Dude, holy sh... That was INCREDIBLE. The narrative so far? I am completely blown away already. What just happened? I've never felt that. Guys, it's time. This is technically the Final Fantasy 16 demo, but the demo is the very beginning of the game. They say it's the first couple few hours of gameplay. After this, we'll play only up. It was... Most the Chronicler who said... That the land of Alistia... Is blessed in the light of the Mother Crystals. That it was this light Which finally led off. All right boys. Out of the darkness. It's time. Yet. What they saw in the light gave rise to temptation. Temptation. Final Fantasy 16. Ever lures us back into the crystal shadow. And thus did our journey begin. Wait, does it start with an icon fight? I just shoot. Phoenix is falling. That's sick. One intro. The nicer defile. The Dalmekian Republic. Pytologo design. It'll be light soon. Both camps have begun to stir. You all know the target. Shiva's dominant. And only the dominant. No one else. Where's the funny now? There will be among them. Our kind do not question orders. We follow them. Try to keep that in mind. Press and hold big middle button for lore during cutscenes. So now? Let's get this done. Okay, it literally says don't do that. No, no, no. Dude, this looks incredible. I'm on framerate mode. I'm not even on graphics mode. I said focus, Wyvern. Huh? Use left click to move Clive. Or to move camera.  I got that's sick. Like that is actually like that that felt so cool getting a chance to meet Yoshi P. Fanboying. Dude, I'm serious. There's like I don't usually fanboy often. Like I'll like talk to meet NFL players and stuff all of them. I don't really fanboy. There's like a short list like game devs, people like that. Like industry people. That are like just a legendary. And Yoshi P is one of them.  Gonna meet him. He was just super friendly and nice and it was great. Kojima next. Yeah. Hey, next on list is Kojima. What was the P stand for? I actually, you know, it's funny. I was wondering this not too long ago, like what the P even says for it's for producer Yoshi prime. This game is lying. It says president anytime out outside a cutscene. We're not in a cutscene. We are in a menu tutorial and it won't let me open it. We don't have to. Dude, Lies of P, dude. Lies of Yoshi P here. Dude, this game has analog controls. Isn't that crazy, dude? What's in time? Yeah, I pressed the Lord button and didn't do anything. Public and army front lines. The hell? Oh, active time lore. Hold to access active time lore. All Atlanta entries can be accessed later in the game. This is cool. The bastards, a unit of trained assassins deployed in the nice of a while. OK, so now I know who the bastards are. The brand, the mark applied to the cheeks of bears, identifying them as something other than human. OK, so if you have a mark on her cheek, you're not a human. The great nations of Valistea have a longstanding accord to bring their bears in this way, the slaves might be traded across borders. Question. Do you guys think looking at the Atlanta, looking at the active time lore, do you think it's good? When will Star Forge PC be available in Europe next week? No, I'm just kidding. But we are working on it, though. I mean, I like we've been talking about a lot is being able to get Star Forge PCs in Europe. So we're working on it. The lore is good. You guys like it. I think if we do it, we need to do it right at the beginning of the cutscene, though, because if you do it right at the beginning of the cutscene, even the middle cutscene, I think it like breaks the continuity of the cutscene. And at this point, all I remember is Republican from the cutscene so far. So that's what happens. Anyway, dude, this is sick. Wait, so are the Republicans losing? Why this is going? They won't leave this new dawn. This must be Twitter. Twitter simulator. Dude, you know what this looks like? This is our nature's stronghold. It looks like Zordon's base in Power Rangers, the first season of Power Rangers, the command center, like that imagery just reminded me of the commands there. Marshall, Marshall, Lord is our guest. Dude, the voice acting is so good. I'll do half his Majesty's answer. This is legitimately like I'm watching a movie. Smoking, weird champ. I have asthma. I wonder that you summoned us at all. Have you so little faith in your old men? It was the Dalmex who drove back the Crusaders in the Battle of the Twin Realms. Was it not? Or am I mistaken? Besides... Your dominant has yet to take the field. And when he does, our knights would only get in the way. Perhaps you have not heard, but the Ironblood now have their own dominant. We would be fools to underestimate them. Bugger their knights. What did you say? Should this citadel be allowed to fall, the capital will lie at its cause. Well built man. And I doubt the Crusaders will wait for the good king's pawns to line up before taking to the... I like how they don't say his name. Like they don't give it away. Like before his name is introduced. That's very good. Oh, okay. The Ironblood will rule the day they set foot on Storm. Is that his name? Oh, okay.  What? Wait, what? Take care. What? Does the lion take care when he traces the hare? Or do you think me one of the latter? No, my love.  You're my lion. What the frick? This is a video game.  Why would anybody do this?  Did Yoshi pee? Yoshi porno? Really, that's bad. It was a joke. Come on. Oh, you know what's hilarious? Dude, they kept talking about how Game of Thrones was such an inspiration for the game. That's hilarious. They kept talking about it. Maybe that's what they meant. They just do gratuitous amount of sex scenes in this game. Oh, I'm sliding. I hope Yoshi porno isn't going to be a thing because of you. Dude, I should not have played this today because now I'm just going to be itching to play it until the game comes out like a week.  Okay, we're limit testing. I'm limit testing.  Because that's always hilarious. Oh, no. Are you sure? Dude, lost your tutorial. Am I blind? Dude, I just straight up didn't see the hole. You got to be kidding me. Massive hole on the left side. You got to be kidding me. This is wild. Seeing them fight in the distance, it's so cinematic. Devil May Cry copy. Well, didn't they bring the guy in who designed all the combat for Devil May Cry to this game? Like it's literally him. Yeah, I should cancel it. What? Wyvern. Wyvern.  And brothers, 13 summers earlier, in the year 860, it was all a dream. Well, if you're not cut out to be a shield, there's always work for you in the stables.  I'm sure he just always looks after me. You're sure to hit him eventually. Don't give up now. Dude, I remember back in the year 860, everybody had that haircut, dude. It was just like, it was like the meme. Okay, melee attacks. Press square to perform a melee attack up to four attacks per chain together. Sick. Okay, lock on L1. I'm jumping, I'm jumping. I'm concentrating, I'm concentrating. Really? One, two, three, four. The flames of the phoenix burn within you. Now let them burn without. Come, Clive. Rain fire down upon me. Come, Clive. I better try not to cast fire. No. Show me the phoenix, do not bless you for naught.  You just click it once. So you can just spam it for the tutorial, but I guess he blocks it sometimes. Well done. You wield the firebird's flames just as a first shield should. You flatter me, my lord. Or would you rather I flattened you? Can be arranged. Let's see if you can allude my blade. What? After all, your attacking prowess will count for naught if you don't live long enough to use it. On your toes, Lord Rossfield. Dude, you know what I should do? Stay quick on your feet. Oh, okay. That's all I'll do. Evade four times. R1 to evade. Precision. Evading attack at the present is dealt to temporarily slow enemy, making it more... Okay, so perfect parry, perfect dodge. Okay. Oh, nice. How did you dodge that? Too perfect? I'm sure I had you. That was amazing. Oh, that was not good. Sick. Remember, Clive, your blade is not your only weapon. Quickness of thought and fleetness of foot are indispensable arms in any shield's arsenal. Call upon that power now to close on me. Blessing of the Phoenix granted Clive the ability to perform feats of inhuman strength and dexterity. Phoenix shift is one such iconic feat. Just like a lie.  Okay. Okay. Lies of E, true. Go on. You're sure to beat him this time? Just stay calm. Precision dodge. Wait, I can just do this. Okay. So now you staggered. So once you staggered, you probably do a bonus. R2 square. Okay. Rising flames. Oh, frick. Oh, I can only use it once. It's on cooldown now. Now it's time I took my own advice. Oh, frick. I used all the tools at my disposal. I want to do this. Oh, okay. I thought you could Phoenix shift into it. You couldn't Phoenix shift. Sick. It's taken me long enough. That was a display worthy of your father.  Including me. What are you looking at? Back to your drills. No. To hold the enemy here while you make your escape. I will order our remaining forces to rally at the gate. Now go. This guy would not last in a prison cell. I will do my duty. You must do your duty too. Let me just come and last a bit. This guy's 10. Not him. Oh, there's a little kid. I have to keep him safe. Not him. This guy. He's 15. I'm counting on you. I know he's not. I want to see who looks like that.  We're in a flashback right now. So you do the very intro where they show off all the graphics of the game. He doesn't look 15. He does. He's 15. He looks like Justin Bieber. You look so emo. Is it the first square game to kind of move towards action combat? I do love the turn base though. Final Fantasy 7. Dude. Their armor is legitimately just badass. Yeah, it's so good. That guy kind of looks like something about him reminds me of like a... Metal gear. The more the smooth helmet, something about him. I'll keep the others occupied. Do they do pretty well on streams? For me they do. I feel like metal gear fans are like very... I may as well do that with... Are you alright? I'm fine. It's my father and Joshua I'm worried about. We should head back. Oh, Brick! A Dragoon! Hey, look out! The Brick? Who's this?  Night of the Blinding Dawn. He's an Imperial Dragoon. And you are the shield who was blessed by the Phoenix.  Precision dodge? Dude, this guy is badass! He did jump. I'm shooting, I'm shooting. Precision dodge? Precision counter shot. Did I miss my charge shot? Oh my gosh, I literally dodged into the blade. Dude, this... Dragoon is what I played for Final Fantasy XIV. What happens if I wait till the last second? I feel like all skinny people are wrong. Press R1 just in opponent attacks to parry, okay? I was trying to dodge, I was trying to get... I'll be fine. Oh, the second jump is fast on the first one. Comment feels really good in this game. It does. Imperial Army. The assembled force of the Holy Empire of Simbrek. While officially under the command of the Cardinals that is Holy Emperor Sylvester Lisage. On the battlefield of the Dragoons, peerless Lancers renown throughout the realm of the Empire's keenest weapon, descending from the skies to sow terror and disarray among their hapless foes. Sent in the Dragoons. Pureing vipers. Do they really mean to invade us? Their numbers were too few. They were not here to take the castle. They were here to take heads. Our work is done. I'll return to my father. My lord, look. We issued these sashes, but yesterday in Rosarith, if they were already among us, what if there were others? Father and George, you are in danger. We must hurry. Take your steed. What? Who's that? Make a phone call. The Ascians. They're all looking for it. Don't worry. Thank goodness. Your grace, is everyone safe? For the moment, we ride for Rosalith to rally our forces. I will need your help to see Joshua safely back to the capital. On you get Joshua. What the frick? They killed the Chocobo. Snakes! Stay back! I'm warning you! Run, Joshua! Run! That's fine. The way you kept plunging your sword deep into that big strong man got me so hot and bothered. What? So he's the king now, right? Joshua. Dude, they killed the archduke just like that? Ambrosia. It sounds like a disease. Born in the stables of Rosalith Castle, Ambrosia was chosen by the young Clive Rossfield to be his personal steed and raised by him from a chick. She is a proud bird and deeply loyal to her master, quickly turning her break upon any but he who should attempt to pet her. Ambrosia is the milk of the gods. No, that was game research. Miss Phoenix, nice sign. You're your choosy. Oh, you mean Phoenix lore? Oh. The warden of fire whose strength resides within Joshua Rossfield, heir to the Rosarian throne. The Phoenix is always born in the Ducal, oh my gosh. Why can't I read, man? What's going on with you? Always born in the Ducal line and is worshipped by the populace, not least because it's flames of both destruction and regeneration delivered the Duchy disaster many times over. Flame on. That should have been Marvel ad. Wait, what? Oh, frick. This is, so there's like, okay. Wait, so Joshua himself is the Phoenix. I thought he was channeling like the Phoenix's power.  Okay, yeah. This is the same show as earlier. Oh my gosh. There's an FPS. Oh, oh my controller. Precision dodge. Can I charge it? Okay, so this is, so does every icon have like a family or like a dominant or something like that? Okay, and this is the Phoenix. Literally explaining what I'm thinking about. It's amazing. Music is so good, dude. I'm recording it. I'm gonna post it on my second YouTube channel the whole thing so you guys don't know what you're thinking. Like all my players. Look how many more come out. Stuff like that happens in games. You guys know me. I'm like deranged and I laugh. That was one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever seen, ever. Like I felt like nauseous at one point. Listening to that. Damn shame about the Phoenix. What? That was amazing. My condolences, your grace. Is there ought we can do? Haven't you done enough, Captain? Joshua was my world. And now he is gone. I can only pray there will be a place for me in the world. What? Yeah, that's his mom. It was ever her purpose in life to preserve her Phoenix-bearing bloodline for which reason she betrayed her husband. That she might enter in league with a force she judged the mighty of the Holy... What? She betrayed them. The rubble must have protected him from the worst of the flames. Shall we take him prisoner? No need for that. Kill him. What? Wait. As my husband never tired of telling me he is a fine soldier. I'm sure he would make an excellent addition to the Imperial frontline. That's her oldest son. All in its right place. Like this one. What? Chin up, lad.  This game is unreal. What the hell, dude? Oh my gosh. What?  That was incredible. The gameplay was good, but the narrative so far, I am completely blown away already. Everything about this, dude, is unreal. The last two cutscenes, I am legitimately blown away entirely. The entire... Just the entire delivery of that last scene where Ifrit is killing the Phoenix, Clive screaming, begging Ifrit to stop, music off, and you just hear the crunch of every single impact. You hear the blood splatter on the ground. Dude, I am actually completely blown. I have not ever had that. What just happened, I've never felt that. I cannot remember a time where I felt... That was uncomfortable. That was gruesome. That was brutal, dude. That was amazing. Voice acting? I feel like a lot of times when you talk about voice acting, it's binary. Voice acting good, voice acting bad, and that's it. That was something else. Clive's voice actor was on an interview saying his father passed away during the making of this game. All the emotion you hear from Clive is 100% real. Dude, that's... I mean, that's crazy.  You've completed the demo, but there's still much more story to tell. If you would like to learn more of Clive and the dominance, please consider purchasing the main game. I will play this on day one. I will continue to play this game on day one, and then I will continue to play it after that. Iconic challenge. Okay, so let's do this iconic challenge. YoshiP said you also need new sub-badges. Dude, this game is absolutely amazing, man. Okay, the story so far. 13 years have passed since the tragic events where Clive robbed his brother, his father, and his home after being pressed into service for the Imperial Army of Sandbrick. Clive earns his freedom at the hands of a man named Sid who agrees to aid our hero in his search for answers that have eluded him for so long. We join the two as they begin their infiltration of Kyre Norvent, an ancient stronghold where his brother's supposed killer, a second dominant of fire, is set to be held by an elite party of Waloder knights commanded by Benedict... Benedict the Harmon. Spoilers already? Yeah, but I'm gonna be honest. One of our sentries has failed to report, my lady. A lot of times one of them thinks stuff. I just say it and I don't read it. So I have no idea what I just said. Oh, Torgall is big now! Changing icons. Press triangle, the cycle... Ah! Spoilers! The puppy got older! Press triangle, the cycle has been currently attuned to icons in real time, allowing for more barrier to solve. Cool. Trick. You'll have to teach me some time. I saw him in person. He's also the voice of a... He's also the voice of a... What's his name in Diablo? That first guy that you follow around? Lor... Lorith, yeah. Gear and icons. Long sword, Wolfskin sash. Dude, spoilers, you have gear. Oh, steel crowns. Dark sash. Ooh! Bastard sword! Oh, so the rings give a special combat effect. Look at his face. Arousing? Arousing? Wait, what do you guys keep saying Zidane? Wait, what? Is she a dominant, too? Wait, what? He is a dominant? This feels like whenever King Cooler showed up after the Frieza Saw Guy and Dragon Ball Z and then all of a sudden, like, everybody's a Super Saiyan. Like, like, ten episodes after Goku hit Super Saiyan and the entire series built up in that moment. Like, in the next ten episodes, we look around and everybody else is a Super Saiyan. Well, Zid... Oh, no, we have the freaking Valkyries. I was trying to... What I was trying to do is I was trying to get in the middle and I was trying to do all my AoEs. This is actually hard. Damn! This is sick, dude. So the thing that's kind of getting me is the targeting. As it's supposed to be a challenge, I guess it's supposed to be hard. So the mistake I made last time in the first stagger... She doesn't look happy, Tobon. In the first, in the first stagger... Oh, wait, I'm the wrong thing. Decision dodge. Okay. I guess it doesn't work that way. I think that makes sense to me. That's sick. That was sick, dude. That was sick, man. This is not an easy game, dude. There's, like, a lot... Like, the combat mechanics... There's a lot of, like, boom, boom, boom, like... There's a lot. It's fun. This is not easy. I did screw up on the first time I did the challenge because I got greedy and I was trying to position myself in the middle and AoE them. But if you just focus on one, then I can kill one and then focus on the other one. Yeah, there's, like, easy mode items. I was supposed to say, don't die, the game's not out yet. Dude, we have to wait five days for this game, man. Six days? So if your inventory is full, you just use the potion. Oh, you can... Oh, you can only hold four potions at a time. Sneak attack? Seven points will cast Cure Spells to your allies to eat the spell cast rich from the draw battles. Dude, don't... They should really fix the targeting, man. I mean, I guess you can get used to it. If you're an icon and we're sick and we get it in the main game, yeah, I wonder what's gonna happen. I mean, a lot of the marketing of this game has been kind of centered around Ifrit, right? And you can even see that in the beginning of the game with the demo. Like, Ifrit is obviously, like, a main... He's definitely, like, a main character in this, you know? What do you want, Toggle? Okay. The dog is barking at the wall. Dogs do dog things. She Irish? Every bleed of the flock. And I will suffer yours no longer. Must I spell it out for you, branded? Brain dead. No one is listening. No one at all. I'm little lamb to the slaughter with you. Music is so good, man. You know what's funny? I hit Circle right before it did that. Like, my brain... Wait, why is it, like, a... Cinematic strike didn't have as much... I wish cinematic strike wasn't as big on the screen. You know, I wish it didn't have as much of a... Like, I wish it would just show the button or something. Show as much of this. And I wish it was just a lot less on the screen so you could see, like... You know, it's supposed to be cinematic, right? Like, that's the only... Only at all. I feel like she was staggered. Dude, my brain was... This is by far game of the year. There's no way, man. There's no way that anything else even comes close to this. This is gonna be amazing. Our ad's done. What the frick just happened? What a cliffhanger. Do you have early access for the game? No? Not yet, but maybe. Yeah, man, let me tell you, so far... My mind has been absolutely blown by Final Fantasy XVI so far. I mean, obviously, like, I've been a fan of Square for... I mean, since they're Square Soft, right? Holy cow. This is on a complete other level. This is insane. I feel like there's a standard at Square Enix that... You've got several standards here, right? You got one with Final Fantasy VII that you were making, so it's like, it's gotta be good. And then you have the fact that it's a Square game, so it's gotta be good, right? The expectations are so high, it has to be good. I mean, it's as simple as that. Like, it literally has to be good. Chad, how many of you guys are gonna play this on launch? And how many of you guys are gonna follow YoshiP's instructions and watch every second of the stream from start to finish, just as he asked you to? I said, I'll stream it. I'm doing my part. I'm really freaking good.


Hey guys welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food And I am here today with a small fill-in haul from Walmart. I actually went to our Walmart Neighborhood Market today. I didn't go to the superstore if you're not familiar with a neighborhood market It's more of a grocery store and it doesn't have all of the extra stuff. They don't sell all the extra stuff I should say that a traditional supermarket market sells So they don't have a toy department and and all of that stuff there. It's just pretty much groceries I spent $68 and some change so let me jump in and show you what I picked up So the first thing that I picked up were these wings now. I have bought these wings before I really liked them a lot I prepared them in my air fryer. So I got the Asian style seven spice dry rub and then the Cajun style dry rub as well These were I think 737 and you get a little over a pound of wings in each of the bags I grabbed some Caesar salad. I'm gonna be making some pasta and Wined some salad to go on the side of that. I Also picked up some rotisserie seasoned chicken breast as well. I've never picked up this Lunch meat before so I'm excited to try it out It comes with two fresh packs and it looks pretty good. So I'm excited to try that. I like to eat this For lunch during the week since I stay at home with my son With crackers and cheese and things like that. It's just an easy thing to pick up and snack on so I got that I also got some cinnamon rolls and then I got some mozzarella cheese for pizzas We're gonna be making pizzas coming up for dinner one night. I Grabbed these ready to cook flour tortillas. So they're raw and you cook them fresh I have bought these before but it's been a while. I got them today because they were on sale They were clear and seeing these out. So these were a dollar the original price was 275 Needed some sour cream. That's like a staple item that I always pick up because I'm always cook a lot with sour cream So grab some sour cream. I've been wanting to try these for snap pickles For a while decided to try today Needed some toothpaste and then I'm gonna try my son on this yogurt So you feel try that and I also got him some Chobani to try as well He hasn't tried this either. Just wanted to see if he'll eat it I got some bread to go with the pasta that I'm going to be making And then we just needed some bagels and we like Linda Bay lenders bagels Let's see here. I'll keep going back here. My son really likes these bars are kind of like big Newton's But they have strawberry on the inside. He actually does not like the big big Newton So he does these and I'm also going to try some of these spaghetti rings on him as well He's kind of a picky eater. So He's a picky eater and that's why I got this small thing of Cheerios to see if he'll snack on these We have been giving him puffs and just wanted to see if he'll eat Cheerios instead as a little snack and Then I got him some of these mixed berry yogurt bites Well, actually mixed berry strawberry and banana yogurt bites He loves these things and then I just got him some more forks and spoons I got this for myself because my dentist said or recommended that I use a night guard And I didn't want to pay as much as they were selling them for at his office and these were on clearance So the original price of this was $18 and it was on clearance for four. So I decided to give it a try. I Got some Graham crackers for my son. They didn't have plain. They only had cinnamon. So I think he likes cinnamon I think it'll be okay. Just as a snack We are low on soy sauce. So I grabbed some more I used a lot of it when I made the Mongolian beef the other week So I needed to replace it and then I am planning on using these baked beans in an upcoming Dinner that I'm gonna be making. We didn't have any and then finally I just Grab some rotel I used my last two cans and a recipe recently So this is all that I picked up from Walmart just a quick fill-in haul, but I wanted to share it with you guys I hope you all enjoyed this video if you did Please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you have not subscribed to our channel I certainly hope you'll do so. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time


Remember the key question in hypothesis testing. If the null hypothesis is true, what is the probability of all outcomes as or less likely than the observed outcome, and then, do we feel lucky? So, for example, suppose a committee of three people is selected from a group of twelve women and six men. If the committee consists of two men and one woman, does this support a charge that the committee selection is biased? And to answer this question, we need to find some probabilities. So, let's suppose the committee members are chosen completely at random. In that case, the probability distribution, let's see, we have three people, and let's calculate our probabilities based on the number of men, which can be zero, one, two, or three, and find the corresponding probabilities. So, we can use a hypergeometric probability distribution here, because we're choosing groups from a group. So, if we're choosing three people from a group of twelve plus six eighteen, there are eight hundred and sixteen ways to do this. So, in order for the committee to have three men, we have to choose those three men from among the six men. So, they six choose three twenty committees of three men. So, this outcome would have probability. The observed outcome, we picked two men from the six and one woman from the twelve, and so there's a hundred and eighty ways to choose a committee of two men and one woman, so this has probability. If the committee only has one man, that's six men will choose one of them, and twelve women will choose two of them. Three hundred and ninety-six ways to choose a committee of one man and two women, so this would have probability. And finally, if there's zero men on the committee, that means all three members are chosen from the group of twelve women, and so there's two hundred and twenty ways to choose a committee of three women, and so the probability of occurrence will be... Now, the observed outcome is selecting a committee of two men and one woman. So, if the null hypothesis is true, there are two outcomes with probability equal or less than the observed outcome. And those are these two, the observed outcome itself, and this one, the probability that there are three men on the committee. The corresponding p-value is the sum of those two probabilities, and we're seeing an outcome with a reasonably high probability. So, this committee selection is probably just randomness. Now, one very important idea to keep in mind, probabilities do not scale, and in particular, what happens if we increased all numbers by the same factor? Well, let's find out. Suppose a committee of three times five fifteen people is selected from a group of twelve times five sixty women and six times five thirty men. If the committee consists of two times five ten men and one times five five women, does this support a charge that the committee selection is biased? And so here, notice that all we've done is we've scaled everything by a factor of five. The important thing here is that the percentages are exactly the same as they were before, and the only difference here is the raw numbers are larger. Now, this does require us to calculate a bunch of hypergeometric probabilities, and so this can be rather tedious. Fortunately, this is the 20th century. What's that? Oh, sorry, the 21st century, and we have technology at our disposal. And so, again, most spreadsheets, calculators, and quite a few web apps will calculate hypergeometric probabilities for you. Now, if you're doing this thing for real, you'll probably be having all of this information on a spreadsheet. So it's useful to learn how spreadsheets calculate hypergeometric distributions. Fortunately, you could take, oh, five or six classes at five hundred to a thousand dollars a piece to learn how to use all the details of a spreadsheet, or you could call it the help feature, which will tell you how to use the hypergeometric distribution. And here's the important thing. You can't look it up unless you know what it's called. So let's type in hypergeometric, and even then how the program refers to it might be different. So we have to use a little bit of insight. Probably this HipGiom dist is useful, and that five hundred to a thousand dollar class will basically teach you how to read the manual. Let's see, X, and there's a number of samples, and then sample successes, and oh, okay, okay, so let's put this together. X is the number of results achieved. So since we're interested in these probabilities, we want to let X be zero, one, two, all the way up to 15 as a number of men of the committee. And sample is the size of the random sample, so we're selecting a committee of 15 people. So we have a total of 30 men, so that's the most we could possibly draw, and there's 30 plus 60, 90 people altogether. And so we can calculate these probabilities. Now, what we actually observe is that there are 10 men, and so we find the observed event has probability. So that would be drawing 10 men in a sample of 15 when you have 30 men out of a total population of 90 and 0.003583. Again, whether you calculate this by hand or use a spreadsheet or an app or actually list out all of the possible combinations, it doesn't make a difference somehow we obtained this probability. And so we want to find the outcomes of all events with equal or lesser probability. And again, let's take advantage of the fact that we're using a spreadsheet and fill down our formula and set this up so it'll just calculate these hyper geometric probabilities for us. And again, learn how to use a spreadsheet by paying $500 to $1,000 for a class or reading some manuals, maybe even watching some YouTube videos. And again, all of this is optional. This is merely doing something that we could do by hand, but we don't want to. And if we look, the probabilities that are equal or less are these. Add them up. And so we find that if the null hypothesis is true, we've observed a very unusual event. Now, we still have to make a decision. All that this mathematics does is it gives us a quantifiable and consistent way of making that decision. We have to decide whether we're going to reject the null hypothesis on the basis of this p value. And again, the question you always have to ask yourself is, what are the consequences if we make the wrong decision?


Please go ahead, chemical atom. Thank you very much. Yeah, can I just check? We have sound from the computer. We'll know when it sounds terrible. Let's just let that build for a moment. Good afternoon, everybody, or perhaps good morning. What you're listening to is a piece of what I like to call research-driven dance music, which is music that I create, which is often embedded with psychoacoustic tricks. In this case, it is a combination of what's known as a shepherd-risse glissando, which sometimes is called the audio barber pole, in that it creates the illusion of an infinitely rising or falling tone by layering and replacing, changing the timbre of the sound in such a way that you can't tell it's just a short loop that gives the illusion of it infinitely rising, which is useful in some cases. For instance, we were doing a generative dance music project for Science Museum Lates with our friend LJ Rich and Emmy, who's in the audience here also, about creating interactive installations for music where you were performing, but also reacting to a stream of data that you were receiving. In our case, we were trying to calculate something that LJ dubbed the wiggle index, which would take the accelerometer data from people's phones as they danced to the music that was playing. But we also wanted to be able to give people some interaction, because also if you want to keep getting the stream of accelerometer data, you have to keep something on the screen touched. So we had to give people buttons to interact with, even if the buttons didn't always actually do something. But you could also let people vote for when they wanted the drop in the track to kick in. So we had to be able to give them a build that was infinitely long, theoretically, in case no one ever voted for the drop. And as it happened, our Wi-Fi network fell down colossally. So we never got enough votes to trigger the drop via the methodology that we had meant to. So instead, we went to, I think, a very roundabout kind of hand counting method. Throw your arms in the air when you want the drop. And there was one poor chap who, on the end of the BBC segment that they made about it, is just pictured in the middle wanting it while we just play this infinitely rising tone. But yeah, it turns out the same data that you use to create those tones you can use in other interesting ways, like creating the layered sound of reverbs. And instead of increasing the pitch of something and then gradually fading it out and replacing it with a lower one to continue the illusion of it rising, you could have the reverb of a space that gets infinitely larger and larger, which is especially useful if you do VR, audio in games, anything where you have access to, like, binaural audio or access to the position of the listener's head. I've been luckily asked to do an artist residency at a place that has what they describe as a 4D sound system. Don't get me started on that name. But unlike the other surround sound speaker systems I had played on, which usually would be either eight speakers around you or otherwise long, flat planes of speakers in front of and behind you or just a single wall in an XY grid of addressable speakers, like our Science Museum piece. But instead now it has 16 columns of speakers around you in a 4x4 grid with speakers at three heights inside them and then nine subwoofers under the floor. So it's 48.9 channels surround. And you can not only move the sounds around you, but also towards and away from you in a way that's been very interesting to me to work with. When I say somatosensory music, as the one of four slides I have prepared, we'll show you. I'm interested in the physical sensation of sound as much as the acoustic sensation of sound. From meeting a very interesting character who I think we first introduced when they asked to use a piece of my music on a sub pack commercial, sub pack make wearable subwoofers that sometimes are used in gaming or for other kind of places where you would want some physical sound. But it turns out they're very useful also for things like drummers and bass players to be able to hear each other and feel the low frequencies of each other's music when they're being the rhythm section of a band. But then it turns out that if you are someone who is profoundly deaf and experiences sound only through the physical sensation of it, there's actually a huge awesome deaf clubbing scene. And if you make friends with some of those awesome people, they will always know where in town has the best sound system. So make friends with those people. And at the time I knew this person as a dancer and they then became a choreographer and moved from choreographer to thinking, ah, you know what, I actually think I wanna pick the music to DJ and then finally, you know what, actually I think I want to pick everything about the music and they're now a music producer who has been profoundly deaf since birth and they produce, perform and dance to music that they have never heard. And I think that is absolutely amazing. But we started to think in response to what Jacob was doing, how would you get over problems like beat matching? If you're a DJ and you want to introduce a track in sync with the one that's currently playing, you might see people slipping one headphone on and off. Don't have that option if your only perception of sound is through a loud speaker system pointed at you. So we were trying to think of ways, including trying using the sub pack and other wearable based transducer devices so that people could feel the beat of a track that wasn't currently being played out of that same loud sound system. But it turns out that it's pretty difficult to do that in a way that's always perceivable in the way that a loud pair of headphones is, like those ones that all the DJs are gradually losing their sense of hearing to. But it turns out that there is a great thing that approximates sound in an interesting way. It is called transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. You may have seen devices like this. They're marketed for pain relief. I think they get some kind of use within the BDSM community. But they, yeah, also if you see things like an ab belt that it's like, hey, wear this belt and you're gonna get a six pack with zero effort. The way you get that is by it electrocuting you and forcing your muscles to contract. So you do exercise without effort, but it will still hurt you. But it turns out that humans, like, how many senses do we have? Share a number out. There were some numbers close to the right number there. Also, of course, like we're at a hacker convention. There's probably lots of augmented people here. I just recently had a magnet implanted into my hand so that I have magneto perception now and can feel electrical currents inside wires as well as pick things up or hold tiny screws while repairing something. But yeah, I mean, so we have sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, proprioception, more.  I even said it then, it doesn't sound.  And it's quite surreal to be able to put things together like binaural beats. Playing one frequency in one ear and a slightly different frequency in the other ear can make your brainwave activity synchronized to the difference between those frequencies. And it's sometimes used to induce states of meditation or lucid dreaming and stuff. But you can do that between your senses also using the Ganzfeld effect. You see people sometimes doing things with like half a ping pong ball over each eye so you have a uniformly blank field of vision. And then strobing lights at those and if you play one frequency to your ears and a different frequency to your eyes now instead of the waves and electrical activity going from one hemisphere of your brain to the other they go from your visual to your auditory cortex and make you feel like you're gonna fall over. So I was very interested to discover that you can use 10s to do something that feels like you're playing sound very loudly. We came across this when working on a hack for a CTM festival. I don't really have Windows NT, by the way. That's just my desktop background. Yeah, we were working, there's a music hack lab that happens at Club Transmediale in Germany each year run by Peter Kern of Create Digital Music. And we were working on a project for that called We Suffer For Our Art, which was commentary on the difference between performing kind of playback based or clip triggering electronic music or playing a physical instrument and the idea that if you have like a tangible emotional connection to a piece of music it will come out in the way you physically perform it. But that doesn't matter if you're just hitting clip triggers in Ableton. So we set up a device as such that if you wanted to be able to trigger the louder, faster, more intense sections of music you had to be willing to suffer longer and more powerful electric shocks. And then taking EMG readings from our bodies to measure the physical sort of intensity with which we were having to fight against the muscle contractions caused by the tennis machine shocks and the more intensely we were physically fighting in order to be able to still perform the more bright and intense the projected visuals became blasting white noise at the audience across a very large screen so that they too could share our pain. So I've been doing lots of weird stuff, as you can tell. Some probably slightly more family friendly than others as when you get into the, yes maybe just pop your hands over their ears for a moment. Maybe if you're interested in how sound affects people's bodies you'll end up thinking about how vibration affects people's bodies which takes you down a whole sex toy route. And before you know it maybe you're taking augmented reality sound art installations around events and parties such as my popular past items, the base orgasm machines version one, two and three. Free and open source, you can build one yourself. Come talk to me about it later maybe. Because there turned out to be more of a crossover between these different areas than I expected. If you want to find something that will feel like a physically nice sensation, a good way to prototype that it seems is to find an extremely sensitive part of someone's body and see if it feels nice there and then you can extrapolate out that the patterns people think feel pleasant or interesting for one sense usually crossed to the other. And that's why we start to add those senses together. So thinking about accessibility, I was thinking about the nature of AV performances and the other stuff we were doing in this surround sound venue I was speaking about such as sleepover concerts where with the subwoofers under the floor you have a great opportunity to just mildly oscillate people in a way that's interesting to them and encourage them to just sleep, dream there, have a soundtrack played by you. It's, first of all, something that I thought was really strange but maybe living in Berlin has affected me. Either music now has kick drums everywhere or no rhythm whatsoever. But I was starting to think about the nature of these AV performances and the accessibility of them. If any of you know my work from other conferences or festivals and stuff, you'll often find me running hackathon there, usually themed around music and art but often with an accessibility angle. Things like creating 3D printed prostheses for people to have a guitar playing hand in place of their usual prosthetic hand and stuff like that, which I find super enriching and yeah, I've met all kinds of cool people in those fields and then ended up working with other people who were making interesting comments about accessibility and enabling themselves with assistive devices that could be seen as an extension of the body rather than just a replacement for something. For instance, maybe you've seen the work of this fabulous person. Victoria Modesta is a self-described amputee model and pop star who has, you'll often find with a range of fantastic designed prosthetic limbs such as the one in this piece, which was for a shoot that we did for Make Magazine and I think then later in Wired with a 3D printed human leg bone replica inside transparent plastic with a propylene glycol smoke machine which was excellent and a molded carbon fiber body suit with which I was monitoring the position, movement orientation and temperature of Victoria's body as well as her pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation through an earlobe mounted sensor so that we could just make generative music that wasn't being performed by the person who was generating it, but just that their movement and their body was naturally going to generate it. And that was a super fun piece to work on. You can see here the sensor I was talking about on the earlobe, which is great unless you've filled your earlobes with other stuff like I have. But yeah, so using signals from the body to generate music and then kind of measuring how the music affects your body and making these weird interesting feedback loops has become a big part of my work and I could do lots of data-driven stuff such as this piece, which I was invited with a bunch of other artists to use the data from the first LSD brain imaging study which happened at the Neuropsychopharmacology Department at Imperial College London and to take the recorded MEG data of test subjects who were under the influence of LSD and use that to create pieces of sound art which is the sound you're hearing now which I created on a team with two other amazing creative scientists and then accompanied that with visuals created from my own brain scans. I'm going to turn it down a little bit, believe it playing. So now, if anyone has had scans of any kind done, get copies of your scans. They will send you those on a DVD and they're super interesting. There's free open source software you can use to make visualizations like this and look at the inside of your own body you'll get data from it. And yeah, and if you have access to that kind of information, why not use it to make something weird like this? So continuing in my vein of data-driven artworks I also was working recently with images made from 3D constructs of the CRISPR-Cas9 protein because lots of people are super excited about that if you're into genome editing stuff which, yeah, I mean making cool stuff like this, rotating the molecules of things that we're interested in. Any chemistry nerds here? Chemical Adam on their own, boo. You're all missing out, chemistry's great. I'm gonna jump through this a little bit because we moved from the sound created first from patients under placebo being scanned. We're using 400 channels of magneto encephalography. So we had a 10 minute scan of each patient, of the one selected patient under placebo and then a 10 minute scan under LSD and then you can hear how we attempted to maybe convey some of that LSD experience by putting brains through kaleidoscopes. Because really, what can we say LSD does if it doesn't put your brain through a kaleidoscope? Anyway, any questions so far? I'd like to kind of keep it slightly conversational, you know what I mean? Over here, you can shout or you can wait for a mic. We won't judge you. We believe in you, microphone, you can do it. You talked about open source software, which one and where can I find it? So there's an excellent piece of software called Slicer. I think it is just on slicer.org even. There's also another free to use but closed source viewer called OSIRIX, which is something slightly closer to the viewer they would use to view DICOM or other scan images in hospital itself. And Slicer is more like if you want to do interesting stuff like go from your scan to a 3D print to print a copy of your head, which why haven't I done that yet? Keep noticing that all of my art is about heads and faces a lot. Maybe because I'm a huge narcissist. And had lots of weird interesting brain stuff happen that led me to have these scans. Had a stroke, I've died, I've been in a coma. And Slic let me to think about interesting stuff, but we can talk more about that later. There was another question on this side. Another question over here. Thanks, hi, so you're talking about using auditory and visual stimulation at the same time. So there's a magnificent way of creating motion sickness in people by messing with their vestibular system and their visual system at the same time. So have you just ended up making lots of people very motion sick? So we did have some incidents with things like playing sine waves, but then modulating the position of them in space using a slightly different frequency sine wave that if you were to stand within the field of those, because with your eyes shut, people's, it seems to make your inner ear want to automatically correct your position. So with their eyes closed, people would start doing this and eventually fall down. And we couldn't put a map there because then they would know they were supposed to fall down and it's like you get into this whole ethical don't make people fall over thing.  Another question right here. I have a number of MRI scans on a regular basis and I quite enjoy the noises that it makes. Have you ever thought about doing anything with the noise that the machine machines actually make? You got me earlier. Those sleepover concerts I was sounding, they probably sound quite a lot like an MRI machine to be fair. Yeah, I've had a lot of MRIs too. The sound is, if you ever have to have a really long one or fMRI scans done especially, it's sometimes hard to stay awake, I find. But five minute warning, okay, thank you. But yes, you can do interesting stuff with MRIs. Some of these images were from Compound MRI and CT scan. And yeah, you can do interesting stuff, make a 3D model of your head with everything except the bones in it and get into some weird stuff like that. But yeah, absolutely, have a look. Maybe OSIRIC's probably slightly better to start with which, yeah, like I said, it's free if you're not using it commercially and has a big like, not for medical use on it unless you pay for a license, but it's great, I can show you how to use it if you'd like. Another question down here.  That was quite a party. They have got some serious lasing in here. Yeah, there's a question at the front here. I can hear you from here, it's okay, I'll repeat the question so everyone else can hear it. So the technician probably won't be able to help you, but you can request at the time that they send you a copy of it, but also as long as it remains in your medical records, you're allowed to ask for copies of them, which is why I have cool stuff like this X-ray of my hand with my RFID chip inside it, which is on this side and then the magnet on the other side, which I don't have a scan with the magnet in yet. And I'm told now that I can still have MRIs, but only in a machine that generates less than 11 gauss of magnetic field or otherwise. I was like, why will it pull the magnet out? No, it will oscillate the magnet and it will catch fire inside you. Where's the RFID? I have had no problems with, someone asked me, how was the magnet going through airport security? And I was like, I have a lot of metal on my body. It didn't make any difference. And the chip hasn't, yeah, it has shown up on an X-ray, but I haven't had another MRI yet since I got my chip installed, but I'll be interested to see what they look like if I have that opportunity. Did I finish what I was talking about? Thank God for Modafinil, hey. I think maybe, oh, there's another at the back here. Maybe it was, my chip is not that useful in everyday use anyway. It's more of an art project in that it contains code for a piece of infinitely long generative dance music accompanied within the code by a poem about the experience of ego death under the influence of nitrous oxide. Because I wanted to use exactly the 888 bytes of storage in the most interesting way possible and I was enjoying kind of demo scene and stuff and like, how long and interesting a thing can you fit into this many bytes? Which, so now it's a piece of music that exists in basically every medium other than a recording as it exists as code, as an image on the internet, as an installation as I built a piece that I go and place the code on and then I can perform and evaluate it. It executes in Sonic Pi, which is a great live coding language that comes pre-installed on Raspberry Pi's default operating system and everyone should know about and use. Yeah, and then within Sonic Pi it has also in the comments that the poem I was talking about. Take a look at my website if you want to see more stuff like that anyway. Yeah, sure. Yeah, it's just a very quick one. Which type of chip is it that you've got installed, the RFID? NTAG216, yeah, Combination NFC RFID. I found it doesn't work on the RFID game that's on site here because I used all of the 888 bytes. Thank you. Yeah, I used all 888 bytes, including the bit that should be like the declaration of, hey, this is what kind of device I am. Talk to me like this. No, I used it all for dance music. Treated also with effects that simulate the auditory hallucinations induced by the aforementioned substance. But yeah, take a look at adamjohnwilliams.co.uk slash videos and there's probably some more stuff in that kind of vein if you'd like to see that anyway. All good. Let's chat more outside afterwards.  Thank you, everybody.


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Welcome to Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes. This podcast was created to provide you the information and tools Doc Snipes gives her clients so that you too can start living happier. Our website, docsknipes.com, has even more resources, videos, and handouts, and even interactive sessions with Doc Snipes to help you apply what you learn. Go to docsknipes.com to learn more. Hi everybody, and welcome to Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes, practical tools to improve your mood and quality of life. Today, we're going to be starting a series on spiritual steps to mental health. We're going to start with some of the basics, and today we're talking about connectedness. Now, connectedness really means reflecting on how you impact others and how you kind of create your environment and how your environment impacts you and kind of creates who you are, and we're going to talk about how to use that in order to improve your happiness. Spirituality, though, is much broader. Spirituality can be thought of intangible concepts and the ability to have this sense of wonder about how things happen and love and compassion and empathy and awe and fascination. There's a lot of stuff that goes into spirituality. We're going to be talking about connectedness today. We're going to be talking about courage, discipline, integrity, and some of those other things in incoming presentations. So spirituality helps us try and understand the world and life and understand that we can't know or understand everything. You know, when you look at a little tiny tomato seed, and or at least I do, I look at this little seed and I'm like, there is no way it can become this big old plant. But every season it does. Onion seeds are even, you know, tinier.  How do we form from two cells? And not only that, you know, OK, so they divide great. But how do they know how to differentiate? How do they know which ones are supposed to become skin and hair and eyeballs and nerves and all that kind of stuff? You know, it's just kind of miraculous. What's beyond the universe? That one's always bugged me. Because, you know, things are in containers and I like things in containers. And so beyond the clouds is the sky. And then beyond the atmosphere is space. And then beyond space is, you know, what's beyond that? What's, you know, what is everything sitting inside? And then what is that sitting inside? I, you know, I never did well in philosophy classes, but I digress. Another question that comes up is if God made everything, then who made him? You know, where did he come from? And if the Big Bang created everything, where did all this stuff come from that made the Big Bang? Where did that primordial soup come from? Somebody had to make the soup or something. So those are all the questions that you can start pondering to realize that we have only scratched the surface of knowing and spirituality means coming to an understanding and appreciation of what we do know, but also all that we don't know.  Connectedness and interdependence means we're impacted by, well, everything. Our friends, our neighbors, technology, culture, media, environment, health, attitude, mood, and even our past. So let's talk about those real quickly. Our friends impact us. Our friends help us when we need help. We tend to form our opinions based on sometimes what our friends think. Our friends may impact our mood. If they're being particularly generous and loving, or if they're being particularly snarky and hateful, that's going to impact us.  And you can kind of see the spiral effect. Our neighbors impact us. You know, our neighbors kind of put a little pressure on you, I guess, to keep your lawn straight and to behave in a certain way. And yada, yada, our neighbors tend to set the tone for what the community is going to be like. And if you don't like the tone of your community, then you can try to reset it, especially if you're trying to up it.  That's a little bit of a different story, but that is going to impact them and then they're going to reciprocally impact you. Technology impacts us. We can't turn it off. Well, we can. We choose not to turn it off anymore. So we're constantly getting input and stimulus and information and trying to sort through stuff. We are so over bombarded with stuff now that sometimes we can't catch up and see the forest for the trees. Technology is great though, because it also allows us to learn so much more. You know, if I want to learn a new recipe instead of having to wait to buy the cookbook or go to the library, I can look it up on the internet. If I want to learn about a disease or a disorder or how to get a stain out of something, you know, those are things that I can look up and people are sharing their information online, not always accurate information, but they are sharing information. So technology makes it easier to access and learn and connect with other people and find other people who may not be in your local area, but who exist, who share similar thoughts, feelings, preferences, hobbies, et cetera. I'm in a group for Angora Rabbit owners right now. And there are people in the Netherlands that are in this group and we just share our tips and tricks for maintaining our Angora Rabbits and for breeding our Angora Rabbits. Our culture affects us. We're impacted by that because it tells us how we're supposed to act, what we're supposed to do. Now, whether you do it or not is kind of up to you, but our culture does have an impact, you know, when the fashion trends come out. That impacts what people wear. And even if you're not one of those people who's watching the fashion magazines, it affects what's available in the store. Right now they're going through this kind of blue-green phase. And I look horrible in blue-green. And everything I look at has these really gray, blue-green undertones. I'm like, I'm going to look like death-warmed over wearing any of this. But it impacts us.  What are your cultural, your culture's beliefs? And how do they impact you and do you believe them? You know, you don't have to ascribe to every belief of your culture. You may go, yeah, not feeling it. The media impacts us. What we see, whether it's the news or on, you know, primetime TV, it impacts us. It impacts what we think we should look like. It impacts how we think we should act, what we think, how we define success. It has a lot of implications for us. Our environment impacts us. If you're in a kind of sketchy environment, you're probably going to be stressed out and not feeling so great. If you're in a safe, warm, loving environment, then you're probably going to be feel nurtured and safe and more willing to take risks and interact with other people. Same thing with your health. When you feel crappy, you don't want to be around other people. You don't want to be interdependent.  I don't know.  If you're really depressed all the time and just a negative Nellie, that's going to show through in your interactions and then people may back off a little bit because they just don't want to be around the negativity. Whereas if you are more positive, they may interact with you more. And likewise, if you're generally positive and then all of a sudden you're negative, then people are going to take notice and go, Hey, what's going on?  They noticed that something changed. Your attitude about things, kind of going back to being a negative Nellie. If you always look for the worst, you wait for the other shoe to drop. You're always catastrophizing. Then people are going to tend to maybe not give as much stock to what you have to say or may not ask your opinion because they don't want to hear all the negativity.  Your past has shaped who you are. You've learned who's trustworthy, who's not trustworthy, what's safe to do, what's not safe to do, what's fun, what's not so fun by your past experiences. So now, you know, that's going to impact what you choose to do. For example, artichokes. I had artichokes when I was, I don't know, in middle school at some age and it was really disgusting. I haven't tried an artichoke since it impacted me and it affects what I choose to eat. You know, I'll eat asparagus and I just haven't ventured back into artichokes because it hasn't, hasn't had an appeal to me. Your past is going to affect what appeals to you. It's going probably to affect your career choices. Because what you think is fun, what you think is rewarding, what you've been good at is probably where you're going to go. So you want to pay attention to all these things when you're trying to create an environment around you that brings out the best in you. And that's what we're talking about with connection and interdependence.   Likewise, you know, it may need to start with the environment. You get into an environment that's positive and nurturing. It's going to bring out the best in you and you will grow from there. So what kind of world do you want? You need to sit back and think. And this isn't just a 10 minute question. You know, this is something, as my son would say, that you need to ponder. Describe the people in the kind of world you want. And it doesn't have to be just your family in the kind of world you want. If everything were happy and there weren't distress and terrible things happening, what would the people be like? What would their attitudes be like? What would the cultural values be like? What would the environment be like? You know, some people are really all about the city and, you know, mass transportation and yada, yada, me, I'm a farm girl. You know, I would much rather be on a 10 acre lot or larger with lots of trees and, you know, a place for a garden and a pond and that kind of stuff. That's what I would like the environment to be like. I organically garden because I want earthworms. I love earthworms. They're like, you know, gold when you're digging. If you see earthworms, you know you have healthy soil.  It makes me so happy when I find earthworms when I'm planting. Describe the activities that go on in the kind of world that you want. Do you want a world? And this is going to date me some like Little House on the Prairie. You know, back in the 1800s before there was electricity when everybody was farming, but they all were in small communities and banded together. If somebody's barn burned down, then the community helped them build it back up. But it was hard work. It was rewarding and it was very family centric. The Jetsons, on the other hand, everything is, you know, digital. It's obviously up in the sky. There isn't the focus on the environment and those sorts of things. The work is much, much different. Lots of button pushing and technology. They don't seem to really have a whole lot in the way of hobbies. There is a little bit of golf in there still and shopping, lots of shopping. So trying to figure out what kind of world you want and what kind of environment you want.  So for me, I live about 30 miles out of Nashville because the big city is great. It has tons of opportunities, but that's not the kind of environment that makes me happy, that helps me flourish. So look at once you just do all those things. Look at the ways that the world that you want already exists for you.  Who are those people that are reflect the values and help you feel like you're in the kind of world that you want to be in? For me, my animal rescue peeps are the peeps that I hang around with and they make me feel like it's a good world because we're taking care of the innocent and the forgotten. Describe the cultural values, looking around at where you spend your time, your houses of worship, your recreational activities, your friends, the values that all of those people and places, you know, kind of put on you or put out there. If you agree with them, great, you know, what kind of values do you want and how are you seeing that in your community? If you think that we should be helping one another, then how do you see that in your community? How does it already exist? You don't have to reinvent the wheel, but looking around, you'll be surprised at the resources that are out there that you can volunteer or you can help with in order to feel more connected, in order to feel more fulfilled like you're helping. What's the environment like? If you want a, you know, if you want to live on a farm that's covered in trees and has an organic garden, then make it so, you know, you may need to work at it a little bit. If you want to live in the city, you may need to, you know, look at, can you get to the city? If it, or what ways does it already exist for you? So I live in the country. If I wanted to live in the city, but obviously it's not practical to sell my house, how can I spend more time in the city? So I'm in an environment that gives me energy and makes me feel nurtured. And what kinds of activities do you already do that you think are worthwhile and important? The ripple effect is kind of where we're going from here. Cause like I said, you can't change the world, but you can change yourself. You can change your family. Well, you can influence your family. You can influence your neighborhood. You can influence your community. And your community will influence other communities. So, you know, it's a slow process. Think about when you throw a rock into the water, the rock goes into the water and you see the ripples come out. That's what we're talking about with you, your family, your neighborhood, your community, but also as that rock goes down, what happens? It disrupts the water underneath. It hits the ground and then it disrupts the soil, the sand or the silt at the bottom. So there are a lot of unseen effects, not just the scene effects, but unseen effects. So everything you do has seen effects and unseen effects. So you want to think about the consequences. Like I read a story one time about somebody who was feeling really depressed and he was, you know, kind of on the verge of being borderline suicidal and he was walking through the downtown and somebody smiled at him and said, good morning. And that, for whatever reason, made all the difference to that person that day because somebody acknowledged his existence and he's like, you know, it made me think that, you know, maybe there are some good people in the world. So, you know, he's still here today. He's sharing that story. But if you smile at somebody and it brightens their morning a little bit, then they may be more likely to hold the door for somebody, which is going to brighten their morning a little bit. And they may be more likely to smile at somebody else. We're not talking about doing huge earth moving things. We're talking about a smile here, but it can make a huge difference. And it makes a difference for you. When you smile at people, when you carry yourself tall, you tend to feel happier than if you carry yourself hunched over and you have this frowny face on and you're looking at your digital device the whole time. So look up, look around. Interconnectedness and connectedness means being aware of your environment. If you are in your iPad the whole time, you don't know what's going on around you. The world is going on around you and you just don't even notice. So connectedness means being aware. When I'm driving home from work, I try to pay attention as I'm driving, you know, to the birds that are on the power lines or in the trees.  So I look at those more than anything. My husband tends to look for airplanes, but whatever works for you. But being aware of your present environment and what it looks like.  If you help somebody at work, that may ease up their stress level and improve their day. So they're more productive and, you know, that makes the boss happy. And they may, because they're less stressed, they may tend to be in a better mood, which improves morale, which helps everybody's day. So little things you do are going to have reciprocal effects. So I want you to think of little things that you can do each day. You know, just one, just one little thing you can do each day. Try doing it. And you can change it. It doesn't have to be the same thing every day, but try to do one positive thing each day and see what the ripple effect is from that. A last example I'll give you is if you choose to let go of a grudge. So you're not even helping anybody else. You're helping yourself. When we hold on to grudges, it tends to make us irritable, resentful, angry, suspicious, less trusting. All those things that inhibit relationships and inhibit us from wanting to get into relationships and it drains our energy. At a certain point, if you let go of this grudge for yourself because you decide, you know what, this is not worth my energy.  So there are a lot of things that you can do. Start small. One small thing each day. And when you do that small thing at the end of the day, reflect on, I did that. How might that have had a ripple effect? You're not going to smile at somebody, then follow them around for the rest of the day to see what happens. That's stalking. But you may smile at somebody and go, you know, this is what happened. Or if somebody smiles at you, you can track how it affects you and what you do henceforth for the rest of the day if it changes your mood or encourages you to be nicer. All right. So a negative example on the ripple effect, if you read less than objective news, and we know this is a big thing that's out there right now. And this is an example I'm using. It's not true. Nobody panic. I just wanted to make a point here. If, for example, you some opened your tablet and read that the president decided to cut funding for Medicaid in half and millions of people are going to lose their health insurance. You might start panicking. Now, what the article didn't say was that the president was also creating an alternative voucher program to better meet the needs of recipients so they wouldn't have to find a doctor who just accepted Medicaid. They could take this voucher to any doctor. But newspapers and media outlets are designed around getting you to read their stories. So they want to shock you. They want to make you go, Oh, I need to read that. I need to share that. So they may give you slightly slanted or really slanted information and it goes both ways. I'm not saying it doesn't. It goes both ways. But you want to ask yourself whenever you read something. Hmm, what could be not being said? So what do you do about it? Well, in this example, you read it, you get freaked out, you spread it, you start sharing it on Facebook and Twitter and freaking out about it. Other people read it, do the same thing. They're just like, Oh my gosh, I can't believe this is happening. They spread the news. People start to form opinions and attitudes based on that less than objective news.  I'm going to be without health insurance. The sky is going to fall. I'm not going to be able to, you know, my kids aren't going to be able to get health care. Yada, yada, yada. They start to get panicky, which starts to impact relationships, work productivity, health and mental health, because they start freaking out. And then there are probably other people who they're friends with that disagree. So that causes tension. But when they get stressed, they don't have time to devote healthy energy to healthy relationships. They're focused on this crisis right now. Their work productivity goes down because they're stressed out. They're focused on this crisis. They're worried about it. They may be sharing information and just talking about it constantly at work instead of doing their work, which can impact their mental health because their anxiety is up, their stress levels up, their cortisol is up, their sleep down. They're not getting quality sleep now because they're stressed out, which is going to start impacting their mood, their libido and their immunity. So I mean, just something as simple as to coin a term or to use a term, fake news, can really get people all in a tizzy. And instead of positively rippling, it's a negative ripple and it starts tearing things apart. We don't want to tear things apart in spirituality. We want to bring them together. Another example is the current flu outbreak. And if you remember back, you know, a few years ago when there was the threat of Ebola coming to the States, you know, people can get freaked out. I've been reading the stories and I see these repeated stories of healthy people, you know, no preexisting conditions dying from the flu. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't want my kids to go out anywhere. But then you start reading it and you realize that hundreds of thousands of people have gotten sick with the flu. And, you know, these 10 examples of healthy people that died are extraordinarily tragic and unfortunate, but it is, you know, less than one tenth of one percent. So it's not wiping out legions of healthy people. These, you know, 10 people or so happened to be particularly unlucky. But we read those repeated stories and it spreads fear and people start staying home, which can hurt businesses that rely on them like restaurants and shops and even grocery stores, you know, you don't want to be out in public anywhere. So you may start ordering stuff in from Amazon or whatever. People start getting panicked the minute they start to feel sick. So, oh, I've got a scratchy throat. I'm getting the flu.  So they start calling and sick to work and going to the hospital where they're exposed to people who actually do have the flu and kind of may create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Schools and businesses, at least this year, the school system has shut down a couple of times because of illness. Too many teachers and students have been out to hold school and they shut it down for an entire week. It was so it has an impact.  You see how it all, you know, it can start to impact the economy, the culture, the world at large. And hourly employees may lose wages if their business shuts down because it's just not profitable to be open. Interventions, so how do we deal with this stuff so we can have a positive ripple instead of a negative ripple? Always try to see the other side. Ask yourself what other information is there that this source left out? I read an article this morning where it said people who eat processed food have like a 10% higher risk of getting cancer. And I'm like, OK, let me read the story. But finally, at the end, they said, well, remember, this is just, you know, a correlation, which means we see people who eat processed foods have a higher rate of cancer. We don't know that the processed foods caused it because the same people who eat a lot of processed foods also tend to have high stress, smoke more, tend to be overweight, not exercise and drink more. And take hormone replacement therapy. That was the other thing.  So you want to get the whole story and look for those what I call confounding variables, other things that weren't measured or talked about that could also be causing the problem. Can I find the original document to see it for myself if it's a scientific study? Find the journal article. If it's a bill from Congress, find the original bill. It's public record. We generally don't like change, but step back and ask yourself, realistically, could this work? You know, if we decided to implement a sweeping gun control policy, realistically, could this work to reduce gun violence and think about it?  But what's realistically going to work to stop the violence? Because it's the people, not the guns. You have probably already read either the best possible scenario or the worst. You know, it either got you fired up for the positive or you're freaked out to death. So what's the middle ground? What's more likely to occur? You know, it's more likely that, you know, this is going to happen. You know, it's more likely like with the flu. It's more likely that, yes, I stand a high chance of catching it if I keep going out in public, but it's not very likely that I'm going to die from it. What can you do to constructively address the situation? You know, if it's gun violence, think about that. If it is a bill in Congress, writing your Congressperson, you know, other than that, there's not a lot you can do except for elect somebody different the next time. But you can take proactive steps if you're trying to protect yourself and your family from the flu, get the flu shot and stay out of public areas. You know, as much as possible, you may have to go to school and go to work. But my kids are in martial arts and we're skipping judo because judo, they're all like right up face to face and rolling around on the ground together. And, you know, that is more likely to spread disease. So we're going to avoid that until their flu shot is completely kicked in. And finally, even when you do read this news before you share it or come to this revelation, whatever it is, before you share it with other people because it can freak other people out and, you know, make other people angry or whatever. Think about these questions. Is it true? You know, do I have the whole truth? If so, OK. Is it necessary to share this information? Do people really need it? Is it helpful and or kind? You know, if it is true, but it is not kind, you know, some things are true, but they're they're just really nasty things, but they're not necessary to be said, you know, saying them out loud doesn't help or help anything and it just hurts people. So is it true, necessary, helpful and kind? The Bible says, let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. River rivers carry fresh life giving water because it flows out. Rivers are constantly moving and they're moving towards larger bodies of water, so they kind of grow. Swamps are stagnant and life devouring. When water gets goes into a swamp, it kind of stays there and then it kind of can become putrified and nasty. If you've ever been in a swampy area, you know, it's growing stuff and it kind of sometimes smells kind of bad and it has a lot of tannins in it. So it just kind of sucks things into it and it's not life giving, you know, animals are generally not going to go drink from the water of a swamp because it's contaminated. So be like the river. Don't accumulate too much so everything's being stagnant before you allow some to flow through. The more you let flow through, the more you nourish others, the more nourishment will come back to you. And this can be for a higher power or for wisdom if, you know, depending on what your belief system is. So, you know, this knowledge if you have wisdom, whoever has wisdom, living water will flow from within them. Knowledge and help and positive things will flow from within them. They've got wisdom and wisdom is taking knowledge and kind of common sense and putting them together and going, OK, I've got this book learn and what do I do with it now? So you can't think of it that way if you're not a religious person. Another intervention is to have an attitude of gratitude. Focus each day on identifying blessings and those responsible for your blessings, wherever you think they come from or whatever.    So thinking about those people and things that are blessings in your life that help you have the kind of life that you want to have.   But there are probably also larger areas or more areas of your life that really are going pretty good. We tend to focus on the negative. So turn your attention and look at all the things that you can commit to that are going well. And this other thing, yeah, you got to work on it. But don't forget all of that amazing stuff that you already have going on in your life. Those amazing people that are there to support you and that you want to support. So you want to make sure that you're happy and healthy so you can be there to support them just like they're there to support you and find deeper meanings in your experiences by asking yourself, how can I use this as an opportunity to grow and improve the world around me? Something happens, you know, you lose your job, for example. It is unpleasant. You can get angry about it. You can get, you know, negative and all kinds of stuff that doesn't do any good. So how can you use this as an opportunity to grow? Maybe figure out a different career path and get some more education, maybe try a different place, maybe go to a different company and, you know, take all the knowledge that you've learned to make that company thrive and improve the world around you. Use your knowledge and your experiences to help things flourish instead of to try to tear things down, you know, trying to get back at your old company, not going to probably be effective or do much good. But if you can help someone else or another company flourish to find deeper meanings in your experiences, how can you use this, this tragedy, whatever it is to help my children, my son especially was a micro-premie. And that was hard. We spent six weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit. But that experience taught me so much and I've been able to take that experience and help other parents who have children who have to be in the neonatal intensive care unit, figure out how to live because it's a whole different world in there with all the buzzers and wires and everything that that are attached to your child and it can be really scary. So yes, would I have chosen to have a micro-premie? No. However, I did and I can use that knowledge and experience now to support other people and to spread, you know, hope and courage and faith that everything's going to be okay. So the ripple effect activity is I did and whatever you did, I smiled at somebody. It impacted me emotionally by making me feel happier. Mentally, by knowing I did something to improve somebody's day, so physically, when you're happier, you tend to have less pain and feel better physically. Socially, when you smile at people, it improves your interactions, improves your relationships. Environmentally, if you're smiling, you're creating a warm, nurturing environment. So it's probably going to rub off on other people. You know, if you're around somebody who's smiling all the time, you may not reach their level of giddiness, but it's going to tend to take the edge off a little bit. You know, I know when I've had a bad day, if I go into a meeting with some of my coworkers and we start cutting up, you know, it's just you start smiling, you start laughing and it's like, you know what, whatever I was worried about before I came in here, it'll work out. And spiritually, how did smiling at somebody and doing something that you knew was going to help somebody else out and maybe brighten their day? How did that affect your sense of hope that, you know, people are overall good and the world can be improved, your faith in your fellow man, your sense of connectedness, when you smiled at them, did they smile back, you know, that was a direct reaction to something that you did and how did that have impact your courage? Smiling, for example, can be kind of threatening if you smile at people and they scowl back at you. It's like, oh, sorry. But you got to be there. You got to be courageous and smile at them. And if they don't smile back, that's on them. You tried and you kind of put it out there. But by smiling at other people, for example, or saying hi, you're making yourself a little bit vulnerable. You're having to be courageous. All of this, when you smiled at somebody, it had the following effects on other people that you contacted that day. So you're feeling better about yourself, you're feeling all that in a bag of chips.  So how did that impact you the rest of the day?  It's usually ugly. But let's do happy. You know, if you get up and you are just roll out of bed and you are Susie Sunshine, how does it ripple through the day? And the people that you contact, how do you think it impacts them? If you are in a good mood and positive and helpful and all that kind of stuff. So meditation at the end of the day, think about what was your impact on the world today? How did you impact other people? How did you impact the environment? And how did you impact knowledge? You know, did you share or impart knowledge to somebody?  How did it affect your mood, your attitude, your sense of purpose and belonging, your sense of pride and self control, your ability, you know, your can do attitude? And what can you do to make the world around you more like the world that you want? What's one thing that you can do? So you want to think about that because each day as you start doing more positive things, hopefully your world is going to become a little more positive. So that's great.   So, you know, thinking about small things that you can do to make yourself happier and make the people around you happier and healthier. Other things you can do, compassion, kindness and brotherly love, if you want to emphasize those values, you can donate stuff. You don't necessarily have to do anything. You can go through and find some of the, you know, nice sweaters and stuff you have and donate them to a homeless shelter. You can help, you know, help your neighbor clean up the sticks that fell down during the storm or help your kids clean up their room if it's gotten to be a real disaster. You can volunteer. There's always volunteer activity.  Some are repeating every month thing, but you can volunteer and find people who share similar ideas and ideals.   Safety, you know, this is another thing because a lot of you want to live in a safe environment. So if you see something, say something, it may not be anything. You may see something ago. Ooh, looks like that's dangerous or that person doesn't look like they should be here. So you call the cops and ask them to do an increased patrol. OK, maybe it was a new landscaper or something. I don't know.  But at least you tried to protect and in our neighborhoods, we try to do that. I mean, I know in our neighborhoods that we've always lived in, everybody knows what cars are supposed to be there. And when there's a strange car that's there, you know, we take notice and we watch out for our neighbors. Assist others in house repairs.  So if a neighbor has something happen where something like that happens, you know, helping them make that fix their house so their house is a safe place and offer a friend a ride. If somebody, you know, normally has to walk to work or ride their bike to work, especially if it's in the dark or wee hours in the morning and you're able to provide them a ride instead of having them be out there all by themselves. You know, that's helpful because it helps them be safe and get to work. Faith in others, you know, that's another trait I hope that people have in my world. So demonstrate that people can be honest and trustworthy by being honest and trustworthy. That's pretty good there. And then if somebody lets you down, you know, think about what are some other explanations for why this happened as opposed to they didn't care or they were trying to let me down and look at the good things people do. We all make mistakes. You know, we all have oopsies here and there. But instead of focusing on one mistake and going see nobody's trustworthy, look at the greater picture of what they've done and the mistake as an isolated incident. And finally, if you're like me and you want a healthy earth recycle, you know, that's easy.   So recycle whenever possible. Pick up litter, you know, you don't want little squirrels crawling into plastic bags and suffocating to death, and it just looks nasty. So pick up litter, keep sanitary wipes in your in your car or in your purse so you don't have to touch something or keep plastic gloves or rubber gloves in there if you want to. So you can pick up things and not get freaked out about it and go organic. A lot of the fertilizers that they use have a lot of salt in them. The salt drives away the worms and so the only way to get the nutrients that they need in the soil is to put on more chemical fertilizers. So they're kind of destroying the whole process. If you go organic, you know, yes, it takes a little bit more doing, but you're not using the salts and you're not using the chemicals and you're supporting the earthworms and you're supporting that whole food chain from the earthworms to the birds to the carnivores to everything else. As a final note, Mother Teresa advised spread love everywhere you go. First of all, in your own house, let no one ever come to you without leaving happier and better. Be the living expression of God's kindness with kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile and kindness in your warm greeting. If you like this podcast, please subscribe on your favorite podcast app. You can join our Facebook group at docsnipes.com slash Facebook or you can join our community and access additional resources at docsnipes.com.


Morning class, this is from Wilkham Art School. I just want to show you a quick technique that I use when I'm blending with acrylics just to help you out, especially on skies or an area where you're trying to get a softer blend. This isn't fully blended, this is just halfway through the painting, but I'll just show you how I've got to some of these parts, especially with the blues. The technique I use is what's called a color string. This is where you pick an area of your painting, like a dark area, say this dark area of the mountain here or the dark area of the top, the darkest part of that kind of color range. So for example, if you've got this dark blue here or this dark area here of the greens, you can start to notice, especially in landscapes, how you get areas of color that are slightly lighter in tone all throughout the entire painting. So to make it quicker on yourself when you're mixing it, and especially with acrylic, so you keep them wet and you can get that nice smooth blend, you just pre-mix a color string, it can really help you. It's very simple. So to start with, you need your base tone. So this, as it is, which is the ultramarine blue and the thalo blue green, if we have a look at here, that's still a bit, you know, it's a bit too dark. So if we add a bit of white to it, so that can still go lighter than that. Okay, tonally that's not too bad. For this area here in the mounting, that's definitely got yellow in it, you know, it's definitely a lot greener than this. When we start to look at parts of the sky in this area here, I think it's a useful color and could be a good start of the string. Maybe not for this area, but definitely for the sky area and all these parts of the mounting down here and into the water. So in all you do, you kind of keep that as a base. So that's just with the white added. See that practically blends into that there. And here, yep, well that's not going to do it. It still needs to be lighter. So you'll keep the first tone you've mixed, then this one. Keep another part of that. So you can see how on this one, it starts to be closer to these lighter areas here. And I might do one more. Okay, which would match the water color pretty closely. I know it's got a bit of purple here, but this is just a base tone to get you started. And with these tones, you could create probably about 50% of this painting, really, from working this sky through to the lighter areas, through to the far mounting and the distance and also the sea in the foreground. Okay, this is just a very simple introduction to color strings. What I'll do next is start to show you how to construct the sky using these color strings very simply with acrylic paints. This is Wilkham from Wilkham Art School.