Okay, let's get started. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Brain Club. There's even a couple of folks I don't know yet, and that's so cool. So, hello, I'm Mel Hauser. I use she, they pronouns, and I am the executive director here at AllBrain's Belong, Vermont. And welcome to Brain Club. This is our weekly community conversation about everyday life brain things. And thank you, Sarah, for supporting my executive functioning to start the backup recording. Recording in progress. There we go. So, let me share screen, and we will orient you to Brain Club. So, we are continuing with Brain Club Greatest Hits, designing a work life that works for your brain. All month long this December, we have been revisiting some of the, what we think are the most important take home points of the whole year, and some of the really important conversations that we've been having here at Brain Club. And over time our perspective has shifted. So, it's been, I think it's been fun to look back on these like old brain clubs, you know, with a new lens. So, by way of introduction, and we have some new ground rules informed by our community advisory board, this is not new. All forms of participation are okay. As many of you have figured out already, you can have your video on or off. And even if it's on, we don't expect anything of you. You don't need to look at the camera. You don't need to sit still. You can move. You can fidget. You can stem. You can smack. You can have anything climbing all over you and anyone. You can communicate however you're most comfortable, either unmuting, typing in a chat box, gesturing, emoticons, mix and match. And in addition to affirming all aspects of identity, we respect and protect one another's access needs. And as Brain Club has gotten to be a larger gathering, our community advisory board has created a new community agreement. So, this is a community education program, not a medical or therapeutic support group. We're providing general education about neurodiversity related topics. And we encourage you to also access support groups and helping professionals. So, because individual traumatic experiences are best processed with a trained therapist, not a brain club. And as the group's gotten larger, we're going to create space and time for everyone to engage, just giving lots of space and lots of everyone to get a turn to communicate. And we're creating a safe environment for people of all ages. So, just having some discretion about the various topics in the language used. Okay, last bit of access. To turn on closed captions, they are already enabled. You just got to toggle them on either if you see a live transcript, closed captioning link. Or if your version of Zoom doesn't have that, you can click more, dot, dot, and choose show subtitles or hide subtitles to turn them off. Okay, before we shift into our topic, I want to put a little plug in for all brains belongs free virtual New Year's Eve celebrations. So next Saturday from five to 7.30 Eastern, please come celebrate with us. We've got a special brain club on learning the brain rules of New Year's, me, myself and family coach Amanda Deepman presenting. And then we'll have a variety of breakout rooms with activities for people of all ages. And then lastly, a musical performance for a concert, a Zoom concert. We're joined by the Misty Bay Ramblers who are a super cool trio playing covers of rock, alt rock, folk, Americana and some originals. So please, please come celebrate with us. And this is also our last day of our reimagining what's possible campaign. And we have really amazing news with 11 days left in the campaign, we are 74% toward our goal. And for those of you who have not heard us mention this before, now through the end of the year, thanks to a generous donor matching $25,000. So as soon as we turn, we reach $25,000, it magically becomes $50,000. So 11 days to go, I am super confident that we're going to make it. All right. So on to our topic. Oh, and I'm going to alert Jen. Next slide, we will start. Okay. Our amazing community partners at Orca Media, in addition to helping us share the messages of neurodiversity affirming education to the greater public, Orca Media is also going to make Brain Club actually work better. Because instead of me and my terrible internet playing my video, Jen is going to play it for us. So anyway, so all, I guess in the past six months, seven months, we've been making sure that every month we're addressing employment. This came by request from our our community advisory board. Unfortunately, 80% of neurodivergent people are unemployed. And even those who are employed, first off, may be very well under employed. And even people who are fully employed are often far from thriving. Because a lot of the default systems of employment are not designed with neurodivergent people in mind. And this tends to be, as a physician, I spend most of my day problem solving. Access needs at work. This is literally how I spend most of my day because work is not working for most people. And so with that, we are going to, for the first part of Brain Club, I made a collection of some of our past Brain Clubs, including we've had multiple community panels of people talking about what their work life has been like. And this will be 25 minutes, we will have the chat box going while the video's in progress. And then we'll have plenty of time for conversation to follow. And so with that, Jim, take it away. So what we've been talking about this whole month at Brain Club is that the idea is by learning your own brain, learning about your own strengths, your own challenges, you can strive for construction, which is designing a life based on your own brain's needs and strengths. And so all through the month of June, we've talked about this concept, we've talked about access needs, we've talked about communication, communicating these access needs, we've talked about supports and services that that that that can facilitate are creating our best lives. And now tonight, we will apply this concept to employment. The concept is that by getting to know your own brain, you can then reflect on your current situation, what's working well, what's not working, what would work better. So if, for example, you have the kind of brain that is constantly thinking and talking about brains, well, you might quit your job and start a nonprofit where you get to think and talk about brains all day. That's an example of niche construction. But short of that, we are going to hear from panelists today to talk about what this process has been like in their own lives. Oh, screenshot it. Oh, yeah, it gets recorded. Oh, for sure, totally. So what goes into designing a neuro inclusive workplace and all brains belong, one of our community projects is a neuro inclusive employment break spotting program where we are, it's still open looking for nominations from community members to nominate remote employers that are using concepts of inclusive design to create environments where all brains can thrive and what this what we've and then we contact them study them and interview them and learn from their experience. And so what we have found thus far, which it's the concepts that come out in the research too, which is that what goes into a neuro inclusive workplace, the physical environment, getting sensory processing and motor related access, communication style, the culture, having meaningful work. Those of us with dopamine bound brains where we have interest dependent learning and engagement and motor coordination and executive functioning. So meaning is a common source of dopamine. I think flexibility and choices, autonomy, and flexibility in workflows and routines.  No, no, there's not. And so if you have one default pathway, and someone has the kind of brain for whom that does not come naturally, that is not neuro inclusive. So when I do trainings for for organizations trying to improve their neuro inclusivity, we talk about like the simplest when is to view this is are there defaults? Are there defaults in recruitment, interviewing, the whole hiring process? Are there defaults in the way that people are supervised, the way feedbacks are provided, the way meetings are? Anytime there is a default, everyone else is altered. I'm Tracy. I started my own neurodivergence journey, I guess, like probably two years ago. I've been in my current job as an assistive technology specialist for seven years. And I didn't know much about neurodivergence. All I've heard, all I had heard was of, you know, autism and ADHD and they were in their own little silos. And I didn't see myself reflected in the definitions in that community, because they weren't really shown there. But I got connected with one of my clients, I think, who I was just talking with, and there's so much in common, which threw me down a rabbit hole. And I did a lot of research on it and realized that I had a lot of internalized ableism around my own life. And here I was working in the disability community, not realizing that, you know, I was trying slowly to solve all of my own quirks. And that's how I ended up in my job. Luckily, this job fell in my lap, it's a great job for me. I get tons of dopamine from my job, I get to solve problems on the daily, and they're short sometimes. But they're so interesting. I love working with people in this capacity. And luckily, that's been part of my niche construction is this job that I just kind of fell into. And I found no pushback. I mean, I work in the disability community. So obviously, my supervisors are welcoming. When I say I need this or this works better for me or the more confidence I brought to that, the more explicit I was about the tools, the accommodations that I needed, the less pushback I got. I didn't present myself as a person with a disability and then expected someone else to solve the problem for me. I brought my accommodations to the table and said, here's what I need. And I think that for an employer, that's easy to handle. This person says I need XYZ. Okay, I don't have to think about it. And that works pretty nicely. But yeah, I've been working on curbing my own internalized ableism, working with my executive functioning instead of against it, because every article that you read about time management and to do lists, they don't really work for my brain. So just turning that around and not going into the shame spiral that Mill described where why can't you just do this brain? Why can't you just be that way? And being like, oh, no, it's because you just need to be this way. And it's fine. It's like solved a lot of problems and a lot of relationships at work and otherwise. So that's me. Don't really know what else to say. I'm curious, Tracy, in your professional life, do you come across lots of folks who are not achieving these construction in their work? Yeah. And I mean, before I had this job, I worked, I've had lots of jobs, but when I used to have a management position, and I would find myself hiring people who now I can see were neurodivergent. And it was a horrible fit. And I would be like, you need to do something more interesting, because what you're doing now is making you miserable, which is making me miserable. So you should go do something else.  And that happens with my clients too, where they come in and, you know, their accommodation list is 900 pages long, like their dream accommodation list for this job. And I'm like, but do you want this job? Do you like this job? Like question number one. So yeah, I think with folks with dopamine bound brains, like finding something that's interesting and that you like, especially in this employment market is ideal. Yes. All right. I am going to queue up a video. Oops. No, don't start playing the video yet. I always say that part of my own niche construction should be that, because we really do have a culture of interdependence here, like it is totally normal and ideal to be connected with other people and rely on one another. So I have, that was a brain rule I had to unlearn because of how independence is glorified, like autonomy is essential, but independence is a brain rule. Okay. And with my experiences, now just for example, a childcare workforce sector, I'm actually an early education teacher, I'm actually a teacher. But the way that workforce looks at me as they look at me very, very strange. They look at me as why is there a man in an early education childcare workforce, which usually that's predominantly held by women. But for me, it's the reason why I joined that workforce is the love and compassion I have for all students of Vermont. Clearly, I love that work, that type of work. And being discriminated against within that field is a problem. It really is. It's not only a society problem, it's a Vermont problem. As you can see, it's ingrained everywhere where we work in our workforce. For me, it's very, very disturbing that the workforce of Vermont as a whole is starting to see a lot more declines and turnovers than actually having people hired that want to be welcome into the workforce. And with me, it's probably because the reason why I can't get hired or there's a lot of barriers to that. One is you're on SSI and SSDI programs. There's already barriers to that.  They do not care if it's even a part-time job no more.  It's just on people that really want to be self-independent. And they can't get that if the workforce or the society of these programs or services are going to work for them. That's an accessibility problem too as well. I'm just here because I am autistic and I did not know this until a few years ago, about three, two years ago. And so I've been navigating most of this, not realizing I was autistic, kind of knowing I had. I guess I knew I was neuro, not neuro-conforming or I was neuro-divergent. But I mean, I will get into the whole long story of my misdiagnosis and everything else. But basically, you know, I've, as an ecologist, I've worked lots of different jobs to some extent, just from being autistic and bouncing around for various reasons or things not being good fits. But they're also just because that's kind of how a lot of ecology, especially early career ecology jobs are designed. And of course, you know, I want to caveat that I've got all kinds of like luck and privilege and everything else. And it's a hard field. And I got into it in a time that was easier. And a lot of people who are, I'm sure better at it than me aren't here, you know, so I want to recognize that. But just also, you know, I just wanted to be here to kind of be thinking about the different, you know, since I've had all these different jobs, my current one is like amazing. And it was the job I was at when I found out I was autistic. And I've talked about it with my supervisor and my coworkers. And it's been this really affirming and amazing experience, which is so different from what I hear about from others.  And I am obsessed with weather and plant. I'm kind of a walking autistic stereotype, which is why it's kind of funny. I wasn't diagnosed. But that being said, you know, it's been really affirming. And I think at other jobs, it would not have gone that way. And I know it wouldn't hasn't for a lot of other people. Yeah, it's, I think I'm really lucky. And I have started talking about it with other people around the state of Vermont. And I have been really surprised. I, you know, when I kind of came out of the autism closet or whatever you want to call it, I had no idea that there was really a stigma, like, and I just was high autistic. And you know, so I'm running around. And then I find out no one else at I'm the agency and natural resources. I don't know of any other person who is open that I know there are people who are neurodivergent, but I don't know of anyone else who is openly autistic. And there are not very many everyone it is very white and there are not I know there are people who are LGBT and oftentimes aren't disclosing it.  And that was kind of how I told everyone and people came up to me and told me they had ADHD or other things. But yeah, it's just this kind of I'm a little scared, but so far it's been great. But also I'm just interested in other people's experiences. I remember when I was working at a childcare center, my position was as a floater, which meant that I didn't know what was needed of me or expected of me or what my day was going to look like until I was there. And I remember having a big conversation with my boss and being like, okay, this next year around, I can't handle this. And I feel that my, my showing up here, my attendance and being good employees being impacted when I don't know what's expected of me. We had this big wrong talk. And then she like reformatted it that floaters would be assigned to specific rooms. So you would have at least know where you were going to be who you were going to be working with and everything. And I was like, Oh, my gosh, that's so amazing. And then I remember having, oh, and it like, Oh, man, it puts a little ache in my chest. I remember feeling so like proud of that and everything.   Like, now that person is going to have to do the same thing every day. And it's all my fault. Because, you know, I have a control over all of their feelings. But yeah, so the idea of being able to have more freedom of what is expected of you in the day, be it someone who needs something different or someone who needs to be able to replay it over and over again on the way there, what they're going to do is that would be incredible. Yeah, I have a question. So I'm, I'm a nursing professor. So I teach nursing students and a lot of them have accommodations. It's a growing number of people that have accommodations for things like quiet testing environment and extra time on tests and things like that. And a common conversation among faculty is, you know, there aren't these accommodations in, in the real world of nursing. So how do we prepare our students to be in this environment? Are we doing it? The conversation is always that we're doing them a disservice by, which is ridiculous. But the question still stands that how do we prepare people and prepare like that environment seems to be making very little change in any sort of fast direction. And I guess it's, you know, how do we help set people up? Like Matthew, you're talking about all the things that floaters do and the things that teachers do. Like what can we tangibly do to help with that transition from school to workplace in ways that are going to set people up for success and enjoyment and fulfillment in their careers? I can, I can, Laura, I can just chime in from like a healthcare provider standpoints and, you know, just because I think this really relates to brain rules versus world rules pretty much because everything does like it is a brain rule that you get thrown to the wolves and that that's the end goal for your professional life. Like that makes no sense. So if you are, you know, I actually have two, two things I would say to your, to your question. By the way, there's a, yeah, thank you, thank you. Yes, we agree your daughter is adorable, Charlie. Anyway, so, so, you know, in when we think about accommodations, we are not giving extra advantage over other people. What we are doing is we are taking a barrier to access and we are making that barrier less.  We are saying that because of the way your brain attends, reads, writes, whatever it is, we are giving you a workaround for your brain to be able to do the thing. So when we, as a person with disability, when we have a job, we also need to have those things. We need to look at any barriers to access and meaningful participation and accommodations need to be specific for that. They're not random.  If you still need the thing, you get the thing. That's disability inclusion. That's how that goes. The other thing I would say, and then I, and then, then, then it looks like Mel's got their hand up. So this idea that you will be in a healthcare environment that has a default, that's not going to end well, right? So if, so like, you know, in medicine and I imagine in nursing, there's different choices of your environment. When the environment is a mismatch for your brain, you are not going to have a good life. So, you know, it is probably very important for someone to know when an environment, when a culture, when a sensory experience is not a good fit for their life. And I work in the construction world, and I'm actually a consultant to a lot of construction companies. And so through learning more about my son, I started to realize how prevalent neurodiversity is amongst my clients and their, and their employees, like many, if not most of them. And a lot of the work we do is about supporting business owners to have more successful companies, you know, and a better work environment, better work cultures. And so one of the things I've really grappled with is, in particular, there's often a transition that happens where people work in the trades like on the job site. And if they, if they show any signs of leadership or good communication or leadership organizational skills, then they're often promoted into a leadership position. And something I've seen happen frequently, and I'm not sure how to, how to address it in our work, is there's this very specific definition of what like a lead carpenter or site super or project manager should look like. And they're often taking people from the trades who may or may not be neurodiverse and trying to move them into this. And it's a lot of my work is supporting people to become project managers or to gain leadership skills. And I guess where I struggle and where I see employers struggle is what, what is part of the job, you know, and the skills required as part of the job and, and when they're being reviewed, like in a performance review, and saying things like, Oh, this person's disorganized or this person's not able to stay on top of these tasks or their communication doesn't look like we want it to look, it becomes very complicated, particularly when there's someone who isn't necessarily diagnosed. And so there can't, there can't be the same kind of conversation around accommodations. One, when you talk about like successful companies or better culture, like being beat like like operationalizing that would be helpful. Like what does success look like and kind of like reframing what success looks like? Because it might be that success doesn't mean you get promoted on this default track. Maybe success means that you, it's the niche construction is your success. Meaning like what are the things in the environment, the culture, the communication that make that individual person feel self-actualized. Right. So there's that, because what ends up happening a lot of times is that, you know, within a given set of demands, the brain can do the thing. And then you keep taxing and taxing and taxing. And then finally, when it is that your capacity becomes outstripped by your demands, then things start getting dropped through the cracks.   And so when we think about, you know, the myths of what it is to be a good leader, the brain rules of leadership, which is that, yeah, exacerbated by masking, pressure to mask is going to further deplete your reserves.  But really, we want to think about a culture of interdependence where the person who has the responsibilities, those responsibilities are supported, accommodated, shared, like even me, I like run a nonprofit and like my executive functioning is outstripped on a daily basis. And I have people that help me do most things here, because otherwise I can't, my disability would be completely incompatible of being an independent professional. That, you know, we can come together and support one another in shifting the community culture, and we have the opportunity for like this next generation to not have to unlearn stuff, if they just learn it the right way, the right way, which is that there is no right way. Like, I mean, can you even imagine if like little kids actually learned in preschool, that there's no right way to think, learn and communicate. And it's like the only thing they've ever learned. Right. And in the chat, the amount of suffering this would prevent, absolutely. Because, you know, in 2022, I have six-year-old patients who are already getting the message that they are broken and defective and they're not doing the thing. And so anyway, and that's honestly just like my own story in the setting of autistic burnout, of having an employment situation that was not working for my brain. I was also envisioning like I had a then three-year-old and I really wanted her to grow up in a completely different culture, where like she, we've been talking about brain since she's two. And she knows she's autistic, she's proud of her brain, she walks around, she's just like, I have a kind of brain that needs vestibular input right now. She's amazing. And it's just, yeah, shout out to Luna for being incredible. Absolutely. And like all the little kids, like all the little kids, even typically developing kids who I'm just like, did you know that we all have different brains?  And like even a typically developing kid who's like, he picks up a toy and like does a thing with it. I'm like, oh, that's so interesting. But your brain did that with it. My brain did this with it. And like little Johnny this morning, not little Johnny because of HIPAA, but like somebody, somebody else did something else with it. We all have different brains. And they're like, oh, cool. So that's how it could be. With that, there's been, I thank you all for your comments in the chat, but I'll just, I'll open this up. This is hard. This is really hard. Like we know this stuff, but in day to day life, so many people do not have their needs met. And it takes so much privilege to be able to do what I did, which was to leave a toxic workplace culture and start over. Most people don't have that privilege. So I want to open it up to you all. Has anyone found anything else that can make a meaningful difference in shifting their own workplace culture to be less harmful to their health? Carly. Hi. Let's see. So I have, I did a lot of work from home for like 15 years. I was a high school teacher before that. And I love teaching, but having to be at work at 6 30 in the morning. And I have a pretty stubborn circadian rhythm wasn't working. And while structure does provide me with, you know, some advantages in life, it's not really the way I operate most efficiently. So I did leave teaching in the classroom and I got into construction and ran a construction business building natural, non toxic, high performance homes. And Mel, who spoke on this reel today, is a very good friend of mine. And I was there when Mel began this incredible business that they run. So, and we were one of their first clients. But I've gotten back into education and it's, I'm just sort of learning about like PDA and, you know, I've always known that my brain was very different. I have met a lot of neurologists and they've said so, but I just didn't, you know, really consider myself potentially on the spectrum PDA or any of that. And I've worked with a lot of like really top notch psychologists and brain doctors and no one has ever even remotely and I've worked in special at no one suggested it to me. So now I'm sort of like fell into the situation where there's a school that's a progressive school and they're all about democratic classrooms and really everything right up my alley, all the things I tried to implement in private public schools and during my homeschooling career, which I've done all along, and they have asked me to teach at I've been subbing in their lower in their early childhood ed. And now they need someone to cover maybe like a K through five or something like that. And it's just perfect for me, we'll be outside all the time and and, you know, kids can write their own curriculum. But I'm just the thing is that they're amazing, like they let me show up at nine, because that's what time I can get here after dropping my kid off and him doing his thing and me getting here, I can get here at nine. So they the students that need me to work here get here at nine. And they're just kind of willing to probably do anything that I need. But I need some input, because I don't have really the language I've been out of special ed for 15 years. And I, you know, I hear some things like I feel like I'm going to need some, you know, my schedule is going to probably need to be accommodated for my circadian rhythm and things like that. So I just want to say like being here is great. And I feel very lucky to have fell into this situation where I think I'm going to be accommodated. And therefore, a ton of kids who need my services and my background in special ed are also going to be able to be accommodated. Just appreciate anyone's support. Thank you, Carlina. You brought up so much. I forget where I was. Maybe it was Brain Club, but it may not have been. I got into a conversation recently about how, no, it was Brain Club. Sierra talked about it, about how the default of even expecting that most humans are going to thrive with a 40 hour work week. Like that's a myth. So to be able to and, you know, also when we think about how we're not robots either, you know, regardless of neuro type, like no one's a robot. So the idea that you don't have the flexibility to, to, to work more at some times and work less at other times, depending on your nervous system needs is really hard. The chat is moving so quickly. I can't read and keep up and facilitate. Anyway, but like, so, so I think I would also just throw this out there that the approach that I think is generalizable, even if you don't work for yourself is that of when it's safe, like when your limbic system assesses that it's safe and, you know, sometimes it's truly not safe to be authentic. Sometimes, and often, you know, the mask or various types of masks are a survival strategy. And when it is safe to be authentic. A lot of times people respond by, by like being authentic back at you. And that that can shift culture. Kelly. So I fly over all over the world. And an experience I had coming back from Belize this summer was I got one of the hidden disability lanyards. And I did this a little bit more to see how what the shift was going to look like. Because I wanted to bring the program into my school. And I mean, I've, I've flown, I've traveled so much. And this was the first time I didn't need to sleep for 12 hours when I got back. Just the little things that the airlines and the airports did to accommodate me because of seeing that lanyard. And I think that that was the moment that I said, it's not worth being quiet, just because I can get through it. If I have to pay dearly for it. And I think sometimes we forget that. And as employees, like, we burn ourselves out. And then we're not great employees. And it's like toxic both ways around. We've got to be good to ourselves. Yeah.  I'm reading in the chat, I'm sorry for missing literally everything before this, but I'll work backwards and catch up. Jennifer writes, I have an 18 year old daughter who is autistic, PDA and gifted. However, she worries she won't be able to keep a job, find a career, support her stuff. She's here beside me and knows I'm writing this. Oh my gosh, came out with us. So your daughter just came out with us. I think it's just about so so I'm not so we haven't met yet. Hi, I'm Mel. I'm autistic with a PDA profile. I'm a doctor. So you can, the thing about PDA is that it, it, it, it, it's a major social disability for me. Yeah, it is. It's also what makes me me and everything that I've ever been able to accomplish for myself and as an advocate for other people comes from being a PDA or you're going to do great things. PDA has changed the world. That's what I have to say about that. Readings scrolling back up. When challenged with this pleasure or discomfort at work, my mantra is accept, change, create something new or leave. Yup. For years, I tried everything except leave until I did leave four months ago while creating something new that resonates hard. I'm scrolling up. Hold on, scrolling down, scrolling up and down. It's all happening. Jessica, sorry, I see your hand up. I missed it. It wasn't my periphery. No, no, that's okay. There's lots of buttons and lots of things going on here. Let me lower my hand about there's me when I keep my hand up. First of all, I just want to thank you for sharing that video. It was a great sort of fluid conversation and what I really liked about it was the variety in people that you assembled, different jobs. Yeah, it's just different personal characteristics and profiles. We can see that being neurodivergent in different ways is not like a stereotype. My husband who may be on the spectrum, we have lots of inside jokes because people think that being on the spectrum or being ADHD is one thing or the other. So I love that variety and just sharing. I think that shows people, I mean us all, I think, but also people like maybe Jennifer's daughter, like here's what is possible. Here are people doing different things. For example, I work in the design industry and I don't know, yeah, that I thought I would be doing this. So anyway, thank you for all of that. I feel like I probably had a specific question, but it slipped my mind. So I just want to say I love the community here. I think just part of the richness is also just in the side conversation and just feeling the scene. I think that's so valuable. So thank you. Thank you for saying that. We try to create this balance of multiple different ways to be seen and including to still feel connected and be part of the action even if you never turn your video on, if you never on mute, if you never type in the chat box, you're still part of this. And it's kind of like so I have a, many of you have heard me say I have a five-year-old Luna who is my guru of all things. And when we were first, Luna has the kind of brain that benefits from having the umbrella, the structure. She has to know something is a thing before she can integrate it into her framework of the world. And so when she was three, we talked about how there's no right way to play with friends. You can observe, you can play side by side, you can take turns, you can play together, all four of those ways are valid. And that is valid at all stages of development. And so there's something about being a healthcare professional or an education professional where you're taught that as soon as you're two years old, you stop parallel playing. But parallel plays, what happens when adults go to a concert? It's what happens to one professional is to go to a continuing professional development thing and you're sitting next to somebody at a conference. Not that I go to in-person conferences because that's like a great way to get COVID. But anyway, it's just that there is no right way to participate here and there shouldn't be a right way to participate anywhere. And often when I say that to people, they're like, oh yeah, yeah. It's just that so many people are not naming the thing. And so I just think it's really important that I think the more that we practice coming together as a broader AVB village to just like when it's safe, name the thing wherever you go. And then I think people will start naming the thing wherever you go. That sounded a little bit more profound than I intended it. I can't even begin to scroll up. I don't even know where I left off. I think that I'll keep scrolling down.  People don't realize they have them until they stop to examine them. Yeah. And I'll also add to that, but it's like no one else can tell me that I have a brain rule.  And I'm like, no, it's a world rule.  And so anyway, that's, that's I think, part of this.  And then you may be like, oh yeah, I'm like a little bit curious about my own thoughts there. And maybe I, maybe, maybe, maybe it doesn't have to be that way.  Like I'll say to Sarah, he said this thing that I think it's a brain rule. She's like, it might be a brain rule. It might be a brain rule, but I'm keeping it. And that's okay. Because, and if you missed last week on the recap of brain rules and world rules, I'll repost the link in the chat to last week's brain club where we talked about like, because again, like, you can't like Google these for definitions, we made up these terms, they're not real things.  Just because you, your thoughts not rational doesn't mean you have to get rid of it. If the brain rules protecting you and serving you well, you keep it, but you still know that it's not a law of physics. Just reading in the, in the chat, Laura says, I think part of the nature of brain rules is that they feel like world rules. Yes, that is what makes them brain rules. You know, like if, if, if, if, if there were obvious that they were brain rules, they wouldn't have so much power. Yeah, brain rules are becoming real things right now. That's awesome. I look forward to the day when random people that I've never met start using the terminology of brain rules and world rules. All right, so you've got about five minutes left. Is there anything that we've not addressed about employment or the big picture of, of designing a life, a work life that works for your brain? Jessica? So I, I'm sure that you, I think, I haven't fully explored the ABB website, but are maybe just from the community here, are there any resources you've found in your own journey that have been helpful either for just sort of like helping a small thing or helping a bigger thing? Or on a third level, if this isn't too many like subsections of a question is something for educating other people. That's something that I'm slowly working with peers and colleagues and a manager about. But either I don't know where to look or I don't know good enough resources. Yeah, I would love for either you or other folks here to share some of their, their favorite. I think part of me is that I don't have a diagnosis yet. So I I know sometimes that's not necessarily required, depending on the environment you're in. But yeah, I'd appreciate any shares. Totally. So thanks for the question. I put a couple of links in the chat. So there is the job accommodation network AskJan.org. I really like that resource. And it has like a totally searchable database for like suggestions for accommodations. And it's not based on diagnosis. It's based on like what's hard, like, you know, executive functioning or time management or like whatever it is. So AskJan.org. Yeah. The other thing I put in there is that all brains belong. One of the things that we do like we have a whole education program here, and specifically a neuro inclusive employment education program.  It's it's it's mostly all old brain clubs on neuro inclusive employment that are more lecture style. They're this this some if you're new to brain club, this the way we've been doing things in December has been different than the whole year. This is like brain club greatest hits where we are watching like synthesized clips from the whole year past, but they're mostly more of like a lecture discussion series. So anyway, there's a button that has all the free neuro inclusive employment program trainings. And then we also do consultations for employers about like neuro DEI, you know, because many employers who are like wise to the the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. They just like often leave out neuro diversity and access from those conversations. And so we do we do trainings about that. Reading the chat, everyone has to make compromises. How do we know if we are compromising too much in the workplace, like compromising to the point of detriment to ourselves? Yeah, I mean, so so you're really talking about how do I know if I'm dysregulated? That was and I'll post links to our January and February brain clubs, where we and in fact, I think maybe the first the first week of December, we did a recap of a lot of those things about nervous system regulation, because like the subtle signs are are so individual.  And since many adults spend most waking hours in a workplace environment, it is often a workplace environment responsible for many people's dysregulation. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the first week of December was everyone flips her lid. Yeah, that's exactly what that was. So I'll pull that up. I'll pull that up. Sometimes I don't feel dysregulated in the moment, but later on I'm exhausted and didn't realize in the moment I pushed you far. Yeah, and that relates to we talked about that in the first week of December, that often relates to interoception differences. So interoception is the processing of internal body signals. And so many of us don't feel our signals until they're big. So like I don't feel hungry until I'm explosively hangry. And like no longer have the spoons to actually access food.  That's not convenient. So like emotions are like that too for a lot of people. And so part of it is like slowing down. And so I think Kelly, it was you who asked earlier like what's an example of a healthy goal about being more authentic? Like that's one of mine about like, can I slow it down enough to kind of recognize, oh, this thing I feel is because my environment's unsafe and I need to leave it. Because when you can shift from blaming yourself for something to blaming the environment, like that's a game changer. That's that's like a healthy development, I think. All right. Well, thank you, everyone. Thank you so much for coming. And I hope to see you next week as we finish off our December Bring Club greatest hits. We're going to be it's it's it's really building on this conversation, talking about access needs, which is, you know, the key to the universe. Bye, everybody.


Keep your eyes peeled boy. You never know when you might see bad guys What's that? drug dealers Selling drugs to kids in the woods those villains All right, boy. We're gonna take down those drug dealers.   Show them no mercy. Go get them boy Go get them Hello everybody hooded co-recommender 788 here This is a show where we review every vintage GI Joe toy from 1982 to 1994 this video was made possible by my supporters on patreon without their help I really could not do these videos their support allows me to acquire toys to review update my equipment pay my bills Eat the winner of the most recent patreon poll was mutt version 3 This figure is part of the drug elimination force DEF in the 90s GI Joe tried to get involved with the social issues of the time It's a bit awkward now especially with DEF our approach to addiction has evolved quite a bit since the early 90s It's now generally accepted that these simple anti-drug messages don't work despite this DEF gave us some Surprisingly good figures and this is one of them HCC 788 presents mutt and junkyard This is mutt and junkyard GI Joe's canine officer and attack dog from 1992 this figure and the dog companion were available only in 1992. They were discontinued for 1993 They were part of the GI Joe sub team drug elimination force This is the third version of mutt and junkyard There were four total versions of mutt and junkyard in the vintage era version one of mutt and junkyard were released in 1984 it was one of the first GI Joe action figures to include an animal companion He wasn't the only figure to include an animal that year spirit was also released in 1984 And he included the eagle named freedom version two of mutt and junkyard were released in 1989 as part of the slaughter's Marauders subset they used the same mold as version one But mutt was in slaughter's Marauders colors with the light green dark green brown and blue also his hair changed color For some reason don't worry about it. It changed back version three from 1992 is the one we are looking at in this review It was a totally new sculpt and it was part of the GI Joe sub team drug elimination force shortened to DEF We will talk more about DEF momentarily the final vintage version was version four from 1993 This was part of the battle core set. It used the same mold as version three It had some updated colors and accessories the second year of DEF figures scheduled for 1993 Was canceled and the figures that were going to be in that set were rolled into battle core Mutt is quite the little joiner three of the four versions were part of sub teams Well sort of battle core was the name given to the main line of GI Joe figures in 1993 So it wasn't really a sub team even so half of the vintage figures were part of dedicated subsets drug elimination force or DEF was a sub team of GI Joe introduced in 1992 it was part of GI Joe's new social awareness in the early 90s in 1991 GI Joe added the eco warriors which had an environmental theme the new decade saw GI Joe try to tackle the real issues of the day The war on drugs was very much in full swing in 1992 when GI Joe joined the fight This series was no doubt considered progressive and educational at the time now it seems very dated We have a much more mature understanding of addiction now than we did back then the leader of DEF was Bulletproof a figure I quite liked the enemy of DEF was headman and his headhunters in 1993 headman got a new henchman Gristle headman was not part of Cobra in media He was portrayed as the enemy of GI Joe and Cobra Despite this later versions of the headhunters were Cobra troopers drug dealers were cliche bad guys In a lot of 80s and 90s movies and TV shows Lazy writers could always pit the hero against drug dealers and no other effort was needed to establish They were bad. It's something the naked gun movies poked fun at this week. He is being honored for his 1000th drug dealer killed Yeah in in all honesty the last two I backed over with my car Luckily they turned out to be drug dealers. The would-be second wave of DEF figures that were folded into battlecore in 1993 Were mostly just color variations of the earlier releases, but they did include different accessories and different cards So I think they qualify as updated versions and not just variations The first mud action figure in 1984 included an animal companion the dog junkyard He was one of the first GI Joe figures to include an animal Since then there have been many GI Joe and Cobra figures that include animals One of the most famous was snake eyes version two from 1985 with the wolf timbers for mud It makes sense. His job is a dog handler. So he should include a dog Not all animal companions fit as well 1990 undertow included a fish version one of mud and junkyard were designed by Ron Ruddatt For Hasbro the character was going to be a Cobra canine trooper But was changed to a GI Joe character in pre-production In some concept drawings he is wearing a cap that is similar to the one on the version three figure A mud is a mixed breed dog a pre-production alternate codename for mud was dog face Junkyard is a reference to a junkyard dog Which is a very mean dog that guards junkyards and scrap yards Pre-production alternate codenames for junkyard included dog DAWG and George This is another case where the final codename was way better than the alternatives Mud did not originally have a law enforcement role, but his specialty overlaps some law enforcement functions He was not an mp, but his replacement law was an mp And he included the dog order since much job as a dog handler can apply to law enforcement It makes sense that he's in def However law and order the actual law enforcement specialists were not in def K9 refers primarily to police dog and police dog units It's a simplified form of the word canine which is a dog The word sounds like the letter k in the number nine. So the word is often shortened to that dogs To the layperson This dog is not a pet. This is a working animal the us armed forces use dogs for reconnaissance and bomb detection In law enforcement, they would also sniff out drugs and track fleeing suspects. I have the card back for this figure So let's take a look at it It's larger than a standard gi joe card because it came with a lot of stuff It has some familiar 90s style card art and it has a purple laser background It has the gi joe logo at the top and it has a large def logo This is mud and junkyard and this is number three in the def series Figures in the 90s were numbered for some reason as if you had to collect them in a specific order According to the price tags, this was 499 at toys rs Which is expensive for a carded gi joe figure. It looks like it didn't sell for that So it was marked down to a dollar 98 which is cheap for a carded gi joe figure either mud or def Or gi joe or hasbro is a member of the partnership for a drug free america The front of the card advertises electronic battle flash net launcher batteries included in the space behind where the figure was packaged There are some instructions for the use of the figure stand and the net launcher the back of the card has the cross cell There's a partition for the def figures and then the other figures that were available at the time Oh, it turns out gi joe is a member of the partnership for a drug free america There is an advertisement that says watch the new adventures of gi joe on tv There is a 90s style flag point and a 90s style file card We will read that later. There is a list of features and accessories on here And i will refer to this when describing those things under the file card. There's this other clip and save section It's a communique from bulletproof the def leader real americans don't do drugs Except for falcon fake americans can do all the drugs they want gi joe says that you must refuse all drugs No matter who offers them to you even if it's aspirin and even if it's your mom These anti drug messages on the def cards is why we no longer have drugs in america today Let's take a look at much accessories starting with this pistol. The pistol is in black plastic It's not very well detailed, but it's adequate The card calls this a us army nine millimeter semi automatic pistol. That is not very specific It's probably supposed to be a beretta m9 Which was adopted as the us service pistol in 1985. It doesn't exactly look like a beretta This pistol does not fit in my figure's hand I have tried it with the other examples of mutt version 3 that I have and it still doesn't fit I'm not going to force it because I don't want to break the figure's thumb The next accessory is not an accessory. It is the dog junkyard the attack dog It is a black soft flexible plastic It is the same mold as version 1 of junkyard But that version was in hard plastic and it had a brown paint spray on the belly This version does not have that. It's a really good sculpt if a little undetailed It has no articulation gijo animals didn't have articulation at that time I don't mind that it's made of a softer plastic I wish more gijo animals were made of that softer plastic They would have been less prone to breaking junkyard was already trained to track bad guys and detect bombs In def he would have the added role of sniffing out illegal narcotics Version 1 and version 2 each had a leash But I guess he doesn't need that anymore because he's such a good boy To quickly tell the difference among these version 1 is in hard plastic with a brown paint spray on the belly Version 2 is in a hard plastic with no paint spray on the belly And version 3 is in soft plastic no paint spray on the belly The next accessory is the spring loaded net launcher. It is very large. It is in blue plastic It has a ton of technical detail all over it. It's double barreled and it has a translucent blue top You can see the mechanism in there with the two batteries There is at least one variant another in my possession has a translucent green top And I do not see this variation listed in online resources The final card calls this a sophisticated dual firing net launcher Well, it thinks it's sophisticated. It's kind of full of itself a real bore at parties The net launcher is spring loaded and it fires these two black missiles with a net connected to them I'm going to release them. I will show you the firing mechanism later But I want to show you this first the net launcher fires these large black plastic projectiles with a green Mesh fabric net between them the projectiles are attached to Opposite corners of the net and on the other corners. There are these two black balls for weights And the way this is supposed to work is when the net is launched It should spread out to capture the target. There's another potential variation The net that came with the other launcher I have is in a different shade of green This is different from the typical spring loaded missile launcher from 1990s gi joe It's a creative use of the gimmick instead of firing a missile to take down an enemy It fires a net. It's a non-lethal weapon which fits DEF's law enforcement theme These DEF launchers had an electronic gimmick It has a translucent top because it will light up when you press the trigger Mine just barely still works. Here it is with less light. You can see it a lot better These are standard size watch batteries, so you can replace them if you want Let's demonstrate how to use this launcher. We usually fire at dr. Mine bender But DEF takes out drug dealers. So let's fire at a drug dealer. Let's use gristle to load it Press the projectiles into the barrels with the notch side up Press them back until they click you've got to put both of them in that way So all the way in and then you have this cavity in front And that is for the weighted balls. You just press those in there And now you have a net that is ready to fire the trigger is in the back So let's take aim at gristle and see if we can catch him in the net That really did not work at all. So let's try it again. We've got to take this guy down He is selling drugs to kids who are smaller and defenseless So we can't let that go on out of the way kid. We've got to take down a drug dealer Let's take aim at gristle and fire Well, I hit him with a projectile which would defeat the non-lethal nature of this weapon And I did knock him down, but that's not the same as catching him in the net So I'm gonna try it one more time. All right gristle stop or my mom will shoot Okay, so that doesn't work. We definitely took out gristle, but we hit him with the projectile So he is dead. This is a nice idea. It's a really cute and clever way To use the spring-loaded gimmick, but the net itself doesn't actually seem to work as advertised That's right drug dealer. I bet you didn't expect to get caught in that tiny net.  Them drugs ain't for you.   You give me them drugs. You hear me? Give me them drugs That is not a toy. Drop it. Drop it Corkane The final accessory is the figure stand. The figure came with a black figure stand And this was nice figure stands were harder to come by in the 80s But 90s figures actually came with them and that's great with the accessories out of the way Let's take a look at the articulation on mutt. Junkyard did not have any articulation This figure had the articulation that was standard for gi jo figures well before 1992 So he could turn his head from left to right and look up and down He could move his arm up at the shoulder and swivel at the shoulder all the way around He had a hinge at the elbow so he could bend his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees He had a swivel at the bicep so he could swivel his arm all the way around This was an o-ring figure meaning the figure was held together with a rubber o-ring that looped around the inside So he could move at the torso a bit. He could move his legs apart about so far He could bend his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and bend at the knee about 90 degrees Let's take a look at the sculpt design and color of mutt starting with his head and on his head He has a black cap with black headphones and a black microphone on the left side That's sculpted on and painted. That's not a separate microphone piece. Thankfully. He has a black mustache The face sculpt looks enough like the first version that you could believe this is the same guy Version one had a removable helmet and face mask the cap on version three is not removable But I don't mind that it looks similar to a cap mutt wore a few times in the comic book series This is an update that entirely makes sense for this character on his chest He has a blue vest over a dark green shirt with an elastic collar The file card calls this a life vest flak jacket on the upper left side of the vest There is a black grenade the file card calls this a 100 foot effective smoke bomb There is a zipper down the center and two pockets one on each side and each pocket has a black buckle There are these black details on the upper right side of the vest and I wasn't sure what these were But the card art and the file card reveal these are dog biscuits The file card calls these protein enriched energy boosting dog biscuits. Yeah, right there Mutt has a couple milk bones for junkyard on his vest his arms feature long dark green sleeves and dark green Extended elbow pads. Those are really cool. Very well done. I like that a lot His forearms have caramel brown colored padding And on the right side on the inside of the forearm, there is some stitching and on the outside There are some bite marks.  There is a small black pouch on the right hip And an even smaller pouch on the left side and then there's this black detail on the left side It's hard to make out exactly what that's supposed to be. There's no listing for it on the file card But based on the card art, I think that might be a dog whistle His legs feature light green trousers with seams down the outside upper legs On the lower legs over his shins and the tops of his boots He has caramel brown padding. The file card calls this lower leg anti bite shin and foot pads There are brown straps to go around the back of the leg and those pads are over black boots There's a possible variation. Yojo.com shows this figure with tan legs Mark Balomo's ultimate guide to gi jo describes the figure as having tan pants Even though they look green in the photo. I have only found this figure with green legs I have three examples of mutt version three and they all have green legs I was able to find a sealed example of a tan mutt, but it was not a north american release It was from greece. It may have been an international exclusive I've not been able to find any sealed examples on us or canadian cards The colors on this figure are almost identical to the colors on the slaughters marauders mutt version two You have the light green dark green brown black and a blue vest I really like this coordination of colors. It shows some effort went into this figure And I really appreciate that they kept the colors from an earlier version and made smart updates This is a good figure and a believable later version of mutt Now let's look at the file card and this is where it gets a little confusing There are some unresolvable discrepancies between this file card and the two earlier versions For starters, we have a close-up portrait of mutt here along with the numbered list of the features and accessories The codename is mutt and junkyard. They are the canine officer and attack dog The file name is stanley g pearl mutter primary military specialties canine officer secondary military specialties infantry Birthplace is iceland new jersey and his grade is e five. Well, that seems wrong on the version file card His middle initial is r the rest of the information is mostly the same his primary military specialty is dog handler rather than canine officer But secondary military specialty is still infantry and the same birthplace His grade was specialist four not e five The strangeness really starts with the version two file card which changes his middle initial to g without explanation And changes his grade to e five that was copied over to the version three card It's not just that the version two file card describes some of mutt's background and his total control over dogs That does not contradict the version one card, but it almost seems like it's describing a different person The version three card talks about his long experience with junkyard and does seem to describe the same person as version one But with the initial change and the grade change from version two And the serial number for version three and version two are the same So you figure it out. Good luck. It says vehicle specialty g i joe supersonic fort america driver And that is this the vehicle slash play set for g i joe supersonic fighters It was available in 1992, but it was not in tef It was in these supersonic fighters Which was a totally different subset with an electronic sound making gimmick Why would mutt drive this this section has a quote presumably from mutt himself It says taking drugs is stupid, but dealing drugs is outright evil Somebody has to try to stop it. It might as well be me. He has nothing else to do this weekend They cut out the quote from junkyard. It said ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff This paragraph says mutt and junkyard have worked together for so long They no longer need to give each other audible or visible signals It's almost as if they function as one organism on def operations Junkyard sniffs out contraband substances and sets up the bad guys So mutt can tank them down with his dual net launcher if the bad guys decide to put up a fight They better be prepared to get ripped to shreds by a howling savage beast and then they'll have to contend with the dog This is one of the better 90s file cards I like that it shows the maturity of mutt and junkyard's working relationship The inconsistencies with earlier file cards is a little confusing, but it is well written Looking at how mutt and junkyard were used in gi joe media They first appeared in revenge of cobra part one briefly. They had more of a role in part two They were trapped by destros creeping vines. They escaped and encountered shipwreck They appeared in quite a few episodes having a cute animal on the show provided a lot of opportunity for comedy Their most prominent episode was cobra's creatures in that episode cobra takes over animals And yet another harebrained plan to take over the world junkyard goes kujo on mutt It was a good way to bring in all of the animal companions in the series for one episode mutt appeared in his version two uniform in the deke mini series operation dragon fire DEF appeared in the two part story the greatest evil parts one and two In those episodes the drug kingpin headman is selling a drug called spark Both gi joe and cobra agents become addicted drugs are so evil gi joe and cobra teamed up to stop it It was a rare occasion when a character died in the cartoon Headman became a victim of his own product in the comic book series published by marvel comics Mutt and junkyard first appeared in issue number 25 They were with a team that was sent on a mission to investigate Zartan's cabin in the swamps of the florida everglades in the early appearances junkyard was not very obedient He often ran off on his own. He even befriended destro before leading cobra command into quicksand He wasn't very obedient, but he was smart also in those early appearances Mutt sometimes wore a cap that was similar to the one on his version three figure in issue number 73 Mutt appeared in his version one uniform, but it was recolored brown In future issues where he wore the version one uniform It usually had that brown color the color change looks good Mutt and junkyard were in issue number 79 buzzer slashed junkyard with a chainsaw He can always tell the bad guys because they hate dogs Fortunately junkyard recovered in issue numbers 99 through 103 Mutt junkyard and spirit got caught up in cobra's attempt to take over the town of millville While visiting mutts uncle mutt appeared in his version three uniform in issue number 124 DEF had a short run in the comic book series. They appeared in issues number 124 and 125 They shared pages with eco warriors and ninja force Honestly, it seems that the writer of the series larry hamma just wanted to get the DEF story over with so he could move on Mutt fought against cobra's attack on gi joe headquarters in issue number 131 Again in his version three uniform after that he appeared a few more times in his version one uniform Usually with the brown color looking at mutt and junkyard overall. I think the set is mostly really good I think the figure is great. The colors are not bad for law enforcement He's not camouflaged, but he's not supposed to be the use of slaughters marauders colors Is a surprising callback to an earlier figure the sculpting is sharp I like almost everything about this figure the dog biscuits on the vest are kind of silly But that's my only complaint. This thing is awesome. The accessories are better than expected too I'm not a fan of the spring-loaded missile gimmick, but this is a very creative way to use it It's a non lethal weapon for law enforcement not for combat It is unique and interesting and the light up feature is just a bonus The pistol accessory also seems more like a law enforcement weapon Some actual thought went into this accessory set junkyard is basically the same as version one But in a softer plastic and with no paint spray. I don't mind that so much I wish more gi joe accessories came in the softer plastic They would break less frequently junkyard is a character. He is as important as mutt So i'm happy to see him featured here with his original sculpt mutt was never a very important character in gi joe media But he had his moments junkyard always stole the spotlight You know what they say never work with kids or animals the 1990s was a rough decade for gi joe The whole concept of de f is a bit dated and cringy now the figures though were really good Too often I have to point out the laziness of 1990s toys But not this time some real thought and effort went into it. We looked at the eco warriors last week That's another sub team with a social message the eco warriors toys are obnoxious and gimmicky But the environmentalist message of the eco warriors has aged a lot better than the anti drug message of de f It's not that an anti drug message is necessarily bad, but we approach these issues a lot differently now That was my review of the de f mutt and junkyard I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please give this video a thumbs up Subscribe to the youtube channel and share this video with your friends. That's what helps this channel grow You can find me on social media on facebook and twitter and I have a website hcc serenade.com This video and all of my videos would not be possible without the support of my friends on patreon Their support allows me to continue doing these videos and literally allows me to continue to live So thank you to all of my supporters on patreon if you would like to support the channel That's a great way to do it You can get some special perks and get your name in videos like the names you see scrolling on the screen right now Thank you for watching. I'll see you next time and until then remember only gi joe is gi joe He's high on drugs and he's trying to get the best it was a bad choice to wear dog biscuits on my body Somebody help me for the love of god


Data science has become increasingly important in our daily lives, with applications ranging from business analytics and production to marketing and medicine. In education, however, its potential remains largely untapped. This article discusses how data science can be used to increase the value of high education and create a more technologically flexible society. It also examines the text mining and natural language processing algorithms that are being used to extract knowledge from raw data. This article was authored by Natalia P. Volkova, Nina O. Ryzen and Marina V. Neary.


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I did not know that there are other flavors So the sugar cane one basically is like mango lassi without the mango whoa whoa Whoa, this one's really similar to the sugar cane one, but it finishes it off with a spice Is this like any drink that you've had before can you compare it to anything else? It took me in a different direction. You feel that oh Kind of sweet and then it's spicy Different waves this this one tastes pretty conventional. There's a taste like a gogher. Yeah, I'm a gogher like a traditional gogher Also one thing I noticed never do the Indian drinks have ice. You know what ancient I'll tell you this. This was the most unique lassi I've had. Yeah, right You know I wasn't trying to try it, but I'm gonna wipe it with this sweatshirt It's interesting That tastes like you should put that on top of chicken That spice that you guys are mentioning tastes like pepper It's a pepper lassi they meant salt and pepper lassi man I gotta go actually with the salt and pepper one just because I like trying things I never tried before I'll go with the sugar cane one. That was that was nice. I gotta just roll with the regular mango lassi I gotta agree. I think when I step into a Indian restaurant just grabs it towards that that common Mango lassi you can't mistake in the color. You see that for far away. You know it's a man Lamb samosa Actually, you like what level they cook the peas at really soft and it blends in with the meat Does that not taste a little bit like hello guys packed with flavor. Yep If this is just a little preview of what's ahead of us with this video. I'm excited I'm excited. We have something interesting. You guys might have not had this is called penny purry These don't look interesting puffs of ball that you break into and then you fill them up with this sweet water and Garbanzo beans. Oh, it's like a little ping-pong. So is it hollow inside? It's kind of like a little arts and crafts project a little bit little bit Jurassic Park vibe This is an interesting way to eat an appetite. I think you just eat it one bite. Mmm. They're guys Pony purry Really really good for something to have no meat. Yeah, you're gonna see Indian food, man Does vegetarian food flavor chicken pakora a little on the dry side I think this one I would like to try with some sauce. You know what tastes clean. Yeah, good good flaky meat I like no that sauce is pretty boring. Yeah, I'm what's like some liquors in there. Mm-hmm. I'm going with the samosas Oh, that is a no brainer say as an appetizer I do like the penny purry because it's just like really refreshing. No, that's true That's true. That's why I'm moving on to round three, which is the bread section man right off the bat I love how dense it is. It's coconut in it. Oh my well. It's a coconut now. Oh, I Fire I didn't even know it really tastes like the guy may bow from all I don't see these bakeries The coconut non is a five out of five. Oh five out of five. Wow. This is a lamb non Wow, I would say my my Indian food knowledge may be like out of five like at best like a 1.75 We got to roll through these non. We got more. This is a paneer non Paneer is the primary cheese that like northern Indians use in their cooking. I like that a lot It's salty, but not too overpowering. You know what that reminds me of a really similar taste to feta cheese It to me. It's kind of a mixture of feta and mozzarella It's not as stretchy and gooey as mozzarella, but it is it definitely has a little bit more sour bite like that All right guys, this is roti Mmm As you can see, it's a little bit more dense. Definitely not as fluffy. Mm-hmm. This is made with wheat I was just gonna say it tastes more like wheat obviously compared to the non. Hey tastes more healthy That's actually good. I think it's cool to have kind of like a more subtle bread. This is the plain paratha right here This one looks a little bit more like some regular pita bread. There's something pretty special about like kind of like ripping it apart though Yeah, I see why people eat with their hands. It's more fun A little smoky flavor a little more toned down than the roti. I would say it was all like a mix in between Wow, here we have the fried bread.  It's not too oily. It does give me that a sesame ball flavor. Yeah, I would say This is a good combination of all the breads we had so far. Yeah the aloo paratha This is like a sour potato paratha That's our potatoes fire. You can see that color pop. Yeah, wait. You taking some big rips.  Oh That tastes like it's been dipped already. Wow. Wow. This does not need any dipping. That's a dish right there The dish is inside nice flavor from the potato. Wow, you imagine like mashed potatoes in a bread This is this is going with one of these curries. Yeah, we guys going with real quick guys. I'm going with the aloo aloo paratha I got a little too. Really? Yeah, you guys switched it up on the coconut one. A few moments later Richie, I'm going with the coconut one. Wow It's a tie. Well, it can't be a tie if it's too hot. We got our Indian expert over here Okay, that's the coconut one coconut non versus the aloo paratha coconut coconut Wow All right moving on to round four. We have the chicken dishes. I think we gotta start with the butter chicken Let's go with the butter chicken. Butter chicken always brush me, huh? Yeah, and always bonus. I feel like yeah Always bonus and I appreciate that. I appreciate it.  Yo, man, honestly can't go wrong with butter chicken I don't know my crazy percent that would have been cool with some thigh pieces, too I always think that I always think that because you have chickens. What do you do with the chicken thigh? All right, so we just got that tiki masala right here.  Okay Tika masala, whoa It's pretty different five more spices in there I think a lot of the times I thought I was actually eating butter chicken was probably actually tiki masala How could you be so try it with the potato? We're just trying to mix and match the bread to match with the right spices Did you guys expect it to taste as different or was it less different than you expected? So I could actually now I'm pretty confident in my tiki masala butter chicken radar That round was delicious actually wow tandoor chicken. Is it tandoori tandoori chicken I Could see one drumstick all the spices on this. How do you like this on that? Wow? Look at these pieces. Let me just switch it around who will win the chicken battles tandoor chicken You could taste all that charred onions the bell peppers. This drumstick is very very very flavorful Charred is the good word very flavorful, you know that char burger from habit.  That is a name definitely taste the lightest the lightest out of everything as far as flavor wise Almost tastes like a lemon curry to me. Mm-hmm. That was nice. It was easy to eat might only work It's the spiciest to yes, it is actually the spiciest Andrew. Am I tripping? Yeah, you guys I'm actually rolling why with the chicken tiki masala. Oh, if you made me eat like the whole thing I would eat the butter chicken though. What a weird thing to say after you pick it for this round I got one chicken Vindaloo chicken Vindaloo The tiki masala fire if there's a reason these are the top two stop playing with the people It's what these alright now on to round number five probably India's most famous rice dish Which is the biriyani so most traditionally it's made with goat and lamb and then the most popular one That's probably ordered in America is the chicken biriyani. I gotta ask you though. Are you feeling it? Oh, but isn't that a thing with an Indian food the heaviness and like feeling it? Do you guys feel it? It is it is it is uh Feel Indian. This is goat biriyani flavor is like Like Flavors all over the meat kind of tastes like beef Wow, I would say goat is a good mixture of beef and lamb Maybe if I was just gonna get one thing I wouldn't go for it, but as a third option. Yeah, yeah lamb biriyani Definitely fattier No, I can't even tell the difference no lamb and goat. It's hard to tell the heart. It's oh the texture reminds me of like a shredded Beef mmm more shreddiness. Yeah, I don't think this one you could have easily fooled me to do this beef I think in a way, and I don't want to speak too soon. I like the goat better I enjoyed a piece of goat I'm sorry. I felt it after the lamb my Tommy the belly the belly and we got a long ways to go to the And we still got the fire fusion pizza coming up Chicken biriyani who wants to be the chicken biriyani. Just give me one piece of chicken man I'm still don't get to choose the guys well chicken tender chicken tender I would say the chicken almost blends in better with the rice than the other meat. Yeah, I agree I'm going with the chicken biriyani. It really helps that the chicken the dark meat chicken is juicy I think it just soaks in more flavor. I would say for me easily the chicken biriyani. I agree. I agree. I agree Andrew unanimous the goat What's the most interesting? I'm not saying I would eat goat meat over chicken for me I'm just gonna roll with the goat on this one But I totally understand chicken biriyani is the most ordered probably most popular biriyani of them all you guys Feeling all right feeling great. What a battle so far one thing That's kind of interesting about our city Kent that we grew up in not only are there a lot of Indian restaurants But they also have Punjabi pizza and this was your special request man Look, I know you a fan of the can and you got to Papa John's you got your little Caesar's you got your pizza huts Nothing compares to can and we got the tandoor butter chicken pizza Yes tomato, but it's not like tangy. Yeah, all right there. You know what there is I think there's slight marinara pizza sauce. Okay in here and then you have little chopped tomatoes on top I was gonna say the tomatoes go along. I'm excited for the tandoori.  I feel like this is more like a true fusion 50-50 all right guys before we make our decision though We have the kadahi chicken pizza right here right off the bat. I noticed the yellow sauce Underneath the toppings. There's some garam masala and this garam masala is the the main yellow powder that people associate with curry Curry is actually technically not a flavor. So we think of curry always as like a certain spice and flavor But that's not necessarily true. I guess I was more of a British thing definitely had most Roman shout out to the pickle the jalapenos on Kadahi chicken pizza Juicy definitely the one with the most flavor so far whoa man. I like this one. I like this one a lot Got a lot going on almost like a Traditional curry flavor that we're used to all right guys. So with the pizza man, obviously they were all good But I'm going with the kadahi, but I think I'm gonna roll with the kadahi Had all the right veggies that you wanted the right flavor makes me want to try that dish now I have to almost judge off my plate and it's looking like the butter. It's the butter chicken Okay, and I'm not agree with David So I mean I hate to just tie it, but I got us to the butter chicken There's a reason why I ate whole box for myself But let me tell you this tan you hate to tie it, but you know who's not mad that you tied it Okay, Dave's not mad. Come on, Asian Randy Johnson Think I know what I would say the butter chicken Okay, that's the number one seller. I can't am that is art everybody We just finished up with the hot entrees, but we wanted to throw in this section about Indian snacks Parle G. I've never ate biscuits and tea David. Is this how you do it? Oh, you made some chai Literally almost looks like Kris Jenner. Oh, man. Oh, well, it's not bad. I mean, I guess it's a tea cookie So this is just one of those like standard famous cookie flavors that you could probably find in a lot of different forms I'm gonna go ahead and give this a four out of five. I'm enjoying it. We haven't come next up We got the halderom section. Halderoms is one of those og Indian brands. I guess it's been around for like eight decades That's a long time. Let's start with the Bombay mix since I have it in my hand Mild spicy blend of crisp noodles lentils and peanuts. They do eat a lot of lentils in India. So let's try it Tastes like some other kind of Asian snacks we've had before but um a little bit more curry based Overall, I can see it. It's tasty. You mean more garam masala because curry is not a flavor I want to try the things that made halderoms rich panchataran So these look like little fried potatoes. Yo the panchataran coming in with something I did not expect They got some raisins with some picnic sticks. That was that was good. I like how it's sweet That one's the best one so far. All right guys here. We have the katamita. Oh, okay light yellow I see some turmeric. I want to say it tastes the mango powder. It's bright I didn't know mango powder was a thing It's kind of fruity. Okay here. We have the uh cornflakes mixture This looks like some spicy cereal. So it has a little bit of the potatoes mixed in and the still got the raisins in there Dude, would you say that almost I have some like chicken flavor? Yeah, that almost tasted more like a meal All right guys coming up. We have the spicy potato noodles. I think this is gonna be a good one That's how the halderom family got rich and it was off the buja. So this is the million dollar buja All right, definitely tastes like how a old spice store smells has a little bit more of that like dried like supermarket vibe But it's good. All right. We're moving on to the next brand india life Which is doing a little bit more of like your new school like whole foods type. Mumbai mix. Okay, so we had the bombay mix earlier This is the Mumbai mix I need some chai. I can't say that was my favorite dal mix. These kind of do look like those little uh wonton strips Not bad. It didn't really stand out to me though. I could see more older people liking this one It does taste like the chinese american crispy noodles. All right guys moving on. We have the spicy chevdo This is a hot punjabi mix. So that sounds like a fire playlist on spotify Whoa, okay. Got some potato chips in there Yeah, it was like a really healthy chex mix easily the most similar to a trail mix I like the elements, but it tasted almost exactly how it looks. Mopi's chada tour This company leads the world in making sweet savory indian snacks. Wow. Look at these chips Actually, this looks interesting. Yo, I've never seen anything like this. So hella flavor.  This was the shop owner's favorite item. Uh, this is a lemon bell Nice and light. This is a good snack easy to eat. Oh man I feel so torn between the aloo buja and the panchuratan. Okay, but i'm gonna go with the aloo buja Okay, how do i'm built a buja empire? They did not build a cornflake empire I'm gonna roll with the panchuritan. It's only one per brand. So what so what we disagree No, there has to be a winner. It's like dried noodles behind the camera, man. I tried them earlier. I gotta say Whoa First of all, you know me and i'm a fry guy. I love potato sticks, but the way i'm a fry guy with the i'm a fried good Give me some fries Guys, thanks for watching that portion of indian snacks back on to indian dessert All right guys, we have round seven. We finished it off with the hot food and the entrees We are now on to the sweet section.  Wow? Yo, right now I got to say the galabjerman to me.   I've had many many many desserts in my lifetime The sweetest Dessert I've ever had. I really like it.  Wow This is fire You know how things are double fried. This might be triple fried. We all just gonna go with one go one thing I'll see what you pick richie. Okay richie got milk cake. So I'm gonna go with the carrot This is the indian carrot cake. I'm going to stir. Shoot. Let me go with these little tubes here Punjabi sweets Whoa This is good. Yeah kind of want to compare it with chocolate but like grainy dude. This texture is crazy when you feel it It almost like feels like putty. It tastes like a carrot cake fudge. There is a fudgy quality to all of these It does taste like a white chocolate flavor. Yeah, I'm gonna try the mil cake. It's like a little bounds of them. Is it good? It's interesting take a little bit of that little bit of that. Bro this is straight up white chocolate. Yeah it's interesting. But I gotta say that um milk cake that is fire. I might go with the carrot cake. What? Stop.  But yeah I would say this Indian sweets by all means are super super sweet. What are you guys rolling with as far as the desserts go? I'm going with the Galabjuman. I'm going with this. Milk cake. Milk cake. Milk cake. Alright you guys thank you so much for watching that Indian episode of Thumb Rose Food. We were just trying to break it down. We are not experts. Please correct us what we got wrong but I tried to do my research. I hope you guys enjoyed that video. Please give it a thumbs up. Please hit the subscribe button and turn on your notifications and we just wanted to show our appreciation for Indian food because it is something that we did grow up eating and there's actually a lot of Indian restaurants in our hometown which is where we're at right now. Alright guys let us know in the comments down below what your favorite Indian dish is and why and let us know if there's another culture's food that we should also cover and put into a battle format and until next time we're out. Peace. We have like a don't know who they are like you said it's been sitting for a long time just what is it kind of water or rose water? Rose water syrup. Really good. How do you recommend


T F N N headline news update Welcome folks. We have the Dow industrials trading down 27 nasa car 45 S&Ps off one and a half gold gold down three dollars and fifty cents traded 1492 an ounce You have silver down two cents at 17 dollars and 85 cents with an ounce What you're gonna see out here in the gold market folks is that we have rejected lower price You're gonna have lighter volume out here We're gonna take a look at the gdx afterwards same type of setup in the gdx status saying that higher prices are coming at us right now You're at 1492 inside the gold contract if we go take a look at the gdx What you're gonna see inside the gdx is that you're gonna see that you have rejected lower price tremendously lighter volume only 18 million shares 18 million is going into 82 million. Okay, so this baby is setting up pretty cool for coming into the Fed Meeting tomorrow as well as the statement at two o'clock and the news conference at at 230 Notes and bonds bottom line the exact same way meaning the exact same setup. They've rejected lower price out here They came down hard yesterday if we go over to and take a look at the 30 year first What you're gonna see with the 30 a 30 year right now is up 14 ticks We got down a load today 150 806 you've done 193,000 contracts out here Which is still anemic contract volume. You're coming into September 13th September 13th out here, which is a 460,000 and yesterday we did 238 so it's pretty cool. You can see we even did less than yesterday today Rejected the lower price. I expect we're gonna see as higher prices are gonna come at us And the real kicker is gonna be okay. What does the Fed have to say? We know the Fed will we speculate the Fed's gonna go down our one quarter point is at the end of the deal Seems like the way the market's setting up if we go over to the S&P and look at the S&P This actually is setting up that it does want to pull back.


Welcome back to another video on confidence intervals and bootstrapping. Where we left off, we developed this plot to show our confidence interval using the bootstrap sampling distribution. We're going to continue to build up that plot, but we're going to use the original samples. And so the process of calculating the confidence intervals is still the same. I'm going to create XBD for X-bar data. And we're going to use the data means, which if we scroll back up here, data means has our original four samples and those sample means. And so we want a mean of those four samples.  But we can see this is what our data X bar is. Similarly, we can calculate the standard error with data means. And so here we can see, oh, I forgot my parentheses there. And so we can see a single value here for our data standard error. And then we can calculate the confidence interval SID. So here we would say XBD minus two times SED and then XBD plus two times SED. And so here we have our basic confidence interval for the data. We can build up this plot. So once again, I'm going to copy this. I'm going to bring it down here and run it again to show you what we had before. And so now we want to add in the data confidence interval. And again, we have this geom error bar HAS. We'll put this down a little lower. So we'll put it at 0.25. We still need to say X min is CID at the zero index and X max is CID at the one index. And then outside the AES we'll say color is, we'll make it green. And I'm going to add in an extra term called height. And this tells it how high we actually want the error bar to be. So it defaults to 0.5. So this is going from 0.25 to 0.75. I'll shorten this one so that it's 0.25. And then we also add the point at the middle, making sure that our Y matches up. So 0.25. And our X is at XBD. Our color is the same green. And we'll make it size three. So if we run this, we can now see that we've got the confidence interval based off of the original four samples. It's much wider. That means that, you know, there was more variation, which is creating a wider confidence interval, even though the means are fairly close to each other. So the benefit of doing that bootstrapping method is that because we have more samples, we're able to narrow our confidence interval a little bit and therefore have a little bit more confidence in our statistical inference.


Hi, my name is Jeff. This is Duncan. This is Bella and we're from Springfield, Massachusetts, and we watch Trucker Josh vlogs Good Monday morning from Winkler, we have a special guest today father-in-law This is his first trip on his own. This is it. This is how it all begins his truck is just around the corner over there and We're running together into the sketch one now Show them the ropes a little bit Get you familiar with the e-log and stuff teaching an old dog new tricks. Yeah He's pretty old school.  So just got me all loaded up here. He's just around the corner right there We loaded him up first Both these loads are going to Langbank's to sketch on the same place we delivered those tires to actually same company I know exactly where we're going There's nothing there. So if we if we if we sleep there, there's nothing there But we're gonna figure out where we're gonna stop tonight yet because I don't think we'll get unloaded today Took all morning to get loaded and I'll be able to five six hour drive to get there It's gonna probably be first thing tomorrow morning It's kind of interesting Training my father-in-law He doesn't need any training. He knows what he's doing. It's just the new technologies He's not familiar with so it's just easier if they send him on a short one like behind me or Run convoy for a day that way if any questions come up about the e-log or anything at all Then I am right there. I can help him with it right away We might go on another one down just across the border just to get him familiar with border crossings But we'll see what they get for us next for now. We're delivering this load tomorrow morning Lang banks to sketch one Gonna be fun They didn't exactly go easy on him on the first first day He's been training for two weeks now. Just getting familiar with all the new technologies and stuff and so this is his first trip out and I Called it like can you just give us something simple just so that we can you know get the ball rolling? This load we both used like 20 25 straps a bunch of little stuff bunch of big stuff all kinds of mixed up stuff Wasn't exactly the easiest, but at least we didn't have to tarp. We don't have to tarp these so not complaining I'm complaining could have been a lot worse yeah, so That's my wife's dad. Obviously if that's my father. I was my wife's dad He used to be a truck driver when my wife was a kid And when she was a little girl, he would do runs out to Vancouver BC and back And that's sort of a big reason why me and Britt worked out I think she was very familiar with the trucker lifestyle She knew what it was all about and she grew up in a home where her dad was a trucker and he actually worked at GM For quite a few years since since I've known him and I think way longer than that But he's since retired from that. He was a technician I believe worked in the the maintenance department. We retired from that and came back to trucking Now we're all here and we're on a big happy family So my dad is down in the US right now What would be cool is if me him and my dad could run out on a trip on Trip somewhere meet up on the road somewhere run together for a little while. That would be cool It'll probably happen one day. It probably will There she is All set and ready. I'm just waiting for paperwork still Take a look at my father-in-law. If you didn't know his name is Jerry. There's his load. How you liking the Western Star? Yeah, it's not a bad truck They ride a little rough, but Wasn't it? Oh good. You got a good one then Okay We got Paul I'm all behind me. We've both got our paperwork here finally It's a quarter to two and we're finally rolling out of here took all day to get these loads put together and get our paperwork CB works anyways You're ready to go. What did he say? I don't know what he said. I think he's ready to go He told me I was ready to go before already so We're just going up to the co-op from Winkler. You turn west and there's a co-op truck stop It's about 15 minutes away from here.  There he comes trip number one Underway I was actually using that truck when I was doing city work for a little while So dusty out here This load is not very heavy at all nice light load to bring us there Stop here. Check them here. We'll probably go up to portage or something. Check them there yet About 15 minutes north of Langbank. This is where we're gonna spend the night. This way there's a truck stop right here It's just around the corner Slit area to park and grab some food and coffee in the morning Maybe grab a bite to eat tonight yet We'll go deliver they open up at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning Which we'll work with our hours of service if we want it to but they also said they'd Sort of sounded like they only wanted us there like after 8 a.m But now we might show up at 7 anyways and if they can get to us they can if not No, from here we head back home anyways, and then I believe I have a load booked out of canora We're gonna swallow me whole and then he'll probably pull in right beside me on that side. I'm guessing Yeah, I chose a petrol pass because they have a restaurant here. It's 24 hours as well Whereas the co-op closes for night. I'm pretty sure short day, but it's fun all right completely set up in the truck now The new laptop will see how how it does it's a lot lighter and a little quite a bit slimmer than my old one I haven't even rendered a video on it yet The last couple of videos I Convinced my old computer to finally render it took all day to get two videos done Hence the new computer this one. I'm guessing will take 20 minutes Guess we'll see Just got to get rid of this basic generic background I want to find that favorite picture of mine that I had of me and Britt on our land in the winter time Had it at the background of my My other computer. I want it as a background here again, too. So I'll find it eventually. I'll find it Excited. I got a new toy and look it changes colors.  Hey, so thanks for watching today everybody We'll see you right here again tomorrow Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and hit that like button find me on Facebook Twitter Instagram all the links to all my social media Anywhere you can find me on the internet the link is down below my video There's a whole bunch you can go through there if you have the time if you want to that'd be great I challenge you to tell one friend about trucker Josh today or tomorrow Within the next 24 hours And it is your mission to get them to subscribe I'm making you work Okay All right, I'll see you tomorrow. I have your friend with you. Yeah, and I'm a little bit blown away here whoo So I just edited the video of when I went to go pick up this computer, right? And how long was it about 20 some minutes or so? 24 minutes and this would usually take on my old computer about 35 40 minutes to render this computer I Just just clicked it. It's gonna take under 10 minutes Wow It's look at this. It's already over there Whoa. Oh, yeah, this computer is way faster already if this is how it's how fast it's gonna render Good, I'm happy with that good Right on some good news finally And there's a lot of good news in life Sometimes the bad news overwhelms the good news, but there's usually more good news than bad news. It's just the bad news It seems to dominate everything, you know Seems to dominate our minds, but if you think about it, there is always usually more good news than bad It's computers fast Nice