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Woah, wait, hey now! A guy who goes by the name "ProcrastiN8r" is saying that you shouldn't always procrastinate and there's actually an exception? I know. Seems quite ironic, if we're being frank here. But if you've been following my blog up until his point, you know that I've basically condemned using the word "always" or "never", since those words create such permanence. You can never make an end all be all rule. There are always exceptions. (See what I did there?) Anyway, there is something you DO NOT want to procrastinate on believe it or not. I know, I know all this talk about how you should "put things off 'til tomorrow" and "wait 'til the last minute" I've shared with you in the past couple weeks. And now it seems like I'm some sort of hypocrite by claiming "DON'T PROCRASTINATE ON THIS ONE THING." Must be pretty important though if I'm telling you to do it NOW. Don't you think? I mean I'm always telling you to go slow n' steady and just do it...later. So you know coming from me that if I'm telling you NOT to procrastinate on something, you better damn well not procrastinate on it. And no, I'm not gonna tell you to get vaccinated right away (though you should but that's besides the point. Cue the anti-vaxxers to unsubscribe) What I want to share with you today is something that actually MAXIMIZES effort and MINIMIZES results  (quite the opposite of what we want to achieve in the lazy formula of success) if you do in fact procrastinate on it. I know. Here I am. Procrastinating revealing it to you. Well, take a listen and I'll tell ya! Read the full Blog: http://www.procrastin8r.com/blog/truth Subscribe to the Newsletter: http://www.procrastin8r.com/subscribe

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In the realm of health and wellness, some individuals find ways to intertwine their professional pursuits with their spiritual missions. Cyd Notter is one such individual. As an ardent advocate for plant-based nutrition and the author of "The Plan A Diet," Cyd uses her business as a platform to carry out her ministry.    In a recent episode of the Health Science Podcast, Cyd shared insights into her journey, the power of community, and practical tips for overcoming barriers to a healthy lifestyle.   The Intersection of Business and Ministry   Cyd's commitment to health goes beyond the bounds of business; it is her ministry. Inspired by her faith and the belief that our bodies are wonderfully made, she founded the "Wonderfully Made Ministry." This initiative aims to promote healthy eating within her church community through weight loss challenges, cooking demonstrations, and educational talks. Despite modest attendance, Cyd remains undeterred, driven by the belief that even reaching a few individuals can make a significant difference.   The Power of Encouragement and Community   One of the recurring themes in Cyd's conversation was the power of encouragement and community. Reflecting on a quote by Clint Eastwood—"He gets up every morning and goes outside and doesn't let the old man in"—Cyd emphasized the importance of staying active and vibrant regardless of age. This sentiment resonated deeply with her and underscored her belief in breaking free from societal age-related stereotypes.   Addressing Resistance to Change   A significant portion of the conversation revolved around common barriers to adopting a healthier lifestyle. Cyd identified twelve specific reasons that often deter individuals from making lasting changes, including pain avoidance, emotional eating, food addictions, and ingrained habits. The avoidance of discomfort is a major hurdle for many people.  Cyd emphasizes that people who are successful long-term are willing to endure the short-term period of discomfort needed to get over the hump.   Family and peer pressure also play a significant role. Cyd cited an article suggesting that the lack of household support is the biggest reason for failure in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. https://HealthScience.org/podcast/087-Cyd-Notter

e confident of God's mercy, grace, and love, trials are not viewed as risks but are seen for their coming reward. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pastor-john-van-gorkom/support

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The enemy wants autism moms like you to be consumed by autism symptoms, stress, worry, fear, symptoms and research. That voice in your head telling you that you have to recover your child before it's too late. The endless hamster wheel of therapies.God wants you to to rest and let Him help you save your child. God has designed your nervous system, your brain, your soul and your child to heal WHILE you take a break, ask for help, rest and relax. YOU CAN'T HEAL YOUR AUTISTIC CHILD WHEN YOU'RE STRESSING. That's why you can't turn symptoms around if you're constantly performing, stressing and destroying yourself with autism diets, ABA therapies, Biomedical tests and practitioners.Here are 3 ways we can start turning autism symptoms around together, whenever you're ready... 1. Send me a voice message and get my feedback on your most pressing struggles. 2. Check out the free video series "The 5 hidden messages behind autism symptoms" and find your child's unique triggers. 3. Work with me privatelyIf you'd like to work with me directly to turn as many symptoms around as possible in my Autism Turnaround Coaching and implementation group..send me an email with "coaching" in the subject line and tell me how old your child is. I'll get you all the details.

The pork industry took a proactive step to protect animal health and producers' livelihoods this week with the approval of a resolution aimed at enhancing the country's live swine traceability system. The goal of the new standards is that of better controlling the spread of a foreign animal disease and lessening the economic impact of an outbreak should one occur. Joining Feedstuffs' Ann Hess in this episode to discuss the importance of controlling foreign animal disease in our nation's swine herd is Dr. Anna Forseth, Director of Animal Health for the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC). In her role, Anna is the liaison between the pork industry and the government on pre-harvest animal health and public health issues. We caught up with Anna at this week's National Pork Industry Forum. This episode is being brought to you by United Animal Health, a leader in animal health and nutrition. You can learn more about United Animal Health and how they are working to advance animal science worldwide by visiting the website at UnitedANH.comIf you would like to hear more conversations about some of the big issues affecting the livestock, poultry, grain and animal feed industries, subscribe to this podcast on your favorite podcast channel. For daily news, visit us at feedstuffs.com; nationalhogfarmer.com and beefmagazine.com 

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The Max streaming platform will say goodbye to a whole bunch of geeky properties at the end of the year. Plus, we talk about the trailer for Furiosa, our reaction to the promotional images for the Fallout TV series, and we don't have many nice things to say about the preview for the upcoming Ted streaming series. Plus more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Max streaming platform will say goodbye to a whole bunch of geeky properties at the end of the year. Plus, we talk about the trailer for Furiosa, our reaction to the promotional images for the Fallout TV series, and we don't have many nice things to say about the preview for the upcoming Ted streaming series. Plus more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Paul Noble and Joe Lynch discuss modernizing MRO using AI. Paul is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Verusen, a supply chain intelligence platform, purpose-built to help manufacturers streamline their MRO supply and materials management. About Paul Noble As Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Verusen, Paul Noble oversees the company's vision and strategic direction. He has extensive experience in the industrial supply chain and distribution space, as he was recognized as a Supply Chain Pros to Know by Supply and Demand Chain Executive in 2021, 2022, & 2023. Prior to founding Verusen, Noble spent over a decade with The Sherwin-Williams Company, where he specialized in supply chain/manufacturing and led its Eastern U.S. Industrial Distribution business unit. Noble graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in management and marketing from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee. About Verusen Verusen is a leading MRO Materials Intelligence provider focused on helping global manufacturers streamline their MRO supply and materials management strategy. Verusen utilizes advanced data science and artificial intelligence to harmonize disparate material data across multiple enterprise systems to provide complex supply chains with material truth for supply and inventory planning and procurement intelligence. This helps organizations reduce risk and tail spend, optimize working capital, and ensure production uptime to meet customer needs. The result is a foundation that organizations can trust to fuel digital transformation and support supply chain maturity initiatives. Headquartered in Atlanta, Verusen has been named one of Georgia's Top 10 Innovative Technology Companies. Key Takeaways: Modernizing MRO using AI Verusen is a leading provider of materials intelligence solutions that help companies improve their supply chain resilience and efficiency. Verusen is the leader in materials intelligence for the digitalization of the supply ecosystem. The company utilizes AI, data harmonization, and decision support to help companies achieve supply chain resiliency and improve bottom lines. Verusen provides configurable, scalable, and sustainable supply optimization for MRO, spare parts, and indirect materials. For manufacturers: Optimizes inventory and harmonizes data to reduce costs, improve visibility, and make better sourcing decisions. Minimizes unplanned production downtime by ensuring the right materials are in the right place at the right time. Reduces duplicate materials and centralizes inventory to improve efficiency and reduce costs. For suppliers and industrial distributors: Improves efficiency and accuracy by automating manual processes and addressing data variability. Increases sales and order volumes by reducing RFQ response time and identifying material candidates for VMI solutions. Grows market share by helping suppliers preemptively avoid RFQs and increase their share of wallet with customers. Learn More About Modernizing MRO using AI Paul on LinkedIn Verusen on LinkedIn Verusen website Twitter: @Verusen_AI Episode Sponsor: Wreaths Across America Wreaths Across America Radio - Wreaths Across America Episode Sponsor: Greenscreens.ai Greenscreens.ai's dynamic pricing infrastructure built to grow and protect margins. The Greenscreens.ai solution combines aggregated market data and customer data with advanced machine learning techniques to deliver short-term predictive freight market pricing specific to a company's individual buy and sell behavior. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a positive review, subscribe, and share it with your friends and colleagues. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast: Google, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Tunein, Podbean, Owltail, Libsyn, Overcast Check out The Logistics of Logistics on Youtube

Let's talk about the relationship between mindset and skill set and how, in particular circumstances, the skill set itself can lessen the need for mindset work. This episode isn't about stepping away from mindset work in general, but rather building a physical skill that you originally feel less confident around, and as the skill builds, it requires less lift in your mental conversations.    Tune in to hear: The relationship between mindset and action Overcoming the mental barrier of fear How to increase exposure to difficulty The power of mirroring and modeling your own self-talk   Connect with Whitney & Stephanie: captureyourconfidencepodcast@gmail.com   Stephanie IG: @stephanie_hanna_  The Other 85: https://theother85.net/  Whitney IG: @whitneyabraham  Whitney Website: https://www.whitneyabraham.com/

Welcome back to another episode of Vanguard Radio with host J. Richard Jones. In this episode, we speak with Theo Zafirakos, CISO Coach and Professional Services, Security Awareness Speaker for Fortra's Terranova Security. Theo is an experienced security leader and trusted advisor known for his expertise in security awareness strategy, governance, privacy, and cyber security. He collaborates with CISOs and security leaders globally, assisting them in identifying, evaluating, and managing security awareness risks. Prior to joining Terranova Security, Theo spent two decades at Canadian National Railway (CN) as the CISO, where he was responsible for the information security and governance strategy. He currently leads the Fortra's Terranova Security Professional Services team, which focuses on implementing and executing security awareness programs to achieve measurable results. Terranova Security is a valuable addition to Fortra's comprehensive cybersecurity portfolio, which aims to simplify the complex landscape with innovative solutions. Their risk-based campaigns and high-quality training content empower employees to understand critical practices like phishing and compliance. Customized options align with customer goals, strengthening long-term information security. Terranova fosters an inclusive workplace with equal gender representation and encourages diverse voices to drive innovative security awareness training. Today's conversation zeros in on the fact that a successful security awareness program should generate a security-aware organizational culture. In this episode: Why should your organization build a Security-Aware Culture? How to Spot a Security-Aware Cultural Shift in a Business? Why leaders need to understand employee cyber security awareness levels Why your organization should be concerned about Third-Party Risk Management And much more!

ReferencesWe considered the complexity of the machinery to excrete ammonium in the context of research on dietary protein and how high protein intake may increase glomerular pressure and contribute to progressive renal disease (many refer to this as the “Brenner hypothesis”). Dietary protein intake and the progressive nature of kidney disease: the role of hemodynamically mediated glomerular injury in the pathogenesis of progressive glomerular sclerosis in aging, renal ablation, and intrinsic renal diseaseA trial that studied low protein and progression of CKD The Effects of Dietary Protein Restriction and Blood-Pressure Control on the Progression of Chronic Renal Disease(and famously provided data for the MDRD eGFR equation A more accurate method to estimate glomerular filtration rate from serum creatinine: a new prediction equation. Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study GroupWe wondered about dietary recommendations in CKD. of note, this is best done in the DKD guidelines from KDIGO Executive summary of the 2020 KDIGO Diabetes Management in CKD Guideline: evidence-based advances in monitoring and treatment.Joel mentioned this study on red meat and risk of ESKD. Red Meat Intake and Risk of ESRDWe referenced the notion of a plant-based diet. This is an excellent review by Deborah Clegg and Kathleen Hill Gallant. Plant-Based Diets in CKD : Clinical Journal of the American Society of NephrologyHere's the review that Josh mentioned on how the kidney appears to sense pH Molecular mechanisms of acid-base sensing by the kidneyRemarkably, Dr. Dale Dubin put a prize in his ECG book Free Car Prize Hidden in Textbook Read the fine print: Student wins T-birdA review of the role of the kidney in DKA: Diabetic ketoacidosis: Role of the kidney in the acid-base homeostasis re-evaluatedJosh mentioned the effects of infusing large amounts of bicarbonate The effect of prolonged administration of large doses of sodium bicarbonate in man and this study on the respiratory response to a bicarbonate infusion: The Acute Effects In Man Of A Rapid Intravenous Infusion Of Hypertonic Sodium Bicarbonate Solution. Ii. Changes In Respiration And Output Of Carbon DioxideThis is the study of acute respiratory alkalosis in dogs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC293311/?page=1And this is the study of medical students who went to the High Alpine Research Station on the Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199105163242003Self explanatory! A group favorite! It Is Chloride Depletion Alkalosis, Not Contraction AlkalosisEffects of chloride and extracellular fluid volume on bicarbonate reabsorption along the nephron in metabolic alkalosis in the rat. Reassessment of the classical hypothesis of the pathogenesis of metabolic alkalosisA review of pendrin's role in volume homeostasis: The role of pendrin in blood pressure regulation | American Journal of Physiology-Renal PhysiologyInfusion of bicarbonate may lead to a decrease in respiratory stimulation but the shift of bicarbonate to the CSF may lag. Check out this review Neural Control of Breathing and CO2 Homeostasis and this classic paper Spinal-Fluid pH and Neurologic Symptoms in Systemic Acidosis.OutlineOutline: Chapter 11- Regulation of Acid-Base Balance- Introduction - Bicarb plus a proton in equilibrium with CO2 and water - Can be rearranged to HH - Importance of regulating pCO2 and HCO3 outside of this equation - Metabolism of carbs and fats results in the production of 15,000 mmol of CO2 per day - Metabolism of protein and other “substances” generates non-carbonic acids and bases - Mostly from sulfur containing methionine and cysteine - And cationic arginine and lysine - Hydrolysis of dietary phosphate that exists and H2PO4– - Source of base/alkali - Metabolism of an ionic amino acids - Glutamate and asparatate - Organic anions going through gluconeogenesis - Glutamate, Citrate and lactate - Net effect on a normal western diet 50-100 mEq of H+ per day - Homeostatic response to these acid-base loads has three stages: - Chemical buffering - Changes in ventilation - Changes in H+ excretion - Example of H2SO4 from oxidation of sulfur containing AA - Drop in bicarb will stimulate renal acid secretion - Nice table of normal cid-base values, arterial and venous- Great 6 bullet points of acid-base on page 328 - Kidneys must excrete 50-100 of non-carbonic acid daily - This occurs by H secretion, but mechanisms change by area of nephron - Not excreted as free H+ due to minimal urine pH being equivalent to 0.05 mmol/L - No H+ can be excreted until virtually all of th filtered bicarb is reabsorbed - Secreted H+ must bind buffers (phosphate, NH3, cr) - PH is main stimulus for H secretion, though K, aldo and volume can affect this.- Renal Hydrogen excretion - Critical to understand that loss of bicarb is like addition of hydrogen to the body - So all bicarb must be reabsorbed before dietary H load can be secreted - GFR of 125 and bicarb of 24 results in 4300 mEq of bicarb to be reabsorbed daily - Reabsorption of bicarb and secretion of H involve H secretion from tubular cells into the lumen. - Thee initial points need to be emphasized - Secreted H+ ion are generated from dissociation of H2O - Also creates OH ion - Which combine with CO2 to form HCO3 with the help of zinc containing intracellular carbonic anhydrase. - This is how the secretion of H+ which creates an OH ultimately produces HCO3 - Different mechanisms for proximal and distal acidification - NET ACID EXCRETION - Free H+ is negligible - So net H+ is TA + NH4 – HCO3 loss - Unusually equal to net H+ load, 50-100 mEq/day - Can bump up to 300 mEq/day if acid production is increased - Net acid excretion can go negative following a bicarb or citrate load - Proximal Acidification - Na-H antiporter (or exchanger) in luminal membrane - Basolateral membrane has a 3 HCO3 Na cotransporter - This is electrogenic with 3 anions going out and only one cation - The Na-H antiporter also works in the thick ascending limb of LOH - How about this, there is also a H-ATPase just like found in the intercalated cells in the proximal tubule and is responsible for about a third of H secretion - And similarly there is also. HCO3 Cl exchanger (pendrin-like) in the proximal tubule - Footnote says the Na- 3HCO3 cotransporter (which moves sodium against chemical gradient NS uses negative charge inside cell to power it) is important for sensing acid-base changes in the cell. - Distal acidification - Occurs in intercalated cells of of cortical and medullary collecting tubule - Three main characteristics - H secretion via active secretory pumps in the luminal membrane - Both H-ATPase and H-K ATPase - H- K ATPase is an exchange pump, k reabsorption - H-K exchange may be more important in hypokalemia rather than in acid-base balance - Whole paragraph on how a Na-H exchanger couldn't work because the gradient that H has to be pumped up is too big. - H-ATPase work like vasopressin with premise H-ATPase sitting on endocarditis vesicles a=which are then inserted into the membrane. Alkalosis causes them to be recycled out of the membrane. - H secretory cells do not transport Na since they have few luminal Na channels, but are assisted by the lumen negative tubule from eNaC. - Minimizes back diffusion of H+ and promotes bicarb resorption - Bicarbonate leaves the cell through HCO3-Cl exchanger which uses the low intracellular Cl concentration to power this process. - Same molecule is found on RBC where it is called band 3 protein - Figure 11-5 is interesting - Bicarbonate resorption - 90% in the first 1-22 mm of the proximal tubule (how long is the proximal tubule?) - Lots of Na-H exchangers and I handed permeability to HCO3 (permeability where?) - Last 10% happens distally mostly TAL LOH via Na-H exchange - And the last little bit int he outer medullary collecting duct. - Carbonic anhydrase and disequilibrium pH - CA plays central role in HCO3 reabsorption - After H is secreted in the proximal tubule it combines with HCO# to form carbonic acid. CA then dehydrates it to CO2 and H2O. (Step 2) - Constantly moving carbonic acid to CO2 and H2O keeps hydrogen combining with HCO3 since the product is rapidly consumed. - This can be demonstrated by the minimal fall in luminal pH - That is important so there is not a luminal gradient for H to overcome in the Na-H exchanger (this is why we need a H-ATPase later) - CA inhibitors that are limited tot he extracellular compartment can impair HCO3 reabsorption by 80%. - CA is found in S1, S2 but not S3 segment. See consequence in figure 11-6. - The disequilibrium comes from areas where there is no CA, the HH formula falls down because one of the assumptions of that formula is that H2CO3 (carbonic acid) is a transient actor, but without CA it is not and can accumulate, so the pKa is not 6.1. - Bicarbonate secretion - Type B intercalated cells - H-ATPase polarity reversed - HCO3 Cl exchanger faces the apical rather than basolateral membrane- Titratable acidity - Weak acids are filtered at the glom and act as buffers in the urine. - HPO4 has PKA of 6.8 making it ideal - Creatinine (pKa 4.97) and uric acid (pKa 5.75) also contribute - Under normal cinditions TA buffers 10-40 mEa of H per day - Does an example of HPO4(2-):H2PO4 (1-) which exists 4:1 at pH of 7.4 (glomerular filtrate) - So for 50 mEq of Phos 40 is HPO4 and 10 is H2PO4 - When pH drops to 6.8 then the ratio is 1:1 so for 50 - So the 50 mEq is 25 and 25, so this buffered an additional 15 mEq of H while the free H+ concentration increased from 40 to 160 nanomol/L so over 99.99% of secreted H was buffered - When pH drops to 4.8 ratio is 1:100 so almost all 50 mEq of phos is H2PO4 and 39.5 mEq of H are buffered. - Acid loading decreases phosphate reabsorption so more is there to act as TA. - Decreases activity of Na-phosphate cotransporter - DKA provides a novel weak acid/buffer beta-hydroxybutyrate (pKa 4.8) which buffers significant amount of acid (50 mEq/d).- Ammonium Excretion - Ability to excrete H+ as ammonium ions adds an important amount of flexibility to renal acid-base regulation - NH3 and NH4 production and excretion can be varied according to physiologic need. - Starts with NH3 production in tubular cells - NH3, since it is neutral then diffuses into the tubule where it is acidified by the low pH to NH4+ - NH4+ is ionized and cannot cross back into the tubule cells(it is trapped in the tubular fluid) - This is important for it acting as an important buffer eve though the pKa is 9.0 - At pH of 6.0 the ratio of NH3 to NH4 is 1:1000 - As the neutral NH3 is converted to NH4 more NH3 from theintracellular compartment flows into the tubular fluid replacing the lost NH3. Rinse wash repeat. - This is an over simplification and that there are threemajor steps - NH4 is produced in early proximal tubular cells - Luminal NH4 is partially reabsorbed in the TAL and theNH3 is then recycled within the renal medulla - The medullary interstitial NH3 reaches highconcentrations that allow NH3 to diffuse into the tubular lumen in the medullary collecting tubule where it is trapped as NH4 by secreted H+ - NH4 production from Glutamine which converts to NH4 and glutamate - Glutamate is converted to alpha-ketoglutarate - Alpha ketoglutarate is converted to 2 HCO3 ions - HCO3 sent to systemic circulation by Na-3 HCO3 transporter - NH4 then secreted via Na-H exchanger into the lumen - NH4 is then reabsorbed by NaK2Cl transporter in TAL - NH4 substitutes for K - Once reabsorbed the higher intracellular pH causes NH4 to convert to NH3 and the H that is removed is secreted through Na-H exchanger to scavenge the last of the filtered bicarb. - NH3 diffuses out of the tubular cells into the interstitium - NH4 reabsorption in the TAL is suppressed by hyperkalemia and stimulated by chronic metabolic acidosis - NH4 recycling promotes acid clearance - The collecting tubule has a very low NH3 concentration - This promotes diffusion of NH3 into the collecting duct - NH3 that goes there is rapidly converted to NH4 allowing more NH3 to diffuse in. - Response to changes in pH - Increased ammonium excretion with two processes - Increased proximal NH4 production - This is delayed 24 hours to 2-3 days depending on which enzyme you look at - Decreased urine pH increases diffusion of ammonia into the MCD - Occurs with in hours of an acid load - Peak ammonium excretion takes 5-6 days! (Fig 11-10) - Glutamine is picked up from tubular fluid but with acidosis get Na dependent peritublar capillary glutamine scavenging too - Glutamine metabolism is pH dependent with increase with academia and decrease with alkalemia - NH4 excretion can go from 30-40 mEq/day to > 300 with severe metabolic acidosis (38 NaBicarb tabs) - Says each NH4 produces equimolar generation of HCO3 but I thought it was two bicarb for every alpha ketoglutarate?- The importance of urine pH - Though the total amount of hydrogren cleared by urine pH is insignificant, an acidic urine pH is essential for driving the reactions of TA and NH4 forward.- Regulation of renal hydrogen excretion - Net acid excretion vary inverse with extracellular pH - Academia triggers proximal and distal acidification - Proximally this: - Increased Na-H exchange - Increased luminal H-ATPase activity - Increased Na:3HCO3 cotransporter on the basolateral membrane - Increased NH4 production from glutamine - In the collecting tubules - Increased H-ATPase - Reduction of tubular pH promotes diffusion of NH3 which gets converted to NH4…ION TRAPPING - Extracellular pH affects net acid excretion through its affect on intracellular pH - This happens directly with respiratory disorders due to movement of CO2 through the lipid bilayer - In metabolic disorders a low extracellular bicarb with cause bicarb to diffuse out of the cell passively, this lowers intracellular pH - If you manipulate both low pCO2 and low Bicarb to keep pH stable there will be no change in the intracellular pH and there is no change in renal handling of acid. It is intracellular pH dependent - Metabolic acidosis - Ramps up net acid secretion - Starts within 24 hours and peaks after 5-6 days - Increase net secretion comes from NH4 - Phosphate is generally limited by diet - in DKA titratable acid can be ramped up - Metabolic alkalosis - Alkaline extracellular pH - Increased bicarb excretion - Decrease reabsorption - HCO3 secretion (pendrin) in cortical collecting tubule - Occurs in cortical intercalated cells able to insert H-ATPase in basolateral cells (rather than luminal membrane) - Normal subjects are able to secrete 1000 mmol/day of bicarb - Maintenance of metabolic alkalosis requires a defect which forces the renal resorption of bicarb - This can be chloride/volume deficiency - Hypokalemia - Hyperaldosteronism - Respiratory acidosis and alkalosis - PCO2 via its effect on intracellular pH is an important determinant of renal acid handling - Ratios he uses: - 3.5 per 10 for respiratory acidosis - 5 per 10 for respiratory alkalosis - Interesting paragraph contrasting the response to chronic metabolic acidosis vs chronic respiratory acidosis - Less urinary ammonium in respiratory acidosis - Major differences in proximal tubule cell pH - In metabolic acidosis there is decreased bicarb load so less to be reabsorbed proximally - In respiratory acidosis the increased serum bicarb increases the amount of bicarb that must be reabsorbed proximally - The increased activity of Na-H antiporter returns tubular cell pH to normal and prevents it from creating increased urinary ammonium - Mentions that weirdly more mRNA for H-Na antiporter in metabolic acidosis than in respiratory acidosis - Net hydrogen excretion varies with effective circulating volume - Starts with bicarb infusions - Normally Tm at 26 - But if you volume deplete the patient with diuretics first this increases to 35+ - Four factors explain this increased Tm for bicarb with volume deficiency - Reduced GFR - Activation of RAAS - Ang2 stim H-Na antiporter proximally - Ang2 also stimulates Na-3HCO3 cotransporter on basolateral membrane - Aldosterone stimulates H-ATPase in distal nephron - ALdo stimulates Cl HCO3 exchanger on basolateral membrane - Aldo stimulates eNaC producing tubular lumen negative charge to allow H secretion to occur and prevents back diffusion - Hypochloremia - Increases H secretion by both Na-dependent and Na-independent methods - If Na is 140 and Cl is 115, only 115 of Na can be reabsorbed as NaCl, the remainder must be reabsorbed with HCO3 or associated with secretion of K or H to maintained electro neutrality - This is enhanced with hypochloridemia - Concurrent hypokalemia - Changes in K lead to trans cellular shifts that affect inctracellular pH - Hypokalemia causes K out, H in and in the tubular cell the cell acts if there is systemic acidosis and increases H secretion (and bicarbonate resorption) - PTH - Decreases proximal HCO3 resorption - Primary HyperCard as cause of type 2 RTA - Does acidosis stim PTH or does PTH stim net acid excretion

In this podcast, Dr. Rodney and Karen talk about the role of essential oils to your overall health and longevity. Your need both Omega-6 and Omega-3s. This time we focus on the Omega-3s.Here's what the Omega-3s will do for you:Provide support for a strong heartOmega-3s promote nerve transmission which helps the heart muscles as it fires off. Promotes a healthy brainThe Omega-3s promote a better mood and overall brain health because they allow the neurons to get adequate nutrition. Many do not realize that your brain is 60% fat so it is dangerous to go on a low-fat diet. Prevents maculardegenerationMany are unaware of how important the moisture in your eyes is to maintain healthy vision and nerve transmission. Adequate Omega-3s help to maintain the moisture level in your eyes as well as the transmission of information to the optical nerves.Minimizes joint painResearch has shown the increasing your level of Omega-3s rivals taking over-the-counter pain medication for relief of joint and back pain. The good news is that the Omega-3s only have good results rather than giving you leaky gut.Encourages proper development of the baby during pregnancyIt is critically important for pregnant women to have enough Omega-3s to establish a healthy foundation in the development of th baby's eyes, brain and nervous system.Supports a strong immune systemOmega-3s help with the internal repair system when your immune system is under stress.Nourishes skin, hair and nailsOmega-3s protect against age-related damage to these three components. It's a healthy way to look younger than your biological age.Assists in recovering from exerciseOmega-3s support healthy lung function and enhance blood flow to different part of your body in order to recover quickly from exertion.Supports digestive healthOmega-3s protect against free radicals to keep your gastrointestinal and digestive systems in top shapeHow much Omega-3s should you be taking?500 mg to avoid deficiency1 gram for proactive support2-4 grams for high intensity supportYour next step needs to be to call us at 972-802-8812 to set up an appointment to get a simple blood test to measure your Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio.You'll be glad you did!!!!!Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/stanceforhealthFollow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stancechiropracticOur website is: https://www.stancechiropractic.com/podcastPlease rate us and write a review!

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How To Minimize Procrastination By Using a Command Center How can get more done? How can I be more efficient? How do I stop wasting time? How do I decide what to work on at any given time? I get some variation of these questions on every single annual survey that I put out. So […] The post Episode 153: How a Command Center Minimizes Procrastination and Distraction appeared first on Amanda Warfield.

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ReferencesWe considered the effect of a high protein diet and potential metabolic acidosis on kidney function. This review is of interest by Donald Wesson, a champion for addressing this issue and limiting animal protein: Mechanisms of Metabolic Acidosis-Induced Kidney Injury in Chronic Kidney DiseaseHostetter explored the effect of a high protein diet in the remnant kidney model with 1 ¾ nephrectomy. Rats with reduced dietary acid load (by bicarbonate supplementation) had less tubular damage. Chronic effects of dietary protein in the rat with intact and reduced renal massWesson explored treatment of metabolic acidosis in humans with stage 3 CKD in this study. Treatment of metabolic acidosis in patients with stage 3 chronic kidney disease with fruits and vegetables or oral bicarbonate reduces urine angiotensinogen and preserves glomerular filtration rateIn addition to the effect of metabolic acidosis from a diet high in animal protein, this diet also leads to hyperfiltration. This was demonstrated in normal subjects; ingesting a protein diet had a significantly higher creatinine clearance than a comparable group of normal subjects ingesting a vegetarian diet. Renal functional reserve in humans: Effect of protein intake on glomerular filtration rate.This finding has been implicated in Brenner's theory regarding hyperfiltration: The hyperfiltration theory: a paradigm shift in nephrologyOne of multiple publications from Dr. Nimrat Goraya whom Joel mentioned in the voice over: Dietary Protein as Kidney Protection: Quality or Quantity?We wondered about the time course in buffering a high protein meal (and its subsequent acid load on ventilation) and Amy found this report:Effect of Protein Intake on Ventilatory Drive | Anesthesiology | American Society of Anesthesiologists Roger mentioned that the need for acetate to balance the acid from amino acids in parenteral nutrition was identified in pediatrics perhaps because infants may have reduced ability to generate acid. Randomised controlled trial of acetate in preterm neonates receiving parenteral nutrition - PMCHe also recommended an excellent review on the complications of parenteral nutrition by Knochel https://www.kidney-international.org/action/showPdf?pii=S0085-2538%2815%2933384-6 which explained that when the infused amino acids disproportionately include cationic amino acids, metabolism led to H+ production. This is typically mitigated by preparing a solution that is balanced by acetate. Amy mentioned this study that explored the effect of protein intake on ventilation: Effect of Protein Intake on Ventilatory Drive | Anesthesiology | American Society of AnesthesiologistsAnna and Amy reminisced about a Skeleton Key Group Case from the renal fellow network Skeleton Key Group: Electrolyte Case #7JC wondered about isolated defects in the proximal tubule and an example is found here: Mutations in SLC4A4 cause permanent isolated proximal renal tubular acidosis with ocular abnormalitiesAnna's Voiceover re: Gastric neobladder → metabolic alkalosis and yes, dysuria. The physiology of gastrocystoplasty: once a stomach, always a stomach but not as common as you might think Gastrocystoplasty: long-term complications in 22 patientsSjögren's syndrome has been associated with acquired distal RTA and in some cases, an absence of the H+ ATPase, presumably from autoantibodies to this transporter. Here's a case report: Absence of H(+)-ATPase in cortical collecting tubules of a patient with Sjogren's syndrome and distal renal tubular acidosisCan't get enough disequilibrium pH? Check this out- Spontaneous luminal disequilibrium pH in S3 proximal tubules. Role in ammonia and bicarbonate transport.Acetazolamide secretion was studied in this report Concentration-dependent tubular secretion of acetazolamide and its inhibition by salicylic acid in the isolated perfused rat kidney. | Drug Metabolism & DispositionIn this excellent review, David Goldfarb tackles the challenging case of a A Woman with Recurrent Calcium Phosphate Kidney Stones (spoiler alert, many of these patients have incomplete distal RTA and this problem is hard to treat). Molecular mechanisms of renal ammonia transport excellent review from David Winer and Lee Hamm. OutlineOutline: Chapter 11- Regulation of Acid-Base Balance- Introduction - Bicarb plus a proton in equilibrium with CO2 and water - Can be rearranged to HH - Importance of regulating pCO2 and HCO3 outside of this equation - Metabolism of carbs and fats results in the production of 15,000 mmol of CO2 per day - Metabolism of protein and other “substances” generates non-carbonic acids and bases - Mostly from sulfur containing methionine and cysteine - And cationic arginine and lysine - Hydrolysis of dietary phosphate that exists and H2PO4– - Source of base/alkali - Metabolism of an ionic amino acids - Glutamate and asparatate - Organic anions going through gluconeogenesis - Glutamate, Citrate and lactate - Net effect on a normal western diet 50-100 mEq of H+ per day - Homeostatic response to these acid-base loads has three stages: - Chemical buffering - Changes in ventilation - Changes in H+ excretion - Example of H2SO4 from oxidation of sulfur containing AA - Drop in bicarb will stimulate renal acid secretion - Nice table of normal cid-base values, arterial and venous- Great 6 bullet points of acid-base on page 328 - Kidneys must excrete 50-100 of non-carbonic acid daily - This occurs by H secretion, but mechanisms change by area of nephron - Not excreted as free H+ due to minimal urine pH being equivalent to 0.05 mmol/L - No H+ can be excreted until virtually all of th filtered bicarb is reabsorbed - Secreted H+ must bind buffers (phosphate, NH3, cr) - PH is main stimulus for H secretion, though K, aldo and volume can affect this.- Renal Hydrogen excretion - Critical to understand that loss of bicarb is like addition of hydrogen to the body - So all bicarb must be reabsorbed before dietary H load can be secreted - GFR of 125 and bicarb of 24 results in 4300 mEq of bicarb to be reabsorbed daily - Reabsorption of bicarb and secretion of H involve H secretion from tubular cells into the lumen. - Thee initial points need to be emphasized - Secreted H+ ion are generated from dissociation of H2O - Also creates OH ion - Which combine with CO2 to form HCO3 with the help of zinc containing intracellular carbonic anhydrase. - This is how the secretion of H+ which creates an OH ultimately produces HCO3 - Different mechanisms for proximal and distal acidification - NET ACID EXCRETION - Free H+ is negligible - So net H+ is TA + NH4 – HCO3 loss - Unusually equal to net H+ load, 50-100 mEq/day - Can bump up to 300 mEq/day if acid production is increased - Net acid excretion can go negative following a bicarb or citrate load - Proximal Acidification - Na-H antiporter (or exchanger) in luminal membrane - Basolateral membrane has a 3 HCO3 Na cotransporter - This is electrogenic with 3 anions going out and only one cation - The Na-H antiporter also works in the thick ascending limb of LOH - How about this, there is also a H-ATPase just like found in the intercalated cells in the proximal tubule and is responsible for about a third of H secretion - And similarly there is also. HCO3 Cl exchanger (pendrin-like) in the proximal tubule - Footnote says the Na- 3HCO3 cotransporter (which moves sodium against chemical gradient NS uses negative charge inside cell to power it) is important for sensing acid-base changes in the cell. - Distal acidification - Occurs in intercalated cells of of cortical and medullary collecting tubule - Three main characteristics - H secretion via active secretory pumps in the luminal membrane - Both H-ATPase and H-K ATPase - H- K ATPase is an exchange pump, k reabsorption - H-K exchange may be more important in hypokalemia rather than in acid-base balance - Whole paragraph on how a Na-H exchanger couldn't work because the gradient that H has to be pumped up is too big. - H-ATPase work like vasopressin with premise H-ATPase sitting on endocarditis vesicles a=which are then inserted into the membrane. Alkalosis causes them to be recycled out of the membrane. - H secretory cells do not transport Na since they have few luminal Na channels, but are assisted by the lumen negative tubule from eNaC. - Minimizes back diffusion of H+ and promotes bicarb resorption - Bicarbonate leaves the cell through HCO3-Cl exchanger which uses the low intracellular Cl concentration to power this process. - Same molecule is found on RBC where it is called band 3 protein - Figure 11-5 is interesting - Bicarbonate resorption - 90% in the first 1-22 mm of the proximal tubule (how long is the proximal tubule?) - Lots of Na-H exchangers and I handed permeability to HCO3 (permeability where?) - Last 10% happens distally mostly TAL LOH via Na-H exchange - And the last little bit int he outer medullary collecting duct. - Carbonic anhydrase and disequilibrium pH - CA plays central role in HCO3 reabsorption - After H is secreted in the proximal tubule it combines with HCO# to form carbonic acid. CA then dehydrates it to CO2 and H2O. (Step 2) - Constantly moving carbonic acid to CO2 and H2O keeps hydrogen combining with HCO3 since the product is rapidly consumed. - This can be demonstrated by the minimal fall in luminal pH - That is important so there is not a luminal gradient for H to overcome in the Na-H exchanger (this is why we need a H-ATPase later) - CA inhibitors that are limited tot he extracellular compartment can impair HCO3 reabsorption by 80%. - CA is found in S1, S2 but not S3 segment. See consequence in figure 11-6. - The disequilibrium comes from areas where there is no CA, the HH formula falls down because one of the assumptions of that formula is that H2CO3 (carbonic acid) is a transient actor, but without CA it is not and can accumulate, so the pKa is not 6.1. - Bicarbonate secretion - Type B intercalated cells - H-ATPase polarity reversed - HCO3 Cl exchanger faces the apical rather than basolateral membrane- Titratable acidity - Weak acids are filtered at the glom and act as buffers in the urine. - HPO4 has PKA of 6.8 making it ideal - Creatinine (pKa 4.97) and uric acid (pKa 5.75) also contribute - Under normal cinditions TA buffers 10-40 mEa of H per day - Does an example of HPO4(2-):H2PO4 (1-) which exists 4:1 at pH of 7.4 (glomerular filtrate) - So for 50 mEq of Phos 40 is HPO4 and 10 is H2PO4 - When pH drops to 6.8 then the ratio is 1:1 so for 50 - So the 50 mEq is 25 and 25, so this buffered an additional 15 mEq of H while the free H+ concentration increased from 40 to 160 nanomol/L so over 99.99% of secreted H was buffered - When pH drops to 4.8 ratio is 1:100 so almost all 50 mEq of phos is H2PO4 and 39.5 mEq of H are buffered. - Acid loading decreases phosphate reabsorption so more is there to act as TA. - Decreases activity of Na-phosphate cotransporter - DKA provides a novel weak acid/buffer beta-hydroxybutyrate (pKa 4.8) which buffers significant amount of acid (50 mEq/d).- Ammonium Excretion - Ability to excrete H+ as ammonium ions adds an important amount of flexibility to renal acid-base regulation - NH3 and NH4 production and excretion can be varied according to physiologic need. - Starts with NH3 production in tubular cells - NH3, since it is neutral then diffuses into the tubule where it is acidified by the low pH to NH4+ - NH4+ is ionized and cannot cross back into the tubule cells(it is trapped in the tubular fluid) - This is important for it acting as an important buffer eve though the pKa is 9.0 - At pH of 6.0 the ratio of NH3 to NH4 is 1:1000 - As the neutral NH3 is converted to NH4 more NH3 from theintracellular compartment flows into the tubular fluid replacing the lost NH3. Rinse wash repeat. - This is an over simplification and that there are threemajor steps - NH4 is produced in early proximal tubular cells - Luminal NH4 is partially reabsorbed in the TAL and theNH3 is then recycled within the renal medulla - The medullary interstitial NH3 reaches highconcentrations that allow NH3 to diffuse into the tubular lumen in the medullary collecting tubule where it is trapped as NH4 by secreted H+ - NH4 production from Glutamine which converts to NH4 and glutamate - Glutamate is converted to alpha-ketoglutarate - Alpha ketoglutarate is converted to 2 HCO3 ions - HCO3 sent to systemic circulation by Na-3 HCO3 transporter - NH4 then secreted via Na-H exchanger into the lumen - NH4 is then reabsorbed by NaK2Cl transporter in TAL - NH4 substitutes for K - Once reabsorbed the higher intracellular pH causes NH4 to convert to NH3 and the H that is removed is secreted through Na-H exchanger to scavenge the last of the filtered bicarb. - NH3 diffuses out of the tubular cells into the interstitium - NH4 reabsorption in the TAL is suppressed by hyperkalemia and stimulated by chronic metabolic acidosis - NH4 recycling promotes acid clearance - The collecting tubule has a very low NH3 concentration - This promotes diffusion of NH3 into the collecting duct - NH3 that goes there is rapidly converted to NH4 allowing more NH3 to diffuse in. - Response to changes in pH - Increased ammonium excretion with two processes - Increased proximal NH4 production - This is delayed 24 hours to 2-3 days depending on which enzyme you look at - Decreased urine pH increases diffusion of ammonia into the MCD - Occurs with in hours of an acid load - Peak ammonium excretion takes 5-6 days! (Fig 11-10) - Glutamine is picked up from tubular fluid but with acidosis get Na dependent peritublar capillary glutamine scavenging too - Glutamine metabolism is pH dependent with increase with academia and decrease with alkalemia - NH4 excretion can go from 30-40 mEq/day to > 300 with severe metabolic acidosis (38 NaBicarb tabs) - Says each NH4 produces equimolar generation of HCO3 but I thought it was two bicarb for every alpha ketoglutarate?- The importance of urine pH - Though the total amount of hydrogren cleared by urine pH is insignificant, an acidic urine pH is essential for driving the reactions of TA and NH4 forward.- Regulation of renal hydrogen excretion - Net acid excretion vary inverse with extracellular pH - Academia triggers proximal and distal acidification - Proximally this: - Increased Na-H exchange - Increased luminal H-ATPase activity - Increased Na:3HCO3 cotransporter on the basolateral membrane - Increased NH4 production from glutamine - In the collecting tubules - Increased H-ATPase - Reduction of tubular pH promotes diffusion of NH3 which gets converted to NH4…ION TRAPPING - Extracellular pH affects net acid excretion through its affect on intracellular pH - This happens directly with respiratory disorders due to movement of CO2 through the lipid bilayer - In metabolic disorders a low extracellular bicarb with cause bicarb to diffuse out of the cell passively, this lowers intracellular pH - If you manipulate both low pCO2 and low Bicarb to keep pH stable there will be no change in the intracellular pH and there is no change in renal handling of acid. It is intracellular pH dependent - Metabolic acidosis - Ramps up net acid secretion - Starts within 24 hours and peaks after 5-6 days - Increase net secretion comes from NH4 - Phosphate is generally limited by diet - in DKA titratable acid can be ramped up - Metabolic alkalosis - Alkaline extracellular pH - Increased bicarb excretion - Decrease reabsorption - HCO3 secretion (pendrin) in cortical collecting tubule - Occurs in cortical intercalated cells able to insert H-ATPase in basolateral cells (rather than luminal membrane) - Normal subjects are able to secrete 1000 mmol/day of bicarb - Maintenance of metabolic alkalosis requires a defect which forces the renal resorption of bicarb - This can be chloride/volume deficiency - Hypokalemia - Hyperaldosteronism - Respiratory acidosis and alkalosis - PCO2 via its effect on intracellular pH is an important determinant of renal acid handling - Ratios he uses: - 3.5 per 10 for respiratory acidosis - 5 per 10 for respiratory alkalosis - Interesting paragraph contrasting the response to chronic metabolic acidosis vs chronic respiratory acidosis - Less urinary ammonium in respiratory acidosis - Major differences in proximal tubule cell pH - In metabolic acidosis there is decreased bicarb load so less to be reabsorbed proximally - In respiratory acidosis the increased serum bicarb increases the amount of bicarb that must be reabsorbed proximally - The increased activity of Na-H antiporter returns tubular cell pH to normal and prevents it from creating increased urinary ammonium - Mentions that weirdly more mRNA for H-Na antiporter in metabolic acidosis than in respiratory acidosis - Net hydrogen excretion varies with effective circulating volume - Starts with bicarb infusions - Normally Tm at 26 - But if you volume deplete the patient with diuretics first this increases to 35+ - Four factors explain this increased Tm for bicarb with volume deficiency - Reduced GFR - Activation of RAAS - Ang2 stim H-Na antiporter proximally - Ang2 also stimulates Na-3HCO3 cotransporter on basolateral membrane - Aldosterone stimulates H-ATPase in distal nephron - ALdo stimulates Cl HCO3 exchanger on basolateral membrane - Aldo stimulates eNaC producing tubular lumen negative charge to allow H secretion to occur and prevents back diffusion - Hypochloremia - Increases H secretion by both Na-dependent and Na-independent methods - If Na is 140 and Cl is 115, only 115 of Na can be reabsorbed as NaCl, the remainder must be reabsorbed with HCO3 or associated with secretion of K or H to maintained electro neutrality - This is enhanced with hypochloridemia - Concurrent hypokalemia - Changes in K lead to trans cellular shifts that affect inctracellular pH - Hypokalemia causes K out, H in and in the tubular cell the cell acts if there is systemic acidosis and increases H secretion (and bicarbonate resorption) - PTH - Decreases proximal HCO3 resorption - Primary HyperCard as cause of type 2 RTA - Does acidosis stim PTH or does PTH stim net acid excretion

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About RobRob Zuber is a 20-year veteran of software startups; a four-time founder, three-time CTO. Since joining CircleCI, Rob has seen the company through its Series B, Series C, and Series D funding and delivered on product innovation at scale. Rob leads a team of 150+ engineers who are distributed around the globe.Prior to CircleCI, Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Distiller, a continuous integration and deployment platform for mobile applications acquired by CircleCI in 2014. Before that, he cofounded Copious an online social marketplace. Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Yoohoot, a technology company that enabled local businesses to connect with nearby consumers, which was acquired by Appconomy in 2011.Links: Twitter: @z00b LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robzuber/ Personal site: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/rob-zuber#section-overview Company site: www.circleci.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host cloud economist, 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: If you asked me to rank which cloud provider has the best developer experience, I'd be hard-pressed to choose a platform that isn't Google Cloud. Their developer experience is unparalleled and, in the early stages of building something great, that translates directly into velocity. 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Pinecone provides the cloud infrastructure that makes this easy, fast, and scalable. Thanks to my friends at Pinecone for sponsoring this episode. Visit Pinecone.io to understand more.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. I'm joined this week by Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI. Rob, welcome to the show.Rob: Thanks. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.Corey: It really is, isn't it? So you've been doing the CTO dance, for lack of a better term, at CircleCI for about five, six years now at this point?Rob: Yeah, that's right. I joined five and a half years ago. I actually came in through an acquisition. We were building a CI/CD platform for mobile, iOS specifically, and there were just a few of us. I came in an engineering role, but within, I think a year, had taken over the CTO role and have been doing that since.Corey: For those of us who've been living under a rock and recording podcasts, CI/CD or Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery has gone through a bit of, shall we say, evolution since the term first showed up. My first exposure to it many moons ago was back when Jenkins was still called Hudson, and it was the box that you ran that it would wait for some event to happen, whether it was the passing of time, a commit to a particular branch, someone clicked a button, and then it would run a series of scripts, which sort of lent itself to the idea of the hacker news anthem, "That doesn't look hard. I can build that in a weekend." Now, we've seen a bit of growth in that space of not just, I guess the systems you can run yourselves, but also a lot of the SaaS offerings around this. That's the, I guess, the morons journey from my perspective to path through CI/CD. That's almost certainly lacking nuance. What is it, I guess in the real world with adults talking about it?Rob: Yeah, so I think it's a good perspective, or it's a good description of the perspective that many people have. Many people enter into this feeling that way. I think, specifically when you talk about cloud providers in CircleCI, we do have an on-prem offering behind the firewall. No one really runs anything on-prem anymore. But we have an offering for that market, but the real leverage is for folks that can use our stuff, multi-tenant SaaS cloud offering. Because, ultimately it's true. Many people have start with something simple from a code based perspective, right? I'm starting out, I've got a small team. We have a pretty simple project, maybe a little monolith Ruby on rails, something like that. Actually, I think in the time of the start of CircleCI. Probably not too many people kick off the rails monolith these days because if you're not using Kubernetes and Docker, then you're probably not doing it right.Corey: So, the Kubernetes and Docker people tell us?Rob: Yeah, exactly. They will proudly tell you that. We'll come back around to that point if we want to, but so you have simple project and you have simple CI, right? You may just have a simple script that you're putting in a Jenkins box or something like that, but what ultimately ends up happening is it gets complicated, and as it gets complicated, it becomes a bigger and bigger distraction from the thing that you're really trying to do, right? You're trying to build a business to ... I don't know, to do ride hailing, to do scooter sharing, what's big these days. You might be trying to do any of the ...Corey: Oh, my project is Twitter for pets. We're revolutionizing the world of pet communication.Rob: Right. And do you want to spend your time working on pet communication or on CI/CD, right? CI/CD is a thing that we understand very well, we spend our time on it every day, we think about some of the depths of it, which we can go into in a second. One of the things that gets complicated, amongst others, is just scale. So you build a big team, you have multiple projects and you have that one box under your desk where you said, "Oh, it's not that hard to build CI/CD. Now, everybody's waiting for their stuff to run because someone else got in there before them and you're thinking, okay, well how do I buy ... maybe you're not buying more boxes, you're building out something in a cloud provider and then you're worrying about auto scaling because it starts to cost you too much to run those boxes, and how do you respond to the amount of load that you have on any given day?Because you're crunching for a deadline versus everybody's taken a week off. Then, you want to get your build done as quickly as possible. So you start figuring out how to paralyze the work and spread it across those machines. The list goes on and on. This is the reality that everyone runs into as they scale their work. We do that for you. While it seems simple and ... I said I came in through an acquisition, we were building CI/CD for iOS, and I was that person. I said, "This seems really simple. We should build it and put it in the market." It didn't take us very long to get that first version to build, and it had to be generic to support many different types of customers and their particular builds.It was a small start but we started to run into the same problems, and then of course as a business, we ran into the problem of getting access to customers and all those things and that's why we joined CircleCI and that became what is now our iOS offering. But there is a lot of value that you can get quickly, to your point, but then you start focusing time and energy on that. I often refer to it, others in the industry refer to these sorts of things as undifferentiated heavy lifting. Something that becomes big and complex over time and is not the core of your business. Then as you start to invest in it, as we invest in it, then we build capabilities that most people wouldn't bother to build when they write that first bash script off a trigger or whenever, around helping you get your project set up, handling the connection into hooks, handling authentication so that different users only have access to the code they should have access to, maybe isolating access to production secrets, for example, if you're doing deploy.The kinds of things that keep coming up over and over in CI/CD that people don't think about on that first pass but ended up hunting them down the road.Corey: What do you think that people tend to misunderstand the most about CI/CD as you take a look at that throughout the ecosystem? From my perspective, when it was a box that you ran, behind the firewall as you say, the problem was is that everyone talked about, "Oh yes, we use cattle, not pets, except the box that does the builds. Of course, that box has a bunch of hand-built stuff on it that's impossible to replicate. It has extraordinary permissions into production environments and can do horrifying things, and it was always the star of various security finding reports. There are a number of us who came up from an operation side viewing CI/CD as, in some ways, a liability, which I understand is a very biased and one sided perspective. But going beyond that, what are people missing? What are they not seeing about the CI/CD landscape?Rob: One thing that I think is really interesting there, well, one thing you call that was just resiliency, right? We think about that in the way that we operate that system. We have a world of cattle because we've managed to think about that as a true offering. So, as you scale and you start to think, "Oh, how do I make this resilient inside my operation?" That's going to become a challenge that you face. The other thing that I think about that I've noticed over the years is, I want to call it division of labor or division of responsibilities. Many of those single instance or even multi-instance self-managed CI/CD tools end up in a place where, past any size of team, honestly somebody needs to own it and manage it to make sure it's stable.The changes that you want to make as a developer are often tied to basically being managed by that administrator. To be a little clear, if I have a group responsible for running CI/CD and I want to start building a different type of code or a different project, and it requires a plugin or an extension to the CI/CD platform or CI/CD tool, then I need to probably file a ticket and wait for another department who is generally not super motivated to get my code out into production, to go make a change that they are going to evaluate and review and decide ... or maybe creates conflict with something somebody else is doing on that system. And then you say, "Oh well actually we can't have these co-installed so now we need two systems." It's that division of responsibilities. Whereas, having built a multi-tenant cloud offering, we could never have that. There is no world in which our customers say to us, "Hey, we want this plugin installed. Can you go do that for us?"Everything that is about how the development team thinks about their software and how they want their build to run, how they want their deploys to run, etc, needs to be in the hands of the developers, and everything that is about maintenance and operation and scale needs to be in our hands. It has created a very clear separation out of necessity, but one that even ... I mentioned that you can deploy CircleCI yourself and run it within a team, and in large organizations, that separation really helps them get leverage. Does that make sense?Corey: It really does. I think we're also seeing a change in perspective around resiliency and how this works. I once worked at a company I will not name where they were. It was either CircleCI or TeamCity. This was years and years ago where I don't recall exactly what they were using, but it doesn't matter because at one point the service took an outage, and in typical knee jerk reaction, well, that can never happen again. So they wound up doing all of the CI/CD work for some godforsaken reason on a Raspberry PI that some developer brought in and left in the corner of the office. Surprise, it took an awfully long time for tests to run on basically an underpowered toy project. The answer there was to just use less tests because you generally don't need to run nearly as many.I just stared at people for the longest time when it came to that. I think that one of the problems that we still see, I know when I write code myself, I'm as guilty of this as anyone, I am a terrible developer and don't believe in tests. So, the CI/CD pipeline that I tend to look at is more or less a glorified script runner. Whenever I make a commit to this branch, go ahead and run the following three lines script that does a serverless deployment and puts it where it needs to go, and then I'll test it manually, or it's a pre-production environment so it's not that big of a deal. That can work for some use cases, but it's also a great thing that no one actually depends on the stuff that I write for day-to-day business operations or anything critical. At what point does it stop being a script runner?Rob: Well, to the point of the scale, I think there's a couple of things that you brought up in there that are interesting to me. One is the culture of testing. It feels like one of these areas of software development, because I was around in a time when no one really understood what it was to do automated testing. I won't even go into TDD, but just, in general, why would I do that? We have this QA team, it's cost effective to give it to a bunch of people. I'm thinking backwards or thinking back on that, it all seems a little bit well, wrong. But getting to the point where you've worked effectively with tests takes a little bit of effort. But once you have that, once you've sat and worked on something and had the feedback loop of, oh, this thing's not working. Oh, I'll just change this, now it's working.Really having that locally, as a developer, is super rewarding, in my mind and enabling I guess I would say as well. Then you get to this place where you're excited about building tests, especially as you're working in a team, and then culturally you end up in a place where, I put up a PR and someone else looks at it and says, "I see you're making an assumption or I believe you're making an assumption here, but I don't see any way that that's being validated. So please add testing to ensure that is actually true." Both because I want to make sure it's true now, but when we both forget that you ever wrote this and someone else makes a change, your assumptions hold or someone can understand that you were making those assumptions and they can make appropriate changes to deal with it.I think as you work in a team that's growing and scaling and beyond your pet project, once you've witnessed the value of that, you don't want to go back. So, people do end up writing more and more tests and that's what drives the scale at least on the testing and CI side in a way that you need to then manage that. Going the opposite direction of what you're describing, which is, hey, let's just write fewer tests and use cheaper machines, people are recognizing the value and saying, "Okay, we want that value, but we don't want to bottleneck everyone with an hour long build to run all these. So how do we get a system that's going to scale and support that?"Corey: That's what's fascinating, is watching that start to percolate beyond the traditional web applications with particular blessed languages and into other things. For example, in my copious spare time, I'm the community lead for the open guide to AWS, which is a GitHub project that has 25,000 stars or so, so you know it's good, where it's just a giant markdown document that lists the 10,000 tips and tricks that we all wish we'd known when we'd gotten started with AWS, and in a format that's easily consumable. The CI/CD approach we have right now, which I believe is done through Travis, is it just winds up running a giant link checker in parallel across the thousands of links that are ... sorry, I wanted to say 1,200 links, that are included within that document.There's really not a lot else we can do in that type of environment. I mean, a spellchecker with all of the terms of art involved would more or less a seg fault itself to death as soon as it took a look, but other than making sure we don't have dead links, and it feels like there's not a lot of automation or testing opportunity in something like that. Is that accurate? Am I completely wrong and missing something?Rob: I've never built that particular site so it ... I mean, it sounds reasonable. I think that going the other way, we often think about, before we kick off a large complex set of testing for a more complex application, maybe then a markdown document, a lot of people now will use things similar to what you're using, like maybe part of my application is a bunch of links to outside docs or outside sites that I'm referencing or if I run into a problem, I link you to our help site or something and making sure all that stuff is validated. Doing linting on the structure and format of code itself. One of the things that comes up as you scale out of the individual script runner is doing that work in parallel. I can say, you know what? Do the linting over here, do the link checking over here. Only use very small boxes for those.We don't happen to have Raspberry Pi's in our infrastructure, but we can give you a much smaller resource, which costs you less if you're not going to be pushing the limits of that. But then, if you have big integration tests or something which need more space than we can provide that as well, both in a single channel or pathway to give you the room to move faster and then to break that out and break up your work. At an extreme example, and of course, anyone who's done parallelization knows there's costs to splitting up work in like the management overhead. But if you have 1200 links, like you could check them all at the same time. I doubt that would be a good use of our platform, but you could check 600 in one and 600 in another, or 300s at a time or whatever, in find the optimal path if you really cared about getting that done more quickly.Corey: Right. Usually, it's not that big of a concern and usually it winds up throwing errors on existing bad links, not something that has been included in the pull request in question. Again, there's nothing that is so awesome that I can't horribly misuse it for something ridiculous. It's my entire stock and trade. It's why I believe route 53 remains the best database option for everyone, but it's fun going through this space and just seeing how things have evolved. One question I do have since you come from a background, by way of acquisition, that was aimed squarely at this, historically, it seems that running a lot of testing on mobile devices, specifically iOS devices, was the stuff of nightmares because you couldn't really run that in any meaningful way in a virtualized environment. So, it generally required an awful lot of devices. Is that still the case? Has that environment changed radically since I last worked at a mobile shop?Rob: I don't think so, but I think we've all started to think a little bit differently. We got started in that business because we were building iOS apps and thought, wow, the tooling here, it's really frustrating. To be clear, at CircleCI and at that business, we were solving the problem of managing the machines themselves, so the portion of the testing that you would run effectively in a simulator, not the problem of the device farm, if you will. But one of the things that I remember, and so this is late 2013, early 2014 as I was working on mobile apps was people shifting the MVC layers a little bit such that the thing that you needed to test on a device was getting smaller and smaller, meaning putting more logic in, I forget what the name was specifically, but it was like the ... I don't want to try to even guess.But basically pulling logic out of the actual rendering and down into what we'll call state transitions I guess. If you think about that in modern day and look at maybe web frameworks like React, you're trying to just respond with rendering on top of a lot of state change that happens underneath that. In that model, if you thin out the user interface portion, you make a lot more of your code testable, if that makes sense. The reason we're all trying to test on all these different devices is often that we've baked a lot of business logic into the view layer. Does that make sense?Corey: Yeah, it absolutely does. Please continue.Rob: Instead of saying, well, all our logic's in the view layer, so let's get really good at testing the view layer, which means massive device farms and a bunch of people testing all these things, let's make that layer as thin as possible, and there's analogies for this in even how we do service design these days and structure the architecture of systems, basically make the boundaries as thin as possible and the interaction with the outside world as thin as possible. That gives you much more capability to effectively test the majority or much larger portions of your business logic. The device farm problem is still a problem. People still want to see how something specifically renders on a particular screen or whatever. But by minimizing that, the amount that you have to invest in that gets smaller.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Uptycs, because they believe that many of you are looking to bolster your security posture with CNAPP and XDR solutions. They offer both cloud and endpoint security in a single UI and data model. Listeners can get Uptycs for up to 1,000 assets through the end of 2023 (that is next year) for $1. But this offer is only available for a limited time on UptycsSecretMenu.com. That's U-P-T-Y-C-S Secret Menu dot com.Corey: You mentioned device farm, which is an app choice, given that that is the name of an AWS service that has a crap ton of mobile devices that you can log into and it's one of my top candidates for the, did I make this service up to mess with you competitions? It does lead us to an interesting question. CI/CD has gotten an increased amount of attention lately from pretty much everyone. AWS, as is typical for Amazon, tends to lie awake at night worrying that someone somehow is making money that isn't them. So their product strategy distills down to, yes. So, they wound up releasing a whole bunch of CI/CD oriented products that at launch were, to be polite, terrible. Over time, they've gotten slightly better, but it's still a very confusing ecosystem there.Then we see things like Azure dev ops who it seems is aimed at a very similar type of problem and they're also trying to challenge Amazon on the grounds of terrible names of services. But we're now seeing an increased focus from the first party providers themselves around the CI/CD space. What does that mean for existing entrenched players who have been making a specialty out of this for a lot longer than these folks have been playing with it?Rob: It's a great question. I think about the approaches very differently, which is probably unsurprising. Speaking of lying awake at night or spending all day thinking about these things, this is what we do. You've the term script runner a few times in the conversation, the thing that I see when I see someone like AWS looking at this problem is basically, people are using, the way that I think about it, is maybe less the money, although it translates pretty quickly. People are using compute to do something, can we get them to do that with us? Oddly enough, a massive chunk of CircleCI runs on AWS so it doesn't really matter to them one way or another, but they're effectively looking to drive compute hours and looking to drive a pathway onto their platform.One thing about that is it doesn't really matter to them in my perspective, whether people use that particular product or not. As a result, it gets the product investment that you put in when that's the case. So, it's a sort of a check the box approach like, hey we CI and we have CD like other people do. Whereas, when we look at CI and CD, we've been talking about some of the factors like scaling it effectively and making it really easy for you to understand what's going on. We think about very much the core use case, what is one of our customers or users doing when they show up? How do we do that in a way that maximizes their flow? Minimizes the overhead to them of using our system, whether it's getting set up and running really quickly, like talk about being in the center of how much of the world is developing software.So we see patterns, we see mistakes that people are making and can use that to inform both how our product works and inform you directly as a user. "Hey, I see that you're trying to do this. It would go better if you did this." I think both from the, honestly, the years that we've been doing this and the amount that we've witnessed in terms of what works well for customers, what doesn't, what we see going through just from a data perspective, as we see hundreds of thousands of builds running, that rich perspective is unique to us. Because as you said, we're a player that's been doing this for a really long time and very focused on it. We treat the experience with, I guess I'm trying to figure out a way to say this that doesn't sound as bad as it might, but a lot of people have suffered a lot with CI/CD.There's a lot that goes into getting CI/CD to work effectively and getting it to work reliably over time as your system is constantly changing. Honestly, there's a lot of frustration, and we come in to work every day thinking about minimizing that frustration so that our customers can go spend their time doing what matters to them. Again, when I think you sort of ... a lot of these big players present you with a runtime in which you can execute a script of your choosing. It's not thinking about the problem in that way and I don't see them changing their perspective. Honestly, I just don't worry about them.Corey: Which is a very fair tack to take. It's interesting watching companies and as far as how much time and energy they spend worrying about competition versus how much they focus instead on customers. To turn it around slightly, what makes what you do challenging in some respects, I would imagine is that a lot of your target market is themselves, developers. Developers, in my experience, are challenging customers in that, first, they tend to devalue their own time to the point where, oh, that doesn't sound hard. I'll build that overnight. Secondly, once you finally win them over to the idea of paying for something, it's challenging to get them to have the necessary signing authority. At best, they become champions. But what you do has to start with developers in order to win widespread adoption and technical buy-in. How does that wind up manifesting as approach to, well, some people call it developer relations, developer advocacy. I refer to those folks as developers because I have problems, but how do you folks view that?Rob: Yeah, it's a really insightful view actually because we do end up in most of our customers, or in the environments of our customers, however you want to describe it, as a result of the enthusiasm of individual developers, development teams, much more so than ... there are many products certainly in enterprise software and I don't really think purely in enterprise, but there are many products that can only be purchased by the CIO or the CTO or whatever. Right? To your question of developer relations, we spend a lot of time out in the market talking to individuals, talking at conferences, writing content about how we think about this space and things that people can do. But we're a very product driven company, meaning both, that's what we think about first, and then support it with these other things.But second, we win on product, right? We don't win in the market because you thought the blog posts that we wrote was really cool. That might make you aware of us, but if you don't love the product, I mean, developers, to your point, they want to use things that they really enjoy using. When developers use the product and love the product and they champion it and they get access because they might work on a side project or an open source project or maybe they worked in another company that used CircleCI and then they go somewhere else and they say, "What are we doing? Life is so much better for you Circle CI, those sorts of things. But it very much comes from the bottom up. It's pretty difficult to go into an organization and say, "Hey, you should push this down to all of your developers."There's a lot of rejection that comes from developers on mandated tooling. We have to provide knowledge, we have to provide capabilities in our product that appealed to those other folks. For example, administrators of our tooling, or when it gets to the point where someone owns how you use CircleCI versus just being a regular user of the product. We have capabilities to support them around understanding what's happening, around creating shared capabilities that multiple teams can use, those sorts of things. But ultimately, we have to lead with product, we have to get in into the sort of hearts and minds of the developers themselves and then grow from there and everything we do from a marketing, developer relations myself, I spend a lot of time talking to customers who are out in the market, is all about propping up or helping raise awareness effectively. But there's nothing that we can do if the product doesn't meet the needs of our customers.Corey: That's what it seems like it comes down to a fair bit. It's always weird to consider that, at its heart, developer relations is marketing. The folks I talk to who argue against that, it seems that it comes from a misunderstanding of what marketing actually is. It's not buying ads in airports, it's not doing podcast advertisements. That's a subject near and dear to my heart. It's not about annoying people by showing up at their office with the sales team. It's about understanding what their challenges and problems are and then positioning a solution that ideally solves them in a place that and in a way that they can be receptive to. Instead, people tend to equate marketing to this whole ridiculous statistics driven nonsense that doesn't really resonate with anyone and I think that that's unfair to everyone involved.That said, I will say that having spent a fair bit of time in this space, I've yet to see anything from CircleCI that has annoyed me to the point where I would have remembered it, which is awesome. I don't see it in flight magazines, generally. I don't see it on obnoxious people try to tackle me as I walk through an expo hall and want to scan my badge. It just seems very well executed and you have some very talented people working for you. To that end, you are largely a distributed company, which is fascinating. Did it start that way? Did it happen that way by a quirk of fate?Rob: Yeah, I those two things probably come together. The company, from very early days, now I wasn't there but I think some of our earliest engineers were distributed and the company started out basically entirely as engineers. It's a team solving problems of other engineers, which is ... it's a fun challenge. There were early participants who were distributed. Mostly, when you start a company and no one has ever heard of you and no one knows if you're going to be successful, going and recruiting is generally a different game than when you're, certainly, when you're where we are now. There were some personal relations that just happened to connect with people around the globe who wanted to participate.We started out pretty early with some distribution, and that led to structuring the org in a way, both from a tooling and process perspective. A lot of that sort of happens organically, but building a culture that really supported that. I personally am based in the Bay Area, so we have headquarters in San Francisco, but it doesn't really make a difference if I go in versus just stay and work from home on any given day because the company operates in such a way that that distribution is completely normal.Corey: We accidentally did the same thing. My business partner and I used to live across the street from each other and we decided to merge a week before he moved out of state to Portland. So awesome. Great. We have wonderful timing on all of these things. It's fun to build it from that way, build that way from the ground up. The challenge I've always seen is when you start off with having a centralized office and everyone's there, except this one person who, no matter how you try to work around it, is never as involved. So it feels like the sort of thing you've absolutely got to be building from day one, or otherwise, you're going to have a massive cultural growing pain as you try to get there.Rob: Yeah, I think that's true. So I've actually been that one person. I, at some point in my career prior to CircleCI, was helping out a company founded by some friends of mine based in Toronto. I grew up in Toronto. I kicked off a project and then the project grew and grew until I was the one person out of maybe 50 or 60 who wasn't in an office in Toronto. It got to the point where no one remembered who I was and I was like, "Cool, I think I'm done. I'm out." I was fine with that. It was always meant to be a temporary thing, but I really felt that transition for the organization. I would say in terms of growing, I mean, yes, if you start out, it goes both ways, if you start out distributed, you're going to remain distributed.There are certain things that get more challenging at scale, right? If everybody is sort of just in their home all over the globe, then the communication overhead continues to increase and increase in just understanding who people are, who you should be talking to. You need to focus-Corey: There's always the time zone hierarchy.Rob: Ooh, the time zones are a delight, yes. I would say like we talk a lot about, in this industry, Dunbar's number and sizes of teams and the points at which things get more complex. I think there's probably a different scale for distributed teams. It takes fewer people to reach a point where communication gets challenging, and trust and all the other things that go with Dunbar's views. You kind of have that challenge and then you start to think, oh well, then you have some offices, because we actually have maybe six physical offices, partly because in our go to market org, we've started to expand globally and put people in regional offices.There's this interesting disconnect. I don't know about disconnect, but there's a split in how we operate in different parts of the org. I think what I've seen people ... well, I don't know about succeed, but I've seen people try when you start out with one org, or sorry, one location is, let's not jump to that one person somewhere else and then one person somewhere else kind of thing, but build out a second office, build out another office, like pick another location where you think you ... it's often, certainly where we are, in the Bay Area, it's often driven by just this market. Finding talent, finding people who want to join you, hanging onto those people when there are so many other opportunities around tends to be much more challenging. When you offer people alternatives, like you can stay where you are but have access to a cool and interesting company or you can work from home, which a lot of people value, then there's different things that you bring to the table.I see a lot of people trying to expand in that way, but when you are so office-centric, a second office I think is a smoother transition point than just suddenly distributing people because, especially the first and second one, unless you're hiring in a massive wave, are really going to struggle in that environment.Corey: I think that's probably one of the more astute things that's been noticed on this show in the last couple of years. If people want to hear more about what you have to say and how you think about the world, where can they find you?Rob: I would say, on our blog, I tend to write stuff there as do other people. You talked about having great people in the organization. We have a lot of great people talking about how we think about engineering, how we think about both engineering teams and culture and then some of the problems we're trying to solve. So, off our site, circleci.com, and go to our blog. Then, I attend to is to speak and hangout on podcasts and do guest writing. I think I'm pretty easy to find. You can find me on Twitter. My handle is z00b, Z-0-0-B. I know I'm not super prolific, but if someone wants to track me down and ask me something, I'd probably be more than happy to answer.Corey: You can expect some engagement as soon as this goes out. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today. I appreciate it.Rob: Yeah, thanks for having me. This was a ton of fun.Corey: Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI. I'm Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on Apple podcasts. If you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on Apple podcasts along with something amusing for me to read later while I'm crying.Announcer: This has been this week's episode of Screaming in the Cloud. You can also find more corey@screaminginthecloud.com or wherever fine snark is sold.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

Risk - it's a part of life and it's certainly a part of surgery - hopefully, a small one.   Still, the truth of the matter is - if you're considering spine surgery - you want to know what your surgeon is doing to minimize risk. It's an important question for anyone needing to undergo spine surgery and for today's guest, Andrew Brunson – it's something he's had to do twice. Once in 2016 – when he had a spinal fusion on his neck at a major medical institution and then more recently in 2021 – when he found Virginia Spine Institute in search of a consultation for a disc replacement. He discusses the patient perspective on selecting a spine surgeon who minimizes surgical risk. We will also hear from his spine surgeon Dr. Ehsan Jazini about the special measures he takes to minimize risk for his patients in the operating room.      Learn more at SpineMD.com.

Today on Day Two Cloud we examine Istio Ambient Mesh, a new option for building service meshes in a microservices environment. Istio Ambient Mesh essentially brings the concept of a load balancer to a cluster of containers. Rather than run a sidecar proxy for each pod or container, you can run Ambient Mesh per node. Our guest and guide to this open source project is Christian Posta, Global Field CTO at Solo.io.

Today on Day Two Cloud we examine Istio Ambient Mesh, a new option for building service meshes in a microservices environment. Istio Ambient Mesh essentially brings the concept of a load balancer to a cluster of containers. Rather than run a sidecar proxy for each pod or container, you can run Ambient Mesh per node. Our guest and guide to this open source project is Christian Posta, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. The post Day Two Cloud 173: Istio Ambient Mesh Minimizes Sidecar Proxies appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on Day Two Cloud we examine Istio Ambient Mesh, a new option for building service meshes in a microservices environment. Istio Ambient Mesh essentially brings the concept of a load balancer to a cluster of containers. Rather than run a sidecar proxy for each pod or container, you can run Ambient Mesh per node. Our guest and guide to this open source project is Christian Posta, Global Field CTO at Solo.io.

Today on Day Two Cloud we examine Istio Ambient Mesh, a new option for building service meshes in a microservices environment. Istio Ambient Mesh essentially brings the concept of a load balancer to a cluster of containers. Rather than run a sidecar proxy for each pod or container, you can run Ambient Mesh per node. Our guest and guide to this open source project is Christian Posta, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. The post Day Two Cloud 173: Istio Ambient Mesh Minimizes Sidecar Proxies appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Today on Day Two Cloud we examine Istio Ambient Mesh, a new option for building service meshes in a microservices environment. Istio Ambient Mesh essentially brings the concept of a load balancer to a cluster of containers. Rather than run a sidecar proxy for each pod or container, you can run Ambient Mesh per node. Our guest and guide to this open source project is Christian Posta, Global Field CTO at Solo.io.

Today on Day Two Cloud we examine Istio Ambient Mesh, a new option for building service meshes in a microservices environment. Istio Ambient Mesh essentially brings the concept of a load balancer to a cluster of containers. Rather than run a sidecar proxy for each pod or container, you can run Ambient Mesh per node. Our guest and guide to this open source project is Christian Posta, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. The post Day Two Cloud 173: Istio Ambient Mesh Minimizes Sidecar Proxies appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.09.23.509057v1?rss=1 Authors: Aubert, M., Haick, A. K., Strongin, D. E., Klouser, L. M., Loprieno, M. A., Stensland, L., Santo, T. K., Huang, M.-l., Hyrien, O., Stone, D., Jerome, K. R. Abstract: Herpes simplex virus (HSV) establishes latency in ganglionic neurons of the peripheral nervous system, from which it can reactivate, causing recurrent disease and possible transmission to a new host. Current anti-HSV therapy does not eliminate latent HSV, and thus is only suppressive rather than curative. We developed a potentially curative approach to latent HSV infection and pathogenesis, based on gene editing using HSV-specific meganucleases delivered by adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors. Our results demonstrated that a dual meganuclease therapy, composed of two anti-HSV-1 meganucleases delivered by a triple AAV serotype combination (AAV9, AAV-Dj/8, AAV-Rh10), can eliminate up to 97% of latent HSV DNA from ganglia in both ocular and vaginal mouse models of latent HSV infection. Using a novel pharmacological approach to reactivate latent HSV-1 in mice with the bromodomain inhibitor JQ-1, we demonstrated that this reduction in ganglionic viral load leads to a significant reduction of viral shedding from treated vs. control mice, with many treated mice showing no detectable virus shedding. In general, therapy was well tolerated, although dose-ranging studies showed hepatotoxicity at high AAV doses, consistent with previous observations in animals and humans. Also in agreement with previous literature, we observed subtle histological evidence of neuronal injury in some experimental mice, although none of the mice demonstrated observable neurological signs or deficits. These results reinforce the curative potential of gene editing for latent orofacial and genital HSV disease, and provide a framework for additional safety studies before human trials can begin. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by PaperPlayer

Children living with relatives increased 51% between 2000 and 2010.  In 2010, 1700 children were placed with relatives after being removed from their parents. The most recent census tells us that number is not going down.  Being placed with Kin/relatives vs. foster care has a number of benefits: Minimizes trauma Increased permanency Better overall well being Preserves cultural and community identity Promotes lasting connections Children's Service Society of Utah (CSS) is an organization that empowers families and caregivers through services that support the safety and well-being of children. Grandfamilies is a support, advocacy, educational and crisis intervention program of the Children's Service Society. The program was created in 2002 to meet the growing needs of individuals and/or families that are caring for a relative's child. Our focus is to provide information and support to these families so that the needs of safety and permanency for the children in these families can be met. Their services include: Crisis intervention Adult educational support groups Children's support groups Links to community resources Drug and alcohol prevention services for children To learn more about the Grandfamilies program, click here Utah Foster Care also has resources for Kinship Families. 2022 Kinship Town Hall Topic: The impact of trauma in kinship families Date: Tuesday Sept 20th Time: 5:00-7:00PM Location: Children's Service Society of Utah, 655 E 4500 S, ste 200, SLC, 84107

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This month's theme on the podcast is about Mental Health & Movement. Today we will be discussing the benefits of moving your body for your mental health. This content and these episodes connect with our Whole Health Lab program.  Along with each episode and each month's theme, comes a weekly challenge to connect with the content. The challenge this month is to Move 1 mile every day. Let's all do this together, we can be each other's accountability partners! Tune in today to learn more about the effects physical movement can have on minimizing depression & anxiety. Research articles mentioned:Effects of Exercise and Physical Activity on Mental HealthAssociation between physical activity and mental disorders among adults in the USTimestamps:2:20 - Move a mile a day challenge.4:10 - Something is better than nothing.6:49 - I'm in a depressive episode and don't feel like moving - what do I do?8:37 - Only 60% of the US has regular physical activity.10:27 - Movement and anxiety.13:02 - The nervous system and how movement can help regulate it.Transcript --Connect with us!Instagram: @mendingtraumaFacebook: @mendingtraumaYoutube: Mending TraumaLinkedIn: Mending TraumaTwitter: @akhoyt1Tik Tok: @mendingtraumaPlease rate, review, & subscribe to The Universe is Your Therapist on Apple Podcasts

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Nutrition Of Whole Plant-Based Foods Minimizes Disease And Promotes Health Better Than All The Pills And Procedures Combined -  T. Colin Campbell, PhDT. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. •           https://nutritionstudies.org/•           Book - China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long Term Health T. Colin Campbell, PhD has been dedicated to the science of human health for more than 60 years. His primary focus is on the association between diet and disease, particularly cancer. Although largely known for the China Study — one of the most comprehensive studies of health and nutrition ever conducted, and recognized by The New York Times as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” — Dr. Campbell's profound impact also includes extensive involvement in education, public policy, and laboratory research.Dr. Campbell grew up on a dairy farm and was the first in his family to go to college, where he studied pre-veterinary medicine at Pennsylvania State University. After obtaining his bachelor's degree, and while completing his first year at the University of Georgia veterinary school, he received a telegram from a well known professor at Cornell University, offering a scholarship and research opportunity too good to turn down. And so he completed his education at Cornell University (M.S., Ph.D.) and MIT (Research Associate) in nutrition, biochemistry and toxicology. He then spent 10 years on the faculty of Virginia Tech's Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition before returning to Cornell in 1975 where he presently holds his Endowed Chair as the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry in the Division of Nutritional Sciences.Dr. Campbell's research experience includes both laboratory experiments and large-scale human studies. He has received over 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding (mostly with NIH), served on grant review panels of multiple funding agencies, actively participated in the development of national and international nutrition policy, and authored over 300 research papers. Throughout his career, he has confronted a great deal of confusion surrounding nutrition and its effects. It is precisely this confusion that he has focused so much on, in recent years. #ColinCampbell #TheRealTruthAboutHealth  #WholeFood #Vegan #Vegetarian #PlantBasedNutrition  CLICK HERE - To Checkout Our MEMBERSHIP CLUB: http://www.realtruthtalks.com Social Media ChannelsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TRTAHConferenceInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/therealtruthabouthealth/Twitter: https://twitter.com/RTAHealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-real-truth-about-health-conference/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheRealTruthAboutHealth    Check out our Podcasts  Visit us on Apple Podcast and Itunes search:  The Real Truth About Health Free 17 Day Live Online Conference Podcast Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/23a037be-99dd-4099-b9e0-1cad50774b5a/real-truth-about-health-live-online-conference-podcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0RZbS2BafJIEzHYyThm83JGoogle:https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS8yM0ZqRWNTMg%3D%3DStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/real-truth-about-health-live-online-conference-podcastAudacy: https://go.audacy.com/partner-podcast-listen-real-truth-about-health-live-online-conference-podcastiHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-real-truth-about-health-li-85932821/Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/show/2867272 Other Video ChannelsYoutube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/TheRealTruthAboutHealthVimeo:  https://vimeo.com/channels/1733189Rumble:   https://rumble.com/c/c-1111513Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/TRTAHConference/videos/?ref=page_internalDailyMotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/TheRealTruthAboutHealthBitChute:  https://www.bitchute.com/channel/JQryXTPDOMih/ 

Today on The Brain Possible podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. James Greenblatt, a pioneer in the field of Integrative Medicine. Dr. Greenblatt has treated patients since 1988. Specifically, Dr. Greenblatt has seen 1000s of children and adults struggling with symptoms of ADHD, hyperactivity, inattentiveness, impulsiveness, and often irritability. Rather than simply prescribing medication for their ADHD symptoms, he tailors remedies to his patients' individual needs, detecting and treating the underlying causes of the condition. In his book Finally Focused, he provides proven natural and medical methods to treat such problems as nutritional deficiencies or excesses, dysbiosis microbial imbalance inside the body, sleeping difficulties, and food allergies, all of which surprisingly can cause or worsen the symptoms of ADHD. Using Dr. Greenblatt's expert advice, millions of children and adults with ADHD finally can get the help they need to achieve true wellness.Support the show (https://whoiscarter.z2systems.com/np/clients/whoiscarter/donation.jsp)

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We're continuing our teaching series in the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, where Solomon the King is reflecting on life—both life in general and his life in particular. Today we've come to Ecclesiastes, Chapter 5—which, in my opinion, might have been the hardest part of Ecclesiastes for Solomon to write. Why? Because this passage talks about enjoying and practicing the presence of God . . . and Solomon blew it . . . he missed it. When we talk about the “presence” of God, we can talk of either (1) God's omni-presence or (2) God's manifest presence. God's omni-presence means that God is and/or can be anywhere and everywhere. When we talk about God's manifest presence, we're talking about God's personal presence in a particular time and place. 1)  Embracing God's Presence Personally The first thing I want you to notice is Solomon's reference in verse 1 to “the house of God.” Solomon was referring, of course, specifically to the Temple that he built in Jerusalem when he was king. But what we need to see is that Solomon's Temple was just one point on a line about God's presence with his people that stretches from Genesis to Revelation. In Genesis we see that God created Garden of Eden, where He and His creation could enjoy each other's company, unhindered by sin. Later, after the fall, we see God instructing His people to build The Tabernacle - in which God's presence would dwell. In the time of Solomon, after God's people had settled in Jerusalem, God instructed him to build a physical building called “the Temple,” which would serve the same purpose as the Tabernacle but would be fixed in place and more elaborate. Now we see a massive point on that line stretching from Genesis to Revelation—God's presence has come and is available personally to anyone through Jesus Christ. And because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, even the concept of “the house of God” became much different. Sometimes we even talk today about “God's house” or “the house of the Lord.” But wait—there's more! In the book of Revelation, we see the New Heavens and the New Earth—and the fascinating thing is that the heavenly city—the New Jerusalem—is shaped like a cube. The point is that although the perfect vision of Eden was wrecked by sin, God desired to dwell among his people. He projected that desire through the Tabernacle and the Temple, He brought it to fulfillment in Jesus, and He is preparing for its eternal reality in heaven.   2) Embracing God's Presence Deliberately Yes, Solomon spoke about “the house of God” as a specific place. But we as Jesus followers know that we don't have to go to a specific place to embrace the personal, manifest presence of the Lord—the personal presence of the Lord is within us. But we see some timeless principles for embracing God's presence in the verses that we are focusing on today, that is, two deliberate things that Solomon said about embracing God's presence. Deliberate steps. When Solomon said, “Guard your steps,” he was basically saying, “Carefully approach the presence of God, you don't carelessly waltz into God's presence.” This was not just a metaphorical warning—it was a literal warning. When it comes to the manifest presence of God in our own lives, may I say that you simply don't take it for granted? You don't just carelessly commune with God. You “guard your steps.” You take your time.  Deliberate silence. How do we understand this emphasis on deliberately embracing the presence of God? We understand it because Solomon emphasized silence before God. Think about what silence before the Lord does: Minimizes noise. Causes cares to settle. Makes hearts sensitive to what God wants to say. 3) Conclusion I'm absolutely convinced that the future of our church hinges on our hunger for the presence of God—personally and deliberately pressing in for more of God. Psalm 105:3-4 – “Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice! Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!”

Loss prevention in the retail industry is more complicated than ever. LP professionals must constantly peek around the corner to identify potential disruptions to their business and mitigate the associated risks. That means implementing an asset protection plan that prioritizes employee safety before anything. This is the case at Sally Beauty, and it isn't just lip service. Jim Mires, Vice President of Loss Prevention and Safety, shares the steps his team takes to protect an increasing number of lone workers, partner with industry peers to solve problems and achieve alignment on the company's safety culture from the top down. We discuss: - Safeguarding employees across thousands of locations - Implementing security devices and new policies to protect lone workers - Why effective communication is about speed, accuracy, and knowledge - Networking and sharing information with peers in the industry Reach out to Jim at jmires@sallybeauty.com. The Employee Safety Podcast is hosted by Peter Steinfeld, SVP of Safety Solutions at AlertMedia. You can find this interview and many more by subscribing to The Employee Safety Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or here.

Woah, wait, hey now! A guy who goes by the name "ProcrastiN8r" is saying that you shouldn't always procrastinate and there's actually an exception? I know. Seems quite ironic, if we're being frank here. But if you've been following my blog up until his point, you know that I've basically condemned using the word "always" or "never", since those words create such permanence. You can never make an end all be all rule. There are always exceptions. (See what I did there?) Anyway, there is something you DO NOT want to procrastinate on believe it or not. I know, I know all this talk about how you should "put things off 'til tomorrow" and "wait 'til the last minute" I've shared with you in the past couple weeks. And now it seems like I'm some sort of hypocrite by claiming "DON'T PROCRASTINATE ON THIS ONE THING." Must be pretty important though if I'm telling you to do it NOW. Don't you think? I mean I'm always telling you to go slow n' steady and just do it...later. So you know coming from me that if I'm telling you NOT to procrastinate on something, you better damn well not procrastinate on it. And no, I'm not gonna tell you to get vaccinated right away (though you should but that's besides the point. Cue the anti-vaxxers to unsubscribe) What I want to share with you today is something that actually MAXIMIZES effort and MINIMIZES results  (quite the opposite of what we want to achieve in the lazy formula of success) if you do in fact procrastinate on it. I know. Here I am. Procrastinating revealing it to you. Well, take a listen and I'll tell ya! Read the full Blog: http://www.procrastin8r.com/blog/truth Subscribe to the Newsletter: http://www.procrastin8r.com/subscribe

Now we seem to be maximizing our consumer instincts by buying gifts since it helps with our overall contentment. But you are revealing your innermost thoughts about how you feel about this person. by giving gifts, there be dragons. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://liveanuntetheredlife.com/2020/12/23/developing-a-gift-giving-decision-strategy-matrix-maximizes-feel-good-returns-and-minimizes-gift-exchange-returns/

The April 25th, 2021 Morning Worship Service at Plainfield Christian Church in Comstock Park, MI Preacher: Bruce Wilson Youth Minister: Brady Jester Children's Minister: Wade Harrier Worship Leader: Katie Winstanley Learn more at https://www.pccmi.org/ Songs: CCLI #2228009 Sermon: The Chronological Life of Christ #90 Breaking Away From Galilee (3rd Year of Ministry) How To Heal Broken Relationships Scripture: Matthew 18:15-22 Notes: There are at least three ways to handle conflict and sin. A. Peace-faking. A peace-faker avoids conflict at all cost. B. Peace-breaking. These people function more like skunks. C. Peace-making. Willing to candidly discuss conflict. Four Pathways To Peace 1. A private meeting (verse 15). Two important imperatives in this verse: Go and Show. This first step is to be “between you and him alone.” 1. Avoids shame for the person. 2. Minimizes misunderstandings. 3. Keeps you from hating the person. 4. The other person may not know they've offended you. 5. Limits gossip. Matthew 18:15 - I must go quietly. Ephesians 4:26 - I must do it quickly Matthew 7:5 – I must do it carefully 2. A private conference with witnesses (verse 16). Some Other Benefits To Having A Witness Or Two A. They can establish the facts B. They can observe C. May communicate the gravity of the situation D. They can keep things from escalating. E. Witnesses can remember and record what was said. 3. A public announcement to the church (verse 17a). Here are some reasons why we need to pursue this step: 1. Vindicates God's holiness 2. Purifies the church 3. Deters others from sinning 4. Conveys biblical love and a pathway for restoration 4. Public exclusion from the church (17b). 1. The promise of His power. 2. The promise of His presence. Let's Consider These Questions 1. Am I treating the other person I'm in conflict with as someone God loves? 2. Is my goal reconciliation or retaliation? 3. How's my attitude? 4. How willing am I to obey?

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A lot of men complain that their wife can’t seem to move past their mistakes.They just keep bringing up the past.Whether they’ve made big mistakes like an affair, or smaller mistakes like not listening to their wife…They just want to forget about it and move forward.They get frustrated when they make the changes their wife wants to see…But their wife doesn’t seem to appreciate those changes.This lack of appreciation can cause them to stop trying, which just makes things worse.Learn how to break out of this cycle once and for all in this episode…And put the past in the past once and for all.Watch on YouTube here. Summary:-Asking for forgiveness MINIMIZES the damage you’ve done-Stop trying to “dig yourself out of the hole” with good behavior-Instead, decide who YOU want to be as a man-And ask for your wife’s FEEDBACK to tell you when you’re not being that man-Asking for and being open to feedback shows EXTREME emotional strength-Which is very ATTRACTIVE to your wifeDr. MikeP.S. Want to work together in depth to build up your strength and create a happy, long-lasting and passionate marriage? Apply to join The Strong Man System here.

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Apple (AAPL) announces the launch of their EV in 2024 and the market acts like this is this first time they have heard of this. Carmax (KMX) announces Q3 earnings. And a new entrant into the stock market via SPAC that aims to electrify truck fleets. *****Wisco Weekly***** Invest in mobility systems that create wealth.

Apple (AAPL) announces the launch of their EV in 2024 and the market acts like this is this first time they have heard of this. Carmax (KMX) announces Q3 earnings. And a new entrant into the stock market via SPAC that aims to electrify truck fleets. *****Wisco Weekly***** Invest in mobility systems that create wealth.

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The best way to capture moments is to pay attention . This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness involves paying attention to each event experienced in the present moment within our body and mind, with a non-judgmental, non-reactive and accepting attitude. In learning to be mindful, we can begin to counter many of our everyday challenges such as stress, anxiety and depression because we are learning to experience events in a more impersonal and detached way.Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to, and seeing clearly whatever is happening in our lives. It will not eliminate life's pressures, but it can help us respond to them in a calmer manner that benefits our heart, head, and body. It helps us recognise and step away from habitual, often unconscious emotional and physiological reactions to everyday events. It provides us with a scientifically researched approach to cultivating clarity, insight, and understanding. Practicing mindfulness allows us to be fully present in our life and work, and improve our quality of life. Mindful living is Conscious, Calm, Purposeful, Grateful, and Focused: it promotes peace and awareness. Automatic living is Unconscious, Habitual, Restless, Rushed, and Scattered: it creates anxiety, depression and fear. Mindfulness: - Helps you live life more fully - Quiets your mind, opens your heart and brings about balance - Relaxes your body, reduces stress - Retrains your brain - Enhances appreciation and gratitude - Helps you break unhealthy habits - Minimizes scatteredness and distraction - Increases energy - Helps you love yourself and others more freely and deeply There are four elements: (1) Paying attention, Almost any person or thing we give our close attention to gains value in our hearts and minds. This is because it increases our understanding and appreciation. Because paying loving attention often results in valuing, understanding, and enjoying what you pay attention to, it's incredibly important that you place yourself near or at the top of your pay-attention to list. It also allows us to recognize habits and behaviors that no longer add value and joy to our lives – you can then make a different choice that will lead to increased well-being, health, peace of mind, calm, and balance. (2) living in the moment It is possible to think about the past or the future while being fully in the present moment, as long as we are conscious of the fact that we are doing so. (3) simplifying Our time and energy are often consumed by demands of multiple obligations and opportunities. Mindful moments calm our souls, quiet our minds, and open our hearts. When there is clutter in our homes…simplifying creates inner and outer space and space invites serenity. (4) breathing Breath is the bridge between body and mind and the gateway to the present moment. It's important to pay attention to the breath, deepen the breath, and direct the breath to areas in our body and mind that need relief. Breathing from the diaphragm triggers the relaxation response in the body.

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The Pros and Cons of Accepting Card Payments at Your Wedding Venue PROS: Fast way to get payment Universally recognized form of payment (Kinsey tells her couples it’s like buying something on Amazon...everyone understands this). Minimizes late payments considerably (If you have Honeybook, you can set up automatic withdrawals. In Dubsado, you can send automated payment reminders Minimize administrative tasks (waiting for checks to arrive, going to the bank to deposit or mobile deposits, don’t have to file paper checks away, hoping the check clears, following up if it doesn’t, etc.)  Easier to project cash flow each month CONS:  Clients can perform “Chargebacks” on their cards which is them “stopping payment” and being refunded what they paid you. This isn’t common but can totally happen. It’s the exception, not the rule.  Processing Fees: cost of doing business in the 21st century folks, build credit card fees into your revenue plan! Make it easy for people to pay you. Kinsey paid $3,400 in credit card fees in 2019  Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

The operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework includes guidance and best practices on operating in the cloud. Join our talk as representatives from Goldman Sachs share how the company applied these best practices to reduce the impact of events and the level of effort they extended to manage them. They also discuss how they enabled their operations teams to safely do more by establishing the standards for operations that enable them to scale as new projects enter the cloud. Learn how AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter can support your situational awareness and event response, enabling you to view, investigate, and remediate operational issues presented with contextually relevant data.

In this episode, Jamie interviews Jill Shiefelbein: an award-winning business owner, author, and recovering academic. She taught business communication at Arizona State University for 10+ years, analyzed terrorist documents to provide counter-terrorism messaging strategies to the military, and was a pioneer in the online education space. In This Episode, Hear how Jill: *Allows SMALL FOCUS to create inspiration. *Minimizes her WORDS to maximize potential clients' THOUGHTS *Limits "passion vomit" *Focuses on the whole package of verbal AND nonverbal communication *Organizes her social media NOT as a business building tool, but as a credibility building strategy. Learn more about Jill: www.thedynamiccommunicator.com Follow Jill on Instagram: @DynamicJill Learn more about Power Partners Coaching: www.powerpartnerscoaching.com  

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As salespeople we know we need to follow a sales process to be efficient and successful. The real value to following a process is that it minimizes anxiety, putting you in a better frame of mind when you’re with the customer. And the customer senses this, helping make them more receptive to your message.

This deep dive episode is all about Zapier. In episode 34, when I presented the Tech Stack Framework. I talked about un-silo-ifying your tools. Zapier is one of the mechanisms by which we can accomplish this goal. Zapier acts as a broker or middle man between your different online tools… And it's smart too. Zaps can be super simple, connecting one tool to another. Examples of this are When someone books a call with you via acuity scheduling, add them to your Active Campaign email list When someone buys your Thinkific course send yourself a text message When someone finishes a Thinkific chapter, update a user field in Mailchimp There are two sides to each of these zaps, the trigger and the action.... In each of these cases, the trigger is initiated by a human, interacting with a system that you are using in your business. And the action automatically does something else within your systems. It helps to streamline processes so that your tools work better together. Zapier interacts with your systems through what is called the API – the Application Program Interface. But we're not going all technical... so let's move on ;) The nice thing about Zapier is that it gets to know all that crazy computer speak and presents it to users as intuitive actionable steps. In the first draft of this episode, here's where I was going to, probably painfully, take you through setting up a zap so that you could see all the magic of Zapier. But on second thought (after a fantastic night sleep!) I reminded myself that you don't need the nitty gritty on the podcast. My job on the podcast is to help you understand how a tool may or may not fit into your business and help you determine how to bring it into the fold. Let's look at where Zapier fits on the tech stack framework and then we'll get back into more business-advancing tactics that Zapier is perfectly suited for. Zapier fits in the second layer of the pyramid – the support layer. Tools on this layer support your base tools to help your business run smoother. Sure, our businesses can run without Zapier but when setup properly it will free up time and money that is currently being spent on administrative tasks and parlay that effort into higher value and revenue generating activities. I recommend investing in Zapier. The starter level allows you to have 20 automations running at any time and these can be more robust and complicated than the examples I gave above. Instead of a single action based on the trigger, there could be several actions and filters applied. My favorite demonstration of this is extending our first example from earlier “When someone books a call with you via acuity scheduling, add them to your Active Campaign email list.” Instead of stopping at adding them to Active Campaign, we can continue along and (2) create a task in Trello that reminds us to send a follow up email one day after the call. It could then go on to (3) setup your note taking tool so that it is ready for the call and (4) start a proposal inside Panda Doc. And a final Zapier action could be to (5) add a card in Trello for your VA to do whatever pre-work might be required. See there are so many things that the one Acuity event can trigger – and this is really just scratching the surface. A couple of points I want to make about that hypothetical zap… I prefer to set follow up tasks in your project management tool as an actionable task rather than setting up an appointment directly on the calendar (which is totally an option too.) Because, I like to keep the calendar setup for work blocks and open appointments by adding this reminder email action to the calendar, it makes that tool a tad messier. This same process could be used with other software, this was just an example The key to a successful multi-part zap is proper setup of the individual systems Zapier has a couple of built in functions that are the main reason I recommend paying for the tool instead of using the free level (which I don't think I mentioned, restricts you to one trigger à one action zaps). The two built in functions that I use regularly are: Delay Filter Delay allows an action to be taken after a certain amount of time. I used this when I wanted to give a second Thinkific course as a gift to a client 3 days after they purchased the original course. The key of course is to put the delay after all the immediate actions. Filter is a way to make it so that some events that trigger a particular zap make it to a given action. Let's say that you have a trigger that is based upon a new line being added to a Google Sheet. You want to add each instance of that into Trello but only those that have a score of 100 or are going to trigger a text message to you as well. The filter would be placed after the Trello action and then the text message would only proceed after the filter was tested. Rows in your Google Sheet will all get over to Trello but only some will have a text message sent to you. Every business could benefit from Zapier… perhaps your systems do not have a direct integration, or the integration through Zapier is more robust and works better for your needs. Some of the benefits to Zapier, particularly when we invoke sequences beyond the if this then that are: More immediate results Minimizes mistakes caused by manual work Keeps the right people involved at each step of the process Creates a stronger connection between the disparate elements of your tech stack Keeps all integrations in one place Makes it outsourceable On the Starter level of Zapier, your triggers are set to be checked every 15 minutes. But if you know a trigger was hit, you can run them manually. While I think anyone can get into Zapier and start automating things. I implore you to look at your business to see if this is a good next step for you to take on yourself. Zapier is one of the core tools I use with my clients during our Tech Stack Blueprint work. It makes the process of understanding your tools to create a strong tech foundation that much easier. We create the roadmap upon which you can confidently expand your business. While each business is different, in general, I will setup a zap that takes your email marketing platform to the next level. It may be like above where we add people who sign up for an information session with you to your email list, or it may be connecting your webinar or seminar software back to emails. And if you're already using a direct integration between a tool and your email marketing system, we may remove the direct integration so that we can do a multi-step process through Zapier. There are three takeaways from this episode… Zapier is a tool to un-silo-ify your tools Think outside the box when you're working with a Zapier professional to truly maximize the throughput of the tool The tech we use in our businesses is there to support us, if you don't think you can do it alone, ask for help from a trusted adviser Most of my clients don't need to know what I have setup for them in Zapier. And that's the truth about building a solid tech foundation – you as the business owner are able to dream and create and inspire and make a difference – your tech is there to make sure that your dream take shape, your creations and inspiration reach their target audience and you have a place to make a difference from. Take a few moments to think about and look at your tech. Give yourself a few minutes to uncover how it makes you feel. Then send me an email jaime@techofbusiness.com to start a new tech-confident chapter of your business! With tech-confidence comes greater freedom, the ability to make more money and impact more people with your products and services. I cannot wait to work with you. We'll follow the Tech Stack Framework together and give Zapier a rightful home in the support layer of your Tech Stack Blueprint. Email me at jaime@techofbusiness.com to get started. Connect with Jaime Instagram: @techofbusiness Twitter: @techofbusiness Facebook: @yourbiztech LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimeslutzky/ Email: jaime@techofbusiness.com

This deep dive episode is all about Zapier. In episode 34, when I presented the Tech Stack Framework. I talked about un-silo-ifying your tools. Zapier is one of the mechanisms by which we can accomplish this goal. Zapier acts as a broker or middle man between your different online tools… And it's smart too. Zaps can be super simple, connecting one tool to another. Examples of this are When someone books a call with you via acuity scheduling, add them to your Active Campaign email list When someone buys your Thinkific course send yourself a text message When someone finishes a Thinkific chapter, update a user field in Mailchimp There are two sides to each of these zaps, the trigger and the action.... In each of these cases, the trigger is initiated by a human, interacting with a system that you are using in your business. And the action automatically does something else within your systems. It helps to streamline processes so that your tools work better together. Zapier interacts with your systems through what is called the API – the Application Program Interface. But we're not going all technical... so let's move on ;) The nice thing about Zapier is that it gets to know all that crazy computer speak and presents it to users as intuitive actionable steps. In the first draft of this episode, here’s where I was going to, probably painfully, take you through setting up a zap so that you could see all the magic of Zapier. But on second thought (after a fantastic night sleep!) I reminded myself that you don’t need the nitty gritty on the podcast. My job on the podcast is to help you understand how a tool may or may not fit into your business and help you determine how to bring it into the fold. Let’s look at where Zapier fits on the tech stack framework and then we’ll get back into more business-advancing tactics that Zapier is perfectly suited for. Zapier fits in the second layer of the pyramid – the support layer. Tools on this layer support your base tools to help your business run smoother. Sure, our businesses can run without Zapier but when setup properly it will free up time and money that is currently being spent on administrative tasks and parlay that effort into higher value and revenue generating activities. I recommend investing in Zapier. The starter level allows you to have 20 automations running at any time and these can be more robust and complicated than the examples I gave above. Instead of a single action based on the trigger, there could be several actions and filters applied. My favorite demonstration of this is extending our first example from earlier “When someone books a call with you via acuity scheduling, add them to your Active Campaign email list.” Instead of stopping at adding them to Active Campaign, we can continue along and (2) create a task in Trello that reminds us to send a follow up email one day after the call. It could then go on to (3) setup your note taking tool so that it is ready for the call and (4) start a proposal inside Panda Doc. And a final Zapier action could be to (5) add a card in Trello for your VA to do whatever pre-work might be required. See there are so many things that the one Acuity event can trigger – and this is really just scratching the surface. A couple of points I want to make about that hypothetical zap… I prefer to set follow up tasks in your project management tool as an actionable task rather than setting up an appointment directly on the calendar (which is totally an option too.) Because, I like to keep the calendar setup for work blocks and open appointments by adding this reminder email action to the calendar, it makes that tool a tad messier. This same process could be used with other software, this was just an example The key to a successful multi-part zap is proper setup of the individual systems Zapier has a couple of built in functions that are the main reason I recommend paying for the tool instead of using the free level (which I don’t think I mentioned, restricts you to one trigger à one action zaps). The two built in functions that I use regularly are: Delay Filter Delay allows an action to be taken after a certain amount of time. I used this when I wanted to give a second Thinkific course as a gift to a client 3 days after they purchased the original course. The key of course is to put the delay after all the immediate actions. Filter is a way to make it so that some events that trigger a particular zap make it to a given action. Let’s say that you have a trigger that is based upon a new line being added to a Google Sheet. You want to add each instance of that into Trello but only those that have a score of 100 or are going to trigger a text message to you as well. The filter would be placed after the Trello action and then the text message would only proceed after the filter was tested. Rows in your Google Sheet will all get over to Trello but only some will have a text message sent to you. Every business could benefit from Zapier… perhaps your systems do not have a direct integration, or the integration through Zapier is more robust and works better for your needs. Some of the benefits to Zapier, particularly when we invoke sequences beyond the if this then that are: More immediate results Minimizes mistakes caused by manual work Keeps the right people involved at each step of the process Creates a stronger connection between the disparate elements of your tech stack Keeps all integrations in one place Makes it outsourceable On the Starter level of Zapier, your triggers are set to be checked every 15 minutes. But if you know a trigger was hit, you can run them manually. While I think anyone can get into Zapier and start automating things. I implore you to look at your business to see if this is a good next step for you to take on yourself. Zapier is one of the core tools I use with my clients during our Tech Stack Blueprint work. It makes the process of understanding your tools to create a strong tech foundation that much easier. We create the roadmap upon which you can confidently expand your business. While each business is different, in general, I will setup a zap that takes your email marketing platform to the next level. It may be like above where we add people who sign up for an information session with you to your email list, or it may be connecting your webinar or seminar software back to emails. And if you’re already using a direct integration between a tool and your email marketing system, we may remove the direct integration so that we can do a multi-step process through Zapier. There are three takeaways from this episode… Zapier is a tool to un-silo-ify your tools Think outside the box when you’re working with a Zapier professional to truly maximize the throughput of the tool The tech we use in our businesses is there to support us, if you don’t think you can do it alone, ask for help from a trusted adviser Most of my clients don’t need to know what I have setup for them in Zapier. And that’s the truth about building a solid tech foundation – you as the business owner are able to dream and create and inspire and make a difference – your tech is there to make sure that your dream take shape, your creations and inspiration reach their target audience and you have a place to make a difference from. Take a few moments to think about and look at your tech. Give yourself a few minutes to uncover how it makes you feel. Then send me an email jaime@techofbusiness.com to start a new tech-confident chapter of your business! With tech-confidence comes greater freedom, the ability to make more money and impact more people with your products and services. I cannot wait to work with you. We’ll follow the Tech Stack Framework together and give Zapier a rightful home in the support layer of your Tech Stack Blueprint. Email me at jaime@techofbusiness.com to get started. Connect with Jaime Instagram: @techofbusiness Twitter: @techofbusiness Facebook: @yourbiztech LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimeslutzky/ Email: jaime@techofbusiness.com

At AWS, we obsess over operational excellence. We have a deep understanding of system availability, informed by over a decade of experience operating the cloud and our roots of operating Amazon.com for nearly a quarter-century. One thing we've learned is that failures come in many forms, some expected, and some unexpected. It's vital to build from the ground up and embrace failure. A core consideration is how to minimize the "blast radius" of any failures. In this talk, we discuss a range of blast radius reduction design techniques that we employ, including cell-based architecture, shuffle-sharding, availability zone independence, and region isolation. We also discuss how blast radius reduction infuses our operational practices.

Pastor Bill Ramsey and Pastor Rob Johnson continue our series “Know Pain Know Gain” with a message about how the painful experiences in life can humble us and teach us to just keep striving towards God.

Pastor Bill Ramsey and Pastor Rob Johnson continue our series “Know Pain Know Gain” with a message about how the painful experiences in life can humble us and teach us to just keep striving towards God.

In December especially, choral directors spend their days focused on serving others so much that they often neglect their own needs. Here are some ways to stay charged in the coming weeks until Christmas! You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of others. You have so many in your choirs who depend on your gifts to get them through this often very difficult season. You have the potential to help heal the pain of loss or loneliness that some people feel at this time. It make take extra energy, compassion, and patience in order to serve the members of your choir in a time when energy, compassion, and patience are in short supply. [Subscribe on iTunes] [Subscribe on Android]   Highlight to Tweet: “Pee clear, pee often.” - Amanda Simon Show Notes: This is a long, but incredibly rewarding season. Remember to keep these items in mind to maximize the rewards of your work and stay present with those who need you! Keep in mind: You’re a servant and a leader year-round and especially in December! Wake up with a sense of duty and be grateful! You get to do what you love, and get paid for it. You will make audience members’ days/months/years with your musical offerings. You’ll touch people that you’ll never meet and in ways that you’ll never know. You’re giving families a reason to get together and celebrate with each other for potentially the only time in a year. Your duty IS your escape from December. If you do it well, you won’t need an escape, because your soul will be fed by what you do. Thank your family for supporting you/putting up with you by… smiling (sometimes you fake it till you make it so your brain believes your happy – See distress tolerance techniques). showing more affection to your loved ones/significant other. hugging your kids and reading them bedtime stories every night you can. reschedule dinner at a new common time with your loved ones so that you don’t miss that very essential part of your life. Follow these nutrition guidelines to stay on top of your game Avoid fast food. If necessary, choose healthy options. Eat a big breakfast PROTEIN/COMPLEX CARBS: Eggs scramble (loaded with avocado and veggies like spinach, peppers, tomatoes) Cook in healthy oils such as coconut oil or avocado oil Oatmeal Berries Smoothie (banana, peanut butter, almond milk, with optional protein powder) BUY A NUTRIBULLET Stay prepared Pack your meals (lunch or dinner) if you won’t be home to make them Carry snacks with you, so you don’t end at in the vending machine Protein bar (like Quest or Luna bars) with less than 10g of sugar Mixed nuts (packs like Trader Joe’s) Apples for appetite suppression “Batch prepare” your meals Stay hydrated (pee clear and often) It’ll keep you full Heightens energy Keeps the voice working Minimizes the chance of stress headaches Aids in proper digestion Releases toxins Remember, it’s okay to say no… to requests that may derail your momentum to substances that may slow you down feeling guilty when you’re not working Don’t give up on exercise If you don’t have a regular routine, you can look up 15 minute exercises on YouTube to do naked in your bedroom before school. Get sleep 7-8 hours/per night – especially before performances Your DVR is your best friend You can catch up on your shows during the Christmas break Sleep in a dark room Lavender on the pillow Use meditations like these to fall asleep In the case of a meltdown Go back to gratitude. Close your eyes and do this meditation. (Warning: Bad Language) Breathe in for 4 counts, hold for 2, breathe out for 6. Do a grounding exercise 5 things you see 4 things your hear 3 things you feel 2 things you smell 1 thing you taste Bio: Having spent most of his middle and high school career in detention, Ryan Guth loves to speak to audiences about ways for choral directors to engage the seemingly un-engageable. Ryan learned fearlessness and indomitable spirit from a young age through many years studying the martial arts while also pursuing music – especially the time in middle school when he tried to break a board with his head in front his entire ninth grade class and failed spectacularly.He believes the best choir directors face challenges head-on (no pun intended), are solutions-oriented, and take full responsibility forall aspects of their program.  Ryan’s most popular and surprisingly positive article “Your Choir Sucks Because You Suck” was shared over 2,200 times in 48 hours, and has since become his manifesto, mantra, and the platform that his work was built upon. Through his first podcast, Find Your Forte, Ryan connected thousands of weekly listeners with some of the most brilliant minds in choral music such as Helmuth Rilling, Patrick Quigley, Joseph Flummerfelt, James Bass, and 80-plus others. He recognizes the fact we become the best when we learn from the best.Ryan Guth recently created the Choir Ninja podcast to share solutions with middle and high school choral directors so they learn to work smarter – not harder. That’s why he focuses on sharing what works in choral programs across Choir Nation in a way that makes running a great choral program approachable, fun, and rewarding. When not dressing up in his ninja jammies or buffing his diploma from Westminster Choir College, Ryan is a financial advisor in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Before that, he spent a decade building a large middle school program and six-figure-choral-ensemble-based-for-profit-business in central New Jersey. He is also the founder and sole member of the Hyphenation Club of America.Ryan enjoys getting lost outdoors with his beautiful fiancé, Amanda, and pitbull-lab Sasha. He also dislikes socks and only wears them when absolutely necessary. This bio was sponsored by Gold Bond Powder. Resources/links Mentioned: Choir Nation group on Facebook Email Patreon - Support the podcast! Sponsored by: Sight Reading Factory (Use promo code “NINJA” at checkout for 10 free student accounts!)     My Music Folders (Use promo code “NINJA” at checkout for “last column” or best pricing - usually reserved for bulk purchases only!)    

After two 12 count indictments were issued against former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates, a guilty plea of a Trump Campaign security advisor was unveiled on Monday. Washington DC was buzzing with strategizing, gossiping, and worrying. George Papadopolous, part of the Trump Security Group, admitted to communicating with Russians who promised Hillary Clinton’s emails after he initially lied about it to the FBI. It also was verified by court papers that Papadopolous had been involved in “proactive cooperation” with the FBI since July 2017. This put Russian involvement into the middle of the Trump campaign as the President continued to tweet that there was “no collusion.” Special Counsel Robert Mueller had struck his first visible blow. Speculation now runs rampant as to what will come next and what political and legal positions should be taken in anticipation of Mueller’s next step. Philip Elliott, Washington correspondent for TIME, described to Spectrum the current positions of the White House and also described congressional response. The White House is characterizing the alleged crimes of Manafort and Gates as all occurring prior to being associated with the Trump campaign and therefore, not related. The President, it is reported, even felt relief after the first indictments were made public. However, that relief was short-lived and after hearing of the Papadopolous plea he became so angry and volatile that staffers were avoiding him – even in hallways, according to Elliott. President Trump, in tweets Tuesday, echoed the Monday statements of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders demeaning Papadopolous as a young, low-level volunteer and a proven liar. Elliott says that despite the White House public bravado that staffers are quite concerned about their potential legal liabilities and are “leaking” information like never before. While the White House engages the public on the Mueller actions, Congress is trying to duck public comment as much as possible, Elliott says. Democrats are calling for protections of Mueller’s position and Republicans are saying that they are not going to be distracted by the latest legal actions. Instead, House Speaker Paul Ryan claims he will be singularly focused on tax reform. Elliott notes that members of Congress from both parties are still playing the waiting-game to determine how much trouble the President and his campaign will ultimately be in as a result of Mueller’s investigations. He also notes the dual Congressional investigations are still ongoing. He says the next big issue to watch will be the Russian involvement in Social Media.

The Western Producer’s Barb Glen reports on prairie fires in southeast Alberta, Grainews field editor Lisa Guenther looks at a father and son invention that minimizes lost grain at harvest and Commodity News Service Canada’s Phil Franz-Warkentin looks at the markets. Hosted by Ed White.

In December especially, choral directors spend their days focused on serving others so much that they often neglect their own needs. Here are some ways to stay charged in the coming weeks until Christmas! Listen   Notes This is a long, but incredibly rewarding season. Remember to keep these items in mind to maximize the rewards of your work and stay present with those who need you! Keep in mind: You’re a servant and a leader year-round and especially in December! Stay mission-oriented and I PROMISE you’ll be glad you did! You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of others. You have so many in your choirs who depend on your gifts to get them through this often very difficult season. You have the potential to help heal the pain of loss or loneliness that some people feel at this time. It make take extra energy, compassion, and patience in order to serve the members of your choir in a time when energy, compassion, and patience are in short supply. Wake up with a sense of duty and be grateful! You get to do what you love, and get paid for it. You will make audience members’ days/months/years with your musical offerings. You’ll touch people that you’ll never meet and in ways that you’ll never know. You’re giving families a reason to get together and celebrate with each other for potentially the only time in a year. Your duty IS your escape from December. If you do it well, you won’t need an escape, because your soul will be fed by what you do. Thank your family for supporting you/putting up with you by… smiling (sometimes you fake it till you make it so your brain believes your happy - See distress tolerance techniques). showing more affection to your loved ones/significant other. hugging your kids and reading them bedtime stories every night you can. reschedule dinner at a new common time with your loved ones so that you don’t miss that very essential part of your life. Follow these nutrition guidelines to stay on top of your game Avoid fast food. If necessary, choose healthy options. May be pricey, but worth it when you’re not napping at 3pm. Eat a big breakfast PROTEIN/COMPLEX CARBS Eggs scramble (loaded with avocado and veggies like spinach, peppers, tomatoes) Cook in healthy oils such as coconut oil or avocado oil Oatmeal Berries Smoothie (banana, peanut butter, almond milk, with optional protein powder) BUY A NUTRIBULLET Stay prepared Pack your meals (lunch or dinner) if you won’t be home to make them Carry snacks with you, so you don’t end at in the vending machine Protein bar (like Quest or Luna bars) with less than 10g of sugar Mixed nuts (packs like Trader Joe’s) Apples for appetite suppression “Batch prepare” your meals Stay hydrated (pee clear and often) It’ll keep you full Heightens energy Keeps the voice working Minimizes the chance of stress headaches Aids in proper digestion Releases toxins You get it... Remember, it’s okay to say no... to requests that may derail your momentum to substances that may slow you down feeling guilty when you’re not working Don’t give up on exercise If you don’t have a regular routine, you can look up 15 minute exercises on YouTube to do naked in your bedroom before school. Get sleep 7-8 hours/per night - especially before performances Your DVR is your best friend You can catch up on your shows during the Christmas break Sleep in a dark room Lavender on the pillow Use meditations like these to fall asleep In the case of a meltdown Go back to gratitude. Close your eyes and do this meditation. (Warning: Bad Language) Breathe in for 4 counts, hold for 2, breathe out for 6. Do a grounding exercise 5 things you see 4 things your hear 3 things you feel 2 things you smell 1 thing you taste Support the show on

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. - William Wordsworth Profit is not about the money. This is leadership redefined. Read the transcripts at hughballoupodcast.com You manage things; you lead people. —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper This is a curious debate. Many in academia use management as the title for business leadership programs. For example, a well-known large university in my town offers a degree in management in the business school and allows for a minor in leadership, which is under the college of life sciences and agriculture. Fortunately, the professor leading that program understands leadership and knows how to apply it in a practical way. I don’t feel that a degree in management qualifies a person to lead an organization, a team, or a project. Its basis is in other areas. As Stephen Covey points out, we manage time and lead people…we manage money and lead people…we manage project implementation and lead people…we manage things and lead people. There is a distinct difference. Managing people fits an autocratic leadership style and not a transformational leadership style. It can be a form of overfunctioning. Top down leadership that is autocratic minimizes the synergy of the team. Here’s a simple chart of my thoughts on the differences: Topic Leader Manager Style Transformational Transactional Direction Engages Demands Conflict Addresses Avoids Risk Takes Minimizes Affirmations Gives Takes Concern Helps others to be right Being right Blame Neutralizes Blames others Energy Passion Control Power Influence Authority Focus Leading Managing Seeks Consensus Mandate Decisions Facilitates Makes Culture Collaborative Authoritative Activity Delegates Micromanages Horizon Short-Term within Long-Term Short-Term Creates Leaders on teams Puppets Engages Followers Subordinates Rules Uses principles Uses rules Pathway Creates new Uses existing Systems Utilizes Avoids Persona Focus on vision and values Focus on self As you see, there is a significant difference in these two paradigms. Effective leadership requires healthy self-esteem, confidence, and constantly evolving skills. Hugh Ballou The Transformational Leadership Strategist TM Subscribe to The Transformational Leadership Strategist by Email   (c) 2015 Hugh Ballou. All rights reserved.

Slate's Chief Political Correspondent Jamelle Bouie describes how he sees journalists underestimate the real stakes and potential consequences of a Trump presidency on people of color.

James and Morris Carey share their experiences as award-winning, licensed contractors through their popular weekly radio program, On the House. With wit, enthusiasm and clarity, the Carey Brothers offer money-saving tips on building, remodeling, and repairing homes.

If you’ve ever wanted to ethically shortcut your path to success in practice-ownership, you need to focus only on the best, PROVEN concepts. But the question becomes: HOW? Today, you’ll learn the ethical shortcut for dentists across the country. You’ll learn how other docs multiply their knowledge 100 times over. When you listen to today’s guest, Dr. Mark Costes, you’ll hear how you can capture the best, proven knowledge to grow your practice. Learn how Dr. Costes… - Grew more than half a dozen practices and a million-dollar personal income - Multiplies knowledge by 100 times over for motivated doctors - Didn’t get into dental school until HIS 20TH APPLICATION! - Predicts the TOP PRIORITIES for private practice owners for this decade - Minimizes risk while increasing success - Gives back to his community while getting “free press” - Keeps PATIENT CARE as the tip priority Listen today and learn to increase your knowledge 100 times over! Jayme BONUS RESOURCES: 1. Hear Dr. Costes in-person at the Dental Success Summit www.dentalsuccesssummit.com 2. Learn to Open A STARTUP PRACTICE Successfully at the Startup Practice Blueprint Course…only a few seats remain! http://idealpractices.com/course