Okay, we're back from IOD. This is Dave Vellante at Wikibon.org and we're bringing you theCUBE live from IOD, IBM's big software event, big data event, an event that really is underscoring IBM's portfolio in big data, its commitment to big data, its management visions, its technology visions. Really quite impressive and this is day two for us. We've been covering IOD here Monday and Tuesday. We're off to Strata tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. We're going to be covering that event like a blanket. theCUBE, SiliconANGLE's flagship product that goes to the events. We extract the signal from the noise and I'm here with my co-host. I'm Jeff Kelly and we'd like to welcome Jim Giles. He's a distinguished engineer for Big Data at IBM. We're seeing development of the InfoSphere and the Streams platforms as well. Big insights and Streams, yes. Great, thanks for coming on theCUBE, appreciate it. Yeah, we've heard a lot about Streams. We've had a couple of your partners on, customers and people are very excited about it. But first of all, let's start with just the whole topic of big data, set off cameras, one of your favorite topics. It's one of ours as well. You have it in your title, I made that comment, which is relatively new to see people with big data in their titles.  Is that the case with you? Yeah, that's right. So we've been working on the InfoSphere Streams product. That's where actually I started with an IBM, working on building that in IBM research and then bringing it to market as a product within Software Group. And so that is really about analyzing data in motion and it's one of our major parts of our overall big data platform. And so then we got excited and interested in Big Insights and Hadoop and multiple different parts of the Big Data platform. So we have been working on it for quite some time. Yeah, we had Nagi Halim on before and he was saying that essentially he started this initiative 10 years ago. That's right. You know, it's like love about IBM, you do some real research and stuff actually hits the market. It's not just research for research sake. Yeah. So what's going on at IOT? What are some of the things that you're talking to customers about and what are you hearing back? Yeah, so I think one of the most important things to really talk about is the overall big data platform. And so whenever some people talk about big data they just think that means Hadoop or they just think it means, you know, maybe whatever warehouse that they happen to have but really with IBM we're taking all these different pieces together. We always talk about volume, variety and velocity and so we make sure that we have the right components to solve each of those different types of problems whether it's analyzing data in motion whether it's analyzing data at rest and bringing all those different pieces together. And so that's really the strength of our IBM Big Data portfolio. So where are you finding when you talk to customers where are they on this journey? You know, it's really early days I think in this market for so-called big data. So you know, where are you finding most customers at? Are they at the point where they conceptually understand what's going on and they're ready to implement solutions or are you still doing a lot of evangelizing? Where do you think we are in terms of maturity? So different people are at different places and different are coming into different entry points. So we have some customers that maybe have a problem a business process that they are working on right now that they just can't do anymore the way they've been doing it before. And so they're really looking for new technologies that they can bring to bear to that problem. And for them, they pretty much know what they want to do. They're ready to explore the technology with us and implement projects and get into production. There's other customers who have brand new problems that it's a whole new problem space a new thing that they want to do. And for them, sometimes they're still kicking the tires and trying to understand just what these things can do for them and what sorts of new capabilities they can uncover. So it's a real mix of customers that we're seeing right now. Can we do a little big insights drill down? Yeah, sure. Take us back through, because it's a pretty comprehensive platform. Yes. Take us back to the start. Where to come from, lay it out for us. Paint a picture if you would like to. Yeah, sure. So this also, like many things, the ideas around putting something together came from IBM Research, actually started in the Almodin Lab for big insights. And we're really starting to realize that Hadoop was a very important capability and we needed to figure out how we were going to leverage it within IBM. And so there was some different work that was going on, some different work that was happening in file systems, some work that was happening in analytics. That's a very important part of the big insights product. And we started pulling into these different pieces together and we realized that if we put them together in the right combinations, we were going to have something very powerful, very unique within the marketplace. We really pride ourselves on starting with that Apache Hadoop stack and in building on top of it with analytics, with tools for both the business analyst, the business executive, the data scientist, developers as well, a complete and total package. So we really brought different things together from different parts of IBM Research as well as things that we've created as well. So add some more color to that. So if I'm buying big insights, what am I getting? So with big insights, you get Apache Hadoop, much like many other people who are doing Hadoop distributions or offerings, but you also get a whole set of analytics capabilities. One example of that is our advanced text analytics, really powerful capability. This is something where you can analyze textual information, whether it be from Twitter, Facebook, whatever other type of source or your enterprise data, because in enterprise data, you have a number of things that are unstructured as well, and you can pull entities out of that data, you can find sentiment in this type of textual data as well. And this is not only for English, but also multiple other different types of languages. So that's just one example of one of the analytic capabilities. We also have some workload optimizations. So there's things that we do in terms of our scheduling, things that we do in terms of our packing different types of workloads together to really improve the performance. In many cases, we can get 30% better performance than the base schedulers that are built into Hadoop today. Going on up this stack, we have developer tools, bridge-set of developer tools and Eclipse for not only the Apache open source languages, so Pig and Hive and all those sorts of things, but also for IBM's Scripting Language Jackal that we've created as well, and also for all the analytics capabilities. On up the stack, kind of the most important, the face of Big Insights is our web console where data scientists can interact with data in a very familiar spreadsheet-oriented kind of way. So the capability is called Big Sheets. It allows you to look at your data, and one of the key things there is that, of course, with big data, you can't bring all your data into a spreadsheet, operate on it, and push it out. So instead, what we do is we can pull samples of the data, do some transformations. When we're happy with those transformations, push that back down into the infrastructure run and then get our results that way. So Big Sheets, also our application framework, being able to take applications that we've built and also that our customers build and have them executable by really people who don't understand technology very well, but just know that they want to accomplish a particular task. So it's a whole set of things that we provide. It's a modular set of components that I can engage with. I can utilize other tools if I want. Is that true or? So it's one complete package. Okay, so it's a full stack. It's a full stack. Okay, great. So I've dropped it in and that's my environment. That's your environment. Okay. And do you have a community addition? Yes, we have Big Insights basic addition and we also have Big Insights Enterprise. Big Insights basic is effectively IBM's version, our distribution of Apache Hadoop. It's the same as what you can get directly from open source just with our blue washing that we, what we call blue washing, following all of our legal processes and things like that of the Apache Hadoop components. And then a few other things to make it easy to install and administer. So the same technology. Same technology. It's just blue washed. That's right. Meaning it's blessed by IBM and it has all the... That's right.  Okay, so it's the Hadoop, which is open source. The analytics, now the text analytics is something that's specific to Big Insights or is that some other technology that you've dropped in? Yeah, so the cool thing about this is that one of our strategies is to take these analytics that we've been creating for platforms like our Big Insights platform but also make them available on other platforms as well. So that exact same advanced text analytics capability that runs in Big Insights also runs in streams. This makes it extremely powerful because you can think about doing some deep analysis on all the data that you've got stored in your Hadoop environment. Coming up with the type of analysis you want to do from a text perspective but then push that back up into streams for doing real time analysis on data in motion. And so this is overall where we're headed, making sure that the same analytics that we have, if they're appropriate in a streaming environment, work there, if they're appropriate in Hadoop, work there and being able to share those same capabilities across. Really useful. What's the value proposition of Big Insights? Is it the simplicity, the integrated stack? Is that right? It's a combination of them. It's really the simplicity. It's the fact that we have an integrated stack and all the components work together. Most importantly, the fact that it's integrated into the rest of what we call our Big Data platform with all the other products, that deep integration is very important. And then these advanced capabilities that don't really exist elsewhere. So a lot of organizations, when they talk about Hadoop, say, okay, virtually everybody, Jeff, says we're going to make Hadoop more robust, we're going to make it enterprise ready, and so. It's a legitimate conversation to have. I mean, that's. It's a legitimate conversation to have because there's some problems there. How are you attacking that problem? Right, so I mentioned some of the things like the workload optimization, that's one piece of that, and of course the integration into the enterprise and all of both IBM's components as well as other partners and other vendors as well. That's a key part of that enterprise ready aspect of it. But the other things that we're doing is, for example, we're really focusing on security, making sure that we can provide the kind of security that our customers are expecting on top of the Hadoop framework and many other things that we're working on as well. So the workload optimization sounds like tuning to me, like automated tuning. Is that, am I inferring that correctly? Well, there are some other things that we're doing as well where we're taking some scheduler technology and we're sort of overlaying that on top of the base Apache Hadoop scheduler. So we have something that in research was called Flex, which sort of lays down over and replaces the fair scheduler. Now I think we called our advanced scheduling capability. And so it's really just taking some of the things that we've learned in other systems over time, other experimentation that we've done in research and so forth and applying that now to the infrastructure in providing better overall performance. So how about things like data protection, data management, recovery? Is that part of the objective or is that really not fundamental to the system? So all those things we're working on and including capabilities for all those things. So it's a journey. So it's not all there today, it's part of the roadmap. That's right. So you mentioned security. I'd love to talk about that a little bit. What are some of the security concerns you're hearing from customers? How are you approaching that? Have you seen some activity in that market? It's a startup called Squirrel, which kind of came out of the NSA. They're focusing on cell level security and their data and their no-supial database that works kind of in the Hadoop stack. But what are you finding in terms of the major security concerns around Hadoop and Big Insights? Is it different than the security concerns you're hearing around, you know, Nathisa in more traditional databases or does it have any unique characteristics? Excuse me, I think the concerns are really the same. It's just that maturity, the technology is something that's got to evolve over time. So one of the things that, excuse me, people are always worried about is the number of ports that you have to open up to access all the different components. And so one of the strategies we've taken is that we sort of have a gateway into our clusters through our web console, rest interfaces through our web console, and that's the way that you get into the cluster to do the computation that you want to do. So if you have an application, for example, you deploy it into our web console and then once it's approved for use by the administrator, then you can actually, your users can run that directly from the web console itself. So one of the strategies is just trying to sort of surround and you can think of it as a walled off garden that we're trying to protect in a way. Another concern is definitely around the auditing and understanding what users are touching which data. And so that's something that we're, we worked with our guardian capability to make sure that we can actually take that information as it's being generated from logs and things like that and push it up to our guardian tools so you can understand what's happening within the cluster. So the big insights, I'm sorry we're spending so much time on it but it's interesting to me and I think our audience. Can you talk about your database strategy with regard to big insights? Where does the database fit? Yeah, so there's a couple of different things I can say about it. Already today we have very deep integration, two-way integration with all of our major database capabilities. So pushing data into DB2 and pulling it out of DB2, pushing it into Neteza, pulling it out of Neteza. All this using high speed parallel readers and writers and so that's one of the things we've done. The other thing we've done that's related to the database technology is with our Cognos capability we have the, we can now take Cognos and access data that's in our big insights cluster through a Hive connector that we've got. Over time we're working much more towards integrating these things, these components very deeply. So for example being able to issue queries from your database and being able to have those pushed down into a Hadoop environment and vice versa. So if I wanted to use H-Base with big insights I can do that obviously. Oh, of course, yes. And so obviously there's a big movement we're going to hear a lot about this tomorrow the next day at Strata is to bring together a sequel and no sequel. So what's your angle on that? So that's something that we're very actively, very actively working on is the ability to have a rich sequel interfaces over the top of our big insights environment. So I mean long terms we hear a lot about the connector strategy right now. We've got companies, enterprises doing a lot of the hard deep analytics in Hadoop or crunching the numbers and then kind of hanging a database off the side and kind of moving data in there. And long term do you think that's a long term strategy or do you think we need to move to a more comprehensive platform that kind of integrates these capabilities into one common platform? It sounds like the latter, I don't want to put words in your mouth. Yeah, we definitely see it all converging and coming together. They have to all work together in a complete picture. So architecturally what does that mean?  So I think that ultimately what you're going to see is the ability to execute standard SQL queries on top of a database and you won't even know that it's happened but some aspects of that will go off and be executed inside the Hadoop environment. You'll see extensions where sort of overflow data, you can think of it as if you want to make it, instead of pushing data into a long term archiving you might want to push it into something that we're calling a queryable archive, still making it accessible but maybe not as accessible as it would have been if it was inside your database but not as inaccessible as if it's been moved off to long term storage or something like that. So it's going to become a complete seamless picture is where we think it's headed. What kinds of things are really exciting you now? What's really floating your boat? Yeah, so I think that really the maturity that we've hit with all these products, Big Insights 2.0, Streams 3.0, the ease of use that we've reached at this point is very exciting to me and I think also what I'm starting to see with many of our different customer use cases. Earlier in the conference as an example just one that was just extremely exciting, ConocoPhillips talked about how they're tracking icebergs in the Arctic and trying to understand where icebergs are relative to the oil production platforms and if they needed to move the oil production platform or if they needed to maybe break up the ice and all this is being done using satellite data in real time, just a really exciting use case and there's many more use cases like that with other customers that are just, it's just amazing what people are trying to do now. Fantastic, go ahead. I just want to return, sorry to return to the architectural question but we've heard a lot about the peer systems at the show and the pure data and some interesting things that are going on there. How does the entire big data platform as the book that we've got here we had on some of the authors earlier, how do they all integrate in a way that doesn't create more silo, data silos? An issue we've been dealing with in the data management field for years. How does the big insights in the Streams portfolio play with pure data portfolio and the peer systems portfolio in a way that doesn't create more silos? Right, so as I mentioned earlier, we do have rich and deep and vast integration points between all the different components within it and the other thing is that we sort of have laid out patterns and some of those are actually discussed in the book, laid out patterns of how data would flow through your enterprise, maybe it comes in through the streaming system, you get your insights as the data's flowing in then data, whatever data is relevant that might flow into Hadoop, maybe you'll do some deep analytics, maybe you'll find some data elements that are really important, they need to maybe go on to your database. So we're trying to describe an architectural pattern here and more broadly that shows how the data would flow through your enterprise, how you actually can leverage each of the different environments for the applications that you've got accessing data and interacting with data at the right place at the right time. All right, great, well, Jim Giles, thanks so much for coming on and I mentioned that we've had some of the authors on and Jim in fact is one of the authors but I think we've had half the authors on so far, we've got to see if we can get the other three by the next hour or two. Yeah, Jim, that was great, really appreciate you coming on. This is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage of IBM IOD, we're right back with some great guests coming on this afternoon. We're going all day, we're going all week, this is big data week, keep it right there, we're right back.


The question is, what's going to happen to quantity demanded, okay? The rules of engagement in my class are, if I ask you a question, you have three options. Say something, just pretend you're alive, okay? Second, you can defer to anybody in the class, but it must be by name. It can't be yo dipstick with the hat on. It's got to be by name. And third, if you are actually ill and not suffering from dehydration, then you can ask for a pass. But otherwise, bring your egg in, because I'm bringing mine. I don't think I'm funny, but if you don't make fun of yourself, you can't pick on anybody else. And I am not some supermind, I'm good at what I do, and I like what I do. I work with some really good people. So if you're not going to have fun doing this, go home. We get to know our students not only as scholars who we're going to be working with and learning together with, but it's also getting to know them as individuals. I was always taught, you don't have the time, you make the time. So when they started the Nation Residential College and they said we needed mentors, that was a lock, lock and load. That just made all the sense in the world. What it does is it gives you a better connection with the students. I think for me, it's the students seeing me and other members of the faculty and the administration outside of our role. And I think for the students who, there's almost no commonality between these guys and girls, and they come together and get to know each other. And I think that's great. Some of them come a long way in terms of getting to know a lot about them. Some don't, and they're free to choose. They just argue you're in for a dolly or you're in for a nickel, but just come. Listen, sit. And I think that program has been phenomenal. And I think that's part of why this is to me is a special place. You're part of a community. And the more you give to the community, the more you'll get out of it. And so this is not just a place I go to work. We're all learners. I haven't got all the answers by a long shot. So we're in this together and I'm going to ask you questions and you better be ready to ask me some questions.


W-E-A-F, New York, 830 p.m. B-U-L-O-V-A, Boulevard Watchtime. Boulevard, Guest of a Lifetime. A bottle of Avalon cigarettes, please. Yes, sir. Just a moment, sir. Don't forget your change. You'd never guess, but Avalon cost you less. So why not always travel on with us? This is Del King saying, welcome to Avalon Time, featuring radio's red-headed ragamuffin, Richard Redskelton, with Dick Todd, Edna Stillwell, but Hercules Van Dover, the Avalon chorus, and Bob Strong and his orchestra opening the program with an apple for the teacher from the Star Maker. Saving comes to you as an extra, because Avalons are guaranteed unsurpassed in quality. They're union-made from a perfect blend of choice, Turkish, and domestic tobaccos. In fact, you couldn't get finer quality tobaccos in any other cigarette, regardless of price, regardless of brand. Truly, Avalons are the cigarette buy of today. So the next time, try Avalon cigarettes, and save the difference. Billy Rose and the bevy of deep-athing beauties to make a gorgeous spectacle at the World's Fair. It took two football squads and 76,000 people to make a mighty spectacle at the Yankee Stadium. But on Avalon Time, it only takes one man to make a greater spectacle of himself, Redskelton. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Redskel, speaking of football, Army sure put up a terrific battle at the Yankee Stadium last Saturday against Notre Dame, didn't it? Why not, Red? After all, the Yankee Stadium is the American League's demogino line. Yeah. So what a loud-speaking system they have there. Every time a National League fan shows up, it automatically plays taps. What a football game! What excitement! Bodies, veins, and perspiration. Women screaming at the top of their lungs and strong men cramping underfoot. Now, wait a minute, Red, was this a football game or bargain day in Macy's basement? Yeah. Where's football, Dale? Oh, what a reception I got when I entered the stadium. Two cadets jumped on my back and started racing me up and down the sideline. They thought I was the Army Mule. I wouldn't have minded, but they rode me side-saddle. My uncle was with me, you know, he really knows football strategy, that guy. Every time the team went into punt formation, the score wasn't the only thing that was tight. I used to be a football player myself, Dale. You did? Yeah, I played with a Vincent Icky. How do you think I got this faith? One day while I was playing, I started a lateral pass. Yeah. A tackler broke through the line, lunged with a straight arm, and intercepted my push. I'll never forget the time I held the ball for a place kick. What happened?  That's the last time I've ever do that with a near-sighted bullpack. Well, it looks like I'm benched, folks. Here comes Dick Todd carrying the ball for dear old Avalon. Thank you, Dick. Lollex in the rain. I heard a robin sing today. Spring is just across the way. And there I go again. Goes her drool in my heart. Or gets to smile. In the rain. I love those flower songs. Lollex, Blue Orchids, Roses and Picardy. I wish they'd write a song about my favorite flower. What is it, Skeleton? The corn flower? No, it's not a corn flower, Todd. It's not a daffy dill either. My favorite flower is a Chris...  Hey, that would make a nice song. Big yellow jobs in the rain. Hello, boys. Your song sounded swell, Dick. Thanks, Anna. Say, how come you never say anything about my voice? Do you ever hear a voice like mine? Not since I gave a hyena a hot foot. Speaking of hyenas, how about that crazy brother of yours, that press agent of mine? Imagine booking me into a nightclub where there's so much smoke in the joint, they have to use fog lights on the dance floor. And not only that, I have to challenge the customer. Well, how do you issue your challenges, Red? Through a loudspeaker? No, through an Ouija boy. I do not. The guy I fought last night was plenty tough. He sure was. For a midget. He was no midget, Anna. Oh, no. Well, how come when we had coffee afterwards, every time he dunks his donut, he got his shoulders wet? Yeah. Ah, go on. In the ring, that guy towered way over me. Well, why didn't you get up off the floor? I was... Now listen, just for that, you walk around the studio five times saying, and don't forget your change. Come on, get going. Start saying it. Okay, teacher. And don't forget your change. No kidding, Red.  Head first. I mean, uh... Well, well, well. Are you still? Shoot. Listen, I've taken enough from you, Roger. You're no longer my press agent and manager. I can handle my own affairs. What do you think I am, a baby? Don't forget your change. I know something like that had happened to her if she stayed around you long enough. She's gone plug-nuddy. Well, never mind that. I'm not going to fight anymore. That's all I'm telling you. I'm through. Let's not argue about this. I want to tell you how to win your fight. See? Now, like last night, I kept yelling at you to bring one up from the floor. I brought one up from the floor, and I did very much. How do you know? He sent me back down for another one.  Then I left. You sure wasn't any pretty picture when you got in your dressing room. Dressing room? What dressing room? I thought you said that room was going to be private. That is private. Didn't it have your name over the door? Skelton ain't spelled G-E-N-T-S. Then I mean it when I say I'm through with you. I've got a lawyer coming over here later to break my contract with you. Ah, don't get conceited. I can get comedians like you for a dime a dozen. And don't forget your change. Yeah. Now, that's enough, Edna. That's so long, Stooge. I'm going out now to take care of a guy who tried to break his contract. Now, what are you going to do, satchel mouth? I've got to see a man about a moor. Well, he'll find out. Well, while I'm waiting for my lawyer to show up, Bob Strong and his orchestra will play a weird hunk of rhythm called Jungle Drums. Wait till you hear it, folks. You'll swear the guy wrote it after two. Come, come, come. Oh, and this dummy broke up his famous act? Well, it went like this. Hey, Professor, could I borrow a cigarette? Why, sure. Here you are. Oh, goodness. No, thanks. Not that brand. I smoke Avalon. Oh, so you smoke Avalons, eh? Well, that's the end of our act. Professor, what do you mean?  It's a smart move on anyone's part to switch to Avalon cigarettes. Avalons are guaranteed unsurpassed in quality, but cost three to five cents less per pack than other popular price brands, a very worthwhile saving. Try Avalons tonight. You'd never guess they cost you less. Never were true words spoken, Del, okay? Say, is my lawyer showing up yet? Not yet, Red. Say, by the way, is that nightclub where you work really a tough place? Tough? Say, every time you pass a place, you hear the roaring 21 guns, and they ain't saluting anybody. No fooling, that's it. Say, that's probably my lawyer now. Come in. Well, it certainly took you a long time to get... Are you my lawyer? Well, I... He's a counselor at law. Oh, goodness, yes, Mr. Skelton. I bail him. Now to get to the case. Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so I'll help you? I do. Oh, well, there's no use, Herky. I don't think you can... you can't help me. Oh, can't I? Why, Mr. Skelton, you happen to be addressing the great Hercules of the firm, Hercules Atlas Sampson and Delilah. Hercules Atlas Sampson? How did Delilah get in there? Oh, gracious, you know Sampson, don't you? Yeah. Oh, but you should see my record, Mr. Skelton. Of course, I lost my last case, but that was my mom's fault. What? By the next time I try a case in court, she's going to let me dress just like the despic attorney. How's that, Herky? She's going to let me wear long pants. But boy, as far as my other cases are concerned, I fix some, I never... Yeah, wait a minute, Herky. You've already made that point clear. Oh, goodness, so what? The way everybody steps on me, no wonder I have an inferiority duplex. Okay, I'll give you the case.  That's Ed and his brother. Oh, that oughta... Roger Stillwell? Yeah. Oh, good heavens, why, he just hired me to uphold the contract. Oh, is this my lucky day? Lucky? Yes, indeedy. Now, I can't possibly lose the case. Well, I got a scudoodle along, Mr. Skelton. You see, I'm going to get up early tomorrow morning and go out riding in the country. I'm riding the hounds with some lawyer friends of mine. Oh, chasing a fox over the countryside, eh? No, instead of a fox, we chase an ambulance. Tell your home that thing! That's fine. I'm in a good fix. Empty pockets, empty future, empty head, which brings us up to Dick Todd and the Avalon course singing Empty Saddles. One side, Tenderfoot. Yeah, Tenderfoot and me, an eagle scalpel. There's something strange in the old corral. There's a breeze, though the wind has dialed someone out my song. The blonde who on the trail saddles, are you heading for? You got the idea for that song, Empty Saddles? No, where? The guy got the idea of watching the little man who wasn't there riding a horse. How we come to our slice of life are playlet about things that really happen. And tonight deals with the greatest question of the day. How to keep a dog in a small one-room apartment. You set the scene, Bill. All right, Red, the time about 6.30 p.m. The place, somewhere in your hometown. Now as the scene opens, we find Red Skelton who makes the part of a tired businessman, even more tired, coming home from work. And Edna still well as the wife who has been standing over a hot magazine all day. Edna greets him, listening time, 6 minutes and a little control. Take it, Carefree. It's just your husband. You look awfully tired, dear. How's business at the laundry? Oh, pretty good. Oh, gee, no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to get my things as white as the other fellas do. And look at my hands. I'm getting ironing board knuckles. By the way, where's the dog? He's over in the corner, digesting your Sunday pants. What?  Why don't he chew up a pair of your... Why don't he chew up some of your... The poor guy will get lint on the lung, too. Don't get excited, dear. Remember your foundation. Yeah, maybe you're right. Gee, I wish I could get that dog to like me more. You know, I think I'll win him over. After supper, I'll throw him a bone. That's using your head. He's getting bigger every day. Why, he looks like a horse. Yeah, he sure is. Big yesterday on the street, he wagged his tail and knocked over three fire hydrants. Well, there's one nice thing about him. He never barks. Yeah, you know, it's a funny thing. That's the first wire hair terrier I ever saw that didn't bark. That's the first wire for sound. Yeah, say, did Jim Farley's boys leave anything today? Huh? As any male. Oh, yes. There's 14 bills, a black hand note and a threat. A black hand note and a threat? Yeah, from the coal man and the landlord. The landlord says we either get rid of that dog or we're refugees. Ooh, a travel log, eh? Well, he can't do that to us. Well, I'll think of something. Well, you better turn on the Einstein, cousin. That's him now. Well, all right. Well, all right. Your boy must be swinging. Kind of, I squeeze in here. No, but leave the door open. The knob makes it a little crowded when there's three people in here. I came up to see you about that Greyhound dog of yours. Greyhound? What do you mean? He's a wire hair terrier. Listen, I know a Greyhound when I see one.  How do you like that? That guy at the fed shop told me that he was a wire hair terrier. Now, that's the second time he's cheated me. Last week, he sold me a pair of love birds to stop nicking after he heard the voice of experience. 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Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for the session. I would first like to start by introducing our panel. Eddard, he works as a products and research manager at the user group Wikimonimento Brazil. He has been associated with Wikilabs Monuments for the past three years. More recently, he has been working on a mobile application for Wikilabs Monuments that will make finding and uploading photographs for the competition more accessible. Jeffrey has been a volunteer with Wikimedia Uganda since 2014 and has organized Wikilabs Monuments in Uganda since 2017. He has also been associated with other Wikilabs competitions such as Wikilabs Earth, Wikilabs Africa. Kimo works with Wikimedia Finland and has worked with Wikilist categorization, maps, and so on. He has also organized Wikilabs Monuments in Finland in the previous years. Mikola, our last panelist, he is a member of Wikilabs Monuments Ukraine, organizing team since 2012 and is the vice chair of board of Wikimedia Uganda. We also have SEAL from our Wikilabs Monuments international team helping us with the questions in the chat. So in case you have any questions, please feel free to add it to the etherpad or the feed loop chat. We will get to it at the end of the discussion. And coming back to me, I am Masha Mordley. I am based in Delhi, India. And I've been working as the DEI researcher for Wikilabs Monuments since 2021 and will be moderating today's session on understanding diversity, equity, and inclusivity in Wikilabs Monuments and federated campaigns at large. As part of this process, I have spoken to many Wikilabs Monuments national organizers and other Wikimedia affiliated Wikimedians about the experience of organizing this digital photo competition in their countries. These conversations made me realize how diversity, equity, and inclusivity is an ever evolving process. What might be applicable to one country may not be so for another. So our approach to understanding and finding solutions to such issues have to be specific to the region or country in question. So today we have our panelists sharing their experience of hosting Wikilabs Monuments in their respective countries. And if you are new to Wikilabs Monuments or would like to know more about it, we have our Wikicomments page. And you could also refer to our previous Wikimedia session that included a discussion for new organizers. So let's begin. So my first question to our panel would be their experience with representation of local monuments and communities in the competition. So according to you, how important our local context in understanding heritage and how do you ensure maximum participation from local communities? Eda, would you like to go first? OK. I think it's important to take into consideration that Wikilabs Monuments is a competition, a contest, born in the global north. And that implicates in a set of assumptions. For example, the easier access to photograph equipment or a more stable internet connection, for example. Discussions around what constitutes a monument and how can we improve the impact of the competition results, for example, by highlighting monuments that don't make the cut of beauty in the main prize. But denounce the abandonment of the state or institution responsible for those monuments are also relevant to taking into consideration when you are dealing with local contexts. Thank you. Jeffrey, would you like to go next? Yeah, thank you. So yeah, I think Wikilabs Monuments really is all about sharing our cultural heritage. And I think cultural heritage is really kind of local at the local level. Like what is a cultural heritage site in Uganda may not look like a monument to someone who lives in another country. So I think we have to really contextualize it at the country level first. So what we have done in Uganda, we have worked with the Uganda National Museum who helped us to come up with a list of cultural heritage sites and monuments in the country. But this also has to be kind of communicated with the participants that these are really monuments and cultural heritage sites, but also the jury who judge the photos at the local level. Because without understanding that then they may not, this kind of photos thinking is not a cultural heritage site, but when it is really very meaningful to people who live in that particular location and are using this as a monument. But also I think representation in terms of local communities also have to make sure that more countries participate in Wikilabs Monuments. When you look at the map that is on Wikilabs Monuments, there is very few countries participating in Wikilabs Monuments in Africa. So how can we get that more countries to participate? We need to reach out to new people and encourage them to organize Wikilabs Monuments in their country. So the more countries, the better. So yeah, we need more participation to increase representation for local communities. Thank you, Jeffrey. Kimo, would you like to come next? India. I think that in terms of accessibility, the most biggest barriers are technical ones. It is kind of the first barrier, which blocks people to participate. How they can technically find the monuments, but they sold photograph and how they bought upload and like that. But then there is kind of things like inclusivity, which is in local heritage context that what can be included as a monument in the competition and what local heritage groups think what are important and in that context, we have been trying to select some groups each year and find what they think is interesting and what the cultural organizations, formal cultural organizations like museums are in that area. And create interesting lists and hope and help that those local groups will spread the word and find new people to participate. But this is kind of that we select only small geographic area in Finland each year because in that kind of work, we can scale to whole Finland. So we create one era per year and in next year, we move to next area and next local groups. Thank you. Nikola, please go ahead. Yes, so on Nikola's monuments, Ukraine side, we had a challenge of starting with monument lists because when we started the contest in 2012, our government monument lists were of pretty bad quality and the monuments were not very detailed anywhere online. So we had first to start an effort by getting this monument list from local authorities and we were very conscious that we were not equally successful everywhere in the country. Some regions had much better details than the others. So we depending on where participants live, some of them might have 5,000 monuments and the region others might have just 100 monuments. Not that there are less monuments, but that we don't notice. Another dimension for us was what is on this list and what is not because of the history, because of historical reasons, typically from communist times, we noticed that we have too many communist monuments, most of them were being demolished or rethought, like Lenin converted into Darth Vader's statue during the decommunization campaign. So it might be interesting for us to document the monument as it existed, as it was demolished and what happens next. And we had also kind of heritage that was not on the government list, probably deliberately, probably by a mission. And we teamed up with partners, for example, on Jewish heritage, or for the monuments that risk destruction. And we worked with these partners to add additional items so that we know that these sites are important to people. We know that they were omitted from the government list. And sometimes after Vards, they found their place on official lists and it's pretty good achievements that we managed to raise awareness. Thank you. So what we get to know is, you know, what is a monument for one person in one country may not look the same in another country. And that is something that needs to be kept in consideration, along with the fact that sometimes national or official lists are not adequate or not readily available for us while hosting this competition in our regions. So that also needs a lot of work from our part to get official lists and make them accessible. But what is one major issue that most people face is the technical end that, you know, even with the resources available, the technology may not be as accessible as we would like. So that brings me to my next question that, you know, given that Vicky Lam's monuments is a purely digital photo competition, how important is technological, what are the kind of technological issues that you face in implementing the competition in your country or region? And what kinds of initiatives have you taken in this area? Can I start? Yeah, please, Adam. Okay. From a global south context perspective, technological accessibility and inclusivity relate to actions. We as local organizers need to adapt the context to our local contexts. So this means that we have to consider and we have been doing this in Brazil since 2019 that we have to consider how they navigate through the lists via mobile devices, for example. Or which devices are they using to take the pictures? Do they have a stable connection to send the photos once they have taken the photos? How high is the learning curve of the participation in the contest? So we have feedback from participants that say that it's impossible to navigate through the tables, the table lists on Wikipedia. So how we've been doing trying to resolve this problem is to build solutions for the lists. For example, we are using a mobile and desktop map application to try to improve the user experience of the photographers participating. It's available through Forge on beta still, but I'll put the link in the interpad later. And that is something that we feel that needs to be addressed, the user experience. And that's it. Thank you. Jeffrey, would you like to go next? Yes, thank you. So yeah, I think it's really very important to consider this gap of technology, because, yeah, with glass monuments and other photographic competitions really depend on whether someone has access to a nice camera or has access to a smartphone that can take really good, quieted pictures when you see the photos that, for example, win the international competition, they're really high quality photos and they can only win if you have a nice camera, but also have that taking your capacity to take a good photo. And I think the good thing with glass monuments is also that it is kind of decentralized or federated. We have a local Uganda competition where at the end of it all, we have winners from Uganda and we are going to judge them depending on the quality of photos that we have that are coming in from the country. But the fact is that not everyone has access to a camera. That one remains the fact. So what we have done in Uganda to kind of reduce the gap is we have a device, a camera for the user group and normally we throw this out to participants. So one person can use it like for three days. So by the time the competition ends, the winner has moved hands like maybe to six people. So someone has just to share a list of monuments that they want to capture and when they want to capture them and then we borrow out the device and someone goes to capture. And we try to prioritize sites that have never been captured before because we have been doing this since 2017 but also there are some places we have entrenched. And the other thing we are doing is also to go for photo hands and when people are going in a group still they can share one device. One person takes one site, another takes another. So sharing devices and lastly also supporting people with internet data and also transport. So someone needs transport to go. Some of these monuments or sites are located in remote places. So we use also your support from the foundation and we give support with transport and also internet to upload pictures and in that we are kind of reducing that kind of barbarian participation. Thank you. Kimo, would you like to go next? Yeah. I think that at first we tried to use the Wikipedia table list for showing what should be photographed but it was pretty fast that we were built that they were just too complex or hard to use for general users. And after that we have been mostly used to use the maps which user can browse and see what are the networks and mostly we are using custom Wikisuit me tool for that. And generally it is very important that we should have globally very well-working tools for the competitions just for finding what user needs to photograph and also what they need to fill information when they are saving photos. That is another thing. If we want the IDs and coordinates and everything like that then this will be automatically filled. Thank you. Nicola, do you have something to share? Yeah, I think we have quite a lot. We have no real big problems with access to the internet for example, at least before the war started we did not have it. So we know that participants can have their photos on a device that has internet connection but we know that some of them are not very used to upload forms like we have on comments so they might get lost in accurately describing these pictures or just not knowing how to attribute them correctly and so on. So what we have done is we added upload buttons to monument lists which regenerates as a monument description so that we know that at least if a person clicks on these buttons the picture will be correctly described and in the right category and so on. We also added a feature which a few people used said if you're uploading pictures of a lot of monuments I mean hundreds that we can help them with the bot to automatically add descriptions to these images if they add identifiers to file names in this case a person just needs to sort these images on their computer and the bot will take care of putting them into right categories and adding them correct descriptions. We still have some barriers to for example people are asking to have some sort of to do list or maps that they can choose what pictures to see what monuments need pictures and create like lists for themselves by equicating lists from multiple areas that's not something we still have but well those are things that would be good to add probably it's international level as well. Thank you. So listening to these experiences obviously there are roadblocks that each of us face in different ways right so how is it that you get your participants motivated each year year after year to send in entries and participate in the competition. Go first on this. So that's very key like to get participants and get every and continue participating and what we have done in Uganda is to hold events so we normally have events and this helps to help people learn about the competition and why they should participate. It has been a challenge in the past two years because of the COVID situation and events had to happen online so the engagement really is not the same as an in-person event but that really helps. Of course the other thing that helps are the prizes so we normally have prizes for the winners and this also helps to encourage participation but I can also say that still the numbers are low when you compare like the participants in Uganda for example with participants in other countries for example last year in Uganda we had 15 participants who submitted 334 photos and when you compare that to a country like Italy who had 675 participants submitting 11,000 photos there is a huge difference so we can get a few people getting involved every year and continuing participation but we also need more people to mobilize as many people as possible to participate which is still a kind of a challenge. Thank you Jeffrey. Nicola would you like to go next? Yes, so for us the biggest challenge is a bit different that we have many participants and many pictures we typically get around 30,000 images per year and this means that many participants feel I don't have a lot of chances to win if we just award prizes for the best 10 pictures like my chances are slim so we tried to encourage participation by adding more awards people can win we added awards by regions so that you also get a smaller prize for the best picture of your region and we also added prizes for the number of monuments pictured and this evolved in time with the prize by the number of new monuments pictured so the goal is to say to people well maybe you don't have spectacular monuments in your area but you also have some important a bit less beautiful but also historically important monuments and we also want you to encourage picture maybe not very spectacular historical buildings around you it's not like the best castle of Ukraine but that's something that we want to have on Wikimedia and this encourages also people in different geographic areas to participate that we are not joining us before. Thank you Edda would you like to go next? Yes So we have been doing something similar I think it's the same thing in Brazil as well we have been promoting since the 2019 different prizes for participants of course we have the main category that is the best images that go to the international phase we have also since 2019 the best contributors or the people that contribute to illustrate the most number of monuments and we also from 2021 since last year we had a state of Brazil and we in context of another other set activities we also established category for those for a state of Brazil to give prizes for that region but one thing that we struggled a lot is with outreach and communication that was something in 2019 since we assumed the competition in Brazil that we attributed to the lack of participation and then covid hit and we had fewer people going to the streets and photographing but year by year we have been adding things to improve the user experience to try to tackle this participation problem but if you look at the numbers the contests on wiki are all of them we love earth, we love Africa, we love monuments we scientific all of them are rely on newcomers so you have a high percentage of people participating in the contests become a wiki median in the moment of the contest in the context so we need to read these numbers tackle why are the retention rate so low globally I think it's 9% for all the users 3 for newcomers in Brazil we have 3 for all the participants and 1% retention rate for newcomers in Brazil that is something that we are trying to tackle by improving the user experience thank you can we have anything to add to it yeah some ideas or comments about the newcomers what I have been filled about all the time is that the Wigilos monuments and such competitions are mainly outreach campaigns to the site of the current wiki community so I haven't really seen a problem that that my growth of the users have been newcomers because it is kind of have been our focus another thing about the technical sites we have been doing different photographic campaigns in wiki which are focusing to photograph statues or photograph of some buildings or something like that and we have had tools for that and we have been developing wiki suit me for that and we have had a rephotography app for rephotographing historical photo again it shows that what photographs have been taken of the displays on the phone and they are now rewriting it so that it will work also with the EOS phones and one idea of what we are trying to do is that how well it will be working also in the competition but it is kind of focusing at least for those people who are already doing targeted photographing in wiki thank you for those inputs one last question this came from one of our international organizers so she asked that how important do you think gender is a factor for a photo competition such as wiki loves monuments and what does it bring to the table this is open to everyone do you have any ideas or comments about it that you would like to share yeah maybe I can start again I think gender is always a perspective that we have to look into in every aspect of our competitions or activities and gender in this case relates to access to the resources that photographs have for example our internet connection it's shown in research that women have less access to internet than men and that includes economic resources as well we all know that and that plays a role in defining the profile of photographer and photographs that we have on the competition but gender is something that is difficult to measure in wiki loves monuments because we only have access to the user name of the photographers and people tend to not answer surveys so we don't have this number at hand at any time so it's difficult to measure the impact of gender in the competition thank you since we are coming up on time we just have 5 minutes left I think we could have one more speaker share their inputs and then we could move to the audience questions would that be okay? would someone want to go ahead and answer the question go ahead also think gender is a very important factor to bring diversity and inclusion within competitions like wiki loves monuments and when for example you look at the example I gave last year in Uganda we had 15 participants but only 2 of those were women and if we had to really get more women involved then as we reach out, as we organize events that's where we have to make sure that we have equal representation in terms of gender so if we are giving out for example support in terms of internet data and we have a budget for 20 people at least make sure 10 of those that support goes to women and 10 goes to men so that there is if we are organizing an event and have like only 20 slots also make sure that there is representation on who is coming to the event and also things like supporting people like with internet data so one of the things that I think is equally important is also to get organizers for events and for competition like virtualized women so are women, I think women are more likely to participate if the organizers people are leading the event also women I want to give a shout out to my friend Tepile from Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe last year and she is organizing it again this year and I think because she is a woman more women are more likely to participate in the event so we need more gender representation if we are to achieve diversity, equity and inclusion which allows monuments Thank you I think we could move to the questions on the etherpad so first question is for you Jeffrey do you organize transport for groups so people can join to visit remote monuments the challenge with monuments in Uganda is that they are really scattered so they are not like in one place so if you have a group and it is visiting one monument and these monuments are like 5 hours apart then there is a lot of time lost there so for WikiLabs monuments what we have done really is to send one person per region to go and capture monuments but when we when the monuments are concentrated like in one place then there we do group photo walks so for example in the capital Kampala here there are monuments that's where most of the concentration of monuments are and there we have organized group activities we support people in a group to go and capture monuments but also makes it more fun when people can go out as a group it gets the competition more exciting because people get to interact as they contribute to WikiLabs monuments so we have done that where we can but also for sites and monuments which are very remote then we just send one person to a particular place Thank you similar in Ukraine via WikiExpeditions for example where we focused on visiting a few areas there which are badly pictured on comments not only in terms of WikiLabs monuments but in general which have very few pictures we organize individual or small group trips to these regions to cover as many sites as possible and it's also very helpful if there are local authorities who helps us or local historians Thank you I think our next question is to Edaar about the retention rate do you mean retention on Wiki after WikiLabs monuments or newcomers participating in WikiLabs monuments in the following edition Yeah, by retention rate I think I put on the the interpreter as well I define as participating in the WikiLabs monuments competition in another year so if people participated last year this year if they participate again so we have retention rate based on the number of people from last year or the years before participating again so that's our definition Thank you so much I think we are on time Thank you But Yeah, thank you everyone for joining us for the session It was great I think we are off air now Are we?


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What's up guys? My name is Christopher. I am an alumni at ASU. I graduated this May and I have applied to 21 medical schools and I am awaiting interview invitations as of right now. I've actually wanted to make this video for a while. I've put in a lot of work so if you guys are interested in hearing about this and more medical school related stuff then go ahead and hit that subscribe button down below. I really appreciate that. Also make sure to leave a like and comment about what kind of subject you want me to talk about too going forward. So the topic of today's video is going to be about my journey from high school to medical school and what I went through, what I learned and how this could possibly help you. I know a lot of my viewers might be high school students who are interested in the field of medicine and a lot of my viewers might also be college students who are interested in medicine. You guys want to be here for an interview? 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So now my freshman year I didn't really get into too many extracurricular activities. The only extracurricular activity I did my freshman year was I volunteered. Okay I also worked full-time my freshman year so I didn't have too much time on my hands and I really thought that I could pull off what I did in high school which was never study, play video games, relax and just coast through college the same way but I had a very rude awakening after my first test. I can remember my first biology test was something I'm proud to talk about but it had to happen. You know some people need that wake-up call some people don't. I needed that wake-up call. I looked at that paper and I was like well is this the kind of like the kind of story I want? Is this what I want to do for college? I was like no I don't I don't want to waste the opportunity that it was given to me. So I started focusing, I started studying, I started making time. I had a lot of late nights, a lot of early mornings especially juggling full-time work. I only went to school Tuesdays and Thursdays and then I worked the other five days of the week so I was always doing something. Now sophomore year things started to get better. During my first semester of sophomore year things were still a little like rough but by the end of first semester and throughout second semester in the rest of college everything got much much easier. So I was working part-time after that. I had more time to do. I was definitely like stretching myself and doing more than I was previously. Now I don't regret that. I think that my advice for any freshman going into college is that you should take your first year and completely focus on your grades. You should make sure that you can make your GPA as you know as high as possible as good as possible your first year because your first year is really when your GPA is the most malleable. You know you have zero credits so whatever GPA you get for that semester is what your overall GPA is going to be and then the next semester you got to make sure it's strong. So now you have two semesters that's roughly 32 to 36 credits depending on how many credit hours you're taking okay. So this is a strong base. This is a strong foundation. Once you have 36 credits and they're all 4.0s you can get a B and your GPA is only going to drop to like a 3.9 3.85 because you have a strong foundation. However if you you know get season B's your first year now your GPA sitting at a 3.0 and then you pull all these 4.0s your GPA is going to go from a 3 to a 3.1 3.15. You see how it works in both directions. So my advice freshman year focus on your grades. Get a good foundation get a good start. There was a rumor when I was a freshman that medical schools don't really care about your freshman year because they know it's a transition year. That's false guys it is absolutely false. Your GPA counts the minute you start so you have to make sure that you start on the right foot. Going back to my sophomore year talk so I started doing extracurricular sophomore junior senior. My sophomore and junior year I really did a lot of mentoring so I was a lead I did I took some leadership roles. So my school was called the school of life sciences within ASU and that was basically where all the science programs resided was in school of life sciences. So I was a mentor to freshmen who were new during my junior year. So I was you know showing them around campus I was showing them where the tutoring rooms were showing them you know I was giving them tips on the best way to study. I gave out my number to every freshman shout out any one of you guys are watching this video probably not because they all hated me. But it was a learning experience and it would definitely took me out of my comfort zone and forced me into a leadership position that I desperately needed. It taught me what it meant to be a teacher you know it's not as easy as teachers make it look. I was also in the honors club on my campus the name of that club was Sigma Alpha Lambda. With them I was able to do a lot of community service I was able to donate a lot of my time to helping the community at ASU which was just an invaluable experience plus the fact that we needed to have a higher GPA to be in that club anyways just kind of made it like so exclusive on its own. So I definitely like appreciated that experience and I would recommend that for anybody as well too. If you guys have honors clubs at your colleges then get involved in those. The next thing that I did was I interned so I was able so I started off interning through a class at ASU and in that class we were only allowed to go to the clinics of whatever we got assigned to. So I was assigned a urologist so I went to clinics with them every Friday and we saw like my urologist was personally a busy guy but we saw about 50 to 60 patients in one day okay which was like about an eight hour day. Eight hours we'd fit 60 patients and we would go through patient to patient to patient room to room and I and I would watch the second to me to watch any like in clinic operations that he could do but I was able to also build a good relationship with them and eventually after my class ended I was also able to start going to the local hospital to go watch him in the operating room and that was incredible. When I started to go to the operating room I kind of stopped going to clinics with him because I just wanted to be in the hospital. I wanted to be in scrubs surrounded by other doctors and nurses and watching these surgeries watching all the blood and the bore. I think it's not a little creepy but guys it's it's it's incredible it's like you're at the top of a roller coaster the first time you see it and the minute you see him like cut open into the person it's like you drop in you get that rush you know you're either passing out or you are like so pumped on adrenaline that you cannot stand still and that's that's where I was I was I was in love with it I was at the hospital for 12 hours and those 12 hours went by so fast I didn't even feel the time go by because I was so happy just watching and learning I really really recommend if you guys don't have any glasses at your college to observe that you go and find doctors to observe just send go out to local clinics through emails let them know you're interested you're pre-medical some will take you in so find whatever you can. Now let's talk about the MCAT so I took my MCAT twice first time I took it was in between junior and senior year so first time I took the MCAT I made a lot of rookie mistakes I didn't really set aside enough time to study I did more like content review than I did practice questions but I ended up scoring a 501 first time it sucked getting that score but it didn't kill me didn't discourage I was able to pick myself back up I was able to pick up the books again dedicate that time you know cut cut way back on work this time I was working about six hours a week or less sometimes nothing okay and I was just studying my blood off for this MCAT I did it right okay if you guys want to know what I scored the second time then just click somewhere up here I'll have a link to my video where I talked where I show my live reactions opening my MCAT score and my score with like a breakdown of how that went as if right now today I've applied to 21 medical schools I've applied to 20 MD schools that are in-state and out-of-state and I've applied to one deal school that's instant I as I am currently awaiting an interview invite from 21 school I haven't heard back yet if you guys are watching this please just just do it already because I am like checking my emails like a mad man all right we got that set up so yeah I just wanted to change location for the last part of my video so what I wanted to talk to you guys about now is just like some little you know tid bits of information so one thing that I want to talk to you talk to you guys about and tell you from my own personal experience is that pre-med is a very very difficult major okay and it's something that not everybody can handle and that's the truth of the fact a lot of people who are upperclassmen will know that you know when you're a freshman and sophomore your class sizes are much bigger but it slowly starts to thin out as you go through and then eventually you know your classes I used to be 500 kids who thought they could all be doctors is now full of like you know 30 40 kids so I do have a couple of like 10 bits to help you avoid some some burnout some of it is kind of obvious but I feel like all of it needs should be said first things first is that you need to learn how to love the journey because if you don't love the journey then you are not gonna love the reward at the end of that journey okay because being a doctor I promise you is is it is different but it's also not that much different than being in an undergrad towards becoming a doctor at the end of the day it's not it's gonna be long hours it's gonna be a lot of tests it's gonna be a lot of work it's gonna be a lot of time and that's not just people think like oh once I graduate medical school and finish residency then I'm done with tests and everything but guys if you want to keep your license you got to recertify every you know a couple years or so and guess what you're doing you're taking tests you're learning you're studying if you are a doctor you are gonna be a student forever and you need to love the process otherwise you're gonna hate it you're gonna hate your life okay the next bit of information is you need to surround yourself with positive people okay realistic but positive people what I mean by that is like nowadays people are way too quick to complain man I hate this homework man I hate this professor always gives me too much homework always picks on me to ask questions you guys are already dealing with something that is so difficult on its own that you don't need to be surrounding yourself with people who are gonna add more negativity to all the all the crap you're already dealing with and God knows that the challenges of being a pre-med are not the only thing that most of you are going through you know some of you are working full-time or part-time some of you are have have have relationships have other things going on in your life that you're involved in that you're invested in you don't want to surround yourself with people who are gonna demotivate you people who are gonna just keep complaining about stuff you want to surround yourself with people who are gonna lift you up you know ideally people who are smarter than you people who inspire you to push yourself to be smarter to work better okay don't you know sometimes you have to just go ahead and cut out whoever is toxic you know it might not be easy you know it might be very hard that person might be very close to you but at the end of the day you have to be selfish you have to choose you you have to choose your mental health and your own happiness for for other people okay that's the truth of the situation guys everybody wants to be able to you know keep older friends and not upset anybody and never have to be put in the situation where it's either me or them but sometimes you have to sometimes you have to be selfish you have to take a look at reality just realize that some certain people are just not meant to be in your life and that's totally okay there's nothing wrong with that you know people change people grow sometimes you outgrow people the way I see it is if you're in medicine then you are definitely outgrowing at least 75 percent of every other major out there because you are spending more time studying you're spending more time involved you're spending more time grinding and hustling and what are other majors doing like looking over at the business majors party drinking on the weekends go into concerts and live in their lives and I'm not saying that you can't do that but I'm also saying that you probably shouldn't be in a fraternity or a sorority and be doing all that shit because chances are you know eventually you're gonna get pulled in a direction you're gonna have a tough decision to make do I go to a party or do I stay and study most of the time end up making that wrong decision you know especially after you've made the right decision five six seven eight times you're like god damn it I need a break okay even if you make the right choices five six seven times you're gonna slip one time and realize how good of a time you're having and what you've been missing out on I think I'm good at predicting this shit but maybe there's people in my comments are gonna say that I'm full of shit so I'd love to I'd love to read all of it even the hate but yeah guys just want to let you know that I work really really hard on this video and if you guys liked it then please go ahead and subscribe to me leave a thumbs up and comment give me your opinions on my video tell me what you'd like to see me do next tell me how big my biceps are getting I've been working out more I honestly will take all the feedback and praise that I can get so thank you guys for tuning in to my latest medical school video I want to try to make more of these because I feel like these videos do better than my fitness videos I I guess I'm not much of an influencer in that field oh okay that's that's fine I'll uh I'll still keep making my videos on the low but I'll also be making more medical school videos thanks guys


This is bad. What's up, my name is Giggs Mitsubishi and welcome to another video guys. So in this video, I want us to talk about ticker symbol WKHS Workhorse. Again, this is a company that I cover here on the channel. I told you guys why I was interested in the company and I gave you guys my reasons and why I was skeptical again about the company long term because of the fact that they were really relying a lot on their potential contract with USPS. So the contract came out and they didn't get it. So we're going to talk about that today and talk about some price predictions and what to do now. But before we get started, guys, if you're new to the channel, we talk about how to earn money, how to save money, how to invest and build wealth. So if you have something that interests you, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content. So guys, we've actually covered Workhorse here on the channel several times. I made several videos, explained to you guys why I thought Workhorse was a good buy. At some point in due to more research came back and told you guys why I was skeptical about the company. And most recently, the stocks started making some good moves. And I was looking as I'm thinking like the Biden administration was going to come in and maybe even help them or give them part of the contract. But boy, that didn't happen. Like they completely missed on this one. And so if we can take a quick look here at the news, this is CNBC. Workhorse group drops nearly 50% after EV company is passed over USPS contract. So this is really bad. I felt bad for this particular stock. So let's look at the chart here, you guys can see. So this is the stock trading right here. We had our pullback this morning at 8.30 when the market opened. Let a pullback to $24 and some change. And then kind of stayed relatively quiet there. And I don't know if people in the company knew that this was going to happen. And so they probably went and made sure that they had some stop losses to secure some profit. I don't know what happened there. But again, look right here at about 2 p.m. central time.  And it went down to under $12, which is kind of crazy, guys. Before even squeezing up back again. And then right now sitting at about $15 and some change. This is terrible. I mean, I know this company is going to recover some. But just this fact that they would pass over for this deal. It's a really bad thing for the company. It's going to take them a little bit before they can recover. I mean, the company still has a good business model. They have good products, they mean the trucks that they're building, these delivery vans that they're building, all electric are still there. But missing out on a huge contract like this is really insane. I don't really wish out on anybody. So the company that actually got the contract is Oshkosh. So if you can see this, it's the base out of Wisconsin. If you can see the complete opposite of what happened to Workhorse happened to Oshkosh. See here, this is around 2 p.m. When the news came out right there, look at that squeeze. First squeeze all the way to about $17 and then had that little pullback. After hours, it just kept going. Actually, when it tested 124, they almost 125 before pulling back and sitting somewhere at about $17 and some change right now, guys. So that's the company that got the contract. So what do we do with Workhorse at this point? I mean, to me, I was looking at this. If this thing, I was hoping that it came down to about $10. If this stuff had dropped to $10, I would have jumped right in. Because again, the company, it's a solid company. They don't only build electric vehicles, but they also have technology. So they've developed a cloud-based real-time telematics performance monitoring system. So that is part of their technology. So they have an underlying business. But just to be slim in the face like this, it gives me and you investors an opportunity to get into the stock. But overall, long-term, now I don't see this company the same way I used to look at a company. I'm going to trade it. I'm going to see if I see an opportunity. I'm going to go in there. But long-term, I'm not really going to focus on buying this and holding over time. I might swing trade it and that's about it. Workhorse, it was nice. You guys did your best, but didn't get the contract. So I'm going to move on to some other bigger and better companies. Again, guys, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying Workhorse is completely dead. Workhorse is still going to have some business. But am I going to put them at that same level? Because the contract they missed out on was a 10-year contract. Can you imagine that you have a 10-year contract? It means for 10 years, you have money coming in that's guaranteed from the government.  If you miss it, too bad for you. So my price prediction right now, you'll probably see Workhorse maybe go test 20, 25 at some point, but not anytime soon. It's not going to move back that quick because prior to the anticipation for this merger, if you can see here, I mean, they went as high as $43 or $44 before this happens and then pulled them back down. So that was people anticipating that they were going to get that contract. Now that they don't have any major catalyst in the pipeline, what's going to drive the stock up to $40, $50? It's going to be revenue. And if you don't have to, it's like revenue that people are looking for. And then this thing is probably going to stay around that $25 price point for a long time before making them move up. So again, that's my personal projection. They might come up with some new products. Who knows? I don't, again, I'm just looking at what I see right now in front of me. So it was a sad day for Workhorse in the market. Stock trapped over 50%. And so where do we go from here? Personally, I'm not going to consider Workhorse, again, like one of the top players in this space. They're just another EV company that's out there. If they had gotten this contract, that would have given me some really good security to invest in the company. But right now I'm just going to shrink trade the thing. And that's about it. I'm not going to buy this thing and hold it long-term. I know people that are bullish on it, but I mean, you can't win them all. So this one is when I'm going to let go in that tit. Yeah, I feel bad, but hey, it's just the nature of business. I wish they had split the contract 50-50, and that would mean two companies take to get the contract five years each to get the delivery advance out there, but that never happened. So that's my personal take here. So let me know in the comment section what you think about this. Are you still holding Workhorse? Do you plan on buying more or are you done with Workhorse? 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From the moment you start in the Navy, everyone is really hitting home, motivation and dedication and all these core values that you don't really understand at the time, but over the course of a career you start to understand really well. It wasn't hard for me to make the decision to continue on and I was very dedicated to my job, worked very, very hard, got to do some very intensive things and that kind of lifestyle just became part of who I was and taking away my eyesight didn't change any of that, so I just needed to find the decision to move forward was easy. It was just a split instant, I'm going to move forward and I just need to find a new way to do things. I can do all the things I used to do, I just have to do them with my eyes closed now.


Your Excellency, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Jideh Samuolu, senior government officials present, the Lagos Tech community and Summit participants, honor guests, ladies and gentlemen. The Lagos State government, under the dynamic leadership of Governor Jideh Samuolu and the Lagos Technology community, deserve our commendation for once again convening this very important platform, the Art of Technology. This year's theme, smart data, smarter Lagos, comes at a defining moment and I just say in human history, a pandemic which has while showing up all the weaknesses of most economies has also highlighted the inevitability of technology.  So even when the pandemic subsides, we will still be stuck with the more efficient, safer and cheaper ways that technology has offered us in these past few months. Lagos has long been the epicenter of Nigeria's technology revolution. From the tiny internet cafes run in tiny spaces that dotted almost every Lagos neighborhood in the 1990s to the emergence of big players like InterSwitch, Konga and Jumia to today's heavyweights like Candela, Paystack and Flutterway and the numerous small businesses buying and selling and advertising online. Lagos has consistently shown that it has what it takes to thrive in the league of digital economies. This illustrious pedigree has also positioned Lagos as the foremost innovation hub in Africa. Consequently, this city and its technology entrepreneurs must take the lead in addressing the most urgent problems of our time. As we contend with the challenge of providing the means of self-actualization for nearly 200 million people and one of the world's fastest growing populations, it's clear that we must marshal the resourcefulness and ingenuity of our citizens in the quest for development and growth. Given that this is a conclave of policymakers and various stakeholders in the tech ecosystem, I like to stress that developmental governance in the 21st century is about continuously deploying innovative solutions against our most complex challenges. In 2018, Business Day, that's the newspaper, estimated that the average commuter in Lagos spends 30 hours in traffic weekly. These are useful manpower that can add up to high productivity if spent differently. How can we deploy smart traffic sensors and devices to manage traffic in Lagos? We've seen how low-level technology, which has already been deployed by the Lagos state government and other private individuals like GIDI traffic on Twitter, have successfully used crowdsourced traffic information to provide traffic updates for commuters. However, with artificial intelligence, we can automate these processes and suggest alternatives to commuters while also providing advisories to government from historically stored traffic data over time to make plans for public spending on infrastructure, such as new roads, rail lines, public buses, toll gates, etc. These are the sort of problems to which those of us gathered here today can apply our minds. Technology can be a leveler, closing gaps in our society, such as rural, urban divide and bridging gaps in access to social services and broadening financial inclusion. This is why our administration, the federal government, is working to bridge the digital divide by increasing access to broadband with our national broadband plan, which was launched this year. The plan is aimed at achieving 90% broadband penetration by 2023. The plan will give special attention to underserved areas when deploying telecom services. Opportunities crying out for smart solutions are bound across various sectors of our society and our economy. These are solutions that you are positioned to provide and for which Lagos can serve as technology laboratory of first resort. For example, digital identification is a necessity for governance, urban administration, economic planning and the delivery of social welfare interventions. How do we mainstream technology in our bureaucratic processes so that we reduce corruption and improve the ease of doing business? How do we leverage technology to improve the logistical dimension of the national exercises such as elections or censuses? In what ways can we use technology to preserve our environment from the ravages of climate change? The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us important lessons in the necessity of applying technology-enabled solutions to strengthen our health security architecture. Tools such as telemedicine can be deployed to deliver medical services to underserved and difficult to reach areas. We must also provide the right conditions for more private sector organizations like Temigua's Life Bank that have been working very hard in the distribution of medical supplies to expand their reach to other states and utilize technology like drones to deliver medical supplies faster and further, thereby saving lives beyond the main cities and in the rural communities as well. Smart cities leverage data to make decisions across board. Economic data, consumption data, demographic data, population data, health data are all important factors. Across all levels of government, we need to raise our capacity to harvest, to track and analyze data and ground policies in empirical evidence. Data is at the heart of developmental governance and indeed I would argue that governments need big data even more than corporations do. Whether we are discussing urban planning and public administration or economic planning and security strategy, it is impossible to attain mastery over these fields without a healthy regard for data. This is why in December last year I had the privilege of inaugurating the Steering Committee for the Grid 3 Nigeria project. Grid 3 is the geo-referenced infrastructure and demographic data for development. It's a $50 million project in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Foreign Development Office to generate, validate and use geospatial data on population, settlements, infrastructure and sub-national boundaries. The project has led to the launch of the Grid 3 Nigeria portal, which provides access to accurate, complete and geospatially referenced data relevant to a variety of sectors. It's now evident that within the next decade Nigeria will cease to be a country whose main contribution to the world is good or not. The resources that we have which are in increasingly high demand globally are your capacity for innovation, your imagination, your creative content and your highly adaptive solutions. Your minds and workspaces are the refineries of the present and the future. We're finally embracing the true logic of true wealth. It is not being a primary producer. It's about value added. It's about maximally leveraging what you have. Technology and in particular data offer that incredible opportunity. Thank you very much for listening and I hope you enjoy the art of technology Legos 2.0. God bless you.