You know what, I don't really care anymore. Do not go to class. Of course, my refrigerator goes off in a second. Let's turn this up. What is going on, everybody? Welcome back to my channel. For those of you who are new around here, my name is Michael, aka Dr. Cellini, and I am a senior interventional radiology resident or interventional radiology fellow, whatever you wanna call it. And on today's video, I'm hitting you again with another study tip video because everybody needs a little study tips. I'm gonna hit you with a couple more new ones today. So let's go ahead and get into it. So this video is sponsored by my good friends over at Picmonic. You've seen me work with them before because they have an amazing platform. And we'll touch on that in a little bit. But first, let's go ahead and get started with the first study tip, which is a bit controversial. And that is, do not go to class. Now I was skeptical about saying this on video, but you know what, I don't really care anymore. I used to be a class goer until I realized that going to class every day at eight to five just, it's just not sustainable. Five days a week, eight to five every single day. That's a lot of lecture. And when do you have time to study after that? Going to class for a full day and then also going home and studying all into the wee hours of the night. That's just not sustainable. So I know we're living in different times right now and there are no classes, but eventually that'll change, hopefully. Some people will like to go to class again, but the whole thing with med school is just being as efficient as possible with your studying. The reason going to class is not very efficient is because those lectures are an hour long and a lot of times you can reduce those lecture times to like 30 minutes or even like 20 minutes by putting them on two times speed or double speed and watching them later on. And you can also watch them at your own leisure rather than having to get up early. And some people aren't morning people, which is fine. I'm the morning person, as you know before, but I don't know, I just think it's a waste of time to spend an hour per lecture and when you can cut that in half. So you have to maximize your time, watch it at double speed. You get the same amount of info in half the time and then you use the other 30 minutes per hour to study. That's like what, four, five, nine hours? So that's four and a half extra hours to study every single day if you watch every lecture at double speed. Makes perfect sense. Don't go to class unless for some reason you have to or they take attendance, I don't know, just don't go. Tip number two, sleep as much as you need to. Now, it's easy to kind of get bogged down with staying up all night, studying, just go to sleep because when you're studying and you're tired, it's just like, you know, operating on someone when you're tired. You're just not at your best. So go to sleep, get some rest, wake up and do it again. Some people rely on like a strict schedule, that's how I was, wake up at five a.m., start studying, be done at like six p.m., have the rest of the night off to just veg out, but some people can't do that. Some people will wake up at 10 a.m., study for a little bit, eat lunch, study a little bit after lunch and then have dinner, study the wee hours in the morning, then they get tired and they try to keep pushing, try to keep pushing, but if you're tired, just stop. Unless it's test day and you have to like memorize random pieces of information, just stop. Your sleep is the most important thing and without sleep, you can't retain any information, trust me. Tip number three, meal prep. This is huge because you never want to like worry about things in your life besides studying while you're in med school or any school for that matter. So meal prepping was always key for me. So on Sunday evenings, I would always prep out at least four or five days worth of meals and I would usually just prep dinners because I would eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch every single day. I would eat a yogurt with granola in the morning. I would have my coffee as well with that. I would have a little snack, then I would have a sandwich or a salad for lunch, then I would have another snack, usually like protein bar or something. Then I'd be done studying at six, go home and have my dinner already made for me which was amazing.  The whole goal of med school is to kind of limit the things in your normal daily life that would actually take time because you have to maximize your time spent studying. The study time is the most valuable part. If you can minimize the time spent doing normal activities in your life, then you can maximize that study time and that's the most important thing while you're going through this process. Tip number four is use the best study programs or platforms that you have available to you and as you all know, Picmonic is arguably the best platform for studying during med school. I used it during my med school, luckily one of my colleagues found out about it early on and told me about it. Right now it is incredible. Way back when I was in med school, it was just being developed but now it is crazy good and I wanna share a little bit to you all so you know how good it is too. Let's dive in. Picmonic is an online platform that uses picture images and mnemonics to help you memorize large quantities of information. So let's go ahead and look up something so you see exactly how good this platform is. So here's the search bar right here where you can type in anything you want. So today we're going to look at the leg arteries right here because this tends to give a lot of people trouble so let's go ahead and open this up. We'll start by playing the Picmonic. It's Picmonic, the anatomy of leg arteries is described by the leg with archery arteries. You can try to recall these arteries with the story of the characters being afraid of the A orcas revenge from above. Lower limb blood flow begins with the descending Aorta the descending A orca which splits into the iliac arteries in the ilium the island bum. The common iliac artery turns into the external iliac artery which then continues as the common femoral artery the comma femur. This diverges into the deep femoral artery the deep diver femur and the superficial femoral artery the super fish femur. The superficial femoral emerges through the adductor hiatus to become the popliteal artery, the pope leg. This diverges into the anterior tibial and eater Tibetan and posterior tibial arteries the post terrier Tibetan. The fibular or peroneal artery the peroneal branches off of the posterior tibial artery. The anterior tibial artery continues to supply the dorsal foot as the dorsalis pedis the dorsal fin foot. So let's review. Leg arterial flow begins with the descending Aorta which splits into the iliac arteries. These continue into the common femoral which splits into the deep and superficial femoral arteries. The superficial continues as the popliteal artery the popliteal artery splits into the anterior and posterior tibial arteries. The peroneal artery branches from the posterior tibial artery while the dorsalis pedis is a continuation of the anterior tibial artery. So the next thing I would do is go ahead and start the story mode because it can kind of tie all of this together for you.  The resulting wave of blood splashes the island foam and an arrow goes whizzing past. It finds its mark when it hits the comma on a femur. The femur sinks into the deep to be salvaged by a deep diver. And as the onslaught of arrows continues another femur is saved by a super fish. During these trying times the poplite holds a service and characters flock towards it. But the anterior Tibetan and the posterior Tibetan are climbing up the leg for another reason. A tasty peroneal has attracted a predator of the ocean near the foot. A vicious foot with a dorsal fin which circles below waiting for someone to make a mistake and fall to become a meal. All right, so now we'll do the quiz mode here. So which artery comes out the descending Aorta? The iliac artery comes out the descending Aorta. Next question, which artery branches from the posterior to the artery? And if you don't know, you can ask them for a hint and this may jog your memory. One thing I like about the quizzes is that they track your progress over time and know exactly what questions it needs to repeat in the future. Also below the pichmonic is a ton of different pictures to help you kind of remember all the stuff. As if this isn't enough, you can actually customize your pichmonics by adding notes to them. And if you are feeling creative, you can actually create your own pichmonic on a specific subject matter and create it in a way that helps you memorize something. And this platform is available on iOS and Android. So if you travel a lot like I do, well, I used to I should say, you can use this pretty much anywhere. This platform is available to all health professionals, including med students, physician assistants, nurses, nursing students, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, occupational and physical therapists, paramedics and so much more. And if you are interested in using pichmonic for yourself, which you should be, use the link in my description and you'll get 20% off. Go ahead and use that link. All right, so the next tip and lesser talked about tip is to ask your seniors for help. It sounds basic, but your seniors have just gone through everything you just went through, especially in the first two years at Med School and they can provide you with help on how to go about studying for each class and how each professor has unique things that you need to study for. So ask them for help. They literally just went through the whole process. So my Med School actually assigned us with a big brother or big sister who was in the class ahead of us. And I can't tell you how many times I would reach out to them, asking them advice on how they studied a certain way or how they studied for a certain class. Not only would they tell me, but they would oftentimes send me the entire outlines of lectures that were from last year, but they don't really change much year to year. So they would just gift me an outline that's already done and I wouldn't have to waste time doing an outline for that lecture. So the next and final study tip I have for you all is arguably the most important and I may have said that already, but this is the most important. You must stay on a nice workout routine throughout Med School. You just have to keep that fitness up at least three to five times per week.  You can just sit there for like eight, 10 plus hours a day. You need to get up and get moving, whether it's walking on the treadmill while you're watching a lecture or listening to Golden Step One Audio while you're working out, which is what I used to do actually. And for those of you who don't know what Golden Audio is, I was one of the best resources back in the day for studying for Step One, but we used to listen to all the lectures while we were working out. So you like never miss the beat. So I was still working out, but I was also studying at the same time. It's important to keep focused on your mental strength but also your physical strength as well because you can't just let your body go during Med School, you have to stay fit. It's easy to kind of let things slide, eat poorly, not work out, but don't do that because I promise you residency is way harder. If you get in that kind of trend now, it's hard to kind of break when you're in residency. Start early, stay fit, stay healthy, and you'll crush every exam. So that officially concludes this video. Thank you to Pikmonik for sponsoring it. As always, go check out their platform. I promise you won't regret it. The link is in my description below, 20% off, as I told you before. Otherwise, I'll see you all on the next video.


Okay, I have 630. So I would like to convene this meeting of the Board of Directors. Yes. 530. You said 630. It's 530. Oh, I'm sorry. It is 530. Time to convene this closed session of the Board of Directors of the San Lorenzo Valley Water District for January 6, 2022. Are there any additions or deletions to the closed session agenda? Staff has none, Chair. Okay. This is the time for oral communications from the public on any items that are on the closed session agenda. It looks to me that I don't see any attendees from the public. So that being said, then I guess we will, and there's nobody on the phones, I guess. So we will go ahead and adjourn to closed session. See you in a minute. Excuse me. May I take roll call, please? Well, sorry. That's okay. I just wanted to make sure we got that in. So President Mayhood. Here. Vice President Henry. Here. Director Ackman. Here. Director Falls. Here. Director Smalley. Here. Thank you. I don't have a lot to do, so I like to give her my job. Okay. Now we can adjourn to closed session. See y'all in a bit. Are we missing Jamie? Yes. We'll wait another minute or so. Oh, there she is. There she's coming. Great. All right. Okay. Since we're all here, I'd like to convene the open session of this meeting of the Board of Directors of San Lorenzo Valley Water District for January 6, 2022. There are no actions to report from the closed session. Can you please, Holly, take the roll? President Mayhood. Here. Vice President Henry. Here. Director Ackman. Here, but I'm going to be off camera for a couple of minutes because I'm eating my dinner, so excuse me. Okay. Director Falls. Here. And Director Smalley. Okay. Are there any additions and deletions to the agenda? Staff has none, Chair. Okay. This is the section of the meeting where we take oral communications from members of the public on topics that are within the purview of the district that are not on the agenda tonight. When I look at attendees, I see zero, which seems unlikely. Is that true? I see zero. Yeah, it doesn't seem right because I know that I actually advertise this meeting a little bit because I thought, you know, listening to the presentation about the five mile pipeline would be really interesting to a number of people. So could there be a problem? Could there be a glitch with the Zoom link? Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to see whether they're, well, now when I go to participants, I don't even see the name of the panelists, which I'll have to click on panelists to see that. I see the panel. There they are. All right. So I'm just trying to see if I recognize members of the public among that list and I don't. Okay, I'm right now. I'm trying to log in with the information that's on the website. See what happens. It says webinar has expired. Boy, is this correctable? Only if it's technically correctable. I mean, anybody here that can address whether it's technically fixable? Easton, that would be you. Do you have any idea how we can think we'll have to call it a night and make another meeting? Is that, does the rest of the board agree with me on that? Yeah, I think it's, it would have to be regrettably fairly shortly. Otherwise, people might get discouraged. Sure. I agree with you on that. This is a very important meeting that needs to be advertised in advance. Yeah, the topic is one of the most substantive things we're doing, you know, this year. And things that might be interesting to the public because of environmental and cost reasons. So, yeah, and if I, if I could step you through the process that. Okay, would you take, okay, so it would involve the board, but since there is a quorum of the board president would involve the board voting to continue the meeting. Under these circumstances, I would suggest voting to continue it to a particular date and time, which can be discussed here by motion of the board. And then we have 24 hours to post a notice of continue, continue a continuance or continuation of the meeting, which will be posted just the same way an agenda is and emailed out. And that'll have the, and of course, Holly will get the zoom information for that meeting. And it'll be posted as a notice of a continuation of a regular meeting of the board of directors. Okay, so we should sounds like we should first discuss an alternative date and time. What if we just moved it a week to next Thursday is with that work, Bob, you've got your hand up. Will the CTV folks be able to provide a zoom link tomorrow in order to give as much lead time as possible before the next meeting. Yeah, I think their turnaround time has always been really good. I'm sure they'll be able to do that.  Jeff, what's your schedule look like? Yeah, directors, I am available next Thursday, the, is that the 13th? Yeah, that would work. Justin and Aaron, does that work with your schedules? Works for me. Yeah, then Aaron. Can you hold on just a moment? We might be able to figure something out. I'm working with. Well, while you're doing that, Holly, let me ask if next Thursday would be okay with other members of the board. Yes, so Jamie, how about you, Lois? Fine. And Bob? Does that work? Okay, all right. So if Holly can't do something magical in the next minute or two, I think we should call it a night and just reconvene next Thursday. Because we don't want to wait too long because folks may leave and not even try to come back. And I think we're at the point now where we need to reschedule. Okay, so Gina, would you walk us through what I, or make the motion for me? All right. So I'm going to propose for the board's consideration a motion to continue this regular meeting of the board of directors to next Thursday. I apologize, I'm just pulling up my calendar. 13th. Next Thursday, January 13th at the, I'll say at the typical, at the regular time for regular meetings, meaning a closed session at 530 and open session at 630. All right. I will move that. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Holly, could you take a roll call vote on that? President Mayhood? Aye. Vice President Henry? Yes. Director Ackman? Yes. Director Foles? Yes. And Director Smalley? Yes. Okay. Anything else we need to do before adjourning for the evening? And Gina? There is not. Okay. Then with, without hearing any objections, I will then go ahead and have us adjourn for the evening. Good night. Sorry. See you next Friday. No problem. Good night. Thank you, Jeff. No problem. Shall I put something on the website about what's going on? Yes. Okay. I will do that right now. Okay. Thanks. Holly.


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Okay, so this is called a workshop. That means besides me working, you're meant to work because nobody can do the work of forgiveness but you.  It's hard to get through life without that happening. Is there anybody in here who has not been hurt or disappointed or deceived or betrayed? Okay, so we're all here on the same page, me too, right? So before I start, I'd like you to think about who you want to work on, wanting to want to want to want to want, however far you want to do it, to forgive. You might not be yet ready to want to forgive but there's a part of you that wants to want to forgive because when you think about this person that's hurt you, it hurts. You, right? So take a moment and write down what you write on your page as confidential, private for your work. So take a moment and start with that because if you don't acknowledge the pain and you don't acknowledge that you want to want to forgive, you're not going to forgive. So what is forgiveness? We use that word very easily. What does it mean to forgive someone? When you think of the word forgiveness, what does it mean to you? I'm going to write that down. I like six, six words. What does forgiveness mean to you? Peace, letting go. Letting go of what? Forgiveness is validation, like validating your own pain. Not thinking about the person all the time. So peace of mind. So I'll put that up here, peace of mind. There's a lot of peace but that's one piece of peace. Acceptance. Opening yourself. Opening yourself. So can we say open-hearted? Is that okay? Big harm? Atonement. Atonement. Being at one in the moment, when you think about when you need to forgive someone, where are you? When you need to forgive, when you're in the place that there's someone that is needing for you to forgive, most often it's happened in the past, right? Sometimes that past could be five minutes ago. Sometimes it could be five minutes, I mean five days ago. Sometimes it could be five years ago or I've had clients who are holding on to pain that happened 50 years ago, as if it happened five minutes ago. It stays very raw. So at one, with the one minute is like what I'm going to use is that you're back in the moment. You're at one in this moment, you come back to present time and that person probably isn't, that isn't happening right now, but you're still with your head remembering what happened and it's as if it is still happening. Okay, so clean slate. Clean slate. Fresh start. It's like wiping the past. Okay, I'm going to go on. Think about it because I just have a look.  Peace in the family. Okay. So it creates peace, not only in your own mind personally, internally, but allows for there to be peaceful relationships. So peace also in relationships. And we could keep on going. Sounds good. Okay, yet it's not so easy. Sometimes it's not so easy because people have a misunderstanding of thinking what forgiveness is. So I want to go and say what forgiveness is not exactly good. It's not justifying the action not not not not justifying okay, not discounting the pain, not discounting your own pain. So it's not ignoring that you were hurt. It's not. And that same thing. It's not pretending when you're when you're wiping the slate. It's not by pretending or ignoring. It's not pretending. It's not. It's not trying to distort reality. What else is it not? No, you're doing well. Say that again. Right. It's not right. It's not for the other person. Sometimes the other person doesn't really care less. Right, which is pretty sad. But that could be so it's not for the other person. Just want you to know it's not condoning the act. Big distinction. We're making a separation between the act, which we're not justifying, and we're not condoning. But we're looking to see if we could forgive the person very different. Can we let can we move into a place of anger and pain to a place of forgiveness? And there are steps. It does not happen by just saying I forgive the person. Okay, it just even if you want to forgive the person, that's where you start by wanting to forgive the person. It's a right. It's going through a process. It's going through a workshop. Okay, there's no, you know, there's sometimes if it was so easy, then what when it's easy, we call it excusing.  That is simple. I'm sorry, I forgot your birthday. I was in the hospital. So that's not such a big deal. But when you feel that you've you've not it's not just your birthday that's been forgotten, but you've been forgotten. Right. That's when it really hurts. Okay, now when you think of this person, that you're either hurting or being angry about, just take a moment and shut your eyes and feel as you think of this person and what they've done to you and feel what it is in your body. This just feel what happens to your body. Some people have ruminating thoughts. They cannot fall asleep or thinking about it over and over again. What I can't believe they did this, right? You can think that for on and on and on and you get caught up in what I call the drama, which is the lower circle. Some people anybody with stomach aches, headaches, jaw, low energy. Studies have shown that when people are angry, they are less resistant to diseases. People they've done studies with people who recover from cancer. And there is a correlation to anger, grudges, the desire for revenge. They've done studies on that.  Any guesses? Before I go on to the seven stages, I think you'll understand if we look at the picture of the self. It's a model. It's a model that I use in my work and it's helped a lot of people. The center circle is what I call the present day aware adult. We're dignified in that place. We make a choice. When you feel that you're coming from a place of resourcefulness and assertiveness and dignity. And justice, justice is actually even a higher self quality. There's harmony in a certain type of justice. But there's something in the lower circle. And the lower circle here has none of them. But there's many, many, many different qualities that come into the lower circle. And not necessarily they're bad, but it's whether they take you over or not, or whether you use it. For example, there's the pusher. So Julius has been pushing for a number of days to get this event together. If he wouldn't have pushed, we wouldn't be here. But we also call the deadline yesterday at 11. I don't know if he went to bed. But you know, you have to have some place where you can make a limit. If your pusher takes you over, you don't know when to stop. So revenge, where there's a just a desire to hurt someone or to show power over that other person, you hurt me. And I want to show that you don't have power over me. So the desire to show that you don't have power over me. I want to have power over you to hurt. So that's, there's kind of like the teeter-totter syndrome. If you hurt me, I'll hurt you. If you're bad to me, I'll be bad to you. That's what I call the drama back and forth. Now we're going to talk about justice a little bit more further on also. So the lower self in the center and again, it's not bad or right. We're all vulnerable. And we all have insecure thoughts, insecure beliefs. There's all of these places that we've been hurt growing up. And sometimes we develop sunburns. And then some somewhere someone does something. Let's say if someone if someone has waited for their mother continuously to pick them up from kindergarten grade one, grade two, where you have to get picked up and they're waiting out in the rain and their mother comes a half an hour later, sometimes an hour late, sometimes forgets them. You can imagine when her husband comes home 10 minutes late. It's not the same as if she had someone has not had that experience. So he walks through the door and this lady, this is a true story, is furious at him because she feels like she didn't matter to him. A lot of times it's not the event. It's the interpretation of the event. Now, that's the job of the present day where adult to evaluate to also understand whether you have an activated part of you that's in the lower circle, right? So we're going to be talking about the steps where we want to move from being wounded and angry and blaming and judgmental all these qualities that we sometimes serves us by the way, but mostly we get stuck there and they kick us over. They're not serving us and we want to move into the higher circle by going through the present day where adult to move to a place of openheartedness, compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, love, connection, even when it doesn't mean that you're going to reconcile because there's no if you just feel this dynamic is going to happen over and over and over again and you're just going to get hurt over and over and over again and there's no possibility of changing it. It doesn't mean you have to be in relationship but you also don't have to be in pain. You can't forgive someone who's done pain to someone else, okay? Forgiveness is between you and the person that wronged you. If someone's wronged your sister, it's very like it's it's you can't forgive that ex-husband. You can forgive what the ex-husband like that if you feel insulted for yourself. One, it doesn't work. This process doesn't work because they haven't done you wrong. Letting go and forgiving, I gain is for you. It's not for the other person but I will address the whole thing, the need for justice. Maybe I'll just tell you the story of what helps me. It's a story from from the Bible. Joseph was sold by his brothers as a slave and he ended up in Egypt because of misunderstandings. They thought he wanted to be in charge of them because he told them dreams where he was in charge of them. It was understandable that there was a misunderstanding. So they sold him. He goes down to Egypt. He's a slave. It's very interesting. He's put into a dungeon. I mean he has his he has his journey and then the journey is that he's taken out of the dungeon and he's made second to Pharaoh and so when there's a famine in Israel and when it's time that we're exiled to Egypt which is part of God's plan he's there to set up a place for them. If he wouldn't have been there and there would have been a famine they would have gone down there and all been slaves or second class citizens or whatever. He's God put him there in order to provide a haven for them in a safe place to go in the beginning of the exile. Now when the brothers after Jacob dies the brothers are really worried then now Joseph is going to punish them. Right? They sold them and they are very worried and they come to Joseph. This is a straight up narrative in the Bible and say our father said that you should forgive us. It wasn't true because the father never knew the story. Joseph kept it to himself and the brothers certainly didn't tell him and Joseph cries. You think I'm still holding on anger? You don't realize that I understand that you were just tools for God for me to come down here? I forgive you. He put God in the picture. That's on Thursday. I'm going to put God in the picture. It's very different when you have God in the picture and you know that God judges. The continuation of the story that's in the Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur Muxar, I don't remember right now because this isn't part of my notes, is that there's 10 martyrs that we talk about I believe on Yom Kippur. The 10 martyrs are killed in horrible ways and the Zohar brings down that they are the reincarnation of these 10 brothers because for kidnapping it's one of the commandments you shall not steal.  The brothers did not have the death penalty. Later you have to believe in reincarnation but it makes sense and it's actually you don't have to read the Zohar for this. Most Muxar write this down in the footnotes that it's understood to be that these are a reincarnation of those previous brothers. God is in charge of bringing balance into the world. Now if Joseph would have put them in jail or he would have executed them, it wouldn't have looked so good to the Egyptians that the brothers murdering his brothers. They wouldn't have understood the whole story. It would have affected all our Jewish history. So sometimes we have to trust that there's a purpose to something and God is taking care of the justice and we can let go of the justice if we trust that there is a creator who is the ultimate judge that can put everything and put everything in its place. I do have seven steps. I will go through the seven steps some more in depth and not but really the first two steps which is the one is to hold it to recognize that you're angry. If you're not angry and you're not holding them accountable then you don't need to forgive. So it's okay. You need to start with being angry. The second step, hold on for a second, is that there's pain and confusion and it doesn't feel justified. It doesn't feel justified. It doesn't feel justified vis-a-vis the person and it doesn't feel justified. Where's God in the picture? If you don't have that pain you also don't need to go through the process of forgiveness. These two feelings or thoughts, blame is more a thinking part. First there's the pain usually for some people. I mean it depends on people's natures. The first and second really depend on like a person's nature. Some people go into how dare they, he shouldn't, she shouldn't of whatever and some people go ouch that really hurt. They forgot about me. You know everybody else was invited to the the symptom. Why wasn't I invited or you know someone's keeping kosher? Like why couldn't they provide kosher food for me? Is it so hard for them to do it? Like it's like that thing but really what's underneath that suit is like you're feeling like you weren't taken into consideration. That your feelings and your needs don't matter. Bottom line, think about what the pain is. Bottom line, this is my premise, like it's that center inside where you felt I didn't matter to the person. I'm not important to the person because if I would be important this wouldn't have happened. If I lend someone a thousand dollars and they don't return it they're using me or they took advantage of me. How could they do that if they care about me? Right? This is bottom line. If you take it down, down, down, it's because I don't feel that I really matter and that hurts and it hurts to hurt so then we get angry.  I don't want anything to do with that person and then what are we trying to do is protect ourselves from the pain. We make them all wrong and we get very you know self-righteous right? And what is that? That's the lower circle. If you look at the defender we want to be safe. We want to feel safe. We want to feel accepted in our relationships. You know that not forgiving hurts because you're stuck with the pain. The other person could be in Jamaica and not care less or actually be dead. Now I have a friend Claire and I've asked Claire if she would do me a favor and plug in that microphone before I had this microphone. So I'm asking I'll come back to this microphone. I'm asking Claire, Claire would you as my friend would you plug this into me? Now meanwhile she's had a grudge and she's like oh this is my opportunity and she plugs it into a socket that and I'm being shocked and electrocuted.   Absolutely. Thank you what happens when you tell someone I need you to do this and they don't do it and I'm still dancing around.  She plugged it in she went off she thought she did me a favor.  Now just as an aside I asked anybody here has anyone ever has anyone not been hurt and every nobody put up their hand has anybody not hurt anybody either on purpose or by accident or by unconsciousness can anyone of you put up your hand and say I've never hurt anybody sometimes on purpose because we're angry because we were hurt sometimes because we weren't conscious sometimes we don't didn't have time sometimes because we didn't know I mean I've called up people and they'll say oh I thought you forgot about me right I didn't mean for them to be hurt or to feel that they weren't important to me sometimes I don't go to a some club because I don't think I matter to them and then the person will say is everything okay I go you notice I wasn't there it wasn't my intention it was my own it was my own negative thinking about my own value and because of that I hurt someone and they go oh but you're really important to me of course I missed you I thought oh really sometimes because we undervalue ourselves we hurt someone many different ways so recapping step one stage one is know that you're angry and hold them accountable because if you're not holding them accountable if you don't hold them accountable you're not going to be able to let it go like if you just pretend nothing bothers me and how do you know if it's bothering you is is your relationship strained are you calling them less are you answering less are you making less plans to go out with them are you ignoring them are you pretending to be polite because you don't want them to know how angry you are okay so anger anger means you're holding them accountable that's the first circle there in the top of the lower circle if you get stuck there it's lower circle some people can be angry forever really forever okay and I'm sure that hurts and people will justify every everything will have a justification I'm going to just say another thing about this model um the ego likes separation because when you're separated you can be superior well the higher self wants connection and closeness but there is a part of us the lower self the ego that wants to feel self-righteous wants feels powerful and being angry and even there can be a times that we can get identified and enjoy feeling like a victim poor me life's so unfair people are so not nice look at what they do poor me there's people that that's how they get attention to themselves from other people they tell the story over and over and over again I've had a client like she told me a story and I said have you ever shared this with anybody she says yes you're my tenth therapist I go oh she said it's a good story right I said yeah do you want do you want to stay in this story like what what does it serve you so that's the question now how does it serve you not to forgive what are you scared of if you do forgive and you get a minute and a half to think about these two questions now how does it serve you to stay hurt and angry or one of these lower circles blaming self-righteous judgmental you know critical whatever and what's scares you to let go because there's a reason why you haven't let it go and it needs to be acknowledged because if you don't know what it is you're not going to be able to provide another way for yourself I've been doing a lot of work you're trying to do some work because I can't help you forgive someone if you don't do the work okay did every I just want to know did everybody come up with at least one thing because if you don't think better you're not going to find another strategy you're using to hold on to the anger and the pain because you feel safer from being hurt again in the past and or they don't deserve it and they don't okay a hundred percent they don't but when you say they don't that means I'm going to hold on to this yes you understand she turned it on and I'm not letting go and she's whether by accident or not by accident she's living her life and I'm holding on she was nice she took it off some people do not know that it's okay to put it down and find another way from present day and we're adult in the center from a dignified place of to feel safe if people take advantage of you it's probably because you don't know how to set limits or boundaries but it's all their fault they should have known I have a hard time saying no or I'm on the bottom right corner there's the pleaser which one of us like to please people but then we want to be appreciated and then we want to reciprocate it but the person doesn't know that you're looking for something back and they think you love pleasing and so they'll ask you again and they'll ask you again and they might even ask you again because you're saying yes and then you go boy and you're resentful they take advantage of me can I borrow a hundred dollars shirt do you mind I need another hundred dollars shirt another hundred dollars sure then you say oh I've lent you three hundred dollars kind of I don't have three hundred dollars for returning I didn't know it doesn't matter to you since you have a lot of money you didn't say I had a return out I can give you ten dollars now right but you didn't set terms you didn't ask for an IOU that's easier to blame the other so present day of we're adult is that you look can you take care of yourself in a more dignified way in a less painful way what would you need to protect yourself is it speaking your truth most people if you go up to a person and this is what we're so much wanting from the other is we're wanting it from the other and if we can give it is like is the for the person like if you think about it you really want them to acknowledge I've hurt you or I've disappointed you or I wasn't there for you or I let you down and I know and and I really am very remorseful and I'm sorry about it and I was out of my mind I don't know where I was or what I was thinking I was distracted or I was overwhelmed or I was caught up in other things and please forgive me and I will do my best not to do it again now do my best not to do it again doesn't mean that's not going to happen again because how many times have you made resolutions that you're not going to eat chocolate or get to bed on time or not to watch three sessions on the television before going to sleep or many other resolutions that you make for yourself that you really want to do for yourself or resolutions that you've made that you know I will be on time from now on or I'll clean up after myself whatever we promise ourselves or another and it's hard to do it so other people will also state intentions and really mean it because at that moment they are in present day we're adult they're speaking their truth they mean it they intend it and then there's a weakness that comes up and they go into lower circle either they're weak or they're needy or they're scared or they're feeling vulnerable and they do something again from their old habits that doesn't mean that they didn't mean it when they said it just like when I say I know I shouldn't eat chocolate I know that my present day adult is committed to not eating chocolate and my inner child is committed to eating chocolate and sometimes that part wins and sometimes this part wins because I don't live my life at a present day we're adult I don't know too many people who do but what we're trying to do in our own lives is called frequency intensity and duration and this is also what we want to offer others the frequency of how often they fall into lower circle or we fall into lower circle the intensity of it you know like if someone you have an argument with someone and they insult you there's minor insults to major insults right it's the you know the intensity of it like you know or even the intensity of how loud their voice is and the duration of it very many people when they get hurt they withdraw and the person and most couples like this god has a very funny sense of humor the person that needs connection when they're feeling insecure is married often to a person who needs to withdraw when they're feeling insecure right and that so that creates more pain because the person who's wanting connection is trying to take care of their feeling insecure and the person who's withdrawing is trying to take care of their their pain and they have two different strategies for doing it at that moment they could be in lower circle that's worth it that's why I've drawn a circus as many many circles you know in the three ring circus we have many different voices competing for attention so the more often that we can move out from our own drama or appreciate that the other person's in drama and this is like one of the stages i'm not doing this in order is that when you understand that people have their history their vulnerabilities their insecurities their needs and usually except for people who are bad and there are bad people in this world there are evil people either because they're psychopaths or because they've just been so wounded in their life that all they can do is take care of themselves there are evil people but mostly people are not evil mostly people are doing the best they can with the tools that they have coming from the place that they came from isn't that true of you that you're doing the best you can with the tools that you have coming from you have and what tools that you know to do and so some people do not have very good negotiation skills some people do not have very good communication skills some people don't make requests very respectfully usually because they're scared deep down okay i remember my teacher okay stage one is the anger and the blame if you're not angry at them and you're not blaming them and they didn't do something wrong they don't need to forgive them okay of course you're going to be angry and you have justification we're not arguing about that number two you are feeling hurt disappointed pain wounded sad something because if you could blow it off you wouldn't need to be here three there's some kind of fear of moving forward and resolving it you need to identify it number four responsibility and self growth i'm talking about that way more on thursday five understanding compassion and appreciation appreciation is looking for the good side good points there's been a good friend sometimes you're willing to overlook something because of the relationship even though she plugged it in you know i'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt have you heard that expression don't we want the benefit of the doubt when it says love your neighbor like yourself the same things that you would like to offer it so understanding and compassion that means moving from the lower circle that has all the drama and all the pain and all the anger i want you to know there's a lot of people that that's where they feel alive their energy comes from feeling sorry for themselves asking other people to feel sorry for them or being caught up in self-righteous and they don't know who they would be without it if you don't like living there then you need to use your present day wear adult to move up to get compassionate eyes i mean i've been weaving it in in and out as i've been talking we're wanting god to forgive us we're wanting other people to forgive us we're wanting other people to give us the benefit of the doubt that they didn't notice or they didn't know or they were tired or they were busy or they were overwhelmed we want them to understand that about us can we understand that about them that they have their limitations their weaknesses sometimes their culture sometimes their experience people who went through the holocaust we have to have different expectations of people that didn't go to the holocaust people who have who never been married might not be as have i'd be affected in some ways and people who have people who don't have children do have children so many different things the way they were parented or not parented we don't know how people what people have gone through i can tell you myself that i've been invited to people's houses for shovis and it looks perfect i'm shocked when the woman calls me up and says she'd like to make an appointment well what could possibly be wrong everything looked great and then there's a story that for a million dollars i wouldn't have guessed of what's going on you know when the storekeeper yells at you or is rude to you probably his spouse was rude to him that morning or he doesn't know where his child is or they're closing down his business or someone has been diagnosed with cancer we don't know and sometimes even when you ask them they might not even know can we give the people the benefit of the doubt that for where they come from what they've gone through the tools that they have or don't have that they're doing the best they can and might not even know that what they've done is inappropriate the present day we're adult is resourceful active empowered strong clear sees the whole picture in the lower self writes little circles because each voice believes it's totally right every feeling has a belief when people feel self-righteous they have a belief and evidence to support it when a person feels like it's not passive aggressive means i'm upset but i'm not going to let you know about it and i'm going to show you without telling you yeah i'm going to show you without telling you it's not like stepping up and saying i'm really upset when we say we're upset to someone and now it's step one to going through a process this this letter is actually like it creates the possibility for reconciliation if you don't let a person know that you hurt me or i'm sorry that i hurt you then there's distance it's actually you know it says do not hold a grudge in your heart guess where is what you're supposed to do with it not talk to other people about it right that's called lush and horror not to hold it in your heart that's called holding a grudge guess what being revenge was on that same list what are we supposed to do talk to them about it so if you think present day we're adult believes that the other person is not going to be in present day we're adult you do not talk to them it takes two present day aware adults to have a healthy productive conversation if you're in present day we're adult it's not going to be safe to talk to someone who's in drama so you protect yourself with healthy strategies assertive strategies your your responsible says love your neighbor like yourself guess who comes first they don't tell you that in the class in the Torah classes if you love your neighbor like yourself because i am god loving yourself honoring yourself respecting yourself all that is present day aware adult from that place you can love and respect and honor the other but if you're in lower self and you're pouting or you're feeling like a victim or you're in rage you ain't going to have a healthy relationship and you're not going to be very dignified the ideal the ideal but we don't not everybody in every situation is ideal the ideal is that if you can go to the person this is the ideal situation and say i want you to know before russia shun is coming because some people don't know about el but russia shun is coming everybody knows russia shun and everybody knows that it's a time for cleaning the slate you say russia shun is coming and i really wanted to take this opportunity to clear the slate with you and you probably don't know that when you did or didn't do da da da da i was hurt by it and i'm bringing it up because our relationship is important to me and i really want i don't want to be holding on to the resentment or the hurt and that's the reason why i'm bringing it up not because i want to blame you or hurt you i'm not saying that brackets but if you come with that kind of an attitude i'm really doing this because the our relationship is important and i mean feeling like i've been holding on to this resentment or this grievance or this hurt or this disappointment and i my guess is that it's a misunderstanding and i want you to know that often it is a misunderstanding i'm shocked by how many misunderstandings there are i'll tell you um there was a um just an aside i do this a lot but in um in the neighborhood in harnok where i live people put up a sign to invite you the whole building to the simcha because you know you don't i don't know why but that's what that's the custom mostly and the son was up there and there was a neighbor and she was expecting her across the whole neighbor to come the sign is there meanwhile the cross the whole neighbor never saw the sign and she thought she wasn't invited to the simcha so she didn't know because she didn't get an invitation the friend the some the neighbor thought well the sign's up there for everybody to come of course she's coming so meanwhile she doesn't one thinks i wasn't invited and she's very hurt and the other one thinks she didn't come to my simcha and she's very hurt well now they don't say hello on the on the staircase anymore they don't come out and borrow sugar from each other anymore they don't come over friday night to talk anymore like when the men go off the show each one thinking that the other one's doing it they happen just like again like god grand designer they both recline some mind they both tell me the story and i realize i believe you live i believe you live ah same people so i confidentiality i can't tell them that i know what happened but i could convince them that perhaps there's a misunderstanding both of them were a hundred percent sure that their interpretation interpretation was a hundred percent correct so unless you're willing to take an oath that there's no possibility of a misunderstanding and i can't tell you how creative misunderstandings are i'm waiting for someone on brand street and harm enough we make up brand street and high tide well this was like the first week that i moved in i know where brand street and high tide is and i'm standing there meanwhile brand street is a crescent and both sides are high tide and brand state and this is before cell phones well eventually i go home and i'm quite upset really underneath the upset is that i feel like the person stood me up right i'm hurt but i'm feeling very upset well i'm not going to call the person the person stood me up they should call me and apologize or give me an explanation the other person's upset that i'm not at the right place i don't know why we both assume the two wrong places but it happens and that's a simple physical misunderstanding that you're in the wrong like and you don't know you're having a misunderstanding if i would have known that brand street comes out in two different ends which obviously i learned often we learn things the hard way so this is the thing about down the hospice giving the benefit of the doubt that perhaps the person might have misunderstood you you know when you when you're wearing gray glasses where nobody likes me you put on these glasses and you know what you see nobody likes you if you're wearing black if you're wearing a sign kick me people will kick you there's always somebody that's going to oblige if you have people take advantage of me people will take advantage of you if you have a belief you have a certain type of energy or a certain way of being and it will happen and it will prove you right now then you'll say see i'm right people take advantage of me but that's because you're a pleaser and you can't and you have trouble saying no or you have a hard time setting limits or whatever okay from when you get to a place where you've gone through all these other steps and now we get to six would you really want would you like a relationship with this person or don't you want a relationship with the person guess what it takes to you can decide you don't like the way they are you can let go of the pain and not want to be with them you don't have to be angry or painful or judging them you can say i don't like a person that i can't depend on because they're probably not going to change so much to be dependable that's really what you need you don't have to be with someone who is abusive you don't have to be unless certain other needs are being met and then it's your choice because you've chosen that even though it's abusive and you don't like the abuse but there are other payoffs there are other needs that are being met and so you're going to put up with it but then just take responsibility that you've chosen to do it because there are other needs that are being met and that's your decision and your choice and when anybody on the outside will look and say well why do you put up with that because they see one part they don't see the whole picture nobody sees the whole picture and you know what even you don't see the whole picture so it's your choice but once you make a choice accept it don't keep you don't have to hold yourself as a victim or the other one if you remember you can say i don't like this behavior but overall it gives me security or gives me status or gives me a house whatever it is then appreciate it appreciate why you're staying there that let's go of your pain and let's go of your anger you know what things might actually be a little bit less tense inside of you at least it's okay present day where adult evaluates the whole picture and we can never judge why someone decides a certain way but it's your decision you take responsibility for it so next stage six is you look at what your intentions are what are your needs are can you make a request for it can you negotiate for it or not and if you can't is is it still do you still want to be in a relationship your choice which leads when you're evaluating about what your intentions are what your wishes are what your needs are then you can still let go of the pain you can forgive the person for doing the best they can with compassionate eyes you can forgive yourself that you're doing the best you can in the circumstances that you're in and then you decide whether you reconcile or you don't reconcile does a person have to be married to an alcoholic does someone have to be married to someone's abusive does someone have to be with an abusive can be verbal or physical it's your choice no there's the um there's there's there's a thing about being giving people the benefit of the dealt means like not to be judging them that they did something deliberately bad deliberately bad it's like saying like the person is doing the best they can with the tools that they have available you don't have to like them but you don't hate them there will be people that like you a lot there will be people that dislike you a lot there will be people that you like a lot people that you will dislike a lot but that's different than hating them hate is poison that hurts you it's okay to not to reconcile we can forgive the definition of forgiveness with never reconciliation you can look at any dictionary you can forgive alone that means someone owes you a thousand dollars and you might realize that they just don't have the where for all to give it back now you could just keep them in debt and you can feel like they're owing you the money and you can be resentful and they can feel that like they can feel that you're resenting them and then they can end up feeling embarrassed to see you and they just don't have the money possible so now you don't have the money you don't have the relationship have you won now if you really trust that they don't have the money and they if they could they would so why would you want to lose the relationship as well as a thousand dollars and pray for them to win the lottery or to get a job you know but there's a lot of people that borrow with the full intention of paying back and they want to pay back and they're embarrassed that they're not paying back and it hurts them not paying back and now they're embarrassed and you're angry and it's just more pain now there's another person that just keeps on borrowing money and that you and they're using it for drugs so they're not looking for a job and you're resenting them and they feel like you know they're just not doing it but then why did you keep on you know there's one loan and you don't get it back and you realize they're not responsible why did you lend them the second sometimes we set ourselves up anything that you do from the higher circle is always guaranteed to be a win-win it's always a win-win now even if you decide not to reconcile with the other person just the very fact that they know that you're not hating them or grudging against them or um wishing them that's already a service you freed like it's me letting go of this cord is letting it go like we're no longer attached through negativity right it creates more positive energy in this world by just letting go of the negativity and the other person is does feel it i want you to know like i've been doing this workshop for over 20 years and often everybody of you have thought about somebody will be interested come back and tell me if anything shifts between now and even thursday people have told me that they've gone home and on their answering machine from people that they haven't heard from for years there's a call saying you know i'd like to talk to you because you shift your energy where you're more open-hearted people feel it


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So, I'm Mindy Sue. I'm currently a student at Harvard Graduate School of Design. I'm also a summer fellow at the Internet Archive and an incoming fellow at the Berkman Client Center. If you just think of a library, which is the most comprehensive online archive you might think of, like archive.org, then a microsite might be a book within that library. If you have it embedded within a larger collection, it's really hard to surface curated content. It's really hard to show comprehensive material about that publication and it's really hard to showcase the unique qualities of that publication because you have to use this templated version where you have to use the same book reader, you have to use the same meta tag. So then thinking about UX within these online spaces, you can try to relate it to physical experiences. So, typically when you are moving through an online library or online archive, you lose the sense of serendipitous discovery that you might have in a physical library because everything is so flat there is no depth on the screen. What I mean by that is if you go to the library, you have bookshelves nested next to each other, you have shelves stacked on top of each other, you have books buried in bin. There are all these different levels of hierarchy so you naturally stumble upon things really easily and it's really difficult to do that in a continuous school. So if you then try to embed the sensitive discovery into an interface, how do you then make a mirror like the physical act of searching? You can do that and navigate through those things by focusing on the interface and by talking to people whose voices typically aren't considered legitimate within sort of institutional structures. My larger research goals relate primarily to accessibility of archives. So how can we gear local communities and people who maybe don't know the technicalities of archival practice to be able to document their own histories and explain the various conditions with which they interpret that history and how they might change it. So we're trying to push away from inherited knowledge and more towards talking about these conditions of our own experiences. That then is really difficult because we have to kind of question these westernized ideas of what is considered legitimate in the eyes of historical subjects and how we can kind of expand outside of that. If you're able to create a network of archives and you invite local communities or people who don't have training to archive their histories, how can you then connect that to these large historical frameworks and show the pairings between present day and past? The people who make the archive hold a lot of responsibility. That's quite clear. But I think it's more important to embed this criticality and how people engage with these archives or online platform. We cannot assume that one person's voice is correct. We have to analyze that with our own conditions and see ourselves as these constructed subchecks in this larger timeline.


Welcome to the micro of dead sink today is Wednesday the 17th of November yes, and Derek's kicking it off go Derek All right, so yes, I've been working on mechanical cat for essentially all week and today I Was essentially spending my time in the audio chamber For those of you that have actually seen the dev kit audio chamber or the 3d print version, you know It was kind of designed to actually be printed as one part, but it's totally not moldable So I have to split that up into front and the back and get all the draft angles right and make sure that the The holes for the mounting of the speaker Are in alignment with the draft and the direction of pull of the mold and all that stuff so Have to turn it from a 3d designed for 3d printing to design for injectable Yeah, that's what I've been working on. Let's get that audio chamber Squared away. Yeah, and I'll be continued to work on the cat stuff again tomorrow.  I got some PR review for you, mr. Gazzling and It's some stuff with the high on the hiring front with the test for the server side developer and this afternoon I have been Working on the startup sequence specifically The mycroft ready portion of it I have some documentation put together in the startup sequence doc and I pointed to it in Matter most so you'll take a look at that and Tell me if I'm crazy. I'll be awesome Tomorrow will be more startup sequence stuff beautiful Ken Smith Okay, so I attended the open Voice meeting this morning. I reviewed Chris's document He was just discussing process and device status section I communicate with panic core. I'm still working on the debuffs and the statuses I suspect they have a bug in their container. So they're investigating that And uh, right now it looks like I get about three state changes. So I don't know how that's I'm figuring out how it's going to map into what we're looking for, but uh Yeah, and I'll be continuing to work on that beautiful um Yes, thanks for the reviews chris. I um, I just Pushed some prs to micro skills to put the new duck duck go and mark two skills into the Into the marketplace. So they they will go out onto all devices, but we should also Chuck them in that um in the mark two branch um The wool from I did a bunch of work on the wool from um skill Just tidying up What I'd done and uh getting the sort of Previously there was two wool from clients within the skill. Um, one if you, you know, had a local api key and the other if you um We're using selene But then I meant that, you know, you kind of had to keep the two in sync and and all that sort of stuff. So I I merged them into one that Just changes where it calls based on whether you have an api key local api key defined or not um I Have have mostly been testing it using the local api key And because I was having trouble with the the v2 endpoint on selene and um I thought it was my code Which, you know, there is nothing wrong with the v2 endpoint on selene. It's just that it was originally coded to provide To only take an input query and there's a bunch of other parameters that are accepted by the by the wool from endpoint that we can use Um, you know, one of which is like Returning jason instead of xml and that sort of thing And so I've kind of done the skill based on the assumption that I could use those things um Which isn't necessarily the case. So I was thinking about uh Doing some updates to that endpoint. Um But I also noticed that there was a suggestion to change the name of it because currently it's called w a So then I contemplated Yeah, really really a descriptive name there, right w a um It's the west Australian endpoint um So, yeah, so then I I thought rather than american rather than break. Yeah, washington washington endpoint um rather than break the You know do a breaking change on that Or writing a bunch of code to like, you know, check if if you know, it's in the old format Then or you know, if it doesn't have any of the new stuff then Use the old format and blah blah blah that maybe would just add a new endpoint and call the w a1 deprecated or something and you know so If you're sort of throw that as an idea and if you're happy with that, I'll I'll do a pf that today great um Yeah, we're not going to use the simple endpoint in the end. Um, I've left it in there just like in the skill as well in case someone wants to use it, but um, it provides really Ugly output so really detailed amazing stuff, but um Just not visually appealing at all So, yeah um I think that's about It um Yeah, I've been spending a fair bit of time Writing code, so I want to spend a fair bit of the rest of the week getting back in Looking at community prs and things all right anything else from anyone Well, will we call it a day? Womp womp cool. All right Did you stick around for just a second? Yes, can do All right, good After doing good evening and good night


The storm dialer is incredible. The quality of phone numbers are incredible. This is Ricky Kehles. He's just calling us by hello. This is what I believe. I'm sharing that with you for nothing.  It's all about tone. The reason people don't respond to you like that is because you haven't been doing it long enough. It's not because they're not friendly. It's because you haven't made as many calls as me and you don't understand the flow. Read them over the phone. Pay attention and then flow the conversation. Hello? Hey, Ms. Hunter. Yes. Hey, this is Ricky Kuru, 3-Mex of Orange Beach. How are you doing? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm doing good. We're probably getting good weather down here. It's been nuts this year. Well, I didn't want to take up too much of your time today, but there's only one unit for sell at Royal Palms. And I was just calling to see if there's anything in the world I could do for you guys today. You know what, Ricky? I'm going to pass you on to my husband. OK. He doesn't want the time though. I'm the one who wants to sell the condo. You should spend time with your husband. So? If he doesn't want to. So you want to sell and he doesn't? I won't sell and he doesn't. Oh, OK. What's his hold up? He just... So you have time to just give him a hello. How are you doing? How are we going to establish confidence? Absolutely. We're finally getting some good weather down here, man. It's been a crazy year. Well, my son was just down there with his family every year since the old spill has been a record year with tourism down here.  You know, that's what I want to hear. Good talking to you, man. Thank you. I would like to call you if you could work for me. I would like to pay off. I would love to. When are you coming down? And we'll figure out a good day in time for me to come over and check it out. And we'll get it straight. Oh, thank you. Yes, ma'am. Have a good day. Have a good time. All right. Well, it sounds like I'm their guy when they decide to do something. This stuff is easy. This is not hard. Do exactly the way I'm doing it. Call people up. See how they're doing it. See if they're enjoying the day. Tell them you don't want to take it too much of your time. House around the corner sold. Didn't know if there was anything they could do to help you. It's not brain surgery. Hey, Steve. Yes? This is Ricky Kruth, Remax of Orange Beach. How you doing? Good, Ricky. What's up? Man, just trying to enjoy the day. It's kind of cloudy. Hey, I didn't want to take up too much of your time. Did your house there expire? I'm great at it. Is there anything I can do to help you? Yeah, so it. What's the story on it? I might have to sell it. What's the story? What's on me? I might have to hit it. Unless it looked too high. Yeah. Yeah. We were the only one. We were the only thing for a year. Right. And Zillow says it's worth what we were asking. And Zillow lies. Yeah, I know. We're running it right now, and we have guaranteed $35,000 a year take-home income. Yeah. Yeah, you're just in a situation where if you sell it good, if not, you'll collect rent. I'm meeting with my partner. We're going to discuss options. But I don't really know exactly what to do. Do you want me to go down and maybe evaluate it to give you what the realistic value is? And that way you guys can make a real decision if you want to sell it or keep it? Yeah, you could. I'm not going to commit to it. Yeah. I can get, um. No, yeah, yeah, I can go whenever they check out or end-of-point guess or whatever. See if I can tell you when that might be. All right. Yeah, I mean, I've owned seven units at the Beach Club over the years. Nice. But they were all condos. Yeah, yeah. I've owned it in, you know, down there, I've owned it in Deans and in the Beach Club. Right, right. I think I want to say I saw, I want to say I showed you this place a while back. Well, yeah. I mean, I remember it specifically. I remember it specifically. Like, I know how nice it is. So just let me do some market research and I'll get back with you. Man, I had some people that really liked it, actually. But they never did anything. So it's not a, you know, it's pretty good. Pretty good, yeah. Give me a market analysis and call me back. All right, yeah, I'll be back with you, man. All right, ready? Later, bud. OK, guys, you see how that went? I already saw the property. I showed it when it was listed. It's a really nice place for $5.25. It's overpriced. That's the problem. But he wants me to give him a true CMA on it. So I'm going to do that and go down that road. The whole goal with real estate is to accumulate clients that want to do business with you.


Welcome to Rail Gear Reviews. I'm Mark from RVLove and today we're talking about the SureGuard 34850 Full Protection Portable. Stay tuned. Welcome back to Rail Gear Reviews. Again, today we're talking about the Southwire SureGuard Full Protection Portable. What this is is it's basically a product that is built to protect your RV from a power pedestal that has bad power coming through it. When you have a regular house, you might have really consistent power, but in RV parks it's not necessarily the case. RV parks, because there's such varying loads on them and some of the parks are older, you sometimes see some really inconsistent electrical current. That's what this is for is to protect you from that bad current, because if you have bad current coming into your RV, it could be damaging any of your household appliances like microwaves, air conditioners, computers, televisions, or any other electronic equipment. The product is about 5 inches by 22 inches by 4 inches. SureGuard makes a lot of different surge protectors and other electronic components. This particular one, the 34850, is built for a 50 amp RV. They make one that's very similar, that's for a 30 amp, that is also a full protection. They also have a hardwired version which are permanently wired to the RV. This portable version is much easier to use and that you can just plug it in as though it's an extension of your regular cord without needing an electrician or professional to install it into your RV. Being a full protection model, this will protect from open neutral, open ground, a miswired pedestal, reverse polarity. This will also protect you against if the voltage gets too low or too high. So the voltage is meant to be around 120, so if the voltage gets below 102 or above 132 for more than 8 seconds, this unit will shut off all the power to your RV to protect it from damaging any of the electronics in your RV. Now when this does automatically shut off, it will try and restart as soon as the voltage restores to the correct voltage level, but it will not restart for at least 128 seconds because that allows time for your air conditioning units to release the pressure so it doesn't cause any damage by coming on and off too quickly. The 128 second delay is also in effect any time you plug this in because the unit is doing diagnostics on the electrical current that it's receiving before sending it through it to your RV. This particular unit also has the ability to turn off if the electrical outlet gets too hot. If you get too hot of an outlet, it could eventually be working its way through your system and damage it and this is the only one that I'm aware of that has that feature. It's also weather resistant, that means it's fine to be out in the rain but you wouldn't want to submerge it. You wouldn't want to leave this out in a way that could allow it to get submerged underwater because that could cause damage. So as I mentioned this is super easy to use. You just plug this into the receptacle and then plug your RV cord into this end but we'll go ahead and show it. In effect we'll go plug it into the outlet and show you how this works. Alright so here we are outside.  You always want to have all the breakers turned off before you plug anything into it to avoid any arcing. Alright once the breakers are turned off you simply plug the surge guard into the outlet and then plug in your RV cord into the other end of the surge guard and turn on the breaker. The easiest is that. You can see here that this red light is blinking that's indicating that the unit is doing its diagnostic testing to make sure that the current is okay. You'll see the delay right here and it'll be counting up to 128 seconds. Once it reaches that 128 seconds you usually hear a little click and that will indicate that it's ready to send power to your RV that it has checked the power and it's safe to send your RV.  You can also see in this LED display now that it's up and running and this being a 50 amp circuit it has line 1 and line 2 it's showing you the amount of current that's coming in on both line 1 and line 2 showing the amount of volts and the amps that are currently being drawn. If this was a 30 amp unit it would have only been giving us information for line 1 because a 30 amp circuit does not have two full live circuits like this 50 amp. One of the advantages of the hardwired version is that once it's hardwired inside your RV obviously it's nice and secure and in an enclosed environment. This portable version is weather resistant so it's fine to be outside but unfortunately every once in a while one of these can get stolen by a less scrupulous individual. So we decided to buy a lock hasp which is basically a plastic case that enables you to lock the surge guard to your RV cord which then prevents any unauthorized removal of your surge guard from the post. It's really simple to put together. You simply put these two, slide the lock hasp together after it's overlapping the cord and then you have a simple lock that you run through this side of it and that will keep it in place. Even though our RV came with a transfer switch that also has some power protection we still wanted to have one of these external surge guards prevent the power from coming into the coach and causing any damage. We really liked the idea of having this external checking the power before it ever gets to our RV. If you don't have a built-in surge protector in your RV then one of these units becomes far more important. I still think it's a great addition even if you do have built-in surge protection and that's why we started shopping one of these. We had narrowed down to this brand and so when this brand reached out to road gear reviews and asked if we'd like to test one of these units we jumped on the opportunity so we're very excited to have this and check it out and share it with you all. So what do I like about our surge guard? I love that it's 50 amp capable and that it still works even if I have a 30 amp hook up I can still use this by using a dog bone to reduce from 30 amp to the 50 amp cord and this will still be a good diagnostic tool to make sure that the power that's coming in is still good power. I really like that this unit is mounted outside of the RV so it protects any so if there's ever any really extreme surge that completely destroys the surge guard I know it stops out at the pedestal with this unit it does never even makes it into the RV. I think that's a nice additional bonus. I love that this is portable so if I ever change RVs this can be easily unlocked from my power cord and brought to my new RV and I continue to have this long term because this should last a very long time. I like the delay start and that it's consistently checking the power at all times. The 128 seconds that it takes before providing power to RV make sure that the energy is nice and clean before it comes on. I also like that delay feature because if we ever have a power outage which in RV parks actually happens far more frequently than we ever had in our stick and break home but anytime you lose power it's going to have that nice 128 second delay before it turns power back on which protects our appliances especially our AC units that need time to release pressure before restarting and I don't know if you've ever experienced this but when I've had power outages at home and in the RV parks sometimes it comes on very briefly and then right back off and by having 128 second delay it ensures that you're going to have a more stable energy before it sends any energy into your RV. I really like the digital readout that at any time I can walk out and see how it's going and see what the energy is looking like coming into RV and I like that it's 24-7 sitting out there protecting from any crazy surges or low or high voltage. In RV parks, especially older RV parks with a little less robust electricity systems, they can easily be overrun in the summers especially when you have a lot of big RVs running two and even three air conditioning units and those older parks really aren't meant for the kind of energy requirements of some of the modern coaches. When we first started RVing I was just banking on the fact that I had the built-in Surge Guard but after talking to a couple electricians and seeing their lack of faith in RV Park electrical systems it made me that much more excited about having an external unit to give us the extra protection. Alright, well that was a quick review of the Southwire Surge Guard 34850 full protection portable. I hope you found this informative and useful. We'll of course put links to this product in the description below. 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