HBCU Dutchess Radio welcome back to our presidential series our distinguished guests this morning the distinguished president of the reigning HBCU of the year Benedict College and Dr. Roslyn Clark Artists who is at the center of a lot of attention these days has a tremendous political event coming up at the University coming up this weekend where a number of invited elected officials and presidential hopefuls will be there to talk about an important issue to our community's criminal justice reform among those presenters will be President Donald Trump and so Dr. Artists has so warmly agreed to talk with us this morning about the event and about some of the implications it's having and reverberations it's having throughout the HBCU community so Madam President an honor to have you on again. It's always my pleasure Jared thank you so much. So I guess we get right to the elephant in the room there's a lot of people that are upset that President Trump is going to be a part of this bipartisan criminal justice reform program which is hosted by a third party or organized by a third party has always been it's in its second iteration here in South Carolina which we know is an important early caucus state for the United States election cycle you know and Facebook has really exposed you know a lot of the the emotion and I think a lot of the differing interpretations of what it means when a president like him who's controversial in so many ways it's coming to visit but can you kind of speak to what your sense of the reaction has been and what some of the realities are and how there may be conflicts between the two. Sure happy to you know you and you indicated in your introductory comments that we're receiving a lot of attention. I prefer to describe it as being in the eye of the storm that's kind of what it feels like right now here in South Carolina as you might imagine many people particularly African-American people of color HBCU graduates not only Benedict graduates but HBCU graduates from around the country have weighed in they're reacting to false headlines like Benedict invites President Trump that obviously is not accurate the reality is that 2020 Justice Forum which is a bipartisan group of African-American leaders from around the country Democrats Republicans independent who have come together under one umbrella for the sole purpose of advocating for issues that are of importance to the African-American community and criminal justice reform is at the top of that list I am a part of 2020 and count myself among those leaders who care about these kinds of issues and recognize that we have to address them in a bipartisan fashion it really doesn't matter who is in the Oval Office we have to work through that system with where the feet of the power is and so I think people's emotional reaction to Donald Trump and the misunderstanding of how this came to be the idea that we extended a personal invitation to Donald Trump to come to an HBCU campus have caused people to be a little irrational understand that well-founded comments like those that were tweeted out earlier in the week have certainly elevated the conversation inflamed people as you might imagine this isn't the first time and unfortunately it won't be the last time our president says something incredibly controversial at this point I'm pretty certain it's purposeful right and yet we have to stay focused and very often those are diversionary strategies by people in power we know that in this White House lots of sensationalism comes out and some of that is a diversion I mean we're in the middle of an impeachment proceeding for goodness sake we're in the middle of you know a crisis in Syria so if everyone can be taken off task by the use of a horrible word lynching and not be focused on those other issues then all the better and I think we as African-American people have to cut to the chase on that we have to be clear we have to be focused we have to stay on message and we have to be committed to making sure that meaningful change continues meaningful change that impacts our communities that first step act was a big deal thousands of people are going to be released from prison that look like us and we can't be just self-satisfied with that we can't just say check done we got that done we have to keep pushing we have to keep asking the tough questions we have to keep pushing the candidates both democrat and republican on that issue and others like it and so it's unfortunate I realize it is not a popular position I realized that people are upset and yet my purpose is clear my focus is clear and I think we would all be well to really begin to step back from the person in the office and look more at the process of how laws get made and change and how we can be activists in that in that system and how we can work for positive change for people of color in this country republican democrat and independent alike let's talk about that a little bit because it this is not the first era that hbc's have been kind of at a fault line politically um this is going back generations hbc's have largely been and historically been seated in places um where there are conflicting politics with hbc graduates and and black residents and folks in power but yet as you mentioned our schools public and private still have to work with state and federal legislators for funding for advocacy and for development so where do you think that the future of helping our students our graduates our stakeholders understand that political process even though institutions and their leaders have to be apolitical do you think that there's something we can do to to connect our communities more with political realities and political processes so i think we're doing it um i dare say we're doing it here this week i hope that it's a model um i don't take any particular pride in being in the storm except that what's being lost in this conversation is the entirety of the programming this week that's happening on the campus of benefit college we had been prompt on campus friday discussing his new book open season which ought to be a bestseller um that really chronicles the inequities in the criminal justice system we have the n double acp on campus starting monday doing voter education voter registration we have the her ideas summon encouraging black women to go out and start businesses and build communities um our kids are going to have an advanced screening of just mercy uh which obviously chronicles the atrocities of our justice system so this is not just candidates parading through here and dropping sound bites on black kids this is a voter education empowerment issue oriented week of activities on the campus of benefit college and if on the other side of this storm um my kids can emerge broader better more well educated more well informed with a sense of satisfaction that they have put their imprimatur on an issue that's really important to our people we're training activists that's what black colleges do we're training the future voices that will drive these issues for our communities and so the unpopularity of donald trump notwithstanding listen nobody likes the things you know some of the policies nobody likes the things he says we understand that but we have to be discerning about separating the person from the policy and if that's a lesson that some of my students get this week we won we won and it's the beginning of an ongoing dialogue we have never been a people that have been able to be self-contained we're always in the crosshairs i'll give you a perfect example think about um any vices you know we talk we have these conversations you know we've had the issue in the media with maharie and others receiving money from you know vaping company for example um those companies make their money off black communities right cigarettes alcohol lottery they make their profit margin off communities of color black preachers made cadillac gmc ought to reinvest in the black community these companies that make their money on black people ought to give it back to some black people but people we take this righteous and Ignatian stance oh that's dirty money oh that's a republican oh that's a bad thing why shouldn't we benefit we pay taxes we live in this country we buy goods we are consumers you know we we it is it's almost self-deprecating um we take a righteous standpoint and we can't afford it we can't afford it it doesn't it's irrational and it doesn't make sense and we can't afford it as a people we have to people have to invest in us when we invest in them and we're not holding people accountable in that way are you worried and and i don't mean any disrespect but from the question but i think it's something that people are wondering you who have gotten a long-term extension for the work that you've done a bit of a hbc of the year hbc president of the year are you worried about your job because of this um so really interesting jared yesterday i had back-to-back listening sessions with every student on this campus i wanted them to hear from me why and how this is happening how they can prepare themselves what our expectations are of them for the week and to be able to ask me any questions that they might have and one of the students stood up and said how did you feel when you got the news that donald trump was coming and i said my stomach dropped and i was scared because i knew it would be unpopular i knew people would be angry i knew my alums would be angry i knew the community would be angry i knew there would be a lot of strong emotional reaction i knew there would be the miss you know misinformation floating around about how it was and he came to be on campus um and so as a human being my initial reaction was oh my god how am i going to weather this and so i was but my board has stood i kept them informed of course as this has evolved when there was the back and forth he might come he's not coming he is coming oh my god he's really coming so i kept them informed all along the way um i think every president knows right don't surprise your board and so you know i took some backlash oh she negotiated this deal in secret nope actually i didn't my cabinet and board were very well aware during this entire process that it was a possibility and when we got official word of course even when we had a hint we started informing the board in writing and verbally so the board has been incredibly supportive um they're committed to stand my board shares flying in to greet the president and my finance committee shares flying in tonight they're coming to stand with me and weather the storm we're going to take this l for our community but it's so it's so interesting that that that's your that's your gut reaction when the president however controversial you may be says he's coming and you know what your community is going to say because it was it seemed to be seemed to me that in your position if i heard bernie sanders was coming and i know that my senior senator in the state is lindsay graham then my stomach is going to drop because i'm okay so i'm going to have i'm going to have this guy in coming to south carolina for the primary thing and a guy who i know is is never going to lose his seat is running is running the show on my appropriations possibly south carolina is among the most interesting states politically socially and otherwise um obviously you know it's history right 64 percent of slaves in this country came in through south carolina we have a long and pauling history in south carolina we also happen to be the home of the majority whip right big jim clobber is my congressman right here in south carolina but i also have governor mcmaster it's a red state i got lindsay graham i got tim scott and i got jim clobber it's an interesting contrast and so you know i have steve benjamin as a mayor who was you know just the immediate past president of the national conference of the years democrat right so we have this interesting mix of leading people you reference lindsay graham and appropriations right um so i have leaders on both sides of the aisle in south carolina and yet the expectation is that because i'm black i have to be on one side of that issue and i cannot engage with the other and that does my institution a disservice what i said to my board and what i've said publicly and privately long before this came down the pike is i'm not red i'm not blue i'm purple i'm all about benedict i've got to advocate for my students at benedict college that is my job that's who i am that's what i do i will vote my personal preferences and conscience when i go to the ballot box but as for me and my role as president of benedict college i have no political affiliation i care only for benedict and the students she serves now and we know you're running the convocation and again we appreciate the time that you can afford us and then the last question and we'll get you on when this is over what do you think is going to be the benefit for benedict and for you personally and your brand as a distinguished president so again i harken back to my students because they're kind of the point of it all um question i got from the student is this going to put us on the map doc i mean having trump here plus ten leading democrats i mean that keeps getting lost in the conversation biden warren harris and you name it they're all going to be here so um the student says is this going to put us on the map i said son we are the hbcu of the year we are the hbcu that put the bc in hbcu we were on the map long before trump took the white house however however the eyes of the world will be on this campus and so our students are deciding how they'll wrestle with that some students want to listen some students want to volunteer some students are leaving the campus some students will protest um and they are free to express themselves in the ways that they see fit um my concern is only for their safety and for how we um present ourselves to the world people expect there to be a problem people want to see a uva and what i've said to my kids is that's not who we are we are the best of bc we are bigger than this this is a moment in time when the world is watching benedict college let's show them who we are let's be intelligent let's be disciplined let's be clear uh they will not see angry mobs of benedict students if you see that on the news you best believe those are not benedict students out there those are kids that come from usc and other places we've seen this happen before i mean we've seen this happen before look at billard we saw it happen at billard where david do those are not billard students yeah those were not billard students people will come from other places and seek to create a ruckus my kids are prepared my kids will be the ones with the our voice our vote shirts on the discipline kids who are um advocating who may protest but will do so with a sense of decorum and pride in who they are the people because they genuinely feel in their heart this person is not for me and so you know i hope that the aftermath is that people who didn't know benedict before know benedict and they know us in a good light they know us for being um open-minded they know us for being um willing to participate in the process that seeks to uh that is supposed to serve us but has not always served us well candidates in the future need to know benedict votes benedict students are engaged connected intelligent and prepared and they're going to have to be accountable to benedict college students and graduates and generations that will come out of this institution


Britain's nightclubs might not be opening for another five weeks but with a heatwave finally hitting our shores people are still finding an excuse to get pretty wild. This video was shot on the weekend in south end. On one level I mean obviously I actually I don't think anyone to get seriously hurt but you know it's not it's not nice to see people have a big brawl and a big fight on the beach. At the same time I think I've been so starved of social interaction over the past you know 12 months or whatever that I'm like wow like a big kind of social event even if it's a weird one where everyone's throwing deck chairs it's like kind of like I kind of want to be there you know I don't want to get hit by the chair. Well I just haven't witnessed you know that kind of chaos that you get when when lots of people are massing the same place especially in a heatwave in Britain by the way I do not endorse that I feel like I sound like I endorse having massive deck chair fights at the beach. What was your response to that does that make you want to get involved. I miss brawling as much as anyone. I've been trying to fight my pharmacist just to feel something the last few weeks but nothing. What did actually happen to my mom once is that she was this one she was in her 20s and she was on a beach in Greece and there was a brawl on the beach and my mom's nosy like me so she went up to like get a better look at the brawl and a beer bottle went flying and smacked her in the gob and she had to get like her bridge replaced. You know like in her teeth. So there's a danger in getting too close to the brawl Michael I warn you about that.  But when you see videos like this which predominantly involve white people outside of London there was another video which went quite viral recently of a fight taking place in a pub beer garden and one guy ripped off another guy's ear. But it just doesn't get that same response and it's not seen as an indictment of you know the kind of decadent and yet depraved city where you've got all the ethnic minorities running wild under the dominion of their Lord and King Sadiq Khan. So when it's not racialized in the same way it's sort of seen as like our you know lads or louts taking it too far. But it's not kind of pathologized in the same way as these other videos. Yeah. Yeah. And it always says you know London 2021. And then it's just that caption says you read into this what you want but I'm sharing some pictures of some Asian people fighting. Yeah. 2021 you're right no one does that with this.


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Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Peter Ballerstead, and I'm a forage agronomist. I'm a supporter of forage agriculture in general, and grass-based animal production systems in particular. I promote the information and technology that will improve our utilization of these resources, and I promote the role of animal products in the human diet. I want to be sure. Oh, thank you. I want to be sure everybody understands that before I get too much further, OK? I am concerned about some of the things I hear folks say about grass-fed meat. Conventional wisdom can be defined as ideas or expectations that are generally accepted as true by the public or by experts in a field. Such ideas or explanations, though widely held, are unexamined. And unqualified societal discourse preserves the status quo. I, like most of us, have had my own experience of reexamining the conventional wisdom on nutrition and health. I've come to see how far-reaching the low-fat diet is the healthy diet paradigm has become. In fact, some of the issues I'll examine today are, at least in part, fostered by that attitude. But I'm afraid we've created a new set of ideas or explanations that, though widely held, are unexamined. I hope that my presentation will spark an examination of some of these ideas and explanations. My sincere hope is that in doing so, we can find progress. Unfortunately, sustainability is not a transparent nor an objective term. It can mean different things and is often defined in ways that suits the author's purposes. The roots of vegetarianism are thoroughly intertwined with those of the organic and sustainable agricultural movements, as well as the old conventional wisdom. I remember a conversation with a leader in the organic industry in the early 90s. This person was prominent in the push for USDA organic labeling and certification, as well as the promotion of sustainable ag programs and the funding for them. We were having a conversation about grass-based animal production. I was told that animals have no place in sustainable agriculture. This position itself is factually unsustainable. Thank you. My key points today, whoops, yeah, there we are, are that grass-based agriculture, that is the conversion of forages into high-quality animal protein and animal fat is the only truly sustainable form of agriculture we can ever hope to have. Anything else is going to mark a compromise from that, legitimate as that might be. And that many of the commonly expressed concerns about today's meat supplies are not supported by the evidence. Now, positive change can only occur if we have an accurate appraisal of where, in fact, we are. First, I'd like to offer some background information. Forages are herbaceous plants or plant parts fed to domestic animals. They are not roughage, which is the less digestible plant material, think wheat straw. They can be native or non-native species. Grasslands have been critical to the story of humanity, as we heard in the very first talk this morning. They are the largest and arguably most important ecosystem in the world. 26% to 40% of the Earth's land surface, depending on how you want to define it, are occupied in grassland, or that's their classification, ecologically. While a significant portion of these lands are, in fact, incapable of producing crops directly utilizable by humans, 70% of the world's agricultural area, in fact, falls within the biome known as grassland. Plants store the carbon they fix in photosynthesis, primarily as cellulose and starch. These compounds are both polysaccharides made up of thousands of glucose molecules, both bonded at the same position, but differing in their structure. When alpha-D glucose units are linked 1,4, it produces starch, a substance that we can obviously utilize. When beta-D glucose units are linked 1,4, it produces cellulose, the most abundant form of carbon in the biosphere, but a form that is not utilizable by most vertebrates. The primary conversion of this stored solar energy into a utilizable form is accomplished by a number of microorganisms that alone produce cellulase, the enzyme necessary to cleave the beta-1,4 bonds. Ruminants are a critical group of primary consumers within grassland ecosystems. There are about 150 species of ruminants, both domestic and wild species. And most of these animals, with the exception perhaps of these last four, have been managed by human beings to one extent or another throughout our history. Approximately a third of the global meat supply comes from ruminants. These animals also supply work in the way of draft animals, fiber, milk, meat, and hides. They possess the specialized anatomy that facilitates pre-gastric microbial fermentation. What that means is that these animals can ingest a low-fat diet, and yet end up digesting a high-fat diet. The typical diet of an animal grazing grass is about less than 5% crude fat. The typical cow, once she gets done absorbing the volatile fatty acids that are the principal component of microbial fermentation, 60% to 70% of her energy needs are coming from those volatile fatty acids. So she's digesting a high-fat diet. What we're in fact doing is we're feeding the microbes, which then feed the cow. There is phenomenal production potential from grass. When I talk to my friends that I grew up with in Philadelphia, I need to make sure that they know I'm talking about this kind of grass. Yeah, I got a master's in weed science and a doctorate in grass. God bless America. 14 pounds of dry matter from a perennial ryegrass white clover pasture can be converted into a pound of carcass weight. Seven pounds of that same dry matter can produce a pound of milk fat. Under ideal conditions, we can produce upwards of 25,000 pounds of dry matter per acre per year from a perennial ryegrass white clover pasture. Unfortunately, we can't do it consistently throughout the year. Unfortunately, the animals feed requirements are not consistent through the year. That's where the management comes in. This is the potential. The energy equivalent of this kind of dry matter is equivalent to what traditional nutrition calls concentrates. It is equivalent, essentially, to barley. There was more there. OK, so that's what I just said. But the systems required to achieve this kind of production are not low input, particularly when we include the renewable inputs of knowledge and management. We can't just put a fence around a field, throw some animals out there, and have the whole thing work. It's not natural. But high levels of production per acre, most importantly at low cost of production, are being achieved throughout the world. And current record high grain prices will be an incentive to wider adoption. Agronomy is the application of soil and plant sciences to crop production. So with that as background and with a sincere desire not to fool myself or anyone else, I'd like to look at four areas and ideas and explanations that are frequently mentioned within our primal, paleo community. The four that I'm going to look at are environmental, management, nutrition, and health. First to environmental. It's a point missed frequently, but any carbon a cow emits, we'll use the euphemism, because this isn't an ag audience, so I got to clean it up, must come from the food that she eats, OK? Any carbon in the grass a cow eats must come from the atmosphere because plants don't take it up through their roots, OK? So we're talking at least about a cycle. But to what degree does it cycle? Well, this is pretty standard information. The carbon to nitrogen ratio of this kind of dry matter is 17, 3.4% nitrogen. That means 57.8% carbon in the dry matter. 3% body weight intake on a daily basis of dry matter for 1,000-pound cow, that's 30 pounds of dry matter. In order for her to get that, we assume a 70% utilization. That means I have to offer her 42.8 pounds in order for her to eat 30. We'll assume equal above and below ground dry matter distribution. That means the aerial portion of the plant dry matter essentially equals the root portion, OK? And 90% of the carbon that she consumes, she's going to emit. That's a flexible number. We can change that. Given that, the end result is that for every pound of carbon emitted, 3.2 pounds of carbon are fixed, either in roots or in plant debris above the surface or in the cow herself or in her calf if she's suckling a calf. So every time that circle turns, 3.2 pounds of carbon leave it. Hardly sounds like an enrichment to me, yet people lose that point. They only look at what's emitted when they talk about this. So we can look at that accumulation right there. Get a sense of what we think about that kind of idea. Cattle or carbon negative. How about forages versus grain? Well, in the United States, most of the feed that's consumed by the livestock in the United States is already forage. 2 thirds of the feed that goes to feeding the nation's livestock herd, all classes listed here, is forage. Cattle, on the other hand, 83% of the feed units that go into feeding the nation's cow herd, beef cow, is forage. And that's primarily because, yes, when animals go on to feed, they eat a higher concentrate diet, but they're only on feed for about four months. The rest of the time, they're on grass, as are the cows and the bulls and the heifers. In fact, of all the feed, all the concentrate fed to livestock in the United States, less than 26% goes into feeding beef. If you believe that the human diet ought to be based on animal products and not cereal products, then our health is already grass-based. Could we get better? Sure. But this is where we're starting from. Work with me. Thank you. All right. The literature on grass-fed meat is extremely problematic. Basically, it started at the height of the fat is bad. And so you'll find them saying, it's lower in fat. It's lower in saturated fat. It's lower in cholesterol, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Maybe that's true, and I'm not saying they're lying. But that's completely immaterial to me. You've heard the story of the ad, really, of the ad. Never mind. OK, so if we look at this, what we see is that the ratios measured in these eight studies for omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids for grass-fed versus grain fed are nowhere near the range that people commonly refer to them as. The range here goes from 1.4 to 3.7 to 1 for grass-fed, 3 to 13.6 to 1 for the grain fed. So they're tremendously variable, and the difference is not as great as is commonly reported. How important is that difference? I don't think we honestly know. It is, however, possible, as reported in this study, to feed a significant amount of grain to animals on pasture and not produce a high omega-6 to omega-3 ratio in the meat. 3.77 to 1 occurred when they were feeding 1% of live weight in corn, in addition to them grazing pasture, and 3% of live weight could represent a third of the typical feedlot total mixed ration. So that concentrate and forage mixed together, that 1% of just grain would represent a third of the amount that they would typically eat. If we look at the ratios, however, and focus on that, we avoid or ignore what's actually there in terms of amounts. So if we look at beef, conventional beef at the top, and compare it to grass-fed beef on the second line, the question is, how important is 180 milligrams more omega-6 per 4-ounce raw portion than the grass-fed? Or how important is the 32 milligrams less omega-3 per 4-ounce portion in the grass-fed than the grain-fed? I don't think we know. One thing we do know, however, is we're going to lose a significant amount of both of them when we cook it. And unfortunately, that's not a symmetrical loss. We lose less than a third of the omega-6 is lost in cooking when 70-some percent of the omega-3 is. How important is that? I don't know. Look at the low ratio for walnuts. If you just looked at that ratio, you'd ignore the fact that you're getting over 10,000, almost 11,000 milligrams of omega-6 per ounce. So if you're spending extra for your grass-fed meat because you want to avoid the omega-6, don't be eating walnuts. Or any of these other top seven items. Is that important? I don't know, but that's the reality. So moving right along, considering the topic of the use of hormones in beef production, it is important to understand just how much we human beings normally produce and then how much is actually contained in the meat. So when we look at a 3-ounce steak from an animal that was not treated with exogenous hormones, we have 1.3 nanograms per 3-ounce portion. Compare that to 1.9 nanograms from one that had been implanted. Is that significant? I don't know. But if you're worried about this kind of difference, then what you ought to also know is there's lots of sources for estrogen. So you would have to eat 22 pounds of implanted beef to provide the estrogen provided by 3 ounces of cabbage. Or 29 pounds to equal the estrogen that would be contained in 3 ounces of chicken eggs. Is that a problem? I don't think so. But if you're not worried about this, then don't be worried about the beef. Or if you're going to be worried about the beef, then be worried about this more because this is far greater. And then don't eat soy beans at all. Don't come talking to me about implanted beef if you're eating soy. Just let's part on friendly terms. So there's several other topics that we could talk about. Time does not permit. They are all problematic when you start digging into the actual literature. And I'd be happy to talk about these. None of these stand up. Now, Justus von Liebig has given credit for it. But actually, Carl Spengel actually developed the principle of the law of the minimum. There's a lesson there for all of us. Liebig took it and used an analogy of a plant of a rain barrel. So simply stated, plant growth will be limited by some factor. And so long as that factor is not adequate, increasing inputs of other factors will not produce an economic return. Liebig used the analogy of a wooden rain barrel with staves of different length, with the shortest stave setting the volume of the barrel representing the yield of the crop. In this case, phosphorus here is the short stave in the barrel. That's what's limiting yield. If that stave is increased sufficiently, it will no longer be limiting because another stave has become limiting, in this case, nitrogen. I suggest that we apply this concept to health where the shortest stave would represent the greatest insult to health. So here's the application. Situation one, we take someone eating the standard American diet. We replace the beef that they're eating equal amounts with grass-fed or organic or natural beef. What impact should we expect to see in their health? I don't believe we have a right to expect to see any impact on their health, if that's the only change that we make. Situation two, we take someone eating the sad. We replace the majority of their carbohydrate calories with calories from commercially produced animal products. What impact should we expect to see? And I would suggest that we have ample evidence that we will see a dramatic impact. Now at some point, might some other factors come into play? Absolutely. That's what the barrel's about. But let's address the short stave first. And if we're talking about population-wide recommendations, then what right do we have to tell somebody who can hardly afford to eat the way they're eating now that they must spend more for a product that we have no data to suggest will have a significant impact on their health? There's lots of reasons to eat grass-fed beef. I got a freezer full of it at home. But the data that I just reviewed suggests that ain't it. Perhaps the problem is not the grain-fed cattle, it's the grain-fed people. So what are the other problems with grain-fed beef? Why do you choose grass-fed beef, especially from an environmental standpoint? You didn't talk about reactant nitrogen or anything. Well, when beef is on sale at Safeway, we buy Safeway beef. The environmental impacts, again, we have to be careful with just exactly what impacts we're looking at. So I'm convinced that we could do a far better job than what we're doing now. But I'm also convinced that we're doing a pretty good job now, given what we're doing. One thought experiment is to say that we have somehow managed to maintain beef production in this country on an ever-decreasing beef herd. We're producing the same amount of beef on fewer and fewer animals. Fewer animals means less environmental impact. So if we're going to go to a system that means we have to have more animals to produce the same amount, we're going to increase the environmental impact by doing that. And I don't know exactly how to attribute that. Clearly, forage-based agriculture provides a number of benefits over the row crop commodity grain production. And that was a slide I took out in the interest of time. And those are long-standing and well understood, and I could list them. So any system that gets us more toward a forage base, even on our cultivated land, is going to be beneficial in terms of soil erosion and water quality, both surface and ground. It's interesting right now, one of the big things in the corn and soybean industry is the use of cover crops. They're sort of coming back and rediscovering some of the attributes of forages that they forgot a few years ago. And so the capture of nutrients from that crop and the incorporation of organic matter into the soil, the improvement of soil structure, the preventing soil erosion, all those are benefits. Are you familiar with mob grazing? Yes. Fan of it? Yes. It's not the only tool, but it is a tool that some use. Could you give a brief, brief synopsis of that for everybody? OK. The question, and we might want to tip that microphone because I don't know how. The question was about a technique called mob grazing. And mob grazing is the idea that we're going to decrease or increase the stocking rate on a particular piece of ground by use of temporary fencing. And so we're going to try to get this piece of ground grazed off in a relatively short period of time. The amount of time varies based on a number of factors. That is one very effective tool at increasing the utilization and increasing the evenness of utilization, the evenness of dung and urine deposition onto the field, et cetera. Yeah. I've been told that it's almost like paleo grass fed for the animal because it's supposed to more simulate when they were in herds of much larger sizes than these. Yeah, I would agree with that. That's a cool idea. So when I found that out, we have the industrial meat and then we have grass fed meat. And then there's very few people. I mean, it seems to me there are very few people even growing doing grass fed meat in a very ideal fashion. But I have a bit of an ag background. And when I go to see the extension agents talk and whatnot, they've got the farmers reseeding their fields in a very suspicious way as if they've been educated by the seed producers and whatnot. And there are ways to do grass fed without and to get off seeding as well, right? Well, I work for a seed company. Ah, OK. Don't hate me for it. Final question. Offline, thanks. Yeah, we're fine behind. So we're going to have to wrap this up. Thank our speaker. Thank you.


Alright folks, so what I'm about to show you guys and it's just gonna have some smooth music playing in the background is a whole ton a buttload of screenshots of Super Mario Odyssey and I'm warning you right now that this is spoiler heavy now It's not spoiler heavy in that. Oh my god. The whole game is spoiled It's got spoilers for the Cascade Kingdom and the beginning of the game What happened is someone got a download code of Super Mario Odyssey I'm assuming from another media member since copies are only available to media members and this random fan who isn't a media member got a Hold of a download code and has downloaded the game so it's it's a legit copy of the game and They decided to leak a bunch of stuff on 4chan now since This leak happened earlier today. The 4chan thread itself has been shut down So there's not there shouldn't be too many more leaks coming I don't know if the moderators at 4chan took care of it or what exactly is going on But without further ado If you don't care about spoilers about the beginning of the game the tutorial stage of the game and the story set up Enjoy, I'm not going to go into any explanation of what the screenshots are So if you're like, oh, what is this? What is that feel free to speculate down in the comments below I'll also have a link in the description to the original 4chan thread If you would like to go get some more context as some of the screenshots He does add like this menu is this or this menu is that Anyways folks enjoy for those of you that don't mind spoilers


We had this eG 1020 and let's see what we can improve. So we had those early coordinates. This is what we've got so far. These coordinates are super weird. I don't know why. I think we have these different coordinates from bad. I'll just, I'll just refer to all of them as bots as a full disclaimer using all three. So gpt-button, github, cobalt. So you can see those, these locations are a bit odd. That's not normally how it should look like. I'm just curious where the bot got them from. I don't know if this will generate an image, probably not. It's not there yet. This looks legit. It generates a variable. So you don't understand what the variable of this location is. No, no. Well, we do understand the context of the eG electro locations. So this is what we have in the mod. Obviously the head needs some fixing, not a great head. The ears are not attached to the head, but you get the point. Now, more importantly, I think this, the head should look round and the electro location should fit on top of it. So we have some other locations, so they're obviously from z-minus. No, are they minus one to one or some weird numbers? So we have the names and what else do we need? Yeah, so hopefully we can avoid scaling and we want to plot on a 2D plane. We can have it up to a color function to plot the electro positions. In the 2D plane, we're still thinking we can only have the one option, position, position, position, position and text small. We actually need to use the function plot show, should be it. Are you supposed to solve errors? A much bigger error. It's a dictionary value. Where am I using index? So I need to convert it to their dictionary values. What if I pop it in here? comment this out, just do anything. Yeah, probably not using co-pilot properly. Speedplot, text, position. Okay, we get that, which is not great. What is this? Coordinates are from minus one. Yeah, we have some minus point two in there. There should be one deep line, not two deep line here. Here I can ignore the labels for now. Why? What is this? I'm not worried.  Why? So the plot is from 0 to 1, both on X and Y. The values are not. Okay, we need to scale first. You can get rid of that for now. Scale is wrong. Proportion, what? Why? A control plot and electro does a circle that looks more like it. They make the OO bit in the plot scaled. This number is wrong. It means max 0 to 1.3. Is it? Okay, so Y, X is going from 0 to 1.3. Y is going from minus 0.4 to 0.2. And so over here, a fit within plot electro location. Make sure the chart should be loaded. What's this number? Right, this number is too large. Right, 0.5. Yes, locations are super weird. Let's see if it updates that. Also, let's get a GPT to generate the same thing or some bad takes forever. Where are they? Look, no, it's not helpful. Obviously, this number should not be a magic number. It should be a circle, a circle size if it's not 0.5. Square root size is proportional to distance from the origin. Why? No, I don't want the size proportion. I want the size to be the same everywhere. Size is proportional to all plot size. Is it based on? No, it's wrong. It actually doesn't look too bad. FP1, F7, F8, or 1 or 2 should in theory be the ease. Anyway, the ones we currently have are totally out of reality. 0.9 should be X, mid and X max. It wasn't outside. The plot area getting error is because the dictionary does not have an index method. Well, that's what the error says. You can connect the dictionary to least using this function and then use the index. The problem is with electrode names get to least. Yeah, it's still having the same error. Why? So we are conveying to this to get the names over the electrodes. Okay, let's get rid of it for a sec just to see if it's just working, but shall we pop it into GPT? What do you say? Used to change GPT so much that now I don't know how to use a co-pilot. Minus 1, values as 0. So it's adding an extra 1. This must be wrong, because the actual values go to... Yeah, this is wrong. So max values of inch electrode locations. This range, there's some problem. X range and these numbers are okay. And let's call this extra 1, make it 2 for a sec. Right now it fits. What's up with those locations? There's only half of them. Something wrong. Okay, those locations are wrong. The interesting thing is that these coordinates are almost correct. I mean, FP1 and FP2 are skewed to the right, but overall, it's pretty close. T5. Yeah, there's a bit of issue with proportions. Cation coordinates on a 2D circle representing a top view of a human head. Pretty sure, don't have to spell anything correctly. The 5th position of key. It's doing some calculations by and it's an interesting one in modern FP2 tried out in one F7, should be F8. I don't know what it is, but it's way off way off. Electrolocation coordinates on to include all electrodes FP1 and FP2 would be on top of the, well, not should be an image, but you know what better way to call it. It's actually nice because it's the coordinates here. I am in the same position. The arrays called EG Electrolocation. It's meant to be the radius, isn't it? This is better. Now it's okay to bring them out, but we really need to plot them. This looks more like it, but not really. Why not just get them the first time around in a correct way? Why did we need to calculate extra coordinates? Why this couldn't be the locations? It's something that the circle that has a problem coordinates to this circle, Cation coordinates on a 2D representation, 2D top view model of a human head with all electrodes. Why didn't it ignore? Yeah, not sure. Why is it not doing it properly? From memory that was wrong as well. It's getting the same thing. Why do I have a feeling this something GPT-4 would be able to solve?


Glyn, newport up at the weekend, are we looking forward to that? Yeah no, we're all looking forward to it as a group. We all know what you go there and do. It's not going to be an easy game, but it's time for us to really start picking up a bit of form and getting consistent wins and then hopefully it will roll on from there. Obviously being in a few weeks now, signed just on just before the transfer deadline, I think I'll view it adjusted to life so far. Enjoying it here? Yeah no, I've been really enjoying it. It's been good to be backing around the first team environment with games at the weekend and yeah like I said we just need to sort of push on and see how the next few weeks go. And your debut for the club as well on Saturday at Cambridge maybe could have gone a bit better with the result and things like that, but you enjoy being out there in a Brafford City shirt for the first time? Yeah I love that just being back out on a pitch, but at the same time the result isn't good enough and as I say we need to start picking results that weekend, week out now and getting a bit of momentum going. And I suppose on a personal note it's a good opportunity now for you to kick on really obviously an appearance potentially this weekend and then you've still got your home debut to make as well in front of the crowd that you've till at Rangier Stadium and presuming you've seen what it was like for Stuart's first game and everything like that. I suppose it's something you're looking forward to. No I'm yeah, I saw straight away what the fans were like, obviously playing at Ibrokes that the fans expect a lot and it seems to be the same here. You wouldn't get 20,000 fans turning off if it wasn't going to be like that. So the expectations are and it's up to me and like the other boys as I say to get things going. I think then experiences at Rangiers then will help you obviously quite a bit of success last season in the squad and things like that in front of like you say it, a lot of supporters coming here at a club like this. Do you think that's going to help you moving forward playing in front of crowds like that? Yeah definitely. I think every player sort of throws off that.  It adds to the occasion sort of thing. See I'm really looking forward to getting out there and hopefully putting on good performances. And you were signed by one manager and then you come to the club and you're playing under a different manager. Stuart McCall is obviously an ex-ranger's manager himself. How much have you got on with him? I suppose how have you enjoyed working with him so far? Yeah, as I said before it's been really good so far. I think he's slowly over the last few weeks getting his message across to all the boys and how his style he wants us to play and how he wants us to be brave in the ball and sort of take the game by command sort of thing and impose ourselves on it. See hopefully on Saturday we continue to do that. And for the supporters who didn't catch you at the Cambridge game, what can they expect to see from you? What kind of a player would you clash yourself as you're obviously a left-sided sort of wing player? Do you think you're kind of the exciting kind of player that the supporters want to see here? Yeah, definitely. I think maybe old-fashioned in ways. I like staying out where he's getting the ball and running at my man 1v1. I'll always try and be as direct as I can and create chances for teammates but also try and chip in a few goals every now and then as well. And what can we expect from Newport? They started the season quite well. I don't suppose you'll have taken much attention to it while at Rangers but they've slipped off in recent times but still have quite a few games in hand I think we're expecting a difficult game against them. Yeah, I think we all know no game in this league is going to be easy at all. Every team is going to come at us with different sort of, they're different strengths and we've got to impose ourselves in the game. It's not going to be easy going into Saturday but I think if we in the first 15-20 minutes ride the sort of battle that it would be and then play our football, I think it would be fine. Training hasn't been easy, I don't suppose, over the past few weeks with the weather and whatnot we've been training different locations on different pitches and things like that. Has it been difficult to adjust?  At times, yeah, but I think you can only make use of what you can do. You need to sort of always lose off at times and just get on and do the work and then on Saturday it's about doing the same and getting the results that matter. Having seen what we've seen both in training and in the games as well as the confidence, obviously took the lead and led for quite a long time at Cambridge on Saturday as the confidence ahead of the Newport game based on that, that we can go down there and get a result? Yeah, definitely. I think everyone knows what's at stake. Everyone needs a win and then from there we go on from that. And as I say, the manager slowly getting his points across and the confidence is building in the squad. And then, yeah, it's just about taking that into the games.


Be gentle with yourself. We can't hear that too often because it's a deep, deep journey into the mind. There's lots of ego resistance that's going to pop up when you really go for the target of joy and happiness and enlightenment. So we have a beautiful group of days to really dive into that experience for ourselves. It's the prayer of my heart that anything that you truly desire, the answer for, the insights, the awarenesses will come into your awareness. And the sooner the better. Delay is unknown in eternity, but tragic in time. So it's always my motto, let's not delay this. Let's really go for this. That's what we're here for. That's what the best use of time is for this. I recognize some faces from last year and some new faces here. Some people here that have been doing intensive here for the last five or six days. How many people are not familiar with my teachings? Is this a first experience for you? Okay, I've got a few. That's good. And those of you I'm sure are familiar with Gareth's teachings. That's one of the reasons that you're here too. I'll just say a little note about that at the beginning. Back several years ago when The Disappearance of the Universe was published and Your Immortal Reality was published, I was doing my travels around the world and teachings and people started asking me about those books. And I'd already reached a state at that point where I really didn't really read anymore, including even the Course. So it was really not necessary for that. But I do remember skimming through and kind of just getting an intuitive feeling about The Disappearance of the Universe and Your Immortal Reality. And I just had a big smile on my face. I was like, ah! Heartland and Persa are teaching the teachings that I've been sharing for almost two decades. And it was kind of fun to see it in print at your local Barnes & Noble store. To go see it at Amazon.com or something. Because this wisdom is really precious and it's just beautiful. I know I can feel the resonance of really deep, clear teachings. And I think a lot of times people that come to Gary's workshops and retreats and are very much fans of these books are that way because they have a very deep resonance of clarity. That's one aspect of them I think that are very helpful. They're very, very clear. They're very straightforward. They don't beat around the bush with a lot of theoretical and theological mumbo jumbo. Like, let's cut to the chase, give me the good stuff and give it to me direct. And that's one thing that I like about those teachings. And I think another aspect that touched me too initially when I glanced through it was I realized The Disappearance of the Universe, it was based on eight years of interactions with Gary and Heartland and Persa. And I'm a big fan of disclosure, of just pouring out your emotions and taking the mask off and just laying things out on the table. No matter how they look, just lay them out. Tell it like it is or we could say as it seems to be in your life. I think that was something that was very touching as well in the sense that it was like a great little dialogue going on between ascended masters and one that was struggling and going through a lot of very difficult emotions and perceptions. And so it was almost like a symbol of a dialogue between the human condition and the ascended masters. And I found that very, very helpful because that of course reflects my journey and it reflects everybody's journey. As long as you believe in the ego, there's going to be a bit of this back and forth. You want what? You're guiding me to what? You said what? There's going to be a bit of the ego reaction and resistance to these high teachings because the ego is the belief in separation and these high teachings are the teachings of forgiveness and oneness. And separation and forgiveness don't really have a meeting point and separation and oneness really don't have a meeting point because one is real, the oneness, and the separation isn't. So you can never really bring together reality and unreality. If you could bring them together, then of course one would dissolve and disappear and that's the basic teachings of the Course in Miracles is that this is a teaching and ending dissociation. Ending the attempt of maintaining two irreconcilable thought systems. Love and fear do not go together. They may say in this world that oil and water don't mix. I'll tell you one thing, love and fear, they just don't mix. And when you're experiencing fear, then the love is pushed out of awareness. When you're experiencing the love, it's as if that's all that there is, that there never was anything else. You don't make it back to heaven or nirvana and then sit around and tell your war stories.  It's not like going to a 12-step meeting where you can kind of rehash over all of that. Do you know what I've been through? Sit down, I'll tell you my story. There's just none of that in bliss. Thank heavens, it's just peace, eternal, total peace in us. I was in Australia doing one of these talks and the wind tried to blow the tent then when I was doing one of my movie gatherings, Exposing the Ego. But these look like nice, bronze, steel beams. I think we'll do okay for five days, no hurricanes inside. So again, I think that was something that was very... I had just a warm feeling reading that disappearance and your moral reality. And then traveling around the world, I've been doing this for almost two decades, so it's just kind of fun to meet all the people and hear all the different thoughts and reactions. And a lot of times I would go and stay with people and they would say, Gary was here and I'd say, wow, that's great. And they would say, yeah, this is good, good, good, but I didn't like this and this and this. And it was kind of funny because some of the things it was being spoke of was, I don't like this, this and this, and it was like, it's too uncompromising. And I remember we hear people say the same thing about the Course. The Course is too uncompromising. And I thought, well, if we're here to discern between illusions and truth, or error and truth, this is something we want to be non-compromising in. How can you be too uncompromising when you're working with a teaching that says, the truth is true and nothing else is true? Or you read a lesson like 152, the power of decision is my own and he says, basically everything you perceive in all of time and space is the result of your own decision. Everything, without exception. And he says, Jesus says in that lesson, you may think that this is too all-encompassing to be the truth, but he goes on to say, truth has no exceptions. So truth is without an opposite. And if we look at that in terms of forgiveness, we could say the same about forgiveness. You're not going to be able to accept partial forgiveness. It's not like horseshoes, where if you get the shoe close to the pin, you get some points of recognition, or some of these games, you get partial bonus recognition. It's not that way with forgiveness. It's really all or nothing.


back to the Independent Investor Channel. I have not one, not two, not five, not 10, rather 96 dividend stocks for you to buy in January. We're going to drop you into my M1 Finance dividend portfolio. You're going to see what a dividend growth portfolio actually looks like. I'm a buy and hold investor. It doesn't mean if it's January or December or March or May, when and how you should buy a specific stock. It doesn't matter.  You'll see the performance of this portfolio has absolutely stood the test through some volatile times in 2022. I'm super excited with the dividend renderings that I get paid almost on a daily basis. There's 400 renderings a year that'll come from this portfolio. Just like in true independent investor fashion, I deliver the goods. Well, if everybody else wants to find those five stock picks for the month of January, good luck in finding some actual bottom line success, because for me in stock market investing, it's all about the money, baby. It's all about the money.  If you want to actually make bottom dollars, pay attention to what I'm talking about. You might actually learn something in the benefits of investing the way that I do passively and in good quality companies that have paid dividends for many, many decades to investors in those companies. So, kick the end dam on finance and we'll take a review of the portfolio. Well, what the power of social media can deliver to somebody if you're just willing to pay attention. This is the all elusive success in stock market investing, which seemingly is elusive to a lot of people out there that are just trying to find good, honest information. Don't take it from me for all you visual learners out there. This would be an introduction to my dividend growth portfolio. This is on M1 Finance. You certainly do not have to use M1 Finance as your platform. You can choose whatever platform that you want. I do make this portfolio available through a very simple click to link. If you do want the portfolio in its totality, please just send me an email ryan.independentinvestor at gmail.com. I will kindly send that to you. No strings attached. You can peruse that, use it. This is my personal money in here. The account has grown just absolutely phenomenal since we've chronicled the inception of this portfolio since December 20th of 2019. For you guys that are keeping tabs on this, the performance has been off the charts. You look at the charts here and you wonder, okay, what recession? What's everybody talking about with all the volatility? If you notice here and you go back to December 20th here on the charts, see if I can get it to show up here. This was started here with about $5,000 in the account and it's grown to where it is here today to a very respectable level all by doing very, very little. This is impressive. This is indicative of what a lot of people could probably resonate. There's a lot of people out there that are selling a lot of hype in stock market investing and I'm here to tell you that for the most part, people should be involved in value investing and nothing more. Whether or not you value invest through the indexes or while you invest through single stock is totally up to you. I do both and I chronicle those two philosophies that of which I am a huge proponent of both. This is the dividend growth portfolio. It's comprised of close to 100 names that are the best of the best of companies that I've hand selected and I've placed them into the sectors as appropriate to kind of add a little bit of an organization to the portfolio. Some people would choose to break it up and put large cap growth or mid cap or small cap growth. This is comprised of mainly all large capitalization companies. Most all of them, if I'm not mistaken, are well over $10 billion in market cap so well-established companies that pay a dividend and I don't have to worry about from day to day. I stick them in the sectors. These are the ones that I feel like are the very best. For example, if I click into healthcare, there's about a $4,700 bill in here. Here's the performance up and slightly to the right is exactly what we want over time and then you cruise down here and these are the individual names which within each of these 11 slices. This is one slice out of 11. This is the healthcare slice. All of these companies here are organized in a way that can capture the healthcare market in a way that I want to have done quite well here. Not a lot of capital to risk in this portfolio. That's what I like. It's spread out nicely to where if I get a downturn in an Abbott Laboratories, which is a fantastic company, as well as Medtronic. Those are the only two that I have down in the healthcare sector. I can live with that. The beauty of this is that these companies are still paying me a dividend while I'm waiting for them to turn around and then having other areas of the portfolio perform while I'm waiting for those down equities to come back and start to carry its weight. But there's always churn going on in here. That's what I like about it. Now, for you guys that are new to the tutorial through M1 Finance, pay attention here to the target allocation here. We're a little bit overweight healthcare because it's just done so well through 2022. It was the outperforming sector. Our target allocation here is at 12 and currently we are at 13.6. Technology which has gotten so beat up, this is comprised of value technology. So it's actually outperforming as well up above its target of 12%. So you can pay attention here how I've built these. These 12, 11, these target allocations in bold are the ones that I'm disclosing to you now. These are the ones that I have hand selected. In other words, these are the percentage of the dollars when compared to the total overall portfolio that I want to go to each of these respective sectors. Okay, so we've done quite well earned dividends over 1600 market gains closing in on the $10,000 mark can't complain net inflows into the portfolio 25,000. Right now I have this on a dollar cost average schedule at $125 by monthly. So very satisfied with that. Here's everybody's favorite portion of the review 96 total holdings. As I told you, as we work down the list here, this is like a who's who of stock picks. This isn't anybody's favorite secret. I'm not looking to uncover the next best thing for you in these reviews. This strategy is contained within the strategy alone. And that is dividend growth. These companies have been known to pay a dividend for going on in most cases over 10 years. And in some cases they are the dividend kings of their respective sectors, paying the dividend for over 50 years. So you know, it just puts the chips on my side when I start to review some of these names, Taiwan semiconductors, they are a little bit of scuttlebutt in my group about Taiwan semi and the value proposition there. Broadcom incorporated with their chip producing Cisco down I can live with that all day. And new funds as they flow into this technology space will flow into here. And as I look to grow this portfolio over time, it will only look to embolden these positions right now only 14 shares. But as new funds flow into the portfolio, they end up going into those underweight equities and the ones that are down typically look at IBM. What a great winner that has been in the portfolio. First time I'm looking at it actually disclosing to you guys, this is the numbers. As they break down, this is how it works out. And somebody might say, Well, Ryan, you're down 35% in Intel, I can live with that. Okay, these I don't I don't fabricate these numbers. Each of these numbers here represent, I mean, there's 96 holdings in here, I've got, you know, hundreds of dollars into each of these. And a lot of folks out there might be just starting with their first $500. Okay. And this portfolio started with $5,000. So, you know, depending on how serious you are about getting started in the stock market in one finance that makes it really, really easy in that I don't have to buy and sell these equities. I just own them for the long term. There's Disney, one of those just targets in the market. It's been really crushed. I think Disney has got its its day coming. Absolutely. And we'll stay along the name. There's no way I'm going to sell Disney here. It's a wonderful company. And it will absolutely come down. If you were looking to do anything, it would be to buy the company here. But, you know, some of the out performers in the portfolio, some are a surprise, some are not. But with everybody screaming and yelling about how crappy the market was in 2022, I can live with this. And the whole idea here by sharing these tutorials is to answer the question, are these results that you could live with? And as I scroll down the list here, you see an awful lot of green, you see an awful lot of companies that are up over 20%. There's Caterpillar up over 30%. Would you have relied upon your ability to pick Caterpillar out of the dust and render that 30% and take on an overlevered amount of waiting in your portfolio? I don't need to do that. Just over 1.5 shares in the company. I've got exposure to Caterpillar. That's what I wanted. That's a surprise there with Legget and Platt. Great company. A dividend aristocrat at that. Legget and Platt, Costco up over 30%. So some really good performers in the portfolio as I cruise down through the list. Look at John Deere up over 36%. Fantastic performance looking to get up to our first share. So the fractional shares are being displayed here as to the power of owning small pieces of companies. And for what we justify in this society buying, this makes the most sense to me. I'd rather buy companies and buy pieces of companies and it's all relative. If you're a multi-millionaire, you can own larger positions and shares. I am not. So I'm satisfied with owning piece of these companies and building my wealth over time. And as we approach the bottom here, you can see a spackling of some Canadian banks here. They've come back nicely. There's 3M down off 30%. I would buy 3M here. No doubt about that. There's Raytheon Technology. Fantastic. Up over 30%. Northrop Grumman. Look at that up 44% in the portfolio and I own a half a share of it. Exciting times. Very cool stuff. And the sentiment in the market hasn't even shifted. So I guess the question is where is this portfolio going to go? Having declared to my audience that I have bought this portfolio the entire way down, if there was a whole lot of downturn in the market, I've just bought the portfolio strong.  But all the while making sure that you're staying long on your program and M1 Finance allows you to do that. Just a small caveat here. There's not a lot of trading activity if any in this. I buy these long and I own them long. If you're looking to trade in and out of stock, M1 Finance is not the platform for you and I am not the channel for you. I am a buy and hold investor for the most part. I do engage in some swing trading in another capacity and other accounts. But this portfolio is what it is. I buy these companies to own them long and you can see here over time the value has done nothing, but reward me as a shareholder over time as we've approached the time of filming this video here on January 6th. Just sitting just over 35,000. I've got high hopes for this portfolio going forward and we'll continue to chronicle the progress going forward. We'll kick you back and we'll conclude the video. Fantastic. We've come out of the dividend growth portfolio review. Hopefully you've enjoyed. You can see that a lot of the companies have really performed during volatile times. A lot of people are cranky about the markets or they're exiting the market because we have an inevitable recession. It's the same old song and dance. You have to be steadfast in your program and piecemealing and picking the stocks of the month and making them fit when they might not even fit in your own routine. It is just a futile effort. Invest for the long term. Instead of investing for an inevitable downturn in 2023, why don't you look at investing for yourself out to 2040, 2050 and dare I suggest for some of our young people 2060. 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Hi everyone! This is Jason here from the Nathaniel School of Music and in this lesson, let's look at a go-to piano rhythm technique or a rhythm pattern which can be customized to be playable on pretty much any genre, be it pop, some hard rock, some power ballads or even some film score background music kind of stuff. So, I've chosen a chord progression which I think is quite unique. I've not tried to keep it very cheesy or something you would have already heard. So, let's get started with the chords. So, you start with A major, then we go... Now, here's the interesting one, the second chord. It's D major with an A bass. So, that's D major in the right hand and then A pivoted in the left hand. So, let's do that again. A major, D major slash A. Now, you could also do D minor slash A depending on the vibe you want. So, that's A major. That's generally what I'm using in this lesson. D major or I could do D minor with an A bass. Okay, these are the first two chords. Something more uplifting, something more, you know, gloomier, uplifting, brave again. And then the end, the last two chords are going to be F major, G sus and back to G major or you could just do F major, G major back to A. Try to play everything four times. F major or G sus 4 going to G. So, these are pretty much the chords used in the entire lesson. So, make it a point to just practice them before we move to the rhythm patterns, which I am going to talk to you right after you subscribe to our channel if you haven't already. Please do that and also turn on the bell icon for notifications that will help us go a long way with making this channel go forward. Okay, so let's begin you have the first rhythm technique which I have for you guys, which is derived around playing every chord either four times and then shifting to the next chord or depending on how fast your chords are, you could do two times. I'm just going to go with four times per chord. So, that's one, two, three, four, change two, three, four, change two, three, four, change two, three, four. Normally, to get started, always follow the pulse of the song. Play the pulse in your right hand two, three, four, one, two. Remember what I said at the beginning. This is a kind of a go to technique or a default technique for pretty much any genre or a survival technique if you will. This could get you working with any kind of a groove because if you follow the pulse, nothing goes wrong because the pulse is what the audience is going to groove or move to. So, if all fails, at least play the pulse, you know. So, that's what I'm doing in the right hand. I'm doing one, two, three, four. Okay, and then the next chord, one, two, three, four. And the left hand is keeping it simple. I'm not doing this would start sounding very aggressive. It's like a drummer or a drummer playing a kick drum and a snare drum together. That doesn't happen very often, right? Or a tabla player hitting both the drums together. I don't think that'll sound great ever. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four, three. Let's do that again. One, two, three, four. One, two, D slash A. One, F major. Three, four. G, sus. G major. Back to A. So, now we try to develop a rhythmic interest or a rhythmic flavor which is customized to the song we are playing.  So you need to figure out how much the beat is divided in two. Is the beat divided by two, by three, or four, or six, or eight. And also is the division process swung or is it straight? Okay, so I'm going to start us off with a simple divide by two which you might familiarly know as and. So you count it as one and two and three and four and so that and is what I'm going to bring out onto the piano with a very subtle hit in my left hand. And that subtle hit will be here with this finger. And two and three and four and one and two. So you could target these notes. E and two and F sharp. And two and three and four. You can hit for the F chord, you could either hit C or I prefer to hit just the octave because you have a gap, you have a space there. And two and three and maybe G with G's octave back to A with its fifth, namely E. A with F sharp played as the ghost eighth note as I like to call it. Why I like to call it ghost eighth note is because you barely hear it. And ghost comes from that drum terminology where the drummer is playing a ghost note with his or her snare drum, right? So that's what I'm doing with this finger and making it soft so that it doesn't cloud the other important hit points. So it's still four hits in the right hand. But if you see my left hand, it's doing something quite unique. There's a long hold with the pinky finger of the left as always. But I'm adding with my other fingers, which is usually the thumb or the index finger, I'm adding that ghost or that eighth note addition. And keeping it soft. Sounds like the song is flowing better, right? And also keep it soft. Don't slam that. That'll ruin the vibe and keep your pinky sustained at all times. And if you'd like the dark version or the sad version, you get the D minor with an A. So now I've divided the beat by two, which is cool. But what if your song has a kind of a triplet feel where it divides by three. So there you may want to say one and two and three and four and one triplet, two triplet, three triplet, four triplet. So to exhibit that feel, here's what I'm doing. So what was eighth notes earlier was one and two. And we only engage the left hand thumb or index finger. Now we're engaging also the right hand thumb. And I guess you'll only be able to use the thumb.  So you go and and and and. So you do one and one and two and earlier we did eighth notes. There's a lot more movement, but it's in the triplet feel. It'll work for sounds like hallelujah. Anyway, coming back. Eight notes and now eight triplet. Choosing a D minor now if major seventh will sound nice. G major sixth building up the chords to something more bigger. So that's your triplet. And if your feel is more shuffle or swing, if that is the vibe you're getting, it'll be something like tada tada tada tada. And again, if you hear the band, the bass or the drummer or anyone in your group doing that, you would want to change to swing so that you can survive with the group. So then it'll sound like there we go. You can speed it up if you if the speed is this and two and three and four and one and two and three and while straight and three and four and one and two and four and one. Bring in the triplet. Please note that this pinky finger has not changed at all. It's been doing the same thing I've been talking about from the beginning. And the right hand also is really reinforcing the pulse always one, two, three, four. It's always going with the pulse. So moving on, what if we try to do sixteenth notes or semi quavers as some of us call it 16 notes divide the beat by four. So then we say one and two and three and four. So the intensity or what I call is the density of the notes which you play is more because you're adding more beats within the same space of time. So what was once one and three and four and one and two can now become money and so now you're actually needing both the thumbs or the thumb and this and the index fingers to kind of add to that extra sub beats while your right hand needs to keep with the higher fingers you'll have to keep the pulse. While eight notes, just the end and three and four. Let's move to sixteenths. Once you get the vibe, you don't have to count too much. You can just feel it.  It's okay. You can play soft and sixteenth notes. Volume has nothing to do with the time feel and explore it a bit more depending on the melody or the vocalist intention or the drummer's dynamics. You see, I'm playing exactly the same thing. Same speed, just volume that depends on your song. Okay, so that was 16 notes. So far we looked at eight 16 with a with some swing and yeah, it goes on and on guys. So if you have maybe a sixteenth note triplet, which is going to be rare, right? That's dividing the pulse by six. That's one to three, one to three, one to three. So you could actually bring about that flavor as well on the piano. This will be like a very prog ballad kind of thing just to make it even more epic. See how subtle the triplets are and see how the pulse is going on in my right hand and the base pinky finger is not lifting one. So after dividing by six, you could also divide by eight, which is crazy, right? Something like all these 30 second notes. So that'll be a bit too intense. Maybe depends on your song. You don't have to play it loud. You can play that also soft. Okay, so we've basically seen all sorts of divisions, but two things remain consistent. That's the left hand playing the root note for the whole bar one, two with the pinky four and the right hand giving us a strong pulse consistent pulse. And then the remaining fingers of your two hands, which are pretty much these two will then develop over the time feel or will follow the way the drummer is playing the high hats or the way the singer is singing in terms of what divisions they are choosing. And I would encourage you to try this for a variety of genres, be it some pop stuff, be it some rock, some hard rock, power ballads, progressive stuff, or even some film soundtrack score kind of stuff to either bring down the vibe or the intensity or take up the intensity. So that's why I call this a go to or a default piano pattern for any song you are ever given. And I found that this is like a very good sort of survival piano technique when I'm given something which I'm a bit unaware of, I can react to the situation quite quickly. Or maybe when I'm looking to compose chords for the song, I can chill out on the rhythm a bit. And my focus is on what chords to create or how to how to compose and arrange the song a bit better. So it's a nice go to pattern which I think you'll find very useful. Have fun practicing it. And as always, this is Jason here from the Nathaniel School of Music. Don't forget to share the video, subscribe to our YouTube channel, like, comment, ask us something. So we can probably cover that in the next tutorial and tell all your friends about our channel. And let's move forward together. Cheers.


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