Judy, it's the middle of February, we just had another snowstorm here and we're talking about swimming pools. What's the event about today? We are raising money to be able to provide swimming lessons to children at the Reiki School. A lot of people don't realize it but when the Reiki School was built it also incorporated a community center and along with that they have a wonderful pool facility. So the children are provided swimming lessons but they are not free so we do provide funding for two grades of school children to get swimming lessons. Is that pool available to anyone in the community or just students in the school? The pool is available to anyone in the community for a very nominal fee. I think they charge one to two dollars for Portland City residents. And what are you doing here today? So we're holding a silent auction. We have various items that have been donated generously through different businesses and individuals in the community and we're just going to have a good time here. We've got some snacks and some drinks and we're going to try to raise money. And who are the speakers here today? We have Joe Gray who is a former city manager, Nick Mavidonis who is a city counselor and former mayor. We also have Paul Stevens and his family talking about experiences they've had at Reiki Pool and Holly Seliger who's been on the school board. The swimming program at Reiki is the only activity that WENA supports financially. The other neighborhood efforts we're involved with require volunteers time and elbow grease but this is the only one for which we regularly raise funds and solicit donations. Our goal is to raise $6,000 by the end of February to fund the programs for two years. I am often amazed to hear people say that they never realized that Reiki is a community center as well as a school. I'm doubly amazed when someone says I never knew there was a pool at Reiki. I have to say that this bothers me and I really wish that the community center side of Reiki were much more intensively used by more people of all ages, all day and evening and all year round. We in the West End are especially fortunate to have a combined community center and school complete with a teaching pool. To live on a peninsula and not ensure that every student leaving Reiki has had an adequate opportunity to learn to swim ought to strike anyone as misguided and irresponsible. Through your generosity we hope to make sure that all Reiki students have that chance and will continue to work to ensure that the city of Portland's assets and facilities located in the West End are used and enjoyed to their highest advantage by all age groups in the community. I also want to recognize our corporate sponsors, JB Brown and Sons, Bragg Operating Resources, Advanced Pierre Barber Foods, the West End Portland Harborview Hotel and Graphic Ware. Also Harmon and Barton's florist provided the lovely flower arrangements and I also want to tell the winner board how much I appreciate them for putting up with my craziness and countdowns and thank them for a job well done. Judy Weatherall and Clifford Trumblay raise your hands. They are the co-chairs of Silent Auctions so if you have any questions about any of this bidding process and so on there are the people to talk with. Ian Jacob is the event coordinator. He coordinated all this lovely flowers and the whole setup here with the West End. Rich Mason, where is Mitch? There he is. Hey, he along with Dick Stevens and Bjorn Swenson brought us into the age of Paypal that you could buy tickets online. And then we also have Penny Stevens who's back at the Will Call table, Liz Parsons and Jen DePhilip who helped set things up here today. But they're also in charge of a second event that we're having on Wednesday which is February 19th and that's actually at the Rikie Pool. For those of you who got left behind during February school vacation and didn't make it to Disney World or the Caribbean, you can come that night to the Rikie Riviera. For $5 bring your bathing suit and your flip flops and have a good time. You can play some games or have the pool be open. You can swim and so on. We also have Christine McHale who's vice president. I don't see her here. And then also on the board are Lena Good Simpson and Tom McMillan who could not be here today. Hey, lastly I want to thank Bruce Wennerstrom, the manager of the West End. Back in November when we started planning this event, we had hoped to have it on Valentine's Day but Bruce said no. Well did I know that Bruce is the West End's own Punxsutawney Phil and I really appreciate the weather that he arranged for us for today rather than Valentine's Day. Thank you for coming and for your generosity and engagement in the neighborhood. Now I hope that you'll enjoy yourselves at one of the first public events at the fabulously renovated and re-energized Eastland Hotel. We have some speakers. We're going to start with sort of a little historic review of Reiki with Joe Gray who is the former city manager who at the late 60s, early 1970s was in the planning department and helped to actually plan Reiki. So we'll turn this over to Joe. Thank you, Roseanne for giving me the opportunity to share with all of you my involvement with the planning and the construction of the Reiki School and with its various community features including the pool. I want to start by taking you down memory lane and talk about two important local decisions that were made in the late 1960s and the early 1970s when I was first moving to Portland and working for the city and the then Portland Renewal Authority. These two decisions were largely focused on the West End and resulted in the building of the Reiki School. The first was Portland's decision to be involved in the Model Cities program, a President Lyndon Johnson's great society effort to rebuild older city neighborhoods with the focus on citizen participation and developing the plans and programs for the neighborhood. Portland designated the West End, the West End prom, Bayside and Parkside as its model neighborhood but the center of real action was in the West End. And committees were formed and I know there were some people who are here today who can remember those committees. They worked late into the night developing plans for new social service health recreation programs and creating neighborhood based community organizations such as the Portland West Neighborhood Planning Council which is now learning works and I'm really taking you down memory lane when I mentioned LIP which was the low income people which was a housing advocacy group in the West End. There were programs which offered publicly financed loans and grants to rehab homes and apartments something that had never been done before by the city and also the city was actually helping to fund and construct new housing which resulted in the building of Danforth Heights and the infill housing at Dermott Court. The committee also identified educational needs of the neighborhood including the possibility of a new school because at that point when they were doing the planning no one really knew whether or not one was going to be built but they all understood that a new school would be an essential part of the overall plan for the success of the Model Cities program. The second pivotal community decision was taking place as this Model Cities effort was moving forward. That event was the decision by the school committee and the city council to close three West End elementary schools, McClellan, Butler and Rosa True and also a fourth that was not considered part of the West End, the Shalers School on Center Street and to consolidate all the students in one building to be built in the West End. These schools dated back to the 1800s. They lacked many educational amenities, had little or no library space, few common areas and very limited if any outdoor play area. In addition to closing three public schools the Catholic diocese decided to close the Sacred Heart Elementary School in the Parkside neighborhood. So the entire West End neighborhood was to see four schools close at the same time. You can well imagine the intense community debate which preceded and followed the decision of these to close these schools. Today it's hard enough to get a consensus just to change a school line, district line, let alone close one school. Small and more intimate schools with a long history educating West End children were to be replaced with a large state of the art for the 1970s community school. Equally important in that discussion was we had to build a school because there was no vacant site that could accommodate the expected size of the school and the community features that the model city's plan and that the neighborhood envisioned and that the neighborhood was promised. Finally the decision was made to locate Rikie between Brackett, Clark and Spring Streets to build meant the acquisition of three blocks of housing and some neighborhood stores. Some of you may remember the Malconian Market which was a long time family owned and operated store which was located at the corner of Spring and Brackett Streets, an example of one of the businesses that were required. This was the hard part of the decision because to create the site for the school about a hundred families and individuals had to move. Many who had owned their homes for years and had long ties to the neighborhood. All the buildings were going to have to be demolished and the site cleared for the construction of the school. At first it was a willing buyer and willing seller, the property owner selling and the city buying but later in order to complete the site the renewal authority on behalf of the city had to use eminent domain and actually unfortunately forced people to leave their property. Despite the intense community debate on the closing of so many schools and whether or not the proposed site was the right one and the relocation of so many families and individuals the city council by a five to four vote made the difficult decision to move ahead using urban renewal funds to create the right key site. Once the decision was made though the community focus shifted to the design of the critical features and pieces that would make up the new school. The open classroom learning environment concept so much in vogue in the 1970s was embraced. It was decided that the school should be able to accommodate up to 700 children and include a community health station, a library branch, space for adult education classes, a media center, a gym and recreation programming and extensive outdoor play space. An interesting design feature was the crossover outdoor ramp which you all can associate with the school. It was designed to be located where one of the former streets that used to intersect the blocks where the school is was located. And also certainly the recognition of the community pool. Finally as reported in the then Portland Evening Express newspaper on a late November day in 1973 the students from the former schools walked to the newly constructed 2.7 million dollar Reiki school with their books and personal belongings in shopping bags. And it's a picture from the then Evening Express of the kids from each of the schools walking and meeting each other at the new Riking school. I think it's a great picture all carrying their shopping bags. It should be noted that from the early meetings there was always strong interest to include a community pool in the school. While the city operated the Kiwanis pool as a seasonal pool on Douglas Street the only other available pools were at the YM and the YWCA. Yes there were community features to the school. I mentioned the library and the health station. But the committee involved in the school design felt including a pool available to all residents of the neighborhood and city made Reiki truly a community facility. An interesting side fact is that the pool was dedicated to Harold Hap-Frank who was a longtime YMCA executive and a former city council chairman. They didn't have mayors at that time. They call them chairman as a gesture of appreciation for his interest in recreational opportunities for Portland's youth. The success of the Reiki pool was very influential in later decisions to incorporate a pool in the building of the Rivet in school in the late 1970s. Over the years there's been much discussion about the physical design of Reiki as a learning environment which has resulted in interior modification of the school space. But there has always been broad support for its various community features notably the pool which continues to this day. I'm pleased that early in my Portland career I had the opportunity to play a role in helping to create the Reiki school site and later a city manager helping fund many of its community programs. And I want to thank you for letting me share some of these memories with you all today. Thank you. But right now we have another speaker for you who is going to talk about the importance of learning to swim. And I'm happy to introduce you Councillor Nick Mavidonis who was on the school board, not when Reiki was built, right Nick? But I'll turn this over to Nick. And one thing I do want to let you know about is we are, this is all being filmed by CTN, community television. You see the bright lights over there.  And we'll count those trips at the end.  So if you look for Wenna you can see this event. And you also can see the film from Phil Thompson Day that we did at the State Street Church last spring. So right now I'll turn this over to Nick. Thank you, Rosanne. I have to say I'm not quite as prepared as Joe Gray was when he came up here with his folder and his printed materials. But it is a very nice pleasure to be here. I appreciate the invitation. When you called I wondered why you wanted me to come. But I'm pleased to be here. I first of all want to commend all of you for your efforts at raising funds so that Reiki school students can learn to swim and summer programs for kids who live in the West End. As an elected official it's very difficult at times for school boards and city council to continue to fund things that have always funded. And you know I've been through on the city council. We, Joe talked about the Kiwanis pool. There have been many efforts that, not efforts, but there have been many times there have been proposals to close that and again that's only open in the summer. But those are things that municipalities do. We had a thing a few years ago regarding swimming with a therapeutic swimming program that believe me none of us knew how important a program that was for the participants in that until there was a discussion about closing that program. So as an elected official the efforts that all of you actually things like this where people raise money and are able to continue to fund programs that are very important in the community really need to be commended. As Roseanne said I'll talk a little bit about what do I say on the importance of learning to swim on your program. I've spent a lot of my life actually all of my life around the water. I didn't grow up in Portland but my family had a summer home on Great Diamond Island and I learned to swim there. Our house was probably 200 feet from the beach so we were always in the water. My kids were always in the water. When they were growing up however they learned to swim. I think it was at the YW before it was torn down and they swam on the island like all island kids do some very elite island kids were grown up here who have jumped off docks and spent time on beaches and that's what kids do in the island. This really doesn't have a lot to do with learning to swim but I have to tell you one. I have two sons who were born on the same day but two years apart so every summer we had a big bash on Great Diamond and all their friends from town would come and relatives and spend the night and the kids would all want to jump off the dock. Some would swim on the beach and kayak and want to swim on the dock.  I was a ferry captain at the time and I told, gave all the kids the rules. I said you step back you don't get near the edge of the dock when the ferry comes in there's a propeller turning you got to be really careful. So anyway the ferry came in people unloaded the captain started to take the line or the crew took the line in and the captain started to back up and one of the kids who's a good swimmer but decided he was going to jump in the water before the ferry left and he jumps off the end of the dock the boat starts backing towards him I'm yelling stop the boat stop the engines fortunately the captain saw it and stopped the boat but he swam around the dock not paying any attention at all to the fact that there was a boat and propeller turning probably within 20 feet from him and climbed up the ladder and acted like what was wrong but he was a good swimmer I'm not sure he could have done battle with a propeller but he was a good swimmer so just to say a little bit about I've spent a lot of time working on the water a lot of time working on Portland's waterfront swimming is learning to swim is important it's as you all know and some of you are very good swimmers know that swimming is something that's great for exercise it's something that I'm not telling you or anything you don't know it's a lifelong thing it's like you can play golf or tennis and swim I can't play basketball anymore I got too old but people can still swim at any age so it's very important I work on the water people who work on boats need to know how to swim I can tell you there are fishermen who don't know how to swim there are some I know who wish they had learned how to swim we have people who live in our community who aren't quite as fortunate as others who often live on the streets some of them spend an awful lot of time on the waterfront we've had incidents, not in the last few years but we have incidents in the recent probably five or six years where people have actually fallen in the water and haven't been able to swim and have perished because of it so as was mentioned we live in a city and we're on a peninsula I live over by Back Cove I can look out from my house down the street and see the water we have water around us it's very important that people know how to swim it's a safety issue for people who spend time on boats and spend time on beaches and spend time on wharves around Portland so it's a very important thing I must tell you though I'm an average swimmer I'll swim on a beach you won't find me on a diving board I don't mind saying that but I can swim and like I said I learned to swim out on one of the islands in Casco Bay so that's a pretty important thing I did jot down a couple of notes and I'm trying to make sure that I covered those things I do want to mention one thing that I haven't and I know you are raising money so that these programs can be put on but as a city counselor I can't help but mention the city's rec program and the staff that work in our rec program in our two schools community schools so I want to just mention them and how important those programs are I will say as Joe was talking about the history of Reiki and the community center community school being built I have had some experience in closing schools or recommending closing schools and being on a building committee for the East End school I've been on other building committees as well but we're very fortunate that we have the community school at Reiki and also out at Riverton with pools when we looked at building a new Jack the new East End school we looked at trying to make it as much of a community school as those two are they were very good models but when you look at the infrastructure costs and you look at the maintenance costs of trying to have a pool in more than those two schools it wasn't something that we could financially withstand so it's really important that our elected officials do what they can to make sure there's funding to maintain our schools to maintain Reiki and we really can't do all of that without the efforts of all of you raising money for these programs so kids can learn to swim and not just kids who go to Reiki but kids who may not go to Reiki but also live on the western part of the peninsula so with that I want to say thank you to all of you thanks for Rosanne for inviting me and remember how important it is for those who live in Portland who work on the waterfront who spend time on the bay who spend time on the islands that they learn how to swim at a young age so thank you very much we have another speaker this time our speaker is Holly Seliger she is the district 2 representative on the Portland school board grew up in Maine and is going to talk about learning to swim as a kid in Maine thanks a lot Rosanne glad I was asked to be a part of this thank you everyone for all your hard work this is a really classy event someone asked me if I'm a member of WENNA and I am although I need to pay my $5 membership fee I just remembered that so I need to pay my fee so don't let me know and I will give the $5 membership fee to WENNA really excited that my west end part on the district representative west end parkside and we have a public pool for people to use childhood like Nick said, childhood is the best time to learn how to swim and it's a skill that can save your life or save someone else's life and wouldn't it be amazing if every child in Maine could learn how to swim and judging by all the drawings up here as long as they stay up on the wall the kids really appreciate being able to swim and being able to take the lessons just a few facts about kids in Maine, child poverty is on the rise in Maine since 2008 according to the Maine Children's Alliance nearly 20% of children under 18 live in poverty in Maine and in Portland child poverty is over 25% so kids need activities to stay warm and active through the winter months and when a swimming program at the Reiki school ensures access to activities and it's an invaluable skill to learn how to swim like Roseanne said, I grew up in Maine I didn't grow up in Portland but I learned how to swim at about 5 years old I started taking swimming lessons and I really loved swimming and I wanted to join the swim team until I watched the Jaws Marathon with my dad on TV and I think it's in the third movie somehow the shark ends up in the local community pool and it was really scary to see as a kid so I still been pretty scared about a shark ending up in the pool not anymore but there were a few years where I did not want to swim because of that so I'm keeping my speech very brief but please help kids learn how to swim and don't let kids watch the Jaws movie marathon and they will enjoy the Reiki swimming pool very much, thank you Roseanne but right now I'd like to introduce the Stevens family and this is a family from the West End who has had the total Reiki swimming experience of what, three generations now? not quite, on the way well I guess we're presiding over the kind of close out and clean up here this is my grandson Stratton who has told me that he's not prepared to speak tonight even though he's the youngest swimmer in the family but who should say that's not true? oh that's true and he's not here so that's the youngest swimmer in the family, thank you Jane we have two young swimmers what's that? that's a microphone okay and this is son John Stratton and this is son Nate over here so I have Voluminous prepared remarks here so I'm less prepared than Joe and more prepared than Nick I think but both of our kids grew up at Reiki and although they didn't learn to swim there they learned to swim at the YW but before they were old enough to go to Reiki from the time they were in kindergarten until the time that they graduated from high school and that swimming was both as students at the school and also as members of the Portland Porpoise Swim Club and Sharon Power who was the coach of the Portland Swim Club for a good number of years mailed me some recollections of coaching at that pool which was a little bit challenging to coach competitive swimming in that pool because I think that when the pool was designed I don't think they thought that they were going to get an Olympic gold medalist out of that pool which they did with Ian Crocker but some of Sharon's remarks were that at that time and I haven't been in there recently there were no lines on the bottom of the pool and so the little kids who trained there when they went to a swim meet could see the lines on the bottom of the pool and they were all wiggly because of the waves and they wouldn't go in the water at the swim meet the other problem was that those of you who have swum in competitive pools know as a T at the end of the pool where you're supposed to start, initiate your flip turn and there were none of those at the Reiki pool and so Sharon used to put hockey pucks on the bottom of the pool so that she could teach the kids to do flip turns in the pool the other problem with the pool was and still is to follow to dive into so that she couldn't teach starts at the pool so those were all of the challenges the pool was fairly narrow so the lines were very close together and I can remember Nate and Ian Crocker swimming there and they would use the lines to pull themselves along when they were doing the butterfly or at least that's what their coach says the other thing that was nice about that pool was that particularly in this kind of weather they would try to make snowballs and so she remembers in this kind of weather when kids were standing shivering not wanting to get into the pool at 5.30 in the morning she would bring snowballs in with her and throw snowballs at the kids until they went in the water but despite all those problems that pool produced an Olympic gold medalist with Ian Crocker produced two Olympic trials qualifiers my son Nate and Ian Crocker five junior national qualifiers who are Ian and Nate my son John, Angie Chessie and Lindsay Hoffner so as Sharon said no matter what pool they want to compete in it was always easier to swim in than the Reiki pool but I think at this point I'm going to turn it over to John and Nate to say a little bit about their experience swimming there for probably close to 15 years I think I was there for the better part of 15 years the challenges of no lines on the bottom of the pool and I think Nate can attest to doing flip turns and getting ankles stuck in the gutters over there at the end of the pool I did a little quick calculation and I think I figured I swam about 3,500 hours in that pool and close to 10 million yards over the course of swim lessons and say about four or five years they're doing competitive swimming so it definitely helped me out and you know sent me on my way sent me to Miami in the winter we were having I kind of wish we were back there now and Nate went off to college as well but you know at the end of the day I could show up at any pool and know that it could definitely be a little bit worse but I'm very much thankful for that pool a lot of good times there a lot of pleasant times spent and though a difficult pool to swim in it definitely serves its purpose as a great pool to learn to swim in especially with the swim lessons that we had there at Reiki so you can definitely be thankful that we had it especially so close to the house when you have a 5 a.m. workout and getting out of bed at 4.50 to show up at 5 was pretty nice compared to some of our friends who were living in Cumberland and having to drive in to swim there but I think I'll turn it over to Nate now to share a few things Hello, Nate Stevens so as John said and my dad noted pretty much grew up at Reiki with swim lessons and open swim and flash parties and later swimming for the porpoises and countless and many many hours early morning late night which took me on to college at the University of Arizona which I'll tell a brief story of when I arrived there as a freshman in the first couple days that I was there and I was sitting down with a few of the guys trying to get to know the team and all of these guys coming from all over the world South Africa, London, France Mexico, Venezuela and other prestigious programs in the US and one of them had known Ian from I think a national team and he said to me, he said Nate, is it true you guys swim in like a really small pool? I said, well, yes it is and then I went on to describe Reiki as you know, let's be honest what it is, kind of a four lane cinder block warehouse and they just kind of all looked at me in disbelief that a product like Ian or any of the other successful swimmers could be successful from swimming in such a small pool and I think it just goes to show you that it really doesn't matter if you have 15 lanes and bleachers as long as you have water in a pool for the community and a community to embrace that pool so I think it's wonderful that this is happening here today to support the swim lessons and keep kids in the pool I have several friends that I grew up with that still to this age don't know how to swim and you know, having a family summer residence on Little Diamond Island I can attest to the importance of swimming so thank you very much for having this event today, thanks if people are interested in donating to the swimming lessons but can't make it to the auction today where can they go for more information about doing that so the West End Neighborhood Association has a website set up where you can make a donation through our PayPal account and the website is www.patreon.com


What's up everybody? Happy Wednesday. I hope you're doing super well. Welcome back. So last Wednesday I told you every Wednesday I was going to start doing a video like this where I share some of the more intricate details of my business. Listings I got, closings I had, deals I lost, successes, failures, all that stuff. So that's what this is. It's just kind of an update. And I know a lot of you are doing the 28 day challenge right now. This is week one of the four week 28 day Ricky Kruth real estate challenge and I've seen so many of your comments and your DMs and your emails. This thing went way bigger than I was expecting. I had no idea how many people were actually going to jump on board for this and fully commit and dive in headfirst. It's been a little overwhelming to tell you truth just to hear how much it's helping people get on the right track, get that daily routine in place, you know, what to do, when to do it, who to talk to, what to say. The whole nine yards has just been an incredible experience so far. So I can't wait to hear about all of your successes at the end of the 28 days. Comment below right now. Let me know what you think about the 28 day challenge so far.  I'm going to check in with you guys. It's going to be 4 p.m. central. I'll be live right here answering your questions. It's just going to be kind of a coaching session Q&A. I might even call a few of you in so definitely tune in for that especially if you have any questions or anything concerning the 28 day challenge because that's what it's really going to be about. I just want to get deeper in with what questions you have, how it's going, and how it can help you continue the momentum of the 28 days. This week since last Wednesday I picked up four new listings. Very excited about these listings. I actually already sold one of them. It sold in about two days so it was just one for about 150,000. I also listed a Phoenix 8 condo three bedroom for five and a quarter. Really nice building, really nice spot, really nice unit all around. That came from a circle prospecting call years ago, been getting the weekly email. Now they're ready to do something. I also listed a condo at one club. It's unit 610. That's for 1955. It's a two bedroom. It's in this golf course kind of condo complex. It's really nice. It's overlooking a lake and that client came from the development that I have in Foley Sea Pines. They were driving through, ended up showing them some condos there and come to find out they own a condo on the beach and they've been getting my weekly email forever and I had no idea but they own one on the beach. They own one at one club and they're thinking about buying one at Sea Pines if this one at one club sells. Then I listed a house in Foley for 249. I actually sold this client to this house years ago. They're moving. It's a friend from high school so it's kind of one of those deals. I'm really excited about those four new listings so still working on getting the pictures, getting them on MLS on a couple of them but coming soon. Also closed three deals. All those went pretty smooth and not completely smooth but pretty smooth for the most part. They closed so that's always good but I did lose one. I wanted to talk about this with you. I lost a deal. Actually it was a referral from a client who I've sold several properties for. I have a property listed for him now. He referred this buyer to me and he's from out of state and he was looking at investing in like a rental property like a beach house so he found one online and it's about 45 minutes from me. We kind of did the research and decided this was one he might want to focus on and might take a run at but I had no idea. I had no idea if he was actually going to make an offer or not. No idea in the world but he wanted me to go look at this house 45 minutes away. So you think 45 minutes I get there. I'm going to look at it for you know 10, 15, 20, 30 minutes and then 45 minutes back. We're talking about a good two to three hours out of my day on this property for this buyer that I have no idea if he's actually going to buy or not now or ever and this always comes back to the relationships over transactions. He asked me to do this and I was more than happy to do it and I'm not expecting anything out of it. I wasn't you know I'm doing it expecting that he's not going to do anything and I'm just going to basically you know deepen that relationship and let him know hey I'm willing to do whatever it is you need me to do. That's really all it was but I went out there the seller was there elderly gentleman very nice and we talked for a while and at the end of the day my buyer did make an offer it was kind of a low offer but they made an offer. So we submit the offer and we wait 24 hours still haven't heard anything you know I'm getting with the agent and trying to find out what's going on. The seller's wife got in a car wreck the day that we made the offer. She nothing nothing fatal nothing nothing very serious but she did get hurt I think she broke a rib so that's pretty serious but nothing that's going to kill her but she's going to need a lot of time to recover so they decided to take that house off the market for now until she kind of recovers and they decide what they want to do. So my buyer was like man what luck is that right because it's been on the market for a while so I'm hoping for a very speedy recovery for her and that everything goes good there and well I told the agent and the buyer said this too if you know when they decide to come back you know let's re-engage with the offer and see where we stand that's if my buyer hasn't found anything in the meantime. So we went back to the drawing board looking at everything on the market couldn't find anything that he was just in love with or decided that that might be the one for him like this house was so for the time being I've lost it I did create that relationship he does know that I'll do anything for him I said look man if you find another house that you like let me know I'll go look at it and we'll do the same thing and see if it's something that we really want to go after when I went looked at the house I really I found out that the house was in way better shape than I thought it was so I had to go look at it so that I could you know consult him for exactly the way that I think that he should have approached the offer or even if he should have even made an offer at all. So that's it for today thank you guys so much I'm glad to see all of you crushing this 28 day challenge I had three closings picked up four new listings and I lost an offer that I'm still working with the buyer on. So that's been my week comment below and let me know how your week is going how your week has been what your successes what your failures are I would love to hear about them I'll see you guys tomorrow at 4 p.m. Central for the live Q&A right here on this YouTube channel let me know what the world I can do for you we'll talk to you soon let's go


Many ancient sites found scattered all over the planet share an enigmatic feature. A pattern of scarring left upon their megalithic blocks, and often upon their walls, once left by a technology built by an as-yet not understood civilization. We've previously covered the perplexing technique often used by ancient wall builds found all around the world in the form of mysterious metal clamps. Used to seat huge stone blocks as they settled over the following years, these clamps dated to similar times within antiquity and varying in style from continent to continent somehow turned up all over the world at around the same time, strongly suggesting some form of intercontinental travel and thus sharing of technologies. Furthermore, and perhaps more intriguing, are the links that we, here on the channel, along with others in alternative research, and even funded institutes from nations around the world have begun to notice and hopefully triangulate a signature left by this once highly advanced group of individuals. The most noticeable of these sites, and the one which initially started us upon this journey, was Longyue Cave in China. A cave system hewn from solid bedrock, leaving no waste piles of stone anywhere, marking the stone with a telltale scar pattern. These parallel marks are not just found at Longyue, similar yet not identical marks have also been found elsewhere on Earth. A slight variation in style is what one would expect with shared knowledge, as with the metal clamps, a slight variation can be found from continent to continent. These similar marks can also be found at the ancient quarry of Yangshan China and Petra in Jordan. Both argued for years to actually be the workmanship of a civilization, far older than any noted within modern academia. These marks were then discovered to be upon the ceiling of Cave 1 at the ancient site of Mamalapuram, within India. Another site which in places shows levels of erosion far in excess of that which should be seen at a site dated within known history. Yet perhaps the most impressive of these marks, and most probably the ones made by the conceptual machine of origin, are the scars witnessed and now subsequently cataloged at Balbeck. These are far too large for any hand tool, made into solid granite with such precision. These also display circular motions as if left by a modern day tunnel boring machine. This evidence, undoubtedly unnoticed upon many more ancient sites, is clearly compelling evidence to support our channel's hypothesis, that a mysterious history once occurred here on our planet, and will hopefully shed some light on the amazing people responsible for this phase of our past. Thanks for watching guys, and until next time, take care. Continuing on from our previous video where Dawn discusses the amazing and incredibly intricate artistic wonder that is the Kailash Temple, we felt it a good time to cover another incredible ancient wonder, and indeed set of rock cut temples known as Madan Salay. Predictably a little-shared enigmatic site, it is located within modern-day Saudi Arabia. Reportedly dating from the Nabatian Kingdom, 1st century AD, it is the southernmost settlement after the better known, yet no less impressive Petra, made famous by the Indiana Jones epics. In 2008, UNESCO proclaimed Madan Salay a site of patrimony, becoming Saudi Arabia's first World Heritage Site. 131 rock-cut monumental structures said to have been built as tombs, however as they were cut with such precision, their existence is clearly a mysterious one. Very little is known regarding the ancient builders of these sites, the little we do know was left on several mysterious and invaluable plaques, which adorn a select few of these rock-cut structures. Although the insides of the tombs appear to have been rather crudely finished, the outer exteriors are clearly phenomenally refined. For a civilization even a mere 2,000 years ago to have managed to create such precise structures remains a tough thing for mainstream archaeology to explain. Just like the many other sites, Puma Punca, Giza, etc., etc., they display a far superior level of ability, to that of which we are led to believe, and as always, mystery history presumes it is not the historic record which is incorrect, but rather the antiquity of these structures which is actually being hidden, their true age concealed and attributed to a post-cataclysmic civilization, rather than their true creator. The Nabatians, the academically claimed builders, were quite advanced for their chronological position within history regardless, supposedly having a strongly democratic society, sharing wealth and land equally amongst the tribe. They also displayed an incredibly complex understanding of hydraulic systems. The name Mada and Saleh, or the city of Saleh, is also interestingly associated with a very ancient prophet, which is also connected to an ancient tribe known as the tribe of Tamad. Saleh is also the equivalent to a very ancient figure mentioned within the Hebrew Bible. The tribe of Tamad said to be the descendants of the biblical Noah. However, the Tamad were also said to have become very corrupt, materialistic and stopped believing in God. According to the accounts, this is when God sent prophet Saleh to warn them that if they would continue in that way, they would be destroyed, a prophecy which eventually came true. To this day, the remains of the ancient sites are considered by some to be cursed. What do you think regarding the rock-cut tombs of Mada and Saleh? Remnants left by a culture some 2,000 years ago with the use of copper and stone tools? Or structures left by a far more advanced, far more capable ancient people whose entire existence is attributed to others subsequently concealing it here upon our planet? Thanks for watching guys and until next time, take care. There are many areas of modern historical study and the conclusions thereof which not only are incorrect but carefully planned, highly funded and precisely executed convolutions of our true history, theft of our true origins, and what lost civilizations were once capable of creating, systematically obliterating our heritage all around us, something the channel witnesses on a daily basis. There are many possible reasons for the motivation for such callous actions, yet all are ultimately found to have nefarious intentions, greed, power, control, and paradigm, with funded academics complicit in this destruction. There is now very little M.H. has not covered, investigated, or encountered regarding antiquarian subject matter. As such, is now utterly convinced the timeline for the history of humans is far larger, far greater, and far more spectacular than any religious, geological, archaeological, historical, or any other academically funded field or institute who greatly profit from the propping up such continued misconceptions will ever willingly admit. It is up to all of us to remain thorns in the sides of institutional liars. The truth is out there, but one must be relentless in their pursuit of it.  Yet as mentioned, these strategic moves are not only isolated to our modern era, in reality they have always been a consequence of greedy, psychopathic, power-hungry individuals throughout the ages. Incredible, still unexplained sites, re-inhabited by our more recent ancestors who strategically began to claim them as their work, with modern academics using a similar strategy for their own beneficial motives. The past invaders motivated by the illusionary sense of power and intimidation, which would have struck fear or respect for their seemingly magical capabilities into the hearts of any surrounding group. This power play strategy, also used by modern academia, using the vast array of said individuals' artifacts, excavated at each site to support their posit for structural origin. This, always regardless of the complete absence of any claimed culture leaving any diagrams, messages, or anything, not one shred of evidence showing these claimed culprits knew how to construct them, a vast portion of the general public simply go away, presuming those running the studies know all about who built these sites and how. Thus, those unfamiliar with the anomalies we cover can easily make a forgivable oversight, as these charlatans openly declare they do indeed know who built them, resulting in a mass of misplaced faith from individuals unaware of the concealed features and the hidden agenda by the institutes who bribe others through the academic funding structure. Manipulating those with limited information of such sites, academics put tremendous effort into being perceived as intellectually superior to us all. This is solely for the purpose of financial gain, as if they are perceived as being more knowledgeable by default they possess a greater influence, as such can uphold misconceptions and concealment of the controversial and the contradictory. We often stumble upon unexplainable anomalies, sites claimed as the work of civilizations that were simply incapable of such feats. Polygonal masonry, enormous megalithic block walls, and rare but crucial polygonal floors. We have also recognized signature blockwork found in many different countries, with many ancient stone-builds ingeniously put together, weight-bearing architecture such as the lintel in the Treasury of Atreus, that due to its accurate and complex design is simply preposterous to attempt to claim as the work of a group of ancestors which we know predates our own modern understandings of such techniques.  It seems that due to the fact that academia not only wants to continue to appear accurate and all-knowing in their explanations as to who built said structures, but also due to the clearly funded structure and the orchestrated efforts to conceal our past is also to possibly conceal realizations that could arise within one's ponderings from the exposure of the complete picture of inexplicable technologically advanced ruins. Not only are many of these sites ignored, but many have experienced tremendous levels of vandalism and destruction. As mentioned, many of the most impressive ancient sites have had many of their most impressive engineering legacies stolen. Lots were adapted and claimed as another's creation, the Roman road, Roman columns, blinds, etc. The Great Pyramids claimed as the work of copper-wielding ancient Egyptians. Each of these supposed accomplishments by these supposed constructors are all absent any explanation as to how they constructed such wonders and those techniques found to have been used by these groups. The channel suspects were replicated, for if they were engineered by these groups, how did they consistently make such tremendous leaps in such tiny timeframes? It seems highly illogical and convenient that these occurrences of rapid technological development have all been found to have occurred within or near these still unexplained ruins. This clearly seems to have been due to the fact that just as we don't know how they were constructed, neither did our distant ancestors. They would have undoubtedly looked upon such accomplishments with awe and respect. A reaction they eventually crave from their enemies and allies alike. However, although these unexplained ruins, claimed by these civilizations, are absent any explanation as to their construction. They do still fortunately possess countless features, missed by the thieves of our heritage, which not only support all I have claimed for over three years. A motive for this would be an attempt to support the mainstream paradigm of the builders of such, yet it is nothing more than deceit, with modern movies involving these theaters merely an attempt to warp one's impression of their true purpose and origins. For example, Delphi in Greece, a site we have covered in the past, is one of the only sites we are aware of which still contains a near-pristine picture of the building techniques once present at sites which contain ancient amphitheaters. Segesta is still another little-known, rarely shared temple ruin that, due to this continued propaganda regarding Roman responsibility, is merely overlooked or rather dismissed and brushed under the rug, nothing more than another one of their many ancient ruins. However, the channel perceives such sites in a different light. Not only does it contain an amphitheater, one suspiciously robbed out of its stage stonework, but Delphi is clearly of a very similar age, with Delphi still displaying a polygonal stage floor. Yet at Segesta, a group of individuals perhaps from a certain institute which shall not be named, who have for over a century been repeatedly reported as actively seeking out, buying, stealing, and eventually concealing many controversial artifacts. Yet the deliberate destruction of features such as the stone at these sites is beyond the pale.  The temple, although predictably now missing its roof, still contains features that not only fly in the face of academic teaching, but reinforces our conclusions of the sites having a far greater antiquity than the Greeks. And regardless of the attempts to destroy its advanced anomalies, advanced features are also found in the Foundation Blocks, out of reach of this group of morally deficient vigilantes. Protuberances These enigmatic notches are a signature we have already identified previously as an enigmatic feature, a signature of a lost civilization, one which we call the polygonal civilization. Additionally, the incredible levels of pitting found upon the columns is clearly demonstrative of many eons of erosion. In a mainly temporary climate, this process of erosion would be considerably slower than that of a more abrasive or damp environment. Given such erosion scars much slower to form, thus much older than what would witness in a location with far greater variation in seasonal conditions, indicative of its unimaginable age, is but another structure claimed to date from the Greek and Roman eras. Yet when the condition of said temple is compared to other structures known for a fact to have dated from the same supposed era, it clearly exposes not only academia's conspiracy, but that they are indeed remnants left by a now lost, highly advanced civilization. They are undoubtedly highly compelling.


When you try to explain to people that don't use Emacs about org mode They are confused. They don't understand. What is the point? And I was like that I switched from them over to Emacs and even after using Emacs for a few months still I didn't quite understand just how amazing org mode was it is a complete game changer because Many people have this misconception. I know I did. I just thought org mode was another kind of markdown Markup language or markdown language is similar to how people say things like markdown itself is kind of a game changer Because you can write everything and markdown kind of a shorthand right or people talk about how la tech is great and gruff is great And I just thought org mode was very similar to things like that But org mode is so much more than just a form of markdown and when you add some of the extra org mode Extensions like org agenda, which is the topic of today's video It just really turns Emacs into this amazing Productivity tool because you can use it for to-do lists and scheduling Project management you can plan out every single thing you want to do for the day the week the month the year and I've never been one of those people that actually do that that schedule everything out and to use to-do lists and things like that I've never found them useful for my workflow, but the more that I play with org mode and org agenda I could see myself actually using these things. So let me show you some of this in action Let me go ahead and launch my emacs here This is doom emacs and in doom emacs if you hit space fr for searching for recent files I'm gonna search for a file that I titled agenda org And let me hit enter and I'm gonna zoom in here now right now This is just an empty document, but I'm gonna show you a little bit of some org mode basics And then how org agenda plays into all this as well So I've done some videos in the past talking about some of the basics of org mode But just a refresher here if I get into insert mode here and I do a single asterisk This is a top-level heading and I'm gonna call this task list I'm gonna hit enter and then I'm gonna do a second level heading by doing two asteris and Then I'm gonna hit enter and then I'm gonna write the word to do and when I do it changes color And then the to-do item I'm making a note of is I need to make a video about org agenda Now let's talk about org agenda if you do meta x and type the word org agenda That would launch org agenda, but you see in doom emacs. There is a key binding for space.  You might as well learn the key binding for it So space. Oh capital a and then you get this new menu that comes up a Gives you the agenda for the current week or the current day T gives you a list of all the to-do entries that you have and then it has some other options as well They're less useful options or options that you're not gonna use very often typically you're either gonna do a for the agenda or The t for the to-do so I'm gonna do t for to-do right now And this gives me a list of all my to-do items that org mode knows about Which is just one item right now because I this is new to me I typically don't make to-do lists But right now it's letting me know I have a to-do item and it is make a video about org agenda Doesn't have a scheduling date or anything. I didn't give it a time or date or anything It's just marked as a to-do item now if I hit Q I'll quit out of org agenda And I'll get back into my agenda org document here that I created now other than the asterix You know to create these headings these top level headings second level headings third level fourth level fifth level Etc. You could also make a list. Oh, I accidentally hit space. Let me hit space one more time But that's interesting though when you hit space on a to-do item I'll mention this it does mark it as done So and if I mark it as done if I do space o capital a again and to get back into the agenda menu And then go to t for the to-do list you say I don't have a to-do item listed anymore because once their mark Is done. They're no longer in this to-do view Q to quit I'm gonna mark that as a to-do item though what I want to do is I actually want to get into insert mode And hit enter I wanted to show you guys how to create a list here So I'm gonna make a list to create a list you typically do either the plus sign or the minus sign as far as your list Bullet points and I'm going to say you can use space dash m dash t dash t to mark as To-do so what this is is other than doing the space on an item to toggle to do and done You could also do space MTT to just mark something as to do if it wasn't already marked So let me actually I'm gonna go and I'll just delete this here And I've removed the to-do item now if I want to make it a to-do item specifically a to-do item space MTT and that marks it as to do I'm gonna go back down here And now that I'm on this line that is a plus symbol list kind of item if I hit control enter I Get another plus sign and then I could enter another list item And what I'm gonna do on this line is I'm just gonna tell you guys that space M Ds opens the org schedule And escape to get into normal mode So what I can do is I can go to this item this to-do item and space MDS Opens the org schedule meaning I can add a date I can schedule a time and date for this to-do item event So let me do that space MDS and now when I open the org schedule You see I get this calendar down here and you can actually just click on a date with the mouse If you want to adjust the date with the keyboard what you can do is you can do shift arrow to adjust the date You see the date is moving in the calendar The date is also moving as far as the time and date at the bottom of the screen But anyway, so today is Friday the 25th So I will do today's date and then for a time you can do 24-hour time As a matter of fact, it's typically going to be 24-hour time that shows up in your org agenda But if you want to use AM and PM you can actually do something like 9 PM and when I hit enter though, it's going to convert it to 24-hour time You see my to-do item make a video about org agenda is scheduled for tonight at 2100 hours 9 p.m And let me paste some of what I've already discussed here I'll add that to the list and I may share this org mode document with you guys But again, this is just some of the basics of org mode We really are not getting that deep on this but now that I've added a scheduled event So now if I do space O capital A and then do T for to-do Of course, I have the one to-do item in this list Let me Q to quit but if I do space O capital A and do a for the agenda view I have something in the agenda view now I would not have had this had I not actually had something scheduled But I have something scheduled now at 9 o'clock tonight And it's letting me know that the current time by the way is 1411 So that's pretty cool And then of course it has two hour blocks also and it just does this for today's date If I had nothing scheduled for today, this would be empty It doesn't do this for the other 10 days that it shows here in my org agenda It just does today's date. It's letting you know what you have on your plate for today Now let me Q to quit.  You see it's Friday You remember shift and the arrow keys adjusted the date in the org schedule Well, you can do that directly in the document as well If I do shift and then the right arrow key watch the date changes from Friday to Saturday And now let me do a space O capital a a for agenda And now you see Friday today. We don't have anything. It's just empty But you see tomorrow Saturday We have something scheduled now at 2100 hours on Saturday night and make a video about org agenda Now remember the space MTT to toggle something or to turn something into a to-do item Well, if I go down to this to-do item and I do space MT You see I get this list of all the states that I can make an item Including if I hit T one more time make it a to-do item if I hit P It'll turn it into a project as for start W for weight H for hold D for done K for kill And in some other items as well These are the defaults in do me max now I can actually change these if I want different states different ways to mark items I can do that and I will show you how to do that later But say I wanted to change this from a to-do item to a project I just hit P on the keyboard So space MT to get to that menu and then P to turn it into a project if I want to go back to a to-do item I would do space MT to get to this list and then T to turn it back to a to-do item Now if you mark something as done or canceled or Anything like that it will no longer be in your to-do list view as well So anytime you do space O capital A T for the to-do list once something is marked as done It drops out of the list So let me quit back out of that and I'm gonna go down here And I'm gonna hit O on the keyboard start a new line and get me into insert mode And I'm gonna do two asterisks here, and I'm gonna write another to-do item And that did not convert because I got these spaces here. Okay, let me get rid of those Unneeded spaces now this next to-do item. I don't know. Maybe I want to review lists and checkboxes and order mode because Obviously we should discuss that already showed you kind of how to create a list But I didn't show you guys this and I've done this on past videos though if you do a List heading and then do empty brackets with a space that is considered a empty checkbox And if you did control return That adds a new list item at the same level which we already discussed So let me hit control return and then I could type a new list here Maybe this works for bullets to Because you know these are technically bullet lists here where the asterisks were something else more like headline levels But either way control return always at gets you another line at the same level and the same type Now if you want to tick a checkbox the default emacs keybinding for this is control C control C So control C control C. Yes, he turns that into an X, right? It's no longer unchecked We've actually checked that checkbox control C control C again will uncheck it now. That's a standard emacs canoe emacs keybinding and Doom emacs. There is a different key binding. You could also use space Mx So I'm gonna use the doom emacs keybinding space Mx space Mx Does the exact same thing actually the good new emacs keybinding control C control C is probably a little easier to use actually than the Doom specific key binding of space Mx, but either one work now one interesting thing when you have a list of checkbox items which you could do in the top heading which in my case would be review list and checkboxes in org mode if I go up here and get into insert mode and I do a Empty bracket here, but inside the bracket instead of making it empty. I'm going to do a Slash now let me hit escape and I'm going to go down here And I'm going to do space Mx to tick that on you see we checked that but look what happened in that bracket One of three because we have completed one of three tasks technically if I go down to the next line And I do space Mx now we've completed two of three and of course if I go down to the last one space Mx We have completed three of three now. Let me undo these And you will see they will go back to being zero of three now one thing about list items You can have lists within list so if I go here if I do a paste here I'm just going to paste this Nested list within a list so this list item this works for bullets to has sub list items So list item one two and three and what I could do here is watch what happens when I check these So if I do space Mx you see that now instead of an empty box It has a minus symbol that's letting you know that some of what you needed to do for this list item has been completed Not everything, but if I eventually complete everything watch what happens space Mx to check that space Mx to check that And once I check these three sub items then that top item is Checked because we've completed everything that was involved right as long as you complete the three sub list items then that top item is completed as well and I'm going to go ahead and paste some more stuff in here and Talk about org agenda now. We've already talked about how to launch it space. Oh, capital A That's a do me max scheme binding So space O capital a gets you this list and we've already talked about after space O capital a if you hit a You get to the agenda view you hit T You get to the to-do list view all your to-do items But we haven't talked about one other one that you will often use will be s for search for keywords So let me hit s in this case. It's gonna ask for searching for keywords Maybe the keyword I want to search for is Org I know there's several lines in this document that have the word or if I hit enter It will actually show me the to-do items that have the word org as part of the search string So this list here to do make a video about org agenda to do review listen checkbox is in org mode And then of course this project that I just pasted the project is called org agenda launch with space. Oh a alright I mean cue to quit out of that. So the search works You can also use regular expressions in the search. So if I do space O capital a s for another search I could do something like a asterisk symbol meaning. Hey, it's a wild card character And then maybe give it a couple of characters like ke And you see it returned a couple of different lines from the document from that This to do make a video about org agenda because asterisk a e does match the word make it also Matches the word key word as well Cue to quit out of that by the way I since I pasted this you guys didn't actually see me write it But these weird bullet points here are just more asterisk. So this is a second level asterisk This is a third level and this is a fourth level because I use funny symbols In mind, but if you guys actually wanted to see me write these, you know, that's a third asterisk And this is a fourth asterisk. So if I actually just keep deleting one two three four asterisk Now let's get back to scheduling some items So I'm gonna scroll back up and and I had already scheduled that first to do item But I didn't add a schedule to the second to do item So let's go ahead and schedule it you guys remember the do me max key binding space MDS for the org schedule And we can pick a date the date I will leave as today's date and I will say we need to do this at 11 p.m. And I hit enter and you guys see that now this to-do item now has up under it scheduled at the time And date tonight at 11 p.m. If I do a space o capital a and then a for the agenda view You see I have both those to-do items kind of cool But one interesting thing you can do and let me zoom into the to-do item if I can I'm not sure Can I zoom in in this view? I've never actually tried it It doesn't appear that I can zoom in in a word agenda at least the default key binding that I use which is control And the plus symbol doesn't work here because I guess the control key is used for other things in the agenda view But that's fine I don't need to be zoomed in you guys can surely can tell it's just a list of dates with every item That has a schedule listed but one neat thing you can do Let me cue to quit out of that is if I go back into the scheduled event here So the second item I'm going to get into insert mode I'm going to do a space and I'm going to do plus plus 1d for one day So I want to schedule this event Friday at 11 p.m. Tonight at 11 p.m. Plus plus one day meaning do this Every day every single day basically so every Plus one day we're going to do the same event So let me get back into the agenda view. So if I do space o capital a a and now you see all of a sudden I have all these other to-do items because Reviewing lists and checkboxes in org mode now. I have to do that tonight at 11 p.m. Tomorrow night at 11 p.m. Sunday night at 11 p.m. Etc Every day till the end of time basically is what I just did there So if you have events that are basically on your schedule every single day That is how you do that you just get in there and you know behind the time and date just do a space plus plus 1d So I could really see using org mode and org scheduling in my life the org agenda Feature is just fantastic. So I have this this list here, which was task list We'll say that was my work task list But let me do another top-level heading because maybe I want to do a personal task list as well and maybe I want to do a Subheading for this maybe stuff around the house. So home task You know what I'll go ahead since we talked about it and do this empty Bracket with the slash here and let's go ahead and start adding some list items. What do I need to do? Well, I need to Move the yard Then control enter to get the next item put trash Out for pickup. I might need to schedule that you know, that's a one day a week kind of thing Then you know, maybe I need to wash my car. It's getting kind of dirty as well Now, let me go ahead and add another second level heading here Let me get rid of the empty spaces there And this one is going to be my shopping list for the week So I don't want to create a lengthy shopping list here But I think what I probably want to do is just put the bear essentials here things I absolutely need I do have a cat so I need to pick up some cat food And then if I hit control return the next most important item I should pick up while I'm shopping is Beer and then the next most important thing, you know what I could really use some bacon because it's Practically its own food group. It goes with everything and we'll add one more. How about more beer? All right, and that shopping list is really important. That's something I definitely need to do I'm not exactly sure when I need to do it But let's at least add it to our to-do list and you know what let's go ahead and schedule it to we know It's important. So let's go ahead and make sure we have it down for a date So remember or schedule space MDS and I'm going to schedule it for I'm going to do shift arrow And I'm going to schedule it for Wednesday September the 30th, and we'll do it I don't know how about 10 a.m. I just do 10 colon 0 0 24 hour time, of course, that's already 10 a.m. So I don't need to add the AM for it And now space O capital a a again for the agenda now has my to-do item for Wednesday the 30th Now I'm scheduled at 10 o'clock in the morning to take care of that shopping list if I do space O capital a T the shopping list is also in the to-do list because I marked it as a to-do item If it wasn't marked as a to-do item it would not be in this list So remember you have two different lists there You have the agenda view and then you have your to-do view and under my personal task list I think the next thing I need to do is very important. Let's go ahead and make a gym schedule So let's go ahead and we'll do these as Items as well. I think the first most important day should be leg day Of course control return and then we need to do how about chest shoulders and biceps Yeah, why not and then what does that leave? Well, we need to do abs back and Triceps. Yeah, that covers pretty much the whole body. We'll just leave it at that. Let's go ahead and schedule that So I'm gonna go up here I'm not gonna mark it as a to-do item. Well, you know what? I'll mark it as a to-do item Why not it doesn't matter. This is just for fun, but we need to schedule it When am I going to go to the gym? Well, the gym is a recurring thing But maybe I wanted to go every day for four or five days straight So what I could do here is let me do space MDS to get the org schedule and I'm gonna schedule it for tomorrow, which is Saturday And I'll schedule myself to go to the gym at 9 a.m. And now what I could do Well, let's first take a look at it in the org agenda. So space O capital a lowercase a you see if I go down My gym schedule is at 9 a.m. Tomorrow Q to quit But since I want to go several days in a row also at 9 a.m. What I could do is I could go down here and May get into insert mode and behind that time snap I'm gonna do a dash dash and then the brackets opening brackets I'm gonna schedule it for 20 20 dash 09 dash 30th, you know every day for the rest of the month here basically so four days straight the 30th I believe is a Tuesday. So I got to make sure I get that right and then the closing bracket So let me hit escape and now when I go space O capital a lowercase a to get back into the agenda view I should have the gym on the list every day and I do you see now I have actually I have two gym items on the list here because it see one of five Two of five three of five four or five and then the last day is five of five So I scheduled it five days straight there now one thing I noticed is I actually did not give it a time It it doesn't look like did I not add 9 a.m. To that me Q to quit out of that It is 9 a.m. Here the first date, but I didn't add a time on the Last one. Let me escape out of that and then do space O a a and now it should actually have the right times Yes before it just had it on the list, but they weren't set to a time Actually, they're still not set to the time. The first one is set to 9 a.m. The last one is set to 9 a.m But everything in between is still just a to-do item, but it doesn't have a specific time So I'm not exactly sure how I would go about that But I'm sure I could figure it out if I actually reviewed the documentation on that But it is pretty neat that you can actually schedule things for multiple days in a row So let's get into some of the configuration stuff that you need to worry about when you do things with org mode and org agenda So I'm gonna open up a second window here and do me max and I'm gonna open up my do me max config and My config file for do me max by the way is an org document You can actually write your config as an org document. Let me zoom in a little bit so you can see what I'm doing I'm gonna go back to this window and zoom out. I'm zoomed way in on that one All right, so in my config file I have a section called org mode and in do me max I have this section here that starts with after exclamation point space org what this does is an elisp This says hey after this module loads Then do everything else and this is very important because in do me max org mode has some default settings and if you don't add this line here the after org What you're gonna find is that whatever settings you have are probably gonna be loaded almost immediately Instantaneously when do me max loads, but then doom will eventually launch its own defaults and overwrite yours So you have to specify do not set my settings until after do me max does what it wants with the its own default setting So that's why you need that line. It's very important and then after it loads the default org module I want it to set org directory. So you see set q space org dash directory This is where all my org document should live on my computer and I put them in documents slash org I also specify that org dash agenda dash files This is where all my agenda files should be and what is the agenda files? Well when you do space O capital a and then you know some other Letter such as a for the agenda. Where is it getting this stuff? Well, it's in my case I'm telling it get that stuff from document slash org slash Agenda dot org and it doesn't just have to have to be one file you could specify two three However, many files you want you could even specify a directory Maybe a directory and then a wild card character such as asterix dot org So pull my agendas from this directory and everything that ends in dot org for example a lot of people Do just one file might be one big file if you schedule a lot of things just having one file for your agenda Could become kind of a hassle kind of tedious because it would be a giant fall and you'd have a ton of stuff on your schedule So you may want to break it up into multiple files if you have a lot of stuff that you're working with Now I had mentioned that you can mark items as to do project done and various other things So remember space MT get you this menu and this is where you can mark things as T for to do P for project as for start W for weight H for hold. These are the default States for to do items in doom emacs, but you don't have to use these you can customize these to be Whatever you want and as an example here I had this line that I've commented out But I will just show you that I can overwrite the defaults in doom emacs So let me do a colon W for write and this is set Q space org dash to do dash keywords So set the org to do keywords to be to do T Project P because I like those I think those make sense, but I make videos I want to to do item to be a video. So I did video V I also kept weight for W and then I have this one here Which is a slash our pipe symbol basically the pipe symbol separates the to do keywords Everything before the pipe symbol are active Everything behind the pipe symbol are inactive states. So a to do item or project a video. Those are active to do states Done and cancelled are obviously inactive to do states meaning I don't want you to appear in the to do list That's basically what those mean. It means done items cancelled items don't appear in the to do list to do project video And weight will appear in my to do list So let me Rebuild my doom emacs with these settings.  I'm just going to go ahead and close out emacs And I'm going to run a kill all emacs as well just to make sure That my emacs will be using the new config And let me launch it and let me get back into my agenda.org And let me zoom in a little bit and let's go to this first item At least the first to-do item that is if I do space mt You now see I have different options for my to-do states to-do project video weight done and cancelled So if I wanted to change this from a to-do item instead of t I could do v and now I've made this to-do item make a video about org agenda and you know the to-do state is video So let me do space o capital a t for my to-do list and you see it's video make a video about org agenda Make you to get out of that. Let me do a space fr to search for recent files One other thing I wanted to do in my config.org or at least show you guys how to do this is Let me get back down to the org mode section By default when you schedule something in org mode it of course gives a time stamp But when you mark something as done So you have a to-do item and eventually you complete it So you find that to-do item you hit return and you mark it as done But wouldn't it be cool if it added a time stamp when you actually completed the task? That seems like something that it probably should do out of the box, but it doesn't but you can make it do that So I have this line here set queue space org-log-done space The single quote time and what that does is when you mark something as done in org It's gonna add a time stamp to it. That's all that means. So let me write and let me get back up here I'm gonna refresh this. I'm gonna run the org babble tangle again Let me relaunch emacs And now let me get back into my agenda dot org Zoom in again and now this to-do item that I have make a video about org agenda. Watch what happens when I toggle this as done So I just highlight it and hit enter and it marks it as done I still have the scheduled time stamp But right before it closed and then I have the time stamp of when I hit done on it So that is probably a very important line I think everybody probably wants to add to their config if you're going to use org agenda It makes sense when you have a project and you mark it done you want that time stamp Now one other thing you could do let me get back into the config.org Is if you did not want to just do a time stamp Maybe you wanted to leave a note as well instead of doing the org log done as time You could do set queue space org-log-done Then single quote note and what this does is when you mark a to-do item as done You get to leave a note It also adds a time stamp, but it also adds a extra note that you have to write So let me write this and let me reload my config So let me relaunch do me max here space far to get to my recent files Let me get back into the agenda org And now this to-do item is still here and now let me mark it as done And instead of giving a closed time stamp it'll give a closed time stamp But it will also ask me to write a note. So I'm gonna Go down to this to-do item hit enter And it marked it as done it gave a closing time stamp and then it has a Split over here. It's asking me write a note. I'm gonna write I finished this Early Cuz I'm awesome It escape and control c control c to kill that split and you see now I It's marked done has a closing time stamp the original scheduling time stamp And then it has a closing note as well and the closing note And it also has a time stamp when I like it's left of the note says I finish this early because I'm awesome So that is a very brief look at org mode org scheduling and org agenda. It's just fantastic I don't I may actually start using this like on a regular basis I may actually just start planning out all of my days You know when I just did this on the fly here making out Things like home tasks shopping lists and especially a gym schedule. Yeah, I may actually start doing that Why not? Why not be able to just pull up my agenda for the day and actually figure out what I actually have planned A schedule times for it and and be ready to go with this stuff Maybe it will make me more productive. Again. I've never been a productivity tool user But I do enjoy playing With org mode like it's it's fun to use org mode It really is even if I'm just goofing off like making that agenda.org document here on camera for you guys It's just fun playing with this stuff. And so I you know, it wouldn't be tedious. I think sometimes I was just sitting down making a list as a tedious task But the playing with emacs I actually enjoy Now before I go I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of the show I need to thank Michael, Gabe, Corbinion, Mitchell, Devin, Fran, Arch5530, a commie channel, Chuck, Claudio, Donny, Dillon, George, Kelop, Devils, Lewis, Paul, Scott, and Willie These guys they are my highest tiered patrons over on patreon without these guys This episode about org mode and org agenda wouldn't have been possible The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen These are all my supporters over on patreon because this channel is supported by you guys the community You'd like to support my work look for distro tube over on patreon. All right guys Peace


Ukrainian units go for counter-attack in Bakhmut. Russians leave some positions. Russian troops left several positions in Bakhmut. The Donetsk region's Ukrainian ground forces commander, Colonel General Oleksandr Sirsky said. He said that in the last few days, numerous attacks of Russian forces in the direction of Lyman have been repelled. The enemy's attempts to capture our positions failed. The Russian army suffered serious losses and 10 enemy soldiers were captured. Heavy fighting continues in the direction of Bakhmut. The other party tried to penetrate into our positions in several directions, but it failed. The defence forces made invaders leave some occupied positions with their counter-attacks. According to Sirsky, despite all efforts, the opposing side is unable to capture the city. The situation is quite complicated. According to Sirsky, intensive combat operations continue on the Bakhmut front, but Russians have not succeeded in breaking through the defence of Ukrainian positions. Serhii Cherevaty, a spokesman for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that 25,600 Russian soldiers are fighting in Bakhmut. According to him, 65 tanks, 450 armoured vehicles, 154 artillery systems and 56 rocket fire systems of the opposite side were involved in this direction. This means more military equipment than the Czech and Hungarian armies. Cherevaty said that Russia loses 100 servicemen daily in Bakhmut. He should be noted that Russian armed forces want to capture Bakhmut by May 9 of last year and intense fighting has been going on in Bakhmut for more than seven months.


I don't mean it in the New Age sense, in fact, they stole it from Scripture. Worldly meditation is the emptying of your mind. Why? Because then the enemy can fill it with his influence. Spiritual influence will always fill spiritual vacuums. Watch this verse 2. But they delight in the law of the Lord meditating on it day and night. Worldly meditation says empty your mind. Godly meditation is filling your mind with the word. Don't forget to subscribe.


Alrighty, so first of all, why is that track hitting the ground the biggest mood ever? That represents my life so much. Anyways, it's super exciting that Virahawk is coming down quickly. In this video you can see the lift hill coming down, very similar to when this company demolished Son of Beast. I'm actually going to link the company down below. Go check them out on Facebook, make sure you follow them because they post pretty regular updates on the deconstruction of Firehawk. So if you want the most up-to-date information or pictures on Firehawk being demolished, you're going to want to go check out their construction company down below. I'm not going to say the name or attempt it because I'm going to mispronounce it, but they're going to be linked down below. So thank you to them for uploading footage of Firehawk coming down. It looks super awesome. I had to share this with you guys. And yes, some exciting things happening over at King's Island. You have Firehawk being removed. You have some weird land activity over near the Firehawk area in this area that used to store things and you have the front gate revitalization as you enter. So that's super exciting. Lots of really cool activity going on at King's Island. It has a very promising future. So we'll be covering that through the days, weeks, months and years. Thanks for watching, guys. Don't forget to give the video a like, subscribe. You haven't and share this video for others to watch. Have a good one, guys. Bye.


You're doing affirmations, you're repeating them day, night, whenever throughout the day and they're not working for you. It's frustrating, you're building resentment, I know it's all too well. So in today's video I'm going to give you guys a different type of way to do affirmations that has worked for me when the traditional way didn't. If you're new here I'm Sarah and I created this channel to help you build a more beautiful and fulfilling lifestyle through self mastery and spirituality. And today we're going to learn a different way to do affirmation. Also you're digging the 90s hairstyle today? I was just feeling it, no I just got back from the gym, don't judge me. You can judge me, I see internet, it's fine. So what most people do when they do affirmations is go on the internet, grab a list of affirmations pertaining to whatever it is that's in their life that they want to change, sit down for 20, 30, whatever minutes a day and recite them over and over and over again. So this just, it just never resonated with me. Like I would do it and I just, it just wasn't, it wasn't clicking, it didn't feel right, it didn't feel natural and it wasn't working. It almost brought me back to when I went to Catholic church when I was younger and we would all just stand up and read and recite the prayers or whatever and it just felt almost robotic and that's how it feels to me every time I do affirmations and people all over like affirmations, affirmations, affirmations and I'm just like, what? Like it just doesn't work, it's not enjoyable and I would just, it created this resentment in me. So I'm sure a lot of people out there have been feeling the same way I do, which is why I wanted to create this video. So after doing affirmations for this long over and over again and fighting it for nearly a year, I finally decided if this isn't working for me, I need to come up with a different way to do them. Okay, so I'm going to give you two main steps today. The first one is instead of carving out in a lot of amount of time during your day, like, oh, I'm going to do affirmations for 10 minutes or I'm going to do them for 30 minutes or whatever it is, try doing them throughout the day.  So every single time this thought around this subject, say it's money, okay?  Anytime money comes across your mind, say an affirmation or two or five or 10 or whatever feels right for you.  Now, you can also do it in the morning and at night or whenever sit down for an a lot of amount of time a day if that works for you. But for people that doesn't work for it, this is a really good way to still get your affirmations in where it doesn't feel like it's a chore or another thing to check off your to do list for the day. And to me, this really is like two fold because say you're doing the way that most people do and you set aside X amount of time for you to do affirmations. But then the rest of your day, anytime that subject, let's call it money comes up, you're not thinking of those affirmations. You're kind of going back to the old thought patterns that are around that subject. So what you're doing is you're having contradicting thoughts the rest of the day. So in reality, what's the point of saying affirmations for 20 minutes a day if for the other 16, 17, 18 hours you're awake, you're going back to the old mindset and contradicting those thoughts. Now, that could be a limiting belief on my behalf. So don't take what I say is truth. You have to experiment, you know, what works for you. But the way I see it is if I'm doing this throughout the day, instead of tying sliver of my day, then it's saturating my mind even more with the affirmation and with the restructuring of my brain and those neurological pathways. So it's becoming my new normal. It's becoming my new way of thinking. And in addition to that, if you're saying your affirmations as they come into your head, as those thoughts come into your mind, you aren't allowing those contradicting thoughts to seep in when you're not paying attention. So you're almost always on the lookout and you're always monitoring your thoughts because every time you're that that thoughts coming in about money or whatever it is, you're passionate, you're getting your affirmations in. So your focus is on the desire and the affirmations and the positive rewiring more than it would be for just those 20 minutes a day. Plus, you're being more consistent with the new thought. The second thing I realized was if I was taking affirmations online or writing them down or even if I was writing them myself and my own words for what I felt like affirmations should sound like, it didn't resonate because that's not how I speak and that's not how the thoughts flow through my brain naturally. For example, I took this list of affirmations from one of my favorite YouTubers and I wrote them down and I put them on my mirror on my bathroom mirror so I would go through them while I was brushing my teeth both times a day. So it wasn't a lot but I was doing it for like what five minutes a day and I'm just going to go ahead and read one that you guys have probably seen if you're into affirmations and that is, I am so happy and grateful. Money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis. So that's a lot. That's a lot to say in one sense and that's not how I speak. Is that how you speak? If that's how you speak then doing affirmations that are laid out this way should work for you but I don't think most of us go around talking like, oh yeah, money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis. It just sounds like a memorization.  Does that make sense? Now if instead of saying it that way, I say it the way I would speak to a friend or a family member such as I am so grateful for the financial blessings that God has given me. I never have to worry about money and it always comes to me in expected and unexpected ways. Now that's the way I would speak. So you kind of want to recite and word your affirmations as if you're just talking to someone that you're close with or just talking to a friend and that way your brain doesn't have to go through and kind of like translate what you're saying into a way that it's used to. So what that does in my opinion is it makes that affirmation easier for my brain to process and easier for me to believe, especially coupled with doing it throughout the day instead of just sitting down and reciting blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah over and over again. It's like, you know, if I'm going through the day, let's use the money one as an example.  And the flight is pretty expensive. The second I think that, that flight is expensive.  I never have to worry about the cost of flights. I never have to worry about traveling because I can always pay it easily.  So just to recap, if regular affirmations aren't working for you, you want to, one, do them throughout the day instead of a set amount of time and two, word the affirmations in the way that makes sense to you in the way that you would speak. And that's it. Try it out, see how it goes. It's really done a lot for me and now I'm not building this resistance to saying affirmations or dreading it or dealing that I have to check it off my to-do list and it's another thing for me to have to do every day. It's just something I enjoy and it comes naturally and I don't even have to set a time aside to do it because I'm just doing it throughout my day normally. So I hope this video brought some value to you. If it did, leave a comment below and let me know what's one affirmation that you're going to use. I love you guys so much. Don't forget to like and subscribe to this video and share it with someone if you think it can help them. I love you guys so much and don't forget, be limitlessly yourself.