Hey there beautiful souls, this is Christy Martin with Art of Awakening. Thank you so much for watching and Welcome to this energy update. This is the 5-5 portal May 5th, 2019 and 5 is the number of change. So this is like a real portal or threshold for You know change to happen a Very powerful day, and I'm being guided to take you guys on a little hike I'm gonna take you up to one of my power spots, and we're gonna talk a little bit about thresholds and Making this shift whatever shift is happening in your life Hopefully towards towards the light towards more ascended way of being So if you're ready, let's begin Okay, so this is one of my favorite trails. It's Pretty close to my hometown of Marquette, Michigan And I love Marquette because I can live in the middle of town and be here in about 10 minutes And this is just acres and acres of wilderness. Well, wilderness, but it's it's at least wild land all right, so I'm just coming up here to the thresholds and Usually when I come in here I Don't go in. I don't charge in right away. I take a little time to pause Connect with the woods connect with the forest and just feel into you know my welcome here just Get a little humble and in ask, you know requesting entrance and Typically, I'll get the response that you know go come on in come on in But I just want to talk a little bit about this idea of thresholds because You see this in animals We probably you probably find that you do this naturally when you come to a thresholds you pause You know pause look around that's a natural natural thing to do and I just want to sort of as an aside This time right here in this area is a thresholds time You probably have you may have leaves and stuff where you are But we don't yet, but they're about to pop just started getting a little bit warmer weather and that threshold between the the dormant period and the and the fully leafed out period is pretty powerful one but But that that instinct that instinct to pause it's there for a reason because at those transition zones You know, it's it's it does represent change and You have to make a shift You know no matter what the transition is whether it's a transition between A meadow and the forest or wherever it is those transition zones are active there Really they tend to have a lot of just energy hanging out there because there's the characteristics are the the energies of both Places are present in one and we see that in In these transition zones and in in in nature and we also see it like energetically now as we're moving from The 3d existence to 5d we're going through 4d and that that really has energies of both and these are places where or times where we need to be especially Especially aware you can see there's still snow here on the ground But if you look up The buds are starting to pop on the poplar trees. So, you know, we've got a little bit of both happening But thresholds for this reason because things can lurk around thresholds things can You know stand and ambush sometimes and you know not not to sound frightening But in nature that's that's the case and that's why animals are so cautious when they come to any kind of thresholds They really know Instinctually that one has to be very very aware In these times and places and and they really are a kind of sacred transitions That's my dog Jasmine. You've probably heard her in prior videos if you've been following me. Hey jazz Good girl. Um, okay, so So this has been coming up a lot lately. I've been seeing it in clients I've been seeing it just you know things that are being shown to me the dreams that kind of thing that This this real need for awareness and things that are I want to say, you know trying to keep you back, but there is an archetype It's called the guardian the guardian of the threshold that you know the guardian of the gates and In myths and stories it usually often comes in the form of a dragon or something, you know, it could be a Monster or a dragon or sometimes even an angel like You know the angel that's set to guard the the garden of Eden Eden and if you're going to enter you know the sacred space or the temple or the treasure house You have to get past the guardian. Okay, and So in life what this shows up as as we start moving towards a higher plane of existence Towards a better way of living Towards more peace more harmony more joy, you know as we're doing the work A lot of times what happens is things come Forward to to block us, right? And this is why sometimes when we're when we're moving forwards You know in our life and doing all this stuff That's supposed to make life better. Sometimes the first thing that happens is that all this stuff comes up You know to it to block us and it can be really discouraging, but the thing is like to stop like rather than thinking of it as the enemy Which I think sometimes is really what it wants. That's that's a It gets us back into that You know antagonistic or us versus them or or battle kind of mindset Which which keeps us down more in that 3d. So rather than thinking of it as the enemy You start thinking of it as the guardian and it's just it's testing because what will It's testing your awareness and it's testing your resolve Right and it's also testing your courage. It's testing everything everything, right? so When it's only when we are ready we've really Built ourselves up and we've done the work when we've done our push-ups, right?  Okay, and a lot of times in stories the hero is given some kind of magic key or magic incantation or Is told something, you know, maybe it's singing a lot of times it's it's maybe a song or something that that Get sung to the dragon to put it to sleep so that you can pass but there's something that the hero needs to bring to it that that You know dis disables that guardian or charms it So the guardian is look at the light coming out the guardian is not It's not the enemy it's the teacher and How so, you know when we have these things happening to us whether it's physical illness or money trouble or Relationship trouble happening You know, it's it's there to teach us and it's going to be showing us where Those places that we still need to work on those places where we still need to You know find that magic charm the magic spell the Power piece that that will charm the dragon or or put it to sleep And and there's several Ways to do this like I guess I'm constantly lately being shown this number four and so I'm being guided to talk about being the center of the four of the four the number four is this number of stability and It also You know we it's it's a it's really a very sacred number we have the four elements. We've got the four directions and It's being in that center of the four When we're in the center that puts us in a position of being able to see Clearly in all directions and what does that do that? Enables us to be aware of everything that's going on and that greater awareness is what is needed To to you know find that key to get in And so what does this mean? Well one thing to look at is You know the four bodies. We've got their physical body. We've got the spiritual body We've got the you know the mental Intellectual body. We've got the emotional body. So working with all four of these aspects and if And if we often tend to be kind of get drawn into Excesses or imbalances needs to happen in any of these areas But if we just if you the practice of awareness What it does is it helps us to stay as close as we can to the center so that each of these four can act as checks and balances for the others for instance and because one of the things that this guardian will do is to try to pull us off into One of these directions One or more, but you know, I'm gonna focus on one at a time and and kind of lead us astray and pull us To where it's you know, something is unbalanced in that direction. We just tend to fall into that Kind of fall deeply away from center towards that for instance Physically it can happen in In terms of addictions, okay, that's the physical body that is Falling into illusion because it's telling us that we need and want You know something that really isn't good for us, but it's telling us Oh, we need this we need this we need this because usually when the body is in a healthy state and it's in a balanced state It will tell us what it needs. It tells us what's healthy. So normally the body is a really good thing to to you know to listen to but When you become aware of an addiction or a craving that won't stop sometimes cravings will tell us what we need But if it's a craving for something that we know is not healthy a craving for cigarettes a craving for excessive amounts of alcohol craving for Particular food that maybe isn't so good for us potato chips or chocolate. You know chocolate can be very good for us but you know the right kind of chocolate right if you were looking at like Really crappy. Maybe her shoes bars or something is not very good for us so like Look at those cravings. That's the The Guardian working to get us off balance. Okay, because when our physical body Gets out of alignment. It pulls everything else along with it. It can happen. Okay, so the Guardian can do this Pull us off track Spiritually it this can happen in terms of Maybe Getting this compelling feeling like we've got to do this or that You know to stay spirit. I mean and again, it's just that could be very very tricky because sometimes Because a lot of times like, you know spirit will be very decisive and tell us that we need to do this but When it's when the trickster When the Guardian in the form of the trickster comes in it will you know tell us things like I guess Killing commies for Christ. That's a really really good example of you know being spiritually led astray and you know at this threshold kind of thing, so if you're You know like like somebody who's very spiritual And you can get caught into these beliefs, you know that that Doing things that really aren't for the highest good of yourself or others are what God wants. Okay? So that's an example or Conversely, we get like this Sometimes you can get drawn the other way and really wanting to Spend all your time in meditation, which feels wonderful But eventually it can become sort of like a spiritual addiction and just pulling you off because really what we're meant to do is Take our spirituality and bring it to earth, right so that we can You know make this world a more beautiful place and a more aligned place And if we're spending all our time in meditation or you know, what whatever if that just doesn't happen, so it becomes us like dead end Okay, so it can happen Mentally we get like into in mental gridlock or start You know just making all sorts of decisions that We make them rashly usually and they they bring us to places that really don't is not where that we intended And it can show up emotionally And that is really just kind of getting caught up in the emotion and and just caught in Just just emotional gridlock People can really take us as an advantage of us or people beings whatever You know and and this guardian or the trickster. I'm talking the trickster the trickster and the guardian very closely related The guardian uses this trickster energy To pull us away from that threshold away from that portal You know scammers has a really good example of Emotional thing because they play in your emotions, right? They get you all hyped up about you know often it's it's greed or if it's not greed then sometimes it's like You know if they're there you think you're You're gonna get a lot of money or something and it's really it could be altruistic It could be like oh my god, I can help so many people with this money You know, and then you don't pay attention to what's going on to what you know And and you want to believe it so much that you just fall into it so And that's that's sort of a combination of playing on the emotions and the mind so a lot of different ways this can happen and the really the antidote is to Stay very very focused and very aware. Okay, because the more aware we are we can start really picking up on This is not real. This is illusion. Okay And and there are checks and balances because we can use our mind our Thoughts our mental capacity to look at say what's going on with the body and say, you know these cravings these this isn't real this is not healthy and You know and it's a lot of times it takes a lot of that power of will to bring us back to a place, you know to constantly having to Have a check on that body, right? It's like body, you know, we're not gonna let you do this But it takes a lot of courage to do that and a lot a lot of courage and A lot of willpower. Okay, so this is This tests us on all all levels And and that's what it's for because it's this idea of Only those who are quote-unquote worthy. Well, we're all worthy We are all worthy and we're all you know, we're all capable of this. It's just that you know somehow we've gotten ourselves in separation and we need to You know get ourselves back to that point where where we Can't even enter this place, right? So it takes dedication and it takes You know, it just takes the work it takes the The discipline and there's that D word, right? I call it the D word because people don't want to hear it But if you're going to ascend it always takes discipline, you know and and the discipline requires Awareness you can't be disciplined without being Extremely aware because you need to know You know not in the true sense discipline because you need to know You know what's going on so that you can keep yourself aligned, right? So in addition to this idea of the Guardian what's another thing that's been coming forward for me a lot lately You know in a lot of ways I'm seeing it and clients. I'm seeing it and you know just things that are being shown to me is the inner child and I believe that's really a big part of what's awakening right now That's the threshold here is we're being able to access the inner child I know this is going to show up in different ways for a different people this threshold right now. So there's a certain Soul group that is starting to really access their inner child And I'm gonna talk about that in just a second. I'm also going to talk about there's a good There's another soul group that is really struggling with this threshold and and really You know paddling with this Guardian a lot and and just so you're aware of this is what's happening. It's not that You know, it's not that everything's out to get you it's just that you've come up against this this Guardian and it's just you're being asked to become more aware and The awareness really requires coming back into stillness because all these things What they're doing and bringing us away from You know center is there they're bringing us into this state of Either confusion It's the state of anti-peace right? It's either confusion or it's heavy emotions. It's turmoil. It's drama all this stuff Okay, and so the way through is to keep coming back to center keep coming back to the breath to stillness and The really the only way through this portal It's like counterintuitive because we want to move we want to we want to battering ram it we want to You know get up a bunch of momentum and crash through it And each time we try that approach or even we want to strategically, you know figure our way through it And all this focus on motion That's why it's such an effective Guardian It's because every time there's like all this motion come motion emotion It completely has a force field against that stuff So the only way through it is through coming to stillness to just really come to a halt And and really center into that true still voice that the stillness is where you find The absolute truth of who you are And when we get there then we are able to really tune into the still small voice that Has that key that gives us that wisdom that little piece of information that tool whatever it is That will tell us how to charm or you know, modify or pacify the Guardian so that we can pass through So if you are in that state of turmoil, if you're having a lot of that in your life, it's it's it's simply a An invitation to invite yourself to come deeper into stillness and And again that does take discipline and and sometimes it's like we Sometimes it's like we need we need each other. We need each other, right? Because it's it's really hard to do it all by yourself. I don't know if anybody Who who doesn't buy themselves? We're not meant to do that. We're human beings. We're social, right? So social beings were meant to lift each other up And you know, sometimes that's in the form of finding the spiritual mentor or guru other times It's it's in the form of connecting with nature or connecting with You know just other beings pets very small children or You know even any friend that really resonates with you, you know, I have seen People like two people who are very messed up in their own ways But if they're resonating in the right way together, they can come together hang out together and heal each other So it's not that it always has to be this this, you know Mentor kind of relationship. We have healers and teachers all around us So so really tuning in and be but it requires being aware of how does this person make you feel? How does this being or tree or whatever it is make you feel if it's helping you to come more into center? Then that's a healing presence. That's a Relationship that you want to foster Usually coming into nature like this is a beautiful way because that that works for most everybody, you know It is very centering and healing okay, so then I want to come back to this other soul group that it has been doing a lot of work in one way or the other whether consciously or not and They're they're really starting to allow that that you know the inner child is coming forward for them And this can you know, this is the portal to joy. This is the portal to really living a beautiful life of Joy and freedom. Okay, so for this soul group You know if you've come to that place of peace or you're starting to get there This time right now is very very powerful, but it's You may find that things are being revisited You know old fears might be surfacing a you know old nightmares Maybe if you do a lot of dream work that you know, maybe nightmares that you thought you had Worked through they might be coming through again. You might be falling prey to scams. You might be you know finding that that You know chasing opportunities that maybe aren't you know all this stuff all these patterns Maybe coming up for you and it's it's just like I'm just being encouraged to just kind of point this out and just to Just to suggest that this is a really good time to Kind of Come back to discipline and it does not mean that you have to come to stillness by meditating five hours a day, but even just you know coming in maybe like a Couple minutes of tuning in every time just being very very aware of any time that you're feeling That sense of urgency, okay, and here's how you can tell The difference whether it's physical mental spiritual or emotional When these things come forward it's going to be showing up as Feelings of urgency like you know, this has got to be done now or this is so important that that I got to get it right, you know those feelings of You know, I just I really need this But but just kind of that that sense of you know driving this Behind it rather than a sense of peace so really look for You know if you because spirit will speak very decisively, okay? And here's another one if it feels like it's very confusing or you're you know a lot of turmoil then then it's it's probably not You know the absolute truth that you're looking for so just feeling into You know if you're being asked to do something does it feel Grounded you feel a sense of Just absolute this is it and without that sense of You know that that that sense of urgency urgency and and here's where it can get very very Like it it can be very deluding because it It can be very subtle Okay, so if you're Unsure then come deeper in just in this and you'll be told Whoo, so this is a lot and I mean I could probably just go on but I think you know just for now. That's probably enough Looking at this portal time as as a very powerful time for manifesting what we want but we have to be maintain awareness and Also just maintain awareness that whatever comes up that is not feeling good or it seems to be drawing us a way It is simply it's not our enemy. It's our teacher so You know giving Thanks for everything that comes up. Even if it's uncomfortable It will really help us to maintain that sense of peace that sense of groundedness that will help us through So hope you've enjoyed this if you've had if you have please do like subscribe Sorry about that truck noise And and share if you feel like it's been helpful to you And again enjoy this beautiful Sunday Take some time to enjoy yourself today because you deserve it and that's part of You know that's part of the journey is really focusing on joy and and one last little piece. It's coming in. It's like another part of it besides coming to stillness is like Bringing the focus back to what it is that does feel good, right? Keep bringing the focus back Because this is what this this trickster energy will do is take our focus away. It wants to divert us. It wants to Kind of make us want to go somewhere else, right pulling our attention away from That the goodness so it's it's a matter of continuously checking in and seeing if you're aligned, you know that internal compass and There are certain things that we can really focus on if you've been doing a lot of work and gotten to the point where You know, you're doing pretty well Then I would suggest like really focusing and feel what joy feels like You know take some time to think of think of joy Call in that feeling of joy feel what it feels like in the body and and kind of bring yourself back to that when you come to these Times where you're pulling yourself back where you're re-centering Focus in on that feeling of joy feel it in your body and and that can help you stay in line If you're struggling, I would suggest joy might be hard for you to to You know get a feel for If things have been really hard for you, but I would start with gratitude You know, just just really focusing on gratitude and giving thanks for Everything knowing that each test brings you a little further towards, you know, where you want to be so really giving thanks for everything as it shows up every last thing even the dark stuff even the you know just giving thanks because it's It's it's helping it's flushing stuff up out of you so that you can process it so you can purge it So you can get past it So that gratitude is super important even if you are at this point we're wanting to you know You know feeling like your joy is accessible to you still keep hold of that gratitude And then the final thing is don't don't lose sight of the self-love Give yourself love constantly Because that's that's that's huge All right, so I think this is the end here. Thanks for hanging on this long. Thanks for you know sticking with it and Much much love love you all and much joy and peace to you today, and we'll catch you again soon


Welcome back in now to our interview segment. In December last year, President Mohamed Bouharis said the government is edging forward in promoting sustainable development by creating a digital application, IMAC, that enables citizens to monitor and evaluate capital projects in real time. IMAC is an application that provides unimpeded access to information on stakeholders, including contract terms and contractors. The President said the innovation would have to restore the practice of abandoning project as all stakeholders, such as the communities, civil society organizations, contractors, ministries, departments and agencies that these MDAs and citizens would continually interact one-on-one on the platform. I have joined me right now project manager of IMAC, Iyoke, to look at citizens engagement in budgeting, tracking. Many thanks for joining me on set. Yes, it's good to be here, Justin. All right, so it's been like five months, IMAC application was launched sometime in December 2022 by President Mohamed Bouharis. Can you tell us more about the application and the stakeholders that are involved? Okay, so IMAC enables every citizen to be able to discover government projects around them, give feedback on these projects, and be able to engage with the industry and the contractors implementing the project. And the IMAC system has four major stakeholders, the governing body, which is the federal governments and these agencies that own the projects. IMAC also has the contractors, that's a dashboard for the contractors for implementing the project to be able to give project updates. And IMAC has a platform for citizens and CSOs to be able to review government projects, let the government know the progress of these projects. So yeah, the citizens and CSOs are able to like service underserved communities. So those are the main stakeholders on IMAC. Justin mentioned something, I just want you to react to that. The President said that IMAC is an innovation that would help to forestall the practice of abandoning project as all stakeholders would be directly interacting on one platform. So far, how has that been in terms of the interactions on that particular platform? Yes, so far it's been fairly good. One is that I would like to applaud the governments, which is the Ministry of Finance, the National Planning, they have been very, very critical to making this a success. They have been able to upload a lot of project information in terms of like images, project status and pictures. And citizens on the other hand have been getting engaged or reaching out on how they can get engaged. So I would say it's fairly good. That's the reaction and the engagement on IMAC, but definitely it could be better. Are the feedbacks that you have gotten so far from the interactions that have or maybe the traffic that you have seen on that particular platform? Yes, so the feedback shows us the need for citizens to get involved because a lot of times people do not understand government processes or why projects take too long, why projects have an abandonment in the first place. So you get people asking questions like, OK, we have a 160 billion dollar road. Why is only 1 billion or 500 million, sorry, 16 billion dollar road? Why is only 300 million appropriated in this year? So we get people asking questions, trying to understand who is in charge of this project, who is a constancy project, who is my House of Reps member. So yes, we're getting people asking the right questions and we're also getting the ministries in charge being able to reply to those questions. Fine, it's been like I said, it's been five months since the presidential launch until now. Aside from the feedback that you have gotten and the people actually showing interest in the government project, would you really say in any way or how has it been able to reduce the issue of abandonment of projects that we have had, the president actually mentioned during the launch? Yes, so it's getting citizens more involved and letting citizens have ownership. So before you hear, citizens mostly get involved when it's time for like politics or election cycles, which happens once in four years. But now people are able to get involved on a day-to-day basis. So I see a road in front of me that's in front of my street and I'm able to check that, just go over what are the projects around me. And then I see this road is being done by this ministry. It's meant to start this date and this date. I, because I'm a very, very major stakeholder, I want to see the road in front of me. So I get involved and I'm able to ask questions. I follow up. Now I'm in the knowledge of it. But like before, a lot of people didn't know. They might say, oh, is government doing it? They might even make assumptions, is it the state government or is the local government? But now we're able to give them the information, they know who the contractor is and they're able to get involved and we haven't seen massive fruits of labor yet because it's still a short period of time. But we believe that over time, over a longer period of time, we're able to see because of this involvement by citizens, there will be more accountability in the system. OK, now so what is next for IMAQ after these five months? What's the next line of action or process for you guys soon? Yes, so right now we are trying to push for citizens engagement. We have ways that we're trying to come up to incentivize citizens because a lot of times people don't have so much faith in the system. So we're trying to find incentives, educating people, trying to find incentives for them to review projects and give their feedback. I'm also working with the ministries who have been quite collaborative in being able to respond to these citizens and provide relevant data. So from now to let's say the next six months, what we're going to be doing, we have a bounty program where we get to give people points or some small cash to be able to review projects or give project data. So we think that will form some form of incentive for people to get involved. But other than that, we are also working hand to hand with ministries and also CSOs to be able to review projects and ministries to be able to update project data and reply to citizen queries. So for the next six months or till the end of the year, I'll say a lot of focus is citizens engagement. Some other focus would be also partnering with the states because right now we're partnering with the federal government. But a lot of projects that affect the people are state government projects. So we're also working to get state government on board on IMAG to advertise their projects and have better and better evaluation insights. All right, Osir, as we let you go now, I still need to understand why Nigerians have not really been so so so well involved when it comes to monitoring and of course tracking the government project and government the project that on government's budget. Why is it important that we get involved? I know sometime last week or so you were at a workshop specifically with the young people and the whole essence was to carry young people along. But over time we have found that that Nigerians are not really so involved directly when it comes to monitoring of a project in the national budget. Yes, so you're asking why and citizens involved just to get that question correct. Yes, I mean why citizens should be involved and why have they not been involved over time? Yes, so a big reason why we believe citizens haven't been involved is one, maybe lack of trust. Maybe over time, citizens have had a certain view of the government and whatever like they don't even want to get involved. But over time, since 2020, we found people getting more involved in politics, voting and governance. And it's a good trend, especially like the turnout in the last election and the youths movement. So we believe that there's an up and trend of people getting more involved. And it's very critical because we need to take ownership. This is our taxes. Government money belongs to the people.  Because like I said earlier, politics is about eight months, once in four years. But governance happens every day. After you elect people or your people or your person doesn't win, how can you make sure that the next person is doing the things that he should or she should? All right, thank you so much. Go ahead, I thought you were done.  Yes, so the main reason why citizens should get involved is because governance happens every day. We can't just stay and focus our energy on politics. We have to keep the people that we elected accountable. All right, thank you so much. We have been speaking with them or say, OK, we'll be looking at budget tracking in Nigeria and of course the need for citizens involvement and participation. And of course, we have been evaluating AIMAC since the past five months. It was launched by President Mohammad Bahari. We do appreciate your time or say. Thank you very much, Justin. All right, away from budget tracking, we'll move on next now to aviation matters. Now, the federal government has explained why it is a proven contract worth billions of nair with less than 20 days to a change path. Minister of Transportation, Ma'azo Sambos, said the current administration would continue to perform its duties until May the 28th as constitutionally required. Sambos spoke with state house correspondent after the weekly federal executive council meeting on Wednesday. The council approved 449.9 million there for the engagement of consultants for the development of a master plan for 17 airports. Proved 449.9 million for the engagement of consultants for the development of airport master plan for 17 airports in Nigeria. Approval was also given for the award for the contract for the remediation of newly identified hydrocarbon impacted sites along the shoreline of Ogoni land. And this is for about 107 billion nair. It's a big one indeed. These things, we do not control the process, but when it's completed and we're still in office, we are duty bound to bring these memos to council for council to approve. Government is a continuum. There are still a lot of memos. I can assure you a lot of contract that will not see the light of day in the next one week. We have continued since 2015 to implement projects and we are confident that the incoming administration will do the same. All right, as we go on the show, are you having challenges getting your international passport as a result of what they tell you at the office, mainly scarcity of booklet? Well, here is some explanation for you. The Nigerian immigration service and the firm contracted by the federal government for the production of Nigerian passport, Iris Smart Technologies Limited, have blamed the central bank of Nigeria's foreign exchange policy for the scarcity of booklet. They made the allegation when they both appeared before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the proposed domestication and processing of Nigerian international passport. The firm also accused the Nigerian security printing and minting company PLC of sabotaging its efforts after failing to secure the contract for the production of the passport. I'll leave you with details of that report. I am Justin at Cadone Business Insight. Returned again tomorrow. Bye for now. Since 2015, thousands of Nigerians in Darspray and at home have applied, paid and been captured, but are yet to issue their international passport booklet. The House is concerned about the ugly development of why Nigeria does not produce its own passport booklet despite owning a minting and printing company. The firm contracted for the production of the passport to the committee that vowed to the engagement by the government. The country had a shabby passport administration. The government discarded those booklets because they were substandard and didn't meet IKOW standards and then decided to have an international tender for the production and embedding of chips. The iris bid was found to be technically competent and price competitive. So out of that international bid, the award was given to iris to produce the passports. The other committee also agree with the comptroller general of the Nigerian immigration service, Idris Jere, at its investigative hearing. Idris declares that NIS does not have access to the forex it generated while attributing the shortage of booklets to its unavailability by the CBN to aid production outside the country. When the comptroller was signed, there was a caveat that ISEA should set up a factory in Nigeria to produce booklets. I have the command to submit to this committee. Have they now produced? To production of Nigerian passport booklets, I heavily depend on foreign exchange. Out of the seven components that make up passport booklets, I solve in foreign markets where booklet assemblies and production are done in Malaysia. The other committee is expected to meet with the CBN on issues raised as more Nigerians continue to apply for their passports, comfortable in the knowledge that they may not get it any time.


the presence of the Holy Spirit is here, the presence of the Holy Spirit is here. Lord, fill us with the bread of heaven until we want no more. Fill us with the bread of heaven until we want no more. Living waters flow through this place. Keep praying in the Holy Ghost. Something is breaking, truth. Something is breaking in this atmosphere. I'm telling you something is happening. You're right now, right now, right now. Lift your hands and pray. Come on, something's breaking. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. The presence of Jesus is here. Church, I'm telling you.  The Master has just walked into this place right now. The Ancient of Days has just walked into this place right now. The Son of the Living God has just walked into this place right now. Forget about your trials, forget about your pain, forget about your sickness, forget about your burdens, and call upon the name of Jesus. It's not by power, it's not by might, but it's by my Spirit says the Lord. We love you, Lord. Something's about to happen right now. Lift your hands. There is none like you.  There is none like you. Love can't touch my heart like you do. I can search for all eternity, Lord. And find there is none like you. He can see what he can hear, you lift your hands and tell Him. There is none like you. Love can't touch my heart like you do. I can search for all eternity, Lord. And find there is none like you.  Lord, as we look to you now, we know you alone are the Son of God. You alone, Jesus, you left heaven, the glories and the riches of your Father. You alone, we held His glory and chose instead to exchange it for us.  You were God's perfect sacrifice. Jesus, you alone are the beginning and the end. You alone are Savior, Master, Healer. You alone, Jesus, are our reward. Tell Him you are my reward. Come on, tell Him you are my reward. There is none like you. Touch my heart like you do. I can search for all eternity, Lord. And find there is none like you. Just get lost in His presence. We're not going anywhere for a while. Just lift your hands and get lost in His presence. There's no one like you, Jesus. No one else can touch my heart like you do. No one else can touch my heart like you do. I can search for all eternity, Lord. And find there is none like you. Tell Him again you are worthy of it all. Tell Him again you are worthy of it all. In just a moment I want to pray for you. I believe the power of God has hit this building. And I can sense His presence. How many could sense it just resting like a gentle cloud on this place? Let me see your hand. All over this place we can feel Him. Something's happening right now. Hallelujah. Something's happening here, church. Sing hallelujah. I want to be set free right now from things that have plagued you for years. A single moment spent in God's presence can transform your life. All your cares upon Him. What He cares for you, Lord Jesus. Pass over to Him. A Bible sickness. All pain. Let the healing power of God flow. He may hold. Right now. Right now. Right now. You don't have any feeling in your foot. How about your leg now? Is it coming back? You're sensing it coming back. He's sensing feeling coming back to His leg right now. Jesus makes you hold. Jesus makes you hold. Can we give Jesus and praise? Hey fam, Steven Moctezuma here. I want to encourage you to subscribe to our channel and to share our content. I hope you're enjoying all the content that we're sending your way. In addition to David's teachings and ministry videos, you can also join me on my worship playlist where I release a brand new video every week. Thank you guys so much for watching EncounterTV. God bless.


Hello everyone this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I have another episode of Chromebook Tips and Tricks video and I'll show you how to have a permanent caps lock button or key on your Chromebook. So if you look at the Chromebook keyboard or keypad or key buttons then you're going to see that you know there are no cap locks buttons unlike Windows computer. So the way to have a cap locks on and on or off on your Chromebook is to press the ALT and the search button. So these two buttons ALT and search right here. So if you do that then you're going to see a message right here that caps lock is on and you have to just you know press ALT and search button again or shift to cancel. So just you know press shift and then it got cancelled. But if you don't like that then there is a way to have a permanent caps lock button on your Chromebook and that's what I'll show you today. In order to set up the caps lock button so you need to go to the menu option so which is going to be on the lower right corner of your screen and you can just click right here then you're going to get the menu option and then you're going to click on the settings which is going to be the whole button right here. So if I do that so let's click on the whole button or settings. So now you're going to be on a page where you can set up or change settings of your Chromebook and then you need to go to device menu or device options which is going to be right here. So if you look at it on your left so if you click on the device then there's an option is going to be keyboard which is right here. So if you click on that now you can see that you know you have a few buttons which you can change the options for example their search, control, alt, escape and back space. So let's say if you don't want the search button anymore which is the search button right here and you want it to act as a caps lock button then you're going to have to just change the search button from here and just assign caps lock button right here. So now the search button is going to work as a caps lock button and not only that you can actually have the options to change settings for any of these keys for example the search, control, alt, escape, back space and you can change them back and forth. So if you want to search assigned to any of these two caps lock you can do that. So let's say we search, we change the option for search button to cap lock and now it should work as a cap lock.  So just to show you how it has changed our caps lock button now, the search button which is right here is the caps lock button right now.  Let me bring this little closer. They're all small cap and now I'm going to press the search button which is right here which is acting as a caps lock button right now. So just press this once and you're going to see a message here that caps lock is on. Now if you type abc it should be in caps lock so it should be capitalized. So let's try abc. So now our caps lock button is the search button which is right here. So that's how you can change your assign your chromebook buttons to cap lock buttons and also you can do that for control, alt, escape and backspace button and there are a few other options when you go to the settings. So these buttons you can have different settings for your chromebook. So that's all I wanted to show you. Thank you for watching this video. Forget about subscribing this channel. Forget about liking this video. There will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly. Thank you.


Income tax 2022-2023, student loan interest deduction, tax software example, let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Here we are in our example, Form 1040 populated with LASERT tax software. You don't need tax software to follow along, but it's a great tool to run scenarios with. You can also get access to the Form 1040 related schedules and forms at the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov, starting point as usual. Single Filer, Mr. Anderson, 100,000 on the wages. We've got the 12,950 for the standard deduction, getting us down to the 87,050, mirroring that on our Excel worksheet, 100,000, 12,950, 87,050, page 2, calculating the tax. Then at the 14774, 15,000 withheld, getting us to the 226, mirrored over here on our income tax formula. However, our major focus is on page one, the calculation to get down to taxable income on down below. We're focused on the student loan interest. Now the couple of things just to remember to keep in mind with the student loan interest, you will typically get a form for it. So it's fairly straightforward and easy from that perspective. And remember when you're talking to people, this is going to be the interest on the loan. So when people are taking out the loans, that's not when we're getting the benefit here. It's when they're basically paying back the loans and are being charged interest on it. This is for the interest portion of the loan, not the full loan payment itself. So we've got the 1098E note that that's different than a 1099. Normally when we see the form 1099, we get scared. We say, oh no, this is something we might have to include in income. But with the 1098, that might actually be something good, which we might get like a deduction for as we do here. Oh, and a deductible? So we'll typically have a form for that. There's also going to be an income threshold that we need to be aware of. And there's a cap, I believe, at the 2500 for the maximum amount of the deduct deduction. So if the student loan interest, and this is just the interest portion, is over the 2500, we could be limited there. And we've got the phase outs as well. And the phase out that are at, you're not going to get the deduction if you're over 85,000 or 175,000 married filing joint. So for example, if I went to page one, and we go to number two, this is schedule one, page two, and scroll down to the student loan interest. I'm going to jump to the data input. And so there it is. I imagine it was like 10,000 on the interest. So it's going to be a lot of interest. We would be paying there if it was that much. But just to show where the caps are, but note here, nothing pulls over. Why? Because it got limited. So total qualified student loan interest. There's the cap 2500. But then it was further limited by the fact that we're over the income threshold. So let's close this back out.  Then if I pull back on over, now I've got it capped it at 2500. So, and I put in 10,000, it capped it at the 2500. So that's an item we'd want to keep in mind as well if we're discussing if there's a whole lot of student loan interest, which isn't the payment, but the interest. So there it is. It pulls on to page one.  Let's go to those. Those are the, not the itemized deductions. Adjustments to income. Pull it together for crying out loud. Pull it together. This is going to be student. I'll just put one line on it. Student loan interest. You could have multiple student loans because there could be, you know, married couple with multiple loans, but we're just going to combine them together here instead of having a bunch of different lines. I put 2,500. Now you could do a limitation like you could say the cap is 2,500. And let's do like an if 2,500.  Let's say this is 2,500. And the data input is going to be here. Boom.  And then you'd say it would be the lesser of equals the men equals the men of those two because there's the cap. So you could try to work in your cap calculation that can get a little bit messy if you had student loan interest in a married situation. But that for general rule, you could do something a little fancy like that to help you to help you see what the cap is, you know, on your worksheet. And then that's going to pull over to page one. So there's the 2,500, the 97,000 there. So there's the, if I go to page one, page number one, I need to bring down the income to 50,000, 50,000. I forgot 50,000 minus 2,500 is 47,5. 47,5. There it is. Minus the 12,950 gets us down to the 30, 34,550. So 34,550. And then I can let the software do the calculation on the second page, but I'm just going to stop it there because that's where our major focus is at. So now if I pulled it up, if I made my income go up to like, let's say like 80,000, and I bring it on back over. Now it's limiting the deduction that I have here. So if I go to my schedule one, you can check out that on the worksheet. So you can see what the phase out starts to be an applied is I won't go through the calculation. Obviously, you don't typically explain all the calculations to a client. The software can help you to understand and make sure that the calculations are properly being calculated. But the general idea is that, yeah, you're going to get the student loan interest if your income is below a certain threshold, but then it starts to phase out as your income gets above a certain threshold and then it caps out at like 85,000 or so where you don't get any benefit at all. And so if I bring it up to 85,000, then it has been eliminated. Okay, so then we can also let's say if we had a married couple. So now Mr. Anderson got married to Jane Anderson now. So 85,000. And now we've got the 2,500 has been applied again because if I go back to the schedule one and page two, we've got the 2,500 because the threshold is up to you don't lose it all completely until you get to like 175,000. So if I brought the income, if I said, for example, wages and added a W2 number two W2 for the spouse. And I said we had another, we had another, let's say 50,000. That's going to let's say 60,000 and I pull that on over. So we're still at the 2,500. So it's still capping it out at the 2,500. Let's say we brought this up to 70,000 for a total of 255. So now it's starting to reduce it now 2,500 is being reduced. And then if I bring it up, you can just see the kind of the curve here as we adjust it. If I bring it up to 80,000 for a 165 total, then we're at the 832. And then if I bring it up to something close to 175,000, which is going to be 80,000, then I think it's going to be eliminated. So there it is. So you get the general sense of it on the married side of things. Obviously the phase out thresholds typically being higher for married versus single.


Next question is from Tiffy Leap. As a trainer, how do you keep yourself from getting burnt out, especially emotionally? Oh, wow, that's, you know, this is a good question because This happens.  Yeah, because more than half the time you'll fail.    I'm like, okay, well, why?   They're not taking this seriously. I only train serious people and I'm like, okay. I've told them the same thing like a hundred times. I'm like, yeah, welcome to the club. You need to relax. First of all, you're not gonna help them by firing them. Now there's of course clients if they know show and then you need to respect your time, that's totally different. But if they're showing up to their workouts, that's one big step that they're doing. And so you need to chill out with the whole, I'm gonna fire my clients if they don't take me seriously because I only train serious clients. Like that's, it's silly. It's like pretentious. You will burn yourself out if you have that attitude. So number one, be okay.  You help them, but they make the choices. You have to be okay with the choices that they make. Here's the second part. This one was a big one. If you don't really love people and enjoy talking to people and enjoy hearing their stories and love hearing about their lives and asking them questions, you're gonna have a tough time as a personal trainer because you're gonna be training, if you're successful, six to eight people a day. So that's six to eight hours uninterrupted. You're on working with someone.  They're gonna tell you about why they don't wanna do this, why they do wanna do this, how they feel.  You're gonna get vested in each one of them. And I went through a period of this and mainly it was because I was stacking so many clients back to back to back to back. And I was just in the zone of, I'm gonna just get as many in as possible, many reps as I can. I'm gonna try my best to make a career out of this. And so I was just focused on trying to get the work in when I could. And that's when I started, when you start to build this feeling of, feeling burnt out, you gotta kind of reassess now, okay? Like how, if you've done your time and this is something that you're doing, you might wanna reevaluate your business plan. And so that's something that I went through and started to start to think about how I could provide better service. Cause if I'm feeling burnt out, that's gonna be a reflection of what I'm bringing in now to each one of my clients and my service is gonna drop on some level. And so I had to really recognize that and sort of like restructure the whole thing to where it allowed for more opportunity for free time for me, which is important. You have to think about yourself too to get my workouts in to just have moments where I could think and plan and think about my business outside my business. And so that meant a reduction in clients but now to survive, I need to bring my rates up a bit. And so there's that whole process of sort of changing and altering your business plan and gear it more towards what's gonna benefit your lifestyle. That's a good point. And I also used to love the conversations that we would have and I would look forward to learning from the clients that I trained all the time. And so they would come in and I think to myself, what can I learn from so-and-so? Oh, he's been in business for 20 years and he's successful. I'm gonna ask him a bunch of business. Oh, that's a doctor. Yeah, they're mentors to you. That's how I looked at it. I used to love it. They come in and I used to feel guilty sometimes. Even when I trained them and stuff, I'd be like, man, I just learned a ton in that hour talking to So-and-so about investment or talking to So-and-so about this particular surgical procedure that I'd never heard of before or whatever. So, and that made it just fun. When everything they show up, I'd be like, oh my God, I can't wait to ask them. You have to have fun. Absolutely. Well, I'm glad, Justin, you were the direction you did because I have a different opinion, I think, than Sal does on this. And that's, I would take ownership as this is my cue to myself. I need to be a better business operator. If I'm getting burnt out and I'm dealing with a lot of these clients that I don't like to train, there's a massive pool of people that you can reach. We are fishing in a huge sea of all different types of clients. And if I like a certain client, but then I find myself, I keep getting these clients that are making me feel burnt out, then I need to be a better business operator and attract the people that I want to train. And so this was my, because this happened to me, I definitely got burnt out. And the burnt out feeling was that of frustration because the truth is, being a good trainer is a lot like being a good baseball player. The greatest baseball player still bat under 500.  That's just part of it. But if you want to attract more people that are serious about the results that are consistent with the things that you're telling them and work with just them, then you gotta get to a place where you have so much demand as a trainer that you can turn away all the people that aren't. That's the important point because the complainers were the trainers that didn't have that. That's right. And I'm like, you can't be picky and choosy because you're looking for more clients. Exactly. So get to a place where you can say no. And then once you get to that place, you start to learn. I mean, obviously I've been doing this for a long time. I can sit down for an hour and to this day, I get people offering me ridiculous money to train them and turn it down because it's not worth my time because I already know what kind of person they're going to be just by having a conversation 45 minutes to an hour in. So even though the dollar amount may sound appealing to me, I care also about my mental health and not feeling burnt out.  So I want all my clients to see phenomenal results and sing my praises because I've changed their life but they gotta be ready to wanna change. And so I would build my business to a place where I can only take, I wanna take on the people that I know are really ready to change. Not just the people that are willing to spend the money. There's a lot of people that are in a place financially that they know that they can afford a personal trainer and it's the cool hip thing to do or they know, oh, I don't know a lot about that so I'll just hire somebody. But they haven't made the commitment to themselves to actually change their behaviors. And if those are the people that I wanna help out and I needed to get to a place where I could turn down all the other clients. And for these reasons, exactly.  No, it can become very exhausting when you're training six to eight hours back to back to back to clients and more than 50% of them are half-assing their attempt to get to their fitness goals. So, okay, I need to get better as an operator and get my level of training up to where there's a high enough demand for me that I can start to be a little more picky and choosy about the clients that I decide to help out are the ones that are already in that place where they wanna help themselves. And boy, did that make a huge difference in me feeling burnt out because I still this day and that's why I still will always have one or two clients I'm helping I love to help somebody who is ready to help themselves that is looking just for guidance. That it's just like, Adam, I don't go to school for all this. I didn't learn all this stuff and I respect your opinion on it. I just need you to kinda guide me. Tell me this, tell me that and I'll execute, I'll follow, I'll learn, I'm eager to learn. I love helping someone out like that. It's still very rewarding for me. So, get to a place with your business that you have that opportunity to say no to somebody who's not ready yet and say yes to all the people that are ready to make that change.


Hey, what's going on guys? This is Giovanni here. Thank you so much for watching all of my videos. If you just subscribe Welcome to my channel. This is where I day trade spy for a living trying to anyways But before I let you watch today's video training video I just want you guys to comment below comment below. Hey Giovanni, you're doing a better job with your videos and the sound is it better is it worse? Do you like it? Well, just give me some feedback Also, we got me thinking from my video from yesterday comment below where you're from Are you here in the States? Canada? Africa Australia? Where are you located? Where are you trading from? Where are you watching my videos from? I would greatly appreciate it if you'll comment down below or email me email me with any questions guys I'm here to help you guys as well to become better day traders in general Yes, I just day trade spy, but that doesn't mean that my logic my my knowledge Doesn't apply to other stocks. I just love the product. I love spy. I love options on spy. So comment down below I'll let you watch that video. Thank you so much everybody good morning peeps today is August 23rd 2018 and I am late it is About 12 minutes into the opening bell and I'm late because today was the very first time that I took my son to school all by myself So that's gonna be happening. It's gonna be changing my life my schedule a little bit, but nonetheless I'm here to watch the markets possibly look for a trade But we're gonna see Let's take a look And What we got on the docket for X factory? USD flash menu Manufacturing PMI excuse me. That's at 945 here in just a few minutes two minutes flash service PMI and Then at 10 we got new home cells. Those are all low impact Information so Again, we're just gonna be watching here doesn't look like any trades to be taking at the time at this time So let's be patient Looks like the market started off in the red just a tad bit ripped up Nothing not trying to say anything just stating a fact Gosh, I wish there was a signal that came in somewhere around here, but the criteria did not line up and Well, we'll see if I we'll see if it comes back down Amazing check that out. What a move what a move completely missed that ginormous move My goodness totally missed that one because of that ginormous move I am very worried about trading for the rest of the day In my opinion my opinion only that was the move. That was the move that you wanted to get in be in Make money in and any other secondary runs, although Extremely possible. I'm just very wary. I've been in those situations many times I've I've missed the initial move and I wait sort of for the Consolidation or pullback and I try to get in and it doesn't always work out that way So I or it doesn't not necessarily work out that way, but doesn't work out As good as the first initial run So I think I'm just gonna call it quits for the day I'm gonna continue watching the markets, but I'm not gonna look for for a trade for an entry I have other things that I need to work on dealing with the stock market and and my strategy I'm gonna refine it just a little bit. I was sitting here while while I was watching I was sitting here thinking of Of a way to better filter my my signals My strategy as a whole refine it. That's the best way. I can explain it guys. So thank you so much for watching I'm so sorry that this was a very boring Video for everybody, but I got some work to do and I'll see you here Tomorrow I have to be at work early, but I'll be able to watch at least the first 30 minutes of opening Bell So I'll see if I can find a good trade for tomorrow. So again, thank you so much everybody for watching Sorry, this was a very short video, but we'll see you here next time Before I let you guys go. Let me just show you the possibilities, right? I just I like doing this on a personal level just to see What the possibilities were and I thought well, maybe I might as well just do it on camera here We were trading at 286 10 so probably the 286 or even the 286 50s, but let's go to 286 Again around right here. I was looking to possibly enter if I had been sitting in front of the computer at that exact moment But I got here at that moment. So 286 10 would have been trading the 286 evens nuts Let's just I mean hypothetically, right the ones that expire tomorrow. So anywhere in here. Let's just say for good measure Let's just say for Good measure 87 cents. We would have probably gotten in Somewhere below it, but 87 cents and it got up to a dollar 12 87 cents to a dollar 12. I Like 10% I like sticking anywhere between five to ten percent ten percent would have been eight nine cents at the very most So that would have been eight ninety six. So we would have been getting out right here on this candle right here 752 To 740 ish so 12 minute a 12 minute long trade We would have been read a little bit or possibly even depending on where we would have gotten in But I mean look at that you wouldn't have been Gosh, not too worried at all during this entire trade. So those are the possibilities. They're quick and easy guys Thank you so much everybody. Have a nice Thursday


Welcome back to another video everyone. First of all I just want to say really quick happy new year and I'm going to be doing something I've been holding off on for months now and that is doing another park ranking video where I rank all of the roller coasters in a given park from worst to best in my opinion. Today I am talking about King's Dominion, a wonderful cedar fair park in Dosbal, Virginia that has lots of charm and natural beauty along with a pretty solid collection of roller coasters. Before beginning I am just going to mention quick that I have updated my channel with a new look for 2020 thanks to Zach at Theme Park Media. I think he did a terrific job and it looks great. Be sure to leave your thoughts and let's get into the worst and best of King's Dominion. Coming in at the number 12 spot is Great Pumpkin Coaster. Great Pumpkin Coaster is just your typical ENF Myler Industries kitty coaster, just has a regular oval layout eight foot tall hill. I did actually try to get this credit but I walked up to the station, there was literally nobody in the area, it was right before park closing and I waited a good at least 30 seconds before the operator of the ride turned around, saw me and unenthusiastically said you need to have a kid to ride this so she denied me this credit so I missed out on the Great Pumpkin Coaster. Moving on to the number 11 spot which is Anaconda, the aerodynamics custom looping coaster that opened in 1991. This ride is often referred to by many enthusiasts as one of the worst coasters out there. I got three rides on this and personally I didn't find it to be that outright terrible, I just thought it was really boring, lots of pointless transitions and it did beat you around a little bit but I didn't find it super uncomfortable. I just thought it was not that great of a ride, very very mediocre. It's pretty cool looking how the first drop goes under water but besides looking at it and taking pictures there's not really anything great about this ride. I think Anaconda's days are numbered personally, I don't think it's going to last any more than like three or four more years. Apple's Apple is a mock rides wild mouse coaster. This is just pretty typical for a wild mouse, it just has some of the tight hairpin turns, it has like one or two bigger drops and that's it. I honestly wish I could say more about this ride, I think it looks fantastic how they have given it the new color scheme and they renamed it Apple's Apple, it used to be called Ricochet from 2002 to 2017. So the Apple's Apple name and color scheme is pretty new, I think it looks great. It really just does nothing, it's not even one of the better wild mouses I've been on. Moving on, at number nine I have the PTC Woodstock Express which opened in 1974. Now these Woodstock Express PTC Wooden coasters are pretty common, there are several clones of these and they're just good kiddie coasters honestly. I don't ride them anymore than once when I go to the park, I ride them to get the credit but they are very good kiddie coasters, not really any airtime or anything. I'm glad these parks still have them because they're so much better than most of the kiddie coasters out there in my opinion. Number eight is Backlot Stunt Coaster which opened in the Paramount days, this opened in 2006 as Italian Job Stunt Track, there is a clone of this at Kings Island and Canada's Wonderland. I've been on this and the Kings Island one. These are honestly really fun solid family coasters and I think they'll be sticking around for a while just because they seem to be pretty reliable. They're really fun rides, they're very very popular actually, they get huge lines. When I rode this one at Kings Dominion I got a really surprising pop of airtime at one point in the ride, it just threw me out of the seat. It actually kind of hurt, I was not expecting it at all, but it's a fun family coaster. That first launch that takes you up into that helix is actually pretty forceful. Some people have said that they grayed out a little bit on that and that's not surprising, it's a pretty forceful moment but these are just all around really fun family coasters. The effects are really dodgy, the one at Kings Island seems to be the best as far as having the effects working. There weren't any flames or anything like that going on this when I wrote it. All in all it's a solid family coaster. It's worth riding if it doesn't have a huge line. At the number seven spot I put Avalanche, the Mock rides bobsled coaster which opened in 1988. This is in the section of the park right next to where volcano used to be located. I found this ride to be a lot of fun actually. I actually had so much fun on this ride, I wrote it three times while I was at Kings Dominion. It doesn't get talked about a lot, it's kind of hidden away in the park, a little bit more difficult to find. It usually doesn't have a big line but I love the seats on these, they're just so unique. These Mock ride bobsled coasters have the cars where if you have two people like one person has to sit in the other person's lap. Very unique setup, a really fun ride overall and this is another great family coaster and I would like to see this one stick around for a while but I don't know if this ride has a lot of life left in it. Honestly the way Cedar Fair has been getting rid of unpopular and older rides that are starting to cost more to maintain but overall I find Avalanche to be a really fun ride actually. Okay disclaimer with my number six selection, Flight of Fear. I actually did not get to ride this Flight of Fear when I went to Kings Dominion. Both days I was there, it was closed but I have been on Flight of Fear at Kings Island a few times. As far as I've heard they both offer the same ride experience, they are clones of each other, have the same theming. I find these to actually be really solid supporting coasters. Back when they opened in 96 they would have been like you know top-notch attractions and they're still really good rides. They're still great supporting coasters. They're very intense rides actually. Long rides, they squeeze in foreign versions in that big spaghetti bowl of track. One thing about these Flight of Fear coasters, those restraints are terrible, terrible, terrible restraints. They have these things. They're not shin guards but these like big bulky orange things that are down by your feet. When I rode it my feet would get like squeezed under these and it was just it was so awkward and painful and like it just made you feel so uncomfortable you know just sitting there with that thing. I don't know how to describe it but these restraints are not good but the ride is a solid ride. It's really fun. Fortunately that weird restraint thing didn't really take away from the ride when I was actually on the ride so overall very solid launch coasters. One thing about these is they're very popular. They're indoors, they have air conditioning, they get very long lines especially on hot days. This is something you're going to want to hit up very early in the day like right at opening. At number five I have Racer 75 formerly known as Rebel Yell. This is a classic PTC racing coaster. It's a clone of Racer at Kings Island and Thunder Road at Kerowins was also the same exact ride. I've been on this and Racer at Kings Island and I find them to be really solid old-school wooden coasters. They have a lot of great floater moments. Now Racer at Kings Dominion I found to be quite a bit rougher than the one at Kings Island but it isn't really uncomfortable. There were a couple moments where it really jolted you but it was still pretty bearable so the one at Kings Dominion I definitely found to be a lot more rough but it's still a great ride. Very fun, very long ride and it just has that classic John Allen out and back design to it so there really isn't anything too special about it but it's a really great wooden coaster in Kings Dominion's lineup. At number four I have Grizzly which is a wooden coaster that was designed and built by the Taft Group in 1982. Grizzly is kind of interesting and it's really hard for me to try to pin this one down. This is one of the hardest coasters for me personally to rank out of the ones that I've been on because this is a really rough ride. It's kind of painful, not gonna lie. It's very very rough and it throws you around a lot but it's very intense. This one feels so intense and it just flies like you're just flying through the trees and this ride is completely hidden back in the woods. I mean you can barely see it from the park. In fact this is a really hard ride to find. The entrance is back in its own tiny little walkway kind of behind a gift shop. I believe it's called the Grizzly Gulch gift shop so if you go to Kings Dominion and you're having a hard time finding this ride look for the Grizzly Gulch gift shop and walk through that gift shop you have to walk through the shop and out the back to find the entrance for this ride. It's really difficult to find. I do love wooden coasters so I do appreciate this one especially since it's back in the trees. You just fly through this thing like I said. It has the classic Coney Island Wildcat design. Overall I love the layout. It has turnarounds that just get tighter as you go through the ride because each turnaround is inside of the bigger one so it just gets tighter and tighter as you go. To me this is just a really classic wooden coaster that never has a line. It still has the classic PTC trains unlike the other Grizzly which I've heard is so much worse and this one has a fantastic setting. This is like the beast unfortunately I was not able to get a night ride on Grizzly. The park wasn't open late enough when I was there but I'm sure a night ride on this would be phenomenal. Now we're really getting into the good rides here. At my number three spot is a coaster that I actually find to be very underrated and that is Dominator, the BNM Floralus coaster which originally opened at Giago Lake when it was known as Six Flags Ohio back in 2000 and it was called Batman Night Flight. When Cedar Fair bought Giago Lake it was changed to Dominator and then after Giago Lake unfortunately closed after the 2007 season Dominator was relocated here and when I went to King's Dominion I was so excited to get back on Dominator because when I rode it well over 10 years ago at Giago Lake it was one of my favorite coasters and it still holds up today in my opinion. It's been maintained very well, it's very smooth, it's a really intense ride. I actually grayed out on it a little bit. I forgot how intense it was but it's really intense. It has five inversions which is kind of weird for a Floralus. It's really not a lot for these BNM Floralus coasters. That's all it needs though. The five inversions are great. It has one of the biggest vertical loops in the world actually. It has a pretty good Cobra roll and it has the interlocking corkscrews and overall a really good layout. This thing hauls through the layout. You do get quite a bit of headbanging after the mid-course break run when you're going through the little twister section with the interlocking corkscrews. That's the only real knock I have on this ride. Other than that though this is a really solid Floralus coaster and one of the biggest Floralus coasters out there as well. Definitely an underrated one in my opinion. I have this in my personal top 20 coasters. Now getting into the star attractions of Kings Dominion. The rides that really make this park well known among enthusiasts. At number two I have Twisted Timbers. The RMC iBox conversion of the Hurler and wow Twisted Timbers is a phenomenal RMC. This is my second RMC. My first one being Steel Vengeance and Twisted Timbers is basically sort of like a smaller version of Steel Vengeance. Obviously it has the barrel roll drop so it's really unique and I love that barrel roll drop. But in regards to the airtime and the type of inversions it has it's pretty similar to Steel Vengeance. It has the three back-to-back camelback airtime hills which provide that really sustained powerful airtime you expect from an RMC. And it is just fantastic. The inversions on this ride are really good. It has three inversions. Butter smooth just like any RMC. Twisted Timbers although it was kind of difficult deciding between this and my number one coaster at Kings Dominion. Ultimately I decided that Twisted Timbers came in at a very solid number two spot. Definitely a really top-notch coaster and it's a very long ride too. So that's definitely a plus. Coming in at the number one spot for Kings Dominion is the world famous Intimidator 305. Theme to Dale Earnhardt who was called the Intimidator. This is a very fitting name for this ride. It is one of the most intense if not the most intense coaster operating. The ride is really known for that first turn after the drop. You gray out every single ride. For me I grayed out on every single ride. Almost blacked out on one of them. It is so intense and this ride is just all about the intensity. Intensity and a few moments of pretty good floater airtime as well. This ride really blew me away. You don't have any time to catch your breath really. The only time you can sort of catch your breath at all maybe is on the two airtime hills in the middle of the ride. Besides that you're just tall in and you don't even know what's coming. It's incredible. If intensity is not what you look for in a ride this definitely is not your kind of ride because like I said it does just focus on the intensity and there are decent airtime moments as well. This is very short for a giga coaster. It only has 5100 feet of track which leads to the ride being very short in ride time but it doesn't need to be any longer. It just throws all of the intensity at you for a good you know 40 to 45 seconds or whatever the time is from drop to break. I've never been on anything remotely close to this in terms of sheer intensity. This is a very solid top five ride in my opinion and I think it's going to stay there for a very long time.  Fantastic giga coaster one of the best in the world. For me it wasn't very hard to say that this is my favorite coaster at Kings Dominion. Thank you all for watching this ranked video. I've put together a playlist with my other current ranked video from Cedar Point and I will also be doing this kind of video for a couple other parks in the future so be sure to subscribe for more and also like my page Coaster Daddy on Facebook and follow me at Coaster Daddy official on Instagram. Thank you all so much again for watching and here's to being prosperous as we coast into a new year. This is Coaster Daddy. Bye.