or event of the Hacker community, the infrastructure review, all the numbers, all the facts on how much love, labour, passion, tears, pain, energy and so on went into making this event even greater than the last one and even more awesome than anything I've seen before to be honest. So please give a very, very, very loud applause to the MSH 2022 infrastructure team. Many, many thanks for the warm-up louds, the three we helped us to forget the last ten days for build up and keeping the power running for all you have fun and have power.  Some stuff not arrived, some stuff was missing, some stuff was wrong and yes, we had a plenty of things to do. So first always, yeah, plants are always right, this is one of our plants, maybe it was working, then cables to short, things not here. So we have switched over lines and we measure lines, okay, we got some wrong resistance on it, we have to change to bigger cable. This just happened if you are in a field and this is different from last time. So we had a different set up this time, last time we have more generators mid in the field and we have planet first to use transformers from Leander, the local power company and they say, oh, we have built up a cloud computer center, we have no people to get you your transformer and we switch to use generators and we use the scouting infrastructure. This is built for scouts, so normally hook up some, I think some cookers, maybe a warm water heater, something like this and then we put on this network our power and put more cables on it, so we have about 150 cable length after the cabinet from the scouting. So we never do this again, so that's not the right idea. So we had some issue with current loop resistance on short circuit, so we had to do a lot of things about this. So then find some nice thing, like every time this is rental equipment or you see on the right side, this was a boat with a speed limiter with a CE block. Let's just make a picture of it, it's very nice. This is a second controller inside and inside you have more speed. Even this is rental stuff, all stuff is tested from the rental company, it's all tested, you can use it, it's fine, no, it's not. This was also nice, we collected, there was some pizza oven with some problems with the heating element, so get some error current to ground and put this nice thing in. First thing is the 300 milliamp RCD is not allowed, 32 amps are smaller connectors, have to be a 30 milliamp RCD, so I just put in a 300 milliamp and it's very nice in German called this klassische Nullung, the main incoming earth ground is about the right device you see, this is some protection diode about 50 volt, okay, as the voltage goes on the case from the enclosure goes over 50 volts, then this short circuit to ground is one time and now it's an open circuit. People, if you bring stuff that's working not properly, just give us a call, come to us, we will help, we always help the McLean burgers to fix their stuff and every event is normal, if you have a problem we can try to fix it for you, maybe we can try to get your parts for you, we will help you, if you have any problem with electrical equipment come to us, you're not the bad guys, we will help you get stuff running and get it safe for all, so don't do it, please, even some, we collect some 32 to 16 amps adapters and some other riot stuff, we just catch them and give them back, then also things, yes, we have very nice generators with, oh, a little bit smoke, so state what you get, some rental equipment, so this have to running a little time, or we have plans in the middle they see a nice cabinet from scouting, it says there are some 63 and 32 connectors inside and we open it and say, oh, nothing inside, maybe you should go connector, or nice connector, so insulation is cut on the cables or you use a knife, please, if you have need assistance, come to us, we help you, if you have any problem, we fix it for you, so we go out of stuff, we get a second rental company, maybe we get some stuff more, this is very helpful, we are running out on stuff on Monday and build up, so all was gone, and we get some nice cabinet, as you see on the right, with Belgian connectors, and so, oh, not all have this multi-plug with a hole inside, and we get this nice adapters, too, from a Draco, it's weird, but it's working, you have to switch over to CE, normally this shoku is not allowed, but you don't have the polarity with neutral and lifeline, but this one on a Belgian connector, you have this, you cannot plug in the wrong direction, and then go back to shoku, and it's working, the middle device that we found, and there's some measurement device on a 32 amp, with no extra fuse, then open lines, and then to shoku, people, don't do it, this is, don't do this fucking shit, buy a fuse box, put three fuse in it, and no guys, not this way, isolate tape, I don't know, isolated DC voltage on the outside, please don't do this shit, our people will go home, and very healthy state, and die people, nobody want to have this, and even as a child, we never can accuse it for ourselves. So, we are measurement every, every, every LCD on the field, we make it on CCC camp, and we make it on Congress, and we do it now here, and this was some discussion about this, have you do it, always be doing it, this was a lesson what you learned, you find always broken stuff, LCDs on the field, the test it is, is common on the, on the truck, is treasure, treasure around the field before they play, something get wrong, we test everything, we found broken devices, we replace them, and that's how all ours have the safe. Some hackers bring weird stuff, yes, we are a hacker camp, that is fine, so what the LCD have to be working for all we have in the safe state, that is really, really important to check this, we do it, this time we make it always, as help out people, and this is a nice thing to do. We found some weird things, this is about what you see on the, on the left corner, this is a short current what we have, the 65 amps on the sugar line, and the, the ticket breaker need a lot, a little amount of current to trip fast, if the loop intense goes too high, then the, the breaker will only trip on the terminal, and just take some time to trip, so maybe have a fire on it, this here have some mass loop intense on long lines, this we have to run sticker cables, and we can fix this one, this was, and the lowest end, what you can do, even on the rides RTC, we must, earth current, earth resistance on the generator or on the dyke, this is okay, but measurements of stuff will help us all, so then we come here and starting make power, oh, I will set on the generator, but the generator is not hooked up, okay, I go here and hook up the generator with the small cables on the ride, and we get some two errors, first one say warning over speed, okay, so the generator runs on 52.8 hertz, this is a lot, this is no problem for the most devices, except USB from the POC team is not, oh, this is not right, oh, let me switch to battery and then start, then this was this little switch, what you see is a resistance load, and the generator tries to regulate this against the resistance load, but you have to hook up external load, this switch was on, nobody knows this, but that was not the biggest issue what you have, the biggest issue was you have, was the generator here on the field, and E0 was not bonded between neutral and ground, we start the measurement on the boxes what we delivered out, and say, hey, we have a lot of resistance, we cannot, things, we had about 10 kilo ohms resistance, and the incoming network from Leander, from the power companies, the TT network, it has no bonding, it has a bonding in the transformer, but not a local bonding at the power houses here, then we talk to Agreco and they say, yes, you have to open the generator, we make some temporary fix with a coffee cup and a little bit water, and then you see we have to bond, this is the right picture, you see the wire with the green mark, this has to hook to the neutral position, that was the only generator that had it, we measure every generator, lesson learned, measure every stuff, don't trust anything, you don't know, somebody can rent this before some guys do something on the generator, everything, try to measure it, so we have fixed the problem, then we have a proper grounding and all the RCDs trip correctly, that's what we need, then we're starting to try get some monitoring, this was planned, same, we bring our power boxes, yes, some guy had this in near Frankfurt, oh, we have a truck, you can leave this, and then wow, the truck on 120% load, and we don't have them, so, and we had so much shit to build up to get the monitoring running like we do with some of the other events, so then we find this Aggreco, have a nice controller on it, most commercial big generators have a deep-sea controller on it, just rebranded with Aggreco, oh, this has a mode post and as a net port, so 8,000 years controller, and it's very nice, if you register at deep-sea, just make an account here, you can download the software, and you get a 200 page mode post documentation with every command that you need, oh, we try some first generator, oh, we have to set up, and then something happens, yes, the bus is short on an A0, like here, as far as talk running, other people are very happy about this, so, oh, power off, I love it, yes, this was a different style controller, we don't look exactly on it, and I think as far as the canvas, the generators talk aggressive with the canvas cables, just an XLR cable, so, and then we plug an other net port in, and the generator says, oh, no, just don't like it, switched off, to get all this load, and say, ooh, on the speed, and then just the motor gets turned off, the cousin had the load, and then was a complete power output, broken, the generator sends a postcard, it's very happy about this, they say, oh, that was rude, wrong port, it really turned me off, and it goes off, yes, you look at the backside, you see this nice computer logo on it, it says port A10, and the generator says, okay, just plug it, plug a network in, and that was our fault, then we get our connections, we pick our phone, knock was very helpful, the end result confirmation, we approach, okay, we have a contract with our phone, some cable issue in the E0 building, then our pizza box thing, patch graffana, and yes, we get some data, this is from E0, but only one generator, the second one is only modbus, so you need an interface, and you see exactly where the McLean burger starts cooking, and you see nice in the middle of the day, as they see the cooking phase, and then gets a little bit down, and then see when the dish was running, and this is only the half load, another one is the generator, you see current, see voltage, and another generator was on the sous afield, the small one on the camper, this do not lot of work there, mostly the lightning there, but you get current, you get voltage, you get your frequency, you get your temperature, and these controllers are really great, but you have to figure out which set up the generators have, they support a lot of different motors, and yes, we get this running, the next event we will do is we check out in the first how to communicate with the generators, you can complete a remote controller, you can see everything, you can do everything, and yes, we'll have full to get events running and see problems in the first, we had some problems under L01, some generator goes off, then try to sync, and the syncing does not work, so there was some power outage about this, yes, maybe a cracker have a little bit more quay of it, so if you have this remote access, you can see every configuration, you can change the configuration and see problems, it's very nice, so conclusion for our power this time, never, ever trust rented equipment, never, if the rental companies has tested, test it again, it's grounded, probably measure it, that schedule is for early delivery, so you have some time to react about this, if stuff not coming right, so, and rent least at most 30% of equipment, so the plants never work, oh, I need somewhere, oh, we need somewhere, oh, we need some power more, this will help our people, and use more as one rental company, so if you rent a company, rent some stuff, it's helpful you need more, if you only have some, yeah, can you a little, you can do it, and plan more time, for built up, troubleshooting, test time, you build up schedule, seven days is really hard for this big power, so maybe start three days earlier and it's help everything, Jen said, yes, we get a lot of data, next event, otherwise thought we have a good monitor on it, surely the fixed problem turn setups, complete remote control, this will be fine, some things about tear down, do not remove, please, don't do it, any of our connections, we will do it, there's some connection, you can't tear a problem on load, we will do it, not do it, please connect your stuff as early as possible, make take only your stuff, only, and don't connect others, we have to pay for every cable, it's not here, so when you laid, we have to tear down, we just disconnect your cables, and we let them sell, and please help us to get this event tear down, go to the heaven, be an angel, many, many thanks for all people to get to help us on this time here, to get this event running, it was very nice here, we had a lot of days, we say, oh, shit, I'll drive home in the end, it's very nice event, many, many thanks to all people to make this happen, thank you, thank you, thank you, if you're interested on the talk from the power monitor, last time the link is on the sheets, they will send you to the box, many thanks, next, I think now knock is coming, okay, have a nice, warm welcome for the knocked people, you get to us all the nice internet, what do you have, and I pass over to nicoduck, yes, I think we'll just pass on the microphone, give me a second to connect the laptop, oh, only one at the moment, yeah, what would be easier, yeah, hi, I'm Nico, this is Ayon, we are from the knock, we are doing the knock part of the infrastructure review, and there's also a second microphone, thanks, that makes it easier, test it, oh, testing, yeah, so we'll jump right in to the network we've built for you here, this is the global network topology of what we've built, this time we actually have two external locations where we have our edge routers for all the external connectivity, that is in the smart DC in Rotterdam and the Nikf in Amsterdam, so there we pick up all of our transit providers, internet exchanges, and from there on we are using 100 gigabit DWM waves to get here on to the site, the next slide will explain a little bit more about how we're actually getting that to the site, and then here in Zeewolde we have two data center, quote unquote data center locations, we call them E0 and L0, those are the concrete buildings you see, for example, yeah, like next to the knock, yeah, next to the knock tent, and then the that's the E0 and L0 is the building, that's sort of integrated into the Scouting's Aventura house, so there we have then those two routers also interconnected with 100 gigabit and from there on out we are downlinking towards the various data enclose we have on the site and the switches, and we have this time the opportunity to actually multi-home all the data enclose, so each data enclo has a two times 10 gig uplink and it's also redundant, so if one router would fail or if there's a fiber cut, the data enclo still has connectivity, so for the for the long haul uplink to actually get the link from here on site all the way to Amsterdam, we have a sort of complicated setup this time, because the the dark fiber prices were very high to go direct from here in Zeewolder to Amsterdam, so we have a yeah we have a two-part connection where we have a rented the dark fiber from Zeewolder to Almere, and from Almere we have a sponsored DWM connection from from surfnet which is the Dutch research network, and on this network we're using a technology which is called an alien wave, so we are essentially able to transmit a signal on a specific frequency which they then can which surfnet can plug into their network and they will transport it from Almere back to Amsterdam, and a nice thing about that is that the surfnet DWM network is quite large and they also have a backup path, so if they would have a fiber cut say from the direct path from Almere to Amsterdam, they have a backup path via Hilfersen, so that's quite nice. The yeah the dark fiber from here to Almere that is just yeah that's a single connection, so if somebody would put some yeah backhoe in the ground and the fiber would be gone, so luckily everything went well so far, and so yeah and with this we are yeah we're transmitting a 200 gigabit coherent DWM signal over this, and we're then using the 200 gigabit connection to break it out to 100 gigabit. Yeah lastly we also have a connection back to, we also have a connection back to Rotterdam that is also on 100 gig but those are a sponsored connection. Yeah so for all for the for the internet part of the uplink we are running our own AS again which is registered under event infra, we have a requested the temp assignment from RIPE, so we have a slash 17 of IPv4 space, and also we've loaned a slash 19 IPv4 prefix from the CCC. Well in terms of external connectivity we have quite a bunch of transit and peering connections so we have a few we have a few of them in Rotterdam and then we have a whole bunch of them in Amsterdam, and yeah so we have a few of those connections running on 100 gig and the others are running on 10 gigabits. This is just I would say a list of all the hardware that we deployed on site, we had the two main core routers in the two concrete building E0 and L0 which are donated or loaned by Juniper, we also had some more Juniper devices from the Juniper loan and besides that we had a whole bunch of Arista switches and Aruba Wi-Fi access points deployed all over the site in the data close, in the track tents, at the bar, at some villages to get a decent network coverage. All the optical stuff like all the optics are again loaned by flex optics which is always quite nice from them. We also had quite a lot of servers running on site to keep most of the data or all of the data needed to run it on site and not leak something out of the site. This is just some random pictures we took during the deployment. We had, you might have seen the knock tent which was quite huge which was also good to store all the stuff during deployment to do the assembling of the sticks you see for the data close. We had saw them funny mounted Wi-Fi access point which was upside down, this should not have been a bird feeder so we put it up the the right way again to stop water getting in. We did a brand new setup this time. The last time we used 10 gigabyte optics to connect all the data close and this time we thought oh we could do some CWDM magic so we had always four data close in a ring. We used 40 GLR four optics in the core router which have four different wavelengths so four different colors of light containing 10 gig each and we broke out one of these colors in each data close so I would say one data close was green the other was blue and then we got red and yellow of course not these colors but just to make it a bit easier and we connected them to both core routers so one data close had the east connection on one wavelength and the west connection on the other wavelengths so there was a lot less fiber to deploy for this setup which sped it up by quite a while since we had so many fiber already in the ground the scouting side has some connection between the concrete buildings E0 and L0 to the distribution cabinets you saw in the earlier talk where the power comes out they also have fiber connectivity in there and we heavily used them to have backbone connectivity on site. We had our own I would say branded CWDM maxes from tallgrass we had a sweatshop over there to assemble them ourselves to keep the cost a bit to a minimum and they even have the laser engraved fiber squirrel which is with us since camp 15. Of course there was some data close contamination again it happens nearly to all the events mostly during build up I have the feeling that it's mostly happening to data close near some tents which are being set up so I'm not totally sure if this is the right audience or if we should talk to the tent builders but in case you come around someone picking a data close during set build up of the next event please talk to them and make them stop contaminating them it's always fun to come in and replace them on the last notice but it would be a bit more relaxing if we didn't have to. Someone also thought that it would be funny to put temperproof seals on the decays it was kind of annoying but I'm also thinking about if this would help stop contamination during build up if we put the seals up on ourselves but since someone's taking the effort to pick a lock I'm not thinking that a temperproof seal would make any difference here maybe we'll give it a try maybe not we'll see we operated the three onsite data centers the biggest one was the E0 building right next to the knock tent behind the two generators we hosted equipment in there for basically all of the teams which wanted to have onsite equipment hosted this was the phone operation center the video team the radio team with the onsite Motorola coverage was there the fifth admin for stuff and of course our own systems like the DHCP server dns automation was running onsite as these concrete buildings have quite thin walls they became really hot during build up when we had over 40 degree or around 40 degrees outside the wall heated up to over 40 degrees and the ceiling too so we had to put three air conditioning units in there to keep it to a usable level which mostly shot the whole the hot air from the sun out the systems didn't do so much we also improved our net box setup again we've been using net box for our network automation since camp 19 we are expanding it constantly we have great folks in the knock team developing C3 CFG to generate all the routing and switching conflict from net box and this time we also used net box to have all the patched fiber in there last time we used some spreadsheet for documentation now it was in net box too we did the planning we even used our tools to calculate the fibers we needed so we have this inventory of long fibers and we knew which fibers we would need onsite and our tools helped calculating and picking the right fibers for the right job and then we fed this data back to net box we also used it again for device tracking ipam and all this stuff we probably had in our previous infrastructure reviews so finally some statistics from the network we've run here we have been able to push the uplink on the sort of receive side so what we receive onsite that went up to 50 gigabit that's somewhere yesterday evening and transmit was at the maximum of 14 gigabit we had around a peak of 2800 wi-fi clients on the network over the course of the five days we seen around 8500 unique clients and for some reason we've only seen about 1000 batches on the network so not quite sure if that is the right number but yeah and this time we had the 10 gigabit copper connections available too in every datanclow so what we've been able to collect in terms of data is that we've seen around 25 connections actually running on 10 gigabit copper so that's quite nice lastly there was also one onsite internet exchange which was run especially for the event which is the mch IXp yeah lastly so the running a network like this cannot be done without any sponsors so we have a quite long list of sponsors that are either sponsoring or loaning hardware or giving connectivity so that yeah I will go through the list but it's junipers which we use for the edge and core routers flex optics for all the transceivers tallgrass who helped with the all the muxes you have also seen i3d.net helped with co-location the dwm equipment and ip transit barbiel for the servers bit for all the utp cables all the blue utp cables you have seen onsite event infra helped with the access network so it's all the aristas and all the aruba access points our surfnet supplied to the alien wave between almera and amsterdam core backbone is ip transit provider entity as well analytics sponsored an internet exchange sport a2b and fusics and vopcom all sponsored ip transit connections and lastly i oh a cross connect in nick have for the mch internet exchange is sponsored by editab we also had some fun during the event you all know most of the knockwork is happening before and after the main event so we thought it would be fun to have some spliced fiber necklaces there it was a bit hard as i heard but it worked so yeah that's basically what we have thanks for attending the main network will stay up until tomorrow today we will only tear down the track tents but basic wifi coverage will stay until tomorrow something in the morning or midday thanks all hello so a quick couple of facts about the phones from the phone operation center this time brought to you by the entropia carl's who are westwood labs cars for midlong and some friends uh yeah what did we bring to this event we uh almost we have almost the same setup as on shard 2017 so we brought about 26 deck radio base stations have five fiber interconnected pbx's on the field which connect to all these deck antennas controlled by two redundant pbx controller vms with redundant ip connections and also we do have 20 something field phones distributed across the field which are manually operated some statistic so we do have many calls handled we have about 500 inbound as well as outbound calls to the public telephone network uh connectivity to that was sponsored from our friends at speak up which also sponsored dalin at dial out at char so we have a total of about 45 hours of telephony to the public network mostly to germany the netherlands australia italia and belgium yeah our deck network some statistics uh no numbers just pictures um you can see uh an overview of uh our char map with all the deployed base stations most of the traffic of course happened around the center of the area where the phone operation center and all the other ocs resides but also distributed across the field uh uh um coming to the availability we had no time for downtime this year almost we have like lost one antenna for about 10 minutes but the rest is just a nice green graph thank you very much also many thanks from our side go to all the angels who operated nearly 24 hours a day the switchport pbx to uh have all the field phones connected and provide the ability for everyone to listen to the beloved waiting song bonin in the orn yeah uh some tech facts so um one slight change towards char 2017 is that we have now a working auto registration feature for our decked phones so you don't need to come again anymore with your phones to the pock tent but just register them uh yourselves uh about 420 people have done that so uh thank you for saving our angels many many hours of manually registering decked phones because that was a lot of work at the last event um some uh uh novelty we also had this time was a bit of optical transformation because we're using the uh onsite fiber network which is mostly single mode fiber and uh we built some custom adapters to adapt multi-mode fibers which we have on our old telephony system to the single mode uh on the onsite so many things uh go to our friend fabian who helped designing and building these things also if you want to check it out you can go to uh github and to visit the project there if you want to build some sfp to sfp fiber adapters yourself regarding tear down the phone network will probably be gone by the end of today or the beginning of tomorrow so if you have any land decked headsets and chargers from us please return them to the pock tent as soon as you don't need them anymore preferably tomorrow noon at the latest so that we can pack everything up and uh and get off site as soon as everything is done thank you very much so um yeah we're a production house team mainly part of a couple of dutch people plus uh wok and uh these are our experiences of the last uh two and a half years uh we prepared the event by starting with a dutch c3 wok node in um in amsterdam together with uh event infra and the nok team um and then uh the logistics started to get all the hardware here because after the last three years we had a lot of hardware this uh all over germany and um we planned to do some conflict management changes because maintenance was needed so build up during build up we had a lot of fun because our logistic provider was once again quite unreliable um pick updates they apparently don't know what they are we haven't figured it out either because they gave us estimates and then picked it up a week later uh we also don't know what drop-off dates are yet because our logistics provider hasn't been able to teach us that um and in some cases the shipment has been routed quite scenically uh we had like a shipment going uh from near berlin uh to leipzig uh to bartholmberg and then to some when the Netherlands was quite fun um yeah on the topic of conflict management we are starting we have started the process of replacing our old and outdated uh ansible conflict management with bundle wrap uh our team data center has rewritten conflicts for all of the on-site devices of c3 wok so the encoders the mixer laptops um the tally pies and the and our data center uh which required reinstalling all of the operating systems during the event and we've done all that uh within the last two weeks um yeah commit like there's no tomorrow we've made a lot of changes and this is just like a part of that commit log um we had around 100 commits or so at the uh like at the end of the event quite a lot of work so um during the event we learned a few things apparently these stands are not uh word pro waterproof which means uh the tarps and that little tent over there um we also learned that uh long hdmi is uh quite unreliable especially with uh 4k uh signals and um apparent uh because the tv's are now almost all of them are 4k and uh we're not um one power outage we think killed an amplifier that uh uh amplifier controller that eight hours later we started to uh make a talk really unpleasant and uh to fix that up we removed one um talk to a different tent but that tent was closed we couldn't use it anymore after the one o'clock and that dark would uh run over that so we decided we uh invented the silent stage which will show a picture of and we had an unfortunate incident with a mute button during a talk on the first talk on a on a more yesterday morning which we uh managed to uh re-record today oh sorry wrong button so we built a nice little tent to protect the equipment so that's a a tent squared or something this is the silent stage you see a lot of people watching a bytecode jam with all connected with headphones the tent itself is completely silent until you put the headphones up and you had really nice music and commentary on the competition going on and we also had this thing apparently um we are now covering all the insides of our equipment with uh mch dust which was already containing camp 19 dust and also maybe sha 2017 dust so it's time to open the cases again and clear them out yes see free dust really did a lot of work who also did a lot of work for all of our angels we need five angels per talk plus an additional av technician to be in the lecture all at all times that gives us around six 60 shifts for the whole event we had to do free angel introductions because of people apparently arriving too late for the first two introductions and on a personal note we would really appreciate it if people signed up for their shifts in advance and not just like five minutes before the talk or showing up during the talk it's quite stressful for us to have the angel system showing us a lot of angels missing for shifts and having to deal with that and and and and uh showing up on a stage and there's like 10 people because they all want to do a shift but they all forgot to sign up for it please do better next time it saves us a lot of headache during the night so yeah we also extended our walk network normally the walk network just contains our own infrastructure like the video mixer and the mixer laptops and all that this time we extended it a bit we also added the audio mixers into the walk network and configured them ourselves the in-room video mixing which is what is used to switch between the info beamer and the slides on the monitors and the big screen behind me was also configured by us and put into the walk network and we have made sure to save the configuration everything and that will be possible to reuse at future events it just allows a few comfort comfort features like the ab technician no one has to run through front to switch the info beamer but can just do it comfortably from the back on their laptop some some statistics we had 132 staged videos um we have released almost all of them at this point uh that's about 100 hours and 20 minutes of video um in total we had 118 angels four vinky cuts and two unicorns and countless cuttles because apparently we are not only the video operations center but also the flush operation center uh some some colorful graphs we've got statistics about when uh the the stream was watched the most and when it wasn't uh very obviously nobody watched the stream during the night it's interesting the baseline of people that left their tv's turned on apparently um can say I have a problem with that we had quite a nice pause music during the event um yeah and to end we would like to thank some people we would like to thank uh spiker sound who built the uh everything you see uh we especially like to thank a holo plot who supplied these magnificent uh loud speaker systems which can do much more than we were able to show you here we especially would like to thank the angels that helped us because uh we can't do this ourselves there's just 10 of us 10 of us roughly roughly and uh there's uh hundreds of angels that helped us and um personally as product size I would really like to thank all the the people of C3 Vok who always make this a really fun experience to do these events and uh we hope to see you soon on the next event and lastly thanks to all of you if you weren't here to watch the talks there wouldn't be no reason for us to produce them so thank you hello I'm representing the herald team and um you're nearly done so the herald team is a new team most of the people were not heralds before or at least not at hacker events we had uh people from 15 to 77 heralding in nabacos and everywhere so uh I think this is quite awesome um we covered three stages and one herald desk um with all these uh 23 people we had a talk coverage of all the talks that required a herald which is all beside of something like um lightning talks uh this were 132 as some talks were repeated we did some twice and we also looked slightly into the workshop tents and well we also covered some of those that didn't need a herald we had zero empty or late or missed shifts which is awesome for this event we had an average team member uh a talks per team member was 5.73 whatever so um some did quite much some did not so much but had other things to manage like children and stuff like this so very thank you to all the heralds um we had 181 herald shifts with these 23 heralds and a lot of back office things are additionally happening so I'm used to speaking with talk cards as a herald not as a presenter so we had some other numbers um we also had to monitor the co2 levels in the tents which stayed fine beside of the time when we had these gems session going on here and we were actively blowing co2 into the tent and well the number went crazy but I think we could manage this but we had to open up the tents for heat because uh it was quite hot in between um I hope you yeah wouldn't be yeah I have I hope it was okay so um we used 450 talk cards or we went through 450 of these nice talk cards um we ate two birthday cakes because one of our heralds had birthday and was then doing herald shifts um which is great I think and we used a lot of water sunscreen and hats well also matter um we had 21 different announcements even if you probably only remember two or three and sleep about them so actually we had two complaints reaching us the others probably were held up by the silent thingy uh complaint booth or something uh that so the complaints were that we were repeating too much the same announcements uh yes we earned four sets of parking and trash angel patches if you want some you still probably can get them by doing these shifts you probably saw them all but we got four sets because we were showing them to you well we lost two sets if you find some please send them over to hardworking angels we had one speaker being hit by an angel by a herald um there was a mosquito or something I was told yes um and we had one field telephone call so somebody actually was using them great um yes then I have to tell you drink more water and now I can happily announce uh the content team I guess there's some weird signs uh the content team uh we usually don't get the content team and we don't learn about all the back work uh about the speakers and all of this so here's the content team you have to give me a minute while I unlock my laptop hey I'm from the speaker desk slash content team we work quite closely with uh Katazi from uh herald's coordination uh we don't have grafana so I'm afraid there'll be no pretty pretty graphs but uh we do have some statistics and fun things to share so over the last what uh four days you have hopefully enjoyed uh 233 sessions from 179 speakers uh I'd just like to give a round of applause to everyone who did submit to our CFP there were loads of awesome submissions unfortunately we couldn't accept everything uh but thank you to everyone who did submit and particularly those that did present if we could just give them a round of applause so that was made up of 144 talks over these three stages 61 workshops across more than three workshop tents I think four or five uh 27 music performances over on the music stage four percent by our very own DJ in team content one film with subtitles uh a fire dragon which was over there if you didn't see it and loads and loads of village content uh some of which was in our official program some of which wasn't there was loads of awesome stuff happening on the train and I hope you managed to see some of it so some other statistics uh we had 1.5 mobile apps a iphone app and an android app that we never finished I never finished uh we did 25 schedule releases through pretalks which is the conference management system over the just during the the four days that we have been here uh we had unfortunately five covid cancellations speakers that couldn't make it uh they got covid uh we we feel bad for them we hope they're okay uh we did have a fridge this year which was awesome we also had a drag queen which I understand was very popular and we lost track of how many passport stamps we gave out to people we also had a load of speaker stickers they were gold and shiny uh like that and they disappeared from our tent halfway through so if you do know where they are we would love to have them back um because we do have other speakers to give them to so our horeca order uh this is important because we give the speakers free drinks when they come to us um and we have managed to order I don't know if this is the most that a team has ordered I suspect probably not um but we have ordered that amount of stuff quite a lot of marty uh which we have given out to our speakers uh if you want drinks please submit to the CFP next year um and some less sensible statistics uh we had two of our auger late to their talks which created one myth herald we had three talk reruns because of unfortunate av issues we had one water related uh power failure in our tent uh where it tripped the uh the breaker and then when it got really really hot um actually uh heated up our thermal thermal cut out and tripped it again um we had one pre talks server migration thank you to to walter for doing that halfway through yesterday I think um as you can see on the back of our gator we have a how am I driving sticker we had two suggestions on how we could improve our driving I don't know what that says about us um we had one 40 bulls wagon uh which destroyed a fiber two fibers I think from knock we're really sorry um and one broken like label printer thing they cost 50 euros and it got really hot and and melted in the machine um and unfortunately we have one talk that's overrunning which is this one it's the only one um so I'm going to uh quickly end this um just some thank yous so productive house and the uh vok um they are awesome they do a great job of streaming everything and going and fixing htmi cables and workshops when they don't work the herald desk and I I'm going I'm going the herald desk and in particular who has just organized everything with heralding we haven't done anything we printed cards and that was it um the ever patient sys admin uh Walter who deals with pre talks when it crashes every five minutes um and our lightning talk coordinators who have uh coordinated all those who didn't submit to the cfp but still wanted to have a chance to speak on stage I understand there's some really good talks for that they are recorded you can watch them online um and finally uh we have an angel that has literally sat in our tent for the entire weekend uh so thank you to them in particular and all of the other teams all the angels that signed up for shifts and in particular pl for supporting us in this event so thank you so as this was the only no first first things first thanks a lot to the all the auger teams and all the angels and everyone who helped making this event as awesome and as it was right please a very warm applause for everyone


I have actually worked with people, yoga instructors, massage therapists and so forth, very very closely. Back in the 90s, one of my students was very much into yoga and over a period of like four years, her practice shifted from focus on the body and breathing and postures and techniques and all the specifics that are very much a part of yoga into more the spiritual aspect of yoga. And she was also doing a course in Miracles, so it got to be the point where after three or four years and she kept letting go into the more intuitive spiritual aspects of what she really wanted. That was where her mind was going, so she figured her yoga class would go along with her and people would show up and they would still get on the mat, they would still do the postures and everything but she would go around and she was just more like an empath, just really tuning in to what would be most helpful to share and extend. It was a little bit more like spiritual psychotherapy as a yoga background. I also had a friend who was a massage therapist who was quite deeply into the course and she went through the same thing where she really studied up on it, she really learned massage and she was quite good at it and was quite, you know, learned at all the techniques and different things and then she contacted me one day where she was just in the middle of a massage and then she had one of these mystical moments where she just looked down at the person and she looked down at her hands as they were doing the massage and she absolutely couldn't recognize what was happening. She had one of these, I do not know what anything is for moments in the middle of the massage and she just stared as the hands were moving like her eyes got real big because she was like, what is this? It was like she had lost all awareness of everything. She just forgot everything about massage in that moment and probably more than that she probably forgot everything about the world in that moment it's usually the way that it goes.  For her it was so dramatic that she actually could not do another massage after that moment. Just the massage ended and the whole massage career ended in that one moment and I asked her, I said, well, what did you do next? She became, I guess the word in this world would be like a Christian science practitioner where she just was so focused in her mind into God's love and the allness of God and the nothingness of everything that people's symptoms, she didn't have to massage them, they would call her on the phone and she'd pray and their symptoms would disappear. They had a sore back, she could handle that in a couple seconds with divinity. It went on from having seemingly patients or clients which you really don't have patients and clients when you go into that kind of practitioner work because I would say from that higher level of practitioner work you start to realize that any discomfort, anything that seems to be a problem in this world including an ailment, a physical ailment, a psychological ailment, fear around money or concern around relationships or anything is a claim and that claim is that there's no God and so basically you spend your life dealing with the claims that seem to come to you, you start to see your own claims because there's really nobody out there, it's really all one mind. If somebody comes and they say they have a sore back, she would go right into the prayer because that would be a claim. A sore back is a claim that there is no God. If you could follow it metaphysically in, if God is all and love is all then anything that unlike that love would be a claim and sometimes we're not used to that kind of thinking. We think more in terms of like insurance claims like insurance claims for like a car or health insurance claim and so on and so forth. This is a different kind of claim. This is kind of a claim that it's for your mind that you're trying to make a claim that's not true and you have to go back into the allness of that love and then the claim will disappear because the claim cannot exist in the allness that is God. I think that that can be a very helpful healing step in the sense that as long as you hold in your mind that all symptoms are really effects and all symptoms are really symbols because this is a world of symbols and the Spirit can use those symbols and it's very much like even though you would be doing it with the backdrop we'll say of massage, it's very much like Louis Hayes' book You Can Heal Your Life where she really starts off with the symptom level and then she works it back and it's kind of trace it back, trace it back, trace it back, forgive. Everyone's going to have to forgive anyway and in one sense the body is like a barometer so if the body is feeling tight or there's different points of stress or different things, people talk even about cellular memories there's no memory in matter but actually that's a good symbol still that people will use about how if you're holding something, you're holding some kind of hurt or pain or grievance in your neck or in your elbow it's something people can relate to because it's connecting the grievance or the hurt with a symptom and it's not where it ends but it definitely can be a starting point especially when you're opening up to this idea that there can be an inward movement of looking inside ultimately going inside for the forgiveness there was a point I believe it was maybe the psychotherapy pamphlet where Jesus didn't mention Louise Hay's name but I swear, he was talking with her because he was talking about a careful tracing back from the specifics and the symptoms he was talking about the very thing that she's made a career out of without mentioning, hey Louise, he just left Louise out of it but he said still the main point that he wanted to make was only forgiveness heals and unforgiveness that even when we come and we trace from all these different angles we still are just approaching forgiveness all illness is just a misperception really one misperception and all forgiveness is actually the correction for that misperception so it really gets simple


Communication Keys to Successful Patient Service by Sharon Lee Parker, Director of the Patient Experience and Hospitality Training at the John Thurrock Cancer Center. How you say, what you say can make all the difference. Your verbal and your body language are two essential keys for successful communication.  How we convey the message and what words we choose to express compassion, understanding and caring toward the patient and family members can make all the difference. When you are meeting a patient or family member over the phone with a particular issue or problem, remember that they only hear your voice, tone, diction, empathy, concern and caring all play a major role in problem resolution. And today, since many of us are wearing the mask, how we sound, how our voice is conveyed, what our eyes are doing, whether they're smiling like your mouth is, can make all the difference because heightened emotions occur often when any serious medical diagnosis arises. It must be taken into account when discussing billing or other sensitive financial issues. Choose your words carefully and try to be helpful in every way possible. Remember, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression. And it is often said that you make the first impression within the first 15 seconds. Wow, how you say what you say can make all the difference. When you can convey the attitude of, I understand what you are going through and we will strive to bring you to the best possible conclusion, gives the person confidence that his issues are being addressed in a positive way. Always remember that you represent HUMC and the JTCC, wherever you are, your attitude either over the phone or in person is critical and really does make a huge difference. We don't have problems, we have situations and our goal is to find the solution. When you look at the gentleman's picture and you see the consternation on his face, you know that something kind and caring coming out of us can make all the difference and turn that despair into hope. Listening is a critical key to successful communication. It's one of the most important skills that everyone can improve upon. Listening is an opportunity to learn. When you open your ears, remember to open your mind as well. Don't come to conclusions until you have heard what the other person has to say. When you talk, you represent what you already know. When you listen, you often learn something. Remember, this is much more than a job. It is a passion helping people get through perhaps the most difficult time in their lives. The total patient experience is of great concern for everyone who is involved with patients, not only because it reflects upon the reputation of HUMC and the JTCC, but also because of financial reimbursement now based in large part by the results of patient surveys. Press Ganey evaluates what we do often on a weekly basis and others do now as well. It is in our best interest to be consistently at the highest possible level of performance. And whatever hospital you may be working in, somebody is evaluating you as well. I always say, aim for the A, why not? You could go through life as the C and it's okay, but why not aim for the top? That's what I believe. A plus every day, going the extra mile and hearing other people's concerns is vitally important and addressing any situation that is annoying, disturbing or seemingly unsolvable is paramount to our continued success and will bring a smile to our patients. Just look at these beautiful smiles on these ladies from warrior to warrior to winner. How precious like this of that we can agree. Imagine if you could live longer and see the world as a healer of all human wrong where people could join and share hope in our song. One day we'll all feel healthy. One day we'll all feel strong. One day we'll feel that in this world, all of us belong. We need to thank our researchers who work so hard every day, finding cures for our oncologists and showing us the way to beating all these cancers and sharing what they know. So every human being has a chance to live and grow. Every time there is a breakthrough, we need the world to hear that cancer as we know it will surely disappear. One day we'll have a country that perhaps is cancer free and we can share the knowledge round the world for all to see because from warrior to winner is what we wanna be. So now let's think and plan for the day when all the bad cells will just fade away with new light to shine, with hope in the air that cancers that cause us no more despair, that cures are nearer, we just have to grasp new research and ideas that are coming to pass. One day these critters will be out the door and we may live longer because there'll be no more. Families can gather healthy and strong, knowing these bad cells are where they belong out of our bodies in a faraway place, never disturbing our great human race. Till it is over, know what you can do, be a warrior with cancer until you come through to winning your life back where it belongs and helping the others to join in our song. One day we'll all be healthy, one day we'll all be strong, one day we'll feel in this world that all of us belong. So let's obliterate these cancers and let them all be gone. Hack and Sack Meridian, our home away from home, where brains and innovation are nurtured, fed and grown. 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All right, why don't we go ahead and get started. All right, so welcome everyone to and then they were gone teenagers of people's temple from high school to Jonestown, which is a virtual talk with their San Francisco teacher, Judy bebalar. Am I pronouncing your name right Judy. Bebalar but that people are I just realized. The kids called me miss B because nobody pronounces it right. Thank you. My name, my name. So Judy bebalar will be our speaker tonight. She has a lot of great stories to share with you. My name is Taryn Edwards and I am one of the librarians here at the mechanics Institute of San Francisco. For those of you who are unfamiliar with mechanics, we are an independent membership organization that houses a wonderful library, the oldest designed to serve the public in fact, not just mechanics. We're also a cultural event center and we host all kinds of fun activities like this, and we are the oldest chess club in the nation that has been in continuous operation. Right now due to our shelter in place, almost all of our activities are virtual, but I encourage you to consider becoming a member with us. It's only $120 a year. And with that you help support our contribution to the literary and cultural world of the San Francisco Bay Area. So Judy bebalar and her co author, Ron Cabral, were both instructors at Opportunity High School, which was a public alternative school in San Francisco, when in September of 1976, Jim Jones enrolled all the teenagers there. So now Judy is a poet and an author. Her work has appeared in over 50 literary journals, and she's published three anthologies. And currently she co hosts a monthly reading series with the Bay Area Writing Project. So the way it's going to work tonight is I'm going to show a brief film trailer about the book, and then Judy will give us a talk, and then we'll take questions. So please post those in the chat space, and then we'll make every effort to answer them. Judy, do you have anything you want to say before we before I share my screen and show the video. I think I'm ready to start. Okay, let me just do that here. And how is this looking. When we speak of John's town, we speak of full aid of Jim Jones and the babies who are murdered first. We speak of visual hang on one second. There we go. Let's share the right screen. So we want to share this screen. Hang on. It's not letting me share. Let's try this again. All right, does that look good Judy. Yes. Perfect. When we speak of Jones town, we speak of Koolaid of Jim Jones and the babies who are murdered first. We speak of cults with messianic leaders. We rarely speak of the individual victims, and we never speak of the teenagers. High school students with dreams beyond Jones town who died in what some call a massacre in their book, and then they were gone. Judy B. Belar and Ron Cabral tell the stories of these young adults who are students of theirs that opportunity high in San Francisco. They live in poverty, their crushes, and most importantly, their hopes for the future. In the late 70s, Jim Jones created a settlement in the guineas jungle to serve as a model system to live freely without bias. But by 1977, when most of their students arrived, Jones town had become a jungle prison camp with mandatory hard labor and harsh punishments. And then on November 18, 1978, 918 Americans died after ingesting flavor aid laced with cyanide, one third of them under 18. Some called it mass suicide. Others called it murder. Some were zombie followers.  B. Belar and Cabral's tales of these teens and interviews with the few people's temple survivors show how they lived, loved, and found ways to resist Jones. John gives a new perspective on this tragedy and examines how so often the young pay the price for the errors of the older generation. That was a great trailer. Marianne better. Now I can't hear you. There we are. Now you can. Yes. So are you ready to tell us more about your experiences. I can't hear you again. There's not a line. There we are. Somehow Judy keeps getting somehow you keep getting muted. You okay now. Yeah, I think so. I didn't touch until just now, but we're on now. So tell us more about your experiences. Okay, well, first I want to say thank you to Marianne for that beautiful trailer. And thank you Mechanics Institute Library for hosting this reading and thank you so much, Teran, for being so helpful. I thought I'd just tell you a couple of things about the trailer quickly. But if you remember the face of the man going like this, and he's up in some kind of sport stands, and then there's a younger man behind him. That was Ron Cabral, my co-author, when he was a coach. And after Jonestown, and the Jones brothers showed up for a game for a practice actually, and Tim, who is a really good picture, who would have become a professional if it weren't for Jonestown was pitching balls, and that Steven Jones, Jones only biological son behind him, who's smiling, because he knows that's his brother's great love. Thank you again. Ron and I had no idea that the book that started out as just a very small draft that we thought was a finished book would turn into the larger book that it became and win so many honors and awards it's 110 now. I thought we were writing the book just to honor those kids and so their story wouldn't be untold, but it kept growing and growing and changing as I contacted people for interviews and to read it. And I think I'm glad even that it took those 12 years because it really made it a much richer book from all the help that people gave me all the stories that they told me. And I'm deeply gratified that people are still interested in this story. One half of those who died in Jonestown were in their 20s or younger, and a third were under 18 really just children. It's a sad story, yes, but it's also a story of their resilience and resistance and spirit. Turn should, I'm seeing you instead of the mechanics. Is that how it should be now. Just want to stop and ask. I can put my mechanics logo up. If you don't want to see me. Okay. Just checking in. Sorry, audience. And I wanted to share with you something that buddy guy, the great blues guitarist said. Funny thing about the blues, you sing, you sing them because you got them. But when you sing them, you lose them. And it is really true that in all sad stories, there is a kind of communion because who have not has not experienced sadness in or tragedy in their lives. And now that we can see tragedies all over the world.  Telling a story does something for the teller of the story. And that's I think what buddy guy was talking about because you feel like you're taking action.  There are tragedies, even in the greatest tragedies, there is some kernel of hope of redemption of love. And there certainly is that in this story makes me think of the Parkland students who took their grief and turned it into action, trying to prevent more deaths by gun violence. And several Jonestown survivors who have told their stories and I guess, in a way, Ron and I are survivors too. Deborah Layton seductive poison is a really good book she tried to stop the tragedy by risking her life escaping. And she helped a lot with the book, and Stephen Jones own wonderful writing is not in any book you can buy but you can find it on the Jonestown to website. And he also was just really, really helpful with me he's Jones only biological son. Other people to are working on their stories, and I think most of them are almost complete I'll mention them as I go through. So, because I want to leave a lot of time for your questions. Now I'm going to get right into the book. But in September 77, almost all of the San Francisco temple kids there was also a Los Angeles temple came to our small 300 student school, 80 or 100 of them came we don't know exactly how many because the school district has not released the records. So we could match that against the who died list in Jonestown, which you can also find on that website. So they, many of them joined my creative writing class and their palms are an important part of the book. It made possible the baseball team, the cobras that Ron had been trying to start for years, but a lot of the temple kids like his son Tim, who was the great picture, and other young people were really good athletes loved baseball every day, which is something that our other students, many of other other students not all of them did not do, because the school had been designed for kids who weren't making it who were true and who had problems at home girls who had had babies and weren't allowed to go to regular high schools. So they really added something to the school and we didn't mind as we did at first that they came in and large bunches almost all together. So instead of being interviewed one by one, as we usually did the other kids, as we always did with the other kids with two teachers and a student or two, interviewing the students to make sure they understood what we would require of them and telling them it was going to be a lot of fun because we're going to go on a lot of field trips and we'd cook a whole meal in my cooking class. So we tried to draw them in but make them know what they had to do what their part was. They also went to Ron's radio production class and were part of that and helped with the newspaper. He had them work on the natural high express. Then we didn't know at the time that there even was this settlement Indiana, but he began to draw people out starting first with his son Stephen, probably, because Jones was afraid that Stephen would become a defector. There had been many defectors and much earlier there had been a group of college age people's temple kids that defected. Then Jimmy was taken out who was on the baseball team. Stephen's love was basketball and many other kids. I'm going to tell you about Tim's leaving now from the book, a visit from the minister's wife. On the morning of March 27, Cabral was called to Golden's office, that's our principal, where he found Tim and the principal sitting with Marceline Jones. He looked uncomfortable as he glanced at Cabral with an attempt at a smile. When Golden asked Cabral to sit down, Tim looked at the floor, which was not like him at all. Mrs. Jones spoke quietly. Mr. Cabral, we have decided to take Tim out of school, as his dad needs him in South America at our agricultural mission there. Cabral thought this must be some kind of error. She just didn't understand. Tim was the team captain, the starting pitcher, and potentially the best hitter. Trying to recover from his surprise, Cabral told her how talented Tim was, a real leader, and that he had even spoken to a coach at UC Berkeley about him. He asked if perhaps they could wait until after the season in May. He applied lightly but firmly. No, I'm sorry, Mr. Cabral, his dad needs him for now, and you must realize that the work of the church is more important than baseball. Although his father and I certainly appreciate what you here at Opportunity have done for our boys. There's no plan here since we've already called Jimmy away, and now we have to take your star picture. Golden said, of course we understand Mrs. Jones. Cabral repeated, of course, though his heart didn't. He turned to Tim. We'll miss you. The two shook hands. I'm going to tell you a little bit about Mark. He's the blonde boy that you saw in the trailer and he's in the third row on a book cover. And he's the first clear picture on that row. All the other pictures of, not all the other pictures, the pictures of all the students are two of the same, one clear and one in shadow to indicate that those kids died in Jonestown. Mark, his mother had defected from the temple and she was in hiding. We didn't know that at the time. His father remained a loyalist and stayed in the church. And Mark was probably sent to Jonestown as a punishment to his mother and to make sure that Mark didn't follow her lead. In mid-May, Mark came into Cabral's room after school, wearing his trademark blue fisherman's cap with a red star. He joined Cabral in the small adjoining balcony overlooking Plum Alley. The final layout for the express, Mark said, handing his teacher a large envelope. Well, almost all of it. I have a couple of questions about two of the stories and where they should go. Great, Mark. Thanks for all your work. And there's something else. Mark's tone changed. You know, my parents have been temple members for a long time. My dad wants me to go to Guiana. He said it would be great experience for me. Toughen me up. Man, I really don't want to go. I want to stay here, play ball, work on the paper, draw. Miss Wong says I have talent. But dad said he wants me to go there this summer for who knows how long. Is there any way you can get out of it, Cabral asked? Anyone you can stay with? No. The only way I could get out of it would be to run away.  I pretty much have to do what my dad says. And Ron tells him to think about what he wants to do when he gets back. Where does he want to go to school to study art? Back to the book. I don't know. I don't know what to write.  I really love some of the classes, especially art. And some of the kids. He looked a little strict. And the staff here, you guys really care about us. You're friendly and easy to talk to different from some teachers I remember at other schools. I enjoyed getting to know you too, Mark. Sorry, you'll be leaving. And then I stepped back into the room and Cabral watched as Mark walked to the door. Stopped and turned back. See you Ron, he said. And the reason that Mark looked a little stricken was that he had a non-temple girlfriend. And he told the kids they weren't even to become very good friends with any of the other students at the school. And certainly never tell anybody anything about the church except the good things because the church did do many good works. And the kids were involved in that a lot. It was in the newspapers. And I thought I'd like to next take you on a little trip as the trailer did to Yana. And what I'll read next are the words of Eugene Smith, who was the husband of one of our students at Opportunity, Ali. Jean lost Ali and their baby in Johnstown. They both died. And he was taken away at the capital, Georgetown, because he was in charge of shipments there. And finally, after all these years, it took Ron and me a long time to figure out what we could do. And you can imagine how hard it must have been for Eugene. But his book, I believe, is almost complete. So look for his name, Eugene Smith. And here's what he said on the website of his first site of his book. And this is Georgetown, the capital, which is far, far away from Johnstown. A third world country, shacks, barren patches of brown grass, people, villagers doing the best they could to survive. I saw the first and last person in my life afflicted with elephantiasis. They were desperate and very tired. From Georgetown, where they traveled by plane, mostly from Florida, after a cross-country bus trip, the temple owned many used greyhound buses that he used to ship them around. And they left mostly for Florida in the middle of the night, because Jones didn't want people to know how many church members were leaving. Most new arrivals made the journey to the jungle interior on the temple boat, a very small one, the Kujo. Smith described the boat trip from Georgetown to Port Kaituma, which is outside of Johnstown, as a wild, scary journey. The deck covered with vomit and Guiana's heat as hammering. The Atlantic is very rough between Georgetown and Johnstown. Between April and September 1977, the Johnstown population grew from 65 to 630. A number, the settlement, was not prepared to handle. Most came in July and August after the New West expose of what defectors revealed was going on behind closed church doors. Most of our students, as well as Eugene and Deborah Layton, both in their 20s when they came to Johnstown, entered during this time when conditions were deteriorating rapidly and horribly. Deborah's description is equally vivid. We sailed out into the Caribbean for about 25, the about 25 hour voyage to the mouth of the Kaituma River. The seas were rough and no one spared the ocean's wrath. We stayed in our places, hanging on tightly, heads bobbing, stomachs croaking. We heaved ceaselessly into the waves, which crashed onto the deck and drenched us. My clothes were soaked with seawater and vomit. Skipping, I had a little, only eight more hours to go yelled a crew member as the Kujo entered the mouth of the Kaituma. My stomach settled as we made our way into the calmer river waters. The jungle river was thick with life, snakes, piranha, and curious debris from the rain's torrential runoff. Its root beer-colored water swooshed past us, carrying felled trees and other plant life uprooted from the banks. And the young people thought they were going to a tropical paradise to create a model society without ages and racism or sexism for the world to emulate. Then this is the story of Stephen. It's coming to Jonestown. Stephen traveled to Port Kaituma from Georgetown by plane when he came in February 1977, although he did end up traveling to and from Georgetown on the Kujo several times later and knew what a long and miserable part of the trip the ocean journey could be. In an article in The New Yorker, Orphans of Jones Town, which you can look up, Lawrence Wright, the author of The Leaning Tower, which won a Pulitzer Prize in many other great books and plays, and he's a musician in Austin, Texas. Wright describes Stephen's arrival in Guiana's capital and his first impressions of Jonestown. After landing in Georgetown, 135 miles from Jonestown, Stephen caught a flight up the coast on an alarmingly rickety plane. Through the window, he could see the jungle stretching endlessly before him. The only breaks in the canopy were vast rivers that cut through the bush. There were no roads, no towns, no human mark visible in the entire expanse. The airport consisted of the strip and a shed with a dirt floor. The sounds of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On drifted across the village from a tiny hut that called itself a nightclub. His barefoot Indian children ran up to Stephen and looked at him with fascination. Six foot five with his father's fiery eyes. Stephen Jones at the age of 17 was already an imposing figure. Roughly half of the 50 settlers were inner city kids who had been taken in by the temple, many of them foster kids. And the other half consisted of longtime church members who had the skills Jones needed to build the settlement. The kids were mostly troublemakers in the temple. They had been sent by Jim Jones to Guyana either as punishment or to put them beyond the reach of the law because so many were foster children or like Mark had a mother who didn't want him to go there. They were working from before dawn to nearly midnight every day clearing brush, and it was formidable work, especially cutting the hardwoods, so dense they could deflect an iron axe head. They left the fallen trees to drive for months, then ran through in teams of two, one boy carrying kerosene and the other a torch and set fire to huge swaths of brush. We held at the top of our lungs pouring kerosene and lighting fires, Stephen remembers. It was quite a romp. The head of them would be a rush of wildlife iguanas monkeys lizards, the ruin forest would burn for days. And while it was still smoldering, Stephen, and two other colonists would come in with a bulldozer and push the embers into review. There would be an explosion of sparks.  And then I'm going to skip ahead and the jumps town half of the book to chapter 12, which I consider the heart of the book. This comes from Debbie Layton's book, precious acts of treason, which is how she described the many acts of kindness and love that people did for one another, in spite of risks in Jones town.  The two who inspected their suitcases as all were, or boxes or whatever they have with them, saw her mother's pain medication, which she badly needed them. She didn't take it out, as she should have. No doubt it would have ended up on Jones' shelf in his personal cabin, not used to ease her own suffering or anyone else's. The woman just tucked it back in under things as she could have been punished for. The police did not follow all the rules. They had relationships when they weren't supposed to. There was a relationship committee that really had Jones behind it who said who could be with whom they snuck out after curfew to be with one another. Also punishable. And the punishments were terrible there. He even tried to escape, which was high treason. There's a wonderful part of the book, taken from another wonderful writer about Jones town. Julia Shears called a thousand lives about a kid, Tom Bo, not our student, although his family was in Jones town. It happened to him afterwards. He was chained to a log and his hair was shaved, the other boy too. And it was terrible until Marceline and Stephen intervened and said that you have to let him go. So Jones did. So I'm going to tell you about music and the kids. Usually the rallies that Jones held at night were punishment sessions. People were called up on the stage and ridiculed or even punished in front of people. And maybe Jones would go on and on about the wonders of socialism for a while too. But if guests came in, then they put on a good show and the good show was mostly put on by the kids. So it was a chance to have fun, to dance and sing. They weren't allowed to dance and not be punished. So, at one such evening, the soul steppers are rhythm marching and dance group that performed regularly were there. And one St. Louis blues was sung by one woman, another woman sang Summertime and isn't she lovely. And a girl did a snake dance with an emerald green boa constrictor, which was probably Stephen's pet snake. And our students, Johnny Cobb, also the author of a book, which is almost done, I believe. Jimmy, his adopted son, and Calvin Douglas, and Bruce Oliver, all of our students form the lineup for a musical group they call Black Velvet. And they had fancy costumes with big lapels because there were good seamstresses in Jonestown. And they sang and danced and sing and snap their fingers to motel music, although Stephen says that despite their having no time to practice, they actually sounded pretty good, though a couple of them were told just to move their lips and things. So I'm going to skip over a little bit of that and get to basketball, another form of escape. That, as I said, was Stephen's great love. When the shipments from San Francisco, a basketball arrived. Stephen, some of the boys from the opportunity baseball team, and several others began to practice drills, seeking up fields in the settlement where they could play. Stephen describes how basketball began in Jonestown in the essay on the Jonestown Institute website called Baby Toes. We threw together a bootleg basketball court in Jonestown because I loved who, because Mike could well, and because we both had just about enough of dad's control and ship. It was a juicy piece of rebellion that ultimately saved many young lives. We managed to get the floor for our storage and tool room up on stilts, as you have to build things in the jungle. Before dad said we had no money for the walls and a roof. Without walls and a roof, the floor took up about the same area as to gray hand buses side by side. Now there was a dimension with people of people's temple would understand. Plus, the precipitous, we made them adventurous edges. It was practically ready made for a basketball court. I can't remember if dad had said outright that we couldn't have a court everyone in town knew that he didn't approve of competitive sport. It seemed like we were always trying to see how far we could get before our drug whacked leader notice. It was harder for him to take something away than for them away than to snuff it. Well, it was just between our ears. And they even managed to have a forbidden dance at night past curfew on the basketball court and Stephen says he doesn't know how Johnny and Tim got that together but they managed to have their dance. And I'm going to skip that part. You can read about that in the book. And last, when Congressman Ryan and his party of journalists and photographers and concerned relatives that was the defectors came to Georgetown to check it out to see if people were being held against their will. One of our students at Monica Bagby and her friend, Verne Gosney were the first people courageous enough to pass a signed note to a journalist, help us get out of Jonestown. And that was a great risk that they took. And once they did that, people who had been afraid to sign up saying they wanted to leave began to sign up with Jackie Spears. Okay, now it's your turn to ask questions. That was wonderful. Thank you. So that I was looking at the chat it's been kind of going wild while you're talking. I have a quick question. I thought you referenced a book by Eugene Smith, but it's not out yet. Right. Well, I did find it, but I noticed that it wouldn't be published. Yes, it is now on Amazon's catalog with a publishing date of April 23. And the title is Back to the World, A Life After Jonestown. So, so good. I'm glad that that. Yeah, thank you for looking that out. So Eliza, I wanted to start with this one question, but Eliza Fox beat me to it. She asks, as a teacher, how did Jonestown transform you? Oh, well, it transformed me into working so hard on this book. At first, all of us were just so shocked as most of San Francisco and the Bay Area was but especially since we knew the kids personally, it was just really hard to take in. And at first, the number reported was 400 dead. It took a long time for enough people to get there to count the bodies. And so it took some days to get to 918. So we thought, oh, maybe that means that some of our kids make it. Of course, they would be the ones to be able to get out somehow through the jungle. But a few people did escape that way. But the numbers were huge.  And that was hard enough to take. But so many of them, in such a horrible way, that it really was hard. I guess it just made me want to reach out more to kids. And I had, I was already that kind of teacher, but that really put a red line under how important that is to talk to kids and mentor kids and try to guide them in good directions and try to find out what's going on in their lives. That's troubling them. Yeah, it's so important to be a mentor to younger people and to anyone who seems like they need it. I saw Manny Blackwell's name on the screen. He's a student of mine. Does he have a question? He has made several comments. He's, he's wondering where, how Ron is doing, where Ron is. Okay, yes, I should have said that. Well, Ron is struggling with dialysis and has been a for a long time. And I told him about the meeting and I told his daughter and I was, because I thought he might need some help for her, but I guess they didn't show up. I'll have to check later. And then her name is Beth Pate Cabral. But he's soldiering on Manny. He's, he's doing the best he can. And I know the book you need to watch it. Yeah, he responds. Thoughts and prayers go out to Ron and his family. Yes, I'll tell him that if he's not here. Let's see, Maria or Mary Julia has a question. She wonders, did, did everyone believe Jonestown was a good place? And that did, did anyone suspect that Jones was out of control? Well, the first hints we got about, I got personally about Jonestown was in some of the kids poems because all of a sudden this beautiful tropical paradise and little creatures hiding from the storm is one of the lines from one of my students in her phone.  And so I didn't know it then but I think that was about Jonestown because that was the story Jones told his congregation about Jonestown. And one of the slides that he showed them, he was holding up a big bunch of bananas, but he forgot to remove the grocery store bag from by his feet, because he'd bought the bananas in Georgetown. They hadn't been wild just for the picking from the trees. And people in San Francisco up until that New West article that appeared in the summer of 1977, people thought that the church was this great church with this charismatic leader, and there'd been a big dinner to honor Jones and there were articles about him in the paper and he took his people and protest marches for good causes and he took care of animals and old people and got people off drugs so people thought it was good until that article came out. And of course, the kids didn't know till they got there so what it what the truth was about it. Hi, Julia. Judy I thought after we go through these questions that it looks like there's quite a few students of yours that are in the audience and so maybe after we asked answer a few more questions will ask the students to, to raise their hand and then I can turn their mics on individually one at a time just so they can say hello to you. Hi. Let's. Let's cover a few more questions. Adrian asks, it seems that you knew defectors as well as victims. Can you offer any generalizations for the two different groups. I didn't know the defectors, some of them until after the book was written and I got to know more of the survivors and the defectors. So I didn't meet those people until after I didn't find out about Mark's mother until after. I didn't even know that there had been this group of young people who had defected. It was, I think in 74 until I started doing research on the book. So I just knew, Ron and I just knew these great kids that spoke up in class and wanted to write for the paper and write poetry and we didn't know that mostly they had to go home and then do work for the church like go out and raise a certain amount of money or be punished. So, there's a lot that we didn't know while they were with us. And I think it was partly because they really enjoyed being at the school. It was a place of freedom, you know, where they could do ordinary things that ordinary kids did and. So I think that and that they were forbidden to tell us anything bad was why we didn't know the bad side of the temple. As a question I think on your process she asks, asks, what kind of permissions did you need to to get to in order to write about the students from opportunity. Well, I did a lot of interviews with Steven, I emailed back and forth and I asked people for those permissions. And then, sadly, with the kids poetry. If someone is dead, you can publish their work. So, that's how that happened. And I had to get there's a great photograph from in the orphans of Jamestown article with Steven and his brothers, and I had to pay for that. And I had to pay just a little to the California Historical Society for permission to use those the California Historical Society is in San Francisco it's a very interesting place, and they hold all the papers and movies and tapes and everything that related to Jamestown and People's Temple, if you want to do some research there, but the Jamestown Institute website is the best place to go. It's called alternative considerations of Jamestown and People's Temple. It's based at San Diego State University, and headed by the sister of one person who died in Jamestown and her husband. I'll try to look that up and put that in the chat if I can get to it. There's a couple more questions. George asks, Judy, were you and Ron at Jamestown. No, and no, okay, and then he has a follow up question. How did the, how did the people get the money to fly everyone to Jamestown. No, they didn't fly everyone they flew special people like Steven. But most people had to take the temple buses all the way across country in the middle of the night, and then Jones had a lot of money because people that joined the, the temple were trying to be what Jones told them, you know, the old Christians did you share everything. So they signed over their houses before they left the older people signed over their social security checks. And then the kids as I said were out, sent out to collect money from San Francisco and so he had money that's why it's kind of terribly said they didn't have money to build the rest of the house and people were jammed into those little cabins. So maybe you touched on this earlier, but Jolene had a question about how the kids came to come to Jones town but you kind of touched on how, you know, many of them were marginalized, had rough child rough rough home lives, and we're the other kids in our school the temple kids. They were as Carl one of our students, who is not in the temple, who said that September that the worst thing that ever happened until September 11 that day at Jones town. For him, it was just the most awful day and he figured that God spared him and his family, because they were already, he and his brother were living in hell at their home, but that most of the Jones town kids came from really good families. They kind of sold at the earth, middle class people working hard smart, the ones that came all the way from Indiana were very much that kind of person knew how to drive bulldozers and build things and farm and clear land and they were they were smart people and it was they weren't the adults were not zombies and the kids were not troubled kids except probably the foster children. I just wanted to point out to everybody that in the chat space Lottie has put down the has found the Jones town reference was at San Diego State University's reference collection of Jones town materials. Jones town dot sdsu.edu and the link is directly in the chat space. I want to go to alternative considerations of Jones town. Yes, yes. I'm going to take just two more questions and then we'll go ahead and have everyone who's a student of Judy's raise their hand so that way I can turn your mics on and you can say an individual message to her. But Catherine has a question if you could read. Can you please read a student poem please and how did you get these poems. Did you, did you read this poem in your reading, just a few minutes ago. I know I just quoted a line from one, and you know what I forgot to bring here it's just out there I'll go get it as a copy of the book. Okay. Meanwhile, while she's gone. Those of you who are a student of Judy's if you could raise your hand. I'll turn your mic on briefly once she, once she comes back, and you can say hi to her. This is a group poem written by some kids from the temple and some other kids and it almost seems as if they were somehow for telling the true future because they didn't know anything about jumps town at the time and of course the babies who are killed first had not died here. I'll turn my glasses on for this. If there were a window in the sky. I would see spirits of dead in dreams, gossiping gods, spirits of dead deeds, spirits of war gods, thunder gods, spirits of mothers who have lost their babies, weeping like spirits of seeds and planted spirits of weeping willow trees, spirits of giant redwoods, sacrifice to man's greed, spirits of all the helpless things, spirits of brown grizzly bears, spirits of infants taken before their time. Now look for another one here too. This is by Rory Bargeman who's also on the cover. The twin of an eagle flying over the jewel blue seas. Here is some of the fruit. I smell the flowery aroma of oranges and lemons.  And then this is one by Tim Jones, it's just the end of the poem, because he is alive and they had to get his permission but I never did but a fragment is apparently okay I hope so. Actually Tim died recently very sadly before his time of a heart attack, and I think it was because John's town was so hard on him, you may have seen pictures of him holding his hat to his face and identifying the bodies of people that he loved and grew up with. But this is about the girl he loved. This is like night that comes and settles down over the world. And one more. Let's see. How do you get from the ghetto to the sparrow. How in a corner of the ghetto, a sparrow grows lips and remembers how to sing. And that was by Joyce, who is also on the cover. She's in the very bottom row and she her face was in the trailer. Lovely person. Lovely poet. Well, that is a wonderful way to wrap this up but I have one question for you. Before we. You have a couple people who want to say hi to you but what positive messages can people learn from the book, especially younger people who are who are reading it. I'll give you Steven's idea about what young people most need to be aware of, which is peer pressure, because he describes sitting in the church, and Jones saying or doing something that didn't seem right. But he looked around and here were all these people that he loved and cared about and had grown up with. And they didn't seem to see anything was wrong. Maybe he was the one who was wrong. So, you know, to be careful to look into things and trust your own feelings. And of course just don't believe them right off but think about them do what research you can talk to a person you trust about it. And I think for adults, I kind of said it before, but if you can help mentor a young person, just be their friend just be a person to talk to if not help them with their homework. You know, that's a really great thing to do and there's a lot of opportunity for mentoring. Now, the kids can't go to school and get the extra help there that they might get. They're just rid of the kids, you know, they just would not not be themselves and they fought back even though it was hard and if the basketball team, which was already sort of aligning against John. And then when they were way at the tournament, they had a chance to be out of the madness and they could say whatever they want whenever they felt like it. And they were determined that when they got back Stephen said, things will be different and they were finally going to take on Jones, because partly they just thought well, obviously look at the man all the drugs and alcohol he's ingesting he's going to die soon and he was sort of shrunken and sick, but he would manage to get himself together with drugs for the visitors who came. And so they decide, okay, no more waiting when we get back. But of course, they didn't get back in time. They had been ordered to come back that night, the basketball team.  And we're not going to go watch people suffer we're going to win the next game, but Well, thank you. Okay, so those we do have some students of Judy's in the, in the attendees and I was just wondering if you wanted to say hello.  I'm going to start with Dean, Dino, he is here. Hi, Dino. He was at opportunity but not in the temple. Let's see let me just. There we go. Yes. Judy, are you there. I'm here. How are you. I'm good. How about you. I'm doing great. Thank you very much. I appreciate everything you've done for me and others not a whole lot of time to talk about but Judy was my, she was my counselor she got me into a creative community. And I had a wonderful career 30 years as a police officer in San Francisco and it could not have happened without Judy's direction and Ron's and Ken Coleman and everybody else's direction I really appreciate it. Thank you very much. I just retired last year, April 2019. No, you're too young to retire, aren't you 30 years. I'm okay. Thank you all is 17 right team. So it was a lot. It was a lot of fun, Judy. Thank you very much. And I've been to like five or six schools prior to opportunity and I didn't really get along in them. But when I went to opportunity I was I was welcomed, no matter who I was and I was welcome and open arms and I really appreciate that they made it different for me. Thank you very much. You're welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you very much, Judy. Thank you. I guess maybe that's the only one. Unless Manuel, Manuel wants to say hello, Emmanuel, many manual many, maybe not. He's got to go. I always forget to say that the book is on Amazon, you can get it through Kindle and any bookstore can order it, but first go to the mechanics library and join. Let's see maybe Dean has one more thing he wants to say. Looks like you raised his hand again. I did. I think I, well, I think I might have messed up, but Emmanuel, what's up, man? I see your name over there. I try to say hi to you. But Judy, you've, congratulations on the book, Judy. You've done a great job and in a great interview tonight. Thank you for interviewing, interviewing Judy and I hope Ron gets better. I've been trying to get lunch with him and he says he's has some issues. To contact you, but it doesn't always work. I know. Okay. Hi, honey. Manuel, you there. And manual. Maybe not. He's probably. He said he was at his son's house and he had to go. Oh yeah. All right. Well, it was nice. Nice hearing you, your voice anyway. Thank you very much. Judy, you're the best. Okay. Bye bye. Bye bye. All right. Well, I guess Emmanuel cannot talk, but. All right, well, thank you very much, Judy. We I learned a lot and I need to read your book. But it looks like. I'm going to save the chat for you because there's so many private messages or personal messages for you. But yeah, I mean, I'll send it to you. I'll send it to you. I'll send it to you. I'll send it to you. I'll send it to you as we probably should sign off. Because I see there's only a few people left in our attendance. And we probably want to cut some of this stuff from the video. Private stuff. But I just wanted to thank you for. Coming tonight and sharing your story. And I look forward to reading the book. And. It looks like every, all of our attendees had a great time too. Good. Thank you so much for doing this. You're very welcome. I did the easy part. You just wrote a book. That's all. All right. Well, thank you everyone. Stay safe and well and dry tonight. It's raining here in the Bay Area. And we'll catch you at the next virtual event at the mechanics Institute. We'll see you soon. Bye. Bye-bye.


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