All right. Hey there foundation staff welcome to the psych 42 critique lab Now i'm going to pull up The chat real quick so i can see you guys in the stream So we can work on carnicles graph titled tussy mussy So make sure you check out the description for the link of the day That way you guys can help me clean this up If it needs cleaning, maybe it's a perfect draft on the first try. Who knows It'll group So now i've got the live chat active Let me Put on my monitor Boom, hey the chat's starting to fill up. I've got us in line here all monitored excellent So hey, let's get down to business. It is time for carnicles draft Starting with phase one the read through Oh, we have carnicles jotted notes scp tussy mussy below the line. Do I want to start with jotted notes? No, I don't want jotted notes. Don't matter. Okay, so From the item number. Let's get through the solid all the way through read through item number scp xxx object class safe corrected to euclid special containment procedures scp x's is to be held in its original box in a safe object storage locker Correction on display in its original box in conjunction with the other items collectively known as lot 76 in the secure item gallery of the site 81 library footnotes Unmended containment suggested by senior researcher carcincy addendum x is alpha x is 1.05 and addendum x is gamma x is 2 That's a little confusing Uh, we don't normally footnote the phrase I'm looking for we don't normally footnote edits like that, but I guess you can no big deal Uh description. Oh, let's do the picture first. So we have big shiny gold picture for everybody watching at home description scp x's is an ornate silver plated bouquet holder It is conical approximately 18 centimeters in length seven centimeters across at the open end Attached roughly at the midpoint is a third chain approximately 10 centimeters in length This chain terminates in a silver pin which can be inserted into a small hole near the open end Serving to secure a bouquet placed within upon recovery scp x's was contained in a hinged wooden box With the initial e carved into the lid the box also contained a cabinet card Portrait of a young couple in victorian attire Okay. Wow. Okay. I'm already missed three footnotes Uh two also known as a posie or a nose gay holder Uh 18 centimeters in length footnote three including the loop at the point at end Okay continuing on victorian attire is footnote four the backstip of the card reads artistic and practical photographers cod walleter and Fairnaught Established august 19th 1872 indianapolis indiana I wait to reply my chateau lane Is written on the back as well as what's on the card? I guess scp x's one collectively refers to bouquet spontaneously manifested by scp x's scp x's dash one Very in composition generally consisting of at least three different floral components C note five it is unknown if scp x's is retrieving or generating scp x dash one sc one scp x's dash one appear correction usually footnote six See denim x's alpha the denim axa limits of the reach are unknown. Okay, so we'll get to that later within scp x's It is not necessary for scp x's to be empty for this to occur Current contents of scp x's will appear Correction usually appear scp x's or upon a nearby surface Review of high speed video indicates that these manifestations and displacements are instant placing items not produced by scp x's into scp x's Will result in their immediate displacement to a nearby surface and may or may not be accompanied by an instance of scp x's dash one Sputnote seven a bouquet not produced by scp x's dash one places scp x's May or may not be displaced no criteria or pattern have yet been discovered Walt contained in scp x scp x's dash one will remain fresh indefinitely This preservation does not persist upon removal scp x dash one plant material will begin to wilt dry out and or decay within the expected amount of time for floral cuts of prospective type slash species Replacement onto scp x will not arrest or reverse the process Beyond manifestation scp x's dash one do not appear to possess any anomalous properties Correction examination of individual components of scp x's dash one show them to be representative specimens of their respective species Uh footnote eight c addendum x alpha one x alpha gamma two two So we're really setting up that Uh addendum or those addendums. Oh, those are separate addendums. Okay, so we're setting up those addendums Discovery scp x's was one of several anomalous items footnote nine c document person of interest 7 0 7 2 9 2 4 9 dash b dash 1 5 for a complete list jesus Retrieved from an auction warehouse in boop indiana owned by person of interest 7 0 7 2 4 9 The entire the death of personal interest 7 0 7 2 4 9 during the attempted burglary at the warehouse by person Maybe persons unknown a lot of mobile task force iota 10 Codenamed dam feds to secure The building in the guise of local law enforcement before other interested parties could arrive c footnote 10 Person of interest 7 0 7 2 4 9 was responsible for obtaining numerous items of interest for the foundation between 19 Boop and 2000 boop including scp boop and scp boop and was responsible for brokering the purchase of scp Boop person of interest 7 0 7 2 4 9 was known to have similar dealings with at least three groups of interest The several clients including the foundation interested in po i 7 0 7 2 4 9's more unusual acquisitions Had held an uneasy truce regarding person of interest 7 0 7 2 4 9 I'm beginning to spoken Agreement that it was preferable to share to services rather than risk moving them all together in an attempt to secure them Exclusively the death of person of interest 7 0 7 2 4 9 While seemingly none nothing more than a burglary on a rye is still under investigation While nothing of value was taken no subsets have been apprehended the full person of interest 7 0 7 2 4 9 dossier may be available to researchers with level 500 upon submitting a request for records Oh, that's a heck of a footnote. Okay going on Certain auction lots deemed evidence were rerouted to various foundation holdings lot 76 containing scp x's Was one of several sent to site 81 Minimal documentation regarding lot 76 was recovered The only information noted for scp x's was its ability to produce scp x's dash 1 No anomalous properties were noted for the remainder of lot 76 These items were sent to site 81 for library to determine if they contain any historical value Or could provide any information regarding scp x's. All right. I've been at that for a while. Let me see what the chat says Whoo, okay. What do we how's it going gang anything that I missed we have people who made it Uh carnival made it. Hello. Yay We're here These yes the length of these critique labs depend on the length of the scp at hand An idea for an scp depends on how long the read is some guys are real Right into the end this picture for sure. Okay, so boron bigs. God damn. That's a lot of footnotes I agree. I'm going to get into that in a little bit. But first of all, oh my god, so many footnotes Uh, okay But that might be a personal thing and I'll tell you why in a minute Continuing on the discovery log Certain auction lots deemed evidence were rerouted to various foundation holdings lot 76 containing scp x's was one of several since Okay, so we did that So now we're on to addendum alpha or addendum x's alpha x's 1.05 Addendum x's alpha x's 1.05 Expand On the 21st of june 2016 two months after scp x's and the remainder of lot 76 were catalogued and remanded to safe storage in the library Library respectively an instance of scp x's that's went up here on senior researcher erica karsten's desk While she and a colleague were at lunch upon returning to her office karsten picked up the bouquet Wait, wait lunch is footnote 12 the bouquet was composed of white anemone Blossoms with you and willow cuttings Upon returning to her office karsten picked up the bouquet Number 13 designated scp x's dash what 1.05 Initially believing it to be a gift shortly thereafter Research karsten was seen to leave the administration weighing carrying scp x's dash 1.05 She attempted to gain entry to the safe store object storage area of site 81 But was denied entrance and detained by the two security officers on duty when she could not provide a reason for her presence She became increasingly belligerent when pressed for information This attitude persisting until she was subdued and relieved of scp x's dash 1.05 by security officer jade mc daniel At this point officer mc daniel returned scp x's dash 1.05 to researcher karsten Subdued security officer w nesbitt and allowed researcher karsten to proceed to safe object storage While karsten located removed the box containing scp x's from his locker officer nesbitt Managed to break away from officer mc daniel and alert site security Researcher karsten emerged to find herself confronted by a rapid response security team Who instructed her to set down both scp x's 1.05 and the box containing scp x's and back away while placing her hands on her head She complied stating only please don't put her back in there. She was so lonely scp x's dash 1.05 and the box containing scp x's were achieved by remotely controlled drones and transferred to quarantine in secure examination room A25 in the classification wing of site 81 during debriefing scp x's dash 1.06 dash 1.07 and dash 1.08 footnote 14 each composed of purple hyacinths agrimony and hazel Up here in front of karsten mc daniel and nesbitt respectively the interview rooms were quickly evacuated to permit remote retrieval and transfer of the scp x's dash 1 dash a to S e r a 25 secure examination room while leaving officer nesbitt was heard to mutter at least she was sorry about it Upon continued debriefing neither karsten nor nesbitt had any explanation for referring to scp x's as a she Okay Going on and an x's dash gamma dash x's dash 2 expand On the 24th of june 2016 so three days later At 1400 and eight minutes and 24 seconds. Wow, that's precise a total of at least a two-digit number At least a two-digit number of instances of scp x's dash 1 appeared throughout sectors four six and seven of site 81 Addendum 50 or footnote 15. These were composed of rhododendrons monks hood and penny royal Personnel the vicinity of scp x's dash 1 proceeded to retrieve them and then evacuate the sectors or retreat designated shelter in place locations While learning staff not in vicinity of scp x's dash 1 to evacuate or retreat as possible At the same time an instance of scp x's dash 1 comprised of irises appeared on researcher karsten's desk She initially attempted to retreat from her office without interacting with scp x's dash 1 But a second instance also comprised of irises appeared at her feet as she opened the door understandably reluctant researcher karsten nevertheless picked up scp x's dash 1 And after a moment proceeded to the site 81 library tucked inside the lot 76 commonplace book Put note 16 near the end of a section on fluorography Florigraphy, how do you say that word? Florigraphy, it's like choreography, fluorography Was a page from a letter it described a number of deaths following an unusual illness in a manner similar to victims of scp boop Which at the time was contained in sector 4 of the biohazards wing of site 81 at 2 p.m. And 17 minutes and 26 seconds scp boom breached containment leading to the widespread contamination of sectors 4 6 and 7 It is estimated that approximately three digits worth of casualties would have resulted had the mass scp x manifestation designated as event x gamma 1 And subsequent evacuation not occurred Since the 24th of august 2016 there have been Two-digit gamma events forewarning loss containment at site 81 Allowing for the prevention of containment loss in two digits worth of cases and minimizing casualties in the remainder of cases Each of these events have involved an scp with properties similar to something described in a piece of ephemera Or notation contained within the lot 76 commonplace book Research into the provenance of scp x's and other items comprising lots of v6 is ongoing All right, so hi everybody in case you got to the stream halfway through that read Remember to check the link of the day down below because that'll take you to where we're reading And okay, so there's a lot going on in this skip and Okay, so idea phase first Technical writing phase second. That's the easiest way to go through this so first of all We have a candle holder now I have a question right out the gate since I have the author here and that is Is there a reason that it's a silver plated bouquet holder?  So I'm very curious about that Um, do you have a silver version or are you going to change it to gold to match the picture? Uh beyond that Before I even dive into Oh god, what order do you want to attack this? Okay, so our item our item is a bouquet holder That can spawn flowers um Based on your Based on the way that this is reading. I'm very much hoping that you have A lot of like secret messages in the fluorography here because You very clearly point out a lot of different flower combinations So i'm hoping That you made a effort to like have these flowers have meanings That we can translate So beyond that So I want so yes, we're talking about the photo the color of the vase Um I want to make sure you did go in and do the fluorography Okay, so it is a direct message excellent And I like that then So it can spawn flowers in itself and they'll last forever It can spawn flowers outside itself to give a message to somebody so I assume Is there a message between the couple in victorian attire? Is that specifically just so we have a clue that it's doing like victorian flower language? Uh continuing down So yes, it spawns flowers it speaks a language it can Kind of tell the future which is another ability all on its own Because it can spawn flowers it speaks language And it can tell the future. I wonder Why it can tell the future? Just because that seems like completely different than spawning flowers and talking to people in person Like at one point it's a sentient flower because I don't know why it's sentient it could use a See this is a really interesting idea. So I've got like chew on it and work my way through it Uh, I would love a summary if you have like a high concept thought for this Uh But in the meantime, I'm trying to chew through it on my own Um So yes, I'll take this opportunity while I'm thinking to alert everybody who's new to the stream Welcome to critique lab. I read people's scp drafts And we talk about them in the chat and see if we can make them better See if we can get them ready to go up on the site Uh, we have finished our first full read through of the draft So now we are on to talking about the concept for the anomaly and the concept for the story And anything that seems weird or out of place or everything that seems good Things that would make it better things that are awesome already things we should add things we should take away So right now the commonplace book So the anomaly is the bouquet holder It's kept in a box It has a portrait of a victorian couple inside So what does the book for lot 76? Have to have with have to do with anything Uh, it doesn't appear in the description of the scp But it shows up in the addendum like this Book has to is where it sends its messages It's sending messages Using flower language. So it uses flower language Which it doesn't seem like anybody in the scp Is getting because The let me check the chat. Just in time for Valentine's Day lovely It's not so much to have future prediction as connection to unusual events from her lifetime. She encountered Who is she? Uh, is my first question is this Carson Is this uh, the person who might be dead inside this vase Tucked inside the lot 76 commonplace book was a page from a letter It described a number of deaths following an unusual Illness in a manner similar to victims of scpx's which at the time was contained in sector four and then Each of these events involved in scp with properties similar to something described in a piece of up them or your notation containing them the lot 76 commonplace book She is the lady in the victorian picture. Okay. I like that um Okay, so why doesn't this lot 76? What's the connection between her and the lot 76 book? because This lot 70 foot six book doesn't show up until the final addendum And it seems to just be a book In one of the in the site 81 library.  No worries. No hurry I'm gonna look up what a commonplace book is because maybe that has something to do with it And I just don't know what a commonplace book is So that happens to me a lot. I'm gonna warn you guys Um, the reason I do critique lab is because I want to help people I have written one scp successfully. That is scp 3086 I have written some theater scripts before in the past for like so But I'm not saying I'm the most qualified person to I'm not on like the critique staff for me. I'm not Any sort of authority. I'm just a guy who wants to help out, which is why I'm glad you guys helped me through the chat So we can like gang up on this and get as many eyes on it as possible But there's a lot of the time I miss references and It's like secret things in scp's because I'm not like I'm detailed when I make things But I'm not Detailed when I observe things I kind of gloss over things really easily So I'm like looking up what a commonplace book is And a commonplace book is a way to compile knowledge usually by writing information into books Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items. So it's kind of like a journal. It's an old timey journal from victorian age so Going back to the chat The book has a fluorography language book in it scvx was part of lot 76 so hold on so In a footnote sc so the the vase or sorry bouquet holder the I'm going to call it from now on. I'm going to call it the Posey holder I'm going to call it the posey holder The posey holder was in lot 76 with the Book from lot 76 so Discovered in lot 76 Is that The photo a collapsible fan a brooch with a pen and watch and several charge attached and a commonplace book with several items of ephemera touched throughout Okay, so Lot 76 consists of x's in its box the photo Absorbent a brooch with a pen and several times attached So this is my lord So the book contains the flower language Gang up on the gang up on this sounds good okay, so So then this woman in the posey holder I guess she's countered all of these scps in the past To then know about them and have notes on them Because okay background for everyone who doesn't know about this I just kind of glossed over it because I know about it. I've heard about it in the past but flower language Is a thing Where like if you want to communicate with someone in secret you would give them bouquets with certain arrangements of flowers and like these three Each flower and you could link the flower patterns to get send a phrase to somebody in a bouquet So like if you put this bouquet up in your house It meant someone has died and we are sad or if you're holding a bouquet at a party Only your friends who know flower language will know what that bouquet means Or so it's like a secret code in flowers So that is cool for the Uh, so that is what this bouquet is doing is it's trying to tell these people things in what's called fluorography fluorography is flower language So that's why these are all flower code. There's always it's very important that there's specific flowers because they mean things And i'm guessing that Carnival has done their homework and made sure that the flower language in each bouquet fit that way the story made sense in that sense, which is I just love details like that That is that's the kind of detail that I like putting in ahead of time because it makes the story more Infactually correct so The book that came with the bouquet Contains notes about scps That are about to breach Or it's just coincidental that she warns them About the breaches before they happen by leading them to specific scps Because right now it speaks flower language So a bouquet contains a woman She spawns bouquets that speak flower language so she can send messages And then also this woman Had a notebook of scps Like something to me it just seems kind of unrelated. It just seems kind of extra It seems but it everything has to be extra kind of these days. It has to have more of a story So that's Yeah, she not that she knows about sorry, uh, she said she knows about those specific ones because she's encountered them but by no means all scps okay, because posi woman knew about the scps that she knew about But she also had the sense to warn them to evacuate when it was about to breach Now how did she I guess I'm trying to figure out what kind of omnipresence it has because it can find people anywhere It can find It can find people within a range and affect them. They haven't figured out how far that range is I guess it can sense if because it's still in site 81, right? So it's contained in site 81 Okay, it is contained with the other items collectively known as lot 76 site 81 Okay, so there's a lot of threads of story and I don't think I'm not sure that any of them come to a full head in a way that satisfies me on the front and let me try and explain what I mean Uh So we have dead woman in a vase who speaks flower language. We're set. We have an anomaly Uh, she goes a little further that she can reach out and sense people when they're away from her She can reach out and sense scps that she saw In the past. Okay, so that's a separate thread You first got a novelist posi holder with dead woman who Speaks flower language spawns flowers and tries to tell people things It can also Control people kind of Because it controlled her to get her out of hiding because she doesn't want to be hidden. She wants to be on display So it's got a compulsion effect on people And it has Okay, so I'm gonna go back to the chat one Still phrasing this the guy that got them to the parent was done in by a third party By some bloke who dealt with other people like the foundation. Yep Maybe doesn't predict the outbreaks but he can directly manipulate the course of reality to make certain events happen It could just have amazing luck But within a limited range or degree of possibilities hence why you should predicts outbreaks predicts quote-unquote Can I check my email? Okay, I certainly can Ah a quick long notes. Okay. Lot 76 contains the items of a lady who is part of a proto foundation type group So she was an scp Precursor kind of founder thing. I hope to do more work with that idea. That is pretty mean It has notes on you. Oh, okay. You're not you don't want me to say all this Gosh darn it. Okay. Sorry Wait, I need to say all this. Otherwise the audience doesn't get what I'm doing Uh the bouquet holder itself flows good for what you're applying to her And the new study running would be the name for flower language bouquets. Oh, that's neat Combine type the agenda which would be less controlled and more glory Okay, so there is an overlying factor here. This is going to be spread out um We need to tighten this one up now so that It tells its own story without coming off Where it tells a solid story With some threads we can expand on so let's make sure it does that Okay, so we have proto foundation woman. We have Uh We need to know why she was in the flower holder. We don't need to know why it happens that happens in a lot a lot of anomalies We have flower language. We have flower spawning She has a compulsion effect on people as well I almost would I almost would rather Her spawn like a bunch of flowers in a way that it makes someone Look into fluorography so that they can translate and talk to her because You've made it clear at least to me who knows what flower language is that that's what she's doing But no one in the foundation seems to make a huge note of it like It's not in the description that it will that it will try and talk to you right So if it's not in the description, I assume that no one in the foundation realizes that it's speaking in fluorography because of that I honestly think it'd be a more interesting angle if it was just trying to talk to them in fluorography and then the compulsion effects weren't there And that would be more interesting to me anyways I know that compulsion effects are kind of a weird thing that people sometimes are kind of on and as well I mean sometimes are good, but at the same time She can speak flowers. She can spawn flowers and also she can control your brain with flowers Maybe it's a list too far Plus she has kind of an omnipresent awareness but okay um There's a side quest side story of person of interest 707 249 and I mean that footnote is ridiculous because that is the place where you're hiding this entire subplot um And I say ridiculous not that it's bad just that it's long like oh my god.  That's a long one I'm not sure who I feel about that. I don't think that happens very often I don't know if that's good or bad myself um So I think the main thing of your footnotes is you have so many footnotes because you've got really in depth into the details I I give you a lot of kudos. There's not a lot of I don't think there's really any spelling or grammar errors There might be one or two. We'll come back to it. No spag errors as it's called or I've heard it called but It's because you're so detailed and you've so got all the research down there that Just like Jesus a lot of people forget to Like I've never seen someone Like footnote a correction the way it is in the first footnote. You're like this was corrected By this person for this addendum Normally that's like up in the description see addendum blah blah blah for more details It's not normally a footnote, but it could be a footnote All right, go back to the chat for a second Persuading the mask at least to release her and then other scps What if Carson was a site 81 librarian and gets the first message while cataloging transcribing the book Uh, the author wants to know that that was the author speaking about second paragraph And yeah, if Carson is a site 81 librarian is cataloging the book and finds the message Should the message be a florist A floral message or should it be a note in the book It should it be like she's cataloging the book and a bouquet appears in the book And that would tell her oh, I should look at that Ah our author is a chemist and is used to writing scientific reports That is easy to tell my lord that is clean so Yeah, I feel like our spelling and grammar run through near the end is going to be really short I feel like it's not going to have a lot to say. It's mainly going to be this story threading so Yeah, I don't think the footnotes are bad. Um like Your all of your footnotes are pertinent and they give extra details that wouldn't be necessary in the main thing Okay, so I didn't mention this. This is my personal beef with footnotes Footnotes make reading scps terrible A footnote breaks the rhythm of making an scp reading like I do on the channel awful. I hate them so much So like I would look at your scp and I'd be like, oh my god These are so important to the story I'm probably not going to read this one because it just it doesn't flow when there's that many like wedged in footnotes as opposed to a narrative thread But that's just me as an scp reading youtuber guy That has nothing to do with story structure And again as a chemist you're writing footnotes the way you would and that's more accurate than a lot of footnotes on the wiki Anyways, most of us are just faking it Okay, so The story section we've got talking about her being a librarian and she finds it. That's interesting She can make the uh So yes, my big beef is really the compulsion in the aphorcededendom I think if we could communicate with someone who knew floriography That would be a more interesting way to get attention Like maybe she leaves a message it's ignored and so she spawns a bunch of the same bouquet With like the exact same amount of each flower in the exact same arrangement And that cued somebody like whoa, that's weird And she also happened to be reading a book about reading in the book for floriography She would like scanning the pages and so that came to mind and so she found it Because you would What's the phrase i'm looking for because if you're a librarian cataloging scps in our day and age pages that way they could be seen Once you determine that they weren't anomaly themselves that would be spread through the internet But actually you wouldn't scan the pages if you weren't if you weren't sure it was an anomaly But you would look through them and make sure that a memetics expert made sure they were not an anomaly something like that so something like she the identity she was writing in a A bouquet appeared and she thought was that was weird. So if you put it back and then She spawned it again And it's almost like you'd almost end up with an interview log for the flowers and like the interview log would be like This combination of flowers roughly translated means blank something like that Yes, the identical one sent to karson and the security guards were an apology so I almost like getting her out of the display Or out of storage and being on display I think works better As like maybe if she communicates and then over communicates Rather than compulsion But I mean that's up to you. That's just me Beyond that Okay, so we have our story that I'm going to go down straight down the page now because we have We're going down boron bigs notes that it might actually be better to move some of the information into an incident log Or an interview log somewhere um Especially the discovery footnote with person of interest actually Now that I think about it the way Person of interests footnotes Comes in That is really appropriate the way you did it like honestly now that I look at that again I like the way where the only pertinent information and discovery is about the flower bouquet The item in question But then person of interest being important is down in the footnotes So that is Super As much as I don't like the giant footnote in theory myself It is perfectly. That's the right idea.  You know your footnotes So that's exactly how it should be separating the pertinent work from the non pertinent work Okay, uh random question off topic of anything we've been talking about Is there a reason that the addendums are titled addendum X's gamma x's again. Is there a reason it's on both sides? Uh Most addendum formatting is like addendum item number And then whatever the designation is the author asks Should the contents of lot 76 be in the description? I don't think so especially if You might do more with Uh, are you all right if you're going to use the other items in a separate way Like if you're going to use them for more things later, I don't suggest it Because then later on you'll add them as they contained along with this other scp Um Especially because you say the other items collectively known as lot 76 That what addendum is that that is addendum number one And then did contain suggested by okay, so that's not regarding the items from lot 76 Perhaps Perhaps footnote one isn't super necessary at least it's not often used and then Your footnote for the containment procedures can be The items contained in lot 76 That way it's right up front These are the items that were discovered along with it That way we have those right out the gate and they're refreshing our mind These are the things that are involved That way when it comes up later that this book is getting messages from the flower base You can be like whoa, that was in the eye get it Okay, I'm just going to go through the footnotes and see what we need here Number one amended containment suggested by senior researcher Carson see addendum See addendum x is alpha x is 105 Also known as a posi or nose gate holder not good including the loop at the point and end Including the loop at the point and end is a good thing to say. It's a realistic thing to say If we're looking to trim. I don't think it's holding necessary The backstab the card reads Okay, that's good. That gives us a year It is unknown if it is retrieving or generating honestly Because it's generating specific things I almost wonder if it should be something about generating flowers to create scp x-1 instances just because I can't see how it's retrieving that many specific bouquets So maybe It is unknown if scp x is is retrieving or generating the flowers to create scp x-1 instances Might be something I would say Because it would be I don't think it would be retrieving that many identical bouquets if they existed Icy wolf wants to know if we do site 42 critique lab Regularly and so far we've done one a week on friday afternoons Schedule subject subject to change due to my day job schedule, but for now this has been a good time slot See addendum x is alpha x is out gamma The limits of scp x's reach are unknown. So that explains that Bouquet not produced by scp x's place and do it may or may not be displaced No criteria criteria or pattern have yet been discovered not number seven, I don't know if it's necessary because I don't feel as if it gives us any more information that we need footnotes See addendum So yeah, see addendum number nine see document PoIs and lines of a complete list So I assume that Maybe this poi document will come up later Or maybe it's just world building But we're talking about That poi and that person does a lot of things And then we get into their story with clients and part of probably mickey d's and Serpent's hand Their death is a mystery So honestly, I was so much ready for Like a full mystery story to come out when poi 707 249 was taken out I was like, whoa, this story is taking a radically different Tone in direction than I thought it was going to like for okay. So here's the thing with story in scp's very series four is a lot a lot of people trying to make the difference between This is a scary thing And this is a scary thing and also there's a story I guess I shouldn't say scary. I should say weird This is an anomaly and here's the story behind it because back in the series one days. It was just enough to say Here's a here's a thing. It's weird and scary. Ha ha ha So now there's more to it than that Um That by that point in your story you would explain here's a weird thing It does weird things And then this story chunk came in and I was like, whoa, there's a murder mystery and there's Uh A guy and there's stuff and he's selling things and he was murdered and we don't know who did what And I was super locked into that. I was like, oh, this is gonna be really cool. This is going in another direction We're hitting the story And then that's the end of it And I was like, whoa Okay, so we're not gonna talk about him anymore And then we got into a completely different story about your Victorian foundation precursor woman so Like you've got two whole story setups in this one But the one that I missed was the less blatant one though, which is the focus of this item This item's focus is victorian flower woman And I didn't even catch that because I was so locked into Oh my god, there's a murder mystery going on So even when I got to the following addendums, I was still wondering if the murder mystery was going to go anywhere so Right now Okay, so here's the thing Your narrative for flower woman I think especially you said you would take away the compulsion And make it more speech and that'll be interesting. She can communicate. There might be an interview A POI dude is connected, but not directly Says the author so maybe trim it down Because like It's very good It hooked me Instantly, I was ready for poi 727 or 707 249 I was ready for their story And then it stopped And I was like, oh no, what are we doing? Why are there containment breaches and magic compulsion and future telling? So like that kind of broke my brain in the reading and I think a lot of people will have that happened But again, that's that's just me. My brain's not the hardest to break Uh, I am a big fan of this scp declassified server so I can go on reddit So I can go to that subreddit and see what the heck's going on sometimes with some of these deeper scp's so Plug for scp declassified you're welcome modulum Going down the list Because god you're set up for poi 707 249 is so good So I hate to say trim it. I hate to say lose it But I want to see it given less focus than Your Victorian lady That's my main thought and I want to know how to do that Without butchering such a good idea that's there Because it's hard to write a good story hook and a good concept out the gate And that's a really interesting one to me. So I hate to butcher it in any way so Maybe if we can flesh out The compulsion effect Or flesh out the Victorian lady Find a way to get her story a little more forefront Author says there's a whole deal with the poi guy and the cooperation between the foundation and other groups Poi who's definitely part of something I'm working on in the future So yeah, that's such a good hook.  You're not gonna have the mind control You can have a different reason for any sort of sorry or something communicating But that's going to change that addendum a lot and then It'll change your second addendum a little but I think your first addendum should probably focus on the first communication finding out that it's sentient and some sort of rudimentary backstory of our object and then we get way more into the Almost like we find out that it's sentient In the first one that it can communicate through through fluorography But then in the second one we discover the relation to lot 76 and What's in its notebook and we're like, whoa, this is uh Pride and prejudice and zombies. This is Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter up in here Problem is this is a whole world This is the most straightforward item to start with I understand that I can tell you have a whole lot of story to tell I'm very very excited to hear it now so Maybe so yes, if I were to structure this Addendum one would be discovering that it can communicate discovering it is sapient And it's hard to communicate because it is Because it's speaking in fluorography. It's a limited language And then Your second addendum can be its evacuation Because it knew about it From its old days I think because it said it described a number of deaths following an unusual illness in a manner similar to victims of scpx I don't think it was I didn't think it was as linked as it could have been I think maybe her notes should be shockingly similar like these are really thorough notes on this scp we have contained And what happened to it back in the day? and that could be a Like this is how they contained it with victorian era Technology And this is how we did things. Oh my god the tales You are going to be able to tell with a victorian area foundation precursor That is so cool Evacuate flowers literally mean danger something which is you harm and flee. See that's really cool That's the world you are building. I'm so excited. I can't I'm so excited. I want to help with this So, okay, so I've been talking a lot of gibberish for the last little bit. We've been brainstorming this story uh for a while and Author do you have any leftover questions about anything because I've been going here and there and everywhere? I'm sure that Foundation researchers are going to have to watch this thing like 10 times to get my train of thought on where we should go with this And where I think anything should be Uh, that's why the story section is the hard part Because you have your ideas. I'm trying to decipher them through your story. I'm trying to decipher it through what you tell me We're trying to brainstorm together that people in the chat are trying to help out so God i'm so ready for this miniature canon of whatever you call these guys So I guess I'm kind of stalling because there's a 30 second delay in chat So I want to see if karnacle has any final questions for me to address before I go into the spelling and grammar run through Because it's always good to do one of those even though it looks heck of clean Might be something I stumble on Uh, or at least have more questions about as we run So i'm going to check the chat if anything comes up. Otherwise, I'm going to start my run through of the spag And not really any questions try some time outlining getting the agenda a little more solid coolio Let's run down the list of things that are here. Item number fine object class fine special contaminants teasers held in its original box in safe deposit a lot of on display in its original box in conjunction with other items cool ornate silver plated Okay, so I mentioned is it going to be silver or is it going to be gold? Uh, you can check to that Uh, icy wolf asks if I submitted an scp. Would you check it out? Uh, if you would like to submit an scp to the site 42 critique lab Send it to my gmail box, which is scp Site 42 at gmail.com and I would happily feature it on the show although it'll take a minimum of two weeks Uh, one scp draft is in line and then the following week I can look at it But yes submit it to scp site 42 at gmail.com and I'll gladly look at your draft in the later episode description ornate silver plated bouquet holder It is conical poxonately link poxonately seven and cross at the open end Touch roughly the midpoint find silver chain 10 meter length change remains in the silver pin Which can be inserted small hole into the open and serving to secure bouquet placed within open recovery upon recovery As we actually named the velvet line hinge wooden box with the initial e-card into the lid But also contain the cabinet card see that's good details. I love it. There's an e-card in the lid It's got a target quarter my chateau lane is written on the plot back collects two bouquets spontaneously manifested Okay, so anywhere you say hmm So anywhere you say scp xxx-1 In my head The word instances should usually follow that scp xxx x-1 instances vary in composition generally consisting of at least three different floral components Instances appear Usually appear within So you might be able to add the word instances Either after dash one or instead of using the number to change your repetition That might help I own the actual item. It is silver. I don't know why it's photographing gold. What? No, are you serious that? Okay, so it must be like an old-timey silver under like a yellow light So you might just need to change the lighting Uh Christian in the chat. It's a real thing Yes, ha hashtag scp's are real. Oh, no Huzzah Yay jokes Okay, so continuing on Yeah, it's probably like a light I can see where you might want to use like natural light from a window to get a whiter light Rather than a yellow light from like a light bulb that will probably make the difference And no, no, that's what it is.  That's exactly what we're doing It's it's blue and black. It's white and gold. Oh, no, the dress is back All right, so we're gonna talk about whether to use instances or not Need different sentences Is not necessary for it to be empty for this to occur Contents current contents will appear usually appear next scpx is or upon a service Review by speaking video in case these manifestations and displacements are instance placing I have not produced by scpx and xpx immediate displacement to a nearby service may or not be accompanied by an instance cool Dear god, oh, I think those are the right terms cool While containing scpx, we're running fresh indefinitely. This preservation does not persist upon removal Of the will placement and that and the rest of the investigation not most properties Examination into all right. So beyond manifestation svx's dash one do not appear to possess anomalous properties Examination of individual components should be representative specials Okay, so you that may or may not get striped through depending on if you take away The compulsion effect So you'll decide on that you'll decide how that works um So constantly in the scp When you strike through something You show me what it replaces So you strike through appear in the paragraph above and this they usually appear you do it again strike through appear Then say usually appear But in this one you say beyond manifestation scpx's dash one do not appear to possess anomalous properties But then you don't say what you're replacing it with and so that confused me because You went on to say examination of individual components of scpx's dash one show them be represented specimens of their respective species Which is a separate idea. You didn't replace the strike through on that one So in my mind that consistency Just in future reference for other writers You want to make sure you're consistent in anything you do if you do it once Do it again if you don't do something continue not to do it Make sure that the rules stay the same throughout your writing Uh, for instance, every time I record an scp It is my Very specific rule that I say every digit of a number of an scp As an individual digit When i'm speaking as an official researcher But when I play a mobile task force member or a d-class i'll shorten it. So scp 3086 Is official scp 3086 Is casual and so I make sure every time I read a document It is one of those two things depending on what i'm reading and consistency make sure that your story stays coherent Okay, cool. So yeah, that's just a note for any writer who's doing anything Discovery scpx's was one of several of those items retrieved from an auction warehouse in blank illinois Indiana, sorry owned by a person of interest 707 249 who I'm so dreadfully interested in the ultimately death of this person of interest During an attempted burglary at the warehouse by persons unknown allowed mobile task force I would attend damp as secure the building the guys who look law enforcement before other interested parties could arrive Um, okay, so i'm curious. I got a story question now about this cool guy who we don't know about Well, nothing of value was taken.  Okay. That was my question is was anything missing Was anything? What's the deal? Could do we know if anything's missing? Is it unknown if anything's missing because nobody was there when he died? Uh christian mentions that Maybe not a compulsion but a cognitive hazard kind of forcing people making people want to learn fluorography Without them realizing it. I don't think that's necessary. I think it's really more interesting if like maybe karson Maybe not even researcher karson or maybe the librarian doesn't know But then the librarian is looking at the fluorography page of the book when a bouquet appears And because that ticks in their brain, they have to hunt down somebody who can Interpret it and that person is dr. karson So maybe Or maybe dr. karson is the librarian who also has an interest in fluorography or maybe karson is the librarian and they phrase i'm looking for karson is the librarian sees the fluorography and begins studying it because of that Or they give it to a researcher on the This item's research team and they that person on the research team becomes the interviewer or This person becomes the head of that research team because they are a piece of that research team because they communicate with it So your character is there you can play that out with who knows what and why Having the librarian all having the librarian get the message because they know fluorography seems I don't want to be too coincidental that the person already knows it. So having them learn it Might be good, especially because it's not terribly complex So if the person the librarian finds it and studies it they can then become an ancillary member of the team Because they can communicate with it or they can teach the team because it's not that hard something like that Because then lot 76 would be given to the research team and so it would be part of the team At that point because they wouldn't keep it in a separate area If lot 76 was all related to This scp it would all of a sudden become Part of the scp's containment procedures just in case something was needed Okay continuing on with the spag reading


Bloating and anxiety are two of the most common conditions I treat clinically and what's interesting is that there is no surprise that they occur together in Chinese medicine because the pathological emotion, can we say, over the spleen is rumination, thinking, or anxiety sometimes people translate it as. And bloating is often one of the key symptoms of spleen-chee deficiency, the pancreatic insufficiency or pancreatic enzyme issues. So in this video I thought I would share five of the most commonly used herbs we use to treat this pattern. And I will say don't watch this video and just take them because we never take these herbs just single herbs. They're always in formulas and you shouldn't self-prescribe them. So let's talk about what they are. Hey guys, Dr. Alex Hain, author of the health book Master of the Day and Doctor of Chinese Medicine. So before we jump in I have two very important links right below this video. The first is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine, you can reach out to my private practice right below this video. There's also a free guide I've put together for daily rituals that could potentially help you add years to your life with Chinese medicine. So check that out right below this video. Now the first herb we very commonly use in this pattern is called Baidu. So Baidu Latin name is attractalodes and here's what one of our herbal texts says about the quality of this herb. Baidu tonifies the spleen and augments the chi for spleen or stomach deficiency which such symptoms as diarrhea, fatigue, shallow or pale complexion and lack of appetite. Baidu in formulas we often use for bloating and abdominal fullness, often for people that often have body aches and body pain as well interestingly enough. But Baidu is one of those herbs when you drink it, you can feel it actually drying out your tongue in the moment. And so what it is is for people that have a lot of mucus and a lot of saliva, people who have spleen issues from our perspective often have phlegm in the throat. So they'll eat a meal and they'll always be clearing the throat. That's a dead ring or giveaway symptom for someone needing Baidu. The second herb is called fuling or poria. Now fuling is a very cool fungus like plant that grows the base of pine trees and if there are these amazing videos on YouTube fuling farmers and they'll actually stick a spike into the base roots of pine trees to find if a little white speck comes up and fuling actually grows I think it's maybe parasitic or synergistic I'm not sure but it may be one of these commensal relationships where that pine tree gets something and fuling gets something. Here's a description of fuling from an herbal text of ours. So fuling's Latin name is poria and fuling strengthens the spleen and harmonizes the middle burner aka the digestion for spleen deficiency compounded by dagnus with such symptoms such as loss of appetite, diarrhea, and epigastric distention. Now what's distinct about fuling is we often use it for insomnia as well as dizziness or vertigo and symptoms like that. So it's often used more specifically for anxiety than Baidu is along with other herbs. But it is for the same epigastric fulness, bloating, water retention, it is a mild diuretic so it falls into the same category of herbs that regulate the stomach and the spleen. The third herb is ganjang also known as dried ginger. The Latin name for this one is zinjibur aficionalis and from our herbal text it is an herb that warms the middle and expels cold for warming the spleen and stomach both in conditions of excess cold as well as cold from deficiency due to weak yangchi. So this is basically weak digestive function. It also dispels dampness that seeps into the lower burner. So ganjang ginger we use at a high dose dried and not only does it work on the digestive system for example it increases stomach acid for people that have no appetite easily get indigestion, a lot of abdominal or stomach fullness. But on top of that, there was this line about seeps into the lower burner the lower jaw is basically urination or reproductive. When the reproductive system is affected by damp cold for example in women you see vaginal discharge and yeast symptoms, not just bloating yeast symptoms, but chronic discharge. So it's very common to see for women. And that's an example of we would use ganjang at a high dose along with some of these other herbs to help dry the damp. The fourth herb is called panics ginseng or ginseng wrenching. Now according to our herbal texts, ginseng is said to powerfully tonify the primal chi for extreme conditions I manifest in shallow breathing, shortness of breath, cold limbs, profuse sweating, and a pulse that is almost imperceptible. It strengthens the spleen and tonifies the stomach for lethargy, lack of appetite, chest and abdominal distension and chronic diarrhea. So ginseng we use in many different formulas but the most common ones in ancient times were for strengthening the stomach and the spleen, as well as replenishing fluids. So interestingly enough, ginseng in more modern times has been used in the way we use aconite another very, very strong herb has been used for these kind of extreme exhaustion conditions like they call young collapse in modern TCM textbooks, or young inversion. And what is interesting is that in ancient times it was used almost like an IV antibiotic use wrenching when there's vomiting conditions, when there's excessive vomiting or excessive diarrhea, you use it like an IV fluids pack to replenish those fluids where someone could die acutely, like in cholera or dysentery, we're having massive diarrhea and it could be life threatening very, very fast. This herb can be used for more energy, even though some people will feel more tired on it. So it can be used for more energy, often in digestive conditions, and is often used just to boost your chi so to speak, but people will experience more energy on it, if it's properly prescribed. Now the fifth herb we use for GI conditions often is cinnamon, Guajou. So cinnamon, Latin name, cinnamonum casia, according to our herbal texts, it warms the young and transforms thin mucus for lack of transformation of fluids due to young deficiency with symptoms such as edema with urinary dysfunction, dizziness or palpitations. So Guajou we use for many, many things, probably dozens, if not hundreds of patterns, but primarily what it does is when someone is prone to being run down, or they have weak yang, so we call it a weak constitution, or weak digestive function genetically, you really need formulas that not only regulate the stomach and spleen, but strengthen the actual overall person. And that's why we use herbs like ginseng or Guajou to actually strengthen the overall functioning of the whole body. So we call that strengthening the yang. And some people are constitutionally weak yang chi. So they have weak yang, which is why they're prone to these chronic issues that the average person may develop for a short time within the body can handle it. They have a stronger constitution. They're more able to deal with that and not suffer these chronic, long-term, low-grade symptoms. So that is weak yang and Guajou is one of the main herbs we use to strengthen that, along with these other herbs, Baiju, Fuling, etc. So those are five very commonly used herbs, both for GI conditions like bloating, SIBO, as well as anxiety. And again, I have more info on this on some of these related videos, and don't forget to check out that free download right below this video.


Hey friends, welcome back to my channel. So today I'm basically just taking you along with me while I'm working in the kitchen. There's not a lot of huge structure to this day other than I just had a couple different things I needed to get done, some meals I needed to get prepped, just knocking stuff off my list. So if you're in those shoes and you're going to get some motivation or inspiration out of this video to get your to-do list done, then I'm glad you're here. I'm starting out this day by putting a spaghetti squash into the oven. I want to encourage you all to experiment with squashes. We are in a fall season right now and squash can be so good for you. And for some people, it's just a matter of learning how to cook with them. So once I had the squash in the oven, I pulled out a bunch of vanilla beans. I have been needing to start some more bottles or jars of vanilla beans. It takes about six months to a year for vanilla to extract in a alcohol and that's what I'm going to be using to extract today. And I got these tubes from Costco. If you all watched my Costco haul, I don't know if it was the last video or the video before that. These are from Costco. I did decide though that I wanted to start more vanilla than what I had initially got at Costco. So I got the second pack from Amazon. I can leave them linked below in case you want to try this yourself. So basically you want to have about five vanilla beans for every cup of extracting liquid, whatever you're going to use. I think there's more options than using just alcohol out there. You can definitely look that up. If you want to do an alcohol free version. But I just went ahead and got a gluten free alcohol to extract and just fill up the jars. These jars work so great. They're the perfect size for the vanilla beans.  I do like to let mine sit a whole year. I know some people will pull them sooner than that but I definitely think they need a whole year. So I get to show you a new toy in my kitchen. And that is this spice grinder. I found it on Amazon and it works so well. Plus it has a stainless steel cup which I am so big on. I really love finding things that aren't plastic or coated metals. And I decided to try it out my first time using it. With black peppercorns. And this I want to be able to just grind this as I need to fill my little canister and my pepper shaker and just kind of grind as I need. And this works so well. I've actually been even using it for herbs and things like that to powder them. And the little stainless steel cup detaches and it's dishwasher safe. So it's just so easy. I love this thing. I can't believe I haven't had one sooner. It works so well.  I can leave that link below too. I found that on Amazon as well. And we just love having fresh ground black pepper on hand. It's so delicious. And I just think that it elevates recipes so well. So once your spaghetti squash has roasted and I usually do mine at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes you wanna flip it over and let it start to cool unless you're gonna eat it right away. But I'm gonna use this in a recipe. So I wanted it to cool down before I started handling the squash. So I've been experimenting a lot with oat flour. If you don't know part of our family is gluten free. Not everybody. So you see a mixture of recipes here on my channel. But I really wanted to start using more oat flour because first of all, it's very accessible. As you can see here, I'm making my own in my blender. But also it's just a really healthy version. A lot of gluten free flours have extra starches and gums and just, I don't know, not always the most healthy ingredients. And so I've been experimenting with using this for a lot of different things. You can even make a pizza crust with oat flour which I haven't tried yet, but I really would love to try. So I just went ahead and pre-blended or ground a bunch of the oat flour. And we're gonna make some blueberry muffins with this oat flour. And spoiler alert, these muffins were unreal. My husband doesn't even really like muffins and he even thought that they were really, really good. So if you just want a good, healthy muffin option, I can't recommend this recipe enough. I will leave it in the description box below. It's got very low sugar. You can add an alternate sweetener if you want to and it's pretty heavy on the blueberries which I think is part of what makes it really good. Of course, you're getting an extra added serving or two of fruit, which is amazing. So I just did the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet ingredients in another. So the eggs and some oil and you can use a nut milk or you can use regular milk. I'm just using some raw, organic milk here. And I just whisked the wet ingredients separate from the dry ingredients. And there is some of my homemade vanilla. I also put some homemade lemon extract in this as well. I think that lemon extract is so great in blueberry muffins just because it helps to give a, I don't know, another note besides the vanilla and the blueberry. And it just gives a more complex flavor that we really enjoy. So then I just combine the batter and as you can see, I'm just hand mixing all of this. You could get out your mixer and mix it in your mixer as well. It just was really simple to mix together by hand. And then I pulled out my jumbo, I think, that's what they're called, jumbo muffin tins. This is just the size I always think muffins should be. I think in the past I've made some mini muffins, but sometimes they kind of dry out when they're in a mini form. So I just love using them and then using these brown paper liners. They work great because once you have the muffin, which you'll see when my daughters are eating them here after a little bit, you can just open up that wrapper and it makes a nice little plate and you don't have to get out extra dishes. Kind of comes with its own container. So I just divvied out the batter into 12 jumbo muffins. So like I said, I had a lot going on this day. I was pulling out some canned shredded chicken out of my pressure canner. And then I was reloading it here in a little bit with some chicken broth. So we'll get there, but I wanted to pull out my embossing labeler and get a label on this canister because I definitely feel like oat flour is a new staple in my kitchen and I like having it ready to go for me in a canister. So like I said, I had some chicken broth. So what I like to do, and I've shown this on camera before, I was just kind of going through my day in this video and not necessarily showing every little aspect of this process because I have shown it before, but I like to roast up my chickens. So I did three in my big roaster and then I shred the chicken and put that into their own jars and canned that separately from the broth. And then I take the broth and I put that in two jars for chicken broth. And we make rice with this, obviously soups. It's such a versatile product and you're able to control the ingredients when you make it yourself at home, which I really love.  And then you just wanna go ahead and follow the instructions for your pressure canner for how long you wanna pressure can broth. And so I just had that going. When I'm gonna be in the kitchen all day, I really do like to have a project like that where maybe I'm just keeping an eye on it, something in the oven, something on the stove top, so I can just watch it as I'm doing other things. So my muffins were ready to come out. Oh, these are so good. As I'm recording this voiceover, we actually ate them all and I need to make another batch. The girls just blew through them and they were also good, even sliced in half with a little bit of butter spread on them. Just delicious. So as you can see, the girls couldn't even wait until these were cold.  So they sat at our homeschool table in our sunroom and enjoyed a healthy, delicious snack. Watching your children enjoy the things that you make is one of the biggest rewards when you're someone that cooks a lot from home. So the next thing I wanted to prep was some rice and I actually used what I had left from filling my canner of the chicken broth. So I went ahead and just put that in with the rice, put some salt in and cooked that up and then I also got some meat going. So I wanted these things prepped for some really quick tacos this week and that way we just had to heat it up and we were good to go for a meal. And I'm using my homemade taco seasoning. I think somewhere in the last two videos, I shared my taco seasoning recipe and while those things were on the stove cooking, we're gonna go back to focusing on the spaghetti squash. This is probably one of my personal favorite recipes. I love this. A couple of years ago, I came across this recipe or something very similar and I love to recreate it. So I just melted about a half a stick of butter in a bowl. I'm adding some seasoning, some nutritional yeast, about a cup of sour cream and I'm just mixing that all together. I'm going to add in some of my home canned diced tomatoes and then I'm going to also add in some home canned chicken just to give some protein. And if you've never made a spaghetti squash, I feel like the first time you make one, it's just so mesmerizing. It's so amazing because we're so used to seeing spaghetti pasta pre-made but you just take a fork into the squash and kind of loosen up the sides and you will see how the spaghetti just starts to appear and it looks just like spaghetti. But in my opinion, it tastes so much better than spaghetti. It has a very, very buttery flavor. I always love pairing butter with this squash because it just matches the flavor. It's so delicious. We actually eat spaghetti squash often with just some melted butter over it, plain. But in this recipe, obviously I'm creating kind of a sauce for it and you can tweak the surround. I just kind of use what I had on hand to make kind of a creamier sauce. And once you have the whole works combined, you can put it into a pan. This actually would make a really excellent freezer meal as well. And I love giving you guys freezer meal ideas and things you can put in your freezer and prep ahead of time. And this one is a great freezer meal option. And if you wanted to use like a dairy-free sour cream, you could totally do that. And another thing you could also do is add more dairy by topping it with like a shredded cheese. This time, I just wanted to keep things really simple and I just put it into a pan to be put in the oven sometime throughout the week. And I did not top it with cheese. I just left it untopped and we still loved it and enjoyed it. And there's just something about having a creamy sauce with those pops of tomato in it that is so delicious to me. So as we are winding down with the food preservation season, I would love to hear your favorite thing that you canned or froze or preserved this year in the comments. Let me know what has been your favorite thing, whether it was your favorite thing to actually do. Was it exciting to do or do you just really love the way that it tastes or the way it turned out? So back to the rice here, I am just adding a little jar of tomato sauce to this just to kind of make a, I don't know if you wanna call it mexi rice and I'm adding some smoked paprika just to give it a little bit more flavor. And I'm gonna put these things just into a storage container and put it in the fridge. And I love having glass storage containers because if I wanna pop it in the oven to reheat it, I can. Or if I wanna pop it in the microwave, we haven't always had a microwave. We do right now, but I just love that in a glass container you don't have to have a microwave to reheat it if you don't want to, you can put it in the oven. So here I'm pulling out my broth and this is so rewarding. It's just, I love having home canned broth. It's so delicious and the flavor just tops anything store bought and it's really easy to make. You can even freeze broth by the way if you're not someone that cans things. But thanks a lot for hanging around with me today. I, it wasn't a huge video, but I thought you know what, I'm gonna be working in the kitchen. I'm gonna turn on my camera and share with you all what I'm working on. And if you are new here, hit that subscribe button for a lot more content like this. Leave me a comment below and I'll see you guys in my next video.


Hey everyone, this is Dr. Ruscio. Let's talk about food allergy testing and if food allergy testing can help those with Hashimoto's with thyroid autoimmunity. And I'd like to thank Dr. Nick Hedbert for making me aware of this study. I'll put the abstract of this study up here on the screen. And this study was entitled, evaluation of correlations between food specific antibodies and clinical aspects of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. So the question here really is, is if you have thyroid autoimmunity, which is the most common cause of hypothyroidism, might you have higher levels of food allergies and could a food allergy test tell you those food allergies and then could avoiding those foods help reduce your thyroid autoimmunity and thus help with the function of your thyroid and hopefully your symptoms? And according to this study, no. And let me quote a few pieces from this study. There was no significant correlation between any of the 12 increased food specific antibodies, including gluten along with gluten and clinically important phenotypes such as thyroid hormone levels or thyroid antibody levels or symptoms. So essentially what they found to state that more clearly is that there was an equal elevation in healthy controls as there was in those with thyroid autoimmunity. So those with Hashimoto's had some elevations of certain food allergies and healthy controls had certain elevations of food allergies. And here's how the allergens skewed in terms of most common allergen all the way down through the least common allergen. Milk was the most, milk and eggs were the most, followed them by grains, followed them by nuts, followed them by legumes, followed them by fruits, certain fruits and vegetables and then finally by fish, then seafood, then meat and then coffee and tea. So what we see here, milk, eggs, grains, nuts and legumes were the most common food allergens detected, but there was no difference, meaning there were not any more food allergies detected in those with thyroid autoimmunity. Now what's funny about this, and what you may have heard me say previously is that I don't use food allergy testing because we've figured out, meaning the scientific and dietary community at large has figured out what the most common food allergens are and these are depicted in one of a handful of readily available diets, one of which is a paleo diet. So one could go on a paleo-like diet and depending on the version of the paleo diet that you do, you would be cutting out milk, maybe eggs, definitely grains and legumes and potentially nuts, depending on if you do kind of your regular paleo or the more strict, more avoidant version of the paleo diet known as the autoimmune paleo diet. And both of these are fairly easy to obtain a food list for on the internet or in my book. It's not like, if you're not familiar with these things, they're not hard to find and figure out what to eat and what not to eat. Now, here's something that I think is important, which is we have evidence showing that essentially a paleo-like diet was used in one clinical trial and did show the ability to lead to a 40 to 44% reduction in thyroid peroxidase and thyroid globular antibodies. So we do have documentation that avoiding foods that are commonly known to be problematic can improve thyroid autoimmunity, but you don't need to do an expensive blood test to document a food allergy to justify avoidance of the food. By the time you went to the doctor's office or the lab, drew the blood, waited for the results to come back and then started your diet, you could already be three weeks into a trial on a paleo-like diet and ostensibly feeling better. So skip the testing, go right to an elimination diet to see if you feel better avoiding some of these foods. Now, it's also important to mention that in the same study that I mentioned a moment ago that showed the 42, 44% reduction in thyroid antibodies on a paleo-like diet, there was also suggestion that these patients may have suffered from a degree of carbohydrate malabsorption. And now, what does that mean? It means you don't absorb carbohydrates well, just as the label implies. So this opens the door to the possibility that these Hashimoto's patients may also do well on a lower FODMAP diet, which reduces foods that feed bacteria. And there's a fairly impressive initial body of data, preliminary data showing a correlation between small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and thyroid autoimmunity. Also, one study showing a correlation between AIDS pylori and thyroid autoimmunity, but I think there's more impressive data looking at the association and documenting the association between small intestinal bacterial overgrowth SIBO, which will make you sensitive to FODMAPs and thyroid autoimmunity.  It's actually not that complicated. What you want to do is heal your gut, because if you can heal your gut and improve the health of your gut, then you can arguably improve the health of your thyroid. Is it a guarantee? No, but we know that the gut is very impactful on your immune system because you do harbor the largest density of immune cells in your entire body in the small intestine. So if you can fix your gut, as this one study has shown with the utilization of a paleo-like diet, you may see a 40 to 44% reduction in thyroid antibodies. Now to build on that, perhaps if you go low FODMAP, that could help you even more. And perhaps if you treat an AIDS pylori or SIBO or just went through an antimicrobial protocol to help clean out any excess or imbalanced bacteria, you may improve further yet still. And certainly that's something I see in the clinic somewhat frequently. I've seen that enough now. I've seen enough patients who after improving the health of their gut and treating some type of dysbiosis or bacterial overgrowth, some patients, and we've documented some of this on a clinical newsletter, have been able to reduce the dose of their thyroid medication, but feel better at the same time. So a lot here I'm giving to you kind of in rapid fire, but it all comes down to the bottom line of an important practice in optimizing your thyroid health is improving the health of your gut. And the book that I've written, Healthy Gut Health of You is the most comprehensive roadmap I could offer you in improving your gut health and attempts to improve your thyroid health. So remember that if you're confronted with a decision to perform a food allergy test, I would save that money and just go right into a dietary trial. Again, my book will help you with knowing how to perform these dietary trials. And that could, again, keep money in your pocket and get you to the end result more quickly. So yes, there is an association between gut health and thyroid, but no, you don't need to spend money on expensive food allergy testing to obtain the benefits of the diet gut thyroid connection. So this is Dr. Ruscio and hopefully this information helps you get healthy and get back to your life. Thanks.


I escaped a shallow water. Well, Prime Minister Schluter, Mrs. Schluter, and distinguished visitors, welcome to the White House. It's been a pleasure to have you as our guest, as one would expect between close allies. Our meeting today, the Prime Minister, was straightforward, useful, and reflected the genuine friendship of our countrymen. I was happy to have had the opportunity to congratulate you, Prime Minister Schluter, on the success that you've had in your country in putting in place economy-building measures, including a far-reaching tax reform program. I can well imagine how difficult that task has been. Our efforts at tax reform remind me of one of Denmark's better-known fairy tales. When I talk about reforming the tax shelter or system, I can visualize a beautiful swan. All the special interest is an ugly duckling. I think the national debate over tax reform reflects the strength and soul of our democracy. The outcome is still in doubt. Every citizen is free to participate in the decision-making process. All sides are going to the people to muster support, and once the issue has been voted on and settled, there will be no recriminations. The losers won't be sent to some gulag. Everyone, winners and losers, will feel proud to live in a country committed to freedom of speech and press and dedicated to the principles of representative government. This is what binds not just Americans, but the free citizens of all lands, especially the people of our two countries. That bond is evident in so many ways. Perhaps the most impressive is in the magnificence of one of the resounding monuments to American freedom, the great stone carvings on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, there the son of Danish immigrants, Gutsen Borglum, immortalized in granite the faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln. He died before he saw the completion of his work, but his son carried on, and today it stands as a tribute to the flame of liberty that burns red hot in the soul of a man with roots in America and Denmark. One of the greatest threats to freedom is that it will never be taken for granted. Pardon me, I should say it will be taken for granted is the threat. It never should be. But there are many reasons for confidence, and a story I came across recently truly inspired me and I'd like to share it with you. Ms. Drake is here in the audience who brought this story to my attention. Natalia and Nells Mortensen, both in their 80s, live in a small town of Marstall in the island of Arrow in Denmark. For the last 40 years, they have been tending the grave, the grave site of a young man they never met. They dig the weeds out, they place flowers, red, white, and blue ones on the grave, and always there is a small American flag and when it gets too worn, they replace it with another. They're watching over the final resting place of US Air Force Sergeant Jack Elwood, Wagner, who died when his plane was shot down off the coast of that island, fell into the sea after a bombing raid over enemy territory on June 20, 1944. Jack Wagner's body washed up on shore in occupied Denmark 18 days after his bomber crashed and the word spread quickly. When the Nazi occupation troops finally arrived to bury the young American, they found nearly the whole town of 2,000 had been waiting at the graveyard since early that morning to pay tribute and homage to the young American flyer. The path had already been lined with flowers and when the enemy troops they incidentally had removed his identification before the troops had arrived. When the troops had laid him in his grave and left, then the townspeople placed two banners of red, white, and blue flowers on the grave. They conducted a funeral service. One of the banners had a ribbon which read, Thank you for what you have done. Jack Wagner was a 19-year-old American from Snyder County, Pennsylvania. They'd never met him, yet the people of the small town, thousands of miles from his home, felt they knew him because they said he was a young man who gave his life for their freedom. The mortals have attended his grave four decades now, just as if he were a member of the family. We invited them to be here tonight, but they wrote and told me that at their age they didn't believe that they could take on such a long trip. But Jack Wagner's sister is here tonight. Mrs. Wall, would you stand for just a second and let us? She has been to Denmark to meet the Martinsons and to thank them for what they've done. Let all of us learn from their devotion. After our meeting today and the heartfelt gulb will of this evening, I think we can all be certain that in the future our two peoples will continue to stand side by side as members of the same family, the family of free people. Incidentally I should have added that with the age of the Martinsons, the village in which they live has already officially made it plain that when they can no longer care for the grave, the village will take it over as an official function of that village. So I think we shall have two toasts tonight. First a toast to Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, to the Queen. And would you also join me in a toast to Prime Minister and Mrs. Schluter and to our Danish friends and allies? Pete Rose has been at bat twice and he hasn't hit yet. Mr. President, Mrs. Reagan, my wife and I shall never forget the beautiful, welcoming ceremony and your kind words this morning. And this splendid evening will also belong to our dear memories. We are most grateful for your invitation and warm reception. And so Mr. President, are the Martinsons from the small village. They would have liked very much to join us tonight, but they have asked us to present you with a small gift and I'm very proud to do so tonight on their behalf. Mr. President, may I begin by a self-censored remark? This is not my habit. The 10th of September has a special domestic significance for me because on this day, three years ago exactly, I assumed my present duties as Prime Minister of Denmark. Please forgive me for the sort that tonight is also a birthday party for me. And thank you very much, Mr. President, for having invited so many distinguished guests. Mr. President, the United States and Denmark have maintained diplomatic relations for almost 185 years and we Danes like to believe, and I think it is true, that we have a longer uninterrupted relationship with the United States than any other country. But far more important than the duration of the official relationship is the fact that within the framework of officialdom, there are innumerable personal ties between Americans and Danes and strong bonds of common values. The idea of America as the land of milk and honey and the land of freedom and of opportunity is deeply ingrained in our consciousness. So is the idea of America as a partner in cooperation. In today's world of interdependence and worldwide problems, we are aware that the problems must be met by common effort. Concepts as freedom, democracy, respect for human rights are living realities in our societies, however imperfect they may seem. In 49, our countries became formal allies. At that time, and I think this is important, nobody could foresee that Western Europe was about to enjoy an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity. The basis for this has been the close cooperation between the United States and Europe, originally under the auspices of the European Recovery Program, which led to the establishment of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, and not least in NATO, which remains the indispensable basis for our security and for our endeavors to conduct a constructive dialogue with the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe. I have been told that the presidential seal for George Washington was designed by a Danish-born artist, Christian Gulager, who spent most of his life in the United States. The olive branch and arrows of the vigilant eagle of the seal symbolize the basic foreign policy of the United States, peace based on security. Last year in May, the NATO countries adopted the Washington statement on East-West relations. This statement embodied the symbols of your seal, Mr. President, in saying that we, on the basis of adequate strength, will strive for a constructive dialogue with the Warsaw Pact countries in order to achieve genuine deterrent. We see your meeting, Mr. President, with Secretary General Gorbachev in two months' time in this perspective. As I said, the great opportunities of this country have attracted many Danes. In the 19th century, a small but tough group of Danish immigrants went west, all the way to the west coast. I believe you had to be very tough to get as far as that. In Santa Barbara area of California, they bought 10,000 acres of land and they built a lovely small town called Solvang, sunny meadows. I understand, Mr. President, when you ride on horseback, your ranch in the skies is separated from this little piece of Denmark only by the Santa Jinnets River. We think this is delightful thought and would be glad to let the distance across the narrow Santa Jinnets River, rather than the vast Atlantic Ocean, symbolize the distance between our countries. We consider the United States our very good and close neighbor. Let me conclude by proposing a toast to the well-being of the President of the United States of America and Mrs. Reagan, and to continuous, close cooperation and a strong friendship between our countries and governments. Thank you.


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My name is Delia Grace and I'm a veterinary epidemiologist and I first came to Illry in 2002 when I was being interviewed for a doctorate in an Illry project in West Africa. So I came for the interview. I was interviewed by John McDermott and Tom Randolph and I'm happy to say that I was successful and that I was awarded the position which was to go and study trapanoside resistance in West Africa. So it was just over three years on that project and I was working on trapanoside resistance but with the emphasis on the farm level what farmers were doing and how this was contributing to the problem and what we could do to help farmers make other choices and change their behaviour so that they were still able to treat their animals but they were getting less trapanoside resistance. After that I then came to Illry as a joint appointment with Cornell University working on food safety. Illry had done some work on food safety, in fact from a veterinary public health perspective was the first work Illry did on food safety, looking at milk, meat, the classical genosis and then they had done some really interesting work which was around why food safety as a constraint to market access. So as a veterinarian we tend to think of food safety as a problem which we want to solve and the people in Illry were more coming from the perspective of that worrying about food safety was a problem that they wanted to solve because it was blocking small holder access to markets. So that was kind of interesting and a kind of a different way of thinking about a problem and I think then when I came the emphasis was more food safety as a constraint so this was the start of a new problem, a new program looking at food safety as a constraint to human health and development in the broadest sense so not only blocking people from getting to markets but also sickening and killing them and that was an interesting work. So the last five years then were very interesting because we saw this dedicated group which was looking at for the first time at human health and nutrition and the intersection with livestock, we saw that group being closed down because it was decided that this was not relevant to the CGIR. And then we saw a new group like a phoenix coming from the ashes which was completely focused on human health and nutrition and this was not just Illry but the other centres coming together under this process of change that the CGIR has been going through that the centres come together to work on fewer bigger problems and have more impact. So one of these programs is on agriculture for human health and nutrition which has got about probably about half or over half of the program deals on nutrition and that's being mainly led by IFPRI and then about a quarter of the program deals with diseases, the diseases like food safety and zoonosis and other problems which are associated with agriculture and that's now being led by Illry. This is a demand driven program in as much as there is growing consensus that the problems, the health associated problems of agriculture cannot be solved by human health alone. So but in the past the approaches to these problems have been very top down, very monosectoral and while there is a space has now opened to bring in agricultural research to bear on problems of human health, it's not really clear what is the comparative advantage, what we should be doing, what we can do best, which other people can't do and yes and how, what and how we need to work. So the moment there's been a lot of workers around strategizing and planning and thinking and finding partnerships and seeing where we, in this kind of fairly crowded arena where CTR centres can be best placed and be most effective. We've already identified some key issues and key problems which one of them being Rift Valley fever and emerging diseases, another being the whole area of food safety and informal markets, these markets where poor people buy and sell most of their food and where safety is not very high but regulation and legislation has absolutely failed to have any impact on food safety so we see that as a key area. But cross cutting is this whole area of generating evidence because at the moment although we know there are lots and lots of problems out there we don't know which are the big ones, which are the small ones, which ones are there in certain circumstances and not in others and what can be done about them. So coming up with that kind of evidence and those sorts of new tools, new metrics which enable us to measure and to understand will be a key part of this new program.