If you really want to make this work, if this is your dream here and you're willing to do whatever it takes, I'm telling you right now, we are in some of the best moments to become a real estate agent. I'm going to tell you why. What's up everybody? Today I'm going to talk about the cold hard facts behind why I believe we're going to lose more real estate agents this year than any year in the history of the industry. And what you need to be thinking about is we inch closer and closer to this massive market ship. Now I posted this online last week and the two most common responses I got was why do I think this is going to happen and great I'm ready to see less agents in the industry. So it sounds like there's a split there between people who are kind of clueless wondering why in the world that I think this is going to happen and then you have a group who's thinking man it sure would be nice because there's a lot of newbies out there making my job harder. I love to hear your thoughts in the comments about this subject which you think as I move through this video.  Now before I screen share my computer and give you all the numbers and statistics and data behind this theory of mine I want to share with you my thoughts on why I believe that we have more real estate agents now than ever in history. Right now NAR membership is topping 1.6 million agents in the US and that doesn't count non-member real estate agents which is said to be closer to the 2 to 3 million range. Now my thoughts on why so many agents have jumped into the game of course has a lot to do with the pandemic and the shutdowns and we were all sitting at home a lot of people were laid off and they were thinking I don't want to go back to a job that I have zero control over I want to own my own business right and real estate is a pretty easy business to get into right normally it's one class in your state and a state test and bam your license agent as long as you pay your fees you do your CEs you're ready to roll. So compared to a lot of businesses you can own real estate is not that high a barrier of entry now the course is hard you really have to study for the test and you have to pay your fees and not all that is super easy for a lot of people but it is a lot easier than let's say opening up a restaurant or a retail store where you have very high cost getting into one of those businesses so absolutely the pandemic played a huge part in this and has a huge role but another part of it is the fact that us real estate agents who are out here crushing it we make it look so easy online okay we have TV shows million-dollar listing this shows people going around and selling 10 20 30 million dollar properties like it's nothing okay you got regular everyday agents on social media talking about sold sold pending new listing and just smiling from ear to ear making it seem so incredibly fun and easy and exciting who wouldn't want to get into a business like that I know I was the same way when I got into the business when I got into the business there were more billboards and people on magazines and stuff like that and yeah I saw the people in the magazines I saw the people in the billboards which is today's social media and I thought man they just make it look so easy that they're smiling they seem happy you know they're making a lot of money I want in on that and so that's what I did I got in real estate but I think what I got in real estate you're seeing the same reality now as I saw back then when I got in guys listen I literally quit roofing that day and said I retire I'm gonna go do real estate come to find out 30 days later sold zero worked my ass off and thought this isn't what I thought it was I had to go back to roofing houses now I was one of those top one two three four five percent that was not gonna give up so I was roofing and doing real estate at the same time and it took me eight months to get to my first sale it was not an easy road and I think that's what a lot of agents are seeing right now that it's not an easy road it's not as easy as it looks now if I'm talking to the hard workers out there you guys don't really care how hard it's gonna be if you're like me and you grew up roofing houses or doing something of that nature and you don't really care how hard it's gonna be or how long it's gonna take you're gonna be fine but those of you who got in just to make a quick buck or something you thought was gonna be easy no no no no no no no no this job is way harder than your regular 95 job you show up to regular 95 job you get paid no matter what happens there could be zero production you're getting paid not over here you come over here you got to sell something and listen here's the fact of the matter right here and if I'm talking to new agents here who haven't sold anything you've been in the business for ten months whatever the case may be listen to me right now I do not want you to fail I do not want you to get out of the business the reason I'm making this video right now is for you is for the agents that's on the fence right now thinking about getting out of the business and I want you to be able to see what's fixing to happen in the market and how you can take advantage I don't want you to think of the market ship as this moment of disappointment like that's the last straw that just breaks and you got to get out of the business because that's actually gonna be your pivot point and before you get to the numbers here in just a second I just want to add that the reason why I do any of these thousands of videos that I've made over the last five years the reason why I coach agents for free all the whole nine yards is to reduce the failure rate in the real estate industry and I've said it forever I'm gonna do that two ways I want to teach you my philosophies businesses unlimited relationships over transactions closing tap and everyday regardless of market conditions but also I want to take the next huge market crash and try to educate you on how you can actually perceive that market shift and take advantage of it so that you don't have to quit the business and that ladies and gentlemen is what this video is about I did have one guy on social media say the reason why I think there's so many agents are gonna get out of the business is because I keep trying to teach agents to cold call cold calling is dead it's obsolete and that's the reason why so many agents gonna have to quit because I'm out here telling people that they got a cold call I'm not out here telling you that you got a cold call I'm out here trying to help you communicate who you are as an agent as a person as a human being to your prospects I don't care if you get your lease from Zillow or online or obsidian or door knocking or social media or I don't care where you get your lease from I just want you to be able to understand how to communicate properly how to show people who you are collect their data remarkets of them build your brand and have the most massive business in your market I know the only thing between you and everything you want to achieve in this business are thousands of one-on-one conversations with people on your market I'm just trying to help you get there quicker all right let's check these numbers out so everybody's seen this article here the MN put out a couple months ago the number of realtors hit new record high 2021 all right where basically talks about that by the end of the year in 2021 NAR had 1.559 members up 6.92% from that date a year ago okay a year ago it was 1.458 okay and what they realized was that a record 100,876 agents joined in 2021 okay that's up from the all-time high of 80,000 members of the year prior and so what we don't really know there and I haven't been able to find it anywhere is the churn rate so what they're saying is is 100,000 net that doesn't count the ones that left the business and that doesn't count all the ones that actually joined they're just saying that they have a net positive number of 100,876 agents now what I would like to show you is going back to 1908 when the National Association of Realtors had a total number of members of 1,646 members and they had 20 local associations at that time and so this is the beginning of NAR and you'll see over the last hundred years the number of agents have grown and then there was a setback there was a correction the first correction was the Great Depression okay so it went from 1,646 agents and the peak was 23,000 24,166 that was 1926 and then over the last next few years it dwindled down all the way to 10,000 so went from 24,000 agents plus to just over 10,000 agents by 1935 so we see this happen back then when we have the Great Depression that the number of agents grew up to a point and then as the market shifted and we saw massive market cycles the number of agents dwindled okay and then from the Great Depression we see the number of agents continue to climb all the way to 1980 okay 1980 it climbed all the way and had positive net numbers all the way to 1980 where had grown up to 761,391 members okay and if you guys remember 1980 that was a there was a big crash back then and so 1981 1982 the numbers went from 761,000 to 617,521 okay so they lost nearly 150,000 agents during that two year span of the market crash again guys I'm just going through history here we're seeing cycles here we're seeing a pattern in 1983 as the number of agents started to rise after that crash it went all the way to 1989 where we had a top of 822,935 members of NAR okay and then the number started to dwindle and so it dwindle for a good eight years and the bottom was 716,078 agents and so we didn't lose a hundred thousand that time we lost about 95,000 agents during that six year time frame so then the number of agents started to build up again build up again and it got to a whopping in 2006 1,357,732 agents and if you guys remember we had that remarkable market run from 2002 to 2005 where we literally brought on an extra 500,000 more than 500,000 agents during that five year span because the market exploded so much a lot like what we're seeing right now so from 2006 to 2012 okay we lost over 350 really 360,000 agents 360,000 agents during that time now let's look at the history of from 2005 to the predictions up to 2023 of real estate transactions right here we see that in 2005 we had a high of 7 million transactions in the country and in 2006 was the year that things started to dwindle and transaction started to come down from the big crash everybody thinks 2008 is the big crash 2008 was the big stock market crash but real estate prices and real estate transactions had been coming down for several years before that so between 2006 and 2008 we went from six to seven million transactions down to a little over four million transactions so we lost around about a third of the transactions if we flip back here we realized that we had 1.357 million real estate agents and it went down to a million we lost about a third of our real estate agents so if you realize that when we lose transactions we normally lose in comparison the same amount of agents and you realize that this is pretty closely correlated it really kind of opens your eyes up to the fact that as the market does shift and we have less transactions we're gonna lose the same amount of agents and what's that gonna do it's gonna produce the same amount of transactions per agent now this is what I think is very interesting about our market our current market and that is if you look at this graph that statistic came up with here they actually show that the transaction started to rise from 2010 it came up into the five millions last year we hit a six million over six million transactions and if you look at 2022 that got us predicted of losing about five percent of our transactions doing just under six million and then in 2023 they've got us coming back up over six million but I think what's really interesting and what I think we're actually going to see here is that even if we do lose five percent of our transactions this year like they're saying I think we're gonna lose a lot more than five percent of our agents now if we go back to the Narside and look at from 2012 to current it shows us going from the million which is what it bottomed out at in 2012 all the way up and climbing to the 1.559 million agents so I think we're gonna have a combination of different things here I think we're gonna have this market that shifts that scares a lot of agents that don't understand how markets work I think that's gonna be coupled with the fact that a lot of agents are coming up on their CEs and it's time to renew their license which means they're gonna have to put more time in to the CEs and also put up more money to renew their their licenses and I think when you look at a combination of everything going on right now we're just kind of set up to take a huge loss a number of agents now going back to the agents I might be talking to who are on the fence about this or thinking about maybe this isn't for them or what are the case maybe maybe it's not for you okay maybe it's not what you thought it was and maybe that it might be the smartest thing for you to leave the business I don't know but let me tell you something if you really want to make this work if this is your dream here and you're willing to do whatever it takes I'm telling you right now we are in some of the best moments to become a real estate agent I'm gonna tell you why as agents start to leave the business and you're one of the last agents standing I'm gonna tell you right now if you're the one working to have as many conversations as you can possibly have you're gonna come out the winner and you're gonna gobble up so much market share during this time because what's gonna happen is the experienced agents they're just gonna be leaning on their their sphere and their past clients they're not gonna be out there trying to actually build their sphere and if they knew what was good for them they would be out there building their sphere during this time when most agents are not so it's it goes back to the whole thing that the agents are leaving the business which is gonna happen by herds I want to save that group same reason I want to save the experienced agents who are not gonna take advantage of the situation at hand that they could use to go build their business they can four or five ten extra business over the next three four five years just like I did in 2008 when I got back in the business I went out there and I worked harder than anybody to talk to the most people and guess what by 2014 I was the number one remix agent in the state of Alabama and it was all because I visualized this I took everything that learned in the big crash where I lost everything and I applied it to the moment another thing is is that inventory is gonna come up during this time just think about how easy it's gonna be to sell real estate when inventory is higher and prices are lower we've been in this high price you know high inflation low interest rate rock bottom inventory market and think about how tough it's been you have a buyer you make offer you lose you make offer you lose think about if the buyer that you have can take their pick of whichever house they want and you got sellers basically fighting over you trying to bid their own house down so that you will pick them now that may be a little exaggerated but the fact is that inventory will come up at some point prices are gonna inch down at some point and think about how easy that's gonna be guys we're about to get into the really good part of the market and I don't want to see you leave the business so hope this video helped you I hope you're listening loud and clear I hope you apply what I said I hope you thought about it shoot me a comment I'm trying to respond to every single comment and message on every single platform I want to touch every single one of you guys and I just want to do my part to help everyone in the industry be a better human be a better agent be a better father daughter mother son dad whatever I want you to go out there and be the best you that you can be right and all we can be is all we can be I love you guys we'll talk to you soon


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and today is Monday, so it's meal prep day. I have a fresh, delicious, healthy meal prep for you and spoiler alert, everything is incredible.  Subscribe if you're not because I do a meal prep every Monday and I do upload five videos every single week. Check out the description box down below where you will find my recipe website. This is actually where you'll find all three of today's recipes as well as all of the other recipes I've created here on my channel. You'll also find nutrition coaching where I highly recommend macros and calories. This is what I've been following and how I've lost 140 pounds as well as one-on-one coaching for accountability and if you would like to chat with me directly. Links, discounts to my favorite things and my Facebook group, come join us. We'd love to have you are all down in that description box. So let's head on into the kitchen for this healthy, delicious meal prep. For breakfast this week, I am making berry oatmeal. I was originally going to do cherry oatmeal but the frozen cherries were on recall at Walmart so they wouldn't let me purchase them. I'm just going to use some blackberries and raspberries and just go with more of a berry oatmeal but let me show you what you'll need for the recipe. You're going to need some light butter, rolled oats. Again, berries of your choice. Here's some blackberries and some raspberries. That's going to be so good. You'll also need some sliced almonds, honey, lemon juice, a vanilla yogurt, almond extract and cinnamon. The first thing you're going to do is go ahead and cook your oatmeal per package instruction. So I'm going to just go ahead and cook mine on the stove top. So my oatmeal is completely cooked. I did four cups of oatmeal and eight cups of water so I'm going to go ahead and remove this from the heat. Now to a saucepan I've added one tablespoon of light butter. I'm going to let that melt down. Then I'm going to add in my berries. We want about four cups of berries, two tablespoons of honey, some cinnamon and lemon juice. We're going to put this over medium heat and we're going to allow it to cook down. We want to basically create a compote, allow the berries to cook down and the mixture to thicken. So our compote is cooked. By the way, this smells incredible. I'm going to go ahead and turn off the heat and we're going to add a little bit of almond extract. Stir that in and let's assemble our oatmeal. So I went ahead and packaged up everything for my oatmeal throughout the week. So I have my oatmeal in a storage bowl. I have my compote, vanilla yogurt and sliced almonds. So what I did is put a serving of the cooked oatmeal in a bowl. That way I can have this for breakfast this morning and then I have my compote here. I'm going to add that right on top of the oatmeal. Now what's great about this recipe is you can eat this oatmeal, either cold or hot, whatever your preference is. And then I'm going to add about half of the yogurt container right on top. So you'll need a couple of small yogurt containers or if you use a big one, you're going to want to put about three ounces of yogurt on your bowl and then I'm going to add about a tablespoon of sliced almonds. You could also top this with some chia seeds. That would be a nice addition or maybe some flax seeds, a little bit of extra cinnamon. This looks absolutely delicious and like I said, you can eat this either warm or cold. You can make them up ahead of time similar to this. Throw them in your fridge and by the next morning you'll basically have overnight oats or you can eat it hot right from cooking. So I'll go ahead and put points, calories, macros here on the screen for you. This week I'm making a strawberry mango salad. We are all about salad. We are all about summer vibe. So let me show you what you'll need.  I just like to buy mine pre-cooked, pre-shredded, ready to go. You're also going to need avocado, a fresh mango, red onion, goat cheese or feta cheese. I'm not a big goat cheese fan so I went with feta. Fresh strawberries, salad greens of your choice and then I'm going to use the G Hughes sugar-free poppy seed dressing. You could also use this Skinny Girl and the original recipe has a lemon poppy seed dressing you can make from scratch. I made my life easy and we're gonna go with the G Hughes but you have lots of options for your dressing.  I actually had this diced up red onion in my fridge. Troy and I have been eating lots of salads. I've been keeping that on hand. I'm going to wash and slice my strawberries and slice my mango. So I'm actually going to put together a salad because this is going to be my lunch today and then I can kind of show you what the completed salad looks like. So I grabbed out my favorite salad bowl. You're going to go ahead and add whatever greens you're using. I picked these Arizona local organic salad mix up at Sprouts, it's really, really good. I know it's local to Arizona but check your Sprouts or your health food store in your area and see if they have something that's locally grown. It's a great way to support local and get a nice organic salad mix. I weighed out four ounces of chicken. I like to up my protein on salad especially. And by just adding an extra ounce, going from three to four, I can get a lot more protein. So I'm going to go ahead and add my chicken. I have some mango here and I went ahead and cut up my strawberries. Let me show you how I store them. I like to keep all of my fruit in mason jars. It just helps keep them fresher for longer. I mean, they will literally last week, two weeks in the refrigerator this way. Just toss a paper towel in the bottom to soak up any moisture. So those strawberries will be ready to go for my salads this week. Let me go ahead and add on the strawberries that I kind of set aside. I am going to add about a tablespoon of feta cheese. My red onion. I have a medium sized avocado here. I'm going to add half of the avocado. I'll weigh it out. It ends up being usually about 30 to 40 grams. Always put the side of your avocado that has the pit in it for storage. It'll last a lot longer that way. I store my avocados in this little avocado keeper. I just bought this off of Amazon. It will definitely keep your avocado for a couple of days, a lot fresher. That way that I'll be able to use the other half along with these cut up strawberries in tomorrow's salad. And then last but not least, before dressing, I'm going to add a tablespoon of sliced almonds. Which I realize now I didn't show you in the beginning. I think I'll probably top my salad with a little bit of ground pepper as well. And then as a reminder, I'm going to use the GQ sugar-free poppy seed dressing. So here's the completed strawberry mango salad. Like I said, I'm using this dressing. I'm just not going to add it until right before I eat it. Don't forget you have lots of poppy seed dressing options. I think if you use the Skinny Girl, which I've heard is really good, it's less points. I think it might even be zero points where this one does have some points. And then again, I will link the original recipe with the homemade that you can make at home lime poppy seed dressing. But this is going to be a healthy protein packed lunch. For a sweet treat this week, I'm making healthy banana walnut protein cake. I am super excited for this. I love banana walnut anything. I love cake as you know. So let me show you what you'll need. So I'm going to use the Kodiak protein flour. I've mentioned this in my last couple of meal preps that Kodiak actually discontinued this protein flour. Nobody knows why, maybe just not a good seller for them. But I have quite a few begs that one of you, one of my lovely subscribers sent me in my freezer. So I'm using those up down in the description box. I will list out how you can make your own protein flour. It's very, very simple. You just need unflavored protein powder. So I'll put my favorite one down below for you. But since I have the Kodiak protein flour, I'm going to use that always adds in just that little bit of extra protein. And you can't tell the difference between this and regular flour. And then you're going to need some walnuts, unsweetened applesauce, sugar-free syrup of your choice. I'm using Lakonto. I have the cinnamon maple right now, which is going to pair perfectly in this banana bread. I will link Lakonto down below with 15% off site-wide. Their syrup is delicious. Vanilla extract, non-fat Greek yogurt, salt, a couple of eggs, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and then three small to medium super ripe bananas. So to put together our bread, we're going to add one and a half cups of flour, a pinch of salt. I will link my little salt and pepper holder down below. I actually just got this off of Amazon. It's like $8 and it's acacia wood. It's really, really nice quality. I'm going to add cinnamon. I don't measure. I'm going to put quite a bit. I want that cinnamon flavor to really pull through. One teaspoon of baking powder, and then half of a teaspoon of baking soda. And then stir your dry ingredients together until fully mixed, and then we'll go ahead and add in the wet ingredients. Now we're going to add in our bananas. So you can pre-mash these in a bowl if you want. It doesn't matter if you have chunks in the recipe. I like to kind of pre-mash mine up in the banana peel, and then just add them to the bowl. As I mix all of the ingredients together, these will get mixed up and mashed even more. Then we're adding half of a cup of non-fat Greek yogurt, which is exactly what is left in this container. Two eggs, quarter cup of unsweetened applesauce, a teaspoon of vanilla extract, and then three tablespoons of sugar-free syrup. Mix that together really well.  Just make sure that you're not over mixing. Boy, this smells super good. I have three quarters of a cup of chopped up walnuts. I'm going to add about three quarters of those. I'm going to reserve a few. I want to top the bread with those. So go ahead and just fold those in nice and gently. I went ahead and lined an eight-by-eight baking dish with some parchment. We're going to add our cake mix. Go ahead and spread that out even in the bottom. And then I'm going to just add those last few walnuts right on top. We're going to put our cake in a 350 degree oven for about 25 to 35 minutes, just until it is cooked through. You can insert a toothpick and it comes out clean. The banana walnut cake is out of the oven, you guys. This smells so incredibly delicious. I can't wait to have this all week. You could even add frosting to this. In fact, the original recipe has a cream cheese frosting recipe as part of it. You would obviously need to modify it down for lower point in calorie, but frosting would be amazing on this. I think for me, I may just add a little bit of Kerry Gold butter to a slice, but there's so many things that you could do with this. And like I said, it smells incredible and we've got a good amount of protein between the protein flour and the Greek yogurt. So I'll go ahead and put points, calories, macros here on the screen for you. Thank you for joining me for this week's meal prep. I hope you are as excited about these three recipes as I am. Everything is so good. I've tried everything, 10 out of 10 out of 10. Highly recommend. Don't forget to check out the description box where you'll find my recipe website. That is again, where you can find all of my recipes, nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things. And don't forget, come on over, join our Facebook group. We would love to have you. Thank you for watching and we'll see you in the next one. Bye.


to Germany, from Alaska to Puerto Rico. All over the world, the United States Army is on the alert to defend our country, you, the American people, against aggression. This is the big picture. An official television report to the nation from the United States Army. Now to show you part of the big picture, here is Sergeant Stuart Queen. How do you do? The American soldier in Berlin lives and performs his duties in a strange atmosphere. 100 miles deep in the Soviet zone of Germany, along with his allies in the British and French sectors of Berlin, he defends the prestige and interests of democracy. While in the east sector of the city, the Russians and their puppet government plot and propagandize against us. Berlin, Germany is a city of monuments, some of them a little worse for wear. But there are two monuments in Berlin erected since World War II. They're not just mementos, either. They are symbols of an unfinished story, an unresolved conflict. One erected by a hard and bitter conqueror whose foot remains on the throat of the fallen enemy, a shrine to the might of the naked bayonet. The other, put up by the vanquished German people themselves, to honor a force that seeks to lift its former enemy back to his feet, so he may find a decent place in the family of nations. One is the Russian War Memorial, figure of towering strength unveiled in 1945 to strike fear in the heart of Berlin. The other is the monument to the airlift at Tempelhof Airdrome, dedicated by Berliners to the allied airmen who died, flying in the sustenance of life to a hungry city during the Russian blockade of 1948-1949. It is the trust rather than the duty of the American soldier in Berlin to sustain with his every action this essential difference in spirit in dealing with our former enemy. For the allied sector of Berlin where he serves is an island, an island of democracy standing 100 miles deep into the Soviet zone of Germany behind the Iron Curtain. Side by side in the one community, the American soldier sees totalitarian communism and democracy, presenting perhaps more sharply than anywhere else on earth, a comparison in significance and effect of the two ways of life. In the eastern sector of Berlin, empty stomachs and fear. Hatred to make men with stones stand up against Russian soldiers with tanks. In the western sectors, a free people rebuilding their part of a shattered city with hope and with faith in the future. But let's explore Berlin through the eyes of the soldier. Members of the American Garrison, 6th Infantry Regiment, station here to uphold and protect U.S. interests, like the private first class there and the corporal. How about it, men? Corporal, how does it all hit you? Well, I'm seeing a lot of never dreamed about back home in Greenway, Arkansas. Off-duty hours, my buddy and I get around quite a bit. There's a lot of sightseeing to be done in Berlin, all kinds of interesting ruins, like the Kaiser Wilhelm Church on Coferston Dam built by Wilhelm II in memory of his granddaddy. Isn't much but a shell now. The Nazis used it like a fort at the end and it really got hurt. Almost all over Berlin there are ruined buildings. Rubble spilling out a few walls that are still up. Together with a bomb in the city took in the last-ditch fight when the Russians were moving in, a lot of it really got blown apart. Now this used to be a real swank section of town. A lot of the embassies of foreign nations located around here. That was our Italian embassy when Mussolini was a partner of Hitler. And that was our own embassy, the embassy of the United States. Pretty badly beat up. And here we are at the Russian War Memorial over in the British sector. The inscription under the soldier says, Hail the victory of the Anglo-Soviet American military lines over the German fascist invaders. But the memorial was unveiled back in 1945 when they were talking that way. Now they keep a guard on duty with a loaded Tomat gun all the time. The cannon is one of the pieces the Russians used in the taking of Berlin. And that's the Reichstag in the back, built in 1894 for the Prussian Parliament. Funny thing, it wasn't hurt by the war. Hitler himself is supposed to have had it burned down back in 1933 so he could claim the Communists did it and scare the people into giving him more power. Yep, ruins and more ruins in Berlin. But you'll notice something else after you've looked around for a while. The Berliners aren't beat. What won't stand up, they're hauling down and out of the rubble and the ruin that built in themselves another city. A new Berlin. It's backbreaking work, doing it the hard way without much machinery and fancy equipment. But there seems to be a kind of will to clear away the results of a terrible mistake and get going again anew. Only one-fifth of the city's million-and-a-half dwellings were undamaged by the war. And it's been figured that ten trains of fifty cars each could leave Berlin daily loaded full-up with rubble and it would still take sixteen years to clear away the mess. So every brick, every hunk of building stuff that can be saved is saved. As for the rest while they're beautifying the city with it, filling the debris up to make hills and turn the hills into parks like this. This used to be a flat area. Now it's the highest point in Berlin, a beautiful new park situated on top of a rubble heap. And Berlin comes out of the junk pile. New homes. New public buildings and factories. A new life. And everywhere the same sign and form and free Berliners the USA is helping on the projects. So a country that didn't know how to get along with the rest of the world learns firsthand something about the kindness and fairness of democratic folks. New houses for the homeless. A decent place to raise kids to help them grow up into decent people. Helping them to make Berlin beautiful again. Restore the tear-gotten, one of the most beautiful parks in the world. New trees are growing already. The landscaping's coming along where it was all barren and stripped. Because during the winter of 1945 and 46 what was left of the old trees had to be cut down for fewer. Most of the new trees are gifts from German towns all over the western zone. And they're turned on that memory from a nightmare up on the hill. That concrete structure there was a giant air shelter during the war built to house 30,000 people. The fancier things in life are coming back too to Berlin. Walk down Cofersterdamm and you'd think you were on Fifth Avenue, New York City. And maybe the most important of all things, food. The western sector of Berlin are eating good. Guess you know how much interest in democratic ways that's gotten from Soviet zone Germans. If you read about the food riots over on the other side of town where the communists are running things. Over here the West Berliners with the back end of our government have been handing out free food parcels to any East German who manages to get across a line for it. The Russians have risked their necks to bust through the iron curtain to take advantage of the awful. With the Russians stopping train service and doing everything else they can to keep the people in their zone from coming over for their free food. So it's border kind of peephole in the iron curtain with the Germans in the Soviet zone getting a look at how much better off the western sectors are and giving the world a look at just how bad things are in East Germany. This industry in our part of Berlin is humming too. Folks are back at the work benches and the factories without anybody having to belong to anybody else's party to get a job. Production is on its way up to pre-war times and that's in spite of anything the communists have been able to do to stop it. When the Russians moved out of our part of Berlin they took a lot along with them including everything movable in the electric plant. That meant no juice for industry or lightning except what was supplied from East Berlin plants. That gave the communists the trump hand. But then with the help of the U.S. West Berlin has went to work building up from practically scratch a new electric supply. Through the Marshall Plan the United States supplied some of the necessary equipment the rest was up to the Berlinists in free Berlin. West Berlin is getting back to their cultural life too. Auditoriums that could be fixed up have been repaired the movie halls altered and concerts are a big thing in Berlin again. They've been doing some other kind of repair and also anti-Nazi musicians who were banned by Hitler welcome back like the great composer Paul Hindemith there. I suppose you know there isn't much chance for an American to see East Berlin the Russian sector they've got most of their part of the city blockaded going and coming. When things aren't too tense though a special trip is allowed to see what the Russians call the garden of remembrance. That lady there is supposed to represent Mother Russia. The whole memorial is an honor of red soldiers killed in the fight for Berlin and was built by German labor working day and night for 18 months. The Russian soldier on top the mausoleum is carrying a child on his left arm but in case anybody might think he's going soft I guess in his right hand he's holding a double-edged sword. Sort of like the way they let tours come over into the Russian sector everything's going along nice and friendly and then all of a sudden like happened a little while back one of the tour buses inspired on by communist police. Interesting thing about the garden of remembrance is that most of its material came out of the wreck of the right chancellery Hitler's old headquarters which is also in the eastern sector the hole in the back of the chancellery is where Hitler and his bride are supposed to have ended up. They were believed cremated there after they committed suicide. The Russians made certain understandable alterations in design of the chancellery building and they also ordered other kinds of changes in their sector like carton off to Russia most of the machinery needed to give their own sector Berlin a chance to get back on its feet. Yep the Russians have played a pretty tough in their part of town setting up a police state kind of control but in spite of that West Berlin is finding ways of letting the people in the communist sector know that democracy is working fine just across the way. A method of passing on the uncensored news of the day and the facts of life to Berliners on the wrong side of the iron curtain an electric news sign just over the western border the Russian sector its message beamed on the folks in East Berlin an idea board I guess right from Times Square New York City the free Berlin press a kind of beacon up there shining right through the communist blackout to bring East Berliners some of the truth of the free world the truth has had some effect too East Berliners aren't taking a line down from the communist anymore they're making their own headlines for all the world to read about to see how people react to living under the blessings of the Russians and their German communist stuages and every day by hook or crook more Soviet zoners find their way over to West Berlin lots of them risk in their lives to get to the free world just across town whole families by the tens of thousands give up everything they own except what they can cram into a couple of suitcases so they can live and raise their kids in the new federal republic of western Germany because western Berlin itself couldn't possibly accommodate the thousands of refugees who come over the german republic is co-operating with the allies arranges air transportation freedom flights they call them to care the people to sanctuary in western Germany every refugee is carefully questioned and screened on his reasons for leaving the Soviet zone if he can prove that he fled because of extreme danger or equally pressing reasons he is entitled to permanent residence in west Germany and the right to work there besides his flight to freedom across the Russian territory surrounding Berlin and business is good on this hop with chartered planes flying out nearly 1,000 refugees every day with backlogs of his high 60,000 others waiting their turn for a freedom flight the commanded tourer which is the international body responsible for governor of west Berlin occupies the allied control building in Kleitzpark there are poles in front of the buildings for the flags of four different nations the french, the british the american and a russian only the russian flag don't fly there anymore their ideas just don't jive with democracies on the way to lead a people back to an honorable life and they walked out of the command tourer in 1948 since then the representatives of the remaining three powers military and civilian work side by side relax in controls helping a democratic west Berlin establish itself as a part of the free world interestingly enough the russians continue to cooperate with the democracies on just one job in Berlin garden spanned out prison maybe it's because it's a kind of a specialty of theirs keeping people under lock and key anyhow all four governments are responsible for garden of prison which has just a few inmates but they're the top former nazi leaders alive today and that's how it is that american troops in Berlin still meet the russians on peaceful terms and the changing of the guard when we take over our tour yep and there's even a handshake according to the rules of military courtesy yes sir, solzion in Berlin is a kind of education where you don't just hear about what's good and bad in political systems you get to see how they work out you get to look at a city that was just about flattened with a population that had to start all over again and now on one side of town you find people hungry, hopeless, scared on our side you see a great city again shaping up all the ruins folks rebuilding it who have learned a lesson about freedom and who are ready to fight to keep it this time thinking about that it feels pretty good to be a solzion here and know that you're helping them in that fight maybe that's one of the reasons we take our training activities as seriously as we do around here put that extra snap into everything to make ourselves better soldiers surrounded the way we are by the Red Army we don't have a lot of space for field maneuvers but we've still gotten pretty sharp working out in the grung old forest just outside of Berlin training a year round to keep us on our toes ready for anything that might happen when and if it happens with the knowledge that plenty can happen in Berlin, Germany the hottest spot in Europe we're not trigger happy here but we stay on close terms with our guns Bazookas too, we want to get good with them there are an awful lot of red star tanks roaming around in this neck of the woods and if an emergency comes in Berlin it's pretty likely to be civil disobedience and confusion that's why we learn how to handle riots before they occur working with the Berlin policemen our own men representing the mob the main idea in our technique is to send the crowd home without bloodshed lives can be saved this way instead of machine gun tactics like the Soviets have been practicing in their zone I guess it's just another example of that difference between their side now a difference felt I believe by every U.S. soldier here from private on up to our commandant officer in Berlin General Daniel himself Berlin is a unique city divided into two opposing parts of government and two political ideologies one third of the city, the Soviet sector lives under a communist controlled government which operates along the lines of police state it is based on the idea that the individual belongs to the state and that he has no right to decide for himself how he shall be governed or how he shall conduct his life the other two thirds of the city, the western sectors enjoy a free democratic government whose officials were elected from candidates of several political parties it is the same type of democratic government we have in the United States and the West Berliners have the same freedom of action as Americans at home this democratic government of West Berlin has existed since the first free elections in October 1946 despite all communist efforts to destroy it and its democratic freedoms it has survived with the support and encouragement of American, British and French agencies established by international agreement to help Germany toward recovery the American troops under my command here in Berlin are to assure the security of the American agencies in their efforts to keep democracy alive in this outpost 100 miles behind the Iron Curtain our American soldiers and their British and French allies are here to show the world the democratic government can function under even the most adverse conditions in short our American troops are in Berlin for the following four reasons first to show the Berliners, our allies and the communists the best soldiers in our army as peaceful representatives of a great democratic nation second to protect United States lives and property in this city where our government maintains its lawful agencies in close proximity to unfair elements surrounding the city third to help the West Berlin police to keep law and order and if it should become necessary to give them armed support against attack on civil authority fourth to fight if necessary or United States rights in a free Berlin which is in keeping with our government's pledge to keep the city free from any encroachment by hostile forces German eyes turn to Berlin and see the picture you have seen on one side of the city hunger, fear and brutal controls of the conqueror on the other side the West a new Berlin building out of the rubble and a free people have been given a chance to earn a decent future it's the job of the American soldier and his allies in Berlin to defend that chance to help them find an honorable place in the big picture now this is Sergeant Stewart Queen inviting you to be with us next week for another story in the big picture the big picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the Army at home and overseas produced by the Signal Corps pictorial center presented by the U.S. Army in cooperation with this station you 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Ευχαριστούμε και παιδιά! Είναι Vicky εδώ και σήμερα θα έχω κάποτε καλύτερα με σιζιξι. Θα χρησιμοποιήσω αυτή η αγγελή μεταγωνία και όπως είπατε, ένα από τα καλύτερα πράγματα να χρησιμοποιήσεις μεταγωνία είναι ότι μπορείτε να κοψετε σύγχροι μεταγωνίες και όχι μόνο κομμάτια. Και αυτό είναι ακόμα το οποίο θα κάνω σήμερα. Θα φτιάξω ένα μικρό αγγελ που θα είναι πληροχή και μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσεις as an ornament. Μπορείτε να φτιάξετε το σωστό μεταγωνίες ή τα φτιάξω εφαρματικά και μπορείτε να ανταξέψετε για ένα φτιάξο, αλλά και ευρώ μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσεις στον αγγελό που θα κάνω σήμερα. Τώρα όλα που κάνω είναι να φτιάξω και να φτιάξω λίγο πιστό που θα θα πληρώνω στον αγγελό μου, για να μπορώ να φτιάξω πολλές διαφορές σιτές με ένα αγγελό. αυτο τα υποπομπρίσεις,eddem i'm already adding some double-sided tape before I cut them out. This way it's going to be super easy for me to add glitter later on. So I'm running everything through my Big Shot to cut out all the images. And this is by the way the Foldaway Big Shot. I did a review awhile back and I am going to make sure to link that down below in the description area and at the end of the video. Τώρα, υπάρχει also a giveaway running at C-Six that you might want to check it out because there are 3 fold-away big shot machines to be won. Make sure to visit my blog and find all about it. Τώρα, θέλω να δείξω τον αγγέλ μου να είμαι από το burlap and that's why I'm using this self-adhesive piece, this is by Tim Holtz by the way and I'm going to stick that on top of a scrap piece of paper and I'm going to use this with my C-Six die through my big shot and this is going to cut out the dress and I did use a cardstock at the back just to make it more sturdy and you definitely need to do that especially if you want to use the angel as an ornament and this is where the double-sided tape that I used before cutting out my pieces is handy so this is a sticker now and I can apply some glitter on top to decorate my wings the glitter that I'm using is fine glitter so it's going to stick nice on top of my wings and I'm also going to rub it with my finger just to make sure that everything is nicely stuck there I'm using my scissors at the top of the dress and I'm going to give a little bit of curve there and I'm doing the exact same thing as I did with the wings of my angel I'm going to cover up completely the cut-out heart with glitter but this time I'm using red glitter and again before cutting out this heart I did use some double-sided tape so this is easy for me all I have to do is to just rub the glitter or push it harder so that I know that it's nicely stuck on top of the adhesive now I'm going to use a little bit of white gesso and with a dry brush I'm going to apply a little bit over the dress of my angel this is going to enhance and bring out the texture even more this is totally optional I just love the look and I like to do it over burlap and as you can tell I am adding some finishing touches to all the pieces that I have cut out so here I'm going around the face with vintage photo and with a finger tapper and I will do the same thing over all the pieces just to bring everything together so I'm going around the dress and I will do that for the wings as well and after preparing all the pieces it's time to do the assembling putting everything together with some white glue to embellish my angel even more I'm tying a little bow with this string and on both ends I'm going to thread a couple of jingle bells and I'm just going to tie them there so they can hang out of my angel and this will add shine as well as texture and sound on my project and I'm going to finish it off by adding a glue to the back of the bow and stick it on top of the heart you can add a loop and it would be a great ornament for your Christmas tree you can use it as a focal point on top of a Christmas wreath you can decorate a tea light holder so many ideas now I'm going to show you how you can quickly turn it into a card but again you can use this angel in so many different ways now I've cut out a few pieces of pattern paper from this pattern paper collection which was from last year I believe by Tim Holtz and I'm just going to assemble my card by the way I'm working on a craft colored card that's 4.25 x 5.5 so that's a standard card since my angel is more on the vintage look that's why I picked those colors they are traditional green and red but they are muted, they are more distressed so they will bring everything together nicely now since I have gold jingle bells on top of my angel I'm going to add a golden detail on top of my card base as well so I have this thin strip of gold cardstock and now all that's left to do is to stick the angel on top of my card so I added some white glue at the back now this card has a lot of dimension with this jingle bells on top so I will not send it through the mail but I think it's a great card to add inside a gift but I will hand out for Christmas to a special friend now of course you can call this card done but I decided to go with the word joy which I'm going to spell out using this alphabet dice and I used this gold cardstock to cut out the words this is the same cardstock that I used for that golden strip on the side of my card so everything matches beautifully together I'm adding some white glue at the back of the letters and I'm going to stick them on top of my angel and that finishes off my card for today I hope you had fun and got inspired to create these beautiful angels that are so versatile and you can use on so many different ways don't forget to visit my blog and find all about the physics giveaway for winning one of the three fold away big shots and as always you will find links down below in the description area to all the products that I used for today thank you all so much for watching


I get asked about the time machine a lot. I don't know why that's people's go-to answer for when they mention physics.  And it's like, okay, step by step, like let's start there. Let's look at a specific thing. Ask us.  Sorry! I'm so sorry. Oh, oh, oh. What are you going to do with the... Oh, guys, you got a forbidden question. What are you going to do? What are you like, graduate? Oh, I hate it.  I hate it. Especially when... Oh, why were you selected? Oh yeah, why did she get selected? I don't know. I guess it's something like, are you going to build a time machine? Yeah. No. Get out of here. Build a time machine. Unfortunately, it's actually not possible to at least travel back in time. Unless you have a wormhole or something, but we don't build those. If we have a time machine, we're going to go back and like change all of the bad things, you know what I mean? I would go to the future. That's the past though. You know, my mom always asked me this question. What's the cancer one? Well, I'm not a cancer biologist. So, probably not. Probably not. Some of these questions, I'm just there like... Finally, the true us. Give us. Is this just like being in the Big Bang Theory? Okay, first of all, I'm not even sure what kind of job the people in the Big Bang Theory have. It seems to never involve doing any actual research, so... We are way cooler than them. Aha. Take my word for it. All of them. I mean, like Big Bang don't have this beautiful scene. Just like in this boring grey room all the time. And they were like, what? Oh my god. And that's when Big Bang Theory was taking off.  And I didn't know what they were talking about. I never watched the Big Bang Theory. And I was like, oh, okay, that's cute. And then I watched it and I'm like, this is insulting. How are your experiments going? I guess well enough because I'm graduating. How are your experiments going? Oh no, come on, not today. Well, right now I'm not doing any experiments, thankfully.  But when I was doing experiments, they were tough. You will give 100 different answers to this question at 100 different stages of your PhD career. Most of the time it's not going well. I mean, that's what science is. We had to, you know, stress about it. Many times they don't go well. I didn't get some good juice and then it goes well. But there are times... Write something down. Write something down? Like what? Somebody. Somebody? Write somebody down? Okay. How many papers have you published? Back in the days when I was still a bachelor's student, so it's just before my time at OIST, when I was moonlighting as a solid-state chemist, I got one paper, but none at OIST just yet. You want to answer this question? I submit it. Not a paper, but book chapter. I don't know where it is now. Yeah, that's about it, yeah. Oh, soon you will get it, don't worry. You are in 30 yet, right? That's okay. You still have time to publish more papers. Hopefully. How many papers have you published? Oh, my God. Yeah, but three. Oh, you don't mind that question. No, I don't. But I'm not first-order, thanks to my previous professors. But I hate that question.  For this question, it's different. But also, simply, it's a stressful question, because we might be... Some of us might be trying to publish before a defense, or have high expectations by our supervisor. Or revisions. So it's simply... Yeah, it's not a very useful question, because it highly depends on the field. And also, it's a stressful question, because some of us might be struggling a lot with it. So that's a difficult one. I have one paper in Electromechanical Engineering. I don't have any papers right here in my current field. I'm still five years running. What are you going to do with your degree? Good question. I don't know. Oh, God, the other forbidden question. What are you going to do with your degree? What are you going to do when you graduate? Oh, boy, I still don't know yet, and I'm graduating next month, so... In my defense, I just got here two years ago. But I don't know yet, I feel like that's something that you should ask me in five to six years when I'm wrapping things up. What are you going to do with your degree? I will lord it over everyone and make them call me doctor. I think I would answer you when I get the job after I finish my PhD. When will you finish? When are you graduating? Oh, the eternal question. I'm glad you asked me this now and not a few months ago. It's not a fair question to ask. Yeah, because it's never going to be what you think it is. Maybe ask me only after... When I tell you that my examination date is decided and I invite you to my graduation ceremony, you can ask me this question. But before then, please do not ask. When will you finish? You will finish at some point. When will you graduate? You will graduate when you graduate. That's basically as simple as I can make it. I didn't mind if anybody asked me, option, do you have an idea when you are going to finish your PhD? I said, of course, if my microscope is working well, I'll be graduating even in three years. So it depends. Every project is different. Every PhD is different. You go through them at different speeds. You go to the same lab and finish at different times. Two people can start in the same year and work in different labs and finish at different times. Or at the same time. It all depends on your situation. Every PhD is unique. Every PhD is different. How's your Japanese? Can you be honest to know about that? I don't know. I'm sorry. If you want to follow the latest always news, please like and subscribe. Down there. Just right here.