Going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards doing a nine box baseball mixer for Eric W We have eight twenty-two bowman draft sapphires as well as one twenty-two tops gilded collection baseball So good luck here Eric. Let's do it, buddy twenty-two bowman draft sapphire. My knife is gone Stop Jordan. What do you got for me? What do you got for me, man? first Robert Moore Brooks Lee and Andy's Leonard first of Jimmy Crook's first Logan Tanner and Trace Gonzalez. I like Ryan Gosling I have no I have no issues with Ryan probably wouldn't be my favorite actor, but Jacob Marcy Ike Paul Rudd Warwick Burnabell Ben Joyce. There's a noise Joyce and a cold and freezing alarm Your look of annoyed right there joy melted Bryson Mott's first Connor Freelop and Jose Salas Jackson Job and your land of confidant Nightmare tech needle first and Samuel Isabel Green to 50 is Jason choreo seven out of 50 nice one there Eric I guess we could do a recap of the color if that's all right with you Which is because it's enough Cooper is your Yeah, I've always been a Paul Rudd fan. I love them and friends obviously as great as an ant man Gold first Peyton palette two out of 15 nice one there a couple of nice colors for you there Eric Congrats, buddy Nice one there Christian Hernandez and Andrew pins are Sorry four-year-old He was really good in that yeah Yep, he's good. He's a good actor dude. I call run first Hunter Barker Clark Elliott We'll do a recap of all your color at the end as well Eric Just so in case you don't want to watch the entire thing You don't have to Nate Furman first Yossir Mercedes Ignacio Alvarez Henry Williams Jake Bennett first Kenya Huggins and Donnie We're just coming up with as many strategies as we could during the group breaks get it followed these sleep didn't top-loaded Showable first Peyton palette and William Kemper. No, it's impossible Oh, forget it. It's it's it's over. Yeah first Caden Wallace Leonardo of Belcazar Yellow is Trisha and Veerling for the Yankees 38 out of 99 nice one there grads on that Eric nice yank coming your way So that Yankees fan mojo right there Got green to 50 of Drew Gilbert nice one there 40 out of 50 for the Astros Congrats about that and Brenner Cox Bach number three Pirates Ville, I'm pretty sure Vilead is isn't he a rocky palmquist Jackson Fox base there a couple of firsts as well No super notable first Pete Hansen cold Phillips. Is he not he's now on pad did not know that did not know he was now on the Pirates Yeah, he's not bad Jackson holiday nice one there. See if you can get some color of Jackson holiday first Gabriel and coins No, Schultz first First Karen Mackenzie Robby snowing first first even zoe back and chase the water Aqua trace weenie 14 out of 20 for the Yankees nice one there Grats on that one Eric So the Meyer and Gavin Cross first nice one there for the Royals We've got yellow Adam Azur 93 out of 99 for the Padres secondary color match very cool very cool And Henry Mendez of the over box three Eric more on the box number four now We're really starting run low What's healthy we're doing like there's days we do like 75 breaks a day between all three That's what I was gonna say between Matt between daytime which we do six days a week and Like regular main channel breaks Insane Elijah green on the first there Same Ryan Ritter first Jordan sprinkle and plus with Caleb to kill of streaming as well Michael Kennedy Trevor Martin Yeah, but still the bins Henry Davis That is Bryson Mott's 78 out of 99 on the yellow for the Cardinals Grats there of Matt McLean three out of ten nice one there for the Reds nice McLean purple purple sapphires of great Grats on that. There you go, Eric Very nice buddy on the box five Zack and Nito first. That's a Nito Nito Sean struggling Coopers your Andrew pins are Traylipscomb first Carson Palmquist First cutter coffee first Jackson Cox Brandon Barrera first Pete Hansen Jackson holiday first nice First tax me because I was like he was helping me through how to like add points to people's accounts and how to do the promo and everything We've got teal is Benny Montgomery Benny the jet 13 out of 20 For the Rockies there you go Eric first of Gabriel and coins and he's like this is also he was like he ran me through the entire thing I was like I was like, oh, like thank you for doing that. He was like, yeah, no problem. Like that's all stuff I had to do on my own this Blake Burke halter. It's all stuff. I had to figure out my own for the Braves Two more to go here or three more technically branding in first first Parker Messick Reggie Crawford first base Jet Williams first Jacob Melton first Kate Horton first first of Thomas Harrington I Like Reggie Crawford Reggie Crawford to stud Mikey Romero first Jonathan Cannon and Drew Gilbert. I'm a big fan of Reggie Crawford. He's in Bowman Draft this year orange got Eric Brown is Christopher Passiola 25 of 25 for the Cubs. There you go, Eric. Good one there. Very solid Verdugo and Coleon Yellow is Khalil Watson 68 out of 99 for the Marlins All right, Eric. We are got we have two more boxes of Bowman Draft sapphire and then we got your gilded as well Very fun Looking forward to it Hidden Wallace first Leonardo Balcazar landing Sims first first the Brenner Cox Machine over there right now Machine Jace Jung first Valera first tomorrow Johnson Justin Boyd and Danny Dandrata Passiola Dalton rushing JR Ricci have our color in here now got yellow Shane Sean McClain 21 of 99 for the Dodgers Nice one there again 21 of 99 on the yellow Sal Stewart and Kevin Perrata a couple of nice firsts as well and Last pack of box seven. Oh a red. Come on, baby. Ms. O'Roskey Dylan Rae Is James Triantos four of five heck. Yeah, Eric Let's go dude. Nice one there very very highly touted Cubs prospect James Triantos We'll take that and get that into a mag after the break is over you get a cappy Box for you here Eric Snelling first first even zoe back and chase the lotter. Take it the lotter first Cermak first and a Gavin cross another one Nice one there a couple of Gavin crosses couple of Lees couple of holidays Johnson's greens bunch of them in here Mark King First of Clark Elliott's Hunter Barco Alex McFarland and Nate Furman Ignacio Alvarez first Do you mind magging the triant once the breaks over which one toast that one right? Yeah, yeah, gotcha Henry Williams first Jake Bennett just for ease of making Sean's job a little easier Eric We will mag the triantos. We're just gonna it's top-loaded right now. Just for the recap. I forgot. It's all good I'll get I will Maggie There's a Troy Melton 41 out of 99 for the Tigers on the yellow Can you Huggins and Peyton palette the green to 50 is chase my draw 29 out of 50 for the Red Sox nice one there congrats Eric and a William Kempner So that'll do it for your sapphires there Let's do some gilded right. We've got Gold-etched rookie hunter green. I swung there to 199 for the reds Grats on the green We won't recap any of the gilded because it's the last one on your mind on the break as well Eric We got Hoy Park that is 47 out of 99 for the Pirates on the rookie Such a cool picture on this one. Got a John Smoltz at his 45 out of 50 So I'm there for the Braves the Brabos and that your auto is gonna be Max Muncie That is 20 out of 25 nice one there Eric max Muncie On the autograph on guard and we've got your frame good luck Eric, and we'll do a quick recap of your Sapphire nice one here. We've got a Ricky Henderson 7 out of 10 on the framed Hall of Fame gold auto congrats on that Eric very nice, buddy We will take that all day long Run Ricky runs stolen base leader stolen base King There you go that will do it for your break Eric, let's do a quick recap here We've got your yellows to 99 Troy Melton Shawn McLean Khalil Watson Blake Burkhalter Bryson Mott's Adam Azur Christian Veerling Green to 50 chase my draw Orange to 25 Christopher Passiola Teals to 20 Benny Montgomery Trey Sweeney. There's a couple more greens to 50 Drew Gilbert Jason Shoria Gold to 15 Peyton palette Purple to 10 Matt McLean and red four or five James Triantos Again Sean is getting that mag ready for you Eric That'll do it for your break Eric. Thanks again, buddy. Really appreciate it as always my man get those right out to you


Mom had an odd feeling about her son-in-law, then she found a photo and changed her daughter's life. When you find the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, it can feel like you've known them your entire life. But British couple Heidi Parker and Ed Savit had no idea there was something they didn't know about one another. And then, Parker's mother found a startling photo that shattered everything she thought she knew about her fiancé. Heidi Parker had graduated high school and was ready to start a new chapter in her life, but she didn't want to do it at home. So, she started applying to different colleges and eventually found the one that would mean she'd have to say goodbye to her parents. Heidi Parker knew that moving away from home would be a major life change, but she had no idea what she was in for when she decided to attend the University of Newcastle in 2011. And it wasn't a college professor or her major that ended up changing the course of her life forever. Living 130 miles away from her parents was certainly new and she was loving her newfound freedom, but not everything was going as smoothly as she wanted it to. In fact, she was pretty close to ending up on the street. Living in a dorm wasn't a requirement at the university, so Parker planned on sharing an apartment with a couple of friends. But things didn't work out, so she decided it was time for a change. This put her on a path to meeting a very special someone who would soon rock her entire world. It was a new school year and a whole new direction in her life, so she decided to push her luck and live alone. But she didn't want to live somewhere that was too far away from college, so she went apartment hunting, not realizing someone was looking for her. She eventually found a studio apartment close to campus and was elated to start her new life. Then she was contacted by a random stranger, and this person would soon become a very important figure in her life. Although Parker had settled into her new apartment, the tenant who had moved into her old digs was having some problems with the place. In fact, things got so bad that he started scouring the internet to hunt her down. Parker had received a Facebook message from a guy named Ed Sabbath, who said that he was a tenant in Parker's former apartment and he needed help from her. Naturally, she wanted to lend a hand, but she had the feeling he wasn't being too sincere. Although she had her doubts, she agreed to go to Sabbath's house. She had seen his profile photo on Facebook and thought he was really good looking, so in spite of her better judgment, she decided to pay him a visit. Sabbath told her he didn't know how to use a communal dryer, but she didn't buy his story. To her, it kind of seemed like a cheesy pickup line, and yet there was something about him that felt very familiar to her. She just couldn't figure out what it was. Parker showed Sabbath how to work the machine and even stayed to make sure he was able to finish the process, but as she started to leave, he stopped her in her tracks. She was so scared, but then he said something that put her mind at ease. Sabbath was able to mad up and ask her out on a date to a nearby cafe. She figured it'd be okay. At the very least, she'd be getting some free coffee out of it, so she said yes, but hadn't foreseen that life as she knew it was about to change forever. On their date, Parker discovered that Sabbath was going to Newcastle University to study business and psychology. He also had a dream of opening up a shop someday. It seemed like he had brains and good looks too, so pretty soon, they started hitting it off. Despite her skepticism, the two connected and soon enough, they started dating and going to college costume parties together. During that time, they shared everything from victories to failures and even secrets. But there was one fact about the couple that was waiting to be discovered and it was about to blow everyone's minds. Eventually, their college lives came to an end and the couple had to figure out their next move. They decided to move to London but didn't move in together right away. Parker landed a major PR job opportunity while Sabbath finally opened up a coffee shop on the south side of town. But then, things got really serious between them. After a while, Parker and Sabbath moved in together and they were quite sure that they wanted to share their lives together. But this decision would lead to a life-altering revelation that would make them question everything they believed to be true about their first encounter. From the moment Parker and Sabbath started dating, every fiber of their being told them that they were made for each other. But there was a long family secret that they knew nothing of and it was about to come to the surface. There was a spark whenever they looked in each other's eyes. It was as if they'd known each other their whole lives. In a way, they kind of felt like they had met in another life and they weren't entirely off base. When Parker and Sabbath finally got engaged, they decided to have a pre-wedding family dinner. But it was two particular family members that would end up revealing something about Sabbath and it was a truth that even he didn't know about himself. At this point, Parker and Sabbath had been dating for years and they got along great. So naturally, they assumed that getting their mothers to meet was the right thing to do. But they were a little nervous, so they tried accounting for every contingency, except for one. They picked their mothers' favorite restaurant and made all the reservations, so there was nothing that could go wrong. They were sure of it, or so they thought. But when the moms started talking, a family secret came dangerously close to surfacing. Would it completely ruin their seemingly perfect relationship? The truth about the couple's past came to light when their mothers, Fiona Sabbath and Kay Parker, started chatting. The woman began trading stories about their children.  Parker and Sabbath were glad that their mothers were getting along so well, but they had no choice but to interrupt them to give them some exciting news. They were engaged. But oddly enough, this was not the most shocking news the mothers were about to get.  They sailed boats, which her daughter loved doing. And on that trip, she remembers her then six-year-old daughter had met a boy that had swept her off her feet. Her daughter and the boy held hands and spent lots of time together. But after the dinner was over, Parker's mother sensed there was something not quite right about her daughter's fiancée. The two mothers were delighted that their children had invited them to dinner, but the get-together had left Parker's mother troubled. She knew that the secret to a happy marriage involved total honesty, but she feared that there was something about her daughter and her fiancée that had been kept from them all these years. Parker's mother assumed that she would need some extra space to put all the wedding supplies and presents, so she started clearing up space in the basement. But in the process, she stumbled onto something that brought her back to the story Savit's mother had told her. Something about the story made Parker's mother uneasy. She tried putting it out of her head, but a few weeks later, she discovered a box full of photographs in the basement from that Turkish sailing trip from a long time ago. And it revealed something about Savit that shook her to the very core. Parker's mother found a photograph of her daughter with the boy she met in 1997 on their trip to Turkey. There was something about the boy's bowl-cut hair and smoldering gaze, and that's when it hit her. She suddenly realized who the boy was, but she didn't put the clues together all on her own. As luck would have it, the Parkers and the Savits had both gone on vacation to Turkey in the summer of 1997, and both families ended up in the Turkish city of Gumbett. Once Parker's mother figured out the identity of the boy, she contacted Savit's mother to see if she knew who he was, and the reaction was staggering. If anyone could have identified the smiling boys in the photographs, it would certainly be the boy's mother, and Parker's mother had a nagging suspicion that she knew who that was. It was just a matter of asking Savit's mother and seeing if she was right. Once Parker discovered more photos of her daughter and the mystery boy, she shared them with Savit's mother, who shrieked when she realized the little boy was none other than her own son. The women couldn't contain their excitement, and it would soon reach Parker's daughter.  That's when she discovered several other photos of her son's first girlfriend. She just hoped that her son and future daughter-in-law would be just as excited as they were. Of course, the mothers had to share the news with their children, so Parker's mother sent her daughter the photo of the little boy through text and then called her. When Parker looked at the photo, she was so stunned, and yet she couldn't believe it. Once the couple learned that they had met 18 years earlier on a family vacation, they knew they were destined to live happily ever after. So, in 2017, they officially sealed the deal, but they couldn't help but wonder how they hadn't realized they'd met before. After dating for years, one would assume their childhood trip to Turkey would have come up in a conversation, but they could have lived a lifetime and never known about their early connection, so it seems fate had always intended for them to know the truth. Their mother's glorious discovery made their wedding day even more magical than the brighter groom could ever have imagined. They even picked the perfect venue to get hitched at that had something very special in common with the couple. The couple said their eye-dos at a 12th-century manor house called Haddon Hall. It only made sense that they married in a place with so much history, since they too had a lot of history of their own, but their chance encounter did more than unite these two lovebirds. Parker and Savit had no idea at the time that their chance encounterist children would one day end up uniting their two families in love and friendship. And now, the in-laws have even gone on regular vacations to Turkey together, while their kids enjoy their own lives as newlyweds. Parker and Savit had their moment to celebrate their love, and now they're happily living and loving life together. In 2019, they attended their friends' Easter wedding, and they looked fabulous with his tie matching the color of her outfit. They also share similar interests. Although it's not clear who's a bigger soccer enthusiast, the couple looks likely embodiment of love in this cute snap.   She also added a funny caption that read, I've not had many husbands, but I reckon you're as good as they get, and they're continuing a tradition that started it all. A family trip was what made them meet in the first place, so it makes perfect sense that they would continue the tradition of traveling together to exotic places like Teatro Romano Cartagena, Spain. And even though Parker is seriously amazing, she's not exactly great at buying Savit presents. On December 27, 2019, Parker posted a photo of her husband wearing the skier shirt she bought for him from eBay for Christmas. She claimed it was kind of a joke gift and that he hated it, but she thinks it's perfect just like he is.


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Give us a second just to push it live. I think we are good to go, Samia. Are we live? We're live. Hello everyone, welcome to the movement brand project concept presentation. My name is Samir Shabati from the foundation project team. I'm happy to be here today with my colleagues, Essie, Zach, and Elena from the Rikimedia Foundation, and Sophie and Kim Andre from SNHETA. This is a big moment where we are concluding phase one of this project by presenting a concept on which our new brand system will be built. In similar situations, this will be a meeting for five or six people sitting around the table in a closed room. But this is not how it works in a movement like ours. Rikimedia is built upon the idea of cooperation, the identity of a movement that aspires to giving people access to the sum of all human knowledge can't be established properly unless everyone is at the table. We are so happy that SNHETA, a world leader in design, architecture, and branding are our partners in this project. In the past few months, they have been open to hear many different perspectives, travel the world with us and be committed to an open process that gets informed by all of you. We would never have been able to do this without your cooperation and input. In the past few months, nearly 100 of you from over 40 countries joined us in the brand workshops. Each of you took this message forward and shared it with their communities to discuss it and you are here with us today to share this moment. So thank you so much for everything you have already contributed and for what's to come next. So in the look at today's agenda, so we'll start with Essie to walk us through the overall project timeline, key dates to mark on your calendar, and it will be followed by a little background on how this all started by Zach. And then we'll be passing it over to our awesome Sophie and Camandre from SNHETA where they will explain to us what concepts are, how they help in branding and leading to today's big moment, which is presenting that unified concepts. Afterwards, they will share with us the next step, which is the third exercise. Finally, there will be a Q&A with Elena, so please don't forget to write down your questions during the presentation and drop them in the chat here on Zoom, YouTube, or IRC channel media office. Please don't wait until the Q&A if you have any questions, drop them right away and we'll keep them for the discussion time. All right, best thing gets over to Essie with the project timeline. Thank you, Samir. Hi, everyone. My name is Essie Zah, I'm the Senior Brand Manager here at the Foundation helping to lead this project. So the timeline of the two 2030 movement brand project. The big part of this is that there's four key phases that we need to go through. Right now, we are today wrapping up phase one, which is concept development with a final exercise for people to get involved with. So once that is all complete, we have completed phase one. From there, we're going to move into phase two naming convention in May. So during this time, we're going to develop the naming convention proposals that will then be shared out for movement-wide feedback in the middle of May. So from there, once we have that feedback, we move into phase three in June, which is the design system where we would be developing the design system proposals, as well as revising the naming conventions with the feedback that came through to then release that to the movement-wide feedback. From there, with all that feedback, phase four, the final phase, we'll be putting together the full brand proposal, which will then also include the style guide of how it will come to life, for then that to be presented to the Board of Trustees afterwards. So this is the full timeline that the next couple of months that we will be going through. Having said that, there's some key dates that we do know of. On Monday, we're going to share out the unified concept. On Monday from the 20th to the 26th of April, we'll have an exercise up on brandingwikipedia.org for people to help bring to life the visuals of the unified concept. In May, from May 7th to the 21st will be when the naming convention proposals will be released for the movement-wide feedback. And then June, as much as we can lock to right now, is when we will be releasing the revised naming convention as well as the design system proposal for feedback. I do just want to note with the current times that we're living in with COVID-19, we believe that these are the right dates. If anything does change, which we are monitoring, we will then update you if there are any changes. So a little bit more on naming and I know that this is a sensitive subject. I know that there has been many different discussions happening about this. We have read the RFC and there's been some great actually suggestions and learnings that is coming out of everyone discussing this. But again, just to go back to the timeline, we are just about to head into the naming convention proposal phase. And what we can share, what we do know is that there will be multiple naming approaches in the proposal that is shared out. And there will be options that sway heavily more using Wikipedia and there may be options that don't sway as heavily using Wikipedia. The proposal will be released for two weeks for feedback. And the way that we're going to be asking for feedback will be for people to view it based on the movement branding criteria that was set by the community in 2019. So it will be linked to what we have learned that the movement branding really needs to be for success, to set it up for success. And having said that, I know that there's some people that have joined this call that have been along this process that have been in other presentations about this. So they're like, yep, we got it. There's other people that are joining us for the first time and don't necessarily know all the background and the research and the discussions that have happened before this project kicked off. So I want to pass it over to Zach now to take us through a bit more of the background to sort of say how that we got here. Thanks Essie. And thank you all for being here amidst this outrageous and unprecedented moment in which so many of us have had to change our lives. We hope that you're well. We hope that you're safe. And I thank you for making time to join us either today in this live or in the future. Hello, shout out to our people watching in the future. We're really grateful for your attention and for your participation in this. So let's talk about how we got here. And in fact, we'll talk about who we are. This started with an email in 2003, an email proposed that we, the people who were then working on wiki wiki projects should refer to ourselves as wikimedia with an M. It was a moment to not only think about what the we of the communities working on these projects should be called, but even the idea that there was a common umbrella encompassing spirit between all of the work that all of these people all around the world were doing. If we continue forward, that suggestion from that email became a name that was adopted by chapters by user groups by our communities as they grow as they define new events, as we define the work that we do, calling it wikimedia movement strategy, and such. There was also the adoption later of this round logo in three colors. And this logo came from a different moment. It actually was a runner up in a logo contest for the wikipedia project. So the puzzle globe, which we all know well was the number one winner. This right here was number two. And it was adopted to be the mark of our movement. In 2017, a really ambitious process began, which many of you have either participated in or even led. It is the movement strategy process. And it began by asking fundamental questions. What does the movement want to build together over the next 13 years. What is it that we are really passionate about committed to. What we see there is the biggest broadest we it's the people who are here now, it's the people we want to invite in, it's our partners and hindered organizations, it's our donors, it's our users, it's, what is this all driving towards. And incredibly, this was summarized down into a strategic direction, which is by 2030, we will become the essential infrastructure of free knowledge and anyone who shares her vision can join us. It's a really exciting, ambitious and far reaching goals to set a true strategic direction. But when the wikipedia foundation communications team received this saw it. Reddit, we became very interested and even concerned about the second part of the strategic direction, the anyone who shares our vision can join us. Because there are so many people for us to reach so many people around the world that we would want to have within our movement. We would want to have them join us. And we began to do research on how well known our movement was, how well known the name wikipedia was. So in 2018, we began brand research with partners called wolf on and they did a study of the individual projects, and how well known they were around the world. And they asked how well known wikipedia was, and found something that our communities have been telling the foundation for a number of years that wikipedia is unknown. It's a little confusing and it's unclear to people outside the movement inside the movement it is an exciting comprehensive phrase outside the movement. It seems confusing with wikipedia because it's one word away, or it can be rendered as wiki media and people imagine that it has podcasts or videos. In fact, people imagine wikipedia as what we inside the movement know as wikipedia comments. We recognized that there was an opportunity for us to work towards an evolved set of movement branding. We wondered, what if we updated our movement branding, what would need to change, what should stay the same. And those same partners who did the brand research in 2019 shared a proposal, which we shared to the board and to our communities around the world, which for our brand research partners was an incredibly obvious thing, but for us inside of the movement was actually something we knew was difficult and complicated. What if we used wikipedia as the center of movement naming. And the pros of this are that wikipedia is the best known of all our projects, it's better known than wikipedia, it is the tool that so many of our communities use to introduce themselves and their work, it's how we go out to partners. And how we do fundraising to support our mission. But it's also very rooted in one way of thinking and one set of projects. And as we've learned through the RFC and subsequent discussions. There's a number of reasons it might not work as a name. The feedback we got to that moment where we shared that research, and we shared that suggestion. There's a lot of commonalities, more than 300 long comments were shared back to the foundation about this idea at that time, and more have been shared sense. We see these falling into the following clusters. Overall, the movement has a number of names that are closely related, and they cause confusion. In fact, we even have names that are not related to us that people think are related to us, like wiki leaks, or wiki how. A question was asked, how will changing movement names, which is a part of changing movement branding improve things so that everyone can clearly and simply understand what we are and what we are not. We've heard a number of comments about reputation. Wikipedia has a very positive reputation in some parts of the world, and a very. It has a concerning reputation other parts of the world. When there's a positive association, are we simply hijacking that. Will the bad reputation other parts of the world limit the work of communities that are related to the overall movement. Lots of questions and comments about reputation. The other wiki projects, the other wiki projects current branding, wikimedia indicates that there are many projects as that email we looked at a moment ago showed, we are all within one system and wikimedia wall does not well known expresses the idea that there are many things happening. How would changing our name continue even improve our ability to celebrate the other projects. We know that in some parts of the world, there is a great deal of scrutiny from governments from the press, from corporations, and sometimes from the public. And we do not want our communities to be at risk because of the names they use being confusing or misassociating them with certain responsibilities. My headset is making a something. Support movement growth. Branding should directly aid movement understanding, you should be able to understand that we are movement from seeing our movement brand. Finally, there's always a question within the wikimedia movement around process of change unilateral changes are not what we do. So, however movement branding is changed and adjusted. How can it be done slowly opt in in phases, and to the people who want to do it, empowering every affiliate to make their own decision. These were the themes that we saw when we shared branding ideas in 2018 and into 2019. But as se will point out, these actually were the beginning of us having a better and better sense of how we can do more powerful work together to set our entire movement up to achieve the 2030 goals. Se why don't you jump back in here and I'll figure out what's going on with my microphone. Okay. Thanks Zach. One of those things was really has become a checklist our guide to creating a good movement branding what how do we know that we're making the right decisions to set us up for success for something that we can all use that becomes a tool. So this is how we then will evaluate all these key moments going forward does does what we're creating explain who we are and resolve confusion. Does it protect and improve our reputation. Does it support and elevate the sisters projects. Does it assess and address legal risks. Does it support movement growth doesn't invite people to come in and want to be a part of this. And also a key thing to make sure is that it's not being forced that it is opt in for movement members from affiliate affiliates to individual contributors as well. This is when I said the movement branding criteria like how will we ask for feedback it will be feedback on these key objectives that we have received from the community to make sure that we're setting this whole thing up for success. And that now brings us to back to where we are in the timeline for the unified concept, which has taken a few months we have traveled around the world we've had workshops online offline many different just different discussions by email and Facebook. So, we have now very proud to come to this big moment to solidify the unified concept. But I think the key thing to remember for that for what's been happening in the past couple of months is that we are making a new movement branded but guided by all of us. So I'm very happy to pass this on now to Smohetta to take us through the unified concept. Thank you so much. See, we'll get set up here. There we go. Yeah, thank you again. See, we in the SNET are truly excited that we can be on this journey together with you with the movement. And as you said, it's especially exciting today, since this is a key movement in our collaborative design process. I'm Kim Andrea Oltusen. I'm a designer and developer at SNETA and later you'll meet my colleague Sofia Plato, senior designer. And we represent a bigger team here at SNETA that have been a part of all the work so far with the workshops and the concepts development. We strongly believe in co-creation by working together so we can create meaningful design and architecture.  And today we're going to look at the process, the concepts that were created in the workshops and ultimately the unified concepts. We had workshops in Norway, in India and online to create these concepts seeking to answer the question of who are we. And this requires meeting, listening, asking questions, learning and also creating together. And we are very thankful that we can experience the energy and knowledge of this community and movement and together we have created 23 concepts. And each, every single one of these concepts holds meaning and value since it comes from hundreds of thoughts and actions from different people. They were created from eight workshops with 97 members of the Wikimedia community coming from a total of 41 countries. And we would like to thank all that gave their time and energy to engage in these workshops all around the world. But what is really a concept? We believe in the value of a concept being the foundation for the creative work. We believe that a concept creates meaning, it validates all the choices that we have to make throughout the process and it establishes a common understanding between all of us that are in the project. And our way of working with concepts is defined through the book IdeaWork, which is the result of a four year research project by Sintef, one of Europe's largest independent research organizations. And in this book, 10 creative drivers are defined and they aim to answer how we solve problems, how we innovate and how we create design and architecture. And we focused on three of these drivers in our workshops, prepping, zooming out and getting physical. Because we believe that we think as much with our hands and bodies as with us with our heads. So in the last session, each group has to build a model of the concept they create. Often it's physical models, but it also can be individual models. And to explain what we mean with our concept, what a concept is, we can take a look at the concept of a tree. There's over 3 trillion of them in the world and it's over 60,000 different species. They range from pine, spruce, oak, palms, you name it. And a tree also consists of many different parts. You have roots, you have the trunk, you have branches, and you have leaves. And all of this is contained within the concept of a tree. And this generalization shows how we can extract similarities from numerous different examples and how this simplification enables higher level thinking or conceptual thinking. So we can say that the simple tree at the bottom of the diagram here contains an open sub for talking about all this information of trees. And this simple illustration could mean something different if it didn't put it into this tree context. It could have been a table tennis racket or maybe an ice cream. But the point here is that this means that the context defines the meaning of the concept. And the context of Wikimedia will also regulate the meaning of the concept we'll show you later. And to take a closer look at how concepts guide the creative work and to understand how they inform and guide the process, we're going to show you two examples from previous projects that we have done. And we use these concepts for projects of all types and sizes within both design and architecture. And the first example that we're going to show you is from 1989. And it's the library of Alexandria. And for this project, we worked with a concept of a microchip. And we think the microchip is particularly interesting in this context since it highlights the ability and also the need or knowledge to exist in multiple forms, that being oral, written, illustrated, and also digital. And the elements that you see on the disk here, that's microchips. And they are the essential component in computers. So this concept then opens up for the binary language of computers, which consists of zeros and ones, or we could say plus and minus. And this plus minus analogy informed the project in different ways. You can see it here through how part of the building is under the surface and how part of the building is over the surface. The concept also reminds us that when we talk about the past, we have to talk about the future. And it reminds us that it's not about the architecture itself and the storing of knowledge physically, but making a place for people to meet and to share that knowledge. And the concept also inspired the circular shape of the building itself. The second example that we want to show to you to explain how we work with concepts and how they inform the process is the identity and strategy project uniting all the 44 national parks in Norway. And they are a broad community from all around the country. And through five workshops with all parts of the community, we created the concept portal together. And this concept communicates the dual message of both protecting the nature while also still inviting you into the nature. When you go through a portal, it's like transferring into a different world. In this case, in this context, a world where you can explore raw Norwegian nature while we can still convey that you as a visitor also need to care and protect it. And these are some of the concept models that they built in their process. And these models and concepts ultimately led to the portal concepts that we ended up with. The concept informed the logo symbol as we see here, which can be both an abstraction of an N, but also a portal. It informed the elements in the identity here shown through the signage system that acts as portals themselves, leading you into the nature. And also to the image style, showing portals, natural portals in nature. So we hope that these two examples show how concepts can inform the creative process and open up for bigger stories. And now I'm going to give a hand over to Sofia, which will take you through the 23 concepts that you made in the workshop. Thank you, Kim Andre.  I will now present the 23 concepts that we have created together. And on behalf of us and the SNERDA team, I have to say that this has been such an interesting journey of discovery. We were so thankful to have got the chance to be able to meet so many of you in person and experience the differences and similarities that this movement is built on. And by meeting you all, whether it's been in the digital room or in a physical one, we have been given the chance to learn, to ask questions and to understand. And most importantly, as Kim Andre has been talking about, to create together. And it's been exciting to learn how you see yourself and how this materializes into the different concepts that have been created and to see the links between all of them. So I think it's important to say that all the 23 concepts that have been created are equally important to guide the process of defining the one unified concept that we will look at shortly. So looking through the 23 concepts now, some of them have been created physically and some of them have been created online and visualized. And they have been created in our workshops in Norway, in India and online. So the first concept is builders. Then we had the concept expand. We had Musaik, Beovoda, which has a similar meaning to work in progress in Hebrew. Collaboration, garden, nurturing. We had fire. We had Nathakatu, which is Arabic and can be translated to stand together. We had the concept of beehive, universe, public goods together. Waheda, which can be translated to unity and community. Ocean, sun, galaxy, ocean again, rayonment, honeycomb, particle, and connections. And already in the workshops, we saw commonalities between many of the concepts. And after the last workshop, we continued identifying patterns and shared meanings. So that led to us defining three categories to help navigate the concepts, where some of the concepts that you created talk more about the individual people. Some talk about the collective belief and some talk about the bigger systems and connections. And to further facilitate co-creation and to continue on this transparent and open progress process we had initiated, we invited the whole community to review the concepts that had been created in the workshops so that we could continue the process as an even bigger group. So to investigate the meaning and potential of the concepts created in the workshops, we built a tool to review the concepts. The tool makes the concept accessible to the community, getting input from you who know the movement best. It strengthens the global perspective and helps to discover patterns and common denominators for how to build meaning in the unified concepts. And this led to a lot of valuable inputs. It was a very useful tool. You all came on and review the concepts and by that told us what resonated best to you. You left 47 comments. You gave 1,224 endorsements to the concepts that you liked the best. And this all was done by 1,384 visits. And this was of course also Cheryl Metaviki to the 87 user groups, 39 chapters, 590 members of the brand network and to the 97 workshop attendees. And based on the input from all of you through comments and validations and with the basis in 23 concepts, we see that we have created together. Our job has been to summarize, combine and further develop this into one concept. One concept that holds all of this meaning. And to explain the concepts, we have created a film. I think the movement means different things for different people. Participation is very important for us as a movement, trying to involve all of our communities. The ideas that just came streaming from one person after another. When I heard the other two groups come up with what they had and I felt that there was very much a connection between them. We're all interesting and we all know something and it's a representation of how we think, how we create, how we connect. The 23 concepts created in the workshops have been unified into one concept. Interconnection. Interconnections are mutual connections between two or more things. From the smallest interconnections to the bigger picture. We find interconnections in nature through ecosystems. Interconnections between people creating something bigger. Interconnections between languages, cultures and beliefs. Enabling us to understand, discuss, contribute and share knowledge. Interconnection. So, interconnection is the unified concept. And this concept is the combination of the work you have done so far in this process. And we as a team are very happy and enthusiastic about the result of this. We believe that the concept will be a great tool moving forward in the design process. Because interconnection will help us create a design system that is universal and accessible. What we are working towards is that the result of this design process will become a tool for you all to reach the 2030 goals. To continue the work towards becoming an essential infrastructure for knowledge. And open up for more people around the world to join the movement. And to make knowledge accessible to all. And we believe that the concept interconnection can guide us in this process. Interconnection will inform and validate the naming system. The concept will be a tool to guide us when we're developing the naming system. To make sure that we acknowledge all the parts of the movement and how they are interconnected. Interconnection will help us answer the question, who are we? We see the concept as a tool to clarify who you are as a movement and what you stand for. And lastly, interconnection will ensure that the process is guided by you. The most important goal in this process for us has been to open up an invite in for continuous co-creation and inputs. And to continue on this note, we would like to invite you to give input also here. So by this, we invite you to take part in the third exercise in this process. By visualizing interconnections. So handing it over to you, we ask for your help on researching and exploring what interconnections mean and looks like in a Wikimedia context. And we ask you to give us visual input on how you see interconnections. This will be hosted at the brand hub, brandenwickimedia.org, and it will be open from April 20th until April 26th. And all the details will be included with the exercise coming out in the 20th. And by this, we would like to thank you all for following and for being part of the process so far. And we are excited to see how you visualize and interpret the concepts interconnections. Thank you. Thank you, Sophia. Thank you, Kim Andre. Thank you to our colleagues in Snowheta for that comprehensive overview. All right, I'm just sharing my screen again. Somehow, where is my presentation gone? One second. Oh, coming. All right, we're just going to go back to the timeline very quickly to just show because it's a big moment here. Always. That we are now going to be able to move into phase two naming conventions. So that's what will be coming up in May. And I just am going to hand it over to Elena to start the discussion process. But I also just wanted to put up on the screen a bit of a summary of what's being discussed today with the key dates where you can find more information as well as some of the naming details. So Elena, I'm going to pass it over to you. Thanks, I see. All right, so we have been monitoring questions throughout the presentation. We have a lot of them, which is great. I have been trying to organize thematically and consolidate so that we can get to everything. I did not hear your question verbatim, but I hope to capture the meaning behind everybody's question and get an answer for everybody's question. Okay, so the first set of questions that I want to field are about the scope of the project because I think that's important to clarify first. So the first set of questions will go to the brand project team Zach or SC. First, is this project about a brand for the foundation or for the movement. Is it about websites and the foundation or, or is it about more than that. And if it is about the movement, why does the board need to have a final say in it. And if it is about the movement, how do we formally bring along the affiliates in this change. And thank you for posing that to the folks who added that to this discussion. So the first things I'll say about the scope is what this is not. This is not a project that has interest in any rebranding design or naming for the wiki projects the Wikimedia projects so wiki data, Wikimedia Commons, those communities are the folks that drive the branding decisions for those projects. So projects are not in scope. What is in scope are the movement identity items. And that is anyone who is using Wikimedia today. The name, and the circle the round all logo, we've invited everyone who is working with that which we usually refer to as affiliates we've invited them to join this process. Sameer is our lead there and has been doing outreach on mailing lists on to specific village pumps since 2019. And we've sent many invitations for affiliates to nominate an affiliate liaison, somebody who can be a bridge from this project into those communities so that we have feedback and perspectives from those communities. What that means is that, while the foundation recognizes the need to evolve the foundations branding the foundations name and the foundations logos. We don't want to do this alone. The whole purpose of branding is really to show connection. Here we can say it's to show interconnection between our communities between the parts of our movement between the projects, and the people who make them happen, which is why this process is open and iterative, and why we're inviting you today to hear about how we're doing things. And in May, to comment and engage with the naming ideas, we want to produce a system that people are ready to use excited to use and that they recognize their own direction and needs within. Thank you. Just a reminder Zach hold up your headset so we can do it so bizarre. Miss behaving microphone. Let's do it. Okay, so the next set of questions is about the process going forward. I think that se you touched on this but just to clarify further. So what do we mean when we're talking about movement wide feedback. What does movement wide feedback look like. And how much does the feedback consider internal risks, especially to community health and project morale. Right. Okay, so movement wide feedback. What we mean, but can you hear me. Very well. Yeah, I think you're fine. I think I'm the person who's going to hold it up here in this exciting position. So movement wide feedback is more that it is open up that that anyone a part of the movement can review and then be able to put their input and feedback based on what the proposal is. And that it's I think we sort of colleagues like the big call to action the big mo like sort of push it out as in every angle that we can to make sure that people see it. So then they can be able to review it and give their feedback. We also have the liaisons the affiliate liaisons that we've been asking from affiliates to have one representative that they're also going to help us make sure that we're getting feedback from affiliate groups in this moment to And when it comes to just the second part of this question when it comes to the health and well being of everyone in the movement and especially with what's going on at the moment we we're taking that into a lot of consideration we we did do a two week pause previously with everyone for the We've moved the timeline a month and also opened up that moment for feedback to be longer than what we originally had in in our timeline but I do want you to know that we we are constantly monitoring it and and reviewing feedback that we're getting based on on the timeline. Okay, great. And when we release the multiple naming approaches next month might there be a listing of anticipated benefits and risks for each approach different pluses and minuses for different communities and different geographies they're going to be a risk assessment Like I want to just jump in. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, there will. Yeah, the name naming is a tool. Just as branding is a tool. And so even bringing forward ideas on what naming options we think are worthy of consideration. We're doing a lot of that. The project team. So we will have some advantages and disadvantages within the proposals of these systems, but it's another area where we want people to tell us what we don't see that within your experience within your communities within your region. There are other risks to these sorts of naming factors. So we will definitely start that and I want to shout out to our colleagues in the foundation colleagues of mine in fundraising in product in tech and in legal especially for helping us do that work and evaluate just how helpful or concerning naming proposals might be. It's all to say that the next phase, which I will tell you really I am excited about is going to be a moment to look at possibilities we know everyone is so eager to talk about naming and so are we. We're going to be naming possibilities with some naming advantages and risks and the conversation then will be really us as a movement doing what we do best, proofing challenging debating adding context to make this really strong. Thanks so now I want to jump to a really important topic which is the RFC. A couple of different questions about the RFC. And I'll try to consolidate as much as possible. The RFC has already indicated that the movement is not considered acceptable to use the name Wikipedia. So why is exploring branding using Wikipedia still worth it. And does it concern the branding team that 90% of the respondents the RFC were against the pivot to Wikipedia foundation type label and that that may be odds with the KPIs set by the team. So that RFC was obviously something we paid close attention to. And we whenever we see comments and feedback on branding and naming se myself and the group of people working on this project are attentive to it. We feel that RFC was a little bit ahead of our process in that it was not a complete system idea. It was a kind of a in principle idea. And so we're actually eager to see with a specific use of Wikipedia, how people feel. Moreover, as Essie mentioned with collecting movement wide feedback we know there's many perspectives across the movement on many topics and that's why we want to invite many perspectives to just join us in thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of Wikipedia. And then we have to make clear about the advantages of using Wikipedia and they are profound is that when we think about the next decade of movement growth of movement health, making sure that our projects reach the goals that we've set for 2030. It's an incredible amount of work to do. It really is just an extraordinary amount of work. We have billions of more people to invite into our movement billions.  And so we do not want to do what other organizations would do which is spend a lot of money actually on marketing, which means we look inside of our system. And that's where we've seen that Wikipedia has over 80% awareness in Western Europe and North America and fast growing awareness in emerging regions, Africa, South America, Asia, and that's an incredible tool for us. It really is. It's also in the in the emerging regions. It's, it's not just that people think it's Wikipedia alone. They see it as knowledge. The research we've seen says that while we within the movement see Wikipedia as a narrow part of our activities. When internet users around the world who are not familiar with our movement, see the name hear the name, they think of a knowledge resource, a knowledge platform, and that's very close to the spirit that we wish to impart for how people understand our movement. So that's why we've, we've definitely heard from the RFC there's great sensitivity in using Wikipedia there's some, there's some strong pushback I mean we've definitely just seen that absolutely. And it's one of the reasons why we will have options that will not rely on Wikipedia as much and some that do because we want to continue that discussion, not concluded. So I was actually going to jump over to some questions for snow had to but but the different set of questions I think dovetails more appropriately with what you were just saying so going to touch on some questions quickly and then jump over to snow had to questions for them. So this, this set of questions is about Wikimedia as a possible solution. And people want to know, because Wikimedia is understand Wikimedia internally. Could the work really have been done to demystify that internal concept externally and promote Wikimedia push the Wikimedia brand forward, rather than pivot to Wikipedia. Was that considered. And will any of the approaches that are going to be proposed and may utilize the word Wikimedia. Yeah, first part of the question is really rich. So Wikimedia is a name we've been using as a movement for almost 17 years. Since that shelled an email from 2003. And in that time it has certainly just as the questions, askers are indicating it's gained meaning and emotional value. This is an identity for who we are as a movement. But we, the research we've done, which links up with what we've been told by community leaders and participants is that the word itself is basically flawed as a brand concept. People confuse it with Wikipedia already because it's a single word away. We've had people say that when they went to visa offices they were asked, Wikimedia, don't you mean Wikipedia, and then it's led to complicating factors. We've had press and donors label our organizations as Wikipedia already. And that is confusing because that's somewhat accurate but it's not the correct name. So what we've understood through those data points is just that there's a fundamental opportunity for us to improve and to reduce confusion. That's the number one goal that we found in feedback just as this question is asking like how do we reduce confusion between what's a project of ours and what isn't what is our movement and what is not. So that's why we are exploring a new idea is basically Wikimedia has had 17 years of being our organizing brand name and it has not achieved the things we want it to. And that's not just because of an investment and effort of support for it but because it as a brand identity itself is not doing the job we want it to. Second question was different. What was it Elena there. I think you covered it, but yeah, will we will Wikimedia be used in any of the proposals that are coming in the proposals. Oh, I believe the naming proposals we will have will not have Wikimedia. However, Wikimedia is so deep into our systems right now that even projects use it, for example, Wikimedia Commons. So it may be, I mean I would, I would definitely suspect that that community would continue to use Wikimedia and it's its own name right now. So it's not like this is a comprehensive we find every use of Wikimedia and it's removed at this moment. That's not what this is. Right, we're talking about like how the movement identifies itself right now is anchored on Wikimedia and that's what we're reconsidering. Thank you. So I know we are running close but I do want to get a couple of questions in personnel head to quickly. We have some questions around interconnection. Was that one of the concepts that was proposed in the workshops or that was that was created in the workshops or was that a compilation, a combination of concepts. Can you explain how you got from the 23 concepts down to interconnection as the final concept. There was some confusion about that process. Great question. Interconnection itself did not appear in the workshops, but we did have a concept mobile connection. But I think more importantly, the connections is something that we saw as a pattern already in the workshops between the concepts. Many of the concepts talked about connections or collaboration between different people or different parts of this bigger system. And I think that sort of understanding and realization that this is very much what this movement is about how do people connect, how do different ideas meet, how is everything organized, sort of aligns on so many levels. So, yeah, we did sort of see it, but we did not see the word itself in the workshops. In terms of narrowing it down from 23 to this one concept, as we explained in the presentation, we had a process where we reviewed all the concepts together with you and also got more feedback. And again, they highlighted that the movement is not a single thing. It's not many things and it's about how they're connected. So that also further sort of supported what we saw in the workshops. So it was a process that went on in many different ways. And we feel that it represents the meaning of very many, if not all the concepts that came up in the workshop. Great. Thank you. So we have a number of other important questions here to be answered as well, but I know we're running out of time. So what I want to do is take all of the questions just as they were asked across the different channels and post them on the brand network talk page on meta so that everybody can review the questions that were asked. And we can go in and, you know, discuss about them and answer there. So if you are interested in following up on any of these other questions, please find us on the talk page for the brand network on meta where we can continue the discussion. Thank you, Elena. And thank you, everyone. Actually, thank you for taking the time to attend this presentation with us today and contributing in this discussion. Your participation, especially at times like these are really appreciated. I hope to see you all again soon. And yeah, thank you so much and have a great day or night. Goodbye. Thanks.


Signing library presents, ordinary people change the world. I am Helen Keller. By Brad Meltzer, illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos, read for you by Saskia Marleveld and an ensemble cast. I am Helen Keller. When I was little, I was just like you. I loved to play, I loved my dog, and I loved seeing all the bright, beautiful flowers. I also loved copying people. At six months old, I could already say, howdy, howdy yourself, tee, tee, tee. Did she just ask for tea? How'd she do that? What can I say? There's no stopping her. On the day I turned one, I started walking. Oh, and there was another word I always loved. Wawa! Here's your water. Just like any other kid, right? But there's one thing that made me different. When I was 19 months old, I got very sick. The doctors said I wouldn't live. I did live, but the sickness made me blind and deaf. This is how I see the world.  I couldn't see anything or hear anything. That's right, nothing. I know it seems scary. It was scary for me too. Back then, people didn't know how to deal with someone who was deaf and blind. My relatives thought I was a monster. Wow, you see the way she behaves. She put her hand in my plate. She ate my food. She's trying to find her water. She threw the silverware too. She's so poorly behaved, she shouldn't be here. They were right. I wasn't well-behaved. I was extremely frustrated. In my dark world, I couldn't tell if anyone noticed me or cared about me. I couldn't see or hear what I was doing. But by the time I was five, I'd figured out small ways to communicate. To say yes, I nodded my head. For no, I shook it from side to side. To say father, I motioned to put on his glasses. Mother, I rested my hand on my face. Sample complete. Ready to continue?


Good morning, John. I'm still sick. This is annoying. The thing that I've noticed now that I've had this happening for like two weeks is that when you are sick, people give you advice. I've actually noticed this for years when it comes to my all sort of colitis. A lot of people seem to have a cure in their back pocket. If only I'd go gluten-free or stop eating grains or go paleo or vegan or stop eating short chain carbohydrates or fast for three days and then eat an apple. Seriously, it was a whole thing and it took like half the party for him to explain it to me. And over the years, I tried a lot of those things and none of them worked. What worked was taking the medicine that my doctor gave to me. And then over the past week, people have been saying completely normal things to me. Like, uh, get some rest, man, or take it easy. Stop stressing. Sleep more. And I've been a little bit shocked by how annoying this is. Not because it is annoying. Like, it's fine. It's a totally fine thing for somebody to say. But it's tapping into this thing that I have with my all sort of colitis. After years of dealing with my chronic illness that I cannot cure and having people tell me ways that I should be able to cure it. What I'm hearing is not, you know, take it easy. We support you. Instead, I'm hearing I have the secret to your wellness and if only you had the courage and fortitude to implement it, you would no longer be sick. And one step further from that, what's tickling my subconscious here, is this idea that my illness is my fault. I know that my chronic illness is pretty insignificant compared with what a lot of other people are dealing with but I think this is probably an experience that a lot of people have. When you tell me a person who has lived with all sort of colitis for more than a decade that you have the secret to my wellness, I cannot help but dislike you. Like, if that's my first impression and sometimes it is, I'm like, I'm out. And look, maybe this is the one weird instance in which you are the one who was right. And maybe I'm missing that opportunity to finally make myself better. But I've heard this line so many times with so many different fads and so many different pieces of anecdotal evidence that all I can hear when people say this to me is your illness is your fault. Because we want it to be something's fault, right? Because if it's not the fault of anything, then it has to be just weird random chance and that's what chronic illness is. It's just freaking happens to good people and to bad people and to champion athletes and people who drink too much. I've dealt with my illness by allowing myself to accept it. By admitting to myself and accepting that my life is different now and that my body is different now and I have to live inside of this body that sometimes hurts itself. Science will keep marching forward and someday maybe there will be a medicine that I can take that will control this disease without making me sick in other ways. And yes, science shows that my behavior does influence the expression of my disease and so does my experience of my disease. And so I do need support from people to help me make the decisions that my doctor says that I should make and that I have decided for myself that I want to make. But I also can't avoid the truth that this is the body that I'm in and I have to accept that like among the many probabilities that were cast that mostly came up in my favor I rolled bad on autoimmune diseases. My brain has tried to tell me over and over again that this is my fault. I have searched for every possible way subconsciously and consciously that this is a thing that I did to myself and that's a crappy feeling and it is re-emphasized every time someone tells me that there's a simple thing that I could do to make myself well. I want to sit here at the end of this video. I'm doing fine. I'm not angry or frustrated and my friends are at you. I have a loving supportive group of people who are fantastic in my life and I do my best to understand that when people are saying these things they're not trying to make me feel what I'm feeling. So I just try and accept that support for what it is rather than how it's being expressed specifically. But if you want to be supportive to someone who's sick in your life make sure that you recognize that it's very possible that they are struggling right now with this feeling that they did something to cause or to deserve the illness they have. Even if objectively they understand that that's completely untrue when we say there's an easy way out of this and there's not what we're making people feel is that this is your fault when it's not. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.


Hello, I'm Dr. Kristin Bush. I'm a colon rectal surgeon here at Michigan Health. I'm here today to talk to you about minimally invasive surgery using the DaVinci robotic surgery system. Traditionally, colon and rectal surgery was done through a large open incision in which a surgeon could see and touch a patient's organs with their hands as they operated. Over time, we've been able to add a different technique called minimally invasive surgery. This technique includes approaches such as laparoscopy or the DaVinci robot system. With minimally invasive surgery, a surgeon can make small incisions and use a magnified 3D vision system to operate. The instruments used to operate have flexible joints that move very similar to the human wrist, which can help a surgeon be more precise during an operation. With the use of the DaVinci robot for surgery, we have found that patients have smaller incisions, less pain after surgery, a quicker return to eating regular food, and shorter hospital stays. Here at Michigan Health, I currently use the robotic system for surgeries to remove colon cancer or rectal cancer, treat diverticular disease, and to help correct rectal prolapse. I've seen patients really benefit from the use of robotic surgery when they're able to go home from the hospital sooner and get back to the things they love doing in life.


Good morning everyone to to the very first session on Day two, it's a rather early session particularly for those who perhaps have watched the penalty shootout between Argentina and and Holland as I have which which ended at 2 a.m. But nonetheless, it's great to be here and and all joke aside, obviously this is One of the most pertinent most timely Sessions of this year's world policy forum It is titled the future of the EU and European security after The Ukraine war I wish we could sit here today and speak about the state of the world after the Ukraine war unfortunately We are not quite there, but I couldn't have asked for a better panel more esteemed speakers to be diving into this very timely and important subject matter in alphabetical order to my immediate left. He's a member of the German Bundestag and the coordinator of transatlantic cooperation of the German government. Please welcome Peter Breyer Peter good to have you with us. Well, I will revert you in just the moment we have with us the former president of Mongolia ladies and gentlemen, please welcome this morning president al-Bekdors he's a Very good friend of the world policy Conference been here many times He's a senator in the Polish Parliament and the chairman of the foreign and EU Affairs Committee in the Polish Senate Good morning to Bogdan Klitsch Delighted to have with us the personal advisor to the high representative and vice president of the Commission of the EES great job and with us Zaki Lady and Last but certainly not least he is the founder of the veteran counsel and of course the former minister of foreign affairs of France delighted to see him here wet veteran ladies and gentlemen


Welcome to the new video tutorial how to paint aircraft cockpit. For this video series I have chosen model Fockeville 119 made by Edward. The first step is to carefully read the manual and find the parts that I need. Now I cut out the individual parts with splitters and clean up with a sharp knife. And now I glue everything together. I use the Revell contactor glue and my favorite Tamiya X-Rafin glue which is great for small parts. The cockpit now looks very ordinary so I improve it a little. I hint the gauges with drill and deepen the details. However it is easier to use electric microdrill proxon. This tool provides a lot of options such as griling, griding, polishing and cutting. I clear impurities after the griling with extra thin glue. The cockpit still does not have much details and it doesn't look like original aircraft cockpit. Therefore I create razor levers and buttons from epoxy putty which is best for creating such small detailed parts. I must not forget to make a pillow. I decide to try lead wires and I saw I have bowed quite a lot of them with many different diameters. The guy I must say this is best thing what I found this year so far. There are absolutely astonishing to work with. There are mainly used by fishermen but there can be bowed in the hobby shops too. I will definitely show you more of them in the one of the future tutorials. It is quite easy to work with leather wires because they hold the shape very well. I glue them with a super glue. Next I can make myself a rudder pedals. Difference between original ones from the kit and photo edge parts is pretty big. I let the epoxy putty to dry for one day. After that I can start the painting the cockpit, finally. I start with a black base and make the shades gradually brighter. This way I create artificial shadows in the folds. If you watch my previous videos there you have noticed that I use Tamiya acrylic paints. I mix the light grey shade from two colors and spray the paint in vertically direction to the cockpit. So I have the basic done and now start the fun parts of the brushing painting. I recommend it to use acrylic paints. In my case I use Vallejo and Citadel paints. It's also important to have a fine thin brush, for example Tamiya pointing brush small. I paint the pillow with leather color and subsequently shade with beige color. The beige paint must be well thinned so I wouldn't make sharp transition between shades. Now I paint the gauges and labels with white Citadel color. I spray the whole cockpit with varnish Mr. Color Super Clear 3. It will seal already painted details and protect them before applying washes. Another improvement made from photo edge parts are seat belts that will brighten up the model nicely. It is nearly impossible to achieve this result in scale 1 to 72 only with a brush and therefore adult cells already painted dashboards. However in scale 1 to 48 I usually repaint them. I unite the color with rest of cockpit. I leave the black parts with gauges as it is. Some people overlap the part with transparent film, but it's more efficient to create each slide separately with gloss varnish. Then it will have better three dimensional look. I apply thick glossy paint into the holes with a brush. It should create a thin transparent membrane. I glue the individual photo edge parts together with a dispersion adhesive. Don't worry if you don't have a color photo edge parts. Now I will show you how to paint the same dashboards only with a brush. The basic is to have a fine round brush and steady hand. If you don't care much of the authenticity of the dashboards you can add several colors to brighten it up. Now I apply the gloss varnish on the gauges to create the impression of the glass slides. The labels would not hurt either and the model will look better. At the end I use Citadel brown wash. This is how to difference between photo edge parts and painted dashboards looks like. I straight out a little from making the cockpit, but I am going to finish it now. I highlight the details with washes. I use Citadel wash for seat belts and Tamiya wash for rest. If you make a splotch or you overuse the washes too much, you can partially clean them with thinner for washes from mick production. If you seal the undercoat with varnish, then it should not damage the paint and it should easily remove the dried wash. One of the last step is to paint the safety belts buckle with a silver color. I add a little bit of the dust under the pilot's feet using mick production pigments. At the end I spray everything with matte varnish.


Daniel Medvedev vs. Carlos Elcaraz is the final for the men's Indian Wells for 2023. And both guys have been very impressive to get to the final stage. Medvedev started the tournament off as number 5 seed and we get a buy in the first round. In the second round he take on Nakashima, who had just beaten John Isner in the previous round. But this was no problem for Medi, getting through in straights 6-4, 6-3. In the third round he take on Ivashka, who had just beaten Van Zanshub in the 28th seed in the previous round. And this was a tough match for Medi, he got through in 3 sets 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. In the fourth round he take on the 12th seed, Zverev, who was coming back nicely from his injury. And this was the all-time match of the tournament so far, with Medvedev eventually winning 6-7, 7-6, 7-5 to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Medvedev will take on the number 23 seed for Kena. And after a close second set, Medvedev would eventually get through in straights 6-3, 7-5 to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Medvedev will take on the hometown favourite, Tiyafo, the 14th seed. However, Medvedev dispatched him in straights 7-5, 7-6 to get to the final. Alkreuz started the tournament off as the number 1 seed and we're going to buy in the first round. In the second round he take on the qualified Kokonakis. This was no problem for Alkreuz, getting through in straights 6-3, 6-3. In the third round he take on the 31st seed, Griggsbor, who had been very, very good this season. And after a close first set, Alkreuz dispatched him 7-6, 6-3. In the fourth round he take on Draper, the exciting young Brit. But unfortunately Draper got injured after a set and Alkreuz got the easy win 6-2, 2-2 Love Retirement. To get to the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals, Alkreuz would take on the number 8 seed, Ojalia Seem. And even though Felix had had a 3-0 record over Alkreuz, Alkreuz won easily in straights sets 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Alkreuz took on his friend and fellow young gun, Yannick Sinner, the number 11 seed, who just beat in the defending champion Fritz in the previous round. And after a close first set, Alkreuz ran away with the second, 7-6, 6-3, to get to the final. These guys have only played the one time before, that was back in 2021 at Wimbledon with Medvedev getting the easy win. But since then, Alkreuz has come a long way and Medvedev also has won a slam in that time. So having a look at the tennis insights now and you can see there in attack, Alkreuz is the more aggressive player at 25%. And when he is in attack, he's actually winning 73% of those points, which is the conversion against Medvedev 69%. However, Medvedev has a slight advantage in the steals at 39%, which is well above tour average and also better than Alkreuz. So defensively, Medvedev is better. And in the baseline battles, the slight edge goes to Alkreuz when both players are playing on the baseline and of course much, much better than the tour average because these guys are quality at the baseline. Shot quality is a part of a range of new insights from the team at Tennis Insights. It is calculated in real time and analyzes each shot's speed, spin, depth, width and impact on the opponent. The number of the player cards are actually the 52 week rolling averages. Go check them out on Twitter, link down below. This one's going to be a really close one because these guys haven't played for so long and Medvedev is on such a run at the moment. But I'm going to go with Alkreuz in three sets. I think it's going to be an absolute epic. The world number one is at stake and I think Alkreuz is going to take it. Let me know down in the comments below who you think is going to win this one.