We good we good. I'm alive I'm live not I'm alive too, but I'm live a lot Anyways, how y'all doing the power just blinked if I disappear, you know why you can see I'm covered in rain We had a tornado come through last night Didn't come anywhere near us, but around us so yeah Hi I'm alive, and I'm live So today we are doing Flash fiction under a thousand words You can see me you can see me now, but if I suddenly disappear I will be back as soon as the Yeah, as soon as I can anyways, so First order of businesses. I want to share a personal story That means a lot to me and I want to tell you guys about it Because it just struck me yesterday that me and my oldest have been doing something that Has meant the world to me and but it's one of those things that I didn't even really It didn't sink in until I started thought started thinking about the story that I'm gonna be writing today So way back in the way back 2005 Shell is pregnant with our first baby, okay? At that point in time I was driving a Gold Nissan maxima that had a both-seat system in it and that thing sounded clean as hell clean So we were constantly jamming constantly playing bands like slipknot mud vein system of the down A bunch of different stuff some rap some hip-hop all that stuff thrown in together All the stuff that they that they now listen to So I've been taking Dan back and forth to work Every not every day, but every day that they were taking them back and forth to work And as soon as they get into the car they grab the ox cable They put it in or actually Nowadays, it's 104.9 the gump is what we listen to because it's all the classic alternative rock music They throw in some metal some hip-hop some things from back in the 90s that kind of thing So what we've been doing is before it was the ox cable and now it's you know 104.9 and it's a 25 minute drive from our place to where they work Every single day we rock out together for those 25 minutes It's a total of 50 minutes out of the day because we rock out on the way there Rock out on the way home. Sometimes the way home is quieter because they've had a bad day or they're not feeling it or whatever but still I Didn't realize how important and I Don't know poignant is the right word how much that touched me like how much that I Don't know it just go. I love stories that go full circle Stories that start in one place and end in the same place, but the people have changed Um, and it's it's kind of that circular narrative When I'm talking about this You know we we used to rock out me and she'll used to rock out to these songs and that was a bonding experience and in in the womb Dan would rock out to and the kicking the You know moving around, you know wiggling around and now I get to sit next to my 18 year old Child and rock out to the same music And it hit me How important those times are and It's not about conversations. It's not about Not even bonding. It's just about sharing that experience together and It it made me emotional So I wanted to share that guys that that story with you guys And I absolutely loved it it and now I need to talk about the story that I'm writing Because if I just flash up what it's called, you're gonna be like wait a second. How does any of this make any sense?  Let me go back.  This is like a normal trade paperback.  I just told you is Because the game doesn't matter in moments like that That is the important part What we do what we the work that we do and any of that stuff none of that stuff truly matters It's the experiences that we have playing the game and not whether or not we win the game and I think that is Screen screens black Wait a second. Okay. So we got an issue with video. I have oh Yeah, we we go to that we go to the movies whenever we can but with them working It's okay. No video is fine For for the quote You're talking about this When you were showing the writing screen so the video is black right now Is that correct? Yeah, that's black. Okay. All right, so I'm gonna stop sharing screen Let's see here Okay present let's see if this fixes it How about that? Is that is that good? We good? Perfect. Okay. All right, so this is it And as you can see if there's there's a little bit more it's of course Harlan Ellison but originally paraphrased about life from the whiz from an interview with Gary K. Wolfe July 28 1987 I was seven years old But bug fuck is the useless wit and wisdom of Harlan Ellison and today's story is going to be about feeling useless feeling like you can't win the game and why That isn't important Why we should not focus on the winning we should focus on the experience and That all comes down to you know Personal preference whatever I'm not trying to tell you always, you know Always focus on the positive sometimes the negative needs your attention to But it's those little moments that when we come together And I think that's the only reason That we're here and it's not so much of a purpose as much as it is sharing our lived experiences so today I'm gonna write a Piece of flash fiction. I don't know if there's gonna be any story or plot to it whatsoever If it's gonna be all message or if it's gonna be sprinkled message or anything I'm just gonna start writing and this is gonna be one of those stories that starts off very Sad and becomes happy I'm trying to do more of that these days instead of you know Just killing off all my characters because it's kind of a running meme With me that none of my characters exist even though I've had several books and stories where characters live through it But they're not in a good way by the end of it So if I haven't killed the character, I've killed who they used to be that kind of thing Back in black at the sack. I've been to I've been too long. I'm glad to be back. I Say that a lot on twitch Pedro. I Say that here too when I come back from break, but anyways, so yeah, that's what we're doing I'm gonna put if you guys want to talk I'm gonna put us on for 15 minutes And then of course I take a really quick break Well not quick for some people but 10 10 15 minute break and then when I come back We are going to play so what have you guys been up to you guys reading anything cool You playing anything cool you watch anything cool. Let me know down there in them comments Or the doobly-doo as y'all prefer Also, I have not shown off my My new the newest addition to our family that just Showed up so I am going to show him off now Playing the ascent. That was a pretty cool game. I played it on game pass back when I had it So what I'm going to do is I'm going to share this screen over here Okay, so in between thine legs Don't pay attention to the the deflated man behind him But as you'll see in the middle of the screen That is Murray Murray showed up one night. We got home from dashing and Murray was in the driveway. We have a 500 foot driveway. It's quite a ways to get up to our where we live and He was just standing in the driveway if you guys don't know we lost our dog Ash a couple of months ago and It's It's been really really rough so much so that most of us don't even want to look at the The the urn and everything the paw print and whatnot that they did after they had to put him down He had ITP, which is a blood disorder. He was literally just bleeding out inside He also had a extreme allergy to fleas that we've been fighting his entire life So he passed away and we discussed getting another dog, but Dan wasn't ready. I really wasn't ready either Shell wasn't I don't know that any of us were ready, but we We show up and every single one of our animals except for Ash Ash was given to us by my sister from a litter of puppies her dog had and Every other one demon lesser demon Hobble if you guys remember hobble hobble didn't last long.   I get out of the car.  So Dan Gets out of the car gets down on his level and manages to calm him down And the same thing that happened with demon lesser demon or sorry Holly is demon Oliver is lesser demon That's just nicknames. I give them but a demon actually brought lesser demon or LD as I call him Brought lesser demon from out of the woods one day, but anyways back to Murray. So Murray I believe he's a couple weeks old probably about six his his Donuts have not dropped yet. So he's definitely, you know below six to eight weeks. He's somewhere somewhere in there He doesn't have many teeth that kind of thing.  But anyways, so here's Murray. You see Murray Murray's a good boy. Murray's the best boy.  Do we have a oh, I need to read more comments? Hang on Thanks. See you continue to inspire me. This is I know I know you are Tim Yeah, so another short for an anthology. Hell. Yeah, dude. Congratulations. I hope you're still here. I Read hope for the wicked this morning poor mum. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Jimmy. Yeah, that one is that that's the only story Well, that's the only book of mine that shelled never finished.  She got to that scene and literally through her Kent Kindle As she was reading it tossed her Kindle looked over at me because we were both in the bed And she goes who the hell did I marry and I was like damn I had to get it out of my head the scene was in my head In fact, I tried to give the scene to another friend. Her name was Jill and I was like, hey Will you write this and Jill was like fuck? No So I ended up having to write it. But yeah, it is the it that is the infamous book that shell was reading She tossed her Kindle and it was shocking. Yes, it was It is one of probably the most shocking scenes. I have ever written period So to the point that I haven't read it I usually read my stuff at least once or twice after it's published But yeah, no, also, there's no audiobook and I like listening to audiobooks of my stuff It's because it feels like someone else wrote it, you know, but now that I'm gonna be doing my own audiobooks I won't have that I Can't listen to my voice for that long. It's bad enough that my voice is in my own head and it just keeps keeps going Anyways, I'm guessing you're enjoying enjoying the ascent I'm guessing But do you have the sequel Jimmy? Do you have pennies for the damned? If not, then I'll put it back up for sale I'm not sure if it's up for sale or not I Try I tend to take it down when people ask about the series because it's never been finished And there's three more books that will probably never see the light of day. I have a buddy Who some of you might remember him? He goes by Leertes on on here Leertes DD or Leertes D something like that And he's been he's been begging me for years to release the last three books He even offered to pay me just to let him read it and I am so Unhappy with how the second book turned out that I have to rewrite several Bits of the other books so I just haven't done it and if he picks up those three books if he reads those three books He's gonna get a draft drastically different story than what is promised in two But yeah, you have that too you think all right Well, if you don't let me know and I will definitely put it back up and you can buy it and then either I'll leave it up Or I'll take it. I don't I don't know. I don't know anyways That's still got a nagging cough from the COVID I had over what it what's it been now two months I can't remember but anyways Double-checked it's on your Kindle hell. Yeah, it's twice as long as hope and it has one of my favorite scenes I've ever written in it and after you after you're done reading it remind me and I will tell you the story of Working with a certain editor on the book and then being Very upset at one point and then backtracking and thanking me for the scene later on so yeah read that and Yeah, anyway But there's like one or two scenes out of both of those books that are really really fucking good And then the rest of it I could do with or without it doesn't matter but hope was like 25 to 30,000 words, I think and then Penny's is 75 80,000 words something something along those lines. It's a much bigger story more more involved It's a bigger story. We go to you know multiple locations very cool locations I think but anyways So that's cool. Sorry. I got distracted by discord.  It's based on a Harlan Ellison quote from an interview with Gary K. Wolf July 28 1987 you can't win you can't even you can't what is it? Is it you can't even break even Man, I don't already lost the I should have put down the page number I don't want to misquote it even though it does say it's paraphrased Anyways, I'm gonna leave it. I think I think it's you can't break even You can't win. You can't break even. I don't think Ellison would have done The repetition of even but it's all it's all paraphrased from an interview.  Well, I'm going to try to try to Without being heavy-handed I'm gonna try and that the point is not the game. That's the point of this is that it's not That's not the point. So that's what we're gonna do when I get back from break Four minutes left So if anybody has any questions or anything they want to say now is the time because once I get started The story's got to be under a thousand words Let's talk about constraint for for a minute. I was talking to shell my wife last night about the The How different short stories are from novels how you can't really do deep dives into character You don't have enough space But constraint is good. It makes you choose your words carefully It makes you now that's not gonna be what happens today. I'm just gonna be word vomiting I'm just gonna be getting the story out and then when I go back to keep it under a thousand words I'm going to trim and trim and trim and trim trim and the shorter the story is the more punchy The every line is the more effect it will have if You're if you do well with a flash fiction story It can feel ten times longer than it actually is and it can stay with a person as long as you pick the right moments Today is not about picking the right moments. Today is about the story. I'm telling myself the story We will go back later and we will clean it up Currently reading Charles L grant night songs I have never been able to finish a grant novel I have several of them, but I'm no longer I don't know. I don't want any longer vibe with the like zebra era of horror paperbacks like leisure and all that stuff It's just too Simplistic for my taste now. There's some standouts that I'll go back and I'll read like Richard layman Jack Ketchum There's a couple other ones from from back in the day Stephen Laws is absolutely amazing one of my favorite authors of all time Highly highly underrated So definitely check him out if you haven't already does flash fiction compared to writing poetry I would say so because it all comes down to word choice and structure and Cadence you want someone to get in if you don't have a lot going on in your story You need a nice beat to rock to you need something You need your the structure of your story to have a rhythm to have a flow so that it is enjoyable to read Never read laws. I would highly recommend the worm W Y RM Like you know, like they used to spell like dragons were called worms Let's see here it is not a dragon But it is amazing.  So it was almost like Hill House kind of deal and it was just very very very creepy at any time Worm with a Y with a Y So, let me let me type it for you This is the this is the title. Yeah. Yeah, Jimmy exactly worm. Yeah There's that one. I don't know if it's available or not, but that that's my favorite one There's also fear me which is a vampire story one of the best I've read And it doesn't really follow the typical vampire kind of deal There is a seductive quality to this vampire, but it's much cooler Have you got back into reading that yeah, no time That's it. That really is it I mean even last night when I had some downtime because like we didn't I didn't dash last night the storm was coming in I wasn't sure I was also hurting and shell has been begging me to take a day off So I went ahead and did it But yeah, I don't have any time Last night all I did was sit in my chair watch goofy TV shows on Netflix and I just I just chilled out until I had to go pick Dan up from work but uh, yeah, I The I think the worst part about all this is I don't miss it If it and I was talking to shell about this also last night It became a job It became a job it became an expectation that I had to read so much that I had to do so much And as you guys have seen over the years every time I set a challenge for myself a reading challenge I fail because I Am very much an emotional on the spot reader and if I set any kind of TBR If I set anything any kind of challenge for myself I always fail because it tends to start feeling like work But then the longer I went without reading the more comments I got like where the book reviews. What are you doing?  And that made me become even more insular and feel like you know, that's all you guys want So, you know, it's it's whatever the quickest way to get me to not do something is to ask me to do it I've said this multiple times. I know it's not a good thing. It's a bad character flaw of mine It's definitely my top toxic trait But when people tell me to do something it is or ask me to do something It's almost guaranteed that I won't That does not come into play when it when it deals with like my family and things like that But when it comes to something that I view as a job or a profession career, what have you that's more than a hobby That I make money off of and it's counterintuitive to that too because you want to you you would think you'd want to please the People so that you can make, you know more money with me. I'm the exact opposite I get farther away from wanting to do that thing and the more people ask the more I'm like I just don't want to That's it. So yeah watching goofy TV is winning the game. Yeah, I would agree with that me and Chris My youngest have been watching wipe out together and that is that's and that's another thing man But I've talked about us watching wipe out together It is one of those things that that that is that is not the game that is the experience the game is life and Everything between the point that you're born and the point that you die is the experience and that's all that matters But yeah, this story is gonna start out Satisfuck and then it's gonna get better. Hopefully as long as Lorne brain doesn't take over We're gonna we're gonna get through this. We're gonna knock out this entire story today from a to z Straight line boom boom boom boom boom. I'm going to try and be a little more selective with my words because if not the story is gonna take me 30 minutes and Then it's all gonna be done and I'm gonna have even more work to do because of the word bomb but today is all about focus Focusing on the story focusing on the word the verb the words the verbiage the structure the cadence need to keep on Beat keep on beat give the reader something to dance to and it doesn't matter what the lyrics are They are still going to enjoy themselves. Yes. This works. It does I point to certain books and go okay People should not enjoy this But they do because of the cadence because of the rhythm because of the beat They give the reader something to dance to and like it's just just remember that If you give the reader something to dance to a good beat to dance to the lyrics don't mean a thing It's all about enjoying the moment and that's what we're gonna do today Once I get back from break, so I'm gonna go ahead and take my break now. Say bye-bye face me What am I putting on? I'm so used to coming Yeah, I'm so used to coming back from break on twitch. I grabbed my headphones the TV ain't even working.  I'm trying to warm up My heater is not heating it is heating but not very well. All right, let's get going Welcome back. I just grabbed coffee coffe. Hey, I've already had two cups if you can tell you probably can tell so Why am I bold oh I need to fix my template for some odd reason it's got point eight after Everyone No up here. That's not right. Okay. Yeah, Salos. All right That was my foot on the box.  I did not fart. It was I can't of course now I can't repeat it.   I did not fart.  So it's so it's quite possible, but that I promised was not it Let's see here.  So go away All right back Back into the zone back. We're back now. I got to read what I wrote already just so I can get back in the Get back into the zone I'm sniffing Just remember whatever you smell it's your upper lip No, that was right. Ah, yeah, there it is. There it is not Salos scorched.  Let me stop reading and and and go Google the word Salo It doesn't that mean flesh doesn't that mean this that or the other doesn't that mean jaundice so on and so forth, but scorched scorched Punchy punch punch it punch it. We're already at a hundred and sixty-six words We're almost 20% done already. How about them apples? Of course, all this is counted, but that's like what is what is that? Like 20 words now that that don't count that don't count, but anyways, we're gonna continue on that Repetition of as is killing me though Crowded rooms barren nests. Ah, hold up. Hold up Crowded rooms barren as scorched fields.    Do you hate me?  Did you do you hate me got to thank Jimmy Brown, you know for the lay? No, I use that in the first story There's the other one. Why isn't my word count updating? Oh Okay, why aren't you? Hang on There we go it update for some I don't know what happened, but my word count wasn't updating and we're already halfway through I'm burning right through this.  Oh, yeah boy feeling himself and not in that awkward way.  I'm done.  They're here for you yet. You feel alone all the time crowded rooms lay barren as scorched fields Even brushing your teeth is painful the way you bear yellow crooked tombstones The way your smile reminds people of disease pestilence the impermanence of their own bodies How none of this lasts It all falls out eventually so why bother?  Did I did I math wrong? Hang on there's three nine brushes nine brushes so three unused Four for the family and then two that may be used. Okay. All right. I got it right And you look back at the three brand new brushes sitting awkwardly next to their four well worn well used companions compatriots Uh, it's obvious now that you're not fooling anyone that you're obviously Nah That you're not cut out for self-care self-love just because you think they're blind doesn't mean they can't see What doing daddy? Your heart can't stand it. You dip down hands under arms up up and away Their giggle fills you with joy purpose reality The hungry demon in your head silences if only for this brief moment You pour cereal then milk because good parents know that the opposite order of operations will not be welcomed with understanding You've been eating the same eggs and toast for four years, but the kid gets a brand new brand gets a new brand Brand new flavor every week You go through so much milk But listening to them slurp it up Until they see the cartoon dog at the bottom of the bowl and giggle uncontrollably And it's all worth it the long hours the bitchy co-workers the daily grind that has grounds your foundation to crumbling rocks and pluming dust The understanding that given enough time even something as simple as water can reduce mountains to canyons A flash flood of emotion redirected into how good your own breakfast tastes You like daddy says the child you nod smile anything to keep the dam from breaking Mommy said mommy said that that that trucks can be danger Uh danger for us Dangerous you correct because that's your job just like the truck the truck is your job too And now the child knows that one day you might not come home to them Do you tell the truth? Do you bolster your partner's words? Do you stand firm with honesty or do you betray them with fiction? Don't worry about daddy. It's daddy's job to worry about you. Why far? asked the child Because that's what parents do you done with your milk? Is it daddy's job to worry about milk? You nod because I like yeah Because yeah, that's something you worry about probably too much Because you because you know that soon enough it won't be about milk It'll be about school clothes and daily laundry and homework and after school events and talent shows and show and tells and graduation And suddenly there's nothing more important than those things Not whatever horrors present themselves nightly behind your eyelids and high definition the weather twos and the y4s Where did you hear that some fantasy movie? You and your partner's first date the hobbits and the elves the race and the unkillable omni I dyslexia kicked my ass on that one The race and the unkillable omnipresent eye of flame watching your every move But instead of dropping the ring into the molten rock below you slid it gently over their finger The enemy lives on There will be other chances other tomorrows new chances to destroy the villain today However, it's not that day and as long as those eyes look upon you with love and acceptance and above all trust You'll keep it secret keep it safe Because that's the game you didn't ask to play and neither did they but you're here and the enemy is asleep for now You can't win the game, but you play anyways But you play anyway because it's not about the unused truth brushes It's about the cartoon dog hiding under the milk Is that better it's about the cartoon dog hiding under milk or the milk What do y'all think milk or the milk What what do you mean pejo because they don't believe you? or because they Because then you don't believe The game's easier to play with co-op mode. I don't even know what you're talking about now jimmy anyways That was fire I loved every minute of it.  Let's go feed the folks on patreon Scooby-dooby-doo i'm creating All right, so this week is done If I do stream again First page I think should be because then all right hang on hang on hang on first page Which which paragraph? The game of life. Yeah, uh Pedro tell me which one so this one would be the first one Or hang on let me just Because oh, okay, hang on That just needs to go away because you don't believe they can handle the truth. Ah, see see even reading aloud I edited I edited it in my head. That's why you need to take a step back. Thank you for catching that Pedro. Good job.  I need to get the link to the video content live Get shareable link Next paid members published now All right, there we go We are done That is Uh two weeks happy to help yet. I appreciate you so we'll next be we'll next Week be the continuous road trip trip loop story nailed it.  I got to get done. Um, so yeah Uh I will try my damnedest to do monday tuesday and wednesday next week We'll see how that goes. I don't know how that's gonna go But uh, we will try it. Um, if nothing else, we will finish it up because the fourth story is kind of short too But it's definitely going to be longer than a thousand words Sometimes we're going I've already accepted this and uh, just to let you guys know I've already accepted the fact that some weeks are going to go over And that's okay, but then I'll follow it up with another short Another either piece of flash fiction or a shorter story under 3 000 words. So yeah I am really really happy with this one. I don't think it's going to change much if anything at all It might already be done. I don't know Uh, let me see how many words are here without the uh, because I did some I did some editing 975 words so I can add About 25 words with no problem amazing Amazing here we go. We're back Stop sharing so All right, so we managed an entire story done, uh with a very cool message in About an hour less than an hour but about an hour roughly because it only took me about I don't know probably about 40 minutes to write that story All in all But yeah, you guys have any questions or anything before I go ahead and go I am taking the rest of the day off And then tomorrow I'm taking all day off. So don't expect me here I will see you guys next monday. So if there's anything you want to say say it now forever hold your piece Or hold your piece until monday so on and so forth But uh, it'll be interesting to see how this today's story ties into the broader story Uh, but uh, I already know how it's going to to work But I want to see your guys reaction to that it's going to be fun Uh to see, you know who this character is what what this character means to the to the story If we see this character again, if you're if you're able to find This character again in the narrative, uh with the other Yeah, I was expecting a plot twist for it to be that Doug who wrote it We're we're gonna we're we're gonna get it. Yeah, we're gonna get there. Don't worry about it um Spoiler alert if you don't want any spoilers that says just you click away now The final story in the collection story number 52 Is going to be about Doug Um, so that'll all that will come come around and you'll see how Doug has affected all these different people's lives Some will be supernatural. Some won't be supernatural. Some will be in the future Some will be in the past some will be in the present present all that stuff. So Um curious, how do you know the story is going to be long or not just by experience? That's that's exactly it you hit the nail right on the head Um, I know how long it's going to take to convey a certain message And if there are multiple messages, it's going to take so long to convey this that or the other. Um I do not force a story to be a certain length I force I don't really force much at all, but um, I Anything can be reduced to under a thousand words Will it have the same punch and emotion? Probably not but you can get very very close Like you could do kings it in a thousand words. It wouldn't be anywhere near as poignant But you could tell that story in a thousand words. You just have to condense everything Um, so yeah, you can condense something that's four in a thousand words down into us, you know to a thousand words Um, it's basically just an overview or you would take the most impactful section And you would take that and you would turn that into the story It's good to see them week by week keeps us guessing more Yeah, and because I'm doing it semi out of order like uh week two is actually the third story Because I'm doing it out of order. It's going to be harder to tell how these things affect each other But I'm gonna tell you right now the only the only real connection in the next story is the fact that they're going to see the car on the loop that's it and The the first story linda is going to change quite a bit. It's going to expand Probably at the most to about ten thousand words because I want to go back and I want to do some other things I also want to add a section where it starts off fine Where they're going and dropping off food and whatever and then all of a sudden it takes a turn um, but I also want the Those little slices of life for him dropping it off. I need that to be important to the story So we're not just meandering around because the difference between a short narrative and a long narrative Is slice of life and downtime and that that kind of thing that the space between the action With a short story you want to stay action action action action action Or purpose theme whatever you want to stay on that line you want to stay on that trip So that you know the the reader wants to keep on reading, but this story today Is all about the beat and the rhythm there's not much going on But there's plenty of emotion. There's plenty. There's a good beat to dance to so on and so forth. Um But yeah, so uh next week next monday, we'll be starting loop or the loop. I'm not sure what I'm going to call it Um, I'll probably end up calling it something different We'll see what comes of the story because there's also that the novel the loop um that everybody's been telling me to read uh, and Yeah, I I haven't I haven't gotten into it, but I don't want it to be associated with that whatsoever I don't have any idea what that book is about, but yeah, I don't I don't want it To you know, even accidentally be anything alike Uh, so I'll probably just change the title because I don't want other people I don't want people thinking of other stories while they're reading this story so And I think that one is pretty uh Pretty popular Uh, it did really well anyways. Hang on. I'm looking at patreon real quick Okay All right, so if you guys don't have anything else, I guess that is it for today. I'm going to go rest and relax I have to take dan to work At 245 they have to be there by 315 So and I'm looking forward to rocking out on the way there Uh, if you're wondering what that's about watch the beginning of the stream Anyways, thank you guys for joining me. Uh, it was a lot of fun today Even though the story was rather, you know depressing, uh, hopefully it ended in a on a positive note. Uh, but anyways, uh There was something else I wanted to say and I'm trying to remember it, but it is slipping my mind So I'll just say goodbye Pedro and jimmy. Thanks for being here. Thanks for interacting But until next time I have been me I have an e take take care jimmy. Uh, take care Pedro I have been you have been you this has been another episode of 52 and 52 I'll see you guys on Monday, but until then enjoy your spaghetti dreams. Bye. Bye


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You know, the training staff, the weight staff, everybody involved, the player. You know, those particular players worked extremely hard. I think it's beneficial.  And I think that that's been really good for us to take advantage of that stuff. And I think it helps the player to be able to see, hey, here's where you were in the game. This is what you're running in the game. And then, you know, we can track that and monitor that and show them, you know, as they get closer so that, you know, one, we're all on the same page and they, you know, two have a lot of confidence to come back. You've urged us several times to tweet NFL-officiating. I did. I couldn't get a hold of you last night, so I went ahead and did it. What prompted that and what did you think of that play?  And I felt like, you know, it was a good opportunity to, you know, to remind everybody the rules for the process of a catch.  That's on my home screen, the rulebook. So I took a screenshot, figured out how to tweet it out so everybody that followed could understand what the process of a catch was. And what it isn't. Part of the issue there, maybe the time amount, there's nothing in the rule that mentions how long it has to last. Again, I just think that that was, you know, my opportunity to talk about the process, the catch, no different than, you know, trying to identify instances across the league to show our players whether that's surviving the ground, you know, not having the ability to take that third step or make a football movement.   And, you know, have to have clear recovery. So there's a lot of things that go into it. It's an extremely fast game.  Anthony, you know, the whistle hadn't blown.  You know, he recovered it. But then again, the play continued to go. I don't know why, but then somebody knocked it out of his hands, Taylor picked him. He had two fumbles on the play and lost, you know, four or five yards, whatever it was.  You had to scale back maybe how much speed you could practice with in recent weeks. You're hoping you can kind of get back to more of that? I think so. I think it's going to be real, real critical that we focus on our fundamentals, our conditioning, you know, practicing with some speed as we, you know, head in here to December, all those things that make a difference in football games, taking care of the football, trying to try to disrupt it, you know, going back to the double periods, Luke, at the beginning and then, you know, halfway through to try to see if we can find a way to turn it over and go find those opportunities and then take care of it. Mike, is it you who evaluate Ryan over the course of this season? How significant is it to you that he obviously hasn't had his top skill guys? It's a complete thing. Gentry it is, it's a whole package. You know, but we all have a job, whether it's mine or it's the coordinators, the position coaches, to get guys ready to play, to find ways to win football games and as the quarterback that, you know, that has to be the same thing and understanding who's out there, understanding what we're trying to get down with the play, taking care of the football, but then, you know, everybody else has a job to do as well as far as protection and making sure that we're firm in the middle of the pocket, that we're staying inside out on the edges, that we're winning, that we're identifying. So the time for evaluation is not now, but it's the time for teaching and trying to improve as we work our way here into December is probably what the most important thing is. Earlier in the year, you had mentioned Anthony Berger, the guy that you wanted to feature in the red zone. Obviously that isn't happening as much. So what's going on there? How can you guys get him better involved? Well, I don't, you know, necessarily know that it's featuring any one person. It's about being efficient, scoring touchdowns when we're down there. You know, whether we run it in, whether we throw it, that we have to, you know, continue to focus on fighting through the fringe and finishing drives with points. And if Anthony's down there and he's open, I'm confident that Ryan will throw him the ball, just like if anybody else is open or whoever we hand it off to. You know, that's the most important thing. It's not about one guy trying to feature, you know, somebody and split him out and throw fades to a tight end. I don't know if that's gonna be in the game plan this week, but it's about being efficient and scoring and fighting through that fringe area where we haven't been very good. Why hasn't he been open down there? Well, whether he, I don't know if he hasn't been open. He hasn't been in a game. There's some times there's different personnel packages and, you know, again, his main role right now is third down and special teams. So, you know, there's a lot of reasons, you know, whether he's in the game or he's not in the game, guys are open. You know what I mean? The space is limited, space is limited down in the red zone for everybody.  Not a full evaluation you'll do at the end of the year, but were you able to do kind of a self scout last week, given the bodies that have been in and out the last few weeks and how much can that help you over the final month? Well, I think we're always, you know, trying to do that, you know, whether that's a bi-week or an opportunity during the regular season after the game to try to figure out, you know, what it is that we're doing well, what it is that we have some confidence in, things that we need to improve and making sure, again, this is a focus on fundamentals, this focus on conditioning, you know, not letting, you know, our conditioning be a factor down the stretch here now that it's December, focusing on trying to eliminate bad football, that would be a huge key in our success here down the stretch. Mike, do you know that what you've got from Hilliard and Foreman against New England is something that you can build on going forward to kind of make the running game the most stable part of the offense, like it was with Derrick? Oh, I think we have to, you know, to continue down that path, I thought there were some really good efforts. I thought there were some plays that were well blocked and, you know, we can't fumble, you know, we can't, you know, everybody that we handed the ball off to fumble than that game.  Mike, speaking about... Derrick, how is he doing at this point? Do you feel good about where he is just in this one down the stretch? He won't be out there this week, Ben. That's all I can tell you, but I think he's doing okay. You hit the practice field, but you feel like the ball week in some time did some guys some good as far as taking a breath in a little bit? I think so. You know, I think so.  As you get more guys back, can you naturally do more? Do more in a sense of hopefully like playing better or more what? Open things up, it makes more things available to you game plan wise, play call wise. I mean, I don't think, you know, I think that the, I think we have plenty of plays.  Any critiques you can send a stretch, but I don't think it's an issue about not having enough plays. I think the execution is critical and if we find some things that we feel like that we can add, that can help us and that it looks like the players understand the details of it and the concepts and that they can execute it with some speed and some confidence and then I'm all for it. Deep a lot, for example, if you get a faster receiver back, does that give you more opportunities?  I think just their ability to be efficient.   Yeah, I mean, everybody would like to throw it down the field 50 yards and have them catch it, but we, you know, we are improved in some other areas and I think that that's, you know, our ability to throw the ball down field is gonna be one where, you know, we hope we can improve. Our team's doing things differently against some of the games and stunts that you guys play up front, or is there like something you guys could do to make that as effective as it was a few weeks ago? Well, we're number one in the league in third and seven to 10. So, and we're 24th in the league in third and three to six. So there's your self scout and we need to get them in third and seven to 10 so that you have some time to execute those, you know, third and three.  You know, I wouldn't say that we've seen anything other, you know, the Houston game, there weren't a lot of whole opportunities. And again, when we did have pressure, you know, we saw the quarterback run. How important is Bud to free? I'm sorry? How important Bud to free two of those stunts and twists? Well, everybody's important. Everybody's important. You know, those are about guys working together, you know, whether that's on the defensive front, you know, a guy working with somebody else, a guy doing their job to help somebody else maybe get free or to get themselves free. It's also about, you know, the combination blocks on offense, making sure that when we're trying to block them, you know, because everybody's running the same stuff that you're staying firm, staying tight, you're not getting a whole lot of separation between each other so that you can get picked. Julio for a second. How hopeful are you that by shutting him down and maybe getting him back now that he's, we'll be able to break the cycle of play a couple of weeks and have a setback? We're just focused on today. And we're focused on today and seeing how he responds. You made a point last week to talk about the importance of the bi-week for the guys mentally and away from it. Do you sense that they came back today in a good mental spot? And how well have they kind of kept an even peel from six wins or two losses to now down the stretch?  I mean, it's nope, that's not why we come to work. We come to work to prepare to win. You know, we understand the ups and downs of this league, the grind of it. You know, I didn't think that we were broken by any means. I thought we were a little bent. I thought we were a little beat up, knicked up, but not broken. There's too many good things that happened in those two losses to think that somehow we're broken and we just have to do some things better, do them more consistently and eliminate some of the stuff that unfortunately we've all witnessed get you beat. Haven't even talked one bit about that. My message today had nothing to do with our record, anybody else's record, the standings or playoffs. It had everything to do with, you know, getting back to the basics and the fundamentals and just really working some technique and bringing guys back together, all the little things, getting in and out of the huddle, communicating, just getting out there and practicing. Why is that the important tone for you to set as opposed to the other stuff? Because I don't think any of the other stuff really matters. I don't think that that matters what other teams are doing other than us and then focusing on the Jaguars and focusing on our ability to try to improve, keep doing the little things, keep taking care of the details, making sure our guys are teaching, making sure our players are engaged in meetings, asking a bunch of questions, making sure that guys are able to spit it out confidently and hopefully correctly. And if they don't know, you know, being able to teach them. Did Golden take a stick around during the break to kind of get more acclimated into the offense?  And, you know, he's been a great pro. He's been engaged and locked in in every meeting that I've had and I've enjoyed, you know, getting to know him, getting to work with him and watching him. Thanks guys.


Acupuncture for me was not love at first sight. In fact, I'll share a guilty confession with you here that it took me two years to actually start liking acupuncture. I'm a super sensitive person. For the practitioner I was going to, it actually hurt a lot for me for just the second before I was let to sit. So it was not love at first sight, but the results to me were undeniable. Now in this video, I want to share a little bit about my history and my experience with acupuncture, especially the first time I got it. Hey, I'm Alex Hyan, current doctoral student in traditional or classical Chinese medicine, author of the book Master the Day. Now I've also included this free e-course. It's the first link in the description box. It's how to add 10 years to life with traditional or classical Chinese medicine. So that's the beginner's guide to five practices I would recommend you study. It's the first link there in the description. Check it out and we'll get back to the video now. So the first time I went, it was actually because I, since I was a kid, I had a long term history of constipation. It's genetic problems related to digestion run on my mom's side. And so I had this kind of trifecta of asthma allergies minus the eczema. And there's asthma allergies and eczema all over my family, right, my maternal line. But in particular, the thing that really bothered me daily was despite eating an incredibly healthy diet, I was always prone to constipation as a kid. Now for me, for someone that ate so well and exercised, I was really annoyed that this was happening. I didn't understand why that would happen when I saw people eating the crappiest foods imaginable, not exercising, and having no problem pooping every day. And I'm here like, I'm doing it all right.  God, like, what's going on? So in any case, we actually went to a naturopath first. And the naturopath just used three acupuncture needles, but I was younger and definitely more afraid and more anxious. And so I was not interested in getting acupuncture, not interested in needles, not interested in like, like, is this really going to work? I mean, you're sticking something that's like a hair thin into me. How's that going to make me poop, right? Like, is anyone else thinking this witchcraft, some voodoo stuff? Now, what's interesting is that when I had it, the first time I had it, I didn't notice much sensation at all. You know, I didn't, she put the needle in, I didn't really notice much. I just kind of hung out and relaxed. I also did not really notice an effect after. And I find that in my experience, this is unfortunately more often the case than not. That a person sees someone that's like a PT or a naturopath for acupuncture, and they're not necessarily as well trained for what they're looking for in terms of sensation. So I didn't notice anything as far as results, nothing as far as discomfort or anything really shifting at all. The next time I got acupuncture, it was by someone who was only trained in Chinese medicine, had a long history of seeing hundreds of patients a week. So I knew that he was legit. And this time, number one, it was very intense, but I had a few interesting sensations happen. The first time, number one, I was nervous, obviously. And I noticed that when you put the needle in, sometimes I would get the sensation going down my body or going up my body, which I thought was interesting. When he came back into the room, he said to me, yeah, like you're describing where the large intestine channel goes or lung channel goes, which I thought was kind of crazy. I also noticed that after about 10 to 15 minutes, I felt a deep sense of calm, like the level of calm you feel before you're about to nod off for a nap, where you're like, you know, it's the afternoon, maybe you're on vacation, you're laying down, maybe a tropical area, and you're just like, you're just no worries.  So that time I actually did fall asleep. And for someone who really almost cannot physically nap his whole life, that was pretty amazing for me. So I had all these crazy dreams. I had a really restorative sleep. And when I woke back up, I thought it was so interesting because I started getting the sensation of laughter.  And you just try so hard. And then eventually I just busted out laughing. And it was like this huge weird emotional release. And after that, I felt so calm. So my first experience, nothing happened. It also wasn't uncomfortable. The second one, there was a little bit more discomfort with needles, at least when they went in. And after that, it was fine. But the deep sense of calm to the point where I fell asleep, I started laughing uncontrollably, and it was like I was reborn. So your results, your mileage may vary with acupuncture. And it's more about, it's not about going to see someone who does acupuncture. It's more about finding the right person. This is really big in my profession where there's, for lack of a better word, this quality control issues. So my advice here to you is if you didn't notice any effect, go see someone else. And go see someone else on a personal recommendation. But that is a bit about my own experience with acupuncture. Again, it was not love at first sight, and I'm super sensitive to it. I was afraid of it. It took me a couple of years to get used to it. But now it's something I really crave, and I noticed that there's nothing on earth that can have that effect that I've seen. Not popping a painkiller can do that. Not a drug can't do that. Not massage, not sleep can't do what acupuncture does. So to me, this has been a very rewarding experience, both being a patient and now the practitioner. So I hope that helps you guys. And before you go, I've included that free print off. It's like a little infographic, five daily practices to help you add 10 years to your life with traditional or classical Chinese medicine. You can download it there. It's the very first link, and I will catch you in the next video.


Live from Barcelona, Spain, it's theCUBE! Covering Cisco Live Europe. Brought to you by Cisco and its ecosystem partners. Hello everyone, welcome back to theCUBE coverage here in Barcelona, Spain of Cisco Live Europe 2019. I'm John Furrier, Stu Miniman here in the DevNet Lounge, been here all week. Three days of coverage, we're on day three. Our next guest is Mandy Whaley, who's the senior director of developer experience for Cisco DevNet, CUBE alumni. Great to see you, thanks for coming on. Thanks so much, glad to be here. So what a success, we've interviewed many times. DevNet is now chipped over to the point where over a half a million developers in the Cisco ecosystem here, using APIs and cloud native tools up their game. Big time, congratulations. Thank you, thank you very much. It's been a very exciting progression since the beginning of DevNet, which was around four and a half years ago. So it's been great to see the community grow and learn and progress along that way. Well, I just want to say while we're on camera how proud I am of you guys, because being there and watching you guys use all your resources and grow this organization to the point where the influence in Cisco has been so massive, you're on the right side of history. All products are now having APIs, Susie, we said. So this is now not just a corner group within Cisco, this is now part of the machinery. It is, it is. And it's really, you know, we are having APIs across the whole portfolio and up and down the stack. So from the device level up to the controller level, you know, up to the orchestration level. So that's really exciting to see that. And over those years with the progression of DevNet, we've just become more connected into, we're part of our engineering organization, which I think is a great place for a developer group to be because you have that strong connection to the engineering groups. So just becoming, you know, just having more and more parts of that portfolio connected in with the developer piece has been really exciting. The other thing that I think has been great about the growth of the community, and what I always notice when we're at Cisco Live is that the developer advocates that we have, which are part of my team, they, it's the people that matter so much. You know, they are really there trying to help people learn, help them move to the next step. And they really care about the community. So much of the community cares about them. And so when we all get together in a event like this, it's fantastic to be able to see that. And people are going through the journey, have been there for multiple years now. Yes. And new people are coming in at an accelerated rate, the flywheel's going. That's right, yeah. So my first day at Cisco, I taught the first coding for Network Engineers class that we offered at Cisco Live many years ago. And what's great is that I've seen some of the people who were in that first class, you know, and they're back here today and now they're doing Kubernetes and SCO and really advanced stuff. And they've really taken that basics that they got and just ran with it and added more skills, which is great to see. But then we're also seeing just as many new people coming in and that kind of snowball effect of the community skilling up and helping each other and kind of pushing the boundaries. Yeah, Mandy, we've always seen education has always been a strong foundational piece of Cisco Live. I remember back, first time I came to Cisco Live over a decade ago and people were getting their CCIE certification. Gives a little bit the breadth and depth because it's my fourth time in the DevNet zone. It's always expanding. As you said, Kubernetes and Istio and Java were overflowing sessions here. Absolutely, so the way that we structure the learning in the DevNet zone, we have a big focus on hands-on. Like so we have small group workshops where people are coding during the workshop and those are many times just completely overflowing. People standing around, soaking it up, sitting on the floor coding. You know, it's been great to see that. But the main things that we have, we have the workshops and then we have bigger classroom sections which cover concepts or even things like culture change like Dev and network and ops working together, right? Like kind of extending on those topics. And then we have a lot of demos going on around the zone too. We've got a couple of new things this year. One of those is our start now zone. And this is a new zone within the zone that we created this time. And it was for the people who said, I'm really new, I haven't programmed in a while. I'm not sure if a full-on developer workshop is right for me, I want a place to start. So we call it start now. And what's going on in that zone is all day, every day, the intro to coding, intro to REST APIs, workshops running back to back. And every single one of those sessions has been booked full and wait listed full for the whole week. So that's been great to see that many people getting started. And then we also have something really new in that zone, which is one-to-one mentoring. So we wanted to get people a chance to come in and say, I work in data center networking. I don't know where to start. Like, help me point me in the way and get me started. So we have people from our advocacy team. They're people from the wider DevNet team. People from all across Cisco. They're as mentors helping them get started with like, this is a great API for you to start with. These are kind of the basic skills you want to dive into. And just having those conversations, a lot of times gives people the push to kind of jump into these new topics. What are some of the highlights in the DevNet zones? Great demos, the workshops, the classrooms, other key, but there's also other demos. Yeah, there's one demo that's been really popular. And it's actually an augmented reality demo. And it uses our DNA center. So our DNA center networking APIs. And what it does is you can like, scan a wireless access point and it will recognize it. And then using the APIs, bring up all of the information about that access point. You can also like, directionally find where is the nearest access point to me? Like if you're an engineer who maybe needs to fix something. And then the other thing that's cool is you can turn it on and in an augmented reality way, see the signal strings like overlaid over the space that you're in. So you can troubleshoot and find issues. And our goal with building that demo was, when you think about networking APIs, typically you think about maybe dashboards, automations, which are fantastic and do a lot for you. But we also like to push the boundaries on like the kinds of apps that people could think about building. And that augmented reality one is a great one to show that. What are the popular sessions? What have we seen some overflow? What's getting traction? What's the key booked sessions? So we've had two big launches at Cisco Live overall this week around IoT and also the new ACI, Data Center Networking ACI Anywhere announcements. So the sessions related to those have of course been very popular with people jumping in. The Kubernetes, the Istio sessions have been very popular. DNA Center, a lot of people like skilling up on those APIs. And then a lot of the things that are getting started with Python, learning about different libraries that are relevant to the network automation world. All of those have been really popular as well. Some of the feedback I've gotten from the community is of course there's the great stuff here, but it's what you do year round. So the labs are available all the time. Yeah. I know there's more events and just ongoing learning. Maybe you can share a little bit beyond that. Yeah, so we spend a lot of time trying to connect this experience to the online because not everyone is here, right? In fact, most of the people aren't. They're all in the world. And so all the workshops that are taught here, there's a learning lab, a DevNet learning lab that you can do the same material available online. And then we have our DevNet sandbox, which is hosted labs. If you don't have a spare network laying around or you don't have a Kubernetes cluster to work against, you can just instantly reserve them. And a lot of times they are configured in ways that help you do to certain use cases. And then we have a new thing that was just launched kind of prior to getting here, which is actually called our learning paths, which give a really curated experience around four enterprise networking program to really do these eight things. So it's real specific. So that's an exciting thing. The other new thing is code exchange. Have you guys heard about code exchange? Yeah, I've heard a good buzz about this. But explain that. So we wanted to make it really easy for our developers to find code to start from. So you're not starting from scratch, right? So maybe you want to find something for ACI written in Python.  You can go in, you can search, you can filter by technology and language. And then you get back a curated list of GitHub repos, of projects that people have published on GitHub. So it just helps people discover the things that the community is working on and people can share their code there as well. And then it'll be featured in that way. So this has been really great, especially for maybe people new to programming. They don't want to start from a blank page. I don't know that anyone likes starting from a blank page, but it's great. They can find projects, modify them, and start to, you know, we're starting to build out use cases there as well. That's faster learning. Yeah, exactly. Mandy got to ask you, one of the things that has been impressive is you guys saw the future early with APIs. I mean, anyone in the cloud business kind of saw that. But you brought it into Cisco, DevNet. DevNet became that core community that's now programmable with the network. It's still the cloud native, and you have DevNet Create another event, another kind of concept, bringing cloud native and networking together. Kind of an experiment a few years ago, the cube was there covering it. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah. That's evolving. Can you share the progress of DevNet Create? Yeah, absolutely. So DevNet Create is a smaller, much, much smaller conference in Cisco Live, and it's solely focused on our developer community. And it is where we really try to connect in with cloud native. We connect in with a lot of ISVs who may be building cool applications with Cisco partners of all types. It's also very community driven. We try to have about 80% of the content, 80 to 90% of the content be from the community that comes in through their call for papers and is presented there. And so it's a very fun, very conversation, connect people from different parts of the industry together and get them thinking about what's possible with, we call it, where apps meet infrastructure. So that includes things like IoT, new kinds of interactions like voice and location and things like that. So it's coming up, it's in April. It's in Mountain View and we're really excited. We're heavy into the planning for that right now. April 24th, I believe. I love how you bring the two worlds together because there's more learning shared experiences but also that's what's happening with Cisco in the world. It's coming together. So you guys are out front on that. Look forward to seeing that. Okay, final question for you. I put you on the spot here. Oh no. What's it like for you personally because we've had conversations in the past on theCUBE and also in person around the commitment that the DevNet team has, the vision that they saw now that's becoming real. How do you feel and what are some of the learnings that you've had looking back a few years to now? That's great. I feel really proud of our team is one thing that's really there is as a leader within DevNet is great to see that the commitment that the team puts in has the results that we're seeing and to see them be proud of it is great and I'm proud of our community as well because they're excited and it's energizing. It's great to see that coming together and know that some of the beginnings when there was a lot of like, maybe not everyone understands what we're trying to do and like there's where, what is the reason for Cisco diving into developer and all those kinds of questions that we're seeing that all come to fruition is pretty exciting. Dave Vellante asked Susie, we about the success of the program and others have tried, you guys have been successful. So I'll ask the question, what does it take to be successful to stand up and or transform a preexisting community with modern, cool tools without kind of burning down the old to bring in the new? How do you rise that up? What's the strategy? What's been successful? What's the formula? I don't know if there's any formula. We always say that it was interesting because starting a developer program for Cisco was this really hardware-focused company moving towards software. There was no playbook for how to do developers for this. That was actually one of the reasons I came to Cisco. It was really exciting. What we have done a lot is listen to the community and ask the community what they are seeing and how we can help, as well as asking that question internally at Cisco. Manny, thanks for coming on theCUBE. I know you're busy, great job, great success. We can certainly testify that your team's working hard and the team is cranking out great material. We're in the DevNet zone. They're also parting hard, John. Yeah, they play hard. See, we don't say party. It's not politically correct. Thank you so much for your support. Great to cover you guys. Great content, great people, smart people on theCUBE. That's our formula. We love working with you. Thanks for coming. More live coverage here in the DevNet zone after this short break. Stay with us.


If you want to be a company that makes a difference, you just have to be giving back. It's not good enough to just sell products. I was thinking about what that cause should be. Sitesavers essentially exist to end avoidable blindness. There are still hundreds of millions of people that lose their sight because they don't have access to eye care. We partnered with them and with every subscription we fund a cataract treatment. For every pair of drops we sell, we fund a trachoma treatment and for every pair of frames we give a pair of prescription frames. For every one of all those products we give a sight restoring treatment.


Motorcycle crashes can be quite horrific, there's no hiding that. It can be really upsetting knowing that when you are looking at somebody you know that the kind of injuries that they get from these kind of crashes will change their lives. Those things do flash through your mind as you're seeing paramedics and medical experts working on people like that and we don't want that for anybody. We want everybody to get home safely. We want people to just make wise decisions on our road no matter what kind of vehicle you're in or what you're riding or driving. Just think about the rest of your life because one small mistake can really change things forever. Motorbike accident victims can be significantly injured and their journey can be really prolong through the hospital system. The injuries that we might see can be really varied but something that's really low speed can still cause significant injuries. We're very aware that we're just the first link in a really long chain of treatment for this patient and it is quite heartbreaking that this once fit person now has such a journey in front of them. When a motorcycle crash victim arrives at the emergency department they're generally bought straight into the resus area where we have a specialist team that will assess them straight away. We hook them up to our monitoring make sure that all their observations are okay giving them that reassurance once they are in a stable position is very important for them. Motorbike riders are obviously very vulnerable on the road and when they come off their injuries can be extreme. I think also dealing with the families as well the support that we give them is vital in that situation. The big traumatic injuries that we see that are often more likely with motorcycle riders are traumatic brain injuries and traumatic spinal cord injuries. They're injuries that certainly have life lasting effects and are quite profound in the amount of disability they cause. Being on a motorbike a lot of riders also will have significant fractures which may confine them to bed or a wheelchair for a prolonged period and they're also more likely to have more internal organ injuries as well. It can be many months before they're even ready to commence a trauma rehabilitation program and then the recovery and the rehabilitation from those significant injuries we measure that in months to years. I guess the impact of this is going to be profound not just on that person but also on their entire family.


Hey everyone, welcome back. It's Veronica Howard. So this time around we're going to talk about differential reinforcement. Differential reinforcement is one of those really foundational principles of behavior and when we're talking about changing the rates of behavior, especially changing the rates of behavior relative to one another, when we're looking at two different responses and trying to maybe increase one or decrease one with respect to the level of the other, typically we're talking about differential reinforcement. So let's talk about some of the very basic vocabulary here. This is just an introduction. When we talk about differential reinforcement we mean it's a procedure involving two or more physically different behaviors. One of those behaviors will be reinforced, the other is going to be extinguished. Now this is Miller's definition, the other behavior is extinguished, but I want you to bear in mind that when we talk about differential reinforcement we could be looking at a combination of reinforcement and extinction, or we could be looking at a combination of reinforcement and another behavior deceleration technique like punishment. What matters is that one behavior is going to be reinforced and another behavior is in some way going to be decreased through extinction or through punishment. That's differential reinforcement. When we're looking at examples of different behaviors what I want you to bear in mind is that when we mean different they can be different in very subtle ways. We mean that you're going to have different muscles involved. It can be very, very simple, very small distinctions. Examples that Miller talks about could be maybe using the same muscles faster or slower. So if I'm trying to teach a person to speak for instance, if I'm trying to teach a person how to have a conversation with other people and they're talking like this in their conversation and I want them to talk a little faster because I'm from the east coast and we talk really fast in the east coast. If I'm trying to increase the speed of their behavior then I'm probably looking at using all the same muscles and apertures of speaking but at different paces, different rates. If I'm trying to get a person maybe to live 20 pounds rather than 15 pounds, same muscles, different strengths, different requirements. It can be also small in terms of subtle differences and where are you moving your body? Where are those muscles going? Am I maybe moving my arm over here versus over there? Using muscles in slightly different ways can be an example of this and this is something that coaches, like physical sport coaches often do and it can be things like pronouncing things in a slightly different way. I'm going to post a link to some optional materials about looking at different accents. This is one of my favorite things to look at. Looking at different ways that people pronounce things is an example of differential reinforcement because it's again, it's all the same muscles and all the same aperture of your mouth and how you produce sound but those subtle differences are just pronouncing them in slightly different ways, maybe moving the tongue to one side or another. This is differential reinforcement. Other things that we would not consider differential reinforcement will come back to.  This can be not reinforcing in terms of extinction. This could be placing it on a punishment schedule. Are you decreasing another response? But always be looking carefully. Make sure that you don't have a situation where you're talking about behavior in different places, different contexts or different times with different people because context differences, teaching you to raise your hand in one class but not raise your hand in another class, that's a different procedure. Teaching people to do stuff in the presence of one person and not another person is the same behavior. It's just different contexts and that's a different procedure we're going to learn later in the course. That distinction is important because the way you go about teaching them are different. Let's look at some examples. If you see a scenario where one behavior, this is indicated on screen with the behavior superscript one or B1, one behavior is contacting reinforcement and the rate of that behavior increases. The other behavior is contacting no reinforcement. The rate of that behavior decreases relative to the other. Is this differential reinforcement? I would say yes. This is an example. This is a perfect textbook Miller example of differential reinforcement. Let's do one that's maybe a little harder. If you've got one behavior contacting reinforcement and that behavior increases but behavior two contacts no reinforcement and remains unchanged, is this differential reinforcement? I would actually say yes. This is differential reinforcement as well because what we're looking for is a relative increase of one behavior compared to another. That can be reinforcing one behavior seeing that increase but this remains unchanged. It can be this behavior continues to be reinforced but the other decreases in the rate of reinforcement so that rate decreases. Differential reinforcement can look like a lot of different things. Let's move on. Looking at another example, like I said, behavior one is contacting reinforcement but we see that that behavior remains unchanged in its rate but behavior two is no longer reinforced and we see a decrease in the rate of responding. Is this differential reinforcement? Again, I say yes because one behavior is increasing relative to another or one behavior is maintaining while another decreases. Again, we're just looking at relative changes in the rate of response to the other behavior as a result of differential reinforcement. That is a little confusing so go back and watch that again if you're having any difficulty. What we're looking for is when a behavior is reinforced, do we see an increase relative to another or when a behavior is decreased, do we see that drop in rate relative to another that maintains? All of these can be differential reinforcement. Like I said, we also have another procedure that's not differential reinforcement. We're going to learn it in Unit 3 where we look at behaviors happening in different places, different contexts, different times with different people, different locations. For example, maybe I reinforce an employee for clocking in at 7.55 but don't reinforce them for clocking in at 8.10. This is not differential reinforcement because the behavior of clocking in whether that's with a touch pad or using the old punch card system, these are not different behaviors. They're just occurring at different times, different contexts. We haven't learned this yet. We're going to come back to that Unit 3. This has just been a very brief introduction to differential reinforcement. I really encourage you to check out some of the other videos that we're going to talk about in this unit, especially matching law, other examples of differential reinforcement. Let me know if you guys have any questions.


Hi you guys! My name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel! You guys, in today's video, I'm going to share with you all of the read-alouds that I picked for our school year for our 2022-2023 school year, so go ahead and stay tuned for today's video. So you guys, I'm so excited to share with you all the read-alouds that I picked out for our school year. I made a video talking about our homeschooling resources and I told you guys if I happen to change our read-alouds, I will make an updated video. So of course, if you guys don't know me, I changed our read-alouds. So I really have been trying to do my best to bring in different types of genres and different types of books when it comes to our read-alouds. I really want my daughter to be able to see different books that are mirror images, so images that are similar to her and windows so she can look into different diversities and cultures, maybe fantasy. So I really took my time in selecting her read-alouds this upcoming school year because I really want her to get exposed to other different things. My daughter has been really enjoying like the Little House series and I kind of put that series aside just because I want her to read other type of literature. So we may pull out one of the Little House series just because she still loves those, but for the most part these right here are going to be the top 10 books that I have picked out for us. The past couple of years we have consistently read 10 chapter books, so I kept it to that just because I don't want to be overly ambitious when it comes to our read-alouds. I really want to give us like room and flexibilities and things like that. So yeah. So the first read-aloud that I have selected for us to read is the sign of the beaver. So we're going to be doing American history this year. So I heard so many good things about this one. This is a sunlight reader, so I had to grab this one. So I'm excited for us to read the sign of the beaver. I have Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Now you guys, a lot of you have been talking about this book. So I'm so excited to read this one with of Brielle. So hopefully she is excited about this one as well. So Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. We are also going to be reading a wrinkle in time. Now I found this one off of like the Scholastic's fifth grade reading list just because Brielle's into in the fifth grade. I still kind of want her to be able to read like some of those books that are like nostalgic for her like great level and also too we are going to be studying in space this year. So I really feel like this is going to be a fun one when we do pick up our science books. So yeah, a wrinkle in time. And hopefully she will like enjoy like this like fantasy type of genre as well. So yeah. I also picked up The Secret Zoo and again this is like another fantasy type of book. It's kind of getting Brielle like out of her comfort zone of like personal narratives that she really enjoys. So I'm really excited about this one as well. Now you guys I do want to let you know some of these books I am going to listen to them on audible or it's not audible as scribe that we have. Just because using scribe and using like a audible form of books have really been helping me out when it comes to being consistent with our read aloud. So some of them I will read and some of them we will use scribe. And sometimes we do a mix of both back and forth when it comes to the book it just depends. So that is another way that I'm able to be consistent with these books because I'm not going to lie not every day you can kind of like sit down and squeeze that time in. Sometimes you need a little help and that's like the little help that I use. So that's my little secret you guys to get more chapter books in. So yeah. So The Secret Zoo I do have this one on scribe. Now I also have the Year of Miss Agnes and hopefully Brielle will really enjoy this one. This is a classic you guys. So this is a small one so it might be a fast read for us. So I'm really excited to read about this one. We have Esperanza's Rising. Now you guys if you see my read aloud pick from last year like some of these are my picks from last year because we didn't get to them. So I really hope we are able to get to this book right here. This book right here is about a young girl who is coming from Mexico to America. And she is just talking about like her journey and just the hardships and just the struggles that they face as they were moving to another country. And I really feel like this is going to be a great one for Brute Brute to read especially at this age. So I'm really excited about Esperanza's Rising. We also have PSB 11. We read One Crazy Summer in our first year of homeschooling. So this is the second part to it. You guys like I made a mistake and we started reading like the first few chapters of Gone Crazy in Alabama and that's the third book to the series. So I finally have the right second book. So I'm really excited for us to read to continue with the series as we're reading about Vanita, Delphi Dean and Fern and we're going to find out all the adventures that they get up to again. My daughter, I definitely think she loves this one because it's three sisters and she is one of three girls. So she really can relate to it. And it's kind of funny when they talk about the different characteristics of the sisters. They're really similar to my girls here at the house. So I'm really excited for us to read PSB 11. So the next one that I have again, this was one that I was supposed to read last year but we didn't get to it, which is Inside Out and Back Again. I also have Roll of Thunder here, my cry. And you guys know I have been trying to read this one for so long. We're gonna read this one this year. I do have a literature guide for this one. I'm not sure if we're going to do it or not or we're just going to read it this year and then possibly when she rereads it again by herself, she will do the literature guide. So I'm not sure how it's going to work but we are going to start off doing this read aloud together. And this is a classic. This is just one of those reads that are on like the fifth grade list for her to read. So I hope she enjoys Roll of Thunder here, my cry. I also have Brown Girl Dreaming and I'm really excited about this one. I love the format of this one because she's going to be reading this story through poetry. And this is really, really, hopefully this is going to be a great read. Again, this is going to be one that kind of goes along with our history time period that we're going to be doing this school year. So I'm really excited about Brown Girl Dreaming. And the last read aloud that I have is Never Caught, The Story of Anna Judge. And I heard great things about this one. Hopefully this is a good read aloud for us. These books, as you guys are seeing, they are definitely like middle grade readers. My daughter is getting up there. This is her last year of elementary school next year. She will be in middle school. So I am introducing her to more sensitive topics just to prepare her for what is to be expected as she matures and as she gets older. So we will be reading this one together. And if we do face any like topics or things like that, it's just going to give us opportunities for discussions and things like that. So I'm really excited for us to read Never Caught. So you guys, like those are all of the read alouds that I have selected for our school year. I'm so excited. I heard so many good things about all these books. So I really hope none of them disappoint. But I definitely will bring you guys like a review video of all of our read aloud books at the end of the school year. Kind of let you know if we stayed on track, if we ended up going elsewhere reading other types of books or things like that. So yeah, I really hope you guys enjoyed today's video. I really hope you get some like book inspirations and things like that for your read aloud picks this school year. So you guys, thank you so much for watching today's video. I hope you enjoy and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one. Bye.


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Yeah, I've experienced with test vision. I did some tests with it for my Spanish course this year It was great actually because I think it was really efficient because tests didn't have to be performed in class and Checked by teacher on paper, but it was all online. It was really nice that after doing the test Actually had to do five small tests. Actually every after every test you immediately saw your results and that's very clear think multiple choice exams for example can be done both online and offline and Yeah for Test on which you have to give an elaborate Answer it might be handy to do it Online, but there's also a risk that you're gonna fright a lot also risk that you're gonna fright a lot more down And you would do offline so in a further paper you just focus yourself on what's neat what you need to really need to say So I think both types of their adventures and disadvantages So we have a lot of programming Tests I'm not a good at them because the output is always very specific and If you don't actually have Exactly what the computer tells needs to know them. Yeah, you feel I like Within exams very the way they do it right now. It's okay. I just get so nervous when everyone around me is typing and For example, when I'm just thinking and I hear everyone around me so busy then it's kind of overwhelming sometimes Well, it was I think it was alright It was I missed a bit of an indication when I was done and there was one a really small one I think I remember correctly, but it just it's it's a bit Unflashed it's still a bit oldish To me what felt annoying was I'm not really know I was it wasn't right, but it has to be fleshed out more I think if you do everything online, it would be a lot better It would be faster I've never been exposed to digital exams actually I have only written exams So I don't know I think that it would be good if I had done digital exam It depends on the subject on the course actually we have some Courses that have also code coding parts that it would be good if we could do this exam through a computer and not in a written exam