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Chelsea, a really easy question. What is service design? I think that service design is the design of interactions between people in the context of complex systems over time. So this video is just one piece of the puzzle. Make sure to check out some of the other videos that are in this playlist to get the full picture. And if you'd like to learn how to explain service design in plain English, check out the free course that I've got for you over here. Thanks so much for watching and I look forward to seeing you in the next video.


I had to take the decision about whether I wanted to plunge in and be an independent producer myself. It was always an aspiration and then to start 2017 with Roy Kapoor films where the idea really was for me to be able to focus on creating, you know, content that would be able to reach out to all of India as well as the world. Hi, I'm Siddharth Roy Kapoor and I'm happy to be on the digital cover of Onsrutna India in December 2022.


I'm the storyteller of wider. People who know me know me that I like to read a lot and read books and so forth. So I just wanted to kind of summarise the story of the day very briefly, what this journey through the world of aid in the social sectors has told us. And in some ways it's still a journey obviously that we're making in recombin. You know I do urge you to go to the website and to read all the papers and to reflect on some of the issues and also to come to the next results meeting which will be on climate change and environment and the one after that on governance and the one after that on gender. But let's think about today and some of the stories that we told each other today and let me sort of just briefly divide my remarks into what we learnt about some of the successes because there have been successes. Let me then remind us of ourselves of the many problems but also some of the solutions and then let me finally just briefly summarise some of the tensions or the unresolved issues that are still part of our journey through this world of aid in the social sectors. The successes are children vaccinated. They're vaccinated now more than they've ever been in development history. We've had successful polio programmes in countries like India. We've had successes in maternal and child health. I reminded this morning that child survival is now improved over the last decade. There are something like two and a half million fewer deaths among children largely through the application of rather simple technologies but important technologies in diarrheal research and so forth and diarrheal application and basic drugs and basic healthcare packages. A much of this is to the credit obviously of governments of communities of NGOs but also often with the support of aid donors. We've learnt that HIV and AIDS is at least contained and in some countries falling. A large proportion of the aid that has gone into the health sectors of African countries has been directed to HIV aid and we've had more success on HIV AIDS than we would have expected. 30 years ago when the problem first emerged. We've seen aid fund the construction of global health research systems but also local health research systems. We reminded this morning of how funding from the Gates and the World Bank has funded basic public health care research in India for the first time. The first time India's had a really effective system. Primally enrolment rates are up. When we visit African countries we see all of the school children in their need to uniforms going off to school. And in a few countries but too few the quality of education has risen most notably actually as we reminded by the case of Rwanda which is a really outstanding success. School feeding programmes are feeding children but they could work a lot better. And we've seen an explosion in social protection to the point where something like a billion people in developing countries live in families where at least somebody participates in a social protection programme be it a cash transfer programme or an employment guarantee scheme or whatever. An aid has an important catalytic role there in supporting technical assistance for the expansion and roll out of social protection. Now particularly in Africa transferring some of the south south success from Brazil and other countries. So we have to in this game of development and we shouldn't call it a game. It's life and death and the social sector is our life and death. But we have to celebrate at least some success in a way that's important to us as a community because those successes we have to rest upon when we come to think about some of the deep problems that we still face. It's still really frustrates us as practitioners, as researchers whether in a bilateral agency or a multilateral agency. And one of those problems that we've highlighted this morning and it's often in some of the solutions that we're still working on trying to find. Well we know that health systems in many poor countries still do not respond enough to the needs of poor people. And that's not just the low income countries, it's many of the middle income countries as well. We know that we can have some progress in that area particularly through community action and working closer with communities. If we take out one message from health and education today, it's been greater involvement and learning with communities and not just going for templates which we bring to countries which we believe can work in all circumstances. An incredible amount of learning by doing that we've all had in that area. We know that school enrolments are up but the quantity and sorry the quality of education at primary level and indeed at secondary level still remains extraordinarily weak. We were told about Senegal for example which contrasts to Rwanda in terms of very disappointing performance in enrolments. A gentleman from the Cameroon I believe it was focused our attention on failure in rural primary education in the Cameroon. And really we have to set those stories about the real need, the real urgency to improve quality because we know quality is so important to the effectiveness of education in achieving economic growth and from economic growth generating more revenue and from that more revenue generating more funding for education and health and all of the good things that we want to achieve. And we know that sustainability in education is still often very weak. In the water sector we are reminded that the technologies are very straightforward on our blue planet. We know that we've seen progress particularly in the large urban areas for example in the South Asian cities and some African cities but we know that we haven't rolled out enough improvement in the rural areas. And in some ways that's where we need more softer building of institutions rather than just simply a focus continually on the harder infrastructure. And then use this wonderful expression about reducing the masculinity of water infrastructure which is the first time I've sort of heard that gender dimension given to water infrastructure. We know that from the nutrition area we're seeing progress in school feeding programmes but too much is disappearing in the pipeline. I think the school feeding discussion showed in a very good way the role of evidence and research in directing very concrete improvements about reduction in the wastage from the pipeline, about the importance of high energy foods, foodstuffs and about the importance of accountability at the community level. So we've learnt a tremendous amount on the nutrition. We know that the numbers are still high though of desperately malnarched children and in some ways that reflects the fact that governments, communities, researchers, all of us are still not focusing enough on the ultra poor or the chronically poor so that poverty is still being passed from generation to generation. One thing that came out again and again is that we think aid is still too project focused across all of the social sectors. Again and again we were reminded of that. Again and again appeal for better sector approaches, for better budget support, for more coordination. But it's a tough game, it's a tough game particularly in the fragile states. But if we can achieve that then we can achieve so much more efficiency in the use of every dollar of aid for the ultimate goal of better nourished children, more primary healthcare and better education. Then in problems and potential solutions, and this is the last one of these, we're reminded continually about the need to invest more in monitoring and evaluation which remains extraordinarily weak in terms of both the amount of spending and the amount of attention. This is really surprising still isn't it because we have this really complex aid architecture now. We have what is in effect an aircraft of aid which is like a sort of Boeing 747 jet. It's got global funds, it's got bilateral funds, it's got multilateral funds on the wings and so forth. And yet we've got pilots in the cockpits whether they're government or aid donors with instruments that are sort of like 100 years old, almost like the Wright brothers. So they really have an accurate idea sometimes of where we're going, what altitude we're flying and how much impact we're really having on the social sectors. So I think there's been, there's one really big takeaway message from this particular meeting. It's the importance of monitoring and evaluation, putting that better instrument panel in that cockpit of aid but also putting a better instrument panel in the cockpit of governments because ultimately they're responsible for their people, particularly their poorer people. So finally, finally in this summary, what are the, in the story of the day, what are some of the tensions that still remain for us? And it says these are tensions that still challenge us, they're unresolved, but they're also going to stimulate us to greater creativity because it's only an adversity that we really do get stimulated as a community of practitioners and researchers to look for better solutions. And one unresolved tension is aid versus domestic revenues in the financing of the social sectors. We know that many countries now have more domestic revenue because they have higher growth. And if you have better tax systems, which of course aid can help construct, then you can fund more of the good things of life, including the social sectors. We know that many African countries now are exploiting the bounty of natural resources, oil and gas, which gives them so much more potential, for example to fund social protection on that Latin American model. But equally we know that there are the Malawys of the world, the Burkina Fassos, the less favoured by nature, the less favoured by economic growth, though they really have enough domestic revenue fully to finance what we need. And what is going to be the role of aid versus domestic revenues in those countries. What is going to be the role of aid in the poorest states of some of the middle income countries, for example India or Brazil, is there still a role. These are unresolved tensions, to a degree they're ethical tensions. We've seen that, and this is something that Bob Bolsh pointed us to, aid to the social sectors is at best neutral with respect to the poverty of the recipient countries. And this bears on the debate about the allocation of aid across low income countries versus the middle income countries, something that the last session really explored and I don't need to dwell on that. But this is really in some ways also an ethical issue, helping a poor person in a middle income country versus helping a poor person in a low income country. And it's a political issue, it's still an unresolved tension. The third unresolved tension in my mind, in the sense was, has the drive for greater efficiency, greater coordination in aid really stalled? And at some points there's a sort of almost sense of despair across the community, you know, Paris declarations, Accra, Busan etc. Have we really stalled out on that? Have we really lost our drive on that? Well I leave that for you, particularly in the agencies to come back to and focus on. And ultimately, and this came up also in the last session, how much do we really want to focus on our resources on the provision of global public goods, particularly in health, the drive to lower the cost of medicines versus the commitment of in-country programs and the resourcing of those? Obviously a tension there, we want to do both but we don't have resources for everything in life. How are we going to move on that? And then finally I'd like you to return, and this is the last tension which should lead us to greater creativity, which is the point that Fin Tarp raised at the very outset of this meeting, which is although we can see many immediate gains from aid to the social sectors, for example the child who ceases to have diarrhea, the child who grows and goes to school the first time. Equally, quite a lot of the benefit of aid in the social sector is in the medium to long term. It's when that child finally finds some worthwhile work, when that child earns an income from the human capital aid might have created 10, 15 years ago. How do we break away sometimes for our short term focus, our drive to focus on the short term because we want to show quick results rather than using aid to support perhaps longer term growth? So these are all issues and tensions which can drive forward further creativity about aid. So, as I said at the beginning, the story of Recom continues. Please do go to the website. There are many videos, including there will be videos of this meeting. Please do come to our next results meetings on climate change, environment, governance, gender, and please do contribute with us to the debate. Thank you very much.


what's the word y'all other day I was sitting around and I was thinking about how unique NBA fandom is compared to the other leagues around the world the other sports around the world because I would call myself a casual MLB fan and a fail fan and a casual soccer slash non-american football fan and the thing that makes the NBA fandom unique is that we have this obsession with player movement and trades I'm so obsessed with that type of stuff that in fantasy football this year I've already made like 10 different traits already I'm part of this because my team wasn't good to start off with so I needed some trades but another part of that is just I'm just so much in an NBA mindset that trades have just become a norm for me when these other leagues yes of course we have trades but we don't have as many as the NBA remember at the trade that line last season there was only two teams that did not make any moves the Miami Heat and the Chicago Bulls it worked out well for one of the teams less well for the other but we just see so much player movement so much player movement that we just started preseason and there are so many articles talking about people that could get traded that's just what we like to consume we like to see chaos so that intro was just a way to say that hey um Andy Bailey and Bleacher put together a list of one player each NBA team should put on a trade block let's react now get on remind people will react to these things we're going to talk but we're going to at least go over all 30 teams we won't stop to talk about all 30 because some of them are not going to be interested enough to talk about all right the Atlanta Hawks Clint Capella this makes sense to me and this is coming from the perspective of a guy that is not an Atlanta Hawks fan but have consumed a lot of Atlanta Hawks games over the last couple seasons I like the potential and potential versatility of a Nyeka Kongu and over the last couple seasons if you've been listening to my podcast you know that I've been waiting for the moment when Nyeka Kongu becomes too good for them to not start them and it hasn't happened just yet your Atlanta Hawks our team is trying to compete got the conference finds a couple years ago with Clint they're trying to compete so in their mind they might not want to bench click a pellet in the sake of youth because they want to be competitive right now hopefully this is the year that Nyeka Kongu does take that because I mean he does on the defensive side of the things again a Walmart version of what Bama the bio has been able to do when it comes to the switchability being able to guard the guards or play and drop he does that but in spurts obviously Bama is doing it every single night that's why he's a guy that gets widely respected well you want to suggest this video he's not widely respected but uh recognized for the most part as one of the best offensive players in ball and Nyeka Kongu has potential to potentially be that down the line just not yet but he shows glimpses here and there next we have Jordan Walsh for the Boston Celtics we don't need to stop here this makes sense they made all the trades already if there's anybody that would hold value on their bench it would be Jordan Walsh he's what 19 years old hit some shots and preseason his defensive versatility is where you're really excited about he was a former high school like top recruit or whatever um and then fell in the draft and everything but I don't know if the Boston Celtics are looking to make moves because they already made a lot but if they go to the deadline and like man we missed a one last small piece is coming off our bench Jordan Walsh might be a guy that they trade to get that piece Lonnie Walker for the Brooklyn Nets then that's our one of those teams that I don't know exactly what they're going to fall into standing so if it's February and they're not as good as maybe they could be and they're looking to move some people that's not a part of their core group Lonnie Walker over the last couple of seasons his last year in San Antonio and then with the Lakers he showed that he could come in off the bench and fill it up for you so that makes sense Gordon Hayward okay all right I gotta read this one I gotta read this one if he can stay healthy which is a massive if over the last several seasons Gordon Hayward could help the Charlotte Hornets take a step toward competitiveness this season okay they aren't likely to go much further than that though ah so it's just saying like hey if he's good enough and healthy enough maybe a team would throw a protective first round pick to get three months of Gordon Hayward because he is a free agent I yeah the Charlotte Hornets don't have a ton over there that's not part of the core core of Brandon Miller Lamello and like Mark Williams so like who you want to put Terry Rozier in the spot Gordon Hayward as an expiring contract might be easier to move but he also is making 34 million dollars a year so maybe it's not easier to move Lonzo ball um when I read this article I assumed that Lonzo ball was going to be the piece here so obviously is going to miss the entirety of the season he's got a player option next year that hopefully he's healthy by the time and he can suit up but if they don't believe that is the case or they don't believe that he's going to come back 100% his 21 million dollars could be used as salary filler plus draft capital to go get somebody I'm not a huge fan of that idea as a bulls fan I mean that's I don't know who they would potentially get but it is a hefty amount of money to pay somebody that's on the IR so if we're at February and for whatever reason the bulls look good which you know uh then his 21 million dollars plus I don't know another contract on the roster might be good enough to go get somebody that can be a needle mover but nobody expects the bulls to be good carousel vert uh yeah they got a lot of wings over there now they they got george yang who's more of a four they also got ice kakaro who looked really good in his first preseason game max truce and carousel vert who just signed an extension uh yeah I guess uh tim artaway jr man the dallas mavericks on one of those teams that I cannot predict they are one of the hardest teams in a league for me to predict luke and kairi are both studs but it's like okay after that what you know after that what's going to happen but there was a stat last season that when he shot like 50 from three in a game they were really really good uh so when he is on he helps you win games but if he's having a okay to mediocre game you know how it goes zik naji man the army video two years ago while I was in and I'm excited for zik naji's basketball play for the season and he basically did not crack the rotation at all this is the year where they need zik naji to be in the rotation they lost some people off the bench uh they they lost was brown they lost lost jeff green who were two of their top eight players in their rotation they need somebody who can be like a backup for zik naji has the potential to be a good shooter he has the potential to play some solid defense but we haven't seen it a lot in his career but if there's a rebuilding team that wants to take a shot zik naji is the type of dude that I would want to take a shot with boy I'm like none of it's this this is a guy that has been on the blot slash in articles about being traded for ever uh this is very contingent on if the detroit pistons just decide to kind of trade a lot of their vets because he is one of the perfect pieces to put alongside k cunningham because he has always been a 38 to 42 percent three-point shooter throughout his career and k cunningham needs space to do what he could do so this is that they're like hey we're going completely youth and it's time for us to finally cash in on by donovitch osis moody we talked about this on the kenny beach and podcast which is in the description about how the warriors a few years ago we're trying to straddle the two different timelines the steve curry timeline plus the youth timeline with jordan pool with james wiseman kaminga moses moody now jordan pool and james wiseman are gone kaminga looks like a player that is definitely going to be in the rotation moses moody a little bit less than that so maybe there's a team out there that's willing to take a chance on moses moody in the sake of adding another player that fit to steve curry timeline jason tate uh jason tate he's he really is a rookie he felt like he was 46 years old when he was a rookie quality quality mba player but they have so many playable bodies and houston a lot of those being more youthful than jason tate that you might want to prioritize their development over jason buddy hill no need to talk about it buddy hills name has been on the block for the last couple weeks maybe it's been like a month or so we don't know if he's actually going to get moved but he's a guy he's the oldest player in the league with zero playoff minutes so getting him to a playoff team could be good for his career we know he can choose one of the greatest volume three point shooters of all time next we have tarant man don't tell the clip is this they not they not thinking about trading no tarant man but at the same time he is the only player outside of the core guys the super core guys of the kawai's and the paul george's that hold value across the association so if they do want to go in a little bit more he is the player that holds the value this is also really fun to me because everybody assumes that tarant man is his young dude brother he he is my age he's about to be at least and i'm i'm old in this and my industry i'm old and mba industry he's young but not young you feel me the angelo russell yeah the angelo russell's contract is actually perfect to get moved two years 36 million dollars obviously in the playoffs last season he lost his starting spot and eventually just ended up looking not great and the lakers need playoff performers now i'm not saying that the angelo russell cannot be that uh this season because i don't really know i can't predict the future but uh if there was a world where there was a starish player that was this scrunto that doesn't hold a ton of value i'm not talking about joll and beat or something but like you know like a mid-tier star that's not super valuable the angelo russell rui and we like rui around here i'm not saying he's gonna get trade if you add those two contracts together it's a max spot so i'm just i'm not saying that's what the lakers goal is because again i think rui's more part of the core than the angelo russell but you never know how the season's gonna break and if a guy is out there that's significantly better than both of them the lakers are not a stranger to buying in more i don't have anything to say about zavier tillman um has had above average marks in dunks and threes estimated plus minus great good job that's how like it really it's all like really safe isle hero another player that's just been in trade rumors over the last season he will continue to be in trade rumors that's just the nature of his job at this point it won't go it will not go away as long as the miami heat are trying to contend and there's superstars maybe available tyler hero's name will be in these conversations is it warranted i don't know i'm a tyler hero fan i think tyler hero's a stud um but if it's a superstar uh like damian lillard was or superstar like joellen bead if that ever happens then he has to be in it because he's the one that holds the value so he's just in whole value to portland necessarily but he is a valuable player and a good player too marja boatam makes sense they traded everything else who else so who else in that team would hold any value other than the 23-year-old player now he did not shoot the ball ball very well in the regular season he got to some league and he looked really good i think he's going to be a guy that's going to play real minutes for the milky butch especially in a regular season but if they want to add more depth or a more veteran lead player marjan might be the guy that's on the move carl anthony towns whoo all right so everybody makes the argument with carl anthony towns being on the block you traded a bunch to get rid of go bare you signed nazri for a lot of money and then of course you gave carl anthony towns a super max extension not too long ago all those players for the most part are fives more than fours i know the trian carl anthony towns of the four and it could work out but we see him more of a five so their fives have accumulated so much money it's like man is it worth paying this much money to three different centers on our roster probably not so who is the guy that gets moved well you're not going to get your your weight back and value for rudigo bear because he was significantly worse this year than a year that you traded for him carl anthony towns is the one player that you could get value at even though he's making super max money he's a stud he was just all in the eight two years ago and he had an injury last year you know what i'm saying so we know that cat can really really hoop even though he's had his own playoff walls so if you were going to trade something in that center court it's probably cat and i don't love it but it through the process of elimination through the people that are available he makes the most sense younes valentine is for the pelicans i like dig val um but i don't know if i really love him alongside zyanna brandon ingram so i would look to this man i know this is well done but when i when i thought about the idea or not it wasn't just a me thing but throughout nba fandom of myles turner being the five in the world it's not it's a dead mission because he's a pacer and he just got his money last season so shout out to our girl our guy myles but he felt perfect to be alongside the pelicans and when he was on a trade block i'm like pelicans better pick up the phone pelicans got to put a phone you got a lot of milwaukee bucks picks you got picks that don't even you don't even own yourself so go trace them in the picks to go get myles because he's on the block they're talking about la no you need to step in they didn't do that val had a good season and all he's a one of the few bruisers type type guys on the on the league still and he can stretch a little bit more but not the perfect fit rj barrett she's a big bunny to rj uh only 23 years old as they're speaking about here rj barrett i like rj uh and maybe i'm biased because of the left hinder i think i left hinders get a little bit more praise in my mind just because you know me too uh but if i'm trading rj barrett and they look i'm not saying that rj is stood even though in the playoffs last season after a few really bad games he he got back on track um at 23 years old he might be the one of the main pieces and then new york nick superstar trade that they've been waiting for uh but that's all i could i could really see i mean for a nix team that's trying to get pete he's not the perfect third option by any means so i can understand that too ujman zheng i was wondering will it be him or poku with them having so much young talent and so little roster spots and so little playing time you knew that one of these dudes they drafted pretty high would be here because there might be a team out there willing to take a chance on a guy that was in the lottery in a raw prospect for sure uh but they just had to they have to make a decision about that roster you just have too many young players john isaac john isaac looked pretty good in that first pre-season game i was impressed i was impressed we know his defensive upside we know what we can do defensively but the problem is he hasn't played at all over the last couple seasons uh so if i am an opposing gm i'm waiting to see him play a couple games you know a one month straight stretch before i'm interested in training for him but there is no denying his versatility defensively i mean i was a big john than isaac fan when he came out of florida state i was like oh this guy's going to be a stud defensively and he was before all of the injuries so i want to see him put it together a little bit more james arden okay cool yeah we know that uh bobo we'll see man i listen listen listen i have been called that i'm like a bobo hater which is absurd to me i just call it how it is and bobo had a lot of cool stretches with your lendo magic last season but for the most part he was out of position all the time he didn't know how to use his length as good as you would expect a guy that has been this size since he was two years old and he overall just wasn't very good last season so i used that to talk about him you know what i'm saying his potential there for sure absolutely but eventually i have to turn that potential into actuality and he's still a young player but i also can only talk about the things that i've seen and i can't get too high with the highs and can't get too low with the lows malkin brogden 100% we know that davion mitchell i'm excited for davion mitchell season man he went out there and got leg sleeves arm sleeves this is not the day this picture right here is not the davion mitchell that we see nowadays you're going to win you ain't watch kings games yet in the preseason watch davion mitchell now the brother has all of the tattoos and wearing a clean shout out to him he's also a little bit older than a typical young guy he's 25 years old which is i think the same age as dianne fox and of course dianne fox winning the league for 100 years and davion spending the league for two uh so or i'm sorry three um so it is a bit weird when you see like four-year players end up making it just because we're not it's not normal anymore you know everybody come in in 1920 years old but what they're saying here is that if there is a younger team that's willing to take a chance on davion mitchell then maybe the sacramental kinks can flip him for a more veteran backup point guard that can perform better in the playoffs cool cool idea i guess doug mcdermin the other day when i was watching spurs versus okc thunder doug mcdermin was getting garbage time minutes and i was so sad for him um great shooter and maybe he can get to a playoff team and provide that shooting for them i guess but garbage time minutes in preseason is nasty work whoo pascalciaco i have not talked about the toronto raptors much over the last off season or so because i have no idea what to feel and think about their direction um of course forever and we left they brought it in a shooter who's coming off a gold medal and everything but i don't know what to think about this team at all and i'm sure there are a lot of raptors fans that feel the same way so i've kind of steered away from talking about them much because i don't know what to expect should we expect pascalciaco to potentially be moved should we expect ogiannoby to possibly be moved considering he said he was going to test his mark regardless i don't know i remember a couple months ago he said pascalciaco at least this is rumored that he would say that whatever team you trade me to i'm not signing an extension you know so maybe that turns off other general men i'm not afraid of him if he's not willing to put his name on that downline yet so i don't know i don't know but he's a valuable player in this league he's a good player oh great player in this league but it's if i'm if i'm trading for him i need some type of commitment longer than the couple months of this season then we got kelly olynick uh yeah they just added john collins and they already have walker kester and larry marketing uh kelly olynick was really really good for utah jas last season but a lock jam over there in that position landry shamet is dead last landry shamet has been in the league like five years he's played for like five teams his rookie season now you could not have you could not have convinced me that landry shamet wasn't going to be a player that not i didn't think he's going to be great i never think he's going to be an all star but a high level consistent role player and every team has had him and then let him go after a season it's just one of those guys is going to move the ton like knock him broad than nowadays all right so that's one player that every team should have on the trading block i'm very interested to see what y'all think your favorite team who not that not who you want to see traded because that's a little bit of harsh but who do you think should be on the trade block from your favorite team of course as always i'll be in the comment section reading and comment or applying you know how go


Blackstone presents Pity the Beast by Robin McClain. This book is read by Dion Graham for Cindy to keep a promise, for Marsh, who stayed behind. For Margaret, always, entreat me not to leave you or to turn back from following after you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also. If anything but death parts you and me. Chapter 1, Verses 16 and 17 1. Perturon. Once, here on this high plain, there were only horse, bear, rhino. No words to put to things, no call to put them. But today, Jenny and Dan in the barn, and words like this.   Jenny, behind the even mare, said, Her waters broke, I broke it.  Said Dan. Now that foal was too big for her. She swatted flies. Her hat was filthy from mucking. Her coveralls were unzipped to her waist. One arm hung free, folded to the knee. The other was stuffed inside itself. Her flannel shirt was rolled up her elbow. The dust filled the doorway like the bees and flies. That foal will turn her inside out, Dan said. That foal will bust her. No one knows how things go. How they go, how they go, he said. Look at her belly. He spittin', stirred the dirt with his boot. Behold the suffering of an innocent creature. Jenny spat, too. Behold, she said. And how got things to do? Out at dawn, Jenny was in the barn as midwife. Dan saw to the cows. Most of the herd already speckled the south field to the east. Burned two weeks back and quickly re-greened. The cows ate the grass. Dan was a punctual rancher. He slapped them through the gate with his stick. One black, one white, in a tricolor bull calf. The calf took... Sample complete. Ready to continue?


This day in Army history, June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion of Normandy, began. At 0-200 that morning, the US 82nd and 101st, along with the British 6th Airborne divisions, were dropped behind German lines to secure logistical routes. While the amphibious assault waves began landing at 0-6-30, British and Canadian forces landed at Gold, Sword and Juno beaches, with American forces landing at Omaha and Utah beaches. The US 4th Infantry Division on Utah Beach had light resistance, but the 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions met determined opposition at Omaha Beach. The Army Rangers scaled the cliffs at Pointe de Hoc in a heroic and costly battle. By nightfall of the first day, large contingents of Allied forces had a firm foothold on Hitler's fortress Europe. For more information about the Army's proud history, go to history.army.mil.


How about a nice table to fit, arrange or display data quickly and nicely inside your Word document? Welcome to Burn2Learn, Harleen here. To do so, we'll go up to the Insert menu and locate the Table button. We find a few options there, in this video we'll discuss a couple of them. Notice a very nice and quick feature when roving the mouse through the tiny cells. This allows you to manually create a table with the number of cells you may want. Once you know the cells you will want, just click. Another way to insert a table is by clicking on the option with that name. When we do so, a box of options appear for us to personalize our table by adding the number of columns we want, let's say 4, and of rows, let's say 3. We'll keep the autofit behavior on automatic for the data to fit the table. You can also check the box if you want this specific table dimension to be remembered in the future. We click OK and there we have our table. Now let's delete this table to show more options. And one way to delete it is by pressing CTRL plus Z to undo the table. Please like this video and feel free to leave a comment. We'll go back to the Insert menu and click on Excel Spreadsheet. What this option does is that it will literally add an Excel spreadsheet to the document, which we can fill out with our data. Once you're done, just click outside the window to see how it will look. You can always go back and edit your data by double clicking the spreadsheet window again. We'll now add another handy table by going up to Table and this time click on Quick Tables. As you can see, there are many table options to choose from. Let's add a quick calendar table, a quick way to create a calendar, right? We'll click on the first of the many options. Now we have our calendar. This is like a template for you to edit and personalize according to your own need. We love styles and this is no exception. So up on the Table Styles section, you will find many styles and also borders to choose from to make your tables look awesome. Make your data look organized and presentable with Microsoft Word Tables.


In this video we are going to look at a few examples of solving exponential equations using inspection. So later on we will talk about how to solve exponential equations using logarithms, but first we just want to use some properties of exponents in order to solve these. So the key thing to remember when solving these is you want to be able to write each side of the equation as an exponent using the same base. So in this case on the right side we have just 12 to the z. So that we don't really need to change or you could, but the question to ask is can you write 144 as 12 to some power? And in this case we can, 144 is the same as 12 squared. And so we get 12 to the second equals 12 to the z. And what happens is when the bases are the same they can cancel each other out. And we are just left with the exponents and so z will equal 2. Now let's look at a slightly different example here. So this is an example with a fraction and our goal is to write again both of these bases. So 1 fourth and 64 as an expression with the same base. So you can play around with it a little bit if you want to. But I guess some of this will take a little bit of practice to get used to. One thing to remember is the way that you end up with a fraction as the base is with a negative power. So 1 fourth is the same as 4 to the negative first power. And then 64 is the same as 4 to the third power. So in this case again our bases will cancel. What I like to do before cancelling my base is combine the exponents here at the top. So remember when you have a power raised to a power you'll multiply. So in this case I'm multiplying negative 1 times 2x which is just negative 2x. So what I end up with here the fours will cancel out because they are the same base. And I get negative 2x equals 3 if I solve for x, x equals negative 1.5. Now just one more example to look at. 27 to the 2x plus 4 equals 9 to the 4x. So again try to think of a number that you could use as the base and come up with 27 and 9. So pause if you need to and play around with it. In this case 27 can be thought of as 3 to the third. And then I don't change that to x plus 4 at all. And 9 can be thought of as 3 squared. So just like on the previous I want to combine these exponents. Power to a power means we multiply. So this will become, you have to distribute this 3 to each part. So 6x plus 12. And then on the right we just get 8x. Now since the bases are the same we can cancel. So 6x plus 12 equals 8x. And if we solve that for x we'll subtract 6x from each side. So 12 equals 2x. And if we divide by 2, x equals 6. And of course it's always a good idea to go back to the beginning and plug it in. But this is the concept of solving exponential equations by inspection rather than using logarithms.


I'm First Lieutenant Ryan Von Chance-Stetler. I'm the First Platoon Leader in Castle Company, 54th B.E.B., 173rd and through-the-gate combat team, Airborne. The purpose of today's exercise is to train on familiarization on the AT-4 weapon system. It's a single-shot, shoulder-fired rocket launcher. And tomorrow's objective is going to be familiarization and training on demolition techniques and expedient field demolition techniques. So a pair of troopers are learning how to employ one of the key weapon systems on the modern battlefield, the AT-4. And they're learning how to use it to dispatch enemy tanks. And tomorrow they're also going to be learning how to employ some demolition techniques to also create obstacles as well as defeat enemy threats. So what's nice about this training area especially is it has live targetry so we can use fire actual AT-4s at a T-72 like we saw down range today. In addition, the freedom of the two demo ranges we're going to be utilizing tomorrow has a lot that we can do with it. So we can show a lot of our newer guys especially some of the training techniques that we'll carry on to future generations in our unit.


Where would you stand in the days of slavery? Would you be on the side of the slave owners? Against him, obviously, obviously. Wait a second, just ask where you are now with animal rights.  I want to know why it's worse if it's not brain capacity. Because we're human beings and we shouldn't kill other human beings. And law as well, of course. We're not going to talk about law because what's legal hasn't always been moral. I took my phone out to take a photograph. This eagle turned around, literally turned around. You might think I'm a bit crazy. The situation, I stopped eating meat on a spiritual basis. Wow, like karma and stuff like that, the energy? Yeah, I mean it just happened because I'm a spiritual person, it just happened. When I thought about the whole situation, I realised it's human beings trying to take from animals to supplement themselves. So when you look at meat, then you look at meat towards protein. That's what, but there's vegetation of the land that will give us all what our body needs. We shouldn't be eating any animal products, to be quite honest.  It's therefore, we don't go to a woman's breast and say, we need some milk. We're not baby cows, are we? That's right. We need to work at changing people. I think we just need to work on our self behaviour. Because if we are behaving a certain way, we're speaking a certain way, we eat a certain food and so forth, it's almost like an example of how we should do it. People will question us. I think there should be laws protecting animals. Yeah, I think...  That's true, I believe that. When you think about it, the animals have become, they're on the project line. And they're bred just for eating. Yeah. Which is cruel. It is cruel, because I always believe, you know, when you think about it, an animal cries. An animal has emotions. They have love. And we know that. I mean, I've worked with pigs, I've worked with cows. And I know that a sow doesn't give two hoots about their piglets. And that's the truth. And it's not on the basis of... A sow and a factory farm. That's right. Because if it was... The litter's taken from them before, yeah? Yes. We've done that castration and all that. You know, I was blind to that kind of factor, because I was involved in that castrating of piglet. The fact of the matter is the mob will lie down on the piglets and won't even know. Because they're stuck in a crate, they can't turn around in their suffering.  You know, everything you're saying is right, and I won't argue with that. But you've got to understand, even as I'm speaking to you about this, you can correct me on this. And educate me on this. Because when a person is in the thick of things, they can't see. Because if I knew, I wouldn't be working in there. Do you see what I'm saying?  Culture as well, like you were saying, cultural. We've been conditioned by society. But you know, like I gave them an example. Like if we were brought up in the United States with a 400 years worth of slavery, that we'd be brought up into that culture. And we're like, oh, this is normal. And the only reason that changed, because people say, wait a second, this is horrible.  The Holocaust in Germany, you know? People were like, well, they had a massive war over that too. But the people in Germany, like I guess they were going to be killed if they opposed Hitler. I mean, just because this is happening now, right? This is happening now. We know it's bad. And we're all contributing to it. Like a lot of us are contributing to it. And we're complacent. But this is like one of those times in history where we're going to be like, what side of history am I going to be on? Am I going to be one of those people who's shouting from the rooftop saying, stop, this is wrong. You know, we're going to look back in history. It's something that's immoral.  Or, you know, I knew it was wrong at the time telling their grandkids, oh, I knew it was wrong at the time. I didn't change, you know? I believe that, you know, there are certain things that I see in life.  And I think one of the factors that goes perfectly with the way we should live is love. Do you reckon love could undo animal agriculture and all the torture and death? It will. Because the people are desirous. Desirous. People who are desirous over feeding their greed. They can't see past that. To TV. They say that they can't see past that. This addiction here has direct victims that are being slaughtered. So it's almost like your addiction to meat and dairy and eggs and all these things have animals that are suffering in factory farms and slaughterhouses because of it.  This is something you're doing to yourself. You know, alcohol abuse and drugs. Unless you're hurting family around you. But let's just say you're just hurting yourself. When you go in and buy the chicken, the animals raise in a factory. They're suffering. They're killed at six weeks old. And they go into a slaughterhouse to be butchered and killed. So this is like trying to get people who are human beings to connect with a different species who are suffering. And I think love is a big part of that. I honestly, I do believe it. I do believe it when I started. It was coming from a place of love. I cared like, oh my God, what are you doing to that poor chicken? Like that's love, isn't it? Like I defend them. Like if I saw someone hurting you guys, I'd be in there and I'd be trying to defend you. And I see that the same with pigs and chickens and cows. People don't care. But like they need us to like talk for them, don't they? You know, I'll give you one experience that I had. I like feathered pillows downing because I sleep good in them. I don't have any now. Now it's strange because I bought a duvet that was down feathers. And you know, what happened was is it stunk like death. It really did. Now I wanted to find out about this. It made me find out. I found out that they're taking the soft part of the feathers from the duck. I realized that the amount of sometimes they're ripping the skin. And that goes with the feathers. And that's why we have that stench. You know, I took that thing back. And I said to myself, after seeing the story and how they do it, I said I'm not going to have downing anymore. No more feathers. No, because... So that was education. You educated yourself. And had I not been conscious in the first place to find out, I would probably just bear with it. Do you understand what I mean? Yeah, because otherwise you've got the blinders on like this.  But you seem conscious. He's been watching my videos. I'll put animal rights content up. And he come up and talk to me about this. So he's interested. You know, it seems like you're conscious. You've had like a spiritual awakening yourself in other ways. And I could consider this. It's like you're waking up to like the matrix. They're selling us slaughtered animals. We're completely mindless about it. Like you said when you're an Audi. You just grab the meat. You just grab the chicken. You don't think about, this is a bird. They had a personality. They were scared in that slaughterhouse.   That's all you think about. They don't show you what I show you on these screens. The industry, they trick people. They go, okay, so you see cows on the grass. You see a happy lamb. You see a beautiful chicken, beautiful feathers. You know, our humane stamp of welfare, RSPCA. All this nonsense, right?  And you're like, oh, thank God, the RSPCA looking after these animals. They come out of a slaughterhouse. They're chopped up into pieces. And people think that something good happened to them along the way. Another example, I was going to a zoo. I used to be a post driver, take children to the zoo. I took my phone up to take a photograph. This eagle turned around, literally turned around. You might think I'm a bit crazy, but I have divine messages and so forth. But one of the things that I heard is the eagle communicated with me. This sounds crazy, right? Trust me. The eagle says, why are you taking a photograph of me when you know I shouldn't be here? That is the truth. I've gone to different places and I've felt that communication of animals being mistreated. And I'm communicated. This is telepathy. Animals must have to communicate on a different level that I don't have a language like us. You're not going to see an eagle talking to you. You're not going to see a pig going. It's telepathy, feeling the connection that we have of animals. And if we're really conscious, we will hear what they're really saying. And you know, I'm never going to step in a zoo again. I realize that it's wrong to have them in a zoo. They make an excuse and say, well, these animals come back from a sort of situation. We're keeping them, but no, the way you're keeping them is barbaric. A prison. That's right. And we don't like to be in a prison. They shouldn't like to be in prison. And not only that, the animals have connection with the others that are free. So they say, what are you doing in here, man? I don't know. You know, it's unfair and we need to come out of this.  And to have that satisfaction, people, animals have to suffer. Well, and you were talking about on a spiritual level. Like, I mean, this is one of the things that changed me, like karma. And when we're eating imprisoned, suffered beings, and we're making that a part of our body. You know, you're taking an animal that has been almost always in some type of fearful experience, even before their bolt gun, just say, free range cow, even before their bolt gun, they know they're about to die or something. They're trying to escape. We're taking that fear, that suffering. We're making it a part of our body. And I just, I just see any good coming out of that, you know. It's about adjusting, getting your mind to it, thinking about what you're going to replace things with and how you're going to deal with.  You know what I mean? I got this challenge 22 is fantastic for that. It's 22 days, it takes 22 days to rebuild a new habit. So it's free, everything in here is free. So like, you already know, you already know. And now it's just about the how. Like, obviously, you both think animal cruelty and abuse is wrong.  I mean, it's just a movement for animals. You know, we've got lots of movements for humans, which I also support. But this is just one for the animals, you know.  Now you can do it healthy too. You can do whole foods, plant-based, be a healthy vegan. If you want a vegan burger and some vegan chocolate, go hard on that. You know, you can have vegan alcohol too. I'm not, like, it's not necessarily about health for me. It's about the animal abuse and cruelty. So you can have, you know, you don't have to cheat with a bit of meat. You can cheat with a bit of vegan junk food if you want. But like, it's really good seeing both sides of the coin here. Like you're both two different people, but you're on like a similar path of like change. No worries, Ethan. Really good talk to you. Send us an email, brother. Send us an email. It's almost not about human beings. It's only about what they can feed their desire. If that desire is so powerful that sometimes the desire is almost addictive. What if you had a desire for change, for peace? Then we would have a change very quickly. Very quickly. So what if you could spread that desire like a fire?  I do something. I go out on the streets and I preach. I give them information in order for them to make, people to make informed decisions. It was a shame that we couldn't actually get a microphone and a video camera and go to the car and tell us how you feel. And what do you think should happen? Let them stand. We have to try to articulate their pain. So sometimes I go into farms and slaughterhouses and say, this is what they're feeling. But I don't really know, but I'm trying to like, you know. Yeah, I always say that, you know, the first thing, you know, if I had to mention spirituality, I would say, imagine that a creator says that we name the animals, not eat them. Also, he gave us the vegetation of the land. You know, but again in the Bible it shows that they were eating lambs and making sacrifice. And I don't believe that was the case. Well, the Garden of Eden was vegan. That's right. That's right. He was talking about the lion laying down with the lamb. And that is going to take place. So even though we are making people aware of certain things in life, it's really preparing them for a new world, you know, a world where there is no cruelty, a world where love is abundant in such a way. And I can see that future. And that's why I speak about that to people. It's a creator. That's right. You make that future and you make the future for people. And if we can get it right here, we are going to enter that future. You know what I'm saying? Brother, thanks man. I think that's a good place to end it, bro. Really good talking to you, man. Thank you. And you too. Your name is? Joey. Joey, I'm Pat. Good to meet you, Pat. And you too. Keep up the amazing work, my brother. Thank you. And you too, yeah? Take care. I will definitely look at this, yeah? Because I know I'm going to go through the change. Excellent to hear, my friend. Peace to you, my brother. Okay? What an amazing chat. Inspiring, a very inspiring chat. Brilliant. Brilliant. Two people. Two different backgrounds. Two different places in their lives. Hopefully they both make changes. I could, Patrick may, I could almost see his going home to make changes right now.  Like I said, convenience is a hard one. Changing habits. But like, you have to be motivated. You have to have that desire for change. And like, witnessing what the animals go through, if that's not enough, I hope the pandemics thing is enough. The environment thing is enough. I don't know. What will be enough? We have to wait and see. But if everyone gets out there and tries their best, maybe we can create the world we want to see. So let's do it.


I'm being my usual Hello wiki-triers, how's it going out there? We are here for another Exciting wiki tree challenge livecast. You might notice I am not Sarah and you would be correct I am not Sarah. She had a car emergency So she couldn't be here, but we're pressing on without her. It won't be as great, but that's okay. We'll try really hard so um if You're just tuning in for the first time and you may not know us. I'm a win. I'm the forest alpha wiki tree. That's Julie she's a one of our team members and then Mindy is our Coordinator for the wiki tree challenge and then our guest that will be introducing in more detail a bit later is Connie Knox It's harder than it looks like you think you're gonna know and be right and then Um, so let's see who all we've got with us Lynette is here and Lucy Sylvagio Diaz Maggie M. She's really excited that we're doing genealogy TV Connie's genealogy We've got Kathy Nava Alice Thompson Patricia from Kentucky Benjamin from Melbourne, Australia Ole Selmer from Denmark Nancy Wilson from New Jersey Cheryl is from Illinois Karen Stewart Karen Lowe lots of Karen's Chris Briello Betsy Cove so Good showing here at the start. Oh Alessia's here Alain from Georgia Alessia's in Slovenia. He's he's our database guy. So Janine from Tennessee Robert Ward Tommy from Louisiana Got people from all over the place Awesome So Julie would you like to yes in wiki tree and the wiki tree challenge? I will So wiki tree if you're not familiar with us is that we're a community of genealogists We work together on one single tree no duplicates Which means that we collaborate together and we do our best to grow an accurate global tree where we're all connected My favorite part about wiki tree is it's free and So this year on wiki tree. We are having a year-long challenge the wiki tree challenge and as part of our year of accuracy we're inviting a guest to come in each week and Take on their tree basically we are working to turn make sure that we have the most accurate and complete Genealogy for our guest arse tree on wiki tree Our goal by doing this is to improve the accuracy of wiki tree add more family connections and of course make more friends Okay, and I'm gonna go How our year of accuracy started now we're gonna go a little bit extra into this this week since we just have the one Yes, we don't have a reveal and I think that you know, everybody should be recognized for the amazing work They've done this year.  Let's go ahead and talk about the spreadsheet now any of you that have been participating You know your name if you're signed up is on that spreadsheet We ask that you please please put the profile that you're working on next to it so that Nobody else is going into the same profile and nobody loses work if you start, you know, you get 40 50 people out there It's really easy to do and somebody's gonna lose some hard-earn work. So let's please use that spreadsheet now on the right You see the g2g post and we have one of those for the guest each week That's where you definitely want to go and put any bounty points new ancestors that you found talk about more about that in a minute Or even just interesting things you found questions you have Now the third way that we collaborate is discord and this is the biggest one and I don't know how we would have done it without it You know, there's yeah, we have being a global side of course We have people from all over the world So, you know, there's always somebody up that wants to work on something and this is our live chat Where we can go in and ask for a translation We can ask somebody to look at a record and just get a second set of eyes on a stubborn brick wall that you think you've broken Sometimes we're just in there cheering people on We you know discord even if you're not participating this week stop it and see what everybody's saying. It's a lot of fun Okay, now here we are the ideas started with How about having a year of accuracy? So of course the team was looking at Different ways they could make that happen and was as with any big idea on wiki tree They took it out to the community and got community input. So how can we improve things? Let's work on outreach Can we do another monthly event? Most of all, let's make it fun Can we also challenge genealogists and you know, what does the community want in the whole? Now week one aj was very gracious AJ Jacobs and letting us work on his branches While we went over all the speed bumps and tried to smooth them out with a challenge And still we found 21 direct ancestors that were new to him. We found 17 new nuclear relatives, which are siblings children spouse bounty points 70 bounty points were earned now you get 10 points bounty points for every brand new ancestor And then you get One point each for any nuclear relative that you add And so 70 bounty points means we broke down seven brick walls And there were other direct ancestors added beyond those seven new ancestors But we count the first one on each line and then of course we had 381 profiles edited Now on our biggest week That was week 12 and now we're getting this down to a science. Let me tell you People have just been exceeding our expectations every week and had growing numbers of discoveries This slide shows you the biggest overall We've had some weeks that actually had more bounty points in this or more ancestors But down and we gave 258 direct ancestors 534 nuclear relatives 410 bounty points meaning we broke down 41 brick walls for him And then on top of that we had 1288 unique profiles edited in one week wiki tree is just they are It was And then this is our actually our quarterly stats. So once we hit that quarter mark We were like, okay, so are we doing what we are intending to do though? Are we improving our accuracy? Are we finding what we should be finding? And I think the stats say a definite yes We've had 13 yes stars up through that first quarter over 14 weeks With 198 different wiki tree is participating now We don't get 198 every week But every one of those has participated at least one week and some of them come back every week because they're having fun We broke down 247 brick walls. That's not direct ancestors. That's brick walls since we started 1113 direct ancestors created and 2810 nuclear relatives created. I just I can't believe the numbers It is it really is amazing. I mean when we started the challenge, we didn't really have any idea What to expect and it's like every week. I'm just blown away by what gets done And not even just I mean this is amazing, but then They go above and beyond Every week another way spaceway pages or photos that they find or stories that they have and it's I mean Every week. I'm just floored It's crazy And this is showing some of those cousin connections now You know, they say we're all cousins and in growing each one of the guest branches We're finding those cousin connections This is one of the great things about having one global tree We can see where those connections are after filling out those branches So now you can see where say Catherine Wilson who of course was a prior guest Is cousins with cc more thomas mckinty dallon quass. She's pretty much cousins with everybody They they have a common ancestor back there somewhere So it's been a lot of fun to make those discoveries for sure Now while we have some that wind up on those mbp most valuable player charts all the time top five We also have the quieter ones And you know making these connections takes each and every participant Some of them you really don't hear about much or at all But they're just as important when filling out the guest branches So we'd like to give a little shout out to a few of those That are always working behind the scenes but aren't worried about any kind of recognition and That would be and google it chris fariello dallis mourn donna bowman efan hout Elaine weatherall ellen smith hillary gasby k knight m cole marine fern nancy wilson paul gearzewski rosalie nev tommy buck The captains now we do thank the captains in general but let me tell you each one of these captains works hard during their week To keep their team on track and it's a lot of you know, it's a lot of plates They're they're tossing up in the air there and last but not least the team And you know this of course isn't everybody there's no way I could name them all But some of those quieter ones. I just wanted you know people to give a little hand to well and actually Last but not least would be mindy because mindy is the behind the scenes of the behind the scenes He has done an amazing job of um Just making sure everything that needs to happen early happens that the team captains are Prepared ahead of time and know what they're doing and wrapping everything up. So she's A superstar. Yes, and by the end of each week mindy knows so much about each guests family I I keep I've said this four or five times and I don't know how she keeps it straight in her head But she does and it's amazing And I just wanted to mention you did leave off one person's name from there mindy And I have to mention her because she helps me out a lot isabel Isabel rasonow is in france isabel is on there But you didn't say her isabel martin Yes I just say it out loud isabel you're on there. Well, she's in bed right now She's gonna watch it later isabel. I love you. You know that. Yeah, I just talked to her earlier She's a sweetheart. She helps me a lot. So that's great Okay, now this is just a few of those places that we have our participants at in england, japan, australia All over the united states the netherlands If there's a place that you at denmark if there's a place that you guys are and we don't have it on this chart Shout it out or let me know in discord and we'll get those countries added into there Yeah, that's pretty crazy Awesome. So, yeah, great job everybody that's been working We're quarter the way through the year a little over and we're super excited to see How it keeps going So We'll switch over now because we have our exciting guests with us. I'm excited to have her Um, it's conny knocks Um, she is the founder and host of genealogy tv on youtube Which provides genealogy and family history education and resources for beginner to advance genealogists since 2018 She has got over 40 years of genealogical research experience She also has extensive experience in all aspects of television broadcasting She can correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i was reading this morning that she has built up three TV stations from the ground up Wow Yeah, and then she also hosts a youtube channel that focuses on north carolina ancestry So we're excited to have her is there anything did i miss stuff is there anything you would add conny I believe that's plenty Well, we're excited to have you um, and we just have a few questions like what got you interested in genealogy I think uh two things I remember sitting down with my when I was a little girl. I was probably five or six years old and I sat down with my Great grandmother after her husband my great-grandfather passed away And we were looking through pictures And I was a little tiny thing at the time, but I remember looking at those old pictures being fascinated Then fast forward about I don't know. I was probably 14 or 15 And my grandmother from the same line Uh told me that her parents Uh full-blooded danish Um came to the united states and traveled across the country in a covered wagon boy. I was hooked I was hooked in so that's kind of what got me started. That's really cool. Yeah Yeah, that is now. Who is your favorite ancestor conny? Oh Well, you know, I have done a lot of work on the danish Once they came to the united states. Uh, so that's the madson and the henley line.  Um, I would say my favorite ancestor the Group of them were in laramie wyoming though And that was my Great-grandfather and his father So there's some hints Take notes people take notes Aless just said that we already have the first edits for conny's lines They're already going. They're that excited Um, so do you have any interesting stories to share that you found out about your family? Uh Okay, let me think about this. Um So the laramie group Worked on the railroads And so they were part of the early settlers in that whole area as the Transcontinental railroad went across the united states Um, they got there probably just 10 i'm going to say 10 years after that uh railroad Came through laramie So I just found that whole area because I did a lot of work in that area and also thanks to A wonderful woman that I met uh jackie I met her on facebook when I was trying to reach out To the genealogical society in laramie And jackie said well, we're not really, you know, it's kind of doing that right now But uh, let me help you out. She ran down to the courthouse for me. She did all kinds of great stuff So nice. Uh, yeah, so I was really fortunate to To help there The my mother was adopted. So the side her side is the booth and simon's side Um, I haven't done a ton of research I'm you know, they're in ohio and I was so focused on my father's side for so long trying to break down a brick wall there Which I did just this year after a great many years of researching So I can tell you that story real quick. Yeah This is kind of funny actually um, so my great Grant I need to pull up my tree just to remind me. Um, my great-grandfather Uh, was born out of wedlock and his mother The the family lore was that uh, she liked To have a lot of kids around but she didn't like men folks so much So she had a lot of kids in the in the uh late 1800s Uh, and I'm still working on whether they are all from the same line, but through y dna the eldest male There's really only two males on that side of the family one of them took a y dna test for me and I was able to discover that uh all four of the Responses from that y dna had the same Davis surname So there's an oh But so I did a lot of research and through that I was able to narrow down I talk about this a lot on the youtube channel Um, but I was able to narrow down which Of these four brothers Turned out to be his father Wow So that was that was a big that was a big deal because it took me a lot I mean that talk about fan club research would I had to do so much fan club research And I'm still doing it. I'm still mapping out land records and stuff in that area But if that was that was a huge one for me And so I've been so focused on that for the last two or three years that Wow What a great breakthrough. Yeah, it is it was and you know everybody's um Everybody else's trees in other places have it wrong I'll just tell you that much because I did prove it. I was able to prove I was able to prove the father um, and so it just It was a lot of process of elimination Using both why dna and and you know dna from ancestry. Wow the autosomal dna and so anyway No, that's awesome. That's great. I don't remember what the question was, but that's a great story Yeah, it was what was your favorite story favorite story Right now. That's the one because uh, I don't know. There's some good immigration stories, too, but And connie, when did you first find wiki tree? uh A year ago Honestly Yeah, um, I was not that that familiar with it. In fact, I'm still learning about it So this is kind of neat. This will be interesting We're all still learning about it There's there's always something new always something new to learn Well, I try to keep up on all of the different services because of the youtube channel You know, I get people asking me about family tree maker and they want to know about my heritage and they want to know about family search and so I'm trying to um, you know, I can't be an expert at everything, but I'm trying to Know a little bit about it all. Yeah, I'm glad you agreed to To join us for this. I'm glad you're having me. Thank you so much Yeah, we're excited Let's see. We had a couple more people show up charles platt from georgia Stephen you're in for a treat I hope so. We've had a lot of fun with all of our guest stars. It's been Just every week. I think it's just been really great. I'm getting a kick out of lannette's comment north carolina davis is get around a lot Oh Hey, tommy said he found wiki tree a year ago because of you There you go. So there you go. Great. We've come full circle I was probably talking about it somewhere along the way. That's awesome Olay wants to know how to get access to the spreadsheet mindy I'll send you the link awesome um, so You shared the story about the brick wall that you have Broken are there other brick walls that you have that you might want to tell us about that we can focus on I don't know if there's so much. Well, I guess in your terminology brick wall. Yes. Um They're not necessarily something i'm stuck on just haven't had time to research There's a lot that I haven't researched over the pond Um, so I have done a little bit of danish research. I have done zero research in england, which I know my henley line traces back to and One of my favorite Things to research by the way another hint is some of these folks are quakers And I love quaker research. It's a lot of fun And so I don't know if Uh, they're still quakers in england or not, but um, I think they probably are Yeah, we have a really good england project and a quakers project. So maybe they'll get together and see what they can Quaker records are awesome Yes, they are they really are true. Yes Oh, so lizzie said that matty's been working hard in england already So there you go. Tommy said that you connie mentioned wiki tree in your top 30 websites video Oh, that's right. Thanks. Oh, I guess. Thank you Wow So very cool Yeah, and I know we got to we got to learn a lot with our last challenge week about North carolina records so I'm not big on the vital records in some locations a lot of burned areas And the wills are awesome there though. I love their probate records. Oh my gosh. The wills here are really Um, most of them are at the state archives, but yeah, they've got a great Repository at the state archives and a great genealogy library there as well so, um Magnus wants to know what part of denmark and then if it's denmark denmark or the part that's in sweden today colding Viejo, I think it's cold. Um and copenhagen If that's another hint Another clue lots of clues guys Write them down Yes, I have found some of those guys in um some of the parish records online Cool And then um, you said it would be okay to use the pictures correct that you have on on your primary tree Absolutely any of them go for it because we like to look for the sources But we also like to bring the ancestors back to life So, you know, we want the pictures on there. We want to be able to put the story of the times they were living in Yes Yes, and I know anybody that's serious about genealogy and does anything with it. You never have time to work on your own tree So This is a gift to you That is so true because when I When I turned professional, I was doing nothing, but everybody else's research Then I launched the youtube channel and then I was doing, you know, seven days a week producing videos Um now I don't do seven days a week anymore. Thank god, but um, you know, it's Yeah, so what I did in the last since september October somewhere in there. I forced myself to take the weekends off so I could do my own research So that's good. I try my darkness not to work the weekends anymore You have to do that Well, you know, it's not that it wasn't bad. I love doing it. It's just that You know, sometimes the yard needs support There's laundry to do I think we all understand I'm gonna wash the car every, you know, at least once a year Um, so Nancy asked, um, your mother was adopted, but it's her birth parents that are on wiki tree I think I was I'm not sure I can check Okay, you check And then karen wanted to know if we can work on both families her biological parents are on Wiki tree. Yes. Okay. Oh, okay Okay Yes, would you like them to also work on the adoptive side? Um, no, I don't think so, but I can't there's an interesting story on that adopted side one of the um, one of the ancestors was in World war two during the bombing of pearl harbor and was on a ship. Oh, wow and survived it And here's a tip for anybody who's researching pearl harbor any not for me, but in general Uh, the university of texas did a huge study back in the 80s I think it was where they interviewed all the survivors of pearl harbor and it's at the university of texas Uh, all those transcripts. I have a copy of of my, uh, uncles my great uncle. Oh, wow transcript, but um, yeah What a cool thing to have. Yeah, that's on the adopted side. It's still cool Yeah, it is. There's always great stories, you know for sure Yep, yeah, I'm adopted and I anything on either side. I'm just thrilled to know so I I can uh, I can relate I I watched my mother go through All of that and meeting her biological family What she didn't get to meet her parents, um, but she met all of her brothers and everything. Oh, it's that's awesome. It's it's really, uh Challenging It's hot. It's a different experience for sure. Yeah. Yeah We found my grandmother's adopted Or biological mother. So my great grandmother after my mother passed away We didn't know anything about her until after my mother was gone and it's been fascinating to learn the story Well, that's one of my favorite things to do is help people understand how dna works So that they can help figure that out Um, I helped my cousin figure out who his father was he did not know and his mother took it to her grade And so I figured that out which was kind of cool. That's great. Uh, yeah, I mean, it's It's just one of my favorite things to do Yeah, definitely I was reading some of the comments here Yeah, there was one, um Stephen said his great uncle and his stepbrother made it through pearl harbor 2 Yeah, so you you never know you might find some of those transcripts at the university of texas. I'm pretty sure it's Texas university or university of texas. It's been a long time. I don't recall but So, um, what do you hope to see by participating in the challenge? Like what a week from now? Do you kind of hope hope for? Um, it would be fun to fuck It would be fun to figure out a little bit of that english Where in england some of this, uh, line came from it's The henley line That would be kind of cool Yeah, and I do have your notes on the henleys, uh, anna dunbar The booth line on the oh, yeah, there's a revelationary wharf soldier in there too and um Yeah, I would I know nothing about the davises that would be fun I because I literally just discovered them this year as far as so I know nothing really about them other than the generation or two in north carolina And we love finding the patriots. I do Yeah, I always I always push everybody. Don't forget to look for those military lines. So one of these days I need to join some of those societies. I've not I've not it's just not gotten around to doing it, but I could probably You know join a couple different ones. I know I've got a revolutionary wharf soldier. We've got us a wharf soldier Yeah, that would be that would be fun I'm trying to think if there was anything, you know, the danish the danish group. Um, it is Is fun and I really am not an expert at danish research, although I have kind of taught myself what the heading of some of those Because it's all written in danish um, and thankfully I have met a madson cousin through facebook who is a descendant from one of our ancestral couples and he is Uh danish he lives in denmark and so he would translate stuff for me. Yeah, that was you know Always always great to meet a cousin across the world. Definitely. Yes Yeah So i'm always interested in everything so Well, you never know what'll turn up we always seem to come up with something interesting for each guest and We've had some of our participants draw sketches of churches that were relevant to their family And then they've put together information about places. They worked or lived and it's just been really cool Very good. My daughter's gonna love this What part of the world does connie call home now? That's karen's question north carolina North carolina i'm from california moved to north carolina 25 years ago And then you still do the youtube channel for the north carolina ancestry I do but i'm not as active there because i'm You know came to realize really quickly that there was a lot more interest in general research tips and techniques and so I I basically promise i'll have an episode and try to Every week on genealogy tv and then as i come across stuff i'll either add it to the I have a website called I don't know where that sounds. It's julie's dog. Go on. Oh um I have a website called nc ancestry.com which is Really selfish because every time I find something I put it up there and I've got Between me and my husband's side of the family 50 counties in the state and there's 100 counties in the state Represented by somebody in our family tree And so I started putting stuff up there maps and stuff that I knew would be of general interest On that website and so I probably put more on the website than I do on the youtube channel But I every time I do an episode and I've got probably two or three of them An episode for genealogy tv where we're talking about north carolina records or north carolina something And a couple of my guests that I have on a regular basis diane richard for one Is in north carolina does a lot of research And so we always end up talking about north carolina records, so You know several weeks later. I'll put it on the uh nc ancestry youtube channel as well Very cool. But yeah, I haven't really produced anything specific for that For a little while in a while. Yeah, I would like to get back to it. I need I need to hire some more assistants So Well, I have one question I'm going to ask the two of you and then people in the chat if you want to answer in the chat That would be cool to I'm going to start with Mindy. I'm going to put pressure on So we're a quarter of the way through the challenge and I would like to know what is your favorite part of it so far the collaboration just seeing people naturally fall into little groups or You know not afraid to ask for help ask questions. It just really it's a lot of fun Julie Mindy stole my answer Probably everyone's answer I know I love how our community has come together. They they're just so awesome about helping each other And uh, it's just it's a lot of fun. We have a lot of social time on discord because it's live And anybody can come pop in there and ask a question even if they feel like it's a dumb question Of course, there are no dumb questions. So ask them anyway because if you get an answer then it's going to help somebody else So, yeah, it's our it's always the community for me at wiki tree. I love our community And we all learn from each other You know, there's every time you think you have got it down and you feel really comfortable. You're like, oh cool I didn't know I could do that. Wait, show me. Where's that link? I got a bookmark that real right Yeah, and some of us have been here for I mean wiki tree started what 11 years ago 12 years ago 13 I'm getting old because time goes by too fast So, you know, some of us have been here a decade with wiki tree and it's just Amazes me that you can always find somebody else that knows more than you do There's always something Mm-hmm. So Nancy says her favorite part is the live chat and seeing the guest's reaction to what we find I do love that. It's been really awesome and then karen Where'd you go karen says She loves the way we are sad to stop at the end of the week and sometimes we don't There are probably people still going for some of the early guest stars. Yes Yes, definitely Benjamin said it has been great getting to know all of these experienced genealogy experts. Most of whom I hadn't heard of before He's in australia by the way in australia And louise said meeting wiki tree is all over the world and seeing the amazing work they do I would agree with all those like you guys are having a blast. Oh my gosh, definitely it's just been so fun and it's It's been great to connect with others in the genealogy community But just it's like she was saying you know to be able to see the guest reaction has been really cool Like just to be able to find something to reveal is cool Yeah, we I think we've surprised every single one of them with at least something including dr. Gates dr. Gates Yep, we're even able to surprise him. Yeah And I know I was telling one of the guests You know, she was asking how we felt about it and I said, you know the thing about this is it's almost like a holiday You know to in my family and then a lot of families you have christmas the joy isn't giving to somebody Um, you know, you have easter dinner You're giving to your family. Thanks giving you're you're presenting them with this meal and getting everybody together You're giving something I said if you stop and think about it We get to give this gift to somebody every week almost for the entire year So, you know, yeah, we're working hard, but how great is that for us? You know rewarding That's a great analogy. Yeah How cool Chris says it's been great working with everyone researching and having a great time making friends For sure. Well, you know, it's a great project during the pandemic too. Oh my gosh. I can't wait to get back to some conferences Oh, yeah, it's so weird. It's so weird to not have them this last year I want the courthouses to open I want them to let me back into research Some of them are opening here locally Yeah, I'd love to go to the library Some of them, I know Randall county, north carolina has opened on appointment only but Because I was talking to them about making the drive They said get your ducks in order before you come because it's my appointment only Yeah crazy Benjamin said Huh, go ahead. I was just saying that there was only one of ours There's only one of ours and it's um it was one of the larger ones where the archives are the historical society and For covet precautions, they can only have so many people in there But it's interesting too because you are walked to a specific table that is isolated I'm everything has been sanitized before you sit down You can't touch anything Else you can't like go put a book away on their cart like you usually would in the library You can't do it. It has to stay on the table so that they can isolate it before the next person picks it up Um, some of the items aren't available because they're still in isolation because somebody else looked at it It was just really bizarre. That's be so strange Uh, connie w mr. Vincent asked what is your mt dna haplo group? I was just looking that up Uh t2 c1 d1 Got it w mr I think that's bill vinson d1. Oh, hey hi bill Bill is a long time wiki tree or he's been around a long time. He's great Probably would have figured that out eventually I hope he got that because I'm not sure how to put that in the chat If you want to tell me it T is he tom You got it anyone? Yeah, I got it So it's t2 c1 d1 There you go Yeah, yeah I don't know if the capital t and the smaller c and d make any difference or not, but I'm not an expert at haplo groups. I don't think they do but I could definitely be wrong Yeah, yeah, I think Cool interesting that he knows that I had He took a he just took it pretty he took a lucky guess that maybe you would have yes Yeah, yep. Yep. Yep. Yep Yes, Benjamin. I didn't go to the clean-a-thon, but we should tell connie and the others about it Oh, yeah, so last you might wonder why we don't have another guest this week and it's because last week every Quarter we do a big community event Um, it started with a source-a-thon where we spent 72 hours adding sources to profiles And so we had one this last weekend. It's our spring clean-a-thon And a lesh who's our data guy He generates suggestions and it's just things on profiles that can be looked at and fixed like typos or if the father's too old for a birth or things like that So for the 72 hours we've spent trying to clean up those suggestions and fixing up profiles So last year we did 158 thousand in 72 hours and this year we did 233 thousand It was crazy. It was crazy. It's so much fun We had over 600 people contribute at least one correction, but we had One person who did almost she did what? Yeah, almost 7 000 herself. She was correcting location names. We're trying to Standardize all of the location names so that our search engine works better And uh, we had I don't know. What did you say anyone how many people did over a thousand? Oh, I know every team did over a thousand. I don't know how many people Yeah, it seemed like there were 40 or 50 or something like that that that cleaned up At least a thousand Suggestions it's pretty awesome well I was looking at this just in case you're wondering why everyone looks tired Yes, we were on we we do video updates every four hours with our crew Oh my gosh. Yeah, it's a lot of fun though. It gets a little silly We're pretty slap-poppy by the end of the 72 hours Like non-stop nobody sleeps So we get a couple hours in there. Yeah, I know one of them pretty hard I know one of my um, my wonderful team member Cheryl has she was up until 3 a.m. Sunday Because it stops monday at 8 a.m To make sure that we stayed in fifth place Oh, wow That's hilarious. Yeah, we have different teams that work together Um, some of them are based on location Some of them are just, you know, whatever you want to work on or wherever you want to work It's just a bunch of people and you really get to know each other Through that interaction. It's a lot of fun Very cool. Hey june. I see you there you rock She knows what i'm talking about She helped me out a while back. Oh, that's great. Yeah, that's awesome. Yep I was doing a little market research and she helped me out Very cool. She comes and joins us every like almost every live video that we do should we always see june here Very cool. Very cool. You got quite a crowd here Yep They're fun Mindy, do you have any more questions for the week for connie before we go? Nope. I think we're ready to go Ready to go. Well, thank you connie for being our guest star. We're very excited. We're happy you could be here Hey, nobody's more excited than me I don't know. They're pretty excited. Um Mindy julie. Thanks you guys too for being here. Thank you everybody who is watching us in the chat and commenting These wouldn't be anywhere near as much fun without you guys Thanks to everyone who's already editing things It's going to be a great week julie is holding up her finger. I don't know what that means Please like the videos on youtube and facebook. It helps us and we're free. So we have to support ourselves somehow So please like the videos and if you want to keep up to date with us subscribe to the channels You can get all the fun like friday night when julie and i do friday date night this week Yes, we will be doing friday date night Doesn't it's not what it sounds like It's uh, we just spend a couple hours trying to add dates to profiles that don't have them Okay, so just another accuracy thing So Well, thank you. We're out of here Hi everybody, thanks for coming