There's a series of books by Presley and McWarton and they've looked at what are the secrets of highly effective teachers for kindergarten, for first grade, for second grade. And one of the things that they found is that good literacy instruction is good for all students. It's not just about students who are typically learning. And to bring it to the level for students with significant disabilities, Martine Smith is our literacy guru in Ireland. And she says the same thing. Good literacy instruction is good for all students. But then she goes ahead and talks about students, for example, who use augmentative communication. And she says, well, they may need more intensity. They may need us to adapt materials, but the bottom line is that the principles of effective instruction do not change. So what that means is we don't have to go look for these really obscure, alternate types of strategies. We can see what they do in general education. And then I have this theory about the three T's, and what we need is time, teaching, technology. So time means we're going to spend more time for students who are really struggling. A lot of times it's going to take them longer to respond, for example. We're also going to have to have some technology. It might be just very simple technology, such as iGaze, and it might be using iPads and computers accessing materials through switches. But the teaching is that all of our teachers understand the principles of effective literacy instruction so that then they can make those adaptations in terms of the technology and address enough times to make the students be successful in their learning. I'm very concerned that sometimes our students with significant disabilities don't have activities that we really expect high cognitive engagement. We have to have a high level of cognitive engagement in order for our students to be effective at learning. We can't just have them in Coast mode where they're just occasionally hitting a switch to repeat an answer that we just fed into the switch and they're not really thinking about it. So I'll give you a few examples. If I'm dealing with comprehension and I'm trying to support a student in learning to comprehend a text, I need to make sure they're trying to comprehend that at the whole text level. And I don't just read a page like, Johnny wore a red shirt. What color was Johnny's shirt? Where we read something and then we ask you a question immediately and that's short term memory. That's not comprehension. If I want you to comprehend a text, I need you to comprehend it at the whole text level. And I need to teach you strategies in order to do that. I also worry about what we call perpetual preschool, that we keep doing things for students long after it's age-respectful, that we have to think about having higher levels of cognitive engagement. For example, if you're working with a student who's over three, I hope you're letting them scribble. And if they're over five, I hope they're scribbling with the alphabet.  Well, when is she going to be ready? We've got to engage that student in a higher level of cognitive engagement. I think that symbols for people who are non-speaking are absolutely amazing and they're just such a life changer. And I'm so grateful to Roxy and Terry Johnson and to Faith Carlson and to Jackie Clark for all of the symbols that stay developed because they've made such a difference in the lives of so many individuals. But what I'm worried about is that we've forgotten the lessons of the 1950s. And I know that most of the people watching this weren't even born in the 1950s. So let me tell you about that research. They did research on rebus symbols. They added these cute little rebus symbols to the words like cat and in and of and all kinds of words. And then they checked to see how much it was helping the students learn to read. And guess what? Not only was it not helping them, it made it worse. So we took a student who's struggling to read and we made them struggle even more because now what's happening is they're just looking at the symbol. And when you take away the symbol, they're toast. They can't read it at all. So if we want them to read the symbols, then we need to start de-symbolating. So for example, the word the, I would never add a symbol with it because the, the symbol is just an extra barrier helps students learn to read the word the as a chunk to see that as a visual symbol as the word shape of that symbol. Then when we start taking away the symbols from the words that we want the students to read, then they do start in fact learning to read many of them if we're doing good literacy instruction along with it. Taking away the symbols isn't going to fix it, but it's going to help them be required to actually focus on those words. And another issue is that it's okay to simulate the fringe words. So if I have a word like marble for a beginning reader, that's fine to simulate that word. It's not a high frequency word and it's not an easily decodable word. And so go for it, add that symbol above the word marble, but take away the symbols for the high frequency words that you want them to read. And if there's a picture support in the text for marbles, then again take that symbol away. So just think being smart in when we use symbols and even smarter in when we don't use symbols. That's my advice. The important thing is the classroom word wall is something that you are going to use. It's not just decoration. I see so many word walls that are just up there and never ever used in real reading and writing activities. So we want to make sure the words that we have up there can be used to help kids be really effective readers and very effective writers. So there are two rules. One rule for a word wall word is words that are really hard to decode but are very high frequency. So an example of the word would, W-O-U-L-D. Okay, let's decode that word, wold, no, sorry, it's would. Why? It just is. Pick words that are hard to decode but very high frequency. The rule two is pick words that are highly useful to decode or encode other words. So let me give you an example. The word in is a great word to have on your word wall because it's very high frequency but also in will help me read a whole bunch of other words like thin and win and sin and thin. So it's a great word because it has that high frequency word family. Problem with variety is hugely important for learning for everyone but it's particularly important for our students with significant disabilities. We know that the brain is a pattern detector and if we can put patterns on display for students in really clear ways and then help them find those patterns they can be successful. We're going to read a simple text multiple times for different purposes. So today listen so that you can identify characters in this story. The next day listen so you can tell me all of the places in this story. Another time listen so you can tell me all the feelings this boy had in this story. The research shows us from the National Reading Panel report that if you read the same story multiple times it increases your comprehension and it increases your fluency. So it's very powerful. Building background knowledge is really important for every student. Before you read a book it's important to have background knowledge for that text. But for students who have significant disabilities it's much more important because often they won't have had the extensive experiences. For example a student in a wheelchair who has very significant physical impairments just may not have had the same life experiences that a typically developing child has. So what we want to do is make sure that we help build those background knowledge experiences. If you're reading a book and we're trying to develop comprehension we want to have our background knowledge building connect to what we're going to do that day. What is today's purpose for reading this story? So if today's purpose for reading that story is that we're going to talk about the feelings that the student had throughout the story then we need to talk about feelings and we look at that story, we look at the picture and say oh bad day good day uh-oh this guy is going to have a day that has some bad things happening and some good things happening. So I bet he's going to have some different feelings today in this story. He isn't work so when you work let's say you're doing chores what are some feelings you have and now we're going to support those students in generating a whole list of feelings that they might have when they're working hard and we're going to model and we can do some prompting if the students are really struggling. We're using their communication devices. We're showing them where do I find feelings on your communication device and then we have for example an aide says oh I have an idea can I use your device Marcy and Marcy says yes and she says okay I've got to go to feelings let's see that's the masks here going to feelings you know what when I'm working sometimes I feel really frustrated so this teacher is doing a talk aloud and they say do I see frustrated nope I don't see it I need to hit the arrow and get some more let me see do I see frustrated oh there it is frustrated can we put that on the list because I feel frustrated sometimes when I'm working we're helping those students figure out where do I find feelings students and the teachers have worked together to generate and build background knowledge for whatever purpose we have today. How many times a day do we do high five to a student how many times do we say you're doing a great job you're working so hard and so before writing it's really important that we know what the students are writing about that we've set a topic for today's writing because otherwise I can't be informative if I have no clue what you're writing about I can't help look at what you've generated and give you informative feedback but if I know that today you were writing about the fact that your mother was gone for two weeks or today you're writing an email to your father and you want to tell him what you did this morning or today you're writing about going to the movie Shrek if I know that background information that I can give you informative feedback so before we write we set up a topic so that I know what you're writing about during writing I do give you that reinforcement feedback I tell you I'm you know say wow you're really working hard I don't do it a lot because I don't want to interfere but I give you a little bit of reinforcement feedback afterwards you stop writing and I say oh you did such a great job and then I start looking at it and I give you a value to feedback for example I look at it and I say oh my gosh look we were you were writing about the movie and I see an am here for movie or I can say oh my goodness I see some letters in here that are in your friend's names point to a letter and we're gonna see if any of your friends names and then the student points to the P and I say P oh my gosh P is for Patty we got to tell her Patty Jake wrote a P for Patty on it today when he was writing so I can find ways to give informative feedback if I know the topic and if I know your life and I can connect to your life it's way more powerful if we use informative feedback instead of just reinforcement feedback I talk a lot about teaching questions and testing questions and what I challenge you to do is just to go back to your classroom and be an impartial observer and see if what's happening is truly teaching or if we have a series of testing without the teaching first so let me give an example we read a book and then we ask a bunch of who what when where why questions that's testing that's not teaching because I did not teach you a strategy so that tomorrow you have a chance of doing better on those who what when where why questions than you did today instead I need to teach you the strategy for who that's before we read that story we're gonna predict what characters might be in this book we're gonna come up with a list of characters then we're going to listen and then you're gonna tell me what's characters were in it we have to be asking open-ended real questions so what's your name if I come into the classroom and I've never met you for me to ask you what's your name is very reasonable what's your name and I'm gonna ask it in a real voice if I'm the teacher and I'm trying to make sure you know your name I say what's your name I ask it in that testing voice and it's completely inappropriate because the students that they're thinking seriously because if you don't know my name by now perhaps you need another job lady you never ask a question to which you know the answer because it's pragmatically inappropriate so as teachers we have to become pragmatically appropriate I find it really interesting to talk about a tributing meaning to random attempts because often teachers feel like this is is is crazy this feels really uncomfortable but what we need to do is look at what we do with young typically developing children we attribute meaning all the time to typically developing children that child says dad dad dad and we say daddy he said daddy and the kid looks us like oh really but you know what it just became much more likely that that child was going to say daddy that child so is not saying daddy we heard it we attributed meaning it became more likely when a student is using a communication device and says something I attribute meaning so if we're reading a book and that student says who and now I attribute meaning I assume that they're asking a question about the character in the book and I say oh who well I think that was that dog that's the really bad dog in my book that's who it was and by doing that I'm telling them what does it mean to say who maybe that student didn't know that before and I can help attribute meaning by the time we have students scribbling but the time we get good communication systems in place they're a lot older and we feel like everything should be meaningful and they should just know how to do it no they shouldn't because they never got a chance to scribble with writing they never got a chance to babble with language and so we need to give them a chance to explore their communication sets and to explore the alphabet and to scribble and we need to be really good about attributing meaning so that it becomes very meaningful to them and so that they can grow and learn from their initial attempts that really weren't intentional possibly and that possibly weren't meaningful but we can add intentionality and we can add meaning and we can help them grow and learn I really love working with adolescents teens and adults and I am so sad to see the age inappropriate materials and so what I have people say sometimes is well I know it's not age appropriate but he really likes it and so my response is it's not just about age appropriateness because I know these people will also say well cognitively he's at 15 months so this is appropriate for him yes but it's not age respectful and so once I use that word age respectful instead of just age appropriate it's like an a-ha phenomenon it's like a light bulb goes off and people go oh wow I hadn't thought of that and when we had treat people with age respectful materials what happens is that other people start talking to them in more age respectful ways and I see students begin to gain more I feel like it's so crucial not to underestimate people with disabilities because we can never guess what's inside and there are students who have such potentials and students who might make a little progress that makes a big life change and I think we can't know that even though this student didn't learn to read because I've tried to learn to help him learn to read he developed just this joy of story listening and that enriched his life because we tried to write we built his vocabulary and so now he understands more things we talk about he never became a writer but his life was enriched in the trying and so we can't underestimate and we can't stop trying because we just never know where this journey is going to take us and we never know what we're going to find along the way that we never expected it takes us in a different direction sometimes and we didn't get to Banff but we found this other place that was pretty darn neat so keep trying and you'll get somewhere cool and you will have progress even if it wasn't exactly what you're expecting


Good afternoon everyone. I am Shweta Yadav and today my topic of presentation is imaging in a patient with chronic lithium nephropathy. So, lithium salts are the mainstay of treatment of psychiatric disorder, majorly bipolar mood disorder. However, lithium has well-known pharmacological side effects and nephrotoxicity is one of the major adverse effects. About 20% of the patients on long-term lithium therapy can present with deranged serum creatinine and there is increased risk of progression to ESRD, which is end-stage renal disease. Lithium is one of the most common cause of nephrogenic diabetes in Cepidus and with rates of overt NDI being 12% in patients treated with lithium for 15 years and rates of lesser impairment such as polyuria or impaired renal concentrating ability seen in 19 and 54% respectively. The defect in urinary concentrating ability may be seen within 2-4 months after the initiation of therapy, but it becomes more prominent as duration of therapy progresses. Coming to imaging, ultrasound demonstrates mainly normal or decreased kidney volume slightly in increased cortical echogenicity and echogenic foci, which are distributed throughout renal parankaima, which may likely represent microsus that are below the resolution of ultrasound. Coming to cross-sectional imaging, MRI is more sensitive and compared to CT and T2 sequence of MRI can represent hyperintense foci, which are microsus distributed with heat, cortex and medulla of bilateral kidneys. CT has lower contrast resolution but more spatial resolution compared to MRI. But CT as such requires iodinated contrast agent, which increases the risk of contrast induced nephropathy in patients who is already having deranged serum creatinine. This ultrasound image depicts hyperaquid foci distributed within the renal parankaima, which are microsus below the resolution of ultrasound. And this T2 sequence of MRI represent microsus both in cortex and medulla and these are seen as hyperintense foci. Coming to our case report, there was a 60-year-old lady and she was having bipolar disorder. She was on lithium therapy for the past 20 years and now she was admitted in war with complaints of polyurea, polydipsy, and nocturia. Then lithium levels were done and lithium levels, the normal range of lithium level is 0.6 to 1.2 millimole per liter but this lady levels were 2.8 millimole per liter. Ultrasonic was done and kidneys were of normal size and punctate hyperaquid foci were seen on MRI, microsus, cortical and medullary multiples microsus were noted. Renal biopsy, although it is a global standard, was not done because in this patient, classical clinical history, presentation and radiological findings were enough to make the diagnosis of lithium nephropathy. Eventually, lithium was withdrawal and olenzapine was introduced as an alternative mood-stabilizing drug. Coming to discussion, lithium as such can cause focal interstitial nephritis and irreversible and progressive defect in urine-concentrating ability when taken chronically. Differential diagnosis, which should be considered for lithium-induced nephropathy includes simple renalysis, ADPKD or ARPKD medullary cystic kidney disease and long-term dialysis, which can be distinguished on the basis of number, location, size of cyst and clinical history. Lithium-induced nephropathy can be distinguished from glomerular cystic kidney disease as in glomerular cystic kidney disease, the cysts which are present are present only in cortex. It can be distinguished from ADPKD on the fact that in ADPKD the kidneys would be enlarged in size compared to lithium-induced nephropathy in which sizes of kidney would be normal or it might be reduced. Renal biopsy is core standard if there is a dilemma, but it is invasive in nature and there is a simple variability which is the limiting factor for renal biopsy and in our patient renal biopsy was not performed because of ethical reason. Conclusion, myelithym is the most efficacious drug for bipolar disorder. It is associated with significant toxicity, which is compounded by the need of patient with bipolar disorder to take chronic therapy to prevent relapse. MRI is highly effective as a diagnostic tool to demonstrate the morphological pattern of chronic lithium nephropathy and it can spare renal biopsy and in future it can also have a role in clinical management of patients treated with long-term lithium. So these are the references for my paper. Thank you and have a nice day.


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Hello everyone and thank you for joining us this evening if you're in that time zone or afternoon wherever you are Welcome to the final in the series of movement strategy implementation lightning talks In our session today. We have three speakers I will call out our speakers. Please just raise your hand and wave when I mention Your name Anthony is joining us today. You'll be speaking. Hello, Anthony. It's way Good Also joining us today is Mali from Wikimedia Norway Mali, please wave and also Nikki is joining us from Wikimedia Wave Nikki Anthony is joining us from Wikimedia Tanzania. We use a group In our session this in our session today, um, we will be you'll you'll listen to our speakers talk about You'll listen to our speakers talk about their ongoing projects They'll be Speaking about their movement strategy projects. These are projects that are happening across various communities currently And these are super tangible projects. You might have asked yourself the question if movement strategy is happening What does it look like and what does it actually mean? So in the session today, you'll hear about people who are leading or co-leading on these projects And you'll also learn about what movement strategy actually means in very practical terms Listen out for thoughts that our speakers will be sharing As they share about future goals and projects This is where you might find some inspiration or where you might find opportunities to connect collaborate or even develop some ideas for projects within your own community Some quick reminders that as you're listening and something comes to mind If there's anything you'd like to ask our speakers today, please drop the question in chat And when the speaker is done, we will ask the question or we will raise the question at the end At the end of the session each speaker will share their project challenges learnings and future goals So feel free. Yes as they're speaking to drop in your questions. Without further ado, we'll go to our first speaker this In this session. This is Anthony. Anthony over to you Thank you so much Yop As Yop introduced me, my name is Antoni Intervango from the Wikimedia community user in Tanzania And in my little background is that Um, I joined the Wikimedia movement six years ago And for this time I have been working together of collaboratively with other East African Wikimediants In case you're wondering what are the East African Wikimediants communities? We are about 11 countries Geographically, they are together and some of them are near Near to the East Africa region. So we term them as East African Wikicommunities and these things Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zambia Botswana, Congo and others so, um When I joined the Wikimedia movement and after realizing that there is this community within our region I realized that the challenge is We lack the collaboration and the coordination among ourselves in regard to Collaboration in doing Wikimedia foundation projects So next slide So the challenges that I saw and we saw and we are trying to solve or address Is community You know in the region we have like as I said Like 11 countries 11 which communities but only three of them are the Recognized user groups, which is Tanzania, Uganda and the Congo So we saw there are An equity in different scenarios such as capacity building and resources Distribution among these communities. So we decided to work together and in 2019 Two scenarios happened We had an in-person capacity building in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the same week we met for we met for movement strategy Summit in Kampala, Uganda That's where we now started like coming together. Okay guys, we have to unite and You know explore Some common challenges that we can solve together so Also, we I did some resources that can be and help us to solve the issue of underrepresented languages in our community or in our region currently we have so here is A unifying language that in most of these communities they do speak But here we have other languages that are not represented on the wiki platforms So we are working together using swiggy as a unifying language to make sure that Other languages as well that are underrepresented are being digitized So Is that In relation to movement strategy We are trying to experiment With new methods of community engagement, which is the establishment of East African Journal and the thematic hub regional meaning geographically were somewhat Located in a same area Plus the nearby countries Also thematic for the sense that we have a unified word which is swahili That the same time we thought there is a need to work together around Okay, next slide Yes, so what we learned from Working with these communities was that Speakers of endangered languages Have different ways of speaking and writing. So sometimes it's difficult to engage them collaboratively. So we're trying To reach each community individually through this project Which is east african regional and thematic hub Trying to understand what are the basic needs what are the basic problems The communities are first in areas also The Unstandardized the languages have different Varieties are difficult to deal with Sometimes when you are crying like okay, these communities are not represented in languages these languages sometimes They do lack You know written materials that can be used to digitize them also There are our fellow community members users of sign languages sometimes we are like difficult to engage them in one of the one or two of the Which is Assisted slide on areas Yes, so our future goals and the Projects that we are working on is we are trying to bridge the content And this is uh, we are working in the area of innovating in free knowledge to see what are the big What are the basic level of new ways that we can come up with To tackle the problem of lack of content depending on our local african languages As well as on swahili So we are trying to bring participation in bars From the underrepresented communities by having a structure that Act as an umbrella for all of us to learn Share knowledge share resources and so on Also, we are trying to see what are the topics that Are the matters to our region and as well as uh, as I said innovating free knowledge Coming allow people to come with new innovative ways how we can solve problems in our region east africa Next slide Yeah, so that's natural. That's what I can say and that's what we are doing in east africa currently And to finalize our project currently is only the phase of planning and research We want to investigate more we have we want to do some more detailed research to understand whether the people in east africa being called the east african region on the thematic hub And the what do they think whether it can be a solution to their problems So if you will have some questions, I'll be happy to answer later I can in here for now. Thank you back to you. Yo Thank you very much, antony definitely interesting to hear what's coming out of Um, the research at the moment and how you are planning Um to engage with the communities further down the line. Um, it would be nice to see how The east africa group or the east africa region Sort of comes uh comes together at a later point and what People end up prioritizing I do have a question, but we'll save that for the end of the session for everyone who's listening Don't forget while the speaker speaking don't you can drop in your question And I'll ask those questions When they're done There are no questions when I see in the chat at the moment So we'll go straight to our next speaker And that is nicky nicky over to you Thank you. Thanks for the opportunity to share today And I am working as part of the movement strategy and global relations team at wiki media germany And in that capacity I contributed to the project that we are talking about today And that project is called the capacity exchange Can you go to the next slide? Thank you So the capacity exchange is Which right now is being looked at for doing in europe, but we're also um The concept can be used anywhere and it can be scaled to any region Or in fact to the entire wiki media movement at some point Um So the idea Is Was developed in response or basically comes out of the movement strategy recommendation number six where it says Develop a peer matching platform so people can exchange capacities with each other And capacities here means skills knowledge Resources All kinds of things that you as median may have no Or have access to That another wiki median might benefit from so The idea is really that The wisdom and the experience and the knowledge is in the movement And we just need to find ways to find it And the way Is that we're trying to do that is by creating a a platform So I am dealing with a cat here. That's being very Um so The the the ideas to have a platform the way you can go on and you can enter your information Both files And then And then vice versa that My people who are looking for knowledge for tools for templates A coach or a mentor um Our grant writer example So Basically the exchange facilitates finding each other and then what happens after that We haven't really thought about that part yet too much But what happens after that is basically up to the people so they can support each other So Where we are at right now with this project is we have created a What software developers call a minimum viable product So we have used an existing software platform. That's what's called the open educational resources world map And have to change the categories and The word and some of the interfaces in it It's our own cloud. We can media cloud And we're like this close to having users test it We have to do a few things and a few translations But definitely Next know that two weeks from now we'll have a smaller user group test it and then We also have a little clinic at the wicking yet summit in september where other people can test it And that we do that we can receive some feedback both on How does it work does it make sense to feel all right? and also So for the user experience as well as And on the categories that are in the platform um Once we receive that feedback I think we see the project moving to the next stage where we will probably need some more software development You know improve it make it better launch it for basic hallway comedians want to try using it And i'm finding a fiscal home for the for this next phase. So that's currently our challenge is to find a an affiliate who would like to Be the applicant for a movement strategy implementation grant and take this to the next level Um, and that seems to be harder than we thought To find that affiliate But we really feel like the next phases should be staffed. So there should be somebody taking care of the project and We can no longer do it with a group of volunteers or people who have A very limited amount of time to put into this I now you can go the next slide Oh, this is our logic model. So i'm not going to walk you through that because it's You're gonna have a headache and it's like really small on this too But you can find that logic model and other information about the capacity exchange and how to contact us On our meta page, of course And if you would like to be part of the test user group, we'd love to welcome you We have like a session for that on august 26. So Uh send us a A note and we'll add you to the test user group So challenges I wasn't sure if This question was about the challenges we're trying to address with our project or the challenges that we're trying to Face that we're facing as we're trying to do this project. So um But one challenge that we definitely see and that also has been discussed Um during movement strategy During the writing of the recommendations is Can we get people in the movement to use a platform that is not meta? Um full knowing full well knowing that meta does not have the features that we Are looking for in this platform, you know, we're looking for more interactive features and A certain level of curation as well. So it's not This project we don't see it happening on a wiki Because we want it to be Searchable we want people to be findable And so for for a number of reasons and also because during movement strategy Formation a lot of people who who provided input into the skills and leadership development topics said Please Use something else. Let's not use meta for this The same goes for the knowledge base. That's also part of strategy recommendation six So we're sticking our head out that window and going to see if people will accept the Not meta thing that we're doing um Again, another challenge is finding a temporary home for the project So like a fiscal sponsor or somebody who wants to write that grant and administer and Incubated so to speak through the next phase So if you are running a chapter wink wink to norway And you want to you want to run this project for the next couple of years before then I see it And that's just my vision But I see it being added to a hub at some point or becoming part of a capacity building hub So I see those this next phase as a temporary phase as well So, um That's basically what I wanted to share with you today Um, if you're coming to the wiki media summit, please join our testers if you want to um Do that before august 26 and as a message Through a meta page and we're super excited testing this This project and seeing if it can help Really sort of build the social capital and build mutual aid and solidarity and connections across our movement So we can really become a movement Um Where people have an opportunity to support each other Thank you. Oh, what I meant Okay There's only so much you can achieve achieve as volunteers um That's basically I said this, you know, we're a small group of volunteers wiki media ireland wiki media netherlands Croatia And and germany and at this point we need to move the project onto more solid footing And so we need to be clear about the resources for the next phase of the project But this is all sort of project mechanics. What's important is that we try this and that wiki medians Make use of it Thank you. Now i'm done All right, um, thank you very much niki. This is an interesting project. Um, and you know, uh, I I did get the opportunity to look through um the diagram that um Was too tiny and complicated but for anyone who's interested, I would say take the time to look through that diagram It's a really interesting theory of change. Um, is the way I would put it Um, niki, would you agree? Uh, it's a really interesting theory of change I think um, anyone would do well to take a good look at it, especially if you're um, sort of interested in uh skills in capacity exchange at some level And interested in seeing how your communities can find the best tools and resources to build their own capacities Um and see how that would work taking a systems lens approach within the movement. Thank you very much, niki For sharing that. Um, we will uh, do we have any questions? I think we do have one question here There's one question from tila. Can you can you read it or should I read it out for you? Oh, it's super tiny. Yes, I can read it out. I think I can read it. Um I Zoomed in I got found the trick on feed loop and you can zoom During a session. Uh, so the question niki is regarding not using meta for their project Could ms forum be useful for you in any way? And if yes, how? Hmm Um, I think not because we're we're that's a it's a different Animal, I think ms forum is a forum for conversation Whereas the capacity exchange is basically a database So it's a database of um Of people and organizations and skills and resources um And so in the in that sense, it's not a social network Um, I think I can see it, you know being complementary to the forum for sure And being complementary to the knowledge base whoever is going to hopefully build that in the near future um But yeah, I don't unless the forum has like secret Magic powers that I haven't figured out yet, but I what we're really looking at is it is creating a database All right Thank you. Um secret magic powers to the ms forum. Let's add that to platform upgrades, please Thank you very much niki for sharing and Without any further questions on q at the moment, we'll go to our last but definitely not police speaker In the section mali over Hello Thank you job. Um, thank you for the introduction and I just want to start with niki. I will follow up on that We'll definitely sign up for the user group. It sounds very interesting But for now, my name is mali. I'm from ikimedia norge and today I am gonna present to you the language diversity hub project, so You can go to the next slide, please We launched the idea of the language diversity hub last year And without really knowing what the hub is or going to be or what it is and maybe It will totally change the name Um, it's not so important what we have seen for a long time and not only we in mikimedia norge when I say we We are a group of of many people from different language communities That has been involved in the small and the new language versions of micropedia and what has been clear for a long time Is that there are challenges. There are barriers. It's difficult to be a small language and especially in indigenous language with only extra you might have in the history so There is a need in the movement to take care of those languages and When the movement strategy initiatives came and the hubs was a part of that That is like a open door we grasped it So the language diversity hub might be something else than a hub, but for now we are using that name Uh, just to have that clear And if you want to know more Uh, we had actually a presentation earlier today in one of the other tents. It was my colleague yon haral and uh, also sadik Presenting and they will go more Deep into the research we're into but um Last year we applied for a movement strategy implementation grant and We have this enormous ambition of being a fantastic support structure to make it easy for small languages to have their own wikipedia Um, but uh to get there we kind of have to know What their problems are So we decided we are gonna do We want to identify what the small languages thinks of as barriers When they are trying to use wikipedia um And to do that we decided well, we have to talk to them. So we are doing 13 group interviews Um, I mean with 13 different language communities that we have specifically chosen for this purpose And to make them tell us in their own words Um, what is difficult? What uh, or not only what is difficult but what is working we want to talk to them about their motivations We want to understand How is the process that they write in wikipedia Through this we hope to find Specific technical barriers that we can solve hopefully quite quickly We want hope to find things that Where we can make one solution that fits many And we hope that we might find that someone has solved something in one corner of the world And that solution can be shared amongst other because that is when We are a hub because in the end the hub is Bridges and multiple bridges where traffic and information flows freely So this very much resonate with what nikki has been talking about that we are And I actually I wrote on what you said We have so much knowledge and wisdom in this movement But we don't know how to make it flow well to the ones who really need it and With all the language barriers that are between Those smaller language communities The flow is even harder so So that's it challenges We want to see the barriers that are limiting Smaller language communities to really thrive on wikipedia to really use those fantastic tools that we have We want to explore how we can be a hub a multilingual hub moving between all the continents and all these languages And of course we want to work towards knowledge equity and equity in decision making we want to make The money also flow towards where it needed So it can be used in the way that is best for the communities In whatever ways we can do that so of course everything that Anthony was saying earlier today is I mean we are all we are so many actually working with the same issues, but we are on so many different levels and That is definitely also a challenge. We are trying to Be a part of the solution here. How can All of us that are working with the same thing come together And build the same bridge instead of building many small bridges and not knowing about each other Um Yes, please the next slide And I'm sorry if I'm talking too fast. I have a tendency to do that Uh, what have we learned? Well, we haven't gotten too many research results or interviews back yet So I don't have any like concrete Problems that we are going to fix Uh, but what we have definitely learned is that there are so many other groups Thinking the same thoughts Working towards I mean wanting Something like this language diversity hub Um And we see that we have to do a lot of work aligning To make sure that everyone is included and to make sure that everybody hears About us too. So we are not establishing tons of similar structures When we could actually work together Um, we are getting good feedback Uh, so we are sure that a structure like the language diversity hub Is needed. Uh, but of course we are very open to Develop it further and of course that is what this grant is about. So We are very open for everyone who wants to join for everyone who wants to Um tell us share an idea Yeah We have one more collaboration Going on with wiki tongues. So we have gotten a grant Together with them And I want to invite others who want to do projects and are not sure How to do it alone to to Contact us and maybe we can do stuff together Yeah, because the collaboration is a key here Can you move on please? um Yes, so the the first um The first project the first goal here now is is to be a loud speaker amplifier I feel Uh, especially in the beginning of this process. Um, that it was very common to say We have this problem. We have put it in fabricator. We have been saying this needs to be fixed And no one listens It doesn't come through it Is not prioritized because maybe it's a tiny Little group or a person that don't know enough people that are saying it and they don't come through so we hope that We can be that kind of amplifier to put all the voices together to make sure that um The technological solutions are being prioritized to make to make Changes changes faster to suit the smaller language communities and I have called it short term and long term It might be the wrong terminology, but At least a short term goal is to be bridging the gaps in content bridging the gaps in in participation for wiki projects by Finding solutions to make more people being able to participate. So that is something that we are Working on that we will be working on all the time and and more when we actually know what might be limiting for people The long term goal with this whole project is that it's an independent structure We are many and i'm not going to start naming names because i'm afraid to forget someone but We have handpicked um, like an interim steering committee last year after we organized the arctic notes conference We have chosen people who have Knowledge who have passion who have a track record who have worked with um language diversity for a while so We knew they knew a lot and they had issues they had things they wanted to be fixed So they have already been saying this needs with and this needs with an um And the long term goal is that wiki media and nori gay is not going to be the the the horse pulling this wagon It's an independent unit within our movement that is governed by good democratic structures as a proper wiki media something so um It's an honor to be in a tiny little affiliate up here in the North not so cold at the moment, but colder than most of the world Uh, and to be able to pull this forward like Cornelius was mentioning earlier. This is an important Thing for our movement and I look forward to set the sales and and see More people aboard and see where we are are gonna reach Yes, I think that was all for me. Yep. Thanks you for listening and I look forward for questions Thank you very much as well. Mali. Thank you so much. Um, your work is always super interesting Um, and always definitely interesting to learn. Um, what you are learning as you're speaking and Engaging in our communities Um, I'm looking in the chat. Do we have any questions? um I see one from tiller Is that a question? Oh, okay tiller just added some more information. Um for those who might be interested All right, so we have 15 minutes Uh to go in the session today. I do have a few questions and don't forget you can drop questions in the chat for us because I'll come back to you Anthony From what you shared earlier on while you shared about what you were learning I'm curious if there are any further insights on the users of sign language Um, you mentioned that they're difficult to engage with Are there anything is there anything that you're finding? Are there any pieces that are coming through doesn't have to be Hello, Anthony. Did you get my question? Sorry, yop. I think there was a delay a bit. Can you repeat again? Okay, um, so the question was about you know from what you shared about what you're learning Um, you mentioned about insight. You mentioned something about Users of sign language Um, I find often that sometimes we we mentioned languages sign language is not on that list too often It's like yop is breaking up Is yop just frozen for me or is it all for you for you guys too? Okay for all of us Um, Anthony, did you get the question that uh, she was trying to phrase? No, okay. Anyway, you're she was asking about Language speakers and why it is difficult to work with them and what you've learned about working with them All right. Thank you for the So if carnarius, can you rephrase again the question from yop because she didn't break um She she found it very interesting. She was about to say that the she was interested in the insights on the users of sign language and um And she said uh that you've mentioned that they are difficult to engage with you have said this and so Do you have any ideas how to engage them? in the wikis on wiki all right, so, um, I said, um One of the areas that you are seeking to work on through this project that we are doing currently which is african and one of the matters Is trying to invest on the area of innovating in a free knowledge So the wiki media movement so far is trying hard to include the one within this movement uh irrespectively of the physical status or mental status or something so it becomes Something interesting to find out. I don't have answers yet But it is one of the things that we want to find out through this project like how do we bring this knowledge language gaps Through these people who are not conversing with through the national ways that we use so What I can say is Maybe after this project we can come up with some ideas from people from the community members Because that's what exactly we're going to do engage them Listen to them. What are the other problems facing communities? And how do you think this thing the innovation or the? Regional arithmetic hub can help them So We are trying to find out. I don't have the clear answers for now But it is what we are trying to find. How can we make everyone inclusive in this movement? I don't know if your point did answer your question And at some point it's uh, it's interesting Yes, it's an additional point You find that there is You have the You want to include people maybe let's say on wiki editathons Create some content or something But the problem is how do you communicate with them? How do you teach them? We the trainers ourselves. We don't know Sign languages And there is a real scarcity of these people who knows Sign languages But I hope and I have confidence that As we go As long as we we set some good environment for these people to be found to help us on these areas Someday At some time we can include them on this movement in any way So let's stay tuned for that for innovative ideas around that area. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you, Anthony. Yes, it's like you said like you said What we're all learning and I've spoken You know with the few people from other communities for instance, um, Tony and carol um In mausadonia trying to address a similar similar issue. I think my network is still a bit problematic But if you can hear me Cornelius you Uh, I know you have a question for mali. Maybe you can ask that I can uh, yeah the question I had was I'm I was interested how you as a as a We can be at Norway as the as an affiliate in And the so-called global north in europe will ensure equity In your future hub structure when dealing with small language communities that um, let's say Yeah, and the so-called global south. How do you how do you Manage the implicit or explicit power dynamics Do you have an idea for that? Yes, yeah, yeah, it's a very It is a very good question and it's a very It's something we are very mindful of constantly So when we were putting together the the steering committee, we were trying to I mean, we were really looking to have a balanced gender global south different kinds of communities and so I'm not sure if it can ever be perfect But I think the most important is that to keep that constant. I mean to keep asking ourselves Who is not represented now and who needs to be here and who is not at the table? and And be actively asking because it's easy to be Easy to be compliant and say hey, but we are doing a good job and this is fine, but we always have to be just Um asking the questions here having the discussions within the group Um At first we are a very privileged country up in the north But an advantage is that we also are a pretty small language. We are good in English Um, so that's a huge advantage being in norway, but we know how it is to be small in some parts. We are Nobody else speaks Norwegian. Why would they? Um, we have two written languages in Norway So we can always, um, somehow know how it is to be kind of on the sideline But we are so privileged in so many other ways and we are trying to use that privilege to Lift up the other voices. So I hope that it will not be me presenting this for many years in the future We need We want others to be representing And we have that. Um, yeah It's a good question though Cornelius No, thank you. Thank you. I hope that's share more next next day as wikimania like interesting to see if you could Besides the work on the hub And share these reflections On that level on that question because I think that's something many others can learn from Um Okay, um, sorry about that. I was saying yes. The conversation is super interesting. So it was um, nice to listen to you um, both and interesting thoughts there Mali John who's um, John who's in the chat says there's a test wikipedia in american sign language In the wikimedia in cubata and there's a link there It would be good for By the way, yarn works with Is coal of coal project partner with Mali on this project. So He's just sharing some updates some more updates from the project Um, I do have a question now for for you niki This is you know, just regarding the next and the plans for the capacity exchange program Um, you you put out a call to action for affiliates that might be interested in in taking this forward. So I'm curious Um, while I know, uh, Mali has said yes Others who might be interested What might an affiliate consider or put take to you know, um What are the criteria what would be needed? What kinds of capacities might be needed to implement this this work and Um, besides perhaps interest, yeah, but what are you looking out for? Um, what do you think of an affiliate should think about if they think of taking this forward? Yeah, I mean We're certainly open to to anyone who feels passionate about capacity building and you know wants to take this forward I'm hoping that we can find an affiliate with asking capacity so One of the things we talked about in the capacity building working group Is that capacity building initiatives for the waking media movement are always so fleeting and they're never sustainably Funded and and they're never sustained and you know Somebody does something on meta and then some people fill it out and then it's gone again and um, so There was a very strong sentiment that this needs to be Um, sustainably funded and for me Part of that is also Sustainably staffed So a person who's more than a contractor, but a person who has some job security through the funding And has you know, maybe a two-year time frame to take it to the next level um That would That would be ideal Obviously, we can't always have ideal so we'll we'll see what happens But I'd yeah, I'd like to see that sort of sustainability and continuity and stability mostly I guess for for the next phase of the project and Yeah, so so an affiliate who has you know, the ability to hire a person and pay benefits and And sustain this project for a couple years all right, okay sustainability and Making sure that this this can be handled for the next couple of years I would You know, we have about two minutes to go and we're about wrapping up on this We'll just sort of throw out something open to our speakers today. Um, if there's mali if there's anything you'd like to Based on the conversation so far And what you shared Yeah, I just I want to pick up this on sustainability from nikki because That is one of the things we see that When we as an affiliate can run can push this language hub forward We secure that sustainability for a while to get it going so For other initiatives, um I see that I mean that is a huge advantage that we have and we are very grateful and very Conscious and I see that yeah for other strategies as important super important to secure that So, uh, I hope you find it At least contact us And Anton Yes, thank you Thank you. Yes. I have something to say And it is the one thanks To my fellow colleagues, uh, who are the core team? on organizing or working on east african regional thematic hub Douglas is a burglar and the weenie cabinte. They have been supportive also to thank all communities that are involved East african communities I encourage them to be staying tuned for the upcoming research and planning For this project. So thank you. That's all from me for now Thank you to antony and final words for me niki My god the pressure Thanks so much for this for the session I want to thank the cobalt conspirators and this capacity exchange project And I hope to have lots and lots of more to join us. Thank you All right Who's listened in today? The session slides will be uploaded on comments and have been uploaded to the programs as well Feel free to reach out to the movement strategy and governance team to discuss any inspiring ideas you might have for For your community Thank you. Cornelius Throwing out some questions my has been my partner and support in all three lightning talk sessions And I tell you it wouldn't go as fantastically at his as gone as it has gone without Cornelius So thank you so much Cornelius. He's the man and the voice behind the slides Um as well, uh, don't forget you can also reach the movement strategy and governance team. You can reach us via email Um at any time to discuss your ideas discuss your plans that are related to movement strategy implementation


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So super great pleasure to be here despite what John says. I'm actually not that busy, so No, I'm actually thrilled to be here so I'll start with a Very brief sort of summary of ancestry and hopefully put in context some of the lessons that I have been part of learning and been along for a long For the ride for for a lot of these things, but but it's been a Fantastic journey as I as I'll try to talk about a little bit today Watching and helping the evolution of our organization become better faster More responsive to our customers and frankly just more effective at delivering on our mission So we're one of those interesting internet businesses that's been around for 17 years And I think we largely Invented the commercial category of online family history people have been doing family history forever literally and And and but but we have over the past, you know, 17 years In a series of waves we think really revolutionized How people do it and with that the number of people that can do it and and Really proud of the fact that as the category leader We take very seriously our responsibility to be the category innovator as well So we have about 2.7 million paying subscribers around the world About a third of that is outside the United States The core of the business is a phenomenal collection of digitized historical content Supplemented by family trees that people build and upload to our site Supplemented by all the media that people scan on their own and upload to our site and share with the rest of that community so 12 billion record count is our is our latest number and that's sort of a again an aggregation of about 55 million individual family trees and About a hundred and seventy five million Individually scanned Documents photographs stories that people write and upload to their own family tree and then most of the time Share that with the rest of the community And we did just under about under five hundred million dollars in revenue last year Which I think most people are a little surprised that answers trees as large as it is But family history is you know one of those things that's pretty universal So this is our mission and our mission is to Help everyone everyone hopefully discover preserve and share their family history And and obviously this mission, you know underpins Almost everything we try to do with the company, but I think it's also particularly relevant to this topic today because to do this We have to pretty massively Evolve or really move forward in more revolutionary steps the actual product experience on ancestry family history Even with all the years of investment that we've we've made is still something that is Hard to do and and frankly most of our subscribers love the fact that it's a challenge and a journey of discovery but this vision has a view that We really want to make it something that anyone can do including those sizable populations of folks that don't want to invest the same amount of time that don't come to family history with the genealogist hobbyist mentality And therefore we want to make it something that's you know that it isn't today that is easy universally accessible and a whole lot of magic sort of behind that technology therefore innovation constant innovation speed of innovation is It's not too dramatic to say is the only thing that matters in terms of driving growth in the future We do a lot. We spend a lot of money marketing, but marketing only Essentially matches the innovations and the evolution of that value proposition. It's not going to grow the market for us It's going to be successful at helping us grow the market But at the core of our business mission to deliver on this mission We have to innovate and we have to create new product experiences Constantly that are better and better and better to appeal to more and more people over time so in talk and so therefore before you know this topic these topics that That I've been you know learning about from John and others over the past several years Have become absolutely critical to like how we view our future going forward So before I talk about going forward or today. I want to wind the clock back to 2006 and talk about as an example of what we don't do anymore a massive audacious ambitious Giant project that we took on in 2006 when we recognized that wow It was time for ancestry to pivot away from just being a place that people search for records and access a Incredible collection to a place that you know now people could begin to store their own family history and have family trees and upload Their own content and share that content with other members of the community so real pivot in there in the whole You know core the value proposition and and this was a so we had a long list of ideas which became a long list of requirements and we wrote those requirements and off we went and This project was a long project. I think it was something like six months or more And it was interesting a lot of learnings and a lot of lessons. So why do we do it this way? Well as I said We envisioned that we needed change we needed a ton of change and so our idea was just to do it Do it all in one big giant leap forward We also kind of had to do it that way Given the technology and the architecture and infrastructure that we had at the time There wasn't a real ability to No services not not a whole bunch of services sort of underpinning the systems And so we were pretty locked into doing it in that sort of classical way I think our culture at the time and Certainly, you know my own experience was to do it this way. I had never heard. I'm not a technologist I should have said that sort of at the top of this But I didn't know anything about agile or or any of the things that we have since Adopted as sort of core to our development process in patience I think incorrectly we viewed that We had a lot to do and we needed to just do it all at once right because we just it was just a huge Leap forward for us and then as I said, I didn't know any better and So that was the way we were going to do this. So what are the problems with this approach? I'm pretty sure this slide is Pretty familiar to everyone here Tremendous risk, right? I mean we didn't wait in a project like this That is a major revamp of an entire consumer experience You really hope it launches. Okay, right and doesn't blow up and and I've been involved with previous companies major match.com 2.0. We rolled out one night at one in the morning and rolled it back at five in the morning and that was not a pretty sight and not a fun experience To You know This was not a this was a long process as I said This was about a six-month development cycle and so it certainly isn't an example of rapid development probably the biggest problem is that We had no idea whether consumers would actually like the new ancestry after six months of development and work we Sprung it on consumers a little bit of research in advance and I would say that they loved Two-thirds of it and about a third of it They were ready to attack our building with pitchforks because there were certain facets of this experience that they just didn't like and we didn't have the opportunity to gather continuous ongoing feedback from them as we were building it And then lastly, you know, there's a lot of change at once and so an ancestry is not a simple site Nor was it a simple site even you know six years ago or seven years ago a lot of dependencies a lot of teams Running around trying to build different features that were inter interdependent on each other So it was it was complex. It was hard So really I would say that the cobalt experience which by the way, let me say it was a massively six it was a massively successful set of changes. It was very painful but it to a very real extent set ancestry off on a new direction which You know has allowed us to grow as successfully as we've grown over the last six or seven years But I think we recognized in that experience that we had to do things differently We needed to get stuff to market faster. We needed to break up that change and get bits and pieces of it to market faster and and And essentially make smaller changes all the time on an ongoing basis And to that point that I mentioned earlier We really needed to have a process that was much more connected to consumer feedback So that we could in real time Figure out whether these wonderful ideas that we had come up with to advance the service were in fact ones that advanced the consumer experience And and as I said before we had a lot of systems that had to change a lot of time And so we had to have systems that could allow us to Change different systems in parallel And so our view was this thing called agile really is the way to go Now before I go to let me go back to this page and say so this was launched summer of 2006 and I would say that for a couple of years we we tried to Bring agile into our company and have the culture sort of migrate to that and I and I'd say honestly Over most of that time We were not terribly successful and I think because we were trying to Put in place new systems, and I'm not sure that we were attacking The things that really needed to change with the culture. So now fast forward to March 2010 and I'll sort of take you through You know a brief three-year timeline of really what has been a pretty phenomenal transformation at our company So it really began, you know in this March 2010 John who was kind enough to introduce me and make up a bunch of stuff about me joined our company as Director of Agile development and John's role was to you know try to turn this company on to this system of Development and I think that involved obviously rolling out you know scrum and lean practices But but more importantly You know doing what we thought was necessary to sort of evolve the culture and have the culture adopt this new system So then really the next nine months after we started on this journey really focused on educating people and I would say that You know this was a process of more than anything else John parachuting into group by group by group at the company And coaching teaching you know inspiring probably wrapping a few people on the knuckles every once in a while to try to get teams you know teaching teams how to operate in this way and Inspiring them to want to operate in this way and I think one of the things I can say about this nine month period is that this was a time as an observer right sort of outside of this education process it was Incredibly tangible how much? enthusiasm and excitement Got lit up team by team as they sort of adopted these new ideas and new way of working together And it really was the beginning of a wave of excitement and enthusiasm for For buildings products at ancestry The last two years so nine months into this process. I think the attention at our company turned to Really pushing these ideas out through the whole company so agile for the for the enterprise And what did that mean? architecture to start with and I think what we realized is to really take the ideas that Benefit a divin to build projects and extend them throughout the whole company and impact the way the whole company operated Was not as easy as just coaching the marketing team and other teams. It really did require some fundamental evolution of A lot of things including architecture, so you know, we were a fairly systems centric architecture company not really a Whole lot of services built in place to allow us to to move over quickly. So this was a huge area that we needed to change infrastructure You know really really hard to implement Agile across an enterprise when you're manually Configuring systems and manually Rebooting system so a ton of work to do there DevOps You know during this period we were a public company for most of that period we're now a private company we had Mike Schreffer the CTO Facebook on our board and And I know this was you know We tried to connect Mike to Scott sorenson our CTO and did connect to a bunch and in our teams And this was one of the real areas that I I remember Learning from Mike that this idea of DevOps the idea of taking really extending Agile into the technology operations groups and having You know DevOps folks part of these teams and it was a huge important advancement as well And then continuous delivery. I mean this again, I think probably core to the theme of this conference The idea that we really needed to begin to automate the rollout of new Delivery of technology breaking roles into smaller pieces and really Enabling teams to be able to push content push new features out Sort of at the time that they think is right rather than waiting for you know our once a month or every two week roll So now fast forward to a project that we took on last year And this was the the launch of an incredibly important content collection in ancestry The 1940 census and so a little bit of context as to why you know 1940 was important to us at the time So the 1940 census obviously is something or a census something's taken every ten years held by the National Archives of Census Bureau in fact for 72 years and then released to the public And so we hadn't released a u.s. Census in ten years Ten years ago. We were a very different company. There really weren't a lot of competitors this time around The category had developed there were we knew there were going to be multiple players in our space also alongside ancestry Releasing indexing and digitizing that census and releasing it to the public and from a you know Defensive perspective we felt like this was the first time in a long time that you know small disruptive competitors might be able to make a little bit of noise in the space and chip away at What is a you know very very strong market position here in the United States? So we realized we really needed to do something awesome and do a lot of awesome things for the 1940 census so I Think this was I think the first time that we Really implemented sort of continuous deployment of a whole host of systems, and I think there were something like 40 individual services That were rolled out over a period of four months a lot of them behind the scenes in advance of the release of this 1940 census I Think there was one team in fact that was able to make You know five updates to their system in the course of one day thanks to the continuous delivery Adoption so I'd say this was incredibly successful for us and Really I think in a lot of ways cemented The commitment to this way of operating at ancestry so What are the lessons that I think we have learned at a company so or at our company? First and foremost, I think it is really about culture and it is about sort of the emotional and psychological commitment to Operating in a very very different way to Our goal as I said at the very beginning is to build a lot of great stuff and build it roll out new features and Radically transform How people do family history the way to do that? small bits at a time right the I the the the the the idea that we can on paper design You know the new ancestry ancestry 3.0 and roll it out and all once is now in our past To we've gotten really good at this of rolling out, you know small bits of Innovation having customers react to it further moving further down the road map if they like it and course correcting if they don't and You know importantly much less risk We're now, you know significantly larger significantly more complex than we were even seven years ago when we were rolling out cobalt and we can't afford frankly to Make giant roles that break ancestry and have us go down For you know any period of time and then I would say perhaps, you know most importantly and this Echoes what I said a moment ago about the enthusiasm the energy that I think we observed as you know individual teams Got the agile thing right and really started working together More innovation which comes from being able to actually realize a technology or product vision faster at the company Has led to a you know massively happier company. I think one of the huge frustrations Circa 2006 was how hard it was to get anything done at ancestry how long it took to get anything done and Look, we have a lot of incredibly smart passionate people at ancestry and to shackle them and not allow not enable them to You know push out their vision and bring new features to customers was incredibly frustrating at the time today You know, I think it's safe to say There's probably as there's more energy more enthusiasm for the company than there ever has been frankly because we're just able to do more stuff We're able to move from initial vision of something to it's in front of consumers faster because of these changes But we're not out of the woods. We have oops. I think I just turned that off. There we go wrong button We but we still have challenges. We have not Fixed we have not repaid all of our code debt to Move off of some of our level legacy technologies. There's still some major systems that That that are you know sort of old code that really need to be updated fix And now we're a company with lots and lots of brands and everything I've been talking about is ancestry calm But as we've acquired a number of services over the years and as we've launched new ones We're left with Not quite a hodgepodge, but certainly a great number of brands and great number of systems Many of which are not operating in this manner. So this is one of our great challenges going forward is to Is to is to push out this the discipline of this way of operating to the rest of our company? And that's it. So thank you, and I think we have a few minutes for questions or an extended break


Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and I am here today with a copycat recipe for Jimmy Dean biscuit roll-ups. So what you're going to need are eggs, you're going to need some sausage, some cheese and you're going to need jumbo biscuits. Make sure that you don't get the flaky biscuits, you just want the regular biscuits this time around.  All right, so let's put these biscuit roll-ups together. So here I've got my sausage, I've got it draining, got my scrambled eggs right here. I've opened up my can of biscuits and as far as my cheese is concerned, I cut the block of cheese in half and then lengthwise I cut these little strips just like this and now I'm going to cut the little strips in half just like this.  So the first thing you're going to do is take some egg and it's easier just to do it with your hands, your nice clean hands.  I've got mine aligned with parchment paper but as you can see it was pretty easy just to fold over and I'm going to do the next one and just kind of tuck and roll it like a burrito. So I am going to work on the rest of these off camera and then I will be back. All right, they're all rolled up. I'm going to pop them in the oven. I have my oven preheated to 350 degrees and I'm just going to bake them until they're golden brown around 20 minutes or so. All right, so here are the biscuit roll-ups. I baked them for exactly 20 minutes and this is how they turned out. Now I will say do make sure that you tuck in the biscuits underneath the biscuit when you're rolling them up because this one and one other one I didn't. I wasn't careful and as you can see it's not a nice cylinder shape like the others are but I did cut it open so you guys can see what it looks like on the inside and it looks so good. Can't wait to dig into these. I hope you all enjoyed this video. Like I said, I have a whole playlist of quick and easy make ahead breakfast ideas that I have posted in the description box so definitely make sure to check them out. If you like this video please make sure to give us a thumbs up that really helps us out and if you have not subscribed to our channel I certainly hope you'll do so. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time.


There's a visit in a place called Berry the Hatchet in which people can rent space in the club and throw axes at targets. Apparently bowling isn't enough. Is this a sign of growing affluence in our culture? Affluence, I don't see that. My guess is it's a game that the Vikings started when they were really, really, really poor and bored, and they would throw axes at trees. I think it's a sign of, I don't know that affluence is the right word. The people are bored. The people don't know what to do with themselves. The people are seeking, you know, weirder and weirder physical challenges. I guess, right? Because the physical challenges they face are either not enough or they want the, what's the word I'm looking for? There's something different, there's something unique. They crave that for some reason, but I think that's usually a sign of, life's not that interesting for them, right? Go read a book, guys. Stop throwing axes at targets and go read a book.  But why are you throwing axes, really? Anyway, I mean, I can't condemn it, but it does seem to me like a bored culture. Oh, thanks for the extra $10. Let's see, I had one more.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industries down 56, Nasdaq off 10, S&P's down 7, bottom line to get a sideways day out here today with light volume. Gold contract down 6 bucks straight and at $1315 an ounce. You have silver down 13 cents, $15.53 an ounce. Light sweet crude up 31 cents, $57.24 a barrel. Notes and bonds, you get the 10-year note down 5 ticks, 121.24, 30-year bond off 13 at 145.05. Let's go take a look at this 10-year first because what we had out here yesterday folks is this, is that you had huge price spread and you didn't have the volume on the way down. Now, what we're getting out here today is tremendously lighter volume. Oh, I see what's going on too, okay, so where, which, I got to bring up the next contract because we're rolling over these contracts here, that's, that's what's also going on. Okay, so we'll bring this over. Right now you get it down 5 ticks, this one, this contract does have light volume. I'll bring up the, the, the roll as we're doing this roll up here. So to, to, there we go, okay, so, okay, so now we're going to be on the M contract. And you have 2 million contracts, well, you get some volume here, there's no doubt. 121.30 is going to be the number to keep your eye on. We hit, we hit 129, 121.29. Let's see where this shakes up. Kingdoller, Kingdoller is still having a hard time holding price, we had out here, you had some good price spread out here with Kingdoller today. Now what you're going to have with Kingdoller is that you have a lower low and you have volume behind the move. We get down to 95, 715, you're at 7, 21,000 contracts out here. So that's saying that good old Kingdoller does want a lower price. This is deviant, there's no doubt about this, meaning the aspect of we got up to a high today of 96, 195, you get a low of 95, 715, and we're right there at 96. But what that sets up is that you have that lower low and you get volume behind the move. We take a look at the S&P sideways move, bottom line, sideways move, no action. And tomorrow, March 1st, we'll see whether they can do some window breaking or window dressing.