Former Army Captain Burdell Vanson was another ripped rookie. Wow! One, two, one, go! Here he goes. Looking solid. And solid is a very good descriptive word for this man because he is built like a tank.  This is Adana. Welcome back to my channel. So I have another true life series for you guys and I'm really excited about this one. If you guys are new to my channel and you have not subscribed as yet, please go ahead and do so right now. Join me on this journey. If you have not seen my true life series, I have a playlist of all the different true life series that I have done.  But this true life is going to be about Burdell Vanson. He is a PA who also competed in American Ninja Warrior. What? That is crazy. I'm really excited to bring this one to you. I hope you guys are inspired by it. I know I'm excited about it. I'm ready to see what he has to say and without further ado because I know you can't wait either. I introduce you guys to Burdell Vanson. Hello. My name is Burdell Vanson. I'm a PA and I was a contestant on this year's season of American Ninja Warrior. And this is my true life. I decided to go into the military because I was a kid from South Carolina, you know, always close to home, but I always had the bug to travel. I wanted to seek new experiences and have an adventure, to be quite honest. And, you know, serving my country and the army I saw was a path to fulfill a bigger role in life as well as meet that need to seek new experiences. I have been to war. I was deployed twice with my unit out of Schofield Barracks. My first deployment was 12 months in Afghanistan in the Kandahar province. And that was my job as a medical service officer leading the medical platoon. I did that for 12 months and thankfully deployed back safely. I then was back on the island for just under a year and then got deployed again. So I did a second deployment to Iraq. And that was at Kirkhook Air Force Base and there I was an assistant operations officer for a brigade support battalion. And in that role I was performed as a tactical operations officer. So I was the guy you see in the movies that was in the command center kind of providing the monitoring of the battlefield situation for my unit and had to give the briefings to the higher officer whenever he walked into the room. So just to speak about that I had a rough kind of family time of my life. My father passed away from poor health. He had a lot of the chronic metabolic disease that sort of flipped the pretty much the American community but especially the African American community. And so my father eventually succained to his metabolic conditions and had kidney failure and was on dialysis and eventually was put on hospice and passed away. And so when this happened I really let the spark in me to pull back on my previous interest in medicine to begin with. And that's when I said you know I think I'm going to pursue PA and it just let the spark in me to actually apply and pursue a profession where I would be helping people by passing on medical knowledge and hopefully save someone else's father from making the same poor life decisions that my dad made. So he can be there for his kids. Now I'm currently working in occupational medicine where it's really a combination of everything I've done in the past. Doing annual physicals and doing screening for work. Pool is definitely on my primary care experience and then obviously people are getting hurt on the job. And a lot of it is orthopedics so I pull heavily on my orthopedic experience and then there's also maltramas that I manage as well. And so I pull my emergency med experience. So it seems like looking backwards connecting all the dots have led me to where I am right now and as you know I'm in a very nice position where you know I have my own office and I'm working in a clinic and you know I have a varied experience of a patient population and I'm currently happy in my new position. You know I think this is a problem that most people that are involved in fitness face we only have 24 hours a day you have to sleep. Most of us you know have to work and make money so you're really finding time or making time whenever you can in order to get your fitness goals in. And I say it comes in phases but there are times in my life when it was just my wife and I you know I'm able to go to the gym for two or three hours on a weekend or maybe early in the morning before work or even after work before she gets home. But now that we have a really young baby we have a seven month old son now and so life has changed obviously. So if you see behind me I actually put a pull up tower in my office so you know I have different routines depending on the day where maybe I'll go knock off a set of pull ups and dips and different various exercises in between patients. So it's really about being creative and making the time whenever you can in life. My wife is actually a PA as well and then so I think we have a pretty good balance obviously we have family help to help with with our little one here so we have grandma helping out with the baby and then we have a nanny as well to assist us. So I'd say that it's a very nice dynamic having a partner that's also a PA for anyone else that might be listening and can probably attest having a partner in medicine as well so you too can balance things up with each other and then obviously I'm able to discuss medicine with her and she with I and we can have that mutual understanding. So it's been great. It's been a great dynamic in the relationship. I remember being in the surgical suite when I was in orthopedic PA I was speaking with one of the anesthesiologists about American Ninja Warrior and he said to me you know you should really consider rock climbing because a lot of the better ninjas have those rock climbing skills. So that was about three years ago actually and I went rock climbing with with my kai league and I fell in love with rock climbing fell in love with that sport and realized you know I'm a bigger athlete compared to a lot of the ninjas on the show I'm you know maybe 5'11 on a good day and and I currently weigh over 205 I'm between 205 probably 208 so I'm definitely on the heavier side of a ninja a lot of that is muscle obviously and it's functional but still it's it's a different level of fitness and you have to train for a lot of the small forearm and hand and finger tendon spring and those small muscles in order to perform a lot of the feats and those obstacles I competed in many different local ninja leagues just to get experience also just doing rigorous training at the gym leading up to the show I was fortunate enough to be chosen out of tens of thousands of applicants across the country I trained really hard and had my shot at the show the hardest part about being on the show was really the timeline a lot of people don't know it's not early evening when when you're actually filming it's it's very late at night so I think my run was actually I think my first run was one or two o'clock in the morning so you're you're a little bit off of your cycle so a veteran move and I've learned this now as to maybe a week before filming is to kind of change your sleep cycle so that you can readjust and be better prepared to exert yourself physically in the middle of the night one rookie mistake I made so definitely something I hope if they have me back next year I have the ability to do that and be better prepared for the competition itself so the most rewarding part of the show for me I'd say was right when I was standing on the stairs about to walk up on the platform for the qualifier night and so they're they're telling me to get ready and I just got into a nice mental space it was very serene I was very calm I just closed my eyes and I and I thought back to my journey you know everything I've done in my life to get me to that point you know I'm finally living part of my dream to actually have the opportunity to compete on American Ninja Warrior and be on that grand stage and so I I would be quite honest about a little emotional you know almost started crying before I even ran the course because I was just so happy that all of the work I've done and the preparation paid off and I earned a spot to prove myself and I had the opportunity to actually get on that grand stage so that was the most actually the most rewarding part of the run so this is this is a great question I would say that you know I it's flattering to hear I hope that I'm inspiring people to maybe make positive changes in their life I embrace that fully whole heartedly I'd say it's it's my mission in life and I think anyone that wants to pursue medicine can relate to that obviously we choose this profession which isn't easy which is very tough actually and we do that in order to serve as not just role models but to be teachers and in order to lead people I'd say the the main job as a PA or medical provider is to be a leader not just in your own life but in other people's lives in order to help them reach their goals obviously of medical fitness and being of sound mind and body so that they can go on and live their lives and make a difference in other people's lives I am honored if anyone thinks I'm any speck of inspiration or hope or if I can inspire anyone to make positive change in their life just my key takeaway in order to achieve anything in life do something every day that's going to move you closer to your goal and I think we all get caught up that in order to make a difference or to achieve something big you have to make a big move you know it's it's it's all about putting it all out there and in a short amount of time and achieving something great whereas the reality is every worthy goal is actually comprised of many many small steps I mean sometimes maybe it takes a lifetime right or maybe it takes a year everyone's story is going to be a little bit different and based on their goal but my main point for everyone to take away is do something every day it only has to be one little thing one little step we've all heard that that saying the journey of a thousand miles starts with single step it can be done one step at a time every day do something small something measurable that isn't going to overwhelm you to help you meet your goal in life whatever that is and that can be building your your body to meet some type of physical goal obviously becoming a PA going through a PA school every single day you know you're studying a little bit in order to layer that medical knowledge on board I mean the list really goes on I think this can be broken down and apply to anything that you're aspiring to achieve in life oh my gosh first off I just want to thank Virdell thank you so much for your service to the country as well as your family service because I'm pretty sure like it's a family thing so just want to thank you so much for that but secondly thank you for doing this true life because I'm sure that there are many people who look at American Dewarri and they're like oh man like I wish I could do that and you know your your video right now is inspiring them to be like yes I can't I just have to take small steps and that is one thing that I took away from this I really hope that everyone kind of takes that away as well it's just kind of doing little things to get you to the goal that you want to be at because a lot of times we want to kind of just skip the line you know jump a few steps further than where we need to be and we need to be able to kind of just trust in the process and do those little things each day just do one little thing every day to take you closer to the goal that you want and so I'm that's my takeaway because even now in clinical year of PA school that's what I'm doing one step every day as I'm seeing more and more patience as I'm doing more and more questions it's getting me closer to my goal of being a PA so I'm really excited about that message that you gave me it's something that I'm gonna hold dear to I just have to commend you on that dedication man like having the pull-up bar in your office doing pull-up sets in between patients that's amazing and that has inspired me to do more myself with respect to my you know physical activity because you always like you always make excuses but instead of making excuses you need to make the time to do the work so thank you for that as well really really appreciate that y'all if y'all didn't get anything from this I don't know what y'all was watching but I definitely got a lot really appreciate you taking the time out to talk to us about this stuff being an American Ninja Warrior contested and also being a PA and being a veteran I commend you on all of those it's amazing so if you can do all these things we have no excuse right just continue to take the little steps for those of you who are interested in being an American Ninja Warrior go do some rock climbing if you're interested in being a PA go ahead and take the necessary small steps to that be it a class be it some type of training be it studying be taking a training course to pass the GRE whatever it may be take those steps do what you need to do and you'll get there alright you guys thank you guys so much for watching if you have any questions please leave it in the comment section below please please please be sure to go follow Verdell on all of his different social media sites support this man he's doing some great things also if you haven't already done so go ahead and subscribe to my channel and follow me on Instagram at adana the PA I thank you guys so much for joining me on this journey and I will talk to you guys next time bye I appreciate you guys allowing me the opportunity to share my story I do I'm a fan of your program actually you know I was really pleased with the with the quality of the videos so I hope you know I can help meet your intent of reaching out to people interested in the PA profession and there's anything else I can do to be of service for what you're trying to accomplish in life let me know alright guys thank you very much


Hello and welcome to the session nine of our reading of what is philosophy by Deleuze and Gattari and today I would like to propose a pause. The idea is that we've been reading the book in a way that might seem like a monologue although many of you namely on Facebook have shown their interest but Deleuze and Gattari connect philosophy to the earth, to a geography, to a territorialization and although they criticize the idea of debate in order to reach a consensus they certainly are not adverse to the idea of a co-creation of a co- territorialization and this is why I would like to propose a pause and ask a question. So the question is can a unifying principle be imminent, right? So why am I proposing a question here? Well precisely to see if it generates some form of embodiment, a responsive embodiment on your side, on your side as a matter of size I would like to see either on Facebook or YouTube or by email what have you I would like to see ten answers, reflections, conceptualizations on that question. So I repeat the question which is of course related to the reading that we've done and the rest of the book can a unifying principle be imminent? All right and well of course if I see that there are no responses I will continue my work but perhaps I will pause this videos until I sense there's some that the territory is shared. Thank you. I repeat the question can a unifying principle be imminent?


What? Still none of this can go.  General basis of it now. We've jumped halfway and then we went in. The decision this side, I think would be this. Get across a bit more, Drew. He's got like 10 guys.


Wonderful. Well, as I said, good day everyone and welcome to today's session. The topic is using the query loop block and category templates. And I thought I'll first do a bit of an introduction and then we can go to my test websites and we can see things in action. So let's first look at the learning outcomes for today. Number one, we will be defining query loops and then we will learn how to modify the query loop block as well as use patterns.  And then we will also define category templates and then also add and modify a category template. So let's start with the query loop block. So what is the query loop block? It's a powerful block that can be used to display posts based on specified parameters. So they can of course just be normal block posts but the query loop block can also be used to display reviews or recipes or even reviews as an example. So I actually decided to take a screenshot of a news website, this is from The Guardian. And here we can actually see three different query loop blocks that have been used to display articles or posts. So at the top, you'll see the first query loop block and this is of course the featured article. And then bottom left, we have a query loop block with four articles and then bottom right, we have another query loop block that basically just displays one article. And of course they will have specified parameters displaying the articles that they want to in that query loop block. Another example I have here is from a food website or a recipe website. And here we will see two different query loop blocks have been used. The first one only displays food related to New England food and the second one or the recipes year will be related to puff pastry or pastry treats. That brings us to the next topic for today and that's category templates. So what are these? So a category template is a framework or a page layout for displaying a list of posts in a specific category. So let me explain further. When viewers click on a link to one of the categories on your site that are taken to a page listing the posts in that particular category. So for example, let's say you have a category named sports. If somebody clicks on sports, they will be taken to a page with all the articles related to that category or like a category of archive. And the category template allows you to decide how you want that archive page to look. You can change the heading, you can change or the header, you can change the footer, you can even change how you want those posts to be displayed. And that is of course something we will look at a bit later, but here are also two examples to kind of see what I mean. So on this site, I clicked on Japanese recipes and it took me to this archive page. And here you will notice all these recipes are related to Japanese cuisine and you will see it's got a unique header or banner here at the top. And of course here I clicked on the curry recipe or curry category and here we will see all the recipes that's related to curry and also then a unique banner or header. All right, so without further ado, let's jump to my test website and start looking at the query loop block. All right, so let's first go to this test website and let's add a query loop block. Now, as I said, query loop block can be used on a blog page. It can be used on a page where you want to review books or movies or whatever it may be. So let's just kind of see how it works. So I'm gonna use the sash command forward slash and then query loop. And when you select this block, you have an option between choosing patterns or starting blank. So let's say for example, you wanna start blank and you can start by, let's say, you only want to see the title and excerpt or let's undo and say you wanna start with an image, a date and a title. Or of course, you can start with a pattern. And I wanna of course start with a pattern because all the work has basically been done for me. When I select a pattern, I can just start modifying it to meet my needs. So for this example, let's select this pattern called grid of posts. All right, now before I continue, I wanna talk about posts because of course the query loop block displays posts. We don't add any content to the query loop block. The query loop block is just a way for us to display these posts. All right, so we'll get back to our query loop block now but just as a reminder, if I go to my dashboard and I go to posts, we will notice here are all my blog posts that I've written and I've published. And you will notice on the left, we have the title and then the author, the person who wrote the article or the blog post. And then we've got categories and we've got tags. So let's just open health 101. So here you will notice the title and I've added the content and here bottom right, I've added the featured image. So the image that you see when you add the query loop block and you choose the post featured image, this is the image that gets pulled in. All right, so if I return, we know that below posts will see categories and tags. And I thought it was important to talk about categories and tags as well. So categories and tags are two primary ways to group content on a WordPress site. So in simple terms, categories are general labels while tags are more specific, describing your post in more detail. So categories, again, are meant for broad grouping of your posts and categories are meant to describe specific details of your post. So I always think of this example. Let's say for example, you write a blog post about Michael Phelps who won a gold medal at the Rio Olympics. So I might decide the category, the category for that blog post will be sports, right? But then the tags can be swimming, Michael Phelps, gold, Rio. So we've got the broad category, sports, and then we've got the tag that basically gives you a better description of the article. And of course, your tags and categories are important, especially when you start using taxonomies to display specific content. But we'll see that in a minute. All right, so if I go back to posts, you will notice if I click on quick edit, again, you'll see that this article has the art category and the Renaissance tag. If I look at this one, you will see, whoops, I just wanted to do a quick edit. If I do quick edit, you'll see this has been assigned to the lifestyle category and it's got a nutrition tag. Okay, so those are the tags and categories. And as I said, we create our content when we create a post. But now, of course, we use the category blog then to display those posts. All right, so I've selected a pattern. And the next thing I wanted to discuss was the anatomy of the query loop block. Now, they are different blocks you can add to your query loop block. So if I open up the post template block here in my list view, you will notice at the top, we've got the featured image, then we have the title block, then we have an excerpt, and then we have the date. Now, of course, we can remove some of these blocks or we can add more. So let's say, for example, we wanna remove the excerpt. So let's remove the post excerpt. And the great thing is you'll see that when you change something on one of the posts in the query loop block, it will change everywhere else. So another thing we might say, okay, we want the title to be at the top of the post featured image. Now, I can just do that. I can drag and drop. And then you'll notice everywhere else it has been applied. And I can say, let's say, add after. So maybe below the title, we wanna add the name of the author who wrote this, and et cetera. Right, so to kind of reiterate what I said, the query loop block is used to display posts, but not even just posts, it can even be used to display pages. As we've seen, it's built up of various blocks. And of course, we can't edit content. In year, we add our content to a post. What we see here is just what is being pulled in from the post. Okay, but let's say for example, I don't want to use this pattern anymore. You can quickly change that. So let's replace it with a different pattern. We can, for example, select a different pattern. And then we can decide, oh, I want to display four items per page here in my block toolbar. Okay, so that is a bit of an introduction to the query loop block. Let's now look at an example. Okay, so I'm going to go to a different test website, and let's look at this test website on the front end. Okay, so it's a photography website, and you'll notice I've got a home tab, and then I've got a galleries tab, because as a photographer, I take action sports photographs, and I take photos for commercials. And let's say I want to display all the images that I've taken at sports events. So let's click on action sports and scroll down. And here you will notice, I've used the query loop block to display these posts. And of course, if I click on one of these now, let's click on Red Bull Scadoff. And here you can of course see all the images from that event. All right, but we're not focusing on that now. We are focusing on displaying those blog posts.  And you will notice that some of them have the commercials category, and some of them have the action sports category. And that's important to remember as we start editing that page. All right, so let's go to pages and that is the action sports page. All right, and here we can see things on the backend. And let me show you how I created this. So I'm actually gonna remove this query loop block and start from scratch. Okay, so forward slash query loop and I'm gonna choose a pattern and then I'm gonna modify the pattern. All right, so I am going to select this grid pattern and I'm going to say wide width. I'm gonna open the list view and make sure I select my query loop. Then I'm gonna select the post template as I actually don't want three columns, I want two columns. So now I can change that here in the setting sidebar, I can say I want two columns, great. The next thing I'm going to do is I'm gonna remove the post except block. I don't want an excerpt. And then below that add after, I'm going to add the post featured image block. And remember, this is pulled in from the post, which I've already added, great. So there it is, ready. But now I need to show you something really important. Will these be displayed on the front end? So let's see, I'm gonna preview in a new tab and now you'll see there's nothing there and there's a reason for it. So I just want to close that. If I return, I'll open up my list view again and show I select the query loop block and I'll open my setting sidebar. Now at the moment, this query loop block is inheriting the query from the template. But we want to edit the query loop block. And when you want to edit this query loop block, you need to deselect that. So I'm going to deselect that. And when I deselect this, you will notice you've got some more features that you can use as well. But yeah, when I deselect this as well, we will actually see that these posts will be displayed on the front end. So let's deselect and yeah, you will notice you've got some more options and now I'm gonna update. Right? And I'm just gonna refresh here as well. And then I'm going to preview in a new tab. Let's see if it will display now. There we go. But you will notice that some of these images don't look the way you wanted to. Well, we can change that. So that's the first thing. So let's select this post-featured image. And again, as a reminder, if I change something in one, in one post, it will be updated everywhere else. So I'm gonna select this post-featured image block and I'm gonna open my styles in my sitting sidebar. I'll scroll down to aspect ratio and I'm gonna change the aspect ratio of the post-featured image block. And I'm gonna say I want all images to be three by two. Awesome. And of course, this image will be cropped to fit that ratio or that aspect ratio that I see. But now all the images will look the same. Okay, so let's update that. But now there's one more problem. This page displays action sports photographs or posts from action sports events or sports events. And at the moment, we will see we've got Sunstar and we've got Travelco. And let me show this to you. So I'm going to say add after, then you can actually see it. I'm gonna say add after and let's add the category block. So categories. Ah, and now we can see, okay, but this has got the commercials category. This has got the action sports category. And now we can use taxonomies to only display a specific category. And in this case, the action sports category. Okay, so make sure you select your query loop block again, go to your sidebar settings. And because we deselected query from template, we can actually see these features and there's a filters features right here at the bottom. And let's click on the plus icon and it says filters options. And then you will see taxonomies, authors and keyword. Now taxonomies will be used to display a certain category or a certain tag. And the authors filter, you can say, I only want to see posts written by a specific author or maybe two authors. And the last one is a keyword. So if you type in a keyword, only posts with that keyword will display. Okay, so let's click on taxonomies because we said we want to use the category filter. There you'll see categories and you'll see tags. And we only want to see, oops, I was logged out. Let me just log in here quickly and refresh. Okay, sorry about that. So we were with filters, taxonomies and for the categories we said, okay, action sports. And now we can select action sports. And now you can note that all the posts with a different, with a different category will not display. So let's select action sports. And now you will notice all the posts with the commercials tag will not show. So now we can update and let's refresh this page. And if I go to this page, let's refresh that and let's see what happens. Okay, let's just do it again from here, preview in new tab. And there you go. We will only see posts with that specific tag. So we set parameters for this query loop block. Great stuff. So now I want to look at one more example before we start talking about category templates. Okay, so let me jump to my other test website again. All right. And let me just go to posts again as a reminder. So yeah, I've got all my posts. I've got the author, categories and tags. Okay, so let's go to pages. I'm going to go to lifestyle. Now, just as a reminder as well, the query loop block can be used on pages, posts and templates. So it can be used in multiple places. Okay, so in this example, this is my lifestyle page. So let's say for example, I don't have other dummy content here now, but let's say for example, I've got a lot of other information and images, et cetera about lifestyle, but now I also decide I want to add a query loop block displaying some posts related to living a healthy lifestyle. Now, at the moment you'll notice I've got all my posts here. So let's just select the query loop block and open that up. So if we look at the anatomy of this query loop block, we'll see the title, the featured image, the author, the date, but now what I've done here as well is I've added a row block and within the row block, I added a categories block and a tags block. Okay, so that is what we see there so that we can clearly differentiate between the different posts. But of course, I don't want to see the posts about art.  I don't want to see that. So again, we can use the category taxonomy. So let's go ahead and do that. Now at the moment, this is still selected. So we have to deselect inherit query from template, right? And then we have these features. And then I'm going to say filter taxonomy and I'm going to say I only want the lifestyle category added. So it will exclude all other categories. Great. So now only our lifestyle posts will be displayed. But now I'm going to go a step further and say I only want to see lifestyle posts written by Roger Lister. So you'll see there's my name and then Roger Lister, the person I made up for this example. So now I'm going to click on filters again and I'm going to go to authors and select author. And then below authors, I'm going to type in the name of the persons whose posts I want to see. And in this case, Roger Lister. So let's select Roger Lister. And now we will only see posts written by Roger Lister and it will only see posts with the lifestyle category. All right, so something else I wanted to highlight as well is just some of the features in the setting sidebar. And so when we deselected this, you'll notice at the moment, the post type that we are displaying is a post, but you can display pages using the query loop block. And unfortunately, we're not going to get into custom post types today because it's out of the scope for this online workshop. But yeah, that's a topic for another day. You'll notice you can order your posts from oldest to newest and alphabetically. And then there's an option include, exclude or only show sticky posts. Now below that, it kind of explains it to us. So blog posts can be stickied, a feature that places them at the top of the front page of posts, keeping it there until new sticky posts are published. So let's look at that from the back end. So if I go back to my dashboard and I go to posts and let's open the healthy or health 101, you will notice here in your setting sidebar below the URL, it says stick to the top of the blog. So if I select that, this post will become sticky and it will be placed at the top of the page. So of course, so when we see that in the query loop block, we can include these or exclude them or only show sticky posts. So yeah, I just thought I'll show that for clarification. And now something new that lands with WordPress 6.4 is enhanced pagination. So at the moment, when you go to the next page of a query loop block, the whole page reloads, but if you select enhanced pagination, there won't be a full reload of the page. And then we've already discussed the filters and just at the bottom, you'll see there's advanced HTML elements as well as additional CSS classes. Okay, but yeah, these are the most important ones that I wanted to highlight today. And before we move on to our last topic, I just wanted to show you how to use the offset function or feature with the query loop block. So I am going to, okay, it's C, yeah. I'm going to say replace because I want to choose a new pattern, okay. And then you'll see this one called irregular grid of posts. And the interesting thing about this is you'll see three columns and there's actually three different query loop blocks. So let's look at that to see how it works or how it would work. So I'm going to select this. Just want to delete these for now. Okay, so let's look at this example.  So we've got three columns and we've got three query loop blocks. Okay, now at the moment, you'll see each query loop block only displays one item. So let's say we want to see four and in this one, we also want to see four. And we actually wanted to leave the last column because I only want two columns. So let's delete this one. Okay, so now the interesting thing is you will see that some of these posts are duplicated, right? Because there's two different query loop blocks. So how do we fix that? Okay, just to remove some of the, yeah, I just wanted to remove the post excerpt block. So you can actually see the images line up better. So let's remove the post excerpt block. But of course, if I remove it on the left, I have to remove it on the right as well. Okay, so that was the post excerpt block. And I'll show you now how these two query loop blocks can work together. Okay, so let's delete. Right, so now we see that little staircase. But how do we get rid of things being duplicated? Okay, so this is where the offset comes to play. So let's first open our left column and then select the left query loop. Now, of course, at the moment, if I open up settings, we will notice that we actually deselected inherit from query loop already. So if I actually select this, you'll notice you can't make any changes. Yeah, and of course you don't have these features. So just look at how the block toolbar also changes. So if I deselect, you actually have the display settings. And if you select the query from template, you don't have access to it. So, okay, so the first thing is let's say we want to see, yeah, let's say four items per page. So one, two, three, four. We will leave the offset at zero. Now we select the query loop block on the right. Now we also open up the display settings. Let's also say we wanna see four items on the right side. But to use the offset, the way this works is you wanna skip, we wanna skip posts that we already see on the left. So you will see at the moment it says offset one, that is why this one is skipped. So it starts with the strawberries again. So if I make that zero, you'll see it looks exactly the same. But I'm gonna say skip one, skip two, skip three, skip four. So now, if I use the offset on the right, I say I only want this query loop block to start at five. So we already looked at one, two, three, four. And now on the right, we can start with five, six, seven, eight. And now it gives you that nice off, yeah, what do you call it? It looks like a mosaic, it looks like a, what is this called again? Let me just open it up. I just wanna remind myself of what it's called. Oh yeah, so here's the example. It's called irregular grid of posts. But yeah, I just thought it's important to see how you can use the offset feature when you have two or more query loop blocks that need to work together. So if I added a third column, of course I would have said, I would have started the third column with the offset at eight. And then it would have skipped the first eight and it would have started at nine for the third column. All right, so that is an overview of the query loop block, how you can modify the query loop block, how you can use patterns, how you can use the setting sidebar filters, et cetera. Now that brings me to the last portion of today's session and that is the category template. Okay, so let's start by looking at this from the front end and then you'll see what I mean. Okay, so I'm gonna just go to the front end of this website. So this is the front end of my website and you'll notice my blog page is kind of my homepage and here you will see all my posts being displayed and you will see that there's a category linked at the bottom. And let's say I click on the art category, where will it take us? It will take us to the category archives page meaning we will see all the posts with the art category. So let's do that, art. And here at the top you'll see category art and what you see now is the default way my category archives are being displayed. So now you can scroll down and you will only see art posts. But I think you'll agree, this doesn't look that great and the category template will allow you to change this. So let's go to the site edit to see how we can add a category template and then modify the way this looks. Okay, so let's go to our dashboard, go to appearance and then go to editor and then we're gonna make our way to templates. Now as a reminder, a template is used to create a page layout or structure for your page and we don't add content to templates, we only modify the layout of the page. For example, you can add headers and footers and even sidebars on a template. Now if you click on the plus icon or the plus here next to templates, you can add new templates and one of the templates you can add is called category archives. So let's click on that. Now there are two options. You can select all categories and then you can set up a template for all your categories. So all your categories will use that template or you can create a template for each specific category and that's what we're gonna do today. So if I select category for a specific item, I can click on there and you'll notice I've got three or technically four categories and now I'm gonna say I want to create a template for my art archive. So let's select art and here you will notice you can choose a pattern for your template or you can skip. If you click skip, you'll start with a blank page with nothing on and then you have to add the post content block, et cetera, et cetera. So to make it easier, we're just gonna choose a pattern because as you know, we can modify patterns. So let's select the pattern and now I can change the way my art category or category archives page for art is displayed. So let's go ahead and make some changes. So I'm gonna remove the header and I'm gonna say add before and I'm actually gonna add a new header and this time I'm gonna use a cover block. So let's add a cover block and I'll choose an image from my media library. So here you'll notice I've already added one and then in the sidebar settings, I'll make sure I select my cover block and we can go to styles and in this case, I wanna remove any opacity because I don't want to write anything on my cover block. I just want to use the image and let's just close our setting sidebar and our list view and let's say, okay, we want this to be a bit larger. Okay, cool. So now we've created a special header for this category and then the next thing, of course we can choose a different pattern for my query loop. Okay, so let's click on replace because I don't want my post to be displayed this way and let's say replace and for this example, I'm going to choose grid, where's that now? Grid of image posts because I think that kind of works well with the art, the arts category. So let's select art and of course you will notice only posts with the art category is displayed here. Wonderful. Click save. Now let's see how this looks on the front end. So let's just make our way to the front end of this website again. Remember, here's my homepage with my blog posts. Let's click on one of the categories. So let's first click on the lifestyle category to show you what it looked like before because I haven't changed the category template for lifestyle, right? So here we go. The category, lifestyle and then all the posts with that category. Okay, let's go back and now let's click on the arts category and see what happens. Ah, now we have a unique layout for our categories archive related to art. And now of course we can go and create something similar for the lifestyle category and for the sports category. So then we just go back to appearance, editor. We can click on templates. We will click on the plus and say we wanna add a category archive template. We'll choose for a specific category. Now you will notice that art is not available anymore because we already created one and now we can follow the same process select lifestyle, choose a pattern and then we can add a new header. We can choose a different pattern and et cetera for this archives page. So that's everything that I wanted to show you today. Basically how the query loop block works and also how it kind of links to the category template. So I am going to stop the recording now but then I'll hear if there's any other questions or comments. So for those of you watching this recording, thank you for joining us today and we'll see each other next time.


And here today I'm going to do a mark review of the spy. I've been calling the spy to make a brand new all time high all this year and even last year. We did do it last year and then we halted or one side was a little bit but we're still wearing the bullish shop trend and many people thought we wouldn't do this. We're going to do it. We may even do it today before the close on a Friday on a July 4th holiday week. It is 2.22 in the afternoon. We've got an hour and 40 some minutes left. We are going to do but between now and Monday at the close at 4 o'clock on Monday my prediction is Melissa Armo in my professional opinion that the market will make a brand new all time high once again in the spy. Finally, it's today July 8th if we don't do it and run out of time today to make it over the high, which was 2.1378 was the previous high in the spy and we don't do it today. We run out of time. We will either gap up Monday morning right over the high or we will gap up or neutral or even down on Monday and run up over the high before Monday 4 o'clock. By Monday 4 o'clock we will make a brand new all time high in the spy 100% conviction and no chance of failure. In my opinion, we're going to finally do it. I've been waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting all year to do it. 6 months into the year, half month into the year of finally doing it. This was an incredible call. This was an incredible call and no one else was making this call but me and even when we fell and retested 180, 181, fell with the Brexit, gap down. Every time I double triple checked every gap down, every gap up, I read the institutional money in the market. I saw that the buying was coming in. I saw the new money was coming in and I read it correctly. And why? Because I know how to read gaps because I have a 26 point rating system that no one else knows except for my students and me that I created and it tells me and pinpoints what institutions are doing in stocks for the market like the ETF and that's how I am able to predict what something is going to do before it does it and that's how I predicted this. This was an incredible call and for people that are long, even the call that I made and the options call just on Monday that I made in a stock and people that are in this of the spy call, I mean, this is, I'm just so excited right now. This is happening in just an amazing time right before earnings season starts for third quarter next week. So let's take a look at it. What do we do today? We actually gapped up. We opened today at 211.05. We closed at 2.09.52. We gapped up in the morning. This was a bullish gap up and we held very, very quickly in the morning. Let's see exactly where we set the low here. Look at this. 2.12.65. Okay. Let's look at the morning. Let's see what time of the day we set the low of the day. Yep. Look at this. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. And the first five minutes of the day we set the low of the day in the market. Never look back. Never look back. You could have bought the market at 211 with a 30 cent stop and then it all day.  You could have done anything. You could still be out and come back at five o' four and close out your position long in the market. This was a great gap today. It was an immediate buy five minutes into the open and is rallying. We will continue rallying here up into the clothes and we are going to make a brand new all-time high in the spy by Monday at four o'clock. We could do it overnight. We could do it today before the close. We could do it in the Gap Monday morning. We could do it in the live day on Monday, but we will do it by four o'clock on Monday. After all of this, after all of this Brexit that happened here that went absolutely nowhere that we had to gap out of or we would have ran down and retested. After all of this gobbledy gookiness that happened to start off the calendar year, started up the calendar year in a gap down, fell, fell with all the crappy news that happened. Did the retest here almost broke again but held in February. Still rallied all the way after that. Never broke that level which I said which was turn around day which was March 1st. And even after the drop off that happened which was the China news that happened last summer actually almost a year ago from now, which was in August of 2015, fell. That was the day the market negated the swoosh, reversed, flipped and retested that area. And when I did the trend class this week, I talked about it and we talked about all of the levels and we talked about where the market would have to break in order to fall and I talked about how we were most likely not going to do it and we make a new high then. I just didn't know the exact day we do it and I'm telling you the exact day now between now and Monday at four o'clock Eastern time, the market will make a brand new all-time high. It could happen today. It's only 2.30. This was a phenomenal call and I'm going to pat myself in the back all day long for doing it and you can do this too. You can do this too. This is what I teach. This is not something beyond the realm of comprehension. My 26 points, you rate the gap, you could have rated the bullish gap in the market today. You could have rated every bearish gap in the market. You can rate any stock that drops in existence and predict the move it's going to make. On the line trending day, to day trade, to swing trade, to do options, to predict the direction of bias because that's the only way you're going to make any money. You don't make money consistently in the market unless you get the direction right. If you are short this market, you're going to lose. The short covering hasn't even really happened yet. I mean that's the amazing thing about this.  I knew when we get back up here, we're just going to go right on over it. I knew it. Can't wait to see how we close today. I got to focus on other stuff now and just turn this off or I'll stay here and we'll get it done the rest of the day. But for everyone that is low on the market and long, strong stocks, you want to hold them into and through today into Monday, good luck, congratulations to everyone and congratulations to the students who have already taken my class and all the people that are in overnights and options that I've called to hit this market on three. You held the conviction. You did the work. You focused on the knowledge. You focused on the gaps. That's what I teach in the Golden Gap course and I don't even know what to say. I don't even know what to say. Except for the next class is July 16th and 17th and if you want to make money in the market, I have one specific strategy and system that I used to do it and is how I and I alone called the market to do this. What it fell off applied at last summer. What it fell off applied to start the year. What it fell, fell, fell and even after the Brexit, I said we're still going to do it and that's exactly what we're doing. Congratulations to everyone that's in the market long or the stock trades that I've called long that are making money overnight. Have a great day. I'll see everybody in the live trading room next week. Email me at Melissa at the stockswish.com if you want more information on the Golden Gap class. Run, run, run market. Run, run, run, run, run, run over the high.


Russian troops will be deployed on the border with Finland, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Russia One TV channel and Russia's RIA state news agency, the Russian leader said Finland's accession to NATO was meaningless, adding that he does not understand what has prompted the need for the alliance in Helsinki. Our relations used to be very good. But now the situation will change, Putin said. It should be noted that Finland joined NATO in April 2023.Earlier, Estonia's foreign intelligence service warned that Moscow is planning to possibly double the number of troops along its western border with the Baltic states in Finland, as it anticipates a potential military conflict with NATO in the coming decade. Russians are planning to increase the military force along the Baltic states border but also the Finnish border. We will highly likely see an increase of manpower, about doubling perhaps. We will see an increase in armed personnel carriers, tanks, artillery systems over the coming years, Kalpo-Rosen, the head of the service said. Recall Russia unilaterally terminated to finish Russian border agreement dating back to 2012. While this move is largely symbolic as the agreement was suspended following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it nonetheless demonstrates Russia's willingness to escalate tensions with its neighbor along its northernmost boundary with the EU and NATO. On March 12, together with the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion, the free Russian Legion, which entered the territory of Russia's Belgrade and Kursk regions, appealed to the people of Russia. Remembering the illegalities that happened in Russia, the members of the Legion said that they intend to save the Russian people from Putin's regime. They said that they are making efforts to realize these dreams and that they will achieve free elections in Russia. At the end of the appeal, the Legion members said, we are going to the elections. In order to kill, wipe, destroy or punish, we are going to free you from poverty, poverty and fear, free from the dictatorship of a terrorist organization that has seized power, give your children a normal, civilized future without sanctions and without repression, without elections, without elections and without talks about important, but with important values and most importantly, without war. Putin has occupied power for 20 years. And what happened? Sanctions, economic costs, bloodshed war that has taken life and health more than 400,000 Russian men, killed by political competitors and complete isolation from the world arena. And also beautiful palaces in Glendzhik and Novo Agorov. And now he plans to go for another term and rule until his death. We will not allow. We are the same Russians as you are.  We will do everything so that he has time to move from Novo Agorov to the Polar Volga. We know how local residents are treated there. The legion is going to the elections. Wait for us. Glory to the world. Guys, raise your hands.   Let's vote for Libra.


This video looks at agenda setting, with a focus on the notion of agenda attributes. The material here is resourced from Maxwell McComb's 2002 conference paper entitled, The Agenda Setting Role of the Mass Media in the Shaping of Public Opinion. At its most basic agenda setting theory asserts that the media teach the audience how much importance to attach to a topic on the basis of the emphasis placed on it in the news. However, as McComb's explains, agenda setting doesn't end there. To explain this, let's start by calling each media item an object, as McComb's does. Objects are the sites of focus, such as specific events, political candidates or public issues like unemployment or terrorism. These sites of focus combine to set the agenda. In McComb's paper, he writes about objects, stating that each of these objects has numerous attributes, those characteristics and traits that describe the object. For each object, there is also an agenda of attributes, because when the media and the public think and talk about an object, some attributes are emphasized, and others are given less attention, and many receive no attention at all. This agenda of attributes cultivates how members of the public actually envision each object in their mind. In examining research done on this process, McComb's asserts that images held by the public of political candidates and other public figures are the most obvious examples of attribute agenda setting by the news media, but it can also work in other respects for issues themselves. Of course, the impact and significance of this process is concerning, because as McComb puts it, influencing the agenda of attributes for an issue or political figure is the epitome of political power. This is because if the media can determine the way an issue, politician, policy or event is understood by the public, then the outcomes of elections and cultural responses are subject to that agenda. In simple terms, we see the world through our media. In the West, we rarely, if ever, see war first hand or get to meet a prime ministerial candidate, just as two examples, so everything we know about the world is really predicated on how objects are mediated to us, and if they are even mediated at all. Thank you for watching.


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