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In this episode, we dive into the world of virtual production with Meredith Brace Sloss and Jess Marley from Halon Entertainment. They share insights from their work on The Mandalorian, Pinocchio, and other groundbreaking projects

Sound Wave Podcast 116 April 2024 hosted by James Halon Tracklist: 01. Dachshund - Hidden Echoes (Original Mix) [Poker Flat Recordings] 02. Erdi Irmak - Attitude (Club Mix) [90watts] 03. James Halon - ID 04. DP-6 - Seduction [DP-6 Records] 05. DIM KELLY, Maya Safar - Nuit D'Amour (Original Mix) [All Day I Dream] 06. Figueras - Walking in Circles (Diego Moreira Remix) [3rd Avenue] 07. Ákos Győrfy - Haunted (James Halon Remix) [Massive Harmony Records] 08. Enamour - The Quieter You Are (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] 09. Pedro Sanmartin - Tossa [Sound Avenue] 10. CCB - Tired Eyes [DP-6 Records] 11. M-Sol DEEP, La-Thief - Gray (Original Mix) [M-Sol DEEP] 12. Warung - En El Amor (Extended Mix) [When We Dip XYZ] 13. Somelee - Quicksilver (Original Mix) [All Day I Dream]

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VFX visualization might just be the closest you can get to being a film director without stepping behind the camera. This technology has become a key part of the VFX process, with previz storyboarding growing into pitchviz (to get movies greenlit), techviz (to figure out logistics), and postviz (to create temporary VFX). It's an area Casey Pyke has become an expert in via his role at Halon Entertainment, which has helped visualize movies including The Batman, Pinnochio, Argylle, and John Wick: Chapter 4. Casey breaks down how the technology required for visualization differs from that for VFX — speed is of the essence, but looking good is increasingly important. He also talks about how his background as an amateur filmmaker helped him understand what directors want and the satisfaction of recognising his work on the big screen. Casey concludes with his experiences using LED walls and AI tools in visualization pipelines.  

Pablos: People are pissed off about social media all the time. They think that Facebook is making people vote for the wrong person. It's still very difficult to find somebody who thinks they voted for the wrong person because of Facebook, but they think everyone else did. Never mind that, there's this kind of, uh, very popular sensibility, which is to blame Facebook for all the problems in the world. They're doing fake news, they're doing, disinformation they're doing , every possible thing that could be wrong. Everybody wants to blame Facebook for getting wrong or Twitter or, any of the other social platforms. So if you think about it, in one sense, , yeah, Facebook got everybody together. I'm just going to use them as the example, we can extrapolate. They got everybody together. They, ended up getting too much content. you and your friends are posting too much shit. Nobody has time to see all of it. So you need the magical algorithm, which you should do like triple air quotes every time I say algorithm. They're like, the algorithm is supposed to figure out, okay, of all the shit that's supposed to be showing up on your feed, what's the coolest, or what's the stuff that you're gonna like the most? That's the job of the algorithm. And of course, we all believe the algorithm is tainted. And so, it's not really trying to find the things I care about the most or like the most. It's just gonna find the things that piss me off the most so that I get my, outrage, dopamine hit and keep coming back. So, which may all be true. We don't know. But, the point is, there's a fundamental problem, which is you cannot see everything that gets posted from all the people you follow. So, there does have to be some ranking. And then the second, thing is that you want that ranking to be tuned for you. And I think the thing that people, are missing about this is that you've got to have, a situation where it is very personalized because, not everybody's the same. Even if you and I followed the same thousand people, it doesn't mean we have identical interests. There are other factors that need to play into determining like what I want to see and what you want to see. And then I think that there's a whole bunch of things that, are classified as societal evils, that Facebook has to decide are not okay for anybody to follow. So if you have posts about Hitler, nobody should get to see those. Even if you're a World War II historian, nope, you don't get to see it. So there's a kind of, problem here, which is that all of this flies in the face of actual diversity, actual multiculturalism, we have 190 countries in the world. We have a lot of different peoples, different cultures, you and I just had a huge conversation about, different cultures and how they drive, we don't agree about these things. We have different ideas in different places in the world, even whole societies have different ideas about what's okay, and what's not okay, and that is the definition of Culture that is the definition of multiculturalism is valuing that that exists and letting everybody have their own ideas And and make let these different people operate in the way that suits them And when you travel, you get beaten over the head with that because, I can appreciate that people drive like this in Bangkok. That's not how I want to do it , that's kind of the fundamental point here. So anyway, what I'm trying to get at is you cannot create one set of rules for the entire world. That is not okay. Ash: 100% Pablos: And so what Facebook has chosen to do is try to create one set of rules for the entire world, at least the two billion people that are on Facebook. Ash: But then you become the government of Facebook. Pablos: You become the government of Facebook. And it's and we're all pissed off because they keep choosing rules that some people don't like or whatever. And so I think this is untenable and I don't think there's a solution there. I think it is a fool's errand and what I believe is, has gone wrong is that Facebook made the wrong choice long ago and they chose to control the knobs and dials and now they're living with the flack that comes with, every choice they make about where to set those knobs and dials. And what they should have done is given the user the knobs and dials. They should let me have buried six pages deep in the settings, have control over. What do you want more of? What do you want less of? Ash: More or less rant. Pablos: Yeah, They try to placate you with the like button and unfollow and all that, but it's not really control. So, contrast that with, the other fork in history that we didn't take, go back to like 2006, in the years before Facebook, We had this beautiful moment on the internet, with RSS. So RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, that hardly matters, RSS was an open standard that allowed any website to publish the content in the form of posts in a kind of machine readable way. And then you could have an RSS reader that could subscribe to any website. So we didn't have the walled garden of Facebook, but, you remember all this, of course, but I'm just trying to break it down here. What we had was, this kind of open standard. , anybody in the world could publish on RSS using their website, all the blog software did this out of the box. WordPress does it out of the box. In fact, most websites, would support RSS. And then you had a reader app, that could be any reader app. This is again, open standards so get any reader you want. And if you just subscribe to any website in the world, you are following them directly. When they publish a post, it show up in your feed. And when you followed too many people, you could start making filters. So I've been making filters. I still do RSS. So by the way, all this machinery still works 15 years later. The machinery still works almost any website if you just put /RSS or / feed on the domain name you'll see an RSS feed and you can subscribe to that so it goes into my reader app And then I've been building filters over the years. So I have filters like -Trump because I got sick and tired of all this bullshit about Trump regardless what you think about Trump I just wanted to think about other things and it was painful to have a feed filled with Trump during the election So I have also -Biden, I have -Kanye, I have -Disney, I have minus all kinds of shit that I don't want to see, I still follow the publishers, but it's weeding out articles that are about those things. And so I get this feed that's pretty curated for me and my interests, and I get more of the stuff I like and less of the stuff I don't like, but I'm responsible for the knobs and dials, I'm controlling the settings, and I get to have my own autonomy about what I think is cool and not cool. And if I don't want Hitler, I can easily just -Hitler. And what we did instead is we kind of signed up for this sort of, babysitter culture of having Facebook make those choices for us. And people not, taking responsibility for their own choices has put us in this situation where we just have an internet full of people want to blame somebody else for everything that they think is going wrong. What we need to do is, figure out a way to, shift the world back to RSS. And out of the walled garden. So that's my, that's where I'm at, and I have ideas about that. Ash: And it's interesting, go back to Delphi, So Delphi internet... Pablos: One of the first, before, before internet, this was like an ISP, like a, like AOL. Centralized ISP. Ash: Right. So, so Delphi was sold to Murdoch, to News Corp and, and then the founder, Dan Burns brought that back. He purchased it, he re acquired the company and then invited a couple of ragtag individuals, myself and, and Palle again, and Rusty Williams. Chip Matthes, and we had like, you know, a room with a VAX in the back. I was doing a lot of the stuff, but we were running forums. Dan had this crazy idea. It was like, Hey, what if you could just make your own forum? And this would be like way pre Facebook, it's like 97, 98. And 98, we started supplying that ability to websites. And the first one we did was a guy named Gil . And like we said to him, it's like, Hey Gil, like you guys really should have some forums, like, yeah, we totally should be. Wait, so how do we do that? And we wrote like a little contract, right? like the first, I think, business development contract that you could probably make. He was head of, , business development, eBay. Right. So he did that. I mean, he's very well known sort of angel kind of lead syndicate guy. Now I like an angel is for like for, for ages. Pablos: Oh, Penchina. I know who you're talking about. Yeah. Ash: We still have like the first document, you will do this. I will do this. I will give you a forum. You will use it for people to talk about, I don't know, the, the, their beanie baby or whatever they were selling back then. And the, the reality was that that took off and then we started supplying this technology, which we then enabled, we RSS enabled it, by the way, of course, at some point, right. When it was, when the, when the XML feeds were like ready to go, we upgraded from XML And then we, we, we took that and we said, all right, let's go, let's go for it. And at some point we're doing 30 million a month, 30 million people a month. Unique. We're like on this thing and we never governed. You could, you could go hidden, right? Kind of like your locked Instagram page versus not, but we didn't govern anything. Forums had moderators, they were self appointed moderators of that domain of, of madness. So if you didn't like that person's moderation, You know, like, all right, screw this guy. You know, like, I don't, I don't want to listen to you. You're crazy. And what we found, and this was the piece of data that I think that was the wildest. Servers are expensive back then. You actually have to have servers. Or in our case we were beating everyone else. Cause we had a VAX that was locked in a, Halon secure room. No, because it came when we repurchased it for a dollar. Like the VAX was still there and Lachlan Murdoch's, office became our like conference room. No, I'm not kidding. It was, it was really crazy. There was a, it was just a VAX sitting there and, Hey, look, you could run UNIX on it. We were good. We didn't care. It loved threads and it was good. And it could do many, many, many, many threads. So we were running this, this thing highly efficiently. There's six people in a company doing that much. That was the company, literally six. I look today and how many people we hire and I'm like, there were six of us. It was wild, the iceberg effect took place. So what ended up happening is the percent, and this is where I think Facebook can't do or doesn't want to do, is how do you advertise below the waterline? And when we were sitting there with the traffic, we're like, dude, why is there so much traffic, but we can't see it, right? It looked like we only had 20, 000 forums or something, and there was like all this mad traffic going on. And. It was something like the 80, 20 rule the other way. It was like 20 percent was indexable that you could see that you could join a forum. And it was 80 percent were, were insane things like Misty's fun house. That by the way, is a legitimate. Forum at one point, right? It was Misty's fun house. So I'm just saying, cause we're trying to figure out what was going on. Where were the people chatting and talking? And that's what we did. We let them bury themselves deeper and deeper and deeper. Usenet did that. If you just go back in time, what do you think BBSs were? It's the same. Pablos: Exactly. Ash: We always love talking. Pablos: Yeah. People love talking. Ash: You just figure out which one you want to dial into. Pablos: Nobody's pissed off about who they're talking to really. Usually they're pissed off about who other people are talking. They're pissed off about some conversation they're not really a part of. Or a conversation they can be a spectator on, but doesn't match their culture. That's one of the big problems with Twitter it's like BBSs, and it's BBS culture. Elon was the winner of the Twitter game long before he bought Twitter, because, that's just BBS culture that he had in his mind, IRC or whatever. All kinds of people who are not part of that culture, are observing it and think that it's a horrible state, of society that people could be trolling each other and shit. And that's just part of the fun. You have this problem when you try to cram too many cultures into one place, it takes a lot of struggle to work that out if you're in, Jamaica, Queens, then you're gonna, you're gonna work it out over time, with a lot of struggle, you're going to work it out and the cultures are going to learn to get along. But in, but on Twitter, there's no incentive. Ash: That's why we still have states. The EU still has, like, how many languages? That's why we have Jersey for New Yorkers. Pablos: The EU in their way has figured out how these cultures can get along. I think there's a real simple fix to this. The big death blow to RSS in some sense was that the winning reader app was Google Reader. And so the vast majority, of the world that was using RSS was using Google Reader. And then I don't totally have insight on how this happened, but, Google chose to shut down Google Reader. And I don't know if they were trying to steer people into their, Facebook knockoff products or whatever at the time. in a lot of ways I think what it did is it just handed the internet over to Facebook. Because anybody who was being satisfied by that, and just ended up getting, into their Facebook news feed instead. So it just kind of ran into a walled garden. I don't really blame Facebook for this, the way a lot of people want to. I blame the users. You've got to take some responsibility, make your own choice, choose something that's good for you, and most people are not willing to do that. But, I think to make it easier for them, and there is a case to be made that , people got better things to do than architect their own rSS reader process, but we could kind of do it for them. And so I think there's one, one big kingpin missing, which is you could make a reader app that would be like an iPhone app now. And you could think of it as like open source Instagram. It's just an Instagram knockoff, but instead of following, other people on a centralized platform by Instagram, it just follows RSS. And then it only picks up RSS posts that have at least one picture, right? So any RSS post that has one picture and then the first time you post it automatically makes a WordPress blog for you, that's free. And then, posts your shit as RSS compliant blog posts, but the reader experience is still just very Instagramesque. So now it's completely decentralized in the sense that like you own your blog, yeah, WordPress is hosting it, but that's all open source. You could download it, move it to Guam if you want, whatever you want to do. So now all publishers have their own direct feeds. All users are publishers, which is kind of the main thing that Facebook solved. Ash: Content is no longer handed over to someone, right? That's the other big thing. Pablos: Exactly. The content is yours and then your followers are yours, right? When they follow you, they follow you at your URL. And so you can take them with you wherever you go. And then to make this thing more compelling, you just add a few tabs. You add the Twitteresque tab. You add the TikTokesque tab for videos. And, add, the podcast tab. So now, posts are just automatically sorted into the tab for the format that matches them. Because people have different modalities for, for consuming this shit. So, depending on what you're in the mood for, you might want to just look at pictures because you're on a conference call. Fine. Instagram. Or, you know, you might want to watch videos because you're on a flight. Who knows? So, the point being, all of this is easy to do. You and I could build that in a weekend. And then the reason that this works, the reason this will win is because you can win over the creators, right? Because the sales pitch to a creator, and those are the people who drive the following anyway, you see TikTok and everybody else kissing the ass of creators because that's who attracts the following. The creators win because they're not giving anything up to the platform. Because they make money off advertising. So fine. We make an advertising business and we still, take some cut of what the creators push out. But if they don't like us, there's a market for that, right? The market is I'm just pushing ads out along with my content to my followers. Some of them watch the ads. Some of them don't. I have this much of an impact. And so now you get the platforms out of the way. Ash: If you do it right, Google has ad networks that they drop everywhere. Pablos: Everybody has ad networks already for websites. You could just use that. Amazon has one. So you can sign up for that if you want. Or the thing that creators want to do, which is go do collabs, go do direct deals with brands. Now you're getting 100 percent of that income. You pump it out to your fans. And there's no ad network in the middle. Nobody's taking a cut. Alright, if you could cut your own deals, then great, but you're in control and you can't be shadow banned, you can't be deprioritized in the feed, because that's the game that's happening. These platforms, they figure out you're selling something, you immediately get deprioritized. And so the creators are all pissed off anyway. So I think we can win them over easily enough. And then the last piece of it is, there's one thing that doesn't exist, which is you still need to prioritize your feed. You still need an advanced algorithm to do it. You don't want to be twiddling knobs and dials all day. You might put in -Hitler if you want. But what should happen is you should also be able to subscribe to feed ranking services. So that could be, the ACLU, or the EFF, or the KKK, whoever you think should be ranking your feed. Ash: Well, I was actually thinking you could subscribe to a persona. So people could create their own recipes. So this is the world according to Ash, right? Here you go. Like, I've got my own thing. I've done my dials, my tuning, my tweaks, my stuff. And you want to see how I see the world. Here we go. The class I teach, that's the first day I tell people, take Google news and sit down and start tuning it. And everyone's like, well, let me just start to just add, put ups and downs, ups and downs, add Al Jazeera, do whatever you want. Just do everything that you want, just make them fight and put all of that in and then go down the rabbit hole. But there's no way to export that. When we start class, I always talk about viewpoints And how all content needs a filter because we are filter. But if I want to watch the world as Pablos, I can't, there's no, you can't give me your lens. So if we look at the lens concept, today you can tune Google News, there is a little subscribe capability, but you could tune it and poke it a little bit, and it will start giving you info. It's not the same, quite the same as RSS, but it's giving you all the news feeds from different places, right? Could get Breitbart, you could get, Al Jazeera, you could get all the stuff that you want. And if you go back in time to, to when I was working with the government, that was actually my sort of superpower, writing these little filters and getting, Afghani conversations in real time translated. And then find the same village, in the same way. So then I would have two viewpoints at the same time. The good thing was that when you did that what I haven't seen, and I would love, love this take place, is for someone to build a, Pablos filter,? And I could be like, "all right, let me, let me go see the world the way he sees it." his -Hitler, his minus, minus, -election, - Trump, -Biden, that's fine. And then, and now I have a little Pablos recipe. I can like click my glasses, and then, then suddenly I see the world, meaning I filter the world through Pablos's. Pablos: Yeah, I think that, I think we're saying a similar thing because then what you could do is you could, subscribe to that. You could subscribe to the Pablos filter. You could subscribe to the... Ash: exactly, I'm taking your ACLU thing one step further. I think ACLU is like narrow, but you could go into like personality. Pablos: You could even just reverse engineer the filter by watching what I read. My reader could figure out my filter by seeing the choices that I make. Ash: Yeah, if it's stored it right, if we had another format, but let's just say that we had an RSS feed filter format. 'cause it's there. It's really the parameters of your RSS anyway. But if you could somehow save that, config file, go back thousand years, right? If you could save the config.ini, that's what you want? And I could be like, Hey, Pablo, so I can hand that over. Let's share that with me. And now what's interesting is works really well. And it also helps because each person owning their own content, the, the beauty of that becomes, you never, you never filtered, you never blocked you, you, you're self filtering. Pablos: That's right. Ash: We're self subscribing to each other's filters. Pablos: Publishers become the masters of their domain. If you've got a problem with a publisher, you've got to go talk to them, not some intermediary. The problem is on a large scale, control is being exercised by these intermediaries. And they have their own ideas and agendas and things. The job here is to disintermediate - which was the whole point of the internet in the first place - communication between people. Ash: Then the metadata of that becomes pretty cool, by the way. If I figured out that, okay, now it looks like 85 percent of the population has, has gone -Biden, -Trump. Let's think about that. Suddenly you've got other info, right? Suddenly you're like, Oh, wait a minute. and if you're an advertiser or you're a product creator, or you're a, like just sitting there trying to figure out how can I get into the world, that becomes really valuable, right? Because you could. Go in and say, people just don't give a shit about this stuff, guys. I don't know what you're talking about. Whereas when you have one algorithmic machine somewhere in Meta/Facebook, whatever we want to call it, pushing things up, it could be pushing sand uphill, right? It could be like stimulating things that you don't necessarily know you want. The structure that you just described flips that on its head because it says, Hey, I just don't want to listen to this shit, guys. Like, I just could not give a crap about what you're saying. Pablos: Right. Ash: And if enough people happen to do that, then the content creators also have some, some idea of what's going on. We try to decode lenses all day long,? We spend our life, like you said, in meetings or in collaborations or business development. What do you think we do? We sit there, we're trying to figure out the other person's view. We're trying to understand if you're a salesperson, "Hey, can I walk a mile in that guy's shoes" or speak like that person, I've never heard of anyone sort of selling me, lending me, letting me borrow their RSS, like, their filter. That would be phenomenal, that'd be great. And I bet you, if you did it right, you might even solve a lot of problems in the world because then you could see what they see, you know, I don't want to touch the topics that we know are just absolute powder kegs, but every time we get to these topics, I always tell the person, can you show me what you, what are you reading? Pablos: Yeah. Ash: Like, where did you get? Pablos: Yeah. Ash: You ever, you ever asked someone like, "where did you get that?" and then they show you, they show you kind of their, feed. And you're just like, what is going on? Like, if you, if you go to someone, whether they're pro or anti vax, it doesn't matter where it is. And just look at their feed, look at what they're listening to, because it's not the same thing I'm listening to, because the mothership has, has decreed which, which one we each get. But you look at it and then you're like, okay, maybe the facts that they were presented with were either incomplete and maybe not maliciously? I get it in the beginning of this, you started like, okay, is it malicious and didn't do it would get changed. But if you just cut out, I don't know, let's just say there's like 10 pieces of news, but I only give you five and I give the other person the other five. And they're not synchronous, you're going to start a fight. There's no question. What we don't have is the ability to say, Hey, like, let me, let me be Pablos for a second before I start screaming, let me see what he sees. that will probably change that could change a lot. Pablos: Think it could. That and certainly there's a cognitive bias that feels comfortable in an echo chamber. This is one of the issues that we're really experiencing is that, the process of civilization, literally means "to become civil" to do that. It's sort of the long history of humans figuring out how to control obsolete biological instincts. We've been evolved to want to steal each other's food and girlfriends. That's not specifically valuable or relevant at this point. We've had to learn how to get along with more people, we've had to learn to become less violent, we've had to learn to, play the long game socially, those things. And, there's work to do on that as far as like how we consume all this, this information, all the media. You're using the wrong part of your brain to tune your feed right now. You're using the lazy Netflix part of your brain to tune your news, and that's not really , how are you going to get good results. There's work to do to evolve the tools and work to do to evolve the sensibilities around these things. And so, you know, what I'm suggesting is like, we're not going to get there by handing it over to the big wall garden. You got to get there through this, again, sort of. Darwinian process of trying a lot of things and so you've described some really cool things that we'd want to be able to try that are impractical to try because things are architected wrong and using Facebook is the central switchboard of these conversations or Twitter or whatever and so you know what we need is a more open platform where like you know we can all take a stab at figuring out how to design cool filters that express our point of view and share them. And that's not possible in the current architecture. I think the last thing is, there are certainly other frustrations and attempts to go solve some class of these, some subset of these problems. You've got Mastodon, of course, and the Fediverse, and you've got Blue Sky trying in their way to make a sort of open Twitter thing. And then you've got, these other attempts, but a lot of them are pretty heavy handed architecturally. As far as I can tell, most of them end up just being some suburb of people who are pissed off about one thing or another that they get its adoption, right? So, Mastodon is basically a place for people who are, backlashing against Twitter. As far as I can tell. Ash: Yeah, and we even worked on one, right? Called Ourglass. Pablos: I don't know that one. Ash: It was coming out and we actually did an entire session on it. I actually worked on some of the product thought design on, on how that works. , it was like, it's all on chain. Part of the, the thing that, we did was very similar to what you're talking about. You wanted the knobs and the controls, and you wanted people to rant in their space. I know it gets pretty dark when you say, okay, but what are they allowed to talk about in in the dark depths of that sort of internet and and I say, "well, they already talk about it, guys" Whether they get into a smoky back room or, there's somewhere else that if they don't say it, I feel we get more frustrated. Pablos: The fundamental difference here is between centralized services. That's certainly Facebook and Twitter, but it's also Delphi and AOL, versus open, decentralized protocols and the protocols in time win over the services like TCP/IP won over AOL, AOL was centralized service, TCP/IP, decentralized protocol. At the beginning it was a worse user experience, harder to use, but It's egalitarian and it won and I think that that's kind of the moment we're in right now with with the social media. We're still on centralized service mode and it needs to be architected as decentralized protocol and we had a chance to do that before Facebook and we lost and so now there's just like the next battle is like how do we get back on the track of decentralized protocol, and I think if we just define them... That's why I think RSS won because it's called Really Simple Syndication for a reason. Because it's really simple. It was easy for any developer to integrate. Everybody could do it. And so it just became ubiquitous almost overnight. You could design something cooler with the blockchain and whatnot. But it's probably over engineered for the job. And the job right now is just like, get adoption. Ash: We started going down that path. So Delphi's sort of twin. Was, called Prospero. So Prospero was, little Tempest reference, was designed. As a way that you could just adopt it. That was that, that first eBay deal. And then we did about.com and most of the stuff. And right now you see Discuss. It's at the bottom of, of some comments. It's a supported service where, you had one party taking care of all of the threads and handles and display methods and posts and logins. And, you were seamlessly logged into the other sites. MD5 sort of hash and we did the first single sign on type nonsense, and we used to build gateways between the two, you're going to go from one to another, but the whole idea was that you provide, the communication tool, As a, as an open or available service. And you could charge for for storing it. And then what happens is you don't do the moderation as a tool. That's your problem. You strip it back to "look, I'm going to provide you the car and I don't care how you drive it." Go back to our story, whether you're in Vietnam or Riyadh or whatever you're doing, we're going to, we're not there to tell you which lane to go into, but that's, that's your problem. I think that one of the challenges with like RSS, cause we were RSS compliant, by the way. I'm pretty sure Prospero and I'm sure it's still around because it went XML to RSS. And I remember the fact that you could subscribe to any forum that was Prospero powered. You could subscribe to it a lot, like directly through your RSS reader. And I remember what was great about it is that people were like, "we don't want, your viewer." Just like we didn't want your AOL view of like, "you've got mail." I want my own POP server and then IMAP or whatever it is. I think there does need to be, like you said, someone putting together a little toolkit that's super easy. They don't need to know it's got RSS. They don't need to know anything. But it's like, "own your post." it can be like an Own Your Post service. And then the Own Your Post service happens to publish RSS and everything else, and it's compliant. Pablos: I think you just make an iPhone app and when you set up the app it just automatically makes you a WordPress blog and if you want you can go move it later. Ash: You got it. All that other stuff is just automated. Pablos: You don't even have to know it's WordPress. It's behind the scenes. Ash: If you were going to do this, what you would do is you'd launch and I would launch it like three different companies. Like three different tools. I've got a, "keep your content" tool and the keep your content guys are something compliant, RSS. You keep bringing it back. It's published, it's out there and then some new company, Meta Two, Son of Meta, creates a reader. Anyone that's got a RSS tag on it, we're a reader for it. So anyone using Keep Your Content or, whatever. the idea being that now you're showing that there's some adoption. You almost don't have to rig it. There is a way to do this because no one wants to download a reader if there aren't sources. Pablos: The thing can bootstrap off of existing sources because there's so much RSS compliant content. You could imagine like day one. If you downloaded this reader today. You could follow Wall Street Journal and just everything online. And some of it you have to charge for it. Like Substack has RSS. I follow Substacks. You could just follow those things in the app Substack has a reader, but it only does Substacks, and probably Medium has one that only does Medium. But we have one that does both, plus New York Times and everything else. So now, like any other thing, you just follow a bunch of stuff. And then, there's a button that's like post. Sure, post. Boom. Now that fires up your own WordPress blog. Now you're posting. All your content's being saved. You control it. You got some followers or if you have this many followers, here's how much you can make in ad revenue. Boom, sign up for ad network. Now you're pushing ads out. All This could be done with existing stuff, just glued together, I think, and with the possible exception of the filter thing, which, needs to be more advanced probably worth revisiting. Ash: I think what You could do is maybe the very first thing you do, create the filter company, like your RSS glasses. So instead of having to do that heavy lift, curate Pablos's, I would love to get your RSS feed list. How do you give it to me? How could you give me your RSS configured viewer? Pablos: A lot of RSS readers make it really easy to like republish your own feed. So like all the things I subscribe to, then go into feed... Ash: But then, that's blended, right? Pablos: Oh, it's blended. Yeah, for sure. Ash: Is blended, right? So now it becomes your feed. I'm saying, can I get your configuration? Pablos: I don't know if there's a standard for that. Ash: I'm saying that's maybe the thing you create a meta, Meta. Pablos: Honestly, I think these days what you would do is just have a process that looks at everything I read, feeds it into an LLM, and tries to figure out like how do you define what Pablos is interested in that way. You probably would get a lot more nuance. Ash: That's to find out what you're interested in. Pablos: It's almost like you want your feed filtered through my lens. Ash: That's exactly what I want. I want to read the same newspaper you're reading, so to speak. So if you assume that that feed that you get is a collection of stories. That's your newspaper, the Pablos newspaper, right? That's what it is, Times of Pablos and you have a collection of stories that land on your page, right? It's been edited. Like you're the editor, you're the editor in chief of your little newspaper. If you think of all your RSS feeds ripped down your, your own newspaper, I'd like to read that newspaper. How do I do that? That doesn't exist. I don't think that's easy to do. And if I can do that, that'd be great. Pablos: If you're looking on Twitter and people are reposting, if I go look at your Twitter feed and all you do is repost stuff and then occasionally make a snarky comment, that's kind of what I'm getting. I'm getting the all the stuff you thought was interesting enough to repost and I think that's a big part of like why reposting merits having a button in Twitter because that's the signal you're getting out of it. I don't love it because it's part of what I don't like about Twitter is I'm not seeing a lot of unique thought from the people I follow. I'm just seeing shit they repost. And so my Twitter feed is kind of this amalgamation of all the things that were reposted by all the people I follow and and to me, that's what I don't want. I would rather just see the original post by those people. Twitter doesn't let me do that, so I'm scrolling a lot just to get to the, first person content. I think it is a way of substantiating what you're saying, though, which is "There's a value in being able to see the world through someone else's eyes." Repost might just be kind of a budget version of that. Ash: The reason I say that it's valuable, it's like the old days you'd sit on train and maybe even today and you had a physical copy of the New York Times, and everyone, and you could see who reads the New York Times and who reads the Journal. Right. And who reads The Post and The Daily News, that's what you can tell. And those people had their lenses, you go to the UK and everyone, this is the guardian, the independent, whatever. And you were like, Oh, that's a time, Times reader. That's a Guardian reader or someone looking at page three of the sun. I have no idea what they're doing, but, you knew immediately where they were. Pablos: It's the editorial layer. Ash: You got it. Pablos: it's what's missing in today's context. What's missing now is you got publishers, and you got the readers. but the editor is gone. Ash: Well, it's not gone, that's the problem, right? So what we did is , in the, in the world of press, there was a printing press and an editorial group took stories and they shoved them through the printing press. And then, the next minute, another editorial group came in and ran it through the printing press. so if you went out , and you were making your sort of manifestos, the printing press probably didn't care, right? The guy at like quickie print or whatever it was didn't care. Today, Facebook claims it's the place to publish, but it's not. Because it's editorial and publish so that so what they're doing is they're taking your IP They're taking a content and then there's putting their editorial layer on it. Even if it's a light touch or heavy touch, whatever it is. But it's sort of like if the guy that was the printing press like "I don't really like your font." " Dude, that's how I designed it." I want the font. Like I like Minion, Minion Pro is my thing, right? That's what I'm going to do. But, but if they just decided to change it, you'd be really pissed off. Now, Facebook claims to be an agnostic platform, but they're not an ISP. They're not a, an open architecture. like we would have had in the past where like you host what you wanted to host. There, you host what you want to host, but they're going to down promote you. They're going to boost you. They're going to unboost you. So wait a minute, hold on a second. You're, you're not really an open platform. And I think that's what you're getting at, which is, either you're a tool to publish or you're the editorial, the minute you're both. You're an editorial. You're actually no longer a tool. Pablos: That's exactly right. I think, that's the key thing, we've got to separate those things. Ash: That's the element. And I think that that tells you a lot about why we get frustrated. If Twitter was just a fast way to shove 140 characters across multiple SMS, which we didn't have, because we're in the U.S. We were silly and we didn't have GSM. That's what Twitter was, right? Twitter was kind of like the first version of like a unified messaging platform. Cause it was like, you could broadcast 140 characters and it would work on the lowest common denominator, which was your StarTAC flip phone. So the point was that Twitter was a not unmoderated open tool. Then it got editorial. And now it's then it's no longer. And I think that's the problem, right? It used to be, you had a wall on Facebook and you did whatever the hell you wanted to. And then Facebook said I need to make money and it became the publisher, became the editorial board. Pablos: Okay, so we have a lightweight plan to save the internet. Let's see if we can find somebody to go build this stuff. Ash: If you could build that last thing, I think it's not a, it's not a complicated one, but they, I think they just need to sit down and, grab your feed. Or someone can come up with a collection of, Mixtapes, let's call it. Pablos: Yeah, cool. Mixtapes, I like that. Ash: Internet Mixtapes. There you go.

In this episode, Dr. Mark Hoffman hosts Dr. Jan Baekelandt, a gynecologic surgeon from Mechelen, Belgium, to discuss a novel gynecologic surgery approach known as vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES). --- SHOW NOTES This technique involves entering the pelvic cavity through the vaginal lumen, eliminating the need for abdominal incisions and promoting a less invasive procedure. Dr. Jan Baekelandt explains that during his career this approach originated from the single-side surgery technique, gradually evolving into a fully transvaginal procedure. He highlights that the advanced tools required for vaginal surgeries now offer equivalent visualization and hemostatic control as laparoscopic techniques, while providing the added benefit of reduced invasiveness. The benefits of vNOTES for patients are discussed, including findings from two randomized control trials comparing vNOTES hysterectomy and adnexectomy to laparoscopic approaches. The results indicate non-inferiority, reduced postoperative pain, decreased analgesic use, and shorter hospital stays for vNOTES. Complications were also lower in the hysterectomy trial. Notably, the vNOTES technique especially benefited patients who were obese, had undergone prior abdominal surgeries, or had large uteruses. Jan underscores the significance of technique standardization to facilitate teaching and complication avoidance. He acknowledges vNOTES-specific complications, such as a higher cystotomy rate, but notes a lower ureter damage rate. However, he cautions that vNOTES might not be suitable for certain patients, like those with endometriosis, prior pelvic inflammatory disease or pelvic abscesses. The potential impact of vNOTES on non-hysterectomy surgeries, future deliveries, and sexual function is briefly discussed, though data in these areas remain limited. Dr. Jan Baekelandt is hopeful that more evidence will emerge to guide physicians. He shares that, based on available data and his own experience, vaginal deliveries following vNOTES have generally proceeded without complications, without a notable increase in cesarean sections or vaginal tears. He notes that to protect sexual function, surgeons should take care to make incisions away from the posterior cervical fornix to avoid subsequent dyspareunia for their patients. The episode concludes with Jan emphasizing the importance of formal training and starting with simpler cases to build proficiency and confidence. He asserts that the best technique for a surgeon is the one that instills confidence in keeping patients safe. --- RESOURCES Baekelandt J, De Mulder PA, Le Roy I, Mathieu C, Laenen A, Enzlin P, Weyers S, Mol BW, Bosteels JJ. HALON-hysterectomy by transabdominal laparoscopy or natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: a randomised controlled trial (study protocol). BMJ Open. 2016 Aug 12;6(8):e011546. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011546. PMID: 27519922; PMCID: PMC4985989. Baekelandt JF, De Mulder PA, Le Roy I, Mathieu C, Laenen A, Enzlin P, Weyers S, Mol BWJ, Bosteels JJA. Transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES) adnexectomy for benign pathology compared with laparoscopic excision (NOTABLE): a protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2018 Jan 10;8(1):e018059. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018059. PMID: 29326183; PMCID: PMC5780723.

On today's show Ray chats to Richard O'Halon about a giant mushroom and Michael Byrne talks to us about pumpkins, stars of My Fair Lady Adam Woodyatt & Charlotte Kennedy are in studio, we have live music from John Spillane and Mary Byrne is in studio for a catch up.

On today's show Ray chats to Richard O'Halon about a giant mushroom and Michael Byrne talks to us about pumpkins, stars of My Fair Lady Adam Woodyatt & Charlotte Kennedy are in studio, we have live music from John Spillane and Mary Byrne is in studio for a catch up.

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On this episode of Talking Away The Taboo, Chaya Halon-Weinberg, joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about… -Her experience with secondary infertility  -How she dealt with her pain being surrounded by others in her family/community who were popping out babies -The nicest thing that someone did for her during her journey -Why she's finally opening up about her story after all these years Connect with Chaya:  -Follow her on Instagram  Connect with us: -Check out our website  -Follow us on Instagram and send us a message  -Check out our Facebook page  -Watch our videos on YouTube  -Follow us on TikTok  -Email us at info@iwassupposedtohaveababy.org

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Halon previsualization supervisor Ryan McCoy and Halon on-set supervisor Grant Olin about the previs of 'Free Guy'. 

PBC:ssä mennään lujaa kun Oulun pojat saavat juoksukaljojen kanssa saapuneita vieraita. Puhetta syntyy mm. pikapelaamisesta, Legend of Zelda pelisarjasta, Vauhtijuoksusta että EA:n myyntiaikeista. Ja tottakai tootsi vetää pitkän rantin Halon tv-sarjasta! Kuuntele ja nauti! Tässä myös linkki vieraiden mainitsemalle sivustolle … Lue loppuun →

Heviosaston toimitus on teroittanut kuvainnolliset kirveensä ja siirtynyt halonhakkuun pariin. Kyse ei kuitenkaan ole saunapuiden pilkkomisesta, vaan Amorphiksen tuoreen Halo-albumin läpivalaisusta: jatkaako Suomen metalliylpeyden uusin lätty tuttua laatulinjaa tehtaan takuulla, vai alkaako pitkä ura jo painaa saappaissa? Tiukan analyysin lomassa toimitus on myös kuin halolla päähän lyöty, kun Vihdin kunta on panostanut markkinointiinsa ja Blashemia julkaisi uutta videomateriaalia. Jakson rakenneAjankohtainen raastepöytä 00:13:51Heviosasto suosittelee 00:25:48Pääpihvi 00:43:33Hevivisa 01:34:32Jaksossa mainittuja tärppejä:Jakson Spotify-soittolista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5IfsuexiPPLNDfAye3edtP?si=5f7babe96bca4680Tuskan aikataulut: https://www.tuska.fi/fi/aikatauluRockfestin ohjelma: https://rockfest.fi/ohjelma/Blashemia - My Second Coming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPHg2v_va4Vihdin taikatalvi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBh1oiTsC8Angry Metal Guy:n Amorphis-ranking: https://www.angrymetalguy.com/amgs-guide-to-amorphis/Heviosasto eri kanavissa, laita seurantaan:Web: https://www.heviosasto.fi FB: https://www.facebook.com/heviosasto.podcast/ YT: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgOR9u2QMKNm_GHhtVzEa3Q IG: https://www.instagram.com/heviosasto1/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/oousjsb25sm4876iqqgcf932g Muistathan:Anna palautetta, ehdota jaksoaiheita tai vinkkaa hyvästä bändistä meille somessa tai sähköpostitse toimitus@heviosasto.fiArvioithan podcastimme käyttämässäsi podcast-palvelussa, se auttaa levittämään metallin ilosanomaa!Jaksossa käytetyt musiikit:Shotgun Messiah: Heartbreak Boulevard (Cody, Skold)Columbia/LegacyCelesty: Revenge  (Ari Katajamäki, JP Alanen, Jere Luokkamäki, Juha Mäenpää, Kimmo Perämäki, Tapani Kangas)Arise RecordsArch Enemy: House of Mirrors (Alissa White-Gluz, Christopher Amott, Michael Amott)Century MediaPersefone: Katabasis (Carlos Lozano, Miguel Espinosa, Sergi Verdeguer)Napalm RecordsAmorphis: On the Dark WatersWhen the Gods CameThe WolfSeven Roads Come TogetherA New WorldAtomic Fire RecordsSelf-Decieved, Rocking Forward and Cursed As Love by XTaKeRuX are licensed under an Attribution License Sourceshttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/XTaKeRuX/Demonized/Self-Decievedhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/XTaKeRuX/The_way_iam/Rocking_Forward_https://freemusicarchive.org/music/XTaKeRuX/2019073141810785/Cursed_As_Love__1097Edits made: Snippet taken from the middle of the song, fade in and fade out, voice overPride Before the Fall by Ethan MeixsellSource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urf42hPYW-8Higher Octane by Vans in Japan

TIMELINE:Intro (:01)Coming Up in 2022 (1:32)CONTEST: Inspect Point's Ugly Sweaters & Ugly Deficiencies (1:40)Hello John and Drew Sets This Episode's Agenda (2:11)Meet WESCO (3:50)Born & Raised in Fire Protection (6:57)Family Portable Fire Extinguisher Biz Sold to Kidde (7:25)From a Parts Business to an Importing and Recycling Company (8:19)President of the FSSA & Involved in NAFED (9:32)Did Todd Stevens Cause COVID?  (10:40)What is AIM, What Are Clean Agents, and Where Are They Used? (11:56)Halon 1301 is a Depleting Ozone Agent (13:00)Treaty Banning Production of Ozone Depleting Agents (13:29)Recycled Halon (14:20)Replacing Halon (15:04)3M & NOVEC (5:31)Some Agents Aren't Ozone Depleting But Add to Climate Change (16:31)Phasing Out HFCs (17:00)American Innovation in Manufacturing and Competitiveness Act (AMAC)  (17:32)A Phasing Down  (18:00)There's Always Sand & Water (18:34)NOVEC vs. FM200 (18:49)Dupont Says... (19:03)AIM Is the Law (19:36)An 85% Decrease of HFCs Over 15 Years (20:23)HFC Allocation (21:24)Allocations Are Based on Global Warming Index (22:07)Fire Suppression Agents Have Some of the Highest Global Warming Percentages (23:17)Hard For Manufacturers to Know Cost and Availability of HFCs  (25:08)Recent Manufacturer Announcements: December 2021! (25:45)Sustainability For HFCs is a Huge Issue (27:00)If HFC System Goes Off, It Is Reportable (29:05)HFC is in Hospice (31:00)The Halon Country Club (32:02)Industries Have Their Allocations (34:00)Drew Uses Bear Spray? (34:42)Is the Special Hazard Industry Growing or Shrinking? (37:25)Hospice Theory (40:15)HCFC Was Controlled Before HFC Was (40:45)New Streaming Agent in Aviation (43:56)BTP in All-New Planes (45:00)Touching on Foam (45:30)Lithium-Ion Battery Fires (46:54)Nothing Puts Them Out: Get People Out & Let It Burn (48:50)Will You See John or Drew in a Tesla? (49:25)Quick Response Round (52:25)Cars: 60s Shelby Cobra or Late 60s Corvette? (52:40)Friends & Family: To Tesla or Not To Tesla? (53:15)Craziest Installation: Use or Location (54:25)Craziest Deficiency - Like Inspect Point's Contest! (55:40)Biggest Issues in Our Industry? (56:56)Promote and Help Tech Schools (59:10)Lithium-Ion Battery Fires (1:00:26)Fire Protection Manufacturers and R&D (1:01:15)Innovation is on the Software Side (1:03:17)North or South Jersey? (1:03:39)Where the Parkway Crosses the Turnpike (1:04:10)John Mackey & the Pizza Battle (1:05:20)Where Did You Live in NYC? (1:06:43)Wrap Up (1:07:40)Drew's Outro (1:08:20)

In dieser Episode spreche ich über:- Die Polarisierung der Gesellschaft;- Die Ursache der gesellschaftlichen Spaltung und ihre Brandbeschleuniger;- Wissen und Glauben: Je geringer das Wissen, desto grösser der Glaube;- Von der guten Absicht der Andersdenkenden ausgehen;- Der beste Rat, den Indra Nooyi, ehemalige PepsiCo Chefin, je erhalten hat;- Halon's Razor;- Die eigene Fehlbarkeit.Das Transkript zu dieser Podcastfolge finden Sie auf meiner Webseite: www.muellermathias.chWenn Ihnen dieser Podcast gefällt, dann spenden Sie mir doch ein oder mehrere Kaffees via www.buymeacoffee.com/stoicpirate

Uppföljning / uppvärmning Teknikstrul Remembering Steve Jobs Ive ska designa… något… åt Ferrari. Cue sitter väl i deras styrelse? Robocop kör Java. Ed-209 kör Node. Christians blogg flyttar hem igen. Jobbdator vs egen dator – feedback till EPOT-gänget Ämnen Homekit: Jocke fick returnera en av sina kameror. Upplevelsen gås igenom Inumbo stänger ner sin spamfiltrering… eller? Christian delger optimala strategier för kundklubbar Facebook tog en paus från Internet. Jocke förklarar… Film och TV HBO Nordic blir HBO Max med billigare priser Twin Peaks: Jocke har sett om alla tre säsongerna. Har åsikter Free guy: 3/5 glada BM Länkar 271 - Förra avsnittet vi pratade Jobs Ive och Ferrari samarbetar Marc Newsons konceptbil Bacon ipsum Christians blogg Verge om hemdator och jobbdator En podd om teknik om hem- och jobbdator Inumbo Halon security Duocircle Sendinblue Cloudflare förklarar hur Facebook klantade sig med BGP BGP Cloud atlas Twin Peaks Free guy Deadpool och Korg tittar på trailern för Free guy Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-277-hej-i-stort-sett-alla-copy.html.

Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Halon previsualization supervisor Ryan McCoy and Halon on-set supervisor Grant Olin about the previs of 'Free Guy'. 

This week, we had the privilege of meeting with local award winning craftsman certified photographer, creative director, author, speaker and coach: Rinat Halon Neal. Rinat tells us how she got started in her profession and how she continues to be successful after 25 years as a photographer. Her journey is captivating and inspiring…and her photos are amazing!  LINKS: Rinat Halon Photography Communication-Website https://www.rinathalon.com Rinat Halon Photography Communication-Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RHPCC Rinat Halon Photography Communication-Linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/rinathalon/ Rinat Halon Photography Communication-Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rinathalon/ Rinat Halon Neal The Mindful Photographer-YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1c-AzYNCBNWigLgsK7eThQ Contact Rinat Halon Neal/Call or Text 407.607.0206‍

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we have Halon Entertainment in the house! In celebration of movie houses openning up just in time for the summer blockbuster and the WonderCon at Home 2021 panel “The Virtual Backlot: Filmmaking Evolved, your favorite Saturday morning radio show podcast is back, in studio, in person, all vaxed up and ready to turn the dial up to 11 with two blockbuster creator guests: Brad Alexander, co-founder, Sr. visualization supervisor (Star Wars Episodes II and III, Avatar,Pacific Rim: Uprising) & Kristin Turnipseed, real-time stage supervisor (Ford v Ferrari, The Batman) with Halon Entertainment, the SFX studio responsible for pretty much all your favorite summer movies. If aliens, monsters, explosions are your thing, these are the real unsung heroes of cinema!  An early adopter of Unreal Engine in 2015, Halon Entertainment (Avatar, The Suicide Squad) is an industry leader in the fields of Virtual Production, Visualization, and Game Cinematics, leading to the studio's virtual art department helping to define the cutting-edge of the real-time workflow on The Mandalorian and so much more! Join Grim Shea, Marke., Jimmy the Gent and Johnny Heck as they get back to the 3Palms Studio to celebrate the movies we love and entertain your ear holes with their pants on! Sponsored by Paramount Home Entertainment & the home release of Mission Impossible and Super 8. Listen to win!

In this Episode of Its Gotta Be Creative, we are joined by Kristen Karaliunas, Production Coordinator at Halon Entertainment. From childhood dreams of working at Walt Disney Imagineering, her experiences as an intern there working on Avengers Campus, and how she is now helping shape the future of virtual production, this interview is filled with knowledge, insight, and of course, creativity. Like, Share, and don't forget to Subscribe! To stay up to date, follow our Instagram: @ItsGottaBeCreativePodcast and subscribe to our youtube channel for exclusive video content.

In this episode, we have Tom Goom with us again to join us with our running injuries and running rehab talk this March. Today we will be talking about acknowledging types of persistent pain in our athletes or runners. He talks about the bigger picture on persistent pain and its other connections, differentiate this persistent pain versus series of acute flare ups, where we should focus the treatment, and navigating injured athletes return to their sport and many more.   Key Takeaways we mustn't lose sight of the bigger picture. And actually, I think sometimes we do need to acknowledge that it is more of a persistent pain state, and not necessarily a series of flare ups of acute injury. Gritting your teeth and pushing on through isn't always the right answer… we do need to know when we need to back off a little bit. Focus on getting you well and ready to race rather than rushing you to get through a particular event when you've got a whole life of running ahead of you. Try and see if you can recognize when you are looking at a more persistent pain state and to try and really get to know that person and the bigger picture and what's driving that Suggested Keywords: Pain, athletes, running, persistent, bigger picture, acute injury, symptoms.   More about Tom Goom Tom is physiotherapist and international speaker with a passion for running injury management. He has gained a worldwide audience with his website running-physio.com and has become known as The Running Physio as a result! Tom remains an active clinician committed to providing high quality, evidence-based care. Social media handles: Twitter: @tomgoom Instagram: @running.physio Website: Running-physio.com   Resources: Running Injury and Rehab Webinar NetHealth Webinar   Subscribe to Healthy, Wealthy & Smart: Website:                      https://podcast.healthywealthysmart.com Apple Podcasts:          https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healthy-wealthy-smart/id532717264 Spotify:                        https://open.spotify.com/show/6ELmKwE4mSZXBB8TiQvp73 SoundCloud:               https://soundcloud.com/healthywealthysmart Stitcher:                       https://www.stitcher.com/show/healthy-wealthy-smart iHeart Radio:               https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-healthy-wealthy-smart-27628927   Read the Full Transcript Here:  Speaker 1 (00:01): Hey, Tom, welcome back to the podcast. I'm excited to have you on today. Speaker 2 (00:06): Thanks for having me back. I really enjoyed it. Last time we took proximal hamstring. Didn't we last time it was a good chat Speaker 1 (00:13): We did. And now this time you are part of the month of March and this month we're talking all about running injuries and running rehab. So what we're going to talk about today is persistent pain in these athletes. And I know this is something that you're seeing more and more of. So let's dive in what let's talk about as physical therapists or physiotherapists. Do you feel that we're acknowledging these types of persistent pain in our athletes or in our runners? Or are we just thinking, Oh, well, you know, they have this tendinopathy or this strain and it's just keeps recurring. It's just like a, it gets better and then becomes an acute injury again or this back pain. Oh, same thing. It, it kind of goes away and comes back. So what, what is your opinion on that? Are we acknowledging persistent pain in these athletic populations? Speaker 2 (01:20): Yeah, that's a good question. I think maybe we D we do look at it a bit more, like you're saying, we just kind of see it as a sort of repeated acute injury may be large rather than seeing it as a persistent pain problem. And I think that's because in part, when we see people with persistent pain, part of our, of our advice and our management is for them to be active. So if you've got someone to come see seeing you, that is actually already sporty, they're already active that, you know, you kind of think, well, what else needs to be offered here? And I think sometimes we don't really think about the sort of psychosocial practice in sporty or active people, because they're not obviously fear avoidance, especially if they're keeping their sport going. So we, we tend to go down the route. That's perhaps a bit more biomedical isn't now we looked at biomechanics, we look at strength and conditioning and these all can be valuable, but we mustn't lose sight of the bigger picture. I don't actually think sometimes we do need to acknowledge that it is more of a persistent pain state and a, not necessarily a series of flare ups of acute injury. Speaker 1 (02:24): How do we differentiate this is persistent pain versus a series of acute flare ups. Speaker 2 (02:30): Yeah, I think there's going to be an overlap between those things. We know that people with persistent pain that isn't necessarily stable with change can change quite a lot. People go through periods of quite severe flare ups as well. I think it's about sort of looking at the bigger picture and looking at the connection between things like pain and load. So in, in an acute injury situation with something like tendinopathy, quite often, there is quite a clear load pain relationship. It hurts when I load it. It doesn't hurt when I don't, I'm in a more persistent pain state. We might actually see that that relationship becomes a lot more blurry that the pain may well flare up when load hasn't changed or the pain may remain present. When there isn't a great deal of loading going on. So we start to see a bit of a breakdown of that connection between load and pain. And perhaps you start to see other aspects influencing symptoms, you know, lack of sleep, stress, fear, et cetera. We see other sort of types of behavior creeping in there as well around maybe avoidance coming in. So now they are backing away from their sport. So I think that's something we need to have a lookout for particularly that lack of relationship between load and pain and then exaggerated pain response as well. Speaker 1 (03:48): And when we're looking at these more sporty athletic people are runners how do they differentiate from say maybe our non sporty or non-running population? Speaker 2 (04:01): I think that there will be some definitely some, you know, some crossover between different people in different groups. And I really would, you know, w I use the term athlete, but I, I have a really broad definition of that. Someone, someone who wants to be regularly sporty and active fits that category for me. So I'm not necessarily necessarily when I say athlete referring to an elite athlete, competing at a high level, this, this can be people that want to be running three or four times a week, that really comes in that category too. But I think they can have, you know, similar concerns to someone that's not sporty around pain and damage, for example. So they might have similar concerns there. They might both have quite high life load which is a term I quite like this, somebody mentioned in one of my courses recently. Speaker 2 (04:49): So, you know, this is where you've got lots of stress going on with, with work and family life this kind of Highlife load that plays upon your pain. And they may also both groups have poor recovery. So, you know, athletes may not be brilliant sleepers non-athletes may not be brilliant. Sleep is too, they might not get much downtime much emotional recovery. So there can be quite a lot of of overlap. I think perhaps where they differ is they may have quite different goals. So I think it's, I see Mike might have wanted to go back to running half marathons, marathons, ultra marathons, and beyond potentially. So that might be quite a different goal to non-athletes that want to be more functional with day to day activities or lower level activities, perhaps like walking distances and perhaps something that we do see in athletes. Speaker 2 (05:38): That can be different though. Again, we see this in non-athletes too, is they may be a bit more inclined to push through pain. Most of us that have done sports at any level will know that pain is quite often a normal part of sport. And to some degree we do have to work with it. If, if we stopped every time, something we we'd never really, really do sport for very long, but this isn't necessarily always the right approach, gritting your teeth and pushing on through. Isn't always the right answer. And it's not always obvious that that's the case, but sometimes actually we do need to know when we need to back off a little bit. I'm an athletes particularly really highly driven athletes may not be quite so good at recognizing when they need to back off. Speaker 1 (06:21): Yeah, that's for sure. Especially if, like you said, they've got this goal of, I want to run a half marathon and marathon or an ultra to be able to, to have to abandon that goal due to pain, persistent pain or injury is, can be very devastating. Right. So how do you, how do you navigate that with your athletes and with your runners, especially with a more persistent pain, how do you navigate that? Very, I would say very sensitive goal or topic with these, with these runners or athletes. Speaker 2 (06:58): Yeah. It's not, it's certainly not easy. I think it's it can be challenging. I think wherever possible, we want to try and invite them to review their expectations and goals. So that it's not necessarily us being prescriptive and saying, this isn't realistic, or you're not going to achieve this, but if we can help them have slightly more fluid expectations of themselves and slightly more realistic goals, the ideal world then is that they then come around to the idea that perhaps this marathon they've got on the horizon, if it's not realistic for them, that they can set a different goal with it. And th this is one of the things, again, sometimes with, with higher level athletes, certain personality types is that being, being able to persist is a good skill, a good good thing to have, you know, and you need it when you get to sort of modulating 19 in the marathon and your legs are heavy. Speaker 2 (07:50): And, you know, you've got to keep going to hit your target. Tom, you need that in the time. You've got to have that level of persistence. And, and for that to be at least a little bit rigid because you you've got to, if you're going to achieve that goal, you've got to keep going, but to keep going at a certain time. So at times that rigid persistence is useful, but if you apply that all the time when circumstances are changing and your expectations are rigid, it doesn't really work very well. So for example, with the situation's changed, you're now in quite a lot of pain, you're struggling with day-to-day activity. This marathon is, is a lot closer now than, than we would, would like it to be. Ideally we have to try and encourage them to be a bit more fluid there and say, okay, well perhaps what we need to do is change that goal a little bit. Speaker 2 (08:37): Let's push it a little bit further down the line, give ourselves a bit more time and helping them see the positives of that decision can help. So you all often say to them, well, you know, if we can, if we can move this, you know, a few months down the line or let's go for a half marathon or a 10 K, it's going to take the pressure off you. You're not going to feel like you're constantly chasing your tail because you're trying to catch up with the training. You're not able to do. You're going to be able to focus on the rehab side of things. You're not going to feel so much pressure, and we can really focus on getting you well and ready to race rather than rushing you to get through a particular event when you've got a whole life of running ahead of you. Speaker 1 (09:15): Fair, very fair. And, and I think that's great for clinicians to hear, because I think that wording is very sensitive to the, to your patient and also gives them the goal gives them that aspirational goal that they can eventually get to. So I think that wording was great. Thank you for that. Now here's a tough question. And, and I don't know all the answers to this one, but in your opinion, and in your experience, what do you feel may be driving persistent pain in these runners or athletes? Speaker 2 (09:53): Well, we had us, that's a good question. Isn't it? A million dollar question and I would acknowledge I don't, I certainly don't have all the answers with this, and I don't think the research does yet either because it's an area, you know persistent pain in athletes isn't brilliantly well researched. So I think there's a lot that we can, we can learn about this, but there's a few things that would, I think, would spring to mind here. So I think beliefs are important. So and this is, can be beliefs around what the pain means. And then they, you know, what the pain means is if it's, if it's a sign of damage if they think it means they need to stop their exercise altogether, how they feel their body's gonna respond to exercise when they have pain that continuing to run, for example, will that be more harmful for them? Speaker 2 (10:38): It can be around beliefs around training too. A lot of people will feel that unless they're pushing themselves a hundred percent in every session it's not worth doing. So that can be quite difficult then for them to pace themselves and modify their training because it kind of all or nothing really. I think one of the things that I'm realizing more and more over the years working with with people and athletes is if they are quite heavily reliant on the sport for their mental wellbeing, then that can have a bigger impact too, because they might be using that, that sport to help them with their mood or anxiety or depression. So if they can't do their sport, it increases the impact of the injury. And I think it increases the fear associated with that because they're losing this coping strategy, they're losing physical fitness, they start to worry about the future. Speaker 2 (11:27): And I think maybe that links in with pain science, because it increases the threat that this injury has, and that has the potential then to have a knock on effect in terms of the pain and increasing pain severity and things. And a lot of these things are interlinked. I think training behaviors go hand in hand with that, you know, tending to push yourself hard all the time, boom, or bust, things like that. I think there's also a lot of stuff that we might not necessarily, we see like negative messages from others. So other other athletes, sometimes coaches, health professionals, unfortunately I'm so pumped. Sometimes we can be responsible for that life. I've treated lots of runners. Who've been told that they should never run again, for example, by various different health professionals. So we need to be aware of that. I think Google might have a lot to answer for I don't, I'd love to know. I think you've been Dr. Google doc to goo exactly. I don't, I don't know many situations where someone's been worried about something and put it into Google and felt better. Speaker 2 (12:31): What you find is the worst case scenario from it, which does amplify, you know, it does amplify people's worries. And that's actually something as a clinician, I would check in with your patients about what what'd you do when you worried about this? Did you go and Google it? What'd you find when you Google it? How does it make you feel? Because quite often they'll find the worst case scenario and I feel a lot more worried. So we want to discourage them from doing that, come to us. If you've got questions about your care, that's what we're there for really. So there's a lot of things that also impact of the injury, perhaps not being fully addressed. So you know, looking beyond the kind of physical impact of the injury, but the loss of the social side of the sport, the loss of their identity around sport the effects, as we said, it might have on mental health. Speaker 2 (13:18): There's lots of other things that go alongside the injury that often don't get talked about. And if they're not addressed, I think they can amplify it as well. And then the final thought I would add to this is perhaps if not had really particularly appropriate rehab it may be, it's been very focused on pain and not really focused on function in maybe that it's not been progressive and it's not really looked to address their rehab needs, lots of stretching and foam rolling and, you know, ice and, but no real kind of planning and progression in that. Speaker 1 (13:50): Okay. So that leads me to the next question as clinicians, where should we be focusing our treatments? Good segue there. Speaker 2 (13:57): Yeah. I like the connection. You've done this before, I think. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think he's got to start in the first session with trying to develop an understanding for that person, if we can help them to, to understand their injury. And it takes time to build on that, but really make that part of that first session and give them the opportunity to share their story in that first session and also to air their concerns. You know, I really think we want to make the focus of these treatment sessions on the patient and their needs, not necessarily a kind of a list of things we need to tick off to do in a session because there is actually research showing that quite often, people whose needs aren't really identified we can be quite dismissive as clinicians. So we want to get in there right in the early, early stages and say, you know, what would you really like to, to from, from your treatment? Speaker 2 (14:52): What are your concerns? What are you particularly worried about here? What would you really like us to help with? Because we can start with that. I think that helps us form a good, strong connection. We can really help them understand the injury and build on it from there. I think that alongside shared goal setting, I think big PA plan of I'm a big fan of collaborative working you know, so you're working towards their goals. How can we help them achieve those goals together? And again, get a good idea of those in the first sessions. And it is part of the reason I really love working with rhinos is because many of them have a goal. Even if it's just, they want to get back to running 5k, you know, great, brilliant. It's a measurable goal. We can start the planning towards that pretty much from, from session one. Speaker 2 (15:37): And then we do want to have some progressive rehab because they're all gonna be psychosocial factors. In many cases, we've talked about, you know, beliefs to address perhaps poor recovery load management to talk about that quite often, there are physical needs as well. So we need to address those if there's a lack of strength or control or range and address them in a progressive way, as opposed to just loads of stretching and rolling, and then we can start to do a graded return to sport when, when they feel like they're physically and psychologically ready to engage in that. Speaker 1 (16:10): And what are some, some examples that maybe you can give of the types of diagnoses or the types of patients that you're seeing coming to you with persistent pain, you don't have, we don't have to go into, you know, the specifics of how you treat XYZ, but what are some things that you might be seeing in your patients coming to you with persistent pain? Speaker 2 (16:36): So I, I do specialize to some degree in tendinopathy. So we will see a lot of patients with long-standing tendinopathy lots of patients with proximal hamstring tendinopathy, because that's particularly the area I've researched in. But it will say Achilles tendinopathy issues as well. See people with low back pain and hip pain as well, falling into this category people with persistent patellofemoral pain syndrome persistent bone stress injuries, like medial tibial stress syndrome. So it's do see quite a mix. And, and many of those will have been treated first and foremost in quite a kind of biomedical model. I think, Speaker 1 (17:16): Yeah, so I think I just wanted to ask, cause I think it's important that clinicians out there hear like, Oh wait, you can have a persistent tendinopathy problem. You know, you can have like, Oh, I, I wasn't aware. I thought, you know, after let's say proximal hamstring after a year of rehabbing, if that kind of comes back, Oh, it's probably just like a muscle strain. It's probably not that tendinopathy again or, or not again, but it continuation of that. Absolutely. Yeah. And Speaker 2 (17:50): To give you a clinical example then, because we talked a little bit about how the connection between load and pain can be blurry about how that may, we may see an exaggerated response. So to give you an example of that proximal, hamstring, tendinopathy patient that I've been working with who will not be able to sit for more than maybe 30 seconds because that will really cause a flare up in their symptoms. Now we can see then that's a, that's a really exaggerated pain response. And the average person sits for somewhere around six to seven hours a day. So not to be able to tolerate even 30 seconds of sitting because there's pressure around that that tendon is, is an exaggerated pain response. And that person's pain will fluctuate not necessarily in line with load. So there'll be days where her symptoms are much worse and she doesn't really know why it's not because she's run a long distance or done anything different. Speaker 2 (18:53): The fluctuations in activity levels might be small in the range of a few minutes here and there. And yet the pain response is really exaggerated. And again, I talked about sort of beliefs and things go going into, you know, going into this area. And when we talk to this particular person about her beliefs, you can see she's very concerned that sitting damages the tendon and therefore that adds to the threat value associated with the city. She's very fearful of sitting when you ask her to do it, you can see she's really reluctant, but also we need to acknowledge why it really hurts. It's really hard for a long time. So there should be no judgment and our pie, we should be reckless. Yeah. This is really difficult. This is having a huge impact on this person's life. Can't if you can't sit down and even to have a cup of tea or to watch a move at the end of a long day, what should we eat dinner? Like that's big. So I think we have to recognize that as a persistent pain picture and with aspects of tendinopathy in there that we can manage, but just seeing it, like you say, as, Oh, it's just another flare up of the proximal hamstring tendon. We were missing that bigger picture, I'd say. Speaker 1 (20:01): Yeah. And that was a great example. Thanks for that. And now, you know, when we talk about running, we talk about athletes. So one thing they all want to do is they want to return to their sport. So can you talk to us a little bit about how we navigate that, how we prepare these people to return to their sport and what that, what that sport may look like? Speaker 2 (20:24): Yeah. I think, I think maybe we start, if we can, by seeing if we can reduce irritability a bit where possible. So if we think back to that lady, I was talking about Verrier to boost symptoms at the moment. So if I go straight into a greater return to running, I think that's probably going to be a little bit too much to start with. So in many situations we may we say, okay, let's see what we can do to reduce the symptoms and irritability helping someone understand their pain and that it's not a sign of damage can help helping them work out a list of things that may help to reduce their pain. Maybe particular exercises that help simple things like, you know, using heat or ice if necessary, but trying to give them strategies and work with them. So they've got a little bit of a list of things that can turn that, that pain volume down a little bit, and we're placing them in a bit more control, reducing that threat value. Speaker 2 (21:17): And then we can start to work towards that graded return to sport. And again, if we want to plan together because we really want the person to be in the driving seat and us maybe just helping, you know, being a bit of a satnav along the way to keep them on track. So we've had this recently really lovely runner I've been working with who in the first session said to me you know, what she'd like to do is first of all, build some strength then increase her cardio fitness by bringing in a bit of cycling and swimming. Then she wanted to bring in some, some impact and some plyometric exercises before doing a graded return to running. And I thought immediately, brilliant, this is fantastic. This person has a great plan. Speaker 1 (21:57): And they find this woman, Speaker 2 (22:00): I met wonderful one, and this, this is someone with a lot of experience in sport. Who's also studied a sport of science, so knows the topic really well, but that's a fantastic plan. Let's go with that plan and just help the person with their plan there. So, and we might follow quite a similar plan to that for, for patients. You know, we try and calm things down where we can, we build some strength to try and address some of their physical needs. We bring in some cardiovascular exercise to build some fitness up. We start to introduce impact because it can build impact tolerance, but it also is often a a way of developing some power. So perhaps some plyometric exercise to restore power, which is often neglected in rehab. And then we start to do a graded return to running and that's then where we got to try and work with them around their goals and also work with them around pain. And that can be a bit of a barrier. Speaker 1 (22:53): Yeah. And so how much pain is acceptable? How much is too much? Yeah. Speaker 2 (22:59): Like our pain scales you know, sort of scoring pain out of 10. And I, I would say there's actually quite a few studies that have done that quite successfully. So I think there's some value in that. But what we've talked about with these pain groups is that the connection between load and pain, isn't very clear and the pain response is exaggerated. So if we're guided purely by pain, we are going to struggle a little bit, I would say with these patients. So I would tend to say that the patient needs to decide what they feel is acceptable, and we provide some, some guidance. And we need to try, and if we can look at longer term trends, then now patients quite understandably might get very focused on day-to-day pain fluctuations, but it's actually more the long-term in pain over the, over the weeks and months that we're a little bit more interested in. Speaker 2 (23:49): And we also perhaps need to recognize that there are almost two slightly separate goals here, improving function and improving pain. If you're seeing improvements in function and pain, hasn't changed, that's still a win because you're doing more. In fact, that's quite good when, because you're doing more and your pain doesn't get worse, but patients often won't see that as a win because understandably they may want that pain to go away, but we can often folks first will say, okay, well, let's start with what you feel is a manageable level of exercise. Let's work with it consistently. First of all, and then gradually build as long as you feel the pain is, is an acceptable level. And sometimes what we tend to see then is over time, they're able to do more and more, and then gradually that pain does subside because they're able to do more. Speaker 2 (24:39): They're more confident they're starting to get their life back. The threat value of the pain is starting to go down, but that takes quite a long time. So I think quite often, wherever possible, placed the focus a bit more in function and just save the patient a few phone that feel that it's manageable. It's acceptable. This is fine. If it's too much, if it's not manageable, we'll dial it down a little bit, but we want, if we can to stay consistent with exercise, because otherwise we're going to have a lot of beam, bus tear will build you up and stop they'll drop and stop. We want to just see, can we keep you ticking along, even if it's at quite a low level Speaker 1 (25:13): And do you have your patients keep a log or a journal or some way so that they can see, Oh, I was doing this. I started with Tom on March 1st and here it's April 1st. And this is what I was able to do Marsh. Now this is what I can do in April. My pain's around the same, but look at how much more I can do, or maybe my pains a little less. Or do you, how do you keep track of all that? Do you give that to the patient to help them with their own sort of locus of control? And are you using the pain scale? Are you saying well, what is your pain March 1st? Let's compare that to April 1st. Let's compare that to March 1st. Speaker 2 (26:01): Yeah. I would try and see if we can monitor that goal activity because it's important to be able to see that they're improving and they're progressing towards their goal. If you've got quite a specific goal, like running a 5k in order to get that, you've give it a C you know, how, how far you're able to run. And that's the simplest question. How far can you run now? But that can be it could be steps for day. If someone's wanting to build up their walking, it could be minutes rather than miles with any activity, really. So I think it's a good idea to try and monitor what people are doing. I do, I do use the pain scale a little bit. It depends on, on how comfortable the person is with it, whether they like using that. I tend to perhaps make it a little bit more simple and just say, is your pain mild, moderate, or severe sort of break it down into those into those three sort of different categories, really. Speaker 2 (26:58): But the thing is with pain is there's so many different aspects of it. Are we talking about average pain day to day? We talking about peak pain. What did the pain get up to is it's at its highest, we're talking about pain frequency. So how often you've had that pain during the day, are we talking about pain distress, which I think is almost a separate thing. How distressing are you finding that pain? So if you're especially worried about it, that pain often will be more distressing, even if the severity isn't necessarily higher. Do you see what I mean? So I think, I think where possible we focus on the golf function and we, we try and take that focus off pain a little bit because as well, you know, if patients are monitoring it every day, that drawing that focus on pain every day, and they're asking ourselves, how much does it hurt? Speaker 2 (27:47): Even some patients have no one used the term morning MRI. I used to get up in the morning and do it, do a sort of stretching test on his Achilles. That was what he called his morning MRI to test the Achilles out and see how he thought it would be that day. We don't really want to do that. To be honest, we want to focus on what your valued activities let's really try and bring them back in, build those up and keep a kind of a little casual, casual notice of pain, let pain tell us if it's too much, if it's breaking through, into your attention and in telling you it's too much, that's probably when we need to act, if you're looking for it, if you're, if you're kind of really questioning, is it worse today? I'm less concerned about it. Speaker 1 (28:26): Got it. Yeah. So you don't want them to, you don't want your patients to be waking up and be like, wait, do I feel, do I feel more pain today? Weight you're you're well aware that you have pain. Speaker 2 (28:38): Yes. Yeah, absolutely. I think that calling is focusing on the pain as well. It's quite, it's quite a normal thing to do. I think we've kind of pathologized it a little bit. But I think actually it's understandable for people to do that. There's another layer of context around the pain and what it might mean and what that might mean for your, for your future. So I'll give you an example from myself. So I have I have psoriasis and I have nail bed changes with psoriasis and that increases the likelihood of you developing cirrhotic arthritis. So a couple of weeks ago and surfing on Twitter and someone posts a link to a research paper that says new studies shows link between nail bed changes and severities, psoriatic arthritis. And I start thinking, yeah, my fingers are a bit sore today, you know, and that's one of the areas where you can get psoriasis, arthritis, changes in the joints and the fingers. Speaker 2 (29:41): And then I throw it comes back a little bit later that day and for a few more days afterwards, and now I'm sort of noticing like achy thumbs hands are a bit stiff in the morning. And if I allow myself to keep focusing on that and measuring that and worrying about that, it would be understandable that that could become really quite a worry for me, because then you think, well, is it cirrhotic arthritis? That's been, that's known to actually affect the joint and perhaps even damage the joint. And if I've got nail bed changes, that means it can be very severe. And what impact would that have on my life? And these are all just normal things that we have as, as people, as health professionals that know quite a bit about pain. So I think we can acknowledge for someone who's not a health professional. Speaker 2 (30:25): There's probably a lot of that going on, particularly the pain's been there a long time and pains is a real nuisance because it can, you can kind of like stop worrying about it. And then, then you have the pain and it kind of reminds you and goes on about you and that can start worrying prices over again. So it is hard. And I think sometimes it's health professionals, we think like, well, I talked to them about their pain and I reassured them that pain doesn't damage tech. But that if you think that that is enough to wipe out that concern, we are. Yeah, but we may need to be consistent with that message several times. And we might need to encounter that worry coming up several times and to try and help someone contextualize their symptoms and to see that not what they're fearing, but what really is going on. Speaker 2 (31:18): And to look at a bit the now of how symptoms are. So with my hands, you know, I don't have any of the classic signs of cirrhotic arthritis. I don't have swelling. I don't have a loss of joint range. I've actually been tested for psoriatic arthritis and it was negative. So it was trying to contextualize it and see the reality is I've just turned 40 and I've got slightly stiff fingers. That's the reality. So let's focus on the now and what is real for you now and not what you fear might be coming up in the future. Speaker 1 (31:47): Yeah. And that's something that I say to myself every time I wake up and my neck's a little stiffer sore, you know, my upper back feels a little sore instead of my, what I used to do is, Oh, okay. I better not go to work today. I better just relax. Let me get a heating pad. Let me just, I don't want to do anything. I should probably just lay down. And these are all the things I used to do. And so now when I wake up or if I do have a flare up of neck pain or something like that, now I'll just say, okay, I know nothing is seriously damaged. I have the MRIs to prove it multiple. And you know, these are just things that I have to continually say to myself. And I think I'm pretty well versed in, in the science behind pain and, and even working with people with persistent pain. I mean, I do it every, but even for myself, I have to continuously sort of recite these mantras to myself in order for me to get through the day when I have a little bit more discomfort or pain. So the struggle is there, you know, and I think imparting that and telling that to your patients, especially your runners with persistent pain. I think that can be very powerful. Speaker 2 (33:07): Yeah, absolutely. And, and recognizing, as I said, the bigger picture of knowing the person and, and the things that make them make up them as a person. And if they are, for example, running to their mental wellbeing, what, what, what is the, the thing that, that they're running to help? And how does that link to their pain? Are they running to help anxiety? In which case are they someone who is perhaps going to struggle with negative thoughts about chain, and they're going to be drawn into ruminating about those negative thoughts about pain, and they're going to be looking for reassurance that those thoughts, you know, jumping on Dr. Google, I'm finding actually it makes it worse because they see all the negative outcomes they're afraid of laid out on a web page. So if they are someone with, with that, then they, they may need more, more help with that. They may need to, you know, you may need to work with a mental health professional to help them work with those thoughts and to find ways perhaps to not get drawn into that ruminating pattern and to look for other coping strategies, we show it to them. The long-term can be useful because they're less reliant and upon the sport, because they actually learn perhaps a slightly different relationship with that, with their thoughts and from that, then can help that their mental wellbeing. Speaker 1 (34:22): Yes. I agree with that. And Nelson, before we kind of wrap things up is there anything that we missed or that maybe we flew by a little too quickly that you want to elaborate on? And if not, what would be your best advice to a clinician that is working with AF that is working with people with or athletes with persistent pain problems? Speaker 2 (34:54): I think in terms of things we might have missed, I just would say that there's a, there's a nice paper from Halon as torn in 2017 that's well worth a look, which is, is actually looking at things a little bit more in terms of pain in athletes. And there's, there's quite a nice quote in that that I'll just briefly read now if that's the case. So they say even low level inflammation, for example, linked to sleep deprivation, ongoing stress and load exceeding the tissues capacity can reduce the athlete's mechanical nociceptive threshold sufficiently to make normal mechanical demands of sport painful. So that sort of Lincoln into this bigger picture stuff saying here, actually, if we're not recovering enough, or the load is excessive on the tissues, it's actually going to have an effect potentially on sensitivity know nociceptive threshold. Speaker 2 (35:49): So this is where it's quite important for us to see the bigger picture. They also say in that paper that the, the link between tissue change and pain is thought to reduce over time. So if you've got someone with very persistent symptoms, years' worth of pain, you should already perhaps be suspecting that this is probably not just going to be driven by the tissues. I mean, when is there ever a situation where pain is, but, you know, it's probably going to be a bigger picture here that we need to identify. And I think that's probably one of the key messages to take from what we've talked about. Hey, really, you know, you, you start right with the first question is perhaps just to, to try and see if you can recognize when you are looking at a more persistent pain state and to try and really get to know that person and the bigger picture, and what's driving that because then I think you're going to get better results with them and then try and see if we can work gradually towards their goals and just keep them on track with it and give it time. Speaker 2 (36:45): It will take time, you know, this, the patients I'm seeing, we're looking at at least six months, probably a year of working together because there's so much to work through. I think we sometimes say, Oh, we reassured them about their pain. Give them some exercises away. They go, it's not really like that. You know, it's going to be lots of ups and downs. We're going to have to stick with them for a while and just keep chipping away, but you can get some really good results with people and you can get them back to the sport that they, that they love. And that can be a really, really big thing for them. Speaker 1 (37:13): Yeah. that's a great way to to end our conversation here. One, one question, what was the, who's the author of the paper from 2017? Speaker 2 (37:26): I think it's Hamline at all. I believe it was in the but I can find a link to it for you to put in the, in the show notes, if you would. Speaker 1 (37:36): Perfect. That would be great. And I will look it up as well. But thank you for that. Now before we finish our conversation, where can people find you? If they have questions? Speaker 2 (37:48): Yeah. Come and say hello on on Twitter, I'm at Tom goo or an Instagram ad running dot physic. Also I've got my website, which is running-physio.com. So yeah, come and say hello, ask questions and things. So it's good to chat. Speaker 1 (38:03): Perfect. And last question. What advice would you give to your younger self knowing where you are now? And I know we've, you said this before is, and I have to say something different. Now you get a chance to give yourself a second piece of advice. Speaker 2 (38:16): Oh, good question. Oh now that I'm thought 14 spending a bit on top, I'd, I'd say really enjoy your hair while it's there. Yeah. now I don't know, in all seriousness, I think I would probably sort of say you know, really make sure that you kind of value value, that things are important in life friends and the family, you know, always, always try and put those things first because ultimately they're, they're the things that are most important for us. And I think a lot of people already know that and I've learned it, especially during COVID, but I think there's a lot to be said about, you know, focusing on family and friends and things first you can still have a very fulfilling career and things, but I think that that's the important, the important stuff. That's what makes, makes life great. Really Speaker 1 (39:08): Excellent advice. Well, Tom, thank you so much for coming on to the podcast again and sharing all this great information with us. I really appreciate your time. Thanks for having me back here. And it's been really good pleasure, pleasure, and everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Have a great week and stay healthy, wealthy and smart.  

SOME PEOPLE HAVE USED THIS 2 WORD PHRASE AS INSULT AGAINST ME. I CONSIDER IT EQUALLY VILE TO A RACIAL SLUR. DEROGATORY REMARKS ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION. WATCH THE VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND WHY... #leadingleaderspodcast 12-22-20: http://www.jlorennorris.com/podcast/some-people-have-used-this-2-word-phrase-as-insult-against-me If the best counter you have to a thought I share is to ridicule and call names, then your limited inability to converse honestly and intelligently exposes itself. I am not questioning the intellect of the people who disagree with me. I am not trying to insult people who think differently than I do. But I am vehemently opposed to the notion that disagreement is a mental disorder. It is not! Disagreement is often the birthplace of innovation, collaborative learning and discovery. Forced agreement, forced compliance is often the birthplace of abuse, tyrannical control, and prolonged manipulation. Consensus and scientific fact are not interchangeable. Mass adoption of an idea does not make it a good idea. (DDT? CFC? Halon? Monsanto?) A healthy debate will lead to deeper understanding. On open mind, supported by core values and sufficient research will lead to qualified new ideas, opinions and opportunities. A society that pathologizes dissent is a society on its way to a complete loss of freedom. Know this, any group of people who fight to gain total control, gain any ground in that direction, they will fight equally hard to maintain what control they already have. A freedom lost is twice as hard to get back as it would have been to protect it to begin with. Ask the people of Hong Kong circa 1997-2020. Leadership Training, Interviews and Entertainment _______________________________ Leading Leaders Podcast is a short but impactful leadership video, blog and podcast distributed 5 days a week by J Loren Norris to promote faith, family and freedom in the face of a global leadership drought. Blog & Additional Resources https://www.jlorennorris.com/attitudehack.html #leadingleaderspodcast #storypower #jlorennorris Copyright 2020 Tell It Like It Is Inc. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/j-loren-norris/message

SOME PEOPLE HAVE USED THIS 2 WORD PHRASE AS INSULT AGAINST ME. I CONSIDER IT EQUALLY VILE TO A RACIAL SLUR. DEROGATORY REMARKS ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION. WATCH THE VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND WHY... #leadingleaderspodcast 12-22-20: http://www.jlorennorris.com/podcast/some-people-have-used-this-2-word-phrase-as-insult-against-me If the best counter you have to a thought I share is to ridicule and call names, then your limited inability to converse honestly and intelligently exposes itself. I am not questioning the intellect of the people who disagree with me. I am not trying to insult people who think differently than I do. But I am vehemently opposed to the notion that disagreement is a mental disorder. It is not! Disagreement is often the birthplace of innovation, collaborative learning and discovery. Forced agreement, forced compliance is often the birthplace of abuse, tyrannical control, and prolonged manipulation. Consensus and scientific fact are not interchangeable. Mass adoption of an idea does not make it a good idea. (DDT? CFC? Halon? Monsanto?) A healthy debate will lead to deeper understanding. On open mind, supported by core values and sufficient research will lead to qualified new ideas, opinions and opportunities. A society that pathologizes dissent is a society on its way to a complete loss of freedom. Know this, any group of people who fight to gain total control, gain any ground in that direction, they will fight equally hard to maintain what control they already have. A freedom lost is twice as hard to get back as it would have been to protect it to begin with. Ask the people of Hong Kong circa 1997-2020. Leadership Training, Interviews and Entertainment _______________________________ Leading Leaders Podcast is a short but impactful leadership video, blog and podcast distributed 5 days a week by J Loren Norris to promote faith, family and freedom in the face of a global leadership drought. Blog & Additional Resources https://www.jlorennorris.com/attitudehack.html #leadingleaderspodcast #storypower #jlorennorris Copyright 2020 Tell It Like It Is Inc. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/j-loren-norris/message

On today’s ALL NEW Nerdtastically Newsworthy episode of #NerdORama we’re taking a trip to ComicCon@Home AND laying out even more nerd-world film delays…PLUS Marsha Collier is back with a brand new edition of #TechThursday!!!

Det är speciella tider vi lever i - karantäner och källarjobb och grejer. Vi försöker att inte gräva ner oss för mycket Fredriks intryck av Roslagsbanan såhär efteråt. Tack för senast och sånt Dr Zingo lyckades ta sig hem 30 mil med en Volvo full med datasaker Bo Dahlström föreslår att vi har filmtipsen sist i programmet. Bra idé tycker vi Tommy Eng tipsar om firma som kan konvertera VHS-tejper till finfina digitala format: BGAVideo.com. Jocke har beställt kartong Nextcloud-klienten på Macos har inte kraschat sedan Jocke uppdaterade till Catalina Död åt Proxmox. ALLT dog, bara inte i sändning Peertube, Wallabag och bland de kommande projekten på fidonet.io. funderar även på egen synkmotor för Firefox, Searx (fri öppen sökmotor), Librespeed (hastighetstest utan javascript, mm) och> Jocke gör en “seti@home” och stöttar Rosetta@home med processorkärnor för att bidra till forskningen runt Covid-19 Apple “ställer in” WWDC och gör ett online-event av det hela. Som alla andra Om/när Apple går över till ARM i sina datorer, kommer de uppdatera datorerna varje år med nya ARM-proppar a’la iPhone eller kommer de göra det lite då och då a’la iPad? Jocke lutar åt det se> Jocke ger bort lite fler saker Senaste numret av vanliga Datormagazin har Jockes lååååååånga artikel om Datormagazins födelse Fredrik har än så länge inte blivit knäpp av att jobba hemifrån. Fjärrfika är bra grejer Film/tv-tips: Dokumentären om Amazon på SVT Play sevärd Nya säsongen av Homeland ångar på. Bra skit - finns på SVT Play Nya säsongen av Westworld har startat. Jocke inte sett ännu Länkar Firefox developer edition Vcenter Jockes BBS bgavideo.com KVM qcow Proxmox Logical volume manager Halon fidonet.io - bra saker! privatebin privatebin.fidonet.io Wallabag Peertube Firefox-synkserver Searx Librespeed Friendica Rosetta@home BOINC Team fediverse Seti@home Foss-north Mattermost Big blue button Datormagazin 4 2020 En podd om teknik Amazon-dokumentären Homeland Westworld, säsong 3 Borås Borås Två nördar - en podcast. Fredrik Björeman och Joacim Melin diskuterar allt som gör livet värt att leva. Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-201-hjalp-en-djurgardare.html.

Monzan kisaviikonloppu herätti paljon keskustelua. F3-luokassa meinasi käydä Alexander Peronilla kalpaten, kun Parabolicassa auto lähti kanttarista ilmalentoon. Halon ansiosta selvittiin kuitenkin ilman kuolonuhreja. Aika-ajoissa nähtiin kaikkien aikojen sirkus, kun kenelläkään ei tuntunut olevan vetohaluja ja kaikille olisi imuapu maistunut. Monzassa 2019 alkoi viimeistään Kuningas Charlesin aikakausi.

Was zum Teufel ist denn da bitte aktuell bei Boeing los?Was für ein Desaster! Es hat zwei kurz aufeinander folgende Abstürze im Jahr 2018/2019 gebraucht, bis Boeing, auch dank einem fast weltweiten Grounding seiner B737-Max8 endlich gezuckt hat. Und als wir alle dachten, das wird sich binnen Wochen lösen, hört man von Qualitätsmängeln in der Produktion des Dreamliners, der B787. Und als man auch das verdaut hat, heißt es plötzlich: Boeing hätte schon seit 2017 über die Fehler der Max8 Bescheid gewusst, aber nach interner Untersuchung mit dem Ergebnis, dass die keine Beeinträchtigung der Flugsicherheit darstellt, keine weiteren Schritte eingeleitet... was bitte ist denn da aktuell bei Boeing los?!? Die Boeing 737 MAX-7 / Quelle: Boeing.comPodCaster Shownotes: Ich muss es ja nicht nochmal im Detail breit treten, ihr erinnert Euch alle noch an die zwei Unfälle: eine Tiger Air stürzte am 29.10.2018 kurz nach dem Start vor der Küste Indonesiens ab und tötete dabei 189 Passagiere. Wie wir mittlerweile wissen, war auch der Hinflug am Vortrag nach Jakarta mit Problem behaftet, was durch Zufall durch einen dritten Piloten im Cockpit "behoben" werden konnte. Das die Crew am nächsten Tag leider nicht dieses Glück hatte, wissen wir mittlerweile auch... Erste Untersuchungsergebnisse ergaben, dass der Flug nach dem Start mit ungewöhnlichen Höhenänderungen flog. Diese Erkenntnisse trafen auch auf den Flug ET302 (Ethiopian Air) am 10.03.2019 zu, der 157 Menschen das Leben kostete. Es folgte ein Drama, dass in der Luftfahrt seit mehreren Jahrzehnten nicht mehr gesehen wurde: nach viel Diskussion in diversen Ländern wurde in den ersten Regionen "Groundings", also Start- und Lande- sowie auch Überflugverbote für Modelle des Typs Boeing B737 Max-8 erlassen. Auch, wenn nicht unter den ersten, erließ die FAA, die amerikanische Flugsicherungsbehörde, ein Grounding aller 737Max8s. Dann wurde es noch unschöner: es kam auf, dass, wie bereits vermutet, das neue System MCAS, Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, daran Mit-Schuld haben könnte. Dann kam heraus, dass die FAA, auch für die Zulassung neuer Maschinen in den USA zuständig, teilweise Prüf- und Testberichte von Boeing unkommentiert übernommen und quasi intern ungeprüft zur Zulassung verwendet hatte. In der weiteren Aufbereitung kam noch heraus, dass die Anzeige für den Angle of Attack, der quasi die "Werte" des MCAS als Grafik im Cockpit ausgibt, bei den erstem Maschinen Aufpreis-pflichtig angeboten wurde. Parallel arbeitete Boeing unter Hochdruck an einem Softwareupdate. Die Max 8 schien bald wieder in der Luft zu sein. Und dann? Dann steht ein ehemaliger Mitarbeiter des Boeing Werks North Charleston, South Carolina, auf und weißt auf jahrelange Qualitätsmängel in der 787-Produktion hin. Es werde Schnelligkeit über Gründlichkeit gestellt, sagt der Mitarbeiter. Ein Mitarbeiter, der in der Qualitätssicherung gearbeitet hat. Sowie duzende seiner Kollegen. Seitens der Werksleitung wurde Druck auf diese Mitarbeiter ausgeübt, "die Klappe zu halten". Aber die Mängel scheinen gravierend zu sein: Späne aus Metal und große Metalsplitter seinen wohl in der Isolationsschicht zwischen Hülle und Innenraum nicht beseitigt worden. Hier besteht das Risiko, dass sich diese bewegen und z.B. Kabel und Leitungen beschädigen. Auch wurden wohl größere Gegenstände "eingemauert": die Rede war in einigen Fällen von Leitern und Montagewerkzeug, Dreck und Müll scheint wohl jeder Dreamliner im Rumpf zu haben. Und das, wo in der Luftfahrt jedes Gramm zählt...! Und, als könnte es nicht schlimmer kommen, musste Boeing dann bekannt geben, dass der Dreamliner ein weiteres Problem hat: laut einer Direktive der FAA aus Februar 2019 kann in allen Serien, also die 787-8, 787-9 und -10, ein Hebel klemmen, der das Löschsystem für die Triebwerke auslöst. Das bedeutet: bei einem Triebwerkbrand "zieht" der Pilot diesen Hebel um die Löschung des Triebwerkes mit Halon zu starten. Laut der FAA besteht allerdings das Risiko, dass diese Fehlfunktion bei dem Plastikhebel keine Löschung auslöst. Dies würde zu einem brennenden Vorflügel führen und könnte damit eine schlimme Katastrophe auslösen. Boeing kommentierte dies als "altes Problem", welches laut internen Untersuchungen nur bei einer kleiner Zahl von Dreamliners auftritt. Trotzdem sieht sich Boeing vor dem dritten Quartal dieses Jahres nicht in der Lage, eine Lösung für den klemmenden Hebel zu finden... An sich Krise genug: das Zugpferd ist seit Wochen weltweit auf dem Boden, erste Airlines kommen in finanzielle Schwierigkeiten deshalb. Eventuell wird, je nachdem wie lange das Grounding noch dauert, die eine oder andere Billig-Airline aufgeben müssen. Der Ersatz für die eingestellte Boeing 747-8-Linie ist angeschlagen. Wie viel schlimmer kann es also noch kommen? Ja, unfassbar - es geht noch schlimmer! Im Mai 2017 fand Boeing heraus, dass ein Warnsystem im Cockpit der Max8 nicht richtig funktioniert. Und das Ergebnis der internen Untersuchung habe ich oben schon zitiert: keine Beeinträchtigung der Flugsicherheit. Das hat sich mittlerweile als radikale Fehleinschätzung entpuppt. Sowohl die oberste Führungsriege als auch die FAA wurden über die Erkenntnis und das Ergebnis der Boeing-Untersuchung nicht informiert - dies geschah erst rund eine Woche nach dem ersten Absturz im Oktober letzten Jahres. Führen wir es zusammen: Die beiden Unfälle haben 346 Menschen getötet. Erste Untersuchungen verweisen auf das neue System MCAS. Und der interne Untersuchungsbericht sieht als Schuldigen einen Zusammenhang mit dem neuen System MCAS. Aktuell ist noch unklar, ob und wie weit MCAS für die beiden Abstürze eine entscheidende Rolle spielte oder nicht. Allerdings lassen bisherige Ergebnisse und die scheibchenweise ans Tageslicht kommenden Informationen kein wirklich gutes Licht auf Boeing scheinen... Ihr dürft jetzt alles tun, nur mich nicht fragen, ob man bei Boeing noch einsteigen möchte: die bisherigen Vorwürfe lassen den Dreamliner eher als tickende Zeitbombe erscheinen, die Max ist gegroundet - und die restlichen Modelle haben eine äußerst positive Bilanz. Entscheidet das also für Euch selbst, ich will und werde hierzu keinen Ratschlag geben! Blue Skies and Happy Landings! Meinen PodCast abonnieren: | direkt | iTunes | Spotify | Google |

Alla är trötta denna vecka när vi diskuterar viktiga ämnen som: SID-spelande, tupplurar och att vakna utan väckarklocka “99 hejdå” (goodbyeval?) verkar bli “99mac revival”: Martin Björnström är med i matchen på något sätt Apple köper företag var och varannan vecka Jocke blir äntligen med 4K Kinakameror Hur vänliga själar på Youtube hjälpte till att döda Internet explorer 6 Ett novelltips Microsoft skeppar Linux Nya poddhörlurar i Kårsta: Bose QuietComfort 25i www.ikod.se - fantastisk sajt med tonvis av intressanta saker att läsa och ladda ner En podd Fredrik faktiskt lyssnar på (History on fire) försvinner in bakom Luminarys betalridå Kan man någonsin se “färdigt” på Netflix? de visar liksom aldrig allt de har, osv Jocke testar ett annat spamfilter för sina mailservrar Länkar SID SIDPLAY Lineageos Martin Björnström Artikeln om Apples företagshandlande Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway Spelet med Warren Buffett Paperboy Jockes TV Vällingby Barkaby Ambilight Jockes billigaste nätverkskamera Activex System integrity protection A conspiracy to kill IE 6 The feeling of power Microsofts terminalreklamfilm Windows subsystem for Linux Microsoft börjar skeppa Linuxkärna Wireshark Bose quietcomfort 25i ikod tosec.ikod.se Luminary History on fire Netflix-genrer Inumbo Halon Disney+ Steinbrenner & Nyberg Interstellar Dunkirk Friendly fire om Dunkirk Blade runner 2049 Två nördar - en podcast. Fredrik Björeman och Joacim Melin diskuterar allt som gör livet värt att leva. Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-166-tartbuffe-som-efterratt.html.

Follow up Battlebots Season 4 slightly more confirmed! Bugglebots Series 2 very confirmed! Front matter Spinnerproof live event coverage There won't be any Sam doesn't enjoy watching them Ryan isn't sure he enjoys talking about them in a structured, podcastable format RTNCTI The full rules and competitors Have we missed any robots? If so, please tell us now so we can add them. The very simplified rules: Every robot we have official footage of competing in a reboot series of Robot Wars and Battlebots Qualifying: 32 1v1s and 32 3-way melees, feeding into a randomised 64 robot bracket The result of every bout is decided by the roll of a die. Currently a D6, changing to a D7 next episode This episode's fixtures (no spoilers): Nuts vs ICEwave Supernova vs Razer Crushtacean vs Sweet Revenge Kraken vs Draven Mohawk vs Sharkoprion Whiplash vs Obwalden Overlord The Disk O' Inferno vs Rotator Poison Arrow vs Photon Storm Coyote vs Beta Ghost Raptor vs TR2 Frostbite vs Razorback Cobra vs Apollo Aftershock vs Ironside 3 Or Te vs Kan-Opener Sabretooth vs Wrecks Plan X vs M.R. Speed Squared !!!!!!SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!! Nuts vs ICEwave Series 10 Nuts (2), 2019 ICEwave Entanglement effect of Nuts 2 FOG. OF. WARRRRRRRR Rhino's use of Halon to smother engines Minibots Nuts 2 wins, as well it should Supernova vs Razer Series 9 Supernova, Series 8 Razer Razer's anti-horizontal setup Supernova wins, Sam mourns Crushtacean vs Sweet Revenge Nope. A reasonably competent original run/live scene machine vs the most forgettable robot in reboot history Crushtacean wins Kraken vs Draven Series 9 Draven Kraken wins Upcoming Kraken upgrades Mohawk vs Sharkoprion Empathising with producers and actively encouraging you not to listen to this 2018 Mohawk How effective is the Sharko disc? Ryan messes with the system and regrets it immensely Sharkoprion goes through Whiplash wHiplash vs Obwalden Overlord Another close battle GAMBLER'S FALLACY wHiplash wins The Disk O' Inferno vs Rotator 2018 Rotator Disk O' is cool and would benefit from the modern judging criteria Rotator wins Poison Arrow vs Photon Storm Live event Photon Storm Ryan's utterly unnecessary and factually incorrect defence of Photon Storm Photon Storm competed as Tiberius prior to 2016 Neither Photon Storm or Tiberius are a former UK champion Tiberius is widely referred to as 'feared', but details of its results over the years are hard to find Photon Storm wins Expect follow-up... Coyote vs Beta Series 10 Coyote Beta's wedge is surprisingly low Beta wins Ghost Raptor vs TR2 Ghost Raptor destroys our rules Season 1 Ghost Raptor, as a swiss-army bot: spinner, Lifter, Keep-away bar Lifter for this fight TR2 is an ACTUAL UK Champion WITH THE BUM AXE! TR2 wins No time was wasted in the making of this battle Frostbite vs Razorback Underestimating Frostbite? Season 2 Razorback running the drum Teams probably don't select a weapon based on what would happen if it broke Razorback wins Cobra vs Apollo This fight LITERALLY HAPPENED Although it was tag-team and the World Series is essentially non-canon Series 10 Apollo and Series 10 (World Series) Cobra Ryan completely forgets that Hobgoblin exists. Apollo sneaks through Aftershock vs Ironside 3 Series 10 Aftershock, Series 9 Ironside 3 A horribly tough one to call Ironside 3 wins Orte vs Kan-Opener Both in their short-lived Series 8 forms Sweeney Todd should have been counted out, but regardless the hit which killed Kan Opener arguably came after the one which finished Sweeney Todd. The Orte flipper does indeed work and could be reasonably described as about average Orte survives to be beaten in the next round Sabretooth vs Wrecks Series 9 Sabretooth, Season 2 Wrecks Sabretooth walks the fight. Plan X vs M.R. Speed Squared Series 9 MR Speed Squared An auspicious ending A robot which Wrecks took to the judges vs a robot which Foxic took to the judges Plan X somehow takes the advantage and wins Next episode: Heavy Metal vs Chimera vs Free Shipping Hypothermia vs Apocalypse vs Hypershock Axe Backwards vs Warrior Clan vs DUCK! Red Devil vs Tantrum vs Battle Royale With Cheese Iron-Awe 6 vs Bonk vs Infernal Contraption Meggamouse vs Valkyrie vs Jellyfish Skorpios vs Behemoth vs Biteforce The General vs Radioactive vs Concussion The Swarm vs Deathroll vs Gemini Kill-E-Krank-E vs Gigabyte vs RAPID Moebius vs Brutus vs Petunia Gabriel vs Storm 2 vs Tough as Nails Push to Exit vs Overdrive vs Hobgoblin Gamma 9 vs WAR Hawk vs Nightmare Bad Kitty vs Cherub vs Ultraviolent Counter Revolution vs Sweeney Todd vs Cobalt 3-ways are decided by first eliminating the 'weakest' robot outright and then producing odds for the remaining two, still taking into account the presence of the third and their impact on the fight The rest of the round (episode 4) Carbide vs DisConstructer vs King B Remix End Game vs Eruption vs SawBlaze High-5 vs Reality vs Splatter Witch Doctor vs Lucky vs Shockwave Vanquish vs Basilisk vs Black Ice Tombstone vs Crackers 'N' Smash vs Warhead Creepy Crawlies vs Magnetar vs Double Dutch Big Nipper vs Parallax vs Crazy Coupe 88 Overhaul vs Mega Tento vs Bucktooth Burl Ms Nightshade vs Crank-E vs Son of Wyachi Tauron vs TMHWK vs Dantomkia The Four Horsemen vs Thor vs Rusty Thermidor 2 vs Chompalot vs Sub Zero Vulture vs Foxic vs Trolley Rage Bale Spear vs Bucky the Robot vs Captain Shredderator Wyrm vs Donald Thump vs Huge

On this episode we reveal Jacobs AWESOME Christmas gift to Andrew and Andrews reaction! We also discuss Jacobs recent run in with a listener of the podcast and subscriber of the podcast and how they discussed the rut and saddles. Then we go on to Andrews recent success where he had a crazy hunt out of the saddle where he killed an old doe while hanging from his linesman belt!

From Wikipedia: Ordinary combustibles Class A fires consist of ordinary combustibles such as wood, paper, fabric, and most kinds of trash.   Flammable liquid and gas  A carbon dioxide fire extinguisher rated for flammable liquids and gasses These are fires whose fuel is flammable or combustible liquid or gas. The US system designates all such fires "Class B". In the European/Australian system, flammable liquids are designated "Class B" having flash point less than 100 °C, while burning gases are separately designated "Class C". These fires follow the same basic fire tetrahedron (heat, fuel, oxygen, chemical reaction) as ordinary combustible fires, except that the fuel in question is a flammable liquid such as gasoline, or gas such as natural gas. A solid stream of water should never be used to extinguish this type because it can cause the fuel to scatter, spreading the flames. The most effective way to extinguish a liquid or gas fueled fire is by inhibiting the chemical chain reaction of the fire, which is done by dry chemical and Halon extinguishing agents, although smothering with CO2 or, for liquids, foam is also effective. Halon has fallen out of favor in recent times because it is an ozone-depleting material; the Montreal Protocol declares that Halon should no longer be used. Chemicals such as FM-200 are now the recommended halogenated suppressant. Electrical Electrical fires are fires involving potentially energized electrical equipment. The US system designates these "Class C"; the Australian system designates them "Class E". This sort of fire may be caused by short-circuiting machinery or overloaded electrical cables. These fires can be a severe hazard to firefighters using water or other conductive agents, as electricity may be conducted from the fire, through water, to the firefighter's body, and then earth. Electrical shockshave caused many firefighter deaths. Electrical fire may be fought in the same way as an ordinary combustible fire, but water, foam, and other conductive agents are not to be used. While the fire is or possibly could be electrically energized, it can be fought with any extinguishing agent rated for electrical fire. Carbon dioxideCO2, NOVEC 1230, FM-200 and dry chemical powder extinguishers such as PKP and even baking soda are especially suited to extinguishing this sort of fire. PKP should be a last resort solution to extinguishing the fire due to its corrosive tendencies. Once electricity is shut off to the equipment involved, it will generally become an ordinary combustible fire. In Europe, "electrical fires" are no longer recognized as a separate class of fire as electricity itself cannot burn. The items around the electrical sources may burn. By turning the electrical source off, the fire can be fought by one of the other class of fire extinguishers. Metal Class D fires involve combustible metals - especially alkali metals like lithium and potassium, alkaline earth metals such as magnesium, and group 4 elements such as titanium and zirconium. Metal fires represent a unique hazard because people are often not aware of the characteristics of these fires and are not properly prepared to fight them. Therefore, even a small metal fire can spread and become a larger fire in the surrounding ordinary combustible materials. Certain metals burn in contact with air or water (for example, sodium), which exaggerate this risk. Generally speaking, masses of combustible metals do not represent great fire risks because heat is conducted away from hot spots so efficiently that the heat of combustion cannot be maintained. In consequence, significant heat energy is required to ignite a contiguous mass of combustible metal. Generally, metal fires are a hazard when the metal is in the form of sawdust, machine shavings or other metal "fines", which combust more rapidly than larger blocks. Metal fires can be ignited by the same ignition sources that would start other common fires. Care must be taken when extinguishing metal fires. Water and other common firefighting agents can excite metal fires and make them worse. The National Fire Protection Association recommends that metal fires be fought with dry powder extinguishing agents that work by smothering and heat absorption. The most common agents are sodium chloride granules and graphite powder. In recent years, powdered copper has also come into use. These dry powder extinguishers should not be confused with those that contain dry chemical agents. The two are not the same, and only dry powder should be used to extinguish a metal fire. Using a dry chemical extinguisher in error, in place of dry powder, can be ineffective or actually increase the intensity of a metal fire. Cooking oils and fats (kitchen fires)   Laboratory simulation of a chip pan fire: a beaker containing wax is heated until it catches fire. A small amount of water is then poured into the beaker. The water sinks to the bottom and vaporizes instantly, ejecting a plume of burning liquid wax into the air. Class K fires involve unsaturated cooking oils in well-insulated cooking appliances located in commercial kitchens. Fires that involve cooking oils or fats are designated “Class K” under the American system, and “Class F” under the European/Australian systems. Though such fires are technically a subclass of the flammable liquid/gas class, the special characteristics of these types of fires, namely the higher flash point, are considered important enough to recognize separately. Water mist can be used to extinguish such fires. As with Class B fires, a solid stream of water should never be used to extinguish this type because it can cause the fuel to scatter, spreading the flames. Appropriate fire extinguishers may also have hoods over them that help extinguish the fire. Sometimes fire blankets are used to stop a fire in a kitchen or on a stove.

Brad Alexander is a co-founding partner at HALON Entertainment, a full-service visualization company that provides a state-of-the-art platform of cutting edge technology, to bring their clients' creative vision on screen. Brad has worked on such legendary features as War of the Worlds, Transformers, World War Z; as well as spent 4 years as a CG Supervisor on James Cameron's Avatar.  Prior to co-founding HALON, Brad studied at Full Sail in Florida; but before graduating, he was recruited by George Lucas work on previs for Star Wars, Episodes II and III, as well as the George Lucas Director's Cut of THX 1138 at JAK Films. Since then, Brad has collaborated with world-class filmmakers across the industry to help create some of cinema's most compelling stories. Brad has partnered with Ang Lee as the primary Previs Supervisor on the Academy Award winning feature Life of Pi. He has supervised Snow White and the Huntsman; previs and postviz supervised Star Trek Into Darkness with J.J. Abrams. When work started on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Brad again teamed up with Abrams to supervise both the U.S. and U.K. teams. More recently, Brad has supervised on Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. In this Episode, Brad talks about the importance of passion in one's career; as well as his experience of working and collaborating with directors like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Ang Lee.  For more show notes, visit www.allanmckay.com/145/.  

Wills Francis (Rule29 and Wheels4Water), Dallas Franklin (Neenah Paper), Adam Halon, Dan Smolinski (LinkedIn), and Lloyd Wilkinson (Real Thread) discuss the second day of 2017’s HOW Design Live in Chicago. HOW, as far as I know, is the largest yearly gathering of graphic designers /[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry... The post HOW Design Live 2017, Conference Recap 2 of 4 : Wills Francis, Dallas Franklin, Adam Halon, Dan Smolinski, Lloyd Wilkinson appeared first on 36 Point.

Mimi Höglin är inte bara frisör och stylist, hon har även tagit den populära Hår-halon till Sverige, eller hårklänningen som den också kallas. Vi bjöd in henne till Hårpodden för att berätta om sitt företag Aiming for amazing, entreprenörskap i allmänhet, och hur man bygger sitt varumärke i sociala medier. Trevlig lyssning!

Comic-Con International kicks off Thursday in San Diego and I will be there along with Team Mouse Castle and about 150,000 of our closest nerdy friends as we pack the San Diego Convention Center. It will be my first visit ever to Comic-Con, and I'm super excited to finally be a part of all the craziness. I'm also super excited about my guest today, a gentleman who will co-host a presentation at Comic-Con at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday. He's one of the previsualization supervisors with Halon Entertainment, Tefft Smith. Tefft will be joining visual effects editor Ed Marsh to present “Feed Your Head: The VFX of Alice Through the Looking Glass.” Halon Entertainment is a visual effects studio in Southern California that specializes in motion picture previsualization—and what that is, I'm going to let Tefft explain. Halon has done effects work on an impressive list of films including Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, Ghostbusters, Tomorrowland, and Birdman. Their most recent collaboration with Disney, Alice Through the Looking Glass was a visually stunning return to Wonderland, directed by James Bobin and starring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter. To tell us all about that experience, as well as his best advice on how to survive Comic-Con is Tefft Smith, my guest today in The Mouse Castle Lounge. Enjoy! www.TheMouseCastle.comRSS Feed: http://themousecastle.libsyn.com/rss

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. Oh yeah, it's that time of year again: San Diego Comic Con 2016 is here! Whether you're here in town or wish you could be, this show is for you! Grim, Mark, and guest host Slick McFavorite from the Open Your Toys podcast keep the SDCC tradition going by talking about what can be found in the Gaslamp and, more importantly, what might be getting under your radar this year. That's right, it's time for the annual SDCC Alternative Spectacular! This year we once again offer up alternatives to plunking down in the Hall H line for 36 hours just to maybe see that one big panel, including such gems as the Nancy Cartright art exhibit at the Chuck Jones gallery, or some small alternative press from Devastator, or even the alternative "big panel" from major VFX firm Halon Entertainment tucked away in the cavernous Room 6A, and many many more. Featuring interviews with "Bart Simpson" herself Nancy Cartright (Chuck Jones Exhibit), The Music of DC Comics: Volume 2 music producer Peter Axelrad, Devastator Press's Amanda Meadows and Geoffrey Golden, and Halon's visual effects artists Tefft Smith and Ed W. Marsh from the blockbuster Alice Through The Looking Glass. We packed lots of bonus material (Transformers the Movie on Blu-ray SHOUT! Factory #4118, October Toys #5250, Nobility the Series #1949 ) in this one for all of you Cerealites needing something to listen to on the long drive or flight out to sunny San Diego, but all of you who can't make it this year (sorry Slick!) please feel free to listen and get excited with us! After all... This is the only SDCC Alternative show!

NO NIIN!!! Uusi PBC-jakso olisi hiivaa ja käymistä vaille valmis. Kaiken maailman Digiexpo-hömpötysten jälkeen kaarti palaa takaisin arkeen normijakson kera ja meno on valitettavasti aivan sen mukaista. Jutut pyörivät niin uuden Halon, Undertalen, Assassin’s Creedin, Warcraft-leffan, pelisensuurin kuin leffarepliikkienkin ympärillä. … Lue loppuun →

NO NIIN!!! Uusi PBC-jakso olisi hiivaa ja käymistä vaille valmis. Kaiken maailman Digiexpo-hömpötysten jälkeen kaarti palaa takaisin arkeen normijakson kera ja meno on valitettavasti aivan sen mukaista. Jutut pyörivät niin uuden Halon, Undertalen, Assassin's Creedin, Warcraft-leffan, pelisensuurin kuin leffarepliikkienkin ympärillä. … Lue loppuun →

Sekarotuinen Pöhnä haistelee valppaana pelastuskoirana jokaisen nurkan etsintäpaikalla. Pian ilmoille kajahtaakin ponnekas haukku, joka ilmoittaa omistajalle, että maali on löytynyt. Oulun teknologiakylässä on meneillään etsintäkoirien harjoitukset ja tällä kertaa harjoittellaan sisällä, kemian-alan yrityksen tiloissa, joka asettaa omat haasteensa koirien tarkoille nenille. Reetta Arvila tapaa muun muassa Rokan, Halon, Kaiun ja Pöhnän. Ihmisoppaana on alkuun Milja Hannu-Kuure.

Hurraa! Halocast on JÄLLEEN nauhoitettu ja tällä kertaa jopa saatiin puhumiset nauhoitettua onnistuneesti. Mukana olivat muistelemassa Vulpes Arctos, Andzerx, Balnazzard sekä juontajana Oselot.

Hurraa! Halocast on JÄLLEEN nauhoitettu ja tällä kertaa jopa saatiin puhumiset nauhoitettua onnistuneesti. Mukana olivat muistelemassa Vulpes Arctos, Andzerx, Balnazzard sekä juontajana Oselot.

Right as we go on the air we had to evacuate the radio station because the fire alarm went off and we didn't know if halon gas had been released into the studio. PODCAST EXCLUSIVE CONTENT of what happened while we were off the air and the fire department came. If you listened live then all you heard was the siren going off since the microphones were left on. Thanks to the hot folks over at the Winter Park Fire Department!! Once we were back on the air we jumped right back into the show since we had lost some time while being evacuated. Justice finds out that one of his past hookups was involved in a meth-induced crime revolving around singer, Alanis Morissette, after seeing the news story online and thinks he needs to re-organize his catalog of 'worst hookups ever.' The Muzzy joins us for the show and Atomyc handles the international goo news and attempts to speak as if he is from each country that the story is from and real journalism sheds a single tear. Stepping out of his comfort zone, Justice checks out Orlando's hip hop night and the Bear Bust Weekend to serve as a judge in the 'Best Bear Bust' competition (WOOF). All that plus plenty of random conversations about zombies, going to gay clubs with your little brother, cooking spray and MORE on this Fire/Halon Gas episode of Outloud Orlando.

It's that time again! Which reminds me... we're rolling out a new feature this month. It's a little something we refer to affectionately as "twice as many episodes." Starting... NOW! We will be releasing a new episode every two weeks. Now, i know what you're saying. "Twice as much memekast? Won't that like... rip a hole in the universe or something?" And it might. I, for one, am willing to take that risk. To mark the occasion, i contacted a very skilled agent, and founder of one of our favorite corporate allies, benchun of False Profit, LLC. For those who don't know, False Profit hit San Francisco in 2000 like a 7.5, with a relentless series of aftershocks at their corporate headquarters at 43 Norfolk lasting five years. During that time, benchun held down a two-year run of Wednesday's at Wish (with Halon of Fake Science), later called Samurai Soundsystem (with Joe Encarnacion of BFamily Records). He started FP's monthly Dividend events at 26Mix, later moving them to Nickie's in the Lower Haight. Dividend continues under the direction of other FP agents, currently at Anu. He also started their monthly happy hour at Il Pirata, Equity, with Boreta from Nexus. He was instrumental in orchestrating the legendary Priceless campout. He also rolls with the Space Cowboys, has rocked the Unimog in BRC, Tahoe, Breakfast of Champions... Yeah, the list totally goes on. But you get the point. Checkit: memekast mk011 » 1 February 2007 » benchun Anything Can Happen - Wyclef Jean (benchun edit) Skin on the Drum - Spearhead (Bassnectar Remix) Player's Club - Rappin 4-Tay Moveup - Si Begg Loose Tips - Seiji vs. Q-Tip Autumn - Rena Organ Dance - Digital Underground + DJ Shadow (benchun mash) Black Ice Cubes - White Label Ms. Hill - Talib Kweli Hip Hop - Dead Prez Upcoming: Friday 02.02: Fresh @ Shine memekast_mk011_200702.mp3