Thank you all so much for sort of trying to get back in. We are a little bit off schedule from what is in your program, but we appreciate people sort of shortening today. We're gonna extend today's panel by a little bit and then adjust throughout the day. There we go, wonderful. And then adjust throughout the day slightly. So I'm Jojo Roof. I'm the managing director of the laboratory for global performance and politics. And first I just wanna echo Kevin and Derek that it feels so incredibly moving to look out and see so many friendly and inspiring faces. We have a phenomenal group gathered here today. We have artists and theater practitioners, policy makers, scholars, faculty, students, future leaders from nearly 25 countries. We have representatives from Central and South America, from Europe and the Middle East, from Asia and Africa. And we're thrilled that so many people have flown literally thousands of miles to be with us here today. So it feels very moving. An integral part of our global pre-conference is not just the discussion on stage, but opening up the conversations to questions from you, our audience as well. So every panel will allow for significant time for that. So have your questions at the ready. And we have mics in the audience and we'll have volunteers that bring the mics to you so you can stay in your seat. But please do clearly state your name before asking a question or making a comment just so we have an idea of who's talking. Throughout the day, we'll also have people joining us via Skype, like we do right now. And two of which are joining us that way instead of in person because of their own refugee status. So Natalia from Belarus Free Theater, who is joining us from the UK where she was now living, will be joining us for this first panel. And Reem Alsaya, a Syrian refugee turned actress who's living in Amman, Jordan, will be joining us for tonight for Prevented Presented Performances. So it feels apt that we begin our first panel discussion of the day with humanizing exile, a creative response. So this is an opportunity for an extraordinary seven panelists to speak about their own experiences about how theater can document exile and migration and what are the conditions and parameters about which exiled artists can and cannot discuss. We're thrilled to have Dr. Nadia Oadad, a Smith Richardson fellow at New America and frequent collaborator of the lab as our moderator here today. Enjoy. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, everyone, for coming. With me are very impressive and very well accomplished people to discuss, as Jojo said, art and exile and refugees in three different regions in the Middle East, in Latin America and also in Europe. So with me here is Wendy and Wendy Young. Wendy has received the president, is the president of Kids in Need of Defense, the leading provider of legal services to unaccompanied migrants and refugee children since its launch in 2009. She brings extensive immigration policy experience to her role and most recently, she served as chief counsel on immigration policy in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Refugees for Senator Edward Kennedy. All of my panelists are very, very accomplished people and I can spend 20 minutes just reading their credentials, so I'm just gonna, because of Brevity, just mention a little bit about them and I encourage you to read about them in your folder. I also have Marisa. Marisa Chebas is a Donde seeking theater artist and recipient of the TCG Fox Foundation Fellowship in Distinguished Achievement. She heads the bilingual initiative Donde, Cal Arts, that collaborates innovative Latina artists to make adventurous theater. Her solo daughter of the Cuban Revolution produced by Cal Arts Center for New Performance, premiered at Red Cat in LA and went to New York City and various other cities around the world. I also have with me Mr. Costa, Martin Costa. He is a director, playwright and professor from Mexico City. He has directed over several plays since 1987. Martin toured also all around. He directed a production of Faust. He is a winner of various awards, including when he won Seven Times. And when he won Twice, I mean, seriously I encourage you to read more about these impressive panelists. How do you win all these awards? What do you do? I also have with me from my region, from the Middle East, Taranj Yegze, let me see, Yegze, okay. Taranj wins with her Iranian and Armenian heritage. She is the founding artistic director of Golden Theater Productions, the first American theater company devoted to the Middle East. Music to my ears. We also have on Skype, as Jojo said, Larry and Natalia. And Larry is a British writer, artist, teacher. He was associated for a long time with Darlington College of Arts, where he was the academic director. He became the founding father of Falmouth University's Academy of Music and Arts, Theater Arts. We also have Natalia. She is the founding co-artistic director of Belarus Free Theater, writer, diplomat, human rights activist and producer. So let's all thank our panelists. And I'm going to start with Latin America since we just saw the phenomenally moving play. So I wanna start with you, Wendy, Mercea and Martin. That was so inspirational. So I wanna first give each of you some space, five minutes to tell us about your background and how you got engaged with this issue. So maybe we'll do it this way. Wendy, we'll start with you. Well, sadly, I need to confess, I'm a lawyer, I'm not an artist. So that may be good news for you because my artistic skills are not very good. But I'm with an organization called Kids in Need of Defense or KIND. We provide pro bono or volunteer legal representation to the thousands of unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children who arrive in the United States each year. And when they are stopped at our border, are placed into deportation proceedings. In recent years, overwhelmingly, the population is dominated by Central American children from three countries, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. And what I think many Americans do not understand is the incredibly tragic level of violence that is really marking that part of the world today. And these are children who are being driven out of their homes and communities by violence that is specifically targeting them as children. And it's generally created by gangs and narco cartels. Families are making the very desperate choice to put their child on the road alone, sometimes accompanied by a human trafficker or a smuggler in the desperate search for freedom here. And unfortunately, our system is such that when the kids arrive, like an adult, they're placed into deportation proceedings.  And there's the child standing alone with nobody to help them unless they have a volunteer lawyer. And I've been in immigration courts and seen children as young as three, four and five years old appearing before judges with nobody to help them. And they're supposed to be able to demonstrate that they have a well-founded fear of persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion. Try doing that when you're three years old. So this is what we do. We try to help these kids through these proceedings. And what we find is that children who have counsel are five times more likely to be awarded some form of protection and allowed to remain in the United States. And we have over a 90% success rate in our cases, but currently over 50% of these kids are going through those proceedings without lawyers. So that's what we do. 50%? One out of every two kids, wow. Yeah. So I can share with you a little bit of the genesis of the project. In the winter of 2014, I was healing from major spine surgery and the loss of my mother. And I was alone, healing a lot. And I was haunted by a story that I had read several years ago about a teenage Mexican-American boy from Texas who was mentally challenged and he was deported by accident. And his parents didn't know where he was for three weeks. So for three weeks, and I was just haunted with this idea, he finally was reunited with his family, but I didn't know about unaccompanied child migrants. I started reading about it. And there was an article in the LA Times in which two people were quoted, Elizabeth Kennedy, who's a Fulbright scholar and at the time was working in El Salvador with children who had been deported back. And Susan Terrio from Georgetown University who was writing a book that is now out called Who's Child Am I? This was a Sunday that the LA Times article came out and I emailed them both, found their information online, emailed them both and heard back from them that day. And I thought, okay, I'm gonna go to the Cal Arts Center for New Performance team and say, we have to do a piece about this. This is huge. Elizabeth was able to connect me, both Elizabeth and Susan were advisors on the project. I interviewed them. I went to a shelter in San Diego where I saw a group of kids, recent arrivals. I interviewed volunteers who were going to the shelter. I did a lot of research and I did research for almost a year. And then during that process, we needed a director and Martina Costa has directed for Duende Cal Arts before he did a beautiful production by Alejandro Ricanho called Timbuktu that was performed both in the US and in Mexico. Half of the artists were from this country and half from Mexico. And we really wanted to work with this incredible visionary director. We knew that it would be also because our countries, the US and Mexico are so involved and responsible in many ways for the crisis. It seemed like this is the perfect partnership. And so he came on board and we did a workshop last spring, basically generating material with an extraordinary team of actors and designers and put up the show in this past spring in Los Angeles in two locations. One was an outdoor park in Lincoln Park in downtown Los Angeles. And then also at Carese in LA, Carese serves Central American refugees and migrants with pro bono legal services as well as educational services. And along with the production, we also have been doing these workshops titled Yo Tambien Soy Un Ser, I too am somebody. And they are youth empowerment workshops with our whole team, designers, actors, everybody involved. Basically focusing on some of the effects of the hate language that towards immigrants that's happening in the country and how that affects the body. So in the workshops we do different kinds of physical improvs with the, that none of them, most of the attendees of the workshops were not performers. But they really took to the work and they would step into the body of a hero of their choice and walk around with that and feel the effects of that and write from that voice. I also interviewed seven recent arrivals, kids who had made this journey themselves at the age 13, 14 from our local high school where we have a year long writing program, Kellaritz has a year long writing program with. And those seven young dreamers were integral from the beginning of the process. So they saw a workshop, they gave us feedback, they were a part of readings, they took the Yo Tambien Soy Un Ser workshop, they were there at opening and we continue to be in contact with them. And one of the things that I wanna share with you in terms of belonging and finding home is that these seven kids, during the course of this process, we saw the power of our work as theater artists. We saw their empowerment of having their stories told and witnessed publicly and the importance of that. And there's a real hunger for that. We've gotten responses from middle schools, elementary schools, high schools, colleges, professional theaters around the country who are really hungry for this kind of work that specifically represents this community and we're really proud to be doing this. Thank you, Marisa. Martin? Okay. As Marisa, I am an artist, not a lawyer, so I would talk about me. Sorry for that. I was a very shy kid when I was in junior high school. But with a very strong ideas about many things and I did promise never to come to United States because I was very angry because many, many things. But I've been weak and I came. In 1993, I did accept a grant for to be in a residence in AdWords, three hours far from New York, at the North and I spent these months working on one of my first pieces, working about James Joyce novel and materials from him. Talking with an artist, which I was sharing a workshop, he told me, 1993, he told me, you are the first Mexican who I am talking and they are saying something intelligent and are not washing the dishes. And I didn't know what to say. Actually, I didn't know what to think about it and I say, thank you. I am very, very surprised because I didn't notice how some artists look to other artists at that moment. But many people around me at that moment encouraged me to do my work and to express my ideas and I am very thankful to all these people but I am very thankful to the guy who told me that.  And that's migration for me. That's a way to confront your fear and make a trouble and confront what do you want to do? What are you dreaming to be and to have the effort to do it? So I did and from this moment until today, I had a beautiful, great journey and part of the journey was to meet Marisa and to do a great partnership. She talked me about these kids, migrant kids and I didn't know anything about them. Even if they are crossing my own country and I was so surprised about it. I did know about migrants coming from Central America especially because six years ago there were a massacre in San Fernando, Tamaulipas where 72 migrants, Central American migrants were kidnapping and finally, finally dead. But I didn't know that the kids comes on a company to America and it was a very surprise for me and I felt very ashamed because I didn't know. So it was a great opportunity working and sharing the experience with Cal Arts to talk about it and actually push me to do a new play and now about the Las Patronas who are a group of women that give food every day of their lives to the migrants that cross close to their own little town named Amatlan de los Reyes. So these people do that because they wanted to do and the last 25 years ago, they are working on it and with no support of anybody, any institution with the support of many people of course. And I feel that we have a great weapon to talk about this because if more people knows about what these people are doing, I think we can make conscience, we can open doors and we can make maybe the right questions because we have not the answers and this is a great thing for theater. We don't need answers. We need the right questions. I'm actually gonna go to Larry and Natalia over Skype. Would you tell us about your work? Hi everyone. I hope you hear us. Yeah, we can hear. Great. I don't see audience but based on Skype screen, I could imagine you see very big faces of us. Yes. Can you hear their laughter? There are quite a few of them. Yeah, it was a great laughter. So we hear you guys. I would start from just checking. It's kind of small geography lesson. Do you know guys where Belarus is? Yes. It seems like it's very different from laughter. Laughter was very loud. Let's give her a loud yes. Do you hear this? So before we said that Belarus is located in between Poland and Russia. And then my husband, he said, you know what I came up with a great idea? Check with people. Do they know where Russia is located? Guys, do you know where Russia located? Yeah, right here, you know, yeah. So just to make sure, Russia is located in between Belarus and China. Laughter. So, now you will definitely know how important and big Belarus is. So this is the country from where I come personally. Larry is lucky he was born in the UK. That is still part of the European Union. Everything might be changed. Laughter. For at least a few more days. At least one more day. One more day. It's hours. Yeah. And then we are moving to you guys. We will have more refugees, but from the UK now. Laughter. And then you will understand what it means humanizing exile when Brits will come to your country. So the country is under dictatorship, our country, Belarus, for 22 years. And this is where we do theater. Personally, me and my husband were called public enemies or enemies of the state. And it means different things.  It means your parents lose your job. It means that apartments of your parents, as it was in our case, they're raided by KGB. It means that your children are hunted by KGB in order for them to be sent to orphanages as it was happening with us. And then at some point, when you become a refugee, many different things start to happen as well. You don't have home anymore because your home is back in your country. You don't have friends because they're either in jail or they're in exile in different countries. But in our case, we have a unique situation, 29 of members of Belarus Free Theater are still underground in Belarus. And they perform there on a weekly basis and they teach students on a daily basis. And our real life is split into two parts. It's life in London with a new world of understanding democracy for us personally and understanding that it's not a very easy system and you need to dig very deep in order to find different problems under that particular system. But still you have people back there and in order for us to work with them, we get on Skype with them as we did today with you and with each. So today before getting on Skype with you, I was working with Maria Alokhina from Pussy Riot who was in jail for two years in Russia because now we do a big show together with a member of Pussy Riot with Marsha. And we talk about contemporary artists and their role in different societies and how politicians use them from both sides. And trying to say that we are not heroes, we are not victims, we are contemporary artists and we are very much interested in different interpretations of exile because exile for us, it's a very complicated thing. Exile for us, it's amazing opportunity to meet absolutely fantastic people who work with us in the UK. But same time, our existence is under very big question in terms of financial support. So besides, we're not with you now based on a very simple thing. We are refugees in the UK, but it's a very complicated process and now in order for us to extend our live in the UK, we applied for that status, but it means we don't have any single document. So if we're stopped in the streets by police in London, the only way for them to identify us, it would be to take us to police department and fingerprint. When we get from Italy to Heathrow Terminal 3, we are detained for 15 minutes, 15 minutes of shame for home office in the UK because they terminate our leave to remain in the UK. So exile is not a very simple thing. The only thing as people do who come from dictatorship, they can't stop, they will continue to push and we will continue to push on a personal level and besides we will continue to push on a level of artists. Natalia has spoken so well, I won't add very much time at all, perhaps just to say from my perspective as an educator by trade that just as Natalia has spoken about her experience of being exiled out of Belarus, so she's not allowed there and she's not allowed to travel to Washington DC because she has no travel documents, she's stateless. The work I do with the company with Belarus Free Theatres is primarily education and an idea, a principle that has been entirely exiled from Belarus is the principle of an academically free, interrogative education be it in the arts or anywhere else. And one of the least well-known but most extraordinary things about Belarus Free Theatres is the fact that we run underground in exile but inside the country a two-year theatre education program for we enroll 15 students a year to Fortenbrass Laboratory Theatre Fortenbrass as you know the last man standing in Shakespeare's Hamlet so we have an underground laboratory theatre running full-time education program for students in Minsk it's the only academically free education available in the country of Belarus there's the wonderful European Humanities University in exile outside of the country but if you want to do a hardcore arts program in Minsk there's one place to do it and it's tucked away a humanizing refuge, a sanctuary, a free thought an activist self-determination run by Natalia and the crew in Belarus Free Theatre so I'll leave it there but education is a thing we do in country Thank you Larry and Natalia and Taranj Hello So I came to the United States as a very opinionated 14-year-old who did not want to stay in the US during a time when there was a revolution happening in Iran and my family didn't feel that it was safe for me to be in Iran what I was told that the trip would be for just four months through the summer and when things calm down I would return things did not calm down and I did not return so gradually the rest of my family moved to the US and it became clear that we need to make a fresh start of it here which we were lucky enough to be able to do and privileged to be able to do but it did mean that I had to sort of redefine myself as an immigrant and I had to explore this new territory of living between two identities and because I'm also half Armenian living among three identities so it was an interesting period of growing up in the US as it happened I went to a different high school every year so I actually went to four different high schools which in a way didn't help me build relationships as a teenager but what it did do it actually pushed me further into theater because that was the only place where I felt at home in a way and by the time I finished high school I wanted to pursue theater as a professional career but coming from an immigrant family, economic independence was very important to us so I pursued a career in the sciences to be able to find a job right away and make money which I did and then I pursued theater and by the time I moved to San Francisco the plan was to pursue an MFA in theater and by the time I got my graduate degree I established a theater company and the idea of this theater company really was born I think the day I landed at Kennedy Airport and was asked about my identity and why am I here who am I, why do I think I belong here and sort of negotiating all of those complicated issues as a 14 year old I think all of that was building up and when I was studying theater and I was auditioning for graduate programs a number of times I was told that because of my looks and because of my accent I would never be cast in a leading role in American theater and that discouraged me a little bit but by the time I did finish my graduate studies what I realized was that I'm not alone I have stories that I want to tell and I will write my own stories and I will act in my own plays with my accent and with my looks and as soon as I started doing that I realized I met other artists that are in similar shoes that are looking for an artistic home and that was the impetus for founding Golden Thread Productions which is our theater company in San Francisco devoted to the Middle East and I'm happy to talk more about it in our conversation I do have marketing material like a good artistic director so I have bookmarks and I have my business cards here so Thank you everyone so you know one thought that really is pressing is politicians and the hell need to see this place because they talk as if all these people why are they coming towards us and there's zero recognition that American foreign policy has something to do with why sometimes people leave their countries that we are not completely innocent of what happens and I know in our region in the Middle East so you support dictators and you flood the Middle East with weapons and then why are these people coming? You would do the same thing if you were under attack so you really educate on the truth behind what's happening but you also humanize it ultimately we're all humans and we're all seeking safety and prosperity and so are you having any efforts to actually educate Congress and politicians? This is one question and the other is because we have to stop at one and I really want to engage the audience the other question is I know that as an immigrant myself even when you leave your country you practice some sort of censorship what you can and can't do because most often you have relatives who are still there so what extent has this experience of being away yourself from that and dealing with people who just came or people who are maybe on route wanting to leave or how has this influenced your work? And I'll let you all take two minutes to answer and then we'll open it to the audience. I'll just, with the first question I actually had a meeting this week at the Capitol with a staff of Congressman Bitsera's office from Los Angeles and we are in the process of bringing shelter to the Capitol, to the theater in the Capitol. Because you hear all this xenophobic language that's really offensive from top politicians and it's excusable. Wendy? We do spend a great deal of time working with Congress with the administration with the various federal agencies that are involved in immigrant and refugee issues to try and raise their awareness about why people are fleeing Central America. I think there's again a tremendous level of ignorance about what's happening very close to our borders and I think a lack of sense of responsibility because as you were saying, this really, the U.S. involvement in that region has a lot to do with what's happening currently. So frankly, I think the dysfunctionality of Congress right now has actually helped us on the Central American issue because most of the response that we saw when the child migration crisis really exploded in 2014 was a backlash against these children and a desire to really cut back on the protections that are available to them under U.S. law, which were very hard fought legislative victories over a couple of decades. So as we head into the fall, we'll see what comes next but it's alarming to us to see kind of the tone, obviously, of the rhetoric that's happening currently around immigration and refugee issues. I think if we cannot educate people in the Congress, we can educate people on the end. We like them. Yeah, but first time when I went in Calards we were making a play about drugs and cartels and one student asked me, what do we have to do with that and what America has to do with that and I said, you have the weapons, which cartels kill people and this is a very complex, biased circle but we can share that, we can share that information. In my country, we have not really censorship as an artist and only if you say something about the Birken de Guadalupe it could be very, very, very dangerous. Actually, it happened. Things like people coming into the stage and push the actors, 1982 for example, all the actors went to the hospital after that just because they were talking about the Birken de Guadalupe but we have a very complex instrument in the cultural life in Mexico because there are many artists with a grant like me, for example, but we can do our work about anything social, political issue that we want but they make the way that nobody sees our work so it's something difficult because we have not infrastructure to show, to share our work but we can talk about anything and we have to because our governments are doing very, very bad things at this moment they are killing the teachers this week they killed six teachers in Oaxaca because they are protest against the new reform of the education which nobody on the government can explain what is it so we have to deal with that and our way to do it is with art so our audience is mainly the voter, the public and in every play and production it's a real focus for us to connect the stories if the play is taking place in the Middle East to actually link it to our lives, to our daily lives why does it matter, how does it impact us or how do we impact it so that dialogue and that clarifying or at least I love what you said about helping people ask better questions it's not so much about providing the answers or the solutions but giving some information so that people can ask better questions because it's despite the US having been involved in the Middle East for more than 50, 60 years the amount of misconception and misinformation about the Middle East in the US is just mind boggling and every day we have to answer questions that may seem silly until you actually remind yourself this person asking me this question is the person who will cast a vote in November and it's my responsibility to answer as truthfully and informatively as I possibly can so we take that responsibility very seriously and with every play we try to present complicated political situations that seem complicated and beyond our understanding or beyond our ability to impact we present it as a human story in ways that hopefully invite engagement and deeper inquiry thank you Larry and Natalia I say a few quick words but Natalia can speak particularly on what we've done with the UK government and the two things I would say very quickly one's just a tactical, practical thing which is we have a member of the UK parliament on our board who's chair of the Parliamentary Subcommittee for Women and Equalities so in terms of some of the stuff we want to do having a trustee on our company board who's one of the UK's more enlightened and reasonable parliamentarians has been a useful tactic but a lot of what the Belarus Free Theatre does in its theatre making is it collides the micro narrative story of the real experiences in lives of individuals with big geopolitical shifts and structures that's a key methodological tactic so the company has uniquely in the UK performed and lobbied actively in the UK parliament on the Congress floor but I'll let Natalia talk a bit about and we're doing it again in September when we'll take Petro Pavlensky and Masha from Pussy Riot into Parliament but that's not straightforward but Natalia can say a bit more about that particular tactic we have the campaign in theatre and it's interesting that that particular framing came up only when we became refugees because we never separated any activities we've been performing producing, educating and campaigning that was a nature of the company so every single show will have its particular campaign if we have the issue of political kidnappings and murders in Belarus we will run the campaign against kidnappings and murders and because of it they were awards given to us like French Republic of Human Rights gave a surprise for doing that particular campaign it was never given to any cultural institution before so the whole idea of managing theatre and campaign was not acceptable in the UK because it was called political lobbying and it was necessary for us to frame it the way it will be absolutely clear human rights campaigning and it's exactly what we do we campaign specifically for very precise human rights whether it will be LGBT community we work with them whether it will be rights of disabled people it will be led by disabled people back in Belarus if we talk about death penalty we will organise protests we still call it protests even though I found the way how to frame it in the UK you need to call it artistic stunt but then you do what you need to do one Natalia is referring to is UK legislation which prevents you from having charitable status if you're a political party, pressure group or so we're a theatre company but a campaigning and teaching theatre and then in terms of for example last year it was Belarus free theatre who organised the first public debate on artistic freedoms in the UK it was not about Belarus it was about the UK because there are signs of self-sendership and there is no guidelines for policing and it's happened first time ever in the houses of parliament and the speakers' apartment and it is happening now with the refugee crisis as well we worked very closely with an organisation that is called Good Chance Calle this is the group of just two young English playwrights who opened the door in the jungles it's a refugee camp in Calle in France it's 50 minutes by train from London, Kins Cross to France and you are exactly in absolutely parallel reality among 7000 of refugees now 5000 because in February French government demolished part of the camp so we've been working very closely with them on lobbying interests of refugees in Brussels so I went to talk to Brussels forum and I talked to Martin Schulz who is the president of European Parliament so for us it's not possible to separate what we do artistically and on human rights I mean this is the power of arts that it brings the human, the geopolitical and the personal all at once open it to the audience like Giorgio said there are microphones please raise your hand if you have a question and don't forget to state your name clearly Michael Feldman, create equity I wanted to give Wendy credit where credits do as a former committee staffer in the senate you are a theatre producer they're called committee hearings and how do you take theatre works in the traditional sense and make them committee hearing ready because as we know that's where you actually get the messages in the congressional or parliamentary system so that they actually can turn into legislations or report language that influence what executive branch agencies do thank you that's very true it's political theatre I think very much what my co-panelists have been saying is what we need to do with congress which is to humanize these issues in the immigration refugee world I think we spend a lot of time talking about numbers and there's something that is very very dehumanizing about data so I did have the opportunity to testify before the house judiciary committee this spring it's not a particularly friendly committee on immigration issues and what I did was get up there and tell stories and I think it had some impact I'm not going to say I persuaded anybody on that committee but I think it at least gave them pause and made it harder for them to engage in the kind of anti-immigrant xenophobic racist language that they might normally engage in if there are no questions we'll break for lunch and you can always speak to any of our panelists during lunch


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I do appreciate you being here today I bring you another destiny to video and today guys I just want to cap review on a few things a few little secret things I found within the video Streams a few things in the background a few things within the gameplay trailers really intriguing to me So I thought I'd make a short but sweet video for you guys to check out what I found But before we go any further guys If you do enjoy the video and would like to support you can by hitting that like button And if you are new around here and you enjoy daily destiny videos be sure to subscribe Okay, so the review stream went on for about an hour and 15 minutes Another second half of it was Datto interviewing a lord of the bungee in plows, but it was the first half Which was full of loads of computer screens at the bungee studios which basically behold Many little secrets a few little secrets found within a trailer as well And a few of the gameplay snippets we saw for the shadow keep there were a few little hidden gems here Now I will say before we go any further I do know that a lot of the footage we saw of bungee working on the game via these PC screens Within the review or stream isn't finished content In fact, I don't think much about the shadow keep is finished at the minutes We saw within this actual review stream that they are still working on exotic So nothing is final as of yet. So take what I'm gonna cover today guys with a pinch of salt Okay, so firstly people check out this image on screen now I mean look at that armor in the background now This is obviously concept armor that they are working on but look how amazing that looks right there I am praying we see this added to the game I really am here. We see a little six-man team selfie with Iron Man sneaking up in the background pretty cool When we see them trial in PVP within the reveal stream We see a loading screen and it's pretty obvious guys said that all stringer menagerie Hand cannon is pretty popular. So that's pretty cool too moving on guys and this image seriously made me laugh I mean check out the weapons being used right there three auto rifles pretty tan badass Obviously guys, this is a build don't take this seriously But we do know bungee like to throw these things into their videos to get us talking now The main point about this video and the one thing I did want to cover which is the whole base of the video forget everything else guys I've just added them into it just to fulfill it to make it more than just one simple weapon And this started with me a while back now when the forsaken Annual pass was announced a long time ago. I made a video talking about image You can see on screen now now I got a little stick for pointing out some of the weapons that we see in the background the last word we see there This was before the last word came out I had a fear that we would see in the future it came another weapon I spoke about within that video was the Monte Carlo the auto rifle from destiny 1 which was originally a PlayStation 4 exclusive while we see what looks to be right there just down to the drifters right now I can confirm guys that the Monte Carlo is coming with the shadow keep DLC. Don't believe me check out this on screen now Now this isn't the only instance where we see the Monte Carlo within the gameplay. It's actually about three or four instances I spied three myself and I've seen another image posted by my pal So the Monte Carlo is definitely making a return. So that's pretty cool to be honest I didn't use it much in destiny one as auto rifles weren't that great towards the end of the game They never made a recovery after a bungee initially nerf the sewage regime back in the early days of destiny one And they just basically wiped out all also rifles and in my opinion never made a solid comeback So I never gave the Monte Carlo a chance while I'm glad to see returning in destiny two So that is pretty cool people. So yeah, it seems as though my favorite back in the day of the Monte Carlo Actually making a return was right, which is pretty badass now I've been through the reveal frame by frame and there's a few interesting intriguing things But nothing to write home about what we saw in the real stream in my opinion was a early reveal of the shadow keep Because I didn't even go in depth into what we're actually getting with the shadows keep They just mentioned the rage which will be in the black garden and the moon's coming back Which is twice as big. We don't know about activities. We don't know about well basically anything is doing the strikes Whatever. So yeah, like I said, I think it was an early reveal But yeah guys, I just wanted to make this short but sweet video informing you guys And it seems as though the Monte Carlo is making a return and on that note I am as tell me what you think about the Monte Carlo.  Let me know But I don't know we are done. Thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will See you on that next one


Well this is going to be one weird video for a recovering drug addict like myself to make. What is up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I like to do is take different topics from the YouTube community and discuss them and try to see what lessons we can learn from them. So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and did you know did you know that I am all up on social media we are almost at 10,000 followers over on Instagram make sure you go follow me over on there especially I just I like having that little swipe up feature all right that way I can just link you guys to videos on the stories and all that kind of stuff so go follow me on Instagram as well as on Twitter at the Rewired Soul all right so yeah I want to talk about YouTube's double standard and this is something that we see all the time everywhere but I want to focus on YouTube all right so Tanimojo just released a video about like get baked with me while I bake or something like that where she gets high and bake some cupcakes you go Tanimojo you go all right so I'm gonna talk about a topic that's been on my mind for like well over a year now and I was like oh you know what Chris let's make this video so let me give you a little bit of background on myself as well as some channels that I followed on YouTube okay so those of you who don't know me hi I'm Chris I'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic I got sober June 23rd 2012 so next month I'll be coming up on seven years clean and sober that's right no drugs no alcohol no pot no beer no nothing all right no medications that could be addictive not that okay so anyways when I when I started my YouTube channel I was working at a drug and alcohol treatment center and typically like to drug addicts and alcoholists I preach abstinence all right so anyways I ended up starting my YouTube channel because I worked at a very expensive treatment center and to be honest like it was it was it was during a time when I was like upset at the clients because they were ungrateful to have the opportunity to be in treatment because a lot of people wish they can go to treatment all right so I started this YouTube channel where I basically just started doing topics that I would do in groups at the treatment center here on my YouTube channel okay so although I'm not a licensed professional you don't need to be a licensed professional to work at a rehab and do groups and things like that all right as long as you have supervision which I did so anyways whenever I get into a new project or anything I do a lot of research a lot of research so when I started my YouTube channel I started researching a bunch of other channels to see what other people were doing like are there any other people who are in recovery on YouTube what kind of videos are they making you know what's what's the vibe like here on YouTube and I looked up mental health channels and everything like that so anyways I started following a few channels who ran into some major issues for doing things like Tanimojo's doing so I'm gonna talk about three channels in particular that I found who I've talked to and they're pretty cool dudes but they ran into some issues because of talking about drugs or using drugs or whatever so the first one is the first one is CGKid okay and by the way I'll link all these channels down below if you want to go check them out and subscribe so CGKid was somebody who I came across he is also in recovery but he started making videos about his experience trying a bunch of drugs all right so like he talked about like what you know what using these different drugs was like okay and I'm on the fence about that but like and just for the reason being like you know I worry like one of the concerns I have is like is this romanticizing drug use and everything but CGKid he makes a bunch of awesome content lately he's been interviewing a bunch of people who are in recovery so if you're somebody trying to get sober or you know somebody who is struggling with addiction go check out CGKid's channel because one of the best things that can happen to anybody who's struggling with this thing is to get hope from hearing other people's stories but anyways anyways there was a period in time and all three of these guys I'm gonna talk about went through this where CGKid had to go back through his content and start deleting a bunch of videos like crazy and might have left the YouTube platform because YouTube started giving him community guideline strikes so those of you who don't know how that works once you get three of those YouTube delete your channel and YouTube's reason for this was because of the talk of drug use on his channel okay so don't forget Tanimojo right behind me smoking pot on camera okay the next one is big no no so big no no is a man who is in recovery he's still I haven't watched his videos in I don't know a couple months but anyways last I heard he was still sober but his channel he's been on there for years now and he's talked about his addiction his alcoholism his recovery his relapses and everything like that and it's really awesome seeing somebody get that vulnerable and show their story online but anyways big no no also got community guideline strikes for two reasons one of them one of them because he uses something called TRT I believe that stands for testosterone replacement therapy okay and I believe he has a prescription and everything like that but he was sharing his experience about TRT he would show people how he uses TRT right and YouTube did not like that because that's a medication now the other thing is he also did a video a long time ago about um his experience taking a benzodiazepine so benzodiazepine I'm not I can't remember which one he took but benzos are things like xanax volume you know a lot of people use those for anxiety but anyways YouTube started giving him community guideline strikes I remember he couldn't even like livestream for a while because of the strikes against him and again don't forget three strikes you're out YouTube will delete your channel so big no no he also went through a period where he was losing his mind and started taking down a bunch of videos in fear that his freaking channel might get deleted so the last one I'm gonna talk about is the channel psyched substance okay so psyched substance also an awesome channel and his channel is more aimed towards something called harm reduction okay so psyched substance he he is pretty much a drug education channel um who also advocates for harm reduction and things like that but he talks about using a lot of psychedelics and things like that and he explains them he explains you know the safety around them and I love it too because he is a self-educated man right like he's not a doctor or scientist or anything like that but he does a ton of research and he shares that on his channel right it's huge he hit a million I think uh last year he's a cool dude like I made a video about him a long time ago um just uh a response about his video about kreatum and since then he and I um we've been talking and stuff and if I could ever you know find the time to go travel he and I might do a collaboration but anyways he's sort of getting community guidelines strikes for his channel okay and he was actually in I want to say New Zealand when this happened he had like no internet access he like recorded this video like in the dark like freaking out about how he had to take videos down because he was worried that his channel was going to get deleted all right so again Tana Mojo smoking pot on her channel right like here's the thing here's the thing like although I'm absent I as long as you are doing or using in a safe manner or you're getting help when you need help I'm totally down with it all right but like I'm pro weed like I live in the state of Nevada um I voted to pass uh the legalization of marijuana a couple years ago so it's legal here like I don't care like weed is one of the least harmful substances out there can it be harmful yes in the fact that like the new studies have come out that some people have like psychotic episodes after they smoke they have bad reactions yeah that could be dangerous is it addictive yeah it can be just like anything else like food sex shopping whatever it is right but the thing is the thing is is that people need to be educated about this stuff I think a lot of the laws are absolutely ridiculous around some of the substances like like the substances that cite substance is talking about like they just passed a law or they're passing a law in is it Denver or is it the state of Colorado where they're legalizing magic mushrooms and everything and something I like to educate myself a lot about is the use of psychedelics when it comes to treating things like depression and trauma and anxiety and everything like that so these are channels that are educating people and YouTube has been cracking down on them and these guys not only did they get scared out of their mind that their channels might be deleted but they've had to like redo everything that they're doing right something that cites substance talks a lot about is how it's been proven that alcohol is far more dangerous than like any of the drugs that he talks about and he also like promotes like drug testing kits to make sure that they're not mixed with things like fentanyl and things like that like he is very safe and educates people about substance use right so at the end of the day like I look at channels like Tana Mojo where they're smoking pot which is not even legal which isn't legal on a federal level um but I also see like Adam 22 when he does the no jumper podcast like the only episode I watched recently was the one with Lil Zan they're smoking pot in there too and it's just interesting the double standard that's going on and in my opinion I wish YouTube would talk to more channels that are doing drug education and try to work something out you know and figure this thing out like I get it because you know it's not legal on a federal level and things like that but it's like I'm not trying to narc on Tana Mojo but I think these channels are important because something something that I don't agree with with like you know the school system or drug prevention problem projects and things like that is like they say like just don't do drugs just don't do drugs like you guys kids are going to use drugs all right so we need channels we need channels that are going to talk about these things share their experience and be honest like that is the best thing that you can do is have an open dialogue with young people and explain the drawbacks the potential dangers and everything like that and then you have somebody like Tana Mojo who is influenced to obviously like millions of young people out there and it's like and she's just smoking and everything and I already made a whole video about her prescription drug use I haven't seen her use or talk about using prescription drugs in a while and everything like that but I would argue that some of these other channels are much more safe than channels like Tana Mojo all right but anyways like I said I will be linking down below cgkid site substance and big no no if you want to go check out their channels but let me know down in the comments what are your thoughts on this topic of like harm reduction when it comes to substances and everything like just you know my personal view on it is like even though I cannot use drugs or alcohol like I know that's not going to stop other people from doing it and rather people know how to do it safely than anything else all right but anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and don't forget to go follow me on instagram and twitter at the rewired soul and a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you're all amazing and thank you so so so much one more time for watching and I'll see you next time


So making mayonnaise is quite a complex adventure even for experts like Jamie Oliver So to really mix the oil and vinegar you have to ensure that you have the ingredients at the same temperature That the steering speed is really high and so on and so on This is actually similar to collaborations between corporations and startups Those organizations are so unlike of each other that they naturally don't go together Corporations those are large organizations with hundreds of employees They are slow in making decisions and have very bureaucratic processes in contrast to that startups are small fast Innovative creative and flexible, but they miss the resources and the experiences a corporation has So a collaboration would be a win-win situation for both of them also because Corporations are desperate to generate new innovative products and services to survive in the market Do you remember Kodak in the middle of the 90s? They had nearly 100,000 employees Then they hesitated to go into digital for your photography So within 15 years they needed to file bankruptcy and 85 percent of the employees lost their jobs So in my research, I accompanied in the last year six housing corporations and six startups To taking part in a startup innovation contest to figure out what makes this process so complex and what factors Support this mixing between them. So I found three exciting results there first They use a recipe just like we do when we're making mayonnaise So Corporations create very structured programs that shall help to cooperate with the startup and also to ensure that the knowledge is exchanged between them second The ingredients of the mixture. They are not at the same temperature The culture the working mode differ heavily between them So the corporate employees try implementing the startup hands-on technique They use but they fail at their own bureaucracy and third The steering speed is too slow to really make a good mixture together in every collaboration It came to huge delays due to the corporate processes So the corporations were really not able to keep the momentum So in summary, I hope that my research and my insights will help corporations and startups To create creamy mayonnaise together


Hello guys in this video, we are going to see how to install angular and run first project So first of all to start with the angular we have some prerequisites The first one is you should have node.js installed. So if you want you can download node Go to this node.js.org and download your node.js and install it So I have already installed it. Let me open my command prompt and check node-version So I have the latest one. So you can install the same Second requirement is we should have npm installed. So whenever you will install node by default npm would be installed Let me cross check it So npm is also there. So now what we need to do next we need to install the angular CLI So for this we just need to copy this command Go here paste it This is npm install hyphen g for global installation so that it can be used by all the users and at angular slash CLI Let's press enter and wait. So this basically depends on your internet speed that how much time it will take So I'm just fast forwarding it Okay, so once it is installed what we can do just cross check here So let's start with the first app. I just copy this command and I just go to the folder here So I will be creating my project over here under this Angular apps folder. So let's paste this command and g new. Let's say my you can say first hyphen app So wait here it will again require internet So it is asking for would you like to Just share with the This angular team with some analysis reports. So I don't want so say yes or no. So I'm not interested. No then It is asking would you like to add angular routing? So currently I don't need any routing So I will use it whenever I will use multiple components Then it is asking for CSS whatever you want you can select. So I just go with the basic CSS and wait So make sure your internet is connected so it will take some time based on your internet speed and Your system configuration. So let's fast forward it Okay, so once it is done, you can simply open this folder and you can open this with any editor So I have yes code. I just go with this So once it is opened you need to go for terminal So I just go here and you just need to run one command. I'll just go here So this is the command ng serve hyphen hyphen open. You can simply write ng serve as well So if you write this hyphen hyphen open, it will automatically open it into browser You can either use hyphen o as well instead of hyphen hyphen open. So let's go to the console of this project and Simply write ng serve and hyphen open Let's go here and We need to use this policy Okay, so we skipped this earlier so that we want to cross check that it will work or not so I just go for simply open command prompt as administrator It yes if asked and simply paste this command So we missed something So basically on Windows computer the execution of shell script is disabled. So what we need to do You need to just use this command on PowerShell. So I just go for PowerShell and open this as administrator and execute this command and It is saying yes A for all. So I just go for yes and see it asking for something else. No, okay, then so let's go back to this Project and run this ng serve again. So this time it is not showing any error So let's wait Okay, so compile successfully and you can visit this link. So let me just follow this and Check it. So this app is working fine Okay, so this is local host 4 to 0 0. So if you want to cross check what you can do so we can just go to this app folder and for this app component and We just look for this. Let me just go here and just Search for this welcome text Point paste and here is welcome to the angular Okay, so just save this Go back here and you can see it is changed So that's all for this video. If you have any doubt do comment in the comment section. Thank you


Hello, hello, and welcome to our usual Wednesday livecast. It's not a whole lot of people here. We're not too crowded. We've been working on James Tanner's week, of course. And so in a moment, we're going to be talking about the information and the discoveries that were found. Now his captains, Joan and Janet, worked their tails off this week but are not in the right time zone for this livecast reveal. So I have all their notes. It's all good. And I want to say a little bit of a thanks already. I'll say more in a minute, but a little bit of a thanks just to start with for all of you that have stuck through this entire year through this challenge. And we're on our last guest of 2021. Very, very exciting stuff. Very exciting. So I'm going to do the little spiel about wiki tree in case you don't know who we are. And we are a community of genealogists who are working together on a single family tree. In other words, we collaborate to grow an accurate and global tree and it's free. The wiki tree challenge has been our year long event and part of our year of accuracy where each week a team of wiki treeers takes on a genealogy guest stars tree and they try and make it as accurate and complete as it is anywhere. Really big on the accuracy this year. And you guys have really come through on that. Now, of course, our goal is to improve accuracy on wiki tree, add more family connections and make more friends. And we've done all three of those things. So let's go ahead and bring up the presentation and see what we have for James. And I saw you down there somewhere, Marion. Hi. So once again, we have James here and we're going to go ahead and hit on this first line. Now, I'd like to say that for one thing with the brick walls and I know I talk about that later too as far as the points that people get. But everything that was out there, people worked so hard on this week and I just want to recognize them for that. James's lines were very, very well researched, very well documented. And so we got off to a really big surge of a start adding those people that we didn't have on wiki tree and then everybody had to hit the brakes and slow down and try and find what they can. So each of these bits of information that have been collected about the family members are something while they were doing the rest of their really, really careful research and it's all appreciated. Now, we start with the first of the great-grandparents and so that would be on Henry Martin Tanner's line. And one of the researchers found that his fifth great-grandfather Francis Tanner, a Rhode Island, had a couple of young black slaves, a male named Quam and a female named Khlo and James, we don't know if you've come across this in your records. Now they showed up in the 1774 Rhode Island census and in his will, he died in 1777. So right, it's the American Revolution. He wound up in the possession of your fourth great-grandfather, Joshua Tanner, presumably after Francis died. That's what we figured where the records went. But in 1778, he actually won his freedom by elisting in the Continental Army. So the law that enabled this, their special black regiment is what they called it, in which Quam served. There were a lot of interesting stories that are worth looking into that tie into that. But as a soldier, he actually got out there on the front lines and experienced some really serious action. He wound up becoming a prisoner of war. He was later liberated after the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. And Quam lived to a very old age in upstate New York where he was a farmer. So you'll see more information on that profile for that. But it was just really interesting that that trade was worked out. And I do know that Joshua Tanner did get some amount of money or allowing him to go into service. But we just thought it was really cool that he let him do that kind of a trade to go ahead and earn his freedom. And so next we have on Eliza Ellen Parkinson's line. We have Elizabeth Chateau Parkinson and that's your third great-grandmother. And you may have already known that she was a twin. Also unique about her is that she had a brother born two years before her on the exact same date. Elizabeth went on to marry James Parkinson and they had at least four children together. While she and James had migrated to New South Wales in 1849, her twin Susanna stayed in England with her husband and family. So Laura has it that Susanna had nine children with her husband Thomas Brotton. And you would almost think, you know, that the twins would find a way to stay closer, but. They actually left as a result of the poor laws. Basically what was happening at that time instead of establishing poor houses for taking care of the poor, the government had a program that they would subsidize them leaving and going to Australia. So they did. And apparently some of this group, they all kind of knew each other. They came from the same areas that they also intermarried because that's how I get the, because I get Parkinson's and Bryant's and State Police all who ended up in Australia. Okay, and then we're going to move over to Henry Christian over since line.  They were great. They haven't had a lot of chance to work with them over the year. And so the ones that did come in were, you know, just really motivated and dedicated to this. And once again, this is just all volunteer time that people are putting in. So there, but there was a little bit of confusion about of Anderson, your fourth great-grandfather. And while the birth record clearly said or the baptism record that his mother was LC Sorens daughter, further research showed that her sister Karen was actually the wife of Anders Jensen. And that LC was simply a witness on these other records. So our researcher concluded that that was most likely just an error in the baptism record when it was written out and that Karen was his mother as well. Since he had married Karen, if it would have been say an illegitimate child of LCs, they would have written that in the baptism and they didn't. So it's thought that they just accidentally flipped those two names and Karen should be the mother and LC wasn't. So that's just, you know, one of the ways that they focus on being very careful and looking at everything, not just going, oh, I found a record and it says this, they look at everything around it and they tried really hard to make your branches really accurate. That's really interesting, thank you. Yeah, that's not something you see very often. Now we go to Margaret Godfrey Jarvis's line and here we're looking at Joseph DeFreeze. And I don't know if you had heard this either, but this is your sixth grade grandfather and he married in somewhat of an orthodox manner without bands or license. The event took place in 1753 in St. George's Chapel in Westminster. It transpires that the Mayfair Chapel was actually a center for clandestine marriages that took place without bands or license by Alexander Keith who was an unorthodox and excommunicated. And there were a number of marriages that he performed and so your sixth great grandfather was one of those. But they did look extensively to make sure they were understanding that correctly. Yeah, and the DeFreezes were Jewish and this may have been the reason and they may have been what are called cryptidews, those who hid their Jewishness and practiced that in private and then they would get married and have the church and go to church and all that so that they appeared to be good Christians in the Church of England during the weeks and then on Saturdays they would be Jewish. So that was, that's probably consistent. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense though. I've seen that in other countries where they do the same thing, so. This would be, that would be a good explanation for that. Yes, that's very good to find out. Thank you. Now here we had, and this was an exciting breakthrough for us, this was made on the Hamilton line yesterday and after researchers traveled to two different counties to search through the actual records in the courthouses and found that Margaret Turner Hamilton's father's name was Jesse Turner. Way to go, way to go. Oh, there, I mean, there's no birth records for that period during that time, you know, he died in test date so there was no will to leave and there just happened to be one mentioned in an obscure book that the courthouse thought they lost that where he was, they were mentioning that a bond was paid for guardianship for his children. So not only does she have a father, she has four siblings now.  There wasn't time to get further records and do the search for the mother's maiden name but we do have the name of who she remarried to and those probates, it's actually listed in his estate inventory which is attached to his profile and it says, you know, the person that David Boyer that the widow intermarried with during this probate process, which went from 1799 to 1806. So we have her second husband and she may or may not have had children with them.  So that was very exciting for Gua. That's great, that's wonderful. That's a major issue. That's been out there for so long that I just, it's one of those things where you don't even look at it anymore because you're just tired of thinking about it. I know and you look, you know, you look on the other sites and you know what I was getting is that you look on all these other sites and this person says, oh, it was there descended from this person, oh, her dad was him. Oh, her dad came from North Carolina. You know, there's like all these wild guesses but nobody had any sources out there that we could see when this week started. No, there was never anything. So definitely, that's wonderful. Yeah. And if you need any more of that probate just let us know after the fact because we do have somebody in driving distance. Now on Mary Ann Linton's line these aren't direct ones necessarily but Brothers Peter Sutton, it was interesting information and Henry John Sutton, both great grand uncles to you born in Lancashire, England enlisted in the Utah Territory Military Cavalry for the Blackhawk War in April of 1866. Now they were discharged in June. So two months later, it was a very short enlistment and it seems to be due to an uprising by the Tempanogos and resulting in the Spanish Fort Diamond Battle. So the chief had been, go ahead. Yeah, I'm very familiar with all that history here in Provo, that's right here. We're here in Utah Valley. Oh, where you're at? Oh, wow. So then you know then all about this. Yeah, the whole story. That's really interesting though. It's really something that's hard to find and hard to get because it's not necessarily, it's not gonna ever be in a genealogy book. Right, but it's always fun to find a little bit more out about the actual people and the times that they lived in and get a little bit of perspective. Now we had something else on this line and this actually happened even more recent than the other find. This was right before broadcast time. Ellen Glover Ellison, your fourth great-grandmother was the focus of one of our researchers Ian Speed. He found that her mother was Margaret Bram Hall instead of Peggy Nelson. Now him and several people had been down a rabbit hole looking at all the relatives, possibly cousins, siblings, everybody's records trying to get this sort of, but she was not a Peggy Nelson. And Margaret and her husband, William Glover, married in Walton on the Hill in Lancashire and went on to have 10 children. So they do have a very well-documented family there. Okay. Now here we have Mary Ann on Mary Ann Litton's line, Elizabeth Robinson Sutton, and that your sixth great-grandmother was researched by actually by your captain by Joan. So instead of the Robert Robinson that was marked down as her father, his name proved to be Peter Robinson. Unfortunately, these baptism entries didn't include the mother's name, but this entry that was located does show that the father's name was Peter. So that was just a little bit of a correction on that line. And once again, like I said, your lines and you already knew this, our research so far out, like your sixth, seventh generation, sixth generations, you're strong. There's just some things that there might be some variances outside of that. And we certainly, and plus we had some cleanup to do on our own branches, which we do every week. We find profiles that somebody uploaded a long time ago and didn't really do anything with, we get them connected correctly, and then we go in there and we get those sources on there so that they're really complete. Now this one again was our Danish researchers, and we are on Marinus's line. Mary Ann Larr's daughter, your third great-grandmother had no parents on the primary tree, and research actually proved her parents to be Lors, and Marin Ann Larr's daughter. So there are actually six new direct ancestors on this line. Yeah, these ancestors are all from Denmark. So luckily we had Hennie who actually worked on these for us. And she was saying that Lors Thompson, Mary Ann's paternal grandfather was a farmer who married Ann Larr's daughter and had six children with her. And then the maternal grandfather was Anders Jensen, who was the son of Jensen Hansen, and Ingers and Anders' daughter, I'm sure I'm getting some of this wrong, which actually will be two more ancestors. So there should actually be eight new direct ancestors on there, but they're really good about the experts about not wanting to add those parents just because they know the name. They wanna have the time to look for the records. So the six that you do see on there, their marriages have been searched for and documented and the children that they've had. The interesting story here, excuse me, Marina's Christian since my great grandfather, and he went by Christians and he was adopted by the Christians since that was the story from the family. The family story was he was adopted. And I just within the last few days found a letter that my mother had written to a researcher in Denmark trying to find out who Marina's parents were and whether he was really adopted because there was some question of whether he was or was not. I had found one church record that indicated he was adopted. So I was pretty sure that was the case, but we didn't have any clue. My daughter did the research to come up with the Markusen line and discovered that that was probably it. And then that was confirmed with a DNA report that we had because we have DNA shared with that particular line. And that's the only possible way that that could have happened. And so we're fairly, more than fairly certain now that this is correct. But of course, this has all happened like within the last few months type thing. So we're not, thank you so much for a little bit more more research than we had done ourselves, but... Oh, definitely.  I mean, this is something that you can take and move on with this and expand these lines even further. Oh, yeah. From here on, my daughters will be glad to see this. And they do make sure, you know, one of the things we try encourage. Oh, we're frozen. Back again. I know. Somebody told me you were gone. I was like, well, I'm gonna look. It just said my internet came back up. No, no, I've been sitting here waiting. I was, I live with the internet. That's okay. Oh, we usually don't, but with all the tornadoes that were recently here, yeah, they did a lot of damage. And hello, Eileen. That's what I was gonna ask next and make sure you guys could hear this because, yes. Mindy's internet went down, but I know they have been working really hard to try and fix all of the massive damage that those horrible tornadoes did in Kentucky. And, you know, that's the least of people's worries. So I can't even complain about my internet going down for that reason. You know, there was just immense amounts of damage, but I do want to go ahead and let's see. I'm not going to worry about explaining our collaboration cause a lot of that's gonna change this next year anyways. Now, we did have some military slides. I think I would like to do that at least and recognize the military personnel. Sorry for flipping through this, but we did have, and you may know about all of these already James, but you know, we always try and honor those that served. And so we keep track of those while we're going through the profiles and working on them. So we have your fourth great grandfather, Joshua Tanner, who served in the Revolutionary War as an ensign in the fourth company from First Regiment, Washington County Brigade, Rhode Island Militia. You had William Ray that was a private in the service for Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War. Await Hopkins was a major in the Revolutionary War. He was one of the Green Mountain boys and was killed in action at 14 Mile Island in New York in 1779. David Shepard was one of the Green Mountain boys also. And he was serving under Ethan Allen and Seth Warner. Now for the War of 1812, they only found one. There may have been more, of course, than these that we found. But your third great grandfather, Samuel Shepard, served in the War of 1812. For World War I, of course, Arthur Jarvis was a Sergeant. And then the Civil War, your great-granduncle, William Harrison, served. And then four uncles, sons of your third great-grandfather, William Linton, served in the Civil War from Pennsylvania. Now William Linton was killed in action at Farrokhs, Virginia, but his brothers Josiah, John and James all lived and served and survived. So that's just nice to point that out. And my great-grandfather, my grandfather, Leroy Parkinson Tanner, also served in World War I. And my father served in World War II. And there's a few more. So a strong family of service there, that's great. And I serve for eight years, so. Oh, well, thank you for your service then. We always appreciate that. I'm gonna go ahead and talk for just a minute about the fan charts. Now, the starting fan chart, I usually get that pulled what, these are the people that we have on WikiTree. So usually we start with the great-grandparents. Now some of these were already on, but then our researchers took off, like I told you with that little burst of speed, because the first ones were, first six generations were so well researched. And they had some of these people already added on before I could even get the fan chart pulled. So, but this is what we started with on WikiTree. So you can see there's a couple of little branches that really stretch out there and the rest of them don't. And I do also know that somebody had done outside of the challenge had done some work on those branches earlier in the year. Now, the next one is my brick wall chart. And I love the fan charts. I know not everybody uses them, but this is where we go ahead and mark where all of the available brick walls. Now, they may not be brick walls like you're stuck, brick walls can't solve them. It may be lines you haven't gotten back to in a while or maybe you have them, but they just aren't documented on the primary tree. This is every first ancestor we get to that's not documented or there's not a parent is where those yellow spots are. So that's where we focus our specialists at and we try and get those brick walls down. On the left is just a blow up of the legend showing that each one of those spots that has a B is where we've broken a brick wall. And then we also have some or corrections that we've talked about during the live cast tonight and where we've just found that maybe the name was wrong or the person was wrong and we've tried to correct that. Sometimes James it's just that your tree was right but our tree was wrong and our people still get points for that because they're making it really accurate. So we appreciate them making all of it and they had a lot of corrections to make. They found a lot of profiles floating around that just were not where at the level they should have been. So they did some pretty incredible work this week cleaning all of those up. Now, this would be the ending nine generations. So this is how many people you have on your wiki tree branches now and this is more what it should look like. You know, it's really, really full. Eighth generation, you have some big gaps and then that very outer ring of course is nine generations and you just have some little spots that are filled in here and there and a lot that can be done by wiki treeers after that but you have a lot of people on wiki tree now. Good, great, thanks. And then, you know, we do go through our collaboration. We've used spreadsheets this year, our G2G post and definitely Discord as means of collaboration and you know, I've already seen a lot of signups for this next year. So I'm sure we're gonna be using some of the same things. Some of it's gonna change a little bit. Overall, we'll still be collaborating. We are a collaborative community and you know, we work together to get these things done. And then, you know, it's definitely not about the points but the point system does help keep us motivated and we do like to acknowledge the people that have gotten the most points at the end of the week and for this week and this may have changed again if it has, I apologize guys but it kind of kept flopping a little bit there. Who we had for our MVP, most valuable person was Maddie Hardman this week. So yeah, Maddie, up there again. We had Joe Fitz Henry. So she's not been real active in the challenge but it was incredible this week. Henny Henryx and this was her first time, I believe working with us on the challenge and she did a lot of the Danish research along with other people that aren't mentioned here and we so appreciate their expertise and you know, them lending their, volunteering their time. Now Donna Bowman, she's on the charts all the time. She always stays busy during the week and finds something to work on and so does anonymous Sharkey. So they had four and five and then I'm going to go ahead and do a refresh so I can make sure we have this right for the scores for James's week. You can see that Maddie definitely was in that number one slot still. So this is what we look at now for the first set of points here. This was total points and you know, so for every time they added a sibling, a child, a parent, any kind of an ancestor, they got points plus this includes the bounding points. So this is everything and you can see that Maddie had 73 points and the total was 565 for all together and for the next one, now these would be direct ancestors that were added. So only on your direct line, each one of those ancestors, they added 133 in a week and that's 133 with sources. Now we don't touch the profiles, you know, below the great grandparent level but everything else, we expect our researchers to put sources on and hopefully narrative. So most of them are really good about that now and then the next number, the 312, that would be for nuclear ancestors. So once again, that's those children, siblings, the other, a lot of times we wind up adding further than that, you know, you get down a rabbit hole, you get in there, you get the brother-in-law, you get his kids, they don't get points for that but we try and do it anyways because it just really fleshes out the family and sometimes it helps you sort out those tricky relationships that you're trying to find and then for bounding points, it says 120 but there were actually 140 with those final additions and so that would be 14 of what we consider brick wall ancestors, although once again, some of those did include the corrections. Now, 829, that would be 829 unique profiles that our people edited in one week which is just incredible if you stop and think about it and then for contributions. Now we always, our system automatically keeps track of contribution. So every time we go in and we edit a profile and say we add a source, we update the name, we fix a birth date, it counts as a contribution and there are a lot of things that people did during the week that didn't count within this score even for people that worked on space pages and there is a really good space page about a location that you'll get a link to and other things, people that were just being the second set of eyes, people that were looking for newspaper articles, stuff like that didn't count and even then there were 3,122 contributions during the week towards just your branches. So I know it's just amazing.  Okay, so I'm gonna pull that down for just a second. Pop ups. And so James, do you think that we at least met your expectations for the Wickey Tree Challenge Week and brought you new information? Absolutely, a lot more than I expected actually. Yeah, it's gotta be, it's gotta be tough when you have such a complete, you know set of branches like you do, your tree is very full. Yeah, well you get, even though we have my daughter, some of my daughter, well most of my children once in a while but two of my daughters very, very consistently are looking and it's still hard because there's just so many lines and so many different people and you get back to a thousand ancestors and then you're, you know who do you work on?  Like when you work in those first couple of generations you're finding records left and right. By the time you get worked out into that seven, eight and nine boy you're like really having to put some time in to get one person figured out. No, you really, it gets exponentially harder. So it's, it's quite a difficult. So it's really, it's really great. Thank you so much, that's wonderful. Oh, it's definitely been our pleasure. And you know, we even with the holidays we had such a good participation. I think you had more than 34 people that were working on your branches, you know around the clock basically this week. And so, you know it's just been such a great gift to be able to get to people. Thank you so much. Okay, and I am going to bring this in. Greg Clark, where were you when my internet went down? Sorry, I see Greg in the audience there. And so now I'm going to go ahead and talk for a few minutes to our participants and viewers that are still watching. Thank you guys for hanging out through this and being so patient. But, you know, I just want to say that it is still so hard to believe. We just wrapped up our final guess for year 2021. And the fun will not stop though. It'll be a little bit different. And so let's look at a few things that will change. Now for the year 2022, we have guest stars that are notable but outside of the genealogy world now.  We have Paul Gilmartin from the Mental Illness happy hour podcast. And you know, and he's done so many other things on top of that, I couldn't list them all. And then of course, Haas Froberg, a musician and he just released a brand new album. He's been doing interviews like crazy left and right for his album he just released. So, you know, maybe he'll still feel some of that excitement and get to share it with us when we do feature him. But, you know, definitely it's gonna be different doing people that are non genealogists and don't already have a good really good handle on their tree to see what you guys can do with it. Challenge weeks for the upcoming year will be no more than once every two weeks. Now, that doesn't mean you get two weeks necessarily to work on somebody's tree. And I know a lot of you had asked for that this year and I was the same. I was like, man, that weekend it way too fast. You know, we need more time. But it allows you to do some other things in between because some of these participants, I know you guys have stayed, you know on this challenge volunteering your time the entire year. Some of you have been here all year doing this and so we wanna make it so that you have a little bit more time for other wiki tree fund, you know cause all the funds on wiki tree. So on the off weeks, you can still, you know hang out and do other things. And then another thing, one thing that won't change that much is your captains. And of course, the list of participating captains for 2022 is here. And you will see most of the same supportive and friendly names and faces that you have had this year. And there isn't anything brand new, no secrets to come out. We did split Janet and Jonah. Not that they're not still great friends but Janet will be her own captain this upcoming year. And so will Joe and then other than that you guys recognize all of those names. And so they'll still be supporting you in the challenges. Now this is a relatively minor change instead of the challenge being named after a week like we've had week 49, this was week 50. It's going to be labeled by the challenge number that we are on. So for Jimmy Wales, he will be challenge one. When we do Paul Gilmartin, he will be challenged two. So if we get halfway through the year, you know exactly how many guests we have done. It will be reflected by the number of the challenge. And the other thing you're gonna see a difference is in the colors. And that kind of brings us, are you see the difference in the post there? Yes, that's our 2022 post. And so that brings us to the next change. Now, Chris has done some really exciting updates on the Wickey Tree logo and tree, and he's gotten a lot of input on this and tried to give something that people wanted. And he's bringing us into the new year with a fresh new look. So of course, let the sources decide. It ends with 2021. This was our year of accuracy. That's coming to an end, not that we're gonna stop being accurate, but that was our focus this year. And for 2022, it'll be a year of connections. Now, the Wickey Tree challenge graphic has the new Wickey Tree logo, highlighting our networking and you know, DNN connections is what these icons are all about. The main tree that you see on the main Wickey Tree page has already changed. And it's also been updated with a fresh new look. And here's one of the things that you guys are going to be, I think really excited about. I'm excited about one of the things, you know, that I really wanted to see this year was more input from the participants on what you liked, what you didn't like, ways to improve it. You know, and we really didn't have a good solid way to have like a drop box of suggestions. But one of the things we're going to be doing is we're going to presenting privately to you guys instead of free popcorn. Greg, that's right, because it's going to be at your house. So we're going to be doing a private showing to the people that have actually researched. And that way you guys can give some input or react to the things you found. Maybe you didn't know somebody found this other story out. You can react to that. You can ask questions. You can add comments on, you know, what you had difficulties researching for that guess, things like that. And it will be recorded. And, you know, in that way, we can incorporate the snippets from that into a final video that will go online. So it won't be live like this. The different parts of it will be recorded. But I'm really excited that you guys are going to be able to participate a little bit more interactively with the reveals. They're still talking about popcorn. So to find out more about the challenge and its changes, be sure to watch the Wikitree G2G forum, which is our genealogist to genealogist forum for announcements. And with all of that, I wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year. I'm excited about the 2022. Oh, and don't go away too quickly because this is not our last broadcast of the year.  And we're going to be doing some exciting stuff. So we're going to have some of the participants and captains on. We will be announcing who the winner of the physical trophy is for the year for the 2021 Wikitree challenge. We'll be talking somewhat about the MVPs and some of those special highlights that we've come across this year. And it's going to be a lot of fun. So make sure you clear your calendar and I will see you guys next Wednesday. Good night. Bye.