Welcome back to the FNA and today I'm going to talk about the Curse of the Stepped Keys. Okay, okay, that sounds very dramatic. But the thing is, it comes up a lot with student work. So when a student starts off a shot and they do a blocking pass, some students do it in spline or lean or whatever, but a lot of students do it in step mode, because it's taught at school, companies do it, it's very common, it's really good for posing. But the tricky thing is, and this is a spoiler for the whole clip here, is that if you don't put enough breakdowns in your stepped pass, you don't have enough information to understand the story, the acting choices, the timing, and it's very misleading on many fronts, which I'll go through in this clip.  I do animation analysis clips, I do acting analysis clips, I do a bunch of stuff. Which at the beginning is the channel to see all the thumbnails flashing through. That's what I do. So maybe you like it enough to subscribe so you don't miss a future upload or not. I don't know, maybe you watch this and you go, and whatever, or maybe you watch and you go do it later. I don't know. But that's the channel. That's what I do. I talk about a bunch of stuff in terms of animation. So let's get to this. And this all started a while back when I did an article for sync sketch. So the article was called keeping the original spark and timing your animation. It's kind of, it's a longer overview in terms of what you can do to keep your animation from not being, you know, spliny and crappy at the end.  So what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you five different clips of a head turn, and it starts off with almost no information. And I'll talk through the process and kind of the ideas about all this and what still won't work at the very end. But at least when you compare one to five, you'll see the difference in how that approach will be better when you present something to your teacher, to your friend, classmates, clients, whatever it is, because you really can't skimp on enough information. If you keep it too simple, it's just not going to work. So if you take a look at a head turn and you just do this, and I'm being very generous with the shot length turn end. So it's very short. It tells us that the character is given the look interested in something on the left and then something that caught interest to the right. And but this could be anything. This could be the character looking to the, to his left or screen right. Is it because they heard something? Is it because something caught an attention and, you know, somewhere peripherally over there? And then he looks over. We don't really know a lot. And in the timing wise, it's basically just two poses. Now this seems super simple, but a lot of students have that they really just have the minimum amount of posing. But the problem is that yes, you want to be efficient and it's easy to edit and all that good stuff. But if I look at this, like this is more like a layout pass. This is the character staging and framing. And then the turn and that's it. But it doesn't really tell me anything about what's the character thinking, reacting to all the acting choices, all that good stuff you want to see in a, in a, at least a blocking pass. Now I have a long, not rent, but I have a long series about blocking and how you should approach blocking. So check out the series over there. I shouldn't know by now where to point, but link is giving all that good stuff. So let's go to version two. And actually, before I show you version two, this is version one splines, right? And you got those classic spline bumps. So if you have a key and a key, and you have nothing here, nothing here, and that's in your graph. So once your spline is, it's going to do this. That's what's going to happen. You're going to have that tangent that goes like that. And I got those spline bumps. And that's why you have that dissipation going left overshoot and come back. It just doesn't look good. And again, in terms of the overall animation, it doesn't tell you anything. So now if you go and add one more in between here, you had that moment of, Oh, something is happening. Again, this could be, I'm hearing something, I could realize something, but at least it's a reaction. It's something where it's, Oh, something caught me in whatever way. And I'm still going to look to my left or you know, screen right at this point. But if you spline this, it's still going to be very swimming. Now, like what is the transition between this to this and into that? So it's really this fine balance of adding breakdowns and making sure that all of this works once you spline it. So what do you want to do is really add enough breakdowns so we understand what is going on. As in interest to the left, something again, alert, audio, whatever it is, but not forgetting that there was an interest there. That's where the character started. Here's this. So they're still interested. And that's why they're still looking at this. And then they turn around. That to me already has more information. It's more interesting. The timing gets a bit better. Now, if you would spline this, it still would not look good. But it gives me just a bit more information, especially with this moment here.  So it's really important that when you do have step keys that you spline it, go back into step, spline it and go back. Always look at, do I have enough information when I go from step to spline? Because one of the big pitfalls is that when you have a step mode pass, the student goes, oh, that's going to be fine. Hit spline and then everything changes. The timing's off. As you can see, it's spline. It's super weird. And then they freak out. But that might be right before a deadline and they don't have time to go back and add more breakdowns and fix it and all that good stuff. So what are you going to do as a student? You can do step mode for sure, but spline it, look at what it looks like really when you spline it, and then go back, add more breakdowns, add more information and go back and forth. Always double check what it's going to be. So if you continue with those breakdowns, I want to add more information and a bit of a reaction at the end. Because the thing that's missing too is that the character, certain interests over there, something is, again, hearing, thinking, whatever it is. But I still want to check because this was really important to me. So now I'm going to check over there, but we want to know, okay, well, what is over there? Now, what's going on? Is that interesting or not? It's not. So again, this tells a broader story. You have more breakdowns. Now, if you spline this, it's still a spliney mess. I mean, you can still see the spline bumps. It feels all very even. You still need more information. But still, it still tells me more, I can still guess and kind of look past the splineiness and go like, okay, this is the thought process of the character over there, thinking over there. I know that this pose, this pose over there to expressions. Yes, there's a change, but how, why is the character looking? And when they see this and how to see that, what's their reaction? Really think about the character processing information and reacting to things. So if I do one more pass in step mode, you're going to have something a bit more like this. That tells me a bit more interest, huh? But I want to look over there. What's over there? What's that? That tells me more. Now, in step mode, I don't think that's too bad. I'm also thinking in terms of direction. So the character is leaning over there, looking over there. That's the interest. Then there's also certain heights right off the shoulders. So if I do this in a very rough way and I put on onion skinning, now when the character reacts, you can see that change here. We're higher. We're straighter. Obviously, the eyes are different, but there's more like thinking about something or listening to something. It's not the focus look over there. Then after this, after this height and this position, the character will go down shoulders, lower head tilt still slightly tilted towards where it's interested. The eyes are still looking where the original focus is, but not as alert. And this is why we're lower with the roof. Are we also moving to the right to this other point? Then we get to the moment of, oh, what is this? Thinking about it. You don't have to do too much here, which is to me, it's mostly about this.  And then the big reaction of, oh, not interested, really slumping the shoulders and leaning him over there. Now you could lean the character over there or over there. I have him to the right because that new interest is boring. It's also not a threat. It's nothing dangerous. You can lean towards something that is safe. Now, it's also totally fine to have him lean the other way because this is not interesting. So he backs away, disengages from this. So you can totally have the character lean this way. Now, if this was a dangerous thing, right? If you look at this and realize, oh, that's not a good idea. And you have a reaction at the end, not this. I would have the character take a step back over here with maybe, you know, a bigger shock reaction or something. That being said, even though I like this more, there's more information, timing is better. It tells a full story in terms of what the character is thinking and processing and all that good stuff that I look to see when you spline this. It's still not great. It's better. It gives me a better idea, but you can still see that little move back here. That's your spline bump again. Then over there, you hit that pose, but because I have key and then the same key, it's going to have a bump again. So you're going to overshoot over here and then come back to the same spot over there. Same thing here. You can feel that if I track the nose, you can see how everything's kind of bumpy, overshoot and comes back. These are all the typical spline bumps. And especially since I have no extra breakdowns for the shoulders, they're already going fairly early up and down into that. At the same time, I don't mind too much because if I see this, again, I can see past the spline bumps. I can see past all those hurdles, but it gives me a bigger picture or the full picture of what the character is going through and why they're going from this to this. The other thing too is if you compare all of these, besides seeing the difference, you can see how the shot has gotten longer. At the very end, the last version is 115 frames, whereas if you go with the first version, it was 63 frames. But even then I was super generous. This would probably be maybe 40 frames, 50 frames. So not only do you want to have more information, but the thing is it will also tell you how long the shot really needs to be, because that's the other pitfall for stepped animation. If you don't have enough breakdowns and information there, it's going to be a character sitting, standing, standing, sitting, or looking to the left or right, whatever you have. That's such a massive change in terms of posing, especially if someone is sitting and standing or standing and sitting, whatever, like a bigger mechanics move, that they think, oh, that's going to be okay. Maybe a couple breakdowns by then I'm done. They realize I don't have time to put in all those breakdowns. The shot is too short.  I need to make the shot longer and add more breakdowns or in between and flesh this out. You only have a couple of days left to finish the assignment. This is not going to work. So from the very beginning, besides planning and sketching things, shooting reference, you really know how long this is going to take, especially with shooting reference. You have to make sure that all the information is there when you step out of shop and it has to have ease in and outs in between reactions, all that stuff. It might seem like more work at the beginning because you want to say, Hey, it's a blocking pass. It's going to be simple. Here's the idea. Sure, that pass will be fast, but at the end, you're going to spend more time fixing. You're going to be more trouble at the end. So it might seem like you're spending more time at the beginning, but it's going to pay off towards the end. I guarantee you. So absolutely continue with step mode is it's a great way to really concentrate on the golden poses, the extreme poses, you know, just face expression, all that stuff that tells a very clear story in the smallest amount of possible terms of information. I mean, that's your goal, right? You want to tell the clearest blocking pass and story, whatever you have with the least amount of keys on the fewest amounts of controllers in English so that you can make quick changes, quick edits, show different versions of the teacher or to a client. That's the idea. But again, like I said in my blocking pass series, sometimes if you want to tell a really clear story, you're going to have to set more keys where it almost turns into blocking plus technically, but that's what you need to tell the story. Again, hope that makes sense. The blocking series goes into that in more detail. But the main takeaway is, as a student, if you're watching this, do not skimp on breakdowns and in-betweens. You can't just have two poses and think that's going to tell the story. It's just not enough. And if you're going to break that down, you're losing way too much information in such a simplified pass. For more information, again, check out the Sting Sketch article. There's more about that in terms of just timing, the approach of, again, like I said, not losing the spark and initial, you know, like the energy of what you've thought about first. Now, if you don't want to be cursed by those step keys, I can lift the curse by you signing up for my workshop. This is silly. But I do have workshops and I can talk about this. I can help you with the shots and make your shots even more awesome. I'm here to help you. So let me know if you want to sign up, link in the description with all the information. Let's email. Let's talk. You can sign up at any time you can start whenever you want. And that's that speaking of time. Thank you for watching till the very end. As always, I appreciate that you watched the whole thing. If you did watch till the very end, if you didn't, then you wouldn't know this anyway. That's it for me from the clip. I hope it was helpful and I hope that I see you in my next upload.


Hey guys, this is JB without a balance with Jamie and Abby this month's episode. We will have me McCormack here She is my very best friend here in Nashville. She has changed my daughter's life We're gonna learn about that. We'll talk about two of her cookbooks and what she is doing now Post pinewood kitchen Fun to hear about because she's just amazing. You guys are gonna love her She's super intelligent and we talk a lot about gut health and it's really informative one of our most informed formative episodes And we're here at Fort Houston, which is a really cool nonprofit for artisans They actually like offer space for artisans and they are allowed to exhibit their art here for free as well So if you want to check them out go to www.fort houston.org Now that I know you guys are out there in over in that direction I was raised to talk to everyone at the table. She was raised to talk, which is I want to say this Do not hold you crazy.  Don't don't keep the crazy in but I'm so well-dressed and well behaved today So me is very fascinating that she is not only my best friend She is an author, but she has two cookbooks She is a health and wellness coach, which we're gonna go into Really like a lot. She has helped change my daughter in her life. She's a rancher She's a rancher. Can you believe that? Can you imagine her on a horse? She has she has owned a kitchen pinewood kitchen out in Pinewood near Nunley Nunley, Tennessee Nunley, Tennessee. Yeah, how far is that from Nashville? That's 46 miles from Nashville, okay? Pinewood, Tennessee, okay. It's not really a town. I made it up, but we'll get into that. Oh, oh, okay, great Just welcome. Thanks. I'm happy to be here. I actually love what you all are doing and I've loved watching Jamie Go into this world with you and I'm your biggest fan I'm a fan of everyone that's participating in this because Jamie is sunshine to me And so I love that her sunshine gets to be shared with the world and not just me Well, let's start with our friendship. Let's tell everybody how we met and we met at a dance competition I was working on my solo. I'm a middle-aged competitive dancer. Can you imagine? No, I'm not but our children are Yes, and we met when I had just you had just come to Nashville just soon when you arrived Yeah, yeah, and we became friends and she said that John was the GM of the Titans Now this is gonna tell you who I am with football everyone.  Like I just imagined like I don't know when he said GM of a football team and then just went right over my head How did you figure it out? I think when I went to my first game It was my first ever And I was like, whoa, he's this is bigger than Crouder And there's a lot of seats to clean and I've run a restaurant So I was like and there's a popcorn stand and there's a beer garden I was like he's more than you know and then what happened is I really got to know him And I got to see your life behind the scenes and what he really is is he's a manager of humans And he really in like the most positive I don't know if that's a great way to say it But he really helps guide the team and the people that work there and inspire them and He's been he's become one of my great friends, too Yes, it's been really neat because Some when me had her restaurant She would come over and sit with John and just okay John you need to help me out How do I go about this situation? How do I just guide me? So it's been it's been pretty neat to see your friendship with him evolved that as well He's really a coach in a way and he coaches maybe not the players down the way they throw the ball But he coaches the entire organization to stay connected to believe to participate and to Be their best selves and he tries to see everyone as their best selves And so do I and running the ranch and the farm and my team in Pinewood is I really wanted people to Just feel so good about their lives and their choices and where they work and where they spend their time So John has been a great friend to me in helping me navigate situations And it's funny because he'll talk about like the Titans and I'm like, yeah, and I got this problem with this cowboy And my dishwasher and he's like me just do this, but it's all the same It's all about caring about the people you connect to and you work with yeah for sure So you guys don't know each other five years. Yeah, it's been about five years Okay, and it was so much fun because the first time we really met was backstage We were getting our girls ready The girls had to dance and we were talking so much all of a sudden we were like wait We got to go watch the girls we need to leap so we start walking out as the girls were walking back in Totally missed the dance. She's like don't tell Lola. Just don't tell Lola Okay, so Taylor was like you both have two daughters, correct? Yeah, we both have two girls Okay, and yours how old are your girls? My oldest is a freshman at Ole Miss and my youngest is a sophomore. She's 15 That's where we were going. Yeah, I met Lola, right? Okay.  She was really sweet. Yeah, she's good. I love raising women.  Yeah And what that means raise them. You know inspire them guide them it's amazing to watch you navigate because I Mean there's been things in your life with like closing the farm and and things like that that you do it Talk to us about that about your farm. Well, I own a working cattle ranch in organic produce farm I raise bees cattle hogs quarter horses I grow all non-gmo heirloom Biodynamic farming, so it's like gritty real deal. It's a pretty big farm It started my husband has been a rancher and a cowboy his entire life his family for hundreds of years have been ranchers and farmers and They started the first chain of grocery stores in the United States called Winn Dixie and that I mean, what you're from South Louisiana when Dixie is a big nail So they really Brought, you know, the individual cuts of meat to the marketplace and they changed We're mean grocery stores. That's how they came to be and then I got I met my husband. I was vegan How you doing? Vegan cattle ranch and I was always like I don't know about this But the thing about being married to Lee and living with the land and living and growing and raising food is It changes your entire perspective of life and what matters and what's valued so I met Lee married Lee live on this big ranch Weston Asheville in Pinewood, Tennessee and I was growing all this food and I got very sick and I had ulcerations the total circumference of my small intestine and They were going to kill me because The ulcers my intestines were going to rupture at any minute and burst like any second I lived with I could die right now How did that begin? How does it begin? I mean it Ulcerations begin in the intestines because of bacteria in the intestines and their sores and their irritants and then it's what is the Intestines exposed to so 15 years ago when I was at my weakest. I weighed about 89 pounds I was starving to death because I couldn't even swallow water and I went to every doctor from Guadalajara, Mexico to the Mayo Clinic and They couldn't really no one could explain to me what causes an ulcer and I have this brain It's like I want to know why like things don't just happen There's not like oh It's like what was the what built us there and that goes into like how I look at being a human too like what created me I'm really lucky. I'm super beyond good friends with a woman named Dr. Joan born Cinco Who's a Harvard cancer cellular biologist and when I got really sick she came and said no change your food? And I knew that the only thing that was touching the inside lining my intestines was food and that I knew food could influence it But 15 years ago. Nobody was talking about it There weren't all these wellness blogs and no one was talking about microbiome and ulcerations and fermented food But I had access to this woman from Harvard and I was fed tons of information Like I felt personally that God was opening a door for me and so I changed my food I'd said no to the medication, but I'm not anti-medicine. I think medicine is a blessing use it And then what can you do? Like how do we work together with our doctors? So I started off in something called macrobiotics Which was the first type of whole foods healing foods in the 1960s and 70s by Micho Kushi And he was it was basically the Japanese healing foods and it was my only option There were no books on how to heal my gut nothing and So I started working with a woman who ran the Shaw Wellness Center in Spain And she was like you got to cook and I hated to cook. I mean I grew up Appalachian. Okay, I Mean fish sticks and food stamps and I go to the grocery store And I just shopped via the pictures on the box because they're pretty and it said organic And that's how I cooked and that's how we grew up That's how we grew up so I really had to learn how to cook and from not from a place of I want to be a food blogger because that didn't even exist or I Want to be a chef. I just wanted to live I wanted to live I had two little girls and my mother died when I was a teenager and I was not leaving my kids and So I learned to cook the first thing I ever learned how to make was miso soup because it has seaweed It has a probe which is neutralizes radiation in the body And it's loaded with trace minerals that are missing from our produce in the ground and it had miso a probiotic Fermented food that I knew was going to touch the lining of my gut And I was gonna heal it and then I learned about kuzu which comes from the kudzu plant and kuzu if you add it to hot Apple juice. It's actually it thickens it and you drink it.  I went to culinary school in Los Angeles I enrolled in a program. I went in as a Spy because I mean your knife skills are so good when you're macrobiotic because they're all about the energy of chopping And I made one of my closest friends still today said you're a spy And I went no I'm not because you go to a program and it's French classic And you don't want to be like I know because they don't want you you're there to know what they know And I couldn't eat anything that we were making because it was dairy and gluten and I have I'm celiac too We found out but you didn't know that we didn't know that but I knew I couldn't have dairy or gluten I didn't eat it. What was your diet then and now just so we know like what are what are you avoid? Well that comes to where we go now. So I went to culinary school French classic. It was amazing I finished the program. I would go home. I would make whatever was made with regular butter and milk I would I would just figure out the fat the protein. How could I do it? How could I change it? I mean, I'm really like the OG of nut milk I mean I used to live in the jungle too and I would pinch almonds to make my own nut milk to get the skin off So I I mean I was just learning becoming a master for my own self um move ahead we had the restaurant and The restaurant was an old 1920s general store located just on the corner from my farm I turned it into a real food restaurant where I grew all the food raised all the livestock all the honey everything and everything was orchestrated to be inclusive because if we want to teach inclusivity around race around sexuality Around raising children around religion. We also have to teach inclusivity in everything We have to teach people to think of others and to think that they're different than us But their needs are just as valuable as ours. So for me in my rural community I was really driven to teach inclusivity through food and if I could just drop it like it was hot You know that little bit of oh think of her. It's an inclusive table. Then maybe that would find tentacles So I ran pinewood for seven years Um, it was the most important thing. I've done work wise in my life besides my family is my most important thing But I really helped change that community I mean I became the best the best job in the county was working for pinewood We paid $15 an hour to each server Living wage seven years ago Because you can't ask people to live on just tips people want to know why it's hospitality falling apart call me No, seriously. I mean growing up. I say growing up, but whenever I was in college That's what I did was I was the server and I think we made like two dollars an hour With tips and if you didn't get tips you'd got two dollars done and my rent was not being paid And then we really got to get some things straightened out here And I really feel that I did that in pinewood, you know, we really ended up on the map I became southern livings cook of the year, which was a big deal to me a kormick who couldn't even make cornbread That's 15. Yeah, but what happened is we had the flood In august that just passed and the waverly flood also hit pinewood. We live on the pine river And this was my third flood I've been through It was my second flood in six months And this was a whopper And it was it worse this time or I had the very first flood this flood that we just had was worse It was then we've ever been throughout there It devastated the pinewood community. So pinewood is actually a real community It was founded in the 1850s by a family a man named sam graham and his brother And they came from north carolina and he didn't believe in slavery and he had a working farm And they called him eccentric because of that. So pinewood was always this self sustained community They had their own mills. They raised their own food Everyone was paid regardless of skin and color and whatever And it was a really special place and then my husband and his family bought pinewood And so pinewood is the pinewood community. It's been there, but it's not uh incorporated So pinewood to me was always a place of freedom You know and I feel that freedom with food food brings us freedom if we understand it and how to eat it and how to prepare it And it can create an equal playing field for humanity if they have the right food I like the way you put it it creates freedom because it also for families like mine That have to be gluten free dairy free We could walk in there and eat anything we wanted. It was like we could finally be free You know and that's your love language is food and it just that's how we Mesh to end just really I mean we're inseparable now. I mean it's done. Laverne and surely we're done We're done. Yeah, we're done. We're done y'all, but it is it is you know, I grew up Um, there were times in my life. I was hungry as a child. I understand it Um, I feel like I have both sides You know one side is this meg mecca of grocery and food and the other side was Appalachian and Hungary So I get it all I've had no food and I've grown an insane amount of food Services my love language. Yeah, I love to take care of humans And I love what you that you said you could come into my restaurant You're like, whoa Someone thinks and the old school going back to going to culinary school french classic training and hospitality is This is how it's made. There are no substitutions. The old school restaurant said no substitutions The old chef was like no, I don't do it and um, or maybe he didn't say it like that You cannot you cannot have it in all daily. It comes with cheese. Yeah, this is the crazy. I was talking about Slowly It comes with cheese. You've got no you're gonna have cheese But it's like and I wanted to change that but I also wanted to change the cook's perspective and take away that brutal emotional climate that occurs in a restaurant that is just relentless You know, like they're just dictators in that kitchen And I wanted everyone to work and feel loved and connected to the customer So what I did that I had an open kitchen in this old general store and they would meet the woman who couldn't have the cheese And she always had roller skates on or a tambourine in her hand.    Yeah Well, let's tell your viewers and this is actually kind of the first time that you've Spoken out about what happened ever and when you close the the restaurant Why don't you you tell your your followers? How are you doing? I I mean the truth is as I opened that restaurant I always had this thing inside of me That I knew I I was blessed to find my way through the kitchen and to find myself to wellness And so I always felt like wherever i'm asked to serve i'm gonna show up like if any young people said name a quorum Right, could you come over here now? I don't work 80 hours a week. I'm coming i'm coming And so I felt like I was brought there to serve and to learn and to grow And that we went through floods and so what happened was the last flood was devastating And I was exhausted and I had gotten well and then I spent seven years working an insane amount And I wasn't well anymore And I was putting all this energy out into the world and I wasn't taking care of her anymore And I have two girls and a husband and livestock and I just couldn't do it anymore and I was doing a lot of media Yeah, I was a contributor on three shows across the country shooting from home And I just I it was like everything started to crumble. You know what?  It was a lot of pressure and I was full of inflammation again And I wasn't I wasn't showing up everywhere You know when you've almost died And you know you're on borrowed time. I am borrowed this moment Is a miracle. I have no idea how long I'm going to be well and that's the truth and that's the reality for all of us Um, but you know it's borrowed you want to be like up here. Like if I show up, I show up Or I don't go I I cancel Not coming. Sorry But I just felt that I wasn't my best self like I wasn't me McCormick I was I was just feeling frazzled and crumbly and and I was in pain again And it just wasn't well and I stood on the front porch of the farmhouse And I looked at all the cleanup we had in front of us And I thought I can't do it anymore I cannot do it anymore And I prayed about it and I asked for guidance and I got inside myself and I just couldn't do it anymore and it was hard for me because I had a team Like these people worked for me for seven years restaurant turnover COVID hit we killed it in COVID because I'm inventive and I'm a come-up So I was always looking how could I shift how could I maneuver and I felt my whole community?  Yeah, because I don't do weird food I do really good southern food. That's like the best oil the best. I mean rice bran oil from california So my fried chicken you want to eat it because it's not nasty oil with chemicals It had no chemicals in my oil So it was just delicious and I really got sad because then you know as it became my identity, right? So, you know when your identity crumbles, yeah, you um, you have to go. Oh, wait, it's not my identity I'm still me. It's not worth your health, but it was amazing to watch you transition to Understand that about yourself and to know that You're not just a restaurant.    Yeah, it's amazing to watch you grow Yeah, and to realize that our outside world doesn't define us That our clothes our shoes our jobs our friendships Our marriages our children. They don't define us. They're not our essence and our essence is in there and This is the first media I've done and yeah like eight six months or whatever and And I mean when you asked me I was like really but I don't do anything. I know she said that She was like, what do you want me to do and I'm like, I don't know, buddy I'm like, are you kidding me? I mean, you're not just the restaurant. No, you're you're just not that was a stepping stone It was and you've written two books. Yes. I mean and the third's coming. So and you also have the fiction Oh, and then I have three books after that that are already through an edit that are not food And they're all about the archetypes of our personality and they're quirky and funny and what I really love Well, can you tell us about your first two cookbooks? My first two cookbooks are really fun So I wrote my first book before I met my husband and before I was a cook I was in la and I was a writer when I was in la and I was going to culinary school And I was seeing what was happening in culinary teaching facilities I realized that all the information that I had already mastered and learned in my journey with food wasn't being shared I sat down and I said, I'm going to write a food book I'm just going to write it because I have to tell there's a million me's. I know there's more than just me out there So I sat down and I wrote my first book. No idea how to write a book No idea how to write a food book or a cookbook and I wrote it and I said, well, I'm just going to put it out into the world Because um, that's the purpose is to share my journey And this is when amazon was doing its first beginning of amazon They're publishing deal amazon books. Yeah amazon books like 10 years eight years ago. I actually didn't just do it all by myself I hired a company a couple company called the book couple out of florida They said, well, we'll help you lay it out and we'll help you edit it and everything So I wrote it gave it to them and they helped me lay it out. So it was professionally laid out And then we put it up on amazon and it went, that's done. I'm done. Peace out No more cookbooks. I did it. I told I told the story and I sold 20 000 books Which in the publishing world is a big deal because even celebrities nowadays do not sell 10 000 books I ended up becoming a contributor on a nationally syndicated talk show called the better show It would air here in nashville But it was all over the country and the studio it's owned by meredith studios and it's shot in new york city in a real studio And it was a real stiffy studio and I remember going i'm really gonna do this. Y'all want me to do this?  I made great friends From the show um the host of the show rebecca budding. He used to be on all my children became a great friend of mine and JD we're I mean, I just made friends and I loved the crew I mean the crew is amazing. Okay, y'all don't know it But crews are amazing because you form this relationship like the goal is to create joy And positive information to go into the world for an hour a day so I was all in and um I loved it and I was on that show for a few years as a contributor And I sold a ton of books and build a social media following and then joined today nashville for four years as a contributor I did everything from astrology girl and food She sure did do astrology. She still does it to me.  It is fun That's amazing. That's where I went on a journey. So anyway, I sold a ton of these books Then a publisher contacted me and said ma'am ma'am Do you know how many books you saw and I go no and he was you sold a lot of books And I took a meeting and then I did this book and it's with simon and shuster and their boutique division called hci Hello And this was really fun because this book is all about pinewood. Hello. This is my community And the journey and I um wrote about microbiome science So that's what really came is the journey with microbiome science because in two up until 2009 there was no information to the public about microbiome That means the bacteria and the gut and what bacterias are how they influence digestion healing How they create small chain fatty acids none of this information was available to anyone And I really had been ahead of it because of my friends and connections and the scientists I knew and I just started writing about it So this book has a whole deep dive In like simple easy to read basic. I call them the gut homies. That's your good gut bacteria And uh that you can relate to and go, oh wait, I don't have that bacteria And then science came and brought these amazing tests called the biome test and it comes in a little kit That you do this wonderful very kardashian esque stool sample test.  It's pretty gold lame.  I'm like, let's talk Shadooby I mean, it's just food Okay So the biome test comes and the biome test is amazing and it comes then through an app Or you can get it sent to your email and it breaks down which bacterias You have too much of which you don't have enough of and which foods Feed those bacteria. So if you have an excess category, which we all do excess is huge and wellness If you have an excess category here Then you want to know well, what's creating the excess and they say these foods Then the foods that you're not eating enough of because when you have an excess that means you're avoiding foods In which bacteria you need to grow to balance the colony, right? We have a colony, right? It's like the bunch of pilgrims up in here I'll put the tail back to the horse So by the way, I'm terrified of horses I have a lot of horses She is she had to do that shoot right there The um She oh for the show was it for the show and she's like jamie I'm really scared. They they want me to get on this horse to go on the farm I can ride too because I've taken tons of lessons everyone and my husband is a cowboy I'm talking chaps and yeehaw and I am just like, okay.  And I mean I was like, yeah For sure For sure for sure and then he was like, okay That one's yours And I was like, okay And I got on the horse because I had ridden at the fair on that thing that goes around in the pony And I was like, I can do this. I'm fine And and so I didn't know we were gonna move like a hundred head of cattle with cowboys yelling and screaming And it was like a scene out of a movie that hadn't been written.  I was so unattractive And then he looks at me goes. I don't think you knew how to ride I know I don't know what you like me So now I just say but I do right. I've taken lessons and I love I love horses. How many people work on the farm Man in the high season, you know, I'll have anywhere I could have 10 people If we're working cattle or doing something then I'll bring in day crews Harvesting on the farm takes another amount of people But I uh, I have a good steady five full time People wow to help even that alone is a big job without the kitchen. Yeah, no, and I run the office Yeah, and so it is uh, yeah, it is and you know the thing about farming and this is what happened on the porch of the flood And we're driving and and my house was fine and my farm is fine But my husband said something amazing to me. He said, you know 50 years ago You a tractor cost $3,000 $2,000 50 years later tractors $100,000 50 years ago, you paid your help $4 an hour today. You've got to pay your help $20 an hour 50 years ago The land was valued for what it could produce Right land held its value at what it was good for how it could support society Now land is valued at who wants to buy it and own the most, right?  He has his own My husband my husband has written a few books and he's he started in the mental health business He started a place called the recovery ranch which is out on the ranch and it's a wellness You know addictions eating disorder and then he started integrative life center And we owned the canyon in malibu. We were partners with fred seagull and malibu and then altamira and salsa lido So my husband is all about helping people transform and become their best selves And I guess I am too with food So do you do the food for those centers? I do. Oh, really? I have done them But we've sold the majority of them and now he's getting ready to do something else. Oh, wow Yeah, I don't know why very interesting. Yeah, we could go down that rabbit But um, where did we go but that was a thing so he said, you know 50 years ago That's what that's that's how it was but now it's 50 years later and pretty much What hasn't gone up is what you make Off of work in a farm. So all your expenses are up here But what you're earning for your product hasn't really grown in 50 years So people it's harder and harder and harder to farm and to ranch And um, I don't know what's going to happen in the future It's kind of it's kind of frightening. Oh, but then another test the alcat test Yes, so I talked about vioam. I want to tell you all about the alcat test So what I learned through the vioam test and what I learned through writing these books is that we're all individual So this whole concept that you can you know vegan works for everybody Or gluten-free or no dairy or blueberries everybody eat blueberries Yeah, how about kale or mushrooms and I love I am a fun guy. I mean, I love I mean if I could be any plant in the world, I would did you all see the fantastic fun guy best documentary ever I mean, I just want to be one and I raise them.  Are we allowed to curse? I'm sorry. I told you I was gritty. I mean, it's just come on. I live on a ranch Y'all don't even know when my daughter was little she came in the house.  She was like five I was like, why are you cussing? What are you talking about? She goes the cowboys They just cuss at the cows and the cows move This has to be Lola Bella. Oh, what? That surprises me So the another test that I learned about it's called the alcat test your doctor can run it Viome you can do yourself and you'll be you are going down a fun The poop shoot. I mean of like information But um the alcat test I really love because what it does is it checks your body your blood And it checks what foods are creating inflammation white blood cell reaction, which therefore creates inflammation And everybody has a different food that they can eat or they can eat And so you're going to have a different list of foods that are for you like so for me My alcat test came back and I was having nodules like at the end of pinewood y'all I had just wore myself out my all my joints swelled up So my doctor ran this test and it came back and it was so interesting Is the foods that I couldn't I should need to avoid right now For now for the next three to six months Are the foods that I lived on avocado Asparagus now avocado is a great food for not me right now, but it will be So that's what we have to do is we want to make we love to make things bad. Don't we in society are like bad It's like we live in this society and this is a rabbit hole and a little squirrel ride But it's what I've been thinking about we're give permission right now We we give a lot of permission for people to be things and do things, but we're super unforgiving And so that's really crazy to me. So we get obsessed sorry come bring it back But we get obsessed with foods and we want to make them bad or we want to make them good or soy is bad And so we can be really mad at soy for a while And I'm not saying that Right true. So the soy is um I mean for some people soy is bad some people have soy allergies. They have soy reactions They have certain disorders and autoimmune disease and they can't have it But not for everybody and that's my message like gluten for me is not my it's my you know kryptonite But for you a healthy great piece of bread might be fantastic So again the alcat test is another test that's coming and it's showing us what we can have what we can't have And so again, I love this way of thinking it just makes us think bigger It makes us inclusive because we're science and food and diet is about to change and hit a lick when these these tests are available to everyone Let's um, let's touch base on taylor and your relationship with taylor. So For our listeners my 16 year old um has type 1 diabetes alopecia rheumatoid arthritis Well, which is now juvenile idiopathic arthritis um And for years she was on methotrexate for her rheumatoid She was taking medicines for alopecia trying to get her hair to grow back And um, I met me and she just You're not pushy But you suggest things until I do it Ha ha ha ha Well, I don't I don't think that you should ever say you should to anybody No, you've been actually really amazing with our journey because people we have so much food shame Yeah, it's out of control. Yeah, I mean at least every human I know at one point in the day goes Oh, I shouldn't have or I should or or judges something about their relationship around food So we're just we beat the heck out of ourselves And It's just it's awful. So we don't need another person telling me what I should or shouldn't It's so cute though. You get so excited like when we decided to take her off of methotrexate, you're like Thank god, but I wouldn't say a dang word. You didn't you never did ever because I'm never gonna I'm not a doctor. I'm just a lady. Yeah, that's the other thing Somewhere in society, too We gave up all our power And we were like, well if I'm not a chef and I'm not a nutritionist. I'm not a doctor. I can't help it And it's not true. I mean come on rule people been figuring it out if you can plan it and you can grow it You can figure out if it hurts your stomach or doesn't We decided to go down the journey with me and me suggested Acupuncture which we started doing Taylor did eliminate gluten. She eliminated dairy. You had her do her volume test and so we took it as the approach as food is medicine and At the time she was only 13 years old and She received it She was at an age to where she really wanted to receive the information and you helped her auntie me helped her And her hair started growing back and now I mean she's still bald.  Well, it's not it's just support the medicine My thing is if you're going to take medicine support the medicine in working Yeah, and it has to be your journey. So for me with taylor, I wanted it to be her journey I wanted her to feel that these were her choices not yours not mine. They're hers And what could she do to support herself and you know the methyl trexate it really helps a lot of people But how can you help the methyl trexate? You know, how can you get your body to a place that it maybe doesn't need it if you're lucky And she happened to be someone that got really lucky and her body didn't need it anymore Yeah So the thing with taylor is it's been like taylor. What do you like and I've said a few times? What is your excess here? So when you raise livestock organically we go? What do they have too much of so if they have to if they're in a pasture that has a certain Nutritional profile that grass is a type of grass it has more sun more water whatever It's that that grass is an excess because they've been there too long So we know it's not working So then we move them and then we figure out what minerals they were lacking Because they had so much of this and not that so if you're only eating seven things like americans potato tomato corn soy Not mad at it Um, you know chicken or I don't know beef whatever if those are the seven things cheese that you're eating in different forms Then you've got an excess and you're not getting a lot of other things that you need So for me it was just to point out to her that variety feeds the gut homies and that um if we could get this sort of Again this really diverse culture up in here Then we would have balance in our body and that she these were the foods that would she wasn't eating Oh, she was so picky. Oh Oh gosh It was so bad.  I'm sitting here thinking about that I'm like she's getting way too much of a lot of it. Now this is what happens. She only eats five things It's a little bit and then we wonder why later we're not well But it only changes if you help them change But you can't yell at them and you can't get mad at them you and it's a lot of work Have to take care of you And then you have to find a way to integrate it On the table and you have to find a way to support them in the food journey As opposed to you know because we created the monsters because we have these children's menus, right?  How's your poop? I don't but I think it just so you know when you tell me that i'm going yeah But to watch taylor get in the ring and make her own decisions You know and she's doing it again right now She just did her alcat test that we talked about her doctor ran it And she's got all the chemicals that her body's reacting to which is fascinating And uh the added is and the preservatives and the foods and she's rotating again And so she's figuring it out. Yeah, and what it does is it teaches children and it teaches us how capable we are Right because we're in a place of fear. I mean our society has been just bait up And we feel like we've lost all control And we don't know how to make things happen. It gives us control So He's his faith in ourselves people don't have access to you personally like any more But So besides these two tests, do you just recommend doing that alcat every six months?  Yes they are Yep, just that's that will be our sign-off is just dm Your poop results. We do we talk about it though. Seriously like she actually had an attack this past week and she was quite sick for about two to three days And I I was like me this is gross, but I can ask you this How when you're when it ends when you finally like have a release with your intestines How is it like is it just a lot of poop and she's like it's a lot of corn A lot of corn. I ate too nuts. I ate too much. Oh, it was nice I have I have a narrowing in my intestine from scar tissue So the thing that life keeps me humble because I still have To some days I can't get up And it hasn't happened in like nine months, but I have a narrowing in my intestine and I suffer partial bowel obstructions Which is the most painful. It's I had two kids. I didn't even know I was in labor because I've lived with such insane pain and um And when I got to the hospital, we were like, you know, this baby's coming, right? That's its head It's crowning Wow, I thought it was a hemorrhoid That's another clip. That's a clip. I thought that was a rod No, but I mean I've lived with such excruciating digestive pain in my life That with these partial obstructions Um that it humbles me and I go down and I mean I mean I it's brutal And so I really appreciate a nice shadooby. I mean a nice smooth move and we're all better But it's true.  Well, I mean, I just need moderation around here Oh my gosh, okay, so what's your new book about? Oh, this is gonna be so fun This new book is called the juicy bits And it's all my juicy bits. I mean not all my juice bits It's the juicy bits. It's really I wanted to write a memoir. So I've been deep diving um through my emotional journey of um all the things I've been through in my life And the foods that saved me the recipes that made me and the stories and the truth I'm going to write about the truth of running a kitchen and being a female working and running a ranch And running a kitchen as a female chef. I mean and that's tough and I want to write the stories You know the stories that I couldn't put on facebook about what was really happening in in my community in my kitchen And uh, so it's a memoir cookbook and it's like the juicy bits, you know It's like all the good stuff at the bottom of the pan that you only share with those closest to you in the kitchen And so it's the secrets. It's the journey and uh, I'm really loving it. You know, it's not tv me It's me and it's uh, what I want to talk about. Yeah, when will that come out? January 2023 It's June 15th. Pray for me. Oh, wow. I'm like the biggest procrastinator ever right now And I'm excited about the juicy bits. That's awesome. Okay, and then you have three fiction I have three books that are fiction. Okay, they're called the adventures of princess know it all She don't know nothing And and that's really they're really they're they're quirky and funny So those are out or no, no, no those the first edits done I'll take the summer off and then I'm gonna hit those like a brick in the fall Wow and finish that edit and then they'll be coming out. So yeah became a writer You're busy. I'm not as busy as it was. Yeah. Wow. You still sound busy. What else do we leave anything on? You know, thank you. Thank you for doing this and being Open and about the farm and because I know how hard that was for you. Yeah, it was terrible, by the way I mean people think floods, you know, Louisiana, South Louisiana where you're from got hit And people think floods and these natural Uh disasters happen and the sun comes out the next day in a week later. We forgot but Man, it took me months to come back and then you know Just all the things that happen in between You just it's all the things that happen in between life is happening and it is you know, I used to think Okay This storm is going to blow out and then it's going to be fine It's going to keep raining, you know, it's going to keep thundering and You got to find a way to be fine when it's raining Yeah, I totally agree and I think you have I think you're over it Not over it, but you know what I mean started from the bottom now. We're here Okay, wait one thing you said you lived in a jungle. I lived in the jungle I have to know about this before so my husband and I are real adventurous Can you tell I always said I could have had one hot dang it big house with poop But instead I got uh cows and horses and adventures And so I always knew I wanted a big life when I was um when I was 17 My mother was killed in a car accident and a week later my two best friends were killed in another car accident In four days after that my grandmother died And so it changed me And it said you better get out there.  I knew it.  He's a good time. He's just great And uh we were living in la and his projects He sold the canyon in malibu and his project in salsa lido in san francisco ended And we were sitting there and he goes we need to go have an adventure These kids are still little we need to go and he's also a surfer. He loves to surf And I was like, uh, I don't want to go. I think this is great And he was like no we're gonna go so we ended up moving to saylita And this was 14 years ago And I had a baby and I had a four year old And um we thought it was a great idea to live in the jungle Before it was now it's been even more modernized and we packed up and we moved and I had no internet and I had to You know to get my gas delivered I'd have to listen for the truck that delivered the gas and you didn't know when and this is how you knew it was coming It would go Son of a gas Son of a gas and my kids would be yelling and I go wait. I think that's the gas man So I lived, you know snakes in my house snakes wrapped around the toilet seat crabs Like my lowless terrified of bugs. I did it to her and then you know, the whole butt worms thing would go Always back to the butt But I mean they check every every full moon people their market on their calendars to like get rid of parasite And then it got wild because of the narcos and the grenades and they had to take my kids out of the car My husband was traveling because he had businesses here in the ranch and And then I finally and then I got really really sick at that point That's when I hit the bottom and I was just then the doctor from cedar sinai Called and said you need to get out of there Because if you get any kind of parasite or typhoid or anything you go And that's when I came back to national and Changed my life, but I've lived in the jungle and I lived in israel I lived in israel for six years before my husband and in and out like I had an israeli life for six years In and out of israel. Um, and I speak Hebrew and spanish. Thanks people don't know about me What brought you to israel? Now I have to know what brought you to israel I had an israeli boyfriend For six years and uh, we traveled back and forth and the first time I I mean I was raised my I'm half latin. So I was raised in a very catholic environment Half latin. I'm like a latin hillbilly And um, and we was wow And so, you know, I grew up in a house where they spoke italian and there was spanish spoken and then so I always heard languages And then when I met him and he spoke Hebrew. I never had been around anybody. I mean, I'm appalachian hillbilly So I was like, what is it? And then I loved it and he's like monish maa at that's a mea I just fell in love with israel and I loved and when I was after my mom died I had gone to be a nun because that's what you do And uh, but I didn't work out clearly Oh my god, I was like really catholic, okay And then I tried to convert to Judaism because I'm like fine. This is my path And uh, that didn't work out either. I kept a kosher kitchen for a while. I mean, I have had incarnations You I'm about to have another one That is why this is me in the womb right now. I'm in the womb I'm in the womb with you By the way, this place is amazing. It is awesome. I want to be y'all's best friend. You're gonna be sick of me mccormie We're at fort houston for our listeners and it is beautiful There's so much art and it's art and I always felt that what nashville was missing was was This level of art, right the arts not just music Yeah, you know, and I know television and film is here and it's great, but I mean, I love this I love the mediums. I want to see it. I want to smell it. Yeah Smells good up in here. It feels like creativity. Okay I feel like me is gonna have to be like our first part too to once our other book I know right. She is so I feel like we only got like a little bit of who she is and what's going on So thank you so much for being on. I love being here. You're so interesting. I love it I love that everybody good to to meet you. Thank you so much. Thank you, ma'am And thank you for letting the crazy come out. Yeah, well, I mean it's real hard to talk You don't have your pearls on I don't know. I don't have my pearls. No. I mean, I just don't want to tuck it in anymore Yeah, that's the beauty of age, right? Good. Don't tuck it in And lola's not mad at you anymore whenever it comes out No, no now lola says in the backseat of the car coming home from the dance competition yesterday She I'm talking about some that we took my dog to a dance competition It was anyways and I was talking about how I had processed that with jack before we went I was like, I just want you to know you're gonna be in a hotel It's gonna be fine She was like now her thing is mom Rub it up Real it in Oh, real it in That's hilarious. I love it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you Thanks y'all


From Thomas Scannel. Date? Monday, February 3rd, 2019 at 7.35 am. Subject. Regarding. Potential Anomalous Activity. 2. Eleanor Jones. Miss Jones. You are making this unnecessarily difficult. I am sure you understand that, since you have been a foundation employee for as long as you have. You are entitled to certain opinions about the way we operate around here. I ask you to deliver on a certain, tangible, reportable data, and you don't. You constantly question decisions above your pay grade. And for the icing on the cake, you make ludicrous assertions about the management of budgets, without any proof to back it up. This is unacceptable. Thomas Scannel. C3 Supervisor Accounting. From Eleanor Jones. Date? Monday, February 3rd, 2019 at 12.35 am. 2. Thomas Scannel. I do not mean to make you feel as though I am undermining your authority or anything of the sort. I don't know how to explain it to you in a way you would understand. It's not real text and they are not real numbers. Please, let me ask you, what does this line say? I am asking you to read it. Out loud, if that helps. Pio number. Vendor name. Description. Amount. 801-685. Boza Jurgen. Data Services Consultation. $4,845.70. I think we need to have an in-person discussion about this. It's very important. Don't you see it? I know I'm not crazy, Tom. Please. Eleanor Jones. Senior Accountant. From Tom Scannel. Date? Monday, February 3rd, 2019 at 4.47 am. 2. Eleanor Jones. Miss Jones. Have you considered speaking to an on-site therapist? I don't know how to put this delicately, but you are exhibiting erratic and unusual behavior. The other possibility is that you have interacted with something you should not have. Have you forgotten where you stand in this organization? Or what clearances you are authorized? I am considering placing you on administrative leave until you speak to a foundation counselor. That's what they are trained for.  Tom Scannel. C3 Supervisor Accounting. From Eleanor Jones. Date? Monday, February 3rd, 2019 at 9.23 am. 2. Tom Scannel. Sir, I apologize for messaging you so late this evening. What I'm particularly concerned about is the impact in the event that I'm right. We're talking about a whole department integral to the structure of the foundation's work in medics that disappeared overnight. Given what I feel is the urgency of the matter, I have put in a request to see if I can get approval to pursue this line of investigation as a special project. I understand I am not a researcher, but the matter is constantly weighing on me. Eleanor Jones. Senior accountant. From Tom Scannel. Date? Monday, February 4th, 2019 at 7.35 am. 2. Eleanor Jones. I am not interested in any more of this behavior. As you've now decided to go over my head without authority, I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that this job is not for you. You are insubordinate and I cannot continue to consume so much company time on your behalf. Please begin clearing out your desk if you don't mind. Tom Scannel. C3 Supervisor. Accounting. From Eleanor Jones. Date? Monday, February 4th, 2019 at 9.11 am. 2. Tom Scannel. Sir, given your response, I think we have nothing left to discuss. Please accept my resignation effective immediately. Eleanor Jones. End of file. To learn more about the SCP Foundation, subscribe to SCP Orientation today and turn the notification bell on so you don't miss any of our videos.


If we look at yogic perspective, based on the previous sessions, we can conclude that individual perspective of well-being is untenable in the yogic perspective. That means, one individual cannot attain the well-being, individual well-being is always connected with his relationship or her relationships. So, my individual situation is intricately connected with the social situation. And yogic perspective talks about systemic perspective of reality, integrative perspective of reality and celebration of diversity. These three things make yogic perspective distinct from the positive psychological perspective. If I can remind you about this perspective, we discussed about systemic perspective of reality, not looking individual as a separate entity. Individuals form the family, family in turn form society and society in term form community or countries. So, there is no question about the struggle between person or family or individual in society etc. So, we need to look at the integral perspective. That is the first condition about the yogic perspective of well-being. Second aspect of yogic perspective of well-being is that it talks about the integrative view. That means, objective aspect of life and so called subjective aspect of life are connected. How? We talked about four basic life objectives, earth, dharma, kam and moj. Dharma is the invisible order, it is more subjective. Moj, certainly very subjective, very very individual experience. But kam, consumption, that is an objective aspect and artha, that is even more objective aspect, measurable aspect. All these four have to be balanced and all this, both these objective aspect and subjective aspect actually influence each other. We also talked about pancha kosh. In the pancha kosh, annamaya kosh is very physical, much more objective than logic rationality level, which is reflected in the vijnanamaya kosh. So, our physical body, mental body, pranic body, which is even more subjective and that is considered to be connecting subjective and objective. That which is connecting manomaya kosh, vijnanamaya kosh with annamaya kosh is pranic body, pranamaya kosh. If we look at these two frameworks, we can understand that Indian perspective or yogic perspective looks at well being as a integration of so called objective and subjective aspects. It does not distinguish between the two. In fact, it is so integrated that even in the conceptualization of the positive society and governance, we looked at artha, rajya, governance, age, knowledge and sense control. All these are considered to be connected with each other. If we look at the sanghi perspective, we will have detailed discussion on the sanghi perspective. This beautifully enumerates how the most subjective fundamental energy or fundamental intelligence of the existence became more and more objective in the form of tanamathras, then in the form of senses, in the form of the gunas and in the form of the panchratvas. So, subjective objective connect is well recognized, embraced, appreciated and pursued in the yogic perspective. And last but not the least, there is a great respect for the diversity. Individuals are diverse, different animals are diverse, even two cells of same plant of the same leaf are diverse, they are never very similar, exactly similar to each other. So, because of that different individuals develop different nature called prakriti that can be classified, but that is that combination of the different components can be unique in everybody. Different individuals can also have different ways of attaining spiritual well-being, they will have a different emotional makeup, they can have a different type of body. So, highest personalized assessment and treatment has to be done in the yogic perspective and that is carried forward in the Ayurvedic perspective as well. So, there is a deep respect towards the diversity at all levels in the yogic tradition. So, these are the things which make yogic perspective distinct from the positive psychological perspective about defining well-being and personal of well-being. Ayurveda gives a very comprehensive definition of well-being from the individual perspective. It is given in the individual perspective, but if you reflect it closely, you can see that it is anchored at the collective systemic perspective as well. So, what it says? So, what is considered to be swasthya? This is called swasthya, this is called health, this is called well-being. When Panchatattvas make constitution, they result into some gunas and some dosas. What are the gunas? Satvik, rajasik, tamasik, these are the gunas and vath, pitta, kuff, these are dosas. So, when all these dosas, vath, pitta, kuff and we will discuss these things in the next session, when these dosas are equanimous, they are in balance. Samagnistra, there are different forms of energy which is called agni. We have different forms of energy and when different forms of energies are in equilibrium and in harmony, that is the another condition, some dhatu. Dhatu are the basic constituents. Majja means bone marrow or bone or muscles, these are some of the dhatus. There are seven dhatus, we will discuss about it later. So, when dosas, agnis, dhatu, these are in balance with each other. Malikriya, meaning the process of excretion and excretion is not only done through the intestine, it is done through the self at the cellular level as well, it is done at the skin level, it is done through many other excretion of the mucus from different parts of the body like eyes or ears. When these things are, when the excretion process is also going on as per the balance and as per the harmony with the other things. Plus prasannandriyamana, when there is a sense of happiness, when the mind is fresh and full of bliss, that is the definition of swasthya and why it is called swasthya? Swasthya meaning so means self, sthith means anchored. When I am enjoying within, when I am anchored in myself, then only I can enjoy within and without.  When you are in harmony within on balance within, then only you enjoy going out, enjoying different places or meeting people. So, swasthya is a core, swasthya is a indicator that when I am anchored and that anchoring is possible in these conditions which I just explained, that is the state of well-being according to the Indian tradition according to the Ayurvedic tradition.


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. It says if e and f are events such that probability of e is 1 by 4, probability of f is 1 by 2 and probability of e and f is 1 by 8, find probability of e or f, probability of not e and not f. Before moving on to the solution we need to know some basic facts. These are probability of a or b or we can say probability of a union b is probability of a plus probability of b minus probability of a and b or we can say probability of a intersection b. And probability of event a is p then probability of the event not a is 1 minus p. We also need to know the B Morgan's law which is not a which is denoted by a dash intersection not b that is b dash. A union b is equal to a union b whole dash that is not a and not b is equal to neither a nor b that is a union b whole complement that is not a union b. So this knowledge will work as key idea. Let us now move on to the solution. We are given that probability of e is 1 by 4, probability of f is 1 by 2 and probability of e and f is 1 by 8. So we have to find probability of e or f that is probability of e union f which is equal to probability of e plus probability of f minus probability of e and f. Now probability of e is 1 by 4 probability of f is 1 by 2 probability of e and f that is probability of e intersection f is 1 by 8. Solving this is equal to 5 by 8. So the probability of e or f is 5 by 8. Now in the second part we have to find probability of not e and not f not e is denoted by e dash and not f is denoted by f dash. So we have to find probability of e dash and f dash which can also be written as probability of e dash intersection f dash. Now as we discussed in the key idea a dash intersection b dash is written as a union b dash by the D Morgan's law. So this is equal to probability of e union f whole dash. And we know that probability of not a is 1 minus b if probability of a a a is b. So here probability of e union f whole dash is same as probability of not e union f which is equal to 1 minus probability of e union f which is same as 1 minus probability of e or f. Now probability of e or f is 5 by 8. So this is 1 minus 5 by 8 which is equal to 3 by 8. Hence probability of e or f is 5 by 8 and probability of not e and not f is 3 by 8. And this completes the question.


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I think it'd be disingenuous if I didn't ask you, Governor Markell, just to, it's speculative, but to ask you what the shutdown could mean for all of this. All of this great work going on in Delaware, do you have any sense for how it might influence how you're serving Delaware kids? Well, I mean, most of this work, a lot of this work gets funded in sort of the prior year budget. That being said, there's, we've got a week's worth of money for things like the LIHEAP program and, you know, so this time of year with the weather being what it is, what it is, that's all right, but we've got a week's worth of money for TANF. We've got a month's worth of money for food stamps through the WIC program. We've got a week's worth of money for some child care, for some protective services for kids, and each of these programs in our state, we're 900,000 people, you're talking between 10 and 20,000 people who are affected.  So there's a, there's a very significant impact on the lives of so many of these kids, you know, at this point, a lot of it is not impacting what's going on in the classroom directly, but it's affecting their lives outside of the classroom, which very much has an impact on what's going on in the classroom. So, you know, it's a significant concern, and we're hopeful that people here in Washington, who, you know, for whom maybe this is more about politics, understand that when you're talking about literally millions of people across the country between 10 and 20,000 for each of those programs in Delaware, this is impacting people who really don't care a lot about Democrat and Republican. They really don't care that much about politics. All they want to do is make sure that their kids are fed. They have a place to sleep, and they can go to school as best they can and learn. So it's a significant concern to us for sure, but as you can tell, we are, you know, we've got a lot of stuff that we're doing, and we're just going to keep driving forward.


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It's just got to be famous Sure, like anchor Hawking the most famous name in glad Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Tony Marvin every week at this time the anchor Hawking glass cooperation of Lancaster, Ohio And it's more than 10,000 employees bring you another adventure of Casey crime photographer ace camera man who covers the crime news of a great city Written by Alonzo Dean Cole our adventure for tonight self-made hero Casey like most news cameraman has a radio in his automobile that he keeps tuned to police calls Tonight as he and reporter Anne Williams drive leisurely toward the express building after recovering a routine assignment Calling car 55 car 55 come in car 55 Sergeant Brandon Caller mine any I didn't know they had him on proud bar duty report of shooting there Hey, wait a minute, it'll be repeated listen clock and frisco report of shooting there no further details More Casey like we're only a few blocks from there. Maybe there's a story with pictures next up 12th Street between Clark and briscoe Usual crowds collected Casey and there comes a police car Annie.  Oh hi, Casey. Hello miss Williams. Hello sergeant. What's the trouble Johnson? This young fella here sergeant. He says someone took a couple of pot shots at him back in that alleyway I didn't call for assistance officer until I done everything possible to help myself Well, let's get inside this cigar store then it can tell me what happened. Come on Casey. All right move back I'll let us through will you come on at one side Now then let's have your story, but what's your name the name is Wellington cliffside only one F in cliffside at Present applauded junior pharmacist at black ten-street drugstore. Yeah, I see you carry a camera. Mr. Casey Yeah, yeah, well anytime you say I believe in cooperating with the newspapers now wait a minute I'm only a cop, but I still want to know what this shooting was about. Oh certainly sergeant Well as I've already told officer Johnson during the past month I became suspicious of two men who've been making telephone calls from the drugstore Mm-hmm. I made it my business to overhear parts of their conversation. Now what I heard sergeant convinced me that they are Spies spies. Hmm foreign agents. Well, they must have become suspicious of my suspicions for tonight. They uh, they acted acted Yes, sir a few minutes ago. I was standing there at the corner waiting for a young lady of my acquaintance When these two men passed me they two men have been making the mysterious phone calls Yes, sir, I saw them go into the dark deserted alley back of us. I followed them now I know they meant to lure me to my death for when I entered the alley He says they grabbed him a sergeant let him tell the story Johnson while I seized me sergeant one of them slashed at me with a Knife. Oh look, you can see the tears. He made my overcoat there in the left sleeve Uh-huh, and here in the front the knife didn't get stuck into you yourself No, no, I broke away and they ran with me in hot pursuit Then they pulled guns and started shooting their bullets missed you I was lucky I Chased him to the end of the alley with them shooting Considered my duty sergeant then what happened then I found that they disappeared probably into one of the buildings on the street I knew I couldn't find them all by myself. So I yell. No, I Should say I shouted for a sip This policeman came up and Well, he can tell you the rest there ain't no rest Except I couldn't find no mysterious strangers around like this young fellow described Okay, Johnson did this guy show you where the shooting and stabbing took place in that alley. Yes, I did sergeant. I'll show you you stay here Roberts yes, sir you keep mr. Wellington rockside company while I have a look around out here Come on Johnson and it's Wellington cliffside sergeants. Okay. Thanks. Oh, welcome Well, mr. Casey, I suppose you want to take some pictures of me for your newspaper Yeah, yeah, I think you're worth a couple of pictures, huh? Now hold up that overcoat sleeve to show the tear in it while I back off and get you in focus All right, that's a terribly phony story that he told Casey Phonies can make good laugh copy any kids an amateur dick Tracy That'll be fine. Okay, well I can now hold it. Thank you Look at that girl. Okay. Thank you.  Oh, well, I got the best of them, aren't I but you can see what they did to my coat Well, isn't it lucky you had on your old one? Excuse me, mr. Cliffside is this the young lady you were waiting for? Oh, yes. Yes, mr. Casey and miss Williams. Mr. Casey This is a miss Marna Adams. Mr. Casey is on a newspaper Marna. He's just been taking pictures of me Oh, how nice. How do you do miss? I knew all about those spies wellington was after mr. Casey I was the only one he told about them. Oh wellington. You've been wonderful if they'd hurt you. I don't know what I do Oh, jeez Marna, it was sergeant Brandon's coming back Casey and there's a woman with him. Ah sergeant Uh, did you find any clues on the alley that might help us catch those spies funny young fella? Is uh, this the guy mrs. Libby? That's him thought that's long string bean of a kid. What this lady lives in the Flatbilling next to the alley she happened to be looking out of her window when you were cutting holes in your own coat with a pen knife All the windows were dark in the alley the alley was dark. I got the kind of eyes but see good at night And why should I burn electricity? But I'm only looking out my window. I mind my own business I wouldn't tell the cops that they hadn't come asking me if I saw something and she saw you fire those shots I didn't fire any shots. No, but you set off some homemade firecrackers that sounded like shots Here's pieces of them. I found back there sergeant. Look, I saw you like a match to those firecrackers young men firecrackers There weren't any spies.  This was all a bluff You cheater you cheap rug cutter.  You gotta listen to me. I never want to see you Don't go away marna. Don't yeah, you stay here mr What do I gotta explain to her you gotta let me explain sergeant, please She's gone. You've got some explaining to do to the judge after I run you in Hey, roberts make out your reporter on this guy and we'll take him to the station. Okay, sir. Come on. All right. All right Hey, hey, brannett. Yeah, what casing? Don't run that kid in and why not? Well, couldn't just see he was making a grandstand play for that bobby sark's gal and it flopped Oh, he's already taken one on the chin and hard now. Look kasey we cops have too much trouble with his kind of I know I know but do me a favor will you brannett? I'll do one for you sometimes. I don't make trades But I don't get any kick out of pinching goofy kids either Look kasey, you can have wellington brookside if you only take him away from here if you don't well That mob out there has heard what's happened and they'll they'll kid him right. I'll take him away Okay, thanks kasey. I'll tell him to get in your car. Hey, what's the idea kasey? I don't like to see a kid k.o. Twice in one night, annie Look, and when you get to the office kid, don't write this story for laughs or otherwise I'm forgetting the pictures I took. Oh, I get it. Okay. All right. Come on. I'm gonna drive a kid home and I'll drop you on the way Well, here you are annie. Okay, fellow on kasey. Goodbye wellington. Goodbye miss wings. See you in a little while annie. Okay Hey, uh Wellington name is that on the level my name is jack jack. It's my name.  Kasey. It's nobody look forget that mr. Stuff just plain kasey's all I rate Cigarette yeah, thanks I was too ashamed to open my mouth while miss williams was with us Now I want you to know I Well, I think it was swellier to talk the cops into letting me go Sergeant brandon was only looking for an excuse not to run you when he's a regular guy I deserve to be run in I must have been crazy to think I could get away with what I tried to do Well, all of us are a little nutty at times. I guess we get over it though.  You got bum back. I fell down a flat of stairs a couple of years ago and Now I've got to wear a steel corset to keep it in place.  Oh, I see Well, I told her about my bum back, but I said it got hurt while I was playing football I said I'd been the star half back in high school Then she found out I've never been a good enough athlete to even get on a girl softball team And that I just stumbled over my own feet going downstairs Since then she hasn't believed anything I've told her Except for maybe a minute tonight before the cops called my bluff She thinks I am Well, just what I am Big skinny clown who can't do anything regular guys can do That's out of my own imagination And maybe if somebody talked to uh, uh, myrna she might look at things a little differently Miss williams might do that. No, miss williams is another girl. She couldn't do any good Oh, you might though me Yeah, she respects old guys old Well, I don't mean you're so very old, but you must be all of 30 Yeah Pretty ancient, huh? And you're in the newspaper racket. You must know cops and murderers and Gee, I bet you've even talked to jeeman and movie stars Myrna will think you're almost as important a guy as is clark gavel or even Humphrey bow guy Oh, she'll listen to you kasey will you go to her and explain that i'm not Not just a heel. Listen jack. I please kasey Well, okay, fellow Oh jeeb Thanks Oh use mr. Casey I think it's very fine of you to try to defend mr. Cliff side, but I never want to hear his name again. I consider him A drip. Oh now don't be like that. Miss Adams. He's a nice kid. He's crazy about you. No mr. Casey He and I are I threw Forever I'm sorry Well, I there's nothing more I can say so i'll shovel. Oh, don't rush away You've talked so much about mr. Cliff side.  Whoever told you that was having a pipe drink. Oh, no, you're just being modest like I think all men should be I Say look, where did I put my hat miss adam? Oh, come on Please sit down mr. Casey and let's get Better acquainted There I've always wanted to meet a man Like you We'll continue in just a moment Good evening. Dorothy. Hello, tony. What's our subject tonight? Pie plates. Pie plates. Mm-hmm. Pie plates Not ordinary pie plates, but a new kind of pie plate the biggest bargain in years Pie it's made of glass. Well, this is the anchor hogging program and this new fire king oven glass pie plate is something special It fakes pie you can be proud of not once in a while But every time crusts are light fluffy and well brown and never scorched and it comes clean Almost instantly without scrubbing.  Okay, casey. You want one miss. Williams.  It isn't funny. Anne. You're talking about a woman, huh?  Wish I had the nerve to do it She's about to crush on casey phones in at the office several times a day and wait for him on the street so she can Gaze at him and Sorry, hey, she how did you get yourself into anything like that?   You know, he phones me a couple of times a day too after first ask how I'm making out with I can't stall her much longer. Oh, I must have been nuts to get myself mixed up in something like this Tell her phone for you mr. Casey. All right, who is it? Uh, mr. Cliffside? I Thought I was about to for my nightly call from him. He's probably been trying to get me at the office Well, since you can't help him, you better stop stalling and tell him the truth casey. Oh, I can't I can't Annie I excuse me and no miss williams casey sure has a talent for getting himself in the situation I Hello Casey I I just learned the truth. Huh? About you and myrna. What do you mean? I met her on the street a while ago She told me nothing could ever be fixed up between her and me and that she was in love with you Now listen kid. I guess well stunned you pulled kid me into thinking you were my friend and then double crossing me Listen to me. I've listened to you long enough I called up not to let you know that what you've done is the last straw When I leave this phone. I'm going to the river the river I don't want to live any longer casey. I'm gonna end it off you young dope. Where are you never mind where I am jack? I've got to meet you. I've got to talk to you when no one else is ever going to talk to me again I won't be in your way after tonight chaser. You can have myrna. I don't want myrna jack. Good night. Hey jack. Hey kid. Hey Operator operator This is the operator. Look. What was the number that just called here? You've been disconnected, sir.  We got to stop him.  Yes. Oh, but kasey that's where I know how far it is, annie But he wasn't calling from around there because there isn't a public telephone within a mile of the place You'll have to reach it by bus, but we've got a car. Look annie I may need you to convince him that i'm not trying to steal his myrna Come on If that crazy kid has picked another spot on the river to throw himself in here, I'm not afraid of that annie When i'm afraid of his we may not get there in time. If he does jump in i'll be responsible. Don't talk like that It's such a mess of it. Oh, you have not it was that little fool of a girl who did that No, I'd like to ring her neck. There's no use blaming her This is as far as we better go with the car. I'll run it off the road among the trees here and turn off the lights He saw it. He'd suspect I was after him. He'd maybe get away I think that he hasn't gotten here ahead of us and already stop thinking like that kasey Let me get out of the car and come on annie. I've got to the cliff through these trees It's pretty bright that we've seen on the road. Oh, this is a horrible desolate place. Yeah annie, we can see the edge of the cliff from here And there's no one on it. Well, that means he hasn't gotten here yet. They mean he has gotten here. Now we need to stop imagining things Hey, kasey one was coming through the trees on the other side of the road down there. Well, I see Someone tall and lanky. It's the kid. He's going toward the edge. Yeah, he sees you. He's running too for the edge Hey, wait, wait, kid, kid, wait. I gotta talk to you. No one's ever gonna talk to me again. Jack, you've got to let me talk to you Run, kasey! For the scare you've given us out of knock your teeth out. Why don't you stop me? What do you care what happened to me? We shouldn't care. Can't you realize that kasey's only interested in myrna because Well, he was trying to help you and let this thing came. If I weren't sure that he couldn't have any romantic notions about a child like your myrna I wouldn't be here with him I mean that I mean that your case is real girlfriend of william's life Well, use your own judgment if you have any I should have figured that out I'm sorry, kasey. Well, okay kid. Now we're taking her back to town. We'll cut through these woods to the car All right I can't stop you from taking me back, but I still don't want to live kasey Well, I was wrong about you. I wasn't wrong about having lost myrna She told me yourself tonight that She hated me. Jack, there are millions of girls in the world. Must you have just one particular one?  Wait a minute I wonder if the driver knows it's a dead end at the edge of the cliff Yeah, I guess he's seen where he was heading. He stopped. Hey, wait, let's see who this is Hey kasey that man getting out Holding his hands above his head.  Yes I'll give me a chance I'll be shot in case you be quiet both of you Keep back of these trees outside.  He's getting back in the car He's driving away. Wait, don't move from here until he turns off his branch road. Now. Let's go and look at the body Annie blacky oans is one of the dirtiest gang leaders in this town the cops have never been able to nail him What we've just seen will send him to the chair and give us a front page exclusive jack I could kiss you. We wouldn't have been here if it hadn't been for you Kasey, how can you think of front pages when you've just seen a guy murdered get used to things like murder in the newspaper racket Hmm, well there he is Do you recognize him kasey? I certainly do that gives me a good reason not to be too unhappy about this shooting The guy who just had his last ride was twist yaku. Well, he was blacky oans cheap gunman.  Yeah Remember that the next time you think of bumping yourself off kid Now come on to the car. Let me get a camera and shoot some pictures of this Hello blacky stick up your hands all of you Okay, I wouldn't have come back if I hadn't seen your car parked off the road after I turned the bend It gave me the idea that there might have been witnesses to what occurred here a few months ago And I don't want witnesses.  Take it easy jack A young man unfortunately for all of his rights You see, I prepared a very good alibi for this evening if your testimony would kind of spoil I'll give you all your choice Where would you like it between the eyes like yaku through the heart of in the stomach You know I pride myself that I never miss If it's all the same to you blacky I'd prefer not to be shot Yeah, you should have known better than to stand so close to a guy you meant to plug you got his gun case.  I'll be good Stick your hands in the air and get going Okay, but don't you want this? What are you picking up there? Huh, don't you see Fair of gloves The lady dropped her once she stuck up her hands a minute ago Are you sleeping them on the road? Yeah, miss. Oh, yeah, they are my gloves. Hey, Casey. He's grabbed her gold Drop that gun you took from me, Casey.  Let me go, let me go I always carry two gats and you gave me a chance to get the second one sapped Now drop that rod or I shoot this game Go on drop it You're wind blackie. Now get over there with your friend lady I want to see you all in line like clay pipes in the shooting gallery You're gonna be first, kid Me? Yeah And you get it in the belly Save you to the last, Casey. See you're next I'm gonna make this shed in the eye Blackie's fallen I got him. It's William. Jack you shot the bullet He shot at me hit the steel of the course that I wear for my back that glanced off But I pretended I was dead now. I fell close to the gun. He made you drop, Casey. I Oh, I've never shot anyone before boy. 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Well, she was you know, she was barely civil to me when I saw her today with jack I understand they're engaged too Well, as my sister edna says quote The only thing wrong with the younger generation is that it grows older I'm called What does that mean? 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