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A 10-year note, up a full point plus one tick at 118.26, the 30-year up a full point plus 23 ticks at 140.07, and king dollar, king dollars down 163 ticks, trading at 106.914, the year is 101, the yen is at 137, the British pound is at 119 to one US dollar. iPhone number's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks. I know it's going on in your world. In the world of the S&P's, let's take a look at it. And what do you have, folks? Check it out, man. Bottom line, you know, I just did that update. It's breaking the B point right now. Your next leg up, we're at 3993. Your next leg up, folks, is 4234. And let's just see if we're gonna get the ABC, man. This is a market man that is so freaking cool. It's insane. Let's see what we got. 27,019, okay, you got a minute. We got a minute to get 8,000 contracts. You get 8,000 contracts, intraday, you got an ABC structure on the way up. Pretty wild, man. And so that's on the intraday. We take a look at this on the daily, and what you're gonna have is that the bottom line is that you launched the swing points. You know, your first downdraft out here when those three days of the downdraft going back to the 9th of June, the bottom of that is 4016. So we'll see what kind of flack you get at that particular point. We go into the NQs. We take a look at the NQs. NQs will lead in this market, man. That's the bottom line. We take a look at the NQs out here. And we have what the NQs, pull this back. And this baby, okay, so that's 99. Oh, look at, no, the NQs. So the NQs, there was shot for an ABC structure on the way up, okay? What we had is this. You had 99,000 clontrax at the first high, 9900 rather, 9900, and we just did 7,800. So we'll see whether we get more in the next bar. But the bottom line is that that bar there didn't have enough. Let me just go back, because what I'm saying enough, enough for a confirmed ABC structure on the way up intraday, because these intraday ones are something else, man. So let me just look at this bar again. You got 22 versus 27. No, we got light there, too. That being said, guess what? Market wants higher price. Gold, let's go take a look at the gold contract out here. What do you have inside the gold contract? What we have inside the gold contract is this. You came down, so you had the ECB come out this morning, folks. They went a half a point instead of a quarter. That was a surprise for the marketplace. Guess what? What it didn't do, which is unbelievable, is it didn't do anything for the pound. Okay, I can imagine if they only did a quarter percent, the pound would have went to like 50 cents. Only kidding, but it would have really smoked. Anyway, gold market, what the gold market did is this. Gold market went down to 16.78. Now the intriguing thing about the gold market going down to 16.78, that wasn't even when the dollar was up. I mean, down. The bottom line is that it rejected lower price there. We have the price spread going on right now. There's no doubt about that. You're talking about 32, well, 22, 32, but yeah, about 37 point spread out here today. Now what you do need is you need follow through. That's what it comes down to. We've had on a continual basis, there's been no sellers. The bottom line we haven't had follow through. There hasn't been a sign of strength all the above. What is intriguing out here today, of course, is that what you do have is that interest rates are going down versus going up. We are at 2.9 right now on the 10-year. And if we go take a look at this 10-year, what you're looking at, we were going sideways on the 10-year. Bottom line is that what you have out here today is that it's 155. You don't have a lot of volume, man, but the 10-year is saying that we are gonna make it run back up to 120. Right now you're at the 118.27. We go take a look at the 30-year US, where I am in US. Okay, here we go. The 30-year, you get 303,000 contracts. Now that's a decent contract volume on the 30-year. You know, because the 30-year normally comes in about 2.250. Yeah, you get action here, man.  It's not gonna take much. I suspect tomorrow it's gonna happen, we're gonna go after the swing point. The swing point that we're talking about is 14206. If we get a ABC structure up, folks, inside of the 30-year, what that's going to be saying is that your probability is gonna get higher, and we'll see the Fed fund futures rate starting to trade off of that, that when you take a look at the Fed calendar, the next meeting is on the 27th of July, which is, of course, next week. And I suspect a half a point is built in, but if you take out the high in the 30-year, it would probably take it out in the 10-2, that's telling me that in September, the next one out here is September 21st, it'd be saying that we would back off a bit on the interest rate structures, which, hey, we'll see where this goes, but that's what this market is saying at this particular point, because inside the bond market, they are buying this thing hands over fist right now, that's how it's shaking out, and when we go back and we take a look at the spy, you gotta remember something, that the swing point in the spy is 417, well, we're at 397, calendar-wise it's setting up correctly, the reason being it's setting up correctly is that next week's the last trading week of the month, and guess what? You go into window dressing. So it has a shot to really get some action going here, man. Dow, Dow Industries up 15, Aziz up 125, S&P's are up 25, stay right there, folks, we'll come right back. 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And we just, it wasn't one of the questions he was joking around a bit I think about like how many ABCs can you have before it craps out. The largest ABC structure I've seen in the marketplace and we rode most of this folks was AMAT and 1998 to 2000, it just kept doing ABC structures. One after the other after the other, it was crazy. Bottom line is that when you are in an ABC market, it's pretty cool. Now that's the bull side of it. The bear side goes like this, that when you are doing ABCs, I've seen when an ABC finishes, I've seen plenty of them fall apart too, okay? But to answer the question, that was the longest I've ever seen. I mean, it was unbelievable. It was like for a year and a half. It was, I forget the exact date when it started, but it was, well, you know what it probably was. No, I got it actually because what happened in 98 is that that was the Asian contagion. And as soon as the Asian contagion was over, so that would have been October of 98, it never stopped from October of 98 going right up to the millennium in 2000. Because the reason I remember that is that I remember the amount of calls that were coming in and I got this, so this is crazy. And you probably heard this story before because I told it a few times. We were having a New Year's party and what happened is that almost every person was coming up to me saying I'm never gonna sell on this and I'm looking around and I'm saying to myself, okay, man, I get a feeling that this is like really a huge problem. And by about 1.32 o'clock in the morning, it was just so extraordinary that people started saying to me, no, I'm not gonna pay the tax and I'm not, and I says, no, no, this market's done, man. And what ended up happening, January 3rd to January 6th, that was the high, I believe in the NASDAQ or the SMP, and March 10th was the high in the NASDAQ, okay? And that was the end of like an amazing run. And then, you know, so anyway, ABC structures can continue to go on an amazing basis. The thing that does happen is that the, well, yeah, no, thanks, EKS. I'm gonna go over to these right now because when I was talking about this this morning, the home builders, and this is gonna be deviant, man, the home builders are doing ABC structures up. Look at this, Lana, Lana's blowing, oh no, no, no, it didn't have it, okay, hold it, man. Oh, see, now this is, okay, let me bring up DHI too. Well, yeah, I'll finish with Lana. This morning, when we were looking at this, it should have had the volume. This had 1.4 million when I was on at 10 to 11 when I was doing Larry's show this morning. And now it's not gonna have the volume. It has the price, okay? So that's saying Lana can run to like 83 and you're at 81. Let's go to DHI, DH Horton, DHI. Cause it'd be really strange if, this definitely should have had the volume. Let me stir this.  It needs a volume of 4.4 million then 5 million. It's a decent one too. Your B point is 75 and a half. Your A point is, yeah, it's $10 A to B, which gets you $80 and right now you're at 75. Let me pull a few more of these up and see where this shakes out. So, Ovenia. Well, let's pull the strongest one up, okay? So if I take this, see, that's interesting too. Well, DH Horton is, this year, has been the strongest one. No, let's change 28% MDC, Ovenia. Oh, look at this, this is interesting. BZH. Now BZH, that's BZA. Let's see what they're doing, man. If this is ever doing an ABC up, it'll blow my mind. Because this is just, no, it's not, right? Yeah, it's not. Let's go to Home Depot and see what Home Depot is doing to see if there's gonna be any traction in that area. No, that's falling out of bed. It's up on $1.13, but you can see Home Depot, this, Home Depot's coming into 2.9 million. You got 1.7, the swing point there is 308.46. 308.46, yeah, 308.46, and right now you're at 303.45, you know? So, we're gonna have some divergence out there. The GHI though, no doubt, was really intriguing. You know, the numbers weren't bad, weren't great, but the bottom line is that the market liked it. That's what it comes down to. It liked it and liked it in spades. Let's go take a look at some of the higher volume equities out here and see what we have. So, you got mob bells down at buck 64. They're having a problem collecting phone bills, which is pretty intense, man, because phone bills aren't that expensive. You got American Airlines down at buck 27. You got Apple up 193. We have NVIDIA. Oh, look at that, NVIDIA gave it up. Let's go to NVIDIA. NVIDIA. So, NVIDIA, oh no, I see, I see, okay, that was yesterday. Right, okay, so NVIDIA's still, the high of today was 181. NVIDIA took over, blew away at swing point, has volume on the blow away, NVIDIA's gonna be making its way up to this 196 area. Some of the other higher volume, well, hey, let's go to Tesla, because Tesla bottom line is blowing away swing points, has the price movement, has the volume, has it all. Yes, yeah, there you go. So this is how you wanna blow a swing point away too, and blow a consolidation away. You can see the top of the consolidation here, 793, you're at 816, you get volume of 42 million. You also have, let's just see what the 0.382 on the bounce would be. A 0.382 would be 821. And I'll say you can see 821 in a second. That's a 0.382, a 5.0 is a 892, and then we take a look at, it's not, hey, the shot position is not bad. The shot position right now is only 3.16. Now, granted, that's 27 million shares, but it's not like a 10% shot position inside there. Now, I suspect there'd be some buy-in because you get an acceleration like that, bottom line, which I expected, you're gonna see some buy-in in there, but that equity wants higher price. That's the real bottom line. So let's go inside the NDX again and see what's moving this baby. Because if we hold up like this, yeah, Tesla's up 10%, you get NetEase up 5.5%, ASML is up 4.7, and Pindore do is up 4.  And there's no doubt as we, yeah, let me show you something here. This is pretty cool, too. We're gonna go over to the DAX in Germany because we can see what happened. You gotta always remember something. Europe is basically four and a half hours ahead of us, and what happened this morning, as you were doing it, the DAX had been down, the DAX had a low of $13,097, and it just kept clawing back, clawing back, clawing back. That says quite a bit. You wanna, I think you should pay attention to that intraday because it gives you a lot of great hints as to where we're going. Stay right there, folks, come right back.


Hey there, it's Sandy and today I'm going to tell you why I have so many color pencil sharpeners and use them all the time For a long time. I used exclusively the bow stitch quiet sharp and I've talked about that here on the channel And here's the reason why This thing knows when to stop eating your pencil and that was important to me I went through a lot of sharpeners that just would keep eating the pencil and eating the pencil and eating the pencil And so this one I loved a lot of people said it's too big and too noisy, but there you go. It's just what it is However, there were some instances when that was not sharp enough. So I have a bunch of handhelds and This one is an old handheld. You could hear it hardly made any noise. Listen to this guy That is what a sharp blade sounds like So if yours is not making the same noise it used to and it's kind of crunching your pencils in weird ways That could be why so get yourself a new one. They're really cheap. Go ahead and get one and This is my afmat that I also introduced recently There are a number of different brands that have this kind of a pencil sharpener But it gives you a really long point and for some people they get really jealous of the long point They love it but look at how not sharp that long point is compared to the quiet sharp and Compared to what you can get when you use that and held Well, this point doesn't go very well into a handheld because it's not the same shape To sharpen that they give you a tiny rectangle of sandpaper and It's very tiny and it's a little awkward to be opening your pencil sharpener all the time In order to use that and I suddenly had the brilliant idea to use another tool that's been here in the studio forever and It is a stump sander And I call it a stump sander, but it's actually just a sandpaper block You could use a sheet of sandpaper make your own stump sander. I've made my own before and Use that for your pencils It's really an easy thing to do It's less work than getting out the inside of the pencil sharpener and you can sharpen just that tip It does make a little awkward look for it. It doesn't Sharpen the entire long pencil. It just sharpens the very tip, but that's really all you need You don't need the entire thing to be in that that needle shape You just need the tip to be really sharp now also I don't sharpen it that sharp for absolutely everything on this rabbit drawing. I did not have it that sharp for the whole thing I just sharpened it for these fine details in the white fur where I'm adding Two grays and a black in order to create that texture So use it exclusively for Those kind of details don't put yourself through getting that kind of a needle sharp pencil point Because you don't really need that the rest of the blending here was done with blending stumps and a brush and all kinds of things and Gamsol That didn't require the fine detail of a very very sharp pencil So that's my tip for you for today, it's not like super rocket science, but I thought since it's something that I Realized all of a sudden in the last couple months Maybe I should share that and maybe that would help somebody else to get a really sharp pencil This has been rabbit week of course here on YouTube It's been rabbit week all over social and on my blog today I've compiled everything there so you can go get links to anything that you might have missed because I post in crazy places So you want to go see that there's also a brand new rabbit on the art dash classes calm home page And you can go play with that one and see all the new content that I've put on the front page Because I finally got around to redesigning it. Also, there is a new color pencil drawing class and this one is a rabbit Yeah, you knew it was coming a rabbit It's a level five class. So it's an advanced class and Not only do you learn how to do the textures of the rabbit you'll learn how to add leaves to a picture and How to add grasses to the front how to make the rocks look like they're going back into the distance and in shadows And it's taught in polychromos with one Prismacolor pencil So you'll learn about why that is because the different pencils have different properties that work in different ways Lots to learn there. I hope you have an excellent weekend ahead. I'll be back with a new theme for next week I think you're gonna really like that one and I'll see you then take care. Bye guys


So maybe we want to talk about what the the new Cox lineup right so this year another big thing that just came to University Housing is digital cable we have been working with Cox communications our cable provider to bring a cable to bring digital cable to all of our residence halls so this year you get a more extended channel lineup it comes with the remote and you have a digital cable box that has been mounted on your wall so I'm going to take you through it real quick just show you quickly how to set it up it's really easy to do you don't have to be tech savvy to do it it doesn't take more than 10 minutes one thing to keep in mind is that we're not going to be really responsible for supporting the Cox cable boxes however if you come over here and take a look at the cable box there is an 800 number to call and throughout move-in we are going to have a Cox technicians on campus to be able to address all the issues you may have right so when it comes to the cable basically Cox will take care of that for you we're kind of you know facilitating making sure it's the easiest way to use it but they're going to be ultimately the ones who are going to do that troubleshooting right where it's not right okay so I'm going to take you through real quick how to set it up it's super easy you have a couple ways to set it up you each box has an ether as not ether an HDMI cord connected to it or if you have an older TV you still have the option to connect to the old coax yeah coax alright so I have an HDTV over here that I'm going to set up for y'all a big thing is that HDTV is new to university housing this year I know it might not be new to you however I'm really excited to be able to offer this to y'all we've been standard definition until this year until this summer another thing to keep in mind is that if you want it you have the option to go to the Cox solution store and you are able to purchase a DVR from Cox for a monthly fee I believe it runs about $30 a month if you if you love cable and you love to be able to record your shows it might be something worth looking at so you've got that DVR add-on right and then you just plug it into the cable splitter right here and you can use it just like cable box you have a hole okay great so we got a stunt TV that you brought from home yeah so basically it's always going to look wound up like this hopefully it will we've had a lot we've had a couple camps and stuff so the cable might be dangling but you'll have an HDMI cable you'll just take it and then plug it into the back of your TV yes and again this is your stunt TV that you brought from home yes and you will have a remote this will be provided by Cox communications if you do not have one in your room call Cox and they will provide one for you there's that 1-800 number right there on the thing yes however I make sure you get with the Cox technicians on campus that will be here oh big thing Cox communications will be on campus they're moving to be able to address any issues you may have we don't know where they will be yet however that information will be available during moving right on the website we'll be sure in post where they'll be as well as the channel lineup and some additional documentation you may find helpful when setting it up but we will have representatives as Jack said from Cox on campus during move-in to help you if you run into a problem with this right so we're really excited to show this to you this is a new service that we haven't had yet this is a part of the whole Cox go all digital project so it's a better TV service for all sit down so I get you guys together you and the TV together sure so this is red TV it's called or the Razorback Information Board this is on channel 1930 in every room so you will you will have this channel it's yeah so there you go this will be available on every channel and that's an internal information channel but the university has specific to us not in the larger community I think yeah so it's always great to have it just gives you news on campus you have a little news bar down at the bottom that it will show your weather and other pertinent information you'll get information about the union on this channel and just events are going on campus as well of another cool channel is UA TV that's done by students right like that's the student news channel so it's done by journals and department we've got a broadcast right now from students right no that was the CW that was the CW yeah however this is a program that is provided by our journals and department and they will show cool shows that have been produced by students like some documentaries local documentaries yeah I actually used to be a journalist a major here at the U-Base so I've had a little inside look to see how this was done it's a pretty cool process tell me about HBO HBO so yes this is another cool thing we still provide one HBO channel now we provide three so yet we provide y'all with the regular HBO then HBO to an HBO family those are on channels 340 341 and 342 so we'll just Nicholas Cage was on earlier let's see if you yeah old Nick Cage yeah so national treasure okay okay okay it's a great thing to have HBO if you have a board watching the movie HBO always does something good on it's just a good pastime would you show us the program guide sure so another big thing is cable boxes you actually get a guide turn it down just a little bit yes so with this guide you can go look these are all the channels that are available to you you get a lot of channels this year we used to provide only 70 now we provide all of these a big thing is so there's there's yeah UATV and then we get all these channels as well but you can start at the bottom so I think you can type in any channel and then you can just start from the bottom and then go from there so it's really good for channel surfing and there's all your local broadcast channels and then as you go farther down you get like your cable TV channels and the guys just really something yeah you got music channels and all we should you know we'll just sit here and watch and they can watch us watch TV would not be no we won't be like paint drying so you're using the remote control you're kind of pointing it backwards that makes me think that it's an infrared right so it's an infrared it is an infrared remote however a lot of the times the boxes will be hidden behind an armoire yeah that's the case here in fact we had to move this out to get to access to that you have what's called an infrared blaster this is right here it's connected to your cable box and it has a little sticky it'll has a little sticky pad on the back of the TV on the back of the infrared blaster you can unwind it and pull this out and put it on your TV stick it to your TV and you can just point your remote right as your TV like you're talking to your cable box and that way you don't have to worry about having it to move the dresser every time you want to control your TV so just stick that on your television or in a place where you know you're gonna point to right but hey the act of line of sight to that yes always have line of sight to it but it never really should be an issue because the cords generally long enough okay and if it's not long enough we have it we have the ability to make it longer


You and your friends are getting together. You arrived first. One by one, your friends show up and everything is normal, but the whole time you're looking out for that one friend. You know the one. Finally, they arrive. And suddenly it doesn't just feel like a normal get together. Something is different. It might even feel like tonight is just about the two of you. But the problem is, as far as you know, you're only friends. So today we're looking at a few signs that someone wants to be more than friends with you. They are physically affectionate often. Physical touch is so important to human beings. There are people who are more physical than others and a hug or a kiss on the cheek may not mean much to them. But not everyone is like the characters from The Lord of the Rings, affectionately kissing their friends on the forehead whenever they get the chance. So if they often find a reason to touch your hand, shoulder, or even your face, then that might be a sign that they see you as more than just a friend. There's a lot you can learn about your friend through how, when, and why they touch you. If they regularly hug people as a greeting, then it isn't really significant. But if you're the only one they hug, then that can tell you a lot. Psychologist Dr. Matthew Hertenstein and colleagues conducted a study in 2006 to find out whether or not we can distinguish emotions through touch. They found that we can pick up on anger, fear, disgust, gratitude, sympathy, and most importantly, love, depending on how we are touched. So if they high five you often or carefully share the arm rest with you at the movies, perhaps they're trying to tell you something. They always choose to sit with you and focus on you. If your friend decides to sit next to you every time you hang out, that could also be a sign that they wanna be more than friends. There are a lot of ways to express attention. The most obvious is how they look at you. Do they maintain eye contact with you, look at you often, or talk to you more than anyone else? You might be getting excited, but remember this isn't definitive proof. They might just be doing so because they're most comfortable with you, but you may be able to tell the difference. Psychologist Stephen Langton and colleagues found in their study published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences that human beings excel at picking up cues through other people's gaze, such as widening eyes to show interest. In other words, we can tell quite easily whether we are actually holding someone's attention or not, but that doesn't tell us everything we need to know. For that, you'll also have to look at what they're like when you're apart. They text you differently. Texting is a relatively new way for human beings to communicate. There are whole new ways to analyze tone and meaning through text. Developing a relationship over social media has both positive and negative aspects. As pointed out in a 2009 study published in Speech Communication, the way we perceive someone as charismatic is affected by how they communicate. For example, someone might seem charismatic and flirtatious over text, but in person, kind of dull. Think about how you text someone you barely know and compare that to how you text your best friends. So what does it look like when someone wants to be more than friends? They might want to text you more frequently. They would come up with any excuse to talk to you. Their texts could be full of compliments or questions as they try to find out more about what you like. If you've been friends for a while, they might start dropping hints by asking you about romantic topics, using flirty emojis and writing long messages. Next time you're texting, ask yourself if the things they're saying are in character. Would they say the same thing to their other friends? And this extends to the kinds of jokes they make. You have your own inside jokes. Ask any couple and they can probably tell you about an inside joke they have between them. Maybe it's a nickname or something they do together often. Perhaps your friend has their own nickname for you or you frequently have your own inside jokes. This could be a conscious effort for them to get closer to you. Psychologist Mark Shelvin published a 2009 study which found that humor affects mate selection and makes us more attractive. We also tend to find people we're attracted to to be funnier. If you've noticed that your friend has been laughing at everything you say, even if it honestly wasn't that funny, it might be a sign that they're attracted to you and want to be more than just friends. They get jealous. Some people might not think of this as a positive thing, especially if you don't want to be more than friends with the person. 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Well, good morning, everybody, right? So what do we expect on February 1st, right? So it's the kind of weather, but things have changed over the past two years, and we are glad you could join us. And we can still learn about stuff. So today, primarily, I want to talk about management of rhizectonia diseases in sugar beet. But first of all, I would like to thank all my crew and then the sugar beet co-operatives and the ag staff, especially, you know, they're in constant touch throughout the growing season. You know, when they see something in the field, you know, they're always willing to see what it is and how to best help you guys. So first thing I always talk about, right? We just need to understand what's going on in our particular fields. So for example, in this field, the Grover third last time he had sugar beets, you know, it looked like rhizectonia rutra. So the next time he planted sugar beets, he was also curious, like most of you. So he planted two different varieties here. As you can see the difference, right? So it's not really rhizectonia that was killing the sugar beets. It's more of a fissurium that's causing the issue. But one of the variety had better tolerance for fissurium, which you can actually see here, you know, how healthy it is looking compared to the other variety, which is actually susceptible to fissurium. It was strong for rhizectonia, but he could not save much of the crop by the harvest. And the other common problem with soil-borne diseases are we just probably don't deal with one disease at any time. You know, it's a mixture of at least two or three diseases. But the limiting factor would be soil moisture, especially. And because we have this warmness and then the temperature, the soil is pretty warm by the time we go into late June and July. So for this particular field, we're only looking at fields with the history of rhizectonia. But look at the date, right? July 21st in 2015, you know, by this time we lost most of the plants without any seed treatment or infero fungicides here. But this field had both rhizectonia and ephanomyces. You know, after two weeks, I took the picture. There's hardly anything left in the field. So again, it's more than one. But we just need to see, you know, what's the bigger problem and then try to have our management plan. But if you think about ephanomyces, you know, once in three years can be a problem, especially when we get excess moisture, right? So in 2021, we only got 29 samples for diagnosis. You know, we know we're pretty dry. So some of the soil moisture was limiting the amount of disease that we were seeing. But again, if you look at the trend, it's very similar to the past years. We got about 17 out of 29 that were surely rhizectonia and ephanomyces. We got two fissurium samples one early in the season, one later. And some of the dry conditions can also cause issues for herbicide carryover or some other issues that we don't know anything about, right? So it's low, but rhizectonia is the number one sample. Again, looking at the rainfall up and down the valley here and then southern Minnesota, right? So we were pretty dry actually. So look at the bird island here and then the Grand Forks, right? So for this, it's pretty dry. We got a little bit of moisture in, you know, May and June. But again, I guess it's more or less normal to dry in an October we received some more rain, right? So some of the diseases based on what you answered earlier in the survey, you know, they reflect the kind of the rainfall pattern. When we think about rhizectonia, it can actually kill the beets before they even emerge out of the ground, but not since 2014 because, you know, we have more and more seed treatments labeled for this. So typically what happens is either they die before emergence or just as they emerge, just at the soil line, that's where the infection happens and then pretty soon we can lose the seedling. But anything that actually hinders the emergence can also be very good for rhizectonia. You know, some of the younger seedlings are also very susceptible. The main difference here, you know, whether it's a specialty variety or a non-specialty variety for rhizectonia, both of them are really susceptible when the seedlings are young at this stage. As you go later into the season, you know, these are really artificially inoculated research plots, but you know, it's not uncommon for me to see some, some of your fields with the severe rhizectonia.  And it's very also typical, the rhizectonia moves up and down in a row, you know, just like a serial killer, right? So the best time for you to go and scout the fields would be, you know, pick kind of the warmest part of the day and then you can see some of the older leaves they start to wilt. But if you notice, there could be one or two dead seedlings right next to it. So basically, you know, the rhizectonia has just started here and it is making its way. But if one or two seedlings have, you know, any trouble emerging, you know, either because of the residue or some other reasons, they could be more susceptible compared to the, you know, strong plant here. The prior to round-up ready sugar beads, we used to see lots and lots of crown rot and also the root rot, right? So typically we see a ladder-like pattern on the roots, you know, very dark lesions, but more and more we are seeing something like these here. You know, the crown looks very healthy and so is the very bottom part. You're seeing some root rot here. And again, here the crowns look very healthy, but the lower part of the roots are completely rotted, right? So, you know, within a couple of weeks, these plants will completely die. And what we get is rhizoctonia. It makes these resting structures. These are known as skirosia and these can stay in the soil for two to three years. So when you have like edible beans or soybeans or corn, any of these rotation crops, which are also good for rhizoctonia, that's how this inoculum is actually maintained from crop to crop. Again, some of the main points. If you think about rhizoctonia salami, there are many different anastomosis groups, but the primary ones that we are concerned right now are AG2-2. AG4 used to be some problem, especially at the seedling phase, but I don't think with all the seed treatments we have, it's any concern right now. In AG2-2, we have 3B and 4 subgroups. The only difference is 3B likes a little bit warmer temperatures compared to 4, but when it comes to how they can affect the sugar beads, there's really no difference. They both can cause equally significant damage to them. We talked about sugar beads, soybean, edible beans, corn, and actually some of the common weeds, like big weeds, which are in the same family as the sugar bead, they're also a good host for rhizoctonia. So if you listen to Dr. Peters advise and take care of weeds, you're actually taking care of some of the rhizoctonia there. And I told earlier that it can survive for two to three years, is looking at the survey, one third of you told me that, even you have wheat or small grains, you're still seeing some rhizoctonia issues. Sometimes having one year of wheat is helpful, but if you have a severe field, the inoculum could still survive for more than two years. So there will be some level of rhizoctonia when you come back to sugar beads. And if you think about the distribution, sometimes it's very random in a field, especially a lot of moderate fields. And in some fields with the severe history, you see a large patches of dying beets, that's very common. But what happens at the end of the season, you're cultivating and you're working the ground, you're actually moving this some of the inoculum around so the patches get bigger and bigger if you're not really managing this disease. And we looked at, where does rhizoctonia exist in a particular field? Most of the fields I would say in the top four inches, but when we looked at some severe rhizoctonia spots and then actual rhizoctonia was present in all the way up to six inches, right? So it just tells you that, you have higher loads of inoculum, when we have higher loads of inoculum, you tend to see the disease developing early, if you have just enough moisture. We talked about cultivation, some of you are doing cultivation to manage weeds, but again, when you throw some of the soil, basically rhizoctonia can get into the crowns and then that's where it can initiate the infections. So any management actions that you do that can reduce the inoculum buildup, it's useful for not only the sugar beet crop and it's for the rotation crops too. So so it means, it's very similar to sugar beets, right? So before even the seed emerges out of the ground, you can see some crosses on the conledon here and they don't ever make out of the ground. And even if they emerge, you can see this next process at the most of the root system is gone for soybeans. This is all from Crookston inoculated trials. And navy beans, it's a very similar pattern. Again, I told you how rhizoctonia moves up and down the row here. You can see a row of plants dying, probably this is early emerged and a little bit stronger plant here compared to some of these had some issues so you can lose those zero. So what do we do in the rotation crops, right? I mean, it's very similar to what we do in sugar beets. So if you look at our colleagues publication from an article to state from 2022, you know, some of the seed treatments and the informal fungicides and the foliar application, you know, these are also labored in sugar beets. Just follow these recommendations. And on top of this, you know, you can talk to your dealer about if there are any specialty varieties in these rotation crops that can tolerate rhizoctonia, now, which is very good for you. And when we think about rhizoctonia, we already talked about, you know, choice of the crop in the rotation and the wheat control. Most of you are already doing a three to four year rotation. But, you know, if you have a severe field, you know, your four year rotation is better compared to the three year rotation. Early planting, I know you're all eager to go and plant, you know, when the field is ready, it's really good because you're off to a good start and the soil is relatively cooler, which is not really good for rhizoctonia. And then let's look at some trials from 2021. Now, some of the results are very similar to what we have seen in the previous years. The use of resistant varieties, you know, several options for seed treatments and infra fungicides, as well as the post-emergence fungicides, right? These are just ballpark numbers here, you know? Each of you may have a different cost in terms of applications. For the seed treatments, like I said, since 2014, we've got several seed treatments labeled that have excellent efficacy for rhizoctonia. They all belong to one class. It's called succinate dehydrogen is inhibited, right? So what they do, they have a single target in the fungus that's rhizoctonia and they inhibit the respiration, right? So it cannot really read. For the seed treatments, we get cabena, vibrance, cystiva, and I think going forward in 2022, you'll have some options for Xeltera. Let's say another Sdhi compound from Vellent and Metlox feed in combination with cabena or vibrance, right? So the red ones here, they're not Sdhi. So just look at the rainfall in 2021. You know, we talked a little bit. It's so pretty dry, how dry? April through June, we got about 40 to 50% of the 10-year average and then about 40 to 50% of the 30-year average rainfall. And when we hit July, we got about 3200s, right? That's about 10% of 10 and 30 years. Then August was more or less normal and then September, it's very similar. In October, we got slightly higher rain, but it also meant that, you know, when we think about rhizoctonia, we got some disease going on in the later part of the season. So, you know, when I looked at the pattern for the samples we received, you know, we did receive some samples later in the season that were positive for rhizoctonia and it was true for stochospora here too, you know, once we got some rain, actually stochospora took off, you know, it's not as bad as in previous years, but there was some significant damage in Crookston. And looking at the, how did the seed treatments do, right? So I got the number of plants for a hundred foot of row on the Y axis and then the days after planting. So there is nothing on the seed here, the not stellar stance, right? We are looking at 150 plants for a hundred foot of row and then we lost a little bit of stance from three to four weeks after planting and then really not much activity. So these are all inoculated with rhizoctonia prior to planting. So now look at the seed treatments. So that's Cistiva here, Havina and then Vibrans, right? So exactly very similar. And Xaltera, you know, it's slightly higher compared to the seed treatments. But let's look at the statistics here, right? So, and I'll make this presentation available on the SBREB website like everybody else's so you can take your time to go through the numbers. But looking at the 28 days after planting, right?  And when we looked at the infero fungicides, you know, typically what we do, we mix the fungicide in three gallons of water and then mix with three gallons of 1034 O and then we apply via drip tube, right? So we don't do T-band like in Michigan. It's always drip tube or the seed in the form. But one thing to keep in mind when you're using a starter fertilizer and the infero fungicides, agitation is a key thing, right? You know, some mix very well and some do not because this is just after 10 minutes. But the key is, as long as you have some good agitation system, you know, you will not have any issues for the infero fungicides. So looking at some of the ones we tested in 2021, what is it, nine and a half Louis Downs asteroid and now it's a very equivalent rate of hydroxystrobine latest at 7.1 and Xanthin, it's a combination of headline and a biological part, but you know, going forward, the BASF is not interested in pursuing these in sugar beets, but I think it's labeled for other crops and preaxur, proline and propyls, all of these actually have a label it can use as a infrared application. Again, the untreated one, I sure gave about 150 beets and a slight reduction with the inforose. So anytime it's dry, you can expect some injury as Dr. Botel's data from St. Thomas. We saw the same pattern here. Quadrants really low in terms of the stand counts early on right from the emergence. And then this is a preaxur and elitist, you know, slightly higher compared to this one asteroid. And then that's my propyls. And this is Xanthin, looked pretty safe, really high numbers early on and then it followed the trend. And then that's a proline, right? So more or less very similar except, you know, quadrants in pro here. But again, looking at the numbers, right? So 28 days after planting, untreated control, I showed you earlier, it's 138 and Xanthin had 149. So really the low stands for quadrants at 118 and elitist and preaxur, you know, they share the same letter, but they do share the same letter with the other ones like asteroid and elitist. You know, it's not very different here. So when I compared the seed treatments as a group to inferophonicides from three weeks up to six weeks, you know, the seed treatments had higher stand compared to the inferophonicides, right? It's the same trend. All these charts indicate there is a significant statistical difference. And at harvest, now we are using a new rating scale which is zero to 10. Zero is a completely healthy root and then 10 is a dead plant. It's a 91 to 100% of the root rod, right? So anytime you hit number four and above, it can be a challenge for a risectonia because you start to lose some yield. And also when you start these beats in the storage, you know, get higher respiration and you're going to have less payment, you know, for your second and third payments depending on processing. So when we look at the seed treatments and inferophonicides as two groups, the only difference we saw was in terms of percent sugar, you know, even the stand for a hundred sites, the sugar was slightly higher because the quality is a little bit better. And then I recall the sucrose per ton was also slightly higher. But when it came to RSA, there was no difference between seed treatment or inferotreatments. Again, it's pretty dry here. You know, we did not see much root rod, right? On one to 10, we're talking about 0.2 and 0.3 in 2021. The other data I wanted to show you was actually, we were actually evaluating starter fertilizers, especially 1034-0 and Paralline, which is 515-3, and inferophonicides, I know, you know, elatis, sorry for the misspelling here, and asteroid and xanthion. So we did this in 2020 and 2021 in two different trials. One I'm calling as a safety trial. It is not inoculated with rhizactonia. So we are purely looking at the crop safety and then, you know, harvest parameters. And the second trial is the efficacy. So this is the combined data for 2020 and 2021 because statistically, we were able to combine this data, right? So the only significant difference we saw, basically for starter fertilizers, right? 1034-0 is at 194 beats. This is like maximum number of plant stands per 100 foot, you know, during early time points, and Paralline is at 210 and no starts to 14. It's always the safest treatment, you know, when you think about, right? So it's less burden on the seedlings as the emerge. And then by the time we go to harvest, 178 for 1034-0, 189 and 192, right? I mean, it's about 10 to 14 beats, slightly lower for 1034-0. By the time we go to harvest, now only difference we saw actually was for the fungicides, you know, in terms of, even though in 2020, it's not in our plated trial, you know, we saw a little bit of disease developing in this particular trial. So when there was no fungicide, we looked at an 82.90 because it was a cruise per acre compared to asteroid, 89.73 and latest 87.00 and Xanthin was slightly lower, that's 85.00. So this is the only difference we saw when we looked at, you know, different starter parallelizers and infrared fungicides across two years. Now I want to move on to the efficacy, right? Exact same treatments, but we inoculated these parts with rhizoctonia at 50 kilograms per hectare. But in terms of the trial location is slightly different because this efficacy trial is on a two year rotation, which has, you know, significantly higher risk for rhizoctonia, even though we inoculated this, you know, there's some background inoculum in this particular field, right? So the data is different for 2020 and 2021. So it's shown separately here. So the number of plants stands for harvest. So for asteroid, 116, elitis and Xanthin, right? So statistically very similar, whereas no fungicide at 94 plants. And in 2021, you know, same field, you know, just a two year rotation, but now hardly any disease pressure, 198 to 199, 174, for the no fungicide, right? So on a zero to 10 scale rating, in 2020, no fungicide had 4.9 compared to any of these fungicides. So especially as oxystrobene containing fungicides were slightly better compared to Xanthin, but whereas 2021, you know, everything is inoculated, but there is no disease developing by the time we harvested these seeds. So let's look at first and sugar and RSA. So the only difference again here, fungicide versus no fungicide, right? So 14.8 versus, you know, 15.3 to six. And then income, the recoverable sucrose per acre, no fungicide, you know, there's a significant disease developed in 2020. So 4,400 compared to, you know, 6,100 to 5,300 RSA per acre. This is again in 2020. And look at the numbers in 2021, you know, just upwards of 9,100 RSA. Again, there was not significant disease development. So we did not see any impact. Then none of the, you know, the fertilizers, they don't have any impact whether it's 2020 or 2021. There is no statistical difference in terms of recoverable sucrose or percent sugar. So based on this two-year study, you know, it's safe to assume that when you go with 1034.0 or power line, I think you'll be in better shape in terms of strata fertilizer. But the biggest difference will be if you have a severe field, then you can see some impact, you know, from on Rhizoctonia management. And one thing we also noticed in 1034.0, actually, I think especially in 2021, every batch looked different because I think you keep an eye on it and make your own jar test to make sure that it's mixing well. I don't know it's related to the supply chain issues, but what has changed, just be careful about, you know, 1034 batches that you're getting. And the other trial that we did in 2021 was integrated management of Rhizoctonia. So here we looked at two different varieties, 20.8 and 4.8, right? So strong and weak for Rhizoctonia. And then at planting, there's nothing on the seed, only 60 were on the seed. Quadrosinfero with 60 were on the seed are only quadrosinfero. And for the post emergence, we looked at two different timings. One is at four leaf stage and one is at the eight leaf stage. Everything was applied as a seven inch band and this is only with quadros. And the other treatment is no post, right? So I told you 2021 was dry and we did not see much disease pressure. And, you know, the resistant variety had a slightly lower stance compared to the susceptible variety over time, but, you know, statistically it's not any higher. And again, same in terms of the at planting treatments, the seed with only 60 were had slightly higher stance compared to nothing on the seed or only infero or seed and infero, but again, statistically, there is no difference here. Again, you know, it's pretty dry, you know, from May through July, so no disease development at this time. In terms of the four and eight leaf applications, now 34 days after planting, this is when the four leaf quadros was applied as a band. If there is any difference, you know, we could have seen this after this. Again, the eight leaf application, really no difference between no post versus four or eight leaf post in 2021. But when it comes to harvest, you know, the only difference we saw for a 3.8 and then the 4.8 variety was equal to sucrose per acre, right? So for a strong variety, since it has the good resistance, you know, as the beets get older, there's not much difference whether you did a post or not, but for the 4.8 variety, you know, 7062 RSA versus 7500, whether it's a four or eight leaf application. So the common message for post emergence application, if you have a higher risk field, and you know, if your variety is on the weaker side for rhizectonia, you better go with the four leaf application. Whereas if you have a moderate field and you know, you have a moderate tolerance for rhizectonia, you can go a little bit later like six to eight leaf application for post, you know. But you know, the bottom line is, you need to get this fungicide, slightly before rhizectonia could get on those beets now when the conditions are favorable. Anytime you do the fungicide application after rhizectonia infection, you can get some benefit, but it won't be as good as getting it prior to infection. And this is some data from 2020 again, using a, you know, strong and weak varieties. We saw for the resistant varieties about five tons in a yield pump with a four or eight leaf application compared to the weak variety, which had about 10 tons per acre. But I know I have never seen this much yield increase in our area because it's completely different. You know, we don't have this much tonnage here. And other trial that we did in 2021 was, you know, comparing all the post-immagine treatments, we used a weak variety here, the 4.8 rating. And then on June 23rd, we put the rhizectonia in our column over the crowns and we worked the soil a little bit, you know, into the crowns. And then we applied the fungicides on June 24th, right? So looking at my untreated control from the June 23rd, I lost about 52% of the plants to rhizectonia on a one to 10 rating scale, I got 4.3. And then for ricobal sucrose, about 4,400 pounds with the 14 tons per acre. So some of the best treatments I have here is, you know, Xcalium, it's the same, that's Zeltella seed treatment, but you can apply as a post-emergence application. So the big difference for Xcalium, if you're doing a seven inch band, you only need 0.64 fluid ounce, but if you're doing a broadcast, you need to apply two fluid ounce per acre. You know, it did pretty well in 2021, about 9,700 RSA, very similar to Quadris, you know, the 14.5 broadcast, or Quadris even 10 fluid ounce, you know, you tend to see the same pattern, whether it's 10 or 14.5, if it's applied as a band, you know, it does very well. And then Asteroid again, it did pretty good. So these are all Azoxystrobin containing products and Xcalium here. And then TopGuard, it's a combination of Azoxystrobin and then Triazole, that's a pro triapole. Again, it did very well in 2021. And Elatus, right, going forward, this is what Sinjanda wants to use compared to Quadris, that because it's a combination of Azoxystrobin and STHI, you know, it's a slightly lower, but you know, statistically, very similar to the top performing treatments. And some of the other fungicides that we tested in this particular trial are Praxner, Proline and Propoles, you know, generally, you know, Praxner and Proline did well in 2021, but not Propoles. But when I looked at the data from 2019, 2020 and 2021, you know, one of these fungicides was doing better compared to the other. So I would put this in the second tier category compared to Azoxystrobin compounds. So if you have a choice, go with the top treatments, but otherwise, if you have a moderate or a low risk for Rhizoconin, you could go with one of these fungicides. Again, this is really color-coded chart. So what I'm showing here is the, you know, the SDHA compounds for the seed treatments for QOIs and then the DMIs. And then these are based on the mode of action. So if you don't want to stick with the same mode of action as the seed treatment in for post, you know, this morning, at least 27% of you said you're using all three of these to manage Rhizoconia. So it's a good practice for you to go with one for a seed treatment and a different one for info and then come back with a similar one to the seed treatment. Just rotate the chemistry is just like what you do for, you know, start hospital each part. It's a very good approach for managing Rhizoconia. So just a quick recap, you know, the varieties, the resistant varieties, they do perform well, but you need to have some moderate to higher disease pressure. Otherwise, you know, just a moderate or susceptible varieties are also okay. And the seed treatment, they provide excellent protection, but it only lasts for four to five weeks. You know, in some years, it may be beyond five weeks, but that's just because there is not enough disease pressure. And in furofagi sites, when it's dry, you can hurt some stems a little bit and also under cooler conditions.  And the post treatment applications, as you know, we talked about 48 leaf stage window, you know, depending on, you know, if it's higher risk, just go a little bit earlier than later, but the good news is, you know, you have these two weeks of window to do this post-terminal application now with all the seed treatments. And looking at the best strategies, especially for the susceptible varieties, you know, normally a seed treatment and then the correct timing of a post application should work well. But if you're seeing more and more of the lower root rod and in a severe fields for rhizoctonia, I think doing all three, yeah, should be very helpful.  Again, it does not kill the seedlings before they emerge. It only happens after emergence. You get this pinching, if you have a high wind event, you know, you're going to lose the seedling. But again, later in the season, you get this root rod, sometimes you lose the tip of the roots and then, you know, it's, you don't see the ladder-like symptoms here, but you see, you know, bigger patches on the roots for echinomyces. So you're using five to 10 tons of lime, which is very good for echinomyces on top of seed treatment, that's Tachycarin. I know some of you are concerned about higher pH soils, you know, especially 8.5 or over using lime, but so far, you know, all the research sites we looked at had about, you know, 8.1 to 8.2 pH, but adding even 10 to 15 tons of lime did not increase the pH any further than 8.2 or 8.3. And then we never saw any detrimental impacts on the rotation crops. And the other one to keep an eye on will be Fiserium. I know not many fields, because once, you know, you had Fiserium, you're doing a really good practices, again, using Torrent varieties. Sometimes it can be very tricky, you know, but the classic thing is, you know, half-lethna crosses, and then when you cut these roots open, you see the vascular discoration. But if you have potatoes in the rotation, you can see very similar symptoms, but you don't see any of the blackening, you know, other internal tissues that could very well be because of where to selium in those fields. But, you know, it's very rare to see any yield loss to where to selium. With that, I would like to thank, again, the recent education board for funding this work and the co-ops and, you know, the seed and chemical companies for providing inputs and the UMN-NWROC facilities.  And I'm very grateful for their work, especially Austin and Jeff taking care of everything in the lab and field.


Brought to you by Penguin APRIL LADY by Georgeette Hayer read by Tanya Reynolds CHAPTER I There was silence in the book-room. Not the silence of intimacy, but a silence fraught with tension. My lady's blue eyes, staring across the desk into my lord's cool grey ones, dropped to the pile of bills under his hand. Her fair head was hung, and her nervous hands clasped one another tightly. In spite of a modish and very expensive morning dress of twilled French silk, and the smart crop achieved for her golden curls by the most fashionable coiffure in London, she looked absurdly youthful, like a schoolgirl called out in mischief. She was, in fact, not yet nineteen years old, and she had been married for nearly a year to the gentleman standing on the other side of the desk, and so steadily regarding her. Well—she swallowed rather convulsively. The earl had spoken quite gently, but her ears were quick to catch the note of implacability in his voice.  He was not frowning, but there was no doubt that he meant to obtain an answer to the quite unanswerable question he had put to his earring-bride. Another silence fell, broken only by the ticking of the large clock on the mantelpiece. My lady gripped her fingers so tightly together that they whitened. I asked you, Nell, why all these tradesmen—the earl lifted the bills and let them fall again—have found it necessary to apply to me for the settlement of their accounts? I am very sorry, faltered the countess. But that doesn't answer my question, he said dryly. Well—well, I expect it was because I—because I forgot to pay them myself. Forgot? Lower sank her golden head. She swallowed again. Under the hatches yet again, Nell. She nodded guiltily, her colour deepening. His expression was inscrutable, and for a moment he said nothing. His gaze seemed to consider her. But what thoughts were running in his head? It would have been impossible to have guessed. I appeared to make you a very inadequate allowance, he observed. The knowledge that the allowance he made her was a very handsome one caused her to cast an imploring glance up at him and to stammer, oh, no, no! Then why are you in debt? I have bought things which perhaps I should not, she said desperately. This—this gown, for instance—indeed, I am sorry, I won't do so any more. May I see your paid bills? This was said more gently still, and it effectively drove the flush from her cheeks. They became as white as they had before been read. To be sure, she had any number of receited bills, but none knew better than she that their total, staggering though it might seem to the daughter of an impoverished peer, did not account for half of that handsome allowance which was paid quarterly to her bankers. At any moment now my lord would ask the question she dreaded, and dared not answer truthfully. It came. Three months ago, Nell, said the Earl, in a measured tone, I forbad you most straightly to pay any more of your brother's debts. You gave me your word that you would not. Have you done so? She shook her head. It was dreadful to lie to him, but what else was to be done when he looked so stern and had shown himself so unsympathetic to poor Dysart? It was true that Dysart's recurring difficulties were all due to his shocking luck, and it seemed that Cardros couldn't understand how unjust it was to blame Dysart for his inability to abandon gaming and racing. That fatal tendency, said Mamar, with resignation, ran in the family. Grand Papa had died under a cloud of debt, and Papa, with a hopeful intention of restoring the fortunes of his house, had still more heavily mortgaged his estates. That was why Papa had been so overjoyed when Cardros had offered for her hand, for Cardros was as well-born as he was wealthy, and Papa had previously been obliged to face the horrid necessity of giving his eldest daughter to the highest bidder, even dreadful thought, if this should prove to be a rich merchant with social aspirations. He had done so with great fortitude, and he had had his reward. In her very first season, indeed, before she had been out a month, Cardros had not only seen the Lady Helen Irvine, but had apparently decided that she was the bride for whom he had so long waited.  It was certainly to be supposed that Cardros passed thirty, and with no nearer relation than a cousin to succeed him, must be contemplating marriage in the not too distant future. But such was his consequence that he might have had the pick of all the damsels faithfully presented by— All complete. Ready to continue?


Well, welcome to Tutorial 2 of Week 8. We'll be talking about GANs today. So Let's briefly recap Tutorial 1 from this week. We learned about the reasons for why we want unsupervised learning. We also saw autoencoders as a simple way of doing such unsupervised learning. We learned about the idea of wanting generative models of the world, why that's useful and We learned variational autoencoders as one way of doing that. It's interesting that that sets a bridge between what you might learn in a statistics course, variational Bayesian methods, and deep learning, and in a way combines advantages of both into VAEs, which are really useful for certain things. And then in the end we saw many ways in which autoencoders can actually be used. Now before we talk about GANs today, I want to give you the chance to see a little bit under which circumstances VAEs fail.


What's going on you guys? Welcome to the Single Guy Channel. My name's Lloyd. Today we're gonna be talking about how to deal with women that are giving you really short answers. Basically how to talk to them, how to get them to open up. Because I know this can be quite frustrating. A lot of times when you walk up to a person, it could be anyone even, you know, not just women too.  And she's like, I'm good. Where are you from? I'm here. What do you like to do? Stuff? You're like, girl, I'm trying to talk to you. How do you get these girls to open up more and talk to you? Because a lot of times guys will think that if she's giving short answers, she just doesn't want to talk to you. And that's not always the case. It can be the case sometimes, but sometimes the girl's just shy or, you know, sometimes she's not ready for a conversation right now. So there's a lot of reasons why people are giving short answers in the beginning. So in this video, what I'm going to be covering is why people tend to give short answers at the beginning and how to overcome this, how to get this person to open up in a way that's not too commanding, in a way that's not too aggressive, in a way that you can actually have a conversation with this person that hopefully you're attracted to. Okay, cool. So before I get into this, if you guys are looking to get trained by me in person, I'm going to be in San Francisco January 3rd to the 5th. I'm going to be in Toronto two weeks after that. And then I'm going to be in Los Angeles and I think Miami following that. So if you're interested in any of those cities, I'm only going to take three guys per city. Please fill out the form down below and we'll get back to you. Okay, cool. So the first thing that we're going to talk about is why people give such short answers at the beginning because it's not just necessarily women. When you first start talking to somebody, when you first introduce yourself, whether it's at a bar, whether it's on the street, whether it's at a social event or something like that, or maybe even off Tinder. Okay, a lot of times you get these girls on Tinder too that are just giving you like these quick one word answers and you're like, how the hell am I going to message this girl, right? So the first reason why girls do this is because they're not ready for a conversation. Okay, if you just imagine them walking on a street and some guy taps him on the shoulder or something like that, like they're thinking about the things, work, what they have to do that day. And then somebody like wants to have a conversation and they don't know where this guy's coming from. They don't know what his intentions are. And a lot of times women can get a little nervous at this time. And so they tend to give one word answers to be a little defensive. And that's fine. That's okay. She doesn't trust you yet, but give her some time and then maybe she'll get more comfortable with you. Now, how do you know if the girl's giving you short answers because she's unprepared for the conversation or she's kind of shy, or she just doesn't want to talk to you? Well, she'll show you with her actions.  She's going to have her body turned, she's going to be distracted, or she's going to try and talk to other people. So I look for those things. If she tries to engage one of her friends while we're made conversation, obviously, that girl doesn't want to talk to me. But if she's still looking at me and she's just giving me short answers, that girl's still interested and or she's at least open to still talking with me and I'm going to keep talking to her. So what I like to do in this circumstance is to roll through my five questions. And the five questions, if you guys don't know it, are who are you, where are you from, what do you do, who you hear with, and what are you up to? Okay. So the first three are basic small talk questions and the last two are basically going to be letting you know for boyfriend to stay nearby. If she has to meet up with a friend or something like that. If she's late for work or if she's just visiting, all of these details are very relevant if you're talking to a girl that you're interested in because whether or not those things, you know, she gives certain answers, it might not make sense to talk to her or it might make make sense to keep talking to her. Now, the first three questions are pretty important because they're basic small talk questions that we're all very, very used to. If you can give her some normal questions that she's used to dealing with, it'll get her to relax a little bit. She'll calm down. Okay. Now, the problem with a lot of these questions is they tend to be very short. So the first three small talk questions, you know, what's your name, where are you from, what do you do, they tend to be very short.  So what I like to follow up these questions with, and this is the key point here, I follow up these questions with how questions. I think how questions are the best questions to ask if you're trying to get a person to open up, especially at the beginning.  Now, when you find out that they're an accountant, you could follow up with some questions, you could ask them, oh, do you like being an accountant? Now, that's not a bad question, but it usually involves a one word answer, it usually involves yes or no, or kind of, or it's just work. Now, it will be a better question to follow up with that something that will get them to talk a little more. Oh, cool.  That could be a good question. I actually don't like why questions that much because it sounds a little judgmentally, you know, if you're asking like, why are you an accountant? It kind of sounds like you're going to judge them and then they're going to start to think, oh, why did I become an accountant? You know, why did I do these sorts of things? Okay, they're going to start to do some soul searching, and I don't want them to have to worry about that when I'm talking to them. When the girl's talking to me, I want her to be relaxed and feel more comfortable. So what I do is I go for a how question. A how question in this case would be, oh, cool. How did you get into doing that? How did you get into being an accountant? Now, the how question involves no judgment, but it invites her to tell a story about herself and invites her to say, hey, you know, I measured in business and college. I was really good with numbers and that's why I decided to be an accountant or maybe she just she just wanted to get a job that she knew was going to make money. Okay, so it invites her to tell a story without too much judgment. How questions work for pretty much every single one of the five questions, except for what's your name? Or I guess you could ask for what's your name? How did your parents come up with that or something like that? But for the how questions with where are you from? It could be, how did you end up here? For what do you do? Like what her job is? How did you get into doing that? When you meet her friends, it could be, how do you all know each other? How did you all meet? Those are some great how questions. And then for the last one, what are you up to tonight? What are you doing? You could say something like, oh, how's it going so far? Okay, so the how questions are always really great for getting somebody to open up. Now let's say the person with the how questions are still having a little bit of trouble communicating with you. This is where I invite you to start talking a lot yourself. Okay, at the beginning of the conversation, especially if you started the conversation, you're going to have to take the majority of the responsibility at the beginning. And then when the person gets comfortable with you, they're probably going to be more likely to open up. So yeah, talk more. I would answer the questions themselves. Okay, so if you ask her, hey, what do you do? And she's like, I'm a nurse. And then she and then you ask her, how did you get into doing that? And then she just responds with, well, I took some classes in college and you know, that's that's what I decided. You know, she's that's not a not a very open answer. But at least she's talking to you. So maybe you answer the question yourself and you say, oh, cool. Well, I'm actually a self development coach for guys. You know, I was used to be working at a company for a long time and I really didn't like it. So I wanted to make sure that I was doing something that I felt like was going to help people something that I was good at and something that that allows me to travel the world and do what I want. So by me opening up first, it's going to be more likely she's going to feel comfortable comfortable opening up herself. Okay, lead by your actions. Okay, so that's one thing to get it open up. The next thing and the final thing, let's say you've gone through the five questions you've done all of that stuff. She's still not talking to you. Okay, you've used the how questions. You talked a lot yourself. You've been very relaxed with her and she's still not saying a whole lot. Well, this is the time where I would actually tell her physically to talk more. Basically, if she's being kind of quiet, well, then I'll say something like, well, hey, I've been talking this whole time. Why don't you tell me a little more about yourself? Okay, just literally as easy as asking that question, man. Sometimes all you got to do is ask.  And that's where you can turn to any of the different subjects that you've been talking about. Well, I've told you a lot about my job. Tell me a little bit more about your job. Well, I've told you a little bit more about what I like to do. Tell me a little bit more about what you like to do. Okay, super simple questions, you guys. All right, so that's how to get a girl to open up with you guys more. If you guys are wondering how to get coached by me in person, like I said, fill out the form down below, but also I have my one-on-one coaching program. Okay, if you guys want coached by me, personal one-on-one customized feedback, basically fill out there's another form down below for that. Fill out that form and if you feel like you're a good fit, we'll get back to you. Thanks for tuning in, you guys. If you made it to the end, consider subscribing and come out with videos like this every single week. Thanks a lot and good luck out there.