Okay, so we're going to talk about the new era of scum master. Yeah, let's see What is it? So the new era of scrum master first of all is a dojo model. We are it's a model developed in Ajime by a trained agile coaches from Industry field and experience and let's jump right in Okay So this is us if anyone wants to Address us later on and these are our emails and in the discuss Discussion we can share also our phones and without further ado Let's jump in so Let's just begin with an in mind as we always do an agile. Let's see what we're going to go through We want to go Scrum master role. This is an advanced conference and we assume that everyone knows what we're talking about But we want to adjust the scrum master role as we see it according to the methodology The gaps between the theory and the practical word. There is a the scrum guide Is nice and it's very Teaching but there is always you can see some kind of glitch some kind of gap between the theory and the practical world then we will go and get as familiarized with the five levels of a scrum master and More reported more important get self-awareness Which level we are which is basically something that we are trying to do in every stage every place in agile every Way that we go we try to raise to ourselves to the PO to the team The awareness and how to move and assess from one level to a higher level Very important to understand not only what are you but also how to move from level to world So basically it starts with awareness and after the awareness of what is the current level We need to understand how to move from one level to another So This is from any questions Can you guide us and give us a little brief of what is a scrum By the way, do they see our mouse? Perhaps maybe so when we're talking about A scrum we're talking about this whole mess of things that we are trying to make an order in Which basically the scrum master would be the guy who? Conducts everything who keeps all this mess all the PO's throwing things from one place to another All the team bearers trying to take from the sprint backlog to the product backlog and vice versa He's the guy who's keeping things intact is the by the way there and pointing as if you see where I'm pointing Which is a nice He's the guy in the yellow yellow shirt and pants on the left In front we having the sprint. Okay, which is the heartbeat we have a Daily meeting each and every day we having a daily meeting order to synchronize Things at the end of the sprint. We are having a review meeting Right, you know there's for the PO to either approve or reject If it be approved it goes to the increment basket if it now it goes back to the product backlog and why product backlog? Because we have no idea Whether it will be relevant in the next print. This is the reason why we hand it to the product backlog Excellent after the review we do a retrospective that its main purpose is To improve we want to improve and the action items goes into the team backlog Not all of the people are aware of it Okay, but he is not part of the theory. It's the practical approach the team backlog contains all kind of things For example refactoring or upgrade the version or anything that usually the PO Is not aware or is not concerned about them Then we have the planning in which We plan the full sprint and as you see the guys the small guys from the team take from the team backlog from the from the Release backlog from the back backlog bug backlog. Everything is negotiable To put into the small basket of the spring backlog In other words during the planning We take from all different types of user story. It is called class of service in which We produce the sprint backlog Okay, the sprint backlog Is basically the commitment for the incoming sprint and yes We plan we do the planning meeting of sprint number of 42 for example, okay In or at the end of sprint number 41 Why is that? Because we found out that People are much more efficient when arriving Monday morning Already know what to do in the sprint rather than to arriving Monday morning and start to plan what they are doing Apologies for interruption It would be great if you can just turn on your video so that people can also see Now you see it now see us Excellent We're all the time trying to be in the center of the camera. Yeah, you are Revealing the truth discussions Let us knows because we are presenting and we are trying to pay attention for the discussion Okay, good. So we continue in our mission. Okay Good Here are several things that you need to be aware as an advance Strong master and I were not even talking about which level yet one of them Okay, in order to not fall into Parkinson's law not fall into going and not Making the mission the task the user story much longer and with a lot of ways. We want to have a clear do of the DOD To know what we are working on don't know what is the What are the points that will call the user story done? second thing would be Another thing is a common mistake is to that the scrum master is And it needs to verify that all of the user stories are prioritized, which is not true Okay What we do we focus only on the high as you may know focus is one of the strong values so in other words we take the List of user stories product backlog we slice that into high medium and low and Then we focus only on the high and why we do it because reality will change and there is no Meaning of investing a lot of time in things that will be change And this is why when you're going to someone's house Let's say Danko's house in the middle of the night in the middle of the night and we say Danco I have a big list the first thing that he would tell me is You're doing in my house in the middle of the night and the second one is to prioritize There is another one that what do we do in in case that we finish before time You have two options increase quality By implementing Parkinson's law increase happiness, which means taking a rest or increase content Same thing Parkinson's law Okay, or taking more from the backlogs More things this is Parkinson's law remember the phrase Ship happens If you are frustrated that you don't ship in each and every sprint and here are the pillars and the values of scrum pillars are Pillas pillars are transparency inspect and adapt everything we do in scrum everything every meeting and Everything that we do is an opportunity to inspect to see what to see what we are What we have currently now? Whether it is product where whether it is how we work where whether it is how we communicate cooperate or take Things from the release backlog and then we adapt okay We check up with the transparency that we all and adapt to the changing reality And we also have in here in assumption team signature and all sorts of things that I will urge you to be aware What does it mean to be a scrum Master if you yeah, if you have any idea put it in the discussion like a short short definition for scum master and in the meantime we will continue So this is what is online Okay, there is a lot of things you go and type scrum master and you see many many things You see there a gardener who grows people and you see the football coach and the mechanic and the guy who encourages the team and There is a lot a lot of things and a lot of Different opinions and let's see and each opinion goes with With something that we urge you to be aware of which is the scrum levels Okay, scrum levels Let's start with level zero which is a big big sprint of let's say Requirements and then a big big sprints of design and then code and then testing and then the project dies which is basically waterfall scrum level two. Let's jump to it is the next level which is coming one which is scumful Not waterfall anymore, but not come yet. Basically. We are doing sprints at the end of the sprint We're producing something that looks like a PSP Potentially shipable product, but you can ship it Okay, and because you create a lot of technical debt you have to stop the after-couple sprint and focus on hardening okay in the real world focusing on bug hunt or Stabilization or aggression or progression these kind of things Sometimes you call it Sometimes you call it scum, but You doing scum, but you don't ship it.  Okay, we we make a sprint inside the sprint we work on the project in a Cross-functional way the whole team is involved. We synchronize during the sprint and in the end of the sprint we produce We produce a PSP and each recurring sprint We produce a bigger and bigger or a more complete increment or PSP until we are ready to Until the MVP is ready to ship out to a client to use and then we continue to work As long as the project or as long as it's still alive and running In the highest level which is very confusing It is an advanced level or advanced scrum or hyper scrum that we're not going to cover in this workshop in this Lecture, however We highly advise you urge you to do it and now without further ado Let's go into the dojo model going from the baby Yoda to The really order and we use a belt in order to reflect The levels of scrum in the sex of simplicity So we start with the white belt White belt. Yeah, what do you mean white belts? What is the character characteristic of a scrum master having a white belt? You don't think just 10 seconds before we talk about white belt Just think what what would would be the beginner level? Okay, when we are just starting imagine you're entering a whole new world when you're just starting Perhaps you are very stressed. You are doing all the right things or aiming to do all the right things But you're focused and gonna what you are focused on you are focused on what you are doing Okay, it's like learning to give a punch Okay, when I'm learning to give a punch and I'm in the beginner level It's not I'm not just giving it away or I'm not very aware of My whole body, but I'm very focused on my hand Going out and the whole body is not adjusted to what I'm doing So everything in beginner level in a white belt scrum master Running the sprint running their planning for the sprint is very technical Following the advises and the things that we see online and we are taught when we are in the retrospective We follow strictly the rules basically speaking. We are Very focused on our self very focused on Technical scrum and how to how to implement it. Okay, we don't yet understand the role We don't yet Understand how to move from things to things Basically speaking This scrum master is a rookie scrum master. He's very nervous. He's scheduled meeting. He's sent summaries. He's very very stressed and practically He thinks that he will not be able to cope it Okay This is the beginning. Okay later on while having more and more More and more experience. Don't you worry? We're moving to the orange belt Okay, the orange belts is The next belt. Okay, which means that Think again when we are after we were not no longer rookie But we're more swimming things. We know how to do we read online. We're in four rooms. We're in Scrum master meeting. We understand a lot of things. We have all these technical cool stuff about How to do a retrospective and how to do a cool planning and we are familiar with planning poker We have the technical stuff. It's all covered. So basically speaking is the ultimate worker The orange belt scrum master can cope with all of the tasks that needs As a scrum master. However, the team is not involved. The team is not becoming self-managed He the scrum master itself is more relaxed. However Okay, he is doing he or she is doing all of the work Okay, think of how a team such a strong machine master which usually People tend to stay sometimes some people start some strong masters tend to stay there They feel very relaxed. They feel very good The organization feels that they're doing a good job Think of a such a scrum master in term of the team Is the team developing is the team advancing as it can The next level is the blue belt The blue belt is something else Okay, this is the blue belt Okay The blue belt scrum master starting to be a coach In other words, he's starting to talk about to think about the team So he's he has all the technical stuff in tact. He has he's He's relaxed and then he started to think okay, how can I make the team grow? How can I move back a little bit and let the team feel the space that that I'm living out He still guards the team as you can see in the drawing when something falls He catches it. He lets the team decides but helps them decide Later on he gives them all the tools But he lets them go in them and make a lot of decisions So basically he's starting to be aware of his role not as a scrum worker But as a team coach So he starts focusing on the team starts challenging them with finding the solutions But usually you can find a scrum master at this level that he executes the solution by himself meaning Either there is still lack of trust or the team is not ready Or he still feels that if he will go out Things will fall apart. Sometimes he's correct. If he if he will go out things will fall apart Now think just before we go to the next level. What would be the next level of a scrum master How would he advance from this level of Starting to be a coach starting to focus on the team. How would he be? What is the next level of him? Okay, let's go and the next one is a ninja ninja next one is The black Okay, and don't be confused with this color because In a minute, we're going to explain to you. So what is the black belt? What? So the black belt when you think about him Even the common the urban legend of the black belt is the ultimate team coach Okay, he knows how to coach. He knows his way He's done the all the technical starts. He knows how to coach Is encouraging to the team to think of the solution and execute Execute it and he's guarding them from afar Meaning that his presence alone Alone, but his presence mainly Gives the team The intent the example a soft presence. Okay, he's not pushing. What is your opinion? What is your opinion? But by the way that he acts? Okay, what do you think? Uh, how should we approach it? Let's think of another solution He's constantly challenging the team He's constantly creating a safe zone within the boundaries around him without effort Think of such a scrum master how, uh, potent and how confident does he need to be inside an organization? Okay, it's not only a matter of decision But in order to Create the safe zone around me. I have to be very very secure Around managers and around other roles in the company So basically one of the main things he does is leads psychological safety And let's recap the white belt Can cope with all of the tasks focusing on itself the orange Managing to cope with all of the tasks still by itself blue Starting to ask the team to To deal with the task and guard them as an accuracy if somebody some task is falling He or she is the one to help them. Okay The black belt is as boas says Doesn't really needs to do anything technically Only mentally Okay, because if somebody something is falling the team knows by that how to catch those things And he or she is focusing on being a coach He is a black belt now Anyone knows what is and how to pronounce or what is the name of black belt in japanese? Write it down in the discussion. We'll give you 10 seconds What is the name of black belts? Okay So the name sensei sensei is a teacher you're almost correct Ninja it's a way Okay Now you are getting it. Okay, but we want to look at it from a different angle. So And black belt is a shodan Shodan is combined from two words beginning And way Okay way is done and Shaw is the beginning so practically speaking When having a black belt you are at your Early stages in understanding how to fight or how to walk Okay, while having all the tools Done is rank. I guess correct. We have the first done shodan and then Need done and go done and so on but I want we want you to focus on the fact that the black belt is not the end of it Is the beginning of being a powerful Scrum master and this is the reason why we have the The red belts And as anyone who have ever done awareness work with himself He knows that when he when he's enlightened When he feels that he has the gas from everything He says, okay, I mean I'm in the beginning now. Let's start then he has the tools Okay, when you're in this beginning level, then you have to the tools to learn by yourself You have to the tools to challenge yourself. So when we are going red Okay, with the ultimate teacher, then we have become we have advanced to mentor level Okay, not only mentor of our team not only coach of our team But Everything around this scrum master a scrum master that is confident scrum master that is That does not work from ego Okay, think about working from ego and at any part of the of the way Okay, he's not focused on himself but he's leading Okay We led by example we led by intent and now he's leading by some kind of high presence Okay, by the way that he's uh Acting the way that he's teaching is influencing around him This the the wheel and the passion to improve So he creates bonds and ties between groups and groups and teams He mentors people as as he goes as he goes Perhaps you have met the person the manager or the scrum master Who goes and everything around him every time he asks, how do you feel? How can I help you? He's all the time working Not without effort to solve and to teach and he leads of course a sense of safety and well-being Obviously is effortless creating an easy atmosphere. So the focus Like Yoda itself. So the focus Would be not only on who I am in scrum Not only on How will I improve the team not only on how the team will improve but the organizational dna the growth of others And what do you think you need to do in order to move from one level to another? Take a guess take any Any level Because in a couple of seconds, we're going to reveal it. I know complicated Slides but let us focus on the Belts on the practice excellent on the belts And let's see if we are In a white belt. First, you need to be aware of it How do I know if I'm in a white belt? I'm now This I'm stressed. Okay in order to Let go of it. I need The time and experience. Okay, first of all as Feedback As you wrote here practice feedback. Okay. I need someone to help me and as you see this is a very important lesson for us Even if I am in orange level, I can mentor and coach someone who is in white level I can help him and for this I need to know to examine which level is he And what help does he need for me? Perhaps he needs just a little more technical stuff. Perhaps he needs to Wow, we have a selfie. Come on Okay done that Self-reflection Perhaps he needs the This mirror to help him improve all the time. I'm trying to see Who is against me not against in terms of that he's against but who is facing me And how can I help him and sometimes when we are too scrum master white scrum masters in a team, of course we in an organization, of course We can help each other and by knowing that we are white it gives a lot of sense of relaxation and The ability to to move so in order to move from the white belt to the orange All you need to do is to gain more experience To move from orange to blue We need to expand the knowledge Expand the knowledge. Okay, not to have only experience but to seek to be proactively seeking for knowledge And this will gives us the ability to be in The the blue belts and what do we need to do in order to go to the black belt With the black belt we need to portray the trust to the team. This is very important It's very important to be able to simply trust and say I know that they will do it Give them the tool give them the mentorship and trust them and of course I have to receive mentoring As you said practice and feedback is very very important So expand knowledge. Perhaps I can go I can go to a scrum master course. Yes, same PSM in order to Further advance. I have to have the coaching as we teach the team. You need the coaching Also, I will need And to advance higher what I need to do Black to red one The only thing that you need to do is to relax very odd however the From from relaxing yourself, you will be able to absorb things in a more effectiveness way and to become Better and who knows what is the shuhari and other words in japanese Shuhari three words three words in japanese Shuh means look it up in the wikipedia. Shuh means stages of learning the mastery you are correct Shuh means learning the technique as it was Mentioned haa mean shaking the techniques shaking the technique and re means develop your own technique in other words Then bend break Excellent So in other words you are on fire in other words Although when you if you are in the red belt There is always something to learn Even even from the white belts and we encourage you to Look at this model because this model helps throughout those past years a lot of companies understand first What is a scum master? Which level is the scum master each and every one and help them to Guide the straw master going from one level to another Okay So when we do this obviously we will not go into all these details, but it's just a matter of thought When I am such a straw master in which level I am How do I affect my team? Okay. How do I affect the organization? And what does it tell about the team if I am such a straw master? What does it tell about my team and what do they need from me? For which level are you as from Master this is the main question that we urge you to think after our lecture And after that to decide whether it suits you or Not Okay, we want to thank you all and we have a little Amount of time in which if you want to ask a question Just place it in our discussion Place here. These are the details of us And you may use them and connect with us and ask us any question that you like regarding it We are in Ajime using it for years And as galtramag says Those are my our principles and if you don't like them. Well, we have others Okay, so now we open it to any question The dojo model especially yes all these slides available somewhere. Yeah We're going to upload them and I think agile India is also going to upload them. Um as well Well can be and only by practice. Thank you. Yeah, you are correct practice is the prerequisite For everything so without practice There's no success Okay, it's practice and then there are levels of practice practice can be how Experience the mentoring I get the decisions I take Cool. Thank you very much. Remember and remember Who can I coach even if I'm white level? You saw in the model even if I'm white level I can go and teach Something the red level because the level Will ask for my help even if I'm orange. I can coach something to my fellow orange. Okay Excellent good Any questions If you have this is the time With your experience, is there any fellow point from moving from one level to another anything that they They focus us of course Stress is the first thing. Okay focus Only on the next level will prevent you from going to this level. Yeah, okay In a martial arts we say and both of us are doing martial arts And as you understand, this is why we developed this model In martial arts we say if you will focusing only on the next belt, you will not gain it You'll gain the belt Only when you let go Of focusing on the belt and focus on the knowledge That the belt is only symbolize it Or to portray in another way when I'm giving a punch to something. Let's say To a wall to anything to a face or a click. I'm not trying to hit the specific point But I'm trying to pass it Okay, if I'm trying to hit The thing itself then all my energy will bounce back to my hand hence But if I'm going past it, okay through it and I'm trying to reach A way from it beyond it, then I will be able to pass Okay And as for the question as a scam master How to contribute and maximize the productivity in the development team? Excellent question. Excellent one And and the answer Starts with awareness Okay in order to be better. You need to understand. What is your current situation? Okay, so current situation, okay It starts with your velo velo city Okay, once you understand your velocity Whether it's 12 or 15 or five. It doesn't matter. Okay, then we can continue and start to Be better. Okay Doing it in agile coach if we follow this model At the beginning not so much from whites to orange not so much But from orange to blue some of you will have it and from blue definitely similar to martial arts From in order to have a knowledge from white belt to orange belt you can see youtube and all kind of karate Movies maybe but if you want to get serious, you need some agile coaching Well, of course you don't need but it will It will make it a lot faster and a lot better If you do it with with with someone who knows because always it's better to learn from experience Correct and not invent everything yourself. How many sprints require to find a base velocity for a scrum team? Well, it depends A lot of that a lot of variables involved, but usually Around four or five sprints empirically speaking You'll get to have the team signature Okay team signature Team signature is how the team reacts and one of them is the velocity Okay, there are many many attributes for a team signature. For example, whether the team is early bird or angry birds Okay, whether they like to work In parallel Or one one after another a lot of things one of them is the velocity Last question because we are just out of time any question Is there a magic formula to make people who push backs scrum to welcome scrum? We have yes, we have pills. Yeah, we sell pills on our side pills. We have pills And you take I take and magically everything's going Going on. No, there's no magic power powder and no pills only hard Work and Empiricism, okay, when you understand the goals and you try little by little to get them Okay, starting with quick wins then those who oppose scrum or push push it back Might accept it. Okay. Never assume that I'm selling agile with agile. Yeah, take agile. Everything will be good No, we start with something. Perhaps you don't want agile, but do you want to synchronize? Maybe Every Every now and then perhaps to know what we are doing together. You don't want agile, but perhaps Let's just make a quick planning for the next two weeks so we can know what we are doing There is no reason for me even if I'm pushing back scrum as as a name To oppose this usually you will find people who uh, who had a bad experience Something one who who taught them hard scrum or very harsh rules about We have to stand in the daily So we are sending our phones as well We're sending our phones as well and feel free to use them and ask any questions in respect to those and we're wishing you all the best and We hope to see you more in more agile events


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So, hello and welcome to E-9 monthly webinars. Today with us we have Dr Anna Avalkina from Praia Universität in Berlin, Germany, who will talk to us about the rising threat of paper mills, which is some new forms of misconduct and fraud. So, very welcome, Dr Avalkina. And without further ado, the floor is yours. Thank you very much. I would like to thank NIO for invitation. And today I'm going to speak about paper mills, about what we know about paper mills, about what we don't know about paper mills and what is the threat of a paper mill. So now I would like to share my slides. So, I will speak and then we'll give the presentation and then there will be floor for questions. So, what is the, what we know about paper mills? What kind of misconduct it is? First of all, it is on authorship fraud. What we know about authorship fraud could be a gift authorship or a meter authorship, but in the case of the paper mill, money involved in the case of authorship fraud. So, there are broker companies that are paper mills that sell authorship slots in papers that have been written by other scholars or ghost writers, or some scholars offer a place in their paper. So, this is the core of the misconduct. But what also we know about paper mills that normally they are accompanied by other types of academic misconduct, by plagiarism or fabrication of data images, or falsification of data and images. So, here I present some examples of offers or companies paper mills that you can find online. Some of them are just Google translated in English. So, these companies, they have quarters in different countries of the world. And all of them offer some or offer authorship slots for sale, search for authors for publication, and so on. So, there could be just paper mills that work online. Or in other case, some paper mills, they offer their services via social media. And this is just a copy of an offer by one Indian paper mill. So, you can see there's just dozens of papers offered for proceedings of one publisher. And now the publisher investigates this case. And you can see that there are just six positions in the authorship lists and some of the slots have been sold already. And when we speak about the volume of the problem, so how many papers from paper mills can be found to die. So, what is really the problem? And when we speak about it, we have to take into consideration that there is always numerator and denominator to understand the share of paper mills, for example, in the literature. So, what we know about numerator and what we know about the denominator. So, actually, we don't know how many papers from paper mills are in the literature. There are thousands of documented cases by different slurfs or research integrity experts, maybe also by publishers, but much less papers have been retracted. So, it means that a lot of papers are not detected. So, just a part of that are documented, is documented. And the only part of what is documented was in reality retracted. Because publishers sometimes are not able to find misconduct or publishers can retract papers due to other reasons, not because of the paper mill, because it's very difficult to confirm the evidence of paper mill origin. And that is why many papers they are retracted because of violation of peer review, because of fabrication and so on. And sometimes it's very difficult to detect because we don't know the inner work of the paper mill and we can see only manipulation of peer review or plagiarism of applications or template similarities between papers. So, here we can see the figure that represents the number of retracted papers by year of publication or by the year of retraction. And you can see that there is a rise of paper mill papers published since 2017, but retractions, massive retraction start only in 2020. Look, for example, here, so this is just print screens of news about publishers retracting 500 papers originating from paper mills or 122 and we can see that publishers are absolutely different so since 2020 there are massive retractions of paper mill papers from academic literature. But I have to mention that we also don't know how many, in reality, how many papers from paper mills because there is a difficulty of detection. So journal, what journal can see, for example, a peer review fraud, I will talk about peer review fraud a bit later, how paper mills do this, or journals they can see common submission practices, for example, the identical email or identical letters, cover letters, for example, or journals they can see a request of the authorship changes after acceptance of the manuscript. But when papers, so actually journals they don't have, if editors are not aware of paper mills and how paper mills work, they are not able to detect some suspicious patterns or suspicious red flags. And when papers are published, so then the academic community can see other suspicious patterns of the papers from paper mills. For example, common structures and templates of papers in different journals, or plagiarism, or fabrication and falsification of data, or, for example, incorrect nucleated sequence regent. There was a study about that, so how paper mills they fabricate the data and use nucleated sequence regent. Or they manipulate citations, or since recently there are slurs or research integrity experts, including me who detect office published by paper mills. Or, for example, also paper mills can be detected by weird emails. These are just an example, because each paper mill has its own business model and its own patterns and, so to say, red flags. So these are the example and a particular paper mill can have other suspicious patterns. So when we speak about Nominator to Nominator, with what we have to compare the number of detected or not detected papers from paper mills. So should we compare with all published papers or we should compare with the papers that actually journals are able to detect as suspicious. Co-op together with STM, they made a study of paper mills last year. And so they look and they surveyed some publishers about the possibility of publishers to detect fraudulent and suspicious papers. So actually here on this figure, you can see that six publishers that they were able to detect identified 139 papers, just suspicious papers and they didn't publish them. But at the same time, they published 457 papers that later were found to be originating from paper mills. So the possibility or ability of journals and publishers to detect paper mills is not high. And the percentage of the share of suspicious papers submitted to journals of six publishers ranged from 2% to 46%. So some journals are actually flooded with submissions from paper mills. So when this actually problem appeared, if we look at Retraction Watch database, we can see that the first papers from paper mills date back to 2004, 2007, but increased number of fake papers can be traced since 2017. And these papers are mainly originated or associated with China. Then since 2019, there is increase in number of paper mill papers from other countries. Why this period? Because it's just my hypothesis or maybe also evidence as per what we can see how scholars published their papers. We can see that before 2019, many broker companies relied on predatory journals. And so scholars mainly from developing countries or those countries which integrate into international scientific community, they relied on publications and predatory journals that were indexed in Scopus or Web of Science or other international symptomatic databases. And this very time, in 2019 and 2020, Scopus and Web of Science started to exclude massively such journals, such predatory journals. And that is why the strategy to rely on predatory journals was not effective because any time the journal can be excluded, it means that the broker company can have a lot of losses, just money losses. And that's why they started to orient to reputable journals but with broader content. So it's possible to see this evidence how the broker companies, at least in some countries, for example, in close Soviet countries, they transformed their activity. So they transformed their activity, and very oriented from predatory journals to reputable journals, but offering authorship for sale. As for the disciplines, so here also used retraction watch database to see where, in what kind of disciplines, the papers were retracted, and the biology and macri-biology, these disciplines dominate. So among others, computer sciences or medicine and just a bit of humanities and physics and engineering. But we should interpret this figure with caution because there are thousands of papers documented that they originate from paper mills but they are not retracted. And also we should interpret with caution the dominant affiliation of Chinese scholars because if you look at retraction watch database, 90% of scholars with retracted papers are affiliated with Chinese institutions. We know that in China there are a lot of paper mills mainly because of a pressure of publication and reward system when the first author gets all financial rewards. And also we know that in some hospitals, medical hospitals in China, their promotion is connected with publications in international journals. So this kind of publication pressure had an impact on fraudulent behavior or suspicious behavior of Chinese scholars. But also we know that there are paper mills working in absolutely different countries, in Eastern Europe, in post-Soviet countries, in Iran, in Middle East and in Southeast Asia. But unfortunately, the situation of nowadays is so that these documented cases are not still retracted. So now I would like to speak about the author's perspective. So why authors require such fraudulent services by paper mills? One of the most important explanation is publish and perish in many developing countries. So many countries, for example, like post-Soviet countries, they borrowed this standardization of evaluation of a scientific output, like publications in international journals, Syntax, Tenscopes and the World of Science. And that is why they are pressed to publish because of the contracts, they are pressed to publish in international journals. Also in many countries, the promotion is linked to publications as in the case in China or also in the case of other countries, also post-Soviet countries. In some countries there is a requirement to publish papers in international journals before the defense of PhD thesis. Many rich countries, for example, with oil extraction countries, like in Middle East, they offer a financial bonus for publications. And this is kind of a motivation to publish more. Also it could be a contract requirement or as we can see in many papers that are originating from paper mills, they have acknowledgement of grant funding.  And now I would like to speak about several cases of paper mills of what actually my work was to detect some fraudulent papers. And I would like to speak about two cases. The first one is the paper mill, a broker company that I call Tano Pro. This weird title is linked to the email domain that this paper mill used to submit papers to reputable journals. So this is the Google translation of the page of this paper mill. I was able to detect it in the company that offers these services and they offer a writing of papers and they guarantee publication. And the peculiar feature of this paper mill is that they submit papers with weird domains. And they published more than 1,000 papers since 2019. So they actually in 2019 they started this activity. So I collect all these papers in the spreadsheet. So this is the pre-screen. And there are some examples of weird email domains that this paper mill uses to submit papers. For example, this is the last example. They use different clusters. There are more than 40 email domains that were detected. And you can see some even weird country domains. So there are scholars from Kazakhstan and they use the domain from Belgium or from Netherlands or from Germany. So the countries even don't correspond. Sometimes these domains, they look like university. For example, Polytechnica or something like that. And knowing this bottom of weird email domains it gave possibility to detect actually all papers that were submitted with these domains. Or another example that one scholar used this paper mill several times and each time this scholar had a different email. You can see with different some weird numbers and weird countries that didn't correspond to his affiliation. So he did it for three years. For sure it's a red flag for publishers to investigate. But unfortunately these weird email domains and emails they are not enough to retract the paper and to concede the papers fraudulent. And what was the next was to understand if in reality all these papers fraudulent or not. And together with the professor in psychology of Oxford Dorothy Bishop, we scrutinized six papers in the Journal of Community Psychology. Why these papers? Because this journal supports open peer review. And all peer reviews can be openly accessed in Publons. Now it's part of Clarivite. And we found just looking, Dorothy Bishop, she looked at the content of the papers because I don't understand anything in psychology. And if the papers are good or not. And we found serious problems. So Dorothy Bishop found that these papers are low quality papers. And then we found some other serious flows in these papers like citations to predatory journals, citations to suspicious journals where fake identities of peer reviewers were included in the editor board. I'll show you the example later. Also we found the violation of peer review because there were superficial comments like please change keywords or improve conclusions or correct typos so they were not serious peer reviews. And what is more interesting that these peer reviews were submitted on the same day quite in all the papers. And this is then later we found that this statistically impossible because we checked other peer reviews because maybe this journal requires immediate peer review. But in all other papers which we randomly selected, we didn't find this kind of difference of one day or submission on the same day. And we also found that the identities of peer reviewers were fake. So this is just a print screen of the Puglons page. No, it's a part of Chloe Wade, but I did print screen when it was Puglons. So you can see that two reviewer reports for one paper were submitted on the same day. And that was the case for quite all other papers. Or this is an example of peer review. So you can see just most of the references are too old, please refresh the literature. So just not deep, real peer review. And also we have the name of reviewer, Eric Letmire. We could click on this name and to see the profile. And the profile is empty. So there are no publications in Web of Science. There are no certations, but there are three verified peer reviews for this person. And then we also found that this person is an editor in one scientific journal. And then it was found that quite all people, I mean it is a real journal, but quite all people in this journal are fake. So we can't find any publications or affiliation or just in this university of West Bahamia, there is no scholar like Eric Letmire. And now it was possible to detect more than 50 identities like this. Or there is another case of paper mills. So I wanted to add that we together with Dorothy Bishop wrote a proof print about this case. We submitted to the Journal of Community Psychology to see how it's possible that such a reputable journal, it is a reputable journal of psychology, could publish such papers of low quality with weird emails with fake peer review. And we thought that maybe an editor doesn't read actually the papers. And we submitted our print about the paper mill and about these six papers that we detected to be fraudulent. Our paper was rejected with a final decision totally not fatally flowed. And after that, while we started an investigation and about 10 days ago these papers, all six papers have been retracted. But it gives us the possibility, this investigation of these six papers gives us a possibility to think and hypothesize that other papers from Tanupro are also fraudulent. And this is another case of a paper mill. This is a paper mill that is called International Publisher. It is registered and it has a headquarter in Moscow. It's situated in the business skyscraper in the center of Moscow. And it operates since 2018 and offers the authorship slots for sale. And the price of authorship slots varies from 180 to 5000 euros. And the price depends on the journal. It's imperfect and also depends on the position of the author. So to have the first position costs more. And I analyzed 2000 offers from this paper mill published online. So this is just an example of an offer. A paper mill is Google translated. And this offer gives enough information to detect the real paper. So we can see the title, so the topic of the paper. And one paper with quite identical topic was published. We have the year of publication and it matches. So we have just five authorship slots for sale. And in the end, the paper has five quarters. And also the beginning, this paper mill published the country of the journal. And it also matches. So it gives enough information and confirmation of a paper mill origin. So now I also collect all findings in the spreadsheet. So this is the print screen of this spreadsheet. I have detected up to date 460 papers. They were published in 152 journals. Authentic journals and three hijacked journals. Hijacked journals represent just criminal websites or scam websites that mimic original journals. They have the same title, the same ISSN, and they collect money for publication without peer review. So it's kind of a journal scam. So this paper mill, it sold during two and a half years, or during three years, more than 6,000 authorship supports. And in all the papers that I have detected that originate from paper mills, these papers are written by 800, more than 800 scholars from at least 39 countries and they represent more than 300 universities around the world. So the majority at the beginning of this paper mill was oriented to Russia and to Russian scholars, but later it's reoriented to post-Soviet space and also to China. And nowadays they have a website in three languages in Russian, English, and also Chinese. And even if it is situated in Russia, there is evidence that after the war, after 24th of February, this paper mill works and it's possible to see, it was possible to see that they sold a lot of authorship slots to scholars from other countries in the world. So they reorient now to outside Russia for this fraudulent and offer these fraudulent services. All this is another example. So we can detect some fabrication of data in the papers that were published and that originate from this paper mill. This is an offer. I left it in Russian, but it's possible to see, just the number is 300 children aged from four to five years. And also the authors had to insert the city of the city where actually the study took place and at the end it was Wuhan in China. And so the abstracts match. And also it's possible to see that the first course is from China and in the paper at the end there is also a scholar affiliated with China. And this is an example of alfabrication. Or there is another example of fabrication. So on your left this is an abstract from a real paper. There are numbers in the abstract and they absolutely identical to the numbers that I found in one Russian paper in the Russian language. So the problem is that the paper on your left that was published by a scholar affiliated with one famous American university and it studies ashes in Detroit. And the data were taken from a paper that studied ashes just lives full in Orymbuk in Russia. So how it was possible that paper mills, for example the paper mill international publisher, they succeeded to publish so many papers because they used the strategy of individual submissions, submissions to individual journals. For example, they submitted just one paper, they published one paper in 98 journals. It means that these journals were not able to detect some similarities between submissions. As many, there are many recommendations to journals nowadays to see the similarities between templates, mission process and so on. So this paper used absolutely different strategy. One just strategy, one paper, one journal. Also what they did, they used the strategy of suspicious collaborations with editors of the journal. And this button was, it was possible to detect in four MDPI journals where the scholar some these identities, these entities, one, two, three, they were affiliated with one university in Eastern Europe, part of European Union. And they were editors or academic editors of papers or they were co-authors of papers originated from paper mill. One could think that it's a coincidence, but unfortunately not because many authors they clearly stated that one place is reserved for an editor from this particular country. Or the paper mill also used special issues as many people, many paper mills use. It's a very common practice. They just publish a special issues with a lot of papers from paper mills. And so one offer just says that there is a special issue with thin papers and it was possible to detect nine papers from 10. As for the publishers, you can see here that, well, quite all publishers are involved. I mean, reputable, but also just not so well known publishers. Some also predatory journals because these paper mills started with predatory journals in 2018, but then they changed their strategy and they just publish their papers now in mostly reputable publishers. Also what it was possible to detect that these papers, they do have suspicious collaborations in co-authorship list. I give you an example of a paper on just paper about polymer film coating. It's something about chemical engineering. This course is by two courses, one affiliated with medical university and second one with financial university. And it's inconsistency between the research interests and affiliations of the authors. So in this collaboration of patents, it's possible that actually courses that they are not familiar with each other, so they don't know each other. They don't have common research interests like in this very case. They are affiliated with, so there is a diversity of affiliations per paper and it's quite impossible. For example, in many papers from Iranian paper mills, it's possible to see them with bare eyes because there are eight courses and all represent absolutely different countries. And it's rather suspicious. It's not misconduct, but it's very suspicious. And it's like a red flag to pay attention to such a paper. So also this authors, they specialize in different disciplines, also like in this case, and they might not specialize in the topic of the paper. Also, this paper mill has typical number of courses, like from three to five, and so how many courseships lots they actually sold. And there is a total alphabetical disorder in the courseship list because in many disciplines there is alphabetical order of how you place authors, like in economics or in mathematics. And here in this sample, just the majority, not just majority, more than 85% of papers, they did have alphabetical disorder. This paper mill was investigated both by some American scholars and also by me. So Retraction Watch published an investigation about this paper mill, and I published a print. And the paper mill, well, what can be the reaction of a paper mill? They can close their operations, a closed website, but they started to defend themselves. So this paper mill published an archive on their website. So here you can see archive, it's in Russian, but it's archive form 2018, 19, 2021. They published about 100,000 papers, mainly written by Russian scholars. These papers are legitimate papers by legitimate scholars. And unfortunately, some international scholars started to identify these papers and publish comments on paper about these papers. Luckily it was possible to stop this activity, but anyway, it means that paper mills, they don't stop the activity. They adapt, they defend, they even attack. And this is a real threat for academic community. And so in my conclusions, I would like to say that actually the current system of paper mill detection should be regularly monitored and approved because each paper mill has its own peculiar features and potents and publishers are not aware of them. And so they have to take into consideration that paper mills, they adapt or some new paper mills appear. A lot of paper mills are still not discovered. We don't know anything about paper mills in Latin America or in Africa because nobody actually discovers it because many paper mills they are discovered by independent slurs, research integrity experts. And this is absolutely pro bono work. So they are not paid, even they receive threats, lawsuits and so on. Also, what is important to say that transparency is not working because the activity of paper mills was described and analysed by many journals like Science Nature, by Retraction Watch, there are numerous academic papers and blog posts, but paper mills, they do change the strategy but paper mills, they don't disappear. Also, what is the challenge is journals reaction because well, in my personal experience, also in experience of some other slurs and research integrity experts, well, journals, they don't respond, they don't investigate or they don't find just obvious academic misconduct. So some of them, well, they do respond and don't investigate but the percentage of what was retracted from what was discovered is a big difference. And today, there are many instruments to fight paper mills. They refer to symptoms like how to detect, we look at weird emails, we look at templates, we look at, we detect offers. So we, this work is intended to clean academic literature but all these instruments, they refer to symptoms but not the cause. The main cause is publication pressure for scholars in many countries that force them to buy these authorship slots and papers. So thank you very much for your attention. If you have questions, I will be happy to reply. What an amazing talk. Thank you so much, Anna, for this really insightful and what the work you are doing. I'm really grateful that you put so much effort into this because this is so important. This is so disruptive to science and one more science that actually we must change the system somehow because that, as you said, that is the major problem. All this culture of publisher, parish. We have some discussion here in the chat from a co-editor who says that he's getting at least one submission a day from the tana.pro paper mill. I think the main same reviewers in your case study and they would like to send a strong message in hopes of reducing that number. However, we don't know what the best approaches they say and we're also afraid of legal ramifications. For instance, when we send a reject withdrawal to this suspicious email, will the authors get the message? Should we consider finding authors' institutional email addresses? I assumed it would be a bad idea to contact scientific applications directly as much as we'd like to tell them to stop. So do you have any suggestions here? Well, in my experience with these six papers from Journal of Community Psychology, Wale, in their retraction notice, mentioned that they contact authors using their corresponding authors using these weird emails. So what is the probability that the author actually reads it? No. I even think that the paper mill itself doesn't read them because if you think there are at least 1,100 papers with five, for example, with five authors and all of them, they do have an email. They have 5,000 emails in their database. For sure, even one company doesn't have any possibility to check these emails. I mean, so my answer to your question, if you contact this company directly or your contact using these emails, it doesn't mean that it will be stopped because nobody reads it. So how to do it? I think this is a question for discussion what can be done in this matter. I don't have an answer how it can be stopped. So I think it can be only stopped with more retraction from this paper mill. This is the only thing that I can say. But I would like also to thank editor for this information about this paper mills and about the comment. And if you know some other emails because you can see these submissions, if you know these emails, please let me know because I can also put it in the database that can be used by its open database. It can be accessed openly. And so it's helpful for editors to see that these emails are weird and that they shouldn't actually look at the papers from this paper mill. So what do you think might be good ideas how to work on raising an awareness of this problem? Education for editors, education for early career researchers, perhaps as well to spot these red flags. What more can we do? So first of all, what we can do, also just in my experience, looking at this number of papers, fraudulent papers, I found very helpful to have open peer review. This is very helpful because then you can see what was really peer reviewed or what was not peer reviewed. The one data analyst from Sage Publications, he analyzed the texts of peer reviews of all journals in Sage Publications and he found clusters of identical peer reviews. And the main hypothesis is that these texts are associated with paper mills because so many peer reviews, just dozens of peer reviews with identical text. By the way, in the case of Journal of Community Psychology, all of them, the texts were similar. I mean, also with some identical phrases. So open peer review is very helpful. Also, many journals they offer to suggest some peer reviewers. And this is the case to use by paper mills because, for example, Tano Pro is for what I know, they send a paper and they offer three, four editors who can review the paper. And some journals they continue to do this practice. And this is the way how paper mills been traded to Journal. So maybe it's more work for editors, for sure, to search for peer reviews, but this is a gate for paper mills. And then also what can be done that, I don't know, maybe just more retractions are helpful. In this case, paper mills won't publish or won't meet these papers anymore or they change their strategy. And for sure about the education of editors, yes, it's very important because many editors, well, they shouldn't know actually, they should know their science. They are disciplined. They shouldn't be aware of misconduct. Maybe they are not aware that it exists somewhere. And yes, the education could be helpful for editors to be able to support these such problems. But also it's mostly the problem of the journals, not of big publishers because big publishers, they have some software that checks all submitted many scripts for plagiarism for some other red flags of the papers. But many university journals, reputable journals of very high quality, they are majority thread for paper mills. I was about to ask about AI, but Rita put the answer, the question in the chat before. So how do you see AI tools being used by paper mill companies and what's your views on the additional challenges it poses to journal editors, how to tackle this? Because now if we had these peer review mills, basically now AI is going to make it even worse because it will be harder to spot the similarity between these peer reviews for instance. So there are cases where when paper mills used AI-generated papers, like by Seigen or by Methgen, and there are hundreds of papers like that. And there is a study by Guillaume Cabanac and Cyrille Laber, they are computer scientists, and they wrote a script how to detect such papers written by Seigen. And Guillaume Cabanac, he works now at automatic screener of problematic papers. So there are red flags, like for example, like Seigen generated papers, or there are tortured phrases because many paper mills, what they do, they take the text, maybe just somebody's text. And in order to change, to rewrite it, they use automatic synonyms. And the result, there are absolutely weird phrases in the text. And so Guillaume Cabanac with Cyrille Laber and Alexander Magasinov, they wrote a script to detect these torture phrases and the academic community contributes to find these weird phrases. So there are hundreds of such phrases and thousands of papers detected. As for your question, then the chargeability is a big threat. And there are two consequences for this. First of all, it will blow the prices of paper mills and of this authorship slot because paper mills, many paper mills, they use ghost writers, I mean real scholars who do this job for money. Or the second result or second consequence could be that the scholars themselves, they would use chargeability without just applying to a paper mill. But this is a big challenge for sure. So nowadays there are no tools for the text. So open this software, it offers some script to check the text, but it says that the probability of the result is not high. I mean it could be not a correct result. So this is a big challenge for all scientific industry. For all scientific industry. Yes, for both research and in education with students and researchers, maybe the only good thing might be that it can lower the prices for some people.  Like a good thing in a really bad situation. Yeah, it could be. Yes, thank you so much. Oh, there is one more question. Do you think AI and AI generated papers might cause a shift away from scientific paper based publishing towards a more wholesome publishing process? Well, I think that actually in the future some legitimate papers will be written by AI. There are also already books written by artificial intelligence. And I guess that in 20 years maybe literature review will be legitimately written by artificial intelligence. This is like a process that 20 years ago nobody used econometric software to make models. And we never cite even the econometric, the software, the papers that actually this software does, all the calculations does all the job. So maybe this is the trend. And well, it could be normal. But I don't think that the artificial intelligence is the greatest threat because the system of research evaluation that many universities and many countries have that is based on centimetric, metric-based evaluation on number of papers or on number of citations. This is the big threat for academic publishers because it has, well, all of you know how many bad consequences it has for also academia, this competition and this publishing to perish. And this system absolutely should be changed. We have one more question in the chat. Can this fraudulent activity be interpreted as an attack on the credibility of Western academia? Well, it's not only just on Western credibility and not only on Western academia because, well, academia is just academia. I think science is international but on the science itself for sure. Definitely yes. So, yeah, you will have some context from some editors in the chat that would like to share the knowledge with you. And yes, I will send you a link in a few minutes in the chat about this nature article. It's called Storch and Phrases Giveaway Fabricated Research Papers that I was trying to send but it's only available for my university, sorry. And so there is some things happening in the chat. We are trying to put some information in the chat as well. But anyway, I... Maybe I also can share the link of Tanu pro papers if there are editors who can look at these weird emails and can be aware of this. So, I did it. Yeah. So, I would like to... Thank you so much. I agree with comments in the chat that this was fascinating. It really is fascinating. You're doing an amazing job, really. And we are so grateful, actually, that you're pointing this out because I don't think that many researchers are aware of these things happening. So, this really is very important work. So, thank you so much both for being here and for the work. I wish you the best. Thank you. And keep up the good work. Thank you very much. And thank you for being a part of this webinar. Yes. Thank you. Bye.


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Child girl Yeah, yeah again, yeah again muck bangers. I don't get it. I really don't I'm up here Looking at myself. Yes I've been looking at fatal attraction and make Megan the styling but oh we were gonna get into this video Going natural canceling and in 2020 by curly guy, but I Was watching this came up in my recommendation because of the views and it looks like yet again The muck bangers can't mind they're dang on business.   Don't make a video about it. And so I guess this is what be loves life I don't know the people they I don't even know who the people they're talking about No, I know a couple of y'all familiar with this girl be loves life The only thing I will say about be loves life I like her as a mukbang or some of her stuff could be nasty. I don't I don't watch a lot of her stuff I do like this. She's kind of branching out and she she is a true business woman and I respect anybody Who's all about the bag in the business? She seems to be a down-to-earth chick? She may eat I'm just gonna show y'all she was cooking the other day. I Was laughing my ass off at the comments because I do a lot of lurking I don't really comment on people's videos, but let me see if I can find it. Ciao I can't see it. Why does it say? Anyway, I can't find it. So she was making some chili, right? and Y'all, why does she add like a ridiculous amount? I can't find it She added a ridiculous amount of can't Hormel whatever the hell first or can't chili is the devil that you will be in the bathroom for days eating that crap, but she put can't chili and Mixed it with a real I she I thought she was making real chili from scratch She was I guess she was grounded hamburger beef and then all of a sudden she was putting camp. I'm like, oh, baby Mm-hmm.  Yeah, I'm tired. I'm busy. I'm stressed But I'm alive and I'm safe and sanctified 2020 happy new year y'all 2020 the reason why I'm tired is because first of all it's the first beginning of the year and I'm excited I'm getting a little bit anxiety Oh With some other stuff girl, but God is good Um, no, he really is but one of the things that's going on too is I Recorded a bunch of videos and then I edit edit it a bunch including JB. So within Of the course of two weeks. I have recorded Eight videos between JB and our channel. That's a lot y'all within two weeks. I did Asian, okay? We're going to home girl. That's a whole nother story. My mama That's how fun been planning her her birthday party for a year and yeah I'm a planner and she knows this and so she sends me a text message of the weekend And she's like I want you to put together my program and she's since she you know let's me know all the stuff that's going on and She's like It's gonna be at this time yada yada yada. I said now hold up now You you've you had all this time to tell me you want me to put together your program because January is busy for me Because of JB and we're going back to school after the winter break is so I'm busy as hell like the first two weeks of January I'm busy busy at work. We're in the middle of a new release still in the middle of this release new courses coming up So I am yeah, and she if I had to do any type of planning.  You should have let me know we've had all this time. I'm gonna be we still have them off You know, but still now I got a crunch down And so I was just going over some things for my Molly. I look after check the time I'm gonna pick up JB. That's a whole nother story that the first day they went back Well, I tell you JB had a complete meltdown this morning Complete I didn't even touch him either a complete.  He was already gonna be late for school His dentist appointment was at 9 8 and 9 a.m. I let him sleep until 7 Right, he stayed up around doing ever so an hour before it's time to go I'm like, we got to start getting ready. It's so I guess he was in the middle of Super Mario, whatever hell he playing and he was right at the end and I made him messed up Child made him messed up fall down to how I heard it He threw up there. I looked at him like And when we looking at him really got him going shot. He was afraid Oh, I know he probably had a draining day. He's tired. I know he's tired cuz he cried all morning I took that game away.  It's his birthday week. So, yeah, it's a lot going on I have Friday off and Monday off my husband have he has a couple of days off. Also, we always take JB's day for four Years since our baby was born. We always take Our birthdays off together because he had to nerve to be born the day after me my husband And then we take JB's birthday off So, yeah, we're gonna be going to an indoor resort. I'm taking y'all along with me It's a new resort here and Scott still apparently you don't even have to leave the place. I would be in there lit Yes, they have a bar at the pool too. Let me go ahead and find I gotta find my um, I gotta find my baby soups girl So, yeah That's coming up and my neighbor just reminded me. I forgot to invite her. I'm having another I don't know why I do this Every year I do this all of us. I'm like, oh, let's have something for JB And I'm a planner and I wait to the last minute to it's not necessarily last minute So yesterday I text a bunch of people it's a week before JB's birthday technically And so I've touched I text some random people and say hey You want to come over for cake because I make JB a cake every year and why not invite? You know, at least the neighborhood people miss Lori my neighbors from Texas and like one or two of his friends Like we do this every year So my one friend was like, oh girl, I I have a eyelash appointment that that um, they but I'll change it for JB She loves us from JB. She's like, I'll change to my eyelash appointment for JB Yeah, now now I'm really looking at it. It's really bright on this camera girl Now I'm really looking into the what happened with the monk bang community. So cliff knows version I don't know why people do this for these people. I have no idea I know who be loves life is so I guess there was this person a l lips who reached out to a very well known muck banger named prissy And said hey sis my birthday is coming up new years. I don't know if we could do a meet and greet in Atlanta So 30 odd african-american muck bangers to sound like that. Is that many Black muck bangers on youtube girl. I know they all decided to have a meet and greet I guess at atlanta and this other couple i'm looking at their video now called trey and nini or ney is a nini trey and nini trey and nini decided to have it at their house Oh, they brave as hell. Yeah brave. So anyway, they decided to open up their house to have this meet and greet slash birthday party right for this other youtuber I guess he ended up being ridiculously late to his own event and here are these people made plans Had all these folks and he was the last one to show up with like an underage of people He then went on to make a video um Defaming basically talking about these people be loves life and like a bunch of people y'all It's drama and I'm here for it. So I'm watching it. But yeah, this first of all, I would never and they just said this That people were like, I can't believe you would open up your home. Why would you do this? And they're like They're trying to defend why they open up their home for this because the the wife is saying who wants to go to A hotel and you know be laying up on Where someone let their head at you don't even have to do that There are hotels that you can actually rent out a conference room. I'm sorry, but my home is my sanctuary I'm a very private. I'm a youtuber, but I'm a very private person. I wanted to do it then I rarely let seven people over my house Like no, so to have an event where I'm inviting 30 odd people, whoever they're they're bringing over to your house Yeah, you gotta be careful y'all Yeah, I know where I'm at.  I don't even come in here that much I am here to pick up some bowls and some other stuff for the party Let's see I already have silver. We already have napkins I just need bowls I'm gonna be doing potato and corn soup if they don't like it They don't have to eat it and it's really gonna be leftovers because I'm making it tomorrow And I'll just throw in the crock pot the day of the party. Oh, I need to get JB a Um I'm gonna be decorating the balloons. I don't know if I want to spend the time to do a balloon arch I don't know if I want to do that. I mean, I'm not doing anything Saturday. I guess I could I just need a little back y'all Because his presents are cassette tapes y'all y'all don't laugh when you see what I got them Oh y'all so excited. I got all Everything I needed ran all my errands And it's it's just not 9 30.  I don't like keeping my car dirty I mean literally I I don't Like that Let me check my mail y'all work I'm working with this girl today and she's just She's being difficult I'm trying to help her but she's just all over the place. Yeah.  So a good another good tip if you don't want to like Do like this is if you want to do a party at your home If you don't want to do like a bunch of different food Pick something like pick one thing and then do a do a lot. So example a taco bar So have some um, you could do like Uh ground beef or chicken and have them in crockpots and do like a taco bar Or do a soup right now It's cooler do one or two soups if you're having a big crowd or do one signature soup and have an Assortment of toppings a good one is taco soup. I'm going to be doing potato and corn soup with no meat Okay, it'll be made with chicken broth.  So I'm technically I'm going to be making it Um tomorrow for lunch, but I will make a fresh batch Literally just put everything in the crock pot and it can be cooking, you know until everyone comes over sprinkle a little porcelain on top um I could get some oyster crackers, but I'm not spending any more money. They're on the bulletin board So yeah, let me turn that down. I'm listening to the most positive person Girl after looking at all that stuff with the muckbang community And I'm going to summarize that here and because I think I I don't know if I put that in this particular vlog or not The most positive person in my opinion or celebrity on On youtube is kim cole's her energy is so And kim cole's is the actress that played in a living single for those of you who are not aware Um, she was the happy go lucky rainbow rainbows and unicorns and I'm gonna make you I'm gonna craft you up something to make you feel better type of personality But her energy it's almost like, you know, I'm drinking warm cocoa on a cold day. Give me some chicken and dumplings Um, I'm gonna call you up when you're feeling bad, but I'm also going to tell you the truth I absolutely love the energy She's on she has the self-help type of videos But it's not overbearing and it's not coming off as I think I'm better than you. She's very humbled in her In her disposition. So check her out again Her youtube channel is called the real kim cole's because you have some celebrities on here that I beside Like sometimes I'm like you getting on my nerves. Those of them who have youtube channels Um, but I follow her. I follow the funniest celebrity youtube channels y'all. I follow her Um, I follow jody wattley. She's very humble too. I like her on on youtube Anyway, y'all I'm out here in front of walmart. There are a couple of other things look My budget is $15 At this point now I'm at 75 total for everything I purchased for the birthday party But I still think that's pretty good considering, you know, that I'm doing food drinks cake decoration Quote-unquote entertainment favors. That's pretty good to do it at 75 70 75 dollars Um, so I'm just here to picking up a couple of things to decorate his cake because I will be making his cake today And I do apologize for the lighting girl. I'm going to be making the cake today and the brownies today I may get started on decorations. It depends on how I'm feeling Um, but it was so funny just just listening to kim cole's video this morning It got me thinking about in this particular video It was called lies darkness and your haters and she basically was it was stating that how some people are like My haters encouraged me. All right.  Why would you want that energy or oftentimes some people are afraid To branch out and do what they need to do because they are afraid of having haters, you know So don't allow that fear of not knowing of what other people think about you I'm getting the way of your desire is your purpose, etc When I I telling y'all I was watching all that issues with the muckbang community and it went A lot crazier than I thought there are so many people involved And at the end of the day, y'all you have to be very careful who you associate yourself with Whether it be on the on youtube at work family life, whatever That's why I'm very very very conscious of who I let into my home who I associate myself I will stalk you for a few months I will figure out what your social media I would figure out and I will stalk you before I even My my circle of friends is very tiny and I'm okay with that.  It was like, um You're older You have all these issues. You got fibroids girl. You're not having any babies So to have him and to have him to be healthy and you know for me to be relatively healthy It's truly a blessing and that's how you have to look at your life y'all when you're under stress like that Be just humble yourself and look at what you have. You know what I mean because you don't have to have There's always someone who's worse off than you are at the end of the day Always I got my legs. I got my titties. I got okay, Vivian, but you know what I mean? I got I got body parts Yeah, I'm here getting some fondant These are the little things that I made out of the fondant y'all. This is just looking at tutorials I have no experience in doing this. Um, again, this is mario brothers and I'm going to get ready the ice to cake I'm going to freeze it and then I'm going to decorate them Yeah, you can touch it Well, yeah, yeah, that's just don't touch the icing because that's what people are eating Yeah, this is a cake I made for jay v. Yeah, he's going to follow where that's why I have that over here Because I don't want it falling over your number seven And then you look at the top there I've got your games on the top I didn't even see that Is that what you expected you didn't expect all of that I did it. Yeah I want to surprise you with that Good morning you guys It's early in the morning. It is jay v's birthday extravagance. Oh, we can so excited So y'all I decided the last minute to at least have one hot food for the kids Even still even still with me going up here and getting these chicken nuggets Grapes and stuff. It's still under a hundred dollars y'all. You don't have to break the bank To do stuff for your family and for your kids in general. So yeah, we're excited um, that's the biggest thing for today is Having his party my one neighbors keeps saying he keeps saying he said you're gonna like what we got him I'm wondering what they got him I wonder if they went to I hope they didn't give him a record player. I really don't want a record player in his house y'all Because he's been screaming. He wants a record player. I think he's too young for a record player Oh god This is his super mario banner I put up and I put together that balloon girl This is supposed to be a long arch honey. I was tired. So this is it. Like I said simple not a lot I got those balloons from the Dollar Tree And yeah All right, you guys we are narrowing down to about two hours before I have my warmers out these ceramic warmers. I got at the Goodwill, um the What was it? It was the year I got married because we did stuff at home $6 I got at the Goodwill and it was brand new Um, just got some party favorites and stuff out here some candy and stuff Um, I'm gonna put the cake right here in the center. We're gonna have the food up here very simple It's not a lot the soup is in a crock pot. I'll show you that in a minute Just got chips and we're gonna do corn darks and fries for the kids Um simple crackers for the soup. I got some more crackers. We'll put the other bag or the other one Um, this is the soup. It's gonna go away for the entire two hours on high And if it's not done Ah Bye I'm looking at the clock And this is potato corn chowders what this is gonna be if it's not done by 11 o'clock Which is in another hour 11 30 if it's not done by 11 30 I'm gonna put it on top of the stove crank it up on hot let it come to a boil If I boil it for 15 minutes, it'll be done like that and I'll pop it back in here and put it on low Oh my god, that's Thomas's dad going in. He like he's lost a bunch of weight That's Thomas's He went in I know he looked really skinny Come on sweetheart One two three Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday, dear Jamie Happy birthday to you Yes Yes, they are in the same class. Yeah Do that one let's see what you got you okay you want some water Let's see what you got this one's from me Oh Can you read could you read the name on it? Can you read the name on them? Read the name on this one see if you can sound that out m So what what it So you tell them it's it's it's Marvin game. Okay, you can pick those up Oh Is uh, it's Marvin gay greatest hits Yeah, okay, baby, you can oh, yes, put them together Yay, this is from oh the the card Taryn made the card. Do you know what that is? Thank you so much. I appreciate it Let me show you he's gonna come show you how to open it, baby. It's okay. Okay So those yeah, what do they call those uh, oh those are really smart 45s. Yeah All right, okay, so this is still new, but it's like they make them like the rules Right, right. Yes. Be careful though. Yeah. Yeah. You have to be careful with that Which holds the needle like that when you store it. All right, you're ready not to store it.  Here's that Oh Thank you We just came from the dentist. Thank you Right All right, you guys so we are back to normal. It is exactly 40 minutes after the um Party look, I don't play I went ahead and started putting stuff away cleaning stuff off The balloons are still down here balloons up, but I need to Begin packing for our stay at the resort for tomorrow Um tonight, I'm gonna be making naan pizza very simple Like literally the only thing I have to do is cook the chicken Prepare the veggies and so that'll be a simple dinner for us for tonight Um because I ended up giving that soup away Um, yeah, because it's good to me Oh lord jayby's been back here let let's just show them real quick baby because then I have to go back My room is a mess jb even told me my room was a mess These are the three concepts. I got for my birthday today. I got this one and this one and this Okay, and I got this for my birthday today, and I got this record for my birthday Okay, wow. I got this one at Goodwill. Yeah, I know baby. That's amazing And I found a crystal Pink one Let me get my drink y'all let me get my drink We had mediocre food, but Drink It's good.  I also found On this little pink Rocky thing And I Know I know They can't see this down But we gotta go to the gift shop before we go to duck and donuts. Okay Going up Now let's go to duck and donuts When we go the gift shop, man, I will be open if the gift shop's not open then If the gift shop's not open then yeah, come on, baby it is Monday morning. This is what I'm wearing. I'm wearing a bathing suit and then this Cover all of the girls. Everybody's raggedy kids on this trip. Be loud, baby. Oh my god. I'm tired. I'm sleepy and we know why exhibit A