Ladies and gentlemen, the ceremony will begin momentarily. Please take your seats and silence all electronic devices. On behalf of Lieutenant General Patrick D. Frank and Command Sergeant Major Garza, good afternoon and welcome to the United States Army Command's Best Squad Competition Recognition Ceremony. I am Mass Sergeant Chris Olver and I will be your narrator for the day. We would like to welcome our distinguished visitors who are joining us here today, Major General McCormick, Brigadier General Wegschreider, Sergeant Major Pritz, Sergeant Major Saunders. Also, please join me in welcoming all of the strong sergeants. Let's try that one more time with everybody. Please welcome all of the strong sergeants. These folks have earned the title of USR Sense Best Squads. Please rise for the invocation given by Chaplain Swift and remain standing for the National Anthem. Any different philosophical and religious beliefs. If your traditions include prayer, I invite you to join with me as I pray according to my own faith. Heavenly Father, I invite your presence here today as we recognize the hard work of the 14 squads that participated in the Best Squad Competition as well as the countless others that supported them during their train up. Regardless of the competition outcome, grant to each a healthy sense of pride in their accomplishment. May each squad member take their lessons learned and diligently share them throughout their current and future units, thus being an important building block in the process of making future strong squads. I pray these things in your most holy name. Amen. Please be seated. Only one squad can earn the title of the Best Squad. All of the competitors have exhibited an amazing and winning warrior spirit. This is the second year the Army has challenged the force by holding a Best Squad Competition. In the past, the Army conducted the Best Warrior Competition to declare the best soldier and best NCO in each command. The inaugural event stems from the This Is My Squad initiative by the Sergeant Major of the Army, Michael Grintston. The Sergeant Major of the Army says, We want to assess squads on their tactical technical proficiency as well as their cohesiveness and ability to work as a team. For over two years, I've talked about the importance of building a cohesive team that is highly trained, disciplined, and fit. Now it's time to measure ourselves against that standard. Soldiers in this year's Best Squad Competition competed in a grueling five-day event, held at both Camp Aire of John and Camp Bering Koei. The teams endured physical and mental challenges in temperatures exceeding 108 degrees. The events for this competition included an Army combat fitness test, weapons proficiency, and marksmanship skills, squad tactical missions, unknown distance foot march, an obstacle course, a written and practical land navigation test, and a squad board appearance. This competition started with 14 squads made up of five members each. Throughout the physical and mentally demanding week, squads went through an elimination process cutting that down to six squads. Those squads have come to be known as the super six. For demonstrating a high standard of proficiency, discipline, fitness, and team cohesion. Ladies and gentlemen, please direct your attention to the screen to view the strong squads in action. Now what does it take to win? You're going to do some physical stuff. You're going to do weapons. None of that's a secret. This competition is really a test to see which squad has the most cohesion. What you're going to see today is a lot of motivation, a lot of spriticor, a lot of squads competing to be the U.S. Parsett best squad for 2023. Here's what the best squad competition does at U.S. Parsett. It's going to challenge every squad in them. It's going to challenge our soldiers, in particular the squad leader. We started off with 14 squads across the theater of operation. We've challenged the squads both with the intangibles, such as good order and discipline, the cohesion of the squad, the pride in the squad, and the trust that the squad builds. But we've also done the tangible tasks, similar tasks like the army combat fitness test. They negotiated an obstacle course. They did rifle marksmanship training where they qualified with their M4s. They also shot the M17 pistol and they shot the M240 block. They conducted a stress shoot that was pretty challenging. They did day and night land navigation. They also went through mission lanes. What they'll end up doing is conducting an 8 to 12 mile foot march, followed by a board. Not your traditional board, but a board where senior sergeant majors are going to ask them questions, thought provoking questions on this competition. This competition also produces strong sergeants that make strong soldiers, strong soldiers make strong squads. Strong squads are responsible for winning our nation's wars. And as the chief of staff of the army always says, winning absolutely matters. By you coming out here competing, you've just made the army even more unique than it was. There's no loser here. As the SMA has consistently said over the last three and a half years, this is about building cohesive teams that are highly trained, that are disciplined, that are fit, that are ready to fight and win. Strong sergeants, strong soldiers, we are hands on. Finish strong, run through the tape and we'll see who's the best squad for U.S. RCIT 2023. We're up. Ladies and gentlemen, it's my honor to introduce our guest speaker for today's ceremony. Command Sergeant Major of the United States Army Central and Third Army Command, Sergeant Major Garza. I was just talking to General McCormick. They just took my entire speech on that video. So we'll see. We'll play it. Massar and Oliver, thanks so much for the introduction. I know that most of you, well, here's what I do know. I know that General Frank would absolutely want to be here today. In fact, he has talked about the best squad competition ever since last year's runner-up at force comm level. He couldn't wait to be here. In fact, when he was out at the mission lanes, I mean, he enjoyed that so much. But unfortunately, he's not here. He is leading the first U.S. Saudi Arabia training meeting in Riyadh, which is a big deal to U.S. RCIT and building partner capacity across the AOR. So you got me delivering this speech today. Before we get started, I want to recognize a few VIPs. So Major McCormick, thank you for being here. Absolutely appreciate you coming. Command Sergeant Major Pritz, Brigadier General Weg Schneider, Command Sergeant Major Saunders, senior leaders, fellow Command Sergeant Major, soldiers and civilians. Thank you all. Thanks for everyone being here. And particularly, I want to thank the squads, the competitors that competed over the past week. Please, a round of applause for the Super Six. A big shout out to MassArt Raina. MassArt Raina, where are you? Yeah, he's away in the back, right? Away in the back, probably still doing things behind the scenes. This best squad competition doesn't occur without the support of him and the entire team. So if you've had anything to do with supporting this event, it takes a lot of resources to put this together. Please, another round of applause for those that supported the best squad at U.S. RCIT in 2024. Now I challenge each of our competitors and our cadre to take back what they've learned here at this best squad competition to their units to continue to build those cohesive teams and those squads. As we say in U.S. RCIT, strong sergeants make strong soldiers. Strong soldiers make strong squads. Strong squads will fight and they'll win the nation's wars and then as the chief has consistently said over the past three and a half years, winning absolutely matters. There is no second place in our profession. There is no second place. The importance of squads in the Army has moved from a competition focused on individual soldiers and NCOs to a competition focused on the basic formation of all of our units. That's the squad. The most influential level of leadership is at the squad level. That is where the majority of our soldiers reside and squads extend far beyond just your traditional infantry squads. It extends to any small unit, group of soldiers that is connected by a non-commissioned officer. As the third Army Command Sergeant Major, I have visited units all across the Middle East and Central Asia. And everywhere I go, I see Army squads getting after it. And when I talk to leaders of our partner nations, of our partner nation militaries, they're consistently asking me, what is the secret sauce of the United States Army? What makes the U.S. Army the greatest fighting force in the history of the world? And I tell them, it's about our small units and our small unit leaders. It's about team leaders and the empowerment of our squads. That is what makes our Army the best Army in the world. Let me tell you a story. It's about an Army squad leader who just 400 miles north of here fought for his team and his squad. In 2004, Staff Sergeant David Belavia was a squad leader in 3rd Platoon Alpha Company 2-2 Infantry in the 1st Infantry Division in Fallujah. His squad became trapped while clearing a house. So Staff Sergeant Belavia grabbed an M-240 and provided a covering that allowed the squad to break contact and exit the house. Staff Sergeant Belavia then observed an enemy insurgent preparing to launch a rocket-propelled grenade at his unit. So he assaulted the enemy position, killing that insurgent. Acting on instinct to save the members of his squad from an intimate danger or an intimate threat, Staff Sergeant Belavia continued to clear the enemy field house, killing four insurgents and badly wounding a fit. Squad leader Belavia was presented the Bell of Honor in the White House in 2019 for his actions in combat. Staff Sergeant Belavia is a strong sergeant. Now, not every squad and not every squad leader will be put in a similar situation as Staff Sergeant Belavia or his soldiers. But today in U.S. Arson, in the U.S. Arson AOR, we continue to have squads in contact. So we need to continue to focus on readiness. We need to continue to focus on squads and always preparing our squads for combat. It is our duty to ensure that soldiers are ready to deploy, fight and win, and always return home safely. A former 3rd Army commander, General George S. Patton said, and I open quotations, Battles are fought by platoons and squads. Place emphasis on small unit combat instruction so that it is conducted with the same precision as close order drill. Close quotation. This best squad competition is focused on those small groups of soldiers who fight our nation's battles. Those squads. Now, for this purpose and this competition, a squad consisted of five soldiers. One squad leader, one team leader and three squad members. We evaluated them on traditional warrior tasks and battle drills and assessed tangible leadership qualities and tactical problem-solving in a tactical problem-solving event or environment. We also measured the intangibles that I would argue with anyone. Intangibles are probably as important or more important than the tangibles like good order and discipline, cohesion, pride in the squad, and trust. We know that in U.S. arson, if we master the intangibles, if non-commissioned officers master those intangibles, it will generate tangible readiness. Over this week, the 14 squads were pushed hard both physically and mentally. You can ask them. You'll get an opportunity to ask them here after this. They went through the Army Combat Fitness Test. They went through an obstacle course. They went through a series of ranges. They were tested on their weapon systems. They were tested on medical techniques. They were tested on patrolling. They were tested on land navigation both night and day. We tested them on expert soldier badge tasks. We tested them on squad tactical missions to include counter-unmanned aerial systems. And today, they actually conducted an 8-mile foot march, 8.6 miles. And they didn't know how far they were going to go. I told them anywhere from 8 to 12 to 15. It would be no longer than 15. And they pushed themselves in the humidity this morning. And then they went to a board. And it wasn't your typical traditional board, E5, E6 promotion board. We were asking you capabilities brief. We had senior nominative major at the board. They were asking thought-provoking questions. They were asking them to assess themselves on the individual level. They were asking themselves or they were asking the squad to assess their performance. Ask squads. And then it was a mini AAR. So that we can improve this competition for 2024. And all the squads performed exceptionally well during that board. But here's the deal, right? Only one squad is going to be happy today. And it's a good thing and it's a bad thing. But there aren't no losers. Because after this competition, what we ended up doing, as if the Army wasn't lethal enough, we actually made the Army a little more lethal. And I'm honored to be able to name the winning squad. I'm not going to do that. I'm going to let NASA over do that. I know the anticipation is driving you crazy. I know the winning squad. I'm not going to tell you. But here's what I do look forward to. Bringing that winning squad to Fort Jackson, the Shaw Air Force Base, Fort Jackson, North Carolina, and giving them four to six weeks to train and be ready to represent U.S. Army at the force com level. I think this particular squad, in fact, any one of these six squads would do exceptionally well at the force com level. And if you didn't know last year, Charlie True, 153, from the Florida National Guard, finished second place at force com. And force com consists of 750,000 soldiers. We won't finish second place this year. We will take force com. And I anticipate that this squad will be HQDA's best squad for 2023. Let me end with a quote from the first Sergeant Major of the Army. Sergeant Major of the Army, William O. Wolfridge. He said this. He said, open quotations, take care of each man or woman, as though they were your own brother or sister. That's what he would say. I am very proud to be a brother of every soldier in this formation. I know if Lieutenant General Frank was here, he would absolutely say the same thing. Strong sergeants. We are. Strong sergeants. We are. Come on up here and share with us who's our winners. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce the 2023 best squad competitors. Don't hold your applause to the end. Representing Task Force Spartan from Charlie Company, first to the 134 Cav. The squad is led by Staff Sergeant Brandon Lenners. And the squad consists of Sergeant Caleb B. Specialist Gage McGill. Specialist Damon Keck. And Specialist Jaden Jensen. Representing Task Force Spartan from Bravo Company, second to the 153rd Infantry. The squad is led by Staff Sergeant Nathaniel Covens. And the squad consists of Sergeant Cecil Tomlinson. Specialist Curtis Josenberger. PFC Corey Gain. And Private First Class Jordan Corsi. Representing First Theater Sustainment Command. The squad is led by Sergeant Tion Middleton. And the squad consists of Sergeant Michael Villarente. PFC Keeland Mark. Specialist Skyler Kressler. And Specialist Sarah Drunit. Representing Task Force Spartan from Task Force Blackjack. Their squad is led by Staff Sergeant Kyle Marquez. The squad consists of Sergeant Nicholas Scrutos. Specialist Alec Flores. Specialist John Flores. And Specialist Jostra Bustin. Representing Task Force Spartan from Charlie Company, second to the 116th Combat Arms Battalion. Their squad is led by Staff Sergeant Joshua Hutchings. And the squad consists of Sergeant Douglas Kenz Woods. Specialist Anthony Hill. Specialist Christian Brown. And Specialist David Pah. Representing Task Force Spartan from Charlie Company, second to the 116th Combat Arms Battalion. Their squad is led by Staff Sergeant Benjamin Maxwell. And their squad consists of Sergeant David Stegerman. Specialist Luke Barlow. Specialist Keegan Gould. And PFC Connor Baum. For all of the competitors. And now we'll announce the winners. The top performing non-commissioned officer and soldier of the 2023 Best Squad Competition were selected from their combined scores in all individual events. This includes expert soldier badge testing lanes, the Army Combat Fitness Test, land navigation tests, and marksmanship scores.  Ladies and gentlemen, the top performing soldier of the Best Squad Competition is from Task Force Spartan, Charlie Troop. First of the 134th Cavalry Regiment, Specialist Gage McGill. Sergeant Major Garza will present Specialist McGill with an Army Accommodation Medal and a plaque. One more round of applause, folks. The top performing non-commissioned officer of the Best Squad Competition is from Task Force Spartan, Charlie Company, second to the 116th Combined Arms Battalion, Staff Sergeant Joshua Hutchings. Sergeant Major Garza will present Staff Sergeant Hutchings with an Army Accommodation Medal and plaque. Ladies and gentlemen, the second place finishers of the 2023 U.S. Arsente Best Squad Competition are from Task Force Blackjack of Task Force Spartan. Please come forward. Sergeant Major Garza will present the squad with an Army Achievement Medal and a trophy. And now the winners of the 2023 U.S. Arsente Best Squad Competition are from Task Force Spartan, Charlie Company, second to the 116th Combined Arms Battalion. Come forward. Sergeant Major Garza will now present each of the members of this squad with an Army Accommodation Medal and a trophy. Folks, stand it up. If you could, please move up against the wall so the competitors can pass by. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise and join us in the singing of the Army song. Sergeant Major Garza and all of us at U.S. Arsente, we thank you for your support and attendance. This concludes today's ceremony, and please join us next door in the mirage room for refreshments and to congratulate the teams. Thank you for attending.


Hi everyone and welcome back to our podcast from the Kamasutra to 2020 where we look at your questions, your concerns, even your worries around all things to do with sex and sexuality. So unfortunately, again, we do not have Dr. Anita Madan Behl with us today due to medical reasons but in her place I am absolutely delighted to welcome onto our podcast the beautiful and very amazing Garima Surana. Garima is one of the shining stars of today's social media world. She is the host for a fabulous podcast called Popcast. It's a pop culture podcast and she tells me that it's a pandemic baby so she started it in March and Garima amazed that you already reached 200k subscribers and listeners which is absolutely amazing. But even beyond that Garima is an entrepreneur and she's just started some she's trying to launch something called the podcast platform, which is where she plans to connect investors with creative work. This is not just amazing because of course it's big money but I think what's really fabulous about this, Garima, is that the amount of channels that you're going to open up for people out there who don't know how to connect with investors. So I'm absolutely delighted to have you with us today. Welcome. Thank you for that flattering introduction. I'm honestly exhilarated to be here. I have spoken to you for my podcast before. It's about a little release in some time but Seema you're such a storehouse of wisdom, energy, knowledge and I told you this before but I'm just going to repeat it on your channel that, you know, if I'm your age and if I'm not even half as poised as you are it's just not worth it. So thank you for having me. You're so kind. Thank you. So, okay, this is another fabulous mutual admiration society platform and I love that. So Garima as you know that this platform was created to respond to a lot of people who are writing into us about all sorts of issues and problems, and we try as far as possible to address a lot of these things that come in. I know that you have also committed to trying to destroy taboos and stereotypes and so on with your podcast. So today what I'd like to do is I'd like to touch on the subject of sexting and phone sex more actually about sexting because over the pandemic. It's only taken on huge dimensions. I mean, it's just suddenly blown up everybody's indulging in it. And I find that over this time, the vocabulary has changed. And because of the vocabulary changing suddenly certain behaviors have become totally acceptable because there's a word for them now. I think it's very interesting, especially in the pandemic, you know, because a lot of couples, a lot of partners were away from each other and the basic emoji that we once knew, for example, if it's a, if it's water droplets, we once knew them as, you know, it was representation of sweat, or teary eyes or something and it's clearly now being indicated to something which is synonymous to a woman's orgasm.  And it, it does help in sexting and, you know, fighting that taboo. But I think it's the whole meaning has completely changed for sure. Yeah, I just found out about the water droplets two weeks ago. And I was horrified I was told by my daughter and some of her friends that you can't use this anymore because it means it means to come but you mean that it's only for a woman's orgasm or it's for both orgasms. I think it is representative of a woman's orgasm. It's also, I think it also represents squirting. So, I mean, essentially, like I said, it means, it means, you know, either if somebody's sweating or if somebody's teary eyed.  Wow. Okay, I'm glad you told me that because I was getting really harassed by the fact that suddenly I can't use water droplets anymore but. Okay, so there is a little And then I was told you can't use aubergine anymore. Okay, it's like it's getting out of control, but tell me something. Okay, so the other day I was, so you know we're starting a podcast of stories and I was talking about ghosts. And then this whole idea of ghosting came up and once again I was like, oh my God, we have to just learn the English language over again. It's a task even for us millennials because the internet teaches you so many things. You know, every day there's a new definition which is coined every day, you're you're probably you know learning something new so ghosting of course would you like to tell people what ghosting is though if they do not know. I think you're going to explain ghosting to them. So ghosting is essentially when you withdraw communication or any form of contact with your partner or your friend without giving them a disclaimer. So if you stop your communication at any given point. It's it's technically termed as ghosting. But again, because you know like I was telling you ghosting is of course that I think most millennials and you know people on the internet are now familiar with. But I was reading about something very interesting which is called soft ghosting. Yeah, and soft ghosting essentially means that I will completely not stop replying to you. So I will just like your pictures or like your messages but I will never respond back. So it's a slow soft ghosting process. It just does not happen that you know one day I suddenly don't reply to you it's like, I'm there I will show my presence but it's soft you know. Okay, tell me something I mean this is actually to me this particular thing is just an example of what I was saying earlier that certain behaviors have become so acceptable suddenly. So now because we have a word for this we call it ghosting for for the longest time we've said this is a bad thing people shouldn't do it we've tried to say to men and women both that you know if you're if you're seeing somebody give them an explanation is good. And now suddenly ghosting is like it's the norm it's like yeah we all do it. Yeah, in fact. So ghosting is of course the process of you know ghosting somebody but a ghost buster just to educate everybody a ghost buster is essentially a person who will continue to text and call, even though they have. They've been ghosted by the other person, and I think I'm guilty of doing this even if I was being ghosted by somebody for whatever reason. It of course takes a toll on your mental health and then you are the ghost buster because you're trying to. You're trying to not go into this guilt trip where you want to blame yourself. Absolutely the other person who's ghosted you know. So, you know with all the internet knowledge now thinking and of course you're much more aware, I think our parents generation, or even a decade back I myself didn't know what is ghosting or if I'm being ghosted. So yeah I think there's so much to learn from the internet also actually. And I guess there's so much more pressure on just being a person in a relationship today because you know when people say to me okay. How can we use social media, can it be used to actually make our relationship stronger better, more exciting. And I have lots of different types of advice that I give them where I say you know, open yourself up in text messages you can learn so much better because you're not face to face. It's such a great platform for building relationships or for flirting or for really having fun if that's what you want to do. But I guess you can't do that today unless you've learned a whole different language. It becomes difficult I think when you said that communication is the key 100%. But I think for our generation proactive communication becomes something very very important because I mean we have to take that initiative to keep the spark alive in any relationship.  And so the whole idea is, of course communication is important but if you proactively try to keep the charm alive, which you have to consciously do. You know in order to keep everything good and sparkling but I think proactive communication is something very very important with our generation especially needs to learn. You know, so a lot of youngsters that I speak to they feel like when they're telling me these words and I am clueless about a lot of them.  The Kamasutra which was written 2000 years ago says that all lovers should have a secret form of communication so there should be all sorts of emojis and objects and things that should be passed back and forth to express an idea. So when you put everything into solid words and big sentences, it kind of kills it.  So this idea is as old as the hills. I mean did you know that it was literally everything so you could use things from the kitchen. Haldi, you could send Haldi to somebody to say that I love you. In covid times if you send Haldi to somebody then it's meaning altogether. What does it mean now? What does it mean now? No I mean just because you know Haldi is something which is antiseptic and it sort of treats you and you know my mother has been telling me you know just do Haldi what a gargle and just take a pinch of Haldi every day in your diet. I hope it wasn't antiseptic what you're hinting at. No it's not it was literally a case you could send Ilaichi in a pod you could send Badam separately. So all these things had their own language but I think my favorite thing that I would have used if I was to make a whole set of emojis from that time was the different types of scratches for your nails. So if you were very high sexual energy you would shape your nails in three separate points like a saw. If you were medium sexual energy it would be one point like a parrot's beak and if you were low sexual energy your nails would be shaped flat. But the thing is okay the fashion is now that we shape them flat but you know I always say that it's okay but we don't say that this is low sexual energy now but I always say to people that you know if you want to send your partner like a come on message when you get manicure done send them a photo of your manicure and let that be a little sign to say I'm thinking of you I'm excited you know like this is I'm actually thinking of you in those terms because it's just such a great communication point. So I understand that there are lots of different ways of communicating and different types of ways of passing messages. But okay I tell you what before we go any further. I can tell you a couple of these that the comes through three years. Give me a few really weird ones that you've come across which I know I probably wouldn't have heard of. I mean I used one where I was like I started dating in high school so I would never say I love you if I would be around you know with my mom or my parents or I mean any relative basically so I had a Nepali friend from school and I asked her how do you say I love you in Nepali. And she told me it's more similar month or on show something like that I'm sorry if there's any Nepalese was watching this but yeah so she told me it's like this and you know and then I figured out this unique way of saying I love you even though I would be around with somebody. So I would be like more similar month or on show this is like back where I was an 11 standard. Another thing that I would do is you know if my partner would always end the conversation with something very cheesy or romantic or you know maybe crossing the boundary and again if I was around with somebody. My code language was pretty simple I would write no etc etc dot so it means you're not supposed to say anything you know vulgar so to say so no etc would be my code that okay you have to know you know we have to draw the line now. That's amazing I love that and see I love the fact that you, aside from the fact that you set a code of behaviors, but the fact that you were strong enough to be able to say that I think that's really fantastic. Yeah, so codes I guess can work in so many different ways. I think I think one of the things about being sexually intimate with somebody is that you know you share 5050 amount of how do I say it. So you share that power to be yourself and respect your set of rules that you've set for yourself and to be able to give you know the other person also the power of consent it's very very important and for any sexual relationship consent and condoms both are very important. The three main seeds. Oh yes. Extremely important. So, tell me has there, have there been any specific words or emoticons that have come out to sort of give women a little bit of agency just some power in their hands to, to defend themselves to protect themselves or to move forward. Um, emoticons per se. Or even words like I said you know specific words that get you is to even in sexting or. Yes, yes, yes, I think one of the words that I recently learned was called Stelting. And I think every woman should know about it and I just mentioned condom it's actually got to do with condom so Stelting is just to put it very simply Stelting is a process when your man removes his condom in the act slightly so that you know you so you're not aware about it and I think it's a practice that most men get indulged into it's of course not healthy. And you should have communication active so Stelting is something that is is a word that you should be, you know, knowing you should know the process and if your man ever ever does it, please tell him not to tell him something else that. So we all know what is one night stand. A half night stand is something again that I that I happened to I was speaking to somebody and I got to know about this whole new phenomena of half night stand.   So there is no obligation or if you just you know if it just there for sex then you come back to your own place. So depends how you want to take it. So something else that I also recently discovered was cloaking.  So it's sort of like ghosting, but he also stands you up on the date. So it's like five times more. Yeah, probably. Yes. So there's like a whole new bunch of millennial dating definitions, something again one of my friends here. So they have this very weird phenomena of only dating during the winters and then breaking up in the summer. Oh, which is called that also. Yeah, why I think season is again I mean if you just you know you just want the warmth of somebody during winters. Just because you know you want a cushion to yourself or you want to be warm and cuddly and comfortable.  Wow. I think that is also pretty.  It's just beyond these words and it's actually we keep saying that you're not parents generation had a love so pure but I think now also like of course there is scope but with all these new words and having a term coined for itself is just, it just becomes like a tedious process to fall into love you know you don't know where do you want to bucket yourself into. Yeah, like I said you know suddenly with having been given these very cool acceptable names. It seems as though those things are becoming acceptable and we say this when we're trying to break stereotypes that you know we don't use words for the vagina we never say the word vagina we don't say the word penis we don't use certain words. And we disenfranchise people by not saying it. But similarly when you say that certain words, I guess you give permission for that to become. And I'm just, I'm amazed that there are actually people who will do only winter relationships and then bye bye for summer. Yeah, bye bye for summer, maybe somebody else and then you are, you know, or there are people there are legit people and I know of these people like I said this friend of mine. But for them, it's a set up, you know, and both of them are okay with it they want themselves to be together during winters and then as soon as summer sets in. They want to break not that they will go and date somebody else, but they want to break to just sort of breathe in that they now know more with somebody and they can be by themselves. It's pretty weird though. Yeah, I'm definitely old school, but I just thinking that how do you, how does the person on the receiving end deal with this, because whatever we might say, when you're in a relationship, I think that we are most vulnerable. You know that's when you feel the most amount of insecurity. We've all been stood up at some point we've all been turned down with. There was this guy in my life years ago. And I was besotted with him. I was like, you know, it was just amazing. And I discovered eventually that he was in love with somebody else and I can't tell you what it did to me just broke me. And so I was just there as somebody that you know he would be friends with and yeah I was good company to have but he was actually in love with somebody else. There was no word for these things in those days. I just remember. I was in a relationship. Sorry, what? Situation ship, which is when you're swinging between being friends with somebody, or figuring out if you are actually in a relationship with them. So when you're literally on the highway or friendship and relationship with situations. Okay. Well, I was situation shipped. Yeah. That was a situation ship. Okay, mine was a situation ship but you know I still remember what it made me feel like it just made me feel awful. Yeah, and you know it's just it kind of destroys you on the inside so what are the terms there that you can go to for empowerment like I mean is there like almost words which are like one word advisory words which are like, Okay, you have been aired or ghosted or, yeah, I don't know cloaked or whatever. Is there like, Okay, do this. I'm not too sure about more empowering words because all of them, you know, go down the gutter and they just add there to tell you that these are the emotions that you know, if somebody is not talking to you then baby you're being ghosted right so that the more terms I think to indoctrinate you or to educate you when it comes to the other side of the relationship but not more terms when it comes to empowerment and it's a very good revelation right now we need more terms to have for a healthy empowered equal relationship you know or even a healthy empowered place to go like okay, we've now come to accept in our heads that there is a thing called ghosting and chances are very high that you will be ghosted because there are just so many people out there today who are on these apps and who are available.  Yes, and I think everybody who is you know everybody who is watching us if you know of words that will empower you, or if you know of any words on the other side of the spectrum, please put down in the comments and educate us also so that we just don't know about ghosting and we know about better things as well.  It might be something that the podcast coins now.  And one of my favorites was the fault with our rivals. I love it. Please, can you tell everybody about that that's just so cool. Yeah, so of course it's a word play and I love doing word plays. And one of the other word plays that we do is to break the stereotypes, we call it break this three or types because essentially most of the stereotypes are for women. We take it down into three or types. So that's that's one but coming back to the fault in our Rahul. So it of course stemmed from the fault in our stars, but it also comes from the fact that, you know, the pop culture products Bollywood movies and especially Harma Productions, you know, has ruined the young girls' lives and dreams and, you know, what they perceive of love and romance to be in their definition. So these boys, mostly called Rahul portrayed by Shah Rukh Khan in our movies, were these, you know, chocolate boys who would be like super macho but trashy macho men and, you know, even though they would be chocolate looking but they would be problematic. And it's only now that we realize that they were problematic because in our childhood we all laughed to those movies. And probably we still would be laughing but we understand the layers of patriarchy that, you know, it has or we now probably understand the deeper level of meaning. So a Rahul in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, now we know is problematic. The way he treated Anjali or the way he said, Oh, you're a tomboy, which boy do you like? No. I mean, if you are a tomboy and if this is how you desire to be, then good for you.  It took Rahul like literally a daughter, a dead wife, and I think a decade of time to realize his true love. So clearly he's a f**kboy. What's a f**kboy? Oh, a f**kboy. Oh, a f**kboy. Sorry, she said f**kboy. Okay, yeah. No, f**kboy. Ask any girl these days what's a f**kboy and they will know for sure. No, even I know that one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, even I know that one. Okay, so tell me something. You know, this idea of sexting, which like I said suddenly has become so big. I've been getting emails from people from men and women saying my partner, my wife, whatever during this time has been sexting somebody else, particularly partners, boyfriends, girlfriends. They have been, you know, he's been cheating on me. She's been cheating on me. She's been talking to other boys.  Now, in the past, in our old mythology, the woman's purity had to be so intense that in her brain, if she ever looked at another man, if she ever thought of another man, that was it, her purity was finished. And then we come to this point, which I've been trying to fish out certain texts and things which say that there are three types of sin. There's the sin that happens in your mind where you just think about something which is the smallest sin. You can say certain prayers and it's finished. There is the sin of words where you say certain things and once you said them you can say certain prayers, give so much done and it's finished and then finally the sin of action where you act on something and you do this and you do that and you can clean that you can basically clean that up. Now, what do you think sexting comes under me.  It's a bit of fantasy. But it's being perceived as something so powerful and solid, not just like words on a phone that people are seeing it as sinful they're feeling that it's against the idea of monogamy and they're being hurt by it. Yeah. So what you just described is actually there is a there is a term for it. It's called micro cheating. And I think guilty guilty as charged. So micro cheating is essentially just for anybody who doesn't know is if you are with somebody and if you still happen, you know we're all human beings and you don't walk with your eyes shut. And to anybody who hops the flag of, you know, being monogamous and, you know, it takes pride in it great good for you but there are dozens and you know thousands and I don't know how many women are there or men out there who might just want to challenge the concept of monogamy. And micro cheating can be a slippery slope. I mean, like you said, what may start as a harmless text conversation or as a, you know, flirtatious message, you don't even know when does it realize into, you know, something much more than that and the whole concept can be pretty pretty ugly actually.  If you are in the act of, you know, making love to somebody and if you still think about somebody else that how would they be in bed with me right now. Or if you are probably, you know, having, if you're having a moment with your partner which is still on phone with another person sharing the same moment. It is, it is, it just becomes very, very ugly I think and for you to have that understanding of what you want from life can be a very difficult question because you're clearly enjoying the physical part of one relationship by physical I don't mean the sexual act I mean the physical presence of your partner. But you also want, at the other hand, to be on the phone with somebody who might just, you might just be lured to you know. So, I mean I want you to give us and educate us more on where to draw the line because us millennials are clearly jumping around the fence so to say and we do not have much understanding what does Kamasutra tell you about cheating though. But interestingly the Kamasutra doesn't actually talk about cheating in the way that we see it because it doesn't define anything you know it's great because it says that all these emotions are so fluid you can feel this way today and this way tomorrow. So there is no such thing as ke yeh hai to this is what it would be. It's always. So it's very fluid, but the idea that you could be thinking of somebody else is very natural. If not every day certainly every now and then fantasy is a very healthy part of keeping any relationship going because everybody needs some kind of variety. So I say okay you need to try different types of fantasies different things for variety, rather than actually physically stepping out of a relationship. But to me, you know, this the idea that you might go and flirt with somebody like you said it can start very harmlessly. And it's always a bit of fun. But if you're going to do that. I think a lot of people think always that it'll be fun and then before they know it it's out of control.   Yes, of course so yeah that conscious awareness has to come from your own mind aware this conversation is leading to if you're still doing it purposefully. Because you want it to end in a certain way, but then be aware of what you're trying to do here because the only person who might end up getting hurt in this process is you yourself. Yeah, because you will always have that guilt trapped in you of cheating your partner. And just not just that there will always come a sticky end to I mean any relationship, not all, but 95% of the time that relationship will come to a sticky end, and it involves pain. And so we in ourselves need to understand what we're doing. It's very hard though when you're young. And this is starting and we all feel invincible. Okay, I'm doing this. I can stop anytime I want. Yeah, I mean I can't even stop eating a slice of chocolate cake when I want to. Certainly, if I start to flirt with somebody, you know it gives you such a high. It makes you so excited. I think I always just put myself into this, this song that it will just cheat when I do this. I don't really know how long will that, you know, feeling even stay of being attracted to somebody for all you know it might just be. And I think for most people because I grew up in Delhi I think for most of us we just find a man looking hot and then the minute he opens his mouth and we're like, sorry. Yeah, a lot of them should just keep quiet.  So tell me something this in in sexting language. Yeah, is there something to actually draw boundaries other like, okay, this far and like you said you had this no etc. Yeah, I think there are more emoticons to encourage sexting than block sexting so there's another emoticon which is I think newly introduced it's it's the cancer side but it's like an inverted 69. So that also means, of course, being in the position, or you're asking your partner to be there's another one which if you, if you use the dog emoticon, but with something kinky again. So it's it's not your pet then for sure. So, yeah, that is there. But I think going back to your topic of cheating. One, you know, if I can just be vulnerable here and share my experience when when I came when I had this moment, you know, in my life where I was in a serious committed relationship with my partner but for, I mean, for some time I was sort of attracted to this another man. I think when people say, or you know, even when experts like you say communication is the key we don't really take it to our head. But I think I was, I learned it, I think from the very, I learned it from the very start of it and I, the first thing that I did was actually communicate to my partner. Very honestly, without any inhibition, I mustered up the courage, I walked up to him and I said, there's this man I'm attracted to. I really love you, but I cannot stop the attraction. It's, it's, you know, I don't really know many women who who muster up that courage to speak to their partner and figure out a way of going about this because in my head I was very, very sure that, you know, my relationship with you is much more important than any tiny fetish or any kink in my head, you know, so I think having that communication proactively reaching out to your partner whenever something is wrong is the key if you really are 100% confident about your relationship. Otherwise, the world is, you know, full of men and women and kinks and fantasies and one comes and other goes and it's a vicious circle. You can choose to, sorry for putting it very loosely, but you can choose to, you know, hold around or you can just choose to be monogamous that's completely, and nothing is wrong in either. I mean, even if you're holding around, there's absolutely as long as you're safe, of course. Yeah, it's a choice. Yeah, it's a choice that absolutely you'll make and you know there shouldn't be any judgments on that for sure. Unfortunately, the reality is totally different and we judge even if we don't think that something is going on. The first thing to do is to judge. What you said about the communication bit because like I said to me I think that nothing actually builds a relationship quite like communication does. You cannot swap it for anything. And funnily enough, the comes through again says, at one point it says that if your wife so it's written for men as I think I've mentioned before, because back in the fourth century when the comes through was written, women weren't taught how to read or write so the books are written for men. It says that if your wife actually goes off and is with somebody else or gets attracted to somebody else. Don't treat it like a mortal sin, because it can happen. So, you know, we all understand that we get hurt we get upset, but it is not something that should end your life or end your relationship. And it goes on to say that just just like you might do it and you would expect her to respond with a certain amount of calm and understanding, you must do the same for her as well. And I think that couples who can actually come to that understanding are amazing, but that has to come from inner self esteem it has to come from within you to say that it's okay. I still have people writing to me and saying that my wife, who they've been married now two three years before we got married had other relationships. And I'm finding that very hard to accept. And there was this one man who wrote and I understand his hurt but I just think that at some point you know you've been with this girl now he said, It was an arranged marriage as well and I feel that she let me down you know you cannot say that just because it was an arranged marriage that automatically you presume that somebody would be a virgin or and if it means that much to you, like I'm with us says, communicate, ask them you ask people are you vegetarian or not. Yeah, when you meet them. Yeah, you know, so.  And all of our friends have you know together made him understand so much that what you're looking for is something very hard.  And that's your definition and that's your standard of measuring any woman basis of purity is absolutely trashy, you know, and we've tried to really teach him hard. He's now in Australia, and I don't know what what he's up to now and what's his new life like but while he was in Delhi. He was a smart one man who would, who would always stick to the fact that if I ever make out with somebody that woman has to be with me for the first time.  Karima that's been a really fascinating conversation and for me particularly it's been really enlightening because now I knew I know more words. And I know that there are certain things that if I was to enter the millennial world there are certain things that I can do without being judged as well because it's part of the norm now the behavior. Yeah. But I think I don't even I don't know if it's good or bad but yes. Before we actually sign off. There's a couple of things that I'd like to finish with. One is that if you are going to give any advice around the language of sexting and the behaviors of sexting to women. What would your advice be. I enjoy as much as you can if there's a if there's an emoticon make use of it express yourself don't feel shy to you know express yourself via that emoticon but having said that be aware of the predators around you know if you are sending your nudes out to somebody. Make sure that you trust the person enough. Make sure that you know there is an understanding and if at all you are sending nudes you know there are ways that you don't have to show your face necessarily or depends on the level of comfort that you are with that person. So I think there's nothing harm in sexting I think all for sexting and especially pandemic you know sexting has been such a rescue for couples who are either in long distance or are away. So all for sexting having said that just be very very cautious when you do it Internet can be a mad place. And you do not want to risk yourself so enjoy exploit explore a lot of what you can. It's absolutely all right to explore your own sexuality and if an emoticon, you know can help you and can aid you to tell the person that you're about to come then great I mean amazing. Yeah, that reminds me of. So, but I think this is 17th century or 16th century Britain. There is this in the history of Britain there is this woman who was actually the head of a particular family and she was a lesbian and in those days of course in Britain, it was completely unacceptable.  She's kept these diaries and she did have a lesbian relationships, and in her diary as she writes very graphically what she's done. And then in the margin she would put an exclamation mark and that meant that she'd come that was her orgasm. It's just so lovely because you can actually read these very graphic diaries within exclamation marks and okay, I've come now. So, like I said it's been around for a long long time.  Absolutely I always say that sex is not the taboo subject actually pleasure is the taboo subject. You can talk about sex you can get course you can get crude talk about pleasure and that's it.  And also just as a pointer you were saying that, you know, the idea of the nudes and how actually dangerous it can be on the internet and I agree totally aren't there any emoticons that you can send as newbies as opposed to yourself. I understand that bikini, you know, emoticon, if at all you want to represent but that never suffices because if you are, you know, into like full power sex thing and if you are in the act of it completely then the bikini picture does not suffice. So yeah, but I think, I mean, I've personally never been comfortable with the concept of nudes. So I honestly don't remember maybe once or twice but I don't remember being very comfortable with nudes particularly it's a personal choice. I mean, I don't myself I'm not comfortable but if you are comfortable still be very conscious of the fact that you trust the person enough to leak out your private pictures to them. Great, that's really good advice. And if you had to give a little bit of advice on sexting to the men to the boys, particularly, and I'm specifying over here the younger boys because those are the people who are really coming into this this is, you know, the older teens who are really relying on this because a lot of them who've been writing in and saying that they got low self esteem that never actually been with a woman they've tried it doesn't work. Oh my God, what should I do. What's your advice to them. I think for young boys, particularly it's very important that you seek consent from your woman and it's very important for you to adapt this concept of consent. If you write, rather than just saying I want to do this to you, you know, if you really want to do something ask her, would it be okay if I do something, you know, I how about I do this, are you comfortable if I dot dot dot dot. You know, it just makes your woman feel so much more wanted, it makes her feel so much more secure, it makes her feel that you're so much sensitive and understanding to her emotions. So I think consent is extremely sexy. And if put in the right way, if you know you can arouse your woman like this, nothing like it.  And it'll just shatter my machoism if I ask her for something no, I think she will feel much much better and she will respect and appreciate you more if you ask her for it. Yeah, I think also I'd like young men to know going on from there which is brilliant advice that a lot of times what men or boys think amongst each other is not necessarily what the woman is actually looking for. But if your relationship is with another man, then by all means get the advice of another man. If your relationship was with another woman, get the advice from her on what she would like to be treated as. Yeah, or how she would like to be treated, rather than seeing what your peer group has to say, I think that's really, really good advice. And the last one is that what has also come out of this pandemic is that somehow suddenly a lot of older women and younger men are now sexting each other. So they're not necessarily in physical relationships but there is this kind of sexual relationship based around phone sex and sexting going on. What is your advice for older women because like if there's something that they should know about sexting. Because let's face it, this is a whole band of people who don't necessarily know the language who don't necessarily know what are the rules around all this. So, is there something that you can advise them. I think one way simple thing and that implies to everybody if you are not aware of any concept, if you can still be naive and embrace that and comfortable that hey, I am not too sure if this is the right thing that I'm doing but you know I'm sending you these conflicts because I'm almost there, you know, or something, it just makes the other person feel so much, you know that this person is, there's this such a trust that comes into the place and it just becomes such a wonderful conversation if you embrace yourself and if you're not shy to admit that you cannot know this but clearly I have, you know, much more wisdom and much more, I mean, I've been there, done that babe, like so many times maybe more than you, or I have, you know, so much more experience than you but for older women or older men I think they might just sometimes feel that, you know, what if the Gen Z or Millennial, you know, people might think about me but I think let that go, you know, what counts is the personality, the way you speak, the way what your thought process is that's much more important than those five minute of, you know, an act that's coming out there. So it's okay to be vulnerable and express yourself out there. Karima, thank you so much for your time, you know, I really enjoyed our conversation, I know I've learned a lot, and I think your advice on all levels has been amazing. And I hope that the women listening to us, the girls listening to us, do actually hear what you said that, you know, go out and explore your sexuality, own it, take it over, love yourself, but be extremely careful, protect yourself.  People never understand the difference between a great lover and a desirable lover. I think even when you're sending your, even I think when you're sending your dick pics to women while sexting, I think ask for it. You know, don't just blatantly send out a dark looking aubergine, you know, it's not the best thing we want to see, trust me and personally, like if somebody sends that to me, like I would not be even half, I mean, that's nowhere close to me being horny if I look at your thing, you know, it does not do what you expect me to react after this. Like I'm probably freaking out. So ask for it maybe before sending if I'm in that, you know, mental space also to embrace it. Yeah. Absolutely. And I think another point that you made earlier that don't look at this as cheating. I know that we have a word for it. It's called micro cheating. But it's not necessarily something that should destroy a relationship so you have to be extremely careful take responsibility for what you're doing and be careful with it always be careful with it. And thank you so much. Is there anything that I've left out that you would like to add just before we go. I think what's the, you know, the only one thing we've given advice to young women, young men, older men and older women, I think only one set of people are left out here in terms of advice, and which is our parents. I think if there's any parent who's watching this and if you ever find your children being sexually curious, or, you know, what if you ever find them sexting, or if you find if you ever find anything sexual related to, you know, and anything sexual where kids are indulged into, please make a safe space for them do not shame them for being curious about it.   So it's very important for you to really be great parents and be great to your kids about it actually. Extremely good advice. I think a lot of people could actually do with that and I hope, I hope that parents do take this on board because remember you were young once. So I have had an amazingly wonderful time listening to Karima. Thank you so much. I hope that everybody out there when you listen in you find it as useful and fascinating as I have. If you have any questions on the video, do like, comment, subscribe. If you have any questions, send them into info.seema.anand at gmail.com. And if you wish to get in touch with Karima, she is at Popcast with Karima, Popcast spell P-O-P-K-A-S-T. Popcast with Karima on Instagram and Popcast with Karima at gmail.com on email if you want to write to her. Thank you for having me. I think I had such a ball and honestly I learned so much more than that I could add value to you.  Thank you Karima and bye-bye everybody. We'll see you next week.


Hello everybody, I am Shukla Ram. I have got small data analysis for the last few months here. Initially we were working with the EDX data. Now after the IIT Bombay is started. We have started working on IIT Bombay. Now after, you know, I hope that you know about the IIT Bombay. I hope you know about the IIT Bombay courses and what we are going on now. We have been introduced to, as you said, all the courses and ideas, love of the morning sessions. So, I will give you details just for introductory talk. I will cover the basic concepts. I will talk about two or three things. One is the data, what kind of data are you working on and what are the types of data. That will be my first topic and then the second will be the technology. What we will be able to use. And thirdly, I will talk about the projects. So now the data, IIT Bombay creates three kinds of data. So one is MySQL database is MongoDB. This is the log file. It is generated in the sort of way today. Now log files are normally very huge and to deal with the log files, we will be using deep data concept. Now MySQL is having some data, which are basically users' personal data. That is the students' personal data. Then enrollment data, some summary data. That is whatever, whenever they have access to the course. So all those data will be generated in the log file from there. The summary data are collected and kept in the MySQL. And we will have the great information with the students also. This is the basically MySQL data. MongoDB will have the course information. These are the courses which are offered by the IIT Bombay. Then each course is what is the course structure? What are the course chapters or sessions? And what are the videos covered? And what are the problems? All those information are collected. That is one kind of information. And second information is the quorum data. There is a discussion topic. So quorum will be created. So all those data information are kept in the quorum data. So these two kinds of information are given in the MongoDB. And third is the log file. Log file is normally users' access data. It is users' navigation data. So every time user accesses the corresponding log to record will be collected in the log file. So these are three basic kinds of things, kinds of data which we will be working with. So this is about the data concept. Second, we will be talking about the technology. Python, Canvas, then hard data analysis. Hard of hard data analysis? How many of you have hard of hard data analysis? Two of you. Have you worked with that in hard data analysis? Or just a concept of it? Hard data analysis. Same for the big data, we will be taking hard to find system in Spark as a computing environment which will work on the hard data. It must have hard of Spark also. Then lastly we will work on Spark R which is actually an adaptation of Spark on R. So we will work on Spark R and then we will work on a lot of visualisation. These are basically parts of art. Art is having huge libraries. Different data analysis, like classifications, there is A, tree analysis, then A and all those things, whatever is there in the data is tools. Art is having all the library plus visualisation tools. It has got many visualisation tools so we will be using some of them. And Spark you know that it is very fast. It is in-memory computation. That is, hard data is not an in-memory computation. It is a write-safe data on the hard disk and so it is slow-visical. So Spark is very fast and so is Spark R. This is the technology which we will be working on. Now I will be talking about the projects. We will have three projects. Some sort of basic program which is written in Java. In Java speak hard and so we will have to convert it first into Python and Django framework. It is basically in the Java is a framework. It is a framework that is in the sublet Java speak. How do both step and for visualisation right now we are using normal ways. So these are all existing. Then we have to convert it to the Python and Django framework. This is one project. Second is that we have mostly the statistical analysis result. In just personal data like general-wise, then degree-wise, age-wise analysis which itself also provides. Then we have environment-wise analysis that is how many of these are available and which shares and feed-out all those things. Then we have on the summary like code and participation, course interaction, video course which includes video, program, problem, everything. This is navigation also. And those are all mostly on the summary data. So what do you want to do now? What are the log files? When you create a Spark cluster and then put all the log data in the Spark cluster and run Spark R on that. So Spark uses RDD that is a resilient data distribution structure. So we will be using RDD to create the data models. This is and then after the... This will be converting mainly to Python and Django framework. And after that we will be having the log files that we distribute into our cluster. That is part we have to install on the cluster Spark and RDD system and then we have to distribute the log files and then work on the log files. So while working on the log files we are thinking of doing some prediction and recommendation system. Like when the user is navigating so we can see how they are navigating. So we can do the analysis on the log file and depending on the user's navigation that is the collected data we can predict something for the future or recommend something like this user is using this one. So you can also use this one. So this is the second and third is making our project futuristic. So we have to take care of any future analysis model which somebody can come up with. So that means we have to feel that we provision for dynamic creation of models. If one creates a new model we will say that which which are the parameters for that model then each other whether it is to create a visualization like whether it will be creating HTML file or BNC file or image file or Excel file whatever it is. So we have to indicate all those things and then indicate this model. So the input system will take it and integrate with its own main system. So in the next time you can do the analysis. Go to your main and directly you will load that program and it will run it. So these are the three projects which we are talking about. She is part of the earlier Nagesh group. On these projects you should choose the Nagesh group.


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Passenger side fender, no dents or dings and the passenger side rim is in excellent shape as well and I know you might say well there's 500 miles, why are we doing the video? Well, we saw a lot of these vehicles out of state so whether you're close by or far away, we want to make sure that you're getting the most accurate representation of the vehicle as possible so that when you get here there's absolutely no surprises or if you get the truck shipped to you, you'll know exactly what you're getting. We try and go above and beyond the other dealerships out there to make sure that you're a happy customer before and after the sale. Very clean down this side and the back wheel simulator is like new too. Back tires all match, frame and underbody super clean and it's like that all the way underneath. You get the side box step which is pretty cool. 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They are the power ones so check this out, they power telescope out, power telescope in. I was like showing both sides even though this truck's going to be fully under warranty and then they power fold in as well. Inside the LTZ package gives you the black leather interior, no rips, no tears, this truck's never been smoked in, side curtain airbags, both these front seats are heated and cooled, all weather floor mats, auto headlamps, that's your cargo lamps, that's how you turn on the bed lighting and those LED side lights, push button four wheel drive, tilt, telescopic steering wheel, we'll hop inside here and I may have to turn the vehicle on to, well there we go. So kind of hard to see but it is 543 miles on there, you do get a compass display as well. You get the heated leather wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls on the left, does have audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. This one's going to have the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift, this one has the Chevy infotainment system which gives you AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. It also has a projection manager where you can project through Apple CarPlay or Android Auto to your screen. So if you've got a navigation system on your phone projected to the screen it's like you have nav right on the screen. Down here your climate controls including your dual climate controls, your heated and cooled seat buttons, factory brake controller, power drop down tailgate, that's to put all the windows down, stability control and that's for your power point that's in the bed. You also get a 120 volt, 150 watt plug-in, USB-C, USB plug-in and a 12 volt power point. This is also where your backup camera shows up so you can see that right there and then you can zoom in right over your receiver hitch to get hooked up to your boat camper trailer the first time, every time. Under side format and seat are in excellent condition, no rips or tears, the headliner is absolutely perfect and this one does have a power sunroof. Up here you get on-star and SOS buttons, home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems and map lights. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will start it up and check out under the hood.  Kind of cool, you get little storage cubbies back here and no rips or tears, these seats are heated on the outboard side so driver side, passenger side, there are your heated seat buttons.  Wood grain trim on the back doors, child safety locks back here as well and the bottoms of the doors obviously all look really good. So you do get the LED bed lighting and there's that plug-in I was telling you about for the button inside the truck and there are those LED side lights, those things are super bright. We'll start it up and take a quick look under the hood. No check engine lights or anything like that. There are all those LED headlamps and running lights. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.6 liter V8 gas engine. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth and once again this truck has been fully safety and inspected, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. There's your emission sticker and this truck is 100% ready to go. 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Hi, everyone. Welcome to our session today. This is T-Gel from Baidu and Label1 from Huawei. We will introduce how to optimize the knowledge distillation training with Volcano. Thanks. Next slide. Okay. So let's have a quick overview of the project's background. Palo Palo is China's fully open-sourced deep learning platform, and it is also an AGI framework for industrial development of deep neural networks. Palo Palo Deep Learning Framework supports both declarative programming and imperative programming with both development flexibility and high runtime performance preserved. Palo Palo also supports ultra-large-scale training of deep neural networks. It launched the world's first large-scale open-source training platform that supports the training of deep network with 100 billion of features and the trillions of parameters using data source distributed over hundreds of nodes. Palo Palo includes and maintains more than 100 mainstream models that have been practically polished for a long time in the industry. Some of these models have won major prize from well-known industrial competitions. In the meanwhile, Palo Palo has more than 200 pre-trained models to facilitate the rapid development of industrial applications. Next slide. For large-scale training, Palo Palo enabled collective training on multiple GPUs. Also supports the asynchronous parameter server mode training on GPU and CPUs. Palo Palo used FLEACH API for highly scalable distributed training, and now most of the Baidu intelligent services are powered by Palo Palo framework. When Palo Palo do the large-scale distributed training inside Baidu, we suffer from some problems. One of the products in the large distributed job got failed, the whole job failed. It will waste a lot of resources to restart the whole job. Another one is the low utilization of some inference card cluster like K40, while the training card cluster like V100 is always out of resources. So we need to figure out a way to resolve those two main problems when training in the large Kubernetes cluster. Next slide. Okay, we create EDL project, the Elastic Deep Learning project as the middle layer between Kubernetes and Palo Palo framework to handle the elastic training-related stuff. Currently, EDL uses Kubernetes as the foundation and provides user scenarios, including predicted training methods like knowledge distillation, reinforced learning, and hyper-parameter search by using the Kubernetes CRD. And now with three major releases, EDL enables snapshot-based forced torrent, job pod autoscaling, and the support knowledge distillation natively. EDL also highly integrated with Volcano for advanced scheduling features to accelerate the training speed. And EDL now is a Linux AI and Data Foundation incubating project. With EDL enabled in Baidu internal cluster, cluster-level resource utilization is above 70%. And the job submission queuing time is less than 44 minutes and the failure rate of the job is less than 5% now. Next slide. And then what is the knowledge distillation and what's the benefit for that? To some people who are not familiar with knowledge distillation, let's have a quick overview. Nowadays, the deep learning model is getting bigger and bigger. The natural layer is getting deeper and deeper. In many scenarios, the larger the model and the more layers, the better the model effect. But you're limited by the request of reasoning speed and the video memory resources, large models usually cannot be deployed directly and the models need to be compressed. The current mainstream compression method include tailoring, quantification, and knowledge distillation. Among them, the concept of knowledge distillation is a state of the art technologies proposed in the distillation, the knowledge in a neural network paper published by Hinge in 2015. It is a very classic model compression technology that converts knowledge from a complex model migrated to another lightweight model to achieve model compression. In fact, the so-called knowledge transfer can be understood as a training process, which is to use the teacher model to train the student model. This training method is distillation training. After training a good student model, the student model can be used for actual deployment. As shown in the figure above, the training steps can be divided into two steps. The first is train a teacher model and then use knowledge of the teacher model to train the student model. Okay, next slide. Originally, there are two common ways to do the distillation training. EDL based on user scenarios invited to invent the third way to do the training. Let's introduce those three types. The first one is called the pure distillation training. The method of pure distillation training is much like the teacher recording the content of a lecture as a video and giving it to the student for self-study. And then the student learns by themselves according to the course video. Therefore, the pure distillation training is to first use the teacher model for inference and save the results in the disk. And then the student model use the sample saved in the disk and the inference results of the teacher model as a data set for training. Okay, in the training model, no, no, no, yeah, okay. In the training model, the training of the student model is the same as the regular training and the method is simple. However, the training method generates required data enhancement and takes up huge disk space. So the application environment is subject to certain restrictions. And the second one is same network distillation training. Same network distillation training refers to putting the teacher model and the student model into the same network. And the fixed teacher model parameters are only forwarded and the student model is normally used for back propagation training. This is also the current mainstream distillation training method. This is very similar to the teaching method in the real life. The teacher and the student are in the same classroom. The teacher says a sentence and the student listen to it. However, the training method not only take up to a lot of space for the teacher mode, but also because the teacher and the student have a one-to-one binding relationship and the training of the student model completely relies on the teacher model. And the student model has to wait for the teacher model to output a batch of inference and the result can be trained. And the teacher model has to wait for the student to train a batch before starting the inference of the next batch, which has a certain impact on the overall training speed. And our EDL has the third one, which is called the EDL service distillation training. Compared with the pure distillation training, EDL service distillation training decouples the teacher model and the student model. The teacher model is deployed as an online inference service and the student model uses the clients and identity to send samples to the teacher model in real time via the internet to obtain the inference result for training. It's like letting the model take lessons online and we use distillation reader for communication. Next slide. Okay. There are several advantages of EDL service knowledge distillation. The first one is save the GPU memory resource. Due to the decoupling of the student model and the teacher model, the service distillation training can use hero teachers resources. That is deploy the student model and the teacher model to different devices. Distillation networks that were only originally limited by the size of the GPU memory and were different to a single GPU card can be deployed to a different cards in this way. User can also flexibly set the ratio of the teacher to student according to the throughput performance of the teacher and the student, which means that multiple teacher can teach multiple students instead of maintain a one-to-one tutorial model to maximize training output. The second one is improve the training speed. Due to the saving of GPU memory resources, the student model can be trained with a larger batch size. At the same time, because the student model and teacher model are in different pipelines, the student model does not need to wait for the teacher model to end the inference before training. Combining the two reasons, those can greatly improve the training speed. The third one is improve the utilization of training resources. In practical application, we can develop the teacher model to an online elastic inference card cluster and use the computing resources of online predictor card to increase the throughput of the teacher model in the distillation task. At the same time, because the teacher model can flexibly schedule, there is no need to worry about task failures caused by the preemption of online instances during peak hours. It is equivalent to transferring the resources requirements of the teacher for the training card to the online GPU card. When offline training resources such as V100 are limited, the online card is used to accelerate the training to see valuable training resources. In addition, on offline clusters combined with scheduling strategies, the teacher model can also be deployed to cluster fragmented resources or resources with a low usage rate such as K40 to make full use of clusters, idle, and fragmented resources. The right picture is the flow chart of service distillation training operation. In this figure, you can see that the student model sends samples to the teacher model and obtain the inference results while the service side of the teacher model can be added and deleted at will and adjusted flexibly. Next slide. Okay. Now we'll see how EDL leverages Kubernetes and volcano to optimize knowledge distillation training. EDL support elastic training with inference style services during training. It deploys the teacher model as online inference through paddle serving. In addition to a teacher and a student training pod, a service registry discovery model is developed by EDL. Online inference service are elastic and are registered to EDL service registry modules for service auto discovery and fault tolerance. So EDL enable dynamic adoption of teacher's model online instance to maximize students' training through output and the resource utilization. With K40 inference called a serving cluster and V100 called training cluster, EDL use volcano for multicluster scheduling. And since by the way inside are always short of V100 resources for training, we use scan scheduling for knowledge distillation job to avoid training resource from that lock. We also utilize the IO awareness in volcano for maximize the RDMA usage in training cluster. Next slide. Okay. So in order to verify the effect of EDL service distillation training, we use pure training, same network distillation training and EDL service distillation training on the ImageNet dataset to train the RESTNet 50 VD model. The first one to concern is accuracy. In terms of accuracy, compared to the pure training distillation training improves the accuracy of RESTNet 50 model by nearly 2%. The service distillation training and the same network distillation training have the same accuracy. In terms of the training speed, compared with pure training, same network distillation training takes up a large part of the computing power due to the teacher model. So the training speed is only 35.9% of the pure training with the same training resources. The EDL service distillation training use additional online P4 elastic resource and transfer the teacher's resource request for the training card to the elastic card. So compared to pure training, it still maintains a training effective of 82.8% and the speed is 2.3 times to the same network distillation training. If you continue to use teacher resources, theoretically the speed of EDL service distillation training can be the same as that of the pure training. Of course, same network distillation training can continue to accelerate if resources are increased, but this will take up more valuable V100 training resources. Okay, here are all the distillation training on EDL. So now let's welcome label one for deep dive into the volcano project and tell us more details about the features and the implementations of volcano and how it is integrated with other AI and data systems. Thank you. Hey guys, I'm William Wang from Huawei Volcano Community Maintenance and Tending Lead. It's my pleasure to share this topic with TDo. Okay, let's get started. With the development of industries, more and more domain frameworks are invented and applied to support business development. This framework plays an irreplaceable role in their respective domains, such as spark, instant flow and fling. On the other side, the business model is becoming more and more complex nowadays. It's difficult to handle complex business scenarios with just single domain framework. Multiple domain frameworks are widely used together to achieve business objective. The domain framework cluster is becoming bigger and bigger and these clusters are independent of each other. The resources cannot be shared. This leads to a huge list of resources. Therefore, more and more users want to use the unified scheduler system to resolve the resource sharing problem. Kubernetes is the best choice for many users because of its excellent accessibility and ecosystem. As you know, Kubernetes is designed for micro-service or chest-strition in the early age. When we tried to migrate batch workload to Kubernetes several years ago, we found there are still a lot of challenges for Kubernetes. The first one is the scheduling policy for high-performance workload. For example, gone scheduling. Batch workload need all-or-nothing scheduling to resolve the deadlock. The fair share scheduling for maintenance. Job priority scheduling for urgent workload. The top logic of scheduling to accelerate training is central. The second challenge is job lifecycle management. Different types of workloads have different expectations. For example, buttons and flow, if the PS and work pod field, we have to restart the whole job. However, for Spark, if executor pod field, only restart the executor pod is enough. All this error handling should be resolved in job lifecycle management. The third challenge is the heterogeneous hardware support. The high-performance workload has higher performance requirement. Many providers produce different kind of hardware to accelerate computing. This requires a scheduler to schedule the results uniformly and provide the best results allocation. The last one is the performance tuning. For example, the scalability, throughput, network, container runtime is not only about the scheduler. volcano is a Kubernetes native batch system. It is designed to try to address these challenges. As you can see, volcano implements a batch scheduler to provide the rich scheduling policy. The new controller is added to do the lifecycle management and provide a unified interface for different kind of workload. We also provide some command line for HPC users to help them to submit workload by command line. volcano is a CNCF sandbox project right now. There are more than 1,600 GitHub stars and more than 100 contributors from different company and organization. They are already tough release from Ms. Boyd and more than 14 public adopters. Here is the volcano overall, volcano architecture. Volcano spots scheduling multiple types overload in one cluster. The resources can be shared among this workload to get a better utilization. This workload might be online microservice or offline data analysis tasks or AI workload. Volcano provide queue for user to plan their cluster resource. It's easy to map the company organization to volcano queue. Different departments can share resources to each other when the resource is added. The rich scheduling policies are supported in volcano such as priority scheduling, topology scheduling, preemption, reclaim, time division multiplexing, and so on. And also support monitoring or resources for fine grained scheduling. The red part shows the benefits of volcano in different scenarios. We will pocket data. The first scenario is showing the gun schedule in Tencent Flow training. As you know, all-or-nothing schedule is required for Tencent Flow or MPI workload to solve the dialogue or visibility. In the test, there's no enough resources for two jobs to rank concurrently in the cluster. Then we submit jobs to cluster. As you can see, when we submit five jobs with two PS and four workers, only two of the five jobs finished because of the dialogue. The left three job occupy parts of resources and waiting for other job release resources each other. The second scenario is Tencent Flow training. Our performance testing, it is found that the different placement of PS and work post affects the training result, especially for GPU training for some models. The course is the host network is better than network across hosts. APS and work post can be scheduled to one host. They can exchange data with host network. There are three nodes in the test cluster and we submit training job with two PS and four workers. We get three different placement at last. The result is random with default scheduler. As you know, the group C is the best placement that we want. The task top-loader scheduling in O'Connell is target to handle this kind of visual. You can define the top-loader of the task in job. The scheduling will get you the best placement based on the input. A notice is that the complexity of the feature doesn't increase the, doesn't increase with the cluster scale. As far as I know, some users use the Kubernetes affinity and anti-affinity features to achieve this goal. However, the complete city increase with the cluster scale. We also do some research on the L or VR scheduling with the task top-loader info and IO information. We can minimize the max data transfer latency and give even better performance. The figure shows the VGC 16 model training results with default scheduling, volcano task top-loader and L or VR scheduling. The L or VR scheduling gets a 30% performance increase compared with default scheduling. The result depends on the data exchange and models. This page shows the Spark on Kubernetes with volcano. Several years ago, we started to help users to migrate Spark off workload from Hadoop to Kubernetes. We use the TPCDS to do the performance test. It is found that the deadlock happened when the job concurrently is high. The main reason is that all the results are allocated to Spark driver pod. The extra pod started later than driver pod and no results available. All Spark applications are stuck there. We have to prepare the dedicated node for extruder and driver pod to resolve this problem. However, this kind of node division increases the results fragment. As you never know what is the best proportion for driver node and external node. A new feature called minimal results is introduced based on this situation in volcano. Volcano creates pod group for each Spark application. The minimal results is a property of pod group. The scheduler resolve minimal results for each Spark application and resolves the driver pod over commit issue. It is a job level scheduling. User no need to prepare the dedicated node anymore. And also the fragment issue is resolved. As you can see, the performance improved more than 30%. Next, as more and more MPI users try to submit workload to Kubernetes with volcano job. Volcano provides some features to help user submit MPI job workload to Kubernetes. The left part shows a volcano job for running MPI workload. User can define the main available resources for gun scheduling. User also can define the job policy as well. For example, event pod evicted action restarted job. This means whenever the pod is evicted, the MPI job will be restarted automatically. User can also define the MPI master MPI worker replicas, resource requests, task policy respectively. In addition, Volcano provides building job plugins to simplify the configuration. For example, the SSH plugin provide SSH authentication without password. And the SVC plugin prepared hardly service for communication amongst pod. It is convenient for MPI users. Another scenario is the GPU sharing. GPU resource is expensive resource. The GPU resource utilization is not good enough in some conditions such as development environments and the inference. GPU sharing is expected by many users. Volcano provides the GPU sharing ability. User can specify the memory amounts they need. The soft isolation is supported so far. The hard isolation will be supported in the future. ChromeVal is a popular pipeline software and widely used in gene computing. Volcano has been integrated with ChromeVal. User can use the WDL to orchestrate the Volcano job. The ability has already supported in our gene computing service. So the APT user command line is important. They always use command line to submit workloads to submit workloads. Volcano provides a set of command lines such as this app with console. We suspend to help users make it a PC workload to Kubernetes. Various of SDK language are supported as well. Now this cluster still become bigger and bigger. As far as I know, there are more than 2000 nodes in one Kubernetes clusters in some user's production environment. The CoupSIM is a simulator of Kubernetes for batch and offline workload. It is based on the CUMARC on Kubernetes. We can use it to simulate super skill cluster to do the scheduler performance testing. There are two problems in CUMARC. The first problem is, user cannot configure the results of poll nodes. The second problem is the poll status which running on the whole node cannot be updated. This problem are resolved in CoupSIM. In the future, we may add more enhancement for CoupSIM. For example, add more job templates to support simulate batch job submission, et cetera. You can join the volcano and the EDL community to learn more about how to apply and optimize the distillation on Kubernetes. We have group select channel for open communication. And you can also submit PRN issue on GitHub. Okay, no, pedofedal and the EDL repository. We will respond to you as soon as possible. Thank you for listening.