A few years ago, a young friend of mine, a return missionary, was on one of the college basketball teams in the state. He was a great young man and a very good ball player. But he wasn't playing as much as he hoped he would. His particular talents and skills simply weren't exactly what that team needed at that stage of their development or his. That happens in athletics. We deal with it all the time. So with the full support and best wishes of his coaches and his teammates, my young friend transferred to another school, where he hoped he might contribute a little more. As fate would have it, things clicked at the new school and my friend soon became a starter. And wouldn't you know it? The schedule determined years before these events transpired had this young man returning to play against his former team in Salt Lake City in the then named Delta Center. What happened in that game has bothered me to this day and I am seizing this unusual moment to get it off my chest. The vitriolic abuse that poured out of the stands on this young man's head that night, a Latter-day Saint, a return missionary, newlywed, who paid his tithing, served in the Elder's Quorum, gave charitable service to the youth in his community, and waited excitedly for a new baby coming to him and his wife. What was said and done and showered upon him that night on his wife and his parents should not have been experienced by any human being anywhere, any time, whatever his sport, whatever his university, or whatever his personal decisions had been about either of them. But here's the worst part. The coach of this visiting team, something of a legend actually in the profession, turned to him after a spectacular game and said, what is going on here?  These are your people. These are your friends, he said. But worst of all, he then said in Total The Wildermint, aren't most of these people members of your church? The day after that game, when there was some public reckoning and a call to repentance over the incident, one young man said in effect, listen, we're talking about basketball here, not Sunday school. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. We pay good money to see these games. We can act the way we want. We check our religion at the door. We check our religion at the door. Lesson number one, for the establishment of Zion in the 21st century, you never check your religion at the door. Not ever. My young friends, that kind of discipleship cannot be. It is not discipleship at all. As the prophet Alma has taught the young women of the church to declare every week in their young women's theme, we are to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things and in all places that you may be in. Not just some of the time, in a few places or when our team has a big lead. Check your religion at the door. I was furious. But let's stay with this. Let's stay with this for a minute because there is a second lesson on its way. Lesson number two in tonight's quest for Zion is that in my righteous indignation, at least we always say it's righteous, I have to make sure that I don't end up doing exactly what I was accusing this young fan of doing. Being mad, acting stupid, losing my cool, ranting about it, wanting to get my hands on him preferably around his throat until, guess what, before I know it, I've checked my religion at the door.  Look, it's easy to be righteous when things are calm and life is good and everything is smooth. The test is when there is real trial or temptation, when there is pressure and fatigue, anger and fear or the possibility of real transgression, can we be faithful then? That is the question because Israel, Israel, God is calling. Such integrity is, of course, the majesty of Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. Right when forgiving and understanding and being generous about your crucifiers is the last thing that anyone less perfect than the savior of the world would want to do. But we have to try. We have to wish to be strong. Whatever the situation or the propagation or the problem, no true disciple of Christ can check his religion at the door.


Everybody forced here ripping a Five-pack gold pack bundle National packs here for Harper B. Thank you Harper. Good luck. My first time opening the gold packs Let's see man one bundle of five We'll see an auto or something. All right starting off. There's a KG like the design on these and a Dan Marino is like a velocity parallel. That one's not numbered Nice Marino Let's see. Let's see some numbered cards here There's a Lionel Messi base as Leo and that is a Hyper Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. That one's not numbered as well All numbered cards or an auto maybe. I don't know how rare the autos are. I've only seen a few of these opened Jamarant on the base and a velocity rookie Anthony Edwards. Very nice Yo Harper that's sweet looking right there again. That's not numbered, but that is nice, dude Color on a great rookie there. We only sell them in bundles of five We don't sell single packs We might in the front of the shop like the actual shop but not online Alec Bohm rookie Another hyper Jason Dominguez here. I don't know if you put it in the shop yet. Honestly, not sure Last one for you. Come on. Let's see a big card here. That's a really nice Edwards, honestly All right, Joe Scheiste and a little bit of color. He looks like some camo looks like camo pandora James Harden. What's that to? 13 of 25. All right. That's a jersey number Nice hard in there. It's a camo pandora, dude. It's nuts looking Good finish there nice Edwards as well. Thank you Harper Get him right out to you


This is stock number 91698. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used SUV and sports car headquarters. Today, we are checking out this super clean 2018 Dodge Durango SRT-8. This vehicle has a 6.4 liter Hemi motor which pumps out 470 horsepower. From this HD video, you will be able to tell that this Dodge is extremely clean all the way around, has been very well taken care of. White knuckle is the color and we shoot all of our videos in 1080p. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me. And definitely your best way to check out the vehicle without actually being here. It comes with the 20-inch painted SRT rims, the Pirelli Scorpion Verde Run Flat tires. These are 295-45 ZR20s and these tires have about 60 to 70% of the tread left. Didn't see any dents or dings on that front fender. 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Good morning everyone We have Julie here this time Saturday morning. I can never find the right place to wave. I should just point at the camera It's like I know where it is It always ends up over here. Nobody can see it Julie and I this morning as Mags is doing a Presentation and Mindy is doing other genealogy stuff her DA are meeting Filling in so I wouldn't be all alone. Hi, Sarah's mom. I see you out there And we also have Tommy and Chris and Kay and Thomas and Stephen to Mesa Wicks, I just like saying his last name. I know it was at Friday date night last night, too. Oh Yeah, I say last night when really I mean yesterday afternoon for me That's why I can't really make it because I know that work. I know you just need to take every other Friday off, Sarah Yeah, that would really Yeah Then we have Betsy hi Betsy hi Betsy. I think she was at Friday date night, too The first time you probably was she was Friday night Julie sure Yeah, we just get together every other Friday and we work on finding dates for the many Thousands of profiles that don't have dates. They're lonely and they're sad and they need your company. Oh We've been doing this since the beginning of November and I usually I always post about it in G2G to give you the link to the free space page that has instructions and hints and tips and We have cleared almost 10,000 profiles So we've dated 10,000 profiles. We have look. There's Magnus from Sweden. Hello. We also had Hillary pop in cool Magnus has done a lot of research on my Swedish people So I I'm indebted to him and he sent me some pictures yesterday, and I haven't had a chance to even look at them or talk to him yet Thank You Magnus So yeah Friday date night has been really beneficial to week each week, and it's a lot of fun We had a new participant yesterday Katie and she got into the discord She's like, I can't believe I didn't know this was here. This is awesome Very excited. So Yeah, because it helps us, you know If people are searching for those ancestors the dates on there really helps to Differentiate one person from another it does and it also helps to track down Duplicates because you know there's got to be duplicates for at least some of them. Yeah, how many how many are how many are actually undated? Still You have a number kind of I could give you some yeah, there's like I'm afraid to say but let me go pull it up but dating 10,000 profiles in four months is pretty impressive. It is it's and That is not taking into account. We had a bug in the system that was allowing all zeros to be entered Or Jed comes to import profiles without dates and that has now been fixed So we have been making a lot more progress since that's been fixed. So that's fantastic. So let's see if I go look Tommy says thirty two hundred thousand K was saying about half a million. Yeah, that's Yeah with this effort of Friday date night just kind of getting a pinpoint, you know motivating people to get those Just imagine it so 10,000 four months will probably just go up from there Bring in new people More people are participating and and of course the the profile improvement project Works on those and the data doctors work on those too. So we've got coming at it from all different directions Get those take those lonely profiles. Yeah, and it's just I feel it's very gratifying to go out there I just fall right down into that rabbit hole And usually I'm sure a lot of times it's really easy to find the day It just happened that when they have littered the dead com or something just didn't have date. Yep Well, I know sometimes it's an even in the biography like it's just a transfer into the proper field Right and sometimes you get in there and you you know you start working on one and you find out that all the family members That are connected don't have dates So you can find those I mean even if you find one census listing a lot of times You can fill in the dates and then it just kind of blossoms from there And you can find family members that haven't been connected to the correct family yet Yeah, big big snowball Tommy's saying that probably in two to three years. Maybe we'll have every single profile of the date. Wouldn't that be fantastic? It could happen. Hmm. At least an estimated day one or the other birth or death Oh, and we have our annual clean-a-thon and that helps with those two Where Julie you'll see Julie and I pretty much every four hours for the most part Yes, I Love the thorns, but by the end of the weekend, I just don't want to look at what Yeah, I need to take a day off So we also had Benjamin join us. Hi Ben. I Hope he goes by Ben. That was an assumption. I Would I would think so it's it's midnight for him right now. He's an Australian. I know he comes to Friday date night, too Well, what time is it for him at 4 p.m. Oh? It was like it's early morning. I think I think he's 15 hours 14 something like that From work from my time zone anyway so we have Julie wants to share with us our question of the week. I do here. I'm gonna do that now I'm adding it to the stream. There we go. See I did this here. Aren't you proud of me? learning teachable So our question of the week was do you have any artists in your family tree? So I started digging into this last night We have a lot of members with artists in their tree and it was very interesting and as I am well known My name should be Alice because whenever I go into anything like this. I just Go in head first. I Start digging around and there's just so much here. It's hard to kind of Narrow it down to talk to you guys about it, but our first poster was Melanie Paul and she had a third cousin That it was an artist who did like China painting And I couldn't I don't think I was able to find any pictures of her work. I Don't recall. Yes, there there it was. That's the one that had the so it's We're not using this for commercial purposes But it's a beautiful piece of of Ceramic work with lovely painting on it. So that was pretty cool Let's see go back. Can you see that tab that I know figures I'm sorry, I I know better I know better than that Okay, we'll just go down the ones that So then we got down to Mia for me a and her cousin her mother's cousin Still living and it does more. What do we call this abstract? It's not really abstract It's they say magical realist like realism like fantasy. Yeah. Yeah, which is just beautiful I'm I couldn't believe the blow that up there for you. Isn't it gorgeous? But it I like that a lot. It's very detailed. I love that very poignant And Then we got down here Todd Stanton was talking about his first cousin Benjamin West and I should have shared my whole screen Can I still do that Sarah? Yeah You can probably you can probably undo it and then redo it so stop the screen and then we share the whole Yeah, and while we're doing that I can show my I didn't post there, but my grandma she did paintings So that's what one of her paintings of my grandmother go all So share that With everybody and also I am also an artist as well Are you really good? I did it myself Yeah, actually actually went to school for art I oh well, I knew you were a graphic artist I didn't mm-hmm. Yeah, I did I do devil in all the fields Okay, so I'm back. I'm sharing my whole window so I should be able to go now. We're gonna see us. Yeah I'm sorry. It's gonna do that that infinite mirror thing, right? So we'll all add that here So here we are talking about Todd Stanton's cousin Who was born in the 1700s I might add so Benjamin West was a I Looked at so many of these that I'm getting they're all running together in my head He did some amazing artwork and is featured in the Gutenberg and other Museums this is what happens when I multitask This is why this is why Mags is so much better at this than I am so that was that was an interesting little stopover and then What I also found interesting is that he has a personal connection to a man named Jim Moon That that Todd knew personally he died last year two years ago and was a very well-known artist in North Carolina and I think there was I thought that I had found there was a entry for him somewhere that had Information about his artwork, but I Sorry that Don't ever leave us again You're doing great Julie Okay, so we get down to Frank Gill whose Grandfather sister, so his great aunt Clara Louise Bell was an artist and I did find some really beautiful Representations of what she did she was she did miniature paintings of people and this was one that she did back in 1925 that took a first prize Is that gorgeous? I know it's so beautiful So detailed and this was tiny. This was like a I can't remember what the dimensions were But like smaller than an index card. I believe. Oh really? Wow. I know. Can you imagine? So that's that was gorgeous and then there was one other example too of Francine Serrano that is his great aunt did look at that Again tiny like postage same bit bigger Yeah, yeah and the detail on it is just outstanding just blew me away So let's see who else did we have? Mark Wenheimer Weinheimer has a Both of his parents were artists and His ninth great-grandfather, which they're not absolutely positive was an artist in the Netherlands I didn't have time to pull up a whole lot of his stuff, but there was There he is. Oh here. Yes He look at that Can you see that? No, I didn't pull up. It didn't. Oh, it's because it popped into a different. Yeah. Oh Gosh chrome He did some amazing oil paintings with great detail and if you go to his profile you can find a gallery of what he's done and Frank has Mark has some very Talented ancestors. No wonder his family is artistic still Dorothy O'Hare talked about her third great-grandfather who is a silversmith. She has she has a representation of his work Here he made this and it like it shows. It's a ladle and it's got his artist's mark on the back And then she had a picture of the scroll work that was on it, too Find that. I hope I'm not making anybody dizzy So he did all this too. He was pretty well known for his work back in the day. That's cool. Yeah He lived. When did he live? He was in the 1800s in Virginia and down into Tennessee Where he spent his lifetime And let's see who else Frank had some more people, but he did not link us so we're gonna go by that Dragon in this next one. Oh, sorry. I was looking for photo Nick on the next one. Oh, right Yeah, so let's see this one. Oh, I thought it was amusing Joyce Vanderbogart is related to the guy Oh Harvey Ball Who is the the creator of the smiley face? It's not awesome. And there he is Did that pop up? Yes, it did. So there he is with all his smiley face stuff. I thought that was fantastic. I Love smiley faces. I know well, of course Todd and I both had to add that to our replies And then Alexis Nelson who is an artist herself Is that hers? Is that her stuff? Yes, that is beautiful and she kind of cut herself short here She doesn't she said she did not like it like she loved to paint But then she never felt like they were good enough so she'd go back and keep touching them up. I Understand I get that But I think she does beautiful work. So we're gonna Like what it is it's like a it's a northern pike. Yes going after a butterfly. All right, that's really cool I know I thought I was outstanding It's beautiful and very realistic But she's also related to Norman Rockwell Yeah, so that's kind of an exciting thing seventh cousins Down here we have Thomas Cane line who was I was gonna say I thought he would be his Father was a collage artist So he would take like whatever materials he could find and he would make whatever he could out of them Actually, I think this is his Grandfather Thomas, maybe you can clarify since you're yes, please clarify Let's see Yeah, this is this is his grandfather. So I have really appreciated this. This is really cool. Mm-hmm. This looks like something I would make but But he's much more creative about it than I ever could be I thought it was a lot of fun and Then he also talked about his Norwegian side of the family and his grandmother was an artist and created certain types of Paintings that I thought was let me see if I can find an example because I thought it was really interesting That we've kind of gone back to that type of painting Where did I put it? Rose mulling, Rosa mulling. I can't say it I Wanted to show you an example because does it doesn't this look like Like some of the you know the adult coloring books that like Joanna Bastford has put out Doesn't that look like something she would draw? So it's almost like that. It's come full circle and gone back to Seems like trends always is also fashion Circle yeah, I don't know if you're watching the chat Julie, but everybody's sharing different smiley faces right now So that was a little cool trip into Scandinavian Art with Thomas's post there and that was fun So Thomas said my father's currently a collage artist and that that's a photo of my grandfather who passed away last November off Sorry. Oh, I'm sorry He looks like a really fun guy to be around so we're sorry that he's gone Hopefully he's finding all kinds of fun things to make art from in the in the next iteration of his life. Oh Let's see Dieter has Dieter Lurens who was a very active participant in the wiki tree challenge right now one of his paternal ancestors is Was an art very well-known artist. Here's his Wikipedia article. He's from Germany, of course I Assume this is assault. Yeah self-portrait and I believe that he's celebrated in Germany and well-known for his works there He's he to me he had kind of a Stark a little bit of a dark style like like Maybe he maybe he went through some rough times in his life and this is how he expressed himself So that was kind of cool And Then we're getting down there was one that I really wanted to get to I'm sorry I feel like this is taking a long time. I'm sure if we love looking at the photos. Okay good Okay, well Janet Gunn had some interesting links in her she um Let's see it was her great aunt Wendy Wood and her primary profession As well as being a rabid scott's nationalist she says And Wendy owns a couple of her paintings So that's that's pretty cool, and I saved off Here's her profile With her family Somebody's done a beautiful job on Wendy's profile She lived in England in Scotland and then there was an example of her art here, of course Should I do you want to attempt the pronunciation of this bridge one the bridge? Don't say aqua near for what is Italian so near How is that we have Chris in here? I know I know I saw us out there And then this is her father is all was also an artist the same woman's father, which I love pencil drawings I thought that was really beautiful. I Guess he would do pencil drawings and he did sculpture So And this was the one that kind of took my breath away so see handy was related to Joel Reeves who Was an artist that was part of a I guess we'll call it a movement called the Ashkahn school and the Ashkahn school was a group of artists in the in New York that would do realistic paintings of Like the the poorer sections of New York Well, he was part of that group of artists, but he was down south So he would focus his art work in the south But he also designed these beautiful stained glass windows for this chapel in Georgia, which oh my gosh Let's we have to go look at this because it was just incredible This is a this chapel is a wedding destination and I started looking at pictures of it and I got lost and so I didn't get too much But look at this chapel is that the most gorgeous thing you've ever seen That is really pretty. It was beautiful and the the her Em to see handy's great uncle Designed these windows in here. Where is that located Georgia? It's in Georgia It's like rice hops giving a job for me. I know you should go hiking and visit because this this Whole area around here just looks beautiful So that you know, what an honor to be related to somebody with that kind of talent that was just gorgeous And Let's see we do have a profile for Joel Reeves, but it looks like he could use a little TLC here Somebody wanted to do some additional work on that or if see handy's probably busy been busy with other stuff Can't imagine Let's see. What else do we have going on here? That one kind of stopped me in my tracks That one photo is really pretty down here. Yes. Yeah I know me too so this was Carolyn Cummings and this is her Grandfathers painting and he was not she said he painted all the time But he wasn't famous these were things that were hanging in her family's home and She just remembers these being there for her childhood and I think she might have them in in her home now, but he's not great I Appreciate I really like that one. I know me too. I appreciate people who can create things like this. It's not my forte. Oh What else Eve has a famous uncle who was a sculptor I Don't recall she doesn't have any pictures of his work on here yet But I wish that she would add some Eve if you're if you're listening She's in the Netherlands, so she might be busy doing other Saturday things right now and Then we have Chris who shared a picture that his grandfather did great grandfather His grandfather painted it. Oh But it is of his great-grandfather Great-grandfather. Yeah, it's really nice. Isn't that cool? I love it. I share that Chris Yeah, I love the lighting and everything. It's just very you kind of get a feel for the whole room there. That's awesome and Then Steven I know is here and his mother was a painter So Steven we should see you should share some pictures or you said you should have shared some pictures You still can Steven's you can still post a photo to do it. Yeah. Yes, please do Yeleta X dot is related to some very famous Renaissance painters Lucas Kranich the younger and the elder and I went and took a look at their Wikipedia article And had some representations of their work, I mean this is Incredible this is that they they were apparently very well known so He and his father. He was an apprentice with his father and apparently his older brother was like the The guy the up-and-coming artist instead of him and then his older brother suddenly died And then he started getting more training from his father and he did some incredible paintings. I Won't go through all of them, but he's very well known in the Renaissance period So that was that's Pretty terrific. You know, we have some very exciting connections on wiki tree so I Don't do you want me to go through more? I had another one to show actually good and then we could and then Karen gave me an opportunity to show Here I'll remove mine I'm sorry. Why Karen also gave me The an opportunity to show everybody the wiki tree store where they can get a shirt where you like you okay I'm gonna I'm gonna show this is my Great-great-grandfather's brother Mm-hmm. He was it was him and I think I've talked about them for There his dad Remarried after his mom died and left my great-great-great great-great-grandfather and his brother who was deaf in Pennsylvania while they went to Kentucky and then The brother who was deaf ended up becoming a lithographer and this is one of the things he created for the school He worked for this school as a lithographer That's one of the things he did That's amazing Like I said, I have this thing for like pencil sketches and and pencil drawings. I love that. That's fantastic This is a profile. I probably should write a biography and maybe include all that stuff What have you been doing Sarah? Do you have nothing else to do? I know So let's go look. Let's see if I can quickly find the wiki tree store from the wiki tree challenge page I Think Chris has I think You can Is that picture on the wiki tree challenge page? help you can scroll down and If you click this link It should take you to the wiki tree store or then you can buy a shirt and you can choose whatever color you want Like Julie has black I chose green I have V neck orange V neck versus crew neck You get to be they have it in different But they have it in different you can get it you can get a bag You can get a sticker you can get a pillow.  Yes Oh my Spotify flashing yes Oh You can't listen to Spotify and do the live cast at the same time. No, I'm not listening to anything. Okay So that is how if you wanted to Buy anything and it's not just this one you can get any Can we get that as a tattoo? You can as a sticker We should do temporary tattoos for roots tech some year well all of wiki tree logos are You know you can use them. So if you did really want to get a tattoo you can You were allowed to no need to worry about copyright. Oh, I love the coffee mug. Click on the coffee mug That's my favorite design American what I'm thinking of getting a bumper sticker of that. Oh good idea. I have two of the t-shirts. I love those So Chris Chris designed to that logo. I don't know if everybody knows that but I designed that logo and that is his representation of his dog Yeah, you got a lot of different stuff on the store now one time I spent 20 minutes going through the store guys So let's not do that this time That was during one of the fun. Yes, I know So let's not go to the stores there can spend a lot of time on the store Well, she had a long shopping list after that little yes, I did My mom saw that and got me in tapestry But thank you mom So We have All of our profiles of the week Which because if you guys didn't know you probably know Prince Philip Passed away last week the age of 99 the Queen's husband So we featured a whole bunch of different royalty from around the globe not just England we have some other ones too, so it's really buried So we'll start with Prince Philip himself. He was born in Greece in 1921 And died two months before his 100th birthday He was the longest living monarch Consor in history his uncle Constantine Was forced to abdicate his father Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and was banished from Greece for life He married Princess Elizabeth who was his third cousin in 1947 so the Queen and her husband were third cousins So that is Prince Philip a lot of photos Okay, next on our list Prince consort Henry of Denmark was born in France in 1934 He married Princess Margaret Margaret of Denmark in 1967 and became Prince consort of Denmark in 1972 and he died in 2018 Julie is a let's meet Julie. Well She's doing stuff So next on our list we have princess grace of Monaco She was very beautiful for one photo. She was born in Philadelphia in 1929 a Famous actress of the 50s winning an Oscar in 1954 and she married Prince Rainer Rainier Rainier yeah third of Monaco in 1956 when she became a princess And she died in a car accident in Monaco in 1982 So she was born in the United States and then became a princess so everybody's dream I'm not so sure about that anymore Used to be everybody's dream, right, you know, Mary a prince sure Your glass slippers So next we have Okay, bear it with me Queen solo T Ma ma feel it all pillow Okay, I'm just gonna stop. Oh gosh. Yeah Tonga I just gonna put her all back so She was queen of Tonga from 1918 to her death in 1965 She reigned for nearly 48 years longer than any other Tongan monarch And she was and then she was died in New Zealand in 1965 And she attended the queen the coronation of queen Elizabeth in 1953 Cool very cool Oh, look how regal she is All right, we have queen of hawaii Queen little Kalani So if anybody wants to help me pronounce any of these things I would very much appreciate it I'll give it. You want me to give it a try? Please bless. Yes, please They're used to me butchering things like this. It's all the same Liliu, loloku, Wallania, Kamaka, Eha, Kapa, Kea Let's call her Lily. Can we call her Lily? Queen Queen of Hawaii. Let's call her Lydia. They called her Lydia Queen of Hawaii. Okay So she was born in the kingdom of hawaii in 1838 And died what later became the u.s territory hawaii 1917 She was the sovereign and only queen regent Of the kingdom of hawaii. She ascended to the throne in 1891 until over So the overthrow of the hawaii kingdom by the coalition of american businessmen led by stanford duel On january 17th 1893 On january that's when And then composed The composer of aloha Owe and numerous other works. She wrote her autobiography hawaii story by hawaii's queen during her imprisonment following the coop Oh my goodness She was a very Cool lady it seems like. Yeah Probably pretty tough Mm-hmm. Okay. So the next one is also pretty cool another queen Another one that i'm probably gonna butcher, but we're gonna try Okay I know it doesn't come naturally for us english speakers. We're very sorry So she was a a mawadi queen Um known from the birth s peeky She was born in new zealand on the white kato river banks on july 3rd 1931 and she married The second time for love She had seven children and she died in new zealand in 2006 And I think she was the longest reigning mawadian Ruler I think the look i think she had the longest reign when I was reading about it Um, I think the you know the longest reigning queen or the salon longest reigning region. I'm not I don't remember but Very cool. Okay, then we have King from thailand king bum Ebal of thailand Born in massachusetts In 1927. Yeah I think maybe his parents were probably just in massachusetts In the united states when he was born His uncle was the king of raman His uncle was king raman the seven And um, he this bummy bowl If i'm if i'm pronouncing that right was crown king of thailand from 1946 to 2016 when he passed away He was the ninth monarch of the Chowkery dynasty and thus had the official title of king rama the ninth From 1987 he was known as king Bumble the great and he died in thailand Wow Very cool. Okay, we have two two more What I think we have a lot of interesting monarchs a lot of interesting world people this week. Yeah So next we have print claus of the netherlands. He was born in germany in 1926 and he was a member Of such nazi youth organizations and you know, he was involved in that unfortunately In march of 1945 he became a soldier in the german nineties pancer Grandier division in italy before taking part in any fighting He was taken as a prisoner for by the american forces At mirage in 1964 he met princess betricks of the netherlands and became the queen's consort 1980 until his death in 2002 There were many protests during the wedding due to his service as a german soldier and part of the hitler youth but Completely understandable One more King dan sobieski Our king john the third of poland so he was born in poland in nine in 1629 And john the third planned to occupy pressure with the swedish cooperation and his french support Popular among his popular among his subjects. He was able He was an able military commander most famous for the victory over the perks in 1683 the battle of Following his victories over the ottoman empire the ottomans named him lion of leech stan leech stan And he was held as a savior of european christian dumb by the pope King the third king john the third sobieski was the last great king of poland died in poland on june 17 1696 His wife marie casmere died in 1716 and her in france and her body was returned to poland That was our last royal of the Of the morning. He is my he's my closest connection for all of those royal I don't know what's which one is yours Mine so i'm actually Hold on Let's look so i'm actually directly. I only checked prince Philip but i'm actually um Blood related to prince philip That's like my closest one. It's a tide between the queen of hawaii and prince philip Let's see how I'm 24 degrees from the queen of hawaii. Wow And then the prince philip. Oh, I should have just I'm 24 degrees from but i'm actually His Hold on seconds going to take a little bit too low to think about it It's thinking about everybody else is out there checking their connections at this time. Yeah check but check tell me Thomas Removed from prince philip Wow, I am royalty guys.  Oh, yes You need to add little Like orange little i'll be the little bodily things The princess of wiki tree Princess sara Okay, so let's go to the photos now I wonder if anybody was judging me on any of my pronunciations They were very kind. They were very kind. I mean they were some you know There were some difficult names that you know If I want to take if I I probably could pronounce them if I if I did a little bit of time, but It's hard And but I do appreciate learning the proper pronunciations and if anybody can help out ever so Okay, so our photo theme of the week is generations so we're probably gonna see a lot of Generational photos multiple multiple generations in the same photo. I love those such as this one This one looks like a four generation photo This one. Can you zoom in on it? Oh, I love that Oh, that baby is so happy too My mom was saying we should all study the international phonetic alphabet Yes, it would it would help. What is the um There's another language that's supposed to be quite universal besides English, but I can't it's escaping me at the moment Oh, man, I started talking about IPA over here, which I know I saw that in Indian pale ale But I don't think that's what they know. I think it's the international phonetic alphabet. Oh, okay. Well, that makes sense. Yeah Thank you This is why we don't do Friday date night in the morning But so Thomas was saying that pie and IPA sounds like a great But look Thomas was being very nice saying that there's no reason to judge me for not knowing how to pronounce things Thank you. Thomas. Yes. Thomas. Please do put up the transfer. Oh, yes. I would love that Yes, please I'm just gonna sit here and drink the rest of my coffee while you're talking Esperanto, that is the word that escaped me. Thank you and Got a lot of uh Like family reunions Oh, look at that. Oh and some kind soul put all the names on the picture You should also they should all be tagged right here. They should yes I wonder if they'll come to go through my box of pictures and put all the names on them I like this. This is for generation photo too I got one. Yeah, that's cool. I love old pictures Mm-hmm This is also four generations Is it just four? I guess so I think it's probably the Yeah The The kids are great grandma the grandma the mom and then her three kids. Wow That looks like That's a great picture. I love it we have Helen van vleet with her granddaughter Adele and some of her great granddaughters Three generations Amy Alice and Christine cute House of Grant Lawson this looks like there's a few generations in this photo it does At least three. Mm-hmm You got a baby and then a little say grandpa at least three generations I love the jaunty hats in this picture. I've all got them just right Very stylish A fortune another four generation one Look at that long baby dress I know I love that because I don't know if there's like an official name for these baby dresses Well, it could be their christening gown Oh, maybe And we don't know if that's a boy or a girl because we probably maybe we can tell by the youngest Maybe is she the youngest? 90s I think Helen is the youngest so I think it's a girl Could be They did not dress children according to their gender back in the day Yeah, my grandfather's discussion before yeah, and my grandfather was there's pictures of him in dresses My mom's dad It was three generations That's a cute one Look at all the all the girls are in matching outfits and their flat skirts. That's cute I wonder if they're going to school could be Four generations Let's see if we can find a five minutes to see if someone uploaded a five generation one The eaten family I run into Eatons all the time because I think they're connected to my look. I was like folks what my wish of my command What a five generations Wow, wow, that's great. I thought the two in the back might have been twins, but I think it's mother and daughter, isn't it? and then obviously her baby and then the Great grandma and then the great great grandma You don't see that very often grandma great grandma great great grandma And that is a tiny baby there that is a very young child I wonder the age gap between all of those probably like 20 years, maybe Yeah, probably close to that We all our our Society has kind of ruined that possibility because we all wait so long to have kids now christening party Aw, that's cute What a treasure trove to find something like that when you're doing genealogy Mm-hmm Four generations So pretty well Betsy Betsy probably still in here Oh, wow, what a clan there's a bunch of people in there. Mm-hmm. It's wonderful How many generations is that Betsy? Is that three generations or just or maybe looks like there's grandparents And then the parents and then kids She says still here Three three three. Yeah Family celebration That's a neat one I like it when they have these in their homes. I love seeing like the Like, you know, somebody got up and wanted to take a photo Happened a lot more often these days, but back then it was because the camera wasn't as common in the home Took took an effort to get everything set up Holding her great granddaughter. Wow Here's a comment from Betsy about that picture of her large family It was taken on the occasion of her dad leaving taiwan for the u.s. Oh, I bet that was a little bittersweet then Three generations. Does this look like it was mashed together? Is that just me? No, I think that's photoshopping But it's a very good job of photoshopping. They did an excellent job. I like that They all kind of have similar noses kind of yeah, there's definitely a similar resemblance their eyes eyes too Who is that who posted that herman heart and thaller That's heart and thaller Definitely family resemblance there. Uh, where is this? Uh, overall strike? Overall strike I don't know where that is Germany germany the last time I said germany and it wasn't germany Eight Thomas I think thomas told me last time where it was. I think one time it was austria. It is austria. Yeah, I didn't see the I was going based on the language. Yeah, that's what I did the right. Yeah, that's what I thought too um Okay, chris put a pronunciation guide on his wiki tree profile, which is a good idea Everybody messes up his name four generations Oh, look at that. That's a nice one. I love their hair. Mm-hmm So cute I know how to roll my r's chris. Thank you I think that's in your dna, isn't it? Yes Oh, that's a cool one So you have to wonder is that their home? Did the photographer come to their home or did they go to a studio? That's a good question Robert daniel turnage 1917 this photo was taken Wow I'm not gonna open that pdf So you have mother daughter and granddaughter And a great Boys. Yeah, so four generations in this photo It took bb Four generations of Well, that's much more reason shocked Mm-hmm shot. Thank you, julie Hey, I'll give anything a try, you know me The hornsby family Multi-generational photos so probably four generations here I really need to take more time to add my photos because I have bunches like this. I wish I would have gotten them posted Yeah, I always every week. I'm like, okay. I'm gonna post a photo I have a whole bunch here sitting on my desk. I know I have that's a generational one right there Yeah, I might have to share one of mine just to be selfish, but It's like I have some on my family on here and I never share them because it's just Too much going on That's a nice one. Look that guy has a pipe Let me see He looks like a sailor. He looks like papai. Yes, he does This looks like a four generation one Well, I have a two generation one that I could share So it looks like the older you are the more beard you have more facial hair Yeah, well it migrates from the top to the chin Yeah Kind of funny how that works.  But then That is a lot of a lot of people 1912 this photo family reunion picture or something. So it's like yeah Mark hurt family That's awesome. Pennsylvania 1912 Let's see Another big one Another Pennsylvania We're probably related to them sarah Maybe we both have ancestors from pennsylvania and discovered that what were 12 cousins. Is that what I said? Chris is making quotes of what I say the older you are the more beard you have Oh Another five generation one. Wow That just doesn't happen anymore. Look at that baby. He's so happy Yeah, can I think because people weigh a little longer to have kids now? Yeah Is that another one another five generations? I ask you if you ask you shall receive. Yes I have to scroll far enough Yeah Wow, I love that Looks like a maybe four generation one Got the grandma and her kids and their kids at her last christmas. Oh Cool that they were able to memorialize that So that was the last of our photos Fantastic A lot of good photos and I see they were also talking more about pronunciation. They're still going on about pronunciation That's cool pronunciation is Very interesting and how I started to take this free online class about um not phonetics, but like more like language and How they work and how the different sounds and how your mouth makes them stuff. So It's pretty I love language. I I have a couple podcasts that I listen to but it's more about the etymology of words instead of I think that was that was also the word that was looking for Oh linguist linguistics to linguistics. Yes. Yeah There's a good podcast called away with words And they talk about like where different phrases come from and how to pronounce them and What the true meaning is and all that it's really interesting So so thomas says linguistics is a major part of his life outside of genealogy It's okay. I love learning stuff. So me too Okay, well for a quick I know usually Mindy use us a quick little update about the wikichu challenge Julie, do you have anything quickly? No, I don't really like to reveal anything right. I don't want to spoil anything but I know we've Broken some brick walls. I usually like to Let's see. I'm gonna We just to say we have 20 bound twins both so far. That's just a just a teaser. That's it. So I'm gonna say Okay, there's a lot of time left there those People just dive in on wednesday night after the live cast Dive right in and get to work a lot of fun So Karen Karen is Karen Does not have any Karen does actually have any points She's probably been too busy. I know organizing the background. Yes Making sure everybody has what they need Yeah, so for those of you don't know just quick the wikichu challenge each week We take on a different genealogy guest star like this week. We're working on Uh Sherry passe passe did I say that right? Pasi Pasi And so we take their tree and our team members are the team Like Karen's team is currently working on Sherry's tree to make it more accurate and complete breaking brick walls And hope and on wednesday Sherry will come on again and we will reveal to her what we found I know she's so excited if you didn't see last wednesdays you should Go and watch it And she is um, she does the genie genie of friends I was going to say podcast but it's more of a video cast, right? Was mbp week one so she's sharing the podium Fair good, good, you know some some weeks we have some changes on who's top five so So with that so yeah wednesday we will have our wrap up for Sherry's week and it should be really exciting and we don't have anybody For the following week because next weekend is our cleanathon where we will clean our tree And it'll just helps with our overall year of accuracy And if you're not registered yet you have until wednesday evening us time to get out there and get registered so join don't join the tree nuts No, join the tree net I'm just kidding join the tree nuts or or the cornbread catchers or the camp cornbread catchers I am while I have been neglecting in my captainly duties. Thankfully debbie has been on it Well, I have recruited robin shulls to go out and she's been handling all of our recruitment and organization She's been a godsend for me this this time. It's been really busy So she's awesome. Oh, yes, and karen is on tree nuts too. So yes, karen. We have to gang up on sarah I can just I can just ban ban you guys Like like man, she can pull me out of here any second.  Thank you all for watching. It's been fun See you on wednesday


Hello everybody, E here, I got a package. This one is from the only person on the internet that calls me Ed Lorne, Jen Bernadini. So first off, thank you, whatever you sent me, I appreciate you, lady. Uh, no idea. What is this? Pick-a-palooza. Make-your-own-guitar picks. Y'all look at this thing. What? You make your own guitar picks? This, this is awesome. I have never seen anything like this. Okay, so I have heard of it, but I've never actually seen one. Jen, thank you. This is so cool. Alright, alright, alright, hang on. So, oh wow. Okay, it's got some cool stuff in here. It's got a, this is a file. A little guitar shaped box. This is awesome. For those of you who don't know, I play guitar. Sometimes upload music here on the channel. But they, whoa, okay. It looks like a stapler. I'm trying not to lose anything out of here. But it's got, it looks like it's got a little guitar pick, uh, carrying case for your keychain. So there's that. And then there's the actual thing itself. It looks like a stapler. And then there's all these cool, hang on.  Um, alright, so, wow. Alright, um, so it comes with all of the stuff. Which is just amazing. I want to try it. I want to go ahead and try it while I got you guys here. Jen, thank you so much. This is one of the coolest things anybody's ever sent me. Alright, hang on. So it comes with this big rubber band on it. I'm going to take that off. Hopefully I don't, okay. Alright, if you have a really small wrist, it could be bracelet. Yeah. Okay. So we're going to try this. I mean, I can only imagine you just put it in there just like that. Yeah. Okay. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to try and get this. So you put this like that. I'm going to do it until it locks in and I'm going to put my hand underneath it. So that's what happened. And this is what happened. So that's what happened. And this is the pick we got from it. You see that? By the way, thank you, Sarah for telling me I can do it like this. Look at that. That is so awesome. I got no pick. I wonder if I can make, you wouldn't be able to make them out of beer cans, but I wonder if you can make them out of like Coke bottles and whatnot.  Jen, thank you so much. This is one of the coolest, coolest presents anybody has ever sent me. Oh, man. And then there's loads of these things. It looks like you can get, if you were to change the, if you were to change the angle. So let's say we take this one. If we cut it out from, you know, upside down, you could get probably let's see here. One, two, three, four. Probably about five or probably six total out of each and every one. That is awesome.  That's cool. Hang on. Man. Jen, where did you get this thing? You got to let me know so I can let people know. I don't know if you want to tell me how much, how much you spent on it, but this thing is awesome.  I mean, I got loads of stuff. I got a coffee, a plastic coffee container I'm looking at right over there that I didn't have any idea what I could do with. And then you file down the edges. And it's just, just as nice. Man, this is awesome, Jen. I'm going on and on, but this truly is one of the coolest gifts anybody has ever sent me. Thank you so much, Jen. I appreciate it. But until next time, I have been Ian. You have been Ian. This has been another Unboxing. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye! Y'all, I'm going to make all the picks.


So, Carl mentioned a really important point in his previous session, which is that a lot of educators who are starting to become curious about open educational resources ask themselves, yes, but there's a lot of stuff out there, pedagogical materials. How do we know if they're viable materials? Is this something that I can trust? And this has been a big issue, right? So starting when first materials came out, there's been this explosion. So for the flight approach and for the flight project, we've developed a system when Carl had indicated to you that there's a list of editorial board members, so people, language program directors, people who have been kind of curious and working in this kind of vein who understand the objectives, then act as reviewers. And we have a very professional development, so it's not about rejection or acceptance of your lessons. It's about helping you to actually publish your lesson. What might be missing? What can you tweak? We're going to give you professional feedback. So we also have a handout, which we'll be giving you soon. Okay, I wasn't going to go there quite yet. Sorry. Don't peek. That's the thing. Of course, if you have the handout, everyone says look at the handout. In any case, this checklist is really the kind of criteria that, well, actually it serves two purposes. It's the criteria that the reviewer wants to look at to make sure that you have successfully and it's got a Likert scale, the degree of success that you've incorporated that in your lesson. But there are also other questions that are then included with each category to help the reviewer to think about additional feedback that he or she may wish to provide. So in a few moments, we're going to take a look specifically at the criteria. And afterwards, when we get to the application session, you're going to work with someone who has not yet seen your lesson and you're going to do a peer kind of feedback using these criteria to see, oh, where might you go? And understanding, of course, that this isn't a polished lesson yet. But just these ideas of, hmm, where might you need to go to better satisfy this or, oh, yeah, this part really seems to fit what they're looking for here, et cetera. Before we do that, though, I wanted to just kind of go back and give a little bit of a summary of the broad strokes or the broad goals of the approach. And this is going to kind of summarize what we've been looking at up until now. And this responds to a number of different questions that have come up in our discussions with you. So the first goal is reinforcing. So what is the flight approach? What are we trying to do? The first goal is reinforcing norms and conventions. Now you might say, well, that sounds counterintuitive. You keep talking about the literary. How come you're now talking about reinforcing norms and conventions? Well, here's a quote. The pleasure we experience from linguistic deviation in everyday language depends upon our knowledge of the norms and conventions of ordinary usage. Deviation only becomes pleasurable and interesting. And I added here, unutilizable for language learners, when we know what it deviates from. So at the introductory level, it's not about overwhelming your students with all of the possibilities that something, you know, meaning, it's endless, right? It's infinite, the way that we can construe meaning. But as you're introducing, and so my textbook initially was meant as a complement, a supplement to Français Intractif. So what I wanted to do is to say Français Intractif introduces and scaffolds very nicely the literal meanings and uses and functions of grammar, for example, in the grammar syllabus. And so actually, I would change a little bit, Carl, what you said earlier about communicative language teaching. Does grammar play, but we want to do more with other kinds of play? They don't do grammar play, right? So what they do is do very well literal understanding of grammar and everything else at these lower levels. I'm a spoke, I'm a spoke. I completely agree with you. It's okay, just for the record, for the record. We just do grammar, grammar not play. Right, it does grammar, but not grammar play. And that was the thing, I mean, I love grammar play. I mean, that is really, my entrance point into my whole concept of flight was really about, but grammar, they just don't get what's going on here with the grammar. So anyway, so the idea is that at the introductory levels, along with introducing the norms and the conventions for grammar, for genre, for whatever it is that you're looking at or cultural products and processes, is that you want to at least show one example, one way that you can play with that system in order to generate meaning. It's not an end in itself either. It just opens them up to, there is this kind of inherent flexibility to language. And it means that as they're developing over the course of each lesson, each unit, where along with the norms and conventions, you're showing one way of playing with it, is that they start to notice things about language. They start to become more open, more flexible instead of being locked down. Why is it that you say this in English when in my language we say this or vice versa, whatever? No, right, and there are different ways of construing. So very important that the goal is nonetheless reinforcing norms and conventions and then also how to play with them. Another goal is expanding the communicative range and proficiency without increasing the quantitative load of grammar topics and vocabulary, some people have said, yes, but I already have to do so much, right? It's not about giving more grammar, more vocabulary. If they learn how to foreground meaning with the structures and lexical items that they're already learning, you're accomplishing two things at the same time. And it just gives them a greater range of, and that's the irony too for me with the notion of communicative language teaching. It's not communicative really if you're only working with literal levels of meaning, right? So let's build on that concept and include the literary. A third goal is fostering critical feeling along with critical thinking. So critical feeling, Ralph Rieber who's an interdisciplinary concept that he seems to be the kind of generator of drawn from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and philosophy of education. I included here, I mean eventually after this workshop we're gonna upload the PowerPoints, the videos and everything so that you will have access to all of this information. I included a little link for a short video where he talks about this concept of critical feeling. And I also included a link to Chantel's talk at UC Berkeley on this topic. Chantel has done some really interesting work with critical feeling. So coming back to this notion of the musical metaphor, we also want in our flight lessons to foster language along with language, right? So this notion of that kind of feeling for the melodies of the harmony, sorry, of language along with the melodies. And how do we develop that sense of being a, we did improv yesterday to being able to do a little bit of improv along with your very structured techniques. The goal for is empowering students and teachers to become authentic users of a foreign language. This goes back to my definition of an authentic text, right? As opposed to it has to be a native user for a native user audience, right? Is that what is the essence of communication? Well, it's really that coming together of the literal and the literary. That's what is the basis of authentic use of language. And again, it doesn't mean that literal text aren't also authentic, right? But it's not the focus really and the goal pedagogically we want students to become, oops, sorry. Fuller users of the limited numbers of structures and vocabulary items that they have, right? How do you use those to full extent as opposed to adding more and more other things on and increasing the cognitive load? Goal five is about reframing foreign language studies. So becoming content based to come back to this question. So language and language culture as creative systems of meaning making becomes the content of your course. I mean, it drove me crazy at Cornell, a research institution, with such a divide between language and literature where to this day, they talk about language classes as being content less. There's no content to language classes and I just want to scream, right? The content of a language course when it is properly conceptualized and scaffolded is language and language culture. That is content, right? It's not just a mechanical process of filling in blanks. Reframing foreign language studies also for this curricular arc that for American university systems, right? At least this articulation between or across language, culture, and literary studies. It's there. And Claire Cromch, I think at one point, said she was sort of paraphrasing the read my lips kind of notion. It's all about language. Literature is language, right? All of these things. They're instantiations of language. So, do you remember the quote? That's something to that effect. It was kind of like the read my lips. It's all about language, anyway. And finally, it's also transdisciplinary across the humanities. Because when you think of a field of study, it's its own culture. It has its own cultural conventions, its own language, right? So, the strategies and skills that students can gain from working with the literary are applicable to any discipline. And I had an interesting conversation with Irani, who works with legal texts and translation of legal texts, right? So, even what's fascinating is that even legal text or the striving is to eliminate the literary, right? Because you don't want these gray areas. You don't want people to interpret too much. You want to try to get to the absolute essence. Well, guess what? It's impossible, right? So, you're still going to have layers of potential interpretation. But also, even those texts have to use foregrounding in order to get their meaning across. So, there's a lot of repetition in those texts. There's a lot of things that you can use that are going to bring out that students need to become aware of even in a literal text that's going to be an embodiment of foregrounding of meaning in order to get that meaning across. Okay, so those were the overreaching goals. And what I want to do now is to take a look and actually, I need a copy of the editorial checklist. Sorry, thank you. So, now, what are we looking for? What are reviewers in when you submit a flight lesson? And I'm sorry, yeah, I don't have it on screen. So, let's just look at this. The handout that you worked with yesterday morning, which is called preparatory steps for conceptualizing a flight lesson, that's kind of synthesized here in the very first section about preparatory steps. So, the first has to do with norms and conventions. Does the lesson show evidence of a sufficient level of understanding of genre conventions, language norms, and conventional cultural practices embedded in the texts? So, the reviewer might say, yeah, definitely. Or might say, students not sure that they really understood this particular cultural convention fully, I'm not seeing evidence of that, I'm seeing. So, that gives them the possibility of commenting on that, giving further information or asking the author to provide further information. The literary, does the textual analysis adequately identify the meta functions and types of play in the texts? Is there another or other types of play that could be identified that would improve the lesson? Different eyes, sets of eyes are going to see different things in a text. And maybe the submitter captured one category of play that they work with quite nicely. But maybe there's another category of play that would actually work quite nicely in conjunction with that and for the overall objectives of the course. So, the reviewer can say, ah, here's another category that could be exploited. Messages, themes are the stated messages and themes adequately supported by evidence in the text. Evidence in the text, it's so much about that, right? So, we're not asking students especially at the first levels and even at any level, we're not asking them to produce an interpretation of the text that would be the equivalent of a literary scholar. No, it's everything is relative to their level of language proficiency. However, the goal is getting students to be able to carry out a viable interpretation based on at least sufficient evidence from the text. Not all of the evidence, not everything, right? But it's that greatable sense of what is sufficient evidence. Because sometimes, you know, left to their own devices, students are just going to interpret based on their kind of cultural frame. And they're just going to throw an interpretation at something without really saying, oh, I see this in the text and this and blah, blah, blah. Okay, so that's the goal for messages, themes. And that's really from how you as the author of the text, how you're scaffolding that, how you're scaffolding students, adding to that point of understanding some of the basic messages or themes of the text. Now the lesson structure itself, text choice, objectives and level appropriateness are the text objectives and level well matched to the intended course level. Would the text and lesson be better fitted to a different level? And can the objectives be better stated or envisioned? What's so interesting is that over the years that we've done this workshop, a lot of people will find a great text, construct a nice lesson. And they always put it at a higher level because they think working with the literary is sophisticated and difficult. I'm asking my students to do something they've never done before. Therefore, they gear it to a much higher level. And I've also done reviewing of lessons and I'll say, you can do this in second semester. You don't have to wait to the advanced level. This is a text that could readily be done in second semester. Now, here is a question that some teachers have to work with. If you're in a program where it is submersion-like philosophy, where you're not supposed to use, let's say English as the common language in American University System, you're not supposed to use English in your course, that may be a question that you have to work around and say the goals of getting students the goals that we just went through kind of supersede the need in this particular case. Clearly, you don't want your class to turn into a discussion class in English. That's not the point, right? So how much of this is done maybe outside of class, that analytical work, that meta level thinking, which research shows is much more effectively done in the native language, first language, primary language. So those are decisions that you need to make. But my philosophy is, and you can see in my textbook, that I start very much in English with a lot of the instructions slowly built in French. Because otherwise, you would have to cut this all out and wait until a much more advanced level before you can really talk about the literary, which is what a lot of standard textbooks do. And yet, they never really talk about the literary. So, next one is scaffolding. Are there a variety of pedagogical modes or acts incorporated? Are the activities sequenced coherently to support learners in these two ways? A, moving beyond basic comprehension questions or formal competencies and requiring students to interpret meaning when reading, viewing, listening. So going back to Chantel's presentation yesterday, right? So these pedagogical acts, analysis, right? So comprehension questions are the, really the, how should I say? Often the only way that standard textbooks gets to know what students understood about a text. And often those questions are anchored in the literal understanding, the who, what, when, where, why. And they don't go beyond that into really getting students to notice certain aspects of what is foregrounded, how is meaning really construed in this text. So we want to see in submitted lessons going beyond comprehension questions, getting students to really think more about how meaning is made. And the second part is developing students' understanding of language use through application of the pertinent areas of language play in the redesigning task, right? So here is where they become empowered. Here is where so much of that learning then comes into play for their own use, is taking what they've seen through all this analysis and then making it their own in a new task, in a new context, in a new situation, and possibly even a different genre, right, that redesigning task. Instructional languages, so the L1 or English and the L2 or possibly L3, whatever those languages are in your lesson. Are these used purposefully and clearly, right? So again, my feeling is that you can code switch in particularly depending on the level. But at the lower levels, you can code switch. But you want to make sure that the languages of instruction are clear and are going to get the results that you're stating. Yeah. So is it possible to code a switch if you're dealing with parallel students? That's a call for you to make. So depending on what you're asking, if it's a concept that you wouldn't, well, how should I say, if it's really a new cultural concept, that they don't have a readily usable term for or notion for, you can. I mean, my feeling is that if it's justifiable, if you, as the lesson constructor, author, if you can justify use of English or whatever native language you want, yes. So I guess that I am. But the balance then becomes what, yeah, what is, if it overbalances, what, you know, yeah. So I talked about the idea of, or not I, but the MLA report talks about Translingual Transcultural Competence. To me, that often, it requires you to at sometimes evoke different cultural framework. So it's easy to do when you go back and forth. Code switching allows you to evoke the different framework. So I do, what she's talking about, what Joanna's saying is that it should be purposeful. So if you intentionally want to draw their attention, students' attention to it, here's the conceptual system of English. When you use this word in English, it has this baggage and here's what happens in another language. That's purposeful. So we're, what we're saying is you can do that as long as it's clear to other people what you're doing, right? And it makes sense, I think, in this approach to go back and forth between languages, since that's how it was to operate between two languages, but to do it kind of with an awareness that that's what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah. So again, within this Section B lesson structure, background and context is sufficient background and contextual information given to students or made available to them through student research. So that's a kind of a question when we ask, what do students need to know when it comes to cultural constructs and practices or even grammatical, whatever, what do they need to know at this moment of time within, for this text in order for them to make sufficient meaning out of this text? So you have the choice. You've got three things that you need to decide. One is how much information, then what form do you want that information to come in? Do you want to provide it for them? It can be links to something that's online. It can be something that you write. It can be, you know, whatever, an image. It can be a video. It can be, or do you want students to go out and do a little bit of research? So again, in that flipped concept, if you want them as preparation for the next class to do some research on something, sometimes maybe for historical information, if you're talking about a different period of time, you want them to do a little bit of research, but make your research focused, right? If you just say, you know, look at the Enlightenment era, right? Well, yeah, they can go to Wikipedia and they can get a pretty quick sense of it, but be a little bit more precise in what you want them to look for so they're not just spending hours or coming up with something that's so vague or broad that it's not really applicable or not sufficiently applicable. Yeah. Mariana, she went to Wikipedia. She's looking at a Brazilian author and it has a lot of information, but she adapted the Wikipedia, Wikipedia is obviously open. Yeah. So she has that background information about the author. A lot of you will probably want to do that. Yes. So that's, yeah, that's good practice. And that is something that came up. So even images, if you want to include background information about the author, they'll often, in Wikipedia, they'll often have a picture of the author that is open and they'll have a text about the author that you can modify and there. You can include that very readily in your open lesson. So turning your sheet over and continuing still with the notion of lesson structure is critical feeling and languageality. Does the lesson invoke a critical feeling along with critical thinking? Does it effectively foster languageality along with languaging? Now these are things that everyone has to kind of define for themselves. And so the reviewer, we're getting into something that is far from being black and white, right? And it's something that we're all developing a sense of as we go along. So when you first start writing a flight lesson, you may not yet really get that. But the reviewer might be able to give you some input feedback that might help you to go a little bit further with that. But the goal is helping students to then also engage in these dimensions in developing those skills and strategies. Again, when it comes to rich points, for example, a lot of it is going to have to be intuitive. We can't depend when we're out in the real world. We can't depend on, and yes, we do often depend on technology. Well, we go to Wikipedia and say, oh, I have this question. What does this mean? What does this mean? You can often get it. But let's say you don't have your technology and you don't have a native informant or whatever you want right there to answer your questions. Well, you need to develop an intuition about, oh, maybe I'm encountering a cultural construct here that I don't really understand. And once you start developing that sense, that noticing, then you also start to develop a different way of asking questions and a different way of negotiating those moments. It doesn't mean that you'll avoid all pitfalls. That's impossible. But it makes you better able to manage those moments and to not be as maybe potentially frightened by them or stressed or surprised. I mean, surprise can be a positive thing. It's like, whoa, that's cool. Yes, you want those moments. Those aha moments. Perspectivizing cultural activities. So does the lesson consider what kind of social action the text is engaging? And does the lesson relate the text to larger practices or cultural activity? So kind of, yeah, perspectivizing or contextualizing cultural activities kind of works against that notion of culture with a capital C that's often transmitted in textbooks. But are you looking further to a more interpersonal systems based approach of what this activity means within that cultural context to other people, et cetera? And finally, for this section, assessment. Assessment is not something that is specifically part of this workshop. But formative assessment is kind of embedded in lessons. And so we do want to be thinking about this. And Chantel is going to be talking a little bit further about assessment this afternoon. But here is at least something we wanted to start planting seeds. Because as you go along, we're hoping that you will remain in touch with the website and with the flight project and with us. And as we go along and as we start, we are planning to write a teacher's guide, which is going to bring together all of these different dimensions of what we're working with. And once you have that kind of a resource, we'll be able to talk a lot more about assessment and give examples, et cetera. A quick tip that I say about assessment for the flight approach is that it's not about creating new unseen modes of assessment. It's about changing your criteria. So you can use rubrics. But the rubric has to include questions about the literary along with the literal. It has to also include maybe broader questions about all of these areas of language play, right? Whatever areas of language play you're embedding in your lesson, that has to be reflected in assessment. Going beyond comprehension questions, et cetera. So here for the editorial checklist, we have our formative assessment modes built into the lesson. Do these modes reflect flight principles? Process over products, so designing and redesigning. Peer editing or peer response, so social meaning making or design and reflection, creative and critical awareness of available designs. And formative assessment, of course, is profoundly different from summative. Summative is where we get into these standardized tests and practices. And we also have responses to how over time, and you can't change standardized tests overnight. I mean, it's a long process. But once you start working with the flight approach, it's going to start changing the way that you think about language and about teaching. And it's not an overhaul. It's not overwhelming. You introduce one lesson in your curriculum. And little by little, you start to tweak here and there. And before you know it, over time, you've changed in some kind of profound way your assessment.  You change the way that you view assessment and include those aspects. You modify that notion of backwards planning that was introduced a number of years ago in foreign language teaching is that you look at your end goals and then you make sure that your curriculum and then within that curriculum, your lessons, are building toward those end goals. So finally, section C about open education reflects what you've been doing this morning, the licensing and citations. Does the lesson give a URL for copyrighted content, the text, image, video, et cetera? And a CC-CY or a CC-BY essay license for open content. So these are all the things that the editorial board members go through, their checklist, and provide you feedback for. Because again, this is about professional development, not about, oh, you failed. No thanks. It's about, no, we want you to publish. We want you to share. We want you to be part of this project.


What do you do when you squat with a twist? So what does that look like as I come down? I might look pretty symmetrical and then as I come up and I have to start Resisting the load or overcoming the load that is the barbell on my back. I might twist myself like this Okay, you'll see that in a lot of sports in a lot of max effort attempts and in a lot of different lifters It's very common. So what happens there? Well, our bodies are naturally asymmetrical and we get better stronger positions out of certain asymmetrical stances So most often people like to be turned over onto the right side a little bit They like to use this right inner thigh a little bit and this left glute a little bit They also like to shut off the right glute shut off the right inner thigh So in doing that as I come down here I'm thinking about this exercise, right? And I don't want to be I don't want to collapse under the load So I'm setting up and I'm like headlights pointed forward. Okay. I'm going for a max effort Squatting attempt. I'm probably not narrating it as I go through this But I'm used to this lift and I just look forward and I go down and now since it's max effort I'm overcoming a load that is my maximum, right? It's the most that I could possibly do at this point And so sometimes I don't have the ability to overcome that load Without changing the pressures in my body and the positions that my body is in the position of my hip joint knee whatever, I Need to find a way to load my muscles in a way that they are good at Contracting and producing force and getting me through this max effort attempt So I might come down symmetrically But then as I have to overcome that load that's when I start to twist like this And you'll see a lot of people will finish with the bar twisted and then they'll come back And then they can rack it in the rack or they can put the bar back down So what's going on here when I see this the first thing the biggest thing that I will address is Right here because every time I see this it's starting right here And I'm turning this way The lifters will always turn to the right. I I haven't seen someone turn to the left I'm not saying it's not possible. I just haven't seen this midsection point Leading its way to the left as I come out of my squat, right? Because I think that with the asymmetry in our body We are not going to be stronger that way. We are going to be stronger this way So what I would look for is what part of your body is doing the twisting? So what level here? Oftentimes since this midsection is basically the most flexible part of your body That's where it's going to come from. So as they come up That's where I have to produce more tightness so I don't cave over And I can get more tightness out of doing it asymmetrically So the fix if I notice that it's right here, and I notice that I'm turning to the right Let's talk about the anatomy a little bit. Let's just say front anatomy and back anatomy. Okay, so if I turn this way The back side that is the back side on this side is pushing me away Okay, so this back is tight this back is loose It might feel tight, but it's not contracting to the same Degree it's not shortening the same amount. This side is getting really short This side is getting really long and the opposite is true. This is getting long. This is getting short So Big first cue that I might try I want you to Exhale before you go. I want you to turn this just like you're winding up a clock I want it. So let's say you're pointing that 12 o'clock and Usually you end up pointing at 2 o'clock. I want you to point over here at 10 o'clock Okay, and just hang on to that. Do you feel your left abdominal? If you don't hold Exhale again reach again. Oh squeeze. Yes. Now I got it. Okay. Hang on to that abdominal Do your squat. Don't lose it. Don't lose it.  I'm shifting Back as tight. Other side is loose. You're going to need to tighten the loose side and Loosen the tight side. Okay, there might be some other Reaching activities we could try there might be some other Exercises you could try there is definitely some exercises you can try that I've listed here in my YouTube channel so peruse if you want But until then just if you understand the anatomy you'll know how to address it, you know what muscles to address


literally just had the highest jumping day of my entire life I didn't have the best technique today but I jumped the highest ever and I felt a difference and it was unbelievable it's just a testament to not giving up and that's what my whole channel is about that's what my life's about I wanted to help other people achieve their dreams and this level was a dream and now it's what is up guys I literally just had the highest jumping day of my career just now and what the one thing I have to say is that I didn't do anything new I haven't learned anything new but I have been learning about my body and how to train properly and the number one thing I can give you is to keep believing in yourself and what I mean by that if you can believe you can hit that next level you can stay motivated but that belief is a muscle and what I mean by that is that you got to do what you can do to strengthen that belief so if it means taking a step back if it means doing a tiny thing achieving the smallest thing you can do for me it was getting healthy and there's a lot of different aspects of my nutrition and my body and learning how to jump and working on my technique and little tiny baby steps that strengthen my belief if you can do the one little thing that adds and that builds to your technique that builds to your training that you can make progress on that belief gets stronger and then you could finally see yourself achieving that next level and that's the main thing I want you to take away from this video because I didn't learn anything new there's no secret workouts I literally just never gave up and did what I can to strengthen my belief little by little one tiny fraction of an inch at a time and it feels unbelievable and if you find something that fills you with that a dream a dream that you want to achieve go for it and never give up and you can do it it starts with the belief you take action but you have to see it and you have to build that muscle of belief let's get it baby dunk life pop up enough so instead I realize that as I took my first dribble and that's why my warm-up jumps are getting really good off the dribble and my dribble looks are getting better some staying more upright but I didn't even know I was doing that till that attempt I knew I needed to stay upright but I didn't even realize that when I start my approach I have that lowering mentality to try to like go into it so that's something I just fixed and it feels great


Following threats by its workers to embark on a three-day warning strike this week, the Police Service Commission has summoned the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to a meeting on the ongoing recruitment of 10,000 constables. It was learnt that a PSC management agreed during their meeting to meet with the IGP to seek the way forward on the workers' demand. Meanwhile, the workers have finalised plans to embark on strike importers against the commission's alleged abdication of its responsibility to the police. The workers are accused in the commission led by Alhajim Isliu Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police of surrendering the recruitment of constables to the police in violation of the order of the Court of Appeal which upheld the mandate. The 2020 recruitment of constables had run into trouble waters when the police took over the exercise, but a controversy was laid to rest when the Court of Appeal ruled that the commission had the constitutional mandate to carry out the recruitment process. Despite the court order, the police carried out the recruitment of the 2021 batch of 10,000 constables and had also commenced the 2022 batch, a development that the workers have vowed to resist. News Updates