Today, we are going to focus on how I fixed my histamine intolerance. If you want to learn more about histamine in general, you can check out several videos that I will link at the end here, as I would like to be specific about the most significant thing I overlooked. And I've gotten so many emails of people suffering from histamine intolerance that I'm fairly certain it will happen on most carnivore diets under current assumptions. It's one of the largest concerns with a carnivore diet, possibly eclipsed by fatigue caused by eating two pounds of estrogenic feedlot meat, but even if you're following a super high quality carnivore diet, this can still happen to you. And there are literally hundreds of posts on carnivore forums over the past few years, and I haven't seen one correct solution posted. The gist of these posts is that the person is suffering from various symptoms such as anxiety, skin breaking out, especially insomnia, various immune disorders. The moronic advice given is typically to eat more meat, and the moderators of these carnivore forums are unfortunately paid chills from big meat, so the poor person is suffering from eating meat, and they tell them to eat more meat. We can assume this will happen on a beef-only carnivore diet. Again, the common symptoms being insomnia, heart palpitations, anxiety, and there's a very funny quote from Family Guy, two months is a long time when you don't sleep and only eat ground beef. I feel like that quote was directly ripped from the carnivore diet. The problem is meat, eggs, dairy, all land animal foods that people are heavily basing their carnivore diets around are zinc-based. And this is the basic cause for carnivore-driven histamine intolerance. It's a copper deficiency with an excess of zinc because the amount of zinc in your body is supposed to have a certain ratio compared to the copper. Zinc anywhere from 8 to 15 parts and copper is one part, but when you go carnivore, you barely get any copper. Even if you're eating liver, which is the highest copper food, the copper in the liver is used to metabolize the high iron content of liver. The blood in your body, the red blood cells are composed of iron and copper. So if you're consuming a large amount of iron, red meat, liver, even if you're getting copper, it's definitely not enough. Normally, in a balanced diet of quality foods, you will get adequate copper by varying your meat sources with seafood as well as incorporating some plant foods. The reason copper deficiency causes histamine intolerance is that our bodies remove histamine with the DAO enzyme. This DAO enzyme requires vitamin B6, copper, and vitamin C. A ribeye steak-only carnivore diet is lacking these nutrients greatly and you are most likely getting enough vitamin B6 because the main source of vitamin B6 is meat. You probably are getting enough vitamin C because believe it or not, if you're consuming high-quality animal foods, even if you're cooking them, they do have enough vitamin C for our bodies to function, especially if you're eating a lot of raw meat products. Vitamin C isn't really that much of an issue, but copper is missing because even if you're consuming liver, oysters, foods that are incredibly high in copper, liver has a lot of iron which negates the copper, oysters have an incredibly high amount of zinc which negates the copper. So unfortunately, people look at foods high in copper and they say, oh, I'm getting plenty of those foods, but it's not about the copper content of the food. It's about the copper-to-zinc ratio in the food. So when you have something like salmon or mushrooms, they do have a copper-to-zinc ratio that is heavily in favor of copper. So technically, you could be consuming those types of foods, but it's not that easy to fix a zinc imbalance if you've been on a carnivore diet for a year or two or seven years in my case, as you can imagine. So you have this weird scenario where your diet is incredibly high in zinc, throwing off the zinc-to-copper ratio, plus the diet itself lacks the nutrients to create enzymes that metabolize histamine. So you're exacerbating the copper deficiency and you're not getting enough copper. I mean, this is fairly easy to acknowledge and understand. It's not rocket science. You have histamine intolerance. Your body needs the doubt enzyme to remove histamine, and a typical carnivore diet is lacking the nutrients needed to produce that enzyme. Are people running these carnivore forums and Facebook groups stupid? Or are they censoring information? Just like every other topic in the world, information is censored to prevent you from finding out the truth so people can profit. These clowns are willing to harm someone's health to sell a few hundred dollars worth of steak. That's literally how sad it is. The Cattleman's Association, various special interest-funded groups in America have literally paid hundreds and hundreds of people to shove estrogenic feedlot beef down people's throats, and this is one of the side effects, histamine intolerance. Very simple. We have to correct the zinc-to-copper ratio. Vitamin C on paper, you know, mechanically speaking, it definitely helps, but I personally did not use vitamin C to fix my histamine intolerance. Vitamin C is great for optimizing antioxidant cycles, and it even binds to histamines in the gut. But copper fixed everything for me. If you're one of those people who want to do this naturally without supplements, you might suffer an awfully long time trying to fix this. You know, foods like mushrooms, salmon, as I said, squid, are very high in copper, but is your gut in a state where it can efficiently absorb that copper? If you want to roll the dice for a few months and try to fix it that way, you can. I don't recommend it. Get a copper glycanid supplement, a chelated copper supplement. It's very cheap, eight, nine, ten dollars. I might get one on organ supplements for you guys, but again, it's an eight or nine dollar supplement. I'm probably going to break even on it. So you want to take four to eight milligrams of copper per day for approximately two months before you're kind of fixed. The idea here is to balance the daily amount of zinc you're consuming on carnivore while correcting the past excess of zinc. As you can imagine, if you're eating two, three, four pounds of meat per day, that's an incredible amount of zinc that you've accumulated over months to a year, two years. And I found that four milligrams of copper per meal for two meals per day worked for me without any adverse side effects. You can go higher initially, but I don't recommend it. I tried a copper oxide supplement and it made me nauseous. I'm not sure about going really high with like a copper glycanid or a chelated copper supplement. And guys, this was so extreme. My histamine and tonic was so bad and I was so copper deficient, I would not sleep unless I took the copper supplement. And if I ate a food that was particularly high in zinc and not balanced, like when I ate steak instead of salmon, it would be notably worse. My sleep would be notably worse. And there were like several days where I would forget to take the copper supplement and I eventually realized I was so zinc dominant that I needed the copper just to sleep. And you should notice an immediate difference and after about four to five weeks, most of the histamine intolerant symptoms should go away. It'll be a lot better. And the only real way to measure this metric, how much copper and zinc is in your body, is a hair mineral analysis.  What you have to try to figure out is how long have I been carnivore? How much zinc have I eaten over the past two years? How much copper makes up for that? So this is definitely not something that is fixed overnight. But you will notice an immediate difference when you start supplementing copper. And as with everything I tell you guys, it works. You'll notice a difference. You can definitely throw in vitamin C, 500 milligrams with each meal, maybe twice a day. I'm doing some research on vitamin C myself and some experiments right now. So I'll get back to you guys on that hopefully next week. And I'm not going to go in depth on the other vitamins, minerals, and other parts of a protocol to fix this. Mainly because it's very subjective. And if you guys do want personal help, you can reach out to me via frank-defino.com for a consultation. And there's definitely nutrient synergy aspects that have to be kept in mind, as well as other precautions. One other thing that does get brought up a lot is freshly slaughtered and frozen meat. I've had people email me about Frankie's Fringe Meat. If we have freshly slaughtered meat, that is immediately frozen after slaughter. And we do offer that once or twice a month. But I tell people that if you have a histamine intolerance so severe that you have to eat freshly slaughtered meat, that's not a good long-term solution. And when I was having this histamine intolerance really bad last year, I was literally eating meat slaughtered the night before and I still had a histamine reaction.  And I still got a histamine reaction from it. So, you know, there's some gut dysbiosis, gut bacterial imbalance issues that contribute to histamine intolerance that are zinc to copper related. I will say that I've been able to eat incredibly high histamine foods. And as long as I take copper with that meal, I'm fine.  And in most scenarios where you have to fix your gut microbiome, you need to consume those foods. But high probiotic food, high vitamin K2 food equals high histamine. And if you have a histamine intolerance and you're avoiding a key part of fixing your gut, it makes things a little bit difficult. So for anyone that's been having gut dysbiosis issues, that type of stuff, this copper supplement might very well be your solution. And if you guys have any additional questions about histamine, definitely check out the video I did a couple months back. I will link that at the end here. If you guys have any, you know, more input, any more questions, leave them down in the comments below. But thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully, this new whiteboard setup is reasonable. I know my hair is not reasonable. And I know my outfit is not reasonable.  If you guys want to support me, there's a bunch of stuff down in the comments. As I mentioned, you can go to frank-sifano.com. If you guys do want a one-on-one consultation, Frankie's syringe meat, organ supplements, Frankie's naturals, check out all of that stuff down below. Thanks again for joining me, guys. Enjoy the rest of your day. We will do a live stream later on Frank to Fano. I think we'll do a carnivore diet Q&A. So definitely tune in for that.


All the outside aspects of our life, how to manage our home, how to manage our industry, how to manage our business, for all this we are trying to look at it in a scientific manner, yes? With appropriate technologies. What does scientific manner mean? We're just figuring out how does it work. Yes or no? Science does not mean inventions. Science means you figuring it out, how does everything work? And now create an appropriate tool so that we can effortlessly conduct that process, isn't it? With minimum effort, we can conduct the outside. This is science and technology, which is the offspring. But when it comes to our life, the life that you are, when I say life, I want you to be very clear, I'm not talking about your family, I'm not talking about your work, I'm not talking about your body, I'm not talking about your thought, I'm talking about the life, the life that is here. Because there is life in this, we want to keep the body in a certain way, we want to dress in a certain way, we want to do so many things. The moment this is not alive, we don't want to do any of these things, isn't it? Yes or no? The most precious thing about you right now is not the diamonds that you're wearing, you're alive. Hello?  This is the highest value and actually the only value, isn't it?  We're not talking about the accessories of life. You gathered the body to facilitate life on this planet.  So the life that you are, this body, this mechanism happened from inside, isn't it? You provided raw material from outside, but it happened from inside, you did not build it from outside. But if you read, if you listen to what I say, or if you read a scripture, or you read any other book, all this is done by a human hand. And human beings are capable of enormous distortion of mind. Do you agree with me? If I ask all of you today to write a summary of what I have spoken in the last hour, there will be one hundred versions of what happened this evening. You will see in the next week the gossip in the town. So human minds are given to this, you know, distortions. But this written by the creator himself, isn't it? The source of creation is writing this from inside. This cannot be wrong. Only thing is there is no literacy about how to read this. Now if I give you probably an English book or a Hindi book, you will read because you know the alphabet. Now I will give you a Tamil book, can you read? Nothing. Why? Because you do not know the alphabet. So it's a question of literacy. Everything that's life is written into this, isn't it so? Yes or no? Everything that's life is written into this. You are not able to read it because no literacy. Nobody thought you how to turn inward and read this. Because right now your entire perception is happening by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching the five sense organs. In the very nature of things, they are all outward bound.  Even this you can hear, but so much activity happening, you cannot hear. If an ant crawls upon this hand, you can feel it, so much blood flowing, you cannot feel it. So in the very nature of things your sense organs are outward bound, but your entire experience of life is happening within you, isn't it? So this is the fundamental problem. Now you don't have instruments to turn inward. If you are willing to spend thirty focused hours, okay? Thirty focused hours we can give you a simple instrument with which you can turn inward. Because anything that is not survival process will not come to you without a little bit of striving. What is survival will just come to you.  Thirty hours of striving, is it worth for you to read the user's manual of how to conduct this? You should not listen to me. Because you don't know what devious plans I have for you. You don't know, isn't it? Hey, come on. But what this life speaks cannot be wrong.  But what this life speaks cannot be wrong, isn't it? What this body speaks also cannot be wrong, isn't it? Your body has never lied to you, has it?  No. So you must learn to read it. The problem is only question of learning the alphabet. We can do that for you, thirty hours.


Thank you so much for coming to this fourth session of the Kairos gathering 20 years of spirited action for justice. My name is Shannon new felt I am on part of the Cairo stuff and I'd like to introduce Ed Bianchi, who was for many years the indigenous rights program coordinator now the Cairo's program manager. And so Ed take it away. Well, thank you very much, Shannon. Yes, as Shannon mentioned I'm the currently the program manager at Cairo's but for many years. I was the indigenous rights program coordinator and actually was the first indigenous rights program coordinator, coming from the Aboriginal rights coalition which is one of the predecessor coalitions of Cairo's. And I'm really, really honored that you chosen to sort of spend some time with myself and members of the Cairo's indigenous rights cycle for this workshop this afternoon. I'm going to keep my comments very short. So what I would like to do then is just start with the territorial acknowledgement and, as I was saying some of you might be aware that in New Brunswick recently the government of New Brunswick ordered not to use territorial acknowledgments at public events, or at least not to use them and include the words unseated or unsurrendered in part due to legal actions that are before the government of New Brunswick from the first nations in that jurisdiction so let's keep that in mind as we acknowledge that we're meeting today on the traditional territories of the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island, and that we are grateful for them allowing us to gather and meet and learn together on their territories. We acknowledge that I am the unseated and unsurrendered traditional territories of the Algonquin peoples, and that we honor the struggles and the lives of all those who gave themselves for the land and for all our relations. For those here today, we acknowledge the ancestors beneath our feet and we acknowledge the land. We acknowledge the traditional territories of all the nations, the Cree, the Denei, the Soto, Yanishinaabe, the Dakota and Lakota, the Blackfoot, the Inuit and the Métis, and all the nations that came before us and those yet to come. We affirm our relationship to each other and to the land and we acknowledge and pay respect to the indigenous nations and ancestors of this land. So I want to briefly introduce the members of the Kairos Indigenous Rights Circle who will be participating in the workshop today, and then ask them to sort of say a few words about themselves, and then we'll get into the program. First of all, I'd like to introduce Yvonne Verbal. Yvonne is the Executive Director of the Canora Fellowship Center. She's a member of the Bird Tail Dakota First Nation, and she served on the Nations Ban Council for 14 years. And before joining the Fellowship Center, she was Director of the Edmonton Urban Native Ministry. I'm Yvonne Verbal. It is a good day. And with a good heart, I shake all of your hands. I join you here from the traditional territory of Treaty 3, homeland of the Inishinaabe. I acknowledge any residential school survivors and knowledge keepers that are here with us today. My name is Yvonne Berble. I am Dakota from the Bertel Dakota Nation in Manitoba. We are non-signatory to treaty. I am the executive director of the Anima Way among Kenara Fellowship Centre in Kenara, Ontario. I'm also with the Presbyterian Church in Canada and it has been my privilege to be part of the Indigenous Rights Circle for the last three years or so and I've enjoyed meeting the members, staff and being part of the collective, ever-revolving and more inclusive and engaging work. Congratulations to Kairos on your 20th year anniversary. Thank you. Thank you very much Yvonne. Next I'd like to introduce Gisit Danamuk. Gisit Danamuk is Wampanoag from the community of Marsh B located on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Gisit Danamuk is a long-time Indigenous rights activist and advocate especially on things like cross-border issues, the Wabanaki Confederacy, building cross-culture relationships and treaties and I can safely say I think that Gisit Danamuk is one of the longest serving members of the Kairos Indigenous Rights Circle so it's great to have his perspective and long view on this panel today. I'm really grateful to be here. I have, for the past 20 years or so, I've been really privileged to be with the Kairos Indigenous Rights Circle. I feel very connected, if you will, to Kairos and I have a very deep love for the organization and for the people past and present and future and I'm very honored to be called upon to come and share some thoughts with you. I'm probably one of the few Kairos members or Indigenous rights members that are not affiliated with any religious organization but I do come from a natural spirituality with the Kairos and just so deeply appreciative of life and existence so thank you for this opportunity. Thank you, Gisit Danamuk. Another way to describe Gisit Danamuk's affiliation is member-at-large so let's keep that in mind and finally not large member but member-at-large Finally we'll turn to Jose Zarate who is the Canadian Indigenous Communities and Latin America Caribbean Development Program Coordinator for the Plymouth World Relief and Development Fund of the Anglican Church of Canada. I would love to see your name tagged there, Jose. Jose is a Quechua from Peru, moved to Canada in 1984, earned his PhD in Education and International Development from the University of Toronto and has worked at the Plymouth World Relief and Development Fund since 1996 which is about the time that we met around that time that we met so we don't call him Doctor Zarate but you know if you feel like the need then that's okay. Thank you for that lovely introduction. Yes we know each other for many many many years doing the work that we were called to do. Very honoured, humble to be invited to this event. In addition to what you mentioned about who I am I would like to add that I was adopted by the Nishkan Nation into the killer work plan and also I was given the Eagle Feather by the MiKMAC people from Nova Scotia. Yes again very happy to be here thank you. Thank you very much Jose. So we're going to get into the program now. I'm going to ask the three members of the Kairos Indigenous Rights Circle to answer three questions. The first question is clear please share one highlight from your Indigenous rights work with Kairos. The second question is what is the most pressing issue facing Indigenous peoples today and the third question is what change do you hope for going forward and how can Kairos contribute to bringing that change about in the next 20 years in the next 20 years. And then you know before that we're going to show some pictures which highlight a few of those special moments over the last two decades but before that we would like to ask that you join us in a moment of silence for the children and the discoveries, recent discoveries across the country at the former residential schools, a moment of silence to honour and respect them and knowing that there will be many more discoveries so please join us in a moment of silence. Thank you very much. Like I said we'll get to the questions right after I share my screen and this slideshow that has been prepared. I'm going to there's about 25 slides here. I'm going to go through them quickly because I think what we want to do is hear from our Kirk members but this will bring back some memories. What I've tried to do here is again highlight some of the events over the past 20 years related to the Indigenous rights work with Kairos. So in 2001 Kairos launched a campaign called Land Rights Right Relations as part of the Jubilee campaign and there was a petition on Aboriginal land rights that garnered over 50,000 signatures. So you know it wasn't very long after that that over a thousand blankets arrived in Ottawa and were spread out on the lawn of the Supreme Court of Canada. These blankets were part of workshops that were held across the country that you know were to raise awareness and understanding the Aboriginal Indigenous rights and included the petition in the workshop. So a lot of the signatures gathered were from those workshops. There's one of our panelists sitting on the blankets in front of the Supreme Court of Canada on that National Aboriginal Day 2001. In 2003-2004 Kairos and at that time it was called the Aboriginal Rights Committee worked with the Native Women's Association of Canada and also some of the member churches the United Church and the Anglican Church to help the Native Women's Association of Canada gather get funding from the federal government for what was then called the Stola and Sisters campaign which then became Sisters in Spirit. In 2004 Kairos and the Indigenous Rights Circle hosted the Indigenous Water Rights Forum in Manitoba. In 2006 Kairos hosted the Tucho International Indigenous Water Rights Conference and there is Chief Fred Sangri on the shores of the Great Slade Lake. 2007 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Anu Covenant towards the constitutional recognition and protection of Aboriginal self-government in Canada. In 2010 and this was mentioned this morning at the plenary there was an ecumenical delegation to the Tarsans that included Ray Jones who you'll see on the left hand side there. In 2010-11 Kairos released the land rights the land our life Indigenous Rights and Our Common Future Education and Action died. In 2011 the Role with Declaration campaign which involved asking people from the networks across the country to design banners related to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and we gathered I think it was close to 300 banners and here's just a very small sample size. I think somebody said it took nine minutes to walk all the banners past one point. For those of you who know Ottawa all the banners were gathered at Victoria Island and then marched across Parliament Hills to the Human Rights Monument and some of the people who participated with us were from Sofremont in BC and this was taken just before they got to Ottawa. In 2012 Kairos sponsored a youth delegation to the United Nations. These youth met with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child talk about some of the human rights challenges facing Indigenous youth in Canada. A third from the right there is Helen Knott who was presented on Sunday at the unstoppable workshop. Priscilla Solomon this morning at the plenary Priscilla used to be a member of the Indigenous Rights Circle mentioned how Kairos and the Indigenous Rights Circle in order to further its Indigenous Rights work started meeting in communities or in different regions of the country and here we are in the Githubanamooks neck of the woods in 2012 at the Kirk follow meeting. So the next year Kairos participated in the national TRC education event in BC and presented a gift to the Bentwood box and there again is Kirk co-chair Ray Jones the Redditary Chief. The next year we traveled to Cree Territory, Mysticini in particular to hold our meeting there and that was one of the last meetings that Warren Almond attended. Warren's in the background there he passed away a few years ago. Our other co-chair the other co-chair of the Kairos Indigenous Rights Circle Joanne Jefferson in the yellow jacket there attended the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York and then in 2015 to mark the release of the calls to action and executive summary of the tooth and reconciliation of Canada's report Kairos worked with the Assembly of Seven Generations a youth led group here in Ottawa to host the first mass Kairos blanket exercise on Parliament Hill there's a shot from that. Kairos was also very much involved with trying to get the provinces and territories to comply with call to action 62.1 which was all about education and mandatory curriculum from kindergarten to grade 12 and so here's like one of the memes that was created for that campaign and there is an example of one of the petitions that was signed. Another time that Kirk traveled was to Edmonton in 2016 for its fall meeting and we met at the but we met in Edmonton at the Edmonton made of Healing Center but one of the visits that we made was the Homemakers Lodge Treatment Center. In 2016 the churches Kairos and other churches responded to the call to action and did so with the press conference on Parliament Hill. In 2017 again to celebrate the anniversary of the TRC we held what is called the kitschy blanket exercise kitschy is means really big in the Algonquin language and here you can see at following the exercise all the participants basically created a circle linked arms and hands and created a circle which went all around the lawn in front of the Parliament building so all of you who are familiar with that lawn know how big it is and how many people that represents. In 2018 we continued with the call to action and campaign on 62.1 and here is some of our BC network members presenting petitions to the BC legislation. Kairos did a lot of work around Bill Seats 262 and here's one of the means that was associated with that. 2020 the year of prayer and the traveling sacred bundle this was an initiative of the steering committee which was marked or at least launched with a ceremony at the Toronto office in at the office in Toronto at the Kairos office in Toronto and so you know this was one of the last public events that Kairos held before the pandemic shut everything down. I think this was March 11th or 12th in Toronto in the Toronto offices and then you know the programs got shut down March 16th the bundle was meant to travel across the country but you know made it far as far as Winnipeg before the restrictions took place so that's something we're looking to get back to at some and of course Bill C-15 an act respecting the UN Declaration was advocated for and which was passed. So that's a trip down memory lane. I hope I didn't go too fast and cause anybody to get dizzy or anything like that but like I said I just wanted to make sure that we gave our panelists as much time as possible to answer their questions and so I'm going to start with the first question which is once again please share one highlight from your Indigenous rights work with Kairos and we're going to start with you. Thank you Ed. I want to say thank you to all of you for holding the moment of silence in memory of all of the children. This afternoon I hold that silence for a teen from my home community who died this morning as a result of trauma. Prayers for her family who are faced with such stifling grief and for our youth who are facing such trauma. It has been my privilege to share grassroots perspective working with the homeless population and the impacts of the Indian residential school intergenerational trauma. We witness daily the level of devastation that is happening on the streets and in First Nation communities. It has been important to bring that voice to the circle and how crucial the work is to bring about change. It has been encouraging seeing more Indigenous people involved with Kairos throughout the years and the solidarity that has resulted as we face difficult issues. The work of reconciliation involves creating spaces for sharing our truths, promoting healing and seeking justice. We must continuously stand strong to make sure that every child does matter. Lives truly are at stake. I am thankful for all of the support and the advocacy. Thank you. Thank you very much Yvonne.  Thanks. I know that I was supposed to respond to one memory but I'm going to give you two. Both were really deeply impactful for me. One was, I guess the first one, I had my suspicions early when the Aboriginal Rights Coalition was moving into Kairos. I followed Ed into that great unknown wanting to check this new entity out. I think it was that first initial meeting. Somewhere in that meeting I was invited to do a stomp dance or a snake dance. I can't recall what the population at the time but that picture of that great circle around Parliament kind of reminded me that had to be 100 people in that snake dance. It was really impressive. I've never been dancing with so many people in that particular one. One of the aspects of that snake dance is that at one point it coils around. It was a really tight circle of bodies. It was really left me with a great impression. The other one was a meeting, one of our current meetings. It was the time when we were poised with a question to comment on a statement that Kairos was coming through, I think in support of the TRC work. Very generally, the question seemed to be okay but there were some things that were left out and I was kind of concerned about that. I raised the issue of treaties and the issue of section 35 and 25 and that. I didn't want to cause a damper on our meeting. I just can't think of his name right now. But the moment I said that, he also supported that statement. Somebody jogged my mind. Ed, he was just featured in that picture and I can't. I just so loved that man. Part of it was because he was very part of the governance of Canada and served many different ministries. But it was so interesting for his perspective on government policy and working within ministry and so forth. But when he agreed with me, when he joined in that and talked about it from his lens, I was just so deeply moved by that. 20 years of this experience, I can think of so many, many more but those two particular were highlighted in thinking about our experiences in Kirk and with Kairos. Over to you, Ed. Thank you very much. I forgot about that snake dance. Thank you for bringing that active mind. Jose, you're up next. Thank you. First of all, the work that we do at the Climate Sovereign Relief and Development Fund since 1996. We were quite close in the work that used to do at that time art, the original right coalition that we can't be part of what is today, the Indigenous Rights Circle. So we are, it's difficult the question that you ask because it is more than just one issue that really impacted me. Personal level institutionally speaking too. As an Indigenous person coming from Latin American country, which has been oppressed by regimes, military regimes, and violent human rights, I was shocked when I hear for the first time the initiative that at the beginning was carried out by the Canadians, Indigenous, Canadian, national, Aboriginal, what is the name, the Native Women Association, I believe, in Ottawa. They were working around the issue of the disappearance of women. That began to be today assisted in spirit. So it was an evolution of years and little by little for me to be as, you know, by doses, by the media, how the media control that information that people weren't aware of what is happening through the history of Native women to be killed. That's the term kill.   It's a real genocide that happens through the years in Latin American countries. So for me, that was an issue that really woke me up that that this is not only what happened in Peru or Mexico, but also happening in Canada. Another issue was, again, I said that it's impossible for me to say just one. It was the invitation that to, with Cairo's care, the Indigenous Rights Circle, to this International Indigenous Water Rights Conference in Northwest Territories. This was organized by the, I don't know if I pronounced correctly, Ataichou Territory, you know, by the nation there in Northwest Territories. It was unique because it was a grassroots level conversation. There were then a leadership at that event. But also it was the, there was a flavor of international perspective because there raised issues from other nations in the world. For me, it was an opportunity to talk about Bolivia. Bolivia at that time elected Indigenous President Evo Morales. Evo Morales in Bolivia was able to stop the privatization of the water and keep the water for the people. So that was also, that conference also struck me as, how can I say, that's a motivation for me to be continuing working with care in this area of water. Yeah, those are the two areas I will say. Thank you, Ed. Well, thank you very much, all three of you for answering those questions. As I mentioned at the beginning, the current Cairo Indigenous Rights Circle co-chair Ray Jones was hoping to be on the panel as well, but due to a conflict wasn't able to join us. But he did give us answers to these questions. So I'm going to read out his answer to question number one. He said that one highlight of his work with Indigenous Rights at Cairo was getting to visit so many First Nations communities. He said this was very important to sit down with the respective leaders and hear their concerns. And that Cairo through Kirk being able to address these concerns as much as possible, especially with the federal government. And Ray said he particularly remembers his first Kirk meeting, which was in Edmonton and hosted by Harold Roche at the Native Healing Center. And that was in 2004. So a little bit of history there. Okay, on to question number two, what is the most pressing issue facing Indigenous peoples today? And once again, we'll go to Yvonne to start. Thank you again, Ed. So I think it is important to not only view all of the pressing issues that directly impact Indigenous people, but to view it as a national crisis. Continued awareness about the doctrine of discovery, colonial systems and the trauma and discrimination which continues to prevail and continue to devastate Indigenous nations. Further to this is how do we decolonize as Indigenous people, as settlers? What does that mean? It's something that I struggle with and many of my Indigenous brothers and sisters also struggle with. How do we decolonize taking into consideration the impact of colonization and somehow coming to terms with that? It's been very challenging at the different tables that we've sat around. How do we look through the lens of decolonization in our workplaces, in our ministries, with our behaviors, our allyship and our attitudes and even how we treat each other and righting the wrongs in so many instances that we have so many opportunities to do that on a daily basis. One way has been through the blanket exercise. Often we have heard that it was a blanket exercise run directly through kairos or indirectly that first helped them understand they needed to upend their whole worldview or to some extent and commit to reconciliation. The blanket exercise has helped to deal with all of the complexities and guided conversations which are crucial to the work of reconciliation. One of the hardest or the most difficult blanket exercises I've been part of as an Indigenous person was conducting them with other Indigenous people in circles where there have been residential school survivors and a lot of our young people or people in general who do not know our own history, the impact of the residential schools and some of the terms of doctrine of discovery, terranolias and all those terms that really don't mean anything but have had such a huge impact on our lives. Those complexities and those guided conversations are so necessary and very thankful for the blanket exercise, how it's evolved. I think one of the most pressing things is how do we reconcile within even our own selves as we try to stand with everything that's coming towards us. Thank you very much Yvonne. It's really a big question. If we can be encouraged, I think about Kyros and Kyros is kind of a mini-cosm of what both Canada and the world needs to be doing and reaching out and being supportive. There's just so many things that come to my mind. I really appreciate what Yvonne was just saying. And particularly around the issues about decolonization. I take it one step further. I'm known to be pushing the envelope a lot. I'm thinking about more like deconstructing what was brought here. Canada has yet to you know it sounds kind of strange but you know Canada does this thing with Indian country quite often says one thing but doesn't do anything kind of thing and you know that in this particular case Canada has constitutional mandates to recognize the treaties and the validity of the importance of treaties and United Nations is just starting to catch up with Indian country on matters of treaties like that. It's hard to believe that Canada is still in a very quiet way and through its Indian policies and legislations still involved with genocide. Genocide is not just the fact of going out and killing people. It's creating the conditions that will lead to the end of a people. And Canadian Indian policy is very much like that. Reconciliation is yet to begin. It's a big question and it kind of follows through with this idea about decolonization. You know and so I'm really big on the idea that Kyros is one of those few organizations that have made a purposeful and intentional journey into of embracing that huge gap between Indigenous peoples in Canada and in Western countries, United States and Canada very much in the same pot. And I think that we needed to celebrate you know those kinds of initiatives and those in that kind of strength and conviction and persistence because that's what's going to get us all through this. We have yet to establish a relationship. You know and so that's why I'm so fully embracing the work of Kyros in this because they're doing it and it makes me really persistent in being part of this organization on many levels. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks very much. Give the dynamic. Jose? Yeah thank you for my colleagues Yvonne and Mr. Kanamu. So much in terms of priorities you know. We had pressing issues. We have the Royal Commission of Indigenous Peoples report 1996 I believe. Then we have the all these process consultations through the United Nations. What is today? The UN DRIP. We have the recent report from TRC called to Action 48. We have visited communities since 1996. Indigenous communities, First Nations across Canada and a common denominator, a common concern. I will say a common interest from those communities is whatever we do we have to think about the 7th generation, about the future generations. So any activity that communities want to start implementing with involvement, collaboration, partnership with the Primus Water Relief and Development Fund has that key ingredient, future generations. For instance the SISICA people near to Calgary in Alberta. After the unmarked grapes that finally the entire world was informed about these genocides. The SISICA people has been working lucky to convert to transform a local residential school into a virtual museum. A virtual museum that will always be there to remind people the audience about the history. The history that the SISICA people has had until today. And for the only generation to remember where they're coming from and where they're going from there to the future. The Moja communities in Kanawaki remind us how important it is to preserve the language, Indigenous language. And this is just my opinion. I think it's the only one. I'm not sure about it. Through the years, it's the only case that I know that the Kanawaki Mojon community has this local law, language law, that they have as a ultimatum goal to reverse the disappearance of the language in the community. And this law applies in the entire community, Kanawaki, that everybody has to speak the language, particularly those who have frontline service to the community. All those bank consoles, social services, all of them is the priority that they should speak the Moja language. They just this past December, they just celebrated 20 years. And you cannot believe amazing work that this institution, KOR, LCC is doing in Kanawaki. And they're using one of the tools that they're using. It's fantastic. It's so creative. So creative people. They're using the key balance, what the kids in the mainstream society has the Sesame Street. So they have the puppet show representing by the three sisters, the con, the beans, and the squash. And they have the grandmother and the grandchild. And they have this conversation about current urgent issues that the community goes through, like health issues, like a COVID, for instance, you know, and so on. All those issues that people in the community has to be aware of beyond their communities. So that's quite great. Another important issue is water. Water. Water is life, you know. Water is all mother earth blood, you know. Water give us nourish us, give us food. Because thanks to water, we can feed our lands and produce our crops. So we're working with Pican Chican community in Northern Ontario. And they initially tell they can collect water, safe water that they can drink, you know. So water is also another important issue that I have seen here from communities to have access to safe water. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Again, Jose. And again, just to sort of bring Ray into the circle for a minute. When I asked this question, he said that for him, the biggest issue involves the young people, the children in Indigenous communities across the country and he specifically mentioned the opioid crisis and also, you know, the whole issue of foster care and, you know, children being taken from communities. So this brings us to the third and final question for the panel and this one asks us to look at, look forward, going forward. How, what do you see as hopeful and how do you see Kairos contributing to that chain, that hopeful positive change going forward? And Yvonne, we'll start with you again. I'm at work right now. So it's kind of lively around here right now. So I hope you can hear. I was just looking through some of the names that are on this Zoom call and it's so good to see you. I'm glad that you're all doing well. And just, you know, just thinking about all of the work that we've all been involved with. It's been so encouraging and I just want to say congratulations to all of you for, you know, putting in the time and, you know, giving it your best effort and so congratulations to all of you. So my response to moving forward, I thought that Kairos has always been modeling change and that has been a huge gift that they have given to all of us, given to me, you know, the opportunities that I have experienced being part of Kairos in my little community, which is deemed isolated, that I could feel that I was part of this big moving organization and, you know, doing my part to help make life better for everybody. I think that Kairos has also built capacity at local levels. I witnessed that. I'm part of that. You've built capacity within me. So I'm very hopeful about that. But I always try to encourage other Indigenous people, not just Indigenous people, but for people to get involved with Kairos. And a lot of people are very interested. So I'm encouraged about that too. I'm excited for new campaigns, the new strategic plan, and a stronger force, challenging the norms at so many levels. We need to keep pushing those boxes, pushing them open. With all of the global challenges is with all of the global challenges, it is such a critical time that we are living in, and we all have to do our part. It is certainly one in the forefront of our minds. As to how do we continue fanning the fire for change, both for Kairos and I'm speaking about all of the respective churches that are represented here nationally and locally. Sometimes it is the local level where the reconciliation has been difficult to navigate from my personal experience. Promoting Kairos initiatives and to bring about change with the need to create space for original voices and telling our own stories. Kairos can continue utilizing its circle of influence and promoting deeper understanding of the act of the colonizing. No pressure, Ed. As an intergenerational survivor, I look forward to a safe, fulfilling future for the next generation and generations to come to not experience what we did. That they can have a life full of true opportunities, safety and equality. Promoting healing with prayer and standing strong together. We can hope for the TRC calls to action and the calls to justice to be fulfilled. And truly honoring the lives of the thousands of women, girls, men and the LGBTQ2S that have been lost. Let me talk to you all my relations. Thank you very much, Yvonne. You're the junior member on this panel and in the circle, but you bring so much and have so many gifts and I'm grateful that you shared some of them with us today. Is it Danamook? You know, one of the good things, actually one of the profound realities is all of us in the Americas are living in Indian country, North Central, South America. That's all Indian country before Columbus got here. We, you know, as as expansive as the territories are, many of us knew each other.  You know, in my culture, you know, on Nasset, which is now Cape Cod, but we knew of the Buffalo, you know, and in fact, Buffalo had a great range, but maybe two thirds of the continent of the United States was covered with Buffalo. In fact, you might have heard of Buffalo, New York, that was the most eastern branch of the Buffalo. Putting that aside, the fact is, is that we're all inhabiting the ancestral lands in the current lands of Indian country and maybe put it another way, there's nowhere anybody in this room can go to get away from us. We're going to be here. We're going to be here with the same message that carried our, my ancestors in that, and that is that love of, of all the life around us, you know, I'm Otter, I'm Turtle. You know, my name translates to the, to the owl, you know, we're so much embedded in the land and life around us, you know, and that, you know, I think that, that Kairos has been that model of embracing the unknown and embracing Indian country and that's, at some point we stay with this, this journey together or we're in this journey together. Each of you are here because you want to be here. You're part of a colonial nation state that's still evolving, you know, and Kairos is happening, is, is, is, is helping to shape what that involvement is and that's the references I make about deconstructing the, the false narratives that we sort of built our, our society of values on, you know, we need to check those, you know, we need to find that way that we embrace all life as, as my colleagues have been talking about, you know, and just in reference to what Jose was saying, you know, we're very, each of us in our bodies are very much part of the world, part of the water as we are a part of the land, you know, and it's amazing that we have ceremonies that honor water and honor the earth, you know, and that, that has a reverberation back to us, you know, and I believe that that is what awaits the work of Kairos. That's what awaits the, the, the evolution of the Canadian settler state that will no longer be a settler state that will become part of the earth like we are. I think when we get to that point, then life can be assured for the future generations to come. And of course, there's so much more to talk about and to share in that way, but congratulations Kairos, my family, it's great to be here in Hachayah. Thank you. Get the dynamic. Jose. Thank you. Well, quite inspiring presentations my peers has done so far. I think it's an opportunity to praise the work that Kairos over 20 years has been able to accomplish a very important role promoting awareness, education, advocacy, solidarity for and with Indigenous communities, not only at this national level, but also, as I mentioned before, the International Water Conference also promoting the rights of peoples overseas. Indigenous communities, for instance, just to make a parallel analysis here in Latin America, they are commemorating the 500 years of so-called independence or arrival of the Spaniards. And for Latin American countries, we're lucky that at least three national presidents are very aware of Indigenous history in those countries, Mexico, Bolivia and Peru. And they are, in a way, challenging the status quo in those countries, the privilege of in those countries and exerting, fostering awareness to the new generation. This is what I see here in Canada. This is what I hear from the early presenters, including my good friends Ray, young generations. So that's the hope that new generation, more aware, more knowledgeable with skills and expertise can have this two-way conversation with the government and to be able to sit at the table at the same level, to reach that balance of human rights, equalities on access to all those benefits that the rest of the Canadians have. Yeah, we see, for instance, the role that I see, for instance, kairos. How successful the kairos has been in bringing all those churches, all those ecumenical groups. For instance, the one that I witness and participate very proactively is the 20th anniversary of the 1987 New Covenant, which is the pastoral statement on towards the constitutional recognition and protection of original self-government in Canada. So long, long name, like my job title. But that was, yes, for me, that was a witness and something to really acknowledge and recognize what that work, fantastic work, kairos accomplished 2007, the 20th anniversary of this new covenant. So if we have kairos doing that work, how much more we can join them in the effort for the churches to be more, let's say, inclined to act, not just keep promising. Sometimes I call it lip service. No, we really want actions, action that people are involved, action that resources are available for those frontline workers do their work, like kairos, for instance, and all those communities carry on with a blanket exercise with local indigenous communities, the sister in spirit, the issues of water. I see kairos through irk or kirk. I strong ally to continue doing this advocacy work, this education awareness. And I'll be happy to support for the next 20 years if they're still here. Thank you. Thank you, Jose. And just to keep with the trend, when Ray was asked this question, he said he's going to have to think about it. So we'll get back to you on that one with his answer. But I know we're over time, and I wish we had so much more time to share, because each of you bring so much to the table through your work and through your life experience and through your dedication to indigenous rights, human rights. Yvonne asked us, like, how are we going to decolonize this? It reminds us that reconciliation is just starting and that we need to be patient. And Jose brings us back to remembering the future generations and the children and how important those are to this struggle. So if there's anything that I can do now is just express profound and sincere gratitude to each of you for taking the time today to share with us. At the plenary session this morning, Priscilla Solomon, who used to be a Kirk member, mentioned that when Kyros was formed 20 years ago, there was some concerns about the Aboriginal rights work and if it would continue. And Kyros was formed on July 1st, and the Kyros Aboriginal Rights Committee was held its first meeting on August 31st. So that's where the work began at Kyros. It carried on from the Aboriginal Rights Coalition, from Project North, from the regional groups who were doing indigenous rights work from the network groups, and it's through all of that combined work and effort that we have reached the point now today where we feel, as our panelists have said, encouraged, inspired, and looking forward to a future where we actually can affect some kind of change. So thank you again, Yvonne, Giza Danimog and Jose, and thank you as well to all of you out there. I see we're down to 93. We're at 102 at one point there, but we're taken away. So I just want to thank you all for just taking the time today, your precious time, and sharing it with us. Thank you.


Snastrunk. Hey, welcome back to Snastrunk plays, Star Fox. Well, I really thank you guys for watching up to this point. If, you know, you have been watching. If you're just checking this out now, then welcome, I guess. Today, we're going to start the medium difficulty path, or level two as it's referred to in this game. We completed level one through the first three episodes. Very easy. Level two is a little bit tougher. Star Fox team, our last resort is to counter attack Venom. Good luck. Good luck. Alright, and I also want to point out, I want to give a shout out to the YouTube commenters. You guys are the best. I have the best subscribers. Listen here. What he's actually, I was asking the question in the last, all the way back in episode one in my first recording session there.    But what he's saying there is pointed out by the commenter that helpfully informed me on this, is that he's saying incoming enemy fighters prepare for launch. I had no idea. I've been playing this game for 20 years, and I had no idea. And that's exactly, if you listen closely, that's exactly what he says. So, thank you username. I'm going to post on here that I can't remember off the top of my head. I probably should have written it down. Sorry about that. Um, yeah. Oh God, that was terrible. I just got stepped on and I flew through the thing. Anyway, it's the same procedure here. You fly through the little arches here. Hopefully that counts, flying through it counts too. Yeah, it does.   It doesn't matter. Because I'm just going to hopefully get a red or a yellow ring here from one of these guys. Anyway, yeah, the difficulty is somewhat increased. It's still not bad at all. I mean, the bosses on the first two levels are the same, pretty much. So it's the third level where the difficulty really starts to step up. The third hardest path, rather. The first two... Maybe it's because I've played them so much and because I've played them, you know, since I was as long, you know, since the game came out. Probably should have gotten that ring there, but I don't really. It's kind of irrelevant right now. The game aesthetics, though, just some minor differences here and there between level one and level two so far. Yeah, if you fly through that arch, you get that ring there. And I believe... No, I'm not sure what these next two arches trigger. Oh, they must trigger that bomb there. There we go. Extra bomb. And now we've got this boring sequence here where these things fall at you and all you have to do is just stay low to the ground. There's a very lazy programming sequence here, but whatever. And there's another bomb that you can get very easily just by tilting your ship. Look out. Yeah, as I said in the last episode, I'm playing this on the Retro... And I'm having some trouble. Like, the L and R buttons really aren't responding that well for some reason. Like, I like to, like, flips. I have to hit the button three or four times to do a roll, to do a barrel roll. And it's not really working that well for me so far for whatever reason. Might be the controller. Anyway, we've got the exact same boss here. The exact same boss, and he's beaten the exact same way as level one is the easy path. So, yeah. Pretty uninspiring. See, it's not really... I'm trying to do a roll, but it's not really registering. It might be my controller, I don't know. And just like that, he is dead again. Let's zoom into the explosion once again. And there we have it. And coming up here, I was able to do rolls there after pressing the button 50 times, but anyway. After that, we've got... Coming up here, we've got the percentages, and yet another YouTube's commenter mentioned. Yeah, see, there you go. He had the idea that the percentages were tied to the health of both you and your teammates. As you can see there, nobody got hit there. And I had full health at the end, and I still got 95. I think that there is something to that though, because that would explain why I got an 83 at the end of the last run there, whereas I had 100% all the way through, because for the most part, my health was good, and my teammate's health was good throughout the most of the levels. But when I faced Andros, I got hit pretty hard, and it was just me, it wasn't my teammates.  Anyway, here we go with a kind of unique level here.  And this is actually Sector Axe, I'm sorry, this is not an asteroid belt that I previously thought. We've got kind of a trippy sequence here, look out. It's kind of veers to the right for whatever reason. And we have another bomb that I don't need, I've already got a full thing of bombs. And here we're coming up here, we've got our second power up.  Yeah, this is a little bit tough, this is obviously actually quite a bit tougher than the asteroid field. I'm thinking of the third path that has the asteroid field. And here we've got a shield coming up here. Nice. Yeah, kind of some interesting structures they build here. And really you can just fly all the way around this stuff. It really doesn't get in your way unless you let it get in your way. And we've got these weird enemies here that keep their backs to you. They kind of repel laser fire and then they turn toward you and very slowly get closer to you. They don't really do much other than that. Give me a T, give me a T, give me an S, give me an X. X, what's that spell? Six sixths. Yeah, that doesn't really work I guess. Whoa, look out. Alright now we've got, here's the hardest part of the stage. We've got stuff coming from beneath you, stuff falling on top of you, stuff coming from left and right. We've got these things, we're doing barrel rolls, my shield is gone. Oh my god, use a bomb. Coincidentally saved flippy, or slippy flippy. Slippy by doing that. Didn't mean to, I just really want to let him die but I want to keep my percentages up as much as I can. Alright and here we have the exact same boss as the asteroid belt from level one. From the easy path. And you beat him the exact same way. Kind of a bummer. Just fire away at the lasers. Oh, look out. Let's go with the thing.  Kaboom. Yep, pretty straightforward. Once again, in case I haven't given enough dap, am I white enough for saying that? Given enough props to the YouTube commenters, I have the best subscribers out there. Thank you guys for the information about this game, I really appreciate it. I'll see you next time on SNES Drunk Plays, Star Fox. Thanks for watching and have a great rest of your day. 84, come on.


The Rural Communities Development Scheme, RCDF, helps those in most deprived areas in rural Wales and those that have limited scope to change their circumstances. The Cooperation and Supply Chain Development Scheme brings together partners to tackle rural poverty, environmental issues and social exclusion. The return that the funding has provided us as a club, our members and the community is almost priceless. The funding has enabled us to employ a strong team with a really strong skill set behind that team to really support our members across the whole of Wales. We're just 40 years old and from a humble start of one team we now have 18 teams, our own land, fields and a clubhouse. The big difference that the new field and floodlight has made now is that it takes so much pressure off the first team field which was the only field with floodlights before and that's where all the teams are training. That makes the pitch in much better condition on a Saturday night. Tovey Vani is a funded project through Welsh Government under RDP so that's Rural Development Programme. We run a community garden, also a local food shop and we support a housing association and the residents there to get involved in gardening and feed growing. We got to a point where we weren't able to cope with demand in terms of training facilities and practice facilities, particularly for the juniors and for the girls. It's increased participation in sport and it allows us to develop not only the sport aspect but developing the leaders, the coaches and also refereeing in the community. Our under 15 girls won North Wales Cup this year and without the facilities here we wouldn't have been able to do it. The European Rural Development Fund has been essential to the development of this project. Without the external support and this European funding grant the project would not have been possible and we would not have these facilities. It's as simple as that. Tovey Vani has funded us to go and visit other community gardens, get inspiration, gather ideas, go and network, which has been hugely beneficial so that we're not just kind of thinking on our own. What I would say is persevere. If you've got the right idea, if you've got the support from the community behind you and you've got an interest there, absolutely go for it. Whilst Government are really quite supportive over what they fund, the diversity of what they fund just through our funding stream is quite fantastic. It really does enable things to happen on the ground which is brilliant and it really does bring some longevity to that support. Let's be clear, this funding is not just about rugby, it's about community, it's about rural poverty, it's about improving facilities and services throughout the rural area.


Hi, I'm Kristen Soltis Anderson partner and co-founder of echelon insights And I'm so excited today to be able to present to you the findings of a really exciting research project I've had the opportunity to work on in partnership with the Walton Family Foundation We wanted to understand what Millennials and Generation Z think about opportunity success and the American dream and the results of our research I think tell us a pretty optimistic story about where the next generation is going to lead America You can understand why many people might think that the next generation is going to be worse off The world in which they have grown up has been a very turbulent one over just the last year alone We've had headlines of a pandemic economic collapse changes with the supreme court over the last few decades We've had wars economic collapses in the year 2008 school shootings A number of things that might lead you to believe that the world we're leaving to the next generation is not as good as the world we will first give it And when you ask people in surveys if they think the next generation will be better or worse off Most Americans say worse off. They don't think that things are headed in the right direction But in our research, we find that young Americans have a slightly different view of their own prospects Even in the midst of a global pandemic Millennials and Generation Z we find are picking a slightly different view In our research, we surveyed 2000 members of the millennial generation and 2000 members of Generation Z Which roughly looks at those between the ages of 13 and 40 years old here in the u.s We followed this up with some in-depth interviews of over 100 participants to gain a deeper insight into their views The why behind the results that they gave us We found was a lot of optimism in general only 13 percent of Millennials and Gen Z Say that they think they're likely to be worse off than their parents were And in particular young people of color seeing the most optimistic about their prospects versus those of the past generation While young white Americans only 42 percent say they expect to be better off than their parents That goes all the way up to 59 percent for young black Americans Assign that young people do believe that progress is being made When we ask young Americans how they view their own generation What might make them different from those who came before or those who are coming after We got some really interesting results about the words that Millennials and Gen Z use to describe themselves Which gives us some clues as to why these generations do feel more prepared to tackle the future For Millennials the words they tend to use are things like resilient persistent entrepreneurs We have one quote from a participant named Elena who talks about being the adaptable generation Essentially that Millennials have confronted a lot of challenges as they've grown up And they've always had to adapt and rise to the occasion to find ways to be very practical And to adapt to the world that they're given Generation Z takes a slightly different view They're newer on the scene their teenagers or those in their early 20s And they view what makes them distinct is their voice that they view themselves as conscious Innovative outscoken very comfortable using technology to make their voice heard And so in some ways rather than trying to keep their heads down and adapt to the problems that are in front of them They use their voices to call out for change to try to organize to bring about a brighter new future for themselves Now it doesn't mean just because we're finding all this optimism in the survey that there aren't big hurdles that Millennials and Generation Z face Even though many of them believe that they're going to be better off in the future That the american dream is accessible to them It doesn't mean that they think that there's nothing standing in their way In our survey we find four in ten young people think that higher education is going to be too expensive or hard for them to access Similarly 40 percent think that not having access to health care is an extremely or very big problem standing in their way Education is a huge piece of this puzzle and many say that they feel they haven't been taught the most important life skills And that that's going to be an extremely or very big problem that prevents them from accessing opportunity And certain things like racial inequality are of particular note to young people of color Six in ten black Millennials and Gen Zers that we spoke to said they view racial inequality As something that is an extremely or very big problem standing in their way But nonetheless we still find that two-thirds of Millennials and Generation Zers believe that they will achieve the American dream Which then raises the question. How are they defining the American dream? We wanted to ask this in our research and what we found were a number of people posting pictures when we said Give us an image that reminds you of what the American dream is Someone posts a picture black and white white picket fence and they'd say it reminds me of what I would see in textbooks as a kid But I think the American dream has changed since this image But nowadays most Millennials and Gen Zers do not view the American dream as Husband and wife white picket fence car two and a half kids. Maybe a dog Instead they're viewing things a little bit differently that version of the American dream is history for them Instead they talk a lot more about opportunity that the American dream is about the ability to have the opportunity to build the life that you want I don't think I envision the American dream in the stereotypical light of white picket fence four person family financial success type of way I think I view it as America's serving as an opportunity for people to live their lives It's about access to resources and it's about equality now for some of our respondents. The American dream is about money Craig p as he notes puts the fancy car the guy holding that water cash a big mansion in the background For some the American dream does mean these material things and financial stability is no doubt a key piece of many people's answers They want to be able to have a good education health care a family to go on vacation to have a job they enjoy Money is it extricably bound up in a lot of what this means, but it's not just about money It's about freedom and opportunity to be able to choose a path for themselves The way they're viewing the American dream is not linear and it's not one size fits all It's about opportunity as I mentioned This is a keyword that would come up in our research whenever we ask people to define for themselves What does the American dream mean to you? Things like it's not about uh, the money you have but the opportunity you have It's about equal opportunity granting you the freedom and economic mobility without restrictions And we find that this idea of the American dream is not just something that one type of millennial feels They have access to we found that across racial and ethnic lines Two-thirds of millennials believe that they can have the opportunity to achieve the American dream So what's the foundation on which young Americans can build this sort of access and opportunity? Well, first the environment is a huge piece of the puzzle in our research We found 74 percent saying that the environment in their community is very or extremely important when it comes to opportunity That put it right at the top of the list of all of the factors that we were testing And unfortunately for all the optimism we see in many other parts of our research We find the environment is the one thing that an awful lot of millennials and gen veers do think is getting worse While technology and innovation are enabling all sorts of positive changes opening up opportunities in terms of jobs careers and better quality of life 43 percent in our survey say that they think the environment is getting worse And it's going to be worse for them than it was for their parents So the environment and making sure that it is protected is critical for many millennials and gen zers as they think about building a future that enables them to have opportunity But another big piece of the puzzle is education in our survey education was also Very high up on the list of what millennials and gen zers said they believe is critical to having opportunity and success in life 72 percent say that the public schools in their community are extremely or very important when it comes to unlocking opportunity Which means they have pretty high expectations of what our schools can and should be doing When we asked in our research about what they believe public schools ought to be focused on The millennials and gen zers we spoke to said it was particularly important for schools to focus on things like career and life skills The sorts of things that once someone graduates from high school They can immediately put into use making sure that they're going to have the opportunities ahead of them that they desire So the new american dream what we find in our research is that it's not about a white picket fence It's not necessarily about any kind of one-size-fits-all image of what success looks like It's not linear. It's not harshly defined instead It's about people having the opportunity to choose the path and to have doors open along the way for them As they try to succeed in america and whether it's through focusing on preserving the environment We have today and making it even better Or strengthening our education system so that it can provide the skills people need to access that opportunity most fully There's a lot ahead for millennials and gen z when they think about the changes and the challenges that they're going to face As they move forward in america Thank you again to the walton family foundation for sponsoring this research and for partnering on this project back to you Hi, i'm christin soltus anderson partner and co-founder of echelon insights And i'm so excited today to be able to present to you the findings of a really exciting research project I've had the opportunity to work on in partnership with the walton family foundation We wanted to understand what millennials and generation z think about opportunity success and the american dreams And the results of our research. I think tell us a pretty optimistic story about where the next generation is going to lead america You can understand why many people might think that the next generation is going to be worse off The world in which they have grown up has been a very turbulent one over just the last year alone We've had headlines of a pandemic economic collapse changes with the supreme court over the last few decades We've had wars economic collapses in the year 2008 school shootings A number of things that might lead you to believe that the world we're leaving to the next generation Is not as good as the world we will first give it And when you ask people in surveys if they think the next generation will be better or worse off Most americans say worse off. They don't think that things are headed in the right direction But in our research, we find that young americans have a slightly different view of their own prospects Even in the midst of a global pandemic millennials and generation z we find are taking a slightly different view In our research, we surveyed 2000 members of the millennial generation and 2000 members of generation z Which roughly looks at those between the ages of 13 and 40 years old here in the u.s We followed this up with some in-depth interviews of over 100 participants to gain a deeper insight into their views The why behind the results that they gave us What we found was a lot of optimism in general only 13 percent of millennials and gen z Say that they think they're likely to be worse off than their parents were and in particular young people of color seeing the most optimistic about their prospects versus those of the past generation While young white americans only 42 percent say they expect to be better off than their parents That goes all the way up to 59 for young black americans A sign that young people do believe that progress is being made When we ask young americans how they view their own generation What might make them different from those who came before or those who are coming after We got some really interesting results about the words that millennials and gen z use to describe themselves Which gives us some clues as to why these generations do feel more prepared to tackle the future For millennials, the words they tend to use are things like resilient persistent Entrepreneurs, we have one quote from a participant named Elena who talks about being the adaptable generation Essentially that millennials have confronted a lot of challenges as they've grown up And they've always had to adapt and rise to the occasion to find ways to be very practical And to adapt to the world that they're given Generations e takes a slightly different view. They're newer on the scene their teenagers or those in their early 20s And maybe what makes them distinct is their voice that they view themselves as conscious innovative Spoken very comfortable using technology to make their voice heard And so in some ways rather than trying to keep their heads down and adapt to the problems that are in front of them They use their voices to call out for change to try to organize to bring about a brighter new future for themselves Now it doesn't mean just because we're finding all this optimism in the survey that there aren't big hurdles that millennials and generation z face Even though many of them believe that they're going to be better off in the future That the american dream is accessible to them It doesn't mean that they think that there's nothing standing in their way In our survey we find four and ten young people think that higher education is going to be too expensive or hard for them to access Similarly 40 percent think that not having access to health care is an extremely or very big problem standing in their way Education is a huge piece of this puzzle and many say that they feel they haven't been taught the most important life skills And that that's going to be an extremely or very big problem that prevents them from accessing opportunity And certain things like racial inequality are a particular note to young people of color Six and ten black millennials and gen z years that we spoke to said they view racial inequality As something that is an extremely or very big problem standing in their way But nonetheless, we still find that two thirds of millennials and generation z years believe that they will achieve the american dream Which then raises the question How are they defining the american dream? We wanted to ask this in our research and what we found were a number of people posting pictures when we said give us an image That reminds you of what the american dream is Someone posts a picture black and white picket fence and they'd say it reminds me of what I would see in textbooks as a kid But I think the american dream has changed since this image That nowadays most millennials and gen z years do not view the american dream as Husband and wife white picket fence car two and a half kids. Maybe a dog Instead they're viewing things a little bit differently that version of the american dream is history for them Instead they talk a lot more about Opportunity that the american dream is about the ability to have the opportunity to build the life that you want I don't think I envision the american dream in the stereotypical light of white picket fence four person family financial success type of way I think I view it as america serving as an opportunity for people to live their lives It's about access to resources and it's about equality now for some of our respondents. The american dream is about money Craig p as he notes puts the fancy car the guy holding that water cash a big mansion in the background For some the american dream does mean these material things and financial stability is no doubt a key piece of many people's answers They want to be able to have a good education health care a family to go on vacation to have a job. They enjoy Money is it extricably bound up in a lot of what this means, but it's not just about money It's about Freedom and opportunity to be able to choose a path for themselves The way they're viewing the american dream is not linear and it's not one size fits all It's about opportunity as I mentioned This is a keyword that would come up in our research whenever we ask people to define for themselves What does the american dream mean to you? Things like it's not about Uh, the money you have but the opportunity you have It's about equal opportunity granting you the freedom and economic mobility without restrictions And we find that this idea of the american dream is not just something that one type of millennial feels They have access to we found that across racial and ethnic lines Two-thirds of millennials believe that they can have the opportunity to achieve the american dream So what's the foundation on which young americans can build this sort of access and opportunity? Well, first the environment is a huge piece of the puzzle in our research We found 74 percent saying that the environment in their community is very or extremely important when it comes to opportunity That put it right at the top of the list of all of the factors that we were testing And unfortunately for all the optimism we see in many other parts of our research We find the environment is the one thing that an awful lot of millennials and gen zers do think is getting worse While technology and innovation are enabling all sorts of positive changes opening up opportunities in terms of jobs careers and better quality of life 43 percent in our survey say that they think the environment is getting worse And it's going to be worse for them than it was for their parents So the environment and making sure that it is protected is critical for many millennials and gen zers as they think about building a future That enables them to have opportunity But another big piece of the puzzle is education In our survey education was also very high up on the list of what millennials and gen zers said they believe is critical The public schools in their community are extremely or very important when it comes to unlocking opportunity Which means they have pretty high expectations of what our schools can and should be doing When we asked in our research about what they believe public schools ought to be focused on The millennials and gen zers we spoke to said it was particularly important for schools to focus on things like career and life Skills the sorts of things that once someone graduates from high school They can immediately put into use making sure that they're going to have the opportunities ahead of them that they desire So the new american dream what we find in our research is that it's not about a white picket fence It's not necessarily about any kind of one size fits all image of what success looks like It's not linear. It's not harshly defined instead It's about people having the opportunity to choose the path and to have doors open along the way for them As they try to succeed in america and whether it's through focusing on preserving the environment We have today and making it even better Or strengthening our education system so that it can provide the skills people need to access that opportunity most fully There's a lot ahead for millennials and gen z when they think about the changes and the challenges that they're going to face As they move forward in america Thank you again to the walton family foundation for sponsoring this research and for partnering on this project back to you Hi, i'm christin soltus anderson partner and co-founder of echelon insights And i'm so excited today to be able to present to you the findings of a really exciting research project I've had the opportunity to work on in partnership with the walton family foundation We wanted to understand what millennials and generation z think about opportunity success and the american dream And the results of our research i think tell us a pretty optimistic story about where the next generation is going to lead america You can understand why many people might think that the next generation is going to be worse off The world in which they have grown up has been a very turbulent one over just the last year alone We've had headlines of a pandemic economic collapse changes with the supreme court over the last few decades We've had wars economic collapses in the year 2008 school shootings A number of things that might lead you to believe that the world we're leaving to the next generation Is not as good as the world we will first give it And when you ask people in surveys if they think the next generation will be better or worse off Most americans say worse off. They don't think that things are headed in the right direction But in our research, we find that young americans have a slightly different view of their own prospects Even in the midst of a global pandemic millennials and generation z we find are taking a slightly different view In our research, we surveyed 2000 members of the millennial generation and 2000 members of generation z Which roughly looks at those between the ages of 13 and 40 years old here in the us We followed this up with some in-depth interviews of over 100 participants to gain a deeper insight into their views The why behind the results that they gave us What we found was a lot of optimism in general only 13 percent of millennials and gen z Say that they think they're likely to be worse off than their parents were And in particular young people of color seem the most optimistic about their prospects versus those of the past generation While young white americans only 42 percent say they expect to be better off than their parents That goes all the way up to 59 percent for young black americans A sign that young people do believe that progress is being made But when we ask young americans how they view their own generation What might make them different from those who came before or those who are coming after We got some really interesting results about the words that millennials and gen z use to describe themselves Which gives us some clues as to why these generations do feel more prepared to tackle the future For millennials, the words they tend to use are things like resilient persistent entrepreneurs We have one quote from a participant named elena who talks about being the adaptable generation Essentially that millennials have confronted a lot of challenges as they've grown up And they've always had to adapt and rise to the occasion to find ways to be very practical and to adapt to the world that they're given Generations e takes a slightly different view. They're newer on the scene They're teenagers or those in their early 20s And maybe what makes them distinct is their voice that they view themselves as conscious innovative outscoken Very comfortable using technology to make their voice heard And so in some ways rather than trying to keep their heads down and adapt to the problems that are in front of them They use their voices to call out for change to try to organize to bring about a brighter new future for themselves Oh, it doesn't mean just because we're finding all this optimism in the survey that there aren't big hurdles that millennials and generation z face Even though many of them believe that they're going to be better off in the future That the american dream is accessible to them It doesn't mean that they think that there's nothing standing in their way In our survey we find four in ten young people think that higher education is going to be too expensive or hard for them to access Similarly 40 percent think that not having access to health care is an extremely or very big problem standing in their way Education is a huge piece of this puzzle and many say that they feel they haven't been taught the most important life skills And that that's going to be an extremely or very big problem that prevents them from accessing opportunity And certain things like racial inequality are of particular note to young people of color Six in ten black millennials and gen zers that we spoke to said they view racial inequality as something that is an extremely or very Big problem standing in their way But nonetheless we still find that two-thirds of millennials and generation zers believe that they will achieve the american dream Which then raises the question. How are they defining the american dream? We wanted to ask this in our research and what we found were a number of people posting pictures when we said Give us an image that reminds you of what the american dream is Someone posts a picture black and white white picket fence and they'd say it reminds me of what I would see in textbooks as a kid But I think the american dream has changed since this image But nowadays most millennials and gen zers do not view the american dream as Husband in life white picket fence car two and a half kids. Maybe a dog Instead they're viewing things a little bit differently that version of the american dream is history for them Instead they talk a lot more about opportunity that the american dream is about the ability to have the opportunity to build The life that you want I don't think I envision the american dream in the stereotypical light of white picket fence four person family financial success type of way I think I view it as america serving as an opportunity for people to live their lives It's about access to resources and it's about equality now for some of our respondents the american dream is about money Craig p as he notes puts the fancy car the guy holding that water cash a big mansion in the background For some the american dream does mean these material things and financial stability is no doubt a key piece of many people's answers They want to be able to have a good education health care a family to go on vacation to have a job They enjoy money is it extricably bound up in a lot of what this means, but it's not just about money It's about freedom and opportunity to be able to choose a path for themselves The way they're viewing the american dream is not linear and it's not one size fits all It's about opportunity as I mentioned This is a keyword that would come up in our research whenever we ask people to design for themselves What does the american dream mean to you? Things like it's not about uh, the money you have but the opportunity you have It's about equal opportunity granting you the freedom and economic mobility without restrictions And we find that this idea of the american dream is not just something that one type of millennial feels they have access to We found that across racial and ethnic minds Two thirds of millennials believe that they can have the opportunity to achieve the american dream So what's the foundation on which young americans can build this sort of access and opportunity? Well, first the environment is a huge piece of the puzzle in our research We found 74 percent saying that the environment in their community is very or extremely important when it comes to opportunity That put it right at the top of the list of all of the factors that we were testing And unfortunately for all the optimism we see in many other parts of our research We find the environment is the one thing that an awful lot of millennials and gen zers do think is getting worse While technology and innovation are enabling all sorts of positive changes opening up opportunities in terms of jobs careers and better quality of life 43 percent in our survey say that they think the environment is getting worse And it's going to be worse for them than it was for their parents So the environment and making sure that it is protected is critical for many millennials and gen zers as they think about building a future That enables them to have opportunity But another big piece of the puzzle is education In our survey education was also very high up on the list of what millennials and gen zers said they believe is critical To having opportunity and success in life 72 percent say that the public schools in their community are extremely or very important when it comes to unlocking opportunity Which means they have pretty high expectations of what our schools can and should be doing When we asked in our research about what they believe public schools ought to be focused on The millennials and gen zers we spoke to said it was particularly important for schools to focus on things like career and life skills The sorts of things that once someone graduates from high school They can immediately put into use making sure that they're going to have the opportunities ahead of them that they desire So the new american dream what we find in our research is that it's not about a white picket fence It's not necessarily about any kind of one size fits all image of what success looks like It's not linear. It's not harshly defined instead It's about people having the opportunity To choose the path and to have doors open along the way for them as they try to succeed in america And whether it's through focusing on preserving the environment we have today and making it even better Or strengthening our education system so that it can provide the skills people need to access that opportunity most fully There's a lot ahead for millennials and gen z when they think about the changes and the challenges That they're going to face as they move forward in america Thank you again to the welton family foundation for sponsoring this research and for partnering on this project back to you


If you were to export or have this reporting done by someone else, like a third party, then you wouldn't need all the detail, right? In that case, what they would do is process the paychecks, which would still come out of your checking account. You're still going to have to reconcile and whatnot. But you don't need the detailed reporting that would give you all the information on an employee by employee basis. You can basically think of all of your employees kind of like as one employee and enter the transactions necessary to get your financial statements correct. So there's a couple ways you could do that as well. So that would mean that the payroll company would be taking care of the paycheck stubs and hopefully possibly some of the human resources stuff and whatnot. And then you would be entering a summary of the data into your system in some way, shape or form so that you have the correct financial statement reporting. And what would be the accounts that would have to be supported on the balance sheet? Well, clearly the checking account is going to go down when you pay the employees. So we're going to have to enter the data into the system so that we have the paychecks going down. We're also going to have to have a decrease in the checking account when we pay off the liabilities for the taxes. And then we might have payroll liabilities down here. And the payroll liabilities will typically be when you process the paychecks, everything that you withheld will be a payroll liability. That's the money that you kept from your employees that is now a liability that you're going to have to pay to the government. So until you pay the withholdings after the pay period, you're going to have basically a liabilities that you'll need to be recording here until you make those payments. And then on the income statement side of things, you're going to have a couple of accounts within here.  And then you might have another account that would be the payroll taxes. So that's what you would have to be recording on the financial statements just to get your financial statements in essence recorded properly. But if you weren't doing it within QuickBooks, you might not need all that other detail, the detailed breakout on a per employee, per paycheck basis that you would need in order to comply with all the other kind of reporting needs for the quarterly reports, the pay stubs and the year end reporting. So if you had another company doing that, then you can run it in that system. Also note that you might even be able to be kind of more in a cash-based system.  How are you going to try to get together clients that fit into a system that you might be able to increase, scale up the system? Do you want a system in which you're processing the payrolls in the system or possibly you get a network with other people? Possibly you try to run your bookkeeping on basically a cash-based basis as much as you can based on the bank feeds and then possibly working with another payroll company that can help to specialize in the payroll information and then possibly working with a CPA firm that can help you in the year end tax preparations and any financial statement kind of reporting needs. So on the simplest method, if you were to do something like that, you can actually wait until the checks clear the bank and just record them as payroll expense as they clear the bank. You're going to have a timing issue because really there was a withholding. So instead of recording the liabilities on the books, you're just going to wait until you make the payments on the liability side of things for the payroll taxes and then you'll record those as in essence payroll expense in basically one account and that way you can basically be on a cash-based system, you can basically use the bank feeds and you can have the other payroll company doing all the payroll reporting needs and then there's usually a timing difference when you do that because at the end of the year, you're going to need to be able to report any liabilities at that point and you might need to be breaking out the payroll taxes on the income statement versus the payroll expense and you can then have your CPA or tax preparer, if they are working with you in a standardized system to be able to do that journal entry as of the date that you have to prepare the taxes and or do your financial statements by taking the payroll information and then using it to determine what the payroll liability should be as of the end of the year, December 31st most likely and possibly breaking out the payroll expense account into payroll taxes and payroll expense if necessary based on the payroll reports and the end of the year reporting the 941s, the 940s and the W-2s and W-3s that they get from the payroll company so those are a couple different ways that you can deal with it notice that the payroll should be basically nothing more than like a vendor section type of thing you pay an employee cash goes down and you have an expense form but because of the laws and regulations related to it we have way more complexity with the payroll and so now we've got all these reporting needs, there's withholding needs, there's human resources kind of needs so then the question is well how can you deal with those reporting needs as efficiently as possible either you're going to have to pay for it one way or the other either you pay for it within QuickBooks to process it within QuickBooks or you create a network with an external payroll provider try to automate your QuickBooks as much as possible and then possibly of course you want to also have a CPA firm or tax firm in the mix as well and if you're mixing up the jobs properly or allocating the jobs properly then you can create a pretty efficient system