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Dr Charlie Andrews talks to Dr James Kinross, PhD, FRCS Dr. Kinross is a senior lecturer in surgery at Imperial College in London. He is also a practicing colorectal surgeon in the NHS with a clinical interest in the prevention and treatment of colon cancer. He leads a team of amazing researchers working to better define how the microbiome causes cancer and other chronic diseases of the gut. He is increasingly interested in how the gut microbiome develops in newborn babies and the implications on our long-term health. He is the author of the well know book DARK MATTER.Here are the key learnings for primary care on the microbiome from the attached transcript of the Ingest podcast with James Kinross:Key Learnings for Primary Care on the Microbiome1. What the Microbiome Is and Why It MattersDefinition: The microbiome is the collection of all microscopic organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc.) and the environment they inhabit within a specific niche in the body, such as the gut, skin, or lungs. Symbiosis: The microbiome has a symbiotic relationship with the host, evolved over millennia. It is not static but dynamic and changes throughout life. Personalization: Each person's microbiome is unique, impacting how individuals respond to treatments and develop diseases[1].2. Microbiome Development and Early LifeEarly Colonization: The microbiome starts developing in utero, influenced by the mother's microbiome, and is further shaped by birth route, breastfeeding, and early environmental exposures. Critical Window: Early life is a critical period for microbiome development. Disruption, especially through antibiotic use, can have long-term effects on immune system development and disease risk[1]. Antibiotics Impact: Repeated or broad-spectrum antibiotic use in early life can lead to persistent changes in the microbiome, increasing the risk of immune-mediated diseases (e.g., allergies, asthma, eczema), obesity, and other non-communicable diseases[1].3. Microbiome and the Immune SystemImmune Regulation: The microbiome plays a crucial role in shaping both the innate and adaptive immune systems. It influences how the body recognizes and responds to threats. Disease Risk: Early disruption of the microbiome can increase susceptibility to autoimmune diseases, allergies, and chronic conditions later in life. Gene-Environment-Microbiome Interaction: Disease risk is not just about genes and environment but also involves the microbiome (GEM interaction), which is highly personalized and dynamic[1].4. Probiotics, Prebiotics, and DietProbiotics: There is evidence supporting the use of probiotics, especially multi-strain, high-dose formulations, during and after antibiotic courses. However, probiotics must be taken consistently for weeks to have an effect. Prebiotics and Diet: Feeding the microbiome with a high-fiber, plant-based diet is crucial for maintaining a healthy gut ecosystem. Processed foods and sugary drinks should be minimized, especially during illness or antibiotic treatment[1]. Practical Advice: Clinicians should recommend probiotics and dietary changes as part of a holistic approach to gut health, but the evidence for specific strains is still evolving[1].5. Microbiome TestingDirect-to-Consumer Testing: Online microbiome tests are not currently recommended due to lack of stand... Chapters (00:00:00) - Ingest: The microbiome(00:01:06) - Dark Matter(00:03:45) - What exactly is the microbiome?(00:06:11) - What is the microbiome?(00:08:49) - The role of the microbiome in health(00:09:54) - Antimicrobial agents in the gut(00:13:20) - Probiotics and antibiotics(00:15:37) - How the microbiome affects the immune system(00:24:05) - The role of the microbiome in health(00:27:04) - Will we measure the microbiome 100%?(00:31:02) - Primary care: The microbiome challenge(00:32:22) - Probiotics and the future of gut health(00:36:02) - The microbiome of the human gut

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Welcome back to Gloucester Independant Film Festival with your hosts Megan & Jordan! For this, the third instalment of the behind the scenes interviews, the Acting Up girls sit down with the some of the creatives behind ‘The Monster Beneath Us' - nominated for best feature film, ‘Him Then Us' - nominated for best short film and ‘Ingest' the festivals winning Micro-Short.First we have the fabulous actor Nicola Wright to tell us all about her work on the horror feature film ‘The Monster Beneath Us'. Discussions include upstairs/downstairs, psychological horror and serious casting, her journey into the industry, writing for older women, home from home on set, listening for laughs, what's next and some words of wisdom. We are then joined by director Elika Norowzian, executive producer and runner Gabriel Plant and camera trainee and associate producer Thomas Bewes to speak about their short film ‘Him Then Us'. Discussions include a spoiler free synopsis, casting and building bonds with actors, working with the weather, creating a time capsule, applying animation skills to pre-production, fundraising and personal premieres, approaching directing, women on set (

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Fanfilm – Darth Maul: Apprentice & Halo – A Hero's Journey – Editing vor dem Dreh Stell dir vor: Eine weit, weit entfernte Galaxie, Lichtschwert-Duelle und epische Raumschlachten. Viele träumen davon, doch manche greifen zur Kamera und erschaffen einfach selbst neue Abenteuer in ihren Lieblingsuniversen. Fanfilme sind mehr als nur Hommagen: Sie sind oft beeindruckende Zeugnisse von Leidenschaft, Kreativität und erstaunlichem handwerklichen Können. Doch wie entstehen diese Werke, die teils Millionen Klicks generieren und sogar die Original-Schöpfer begeistern? In dieser Folge von „Credit to the Edit“ tauchen wir tief ein in die Welt des ambitionierten Fanfilms. Im Mittelpunkt steht Shawn Bu, dessen „Star Wars“-Fanfilm „Darth Maul: Apprentice“ viral ging und der mittlerweile auch Auftragsarbeiten, wie einen „Halo“-Kurzfilm für Microsoft, realisiert hat. Gemeinsam mit Postproduktions-Profi Martin Sundara beleuchtet das Gespräch die einzigartigen Produktionsprozesse hinter solchen Projekten. Es geht um das Arbeiten im eingespielten Freundeskreis und um unkonventionelle Workflows. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf dem Thema Previsualisierung („Previs“). Wie detaillierte Planung, nicht nur für Action, sondern auch für Dialogszenen und Kameraführung, schon vor dem Dreh den fertigen Film formt und paradoxerweise mehr kreative Freiheit am Set ermöglicht. Die spannenden Einblicke in diese kreative Nische kommen von zwei Gästen, die das Thema aus erster Hand kennen und sowohl die Perspektive des unabhängigen Machers als auch die des etablierten Branchen-Kenners einbringen:   Shawn Bu Geboren am 25. August 1986 in Aachen, ist ein deutscher Regisseur, Kameramann, Filmeditor, Podcaster und Webvideoproduzent. Bekannt wurde er durch seinen Fan-Kurzfilm „Darth Maul: Apprentice“ (2016), der millionenfach auf YouTube angesehen wurde. Zusammen mit seinem Bruder Julien Bam gründete er 2017 die Produktionsfirma Raw Mind Pictures GmbH. Unter seiner Regie entstand 2021 die Netflix-Miniserie „Life's a Glitch with Julien Bam“, und er arbeitete an der Webserie „Der Mann im Mond“ (2023–2025). Shawn übernimmt oft Regie und Schnitt in seinen Projekten.   Martin Sundara Martin Sundara ist seit 2002 in der deutschen Film- und Fernsehproduktion tätig. Nach seinem Einstieg bei ActionConcept, wo er vom Log-Praktikanten über den Cutterassistenten bis zum stellvertretenden Leiter der Postproduktion aufstieg, wechselte er 2005 zu HeadQuarter (heute ActHQ) und verantwortet dort als Techniker und DI-Operator Bildprozesse wie Backup, Ingest, Data-Wrangling, Conforming, Titelbearbeitung und Mastering. Seit 2019 arbeitet er zusätzlich als Kamera­operator für Dokumentationen, Fernsehformate und Imagefilme und ist seit 2021 lizensierter Drohnenpilot. Parallel unterstützt er Projekte von Shawn Bu und Julien Bam in wechselnden Funktionen, darunter Set-Runner, Regie- und Kameraassistenz, Requisitenbau und VFX-Koordination.   Was braucht es wirklich, um eine Actionszene zum Leben zu erwecken? Wie hilft akribische Vorbereitung dabei, am Set flexibel zu bleiben? Und wie fühlt es sich an, plötzlich Regieanweisungen an Mark Hamill zu geben? Diese Folge von „Credit to the Edit“ liefert nicht nur Antworten, sondern auch inspirierende Geschichten und handfeste Tipps für alle, die sich für neue Arten Filmschnitt zu nutzen und natürlich für die Macht der Fan-Leidenschaft interessieren. Reinhören lohnt sich!   Timeline-Shortcuts 00:00:14 Anmoderation 00:02:52 Gesprächsstart / Julians YouTube-Universum & Der Mann im Mond 00:09:38 Fanfilm-Familie & Guerilla-Workflow 00:17:13 Die Macht der Previsualisierung (Previs) 00:28:07 Case Studies: Darth Maul & Halo 00:39:21 Geheimnisse des Action-Schnitts 00:57:34 Schnitt, Flexibilität & Zukunft 01:00:21 Kategorien 01:28:13 Abmoderation   Links Projekte & Filme Darth Maul: Apprentice – Fanfilm von Shawn Bu Der letzte Song aus der Bohne – Akt 1 Der letzte Song aus der Bohne – Akt 2 Der letzte Song aus der Bohne – Akt 3 Der Mann im Mond – Spielfilm-Finale A Hero's Journey – Halo Fanfilm Personen & Teams Shawn Bu Julien Bam – YouTube Martin Sundara – IMDb Vincent Lee – Instagram Ben Schamma aka Maul Cosplay – Instagram Vi-Dan Tran – Instagram Weitere Inhalte Star Wars – Episode I: Die dunkle Bedrohung – IMDb Halloween (2007) – IMDb The Devil's Rejects (2005) – IMDb Predator (1987) – IMDb

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The episode features Dr. David Bartlett, a retired GP and neuroendocrine cancer patient, offering a dual perspective as both clinician and patient.Key Learnings from this episode.Patient Experience and Diagnostic ChallengesDr. Bartlett's symptoms began with severe, intermittent abdominal pain, starting in 2001, but he did not seek medical help for several years due to a combination of stoicism, not wanting to trouble others, and a belief in the commonality of benign causes. Over 15 years, he experienced repeated misdiagnoses, primarily being labeled as having irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) despite atypical features (severe pain, minimal bowel habit change, and no systemic symptoms). Multiple opinions and investigations (including ultrasounds and CT scans) failed to identify the underlying cause, with a key scan being misread by local radiologists. The correct diagnosis of a small bowel neuroendocrine tumour was only made after a tertiary centre re-examined previous scans, highlighting the importance of specialist review and persistence in unexplained cases.Clinical Red Flags and SymptomatologyDr. Bartlett's case underscores that neuroendocrine tumors can present with isolated, severe abdominal pain without classic red flags (vomiting, weight loss, significant bowel changes)[1]. He retrospectively identified subtle signs of carcinoid syndrome (flushing, one episode of profound diarrhoea, and skin changes), which are present in only about 10% of small bowel neuroendocrine tumour cases. The lack of awareness about neuroendocrine tumors, even among experienced clinicians, contributed to the diagnostic delay[1].Lessons for Primary Care and CliniciansThe story illustrates the risk of anchoring on common diagnoses (like IBS) and the need to reconsider the diagnosis when symptoms are severe, persistent, or atypical. It highlights the value of listening to the patient's narrative, especially when symptoms do not fit classic patterns, and the importance of considering rare conditions in the differential diagnosis. The episode emphasises the need for ongoing education about neuroendocrine tumours and the importance of keeping rare but serious conditions on the diagnostic radar in primary care.Management InsightsStandard treatment for small bowel neuroendocrine tumours often includes monthly somatostatin analog injections (e.g., lanreotide). Surgical intervention may be considered, but it carries specific risks such as carcinoid crisis, requiring specialised perioperative management. The decision for surgery is individualised, weighing potential symptomatic improvement against procedural risks.Systemic and Human FactorsDr. Bartlett's experience reflects how personal traits (stoicism, reluctance to seek help) and systemic issues (misinterpretation of scans, diagnostic inertia) can delay diagnosis. The narrative also demonstrates the importance of patient advocacy, persistence, and the value of second (or third) opinions, especially in complex or unresolved cases.Educational ValueThe episode serves as a reminder for clinicians to maintain a broad differential, revisit diagnoses when the clinical picture changes, and to be aware of their own cognitive biases. It also advocates for the inclusion of patient voices in medical education to better understand the lived experience and challenges of rare diseases like neuroendocrine cancer.Summary Table: Key LearningsThemeKey PointsDiagnostic Delay15 years from symptom onset t... Chapters (00:00:10) - Ingest(00:02:07) - David Bartlett on neuroendocrine cancer(00:05:32) - Irritable bowel syndrome, 15 years after first bout(00:12:09) - Carcinoid syndrome in small bowel neuroendocrine tumors(00:16:10) - Neuroendocrine tumour, surgery and recovery(00:20:43) - Somaostatin analogues for neuroendocrine cancer(00:25:43) - The role of the multidisciplinary team in bowel cancer care(00:28:21) - The battle with depression in your 50s(00:30:00) - General Practice and the Art of Medicine(00:33:13) - General Practice: The challenge of slowing down(00:35:35) - Neuroendocrine Cancer UK support group(00:39:28) - David's story of cancer(00:40:38) - David's Neuroendocrine Cancer Episode 1

The Florida Gators men's basketball team won the NCAA Tournament! Fred talks about his new obsession over the Karen Reed trial where she is being accused killing her police officer boyfriend. Gen Z is considered to be the ghosted generation because they're used to being told no than yes. Men who use more cannabis report more sexual dissatisfaction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Dr Charlie Andrews talks to Dr John Leeds. John Leeds is a Consultant Pancreaticobiliary Physician and Endoscopist based at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer based in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. He is involved in research in pancreaticobiliary disorders including benign and malignant conditions as well as outcomes from therapeutic/advanced endoscopy.John is a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology and Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He serves on the endoscopy and Pancreas committees for BSG and is the website lead for PSGBI.He is also a founder member of the BSG Pancreas Clinical Research Group which is coordinating research for the society.Key Learnings from this episode:Challenges in Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer • Pancreatic cancer is often diagnosed at an advanced stage due to the deep location of the pancreas and the lack of early symptoms. • Tumors in the body and tail of the pancreas can grow significantly before causing symptoms, often invading major arteries or veins, making them inoperable. • Tumors in the head of the pancreas may present earlier due to bile duct obstruction, leading to jaundice, but even these are often detected late. Early Symptoms and Red Flags • Early symptoms are vague or absent, making early diagnosis difficult. • Possible early indicators include: • Weight loss (often a sign of advanced disease). • New-onset diabetes, particularly in individuals with a normal BMI or without typical risk factors for type 2 diabetes. • Jaundice, which is a significant red flag and often indicates a serious underlying condition. • Classic signs like painless jaundice and Courvoisier's sign (palpable gallbladder) are important but not always present. Limitations of Current Screening Methods • There is no reliable biomarker or screening test for pancreatic cancer: • CA19-9 is not suitable as a screening tool due to its lack of specificity (elevated in other conditions). • Imaging techniques like CT scans or MRIs are used but have limitations, including incidental findings that may lead to unnecessary anxiety (“scanxiety”) and over-investigation. • Screening is currently limited to high-risk groups, such as those with familial pancreatic cancer syndromes or hereditary pancreatitis. High-Risk Groups for Screening • Familial pancreatic cancer accounts for less than 10% of cases. Criteria for screening include: • Multiple family members with pancreatic cancer, especially diagnosed under age 50–60. • Genetic syndromes like BRCA mutations, familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), and Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. • Hereditary pancreatitis patients have an increased risk but are harder to screen due to pre-existing pancreatic abnormalities. Emerging Research and Future Directions • Studies are exploring potential biomarkers, such as microbiome signatures in the pancreas, which might help identify high-risk individuals in the future. • Trials like the EuroPAC study focus on surveillance protocols for high-risk individuals using imaging techniques like MRI or endoscopic ultrasound. • Research into new-onset diabetes as a potential marker for pancreatic cancer is ongoing but currently has a low yield due to the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes unrelated to malignancy. Considerations for Screening and Surveillance • Screening should be carefully targeted to avoid over-diagnosis and unnecessary investigations. • The psychological impact of screening (e.g., anxiety from incidental findings) must be considered. • Smoking cessation is emphasized as smoking is a significant risk factor for pancreatic cancer. Advances in Treatment Approaches • PET-CT scans are increasingly used to detect systemic disease that might not be evident on standard CT scans. • Neoadjuvant treatments (therapy before surgery) are being... Chapters (00:00:00) - Ingest(00:00:53) - Pancreatic Cancer(00:04:03) - New diabetes and pancreatic cancer(00:08:01) - Pancreatic Cancer: Screening(00:15:42) - Determining breast cancer early is hard(00:16:03) - Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas(00:22:26) - Pancreatic cancer 20, Management(00:29:00) - Pancreatic cancer, management principles(00:33:48) - Primary Care Take Home: Pancreas, pain(00:40:29) - Primary Care: Pancreas Cancer Episode 2

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Dr Charlie Andrews talks to Dr John Leeds. John Leeds is a Consultant Pancreaticobiliary Physician and Endoscopist based at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer based in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. He is involved in research in pancreaticobiliary disorders including benign and malignant conditions as well as outcomes from therapeutic/advanced endoscopy.John is a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology and Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He serves on the endoscopy and Pancreas committees for BSG and is the website lead for PSGBI.He is also a founder member of the BSG Pancreas Clinical Research Group which is coordinating research for the society. Chapters (00:00:01) - Ingest: pancreatic lesions(00:01:09) - Pancreas(00:05:39) - Chronic Pancreas disease, early signs and symptoms(00:11:54) - Pulmonary pancreatitis, diagnosis and management(00:17:52) - Diarrhea, weight loss(00:18:29) - Pancreatic disease, ultrasound and the best treatment(00:23:49) - Pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis in primary care(00:26:19) - Pancreatitis 20, Surgery or drainage?(00:32:24) - Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency(00:38:05) - Pulmonary dysrhythmias, management tips(00:43:46) - PPI for cystic fibrosis patients 8,(00:46:16) - Pancreatic insufficiency 20, Detection and treatment(00:49:57) - Pancreatic cysts(00:55:32) - Choosing the right cyst for surgery(00:57:20) - autoimmune pancreatitis, presentation and treatment(01:03:34) - Pancreatic cancer: diagnosis and treatment(01:06:14) - Pancreatitis, part 1, unboxing

Today's episode walks you through this week's astrology + practical and magical tactics to help you harness and navigate the energetics February 24th - March 2nd Last week added more water to the ocean of emotion we were already swimming in. Pisces season began, and we cheered for Mars stationing direct! Did you...just keep swimming? This week gets busier in quiet and weird ways. Multiple wildcards await. Take care of your vessel, because your body is the original technology. It's the home of your magic. It is temple. Monday, February 24th: - Happy Mo(o)nday! Welcome to the very first day of our new moon cycle. It's time to replenish and draw in. It's always a time of rest and divine messaging. This week massively amplifies that vibe with a new moon in Pisces....but let's be clear, it's not just a new moon in Pisces...we've got a party in Pisces; Neptune, Saturn, Mercury, the Sun, and the North Node and on Thursday....Mama Moon. ▪️Hydrate ▪️Rest ▪️Flush your lymphatic system; foam roll, jumping on the trampoline, cardio, and dry brushing ▪️Ingest fresh ginger - Day 1 of New Moon Flow #1 - You'll need a set of yoga blocks (cork preferred) and a yoga strap. This movement series begins our constructive rest cycle. This is the week to begin a mat practice or to return to your practice. This week welcomes a full 6 days of mobility and flexibility. It's the time we take our vessel to a quieter space to synthesize the work we've done prior and allow results to happen. No rest, no results. This is science fitness fact. Welcome to results by doing less. Yup, you heard me. Lower cortisol, cultivate hormone balance....these are the things that bolster, nourish, and support results. Tiny and mighty, long game work. You'll see a variation of our closed book series for thoracic, neck, and torso mobility, a lovely focus on hamstrings, low back, rotation in general for digestion and detox, with puppy pose, and rabbit to harmonize the endocrine system. Tuesday, February 25th: - Last chance to book an exploration call for Magical Mentoring! Imagine navigating this year with unique, channeled tarot readings, to-do lists, community, coven calls, empowerment, me, and actual growth and healing.

As part of the Spring 2025 Release, we're introducing ChartSync, a new feature that enables clinicians to view data from external sources globally connected to athenaOne and, through automation or with a single click, easily add relevant information into the patient's chart -- translating external data into actionable insights for clinicians at the point of care. You'll see ChartSync in athenaOne for medication fill history in the Spring 2025 Release, with additional data points planned for release in the near future. As a reminder, the Spring 2025 Release takes place from March 19-21.

Charlie Andrews talks to Dr Chris Black about the management of IBS.This podcast provides key insights into managing Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), emphasising a multidisciplinary and individualised approach to care. Here are the main takeaways:1. Multidisciplinary and Integrative CareIBS management requires a holistic, patient-centered approach involving dietitians, behavioral therapists, and gastroenterologists. This "team sport" approach expands treatment options and tailors care to individual patient needs1. Integrative care, which combines dietary, psychological, and medical interventions, has been shown to improve symptoms, psychological well-being, and quality of life for IBS patients1.2. Personalised TreatmentIBS is not a one-size-fits-all condition. There are different subtypes of IBS (e.g., IBS-D for diarrhea-predominant or IBS-C for constipation-predominant), and treatment must be customized based on the patient's symptoms and triggers4. Emerging research suggests the need to identify distinct subtypes of IBS to guide more effective treatments24.3. Dietary ManagementThe low FODMAP diet is a widely recommended dietary intervention for IBS. It helps identify food triggers and manage symptoms but should not be used long-term without personalization3. Probiotics may also play a role in symptom relief for some patients, though their effectiveness varies3.4. Behavioral InterventionsCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and gut-directed hypnotherapy are effective in managing IBS symptoms, particularly when patients are motivated to engage in these therapies1. Stress management is critical since stress and anxiety can exacerbate IBS symptoms15.5. Pharmacological TherapiesMedications are often used as complementary treatments when dietary or behavioral strategies alone are insufficient. These include antispasmodics, laxatives, or medications targeting gut-brain interaction Chapters (00:00:01) - Ingest on Irritable Bowel Syndrome(00:02:49) - In the Know: irritable bowel syndrome (IBs)(00:04:03) - Irritable bowel syndrome, management principles(00:08:07) - How to manage irritable bowel syndrome? ((00:16:15) - How much loperamide can one give for IBS?(00:17:36) - Non-steroidal anti-inflammation for IBS?(00:24:05) - Physical and psychological therapies for abdominal pain(00:26:17) - IBS, secondary care referrals(00:32:11) - First line diabetes: An integrated approach(00:32:40) - IBS, group-based care(00:40:27) - Management of IBS 11(00:42:28) - Primary Care: IBS Episode 4

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There's a serious cardiac risk with ibogaine* It can prolong the QT interval, which means the beats between your heart slow down too much, and it can stop your heart* If it's not administered properly, someone could die* WARNING: Don't try to order ibogaine online or find a random clinic​Safer Ibogaine Analog in Development:​ ​Gilgamesh Pharma​ was awarded a $14M ​grant ​from the NIH-NIDA to develop a novel analog that removes this heart riskibogaine's three key benefits:* Resolves physiological substance dependence quickly* Restores psychological ownership and control over life* Provides a profound spiritual affirmation of purposeIbogaine Has Been Illegal for Decades: “Any system which maintains ibogaine's criminality is in fact criminal and needs to be torn apart brick by brick.” – W. Bryan HubbardNeed Help, Look Here- Reputable clinics like​ Ambio​ and​ Beond​ follow strict safety protocols, including using magnesium to prevent heart issuesStamford Study in Special Forces PTSD: “The results of that study are nothing short of miraculous when it comes to how ibogaine has been revealed to have significant neuro-regenerative properties that impact the human brain with profound implications for conditions for which there are no current effective treatments.” – W.Bryan Hubbard* The average reversal of brain age among these 30 veterans was 1.5 years with some of them seeing a reversal of almost 5 years!The Truth Behind Lots of Chronic Pain: “These ladies had worked lifetimes looking at a dead jobs end and at the time that they had their work accident, it was the straw that broke the camel's back for any hope they had of a future defined by dignity and autonomy and their hope had been broken and that broken hope came through as profound physical pain that was rooted within their spirit.” - Brian HubbardTruth and Justice: He thought the law was about truth and justice, but law school opened his eyes: “Law is often times nothing other than the tyrants will and always so when it is used to produce predetermined manipulated outcomes in the hands of judges who drive results based on their own individual biases, predilections, and preferences.” – W. Bryan HubbardSkyrocketing Disability Numbers in Kentucky: The population grew by 20%, but disability enrollment rose by 249%* Childhood disability enrollment exploded by over 4,000%* Prescription opioid use among adults in the program increased by 210%* Psychotropic drug use among children rose by 68%​ How to Use Exercise to Improve Your Brain's Health, Longevity & Performance | Huberman Lab ​4 things everyone should include in their weekly exercise routine:* (1) Long slow distance (LSD) / zone 2 cardio* (2) High-intensity interval training (HIIT)* (3) Time under tension (TUT) resistance training* (4) Explosive and eccentric control training* BONUS: (5) Do something you don't want to do (both psychologically and physically challenging but safe) to activate the anterior mid-cingulate cortex (AMCC)2 Types of Cardio:* Short-duration, high-intensity efforts: e.g., 30 seconds to 4 minutes of all-out effort, followed by rest* Longer-duration, lower-intensity efforts: e.g., 20-60 minutes at a steady pace, maintaining elevated heart rates2 Types of Resistance Training:* Compound, multi-joint exercises like squats, deadlifts, bench presses, shoulder presses, and dips* Single-joint isolation exercises like single-leg leg extensionsIncreases in autonomic arousal, whether during or after learning, enhance:* How much you learn* Your memory of the details* The persistence of that learning over timeValue of HIIT: HIIT done just before cognitive flexibility tasks significantly improves performance on those tasks, probably because of enhanced arousal and increased cerebral blood flowYou're Not Tired Because You Exercises, You're Tired Because You Didn't Exercise: Next time you feel tired and want to skip a workout, remember: Exercise actually gives you energy through these pathways, boosting focus and mental clarityAdrenal burnout is a myth: People often talk about burning out your adrenals from coffee or excessive exercise. This isn't trueAdrenal insufficiency syndrome is real, but it's not related to exercise or coffee. This is a medical condition that's different from the normal stress-response system of your body3 categories of brain areas communicate with the adrenals to release adrenaline:* Cognitive areas: Involved in thinking and decision-making* Affective areas: Linked to emotions and how you perceive and react to the environment* Motor areas: Control your body movement. These areas in the cerebral cortex send signals to the spinal cord, which then triggers the release of acetylcholine to activate the adrenal medulla​ The Technological Republic – Palantir CEO Alex Karp & Stanley Druckenmiller In Conversation ​Talented people want to be around other talented people: If you are starting a team that already consists of immensely talented people, then other A-players will want to join; this dynamic positively compounds with time and becomes reflexiveThe type of person you want to hire: A truth-seeking, justice-seeking, fairness fanatic, who is justifiably snobby about their intellect (but not because of where they went to school) and who pushes responsibility into their area of expertise and takes over – and who, at the margin, may be unusual and difficultThe moral and ethical conundrums of modern warfare: The West is at technological parity with its adversaries, but not morally; our adversaries are far more willing to send their young men and women to die on the battlefield than we areOn AI Accelerationism – The US military does not have a choice regarding AI accelerationism; its adversaries will not slow down AI progress, and therefore, the game theory is such that the US cannot slow down eitherLaw School Sucks: “I thought of it as moral sophistry in the service of prestige.”Go Woke, Go Broke: “The Valley has realized that you just cannot placate the anti-intellectual left. It will destroy your business.” – Alex Karp* Basic things that most sane believe in are fairness, meritocracy, inputs being even across society, and that the outputs will not be evenly distributed* “Our society is crying for things that work. The instruments of measurement have been corroded everywhere.” – Alex KarpThe Left Broke Everything: People are sick of their border not being a border, their United Nations not being united, their schools not functioning as schools, and their government only taking inflows but not creating productive outflowsAn Essentialism Future: Every institution must clearly define its purpose, be transparent in what it spends to reach its objectives, and measure its output – which should be greater than its input​ Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast (#456) ​Peace Through Strength: " “I think that we share a position on peace through strength. That is very important. It means that if you are strong, you can speak.” - ZelenskyyTrump can stop this war: “I now see that when I talk about something with Donald Trump, whether we meet in person or we just have a call, all the European leaders always ask, “How was it?” This shows the influence of Donald Trump, and this has never happened before with an American president.” – ZelenskyyNo US, No NATO: If the U.S. left NATO, it would essentially fall apart. The U.S. is critical to NATO's strength and global security. The role America played in World War II shows how much its support matters in conflicts like thisForgiveness? “Russia will have to apologize. This will happen because they are guilty.”– ZelenskyyUkraine's future is with Europe, not Russia: “I think the most important thing is to remain open and not change our direction because culturally aligning with Russia, it's one idea, while aligning with Europe is another. Our people have chosen Europe. It's their choice, it's our choice, the choice of our nation, and I think it's very important.” – Zelenskyy​ Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky | Philosophize This! with Stephen West (#219) ​​Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky​: A tormented man wrestles with guilt and morality after a desperate act, unraveling a gripping exploration of justice, redemption, and the human soul.“Rational utopianism” – A belief that suggests through utilitarian rational calculations, we can arrive at moral truth and create a utopian socialist system of organizing people that can be perfected if this moral calculus improves over time2 Problems with rational utopianism and Russian nihilism:* (1) Consider how quickly Raskolnikov's perfectly crafted plan resulted in an innocent person getting an axe to the head; and* (2) The rational egoism that often accompanies Russian nihilism magically places Raskolnikov at the center of the decision-maker processRaskolnikov is not an example of Nietzsche's Ubermensch: Instead, he is an example of a very particular kind of nihilism that was gaining popularity in Russia at the time Dostoevsky wrote the bookYou're Not That Special: Dostoevsky was very skeptical of any individual who thought they were special compared to the people around themThe Stories We Tell Ourselves: “It is uniquely possible in this modern world to exist in a way where your whole life never becomes about facing the discomfort of looking at yourself honestly, but about endlessly rationalizing your behavior and then coming up with a story that sounds pretty good about it.” – Stephen WestSave What You Can: The choices that we have to make are not always optimal and they are often dictated by circumstances that are outside of our control; but no matter the circumstances in this sometimes horrible world, there is always at least some personal salvation that is possible in consent and affirmation of our place in a relational networkAccountability: Taking accountability for what you are wrong about is one of the only ways to grow as a person and is one of the most powerful things that you can do in your life Thank you for subscribing. 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Você sabia que perdemos cerca de 200 ml de água por minuto? A cada atividade que fazemos, como falar, andar e até respirar, estamos perdendo água. Os sinais de desidratação podem ser observados pela cor da urina, principalmente no verão, quando a perda de líquido é ainda maior através do suor. Neste episódio do Podcast Você e o Doutor, o médico Antonio Sproesser explica os riscos associados a desidratação, a importância de ingerir a quantidade adequada de água e, além disso, compartilha alternativas à água pura para quem não gosta. Acompanhe!

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Charlie Andrews talks to Dr Anthony (Tony) Wisken, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist in Bristol.The Ingest podcast is hosted by Dr Charlie Andrews a GPwER in gastroenterology based near Bath. Charlie works as a GP partner at Somer Valley Medical Group, trained as an endoscopist and leads the national GPwER in gastroenterology training programme, launched in 2023 in the southwest of England. Charlie is a committee member of the PCSG (Primary Care Society of Gastroenterology). For more information visit pcsg.org.uk Chapters (00:00:05) - INGEST(00:01:02) - Chronic abdominal pain in children(00:07:47) - Pediatric gastroenterology, pain in the tummy(00:13:13) - Reflux in children, 6 years and older(00:15:26) - Headache and abdominal pain in children, age 6(00:21:34) - Idiopathic bowel syndrome in children(00:24:51) - Tummy pain 11, constipation(00:31:08) - Mesenteric adenitis 20, Cancer(00:35:06) - Functional GI disorders, the role of ultrasound(00:38:57) - Obstructive bowel disease in teenagers(00:45:41) - Gallstones in children, anaesthesia and surgery(00:47:01) - Celiac disease, tests and how to manage it(00:49:40) - Top 3 Take Homes for kids(00:51:51) - H. Pylori in children's tummy pain(00:55:37) - 3 take home points from the abdominal pain episode

Key takeaways from the IBS Part 1 episode of the PCSG Ingest podcast:Diagnosis of IBSThe episode is focused on making a diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)and features Dr. Anton Emmanuel, a consultant gastroenterologist and Professor of neuro-gastroenterology at University College Hospital London.Importance for Primary CareIBS is a common condition that primary care clinicians need to have a structured approach to diagnosing.Topics CoveredCauses of IBS Different subtypes of IBS Challenges in making a positive diagnosisClinical PearlsDr. Emmanuel shares several insights:Key questions to include in the patient history How to describe the condition to patients Practical tips for enhancing IBS diagnosis in primary careDiagnostic ApproachThe episode emphasises the importance of:Taking a structured approach to diagnosis Understanding the various presentations of IBS Recognizing the challenges in making a definitive diagnosisPatient CommunicationGuidance is provided on:Explaining IBS to patients effectively Addressing patient concerns and misconceptionsAdditional ResourcesThe episode mentions useful guidance from the British Society of Gastroenterology, which listeners were encouraged to reference for more detailed information. Part 2 focusing on the management of IBS to be released soon.bsg.org.uk/clinical-resource/british-society-of-gastroenterology-guidelinesThe Ingest podcast is hosted by Dr Charlie Andrews a GPwER in gastroenterology based near Bath. Charlie works as a GP partner at Somer Valley Medical Group, trained as an endoscopist and leads the national GPwER in gastroenterology training programme, launched in 2023 in the southwest of England. Charlie is a committee member of the PCSG (Primary Care Society of Gastroenterology). For more information visit pcsg.org.uk Chapters (00:00:00) - Ingest(00:01:33) - Intense bowel dysrhythmia (IBs)(00:04:02) - How common is ibs?(00:06:17) - Obstructive bowel syndrome(00:10:06) - IBS: Classification and treatment tips(00:13:39) - Determining the diagnosis of IBS(00:14:44) - IBS(00:19:22) - IBS 12, Missing other comorbidities(00:22:21) - What to ask about IBS?(00:25:25) - IBS and secondary care,(00:29:33) - Confirmations about inflammatory bowel disease (IBs)(00:33:37) - Talking to the patient about ibs(00:35:09) - IBS, the diagnosis and treatment(00:38:11) - In the Know: Irritable bowel syndrome(00:40:22) - Irritable Bowel Syndrome(00:41:15) - The Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology Podcast

In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham speak with Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor Bill Millar about the enhanced performance of Hybrid Columnar Compression, the different compression levels, and how to achieve the best compression for your tables. Then, they delve into Fast Ingest, what's new in Oracle Database 23ai, and the benefits of these improvements.   Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-database-23ai-new-features-for-administrators/137192/207062   Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/   X: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   --------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript:   00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:26 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor. Nikita: Hi everyone! In our last episode, we spoke about the 23ai improvements in time and data handling and data storage with Senior Principal Instructor Serge Moiseev. Today, we're going to discuss the enhancements that have been made to the performance of Hybrid Columnar Compression. We'll look at how Hybrid Columnar Compression was prior to 23ai, learn about the changes that have been made, talk about how to use this compression in 23ai, and look at some performance factors. After that, we'll move on to Fast Ingest, the improvements in 23ai, and how it is managed. 01:15 Lois: Yeah, this is a packed episode and to take us through all this, we have Bill Millar back on the podcast. Bill is a Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor with Oracle University. Hi Bill! Thanks for joining us. So, let's start with how Hybrid Columnar Compression was prior to 23ai. What can you tell us about it? Bill: We support all kinds of platforms from the Database Enterprise Edition on up to the high engineered systems for that and even the Exadata Cloud at the Customer. We have four different levels of compression. One is considered the warehouse compression where we do a COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR QUERY LOW and COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR QUERY HIGH. The COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR QUERY HIGH is the default, unless another compression level is specified. With the archive compression, we have the COLUMN STORE COMPRESSED FOR ARCHIVE LOW and also COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR ARCHIVE HIGH. With the Hybrid Columnar Compression warehouse and archive, the array inserts are compressed immediately. But, however, some conditions have to be met. It has to be a locally-- to use these, it has to be a locally managed tablespace, the automatic segment space management. And compatibility level, at least 12 too or higher when these values have been introduced. There are different compressors that are used for the compression hidden from the customer. It just depends on what is selected as to what is going to be the compression that's going to be used for--  notice that with the COLUMN STORE FOR QUERY HIGH and for ARCHIVE LOW, the zlib compression method is used, whereas if you select the ARCHIVE HIGH, the Bzip2. And in 19C, we added the Zstandard. And it's available for the MEMORY COMPRESS FOR CAPACITY HIGH.  03:30 Nikita: So, what's happened in 23ai? Bill: When in 23c, to take advantage of the changes in compression, the compatibility level has to be set at least to 23.0.0 or higher. When a table is created or altered with the hybrid column compression, the Zstandard will automatically be selected. So it doesn't matter which one of the four you select, that will be the one that is selected. It is internally set transparent to the user. There is no new SQL format that has to be used in order for the Zstandard compression to be applied. And the Database Compatibility Mode has to be at least at 23.0.0 or higher. Only then can the format of the Hybrid Column Compression storage use that Zstandard compression. If we already have compressed data blocks in existing tables, they're going to remain in their original format.  04:31 Lois: And are the objects regenerated? Bill: If the objects are-- they might be regenerated if they were deleted in another operation. If you want to completely take advantage of the new compression, all you have to do is alter table move. And that's going to go ahead and trigger the recompression of that, whereas any newly created tables that are created will use the Zstandard by default. 05:00 Nikita: What are the performance factors we need to think about, Bill? Bill: There are some performance factors that we do need to consider, the ratio, the amount of space reduction in storage that we're going to achieve, the time spent compressing the data, the CPU cost to compress that data, and also, is there any decompression rate, time spent decompressing the data when we're doing queries on it? 05:24 Lois: And not all tables are equal, are they? Bill: Not all tables are equal. Some might get better performance by different compression level than others for that. So how we can basically have to test our results, there is a compression advisor that's available, that you can use to give you a recommendation on what compression to use. But only through testing can we really see the availability, the benefits of using that compression for an application. So best compression, just as in previous versions, the higher the compression levels, the more CPU it's going to use. The higher the compression level, the more space savings that we're going to achieve for that as we are doing those direct path inserts. So there's always that cost. 06:20 Did you know that the Oracle University Learning Community regularly holds live events hosted by Oracle expert instructors. Find out how to prepare for your certification exams. Learn about the latest technology advances and features. Ask questions in real time and learn from an Oracle subject matter expert. From Ask Me Anything about certification to Ask the Instructor coaching sessions, you'll be able to achieve your learning goals for 2024 in no time. Join a live event today and witness firsthand the transformative power of the Oracle University Learning Community. Visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started.  07:01 Nikita: Welcome back! Let's now move on to the enhancements that have been made to fast ingest. We'll begin with an overview of fast ingest, how to use it, and the improvements and benefits. And then we'll look at some features for managing fast ingest. Bill, why don't you start by defining fast ingest for us?  Bill: Traditionally the fast ingest, also referred to as deferred inserts, is faster than processing a single row at a time. It can support high-volume transactions like from the Internet of Things applications, where you have hundreds of thousands of items coming in trying to write to the database. They are faster, because the inserts don't use the traditional buffer cache. They use a pool that will size out of the large pool. And then they're later written to disk using the SMCO, the space management coordinator. Instead of using the buffer cache, they're going to write into an area of the large pool. The space management coordinator, it has these helper threads, however many-- that's just a number for that-- that will buffer. And as buffer is filled based off size of that algorithm, it will then write those deferred inserts into the database itself. 08:24 Lois: So, do deferred inserts support constraints? Bill: Deferred writes do support constraints in index just as for regular inserts. However, performance benchmarks that have been done recommend that you disable constraints, if you're going to use the fast ingest. 08:41 Lois: Can you tell us a bit about the streaming and ingest mechanism?  Bill: We declare a table with the memoptimize for write. We can do that in the create table statement, or we can alter the table for that. The data is written to the large pool, unlike traditionally writing items to the buffer cache. It's going to write to the ingest buffer, the large pool. And it's going to be drained. It's going to be written from that area by using those background processes to write to the actual database itself. So the very high throughput, since drainers issues deferred writes in large batches. So we're not having to wait especially for the buffer cache. OK, I need space. OK, I need to write. I need to free up blocks. Very ideal for these streaming inserts, sensor readings, alarms, door locks. Those type of things. 09:33 Nikita: How does performance improve with this? Bill: With the benchmarks we have done, we have found that the performance can be up to 75% faster by going ahead and doing the fast ingest versus traditional inserts. The 23 million inserts per second on a single X6-2 server with the benchmarks that we have. 09:58 Nikita: Are there any considerations to keep in mind? Bill: With the fast ingest, some things to consider for that. The written data, you might need to validate to make sure it's there. So you might have input files that are writing to that that are loading it. You might want to hang on to those, before that data destroyed. Have some kind of mechanism to validate, yes, it was written. There is a possible loss of data. Why? Because unlike the buffer cache that has the recovery mechanism with the redo and the undo, there is none with that large pool. So that's why if the system crashes, and the buffers haven't been flushed yet, then it's possible loss of data. There's no queries from the large pool meaning that if I want to query the information that the fast ingest is loading into the table, it doesn't go and see what's sitting in the buffer in the large pool like it does with the buffer cache. Index and constraints are checked but only at flush time. And the memoptimize pool size is a fixed amount of space that we're going to allocate-- of memory that we're going to allocate to use for the memoptimize write. We can enable a table for the fast ingest, enable with the memoptimize for write. We can create a table and do it. We can also alter a table. We already have a table existing. All we have to do is alter it. And we want to use that, the fast ingest, for these tables. 11:21 Lois: Do we have options for the writing operation, Bill? Bill: You do have options for the writing operation. We have the parameters, the memoptimize write where we can turn that on. We can also use it in a hint. It is set at the root level, it. Is not modifiable at the PDB level. It's set at the root level, It is a static parameter. We can also do things in our session. We want to verify, OK, is the memoptimize write on? We can verify a table is enabled. So with the fast ingest, the data inserts, you can also use a hint. You can also set this at a session level.  If you decide there's something that you don't want to use the memoptimize write for, then you can disable it for a table.  12:11 Nikita: Bill, what are some of the benefits of the enhancements made in 23ai? Bill: With some of the enhancements-- so now, some table attributes are now supported-- we can now have common default values for a column. We can use transparent data encryption. We can also use the fast inserts, any inline LOBs, along with virtual columns. We've also added partitioning support. We can do subpartitioning and we can also do interval partitioning, along with auto list. So we've added some items that previously prevented us from doing the fast inserts. It does provide additional flexibility, especially with the enhancements and the restrictions that we have removed. It allows to use that fast insert, especially in a data warehouse-type environment. It can also use-- in the Cloud, it can use encrypted tablespaces, because remember, in the Cloud, we always encrypt, by default, users' data. So now, it also gives us the ability to use it in that Cloud environment because of that change. We have faster background flushing for the loads.  13:36 Lois: And how is it faster now?  Bill: Because we bypassed the traditional buffer cache. Faster ingest for those direct ingest. So again, bypassing the traditional inserts and using the buffer cache gives the ability to bulk load into large pool, then flush to the database so that way, we have access to that data for possible faster analytics of those internet of things, especially when it comes to the temperature of the temperature sensors. We need to know when a temperature of something is out of bounds very quickly. Or maybe it's sensors for security. We need to know when there's a problem with the security. 14:20 Nikita: How difficult is it to manage this? Bill: Management is fairly simple. We have the MEMOPTIMIZE_WRITE_AREA_SIZE parameter that we're going to say-- it is dynamic. It does not require a restart. However, all instances in a RAC environment must have the same value. So we have the write area. What are we going to set? And then the MEMOPTIMIZE_WRITE, by default, it uses a hint. Or we can go ahead and we can just set that to all. It is allocated from the large pool. You manually set it. And we can see how much is actually being allocated to the pool. We can go out and look at our alert log for that information.  There's also a view. The MEMOPTIMIZE_WRITE_AREA has some columns. What is the total memory allocated for the large pool? How much is currently used by the fast ingest? How much free space? As you're using it, you might want to go out and do a little checking, or do you have enough space? Are you not allocating enough space? Or have you allocated too much?  It'll also show the total number of writes, and also, the number-- the writers is currently the users that are using it.  And the container ID, what is the container within that container database? What's the pluggable or pluggables that's using the fast ingest? There is a subprogram, the DBMS_MEMOPTIMIZE that we have access to that we possibly can use. So there are some procedures. Here, we can return the rows of the low and high water mark of the sequence numbers. And the key here is across all the sessions. We can see the high water mark, sequence number of the rows written to the large pool for the current session. And we can also flush all the ingest data from the large pool to disk for the current session. 16:26 Lois: What if I want to flush them all for all sessions?  Bill: Well, that's where we have the WRITE_FLUSH procedure. So it's going to flush the fast ingest data of the Memoptimize Rowstore from the large pool for all the sessions. As a DBA, that's one that you most likely will want to be using, especially if it's going to be before I do a shutdown or something along that line. 16:49 Nikita: Ok! On that note, I think we can end this episode. Thank you so much for taking us through all that, Bill. Lois: Yes, thanks Bill. If you want to learn more about what we discussed today, visit mylearn.oracle.com and search for Oracle Database 23ai New Features for Administrators. Join us next week for a discussion on some more Oracle Database 23ai new features. Until then, this is Lois Houston… Nikita: And Nikita Abraham signing off! 17:21 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. We'd also love it if you would take a moment to rate and review us on your podcast app. See you again on the next episode of the Oracle University Podcast.

Dr. Miyabe Shields, Ph.D., who prefers they/them pronouns, joins this episode of the Blunt Blowin' Mama podcast to get into the science behind our favorite plant: cannabis! Miyabe is a pharmaceutical scientist who specializes in the molecules in cannabis and the system in the brain and body that are activated by them.  Some questions Miyabe answers (because the more we know!) in their conversation Shonitria: Why is it that some people don't get high after ingesting edibles? Does smoking weed harm our brains and "fry" our brain cells? In what ways can cannabis help neurodivergent people? What does science say about using cannabis as a mom? And what's the cleanest way to ingest cannabis... edibles, tinctures, dry herb vaping, dabbing, joints, etc? It's always wonderful to chat about cannabis with a scientist who studies the plant to help us understand the plant even more. Grab your weed, boo, spark up and enjoy this enlightening chat with Dr. Miyabe!  Follow Miyabe on Instagram: @miyabephd Follow Blunt Blowin' Mama on Instagram: @bluntblowinmama Research cited in this episode: The Effect of SSRI Exposure in Pregnancy on Early Respiratory and Metabolic Adaptation in Infants Born Preterm: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10046952/ Network of Applied Pharmacology (NAP): Accelerating research and public education for cannabis, psychedelics, and other natural medicines by prioritizing lived experience and community engagement. https://www.appliedpharmacognosy.org/  

Você sabia que entrar em cetose pode ser uma estratégia poderosa para melhorar sua saúde, especialmente se você tem problemas na tireóide? No vídeo de hoje, exploramos como você pode alcançar a cetose de forma segura e eficaz, com uma alimentação de qualidade, antiinflamatória e com a quantidade ideal de calorias e proteínas. :::: Pontos Principais: :::: Evite Comer de Tudo um Pouco: Para quem tem problemas na tireóide, é crucial evitar uma dieta variada demais. Focar em alimentos específicos pode ajudar a controlar os sintomas. :::: Cuidado com o Déficit Calórico Crônico: Manter um déficit calórico por muito tempo pode ser perigoso. É importante equilibrar a ingestão de calorias para não prejudicar a saúde. :::: Alimentação de Qualidade: Priorize alimentos antiinflamatórios e ricos em nutrientes. Isso inclui vegetais, proteínas magras e gorduras saudáveis. :::: Dicas para Entrar em Cetose: Reduza os Carboidratos processados: Limite a ingestão de carboidratos processados e priorize vegetais, frutas, legumes, verduras etc. :::: Aumente a Ingestão de Gorduras Saudáveis: Inclua abacate, óleo de coco e azeite de oliva em sua dieta. Assista ao vídeo completo para mais dicas e informações detalhadas! :::::: Seja Membro e Receba Aulas e Conteúdos Exclusivos ::::: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeSWvdpxC7Ckc77h_xgmtg/join Entre em meu Canal do Telegram: https://t.me/canalandreburgos Inscreva-se em nosso canal http://goo.gl/Ot3z2r Saiba mais sobre o Método Protagonista em: https://escoladoprotagonista.com.br/oferta Programa Atletas LowCarb: https://atletaslowcarb.com.br/programa-alc/ Me siga no Instagram https://www.instagram.com/andreburgos/

June 30, 2024  GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCHNeil McClendon, Lead PastorGospel Modeling BehaviorsActs 18:18-281. Vows, v. 18A vow is an informed expression of understanding that one submitsthemselves to in order to express gratitude, need or understanding.“Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near tolisten is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not knowthat they are doing evil. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let yourheart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven andyou are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. 3 For a dreamcomes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words. 4When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has nopleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. 5 It is better that you should notvow than that you should vow and not pay. 6 Let not your mouth leadyou into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was amistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the workof your hands? 7 For when dreams increase and words grow many,there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.”-Ecclesiastes 5:1-72. If God wills, v. 21“Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into suchand such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life?For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this orthat.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him itis sin.”- James 4:13-173. A teachable spirit, v. 24-28Four things that will help you become a more teachable person…a) Seek honest feedback by asking honest questions of honest peopleb) Get better at listening- Hearing is the auditory function of the ear.Listening is an emotional commitment to the person talking.c) Get thicker skin- seek to be convicted more than offended.d) Ingest and implement- people come to see you as teachable whenthey see things they have shared with you show up in your life.Mental worship…1. Is there a vow you need to make or want to make, for the nextmonth, that would communicate gratitude, need or understanding?2. If you wanted to change something about your life, what questionwould you ask and who would you ask?3. How do you express your dependence on God in decisionmaking?4. Are you better at hearing or listening? How would your spouse/significant other answer?5. What is one thing you want to better understand aboutChristianity?6. Can you learn from anybody? If not, what type of person is it hardforyou to learn from.

Do you believe life is out to get you? Or are you convinced you can have a really fun ride, almost no matter what? It's a choice worth examining, as you'll hear in this edition of Doing What Works.Here are your show notes…“Right now, it's like this.”“When you're young, you have no perspective. Everything is happening to you for the first time. You're the primitive human. The sun goes away, and you don't know why, or if it will ever come back.”“When you're single, things happen to you. When you're married, everything just kind of slows down to a crawl.”

Not since the classic 1,000 Places to See Before You Die has there been such a call to adventure. Whether you're an armchair traveler, an occasional tourist, a seasoned globe-trotter, a daring adventurer, or an intrepid explorer, there's something for you in LOOKING FOR LEGENDS: Let Us Take You Somewhere You've Never Been Before, and Introduce You to Our Friends (Whole Wide World Publishing; April 2, 2024).Joined at the heart by a love for travel and adventure, Scott and Tarantino provide witty commentary as they circumnavigate the globe in a book that is part travelogue, part history, and part good, old fashioned, action story. These married travelers spanned the globe for 25 years and discovered that travel is more than anticipating and planning the journey, reaching the destination, or seeing the sights. It's about the people you meet along the way. Within these pages are the incredible individuals they found—the towering legends who truly lived.Complete with original, hand-drawn maps and more than 150 images, LOOKING FOR LEGENDS takes you to places that exceed your wildest dreams. Trek through the Empty Quarter with Wilfred Thesiger. Dance the tango with Ricardo Guiraldes. Unlock the secrets of the Rosetta Stone with Jean-François Champollion. Discover an invisible country across the top of the world with Knud Rasmussen. Find the 15th Eight-Thousander with Reinhold Messner. Live through hell with Anna Akhmatova. Hunt a man-eating tiger with Jim Corbett. Ingest the Plants of the Gods with Richard Evans Schultes. And many more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Not since the classic 1,000 Places to See Before You Die has there been such a call to adventure. Whether you're an armchair traveler, an occasional tourist, a seasoned globe-trotter, a daring adventurer, or an intrepid explorer, there's something for you in LOOKING FOR LEGENDS: Let Us Take You Somewhere You've Never Been Before, and Introduce You to Our Friends (Whole Wide World Publishing; April 2, 2024).Joined at the heart by a love for travel and adventure, Scott and Tarantino provide witty commentary as they circumnavigate the globe in a book that is part travelogue, part history, and part good, old fashioned, action story. These married travelers spanned the globe for 25 years and discovered that travel is more than anticipating and planning the journey, reaching the destination, or seeing the sights. It's about the people you meet along the way. Within these pages are the incredible individuals they found—the towering legends who truly lived.Complete with original, hand-drawn maps and more than 150 images, LOOKING FOR LEGENDS takes you to places that exceed your wildest dreams. Trek through the Empty Quarter with Wilfred Thesiger. Dance the tango with Ricardo Guiraldes. Unlock the secrets of the Rosetta Stone with Jean-François Champollion. Discover an invisible country across the top of the world with Knud Rasmussen. Find the 15th Eight-Thousander with Reinhold Messner. Live through hell with Anna Akhmatova. Hunt a man-eating tiger with Jim Corbett. Ingest the Plants of the Gods with Richard Evans Schultes. And many more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

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Dr. Gabriel Kaminski, PhD, é uma autoridade mundial em fisiculturismo. Graduado, Mestre e Doutor em Farmácia e Bioquímica (UFPR), com estudos em bionanotecnologia na Suécia e doutorado na Universidade de Waterloo (Canadá).  Professor, palestrante e preparador de renomados atletas, incluindo campeões mundiais.  Temas: 00:00 - Intro 01:39 - História Acadêmica do Gabriel Kaminski 20:45 - Aprofundando em Smart Drugs e Nootrópicos 24:53 - On Season e Off Season, ainda é uma prática que acredito? 26:54 - Aprendizados sobre a Importância na cadência da repetição e técnicas de treino 31:43 - Filosofia de um Atleta em Processo de Ganho de Volume 37:28 - Qual o Limite do Ganho de Massa? 41:59 - Quanto do efeito do aumento de calor é do Hormônio e quanto é da Ingestão? 43:00 - Hidratação: Uso de eletrólitos 49:34 - Importância da Recuperação 54:02 - Importância do Sono 01:04:44 - O que é um trabalho para um Atleta do Sexo Masculino e Feminino? 01:17:13 - Doses vs Retorno da Testosterona 01:21:46 - Por trás das escolhas do Cbum 01:31:43 - Evolução de Ramon Dino Kaminski: https://www.instagram.com/kaminskao/  YouTube: https://youtu.be/xOnmt3mARpg Siga:  Marcelo Toledo: https://instagram.com/marcelotoledo Instagram:  https://instagram.com/excepcionaispodcast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@excepcionaispodcast

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Autor: Roberto Zagury   Revista: Cell Rep Med Referências: Trommelen J. The anabolic response to protein ingestion during recovery from exercise has no upper limit in magnitude and duration in vivo in humans. Cell Rep Med. 2023 Dec 19;4(12):101324. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101324.

In this episode of CISO Tradecraft, host G Mark Hardy interviews JP Bourget about the security data pipeline and how modernizing SOC ingest can improve efficiency and outcomes. Featuring discussions on cybersecurity leadership, API integrations, and the role of AI and advanced model learning in future data lake architectures. They discuss how vendor policies can impact data accessibility. They also reflect on their shared Buffalo roots and because their professional journeys. Tune in for valuable insights from top cybersecurity experts. Transcripts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1evI2JTGg7S_Hjaf0sV-Nk_i0oiv8XNAr  Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:50 Guest's Background and Journey 05:27 Discussion on Security Data Pipeline 07:19 Introduction to SOAR 08:01 Benefits and Challenges of SOAR 12:40 Guest's Current Work and Company 14:04 Security Data Pipeline Modernization 22:20 Discussion on Vendor Integration 29:09 Security Pipeline Approach and AI 38:03 Closing Thoughts and Future Directions

Perception and reality can sometimes be two different things. When it comes to money, that can be a problem. You've probably had this happen: you're thinking you've had a pretty good month, then you get your credit card bill and you get an unpleasant surprise. Somehow, you'd totally forgotten this was the month the dishwasher broke, you had to take your dog to the emergency vet, and you're not doing nearly as well financially as you were thinking just 5 minutes ago. The same kind of thing can happen with a business. When you're running a restaurant, even a minimal gap between financial perception and reality can spell serious trouble. Restaurants run on small profit margins – often as little as 2%. So, staying informed about multiple expenses like food, laundry, staff, and invoices, as well as knowing how you're doing day to day with multiple revenue streams like reservations, delivery, and your bar program, is essential for staying in business. But whether you're a chef, or you run a restaurant because you love hospitality, collecting and analyzing data is probably not high on the list of things you enjoy, or are good at. That's why Daniel Meth created an AI tool for restaurants that does all that. It's called Ingest. Owning a restaurant or a coffee shop is one of those aspirational dreams people sometimes muse about. However, most of us don't dream about working in a restaurant or coffee shop. Being a server, a barista, or working in a kitchen is not most people's idea of having made it. But for some of the folks who work at Dragonfly Café on Jackson Avenue, getting to do this kind of work provides coveted access to a regular life most of us take for granted. Dragonfly Café is part of Raphael Village, an organization dedicated to differently-abled adults. The café provides internships for members of The Guild, an adult day program that offers vocational and post-secondary educational opportunities to differently-abled adults. Guild members interning at Dragonfly Café learn vocational skills that can lead to work in the food and service industries, both in the front and back of house. The founder and Executive Director of Raphael Village is Jackie Case. Even as leaps in technology like Daniel's AI tool push us ever-closer to an error-free, perfect world, it's work like Jackie is doing at Raphael Village that reminds us it's our imperfections that make us human. Efficiency and profit are important. But so too is leading a purposeful and enriching life. Both ends of that scale are equally essential. Daniel and Jackie's contributions from both ends of the scale taken together, literally create a work-life balance.   Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at NOLA Pizza in the NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this Livestream conversation, I spoke with John Alves from CyberOne Security about the struggles teams face in modernizing a SIEM, controlling costs, and extracting optimal value from their systems. We delve into the issues around single system-of-analysis solutions that attempt to solve detection and analytics use cases within the same tool. We explored the strategic limitations of this type of security architecture, presenting alternative options for effectively mixing and matching data platforms. Be sure to watch the full conversation to get on the path toward achieving the optimal combination of data management and cost control capabilities. If your security architecture is centered around a SIEM that houses all your security and operational data, it's time for an upgrade. Data quantities, cyber attacks, and regulatory requirements are all on the rise, so having a single destination for your data leaves too much room for vulnerabilities. Until recently, buying a SIEM meant deploying its agents, putting all your data into it, and going on your merry way. You were almost 100% confined to that one framework — if you wanted to use UEBA, your vendor or one of their partners provided it. Operating outside your SIEM or bringing in third-party vendors was very limited. Observability Pipelines to the Rescue About five years ago, the concept of an observability pipeline emerged, allowing organizations to funnel their observability and security data through a consistent data plane. The idea of controlling where your data gets stored was born, and vendor-neutral considerations began gaining popularity. Admins can now make copies of events for their SIEM, data lake, UEBA solution, or someone else's data lake — easily turning one event into four events that power different parts of their security stack. By moving data into a data lake instead, admins can analyze data and build dashboards for operations teams without bloating their ingest. Teams have more choice and control over their data than ever before, so they can consider their specific needs when building out their infrastructure. The Benefits of a Data Security Lake During our discussion, John mentioned how this flexibility is no longer a wish-list item for his clients, but a necessity. As the industry transitions to cloud infrastructure and cloud-based computing, organizations require vendor-neutral data that supports their scalability efforts. There are a host of benefits you get from modernizing your security architecture. Reduced License Costs Routing data that isn't needed for security to object storage is one of the best ways to reduce SIEM license costs. Ingest costs go down, and you avoid the upsell for archive data — around a 4- 8x markup — as opposed to using your own object storage or your SIEM cloud platforms archive. You can also store it in a vendor-neutral format, giving you enormous flexibility that you wouldn't get otherwise. We recently worked with a developer team and their debug logs, routing them to a lower-cost S3 bucket instead of their SIEM. All we had to do was create a rule in Cribl Stream to route them to the data lake, and now they're available to be restored whenever necessary. This is just one example of many where we can set customers up to meet their simultaneous need for availability but lower cost and overhead. Increasing Security While Decreasing Engineering Time When you can reduce your SIEM license costs, you no longer have to choose which data sources you can afford to collect. By removing the constraints for engineers that come from not having the raw data when needed, security teams can focus on security and not just moving data around. No more time spent on tasks like going out to a server to manually zip up and pull in logs. The result? Better detections, analytics, and security. Shared Data Within the Organization Each team has a different use case for the data the organization collects — having different pipelines to transform and send data to different sources is invaluable. Putting firewall, threat, traffic, and systems logs into a single destination is a great way to bloat your ingest. And not all logs from a single data source are security relevant. Routing some of them into a storage account or data lake will not only save on ingestion costs and create less noise for security teams, but you can also give access to relevant logs to your infrastructure, firewall, and other teams. Route your threat logs straight into the SIM, but send traffic and other logs straight into the data lake for your infrastructure network team. Compliance With Retention Requirements Another benefit of keeping raw copies of data is complying with retention requirements. If you're manipulating data before it goes into your SIEM, then you're not adhering to some necessary standards. Transform events to get what you need for your SIEM, but keep unmanipulated, raw copies in your data lake. Your IR or legal counsel can control forensic copies. Meet Cyber Insurance Requirements As insurance companies get more sophisticated and start hiring engineers as auditors, they'll dive deeper into your architecture than before. They'll ensure you have a SIEM in place but also check to see if you're putting the right data in and using it appropriately. Government auditors will want to see all your data sources and detections. They'll be ready to write findings if you're not following best practices. The prevalence of bad data or an overwhelming amount of data leads to various issues with detection, and drives costs higher and higher. It is extremely common to witness a year-over-year cost increase of up to 35%, which is clearly unsustainable. Watch the full livestream to hear John and I talk about alternative options for your SIEM platform, so you can be empowered to re-architect your data strategy. With the right strategies, SIEM platform challenges can be overcome, and we're here to help as you embark on this transformative journey.  

Welcome to The Cluttered Desk! In this episode, Andrew and Colin go primal by exploring food theory and The Liver King! Enjoy! Theory text: Claude Fischler, "Food, Self and Indentity" *** The Coda: Andrew: Montucky Cold Snack Colin: A red wine, maybe? *** Here are links for this episode: Andrew's recommendation: The Fall of the House of Usher (miniseries) and Angel in Realtime by Gang of Youths Colin's recommendation: The Menu (2022) and "Invisible Touch" by Genesis, oh, and also, Suits *** Please contact us at any of these locations: Website: www.thecdpodcast.com Email: thecluttereddeskpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @TheCDPodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/thecdpodcast Andrew is on Twitter @AndrewPatrickH1 (Twitter non grata) Colin is on Twitter @ColinAshleyCox *** We want to thank Test Dream for supplying The Cluttered Desk's theme music. You can find Test Dream at any of these locations: Website: testdream.bandcamp.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/testdream Twitter: @testdream *** Our entire catalogue is available through iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play.

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Thomas LaRock, Principal Developer Evangelist at Selector AI, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss why he loves having a career in data and his most recent undertaking at Selector AI. Thomas explains how his new role aligned perfectly with his career goals in his recent job search, and why Selector AI is not in competition with other data analysis tools. Corey and Thomas discuss the benefits and drawbacks to going back to school for additional degrees, and why it's important to maintain a healthy balance of education and practical experience. Thomas also highlights the impact that data can have on peoples' lives, and why he finds his career in data so meaningful. About ThomasThomas' career and life experiences are best described as follows: he takes things that are hard and makes them simple for others to understand. Thomas is a highly experienced data professional with over 25 years of expertise in diverse roles, from individual contributor to team lead. He is passionate about simplifying complex challenges for others and leading with empathy, challenging assumptions, and embracing a systems-thinking approach. Thomas has strong analytical reasoning skills and expertise to identify trends and opportunities for significant impact, and is a builder of cohesive teams by breaking down silos resulting in increased efficiencies and collective success. He has a track record of driving revenue growth, spearheading industry-leading events, and fostering valuable relationships with major tech players like Microsoft and VMware. Links Referenced: Selector: https://www.selector.ai/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sqlrockstar/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Do you wish there were cheat codes for database optimization? Well, there are – no seriously. If you're using Postgres or MySQL on Amazon Aurora or RDS, OtterTune uses AI to automatically optimize your knobs and indexes and queries and other bits and bobs in databases. OtterTune applies optimal settings and recommendations in the background or surfaces them to you and allows you to do it. The best part is that there's no cost to try it. Get a free, thirty-day trial to take it for a test drive. Go to ottertune dot com to learn more. That's O-T-T-E-R-T-U-N-E dot com.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. There are some guests I have been nagging-slash-angling to have on this show for years on end, and that you almost give up, until they wind up having a job change. At which point, there's no better opportunity to pounce like some sort of scavenger or hyena or whatnot in order to get them on before their new employer understands what I am, and out of an overabundance of caution, decides not to talk with me. Thomas LaRock is a recently minted Principal Developer Evangelist at Selector. Thomas, thank you for finally deigning to appear on the show. It is deeply appreciated.Thomas: Oh, thanks for having me. Thanks for extending invitation. I'm sorry. It's my fault I haven't come here before now; it's just been one of those scheduling things. And I always think I'm going to see you. Like, I'll go to re:Invent, and I'm like, “I'll see Corey there.” And then, nah, Corey is a little busy.Corey: Yeah, I have no recollection of basically anything that ever happens at re:Invent, just because it is eight days of ridiculous Cloud Chanukah and thing to thing to thing to thing to thing. It's just overload and I wind up effectively blocking all of it out. You are one of those very interesting people where, depending upon the context in which someone encounters you, it's difficult to actually put a finger on where you start and where you stop. You are, for example, a Microsoft MVP, which means you presumably have a fair depth of experience with at least some subset of Microsoft products. You have been working at SolarWinds for a while now, and you also have the username of SQLRockstar on a number of social media environments, which leads me to think, oh, you're a database person. What are you exactly? Where do you start? Where do you stop?Thomas: Yeah, in my heart-of-hearts, a data professional. And that can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. My latest thing I've taken from a friend where I just call myself a data janitor because that's pretty much what I do all day, right? I'll clean data up, I'll move it around, it's a pile here and a pile there. But that's my heart of hearts. I've been a database administrator, I've been the data advocate. I've done a lot of roles, but it's always been heavily focused on data.Corey: So, these days, your new role—let's start at the present and see if we work our way backwards or not—you've been, at the time of this recording, in your role for a week where you are a principal developer evangelist at Selector, which to my understanding, is an AIOps or MLOps or whatever buzzword that we're sprinkling on top of things today is, which of course presupposes having some amount of data to wind up operating on. What do you folks do over there?Thomas: That's a great question. I'm hoping to figure that out eventually. No. So, here's the thing, Corey. So, when I started my unforced sabbatical this past June, I was, of course, doing what everybody does: panicking. And I was looking for job opportunities just about anywhere.But I, again, data professional. I really wanted a role that would allow me to use my math skills—I have a master's in mathematics—I wanted to use those math and analytical skills and go beyond the data into the application of the data. So, in the past five, six years, I've been earning a lot of data science certifications, I've been just getting back into my roots, right, statistical analysis, even my Six Sigma training is suddenly relevant again. So, what happened was I was on LinkedIn and friend had posted a note and mentioned Selector. I clicked on the link, and [all of sudden 00:04:17] I read, I go, “So, here's a company that is literally building new tools and it's data-science-centric. Is data-science-first.”It is, “We are going to find a way to go through your data and truly build out a better set of correlations to get you a signal through the noise.” Traditional monitoring tools, you know, collect a lot of things and then they kind of tell you what's wrong. Or you're collecting a lot of different things, so they slap, like, I don't know, timestamps in there and they guess at correlations. And these people are like, “No, no, no. We're going to go through everything and we will tell you what the data really says about your environment.”And I thought it was crazy how at the moment I was looking for a role that involve data and advocacy, the moment I'm looking for that role, that company was looking for someone like me. And so, I reached out immediately. They wanted not just a resume, but they're like, where's your portfolio? Have you spoken before? I'm like, “Yeah, I've spoken in a couple places,” right?So, I gave them everything, I reached right out to the recruiter. I said, “In case it doesn't arrive, let me know. I'll send it again. But this sounds very interesting.” And it didn't take more than—Corey: Exactly. [unintelligible 00:05:24] delivery remains hard.Thomas: Yeah. And it didn't take more than a couple of weeks. And I had gone through four or five interviews, they said that they were going to probably fly me out to Santa Clara to do, like, a last round or whatever. That got changed at some point and we went from, “Hey, we'll have you fly out,” to, “Hey, here's the offer. Why don't you just sign?” And I'm like, “Yeah, I'll start Monday. Let's go.”Corey: Fantastic. I imagine at some point, you'll be out in this neck of the woods just for an off-site or an all-hands or basically to stare someone down when you have a sufficiently large disagreement.Thomas: Yes, I do expect to be out there at some point. Matter of fact, I think one of my trips coming up might be to San Diego if you happen to head down south.Corey: Oh, I find myself all over the place these days, which is frankly, a welcome change after a few years of seclusion during the glorious pandemic years. What I like about Selector's approach, from what I can tell at least, is that it doesn't ask all of its customers to, “Hey, you know, all that stuff that you've instrumented over the last 20 years with a variety of different tools in the observability pipeline? Yeah, rip them all out and replace them with our new shiny thing.” Which never freaking happens. It feels like it's a better step toward meeting folks where they are.Thomas: Yeah. So, we're finding—I talk like I've been there forever: “What we're finding,”—in the past 40 hours of my work experience there, what we're finding, if you just look at the companies that are listed on the website, you'll get an idea for the scale that we're talking about. So no, we're not there to rip and replace. We're not going to show up and tell you, “Yeah, get rid of everything. We're going to do that for you.”Matter of fact, we think it's great you have all of those different things because it just reflects the complexity of your environment right now, is that you've grown, you've got so many disparate systems, you've got some of the technologies trying to monitor it all, and you're really hoping to have everything rolled into one big dashboard, right? Instead of right now, you've got to go through three, four, or five dashboards, to even think you have an idea of the problem. And you never really—you guess. We all guess. We think we know where it is, and you start looking and then you figure it out.But yeah, we take kind of a different approach right from the start, and we say, “Great, you've got all that data? Ingest it. Bring it right to us, okay? We don't care where it comes from, we can bring it in, and we can start going through it and start giving you true actionable insights.” We can filter out the noise, right, instead of one node going down, triggering a thousand alerts, we can just filter all of that out for you and just let you focus on the things that you need to be looking at right now.Corey: One of the things that I think gets overlooked in this space a lot is, “Well, we have this tool that does way better than that legacy tool that you're using right now and it's super easy to do a just drop-in replacement with our new awesomeness.” Great. What that completely misses is that there are other business units who perhaps care about data interchange and the idea that yeah, thing's a legacy piece of junk and replacing it would take an afternoon. And then it would take 14 years to wind up redoing all the other reports that other things are generating downstream of that because they integrate with that thing. So yeah, it's easy to replace the thing itself, but not in a way that anything else can take advantage of it.Thomas: Right.Corey: And when it turns out also when you sit there making fun of people's historical technological decisions, they don't really like becoming customers as it turns out. This was something of a shock for an awful lot of very self-assured startup founders in the early days.Thomas: Yeah. And again, you're talking about how, you know some of the companies we're looking at, it's y—we don't want to rip and replace things. Like you just said, you've got an ecosystem. It's a delicate ecosystem that has [laugh] developed over time. We aren't interested in replacing all that. We want to enhance it, we want to be on top of it and amplify what's in there for you.So yeah, we're not interested in coming in and say, “Yeah, rip every tool out.” And in some ways, when somebody will ask, you know, “Who do you compete with?” I'll go, “Nobody.” Because I'm not looking to replace anybody. I'm looking to go on top.And again, the companies we're dealing with have lots of data. We're talking very large companies. Some of these are the backbone of the internet. They just have way too much data for any of these legacy tools to help with, you know? They can help with, like, little things, but in terms of making sense of it all, in terms of doing the real big data analytics, yeah, that's where our tool comes in and it really shines.Corey: Yeah, it turns out that is not a really compelling sales pitch to walk it and say, “Hey, listen up, idiots, you all are doing it wrong. Now, pay me and we'll do it right.” Yeah, even if you're completely right, you've already lost the room at that point.Thomas: Exactly.Corey: People make decisions based upon human aspects, not about arithmetic, in most cases. I will say, taking a glance at the website, a couple of things are very promising. One, your picture and profile are already up there, which is good. No one is still on the fence about that, and further as a bonus, they've taken your job role down off the website, which is always disconcerting when you're there and, “Why is that job still open?” “Oh, we're preserving optionality. Don't you worry your head about that. We've got it.” No one finds that a reassuring story when it's about the role that they're in. So, good selection.Thomas: I went to—after I signed, it was within the day, I went to send somebody the link to the job req. Like, they're like, “What are”—I go, “Here, let me show you.” It was already down. The ink was even dry on the DocuSign and it was already down. So, I thought that—Corey: Good on them.Thomas: —was a good sign, too.Corey: Oh, yeah. Now, looking at the rest of your website, I do see a couple of things that lead to natural questions. One of the first things I look at on a web page is, okay, how is this thing priced? Because you always want to see the free tier option when I'm trying to solve a problem the middle of the night that I can just sign up for and see if it works for a small use case, but you also, in a big company definitely want to have the ‘Contact Us' option because we're procurement and we don't know how to sign a deal that doesn't have two commas in it with a bunch of special terms that ride along with it. Selector does not at the time of this recording, have a pricing page at all, which usually indicates if you have to ask, it might not be for you.Then I look at your customer case studies and they talk about very large enterprises, such as a major cable operator, for example, or TracFone. And oh okay, yeah, that is probably not the scale that I tend to be operating at. So, if I were to envision this as a carnival ride and there's a sign next to it, “You must be at least this tall to ride,” how tall should someone be?Thomas: That is a great way of putting it and I would—I can't really go into specifics because I'm still kind of new. But my understanding—Corey: Oh yeah. Make sweeping policy statements about your new employer 40 hours in. What could possibly go wrong?Thomas: My understanding is the companies that we—that are our target market today are fairly large enterprises with real data challenges, real monitoring data challenges. And so no, we're not doing—it's not transactional. You can't just come to our website and say, “Here, click this, you'll be up and running.” Because the volumes of data we're talking about, this requires a little bit of specialty in helping make sure that things are getting set up and correct.Think of it this way. Like if somebody said, “Here, do the statistical analysis on whatever, and here's Excel and go at it and get me that report by the end of the day and tell me how we're doing,” most people would be like, “I don't have enough information on that. Can you help me?” So, we're still at that, hey, we're going to need to help you through this and make sure it's correctly configured. And it's doing what you expect. So, how tall are you? I think that goes both ways. I think you're at a height where you still need some supervision [laugh]. Does that make sense?Corey: I think that's probably a good way of framing it. It's a—again, I'm not saying that you should never ever, ever, ever have a ‘you must contact us to get started.' There are a bunch of products like that out there. It turns out that even at The Duckbill Group here, we always want to have a series of conversations first. We don't have a shopping cart that's, “One consulting, please,” just because we'll get into trouble with that.Though I think our first pass offering of a two-day engagement might have one of those somewhere still lurking around. Don't quote me on that. Hell is other people's websites. It's great. But your own yeah, whoever reads that thing“. Wait, we're saying what?” Don't quote me on any of that, my God.Thomas: But I think that's a good way of putting it. Like, you want to have some conversations first. Yeah, so you—and again, we're still, we're fairly young. We've only—we're Series A, so we've been around 16 months, like… you know, the other website you're looking at is probably going to change within the next six or eight weeks just because information gets outdated—Corey: It already has. It put your picture on it.Thomas: Right. But I mean, things are going to things move pretty fast with startups, especially this one. So, I just expect that over time, I envision some type of a free tier, but we're not there yet.Corey: That's one of those challenges as far as in some cases moving down market. I found that anything that acts like a security tool, for example, has to, on some level, charge enough to be worth the squeeze. One of the challenges there is, I'm either limited for anything that does CloudTrail analysis over in AWS-land, for example. I can either find a bunch of janky things off GitHub or I can spend what starts at $1,000 a month and increases rapidly from there, which is about twice the actual AWS bill that it would wind up alerting on. Not that the business value isn't there, but because a complex sale is, in many cases, always going to be attendant with some of these products, so why not go after the larger companies where the juice is worth the squeeze rather than the folks who are not going to see the value and it'd be just as challenging to wind up launching a sale into?The corollary, of course, is that some of those small companies do in fact, grow meteorically. But it's a bit of a lottery.Thomas: Yep.Corey: Ugh. So, I have to ask as well, while we're talking about strange decisions that people might have made, in the world of tech, in many cases, when someone gets promoted—like, “So, does that mean extra money?” “No, not really. We just get extra adjectives added to our job title.” Good for us. You have decided to add letters in a different way, by going back for a second master's degree. What on earth would possess you to do such a thing?Thomas: I—man, that is—you know, so I got my first master's degree because I thought I was going to, I thought I was be a math teacher and basketball coach. And I had a master's degree in math and I thought that was going to be a thing. I'll get a job, you know, coaching and teaching at some small school somewhere. But then I realized that I enjoyed things like eating and keeping the wind off me, and so I realized I had to go get a jobby-job. And so, I took my masters in math, I ended—I got a job as a software analyst, and just rolled that from one thing to another until where I am today.But about four years ago, when I started falling back in love with my roots in math, and statistical analysis became a real easy thing for people to really start doing for themselves—well actually, that was about eight years ago—but the past four or five years, I've been earning more certifications in data science technologies. And then I found this program at Georgia Tech. So, Georgia Tech has an online masters of science and data analytics. And it's extremely affordable. So, I looked at a lot of programs, Corey, over the past few years, especially during the pandemic.I had some free time, so I browsed the love these places, and they were charging 50, $60,000 and you had to do it within two, three years. And in one case, the last class you had to take, your practicum, had to be all done on campus. So, you had to go, like, live somewhere. And I'm looking at all—none of that was practical. And all of a sudden, somebody shows up and goes, “So, you can go online, fully online, Georgia Tech, $275 a credit. Costs ten grand for the entire program.”And you can—it's geared towards a working professional and you can take anywhere from two to six years. So, you take, like, one class a semester if you want, or two or even three if they allow you, but they usually restrict you. So, it just blew my mind. Like, this exists today that I can start earning another Master's degree in data analytics and I'll say, be… classically trained in how—it's funny because when I learn things in class, I'm like, I feel like I'm Thornton Melon in Back to School, and I'm just like, “Oh, you left out a bunch of stuff. That isn't how you do it all,” right?That's kind of my reaction. I'm like, “Calm down. I'm sure the professor has point. I'll hear [laugh] him out.” But to me, you asked why, and I just the challenge. Am I really good at what I do? Like, I feel I am. I already have a master's degree. I'm not worried about the level of work and the commitment involved in earning another one.I just wanted to show to myself that could—I want to learn and make sure I can do things like code in Python. If anybody has a chance to take a programming class, a graduate-level programming classes at Georgia Tech, you should do it. You should see where your skills rate at that level, right? So, it was for the challenge. I want to know if I can do it. I'm three classes in. I just started my fourth, actually, today was the start of the fall semester.And so, I'm about halfway through, and I'm loving it. It's not too taxing. It's just the right speed for me. I get to do it in my leisure hours as they were. Yeah, so I did it for the challenge. I'm really glad I'm doing it. I encourage anybody interested in obtaining a degree in data analytics to look at the Georgia Tech program. It's well worth it. Georgia Tech's not a bad school. Like, if you had to go to school in the South, it's all right.Corey: I always find it odd, just, you had your first master's degree in, you know, mathematics, and now you're going for data analytics, which sounds like mathematics with extra steps.Thomas: It is.Corey: Were there opportunities that you were hoping to pursue that were not available to you with just the one master's degree?Thomas: So, it's interesting you say that because I'm so old that when I went to school, all we had was math, that was it. It was pure mathematics. I could have been a statistics major, I think, and computer science was a thing. And one day I met a guy who transferred into math from computer science. I'm like, “Why would you do that? What are you going to do with the degree in math?”And his response is, “What am I going to do with a degree in computer science?” And I look back and I realized how we were both right. So, I think at the time if there had been a course in applied mathematics, that would have piqued my interest. Like, what am I going to do with this math degree other than become an actuary because that was about all I knew at the time. You were a teacher or an actuary, and that was about it.So, the idea now that they have these programs in data analytics or data science that are little more narrow of focus, like, “This is what we're going to do: we're going to apply a little bit of math, some calculus, some stats; we're going to show you how to build your own simulations; we're going to show you how to ask the right questions of the data.” To give you a little bit of training. Because they can't teach you everything. You really have to have real-world experience in whatever domain you're going to focus on, be it finance or marketing or whatever. All these bright financial operations, that's just analytics for finance, marketing operations, that's analytics for marketing. It's just, to me, I think just the opportunity to have that focus would have been great back then and it didn't exist. And I want to take advantage of it now.Corey: I've always been a fan of advising people who ask me, “Should I go back to school,” because usually, there's something else driving that. Like, I am honestly not much of a career mentor. My value basically comes in as being a horrible warning to others. On paper, I have an eighth-grade education. I am not someone to follow for academic approaches.But when someone early or mid-career asks, “Should I get another degree?” Unpacking that is always a bit of a fun direction for me to go in. Because at some level, we've sold entire generations a bill of goods, where oh, if you don't know what to do, just get more credentials and then your path will be open to you in a bunch of new and exciting ways. Okay, great. I'm not saying that's inherently wrong, but talk to people doing the thing you'd want to do after you have that degree, maybe, you know, five or six years down the professional line from where you are and get their take on it.Because in some cases, yeah, there are definite credentials you're going to need—I don't want you to be a self-taught surgeon, for example—but there are other things where it doesn't necessarily open doors. People are just reflexively deciding that I'm going to go after that instead. And then you can start doing the math of, okay, assume that you have whatever the cost of the degree is in terms of actual cost and opportunity cost. Is this the best path forward for you to wind up getting where you want to go? It sounds like in your particular case, this is almost a labor of love or a hobby style of approach, as opposed to, “Well, I really want Job X, but I just can't get it without the right letters after my name.” Is that a fair assessment?Thomas: It's not unfair. It is definitely fair, but I would also say, you know, if somebody came and said, “Hey Tom, we need somebody to run our data science team or our data engineering team,” I've got the experience for—the only thing I would be lacking is, you know, production experience, like, with machine-learning pipelines or something. I don't have that today.Corey: Which is basically everyone else, too, but that's a little—bit of a quiet secret in the industry.Thomas: Yeah, that's—okay. Bad example. But you know what I'm saying is that the only thing I'd be lacking would be that practical experience, so this is one way that—to at least start that little bit of experience, especially with the end result being the practicum that we'll be doing. It's, like, six credits at the very end. So yes, it's a fair thing.I wouldn't—hobby isn't really the right—this is really something that makes me get out of bed in the morning. I get to work with data today and I'm going to get—I'm going to tell a great story using data today. I really do enjoy those things. But then at the tail end of this, if it happens to lead to a position that somebody says, “Hey, we need somebody, vice president of data engineering. This a really good”—honestly, the things I look for are the roles and the roles I want are to have a role that allows me to really have an impact on other people's lives.And that's one of the things about Selector. The things that we're able to do for these admins that are just drowning in data, the data is just in their way, and that we can help them make sense of it all, to me, that's impactful. So, those are the types of roles that I will be looking for as well in the future, especially at the high level of something data science-y.Corey: I think that that is a terrific example of what I'm talking about. Because I've met a number of folks, especially very early-20s range where, okay, they've gotten the degree, but now they don't know what to do because every time they're applying for jobs, it doesn't seem to work for them. You've been around this industry for 25 years. Everyone needs a piece of paper that says they know certain things, and in your case, it long ago transitioned into being—I would assume—your resumé, the history of things you have done that look equivalent. Part of me, on some level, wonders if there isn't an academic snobbery going on at some level, where a number of teams are, “Oh, we'd love to have you in, but you don't have a PhD.”And then people get the PhD. “From the right school, in the right area of concentration.” It's like, you just keep moving these very expensive goalposts super quickly. Remember, I have an eighth-grade education. I'm not coming at this from a place of snobbery and I'm also not one of those folks who's well it didn't work for me, therefore, it won't work for anyone else either because that's equally terrible in a different direction.It's just making sure that people are going into these things with their eyes open. With you, it's never been a concern. You've been around this industry so long that it is extremely unlikely to me [laugh] that you, “Oh, wait. You mean a degree won't magically solve all of my problems and regrow some of my hair and make me two inches taller, et cetera, et cetera?” But yeah, do I remember in the early days just how insipid and how omnipresent that pressure was.Thomas: Yeah. I've been at companies where we've brought in people because of the education and—or I'm sorry. Let's be more specific. I've been at companies where we've sent current employees—as we used to call it—off the charm school, which is basically [MBA 00:25:44].Corey: [laugh].Thomas: And I swear, so many of them came back and they just forgot how to think, how to have common sense. Like, they were very much focused on one particular thing and this is just it, and they forgot there were maybe humans involved, and maybe look for a human answer instead of the statistically correct one. So, I think that was a good thing for me as well to be around that because, yeah, somebody put it me best years ago: “Education by itself isn't enough. If you combine education with motivation, now you've really got something.” And your case, I don't know where you went for eighth grade, it could have been the best eighth-grade program ever, but you definitely have the motivation through the years to overcome anything that might have been lacking in the form of education. So, it's really the combination—Corey: Oh, you'd be surprised. A lot of those things are still readily apparent to people who work with me, so I've done a good job of camouflaging them. Hazzah.Thomas: Just it's, you got to have both. You can't just rely on one or the other.Corey: So, last question, given that you are the data guy and SQLRockstar is your username in a bunch of places. What's the best database? I mean, I would always say it's Route 53, but I understand that can be controversial for some folks, given that their SQL implementation is not yet complete. What's your take?Thomas: So clearly, I'm partial to anything inside the Microsoft data platform, with the exception being Access. I think if Access disappeared from the universe… society might be better off. But that's for a different day, I think the best database is the one that does the job you need it to do. Honestly, the database shouldn't really matter. It's just an abstraction. The database engine is just something in between you and the data you need, right?So, whatever you're using, if it's doing the job that you need it to do, then that's the best database you could have. I learned a long time ago to not pick sides, choose fiefdoms. Like, it just didn't matter. It's all kind of the same. And in a lot of cases, if you go to, like, the DB-Engines Rankings, you'll see how many of these systems these days, there's a lot of overlap. They offer all the same features and the differences between them are getting smaller and smaller in a lot of cases. So yeah, it's… you got to database, it does what you need to do? That's great. That's the best database.Corey: Especially since any database, I suspect, can be made to perform a given task, even if sub-optimally. Which states back to my core ethos of, quite frankly, anything is a database if you hold it wrong.Thomas: Yeah, it really is. I mean, we've had those discussions. I kid about Access because it's just a painful thing for a lot of different reasons. But is Excel a database? And I would say no but, you know—because it can't do certain things that I would expect a relational engine to do. And then you find out, well, I can make it do those things. So, now is it a database? And, yeah…Corey: [laugh]. Yeah. Well, what if I apply some brute force? Will it count then? Like, you have information, Thomas. Can I query you?Thomas: Yes. Yes, yes, [laugh] you can. I also have latency.Corey: Exactly. That means you are a suboptimal database.Thomas: [laugh].Corey: Good job. I really want to thank you for taking the time to talk about what you're up to these days and finally coming on the show. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you?Thomas: Well, I'm becoming more active on LinkedIn. So, it's linkedin/in/sqlrockstar. Just search for SQLRockstar, you'll find me everywhere. I mean, I do have a blog. I rarely blog these days. Most of the posts I do is over at LinkedIn.And you might find me at some networking events coming up since Selector really does focus on network observability. So, you could see me there. And you know what? I'm also going to have an appearance on the Screaming in the Cloud podcast, so you can listen to me there.Corey: Excellent. And I imagine that's the one we don't have to put into these [show notes. 00:29:44]. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. I really do appreciate it.Thomas: Thanks for having me, Corey. 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