These people want to sell us their story, they want to sell us their coin, right? They want to sell us their ideology and when they get an opportunity to spread their message to millions of viewers, they're usually keen to do it. We don't need these people to give us information. What we need these people for is for their personality, for their emotion, for the drama. What's up everyone? I'm Giovanni and today on our show I'm joined by award-winning filmmaker Torsten Hoffman. How are you Torsten? Thanks, I'm very well. Thanks for having me on your show. For those who don't know, Torsten is the author of two documentaries about cryptocurrency. The latest one just came out and it is called Cryptopia, Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Future of the Internet. Your first movie about crypto, Bitcoin, the end of money as we know it, premiered in 2015. Is Bitcoin the currency of the future, a godsend for criminals or a recipe for financial disaster? Why did you decide to make a second one? Yeah, look, I mean 2014 when I made that film, that's six years ago, right? So a lot has happened. Since then, the price of Bitcoin has increased by 100 and the amount of projects out there has increased by a factor of 100 and there's so many interesting things going on. The narratives have changed and maybe most interestingly, back then everyone was only talking about Bitcoin and how it's going to revolutionize money and everybody was fighting against the bankers and the central bankers and the government. But now it seemed to me there's a lot of drama within these different groups. So instead of fighting against the establishment, now they're kind of fighting amongst themselves. And that's going to lead me to my second question. So you pointed out that when you started covering the crypto space, it looked like everyone was united in the struggle against the establishment. But now the industry is largely split into competing factions, each one trying to impose its vision on what the future of crypto should be. A lot of people were not willing to learn and were not willing to admit they were wrong. Why is this fraud allowed to speak at this conference? You don't support free speech, you don't support Bitcoin, you're an enemy of Bitcoin. Do you think that by losing its unity of purpose, the industry has taken the wrong path? Yeah, that's a very deep question, isn't it? And to be honest, I do not think so. And first of all, as a filmmaker or you as a journalist, we shouldn't judge. We're here to tell the story, to cover the entire ecosystem. So it wouldn't be right of me to say these guys are wrong and these guys are right. I think it must be presented in a way that everybody gets their fair kind of airtime to speak about what their vision is. So having said that though, I think it's very natural for humans, right? In society, the larger we grow, the more political parties there are. I think it's just a natural step in an evolution from just being a small startup to being now a big, big, big movement, and there will be different opinions. So from my experience, I know that getting in touch with these cryptocurrency leaders can be challenging as they are often quite busy. Was it difficult to get access to them and getting them to talk? What to be honest, I don't think it was very difficult. Maybe because we had the traction from our first film.  These people want to sell us their story. They want to sell us their coin, right? They want to sell us their ideology. And when they get an opportunity to spread their message to millions of viewers, they're usually keen to do it. So it wasn't difficult. But you know, my co-director always tells me, look, we don't need these people to give us information. Because what they can tell us in, let's say, a 30-second soundbite, I can maybe summarize even better in six or seven seconds voiceover. So what we need these people for is for their personality, for their emotion, for the drama, to basically tell a better story. So it's important to have these big brains and big egos. But what I'm really trying to capture is those moments where they get really passionate about something. You said that the main purpose of your movie was finding out whether cryptocurrency and blockchain can really provide an alternative to the existing system or whether they are as easy to manipulate, unequally distributed and dangerous as the current one. So did you find an answer to this question? Yeah, that's the trillion-dollar question, isn't it? So first of all, as a filmmaker, I'm not there to tell you what to think, right? I'm here to tell a good story and to show you the most interesting projects and the most interesting or controversial people in this space. Some of the audience might go away thinking, yes, this is it. We finally found a way to decentralize money. We finally found a way to decentralize the internet. And others may still think, well, this is still early stage. There's a lot of drama going on. These people haven't settled on the right protocols yet. So I think it really depends on who you ask. And to be honest, I'm not very strongly pro or con. The only thing that I will say is that clearly Bitcoin, so BTC, has kind of an 11-year track record, right? And it is the most decentralized of all these projects. So I'm a fan of the entire technology, of the entire space, but Bitcoin kind of stands a little bit above the rest, I would say. But if you had to mention one of these characters that somehow fascinated you the most or struck you the most, who would that be? Yeah. I think the most fascinating to talk to was Wences Casares because he's just a very legendary, very early figure in this movement. And he doesn't do a lot of interviews. He's a little bit media shy. And to get him in the film was a real big score for us. And I hope you agree, he's really good on camera. His stories really resonate. And he's a very important figure in Silicon Valley as well. But all these people are super interesting. Some are very rich, some are very smart, some are very clever. And personally, I just loved working with Laura Shin. So she's a journalist as well. She's covering the space for a long time. She's highly respected among all these different groups. And that's kind of like an inspiration maybe for me as well. During the movie, you show the Xapo Secret Vault in the Swiss mountains where the company stores Bitcoin for its private customers. So that was a military grade bunker. How did you get access to the vaults? And how was the experience of filming it?  So after meeting Wences in Silicon Valley, he kind of described this bunker and this super high-secure facility. And I'm like, I have to just go in there. I have to get permission. So I asked him a million times and then finally we got permission. And then we had, I think, five or six people in and all these passport clearances. It was like a spy novel or like a James Bond movie almost. And then taking the entire crew down to Switzerland, to a remote part of Switzerland, going down into that military installation, nuclear grade doors, I don't know how many. I think in the film you see five or six of these doors, but there were many, many more. And there's a labyrinth. And then you take an elevator even further down the mountain. It's just a crazy experience. And the funny story actually about this is we went all the way down there and then they show us the service, right? And then the guy says, well, actually these aren't Xapo's service. I'm like, we came all this way, but these aren't the actual service. I said, no, no, those I can't show you. So they were even behind even more security features. And we scripted it in the film to make sure that, look, these aren't the actual service, but it's sitting somewhere down here. So just to make sure we're 100% accurate in what we make people believe. Watching the movie, I noticed that there is a contrast between the crypto gurus fighting each other on what the real vision of crypto should be. And then other people who are building real use cases and applications for blockchain technology. So was it your intention to create that kind of contrast? And which of these two sites best represents the industry nowadays? Yeah. Look, yes, I did really want to show the entire scope of the industry, like everything that's going on, which is impossible, as you know, because it's so big. But I think we did capture a lot of these cryptopian ideas and we even have these bullet point lists. But to answer your question, look, I think you do need the politicians, the leaders, the influencers on the one side. And then you need the programmers and the startup entrepreneurs on the other side. I think it's just a natural thing. It's just a natural part of the evolution of an industry from being something very small, just a white paper with five people working on it to now 50 million people owning Bitcoin and I don't know how many thousands of startups working on it. And that's just Bitcoin. Ethereum is even more impressive in the developer community around it. Thank you, Thorsten. That was very interesting. Well, thanks so much for having me and thanks again for supporting independent filmmakers, CryptopiaFilm.com, if you're interested. I would love to hear your opinion on Twitter or LinkedIn or anywhere else. Yeah, and you guys, if you want to watch Thorsten's new documentary, it is available online on the website CryptopiaFilm.com. 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Thank you for once again joining us for our Wednesday live cast reveal. It's going to be fun I have over here Mary Roddy and we have been working hard on her week trying to take down some of those brick walls for her and Then our upcoming guest below me is Mary and Berkwood and we'll be introducing her a little bit later now Mary's captain Donna was supposed to be here, but I think something happens If she doesn't show up, we're gonna move on. Yes, and Chris Ferriero says hey, I'm Eminem, so we're even better than Eminem We got that we got the 3m show today And so let's go ahead and start with this And I'm gonna tell you just real quick in case you don't know what wiki tree is already a little bit about it We are a community of genealogists who are working together on a single family tree In other words, we collaborate to grow an accurate global tree that connects us all and it's free The wiki tree challenge is our year-long event and part of our year of accuracy And we're coming up to a wrap on that But let me tell you it's been a lot of fun and each week We've taken a guest star and we've worked together on their branches to make them as complete and accurate as anywhere else And hopefully a little bit more now our goal has been to improve the accuracy on wiki tree Add more family connections and make more friends and we've definitely done this so once again, we are going to highlight what we found for Miss Mary Roddy and You know, I've said it before and I'll say it again that a lot of times when we get to these brick walls They aren't necessarily brick walls for the guests. They just maybe are you know, either records weren't available at That time a lot of times they're busy with real life and they can't get to all 600 ancestors So, you know, some of them they just haven't been back to in a while But that's okay because we try and look at them all and and see what we can find But I will tell you that Mary definitely had us Searching hard because she has got those lines to places where the records were hard to find or impossible to find Or just aren't available right now. I know some of our Unfortunately German church records were not available online So we are going to go through the eight great-grandparents. We're gonna go ahead and start on that cursor line Now Mary after the death of your third great-grandfather Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Kircher and I'll apologize now for any names I hatch it because I always mess somebody's up and I'm not well. I am a little bit German, but I don't speak German When he died your third great-grandmother, Johanna, Elizabetha Wilhelmine Remarried at age 40 to a man just 23 and I wasn't sure if you're aware of the age difference on that Now this is one of those lines unfortunately where the family comes from Nordhausen, Thuringian And those are definitely not online and so we can research this But I get to say in late-breaking news and we're talking Like an hour and a half ago Somebody found the marriage record for your third great-grandfather Heinrich Friedrich Althoff and she's like wait many and I've already got everything, you know All the Donna stuff is set up and she's like, but I found something else Oh, let me put it in there real quick. I'll find a spot But he was also a Heinrich Friedrich so not a hard name to remember. I already know the first one But you know, that's that's kind of fun that you have that and now Hopefully you'll be able to kick off and find that the wife's name on that one And you know here it's also just showing that there was some discussion with our experts and You know people had asked like why Why this young man would suddenly go from one area to a completely different area and wind up in Berlin And so, you know, we were lucky. I know Dieter is like I said, he's one of our German experts You know, he wasn't available to us all week But for the days that he was he was really great and he's always so patient, you know And he kind of explained about the revolution and how things happen and actually the timing was that exact year and he's like, oh, yeah That's when it yeah, I did fight had seen something on them that They were my family for my kinship determination project the courage and the church where they got married in Berlin was like You know, I don't know a week before or two weeks before and they're huge huge battle just like two blocks away Right. So it was they were just right in the thick of it So we were excited to get anything on that line though We kind of had written that part off going okay, they're just not gonna find it now here We have on that same line though. We have Maria Louise. Is it how hope I don't have to say it She was born about 1741 in Berlin and she was baptized on the 12th of February at a Lutheran church Which I noticed for the church records I did see people posting they were Lutheran and per her baptism records her parents were Johan Casper and Katharina Sophia So further research show the mother's maiden name to be mentin, which you did Yeah, yeah, so that's gonna open up an entirely new surname line for you nice Hopefully those will be a little bit more available Now we did have a little bit of movement over on the Springer line, which was nice First one of the first brick walls that came down was the mother of Elizabethan and that was Elizabethan Scheib who married a Springer And her mother was also known to be in Elizabeth. But we didn't have a maiden name for her That turned out to be Weber Which was recorded in the burial record of her daughter in 1840 I didn't know when she died. So that's great Yeah, you'll find all kinds of for the records, you know that That aren't posted to the profiles Most of them have links to them on each one So you can actually go and download that document for yourself and have for your for your own records But yeah, we were excited to see some of these change And then here this was Dieter again, one of our german researchers found the burial record now She had died in 1813 and this is Elizabetha Holtz In Capellan and was buried on the 29th of december Her parents as listed on the record were Simon Holtz and Margarita whose maiden name was Maundra Sheep So More excitement more new ancestors and I know you're gonna have so much fun looking at these new names and who these new people are And for um, Katharina, of course, she was only 41 years old when she died not very old She had married Christoph Springer about 1794 And his parents as indicated in his death record were Nicholas Springer and Barbara Heckler Springer So two more brick walls down right there Yeah, you're gonna have some fun branches to work on really. Yeah Oh, that's so exciting Now this one and we know we talked about this last week how much just incredible amount of time You have put in on the on the Bradley line and your notes are just intensive on that We know you've done this extensive research already, you know, and unfortunately I don't think we found a whole lot you did but all of your information is on wiki tree And anything else our researchers found on top of that Is also noted on the profile So you should see a lot of notes and that is one thing I really really like about wiki tree Is we have kind of that white space, you know, so we can write a narrative But also our research logs basically go on the profile. So if we say we looked here couldn't find it It's on the profile You know, if you want to know, oh who found that death record You can look in the changes log if they didn't notate it and you can see who added it And you know, and so there should be some really really good clues I know Cheryl and and some of the others did a lot of work on that line Now it is fun though to see The probate and you know, we had a couple of sparse weeks for probate. So I'm sure One of our master transcribers Stephen was getting a little bored, but this week we had wills for him It was like Stephen. Are you done with the other one? Stephen? We got another one for you And you know to me It's just fun because every little bit of information you can find about these ancestors brings them back to life You know and let you know a little bit about their family And so one of the interesting things that our researchers found is that your second great grandfather peter bradley In his probate documents now his children were 14 and under when he died So none of them were that old and although they were listed in one of the documents There was no guardianship appointed which is odd for that large of a family You know, none of the uncles or or whoever Step forward and or guardians the mother kept the children But they did take everything I'm assuming because they wanted to make sure the kids were taken care of And a lot of his probate instead of being in the probate files is in the orphan's docket court files And so there was some really cool stuff about his Real estate and inventories of what he had and it was a lot of fun And you know, we noticed that although his real estate was valued at four thousand dollars in the 1860 census When he died, of course, he died in test date with with debt And that was why all of this stuff was going through that that orphan's court And so in 1862 after they had published and done the you know outcry on the premises and everything You know where they were ordered to go ahead and sell the Sell the property so that the funding could go back in I'm sure partially to the widow and partially to pay his debts Peter's brother john purchased the real estate for six dollars and 25 cents And they said he was being the highest and best bidder at the sale now, you know I tend to spin things or or think things are probably a little more positive necessarily than they are negative And i'm almost wondering if he didn't do that so he could hang onto the property for the widow And that is my my guess is that she lived there for I think she was there in the 1870 census in duncansville, so um Yeah, it was probably just a token payment and and You know she didn't have a didn't need a guardian for the kids So I guess for the brothers-in-law Trusted that that she would take care of the kids and they provided her The ability to do that property and that's what I think and that makes sense really at first I was shocked. I was like, what do you mean six dollars and they're like no That's really what it says six dollars and and 25 cents But you know probably the rest of the items that they sold from the property paid the debt His debt must not have been that big and you'll see you'll get these documents that say, you know Like you can see the spotted bull and the small red cow You know other things they had a sort of cattle and old sled he had a cider mill and press so he made cider That's interesting He had a riding saddle a coal basket and he had two looking glasses So I'm not sure what he used those for but that's really interesting And wouldn't it be fun if you could find out where any of those items were? Modern time that would be so cool I love looking at the the stuff they put in some of these old records Yeah, you too That's really cool Now here's another one and we're still branching a course off of that same great grandfather We had some of course that you know, they had more movement than some of the other great grandfathers really didn't go anywhere but this one did and A course spelling difficulties always happen and especially when you wind up with accents And and immigrants, you know, and so here we have there's like I'm sure more spellings than this But you're on and with a y or with a j or with an i or you know, there's different spellings John georger fifth great grandfather Was born in 1733 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania In his baptism record recorded on the 10th of december. It showed his father to be matias uran His mother unfortunately was listed as mrs matias uran. So I know right so I think they just forgot to ask what the mom's name was because they're usually pretty good about at least putting a first name for And they didn't even have that The sponsors were john george or and his wife elizabeth. I'm gertrond. So that he gets a name I know right, but it'd be kind of fun to see. Um, you know, if they tie in with the family somehow or they're just But in looking for matias's wife's name His marriage luckily was found Which listed her as maria magdalena fister daughter of conrad fister. So she got a name Yay And then that's the actual um what you see on the slide there that's the actual marriage record for matias and his wife And so does it have the parents names? It has the father's names for both. Oh daughter of conrad fister. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Yeah, it has the fathers for both Which is standard. Unfortunately the writing's a little bad for that But once you get to blow it up, you'll be able to get in there with with a glass looking glass, you know Our magnifying glass and you can look for it. Um, but yeah, that was really fun to find And oh and so because of this as a really nice result And you didn't have a lot of explosions, but on this line you do you now have 10 new direct ancestors on that line 10 And that was a difficult difficult, um, you know, those those pennsylvania germans I'm going back into germany really hard to trace And so and I think if we had had more time you would have had a lot more probably back in these branches Um, but for right now, this is what what you have So that with those pennsylvania ones I wonder if there's I gotta take those names And look for some dar stuff. I bet with those pennsylvania ones that they're Quite likely I've got some some new patriots on that line Oh, I'll bet I'll bet you do somewhere and you know, we try and look for that as we go along But you know, of course when we get in the crunch and everybody's just trying to get everything through Before the end then sometimes it uh the military ones don't make it to our list Now this was on the mansberger line and I know that you know people worked really hard on this one And one of the things that we do have to do is not necessarily Your cleanup, but our cleanup. Oh, we got a visitor Um on wiki tree and they had some cleaning up to do and some disconnecting and You know and then because of all of that and trying to make sure we don't have mistakes on your branches on wiki tree It didn't get to go any further But I will say that yohan martin ansberger your fourth great-grandfather. You already knew he was a migrating ancestor He traveled from and I can't say that place in germany to pennsylvania another pennsylvania dutch He was only 26 years old when he migrated And our palatine migration project, which is another one of our great projects They improve and protect the profiles for german immigrants that settle in north america ireland and elsewhere before the american revolution And they have taken him into their fold and they will be caring for him and and doing further research on him So I I'm always excited to see when a project takes him over because you know that they're gonna You know definitely have something done on him Really cool Now here we had on the germaya hearty line Research proved that the grandfather of barnie andrews was a william andrews the same as his father barnie's great-grandfather So that would be your seventh great-grandfather thomas andrews born about was born about 1663 in england Now this was an interesting story Um They were talking about he was 21 years old when he migrated to the colonies now with him was a bridge at lou grove and six other immigrants And they all you know as was standard at the time Um, it were indentured for a certain amount of years So they had indentured themselves for four years to this gentleman And they came over and then of course, you know, they were supposed to be able to live free and have land and so, um Something happened with bridges somehow. Maybe they just really liked her service. I don't know But when the four years was up everybody left but her everybody was rewarded but her And finally, I guess at the seven-year mark. She was like, um, I was only indentured as long as the rest of them Why am I still here? And so she had to fight for it, you know and try and get statements and stuff from other people and at first They're like, oh, we don't remember seeing an indenture for her. No, there was nothing She didn't have a time limit. So Finally, she was able I guess to get there where the family was able to get the records Uh showing that all of these people had come over and the rest of them all had that four-year contract and so, um, she wasn't a direct ancestor, but you know, your your ancestor was involved in this entire thing and her service, uh, the oh after her service was over, she finally did get her part of the land Now there were 394 acres total That was held for these eight people that were transported and so they got a really nice chunk of land out of it They just just your Thomas got his three years sooner And then it was interesting though, you know, sometimes you find and once again these little tidbits of things that make somebody different Uh, there was something one of our researchers maddie found in the parish records And it said, um, bristol parish at a vestry held at the chapel december 7 17 20 thomas andrews being ancient and crazy and not able to work Is acquitted from paying the parish levies so I think there's a little bit of, you know Pork poor man dementia or something. Yeah Ancient and crazy boy. I like that. I know, right? That's an unusual combination. Um, yeah Ancient and crazy. So we were having a little bit of a gig all over that one Now here, of course, are your some of yours because I know you have more um, American revolutionary patriots and so of course you have a third great grandfather john mansberger and um Then you have your fourth great grandfather benjamin gey Who provided patriotic service? So it's still a dar um patriot Just not a soldier your fourth great grandfather varnie andrews was a private in virginia Your fifth great grandfather william hardy Also provided patriotic service in virginia and of course that one's your dar patriot now But now you have some company And i'm sure yeah, yeah a few more on the branches that we don't have down and then we just had the one Notable one for the civil war your second great grandfather george washington brown Who was a private in ohio? I don't think I knew that um Yeah, I I I have a story about When morgan's raiders came through ohio and I forget whether it was him or maybe his father um Shouldered his squirrel rifle and went out against the gorilla band um So this is interesting. I I didn't know about that Have to check that out. Yep Okay, now this is what we started with of course You know our starting fan chart. We didn't have a lot of your ancestors So this is basically what we had on wiki tree and for anybody, you know that works with genealogy at some point You work with these fan charts and this is a nine generation just because that's kind of been the average of what is Suits our purpose to work with and so we go through several stages of those Now next what we have is all of these yellow spots are of course mary's brick wall. She's like yep I know that one and that one Or I don't know that one I don't know who belongs in that spot, but I want to And so this is what I work off of during the week me and the captain um to verify You know if the ancestor that they found really is a brick wall ancestor we mark them So as you see in the pop out on the left, um, you know where there's little bees on the board That means we broke a brick wall. I think you know those last minute couple that you have um aren't on there But uh the rest of them are and so Next what we're going to look at is That's how much you have on wiki tree now So that's your nine generation chart. Um build out on wiki tree now and hopefully you know You and cousins can collaborate. I should have grabbed a screenshot. You have some really beautiful profiles I always get so jealous when I see these you have some of some like Cousins lined up with DNA matches or like all these people Maybe a cousin match so make sure to look for those on the right side of your profile um, I do find them on my mom's side of the Uh branches, but not on my dad's side. So Um, we'll get there one day But always fun to do that There's it's happy to be here seeing mary's big reveal. We've been excited And and I was yeah, I was telling mary before we started I you know, I said this was a hard one to give up I mean it was definitely a Very very challenging week to work on I know we're going to have another challenging week coming up with mary and it's very challenging So, yeah People worked really hard and I always appreciate the amazing work that these guys do. It's just incredible They just never stop Thanks. Thank you guys so much. I just everything that you found is so cool So I really appreciate it Well, so did we meet your your expectations of um You did you did I I um it was really really fun and and That that civil war thing I totally gotta gotta dig into that and you know, some of the other things some of those german lines that the the um, my sprangers, um, I'm really excited about that. So It's gonna give you a lot to play with. I know um a lot of the genealogists that have been on the show You know, one of the they say one of the hardest things through the week is waiting and not looking because it's really hard to not pee You know, but then the other hard thing afterwards you get the big reveal is that you don't want to go to bed You don't want to go to work the next day. You just want to like wait, but I haven't looked at these branches Yeah Oh, kathy novice says yeah, she's one of our researchers brown is a hard name to work with Yeah It definitely is Okay, and now I'm going to go into a little bit about our collaboration and how our point system works and how we got things done during the week Now collaboration is key during the challenge and that's what wiki tree is all about One of the ways we collaborate is to use a spreadsheet And so you'll see on the left We hope to get people to put the profile that they're working on because when you get 25 35 people working on the same set of branches Really easy to step on somebody's research or you know something they're already working on. Um, this helps us keep it apart Now one of the other ways we collaborate on the right you'll see our g2g post Which is our genealogist to genealogist forum Where people can ask anything or just say what they're working on And we put a post out for each guest so that they can go out and post brick walls And I think mary you probably won't find a lot of posts on those because they pretty much were They were just dug in they were all dug in rabbit holes And they'd say something in discord mendy. I got this and then they go But you know, you'll you'll get a copy of of all this important stuff in the links to everything For the points. Uh, whoops, let's do discord We can't forget discord because that honestly is our biggest tool right now the most successful tool besides Our community which is the best The uh, third way we collaborate is discord and we need this So this is a live chat that goes on and there's people on around the clock with us being a global site You know, there's some some country is up in the middle of something and it's the daytime for them So that's where we you know ask questions. Hey, where do I find this resource? Can you help me find an obituary? Um, hey, steven, can you transcribe a will or you know Hey deeter, I need I need a birth record for this person in germany And so we can get help sometimes we just get in there and cheer each other on You know, that's just as important as everything else and Well, it's not all about the points a point system does help us keep people motivated And it helps us kind of stay aware of where we are with our progress So there are two ways to earn points during the week. Now. The first is for bounty points Which is 10 points for each new ancestor Either found or disproven on each line And then the second way is for adding nuclear relatives And you know some of the branches some some of the guests we've had we have huge numbers I'm just because the families are so big and those can really add up on others It's difficult to even find the records. You're happy to get, you know, two or three siblings Which I think we saw a lot of that here This week and so, you know, either way these people work hard for every point that they get And then at the end of the week, of course, we look at those top scores So our mvp this week, which was most valuable player was one of our german experts and that was deeter leverance He did an awesome job and deeter. Thank you so much for Being patient with all my questions today. So I make sure I knew what was going on Um, Cheryl's asking about the back wall. We'll tell you in just a moment. Cheryl because it's a lot of fun Uh, we also like to acknowledge the top five So once again, deeter was at the top. Kathy ravenstein also worked on the german profiles. Um, she did great Ellen smith came in. She has a wide range of experience. She's a project leader as well Really great job maddie hardman and kathy evans. Um, we're up there in that top five and you know Once again, it's not always the points that you see, you know, sometimes it is just people that are Writing narrative They don't get points for that, you know, but it all adds up and I'm going to show that Make sure it's refreshed Okay, so here we have total points in there You'll see those top five again and we did have a little bit of a smaller group But that's still quite a few people we had working this week Now total points was 293 And so that was all of the points that they got for either bounty or adding the, um, nuclear family Created ancestors you had 51 direct ancestors added to your branches. Oh, that is so cool So it's yeah, it's great And for nuclear relatives so siblings or children 132 profiles in a week's time. So they did really good considering the records that that they were working with I'm super impressed Now bounty points 110 which means 11 of those were new or corrected ancestors And um, and actually I think that may not have updated but the last ones that I added and I was telling you They got some not that long before the the broadcast. So yeah, yeah Yeah, it's it's been crazy and then profiles edited now every time and not just for the challenge every time we go in We fix a date, um, you know, we add a source. We do something we write some more narrative Every time we do that the system keeps track of it as a contribution And you can see how many contributions somebody's paid on with the tree. So now we edited 439 unique profiles this week that were related to you And your ancestors and then for total edits 1797 edits So if you stop and think about how long it would take you to make that many changes In additions to your file That is just incredible the cleanup that you guys did on yeah, because like, you know The cobbler's children have no shoes and the genealogy is Tree has no I haven't talked to one that says, oh, yeah, I work on my own branches all the time. They're all like, no I work on everybody else's and I find them some really cool stuff Um, you know, but yeah, but once again Thank you to all your researchers and all the people that worked on Mary's tree. You were just really incredible And before I introduce Marianne, um, we are going to go back to Cheryl's question And she wants to know who's on that brick wall back there. Are you going to show her the park Mary? So this one here is jerry hardy.  I love it Okay, and so next we are going to be introducing Marianne and of course she's excited to have her week started And see what we can find about her She is a genealogy speaker who's presented at the international association of jewish genealogical societies conference And many other venues She's a well-known author of genealogy books, including planning a future for your family's past really great stuff in that one Um author of at least two marketing textbooks She is a blogger and you can check her blog out at climbing myfamilytree.blogspot.com Really great. And then Marianne, do you think you could tell us a little bit about pass That is your P as s the past process Is something I developed to try to figure out how to make sure that family history would survive to the next generation and beyond So p is where you prepare and get things organized And a is for allocate ownership Not everything has to be an r collection. Sometimes we can share with other people or with institutions One s has to do with writing it down. We need to set up. That's the s a genealogical will So our families know what happens to our family history when we join our ancestors in the far future And the last s is for share Let's share our family history now We don't have to wait. We can share what we know now so that other researchers Like wiki tree folks can see what we've been doing and build on it And that is just amazing And you know, I definitely like you talk about how you want to document what it all is And for the things you're preserving that is part of Preserving that history. I know my mother-in-law. She has a lot of things from her family But she has it all inventory And it says like who it's from like this quill belong to this person. This bed was made by this person Just some really incredible stuff for you know, when it does go down to future generations and something she does pass along now So it's always nice though I think sometimes the younger generations don't think about it so much, you know Oh, they're just like, oh, that's mom's or grandma's cookie jar But you know what one day that's going to mean a lot to somebody.  Wow He really kept that from her that is so cool So yeah, I think that that preparation is amazing Now as far as genealogy itself, what got you interested maryon? Well, light bulb went on in 1998 When I had a cousin who was starting a family tree She was doing a family group sheet on my family And she asked me about my father And his parents And I suddenly realized I knew grandpa Isaac Burke's name But I knew nothing else about him. I didn't know where and when he was born I didn't know where and when he died because it had happened well before my time There was no one left to ask That started me on the genealogy journey and it took five years to find out where and when and why he died That is great though. Now if you had to pick one who is the favorite ancestor you've come across My favorite ancestor is Tilly Jacobs-Moller She was a character She tricked the family into giving her a 100th birthday party before she was 100 No one's really sure exactly how old she was Her gravestone says she died at 99 just short of 100 But let me just say this supposedly she was born in the 1850s If that was true and the wiki tree teams might be able to find out Then her mother Rachel shouhan Jacobs was a really early mom Maybe 12 13 14 years old I don't know, but I'd love to find out Yeah, that genealogy has a way of um, yeah Showing up some of those stories because the records don't generally don't generally lie They might be a little off once in a while, but they don't they don't generally lie Now any other interesting stories that you want to share with with our viewers I'd love to tell you about the reason I'm here today I'm only here today because a quirk in the weather Affected my great grandfather Moritz Farkas He was a gentleman farmer in Hungary And he was doing very well by the way, I've confirmed that with actual records Well one year he didn't insure the crops and I bet you know what happened There was a hail storm and he was wiped out yikes So he picked himself up and he decided to leave Hungary and go to new york city and start over And he did and he brought his wife and then they brought their eight children Now my grandma Hermina was one of those eight children And she was not going to accept an arranged marriage here in America. She said nope She was going to marry the man she met in new york city and fell in love with that's just what she did And if it wasn't for the hail storm in Hungary and her being the woman she was I wouldn't be here today Wow It's it puts it into a certain perspective, doesn't it? A hail storm. Wow just that just that one thing So when did you first discover wiki tree? You know, I was introduced to wiki tree about a year ago by Dorothy Barry She's one of your wonderful wiki treers And she was doing a project. I think she's still doing it to Memorialize a lot of the women who've served in the military over the years And she had posted a profile of my aunt my mother's twin sister Dorothy Schwartz And I saw that And it was very impressive to see what she was doing She inspired me so much that I began adding my own photos And more information about Dorothy Then of course I had to go on and at her twin sister And then I had to go on and it just Went on and on from there slowly, but surely Thank you Dorothy Barry for getting me started on wiki tree and thank you for memorializing my aunt who was a whack Yes, Dorothy is just amazing. She's just we have so many members in the community like that and You know once again wiki tree is free So, you know, we're not just working on our own ancestors We have huge projects that do nothing but take profiles like that and people And try and honor them and they do it out of the goodness of their heart and because they love it. It's their passion Um, I know, you know that it didn't take me long being on wiki tree to learn how fun the wiki tree cousins were and And um, you know get caught up in it and I mean you can go down a rabbit hole Just as easily on somebody's ancestor You don't know as you can on your own and we all do it and I just really really love to see All these people that are still interested in genealogy Now, what do you think you would say to a beginning family historian? I would say what I wish I had done 23 and a half years ago Note where you've been and what you've done and cite your sources specifically So if you ever want to go back which I have done many times You can go back and go exactly to the right place and see why you made that scribbled note Oh, I definitely I definitely agree with that.  Oh, that's right This is the one where the church records are missing for those years Or um, you know something else I was excited last week because we have um what we call suggestions there They're not called errors because some of them are not errors, but on lucky tree We have suggestions for all of our profiles and our ancestors and so it may be something like Okay, it wasn't Virginia united states and you know 1710 it really wasn't um, and it tells us to go fix the location You know, but it may also be other hands like oh, I think the father was a little young when that child was born And you know, it gives us a list and it's a good Housekeeping way to go back and look at profiles. We haven't in a while It kind of nudges you and I thought I'm gonna knock a couple of these out while I'm thinking about something and I actually found two Passport files Immigration files for two of my ancestors that had not previously been online I was like wow. I was so excited. I was like, look You know, it's a lot of fun, but yeah The notes I agree are so important because unless you know where you've already looked, you know, and what it is that you're missing It takes up a lot of your time to redo that research Let's see what we're talking about here. Oh, I think they're talking about still some of the young moms um Yeah, chris fairy. I was saying we need to confirm if she was really a hundred And you know, sometimes you just don't know because Um, because um, it's a matter of taking all of the records and looking and evaluating them. So Do we have any other questions from the audience? Lynette, I'm not sure what I'm what you're saying about as far as retyping all of her Is it fine grave stuff before she died or um, something else took out her notes and sources Family group sheets family group sheets. Oh Um Hopefully those are things that you still have or or have replaced because yeah, those are really valuable and I think if we don't have any more questions at this time I know we've got some people that are anxious to go Look at mary Ann's difficult branches And I'm sure that mary is excited to go look at those those new ancestors she has So I'm going to go ahead and we're going to wrap this up. I want to thank all you for watching or you wouldn't be here Thank you. Uh, mary for letting us play in your branches. It really was it was a lot of fun and mary And you know, we're gonna enjoy yours even though we know they're difficult. We love a good challenge. We really do And anybody else if you're watching you can check us out at wiki tree dot com if you want to know more And I think we will end it at that and say good night


Hello everyone, this is Paul Stacey, the Executive Director of Open Education Global. Thanks so much for joining us for this closing session to what has been just an amazing week. I thought I'd, as part of this closing session, just provide some thanks and also a bit of looking at what took place this week and also looking ahead. But first to the thanks, I just want to make sure everyone joins me in expressing appreciation to Marion for the incredible work that she did as our host at Taipei Medical University. Thank you so much, Marion. This year has been such a strange year. And I really feel like this was a whole surprise. This is not the kind of conference that you were hoping we would do. But it's been fantastic to have your support and I really feel like you and your team really helped us make this event a success. So a huge appreciation from me and from all of OE Global for the support that you and your team provided. Thanks so much. Same goes for our co-hosts, Lina and Ecampus Ontario, and the large tech support team that was provided there to help support the live sessions. And also the amazing keynote that was done by students with the support of Chris Ferngland. Thanks so much, Lina. It's been really invaluable to have three hosts or co-hosts working with us this year on the event, including TU Delph. So Willem and Bea, thanks so much for all of the input you provided into the program, into the planning, and then into actually supporting the live activities taking place in your time zone and having all the students support the tech side of things. It's been just great. It goes without saying that this is like a mammoth task organizing a conference and Dave and Katsu did an incredible job as program chairs. This is no small task to organize a large program such as what we had for this year's conference and we met regularly for months and for Dave and Katsu it was always really late at night. So I did still late at night or getting late at night for them. So thanks so much Dave and Katsu for the incredible work that you did. Helping plan the program and then coordinate and communicate with all of those who are who were part of the program this year. Really big undertaking and you did an awesome job. It goes without saying that the whole staff of OE Global really picked up the ball this year as we had to change the conference plan completely from being an in person event to an online event. OE is the person who leads the whole conference planning activity and as always did a great job but really the whole team, Marcella, Luna, Susan, you're I just did an incredible job of the tech side of things especially. Well, lots of different parts but I really feel like the contribution you're right to the scheduling part of what took place in OEG connect and all of the support for the tech side of things is just great. Awesome job for communicating. Mario great job on that on the design and Karen for finance and Liz also did a really fantastic work on the zoom side of things so thank you. You guys Christina and Alan also really fantastic Alan especially for designing OEG connect. That was a pivotal piece for our online experience this year and something a bit experimental I feel and and as usual Alan imbued it with his such friendly character and carrying character and I really feel like people experienced that and and felt welcome. I think the kindness and care that was expressed at this year's conference was really touching and moving and people could feel it. I also had a huge number of small for us, a lots of sponsors this year and so it's always great to have sponsors and I really feel like, including the sponsors in the program and giving them an opportunity to speak this year. And it really, you know, a substantive way was it really worked out there was a lot of interest in the sponsors sessions. And I found it fascinating to hear what everybody's working on in terms of services and products and things for the open education space. Just quickly here's some rough numbers of what took place at the conference this year we had about a little over 730 registrants from across 43 countries. 67 presenters from 36 countries so we really do end up having very nice kind of global coverage and global global representation of what's taking place around the world and open education. I'm delighted to have 60 students participate this year it feels to me like the student presence in open education global activities is increasing. Interestingly, from my perspective to is like 75% of the people were first time attendees and it feels to me like doing this conference in an online fashion, enabled a lot more people to participate who perhaps wouldn't have been able to if we had done it in person. There were 183 sessions over the four days so not including this past day there were already 43,500 page views inside OEG connect so the activity taking place there is really significant both from people who were registered to participate in the conference and you may not have realized it but the whole conference was visible to people who hadn't registered they just couldn't post a reply they couldn't actively engage their voice in what was taking place but they could see what was taking place and so there was both internal activity within OEG connect and also from the outside. Lots of sessions, all of the sessions that were live and synchronous were recorded. So we have over 55 hours of videos that are on a huge array of open education topics. And sharing with my colleagues earlier that I've heard a few people talking about doing what they're calling almost like a film fest or a view fest where they agree to meet as a group, spend a couple of hours, each individually looking at whatever session recordings were recorded in, and then convening in like a zoom room to talk about what they saw what they watched what they learned. And I love that idea of actually making use of what took place in the conference after the conference is actually over, and kind of mining the rich images that were produced during the conference for further meaning and understanding from our side that about over 9000 emails sent over the last 30 days as we tried to get everyone as we tried to get everyone into the into the platform, and to get their session and during the week. Well over 1300 tweets. I want to make this last point at the bottom this note I want to emphasize this note because this I feel is something significantly different about this year's conference. The fact is that the OEG global connect space is not going away. It persists and all of the resources all of the recordings, and even the conversations the dialogue and the opportunity for discussion will continue after the conference. I hope actually that the sessions that took place during the conference can serve as building blocks for for ongoing discussion. And we're going to open up all of OEG global connect to everyone. And then sort of take down the velvet rope says I was describing it, so that anyone can come into open to the open education global connect space and participate, not only around the sessions that took place during the conference but create new topics if they wish, and in further collaboration, we feel like this is a really exciting notion that the conference doesn't end it persists and the opportunity for ongoing connection is is there for anyone who wishes to engage in that over the coming months so we hope people will take advantage of that. I also want to highlight that. Well, there was a lot of focus on the formal program and the sessions which was incredibly rich. There was a lot of effort put into trying to create some fun activities for people to where we could get to know each other and learn a little bit about the different cultures around the world, whether it be through recipes or through postcards, or people sharing pictures of their pets which proved to be a hugely popular topic in the OEG connect space. And I just love the collegiality of all of that as people kind of enjoyed seeing their pets and sharing a little bit of their life from everywhere around I think this is a wonderful thing. This is work that Alan led in particular so thank you Alan I think that it really infuses the conference with this kind of personal touch that is so enriching, and I love that aspect of it. There will be a survey coming out in the next few days so Susan's going to release that soon so that'll come out as an email. We really do this year was a bit of an experimental approach of course to the conference so we're really eager to get people's feedback on what they liked and what they didn't like so there. There's a survey that comes out to everyone by email so watch for that in your inbox and I know sometimes it can be like, Oh, I really don't want to fill up the server but we really would love to hear your feedback this year be super valuable because, of course we're thinking now about next year, and what we might what we might do next year what will our approach be what have we learned from this year, and how might it affect what we do next year. And with that, let me say that next year's conference is being hosted at the University of Nantes, which is so fantastic thank you to the University of not team for for being interested in this and for stepping forward. I'm going to place on the fifth to the 7th of October. And with that I'm going to stop sharing and turn the mic and sharing screen over to Colin, who is here with us today to share a little bit more about what the thinking is for next year's conference. I want to say that you can see at the very bottom of this slide that in the OEG connect space there's a section in the announcements area about the hosting of the conference next year by University of not where where more information is available and where we'll continue to kind of provide additional information, but let me stop sharing and turn it over to you Colin. Right, this should be working. Can you see my screen. Okay. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. I think I've never said for all three of the same time being quite appropriate in saying the same thing. Well, so I'm calling like era. I'm from the University of Nantes, and I'm very, very pleased to say a few words here. I should say that. I would like the video to work better. So anyhow, the video is the same video that is on the website so if it doesn't work that well you will be able to see it when you want. So the, so I'm very pleased to be here even if when I'm in a conference and there's the talk about next year's conference I always feel it's, it's sort of unreasonable that they're already talking about the next one when we're just enjoying the one way and I think it's even sometimes a bit unfair towards the people who've organized it. So, so yes, I'd like to join you all in saying bravo to the organizers they must have had a tremendously difficult job and when I look at the quantity of, of exchanges of information of talks of this of that and the other. I'm actually quite petrified about about about organizing the next event. Can I can I have it back. So, as it was said, Nantes in France, France has never hosted open education global or open education consortium or the way it was called before. So, so it's quite it's quite something it's quite something we're very happy about and so it's going to be quite important also for us in France to move forward the agenda. As you may know, there was even a satellite event last week, where a number of people in France started getting a little bit more interested than they used to be in the topic. It doesn't mean that this is an event for France this is a global event and we're taking very seriously though, I think what did you say 43 different countries represented in between the participants, and we'll do everything we can to be able to have you there you can see on the images that not is a French city with visiting with a lot of the things that you would expect to find in France and nice foods, some nice places to go and visit. The conference is is well organized you can nearly get everywhere a walking distance from the hotel to the sites to the conference hall to the restaurants. So that's going to be easy, plus the town hall is offering all the participants voucher to just travel freely around town during the days of the conference. So that's going to be nice. This is going to be co chaired by my colleague, but I'm Karen Bernaud who is not with me today because she's a very busy lady she is the president or the Chancellor of the university. That's important it means that through her we're going to be able to again push the gender forward in in France. And I think that's that matters a lot. We're going to be wanting to do we're certainly going to be wanting to take example from what happened this year. And even if we do hope we can have everybody in not, we actually also have noticed that a lot of things can happen online. And I wrote a read in the, in the chat a few minutes ago somebody saying, ooh, great that was online because I'm not sure I would be able to afford to travel. For these people we want to go for something we could call an augmented conference. So one where we would have a lot of things happening in this place that you are seeing images of here, which is the set of auditoriums and the city but we would also be live streaming and sharing online in direct what is happening. There's a lot of infrastructure to have but I've noticed that education global has got a number of people they extremely competent. So we will all work together for this to work out. What are we going to try and sort of support as main choices one which is important to me is multilingualism. From France is a French speaking country and it's always a very big issue the business of the Francophonie do not worry the conference will not be in French. I mean there will be some words said in French you always have to have that in the country that is receiving you, but we would be trying to push multilingualism it is very important that people can learn in all the languages. We are not in artificial intelligence and we are, and I find that there are more and more dominant resources in just one language so we must be able to find ways for all the we are of all the languages to to sort of be as visible as possible. The second big issue is the one of the augmented conference so I've said this which going to try and sort of handle the two things at the same time. And the third big value I'd like to promote, but I know it's already been promoted this time is the dynamic coalition. I worked hard as an OER chair to help get the OER recommendation adopted last year by UNESCO. And now it's essentially gets adopted by the different countries. So that I believe is the big goal we want to have apart from the fact of teaching and sharing our resources. And so those are the elements we will want to be pushing and seeing what can we do. In my case for this to be adopted in France but also to help every one of you get the recommendation adopted in your own country. So that is all I had to say I just look really forward to seeing all of you. I mean I heard that there were 75% of newcomers, but I looked who was present now and I recognize most of the names. So I feel, I feel that I've been cheated out of there the 75%. So, well, that's it. I'll see you next year in North and thanks for listening. Thank you, Colin. And yeah, if you stop your screen share, I would just like to open the floor to invite our co hosts and host to say a few words as part of the closing so perhaps Marianne and Dave might want to make a few remarks and then we'll move to to Lena and then to Bea and Willem. Marianne, Dave. Okay. Thank you for everyone participating in this conference, especially our co host to your doubt, Willem and Bea, and then the Lena from the Ontario. Yeah, so yeah, we can we cannot do it without you because yeah for our program that's there are so many programs, and it's running almost 24 hours a day almost. Yeah, it's like 22 hours a day. So it's almost 24 hours a day. So that's really amazing. And also thank you all the OEG staff. You are wonderful. Yeah, you get it. You have so many support on this event. Thank you very much. And I'm glad that we can host this event virtually. Yeah, it's pretty that you cannot come to Taipei, but maybe sometime in the future. Thank you very much. Dave, do you want to make a few remarks? Yeah. Thank you. First, Marianne one give me such a good job for the whole year. This is my first time. I'm glad to mention you. Yeah, you are very important. Thank you very much. But without Kazoo and Igor also Paul give me a good recommendation, then I can make the whole program successfully. Thank you. And I learned a lot from you. Thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah. Lena. Paul, it's just so nice to be here with you all to close out what was a really just such a dynamic week. So many, so many new faces so many, so many people who are core to the community coming together. And I think, you know, what became so clear to all of us is that we were really reinvigorated in the importance of the work. The importance of the work for this particular time and place that we're, we're living in across the whole world and there's just some things so special about an international conference that's focused. So, it was just been such a pleasure to be involved. The OEG team is just always what a high functioning group of individuals Wow, just incredible. And then, you know, Bea and Willem, Dave and Marion, you know, the co hosting with you has been just such a joy I'm so so glad that Ontario any camps in Ontario was able to contribute so Colin I really look forward to showing up in France here and and enjoying some of that delicious coffee featured in your video. I'm really looking forward to that so let's keep up the good work in OEG connect in the meantime, and thank you Alan for creating that space I think it's going to live and and have just so much energy behind it. And for, for many months to come it'll get us through, you know, the next, the next stage that before we get reinvigorated in nonce once again. Thanks Lena.  And there's one thing I can say Colin is don't worry about anything because these guys got your back, whatever happens these guys are here and they never let you go they never let you fall and that's that's what makes it so fantastic. And the other thing for me is what I was saying earlier to Paul, it's like, I know we are online and I know we are missing the beers and hugs and all that, but it's never been easier to actually cast somebody because you know what they are all the time you just have to go to their page and OEG connect and leave a message in there. So that's for me something that we, we should not leave behind us as we move forward, you know, because some of the times you say I'll catch you later and then you never catch them later because you can find them again. But on this occasion, they were in OEG connect. So, you know, that's good. No way to find them. Thanks so much. Thank you so much. Yes. So I think Bayer said most things as a co-host but I also want to say as president of the boards that I think it was, it was an amazing experience, and that we've had here. We first were planning on going to Taiwan but and I still like to go and visit you. But I think we've set a really great conference here and really organized a conference that is truly delivering to our mother of really openness with so many new participants, really the connect platform that opens up, publishing the message so shortly after they're done and all on YouTube available for anyone to look at. And I think that's really strong message that we're delivering. And that's also something that I would like to see that we can continue in the future. So that will be an interesting discussion of how we are going to organize that. Thank you all. Thanks to all the staff and all the people that are involved. I know how much work this is to organize a conference and thank you very much and then please take the weekend off. Thank you. Last group to have any opportunity to say a few words is just the OEG staff if any of you would like to make some remarks please do so now. I don't feel like you have to but I would like to include you in this closing and hear anything that you'd like to say maybe we could start with Igor. Thank you, Paul. I'm going to try to keep it short. I think, you know, this is wonderful event. Thank you. It was when we were kind of communicating on Sunday I said that, you know, after like a year of strategizing and planning and then all of a sudden uncertainty as a result of this pandemic we had to re-plan and re-strategize and basically transition to a completely online format and what really came out of this process has been quite remarkable. And the collaboration with our co-hosts and hosts and just how everything really worked out throughout the week like kudos to the entire team, really well done. Thank you for everything that you have been doing along the way. And thank you to all of the attendees that have been who have been actively participating in the sessions in OEG Connect. And so it has been a wonderful experience and really looking forward to the next year's conference. So thank you all. Thanks Igor. Alan, would you like to say something? So, everybody said all just thanks to the team. Thanks to everybody. I had high expectations and this certainly exceeded everything on all levels so onward to next year. Yorai, Susan, Marcella, Christina, Mario. I just want to say it was definitely a group event. I know we have a fantastic team that works together extremely well but this was definitely a community event. Couldn't have done it without anybody in this room and we just had so much support. It's just amazing to me. I just lived up, exceeded my expectations as well and Colin, we look forward to hopefully seeing you next year. Yorai, I'd love to hear from you. You did so much work. Yeah, I mean I think we, for me, my side, I think we all learned a lot and kind of like doing this two years ago would be unthinkable but now it's like a new standard and it's like at least show that it's possible. And I'm super excited about what the future brings for all of our open conferences. Great. Excellent. Marcella, Christina, Mario. I added my chat but I just want to say a huge thank you to the team. This was a great project to jump into as a new employee and a new member of the team. And a huge thank you to our co-hosts as well.  Thank you. And me too. I was typing my thank you. Thank you all. It's amazing to be part of this team and now with the co-host and seeing how everything is coordinating. It's just a pleasure to work with all this fascinating group and the presenters as well and seeing people coming and going. And doing the multilingual thing Colin, muchas gracias a todos. Veo muchos que hablan español por aquí.  I feel energized and full of love and joy to keep on going. Anyone else want to make some remarks we have, of course, some of the presenters and others who participated last call if you'd like to say something you're welcome to we can just grab the mic. We have Leo here. They have also just recently, well a couple of hours ago joined launch new guidelines. So cheers to that Leo and the team. Was that a beer? Sadly, I've only got a coffee here. You've got the paradise speech it looks like. Beautiful surroundings. Okay. Thanks. Thanks everyone so much. Let's just bring this closing to a close. I'll say, while we're closing this year's conference of course we're we're looking forward to the coming year and to continuing to engage with all of you in this work. And, and I love Marcelo's comments about the joy and the experience of kind of the collegiality and the camaraderie amongst all of us that are part of this community I think it's a fantastic global community, and we're delighted to be part of it. See you next week. See you Monday for most of my team. And then for many of you I do hope to be seeing you in person hugs and sessions over dinner and wine and cheese and not sounds like a must. Until then, bye everyone. Thank you so much for this year's conference. Bye bye.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. Happy Saturday. It's Saturday, so it's grocery haul day. I just got done working out, doing all of my grocery shopping and it is massive stock up time. I shopped at both Target and Costco and I have a huge, and when I say huge, I mean huge grocery haul for you.  If you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and don't forget to click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly, highly recommend. If you haven't had your macros, then have me do those so you know exactly where you should fall every day to reach your goals. And if you wanna talk with me directly, I offer one-on-one coaching as well. Links, discounts to all my favorite things and of course my Facebook group are also down in the description box. Head on over and join us there. We'd love to have you. So let's go ahead and jump in to this massive grocery haul. So here is this week's massive stock up haul. I went to Target. I haven't been there in a minute and I found some fun things. They had some really good deals going on.  Again, some excellent deals, some new food find. So I'm really excited to share everything with you. So we have a massive haul, so let's jump into it. First at Costco, I grabbed the pack of the Clorox wipes. The last time I was at Costco, I guess it's been a couple months now. They didn't have the Clorox and I ended up buying the Lysol ones or the Armin Hammer ones and I do not like those as much as the Clorox.  Paper towels, the Bounty was on sale. Normally I just buy the Costco brand but it was actually less expensive than the Costco brand. We needed toilet paper, so I picked up the Kirkland brand and then Troy also needed chips for his lunch and this is currently on sale for $11.99 for 54 bags of chips which is a fantastic deal. I think it was $4 or $5 off. I needed a graham cracker pie crust for a recipe so I picked this one up at Target. Troy's having a tacos for lunch or burritos I should say this next week. I'm gonna go ahead and make those for him this weekend so I picked up some sour cream for those. One third less fat cream cheese for my meal prep dessert. Definitely stay tuned for the end of the video for what I'm doing in meal prep for this next week. I'm super excited. We've been on a huge bagel and cream cheesecake so I picked up some of the plain whipped Philadelphia cream cheese. Two boxes of the Brew Doctor Kombucha. They're six bottles and it was on sale at Costco for $7.99. That's a little over a dollar a bottle which is less than half off its normal price so you can see here I picked up two boxes because I love Kombucha. I drink it pretty much every single day so this will definitely last me a while. So excited to see Pumpkin Spice Coffee Creamer. International Delight isn't my favorite brand. I prefer the Coffee Mate but they didn't have the Pumpkin Spice and listen, I'm here for fall. I'm ready for fall so I picked that up. One pack of Aju Gravy Mix. This is for a dinner recipe. Target currently has by $20 worth of beauty and get $5 off. So I went ahead and picked up some beauty things or hygiene things that we needed. This is my very favorite toothpaste ever. I love the mint from Theory. Olives for Troy's Tacos. This was a better deal by the three pack of the small cans rather than individual cans. I have to say that I'm sad that Costco no longer carries that big huge red pack of Lindsay sliced olives for $4.99 because I paid $4.99 for these three small cans. I love the Kristen S haircare line and this was part of that $20 in beauty so this is the detangling tonic. As you guys know, I have really thick, dry hair. It gets tangled really easy and I thought this would be good to try when I get out of the shower before I actually brush through my tangled mess. My all-time favorite mayonnaise from Costco.  Two kinds of mustard because we are completely out of all mustards which is very random and weird. So I did pick up just the organic yellow mustard and the organic Dijon mustard. Some pesto sauce for a dinner recipe. Funny thing about this pesto, it's 190 calories for a quarter of a cup. All of the other brands at Target were over 300 calories for a quarter cup. So I don't know if there's more oil in there. I'm not sure but this was the lowest calorie, AKA lowest point so I picked that up. Some mild chunky salsa.   And this one has Swiss, Colby Jack, Cheddar and Monterey Jack. So I thought that this would last quite a while. Target also had by $50 worth of household laundry, cleaning supplies, that type of thing and you got $15 off. So we were almost out of our scent beads so I went ahead and stocked up about the big pack of the Gain fireworks, the Downey Cool Cotton and the Downey Infusions Bliss. This one smells amazing. And then to reach that $50 threshold, I bought some washing machine cleaner. I do like to run this through my front load washer once a month or so just to really clean it out and get rid of any of that weird mildewy smell. I was completely out of rolled oats and I have been craving oatmeal so I picked up the Good and Gather organic rolled oats. They also had some candles on clearance and I can never pass up a good deal on a candle and this one smells really good. This is the Green Mango and Pomelo. It was on sale for $7. And these huge three-wick candles are only $10 at Target. Now, you know I am a Bath and Body Works candle lover but if it's a good deal, I definitely don't pass it up. And this gorgeous candle, the Oasis Palm, this one smells, all things summer was on clearance for $4.50. A restock of our sleep gummies only because these were on coupon for $10.99 which is $5 off the normal price and then two boxes of our Heartburn Medicine or the Acid Reducer. We take this every day myself and Troy. And then when I was at Target, I picked up Palmer's favorite. We call them his chicken bones that he gets in the morning but these are the puppy natural nubs and we break these little bones into four little pieces. So we actually get like 70 days or 70 pieces out of it and he loves these. So I picked those up at Target. No surprise that I grabbed two containers of my favorite cottage cheese, the Good Culture. The unreal chocolate coconut patties that taste just like Amount but maybe even a little better were on coupon at Costco so I went ahead and picked those up for a sweet treat. There's 70 calories a piece which is not bad at all.  And for Troy's burritos for the week I grabbed him the Cheddar Jack fine cut shredded cheese. For bagels I went with cinnamon raisin. I don't know it just sounded really delicious and that's what I bought that plain whipped cream cheese for. One of Troy's favorite, favorite beers and they very rarely have this at Costco. It was a really good deal. The four pack was only $6 and 50 cents I believe so I surprised him with the Irish death. Some quinoa, this is for my lunch meal prep. I have some red quinoa in my pantry but I don't think I have enough for my entire recipe. So this was on sale at Target. I was completely out of flour. I mean there's maybe a tablespoon left in my jar so I grabbed the Good and Gather Organic all purpose flour. I picked up quite a bit of meat at Target. Originally I was going to grab it at Costco but they had a lot of their meat marked down so these are the no antibiotic chicken breasts. Normal price is $9. They were $3 off so it was $6 for the entire pack of chicken. They also have their chicken tenders $3 off which made these packs $3 and 49 cents which is a great deal so I picked up two of those. And for Troy's tacos I just grabbed some 80-20 ground beef he doesn't care and these were a dollar off a package so it was about $5 per pound and I went ahead and picked him up two pounds. There was a coupon on the Target Circle app for favorite day products and I saw these maple cookie thins and they spoke right to my heart. They're giving me fall vibes and I love maple anything so I went ahead and picked those up. Also as part of the $20 in beauty I picked up a two pack of a Dev Deodorant for Troy and some Neutrogena oil-free eye makeup remover for myself. Buried under my 10,000 pounds of groceries are some eight inch flour tortillas. Just the Target brand, these are for Troy's tacos for his lunch. A huge pack of Costco asparagus. I actually needed this for two separate dinner recipes so I just went ahead and grabbed the Big Pack at Costco. A big pack of cheese slices for Troy's meat, cheese, and crackers. I will tell you that this particular brand, this Cello brand, this is the best cheese I've ever had in one of these cracker cut packages. So, so good and it was $12 at Costco which is a really good deal and it is seriously so good. I couldn't pass up these kind of tie-dyed navy blue workout pants. Costco has workout pants from Danskin on sale for $9.99. I couldn't pass it up, I almost bought a couple pairs but I told myself, listen Jen, you probably only need one pair if not zero pairs so I couldn't pass up the blue tie-dy.  These are on sale for $5.99. This is a three and a half, almost four pound bag of treats for the dog. My dogs will definitely go through these and you can't beat that deal. Berry down here is a big 35 pack of Diet Coke for Troy. One baby apple, this is for my lunch meal prep. A huge bag of lemons, this is for my waters and then I also needed lemons for a recipe this next week. Some tri-color bell peppers. I really only needed one bell pepper but Target only sells them in a three pack so I think I'm going to mix up some chicken salad or tuna salad and stuff one of the extra bell peppers with that so that I can use them up. Some organic raspberries from Costco. They were a really good deal, $5.99 and this is just for snacking for the week. And a big pack of strawberries. I need this for my meal prep dessert and then just strawberries to snack on. Some frozen peas for a dinner recipe. String cheese for Troy's lunches. He takes two string cheese every single day. It's $9.99 for this huge pack, three pounds, 12 ounces of the Frigo cheese sticks. You cannot beat it. I went ahead and picked up another box of my makeup remover wipes only because they were on sale.  Troy's favorite salad. He begged me to pick this up and they actually had it. I think this is seasonal at Costco. I don't like it. I don't know the points of nutrition information. I don't need it but he loves this salad. A bag of Fritos scoops for Troy's French onion dip that he's still working on. And last but not least. So this massive haul. The creeders, cheese and caramel popcorn. This is our very, very favorite so I always pick up a bag at Costco. So that's it my friends. That is everything for this massive, massive grocery haul. So let's go ahead and jump into my dinners for the week as well as what you'll be seeing on Monday for meal prep. So here's what is on my meal plan for the week. We are the week of August 7th through August 13th. I seriously can't believe at the end of this week we'll be halfway through the month of August. Blows my mind. Today Saturday we are going out for dinner or having frozen pizza or supporting a local business. Tomorrow Sunday I'm making grilled chicken and asparagus pesto pasta. You guys will see this recipe in next Wednesday's What I Eat in a Day. Monday in my crock pot I'm throwing in a pot roast and doing a Mississippi pot roast. Tuesday is always a leftover night. Wednesday is lemon asparagus risotto. I don't know we'll pair this with some type of protein and then Thursday I'm doing a taco casserole. This is actually a low carb recipe and then Friday is leftover so we can finish up everything from earlier in the week. And here's what you'll be seeing on Monday for meal prep. I'm pretty darn excited about this. So stay tuned for Monday's meal prep for breakfast this next week. I'm putting together some breakfast tacos. This sounds so good. Lunch is going to be a cranberry apple quinoa salad. I've been craving quinoa. I picked up that really pretty red quinoa in my grocery haul so I'm excited for that. And then for dessert this week I'm making strawberry Greek yogurt cheesecake bars. As you guys know my husband loves cheesecake so he is pretty excited about this. So you'll be seeing all three of these recipes on Monday in my meal prep. Thank you for joining me on this week's grocery haul. Well I guess this month's Costco haul and this week's Target haul. If you enjoyed it don't forget to give it a big thumbs up and if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and don't forget to click the bell right next to it so you don't miss a single video. It's grocery haul day every single Saturday. Check out that description box down below for nutrition coaching, links, discounts to my favorite things and of course my Facebook group head on over and join us there. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you have the best weekend ever and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.


All right, all right. President, good day. Good bye. Good to see you. Good to see you again. Good. The Vice President couldn't be here. He had to leave. So he just wanted me to deliver the gift. I don't know what it is. But there. Almost. It's just to talk. Well, I didn't even have time to get into the report or not, I wouldn't have had anyone to order it for myself. And I'm looking forward, as you know, next week I'm going to go put out a speech on it speech on the one side. Sort of looking at the front pages of Washington Post and New York Times. I don't think they're reading the same report. They all have their story written. I think so, yes. But anyway, I'd like to cooperate in the future here and I'd like to hear your views. I'm going to start off with a weird statement yesterday saying you'd ask for this commission. Dr. Gennett. This is Rick Kelly, Mr. President. Yes, hello. I'm Alaska, a fine Republican. Well, good to see you. I appreciate your experience and know that the majority leaders of the Senate have a hell of a lot of tough schedule here. It's a pleasure to get the chance to meet you, sir. Good to meet you. I know the support that you've been and what you've been doing. Of course, we have something in common. We both have some budget problems. I understand. I was in it much smaller than I had to. Why don't you come in here? Why don't you here? Why don't we get a threesome of you? All right. Thank you, Mr. President. No, why don't we put him in the middle? All right. You're the boss. Okay. If we could just do something about the price, I don't know how we both are. A little souvenir here from this joint. Thank you very much. Good to see you. I appreciate it. In a tough time, we really appreciate your being here. You've got a good congressional delegation here. Two senators. I'm younger. We appreciate it very much. Good. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. President. All right. Thank you for being quiet. Have a good day. Nancy Casablan. Nice to see you. Senator Talkington. Senator Talkington. Very good. Well, just fine. Good to see you. Well, nice of you to have us together. I appreciate that very much. We have a few things on your mind. I've talked to you since before you were governor when you were in Kansas. At a Lincoln base out there. That's been on them. Bob is president of the Kansas Senate. I think that's the one where they provided a private car for me to go to. You couldn't get there any other way. Why do they put no water out there to reduce so many good Republicans? I don't know that we're going to keep it going. Finally got the governor's chair back and so we look forward to great things now. Things are in good shape out there. A lot of people remember your Independence Day speech. Which was when in the early 60s? 1966, I believe. 1964, 1965. That was at the time when I was still grounded. In other words, I wouldn't fly. It was about 15 years of refusing to fly. And one of your congressmen was haunching as far as I was concerned. And he had known of that. So he said we have arranged a private car. It's down in the train. The first time I've ever ridden a private car. We're glad to have you here. Well, thank you very much. I'm going to hear from our officers. Good luck to you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Well, thank you. Thank you for some other things too. This is Captain Jim Stark. Hello, how do you do, sir? It's good to see you. President, this is my wife, Rosie. Hello. Nice to see you. My son, James. Hello there. Why don't we get a family picture here? Looks like me to get on the other side, sir. Sure. Well, Lisa and you, me in the center. Lisa, come on in. Well, I think it's a new assignment. But thank you very much for conceiving the idea of the Achilles Laurel. Thank you. It was a very proud moment of mine when I was able to say yes, yes. Let's do it. We couldn't do it without James. Well, I did with say yes. Somebody really had to think of it, plan it and do it. Yes, sir. It's been a real honor to work for you and for the country. And the strike also. Thank you very much, sir. Well, let's wait and see. Thank you. A pen for you. Type R. See, I was just thinking of old tar. Sir Will. Thank you again. Well, thank you. Thank you. Bye, sir.


Rydyn ni'n diodd y cymryd â'r dweud o'r cymryd LGBT cymunedau sy'n fawr yn fawr i'r fwrdd yn fawr ac yn fawr i'w fawr. Rydyn ni'n ddweud yng nghymru, rydyn ni'n ddweud o'r fawr gyfer y club a'r Wyllwyll Cymru, mae'r gŵl yn hynny'n fawr, rydyn ni'n fawr, rydyn ni'n ddechrau'r fawr, I ran fe gwaith o gyntaf i'r diwethaf. Oeddwn i roeddwn i'w ffordd â fy flynyddem yn nhw kokol.  Mae ran o'r cymryd a rhan o'r gyntaf fel I a Llywodraeth y boedd, a pethau fel hyn, ac mae efallai gwneud i'r huwyddaeth. Mae'r penedig yn cael eu meakaidd. Mae hynno ar 95-93 oed, mae gennym ei chwarae yma ar draws, a i siwr ei bryda codiad a Tony Pwydlis. mae'n gwybod yn siarad am gyfnod o'r bufyn yn bwrdd, ond rydyn nhw'n cael rhai iawn, ac rydyn nhw'n gallu ei wneud o'r kitau ac mae'n sgwr ymddangos iawn. Rydyn ni'n gwybod i'r unedd mewn cyfnod, ysgrifennid y 90s, ac mae'r gwybod yn bwrdd i'n bwrdd, yn ymddangos i'r ffaith i'r unudd, yn gwybod i'r tyn nhw'n cydweithio'r gwell.  And then afterwards I moved back home for a little bit and then moved away to Brighton, went to Millennium Stadium, watched the guys, got promoted against Lincoln, which was just one of the best days out ever. And then from then living in Brighton it was pretty easy to get born with tickets back then and I would make my mind up on the day. And in fact I remember my first jobs on a CV that I had photocopied. I'd written when my hobbies was following the brackets, sometimes dismal, close brackets, fortunes of FC Bournemouth. And that apparently stood out and I got an interview. So maybe I got into my career thanks to Bournemouth as well, he knows. The great escape season and the final game against Grimsby, they've come up again, was just incredible. Me and my friend who still lives here, we came down to the match and the atmosphere was just incredible. All three sides were really just, it felt electric and it felt like something really special, but obviously it wasn't going to plan at first. But you kind of knew if anything was going to happen it was going to be Fletch. And I just remember him turning to sort of take that shot and just, oh, I know you ran out of gas trying to run up the pitch, but I've never screamed and jumped so much in my life. I still can't watch that goal back without getting like goosebumps. It's just one of the most incredible experiences in my life. And it meant so much, everyone ran on the pitch and I remember we sort of got a photo, I think a steward took a photo in the dugout and I turned to my friend and I was like, within 10 years I'm going to be in the Premier League. I said I was obviously a bit giddy, but I wonder what odds I'd have got on that. Growing up, I knew I felt different, but it took quite a while to kind of work out what that was because there weren't a lot of representation for LGBTQ people in the media or it was something that was kind of not talked about. You couldn't learn about it in schools. It was banned. And it was the sort of thing that people would say is just a phase. But as I got older, I kind of became more sure of myself and I came out a number of years ago now. And the thing is when you're LGBTQ, you don't just come out once, you're kind of outing yourself all the time, sometimes when you change jobs or when you change doctors or things like that. And progressively as I've got older and years of, you know, life's improved, I think, dramatically, it's become easier, but it's never easy. And there are still lots of people out there who just don't feel able to come out for various reasons and that always makes me feel really sad. So I do remember back in the 90s, some of the chance could be homophobic and you kind of knew that it was wrong and I used to get this kind of hot feeling that it just felt really bad. But you didn't really know what to do because everybody was kind of joining in back then. It was a really different time. And I think knowing now that that is just not something that's accepted, that that kind of discrimination would be called out, just makes such a difference. I can't imagine what it would be like to, I think of some of the players you've come out since they've retired, people like Thomas Hitzelberger. I can't imagine what it would have been like to have played the whole game, you know, at that level and hiding such a major part of yourself. I just think that would be unbelievable. CFAX no longer is the main source of my news on FC Bournemouth. So I've been following Bournemouth on social media since the early days really. And I remember scrolling through Twitter and saw this proud cherries account when I was sort of searching the FCB hashtag and I was like, this looks interesting.  I'm a Bournemouth fan. And in fact I was working for Brighton and Albin for their charity at the time. So it was extra important that I was not being confused as a Brighton fan. And yeah, emailed Louise. And I think a few years ago now, I was lucky enough to kind of win tickets to come along to a match, one of the Rainbow Laces matches and we were flag bearers. And that was just incredible.  Bournemouth team had seen onto the league on to the pitch at Premier League was just incredible. During lockdown, which obviously was a tough time for everybody, I got approached by Ben at the club and by Louise from proud cherries to be part of a really exciting project to help design and be part of the consultation process for the pride range that AFC Bournemouth have introduced. I was just knocked out by that. It was first that the club was going to have a pride range, something that I think is really important so that I can really proudly show who I am when I come to games, but also that they wanted to know my opinion. Luckily, I wasn't actually designing it from scratch because it wouldn't look that great, but I was able to kind of be part of a group and we joined on a couple of Zoom calls to see samples and give comments and feedback. I think when you look at the pride range in store now, obviously, there's some incredible models helping show you the pride range there, but the quality of the goods and how it looks, you know, it's fantastic and very proud to be associated with it. Being able to show that I'm a Bournemouth fan but also part of the LGBTQ community is so important to me. I think there's something about being able to be who you are.  I want everybody to feel comfortable to represent who they are and so I think, for me, it makes me feel really proud that I came along at the weekend, bought a hat, bought a new hat, took myself to the pride range hat and one of the stewards remarked what a cool hat that was because it's the pride colours. I was just like, yeah, it is. For me, maybe someone sees that, sees me, thinks maybe it's okay for me to come out too. I don't know. I think there will be some people from the LGBT community who feel uncomfortable around football and think it's not for me and I can understand that because there have been times when it's felt awkward back in the day. What I would say is you couldn't choose a better club than Bournemouth for one thing. I feel supported, I feel safe, I never feel any difficulty in wearing my pride colours when I come to watch the match and I see them on other fans and I think that's a great time when you can spot other people that are either proud to be part of the community or allies, wearing the colours as well. I would also say that there are such strides that have been made by the governing bodies in the Football League and the Premier League and the FA in trying to make sure that football is for everybody and that fans really are the heart of the game. Players come and go, managers come and go and seasons come and go, but it's the fans that really do make up the club and I would say if you want to be a football fan, I would urge you to feel safe and come forward and support your club.