Hello everyone, so today I'm actually going to do a I feel like I look different on this thing. Oh, I think my Sees a bit higher than normal. Anyway, whatever today. Sorry today. I'm going to Do a Q&A session because I've received quite a few questions recently in the comments and sometimes I'm not very good at keeping up with all of them and so anyway, I just wanted to do a video where I Talk about a couple of those questions. They're just a couple and I just want to address them here Because they might be interesting to all of you out there. So, yeah, let's start it off right away The first question I have is from Konstantin Martinov Martinov, I don't know. He says hi, I like your videos can ask you a question What kind of skill do you advise to master in order to become location independent? I only do transcription videos and audios into text and that's it I tried to translate some text. Sometimes it was okay. Sometimes I had bad feedback So my advice and actually and I gave this to him But I feel like he's asking two different things first of all He's asking if he should do this transcription or if he should do just text translation and my reply would be Obviously transcription is working a lot better for him than just translation. So he should definitely stick stick to transcription I mean, he might have been asking because I I do text and I've mentioned a couple times I don't do transcription and so maybe that's why he was wondering if it's better to do One rather than the other But whatever works best for you is what you should be doing So if you if you're doing written translation and that works best for you do that if you're doing transcription You have more success with that absolutely do that Don't in fact even when you're starting out if you find what works best for you go all in on that Forget the other stuff. Don't try to hedge your bets at the beginning, you know with this set and the other No, go all in for in this case in Konstantin's case it will be transcription go into transcription and You know the videos and audios into text and if that's what's working then do that and In your profile and when you're applying for jobs and everything That's what you're looking for because once you find something that works Then you should go all into that and just keep trying to repeat that repeat that repeat that if he's having issue with Just the text translations then don't don't bother with this, you know This is the work, you know, what's different between the working world in school is in school if you're bad at French But good at math you should study more French and a bit less math so you can get it better But in the real world if you're good at math and bad at French Concentrate on math, you know, and don't try a career in French And so in the same sense here, I would say if you're good at something concentrate on that Whatever you're good at whatever you like doing whatever earns you more money and you can earn a living from That's what you should be doing to be location-dependent with one caveat which I will I will get to now and because All of this is true, but he asks What do I need to master in order to become location-independent? And this was a second part of the question that I mentioned Luckily what he's good at is transcription and audio which transcription videos and audio into text which can definitely be done online In fact, it's almost always done online. So that's great If you want to be location-independent though, you need to find something that you can do while being location-independent This is a big reason by the way, why I'm not an interpreter I'm also not an interpreter because I'll be a very very bad interpreter But a big reason is because I like being location-independent if you're an interpreter You're not you have to go to certain locations and interpret for them Whether it be the courthouse or this city hall meeting or that business meeting or whatever it might be and look I know a lot of interpreters and they love that They love the fact that a client will fly them out to DC and to here and to there and they can interpret and You know, it's a it's a lifestyle and they love it So it really depends on you by the way nowadays a lot of interpreting can be done online as well So you can be location-independent for doing quite a bit of interpreting I think it's a lot harder to start your career in that if you refuse to Go meet clients face-to-face, but it can be done and in fact a lot more things can be done online Over the phone and in a location-independent manner So if if what you love if what earns you money and if what you want to do seems like something you cannot do online Do some research into it. Maybe there's a way that you can I'm not saying there definitely is but there might be But if you want to be location-independent Find out what you're good at if it's already something you can do online Then you're golden put all your eggs in that basket at least in the beginning keep trying to work on that only and But if you if what you like isn't something you can do remotely then I would do research Because maybe there is a way to do remotely. Look a lot of things are being done remotely now from lawyers to Doctors I was recently talking to a doctor and he was saying how how much they're doing remotely had you know There'll be a town in Texas where they need something done And they'll hook up to a doctor in LA or Chicago and who even during surgery Will be giving advice or saying do this or that a giving diagnosis whatever and so it yeah It's very incredible actually and a lot of people are doing that with He he was talking to me a lot about I was enthralled by it and he said a lot of people they're general practitioner It'll just be they'll talk to someone over Skype depending on their need obviously if it's just Common cold or something like that then fine But if they have something a bit more complicated and they're living somewhere rural or somewhere where they don't have Access to very good doctors or doctors with a specialty they need they can do it all remotely so many things can be done remotely So do some research into that if that's something you're interested in Okay, that's it for that question the next question. We see Maria s asks I know your channel is more about freelancing, but could you also do a video about learning Chinese? I will really appreciate it. I'm also learning Chinese at the moment. So this is Actually something I contemplated doing but Unfortunate so I have done a video on how I learned in general so a lot of them In fact, all of that would apply to learning Chinese as well The thing with Chinese is that it's very different from many other languages aside from learning all those weird characters and the tones and And the and a different structure it also I mean the characters themselves as you know are not an alphabet. It's the only language being used now that still uses bonafide hieroglyphics to to say something and so that makes it very different you don't learn an alphabet and then from there on So like Korean I learned the alphabet or you know the Korean symbols and I can read them So many times I'll I can I can read anything fine, you know, and that's no problem But many times I need to figure out and try to understand what I'm reading. That's not how it works with Chinese with Chinese You need to learn both like because all they're all different characters. And so you need to learn how to read it Pretty much from scratch for every single character and also what it means anyway, it's just a different way to to go about it and So one of the things that I try to do is I have my here just a second I'm gonna get my some of my flashcards Okay, so here are my flashcards my flashcards. I usually I don't know if you can see I have the I write The character and I write the tone on top. This is just so I can it just helps me because Now when I look at characters, obviously, I don't know the tone just off the top of my head But at least if I write it with that it kind of comes second nature and I can think like me She and I and I kind of see the tone on top of it Anyway, so that's the way I do it then on the other side I I write the the pronunciation in pinyin doing and then the What it means under it so I can also cover it this way or that way However, it might be It's I mean, yeah, and so that's how I'll do it Please excuse my very bad handwriting of writing these characters, but this is the way that works for me Another way can work for someone else Otherwise all the standard things apply Still if you if you want to speak more find other people to speak with I've mentioned these other things before speaking to yourself Or if you find people over skype language exchange all that good stuff I would definitely do it what I love about Chinese though and what makes it different is every learning the language is a lesson in etymology and so and Whenever you're learning a new character say you're learning well each character has two different parts or many characters Anyway, it can get as complicated as you want But many times you'll see the radical here Which is this is the radical for hand and then you find the other part which usually has something to do with the pronunciation and in fact this radical for hand and then down and that's how it's pronounced and and it means to block and So anyway, it makes sense Very often if you learn the etymology and to me it helps a lot in learning the actual character so Those are the main things that I think are different in Chinese as Compared to other languages so you have the tones and I know you have other languages with tones but for me it's the first language I was learning with tones and you have the characters rather than the alphabet which Makes it hard, but once again I tried to get into the etymology bit and I have a couple books here that talk only about the etymology about Chinese characters and the history of it and all that in fact there's one that I recommend just a second I'm gonna get it Sorry, so these are some of the books. I have this is probably the best one out there It's called China Empire of Symbols by Cecilia Lindquist It was actually originally written in Swedish and then translated into English, but it's great. It has All the history. I mean it is heavy, but it goes through the history of all these characters and how they developed from the From the Oracle bones to the Joe period and to modern times and I like it a lot The Chinese language is a shorter one and I found it also extremely helpful And it goes through a bunch of the characters at least it again it has them all listed and it goes through some of the history and and how they How it evolved and why things are the way they are like why things like Beijing Was peaking and how that changed and all that. I mean, I guess most of them cover that there's some others I want depending on your level My level is not that good, but This was one that I found quite helpful. It is a Book as you can see it's in Chinese. This is written in Traditional Chinese, but it talks about again. It talks about the characters. It's written for school kids I'm pretty sure. I mean, I know it's written for school kids, but it helps someone like me who's learning the characters and and It's interesting that you can go through all these things and try to see where the root and where the character originally comes from and how it evolved so Yeah, in terms of just pure Chinese I think that at least is what helped me and Otherwise, yeah, they're the things that are for standard language Decide if you're learning reading and writing or speaking and listening and if you want to concentrate on one or the other and That depends on what you want to get out of the language and then you can concentrate on that Obviously, you need to learn a bit of everything to be able to proceed You can't just ignore the character. It's just because you want to speak in Chinese, but it'll give you a direction That's better and but that's the same for all languages So I won't get into that too much and I'll try to move on because it's already taken way longer than I wanted it to I'll do one more. This question is by Daniel Villareal Who who I've talked to quite a few other times. I know he also sorry about that I know he also takes my course and And yeah, we've better and he's also I know he's also read my book because he wrote Book review. Thank you once again Daniel for the book review so he wrote Fantastic video. Thank you for posting a Robert a quick question Do you know of citizens and residents of all countries are eligible for Upwork greetings from Taipei, Taiwan? So actually I looked it up if any anyone from any country can apply for Upwork this was a comment on my video of how to sign up for Upwork and so that's why he was talking about Upwork and There are some restrictions. I looked it up. 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Very good way to get Broly back in the point position, and you know what? I'm making a read. I think he's going to make a read. I'm going to make a read. I knew it dude! How's it going everybody? Dottodoi here back with another round of Dragon Ball Fighters ranked matches. This time we are playing a team with Dragon Ball Super Broly on point. It's been a little while since we've run this particular team with just DBS Broly up on point, but I really do enjoy it and I'm going to be looking to try to improve my DBS Broly just up to the real optimal routes. I would really like to incorporate those. So we've got to start somewhere, just get him accommodated to the team and see what he can do against all Vegeta players. I guess all the Vegeta team. Also, CS is with Super Saiyan Vegeta. I'm already liking this team. I love that assist. Oh, I got caught low. I love Super Saiyan Vegeta CS. If you don't think it's good, you really should try it. It is definitely worth trying. It is the fact that it's a tracking DP that forces you to either block or get hit, in which case, you know, the other player gets a full combo. It's definitely rough. I am not a fan of having to block or get hit by that assist. I'm just going to switch out. I think we got we got some blue health. We might as well never mind. I'm really messed that up. There it is. It goes so high too. You could see I thought I was safe there. So I could just go for a Super Dash. Nah, Super Saiyan Vegeta definitely going to definitely going to get up there. All right. Yep. Behind the back. Oh, take that too. No assist though. So there's not much I can do. Snag him out of the air. Ema assist. Hold them down. No. Oh, beautiful. Yamcha assist. Now we're moving. Now this is this is what I want to see the team do. Okay. Okay, we'll back up. We'll back up for now. Guard cancel. I'm just trying to kill that time. The longer he can't, the longer he can't hit me, the better. Oh, it's over. I think it's, yeah, it's done. Oh, none of that allowed. I think if we play this right, we might be able to get Broly in on just the level one. That should kill. I'll take it. Very good way to get Broly back in the point position. And you know what? I'm making a read. I think he's going to make a read. I'm going to make a read. Oh, I respect it though. Blue Vegeta's definitely got to go for that at least once around. But we saw through it. If you don't mind, I'm going to be going for the full auto combo route. Oh, that was so sick. Oh, I dropped. Oh no, I tried to grab him again. I think we just spark here. Too much. Look at that. Look at the height, man. And then it drops you back down immediately. That is a, it's a good assist. I'm telling you, if you play Super Saiyan Vegeta, I know he's, listen, I know Super Saiyan Vegeta has a good, a lot of good assists already. And I'm not necessarily saying it's better to run that over a, but it is good. You've got to give it a shot. That was, that was the worst. I really got to stop guard canceling in situations where I already have a decent lead. It's too risky to go for it. I can't block a 6M. I don't think that's news. He gets an auto combo off of that. Yeah. He knows that. He knows the route. He knows the route, but he can't get the key blast to fall. Look at it. The CS is just taking everybody with it. Now we're in a bad, we're actually behind now. That guard cancel was so bad, even though we made a lot of mistakes after, hold on. A lot of dragon balls. Nice vanish. Oh my goodness. I got to hold that. That's negative. I know that. I'll take that. Oh, I hope this kills. Oh, I wasted so much bar. No, what are you doing? Okay. Okay. We have a plan, boys. I don't know if it's going to work or not. Yes. Build up the bar. Build up the bar. Who needs a level three? Okay. I don't think we should go for this actually. Oh, you got that? I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. Do we go for shed runners?    Who said it's stupid?  Is it stupid?  We can't do it anymore. Behind the back again. Oh no, we still got to hit him. Okay.  I really don't know why I was so focused on Shenron there, but I'll take the win. I will definitely take the win. Man, if they didn't buff key, key charge, also we hit him with a C beam and says, also that looks like I was disrespecting. I really wasn't in my mind. I thought I needed Shenron to secure the win. I don't even know why that was in my head really. I was like, yeah, Shenron, that'll get it done. That'll secure me the win. All right. Yachter, please be up. All right. I'll take that as well. Into the corner. Backdash? No backdash. Nice vanish. Not bad though. He still had to use a bar for that, so I'll take it. Oh, what? Bro, I know we talk about, we call a lot of normals big meaty claws, but that was probably the best example of that. Broly's just literally swinging his hand. He's like, I'm just going to swing, bro.  Again, really been a while since I've updated these rounds. But if it would have worked though, that's pretty much everything I do with Broly might like, oh, if it would have worked, we would have looked at this in a different light. Okay. I think, yeah, I'm dead. Oh, that did a lot of damage. What even was the starter to that? Broly did a lot last. We got that. Once I get one good Broly read out of my system, I'm okay. Broly can go. He's good to go. He's done what he had to do. That's C assist is so good. It's so good. I really got caught asleep at the wheel though. Oh, can we get a drag rush from here? We can. Nice reflect. I'm going to have to come right back at you though. And now we're just going to go for level three. I'm going to go for two M here or he's been pretty patient. Maybe we go for cross up. Well, I messed that one up. Broly C assist. It's so hard for me to stop. Whoa, no tech, no base Vegeta. You got a tech if you want to save them there. Another really good roll for us. Hey, I'm just, I'm having a blast all of a sudden. Oh, two H. It went bad. Yeah, block this. Let's get it optimal. Let's get optimal. Pretty good damage. You thought I didn't have a backup plan. A little Wolfgang fist never hurt anybody. Do we kill with two bars here or three? I'm going to say two. I'm going to say two. Confidence. Confidence. I didn't have any confidence. I lied to you guys. It was mostly fake. Self esteem looking real low at all times. You know what? You know, I keep that self esteem on me.  Glad I didn't even notice we got that second bar. Oh, oh, I'm just making. Oh, never mind. If I see that dive kick connect, it's on site with the Wolfgang fist. Man, two really good games so far. Broly didn't get to do a ton, but I feel like this is going to be Broly's game. This is going to be Broly's game right here. I'm making the read round start. Watch this. Big. You didn't have a bar. I should have grabbed. Oh, what an assist. Yeah. If he doesn't have a bar to vanish, I should really command grab because it seems like if he has vanished, he's open to hit that for a command grab. But other than that, he seems really patient and willing to block. So I should definitely go for like right now would be a great time to command grab other than the fact that I got command grabbed. Let me go. I take it all back. See assist. Don't do this. I'm out. I got to prioritize that little bit of blue life if he wants to swap. Oh my goodness. Who would he swap to? Oh, that's not good for me. He tried to kick. Don't do the heavy option. No, always get caught. Try to hit him. The fact that that sticks around is so, so sick. Oh, this is not my game. This was not my game. We can still make a comeback though. But Yopche is dead. Man, what a definition of not my game. I'm just getting slapped around on this one. The adjustments have been made. Download complete. So high and then I just have to block low. Nice. We got a jab though. 2H that. Oh, why did I go for the command grab? I thought that was the buster input or what is it? I got to do it to him. I got to get this armor off of me. Get this off of me. Here comes the damage. This is where it turns around. Actually, we're just switching. Let's save the C assist. Oh, no. Okay, we're still good. Nice. Oh, no. Oh, we blocked that. Oh, I tried vanishing. Yeah, really bad. We barely touched him this game. The loops. He's going for it. Okay, he called it quits. I don't think he wanted to try it. I don't know if that was the max he could get or if he just didn't want to risk it anymore. I can't blame him for either. I'm still winning this game though. If you think I'm not winning this game, I don't know. I don't think you're fainting me because I'm coming back. If you thought it was over, you must not know DBS Broly. Why did I level three my own sparking time? I saw I had so much bar. I thought I'd go for it. If you think I don't know, he's going to DPA. I told you we were winning. I'm clairvoyant now. I see the DPs. This time, he's going behind me. I'm not sweating a doll just to reach it. By behind me, I should have specified EX knee. I was not ready for that. We're living though. Okay, he can't EX knee now. Oh, no, no, no, no. Wait. Oh, we barely had time to block that. Nice. Also, I'm a little worried now. He doesn't seem like he wants to block anymore. Let me break Broly this damage. Wait a minute. It's looking to health bar and it's still not done getting taken down a peg. Thought I wasn't winning this game. I told you got another thing coming. Would he grab me again though? Okay, he didn't.  We can't commit to anything that a vanish would kill. I don't know why I hit vanish. I don't know why I hit vanish. I was going to say we can't commit to anything that a vanish would kill from him. And even if I succeeded with that vanish, I could have still died to a vanish. So I don't know why I hit that. Oh, okay. Okay. I'll show you how much of a fight I could put up. That game did not go good for me. That is, oh, that 2L is good sometimes. Do I want to switch out? Okay, early spark, early spark. Oh, and we got around the CSS by hitting him. Big lag. Oh no. Okay. I feel really bad for him. That was a sparky time. But yeah, for me, I mean, I'm not too beat up about it. Level three, you got this armor off of me. Man, that was an unfortunate time to lag, but I do feel bad for him. Oh no. Okay, CSS, we got a block low. I let out a really just scream to get hit by it. One, two. Oh, no, he wasn't heavy. Oh, Dragon Ball. Nice clash with him. Don't let him have it. All right, I'll be over here if you need me. All right, now by now we should switch. I want to preserve the CSS. We don't want to lose a character for this. You might even spark, honestly. I'm sparking. I'm not here. Now, notice how I still haven't switched yet. And that is definitely a bad idea. Let's just go out in a yoncha. It's the only way to make it safe after a level one. No, no, no, you were supposed to go behind yoncha. There we go. We're out. We're out. We're out. We're doing better. We're doing better. He has the CSS. He opts to tag instead, though, which is fine by me. I would rather him tag. Yes, that's why we want to save it. Beam CSS. If they clip you, we just get that combo. Not like this. Not like this game. Let me, let me, let me play.    Well, hopefully you enjoyed this video. If you did, definitely let me know down below in the comments. I'm, uh, I'm so sad that it cut off right there. That was going to be the end to a great set. Oh, wait, I think you only had one win. So it might, it might not have been the end to a great set because he was playing pretty well, but it would have been sick to see the end of that set regardless, though. Normally I'd probably just scrap the video since we didn't get to play the full set, but I'm going to be completely honest with you. That read was nice enough to keep the video. It was, the read was good enough to keep the whole video. That's how you know it was a good read. Hopefully, like I said, you enjoyed it. If you did, let me know your favorite moment down below. Hopefully it's that read. But while you're down there, hit the like button and subscribe to the channel if you want to help us support the channel here and enjoy the stuff we make. And you can also check out some of the other videos that should be on your screen right now if you want to watch something else right away. Other than that, I have been Dr. Dewey. I can't thank you enough for watching this all the way to the end and I will see you in the next one.


Hey everyone, welcome to Norris Cove or welcome back. I am Yoshida. I am a self-employed hairstylist and I also own Norris Cove and I like to get my life together by planning minimally and functionally and also like to watch your plan. So today we're going to be doing my budget. I was supposed to did one last week and a week before that, you know, life got hectic. So before I knew what time it passed, but no excuses here. I said I would come back and say what I did with the 188. I can't remember what that final, let me try to whip out what that actual amount came to be. But I think I just like use it. I did save a little bit that week. Let's see what we got. Let me go to schedule and I can attempt to tell you if I didn't take it out. So we estimated 800. That was the week of November the 20th through the 26th. We actually made $1,185. So that was pretty good. Norris Cove, I don't, I can't remember that week, but we estimated about 150 and I really think we came up under that because it was Black Friday, but we were very close to this. So we're just going to move that on over. So we did pretty good. I can't remember what all got paid, but I'm pretty sure this week everything got paid. I know that Ally got paid, of course, booth rent and GoDaddy, I think has moved and is more than this. It's almost like 953. I just paid that PayPal. I gave them 50 because I paid after the time it was due. To my knowledge, it got paid after pay. Amazon, yes, got paid and Barclays. So, and Barclays actually came out the following week. So yes, everything got paid this week. So we're going to move on with life. I'm going to go to my monthly here. I did get managed to get my December set up my monthly. And this is just how I have it set up. I like to decorate the monthly, but you know, I keep everything else simple. So for this week, we are on the week of the 11th through the 17th. So as usual, here's my main source of income. And then we have Norris Cove. I'll be getting paid from Norris Cove this week. I have a little cheat sheet over here. 165.28. And it's going to be just a couple of dollars short because of the fees that they take out. So let's just say 155 from Norris Cove. And then for here this week, you know, it has been slow. I'm going to stick with about $800 here. That's going to be my guesstimate. My total, I'm just going to write in total here of 955. So we're working with $955 this week. This week, normally I don't, well, I normally don't take money from my business because it just goes back into the business. So I'm going to add it with my income because, well, pretty much I'm going to be lying products for the business. So nonetheless, we'll be using some of that this week. This week for bills on the 11th, we have Chase and I think it's 50. Sometimes it's 100. I should have looked before I got on camera, but we're going to do 50. And then we'll write the actual, when it actually comes in, we have Afterpay. Y'all, I'm going to soon be done with these Afterpay totaling $121.69. That's also due on the 11th, $121.69. I really don't have anything left over from last week, so I may have to pay these late, which I don't want to do, but, you know, it is what it is. On the 13th, something, I suppose it kind of on the 13th, obviously I don't have anything down. So the next thing is on the 15th, I have Affirm and I didn't write that amount down, but I think I just looked at it. Here it is. I have $28.72 and that's on the 15th for $28.72. My car notice due on the 15th, but Ally, I don't write the amount. This is not the full payment either anyway, so it doesn't matter. We got Affirm. Also, we have a credit card due. I need to make a note on my little cheat sheet over here. We need to catch up Walmart. Also on the 15th, we have Capital One and that's usually like $28. I'm going to try to do 30 and then we have Walmart that I have to catch up. I'm going to do that on the 15th as well and I'm going to do 30. City Bank is on the 17th. I haven't paid them in a while because the interest was just I couldn't, but we don't have to give them something. We just want to try to give them a hundred and then I have Booth Rent due on the 16th and that's $250. So right now, to my knowledge, this is all that I have. I'm going to do this first to see if I will even be able to do any sinking funds or envelopes because I definitely want to start back my envelopes. So let's get a calculator. So we have a total of $641. It's actually just a little bit more, but not just a little bit. It's some more with my card note. I'm going to put it here and then put the real total off camera. And again, one day I will share my card note. It's expensive and the only reason I don't share it is because there are person people following me. I don't want them to be thinking that I'm rich because I ain't, but that's why I don't really share my card note. Also, like I said, I want to be able to do some sinking funds. So what's left over which y'all to be honest with you, with my card note, there is nothing left over. So we need to make some more money. But if we were to do the math from the 955, 600 minus 955, we would have $354 left, which we will not. We are pretty much in the negative this week. So again, I'm self employed. So my income changes. This all can change. It may be more than 800, but I like to work with this number. This is what I'm estimating according to last week. This is not even really my busy week. So yeah, so this is what we're working with. So we got to make this work. Somebody ain't gonna get paid. Somebody just ain't gonna get paid. What I do know will get paid is my booth rent because I have to have somewhere to work. Chase more likely because I really like that card. After pay, I may just pay it late. Affirm, of course, just pay those things late. My card note, because it's due on the 15th, it may not come out to next week, which is a good thing. So we're still kind of working with this $641. So let's put down here remaining. And all I'm going to do with the remaining is take it to next week to help with my card note. $354.59. So I can't even go grocery shopping this week. I need to go grocery shopping. That's going to be another whole sinking funds. And I'm going to do a video coming up explaining my sinking funds in cash envelopes for 2024. I just want to sit with myself with those and make sure that I'm being more intentional with my envelopes because I was saying on my IG Live that I just created a bunch of envelopes and I couldn't stick with it. They were overwhelming. So I want to be more intentional in 2024 with my budget, with cash envelopes and stuffing and things like that. And I think that will help me be more consistent when you just create things just to be creating them. It's hard to be consistent because you're not really kind of married to it if that makes sense. But nonetheless, this is this week's budget. So we need to bring in some more money this week. That's just simple. That's just simple. We need to bring in some extra money. I was saying on my finance live that I'm going to go to real estate school next year. And also I want to find a job. So I have to bring in more income. So that is that. So we will see how all this pans out. Again, I'll do my best to come back next week to tell you how this worked out, prayerfully better, better than it looks. So that is that you guys. I know they're kind of quick and to the point. But I just love to share my budget. Maybe it'll resonate with someone. I know I'm not the only self-employed hair stylist out there that's trying to get their budget together. So if you have any questions, please feel free to leave them in the comment section. And also do me a favor if this is your first time here. Leave me a comment in the comment section. Let me know that this is your first time. And I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.


Murder mysteries. They are a timeless genre. They really are.  And you can also read modern murder mysteries and the formula hasn't changed that much. The general idea is there's been a murder or sometimes multiple murders and our main hero who is usually some sort of detective. They may be an amateur one. They may be professional. It may be a police procedural, something like that. But the general idea is that there's some sort of murder and then they come in and they need to investigate and follow some clues until near the end of the story. They find out who did it and usually they catch or kill them. Sometimes they get away. That is the general formula. There's some deviations from it, but the basic idea has not changed for a very very long time and frankly, I don't think it needs to change. You know, like doing original stuff is always good and all, but this is one instance where you don't need to do it. You can do the same thing over and over again as long as you do it well. And it's easy to see how this could be the case, even if you're not a fan of murder mysteries. Because the setup is just a great way to automatically introduce compelling drama right into the beginning of the story and to introduce a big question that the audience wants to know the answer to. However, the downside of this is that pretty much every writer when they're starting off thinks that they can do a murder mystery. Like a lot of people try it and even I did. When I was 15, I did write a terrible fiction press murder mystery and maybe I'll do a video on that one day. We'll see, but the point is first-time authors trying murder mysteries usually doesn't work out that well and that brings me to 14 ways to die. Now, you need a compelling mystery to make a murder mystery work well and this book just doesn't have that. You know, like I said, it is a first-time author, so just getting this published at all is a step to bigger and better things and that's great, but that doesn't mean this book is good. And I also want to mention that this was originally published in the United Kingdom under the title Are You Watching? So if anyone in the audience lives on that God-forsaken island and they hear the setup for this and think wait, that sounds like this other book. Well, that's why. Now the setup for this book is pretty good, but it's written by someone who, like I said, just doesn't seem to have much of an idea of what he's doing. And so he doesn't really know how to set it up in such a way where the main character has to be the one doing investigating and he also doesn't know how to make that investigation very compelling. And even if I really wanted to know who the killer was throughout the whole story and I wanted to see him brought to justice in some way, it just kind of falls flat.  I just I just want to throw that out there. It's like just like if I had to come up with a name for a very stereotypical English serial killer, I think I would call him something like the Magpie Man, but anyways. And since then he's also killed 12 more, so he's at 13 so far and Jess is worried that she might become the 14th by drawing attention to herself. That's like a small plot point in this book.  And it's compelling. You know, you automatically feel bad for her.  You want to see him brought to justice. You want to see him get caught. The main issue is that they don't really leave many clues at the beginning part, because that's what makes a good murder mystery is by putting out all the clues that the audience needs to put things together on their own. And even if you're not smart enough to do it, you can at least look back afterwards and go, oh yeah, I see how that connects now. Whereas this doesn't really do that, it hides most of the information from you up until when the killer is revealed. And the killer is also someone that it's pretty much impossible to see coming, because he's not introduced until very late in the book. Now in order to find the Magpie Man, Jess signs up to be a contestant on this, like, internet reality show called The Eye. And basically what The Eye is is people will watch her one day a week, and they'll see all the things she posts on her social media accounts and all the messages she sends from her phone. And there's also a camera crew that just kind of follows her in her regular day-to-day life, which, um, how exactly does this help her find the Magpie Man?  And this may have worked as a setup if, uh, this was like a cold case. You know, if her mother had been killed 10 years ago and the police searched for a little while and they just eventually gave up, shrugged their shoulders and walked away, and she wanted to draw more attention to it so that more people and resources would go back into the case and start searching again, then sure, that would make sense, but that's not it. People are actively searching for the Magpie Man.  You know, it's not like it's just this local phenomenon or anything, so people already know about this, so raising awareness or drawing attention to it isn't going to help in any way, so how exactly does this fit? It doesn't. And I will admit that didn't occur to me until I was a little ways into the book and I realized, you know, that her being on the show doesn't seem to be helping in any way. Like when I read the summary of it, I thought, okay, yeah, that seems like a good way to start off at least. And I don't know, it just, it very quickly fell apart once I realized that.  And I don't know, from this point forward, there's going to be spoilers because it's kind of difficult to talk about what makes a murder mystery good or bad without going into spoilers, so I guess I'll just do that. If you want to read 14 Ways to Die, I mean, I wouldn't recommend it, but I mean, I've certainly read worse. It's just a very clumsy murder mystery. So if you want spoilers, then goodbye, I guess. Now, like I said, this book starts pretty good. It's like a description of her mom's murder and how her life has fallen apart in the past 10 years and how badly she wants the Magpie Man to be brought to justice and yada, yada, yada. She talks to the audience about it and you feel like no one wants to help her with this and so that's why she eventually got desperate enough to sign up for the show.  And for a little while, we get into the routine of her being on the show and talking about herself and we hear a little bit about the other contestants on there, but they're not important. And later, she meets another boy who was the son of another victim of the Magpie Man and you think, okay, is she going to like run into him and they're going to talk and he's going to provide her with some crucial clue that she can use to start her own investigation and follow the trail until she eventually catches the Magpie Man and no, not really. He's just another character who shows up and I mean, he's not like a bad character or anything. Like just like with Jess, he is kind of compelling in how much suffering he's undergone and how much he wants to catch this killer, but he doesn't really add anything to the mystery aspect. In fact, the angle of the eye and this whole internet reality show is dropped pretty quickly or at least it fades into the background pretty quickly and it winds up not being much of anything other than like a way to get the plot started. It's just a plot device, I guess you'd call it. Like there's a reason most murder mysteries start with the murder and they don't start 10 years later. Like I'm not saying you can't do this or that it couldn't be done. I'm just saying that when you do it this way and then you abandon the whole thing that made the murder mystery kind of different and a little bit compelling, then you've lost out on a lot of what made people pick up your book in the first place. Then there's a couple of really bad bait and switches where you think, oh, okay, this might be the killer. We might be able to catch him.  Like first she starts getting some text messages on her phone from someone claiming to be the Magpie Man and at first she doesn't tell anyone about this, which is really, really goddamn dumb. Like she thinks that they are the Magpie Man. It's not like she thinks it's a prank or something, but even if she did think it was a prank, she should probably tell somebody, but she just leaves it alone for a day or two and then eventually she decides, okay, I will tell people and then she goes home and like the police are already there and they already know about this somehow and the text messages don't really lead anywhere because not long after that a brick goes through her window and it has a note attached to it, which also claims to be from the Magpie Man and so there's a subplot about that and for a while they chased down who did it and it turns out it was her cameraman. Like the guy with the camera who followed her around filming her for the eye was the one who both sent the messages in and put a brick through her window because he thought it would be compelling drama or something and that's why would you do that man? Like that is extremely illegal and honestly I could see that happening if it was like the producer who did it because in this book the producer and the cameraman are the two who follow her around basically and the producer seems like an okay guy but you would expect him to be the one to do this shit because well producers are the ones who produce it they're the ones that try to get it out there and make it compelling and make it fun or whatever but you would expect him to do that and not the cameraman but whatever that's just a very small nitpick at the end of the day the main issue is that this whole subplot leads nowhere and doesn't help anyone find the Magpie Man. Then there's a whole arc about how one of her friends drinks too much and gets alcohol poisoning and almost dies and she lives but she almost dies and that's like a big thing I guess I care so much about her friend. I totally remember what her name is. Now close to the end of the book the story finally starts moving a little bit further when we feel like okay we're getting clues which will actually help with this investigation and what happens is while Jess is at school a bunch of new clippings from newspapers and magazines about her mom's murder uh suddenly appear in her backpack and it looks like her teacher may have put them there and so she discusses it with her friends a little and she thinks about it and she realizes I think he's the killer I think he's doing this to taunt me which is not a crazy conclusion to come to however it turns out he is not the killer what what happened was he he saw that this was affecting Jess and he felt really bad for her and he wanted to try and help with this so he put all the newspaper clippings in her backpack to remind her or communicate with her about it because he's too awkward to just say anything bro what the fuck why do you think that's something she would want to be reminded of like hey remember a couple years ago when your mother was brutally murdered right outside your house you want to be reminded of that what the fuck dude that's that's like one of the weirdest red herrings I've ever come across in a murder mystery and there's a ton of red herrings in murder mysteries and then suddenly we realize that we need to have a climax so it turns out one of her friends the one who got alcohol poisoning her dad is the killer he's the magpie man and right when Jess realizes that she's trapped in his house and he kidnaps her and he's takes her to a graveyard where her mom is buried and he's gonna kill her and at this stage if you wanted to at least have a thrilling climax you could do something where Jess manages to formulate a plan and escape on her own or escape with her friend because one of her friends is also there with her but that doesn't happen they just manage to call for help and then Jess's dad arrives and he beats up the magpie man and I'll admit I did like that brief moment because you can tell it's very cathartic for her dad and it's like even though he's not a major character this is the end to his character arc like he finally found the man who killed his wife and ruined him and his daughter's life and he's able to punish him he doesn't kill him but he does beat him up pretty bad and then they send him to jail and then he gets put on trial and okay like I liked that little bit of it but honestly Jess being completely dependent on having to be rescued by someone else makes her seem like a useless damsel in distress now this could maybe have worked if Jess had actually been like a really smart detective who had gone through all this investigation and found all these clues and put everything together on her own that and then she has to be rescued at the end I think that could work because she's still a competent story or competent character for like 80 to 90 percent of the story but we don't have that it's just Jess stumbling into the identity of the killer and then getting herself in trouble and then having to be rescued so it makes her seem like a shitty protagonist and that's really all I have to say like yeah there's certainly more details but a huge chunk of this book is like interpersonal drama as opposed to you know trying to go after the murderer which is what we came here for in the beginning like I honestly just don't have a lot else to say my main problem with this and probably bigger problem than everything else is that it's written like a James Patterson novel in that each chapter is like a paragraph long like you you look and see here that's an entire chapter right there and it's not the only one that's like that there's a whole bunch of them that are like that and I don't like when books are written that way because the thing about chapters is that they have to still have their own beginning middle and end like something has to happen in each chapter something of note has to happen in each chapter like imagine that a book is like a season of television and each chapter is an episode if there was an entire episode where nothing happened and the story didn't feel like it advanced at all then you'd be kind of annoyed right even if it was a shorter episode than normal like chapters are like that in a book and so I don't like that James Patterson style especially because a lot of the time it just winds up being I heard a noise outside I went to go look and then the next chapter I looked outside there was nothing there and closed the door and the next chapter I heard the noise again so I ran out and investigated and I found something importantly it's just annoying and it forces you to have to turn the pages more and I know that sounds like a very strange complaint but if you have less text on each page then that forces you to turn the pages more and it takes you out of it slightly you know like the more actions and the more just stuff you put between your audience and consuming the story the less they get into the story it it's kind of like how a few months ago I saw this photoshopped image it was a screenshot from Elden Ring but it was like what it would look like if it was made by Ubisoft and so the HUD just clutters the entire screen and it's just covered with all kinds of annoying shit and like if you tried to play the game like that it would be much more annoying than it is in the real game and that's just kind of what this reminds me of like you know like this is almost 400 pages it would have been like 40 shorter if they weren't wasting all this space all the time and I don't know just like constantly having to think oh okay nothing happened in this chapter let's go the next one it is annoying and that's it you know this isn't even like a horrible book that I can point to a bunch of dumb stuff and laugh at it it's just kind of dumb and nonsensical and boring and just poorly put together you know it is a it is a failure as a mystery it really is which is disappointing because it did have a very good setup but you know that just goes to show you that having a good idea for a story and actually writing a good book are two very different things and that that's about it i'll see you later goodbye huge thank to everyone watch this far thank to ten dollar and above patron people names oppo savalainen olivia reyan brother santotes buffy valentine carolina clay dan and seljevich dark king dio echo evie flax great griebo carcat kitsune el linburg liza rudakova lord tiebreaker matthew bodro microphone peep the toad return of cardamom roby reviews sad martigan sillier the vixen tesla shark vavictus and wesley and all the other names um thank two people for give patron money if you want name on list or other patron benefit consider donate if not share like video comment subscribe thank goodbye


1st Samurai was one of those games that was freaking everywhere when I was growing up. Go to Mr. Movies or Video Update to rent a game, there's 1st Samurai. Open up a gaming magazine, there's an ad for 1st Samurai. Looking for cheap used games to buy at Funko Land, there's 8 or 9 copies of 1st Samurai. It was one of those omnipresent Super Nintendo games up there with Shaq Fu and brutal paws of fury. Yet neither I or any of my friends growing up ever played this one, and I'm not sure why.  It compares pretty closely to something like Musya, or sorry, Musha for all the pedantic types out there. It has similarly styled settings, and a lot of oddball enemy designs straight out of feudal Japan. The big difference though is your character's abilities and range of motion, he's actually somewhat quick, and a sword attack is pretty satisfying to use. There's also secondary weapons you can pick up like axes, daggers, and flying stars. There's checkpoints you can warp back to. And there's these weird bell things, which I'll get to later. You can flip between these three categories at the bottom of the screen with the L and R buttons, and use the A button to activate. One thing to keep in mind here, the enemy respawn rate is insane, and the levels here are long and split up into two parts, with the boss fight at the end of each. So this is the kind of game, just like Musha, where you take a lot of damage. In this case, not because your character is too slow, but because there's tons of stuff coming at you from all directions. You have five lives and no continues, but you do have a reasonably lengthy health bar, though.  The game gives you a chance to get it back by defeating enemies with your fists, and that's a cool little feature. That brings me to the weirdest part of the game, the sound design. They got a little carried away with the sampling here, because there's some bizarre and annoying sound effects. Your character shouting, my sword is great at first. But some of the other stuff, like this hallelujah when you find food. Yeah, that gets old quickly, and definitely does not fit the rest of the game. It's especially annoying when you get to the second level, and there's no music at all, so you're just stuck with these irritating samples. Ugh. Also, the difficulty structure here in this game is a little wonky, and that may turn some people away. Ideally, you'd like a game to get tougher as you progress, but it seemed to me in this one. The difficulty just spiked randomly here and there. There are some parts that are really tough to get past.  But unfortunately, the level design and layout is hit or miss.  On the plus side, the game cleverly implements these bells you collect. Use them and they'll clear a path for you, like summoning a rainstorm to put out a fire, or simply creating more platforms to cross this waterfall. So if you hit a point in the level where you don't know what to do next, look for a bell and use it at the place you're stuck. In addition to all that, each level also has you collect five of these red flower-looking things. You gotta find all five to summon the boss to move on with the next part of the game. I should also mention the story in this one. You're some dude learning to be not just any samurai, but the very first samurai. I'm not sure what that makes you a master, but whatever. Anyway, the Demon King shows up and promptly kills your master, but before he can get after you, the Wizard Maid shows up to chase the Demon King off into the future, so you gotta learn how to travel through time to get him. Yup, it's the 90s, alright. First Samurai was actually originally developed for the Amiga before making its way to the Atari ST, DOS, Commodore 64, and finally Super Nintendo, where the port was handled by Chemco, the same company behind titles like Phalanx and Dragonview. The Amiga received a sequel titled Get This, Second Samurai. That one eventually made its way to the Sega Mega Drive. Anyway, I gotta say First Samurai is a bit of a surprise. This game can be kind of annoying, the cluttered levels can be a bit much, and the sound design really gets on your nerves after a while, but overall I had a good time playing this one. I said earlier it reminds me of Musha, but I'd definitely rather play First Samurai over that one. Don't get me wrong, it's not gonna touch some of the better SNES action platformers out there, but I'd put it along stuff like claymates, or cool spots, or even games like Joe and Mac, or PLOCK. This is a pretty good playthrough, and I liked it more than I thought I would.


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Good day Zambians, on the eve of the new year 2022 as we are crossing over from 2021. I want to urge my fellow Zambians, the youth, our mothers and fathers out there, let us reflect on the challenges which we are faced with in 2021 as we face 2022. We had tripartite elections in 2021 and the people of Zambia voted for the UPND and President Akaende Hlema to preside over their affairs of this nation. I want to urge the people of Zambia, it's not that Mr Akaende Hlema is our boss, Mr Akaende Hlema is a servant of the people of Zambia and they should treat him just like that. The promises which they made to the people of Zambia during the campaigns of 2021 prior to the 12th of August they just have to fulfill those promises without fail. There is no one who taught Mr Akaende Hlema to promise the people of Zambia the promises which he gave to us. As I read they are supposed to have three things, they are supposed to be consistent, they are supposed to have integrity and supposed to be honest to the things which we do to the people. As we face 2022 knowing now that the UPND came into government through deceit after lying to the people of Zambia. We want to urge the people of Zambia that hope is not all lost. We are here as politicians to come and restore what the UPND they have destroyed in your mind. Zambia is our country and there is no any other person who would come to this country and help us to develop this country. This country it will be developed by us Zambians. I want to encourage all Zambians stand up and be counted. Don't fear, don't fear let your voices be heard. This is your country, be part and parcel of the governance of this great country Zambia. The people of Zambia we know the challenges we are faced with today. We know that as we cross over into 2022 if we can recall very well where we are coming from. Our mothers and fathers used to prepare all of us. They used to prepare us, we go for shopping, we buy new clothes, we eat as a family. But this won't happen now because the president in state house he has no heart for the people. And I can assure you that let us organize ourselves. 2026 is not far, 2026 is near. Let us make sure that we put our hands together and face the UPND in 2026. Our job in 2026 we are not going to compete with the UPND. Our job in 2026 we are going to remove the UPND so that we can have a party. We can have a government which will be the government for the poor. The government which will preside over the affairs of this nation head on. We don't want to be governed by liars. We don't want the people of Zambia to suffer. President HLMA promised us that is going to reduce the pump fuel price. President HLMA promised us that we are going to reduce the tariffs downwards of electricity. President HLMA vowed that you won't go to the IMF. President HLMA told all of us that we are going to have free education for all. President HLMA promised the civil servants that we are going to have the salary increments. 1,500 across the board. All these things President HLMA has failed to implement. I want to assure you that all this persecution which we are seeing in our country, targeted fights, it is not necessary. We want to urge the government of HLMA as we are facing the 2022. Let us be united. Let us reconcile as politicians because we fight a common goal. Our goal is to make sure that we develop this country without leaving anyone behind.  You should never be cheated that Mr. HLMA has come to rescue this country. Mr. HLMA was there during the first privatisation of these great country's assets. And he has come again just to finish the job which they started. So don't trust President HLMA to change our well-being. I can assure my fellow youths and men and women out there that Zambia can only be developed by us Zambians. We have everything. We have nice soils, good rain pattern, we have hard-working people, we have natural resources which God has given us. And we just have to put our hands together and make sure that we develop this country Zambia. Thank you.


I'm Ann Ongstead and someone that helps me with paperwork because I'm very bad with paperwork said why do you do serigrants? And Matthew, would you stand up for me? I do it because even though I'm getting old, other people are still growing organic crops and I do it for the next generations. My name is Steve Zwinger and I'm part of the Farm Breeder Club and also an employee at the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center. Okay, so basically why did we work with buckwheat? Why do we use buckwheat? Well, it's a very important crop particularly for sustainable organic agriculture and because of some of its unique attributes, particularly how it mellows the soil, makes a nice texture to it, it releases phosphorus making our soils are loaded with phosphorus that's not available and buckwheat is one of the unique crops that is able to extract this insoluble phosphorus and make it available to the plant. So that's really a very positive aspect particularly since there are not many crops that are like that. Basically it's so competitive that it smothers weeds so it's an excellent smother crop, it grows very fast and usually weeds are never an issue with this particular crop and it protects the soil as we use it for a cover crop and other things. Especially since we can plant it in the warm part of the year and get that soil covered up and protected. So it's very important that way and also particularly from the marketing standpoint buckwheat is an important crop, the whole worldwide the acreage is small but it's still an important crop and we don't eat it as much in the United States as other countries do but we market and grow this as a human food and then also we can be growing this as a seed crop which again I think is an important aspect of this whole thing and that's partially what we're looking for in this project. And again I think there are a couple of points that I really feel are strong about buckwheat that we really need to consider particularly for the future of agriculture. There's not a lot, we're losing, I mean you can't help but notice nowadays in so many areas we're talking pollinators, you know NRCS, everybody's talking pollinators. Very important, we know that. Well I think buckwheat is one of our crops because it flowers basically thirty days after you plant it up until you freeze it, if the frost comes or you swat it. And so we have this long flower window which is an excellent habitat for our pollinators and I think that's a really important aspect and also again the cover crop use because we can plant this, get some fast growth, turn it under and possibly even seed another cover crop within that year. So I mean I think it has a lot of aspects with that in the cover crop. Probably one of the more unique aspects of buckwheat is there are very few varieties, very few breeding programs, particularly public breeding programs there are none. And we really have a lack of varieties particularly in North America and so we're really looking at varieties that came out of breeding programs in Canada that are you know thirty years old and so we have not seen any new development with varieties and stuff like that. And what we do have for newly developed varieties which there are some going on which is really a remnants of the same breeding programs, they're proprietary lines meaning the companies that you sign a contract with the market provide the seed and you have to sell all that seed back to them. So therefore access to these new varieties is limited unless you are going to form a contract with these particular companies. And so it's really hard to you know have access to new varieties again and limited varieties and so that can pose obviously a problem for farmers and agriculture. So really this is what the project is about then is to look at some new varieties of buckwheat particularly they come out of Ukraine or the Russian varieties from that breeding program and we want to look at these, the object was to look at these varieties and compare them to the characteristics of the varieties we're growing and see how they do in terms of research trials and comparing them and then increase some of the seed and hopefully make the seed available to farmers if it does, if these varieties look like they'll perform. So and one of the things that's unique about these varieties is that as we all know buckwheat as I said will flower for long periods basically they're indeterminate plants meaning they'll keep flowering until it's either the frost or you cut them. These newer buckwheat varieties that they're developing are more indeterminate meaning they will have a shorter or more concise flowering and ripening periods and we did see that that they are short you know they won't flower as a longer time period and have more uniform set. But with that goes other characteristics like they probably don't get as tall, don't produce as much leaf area and such and so there are positive and negative attributes in that and that's what we really want to look at and compare these varieties. So this was a farmer rancher grant and we had three farmers involved in this along with some researchers and and and outreach on it. So the farmers Ann Ongsiddish you met her was was the project leader on this and she's at Robinson and Rick Mitleider which is about you know 30, 40 miles away from Ann's farm and at Tappant and Wayne Mitleider we're also project partners on this as farmers. We did look at trying to get some regional you know data on this not just in North Dakota so we we combined with other researchers Carmen Fernholz at the University of Minnesota, Pat Carr at at Dickinson and we had a site at the Carrington that would be me, Steve's Winger and then also we went out to with Kevin Murphy at Washington State University who is starting some to do some breeding work in in buckwheat and quinoa and other crops and then the outreach component Teresa Podall and Frank Kutka from the Farm Breeder Club were working on the outreach portion and assisting in that so we kind of had a you know a wide array of people involved in this project. So basically it was a two-year project this was the timeline. In 2013 we received very small amounts of seed of each one of these varieties and and basically what we had to do then was increase those before we could even get to the variety trials so the first year was to increase these two varieties in isolation and then also have a field tour for awareness and spreading what we're doing so then we increased some of the seed in 2013 what happened we come down to 2014 again had a field tour we did variety trials at multiple locations everything doesn't always work out the way you want and that's what we're starting to learn which is okay so we didn't get as quite all the locations we wanted we picked up some other ones sometimes it was miscommunication in case of Carmen he was uh under the understanding that this was going to be field scale and so then when we told him no we only have a pound of seed you know it didn't work out because it does take specialized equipment to do this kind of work so we were not able to get a Minnesota site and the guy sending the seed myself missed sending seed to Pat so we lost that site but we did get um we did get Kevin had a couple sites out in Washington we had three sites planted on each one of the farms a couple sites up at Carrington and then also we did get one other Bert Johnson at down in in Fargo planted planted a trial too so we did get a you know a number of locations what we needed to do then also again was you know we did have enough seed to get into the trials but the idea was then to take the seed that we increased and go further so that we could you know get up enough seeds that a farmer could plant it with large-scale equipment and then the object would be then after we would increase that seed to distribute the seed to make it available to farmers that was what the outline of the project was okay the varieties um I don't know how many you read Russian I don't um but I really frankly these slides these two slides for me and it was pretty good and I think I really appreciate that because I don't always pronounce words right I don't even say Frank's name right sometimes but I like the way he did this then I finally can say it I used to I called it dick you'll but it's de queue all right de cool that was that was one of the varieties that's the Russian obviously but that's the one variety deviatka did I say it right all right so I guess that that kind of helps us there so those are the two variety names obviously they are Russian so here's what we did in 2000 turn 2013 the we the deviatka increase was on Ann's farm planted here we only had 600 grams a seed that's like a pound and a half so what we were able to do this is our little drill these are seven inch rows and the drill does um seven rows usually we put the winter wheat down there in the middle so we can help divide them in between the way we have to do it and so basically we planted three of these strips 100 feet long and um this was again on Ann's farm we sold we sold them on June 12th it was swathed on August 27th and then harvested on the 3rd of September from those 600 grams we got 55 pounds a seed which I thought that was pretty good the interesting thing about it is um I also had some small grain plots on the same location and we were we went down one week to combine the first set and yeah looked at the buckwheat oh it's really flowering got a ways to go went down the next week and I should have brought I don't really have a swath or I use a jerry mower to cut it which is still like a swath or so I should have couldn't believe it within one week it was done flowering it was ready to cut already and I just never saw buckwheat mature so fast like that and so then we obviously had to go home make another trip down and cut that buckwheat and uh and again so we harvested that everything really went good I mean that's a pretty that's not a very long time period and I and I said that was a lot of seed that was pretty high quality very little clean out so it was all good heavy test weight seed the dick you'll increase we did at ricks farm we had actually a thousand grams of seed there so we had a 300 foot strip again we sold them the same day we'll swath a little later not necessarily I can't make a good handle if it was because of that variety is later in maturity or not but it was a different field but this one um as Frank says I think we hit three of the seven plagues on this one um it was it was it was uh basically it was a droughty year so we had very little growth then hail came and then there wasn't a whole lot left but the plants were still growing in the grasshoppers came in so it really got hit with everything but we looked at that and just thought we had to harvest it so basically we went out and found whatever plants we could cut them took them home dried them on a tarp and then um shelled them out just to you have some seed to keep this project going so basically we we showed a thousand grams and came back with 700 so you know we don't want that to happen too often saves on the trucking but so we did didn't have a good experience with that but we did have some seed okay Kevin Murphy again what we did you know it was very small amounts we looked at as him of being part of the project in another environment we sent him like 50 grams of the seed for a backup increase and he increased those in 2013 so that he you know had a little bit more seed to plant in the plots and stuff like that so um we were kind of successful there on I don't know the exact amounts we have not got all our information from Kevin yet but that's Kevin and he is actually um he is a wheat breeder I believe we've we've had him at our conference that's right and but what he's doing is he's seeing um as he says the writing on the wall and where it's going so he started looking at other things so he's breeding like quinoa um I think spelt am buckwheat you know and so looking at other crops which is great because like I said there is not really much for breeders in this particular crop so in 2013 this was the buckwheat trial up at the Carrington Center um and and Rick here we're presenting on that and was talking about the project and Rick um is is basically telling us the importance of buckwheat in his rotation and how it works because it's an important crop for him and uh and so we did we finished that year we had we had some seed it's a new year 2014 here we're seeding um the deviatka increase down at ricks remember we had 55 pounds of seed some of it went into variety trials we saved a little bit and we put the rest in the ground here we we sowed uh just about an acre of seed down there at ricks it was this was quite late when we seeded it because it was really really dry so we waited till it finally rained and we went into his cover crop field here is what it was and it was dist and again the soils are light and sandy so it was it was uh the soil was pretty loose and essentially what happened oh there's the seed so you'll notice this isn't dark seed like the newer buckwheat varieties we have um but it does have a good test weight this was a heavy test weight seed and so that that's that uh there are little drill that were seeding there but we did have we did have a failure we didn't get any seed off this and part of it was was because again um in the systems that where rick is doing this whether it's plowing or disking in this case he dist but generally there's always a packer well we didn't have a packer so the soil was fairly loose and also we're not using a drill like a press quite like a kershman press drill which would do a better job of not getting the big um trenches when you seed so when it was loose with this single with this single um press wheel we tend to get these you know divots like you you can all the time and i know when we seeded it we had uh you know the seed was just really shallow but we had it like this and i and we stood there and and uh i said god i don't know i don't like that and rick says well it always it's okay just as long as it doesn't rain hard guess what happened that night a five inch rain and so our seed that was one inch was now four inches deep and so essentially you know that was just one of the one of the things that didn't work so we lost all that seed we had a dick you'll increase because um remember now we had very little seed of that and this was only 400 grams sewn on this and actually um i sewed this on my farm um about a 200 foot strip seeded it fairly thin um but it was really interesting you know no comparison again you're not having the varieties beside each other so it's hard to compare but i have never seen buckwheat grow so fast as that did it was flowering by july 5th which was only 28 days and when it started flowering it was up to here in 30 days but guess what happened on july 22nd after it got this tall i had a storm come through and what happened is it just took and laid it all flat so these four foot plants are three and a half foot were you know over there so there was this really wide strip and i thought oh what's gonna happen now but it did it never stood back up but what happened is is you know how on plants lodge it started going back up so it actually looked like at september 3rd well i was going to swath it on september 4th it looked like a three foot buckwheat stand there was pretty good so they curved back up in that new growth and then you know so it was like this and yeah a hail storm come through and i'll have a cover crop next year and so we lost it all and so doesn't work out all the way we want everything so but we were this year we seeded variety trials on on a few number of farms so here we're down we're seeding this is on wane's place i believe right close to ricks but we're seeding our variety trial again with our specialized drill so that we can drop the individual packets in and they seed out so they can keep switching and again we had a field tour uh standing here in front of the buckwheat trial here's one of the varieties deviatka you can see well so a better picture of it but again rick is rick is talking about the importance of buckwheat and how it works on his farm so here is the variety trial at the kerrington site this is the organic variety trial um we'll go over some data and stuff here a little bit later but i just want to show you here you can see how much earlier flowering this one is and again for all of you that if you don't know how our variety trials work and stuff like that if you'll notice these are replicates and there's a gap in there that's why we need to drill the clean out on there but it's pretty easy to see here it is on that rep there it is there there it is there there it is there kind of sticks out when you got one like that doesn't it but you'll you'll you'll notice though how much earlier flowering that one was and and that you know synchronicity of that um in particular is compared to like say springfield there which is one of the later ones in the in the one next door and we'll go over some of that here but so here's the good part the data so this is the data from the variety trial this year this is the three three different locations make up these numbers so we had a three site average this is the days to bloom so if we look at this you know manner is probably the variety most of you are all planning if you're planning buckwheat um you may be planting maybe coma or koto but you know this is probably the variety that we're planning but if you look at that look at those flower periods um deviatka you can see there is right at 30 days as compared to you know like um horizon which is latest one you know six days later you know that doesn't seem like a lot but that's pretty big on buckwheat so we can see that there it's much earlier at flowering and and making a much more uniform set but again as i as i as i told you the idea and the in the development of these varieties is to make them so that they are um faster flowering and faster seed set but also have less less leaf area and and also not as tall so you can see that shows up here this is plant hythen hinges excuse me and you can see that they're they're the shortest varieties as in comparison there um test weight is an important factor in marketing your buckwheat and if we look at again we look at these now i'll use an example here manner is the old variety that is being planted the koto and coma are some newer varieties that mendak has the rights to and developed and the unique thing about this is is what they have done in their breeding work is they they have these varieties tend to be much darker seed and have a heavier test weights and you can see that shows up there you know there's some of the best particularly komo there is the highest test weight 47 pounds um but dev devyatka there does have a fairly decent test weight we can still see even though you know we have lighter colored seed we're still getting a better test weight than the variety that we're planning so that's an important character particularly for your marketing aspect heavier test weight means a bigger growth and that's what they want when they after they dehull that another factor that hasn't been looked at it as much but one of the things that we wanted to start doing is looking at the the kernel weight because test weight and kernel weight aren't always the same if you notice if we go back the heaviest test weights komo koto aren't necessarily having the largest kernel weight tkw means thousand kernel weight so that's the weight of a thousand seeds in grams but that that's enough just another another characteristic look at to determine how how heavy the seed is here's the part we're all interested in though the yield um there are not big differences as you can see um but the devyatka was basically the second lowest yielding not much really difference than komo but you know we we didn't quite get the yield and that's a lot of it obviously to do with its maturity you know where you just can't put it on i think the um the one thing that makes me feel pretty good once i look at this again if we look at our yields i mean really this is only 20 you know this is only 25 pounds different so the scale looks like but what makes you feel good is that at least the variety we're planting is still performing to the newer developed varieties such as ac springfield and horizon are a couple of newer lines that have been developed by a company called springfield mills in canada who will be buying buckwheat from some of you now this year because he told me he is going to start contracting with organic farmers here so that would be one access to some of those newer varieties so where do we go from here um what we don't have a lot of seed i mean we still have remnant seeds that we can increase but it's like starting over part of the grant the idea was once we produce the seed the grant would buy the seed so then that could be distributed to farmers well we don't have seed to sell but we have funds left and so what we're doing is we're looking at is there a way that maybe we could take some of these funds and go to the ukraine or russia and purchase seed so that we could be where we want so that's kind of where we're at right now with looking do we want to purchase some of this seed or do we continue increasing it and get back to where we were so that's really where we're at and what we what we uh what we want to do so this is why buckwheat is important when you look at you know when you look at it what it does in a field and in that effect in terms of no weeds we're getting this crop to um to to pull up phosphorus which is probably going to be our which is our most limiting nutrient in agriculture in the world right now there's only so much phosphorus so i think that's why that crop is so important you know and there is some um there is some evidence and it's on the early stages and this is actually work that's being done in in canada with springfield mills um to where they haven't had all the funds to continue working on us but they've been working it for a while they're actually finding on some of the buckwheat lines that um buckwheat helps with uh many of our current health problems the heart and other things like diabetes and stuff thank you and so um there may be some future if some of this work can be continued to look at how it actually buckwheat may have some excellent medicinal properties to help us with with some of our or health problems but i think no matter what in particular for the organic farmer buckwheat is a very important crop but yet with the limited a number of varieties this is why it's so important to do what we're doing i really believe that and to try to um find new new new varieties that will help us and that will will have seed that's open genetics that can be sold amongst farmers instead of having proprietary lines so that's where buckwheat is kind of unique and that's why i think this project is really important so that we can see that um because again you know looking at looking at look at all those flowers you know i mean i know i know david right here po doll has told me because he plants buckwheat all the time i believe you said your beekeeper likes to come into the buckwheat fields is that correct and so i mean it's really important i mean and also too i think when the more flowering plants we have in our farms in our environment then we create the habitat for more more pollinators and other things which then will benefit all our crops so having that you know diversity out there in that flowering that's so important and that's that's ann's farm here the whitman ranch and again buckwheat very important crop for her and with that i guess we can probably take a couple questions the question was was the yielder lower was the yield lower this year because the shortened flower period because of the weather conditions right that because of the weather conditions that shortened flowering um what i i don't know the answer to that but i know when we look at that what really surprised us and i know frank said the same thing when we took that when we were at field day there when we were looking at the deviotka that day when it was flowering this is it we thought this was so great but it probably was that shortened flower period now you say it because it probably didn't have enough to keep going because it kind of stopped where the other ones were still able to to go so your point is excellent there because i don't know that one of our advantages of buckwheat is that long flowering periods so to shorten that up is that exactly what i don't know but going back to the increase the year before an ann's farm which i wish i was watching it every day which i didn't you know how that goes i totally thought well this is the best thing in the world because it was so fast and it was so easy to determine when to swap it and not have any loss you know so there may be times depending upon how the weather goes that that might be advantageous to have that short period that's the reason i asked the question because it was looking at the other results on there it tells you that agronomically there was potential to raise more so is it the shortened flowering period or is it the weather in that short right right yep i think it could be both yes david i think one of the important things to assess as we assess these varieties more is keep temperature records because you know buckwheat is very sensitive to temperature and if the temperature gets above 90 the blossoms will blast and so are the Ukrainian varieties going to be more sensitive i mean is the plant going to compensate for whether it gets too hot and the flowers blast are they going to continue to flower or is a determinant plant is that going to be more harmful to them and i and i think the bottom line on this whole thing is that's why you need to look at multiple years to ever to determine a variety so we know we aren't totally there yet yes tressa again um i remember at the field day you and i talked about the advantages and disadvantages of determinant and indeterminate for exactly the reason that i think is time the the other with that particular with those determinant variety when do we actually need to plant i agree with that i think that would be very big right there with that we'll have to close and i thank you very much