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Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. In this lecture we are going to talk about Venus, at least begin our study of Venus, and we are going to look at its geology in this case. So we will look at the surface features and briefly at what we know of the interior. So what do we know about Venus? Well first of all it's very hard to see. It is completely shrouded in clouds so we do not see the surface from Earth and cannot see the surface in visible light. However, we can study it by radar. And here we have a radar map of Venus showing that it looks very similar to Earth. And what I mean by that is that it has some very high continental areas, such as Ishtar up here and Aphrodite in a more equatorial region. That look not that different than continents here on Earth and some very low lying basins much as you would have in the oceans of Earth. So if Venus were a little cooler and filled with water like Earth, it would not look that different. Certainly the exact outlines of the continents would not be the same but the structures what we're seeing would be very similar. So lava planes make up a vast majority of the surface and we see no sign of active plate tectonics on the surface of Venus. That doesn't mean there weren't there in the past and we can come back and look at that a little bit later. We also see mountainous terrain and I mentioned the two regions, Aphrodite, which is the equatorial region about the size of Africa. And the Ishtar, the polar region, which includes the highest region on the planet. You can see those in the red here. The Maxwell Montes are the highest. Those mountains are the highest at 11 kilometers, and they can be higher than any mountains on Earth. So let's look at some of the features that we see, and this is an overall view, let's look at things in a little more detail. And what we can see is that craters, there are about 1,000 craters on Venus. Now as you recall, that's more than on Earth, but far less than we saw on the moon or Mercury. So Venus is an intermediate age. Its surface is not quite as young as Earth's, but it is not near as old as that of the moon or of Mercury. We also notice that they are very sharp and fresh looking. They look like they've just formed. Now we know they didn't all just form recently, but this can also be caused by a lack of erosion. On the Earth, we get erosion by wind and water, for example. We don't get that on Venus. Venus has no water, and it's a very still, stagnant, thick atmosphere. So it doesn't even have a lot of wind erosion. But we do know that the surface is relatively young, at least compared to that of Earth. We see volcanic features as well. And in fact, Sifmans is very similar to the Hawaiian volcanoes that we see on Earth. Here in the radar images, the lighter colored are the very irregular regions that reflect the radar waves very well. Smoother regions will appear dark. So those light regions are probably relatively fresh lava. And in fact, it's still thought that Venus may be undergoing volcanic activity to this day. Certainly, it's been much more recent there than it was on the moon, or as we will see even on Mars. Now the volcanoes, though, are not the only volcanic features. We also see some things like pancake domes. And these domes are flows of a very thick lava that's spread out in a more even manner. So it's a very thick, very viscous lava that expels there. And we also have Coroni, which are bulges in the crust, where there are stress marks in the crust. And those bulges were lava tried to push out, but could not make it to the surface. So many of these features, and a lot of the features that we see, if there's a few craters, and a lot of what we see are volcanic features on Venus. Now, how about signs of tectonic activity? As I said, there is no sign of plate movements now. However, there are some craters which have been modified by what appears to be tectonic activity. So craters, where it seems like crust has flowed around them or cracked around them. And it's quite possible that there has been tectonic activity in the early history, but that ceased when Venus cooled. So for whatever reason, Venus cooled quicker than Earth. And therefore, the activity within it died off a lot faster on Venus than it did on Earth. We also look at those Maxwell Mountes that we see. They look similar to the Himalayan mountains on Earth, which are formed by tectonic activity. And that is material pushing up when two plates crush together and push those up. So maybe there was some tectonic activity on Venus early on. And remember that Venus is an object much closer to Earth in many properties. So it has very many similarities to Earth as compared to the other objects that we've looked at so far. So perhaps it did have some tectonic activity, which we really did not see on the moon or on Mercury. And here we see part of those Maxwell Mountes that were formed, again, may have been formed by some kind of tectonic activity. Now, what about the interior of Venus? What do we know? We talked a little bit of, we knew a little bit about the interior of Earth. We didn't know much about the interior of the moon and had a vague idea about Mercury. How about Venus? Well, what we do know is that Venus has a thick crust compared to Earth. So Venus is much thicker crust. We know that there's no plate motions and that the core is mostly solid iron and nickel. So we don't have as much detail here. We know the crust is relatively thick here. We know that there is a large hot core, but we believe that the core is primarily solid and that there is no molten portion to it. That means that we don't get the convective currents, which means that there is no magnetic field. So Venus does not have a magnetic field. And we saw a magnetic field on Earth. We saw one on Mercury, a very weak one on Mercury. So we knew Mercury's interior was partially molten. We say that Venus does not have that because it's much too cooled off. The core is too solid. And there's no chance for those electrical currents to generate the magnetic field through the dynamo as we see here on Earth. So let's go ahead and finish up this portion with our summary. So what we looked at, the surface does have some similarities to Earth with volcanic features, as well as some cratering features that we see there. The overall structure may be overall similar to Earth, but there are a few differences as well. Big difference being that there is no current tectonic activity. So no tectonic plates, but there are some signs that there might have been some activity like this in the past. Now, we also note that the impact craters are sharp and fresh. And this is because of a lack of erosion. So there's no water on Venus. And while there is an atmosphere, we're going to see that the atmosphere is very thick and dense, and it has high winds, but only up high in the atmosphere. So that leads to a lack of erosion close to the surface making the craters appear younger than they would if the similar craters had formed here on Earth. So that concludes this lecture on Venus geology. We'll be back again next time for another topic in astronomy. So until then, have a great day, everyone. And I will see you in class.


How early did it was this? This is an advanced Gravis joystick that I just took apart. I'm making a little board that will let you use PC joysticks with any microcontroller. It does the analog digital conversion, the button reading, and these joysticks are all PC joysticks, and they use a D15 port. And I wanted to figure out like, so, you know, I never actually had a PC joystick, so this is my first time kind of messing with one. And I just plugged it in and it like wasn't working at first. And so I took it apart because I wanted to like trace everything out. And then I realized, so on the side, these switches actually select mechanically which button connects to which pin on the D15. And I had them all centered because I thought like, oh, you want it centered? Actually, that means that none of them were actually selected to working. Another neat thing is, so now they're all connected directly. And they've got there's three buttons connected to two outputs. Another interesting thing is the potentiometers on this joystick, you'll see as I twist the hot scope back and forth. They're not connected as a divider because on the PC side, there's no analog digital conversion, like they didn't have ADC, that was very expensive. So what you do is actually you feed this variable resistance into an oscillator, like a 555 or something similar, and then measure the pulse width. So on the other side, I need to add, and you can see over here, the matching 10k resistors that form the divider that then go into this ADC, because nowadays ADCs are a lot cheaper.


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Good evening everyone and a special hello to Carrington. I think you guys are listening and I think a garden club meeting tonight And I'm not there. So we will talk about growing June berries here in in North Dakota this is kind of a little map of the state of North Dakota and The Carrington research center is kind of that red dot. I'm going to kind of center right hand side of the state We have pretty nice soils in that part of the state And I think a lot of you probably have nice soils, too I Let's see here. Oh, I just want to show you the project I show this at every talk I give but this is the orchard that we have and It's about six and a half acres that's enclosed But the fruit area is about two and a half to three acres and we have a lot of different things But tonight we'll talk about the June berries and they are in the on the lower front on the kind of left side There's with 100 June berry plants And this little Graphic is and I drew this by myself. So I don't know how accurate it is I was reading I was reading a written description of how or where June berries grow in North America And so from that written description, I just let my hand travel along. So It's probably a good general idea, but this purpley gray area That's kind of where this this June berry is this one is amuleture Anapholea and there are different kinds of June berry or saskatoon Saskatoon and June berry really the same things different names from the same type of plant But the species that we have the anapholea It grows as a shrub and these shrubs can grow from say five feet tall to maybe 15 or 18 feet tall they can get quite large You can manage them by pruning to give them a little shorter, which is what we do Um, but there are different kinds of June berries all across the US on the eastern side of the country. We have Plants that are more like trees. They they were where I lived in, Wisconsin They're kind of an understory tree about 20 feet tall and all the other trees They're bloods would just be breaking and there would be these beautiful cloud of little white flowers In the forest, you know, they're not really dense But even sometimes even today as we travel back through Wisconsin and get through that central part of the state And if we go in the spring like this Easter time I can see June berries blooming in the forest there So it's always it's kind of nice and I have pick wild June berries there in the forest off of these trees It wasn't a huge amount like the nice June berries we have here, but it's still pretty good so I kind of want to say that the home range the home of Where all the species or all the the what is it the center of genetic diversity Where it comes from in North America? I have to feel like it's in Saskatoon and Alberta I've talked to people from Canada and they talk about all these shrubs just growing wild everywhere on the edge of the forest and most of our cultivars that we use for growing for commercial Commercial or homeowners come from Canada. These are some of the best cultivars we have So probably the center of diversity is more north of North Dakota, but Juneberry native all across North Dakota. So Not as common as it used to be here's a picture of what it looks like if you've never seen it a lot of older people in Our community will tell me that I used to go and pick June berries, but now the plants aren't there anymore So I'm not sure why the plants aren't there either could be different climates you know more more Warm weather in the spring perhaps maybe last rainfall, but it might also do be due to herbicide drifting, you know, there's The herbicides that killed the broadly plants can kind of drift in the wind and I have heard that Juneberries are susceptible to these although You know, I have not seen specific symptoms of damage on our plants But you know, it can just be the Little bit of exposure over time can kind of weaken them and weaken them and that can kind of do it But anyway, there are your Juneberries in this slide. I just kind of want to show you what we get out of our Juneberries In there so when we planted them we planted them in 2007 and they were just like One to one and a half foot little shoots and they came in little pots So it was little two inch pots that are about three and a half inches deep So they came as these little shoots and we plant them kind of deeper than because they can do a lot of buds a lot of roots going out when you plant them and So we just kind of watched them for a few years. I mulch them with wood chips and we still keep wood chips on them They are a forest plant, you know in in some species. So The wood chips are not bad for them to keep the moisture in keep the roots cool. That's kind of nice So in our fourth year, we got almost two pounds of fruit per plant. That was pretty good Our seventh year in 2013 we got almost four pounds per plant. I was pretty excited about that I thought that was pretty good and then last year in 2016 I pruned them. I really I really did a good job pruning them. I removed a lot of older wood It's good to get some of that older wood out after it gets to be about four years old You'll reduce the height that way and you'll have more vigorous shoots coming from the ground And so I really pruned them I feel like I removed at least a quarter and maybe one-third of the buds and by the time I was Getting towards the end of pruning I could see the buds were swelling and every time I made a cut. I went. Oh, there goes fruit Oh, there goes fruit and I felt kind of bad about it But look at the bumper crop we had seven and a half pounds of fruit per plant in this in our tenth year that was a lot we harvested about About 750 760 pounds of fruit last year. It was amazing. We actually had to ask for storage at our local grocery store Thank you very much To store it because we ran out of space by at the research center So anyway, just wanted to comment on our production and this is few notes And we're going to cover these in the next slides that there are a lot of native diseases for june berries It's really something you just can't get around I thought we wouldn't have a problem in Carrington because there aren't any native june berries around us But sure enough we have all these problems over the years We can't harvest our june berries I'm not sure how well they would work to do some kind of mechanical harvesting that we know of up in Saskatoon Big plantings there's like maybe 2,400 acres up there and they do use over-the-world harvesters to harvest their plants And just just the recommended varieties before I would forget. We really like Martin. We really like teeson and Say teeson like Thomas right teeson and then JB 30. We really like these three varieties out of the five that we have So here's the first thing about june berries. You will need netting the birds love these things We have 100 plants 100 plants is not enough to satisfy the birds. It's just not If you get them netted early enough, then the birds won't know that they can be harvesting these berries But once they start and then you net them They're gonna try for about three or four days and you'll find some birds under the net in the net and So we kind of run a rescue operation for a couple days to make sure the birds get out of that net But definitely some kind of netting this netting is woven netting. It's very soft. It has about half inch holes in it and then you can see how I hold it up I use a swell probe and make a hole in the ground just with my foot and then put in a piece of bamboo and then on the right hand side these are our plants in later years actually it's last year and I had to take two pieces of bamboo together to get it up high enough and then we still put a pop can on top You can choose something else, but a pop can is cheap and available and that will keep the net from sliding down over the pole So we'll just talk about the diseases right away the one thing I think it's in a handout one thing I've heard from Researchers in Canada is you really can't grow June berries organically Like I said, I thought we could because there's not a lot of other plants to transmit disease But after about three or four years, we started seeing this disease this endomethorium leaf and berry spot Some years is just on the leaves this picture is an extreme example I mean we have never seen it this bad at Carrington, but it does get on the leaves and I thought well not too much of a problem, but then One year we probably had more rain that year and actually the little spots got on the berries too And it doesn't really affect the berries unless it were a really bad case We must not have had it too bad But it does it does show the spots on the berries and if you were to sell these for pies or something Maybe someone could tell and you wouldn't want to do that. So we keep the plants thin by pruning kind of Remove those little shoots that are in there. You just want hearty shoots If you water your plants do not water them on the leaves Make sure you water the soil and then keep your weeds down because those hold moisture and they could hold spores and then Probably that you are going to have to spray with some kind of a fungicide and I know the fungicide that is available for homeowners is Propoconazole It's it's very available. You don't want to use the same fungicide all the time And I have to say I did not have time to go through and look at another homeowner Kind of fungicide, but if you need help on that I just contact me at the Carrington Research Center and then I will help you find that information Here's our next disease that we also get these two are kind of tied who are past here in North Dakota woolly elm aphids You may have heard me talk about this before but when your elm tree Peas on you when you get little drops on your picnic table on your car That is not your elm tree doing that That is your aphids on the elm tree is doing that They are sucking the moisture out of the elm leaves and then they are exuding it from their bodies So they are peeing sap on your sweet nectar on you But these aphids are on the elm elm leaves for a couple generations and then in kind of mid June early July they leave the elm trees and they go to the Juneberry plants and they find them and what they do is they Kind of suck on the root hairs and they can cause these spongy kind of roots And you can see this in this picture is a picture it took last year There's like these knobs and the root is kind of enlarged when nothing's really happening It's got these billion little shoots. So if you're a Juneberry plants have a lot of little shoots It's actually not a good sign. That's a sign of this aphid on there It's hard to get around away from this they say that ladybugs and surfered flies will eat the aphids and we do have those around here It's possible to net a new planting if you just have some Plants in your yard you could keep them netted for like a month's time or so in that late June to July thin netting And there there is a systemic insecticide you can apply I would only apply it when your plants are not blooming anymore or what before they start blooming, you know When they're quite young that's when you really need it when the plants are being established once they're established and get kind of all They can actually handle the woolly elm feeding on there and then I've been thinking what about Diatomaceous earth could you not sprinkle that around the top of the plant because that's where they get in they get in that They land on the stems and then they walk down and they get they go into the root system right through the top of the plant So I kind of wonder if you could just sprinkle a handful of Diatomaceous earth right around the top of that plant it I think that might work if it's a kind of soft So something to think about something to try and if you try it you can let me know and then rust Some years we like two years ago We saw quite a bit of rust prior to that we had not seen very much every year We find a little but usually not too much and this rust is also fungus It's juniper apple rust and you may hear it as cedar apple rust but really it Is a disease that travels between the juniper species and then rosacea species and Some parts of the country like Michigan or maybe out east where there's more moist You're gonna see a lot more problems with this because there's Juniper trees and there's apple trees and some people have juniper plants so a lot of hopes for them to go between So like I said, we don't get it too bad. I've actually never seen the spores in the juniper plants, but obviously they're around Maybe I need to look harder So the gauze on the junipers are kind of a grayish Ball and then when it rains these like alien orange gooey tendrils come out of the gauze So I have never seen that in person But I've seen some great pictures of it and a man sent me a picture of this juniper Up near Grand Forks area and the tree was covered with them and I said this is so cool and this is so terrible I said, but yeah, I've never actually seen it in person Anyway, so this this disease goes between them You want to avoid planting your junberries near a juniper tree if you can not always possible in North Dakota You can prune the gauze out of the junipers and you can spray with different fungicides again propaganda is all and then Really, I've looked at Cornell in the past and a paraffinic oil. It's like a very light oil kind of like a horticulture oil It is really the only compound that's recommended by Cornell University. So there's just not many compounds or many chemicals Liz are licensed for use in in the US for junberries and Then this is a problem that may be unique to North Dakota flower thrips and the way to find out if you have thrips in your flowers is To take the flowers and you kind of cover it up and then you breathe on it just a nice soft nice warm breath on it and then you take your flower and then you shake it like over a piece of white paper and Then see you'll see these tiny tiny tiny little tan Insects there. They're so tiny, but then they'll start to walk on your paper And that's how you see if you have thrips and then the other symptom is what you see on this flower here There's these little brown markings on the flower and that's where the thrips have been sucking and chewing on the flowers It doesn't look too bad here, but these flowers won't open up properly and then when you get to the fruit It's going on the top. So here you have your fruit and this is the blossom and and this is the stem and on this blossom It's going to be kind of open and a gray woody scar on there They give you word you could eat it But it would be kind of chewy and you it would be kind of eating part of the stem is what it would feel like in your mouth So it's really kind of a nasty little thing Not it's not in the Canadian literature. So I think we just see it here in North Dakota We use three things. They're both they're all three are organic products We use a zygarde and we use spinocet and pycanic and I kind of rotate through those things I have to say I'll spray and then a couple days later. I will check for thrips They're still there, but I think they must just stop feeding and I did read something after noticing that I read something that the a zygarde actually does stop feeding by the by the thrips. So It works. It's pretty it's pretty nice not too hazardous to us and Then we have fire blight, you know, we do see fire blight. We don't see it in our apple trees One year we had an apple trees at the research center, but in the in the Junberries, you see a little bit every year and you get this dead branch like in this picture It can the shepherd's cork is that kind of folds over the branch size so quickly that is very soft And then the tip tips over and in that time it's starting to dry out already So it kind of holds that shape. So it's very sudden the shoes just wilts very suddenly It's a bacterial problem so the it is actually spread by like rain and your pruning tools and then bees when bees are pollinating your apples or your Junberries the bacteria can get on the bees and the bees can carry it from flowers or fall or and that's how it infects your plants so Again, no products labeled for fire blight in June berries.  This is something we're using now in apple trees You cut it back and just leave it and then later you cut it back even further when the tree is gone dormant As far as I know in June berries and it's probably the same method We just cut set like a foot or so below in June berries a shrub You can easily remove that whole branch and now I'd have to worry like an apple tree if you remove the whole branch Might look kind of funny, but fine to do it, you know in June berry. Okay. We're almost to the end I wanted to put our resources up here. This is Rowing saskatoons a manual for orchidus. This is the kind of Bible of saskatoon production this was Maybe it's about 10 years old. Maybe it's from 99, but there wasn't anything except this man doing this And then I recently bought this saskatoon berry production manual the number two Picture there and I just found out today that it is available for free for a download from open Open publications from Alberta So you can just download it you can buy it also for $15 probably more shipping to the US Anyway, and then the third resource is the Midwest fruit pest management guide It has like when and what to spray for almost any crop. You can think of June berry is actually in there I believe but you know June berry is very much in the apple family. So it shares a lot of diseases So that's a very good guide for you All right, and then this is my list of plant sources. Where can we buy these plants in the US? It's not that easy. They don't propagate very easily you might think oh, I could just take a shoot that comes out of the ground, but there's no roots on that shoot and The normal methods that we use for propagating woody shoots just don't work really well on June berry So they're kind of kind of hard to propagate But there are some sources here in the US saskatoon, Michigan St. Lawrence nursery Honeyberry USA and then there are some Canadian sources if you want larger quantities of plants You might go directly to a Canadian source for a little cheaper price, but shipping is about $60 a box So there's that so anyway, there's our sources and then Here's our picture very pie. This is what it's all about I think June berries were made for pie. They're just scrumptious if you haven't had a chance to try it You should if you had a fine June berry pie give it a try You need my recipe. Let me know. I'll put it on our Facebook page. I guess and then just thank you I spent picture for you and Have a great spring and joy growing a lot of different fruits and try something new this year. It'll be fun. Thank you Get some questions. Yeah, don't go away. We want to hear First question mentioned about netting in do you see like a half inch mesh About a half inch or five-eighth inch mesh. So since that is so indispensable Where is a good source for netting? Well, I order my netting from MDT and associates and we're supposed to give But you know, that is where I get it from MDT and associates is about 21 cents a foot But it is like 1600 feet of it is quite a bit, but if you can share it with a neighbor Actually for June berries. I saw two pieces together I decide the length I want lay a second piece over that overlapping and then I just take a double With holes drilled in it and it's nylon thread and I actually saw those together. So I actually have a 32 inch piece of netting that goes over my My plans to keep to keep to keep it down the grounds where the birds can't get under there But MDT and associates are out of the cities very nice people to deal with Prices are not on the internet, but you call them and they're very helpful. So that's where we get ours And what when do you put up the net? You can you should put up the net when the berries have turned pink, but not really swell yet. So Harvest you can count on harvest around July 10th to the 15th. So about two weeks prior to that Okay You ever heard of the variety called regent Was that discovered in North Dakota region? Yes, I have never tasted region But I hear it's not that good and is a North Dakota variety I've just heard it's very bland and dry on a mealy. So I've not tried regent. Do you have to plant more than one cultivar to get fruit? No Juneberry you can go with one plant. They actually hardly need to be fertilized. So The kind of it's easy Sometimes we look at the Juneberry. They got these little hair like things on the fruit. Are they orange hair like things? I think if they're Like is the rust is the cedar apple rust and the if you touch them at the right time this orange mist of Spores will get all over.  I think there is a lot of a lot of the jelly makers do Juneberries There's people who make pies, you know, definitely if you want to grow any kind of fruit You should try to find out what your market is talk to Cafes and see if they would use Juneberries. I wouldn't I wouldn't think about winemaking people have tried it Just doesn't have quite enough oomph and Concentrated flavor from winemaking, but jelly makers and pie makers are your best bet and then fresh sales Prices are pretty good. We have we do have about But I know we have about four to five Juneberry orchards in North Dakota that sell out of their I think they sell out of their fruit every year Oh, do you know how many acres are in North Dakota? No, I would less than five acres commercial. I would say about five acres, maybe so there's not very much An opportunity to satisfy Delicious opportunity there. Okay. How about, you know Sometimes the people see Juneberries at Available to their soil conservation district Are those varieties or just wild Juneberries? Those are seedlings from soil conservation and you should ask soil conservation I should make a point of calling them what I have read is they are now Growing seedlings from some of these more superior varieties of Juneberries. So things like Martin and Teeson and North Northline They're collecting seeds from those better varieties and then planting those up to sell to people That is what I've heard But I know other people who have established Juneberry patches from soil conservation. Some people get fruit. Some people don't so Yeah, we have one person from Burley County who had that experience and he says that it does have berries But they never grow larger than a small pea Doesn't know a variety So he's wanting should he try a new variety? I would try a new variety. I really I would try a new variety. If you like small peas, you don't have to do otherwise if you want something a little more Substance might be a good idea Are Juneberry self-pollinating? I'm going to say yes, I think that they hardly need to be pollinated I think they're they kind of form their seeds with no pollen needed for the most part So you can just have one plant and get Juneberries many plants So it's good to have two varieties and maybe you have a little different ripening time. So, but I think you can just have one plant You mentioned using diatomaceous earth as a possible way to control aphids So how would you? You would get a bag of it and you would just take a little dust measuring Spawn or something and just dust it right around that I would say the crown of the plant Just spread it around that crown of the plant so that the aphids would have to go through it to get to the roots About a spot spray and insecticide instead Well, it's just hard because those you have to see them when they are on the plant But once they get on the plant they crawl right down to the roots and then they're covered by soil So it's really hard to spray an insecticide on them Have you seen actual damage caused by woolly elm aphid to older Juneberry plants? Well, they have them aren't our ten years old this year and I know they have the damage I showed you that root where it looks all knobby and what you see are weak shoots coming out of the base of the plant And that is from woolly elm aphid damage If we controlled all of the aphids there would be really nice hardy healthy shoots coming out of them But when you have a lot of small shoots, that's indicative of woolly elm aphid damage We just wanted to reinforce out there about that rust Because those hairs can be grayish before they Sporily they're kind of green. They're kind of a light green before they turn orange. Yeah, yeah About how do you handle getting your stuff from a Canadian nursery? If you buy a large quantity from a Canadian nursery They will have a plant inspector come in and they inspect the box before I get shipped to you and that inspection costs as far as I know About $20 so that's on you and then the shipping they'll send it by their like Quick post although it's not often that quick depending on how the trucks go and then That's about $60 and I believe you probably have to sign you may have to get an aphids aphid APH is it's USDA aphids service You might have to get an aphids import permit, which is free You just have to do it call the aphids office in Bismarck and they can help you out and tell you what the form name is You need to fill out not hard. It's not hard So the Canadian apps and seems to be something when you're really getting into this big time We're not just buying three or four plants Hundreds you would want to buy right from Canada right and there is that nursery that is they sell seedlings on my slide there and You can use seedlings from From these varieties if it's a known variety you can use seedlings from that known variety Once you grow those out. It's not a good idea To take seeds from them because they're a little more removed from the parent block But definitely seedlings are okay and cheaper a question about the netting again. How do you secure the netting to the ground? Well, I leave my netting long I said that I I sew two pieces together and then so it's extra long and then I use those garden staples They're u-shaped like hanger wire or whatever But you buy them garden staples and then we just push them in the ground about every five feet Something like that at every at every bamboo post we stick them in and then maybe one in between Have you seen the chlorosis on June berries? We see chlorosis on a few plants in that planting and I know some of the soil was more shallow than others didn't have as much black soil So we do see a little chlorosis. You could apply sulfur or somewhat, but you could also apply I can't think of it. Maybe it's just sulfur But if you really if your soil is really high in pH, you know, it's so hard to change it If your soil is really high in pH, I would maybe Not try a different cry a different crop Try Aronia. I try Aronia But that's a good but any man have a good comment there get a soil test done Yeah, find out the pH and see like is it higher than 75 or you know, it's like really high That's gonna be really getting to 7 7 if you're higher than 7 7 that's when you really start to see problems in our soil Contact your local extension agent look online for soil tests and as you extension agents can help you do a soil test They can help you interpret their results how it applies to your area that you want to plant and do this the year before you plant So, you know what you might need to do to adjust your soil About You said you shouldn't plant June berries near Juniper. How about spruce trees? That's just fine They're a whole genius and a whole different family. So spruce trees are okay Can you don't plant spruce trees because they get a lot of diseases themselves Sorry, I'm getting into the Silk plants everything gets diseases. How about Can you talk a little bit about your masterful pruning technique like when do you do it? You said you targeted the little the little sprouts in the ground My mask you have to just spend a minute and describe give me a little You know it was hard this year because we had so much snow in the orchard and I should have I mean Really stuff should be pruned probably by another week or so because of the way the weather is going But I couldn't even get in there because there was so much snow and now all of a sudden it's 60 degrees But you want to do it before your buds break dormancy. So for apples it's usually the end of March early April now and Plants that bought a little earlier like currants and has gaps even earlier than that.   Just say no no we are running out of time. That's right. We don't Start billings, but The good thing about this is can he has talked about honey berries or has caps in the past at spring fever Or the spring fever website and look at the archives. It's all there for you What's better son or shade getting back to June berries Oh son son keep those diseases away. Let's dry up early in the morning before the humidity Gets all that fungus going on them How about has that dreaded past spotted winged or safflower affected your June berries? Yes Yes, yes, it's terrible. I get your June berries picked as soon as possible My new theory is to do that pick them early. You know, they don't have to be totally ripe They actually will have more pectin when they're a little less ripe So if you want to make jam out of them or even pie, they'll be a little more tangy and they'll be more pectin But get them off as soon as you can Those the fruit flies shows up about July 10th How about Do you ever thought about using a product like a root starter for propagating June berries? Oh, they've tried everything University here has done tissue culture on them and they will tissue culture They form little plants in the medium But then you have to take them from there and put them in another something or other to make them form roots That's the hard part getting them to actually from the little leaky part to making roots That's the hard part. They're just a weird funky Unhelpful plant to propagate About organic Fungicides like besides that, you know, I have meals. Well, you could use copper. Copper's kind of toxic to humans It can build up in your soil. So It's actually not the best For us for our safety The commercial fungicides are actually probably safer to you as a human But there, you know, there's things like mill stop. There's Actinovate it's one of the actinomyces is possible to use something like that a bacteria that Will hopefully keep the funguses off So many things to try You got a comment about spotted winter safflower In Fargo on June berries it only the only correct the end of the harvest season At that time picking the fruit before it gets very dark colored If you do that like you were recommending it gets ahead of the insect problem And get them frozen get those berries frozen as soon as possible because that will stop that little worm in its tracks You know, it goes in as an egg and within a few days it becomes the little maggot But if you can stop it when it's still Uh an egg or a very very tiny worm, you know, then you'll never notice that you're eating it Don't worry about it. Just big it in a pie Okay, yeah, right.  Uh, we do not we do not just get them in the freezer as soon as possible and then when they're frozen I run them underwater Okay, any last questions out there Okay, see none. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks everybody. Excellent. Okay. Have a great spring Thank you Okay, everybody. We're gonna take About a five minute break before next talk. We're gonna learn how to graft an apple tree There you go. Take a break


Ευχαριστούμε και πάμε στον άλλο Mixed Media Tuesday. Σήμερα είμαι σημαίνει ένα νέο νέο αρχιότητα και θα σας δείξω how you can easily find inspiration when you don't know what to create. My number one tip is to go through a paper path that you have at home and find a big focal point. You can do that with a magazine if you like. I have here the Vagabond in Japan, which is a new collection by Stamperia and Antonis Giannitakis. It's a lovely collection, perfect to find focal points like this big guy here and I decided to go with this big boat as my focal point. Now you can find the boat in different sizes depending on what you want to create or where you want to create. If you look through the patent paper you will find the same designs in different sizes like here for example. You can find the same boat in a smaller size and depending on which path you have either the 12x12, the 8x8 or even the 6x6 you can get a smaller and bigger sizes of the same focal point. So based on the size of your focal point you can choose on what size of an archernal you want to work with. For today I'm going with the 8x8 paper path and that's the boat that I'm going to cut out. Archernaling doesn't have to be complicated. I'm going to show you just a few simple steps on how you can end up with a page without overthinking about it. So just pick a focal point and I'll show you how you can put things together. If you are a beginner in archernaling I think that this is going to be very helpful for you since I'm going to use just basic, fun mixed media techniques that are guaranteed to give you great results.  You don't have to cut out every little detail, nobody knows how that image was in the beginning. Then I'm going to work on a loose paper, this is thick watercolor paper. If you are a beginner it is a great start. You don't have to go and buy a book, I will show you how I like to put those loose pages together. Now I'm going to grab a stencil. It is from the same collection and I did use that before in a previous page. If you haven't seen that video I'm going to link it at the end of this one. So anyway, just grab a stencil and for today I'm going to do heat embossing. So I'm going to place my stencil on top of my page and I will use a little ink pad. This is a VersaMark ink, you can use any embossing ink that you have. And I will go over the design. I'm not going to completely cover up the page, I'm mainly staying on the top corner. And then I'm going to add some stenciling on the other side of the page. And I will apply on top white embossing powder. It's really difficult to see what I'm doing at the moment since I'm working with transparent ink on white page. But you will see everything coming together once I apply the color. The embossing powder is going to resist the color that I'm going to apply later on. So the design is going to stay nice and bright. Now I'm moving over to the right side of the page and I'm going to apply even more of that design with my VersaMark ink. So what I'm doing is creating two areas of interest which are one at the top corner and the other one on the right side of the page. After applying my white embossing powder I'm using my heat gun to make sure that everything is melted. And finally it's time to apply some color. For today I'm going to use my sprays just because they are super easy and they guarantee perfect results. I am going with muted colors with oxide sprays, however you can use any sprays that you have at home. And don't pick colors that are on your focal point so you can help it pop against the background later on. Just make sure that you use two colors that they are very close in color to each other. They are going to give you some variation on the background. It's not going to look too flat and at the same time they are going to match together nicely. Think of the color wheel and pick two colors that they are next to each other. You can see here how the embossed areas resist the paint and how lovely they appear on the background. I'm lifting the paper so that the colors can bleed on one another to create even more variation. And I'm using my heat gun to make sure that this is completely dry. Now some of the ink may stay on top of the embossing which does resist the paint. That's why I'm just cleaning them up with my paper towel there. One of my favorite things to do on the background to make them look more interesting to give some visual texture is to add some splashes. I'm using the same two colors that I used in the beginning for the background. So I'm not using any new color, this is going to give something interesting at the background but at the same time it's going to stay subtle. By the way the two distaste oxide sprays that I used are old paper and speckle tag. Another go-to technique for my backgrounds is to do some stamping. For today I'm working with a stamp from the same collection and I'm going to pick the one with the writing that matches the stencil that I already have on my background. And just because I want to have some extra interest on the background I'm going to go with black archival ink. I'm not going to stamp just anywhere in the background. I'm going to stay on the areas that I already created interest. So exactly where those white embossed areas are. This is really important for the layout that I'm going for so that everything is going to end up pleasing to the eye.  Now I'm happy with the background and I'm going to show you how we can easily put together a layout just by choosing a focal point. Now I'm going to place the focal point on the right side of the page where I already created that interest with the stamping and the embossing. I need to create a cluster so I'm just going to pick up a few more elements from the paper pad. Just call as elements that you can put together one on top of the other. What you need is to create layers. I'm going to go with that earth because I have something with globes or maps and probably if you follow my original layout you have seen me using such elements many many times. And I'm going to go through the paper pad to find other elements that I can cut out like some borders for example.  You can use book pages. You can use volume to layer things. You can use tags. All things would work for creating clusters.  I would like to have a darker border on my layouts. And I want to get rid of the white edge on the cutout elements. So again I'm going to use my blending tool on the edges and you can see that detail helps the elements stand out against the background. I'm using my blending tool on all the cutouts. Or you can run your marker which is what I'm going to do with the board which is more intricate design and it's difficult to do with the blending tool. And now it's just a matter of sticking everything down. All you need to do is to stick one on top of the other to create a cluster. A cluster of interest on one side of the page. For today I'm sticking everything down with matte medium just because I'm planning to do a fun technique that I used to do a lot back in the day. And I'm going to cover up the cutouts with matte medium as well. Being very very careful not to touch with matte medium the background. The distress oxide spray that I have in the background isn't permanent and it is going to react with matte medium if you are not being careful and you are quite messy. So I'm being very neat with my matte medium here. But you don't have to do that. You can just use your liquid glue and stick one layer on top of the other and even lift the corner somehow to give some dimension. And now it's time to stick the board down making sure that it doesn't exceed the page.  I'm also covering up everything with my matte medium again because I need to do a technique later on.   And in terms of composition we do have a big area of interest on one side and on the other side a tiny smaller one. It is always pleasing to the eye. Now for my quotes I'm going to go with two stickers. The first one reads never lose your sense of wonder and the second one says the journey is the destination. So I feel like the destination is represented in this page by the globe and the journey but the boat. And I usually like to add a dot of glue at the back of the sticker quotes just to make sure that they are not going to fall apart. Now you can definitely call the page done. I'm going to take it a step further and I will show you how I used to love adding shadows on a page like this. I like to use the big brush markers. These ones have a big nib at the top. I have them for years and they never dried on me just because I use so little on every page. Just a few brush strokes and then smudge them with my fingers. I'm able to do that because at the background I have a non porous surface. So before the ink dries I'm able to smudge it a little bit. This creates shadows in a very easy way. The fun part about this marker is that it dries permanent plus it tastes transparent so it doesn't cover up the design at the background. It just adds some shadow. I find that when you use those markers on your cutouts you really bring them to life. You can easily separate one piece from another on your collage Here I just used a gray one to add shadows. I'm going to grab a brown one to add some shadows on the sails and then I'm going to show you that they are not only for adding shadows. You can even use them to spice up the colors and make the cutouts brighter. Back in the day that was my go-to technique when I was creating a layout but lately I stopped using my big brush markers because I got so many comments that people cannot find them easily in the market. These are the big brush markers by Faber-Castell and if you cannot find them there is another product by Faber-Castell which is exactly the same. It comes in a smaller barrel with a smaller nib but they do the same job. Sometimes it's even easier if you have that with a smaller nib since it is easier to go in the nooks and crannies of your designs. The ones that I'm talking about are marketed as calligraphy pens or as pit artist pens by Faber-Castell. There is a variety of colors. You can get them separately or in sets and I will provide some links down below so you can shop around. So here instead of adding shadows I'm using a bright red marker to add some color on the sails which is going to help that focal point, the boat to pop against the whole composition. And now for my final step I'm going to grab my white gel pen and I'm going to add some highlights in different parts of the cutouts just because I love the look. All those shadows and the highlights really bring all those cutouts into life. And again remember in art journaling there is no right or wrong. I always have to say that. I'm just showing you my way of creating my layout and maybe that can inspire you to create something too. Now since I'm working on an area that has matte medium underneath and it is non porous, I'm able to complete the arrays that gel pen if I don't like it. And the truth is that I am known to adding too many highlights that at the end I regret about it since I don't know when to stop with my white gel pen. So here I'm just going to outline the quotes and I'm going to call this layout done. You can frame it if you like since it is a loose page or if you want you can stick it inside a book. I do use this 8x8 one so the page that I worked with today was slightly smaller than the 8x8 page. I'm going to stick it down and maybe this is easier for a beginner since you don't have to work and commit on pages inside a binded book. You can work on a loose paper and just throw it away if you don't like it. So that was the layout for today. I hope that you had fun and that you got inspired. Down below in the description area just like all those you will find the full list of all the supplies that I used. Don't forget to like the video and leave me a comment. Thank you so much for joining me and I hope you will have a lovely day.


Ssssssssssssssss We've all been there or at least those of you that grew up with the 8 and 16 bit eras like I did Everything good at the rental store is checked out, so now we gotta roll the dice on something new And it's at that point that many publishers tried to win us over either through an all out advertising Blitz Through gaming magazines, comic books and TV commercials Or just by making some weird ass cover art The mid-to-late 90's in particular were kind of a strange time for this kind of thing we'd reached a point where not only certain game series and characters were well-established, like Mega Man, Castlevania, Sonic, or Mario, or whatever, but even certain licenses and developers were starting to catch on as a sign of quality. You could usually count on Capcom, Konami, and Squaresoft to create something good, but even stuff like Ninja Turtles and Batman usually made for good game fodder. So, the many publishers that wanted to create hype around something new, they were left with the aforementioned advertising onslaught and or bizarre cover art. One of the best examples of this is the game ZOOP. Publisher Viacom was used to putting out games based on well-established properties, everything from Ren and Stimpy, to Rocco's Modern Life, to Beavis and Butthead. Really, you didn't need much to promote games like that, you just say, hey, this exists. ZOOP, on the other hand, is the only quote-unquote original game Viacom published on the Super Nintendo anyway, so they had to come up with a strategy to get people into this game. The resulting bombardment of ads led to stuff like this. This looks pretty weird now, but hey, if you weren't there, this is just what the 90s looked like, kids. This fit right in with everything else. I'm sure there are at least a couple of you watching that see this ZOOP logo and say to yourself, hey, it's that! Or maybe you never played this at all, and your mind's eye only recognizes it subconsciously, thanks to the inherently insidious nature of marketing. So what the heck is ZOOP? It's a single-screen puzzle game where you play as an arrow that moves around in a 4x4 square, while a bunch of shapes made up of different colors start popping up from all sides, and you gotta clear them up before they reach your square. The thing is, you can only get rid of stuff the same color as your shooter arrow thing. If you fire at something that's a different color, you switch colors with it, so in order to get rid of stuff as it comes, you gotta be constantly flipping colors to destroy what's coming at you. It's actually not that bad. Music is okay, and the gameplay is simple enough, although yeah, it is pretty distractingly ugly at times. Since this is a puzzle game, this ended up being one of those games that was absolutely friggin' everywhere. DOS, Mac, Game Boy, Game Gear, Jaguar, the friggin' Saturn got a port for some reason, and while it's not exactly worth going out of your way to play, it's not that bad either.  The best example of this is Forsaken, otherwise known as this game. I covered this one in its own video a while back, but it's worth mentioning here, because this is a classic case where I think the advertising Blitz actually did this game a disservice. I mean, the cover has nothing to do with the game for one thing, and Forsaken, as it turns out, is actually halfway decent. Yeah, it's a total descent clone, and yeah, you get a fair share of awkward camera angles where you can't see where you are or who's shooting you, but it has a fairly solid single-player campaign, and hey, if you manage to get at least one other person to play with, it's got a multiplayer mode that's pretty dang fun, and it's up to four-player compatible. You gotta love that. So yeah, the cover here is actually a model named Dana Deciani, and what she has to do with the game, I have no idea, but she appears to be confused about whether or not your future is Forsaken and whether she should repeat that about 700 times. Another N64 game is Shadow Man. I swear I saw this cover everywhere. I even had a friend in high school that thought this game had something to do with Mortal Kombat for some reason just based on the skull, and the guy looking like he might be Dalsam's nephew's cousin's former roommate. I always thought he kind of looked like Byron Allen. And hey, what do you know? This game is actually cool as hell. You play as Michael, who's the latest in a long line of voodoo warriors assigned to protect the world of the living from stuff that wants to come over from the world of the dead, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Jack the Ripper is involved, there's jumping between worlds, but the point is, as you can see, is that this game is dark as hell for an N64 game, both figuratively and literally. Yeah, I know this game was also released for PlayStation, Dreamcast and Windows, but it's a bit jarring to see on N64, and it plays reasonably well too, I mean for games of this era. There's plenty of moments where you wonder where the heck you're supposed to go, but this game at best is reminiscent of something like Tomb Raider. So yeah, if you're into mixing real-life serial killers with supernatural stuff, you'll dig Shadow Man. I was actually pretty surprised how much I liked this one, and hey, what do you know? This game recently got a remaster for PC, so check that one out if you can.  Plus, I saw this ad, in particular, every friggin' where I went, and I always hated it because it was usually printed on cheap, crappy newspaper or comic-quick paper, and I couldn't even make out what it said. I mean, geez, this font is overdosing on 90s. Dial it back a bit. Meanwhile, the cover looked like this, which is fine, but it gave me a completely different vibe than the ad, so I just straight-up ignored the game. It turns out, this game was developed by DMA Design, otherwise known as the folks that would eventually become Rockstar North.  The point I'm trying to make is, I totally missed out on this game back in the day because of my own pointless stubborn, willful ignorance. Body Harvest is actually pretty dang fun, it's worth checking out. So if you have your own personal body harvest that you can remember, you should go back and give it a chance. And I mean, like, the game, not actually procuring organs. You get what I mean. Don't steal people's kidneys. Moving on, let's bounce back to the Super Nintendo, and it's everyone's favorite crazy grandpa. Everyone's seen this cover for the game Phalanx, easily the most what in the hell is that supposed to be game box art of the 16-bit era, or maybe ever? Yeah, I know it says the hyperspeed shoot out in space, but I mean, that doesn't exactly narrow it down. Do you play as the old guy in space? Is it a game like Cotton? Only instead of riding a broom, you're riding a banjo? If anyone wants to steal that idea for a sprite swap, please do so. So what's the deal with this box art? Well, Destructoid actually had an interview with one of the guys that worked with the ad agency for Phalanx publisher Chemco, and the answer is pretty much exactly what you'd think it would be. The game needed to stand out from other space shoot-em-ups, so they went in hard on the what the hell is that factor, and got the now famous banjo player, who had worked previously in advertising as Santa Claus. If you want to read the article yourself, there's a link in the description. And by the way, I wouldn't be doing my due diligence if I didn't come to bat for Phalanx. It's a perfectly decent horizontal shoot-em-up, and it's pretty newcomer-friendly too since you don't die in one hit.  Next, there's Brutal Paws of Fury. Now, to me, this game is the biggest reason why a huge multifaceted ad campaign signaled a major red flag. It's like they're wildly overcompensating for how mediocre the game is. I remember walking into Funko Land one day and seeing this huge cardboard cutout for this advertisement. It made the game look really cool. Variations of this ad were all over the place, but when Brutal Paws of Fury finally arrived, it looked like this. Just another painfully generic one-on-one fighting game to get lost in a freaking sea of them.  What is this Eastern European Looney Tunes? This badass looking lion back here? Yeah, he's this guy in the game. Come on, that's not even remotely close. You wonder why kids are in such a hurry to get cynical?  Of course, I also have to talk about Tough Enough, also known as the game that was responsible for this cover. Yeah, this looks awesome. We got some Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld-style art here. We got some generic version of All Might from My Hero Academia or Dollar Store Sabertooth, if you're looking at this back when it was released. Master the moves to Master Me? Uh-oh, that's not good. And yeah, this game is just kind of there. It's not as egregiously bad as Brutal Paws of Fury. I mean, this was at least made by Jailaco, so it's competent. It's just aggressively generic. Like, this game is going door to door to tell everyone how freaking regular and ordinary it is. It wears white polo shirts with beige pleated dockers. It drives a tan Toyota Corolla where it listens to Kings of Leon. It's go-to Beerus Miller Lite and it eats its steak with ketchup. Well, okay, it's not that offensive. This game is competent and that's about it, despite what that cover would tell you. Last but not least, let's take a look at this cover for Dino City, where we've got Poochy the Dinosaur, wearing super cool sunglasses and a leather jacket, over here hanging out with Lieutenant Tasha Yar's head on a child's body. Three things were certain in life when this game was around in rental stores. Death, taxes, and, like, three copies of Dino City being available for rent while everything else was checked out. The thing is, though, this game is actually pretty good. No, really, you ride around on this dinosaur-punching stuff or slinging projectiles with the ability to actually jump off to trigger platforms or dodge damage or grab stuff above you. This game is cleverly laid out. The level design does a nice job working with your character's abilities, plus the controls are fine, the music is nice, and the art style here is sharp-looking. It reminds me of a faster-paced Joe and Mack. Okay, that's being a bit generous. It's not that great, but still, when I sat down to play Dino City way back when, I remember thinking, where the heck has this game been?  It's just that awful cover art chased me away. Don't let the same happen to you. Give this one a chance. All right, I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


What's up, everybody? Welcome to SPM Buzz. My good name is Miskit Inji. And right about now, as you can see on my background, I am at the International Departures at the JKIA. And I'm here to bid goodbye to the Super DJ, DJ John Falme, who has a show, or rather, not just one show. He has quite a number of shows in Australia. And here he is. Joe, what's your name? Fiti Mambo. I'm Fiti Kabsau Nafilaji. I'm from Nikanahama. I'm from Nikanahama. What are the shows in Australia? The show is Sita. So, basically, it's a holiday. Hey, hey, hey! Joe is going to make money on holiday. No, no, no, no. It's an easy task, depending... Because the first time it was crazy, we had five shows. It was less, but it was very intense. But in Australia, it's how you map your route. You know how to map routes. You know how to map routes. You know how to map routes. That's important because all those shows, you have to fly to all those cities. So, last time, I took an organized sauna. But this time, it's quite easy. How do you feel in Nafilaji? Because you even get these gigs in the US. It's not the easiest, you know. How do you feel? No, I feel good. Change of environment, Pia, Nifiti. So, it's two weekends. I mean, it's a different experience. It's a unique audience. From Kenya to Nigeria, from Zung to Pana Kale. And then, you know, from Australia, Philippines, Nani, all these guys will be there. So, it's a good experience for us. And then, in between the week, if there's a festival, I can go jumping, do a cassette. So, we come here and explore, learn. So, that's what I'm going to do. I've seen quite a number of DJs going to Australia. What's good there? What's happening? Money. Australia is very good. Because the first time I went was in, I think, 2017, when I went to Australia. So, Kenyans have made a lot of good progress in Australia. Because some of these clubs are owned by Kenyans as well. So, in Kenya, there's a club. So, I'm going to say, ah, it's a two-loved quivers. You can go and create the entertainment scene for Kenyans, where Kenyans can go out and party, get updates from the latest music. So, it's a very intense experience. So, it's a lot of... I'll tell you later, if you want to go, you can do it. Like, in a year, you can go even two, three times. For sure. Okay. Now, looking at the calendar of events for June, Atamuizi Agents are Joe. You've already posted 15 bookings. Joe, how does that happen?  Do you do it alone? I think it's the way we sell and collect an out-of-the-world experience. But it's just like the way we do videos. I'm sure, after a while, I'll be able to do it myself. I'm busy with the PRCC. In fact, I'm free. Monday to Thursday, I'm free. So, I don't have to do my job. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Our bookings will be at the end of August, and we'll be able to do it on October, September, October. But, you see, that's only during the weekends. So, during the weekdays, I'll be able to build up a tattoo, TV interviews, TV shows, some radio shows up in Apale. Yeah, yeah. Oh, all right. How is the pilot's cooling and academics doing there? It's going well. We're even doing something with the academic soon. You'll see on YouTube. I'm not sure if I'll be able to copy it.  I'm not sure if I'll be able to copy it, but it's going really well. We're going across the country, up in Apale. Juzi, the last one I did was in Magadi. Yeah, quite challenging. So, it's not bad to learn. I mean, Joe, Janiji Buyo, how many members do you have in your team? Because it doesn't look like... We are only four in total, including me. Yeah. What do they do? So, we have driver, digital, MC. That's all. And DJ. Yeah. So, who gets you these gigs? Myself. I do my bookings by myself. I'm the manager. So, I'm the manager. I'm the manager. I'm the CEO. And I'm the one who took my job. So, I'm the one who needs it now. Do you feel like maybe you can't see Mingi as of yet? Amma, you can just handle it. I can't see him up. I don't know if I can see him up. Yeah. I'm the one who has a job, but I don't know. Yeah, so, job, I mean, we can always take as much as possible. Yeah. And so far, I took a stretch thing. Even though I'm the one who needs it, an extra person, I'm the one who needs it. I'm still the one who needs to put breaks. Yeah. If you want to keep doing more, but if you want to keep doing more, you have to do it. Yeah, that's it. You have to hold, you have to say what you want to do. But so far, it's been good. Meaning, there's no more work. Now, let's talk about, you know, the proposed bill. Yeah, 15% for content creators. You know, it could definitely affect you in one way or another. What are your thoughts about, you know, that proposed bill? In case it passes, you know. No, it won't pass. It's better. It's better. It's better. Yes, it's crazy how many content creators have their nose on it. No, like, like eggs. But for me, I mean, I always answer, I'm sorry, always answer, you know, I have a camera, I'm a juice. I'm a casimo. You know, I watch TikTok videos. When I talk to you, I watch what you use to create content. But I say, I'm going to buy a iPhone 6, I'm going to buy a iPhone 6, So you see, you know, I always answer 15%. You know, I'm just doing most content right now. You know, I'm just doing most content right now. If you ask most content creators, some are making money. Some are just starting out on one side. So, I mean, it's fair. Do you have any thoughts on how Eric Komondi is executing this campaign of trying to help the content creators? With Eric Komondi, I can never have any opinion. Because I don't know if... I don't understand Eric. I don't understand him. I don't understand him, but I don't understand him. I don't understand him. I don't understand him. I don't understand him. I don't understand him. I don't understand him. So, I wouldn't know. I wouldn't give any opinion in regards to him. Yeah. Because I'm never sure about him. I don't understand him. Yeah. Yeah. I really want to know, is there any annoying sort of trait when it comes to your profession and dealing with clients, things that you don't really appreciate as a DJ? Clients are never serious. Clients would never take us seriously. I am very casual, but I have a job I am different from the people who treat me I don't appreciate how they take it casually and it's serious business to us So that's the only thing So please tell your Australia fans What are they expecting you coming through? What should they expect? Just vibes Just have fun We are here for a good time Not a long time So to come to my vibes I expect a little bit of new music to come up and up It's a vibe Yeah We wish you all the very best Fika Oko to represent The Australian fans Jo is here So you wait for him so that he can come and entertain you guys as always Thank you Thank you Next time Alright guys That was DJ John Farmer who is heading to Australia right about now to perform in 5 states 6 states actually Stay tuned as we are going to be bringing you the snippets of what is going on there Thank you so much for watching My good name is Miss Katenji


Good day, film investors. Over the past years, the message has been clear. Value investing is dead. I agree, especially when they define it as it is usually defined. Low price earnings, low price to book, low price to cash flows. However, there is a different definition of value investing that has worked since ever and will work forever. And that is the definition I'm going to give you to really put value investing, what is, we can call it modern value investing that will work forever, no matter that old value investing might be dead. Let me give you an explanation of value investing, old value investing, new value investing. What are the key factors to focus if you want to win when investing does really use the truth everlasting value investing? The general environment, underperforming, overperforming, that's always stocked in the media. And then at the end of the video, you will know exactly what to focus on, how to focus, how to invest, where to invest that will bring you to extremely good investing returns over your lifetime. You are not investing for the next two, three years or in this hot stock, in this hot trend. No, that's not going to bring you to returns. You have to find things that will work forever and this is what you're going to get in this video. So please subscribe to this channel, we are all about things that will work forever, that will deliver returns with low risk forever. Subscribe, like and let's start with content. So is value investing dead? Well, value investing has been usually defined as low price to book value, low price earnings ratios and low price to cash flow ratios. When you define things like that, when you define things and when you look at investments by looking into a rear view mirror, because all that data, price earnings, price to cash flow looks in the rear view mirror, then it's certainly dead because investing is about what's going to happen next, not what happened in the past. So if we look at many value investing definitions from free cash flow to enterprise value, book value to price, earnings yield, sales to price, forward earnings to price, we can see big variations in related returns. Over 15 years, book value to price over the last 15 years delivered 16%, free cash flow to enterprise value delivered 220%. So does this mean free cash flow to enterprise value works and book value to price doesn't work? No, it's simply that sometimes something works, sometimes something else, this is just statistics. Statistics looking in the rear view mirror does not relevant for long term investors. Then no one measure of value has consistently performed better than others. Some there have been price to book value has done good, price to earnings other times, price to cash flows has done better. Over the last years, price to book value did really, really bad, a little bit better price to earnings. So you never know what's going to work. Well, in general, value stocks again, defined as usual defined as Benjamin Graham discussed in his book have performed terribly over the last 10 years. If we look at the Russell 3000 value versus the Russell 3000 growth index, value stocks are up 150% while growth stocks are up what 350%. So a huge difference. And that's why people are saying, okay, value stocks are dead. If we look at the Vanguard growth versus value index funds, we can see that in the 2000s value was overperforming. But since the 2008 crisis, value is really, really underperforming, albeit a little bit better than in the Russell. So again, questionable is how they measure it. Then what is value investing and is it dead? As I said, yes, value investing, if you take a fixed measure based on the past will always be dead because you never know what will work better, what will work worse over the next five to 10 years. It's all about sentiment statistics. What you need is something that you can rely all the time on. And that's something there are three core things when it comes to value investing. The first thing is cash flow, intrinsic value. Warren Buffett defines value investing by looking at the intrinsic value of a business and then trying to buy it below that intrinsic value. How does he define intrinsic value? Well, intrinsic value is what is the number that if you are all knowing about the future and could predict all the cash that a business would give you between now and judgment day, discounted at the proper discount rate, that number is what the intrinsic value of business is. Thanks, Warren. So intrinsic value is defined as the discounted value of all the cash flows that the business is going to deliver from today to judgment day. And that's something that none of those metrics that we discussed as defining value investing give you. You have to understand the business, trying to estimate what's going to happen in the sector, in the economy, competition, what's the mode, what's everything. And then you can wrongly guess what's going to be the future cash flow that's going to be delivered to you. Wrongly, yes, but it's better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong. And then you're looking at margins of safety, looking okay, it can be 100, it can be 500, 10, 5 years from now. But that is value investing, trying to estimate future cash flows with a correct predictability, probability, and then comparing to the risks and seeing okay, where is the price now, compared to what it can be in the future. That's value investing according to Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett changed his value investing techniques since starting, since studying under Benjamin Graham, because Benjamin Graham was a statistical value investor, he simply looked at businesses trading at below cash value, bought them, bought a bunch of them, and knew that those will deliver value over time as their value unlocks. However, a lot has changed since then. First, when Buffett started investing, he would take the SAP 500 manual stock market guide, and he would read all the 1000 pages, and he would find those undervalued, uncovered stocks that were really delivering great returns for him. But he had an informational advantage. That's something you cannot have now, because all the information is out there. You go to your Bloomberg terminal, and you get all the information, thus you cannot have an informational advantage. The second advantage you can have in investing is speed or scale. You call Warren Buffett, he can get an advantage, he can lend money to buy Anadarko at 10 billion here, he can buy preferred shares of Kraft Heinz or Goldman Sachs, Bank of America. You can't do that. Plus, there are flash traders from Michael Lewis' book that have the speed, have the connectivity, again, advantage that you cannot have. The only advantage you can have is having the right mindset, and that's something that you have to focus on, creating the right mindset. That's something we focus on this channel, so please subscribe and click that like button. And what does it mean to have the right mindset? The right mindset means to look long term, look at businesses, look at things that the market isn't looking. What is it out there that the market isn't looking? The market isn't looking for long-term competitive advantages, for undervalued long-term cash flows, or for cash flows that are going to come not in the next three, five quarters, but that are going to come in the next three, five years. That's something the market isn't looking. Everybody's focused, okay, I need to beat my competitors in the next 12 months, not five years, and therefore that gives you an advantage. Thirdly, the market isn't focused on another core thing of value investing, and that's risk. Value investing is focused on risk, and you try to avoid... The first rule of investment is don't lose, and the second rule of investment is don't forget the first rule, and that's all the rules there are. I mean, that if you buy things for far below what they're worth, and you buy a group of them, you basically don't lose money. Thank you, Warren. You try to avoid losing money, because the first rule of investing is don't lose money, the second rule is don't forget rule number one. When you compare those cash flows, and you look for a margin of safety, not to lose money, then the downside remains limited, and the upside is unlimited. That is what is core everlasting value investing. Do you see the difference between value investing defined from whoever wants to be a value investor or whoever calls value investing dead, and value investing defined in a buffet way, and that will work forever. Buffet defines value investing as cash flows and a margin of safety. If I'm wrong, what do I fall onto? What gives me protection? If I'm right, what's the upside? Not past price to cash flow, price to sales or something. Even if I think that even those past metrics might work very, very well in the future, let's see. So when you're looking at value investing and you look at the price to book value, over the 90 years that Kenneth French and Eugene Fama have given us the data to calculate, price to book value has outperformed growth investing in 84 of the 90 years. If this was up to 2016 measure, so if we add the three years over the last three years that value investing didn't outperform, so value investing outperformed growth investing in 84 of the last 94 years, so 84 of 94. So one in nine years, over the next 10 years when you measure returns, growth investing will do better. So statistically, I think that value investing will continue to do good. It's just that there are periods when value investing doesn't outperform, like the 1990s, like now when growth stocks were really, really hot. And then here is the chart showing the difference between growth stocks and value stocks. You can see here, this is the last 10 years when looking at performance, it has been flat underperforming growth stocks. But over the last 70, 80, 90 years, I think the message is clear about value investing, especially because price to book value, now it can be measured differently, but gives you a sense of protection. And we have seen only increasing rising markets over the last 10 years, so value investing, the margin of safety didn't matter that much because everything goes up. Rising tide lifts all boats. So it isn't the first time that value stocks disappointed investors for a long time. We have seen similar performance in the 1990s.com bubble and you all know what happened lately. And then US value stocks have rarely been this cheap relative to growth. So five times cheaper relative to valuations. Will there be a mean reversal? I don't know. I don't care because I look at cash flows and I look at future cash flows and risk. Historically, there was always a mean reversal. So you see, when value stocks were very cheap and underperformed the market, the forward 10 year premium returns were very positive and vice versa. When value was doing really good, the next 10 year returns were very bad. To conclude on this data overview from Kenneth French library, value outperformed growth by an average of 4.6 percentage points per annum. So the market average was 8%, growth was 5.7% and value was 10.3%. The differences are staggering. So if you just invest 100,000 over 10 years, 5.7%, 174,000, 10.3%, 266,000, those are staggering differences. If you do the same over 50 years, the difference is amazing. And that's what it is all about. That's what it is all about. You're not investing over the next 5, 10 years. You're investing over the next 20, 30, 40 indefinitely probably if you will leave your wealth to your children or you want to live off their wealth for as long as it goes. So if you are promiscuous about your investing styles, sooner or later your portfolio will get the disease. But if you focus on cash flows and if you focus on managing risk, that's all you need and that is real. Everlasting, modern value investing, Warren and Buffett has been applying. To conclude, there are three things you have to remember. Cash flows from today to judgment day. This counted at whatever rate you want to reach and then you can compare things. Managing risk, don't lose money, allow those cash flows to compound no matter what happens. We cannot predict the future. And the third key is of course, subscribe to this channel for the correct mindset when it comes to investing. I'm always amazed by JP Morgan's chart that shows that the markets did good, reach did good, everything did good. But the average investor over the last 20 years did terribly because they don't have the right mindset. They are always chasing the hot trend, the hot stock, what worked in the past. They always investing with the rear view mirror, looking at, oh, free cash flow to enterprise value looked good. Let's buy that. Let's do that. And that's not the way to invest. And therefore you get those terrible returns instead of getting the great returns. So long-term investing, having the right mindset, subscribe to the channel. And if you want to see the stocks I'm researching that I'm investing in that have 50 years of production ahead, competitive advantages that are the best in their sector and that will be great no matter what happens with the economy long-term, then please check my stock market research platform in the link below. And you have all my website, you have many articles, mindset, research stocks that I have there publishing. So please check that out. And I'll see you in the next video.


So guys today I bring you another Dying Light 2 video and I'm guessing this is going to help a ton of people out. Are you guys locked out of the Doom easter egg challenge? Well today I have a fix for you. How's it going guys? My name is DPJ and if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more Dying Light be sure to subscribe. Also guys join my discord link below one of the best Dying Light 2 communities out there if you're looking for people to play with, dupe with absolutely anything go ahead and join again link below. Also credit to Arubeck who's from my discord for bringing this to my attention. Without him I wouldn't know about it so again thanks to Arubeck for this actual fix. Okay so are you locked out of the Doom easter egg?  Once you're down there and your game thrills once you're down there and you fast traveled out any reason guys it doesn't matter. This will fix the problem of the elevator being stuck on level zero meaning it's not there for you to go back down into the Doom easter egg challenge. This fixes the problem and it's quite simple guys all you need to do is go up to the elevator and simply invite a friend into your game what this will do guys is actually open up the elevator how this works why this works absolutely no idea whatsoever but you can see me doing this unscrew now because obviously I posted a video yesterday of how you can keep the kadoom shotgun from this Doom easter egg challenge how that worked was you go into the challenge quit out your game load back into the game which you've done this you'd be back up in the open world but you wouldn't be able to come back down into the doom easter egg challenge. Good thing is you get the kadoom shotgun to use whatever you liked bad thing is you wouldn't be able to come back down into this doom easter egg challenge like I said this resolves that issue too so you will be able to come back here by simply like I said going up to the elevator if it's just invite a friend into your game make sure he joins once he does the elevator should open up for you I've tested this on pc it's been tested on ps5 so it should work for you guys and well there's the fix I hope it helps you out if it does and leaving a like really helps me out if you're new around here once you're more dying like be sure to subscribe don't forget to join my discord guys you won't regret and hopefully people I will see you on that next one