So I've been playing around with this tool. I actually used the GitHub co-pilot for this And as you can imagine, it's generally music out of hand gestures. There's all sorts of issues with it And we are trying to resolve But look at the out screen. It keeps detecting a Hand on my neck to change the sensitivity of it, but essentially There are these musical notes mapped to left and right hand Till we have to modify this mapping because it's pretty annoying as it is in the morning so moving from lower frequency to high frequency and This will adjust the amplitude And the other hand is just mapped to a different range of notes And again volume up and down The other thing is yes, you can play both of them simultaneously essentially the idea was to have two different musical instruments mapped to each hand see Actually tried that didn't quite work. The other thing it does is if you keep your palm close it will do this Burst and if you keep it open it will do longer longer notes same on the You can make it lower this way There's something with the motion as well, but that mapping is a bit elusive at the moment. I have to Keep testing it Probably keep testing it during last weeks from now Let me know what you think and yes, it will be available.  I don't know why it does that Yeah, those stuff here is before they were asking to my chest sensitivity and the lack Yeah, give up copilot a bit It's always have all the context It gave us this line that was obviously problematic to Remove it still need to play with attack decays stain and release or synthesizer for each note But yes, there's a length being Controlled elsewhere both by palm open palm close but also the speed of motion of Of your hand on the screen And this is obviously Related to this obviously a related to what we already have live the eG to music conversion We did using the same protocols Trying to create some Christmas chimes with it Didn't work quite well. It's actually sounds more Christmassy on Some of the channels sounds a bit downed let down less festive on channel seven I think channel 14 from memory Sounded more Christmas like some sort of volume volume control to this and other controls later and Yeah, I have no idea why does that fix as you can ask Get up copilot quickly. Are you able to solve false detections of hands? What the microphone is working differently to the open AI? Website one and there is no really loud Yes, it gives referring to the model complexity and Detection confidence tracking confidence. So I'll have to play If those Show what this magic number is actually mean, right? I was actually doing it for an increase meant mean and detection confidence and the mean track tracking confidence This parameters control the minimum confidence core for the initial hand detection by increasing the values You'll make the model more Conservative so probably probably send those to law spring back 5 It's for their hands. We should have interior less of those false Detections now. Yeah, I'm max number of faces as well. I'm not actually using the face and more Only the hands. Yeah, it seems like that false detection went away. Which is good Still work That other hand is annoying the palm open should the note should be longer. It's calculating the distance between So those should be longer notes They obviously this will need more work, but yes, it's less sensitive now, which is good So we're not getting false hand detections on my face anymore, but yeah to watch that number Maximum number of hands is to And what's the model complexity this part? What is it? If I will this course point to more complex model that can potentially provide more accurate results cost to increase computational resources So you have it's already quite Getting Yeah, we weren't getting before might as well Bringing back to one seem to work anyway Yeah, it was a false detection of the other hand So I don't know what this is Not the error message, but the warnings mean there's something with the browser trying to protect the user from notes being played is straight away and this In GitHub cupboards what it says Yes feature of the web browser or to play policies. It's actually providing audio from playing before You the user interacts with the page Sure, I'm recalling the stones that No, I'm not I need to do it mouse down Yeah eight n means short note it's in one eighth of a note Sure, this will not do much. It's the model model complexity for the hands How do we have it again? Ah, that's for the pose That was a false false detection. Yeah, we're getting errors when we Increase the model complexity to above one keep it at one Yeah, so hopefully we'll be able to try it out Very soon on the side. It's pretty much ready. It's all JavaScript Which and is the annoying one? one of them is producing a very high pitch notes that we could have dropped down the notch which and producing higher A frequency notes a scale left scale right fc four to c five and right C five to c six is higher than c or a higher octave number C five will be higher than c four Which suggests the different scale for both hands One that sounds more pleasant, right? We did the same for left hand I'm afraid that this sounds more pleasant or not. They now overlap to a larger extent Yeah, they overlap supposed to sound more pleasant and harmonious. Anyway, this is something we were playing with over the break I mean it is biomedical engineering related. We use it for exercising as well with dancing who doesn't love dancing especially after eating all the Christmas food Could you suggest how the head position could be used Mapping additional musical instrument or something? I didn't get the Yes, we can use translated pitch What we do if the x coordinates could use more to the left Yeah, we tried this before we have to download more musical fonts and things which we Having trouble with last time. It was I have a couple of Blog posts coming about the e g processing feature the types of feature extractions in e g So stay tuned subscribe like comment. I'll see you next time


Don't confuse regret for repentance. The flesh lies to you and you say, I'll never do that again, but deep down in your heart, you're saying, well, maybe at least not for a couple of weeks. This comes back to the very crafty nature of the flesh, which will say things like, you feel bad, God, I'm sorry. And really what you want is relief from the guilt, but not release from the sin. To repent means to change your mind. It's to come into agreement with God and to say, I agree with you. What I'm doing, how I'm thinking it's wrong. This thing has to go now and it has to go permanently and it has to go in all forms.


I'm Sergeant David Swinton and I am the team leader for Alpha Team. My unit is Mobile Connoisseurs Company, Second Light Armored Connoisseurs Battalion. My hometown is Ann Arbor, Michigan. I am a radio operator. Today we are using the Puma to live stream everything that we're doing back to the fleet and using it also to help the Swedes here walk their mortars onto targets. The employment of my equipment is useful because it gives commanders an eye on the ground and an eye in the sky hundreds of thousands of miles away. We will employ this equipment in AE 22 by how we are right now which is using it to give the Swedes directions, working it with their FOs so that they're forward observers so they can see what they're shooting at and then streaming it back to give our commanders in the rear eye on the sky and what's going on. Our archipelago Endeavour 22, the employment of our system is useful. It gives the Puma operator the ability to show the commander an eye in the sky on the battlefield and better employee troops. Doing this joint training in the archipelago is extremely beneficial to us. It's an environment that we cannot get stateside and with weather we cannot get stateside so we're taking systems that we've used out there using them here and it's adding a whole new slew of challenges to what we do. We are overcoming challenges in the archipelago by integrating with the Swedish Marines learning how they do things and applying it to how we do things and being able to take this knowledge back to the fleet when we head back to Camp Lejeune. Our training has improved our capabilities in the archipelago due to the fact that we have to work so disaggregated working not together and you can't just walk or drive to the next site. It's an island hop. It shows how we cannot be so reliant on vehicles and we have to figure out how to man pack everything out and make it work over islands. This joint training improves our capabilities in the archipelago due to the fact that we're so disaggregated and have to work in small teams. We're giving more information to the commander and having to overcome challenges in smaller groups.


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Hello and welcome this part of series. We're looking at the capture the flag 2018 from Google again This is probably brought to my attention by a guys. I subscribe to live overflow and This guy John him and John him and actually did a very good video on this particular one We're looking at the first admin UI project or challenge I should say and He admitted that you know first of all I watched his video before I started this so but he he said You know he got help And he explained how it works, but he didn't really have the thought process of how you would get there so I kind of you know walk backwards through this and I'm going to show you a little bit more in-depth on how you might come about figuring out the things and in fact Going through this in my mind. I actually found The the flag a little different than than he did It's kind of in a different way. Anyway, again, all I part of my project here is to write a script And that was also inspired by John Hammond here Therese script that automates each one of these so if you go to my Get lab get lab.com forward slash melex 1000 forward slash capital CTF and get all the scripts Let's go ahead and I'm in the folder from that project admin UI And I'm just going to run the script that's in here And what it's going to do is it's going to log into the server Pull out some information It's going to spit out some stuff here It's going to bring me into an hex editor because that's the next logical step for me So you actually have hex edit installed for this next part to work And we'll talk about this a little bit more actually didn't I actually use this and I found the flag but it Really wasn't because of this. I'll talk about that in a moment X add that with control C and it will Give me the flag which was found in the user's home. So how do we figure all that out? So let's go back to The page here and it's telling us again to use net cat to log into this So the scenario here is basically as an IOT device that you think you found a backdoor to you log in and Let's go ahead and just do that. I'm going to use and see net cat to get in here It's on port 1337 you have few options in here We can do one for access code or it's asking for a password which I actually haven't tried to be in but I believe that's probably The flag we're trying to find If you give the wrong one blah blah blah it's going to tell you, you know, that's incorrect and the authorities have been informed And it's going to disconnect you so we're going to reconnect Obviously three is quits the next option that we have that does anything is to which is to look at the end user license agreement and patch notes And really it's just patch notes and in here, you know, if you were to type something It's it's going to give you an error here saying no such file directory Which is a sign that it's trying to read a file and the file name you gave does not exist So let's go Accidentally hit one there. Let's log back in we'll go to and if we do version 3 We're going to hit enter here and it's going to give us the patch notes, you know So it's going to tell us that's roll back a version 2 because of random reasons So basically they didn't update but went back to an update of version 2 the rest is kind of blah blah blah It's fixing, you know, it's it's just made up stuff But that's a hit roll back to version 2. So if you go in here and we listen read read through version 2 Version 2 here actually says that there was a bug that they fixed That fixed Transversal bug through paths meaning that there was a bug that allowed you to get through To different directories from where you're at Which is exactly what we're trying to do So again, if we're trying to read We can try different things so like we can try reading files that we know exist So I can try just you know, you know first thing I would try is try running a command which isn't going to work So just list I can try to saying, you know forward slash which is a root directory which you know can be considered a file But it tells us that it actually doesn't give us an error there Which is a little different than if you were to type LS or something. It doesn't exist So now we know that it is seeing that as a file, but it's not printing it out. Okay So let's go back into that menu and let's try typing in a Folder name so ETC. Okay. Now it's telling us that that file doesn't exist. Okay, so maybe it didn't see the root directory and There are there are some files that are pretty much on most standard Systems But just to cut to the chase You're not going to be able to give it a full path What we want to do is transverse up through the directories, but we don't know how many directories we're in so Basically if you start let's go to if you start dot dot means up a level backslash dot dot up a level back Slash I'm gonna tell you now you can try to figure out by you know Maybe trying to print out a file that you know like f-stab or the password File from ETC Until you can figure out how many directories down you are so you can transverse up that many but really If you go too many That's fine. So really I think that we're three directories actually Yeah, we're three directories in because are actually two directories in we're in the home Folder of a user so we're in their home and their folder and as we're trying to find out the name of the folder We're in and the program that is actually running this menu program, but if you just give it a bunch of Dot-dot backslashes dot-dot backslashes. You can't give it too many And I just timed out there. So let's go ahead and reconnect So real quick. I'm going to actually open up Open up. So I'm on my local machine here and this Flag thing it actually taught me a lot this particular project things that I kind of knew didn't know a lot about And one of the things that I really have always said that I need to know more about is the proc folder So on a lake system and I guess most Unix and Unix like systems There is a folder in your root directory called proc and proc is basically generated when the computer starts up and it Keeps track of everything and everything is a file so you can find out what processes are running You can actually interact With things like LEDs and stuff on your computer, but you can find out a lot Memory usage PIDs of pro applications what files are accessing what? So real quick here. I want to give you an example. I'm gonna move just into my temp folder I'm just gonna make something called I'll just call it some Flag okay, just a little working directory for me. So top screen up here You know, we're ignoring that for now down here. We're on my local machine and If I was to cat out forward slash proc Actually, that's let's list out proc. I'm gonna get very in depth here. Okay, so I'll make it full screen here You have all this you have all these these different folders at that associate themselves with different processes and whatnot But you'll notice that there is a folder in here And it's actually, you know, so the color here. Let's go ahead and do forward slash proc forward slash self And we do that you can see that it is pointing to one of these directories Let me go ahead and open up a another shell here and run that same command You notice it's pointing to a different director and I go back up here run that again It's a different directory and actually I didn't need to split them to show you that because it's not the shell that I'm in basically self is pointing to The directory here, which I believe is the PID the process ID of the Current process that you're running. So every time I run list I'm starting a new process and that self is going to direct it to that process so if we're inside an application and We cat this out Files inside this cell folder because we don't know which one of these you know on that system Which one of these folders is going to be that menu application? That's what we want to find but if we're inside that application that application is Able to cat stuff out. It's going to show us if we use self the information for that application So I'm gonna try to clarify that a little bit more. I'm gonna make a quick shell script here Let's call it go dot sh, you know bash script and I will cat um forward slash proc forward slash self and then within there there is a file called command line, okay? And actually if I run this it's not gonna give me The information about my shell script because this is a script a script is basically you know a plain text file That's executing a command. It's just a serious man. It's a script a script of what to do, okay? So we're going to run that and what it's going to do is actually it's going to tell me cat and it's not going to put a New line character. So if I do that, it's a little confusing the way this is Set up here But basically it's telling me my command is cat that that's one of the places you can look There's actually another option in here. If we go back here self forward slash Maps I believe it is And I'm not listing it. I want to cat it out It's actually telling me that you know what program I'm running and what files. It's linked to it's dynamically linking to these these lib files so I know the name of our command and We're running so I can actually look in either of those files From within our menu because we know that we can cat out files from within the menu so again the script that I ran is running friends now if I make a C program so let me do that real quick. I'm going to Vim main dot C and I have some Vim shortcuts here So I'm just going to type CDCC and put in a little template here to read a file and Right here if I just take this and Oh, this is my did I pick the wrong one? Or did I mess up my template here? Let me see real quick Okay, I did fix that real quick my my templates were backwards my read and write templates should be right now C is not my best programming language one of the reasons. I have some templates for this But I'm gonna come in here. I'm gonna type GCC and Put in my template for reading a file. Okay, and by the fall. I'm just gonna have it read this file That we're in right now Let me clear out these empty lines down here. So come out. I can say GCC The main file here and I'll put I'll just call it main now if I run main it's going to output that C code file. Let's go back in there Vim and we will Say forward slash proc forward slash self forward slash command line Now if I recompile it and run main it's going to output that proc file Which the self is now going to link to this program I hope that makes sense. It's gonna run that and it basically it just outputs The name of the program we're running. I hope that makes sense. So like if I was to rename it move main to Blah blah blah and we were to run blah blah blah now. It's gonna tell me the name of the file is blah blah blah Okay, and that's what we need to know for our project here. So let's Go back into this go to Now if I go dot dot backslash dot dot backslash dot dot backslash Dot backslash just a number of times to make sure we go back far enough that we go proc forward slash self forward slash Manline it's gonna tell me the program that we're currently running in Which is saying dot main? Which actually doesn't help us too much. So I think what I ended up doing that should really be looking at my script here I'm going to do again dot dot backslash dot backslash dot backslash dot backslash proc forward slash self forward slash maps and Right here you can see yes That was a better option because the other one's showing the command as it's run this one showing the full directory So now we know what the root user or not the root user But the user were logged in at as is which is user And what by and every running now the next step I did In this whole process was and if we quit out of this If we looked at my script again So we log in and I did the whole Proc self maps thing and then I grew up through that to get the root directory The name of the file that we're in which is home user main And then here what I ended up doing is I actually dump the entire binary and look for strings flag CTS so let me go ahead and just copy that and run that one command. So What we're doing here is I'm actually echoing in the number two So the number two is saying select, you know, it's like typing to which is read the you the License agreements and patch notes and then backslash end with this dash e over here is saying enter And then we're running this command right here So basically we're going to be catting out the main file there and then we're piping that into Netcat waiting three seconds and then we're going to run the strings command which the strings command if you pipe in Binary information it's going to strip anything that's not an ASCII character away from that So basically even this with plain text and I'm going to then grep for both the keywords flag and CTF the dash I says don't matter what the case is let's go ahead and run that Boom and you can see that we get a number of things out here This here looks interesting, but I'm pretty sure I went there and didn't see anything there And there's the flag so the next step I took again I'm just walking you through the process of this of my mindset hex edit I Dumped that whole file into a file called temp. So here we here I hit tab to come over here into our column to the far right. I'm gonna hit forward slash flag And I saw this thing. It said patch notes forward slash Flag and now it looks like there's a dot there, but that's not a dot. These are empty space So there's look if I move my cursor My cursor's over that dot now if I hit tab it moves me back and forth So I'm over here now hit tab them over here notice my tab on it the same character It says zero zero. There's a lot of zero zeros Those are null characters not a dot not a period if I was a hit period here and then go back over here You can see no longer says zero zero it says to ease so don't be confused. That's not a dot So the first thing I did was I checked the root directory for dot flag and the root directory for flag And then I checked the home directory for dot flag and the home directory for flag And I did end up finding it in the home directory Under flag which I thought that I got from this here But really I think that was just luck and really just Common sense on an easy project like this to you know check for that file in those locations So again, just walking through my mindset here if we were to netcat back into here. Let's go ahead and just This remove all this stuff So again, I'll go to and I'll go You know just a number of these doesn't matter as long as it's more, you know than I need and Then I said home forward slash user forward slash flag cats out that file and here is our flag So that was my process getting through it Obviously the steps are a lot easier just doing it But I hope that that my explaining of my thought process on how I went through all this Gives you a little more idea on things you can do and hope I mean I learned a lot on the proc folder I was unaware of that self-folder. I've played around with proc before and going into processes and stuff I did not realize there was that that symbolic link Of self that associates itself with whatever program you're running So with that Now I think that John Hammond did something he when he found it I think he just did dot dot slash flag Yeah, and that works too Which confuses me a little bit because that's moving up one directory but I Should be in the directory Well, I guess That you know, let me let me see something real quick here. Oh, I really don't know what folder. I can't really search The files here. I'm assuming that when the program starts It's going into a subdirectory where these Licenses are and that's why you're dot dot slashing up to get into the flag because if the main the main program this menu program Didn't change directories when it started you should be able to do flag and run it But since you had to do dot dot forward slash flag The program must go into a subdirectory. I would assume which is probably where the text files for these version notes are So I'm not really sure how he got dot dot forward slash flag And I'm not sure if he's sure how he got that But that's why I had to go through this with myself with my mind and figure out how do I figure out all this stuff and the whole proc Maps was something very useful But again knowing that you have to use that self-folder on the proc for the current fold her current commander running Something new and that's probably gonna come in very handy doing playing around with programs like this in the future I'm surprised. I'd never come across that before anyway Again films right Chris calm. That's Chris decay. There's a link in the description there. You can search through all my videos Let me go there real quick You can also go to Support if you want to support me also check out the little links in the description of this video patreon.com for slash Melix 1,000 if you'll become a patron of mine if you also You'd rather there's a PayPal link here. You can do one time or reoccurring payments I appreciate the support if you can't support financially think about supporting me with likes shares comments Subscribing that stuff, you know, I hope helps they say it helps and You know, hopefully I'll figure out a few more of these capture the flags and get you a few more of these videos out I do. Thank you for watching and I hope that you have a great day


So, Sadhguruji, we also have a set of e-media questions that have come to us. So, we have a question from Arim Hestronk.  So, sir, in that context, how to keep yourself on the go all the time? On the go? You don't have to be on the go all the time. If life demands, people ask me, Sadhguru, how are you active like this? Because generally my schedule is anywhere between eighteen to twenty hours a day, seven days of the week, three-sixty-five days, non-stop. For many years it's going on. Bye-bye-bye. Hey, I'm… I'm complaining and the guy is clapping about it. So, people keep asking, how do you keep yourself like this? How do you do this? See, I'm essentially lazy. It's just that the situation in the world demands action. Left to myself, I would close my eyes and simply sit. I'm made like this, if I close my eyes, I can sit like this till I fall dead. Really. I have really no need for action. I'm not trying to keep myself busy. There's a lot to be done, so you're doing. People ask me, Sadhguru, what's your dream? What is your dream? I said, my dream is the day I am unemployed. That's a great day. Because if I am unemployed, it simply means everybody is doing fantastic. What more do you want? Dream fulfilled. So, action is not something that you decide.  Action, the world will decide how much of what. I… I'm… you know, at these economic forums and say, I'm a world economic forum.  I said, no, I'm not a tree planter. He said, no, no, you planted those millions of trees. Yes, I did, but I'm not a tree planter. Then what do you do? I said, I make people flower. Not plant trees, but I'm planting trees because the goddamn trees are missing, where they should have been. Where they should have been, they're not there. It's like this, two men were working on the street. One man is digging pits behind him. Another man is coming and closing and closing and going. Somebody else was driving by. They saw this ridiculous activity. One guy digs the pit, another guy closes the pit. So they stopped and said, hey, what are you doing here? Why are you guys working like this? One guy digging, another guy closing. They said, no, no, the in-between guy has gone and left. He's the tree planter. He's not there, we're doing our work. So a lot of people are doing work like this. I'm doing my work. You have no work on this planet. If the planet needs work, if the world needs work, we will do it. Otherwise, why should I think this is my work? Sadhguru, what's your mission? I said, no mission, I'm just fooling around a bit. Because you have no business to have your own mission. Life has its own mission. In some way, if you can assist and serve that, that's about it. What is it that you have your own mission?  All missionaries are tyrants in some way, unknowingly. Yes, those who think they have a mission, there is no mission.  You must create what is needed, not create some rubbish and push it on them. Yes? Yes or no? You must see how to make life better, how to solve situations which are problematic to a whole lot of people. You must look for solutions and solutions for the existing situations. And of course, there are experts who go on creating new problems. So you will never be short of problems, believe me.  That's for Mussolini.


So I'm looking at the regular one and not the experiment even though it was kind of neat I think the camera at the end and the head moves for a bit too much. You got a bit too Was you're so close to the camera that gets a bit disorienting with how much the head is moving But in this case There are only little things that I would change And sorry, I haven't gotten to the Maya file yet. We got crazy amount of work to do at work I know it's not an excuse, but Unfortunately haven't had the time It's the only thing I would do Doing the thing I was scrolling as this arm goes over here I would just take this orientation of the wrist and bring that wrist over just a little bit So as this goes over there, the wrist turns over a bit this way and you can see this here You can see how this part of the elbow goes to the left But then the orientation of the wrist is the same so that will go to the right and Then that part feels a bit unmotivated. It's a bit too much Just that or in that rotation in the wrist actually not do anything like ever so slightly here So maybe like a third of what you did and Then here the same thing as this goes over you can see how much this part is good to the left So this part will go this way kind of clockwise or a screen right and Then that move over that feels like a bit too much of a translate any on the left and then it suddenly goes down So it feels like if you look at this part here, it's only goes like this So I wouldn't go as far to the left and went like you know like a third again Just only a third and then round it out into that curve So it doesn't just suddenly go down here. That's on the do you You Technical part there.  It's really great. So I'm I don't even think I mean I will try again We're crazy with work. I will try to get back in there and use your Maya file But if those notes make sense, I mean that's all you would have to do and you're done It's really really cool. I really like How far you've taken this piece definitely you're to me you're the opening of your reel All right, so let me know if this makes sense or not And that's it. Thank you All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want You can submit whatever beyond you get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


The presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP Artikawa Bubaka, has said that the reputation of the country is at stake. Bubaka made the statement at the World Press Conference on Thursday, October 5, 2023, at the Yardua Center in Abuja. The press conference was scheduled to address the issue of President Bola Tinubu's academic record, which was released by the Chicago State University CSU earlier this week. He added that the constitution prescribed the requirements for those who seek position in elective offices, and it should not be disrespected by anyone who seeks for such offices. But the NOS certificate, Bola Tinubu, submitted to INEC has a decouled. I don't know where the decouled and the Ahmed emerge from. So, on the second arm of your question of what use will it be in the Supreme Court, it is very, very clear that from decided authorities, the Supreme Court has heard that they can accept a party to add these fresh evidence as long as certain conditions are met. And from what transpired in the proceedings in U.S. courts, that condition has already been met. So, as you speak, our law is very clear that a party at court cannot be allowed to enjoy the fruit of his illegality. Atiku, who contested against Tinubu in the February presidential election on the platform of the People's Democratic Party, is expected to file the documents he obtained from the CSU in furtherance of his election appeal at the Supreme Court. Not really. Yes, immediately after the elections, I was told there was a delegation of governors who claimed they were sent by the president, but I did not even allow them to get into my house. I didn't. It will only drop the fight. When the court rules, if the court rules that I am right, fine. If the court rules that he is right, so that's the end of the fight because at the moment we are at the Supreme Court and there is no any higher court than the Supreme Court.


Hello everyone and happy Easter. Today my family will join Christians around the world to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Many Canadians take this time to go to church, spend time with family and friends, and hunt for Easter eggs with the little ones. As the holiest day in the Christian calendar, Easter is not only about the traditions we hold dear, it's also about reflecting on the values that Jesus Christ lived, taught and shared. Values of love, kindness, forgiveness. And Canadians of Christian faith strive to live out these values all year long. Whether you help seniors and new immigrants in your community, donate to causes close to your heart, or look out for those in need, I want to say thank you. You are showing us all what it means to love our neighbors as ourselves, and you're helping us build a better future for everyone. Once again, from my family to yours, I wish everyone celebrating a very happy Easter.


a very good evening aspirants welcome to the hindi news analysis by shankar eyes academy for the date fourth march of 2021 the list of news articles along with the page numbers of different editions of hindi newspaper is given here for your reference let us start our analysis with this first news article now this discussion is based on this news article which is regarding the freedom in the world 2021 report so in this discussion let us discuss about this report and about its findings especially india related facts the syllabus that is relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference first note that freedom in the world is a flagship annual report of freedom house this freedom house is a us think tank now this report is being published since 1973 and it assesses the condition of political rights and civil liberties around the world so for each country and territory freedom in the world analyzes the electoral process political pluralism and participation it analyzes the functioning of the government the freedom of expression and the freedom of belief in the country it also analyzes the associational and organizational rights the rule of law it analyzes the personal autonomy and finally individual rights in the country so this report analyzes these aspects for 195 countries and 15 territories in total there are 210 and this report is composed of numerical ratings and supporting descriptive texts for these countries and note that it consists of 25 indicators and these indicators are grouped into two categories these categories are political rights and civil liberties so under this report a country or territory is awarded 0 to 4 points on each of these 25 indicators for a maximum of total 100 points now based on this score the countries are divided into three categories which are free partly free and not free countries so now let us come to the 2021 report this report says that across the world democracy is under siege why because as per the assessed 210 countries and territories across the world the report has found that among the 195 countries itself 82 countries are only free 59 are partly free and 54 are not free and this figure provides you the overall status of the global population as you can see the green one represents free categories and the purple one represents not free so what about india see last year india score was 71 out of 100 and india was in the free category but the 2021 report says that india's score has dropped to 67 so india's status has also declined from free to partly free why because india's score in the political rights category is 34 out of 40 and only 36 out of 60 in the civil liberties category so we can see that india has performed poorly in the civil liberties which includes freedom of expression and belief associational and organizational rights rule of law personal autonomy and individual rights so based on the 25 indicators the report has noted many critical points about india let us see them one by one first the report has noted that india's nationalist government and its allies presided over rising violence and discriminatory policies the report critically notes that the government allegedly when pursued a crackdown or suppression when there were expressions of dissent by the media academic civil society groups and protesters most importantly the report fiercely criticizes some of india's internal policies also it says that the government of india and its state-level allies have continued to suppress the critics during last year that is in 2020 additionally it has also noted about the lockdown issues that is the lockdown which resulted in the dangerous and unplanned displacement of millions of internal migrant workers this point has also been noted by the report then it says that vigilante groups have been targeting minority communities for the spread of the coronavirus also and the report even unbelievably notes that rather than serving as a champion of democratic practice and a counterweight to authoritarian influence from countries such as china the ruling party of india is driving india towards authoritarianism which means there is lack of concern for the wishes and opinions of others apart from this the report has also noted other issues in india such as there is increased pressure on human rights organizations then there is rising intimidation of academics and journalists the report even says that judicial independence in india has come under strain now based on these facts the report even concluded that india appears to have abandoned its potential to serve as a global democratic leader and india is losing its foundation values of inclusion and equal rights for all so this is a worrisome situation for our democratic country but most importantly the fall of india from its democratic values has even affected the global scores because the report notes that since india has fell from the upper ranks of free nations and this has particularly damaging impact on global democratic standards also india declined to partly free so less than 20 percentage of the world's population now lives in a free country and this is the smallest such proportion in which the world's population is living in a free country since 1995 so we can see that how india's democratic values actually affect the global democratic standards now apart from this the report also notes about the unfree environments or the not free countries it notes that there is intensifying repression in the unfree environments and this has done greater damage to the institutions and societies in those countries so this makes it even more increasingly difficult to fulfill the public demands for freedom and prosperity under even any future government so in this representation you can see the largest gains and declines in the last year and india is one among the countries which has largest declines now if you compare india's score with the bricks countries note that brazil has a score of 74 and it remains in the free category whereas russia china both are in the not free category but south africa has the highest score among bricks nations and it is in the free category the report also notes an important finding regarding us which is that over the past 10 years united states aggregate freedom in the world's score has declined by 11 points in total so this has placed usa among the 25 countries that have suffered the largest declines in this period so we can see that the two largest democracies of india and usa are slowly deviating from democratic values and this is not good for the global democratic standards so these are some of the points that you should take note from this freedom in the world 2021 report now let's move on to the next discussion now this discussion is based on this editorial article in which author talks about how the sovereign taxation powers of government of india have conflicted with our bilateral investment treaties and to establish this viewpoint author takes the example of recent permanent court of arbitration verdicts against india in two cases so in this discussion we'll see in brief about the bilateral investment treaties and also about the permanent court of arbitration then we'll see the two cases and the verdict and also author's view in this regard the syllabus that is relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference see we all know that foreign direct investment is an important source of non-dit finance for any country and hence it is an important factor in the economic development of a country it supplements the domestic investment and it also brings with it the internationally available technologies managerial skills and practices and even new employment opportunities to india but however fdi is a two-way street that is the investor will provide us with new technologies managerial skills employment opportunities and on the other way the country or the government should provide investor protection which is critical for ensuring fdi inflows this means a stable political and legal environment should be present in the country then there should be assurances against taking away of the investment value through legislative or administrative acts and there should also be access to justice because all these are strong guarantees for foreign investors and here note that the bilateral investment treaties between two countries plays a key role in offering these guarantees on an international plane so in this regard to become investment friendly that is to attract foreign investments and also to safeguard our own interests the government of india has signed many bilateral investment treaties with countries around the world in order to govern the foreign investments so what is this bilateral investment treaty these are the international agreements that establish the terms and conditions for private investment by nationals and companies of one country in another country so this is the basic you should know so in this editorial or the talks about the permanent court of arbitration's decision against government of india in the two important cases one case is with respect to k and energy and the second one is with respect to vo the phone and according to author these decisions have destroyed investor trust and it has also destroyed india's promise to honor its commitments to foreign investors under the bilateral investment treaties so why author has said this now to understand that we should know about the cases and before that let us also know about pca in brief see permanent court of arbitration or pca is an intergovernmental organization that was established by treaty in 1899 it was established for providing a variety of dispute resolution services to the international community i note that pca was the first permanent intergovernmental organization to provide a forum for the resolution of international disputes through arbitration and through other peaceful means so here what you should remember is that pca is not a court but rather it is an organizer of arbitral tribunals to resolve conflicts between member states international organizations or even private parties its headquarters is at the peace palace in the hag city of netherlands and note that the parties to two important conventions are automatically parties to the pca and these conventions are convention of the pacific settlement of disputes of 1899 and then 1907 i note that india is also a contracting party to pca but pca is not a un agency rather an official un observer and most importantly all the decisions of pca are called as awards and these awards are binding on all parties in the dispute and they have to be carried out without any delay so that means pca's award in the two cases are also binding on the government of india so what are these two cases see these two cases against india came before pca due to india's retrospective taxation issue so when you say retrospective taxation it refers to the taxation that allows a country to pass a rule on taxing certain products items or services and even deals and this allows the country to charge companies from a time behind the date on which the law is passed that is it allows the country to charge retrospectively so countries use this route to correct any anomalies in their taxation policies which have been present in the past and which allowed the companies to take advantage of such taxation loopholes so these two cases are with respect to such retrospective taxation only the first case was between vodafone and indian government in may 2007 vodafone had bought 67 percentage stake in hachi san vampua which is a company in hong kong and it bought this for 11 billion dollars then in september that year the indian government raised the demand of around 8 000 crore rupees in capital gains and withholding tax from vodafone saying that the company should have deducted the tax at source before making a payment to hachi san but vodafone challenged this demand by government of india in the bombay high court but the bombay high court ruled in favor of income tax department or the government and subsequently vodafone challenged this judgment in supreme court which in 2012 ruled in favor of vodafone group but the same year the then finance minister and our late former president pranav mukherjee clearly avoided the supreme court's ruling by proposing an amendment to the finance act this amendment gave the income tax department the power to retrospectively tax such deals so now it is mandated by a legislation so the government can demand the tax and thus the owners to pay the taxes fell back on vodafone but vodafone did not stop there the vodafone group invoked the clauses of a bilateral investment treaty which was signed between india and the netherlands in the year 1995 at the permanent court of arbitration why netherlands it is because it was the dutch affiliate of vodafone group which had bought this stake in hachi san vampua and this dutch affiliate is a netherlands company and that is why vodafone group invoked india netherlands bilateral investment treaty so in september 2020 the permanent court of arbitration has ruled in this dispute and it has ruled against india it has ruled that india's imposition on vodafone in retrospective taxes including interest in penalties was in breach of the india netherlands bilateral investment treaty so the court ordered government of india to reimburse legal costs to vodafone which comes to approximately 45 crore rupees so this was the first case where india lost to vodafone now let us see the second dispute it was between k n energy and indian government see some 15 years ago that is in 2006 to 7 the company k n uk had transferred some shares as part of an internal rearrangement process it transferred shares from one subsidiary to another subsidiary that is from k n india holdings to k n india but the income tax department authorities then decided that since k n uk had made capital gains as part of this it ought to pay capital gains tax which was up to 24 500 crore rupees but here the company interpreted the intern laws on capital gains differently and it refused to pay and this was followed by several rounds of litigation at the income tax appellate tribunal and also at the high court now here k n lost the case at it at that is income tax appellate tribunal but the case on valuation of capital gains is still pending before the idli high court and during this time k n energy sold the majority of its india business which is k n india to the mining giant vedanta and this happened in 2011 so here income tax authorities barred k n energy from selling about 10 and they cited the pending taxation issues in addition to this the payment of dividend by k n india to k n energy was also frozen so in this regard k n energy initiated proceedings against india at the permanent court of arbitration and the pc a ruled that india had failed to uphold its obligations to k n under the india united kingdom bilateral investment treaty because k n is a uk company pc has also ordered the government of india to pay k n approximately 9000 crore rupees for the total harm which was suffered by the uk company so you can see that in both these cases at pc a india lost so in this regard author has noted some important points the first point which author has noted is that for the enforcement of pc a awards against india the k n company has reportedly initiated proceedings in the courts of usa uk netherlands canada and singapore but in the first instance why no proceedings have been initiated in indian courts according to author it is because of the reasons such as delays in indian courts uncertainty in indian public policy with respect to assessment of tax demands by foreign tribunals and then indian judiciary's exceptional stand on the non enforceability of treaty awards in india etc so all these reasons made k n to initiate proceedings in other countries rather than in india now the second point which author talks about is about the impending problems which the government of india may face if it challenges the pc a award in the k n case here it is to be noted that in the k n case the government enforced the tax demand by a series of unilateral measures such as the seizure and sale of k n shares seizure of its dividends and withholding of tax refund that was due to k n etc and according to the author these actions and their retrospective taxation against k n are willful unfair and iniquitable and particularly these are all against international law so author notes that even if india challenges the pc a award in k n case india may not be able to deploy the license of sovereignty to justify the exercise of its powers so as a conclusion author notes that it is important for the government of india to pause and consider its international legal responsibilities to uphold the treaty obligations and secondly the government of india should also encourage open dialogue with investors and it should identify mutual interests and then evaluate constructive options and finally arrive at an acceptable solution to the disputes so that means the government of india should explore alternatives that lead to the road of settlement rather than filing several rounds of litigations so on a whole india should respect its bilateral investment treaty obligations and it should also respect pc's awards because india is a contracting party to the pca so these are some of the points that i should take note from this editorial now let's move on to the next discussion now this discussion is based on this news article which talks about a way to prevent the trafficking of mollusk species the news article mentions that w w of india and traffic which is an NGO working on legal wildlife trade they both have developed new identification tools to help the authorities so that they can identify marine mollusk species and prevent their trafficking so you know that the seashells of these mollusk species are trafficked due to their high demand for making accessories like buttons and combs lampshades and decorative items and the trafficking is such that in the period 2009 to 2019 around 97 000 kilograms of seashells were seized in the country so we can see that this is a large ongoing illicit trade in our country so in this context let us have a brief understanding about seashells know that seashell is the hard exoskeleton of marine mollusks such as snails, bivalves and chitons now these exoskeletons serves to protect and support the bodies of these marine mollusks this upper portion is the seashell now these seashells are composed largely of calcium carbonate which is secreted by the mantle this mantle is a skin-like tissue in the mollusks body wall and here it is to be noted that the seashells are usually made up of several layers of distinct microstructures that have differing mechanical properties now the shell layers are secreted by different parts of the mantle although incremental growth takes place only at the shell margin now one of the most distinctive microstructures are the nika this nika is also known as the mother of pearl it occurs as an inner layer in the shells of some gastropods and bivalves as you can see here now these seashells are collected all over the world because of their diverse range their elegance of form and even they come in bright colors and due to these characteristics they are being used to make jewelry buttons inlays and other decorative items throughout history even if you now go to any beach you can find jewelry made out of seashells so this has resulted in widespread destruction of the marine mollusks species now what are the issues associated with the species destruction see mainly the issue is that only 24 out of 3400 species of marine mollusks are protected under the wildlife protection act of 1972 so Indian legislation does not cover all of them the second issue is related to the correct identification of species which are encountered in the illegal wildlife trade now since only 24 of them are protected this leads to wrongful seizures faulty reports so it leads to low conviction rates also and for this only now the NGOs have prepared new tools in the form of cards and posters which will enable them to identify the marine mollusk species so these are some of the points that we should take note from this article now let's move on to the next discussion now this discussion is based on this news article which talks about the report submitted by the Home Minister of Maharashtra regarding the power outage issue that took place in Mumbai this report was prepared by the state's cyber cell so in this regard let us see what the report has said and the reasons which led to massive power outage the syllabus that is relevant to this discussion is given here for your reference see what happened was there was a grid failure on October 12th which resulted in a massive power outage in Mumbai and in the neighboring areas now this brought the entire city including the local trains into a halt and it took nearly two hours for the power supply to resume essential services and subsequently the power supply in other areas were resumed in a phased manner only so now a report stating the reasons for this power outage has been submitted by the Home Minister of Maharashtra now this report has noted that 14 Trojan programs were found to have entered the Maharashtra state electricity transmission company service see Trojan is a malware and the report has observed that the firewalls of the information technology and operational technology servers which play an important role in power transmission these were affected by the Trojan horses here firewall is nothing but a software or a hardware that is used to keep a network secure additionally the report also found that suspicious scores and software programs that can affect the cyber security ecosystem were also found in the servers the report also remarked about the repeated attempts that were made from blacklisted and suspicious IP addresses to log into the servers for hacking and disrupting the system so that means the major power outage was caused by Trojan horses and these Trojan horses are a kind of malware so first let us see what is a malware see the word malware is the short form of malicious software and it is used by cyber criminals to harm a computer system or network now this includes unwanted software that gets installed on the computer or mobile device without the user's consent now these programs have got the potential to cause the device to crash and also it can monitor and control the user's online activity in addition to this malwares make the computer vulnerable to viruses and it makes the computer vulnerable to unwanted or inappropriate ads now cyber criminals use malware for many different reasons but commonly they are used for stealing confidential information for demanding ransom or to install other programs unknowingly that is without the knowledge of the user now there are many different types of malwares like trojans backdoors ransomware and these are used to either steal information or steal resources or even money now the malware that is mentioned in today's news is trojan horses so what is this first note that it gets this name of trojan horse from a classical story of trojan horse so what is the classical story behind it let us see in brief above that see trojan horse refers to a huge hollow wooden horse that was constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance to the city of Troy during the trojan war now what Greeks did was they pretended to desert the war but rather they hid inside this hollow wooden horse and then they persuaded their enemy to take the trojan horses inside their city saying that it is an offering to their goddess and it will safeguard their city from the war so believing this the hollow wooden horse inside which Greek soldiers were present was taken inside the city of Troy which was previously impregnable then after this in that night itself Greek warriors emerged from it and opened the gates to let in the Greek army and they defeated their enemy by using this trojan horse deceptively so in this similar manner this trojan horse malware is also used because it imitates a similar technique to infect computers see simply this trojan horse is a computer program that appears to have a useful function like how the hollow wooden horse appear to be offering to the goddess but in reality if you see this trojan horse it has got a potentially malicious function that evades the security systems of the user's computer by exploiting the legitimate authorizations of a system entity which imports this particular program or in simple words this trojan horse is a type of malware that is often disguised as a legitimate software and usually the trojans are employed by cyber thieves and hackers who attempt to gain access to user's systems and once it is activated trojans can enable cyber criminals to spy steal sensitive data and even gain backdoor access to the user's system additionally the trojan horses can also perform alterations to the data by deleting blocking or even modifying and copying such data and it can also disrupt the performance of computers or computer networks and based on the actions they perform trojans are classified into different types like trojan banker trojan downloader trojan game thief etc but note that trojans cannot self replicate like the computer viruses and worms so apart from trojan many other types of malwares are also used by the cyber criminals to carry out their illegal motives and these are some of the list of such malwares and their functions we have given it here for your reference so what are the consequences of such a malware it includes the material harm to the systems like disruption of business services unauthorized export of sensitive information or even loss of access to critical data etc so how a malware can enter our systems it can enter through the email web browsing web services removable media and also through personally owned devices like while connecting a smartphone via a usb port but can it be avoided yes it can be avoided by developing and implementing anti malware practices it can be avoided by managing data import and export it can be avoided by denying the list of malicious websites to gain access and it can be avoided through dedicated media scanning machines and even by establishing some malware defenses so here as a conclusion know that as per a recent estimation by a cybersecurity firm 82 percentage of Indian organizations were hit by ransomware in the last six months ransomware is also a type of malware only and getting attacked by ransomware has increased 15 percentage in 2020 compared to 2017 and even if you remember one of the famous cyber security attacks of the recent times is the twitter cryptocurrency hack of 2020 in which accounts of major public figures were hacked and these public figures included the then US presidential candidate Joe Biden who is currently the president of USA and then Barack Obama and even apple and uber were simultaneously hacked by attackers to spread the cryptocurrency scam so like this for many illegal and illegitimate purposes these malwares are used by cyber criminals and using such 14 Trojan programs only the massive power outage was carried out in Mumbai on October 12th so this shows that in addition to securing the border using the military it is very important to establish cyber security with this we come to the end of this discussion now let's move on to the next discussion now this discussion is based on this news article which mentions that the US Department of Commerce is preparing to tax the aluminum sheet exporters from 18 countries and this includes exporters from India Bahrain Brazil Croatia Egypt Germany etc so once the US international trade commission makes the final decision on this matter then an anti-dumping duty or a countervailing duty might be imposed on these countries so in this context let us discuss in brief about the anti-dumping and countervailing duties from the Indian perspective first let us see about the countervailing duty see these are the duties imposed by government of India when it finds that a government in the exporting country provides subsidies or assistance to its local industry see these subsidies are given to promote the local industry and it can be in the form of subsidized loans tax exemptions indirect payments etc let us take one example to understand this suppose that China is exporting machinery to India now the Chinese authorities provides subsidies to its domestic machinery manufacturers now using this benefit the machinery prepared by china is costing less so they could export more and they could even sell the goods in India for a price that is way less than what the Indian companies can reasonably offer because the manufacturers in China got subsidies but the Indian manufacturers did not get any subsidy similar to that so this makes the Indian product costlier than the Chinese product in this context so that means these subsidies are mainly aimed at export promotions so to neutralize the adverse effects of such subsidies these countervailing duties are imposed by India so by imposing this countervailing duty the prices of the two machineries from china and India are made similar so similarly any country can also impose countervailing duties on any of the countries like now how us is planning to impose the countervailing duty on many countries including India so the country's imposed countervailing duties on the from which it imports and it does that if it feels that it is affected by the actions of that exporting company i know that in India the central government under the customs tariff act of 1975 may impose a countervailing duty and they should not exceed the amount of subsidy given by the exporting country so now let us come to the anti-dumping duty say anti-dumping duty is a tariff imposed on imports manufactured in foreign countries but that are priced below the fair market value of similar goods in the domestic market now the government imposes anti-dumping duty on foreign imports when it believes that the goods are being dumped through the low pricing in the domestic market so the anti-dumping duty is imposed to protect the local businesses and markets from unfair competition by foreign imports and it is to be noted that issues regarding countervailing measures and anti-subsidies in India are administered by the director general of anti-dumping and allied duties and at present know that it is known as the director general of trade remedies it comes under the ministry of commerce and industry now know that the director general of trade remedies is the designated authority to conduct the countervailing duty investigations and make recommendations to the government for imposition of anti-subsidies measures then such duty will be finally imposed by the ministry of finance only so we can say that while the department of commerce recommends the countervailing duty it is the ministry of finance which levies such duty so you may think now both anti-dumping duty and countervailing duties sound similar see there is a difference because anti-dumping duties are levied on goods that are imported at a substantially low price but whereas countervailing duties are levied on the subsidized products in the originating country or exporting country that is countervailing duties are imposed only when such a product has got subsidy in its origin country so these are some of the points that you should know about countervailing duties and anti-dumping duty now let's move on to the next discussion now this discussion is based on this news article which talks about a massive fire that is threatening to damage the simli pal biosphere it is because of the fire that broke out in the isolated places of simli pal which is present in the mayur bhajan district of odisha but the authorities have noted that the biosphere's core area is untouched by the fire but still environmentalists and activists are concerned about the possible damage to the flora and fauna in the places where the fire broke out so in this context let us see some facts about the simli pal biosphere reserve it is located in eastern india in the mayur bhajan district of odisha the simli pal biosphere reserve lies within two biogeographical regions that is the mahanadean east coastal region of the oriental realm and the chotanakpur biotic province of the deccan peninsular zone and note that this biosphere consists of a simli pal tiger reserve then simli pal by left sanctuary and also simli pal national park now this biosphere reserve came into existence during 1994 as per the man in biosphere program of uniscoe it was brought under this program with the objective of bringing people and the domestic cattle along with the forest and wildlife into one fold of management so that the economic condition of the people in the region is enriched through eco development programs and also so that their dependency on the forest is reduced now note that this biosphere contains simli pal hill range and its highest peak is kairi buru which is of 1168 meters and this biosphere reserve consists of numerous waterfalls and perennial streams that flow into major rivers such as the baitarani and subarna reka i hope i am pronouncing it correct also note that the biosphere reserve has the largest zone of salt trees in all of india and altogether the biosphere reserve is home to 42 mammal species 264 bird species 39 reptile species and 12 amphibian species and moreover approximately 52 fauna species found in this reserve are endangered even the royal bengal tiger and the asiatic elephant have been observed within the simli pal biosphere reserve now another important point regarding this biosphere reserve is that it consists of 1200 villages which are located within the biosphere reserve and approximately 73 percent of all the inhabitants are aboriginals so it is home to many tribes and two of the important tribes the erenga kharias and mankirtias they inhabit the reserve forests and they practice traditional agricultural activities such as the collection of seeds then there are also other dominant tribes such as ho tribe gundha tribe and moondha tribe and we have also other tribes of boonjiya batudi kola ganda santal kadia and mankaria and i hope i'm pronouncing the names of these tribes correct you please note the spelling of these tribes here so not only on ecological perspective but also on the cultural perspective this biosphere reserve is rich so these are some of the points that you should note about the simli pal biosphere reserve now let's move on to the next discussion now we have come to the last session the practice questions discussion session now this question is regarding the permanent court of arbitration first statement is it is a specialized agency of the united nations now this statement is incorrect because during discussion we saw that it is just an observer in the united nations not a specialized agency now the second statement is it is an organizer of architectural tribunals to resolve conflicts exclusively between national governments which are parties to it now this statement is also incorrect it is because of the word exclusively which means only here the statement means that it only resolves the conflicts between national governments but it is not so it resolves the conflicts between member states international organizations and even private parties so the statement is also incorrect and here both the statements are incorrect so the correct answer to this question is option d neither one nor two now this next question is based on trojan horse the question asks what is the trojan horse that is often mentioned in the news a recent search for the earth like planets in outer space option b rate of interest which a bank charges on its loans and advances to merchants option c malicious computer program that appears to have a useful function option d a biosense are used in the accurate detection of pathogens in patients and the correct answer is option c malicious computer program that appears to have a useful function now this next question is a direct question it asks the freedom in the world's report is released by option a reporters without borders option b transparency international option c freedom house option d amnesty international and the correct answer is option c freedom house which is a us think tank now this next question asks the countervailing duty is imposed when a country finds that the government in the exporting country provides assistance now here focus the question asks the countervailing duty is levied by not recommended by so the correct answer is option c ministry of finance only and not option a because ministry of commerce and industry recommends the countervailing duty but it is imposed by or levied by ministry of finance only so that is why correct answer is option c now this next question is based on seashells first statement is they are the hard endoskeleton of marine mollusks now this statement is incorrect now don't hurriedly think this statement is correct because it mentions as endoskeleton no seashells are exoskeletons of marine mollusks so this statement is incorrect now the second statement is it is mainly composed of calcium carbonate this statement is correct and here the question asks for the incorrect statements so the correct answer is option a one only now let us take one main question based on gs paper 2 the question is the recent permanent court of arbitration verdicts against india on cases filed against it by certain multinational corporations shows the existing conflicts between sovereign taxation powers of the government and bilateral investment treaties of our nation critically analyze so you have to analyze this fact given in this question so here you have to mention what the issue really is which is the retrospective taxation then you can mention about the examples of vodafone and kn energy and how it affects the bilateral investment treaties you have to answer this question in 150 words and at the end of the answer you can provide a suggestion as a conclusion so with this we come to the end of today's hindi news analysis if you like the video don't forget to like comment and share and to subscribe to shankar is academy youtube channel for more updates related to civil service examination preparation


How much are you looking for just kicking off the season Friday against the Indiana Fever in this building? I'm really excited. Not having played in here yet. I think I'm really just excited to get out here in front of fans, my family and just show everyone what we're about. It was a young Liberty team a season ago. You added some veterans. What are some things that excite you about this year's group? I think everything. I think, you know, obviously the new players that we have a lot of experience and being able to listen and learn from them and, you know, their past experiences from winning teams has been awesome. And I think it's helped us, but also having our core group of returners come back, you know, a lot of our rookies. We were rookies last year, but now come back and learn from, you know, the last year that we had and kind of grow together has been has been really nice. It's been a great mix. Alright, let me ask you about your building mates. The Brooklyn Nets, your thoughts on this group.  When they're all healthy and on their run, I don't really think anyone can beat them. So it's been really fun watching them grow as a team, watching their coaching staff and just everything that they're doing here. We can't wait to see you this season. Starting Friday against Indiana Fever here at Barclay Center. Thank you. Thank you.


Hey guys, it's Nate AK, the photo accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Finally, some confirmation of what is next, and thankfully it's exactly the promo that we expected and wanted. Today guys, we're gonna talk about footies a little bit more and a player SBC league that is somebody who always seems to crash the market when he gets dropped as an SBC. So, it's good to have a little bit of leaks, it's good to have a little bit of conversation upcoming for what is next because man, we need it right now in this game. Level up is getting a bit stale, but at least we have a lot of EA FC and 24 information as well. Make sure you check out yesterday's upload, where we talked a lot about EA FC and some behind the scenes kind of exclusive information about Ultimate Team specifically. I'll link that right up here. That was from my ability to be able to virtually attend that event in Amsterdam, the one where Holland walked out in his green pajamas. But without further ado, let's drop in today's video. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up and of course subscribe if you're new. And as we always do, we'll start with yesterday's content, Fabio Carvalho. He looks like a decent card and the price is good. That's basically all that I have to say about this SBC, man. I can't lie. It does have just kind of mid-vibes to me, but of course it is pretty cheap, like $90,000 to $200,000 coins for that card, only two squads. If this interests you, $84,000 to $87,000 worth of team of the week or team of the season, GG's get it done. Maybe one for the Bundesliga or a passive present Liverpool. Maybe one of those, right? That could be where he fits into your side. Also, Portuguese. If you need the Renato links, I just got the Renato finally finished. I've been grinding a lot of the games. I'm not entirely done just yet, helping out some other people that I'm doing co-op with. Get this Renato done. But 94 Renato is in the main squad, so now I've actually got a decent amount done. Not a ton, but Renato is the biggest one, of course, that we put our coins and our grind into. So that one is complete. It's nice to have the 94 and to have that done. Now, speaking of objectives yesterday, I was also where we had some content. Another footchamps bonus, and they included the Eredivisie once more.  And guys, don't sleep on this, honestly, because if we do get rewards changes for footies, that might be worth looking into. Now, yesterday when that was dropped, Eredivisie cards on the market absolutely exploded. Case in point with Javi Simons, who also, I believe, just transferred from PSG to Leipzig. So that card would end up technically linking with the Fabio Carvalho. I mean, this guy yesterday, I think it was about 140,000 coins or something along those lines. He was extinct, or basically almost extinct at his max price of 230,000 coins. He went up a bunch, and look where he is right now, back down to 141k. A lot of those Eredivisie cards went up huge. That's something to watch out for on Tuesdays from here on out for the rest of the year. Maybe a quick flipping opportunity if they drop those plus, weekendly plus objectives. Seems a bit inconsistent. Some weeks they do it, some weeks they don't. But we're on two weeks in a row that they have, and when it's a lower league like that, that people have to buy more cards for that don't have in the club, you see a lot of cards moving. Now yesterday we also had a lot of EAFC information with the gameplay stuff. We'll talk about that towards the end. What I want to talk about first, of course, is Footies, guys. And this is the tweet we were waiting for. It's not quite like a loading screen, but it is basically confirmation that we are getting Footies, right? Sheriff is leaking Footies team number one, he says, coming this Friday. It's a bit anticlimactic because we expected it, right? And if you missed our in-depth video on Footies, make sure you check out yesterday's other video talking about the promo that could save FIFA right now. And it feels like Footies has that potential to deliver that level of content. Though without a loading screen yet, we're left with this tweet and really nothing else to really confirm that Footies is coming. But I mean, this is pretty much good, I think, to believe it's, you know, we always take the leaks with a pinch of salt. But this one should be spot on just because of the timing of the year, the pack that's already in the code, confirming Footies and batch one, re-release. Now the interesting thing and some people are reading into this a little bit, he says Footies team one is coming this Friday. And of course, you think about Footies, you're like, wait, Nate, does that mean that Footies cards are going to be in packs? I would be shocked if they are. I think Footies is going to run the same way that it's run every single year, guys. I don't think that Footies team one is going to mean that there's going to be a Footies set of cards in packs by any means. I think that's just foot sheriffs wording of saying like team one, of all the SBCs and the objectives and the voting, everything they're going to drop during Footies, the first week of it is coming this Friday. Again, the best of that pack is literally in the code that EA added. So there's a Footies best of that is coming 100%. So we think it's going to be a Footies that acts as normal and it's a normal promo as we expect it to be. But the way he worded that tweet, of course, got a lot of people thinking about it. Now without a loading screen, have there been some price drops on the market because of that tweet? Yes and no. But it's really not that much of a crash. It's just a couple prices have dipped, right? Musiala, I think, started the day yesterday at about $500,000 and like $90,000 coins. Right now he's $555,000 on a bit of an undercut. As I take a look around the market, I see a few things that are down just a little bit. But it's not like that tweet caused mass panic and a lot of prices falling on the market as people were like, oh my goodness, it's Footies, right? I think a lot of people like we've been talking about this last couple of days. A lot of people have been taking the time to liquidate cards out of their team that they need to and the next wave of panic is probably going to come in like a surge of panic and really prices dropping a lot and dropping fast might happen a little bit with the loading screen. But honestly guys, it may not happen until after Footies actually starts because you've seen prices drop a bit over the past few days as people have started to prepare for this. Like Riyad Mahrez has been dropping over the number of the past few days, right? Saturday he was 1.28, here we are now heading into Wednesday and he's down 200,000 coins. Will he drop further during Footies? Probably, but for right now, he's not down that low. You look at guys like, I don't know, Jude Bellingham with all the midfielders we've had dropped recently kind of like Goretzka and Chamele. He went from 1.7 mil all the way down to 1.3. Todd's cards have been dropping anyway. So we're definitely seeing some prices dropping but it's not like a huge panic sell market crash, it's like boom, Footies is announced and prices are dying. Really, I think prices could actually end up being kind of stagnant if we get a loading screen today and if we actually get some news, the official news that Footies is coming, yes the hype is going to build and yes some prices might drop but there may not be like an absolute crazy market crash, the prices just kind of might slide down a bit except for the stuff that gets re-released back into packs, right? And I'm always going to make sure I'm very clear on that. Guys, anything that gets re-released last year I believe it was Messy that was in the team, Messy and Team of the Year and also a Messy Team of the Year re-released as a part of Batch 1 as Footies and a lot of those cards dropped off incredible amounts. It's all about being in packs for the best of re-released, that's really going to hurt a lot of prices but for the rest of the market there may be a bit of falling this week and then it all just depends on what happens Friday and beyond with Footies content as to where those prices would go in the next week. Now for sure one leak that we have right now it's not maybe related to Footies but it is a leak. A flashback Jamie Vardy. We've had a good amount of flashback SBCs recently and one theme I'm noticing is like they're all Premier League, Tim Riem, Abameyang now we have Jamie Vardy we've had a Premier League in McAllister as the transfer card as well here we are once again with another Premier League striker. Last week Abameyang this week, Vardy for sure deserving of a flashback like he hasn't had a special card in a long time this year a centurions card that I think even when it was released made some waves. Not that it was that expensive card around 100,000 coins but 90 pace, 90 shooting Vardy always has that pace. Always is a pretty good FIFA ultimate team card right and everybody this is at least what I think back to. If you played FIFA back in FIFA 20 this Jamie Vardy card might haunt you because this is a card that destroyed all of the prices of strikers right at the beginning of the game. It was in the first full month it was the beginning of November when this Jamie Vardy dropped and it was so cheap it was 24,000 coins for an 87 rated striker with 93 pace at the beginning of the game you're like Nate how did that crash the market it did because of the pace and because of the price of the SBC everybody was using this card back in FIFA 20 and Jamie Vardy is always like that his cards are always somehow like market moving because I think it's the English links it's the Premier League links which still I think even though Lester got relegated this is still a primarily card in FIFA 23 because nothing of like the leagues have changed or anything along those lines so this is still going to be a Prem striker card in FIFA 23 if it is dropped here pretty soon and I think these stats could be pretty good predictions and it's probably going to be a pretty cheap SBC like Vardy SBCs are usually pretty cheap you could say Prem tax might be a part of this which is true but like this cards 30,000 coins and has 4.6 million games played throughout the entire year this is going to be an SBC that a lot of people will want to do similar on the hype levels maybe even a little bit higher on the hype levels with the abombing flashback but Vardy just kind of brings back memories of the past right with the Lester team that won the trophy like that's on that image if that was a dynamic image on that card it would be worth it doing that SBC alone for that dynamic image so if we're getting a Jamie Vardy here pretty soon which I think could be getting it today I don't exactly know when this is going to drop I think the abombing SBC dropped on a Thursday if I remember correctly last week it was either Wednesday or Thursday so here in the next two days I think we'll see the Vardy unless it's supposed to be a part of footies then it could be released after maybe on Friday or beyond but it feels like it might be one of the last SBCs of the level up promo and I hope it's cheap I hope it's like 250k or less and has really really good stats that would be a fun card especially with like a 5 star skill boost he's 4-4 in the Centurions card a 5-4 or a 5-5 if they made it 5-5 I'd pay a little bit more because that would be a very very meta card so watch out for that one and of course like we saw when Abombing was released watch out for some of your other strikers I think of like Gabriel Jesus if you got a card like that in your team maybe Joao Felix some of the most recent and most meta players that are prem strikers their prices could take a hit even like the icons right we were starting to trade last week to get to Eusebio or sorry to get to Renato we were looking at cards like Eusebio and their prices really dropped off a considerable amount remember we traded with baby R9 last week he was a card that dropped off a lot because of the flashback that was released for Abombing I would only imagine that the same sort of thing would happen if the value on Vardy is really really good today or whenever it's released so keep an eye out for that there could be some prices moving there now Wednesday content today will we get any surprises I hope so man again yesterday was such a quiet day but it makes sense right EA really trying to build the hype for FC24 so that was more of the bigger news content on FIFA was not that big of news but here we are once again on a Wednesday and the 93 plus tats or shape shifters player pick is expiring last week it expired and they re-released another one will they do the same thing today I hope so alright I hope EA do something like this today of course the 85x7 is refreshing as well last couple of days I would still do the daily login by the way even if you got it done yesterday and got all 12 which today will be my 12th day since I missed one a while back but I would still do this 81 double for a bronze player like sign me up right that's something if we could do every day that'd be amazing right the 10 coin pack keep refreshing the store as well do that one you might as well you never know what's gonna happen you never know what you might hit so I really hope they re-release this today if they do what would move fodder 100% might be a decent day to sell some of your high-rated fodder guys because if footies is coming like we do believe that it is I think there could be opportunities for high-rated fodder to drop in the coming days if they're re-releasing old special cards impacts especially if there's a decent amount of them that are 88 to 92 rated it's gonna bring some of these fodder prices down because those cards are gonna be getting supplied a lot on the market a lot of high-rated it's kind of the same thing that happened during team of the season right during TOTS all of these high-rated fodder cards they dropped a bunch look at where De Bruyne was 72k in April by the time we get into team of the season these guys are down to 25,000 coins because there's so many other TOTS cards that people can use in SBC's besides the golds on the market so I'll be careful to your high-rated fodder if it has a last-minute spike today if you still have some in your club or you're invested in it and you're trying to sell some I would maybe sell that then it's not gonna be a good day to invest in the fodder in my opinion for sure with that SBC potentially refreshing unless you're just going for a quick flip right I would not hold fodder too long after Wednesday after Thursday today's also the last day of the season guys it's kind of hard to believe that this last season that while a lot of us have probably been level 40 for a while now this goes away well technically tomorrow on Thursday in the early morning hours this is the last full day so if you're trying to grind some progress you need to get to level 40 or if you're maybe just trying to get your rivals wins to get that next tier of rewards which crazy with this Renato grind I'm now up to 39 of 50 games played probably not gonna hit that 50 because I don't care but I'm getting a reward upgrade for the first time in weeks maybe months honestly for playing more co-op rivals than just about ever but if you're kind of grinding for that watch out for that today other than that probably gonna be I mean we'll see that 93 plus player pick is really what's gonna move things today move the needle if you will and then if we do get a load in screen that's where some of the hype could be as well now for the end of this video today I do want to take a look at some level up cards and some of the EAFC stuff that went on these level up cards man the team two cards are having some price drops Garetska yesterday in fact right now 1.8 million coins is that a 1 million coin drop in total in the last 24 hours and not quite he was 2.5 mil 2.4 mil on the cross-platform market and he has dropped off well just about 700,000 coins 800,000 coins considering he was also on Monday still about 2.5 to 2.6k so big time drop off there on Garetska same thing with Chamani, Darwin Nunez I think people are selling these off a bit with footies in mind fearing those these guys still have another week to do the objectives as well it's team one that you have to be more worried about and guys these prices are still up a lot Renato Sanchez 4.3 mil Verner's down a bit Enzo is down a little bit Davies down some too I'm actually a bit worried that I still have Renato because we're trying to finish him on a co-op I'm a little bit worried that Renato might end up dropping today because I do think there is going to be one last wave of selling as people get the objectives done right before they go away and these cards are going to drop so that might be today this morning could be tomorrow trying to get Renato done on the co-op and then get it out because actually I can't believe that I bought the Renato at 3.9 and right now we're just about making coins on that card that is pretty crazy there but these level up cards man here's what I would tell you if you're trying to get a Veran if you're trying to get a Garetska or a Chamani done I know you don't want to lose coins so I see like if you see a drop off like you see on Darwin Nunez right now or Chamani what I would tell you is buy the card get the games done as fast as you can and then just get it out because guys I really don't think you're going to want to focus on a promo with footies like coming with a promo like footies coming let's say it that way I don't think you're going to want to focus on all of these games you have to grind footies is an objective and SPC based promo for all the footies cards and it's probably going to be a lesser of a grind than what level up was so if you're going to go for one of these I would say buy the card grind as much as you can as fast as you can get it done and then just ship it out and then you don't have to worry about it any more beyond that so that's kind of a roundup of the level up prices right now in the market and let's talk about these pitch notes and the stuff we learned yesterday I'm not a huge of course gameplay guy we don't talk a lot about gameplay we still we play the game a good amount but I want to point out two things right every single time EA add new features to gameplay what is overpowered in that coming year right it is the new features that they have added think about the year they add an L tornado what was really really overpowered the L tornado think about this last year with the power shot some of the craziest goals that I score are with power shots right or with like cancelling skill moves and older FIFA's last year they added accelerate 1.0 and what was really popular and really overpowered lengthy right now what they did in this EA FC 24 they've added another level to this is the first thing I want to point out today accelerate 2.0 there are now not just explosive controlled and lengthy run types there are seven different types there's explosive mostly explosive controlled explosive controlled controlled lengthy mostly lengthy and lengthy so basically it took something that was very simple and made it more complex and more confusing but I think it's actually going to make for some really interesting cards and it's going to be interesting to see players that maybe start as like controlled lengthy or maybe they start as like super lengthy as their attributes get updated throughout the year and they get promo cards technically if their agility and balance is going up and their strength is still really really high that gap might be slowly closing to be from lengthy to be mostly lengthy to be controlled lengthy and then they might be controlled by the end of the year right we've seen that kind of thing happen this year with some taller strikers that end up getting dribbling boost that go higher and higher and higher and they don't they're not lengthy anymore right they've just become controlled so it is kind of nice to have different options so that you can go from a lengthy player into a controlled but still have some lengthy before you get just straight a switch over straight to controlled so I'm very interested to see how that changes things up and then the most overpowered part of FIFA 23 gameplay that I want to point you guys to right now and this is guys like I think this is going to be massive like when I played the game myself which I already have and kickoff mode this way of passing through balls just like it shows here being a very defense splitting way to put a through ball in it's it's very good and it is definitely going to be a skill gap part of the game where it's going to take some getting used to and it's not going to work in all situations but this precision pass guys precision pass combined with the right player with the right play styles right you think about a guy like De Bruyne that's got swerve pass a swerve precision pass like this or a lob it's really going to be good this year guys because it's a new tactic and I mean it gives you so much control over the passes that you want to make the through balls in these examples just look absolutely crispy they look perfectly placed and this is going to be very overpowered guys we're going to be doing a lot of these precision passes in EFC 24 for sure and this is one of the new features right you have to press R1 gone to the days of the what is it R1 and triangle right now it's like you're threaded through ball or whatever it is it kind of gives it a little bit more swerve and now that's going to be a precision pass and then you can do R1 and the cross button for a lob pass so I'll leave the link to this deep dive the pitch notes down below in the description this video but I wanted to point that out a bit today because those are the two of the biggest things I saw from the trailer and I think they're going to be impacting the game a lot and we'll talk about gameplay we'll talk about all the EFC features coming more as we learn more throughout the summer that was some big news yesterday and of course as I said in the beginning of the video make sure you check out the video we posted just before this one about EFC and Ultimate Team there's some big changes in there so if you enjoyed today's video drop a thumbs up on it comment down below if you have any questions and of course subscribe if you're new I will see you guys on the Twitch stream today I love you dudes I'm out peace