Hey everyone, I hope you're well.  The reason that I decided to film this video is because sometimes I find myself fancying like a sweet treat or even like a savory treat but I don't necessarily want to go down an unhealthy route. I've managed to find some alternatives to having bad snacks but sometimes I don't necessarily want to have like fruit and just be all healthy and zen and whatever. So I've had a couple of, I've tried one of these things but no I've tried two of these things before but doesn't matter I'm going to do a brand new taste test and review and rank these snacks for you guys from top to bottom.  So subscribe that didn't really set it well did it. Okay it doesn't matter. So we're going to go through what we have in front of us, sorry my foot is up, I'm just getting relaxed with you guys as I word in reality when I'm having a snack.  Okay I think the highest calorie item we have here is the popcorn.  So if you're having four of these Oreo things, this is the coconut flavor because we've all tried the standard Oreos so I wanted to try something different, then you are hitting 118 calories, not bad right, like if you just want something that is naughty but it doesn't break your healthy lifestyle then it's quite cool and then we've got these go-ahead bras, each slice has 71 cals, we have smooth caramel snack-a-jack rice cake, each rice cake 51 cals, these have become my holy grail recently, they are snack-a-jacks rice cakes, chocolate chip rice cakes and they are 62 calories per rice cake. I don't really focus on calories in like everyday life but I guess when it comes to having something naughty, why do I call it naughty, like it just sounds so weird. When it comes to having something that's like a treat but I don't want it to necessarily break my healthy lifestyle then I'll look at like the calories and stuff on it. So yeah these aren't necessarily the healthiest but they're also not the worst for you, it's what I'm trying to get at because I don't want those people hooding me up in the comments like this isn't healthy, I know it's not healthy, the whole point is it's going to be a snack or a treat but it's just not going to make you feel guilty like oh my god I've completely ruined my health kick and my healthy buzz because that's what happens to me when I like go off and have a chocolate bar or something like that. So what do I feel like starting with, I feel like you're starting with something savory so I'm going to rank each item that I eat out of 10 and like maybe compare them to something that you could eat. So I'm going to start up with pop chips, sea salt and vinegar, this is 94 calories per bag and I should say I got all these items from Tesco so you can get all of these from your local Tesco, yep really good. So usually with like low calorie crisps or whatever they have no none of the flavoring on there so we're literally just eating dry potato but this one you can actually taste the salt and vinegar seasoning on there and it's got a nice poppy nest to it, it's not really like bland. Well I was saying this review let me have another one. These receive a solid 7 out of 10 in the crisp ranking for me and for the local snack ranking it would get a solid 8 out of 10. Obviously the main difference being that it is not as sexy as the typical Walker's salt and vinegar crisps but still for the localness of it and the fulfillingness of it definitely scores well. Next I got from the same brand pop chips barbeque, popped not fried and this is 97 calories. This has even better flavoring than the salt and vinegar flavor like the seasoning is strong like it's proper barbeque. This is like just as good as a normal barbeque crisp I love this. This one felt lighter and fluffier than the salt and vinegar flavor and I liked it way more than salt and vinegar flavor. Global rating 9 out of 10. I would buy these again for sure.  Yeah it's just a box down of popcorn. I mean it's not the strongest flavoring it's hardly butterkissed toffee popcorn but I can still taste that. It's more sweet than salty which I'm happy about. Oh no just got some salty too.  It's only 135 calories. On a popcorn global score rating where view cinemas popcorn scores a solid three out of ten because it actually tastes gross and butter this toffee popcorn is a solid 10 out of 10 because it's so good. This would go like at a six or a seven in the popcorn world. In terms of healthy snacks I give it like a good seven and a half because I feel like if I'm sitting down watching a movie this will hit the spot in terms of being like a naughty snack to watch on brown tv. Why do I keep calling all of these naughty? I don't know okay. It's also got good flavoring it's not the strongest of flavors like as in it's it's got my good flavoring it's one like I'm like oh my god it tastes just popcorn. I mean it's better than the view cinema one so take this as cinema. What do I feel like? Okay we're gonna go with the brownies. It's five of one's brownies these are 90 calories per brownie. How is that even legal guys? 90 calories brownies. This is what it looks like okay I can't lie when you open the box this is actually how big the brownie is. So like half that packaging is a lie. Let's take this out. To those of you who've read the name of my channel I am Persian Bunny which means that I have an Iranian mom so if I don't put this plate under me right now for my mom which is this. This is the brownie okay it's quite small and it's big but still I guess 90 cows what can you expect? I'm gonna expect some like hubba-dubba brownie and I've seen like ones that are this big with like 300 calories so let's try this out. Yeah it's super chocolatey okay I'm definitely not gonna end up leaving half of this is too good. It's soft it's gooey it's chocolatey I think this is a bit small so I'm gonna deduct your point. It gets a solid nine out of ten in the locale snacks world and I would say in the brownies world I would give it like a seven out of ten. I can't lie I hope that you guys all give this video a thumbs up so I can film those more videos on me eating and calling it something that I do for YouTube. Gulls, dreams and I've got some more space. Ooh let's head up the coconut thin Oreos. They have plain thin Oreos so like I said four big thins will get you 118 calories. The pack is full of loads of these I don't know wait it's full of 32 thins not that bad so this is each thin so I'm allowed four of these for 118 cows okay yeah this was good. One the coconut flavor feeling it really good would buy it again. Two the thinness takes away from the whole Oreo vibe like I love thick Oreos that's the whole point but in terms of like a chocolate biscuit and the thought that I can have four of these in the Oreo world where the original Oreo ranks at a solid 10 out of 10 and in the biscuit world where the Oreo ranks at a solid 10 out of 10 this would rank in seven out of 10. It's not the worst it's not the best. I would give this a seven out of ten in the healthy snacks world just because I feel like the brownie would be more filling than four of these. So I've got my spoon and they take a spoon out of each of these and to tell you which one I think is my favorite starting with strawberry this smells like a candle in a good way like I know candles don't smell edible actually you know what it smells like you know when you get a lip balm that you want to eat that's what it smells like. Mmm tastes good maybe because I've just had chocolate doesn't taste as sweet as it should have I probably should have thought that through better but it kind of tastes chemically as well I don't know tastes nice though it doesn't taste like strawberry like I said it tastes like you're eating yummy smelling lip balm next we've got the mango and the passion fruit I didn't think I was going to like this but this actually tastes so much like passion fruit this one has better flavoring recipe than the strawberry flavor this one's better than the strawberry one already next we've got blueberry and black currant kind of tastes nice kind of tastes like cough medicine I don't know they've had nothing else I'd pick this up but I wouldn't pick this flavor let's go to the bottom of the bottle then strawberry top is currently mango and passion fruit and last one to try from the jellies is raspberry this jelly is accidentally watery which is making me feel sick like the water's going everywhere the raspberry flavor is not bad I would say it's better than the strawberry right the wateriness of it is that she like making me feel sick look it's that she like medicine no I'm just making a mess so I'd rank that better in terms of flavor overall the jellies for 10 calories a pot I would say go for it like you know what's 10 calories gonna do like you breathe 10 calories in a minute probably breathe more than 10 calories in a minute so I would say it's a good locale option for a snack in terms of flavors the mango and passion fruit one was good and then the other ones were just a bit like variations of your medicines and the raspberry one was okay but it was watery I don't know what was wrong with that one I feel like I hope we're doing it poisoning in terms of the locale diet food world I would give this a solid five out of ten I wouldn't like necessarily pick this over any of the ones I've just eaten but if it was at home and I wanted something to have locale I wouldn't push this away either so it doesn't taste bad in terms of the jelly world these jellies rank really low go on it go to your own holiday and you'll see jelly with cream and ice cream and sprinkles and whatever they are like a sort of 10 out of 10 these would be like a zero so now we're left with the snack of jacks the go ahead bar and the naked bar I feel like I need to eat something salty because I just had so much sweet stuff I'm throwing it back in with the lollipops sorry for sigh tracking so next I'm going to go in with the go ahead bar oh yeah they had different flavors I picked up the forest fruit I usually get the strawberry when I get these I really like these I feel like nice to have with chai all of the chocolatey stuff I've tried they're nice to have with chai or you can just you know with these out me when I'm on a ward round or whatever and then I get really hungry after like three hours I'll literally just go on a break and have one of these so it's a good little break bar this is what it looks like there is like yogurt on the top and then the bottom of it is like a biscuit and then in between it is like dried fruit if any of you guys have watched my American candy video Persian girl tries American candy you will see me try pop tarts and this is like a better version of a pop tart to me maybe if I put this in a toaster if the top it doesn't melt off that'll taste quite good it's also nice if you want something sweet but you don't want it to be chocolatey I think this is a really good alternative because it's like a yogurt too fruity thing but it's not fruit as well so it's a nice different thing to have and it's only 71 calories a slice in the bars and breakfast bars world where you have like naked bars these bars cocoa pops and squares and whatever I would rank these quite high because they're quite unique and there's no really other bars out there that are like this I would give this like a nine out of ten in the bars world and in the local diet snack world um I would give this a solid nine out of ten as well very nice so now it's time for the naked bar I actually buy these quite often but I haven't bought them in ages they sold them at my university's su shop and my mum will sometimes buy them for me if I ask her to so basically I buy them myself it says on the back with a copper on the go or just in case in your bag which is true I feel like these are really small and convenient to have in your bag but I can't remember what it tastes like considering I've just had a lot of really chocolatey stuff I don't know if this is going to be on par I bought the flavor cocoa delight if you've never had a naked bar before the one thing to bear in mind about these is the texture is a bit like baby food left for a little bit to go like mushy so like when you bite into it it's like a marshy tougher than a marshmallow softer than a cake no I don't know it's basically like sticky chewy kind of flavor so I'm kind of the texture so if you don't like that texture don't go for these I don't mind that texture I'm cool with that texture we're getting along well um the only thing is is that it's not really chocolatey and more tastes like dates and it does say that the key ingredient in here is 48 dates 29 cashews 17 raisins and 6 cocoa and a hint of natural flavoring basically this ain't a cocoa delight bar like don't get tricked into making use of chocolate bar the cocoa is the six percent of cocoa powder they've added to a date bar so for a date bar it's okay it's quite nice for a chocolate bar it's a zero for a date bar it's a good like seven eight out ten for a low cow snack it's a good seven I wouldn't necessarily pick this over the brownie or pick this over the Oreo things but I would pick this last I'm going in with the snack of jack rice cakes rice cakes are always good healthy things to have like it's good for you if you get the plain ones and then you put like your breakfast on it instead of bread um I love rice cakes so much I've never tried this flavor before so I'm going to go in with it first it's the smooth caramel flavor and each rice cake has only 51 calories it's nice I don't know if I'm a caramel girl but it's nice I would I would eat to the end of the rice cake I would eat to the end of the packet would I buy another packet I don't know the rice cake world um I will give this caramel flavor a five out of ten I just don't love it I don't hate it either but I just got that like half of through in the locale snack world I'll give the caramel flavor four out of ten there was just other stuff here that I liked more next I'm going in with the cheeky chocolate chip flavor and considering I've had like three of these packets in the past like a month or four of these packets I know I'm gonna love this only danger with these with a locale snack like having this as a locale snack is that because you've got the whole packet and it's not put out in like portions for you you have to be careful that you don't keep on reaching for more and more in which case you might as well have had a chocolate bar obviously it looks the same as the other one just a bit more chocolatey and there's little chips like on there ish in the rice cake world this rice cake gets a solid 10 out of 10 for me in the locale snack world I'd give it a 9 out of 10 just because it's for me 10 is like something that's really better than like ice cream and all those snacks that I freaking love so yeah a 9 out of 10 is ranking really well so well done snack or jack chocolate chip you were awesome so that is the end of this video wow and the level of confidence I had to film this in a crop top while sitting down makes me lol um but you know wouldn't be me if I didn't um thank you guys so much for watching if you like this video then please give it a thumbs up leave me a comment I love reading them and thank you guys so much for subscribing to my channel oh wait I forgot to say please subscribe yeah please subscribe and thank you for 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Hi, everybody. Hello here is Kamele Boda from Wikidone in the group. And with me is Lorenza Conchino, from the Citizen Gender Community. So we are talking about gender gap this evening. So maybe you know that a lot of Wikimedia projects are talking about addressing the gender gap. And one of these is Wikidone. Wikidone is a group, it's a group of Wikimedians engaged in addressing the diversity in the Wikimedia movement. So we are working for any kind of gaps, such as gender gap, LGBT class communities, gaps in content, gaps in diverse abilities, generation, and so on. So, who is Wikimedia? No, so that we have a problem of article in the Wikimedian of Ability in Wikimedia when we are talking about women biographies. And we had an idea, so all the time that the article was deleted in Wikimedia, when can, where can we store this article? So the idea is to use some other Wikimedia projects which have not been the problem of enough ability because we know that enough ability is also really good to the lack of sources. So without sources, we cannot write articles about women. And our group started also at Wikimedia project in Wikimedia and Wikibox. It's also an affiliate of the Wikimedia movement and since 2016, and from the last year, we are also a leader entity. So what are we doing? We are usually organizing the edutons or contests or other events to include the content and participation. And we are starting the campaign to warn us about the gap. And we are trying to engage new editors and train them on editing the Wikimedia projects. So it's not only about the content, it's also about the participation. So we are inserting our, for us, important roles, our proposal. And if you want to join, you can sign your name on our session. It's about, it's a case study about this, gender gap and how we can improve the women biographies in Wikibook. So Wikibook in this case, it's a safe place for women biographies, which otherwise can't be... It's also a generator of ideas about the territory, which we can mobilize and mobilize people and even change something inside the society. So I can, I will start to show you some slides on what we did in the past and how everything that we started. Hello, you are with me, Luigi Catalani. Hello, hello. Hello, Luigi. Really, Luigi Catalani, which was the trainer of this session in Wikibook, he is the president of Vassili Catawakis. So Luigi, I'm saying something about Wikidona and now I'm preparing to show the slides about how everything starts and what was done in Wikibook. So now I will share the screen. Okay, please say if you are seeing, can you see? Yes. So let's start from the beginning. So this is the title of our session, women's biographies, the young Wikipedia, Wikibooks. And as I said, Wikidona, it's something that has free source with media projects in Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikibooks, Wikibooks, Wikibooks and the non-profit association. How everything is started. So everything started with an agitaton, Atom Fanning in Wikipedia agitaton in 2017. And this is some, these are two in English, taking during this agitaton where a great number of people participated, most of them were teachers. During this agitaton, we're written something like 10, 12 articles about the female biographies for Mukanya. And this is an example of three of them. And as you can see, some of them had some problems. So we have problems about lack of sources. We have problems about the article Orphan, we have some problems even about the deletion, one article was deleted. And one, the most, the discussions were about the community and about the local, notability of these biographies. So they were considered the local and not national notable biographies. So what was the idea? The idea was, however, to keep the biographies and to use Wikibooks because as you know, Wikibooks has not been able to create a criteria. So you can start writing Wikibooks without taking the, without thinking of the involved person. It's not about one. This is a way to protect, to have wind biographies from local territory. This is the poster of what was designed by Enid Valaraya, the program of this day. And this is the first page of what Wikibooks is. As you can see on the right, we have the sections and everything starts with the cover. This cover was designed by a student because on the right in this Wikibook it was involved high school in Copernica, trained by a student. So everything starts with the cover and then so many of the people so many sections about women writers. You can see we're looking something like 15 biographies, 15 male biographies, women writers from Lucania. And Carmela Ayelciadi is one of them. But this is a picture of women writers in the Wikibooks. Then it's a section about painters. Of course, in the community of women artists and here another rich section of women artists, Enid Valaraya, Dorealas and Salam, when you touch a content here and so on. This is one of the pages where you can see the biographies. Some of them are photos, some of them are only texts. Musicians and women singers and here we have the biographies of Ana Bonita, Giovana D'Amato and Ciema Di Gamelchi. Women in Sport. Here is another beauty section about Marisa Lavagna and Mariana Pocaccio. Another section about women in the institution here is Amina Sapo Longo, Ana Maria Di Gielo, Amina Maria Sapo, here is the page. We have also a picture of the biographies. Women architects. This is a section which is born this year in the Mesa Gloria. It's one of the architects and something new here. This is a female chef. Giovana Pocaccio, Ciema D'Amato, Ana D'Amato, these are biographies that need to be introduced. This is only the big leader and here is Ciema D'Amato. Another thing that was done, I think it's very important because it enriches the biographies, the section about interviews. So this section was done by the multimedia of Giorgio Di Giorgio Ramuato with Giovana D'Amato, and I want to show you some of them, Giovana D'Amato is a musician, which says that the situation is for opportunity even in the context that there are a little less well-off of patterns with that power. And I want to show you this this interview and some more. So this is an example of an interview. We have also the interview of Elisa Laraya, which is an artist, and Verdi Moppo, who is publicly done for community, is with the community. I think we don't have time to see every interview. And then Madela Pocaccio, which is saying that it's not a big flat to be a championship, but who, however, always managed to do the best on every occasion. And here's another interview. So, thank you so much. These interviews were something that really related to what was done since now. We are uploading this article because there are no more completely normal interviews as a pilot. And here is the discussion we had between us, with Daniela and Lorenzo about everything and what included this project on the territory. Camelia, can you hear me? I don't hear. I don't hear you. There is probably the audio of the video. Yes, hello. Sorry for my inconvenience. This is Yukidone A. Yukimania 2000. Welcome. Good morning. Welcome to this appointment with, let's say, the speakers of Yukidone A. Yukimania 2021. The presentation is called Women's Bibliography Beyond Wikipedia, Wikibooks. Together with me is Lorenzo Colicigno, Daniela Descicciolo, Luigi Catalani, who is going to introduce himself a little more deeply and talk about this experience of women's profiles in Wikibooks. Please, Lorenzo. Good morning, first of all. It is important, in my opinion, to outline the path of the Wikibook women's profiles. This, in fact, shows the interest and common commitment of a small group of women in developing the contribution of women both locally and globally. This group, even in the intention of reducing the gender gap in Wikipedia, began participating in the 2016 at the Editha Newton Art & Feminist. It is then focused on the biographies of women's profiles. This group has grown with other associations, other institutional artisans who have the power and committed to gender citizenship and Wikidon, who had the function of catalyst and synthesis. So, as I said, it is an element of inclusion but also stimulating other subjects to include. For example, it happened with the project on the feminist talk on the telephone that wanted to include Wikidon in the selection of women's profiles and the position of the city of power. So, a mechanism of reciprocating promotion that plays, above all, the territory for women to point out their constructive presence in the contemporary social society is not only. This does not want to be a limit, but a perspective of reading the reality that goes to heal the empty and forgotten and no more justifiable. of Carolina Rispoli, which was discovered by us, in which the Romans entered the history of Italian literature of the first century, but which are practically forgotten, not being published in the first decades of the nine century. What does he say? He would fully deserve it. This is the origin of the Vicky Buprofil of Don Lelucane, and then we will talk about it more broadly. Please, Daniela, what happened? How did it start, who was involved, how did this experience go? So, as Lorenzo said, a greeting to all those who follow us. And as Lorenzo said, our path started at the point of feet, we can say. And after the first, let's say, encounters that were there, which were prevalent as a group of women, we thought, also talking with Luigi Catalani, we thought it would be very interesting to involve students from higher schools of our city, to bring them closer to Vicky's writing. But, certainly, we did not have the possibility to immediately access them to Vicky Pedia, where there are very strict links. And then there was the choice of Vicky Buc, a more agile instrument to which the boys could approach better. And then it also began more intensely, let's say, the work of the city of Potenza, our association of teachers. And so we immediately involved a school which is the Liceo Gropius, which was born one of the fundamental partners of our project. And we created groups of students, we started with a small group and in 2018 we made the first initiative with the Sudeniti, we decided that we needed to give a structure to this Vicky Buc, that the women we could involve could be writers, writers, and with those we started, which was the first base of the group in Vicky Donne. And then the work that was done was that of involving the boys in the search for those that could be the biographical elements first hit by the writers, by the artists. Luigi Catalani will certainly talk to us in a more widespread way, he has done with the boys a formative activity. We went several times to the provincial library to the search for books, texts, testimonies of these writers and then he also sent them to the type of writing that was used in the Vicky Buc. And then we made this first edit-on during which the boys showed the various passages that were made. We decided to involve the school institutions because it is important to bring the boys to this type of digital culture of writing and also because then the boys find it very interesting this work of searching for writing of the voices learn to be much more, let's say, delimited in the things that they have to say are essential, so it is also useful, let's say, as a comprehensive competence of citizenship. And then the subjects that hand-in-hand are involved are the school institutions that are left, let's say, those that were there from the beginning, the committee of citizenship of the kind, Vicky Media, Vicky Donnelly, Vicky Di Potenza, gradually they are close to us, they are involved in other school institutions that the province of Potenza for what we have done at the provincial museum or also keeping in mind the provincial library, and then other subjects that, let's say, observing our work, observing ourselves in what we were doing, we felt stimulated to start other activities. And our work continues, we started in 2018, slowly, this year, it's been four years that our Vicky Book has been implemented with other voices, with other sections, and certainly we had great... We cannot hear you, Camelia. So hello again. Hello again, yes, new team. Hello again. Unfortunately, the video is going on more time than the time we have, we still have seven minutes. We are searching for Daniela, which I don't understand where he is. However, the idea was that we are not only writing about putting content into our Vicky Media project, but also creating a partner, just creating a growth of the territory. So, Camelia, can you say something more as your part in the video was taught? Okay, yes. Basilicata is a very wiki place in Italy, and this work on wiki donna is one of the first, as you say, you and Lorenza and Daniela. So I'm very happy that after five years, I think five years, this work on women from Basilicata of every age and century and job, from heart to literature, to sport, to cooking. The last one is now on a wiki book, a wiki project that I prefer because I work very much in the school. So I like wiki books because I think that this kind of work is very important for students, for the digital information literacy, because students learn to search in the library. I am a librarian, a wiki media librarian, and on the net, too. So in these years, this work, these pages of wiki pedia have joined into the wiki book. So I think we can work next year and to make this wiki book more complete. And with the help of teachers, of students, of wiki medians, and especially of this fantastic group of women from Basilicata, like Lorenza, like Daniela, and obviously Camelia is our... I don't know, you are our master wiki, Camelia. Master chief. So, attention to our work on wiki pedia and on wiki books. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, Luigi. I'm so, so sorry that Daniela did not join our session. I want to thank Daniela, which was a pure... This project was one of the teachers that lived this project. I'm so sorry, she's not here, and she cannot connect. We lose her, as we lose a lot of our sessions. And I'm so sorry. However, everything you want to ask or know more about this project, please write on the... at the site or on our meta page or on our session on wiki media, wiki wiki mania 2021. So please, if you have a question, we'll have only two minutes. So, I think we cannot have the question and answer the question that we hoped, but we can read what you are writing on the header part and we can answer your question there. This is a project that can be proposed in any territory, so everybody can use this project as a model. And for any other question, you can find us on our group on meta or on our project on Italian wiki media. We have many, many social channels on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. We have many forms of contact if you want to know more. So, thank you, Lucy. Thank you, Lorenza. Thank you, the two... We should decide the screen, the display. Thank you all. Thank you, Camelia. Thank you, wiki mania. Bye.


So I tested again today that sucks what a wonderful day okay so that's my day so far 3 30 now I have no symptoms yet they said I tested the day before yesterday it was negative I didn't test yesterday they say don't test every day tested day positive so but I still have no symptoms yet call the doctor he said just do you know what the normal person does but in my condition if I get shorter breath don't even call them just head straight to emergency room but right now there's no meds or nothing they can do so we just kind of got to wait it out so me and monkeys were still kind of distancing from each other and she's in her mom's room I'm in our room and her mom still in a hospital or rehab or whatever found out that her roommate tested positive she had COVID so it was either that nurse or her roommate or a combination of the two hospital ain't no place to get well well she was in rehab so you know trying to get better from being sick and you know from being in the hospital down here they usually if you're elderly they'll send you to what they call rehab center it's not because she was on drugs it's where they work with you and try to help you get your strength back to come home so she'll probably be in there for a little longer now because I don't think she should come home with us both having COVID so I don't know we'll have to see like I said right now I'm not showing any symptoms but I could be a symptomatic which means someone that doesn't show symptoms I do have a slight cough but that's not abnormal for me I got COPD so no fever nothing like that no no weakness just I feel normal but you know test doesn't lie guess so I don't know anyway guys so there's an update for you I'll throw up a video here and there when I can but yeah doctor said at least you know five days try to you know stay away from each other wear our masks even in the house so which I'm in the room by myself so you know keep clean disinfected you know got lights all yeah it's one of them things you know I still say if people would have just wore the masks instead of going there taking away my rights I think this probably would have been done by now but no it's the people that you know don't care about anybody's anybody else but their selves so oh well anyway the storming as you saw power went out once came back on I'm getting ready to eat made a couple egg sandwiches and so enjoy some more footage of the storm we'll see in the next one I don't know might upload something later tonight I might upload something tomorrow you know if they come to dig the the leech battle throw that in there but anyway guys so you know I doubt if they'll work if it's raining like this so it's just wearing rainy season and hurricane season we're in hurricane season too so but so anyway guys just keep on keeping on y'all stay safe enjoy some more storm footage we'll see in the next one bye bye guys take care


Hi folks. I'm Waldo. Hi Waldo. So unlike the gift debacle where the creator went out of the way to intentionally pronounce it wrong, the Kubernetes community has kind of embraced the ambiguity around the tool that is the primary touch point for its entire ecosystem.  If you ask three people, you'll get six answers. I think we can do better. So there are several easy and obvious pronunciations. For the first half, we can start with kube or kube or kubei or kubei and if you're under 30, those bottom two sound different for those of us who are over 30. The last one is the young person's equivalent of cool babe. And of course, the second half, you can do control or cuddle or cuddle, visual aids of course. And of course, right here, right off the bat, we have 12 different options. You're welcome, but there are of course some less obvious options. We can do kubectal or kubectal or kubectal. And of course, no, we're not done yet. Kubect, excuse me, kubectl. But really, we don't need to argue about this one because this is of course the definitive guide. What you should do in your daily life is put a sim Lincoln because as Abraham Lincoln said, ain't nobody got time for that. Thank you. I'm Waldo and this is the definitive guide to pronouncing that tool. If you have a preference for one that wasn't mentioned, I'm sorry, this is definitive.


Outline of what I'm going to do is I'm just first going to run through a couple of definitions and examples in the social sector, so that we'll try and understand the social entrepreneurship space better. I'll quickly move to a specific example of a social enterprise called Rural Innovations Network. It was a social enterprise that I was associated with. It's an incubator that I've worked with for two years. I realize it's the last session of the day, so I've included a short movie clip so that you guys don't get too bored. We could end the presentation with questions that you might have. So who is this social entrepreneur? The definition that I've provided is given by an organization called Ashoka. It's a pioneer in identifying social entrepreneurs across the world. This organization has been in existence for more than two and a half decades. Now if you go through the definition, I think it's pretty much what an entrepreneur would be defined as. The only difference is these entrepreneurs, these social entrepreneurs, are trying to create some kind of positive change in society. So instead of the business world, they could be using business as a mechanism, as a tool to create this, but they're really social change agents. Now moving ahead from what a social entrepreneur is, I'd like to see what is a social enterprise. Within the social sector, the definition of a social enterprise is still very much debated. The closest definition that we can come to that tries to include all possible social enterprises that are in functioning today could be an organization that actually ranks social impact on par or above profits. So that would define a social enterprise. It could be in the form of a NGO, a non-governmental organization, it could be a non-profit organization, it could be even a for-profit organization. We have social enterprises that run in such a mode too. A couple of examples of social entrepreneurs and social enterprises in India. There's a phenomenon that is occurring around the world. It's supposed to be the largest growing sector presently. First is someone, Mr. Ilango Rangaswamy. He was a CSIR scientist and he left his job and he's gone back to his village in Kudambakkam which is about 40 kilometers from Chennai. He firmly believes in the development model through village development.  And one of his most prominent achievements is he set up a Panchayat academy because it was the kind of best practices and governance that he brought to his village. Now he's spreading it around the villages in and around Kudambakkam, where he's getting Panchayat leaders, educating them, talking about government initiatives, how they could be implemented, et cetera. He's a true Gandhian, so one of the other principles he believes that he follows is he says that in India, development can't happen by mass production. It has to happen by production by the masses. And he's even set up small factories or manufacturing units or production units where they are actually outsourced jobs from companies in Chennai. They're using more of labor rather than machinery and delivering high quality goods at a lower price. That's why he's able to do it. That's one example. Hari Shande is another example. He's a graduate from IIT Kharagpur. He's done his master's in the states. And he's a voice for solar, solar power. So he's come back to India and he set up this company called Solar Electric Lighting Company, which provides solar-based solutions in rural areas. He's been highly successful. His company has provided more than 80,000 installations in rural areas in and around Karnataka. They're spreading to Kerala and have a presence in Gujarat also.  Most people believed that the poor can't afford it. Most people said that solar is too difficult for the poor to maintain and to buy and he's proved them wrong. And a lot of areas in rural Karnataka where the government has not been able to reach electricity. He has given them lighting and other facilities. I've picked up the example of Sunil Avram and Mahiti. Mahiti is actually a software solution provider. You might say, why is a software solution provider a social entrepreneur? But what he does is he provides software based on the open source, especially to the NPO, the non-profit and the non-governmental sector. So you might see because of his intervention, a lot of NGOs, which were basically just relying on paper, pencils. They didn't have processes in place. They were having technology in their organization to improve efficiencies. He's gone ahead and provided them with solutions at a very low cost and improved efficiencies in different organizations. Sunil Avram is also an example. He has his office out of Bangalore, but a great example of social entrepreneurship. Last but not the least, Paul Basil and Rural Innovations Network. I'll be talking more about Rural Innovations Network in just a while, but Paul Basil is another social entrepreneur who saw the need to actually go and there are so many of these rural grass roots innovators or people who come up with grass roots innovations that actually need to be nurtured, commercialized and could have a much greater impact across India. And to do all of this, he set up Rural Innovations Network. In just a moment, we'll talk more about Rural Innovations Network, but I'd like to point you out to a website called Ashoka.org, which is again the website of Ashoka, which is an organization that actually goes and identifies social entrepreneurs across the world. You visit the website, it's a great resource on social entrepreneurship and also to come to know about lots of other social entrepreneurs in around the world. So the next slide on let's try and see what kind of people is Paul Basil and Rural Innovations Network meet with. Meet Manoharan. He runs a small machine tool shop in Dindigal in Tamil Nadu. He came up with this innovation called the banana stem injector. Now in Dindigal in and around the area, the banana crop is a huge crop and there's a lot of pest problem. The stem borer especially in banana. Present methods included spraying of pesticides, which is a lot of wastage because they fall on the leaves, they fall to the ground. If they're not sprayed on the proper time, if the sunlight can evaporate the effect of the pesticides. So what he came up with a small injecting device where he actually injects the pesticide or the insecticide directly to the stem, much more effective, but again a crude innovation. Joy John, an innovator from Kerala, he's come up with a low cost manual milking machine. Now milking machines available in the market today are very expensive. The cheapest ones are around 40,000 rupees. Again, electrical in nature, out of reach of dairy farmers who have three to four cows. Now I'm sure, I don't know if many of you have actually gone and seen a small dairy farmer with four or five cows.  This is a very low cost intervention. This presently retails at 8,500. Venus burner, another simple innovation that's a much more efficient kerosene burner. Unlike what many of you might think and believe, kerosene is still a major fuel across India. Anna Saheb Udgave, a farmer in Sadalgam. It's a village in the borders of Karnataka and Maharashtra. His village faced a drought and he innovated and came up with the rain gun. Again, an irrigation device that uses groundwater to irrigate fields. It saves water by almost 50% if this device is used. Another guy, I forget his name right now but he's based out of Coimbatore. He's come up with a coconut de-asker. There's a huge labor problem. Coconuts are widely available but nobody to de-ask them. He's come up with a machine for that. Dr. Mohan, this is a very simple mechanical contraption called the insect trap. What it does is post harvest grains that are stored normally to avoid insect infestation. Most people, if it's not, most farmers at least, if it's not for their own consumption, what they do is they add poison, melatheon, empul. These are even poisons that are banned by the Indian government, but they still use it because that's the safest way to keep insects away. This is a simple device. It's got perforations on, if you can notice, it has perforations all around them. You just insert it where you have stored grains. It plays on the nature of these insects and because they want air, they come, they enter these devices, they fall right down and once they fall down, they can't come up. And so it actually controls the exponential growth of insects in stored grains. Another interesting innovation. It's really, I've met Anand in person and it's really inspiring to know that he's hardly, I think, studied till his fifth standard and his inspiration to innovate or if he knows for sure that he can come up with ideas because he's watched James Bond movies as a kid and when you watch them as a child, as in the kind of gadgets they show it, that has, you know, he has this idea in his head that if he can think of anything, it can actually be done. So even with this particular problem, he actually goes back, sits and thinks that divides the problem, says he needs a sensor to sense something in the path when you're traveling ahead. How does that happen? So he goes to the local electronics shop and he eats the head of the shopkeeper. They're saying that this is what I want until that guy can come up with a solution and tell him, okay, in electronics, this particular, what you want to get done happens with this device and it costs so much. And Anand is actually a daily wage laborer in a bakery in some village. It's, I forget the name, it's close to Tutikorin, Tamil Nadu. And he then starts saving because he still starts saving till he makes the money to get by that particular device, gets it, builds. So every prototype he goes through, there is a huge cycle until which he saves his money, ensures that a prototype is ready, things go wrong, he starts from scratch all over again. Really inspiring to meet people like that. Pretty much sure that majority of the engineers and engineering colleges today can't come up with half the things he does. Going here talking about what Rin does again, we believe that there are a lot of these innovators out there who come up with innovations that could solve problems that rural India faces on a day-to-day basis. But the way forward, because many of these innovations are actually very local, the way to do it is commercialize them and actually take them to places across rural India wherever they might find an application. So you commercialize it, the benefit goes through rural users. This impact actually calls rural prosperity and inspires further innovation. So it's this vicious cycle that rural innovation network tries to kickstart. And this actually is true. If economic history is also studied, economic development, 75% of economic development is actually pushed forward through technologies, new technologies. And Jeffrey Sacks, a famed economist in his book End of Poverty, says that a lot of countries actually are still trapped in poverty is because the lack of local innovation. Because in the cycle of local innovation which finds markets in local areas, that is what actually puts countries on the way of economic development. Rin has a simple mission to enable innovations to reach markets. Now the journey for a person like Anand is very tough as in he comes up with a product which is very crude, still very inspiring, great work from where he's from but what we need to realize is by the time it reaches the other end of this spectrum, the other customer that we're trying to reach, he's not happy with such a crude product. He needs a proper finished product. So there is a huge journey that still remains to be traversed. Rural innovation network enables innovators and entrepreneurs across this journey. The first thing is just a prior art search and something you've thought of has it been done already? Filing for IP required, design input. I talked about the JS Milka, the low cost milking machine. The innovator had not thought about making the plastic and the rubber involved was not even food grid. So something as simple as that, just making sure that happens. Prototyping it, fabrication of plants, test centers, devices like the Venus burner to actually prove that it is 33% more efficient in kerosene burning. Take them to find out test centers where this can be actually proven and you can get certificates for it. Field trials, like the insect traps that was proven in labs and in agricultural colleges, but taking it to the fields and to the houses across India, rural India. We've piloted this in Andhra Pradesh, rural Uttar Pradesh, to see whether it actually works. Market studies to find out where markets are. Test marketing again as when you come up with a plan for these rural products, how do you reach the rural customer? Do we have the correct mechanisms? Where do we promote them? In the real way in which any new product would be launched in the market. Second, the last part is once we do all this, do these innovators actually become successful entrepreneurs too, which is a rare case? In that case, we find them entrepreneurs who will buy the technology of them. For example, in the case of the rain gun that we saw, we actually initiated a partnership with a company in Chennai called Servals Automation, which actually took up what the technology from Anasai Bhutgaway gives them, pays them a royalty for every piece manufactured, and this company actually went ahead and manufactured the rain guns for him. The same company, Servals Automation, actually also manufactures the Venus burner that we talked about. And it's surprising the way they work now. Venus burners also manufactured in Ilango Ramaswamy's village. They have come up with a production unit. So there are a lot of synergies that happen. Scale and impact, how we spread them. We have partnerships with a variety of organizations through which we actually disseminate these products that rain identifies. We're just quickly running through the offer that rain has for these innovators and entrepreneurs to give them recognition, credibility, which itself is huge. For example, in Anand's case, he's literally almost called a madman in his village. And that was his name until he actually got an award and he came on television, came in the local newspaper because people never understood what he was striving to achieve. Networks, mentoring, and even some kind of seed funding for them to actually take their idea or product from a prototype stage to a final stage. Interestingly, how does rain actually go ahead and meet these innovators? We have this very famous innovation award program. The last year it was held, former president, Mr. AP J. Abdul Karam actually presided on the award ceremony. We have my idea programs where we get college students involved now saying that there are a lot of these social problems. You guys can come up with solutions. That is another way of looking at them. Business plan competitions. We have reference networks, web-based, patent search, some of the methods used. The most important thing I think is the selection criteria because we come across a lot of innovators. For an innovation, since we are very conscious about the fact that we're gonna serve rural India or want an innovation with a social impact, that's the primary criteria. Innovativeness, what is innovative about it? Is it something that's already being done probably better in a different manner? That's something we verify. Business viability, it has to be self-sustainable. Initially, we realized there might be grants or we might have to push it through to get into that vicious cycle of where it propels itself, but it has to be a viable business. And I think last, we were also very, Rin is critical about the fact that if market funding is otherwise available, we would want to keep the funding that Rin has to actually serve other grass-root innovators who wouldn't have access to such funds. Again, a particular innovator, we're very concerned that while the innovation comes to us, we have the required networks or the knowledge at Rin to actually help them out. Clarity and plan, as many times the innovator have some vague ideas but don't know how to go ahead with it. Compatibility is again subjective but very important because it's a long journey and we need to be co-working together. And last but not the least, the commitment of the innovator is very important. Now Rin, as an incubator, has a couple of interventions that we talk about. The first is the L ramp. It's the Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Program. It's in collaboration with IIT Madras, Rural Innovations Network, and it's funded by the Lemelson Foundation in the United States. So they again have this entire chain of, they mentor a particular, identify an innovator, a product, a company also, which has products that can create large-scale social impact, mentor them and actually take them till the pilot marketing stage. In terms of scale and impact, last year Rural Innovations Network started a intervention called SAMRIDI, which is actually a rural retail chain because in previous years, Rural Innovations Network had tried to piggyback on business models, already existing business models to reach out to the rural customer. We were working with commercial organizations like data chemicals, development-oriented organizations like BASICS, BIF stands for Bharati Agro Industries Foundation, who had business models that reached the rural customer and we were finding it difficult or there were challenges with each organization because they had separate business, different business models and intervention seemed to vary. So we came up with our own chain, a rural retail chain, which is actually being piloted in the villages around Gobi Chatipali, I mean, Euro District of Tamil Nadu. These are a couple of new programs that have just started in the last couple of months, the InnoCenter programs, the UCID is a user-centered innovation development. A lot of the innovations that we saw were actually developed by innovators and we found that many a times they had to be pushed onto the market because sometimes they don't, they don't capture customer requirements very clearly. So we also wanted to try out a program where we see that, okay, we find out what a user needs and try and build innovations around it. Last is a TDP, it's called the Talent Development Program. This is to develop talent in the social sector and fuel, RINs, HR needs. Again, these three programs are started off late and they're funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Some more details about LRAM. LRAM can provide up to 25 lakhs for a particular idea or a project to develop it from the innovation or the idea stage to a final product stage. Other important activities, most important is the pre-incubation program. If you see there's been a slow shift in the way RIN functions in terms of, RIN actually earlier talked about grassroots innovators and grassroots innovations. We're slowly finding out that, where we still maintain that we need to find grassroots innovations, grassroots innovators may not be ready to walk this journey.  We take them through an intensive process so they're better suited for incubation. My idea program is to again, involve students into the whole process of finding solutions that a lot of rural India faces. And we also support a lot of student projects against some ongoing projects, yet, which you'll find on the website also. And if you see if there's an infant one or the second project that's actually being done by a doctor who we're incubating, because she's not found support in any of the place to take up this project, but an infant warmer is a device that is required all across rural India as in primary healthcare centers actually don't have an infant warmer available or they're not affordable enough. So that's a device we're working on, water lifting devices, et cetera, et cetera. But I just wanted to bring out the shift in, from a grassroots innovator to, we're talking about people who can come up with grassroots innovations. Little more on the Samrudhi, which is a rural retail chain. We have such shops in and around, the villages of Gobi Chhattipal, and the small shops, stocked with a variety of products in the sectors of agriculture, dairy, water, and energy. We're four stores, strong. There are about 19 VLEs. VLE stands for Village Level Entrepreneurs. Actually, the business model we are trying to follow. Each store does about 40,000 per month. Cross margins are around 20, 25 to 40%. Till now, we've, till now, we're not as benefited by 1,000 farmers. Couple of the products, we have a biomass pellet based off the Venus burner. This is a fuel plus or a gas plus. Basically improves efficiency of gas, gas stoves. So if you have a gas stove that lasts you 30 days, you use this particular device called the gas plus. Your same gas would last you over 40 days. That's a paddy cedar. That's an innovative device. Paddy is usually sewn by the transplantation method. And now again, labor being a huge issue. We're talking about direct sowing, and that's a machine that's a direct paddy cedar for that. This is again, just to share the business model. I won't go into details of it, but Samrudhi is right in the center, manufacturing of, we interface with manufacturers who come up with products for rural India. Donors fund them, we work along with NGOs, franchisees, Samrudhi retail outlets. The VLE is the last mile connect between our rural customer and the Samrudhi shops. They're basically these village level entrepreneurs who identify in villages. So that they have, they talk to customers directly. They have sample products with them and they become a marketing and sales force as well. Again, couple of products that are not being exactly incubated, but being sold through the retail network. On the top right, another milking machine called the Johnny's milking machine. Even more lower cost than the one you saw, the JS Milka. This retails about 3,500 rupees. Some images about the kind of work RIN does through Samrudhi. Before we launch any product, we ensure that these actually stand the local atmosphere, the local climate. The devices actually work, live up to their promises. So field trials of an innovative back sprayer. It's a battery operated sprayer. We do a lot of demos in rural areas in these villages. Then last but not the least of campaigns, exhibitions and meetings where we talk about our products and actually illicit farmer interest. A case study of how impact can be generated taking the case of a mini sanity and marketing manufacturing machine. Murugan and the innovator and entrepreneur was identified through a business plan competition that RIN held. He's come up with this device that has a very simple production method of sanity napkins, which are actually a major health problem in and across rural India. Business model is very simple. He wants to disseminate the machine to SAGs, self-help groups or groups of ladies who can take up local manufacturing. They can manufacturing the product at a very low cost. And if they can come up with a sales force to sell the same product in the local areas, it's a win-win situation for all. So even it's been done in quite a few places in and around Tamil Nadu, including Coimbatore where the entrepreneur is based from, Madurai. And there are lots of these self-help groups that they manufacture for the first 15 days of the month and then go out and sell the sanity napkins and thereby earning an income for themselves also. So by already after LRAM's intervention, there are seven more of these devices have been sold, a demo center was set up. He's actually got access to a variety of networks, the entrepreneur, to actually go and sell his products, showcase his products. And he's started getting orders, not only from Tamil Nadu, but far-flung places like Orissa, Himachal Pradesh. So his networks have grown.  The targets are pretty high for 2008. And I'm sure they well on the way to achieve them. Is it broadly impact and outcomes created from RIN? RIN has been in existence since 2001. So these are figures of past seven years. Again, these are including all the companies that RIN has worked with or products, RIN has incubated. That's huge number of consumer surplus that you see about 1950 lakhs, but that's been calculated for all products. And something as simple as, if you look, take a Venus burner, there have been studies done that these tea vendors on the road, they actually save close to two liters of kerosene a day while they use this burner. So the calculation would be something like two liters of kerosene saved a day multiplied by the life of the burner, which is about three to four months, multiplied by the number of burners sold till date. And that's the kind of calculation that's been used to arrive at those numbers. Huge number of innovators, grassroots innovators and innovations identified. Most students that have become involved in this entire process of coming up with innovations and products which will have an impact on rural India. And last but not the least, there's a huge network that has been built that can be dipped into to get help innovators, entrepreneurs with their innovations while they make the journey from an idea stage till it can be scaled. We have network in terms of business experts, technology experts, retail chains, agricultural colleges, engineering colleges, et cetera, et cetera. I'd like to acknowledge Paul Beschel and Rural Innovations Network because a lot of the presentation slides and material that I actually showcased is the great work that they've achieved done. More information, I don't think it's visible, but I've listed the websites of Rural Innovations Network and LRAM. I'm sure they'll be sharing the presentation with them. So they'll get these links on that. In case you have any further queries, please feel free to reach out to infoetrenovations.org. They are also in the process of actually networking with all other incubators saying that if you come across these great rural air innovations, that could have a rural or a social impact and you find that for whatever reason, you can't take it up for incubation. Please put them in touch with Rural Innovations Network and vice versa too. If they come up with some innovation or a product or a company that they can't service. So many times it does happen as in companies approach rain from far-flung places like Delhi or Northern India. Rural Innovations Network has a geographical focus of South India at the moment at least so that they can be close to the companies that they're incubating. So in that case, they would be only too happy to pass on such information to incubators that you. So if there are any questions, you'll be only free to take them. Pardon? What's your role in rain? I used to be with rain, actually. I forgot I didn't introduce myself at the beginning of the talk. I used to be with rain and within rain, my role was more on the marketing side. So in my original years, we were working with different agencies, both commercial and development oriented to actually identify and establish viable distribution and marketing channels for these products. So for example, we try to sell the insect trap and the low-cost milking machine through networks created via Tata Chemicals, which have this unique agricultural initiative for farmers called Tata Kisan Sansas. They're actually one-stop shop for agricultural inputs in about five states in Northern India. So they have a business model in place. So we say that we have a device or a product that would be beneficial to your farmers. So how could we integrate through your supply chains, use your marketing methods and try and actually reach out to the rural customer? Similarly, we've also piloted with BASICS, which is a microfinance organization, where again, BASICS has someone called the livelihood service advisor, an LSA, who actually goes into villages and disperses loans. So how can we make use of an LSA who actually goes and talks to a rural customer and say that, okay, we have these products. Could you sell them and could you buy them, get feedback, et cetera? So that was the kind of work we did. And as I explained previously, it happened that different business models require different interventions. And that's when we said, okay, let's go a step back. And we've also become geographically pretty spread out. We were doing pilots in Uttar Pradesh, Gaurapur, we were doing it in Tiptoor in Karnataka, Northern Andhra Pradesh. We said, let's hold back, let's try and master the art of selling innovations or innovative products on our own. That's when we went ahead and started off this rural retail chain called Sambhudi in Gopichettipalip. So I was initially involved in setting up these relationships with Tata's. Then also worked with Basics. And then we were helping setting up Sambhudi in Gopichettipalip. And presently I'm in Bombay. I'm actually consulting with two firms. One is a social enterprise which is an ambulance service in Bombay called 1298. I'm doing some market research for them. And there is another organization that's being incubated in sign here called Polymeric Sensors. This particular company wants to use patented conducting polymer technology to create testing devices for water, soil, milk in the immediate future. And in the long run, they want to use this technology to come up with healthcare diagnostic kits that can be deployed in rural and marginalized populations in urban India too. So that's what I'm doing presently. Polymeric Sensors is the name of the company. But they have developed this technology on conducting polymers. Pardon? No, they're sensors conducting polymers based technology that they have. It's not MEMS. Sign, yes. I'm sure other than it's actually not in the sign building, but... If I mentioned, this is student project support. You invite applications, how the students can just... Yes, please do visit LRAMP.org, the website. They invite student projects. Sorry, what is it? LRAMP.org. L, R-A-M-P, .org. Yeah, right. L-R-A-M-P, L-RAMP, Lemelson. Okay. Yeah, .org. They do invite student projects. There is a two-step process to it actually, but it's all given in the website. So there is no physical incubator as such, is there? Yeah, good question. I see, yes, we don't have physical space. These companies or innovations that come to us, we enable them, we connect them with networks, provide them with services, but not in terms of space. So how does the incubator, incubating actually take place? You have people going to the innovators and... It could happen either way, but what happens, we have an application process. After once a particular company or an innovator or an entrepreneur is screened, we also actually get information from them in terms of what kind of support they would require from REN or LRAMP. Once that has been clarified, there is an MOU that the entrepreneur gets in to with REN with clear milestones defined. And we have clear budgets allocated to what kind of service or what kind of help would be done or what kind of work would be done. And then that is managed because there would be a program officer or a project officer associated with each particular entrepreneur that we work with and they ensure that things move around smoothly. And it could happen either ways. Either the program officer actually goes onsite and visits the entrepreneur or the innovator, or the innovator or the entrepreneur comes and reports that office. One thing wasn't clear. Does the entrepreneur contact REN or how does it happen? I mean... Could happen either ways. Could happen either ways. Because the level that you're talking about, it's not always possible that at that level, the entrepreneur knows about such... We're still reaching out, but there have been lots of cases where grass root level innovators and entrepreneurs come to know about us. But one important way in which we reach out is we have what is called the hub and spoke model. We have actually networked with a lot of these colleges, agricultural colleges and other colleges in around Tamil Nadu, which also help in spreading word about REN and its other initiatives like LRAM, Samrithi. So we do get in applications through these colleges to another, our network organizations. But yes, the mainstay of our applications has been the awards program. Any other questions? Thank you so much.


I'm here with Mikael Williams. What sport do you play? Uh, men's basketball. Man, that's an awesome sport. Uh, what would you say your coolest memory of this season is? Uh, this season, definitely going to Florida and everything. During, uh, you were there too with us, yeah, yeah. Going to Florida, the men and women's basketball team went to, uh, what was it? Um, Daytona. Daytona. Daytona, Florida, that, making cool memories. There was a lot of cool memories off the court and everything too. That was pretty cool hanging out and stuff with each other. It definitely brought us together as a team. For sure, for sure. What would you say to incoming freshmen on the basketball team and incoming freshmen as student athletes? What would you say is like, um, like some, a piece of advice, like to maintain school and sports? Uh, just stay committed really. Um, the challenge going in the college is finding the balance between the two. And so, you know, once you find a rhythm, stick with that rhythm, stick with what works for you and, um, just stick with it. You know, there's going to be a lot of ups and downs with it. You know, there's going to be a lot of weeks where you don't feel like doing schoolwork, you don't feel like getting extra shots up, but all that extra work will, you know, definitely pay off at the end. How do you find the time? I know basketball plays like two or three games a week sometimes and it can get real serious. How to find the time? Do you have any like techniques to relax on and off the court? Um, really, it's, it's usually the weekends to be honest. Like I found, uh, my technique, I haven't done homework over the weekend for like five plus years. So it's like really just grinding it out during the week. Organizing your, your schedule and everything.  So just finding the gaps where you're like, all right, I can do this work. And then by the weekend, you're just chilling pretty much. So just finding, again, finding what works for you really. Thank you so much, man. It's been a pleasure watching you play basketball throughout my years of college. Have a good one, bro. Enjoy tonight.