Good morning or afternoon or evening for wherever everybody is You have Charles here from Walla Walla We're I'm trying to do we have Thomas from Seattle It's like everybody out just to let everybody know Thomas's photo that we looked at last week was chosen as photo of the week the Halloween Party I saw that So seeds show share your photos and you might get chosen as photo the week and Be on the home page and social media We have Lynette K. Oh Mindy. She popped in and said hello on the We have Tommy and Chris and Betsy from Chicago and my mom Prisler hi Lewis Stearns but cah and that's it so far. How's everybody doing? You guys see my if you were here Wednesday, but look I got a tap got tapestry We've always talked about tapestry and I have tapestry now. She's one of my family tree, but you know still does a job I didn't explicitly say you wanted a tapestry with your family tree. I just said you wanted a wiki tree tapestry I did want a wiki tree tapestry. Just look at now. It's my back. Now. You've got a wonderful backdrop I know so orange and wiki tree like that. You can't even and you can just barely tell you're in prison because of the prison bars on the window Yeah, I'm broadcasting live from prison Yes, they're my it's my support animal in prison Mags don't start we have me oh they say that right me over and me from Germany Karen is here and she needs coffee We have Donald from Southwest Pennsylvania have family of Pennsylvania Donald is it Southwest? No, I don't think it's south my my geography my brain's not working And yes cat therapy is helpful for prisoners makes And I'm not in prison guys. Just kidding. Okay. If anybody pops in and thinks that I'm not Yeah, I just thinks this looks like a prison bar. Is it my Use on the prison windows That's my family tree that I got it roots tech last year I feel it's not fully filled in yet, but it's a it's a task Maybe that'll get done. Okay. Wait wait. So is there really a drawing in the window or is that just lines? It's my family tree Oh, I'll show you guys hold on hold on this cat is giving me issues. Okay, so Oh, yeah, I thought it was a window of wine. Oh, it's just my what did you do to your cat? I don't know. She just wants to be attached to me right now He's saying you're in he loves you she does We have Sharon from Alabama my mom is saying where we're from from Pennsylvania. Oh Lee and Charlotte Shardlesville and we have Billy Keep keep a burr. I said that really wrong keep a burr. Keep a burr. I'm just gonna stop My mom's like throw her out. No, she she's just she's just part of everything She has become one with her woman. Yep, she was such a great sense of humor Hello from the Netherlands Hi joke It could is that is that your name or is it a joke? Sarah I don't know It could be sometimes you sometimes people have That's why I'm asking. Oh, hi Lynette All right, he favor. Thank you Billy key favor Billy key favor I was close He favor and I love how people phonetically spell their their their names for us Well, how how is it? It's my name but cannot pronounce differently. Is it a yoke or a yoke? You're yawking or if you press E yokey. Yeah, like jockey Yeah, come to the wiki tree live cast where you hear mags and sarah trying to pronounce the names of their guests Men men D D Hey melissa from texas Karen's making a joke I think Okay, so while we wait for More people to arrive.  Yeah So yoke. Okay. Okay. Me welcome from Sweden Was it another one's you're probably my cousin just say look at me. I look yeah um We I have to say this every now and then if you're coming into the live casting You've never been here before There's a time delay between the time that we're actually talking and the people in the chat feed actually Hear what we say So we spend some time trying to let everybody catch up and get into the Chat before we start going on and and doing on our thing. So We're kind of laid but saturday mornings are laid back and easy Unlike me is the only business end of the saturday morning. She keeps in line on saturdays and then The yo and yoke is like my mom's name. Yeah, huh? Yes. Yes Yeah, I know we called yohana joe So like yo, joe. Yo, joe. Hey joe Joey joseph Hey joey Really, why do you want a wiki tree break? Why do you want a wiki tree break? There's no such thing I disagree. I've had a wiki tree break in my time with wiki tree Sometimes I get so busy with regular work that I can't work on wiki tree sometimes Which is heartbreaking because it really is It's like if I really have a bad week All I do is wiki tree all weekend and it just makes everything better Erases all the bad stuff But I don't have a lot of bad weeks I'm excited Oh melissa, we're building up your hopes for Great things. Yes Yeah, like we said saturday is pretty laid back. So I guess what's dive in we'll start with our Questions of the week, which is I think a good question of the week Billy Billy Billy had pacemaker defibrillator surgery. That's why she had a wiki tree break. Oh my goodness We're so happy that you got that. We're so happy that you're you're okay Yeah Oh, and no, we're not allowed to break wiki tree lewis. We would never break wiki tree Question of the week Question of the week. There is a question of the week, but there is appears to be an issue With g to g this morning. We don't know what the issue is Uh, let me get myself. Maybe it's solved itself out. I was having I wasn't sure if it was my internet or wiki tree earlier Um, but I restarted my I read reset it and it's still not so I mean I can read do it again and see No, it's still the same. So it's it's I'm showing up on a couple of pages in So there's probably there's 19 answers. So there's at least two pages And I can only see one of the pages so Um, I love this one georgia kief the best female american artist and my second cousin. That's from gene roach I'm a huge georgia oki fan. Um Well me too. I had a brush with fame with her Which was which was fun Uh, but there's a ton of great answers tons of great answers even if they're only on the second page You know, it doesn't matter where at which page they end up on but we'll go through these Uh, this was uh, my great grand aunt Elizabeth loveless picket graduated from a women's medical college in 1895, which is unheard of for women Um, if you ever want to know about the the medical history of stuff that it's women were not medical people Uh, so she uh became head of the women's department of the philadelphia general hospital Uh, her husband was elected to the president as president of the neurological society So they were really big and so she had a big civic um leadership Identity in the philadelphia area and uh, so that's really cool Um deeter laurence. I love this one. Um, one of the most outstanding women among my ancestors is undoubtedly Engel peggen named muhler She married hyde hyde hyder categan a farmer in 2017 13 leats and sega bird county schleiswig holstein And when he died she did not marry again, which was absolutely the custom and if you didn't And so he says that um, she brought so-called set Onto the farm so sets the bird is um being uh pompous being up in it and You know being uh, uh, I forgot what the exact word is but it means that she was just like I'm not getting married again. So She stayed unmarried and Ran the farm alone until her son was old enough to take over the farm, which is a huge thing in 1713 germany My great nana. I just just want to say that from tea doubting my great nana I just love that my great nana melms Uh was amazing. She lived to 106 always smiling optimistic happy never gave up on our hobbies no matter how frail very inspirational she Knitted and She did this until she lost the sensation in her fingers and kept on going which is incredible um, one of my great Grandmothers different side it worth uh Itwara was also groundbreaking. She was a daughter of the king of uganda A nurse and I'm told she was so hard working that she apparently could have ran an entire Ugandan uh national health system nhs. I'm not sure what that is On her on her as she wanted to so that's really cool. I love that America's first published female poet and Dudley is the Uh, whatever 11th great grandmother of karen stewart Francis bob at butler was a lifetime founding member of the fire auxiliary of throop new york Can you imagine? She was a very stern woman and only the only great grandparent I have memories of and that's robert ward. How about that?  That's crazy crazy great Uh, the main two that this person can think of richard shelly is New Zealand suffer jets there are lots of comments about suffer jets throughout this So a lot of people had suffer jet great grandmothers or grandmothers that they're really proud of um Cousins fairly recent find uh, she was a charter pilot for an ambulance company in the 40s and her name is uh I have found her of mother Day. Oh cool. That's pretty cool. Billy kief ever says that she's got the founder of mother's day in her family tree That's really cool and a jarvis. I yep She like no link. Yeah um let's see On the women who first dared to quit their in Endomatic tribes of inner britney regions of france and sell over the ocean to meet their fiancés uh, susan gaird heart and Catherine fulamac A leave in britney from normandy might look like nothing today But one century ago it was kind of a breakthrough and yeah, if there were women leaving europe to go to the us or even the I think that the western brides is is a huge story too because those women took off for the west without knowing who they were going to marry Can you imagine the strength and stamina and? Ethic of those women Uh, I in my research. I've found lucy stone lydia teft and alice blackwell also princess diana. That's from lisa strom Uh, that last one about the ladies leaving britney was from bernard factent Um, this is a interesting one. So my fifth grade grand aunt Uh, ludicia dicey langston was a ground breaker for women She was a true inspiration for men and one of many reasons. I joined the army During the american revolution dicey stood before her father my sixth great grandfather solomon langston When he was threatened to be killed he will have to kill me first. She shouted They did not shoot him ironically that same shoulder soldier. Thomas springfield came back after the war and asked for dicey's hand in marriage this is from alice thomason who has lauren's south carolina roots because supposedly i am also connected to dicey langston I have no idea why i just one of the people that i worked with Um years ago told me that i was related to dicey langston because i have a lot of lauren's county Uh connections as well. So does uh, kath derell oakley teat if anybody knows derell Um, i'm not sure if kathryn borges does but um mags frank yetzik said that The question with the sitz wurt. He could elaborate what a sitz wurt. Yes, please do Please tell us frank and frank was the one who was once frank. He said he switched his account He was the meo van me that i said was Once he said like it clicked in my brain So we'll wait for frank to write out what uh To elaborate what that is for us and then we'll share it It's being i forgot exactly what it is, but i i know what it is, but i obviously don't know right the second Karen steward says and dodley Let's see You on down So i thought that was funny that somebody brought up dicey langston and then somebody wrote a bunch of um of uh Welsh which i am not going to try and pronounce And the best was blessed i am her Wine and mead a fine lady Nightly line most generous by nature her children can't come in two by two A beautiful nest of chieftains how sweet is that and that is Margaret hanner a k a married fair david His 19th great grandmother diana Pritcher or hers how cool is that? um Wiki tree huggers in the future i consider all the women in my grand in my tree groundbreak breakers I have alternative challenge for wiki tree huggers in the future Unless your paternal line involves slavery or imprisonment you have pretty good shot at knowing the last name of your sixth great grandfather on the paternal side And even further back in time, let's say that you have succeeded in tracing your paternal line back 10 generations.  That's how quickly we throw away the identities of women Um, I absolutely know mine All the way back to I can pull it up. Yeah, you don't want to see that you don't want to see that Um Elevator music And here we go. Elevator music goes this is a picture of me my mother my grandmother Her mother her mother and then I actually have it two more ladies on down, but I don't have photographs of them This is for wilburne And I have her travel trunk upstairs in my living room that has quilts and stuff that were put together by family That's really cool mags. Yeah, I I have Like my maternal line followed up to my fifth great grandmother Yeah, that's as far as I've gone out maternal maternal maternal I've gone back to seven to the 1790s in raven county, georgia. Um, I don't know I I have dna that matches her in raven county georgia georgia, but I haven't really taken the time to do it, but In september, I have a presentation that I'm doing on that. I think that's the one Wait, I'm doing a presentation on this somewhere. Oh It's coming up next month. So I got to get to work on it So I can do research and and count it as work. So that's fun. So there were lots of great questions answers There were lots of suffragettes. Um, there were uh, Julia stinson here from trisa langford. This woman was superintendent of the navy nurse corps First woman to attain the rank of major and there are all sorts of other things. That's just crazy cool I have one that was listed for me um, that was for let's Go down here to my surnames Oh, see I can never find what I'm looking for All right here mine is for when my grandmother's graduating There we go dad First cousin so my dad's cousin who is uh Over here. I gotta find her daddy daniel harley Mary ester galdin was a radio radio radiation geneticist For the manhattan project. So she worked on the nuclear bomb testing at oak ridge tennessee After she did that she went on Become a professor at the university texas university of texas southwestern medical center And made lots of discoveries and has lots of published materials Around her specialty So she is notable in her field and she's also one of the founding members The national organization for women now. So that's pretty cool So I had to show that off even though it wouldn't let me show it on the list So that's the question of the week. Did we ever find out what Seth's birth was? I didn't see frank Maybe frank disappeared. I didn't see him um But I wanted to share because we were briefly talking about her Georgia oki's profile on wiki tree, which is beautiful as such as her is her herself and her artwork So I just wanted to show that um her wiki tree profile um It was very well done Oh, we need to add some more sources I guess but It's a beautiful profile She taught at the university that I went to in 1919 And then in in the 1980s she came back to do a sabbatical At the university and um, I was working in the dark room and was having lunch with the This group of people in the art department every day for day for weeks for a couple weeks for weeks and um One of the ladies and I had no idea who she was was georgia oki Frank says he's still writing his answer, but he has to translate it first Okay, we'll wait no pressure frank. We just wanted to Curious as if we're there. Okay. So we will go on to Our other our other topics of the day So our profiles of the week this week were communications innovators and We chose this because this past week. I believe it was Wednesday when we usually Post our profiles was the anniversary of the day. The first telephone call was made So I don't know it doesn't say what year it was. I don't know what's looked that up, but that's why we chose These people so our main one was alexander graham bell. I've got it Who what year was it gumption? No the the definition of set sports. It's So alexander graham bell was born in scotland and he was Credited with inventing the first practical telephone He's all he died in canada. So he was born scotland passed away in canada And Yeah, and the telephone we all we all know the look. He's part of he and he has a we have a little sticker for his scottish clan clan bell Where's pip when we need him? Where has been pip has been pip? has been pip And the next one on our list is steve jobs Steve jobs as probably everybody knows is the creator of apple Until he passed away in 2011 Um, it's kind of interesting. I mean There was has been a movie about him and some documentaries, you know, he didn't He didn't finish university and he started his apple thing in his garage With a few other people so it's It's kind of interesting and he also had um Wait, hold on. Yeah, so apple that's what he And everybody knows apple That's pretty cool at steve jobs and Who's everybody most closely connected to while we are? Going When people are so the next one on our list is Hady Lamar Well, she married a lot Hedy Lamar Hedy Lamar or Hedwig Eva Maria Keisler she married looks like six times Very She was born in austria She died in florida That's where I am um, she's credited with the secret communication system in uh, 1942 which is still used today and Integrated into many of the devices used today and it's the basis for all of our wireless technology It absolutely is and that is a huge huge contribution to the world talk about A powerhouse and she one of the persons she married fritz Fritz man mandal. He was a tycoon one of the top five wealthiest men in austria So probably you know sometimes she probably married this wealthy man and it kind of kicked her off to um Oh, who are you waving at? Oh, I just saw Hillary. Oh, Hillary. Hi, Hillary. I can't see the Comments so so yeah Yeah Hedy you said Hedy Lamar as I say that right? That's correct So the next one on our list is samuel morris. That's the one i'm closest to Yeah I had looked it up, but I forgot already so samuel morris born in boston Uh, he was the inventor of morris code Beep beep beep And the single wire telegraph Um, they're an early version of the electronic age of telephones radio television sets and computers and we still use morse code today Pretty much, you know, it's still fairly common Do you guys do any of you know the morse code alphabet? You know how to do morse code? I know how to do sos That's the important one You need to know any of it. It is The sos i'm getting ready to send out an sos right now. Bye. You're dying because of the We need rest Okay, the next one Is guglielmo marconi italian He was The born in rome no just died in rome. Sorry And he's his contributions to the wireless telegraphy would hurt him the 1909 noble peace prize in physics Very cool And which he shared which he shared with carl brawn And let's see what else he was the head of the physics institute and the university of stress burg um and yeah Very cool Here mo marconi italian probably chris has something to say about that Being quiet he is yes, he is Maybe he was very i think he's at doing his morning cannoli uh Next on our list is lars erickson Born in sweden died in sweden um In 1877 he began experimenting with construction constructing telephone and switches His research which began in his kitchen soon became a whole factory complex in sweden And then got some whatever this stuff is in the background probably his Connection-y things that he did the switches and telephony stuff. What was that? Is there a connect Billy kifferberg says she has only have inventor of camera parts here I just wanted to show this part here. So He according to some sources lars erickson constructed a telephone at the age of 17 having read about an invention by the german Johan filibri's erickson's version uses a pigs bladder as a membrane He used pigs bladder as a membrane Perfect I'm reading a book right now called the code breaker and if anybody's interested. It's hot off the presses It's about the woman who got the Nobel prize for crisper, but in it the very beginning of the book They talk about how inventors often are so competitive and about how alexander grand bell Had submitted his patent But every there were other people who were submitting patents for the same Design or close designs at the same time. So it's very very competitive these these inventors. Yeah So we have next is Claude shop. Did I say that last name right? Sounds like it It's from france he Probably chape He was the french inventor of the first practical telecommunications system in the industrial age Making him the first telecom mogul with his mechanical internet And he's a twin Look at that. Look at the sticker of a twin and was the twin a horrible Not not Achiever, I don't know. Let's see. Which one was his twin? Was twin was oh, is this the twin it was Oh, it has a born a day after him. Maybe it was like Interesting. I wonder Uh-oh Spaghetti-os Oh here. So there's something here in french which says something about the 25th and the 26th It looks like baptism. Maybe they have the baptism day for her That's what i'm thinking If anyone can read french Um, I think that's kind of what it says. It was born that but the baptism was on that day Well, I know in portugal Um, sometimes when you have the twins like that that are baptized at different times It's because one of them was born really sickly And so they would do an emergency baptism on them and the other child was healthier And they would wait and do a baptism in the church It's interesting So yeah, so Whoever wants to go and fix, um The twins Next on our list is Rear admiral home rigs pop hem He was one of 15 children in gibralt Born one of 15 He doesn't have all his siblings there, but He Oh, I see he died in england He was considered one of the most scientific seamen of his era and was author of the code Using signal flags in 1803 and he's for many years and he was appointed rear admiral in 1814 He was a commander of cheap the cape of good hope station The chape, his sister was born a day later So he was born on december 25th, and she was born on the 26th That was my first thought like that maybe that he was born like he was Maybe born at like 11 p.m. Or something and she In an hour or two later So I just was looking at because I went to his profile. So And that's how it says about them is that they were born a day apart So this is our We have one left Who is john logie? Bard Baird baird Yeah, I already yet baird So he was born scotland. He died in england and he was a british scientist of scottish Nationally, he was an engineer and innovator and the inventor of the world's first television, thank you Thank you You should thank this man For the television. Thank you. Thank you for all the binging we've been able to do Without without a lot of these people Our quarantining right now would be very different We've talked about um headie lamar if it wasn't for her, we wouldn't be streaming And if it weren't for him, we wouldn't be seeing it Yeah, no for warrant for some of the other people with a telephone. We wouldn't you know Yeah, it's still being morse code Or we wouldn't have the morse code either because you know all of these people are very central to the modern day and age So Very cool. So chris has been talking in the chat now non-stop. Yeah once once once we said he was That we have Just tesla but not having him as one of the spotlights That we should have had tesla I'm sorry so Not tesla the car, but tesla the man nicola. Yes nicola tesla also a very central man to the modern day and age but These are our nine And I don't remember who I was close connected to and I think it was through my mom's side I think I discovered that hold on. Let's let's go see real quick. Let's go see. I'm gonna see Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go on an adventure. Okay with inappropriate stuff on it Uh, okay. I was close. Samuel morse. Look at that morse code guy and look through my mom. See Look see morse. So you should have known it was morse if many and I were morse Yeah, I just I wasn't a hundred percent sure. I didn't remember 17 degrees from samuel morse through the cleaver side Like then you're married man and beaver cleaver The what cleaver? beaver cleaver Cleaver cleaver. I don't even know who that is No, sorry. You don't know who beaver cleaver is I don't think so See my mom was so excited My side billy Okay, now on to the next The next topic The photos of the week and this week It's women kind of because on the 8th was uh international women's day and this month is women's month So that's why you've been talking a lot about women Women rule women rock So let's look at all these photos So Doris lensley, that's a nice photo That's a really pretty photo. Look at the tree in the background That's me. What tree are you? There's a tree in the background A church or building in a church or something You don't see that in the background of that picture No, I see a shadow Yes Hey joe, we need to get uh sarah's some new glasses. I just got these new glasses. Uh, oh I see some shadows that maybe can be made out of that, but I'm not I'm not convinced This is interesting The sleeves are tied together How did you put on your shirt like that? Why is nobody so one person wait What's the point? Does anybody have any insight? As to why this happened. What is the Please somebody look it up and then tell me Oh, look and then also I wanted to Frank Frank Frank said something about Ada Lovelace the first computer programmer in history Chris Ferriero has answered your question about how do they get it on? He said they zip in the back Yeah, but then they kind of yeah, and then Jonathan says photoshop. I know That's that's a Weird picture and they look a little mischievous those two too And mom doesn't look very happy, but the other lady in front is seems okay Maybe maybe the g2g post there's some insight Hmm Alexis She's always posting photos. Alexis. Please tell us why she's gonna answer you Alexis behind you. Oh, isn't that a beautiful picture? Look at her hat That is gorgeous and the is it pearls? I'm is there a person in the window again It's a pipe in the window. Yeah pipe Good work on that zoom Thanks. I'm pro. Yeah But we look at this one Look at her hat. She left some flowers and a feather And look at the shirt and the jacket the veil It's not her. Where is she? Carbondale, Kansas. Kansas. We're not in Kansas anymore That hat is awesome. It's it's great. Did you think that she looked like she's in mourning? Hmm Edda as a baby Look she has like look at her hair. I was like kind of like they tied it kind of in a bow Kind of looks like that Interesting Look at look at all these interesting hats. I'm loving this loving it You sound like a McDonald's commercial They're riding on that one. Oh, no, that's a column behind her Are you are you seeing more things on images? I just get the column in that one I thought there was writing and then I realized it was the scripting on the column Look they're having a potty And a little get together That's a what there's it are they having a tea? I don't know. It looks like they're having they're drinking from like wine My thing is water. I'm not sure the lady in front looks like she has milk That is a picture that my grandmother would have fit right into Isn't that a great picture? I'd say the 1880s. You notice the the picture of the girls with the tied um Thing the woman that I thought that was the mother on the on the front right Had like stuff on her shirt kind of similar to what this lady has Hmm Rebecca gambrale new bar late in life She's still in mourning She has a black fan Martha Jane earls and second husband overton dentin and the little and their little baby And then the little baby favorite is daddy You can tell that Those kind of got squinty eyes. Well, we got a lot of images got 26 of them Wow Dorothy we're not Kansas anymore Or Sorry, I'm allergic. Hi, Greg. Yeah, you're late, Greg late I'm not even watching the comments We got I wanted to read the names out. We got euphemia agnes jane isabel the wilk sisters and child laurel bell read Oh, wow And they're at a funeral You don't know Oh, look. Oh, who is this person? I don't I don't know Maybe it's my grandmother. Uh, give us get blow that one up there My grandmother. Oh my goodness you favor Yeah, that's why mama always says I love that This was in their house in Guatemala Greg Clark says it Vacuuming is more important than coming to hanging out with us I vacuumed before Julie is snapping that whip Oh, wow, look at this one That is a great picture and there's writing on the bottom that is really I like that Betsy coe That's great The little boys if only there was a dog, sarah would be making it through the tapestry I like this one. He's a little fence and look at their hats Now you're gonna try to pronounce their names Yoke she uploaded this one If she's still here or he I'm I'm sorry I'm not It's a it's a That's a great picture. I like that. Yes. Maybe that's the reason why they're here because I think they uploaded the photo and they knew we were gonna Look at this. Look at oh my god. Look at her braids. I am jealous To pronounce the camp Squaff I'm not I'm gonna try but I like that. I like her braids I envy her have fun She okay, Yoke is a she thank that's a great picture Yoke I liked it. Thank you for sharing Squabby camp squabby girls night out It looks like if they're having way too much fun in pennsylvania 1910 Look this is Easter in 1949 They got some braids going on too They do And some knee-high socks Yeah I'm I love knee-high socks Myself Listen, I love this one too. We got some great photos this week. I think we do Look at that. I can see the the I can see the tree here. I see a tree. Yeah And a column. Yeah, then a table and the curtain. What is on the table?  It's but it's an outdoorsy scene So, you know, I put wood on my table like I think it's a vase Because it's a vase on the other side Maybe it's a vase. Maybe it's a Look, he has look zoom in. Look they have glass. She has glasses I like your zoom. I know Thank you That's so fun The zooming in and really getting into the details of the photo can really Analyze every photo This one's a little blurry, but we got emma and george Georgie, neanna how? And her adopted daughter jennaby of sorrel how how which is um jennaby's mom Very cool. Very cool Got one more page so many photos Oh, I like this one Gordius 1918 She's just with she's in like pants and a sugar red next to the car 1918 Look look look there's a they're having there's a circus going on soon She what's she got is she holding onto a strap from the yeah, that's what it looks like She's holding on to like the car strap Well women often wore pants when they were out driving in the early days because the skirts Bugs or whatever the skirts would blow up from the wind. So wearing pants was there they would call it their driving clothes Mm. This was in south dakota Very cool, we got anna maria tim timson Then Oh, look sarah rice and charlie chews home. Oh, that's cool. You know who she really chews them is Mm-hmm. We can look at her profile She it was a important woman. Mm-hmm That's pretty cool. Okay. Let's go back got sidetracked. Okay And then that might have been oh no Go ahead and saying somebody put a forward of painting is that Dicey Langston saving her it is yep Yeah, margaret purtle Cooksley and daughters Look at that old house In indiana Indiana Yeah, so it says and then we got marianne drink all This is the last one That's cool. This greg mark while we've been chatting came in late um He was talking about my heritage new My heritage is new animation of old photographs You wanted to know what people thought of them. So he's asked that And I agree with caro lo. I think it's creepy I would not want to see my grandparents animated I wouldn't want to see anybody close to me animated in in their death picture Or their picture after they've died But even the old ones I saw one where a woman had a lazy eye and the animation had the odds going different directions That was like No, I don't think they're creepy Yeah, so yeah, I probably some people enjoyed looking at their um Kind of seeing them some people get got emotional. I saw and with other times, you know Guess it depends. No, no, no, no, no Yeah So those are all the photos of the week. Um, I guess what just kind of touch base on The wiki tree challenge really quick and Mindy who's our wiki tree? Challenge coordinator Guru She's who are we even working on this week? I don't I mean, I know but We're we're working with dear myrtle Mert yeah, if you guys missed out watch Wednesday. It was a really good live cast on Wednesday It was and it's been a little bit slow picking up but Her tree I I'm hoping to see more u.s. People come in because she has a lot of early united states Pre-revolutionary so I think it's slower working back because just because she has so many of her relatives already filled in But you know, and then there's other scatterings of of germany, but a lot of england a lot of early united states And then a token line one switzerland one france one ireland way out there I I have to say that that you are doing this week and you can tell pat that I have called her this Pat is the most elegant Wonderful person in genealogy. I would call her the grand and dam The grand dame of of genealogy. She is just She's like the hostess of all hostesses. She is the most giving and wonderful person Period. Okay. So tell her I called her the grand and dame of genealogy She is it So I also wanted Um, unless there was anything Mindy wanted to say about it. I wanted to show Some new features that maybe you've noticed Maybe you haven't noticed on week tree that got released recently like it for example on this If you see we have this new answer this post button sharing your screen.  There you go Much more obvious So it's easier to because sometimes people accidentally hit comment, but now it's really obvious to answer the post So I just want to share and there's one other one, which I think a lot of people are really excited about The feeds Yeah, the new activity feeds. Yes I know i'm excited. You can get to them. There's a few ways you can get to them So contributions feed And then you have you can see your ancestors the edits on your ancestors and I've noticed for that A lot of the ones are like the ones that are really for me at least are the older Notable profiles that I just happen to be connected to that's usually what I've been seeing for my Descendants I don't have any descendants. So just me Connections Hold on Your mom just went connections, um So people who I'm connected to I have 900 and it says how many profiles you're watching for each one. So 995 profiles the ones I'm following Sir names. Oh sir names. You are following. So like the louis the ones you usually would get in your email And then a certain surname which you can look at and then you have your watchlist one So, yeah, so that is the new activity feeds, which were pretty cool So chris did something to a presentation this week. Hilary Gadsby is not a presentation I'm assuming that she included wiki tree But she didn't see the changes until after she did her presentation and that's one of the things that we hate About businesses or sites and stuff when we presenters go to do a presentation They've changed something the day before we go to give our presentation We're all trying to change it back or fix it Yeah, I think she's doing it on the one name studies. Um, Hilary she told me about it And she's including wiki tree I'm sure she is It's hard not to when you use wiki tree as your your Platform and you're doing presentations and you're going to show something from your family. You have to show wiki tree And everything you'll see when you do Yeah, I mean I I use it all the time. I talk about it all the time. I I'm promoting it in my house with my tapestry Have you painted your walls orange yet though? I'm renting so I can't oh This wooden has a wall in his house that is that color orange. I I know this Unless he's painted since since since it was seen so Yeah, Hilary says it was about using wiki tree. Yay for the one name studies Yeah, wiki tree is great for one name studies of one place studies For everything because of our free space pages the dna surname projects. Yes wiki tree is just great in general and This wiki tree challenge has been showing a lot of our genealogy guest stars Just how wonderful we are like Katherine last week. Um She was Because a lot of people are kind of hesitant about Our kind of tree, you know the collaborative one profile one person kind of tree But with all of the measures we have in place to ensure Accuracy, you know some you know, we do we do still have profiles that are unsourced or to have mistakes Collaboration works. That's great. Mm-hmm. I was in a chat with some people over Yesterday actually Chris Ferriero happened to be in on this too where there was a High level genealogist who was like when can I go? Or when can me and my my co-workers go and Ouch for them and Chris was like Uh, uh and a1 actually jumped in and said send me your email. So yeah, I I told a1 I was like that they want to they want to come a1. They want to they want to participate But are you gonna do them all three in the same week or I don't know you don't have to be one at a time Yeah, no, can you imagine doing But there's a fourth person in there too George you gotta you gotta put George Morgan in there too. Yeah as it's kind of We might see a smith now Karen. We might see smiths. So just be watch out Won't give any more way to me Lauren's down the connection too I'm sorry throw it ahead of time, but we can get in our smith experts. We have a lot of smith experts on wiki tree so Does anybody have any questions? I know people are talking about me dying my hair orange or something in the chat No, I'm wearing an orange shirt And no there was also an orange me dying my hair orange. You can look like I did for the uh, halloween Yeah, but I this isn't a green screen though. So I don't think it'd be I wore a green.   I know a greg. I did it before the live cast not during I love Saturday mornings with you Sarah on that note unless anybody has any questions Are there any bounty points at all? Do we got any bounty points yet, Mindy? Um a few Not a lot yet So we've broken brick walls bounty points. Yes Yes Pat has probably been so good about doing her tree that I'm interested to see but hearing that there's been a brick wall Yes Then it's fun to it's fun to see how excited they all get Yeah, yeah Who wants to join in on the us black heritage connectors challenge nice when you need a break from the guest of the week Oh, yes Okay Yes, we they have a connectors challenge. So we're because they're trying to get all the um Our us black heritage profiles connected to the tree. So if you guys need some Other things to do or you you know, there's lots of stuff to do a wiki tree like that. So It's a monthly challenge because they started it in February But they're doing it every month because they're trying to reach a goal of how many profiles do they want to get connected to the tree I think something like 1200 or something A thousand I'm not sure but If there's anything else anybody wants to say or ask We'll probably go because my tapestry fell down and now this doesn't feel the same No, nobody nothing Nothing, okay. I love Saturday mornings Oh, so they want to connect 10 000 because they get 3000 last month. So they already beat whatever goal I said 1200 So they want to get 10 000 connected. They did 3000 last month. That's that's awesome So proud of everybody They keep having to raise the goal because because wiki tree years. I like that because wiki tree years and I guess mentioning how big the tree was for pat to be when we started and Yes, it was quite huge. She has a lot of lines out that are pre-revolutionary Yeah, that's good. That's fun That would have been that would have been um Overwhelming not overwhelming but like Almost like too big a challenge to tackle would be pat richley erickson's tree Because you guys see my cat is on the counter right now behind me See both my tapestry up. You wouldn't see her on the counter, but you can't know Get down Get off that counter Okay, so we will go for the morning. Thank you all for joining us Um, don't forget to like and subscribe wherever you're watching on youtuber facebook This is recorded so you can watch it. You can watch my tapestry fall over and over again as many times as you want And um Check us out wiki tree dot com participate in the challenge And we'll see you on wednesday when we wrap up dear myrtles week Good bye everyone


Cheese is not only a delicious and approachable food, it is incredibly good for you, as are all dairy products. Granted, they are high quality. By high quality, we mean grass fed as well as raw. Unfortunately, over 99% of the dairy products in the United States are not grass fed, and they are certainly not raw. Fortunately, there is a small percent of cheeses that are typically imported from Europe, even in supermarkets that are both raw and grass fed. It is unfortunate how modern dairy products are devoid of nutrition because of what animals are being fed, how they are being raised, and then we process it in a way to make the quality even lower by pasteurizing it and homogenizing it. Cheese in particular rises above other dairy products for several reasons. It's a fermented food and all of our native ancestors, hunter-gatherers, consumed animal foods in their raw, cooked, and fermented state. This is a constant. There is no indigenous group that did not consume this food variety. The presence of raw, cooked, and fermented animal foods seems to be mandatory in the human diet, so there is definitely a need for fermented animal foods in our diet and cheese is arguably the most approachable. Another reason cheese rises above the rest is rennet. Rennet is a set of enzymes produced in the stomach of a baby cow and it is used to make cheese, essentially predigesting some of the cheese before we eat it. So cheese has the benefits of being a fermented food which is typically a higher vitamin K2 content and beneficial bacteria content and it has enzymes that have already aided in the digestion of certain aspects of the food. The difficulty of getting large amounts of vitamin K2 in our modern diets translates to many health problems. Vitamin K2 on its own can reverse calcification in blood vessels, essentially curing heart disease. It's needed for the transport of calcium throughout the body. So by combining vitamin D3 to mobilize and K2 to transport, we are able to remove excess calcium from organs as well as the bloodstream. Not only is cheese high in vitamin K2, it actually contains all of the fat-soluble vitamins, some water-soluble vitamins, minerals, elements, and fatty acids. Literally, every single thing our body needs to thrive. Cheese is more than just calcium. In Weston Price's book, it's about a dentist who went around in the early 1900s exploring people still living off of a natural diet. There was one group in particular. The Swiss living in the Lachental Valley got a large percentage of their calories from just cheese and rye bread. They supplemented this with some milk and meat from the animals occasionally, but a very large percentage of their calories was solely cheese and rye bread. So cheese itself can be a source of all of the vitamin, mineral, and element nutrition our bodies need. And there are small amounts of alpha-linolenic acid, conjugated linoleic acid, things that can convert to omega-3 fatty acids in our body. Not all cheese is created equal. The quality of the grasses and pasture is what determines the nutrient content of the cheese. Those Swiss people actually used to light candles with butter when the spring grasses came around, because in the winter the butter was white. In the summer and the spring, it turned yellowish orange. This is because there are keratines in the grass and other nutrients in the grass that the cows convert into nutrients in their milk, which is then turned into butter or made into cheese. These Swiss people knew the nourishing properties that the dairy obtained from the spring and summer pasture. Keeping the food raw also preserves more of these nutrients, and the type of rennet that's used can alter the bacterial profile. European cheeses typically use animal rennet, which is the naturally occurring rennet, and there is vegetable rennet, which is some type of modern man-made rennet. I have two of the most famous cheeses in the world today. Let's see Vaz, the most famous Gruyere cheese made from cows grazing on summer alpine pasture, and of course Parmigiano Reggiano from cows only being fed hay or grass. Both of these are made with a natural culture of animal rennet. They are what I deem to be the highest quality and best tasting. Yeah, you might be able to get raw cheeses from a local farm that have a similar nutrient profile, but the culture and traditional techniques used to make these cheeses create a far superior flavor, and it's literally, you know, the fermentation is dictated by the environment the cheese is in, and that's why these parts of the world are known and famous for those cheeses. Most of these are A2 dairy. You have A1 Cassian and A2 Cassian, the different types of protein that naturally occur in the dairy. Some people don't tolerate the A1 Cassian protein too well, but I believe these are both made from A2 dairy. There is a concern about B-Cassimorphine 7 in the A1 Cassian, but there is little proof that BCM7 is inherently inflammatory. It's just known to be less inflammatory than A2 Cassian. So let's take a look at these cheeses and taste them. First we have the Etivaz, and what's really cool to me about all these cheeses is on the rind, they usually have a very unique stamp. This says Etivaz Alpec, something in some language I don't understand, but the point is all these traditional cheeses will have a specific stamp indicating the DOP, the designation of protection, the rules and the laws that guide how they're supposed to make these cheeses. And when you taste this cheese, you know why there's a designation of protection on it. So let's give it a little taste. When you taste this, you understand why indigenous people loved fermented food so much. It's like eating almond dessert. It's so nutty and like inherently sweet. You could taste like the pasture the animals were on, it's unbelievable. It's crazy that you take the milk from a cow, you ferment it in a certain way and it creates this amazing product that's so good for you, it's so delicious and like unbelievably complex flavor profile that I can't even describe. I could see why those Swiss people in that valley lived mostly off of cheese. So this Etivaz Griller cheese is really so complex and flavorful that you can sit here and think about it as you're eating it and the nutrient profile matches that. It's made from the highest quality dairy from cows grazing on summer alpine pasture. It doesn't get better than that. The next cheese we're going to look at is Parmigiano Reggiano, known for its famous perforated dots on the outside. Here we have Reggiano Parmigiano, I always thought this was pretty cool. You have the giant wheels of Parmigiano cheese. I'm going to say this up front, the quality is really up in the air. We don't know if the Greer cheese is a higher quality nutrient density than the Parmigiano Reggiano. I mean I guess by the color and the taste we might be able to assume that but you know they're both very high quality raw cheeses made from cows grazing on summer pasture. So let's give the Parmigiano Reggiano a taste. This is so classic. I love it. The Parmigiano is not as nutty, as complex as the Etivaz. The Parmigiano is drier in texture and it has this really classic amino acid crunch like when you bite into the cheese it literally crunches. It's this really unique characteristic that is what I love so much about the Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. So with either of these cheeses you're getting an amazing source of nutrients, all the fat type of vitamins, amazing source of vitamin K2. That's the main reason to consume cheese and you're also getting some beneficial bacteria from these cheeses. Both of these cheeses are available on Frankie's free range meat as well as a gouda cheese and an English cheddar cheese. We are looking to bring you guys the highest quality, most nutrient dense foods at an affordable price. So if you are lacking vitamin K2 in your diet or simply want to try some delicious cheeses go to Frankie's free range meat dot com, learn more about us, more about our story. We are looking to do raw grass fed dairy in the future. That is something we are unable to do right now but with more support and more momentum moving forward, it is something we are looking to do hopefully within a year. So not only are we going to be bringing you guys legendary cheeses such as Parmigiano and Letty Vaz, we will try to get you guys that high quality orange raw butter that the Swiss used to do light candles with. Thank you guys for joining me today. 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Income tax 2021, 2022, educator expenses. Get ready to get refunds to the max. Dive in into income tax 2021, 2022. Income tax formula focused in on the adjustments to income, which you might hear called the above the line deductions or the schedule one deductions, keeping them distinct in our mind from the standard deductions and the itemized deductions. The adjustments to income are those deductions that are up top a subtotal to get us down to the adjusted gross income. In other words, income minus the adjustments to income get us to the adjusted gross income, the AGI, which is important because the adjusted gross income is usually the number that's gonna be used or at least started out from in order to calculate phase outs, phase outs on things like deductions and credits as the income level goes up. In other words, those phase outs as income level goes up aren't usually gonna be starting with just the top line, the income.


Good morning. Today I'm going to discuss the power of user-generated content and how it can transform the way you do business. My name is Shella Price. I'm a content marketer. I create and promote content mainly for B2B tech industries or companies. You can find my work on Entrepreneurial.com, on the iPo. I've also worked with clients such as Session Cam and Kiss Metrics. So today I want to really hone on the importance of content and how it can impact the way you do business and also your clients. So what's happening? For all we know, for as long as we know, content has been transforming the way we do business at its core. But right now content is disrupting the traditional marketing standards. And why? Consumers have control now. Decades ago, advertisers told us what we wanted. They honed the message. Media corporations controlled radio and television. But now the consumer decides when, where, and how they want to consume the content. It doesn't matter that you have an ad. I don't have to read it. It doesn't matter if I want to, I see your promo. I can just click out of it and move on. So now brands must, they must tell great stories that can excite the user base, get people talking about their product. So that's where UGC steps in. So what is UGC? User-generated content is any form of content produced by your consumer. That's that blog post they write about your services. That's that tweet to their friends saying, oh, how cool I, I had this experience at a spa. It's that buying clip, they say they produce and post and get people riled up and excited about your product. So it can be that even that Amazon review, good or bad, that's user-generated content. So here's an example from GoPro. They said, hey, you have GoPro's. You have this video footage. Give it to us. Submit your footage and we'll post it. And they had a video of a, of the day. So they would get all this content, pick, go, pick through it. And they decided we'll have, we'll pick one and post it up. Just by doing that, they tripled their YouTube views, tripled. And with social growth of this UGC, they increased their revenue. In 2011, they went from $230 million to 2013 to $980 million. That's a big gap, just using other people's content and went so well. Now they're giving their users, their customers, up to $5 million just to submit.  They're giving back. That's how great GoPro is and how great user-generated content is. So here are the benefits. Valuable feedback. So you're getting all this content. People are talking about you. So you can sift through the content as market research and decide, hey, maybe they don't like that feature in my product. Maybe they don't like, they don't see that as a benefit. You can really customize the overall experience for the user by just what they're saying from this content. Also, brand advocacy. If you know Beyonce, she has her beehives and they are crazy when someone attacks her. You want that type of brand advocacy in your brand so that people are talking about you so they can come to your defense if something goes wrong. And also people love referrals, right? People, we like to learn about our products from other people. So that can help, that can help build your business in revenue just by getting referrals from brand advocacy. And also cost savings. We all want to save here and there. That's important. But if you have user-generated content, you don't have to necessarily build, hire somebody that content career like myself. You don't have to necessarily hire me to write the content because you're getting it from your customers. And that's what Comcast did. They saved millions of dollars by producing a community forum where customers could ask questions about their products and other customers would answer. They diverted calls from their call center. They hired less people at their call center now and they saved millions that way. So you have the cost savings.  But of course, there's some challenges with user-generated content. That's what I call the legal stuff.  Make sure you talk to an attorney and have a contract with the individual so that you can use that information freely.  And this happens. And that happens. For example, with McDonald's, when they had hashtag Mickey D stories, people went crazy. They saw so many stories that were negative. It was a bad campaign. Just didn't work for them. So here are the benefits. But think about the challenges and what you need to adjust in your own brand. Here is a great example by Coca-Cola. If you had heard of it, the hashtag share a Coke campaign. Well, they personalized each Coke with a customer's name.  But one big thing was they told you to share a Coke. They didn't say buy a Coke for yourself. They told you give it to somebody else. So they wanted to build that customer engagement, that sentiment of positivity.    And even this person saying, growing up with my name, hardly anyone ever says it right. And by the grace of God, I found it on a share a Coke box. Like that's a sentiment that you want. She probably look at Pepsi and like, whatever, I got a Coke. So what about your campaign? We're talking about Trump and Clinton. What about your campaign planning for this 2016? So if you're going to start a UGC, set goals with KPIs. Is it for brand awareness? Is it to increase revenue? Is it to just get public relations, attention? So you set some metrics, know what you want as an end goal so you can evaluate it at the end. Decide on a platform and content. We have Twitter, you have Instagram, you have Snapchat now. We have Snapchat. If some people are new, what about Anchor? That's a new audio platform, Anchor. So decide on a platform based on the customer. What's not going to be easy for you, based on the customer and also the content. So what do you want them to share? A blog post, a tweet, a video clip, or audio clip. Decide on what the campaign is really going to be about and make it easy for them and give them multiple options. Some people might want to write, some people might want to talk. So just give them the option to give you that content easier. Promote heavily. You can have those goals. You can have that platform, that content. But if you're not promoting and no one knows about it, it's all for nothing. Promote heavily. So for example, if you have a Twitter campaign, promote on Twitter, but also promote on your Instagram account, your Snapchat account. And just get the get the buzz going and bring them to Twitter if that's what you want them to do. Also your email list. It's time to hit people up on there. Get people involved on your email list. Also reach out to make sure you have it on your website. People don't do that. Post it on your website that you have a campaign that's going on in Twitter. And also reach out to influencers and partnerships that you have so that you're getting people really riled up about this campaign so that you can get the information you need to move your business forward. Key performance indicator. So you that's the metric you want to use. I don't know who I'm talking to. So that so if you want to track revenue, that's the number of sales. The KPI would be that. So best practices. If you are asking for content, don't just wait around and waiting for people to post. Good thing is to start engaging with customers.  Oh, nice picture. Start responding to people. Get them involved. Also, if you want to really get people involved in other ways to give money, just like GoPro might not necessarily be money made in services. Maybe you can contact your partnerships. Also create a really great hashtag like Coca Cola. So we did this. They have the save a lunch break campaign. So every time you think about going to lunch, you're supposed to think about going to subway. So they have just create a sense of a sense of a brand lifestyle. What you want people to think about when they're throughout their day. Just like the commercial with the I think it's Geico when the hump day. You think of Wednesdays. You want people to be triggered by a certain behavior that's happening throughout their day when they think of your brand. And that's what you should do with your UGC to get people riled up. So if you have any questions about UGC, about content marketing in general, please reach out to me on Twitter. I'm always there answering questions and getting people involved and what content marketing has to give to the audience. Thank you.


This is stock number 9C46B. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used Dodge and Minivan headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan CV or Cargo Van, if you will. This vehicle has the award-winning 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 motor and has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this van is 100% ready to go. White clear coat is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the car with me or the van with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle quality and condition wise before seeing it in person. If you want to check out more photos of this van in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link right to our website so click that and check us out there. Cooper's CS5 Grand Touring 225 65R 16 tires on here. They have about half the tread in the front and they do have these steel rims with the plastic painted wheel covers. Front fender is in excellent shape. Front bumper no dents, dings, cracks or scuffs on that and that hood is in excellent condition. Didn't see any dents or dings or corrosion on there and that's pretty amazing because this van has almost 120,000 miles on it and is in excellent shape considering the age and miles on here but that's why we do the videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just can't make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can still see the vehicle hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here so that you know it's well worth the trip and that you're not going to be coming on something that's all beat up and that's why we do the videos. In fact we offer a Summit Auto Fastpass in the upper right hand part of your screen a link right to our website where you can apply for finance and get pre-approved even get a payment quote right on this van here in the upper right hand part of your screen so click that and check us out there. 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Okay, so today we are finishing off the Powder Mage trilogy. A while ago I read Promise of Blood, and I thought it was fine, but I didn't quite get the hype. Then I finally got around to reading the Crimson Campaign a while ago, and I thought that one was really, really good, and I really liked it. And then we got to the Autumn Republic, and this one... I have very mixed feelings on this one. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. Okay, to start off I just want to say that for the most part this book is still really good. I think most aspects of it are average or above average. And really the only part that bothered me a lot was the ending. And I won't say a lot about it. What I will say is that the climax was very uninspired. You know, it didn't feel like the whole series had been building towards this epic final confrontation, and then we finally got it. It felt more like, oh, okay, this is what we're going to be doing at the end now, and then it's over. And so that was very disappointing. But overall still a pretty good book. So this one starts off right after the Crimson Campaign ended. Okay, Lord Claremont and the Brudanian Army have taken over Atapest, and they are claiming to be on their side, but they're pretty clearly not. And Lord Claremont is running for first minister of Adro, which is basically president or prime minister. Tamas has finally gotten out of Kez, and he's brought the remnants of his army back into Adro, and they're going to try and throw the remainder of the Kez army out.  And well, that's the gist of it, yeah. The strongest part of this book, I think, is the plot, because as much as I may have some issues with parts of it, overall it flows very well. And that's something that all three books have. There's always something going on. There's plenty of twists and turns, so you never can really predict exactly what's going to happen next. And even if you can predict one twist, well, there's another one. So you're always being surprised. And I got through this book pretty quickly. It's a fairly long book, but I only took around four days to finish it. So yeah, all three of them, they flow into each other nicely. And it works great until the climax, which I will get to a little bit more in the spoiler section. I don't want to blue-ball you too much, but yeah. So that is definitely the best part. And at the beginning of the book, when Tomas finally comes back, we actually see some really big battles between the Kez and the Adruns. And Tomas, we actually finally see his military genius now. Which I'm a fan of because in the first book, we didn't see it at all. And in the second book, I mean, they tried to show it to us. I didn't quite get the feeling that he was really a genius out of it.  And yeah, so I really do buy that he's a military genius now. Those parts were all great. I loved all the battle scenes. So plot-wise, this book is pretty great. This is very much a modern fantasy story. But it has some callbacks to older fantasy stuff. But it's really not about saving the world. And the first book made it feel like, okay, this is just about saving the world from an evil god who's going to come back. And so that was part of why I wasn't super into it and part of why I wasn't super excited to read the second book until much later. But in this one, or well, really in the last one too, but especially in this one, you really see it's not about saving the whole world. It's about just adro. You know, it's about this country and how it's trying to move forward. It's trying to move past having a tyrant king. It's trying to become a republic. It's just about this one country and the people in it. And if they lose, if the good guys lose, that is pretty bad, don't get me wrong. But it's not going to destroy the whole country. It's not like everyone inside is going to be genocided.  So in some ways, they're fighting more for ideals than they are for simple survival. In that regard, I think that this book works really, really well. The other best part, which again, it applies to the whole series, but I don't think I've really mentioned it up until this point, is that the writing is very easy to digest. You know, it's very straightforward. There aren't a whole lot of metaphors or similes or anything like that. They don't use a whole lot of colorful language, which some people enjoy that. I get it. But I myself prefer if it's just straightforward. You know, if it just comes out and tells you what's going on and what's happening. And that makes it easier to follow. And that was part of why I read through it so quick. All three books I got through fairly easily. And so I just do appreciate that. I've heard some criticism of Brian McClellan in the past because of the way he writes. But that's kind of personal taste. I personally love that. Now I have to get to the characters. And this, I feel weird criticizing this. Because let me just say the good stuff. So pretty much every major character has personality in all these books. OK, Tommas, Daniel, Adamat, Beau, Capole, they all have some personality. You know, I understand where they're coming from. I understand their feelings on things. I understand that they do have some life outside of what we see on the page. They aren't cardboard cutouts. They're all decent enough characters. They're all there. But here's the thing. None of them really grabs me.  But for some reason, it never really goes past a surface level. Like I never felt like I could quite go into their psyche and pick apart their brain and see exactly what they're thinking and how they're feeling on things. Nothing about these characters that really grabs me. You know, there's nothing about them that really stands out to me thinking, wow, this guy, this one aspect of him is really interesting or really inspiring. There's just, there's nothing quite there. So while the cast in this, I would say is above average, it still doesn't feel quite as good as the plot does. And I think part of the reason for that is also that a lot of the interesting stuff they did was in all of their backstories. Like think about it, there's Taniel going around in Patrasta and meeting Kapol and having all their adventures there. Like that's where he got his reputation and, okay, we never really see that. And Tamas, he got his reputation during the Girlish Wars and he spent like 20 some odd years as the head of the Adrin army, as the right hand man of the king before he finally decided to overthrow him in a coup. And if we had seen all of that firsthand, if we had seen Adam, excuse me, not Adam, Tamas' journey from being a servant of the king to being the guy that overthrows him, that would have been fascinating. But at the same time, I think that would have detracted from the plot a lot because if they wanted this to be like some big epic six book, six or seven book long fantasy series, then that could have worked. But if they're just doing a trilogy, then I think it works better to have a fast pace where you just sort of start as the coup is happening. Hell, actually, the first book starts right after the coup has happened, so you're thrown right into the middle of it. So in a nutshell, I guess plot-wise, that works better. It works better to do that. But character-wise, I can't help but feel that if it had started a while earlier and we had seen them progress through their lives, it probably would have been better. Like I feel like I would have had more of a connection to them and through the story as a whole. And something I didn't really notice until I read this book or until I got near the end of this book, it doesn't really have a villain until the very end. And I'm about to go into the spoiler section, but I just want to say real quick that there isn't really one central protagonist that we can focus on throughout the whole series. And I think that is a serious missed opportunity here. So overall, the Powered Mage trilogy. I liked it. I really liked it at points. There's just some stuff which I think is more personal preference than anything that didn't quite grab me. You know, I think with a couple of tweaks, these books could have been something really special, as they are. They're still pretty good. And I think there's plenty of people out there who really liked them and love them way more than I do. I totally get that. I get why you would love them. It's just, for me personally, I read them. And overall, they're just, they're good. That's about all I can say about them. So now the spoiler section. If you haven't read it, then go away. OK, so in the last about 100 pages of this book, we discover that Lord Claremont, the guy running for First Minister of Adro, is actually the god Brud. OK, he's the patron god of Brudania. And OK, you hear that and you think, OK, that sounds kind of interesting, I guess. But then you start realizing, like, OK, him and his other half, who is Lady Charis, because he's just one god that exists in two parts, they have been kind of manipulating stuff behind the scenes to help kickstart the Kezadro war and to help overthrow the king and just a bunch of other stuff that's happened throughout the series. They've been working behind the scenes. And, um, OK, it's not a terrible twist, I don't think. But then they become the villains at the very end. Like, they lose the election and they decide, OK, we're just gonna kill everybody now, we're gonna take over by force. And so they just have one final battle during which they defeat them and Tamas dies and Taniel fakes his own death. And I don't have strong feelings on Tamas' death. I think it was done a little melodramatically. Like, if they just pulled it back a little, I think it would have hurt more. And Taniel faking his own death is, that was kind of annoying, but I don't have strong feelings on it. But anyways, uh, Brood, he... I mean, here's the thing, like, when you have a big epic final battle like that, it feels big and epic when you do it right at least. It feels big and epic because you've been building towards it for so long. You know, the characters are finally getting close to getting what they want.  And in this case, it feels mostly like, okay, all the fighting has wound down and we just gotta deal with this election now. And once we get that, we can just get back to rebuilding things. And then, okay, the election goes the way they want it to, and then, oh, okay, out of nowhere, just big angry god. And, again, Brood and Lord Claremont even haven't really been in the story that much. They haven't been the primary antagonists. Like, the closest thing we've had to a primary antagonist is Cressimir, and even then, he's been kind of off-screen for the most part. So, just the whole final battle falls very, very flat for me. And even though the action is still written as well as it ever has been, and it still has all the characters and such that I don't want to die, it just didn't work because I couldn't feel the stakes. There was a part of me that was going, this guy just came out of nowhere. You know, it's like having a lot of animated kids movies nowadays. They have a twist villain where a guy turns out to be the bad guy at the end, and it very rarely works out just because, well, we don't spend a whole lot of time getting to know the villain. We don't spend a whole lot of time focusing on their conflict with the heroes. And so, for that reason alone, basically, is... that's definitely the biggest issue with this book, by a huge margin. Because beyond that, like, if it had a better climax, or even if they just cut that part out altogether, and they just had the ending of the Kez War be the climax, I think that would have been a lot better because, well, yeah, we just wouldn't have a villain that came out of nowhere. So, overall, the climax of this book and this whole series was a huge letdown, and it does drag the rest of the book down with it. So that's a big part of my issue with it. But, like I said before, it's still a good series. You know, like, don't let that bother you too much if you want to go into it. You know, Journey Before Destination and all that. Now, I just want to do a quick announcement on what book I'm going to review next. Now, I know I just did a reading list, which I'm still going to go through that list, don't get me wrong. But, literally the day after I made it, I got an ARC copy for the sequel to a book I reviewed a while ago, and I'm still going to go through that list. And, I'm really excited to get into it. So, that one will be a surprise, and... Oh, hey, what's that? Thanks to Christopher Hawkin, Desbrennan, and all my other patrons. Please consider checking out my page and donating, and if you can't do that, then like, comment, and subscribe in order to help prevent me from being subsumed by the avalanche of content that is YouTube. Please. Bye.