Good evening, everybody. Welcome. Thank you so much for joining us. My name is Mbali Nwokor. And thank you so much for tuning into our private property farming podcast this Tuesday evening. Today, we've got an interesting guest, as we always have every single week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We're speaking to a beekeeper farmer. And I like a business model because it's got a bit of a twist into it. Assisting rural farmers to farm sustainably. And so we'll get to know a little bit about Mabatu Murudi's story this evening. But just if you want to ask any questions to our guests this evening, please feel free to ask, comment on the chat box. And we are happy to answer your question live tonight. And also bring through some suggestions of what you'd like to see on the farming podcast in the next couple of episodes in the next couple of months. If you feel like there's any topics that we haven't covered or gone too much into depth with that you need more clarity, more understanding, please also follow us on our social media channels. DM us, send us a message. And we'll be happy to consider your suggestions. Because this podcast is for you at the end of the day. We want to highlight phenomenal people in the industry, in the agri industry, and across its valley chain at the same time providing you with relevant information and knowledge regarding your farming needs. So tonight's topic is all about rural farming and sustainable beekeeping. And to unpack this topic, we have Mabatu Murudi, who is the co-founder of The Village Market. Mabatu, thank you so much for joining us this evening. How are you doing? Thank you. Thank you, Mabaki. I'm well. Thanks in yourself. I'm doing great. Thank you. So you're a beekeeper farmer, right? Beekeeper farmer. Exactly. Where does beekeeping and rural farming mix or come together? Tell us a bit about The Village Market and your background. OK. So I don't think we can necessarily separate beekeeping from farming because with the farming, most of our crops are pollinated by bees, so it should be one and the same. And we call that apiculture. So we're in the space of apiculture, whereby we're doing beekeeping. And for us, what sustainability really means in this industry is how do we increase our bee populations? Or how do we get communities to actually work in harmony with nature and getting communities to derive a greater value from working with nature as opposed to actually exploiting it? And one such example, and we find a lot in deep remote villages where we work, is that we find communities traditionally practicing what we call honey hunting.  So our model is centered around going into these deep remote villages, training the communities in conservation, sustainable beekeeping, and then rebuy back the produce from the communities, such as it makes sure that they actually look after the forests, look after the bees, the hives. And then because they're guaranteed a market that improves their livelihoods, they actually bested in the initiative. Right. Are you approaching beekeepers or beekeeper farmers in the rural villages to obviously train them and teach them about sustainable farming? Or is the village market providing bees to the farmers who are producing specific crops? Please just maybe highlight on that. OK. So our model initially, when we started, what we would do is that we would request to place hives on farm owners' plots. So we would place the hives there and then we would take care of the hives. We would do our hive inspections, hive management, and then we would then leave. With the promise to them that having bees on their farms would improve the quality of the yields and the quality of the crops. But with time, I think after two and a half years of that business model, the business model actually failed. And then that's when we reinvented the model to say, go out into communities, despite whether a person is already farming or not. Because we found that deep remote villages have a lot of land available. And then we said, because bees need this foraging, go out into communities, train community members whether they're currently farming or not, but introduce farming to them in a sustainable manner. So in that way, we work with everybody, including farmers that have farmlands, be it citrus projects, be it certain crops on their farms whereby we can place hives and then we buy back the produce from them. And how long can a farmer look to rent the hives for their production? Is it throughout the entire season or just when the plants or the fruit trees start flowering? Okay, I think we need to make a separation because we don't rent a hive and to grow a reach because what we found is that foraging areas are there. It's a matter of protecting them and introducing beekeeping to these communities, not only to protect the bees, but to improve the livelihoods within these deep remote villages.  So we're talking deep, deep, deep remote and one new project is in Wembe that's coming up now that's in the Limpopo region. Oh, this is fascinating, Mabatu. We actually have a question here for you. In total, we've got about nine bee sanctuaries. So we call them bee sanctuaries. It's about nine of them, yeah. Great, we've got a question here from Mugua from Facebook and he or she wants to know, how do I get started with beekeeping? And I suppose you could answer this question, Farmer. Okay, so how do you start training, training, training? I think with these, that's the first point because there's a level of are you able to handle working with bees first and foremost? And I wasn't the type that would have thought I would work with bees. So luckily the mentor that we had and the trainer took this journey to get me to be comfortable with them. In terms of our journey, how we started. So we started in 2012 and what actually happened is that I grew up on a farm with my grandparents in Winterfield and bees would settle in a ceiling. We had a house at the farm where bees would just settle in the ceiling, produce so much honey, the ceiling would cave in. So growing up, this was the same thing that we would do year in, year out, this thing would happen and then we would, not knowing any better, try and get rid of these bees, use pesticides, use tires, all sorts of manners to just try and kill these bees. Remember, we were on a farm, but even my grandparents didn't realize the importance of these bees. They just thought bees are just pests and that's it. So my grandfather then suggested one weekend that he's taking all his grandchildren for a course in beekeeping, and he's old age 86 years of age at the time. So we went with him for a course in beekeeping. I loved it so much and then from then quit my job to pursue it. But this was after hearing about the plight of bees that bees are dying out, bees are dying out globally and the impact that that has on food security, that rural poverty was on the increase and yet we had land that could be used for that and all this honey that was not good quality honey that was now coming into the country that we had about already in 2012. So that was the motivation around saying, how do we then improve our rural communities and then how do we increase bee populations? How do I play my part in, yeah, conserving for future generations, I guess, and it's been growing from then on until today. Yeah, Mabate, where does one find bees? Let's say I'm a new beekeeper farmer or a new farmer in the industry who has a passion for beekeeping, trying to explore something niche. Where does one find bees? How many hives does one need to start with? And if a person doesn't have relationships like you with farmers, can I just take care of my bees and they just grow their own honey without necessarily having to partner with farmers? How does the industry from a beekeeping farming perspective work exactly? So bees are everywhere, bees are available in nature. I think the question or approach should be how do we create spaces that are conducive for bees to thrive, which is something that I think we've maybe somewhat ignored. So if we create these spaces whereby they can thrive through planting of bee-friendly crops, I think these bee populations will automatically start increasing. So whatever communities that people are working in, you do find bees. Maybe the populations is another story altogether, but I do believe that in nature you do find bees. So not necessary for you to. There's people that sell bees, so you can buy a colony from, it's a business. Others pursue that it's not something that we've been doing. And we focus in the spaces that we in, we make sure we create ideal, conducive environments for bees to thrive. It's quite interesting that when you introduce hives in certain areas where people thought there were no bees, then you start seeing them coming up. Yep. So I don't necessarily believe that you need to have a partnership with other farmers in order to be able to pursue beekeeping. You can do it from whatever space that you've got. There are obviously regulations and municipal laws in terms of how many hives you can keep within a certain space that's not rural or agricultural spaces. So you can start from anywhere. And in terms of a number of hives, we started with 10 hives. When we work with communities, we really start with 50 because we believe that's a manageable number. And then we grow it from there. Wow, I see. And how has the journey been working with rural farmers, teaching them about the sustainability factor and beekeeping, the importance that bees play in food security? What has the reception been like? Just maybe tell us some success stories or case studies with working with the rural farmers. It starts with changing mindsets because a lot of people perceive bees to be pests. So honestly, it's been a long journey of trying to change mindsets. You go into a community that hasn't worked with bees before, all they know is that bee sting. I think a lot of people, when they think bees, they just say, ah, we're not interested. We started working in Ghazini, this is a village that's on the border of South Africa and Mozambique. They had a problem with elephants. So elephants would raid the village, damaging their hearts and their crops. These are elephants now coming from Mozambique and following a route into South Africa close to the Tembe Elephant Park there. And the communities when we got there and we tried to introduce a study by Dr. Lucy King, whereby introducing bee fences to tackle human-elephant conflict because elephants are scared of bees. Community members were not interested at all because for them, there's absolutely no way that elephants are scared of bees and we don't want bees here. But now to see how they've grown from 50 hives to the amount of honey they're producing to the amount of other additional byproducts that they're producing, it's heartwarming for us and it proves that the model works. So it's still work in progress. We've had a lot of downs, but a lot of successes working with communities because the hearts are willing. Sometimes we think people are not willing to work, but I've seen a different phase of people in remote villages, in rural villages or subsistence farmers. The heart is willing to do the work. It's just the opportunities not presented to them. It's just the knowledge. You don't know what you don't know, but the minute you know, they run with it. Wow. If you're just joining us this evening, we're speaking to Mabat Murudi who is the co-founder of The Village Market. And our topic this evening is rural farming and the sustainability of beekeeping. And so far she said, she shared her journey or her story in terms of how she works with rural or remote rural farmers in the villages, how The Village Market trains rural farmers in working alongside with her business, incorporating the use of bees in their crop production on their farms and how they can grow food and obviously secure food at the end of the day. And so if you have any questions for Mabat, please feel free to ask her. She is more than willing to answer any questions regarding our topic this evening. Mabat, I just want to know about The Village Market. Looking at your profile on social media, it also seems like over and above the beekeeping and assisting or working alongside rural farmers, there is a market that you have where you're selling fresh produce. Is that true? And just tell us a bit more about the market. So this is quite an interesting belly because when we came up with the name of The Village Market, it really was with the intention of not just doing beekeeping, it was introducing to market other products from villages to say there's organic fresh produce because that's what we promote in the villages because obviously growing, we're trying to support the thriving bees. So we started saying, okay, we'll do organic produce. We had such grand ideas and we named it The Village Market because we saw this massive market. We saw these massive retail stores called The Village Market, where we have all these village produce. But then over time, we realized that we have to start with one thing and grow it from there. And for us beekeeping became that. So we are introducing fresh produce. We've tried it before. And these are some of the stories that we share whereby it just didn't work out as we had hoped that we would. As a farmer, you would know some challenges with crop production, handling, getting these things to market in roots that are not ideal in terms of your infrastructure. So those are some of the challenges that we've had with crop production. And a market was one of those big issues for us. So as we go, The Village Market will grow into that. It's just so that it so happened that beekeeping and producing honey and certain crops on a small scale for now is what's working. And we recently won a contract with Food Lovers Market, which opens the door for us to introduce all of these other crops, including the honey and the byproducts to the market, which is what we hope to do in future. That is fantastic. Actually, my follow-up question was going to be, where are you selling your honey? So other than food lovers, and congratulations, by the way, with that contract, other than food lovers, where can one procure The Village Market honey? And what other value adds are available with regards to beekeeping? Because I'm sure bees just don't only make honey, but many other things that you could make with honey or other value add or process goods that you could get from beekeeping. Yeah, so besides Food Lovers Market, that's actually going to be our main retail outlet in terms of where people can get our products. Besides that, only in Winter Vault, we are selling from our bottling facility in Winter Vault and hoping to look at other avenues in the near future, besides Food Lovers, but for now that's the easiest probably that people will be able to find a honey, which is launching soon soon. Yeah, and people will know about it, but for now it's there and our bottling facility, which is based in Winter Vault. Yeah, and in terms of value add, most certainly besides honey, I mean, bees works as a big market. People are using it in skincare products, they're using it in polishes and candles. So there is a huge market for that and people have not exploded to its full potential at this stage. I mean, I know a lot of people that actually just throw it away once they've extracted the honey, but it's not only that you find other products, you find propolis, which is mostly used in your toothpaste, you find your bee venom. So there are quite a number of products that can be done, the honey. I see people are doing infused honeys now. So there are other things that we need to explore, meat. There's farmers that are exploring meat now. So there's quite a number of things that people can start looking into industries that can be developed from the beekeeping initiatives. I learned something new every day in this podcast. I had no idea that, you know, from honey, honey plays a pivotal role in polish and candles.  It's just quite interesting. Yeah, just to sum up our conversation about to this evening, and I'm gonna take advantage of the fact that it is woman's month. So firstly, what message would you give out to farmers and maybe any farmers who wanna go into the beekeeping trade? And secondly, what message would you give to females in the agricultural sector? What message? You know, the one thing that I've learned is that it's possible and it's about taking those steps. It's about taking those small steps daily that make up this big thing at the end of it all. We need to do it either way, do it afraid, do it anxious, do it unsure, but you can never know your potential until you at least attempt. And to women specifically, I think it's okay for us to run businesses with a hat. I think there's always been this thing that we need to replace men and how they do their farming, how they do their work. But I'm a family believer that it's okay to run a business with a hat because I've seen it work in our business whereby people are at the center of everything that we do, how we changing lives, decisions that we make. Are they making somebody's life much easier at the end of the day? And I think had it not been for that, we wouldn't have maintained this business up until this point.  So yeah, let's put people first and we will see the rewards. Yeah, thank you so much for coming onto the podcast this evening, Mabatu. I really hope that the village market grows in leaps and bounds because you're doing phenomenal work, you know, and rural communities are often overlooked and not a lot of individuals or entrepreneurs or companies generally have the patience to walk the journey with remote rural farmers, especially those that are small scale, those that are subsistence, those that encounter many, many challenges on a daily basis that we individuals living the city take for granted. So, you know, big ups to you for identifying such individuals working with them, training them as well, most importantly on the sustainability factor in farming around beekeeping and the importance that bees play around within the agricultural ecosystem. But yeah, thank you and continue to keep soaring and shining. Thank you. Thank you, Mbagi. Thank you very much. That is it for this evening. We just wrapped up a conversation with Mabatu Murudi who is the co-founder of the village market and we spoke about rural farming, working with rural farmers, sustainability, what that really means and a practical sense as well as beekeeping farming. And she summed up our conversation with such a beautiful message to all female farmers out there in the agricultural sector and most importantly as well, females across the Agri Valley chain about it's okay to lead and do business with the heart because at the end of the day, we are farmers, we are individuals, we work with people, we work with communities and being authentic and connecting with individuals is really what matters the most because we are touching lives. If you missed this conversation this evening, you could go onto our YouTube channel, the Private Property Farming Podcast playlist and that's where you'll find all the videos, all the lovely content and the beautiful guests that we've had into the show. Thank you so much for joining us on this Tuesday evening. I look forward to joining you on Thursday at eight o'clock. That's it for me tonight. Take care.


All right, what's up internet? So dito sa Hardware Sugar gumagawa kami ng ibad-ibang PC para sa ibad-ibang budget. And so unapansin namin na may mga madalas na errors or mistakes na rene-request ng mga costumer or nakabili na yung costumer sa ibang shop and then dadalhin nila sa amin dito para usin and then napansin namin na mali yung configuration of parts. So based on that experience, here are the top five PC building mistakes based on what we've seen. Number one, Bipili ng overclockable CPU, pero hindi naman pang overclocking yung motherboard. Sinasa ja talaga na mga CPU manufacturers like AMD and Intel na may mga CPU na kayang i-overclock. Ano ba yung overclocking? Kung kochi yun, yung overclocking pinapatakbo mo siya lampas dun sa rated manufacturer speed. So yung isang kochi, let's say, sabi nung manufacturer yung kaya lang na yan hanggang 100 km per hour, kung in-overclock mo siya, abot siya ng 120 km per hour. And it's the same concept with CPUs. Halimbawa yung Ryzen 7 3700X and the Intel i7-9700K, both of those CPUs run at 3.6 GHz yung basic manufacturer speed. Pero kung in-overclock mo yung R7 3700X, kaya mo yung umabot ng mga 4.4 GHz. Yung Intel naman yung i7-9700K, kung in-overclock mo yun, kaya mo siyang paabutin ng mga 5.2 GHz or so. So malayo-malayo talaga yung rated manufacturer speed dun sa kaya mo yung abutin with overclocking. So okay diba? Bilit tayo lahat ng overclockable CPUs. How do we know kung overclockable ba yung CPU? It's just letters after numbers. You just need to look at the letter that comes after the numbers in the CPU designation. Again, in the example, para sa AMD, yung magic letter is X. If it has X in the designation, it is most likely an overclockable CPU. Again, in the example I use, the Ryzen 7 3700X, the X there denotes that yes, you can overclock it. Sa Intel naman, the magic letter is K. Kung may K yung Intel CPU, malamang pwede yung overclock yan. Like in the example I use, the i7-9700K. But we've seen builds where and they come from other PC shops na binentahan ngayong customer ng overclockable CPU. Pero yung mali dun, para ma-overclock mo yung CPU, kailangan compatible yung motherboard. So useless lang yung pagbile mo ng overclockable CPU, hindi mo ma-overclock yung CPU na yan. Nakastak lang yan sa default speed of the manufacturer. If you buy an overclockable CPU, make sure that you get an overclockable motherboard. Paano mo malalaman kung compatible ba yung motherboard sa overclocking? Again, the secret is in the letters, tinan mo yung letter. For Intel motherboards for the current generation of CPUs, malaman kung may letter Z sa pangalalo motherboard, let's say Z370 or Z390, compatible yung for overclocking. Sa AMD, the magic letters are X and B. So if you get an X370, if you get a B350, most likely those motherboards will support overclocking. PC building mistake number two, getting one stick of RAM instead of two. So halimbawa gusto mo kumuhan ang 16GB of RAM para sa rig mo. And you can get one stick of 16, so one stick is 16GB of RAM, or you can get two sticks of eight. Eight gigabytes and eight gigabytes total pa rin 16. And so they're both 16GB and you're wondering what's the difference or what should you get. You should always get at least two sticks of RAM. Kunin mo yung 2X8 or two sticks of eight rather than one X16 or one stick of 16, because computers nowadays use something called dual channel memory. Pano dinesain yung computer systems, mas maganda yung dual channel kasi mas efficient yung pag-allocate ng memory. There's a long technical description. I won't bore you and di ako mag-marunong dito na mayintindiyan ko, but ba talaga mas mabilis yung dual channel. But basically dual channel is better for you. You do see performance increases right away. In gaming where it's only just one application, supposedly the performance increase is not very noticeable. But for other applications such as video editing and things like that, you'll probably get like a 20-30% increase just because you use dual channel or just because you got two sticks of RAM instead of one. And I know, medyo nakakalito ko kasi kung isipin mo lang logically, di po mas maganda yung 1X16 para mas konte yung RAM slots na gamitin ko, para mas may space pa ako para mag-expand. And so this one actually, I understand it's a bit confusing, but basically the bottom line is just get two sticks of RAM instead of one stick. And again, these are the same RAM sizes. We're just talking about here in the example 16GB, but again, you can break that down in so many ways. One stick of 16, two sticks of 8, or four sticks of 4. That's overkill. You don't need that for dual channel.  But basically the optimum configuration is two sticks. And that's true regardless of RAM size, whether you want 32GB and get two sticks of 16 and so on and so forth. Building mistake number three also deals with RAM. RAM like many PC hardware comes with speeds. So you can get RAM in different speeds such as 2333MHz, 2666MHz, 3,000MHz, 3,200MHz, et cetera. So baka isipin mo na, well, kunin ko na yung pinakamabilis para sa nakaya ng budget ko. But again, the problem here is the motherboard. Kasi yung motherboard may maximum speed yan para sa RAM. Kung bumalik ka ng mabilis na RAM, pero hindi naman supported nung motherboard mo, tatama lang siya dun sa maximum rated speed of the motherboard. For example, the MSI H310M Pro VH+. Popular na budget board yan. Maganda naman yung performance. So isipin mo, yan nabilin ko na motherboard, and then pang RAM ko, kaya pa naman na budget, bibilay ako ng 3,200MHz na RAM. And just there, nag-aksayang ka ng pera. Because yung motherboard na pinili mo, yung MSI H310M, is only rated up to 2666MHz. Kasi saing lang yung 600MHz or so, yung difference between 3,200MHz and 2666MHz, kasi hindi mo magagamit yung extra speed. So very similar to overclocking your CPU, make sure that the RAM you get, the RAM speed you get is compatible with the motherboard that you get. Otherwise, you'll just be wasting money. Building mistake number 4 is getting generic or cheap PSUs. Don't get me wrong, I have advised in the past na okay naman yung generic PSUs para sa mga computer na hindi naman talaga performance. Yung mga pang office, yung ginagamit walang pang surf ng internet or Word or Excel or things like that, wala nang problema yung generic power supplies dun. But if you are doing an expensive build yung pang gaming, pang video editing, pang rendering, hindi talaga kaya ng generic power supply. Medyo nakakatemp kasi na ang mahal na ng gastos mo sa graphics card, mahal na na CPU, mahal na sa RAM, baka naman kaya ang itipid na lang yung power supply unit. Don't, don't, wag mo tipiren yung PSU. Especially for higher-end rigs, all of your nice components like the GPU and things like that, they need a steady power supply to be able to meet their performance speeds. And if you don't get a good power supply from a good manufacturer, then you're just wasting your parts.  So never, never scrimp, never, never cheap out on getting a good power supply. And kung kaya ng budget, we always recommend fully modular PSUs. Fully modular just means that you can remove the cables that you don't need to use. And so this improves airflow in the case because you don't have unnecessary wires fluttering the build. And also it looks better aesthetically for cable management because again, you have less wires to worry about. So definitely get a good PSU from a reputable brand such as Corsair, C-Sonic, Cooler Master and if the budget allows, get one that is fully modular. Last building mistake, not including an SSD. I understand mahal talagay yung SSD. Kung para natin kung magkano, let's say a 1TB hard drive usually kaya mo bilin mga 2400. Yung SSD kung same price, 2400, makukuham mo lang 500GB, roughly mga double the price yung SSD sa hard drive. Why am I recommending it? Why am I saying that all builds, regardless kung pang office yan, pang gaming, pang video editing, lahat ng builds dapat may SSD. It's really a quality of life issue sobrang bilis ng SSD, kumpara sa hard drive. Pag nakatry ka na yung SSD, hindi ka na talagabalik sa hard drive. Ayaw mo nang bumalik sa hard drive. Things are so, so, so much faster on an SSD.  And it's not true. Paminsan may narinig ka na yung SSDs mas namabilis mas sira kumpara dun sa hard drive. And that's not true at all. Actually, failure rates on SSDs are less compared to hard drives. For one, because SSDs have no moving parts. Para gumana yung SSD, walang gumagalaw sa loob niya. Kumpara sa hard drive, where there's actually literally a spinning disk that goes round and round so that the computer can access your data. So there are more failure points within a hard drive compared to an SSD. So an SSD will last as long, if not longer than a hard drive. And actually, you're already used to SSDs because your phone uses an SSD. And that's why it boots up so much faster compared to your other devices. I cannot emphasize this enough. Make room in your budget for an SSD. Bonus mistake on RGB. And usaw-usaw yung RGB ngayon. Maraming na may willy sa lights, kasi kaya may breathing, kaya may bat-ibang kulay, et cetera. Tuto, magadang ating nan. Bangisting nan ng computer mo kung nakawall red or whatever. Pero may masamang biro kasi yung mga techies na parang linilito nila yung mga non-techie friends nila and I've heard it before na sinasabi nila na, oh, de, pang yung RGB kung ilagay mo yung hulay sa red, masang belis computer mo. Kung ulagay mo sa blue, mas malaming. And therefore, better kasi yung components mo, lower yung temperature, mas-mabilis yung takbo nila. And yuno... It seems kind of silly to even talk about it, but color is just color. Yung RGB, walang kinalamad yun sa performance. Kaya anong kulay linagay mo dun sa RGB set up mo, it will have... It has zero impact on your performance. Rainbow flashing does not mean better multi-threading setup. I mean, damhing kalakohan na rumors or...  I mean, it's super simple to people who are used to computers, but people who are just starting out with computers, you know, not too familiar with the software or the hardware, they really will press control, alt-delete, or they really will set their RGB to red in the mistaken impression that this will make it faster. So, kung nyubilang ko kayo, wag kayo mauto sa mga kaibigan yung mga Jo Si Raulo, color does not impact performance at all. So, top five building mistakes that we've seen, building computers here in the Philippines with a bonus explainer on RGB. Here at Hardware Sugar, we do builds of any budget from 30,000 onwards to 120, 150K. And you can come to us, we'll design the rig based on what you need. Is it for gaming? Is it for video editing? Do you want super bling-bling RGB or do you not want RGB puke at all? We will guide you through the process, we will ask you for the parts. It's always a back and forth with us, we will ask the customer, like, do you want this and what do you think of this? And you can check out the playlist here on YouTube for some of the rigs that we've done. And if you're not in the market yet, if you just wanna talk about hardware and things like that, we also do that as well, pass by the shop or message us on Facebook or comment here on YouTube. Thanks for watching. So I hope that these basic tips help you. 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At this point in your academic career, Penelope hopes you have used a database from the library to search for information, such as JSTOR, the MLA, International Bibliography, Eric, or one of the many other resources available to you. Penny knows that sometimes it's really easy to find an article that pertains to her topic. She often uses JSTOR to search for information. She types in a keyword or two and retrieves lots of results. Sometimes the first result is exactly what she needs. But, more often, this isn't the case. Instead, she finds herself retrieving so many articles it can be overwhelming. In this video, Penny is going to show you how to use the thesaurus feature available in some databases to help focus your searches. First, let's talk about the word thesaurus. We know what that is. We can type in a word and retrieve similar words. So, a word like motivation, we could also use the word catalyst or inclination. Most likely, you have used keywords to search a database. So, while searching the MLA International Bibliography, you might type in the word imagery. A keyword search will pull up every record that contains the word imagery, even if the word is mentioned only one time at the bottom of an article. Due to this, a keyword search sometimes results in a lot of non-relevant sources. The thesaurus feature in a database uses subject headers to group similar articles together so that all the articles about imagery, for example, are grouped together in one search. Another way to think of it is that thesaurus contains the language of the database. You may have noticed nearly every source you retrieve in the MLA database provides a list of relevant subject headings. These are connected to the thesaurus feature. For Penelope, she uses the thesaurus to translate her keywords into subjects. In other words, she finds out what language the MLA database uses to make her searches most effective. Here, she types in the word imagery. Imagery appears first in the list. If she clicks on it, she will retrieve a list of broader and narrower terms related to imagery. She places a check mark next to the box and clicks add. Automatically, her term is exploded. This means all of these additional narrower and broader terms are added to her search. If Penny does not want to include all these additional words, she has to uncheck the explode box. Now, her search results contain every source in which imagery is a subject of that source. Comparing this search to the keyword search, she has significantly less results to work with. From here, Penny might add additional keywords, add further subject headings, or use the names as subjects feature to add authors to her search. That thesaurus is a helpful feature to make the most of your database searches. However, this tool is not available in all resources. JSTOR and Project MUSE, for example, do not use a thesaurus. However, they do provide other ways to focus a search, such as narrowly to a research area. Let's review. The thesaurus is used in a database to organize sources and help you, the researcher, retrieve more relevant results. Use this feature to translate your keywords into the appropriate terminology for the database. Keep it basic or use the explode feature to open your search. The use of subject headings is a powerful searching tool and one that is considered advanced. Penny still finds value in using keywords, but she has also found great value in learning the proper terminology for the database.


So if you are holding out for a perfect finish, a perfect closure, a neat tying up with a ball on it as it were, you may never get that. And what you get instead is you get the best that you could do in the circumstances that life dealt you. My father was not going to cooperate in me having a more complete closure than I knew I would get. So what do you do?  So I will close it by myself. And that's what I began to do, because closure does not need someone else's participation if that is not what's available to you.


It's like it's like her kids are excited to go outside. Oh Mommy's filming we get to pretend to be normal for an hour.  Alright, so you definitely can't have both ten kids be a vegan choose one because it is not Physically possible from a nutritional perspective to get pregnant to have that many children healthy.  These people are liars They're not actually following their diet slash lifestyle Their only goal is to make money for themselves by selling you false hopes or false products So we're gonna see what she feeds her ten little gremlins and what you're gonna notice is Yeah, she's very pretty nice looking well-developed face But her children are quite the opposite of that and they're all actually pretty Adrogenous looking like you can't tell the difference between the poor kids whether they're boys or girls Which is a side effect of the imbalanced hormones of not having enough meat in the diet as well as too many estrogenic foods, especially the soy and the plant-based meat products Lunch and dinner has turned up In these bags, yeah, we just set it out on the table let people see what we got So I think that was her son right the tall one with the long hair you're relaxing there Paul This is so weird I should probably research where they live what they're in this like Skyrise apartment getting food delivered 10 vegan children dressed like hobos. What's the deal? So dystopian it really is This is what success looks like in the New World Order It's order your meatless meals and plastic Oh This avocado oh yummy, so this is so disgusting What what is this it's like? How much could they charge for that is this like dry Disgusting-looking bread with a few slivers of avocados and vegetables. How could anyone in their right mind? consume that And then Over here. We've got some chips Oh, no, they are Rice crackers. Oh my god. It's almost like she's some type of slave monger and she's rationing Vegan portions for her children This is horrible dinner. So we've got a lot there and we've also got all these This is so psycho and to feed 10 kids like this Oh, they gave this nummie. I forgot to film breakfast. We had a few tabs of this Coconut yoga and the other one was apricot yogurt and they're vegan this morning They bought me papaya. I requested papaya even though it wasn't on their list. I got papaya. I'm so happy There's even more Kiwi fruits underneath here, but I'm using the bananas to ripen the kiwi fruits because some of them are a bit hard So three papayas got these here and also we've already ate breakfast We already ate breakfast so I forgot to film that we got what we get wheat fix saltata brand toast nice gems This is like best-case scenario of what your son will look like if he's part vegan and and I don't really believe that The family's vegan that she's been vegan because to even have the children as I said earlier It would be physically impossible. So the question is how much meat is she eating? How much meat are they eating? What types of animal products are they sneaking into their diet? And it is kind of creepy to me that she films her kids like this So I did cut out some segments.  There was more stuff. We've got lunch and dinner here Of course, you can't remember what you're saying. You have a vegan brain We have this one tonight and then during the day I've got olives and to put yummy things in there also, we have vegan banana walnuts And also some snacks, which are Peanuts and saltanas and some more saltanas. So the food is yummy. So we've got a little food. It's pretty good Yeah, it's good. Yeah It's perfect This is horrible This is horrible What is she feeding her kids It's like pasta salad, but it's not even pasta because it's mostly peas and corn two things that are definitely not getting digested Man, I wonder these kids look like they're emaciated and starving to that. They're not getting enough calories They're not getting any animal protein.      What are we playing Murman?  God? Little mermaid Do you like being wet?  Let's rephrase that It's like as her kids get younger and younger The male sound more and more feminine. I guess all that estrogen on the vegan diet's heading up My brain doesn't understand that it's warm.  Is that ready now? He's taking a mask with him, too. What is this shit? It's like it's like her kids are excited to go outside. Oh Mommy's filming we get to pretend to be normal for an hour.  Jesus Christ Quarantine's not very hard is it poor? Actually not one bit.  Honestly, I don't even think I needed to do commentary over this Like you could watch to realize something's very very wrong with this family And I think we did a video on her a long long long long time ago. I don't really remember what I said, but Ah Now these are these are the types of people that get a million subscribers on YouTube and get hundreds and hundreds of thousands of views per Week on their videos. So this is what they want you to see boys. This is what they want the successful rich New world order family to be modeled after that's gonna be for today before I say anything else. 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