Dramatic developments in Russia on Friday and Saturday as Evgeny Prigoz and chief of the Wagner group rolled into a southern city and was charged with inciting armed rebellion. Tensions and violence have escalated in Sudan and spread to Kadhuli, the capital of the South Kordofan state, forcing more people to flee the conflict-ridden country. At first it was just angry social media posts. In the VRs of Saturday, the Russian mercenary chief Evgeny Prigozin rolled into Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia. His demands and goals are unclear, but he has gone beyond the usual provocative statements about Russia's military establishment. By Saturday, Russia took strong measures to keep him at bay, but it could be other parts of the world which feel the impact of these developments. Of course, this is a rapidly developing story and could change by the time you view it, but with what we know now, we speak with Praveep Pukaista, editor-in-chief NewsClick. Praveep, the chief of the Wagner group has made many statements, many actions according to the report. How reliable are these reports which say that it's a coup and that he's a big threat to Putin? Well, I don't think it is a coup because Putin is still very much there and this is taking place in Rostov-on-Don. Therefore, it's not the major arena of in and around Moscow. So that's one part of it. Second part of it is Putin is already on record saying that this is bogus and he has to back off completely. And this is something which is essentially against the interest of the state. Apart from calling him traitor, he has virtually said everything else. So that is very much there. Question is, who is Prigoshin and can it upset the Russian state? I don't think it can unless there are other breaks which we don't know about and there are inner fault lines which we don't know about. At the moment, it seems to be very much a aberration. A, of course, should they have dependent on this kind of formation which is what the Wagner formation is. The Wagner is, I believe, how it's pronounced. The Wagner formation is, it's equivalent to what you had in the US. You had also Prince, there was an Eric Prince, though he had his private army which was used in Iraq and it actually did atrocities for which there was a lot of publicity at that stage. But he continues to lead that formation which is still there and it provides arms services in various countries which Wagner also does, for instance, in Africa. But having used them in the Ukraine war, it's also true that in Mahmud, for instance, he got a lot of publicity that he was in the forefront of the war, not that he was a participant, but his forces were. And in Mahmud, the publicity he got made him a figure in Russia and we saw also that he started criticizing that they were not getting enough arms and ammunition and the Russian army, some of the generals are not cooperating with him. So obviously, he felt that he had now achieved the status by which he could take on the army generals, the defense minister, maybe all of it. In his statement, he has not directly attacked Putin, but he has attacked the defense minister. So that's where it stays at the moment. What his objectives are? Is he, does he think there'll be something which will cause the Russian state to break down and make him the leader? All unanswered questions at the moment. If you ask my personal opinion, I think it is significant because it shows cracks which we don't know about that is coming out. So yes, to that extent, it's important. Will it make any difference to what's happening between the Russia and Ukraine and NATO? I think not. Do I think that Russia will overcome this crisis on the face of it? Looking at what all we know, it seems to be yes, unless there is something which we don't know about and there are factions within the Russian state which we have no idea about. Then of course, it's different if he has allies which who then come out later. So those are the imponderables at the moment. But looking at what Frigodin has been saying for some time we've been listening about him for the last three, four months, particularly in Bakhmut and his various interpretive attacks on generals and others, various comments that he has made. He seemed to be always a bit of a loose cannon. So at the moment, is it something which is the continuation of his behavior as a loose cannon? That is something we have to see. Or are there deeper fissures within the Russian state which we don't know. It's a first manifestation of fissure of this kind after Putin has taken power. So it's significant to that extent, even if it does not have a long-term impact. It is something which is going to create a certain degree of instability within the Russian state. So that I think is to be taken for granted. Yes, it's not a minor issue. But in terms of the stability, I don't think that's going to be a significant issue, not on the face of it. Right, Khabib. What do you think about the timing of this particular incident? Russia is still dealing with it. But the timing, is it going to impact? Could you elaborate on whether you think the impact on Ukraine could be significant as well, not just in Russia? You know, the interesting part is what he has talked about the Ukraine war flies in the face of all that we know about it at the moment. The new offensive, we have already talked about, even the western media is today more or less admitting that Ukraine's thrust, this new offensive that they were supposed to have launched with a lot of fanfare, with a lot of arms and weapons that had been given by the NATO countries. All of that doesn't seem to have played a major role in making inroads into what the Russian-held territories are. So, given that the statement that Brigadier made, oh, you know, there's a huge defeat. Yes. All this kind of statement doesn't seem to make sense. Again, there's so much of material that's today out in public domain, mainly because of the kind of channels that exist. Telegram, for instance, in Russia and Ukraine, you have also something you can see by satellite, a lot of what is going on. So, even private satellite images are available. We show a lot. So, given this, it's very difficult to understand why Brigadier is saying, oh, they have broken through, this has happened, that has happened, this has been a disaster, doesn't seem to square it with reality if it did. We'd have heard it from all the leading bourgeois papers in the world. So, the fact that the New York Times doesn't say it, Washington Post doesn't say it, Financial Times doesn't say it. In fact, all of them are taking a much more, much sober down position than they used to do earlier. So, given that, I think this is again part of Brigadier playing to a gallery, which we don't know about, or the man is, shall we say, not fully in touch with reality. Again, difficult to say why a person is doing it. You can talk of larger forces. Individuals are not predictable. So, given that, we don't know. But let's see what happens. The pictures that show, yes, that he has seemed to have occupied a particular military building in Rostov-on-Don. So, that is there. So, I think that he has done something. But the repercussions of this is what happens to him. That's not so important, because I don't think he will go anywhere with this. But Wagner has a major impact in Africa. It is providing security service to a number of states who've actually kicked out, for instance, French and other forces to provide those services, which they're doing earlier. What happens to Wagner's role in Africa is, again, something we'll have to watch. It's there, I think, it is going to weaken Russia and Russia's play in terms of international politics. All right, Pabit, thanks very much. And this is a story we'll be watching. The war in Sudan has already uprooted over 2.5 million people. But the fighting between the army and the rapid support forces has just spread to new areas. A rebel group in the South Gordefond state broke a long-standing ceasefire agreement and attacked an army unit. El Janina in West Darfur was also recently hit hard by the escalating conflict. The negotiated truces in many parts of Sudan have fallen through. Prashant from People's Despite joins us now with more. Prashant, can we start with discussing the current situation in Sudan right now? Right, so Pragya, we know that the fighting broke out on April 15th. This is fighting between the Sudanese armed forces and the rapid support forces who are a paramilitary group. But as people have pointed out on Twitter there, actually the militias which took part in the genocide in Darfur many, many years ago. So it was those militias which formed the rapid support forces. So this fighting broke out on April 15th and we've had at least two major truces since then. One was in the end of May and one was very recently. That is, it ended on the 21st of June if I'm not mistaken. That's Wednesday I think. So in both these truces, what happened was both the warring parties agreed to certain commitments and these commitments were that they would not recoup or try to escalate the conflict. They would allow the passage of humanitarian aid etc etc. But all these commitments seem to have been violated in both these truces. And if you look for instance at our recent article that we published by written by our colleague Pawan, the Sudanese Communist Party source who spoke to us makes that point very clear that both these ceasefires were used as opportunities to actually for these both the warring forces to kind of consolidate and regroup. That was really the way in which these ceasefires were used. And so on we expected lines after the ceasefire ended, the fighting broke out. It has kind of been very intense. Now both the warring parties have committed their own sets of crimes. We need to be very clear about that. On the one hand we know that the Sudanese armed forces has been using the air force a lot. Now one way in which the Sudanese armed forces let us call it the armed forces is superior is that it has an air force capacity. So it has been using this air force a lot to attack what are essentially civilian neighborhoods where the RSF forces have been. So this has been charged levied against them time and again and it is pretty clear that they are doing that. If you look at the rapid support forces on the other hand they have been accused of a number of crimes including the murder of the governor of one of the provinces and also the fact that instances of loot, violence, even rape for that matter all of them have been attributed to the rapid support forces. So both parties really escalating over the past nearly two and a half months really escalating this cycle of violence. I think the number of people who died has probably crossed around a thousand or three thousand if I am not mistaken in fact. And the fears are that this number could be even higher. And a huge number of people injured I think the number of refugees has crossed 2.5 million and a large part of it is internally displaced of course but still a substantial number of people going to countries in the vicinity. Now this is also dangerous because the fact that the countries in the vicinity themselves are very poor so they are already struggling but now they have to struggle with the refugee issue as well. So all this together makes it a very violent situation and I think activists and observers there have kind of expressed the fear that this fighting may be allowed to fester like it has in many countries in the region for instance Libya is a prime example of a country which has been in persistent war for many many years not for 10 years since NATO and its allies intervened. So there is a very strong fear that this might kind of be the case in Sudan as well because the fact that it seems to be caught in the cycle on the one hand there is fighting then the US and Saudi Arabia countries like that they sort of bring about a truce you know they all these high high sounding statements are made sure and then fighting breaks out. I think the US itself at least is kind of you know begin to begin to maintain that it is not seeing a way out of this. So again there might be other regional attempts which continue but there is a very stark fear that this fighting could actually go in the long term. So you know that is really a huge concern and this would be disastrous for a country like Sudan which is already facing a variety of crisis you know there is a climate crisis the economic crisis which people have been struggling for you know for decades to deal with all these crisis together and put war on top of that and then what happens is that you have a complete mess so to speak and others people responsible for this mess are the leaders of these military forces the top leadership of these military forces which unfortunately these military forces are in power because everyone was happy engaging with them until now. So it's important to remember that that these military forces were considered key players in Sudan's political scene everyone you know kept encouraging them and gave them you know full legitimacy and now these now they now it seems kind of strange that everyone is kind of condemning them or sitting or saying that you know we need peace whereas these signs were there for the longest time. So you know keeping all that together it's a quite a depressing scene I would say overall in Sudan also one must note that the Darfur province has there's been a huge amount of violence there it's in some sense is very closely linked but almost like all the slightly different track a lot of the armed groups which were associated with the RSF for instance there's been fighting among some of them the RSF has been very closely involved in the fighting in Darfur so the rival groups in those regions are now fighting among themselves. This is a long conflict we talked about the genocide earlier this is a long conflict and now this is again intensified so another cycle of violence in Darfur as well which makes it really a very difficult situation there a lot of the people there are already in internally displaced people camps their refugees basically internal refugees so many of these people are at doubled risk because the fact that the fighting has broken out over there also reports of fighting breaking out in the Kordofan region as you said so all this together you know I think multiple conflicts brewing right now within Sudan all of them connected and a very difficult time indeed for Sudan's people. Right Prashant you mentioned the Sudanese Communist Party they also said something about how to resolve the problem where the US is not playing a very positive role and also why are the peace agreements not holding up to the promise that they held out. Right I think two or three things one is that when we talk about let's look at the peace agreements first I mean not about the current ceasefires which have kind of not worked out but even earlier you know after 2021 which was when Omar al-Bashir was overthrown there was and there was a very clear question before Sudan which was that in which direction would Sudan go would the natural direction or logic of the protests which overthrew Omar al-Bashir be accepted and the natural logic of those protests was that Omar al-Bashir and his military regime would have to be overthrown they would have to be democracy in Sudan based on the demands of the protests which took place against Omar al-Bashir right that is better that was the natural logic of it right but that natural process was curbed by the fact that the while Omar al-Bashir was overthrown his regime remained in power and this basically amended the army and the rapid support forces all of these together took over the regime so while Omar al-Bashir was gone his regime remained in power and these forces work together with some centrists in right-wing political parties which also compromised the army and they basically ran the regime since then which meant that the protesters on the streets kept demanding something else and the army and the right-wing political parties had a completely different agenda okay so from 2021 onwards to now until the war broke out what the international community for instance has done is basically to encourage and promote this agenda of the militia and the right-wing parties which is of very let's say partial reform okay or you know very half-hearted reform in Sudan it would have meant a democracy where the army was still in control of the economy it would have the forms of democracy would have been there but the power would still have been with the vestiges of the old regime the remnants of the old regime right and this is what everyone was happy with international community was happy with the UN the US all of them kept pushing this agenda because they didn't want any radical transformation since that's right Sudan has a very important geopolitical role as far as many of these foreign powers are concerned as well yeah it's in a very important region what is called the horn of Africa so basically since this agenda was never allowed to the agenda of the people was never really allowed to sort of come into practice what remained was this half-hearted partial reform thing which is bound to collapse because armies and military regimes don't like to share power with civilians absolutely the law everywhere right wherever the military is a strong force in the government it is inevitable that within a short time if some progress is made towards democracy it is reversed by a coup or you know new army leader comes to power they take it back right and that's exactly what has happened in Sudan right while they were close to reaching an agreement with the civilian parties the army military general disagreed among themselves and thus this fighting broke out so I think what we're seeing is the result of this is not say the issue of just two individuals which is the leaders of the army and the rapid support forces it is not the result of two or three months of differences between them which is how the reporting often takes place that's right these two generals had a fallout and so you know we're seeing that this is a result of the two years of failure or failure to allow that demands the people to actually be implemented so every time the people pushed their agenda there was repression there was violence and you know that was ignored and it was considered as you know they were at the most the response was certain statement saying that this is not good etc etc okay so I think all this together is really what brought Sudan to where it is right now like I said a very unfortunate situation there are many dimensions issue like the juba peace accords which have which were with various other rebel groups all of which failed but I think this is the fundamental the crux of this crisis is basically the people's demands not being accepted and that is what I think the left has and the progressive sections in Sudan have time in again reiterated. Thanks, thanks a lot Prashant for joining us with us and that's all we have for today thanks very much for watching Daily Debrief you will see you again on Monday until then you can find more of our work on our website peoplesdispatch.org our social media accounts on Facebook Twitter Instagram and our YouTube channel have more updates and this show Daily Debrief thanks again for watching


What is up guys? Karma medic here and welcome back to another dose. My name is Nasser and I'm a doctor living and working in the UK. I've been working as a doctor for about 11 months now rotating through geriatrics, vascular surgery, renal medicine and now renal transplant surgery. In this video, I wanna talk about all the things that I love about being a doctor, about working in a career in medicine and what I've enjoyed so much throughout these last 11 months and give you a bit of an insight into what life is like as a doctor and some of the benefits and best aspects of the job that you can expect to have. I'll also have a sister video to this one about all the things that I don't like about working as a doctor, some of the more negative aspects of the job that I think everyone should be aware of when they're preparing to go into medical school or they're looking at medicine as a career. So make sure you subscribe to the channel if you're interested in seeing that one as well but without further ado, let's just get into it. So you've probably heard this one before and I've put it as number one on my list because I think it's such an important driver for me and why I enjoy this job so much.   I go into work every day knowing that I'm going to have a positive impact and make a significant change in at least one person's life. And honestly, that can be as simple as when you talk to them showing them that you're being attentive, listening to their story, giving them a good solid examination, making them feel heard and listened to, making them feel like you're examining every part of their body and really taking into account what they're saying or it can be something more literal like administering life-saving medication or administering life-saving procedures if someone is terribly unwell. And then there's the more immediate effect and immediate results that you can see working as a doctor. So performing the Valsalva maneuver for someone who's in a supraventricular tachycardia. So this is when your heart goes into a funny rhythm where it beats very, very fast and you can perform quite a simple maneuver asking them to breathe on a closed kind of surface like a syringe and lifting their legs up quickly and that can often fix their heart. If not, you can always administer a medication called adenosine, which can also reverse their heart rhythm. So this is an example of a very quick change. So you can take someone who's really, really unwell, scared, frightened and you can effectively fix them in a very short period of time. Another example of this is draining fluid from someone's chest, what we call drainage of a pleural effusion. Now I'm not competent and trained to do this by myself but I've assisted other registrars in doing this and it's just amazing how you can take someone who's having shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, you perform this relatively quick procedure, drain out that fluid and suddenly they're all better. And then of course, the best example of this is something like surgery. A lot of what we did in vascular surgery was take people who had ischemic limbs or really nasty chronic wounds and infections in their extremities and you would quite literally cut them off in surgery and that patient would be significantly better after that. And when patients take the time to show you gratitude and thanks for what you've done, it's honestly the best feeling in the world. I always remember saying to my family, getting goosebumps now, I always remember saying to my family and to my friends that the first time that a patient says thank you to me when I'm a doctor is gonna be, I'm getting more goosebumps. It's gonna be the time that I know that I've made it, like I've done something significant, I've done something meaningful, I've done something really impactful on another human's life. And I was always looking forward to that day when someone would say to me thank you, thank you doctor for doing X, Y, Z and it was the best feeling in the world. I still remember that patient, I still remember what I did and it's just, it's incredible. And more recently I was just working a set of night shifts and we had a patient and their family who were from the Middle East and they couldn't go two sentences without saying thank you so much doctor, thank you for coming to see me, thank you for doing this, thank you for doing that. I'm so happy that you're here, et cetera. And you know, just hearing this and feeling that other people are just thankful for the work that you're doing, thankful for the help that you're giving is it's an unbelievable feeling. And it's one that I've been working towards for so long and to now experience that on an almost daily basis it's just great. All of these little experiences, they give me the satisfaction and the knowledge that all the work that I've put in studying to be a doctor over the last nine years or so was extremely worth it. And it reminds me that all those times I spent studying, sacrificing other parts of my life for this career for medicine was just absolutely worth it. And having these moments where you can make a small difference but an impactful difference in other people's lives is just so meaningful and it's just great. All right, now this one might be a little bit controversial and I'm sure there's a few doctors out there watching this video who are gonna disagree with me but let me explain my opinion. So my twin sister who lives just behind that wall over there is a corporate lawyer and I've seen her be a corporate lawyer for the last three or four years. And I have a lot of friends who are working in the banking and finance industry, et cetera, et cetera. And those guys are literally on call at all times of the day. When they come home from work which is usually at like 8 p.m., 9 p.m. they will still receive messages from their managers, from their bosses, from their coworkers, even until midnight, one, two o'clock in the morning. I mean, my sister is the most personal example that I've had where she would often get calls and receive messages up until the early hours of the morning on the weekend when she's on annual leave. It didn't matter, you know. The work was following her everywhere that she went which I think is just absolutely crazy and a huge overstepping of personal boundaries and setting a distinction between work and your personal life. But that's a story for another time. One of the great things that I like about my job being a doctor is that once I leave the hospital, once I change into my normal clothes and I leave the hospital, none of that work follows me home. If anything happens to one of the patients in the hospital then there's another team who has come on from the following shift after me who's going to take care of it. And before I leave the hospital I will hand over to the team who's gonna be taking over from me and I'll let them know about everything that's been going on, any blood results that I want them to chase, any scan results that I think they should chase if a patient has been unwell during the day but is now stable, but just to know about in case they become unwell later on. I take everything that I have from my work during the day and I hand it over to someone else. Of course, in a responsible and respectful way you don't hand over the work that you were supposed to do during the day. You hand over the things that are expected to be done when you're not there in the future. When I come home to my room and I sit down on the couch or on my desk there's no homework for me to do. I'd have a PowerPoint presentation tomorrow. I don't have anything that I'm gonna be presenting next week. I can read up on any of the cases or diseases and pathologies that I saw in the hospital but at my own time, whenever I choose whether that's in the evenings or on the weekends or on my lunch break whenever I want I'm never gonna be sitting here at my desk and I'm gonna get a call from someone who says hey patient John Smith who you saw five hours ago is very unwell, what do you wanna do? Now in a very technical and practical sense like I've described the work doesn't follow you when you go home but from a more mental health point of view I'd say the work can definitely follow you home and it depends on who you are as a person and how well you're able to kind of separate what's happened at work from when you come home and are trying to relax. And particularly in the first rotation and maybe in the first half of my second rotation I found that a lot of patients that I'd seen throughout the day I was actually worried about in the evening and I would think about before I wanted to sleep and I would even wake up in the middle of the night sometimes thinking to myself, oh my God did I remember to do this? Did I remember to hand over this? How is this person doing? Cause they've been unwell during the day or even thinking about patients who had passed away or who were really, really unwell that I had had challenging conversations with their family, their next of kin, et cetera these kinds of things would kind of pop into my head and infiltrate my personal life outside of the hospital. Now I think as the months have passed I've developed a bit of a better relationship with how to handle those emotions that arise outside of the workplace. And it's mostly about when you've left the hospital knowing that you've done a good job you've done the best care that you possibly can for the patient you've handed over everything that should be handed over and chased for that patient and there's nothing kind of left undone or wishy-washy. You don't wanna come home and think to yourself should I have ordered that scan or should I have taken blood cultures should I have done this, should I have done that? You wanna make sure that when you're in the hospital you do all the things that you think you should do and if you're unsure if you should do them like I am all the time I talk to my seniors about it and I double check that what I'm doing is right so that when I come home I don't have these feelings of should I have done this, should I have done that? Now I definitely have Dr. Friends who take the negative experiences that happen to them in the hospital and it really filters into their personal life when they go home and it really affects them for the rest of the day and for the weekend or whatever which I think is really tough and it depends on person to person how well you're gonna be able to handle those emotions I think it's definitely something that can be worked on over time I've personally worked on it since I started the job up until now but again, I think there will be people who are always more susceptible to this type of thing. Now being a doctor inherently comes along with a lot of additional stress lots of high pressure situations emotional stressors and conversations about life and death because of this, keeping my mental health in check has been a top priority for me and I've been doing this with BetterHelp this next segment is a paid partnership by BetterHelp if you don't already know BetterHelp is the world's largest therapy service and it's 100% online and their mission is to make therapy accessible with BetterHelp, you can tap into a network of credentialed and experienced therapists who can help you with a wide range of issues to get started, you answer a few questions about your needs and preferences in therapy so that BetterHelp can match you with a therapist that's right for you and then you can talk to your therapist however it is that you feel comfortable whether that's by a video call like this audio call, text or chat you can message your therapist at any time and schedule in live sessions when it's convenient for you and if your therapist isn't a right fit for any reason you can switch to a new one at no additional cost with BetterHelp you get the same professionalism and quality that you would expect from in-person therapy but with a therapist who's custom picked for you and with more scheduling flexibility personally, doing therapy has completely changed my life it's taught me how to approach life more slowly and how to better deal with the emotional stressors that came along with my time as a medical student and now in my working life as a doctor I honestly couldn't recommend it more and talking to someone is one of the best things that you can do for yourself if you're interested, click the link in the description down below BetterHelp.com slash KarmaMedic to get 10% off your first month and help support the channel So forever being a student I think this is a really important one at least for me personally no matter how much studying you do in medical school and no matter how much content you cover and how wide of a breadth of knowledge you think you have there's always more to learn Medicine is just so, so, so, so vast and so broad that no one person can know everything and this makes perfect sense that's why we have different specialties of medicine if you're a cardiologist you're not going to deal with a rheumatological issue you'll call the rheumatological doctor and ask them for their advice or ask them to help manage that patient and for me personally, on a daily basis I might ask anywhere between three and five questions to my seniors or to my colleagues around me about some of the patients that we're seeing some of the pathology that we're seeing the disease, treatments, tests, et cetera you know, there's an infinite amount of questions to ask honestly and this feeling that on an almost daily basis I'm learning something new there's always something that I could learn more about that I could ask more about is fantastic there are just so many things that I genuinely don't know and going through that process of asking about them, receiving the information trying to understand it then maybe reading up about it later on in your own time and synthesizing it all together it gives you a real sense of accomplishment we'll be on the ward and one of the registrars will say ah yes, this is obviously a case of uremic bleeding I'll turn to them and say, you know, hey what's uremic bleeding? I've never heard that word before and they'll explain to me oh, you know, when you have poor kidney function you get a rising urea and this can lead to, I forget what it was maybe a dysfunction in your platelets and so that can make you more likely to bleed I'll be like, ah cool I learned something new and then next time I see a patient who is bleeding and has poor kidney function I can think about, hmm is this patient maybe having uremic bleeding and being in this kind of environment where I'm constantly asking questions I'm constantly learning something new and, you know, I'm constantly being challenged that's the key actually now that I say it out loud it's the feeling of being challenged just not being complacent not feeling like I've learned everything there is to learn in this job and there's nothing left for me to do I'm just gonna do the same thing that I've been doing for the last week over and over and over again no, medicine is not like that at all each patient that you see each time you go do something it's almost always new there's always at least some element of it that is new that you haven't seen before that you haven't dealt with or maybe that you have seen once or twice before but you're not confident with so this is a great opportunity for you to build that confidence just being in this environment where you're constantly challenged and constantly being forced to learn and doing new things and learning new things is incredible I can't imagine anything worse than sitting down to do an office job where you do relatively repetitive tasks or similar tasks based on an existing knowledge base that you have which you know is finite or is complete I'd love this idea that there's so many things that I'm yet to know that I still don't know and I get to learn as the weeks and the months go by I know for a fact that I'm never gonna know everything that there is to know in medicine and like I said before you know that's why we have different specialties I'm completely fine with this and I love this part of the job that you have to ask other people for advice you have to get other people's opinions and we can all think together to solve one common problem it's absolutely fine with me I'm very much looking forward to being one of those people that someone comes to me to seek advice when I have that really great knowledge base that I can help offer advice to my juniors and to other specialties as well So let's talk about some of the variety that I see in my job as a doctor Yes, it's true that common things are common and a large number of patients will present with a relatively small number of symptoms you know things like chest pain, unexplained pain fracture of a bone, whatever it is but my God, do I see a whole lot of interesting amazing and unique cases presentations, pathologies and diseases each patient you meet is unique and they'll have their own life story and their own set of circumstances that led them to come to this position their own set of social issues that they have at home their own list of medications you know their own blood pressure numbers and heart rate numbers and so each person that you see you really have to think about in a slightly different way of course there's an overall flow chart a set of rules and instructions that we have for ourselves as doctors on how to treat and manage different things but you know each person's list of medication is different and those medications will interact differently with each other and affect this person's disease in a different way so you really have to be on your toes at all times each patient will have a different set of allergies you know you want to prescribe some antibiotics well better check their allergies first I think on a daily basis if we see 20 patients there will probably be somewhere like 12 to 15 unique problems and right now I'm on a renal medicine ward and so most patients have a problem with their kidneys but there's so many different reasons you can have a problem with your kidneys and a lot of them will be treated differently managed differently they'll be on different medications require different set of tests etc so there's so much variety to be found even within one specialty or one ward in one hospital I often look back to my conditions list that I built on Notion when I was in medical school which has pretty much every single condition or disease that a patient could present with and some relevant information about it in there throughout my 11 months as a doctor I've seen so many of these conditions and diseases obviously not all of them but to think that I've seen so many and I'm only 11 months in you know I have so many years ahead of me to go where hopefully I'll be able to see a lot more is amazing and this is a big part of what keeps the job exciting for me you know and every patient I go see is different and will have a different problem when a patient comes into ED and you say hey my name is Nasser I'm one of the doctors here in the emergency department what's brought you in today anything could come out of their mouth they could say anything about what their problem is what their condition is what their past medical history is what medications they're saying I mean there's an unlimited number of options that this person is going to tell you and then you need to ask questions to try and figure out what is going on and work through the details and work with them to understand what's been happening and build a timeline of their symptoms I mean it's so much fun this job is amazing I love being a doctor I am enjoying the job so so much and I just can't wait to keep doing it and keep getting better at it and keep growing as a doctor growing my competency my ability to do procedures and surgery it's just amazing that I'm at the very beginning of this path and there's so much possible progression for me to go into and so much for me to learn I honestly can't wait as someone who gets bored very fast and is always looking for a change of pace a change of scenery a change of activity I think this job suits me perfectly So I've called this section Hi, my name is Nasser because of the absurd amount of times that I introduce myself on a daily basis in my job working as a doctor whether that's the patients themselves or other healthcare staff on the ward or to all of the doctors that I call from different specialties around the hospital I think honestly maybe 10 to 15 times in my day I'll say, hi, my name is Nasser I'm one of the doctors working in Reno blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah So, you know I feel like you introduce yourself and you meet so, so, so many people I honestly think that working as a doctor is maybe one of the more social jobs that you can have Every day I work with a large group of people and that includes something like seven or eight other doctors I don't know, maybe five or six nurses on the ward two to three physiotherapists one or two healthcare assistants and those are only the people who are directly on my ward and then of course, all of the different patients that I meet, which is probably like 20 patients or so in a day This is just a tremendous number of people to be talking to every single day and personally, I really enjoy this aspect of the job I love seeing people which I maybe haven't worked with for a couple of days or they've been on annual leave for a week and then suddenly they come back we have a little bit to catch up on and talk about or even when you're meeting patients for the first time you're introducing yourself building a little bit of rapport throughout your examination and your history taking there's just such a strong social aspect to this job and as someone who considers themselves a social person and an extrovert-ish, I guess I really, really enjoy this part of the job not only does it make the job more fun for me but it also really makes me feel like I'm part of a bigger team we're all working together for this one collective goal of treating patients and making them better after we're done with the ward round when we come back to sit in the office in the afternoon and start working through all the jobs we all have a little meeting about how we want to divide the jobs and who's going to do what and you know, we're constantly updating each other on what gets done what new things have come in which patient is unwell that we need to go see and it's just there's a lot of talking a lot of socializing and it makes the job so much more fun for me in fact, when I'm working on call out of hours so between the hours of 5 to 8 p.m. or on weekends from 8 o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock at night or when I'm working night shifts from 8 o'clock at night until 9 o'clock in the morning this is when I find the job the least fun because I'm practically all by myself with no one to talk to no one to socialize with and I just find it so much more boring the hardest part of the job when I'm working out of hours is dealing with the loneliness that comes along with it you know, when you've got a long list of jobs to do you've got a lot of work to do and you're doing it as a team you're doing it together you're having these little chats in between what you're doing it just makes for a much more fun work environment but when you're alone for a 12 or 13 hour shift just taking care of sick people doing all of this grueling work without anyone to kind of you know, let off some steam with and talk to I find it very very difficult one thing I want to comment on here is that so many people when you call them like other doctors and other specialties that you need advice from so many people pick up the phone and they say hi, cardiology or renal or resp you know, they just pick up the phone and they're like, what do you want? what do you need? and I get it, like sometimes people are stressed sometimes people are really overworked but I find that, you know you're communicating with another doctor you're communicating with another healthcare professional in the hospital I feel like the least we can do is say hi, hello on the phone I make such a significant effort every time I pick up the phone I say, hi, my name is Nasser I'm one of the doctors working in renal blah blah blah blah blah blah and even in my first two jobs in geriatrics and vascular surgery every time I picked up the phone I would ask the person on the other end how are you doing today? every single time without fail say, hi, my name is Desk, blah blah blah how are you today? it was amazing how many people were just extremely shocked by that question it's almost like they wouldn't know what to say on the other end of the phone they were like, I'm good thank you for asking how are you? you know and then we'd move on to talk about the actual medical thing that we needed to discuss but I find that having these calls and being just pleasant and nice on the phone honestly makes my day better and I hope it makes the other person's day better so much nicer than just doing business on the phone you know, pick up, hey, I have a patient he's 50 years old, he's blah blah blah blah like, let's say hello at least before we get into it, you know I'll never forget in my second rotation I picked up the phone I was calling another specialty and I said, hi, my name is Nasser I'm one of the doctors on vascular surgery how's it going? and they responded with do you want me to say something that'll make you feel better or do you want me to tell you the truth? I remember being so taken aback when I heard that because I was thinking to myself all I did was say, how are you? why are you being so sassy with me? I get it that they were probably having a rough day probably having a difficult time but if anything, I would imagine that me saying, how are you today would be a nice opportunity to get a break from whatever it is they were going through yeah, I find sometimes on the phone there's a decent number of people who are not very pleasant to deal with but anyways, maybe I'm the outlier and I just wanna be all nice and happy on the phone but that's just me and then of course you do a lot of talking with patients themselves you know, you ask them, how are you feeling today? how has the medication helped you? is your pain well controlled? and do you have any new symptoms that you wanna tell me about, et cetera and just having those conversations where you sit down, where you listen to them they explain their concerns they explain their worries and then you can provide information that will hopefully make them feel better or update them about whatever's going on with their care these conversations and interactions just feel so great to have to be the person who delivers great news to be the person to tell them hey, this is what we're doing for your infection we've prescribed you these anti-products we're running these tests and when they come back we'll be able to do this, this or that I find it very, very fulfilling I know there's a lot of medical students and a lot of doctors who don't really like the social aspect of the job and they wanna go into radiology and pathology because they don't need to see patients they don't need to talk to other people, et cetera but on your way to that specialization just know that there's a lot of socializing still to be done all right, and that's it for this video thank you so much for watching and I hope this gives you a little bit of insight into what the more positive aspects of being a doctor are at least what the aspects of the job are that I personally enjoy and I find very interesting like I said at the beginning of this video I will be making a sister video to this one about the parts of the job as a doctor that I don't like so much the more negative aspects of being a doctor which I think are also equally important to talk about and equally important for people watching to know whether you're aspiring to be a doctor you're in medical school or you're just a non-healthcare person out in the world and in society who's interested in what this job is like thanks so much for watching hope you have a good day and I'll see you in the next one peace


Just here in my living room in Hollywood about 10, 15 at night and I'm wearing these orange lensed blue light blocking glasses because I'm about to have one of the best night's sleep that I'll ever have. Why? Because these glasses block that artificial light from overhead kitchen lights from your cell phones like this, from your iPads, like this, from a computer screen like this. Too much light at night makes it harder for you to fall asleep and too much light at night means you toss and turn during the night and too much light at night means you wake up feeling tired and lethargic. So they did this study at Harvard, Harvard University, and they found that people who used electronics before going to bed took longer to fall asleep. They had less deep REM sleep. That's the really deep restorative sleep. It took them longer to wake up the following morning and they reported feeling sleepier and lethargic when they finally did wake up. Now, why is this?  So when your brain thinks it's daytime, it's not preparing itself for sleep. It's not creating melatonin, which of course helps you sleep at night. They did this other study. There was a study by the psychologist and sleep researcher Amy Wolfson and she discovered that school children, their grades were suffering as a result of being exposed to this blue light at night. She did this study that showed that students who got poor grades were found to have slept on average 25 minutes less and went to bed 40 minutes later than those who got A's and B's. So if your children are playing video games or they're on their cell phones or their iPads or they're watching TV at night, it may be affecting their clarity, their focus and their ability to get good grades at school the following day. So you might be asking, who am I anyway? Well, my name is James Swanik. You may have seen me on TV before. I was a former sports center anchor on ESPN on the host of the James Swanik show podcast, which is one of the top ranking health podcasts in iTunes. I interview health experts around the world, New York Times, bestselling authors and about a year and a half ago, my sleep was really quite average. I mean, yeah, I was sleeping seven or eight hours, but I found it really hard to get to sleep and I was tossing and turning. And when I woke up in the morning, I wasn't feeling energized. I was kind of like, I was actually carrying a few extra pounds as well. And I didn't really realize that it was the blue light. It was too much light that I was being exposed to. When I finally discovered this, I bought this really ugly pair of orange lens safety goggles. You know, there's safety goggles that workman wear when they're trying to protect their eyes from flying stones and rocks. And so I put these glasses on about two hours before I went to sleep. And you know what? My sleep improved dramatically. It was amazing. It blocked the blue light and started to fall asleep. The problem was is that I looked terribly ugly wearing them because these glasses are horrendous to look at.  What are those ugly things? Take them off right away. And so I had this idea. It's like, how can I protect my eyes from the light, but do it in a way where people are like, hey, they're cool glasses. What are they? So then I spent about six months trying to find a really cool frame. I put the orange lenses in these stylish frames. And now I go out and people go, hey, I like your glasses. Tell me about those. So I get the benefit of blocking the blue light, which means I'm sleeping better. And people are also saying, hey, you look kind of cool. Check out this. I actually launched these in November 2015 and I sold out within 21 days. I mean, demand from all over the world just went crazy. Here are some of the people who took photos of them wearing their glasses and posted them all around the world. These are actually called swannies. OK, my last name is Swannig. So I called them swannies, the little nickname. And since I've been wearing these, my sleep is better. I've got more energy in the morning. My sleep is just, you know, amazing. I don't toss and turn. Everything's great. And a whole lot of health experts around the world have really caught on to the swannies as well now. Max Lugavere, you may have seen him on the Doctor of the Show or the TV show, The Doctors says that they're the coolest glasses out there. Sean Stevenson, the author of Sleep Smarter, big sleep expert, big time sleep expert in the world says these are the coolest things. You've got to wear these. And Tai Lopez, multi-millionaire who has dozens of successful million dollar businesses, says they must grab a pair of these if you want absolute clarity and focus. 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Canada is a weird country. Most big cities have rail systems, but every single one, almost, is very different from one another. Vancouver has small automated subway trains with linear motor tech. Calgary and Edmonton have high-floor trams in a suburban, dedicated railway right-of-way. Montreal has a rubber-tired French style metro, Toronto has an American style subway, and Ottawa has trams in a subway. Every city did something different, with wildly different specifications, from the design of the trains to the designs of the lines themselves. And this isn't all that uncommon. From the UK to the US, different cities have built different rapid transit systems, with different designs and specifications. But in China, the approach to what transit do we build is very, very different. And it's why China has built more metro in the last 20 years than the rest of the world's combined. So let's look at how they did it. Welcome to RM Transit, a channel where we talk about subways in China and standardization. In the last two years, while North American cities have been arguing about the benefits of streetcars versus subways, Chinese cities have been building. In the last 20 years, China has built over 6,000 kilometers of new subway lines. To put that into perspective, that's the equivalent of building the quite large Berlin-Uban system nearly 40 times over, or the New York subway over 4 times. There are now more than 25 cities in China with subway systems, ranging from big to small for China. And getting that much built quickly, as well as on a fairly tight budget, has meant doing some things differently from the rest of the world. This is what the metro in Chengdu looked like in 2013, and this is what it looks like today 10 years later. And so instead of doing what the Canada's of the world do, China decided that in the entire country there shall be five different types of train. And in order to do this, the transportation industry in China, from universities to rolling stock, train makers, to metro systems themselves, all came together to develop standards for every rapid transit system in the country, from using standard gauge on all lines to standardizing the grades and top speeds of different systems, as well as standardizing the electrical voltages, third rail or overhead line, as well as standardizing things like environmental impacts, what the limits for sound generated by trains would be from different distances at different speeds. This successfully led to a nationwide standardization of subway trains, as well as infrastructure, largely derived from the excellent Hong Kong MTR system. There is literally a published manual with standards for the entire nation. If you go to Wikipedia and start looking at different Chinese subway lines, you'll notice something. The rolling stock or subway trains are virtually always denoted the same way. They're probably made by CRRC, the national rolling stock builder in China, but then they're usually referred to as either Type A or Type B or some other type, as well as a number of cars. For example, Chengdu Line 7, Chengdu's loop line has six car Type A trains. In Guangzhou, Line 11, which is also a loop, uses eight car Type A trains. Both use exactly the same scheme for electrification, overhead line 1500 volts DC. Even in Toronto, the street cars and the LRT routes which use very similar vehicles don't use the same electrical voltages, and that means different electrical equipment needed at traction power substations and on the vehicles. Now, the meaning of Type A in China is actually pretty simple. It means a subway car, an individual one, is 22 meters long, roughly by three meters wide, roughly, with five doors per side. As you can see, this is very much the standard that you would see in Hong Kong where virtually every service uses the same type of train design with five doors per side per car, which is really unusual outside of Hong Kong and the rest of China. So in this case, Chengdu's Line 7 puts together six of these cars whereas Guangzhou's Line 11 puts together and there doesn't need to be bickering about what capacity is right when planning the line. These standards actually say how much capacity each different train type delivers. If you need between 45,000 and 70,000 people per direction per hour to be moved by your subway system, you go across the column to the capacity level and you see Type A and then you choose within that range depending on the number of cars in your train. It makes everything much simpler than in the rest of the world where these kinds of decisions can literally take months if not years and a faster project is also a less expensive one. Of course, Type A is at the top of the capacity spectrum and there are a number of other types with different capacity ranges and features. There are two other types known as B and C which denote different capacities of subway trains. Type B is derived from Beijing subway which historically was designed with lower capacity trains than say Hong Kong or Shanghai. There is also the Type D which is designed for the kind of modern suburban lines that we're seeing pop up in China as well as higher speed metro services as well as Type L which refers to linear induction motor trains. Surprising that they gave them their own entire category but these are trains similar to the Toei-Awaito line in Tokyo or the Vancouver Sky train. Now to be fair, these standards aren't quite so simple. There are variants of each standard as needed. So for example, Chengdu Line 18, one of those aforementioned express metro lines actually uses a high speed variant of the Type A car and Hili Chongqing uses a variant of the Type A car that's better at climbing steep grades. There are of course various lines that don't fit the standard like say the TransLore lines that exist in a few places. But for the most part, new lines built in China fit the standards that are nationally decided and that simplifies the entire manufacturing, logistics, planning, engineering and design process for new rapid transit. To be perfectly fair, other countries have certainly made attempts at standardization nationwide from the US to Germany and many more but no country has achieved it at the same level as China. Now when we talk about reducing the cost of big infrastructure projects, a big element of that is to keep building. If you keep building, your engineers and planners gain expertise with each project and get better and better and can deliver projects for lower and lower cost. But it can be really hard to keep building even in a single large city. The beauty of China's system is that since lines are nationally engineered and planned, these same engineers can constantly be gaining more and more expertise. In China, a set of rolling stock engineers who just did a project in Hangzhou can then go to Qingdao and build a very similar project with similar specifications. The same dude who made cab drawings for Guangzhou one week might be doing them for Shanghai the next. And once your technologies and planning methods are super standardized, you can start rolling out new technologies incredibly fast. Cities like Vancouver might have got automated trains first, but no one is building as many of them now as China. A good example of this is that the Singapore MRT or Sydney Metro feel rather novel still as high capacity automated metros. But what I bet you didn't realize is that Shanghai alone has a whole handful of different automated high capacity metro lines. Line 18, anyone? The standardization of train design and door spacing is also why Chinese systems basically always have screen doors. It's the exact same design process from one station to the next. It's actually more of an oddity to see a Chinese metro station without screen doors than with. And when the capacity, frequency and size of trains are standardized as well as the screen door design, well the entire station can basically be standardized. Since a lot of the variability from one underground box to the next is just how many escalators, elevators and stairwells you need to build dependent on capacity, which you can determine using the national standard. Bigger trains mean more platform screen doors, more stairs, more escalators. It's comparatively simple. And this is a big part of why China can build a high capacity metro line for similar prices to other countries building tram lines. It also means that subway stations that are sometimes as much as a thousand kilometers apart look basically indistinguishable. It's kind of part of why I haven't made a ton of transit explain videos on China. It's not because the systems aren't good, they're just all quite similar. Though I will do more transit explain videos on China, so if you're interested in that, go down below, subscribe, and hit the bell icon so you don't miss any future videos. Standardization also means that the size and weight of trains are standardized, and so precast concrete segments used for overhead guideways but also for tunnels can be standardized and manufactured at scale, a scale even larger than seen on projects in other countries. The individual segments can even be basically the same from one city to the next because the gradients and curves are also going to be standardized. Altogether this means a different model of thinking about transit. One that through focusing a lot on vehicles and developing a standard means that planners no longer really need to think about the vehicles very much. It's a simple process deciding between one train and another, and once planners have done that they can focus on more important things like the places that people actually are rather than the tunnels they're passing through. Transit becomes a lot simpler, it's about moving people, a means to an end, a black box even, and that's something that we could all learn a lot from. Thanks for watching.


Having a good distributor by your side is one of those things musicians often overlook. In fact, it seems most musicians I talk to just go with whoever their friend says or the first one they hear about and then are shocked when they are charging you annual fees while taking a huge cut of your royalties while doing very basic services. This is why I want to tell you about one distributor I recently came across called Verse 1 Distribution, which I think has a lot of helpful features for musicians like playlist pitching, extensive analytics, social media tracking, and a ton more. They have a feature set that is unique to the field of distributors that I think my audience should know about. And as you all know, I don't take money from services unless I think they provide value to my audience. So I'm excited to tell you about them today as they're the sponsor of this video. So Verse 1 Distribution is a music distribution company that helps independent artists and labels to distribute their music to major digital music stores and streaming platforms. Now, you may or may not know this, but in the digital age, there's consistently been two tiers of distribution. What is the distributors who are open to take on anyone? Alucard distributors, who you pay a fee to and they offer you delivery to the various streaming services, but not much else. And then there's services who are more selective of who they take in, who offer more extensive services like playlist pitching, marketing, and help with advertising, or a handful of other services. Verse 1 falls into the latter category, but what makes them different than others on this distribution tier is Quick Customer Service and Verse 1 facilitates collaboration between artists on the platform. So in order to work with them and get those advanced features, you do need to apply to them. And if you're accepted, you can utilize an advanced set of features that can help grow your music through various different marketing channels and features. Most notably, though, of those features that I know you all really want, in addition to the distribution services, is Verse 1 can also offer promotion services to help artists gain exposure and build their fanbase. I know the one you will all be most excited about is playlist pitching, since the service pitches your music to editorial curators that manage organic playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services. But they also have music video promotion, where your video is professionally submitted to via com media networks like, you know, MTV, MTVU, and MTVLive, etc. The BET Networks family, which include BET, BETCospal, BETJams, BETSoul, as well as Fuse, Revolt, and Music Choice, as well as Canadian TV channels like MTVCanada, Music Plus, Much Music, CMTCanada, or Latin American Networks, UK and Ireland television broadcast networks, like Clubland TV, Karang, Planet Pop, Kiss TV, Stars, Capital TV, which if you get on these can obviously do a lot to expand your audience. And since I just read a solid study from Medea, which is likely the only good music data company, they said TV is nearly 1.5 times bigger for music discovery than even TikTok. So I know a lot of you are in on TikTok, you know, perhaps from me talking about it in tons of videos you've seen of mine. But truly, this is a big deal. Your video is also pitched for placement at major music blogs of influence and large online video distributors that will get your video seen across a wide variety of online platforms. And if that weren't enough, they also do radio promotions. Their approach to radio promotion is tailored to suit each artist carefully, planning each campaign to deliver results. With 30 years of combined industry experience, they reach out to a network of influencers and professional taste makers to help get placements on some of the biggest radio stations in the world for whatever your genre. Research shows that radio air place proven to drive streaming numbers. And I've seen it myself. And I even get some really interesting statistics from them, like Pop and Rock represented 75% of all radio spins worldwide. Pop alone had 42% and Electronic took third place. On Spotify, Hip Hop amassed 38% of the top 100 streams followed by Pop 27% and Latin 18%. And with their analytics, you can see radio airplay globally and figure out which markets you should tour or market in. And as I've told you all many times, so many artists overlook radio promotion these days. And so many artists I consult with use this exploit to get airplay. And honestly, it really does a lot to break artists today. Even though so many think of it as a thing of the past, platforms like SiriusXM still break so many artists and move huge numbers. With first one, your music gets uploaded to over 280 platforms, including the most crucial ones like Spotify, TikTok, Apple Music, YouTube, Tencent, and well, we'd be here all day if I named them all. But you can see some highlights in this list below. They allow artists and labels to upload their music and album artwork, set release dates, and choose from various distribution options, including single track distribution, album distribution, and pre-order setup for Apple, Spotify and Amazon, which is really nice since many distributors lack that feature all while keeping your copyrights. The platform also offers royalty collection services, which means that artists can be sure that they are receiving all the money they are owed from their streams and downloads. One of the key benefits of using verse one distribution is that they distribute music to over 190 countries, including China and India, so you could reach 3 billion people, AKA 10 times America's population, or 40% of the world's population. This means that independent artists can have their music available to listeners all over the world without having to navigate the complexities of international music distribution. They have all that along with 48 hour delivery to platforms, ISRC and UPC codes. But I know the feature that many of you really want, which is social media verification, because you think having that blue check mark will really impress that e-girl you post thirsty comments on the profile of all day to no response, but maybe finally she'll notice you when you have that shiny check mark and it blinds her eyes with cloud. Well, verse one can help you get it on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Triller. Just please, after you get this, don't go thinking you're too cool for your friends because you never know when these things will start to be sold to any fool like on Twitter. So you may have seen other distributors and services charge you tons of money to collect publishing and optimize it around your songs, but included in verse one services is enhanced publishing collection. Verse one provides digital music publishing administration services, which allows you to earn additional royalties when your music is played publicly or if it's used in movie or ad sinks, non interactive or satellite radio like SiriusXM live and non live venues and other retailers. Most musicians only make money from ticket sales when they tour. However, if your music is being distributed and performed worldwide and you don't have a publishing deal, your royalties are sitting in collection societies around the world waiting to be claimed. This also includes YouTube content ID, which can help get you paid for videos people make with your content. All of this can help ensure you leave no dollars that are rightfully yours, uncollected, since this is one of those areas where so many times artists don't get all they are entitled to, which is a real shame in the age of musicians being ripped off left and right. Now you're probably wondering what's the catch?  They charge a 15% commission, which is standard for this level of distribution. And there's no yearly or reoccurring fees, which is really crazy considering how many distributors with none of those extra features will charge you annual fees and still take 10 to 15%. I have good news. There's even more features to tell you about. Verse one integrates Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media data to artists' music distribution profile to make it easier for artists to track and compare social media growth trends with their music career growth. As a key performance indicator, AKA KPI for us nerds, an artist's trending number of followers can be examined. If artists set goals for increasing their numbers of followers and track their success over time, they may see if their strategy is working well or if it needs to be adjusted. But that's not all. Verse one also has detailed analytics of reporting to help artists track their streams and revenue, including socials, charts, playlists and airplay data in a single dashboard. And they have growth analytics categories by country and platform, as well as global radio airplay monitoring, real-time data from millions of playlists and over 8,000 charts, which are an in-depth view on specific songs and countries. And look at this data. It looks really good and is easy to read. And speaking of those charts, they show the most popular songs and albums and are based on how many people buy, stream or play them on radio, which allows artists to track data across different countries on the user dashboard, as well as allowing users to track chart entry and position changes across the globe. And I know you all want smart links to share to your fans from your distributor that shows where fans can listen on each platform. So verse one distribution, auto-generates smart links for each release as they're delivered to stores. Smart links include links to artists new releases on various streaming platforms. But there's even more. One of the things missing from some of the competition is easy features to appeal to the audio files out there. And I know so many of you care about appealing to discerning listeners with nice systems. Verse one has Dolby audio processing via the Dolby encoding engine and Dolby's media generator audio engine which reduces download times and boosts playback quality. Right now, Dolby Atmos audio can be delivered to Apple Music Title and Amazon Music. And let's be honest, every nerd with way too much money to spend on a hi-fi these days will annoy you to have this if they're rinsing your song. Aren't you lucky? They also have Apple Pro Res encoding for Apple's standard format. But for those of you who are looking to go global, verse one also has extensive marketing opportunities for Asian markets, which was one of the biggest markets in the world and what I know many of you are really interested in. If you are, they have two plans, basic and advanced. And as you may have guessed, basic as well, basic, which includes distribution to their streaming services in Asia like Apple Music China as well as 10 cent music entertainment as well as all these other services that you see listed on the screen right now that I don't quite know how to pronounce. But if you want even more, their advanced tier offers, playlist pitching, radio plugging, lyrics translation, music video subtitling, cultural localization, digital distribution of both audio and video, publishing administration, as well as royalty collection and more. And now that you know this, there's a video on the screen now that tells you the best way to release music right now in order to get as many streams as possible when you have a great distributor and you should really watch that to make sure you get your next song to blow up as much as possible. So click it now. Thanks for watching.