Welcome to January 2017's metric. My name is Josephine, I'm with the IT help desk. So today's theme is building our future. So pretty much what that is, is that we're gonna delve into finding ways how we can, as a community and WMF, build our future together. So here's our agenda for today. We have welcomed our theme, our introduction. We're gonna go over movement update. We're gonna be reconstructing media Wiki history and then next community capacity development and then movement strategy update and then afterwards we're gonna do questions and discussion and then move on to Wiki Love. So today we're gonna be welcoming some contractors, interns and volunteers. So we have Allison with Legal, Omar with CE, Biza with CE, Anthony with Product, JC with CE, Jean with Technology and Veronica with CE. And so we have a lot of anniversaries today. So for one year anniversary, we have Deb, Jack, Nathaniel and Chris. For two years we have Arian, Cory and then for three years we have Ann Smith or Sam Smith and then, oh wow, there's a lot of three, Alex, Giles and then for four years we have Bruna, Doreen. For five years we have Jody, Steven and Andrew and for a good six years we have Dario. So next we're gonna go over the movement update with Maria. Hello everyone. So as we've mentioned before, the theme of this meeting is building our future. My name is Maria Cruz. I am communication project manager in the current engagement department. And I'm here to share a few stories about the movement. Next please. In the theme of building our future, is doing this by enabling students to learn values of collaboration and cooperation with weak media. And one example of that is Corphopedia. Next slide please. Corphopedia is a project that was proposed by students to their teachers after noticing there is not much content about Corphoo on Wikipedia in an introductory course about the encyclopedia. It involves 60 students ages 12 to 68 from traditional and evening high schools. This involves two junior high schools, one evening high school and one vocational evening high school. And that's why the age range is so wide. Another story from the movement, next slide please, is Wikisbeak's language. Wikipedia will talk to you and it will teach you pronunciation. Next slide please. This is a project started by shared knowledge of Macedonia to document spoken examples of different languages. The goal is to enrich content on Wikipedia with multimedia files. And in this way increase the quality and educational value of the written text. They have been partnering with Glam institutions, education institutions and other Wikimedia affiliates as well. I'm trying to promote this initiative through the cooperation of Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe. Next slide please. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 is an editing challenge. And I thought of sharing this because I think the future will certainly be built through affiliate collaboration. Next slide please. This is a writing contest to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution. The challenge was taken on by affiliates of Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe. It had seven participating countries, 390 plus articles edited and only one edited down in Hungary. And the contest of organizers have implemented valuable lessons from Wikimedia's CE Spring writing contest. And finally, next slide please. During January, Wikimdava 2017 took place. Next slide please. This is the regional conference for Africans to strengthen support and share knowledge within Wikimedia communities both in the continent and in the diaspora. It took place in Accra, Ghana from January 2022 and it was supported through a Wikimedia Foundation grant. It had over 45 participants from within countries. And among the highlights of the conference is that increasing visibility and awareness of the movement, of the global movement was identified as a key area for development in the region. And you can read more following that link. Next slide please. From the foundation highlights, we wanted to share that the entire campaign on gender gap published its final report. This is a qualitative report that looks into inspired campaigns as a model for proactive grant making. This is a model created by the community resources team. And the report offers key lessons learned from the first campaign on the topic of increasing gender diversity on the Wikimedia sites. The Wikimedia Foundation received a $3 million grant from the Sloan Foundation as you may have read on the Wikimedia blog to enable structured data in common. The second annual one live one breath campaign kicked off in January in this month as well. That this campaign encourages librarians to get involved with Wikipedia by adding citations to articles. Next slide please. Many things happened in January as well. The Wikimedia developer summit took place from January 9 to 11 and volunteers and staff, developers discussed six key topics among which were creating a plan for the 2016 community wish list, top 10 ideas and how to grow the developer community. And we also had our Wikimedia Foundation all hands hosted in San Francisco on January 12 to 13 where employees participated in sessions connected in person and discuss issues important to our work. And we also had an amazing talent show. And coming up in February 2017, next slide please, is the movement strategy process, annual planning and board recruitment process. And that is it for movement athletes. Thank you. So the next speaker we have is Dan. Yep, hi everyone. I'm Dan, I'm on the analytics team and I'm super excited to be here today showing you what we've been up to. So basically, in the theme of building our future, one of the things that our team does as analytics is try to make sure that we understand where we come from. So they say hindsight is 2020. And at Wikimedia Foundation, it's not always easy to answer simple questions. When we looked at the data, we found that a lot of the very fundamental things that we need to know about our past are actually pretty hard to answer. I'll give you an example. So how many new editors join all of our projects since the beginning? To answer this question right now, we have to write this complicated query. It has to hit three tables, across 800 Wikis. It's got a bunch of joins and subqueries, hard to read, and ultimately takes five days to run. So this is a problem because it's data that we need to know. It's information that we need to know. What we did is we brought all of that data from all those different places into one place. We patched it up, we cleaned it up, and we're calling it the data lake. So now, when you ask the same question, how many new editors? We don't have to do any joins. We don't have to do any subqueries. We only look at one table, and it takes five minutes to answer the question. So more than that, we built a process by which we can start with a question that's otherwise hard to answer, and we can build infrastructure on top of infrastructure that we've been building for years to make it easier to answer that question. So I'm going to go over a few questions that are easier to answer now with the data that we've already built, and then I want to show you ideas for what we can do going forward and how we can go about asking more interesting questions. So what if we wanted to know how many of those new editors, how many of them were bots when they joined? Today, we know, based on our database, we know which editors are bots right now, today. We don't know who was a bot back then because we don't store that data. So we dug through the logs, we patched, we historified the concept of being a bot, and we have two fields. Some technical stuff here, but easy to understand. There's an event user groups and an event user group's latest field that's there in the same table with every edit. So we know whether the editor was a bot at the time of the edit and whether or not they're a bot today. And instead of joining with the tables and trying to pull this information from hard to get places, it's right there in the same row. Other things that are historicified that we tracked down backwards through time are things like what titles, pages have had over time as they get renamed and redirected, what names users have had over time. And these things are maybe not too interesting on their own, but what if we wanted to ask something like do people who get reverted or people who have harassment directed at them, are they more likely to change their username to try to hide from that? So this is data that's now letting us ask those kinds of questions that are really important to us as we try to figure out what we want to do in the future. We also have some interesting new insights about our data that, again, really hard to get if you're just looking at the current structure and digging through the tons and tons of data that's available without prioritizing looking at it from a question perspective. So for example, we have this concept of a revision being productive. That means that someone made an edit and it was not reverted within 24 hours. To figure out whether a revision is productive today, it's a really hard process. In this work, it's just a field that says yes or no right next to the edit. So you can use that to ask questions about the productivity of the edits. What we want to do next with this data we have lots of actually, I guess other things that we track down are and we have contextualized to the edit what registration date people have so you can ask questions about what they do relative to when they were registered, how many bytes a revision adds or removes which is another thing that's a little tricky to get today. You can take a look at this and ask us for more details. But what we're doing with this data next is we're using it to update WikiStats which is an amazing project that started from before Wikimedia Foundation even existed and is a critical resource for our communities to do their work. We're going to update that with this data and hopefully lots of interesting new stuff that they haven't been able to use until we did this infrastructure work. We're going to publish this so that it's available for public research in collaboration with the labs team. We're going to make it available in this interface where it's really easy to slice and dice. I'll show you an example real quick. Going forward even more we're going to look at the revision text itself and parse that because there's lots of really interesting things I'll give you an example and most importantly we want to show that we built a process where you can ask questions so your questions whether you're from the community or from the foundation are welcome and we're going to try to figure out how to build infrastructure to answer them. This is an example of pivot it's an interface that's available right now only internally because of privacy concerns but hopefully this data is going to be available externally soon in this shape as well. We showed this to a few different teams like fundraising and reading everybody's super excited it's really fast to get you insights this is showing the amount of content added per wiki so you can see that wiki data wiki is getting a lot of really interesting work being done. The kinds of questions that we want to answer like get to things that we haven't been able to get to before so how much work does our community do to all of our projects one of the ways to measure is to count the tags that they place where work needs to be done right that's how much work needs to be done so citation needed is you know our classic tag how many of these tags are there in wikipedia across other projects and backwards in time these questions are really hard to answer now and getting the answers for them will allow us to do things like measuring the community's backlog so we can figure out so we can include that in our decision making importantly we want to count what you need so I hope this data inspires you and you come talk to us you can reach us on rc and we can get analytics or on our mailing list or we have all of our documentation on this stuff and more on wikitec thank you very much we need to see all these slides again okay good evening I'm here to talk about the capacity development pilot program and it is a program done by the community resources team CR on the CR this is an experiment it's a program that was built on the premise that there are certain capacities that all thriving communities need to have and that some communities for whatever reason have not been able to develop or grow these capacities sufficiently or have plateaued and can't quite get beyond a certain level of capacity and further that WMF can usefully intervene and help those communities with a targeted, limited time project partnering with a specific community to build a specific capacity to kind of get them back on their way growing and developing that capacity this project I would like to acknowledge and thank Anasuya who approved this almost two years ago and had the vision and the clarity to see the need and further this project is cuteness approved much of it was supervised by Kankunchik here a member of the Wikimedia cuteness association so how do we go about this first we conducted a whole bunch of research with quite long community interviews with 17 different communities across the world most of them emerging communities yes yes I can give you examples partnership building media relations community governance on wiki technical skills all of them are necessary for all communities and some communities have naturally grown those capacities and others not so much and so this research phase was precisely designed to find out what are some key capacities that are relevant for our communities after that research phase which was conducted a year and a half ago we selected three emerging communities to pilot with the three were Brazil with whom we were working on communications and media relations the Tamil community in India with whom we were working on on wiki technical skills and Ukraine the Ukrainian Wikipedia community with whom we were working on conflict engagement so already an example of three different communities that identified three different key needs for development once we had those communities interested in working with us on this we developed a curriculum for how to build that capacity for that community and the key factor in that was delivering that training in person in that country and in that language using translators then it's time to evaluate this program and that's where we are right now we are done evaluating the program so here I am telling you about it after that we will need to decide now that this pilot is complete what conclusions do we draw and how do we move forward so that's just the timeline not my style really but apparently photos are important so here is India that was also by the way supervised by cuteness here is Greg Varnum helping out with the communications training in Brazil in India UV was key to the success of the training and I don't know who this guy is conflict management so does this work the short answer is yes this works we are able to help communities build these capacities if we pay attention to that community the longer answer is not only does it work it also has additional beneficial side effects so I would like to share a few lessons first of all this high touch approach the community is really appreciated working with us the level of attention that we paid we repeatedly heard during our interview phase things like nobody has ever asked us that nobody ever cared how our community selects admins for example and the communities in this pilot did successfully level up did successfully break new ground in their development in these respective criteria what I'm stressing here is that in addition to our efforts to scale and to do everything that serves everyone with the greatest multiplier there are certain things this is one of them specific capacities of specific communities that benefit from a high touch high interaction approach we need to do both this training was effective partly because it was in person and in their language in their own language our post training surveys and interviews have proven this time again people really appreciated the fact we came to them and we made it accessible in their language the materials from those trainings are significantly reusable it turns out that these needs are actually shared across large parts of the movement for example the conflict engagement materials we have developed and it is quite tricky to teach Wikipedians about conflict because most of the standard curriculum on how to run conflict is about people having conflict in person whereas most of our conflicts are online sometimes with pseudonymous people etc so that curriculum has turned out to be quite reusable I have personally given it already at four conferences beside the training in Ukraine likewise the on wiki technical skills training which included tools demonstrations but also a thorough introduction to wiki data was already delivered in multiple conferences and was very well received so to share some concrete examples of the impact the Brazilians following the training certainly correlated the Brazilians who are permitting me to say also caused have revamped their website which was defunct have revived their blog and social media and regularly contribute and use those and they have created a press kit these are things that for whatever reason did not exist in Brazil before this training the Tamil community now regularly engages with wiki data before the training there were zero contributors from the Tamil community except for inter wiki links that everybody had to kind of migrate to there was no editing of wiki data beyond inter wiki from Tamil editors now there is and one of them I don't know how has amassed 200,000 edits manually not using bots to wiki data in under a year the training took place in 2016 yes there are some quotations here I won't read all of them but people were saying I was aware of wiki data but found it complicated confusing to understand now I think it's the future of wikipedia my mind was blown I was inspired and started contributing massively we need WMF to come to communities the quality and depth of the training by experienced WMF staff can't be matched by outsiders I don't know if it can't be matched but anyway warm endorsement one very veteran wikimedean more than 10 years experience in the movement told me I attended lectures about wiki data many times but not one has engaged me and made me actually want to contribute I was finally persuaded that I should invest time and go to actively contribute to wiki data so now what this was a strategic pilot this was an experiment the experiment succeeded this approach does work the report which is on meta is recommending that we scale this up now that we know this works scaling it up means working with additional communities and working on additional capacities we've only worked on three capacities out of six we had identified in the initial research and we could probably work on a few more secondly to develop a kind of core curriculum a kind of notion of what all communities should have and then track that across communities so that we know where are different communities along this core curriculum it should be somebody's job to make sure our active communities are not left behind on adopting wiki data on using Lua I don't see that it currently is and someone other than the community resources team should care that the Tamil community was not using wiki data at all so I'm proposing I'm recommending that we track this that we do pay attention to this and then the constraints of resources and budgeting see how can we help the greatest number of communities progress the greatest amount along this core curriculum and finally and this is with a view to scaling identify some already effective trainers across the movement and empower them to deliver that training again and again in their own communities and in other communities one thing that was observed across all three pilot programs is that the quality of the trainer and the training matters a whole lot to the receptivity and effectiveness of the training some people are better than others at public speaking some people are better than others at explicating wiki data specifically for example I have been told by the wiki data team in wiki media Germany to explain wiki data impressed them and they liked it so much they are in fact adopting it to their own efforts to explain wiki data the point is once you find something that works you need to empower that make sure that has more chances of scaling across the movement I cannot personally teach wiki data to every single wiki media in the movement but we can train trainers make sure they're effective and then send them out to do more trainings so these three key recommendations are now before the foundation and that implies increased resourcing for this program again it was resourced at a pilot level now WMF needs to decide whether and how to increase the resources and the big question is is WMF leadership interested in this now that we know this works we need to decide whether we want to do this how do we want to do this what teams would be involved in doing this we need to have a community resources team and that is again where we are right now that decision is yet to be made if you have more questions want to get involved want to read some of the data and surveys etc it's all on meta under CCD community capacity development or you can write to me thank you Lisa aren't you next is this strategy update is this cuteness approved I think it's lacking can we go to the next slide I think it's lacking a little on cuteness yeah I mean it could use some work I guess black and white slide so this will be very brief and I think most of you but perhaps not of all of our listeners online have met the strategy team so we just wanted to take the opportunity today to reintroduce for some of you and introduce for those who haven't met them yet our four strategy team who is leading the movement strategy process there's a combination here of new faces and familiar faces kind of the the leaders of the group are Whitney Williams, Ed Blan and our own Guillaume and the project manager managers are Shannon Keith and Susie who I think most of you know who's worked with us I guess for well over a year on strategy and annual so just want to introduce they are all working this week in Seattle together and well I'm sure will come out with to share with us thanks to everyone who participated in the workshops that we did at all hands this team was also a couple members of this team are also over in Switzerland with some executive chapter executive directors and started the conversation with them as well a lot more to come from this team so and they are somewhere listening participating remotely in this meeting as well so welcome to all of them hi everyone well chime in briefly from Seattle thanks very much for that warm introduction this is Ed Blan I'm sitting here on the couch with my colleagues Guillaume you know Susie you probably know this is Shannon Whitney is not with us today but she's with us in spirit so we're delighted to be involved in this project thank you Asaf that was very helpful for us here and we've heard a number of other things in terms of a quick background I spent quite a lot of time in the corporate world and have spent the last ten years mostly in the non-profit world working with organizations that are part of movements to help them scale up and be more effective in those movements the largest of which is the microfinance movement so that's my background I've been working with Ed and Whitney and others on the Williams Works team for several years now in collaborating with brands that reach sort of large numbers of people that are interested in engaging those people to do good in the world and so it's a delight for Ed and I to be working with the Wikimedia communities on this project so we're excited to share some of what we've learned from working with others and some of the folks we know and sharing that knowledge and also listening and really learning from you all which we've done for the past couple weeks but are early and intended on doing more so looking forward to that No I think we're doing a lot of great work and we will start posting that on Meta and on the mailing list very soon and we will also be able to answer questions at the end of this meeting if you want to have any Nothing really more to ask Thanks again for the invitation to participate in the Metrics meeting This is Juliette, just while we have you I know that many people have met you but not everyone in addition to getting to know each of you individually I'm wondering if you could give just a general description of Williams Works as an organization and what your focus is and and what you're working on with us here because I don't know that everyone is familiar with that side of things Sure, we off mute So Williams Works as a firm, the reason we're in Seattle we're based here in Seattle but we also have team members in other parts of the world in Africa and Europe Whitney Williams founded the firm 18 years ago she used to work for Hillary Clinton in a fairly senior capacity helping her to do a lot of travel and logistics around the world meeting people learning about problems and helping to address those problems She transitioned to creating this social impact consulting agency and we've been helping for-profits and individuals to do good in the world sometimes it's quite a shift when they're for-profits and they don't really know how to give back and they want a lot of direction sometimes they're individuals who are have done well in their careers and now want to give back in a significant way and would like help and guidance doing that and other times they're non-profits that want to do more or have more impact in the world so we've been doing various projects with various organizations over the years including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation early on Tom's shoes we've created non-profits in East Africa and Central Africa all sorts of brands that you would know for profit brands and feel free to check out our website Williamsworks.com let's see this project allows the core group and various communities to pull up quite a few levels from your normal strategic work and think longer term about a 15 year time horizon and where this movement is going that you're a part of where you are going and where you want to go how you want to achieve high goals of knowledge spreading knowledge so that's what we're involved with we'll be publishing very shortly a project plan that will help everyone see the scope is how we're engaging different audiences and allowing lots of participation into that process of developing strategic fields that will help to guide the communities for future context hope that was helpful feel free to ask questions in the Q&A if you have more specific questions more questions from RSE and one was about dance talk but I'm going to talk about strategy I'm going to read one from Joel which was mostly about a self-stock but he says how should the foundation decide whether to spend more resources on expanding this program the community capacity one versus all the other things the foundation could do I'm envisioning something like somebody giving a presentation like this and saying our pilot shows that this program has a cost-benefit ratio between three and ten and then that could be compared to other programs it's the current strategy process coming up with anything that we could use again, apples to apples comparison especially between heterogeneous choices or that's more knowledge to humanity a new server from Africa or training medium-sized community so mickey data how do we make that choice so I'm trying to understand everything but I'm going to give you an answer and you tell me it's that versus the question so the phase for the strategy process that we're in right now and that will be until around wikimedia is trying to have a movement-wide discussion and to sort of define a direction where we want the movement as a whole to go and to try and align between the different actors of the movement and the partners so it's not going to be about should the foundation devote resources to a specific program or a specific feature of the software so it's not going to be that level of discussion it's going to be as a movement composed of the foundation but also affiliates and organized groups and individual contributors and potential readers as the whole movement where is it in what direction do we want to go and once we try to agree on that in a few months then we will start looking at so how do we translate that into action and who is going to do what and then we will start talking about strategic plans with deadlines and roles and specific goals and then we will start trying to prioritize those programs and how we assign the resources but that will come in the second phase of this project does that answer the question yes it does as an option include ORAS scoring on past divisions this could answer questions like where past edits more or less damaging as estimated by ORAS have committed standards gotten stricter over time trying to find what we get for the same level of damage that kind of question the answer is it is definitely possible to analyze revision scores over time we have to build a little bit more infrastructure but that is exactly the kind of thing that we want to know like what should we prioritize what questions should we make easier to answer right now so thanks for that we will follow up on it with Eric any questions in the office yes I have a question about the capacity building I was curious for the three sessions that you ran did you have like specific goals that you were trying to get that community to hit and is the idea sort of once you've got all six I think of the topics that you have planned actually kind of the menu of your topics and then your goals to hit one training the trainings did have goals and some of them were concretely met and others may maybe met that there's a kind of growth towards them some are very hard to measure so the conflict management one Ukraine was the hardest to measure because it's a soft skill to measure the amount of conflict or whether conflict is happening better inevitable conflict is happening in a better way on Ukrainian Wikipedia that's very hard to measure so there's no concrete evidence that we can point to for example that shows decreased conflict on Ukrainian Wikipedia but how people individually behave within that conflict and how comfortable they are to operate in a conflict that has improved and we have anecdotal and personal evidence to suggest that other things are easier to measure I mean Brazil's media development is objectively observable wiki data edits can be counted to your question about the capacities the six that were identified in the research six is kind of arbitrary there could be 10 capacities there could be 20 there are more at the time for example we excluded some capacities that at the time seemed to be addressed by other efforts within WMF focused on organizational development of affiliates those efforts have since been suspended so now it makes sense to actually revisit them as possibly part of the capacity development work so that's not the closed menu of what we would offer even within each capacity we focused on wiki technical skills so we focused on wiki data and bot frameworks with the Tommels maybe other communities will say no we got that covered but what we really want to understand is Lua and Boris and labs it's really interesting thanks this is Dario from research I wanted to say quickly that in response to his offer yes in fact we may have raised now to so we could talk about it and I had an anecdote share in response to the project that Dan was presenting which is particularly telling about the reconstruction of an article history so a few days ago a few reporters were tweeting that the wikipedia article about the 25th amendment of the US constitution was spiking in traffic in response to something happening in the public debate in this country that is drawing a lot of attention I tried to replicate this data and try to figure out that was actually the case and I couldn't and the reason is that there is a 25th amendment article in the media there's a bunch of redirects that were left there over the history of many changes of the article titles and that's something that happens very often in wikipedia I want to story short our PGU API right now is unable to result these redirects and we might be unable to tell the story of what topics are actually spiking without looking into our history of an article changes and title changes so I just want to teach this as a possible use case I think adding the entire article history reconstructed will allow us to have very high quality data about traffic not just edits so I'm very excited about that I said this on our team but I'll just mention here we're super excited to solve the redirect confusion that has played many different questions with hard answers over the years super wanting to solve that thanks Daria for mentioning one more question from RSE from Leila to Asaf and just for the reasons that people brought up whether pilot was not good in some ways or in a different way did anyone come up to you and say for reasons X, Y and Z that this kind of pilot would be a bad idea and if so what were the reasons of your points they had no nobody nobody challenged this idea when it was presented and announced almost two years ago when we presented the results of the research phase in Berlin people had questions but nobody said this approach strikes me as terrible or wasteful or I'm even surprised nobody really challenged the approach maybe it means everybody thought it's a great idea maybe people were not paying attention but the specific programs in the communities they were done were very positively received people did have criticism about some technical details like one of the programs had a real-time interpreter who wasn't performing well enough and was distracting for people because they had to kind of mentally keep correcting the mistakes and adapt the wiki terms etc but that's not a very interesting criticism it's a technical detail that of course we will do better next time so interestingly I have not had a very very I've not had a lot of responses to our choice of model to our hypothesis here nobody has seriously engaged with it there were a few positive comments and that was it are there any other questions any on IRC in the office well next we can go ahead and move on to wiki I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that participated in the foundation including Jack Zach Anne, Saf, Catherine and Casey as well making it a really awesome conference there was a lot of really good workshops and teaching learning, sharing and I really really appreciate everyone's efforts to make it a great success so thank you hi I want to give a shout out to Maggie the NSF team in community engagement a couple of weeks ago we had the Dev Summit and this was really my first opportunity to meet the developed community and I'm just so grateful for the work that they did both to prepare that but also to prepare me along west to have a very positive engagement I felt that some of the atmosphere in general but Dev Summit was really really positive and helped I think have a very positive dialogue and certainly helped me personally begin to get to know people in a positive way so I really appreciate it a big shout out to Kim and Maggie and the rest of the team I wanted to give some wiki love to everyone who worked on All Hands this year which is I know a lot of people and I'm not going to even attempt to name names I would leave really critical people out but we all know who you are you are all awesome and I really thought All Hands this year was a great mix of social time of team building time, of substance and great location, great everything and thanks to everybody else who participated I think people showed up in a really great way really cooperatively, really sharing a lot and I think the whole experience was just amazing and thank you to everyone who worked on it and everybody who participated Anyone else want to share some wiki love? Okay so I guess that's it for metrics


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So what we do, man, we do it a little different than others, man, we want to go back, we want to go back to your childhood, we want to talk about the man, you know what I'm saying? The kid, who is Fred Hampton Jr., you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. How you were raised, where you were raised, how you were trained, the whole works. First and foremost, you know, I'm honored to be here. I've said a number of cases, I feel fortunate to have fallen from a tree with two freedom fighters, that of Chairman Frey and Hampton, and also of Accord and Jerry, for those known as Debra Johnson. Chairman Frey was Deputy Chairman of the State of Illinois at the Black Panther Party, in fact, he led the largest chapter of the Black Panther Party. He was assassinated, I don't know if I want to go straight to that, because I think I'll be remiss, because I just did this piece on African ancestry two nights ago. Oh, okay.  How far back did you go? They went back, they went back on my maternal side. They traced it back to Niger, which is like right up, I think, on the northern tip of Nigeria, but it's not Nigeria, Niger. Niger. And it was the paternal, on my father's side, Gabon, you know, is West Africa.  I think it's imperative, so I'm doing some study on that also, so I'm saying, I'm going around the block to get to the heart of the question, is I think it's imperative that, you know, from once we come from. From now where you come from, before you know who you are. Exactly, people have a reactionary assessment. You say, who are you?  No, no, I think it's, you know, it's imperative that, what's we come from? I made a comment to somebody the other day, we're here at the Hampton House, we have a particular breed of dogs, known as the Hampton House Hounds. And this is across the road, German Rottweiler in the Cain Corsa. Brother come take some puppies out, he kept on grilling me in regards to the Rottweiler. What's the, are you German or are you American?  He said, I never met them.  So I just want to give you a little back on that. No, the dog in lineage is better than, you know, your own people. No doubt about it. That's why. No doubt about it. No doubt about it. I definitely wanna, I'm gonna mess with you a little bit. I wanna talk about the time when you was young, you were sitting on Sam's stoop, you know what I'm saying? You was a kid, you know, you were dealing with Maurice and Poo and Carlos, you know.   Okay, that's why I'm trying to go with you. Okay, I mean, I'm gonna let you in on that. Yeah, okay, you okay? Cause he was what, 12 at that time? Yeah, he was very young. 11, 11, 12. Yeah, we going all the way back to him. Wow. Okay, that's why I'm trying to take a little, we go to interview him, man. Right, right, right, right, right. Did, did, did, did, did. No, I just wanted to hit you with something, because everybody interviewed, but it take, it's something special to go the extra mile. They're trying to figure out something to where we're gonna take our interview somewhere that George ain't never been before. You know.  Yeah, because it was just a thing where when we were talking to others about you, it was like, you were one at a very young age with big responsibilities at a young age. Where you might've had to pull up when everybody else was having a good time and somebody say, well, hey, hey, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., you know, we got to go do this and you have to leave your friends at a very young age. So I just wanted to talk about some of those key elements.  And my, you know what I mean? And my freedom, where that is concerned. Well, the situation that may be seen is I guess apolitical as getting ice cream from ice cream truck.  Yeah. But I always had to make sure there wasn't a good humor ice cream truck. Okay. This is doing part to, it was ingrained in us, you know what I'm saying, and me in particular, you know what I'm saying, in my counterparts, but I remember this in particular, being the fact that one of the cases that Chairman Frey was framed up with was the good humor ice cream truck. Correct. In which I actually literally, well, we were doing this, we were doing this interview at, the case occurred walking this right on this corner. Okay. In which they had claimed that, the state had claimed that Chairman Frey had took $71 worth of ice cream. Right on, okay, right on. Ice cream and gave it to the children. You know what I'm saying?  Yeah. He flipped it. He said, okay, try to remember how the thieves that made me have to be a robber hood type of thief, still showing a true nature of a path that give it to the people. Correct.  You know what I'm saying? I'm like, man, y'all don't know how this go with me. And I mean, one time this, I think this round, I guess I'm 17. I'm going back and forth from, you know, age. That's right. Okay, no problem. And his brother, and I crack onto this day about this. His brother, we in the car, we riding, we going to be riding on the west side. And I come looking through the rear view mirror.  I said, exactly. That's why I keep looking back. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I got the license.  I mean, a lot of young kids, he said, man, he think he back in the 60s, you know what I'm saying? And I, but I was the proud, like many others deprived of that correct, you know what I'm saying, that the summation, what happened to the black power movement in the 60s? Yeah, we on boss talk one on one.


But good morning, everyone. It's great to be back for the second year to congratulate the finalists of the Phones Down Heads Up PSA Contest. It's encouraging to see so many young Vermonters getting involved and to raise awareness for such an important issue, which is distracted driving. I've said many times, I believe public safety is a primary function of any government. It rises to the top. And it's really our number one responsibility. And as governor, that responsibility stands with me, and I take it very seriously. During 2013 to 2017 in Vermont alone, there were over 950 crashes caused by distracted driving. And nationwide, from 2012 to 2017, nearly 20,000 people died in crashes involving a distracted driver. The use of electronic devices is one of the most common reasons for distracted driving. And too many drivers are doing it. I see it on the road every day. Unfortunately, texting while driving continues to be a significant trend among many, but in particular, younger drivers. In fact, in 2017, 8% of 15 to 19-year-olds killed in crashes were caused by distracted driving. In Vermont, handheld use of electronic devices and texting while driving is illegal. Working to get drivers to act responsibly behind the wheel isn't easy, but we all have a responsibility to do our part and to call on others to do the same. That's why I want to thank all the students who got involved in the PSA event. We need as many tools in the toolbox as we can get to spread the word about the dangers of distracted driving. I appreciate you and your classmates for stepping up and sharing the message as many of you take to the road for the first time. I'd also like to thank the Vermont Highway Safety Alliance and V-TRANS, as well as the Department of Public Safety for their work to keep Vermonters safe. I look forward to awarding the finalists. And now, move that. Thank you. So again, I'd like to welcome you, like Governor Scott said, to the second annual 802 phones down heads up PSA contest. It's really good to look out and see this growing with the attendance this year, up over last year. The Vermont Highway Safety Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing crashes on Vermont's highway. I think to kick off the ceremony today, the Vermont Highway Safety Alliance would like to recognize a person who's been a vital member and an inspiration for his work for the media and marketing of the Alliance for many years. Ken Milman from Spike Advertising has been passionate and an invaluable contributor to the branding of the Alliance, setting up our website, social media, and creative as a participant and subject matter expert on our advisory council. In short, giving the Alliance a public face out there. He's a perfect example of someone who combines both professionalism and passion for what he does. Ken contacted the Alliance to help us put a public face on it. He's been committed to the Alliance and embraced and promoted ideas, worked on the PSA, the roadkill series for us, and he's inspired the group to pursue countless other items while we've worked with him. I know I working with him alone has been very excited to have Ken on the working with us and everything. The Alliance owes a great deal to Ken for his work and dedication, and it's in that honor, if you come up, Ken, we'd like to present you an award for excellence in the media and marketing from the Vermont Highway Safety Alliance. Thank you for those. Thank you. All right, we'd really like working with you. Thank you. So to talk a little bit more about the contest, the PSA Awards, the Public Safety Announcement Awards, students were asked to produce a 25-second video on the dangers of distracted driving. We know that young drivers aren't the only one that are texting and driving, but we think who better to produce a video that would actually appeal to their peers, the teens than teens themselves. We launched the contest on January 6th right after the first of the year. Six sponsors agreed to donate some money to help fund the prizes. We'd like to thank some of them, Cooperative Insurance, AAA of New England, Yankee Driving School, the Consultant on Police Services, and Mid-State Dodge. In total, 30 entries from Vermont and the region submitted. We had some extremely strong submissions, so it's really good to see on the second year that we're getting more students involved in this. 12 judges carefully reviewed all of these submissions, and we want to really thank them for their time. We've got a list up here on the screen of who helped us judge these. In the end, 12 of these videos really surfaced up at the top, and we're recognized as the finalists for some excellent work. I think what I would like to do is, and with the Governor's help, start recognizing the finalists and move on through honorable mention and on to the actual winners. So for finalists, we'll be giving you a certificate recognizing the work you did, a $10 gift card to go out and grab some lunch with. So if you're here and you could come up and everything, I haven't had a chance to meet all of you. Linda Ricard and Kaley Bennett from Windsor High School. All right. I want everyone to see them. Yeah, let's just say I have a few. Can you call them all up? Yeah, so why don't I call them all up then, so we'll go through that way. So Keelan Rooney from Hanover High School, CJ McDermott and Aaron Trombly from Champlain Valley Union High School. Congratulations. We've got Maddie Muskinsky and Sophia Howe from White River Valley High School, and Emily Calkins and Danny Collette with a VSP Explorer close to 446 from the Mount Anthony Union High School. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. I also want to give some really honorable mentions. A $25 gift card. Ian Goldberg from Woodstock High School, Michelle Townsend from Windsor High School, and Gregory Torbert from Northwest Technical Center. We also, this year, had the People's Choice Award. It's a special category given by the Youth Safety Council. If Jim's here, I think he'll be right behind me there. I think Jim, I'll let you do this one. On behalf of the Youth Safety Council of Vermont and as a random Vermonter, I want to say thank you to Kaylee and to our other contestants and winners for reminding us all that we're a community that cares about one another and respects each other by having each other's backs and sharing messages like these videos. So I'm proud of the good energy that's gone into sharing this message. And Kaylee Green, are you here? Our award, the People's Choice Award, is going to Kaylee Green, who earned, come on over. Almost 500 votes for her video. So this is truly a People's Choice Award. And I'm honored to present this to you. As well as, check for $500, surprise. So congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much. So what I need to do is start now with third place. I'm sure you'll recognize your video. I'll read out the name so you can start to come up and everything. So if we can roll the video for the third place and we have Emily Gamal and Emma Newman from Hanover High School. In second place with a $500 award sponsored by Cooperative Insurance. If we can roll the video, we have Colt Glomowski and Lee Swann from Essex High School if they're here. And I guess what we've been waiting for in first place is $750 award that's been sponsored by Midstate Dodge, the Vermont Highway Safety Alliance and the Consultant on Police Services. If we can show a lot in Jones video from Green Mountain Valley School. A text or a life, your choice. All the students that participated, we had a really great turnout this year and hopefully this event will keep growing every year and everything. It's been exciting to see it grow over the first two years. So again, I wanna thank all the students, the judges, the sponsors, the committee and everybody that helped put this together. I think what we'll do real quick if we can is maybe get a little area cleared out here and we'll get a picture with the award winners and everything. So thank you everybody.


My name is Roti Martins, I'm from Lagos, Nigeria. I came to India in 2004. I don't really know that India plays football, because when I was small I only watched the movies, you know, how they dance and all. And that's all I knew about them. When I was told they play soccer, I was like, wow, it's an adventure, let me give it a try. While I was playing here, after like 2-3 seasons, I got married. So I brought her here. My kids were born here, they were born in Goa. They are very much like India, you know, because they can speak India as well. For the third year, I think it's really good, the standard is very good. It's a joy to be here, you know. I mean to play for East Bengal as well, where you have a lot of millions of people, you know, especially when you play in the derby, you know. I can remember, I can recall back when I played my first derby, you know, see the full stadium in Salt Lake City. So it's really about women, you know.


Don't eat me Why? There's no peace here Die! Kill me. I got him. Oh, no. Oh, no It's going to be one of those videos. I see. Oh, I love when the dinosaur float It's very good. There's someone like me Kill him!  Oh my god.  Why am I dying? Must run. Oh, survive Man the aisles changed so much since I last played it. I don't know what buttons to click anymore How do I get rid of these damn names Double music My stamina running low Wait, what how did this happen?  Now I'm dead. Oh, there we go. I got rid of it. Sweet. Oh, look something dead. Yay I need a big sniff.  Why? Wow, the eye looks so much better with its new update These old people that didn't get menus Come catch me Oh, there's a T-Rex over there.   I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna get you. Oh my god, the birds are attacking.  Get to me. Get to me. Yes Whoa, what the oh wow, that's a you seen that Jesus, I'm like the apex predator of this place, man. Look at this. These are all my subjects More of the fluffy chicken.   Here he comes. I must run into the water where he cannot get me Oh Why does this guy not have anything to research? Oh, this is kind of cool. I mean I assume I just eat fish Weird jpegs of fish.  Oh, yes Yes The most is so wrong land. I land people. Oh my god.  Oh Look at it. I Want to impale something? I Think no matter how small I am I can impale any size So I want to just try and pale like a stego or something. What about now? Sorry. Hello. Hello.  I think I got him. Yeah, I got him again.  I got it. I am the best dinosaur in the game There can only be one feathered body. Oh He died.  He died. I win Let's turn into I survived a hundred days and this is what happened Oh, they know they know how to sleep. I'll ask them. Oh, I'm great Look at me watch me sit. Oh Yeah, I was gonna say I don't really trust them So bail them kill them. Oh, yeah, it's all fun and game. Oh my god, I'm parra.   He doesn't mess with us.     I'll be one sniffer Please stop well, it's now. I know that they can't hear me Yes, yes, I persuade them to kill the green trike Thank you And then they all died It's not like the best game it I mean, that's not be honest It's barely a game you just spawn in as a dinosaur. You try and research another one I don't know if it carries over if it's just one play session or not if it is that sucks otherwise You know what? It's not bad. I don't mind it For the game, oh did I get it?  Oh my god. I got a friend when someone attack you you attack back I will my liege. I don't know how to spell liege, but there you go Oh Take turns pass them Did we get him I must I must become the patchy. Yes There we go. There we go We are one Seratopsian brothers. Oh my god. I'm so glad the owl of day. This is the best update in the world But what's going on over here? Oh, can you not change to white? Is that the best they got? Oh, that's a white That's it. That well. I mean that's close as you can get really. Oh god.   I'm hoping they did.  Oh, I think we did. I think we got one. Yeah, there's a one in the spawn river Deux is like you're killing us for sport the spider will help us fight against the triceratops And that's right. It's like spiders on our side.  Kill trike. Kill trike. Oh


Of 6 and historic rose cell water and sanitary sewer improvements. Um, during today's agenda, we'll be covering introductions of those involved with the project. Doing the overview of the project locations and the streets affected. By the project answering some frequently asked questions and going through a timeline of the project. So, your project team includes myself Brenda, I am the project manager. My phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> again, that number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and my email address is. Brenda at Fort word Texas dot gov. That's B, R E, and the a period. O, R, O, P, E, Z, a at 4th word, Texas, built out. Dot gov and our engineering design consultant that we have on board is Binkley and bar field. And Tony Romo is a project manager. Representing them so why are we doing this project? 4th word prioritize prioritizes water and sanitary sewer line replacements based on available data. This includes the water main break history. Leak history closed circuit TV inspection. The age of the line, the material of the line, if there are any large services on that line, or if the line is made of cast iron. These water lines were selected for replacement due to our cast iron initiative. We currently have a goal of 20 miles of replacement for a cast iron in fiscal year 2023. There are also sanitary sewer lines in the vicinity that were identified as high risk or likelihood of failure. And we are replacing those to avoid potential failures of the line. This project is in council district 7. Construction may impact customers in stop 6 sunrise historic row cell park and historic stop 6 neighborhood association areas. Here's a map of kind of 1 of the sections that's being affected. We have existing water and sanitary sewer mains, which will be replaced in 9 streets. And 4 easements landmarks include Dunbar high school. Check what middle school sunrise, McMillan elementary school. Mod Logan elementary and paid elementary. The market with their King community center and Eastbury library are also in the vicinity of the project. So, here's a project area showing the, the streets being affected, which are shown in black. We have South Cup road from Elgin street to rainy Avenue. We're going to be replacing the water on the street. The Eastman between bomb drive and capers Avenue from barrel lane to South Cup road. We're going to be replacing the sewer. Booker T street from South Cup road to Andrew Avenue. We're going to be replacing the water and sewer. Reichenberger place from South Cup road to Carver Lee drive. We're going to be replacing the water. The Eastman between ring the Avenue and Lester Granger street from barrel lane to 605 feet. East we're going to be replacing the sewer Burdale court from Carol Avenue to Rainy avenue are going to be replacing the water and sewer. Mount, harm way from Turner street to Cocks Street. We're going to be replacing the water and sewer. Hatcher street from Eastbury street to widget drive we're going to be replacing the water and sewer. Reach Street from village. Creek road, to Eastberry street. We're going to be replacing the water and sewer. Now, for some general questions. Water will be turned off for approximately 15 to 30 minutes when the services are transferred from the existing water line to the temporary water line and when those services are transferred again from the temporary water line to the new water line and these which overs are done during the day. The contractor will knock on your door and let you know when it will be turned off and those transfers typically take about 30 minutes per. So, the temporary water line ensures that you are not without water during construction. And the summer months of continuous flow keeps the water from becoming stagnant in the above ground line. During the winter months, water must be continuously flowing through the temporary line to keep the line from freezing. Customers should also keep their faucets stripping the bill for your water usage while you're on the temporary water line will be based on the average of the previous month's usage. Will you need access to our property? So, most of the construction on this project is taking place in the streets. There are a few sewer lines that are in easement. So, if for some reason during construction, we do need to access your property, we will be contacting you. Well, our sewer service be interrupted so the sanitary sewer service will not be interrupted new sewer cleanouts will be installed at the property line or the easement line. These sewer cleanouts provide easy access to the field operations crews in case there's a backup or blockage. And the sanitary sewer line from the clean out to the home is considered private plumbing and the home owners responsibility to maintain. But having that clean out. Allows us to be able to let you know if the problem is on the private side or the public side. Will I have access to my driveway? We will have an inspector assigned to the project. Once we begin construction, the inspector and the contractor will work with the residents who need driveway access during active construction hours.   So, the trash collection vehicle can pick them up will there be lane closures during construction? Yes, we will have a traffic control plan. Once we have constructions and signs will be posted to alert motorists, but we will have more information during our public construction meeting. What are the construction hours? The hours of construction are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday. And upon requesting to work the contractor can also work from 9 a.m. to 4 or 5 p.m. on Saturdays. Timeline so this project is still in the design phase. We expect finalize design advertise for bids and select a contractor by the spring of 2023. We will host a community construction meeting after we have a contractor on board where can I get more information? You can go to www.forthwardtexas.gov and type in the project number, which is 1 0 3 3 5 9. Again, that number is 1 0 3 3 5 9 in the search bar on the home page. West cliff and West cliff, West area, water and sewer improvements will be the headline you're looking for. And once you click on that, it'll take you to the project page to get project updates. On this page, you can scroll down to the bottom of the project page and click on subscribe to this page. The link to the project summary and frequently asked questions will also be linked to the project page. How do I report an emergency or non emergency? You can call our water cost center for non emergencies from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday. That number is 8 1 7 392 4 4 7 7 and that. That non emergency number is closed city holidays, but our emergencies line is open 24 hours a day and it's that same number 8 1 7. 3 9 2 4 4 7 7 and you just select option 1 and that's to report major water main break sewer backups. You can also download the my 4th or app. It's my FW app from the app store or Google play on the app. You can report sewer overflows leaks. Water main breaks missing or broken meter lids. Water theft, water violations, lack of water service, water pressure issues or any other sewer concerns you may have. Um, above you can see my information again. My name is Brenda, I am the project manager on this project. I can be reached at 8 1 7. 3 9 2 8 2 7 1 and the email address on that is Brenda dot at 4th word, Texas dot gov. Our engineering design consultant, as mentioned, let's be bank Lee and bar field. So, if you have any design concerns about your property, you can reach out to me and I can let you. Kind of see what we're proposing on your property. In terms of rehabilitation. Right, thank you all handed over to Sally for some questions. There's any questions on the chat. I have some questions. This is mayor pro Tim Gina Bivens. Yes, okay. Here are my quest questions. I had told Mary G that if we didn't have at least 10 people on this call. That I would request you guys do the meeting again. And I'm willing to help. Are you all doing in person meetings yet? Yeah, we can do both. We can do 1x or in person meetings. Okay, well, I think an in person meeting in the community near the streets that are impacted will be very beneficial. 1, I have 3 questions. The 1st 1 is. I heard you say that you'll have supervisors knock on the doors. 15 minutes or so before the work starts or the duration of the work, maybe 15 minutes. What, what other form of advanced notification are you going to be giving to people? Yes, we also have door hangers that we place 7 days before construction. And also, I believe the day before construction begins to let them know we're going to be in the area. And typically, when we're working on the street, it takes about 2 weeks on average. So though, once they're laying the pipe. They should be there about 2 weeks. So once the. New lines installed, they'll kind of know it's 1, it's basically when the lines finish installing and we tested the water to make sure it passes quality assurance. They'll be reconnected to that line. So, I don't know if the inspector, but if we can get once we have an inspector on board, we can get with them to see what more information they can provide the residents on that. I think 7 days advance is good for a door hanger. How many homes will be impacted by this? Um, do you know how many, um, mailers, you send out, Sally? Not sure, let me see. We've got more than 500 mailers, but that also includes people who are going to be impacted by traffic and not necessarily living on the street. Well, so that's okay. You can you can send that to me. I've got some more questions. Uh, when, when you take a look at. The problems that people see after work is done, I think staff needs to be prepared. To make sure the mailer has in there what happens. After your 1st visit, you know, once the work gets started and you guys are leaving it to cure, whatever, whatever you. That's when people are lost because they don't know that you're coming back within a certain number of days. And so I would hope that your miller can have that. And it'll keep a lot of people calm. Yeah, on those door hangers, we put out, we actually also put the inspector's contact card on those store hangers. And I believe we also have my contact information on there. That's that's not what I'm asking. What if what I'm asking is. Uh, I guess you would say proactive information. Number 1, if you have proactive information, then people don't have to call your supervisors. And so when the work starts, people need to know how long it'll be before your workers come back. And I've seen cases where it's been more than a week and a whole block was wondering when are they coming back so you can be proactive in communication. And I, and I do want to see the mailers before they go out the next time. And should I contact you Sally? Is that, is that a Mary G question? So I do the mailers and we generally send those 5 weeks before the meeting because the goal is to have in the mailboxes 2 weeks prior to the community. That's not my question. My question is, I'd like to see the mailers before they go out the next time. And my question was, do I get with you on that or Mary G. You would get with me because I'm the one that does the mailers. And I'll get with you on that and thank you for putting this meeting online so that at least people who have interest will, we'll see it, but out of 500 mailers. And no 1 showing up, I do see 1 potential citizen named Martina on a mobile phone. But we really want to make sure we do the best we can to get get the word out. And the city has this new chief communications officer. Maybe we can get his office involved as well. That's all I have. Thank you, Ms. My pleasure. Are there any questions in the chat, Sally? Um, so this is Laura Wilson. I have a question for mayor, pretend, we would love to do in person meetings. We love those. Um, do you have a date in mind at this point? Because I know that's always been a. A tough issue just trying to match everybody's schedules together. And so, um, I was wondering if you were maybe thinking about a date yet, or how best we should coordinate that that depends on your dates. And when you plan on having the contractor on board, when you plan on starting the work when we had the recent budget meetings, my, my district was number 1 in attendance until Carlos Flores for the north side meeting. And so we've got staff who can help get the word out. And all you have to do is let me work with you, but a lot of that depends on your calendar. And so if you send me your calendar, the projected date of hiring the contractor, the projected date of starting the work, that helps us determine when we need to get the word out. Because when you have a meeting and a project is 3, 4 months down the road, even if people do show up, they're not going to remember. And so, you know, I'd be more than happy to work with you guys on that. Okay, very good. Thank you. There are any other questions. Just a reminder. We do a link. We do a YouTube video link to this. Webby X meeting. We also put a PDF of the PowerPoint on the project page and we have summary in both English and Spanish. It might be Monday before all of that is. Um, as a link to the page, but make sure you check back to 1, 0, 3, 3, 5, 9, Brenda. I get that right. Yes. Okay. 1, 0, 3, 3, 5, 9 in the search bar on the home page. It's a very good presentation. You guys did a real good job. It's a very good presentation. Thank you. Thank you.


Hey Virgo, welcome back to my channel. It's Kelly from House of Virgo. Alright Virgos, let's get into this reading street forward here All everything you need links to book readings with me and all that other jazz in the description box below Join the channel etc. Okay, let's get into this. What are the messages here for Virgo for October? 2022 Virgo Sun Moon Rising or Venus? Please smash that like and subscribe button by the way you guys haven't done so already if you like this channel Help support the channel. Greatly appreciated. Okay, what are the messages here for Virgo Virgo Sun Moon Rising or Venus? The month of October. Okay Oh, you've got the snake competition enemy clever maliciousness looking over the shoulder and the other woman or the other guy Okay, somebody could just Simply be a year of the snake born in the year of the snake if you don't know what your Chinese sign is Just google Chinese signs here Just google Chinese signs you learn all about yourself It's really very very informative and it pairs beautifully with your Virgo Sun Moon Rising or Venus Okay, so you've got a snake situation going on here Twin flame what the heck yin yang zhen balance union. Okay. What is go? Oh Okay, Virgo now this I feel like this is going to be a separate message if it ties into the rest of the reading Then it ties in okay. There's a twin flame connection here for sure Okay But somebody Is being very very sneaky Okay, let me see you could have a connection with someone and there's a third party involved And for some of you that third party is not the twin flame. You are the twin flame.  They are to yours Let me just get into here. Okay, there's two people that really compliment each other um, but there's um Like an element of like a lack of trust So maybe there's a very difficult twin flame type of connection with another person Okay, where it's like is this your false twin flame for some of you This could be a false twin flame. You might think oh no, this is my person But they might be coming in with a little bit of deception and malicious behavior. Okay All right. Yeah, there you go sunglasses watching looking stalking gas lighting perception focusing out.  Let me tell you guys.  There is someone though. I'm feeling a third party. There's someone on the outskirts Of this connection. You can call it twin flame. You could call it, you know Soul flame. You can call it your soulmate. Whatever you want to call it. It's your other half There's another person outside of this relationship Who is stalking The f out of You and this other and your other half. Okay That is the that is straight across the board the biggest message that I'm getting that's gonna like That's resonating. I feel like for 90 percent the other 10 You do have a twin flame who you think is your twin and they are a false. Okay um But we're not going to get into that because I want to tell you something if if you are not sure about someone Then that's not your person. All right, if you're not sure about a person if you have any seeds of doubt And you feel like Your gut is screaming fear and there's something like you don't feel safe.  Okay, so what I feel like here is going on is There is another person in your life and there's someone outside of this relationship Who is stalking? Who is causing trouble causing drama? Okay, they're watching they're looking um focusing and really trying to like Hmm There's obsessive energy.  Okay um and there is I feel like your your twin flame your person your other half knows about this third party or that they get watched a lot And I feel like your person is trying to keep things under the radar between you and them because There's a lot of External influence that could really disrupt this connection And your person doesn't want interference by other people and they are trying to protect you from external influences negative external influences snake like energy Okay So we're going to leave that there. Okay. We're for right now. We're going to leave that there Okay, because I feel like some of you might need some clarity in regards to Whatever this situation is you might feel like some you're like your person is hiding you or not talking Are not sharing you with other people. It's more in the form of protecting what's sacred, you know When you have something sacred like a very expensive gem You will Cush in that in as much Safety as possible so that it does not get tainted. It's protection Okay, you're being protected. Okay All right, let me get into the rest of the screening. My goodness Virgo. What the heck? What a way to start happy monday. What a way to start. Okay, let me see Well, maybe some of you might be hearing this on tuesday, but all right. What else does Virgo need to know? Whatever spirit wants Virgo to know whatever spirit wants you to know Virgo Give us the messages. Let Virgo know what is going on For some of you do have someone that you're connected with who's born in the year of the snake and they are watching you Okay, so the night of sorts. This is a very aggressive energy coming towards you from External very aggressive. So there's something somebody wants to communicate to you now. Show us more here Oh, wow. Okay some gossip All right, there's some gossip. There's there's some drama Oh There's some drama going on here. There's people talking people are talking Okay I also feel like somebody's trying to come and connect with you Okay, somebody is circling back around. That's what they just told me somebody is circling back around Somebody's trying to connect with you Virgo. Okay Um, there's some Somebody or some people there's something coming back circling back around maybe something that you saw it was you know You got over this you got done with this This gossip this drama this person these people Nope circling back around in october. Okay, what's going on? Yeah, look, I feel Okay Well, the first message I'm getting they're saying is that you're really focusing on putting something behind you Closing a chapter. You're not dealing with any BS in october. You're like, nope. Nope Boy by girl by keep it moving. Okay.  Yes There's gas lighting um Yes, I feel like there's like this like Maybe it's another woman or another guy who's trying to interfere in a connection that you have with someone There's competition for sure for your person and your person. I feel their energy is like They're trying to protect you from this They're they're trying this person is trying to shield you from Any kind of attacks That external influences are going are trying to come in here, right? so that you Virgo can Keep doing what you're doing in your life. It's it's interesting like I just feel like somebody here and it's such a strange message I just feel like somebody here is They don't want you affected like you're very precious to them Okay, interesting. So as far as we have signs here, we have air water earth Okay, specifically leo aquarius taurus and scorpio. Okay, so let me see here Okay, the death card Okay, I feel like your person is trying to smash This imbalance. There's an emotional roller coaster This person is trying to head it off so that it doesn't affect you Okay And why why because I feel like this person is trying to couple with you They are trying your person Is trying to come into balance and into union that twin flame They know that you're the one for them And they want you by their side for the rest of their life This is how this this is how they feel about you But there's things that need to be put into place first before That comes about okay, there may be people who disagree with this connection Well, there's not may they there are there's gossip. There's people talking There's a lot and I see a lot of that coming into play in october Where there's people who want to come in and try to drive a wedge Your person is like very well aware and I feel like they're kind of saying to themselves like I need to put an end to this Or find a way to distract everybody with the juggles show so that they don't come after you And I'm I'm not feeling like, you know, it's gonna be I don't want to say the word because I might get um demonetized. I don't feel it's dangerous Okay, um, so I don't feel like you need to like go into a witness protection program or anything. I feel like it's more Words it's more words. It's rumor.  So everyone just it's like deterrent. They're gonna try to deter Anyone from getting to you my goodness burko This is crazy. This is so much craziness Okay, let me see Yes, look five of wands in the tower. I mean the messages speak for themselves, right? You know, look at this because the conflict can just destroy everything. I what is the deal? Who is this person? You know, they're trying just to tell everybody like everything like if there's anybody in the in your periphery Or connected to you in this person who disagrees with this relationship for whatever reason I feel like your person's gonna is trying in october to just balance things out and say, you know, mind your business Everything's fine. Um, everything's good. Everything's stable.  Hello Because I feel all this energy of aggression They're gonna do a little like juggle dance and just kind of distract be deterrent. Everything's fine. Don't worry about it Hey, did you hear about this new movie and change the subject so that people don't ask questions? But if there is a problem and there's like a lot of Game playing and and we're seeing competition or people trying to come in and and disrupt this connection Your person's like bam, they're gonna put them in their place and like destroy it break the ego Out of nowhere. Okay. Why is this person? What is the feeling that this person has for Virgo like I mean, obviously the twin flame is here Okay, this is like a union. This is like, um, you compliment each other But what what are the feelings like who is this person coming in with this giant protective like sword energy Okay, so queen of cups right there Um cancer scorpio pisces. I was asking for a person and that's what I got. Okay. Male or female energy a court card So this is someone, you know For some of you, okay, I know you're like, well, listen, I don't have anybody. I'm single as a pringle. Okay, fine It could be a parent who's protecting a child. It could be a sister who's protecting his sibling Um or a brother a sibling protecting his sibling Um could be a child protecting a parent It could be a friend standing up for you protecting your relationship. Okay, so keep that in mind I know not everybody is connecting with someone. I know some of you are Some of you might be single and your twin flame comes in and there's like this recognition in october like wow you two are Like boom you hit it off and it's so amazing Like the queen of cups energy It doesn't matter what your person's sign is if you know them if you haven't met them Could be a water sign, but they're coming in with very deep feelings The queen of cups is very deep like deep emotions Loving Okay, um for some of you, let me see you might have met this person You know during cancer season for some of you like june or july Uh for some in 2021 you might have already met them. Okay. There was a connection that was made But this person has very deep warm loving feelings They want to nurture you and nurture this connection your your love relationship. This person loves you like it's straight Point blank period. I mean this person is just in love with you They don't want anyone to come in they're fighting and they're battling. Okay for others. We have a king of swords Holy shoes Okay Air lever gemini aquarius. Okay, so it's either a water sign or an air sign. Okay All right.  Um, let me see Right Yeah, see this person Whichever sign doesn't matter. We've got male and female energy here I feel like this person wants everyone to leave you or will want of course going into october Want everyone to leave you and them alone?  Please don't chain your dog out in the backyard.  So please don't do that So I don't know why I feel like somebody might still be doing that. So, you know Anyway Yeah, leave people out in the cold just like it gives the impression like it's barren here.  They they give them that gray rock Like they give them a little bit of information enough For them for those other people to chew on but that that's it Okay, and they might keep recycling and regurgitating that same information your person Is giving the poker face the end.   This is more like protection to keep you safe What? What what okay? There you go. See listen Virgo the ten of pentacles Ten of pent, let me explain real quick to you. Okay, as soon as I said safe the ten of pentacles popped out Ten of pentacles always reminds me of like a bank an institution money inheritance Things that are valuable that you want to keep in a safe place. Okay um a marriage a business these are things that We invest in and we build upon and we build upon until we reach that final like we've got this is like retirement Like we've got everything saved We want to protect that from other people and I feel like your person views your relationship As something that they want to protect and giving out the vibe to everybody else No, no, there's nothing going on here.   You're worth it to them Nobody else is as worth it to them as you are like there's nobody that can compare Okay That night of pentacles energy is is like this is an investment that They want to I know I sound like I'm talking about business and stocks, but This is an investment this person wants to have for the rest of their life. This is long term security Okay, so queen of wands energy Wow, this person you're like a wish come true for them. Okay They see you even though and now some of you I know could be on the cusp of leo virgo But this person views you as like that queen of wands energy is super hot It's not just you know This is like you're untouchable.  This is my girl and I am going to Nurse this relationship. This is my twin flame. Do everything I can to protect this relationship from any kind of like I know some of you like you kind of vacillate between yeah That's what I want somebody who's like that and they're gonna and others are like no I'm independent. You can't tell me what to do like you got to pick a lead If this isn't for you then that's a choice you're making It doesn't mean that this person doesn't feel this way But it's it I feel like for for this reading and the messages they're giving me as that This person you are like a wish come true for them Okay, in fact so much so that you are almost unattainable to them. It's almost With the aid of cups It's kind of like they're in dream world here when it comes to you like you are so valuable like a precious gem to them And they view you as being so super attractive fiery passionate hot It and definitely independent and popular Okay, and you Virgo might be like that isn't even me at all. I don't even know what you're talking about Like I'm in a hermit mode. I sit in my house. I don't do anything Well, just because you don't see yourself that way doesn't mean this person doesn't and that is how they see you and They have in their mind That they don't it's almost like you're like famous. They view you as and this person does not want other people That it's protection.  I don't know. I don't know Okay, but no this person is super super sweet on you. Okay could be a fire sign for some of you super super sweet And it's like I look at those sunglasses and I'm seeing like secret service I'm you know, they have them sunglasses on and the like walking around protection They're watching they're looking at everyone around making sure that nobody's trying to Like come near you or What are you doing Virgo? Virgo's like no, I'm in hermit mode. I don't even know what's going on like like this is I don't even understand this reading kelly. I'm clicking off. I'm telling you so somebody might be like this is not resonating. Okay. Well, october Come you'll be back october.  Okay Let me get let me get I need to get we need to get a little love in here We need to get a little love in here. What's going on with the romance angels and the love messages Oh my gosh I can't I really can't All right spirit show us what the love messages are here. Come on Okay chemistry. There's a strong magnetic attraction here with you and this person Okay, I know some of you like I don't even know who this is And others like this energy is just gonna It's just gonna come out in october. Okay, right now things might be dead in the water Nothing's happening.  I'm done with this Okay This energy this releasing energy If that's something that you've done if if it was your ex and was twin flame was very tumultuous Some of you released it Definitely, but this this release it's like the tides. Okay, the water flows back out And when the water flows back out and the water comes back in and the moon has all the effect The moon and the water represent the emotions and the cycles of change And I feel like even though some of you might be like no, I let go of that twin flame No, this person is coming in hard and fast With that knight of sorts hard and fast aggressive With some type of communication And and speed. Okay Either they're coming to talk to you and tell you what's going on here And explain some stuff to you that you may have misconstrued or didn't understand Okay Yep past life relationship. So this is definitely somebody coming back in and again caveat I say this all the time Virgo Uh, you don't have to take this person back, right? You still have free will so just because they're coming in doesn't mean You have to accept it. Okay. That's where your free will is You know if you tell me, oh This isn't my reading therefore. It's not going to happen.  It's gonna rain Oh really? Yeah, but guess what?  It's gonna rain. It's raining outside All right, let's get a couple other messages here for you Okay, you've got lover loving older female Okay, so what this means is someone who comes in very yin energy. You might be a yang Okay, you've got someone who comes in in very yin energy here Nourishing loving, okay queen of cups energy Okay, even if it's male if somebody's coming in very yin very loving towards you This is the description of this person older as in they could be older than you Okay, male or female or they just are very wise and tremendously mature. Okay But that comes in with that water energy now listen Water is water flows. Okay water represents the emotions The tears that come out of your eyes. That's water flowing some people Who don't have tears coming out of their eyes. It doesn't mean the their feelings aren't there It's just that you know water can crash or it can flow right water can be in the form of Flowing gently and softly or it can be in the form of like a tidal wave Okay, water can be Always in movement or it can be ice. Okay. I don't know why I need to tell you that There's just these different properties of water. I feel like this person. They may be um a little reserved In their emotions for some of you, okay In other words have them very very deeply for you And I feel like yeah, because who else is going to go out of their way to protect you like this And save this relationship and put it on such a pedestal and love you like this If they didn't have very deep relationships This is this is a connection this twin flame thing not for the faint of heart Not for the faint of heart. This is deep. This is very very deep Okay, some of you have a financial decision. You're going to be making in october um It's going to come up and you're going to be pressed to make a decision Okay, what else? All right, fear and anxiety in reverse is leaving you. Okay. Wow interesting Um fear and anxiety is leaving you Okay All right, so some of you i'm just hearing now this might be related to this might not some of you May have felt like your person was non committal, but that's not the case Okay, this twin flame connection. They're saying Um, this person came across as non committal, but I don't feel like they truly are I don't feel like this person They might have been in the past, but there's some kind of shift in changing a change here Going on with this person where um They may have had a lot of fear and anxiety about that But their fear and anxiety is being removed.  Let me see what these Messages of love here. Okay retreat time alone or in nature will help you recharge And here now your true love is already a part of your life. Okay So some of you like I said you already know who this person is They want to be more than friends if you're if you're friends with this person Yeah, no, this person might be given off vibes Some of you might not have a relationship a romantic relationship with someone that you're friends with But you're like um something's weird the way this person acts around Me they seem like it's there there's more than that. Okay, they don't just act like a casual friend Because this person wants a hundred percent wants more Okay, so let me see I want to see what your moon ology messages are here What is Virgo's moon ology messages? Okay, emotions are running high. Oh my gosh. Yeah, so this person very very very deep emotions for you And like I said, they may wear wear a poker face, but man these rivers run deep with this person for you There's just this protection energy coming up in october and I feel like somebody here your person It may be making is making a decision not maybe making a decision to come into union with you But they're putting things in place before doing that because there's a lot that's going to come with us a lot A lot of backlash Okay, so your hard work is paying off new moon and capricorn All right, so yeah, somebody's got big plans. I feel like you're going to be super duper surprised with that tower card there And showing the world the real you okay interesting because we were talking about someone not showing um I feel like this person and let me just give you The message that's just coming through here. I feel like this person they're not going to keep you hidden to the point where Your person looks single. No, it's going to be known. Okay, but access to you is going to be minimized Because of protection measures that need to come in and I don't I don't know Why? um What this person's overall situation is that they need to do that it could just be they have family members who are Extremely awful They don't want you to like they don't want their family engaging with you because they don't want you to be Stained or damaged. It could just be their environment or their work situation or other people external to them Okay, they will show you show everyone show the world That they are partnered with you and that this is it and when I say partner that's an umbrella term for For some marriage for some exclusivity long-term commitment Making it known Changing the social media status for some if that's important for you Whatever it might be there's there this person kind of goes off baseline From their norm, but I do feel like Yeah, they're going to show who you are That you are real and you exist and you are theirs But like I said, they're they're not going to Access to you is going to be minimized. Like I said others are going to have to go through them first Okay All right, so let me get a couple of Oh We got oh, we got to do the Chinese signs, right? You guys love the Chinese signs Let's see. Let's get a little more. So we already had the snake showing up here. Let's see. What is your person's Chinese sign? What are their Chinese signs are showing up here for Virgo Yours there's okay year of the dog Year of the rabbit Year of the monkey Year of the rooster Year of the horse Year of the tiger And there's the snake Okay Year of the rat We have tiger again Okay year of the ox interesting. We have a lot of like farm animals going on here roosters oxes Except for the tiger horse dog rabbit Except for the tiger and the monkey. There's a little somebody might be from like, um I'm just hearing africa south africa with these tigers and monkeys are india. Okay They just gave me an image of a panda bear. Why am I seeing a panda bear? All right, let's see. Let's get your Signs All right, Taurus capricorn aquarius aries Taurus capricorn aquarius and aries Okay What other signs are showing up here for Virgo?  All right one more one more roll of the dice Okay, Leo Sagittarius and Capricorn and Libra again. Okay, so we've got somebody born in 1983 Okay, we've got the number 11 twin flame connection Okay, somebody's born um February 20th as a cuss between Aquarius and Pisces Um, okay, 1996 very significant day. Okay, somebody's birthday is on the 8th What else? Okay, one zero one one always. I feel like that always comes out one zero one one All right, somebody's 54 fit between 52 and 54 I'm also picking up the age 45 and uh 61 okay And do a couple more of these and then I'm gonna do your charms Okay, hmm 2002 1972 okay, the number three one zero somebody might be born they might be a Pisces March 10th 1999 And they're giving me um 729 okay 729 and also Okay, somebody's getting snow in october Like enough snow they'd be able to build a snowman. Okay Like that there's like I feel like there's gonna be Oh, okay, and then they just said I-80 I-80 Maybe somebody lives near there I-80 All right, let me get your charms I-80 Okay, what charms does Fergo need to have at this time?  I'm picking up taffy. I mean somebody's name is Tammy um Yeah, but I'm just feeling like Like a sucker. Okay.  Oh, they just gave me um, oh blow pop Don't go there. Um, it's like the It's like a lollipop, but when you get into the center, it's got chewing gum like bubble gum in it You might be looking at it.  Okay That's interesting What the heck? Oh, okay. They just said um You need to give okay weird so all you need to Start giving treats to your dog to train them Which I'm sure most of you do anyway, but you've got something going on with a pet That they are not behaving Something's going on or they broke a pattern or they they've become a little too dominant. Okay, so they're saying train your dog with positive reinforcement with treats Strange message. I don't have a dog. I don't have a cat. So that's specific for somebody here And um, you know I get like okay And then they're saying ink blot and ink blot or somebody's getting a okay, okay So, all right, here you go. They said if you are someone who likes to get tattoos or you're thinking of getting one Make sure that the person who does them um, because I'm seeing um Some ink on tattoo Okay, that like Leaks or something it leaks or maybe you're going to get a tattoo redone because it's fall falling apart Also, um, be careful if you put your pen If there's there's a leaky pen. I'm just hearing a leaky pen And All right, this is weird. This is like one of those craft tricks. There's something about um, My goodness This is so like simple messages. Use the gum to remove something. They just said use the gum bubblegum To remove something I don't know what that means There's something or use the gum to hang something up like because it's sticky something about the sticky substance of the of bubblegum or something will adhere Something that you're trying to I don't know hang out hang out or you don't have like a push pin or you don't have any tape They're saying use bubblegum whatever you do whatever you got to do I mean if you're wrapping gifts bubblegum will work and it'll probably smell nice and it's like an extra bonus, right? um Okay, and they also just said vergo you need to throw someone a bone like you need to cut somebody some slack in october um Cut them some slack like chill cut them some slack. That's what they just said. I'm not telling you to do that I don't know who it is like go easy on somebody In october my stomach is growing. I have to go eat. All right, you guys love you very much Hope you enjoyed that. Do you check out the short shorts? I am uploading shorts every day now like short messages So definitely check them out There that's just a little added bonus because I know I'm only here once a day But it's a little extra something something for you guys. All right. Love you very much vergo Hope you enjoyed this reading and I will see you tomorrow. Okay. Take care. Bye


Coach, what did you like, what did you like in the way that you were able to grind out at WV?  Alderman 22, I think they had a couple late buckets too, and when we were just, you know, I'd put it to bed, so I was proud of that. I thought everyone contributed, and I thought, this is a trap game. You know, you have a winning streak on the West Coast.  I feel like the game like this from Bruce Brown was, you know, bound to happen. You know, what have you seen in his game, and what has he been able to, you know, contribute that led himself to having that like this? Well, Bruce is remarkable.  You know, he's picking and rolling and finishing with two bigs in the lane. His willingness and ability to do that is remarkable. You know, he made some threes tonight, but for me, it's all the other stuff.  So fantastic effort from Bruce.


So what happens when the self is absent? This. The self is absent and there is open space. And the only thing that separates the open space that already is from a contracted sense of self is these layers of conditioned assumptions and ideas. Many of which are skillfully put in place so that we can undergo this journey of contraction and expansion. So the only role on the spiritual journey is to look at what might be my contractions. What might be my layers of assumptions and ideas that are preventing me from feeling absent? Like consciousness or mind is just open space without a sense of self, without a sense of others, without a sense of lack. Just pure wholeness itself, just pure unconditional love for the whole exploration. And many of those conditioned layers, our contracts that we created for ourselves are defended quite heavily by these fortress towers. Just shooting down self-inquiry. And that is why things like psychedelics are so powerful because they take those rigid conditioned layers and they suspend them into open space. And that's called a glimpse, the absence of self, but it doesn't stay. And so the role of the spiritual seeker is to relentlessly decondition those assumed layers back into source, into open space, into love.