Good morning afternoon evening everybody. It was afternoon for Hillary. Hi, Hillary. Hi, Kay. Hi Tommy. Who else is here? Kay night rocking the presentation Hi Chris, he's spelled more you spelled morning wrong more word goody-goody Morning good morning Good Sounds Welsh. Oh, it's what he wanted to say morning. He says oh Hi hi Phyllis Casio, Casio, Casio from Rhode Island. Casio. That's pretty good. Pascasio And then we have June. Hi, June Rough night there Chris What's the weather like? Hillary says a bit dull in Wales today but no It is bright and sunny outside, but the temperatures only you go up to Like plus three or four so only in the 30s, but tomorrow Wednesday, we're gonna be rocking like 52 degrees Wednesday. Yes, that's two. It's 52 here now It's actually pretty chilly for North, Florida Hello Sharon we have cursing von Molt Good and then my mom who says it's chilly down in South, Florida. Hey Joe Hope everybody's doing well Okay, says that she heard her really central NY New York whiny accent when she was listening to her own presentation. I Think we all do that. We'll listen to ourselves There's a spot when you're going through you have to go through New York and Pennsylvania to get to South Carolina and there's a spot where you go through Pennsylvania and I want to say It's in the mountains in the the the particular accent and that specific place It's always where we stop to get lunch on the first day and the accents are so crazy And that just that little bubble of an area. It's fun Accents are Fun what y'all talking about? I know nothing about no accents Oh Hillary found a missing child yesterday and I want to say did you return it to his mother? No Second cousin once removed has joined wiki tree. Oh, that's exciting. That is fun So, oh, it's it's quilt day-to-day says you and working on a blog post for the Sun, New Hampshire quilt and book Do you know what one year during our sourceathon? Roberta Estes came on and did a Informational about how to source a quilt Like you get a quilt handed down from your ancestors and she was showing that most quilts have a signature block and They would have written their name and their date or who it was a dedication block or something and a look for that When you're looking at family quilts not all of them might not a mind did but I thought that was great. Happy quilt day Yeah, happy. Well, it's the first day of spring for all of us in the northern hemisphere And it's the first day of fall for everyone in the southern hemisphere. Did I do that right? I think I did That's like trying to point me to here see I think I'm pointing at you and I'm not yeah No, you're speaking of quilts Speaking of quilts a a particular person Showed up in the question of the week. Oh, well, what is the question of the week Mags? Well, you know the question of the week is Do you have Irish roots now? This particular person says that he has about 3% Irish but He also posted this which is just completely opposite Guess who that is He doesn't have us what's the little knife called that you usually put in your There was a there's a guy that used to work for Family Tree DNA and he always wore quilts and Robert was always had his knife and they would stop him in airports and try and get the knife off of him And he was like he was a giant so you couldn't get his knife from him, but look at that Tim dresses up pretty nice doesn't he? Yes So that's a part of the question of the week, but the real question of the week We'll go to it.  He's never here He missed his picture There were so many great questions are great answers about If any of your family is Irish and thankfully not a whole ton of people answered that They were Irish Comment section the answer this post button apparently is working So I don't have three pages of just comments to go through actually There were a couple of people like Mark Weinheimer and Kevin Conroy and Steve Thomas Wait, no Steve Thomas and Kevin Conroy not not Mark Weinheimer, but Kevin and March and Steve were in the pub On March 17th. They don't care if they're Irish or not, but they're going to go celebrate it anyway I thought that was a great answer to the question Lots of people were talking about having Irish ancestors like the Douglas name popped up a lot A lot of people were saying that they were connected to the Douglas family and so Mark Weinheimer's I have an Irish ancestor who was a brick wall and that is the wiki tree Douglas dash 10589 so if you relate to him There's a couple of answers on there about the Douglas family Clark Greg Clark Greg's not here this morning or is he coming? Greg are you hiding in the background Craig? He's a but he's really a Douglas. So he's got Irish stuff going on 100% Irish on her father's side on her mother's side. She's 0% does that mean she gets a half kiss on St. Patrick's Day In our family, we don't wear green like my family the O'Dorty family that I am a part of right here We don't wear green on St. Patrick's Day because we're Irish So people see us and they say where's your green and it's right here in my blood man right here We're talking about it was here Did you see the picture pip if you didn't I'll throw it back up I have it Yeah, there you go That's the man that just entered the room So Scott's Irish there was lots of scotch Irish talk And there I have a couple of links that Sarah's gonna throw up the first one Is the Irish DNA Atlas project? And Sarah's got that link to throw up The Irish down real quick guys Google the Irish DNA Atlas yeah, that would probably be better and that project talked about Whether or not how much there was Scott's and Irish it looked at it different patterns the key findings were mass movement of in recent decades That there are numerous distinct Genetic clusters. So this is obviously it's a genetic study But there's there's lots of different types of Irish people That have lots of Scottish influence and there's lots of sky that Scottish people that Irish influence and I'm going to show you a second Link or no, this is a picture and this is from and that's the second link there for you Sarah This is from a study that was released and these two studies have just been released. So they're very new this one was in September this is from a People who have Scandinavian background I was using this to show How the Scandinavians came into Northern Ireland Northern Scotland Northern Ireland on Ireland and how in this mitochondrial Grouping of people who came over there's lots of Scandinavian in the Irish and I didn't see a lot of commentary on that Which my mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's line is Scandinavian But they all came from Ireland and of course then there was some sort of viking something that went on But this is a really cool story a report to it actually shows the specific areas So this is my people all the people that went to Appalachia. That's me There's groups of people that went specifically to Pennsylvania in the Midwest to Virginia and low and South Lowland South so like the low country of South Carolina Charleston in that area Whereas the upcountry in Appalachians got the people from Northern Ireland I guess they wanted to go and live in the places that look geographically like what they were living in so Those are two interesting projects that you can look at to get some information and answers about how Irish or scottish you really are had a great comment here about a Clota band my great-grandmother Jane Walker was born in Galway When she was a teenager she and her sister were able to leave during the potato famine They lived in New Orleans And that's where she met Alexander McCullough who was working as a shipwright They had five children moved to Pennsylvania care for aging his aging parents Jane to the trip back to New Orleans to visit her sister and she developed yellow fever She died. Oh, it's a horrible horrible story yet She has a clatter ring that she bought in Galway to honor her the hands represent friendship and heart represents love The crown represents loyalty. I actually my wedding ring and you can't see it It's too too far away is a clatter ring Because I'm Irish and my spouse is Irish and if the if the heart is pointing out on your hand Then that means that you are available that you are That you can be dated and if the heart is pointing towards your heart that means that your heart is taken so My spouse and I where our bands pointing towards our health hearts. We also got our wedding rings from Galway, Ireland Wow, I thought that was a great co-wink it in very cool So that's a great great one. Lots of people were talking about Belfast There were four children born in Uganda raised in an English private boarding school whilst her siblings remained in England Anyway, the whole crux of the story is that this kid because money was tight ended up in a in an Irish boarding school rather than an English boarding school and Ended up marrying this guy that the marriage eventually broke up But that's why she's part Irish and she's kind of glad that things went astray and she met this guy in Ireland So now tea doubting has some some Irish to claim Anyway, there's lots of great stories lots of great things and of course that wonderful picture that I had Favorite your favorite man in a kilt. Yeah Yeah, and I wanted to say one more thing that Everybody who's on ancestry DNA recently had all of their DNA results updated for their origins Updated to show that a lot of people had way more Scottish in them than they thought But that's because people from Scotland or people with Scottish heritage or report Scottish heritage had Added themselves to DNA ancestry pool. So you were showing up more matches to Scottish not necessarily that you have Maybe if you you looked at the DNA pool to another company, you'll show up more Irish than Scottish Make sure you you check all the sources and not just one when you're looking at your origins report Charles was saying Something he says he has a French surname in about 400 years of known French ancestors However, I have a R1 B1 B2 a1 a2f Which was in the 1950s predominantly 80% Scott and 75% Irish men born within that decade Yeah, and my my DNA I have a an interesting story. We have this family of Templeton's who are who claim Scottish heritage who even chartered a Scottish Plan back in the day and they even had this beautiful Tartan made up. That's right here in the background But having the DNA test done on some some Templeton's in my family. We're Irish We're so Irish. We're not Scots yet I did a presentation on DNA in surname projects back a little while ago on Legacy Family Tree and The north of Ireland project reached out to me and they said we think we know where your Timbletons are from and Sure enough our Templeton's we have absolutely identified that they're from Island McGee north of Belfast And they're in a very Scott's Irish area So my Templeton probably did go back and forth between Ireland and Scotland, but there we're O'Neill's We're O'Neill's Mindy, do you have any Irish in you or no? I do I have one little tiny branch And it's one of my I actually did answer the question of the week It's one of my biggest brick walls because I can't get past the the one that migrated But she was sent over by herself by her parents as a teenager To marry during the potato famines. She was sent So there's and she has a really common name Yeah, I think I found one distant ancestor who's From like his says he's born in Ireland, but I haven't confirmed so I don't really consider myself Irish at all But there's a possibility especially like since kind of England and Ireland are kind of all clumped together there So it's it's likely no Cuban No, oh So speaking of Irish are Profiles of the week are Irish Which Irish notable are you most closely connected to? so we had Obviously we started off with our You know the main the main man St. Patrick himself Which if you guys know the story why there are no snakes in Ireland, it's because of st. Patrick He you know got he drove all the snakes into the sea So that's st. Patrick our main man Apkelpernaeus is his last night of birth St. Patrick and If you if anybody wants to put who they're most closely connected to in the chat, please do so and Then we actually have a little in the it's a very well-written biography. Look how beautiful it is that the pictures in there and then there's a little Why are there no snakes in Ireland section? I don't know what that means. I don't know Anybody can share any insight that'd be great The next our next guys probably a lot of people are also familiar with Because of this probably what they drink on st. Patrick's Day Arthur Guinness Born in Ireland 1725 and He was a brewer, you know the Guinness beer Yeah That you guys like I don't think I've ever had a Guinness beer You I'm sure mags has you know, I've had I've had a Guinness in Dublin. Oh It was good, but I didn't have a Dark Guinness I had a light Guinness like it's not what you normally see when you see a Guinness Because I'm not a dark beer person That is our Then next we have Orino hair born in 1920 in Ireland Actress Best known well, I guess one of her Original parent trap Movie good friends with John Wayne in that movie. She was it on John with John Wayne was on on St. Patrick's Day and she also worked with the director John Ford she was also a singer and famous redhead who was known for playing passionate and sensible heroines the The words that you wanted to know the the definition of from Happy St. Patrick's Day. Oh really? That's what it says. Yes. Oh Darn, you would have thought that I was just gonna say I'm 20 degrees from Maureen O'Hara But also George Bernard Shaw. So I had to this week. Oh, no No, what I? Don't know. I guess I was reading Charles he says he has the redheaded gene and it affects his pain receptors Okay, yeah That's all a Next one on our list is Michael Collins. Oh I didn't hold on Trying to have too many screens going on here Born in 1890 in Ireland. I guess they're all I can just stop saying Ireland because I guess they're all born in Ireland He died at the age of 31 though Didn't have any didn't get married or have any kids, but he was He was killed in during the Irish Civil War in 1922. He was an Irish revolutionary leader and Yeah Died in during the war Well, we got a lot of stuff on his bio Yeah, there's a lot of stuff about about him So please I always recommend everybody reading the profiles of the week. You always learn something If you had any any people who were involved in the Irish Revolution like Bloody Sunday and all that stuff you should write that up on their profiles We have we have a couple in our adority fan family who were involved This is So if anybody wants to take on reading this biography Okay, so that is Michael Collins Next we have George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics born in Ireland I Wouldn't aghast would you would you think that hmm? He so he was the first He was the only person to have been awarded a noble prize in literature and an Oscar until Bob Dylan also received both But he was the first one to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was in 1925 and an Oscar in 1938 for his Wasn't Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize though a laureate for poet poetry. It was poet laureate not a not for Literature I Know just checking. Oh if you want I don't I'm not sure. I just like it just have some notes here not is I'm gonna look it up Maybe Mags will see what that is but his his Noble prize and Oscar was his work for the film Pi Million can't even say that so I'm gonna try Pig Malion Yeah, and he died It's it's he wanted for literature by creating a new poetic expressions Within the American song tradition. Okay, there you go. It's poetry, but it's for literature. That's interesting That is interesting Okay So in the next we have constant score booth Irish politician revolutionary nationalist suffragette and socialist she was born in England Probably Probably her parents More in Ireland. Yeah so She was in 1918. She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons and formed the first Dal Iran can't even say that this this word Right here dial Air Erin is that how you would pronounce it looks good to me And she was also one of the first women in the world to hold a cabinet position for the Minister of Labor of the Irish Republic So very you got a lot of women on here, too. We have three. We have another one. You coming up on mine Great on yours It's great so Mali. Yeah, so Mali, but do you want to tell us about grace O'Malley then hey She was an Irish chieftain. She was actually the chief of an Irish tribe of the omelette of the O'Malley plan West of Ireland. She fathered in the footsteps of she followed in the footsteps of her father She was the Queen of Connacht Sea Queen of Connacht. Yeah, well, yes, and she was a well-known historical figure um so She was pretty cool one. She's famous for here is there's a Bunch of restaurants and bars called Grace O'Malley's and the original one Was located across from the House of Parliament And a famous parliamentarian was shot dead in front of the steps of this bar So this bar Grace O'Malley's will never be shut down because it's almost like a holy place to go to in Ottawa so Grace O'Malley And I'm related to her Yeah, she was and she was uh, very at sea She gaged in piracy and most full rebellions against English overlords of Ireland. Oh, she's just wonderful Mags of Mags loves this one pirate lady Erg Erg Okay, then we have two more Oscar Wilde probably most people are familiar with Oscar Wilde's author wrote a The picture of Dorian Gray Born in Ireland died in France And also he wrote the importance of being earnest. He was author playwright poet And yeah, that's that's him Have you guys read the book? Yes, the Dorian Gray one I have this with And he wrote plays as well, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah playwright. Mm-hmm so Produced society comedies in the early 1890s ladies Windmere's fan a woman of no importance and an ideal husband um His only novel was the picture of Dorian Gray. That was his only novel I love the the final quote at the bottom the only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past And every sinner has a future Very cool. So that we have one more Daniel O'Connell Taught up all of them. Only one was not born in Ireland So he was born in 1775 He was referred to as a liberator or the emancipator and was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century He campaigned for Catholic emancipation Including the right for Catholics to sit in the west minister parliaments And he died in Italy Why why was he there? That's it's what I want to know was he just on a trip. Was he doing some political stuff over in Italy? I don't know Oh, so he had four sons and three daughters and all of his sons were members of parliament in fact That's pretty cool Um, I was trying to see why he went over to Italy if anybody knows that Please tell me Then we can move on So those are all of our Irish notables their profiles of the week How very cool very very cool very very cool So let's see who I'm most like closely connected to it's probably the same as Magda Mindy usually is Because we're kind we're kind of the same Let's see Um Maureen. Yeah, well also I'm the kind of the same Maureen George and O'Malley Yep, let's see how I'm connected to Maureen though Oh through my dad. Oh actually through my dad's callus side that never happens. Oh my gosh That never happens So always through my grandma's side never through That's exciting. I always love seeing how I'm connected I've been trying to make a point. I think it's really good practice for everybody to see Your connections and go through and kind of verify at least your trail That is first connected making sure all of those connections are valid. I've been trying to do that With the time I have at least for my closest one. I try to do that So making sure that this is actually The father and the brother and you know making sure they're all accurate because sometimes there might be an uncertain connection and that's why stuff anybody That's a good practice. I like to do that My mom says he was in Italy because Italy is cool Good answer. Yes So next we're going to go on my gosh your mother needs to stop I gotta tell you I've gotta read what Sarah's mom just wrote But we're not actually doing a really late see Sarah, that's why you are so beautiful Just look at marina o'hara Really? Sarah's head Okay Stop it joe. I know and I'm all red Okay now to the photos of the week Springtime is our theme I know that Yoke who was on last week. I don't think she's here this time, but her photo last week was chosen as photo of the week It's pretty. Yes. It was it was a pretty photo too. Mm-hmm. So let's look at these springtime photos So we have the wedding of Ida Larner and John Evans Probably happened in the springtime. Yep, April 22nd 1946 Yeah, I think that was the one that mentioned that it was during the war so they didn't have the traditional bridal gown material Oh I guess that's in the g2g post where they wrote that or somebody that so we have Charles Being wrong. I have no idea. I haven't pronounced your name wrong wants to know if um We could have an unsupported gateway ancestors challenge or something Where people try and connect gateway ancestors across the pond either on because Could this be a topic so unsupported gateway ancestors which gateway What kind of topic now the gateway ancestor is somebody who's come to the united states Or to a country they've entered a country and they're the first known Ancestor in the country whether it's australia or Or new zealand or the united states, but they can't get back any further past Their entry ancestor that gateway ancestor. Okay, because i'm familiar with that term because I know some projects use it. Um, so just So you what kind of topic like for their live cast for gateway ancestors or For a challenge so people will clean up the lines I guess kind of it's kind of like a brick wall challenge, but a brick wall gateway ancestor challenge Yelki master Picture of the week is is the your picture from last week is the picture of the week This week, yeah And she got confused apparently because of daylight saving times for us But it hasn't happened for her yet. So she got confused with the times Oh time zones and daylight savings time I don't see the chris says that he thought gateway ancestors were people who were connected to sorority barons That may have been the the the specific thing years and years and years ago But I don't I think the gateway ancestors are literally Whoever the the person was that made entry to the country. So I don't think it's just for the sorority barons Well, look it up real quick. I know this is very popular on the mayflower Gateway ancestors approach the least this is the definition that popped up See what you started See and they also kind of connect look when you look at gateway ancestors wiki tree is the third link For magna card. I love that So I guess we'll all have to Yeah, well gateway to england.  Let's go back to the angles. Oh wait. Wait. Wait. Let's go back to the uh Yeah And if you go back to the gateway ancestors of ireland, you're going to go back to people who were from the middle east according to the very Bleeding edge of dna technology Yeah, I did send yoke an email that her photo was photo of the week I tried I've been doing that to make sure that they know Charles I think He Charles says that his definition and since he's the one who brought it up can be anyone in the 15th century But I actually think it's a gateway ancestor is anyone who? Open the first gate for your family line in a new place There you go. Now open that gate. Does that help? And then donnell also has do you only have one gateway ancestor or one for each line? Good question donnell. Were we talking about photos? Yes, sorry. Well, let's let's go back. I mean, I think it's I like talking about other stuff too But I also like talking about photos. So while you guys figure out what a gateway ancestor is We'll keep looking at photos So I did like this photo though. I like their hats And the wind the march breeze. What's the thing march breezes bring wait april march showers bring eight no april flowers May main winds bring march flowers March showers that bring april flowers Who what are you going on about? Yeah, my grandmother used to say it. It was a it's a way with this a rhyme thing I've heard of it.  I'm looking at the photo. It's actually really So I said this says they are on the land that phoebe made the oklahoma 1930 1893 land run to acquire. Wow That's pretty cool. Yes Okay, let's go Okay Look at this one That's pretty cute. Look at him. He looks like he's having a grand old time Does he have No, I think maybe he was holding a towel a towel glass in his hand Is it that let's use my zoom abilities. Yes Zoom I think he's just adjusting himself. I don't think he's holding anything. I think that's his tie That's there They're what they're out in the woods kind of like I am I live in the woods pretty much I want to go Who's it original oil painting I like that Very pretty. Mm-hmm. Oh, it's a cow People on the chat are working up rhymes like being silly July hornets bring august frogs really?  I think they're for you Thank you joe. I like this cow one Yoke your photos have been great the last one this one. I like this one It's my cow I have a cow. Look at my cow Well, it's fun Family picnic. Come on zoom man.  Maybe this guy over here. He is Crazy, I wish my pointer worked. I wish I had a pointer Such a good picture and oh my goodness very expressive. I wonder what he did Maybe it's because he sat by a lady. He wasn't supposed to but if it's family She looks like she's in deep thought Maybe she's staring at her and not him Oh, look at that. That is just so fun. That's awesome. That's a great picture Everybody's kind of doing something different I like I like these two though. That's a great interaction That's a great picture. That's like a It has all the photos of everybody in the back I think that yeah, it's the same. Yeah, that's great The heybilly should probably tag everybody who's in that photo Nudge nudge Oh look lunchtime on the farm Guys, if you put photos of animals, I'll just be in love. So just keep that in mind Look at the baby lambs. Maybe because it's so cute and the baby feeding the baby Looks like they're they're doing it from beer bottles. Yeah, that's kind of what it looks like But it has a little nipple. Oh, yeah, I know. Yeah, just they probably just filled up the yeah I have a friend who has a goat farm and they have to take the babies into the house and love on them So that they'll be humanized. If not, they're really mean They have to they have to take them in and and and acclimate them to humans Look at this she's just Obviously not really at the beach. It's like a background. I feel like it's a Photography studio. I don't think it's real No You don't think those are real ways crashing in the background if they are she's getting ready to get really wet East sisters on Easter Sunday With their Easter bonnets She they have cute dresses Why are they all leaning? Or is that the way the picture is? I think Okay, sure It's like that's a Wizard of Oz house. Oh, no, they're still leaning. Oh, wait the picture. Yeah Well, here's another cool Technical one She's like, no, no, no There's a bottle of wine over Is that a motor bear? I don't know what that is back there. Hmm They're smiling and having a good time Nice. Oh got some is that a puppies Puppies Everybody's dogs you're gonna start barking now I like this one. That's funny. Yeah, that that one's hilarious This is spring the name of it spring training training this little girl I wonder if she grew up to be an acrobat or something Scott, please tell us what is she training for? Is she a famous acrobat now? Oh, look at that one. That's cute Somebody on their commencement. Yeah, all the commitments are on in the spring Chickens baby chicks Happen in the spring That does happen march 16th. This just happened Just had some baby chicks Springtime in the 60s. What are they holding? Eggs Candies bunnies Bunnies Easter. I remember that suit my brother had that suit In South Carolina Oh, is it really? Yeah Middle Beach. Yeah He never wore that hat though. Oh Too cool for that hat. Yeah Oh Betsy Betsy's still here. I saw her earlier It's Betsy. That's a great picture That's cute. She said that was probably the last time she ever wore gloves Well, you didn't move canada Her gloves every day. I love that picture. Yeah, this was a pretty I like that photo too I want to find that picture and hang it in my house. Oh, look. What's that say underneath? I know it when someone okay, I can't see it. It's not which one So I love it when someone has a sense to identify who's in the photo now if we can find out who is who I have some I think he's figured out some but he's not sure Well, I was thinking that maybe he had made a comment about why she was staring him down No, they didn't A lot of comments going on look at the baby goats I've got the baby cow Oh, we didn't oh look at this. She's pretty cute. Look. I didn't see her before She's just doing laundry. She's a laundry girl. Not a cutie Look at the pantaloom. She's wearing That's 1931. I want to say Um judging by the hair Don't say That's what my mother would be wearing. I've got a really cute picture of my mother. I should put up sometime We didn't see this one either. Wow Is that a what is that? I don't know. I guess I have to use my oops.   I could tell that much more great family Says 1934 Delaware Park greenhouse Nice By mark the same he also answered the question of the week mark wine hammer Oh, here's this one Chilling tree into nature Oh, that's a motorcycle on the left. I didn't realize that was a motorcycle, but it's covered up all the posts and everything Yeah, I wasn't sure and it was some look horsies. Yeah, I was getting ready to say she's gonna say horsies Sarah loves the horsies Another look another Hey, you guys are spoiling the draft horse though Are there two of them there? There's two of them there.  No Oh, and that was it. Thank you everybody. Great pictures beautiful photos. Really wonderful So now Do we so not right now? We are Right right now as we're speaking. I'm sure people are working way on the wiki tree challenge for robbs week Yes, they certainly are mags good friend rob rob Mags just friends with everybody. She knows everything So how how's it going? Mindy? How are we doing so far? Actually going really well people have been staying busy and they're finding all kinds of cool surprises for them Yeah, so have have we broken any brick walls? I know that yes, we very definitely have We have yes, we have he was unsure if we would actually break some brick walls, but We have He's gonna be excited on Wednesday. I don't know if we'll make him cry mags, but It'll be exciting We'll have to we'll try really hard So for those of you who do not know the wiki tree challenge is our year-long event for each week We take on a different genealogy guest star and make their tree more accurate and complete than it is anywhere else So right now we're working on robb and for those of you Brab or thin DNA jet calm DNA adoption and he's also the co-founder and vice president of mito wide DNA dot org Well, he does lots of DNA stuff. He's a DNA person. He his wife's story about her adoption and how he Created all these crazy cool genetic genealogy to figure out that adoption Is one of the biggest Influences on how we do adoption research today and the tools that we have in genetic genealogy today are based on What robb did with his wife? It's crazy Sue I've to mention sue She's Irish Ella and we found all kinds of things we have anything from fun little interesting facts to Tragedy there's always tragedy up in some of these branches Oh, no so and for everybody we have our spring clean-a-thon coming up and starting april 23rd to april 26th So if you want another challenge on top of a challenge Well, this week we won't actually have a guest star so it'll be three week but This will it just kind of coats, you know, it's just a topping Cherry on top for the year of accuracy because we're cleaning the tree going through all of the Data doctor suggestions fixing dates locations cleaning up biographies So if you want to get on on that you can register Here on this thread it's pinned to the top of g2d You can also join the april team for the wiki tree challenge as well And there's already 307 answers for that. So I think people are a little bit excited Just just just Ted So come on. I'm captain a team. I think Mindy's captain a team mags. Have you registered yet? I'm doing it right this time Because mags is on my team. So she you know she has to I have team virginia cornbread catchers here Because you know we're the south Cornbread get it So the cleanathon Come join us. I've officially registered now I've signed up So I think the best part about these thorns or maybe the worst part. No, I'm just kidding. There's three thorns We we have a live cast every four hours just to keep you updated And you get to see us all tired and silly I mean you probably if you have witnessed before I've been on here 4 a.m. Midnight Alash Alash has taken care of the overnight now for yeah before I was when I was working at the hotel I was awake anyway and she would pop in so But now I'll probably be asleep and alash can take those but it'll be fun We have prizes we could wear t-shirts And it'll be a great time Yeah, pip says those live casts during the thorns are great because they just get you think saturdays get out of hand Those ones even get more out of hand talk about punch trunk. Yeah Yes At the end I mean even though we're only on we're only we're on every four hours But you still have to you have to be on every four hours. You know what I mean? It's like It's a lot of work and we used to do every two hours And three hours. Yeah, we did every two or three hours and there were it was only a one and me And julie I think and we did them every single one 24 hours for the 72 hours. It was crazy You know, but now we have different people so some of us can get some sleep and we do whatever Abby was our computer. Abby did all the tabulation and statistics stuff in the background Now we have all that automated Thanks a lot and less Thanks automated alish. Yes a lot and less So, yeah, that is that's coming up. It's gonna be here. It's a month away now pretty much today's the 20th That's the 23rd of April It'll be a good time So unless Anybody has any questions or comments? We will probably go And we will see you all Wednesday at 8 p.m Eastern edt because we're on daylight savings time now So to keep that in mind 8 p.m. And we'll be revealing what we found for robbs week And also we'll be kicking off dalin, right dalin quas Right mindy. Hi. Yes Dalin quas Quas quas did I say they're right? And then yeah, it'll be a great time. So We will see you then Bye everyone wiki


t pool hours is being arranged is of net positive and that going to be a net negative for pool membership and daily paid participation. I can tell you that no I have not done any, any, any quantitative studies into the distribution of who's using and how much money, yet we have, we have spent a lot of time and energy and trying to try to set those schedules. Denise, like can be and Marion certainly have been looking at, at a setting schedules that made the most sense to the most to the, to the most people that are using those pools I think the, the, the finality the, the, the, it's, it's a, it's a finite resource. In terms of making sure that there's downtime for clean make sure that we have staffing resources making sure that we have that we can manage it, we're trying to make sure we get as many people to do as much good for as many people as possible. I believe that that that we've put together a program schedule that I think is is that does provide as much of that opportunity as we can. And so when the question comes up about whether or not these pools that go back to the fact that having these two outdoor pools or an asset, when the question comes up as we've already started thinking and looking at that question about just how important those pools are. We are, we know that there's we do overlap full times we have, we have in terms of all the people that we know use it the programs we have the lessons to lap swim. Early morning, early morning swims, free time in the pools we as, as much as we schedule in there, we can't schedule enough for everybody. And so having those two pools is a really important part of, of our being able to are being able to keep those people who rely on those pools, at least to some sense happy. The pool, the camps aren't necessarily always happy about the amount of time they get the people at the that we've we've extended early hours for masters. And that's, that's also not something that makes that that everybody gets everything that they're looking for is a finite resource and I think that certainly. I think Denise has done a remarkable job in her first year of trying to hear and look at all of those interests and put together a program that speaks to all of them. Thank you. Thank you. First of all, I really want to compliment you on the alternative swimming program I've heard really positive and significant feedback about it and the just providing recreational opportunities for people who don't want to be at, as you said, Olympic level of competition is, is just a real plus for kids. You know, I'm one of those people that learned to swim early in life and glad I did. I want to go back to Cherry Hill because from time to time there's been a suggestion particularly as we were in COVID of trying to kind of grow the uses of the clubhouse and, you know, make it more of a community facility, and so forth. And I wonder if there's been any further discussion about that. And say with regret, that's been, that's been tabled probably about eight times we've, we've had conversations with, with golf members, one of my first conversations was to sort of introduce myself up to the Cherry Hill community and to meet some of the folks that were there. And we started bringing some ideas what is it that we want here. We've come back to it a number of different times we talked about I talked with Mill District about partnering a little bit with, with, with providing more access to trying to find a way to make that clubhouse more inviting. There, there are some limitations obviously to the physical space and the way it's laid out to how to do that, but we have been looking at that for a while as we've, it hasn't been able to crack through as an immediate priority for us here in this period of time as we've been chasing these other, these goals, but it is something that is really important. I know it's important for our golf and community I know people want to try and use that we talked a little bit about, about the cost of keeping the clubhouse open in the wintertime to extend, extend some of its versatility and do some, do some like clubhouse sort of things out there for kids or movie nights or game nights or something in the clubhouse just to get people into the, into the clubhouse to, to make it a space that is not just a walk by. Find a way to raise revenue but we've been looking at ways to try and do that, even outside of the outside of the, the given golf season. That is a matter of concern that we just haven't been able to finish yet. Thank you. Thank you. Just want to say that I started. I came to Amherst first as a visiting grandmother who took babies to the swim classes in the big pool. And that was really exciting. In terms of the question about lane swimming at the Hampshire why you have to join though there are subsidized memberships but at the pools, I remember joining. And there was an out of town fee and an in town fee. I know that they're subsidized memberships. And if you have a membership if you're a member of the pool. We have an app. And I can go on that that app and it has my favorite activities that are going to be happening. And I can sign up and they'll say exactly how many spots are going to be in it and the time frame. And then if it's full, you get put on a wait list and it's all done automatically. And I can back out at the last minute and I always know somebody will be on that wait list. And that's how lap swimming is done. I mean, it was stricter during COVID, but now people reserve for a certain time slot. And this app, I can handle it.  And I could show my husband how to do it. So, I think that's one way to get some lane swimming in because I understand there's tremendous demands on the pool. And a lot of people like me wanted to go and swim with babies, you know, which is like, but people who want to swim laps, don't want to have happening at the same time or the same part. I also love the waiting pools. Oh, the way I haven't actually been there when the waiting pools have been jumping, but, but that's I think that's what you said is, is kind of the nexus of our management issues is when we have overlaps in there when we have, we split the pools between activities and sometimes having to compromise in that space is is the pressure point for us. Again, I think Denise has done a remarkable job at, at setting up schedules and communicating those schedules to the people that are that are going to be using it. I also will say that and you, you talk about trying to find ways to make the process a little bit, a little bit smoother. Marion is here, Marion has been has been, you know, really trying to find ways to make sure that, that when people are signing up to use these is user friendly that we have. There's any way to trying to make that process quicker and easier. We are, we're not stuck in trying to do things that worked back before COVID before we came aboard. We are looking at ways with feedback from people so I would, I would certainly encourage people to, to share those concerns if there are concerns that would things that would make things easier in operations, share it with us share with our operations manager we can, we can make that work. Andy, given we have one more department, can we make this the last question. Yeah, Jennifer. It's not that important I can, I didn't realize we had something after this. Yeah, go ahead, you can ask. I could probably find this in the budget but does in terms of insurance. The recreation department is just under the town's insurance because I can't even imagine when you have, you know, kids and swimming and. Yeah, yeah, their activities, any town sponsored activity is under the town's insurance. And again, and the summer camp, you don't contract that we don't contract that out, you run that so that so you staff. There's there's some camps that maybe have an outside person but the general summer camp is all run by the rec department. Sports clinic sports clinics are frequently outside groups that come in sometimes they come in because of insurance. It certainly makes it easier for some people to come in under our umbrella, but we are, we do run that summer camp, we do run that day camp. And I just wanted to quickly echo again a big thank you to Marion and Ray. They've navigated some bumpy waters they've had some staffing issues. Ray has been rec director coach facility manager. You name the title Ray is worn it and Marion, you know keeps everything moving despite all the the turmoil around where she's always calm and happy and keeps things moving forward so. I was going to say just if I look smart is only because Marin's here. So, so, so thank you Marin, and thank you all for the opportunity. Thank you. Appreciate all you're doing and it's complex department with a lot of pieces and it's a pleasure to have you. Thank you. One person left and that's today and that's veteran services. Yeah, so Steve is here Steve Connors our veterans agent. It's a relatively small section of our budget but it's important function. Steve can speak a little bit to it. Just keeping time in mind, but essentially there's two major functions within the veterans group there's our cost there's the assessment that we pay to be a part of the veterans sort of county system. There's the cost with Northampton and then several other small communities. And then there's the benefits that we pay out and Steve really manages the system but he also is in charge of managing the benefits that we pay out to better veterans for eligible costs.  Yes, hey, I'm sorry I thought this was an in person thing but I've had five budget meetings in the last three weeks so I lose track of who's who. So my apologies. But yeah. So, we have been in the creation of a district since FY nine. Oh nine. And Amherst has been an original member. We started at six and we are now at 11 communities. Well, actually, I should say we're up to 12, which I'll get to in a minute. But we pride ourselves and delivering the benefits that eligible veterans and their dependents receive because we pretty much as a general rule always get our 75% back. It's going to be very rare that you'll see any of our communities not get the full 75% back. And if we don't get it, it's usually because I've gone to the mayor, the town manager, the town administrator of the community and said, look, we're going to need, you know, if it's all right with you folks, we need to try to assist this person. And I know it's not going to get authorized by the State Department of Veterans Services now the executive office of veteran services. But can we help this family anyways or this veteran. So other than that, pretty much Amherst has always gotten the 75% back while we've been managing the chapter 115 benefits. The numbers in that have gone down from COVID. They also were dropping down because a lot of the World War two vets in Korean war veterans were passing. A lot of them did not have a lot of. I want to say pension kind of benefits that went to the surviving spouse. So when I first started 19 years ago, we had a lot of World War two veteran widows on our benefits because they just didn't have enough to get by that hasn't been as much of an issue as it was back then. So our numbers are down there. However, where the numbers are down on our state benefits. They're up throughout the district and from what we're understanding throughout Western mass regarding the federal benefits, especially those provided by the VA. And those are both for disability claims for veterans who were injured while serving both men and women. But there are also claims for their pension, their programs that are based on the pension. I know that's confusing. Let me say the pension with the VA is for any wartime veteran. If they serve during wartime, they get the pension, but they only get the pension if they need it. It's not a very large amount. Most people have enough even from Social Security that surpass that. What they may need is care in the home because they're homebound or they're in need of a attendance of other people to do their activities of daily living. And that is based on the pension. You don't have to have been service connected. You don't have to have a service connected injury. You just have to serve during wartime. We get a lot of calls for that. If anybody's ever interested in what it takes to do that. I will fill you in, but it is a very painstaking document driven process to get people money to have to keep a veteran at home or in a assisted living facility. We get a lot of that because people will come to us and say. Dad or mom, but mostly dad is not so old. He can't live by himself anymore. He can't do this, you know, and we don't know what to do. So that's one of the programs we have the VA. Health department is trying to deal with that on a national level because it's becoming an issue. And there are programs coming on board. That's our biggest demand, usually in our offices is that kind of need. With that in mind, I worked with a few other VSOs here in Western Massachusetts. About how do we deal with it and we've developed a program. It's called learn it before you need it. And it's about all the steps. Before your parents are desperate and need this care. We are going to show you all the things that are out there and how to apply for them. And I was struggling trying to get it done this spring because it's just not enough hours in the day. I went to the board with Sean as a member of and asked 1 of my positions to be increased. A few hours back to what it was. A year ago to help that happen. The, the board did approve it. So there is an increase in this year's budget. But what that means is that come the fall time, we're going to be spending the summer, putting all the materials together. Lining updates and the guests that need to be there because we need to invite about. 7, 8 people to it, but we are going to in 4 different locations. So far the new. New town that has just joined us Huntington has a space, which will cover our Chester middle field Worthington area along with Huntington. Williamsburg, which is going to handle the coming to go to Chester field area. We're going to do it in Northampton. We're planning to do it here in Amherst, where we're going to do this training for families, whether I talk with the Jones library or we do it at the banks community center. But it's going to address all the needs that families need to know about their ailing parents and especially their veteran father or mother. What what there's out there for them. So, Steve, I'm giving the time, I might just turn it over and do you want to hit any other points before we open up for questions as want to make sure we have time for questions. Yeah, no, that that's the biggest thing that's the biggest change we're looking for in the year otherwise we're running as normal and just echoing echoing quickly what you said Steve part of that increased hours. There may be increased hours and Amherst specifically in terms of the office that's set up at the banks community center. Yes, exactly. And the other thing was is we just, I went to the select board meeting on Wednesday night and the town of Huntington voted to join the district so it's the whatever is on the sheet it's going to go down a little bit. That helps spread the cost out among. Yeah, yeah. And we're getting addressed by another community but I don't think they're going to join but they may, but I do know that Huntington has now joined the district as well. Thank you Steve Lynn. I basically just want to thank Steve for his service I think it's terrific that we have this relationship it's nice to know that Amherst was one of the founding members. So thanks. Thank you so much for your service and Amherst it really has. I have to say that talking about the founding of it. Makes me feel like a relic because it was actually I guess. John Musanti Stephanie O'Keefe and I were at the original meeting with called by player Higgins who is then mayor that launched this. I feel like I've been with it for as long as you've been around Steve, even though I've been North Hampton before. I have one quick question. And if there are any others and we can close it up. The veterans that I now think about is the youngest veterans who are in Afghanistan and Iraq and wondering if we are seeing that population moving in whether that population is in any way also in our homeless population and whether you're able to work with Craig stores or crust to reach them if they are there. That's a very good question and yeah and and people kind of forget they all of us think about veterans that they're older veterans so on so forth but there are a lot of younger veterans who do fall into trouble so I am on a. Two different meetings on zoom with Craig's place and their their people and anytime there is somebody who is let them know that they are veteran. We talk so I have addressed in the past and of course Earl and I have worked close before in our homeless work. Now he's doing the crest so he's got my cell phone I got his and he actually has helped me out with a veteran right here in Amherst. That's had a very difficult year and I've been trying and so is Earl and the team tried to assist him to the best of our availability. Unfortunately now I'm dealing with court and he is going to be evicted so I'm trying to stay the eviction so I can find him a place to live. It's more appropriate before it's enforced because if they actually enforce the eviction, then it's going to be really hard to house him and he's a much older gentleman. Yeah, so both young and old we deal with and Chris also does so we are in communication and I do deal with the people that Earl gets and I send them some of minus Clell. Thank you. Other other questions. I don't see anyone shown is there anything else we need to. There were no questions submitted but again if anybody has any other questions for Steve you can send them all send them along to me and Steve's very responsive so I can get answers to anything. I mean, and look for that program coming in September or October depending on our schedule but I think it'll be an impressive program, very helpful to the families, I'm sure. Thank you, Steve. Thank you. Thank you and we'll see you maybe at Memorial Day. Oh yeah, I'll be there. It's a different program I'm looking forward to it. We're going to be giving out the Medal of Liberty, which is a state medal to a family member of a World War two veterans so it should be quite interesting. So, we are signed up for the parade and the Memorial. And the resolution. Great, I will make sure the reading of the resolutions in the program then. We will see that. Thank you. So, with that said, we have anything else we need to do today, you know, Sean, did we already do public comment. Andy, I guess I shouldn't ask. We have one attendee, just in case. Yeah. There is anybody who's in public who would like to be recognized to speak. Like the person wants to move. No. So, we're there for nobody's asking to do public comment. And I can't think of anything that was unanticipated business at this point. But when we have more committee members present, we need to start picking up on the report. In decision making stage. I sent out some material to committee members today to help that kind of position along and when we get to it. And otherwise, the other two parts of public safety and public service. Have been put up, I think, to the 23rd in this fire and public health. Yes. Yeah. And I know I still got to get the questions posted in the packet. And I'll send them to everybody. Just have to organize them and get the responses plugged in. So I'll send it off to everybody when that's ready. So, so anybody's thought of other other business than I think. One can we assume that the council is adjourned and the finance committee is adjourned. The council is adjourned. And finance committee. Have a good weekend. Bye. Bye.


hey what's going on guys welcome to the craft box my name is Ben and today I'm joined here with a man who goes by the name of cyberclaw also known as Brent and we're on the pixel one server again it's been a while isn't it Brent it's been too long not really for them but for us yes I suppose well for them it's been for a for us it's been a while for them not so much anyway so Brent yes you haven't been playing here him often on the server have you no because I don't usually progress ahead after series when we're not recording firm unlike you hey stop bullying me anyway so actually yeah I've been doing I've been doing the naughty and I've continued well you guys are away and I've actually completed the first second third and I think I've completed the fourth gym as well well Brent was not here sue me anyway so today Brent is going to be doing these gyms and I'm gonna be his coach slash manager Brent can you read through what oh he's gone it's already gone 45 and I don't have all level 45 things but oh well it's all good it's all good as long as you've got a fire type you're gonna wreck them I do I have charged up okay see that bitch yeah destroy her what are my controls again ours to see nothing I need to change it then do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do it's done don't X way you no works still go down it oh there it goes it's just legging no welcome to my gym What will Charizard do? Fight. Charizard will reek. He will use... Your most powerful fire attack. Flame burst. Ooh. That's effective. She will probably try it. Yeah, there you go. Easy. This is an easy one as well. Oh yeah, Charizard has grown to 37. You should get hit if the level's reduced. Let's do something else. This is a flying type as well. There we go. Oh, this one's not. 38. 38. Oh, careful with this one. This one's got to look at some poison attacks, which is not the best thing for Charizard, because once you've got Charizard out, you might be a bit stuffed. I'm just going to take in the surroundings. Oh god, Charizard's poisoned. Yeah, there's the thing. This is an easy one. 39. Ooh. There you go. Yeah, I've had a trainer. Rainbow badge and grass knot. Shall we go back to the home, so you can put it in your thing? Sure. Slash home. Oh, and also, guys, there's been some changes to the home. I've done some... Why have you stone-blocked my thing? In your thing. You put that there. No, I didn't. I haven't been on the server to be able to put it there. That's where you put it. Oh, it must have been me. Yeah. Brinks badge there, that's what I called it. Brinks badge. Okay, so the next one's a bolder gem. What level's your... What? Your print-plots and evolution and polyon? His 36. Okay, so that won't be high enough level. Yeah, no. Shall we do some training? No. Okay. Yes, for sure. Then what shall we do? We'll do some training. Q-Epic montage music. Let's not, and just say we did and pretend that Brinks actually got an editing and realised that he actually isn't. So don't worry, there won't be a montage here because we're not a cod clan, so yeah. Okay. Hey, guys. It's been a while. It's been like a full two night cycle since we last saw you. Anyway, we've completed our training. What level is in polyon, Brent? He is level 44. That is enough. We really wanted a 45, but we think that's enough. Anyway, just to double check. Brent's not going to use it unless it's his last hope, but I've traded him my legendary Kyoga to help him out, but really he should be able to rock because it's literally the bolt of gym. Get the pun. Yeah, I did. Anyway. It wasn't very funny. It was good. It was good. You're at the gym, Brent, because I'm running over the gym. Yeah, I'm at the gym now. Okay. Boulder. Yeah, I'm going to just wait for me. I'm there. Oh my God, level 50. Ooh, can I do it again? You can easily do that. Try using polyon. Okay, so. And be careful if he sends out like a machoke or something.  So what about Gollum? Gollum's just a rock type. You should be able to rock. Let's use Acrogette. Yeah, it's fine. It's good. There we go, Gollum fainted. And polyon is level 45 onyx. Easy peasy. Oh yeah, really easy. Ooh, we should do the under trade. What if... That's what you're going to worry about. So who should I do? Just keep him going with him. Okay, I died. Who should I send out next? Charizard, Flygon, Tropius or Puppetah? Try... Flygon. Okay, he's level 50. I'll be right, but I reckon I'll be right. What should I use? Rock, Ground or Dragon? Dragon. Yeah. Yeah, that works. Oh god, back. Flygon. Karostica. I don't know what that is. Karacosta. She's Dragon. I don't know what that is. Just keep him using Dragon. Oh, he died. What should I do? Charizard, Tropius, Puppetah? Puppetah. Puppetah? Dark type moves. Dark pulse. Oh yeah, that works. Dark pulse is good. Dark pulse. Dark pulse. Gigaleth. Good one using Dark. Even though that's a Dark type. Yeah. Dark types haven't been put in yet. So the most useful type for that would be Dark. Okay, 49. What's this? Raipiri or... He's a... Stimgown is fine. It's a Rock Ground. It's all good. So I keep using Dark? Actually, Puppetah would just reckon. Here we go. Oh, Puppetah's poisoned. There we go, I did it. I got a Rock Slide and I got the Coal Badge. Coal Beans, bro. Hey look, I'm over here. I'm waving. I bring... I bring... I can't move. You're going to have to go Slash Home. Slash Home. Two, one, zero. Necklace. We look up on the wall. Yeah, we look up on the wall of not so much shame anymore. I've got four on my side, two on Brent's side. It's not two in too badly. Yeah. So, hope you guys enjoyed. Brent, where are you going? Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. I'm getting sugarcane. Stop getting Tronegillo's Cheap MC MMO Levels. I'm not, actually. I'm just getting sugarcane. Cheeky Burger Tronegillo's Cheeky MC MMO Levels. How am I meant to do anything with herbalism? I don't know. Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed. So you see the cats here doing different... Oh my God. It's scary. Why would you put it in there? You're so mean. Okay, Brent, come here. Let me talk to our friends. You're so mean. Come here. Let me talk to my friends. Okay. Are you looking at me? Oh my God, I'm glitching out. Step away. Step away from the sand block. So, hope you guys enjoyed. Please like, subscribe, and comment if you did. It's really appreciated. And I hope to see you guys next time. And remember, craft outside the box. Goodbye. Bye.


So we've all been there where you start your Monday with, this is going to be a different kind of week, only to find yourself on Tuesday night, struggling to keep afloat, and you somehow find yourself on Friday, not sure how the week even passed by. And just for fun, your teacher just coincidentally scheduled the test for this upcoming Monday, you're far behind, how do you catch up? In this video, I'm going to share with you the exact step-by-step approach that I used when I was a medical student, to not only catch up, but crush on an exam, and then make sure on the next one that was less likely to procrastinate or at least get behind, let's get into it. Hey friends, welcome back to the channel. In case you're new here, Ms. Lakshman, internal medicine physician, and here on the channel, make content to help people like you succeed on their medical journey, but doing it with less stress. Now, even if you are not in medical school or in medicine, this video will still be helpful because we all have the propensity of getting behind, but medical school is a great example because there is information overload. Compared to my college classes, where I would typically take three hours of lecture in a week, I'd take that same amount of information in one day at medical school, multiply by five, over the span of four years, it kind of sucks. And so one of the key skills you have to quickly learn in medical school is not only how to stay on top of everything, but also how to study efficiently. Today we'll talk about the first one. So step number one is to make your current schedule super clean. One of the biggest issues that I run into when I work with students one-on-one on helping them study is sometimes they may be playing catch-up or they have to do a retake on an exam that didn't go well and somehow they're still trying to fit that in, just like squeeze it into a schedule that's already really overwhelming. If you're playing catch-up, the first thing they need to do is subtract from your current schedule that is dedicated to learn the original information. So for example, if you had 20 lecturers that are gonna come on an upcoming quiz and you went through lecture one through 10 or supposedly did for the first week and then you're supposed to do lecture 11 to 20 on week two, but you're still trying to finish the last few lectures from week one. First thing you have to do is for week number two where you're learning information from lecture 11 to 20 that that system is as clean and super simple as possible. And so my personal favorite strategy right now is really because I'm a visual learner is to put my current study schedule and study system on a calendar. I love using Google Calendar where I can say, this is when lecture is and this is how I plan on reviewing this information from lecture. And then if I start seeing myself trying to squeeze in a secondary resource in another one and trying to watch my videos here and doing practice questions here and then asking myself like, when are you actually gonna have time to catch up on stuff from week one? It's not realistic. So the first thing I'm gonna do is how can I make step number one to two which is get the information from class and make sure I absorb it really well as efficiently as possible. Now again, if you don't know how to do that, if you're like, I don't know how to go from lecture to learning the information without adding 6,000 steps into it, no problem. Check out some of the links down below. A few things that I recommend is a rapid study accelerator. Essentially, it will tell you this is the best way that you need to study when time is limited, which is perfect when you're trying to play catch up. And if you want an entire breakdown of how to study better, including talking about what type of things you're doing absolutely wrong, what type of things you need to start doing to become a top student, the level up your studying program is also a program we're checking out. Both of them will be linked down below. But whenever I'm dealing with a student who is trying to play catch up, the first thing I ask them to do is like, what is the one thing you need to do to absorb the information and then being able to quiz yourself immediately after? Sometimes that means taking your notes in a Q&A fashion or a question and answer. If you want more examples of that, check out this video right here on how to use the Q&E method on how to take notes. But essentially, you are going to be absorbing information from class and then immediately coming home and saying, I'm gonna quiz myself and that's how I'm gonna learn the stuff because now I need to use that extra bit of time to learn the material from week one that I was really behind on. And as an additional pro tip or bonus tip while we're here in step one, and we'll talk about later in this episode, is to really let go of over complicating what you're trying to do to study. Remember, you have to learn the information for tomorrow. If the test, for example, went from its original plan three weeks in the future to tomorrow, you're gonna study completely different and ask yourself what type of approach you would typically take and make that your go-to system while you're playing catch up. Now that your calendar looks much more cleaner and much more minimalistic, the next step is to split the amount of lectures you're behind by the amount of days. So for example, in our week one, if you had lecture one through 10 and you only happened to for whatever reason only do lecture one at three and you're seven lectures behind, but let's say you have four days because the test is gonna be on Friday, then you split that up and saying I need on average do two lectures a day. Instead of thinking of covering seven lectures, really comes down to doing two of them every single day to catch up within a four day period. This is also really effective, especially if you're doing step one on a Google counter because then you can say I have this much free time and this is how much time it's gonna take me to cover two lectures. Now, if you have a day where you have a lab or something else is going to take over your time as well, then you can say, well, my average needs to be two, but today I'm only gonna be able to do one lecture, be okay with it, but this is going to be a lighter day. Maybe Wednesday doesn't have a lab or Wednesday finishes early. I'm gonna do three lectures on Wednesday to catch up. Now you can start seeing a visual schedule of one, how you're gonna efficiently gather the information from this week to avoid getting further behind and then two, you also be able to visually see how you're gonna plug and play the individual lectures that you have to catch up on for this week. By simply doing this, when I was a first year medical student, sometimes I'd be like, well, I'm like six lectures behind and that was really overwhelming, but then when I split it up and saying, well, I have like six days to cover this, it really just meant that I had to do like one lecture a day and if it was a weekend, I could do like two or three and catch up and not feel so bad about myself. And again, now we finally get into the fun step, which is step number three. Now in the first two steps, we created extra time by making whatever we're currently learning become a little bit more efficient and making sure that we're plugging and playing with that extra bit of free time. But step number three is to also make sure that we're doing this catch up as efficiently as possible. And so in step number three, you wanna simplify your review for your catch up. Typically what that means is you wanna have a very easy and simple flow on how you're gonna get that information to becoming concrete and high yield. Now what I find that most students try to do even if they have that time block that we did in step two is that they do inefficient techniques like they're gonna go ahead and immediately watch their lecture because that counts as catching up. But no, we don't wanna actually get further behind and if it's a hard lecture, we wanna make sure that we don't add more time later on. So making and committing to using an efficient strategy is gonna be super huge. One of the big things that I recommend is that if you know your lecture tomorrow is gonna be let's say on hypertension and the different medications that control hypertension. A good first step may be watching some videos tonight dedicated to understanding hypertension drugs or hypertensive drugs a little bit better tomorrow. So then when you go to lecture, things start sticking a little bit better. And then you may combine that with strategy like the Q and E method. So you're taking your notes and the formal questions.  You don't have to do anything fancy. And then you can do practice questions if they're available, but you can see how this flow is designed to say information's presented, information quizzed. I feel a little much more confident and I don't have to spend extra time on upcoming days, kind of learned it now and I get it now. And once again, if you're like, man, I really wanna know what this Q and E methods all about, that video will be linked down below as well as a podcast episode. And if you again, if you want the full breakdown of how we use various different strategy strategies to help you create a personalized and perfect study system, it really helps you get some grades in a very short amount of time. Check out the level of your studying as well as just some of the results that our students have gotten using the step-by-step process. So that will be linked down below. Now, step one, two and three were really designed for you essentially having a little bit of relaxation of saying one, I can create the time. And two, I can create the system that allows me to do this as quickly as possible. But step number four is really the difference between a student who continues to fall behind and becomes overwhelmed. And the student that says, okay, this is what's wrong, let's really avoid doing that again in the future. So step number four is to really identify the cause of falling behind continuously. Typical examples that I find with students, especially in medical school, is a lack of motivation, feeling overwhelmed or having anxiety or continuous fatigue. And usually if the process of falling behind happens often enough, you'll find that the student will feel all of these things at the same time. But really you wanna ask yourself, what is the first thing that led me to fall behind? Is it because my system was too complicated? That's when you go back to step one as well as some of those links down below. Was it that I was feeling too overwhelmed and anxious? Again, that also points towards simplify your system, bro, because if you make things a little bit easier to say, step one, two, three, and you can do one, two, three every single day instead of having 10 steps, that is something that I find those students can feel like the monkey is off their back. But if you're feeling a lack of motivation, that can be an easy thing to say. I just don't feel like working today. How do you get past that? Usually what I recommend is one, checking out this video on how to guarantee free time in medical school or whatever journey you're on, but really dedicating some time slots in the morning as well as evening, specifically the things that you're interested in. Again, it doesn't matter if you're a medical student or if you're a college student or if you're not in school at all. You can use these same principles to say, this is a part of my life that's really busy for me in medical school and being a doctor, but these are parts of my life that I've dedicated into my schedule to make sure I'm happy, make sure I'm growing on a personal level, keeps your motivation high so when it's time to work, you're okay for it.  Usually when I work with students one-on-one, you usually have two check items that they have to make every single day and that's pretty much it. It doesn't get more complicated. It's not about how many resources they use or how many chapters they cover. Usually I'll tell the student you have to do this one or two thing and check it off your checklist. If you choose to procrastinate because you're tired or you're lazy, it doesn't matter. Now one thing done, it is considered to be a win and usually for those students, fatigue doesn't happen as much.  So once again, guys, to review what we talked about so far, step number one is to really simplify how you're gonna learn the information you're being taught right now. After information you're gonna play catch-up on, but you really wanna increase that free time, so simplify. Step number two is to use the extra bit of time that you got in step number one and understand how many lectures on average you have to do per day, based off on when the test or the quiz may be coming up. And step number three, similar step number one is to commit to a very simplified process of how you're gonna learn this old material that you haven't really gotten to yet, whether it be using a high old resource and jumping straight into practice questions or taking your notes in a very unique style. That way as soon as you go to lecture you can pause the lecture or leave the lecture room and start asking yourself questions to make sure you truly have mastered the material. And then finally and arguably the most important is ask yourself, where are the barriers that is leading to this momentum and avalanche of you getting behind? Is it a system that is just too complicated? It is you trying to do way too much with very many resources and being too optimistic? Or is it due to a lack of motivation or an increased fatigue? And we talked about a few strategies that you can implement to help you on your day to day. But that guys is a step by step approach that I use in medical school whenever I was behind to catch up but also make sure I wasn't doing it as frequently in the future. It's also the same strategy I share with our one-on-one coaching students. But again, if you want any help on your studying, one, drop a comment down below. If you're watching this on YouTube, if you did enjoy the content, hit the like and subscribe and notification bell. But if you are a student who's watching this that says, I need more help. I need more step one, step two, step three advice for every aspect of my studying. Want more strategies, more techniques. And go ahead and check out some of the programs. Some of the two I would recommend include the level of your studying, which is gonna be something that we're completely revamping here in 2022. So I'm really excited for it. So definitely check those out. So those are reviews. And if you're interested in one-on-one coaching, although we are doing it less than we did in 2021, definitely consider checking out the Medi-Knight coaching program and see the kind of results that our students have gotten, which are just one week. So if you guys are interested in seeing those results, they'll be linked down below. But as always, my friends, if you did enjoy this video, just go ahead and share it as love by hitting that like, subscribe and notification bell. It really helps the YouTube channel. 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