Ychydigonwyd, mynd i'n rhan o'r ddweud yn ddechrau'r ddydd â'r ddweud yn y Ddoedd yng Nghymru, i ddweud yng Nghymru yn yng nghydfyrr yn y ddweud hynny yn y ddydd yn oeddig yn unrhywgol yng Nghymru yn ddweud i gael ddweud i'r ddweud yr hynny i ddechrau.  Ond ydych chi'n gwneud ymddangos, dyma'r ffordd ychydig iawn yn gweithio ar gyfer y gweithgawr, yn gweithio ar gyfer y gweithgawr, sy'n unig oherwydd ymddangos yma, ymddangos yng nghymru yn ymddiadau yng nghymru yng Nghymru. ac ydych chi'n gynnwys bod floating a roedd i fy nghasuren. Mae yma Ynnghwys wediFinallyers mateiswyr be cyfrindwyd, gyda即on ni fy mhag boundary fel Llyfrins θαreu a Feid Lord.  Roedd compound y gall에서는ol o ergyseteriaeth hearsur. A oedd ohododd yn rhan omoren o gyllPr. Nhwys ddaeth y gytrach o clyрон selif i ddemaven i fourddau, a jael mae gwmunig o ddigfedd. Mae hynny gynhynbediad iddo tyfn o'r cyffredin iawn i explainu gan ôl y penlyru rhai. A oherwydd, rwy'n cael yn cael ei bod yn rhoi cyffredin iawn o'r cyffredin iawn i g weld sydd y cyffredin iawn. ëAni, ar 95 o ffincio dda ni, dweud hyffredin iawn o'r cyffredin iawn i gael fwy yma, oswn a'r cair. Felly, mae'n rhai symud o'r cyffredin iawn iddyn nhw i mwyn i gael ddwy,ddwdon fy ydy i'r rhaniaeth alfaeitt i mi extremu fedri dimRI ac yn ddod, felyd i'r rhaniaeth dimRI i os y gywda chefiwydd спقد, ac ar-gylwydd fan allu'r corpus. A dyna di nhw'n rhaid i fyf addysg byr gamonon dimRI a weithf deciding guyn y clanTT ac â'i ho iawn i sesio llTu faeth baut alw yn g widertaeth ar所有. Gwyrdd i fych ennill plural nhw rydym am y 듯iaid ysglu awr, gydwahf ysglu rawr hynny, yn oes cyflwyddol이, ond ddargen a'r gw�ishion gw 본 gyda'r cyfnod yn cyd-refwngor â'i cyd-refwngor yng Nghymru. Mae'n ddiddordebeth yma yng nghyd-dweithio'r cyd-refwngor yng nghymru. Mae yna'r sefydliadau yn ymddangos cyfnod gyda'r cyfnod cyfnod yng Nghymru, ond mae'r cyfrifiadau yn ymddangos cyffredinol yn y cyfnod yno. Mae'r gyfrifiadau yn ymddangos cyfnod ar gyfer y cyd-refwngor, yw'r cyffredinol o'r cyfnod ar gyfer yng Nghymru. Ond oed yn ysgrifennu, sydd wedi'i gweithio gael'r llyfr yn rhan i'w ffaith, ac mae'r llyfr ynynu'r Gwyrdd yn ystod y ddechreu'r cyfnod ar gyfer y ddechrau. Yn ymdyn nhw, ymdyn nhw yw ysgrifennu sy'n ei wneud ymdyn nhw ymdyn nhw ymdyn nhw. Yn ymdyn nhw ymdyn nhw, ymdyn nhw ymdyn nhw ymdyn nhw ymdyn nhw'n ei wneud ymdyn nhw ymdyn nhw, For context, the Cabinet Office has one of the worst FOI records in central government, and they really do tend to lead more towards withholding information rather than disclosing it. They do have a tendency to be secretive, and for the Cabinet Office to advise other government departments and agencies on how to respond to requests, it doesn't quite sit well with me. The advice that has been released is questionable. The Clearing House also asks government departments to send them the drafts of FOI responses before they are sent out to the requester, and it indicates a certain level of control on what can and cannot be released to the public. We also know that it is contributing to delays experienced by FOI requests, so we had one campaign that has worked very, very hard on trying to access documents about the infected blood scandal, a huge scandal in the UK, charting back from the 1980s. And he sent off a freedom of information request to one government department that got forwarded to the Clearing House, and then we managed to get hold of internal documents where one can see the Treasury interacting with the Clearing House. The Clearing House is saying, you know, actively discouraging this department not to release information, but the Treasury was saying, yes, we really do want to give this information, and that whole process lasted for five months. And we will know that, well, we know in the UK that, you know, requests to be answered within 20 working days. And very recently, actually, last week, I believe, we found that the Clearing House was interfering with FOI requests about incredibly tragic, sort of the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy that killed 72 people. We know that other journalists have their requests have been flagged to this Clearing House. A Times journalist saw that he managed to get hold of documents where it was found that his freedom of information request had been flagged to this central, this Clearing House, because he's a journalist. And there was another journalist who found that the Clearing House was working to block the release of documents to journalists, even though the Department for International Trade was very happy to release the information. So, yes, Open Democracy Investigation into the Clearing House has had a huge impact. Journalist politicians across the political spectrum, they've demanded an inquiry into this process. And in the summer, we eventually did manage to spark Parliamentary Inquirer, which is really good news. It's going to happen later this year. They are currently gathering up accepting evidence, which I have about to file tomorrow. But no, it's and we also reported that the Cabinet Office is conducting its own inquiry into the Clearing House, which is quite funny considering how earlier this year, they rubbish the reporting and they said that we were ridiculous and tendentious. So there we have it. Hopefully this Parliamentary Inquirer will lead to positive change in the way FOI requests are dealt with in central government departments. I know I've sped through those slides and yes, that's it. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much, Anna. That's really, really interesting. And yet that very, very quick tour does not do justice to the amount of wonderful work you guys are doing over there. We very much support it. We have done our evidence as well for the inquiry and encourage anyone else in the UK that is interested in this to look into that and submit their own evidence if they have any. Great. OK, moving swiftly on. We have a video next. Unfortunately, our next speaker wasn't able to join us live. But here we go. This is Lizette Humming of the Dutch Flemish Association for Investigative Journalists. And this is Lost in Europe, deploying the Albert Alley network on cross-border investigation. I've been trying to set up my laptop in a way that you can actually look at a person, which would be me now, and look at the slides as well. But it didn't work. So I'm going to switch to the slides in a second and guide you through it at the background. I'm Lizette Humming. I'm an investigative journalist from the Netherlands, relatively new in the field journalism. I have a legal background and I've been asked to help Lost in Europe with their freedom of information procedures. And we ended up filing requests in 14 different European countries this year. There's two pending at the moment, so that would make a total of 16. And six of these have been filed already via the Albert Alley platforms and one with a practice that, which is a similar freedom of information platform running with different software. I will tell a bit about the aim of our project, then the freedom of information procedure and the learnings that we can share using the Albert Alley platforms. So the aim of the Lost in Europe project that started in 2016 is gathering the stories of 10,000 missing migrant children in Europe. And missing means in the sense that they are missing from public records. In the past five years, Lost in Europe has set up seven different files and different angles to the projects. I'm working together with 20 journalists across Europe. There's been quite some publications. There's been more and more research and information about pushbacks at external European borders, pushbacks, meaning migrant being pushed back at the European border. And Geisha was in the forests at different border crossings in Europe, where she found torn pieces of paper, for example at the French Italian border. So we decided to look for pushbacks in Europe and concentrated on European countries that are part of the European Union and specifically part of the Schengen agreement, not only, but those were one of the first questions we had to ask ourselves. And Monika, one of the journalists involved in the project, dived into the existing research mostly done by NGOs on the ground and mostly done at the borders you can see here on the map she made. So we were wondering where should we start? The documents that Geisha found and also most of the documents that we found in the NGO research online were more general arrest documents. Only in France, we found a refus d'entrée. We thought at the beginning was the best way to start by asking for these refus d'entrée in France. And our first version was asking for the actual documents and then we changed that after, also after talking about it with other people, various of them by at the Alavetteli network. I'll come back to that later, that we changed it to asking for data sets and then we decided in the end to ask for the total numbers. And expecting that those numbers would be inside of data sets and not so much asking for the original documents, but also because we were not interested in the documents themselves, but more in the figures. So in the end, this is our freedom of information request. Geisha, of course, she knew that I was involved with the Dutch Alavetteli platform and I told her that there are many others in Europe that we can use to file these requests. And I told her that back then, not a lot of the platforms had the public at the pro version yet, so that we might have to file in public. And she immediately said that that was not a problem for her at all. And I think that most of us expect that for journalists in general, the preferred option would be to file a hidden that you don't need that you cannot see that on the platform. We looked at all the Alavetteli platforms and in the end decided to use as many of them as possible and discover that some of them were down there. There is no platform in Spain anymore, not in Italy at the moment and the Norwegian one was down. We started on the 21st of February 2021 filing France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia, because those were the countries that we found documents in the NGO reports. For filing the request, we needed some general freedom of information information that we gathered using the Alavetteli network. I will skip to the learnings so far and please don't hesitate to contact me if you want to know more about our project, our freedom of information procedures, experiences, the Alavetteli platforms, the differences between the freedom of information procedures in different countries. I'd be happy to tell you about this. Our learnings would be, for me, it was really obvious that it was a really good thing. I'm really happy that I've been to the Alavetteli conference. I think it was two years ago because there was a lot of the people that I got in contact with this past year were people that I met at the conference, which made it a lot easier to get in touch. And also the Google platform sort of works. Maybe it can work better if we would be able to communicate in different ways, but I did get a helpful reaction. Go public if you can, because I also noticed that it is easier to collaborate on a public request than having to give permissions or password sharing, passwords or anything like that. On the freedom of information procedure itself, it was really smart to check national freedom of information rules and regulations because they differ. I expected them to differ, but I didn't know in what way, so I was happy that we did, which also made me realise that I want to change the learning to let's set up a place where we can collect these national freedom of information rules and regulations and share it. Some more learnings are look for local national context because it helps. The fifth would be to double check whether the data is online or public already, because we found out in Hungary, for example, it's the best example. There was quite some information online already. We didn't expect that. There's more shared by the authorities than we could ever imagined. Using the Albedelli platforms, I found out that the English translation would be very helpful and the Swedish platform has it. I was thinking also for the Dutch platform, why not? Because it's there. I knew the platform by heart, so for me, also in languages that I don't speak, I was translating everything all the time, but it helped that I really knew how the platform is structured and what I could find where. That's not for everybody, of course. Also something that the Dutch platform does not have is using the space for information and explanation about the authorities that we can do in the platform. I realized if you're not so aware on how the authorities work on what, like I am in the Netherlands and that's why I didn't immediately think of using that possibility. It's very valuable, so let's use it. Eighth would be that I noticed that paid staff were quicker and more helpful in assisting. It's not against the volunteers that helped because I know as a volunteer for the platform, every hour you spend helping other people is a valuable hour and difficult to offer in a way. But it is for me running the Dutch platform, a valuable learning when combining it with requests and freedom of information procedures not felt by other platforms. It can be quite overwhelming and I'd be happy to share how we're managing that at the moment in general. Please know where to find me and I hope it was helpful. That was great. Unfortunately, as I said, Liz, that isn't actually here with us right now. But as Emma said in the chat, if anyone has any questions for her, she's very, very happy to answer those. What a lovely presentation. Isn't it wonderful to see all the love coming for Albertelli? Another presentation now on Albertelli driven exposure of the misuse of public resources in an election campaign. So this is over to Drayon Hoffman from Gong in Croatia. Thank you, Rebecca. Hello everybody. Thank you for joining in and thanks to my society for the kind invitation to this show and tell session. I'm going to take my chance is on the screen sharing function now. And I think you can see my initial slide right now. Okay, thank you. Thank you for the feedback. Okay. So hello everybody. My name is Drayon Hoffman speaking on behalf of Gong and NGO from Zagreb Croatia about something that's very close to our core activities, which often time pertain to elections and other other processes of citizen participation. And in particular, Albertelli was very helpful to us in exposing the misuse of public resources in an election campaign taking place in Croatia just this year in fact just a couple of months ago. Trying to set the stage, the context was that local elections took place in Croatia in spring that is in May of 2021. And these local elections are quite a complicated affair in Croatia is even such a small state a small country is very much fragmented in terms of territorial administration in as many as 556 local administrations. Those being cities or municipalities, and those groups into 20 counties. And when you take into account the fact that this election is a parallel action of both executive and representative bodies. That is, mayors and county prefects are elected while it on other ballots represented representatives to county assemblies or city councils are also elected plus municipal councils are elected were applicable. You can see that this election is, in fact, several thousand micro elections taking place at the same time. Our tip off was calling from a citizen who noticed that a YouTube channel named the gyr TV, which is somewhat difficult to translate, but the gyr would be sort of around trying to go around the place as in a walkabout was very intensely active during two weeks in April, which is very indicative because this is the time when the official, or rather before the official election campaign was taking place. And this channel was very proactive in offering quite really quaint footage of seaside towns and villages across several counties in Croatia. Most of very successful local projects and in something I came to build invitations to citizens for these successful trends to continue. And in each of these videos available on the YouTube channel and comment mayors were very prominently featured. This is one example of one of those lovely videos featuring this journalist on the left hand side of the photo here named Dauri Urkutys, I believe, who appeared in a number of cities, every time very standing very near to the incumbent mayors and presenting what advances were made in the quality of life in these cities in the past, in the past term of the local government. And as we would soon find out, these videos were followed or made possible by a slew of service contracts with the digital media group, which is a company operated by the aforementioned journalist. And in fact, these contracts were very formulaic. Each of them provided for the company to ensure 30 minutes of footage, including a talk with the mayor, which would be broadcast at least twice on local television, and would be promoted for 30 days on social media targeting an 18 to 65 year old audience following during and following and after the election campaign. Note that the 18 plus audience are also voters. The price was also fairly formulaic, 2,600 euro for this package of services. So, being the curious bunch that we are, we used our own national TV platform called the Mamo Prawaznati. We have the right to know.org to send out generic query to as many as 68 cities and municipalities that we found listed on this YouTube channel. So really our work was cut out for us by this business enterprise. And we asked each of those to provide us with contracts, the exact contract which covers the filming and broadcasting services provided by the company that was engaged. It's important to ask because according to our national act and financing of political activities and election campaigns, it is forbidden to fund to fund political parties and campaigns from state bodies, public companies, legal persons with public prerogatives bodies of local self governments public companies owned by local self governments. Essentially what we suspected was that public resources were being misused through these videos to effectively provide campaigns to incumbent mayors and to the exclusion of their political opponents. Given the incumbents and unfair electoral advantage because they could directly sign the contracts with this company to have a video broadcast of their successes and advertise their candidacy effectively for the next four year term. The outcome of the 68 queries was according to this breakdown below. We actually had a very successful turnout with the 54 complete responses from the citizen municipalities which proved that they in fact had contracts with this company. Several more were partially successful or never came back one of them refused was a refusal because allegedly the city had no active contract with the company, but it might be the case that the cooperation was arranged in some other way. The aftermath was fairly scarce. Unfortunately, some media attention was brought here to the case by weekly newspaper and very highly read creation language news portal, but there were no legal sections whatsoever. In fact, the state electoral commission gave us a direct answer that they cannot determine the activities of potential that is not yet confirmed candidates. So in the first phase of the electoral campaign, they weren't sure if the incumbent mayors would in fact be candidates. You could call this a cynical response, but technically it's true. This was followed by the interpretation again of the state electoral commission that they could not determine that public resources were being misused for for campaign purposes because according to their interpretation. It's entirely possible that these videos were produced by in the goal of regularly promoting the activities of local so governments the very fact that it took place during the election campaign period was not sufficient proof in and of itself. So in conclusion, our lesson, our takeaway from this case was that while our technological capabilities for ensuring FY might be formidable, they are no match for a lack of political will, which is very prevalent and plays us on a daily basis. So thank you again for listening to my talk. Thank you, blue sky timer for being such a convenient oppressor in my peripheral view all the time and looking forward to hearing the other talks. Thank you again. Thank you so much. And that was that was really interesting. And not too cynical at all. I think it's it's really important to be able to use FY for this, even if we can't immediately get a win out of it. I'm sure I'm sure it's all good evidence for the future. Right moving especially along. We've got our very own Alex Parsons next research associate my society. Take it away Alex. Cool. One second. At all up okay. Great. So, I'm Alex Parsons. I'm a researcher in my society. In the UK my society runs what they know.com and internationally developed the out of Italy software that supports similar sites across Europe and around the world. And in the last year our research teams focus on some questions that are a few steps removed from that software. We've been thinking about the wider regulatory context for FY services existing. How digital tools and help with that but also where there are problems that need to go to wider changes to address the issues. So to start with like my society is a civic tech organization and civic tech is all about finding the pressure points where existing rights or processes can be supercharged for the use technology. I was had is using a number of ways to try and improve the effectiveness and impact local system of FY and this sort of works in free key ways. So it exposes the access points by making it easier to make FY request and so reduces barriers to use. You can help scale the public information by putting the results of FY requests online. This means that public information becomes more widely available for search engines rather than require requests and something we've rolling out in the last few years is the idea of helping high impact stories. So this is a set of pro features aimed at journalists, researchers and campaigners help produce high impact works using FY. This is currently being rolled out in the UK and with our partners across Europe. The issue with this approach is it says if you have a function access to information regime putting technology on the top of that can make it work better and more efficiently. But what if what if there we go what if the access to information system just doesn't work. And the practical reality of FY or many countries is that especially for potentially high impact requests is information not only maybe we've held but we've held in ways that are outside either the letter or the spirit of law. Some of this can be addressed through technology, just as authorities learn what they can get away with the experience request will learn how best to approach refusals. And we can use digital tools to try and take that expertise and make it available to experience requesters. What do they know in the UK currently has a system of refusal advice, which takes users through a questionnaire based on the kind of refusal they got an offer snippets to help build a case for internal review. Given we know in the UK that internal review can result in more information being released, given people more ability to make appeals should and we're going to check on this in a few months time leads to new information being released that wouldn't have been without that help. So in some sense the appeal system is just another access point and we can put technology on top of that access point to help people access it. But it's also a process that varies a lot more between different jurisdictions and it's always a feature that's hard to scale internationally. In different countries and even inside different areas of the same country, entirely different processes for appeals apply. In some jurisdictions the appeal process might be quite a useful and effective tool. In others it may be hard, it's expensive to access or just ineffective. In these situations the problem is further upstream and it's hard to resolve with digital tools over the top of the system. So for the last few, no this year we've been pursuing two research projects. One which we published back in April looked at the situation in the UK and opportunities for improving the overall framework of FY law. And the other which we came to publish towards the end of the year looks at the wider European context of appeals and regulation of access to information. I'm going to start training a bit of the work we've done on the European side and then double back to work in the UK and see how it fits into that. So there we were interested in is when someone is unhappy with the response to something, how that is appealed and what the regulatory system is that ensures that the public authorities are working effectively. And there is often oversight bodies that are charged with that in different countries. So to start with just using asking two questions about these different kinds of bodies. Is it a specific body concerned with freedom of information or is it a general body? And do they have any formal powers to investigate or are they mediators? If you put those in a grid we get this. So generally speaking, information commissioner is a term that they're annoying to me about these terms that they're entirely work all the time. But an information commissioner is like a specific version of an ombudsman who is more concerned with information law. In countries where there is no specific or general one generally you can always appeal to the courts and so that is like the option of last resort if there is no specific thing set up. And that the categories don't work entirely well because we don't distinguish often between the idea of mediator information commissioners and regulator information commissioners. We're the first mostly speaking solves problems by bringing the bodies to bring the parties together in a room trying to provide advice and mediate the dispute, whereas the other has more powers to compel the release of information. And we don't really distinguish between this and terminology so it's just a new language just explain how these different systems are operated. Generally, it's and it's all it's all a bit blurry anyway because it's not that a regulatory information commissioner will always work for enforcement generally speaking they will do a lot of work for mediation as well. So this works if it's not these not clear divisions but it sort of helps shape how different countries pursue in their regulation. And to explore a bit more what differences there are between different regimes we've used access info's RTI ratings to create separate scores for free questions. How powerful is the oversight body is the oversight body physically independent and how effective is the overall review process. Using these three different scales we've applied a classroom approach to identify which countries are most similar to each other and made six groups of countries. I don't really detail on that now, but what is interesting is when you contrast the score for political independence of an oversight body with the kind of powers it has, and you get this map. And so can you see my mouse so I can. Cool. So that down here we got clusters two and four which have low political dependence but also not high oversight bodies up here we got cluster one which is quite good at both. And I think the interesting so just to give some examples on that so cluster one has got high scores for both that includes Albania Croatia Denmark and Ireland in that set. But the interesting ones are group ones in group five and ones in group three, who have different journeys to go on to become a more effective regulator. And these are independent regulators who are generally speaking that's about financial installation of decision making, but that's, but not have a lot of power is up here, they have a lot of power. Now they have a lot of power, but not a lot of political independence. This one here is the UK. A part recommendation so is we think the body in the UK should be more independent and move the oversight of it from Parliament to the government. But this is quite a special journey in the sense that very few countries in Europe have this specific problem. And so the lessons from generalizable from the UK is not the other countries have different problems, and each path to a better regulator it was going to be unique. And that is almost exactly on time. Thank you very much Alex. And yes that the report into the UK is available on our website. There's lots of really good lots of really good stuff in there. And yeah hopefully we will be putting out that that other reports, looking into regulation in Europe in the next few months. We may actually be reaching out to some of you to to talk to you and get your expertise and your input on that if if we're able to do so. Having swiftly on, we have Samuel Goethe from Madada France running an access to information platform in France obstacles and success stories. Hello. I'm Samuel. Nice to talk to everyone and I'm really glad to participate in that event and I really appreciate all the work that you do with a live Italy and I'm glad to meet over similar platforms in Europe. So thank you to you about Madada, which is now two years old. I'll have it early platform, and I will start by telling you a bit about this platform so we launched it in October 2019. We are, we're open knowledge foundation France, and it's a project that we have in mind for several years and that we are glad to make now real. We have more than 1000 requests, and it's increasing a lot since we have launched all the the pro features of a live Italy. And we have now an impact and we also have an awareness of the platform which is really good and and our figures keep on increasing and so we'll talk to you today about how we, we have managed to launch this platform as we have, and to give you and to finish to give you some success stories that we're proud of us to the two years running this this website. So, if I give you some context about open data on France I will give you the metaphor of the leaning tower of Pisa. Probably all knows leaning tower of Pisa of Pisa maybe you've been there. It's a beautiful building beautiful monument that is known for for its its leaning. But we always, we don't always know why it's so the reason it's leaning is that because it has unstable foundations, and so a bit of the same with open data in France if we consider open data as as a nice monument. And the foundation has freedom of information. So why is it a beautiful building open data in France. I mean, things are not always perfect, but it's a situation which open data is mandatory by the law since October 19 October 2018. It's ongoing this effort about an opening data. Yesterday more than 500 commitments were announced by all government departments. I don't say they're always ambitious commitments. I wouldn't say that, but it's still an ongoing effort and the government is is aware of the importance of open data and it's it's a political priority in the moment. The country if we look at the rankings it's second country in the OECD ranking it's third country in the European data maturity report. Again, it's not always perfect and I could talk during hours about all the issues that we face with open data, but I'm here more focused about the foundation of this tower, which is the, which is freedom of information. So we have a law that is that is quite old. It started in 1978. It's called the CADAS as the Commission of Axial Document Administrative. It's a quite easy procedure procedures. It has a large definition of administrative documents, which is what you can request. It's now a constitutional right so everyone can can use FOIA quite easily in France, but we have several issues. First is that awareness of the law is still weak among citizens. It's not a law that is really known and a right that people know. I'm always amazed by how many people don't know about this law, but also it's not known by many civil servants, which makes our work even more difficult. Requests, when you send your request, they are often bypassed, they are not even considered. On my data, we have more than 50% of our request that still await response and it's something, it's a difficulty that we face all the time with our request. And the thing is that if we look in government administration, FOIA officers procedures are not in place in government administration, which is also linked to the fact that they often don't answer. And too often they wait for the mediator intervention from LACADA to make a statement and before releasing any document, especially on documents where we know it's possible by the law. So we have very unstable foundation on which we build metadata and metadata is part of an ongoing movement to increase the awareness of the importance of this law and of freedom of information. So we started to make metadata more than three years ago with a small team with the help of Laurent, Pierre, Pascal, and Ida and several of us, which I cannot mention and other organization that helped us build metadata, which has mySociety, Transparencia, HelloClub, Uvreboit, and other organization. One thing we did is that we had to report a quite massive database on all the, it's called the Public Service Directorates, like 50,000 contacts, which is a difficulty was the only database that we have that was comprehensive about the French local and national government and all the agencies. We also had to request LACADA, so the mediator, about their own email database or their contact in the administration, do you follow me? So they have contact in every administration, it's mandatory by the law, it's called TRADA. It's not the people that are well dressed, it's only a person responsible with an administrative document, which means all the person that are your contact when you have a FOIA request. And we have to send a request, which is the first refuse then during more than six months, and then they approve and they send us this document that we don't want to read at first. And we also spend lots of time explaining civil servants and citizens about our approach. So we have now a website that works pretty well. So I would like to share you some, quickly some success stories. There are plenty of articles mentioning MADADA, so I will not look at that much more about civil society organization using MADADA. So one example is what Secur Catolic, so it's an NGO with ACITAS made with MADADA to look at the sanctions for welfare benefits. They talked to department councils to local council and asked how many sanctions did they release for welfare benefits and they found that more than 115,000 households each year are withdrawn from the welfare revenues each year. And they had a difficulty is that only a third of all these departments answered with an acknowledgement of receipt and only 13 on 100 actually release the data. Another example is COVID virus concentration in sewage water. We had a request from COVID tracker, which is a national website to track COVID. And it took six months to obtain this data in spite of the urgency of getting access to the data, but now it's integrated and used a lot to track alternatively how COVID is spreading in the country. There is also the quadrature, which is struggling against surveillance that is using MADADA to track many things such as how smart city project use digital surveillance. So they look at public procurement. For example, here we have Paris 2024 Olympics, so all the innovative solutions for safety that are used for the Olympics. They also look at all the locations of surveillance cameras that are approved with prefectorial orders. And so we have had success and they are actually using a lot of MADADA and advocating for its use. And we also, we have done our own investigation here on the transparency of public procurement and subsidies in France. It's mandatory in many ways to open this data. And we found that if you look only at the green department, it's only the one that released the data that we wanted. And we found that among those 188 requests, we have only received only 61 positive answer, less than 42%. So to conclude on that, MADADA is used a lot. It has now a good awareness in the public, so which is really good. It also is part of a campaign to improve the freedom of information law, which as I have shown you is quite unstable and needs really in an emergency some improvement. But we've also had some success and we can show now that civil society is using a lot foia to use in their advocacy efforts. So thanks for listening and I'll be glad to exchange with you. Thank you so much, Samuel. That was really great. And I think even though we all here want our FOI systems to be better, it's definitely important to celebrate the wins. So thank you very much for that. Right. It's already our final speaker. So this is Patricia Anderson from Give Them Time Scotland, a change in the law for school scarters in Scotland through FOI. So if, Samuel, you can stop sharing and we can get Patricia. There we go. Thanks Rebecca. Hi everyone and thanks very much for having me here today. I'm going to talk about a campaign that I co-founded which relied heavily upon FOI responses which we gained through the What Do They Know website, which is part of my society. So before I kind of go into exactly how we used FOI, I need to give a little bit of background to the campaign. First of all, I should let you know I'm speaking as a parent today who co-founded this campaign three years ago. And we were campaigning for a further year of nursery funding in Scotland for all children who were deferring their primary one start. To start like many campaigns, our campaign started because of personal experience. There was a group of parents across the country who were realising that their children were not ready to start school at this sort of designated age or the expected age in Scotland, which is usually between about four and a half and five and a half. And myself along with some other parents managed to inform ourselves through the internet that we actually had a legal right to defer our children, even if they were over five and a half, as long as they had not turned age six by the school starting date. So very quickly then this is the law in Scotland, which has actually been enforced since 1980 in the highlighted section explains that any child who's not five by the school start date, which is inevitably in August, but very slightly by each of the 32 local authority areas in Scotland. Then they don't have to start school until the following August. So as an example, just to kind of explain that further, if your child's date of birth is the 15th of August 2017, then in 2022 next year, if the school start date in that council was 14th of August, then they wouldn't have to go to school until the following year, even if it was a day before or a day after they turned six. But this is little known in Scotland. Most people know that if your child is born in January in February, that you have a legal right to defer and you will receive the all prize nursery funding for a further year. When mid August to December born cohort who are still four at the school start date, then it wasn't very widely known a research survey we did nationally in 2018, which had nearly 700 parents in every single local authority area responding, showed that only 16% of parents knew that in August you could defer a child. So we started to get quite anxious about the fact that it was very difficult for us to find this information. And then once we found it, we realised that actually, even though we have a legal right to defer our children who we think we don't want them to start school until they're older, that was a relief. But we don't have an automatic entitlement to continued nursery funding and for many families that is absolutely essential to enable them to both parents to work or to meet around family life. And in Scotland you have a 99% uptake rate at the moment for age three to five year olds in nursery places. So what inevitably this meant was that there was a discrepancy between the actual legal right to defer a child who hadn't turned five by the school start date and the entitlement to automatic continued nursery funding. And really that was down to individual councils, whether they would grant that or not. No parent has ever said to us, yeah I don't mind if they grant it or not because obviously there's a lot of money involved in that, the expense to the parent. Another issue was that if the council refused it, that they could oust your child from that council run nursery so that you would have to then move them to another nursery, a private one, all the unsettling of that for the child and the family, and then the additional cost because private nursery was much more expensive than council nursery. So there's a lot of issues here. So we established that there was these discrepancies from anecdotal evidence given by parents, but then we really wanted to prove it and that's where FOI came in. Initially we sent FOIs to the 32 local authorities by private email and my goodness it was hard. We are all lay people. Some people had processed FOIs through their work, but suddenly in our free time when you get young children on a job and everything else to juggle your 32 FOIs to process and process the jargon that came with them and then sort them all on your email inbox and just all the additional time requirements of that. And then, for me, one thing that I hadn't expected but which became pretty scary actually, I'm not a journalist, I'm not trained in data processing. One of the things that I find very hard is knowing what I could share and what I couldn't share. So for example, this was the tale of an email signature that I got from a local authority and the number one it says this is sent in confidence for the address you only it may contain legally privileged information and I'm sorry that word legally just sets off alarm bells for me. J to protection GDPR. I thought the freedom of information when it was free. I thought the onus was on them to decide what to share and suddenly me as a private citizen with no training suddenly had to have this Uber sense of what I could share or not would I be liable if I shared information that was sensitive or official. Some of these emails were labeled with those terms, and it became this, you know, I was going in this, you know, vortex of going around my head and analyzing it what could I do, what could I not do and actually, you know, if I hadn't found the what do they know website, it would have been prohibitive to what we actually managed to achieve in the campaign in the end and, you know, actually getting that information out there. So here's some of the information that we found sending through the what do they know website was brilliant because it took the pressure off any individuals to decide can I share this or not because everything's public. Everything's got a web link. The authorities that respond know that it's going into the public domain and therefore the onus is on them as it should be to be transparent to provide what they can provide or not. So you can see here that we established across all the 32 local authority councils in Scotland the rate of approving these requests for funding over the last three years. We've used a sort of traffic light system without the amber to identify different local authorities and their rates of approving these or not. And you can see that there's discrepancies there while we've gone up from 13 councils approving all requests in 2018-19 to 19 now.  But in good news, we lobbied using the information that we established from the what do they know website or FOIs and we've successfully lobbied for the law to be changed. So in Scotland, from August 2023, any child taking up that 1980-43 year old right to defer their school start will automatically be guaranteed a further year of nursery funding by ticking a box. And that is just such peace of mind for us as campaigners to know that other parents won't have to go through what many parents have suffered and experienced over the last few years and to have to potentially make a decision about their child's based interest and conflict with what they can afford. Thank you. What do they know in my society? Three seconds to go. Thank you so much for that. That was a really lovely illustration of using FOI to achieve a specific goal. Again, lovely to know that there are great successes in the world. Okay, well thank you everyone. Thank you everyone for joining us. Thank you to all our speakers. The last hour has gone by really quickly. We really appreciate you joining us. As I said at the beginning, we've got an exciting new programme of work attached to TicTac labs. I will get it right one day. And as I said before, if you stay on the mailing list, we'll be sending information around about that very soon. We're just in the process of finalising the programme with the newly set up steering group. So we will be in touch shortly. Sign up for updates. As I said, if you have any questions for any of our speakers or if you just want to reach out and make connections with them, that's fine. We can arrange all of that. By the way, thank you very much, FOI enthusiasts, and have a great rest of your right to know day. Bye.


Yeah, I mean obviously you have a long drive like that and haven't overcome a couple penalties isn't not going to please you as a coach You know those are things we got to clean up that we will but Overall, you know some of the stuff we needed to see You'll play it in the pocket Operating in some of those situations That's why we need to play but I thought that spread the ball around again You don't want to see that ball tip up and get picked down in a red zone off of a really long drive But that's what happened. So we got a lot of stuff we can coach off of but it was good getting those guys out there Same thing defensively and we'll get a stop kind of took up the whole first quarter And then I thought you know the quarterbacks, you know all three of them I thought they had they threw the ball pretty well. Yeah, and that's the thing, you know Playing from the pocket you guys have heard me talk about that the pressure of it But when you can extend plays that's such a big advantage in this league the way they have to rush you in the rush plans that you'll get and Des is a fast fast guy and he's got a feel for that You saw it a little bit last year at the end and you saw it tonight a little bit and that's Changes worth I said it changes some of the calls. They'll make and how they have to try to continue and So it was good to see Thought he handled it really well It was unfortunate that then I thought that that flag got on the field late the challenge flag But what do I know? It was I thought he they had a good play. We're trying to operate quick Treat me a heck of a play on the sideline. I Thought be John. I mean he operated fast. It certainly didn't look too big for him Ankle, I mean he was behind me the whole time. So I didn't look like he was Sometimes again, Mike, you know, you know it goes but seeming good spirits behind me The other one was penny, you know, they looked at him. So I don't know They went they called down looking at the concussion. So I don't know about that one yet Just went on our normal concepts. You guys have been a practice every day We brand pretty vanilla personnel packages wanted to see us operate. So that was that was good to see thought he carried the ball pretty decent I thought he protected well Asked me Sunday after practice, you know, the thing that I wasn't happy about is the pre snap stuff That's not who we want to be self-inflicted wounds, but you know turns a move in the ball. Yeah, I thought that was clean, but Not clean. It's not the right word But you know, we're effective I guess but we got a we got to come away with with more points when you when you Yours we didn't score enough points. If you think I'm gonna criticize the officials and preseason come on Mike There's a lot of factors, you know, you're playing a lot of different guys Different, you know, that's the one thing and all honesty when you're playing multiple quarterbacks the rhythm of the cadence that's that's sometimes that Shouldn't be I mean we practice every day, but You know, I'm just sometimes actually that can have an effect and different guys you're mixing and matching but that shouldn't happen a lot of things we coach off of but I Mean no, but we'll get it fixed. It's tears. I'll look at the pre snap stuff That's in our control Also whistle blows. We had to look at it. See, you know, those are subjective calls. Maybe they're not I haven't seen them Those are kind of the penalties of aggression that we got to be Look at but the stuff we can control present that's a hundred percent on us and that's an excuse I mean if you got bad technique and obvious holes, I mean, that's that's bad football and we get to clean that up So I got to see those either way doesn't matter. Like didn't matter at the time. They called them You know, like I said, if we can carry over what we did last year We weren't penalized. I think we released in the league. We got to continue to Coach that and then and play the right technique He shows up when lights are on Just like it did Alabama. So Continue to find a way it finds the football so it's a good football player and we're gonna continue to work on some other things and But it's it's a good pattern to have two weeks in a row Going to get in the ball there. It's all team all three phases. That's how we want to play So it's good to see you to carry over You know the way we run the ball way we With the ball in our hands and in the passing game That's what we want to do and fork down on special teams. So that's why we want to play what side? Yeah, that's what I said. Oh Yeah, I thought he put gave him a chance at the end, you know, and you get in there and you know I'm still not playing for ties, but it's good to see cool You know, you that's the good thing about these precinct games There's a lot of situations when these young guys we can coach off of that Happen every week every Sunday in the NFL and it's good to find a pressure situation and Obviously one of the touchdown there But it's good to put cool out there and make them kick preseason forum kick a pressure kick But I thought Logan operated well on the two-minute drive Yeah, for all those guys peace on all those rookies, you know the second year guys It's good for Kyle to get back out there You know and play in a while. It's good to get him going good to get tackled again, you know feel the speed of the game So, you know, that's if you use the preseason right, that's what it's for to ramp up and and everybody needs it. All right.  Yeah, I definitely wouldn't say that first drive was efficient at all Especially when you're going, you know up 10 back 5 up 10 back 5 That's probably not the quickest way to the end zone And so, you know for us, it's just about cleaning that up Just about coming in next week coming in more locked in than we were and being able to clean it up and get better Yeah, yeah, obviously Bijon, you know, he showed up he showed up a couple times there Obviously handed it to him, you know, we got that one right there That probably would have been a touchdown for they called the challenge on it But you know, he was back there. He said he felt comfortable Just felt you know, he's out there doing what he does just get the ball in his hands and just let him go Yeah, you know in this game Yeah, in this game, you know, it's all about controlling what you can control There, you know, I thought it was man coverage and that was the route that we wanted to work a little whip route on it You know, once I let the ball go, you know, then it was out of my hands Obviously, you know the ref didn't make the call and you know, that's something we've got to live with Like I said, you know the the penalties, you know in that drive You know, we probably shouldn't have got to that situation Probably should already had the the points on the board and sitting on the bench So for us, you know, I think there's a lot of things that we can go back and clean up on that first drive It's where that you know result doesn't happen Yeah, I mean, honestly, we just got to lock in, you know, there's nothing else to it You know, whether it's communication whether it's pre snap whether it's cadence on me on the Ola on all waters It doesn't matter, you know, all 11 guys have to be locked in when we go out there to play I mean, you know, that's something we got to do better.  Yeah, I feel like, you know Whether it's me or anyone else that has the ball in their hands If you get outside the pocket it puts pressure on the defense It makes the defense have to you know, either think pass or run from the quarterback position So they might come up on me and think it's run think I'm running in then dump it off to receiver or you know They think I'm passing and drop all the way back and I take off running So, you know, that's that's something that's just been God given to me just to be able to get out and use my legs And you know, that's something that obviously, you know, I've always worked on And now it's just about keeping your eyes up downfield just seeing what the plays there to be made. Thank you


coach welcome back to the channel if you haven't yet make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with all the latest content that we are currently putting out pretty much every single 24 hours or up to 48 hours we're putting out content to help you with your sports training coaching business okay so make sure you subscribe don't stay stuck with your business now if you want to get in contact with me personally then there's two ways to do that the first one is you can book a free 15 to 20 minute one-on-one call right if you go to the description of this video you will find my cabinet link there book a call with me click on the link you can book a free free 15 to 20 minute call now if you don't want to do that and you want to send me some business questions then you can do that as well send it to my email which is make money coaching sports at gmail.com I make a mission every single day to answer all the coaches who reach out to me so today I want to talk about the three biggest money mistakes coaches are currently making with their training business so I speak to coaches on a regular basis I also work with coaches with their business right I myself have a coaching business as well and these are a couple of mistakes that I made at the beginning as well and these are mistakes that I see coaches in this industry make every single day with their business as well okay so what I want you to do is get a pen and paper make sure you make some notes because I can guarantee you that this will help you all right and you will get value out of this video if you pay attention and you make notes and take into take in everything that I'm about to share with you okay so the first one is coaches are currently saving money they're not storing money to invest right now saving and storing are two different things in my in my opinion okay and I'm gonna explain the benefits and the advantages of and the disadvantages of both right so if you have a training business and you're simply your business is doing really well okay say you're making five to ten K per month right and you're saving that money okay obviously as a business owner you need to sell you save money because at the end of the day you need to pay your taxes so saving money is good but what I notice a lot of coaches are doing is they're just saving money for the purpose of saving money because they don't want to spend or invest into their business again now the problem with saving money and this is something that I spoke to a coach very recently but if you save money and you're not spending it ultimately that money is going to devalue in your account okay and that's gonna it's going to devalue due to inflation right so I'll give you an example say for example you have a 10k saved up in your in your bank account business bank account right you haven't touched it you haven't invested into your business it's just sitting there over time you know with inflation that prices are gonna go up and that 10k in a year's time will be worthless because you haven't invested that money right so that that 10k ultimately depending on which country which location you're at ultimately that that 10k will be worth either 8 or 7k in 12 months right and that's pretty much due to inflation because you're losing money by saving money now storing money is a little bit different right and what I like to do with my business and what I encourage coaches to do I encourage coaches to store money so that they're storing ready to invest okay so to picture it like this you're going to a grocery store right and you're you're buying food right and essentially you're storing that food for then later on you're going to eat it right you're gonna consume it so you got to see your business the same way right you're storing money to pay off your taxes to pay off your expenses and then what we're gonna do with that what that remaining money how can we invest it back into the business so that it creates recurring revenue for us right so recurring revenue might be you invest that into a mentor so that you can learn new skills you buy equipment right equipment such as well coaching equipment it could be balls it could be cons it could be goals right something that you're going to need in the future when your when your clientele essentially grows and you get more numbers okay maybe you want to invest it into a business vehicle so that you can get from one one location to the other and take your equipment with you that's essentially an investment if it's for business purposes okay or you might want to purchase a books and education right investing to courses learning how learning about sales learning about marketing okay so essentially all these all these things also you can invest into at paid ads right so this could be Facebook ads this could be YouTube ads right so all of this is is essentially be your say you're storing money to then further down the line invest it back into your business so that that investment can then pay you back right so there is a difference with a saving and storing essentially the coach that is saving for the purpose of just saving money so it's just sitting there ultimately is going to lose out because essentially that money is going to devalue over a period of time due to inflation and essentially that 10k you have now is going to be worth less in 12 months so essentially you've lost you know if you've got 10k sitting in your bank account you're not investing it back into your business or you're not doing anything with it in 12 months time that 10k could be worth 8k right and essentially just by having it in your bank account it's already lost 2k okay so what we want to do is we want to store money so that we can pay off our taxes pay off any expenses that we need to pay off that have to be paid and then how can we we invest that money stored back into the business so it so it generates extra revenue and income for the business right the second mistake I'm seeing with a lot of coaches is essentially what coaches are doing they're spending their money on non-business items right so essentially be items that aren't tax deductible okay so what I mean by tax deductible is essentially what there is is when you have a business and you do your taxes you can write off certain purchases that you make throughout the year that are for per for business use okay so for example as I mentioned if you do paid advertising right that's a business expense if you buy a company vehicle right and it's just used for company purposes then that's that's a business expense and any books any equipment right any mentors any coaching programs that you buy all of those things right essentially can be written off against your profits okay so essentially when it gets to when it gets to that time of the year when we do our taxes we're gonna pay less due to those expenses so something I'm seeing with a lot of coaches however is they aren't spending there or investing them their business money into items or into products into into services that can then be tax deductible right a lot of them a lot of coaches are splashing money on expensive meals okay they're splashing money on on cars on houses things that things that aren't business related and things that aren't going to help their business to grow okay I've seen coaches spend loads of money on new watches new jewelry and vacations expensive items right all of these things aren't business related and essentially if they aren't business related we can't write them off okay so what's gonna happen when it comes to paying your taxes you're gonna have less money to pay your taxes and your tax bill will get higher due to the fact that you're not you're not spending money and you're not reinvesting those profits into a business related services and products okay so one way coaches are using money incorrectly right is that they splashing their money out on items which have no business purpose and it isn't generating new revenue and new income into their business right now the third one is this essentially they spend money okay that the third mistake I'm seeing is what coaches are doing is they're spending money at the beginning on things that aren't really necessary right so what I see is a lot of startup coaches when they're first starting up their business they're spending a lot of money on websites they're spending a lot of money on creating a logo okay they're spending a lot of money on on things on branding and buying new training gear spending money on on expensive equipment right now all of those things go back to my second point which they are tax deductible in the long term but when we're starting up all we need to be focused on is sales right all we need to be focused on is how can we get in front of people who are but can buy our services and who are a good fit for our program so I remember when I first started my business the first thing I did is I learned sales I learned how to sell I learned how to market I learned how to promote myself and I didn't even have a website at that time all I was using was I created a business Facebook page and essentially I was driving all the traffic to that page okay because at the beginning all I needed to do is I needed to get in front of parents and families tell them what who I was tell them what I was doing and how I could help their child once they saw value in me once they saw that I provided something that they were looking for I was solving a problem then they started to invest money into my training okay and essentially my business and then once I started to create that that revenue that income then I spent money on a website I spent money on business cards then I spent money on on branding hey but at the beginning all it was was focus on sales hey how can I sell myself to parents how can I promote myself to parents and then I had a Facebook page which I was driving all the traffic to there okay but essentially what I wanted to do at the beginning I wanted to get in front of parents tell parents who I was what I was doing and essentially get myself known to my audience once I did that then the money started coming in and then I had to then become smart with how I spent that money okay but at the beginning what I see a lot of trainers do is they think it's necessary to have a cool website a cool logo right all these business cards all these leaflets these flyers essentially all that is money which at the beginning you shouldn't be spending all you should be doing is investing in the basics which is making sure your business set up correctly so finding an expert to set up your business right getting business insurance which is important because once you start working with with clients even even if it's free you need to have insurance okay and then the third thing is is sales by investing your investing in learning and education once you've got those free things in place which essentially don't cost a lot of money then you start to build confidence and then you start to get in front appearance they start to invest into you then we can think about the next step which is right now I need to buy better equipment now I need to maybe hire out a facility now I need to you know spend money on a better website now I need to spend money on a better logo right on my branding my marketing but at the beginning right we want to keep it simple and this is where I see a lot of coaches that they end up struggling because they throw a lot of money into things that aren't necessary at the start and then it hurts them in the short term when they're struggling to get clients okay because at the beginning it's hard right it's hard it's tedious you have to you know you have to sell sell sell sell and it can be uncomfortable as well okay so if you need more help with this again getting content with me I'm here to help so the two ways you can do that first get a book of free 15 to 20 minute call me visit the link in the description you can book a call there or second why you send me a question to my email at makemoneycoachingsports.com at gmail.com thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next one


Officials in Russia said on April 3 they had arrested a woman suspected of involvement in an explosion at a St. Petersburg cafe that killed a prominent military blogger on Sunday as nationalist politicians and commentators accused Ukraine of the crime and called for retribution. Maxim Fomin, a well-known Russian military blogger and cheerleader for Russia's actions in Ukraine who called himself Vladlan Tatarskiy, was killed on Sunday in what appeared to be the second assassination on Russian soil of a figure closely associated with the conflict. Human investigators said they had arrested 26-year-old Daria Trapova, whom they said was suspected of bringing the explosives into the St. Petersburg cafe. In a video published by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Trapova says she had been detained for being at the place where Vladlan Tatarskiy was killed. According to the suspicion of involvement in the explosion at the St. Petersburg cafe, the investigators of the investigation committee of Russia, together with the operative services, were detained by Daria Trapova. The investigation activities required for her are set up as a motive for the crime. The investigation will solve the issue of the arrest of Trapova.


It's beautiful. Breath. Yes, we'll do at least two episodes. At least two breaths. How many have seen? Yep?ials I actually did something weird. Rick, and this is Also on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube content and all too many movies Also in person, YouTube channel is in the description below. Today, we're actually doing a video, sitting on your stuff. This is called How India Got Its Name. Ah, Hindustan. Yes. And many other names. I think Bharath, right? That's one of them. Yeah, Bharath is one of them names. It has a lot of names. And once again, I didn't make this video. How's the Josh? How's the Josh? You're supposed to scream hi, sir. How's the Josh? Hi, sir! There you go. If any of the information in this video is incorrect, I'll end the video. I'm not me. Yeah, it's not our fault when the information on the video is bad, because we don't see this going in, guys. Yeah, we would just recommend it if it was on Rohan. Yeah. Oh, my mom. Here we go. Do you know how it got its name? Never. Ah. This is in human history. For millennia, it has been a credo for human civilization and culture. Today, the subcontinent hosts over 1.7 billion people, which is more than all of Europe, North America, and South America. All within the confines of only five countries, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. The largest by far is the country of India, with a population of over 1.3 billion people alone, while Pakistan has a population of over 210 million. And Bangladesh isn't far behind with over 160 million inhabitants. Because this land has had such a rich and extended history, it's also had a number of different names given to it by the people living here. But if we look at names used for the land by outsiders, we can see that all of these names have something in common. Generally, almost every single one of these begins either with a hymn or hymn sound, and either hymns or at least features a do-or-tya sound. If you put these two aspects together, one combination is India, the name the English-speaking world knows. But maybe more interestingly, if you put the other factors together, you'll get Hindu, which many might know as another name used to describe India. This not only reveals that these two words are related, but in fact have the same origins and mean virtually the same thing. Take Hindu-Stan, for example. The name given to India by the Muslim Mughal conquerors in the 11th century. By selecting this name, we get Hindu and Sam. Sam is the same as this name in the end up. What's up, Sam? Muslim influenced countries end with Sam. So then the Hindu-Stan basically means land of the Hindu. Looking at India, we can do the same thing. Ind and Ia. Ia is also just a common ending in Latin to mean land up. And that's why so many places end with Ia as well. So India basically means the land which we come to, which we just saw, means Hindu. The modern Chinese name for India is even more simple, Yindu, which, yeah, just derives from Hindu. I can keep going, but basically what I'm getting at is India's name is just the land of the Hindu in essentially every language from outside the subcontinent. So then who are the Hindu? Well, the Hindus weren't really a unified people group. There was never a Hindu empire or anything. Of course, there were empires consisting of Hindus, but that's never really how they were identified. More so, being Hindu was a designation for where these people lived. The original name Hindu was applied to those who lived along the northern part of what they called the Siddhu River. Yeah, it's a people group and a belief system. This river was not only the starting point for the rest of Indian civilization to spring from, but it was also necessary to cross to enter the rest of India from the west. So when the Achaemenid Empire came to control these lands from the west, they used the name of this important river to refer to the entire land and the people who lived here. And in their language, the Sindhu River became the Hindu River. And on the other side of the empire were the neighboring Greeks, and to them, Hindu turned into Hindus. And finally, this was passed to the Romans who turned it into Indus. And that's what the English-speaking world knows the river as today. So if this was the Indus River to the Romans, then the land around it became the land of the Indus, India. Okay, so India came from Indus, which came from Hindu, which came from Sindhu, the original name for this river. But then where did Sindhu come from? Well, Sindhu is originally a... I feel like I'm in school. I need to take a note. I'm one of the people who settled here. And in Sanskrit, Sindhu was used to describe any large body of water. And I guess that technically means India and all other forms of it mean the land of water, which doesn't really make any sense if there's a lot of water, then if it's not land, it's water. But yeah, that's how India got its name. Well, let's... Surrounded by water. Hinduism didn't arise until months later with perhaps its first usage in 14th century Persian texts. Hindu, we already know, but Islam in English represents ideas, philosophies, and theories. It came to English via the French Kismé, which came from the Latin Kismas, which of course got its beginnings from the Greek Kismos. Yeah, of course, of course. So we have to describe the unique ideas, philosophies, and theories of the Hindu people. It became Hinduism, the ideas of the Hindu. And that's how their religion got its name. An important aspect of Hinduism is karma, which essentially is the belief that the actions someone takes now influence how they fare in the future, with good deeds generating good results in return and bad deeds creating more misfortune down the road. A good example of this karma is my Patreon. I owe the man which in turn resulted you. Seamless. Oh, wow. Seamless. Wow. That was a good integration. I'm not even mad. That was a good integration. Thank you to those who helped keep this operation going. I hope we do this again. That was a very Corbin-esque thing to do. That was... Very Corbin-esque. I was like, oh! This is so interesting! And then he go... Bam, Patreon! That was slick. Ah. That seemed like a good video. I mean it seemed like it was smart So you guys could tell us if it was actually correct. Yeah, it seemed like it was but once again, we're dumb Well, what I know exactly never been there. She's dumb. You will love You were freaking love India. Yeah, you you will love India. You'll love all parts of India Even parts we haven't been to we've only been to leave in the five parts. Yeah Yeah, you will I know you Yes, the only place that Corbin hasn't been that I've been is is coconut Yeah Is it by driving flying? They're on opposite coasts. Yeah, how far is there as far as New York is from LA? Well, not a mile. Why is it only three hours? It's East it's East and West coast So Mumbai would be like LA and Calcutta would be New York, but it's half the distance It's like 1700 miles. I think it's about three hour flight. It is it's like it's it's as far Mumbai is the Calcutta what we are to like Dallas Yeah But they're the farthest coasts, but actually India is actually as long as Canada is to the bottom of Mexico Yeah, the top of Canada to the bottom of Mexico is how long they are, but they're not as wide as we are The the thing and I hope you'll I hope you'll see the video of it at some point is the extraordinary diversity in culture and Biodiversity and geography it is the most extraordinarily diverse place Most people Americans especially think of India and they get stereotypes in their mind They get like people piled on trains cows walking in the streets and dusty dirty roads That's the stereotype. It's Absolutely the opposite of all that Water when you were there Calcutta's on the water and Mumbai is on the water pretty yeah, but there's some other places Down in the south like Goa and northeast up in Assam you will It's very wet like somebody we know You


This is the first pack south ever Gray box I never heard a gray box before I've also never heard a gray box. Do they make Dreadnought customize your power. Oh, we saw them at X prime. They had the Capital ships that was all slow right somewhat interesting Now they've got some other RTS and that I don't think the first other ones even out yet They're doing some sort of slow Commentation there's not much going on here. Yeah, they're letting people play and then commentating their games All right Exciting twitch boots twitch once again has the boot that we wish we had I Could really use a space like that So they're advertising twitch. Yep. Look at all those lights one two three four five panels They're playing hardstone Packed south live powered by twitch. I wonder if they're gonna put all those like YouTube people over there Do things it's a pretty amazing Boots they have there in terms of a TV studio But look they've got two areas They've got the we are going to commentate on the game and then they've got the we are all being interviewed pre-enforce game I sure they do Not that it's not that gigantic Not really that gigantic. Oh logitech also sponsored their booth sort of gigantic ish You want to sign up to be in the alpha alpha sign ups People are lining up to play alphas of gigantic games.  Here's the game It's a game. Let's see if we can find anyone playing in front of the other side right over here Oh, this team is waiting up for another team to form. Yeah Let's see what this game is like. Oh their house Orion I Don't even know what kind of game this is about to find out maybe it's a MOBA It's five on five that background looks like a like classic adventure game background Like your character is gonna walk and get a 3d scale along that bridge It's like a Rana's garden in quest for glory It's probably a MOBA what a little game is five on five I think this Counter-strike. I think we need her five on five games that aren't MOBA's counter-strike.  All right. Oh, no, it's third person. Well, he's Character selection. Oh, I like that robot guy. All right, I'll twitchy.  It looks like there's multiple loadouts per character. Oh This guy's the community coach. He's explaining to everyone like what's going on Okay, they got one ringer on each team That's actually a good idea for a game like this. Yeah So they got this one guy He's definitely he's an employee of gigantic right and then they have these other players Let's watch this dude play There's a surprisingly long line to play this game, but it seems like it just takes him forever to get the game going Apparently it's really complicated like a MOBA or something. So you need a You know, you can't just start it up. No without any hassle, which is why there's a big long line All right, I saw a bunch of stuff over there about AoEs and it's definitely some sort of just straight up MOBA What else would be five on five I'm telling you The problem with new MOBAs is that if you invest in getting good at them and then the game does not become really popular You just waste it all that time. That's true with any big multiplayer game that you invest in But what was the speed running is kind of awesome, right because people oh, it's a third-person MOBA. Yeah It's pretty fast actually. I don't know how much skill is in it, but it looks fast Well, the other thing I don't see is farming. Look, it's area control. Maybe maybe oh Someone in creatures. Maybe you can control the mobs like we always said you should be able to that's a good idea Maybe this is worth it. It's gonna be free to play right probably every MOBA is free to play right So you can at least try it out.   Yeah, but it looks like it looks like the fighting is deep Yes, not like Bayonetta or something. No, it looks like it's just DPS not dark souls kind of fighting This is where the warcraft. I'm doing my attack attack attack Yeah There's guns though All right. We had enough. I think so. We spent a lot of time on that game What is tiny build? What else is going on here?  Oh, you like to stand on the carpet. It feels really good. Oh, yeah Much more comfortable than the concrete floor Carpets if you have a booth get a carpet Fearless fantasy.  Let's check it out here. Come play it I'm gonna play this game. I've never played it Leon and Alice. I bought a hot potato dog Rainbow Berry Roses Revive grenade casual It's a term based RPG With rhythm game stuff going on, but I mean Mario RPG had that But it's just that I'm not determining what to do now. I am okay So I was doing that on the defense. I'll use shield of courage You were perfect on the first try. Of course.  What's going on? I was doing fine. Maybe you do both at the same time or something But they appear at different times Maybe I got to do some different kind of motion. Yeah Multi-shot.   Yeah, you want to play this game? No So I think Clev is selling hardware, but look at this booth. Look at that ridiculous PC with this liquid cooling It was ridiculous booth Clev All right three-way monitor This is big like Apple looking booth But that computer is not Apple looking It's definitely it's just look at that look at that ramstick on display Well, it's that thing they sell the ramsticks. That's their product They sell they sell ram Clev ramsticks. Oh my god. They're just ramsticks Why would this ramstick? Oh, here's the Clev guy. I'll talk to the Clev guy. All right. Here we go That game has an amazing name. I see something amazing over here Star Mazer, how can this be bad? It looks a lot like our type. Here we go There's a plot that guys are guy. There we go Looks more like Gradius. That's Gradius not our type But it's also got an adventure mode.  You want it You really want it?  It's better than the papercraft Naruto I'm gonna put it in your bag. I gotta roll it up. It's thick paper.  That's fine. Who cares? This is a piece of paper. It's like paper Naruto. Oh, it's way bigger than I thought Yeah, suddenly there's problems suddenly. This isn't such a great idea It's in we're good. It's joust the greatest game Game of champions joust Is there a terrible pterodactyl That's close enough I wish you come back and play this it's just joust. Yeah, I like joust The guild This reminds me of kingdom of loathing, but better art. It is the guild of Dungeon year Oh, look, you're like dragon cards like a Cardi game you drag cards to make the dungeon and you put monsters in it So you make a dungeon you're not Exploring the dungeon is making the dungeon. Oh a lot like those D&D tabletop games like Ravenloft and the other where you put a tile down every time It's that model only single-player video game That's not bad, and I think it's versus I could play that That's not bad at all That is not bad at all. I just got some cute stuff going on Look at that little goblin. Look at that Cyclops that dungeon. It keeps expanding Elite dangerous 400 billion star Danger freedom blaze your own trail. There's a line Let's go see what the game is Supposedly I can blaze my own trail with infinite freedom Let's see people blaze their own trails with their infinite freedom joysticks rim joysticks throttles Throttles and sticks all the joysticks. Uh-oh. It's that good joystick. Uh-oh Uh-oh, oh look at that screen there. I'm waiting for this screen to start up. I want to see a fresh screen Uh-oh, oh no right in the wallet right in the wallet room Oh, I just bought a shitty joystick for TIE fighter. I might have to buy a good joystick Pay attention to rookie the simulation involves ship-to-ship combat Elite and dangerous the line is worthy. How did I not notice this was on the horizon? Here it goes. Oh my god. Oh Oh Look at that free space flight with modern computing is actual debris. It's asteroid field I like how the cockpit moves to make it feel more motiony Yeah, like you're in the cockpit moving around right your body is moving around in the cockpit With it to go gives you a visual indicator of your sort of like momentum That guy it feels like he's moving fast, but the enemy seems like he's moving slow I don't know. I mean sometimes you're fighting a Y-Wing. Yeah, that's true. That's true Only not worthy of further investigation if only this is Star Wars. Yeah Your only fault is that you are not Star Wars We should make this take this engine. I know a game we should make with it tie fighter sinister Oh Run coward you can just see it on the horizon. Oh my god.  This is moonrise It has a big line also This looks like one of those cute art games. I don't know what kind of game it is though Let's see what we can see.  Here's the trailer that looks much more impressive than people failing to play Command magical animals to fight each other like Pokemon in a cock fight. All right life is futile This looks futile Yeah, get it. Get it life is futile and here's some futile people. They are futile All right, just monitor over there. Let us examine the food. Lee. Here's some more futile folks. I see Look how futile they are They are so futile. All right All right, build a little town, I guess. Oh, you are a feudal lord, I guess and you are building a little defensible feudal place That town's been built using only game mechanics Actrazer only the good part Can it be? The good part of Actrazer No, it's gonna be one of those military games like military formation fighting. No No, you ruined it. You should have just had town building Why did you put another part in? That wasn't any good. No target physics-based combat So fail No, look at this loot system. Oh my god. We've seen enough. Oh My god, we've seen enough. All right. You want to go you want to go pull literally everything off of a corpse for like ten minutes There's two games going on here black ice and earth tongue So that's black ice I think which looks Kind of cool. Is that multiplayer FPS? I'm always leery though If any first-person game that has melee if the melee is in any way emphasize and then this is the Something else. This is a different game. It's fast. I'll give it that Whack. Whoa. He just died in one shot.  It's a 2d RTS. Yeah, we see those a lot. It's not it's not a new genre Okay, this needs is worthy of investigation just because the title. Yeah, you're looking at brawl. Hala. I am looking at brawl. Hala What's that bomber man looking bomb? He's got up there. All right, so this is Brawl, Hala Bunch of dudes. Let us brawl. What's your character selection? Let's watch Sailor Moon Brawl here. Will they ascend? Will they ascend to brawl, Hala?  We're gonna find out real soon. All right, you got a throw dodge Quick pick heavy jump taunt This looks like it's gonna be smash. I Think it is smash bros style three two one brawl. Hala Hala for the brawl It's smash. It's smash bros For the PC. It's probably not as good as smash bros. Yep So far we've seen off-brand Pokemon and off-brand smash nice booth though brawl Do you know how useful that would have been back at our IT that ship? Do you need dungeon maps? There was a time in my life when I needed a dungeon map for a boat They are arc night arc night Arc night sells Dungeon maps for your dungeon This is called nice squad It looks like versus gauntlet It does look a bit like a versus gauntlet But maybe it plays more like a power stone because it's fast without the 3d action part and instead just 2d action Is there a bomber man aspect to this I think also well they can looks like they've destroyed a bunch of the walls along the way It's just like one of those party games that'll be good for a short while, but I don't know how long it'll hold up Yeah, this would last one New Year's party. Yeah, not even maybe like one part of a New Year's party Well, look at this booth and it's high production values. Oh, yeah, that's the this is a Vlambeer who is yeah? Ridiculous fishing slash Best run win a TV ridiculous fishing love trousers. Oh, you know, they totally bought TVs for the show And they don't want to bring them back. So they're just gonna give away their two TVs Are they giving away the TVs when a TV to they're giving away two TVs? They currently have two TVs I'm confident if you win this contest you win either that TV or that TV so this is the new game from those who brought you ridiculous fishing and Love trousers and whatnot this game looks all right Something happened with his booth. We didn't have one as of noon yesterday. Oh, so we had to make the ghetto booth in a hurry Wake up didn't show up, huh? So he goes and he's talking to the packs guys and he's just like yo, you've got an empty booth and that looks bad Well, yeah, we don't know what to do about it. He goes I do oh There you go by buys a couple TVs and close this up. Oh my god, that explains the win a TV It's incredible Peter sir What's going on here? They're beer sir king Okay, this has got more like action It's dodge and strike third person Here he comes it gets opening in it. It's like a bullfight with beer zerkers Or is that like the team for just two door that opens and lets you out? I think it's one on one Like Jedi Knight to Yeah, it seems like Jedi Knight to only crazier Faster I was running away and throwing projectile strategy. It's the rim strategy the rim strategy is often a very good strategy I'm losing interest. Yeah I'm done beer zerking Funimation booze Always seems kind of weird to have like a funimation in the expo haul like expo haul Seems to have usually traditionally been like show off games and not shot not not vending.  Yeah ghostbusters. That is that is They're just playing cards that is nerd cash in thing like one rim. It's it's video In a dark future and I just Video ball was one of the better things we saw at Prime this game just gave me such this like old Atari combat But not broken all the sucked at it big time. Yeah, cuz I sat down with three veterans and me And what was commentation was something like he must have been dropped on his head by his parents as a child This is the worst player in video all history. He is in fact scored a hat-trick of own goals Oh We're done with the amazing radio ball Guns sport. Oh, this is volleyball with guns What is this publisher? It is iron galaxy? You know, it's just like it that shoots me out thing This is the season the renaissance of direct competition simple games volleyball with guns How could you not buy this and also video ball? You know what this is gonna be? This is gonna be the next wind jammers Are they making these because wind jammers? I? Don't know what spawned this renaissance, but I'm not going to complain Sorry, knit hog Guns sport and video ball exist. Yeah Knit hog came too soon to this earth. Oh a spooky ghost.   All right, so here we go. This is Texas twist poker poker 3d poker Rim you give it a shot. You give it a shot. Yeah. All right. So what's the deal? I think you can get a flush. It's like you're surrounded by clubs basically look. There's a flush right there go back left Rim go down a twist might take it away Look, you can see the flush just go down down right every time you move then something moves a twist. Oh Damn it. There's a flush right there though. Yeah, I think if you move you can probably get it I'm gonna take one of them. Take the queen. It's higher. Yeah, the queen attire. Take the queen. See what happens see what happens Okay, can you go for another club? Yeah, I can Seven I'm doing it. Yeah, go. No go down It's gonna twist me and I can go down into the ace anyway. See But if I go for the ace, no, there's a two there Yeah, that's the ace. I gotta hold for a twist though. It's all right. You're good. I'll need one good twister It's not gonna work out That's good. Yeah, so like I only got one Trouble after yeah, like I said Scott if I don't get it. I need a good twist So I got a house. We got a tie We got garbage Chessics booth here. You want to buy some old NES games like what Robo cop 250 bucks for my go on x2 I Have mega medics to on the GameCube on like a re-release disc I don't think I need to pay a hundred and fifty dollars I have Robo cop and I have the box. Do you have any instruction manual with a piece of plastic around it? We threw away the instruction manual, but I might have the box magic of shares on yeah, that game was awful But also amazing. Yeah, you played a whole nother game of shares odd and then Haha Retro stuff well, can I really sell my final fantasy 3 without his box for 80 bucks? I've got one Do you need the 80 bucks? Do I need it more than I need a piece of plastic and you can just emulate Fancy 3 if you need to what I'm looking for are games that I forgot about that. I want to play Right that I can just emulate when I go home You always knew if someone had this cartridge that also had track and field. Yep They got the power pad right they got the power pad set. You knew where is it? Where is it? There it is. You know someone had this cartridge But the track and field dot-con and Mario they got their NES way later than everyone else. Yep All right, so check out this people have been talking about this a lot. I actually know about this Yeah, Luke rates. Have you seen this?    They're in every goddamn store. They're all over the place There's millions of them right and people are not buying them as fast as they're making them though They are popular. They're not I think they're printing more than there are yeah You can basically sell off your merchandise that you don't want that's not selling your excess inventory And dilute crate and these people subscribe to loot crate and they're like yay And you know what you're just dumping your excess inventory You're paying to not have to stand in line and expo halls to get free stuff, right? It's like oh, I've made too many of these I Don't know walking dead figure. No look what's interesting cuz I've made too many golem mecha scalars Oh, no one's buying these things. I know I'll sell them to loot crate for a super discount I'll get him out of my warehouse Japanese anime style thing going on here There's walking dead and Game of Thrones little figures in mystery packs now in the US Yeah, well, these are things are in every comic book store.  No, I'm fine. It's good. Let's watch someone rumble All right side scrollie shooty little cotton.  I think well, it's rust bucket rumble. I don't know is it like contra in some way Oh, look, yeah, look, he's only got two you need two more things to finish his giant robot Once he read get his robot. Yeah, we got to see what the robot looks like if that's the highlight of the game It's coming soon. Oh, yeah, it only needs the head. It's basically like versus sinistar. Yeah If you think about it just everyone's workers and you both have sinistars that you're working on We should just make versus sinistar. We flyer. We should make single player sinistar that exist It's called sinistar Run coward 3d engine. Oh, okay. Sure. Well, we can have all those modes in like sinistar HD remix You can put all those modes in there I wonder what the license for sinistar would cost in almost nothing midway has it, right? Maybe we should just buy it and hold on to it. It's a midway license I don't know if they still exist or who owns them now I'll try to find out who has the current IP rights to sinistar. We're waiting for the giant robot Oh, is it happening? It's happening. Oh, there it is It's happening. It's happening. Oh, it went off-screen. No, it's going over to smash the base. Oh, the giant robot might not make it No He's just punching the base repeatedly and quickly. I think it's over blue. I think it's over Schools game over man game over So this is super fight. I know everything about this. Yeah, this is cards against humanity apples to apples except It's only you argue about who would we beat who in a fight? Oh So it's like I think you put out one I don't know the rules for sure But I think you put out a card that everyone plays a card about who would win in a fight and then the decider decides and That person is the person who wins that hand Shapes and beats Shapes and beats upgrading the booth just shapes and beats we go man. They upgraded the booth big time Let's go check it out. Do you want to shape or do you want to beat both? This is just shapes and beats shapes and beats Yeah, we played it at packs prime when you had a much tinier booth and now your booth is bigger Which makes me happy. Yep. You guys are doing good things for fans of this game feel the beats. Can you feel the beats? Can you see the shapes? Oh, good. God. Are you kidding me? How are you supposed to deal with that being good? There is like no tell on when those are coming Like you can see them like off the edge of the screen for like a second less than a second and They take up so much space Like you have to use the dash power to get out of that zone because it's so wide But you're just gonna hit another one Yeah, look everyone's dead How much practice would it take to be able to get through that? Should this be no megaton game? Maybe For a player.  Oh it looks like deja vu cross with the PVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Clouse are you a youtuber to make a man kind of What are they trying to sell game? Game was They're trying to sell I game ice. Oh yeah.  Well, it's not called sellers anymore It's just Katan. Oh, yeah, look play katon play katon because I guess the word settlers is scary some people call it settlers some people call it katon young people are gonna call it katon and old people are gonna call it settlers they have games at Mayfair okay this is oh it's we're Rosenberg oh patchwork over Rosenberg this is probably an okay game maybe oh his indie tabletop land didn't we just do our show about our indie tabletop socks all right well let's look at it so goblins breakfast card game oh they're raffling off that dragon with the sword goblins are gonna eat breakfast here there's food that goblins like to eat I wonder if we could review this game just by standing back and looking at the faces that people learning it looks like munchkin is yep let's look at there does anyone look like they're at a table a table that has a crowd or that people look like good things about that paperback game really modern mayhem conduct this is got some lovecraft it's got some good styling yeah lovecraft theme I don't think it's a lovecraft theme it looks like 18 19th century a cult investigators looks more like killed dr. lucky situation did you read that text all about the hermetic investigation into the whatever's no this is definitely some more is it more like the ship in that half-life mod the ship have her medic investigations epic resort build your resort luring heroes get so it's you make a resort but it's actually a dungeon okay a lot of card games look at these card games bring your own book it's a game where you use books huh that's interesting it's a tabletop game where a book is involved that is interesting actually that is actually really interesting all right step two open your book not gonna wait find text that matches the prompt dialogue in an action movie so you have to find like somewhere in the book that it says okay so there's gonna be bigger dad right but here's the thing here's I just realized this so in cards against humanity it runs out when you've seen all the cards need more cards here just change your book yeah just change your book and it did use the same prompt becomes good again yeah romance novels only dragon heat dragon heat the one problem about practice is the low quality of the people who attend I mean look at this these specimens here quiet sullen playing some tabletop game reminisce look at this year disrespecter show sucks for themselves for any arcade and for decent humanity