space environment in low earth orbit. Here in this graph you can see the data about the number of space launches over a period of time. So that is an increasing trend since 1956. Even though after 1984 that was a drop but then again after 2004 there is an increasing trend. Now this mainly happened because of the advent of commercial launch industry and miniaturized satellites. These commercial launch industries and miniaturized satellites have significantly decreased the cost of owning and even launching a spacecraft. So this has led to launching of spacecrafts by many countries. So this in turn have increased the orbital debris. For example I have given you a pictorial representation here. Now this picture refers to the earth before 1957. You can see the space is clean but if you see the picture taken in 2010 here you can see the white dots. These dots represent the space debris and you can see how far earth has been surrounded by these space debris. So before concluding this discussion let us overall see the concerns posed by these orbital debris. The most important concern as you already saw is the possibility of collision and when there is a growing number of debris in space the risk of collision is also higher and here in this graph you can see the collision data. Now in addition to this there is also higher and greater risk of incurring financial and operational losses. See this acts like a ripple effect because due to the collision financial losses are incurred. Now other than these financial and operational losses there are also economic losses to the countries. Why? Because assume that a communication satellite of a country is damaged by a space debris. So that means here the country did not just lose the satellite but it has also lost its entire communication network and this will be leading to major economic losses. So these are the concerns and risks posed by these space debris. So to save humans from such disasters the solution is first reducing space debris generation and second we can also clean up the existing space debris. Actually there are some measures suggested by experts for cleaning up the space debris but we'll see these measures some other day. Today we are just ending with the discussion about space debris along with the concerns. So overall space debris are just space junk. It could be of two types one it could be a meteoroid or second it could be artificial orbital debris. These orbital debris are created by humans that is their man-made and this is the result of non-functional spacecraft abandoned launch vehicle stages etc. Now these debris come in different sizes. It could be larger than a softball or it could be even micrometer sized and we saw that millimeter sized orbital debris represent the highest emission ending risk. And finally we saw that the reason for such a situation is due to the increase in space activity. This was due to the launch of commercial launch industry and miniaturized satellites. And finally we saw the concerns first is the possibility of collision then we have financial losses then operation losses and also economic losses to the countries. So with these points in mind now let us move to the next discussion. So our next discussion is based on this news article. It mentions that the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force have selected 84 anti-armor weapon through a competitive process. This weapon belongs to Swedish defense manufacturer called as Saab. So from exam perspective let us see some important facts about this 84 weapon system. See firstly this is a single shot weapon which means it can hold only one round of ammunition and then it has to be manually reloaded after every shot. And secondly it is an anti-armor weapon.  See basically this weapon is used by the infantry to attack different kinds of targets and these targets could be behind heavy bricks or even behind concrete walls or they could be within a field fortification or in a light armored vehicle. Wherever they are they could be targeted using this 84 weapon because it can destroy the enemy fortification also. Now this 84 anti-armor weapon is disposable weapon. That means it has a preloaded ammunition so once it is fired the weapon cannot be reused. So this makes the cost of 84 weapon system very cheap. Now next this weapon is a recoilless rifle. See recoil means the backward thrust which is generated when a gun is fired. But this weapon system has no recoil to it. Instead of that a forward inertia of the projectile is balanced by the inertia of propellant gas that is ejected from the rear end of the barrel. As you can see in this image here this is the projectile gas blowout. So this thrust generated by the projectile gas blowout counters the recoil. So this makes the 84 system recoilless which is actually an advantage.  Why because this back blast or the back blowout may sometimes cause severe burns and it can cause over pressure injuries to even a friendly personnel who is near the area. And sometimes it might even injure the user of this weapon especially if it is used in a confined space. And finally such a back blast may also reveal the user's position to the army because a blast generates a lot of light. So the enemy will immediately know the position of the user. But this disadvantage has been rectified in the new variant of 84. This variant is called 84 CS AST. Now India has ordered this variant also. So that means this variant can be fired even within confined spaces such as from inside buildings, bunkers and other urban environments. And note that mainly this variant has two modes. One is the breach mode and the other is the blast mode. Now in case of blast mode the main charge will detonate when it is in contact with the target. So this mode is used to destroy structures. So once it comes in contact with the structure it will detonate. But in case of breach mode the main charge will detonate only after it breaches the target. That means in this mode the projectile will not explode in contact with the building but it will enter the building and then explode thereby defeating the enemy. So that is why this breach mode is used to defeat enemies who are inside a building. So this makes the 84 CS AST variant a perfect candidate for urban warfare. And moreover this is a single soldier operated weapon system and it has already proven efficacy against structures, landing craft, helicopters, armored vehicles and personnel. So it could be used against all these enemy structures. With this we have come to the end of this news article discussion. In this discussion we saw about a weapon system called as 84 weapon system which is manufactured by a Swedish company. So now let us move on to the next discussion. Now our next discussion is based on this news article. It talks about a proposal made by the Union Environment Ministry. This proposal is to rank and incentivize states based on their quickness in providing environmental clearances to proposed infrastructure projects. So mainly it will rate these state environment impact assessment authority and it will rate its level of transparency, efficiency and accountability. Now this proposal has been criticized by environmentalists because they fear that this will lead to providing of environmental clearances without proper scrutiny so as to meet the time limit. So let us see what happens. This is the crux of the news article. Now in this context let us see few facts relevant to the examination about the state environment impact assessment authority. See this authority is constituted under the environment impact assessment notification of 2006. As you know this notification was notified under the Environment Protection Act of 1986. Now this authority is empowered to grant environmental clearances. As you know environmental clearance is provided to those projects that does not damage environment. So the main purpose of environmental clearance is to mitigate pollution and to protect the environment. Now in this regard this authority is assisted by a committee called as state expert appraisal committee. This appraisal committee scrutinizes the projects and it forwards its recommendations to the authority. Now after getting these recommendations the authority uses it for taking a decision on granting a environmental clearance. So first the expert appraisal committee scrutinizes the project then it gives recommendations to the authority then authority decides whether to grant the clearance or not. Now what about the composition of this authority. So basically the authority is constituted by the central government and it comprises of a chairman and three members. And one member is a member secretary who is to be nominated by the concerned state government or the unitary administration. Now such member secretary shall be a serving officer of the concerned state government or the unitary administration and she should be familiar with environmental laws. Then the other two members shall be either a professional or expert and they should fulfill the eligibility criteria given in the notification that is the EIA notification. Now the state environmental impact assessment authority has two important roles. Firstly they can impose certain restrictions on new projects or activities which have environmental impacts. And secondly they can also prohibit new projects or activities or they can prohibit the expansion or modernization of existing projects in activities. And this prohibition is done based on the potential environmental impacts of such projects. Now we know that under the EIA notification the projects are classified into two. They are classified into category A and category B. This is mainly to provide the environmental clearance and also to assess the potential environmental impact of such projects. Now in this the projects which fall under the category A requires environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change. That is the Union Ministry. But the projects which fall under category B they require environmental clearance first from the state environment impact assessment authority that is the authority which we are discussing about. So that means this authority is involved in providing environmental clearance to the projects that fall under category B projects under EIA notification of 2006. So these are the few crucial facts that we need to know about the state environment impact assessment authority. Now let us move to the next discussion. Now our next discussion and the last discussion for today is going to be based on this news article which has been taken from the Hyderabad edition. It talks about a bio drug. This bio drug is developed to treat cancer and this bio drug is derived from turmeric through a gene silencing approach called as RNA interference and this drug has been developed by the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in collaboration with National Chemical Laboratory. So both CCMB and NCL are CSIR entities. So today we are going to see about this gene silencing approach and also few facts about the bio drug derived from turmeric. Before that the syllabus relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference. See worldwide we know that cancer is one of the leading causes of death. It accounted for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020 and there are treatment options available to treat cancer and mainly chemo drugs that is chemotherapy drugs are administered along with removal of the tumor but the chemotherapy is non-specific and it is toxic. So it has many side effects. Therefore there is a leading quest to find believable therapeutic interventions to replace such chemo drugs. So in this manner only this recent development in the non-toxic bio drug mentioned in the news becomes important. This drug as I already said is derived from turmeric through RNA interference. This RNA interference is a gene silencing approach. So we will understand what is bio drug first and then we will see gene silencing. See bio drug is a substance that is made from a living organism or its products. This bio drug is used in prevention diagnosis or treatment of cancer and other diseases and such bio drugs include antibodies it includes interleukins and vaccines. See interleukins refers to a protein which mediate communication between cells. Now because of this the bio drug is also called as biologic agent or biological agent. So now what about the gene silencing approach. See this is an approach which is used to block the expression of a gene. For example it could block production of proteins. And one of the approaches in gene silencing is the RNA interference in short RNAi. Now to understand RNAi we need to briefly know about RNA and its functions. See as you know RNA stands for ribonucleic acid. It is a complex compound that functions in cellular protein synthesis. This RNA even replaces DNA as a carrier of genetic codes in some viruses. Now the three most well known RNAs are messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA. These are present in all organisms. Now all these carry out biochemical reactions which are similar to enzymes and they also have complex regulatory functions in cells. Therefore RNAs play an important role in normal cellular process and they also play an important role in diseases. But today our focus will be on mRNA that is messenger RNA. See this messenger RNA carries the genetic codes from the DNA in the nucleus to the ribosomes. As you know ribosome is the site of protein translation. It is situated in the cytoplasm of the cell. Now why the genetic codes need to be carried by mRNA because the information in DNA cannot be decoded directly into proteins. So first such information needs to be transcribed or copied into the mRNA. Now each molecule of mRNA encodes the information for one particular protein. So this mRNA specifies the incorporation of a particular amino acid within the protein. As you know a basic structure of protein is a chain of amino acids and that is why amino acid is the building block of protein. So this mRNA specifies the incorporation of that amino acid. Now after the information is transcribed to mRNA it moves to the cytoplasm and depending on the code carried by the mRNA a specific protein is produced. Therefore the key role of mRNA is protein synthesis. So now you have understood about mRNA and what it does. Now let us see how gene silencing works. Now we know that RNA is generally single stranded but there are also double stranded RNA molecules. Now these double stranded RNA are key activator of innate immune system. See this innate immune system is a defense system with which we are born. And this double stranded RNA molecule helps in silencing a specific messenger RNA. And this RNA will be the one which will be carrying a code for a disease causing protein. So such mRNA will produce disease causing protein sometimes. Now such mRNA is silenced by the double stranded RNA molecule. Now how it silences is the double stranded RNA binds to the disease causing mRNA. And this is done by producing a multi protein complex. This multi protein complex is called as the RNA interfering silencing complex. In short risk RASC. So this complex prevents the translation of mRNA in the ribosome which is present in the cytoplasm. Now this entire process of binding on to the disease causing mRNA and preventing the translation of mRNA is what is called as gene silencing. And this is done by the double stranded RNA. In short DS RNA. Now here the multi complex protein used is risk NO. And that is why this is RNA interfering process. And this takes place in all eukaryotic organism as a method of cellular defense. But if you remember that not all mRNA causes disease causing proteins. So in short the double stranded RNA interferes the mRNA that causes diseases. This is called as RNA interference or RNAi. So this prevents the specific mRNA from expressing. That is it prevents it from protein production. And therefore it prevents the disease causing protein thereby preventing us from diseases. And this is why gene silencing through RNAi approach is a promising tool for targeted and focused therapy because it is specified to a target. Here the target is the disease causing mRNA. And that is why it could be used in treating chronic diseases like cancer. But there is an issue with this method. The issue is it lacks a safe and effective delivery method for RNAi molecules. But this problem has also been addressed by the bio drug produced by CSIR entities. This bio drug contains the nano curcumin structures which is derived from turmeric. These nano curcumin structures are used to encapsulate RNAi and other molecules which helps in targeting the specific tissue or the specific protein. So what is this curcumin? This curcumin is a hydrophobic bioactive ingredient. It is found in a rhizome of a turmeric plant. Now this curcumin has nutraceutical properties meaning it has variety of biological and pharmacological action. However, it has certain drawbacks such as it has very low water solubility and it has poor bioavailability. That is its extent and rate at which the drug enters systemic circulation is poor. And then it also has poor metabolism. So due to these drawbacks successful therapeutic applications could not be done. But now the researchers have enhanced the biological and pharmacological activity of curcumin and this has led to overcoming the drawbacks. And mainly for this they have used the efficient delivery systems particularly nano encapsulation. See when they say nano encapsulation it refers to the process of encapsulating substances with various coating materials at the nano scale range. So here the RNAi is delivered by coating a bio drug which contains nano curcumin structures. And for this purpose nano curcumin was developed. This nano curcumin is nothing but the nano range formulation of curcumin. Now this is what has increased the biological and pharmacological benefits of curcumin. So therefore this curcumin is basically itself a well known nutraceutical or substance which provides medical or health benefits and it also has high anti-cancer properties and anti-inflammatory properties. So when this curcumin is combined with the RNAi then it could really bring success in the cancer treatment. And now the researchers have found that the nano curcumin with RNAi has proved to be helpful in retardation of tumors which provided a six month survival. These tumors were present in the aggressive models of colon cancer and breast cancer. So based on this even this methodology or technology can be used for other cancers also. So let us hope that this proves to be a successful model. So in this discussion we saw about mRNA and especially about RNA interference technology which is a gene silencing approach. And then we saw how nano curcumin will be efficient along with RNA interference for treating cancer. So these points in mind. Now let us move on to the next discussion which is the practice questions discussion. Now let us take up this first question. It asks consider the following statements with reference to a bio drug called nano curcumin. First statement it is derived from name tree. This statement is incorrect because we saw that curcumin is present in turmeric plant and the nano curcumin was produced from this curcumin only. So that means this nano curcumin is also derived from the turmeric plant and not the name tree. So the moment you know that statement one is incorrect you can eliminate options A and D because here the question asks for the correct statements. Now the second statement it has high anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties. This statement is correct. Basically turmeric itself has these properties. And then this third statement says it is used in cancer treatment. This statement is correct because the news article was regarding this only. So since both 2 and 3 are correct the correct answer to this question is option C 2 and 3 only. Now this next question asks which of the following are examples of anti-armor weapons? M72 law Carl Gustav 8.4 centimeter recoilless rifle RAC 1 and 2 Apilas law 80. See actually the correct answer is option D all of the above. All of these are anti-armor weapons. Just note that M72 law is produced by a Norwegian company. It is used by US military. And then the second Carl Gustav rifle was originally produced by a Swedish company called as Carl Gustav Stad's company. But this company was later merged into the Saab Dynamics company. We saw the 84 anti-armor weapon right. It belongs to this Saab Dynamics company only. And then the RAC 1 and 2 Apilas it is designed by a French company and this is used by various countries including France. Now next is law 80. It is developed and now currently manufactured by a British company called as Hunting Engineering. So the correct answer is option D all of the above. Now let us take two main questions based on today's discussions. Now this question is about space debris's discussion. And this is framed on the ISCADR rules amendments discussion. So those aspirants who are interested can write answers to these questions and post it in the comment section. And whenever we get time we will review your answer. So with this segment we have come to the end of today's in the news analysis. If you like this video like, comment and also share. And those who have not yet subscribed to our Shankar IS Academy YouTube channel please subscribe to receive timely updates of the videos regarding civil services preparation. Thank you.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan. Thank you all. Thank you all very much. This certainly is a, every shelf is full. Well it's, it's great to be back in Kentucky and back in the land of pioneer spirit and pride. Back here with Virginia Snyder, Hal Rogers, Larry Hopkins, and a man we need in the Senate, please send in their Mitch Hodano. I must have been thinking of the Archbishop, I said O'Connell, and the Connell. But now in the next few days, we'll probably see all kinds of polls and commentary saying this and that about a little argument that I've just finished here tonight. But I don't know, let me ask you a question or two. In this good debate, I really wanted to show that just maybe government is big enough already. I don't know whether I'd got that across. And I know I said it, but I don't know whether it registered or not that the American people aren't overtaxed, the government's overfed. Let us all here, whether we said it before or not, agree that America must leave behind the failed policies of the past and go forward with opportunity and the bright promise of the future. I'll be happy if we come away with just those ideas. We only have four weeks left, but the choice is as clear as any that America's faced in the last 50 years. Will we go forward with the faith and courage to make America stronger, to offer hope and opportunity to all our people, including those who still are not back on their feet as we heard so many times tonight? Or will we go back to the policies of soaring taxation and spending that weakened our economy, snuffed out so many opportunities, and threw so many millions into the cold embrace of genuine hardship? Well, we've already seen what happens when we follow the policies that our opponents have so faithfully promised to restore, the failed policies of tax and tax and spend and spend. We saw this once proud nation of ours a few years ago staggered by a steady erosion of economic growth. And I don't care what was said tonight or out on the road in the campaign trail, this country was in an economic mess of enormous proportions in 1980. They talk about fairness, but what was anything, what could be more unfair than that punishing inflation that could take people down through the brackets of poverty simply by raising the prices of things and lowering the value of the money that they had. We saw those interest rates, as I mentioned in the debate, 21.5 percent. And that closed down the housing industry, that closed down the automobile industry, both of which are dependent on credit buying, mortgage buying. Then we saw the rising unemployment. And I don't care what they say, 107 million employed is a lot bigger than 99 million employed, and that's the difference between now and 1980. Now, I didn't get a chance to reply tonight to all of those frequent references to an arms race. Well, you know, there was a cartoon back when we first started the rebuilding of the military that said it all for me. It was a picture of a couple of Russian generals talking to each other, and one of them said, I liked it better when we were the only ones in the arms race. We're going to get them back to the table to talk disarmament. I don't mean arms limitations. You know, some of the previous treaties that we've had, I know we're in good faith and all that, but all they did was set the rules for the continued arms race. When I got there, found out that SALT II, from the time that it was signed until I arrived in Washington, an expert in the field gave me the information that under the signing of SALT II, without breaking the treaty, the Soviet Union had added to their nuclear arsenal the equivalent of the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima. They had added that every 11 minutes in the years since the treaty had been signed. Well, that isn't what we want. And I had the pleasure of telling Mr. Gromyko the other day that any time they're ready, we're the only two that can destroy the world, our two nations are the only two that can save it. And I told him that I'd like to start down the road with them, not to just arms limitation, but to the total elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world. But I have a feeling, looking at all of you, that you agree with me about something else that's happened in these last few years. And that is that there's a whole different appreciation for the family in America, the bedrock values of our neighborhoods, the fact that our crime rates are coming down, the fact that now our schools in this last year have suddenly turned a corner and for the first time in 20 years we see the college entrance exams, the scores going up instead of the steady decline that we knew. And it didn't come from and it didn't come from any multi-billion dollar federal program. Yeah, we appointed a commission, the best people we could find, and said, come back and tell us what should we do about education in this country. They did. And we passed it on to you, to the people in the communities, to people in the school districts, to the teachers and the parents and the students. And all over the United States it's happening. There are now the compulsory courses in math and science that had been abandoned in so many places. There are the added requirements for graduation. And the whole picture is looking up to the place that the other day there was a poll taken about how people felt about their schools and for the first time in about a decade the American people said they were very happy about their schools. The things that were going on before we got here, they talk about fairness. Well, I have to say at least that I can savor the things they were doing. They were fair. They didn't discriminate. They made everybody miserable. Now, since we're not going to raise the taxes, I didn't get a chance to give the figures tonight, but we have cost out what his proposed tax increase would do. It would raise the tax for every household in the United States by more than $1,800 a year, about $157 a month. And I just don't think we ought to let him do that to America. So we'll keep him reminded of that. We'll keep the people reminded of it. And, you know, I can't help but think about this America here and what it's doing. We all watched the Olympics and we saw our athletes go for the gold. Well, there are two teams in America today. There's the Washington Tax Increase Team and the Grass Roots Opportunity Team. Now, making the economy bear the burden of our opponent's tax hike would be like having some of those Olympic swimmers, their coach telling them that they had to swim while carrying an anvil, or a runner was sprint with a ball and chain. And that's what Coach Taxhike and his Tax Increase Team want to do.  And they said it was a kickoff. I think it was a fumble. We want to bring your tax rates further down, not up. We want to create opportunities for all Americans, women and men, young and old, by controlling the size of government and giving you new incentives to work and invest and save. And come November, the American people are going to decide which team is America's team. And come November, I just can't help believe but believe the American people are going to tell Coach Taxhike and the whole Tax Increase Team to head for the showers. Well, I didn't really feel that way, but since you insist, okay. Well, tonight I had a chance to talk a little bit about my past as a Democrat. And I can't help but believe that in this particular place, there must be many of you here who either were or still are. But you're here because you have found it difficult to follow the leadership of your party in the course that it's been taking since those days back there in the days of the Harry Truman and so forth. Well, well to all of you, you who knew the party of FDR and Harry Truman and JFK, that tradition, let us say to you, and I do know how you feel because I was there myself once, walk with us down this new path of opportunity and we'll save this country in a bipartisan way.  There are some of us here who are old enough to remember in America in which there was no ceiling. Any individual, you were free to fly as high and as far as your own ability and energy and determination would take you without being penalized for the effort. And then we came to a period of years in which governments started encroaching on everyone and the last four years before we got here they were telling us that we suffered from a malaise, that it was our fault, that we had to give up the idea of having some of the things we used to have that there were eras of limits. Don't you believe it? You young people, this is what it's all about. We're going to have keep on going the path he kept saying he didn't know what we were going to do. We're going to keep on doing what we've been doing for the last three years. And then you, you young people are going to start out life in the same kind of an America that we knew and that we started out life in. That's what it's all about. So I don't have anything else. I don't have anything else other than to say one last thing that I just, I like to mention once in a while and that is that it's one thing I'm really proud of in these four years. It has been those young men and women of ours who wear our uniforms. I'm going to quote someone and I have to use a naughty word in doing it, but you'll forgive me for it. I think it belongs in the quote. Back in World War II someone asked General George Marshall, the Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, asked him what was our secret? What was our secret weapon? And General George Marshall said the best damn kids in the world. So today those, those young people, those young people in uniform today are the grandsons and daughters of those World War II veterans. And I can say after seeing them first hand, after seeing what they did in Grenada, and it was so wonderful when they pulled out there weren't any signs written on the walls, Yankee go home, the signs were God bless America. And so I just know once again I can say what George Marshall did, you bet we've got the best damn kids in the world. Thank you all very much. Good night. God bless you all. Keep up the good work. Good night and God


Cody dude, I'm hearing more and more and more talk about age leads using age leads for openers Transferring those in openers. Let's talk a little bit about how age leads fit into the marketing budget overall If you were running a call center and the call centers that you consult and work with how are they using age leads? Let's talk about it. Yeah, it's it's a phenomenal way to supplement their current marketing budget what they're doing the activity Sometimes they use open or closer model Yep, and it's hard to get sometimes it's hard to get enough new leads Yep, or they don't have enough money to really like if they need you know if you have a team of openers And you need 3,000 leads a week. Well, you know that may cost you at 15 20 30 grand I see it giving people newer call centers a little bit more of an on-ramp to be able to have the volume in their database and The the right call center that I the call centers I work with Don't allow the agents to be lead junkies and complain or talk about the lead quality, etc Yeah, so what these guys will do is they'll take those age leads and mix them into the aged I'm sorry They'll take the aged leads mix them in with a new and not necessarily call them two different campaigns or so But you know for the volume because the openers script should be relatively the same whether it's an age or not totally Totally, and that's a big misconception. Most people don't realize that it should be yeah You just get in fact fine and try and do the transfer, you know But exactly like for instance if you're gonna do like a Google campaign Which I'm seeing a lot of activity right now with Google and YouTube I think they might be entering into a little bit of the new era with Google. Yeah, seriously And I'm exciting. We're seeing some good stuff, dude And but there's a Absolute on-ramp with Google like there isn't with Facebook you can't just go turn on Facebook You know or you can't just turn on Google ads like you can with Facebook So you really do need that that volume if you can supplement those that that on ramp to get you the volume that you need Yes, I like I know Facebook really well But I've always used either an external agency or now an internal agency to handle all of my Google and YouTube because it's Just so much more complex and there's way it's just Diver Deeper ways where you dive deeper deeper ways to like actually execute and really optimize and continue to improve it over the course of Six months and it's a lot to it. Well, and you can use you know, Google has Google is a much larger more It's a bigger company in Facebook. It's it's a more legacy. They have more track record They have way more audience in terms of you know Google and YouTube users googling the keywords that we know that we want But the point is is age leads what I'm finding is is that it really does fit in it I don't know Really all any of our big killers that aren't really supplementing their collars with age leads just to get that moving So let's talk a little bit about like why you think that's happening like other than just volume Controlability do you think how much would you expect the transfer rate or like a close rate to suffer by an age lead? Like do you think it'd be 25%? I mean, that's yeah, I don't think it's much. I mean overall Yeah, maybe it's gonna dip You know Couple percent to five percent overall of like the actual transfers, so I don't think you're gonna see that much of a dip I do know that I do notice a lot that Yeah, maybe the answer rates a little lower naturally they have to hit them a little harder And there's some softwares that can actually like triple dial internally and that kind of stuff but just just from a general marketing standpoint, it's a phenomenal way to Like you talked about have that volume and that quantity because in it when you're working Activity is key and you got to stay busy and it's hard to stay busy on only new leads unless you've got a gigantic freakin Freakin budget. Yeah, seriously like in I don't know anybody really that's got Like they're fueling their entire call center on new Facebook leads. Correct. That is not a thing Yeah, and we manage budgets of over a hundred grand a month for some massive call centers around the country So several of the top ones and they're always Additionally supplementing it with an extra a hundred thousand leads a month of other stuff Well, and one of the things that I think is interesting and timely right now as we're shooting this video in September of 2020 where we're coming into elections and I'm seeing some volatility I know TV is experiencing some volatility I know that we have some clients that are like whenever I look at the actual affidavits and schedules of the TV commercials that we're getting it's just kind of like bottom of the barrel commercials because the political spots are taking all The cream in the crop. Yes, I'm also seeing it translate over into Facebook. Yep. I'm seeing the cost creep up I'm seeing agency or you know clients that have had great success five four five six to one return on investment with Facebook All of a sudden we hit early September We're starting to dip down into that lower level and if you get to a point where what you said if what you said is Truly true, let's just say we're closing 10 5 15 whatever percent less age leads But those age leads are a dollar a piece or 50 cents a piece or whatever and ardent or Facebook leads are 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 depending on buyer intent. I mean those numbers kind of back up pretty easily Yeah, they really do and that's what we've noticed a lot with with with their marketing budget Every that you talked about a lot on this channel specifically and 8% their marketing budget what they're looking to do is say, okay Here's the budget. Here's what we're getting here's what we're doing And they're actually ending up seeing a cost per acquisition for that specific budget So that they can weigh the strategies in the budget say, okay, we need to cut this one a little down We need to increase this one and they're really able to like run a business that way by knowing their numbers I agree and you know one of the things too that you know a lot of a lot of people like here's an interesting I don't know if I know you know this now. We've not talked about this, but I've got a client right now that will Use Facebook leads and age data drive all those leads to their openers along with all the Google form fills But then a separate DID phone number of the inbound Google calls go straight to their agents and they're crushing it So they're basically saying here's our budget We're taking those leads getting those leads to the openers to then you know remiss as homogenize or homogenize I guess the lead that is a transferred so that agent doesn't really know the difference between with the sources or whatever that opener is supposed to Take the actually that they get qualify it whatever it is and then pass it over the fence But then those direct calls from Google are so quality. They're going straight to the insurance agent itself Which is really actually interesting. Well, you know what on that point I was actually meeting with an agency yesterday that we're doing several pieces of their marketing and their Google is is Actually the highest return on a percentage of of actual production on the back end So the only challenge with Google is is you can't you can't move look You can't crank the nozzle up and down very quickly You can't just give Google a ton of logic because they'll spend it because Google is not as frugal, I guess I would say as as as Facebook they don't they don't care like Google will eat up your budget They don't care about your CPL the industry as a whole isn't as focused on CPL as the insurance industry is Yeah, you know what I mean? So you will talk to our Google strategist and we'll be talking CPL CPL and they'll be like Well, it's not all about CPL and I'm like, no, no, no, you understand like it's all about CPL with these guys You know, so for sure. But yeah, I mean is there anything else in terms of tips or or, you know Anything regarding how does age leads fit in your marketing budget that we haven't talked about? Yeah I mean most most people in our industry or the the big dogs are much more patient With their marketing and their budget the people they're like turning something on one week and then cutting the next week And then turning it back on and then flipping it. No, we're gonna do this. No, we're gonna do that It's a recipe for disaster Yeah, and I see we see this a lot to where it's like, okay Someone's new to the space or new to the call center world whatever and they just like totally, you know, it's it's like It's like a pinball machine And you can't get anything done that way You don't get any data. There's no time. There's no like learning. It's just it doesn't help the company as a whole No, I got an idea for you or at least something that I've seen work really well with age leads So, you know, we have Samson with the automation built in right? So what we're doing is we're we're you know, coordinating an age lead by And then dumping into Samson with all the automations. That's awesome.  Let's just say you're getting a dollar age leads You know, you take 500 age leads, dump them into Samson. These are all aged within 90 days It's you know compliant. Yes to do so So you're able to basically get those, you know, touch points over and over and over on those age leads That can kind of help with your contact rate, etc And you can kind of use that to supplement whoever's working inside that automation platform We use go, you know, Samson's are as our yeah platform, but Everybody should be having some sort of automation platform. So those age leads can just get dumped in there Think about that like 500 bucks all in 500 leads, right? Just as an example. Yep, your calls Automated emails and texts. Yep, and it's like Like that's one sale for crime, you know what I mean? Like right out. It's like that's such an easy ROI Yeah, and I'm getting to the point now where I'm starting to think that every Like agent or somebody that is starting a Facebook campaign Should buy 250 500 750 age leads or so to start the campaign out and just get things moving, correct You know get get you get those leads through Samson get the automations going, etc And really call centers need to be buying at least 5,000 of those a week. Yeah for sure Yeah, for no doubt and and we're also we've got them for PNC now. Yeah, right home auto condo Yeah, like that's crazy Final expense life Medicare under age 65 health mortgage protection I'm like we have them all do we got a lot going on and which is awesome and exciting because as everything grows It's like out. We want to be able to help agents and companies the best we can and We're really trying to like continue to improve our scope of products so that no matter what we have the solution Well in my my what I'm talking at 8% on in three weeks is is you got to find your marketer You cannot your lead vendor is not your marketer Think about this truly for a second How many of our most successful friends in the insurance call center or killer field sales world? Don't have some killer marketer either as an agency relationship or in-house in some capacity and get have some sort of Sustainable lead source and plan that they're able to then they all have something They don't it's the days of buying your leads from five different lead vendors And that's your marketing strategy to me is is you can still probably pull it off But that's not the future, but it's also that whole thing about like not learning It's like oh that batch of 20 was horrible. So I'm gonna go to this this time this timely Benefits leads this new vendor, you know, is there one called timely benefits leads now No, they come out every week, you know like because it's not that hard to put together lead form and generate a nephew Lead at the end of the day, you know, it's more complex than that. That's not marketing That's Facebook leads, right? You're saying right. So I got an idea for you as well So what I have a guy that is probably one of the smartest guys I can't you know name his name, but he runs a mega mega mega huge Medicare call center. He buys aged Internet leads Scrubs them and direct mails them and refreshes. We think about that. Yeah, I love it It's it's it's it's unique think about people that are doing that not many He sends he sends the I think he sends a priority mail or whatever. He's got about 50 or 70 cents or not 70 Probably 55 cents wrapped up into he'll pay. I don't anywhere from 15 cents to 45 cents for the actual contact because They haven't they may have went through an internet lead form, but they have not been direct mailed yet So he says that data sometimes is like gold He's like I'll all get sometimes a better return on investment From my direct mail of those individuals then I will for my openers from the same, you know batch of age leads Yep, so you know that does the things that those are marketing strategies. That's not like a No lead vendors gonna call you and tell you that you're saying like that's not no because they can't make money on it It's yeah, it's overall This is a phenomenal way to like continue to improve what you're doing and and and diversify and Your marketing budget can go farther this way so you went over that really quick What are the kind of age leads that we have now we have PNC so like home auto condo? Let me let me experiment on that real quick. Yeah, please. Okay, so let we you can pick home auto or condo Then on the auto you can get year make model then number one to four drivers If one of those drivers owns a home, yeah, it will give you the year was built the year the roof was replaced the actual the year they're the How many bedrooms how many bathrooms and that's your that's your lead insane That's insane, dude. I was talking to one of this one of my big PNC clients.  It's crazy. Anyways, that's PNC in my opinion That's one of the best ways to get an ROI On your marketing spend is just to buy PNC leads and give it to your junior guy and have them call instead of a lot of them are cold calling Well, imagine calling with all this data is like hey I've showed interest in the last three months instead of you have a pulse Yep. Yep. So what else we got besides PNC life and file expense So either you know like file expense for example 45 to 85 With some fantastic info like requested coverage amount requested coverage length Phenomenal information everything you need to contact info wise also Medicare And so under age 65 health and over age 65 health, which is unbelievable is just Mortgage protection, you know, hey, I've got a home I have interest in covering it with life insurance to protect it. Like it's just all state Spanish. We've got Spanish Spanish Medicare, that's not even been talked about but it needs to be we get asked about that a lot I know well any other final thoughts as we wrap this thing up. I mean We've got I don't even know how many hundreds of thousands if not a million age leads now and and I would absolutely love For people to hear this video to color off as I give them a try looking forward to it Hey, if you enjoyed this I got another one. You're gonna love it's right there click on it See you there. Hey almost every interest agent. I know struggles with objections specifically what to do and how to Improve your closing ability. So I'm gonna talk through several different things. Okay. I always talk about my specific appointment process the warm-up


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Team keep it clean. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video boy That was a game Shout out to the raiders for putting the AFC North and just really the whole NFL on notice They took care of my Ravens last week in a crazy crazy overtime game They took care Pittsburgh this week and which was a still a crazy game Not nearly as crazy as last week, but it still had a lot of drama in there and now that they undefeated They undefeated their record is 2-0 and they are undefeated against the AFC North so far We'll see how it continues to hold up. Um, this game was just another reminder for the NFL world that Derek Carr Yeah, he's for real man. He's for real Honestly, I was somebody that's been overlooking Derek Carr for a while now I knew he was a decent quarterback, but yeah, he's much better than just decent This guy has the clutch factor. He got it. He got it like straight up man and one thing One thing that really frustrated me when I watched my Ravens play them last week was I just felt like there was just Such a lack of second half adjustments by our defensive coordinator But now when I watch this game It reminds me that I got to actually give more credit to the raiders coaching staff for making just great second half adjustments, especially on offense Because in the first half of this game against the Steelers Derek Carr He passed for I think maybe a little over a hundred of either a little over a hundred fifty yards Maybe a little less than 200 yards. I forget the exact amount, but he didn't have any touchdowns He didn't have any interception number.  So when Najee Harris gave him that still form Yeah, he took that personal But he ended up in him and the Raiders ended up getting the last life But that was a great play by Najee Harris he just He runs hard man He runs tough and a lot of the runs where it was the the end of the run He wasn't even on the ground that all the Raiders just ganged up on him and they stopped full of progress So shout out to Najee Harris, man You see in this game games like this even though he didn't win But you see why he was the first round draft pick for Pittsburgh now Derek Carr Wildest dealers they were clawing back and the whole trade turner thing I'm not sure what happened with him because it had to be something bad because the way that the how Heated he was he was upset like you could tell like this dude was hot I don't know what happened We all did see the the whole spit he and he kept going back and he kept going back and he kept going back Then finally he went to the sideline But it had to be something like them Raiders had to do something because for you to get somebody to spit at you That takes a lot and not excusing the spit at all. I again. We don't know what happened But it takes a lot for somebody to go that far But he'll he can be expecting a nice little letter in the mail from Roger Gordell So we should probably hear about that probably about by Thursday Friday at the latest But with to close it out that touchdown pass to rugs man That was beautiful and watching it live Minka Minka Fitzpatrick and And it makes sense why but he was watching Darren Waller He was watching Darren Waller and Derek Carl read that he knew that and he held him He held him with his eyes. He's like, okay, you're gonna watch Darren Waller I'm gonna watch Darren Waller too, but I do see Henry rugs getting ready to burn his corner back up top And he's getting ready to burn you too So he threw the perfect pass and then with that pass to my favorite part about that pass is that he had a Russia I think they I think Steelers might have blitzed the corner back But they blitzed somebody and that Russia was right in right at and their cause face Their cause stood there stood in the pocket didn't move didn't flinch didn't get scared. Oh, I got rugs. Okay. Let's go Launched it to him perfect pass hit him and stride to where rugs didn't need to slow down Because had rugs had to slow down for that pass Then it could have ended up just being a completion instead of a touchdown or The Steelers cornerback could have ended up catching up with it and knocked it out So so much stuff could have went wrong on that play But the fact that Derek Carl stood in the pocket made the perfect pass and and Henry rugs Obviously caught it in stride and ran for a touchdown that it was just a perfect play and that stretched out that lead now When we talk about coaching because coaching is huge man. I Um For Steelers it like it technically it kind of worked out, but really in the long run it didn't I Had questioned them in the fourth quarter. They were down by nine points First down second down third down they end up getting a total of nine yards through the first three downs and it was fourth and one and How many how much time was left? I want to say like maybe like seven eight minutes something around I forget how much time was left, but it was fourth quarter You're down by not you're down by two scores and this rate is offense. Why they haven't been scoring so much They still been pretty much controlling this game And Steelers pointed the ball. I just I didn't agree with that and again Like I said, they ended up stopping the Raiders on the following drive the next Raiders drive They they forced the three and out, but still that clock kept going so you lost a lot of valuable time You lost a lot of valuable time So I just I didn't agree with that move And and if you agree with it, I can understand why because again, like I said, they still got the ball back And if you disagree with it, I can understand why because again, they were down by multiple scores and the clock was ticking Now for Raiders when they really close it out like their last drive They ran the ball. I think on first down. I love how they didn't do the predictable thing They didn't do the obvious nowadays teams to really kill the clock to end the game teams are throwing more now than ever Because you know, it's a passing league and whatnot like they always say the teams are throwing that ball now more than ever But I just loved how to close out this game They ran the ball with number 31 I forget what his last name is, but they ran the ball with 31 got a couple. You're okay Cool, whatever, but then I think it was second down There cause snap the ball drop back and hit Darren walley through the Darren waller And I'm like, whoa, these boys these are big boys. They this a man's game right here They ain't playing the little boy football man. These dudes are not coming in playing scared They're not like, oh man, we don't want to risk it cuz stillers might they said no We are going for we're going for the kill shot because we trying to take Pittsburgh out because we know That Pittsburgh and they can make some big plays happen Like we saw that that big pass to to chase Claypool and I think that was right before the juju Before the juju touchdown. No, that was way after the juju touchdown But we saw that they just a couple of drives before that they saw that big put that big pass to chase Claypool And then they saw that of course the pass to Najee Harris that went for it for the touch that so they They know Pittsburgh can make some big plays happen So they were like nah, we know let's go ahead and end it right here right now we ain't gonna mess around and They didn't and they got it. They converted and they got another win So these raiders are for real man. They are for real I know a lot of Ravens fans like last week. Oh last week was a fluke. It wasn't a fluke and That was even before this game happened. It wasn't a fluke Raiders one Raiders beat the Ravens last week. They earned the win. They deserve the win and they got the win And this week they beat the Steelers. They took care of business. They beat them. They earned it and they deserve it So raiders they getting ready to go back home and they said I'm pretty at two or no Now there's still 15 games left because it is a long ways to go and boy a boy could football season It goes by too fast, right now So take take every game in please take every game that you watch take it in appreciate it Enjoy it because it goes by so fast like right now. It's early. It's early and we like oh, yeah No, it's beginning of seasons two games week, too. Da-da-da. It flies by y'all know it but anyway Appreciate y'all man tj. What him getting put out the game due to injury That was a big blow for the Steelers because he forced he hit their car earlier and he yeah he forced a fumble he forced a fumble and he um When you lose one of the best past rushers in the league. Yeah, it's definitely gonna hurt your team big time Now that there was also that injury scared with their car. Well, it was looking like uh-oh There was a lot of injuries around the league today. Like it was just wild today but he obviously ended up coming back in the game and He made all the difference in the world and them closing this one out. So anyway, congrats to the Raiders Now the Steelers are one-on-one The Browns are one-on-one The Bengals are one-on-one and the Ravens they played tonight right now They're oh and one but it'd be very nice if they can all match the rest of the AFC North's record It's gonna be pretty hard cuz you got the Chiefs, but it's not impossible. Anyway, I love y'all I appreciate y'all. I will see you tonight for the Ravens and Chiefs live stream team. Keep it clean We out