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This week, Peter Deegan sits down with newly qualified QP Mike Hadebe, who shares his inspiring path from NHS pharmacist to QA specialist and ultimately to QP success. In this episode, Mike opens up about: - How he built a support network of QPs to learn from diverse experiences - The value his clinical background brought to the QP application process - Why staying sharp on regulatory changes is essential ahead of your Viva Mike's journey is a must-listen for anyone on the QP path or for QP mentors. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If you'd like to follow in Mike's footsteps you can start with us by checking out our suite of QP courses here: https://www.rssl.com/life-science-training-consultancy/qualified-person-training-programme/

View the Show Notes Page for This Episode Become a Member to Receive Exclusive Content Sign Up to Receive Peter's Weekly Newsletter In this quarterly podcast summary (QPS) episode, Peter summarizes his biggest takeaways from the last three months of guest interviews on the podcast. Peter shares key insights from his discussions with Jeff English on the journey to healing from trauma; Ashley Mason on improving sleep and CBT-I; Sanjay Mehta on misconceptions around radiation and its use in cancer therapy and treating inflammatory conditions (such as arthritis and tendonitis); Sean Mackey on understanding and treating acute and chronic pain; and Susan Desmond-Hellmann on insights from her extraordinary career that pertain to the use of AI in medicine, understanding cancer, and the development of cancer therapeutics. Additionally, Peter shares any behavioral changes he's made for himself or his patients as a result of these fascinating discussions. If you're not a subscriber and are listening on a podcast player, you'll only be able to hear a preview of the AMA. If you're a subscriber, you can now listen to this full episode on your private RSS feed or our website at the episode #347 show notes page. If you are not a subscriber, you can learn more about the subscriber benefits here. We discuss: Summary of episode topics [1:45]; Jeff English episode: how trauma shapes behavior and identity, and the value of understanding personal adaptations and working through unresolved emotional wounds [3:45]; Practical behavioral changes and emotional tools Peter has applied since the Jeff English episode [13:00]; Ashley Mason episode: treating insomnia using CBT-I and practical behavioral techniques for improving sleep quality [19:15]; When to seek professional care for sleep issues [30:30]; Sanjay Mehta episode: radiation therapy's evolution, its underused potential in treating inflammatory conditions, and the cultural misconceptions surrounding radiation exposure [33:45]; Peter's predictions and insights for the upcoming Formula 1 season [43:15]; Sean Mackey episode: the neuroscience, classifications, and treatment strategies for chronic pain, and the importance of personalized care [57:45]; Susan Desmond-Hellmann episode: how AI is revolutionizing medicine through advancements in drug development, biomarker discovery, and the potential of training models on private clinical data [1:05:45]; More from Susan Desmond-Hellmann: why cancer is so difficult to treat with drugs, the promise of immunotherapy, and the long-term hope for systemic treatments [1:14:00]; and More. Connect With Peter on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube

View the Show Notes Page for This Episode Become a Member to Receive Exclusive Content Sign Up to Receive Peter's Weekly Newsletter In this quarterly podcast summary (QPS) episode, Peter summarizes his biggest takeaways from the last three months of guest interviews on the podcast. Peter shares key insights from his discussions on diverse topics such as aerobic efficiency and VO2 max with Olav Aleksander Bu; insulin resistance with Ralph DeFronzo; economics of the US healthcare system and cost-saving strategies with Saum Sutaria; diagnosis and treatment of autism, ADHD, and anxiety in children with Trenna Sutcliffe; and strength training with Mike Israetel. Additionally, Peter shares any personal behavioral adjustments or modifications to his patient care practices that have arisen from these fascinating discussions. If you're not a subscriber and are listening on a podcast player, you'll only be able to hear a preview of the AMA. If you're a subscriber, you can now listen to this full episode on your private RSS feed or our website at the episode #338 show notes page. If you are not a subscriber, you can learn more about the subscriber benefits here. We discuss: Overview of topics to be discussed [2:00]; Olav Aleksander Bu Pt.2 episode: metrics to track aerobic efficiency and insights about VO2 max, and the ability of increased carbohydrate consumption to boost performance [4:30]; The best practices for performing a VO2 max test, the differences between VO2 max training and all-out efforts, and the role of energy intake in endurance performance [14:45]; Ralph DeFronzo episode: the pathophysiology of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes—how they impact different organs, flaws in conventional diabetes treatment, and more [24:30]; Understanding type 2 diabetes beyond the traditional triumvirate of features: the “ominous octet” describes changes in other organs [31:45]; Pharmacological treatments for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes [41:30]; The importance of early detection and intervention in insulin resistance [50:30]; Saum Sutaria episode: the economic and systemic drivers of high healthcare costs in the U.S. [54:00]; Reducing health care costs: redefining health insurance, lowering drug prices while maintaining innovation, leveraging AI for efficiency, and more [1:07:15]; Trenna Sutcliffe episode: insights on autism, ADHD, and anxiety in children—definitions and diagnosis [1:11:45]; Exploring the rising prevalence of autism spectrum disorder [1:17:15]; Trenna's views on caring for children with autism [1:21:15]; Misconceptions around vaccines and autism [1:26:00]; Mike Israetel episode: insights about strength training, minimum effective dose, troubleshooting plateaus, tips for beginners, and more [1:28:15]; Topics Peter is interested in exploring in future podcasts [1:40:15]; and More. Connect With Peter on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube

The rise of antisemitism in Australia is apparent, particularly in the last few months. For the most part, Queensland has avoided this rise in hate thanks to the state's security and counter terrorism team. Assistant Commissioner Charysse Pond told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "I want to assure our community that the QPS is doing everything in our power to detect, disrupt and investigate all acts associated with terrorism and that the community can feel safe," AC Pond said.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yesterday, Defenders for Hope, a domestic violence charity, revealed many victims were living in tents in a Logan park. Acting Mayor of Logan, Scott Bannon, told Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Drive, "We didn't know about it, as soon as we heard the interview [on 4BC Drive], we had to contact QPS and YFS and the critical response team from Queensland Housing straight away." "As early as yesterday we had a crisis team go through the park in Beenleigh and coordinated with the critical response team from Queensland Housing, YFS, and QPS." "We're very proactive and seeing what we can do to help these people, especially, the men and women that are victims of DV," Acting Mayor Bannon continued.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The largest seafood distributor on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and two of its managers have been sentenced on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish weeks after a restaurant and its co-owner were also sentenced. “This large-scale scheme to misbrand imported seafood as local Gulf Coast seafood hurt local fishermen and consumers,” said Todd Gee, the U.S. attorney for southern Mississippi. “These criminal convictions should put restaurants and wholesalers on notice that they must be honest with customers about what is actually being sold.” Sentencing took place in Gulfport for Quality Poultry and Seafood Inc. (QPS), sales manager Todd A. Rosetti, and business manager James W. Gunkel. QPS and the two managers pleaded guilty on August 27 to conspiring to mislabel seafood and commit wire fraud. QPS was sentenced to five years of probation and was ordered to pay $1 million in forfeitures and a $500,000 criminal fine. Prosecutors said the misbranding scheme began as early as 2002 and continued through November 2019. Rosetti received eight months in prison, followed by six months of home detention, one year of supervised release, and 100 hours of community service. Gunkel received two years of probation, one year of home detention, and 50 hours of community service. Mary Mahoney's Old French House and its co-owner/manager Anthony Charles Cvitanovich, pleaded guilty to similar charges May 30 and were sentenced November 18. Mahoney's was founded in Biloxi in 1962 in a building that dates to 1737, and it's a popular spot for tourists. The restaurant pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to misbrand seafood. Mahoney's admitted that between December 2013 and November 2019, the company and its co-conspirators at QPS fraudulently sold about 58,750 pounds (26,649 kilograms) of frozen seafood imported from Africa, India, and South America as local premium species. The court ordered the restaurant and QPS to maintain at least five years of records describing the species, sources, and cost of seafood it acquires to sell to customers, and that they make the records available to any relevant federal, state, or local government agency. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

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View the Show Notes Page for This Episode Become a Member to Receive Exclusive Content Sign Up to Receive Peter's Weekly Newsletter In this quarterly podcast summary (QPS) episode, Peter summarizes his biggest takeaways from the last three months of guest interviews on the podcast. Peter shares key insights from his discussions on diverse topics such as dopamine and addiction with Anna Lembke, the current state and exciting future of CRISPR-mediated gene editing with Feng Zhang, how to build and maintain strong bones from youth to old age with Belinda Beck, how calorie restriction may influence longevity and metabolic health with Eric Ravussin, and the role of testosterone and TRT in prostate cancer with Ted Schaeffer. Additionally, Peter shares any personal behavioral adjustments or modifications to his patient care practices that have arisen from these engaging discussions. If you're not a subscriber and are listening on a podcast player, you'll only be able to hear a preview of the AMA. If you're a subscriber, you can now listen to this full episode on your private RSS feed or our website at the episode #325 show notes page. If you are not a subscriber, you can learn more about the subscriber benefits here. We discuss: Overview of topics to be covered [1:45]; Anna Lembke episode: addiction, dopamine's role in pleasure and pain, and managing addictive behaviors [4:15]; Follow-up questions about addiction: heritability, cold therapy, exercise, and strategies for breaking addictive behaviors [14:45]; Feng Zhang episode: the potential of gene editing with CRISPR technology for treating diseases, and the challenges ahead [21:00]; Feng Zhang's impactful education experience, and how early exposure and curiosity-driven learning can develop scientific interest for kids [28:30]; The future of CRISPR: weighing the scientific potential to combat complex diseases against ethical considerations around genetic modification [33:45]; Belinda Beck episode: how to build and maintain strong bones from youth to old age [37:30]; How both nutrition and exercise are crucial for bone health at all ages, and why it's never too late to start [54:45]; Eric Ravussin episode: calorie restriction, energy expenditure, exercise for weight maintenance, and more [59:00]; Measuring energy intake and energy expenditure: techniques and challenges [1:09:45]; ed Schaeffer episode: the nuance role of testosterone in prostate cancer, TRT, and the need for better cancer biomarkers [1:14:30]; Peter's favorite bands [1:25:45]; and More. Connect With Peter on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube

Queensland Police Service Commissioner Steve Gollschewski joined Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast to discuss the big issues in the QPS headlined by a triple-zero ramping crisis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

View the Show Notes Page for This Episode Become a Member to Receive Exclusive Content Sign Up to Receive Peter's Weekly Newsletter In this quarterly podcast summary (QPS) episode, Peter summarizes his biggest takeaways from the last three months of guest interviews on the podcast. Peter shares key insights from each episode, covering diverse topics such as liver health with Julia Wattacheril, heart rate variability with Joel Jamieson, artificial intelligence with Zak Kohane, klotho for brain health with Dena Dubal, and lactate and lactate metabolism with George Brooks. Additionally, Peter shares any personal behavioral adjustments or modifications to his patient care practices that have arisen from these engaging discussions. If you're not a subscriber and are listening on a podcast player, you'll only be able to hear a preview of the AMA. If you're a subscriber, you can now listen to this full episode on your private RSS feed or our website at the episode #319 show notes page. If you are not a subscriber, you can learn more about the subscriber benefits here. We discuss: Overview of topics, and the positive feedback on the quarterly podcast summary format [2:00]; Julia Wattacheril episode: liver health and disease [4:00]; Noninvasive methods to diagnose liver conditions, and how to manage and improve liver health [16:00]; Joel Jamieson episode: heart rate variability (HRV) for training and health [27:15]; Practical tools for measuring HRV and how it informs training and recovery decisions [37:00]; Zak Kohane episode: artificial intelligence and medicine [47:15]; The current role of AI in medicine and how it could revolutionize medicine in the future [53:45]; The limitations and concerns pertaining to AI [1:00:15]; Dena Dubal episode: the potential benefits of klotho for brain health [1:05:00]; Animal studies on klotho and brain health [1:11:00]; Genetics-based variations in klotho levels in humans and their impact on cognition, disease risk, and longevity [1:14:15]; Testing klotho levels, the significance of the KL-VS variant, the role of exercise in increasing klotho, and more [1:17:30]; The potential of klotho as a treatment for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease [1:23:15]; George Brooks episode: a new paradigm to think about lactate and lactate metabolism [1:27:45]; The potential for lactate infusions to aid in brain recovery following a head injury [1:34:00]; The relationship between lactate and cancer, and the impact of exercise on lactate levels and cancer risk [1:36:30]; and More. Connect With Peter on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube

Queensland Police Union President Shane Prior joined Peter Gleeson on 4BC Drive with the QPS in mourning after the death of Senior Sergeant Brendan Wiblen on the annual remembrance motorcycle ride.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 New documents reveal Queensland Police waited days to follow up a complaint that might have seen paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith exposed sooner. Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian's app. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Kristen Amiet, and edited by Lia Tsamoglou. Our regular host is Claire Harvey and original music is composed by Jasper Leak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

View the Show Notes Page for This Episode Become a Member to Receive Exclusive Content Sign Up to Receive Peter's Weekly Newsletter In this quarterly podcast summary (QPS) episode, Peter introduces a new format aimed at summarizing his biggest takeaways from the last three months of guest interviews on the podcast. Peter shares key insights from each episode, covering diverse topics such as protein and muscle building with Luc van Loon, toe strength with Courtney Conley, VO2 max with Olav Aleksander Bu, liquid biopsies for cancer with Alex Aravanis, gut health and probiotics with Colleen Cutcliffe, and road safety with Mark Rosekind. Additionally, Peter shares any personal behavioral adjustments or modifications to his patient care practices that have arisen from these engaging discussions. If you're not a subscriber and are listening on a podcast player, you'll only be able to hear a preview of the AMA. If you're a subscriber, you can now listen to this full episode on your private RSS feed or our website at the episode #304 show notes page. If you are not a subscriber, you can learn more about the subscriber benefits here. We discuss: How Peter keeps track of his takeaways from each podcast episode [5:15]; Luc van Loon episode: fat utilization, muscle protein synthesis, dietary protein, aging and inactivity, and more [8:45]; Behavioral changes that have come about from the conversation with Luc van Loon [23:45]; Courtney Conley episode: importance of toe strength and the impact of dedicated foot training [26:45]; Olav Aleksander Bu episode: the importance of VO2 max for lifespan, and the practicalities of measuring and improving VO2 max [36:45]; Behavioral changes that have come about from the conversation with Olav [56:00]; Alex Aravanis episode: liquid biopsies for cancer detection [1:01:30]; Colleen Cutcliffe episode: the importance of gut bacteria balance, and the potential therapeutic uses of probiotics, particularly Akkermansia [1:16:45]; Mark Rosekind: the significant issue of road fatalities and injuries, their causes, and practical safety measures to reduce risks [1:27:00]; and More. Connect With Peter on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube

Acting Assistant Commissioner Andrew Massingham, joined Peter Gleeson on 4BC Drive to chat youth crime including the latest incidents and how well the QPS is cracking down on repeat offenders.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode was recorded live at the IMAPS Device Packaging Conference – helping celebrate the event's 20th year. The record turnout included many of our 3D InCites Community members. Françoise von Trapp spoke with several of them who were exhibiting and presenting, and in some cases, simply attending.  Alex Ospina of ACM Research discussed the latest technologies in wafer-level packaging, and the company's focus on developing novel IP technologies to address industry challenges. You'll hear about the company's new vacuum cleaning tool designed to remove flux from bonds in smaller chiplets. You'll also learn about the company's approach to reducing its environmental impact. Tim Olson, of Deca, shares big news about the company's collaboration with ASU to create an open lab for innovation for innovation, licensing its M-Series and Adaptive Patterning technology, and working with ASU to outfit a fab with unique equipment.Laura Mirkarimi and Oliver Zhao, of Adeia, explain the important role optical interferometry plays in atomic-level hybrid bonding. Zhao explains how they are using AI-powered neural networks to identify defects in the hybrid bonding process, with a focus on categorizing defects based on their relevance to certain process steps.Manuela Junghähnel, of Fraunhofer IZM-ASSID,  explains her new role taking over the leadership of IZM-ASSID, from Jürgen Wolf.  She talks about learning the pilot scale to the production line created by Wolf. She also explains the relationship from the parent IZM and IZM ASSID.Brian Riley, of QP Technologies, shares a history of advanced packaging technologies, and the company. He describes QPs' proprietary process for flip chip packages, the use of open mold plastic packages, and overmold QFNs.Justin Locke, of Siemens EDA discusses innovations in functional verification of 3D Heterogeneous integration connectivity. He explains about the importance of formal verification in the design process, highlighting its ability to catch errors early on and prevent physical implementation issues. Peter Cronin, of MRSI Mycronic talks about new technologies and interconnects in optical packaging, highlighting the need for active alignment tools. He introduces the Active AClimate ConfidentWith a new episode every Wed morning, the Climate Confident podcast is weekly podcast...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showBecome a sustaining member! Like what you hear? Follow us on LinkedIn and TwitterInterested in reaching a qualified audience of microelectronics industry decision-makers? Invest in host-read advertisements, and promote your company in upcoming episodes. Contact Françoise von Trapp to learn more. Interested in becoming a sponsor of the 3D InCites Podcast? Check out our 2023 Media Kit. Learn more about the 3D InCites Community and how you can become more involved.

Listen to this episode if you or a friend: Are nervous or unsure how to report domestic violence or coercive control to the police. Want to understand the process and what happens after you report it. Need guidance on evidence collection and seeking support. Are interested in safety planning and available resources. Seek reassurance and empowerment in navigating the challenging situations involving domestic violence. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussions of Domestic Violence. If you feel triggered please call 13 11 14 Lifeline and someone is there to listen. Call 1800 Respect if you or someone you know needs support in this area. Call 000 if in immediate danger. In this episode, we speak with Inspector Dwyer, Manager of State Domestic Family Violence and Vulnerable Persons Unit in the Queensland Police. We discuss the step-by-step process of reporting domestic violence and coercive control to the police. Learn what happens inside a police station so you can take those next steps with confidence instead of being afraid of the unknown. Inspector Dwyer provides valuable insights into the steps that people can take, the evidence required, and the support available to them. Don't Miss Out On These Key Points: Understanding the Process: Inspector Dwyer outlines the process of reporting domestic violence incidents, emphasising the importance of collecting evidence such as witness statements or medical reports. Follow-up and Communication: Victims should expect proactive communication from police officers, who are responsible for keeping them informed about the progress of their case. Dealing with Insufficient Evidence: If you feel your case has been dismissed prematurely, seek advice from a domestic violence coordinator or specialist within the police station. Coercive Control: Report patterns of coercive behaviour to the police. Safety Planning: Create a safety plan with the help of domestic violence service providers to mitigate risks associated with reporting abuse. Interstate Orders: Orders issued in one state are recognized nationally, ensuring protection for victims even if they move or travel to another state. Training and Awareness: Details on how the Queensland Police Service has invested in extensive training for its officers to recognize and respond effectively to domestic violence situations, including victim-centric, trauma-informed practices. Empowerment and Hope: Inspector Dwyer underscores the commitment to eradicating domestic violence and offers reassurance that victims survivors have support and resources available to them. For Full Show Notes, go to www.thedivorcecourse.com.au/blog For more support, visit www.thedivorcecourse.com.au Inspector Melissa Dwyer Bio: Melissa joined the Queensland Police Service in 1991, following her completion of secondary education the year prior. Initially serving in uniform, Melissa was later appointed to the Redcliffe Criminal Investigation Branch, becoming the first female appointed to the CIB in that District. She gained extensive experience as a regional Detective, specializing in investigating rape offenses, including those committed within marriage, and leading investigations into domestic and family violence (DFV) homicides. After 13 years as a regional Detective, Melissa became the Officer in Charge of a Prosecution Corp, serving as the senior prosecutor for DFV and serious and violent crimes. In 2015, she was promoted to Senior Sergeant in the Strategic Policy Branch, where she played a key role in leading the Queensland Police Service's implementation activities associated with the recommendations of the Not Now: Not Ever Report. Currently, Melissa serves as the Inspector Manager of the State DFV & Vulnerable Persons Unit, where she was instrumental in implementing the DFV Specialist Courts, earning joint agency Prime Minister's awards and Commissioners Outstanding Awards. She also developed and implemented the Queensland Drug & Alcohol Court. Melissa has provided evidence at the Commission of Inquiry into Police responses to DFV and led the development of DFV frontline and specialist training for the QPS, earning accolades at the 2023 International ACWAP awards. Her training was endorsed by ANROWS as best-practice and shared to assist interstate training development. Melissa holds post-graduate qualifications in DFV and is actively involved in enhancing collective responses to DFV through membership on external Boards. Her experiences have fueled her desire to improve the system and change outcomes for women and children while holding perpetrators accountable.   Please note that this podcast provides general education only and is not legal advice. This is just one lawyer's opinion of the family court's views in Australia. Do not base your case on anything mentioned in this episode unless it is first discussed and approved by your personal lawyer. Always seek independent legal advice, as every situation is different. By listening to this show, you are agreeing that it and the company that runs it are not liable for the outcome of your case.   Other Podcast Episodes Mentioned  Domestic Violence and how to get out of it Part 1   Domestic Violence and Family Violence Part 2   Coercive Control in Divorce and after Separation   Stalkers gonna stalk - How to deal with coercive control, tracking & harassment   Post Separation Abuse and what you can do about it.   Coercive Control: how you can help yourself or a friend & what you need to know about the legal changes coming   Child Abuse, Family Violence or Risk and the notice you need to fill in for the Family Court.   What you might be doing that you don't yet realize may have significant ramifications to your property, parenting or domestic violence matters   Family & Domestic Violence and how it impacts on your case in The Family Court   Four things you might not realise are coercive control and the questions to ask yourself to see if it might be happening to you.   Delay Tactics in Divorce: How to counter then & How it can affect your Property, Chlildren's & Domestic Violence Matters.   The Post Separation Abuse Playbook and what you can do about it. Part 1   The Post Separation Abuse Playbook and what you can do about it. Part 2 Useful Resources:   Click here for our free before you leave checklist  Click here for our free mediation checklist Sign up here for our next free online webinar Emergency Contacts: WOMEN'S SHELTER SERVICE  LEGAL AID Lifeline 13 11 14 Mensline Australia 1300 789 978 Kids Help Line 1800 551 800 Aboriginal Family Domestic Violence Hotline 1800 019 123 Relationships Australia  Police on 000 DVConnect Womensline on 1800 811 811 (24 hours, 7 days a week) Note: This number is not recorded on your phone bill DV Connect Mensline on 1800 600 636 National DV line on 1800 737 732.1800RESPECT 1800 737 732   Don't forget to hit SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss out on our upcoming practical steps and guidance for your divorce or de facto separation. If you found this episode helpful, please leave a rating and a review to help others. Thank you.   Please note that this podcast provides general education only and is not legal advice. Always seek independent legal advice, as every situation is different.

Interested in learning about the challenges of police leadership in the 21st Century?The day before she retired from the role of Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service (QPS), Katarina Carroll APM spared some time to talk to Jason Byrnes about a range of topics. These included the challenges facing police now and into the future, the skills future leaders should possess, how the QPS responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact on the organisation in the wake of the murder of two police officers in December 2022. Ms Carroll also revealed the roles in her career she found challenging, gave an insight into her experience in previously leading Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, and also how she dealt with government, parliament and the opposition.This episode continues the APJ's efforts to inform and educate police and the community about the challenges of policing at all levels. It is particularly relevant for serving police from any agency, keen to gain an understanding of the priorities, pressures and opportunities that face senior police leadership. Host: Jason Byrnes APMGuest: Katarina Carroll APM

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John MacKenzie chats with Dr. Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminology at Bond University, about Acting Assistant Commissioner Andrew Massingham's bold new vision to bring youth crime under control in Queensland. Mr Massingham will be in charge of the QPS response to juvenile offending and has labeled social media as the "number one" driving force of exacerbating youth crime. Dr. Terry Goldsworthy provides his valuable insight into the audacious plans.

At a time when a youth crime crisis is gripping QLD, the QPS have implemented a new program which is taking at-risk kids and putting them on the football field in order to curb their offending. Acting Detective Inspector Kent Ellis joined the program to explain.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cheers to 2024! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Today on QPS- we dive in to the two things I will be intentionally focused on this year- the 80/20 principle and the internal thermostat theory. Check it out. feel free to share. and CHEERS to all we have to look forward to and create this year. Let's go set the world on fire!

Queensland Police Acting Chief Superintendent, Andrew Pilotto joined Jason Dasey in the 4BC Sumer Drive studio to detail all the policing measures for a safe New Years Eve in Brisbane. They also talked about youth crime, the clean-up after the Christmas night thunderstorms and road safety. In regards to road safety, Pilotto said that the QPS has a goal of zero road fatalities in 2050.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We all know that the more prospects we're pursuing, the more potential revenue we have, but how do we manage great outreach and awesome conversations at scale? To learn the secret of relentless selling at scale, we sat down with Nicole Williams, a former intelligence analyst with the US Army, and now the regional vice president of operations and sales for the QPS employment group. She showed us how any salesperson can plan their work and work their plan in a way that doesn't just sell more but allows us to serve more prospects and clients along the way! It's all in this week's Bulletproof Selling podcast!

On today's Zero Limits Podcast I have a chat with Jeff Casson former Australian Army Armoured Corps Cavalryman and Queensland Police Officer.After being rejected on his first attempt to enlist into the defence force due to a previous knee injury after successful appeal Jeff enlisted into the Australian Defence Force in 2005 as a cavalryman within the Royal Australian Armoured Corps. After the completion of basic training and initial employment training at the school of armour he was posted to 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Darwin. During his posting at 2 cav he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and shortly after his Afghan deployment he posted to 3/4 cav in Townsville and again deployed to Afghanistan. In 2012 Jeff discharged from defence and decided to join the Queensland Police however during his police service Jeff's mental health declined where after a few years as a QPS officer he was involved in a incident where he was charged by the corruption and crime commission for theft in which the theft of 100 dollar was going to be used as a means to fund his suicide. Listen in for the rest of the story.Website - www.zerolimitspodcast.comInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/zero.limits.podcast/?hl=en

On this episode of QPS, we unpack what the four core areas are of our life and how what we have created as belief systems can impact how we show up for ourselves and others  I refer to belief systems as B.S. and sometimes what happens is we have created our own belief systems based on someone else's BS.... ;) Often as we mature and age, we encounter situations that will challenge an existing belief system, usually causing some internal dysregulation and this will usually have a domino effect of massive discomfort.  This is not wrong, in fact it actually often means incredible growth.  We talk about what this means, how we can work through this and create new systems that will serve us. Don't be afraid to challenge your thoughts and your B.S. We are always changing and evolving, its in our DNA.  As always, I love you and go light the world on fire! 

In this episode Graeme discusses the RTI file received from QPS and the extraordinary measures the QPS have taken to prevent any criticism of their investigation.He provides examples on the facebook pages of the material released by QPS under RTI.He provides the answer received from the Attorney General in response to his email of April 2023.He discusses the RTI information with Christine Day, sister of Sandrine.This is the link to those documents:https://www.facebook.com/groups/missingsandrinejourdanThere is more of this story to come out.The email address is graeme5353@live.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's QPS, I dive in to the idea of other people's opinions and how those often stunt our growth and willingness to take a leap and change. We discuss that we WILL suck at things we do for the first time, if we can just get over that hump, allow ourself to suck and fail we will be stronger when we get back up and do it again, knowing we won't die! We can change! We don't have to stay the same. We often fear the change because of two things; one we are going to most likely suck at it at first because its new and two others will see us suck at it  ESPECIALLY those who know us We will be judged by others for changing and you'll be judged by yourself for not so we might as well do it anyway Id rather judge myself and be proud in the pursuit of who I am becoming than allow others to stunt my growth and judge me anyway. Create yourself. One step at a time. When we can get excited about this journey and not fear it, that's where the magic happens. go set the world on fire love always e

Transcript: Good afternoon. Either one, I can just get the time change. I was just in Ohio as I'm still trying to figure out what time it is. I just forget every time I visit my friend he's just barely over that timezone like line. Like, so he is maybe like 45 minutes away from that line and you're traveling and you have that weird timezone change where you like, I feel like when I drove across the country I expected but like when I get to where he lives I'm like this doesn't make any sense to me. It's like oz. Gone, gentlemen, good. How are you? I'm just swell. talk amongst ourselves with recordings on. Quite sure I feel free to talk at my leisure for the recording is that where they said that? Yeah, the note taker in there too. So I have a call I do with my marketing company. And the note taker, or the recording agent that they have starts the meeting beforehand. So I always think I'm late to the meeting. That's already there already in the room. I'm missing it. And I get there, just me and a bot. I was like, This is worse, like at least like you would hear we have other people but I'm sitting there with just one thing. Like, I can't hit the mute button fast enough, because I don't know I'm gonna sit down with technicians. And obviously here I'm not in on this call yet. It's a it's a bit of a funny spot to be. Worked out some sort of like, go to a chat TV team come up with a script, and then just start reading it and see what it comes up with in the interpretation. Right? Because lot of times when I'm doing bot recordings. Yeah. It doesn't really get it right. Depending on what it is and how I'm saying what I'm saying. Sounds you there Jack. I always feel like any recording thinks I have marbles in my mouth. And I just I can't do voice of text that can't be voiced anything. And I think I'm understandable but it does not it never has. And I I've seen people who mumble much worse than me be impossible to be translated as good. I'm actually a keep tweaking my presentation because we added one more security suite options for people. But I don't want to make my presentation too long. Because I want to show people Option A and Option B is I don't want to do them a disservice. I'm only showing everyone one solution. But the problem is it when I when I added the other one in my my PowerPoint went up to I think it was it was at 37 slides. So this is your presentation. It was only about a half an hour. So now I gotta get back and contribute things things back out of it too, because some of them are today I've actually cut out a couple other slides. So I'm down to 33. Now it's one of the last ones just like the thank you in the beans the intro So I've cut down a lot on it. Right? Like a one slide I was walking through our ticketing system and showing them all the stuff now I'm like that's more of an onboarding thing. They don't need to know some of these things in here like how to use this icon. It's just taking up space in here so well and time and really you're right. They don't even know that doesn't that doesn't even matter. Until they're Yes. Yep. I didn't have one they updated today. They really liked it was the GPT slides that were so we have a including one of our security stacks, they get the password manager so you know how people have it on their phone and have the thing that stores all the passwords we have. One that we include, and certainly as a point of I thought this was an interesting fact that in 2020, if you had a character password that was 11 characters, with numbers, letters, capitals, symbols, it would be safe for 400 years. Now in 2023, with Chad's UBT, it's down with four days. So the amount that it actually changed how safe passwords were is just, it's ridiculous. And so I kind of showed the generations of that password manager. So I have that little n Have you ever seen it's like little, little chart where it shows like, okay, four characters here, a teens here and a little like, little chart for you to see how safe your password is? No. Is it a chart? When you say that though? It reminds me of the amortization schedule? Is it a flat graph? Or is it a chart that moves? It's, I'm trying to think with it, it's what's the word? I'm thinking almost like if you have four quadrants of something like so you can see, you know, safest to most like, most secure to least secure, right? And it shows you based off of how many characters and how many other variables you have, how safe so I'm trying to remember the name of that chart is ahead. But you know, what would be cool with that? Have you seen like, ECM on Facebook a lot, where it's, it talks about things over time. That's why do something like that, like the population of the United or the, you know, top 10 countries of the world, right, or number one saw our highest selling artists, and then they'll go from like, you know, 60 to 21. And it'll just, you'll see people move up and down calling off the chart. I wonder what it would look like to have a chart like that, that talked about security? And overlap the last 10 years? I don't, I'm able to channel able to share my screen. Yeah, I think I was open to where anybody can share. And so maybe I can get some feedback on this one then too, because I just, I just changed this. Good morning, everybody. Morning. Come on, Jack. We're all waiting. Yeah, no pressure. Stop yelling at me in front of my friends. So you see in this, yeah, looks great. So this was 2020. And this is again, how safe a password was. And when you switch this. So it goes from 2020 skips over 2021 for whatever reason. So you can see how this chart had this, this red is actually going farther down. In 23, here's where it is. And then here's now with using GPT. So this is where people used to think their stuff was safe. So that's where you go from that 400 years to four days and show the different years and how the point of using a password managers 100% of their r&d is on encryption and password management. That's what everything they do. It's very different than your business where you're working on whatever you are unless you are a password manager. And I think they said they blame that almost 80% of breaches on just weak passwords nowadays, and weak passwords has changed a lot over time where people used to think, you know, weak was 12345. Weak is changed a lot in the last couple of years. So Right. I would my I would reverse the graph. Yeah. Yeah, I want to see that. What I what I'm doing is getting worse. Right, that graph almost. And I'm not sure that that's what I would think do I want to see what I'm doing is getting worse. So if I have a seven digit password, I would be looking at that, because I probably have the same, you know, same seven digit password, which is, you know, for the last three years, right, or not the same password, but I change it but it's, you know, the same amount, which is why if you look at almost all things that require a password, they've gone from six to eight to 11 to 15 to 24 characters are characters. So that says this, and I show I show what it used to be and what it is and actually does get worse as you keep going. So what was saved was not saved. Right. And I do have the ability to just scroll back like I use the little Senator on dialer, to roll forwards and backwards to show that 400 years and that four days, and I made sure that the lines lined up the same. So if someone's eyes were in the same spot, when I got to the last page, they're still looking at that same location, because they might think, well I use that patch. What's my address cat's name and how big of that how much of your business is the manager of passwords? How big is that of the whole piece of the pie what we do of what you're trying to sell it? That's a small part of this of the second security stack. So it's a very small All piece is a part that I recommend people have. Absolutely, yes. But then consider that in your proportion of slides and time. Yeah, I did. That's why I think it's one slide and one rolling thing. And they're gonna go right through it. And one piece of one portion of that time, right? If it's 5%, that of my 30 minute presentation, it gets 5% of that piece. I think I have this as like a 32nd. Slide. So I have some of these that have time that look, it's worth a mention. It's not the whole thing. We're talking about cybersecurity, and it has an industry I spend much more time on that one too. Because that's the bigger thing of what we focus on. Good. It's good thought, though. Thank you. But But the great thing about it is it's something everybody understands. Yeah, that's something I mean, if you're giving a 30 minute presentation, I would think you have, you know, 1015 slides, because I don't want you watching the slide, I want you to pay attention to what I'm saying. The slide when we talk about presentations, the slide is to remind me of where I'm going next. Yeah, right. And then I'll give you the slide deck later, or send you more information or answer your questions. But I want you with me, because really, the sales conversation isn't about the product, the sales conversation is about your needs. You're getting clear that I hear your needs, understand your needs, and can solve your needs. And then be our relationship. So you trust my knowledge, and feel comfortable moving forward with me. Right, I know that you're like a sales person. So yeah, but I'm just saying too much information. Usually, it's like, like picking choices, right? It's like getting somebody like you have to now it's like the people will give you five choices. You got your homework and come back and talk to me. Yep. So that's why I keep trimming things down. And I have couple more interactive questions in here too. So like when I asked like these to show how people could get support, and I instead say, Hey, Kevin, how would you like to reach your IT company? Because they might say, hey, I want to email you. That's great. You know, a lot of companies do that. But we have we have four different ways they can send something in, but I want to see how someone wants to interact with us. And so I do that as a question in that part. You know, it's definitely the first questions I ask people in my business, because I want to know how best to support you. If you're a person who texts and I send you emails. Right, we're gonna do this. Or if your personal emails and I send you text and you'll look at your phone all day. Yeah, that's smart. And like I said, you kind of have this new with my pin out, Jack, you know what's up? I'm taking notes. So do understand. I'm still young, so I'm still figuring a lot of stuff out. But like to think I do a lot of potential power trying to improve my craft. Yeah, absolutely. It's impressive. All right, John. Sorry. We just probably talking amongst ourselves without you. No worries. So what, what have you guys covered so far? today? We're talking about Jack's slides. He's got 37 slides and a half an hour presentation. And he's wheedling it down. And he showed us one that was really cool about that he thought was interesting, little fun fact about password that used to take 400 years to crack with chat TBT now thanks for days. Got it. Because I returned that same question for you, Jack. Because you know, I trained speakers. Is that what you would like some coaching on today? I wouldn't mind it. Because I've been, I've been looking at changing phrasings and how I go through this whole thing I actually finished so one of the books we had, where we did fix this next, he also is referring to the storytelling brand. So let me let me stop you there real quick. So I'll make a list here some jack and talk about presentation. Sure. Because we can do today's fourth, Monday, we can do administrative and finance. Or we go around the room and go okay, what is the thing you would like to work on today? Okay, so, Jack presentation and Mike. Any specific thing you'd like to work on today? No, nothing specific. I I need to go through the I forget what it's called the, the 20 contacts eight weeks. I need to go through that. You'll go through those modules go through those trainings, kind of burn that out. And then the other thing I want to do is I've been texting agents once a week of intense texting about 200 agents once a week, industry updates. And I want to try to go to each of their offices and try to meet them in person so they know who's sending the text. That's the other thing I want to do. But other than that, no nothing specific I just need to need to get some business back. Kevin, I would like to create a $7,500 a month coaching program in 90 days right Vanessa, yes, I need to finish my business plan for my new business Okay, so let's start with who you Jack. So the presentation who is the target audience this is my slide deck for for any target audience. But the the addition of the time was I we added an advanced security suite in response to compliance and cyber insurance. And it had added on a couple of products that were probably necessary. But again, I'm trying to condense the time because it is hard to shorten up some of the items in that actual slide going through DNS, spam filter, sock, MFA, play check. So each thing I try not to talk too much on, but kind of give a value proposition to that item. Right? So the reason I asked who the intended audience is, is if you're talking to a group of engineers, this is awesome. Right? Like this is like, yeah, it's gonna be unbelievably great for them. Okay, if you're talking to a small business owner, like myself, like Kevin, like the neasa, like, Michael, I'm going to want to hear more stories. And I'm not going to want to hear too much technical stuff, I'm going to want to hear, what's the problem? How's it affect me? I want you to dig as much as you can into that pain. So I can now relate. And then I want you to give me a solution. That's that's the way you're talking to the audience or when you're crafting a talk, right? Or you're crafting any type of social media message? Who's the target audience? Knowing that first, what's the intended outcome of the post of the presentation? What is the outcome, like any of you guys can attend this webinar that I'm doing with Adrian boy sell at 12pm, today is going to be a two hour. It's not even really a webinar, it's going to be like a dialogue between two business owners, because we're launching a $10,000 a month, guaranteed revenue program. And we're charging 10 grand for it. But you're gonna see how we banter back and forth. Because right now, I think there's 2530 people registered for the thing. We decided we're not going to do this long drawn out PowerPoint presentation. And we're just going to have a dialogue, we may share some of the shoot a few things on the screen, but it's going to be very, very packed. So when we were planning this, and this mon bring this home to you when we were planning this, because Adrian hasn't done as much of this as I have. Okay. I just point blank said, What is the ultimate outcome here? Where do you want to lead this audience to at the end of your talk? And that determines how the talk goes, right? So if your slide deck is for informing other engineers, then you got to look at okay, can I split this up into three talks? part one, part two, part three? Okay. Is the audience business owners, small business owners to educate them on the importance of password management? Right? And in that case, I'll tell you what my mentors always told me is, every single slide in there gets deleted, and it has to find its way back to the presentation. If it's not absolutely necessary, then it doesn't get put on there. Right. And especially if you're talking to for business owners, no more than three or four bullet points per slide. Okay, cuz you want them listening to you, not reading the slide. So I want to talk about something and talk about it in I want to add the bullet point. Okay, so I'm going to give you a resource. I'll just, I'll just drop this in the Dropbox folder for everybody's benefit. The number one PowerPoint, instructor, present presentation guru that worked for Microsoft created a talk on how to deliver a PowerPoint presentation slide deck. Okay. And I have the recording. And so I'm going to put that in the in the deal. Ad. PowerPoint. slide deck. Okay. So are you wanting them to buy something at the end? Are you wanting them to contact you? What is your ultimate outcome of your talk? Sign the contract, are no neck or no next steps. In some cases where I know I'm gonna be doing several presentations, because I might do one for the office manager first and then get to the C suite depends on the company and size, like you said, Sure. I think my biggest client, I think I had to do like a dozen presentations for every VP and everyone in the C suite. Sure. And so I'm in the in the C suite, office manager level. The format is I would do like intro outcomes. Chunk one, chunk two, is a 30 minute deal. Call to action, right? If you got 45 minutes to an hour, it's intro outcomes, chunk one chunk to chunk three call to action. Okay. And so an intro no more than two to three minutes, and its credibility building. Okay, here's who I am. Here's what I've done. Here's what we've done. Here is the reason you should listen to me my favorite thing, and I discovered this years ago, when I was giving lots and lots and lots of talks, is I came up with this thing called three questions. Okay. And all three of you are in this talk that I did, which is how you landed up in this program. Right? So when I first started that talk, I said, there's basically three questions somebody has when when, you know, when they're listening to somebody speak number one, who is this dude? Number two, what's, you know, why should I listen to him? And number three, what's in it for me? Is that a fair statement? Everybody in the room went? Yes. Right? Same thing here, if you're giving a presentation, but it's one on one, okay? You want to craft your talk in such a way where you're giving it to an audience, and then it's easier to take out the stuff that doesn't apply when you're doing a one on one thing? Right? So in this case, is if it's the office manager, and you've never spoken to, they're not an existing client. Okay. Same three questions. Who are you agreeing to take the meeting for a reason? Okay. Why should I listen to you? And what's in it for me? Okay. So, by answering those three questions will help craft this talk. Again, if I'm sitting with a bunch of engineers, I'm going to have some pretty darn technical slides. Okay, for them to geek out on, right? If I'm talking to an office manager, I'm going to paint a real world scenario of, you know, Joe Smith, new employee coming in and setting up their account and using a weak password. And later on, coming to work and get an email from somebody that says click here and he goes ahead and clicks. Okay, next thing, you know, I get a virus spreading around my entire office. Okay, next thing you know, I'm in the office manager running around, like a chicken with my head cut off trying to fix everything I'm calling the IT person, I'm panicky, because, you know, we're getting attacked here. Does that sound familiar? Yes. Okay. So what we do at outsource my it is we prevent that nightmare from ever happening to you as an office manager. Z. I didn't talk about anything technical. Okay, what I did do with the owner, and the office manager and the C level people unless they're a computer engineer, I'm going to talk about pain. I'm going to talk about the fact that if there is a computer problem, if somebody actually hacks the password, it's going to take down the whole network and because you are networked, it's going to it's going to allow that person to grow have anything that's on that computer network, because once they hack into the domain, they have control over everything. And now like, you know that that spreadsheet that you guys did that you guys, you know, you had multiple people in your company work on for over 100 hours times all the employees all that's now gone. That's going to scare the living hell out of them to the point where they're not going to be open to a solution. Okay. So, again with your talk is who what is the ultimate outcome? Who is the intended audience? Okay, you put it together. And then you create one master talk. If you look at Tony Robbins, if you look at Les Brown, if you look at myself, if you look at any unique speaker, there's usually about two to three signature talks that they have. Okay, and their full blown talks. But now because I'm talking to you, I'm taking out this slide, I'm taking out this slide, I'm taking out this slide, I'm taking out this slide. And I'm whittling it down directly to my audience. Okay, so I'll give you some advanced training. If you really want to nail down this talk thing. I'll give you some advanced training that I've done with other coaches, or other people on speaking and, and really nail it down on how to do the talk. Okay, yeah, yes. That the other company I trained with originally was with HR tech to their original presentation, and they trained me on was an hour long, like, at least and I'm thinking, hey, I'm sorry, but you don't understand what jerseys like, like, not people don't give you an hour here, especially even for a sales presentation. Like, we're an hour. You haven't, we have to break this up. So I took a lot of what they originally did. And like you said, I had to start what I do, instead of deleting the slides, I would I would hide them and then revisit, do I need that? Can I add add that add that somewhere else do I need that graphic? And that's a lot of what I've been doing. So HR Tech Academy, because I know Alex Rogers personally. I was there when they started shark sec. Okay, when was Buck 25% Shark sec. I was actually in Alex's office when that happened. So I have a lot of their stuff. And and so again, it's the full talk, but whittle it down to whoever the audience is the least amount of slides the better. I agree, talking to an audience the least amount of slides, the better. Because stories are what sells like when you when you this afternoon between 12 and 2pm. When as Adrienne and I are talking the one thing you will notice if you're there, we're going to record it I'll give you as a recording, we are going to do a tremendous amount of storytelling. Like most of our time is going to be telling story after story after story after story after story. Because we're going to create an evergreen situation where that's going to be promoted out for the next week on an automated webinar type thing. Okay, but it's the stories that are going to sell any questions? Mike, marketing type system. So do you have questions about the actual system? No, don't have questions about the system. I understand the system. It's just a matter of me kind of coming up with things to touch points to use. I know Kevin and I've talked about it before and Toastmasters is one of them, you know inviting them to Toastmasters. And I just I haven't been going to toastmasters for the last month. So I haven't, I haven't wanted to invite anybody. So now that things are starting to calm down with my wife, and I know I'm gonna start going again so that y'all have that to add. So I don't really have questions on it. It's just a matter of me, you know, creating the content and then doing it. So with we go to this and I'm going to share the screen here. Now while you're doing that you and maybe Jack can answer this. You said there are four things I wrote down, who's the audience? What's the outcome? Like? There are a couple other things that I didn't write down. Remember that Jack? What was he saying? I wrote who? Why? And what's in it for them too as the three questions for that, too. Okay. Who is this? Why should I listen to him? What's in it for me? He also, there's one thing that you also said to that I, I'm gonna guess his right out QPS, or question based selling, that's what we talked about, the order of solutions that you want to do with people is problem, alternate solutions, which is also important. And that's a lot of what I think about my slides. Because a lot of times people start with, here's my solution, then they give you a problem. And they showed what you were using as an alternate, but the buying process and your brain is wired a little differently. So if you start with a problem, give the alternate and then show the solution to so you're showing kind of a different direction of those things to they would call it pass versus spa thinking on that one to say that, again, you've said when you're whether it's on the overall presentation, or on the short parts of the slides, when in the book, question based selling time for us talks about doing you go with the problem, the ultimate, the solution, not leading with your solution first, where people start a lot of times with the solution. And that's the easiest order of operations. When you say the alternate you mean, what they're doing now. Use the alternate is more of just the pivot step. That's your transition part two, right? It's how do you do that. But sometimes people put the transition that comparison part at the end to so they have problem solution, or they'll do solution problem. And then in the at the end, and they say well, here's the verses, here's this versus that. So they do comparison at the end of it instead of so here's your problem. Here's what some of those things, here's how you would solve these problems. Here is the solution that does solve those problems, too. So ultimately, I don't know if it's always the best word, but it's usually just your pivot, pivot step about one two. That makes sense. I'm just trying to understand what you said alternate was almost like, obviously, you know, the problem is, is obviously, efficiently at first, right? Because we have a problem, the solution, you know, and we start talk about the solution. First, it gets me thinking about the solution, as opposed to feeling the pain of the problem, and not fixing the solution. I don't have the pain yet. Yeah. So if I said, Hey, we specialize in a Kevin, we specialize in cybersecurity, here's why we're so great at cybersecurity, you might actually have passwords that are out there, and then start going through how to do it. It's just a different order of operations, instead of talking about, hey, a lot of people have, you know, at companies have reached out there because the passwords aren't very strong. So that's the problem. You know, the ultimate is just visually how do you pivot from one to the other, but tactically, and you don't say words like but are things that can be seen more combative, by nature? verbiage? Hey, I know you like this, but because you want people to insinuate that the wrongs Hey, I know you've been doing this for a while at the same time, can I show you how this could be a solution that can save time for you and make your company more safe, you know, something that's not combative. Alright, so on the screen, I just now uploaded this to the folder and didn't find it in the Dropbox folder. Okay, so this is in this folder right here, where it's appointment setting, because I teach the marketing tech system on video, but I actually have a step by step document for you to follow. And in pretty much it's laid out, boom, boom, boom. So the only time you actually have to get creative is twice a month. Okay? So you need one piece of content, it could be, you know, the top 10 things in real estate, the top 10 things and mortgage it can be a sales tip, it can be, you know, if you're going after realtors, you want to solve the number one problem they have. Okay, and that is getting leads. Okay, the number one problem realtors have is leads. The number one problem realtors have is consistency. Okay, now I'm talking new realtors. I'm not talking about seasoned veterans. Okay. So seasoned veterans have all different products like in the VSAs case, she's a seasoned veteran. Okay, her number one problem right now is starting her own brokerage. Getting her business plan up to date, she already has a massive following of people relationships, etc. And her her actual next big move, okay. In fact, all of you should I have let me go and find the actual name of this thing because the number one realtor In the world at the time, I learned from Dan Sullivan wrote a book called Well, him and his buddy have a book called 10x is easier than 2x. Very, very powerful book, I got it on the audio audio version, but she, she told, he told the story of this realtor who did not even want to get in real estate. And next thing, you know, became the number one realtor in Keller Williams nationwide. Okay, they millions and millions of millions of dollars in commission income. Okay. And he goes through exactly how you do it, he goes, okay. It's the I'm not gonna get into that. It's just, it's a squirrel long rabbit hole right there. But this is the marketing Touch system right here. You just follow it step by step once you have about 12 pieces of content, usually recycling, recycling. So what I tell people, hey, you know what your group number one. And let's just say you only have 50 leads, well, now you got two groups to start with. And over the next week, you're going to, you know, maybe you take the 50 leads, and you divide them up into eight groups that you got maybe 10 people in each group or less than that, your job is to grow it to 200 qualified leads. Okay, once you have two under qualified leads, if you follow this system to the tee, the fastest I've been able to get the email sent down is nine minutes and 36 seconds. Okay. And on average, about 10 and a half minutes. And but if you use the system, as I've laid it out here, it's very, very productive, and it's very consistent creates a consistency. Right? You get one new piece of content again, what is the number one thing challenging a realtor? Now one thing, challenges in a realtor most Realtors is I need to lead. You know, I need to be introduced. Okay, I need a relationship. I learned this from Marguerite Chris Villa when I was working with her, and even how to go and as long as it's like too many people chase active listings. You know, to me, people want to time a listing, when we're in reality, they just need to go out and develop a couple of new relationships per day. Over time, they have enough people, where somebody is going to start referring them to somebody that they just heard in the wants to list their home. He knows but you know, I remember Brent telling me this when I trained his team, he goes, he goes and I look back at my real estate career. The only thing I've done is I've gone out and made friends consistently. I've gone out on I've added new friends to my database, every single day I go on, I meet people, I cannot get become a rock star stain in the office, I go out and like meet people, I shake their hand. Yeah, I get I get a contact, I need a contact, I need a warm body. And then I need to determine if I like them or not. And then I need to figure out how I can help them and keep in touch with them in a systematic way. So when they do know of somebody, or they themselves are interested in real estate, I'm the first person they think about. Yeah. And ultimately, you can outsource and have an assistant do all that stuff. But this marketing type system, you do it yourself first. And the five times I've implemented this to start my companies, I get it to the point where I'm too buried to do this anymore, and then I hire an assistant to do it. So that's how it's laid out right there. And feel free to add me to your marketing type system treat me as a prospect, add me to group number one. So that way, you're sending me a piece of content, you can add me to every group, if you want just practice on me every day, I don't care. Okay, you send me a marketing touch and then you follow up with a phone call. So what that's how the system works is you can add whatever content you want here. Right, but the key is, is consistency. So in real estate, you need a warm body as a connection, and even the mortgage, you need a warm body as a connection. The other thing that the two of you can do as a mortgage company, is you can host a webinar, you can say, Hey, come here, John Pyron for 45 minutes talk about referral systems. Right? You promote it out to every realtor that you know. And you set up a time where you want me to be a speaker for you for free. Right, this is what I used to do. I used to go around the mortgage companies and I used to go around the real estate companies. Why? Because they have a meeting every say A week and they always have a guest speaker and I was a guest speaker every week like clockwork somewhere at some place in this town. Okay. So if you go to my YouTube channel and you'll see many talks up there Coldwell Banker there's all kinds of places I've gone and spoken to. The number one requested talk is my talk on how to 10x your referrals that resonates with every mortgage person, every realtor like clockwork and it works. Yeah. And you guys can be the people that host it. And it's just going to be a magnet. Yeah, so that's an idea. Okay, any questions about that? No. All right, Kevin, created a 770 $500 per month coaching business in 90 days and you want to coach you real estate mortgage real estate mortgage. So you want to be a real estate mortgage coach and be able to create $7,500 in 90 days per month Yes sir. Right there's two ways to go about it number one, you need content you see my screen still yes Right. Actually, you know what we do this the benefits of being a part of this group is. That, honestly give it all to you guys. In a six month mentorship program, teaching Coaches and Consultants how to make 100 grand as a coaching consultant, okay. And in order to graduate from the program, you had to create a six figure income and in six months, Okay, step by step, I recorded everything. workbook templates, everything. Okay? So I'm just going to give it to all of you, if you have an ambition of wanting to do that, because it is laid out, boom, boom, boom, workbook everything. Okay? So workbook right here. I paid I don't know, I take pain, Steve Knoppix on $75,000 to learn this. Okay. And with his permission, I just duplicate because I love training coaches and consultants and they've done a lot of that. So this is one path. The other path, you and I are going to have a one on one conversation about how to work together and I can get you there 1015 times faster. So because $7,500 a month and 90 days is a lot of work. I've done it, I can help you do it. It's entirely up to you. Okay, but if I was going to if you want to do a self paced type thing, just follow this workbook step by step. Okay, and all the recordings 12 People in this mastermind that I did for six months, I made the mistake of giving to, to, to the spots to to friends and didn't make make or pay for. And of course, they dropped out. As you know, they didn't have any skin in the game. How did the other remaining 10, eight of them graduated meaning eight of them creating a six figure coaching consulting business in less than six months. Okay, and but I didn't leave anything out, this is exactly what they paid for it. They all the calls are here, step by step speaker training, all that stuff. And you all have access to it now. But really for to make it simple. It's figuring out who do you want to coach real estate and mortgage people? If I put you on a stage right now, and said, Hey, here's a bunch of real estate mortgage people, what are the top 10 Things you can share with them right now? That would have the biggest impact on their business? Here's the mic. That's your first 10 pieces of content you really need to create. Because when you're building a coaching, consulting business, content is everything. Having enough content out there to show that you are an expert and having some success stories, okay. So in your case, if it's coaching real estate and mortgage people, you got Mike, who's worked with you, he's your first call client. Okay? And treat him like he's paying you a lot of money. Okay, and you mentor him for free, because he's already on your team. But you do it on Zoom, so you guys can record your conversations, and that becomes training content. Okay, then you go out and you find a couple other realtors to do the same thing. You put social media posts out there, what's the biggest challenge you have as a realtor? The biggest number one problem you have as a mortgage first. You can even ask a couple of people, what is your number one problem ago, you created a little survey going out of lead generation, at least four areas of business, marketing, sales, lead generation, whatever those bullet points are, what is your biggest challenge that you have as a realtor? And whatever they give you you teach content on that. Because it's the content, it's your talking and I did a lot of training in there on that about that. But it's your your content that is gonna attract people to you. And you go from there. So a classic example here, let me go here Stephanie shell are here, same thing came to me and said, Hey, I want to be a coach. I want to be a speaker. I want to be a consultant. Okay. And it took me three and a half months of working with her one on one to get her to fire her boss, which she did. Now, if you go through any of her stuff here, well, best selling author of 12 books. She has a workshop that we designed. I designed it because I wanted to be an attendee of a great workshop. So we designed it. It's coming up in January. It's called the rare retreat. It's usually in San Antonio. And, but now she has does well over a million dollars a year as the author, speaker trainer, coach that a whole team, etc. Right. We worked together for seven years. And but it was just step by step lumbo She wanted to get she's one of the stories I'm going to be telling between 12 and two today is probably one of the going to be the one one of the stories that resonates the most is she tried for four months to hit 10k a month. And you know there's a video up there called how to give yourself a clean slate. That is a direct result of Stephanie shower. There she calls me up February 9 that says hey, I I'm not going to hit it again. I know you are why it's February 9 Steph what? Well I did the numbers I use see what I have my A pipeline and I just don't see how many hit it today and you'll win. Do you want to hit it? Yeah. Do you really want to hit it? Yeah, you're gonna do exactly what I tell you to do. Yeah, great. Okay, here's what you're gonna do. And I gave her that clean slate strategy. Within seven days, she passed 10k a month. And I said, you're not done. You got another eight or nine days, I forget what the what the actual number is on the video. But she ultimately came in at $14,865. Because it was a mental breakthrough that she needed. She had to how to exact how to give you to get to $7,500 a month, which actually can go a whole lot faster now, because of the amount of people I've done this with now. You know, it works. And the format is this. I give elite. I've got enough content to convict me at what I do as a consultant, or coach, I send you an email. My signature has enough information there for you to be curious enough to go and click OK. Then I have an appointment link on there. You're going to set a 10 minute phone call with me. I'm going to do a 10 minute phone call mash you three things. Number one, what's your big goal that you're trying to hit by the end of this current year? You're gonna tell me, I'm gonna say okay, you'd like to hit it by the end of the year. Yeah. Okay, let's just say you're there and you're, you're achieved it. And I'm gonna walk you through a two minute phone call. The questions I'm gonna ask them the dialogue I'm gonna ask. The most important thing is, is mastering that 10 minute call, she was stubborn as hell about. Right, and she kept failing and failing and failing and failing for about three weeks in a row. She finally calls me ever says this, there's something wrong, I'm not succeeding with this 10 minute call thing. And she was given away 45 minutes to 60 minutes of her time with every prospect and it's just not sustainable. And so I went and we roleplay and she treated me like a prospect says stuff you're not following the 10 minute sprint. Follow 10 minute script over the next week. Verbatim. Don't add live. Stop being stubborn and do it. Can you do that? Yeah. Well, we hold it work. And the rest is history. I'm going to call it a strategy session which led to a ticket to the garage reader which led to a ticket to a workshop which led to a ticket to speaking engagements. And he is having a funnel like I have here on the wall that you can have touch points with them all over the place. So once you have that process and system down is just duplication it's it's it's repetition over and over and over again. Okay, so take a look at the resources that I've shared here. Okay, and and then if you want to talk you know about working together one on one to get you there quicker just let me know you're more than happy to start in the resources huh? You shared when I look when you shared it because there's quite a bit there where do I start and those resources just starting the beginning? Or is there a start creating content because I feel like content seems like the key content is the key. And as a content outline, I would start with this workbook and walk you through step by step how to get your content based started. Because and humor Oh. Sales foundation sales message sales voice This is a funnel, right and this whole workbook walks you through step by step how to create that. Okay. Lisa English business plan. Yes. Do you need there? Where are you stuck? I am stuck at how big I want to go. How what? How big do I want to go or how small do I want to keep my my practice or my my brokerage? So like, I'm thinking okay, do I'm just going to be on my own do this for a year or two? Or should I just you know, just start like hiring people. I go I go back and forth. Sure. Did you get your business plan done? No. Okay. You follow the one page PLAN strategy? Are you doing a full blown 1520 page business plan? I'm actually I'm going back and forth. I tried to do the one foot one page, and then I get distracted, and then start, you know, going through through my mission and objectives. And then I come back down. And, you know, try to do that again. So, yeah. So it starts off with I mean, it's, it's easier to go after a bigger role. And Miss, versus going after a smaller goal. I mean, smaller goals don't really motivate us. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you want something that's, that's like, unrealistic, that you feel like there's just no way I can hit that. Okay. Because the person you're, you don't want to build a business, or set a vision, that doesn't require you to change. Because nothing's gotten your hit the goal, it would be very easy to hit the goal, you're going to be the same in the process, and your targets are going to be set low. And it's going to be easy to not do it. Yeah. So when you set an intention, you know, you're starting a real estate company from scratch. And, you know, what's it going to be like to have, you know, 50 agents. As a real jerk, you're, you're going to be the person that is going to be the Rainmaker in the beginning. And I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt, the very first hire you're going to hire is going to be an assistant. Yeah, take all that stuff off your plate that you don't want to do. Right? And then even then you might need a second assistant before you hire your first agent. Right? If you get that book 10x is easier than to X. entire chapter one is about a realtor, I forget her name. But she started from nothing. And, and she followed that model, he laid it out step by step how she went from nothing to a million dollars in commission. I mean, step by step. And she built it in increments, big, big leaps. Okay, so out of the 12, out of the 100% of the work that I do 80% of it needs to be given to somebody else. So I can make room for the 20%, which is going to give me the biggest leap, and the biggest jump, and he walks through the psychology of the growth of that. So when you set small goals, you show up in a small level, when you set big goals, you have to grow into that because you don't have the skill set to hit it right now. So the first thing I would do is, is get your business plan done, you don't need unless you're gonna go out and get investor dollars. A one page plan is going to be just fine. Okay, first milestone, how do I get to how do I get to $8,333 a month? How do I get to a six figure income consistently in my new business? And if that doesn't motivate you, to under 50,000? You know, how do I get there? And it'll become very apparent of what you need to do. You can always bring it here and go, Hey, can we look at the plant and they can we can we talk about it? Any questions about that? I mean, the other thing we can do if you if you want is we can schedule a strategy session between the two of us and we can just get it done. Okay, okay. It's always an option for every one of you. There are going to be times where you're going to want to make these big leaps. And there's not enough time on this call to get it done. And any of you can book a strategy session with me, obviously, I'm not going to do it for free. But doesn't mean you have to work with me one on one. Maybe you just need two hours, four hours of one on one time. It's totally fine. You have that option. Okay, because once we get that plan done, then all you got to do is show up here. Here's where I'm at. There's one that hold me accountable here. Hold me Hello there, what's the next step here? What's the next step there? Okay. But I would get that one page plan done first. So you know exactly what that next step is. Because each day that goes by that you don't have it is lost opportunity. Does that make sense? Yeah. Cool. Anybody else have anything else that they want to discuss? Alright guys, I gotta run. And if you want to be a part of this deal here at 12 to two, I will send you a link on that. Just let me know. So all right, I gotta run. I'll see you guys. Can you send me that John? Yes, I will. Talk to you guys later.

Season 5 of the Pot Moms Podcast has a new twist on parenting and cannabis. In this week's episode, Kait and Natalie launch the second-to-LAST of a multi-part series around Cannabis Education! They covered A-P, and are now coming for QRST! They cover QPs and other difficult cannabis math weight, RSO or Rick Simpson Oil, S for our girl SATIVA, and finally, a mini deep dive into THC! Education is a huge way to break down stigma and find common ground and topics to speak with cannabis consumers and non-consumers alike. Tune in each week as they provide an open and honest perspective on cannabis-use as it relates to parenting, mental health, and life in general. Connect with the Pot Moms Podcast on Instagram @PotMomsPodcast, or reach out PotMomsPodcast@gmail.com with questions. 

Having attended a range of emergency incidents, examining major crime scenes, bombings, profile serial killings and a myriad of suspicious deaths, organised crime gangs etc, Gordon Drage was forced to leave QPS purely b/c he'd turned 60. That's the rules.Gordon loved his work & excelled in his field of forensic examinations. He was at the top of his game, with so much knowledge & insight into forensic examinations. What a waste…. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Having attended a range of emergency incidents, examining major crime scenes, bombings, profile serial killings and a myriad of suspicious deaths, organised crime gangs etc, Gordon Drage was forced to leave QPS purely b/c he'd turned 60. That's the rules.Gordon loved his work & excelled in his field of forensic examinations. He was at the top of his game, with so much knowledge & insight into forensic examinations. What a waste…. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Having attended a range of emergency incidents, examining major crime scenes, bombings, profile serial killings and a myriad of suspicious deaths, organised crime gangs etc, Gordon Drage was forced to leave QPS purely b/c he'd turned 60. That's the rules.Gordon loved his work & excelled in his field of forensic examinations. He was at the top of his game, with so much knowledge & insight into forensic examinations. What a waste…. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Having attended a range of emergency incidents, examining major crime scenes, bombings, profile serial killings and a myriad of suspicious deaths, organised crime gangs etc, Gordon Drage was forced to leave QPS purely b/c he'd turned 60. That's the rules.Gordon loved his work & excelled in his field of forensic examinations. He was at the top of his game, with so much knowledge & insight into forensic examinations. What a waste…. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mayor Koch on the Quincy Public Schools as the year closes, Updates on New Public Safety Building, Roads and More..

John MacKenzie chats with Sergeant Dave Raymond, Officer in Charge of Cairns Dog Squad, to share some stories after he was one of seven officers awarded an Australian Police Medal for exemplary service. "Sergeant Raymond commenced with QPS on 29 May 1989 and was sworn in as a police officer on 8 December 1989. He has served his whole career in Far North Queensland including service as a general duties officer in Smithfield and Cairns Police Station, Officer in Charge of the Cairns Police-Citizens Youth Club where he was instrumental in its establishment", quotes the media release from Mark Ryan, the Queensland Minister for Police and Corrective Services.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.04.20.537631v1?rss=1 Authors: Kimura, I., Hayashi, M. J., Amano, K. Abstract: Several studies have implied that human brain microstructures can change immediately after a behavioral training. However, since widespread regions are involved in behavioral training, it remains unclear whether the microstructure in the living human brain changes immediately after the change in activity of a specific brain area. Hence, we aimed to examine whether the microstructures in the human brain change after the increase and decrease in the specific brain activity by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, namely quadri-pulse stimulation (QPS). Right-handed healthy adults underwent both the excitatory (QPS5) and inhibitory (QPS50) QPS protocols over the left M1. Before and after QPS, diffusion MRI and resting-state fMRI scans were collected to detect any microstructural (fractional anisotropy [FA] and mean diffusivity [MD] values) and functional (functional connectivity between the bilateral M1) changes after QPS5 and QPS50. As a result, we observed no statistically significant change in FA or MD values after either QPS5 or QPS50 in cerebral cortex. This suggests that the brain activity change in widespread area is required to induce microstructural change immediately. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Dr. Jacqueline Drew - Associate Professor.  Former QPS Police psychologist and now specialist with the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Griffith Criminology Institute at the Griffith University, QLD._______Listener discretion is advised; some episodes raise issues regarding mental health, suicide and other matters that might not be suitable for all listeners.  If you need support check out our support page here._______In this episode, Matt talks to Dr Jacqueline Drew.  Dr Drew is currently conducting a research project into the predictive factors contributing to psychological injury faced by Police in the execution of their duties, with the view of implementing truly preventative strategies to support Police and first responders more broadly - which has already discovered some amazing outcomes.  This research is being done in partnership with the QPS and Commissioner Katarina Carroll.Dr Drew's research has already shown that the organisational and operational stressors in Policing cause 3 times the harm compared to exposure to critical incident and traumatic event exposure when looking at psychological distress in Police officers. Further, the research has looked into the more recently coined 'Post Traumatic Embitterment' disorder and Moral Injury against instances which may have been somewhat incorrectly diagnosed as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder emanating from one or more traumatic event exposures.Some of the more troubling statistics highlighted by Dr Drew are that over 80% of current Police Officers in Queensland are suffering burnout, compared to around 50% in the general workforce but more disturbingly 12% of Police in Queensland are suffering from extreme/severe levels of psychological distress (found consistent with the Beyond Blue research in 2018) against around 1.5% of the general Australian workforce.Dr Drew also talks about the effect of losing the 'Police Family' for former members and how damaging the workers compensation system combined with loss of identity can be on the individuals involved in post service support can be.All current and former members of Australia's Police Forces are encouraged to listen to this episode and follow the research being done by Dr Drew and the Griffith University.  To get in touch or follow Dr Jacki Drew's work check out these links:Griffith experts page: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/8497-jacqueline-drewLinkedIn: Jacqueline Drew, PhDTwitter: @drjackid____________________________Get it now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and others: https://linktr.ee/h2hwalk www.heart2heartwalk.org#QPS #griffithuni #H2hwalkpodcast #heart2heartwalk2023 #triplezeroalliance #heart2heartwalk #firstresponderfamily #firstrespondermentalhealth #firstrespondersaustralia #firstresponder #firstresponderfamily #FirstResponderPTSD #firstrespondersuicide #ptsd #mentalhealthawareness

In this episode, Adam Firman is joined by DS Scott Ballantyne from ARGOS, Queensland Police - ARGOS, is a team of experts dedicated to countering child exploitation based in Queensland, Australia.  DS Ballantyne has been involved in child protection since 2009 so has a wealth of experience within this industry and shares the highs and lows of what is an extremely challenging but rewarding career. It's definitely a podcast that's got it all! Give it a listen. Thank you for listening to Forensic Fix - a podcast brought to you from MSAB. To contact us about the show please visit Forensic Fix - MSAB

Cameron is back with another episode of the Fifth Estate Podcast.In this episode he talks about...Is podcasting a sham?Which is better, value for value, or advertising?Possible war with China, and what the Australian government should be doing instead of spending $200billion on subs.QPS negotiator on scene in a Townsville seige.

John MacKenzie chats with Acting Chief Superintendent Rhys Newton, District Officer Far North Police District with QPS, about the rise in theft and assault rates in Cairns and Far North Queensland. It has been revealed that FNQ has experienced the worst growth in crime rates in comparison to the rest of the state. Cairns is seeing the highest offence rate in over 20 years, currently standing at over 18,000 offences per 100,000 people. Many fear that post-traumatic stresses and mental health issues will escalate as crime increases, with many pleas being made by discouraged residents for our elected leaders to uphold their duty-of-care to the community.

Top cop apologises to LGBTIQ+ community Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll apologised to Brisbane Pride leaders at a private ceremony. The Queensland Police Service has apologised to the LGBTIQ+ community for the “profound hurt and pain” it has caused by mistreating and discriminating against them. This is QPS propaganda attempting to take the focus off all the negative stories that have taken up so many of the headlines so far this year, and it's only January. This is just my opinion. PS: If you enjoy my content, I will think of you while drinking my coffee. – Buy Me a Coffee The Slippery Slope Spotify J Fallon Apple Music J Fallon Spotify J Fallon YouTube The Slippery Slope Apple Podcasts The Slippery Slope YouTube The Slippery Slope Stitcher --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason-fallon/message

Police officer charged with computer hacking Queensland police have charged another of their own, this time for alleged computer hacking and improper disclosure of information. “This does not mean that the allegations against the officer have been substantiated,” the QPS said in a statement. It did not release further information. It followed news this week that other Queensland members had been stood down following separate alleged incidents involving domestic violence, stealing and drink-driving. The details provided by the QPS were generally vague, but in “keeping with our commitment to high standards of behaviour, transparency and accountability”. When it comes to their own, QPS will always be vague, because high standards of behaviour, transparency and accountability are just mottos. They don't lead to actual standards. This is just my opinion. PS: If you enjoy my content, I will think of you while drinking my coffee. – Buy Me a Coffee The Slippery Slope Spotify J Fallon Apple Music J Fallon Spotify J Fallon YouTube The Slippery Slope Apple Podcasts The Slippery Slope YouTube The Slippery Slope Stitcher --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason-fallon/message

Shaun O'Gorman is a Human Behaviour, High Performance and Resilience consultant, keynote speaker, and author. After joining the Queensland Police Service in 1989, Shaun worked in the Police Dog Squad for many years as well as the Covert and Surveillance unit working on Major and Organised Crime. While in the K9 unit Shaun was involved in daily high-risk critical incidents ranging from violent street brawls, high-speed pursuits, barricaded suspects, domestics, and other serious shootings. The majority of these placed him at high risk of serious injury or worse. He also performed duties with the Special Emergency Response Team (SWAT) as a tactical K9 handler.Shaun left the QPS and was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The years of exposure to serious police call outs, resulted in clinical depression. To overcome his mental health injuries, Shaun spent the next 17 years immersed in the study of personal development, human behaviour and high performance with a goal of healing himself and living a happy life. He now devotes his life to helping others using the knowledge and education that helped him help himself.While forging his successful corporate executive career Shaun developed an interest in mentoring and coaching others and now continues to follow his passion for helping others to create high performing lives for themselves. He established “The Strong Life Project” to deliver High-Performance Mentoring,  Workshops, Keynote Speeches, daily podcasts, and articles focused on providing tools and strategies to empower people to conquer challenges, manage stress, and create happy and fulfilled lives.As an accomplished author, Shaun's most recent book, “My Dark Companion”, chronicles his own highly personal fight with PTSD, depression and how he has come out the other side as a role model for people of all walks of life on how to create a life that you love.TRIGGER WARNINGFollow the podcastOnemomentpleasepodcast.comIG:@onemomentpleasepodcastFB: OneMomentPleasewww.thestronglifeproject.com podcast: The Strong Life Project

Queensland police whistleblower goes public to argue commissioner Katarina Carroll should lose her job The commissioner says she has only been in the role for three years and she needs more time to implement change within Queensland Police Service (QPS). Yet what changes was she attempting to implement while she was in the upper echelon of leadership prior to being appointed commissioner? The only reason the commissioner is now concerned about change to systemic cultural issues with the QPS is due to the inquiry asking her some tough questions. Before this she was quite happy for the status quo, because it was the status quo that helped her rise through the ranks. She was quite happy to deny issues within the ranks because QPS leadership is an unchecked authority. This is just my opinion. PS: If you enjoy my content, I will think of you while drinking my coffee. – Buy Me a Coffee The Slippery Slope Spotify J Fallon Apple Music J Fallon Spotify J Fallon YouTube The Slippery Slope Apple Podcasts The Slippery Slope YouTube The Slippery Slope Stitcher --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-fallon/message

Queensland police let off with a talking to after inquiry's scathing report Throughout the inquiry into Queensland police responses to domestic violence, the public learned about cases where officers who were found to have engaged in serious racism or sexism were let off with a “local management resolution”, which is basically a stern talking to and a demand to do better in future. Premier Palaszczuk says Commissioner Carroll is a “strong leader” but that the QPS needs to do better. “Let me say very clearly: I expect the reforms to be implemented. Very, very clearly,” Palaszczuk says. The subtext: the police leadership has had a stern talking to, and a demand to do better in the future. As one former police officer puts it: “It's just one giant government local management resolution.” This is just my opinion. PS: If you enjoy my content, I will think of you while drinking my coffee. – Buy Me a Coffee The Slippery Slope Spotify J Fallon Apple Music J Fallon Spotify J Fallon YouTube The Slippery Slope Apple Podcasts The Slippery Slope YouTube The Slippery Slope Stitcher --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-fallon/message

QPS musical Hairspray/ The District

Shaun O'Gorman is a former QPS member. He served for 13 years as a Police Officer and has one mantra - 'Don't be normal. Be a savage'. Shaun has fast become one of my favourite people in my adult life. He's so insightful, direct and doesn't sugar coat shit... and this is why I love him!  TW: This podcast discusses suidicide, violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual violence and descriptions of scenes that Shaun has worked on as a Police Officer.  I'm not even going to explain this episode. I just want you to listen.  Follow Shaun on Instagram here See his website here Listen to his podcast here Follow him on linkedin here Get his book here. 

This is a Quit Playing Small episode! If you want more QPS episodes head over to the QPS feed. What are you giving your attention to? I'm sharing one of my stories on being laser focused on a destination and how that turned out. Quit Playing Small Book - https://amzn.to/2EENAbbWebsite - https://www.iquitplayingsmall.com/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/AHYIANA.ANGEL/

In news, monkeypox infections in Australia is “stabilising significantly', Sydney club ARQ will reopen this October or November, Queensland Police Service will collaborate with Brisbane Pride on a formal QPS... LEARN MORE The post Q-mmunity Network News (QNN) – weekly queer news and sport appeared first on QNN.

First up, J+M discuss Bob Iger joining Thrive Capital as a venture partner (2:09), then they break down the most interesting moments from the Twitter whistleblower hearings (24:48). After that, they discuss KKR tokenizing part of its new healthcare fund (57:43), before wrapping on the Launch House allegations. (1:06:22) (0:00) J+M tee up today's topics! (2:09) Legendary former Disney CEO Bob Iger joins Thrive Capital as venture partner (12:23) Revelo - Get 20% off the first 3 months by mentioning TWIST at https://revelo.io/twist (13:45) How Iger linked up with Josh Kushner, false perceptions of VCs (23:32) Dell For Startups - Apply for Dell for Startups and get an additional 10% off at http://dell.com/twist (24:48) J+M react to clips from Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko's congressional hearing today (33:13) Assure - To get 20% off your first Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) visit https://Assure.co/twist (34:33) More clips from the hearing and reflections on Twitter's security issues (57:43) KKR tokenizes part of its new healthcare fund to allow QPs to invest more easily (1:06:22) Launch House allegations FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis FOLLOW Molly: https://twitter.com/mollywood Subscribe to our YouTube to watch all full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkkhmBWfS7pILYIk0izkc3A?sub_confirmation=1

Acknowledgement of Country// News// Cathryn Murdoch//Cathryn Murdoch, a member of People from Public Housing, Defend and Extend Public Housing, and Victorian Socialists, joined Zeb and Kevin on 3CR's City Limits show yesterday to discuss homelessness crisis accommodation and the Coburg Motor Inn. Catch the rest of the show here, and tune in to City Limits on Wednesdays from 9-10AM// Miranda - Inside Out//Then we are joined by Miranda, a queer prison abolitionist. They co-founded the Inside Out solidarity network 7 years ago and have been one of the coordinators ever since. They have been involved in other abolitionist projects such as the International Day of Solidarity with Trans Prisoners. They join us today to speak on the the importance of the Inside Out LGBTIQA+ Prisoner Solidarity Newsletter and fundraiser https://chuffed.org/project/inside-out-lgbtiqasb-prisoner-solidarity-newsletter For a starting resource on abolition please visit: https://millionexperiments.com/// Elizabeth Strakosch - Institute for Collaborative Race Research (ICRR)//Liz Strakosch is a co-director at the Institute for Collaborative Race Research, which aims to do politically useful, community led research grounded in Indigenous sovereignty, and she joins us today to discuss the Institute's submission co-authored with Sisters Inside to the Commission of Inquiry to examine Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence calling to defund QPS. Liz is a white Jewish heritage settler and an academic at Melbourne University whose work focuses on Indigenous policy, bureaucratic violence and comparative colonialism.// Sam Wallman - Our Members Be Unlimited//Comics journalist and cartoonist Sam Wallman joins us to speak about his powerhouse comic 'Our Members Be Unlimited', a beautifully illustrated narrative of workers and their unions that inspires hope, solidarity and radical action. 'Our Members Be Unlimited' is published by Scribe, and is now onto a second printing after selling out since its original publication in late May this year.// Songs// Twisting Words - Miiesha//RĀIN - The Merindas Samuel Gaskin//Waitin' On Ya Remix - Genesis Owusu//  

Despite work playing a significant role in mental health and wellbeing, many military personnel with mental illness are being discharged rather than rehabilitated back into their roles or other occupational settings. To enhance return to work rates, particular attention should be directed towards early intervention for PTSD symptomatology. It is imperative that military personnel receive gold-standard PTSD treatment prior to being diverted on a medical discharge route, as many personnel can be returned to work safely. Helping our frontline workers access greater support services is this week's guest Dr Andrew Khoo, Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of Day Programs and Medical Director at Toowong Private Hospital. Andrew is the Chair of the RANZCP Committee for the Military, Veterans and Emergency Services Personnel Mental Health Network. He is also member of the Department of Veteran's Affairs Expert Advisory Group. Andrew is a member of the ACSQHC Expert Advisory Group informing the Australian Commissioner's Review into military and veteran suicide. He sits on the Queensland Police Service Injury Management Advisory Group and has externally reviewed policy for the Australian Federal Police and the QPS. This week, Andrew sits down with me to discuss how tailored PTSD treatments can benefit our frontline workers and assist their transition back into the workplace.

Ep. 43 Shaun O'Gorman former 1990's Queensland Police K9 Unit Police Officer LIVE NOW LINK IN BIO SPOTIFY - APPLE PODCAST - AMAZON MUSIC - GOOGLE PODCAST - STITCHER and many more platformsOn today's Zero Limits Podcast we chat to Shaun O'Gorman former K9 Queensland Police Officer. After joining the Queensland Police Service in 1989, Shaun worked in the Police Dog Squad for many years as well as the Covert and Surveillance unit working on Major and Organised Crime. While in the K9 unit Shaun was involved in daily high-risk critical incidents ranging from violent street brawls, high-speed pursuits, barricaded suspects, domestic violence, and shooting incidents. The majority of these placed him at high risk of serious injury or even death. He also performed duties with the Special Emergency Response Team (SWAT) as a tactical K9 handler.Shaun left the QPS and was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The years of exposure to violence and tragedy resulted in clinical depression and a battle with suicide. Shaun spent three nights in a row, a Glock pistol in his hand, laying in bed trying to think of reasons not to end his life. To overcome his mental health injuries, Shaun spent the next 17 years immersed in the study of personal development, human behaviour and high performance with a goal of healing himself and living a happy life. He now devotes his life to helping others using the knowledge and education that helped him help himself. Currently he is a Human Behaviour, High Performance and Resilience consultant, keynote speaker, and author. Let's Go!!

宇宙開発利用大賞で内閣総理大臣賞を受賞した「株式会社QPS研究所」。 この会社の取り組みである「小型SAR衛星コンステレーションによる準リアルタイムデータ提供」について、 どんな技術が裏にあるのかを紹介します！ ソース https://www8.cao.go.jp/space/prize/prize.html 感想、質問は「#宇宙ばなし」をつけてツイッターで呟いてください！ すぐに見に行きます！ Youtube（佐々木亮の宇宙ばなし）を再開します！ 顔が見たい！宇宙の画像を見ながら楽しみたい！という方におすすめです。 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHW6gg92z7E7hdnhbStpzT Voicy公式パーソナリティーとしても活動中！ Podcastの収録と同時に、Voicyでの生配信も実施している！？ https://voicy.jp/channel/1726 Instagram（ryo_astro） https://www.instagram.com/ryo_astro/ Twitter（_ryo_astro) https://twitter.com/_ryo_astro --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ryo-sasaki/message

宇宙開発利用大賞で総務大臣賞を受賞した「株式会社QPS研究所」。 この会社の取り組みである「宇宙アバターの技術活用に向けた宇宙-地上間のアバター技術実証」について、 どんな技術が裏にあるのかを紹介します！ ソース https://www8.cao.go.jp/space/prize/prize.html 感想、質問は「#宇宙ばなし」をつけてツイッターで呟いてください！ すぐに見に行きます！ Youtube（佐々木亮の宇宙ばなし）を再開します！ 顔が見たい！宇宙の画像を見ながら楽しみたい！という方におすすめです。 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHW6gg92z7E7hdnhbStpzT Voicy公式パーソナリティーとしても活動中！ Podcastの収録と同時に、Voicyでの生配信も実施している！？ https://voicy.jp/channel/1726 Instagram（ryo_astro） https://www.instagram.com/ryo_astro/ Twitter（_ryo_astro) https://twitter.com/_ryo_astro --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ryo-sasaki/message

SponsorThis week's episode is sponsored by ExtraStatic. ExtraStatic is a hosting service for Svekyll blogs. Svekyll blogs combine the simple conventions of Jekyll with the incredible power of Svelte. Check it out at ExtraStatic.com.DescriptionWe talk with Chris Toomey of the Bike Shed podcast about him and is teams bet on Svelte at Sagewell FinancialMusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)Notes Sagewell Financial Style Directive Const Block Shawns IE11 Article Inertiajs Temporal and Sidekiq Unpopular Opinions Antony: Wordle can either use a .co.uk domain or use us-english words, not both! Kev: SQLite is amazing Scaling SQLite to 4m QPS on a Single Server A future for SQL on the web Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages Ansiwave BBS Swyx: Brian Holt's unpopular opinion - React Hooks don't scale Chris: Developers shouldn't call themselves “Framework X developer” but rather “Web Developer” Picks Kev: Camo - using your iPhone as a webcam Antony: Stath lets flats Swyx: Obsidian and swyx's second brain Chris: Cleanshot X

Mayor Koch addresses the recent events within the Quincy Public Schools and Thanksgiving is upon us with BIG Quincy celebrations that follow.

In this episode, Dr Rick Brown interviews colleagues in the Queensland Police Service (QPS) and discusses the collaborative project undertaken between the AIC and QPS to better understand outlaw motorcycle gangs in Australia. In 2019 and 2020, QPS interviewed over 50 former gang members to understand their personal journey into motorcycle gangs, reasons for leaving and the impact of their association with the gang. This episode explores these findings and how QPS shifted from intelligence gathering to empirical research for this project. You can find the related AIC research at https://www.aic.gov.au/subject/omcgYou can find out more about the QPS Exit Program at https://www.police.qld.gov.au/initiatives/omcg-exit-program Content warning: this episode contains explicit language.

Glenn Compain is a former Auckland NZ frontline policeman and current QPS officer - working largely with troubled youth, and he's seen things that would haunt your nightmares. Violent gangs, rampant drug and alcohol abuse, soul-destroying promiscuity, parents unwilling or unable to tackle the mess their kids are making of their young lives.     At 19 he led a team of voluntary aid workers to Uganda, where they worked with orphans and child soldiers during the civil war. In 2004 he co-founded the Village Community Services trust with ex All Black Michael Jones, which continues to deliver mentoring to over 500 young people at risk in schools across Auckland.  A compelling and charismatic speaker, Glenn Compain is a powerful new addition to the HarperCollins social and parenting list and follows in the footsteps of Celia Lashlie and Nigel Latta.    Glenn's experience has taught him that every child is at risk at some stage during their formative years; that there are many influences in their lives that their parents can't hope to control. His message is that it is the parents' job to give their children the skills to make good decisions when times are tough. By sharing his own story and experiences from the frontline Glenn gives concerned parents the tools they need to spot the danger signs for their children themselves. While he doesn't claim to have all the answers, his common-sense approach and experience with troubled youth make his insight and ideas valuable tools to empower parents. A book for parents, teachers, and social workers, this streetwise, straight-talking look at today's world will have everyone talking.     Facebook:  HOPE VILLAGE (Mental wealth FB Page)  Facebook Group: CLUB 100 (fitness group)  Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-compain  Streetwise Parenting published in 2009    Listen to any of the Body Science podcasts at https://www.bodyscience.com.au/podcast To be notified when a new podcast goes live, head over to our Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud or iTunes channel and subscribe.

This week we have a chat to Chris McIntyre, a registered psychologist and former police officer in QPS. We discuss mental health, PTSD, signs and symptoms and how to begin looking after your wellbeing. DISCLAIMER: All of the opinions of each individual on 'The Student Paramedic Podcast' are their own. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Developing and implementing a framework for mental health training and support in a large organisation is essential. It also requires a significant amount of hard work, research, testing, and feedback. This week's guest Tania Raghavan is a Senior Psychologist with the Queensland Police Service. She has played an integral role in developing the QPS Mental Health and Wellbeing Literacy Framework and is currently working to embed training throughout a number of existing operational programs. Amongst 18 years of extensive experience in providing psychological services, Tania also has extensive experience providing critical incident response services with organisations nation-wide. This includes the ‘Queensland Police Service (QPS) Mental Health and Wellbeing Training Framework', which was developed to provide a structured approach to training to support the mental health and wellbeing of QPS members as they progress through their career lifecycle. Tune in as Tania delves into valuable insights into the framework process, including the challenges faced in developing and implementing a framework within a large, geographically dispersed organisation.

As president of Brookfield-based QPS Employment Group, Ryan Festerling has a front row seat to how the labor force is reacting as the economy ramps up again. QPS provides staffing services to more than 1,000 companies across seven Midwestern states, many in light industrial, warehousing and manufacturing settings. Festerling said that while the enhanced benefit is likely keeping some people on the sidelines, QPS hasn't seen a dramatic shift in applicants in states where the benefit has been ended. "I would love to tell you that it was this big light switch that all of the sudden candidates came out of the woodwork, it's just not the case," Feseterling said on the latest BizTimes MKE Podcast. He joined BizTimes associate editor Arthur Thomas to discuss what QPS is seeing in the labor market and offer some strategies for businesses to consider 

On this episode, we have Superintendent Kerry Johnson of the Queensland Police Service (Australia). Supt. Johnson currently heads up the First Nations and Multicultural Affairs Unit at QPS, and is in his 31st year at his agency. Over his career, he has worked in the far reaches of the remote north to the metropolitan sprawl primarily in investigations. We dive into his call to service, contributing to the mission, and tailoring solutions for communities.Linkshttps://www.police.qld.gov.au/https://www.instagram.com/qldpolice/https://www.youtube.com/user/QueenslandPolicehttps://fbinaafoundation.org/To learn more about 5.11 be sure to visit us at http://www/511tactical.com

Chris "The Hammer" Haseman is regarded as a pioneer of MMA within the Australian Mixed Martial Arts scene having fought in shows like the UFC and the World Fighting Alliance. From his success in the ring lead him to a career in fitness from working with QPS, Australian Defence Force, The Brisbane Broncos to then starting Fitness Industry Training an RTO to get other certified in their certificate 3 and 4 in fitness.A wild episode of fight stories to changing and making an impact on the fitness world!To find Chris Haseman reach out on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/chris.hasemanTo find out more on Fitness Industry Traininghttps://f-i-t.com.au/Subscribe to us on Spotify, Apple & Google Podcasts and now YouTube. Like, Share and leave a review.Find usInstagram@theplatformpodcasts@jonny_bbad@fortitudebarbell@epic_coachingFacebookFortitude Barbell - https://www.facebook.com/fortitudebarbell/EPIC Coaching - https://www.facebook.com/epicoaching/

It’s here! The highly anticipated episode 8.5, yes that’s right 8.5. We have special guest and Team Roundabouter Mr. Ryan Hinkamper, District 2 County Board Member as he gives us further insight into the role the Adams county board. QPS got extra money? No that’s not a typo, and we have plans for it… sort […]

so two side of the debate on what ;olice are doing weighh in together on what QPS had to say at oour last meeting. whats the state of needing to be a member of a club???

This week J reflects on Summer of 2009, being the worst drug dealer of all time, turning an international student (& close friend) into a stoner, getting finessed out of three QPs in one summer, telemarketing scams, Millennium Teleservices of Canada, Corn Detasselling, sketchy apartment buildings, ecstasy pills, kleptomaniac cocaine dealers, "Boiz Tent" & more ... Thanks for listening to RAP DRUGS POD: the Research And Psychedelic Drugs Show, from Jason & Todd. New episodes for #theRAPDrugsPod go live every Sunday IG TV > https://instagram.com/rapdrugspod Twitter > https://twitter.com/rapdrugspod Periscope > https://pscp.tv/rapdrugspod/follow YouTube (clips) > https://youtube.com/channel/UC7-KjFai4_I1Uhd3xaRQExg Merch > https://teespring.com/stores/rapdrugs Pay-What-You-Can > https://paypal.me/rapdrugspod Contact: therapdrugspod@gmail.com (202) 594-9466 © 2020 - Bong Toke Productions. All Rights Reserved. Support the show by purchasing from our affiliates: Swift CBD Oil Spray here, CBD Pure Oils, Softgels, Creams & for Pets here, Web Hosting with GreenGeeks here, Get TubeBuddy here

BJ Kroeger delivers a eulogy of sorts to The Pier, Eric (good boy) Kniel delivers remarks on the census. The non-legal experts examine the Roni Quinn vs. QPS (mask lawsuit) The most recent Quincy City Council meeting is recapped along with a little “most likely To.” It’s another great episode, fire away! ***Email us at […]

Shots fired! BJ and Eric lob the opening volley of the Quincy Cannon in this pilot episode. Join in as the boys discuss current issues in the City Council, the court case against QPS, the future of the Quincy riverfront, and even some hot Memorial Bridge survival tips.  Don’t forget to let the planning committee […]

Wondering about the difference between a qualifying provider and a lawyer referral service? Are you interested in becoming a qualifying provider or participating with one? Are you familiar with The Rules Regulating the Florida Bar that specifically address the division of fees between lawyers in different firms and the sharing of fees with nonlawyers? In this episode hosts Christine Bilbrey and Karla Eckardt talk with returning guest Jonathan Grabb to discuss the Qualifying Provider Rule, effective 2018, that amended rules regulating referral services. They also delve into which referral and fee splitting arrangements are permissible under the rules, finally putting to rest some long-held myths. Monica Burkes, of the Bar's Lawyer Regulation Department, is also on to talk about Qualifying Provider requirements and reporting procedures.  Jonathan Grabb is Assistant Ethics Counsel for the Ethics and Advertising Department at The Florida Bar. Monica Burkes is a legal secretary for the Bar's Lawyer Regulation Department. She manages the Qualifying Provider Service (QPS) database and handles all QPS annual reporting. This podcast has been approved by The Florida Bar Continuing Legal Education Department for 1 hour of General CLE Credit and 1 hour of Ethics Credit. Course #4093. REFERENCED RESOURCES: EthicsQualifying Provider Rule: Changes, requirements, & Q&A Ethics Informational Packets – incl. Interstate Law Firms, Referral Fees, Of Counsel, Legal Assistants and Nonlawyer Employees, etc. Rules Regulating The Florida Bar Ethics Hotline: 800.235.8619 The Florida Bar Lawyer Referral Service https://lrs.floridabar.org/ Lawyers Apply: https://www.floridabar.org/member/lrs/ LegalFuel Practice Tips: Referral Fee Basics 

This week in Episode 7 of #GetJasched, I get to speak with Shaun O'Gorman of The Strong Life Project. Shaun is a former QPS police officer who now spends his time advising, coaching, speaking, mentoring, and sharing about leadership and how to be a loving, connected, powerful leader of your life.Having gone through his own experience of PTSD and trauma as a result of his work in policing, Shaun now helps others - particularly in the areas of first responders and military - find their way back to leading themselves. In this conversation we talk all about how clear, firm communication can be loving and kind (and the difference it makes when it does come from that place!), the importance of vulnerability in communication and leadership, with Shaun also touching on the challenges men can face in these areas, mens health and wellbeing, his approach to communication in parenting, and a whole lot more!It's a longer episode this week but I hope you'll stick it out because every minute is worth it!TW: We do touch on the topics of sexual assault and domestic violence in this episode. It doesn't take up a majority of the conversation, but it is definitely addressed. If you feel vulnerable to these sorts of conversations, please listen with a trusted friend or feel free to skip through this part of the conversation (or skip over this episode altogether).Facebook: /thestronglifeprojectIG: @thestronglifeprojectPodcast: The Strong Life Project Podcasthttp://www.thestronglifeproject.com

Emma and I became friends late last year when we were introduced by a mutual friend. My friend described her as a 'total badass that I think you'd get along with' and she wasn't wrong.  Emma has been in QPS for just shy of a decade. She's worked in Mt Isa, Railway squad and has worked in a specialised unit doing covert work. Her career has been extremely interesting.  Emma is an awesome chick. She wants women to back themselves and not discount their ability to be a police officer just because they are a female. She takes fitness seriously and she's a very driven and level headed person.  Emma also owns Canvast which is a dateless planner and health tracker. We talk about this in the episode however I believe that this planner would be SO beneficial for any applicant. Need accountability and organisation... Canvast has got your back!  Follow Canvast on IG- @canvastco

Chris McIntyre is a former police officer whose time working for the QPS saw him exposed to significant volatile situations that took a toll on many other serving officers around him. Seeing the kind of Trauma that this exposure caused for others, Chris got out of the Police force before he too ended up becoming a victim of such a stressful environment.Chris is now a psychologist working alongside many other ex-servicemen and police officers particularly focusing on those living with PTSD. In this episode, we focus heavily on the subject of PTSD and how to spot some of the associated red flags, as well as discussing many techniques, strategies and self-management tools that he and other psychologists like him use to help others work through various situations and scenarios.TradeMutt's 120 Grit is powered by SimPro: www.simprogroup.comConnect with us on social media:https://www.instagram.com/trademutt/https://www.facebook.com/Trademutt/https://au.linkedin.com/company/trademutthttps://www.instagram.com/trademutts120grit/

How to Secure Your Business Network Joshua Lewis: Everyone listening out there in the cybersecurity world and business owners, I've got a very special guest on here, Alex from Jolly Frogs. And he does something called pen testing and that's something that might sound really scary, or might sound like you've only ever seen it on NCIS or CSI. When they're jumping through, getting through all the firewalls and breaking into the hackers websites and all these other sort of fun stuff. But it's actually quite a lot more involved than the way they make it look on TV. What could you tell me about what you do Alex, and how that affects businesses? Learn more on how to secure your business network at dorksdelivered.com.au Alex Penrose: Currently I focus on training, penetration tests. So I've got a lot of experience, and I've done probably a ridiculous amount of research myself to get myself to the level that I wanted to be at. And I'd like to do nothing more than to share that knowledge. So primarily at the moment, I'm training pen testers, I'm training reverse engineers and forensics experts as well. Before I started doing the trainings I held the role of Director of Cyber Security at Queensland Public Education. And before that, I had various management roles in Queensland health and Queensland police. So most of the knowledge that I accumulated is not from work but from personal research. You get home after six in the evening, and you've got four or five hours to do your own research, every weekend 12 hours per day. Researching various new technologies, new ways to get into websites or get into companies and doing various certifications to get to that level as well. So I enjoy doing it. It's something that I like doing. It's a hobby for me. Joshua Lewis: Cool. I think it's a cool hobby to have. That could definitely get you in trouble if you do to the wrong things. If you're doing the black hat stuff instead of the white hat stuff. And- Alex Penrose: Yeah absolutely. You got to be very careful. For instance one of the interesting things that I was looking at was reverse engineering. And some of the things that are the most interesting to me are reverse engineering hardware devices. And do you know IoT, the Internet of Things? Joshua Lewis: Absolutely. Alex Penrose: They're basically the little things that you can buy. The little cameras, little portable devices, even coffee machines. Anything that's connected to your network or to the internet for updates. Fridges nowadays, ovens, and the way that these devices are being put out to the market, it's all about speed. To get them out to the market as quick as you can because, it's innovative only for the first few months. And after three months, six months, that device starts to get old. So those devices are not always given the scrutiny that other devices are being given Like your Operating System. Your Windows Operating System has a lot of scrutiny going over it. Linux as well, which is another Operating System that has a lot of scrutiny going over it. And it takes many months for particular patches or security updates to come through to be tested by Microsoft or by the Linux consortium. So these IoT devices, these little hardware devices you can buy them off Alibaba or eBay. And some of them come from China and they're really not that secure, but you still connect into your network. So they're an entry point for a hacker to come into a network. I love to do reverse engineering of those devices. But coming back to the issue of black hat, white hat, there are some legal issues with reverse engineering. You're not always allowed to do it. So the best way to go about that I found, was to contact the vendors and to agree with them that you're going to do it. And a lot of the vendors are more than happy to help you out and say, "Yes, sure." And I ask for a signed form from a high up executive in that company. And what I found that a lot of the Asian companies out there are more than willing to do that. They don't immediately call a lawyer and try and get it all sorted out. They just say, "Yeah, go ahead and test it for us. If you want to do that in your free time, and for free we'll even help you out with that." I had one vendor send me a device, quite an expensive device that I could reverse engineer. Found a few bugs in that one, a few security vulnerabilities for them, reported it directly to them, and they security updated it in the back end. And all of that went on without anyone knowing about it in the public, and their devices are now more secure. So you've got to be careful especially at say with American and European companies that when you start reverse engineering anything or unpacking firmware that you are covered legally. I'll stop talking now. Joshua Lewis: That's all right. It was really good because it's something that I'm a huge believer in the IoT movement. I've got a very, I'm going to call it automated house, and I'm also going to call it vulnerable. I would say that it's ... And it comes down to the way that you do it. With any new flexibility with technology, comes about generally inherent security issues. And I can say my gates, my locks, my watering system, the level of my pool, my lights, everything is automated or has some level of IoT connectivity If I want to turn on the waterfall and the pond, I can do that with my voice. So it's all really, really cool. But what people don't understand, and this is ... I've set it up as an IT specialist, which means I've got everything on ... You know what I'm talking about for everyone out there, and the rest of the world on it, sort of VLAN. Which means it is separated to anything that I have that I hold dear myself. So worst case scenario, someone hacks in, and they're able to open the gate. The locks, I intentionally went with something that I've developed myself, which means although the security ... and this isn't what everyone should do, the security might not be as unpenetrable as what you'd have with a Western country developed device. I can say that the obscurity would definitely mean it would be zero chance of being attacked. And that's what it is. It's kind of balances with everything. The worst thing that could happen if someone was to gain peering eyes onto my IoT network as a separate network to everything else is, they'd be able to turn my waterfall on and make my lights go to music or something against my want. And that would be obviously quite an interesting thing to happen. And I would do something about it at that stage. You're exactly right. A lot of companies have these products that they just want to send out the door as quickly as possible. You look at Apple and Samsung, just as their basic phones, they're both fighting to be the biggest market competitor. And so, they're releasing these things. Like Apple had a vulnerability on their device for years that was being backdoored and utilised by Google. And it was only found out that they were tracking and grabbing information out of these iOS operating system for years before something was actually done about it. And it is just because we are in this instant gratification life cycle with the people, the Tinders wanting people to have everything straight away and not necessarily thinking about what the longterm risks are with that. And I think that's bad on a home IoT device level. But there's also something that gets a bit more concerning, and that's the PLC world to me. When you have these controllers that are controlling main water systems, how much fluoride's being dumped into the different areas. And if something was to be broken into there, we could have some serious issues. What are your thoughts on where the world's going, and how do you think you'd be able to fix those things without taking them away? What would you do? Alex Penrose: Yeah, I think your approach at home is actually really, really good. And that's something that I would advise most businesses and organisations to do as well. Consider the vulnerabilities of your networks. And every network is going to be vulnerable to something, to a certain degree. And you need to be comfortable with what happens in the worst case scenario. As you said, worst case scenario, they can turn on the pump of my fountain or they can turn it off, and I don't care about that too much. I might lose a bit of order, but I'll find that out the next day because I can visibly see that it's on, or I can hear it during the night, and I can do something about it then. So the damage is controlled. And I think you need to treat your network in that way as well. Joshua Lewis: Absolutely. Alex Penrose: Consider the worst case scenario. Do a risk profile and do a risk appetite statement as well for your organisation. This is something that is really big in the Information Security Management System world or ISMS world. Is that you create a risk appetite statement, where you state what your appetite is for particular risks and you always have a certain appetite for risks. For instance, you might think that DePaul education might have a zero tolerance zero appetite for any risk related to personal injury because you don't want your students to get injured and you don't want your teachers to get injured, so there would be a very low appetite for risk there. But the police, you're sending your police force out there is an inherent risk of your police officers getting hurt. So you might have a slightly higher level of tolerance for that risk of people getting injured during their work. Same for firemen, you're sending them out in the middle of a fire, what's more dangerous than that? So you must have some level of risk associated with that, and you must accept that risk. And the same is true for cyber security. So a bank especially like a Bitcoin bank, an online bank will have a very high a ceiling of where the cyber security would be. Right? Whereas someone who owns I don't know ... it's hard for me to give an example because everyone cares about their security. Right? but you might have a personal home light in your home. You might not have the same level of cyber security requirements as a bank because you say, "Well, okay, so they can come in and they can turn on the pump. I don't really care about that. They can tend to shut those down or the lights on and off. Okay, big deal. I'll learn from it and I'll fix whatever the issue is, but it's not going to cost me outside of my risk appetite." Joshua Lewis: Yep. And that's, I'll walk in that ... exactly you've said there too. Like Oceans 11 or any of the big heist movies where they're going to break into a bank or break into a casino and grab a bunch of money. And they have these really crazy plans where there's distractions, an illusion. What I think it comes down to is banks have great security. And if you have to think about the actual physical banks now, physical banks don't have anywhere near the security relative to their online counterparts. And that's because, a physical bank will hold 40,000 or $50,000. They'll have many security cameras, but not ... when I say not as much security, I mean it's not too indifferent to what you'd have in a commercial property for a business. You'll have screens that go up, a safe, most businesses will have safes. Most businesses will have security cameras, but the chances of them getting caught is incredibly high. The chance and the prize at the end, the booty, the reason for them spending all this time and effort making these big plans is so high. It's not worth the prize at the end. And that's what security I think is all about. Anyone that wants to get into anywhere will work out a way to do it if they have enough time, patience and the motive is high enough to get whatever the prize is at the end. But most people are not going to be too bothered because, there is so many steps that you have to take through. If someone had to break into my wifi or through my internet connection, to get into the VLAN, to then jumping and turn my fountain on. The amount of times to get to spend to do that well outweighs the advantages it's going to be for them in the end. Alex Penrose: Yeah, I agree. Another thing to consider as well, you spoke about the physical versus the cyber breaking in. One thing to consider as well is, back in the old days when you broke into a bank, you had to have a truck, a major truck to carry all those bags of money. Right? Joshua Lewis: Yeah. Alex Penrose: But if you break in with the cyber method, you don't need any kind of big truck. You don't need any bags, you don't need any effort. It all fits on a little USB stick nowadays. So it's much easier to exfiltrate information via the cyber way. So I do agree. I think cyber is more important than the physical. Because, in the physical world, you've got physical guards, you've got your security cameras, but also it's incredibly difficult once you do have your loot as you say, you still need to walk away with it. And that can be a major problem. Whereas if you're in into a network, all you do is you download it to some Cloud provider and you're done. And once it's out, it's out as well. You can't stop it then. Joshua Lewis: No, that's right. And then it's out in the dark web, people are buying new information. And that's a big thing that I think people have this misconception of what penetration testing is, and what hacking is. In where Frank Abagnale, who was famously put into a movie called Catch Me If You Can played by Leonardo DiCaprio fooled people to make everyone think that he was a pilot, and that he was a solicitor, and that he was a doctor and a bunch of other things. And what he was doing is social engineering, social hacking to be able to get into a spot that he's not meant to be. And penetration testing doesn't just stop at the wall of your internet service provider or with the security of your physical network. If you were to ring up someone and you said, Oh hi, my name is X, Y, Z, and you've worked at this, they had this client name because they had a testimonial on their website or something like that. And then you said, Oh, I'm just double checking if our account's delinquent or if we're all up to scratch, because we're changing accounting systems or whatever story you feel like saying. And then all of a sudden, they're telling you the financial position of this other company. And then you're able to use that information and then slowly bite away and break into their network or break into accounts' information. So then use it on the flip side and potentially break into the network that you're pretending to be. And so what it's about I guess, is the way that you talk, and that comes down to the security of your staff and the training that they've had in how to deal with suspicious questions. I rang up I'm not going to say which one of the big four banks it was, but I rang up one of the big four banks. I spoke as I'm standing right now. And I gave them my mother's details, her birthdate, full name and the address. And it was able to change around her mortgage on the phone sounding nothing, indifferent to what I sounded like right now. And I thought how bad is that? That I can answer three security questions and I could have been a stranger. I was doing it to help her out because she was at a season, needed to sort something out. But I could've done anything, and that would've absolutely caused a world of trouble for someone. I have written letters from mom to say that this is okay, and was ready to patch in on a three way call, but I thought, let's just try, I've already got permission from mom to say this and I was surprised at how easy it was. Alex Penrose: Yeah, it is. And I think the two easiest ways to get into a company in terms of cyber is either via the help desk. And the reason for that is because, as you did with the bank, you were probably connected to a help desk. And as the name implies, it's a help desk. They're conditioned to help, right? So from the very first day they come into the organisation their performance is monitored and managed based on helping people. And the more happy people leave the help desk, the better the performance. Now if you're a hacker, you'd be extremely happy to get whatever passwords that you want. So that's what they're going to give you, right? Because as a hacker, you're asking for the password and they're going to give it to you. The only thing you need to do is you need to make sense. So for instance, the help desk is one way to get in, the other way is the HR department. So human resources, and in order to make sense what you would do is, you might wait for some kind of position to open up at that company. And the HR department would then at that point expect PDF documents or word documents to come in with people's resumes, and it makes sense to them. So they will open them without thinking usually. Because, well that job interview did co ads, I'm expecting a document. Because I'm expecting a document, I'm going to open it without thinking twice. And it's really easy at that point from a hacker's perspective to have some kind of malicious code in your resume- Joshua Lewis: An old version of Adobe reader or something like that and bang, they're in. Alex Penrose: Oh yeah, absolutely. And all you need to put in there, you put a message saying, in order to view this message, you need to download this programme. And then off they go, they download the programme. Because again, they're conditioned to do this, this is their job, to open these PDFs, to read the contents and to process these applicants. So you got to play to that weakness in a way of those departments. But definitely, help desk, HR department very easy to get in via that way as long as you are believable, and as long as you do it in a way that they expect you to act. So don't send a PDF with the resume saying, Oh yeah, I saw this job for blah and actually the job doesn't exist. You need to make sure it probably exists, it's listed and that's within the timeframe as well. And that they want to open the document. You need them to want to do something. Joshua Lewis: Yup. And that's as easy as creating an anonymous account on LinkedIn and double checking when they're putting up posts for a new job. And that's where the biggest vulnerability ... Or I'd like your opinion on this, the biggest vulnerability though in my opinion is your staff. Your staff are by far the biggest gateway to bring people into your network, and to bring unwanted nasties and IP and other integral documents of your business outside of your network. Alex Penrose: Yup. I agree. Staff is behind 50% of all the access. I saw a number a few years ago, it was 50% that they are behind it. This is insiders. So you might've stopped doing accidental things but you might also have malicious staff doing malicious things. So you've got to consider both those approaches. Not all your staff is happy to work for your company. And some staff might be enticed by a few thousand dollars that they could grab if you gave them the opportunity. So you've got to remove that opportunity. And you've got to expect your staff to do something like that. So you've got to monitor your staff in that respect. Both for accidental things, but also for malicious things. And actually most stuff would be accidental, opening a PDF in the HR department is something that they're expected to do, but they accidentally compromise your security for doing that. Joshua Lewis: We use a tool for monitoring our staff as well, there's a tool that we use for our clients called ObserveIT. Alex Penrose: Yes, you've got to use some kind of a tool to monitor what people are doing. And you would have read in the news that a few QPS employees were indicted looking up people in the system that they shouldn't have looked up. They didn't have any reason to look that up. This is all public news. And they were indicted for that. So I think there's two or three cases of coppers abusing their position to get into the backend system. And you need to take into consideration that a big organisation like the police or like education, they have tens or even hundreds of thousands of people working for them. And some volunteers as well, right? The Queensland Volunteers, education volunteers, health volunteers. And they get more privileges than the public. So you got to monitor them somehow and whatever monitoring system you use, whether it's ObserveIT or something else or ... There's various solutions for that. You've got to monitor your staff, but you can't monitor every staff all the time. So usually, you'll have some kind of trigger going off and you would use some kind of screen recording software to then check what actually happened. Was it just accidental? Because someone could accidentally double click on a programme and open it up private. It does happen. It's happened for me as well. Where you open up the word document, it just double clicks. The mouse might have double clicked by accident and it does happen. So that's completely different than someone opening the tool, specifically searching for a particular person that they might know, and then finding out some details that they're not supposed to know. So there's a difference as well. And to differentiate between accidental and malicious that's where your screen recording software comes in. So I'm not sure if they use ObserveIT or not, it might be something else. But yeah. Joshua Lewis: I was just going to say anyone listening out there in the podcast world ObserveIT is just a tool that lets you audit what your staff are doing, or what a network is doing. Gives you text data so can see if they're opening out notepad or Firefox or Google Chrome or something that they wouldn't have normally opened up. And then also lets you see suspicious login activity. So if your receptionist for whatever reason logged in at 2:30 in the morning for half an hour and that wouldn't be what her normal process would have been. It will then create an alert, and send that off so that you can then monitor and work out more accurately what your staff is doing. So it's good that we both know what we were talking about, anyone else don't know what we're doing. Joshua Lewis: So above and beyond putting that sort of software in, there's obviously tools like Nmap or Wireshark and things like that. So Nmap lets you scan over a network and monitor what new devices might've appeared. And then Wireshark depending on how you have it set up, lets you intercept and then see the type of information that's being transmitted. Now these tools are only just a couple of free tools that imagine you would have in the plethora of tools that you would use to go and work out vulnerabilities in a network. And then once you've gone through, say an Internet of Things device and you've accessed it, and how you can actually work out the goodies on the other side. What other tools do you use? Alex Penrose: I like to categorise the tools that I use. I use a plethora of tools, hundreds of tools. And I also write my own tools as well. I'll write most of tools in a programming language called Python. But I also write it and see whatever's needed. If I need a fast programme, I might write in C or C++, if I need a programme really quickly, I might write it in Python. I like to categorise the applications passive, which means you already raised Y shock. You can passively tap the network and listen to the network, you won't get detected doing that. It's basically having like a microphone on the network which records everything that goes over the network. And you might pick up passwords, you might pick up network protocols that should not be enabled or which you might be able to abuse. So I would say that would be the one category. The passive reconnaissance. Then you've got your active reconnaissance tools Nmap would be one of those. So, Nmap is a port scanner with some additional functionality that is able to recognise certain protocols and certain services that run on a particular computer. So you might be able to detect not only that there is a web server listening on a particular network port, but also what type of web server that is. It might be an Apache web server, it might be a Microsoft IIS server, it might be whatever the make of that web server is. And sometimes, even the version of the web server as well. And all that information allows you to then research to find vulnerabilities. And one of the tools that I like to use for finding vulnerabilities is a Kali tool, which is Searchsploits So there is a distribution, a Linux distribution or Linux operating system that you can download for free on the internet. It is called Kali, K-A-L-I. And Kali is preloaded with a lot of different tools on it. And one of those tools is Searchsploits. So you can type Searchsploit in the Kali prompt, and then space, and then puts an Apache in there, and that will list you all the available public exploits for Apache web server. So if you find a particular vulnerable Apache servers, say whatever version number and you use Searchsploit, it might give you the exploit ready-made and you can just run the exploit right there. Obviously, there's another tool called Metasploit, which does a very similar thing. Metasploit automates that hacking process to a certain extent. It allows a hacker or a pen tester to break into the system using known exploits, and then instal a backdoor automatically on the server that was compromised or the IoT device that was compromised. And the backdoor, not everyone will know what that is. It is effectively a piece of software that allows you to easily get back into the system at a later date. So like a Trojan horse kind of thing. Joshua Lewis: Well, I guess the way that I would describe it, a general network is imagine you've got a unit complex, and there's one big gate at the front. You could call that your router, and then all these little things inside the unit complex, all these little units, could all be different devices. And if you're able to grab the key to one of these units, that means you're able to get through all those different ... The front as you said, you have a backdoor created, it means that the more devices you have on your network, the more chance of vulnerability things are being looked at, and actively patched. And using one of the Internet of Things devices or any known patchy server or web server or anything like that could then mean that you gain access to absolutely everything for a later stage. So, that's kind of the way I sort of normally think about it. If you've got lots of doors into a building, and you just have one door that you leave open a lot of the time, they're not going to go and check that. Alex Penrose: Yeah, that's true. It's a good comparison actually to how it really works. You try and find an open door or a door that is ajar and you get in. And then once you're in, and you are at a particular security level on that system, it is then very, very difficult to first of all detect that person. And to get rid of it is difficult as well. So there is a thing in cyber security which we call a privilege escalation. So as a normal user on the computer, you typically have low privileges. Which means that you can't instal programmes. For instance, especially in managed environments like big government organisations or banks, employees are generally not allowed to instal programmes. And the reason for that is that, if you do instal a programme that is a back door then that's installed in your system and you need to provide access to a hacker remotely. So generally speaking, people have low privileged accounts, normal user accounts. And what you want to do as a hacker is, you want to try and get access to administrative accounts or a high privileged user. So the process of hacking into a company is to first get access to a low privilege account on a PC. For instance, using the HR department trick or the help desk trick you might get access to a PC. You get what we call a remote shell which allows you to enter commands on a desktop. And the next step would then be to try and elevate those privileges to an administrative account on that PC. And that is usually fairly easy to do on the Windows and Linux machines. There will always be some kind of vulnerability on the PCs that aren't specifically hardened, especially the PCs that haven't been updated. If the automatic updates on windows have not been enabled, you can be almost certain to find some kind of vulnerability in that system. There was a test done at one point. Some university did a test, they put an unpatched or unupdated system on the internet and they checked how long it would take for that machine to be compromised. And this is back in 2015 so I'm sure that nowadays it's even faster. But in 2015, it took four minutes for a device to be connected to the internet for it to be fully compromised and added to a botnet. Joshua Lewis: All right. That's quick, isn't it? And that that goes, should I say the severity of security and how much more important it has become even over the last years? Alex Penrose: Yes. And the importance of running automatic updates. I understand that large organisations don't want to enable automatic updates. They don't want to disrupt the business. And security is always a concentration between usability and security. But I believe that not enabling automatic updates is probably one of the bigger issues in metrics being compromised nowadays. So, one of the things I always advise is, enable automatic updates on everything. On your web servers, on your user fronting servers, VPN servers, routers, everything. Just automatically update that thing. And don't wait a day, don't even wait half a day. Because one of the things that hackers do is, they run daily scans of the internet. And when I say the internet, I mean the whole internet. So they've got what's called a botnets which is a network of compromise machines. And these might be very big. You might have 10,000 computers that have been compromised, that have been added to these botnets. And the botnet can be operated from one central location, from one central server, one computer effectively will then manage all those 10,000 compromised machines. And you can give those compromised machines orders. You can tell them to do certain things. And one of the things that hackers do is, they take scans of the internet Nmap scans specifically, to find services and service versions. So they might find that your organisation might run a WordPress site and it runs WordPress 5.7 or whatever the version is. They will add that knowledge into it's database. So there are hacker groups that just do that. They scan the internet every 24 hours, the whole internet, and they add your WordPress sites with the version number to that database every time. Now, when a public exploit then comes out ... and an exploit is something that exploits a vulnerability. If an exploit comes out and they find that's odd as an exploit for WordPress 5.7, I'm not sure if WordPress 5.7 exists. Might be a different version number. But let's assume that it does exist and that you are running that on your- Joshua Lewis: It doesn't yet. Alex Penrose: Yeah. Well there you go. And so the hackers know, as the public exploit comes out for that version ... They know the IP addresses or the locations of all the vulnerable machines on the internet. So it doesn't take them weeks to find your server. They already have that information. They already have it in a database. So as soon as the exploit comes out, what they will do is, they will run that exploit against your database to those IP addresses that they know to be vulnerable. And bomb suddenly they got another thousand nodes, a thousand robots in their botnet. So that's how things happen nowadays. So you can't wait even hours anymore after a public exploits comes out. You have to run automatic updates. If you don't run automatic updates, you will at some point get owned. That's just the way it is. Especially on your web servers, they're extremely vulnerable. Joshua Lewis: Absolutely. And then when you have services like WordPress, you kind of hope that there's no vulnerabilities that come out. But given it's all open source, if there's anyone that's a bit tricky, they may find a vulnerability and then not release it to the public. Like there was the Heartbleed attacks a couple of years ago that had been seen to have been patched on the Google servers years before it was released as public knowledge. And- Alex Penrose: Yeah. Joshua Lewis: Again, that's a bit sass. Was Google using that as they were aware of the vulnerability and doing something about that? Or were they just a bit sass in my opinion? But, the best thing you can do ... I guess the take home would be, if you're a small business and you don't want to have any downtime, which is what hacking is going to create, is make sure you keep things up to date, secure, and have an active backup that's not connected to the same physical network. Would there be any other tips that you would give to make sure that they can stay protected in this ever worrisome world? Alex Penrose: Backups. That's the only thing you can really do. The thing that you were talking about there was, we call them Zero-days in the cyber world. So they're effectively vulnerabilities that have not been released, that are not public knowledge. But the chance of getting hit by one of those things if you're a fairly small business here in Australia is extremely low, and this comes down to your risk appetite again. Are you going to worry about being owned by a Zero-day? I personally run WordPress on my website. So jollyfrogs.com is a WordPress site. I do automatically update everything. I don't care if it goes down for five minutes, I'll shut the website's offline for a bit. If I want it to be 100% available, I'll run a second one and I'll run the patching five minutes apart. Oh, sorry. I touched my microphone there. So I'll still have 100% uptime, but I don't even care about that I just want to update. But I'm aware as someone who has a Zero-day against the particular WordPress site that I'm using, they could break into the website. But then again, there isn't very much on there. The only damage that would be done is, someone could what's called defacing the website and could put some nasty things on the front page. But it will be obvious that'll be taken, but I don't really care about that. It's a risk I'm willing to take and I think everyone else should consider that as well. Unless you're the NSA or the FBI, the CIA or some major international organisation that works on defence contracts. Zero-days they're not really used that much because there is always a chance that if you use your Zero-day that it'll be found out. And then your Zero-day's gone because they'll be patched. So they're very valuable for hackers to have Zero-days and most hackers would have one or two Zero-days that they don't disclose. Because it helps with pen testing. And so you don't disclose everything. But you do disclose some of the things I would say. But yeah, you can't really worry about those kinds of things I would say. So you ask what other things can people do? Definitely backups, have backups and make sure your backups are not connected to the network. So that if something happens, you can always restore it and practise your restoring process. Don't just have backup. Because I worked for a company a long time ago and they had a backup system that they never checked, they made the backups and they made it on what's called a tape, which nowadays is old fashioned technology of course. But a lot of companies still use tapes. And they're magnetic tapes, and they never actually checked them. So they ran them for years and years and years, and eventually they would fade in their effectiveness. And when there was an incident at this particular organisation, we had to restore something. And that's when they found out the restore process didn't work. So the backups that they had were useless. Luckily, it was only one small system that wasn't too important. But it immediately sparked replacing the whole backup process and also testing your backup. So don't just make the backups, also test your backups as well. And that'll allow you to restore your things much quicker. If something does go wrong, you'll have all your processes ready and you can usually be online within an hour. Joshua Lewis: Yeah. If you've got active backups, you've got verification on your backups and UI. As you said, you're going into a mode of let's do a test when it's an available time for the business as opposed to in the middle of their busiest weeks. Which let's be honest, is the only time things really break. It gives you then the ability to get, "Okay, we're having some downtime, a three day weekend or something's coming up. Let's restore everything on current hardware and see what happens, see what breaks, see what doesn't." And it gives you the ability to see if it was going to work hopefully when you don't have a catastrophic event. But hopefully if you did have a catastrophic event, you then know that you're going to be protected. We were very lucky that ... well not lucky I guess prior planning prevents piss poor performance. Alex Penrose: That's it. That's the piss perfomance. Joshua Lewis: And when the Brisbane floods came through a number of years ago, we had clients that were evacuated from Brisbane, and they had their backups that were offsite. And as soon as they were able to be at the offsite location, we were able to restore their servers, workstations, and everything to a workable state. And that meant that they were down as you said hours, not days or weeks. Where their office wasn't going to be manageable, ended up being in two foot of water where they were and everything was covered. So it was replaced everything. I was going to say hilariously, not hilarious really. But two years later, they've moved buildings and they said, ah, we're never going to have a problem with the floods. Two months later the roof collapsed in, in the middle of the storm and everything was in a foot of water. But part of the times they had backup, and so they were all back up and running. And you don't know when these things are going to happen. And just for small business, I think it's more important than ever to have backup because you can't afford to have ... If you have a work workforce of 10 or 20 staff and all of them are sitting there doing nothing, you don't have the cash flow that cash buffer to be able to be paying them all while everything is being recreated, as opposed to just being restored. Alex Penrose: Yeah, absolutely. Backups are probably at the top of the list. There's some other things that I would advise people to do. The other thing that's probably as important as backups is, to use some kind of a security proxy in front of your web server so- Joshua Lewis: Like CloudFlare? Alex Penrose: Yeah like CloudFlare for instance. So the way it works is instead of web browsers, web users going directly to your website, they'll instead go through this security service like CloudFlare, you mentioned it just now. There's a few other ones out there as well. They're very cheap by the way. They cost almost nothing but $29 a month or something or a year even, I don't know. It's really cheap. It's something that doesn't cost a lot of money. And what these proxy services do is, they sit in between the end user on the internet and your web server. So even if your web server has a vulnerability, say in WordPress, and some hacker's trying to exploit that vulnerability, the proxy security service will pick up on that and actually block that request. So your web servers vulnerable, but your proxy security provider will actually save you from being compromised. So that's a really important thing to do as well. And it's cheap. They know that these are not expensive services and they offer additional services as well like speeding up the content delivery of your website to the users in different countries. So definitely look at CloudFlare or some other kind of provider in terms of security proxy services. Joshua Lewis: Yeah, I couldn't agree more. That's very good advice, CloudFlare. These attacks called DDoS attacks or these denial-of-service attacks where these bots, like you were talking about will just go and smash your server with 10,000 requests a second or something ridiculous. And these services such as CloudFlare allow for you to overcome that problem because it goes, "Hmm, that's odd, you're getting a lot of traffic from Turkey at the moment or a lot of traffic from some that you wouldn't normally get. All seems a bit weird." And then protects it and blocks it out and has them go through typing one of those annoying codes that no one likes, that robots seem to have a big issue with, the CaptureCodes. Alex Penrose: That's the ones, Yes. And those security proxy services are getting smarter by the day. They are actually using what's called artificial intelligence to learn what your web server normally is exposed to. So normally you get 90% of your customers out of Australia for instance, and only 10% out of the US and suddenly you start to get 99% of your requests starting to come out of Russia or China or the UK or wherever. And that's not normal. And then the security proxy will go "Actually, well, let's have a look at what that is. And based on AI we'll then make a decision." Say, "Hey, hold on a minute. This is actually an attack happening because this is not what we've seen the last year on average." So they're really smart. So don't underestimate them. They're very cheap for what they provide in terms of security. And that'll provide your front end, your web server, which is really important. Because if your web server gets compromised as a business, and someone puts the Iranian flag on there with ISIS stuff and whatever. That's not something that you want on your website, or worse, illegal materials, illegal content. They could put all kinds of things on your web server and if you get caught with that on your web server, you're in deep trouble, legal trouble at that point. So you really want your web server to be very secure. So put that in front of CloudFlare or similar kind of service and you'll be sleeping a lot better. So the other thing that I'm recommending as well is, use the Cloud more. The Cloud is actually really secure if you do it properly. Cloud services, Cloud web servers, everything is all monitored. And you can automatically update that without having any downtime whatsoever. Everything is automatically backed up for you in three physical stores, locations if you want that to happen. Everything's kept up to date. So you kind of remove the human element a little bit from the maintenance aspects if you use Cloud. And the human element like you said, that's one of the biggest elements in terms of security issues, it's the human element. So if you can remove that by going Cloud, that's actually a good thing. Now you do need to use the Cloud very securely. There are ... I would definitely advise doing a training. So Microsoft offers one, Amazon offers a training as well. If you purchase a contract with the Cloud, they might even offer you something for free. Who knows. So that's something that I definitely advise doing. Get a training, don't just go into the Cloud without having had training because, you'll end up on the front page. Because, you've left a particular what they call buckets with information exposed to the internet. And that's really bad because, once it's ... everything in the Cloud is on the internet, right? So you need to lock that down. So before you put it in the Cloud, get some training. Usually it is three or five days with training for your IT staff. And then consider getting stuff into the Cloud. Because it is ultimately if done properly very secure. More secure, I would say than most organisations I have to manage. Because a lot of the aspects of security are actually managed by a company that does a really good job of doing security, whether that's Microsoft or Amazon or Google or some other provider of Cloud services. They cannot be seen as not doing security because, if one of their servers ever gets hacked, it'll hurt their business too much. So they invest a lot of money into security. So that's the third piece of advice there. And then the fourth one which is a really good one as well I think. Personal security, use a password database. Joshua Lewis: Yup LastPass. Alex Penrose: Yeah, LastPass is a good one. KeePass is the one I personally use because it's offline. Joshua Lewis: Really good. Alex Penrose: LastPass is really good yeah. There's a lot of really good ones out there. Just have a look at the history. Just Google, "Has LastPass ever been hacked? Has KeePass ever been hacked?" Whatever, just get some information. Don't just go with a random password provider if they have ever been hacked in the last few years. And I would suggest not going with those particular ones. But LastPass is a really good one, KeePass is a really good one as well. And the benefit of using that, is that you don't reuse passwords because by now most people would have hundreds of websites with a council there. You might just go shopping for shoes and you need an account on there. You might go shopping for motorcycle parts and you need an account on there. You have an account on eBay, you have an account on Facebook, Google, Gmail, Hotmail various accounts. So it's very easy to get to more than a hundred accounts. And a human brain, typical human brain is not able to remember all those passwords. So what people start doing is, they start reusing the same password and the same user ready for the various ... for their work but also for the personal accounts. So if one of those accounts then gets hacked, and people are able to find your username and your password in one service, then it might be able to break into your work, or your VPN account, or your web server because you use the same account details there. Now this can be overcome with a password database. So the way that I use password is, just every single account that I have is a unique generated 30 plus character password that is generated by KeePass. If someone were to try and get the password from me for a particular website, I could not give it to them. They could torture me, I could simply not give it to them because I do not know my passwords. They are automatically generated in a password database and they are stored there. Sorry, you wanted to say something? Joshua Lewis: No. I was going to say ... what you're saying is ... what's the term that hackers use when they find out one password and then go and hook into other accounts? Because it's if someone has reversing- Alex Penrose: I think you're looking for Natural Movement maybe so- Joshua Lewis: It's like my fitness pal accounts were broken into only recently, where they've got millions and millions of passwords. If you use that same password for LinkedIn they're in your LinkedIn, but as you said, if you use a Password database manager, they're not. Alex Penrose: Yeah, password reuse. You have password reuse. And the way that, if you use a password on one side and you use it on the other as well, you can basically possibly reuse. You can reuse it in another service as well. And this is actually a big issue because, you can go to a particular website. I can't remember the name. It's a guy in the Gold Coast who manages that. You might know the website. Joshua Lewis: Yeah, I do. Alex Penrose: Have I Been Pwned. Joshua Lewis: Yeah that's it. Alex Penrose: That's the one. And you can actually look up your email address to see if your password has ever been exposed anywhere. And if your password ... and this is some something I'd advise everyone doing just check your work email and check your personal email to see if that email address has ever been compromised. Because if it was compromised, I would start changing passwords really quickly if you have been reusing the same password. So this again, if you use a password database, you only need to change that one password that was compromised, not all your passwords. Joshua Lewis: It makes it so easier, and especially if using say a password database as well as with as many services as possible. Two factor authentication and ... Alex Penrose: Yes, two factor authentication very, very important. I would advise using two factor authentication on most important administrative accounts at your workplace. So if you manage a firewall, definitely have ... because that's one of the key security devices in your network. Use two factor authentication at work, but also personal. For your Facebook or for your LinkedIn use two factor authentication, unless you don't care about your account being compromised. In which case, it comes down to risk assessment, isn't it? Do I care about this account being compromised? Do I care about this shoe shopping account that I have that I created 10 years ago? I never shop for shoes there anymore. As long as I don't have any financial details, link there, personal details, you might just think, Oh, actually I don't really care if they get compromised or not. I'll just put a really hot password on it, save it in my KeePass and never actually look back. The other benefit of KeePass is that it automatically enters your passwords for you. So if you go to a website, you don't need to type your password anymore, it does it for you. So you go to a website, then you're automatically logged in, in a secure way. So that's another benefit of using KeePass. So it's not just more secure. It is also more user friendly and that's how I was able to sell it to some businesses. You start using it ... once you use it. It's really good. Joshua Lewis: People don't want to remember their passwords as you said. They have too many things to remember. Too many other things that are going through their mind and it's unnatural to remember what can end up looking like a 30 long character string of hieroglyphics. So it's sensible to me and it should look like that. I'm not saying don't use your mother's maiden name, zero, exclamation mark or the word password with an exclamation mark that is not secure. That is- Alex Penrose: That's it, it's one password. Password one most common passwords. Joshua Lewis: One of the best passwords that I had someone come to me with and they said, Oh yeah, I believe to log into my computer, the password ... I said, well what's your password? He said, what password? And I said, you pop up your computer is what password? And the guy's, "It's what password? Capital W capital P. What password is the password. And I was "All right, that is terrible." Alex Penrose: Yeah. Well if you can't use a password database for whatever reason, the most secure way in terms of making it as unbreakable as you can ... Nothing is unbreakable given enough time of course. But use full words put together even in low capitals, it doesn't matter. So horse, bank, suitcase, school, four random words put together is incredibly difficult for a computer to break, but incredibly easy for a person to remember. So, if you absolutely cannot or don't want to use password databases, then use full words together. Random ones. Joshua Lewis: And you can make those words something easy enough to remember. Like your name Alex. You could have the word apple, elephants, Lima, xenon, or something like that. And it would be easy enough to remember it's your name, Alex. But it's your words and incredibly beautiful. Alex Penrose: And from a computer perspective, it would take millions or billions of years to crack such a password like that. It would be unfeasible in terms of time to crack, something like that. But from a human perspective, still fairly easy to remember. So don't try and remember the really difficult passwords with all kinds of things in it. Make it long and make them just normal words, and put together four words or five words and you're good. Very difficult to break that. If people make good backups and they use password database, they use CloudFlare, use Cloud services. I really do believe that Cloud services are more secure than most networks in Australia. Because of that focus on security, right? These Amazons and Microsofts, they employ some of the biggest brains and security in the world to work for them. So I think that's a really good thing to do as well. So I think we covered a lot of the simple do's and don'ts of security. Joshua Lewis: Cool. Well, Alex, it's been lovely speaking with you and I really appreciate you coming on the show and going through some of the different dos and do-nots for security, giving a few different tips there. And if anyone is looking to get more advice or maybe even get their network tested out, jollyfrogs.com would be somewhere to be checking out to start off with and having a late through and jump through some of the different potential vulnerabilities you have in your network. Alex Penrose: Yeah, absolutely. And for training as well. OECP, OSCE kind of preparation trainings or Assembly or Exploit Development. Send me an email and I can give you some training. Joshua Lewis: Cool. Well is there anything that you'd like to go through before we finish off? Alex Penrose: No. I think that's it. Joshua Lewis: Thank you very much for your time. Alex Penrose: Thank you for having me. Alex Penrose: Thank you very much. Joshua Lewis: Thanks. Bye.  

The final episode recorded in 2019!!!  In this episode we speak with two agents, Jennifer Alese and Ivy Kramp, from the 3rd ranked sales team in the United States by Volume - The Serhant Team.  Jennifer Alese oversees 1 Billion + (yes that's a B for BILLION) in new construction inventory for The Serhant Team. Her current projects include 550 Vanderbilt Avenue, 550 West 29th Street, 101 Wall Street, 41 Great Jones Street, and 24-16 QPS. In 2018 alone, Ivy Kramp recorded $120M in sales, and in her career has closed nearly 1000 transactions throughout the city covering everything from condo and co-op resales to townhouses and selling out entire new developments. We discuss the market in 2019 and what's in store for 2020 and beyond. The audio (and video posted on our social media - see details below) was shot in one take and follows a conversational flow as opposed to being rehearsed. The result is a raw, down to earth view on the real estate market in New York. Connect and Follow Jennifer Alese on Instagram: @jen_alese or email her at JenniferAl@nestseekers.com Connect and Follow Ivy Kramp on Instagram: @milliondollarmamasnyc or email her at ivy@nestseekers.com Follow Fernando DaCunha on Instagram: @MortgageMaverick or Facebook: @FernandoJohnDaCunha --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/FernandoMortgage/support

Today listen at the orange door to Senior Sergeant Kelly McAuliffe about empathy in Policing and the Qld Police Service. We learn about what the QPS are doing to take care of and enhance the mental health health of their members and their families as well as create greater engagement with the public. It was a beautiful, inspiring chat and I hope you enjoy.

Today listen at the orange door to Senior Sergeant Kelly McAuliffe about empathy in Policing and the Qld Police Service. We learn about what the QPS are doing to take care of and enhance the mental health health of their members and their families as well as create greater engagement with the public. It was a beautiful, inspiring chat and I hope you enjoy.

In this short podcast, Catherine Kay details the role of the QP, including what skills and qualities a QP should demonstrate, why QPs are important in your organization and how they can add value.

On today’s episode, Stacey Bruzzese talks to Dr. Tim Sandle, the Head of Microbiology and Sterility Assurance at Bio Products Laboratory Limited.Stacey and Tim cover a variety of topics:For pharma manufactures, how does fewer employees, smaller inventory, less space and reduced time impact patient safety?What type of supplier oversite is necessary?As supply chains become more and more digital, how does IoT impact processes and programs controlling quality?How do Big Data and Cloud Computing relate to patient safety, accessibility and affordability?What does Dr Sandle see as the next major shift in supply chain migration?Dr. Tim Sandle is Head of Microbiology and Sterility Assurance at Bio Products Laboratory, responsible for microbiological testing, microbiological R&D, risk assessment and contamination control. In addition, Tim is a tutor with the University of Manchester School of Pharmacy (lecturing on pharmaceutical microbiology) and with University College London Pharmacy School (training QPs in sterility assurance). Tim is a committee member of the pharmaceutical microbiology group Pharmig (since 2002) and he has been contributing to the IVT Network since 2006. Tim presents and writes regularly on microbiology and pharmaceutical science topics, with 15 books; and some 600 book chapters, peer reviewed papers and technical articles to his name. Voices in Validation brings you the best in validation and compliance topics. Voices in Validation is brought to you by IVT Network, your expert source for life science regulatory knowledge. For more information on IVT Network, check out their website at http://ivtnetwork.com.

WOW!!! We have an amazing episode for you this week, first up, thank you to our 1000 weekly listeners, you are amazing. At last, winter is here, and Professor and Buck are both totally enjoying it. DJ has brought us the controversy of the week, with wild claims of a new Indiana Jones, and the boys pile in on him. Once again we solve the world’s greatest issues with logic and careful consideration. We decide Chris Pratt is not suitable for taking on the role and also convince DJ that Indiana Jones is not a Marvel character yet; give Disney time and they will make it happen eventually I’m sure.With a fabulous Segway into the next topic we look at Digit. Not the figures, the robot that will help deliver your shopping from the car to your door. Professor decides he wants one to carry the shopping from the door to the kitchen and then cook his food. DJ calls robots slaves, revealing his desire to take over the world. Buck and Professor decide that given the way technology has been moving they wish to become Cyborgs and serve the robot overlords. We align the killer drones, self-replicating robots, driverless cars and robot dogs.Moving along before we get into too much trouble. We have a new CPU that is pushing the limits and is looks surprised at how amazing it is. AMD is back baby and challenging Intel once again. Buck and Professor fully geek out over what this means for building your own system. If you get confused and lost please let us know; we will get Professor to write up a translation for you. We also figure out how to turn your computer into an oven. We mean literally you will be able to cook your sausages and toast your marsh mellows.As always we make fun of everything, have a laugh with each other, at each other and life in general. We have the usual shout outs, remembrances, birthdays, and events of interest. As always, take care of yourselves, look out for each other, and stay hydrated. NERDS rule!!!EPISODE NOTES:Harrison Ford about Indiana Jones - https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/harrison-ford-idea-succeed-indiana-jones-nobody/Robotic Delivery Boy - https://techxplore.com/news/2019-05-bipedal-robot-digit-autonomous-delivery.htmlAMD Ryzen 3000 - https://www.anandtech.com/show/14407/amd-ryzen-3000-announced-five-cpus-12-cores-for-499-up-to-46-ghz-pcie-40-coming-77Games currently playingDJ– Apex Legends - https://www.origin.com/aus/en-us/store/apex/apexProfessor– Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - https://cataclysmdda.org/Buck– Deceit - https://store.steampowered.com/app/466240/Deceit/Other topics discussedJurassic World (2015 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_WorldJames Cameron (Film director)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_CameronTerminator Salvation (2009 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_SalvationJumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumanji:_Welcome_to_the_JungleThe Young Indiana Jones Chronicles- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Indiana_Jones_ChroniclesSean Patrick Flanery (American actor)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Patrick_FlaneryShia LaBeouf (American actor)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_LaBeoufDaniel Craig (British actor)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_CraigEric Bana (Australian actor)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_BanaGerard Butler (Scottish actor)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_ButlerBoston Dynamics Spot kickedMeme - https://i.imgur.com/0hQjQQq.jpgCNN about Spot - https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/13/tech/spot-robot-dog-google/index.htmlWALL·E (2008 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-EI, Robot (2004 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(film)007 You Only Live Twice: Car taken by a magnet- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLAo27BtBJ0AMD Bulldozer chip analysis- https://www.extremetech.com/computing/100583-analyzing-bulldozers-scaling-single-thread-performanceDefinition of TDP (Thermal Design Power)- https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/tdp-thermal-design-power-definition,5764.htmlIntel Announces Core i9-9900KS- https://www.extremetech.com/computing/292195-intel-announces-core-i9-9900ks-eight-cores-5ghz-all-core-boostFX 8350 (AMD product)- https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/fx-8350Forrest Gump (1994 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_GumpMarvin Heemeyer (Killdozer inventor)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_HeemeyerThat’s Not Canon Podcasts- A New World Order - https://thatsnotcanon.com/anewworldorderpodcast- Floof and Pupper - https://thatsnotcanon.com/floofandpupperpodcastPhil Hartman (supposed to voice Zapp Brannigan)- https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Phil_HartmanStudy: Heavy metal combats depression- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-25/study-finds-heavy-metal-reduces-anger-depression/6571820Let It Go (Epic Metal Cover by Connor Engstrom Music)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbncFS-HavMChitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (1964 book)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty-Chitty-Bang-BangSam Westphalen - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Theme - Death Metal Version- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OqXIo9ygi8Murder Ballads (Nick Cave album)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_BalladsVoyage of the Damned (Doctor Who)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_Damned_(Doctor_Who)Shoutouts27 May 2019 - Kirsty Boden posthumously awarded Florence Nightingale medal by Red Cross for her heroism in 2017 London terror attacks - https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/kirsty-boden-awarded-florence-nightingale-medal-by-red-cross-for-her-heroism-in-2017-london-terror-attacks/news-story/861689d9992d095c1c4796955ad74de328 May 1972 – A team of plumbers breaks into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. for the first time, bugging the telephones of staffers. This started the Watergate scandal. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/watergate-scandal-timeline-nixon28 May 2019 - Alister Kerr graduates with a perfect GPA - https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-uni-student-with-perfect-gpa-was-that-guy-during-class-20190528-p51ru8.html?fbclid=IwAR1OmH6g8a-l3ZxAnGLxbbOyLl_DUcjx0bXMBwtBTIMaviRhoKQ5Odle6VkRemembrances26 May 2019 - Kaleb the police dog was part of the Queensland Police Service litter. In his 5 years he has been with the service, he has been part of countless successful tracks and apprehensions. Kaleb like all QPS dogs lived at home with his handler Sergeant Trevor O’Neill and are part of their family and the bond between handlers and their dogs makes them inseparable. Sergeant Trevor O’Neill was absolutely devastated by the loss of his dog, partner and mate. - https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/blog/2019/05/26/death-of-police-dog-kaleb/?fbclid=IwAR3velHYg3PueWjNxXkhJs1rZ5v0RRnQY1ZBkko3eqk0A7_D1lvT3xZwk2I28 May 1843 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read. Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States. In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. The following year, he started working on an expanded and comprehensive dictionary, finally publishing it in 1828. He was very influential in popularizing certain spellings in the United States. He was also influential in establishing the Copyright Act of 1831, the first major statutory revision of U.S. copyright law. He died at 84 in New Haven, Connecticut - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster28 May 1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist. Hartman garnered fame in 1986 when he joined the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. He won fame for his impressions, particularly of President Bill Clinton, and he stayed on the show for eight seasons. Given the moniker "The Glue" for his ability to hold the show together and help other cast members, Hartman won a Primetime Emmy Award for his SNL work in 1989. He voiced various roles on The Simpsons, most notably Lionel Hutz from seasons 2–9 and Troy McClure from seasons 2–10. Other Simpsons characters included Lyle Lanley, Mr. Muntz and minor characters. He also had roles in the films Houseguest,Sgt. Bilko,Jingle All the Way, Small Soldiers and the English dub of Kiki's Delivery Service. He died of homicide at 49 in Encino, Los Angeles, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_HartmanFamous Birthdays27 May 1922 - Sir Christopher Lee, English actor, singer and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, a typecasting situation he always lamented. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun,Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy, and Count Dooku in the second and third films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Always noted as an actor for his deep, strong voice, Lee was also known for his singing ability, recording various opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998, and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010, after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. The heavy metal follow-up Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released on 27 May 2013, Lee's 91st birthday. He was honoured with the "Spirit of Metal" award at the 2010 Metal HammerGolden Gods Awards ceremony. He was born in Belgravia, London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee27 May 1971 - Paul Bettany, English-American actor. He is known for his voice role as J.A.R.V.I.S. and as Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He first came to the attention of mainstream audiences when he appeared in the British film Gangster No. 1, and director Brian Helgeland's film A Knight's Tale. He has gone on to appear in a wide variety of films, includingA Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, the adaptation of the novel The Da Vinci Code and many other movies. He was born in London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bettany28 May 1524 - Selim The Second, also known as Sarı Selim ("Selim the Blond") or Sarhoş Selim ("Selim the Drunk"),was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574. He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hürrem Sultan. The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article on him remarks that he was "the first sultan entirely devoid of military virtues and willing to abandon all power to his ministers, provided he were left free to pursue his orgies and debauches." He was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_II28 May 1908 – Ian Fleming, English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. While working for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, Fleming was involved in planning Operation Goldeneye and in the planning and oversight of two intelligence units, 30 Assault Unit and T-Force. His wartime service and his career as a journalist provided much of the background, detail and depth of the James Bond novels. Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952. It was a success, with three print runs being commissioned to cope with the demand. Eleven Bond novels and two collections of short stories followed between 1953 and 1966. The novels revolved around James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his code number, 007, and was a commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. The Bond stories rank among the best-selling series of fictional books of all time, having sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang and two works of non-fiction. In 2008, The Times ranked Fleming 14th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Fleming's creation has appeared in film twenty-six times, portrayed by seven actors. He was born in Green Street, London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming28 May 1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian-British singer, songwriter and actress. She achieved recognition starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, where she played tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson. Appearing in the series for two years, Minogue's character married Scott Robinson (Jason Donovan) in an episode viewed by nearly 20 million people in the United Kingdom, making it one of the most watched Australian TV episodes ever. Since then, Minogue has been a recording artist and has achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the entertainment industry. Minogue has been recognised with severalhonorific nicknames, most notably the "Princess of Pop". She is recognised as the highest-selling Australian artist of all time by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). She was born in Melbourne,Victoria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie_Minogue31 May 1683 - Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician. His proposal in 1743 to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale (from water boiling at 0 degrees and ice melting at 100 degrees, to where zero represented the freezing point of water and 100 represented the boiling point of water) was widely accepted and is still in use today. He was a founding member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon and served as its Permanent Secretary from 1713 until 1755. His thermometer was known in France before the Revolution as the thermometer of Lyon. One of these thermometers was kept at the Science Museum in London. He was born in Lyon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_ChristinEvents of interest28 May 1959 - Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, become 1st animals retrieved from a space mission - http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/28/newsid_3725000/3725961.stm28 May 1961 - Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on the Orient Express - https://www.onthisday.com/photos/the-orient-express29 May 1953 – Edmund Hillary and SherpaTenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/everest/sir-edmund-hillary-tenzing-norgay-1953/29 May 1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.- https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/discovery-becomes-first-space-shuttle-to-dock-with-station.html- https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4373970/Discovery-docks-with-International-Space-Station--May-29--1999-EDNIntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rss

First hour featuring, from the March 27th Queen’s Poetry Slam event held at The Grad Club, you’ll hear readings or performances by Maddy, Kobe, Lexi, Bob, Carly, Prim, Lin, Bryce, Holly, Izzy, Jamie, and Bruce. Second hour featuring and continuing with the March 27th QPS event, you’ll hear readings or performances by Billie, Alyssa, Izzy, Continue Reading

Today us and bunch of other members of the community met with QPS to discuss the gel ball phenomenon in Queensland. this is my "take away" from that

In this second episode of Reducing Crime, I talk with Detective Inspector Mike Newman of the Queensland Police Service in Australia. We chat about the development of evidence-based policing in their force, and how they have forged relationships with local academics. QPS have emerged as one of the most progressive police agencies developing new approaches to identifying best practice.

This week on Curtain the podcast, in just the past week three more examples have emerged of police targeting Aboriginal people. Firstly in the attempt to imprison the cousin of Ms Dhu, again for unpaid fines, despite all that has happened to the family and the situation you'll hear. A WA Snr Sergeant has struck with a vehicle a young 18 year old leaving him in hospital and the community of Palm Island has been awarded 30 million dollars, after the QPS was found to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act. It sets the scene for what its like for Aboriginal people dealing with police in Australia and shines further light on how they handled the case of Curtain

TrueOS Stable 18.03 released, a look at F-stack, the secret to an open source business model, intro to jails and jail networking, FreeBSD Foundation March update, and the ipsec Errata. Headlines TrueOS STABLE 18.03 Release The TrueOS team is pleased to announce the availability of a new STABLE release of the TrueOS project (version 18.03). This is a special release due to the security issues impacting the computing world since the beginning of 2018. In particular, mitigating the “Meltdown” and “Spectre” system exploits make it necessary to update the entire package ecosystem for TrueOS. This release does not replace the scheduled June STABLE update, but provides the necessary and expected security updates for the STABLE release branch of TrueOS, even though this is part-way through our normal release cycle. Important changes between version 17.12 and 18.03 “Meltdown” security fixes: This release contains all the fixes to FreeBSD which mitigate the security issues for systems that utilize Intel-based processors when running virtual machines such as FreeBSD jails. Please note that virtual machines or jails must also be updated to a version of FreeBSD or TrueOS which contains these security fixes. “Spectre” security mitigations: This release contains all current mitigations from FreeBSD HEAD for the Spectre memory-isolation attacks (Variant 2). All 3rd-party packages for this release are also compiled with LLVM/Clang 6 (the “retpoline” mitigation strategy). This fixes many memory allocation issues and enforces stricter requirements for code completeness and memory usage within applications. Unfortunately, some 3rd-party applications became unavailable as pre-compiled packages due to non-compliance with these updated standards. These applications are currently being fixed either by the upstream authors or the FreeBSD port maintainers. If there are any concerns about the availability of a critical application for a specific workflow, please search through the changelog of packages between TrueOS 17.12 and 18.03 to verify the status of the application. Most systems will need microcode updates for additional Spectre mitigations. The microcode updates are not enabled by default. This work is considered experimental because it is in active development by the upstream vendors. If desired, the microcode updates are available with the new devcpu-data package, which is available in the Appcafe. Install this package and enable the new microcode_update service to apply the latest runtime code when booting the system. Important security-based package updates LibreSSL is updated from version 2.6.3 -> 2.6.4 Reminder: LibreSSL is used on TrueOS to build any package which does not explicitly require OpenSSL. All applications that utilize the SSL transport layer are now running with the latest security updates. Browser updates: (Keep in mind that many browsers have also implemented their own security mitigations in the aftermath of the Spectre exploit.) Firefox: 57.0.1 -> 58.0.2 Chromium: 61.0.3163.100 -> 63.0.3239.132 Qt5 Webengine (QupZilla, Falkon, many others): 5.7.1 -> 5.9.4 All pre-compiled packages for this release are built with the latest versions of LLVM/Clang, unless the package explicitly requires GCC. These packages also utilize the latest compile-time mitigations for memory-access security concerns. F-Stack F-Stack is an user space network development kit with high performance based on DPDK, FreeBSD TCP/IP stack and coroutine API. http://www.f-stack.org Introduction With the rapid development of NIC, the poor performance of data packets processing with Linux kernel has become the bottleneck. However, the rapid development of the Internet needs high performance of network processing, kernel bypass has caught more and more attentions. There are various similar technologies appear, such as DPDK, NETMAP and PF_RING. The main idea of kernel bypass is that Linux is only used to deal with control flow, all data streams are processed in user space. Therefore, kernel bypass can avoid performance bottlenecks caused by kernel packet copying, thread scheduling, system calls and interrupts. Furthermore, kernel bypass can achieve higher performance with multi optimizing methods. Within various techniques, DPDK has been widely used because of its more thorough isolation from kernel scheduling and active community support. F-Stack is an open source network framework with high performance based on DPDK. With following characteristics Ultra high network performance which can achieve network card under full load, 10 million concurrent connections, 5 million RPS, 1 million CPS. Transplant FreeBSD 11.01 user space stack, provides a complete stack function, cut a great amount of irrelevant features. Therefore greatly enhance the performance. Support Nginx, Redis and other mature applications, service can easily use F-Stack With Multi-process architecture, easy to extend Provide micro thread interface. Various applications with stateful app can easily use F-Stack to get high performance without processing complex asynchronous logic. Provide Epoll/Kqueue interface that allow many kinds of applications easily use F-Stack History In order to deal with the increasingly severe DDoS attacks, authorized DNS server of Tencent Cloud DNSPod switched from Gigabit Ethernet to 10-Gigabit at the end of 2012. We faced several options, one is to continue to use the original model another is to use kernel bypass technology. After several rounds of investigation, we finally chose to develop our next generation of DNS server based on DPDK. The reason is DPDK provides ultra-high performance and can be seamlessly extended to 40G, or even 100G NIC in the future. After several months of development and testing, DKDNS, high-performance DNS server based on DPDK officially released in October 2013. It's capable of achieving up to 11 million QPS with a single 10GE port and 18.2 million QPS with two 10GE ports. And then we developed a user-space TCP/IP stack called F-Stack that can process 0.6 million RPS with a single 10GE port. With the fast growth of Tencent Cloud, more and more services need higher network access performance. Meanwhile, F-Stack was continuous improving driven by the business growth, and ultimately developed into a general network access framework. But this TCP/IP stack couldn't meet the needs of these services while continue to develop and maintain a complete network stack will cost high, we've tried several plans and finally determined to port FreeBSD(11.0 stable) TCP/IP stack into F-Stack. Thus, we can reduce the cost of maintenance and follow up the improvement from community quickly.Thanks to libplebnet and libuinet, this work becomes a lot easier. With the rapid development of all kinds of application, in order to help different APPs quick and easily use F-Stack, F-Stack has integrated Nginx, Redis and other commonly used APPs, and a micro thread framework, and provides a standard Epoll/Kqueue interface. Currently, besides authorized DNS server of DNSPod, there are various products in Tencent Cloud has used the F-Stack, such as HttpDNS (D+), COS access module, CDN access module, etc.. iXsystems Leadership Is The Secret To An Open Source Business Model A Forbes article by Mike Lauth, CEO of iXsystems There is a good chance you’ve never heard of open source software and an even greater one that you’re using it every day without even realizing it. Open source software is computer software that is available under a variety of licenses that all encourage the sharing of the software and its underlying source code. Open source has powered the internet from day one and today powers the cloud and just about everything connected to it from your mobile phone to virtually every internet of things device. FreeNAS is one of two open source operating systems that my company, iXsystems, develops and distributes free of charge and is at the heart of our line of TrueNAS enterprise storage products. While some of our competitors sell storage software similar to FreeNAS, we not only give it away but also do so with truly no strings attached -- competitors can and do take FreeNAS and build products based on it with zero obligation to share their changes. The freedom to do so is the fundamental tenet of permissively licensed open source software, and while it sounds self-defeating to be this generous, we’ve proven that leadership, not licensing, is the true secret to a successful open source business model. We each have our own personal definition of what is fair when it comes to open source. At iXsystems, we made a conscious decision to base FreeNAS and TrueOS on the FreeBSD operating system developed by the FreeBSD project. We stand on the shoulders of giants by using FreeBSD and we consider it quite reasonable to give back on the same generous terms that the FreeBSD project offers us. We could be selective in what we provide free of charge, but we believe that doing so would be short-sighted. In the long game we’re playing, the leadership we provide over the open source projects we produce is infinitely more important than any restrictions provided by the licenses of those and other open source projects. Twenty years in, we have no reason to change our free-software-on-great-hardware business model and giving away the software has brought an unexpected side-benefit: the largest Q/A department in the world, staffed by our passionate users who volunteer to let us know every thought they have about our software. We wouldn’t change a thing, and I encourage you to find exactly what win-win goodwill you and your company can provide to your constituents to make them not just a customer base but a community. Drive The Conversation It took a leap of faith for us to give away the heart of our products in exchange for a passionate community, but doing so changes your customer's relationship with your brand from priced to priceless. This kind of relationship leverages a social contract instead of a legal one. Taking this approach empowers your users in ways they will not experience with other companies and it is your responsibility to lead, rather than control them with a project like FreeNAS Relieve Customer Pain Points With Every New Release Responsiveness to the needs of your constituents is what distinguishes project leadership from project dictatorship. Be sure to balance your vision for your products and projects with the “real world” needs of your users. While our competition can use the software we develop, they will at best wow users with specific features rather than project-wide ones. Never underestimate how grateful a user will be when you make their job easier. Accept That A Patent Is Not A Business Model Patents are considered the ultimate control mechanism in the technology industry, but they only provide a business model if you have a monopoly and monopolies are illegal. Resist getting hung up on the control you can establish over your customers and spend your time acquiring and empowering them. The moment you both realize that your success is mutual, you have a relationship that will last longer than any single sale. You’ll be pleasantly surprised how the relationships you build will transcend the specific companies that friends you make work for. Distinguish Leadership From Management Every company has various levels of management, but leadership is the magic that creates markets where they did not exist and aligns paying customers with value that you can deliver in a profitable manner. Leadership and vision are ultimately the most proprietary aspects of a technology business, over every patentable piece of hardware or licensable piece of software. Whether you create a new market or bring efficiency to an existing one, your leadership is your secret weapon -- not your level of control. News Roundup Introduction to Jails and Jail Networking on FreeBSD Jails basically partition a FreeBSD system into various isolated sub-systems called jails. The syscall and userspace tools first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0 (~ March 2000) with subsequent releases expanding functionality and improving existing features as well as usability. + For Linux users, jails are similar to LXC, used for resource/process isolation. Unlike LXC however, jails are a first-class concept and are well integrated into the base system. Essentially however, both offer a chroot-with-extra-separation feeling. Setting up a jail is a fairly simple process, which can essentially be split into three steps: + Place the stuff you want to run and the stuff it needs to run somewhere on your filesystem. + Add some basic configuration for the jail in jail.conf. + Fire up the jail. To confirm that the jail started successfully we can use the jls utility: We can now enter the jailed environment by using jexec, which will by default execute a root shell inside the named jail A jail can only see and use addresses that have been passed down to it by the parent system. This creates a slight problem with the loopback address: The host would probably like to keep that address to itself and not share it with any jail. Because of this, the loopback-address inside a jail is emulated by the system: + 127.0.0.1 is an alias for the first IPv4-address assigned to the jail. + ::1 is an alias for the first IPv6-address assigned to the jail. While this looks simple enough and usually works just fine[tm], it is also a source of many problems. Just imagine if your jail has only one single global IPv4 assigned to it. A daemon binding its (possibly unsecured) control port to the loopback-address would then unwillingly be exposed to the rest of the internet, which is hardly ever a good idea. + So, create an extra loopback adapter, and make the first IP in each jail a private loopback address + The tutorial goes on to cover making multiple jails share a single public IP address using NAT + It also covers more advanced concepts like ‘thin’ jails, to save some disk space if you are going to create a large number of jails, and how to upgrade them after the fact + Finally, it covers the integration with a lot of common tools, like identifying and filter jailed processes using top and ps, or using the package managers support for jails to install packages in a jail from the outside. **DigitalOcean** SmartOS release-20180315 ``` Hello All, The latest bi-weekly "release" branch build of SmartOS is up: curl -C - -O https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.iso curl -C - -O https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest-USB.img.bz2 curl -C - -O https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos-latest.vmwarevm.tar.bz2 A generated changelog is here: https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20180329T002644Z The full build bits directory, for those interested, is here in Manta: /Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20180329T002644Z Highlights Firewall rules created with fwadm(1M) can now use the PRIORITY keyword to specify a higher precedence for a rule. This release has includes mitigation of the Intel Meltdown vulnerability in the form of kpti (kernel page table isolation) with PCID (process context identifier) support This release also includes experimental support for bhyve branded zones. General Info Every second Thursday we roll a "release-YYYYMMDD" release branch and builds for SmartOS (and Triton DataCenter and Manta, as well). Cheers, Josh Wilsdon, on behalf of the SmartOS developers https://smartos.org ``` Here's a screencap from q5sys' machine showing the output of sysinfo: https://i.imgur.com/MFkNi76.jpg FreeBSD Foundation March 2018 Update > Syzkaller update: Syzkaller is a coverage-guided system call fuzzer. It invokes syscalls with arbitrary and changing inputs, and is intended to use code coverage data to guide changes to system call inputs in order to access larger and larger portions of the kernel in the search for bugs. > Last term’s student focused largely on scripts to deploy and configure Syzkaller on Packet.net’s hosting infrastructure, but did not get to the code coverage integration required for Syzkaller to be effective. This term co-op student Mitchell Horne has been adding code coverage support in FreeBSD for Syzkaller. > The Linux code coverage support for Syzkaller is known as kcov and was submitted by Dmitry Vyukov, Syzkaller’s author. Kcov is purposebuilt for Syzkaller: > kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a system. > kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible. It aims to collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs. To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or non-interesting parts of kernel is disabled (e.g. scheduler, locking). > Mitchell implemented equivalent functionality for FreeBSD - a distinct implementation, but modelled on the one in Linux. These patches are currently in review, as are minor changes to Syzkaller to use the new interface on FreeBSD. > We still have some additional work to fully integrate Syzkaller and run it on a consistent basis, but the brief testing that has been completed suggests this work will provide a very valuable improvement in test coverage and opportunities for system hardening: we tested Syzkaller with Mitchell's code coverage patch over a weekend. It provoked kernel crashes hundreds of times faster than without his work. > I want to say thank you to NetApp for becoming an Iridium Partner again this year! (Donations between $100,000 - $249,999) It’s companies like NetApp, who recognize the importance of supporting our efforts, that allow us to continue to provide software improvements, advocate for FreeBSD, and help lead the release engineering and security efforts. > Conference Recap: FOSSASIA 2018 Foundation Director Philip Paeps went to FOSSASIA, which is possibly the largest open source event in Asia. The FreeBSD Foundation sponsored the conference. Our booth had a constant stream of traffic over the weekend and we handed out hundreds of FreeBSD stickers, pens and flyers. Many attendees of FOSSASIA had never heard of FreeBSD before and are now keen to start exploring and perhaps even contributing. By the end of the conference, there were FreeBSD stickers everywhere! > One particular hallway-track conversation led to an invitation to present FreeBSD at a "Women Who Code" evening in Kuala Lumpur later this week (Thursday 29th March). I spent the days after the conference meeting companies who use (or want to use) FreeBSD in Singapore. > SCaLE 16x: The Foundation sponsored a FreeBSD table in the expo hall that was staffed by Dru Lavigne, Warren Block, and Deb Goodkin. Our purpose was to promote FreeBSD, and attract more users and contributors to the Project. We had a steady flow of people stopping by our table, asking inquisitive questions, and picking up some cool swag and FreeBSD handouts. Deb Goodkin took some tutorials/trainings there and talked to a lot of other open source projects. Next year, we have the opportunity to have a BSD track, similar to the BSD Devroom at FOSDEM. We are looking for some volunteers in Southern California who can help organize this one or two-day event and help us educate more people about the BSDs. Let us know if you would like to help with this effort. Roll Call: #WhoUsesFreeBSD Many of you probably saw our post on social media asking Who Uses FreeBSD. Please help us answer this question to assist us in determining FreeBSD market share data, promote how companies are successfully using FreeBSD to encourage more companies to embrace FreeBSD, and to update the list of users on our website. Knowing who uses FreeBSD helps our contributors know where to look for jobs; knowing what universities teach with FreeBSD, helps companies know where to recruit, and knowing what products use FreeBSD helps us determine what features and technologies to support. New Hosting Partner: Oregon State University Open Source Lab > We are pleased to announce that the Oregon State University (OSU) Open Source Lab (OSL), which hosts infrastructure for over 160 different open source projects, has agreed to host some of our servers for FreeBSD development. The first server, which should be arriving shortly, is an HP Enterprise Proliant DL360 Gen10 configured with NVDIMM memory which will be initially used for further development and testing of permanent memory support in the kernel. Stay tuned for more news from the FreeBSD Foundation in May (next newsletter). Beastie Bits cURL is 20 today A Note on SYSVIPC and Jails on FreeBSD OpenBSD Errata: March 20th, 2018 (ipsec) FreeBSD Security Advisories for IPSEC and vt 23 Useful PKG Command Examples to Manage Packages in FreeBSD Tarsnap Feedback/Questions Casey - Cool Editor Nelson - New article on FreeBSD vs MacOS Damian - Mysterious Reverse Proxy 504 Nelson - FreeBSD, rsync, nasty bug, now fixed Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv

This week on the Cardhoarder Podcast the new MOCS system is unveiled.  Conor, Nathaniel, and Dave share their initial reactions.  Other topics include saying goodbye to Walking the Planes video series, WMCQs, and ranting about protecting local game stores.  The Cardhoarder Podcast is proudly sponsored by Cardhoarder.com Email us at cardhoarderpodcast@gmail.com Magic Online Wishlist - 2:17 Walking the Planes concludes - 11:25 Favorite Magic video series - 18:21 WMCQ weekend - 23:00 New MOCS system introduced - 29:47 MOCS Opens - 41:05 No more MOCS promos - 50:56 QPs taken away from certain events - 57:03 Premier Play extends to Friday - 1:06:01 MOCS prize pool increased - 1:14:55 Walking the Planes Episode 41: "The End" Inside The Deck - The Magic Collector LRR Kaladesh Pre-prerelease What is the MOCS? Music provided by Terrible Spaceship Your Hosts: Conor O'Donnell, Nathaniel Buckley-Wright, and David Murphy Conor's Twitter: @conorpodonnell | Twitch: conor_od Nathaniel's Twitter: @Cardhoarder | Twitch: Cardhoarder David's Twitter: @DavidSea89 | Twitch: davesea

  Welcome to Therapy Chat! Today’s episode, the 9th and final episode in the Practice Building Series, is about using what makes you unique to create a successful business. Host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews amazing business strategist Tara Gentile, host of Profit.Power.Pursuit podcast, highly sought out speaker, creator of Quiet Power Strategy™ and the author of Quiet Power Strategy, The Art of Earning, The Observation Engine and The Art of Growth. Tara talks about exactly how you can tap into your Quiet Power and use it to highlight who you are and what makes clients want to work with you. She explains that it’s not just about being yourself. She explains how she uses systems to help people find her. She defines the three pillars of a business used in Quiet Power Strategy and why market research is important. Tara explains how you can use a “virtual focus group” to develop your business strategy. She speaks about what causes entrepreneur burnout and offers one key to avoiding it. She lists tangible ways you can change what you’re doing to avoid entrepreneur burnout. She teaches us about the importance of being intentional in your work in marketing your business, and what business strategy really is, in words we can easily understand. She leaves us with one question to ask that helps us identify our business strategy.    Resources mentioned in this episode:   Book: The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries & Laura Ries on Amazon: (non affiliate link): https://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Branding/dp/0060007737/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474393744&sr=8-1&keywords=22+immutable+laws+of+branding   Toggl time tracking tool: https://toggl.com/   Tara’s podcast: Profit.Power.Pursuit.   Tara’s Quiet Power Strategy website: http://quietpowerstrategy.com   Tara’s QPS – the Lab: http://Lab.quietpowerstrategy.com   Tara’s books: http://taragentile.com/books/    We want to hear from you! Go to Therapy Chat Podcast website and share what you like or don’t like about the podcast. www.therapychatpodcast.com - click on the green button and let host Laura Reagan know if it’s okay to share your feedback on the podcast! You may be included in a future episode!   Thanks for listening to Therapy Chat! Please be sure to go to iTunes and leave a rating and review, subscribe and download episodes!