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Fly By Night is the album where Rush takes its final form.  Original drummer John Rutsey left the group shortly after their eponymously named debut album was released.  Health problems related to diabetes made it difficult for Rutsey on tour.  He was replaced on bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee's 21st birthday by the soon-to-be legendary percussionist, Neil Peart.  Together with guitarist Alex Lifeson, the trio would become icons in the prog rock genre. Most of the material for this album was written while the band was on tour opening for Uriah Heep and Manfred Mann.  Rush went into the studios for about 5 days to record the album, which was mixed by January when the group flew to Winnipeg for a concert on January 15th.  Fly By Night would also be the album in which Peart takes over much of the lyrical work with the songs, while Lee and Lifeson compose much of the music.  The lyrical styles are noticeably different between the first and second album, complete with literary themes which reflect Peart's habit as an avid reader.This album is also the one which saw Rush moving in a decidedly prog rock direction.  This could be attributed to Neal "The Professor" Peart's lyrics, but the entire band wanted each song to show a different side to their writing and playing, creating a diversity of styles in the tracks.Friend of the show Sean Mooney stands in for WTR Rush Ambassador, Bruce Fricks to bring us this classic prog rock album.  AnthemThe lead-off track to the album was originally conceived by Lee and Lifeson while Rutsey was still in the band.  The name of the track is from an Ayn Rand novella, as do the lyrics.  Peart's inspiration by Rand would return when the group penned their fourth album, 2112.Beneath, Between and BehindThis is the first song to feature Peart's lyrics.  It was about the discovery of America and the birth of the United States.  The lyrics reference the American dream and growth as well as some darker history like wars and immigration.  "Beneath the noble birth between the proudest words behind the beauty, cracks appear.  Once with heads held high they sand out to the sky why do their shadows bow in fear?"Best I CanOne of two tracks written before Peart joined the band, this song's music and lyrics were both penned by Geddy Lee, and the song saw regular performance during Rush's first North American tour.  The lyrics have a more rock theme than Peart's more literary efforts.  "Don't give me speeches 'cause they're oh so droll.  Leave me alone, let me rock and roll."Fly By NightThe "hit" single from the album leads off side 2, and peaked at number 88 on the Billboard charts.  The lyrics reflect Peart's first trip away from home when he traveled from Canada to England.  "Fly by night, goodbye, my dear.  My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend." ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:Main theme from the motion picture The Stepford WivesThis dystopian sci-fi thriller finds a couple in the town to Stepford, where the women mysteriously transform into submissive domesticated housewives. STAFF PICKS:Song for America by Kansas Wayne leads off the staff picks with the single cut to a 10-minute epic paying tribute to America.  It reflects the beauty that can be seen from a jet, but also the ugliness of industrialization.  The 5/4 time interspersed in the song marks it as a prog rock masterpiece.Jackie Blue by Ozark Mountain DaredevilsRob brings us a cool groove about a woman in pursuit of happiness, but who never stays with anything long enough to find happiness.  The original inspiration was a guy they met in Los Angeles who was strung out on drugs.  Drummer Larry Lee takes lead duties for this song which made it to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.#9 Dream by John Lennon Lynch features a song released before he was born from Lennon's "Walls and Bridges" album, which coincidentally went to number 9 on the charts.  The song literally came from a dream Lennon had, with no inspiration.  The "mystery voice" in the background is Lennon's girlfriend at the time, May Pang.  Several of the lyrics are nonsense words.Adam's Apple by Aerosmith Sean finishes the staff picks with a deep cut from Aerosmith.  The lyrics are inspired by the story of the temptation of Adam and Eve in Genesis chapter 3.  It appears on Aerosmith's album "Toys in the Attic," which Steve Tyler wanted to name "Love at First Bite" at one point, a line from this song. INSTRUMENTAL TRACK:Express by BT Express We finish off this week's podcast with in instrumental hit from the early disco era.

Join Rand, Colt Eastwood, and Lord Cognito to discuss one of the biggest weeks of Xbox news so far this year! JEZ sure picked a good week for a vacation huh? (Timestamps will come a bit later cuz it's super hard uploading and formatting the show on my phone. If you need them sooner they're up on Rand's YouTube!)

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Preeti and Jenn talk a lot about POV, authorial vs. editorial choices, and Jenn has a lot of ranty feelings about obfuscation. Also, Rand and Mat. Also also, there is a MAJOR disagreement about who killed this one guy. Happy listening, sorry not sorry!Next episode: Chapters 25-29.You can now add Preeti's debut YA rom-com on Goodreads! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Wheel of Time returns for its second season, so Luke & James are back to the series with the first half of book 2! In episode 284, Luke & James admire the flex by Robert Jordan, reject being called a lord, wonder why a hot woman is so disruptive to Rand, begin studying magic with the Aes Sedai, and talk about a 100% locked & fated romance. Join them next week for the first four episodes of the new season! Chapters Covered Prologue: In the Shadow Chapter 1: The Flame of Tar Valon Chapter 2: The Welcome Chapter 3: Friends and Enemies Chapter 4: Summoned Chapter 5: The Shadow in Shienar Chapter 6: Dark Prophecy Chapter 7: Blood Calls Blood Chapter 8: The Dragon Reborn Chapter 9: Leavetakings Chapter 10: The Hunt Begins Chapter 11: Glimmers of the Pattern Chapter 12: Woven in the Pattern Chapter 13: From Stone to Stone Chapter 14: Wolfbrother Chapter 15: Kinslayer Chapter 16: In the Mirror of Darkness Chapter 17: Choices Chapter 18: To the White Tower Chapter 19: Beneath the Dagger Chapter 20: Saidin Chapter 21: The Nine Rings Chapter 22: Watchers   Ink to Film Buy The Great Hunt or any of the other source books or guest novels at Ink to Film's bookshop: www.bookshop.org/shop/inktofilm Ink to Film's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky (@inktofilm) Home Base: inktofilm.com Intro Music: “The Chosen” by Sirius Beat https://youtu.be/JuaM1romA3c?si=2_dfEQrMY7EGKpxa Luke Elliott Website: www.lukeelliottauthor.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/luminousluke IG: https://www.instagram.com/lpelliott/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@lpelliott Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/luminousluke.bsky.social James Bailey Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jame_Bail IG: https://www.instagram.com/jamebail/

Introduction: In a jam-packed show, host Michael Rand starts out looking at the Vikings and Minnesota United, both of whom appear to be in desperation mode. The Vikings have made two roster moves this week -- signing guard Dalton Risner and trading for running back Cam Akers -- in hopes of jump-starting their running game and reversing their 0-2 start. To Rand, it's the sign that the plan was not good at the start. The Loons, meanwhile, gave up three late goals in a 4-3 loss to Los Angeles to tumble out of playoff position. 13:00: Randy Johnson joins Rand to discuss the Gophers football team, which needs more offensive consistency than it has shown so far. An opportunity exists this weekend to gain a win and confidence against Northwestern, but not without improvement. 28:00: The Lynx season is over, but the Wild season is just starting. Welcome to late September.

Introduction: Host Michael Rand gets into the Royce Lewis injury scare from Tuesday and the potential impact on the Twins as they move closer to clinching a playoff berth. Lewis has been their best player down the stretch of the season, and they clearly need to hope that his hamstring tightness doesn't linger into the postseason. Plus a strong start from Kenta Maeda puts him firmly into the mix to start a potential Game 3 in the playoffs. Speaking of Game 3, Rand welcomes in Star Tribune writer Kent Youngblood in advance of the deciding game between the Lynx and Connecticut on Wednesday at Target Center. A season that started 0-6 and turned sour again late in the regular season has given way to a one-game opportunity. And speaking of overcoming bad starts, can the Vikings dig out of this 0-2 hole? And what would happen if they fall to 0-3 Sunday?

The grand conclusion of book 5 of The Wheel of Time. And grand it is! Rand v. Rahvin. Nynaeve v. Moghedien. Asmodean v. ??? — Come along and enjoy the ride! #fantasy #WoT #SFF #WheelOfTime #TheFiresOfHeaven We hope you'll Like and Subscribe! Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/jMWyVJ6qKk Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FantasyForTheAges Check out our merch: https://www.newcreationsbyjen.com/collections/fantasyfortheages Email us: FantasyForTheAges@gmail.com. Find us on social media: Mastodon: @FantasyForTheAges@nerdculture.de X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Fantasy4theAges Instagram/Threads: fantasy_for_the_ages Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FantasyForTheAges Want to create live streams like this? It works well for us, super easy! Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6171715830022144 Want to create live streams like this? It works well for us, super easy! Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6171715830022144

Moiraine and Rand run to save their lives, as Selene still appears to be alive. Egwene and Nynaeve meet a new enemy. Join us as we discuss Season 2, Episode 5, "Damane."  Want to join the watch party? Do you have a question you need answered? A theory? Or an answer to the final question?  Contact us at: Website: https://wotwatchparty.wordpress.com/  Email: wotwatchparty@gmail.com Twitter: @wotwatchparty | https://twitter.com/WOTWatchParty Discord: https://tinyurl.com/5n84fkez  You can also find Rhuarc and Saimma on Facebook moderating WOT fan communities:  Cold Rocks Hold: An Inclusive Wheel of Time Fan Community Wheel of Time TV Series Wheel of Time TV Series - No Spoilers Page OTHER WATCH PARTY PODCASTS Watch Party: Lord of the Rings - https://watchpartylotr.podbean.com/  A Watch Party of Ice and Fire - https://watchpartyiaf.podbean.com/  Watch Party: Gaiman - https://watchpartygaiman.podbean.com/  CREDITS Intro and Outro Music: Find You, by Lion Spring (Rebekah Rolland). https://www.rebekahrolland.com/  This is a production of the Watch Party Podcast Network.

Host Michael Rand made a trip to North Carolina, where he and friends visited longtime podcast contributor Keith and they all took in Saturday's 31-13 Gophers loss to the Tar Heels. A stark difference in quarterback play underscored where the two programs are, and served as a reminder that P.J. Fleck's team still has a lot to prove this season. Plus the whole crew shares perspectives on the highs and lows from the weekend, while a 7-year-old provides perhaps the best clarity on Justin Jefferson, Kirk Cousins and the Vikings' quarterback situation. Program note: Rand and Patrick Reusse will do their regular show on Tuesday this week when they both return to Minneapolis after weekends of travel.

Garrett, Adam, and Fei let the fifth episode of season two enter their eyeholes and thoughts on it come out of their mouths. Verin makes moves, Rand and Moiraine are on the run, and Perrin is on his journey to become Wolf Daddy. This episode gives us some much needed name drops and exposition to align the show to the books, and we appreciate it.

In this episode, Zach and Jim discuss the aftermath of Moiraine's heroic sacrifice, and then see Rand enact the plan to go after Rahvin. It's retribution time! Well, sort of - Rahvin may have something to say about that. Oh, and Nynaeve has a little fun with a Spider! #fantasy #WoT #SFF #WheelOfTime #TheFiresOfHeaven We hope you'll Like and Subscribe! Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/jMWyVJ6qKk Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FantasyForTheAges Check out our merch: https://www.newcreationsbyjen.com/collections/fantasyfortheages Rate & review us at Apple Podcast or wherever you download content. Email us: FantasyForTheAges@gmail.com. Find us on social media: Mastodon: @FantasyForTheAges@nerdculture.de Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fantasy4theAges Instagram: fantasy_for_the_ages Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FantasyForTheAges Want to create live streams like this? It works well for us, super easy! Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6171715830022144

Step into the latest Small Axe Podcast episode! Join Nico Salgado and his special guest, the resilient Mike Taravella, as they unravel his journey from CPA to real estate mogul. From two Michigan single-family homes to a $100 million asset empire with Quantum Capital, Mike shares insights on quick execution and adaptability in today's real estate world. Discover their recent deals, partnerships, and operational hurdles while celebrating the grit of real estate general partners.  Here's a breakdown of what to expect in this episode: Navigating Real Estate Investments in a Rising Interest Rate Environment Strategies for Successful Real Estate Investing in Today's Market The Future of Real Estate: Insights and Outlook Competing with High-Yield Savings Accounts: Real Estate vs. Traditional Investments Living a Fulfilling Life And so much more! About Mike Taravella: Mike is the Asset Manager at Rand Partners where he is responsible for overseeing over $100M assets under management and has acquired over $15M in commercial real estate. Mike collaborates with Rand's vertically integrated property management team to ensure the execution of the portfolio's business plan. Mike is actively pursuing new opportunities within the market and developing relationship with investor basis. Connect with Mike Taravella on… Website: https://www.miketaravella.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2oWkotBta8A-DabTdwHcVw Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064533706124 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/valueaddmike/?hl=en Connect with Nico Salgado! Website: www.smallaxecommunities.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicosalgado456, Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/small-axe-podcast/id1528971543 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicosalgado456/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6edqbvXc6JCXuSg2lbSJeD YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nicosalgado1753 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/dp/B08K4T9YTH

We finish The Gathering Storm by talking about Rand stumbling his way through enlightenment. We discuss how Everyone Is Happy Under Fascism, the Most Fridged Woman Ever (Ilyena), Privileged Enlightenment, and how you should just Watch the Da Vinci Code.

Have you ever stopped to consider the power of the South African rand in shaping your financial future? Today Warren Ingram invites Rupert Hare, Head of Multi-Asset at Prescient, to tackle the often unpredictable nature of the rand, exploring how its strength affects our investment decisions and the crucial role it plays when considering offshore exposure.Questions/ Topics: Exploring the Power of the South African RandInsights from Rupert of Pressient Investment ManagementUnpredictable Nature of the Rand and Its Impact on InvestmentsThe Role of the Rand in Offshore ExposureGovernment Policies and External Factors' Influence on the RandThe Unique Challenge of Timing the RandLong-Term Investment Philosophy and Avoiding Market TimingThe Enduring Equilibrium of the RandSignificance of the Rand in Investment DecisionsNavigating the Complexities of the Rand in InvestmentJoin us for an enlightening journey into investing with the Rand on Honest Money podcast.Have a question for Warren? Don't forget to voice note your questions through our WhatsApp chat on (+27)79 807 8162 and you could be featured in one of our episodes. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more Financial Freedom content: @HonestMoneyPod

Rock out with Jez and Rand on another XB2 podcast. This week we talk about Xbox's big sales surge, the massive Unity industry drama, PlayStation State of Play and Nintendo's latest direct, and much more.  SPONSOR: Get 15% OFF an epic Valari gaming pillow with our code XB2 at http://Valari.gg or https://glnk.io/8l99j/xb215

Oh my holy crap - Scott totally called it. It's kind of amazing, honestly, because it seems like each one of his guesses is so wildly out of touch and maybe it's because he hasn't read the books despite Lindsay continually telling him to and you gotta wonder at this point is - ... y'know what we're getting off topic, here! RAND! FORSAKEN! Matt's there too, I think. Pretty sure we saw him. Anyway, enjoy the review and be sure to check out the Dark Friend Social coming shortly after this with all those delicious book spoilers!!Make sure to subscribe to Behind the Timeline for all of our newest updates and episodes! And if there's a movie or show you want us to cover, check out our website for the means to let us know what you wanna see!-Email: gobehindthetimeline@gmail.comTwitter: BehindtimelineInstagram: GobehindthetimelinePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/BehindTheTimeline?fan_landing=trueYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAPk2zW3jGm6b57uiVj-FEA

EPISODE 244 - Sharon Rand - From Drug Addiction to Pastor's Wife and Being Caught in the MiddleCoach Sharon Rand has an amazing story from challenge to champion. Sharon left behind her drug addiction and life in New York for a new life, and a new calling.  Sharon shares her struggle of forgiveness, battling acceptance and finding her calling when the cards were stacked against her.Had she not made the move she did, when she did, she may never have made it to tell her transformational story.  An unlikely turn in her story takes her from one world to a completely different realityhttps://www.pulpitwife.com/ https://www.instagram.com/pulpitwife/___https://livingthenextchapter.com/podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/MindShift Power Podcast is for teens, about teens, and anyone who works with teens. Many of the guests will be teens from all over the US and Canada. We will discuss issues that involve teens. Solutions start with conversations. Real conversations can not happen unless we are honest.https://www.fatimabey.com/podcastSupport the showBuzzsprout is our podcast host for this show!Ready to find a better podcast host for your show? Get a $20 credit applied to your new Buzzsprout Account by using our link! Starting a new show or looking for a better host? Buzzsprout is amazing!https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1855306Please note! To qualify for this promotion. All accounts must remain on a pay plan and maintained in good standing (paid in full) for 2 consecutive billing cycles before credits are applied to either party.

The Wheel of Time: Season 2, Episode 1 "A Taste of Solitude" Nynaeve and Egwene must endure the harsh tutelage of Alanna and Liandrin; Liandrin holds Mat prisoner to grill him for information; Rand al'Thor is concerned that his power might drive him insane; Moiraine pushes Lan away.   Scorecard: 8.6/10     Feedback : blackgirlcouch@gmail.com  (audio/written) Twitter: BlackGirl_Couch   Tumblr: slowlandrogynousmiracle

Introduction: There are a lot of ways to beat the 2023 Vikings, as we have seen already in just two games, but the best way for now might be to let them beat themselves. Seven turnovers, including six lost fumbles -- four of them in Thursday's not-that-close 34-28 loss to the Eagles -- have doomed them in an 0-2 start. Beyond turnovers, though, there are plenty of other deficiencies. Most notably, a huge talent and execution gap on the offensive and defensive lines that was once again exposed in Philadelphia. 11:00: Star Tribune Twins beat writer Phil Miller joins Rand for a look at some big decisions looming in the final two weeks of the regular season. The Twins lead the AL Central by eight games with 15 to play and should be able to cruise to the finish line. That will give them an extended look at different players in different roles as they try to find their best 26 for October. 35:00: Will the Twins take some heat off the Vikings?

Introduction: Two things are true of "tanking," the idea of putting at least some intentionality into losing in order to obtain a high draft pick the following year: It is nearly impossible to sell to those actually playing the games, since their competitiveness, pride and livelihood is at stake; but it had proved to deliver the type of game-changing talent to turn franchises around. Host Michael Rand notes this dichotomy in the context of several Minnesota teams and wonders if too many of them are stuck in the middle. 11:00: Star Tribune columnist Chip Scoggins joins Rand with thoughts on the brutal first weekend for the Vikings, which not only included a loss but a failure to sign Justin Jefferson to an extension. As they look ahead to Thursday's Vikings game against the Eagles, the outlook is grim -- but also reversible if they can muster a prime time win. 36:00: A word from Aaron Rodgers.

Tony Baer, Principal at dbInsight, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss his definition of what is and isn't a database, and the trends he's seeing in the industry. Tony explains why it's important to try and have an outsider's perspective when evaluating new ideas, and the growing awareness of the impact data has on our daily lives. Corey and Tony discuss the importance of working towards true operational simplicity in the cloud, and Tony also shares why explainability in generative AI is so crucial as the technology advances. About TonyTony Baer, the founder and CEO of dbInsight, is a recognized industry expert in extending data management practices, governance, and advanced analytics to address the desire of enterprises to generate meaningful value from data-driven transformation. His combined expertise in both legacy database technologies and emerging cloud and analytics technologies shapes how clients go to market in an industry undergoing significant transformation. During his 10 years as a principal analyst at Ovum, he established successful research practices in the firm's fastest growing categories, including big data, cloud data management, and product lifecycle management. He advised Ovum clients regarding product roadmap, positioning, and messaging and helped them understand how to evolve data management and analytic strategies as the cloud, big data, and AI moved the goal posts. Baer was one of Ovum's most heavily-billed analysts and provided strategic counsel to enterprises spanning the Fortune 100 to fast-growing privately held companies.With the cloud transforming the competitive landscape for database and analytics providers, Baer led deep dive research on the data platform portfolios of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and on how cloud transformation changed the roadmaps for incumbents such as Oracle, IBM, SAP, and Teradata. While at Ovum, he originated the term “Fast Data” which has since become synonymous with real-time streaming analytics.Baer's thought leadership and broad market influence in big data and analytics has been formally recognized on numerous occasions. Analytics Insight named him one of the 2019 Top 100 Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Influencers. Previous citations include Onalytica, which named Baer as one of the world's Top 20 thought leaders and influencers on Data Science; Analytics Week, which named him as one of 200 top thought leaders in Big Data and Analytics; and by KDnuggets, which listed Baer as one of the Top 12 top data analytics thought leaders on Twitter. While at Ovum, Baer was Ovum's IT's most visible and publicly quoted analyst, and was cited by Ovum's parent company Informa as Brand Ambassador in 2017. In raw numbers, Baer has 14,000 followers on Twitter, and his ZDnet “Big on Data” posts are read 20,000 – 30,000 times monthly. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as Strata Data and Spark Summit.Links Referenced:dbInsight: https://dbinsight.io/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is brought to us in part by our friends at RedHat.As your organization grows, so does the complexity of your IT resources. You need a flexible solution that lets you deploy, manage, and scale workloads throughout your entire ecosystem. The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform simplifies the management of applications and services across your hybrid infrastructure with one platform. Look for it on the AWS Marketplace.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. Back in my early formative years, I was an SRE sysadmin type, and one of the areas I always avoided was databases, or frankly, anything stateful because I am clumsy and unlucky and that's a bad combination to bring within spitting distance of anything that, you know, can't be spun back up intact, like databases. So, as a result, I tend not to spend a lot of time historically living in that world. It's time to expand horizons and think about this a little bit differently. My guest today is Tony Baer, principal at dbInsight. Tony, thank you for joining me.Tony: Oh, Corey, thanks for having me. And by the way, we'll try and basically knock down your primal fear of databases today. That's my mission.Corey: We're going to instill new fears in you. Because I was looking through a lot of your work over the years, and the criticism I have—and always the best place to deliver criticism is massively in public—is that you take a very conservative, stodgy approach to defining a database, whereas I'm on the opposite side of the world. I contain information. You can ask me about it, which we'll call querying. That's right. I'm a database.But I've never yet found myself listed in any of your analyses around various database options. So, what is your definition of databases these days? Where do they start and stop? Tony: Oh, gosh.Corey: Because anything can be a database if you hold it wrong.Tony: [laugh]. I think one of the last things I've ever been called as conservative and stodgy, so this is certainly a way to basically put the thumbtack on my share.Corey: Exactly. I'm trying to normalize my own brand of lunacy, so we'll see how it goes.Tony: Exactly because that's the role I normally play with my clients. So, now the shoe is on the other foot. What I view a database is, is basically a managed collection of data, and it's managed to the point where essentially, a database should be transactional—in other words, when I basically put some data in, I should have some positive information, I should hopefully, depending on the type of database, have some sort of guidelines or schema or model for how I structure the data. So, I mean, database, you know, even though you keep hearing about unstructured data, the fact is—Corey: Schemaless databases and data stores. Yeah, it was all the rage for a few years.Tony: Yeah, except that they all have schemas, just that those schemaless databases just have very variable schema. They're still schema.Corey: A question that I have is you obviously think deeply about these things, which should not come as a surprise to anyone. It's like, “Well, this is where I spend my entire career. Imagine that. I might think about the problem space a little bit.” But you have, to my understanding, never worked with databases in anger yourself. You don't have a history as a DBA or as an engineer—Tony: No.Corey: —but what I find very odd is that unlike a whole bunch of other analysts that I'm not going to name, but people know who I'm talking about regardless, you bring actual insights into this that I find useful and compelling, instead of reverting to the mean of well, I don't actually understand how any of these things work in reality, so I'm just going to believe whoever sounds the most confident when I ask a bunch of people about these things. Are you just asking the right people who also happen to sound confident? But how do you get away from that very common analyst trap?Tony: Well, a couple of things. One is I purposely play the role of outside observer. In other words, like, the idea is that if basically an idea is supposed to stand on its own legs, it has to make sense. If I've been working inside the industry, I might take too many things for granted. And a good example of this goes back, actually, to my early days—actually this goes back to my freshman year in college where I was taking an organic chem course for non-majors, and it was taught as a logic course not as a memorization course.And we were given the option at the end of the term to either, basically, take a final or  do a paper. So, of course, me being a writer I thought, I can BS my way through this. But what I found—and this is what fascinated me—is that as long as certain technical terms were defined for me, I found a logic to the way things work. And so, that really informs how I approach databases, how I approach technology today is I look at the logic  on how things work. That being said, in order for me to understand that, I need to know twice as much as the next guy in order to be able to speak that because I just don't do this in my sleep.Corey: That goes a big step toward, I guess, addressing a lot of these things, but it also feels like—and maybe this is just me paying closer attention—that the world of databases and data and analytics have really coalesced or emerged in a very different way over the past decade-ish. It used to be, at least from my perspective, that oh, that the actual, all the data we store, that's a storage admin problem. And that was about managing NetApps and SANs and the rest. And then you had the database side of it, which functionally from the storage side of the world was just a big file or series of files that are the backing store for the database. And okay, there's not a lot of cross-communication going on there.Then with the rise of object store, it started being a little bit different. And even the way that everyone is talking about getting meaning from data has really seem to be evolving at an incredibly intense clip lately. Is that an accurate perception, or have I just been asleep at the wheel for a while and finally woke up?Tony: No, I think you're onto something there. And the reason is that, one, data is touching us all around ourselves, and the fact is, I mean, I'm you can see it in the same way that all of a sudden that people know how to spell AI. They may not know what it means, but the thing is, there is an awareness the data that we work with, the data that is about us, it follows us, and with the cloud, this data has—well, I should say not just with the cloud but with smart mobile devices—we'll blame that—we are all each founts of data, and rich founts of data. And people in all walks of life, not just in the industry, are now becoming aware of it and there's a lot of concern about can we have any control, any ownership over the data that should be ours? So, I think that phenomenon has also happened in the enterprise, where essentially where we used to think that the data was the DBAs' issue, it's become the app developers' issue, it's become the business analysts' issue. Because the answers that we get, we're ultimately accountable for. It all comes from the data.Corey: It also feels like there's this idea of databases themselves becoming more contextually aware of the data contained within them. Originally, this used to be in the realm of, “Oh, we know what's been accessed recently and we can tier out where it lives for storage optimization purposes.” Okay, great, but what I'm seeing now almost seems to be a sense of, people like to talk about pouring ML into their database offerings. And I'm not able to tell whether that is something that adds actual value, or if it's marketing-ware.Tony: Okay. First off, let me kind of spill a couple of things. First of all, it's not a question of the database becoming aware. A database is not sentient.Corey: Niether are some engineers, but that's neither here nor there.Tony: That would be true, but then again, I don't want anyone with shotguns lining up at my door after this—Corey: [laugh].Tony: —after this interview is published. But [laugh] more of the point, though, is that I can see a couple roles for machine learning in databases. One is a database itself, the logs, are an incredible font of data, of operational data. And you can look at trends in terms of when this—when the pattern of these logs goes this way, that is likely to happen. So, the thing is that I could very easily say we're already seeing it: machine learning being used to help optimize the operation of databases, if you're Oracle, and say, “Hey, we can have a database that runs itself.”The other side of the coin is being able to run your own machine-learning models in database as opposed to having to go out into a separate cluster and move the data, and that's becoming more and more of a checkbox feature. However, that's going to be for essentially, probably, like, the low-hanging fruit, like the 80/20 rule. It'll be like the 20% of an ana—of relatively rudimentary, you know, let's say, predictive analyses that we can do inside the database. If you're going to be doing something more ambitious, such as a, you know, a large language model, you probably do not want to run that in database itself. So, there's a difference there.Corey: One would hope. I mean, one of the inappropriate uses of technology that I go for all the time is finding ways to—as directed or otherwise—in off-label uses find ways of tricking different services into running containers for me. It's kind of a problem; this is probably why everyone is very grateful I no longer write production code for anyone.But it does seem that there's been an awful lot of noise lately. I'm lazy. I take shortcuts very often, and one of those is that whenever AWS talks about something extensively through multiple marketing cycles, it becomes usually a pretty good indicator that they're on their back foot on that area. And for a long time, they were doing that about data and how it's very important to gather data, it unlocks the key to your business, but it always felt a little hollow-slash-hypocritical to me because you're going to some of the same events that I have that AWS throws on. You notice how you have to fill out the exact same form with a whole bunch of mandatory fields every single time, but there never seems to be anything that gets spat back out to you that demonstrates that any human or system has ever read—Tony: Right.Corey: Any of that? It's basically a, “Do what we say, not what we do,” style of story. And I always found that to be a little bit disingenuous.Tony: I don't want to just harp on AWS here. Of course, we can always talk about the two-pizza box rule and the fact that you have lots of small teams there, but I'd rather generalize this. And I think you really—what you're just describing is been my trip through the healthcare system. I had some sports-related injuries this summer, so I've been through a couple of surgeries to repair sports injuries. And it's amazing that every time you go to the doctor's office, you're filling the same HIPAA information over and over again, even with healthcare systems that use the same electronic health records software. So, it's more a function of that it's not just that the technologies are siloed, it's that the organizations are siloed. That's what you're saying.Corey: That is fair. And I think at some level—I don't know if this is a weird extension of Conway's Law or whatnot—but these things all have different backing stores as far as data goes. And there's a—the hard part, it seems, in a lot of companies once they hit a certain point of maturity is not just getting the data in—because they've already done that to some extent—but it's also then making it actionable and helping various data stores internal to the company reconcile with one another and start surfacing things that are useful. It increasingly feels like it's less of a technology problem and more of a people problem.Tony: It is. I mean, put it this way, I spent a lot of time last year, I burned a lot of brain cells working on data fabrics, which is an idea that's in the idea of the beholder. But the ideal of a data fabric is that it's not the tool that necessarily governs your data or secures your data or moves your data or transforms your data, but it's supposed to be the master orchestrator that brings all that stuff together. And maybe sometime 50 years in the future, we might see that.I think the problem here is both technical and organizational. [unintelligible 00:11:58] a promise, you have all these what we used call island silos. We still call them silos or islands of information. And actually, ironically, even though in the cloud we have technologies where we can integrate this, the cloud has actually exacerbated this issue because there's so many islands of information, you know, coming up, and there's so many different little parts of the organization that have their hands on that. That's also a large part of why there's such a big discussion about, for instance, data mesh last year: everybody is concerned about owning their own little piece of the pie, and there's a lot of question in terms of how do we get some consistency there? How do we all read from the same sheet of music? That's going to be an ongoing problem. You and I are going to get very old before that ever gets solved.Corey: Yeah, there are certain things that I am content to die knowing that they will not get solved. If they ever get solved, I will not live to see it, and there's a certain comfort in that, on some level.Tony: Yeah.Corey: But it feels like this stuff is also getting more and more complicated than it used to be, and terms aren't being used in quite the same way as they once were. Something that a number of companies have been saying for a while now has been that customers overwhelmingly are preferring open-source. Open source is important to them when it comes to their database selection. And I feel like that's a conflation of a couple of things. I've never yet found an ideological, purity-driven customer decision around that sort of thing.What they care about is, are there multiple vendors who can provide this thing so I'm not going to be using a commercially licensed database that can arbitrarily start playing games with seat licenses and wind up distorting my cost structure massively with very little notice. Does that align with your—Tony: Yeah.Corey: Understanding of what people are talking about when they say that, or am I missing something fundamental? Which is again, always possible?Tony: No, I think you're onto something there. Open-source is a whole other can of worms, and I've burned many, many brain cells over this one as well. And today, you're seeing a lot of pieces about the, you know, the—that are basically giving eulogies for open-source. It's—you know, like HashiCorp just finally changed its license and a bunch of others have in the database world. What open-source has meant is been—and I think for practitioners, for DBAs and developers—here's a platform that's been implemented by many different vendors, which means my skills are portable.And so, I think that's really been the key to why, for instance, like, you know, MySQL and especially PostgreSQL have really exploded, you know, in popularity. Especially Postgres, you know, of late. And it's like, you look at Postgres, it's a very unglamorous database. If you're talking about stodgy, it was born to be stodgy because they wanted to be an adult database from the start. They weren't the LAMP stack like MySQL.And the secret of success with Postgres was that it had a very permissive open-source license, which meant that as long as you don't hold University of California at Berkeley, liable, have at it, kids. And so, you see, like, a lot of different flavors of Postgres out there, which means that a lot of customers are attracted to that because if I get up to speed on this Postgres—on one Postgres database, my skills should be transferable, should be portable to another. So, I think that's a lot of what's happening there.Corey: Well, I do want to call that out in particular because when I was coming up in the naughts, the mid-2000s decade, the lingua franca on everything I used was MySQL, or as I insist on mispronouncing it, my-squeal. And lately, on same vein, Postgres-squeal seems to have taken over the entire universe, when it comes to the de facto database of choice. And I'm old and grumpy and learning new things as always challenging, so I don't understand a lot of the ways that thing gets managed from the context coming from where I did before, but what has driven the massive growth of mindshare among the Postgres-squeal set?Tony: Well, I think it's a matter of it's 30 years old and it's—number one, Postgres always positioned itself as an Oracle alternative. And the early years, you know, this is a new database, how are you going to be able to match, at that point, Oracle had about a 15-year headstart on it. And so, it was a gradual climb to respectability. And I have huge respect for Oracle, don't get me wrong on that, but you take a look at Postgres today and they have basically filled in a lot of the blanks.And so, it now is a very cre—in many cases, it's a credible alternative to Oracle. Can it do all the things Oracle can do? No. But for a lot of organizations, it's the 80/20 rule. And so, I think it's more just a matter of, like, Postgres coming of age. And the fact is, as a result of it coming of age, there's a huge marketplace out there and so much choice, and so much opportunity for skills portability. So, it's really one of those things where its time has come.Corey: I think that a lot of my own biases are simply a product of the era in which I learned how a lot of these things work on. I am terrible at Node, for example, but I would be hard-pressed not to suggest JavaScript as the default language that people should pick up if they're just entering tech today. It does front-end, it does back-end—Tony: Sure.Corey: —it even makes fries, apparently. There's a—that is the lingua franca of the modern internet in a bunch of different ways. That doesn't mean I'm any good at it, and it doesn't mean at this stage, I'm likely to improve massively at it, but it is the right move, even if it is inconvenient for me personally.Tony: Right. Right. Put it this way, we've seen—and as I said, I'm not an expert in programming languages, but we've seen a huge profusion of programming languages and frameworks. But the fact is that there's always been a draw towards critical mass. At the turn of the millennium, we thought is between Java and .NET. Little did we know that basically JavaScript—which at that point was just a web scripting language—[laugh] we didn't know that it could work on the server; we thought it was just a client. Who knew?Corey: That's like using something inappropriately as a database. I mean, good heavens.Tony: [laugh]. That would be true. I mean, when I could have, you know, easily just use a spreadsheet or something like that. But so, I mean, who knew? I mean, just like for instance, Java itself was originally conceived for a set-top box. You never know how this stuff is going to turn out. It's the same thing happen with Python. Python was also a web scripting language. Oh, by the way, it happens to be really powerful and flexible for data science. And whoa, you know, now Python is—in terms of data science languages—has become the new SaaS.Corey: It really took over in a bunch of different ways. Before that, Perl was great, and I go, “Why would I use—why write in Python when Perl is available?” It's like, “Okay, you know, how to write Perl, right?” “Yeah.” “Have you ever read anything a month later?” “Oh…” it's very much a write-only language. It is inscrutable after the fact. And Python at least makes that a lot more approachable, which is never a bad thing.Tony: Yeah.Corey: Speaking of what you touched on toward the beginning of this episode, the idea of databases not being sentient, which I equate to being self-aware, you just came out very recently with a report on generative AI and a trip that you wound up taking on this. Which I've read; I love it. In fact, we've both been independently using the phrase [unintelligible 00:19:09] to, “English is the new most common programming language once a lot of this stuff takes off.” But what have you seen? What have you witnessed as far as both the ground truth reality as well as the grandiose statements that companies are making as they trip over themselves trying to position as the forefront leader and all of this thing that didn't really exist five months ago?Tony: Well, what's funny is—and that's a perfect question because if on January 1st you asked “what's going to happen this year?” I don't think any of us would have thought about generative AI or large language models. And I will not identify the vendors, but I did some that had— was on some advanced briefing calls back around the January, February timeframe. They were talking about things like server lists, they were talking about in database machine learning and so on and so forth. They weren't saying anything about generative.And all of a sudden, April, it changed. And it's essentially just another case of the tail wagging the dog. Consumers were flocking to ChatGPT and enterprises had to take notice. And so, what I saw, in the spring was—and I was at a conference from SaaS, I'm [unintelligible 00:20:21] SAP, Oracle, IBM, Mongo, Snowflake, Databricks and others—that they all very quickly changed their tune to talk about generative AI. What we were seeing was for the most part, position statements, but we also saw, I think, the early emphasis was, as you say, it's basically English as the new default programming language or API, so basically, coding assistance, what I'll call conversational query.I don't want to call it natural language query because we had stuff like Tableau Ask Data, which was very robotic. So, we're seeing a lot of that. And we're also seeing a lot of attention towards foundation models because I mean, what organization is going to have the resources of a Google or an open AI to develop their own foundation model? Yes, some of the Wall Street houses might, but I think most of them are just going to say, “Look, let's just use this as a starting point.”I also saw a very big theme for your models with your data. And where I got a hint of that—it was a throwaway LinkedIn post. It was back in, I think like, February, Databricks had announced Dolly, which was kind of an experimental foundation model, just to use with your own data. And I just wrote three lines in a LinkedIn post, it was on Friday afternoon. By Monday, it had 65,000 hits.I've never seen anything—I mean, yes, I had a lot—I used to say ‘data mesh' last year, and it would—but didn't get anywhere near that. So, I mean, that really hit a nerve. And other things that I saw, was the, you know, the starting to look with vector storage and how that was going to be supported was it was going be a new type of database, and hey, let's have AWS come up with, like, an, you know, an [ADF 00:21:41] database here or is this going to be a feature? I think for the most part, it's going to be a feature. And of course, under all this, everybody's just falling in love, falling all over themselves to get in the good graces of Nvidia. In capsule, that's kind of like what I saw.Corey: That feels directionally accurate. And I think databases are a great area to point out one thing that's always been more a little disconcerting for me. The way that I've always viewed databases has been, unless I'm calling a RAND function or something like it and I don't change the underlying data structure, I should be able to run a query twice in a row and receive the same result deterministically both times.Tony: Mm-hm.Corey: Generative AI is effectively non-deterministic for all realistic measures of that term. Yes, I'm sure there's a deterministic reason things are under the hood. I am not smart enough or learned enough to get there. But it just feels like sometimes we're going to give you the answer you think you're going to get, sometimes we're going to give you a different answer. And sometimes, in generative AI space, we're going to be supremely confident and also completely wrong. That feels dangerous to me.Tony: [laugh]. Oh gosh, yes. I mean, I take a look at ChatGPT and to me, the responses are essentially, it's a high school senior coming out with an essay response without any footnotes. It's the exact opposite of an ACID database. The reason why we're very—in the database world, we're very strongly drawn towards ACID is because we want our data to be consistent and to get—if we ask the same query, we're going to get the same answer.And the problem is, is that with generative, you know, based on large language models, computers sounds sentient, but they're not. Large language models are basically just a series of probabilities, and so hopefully those probabilities will line up and you'll get something similar. That to me, kind of scares me quite a bit. And I think as we start to look at implementing this in an enterprise setting, we need to take a look at what kind of guardrails can we put on there. And the thing is, that what this led me to was that missing piece that I saw this spring with generative AI, at least in the data and analytics world, is nobody had a clue in terms of how to extend AI governance to this, how to make these models explainable. And I think that's still—that's a large problem. That's a huge nut that it's going to take the industry a while to crack.Corey: Yeah, but it's incredibly important that it does get cracked.Tony: Oh, gosh, yes.Corey: One last topic that I want to get into. I know you said you don't want to over-index on AWS, which, fair enough. It is where I spend the bulk of my professional time and energy—Tony: [laugh].Corey: Focusing on, but I think this one's fair because it is a microcosm of a broader industry question. And that is, I don't know what the DBA job of the future is going to look like, but increasingly, it feels like it's going to primarily be picking which purpose-built AWS database—or larger [story 00:24:56] purpose database is appropriate for a given workload. Even without my inappropriate misuse of things that are not databases as databases, they are legitimately 15 or 16 different AWS services that they position as database offerings. And it really feels like you're spiraling down a well of analysis paralysis, trying to pick between all these things. Do you think the future looks more like general-purpose databases, or very purpose-built and each one is this beautiful, bespoke unicorn?Tony: [laugh]. Well, this is basically a hit on a theme that I've been—you know, we've been all been thinking about for years. And the thing is, there are arguments to be made for multi-model databases, you know, versus a for-purpose database. That being said, okay, two things. One is that what I've been saying, in general, is that—and I wrote about this way, way back; I actually did a talk at the [unintelligible 00:25:50]; it was a throwaway talk, or [unintelligible 00:25:52] one of those conferences—I threw it together and it's basically looking at the emergence of all these specialized databases.But how I saw, also, there's going to be kind of an overlapping. Not that we're going to come back to Pangea per se, but that, for instance, like, a relational database will be able to support JSON. And Oracle, for instance, does has some fairly brilliant ideas up the sleeve, what they call a JSON duality, which sounds kind of scary, which basically says, “We can store data relationally, but superimpose GraphQL on top of all of this and this is going to look really JSON-y.” So, I think on one hand, you are going to be seeing databases that do overlap. Would I use Oracle for a MongoDB use case? No, but would I use Oracle for a case where I might have some document data? I could certainly see that.The other point, though, and this is really one I want to hammer on here—it's kind of a major concern I've had—is I think the cloud vendors, for all their talk that we give you operational simplicity and agility are making things very complex with its expanding cornucopia of services. And what they need to do—I'm not saying, you know, let's close down the patent office—what I think we do is we need to provide some guided experiences that says, “Tell us the use case. We will now blend these particular services together and this is the package that we would suggest.” I think cloud vendors really need to go back to the drawing board from that standpoint and look at, how do we bring this all together? How would he really simplify the life of the customer?Corey: That is, honestly, I think the biggest challenge that the cloud providers have across the board. There are hundreds of services available at this point from every hyperscaler out there. And some of them are brand new and effectively feel like they're there for three or four different customers and that's about it and others are universal services that most people are probably going to use. And most things fall in between those two extremes, but it becomes such an analysis paralysis moment of trying to figure out what do I do here? What is the golden path?And what that means is that when you start talking to other people and asking their opinion and getting their guidance on how to do something when you get stuck, it's, “Oh, you're using that service? Don't do it. Use this other thing instead.” And if you listen to that, you get midway through every problem for them to start over again because, “Oh, I'm going to pick a different selection of underlying components.” It becomes confusing and complicated, and I think it does customers largely a disservice. What I think we really need, on some level, is a simplified golden path with easy on-ramps and easy off-ramps where, in the absence of a compelling reason, this is what you should be using.Tony: Believe it or not, I think this would be a golden case for machine learning.Corey: [laugh].Tony: No, but submit to us the characteristics of your workload, and here's a recipe that we would propose. Obviously, we can't trust AI to make our decisions for us, but it can provide some guardrails.Corey: “Yeah. Use a graph database. Trust me, it'll be fine.” That's your general purpose—Tony: [laugh].Corey: —approach. Yeah, that'll end well.Tony: [laugh]. I would hope that the AI would basically be trained on a better set of training data to not come out with that conclusion.Corey: One could sure hope.Tony: Yeah, exactly.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to catch up with me around what you're doing. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you?Tony: My website is dbinsight.io. And on my homepage, I list my latest research. So, you just have to go to the homepage where you can basically click on the links to the latest and greatest. And I will, as I said, after Labor Day, I'll be publishing my take on my generative AI journey from the spring.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to this in the [show notes 00:29:39]. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it.Tony: Hey, it's been a pleasure, Corey. Good seeing you again.Corey: Tony Baer, principal at dbInsight. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with an angry, insulting comment that we will eventually stitch together with all those different platforms to create—that's right—a large-scale distributed database.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.

We all want what's best for our learners, but oftentimes biases get in the way of having productive conversations about what learning should look like in the classroom. Instead, we need to have evidence- and research-based conversations that support what truly works for our children.   This week on the podcast, I'm talking with Darleen Opfer of RAND, a nonprofit organization that's committed to low income and minority students. Darleen started as a special education teacher but quickly saw a need for changes in schools and went on a mission to impact education policy for the better.   We talk about the loss of critical thinking skills as lawmakers remove topics from curriculum in some states, how demographics and culture impact both teaching and students success, and the impact of making decisions without sound and bipartisan research to back them up.   We can all be active in policy making, starting at our own schools level. Parent and teacher involvement is vital in ensuring that we focus on overall coherence in our schools.   Listen in!   About Darleen Opfer:   Darleen began her career as a special education teacher in Florida and then Virginia. After earning her Ph.D. in education policy at the University of Virginia, she became a professor of education policy. She served in that role at Georgia State University, Ohio State University, and the University of Cambridge, U.K.. Throughout her career, her focus has been on using evidence to improve schools for low-income and minority students.   In 2011 she joined RAND as Director of RAND Education. In October 2018 she was promoted to Vice President and became Director of the RAND Education and Labor Research Division; she also holds RAND's Distinguished Chair in Education Policy. Darleen has conducted policy research studies for several local, state and national governments on issues that affect teachers and schools, including recruitment and retention, professional development, and impact of policies on teacher practice. Recently, she's been conducting research on teachers' use of curriculum and how coherent instructional systems impact low income and minority students' achievement.   In addition to her research, she frequently serves as an advisor to international agencies and countries on teaching and teacher education including in Croatia, India, Israel, Norway, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and the OECD.   Jump in the Conversation:   [1:35] - Where Darleen's journey of school transformation began [2:53] - Why policy doesn't always work [3:18] - What RAND Corporation does [4:30] - What's happening in politics with some of the key education conversations [5:58] - Dropping curricula, which means they're dropping things that are necessary for critical thinking [7:24] - How RAND gets research out there to impact policy and education change [9:18] - Impact of 4-day schools - the research [11:44] - Solutions for low income and minority students [13:32] - Districts and schools that focus on coherence are more effective [16:50] - Demographic shifts and class culture [20:27] - The idea of transferring paraprofessionals to teachers using stackable credentials [22:51] - TALIS (Teaching and Learning International Survey) Video Study [27:15] - Resources for infusing nonpartisan views in the classroom [30:00] - How parents and educators can influence educational policy [35:51] - Turbo Time [36:50] - What people need to know about creating equity and access for all our learners [38:25] - Darleen's Magic Wand [39:42] - Maureen's Takeaways   Links & Resources   RAND Corporation Follow Darleen on Twitter Follow RAND on Facebook Connect with Darleen on LinkedIn RAND Corporation: Coherent Instructional Systems Gates Foundation: Coherent Instructional Systems Episode 137: Creating Equity to Improve Education Seattle's “Underground Railroad” library access 137:  Email Maureen Maureen's TEDx: Changing My Mind to Change Our Schools The Education Evolution Facebook: Follow Education Evolution Twitter: Follow Education Evolution LinkedIn: Follow Education Evolution EdActive Collective Maureen's book: Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids Micro-school feature on Good Morning America The Micro-School Coalition Facebook: The Micro-School Coalition LEADPrep

”TBD” / King Rand Richey / Omegaman Episode 10440 Recorded 9-12-2023 on OMEGAMAN

Introduction: Host Michael Rand watched Aaron Rodgers get hurt on his first series as a Jets QB, a likely Achilles injury that could keep him out for a long time, and couldn't help but think of the emotional letdown after the offseason drama. Imagine, for example, if Brett Favre had been injured in his first series as QB for the Vikings in 2009? 8:00: Andrew Krammer joins Rand for a film review of what went wrong for the Vikings on Sunday. The interior of the offensive line is still a question mark in any given game, and while the defense was improved in some areas Tampa Bay made some key adjustments. 31:00: Vikings poetry is back, baby. 44:00: Pablo Lopez or Sonny Gray in Game 1 of a playoff series?

Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse joins host Michael Rand for a look back at the weekend in sports, which started with a clunker from the Vikings in their opener. They turned the ball over three times and let Tampa Bay hang around before ultimately losing 20-17 at U.S. Bank Stadium. In conjunction with other weekend outcomes, including the lack of a Justin Jefferson extension and impressive wins for the Lions and Packers, not much could have gone worse. Reusse and Rand also discuss the dominance of Pablo Lopez and how the Twins might stack up in the playoffs as they try to break their 18-game postseason losing streak. And the Lynx stumbled into the playoffs with a bad loss Sunday that impacted their seed, leading coach Cheryl Reeve to rip them after the game.

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Ricardo Pinto discuss Ayn Rand's devastating critique of the idea of original sin. They explore how the notion has been understood historically, the philosophical and political uses to which it has been put, and the arguments Rand gives for regarding it as a destructive affront to morality and self-esteem. Among the topics covered: What original sin is and how it compares to other views; Why Ayn Rand saw the doctrine as an offense to the very concept of morality; Original sin's “explanation” of why the individual is guilty of another's actions; Original sin as incompatible with free will; The conservative justification of capitalism on original sin; Original sin as a premise of the “secular” left; How original sin rests on an antipathy to the body; The assault on intellectual pride; The mutual reinforcement between altruism and original sin; The deepest psychological motives behind original sin. Recommended in this podcast are the Ayn Rand Lexicon's entry on original sin, Rand's “Conservatism: An Obituary” and “Moral Inflation,” and Ben Bayer's “The Old Morality of the New Religions.” The podcast was recorded on. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. https://youtu.be/-k4Nly6o8sw Podcast audio:

The 20k COTEL stream led to an interesting discussion on aesthetics and the objectivity of the beautiful and the good.

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Jez is back after some COVID fun with a new Xbox Two Podcast with Rand! This week, we discuss our Starfield impressions, the ongoing discourse, and the confusion from the games' media about Xbox having some kind of "win." We talk Nintendo Switch 2 rumors, PC gaming handhelds, and also Xbox's Tokyo Game Show potential announcements. SPONSOR: Get 15% OFF an epic Valari gaming pillow with our code XB2 at http://Valari.gg or https://glnk.io/8l99j/xb215

Als die Polizei 2015 an die Tür einer Verdächtigen am südlichen Rand von St. Petersburg klopft, staunen die Einsatzkräfte nicht schlecht. Ihnen öffnet eine etwa 70-jährige Dame. Die typische „liebe Oma von nebenan“. Kann sie wirklich für dieses grausame Verbrechen verantwortlich sein? Heute erzählen wir euch die unglaubliche Geschichte einer Person, die von der internationalen Presse „Granny Ripper“ genannt wird. TW: Kanibalismus Diese Episode erschien ursprünglich am 13. Juni 2023 exklusiv bei Podimo und steht ab sofort überall dort zur Verfügung, wo es Podcasts gibt. --- Links zum Fall --- Foto von Tamara: https://tinyurl.com/wcrx34pw Ausschnitt aus ihrem Tagebuch: https://tinyurl.com/54suft7f Videoaufzeichnung, wie sie den Plastiksack aus der Wohnung trägt: https://tinyurl.com/tnsf9rr3 --- Werbepartner [Werbung] --- Rabattcodes und Links von unseren Werbepartnern findet ihr unter https://linktr.ee/schwarzeakte --- Werbefrei bei Podimo [Werbung] --- Du möchtest die Schwarze Akte ohne Werbeunterbrechung hören? Dann schau mal in der Podcast-App Podimo vorbei. Unter www.podimo.de/schwarzeakte könnt ihr die Mitgliedschaft kostenlos testen. --- Schwarze Akte Buch [Eigenwerbung] --- Das Schwarze Akte Buch mit weiteren spannenden Fällen erhaltet ihr überall, wo es Bücher gibt. www.schwarzeakte.de/buch --- Social Media & Kontakt --- Instagram: @schwarzeakte YouTube: @SchwarzeAkte TikTok: @schwarzeakte Mail: schwarzeakte@julep.de Website: www.schwarzeakte.de --- Credits --- Hosts: Anne Luckmann & Christopher Bücklein Redaktion: Silva Hanekamp Produktion: Falko Schulte Eine Produktion der Julep Studios im Auftrag von Podimo Impressum: www.julep.de/impressum [Wir übernehmen keine Haftung für die Inhalte externer Links] --- SPOILER --- In diesem Fall wurde ein Urteil gesprochen.

We're coming up on the postseason!!! Danny and Snowy are here to tell you all about it. (Boring description today cuz it's 1am and I've got work in the morning. Just pretend I wrote something really exciting here. Thx! :D)

In this week's episode, Osan'gar drops the pretense; Moghedien sits out; and Rand and Nynaeve do some cleaning.The Patreon thank-yous end at about 9:45Ali's Bingo Card for WINTER'S HEART can be found here!Check out THE HOT NUANCE BOOK CLUB!~~~Material covered in this episode: Chapters 35 of WINTER'S HEART.This episode contains SPOILERS through THE END of WINTER'S HEART.~~~SUPPORT STRIKING ACTORS AND WRITERS BY DONATING TO THE ENTERTIANMENT COMMUNITY FUNDCheck out our TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, and TIKTOKCheck out our Patreon at patreon.com/wheeltakesEmail us at wheeltakespodcast@gmail.comUS-friendly MERCHANDISE: https://www.zazzle.com/store/wheeltakesmerch/productsEurope-friendly MERCHANDISE: https://wheel-takes-merch.myspreadshop.co.uk/allSend us a card!Wheel Takes PodcastP.O. Box 1457El Segundo, CA 90245Ali's nicknames confusing you? Check out our NAME KEY!Check out the Prediction Tracker: https://bit.ly/37cyadl!~~~Support the Prague Shakespeare Company!US-based donation link: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=P3XXBTWT4SKLY__;!!LpKI!yRseJwkaasaNLZf5LUF-SJG--u97dLQUppRndhKmWCQxNXuV5SUOaJdbb7svXF1Kug$Donate via check:Payable to: Prague Shakespeare Company AmericaPrague Shakespeare Company America1111 North Country Club DriveShoreacres, TX 77571Memo: In Support of PSCEuropean resources: https://www.pragueshakespeare.com/support-psc.html~~~Music: DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS by Alexander Nakarada.Art: Collin Rice.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5747467/advertisement

RAND experts Michelle Miro and Krista Romita Grocholski join us to discuss the growing problem of flooding in the United States. They recently published a paper that examines this issue in the Mid-Atlantic region, where extreme precipitation has led to flooding nearly every season since 2018. Climate data, they say, is essential to helping stormwater managers and civil engineers better protect their communities from these costly disasters. For more information on this week's episode, visit rand.org/podcast.

Kathy, Rajiv, and Maureen discuss episode 4 of season 2 “Daughter of the Night”. Moiraine visits home, Lan tries to find a new home, Perrin makes a new friend, the Aes Sedai in training get trained, and Rand goes on vacation. Podcast edited by Sam Taylor. For more information on The Wheel of Time tv show, along with full episode recaps, visit Dragonmount.com/TV Dragonmount Patreon | Dragonmount Website | Dragonmount Facebook | Dragonmount Instagram | Dragonmount TikTok | Dragonmount Twitter | Dragonmount YouTube Kathy Campbell, Rajiv Moté and Maureen Carr.

Our coverage of The Wheel of Time rolls on with Episode 4! This one was a doozy that deserved a lot of discussion. Join Paul, Dave, Luke, and Kyle as they break down Rand's craziness of a storyline, Egwene, Elayne Nyneave and the White Tower, Perrin finding out more about who he really is, Lan and his road to recovery, and everything in between!! Discord Link: https://discord.gg/CFuY8bCA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathy, Rajiv, and Maureen discuss episode 4 of season 2 “Daughter of the Night”. Moiraine visits home, Lan tries to find a new home, Perrin makes a new friend, the Aes Sedai in training get trained, and Rand goes on vacation. Podcast edited by Sam Taylor. For more information on The Wheel of Time tv show, along with full episode recaps, visit Dragonmount.com/TV Dragonmount Patreon | Dragonmount Website | Dragonmount Facebook | Dragonmount Instagram | Dragonmount TikTok | Dragonmount Twitter | Dragonmount YouTube Kathy Campbell, Rajiv Moté and Maureen Carr.

Introduction; Host Michael Rand watched the Lions rally to beat Kansas City 21-20 and had an uh-oh moment. That was supposed to be a banked loss for Detroit. Now everyone else in the NFC North is chasing the Lions this weekend. It puts even more pressure on the Vikings to win their soft opener against Tampa Bay, even as this roster looks to have a lot of holes. 7:00: Rand and Star Tribune writer/editor Jeff Day join forces again for Part II of their Vikings series -- this time on the worst moments in franchise history. A lot of the moments were no-brainers. But what order? That was a big question. Hopefully this is more cathartic than painful. 43:00: Things Rand wants to see from four teams this weekend.

Founder of the Animal Compassion Project Dr. Rand Wachsstock joins Jeff to discuss tomorrow's pet food drive/giveaway in Midlothian from 10am-1pm. 

Introduction: Host Michael Rand says that the Twins did everything fans could have really asked for on their recent 13-game stretch against Texas and Cleveland. Even after losing Wednesday to the Guardians, the Twins went 8-5 during that span and increased their AL Central led from five to six games. With just 22 to play, they are in great shape. 6:00: Rand and Star Tribune writer/editor Jeff Day take turns drafting the 10 greatest moments in Vikings history. What made the cut? What did they miss? And are you scared of Friday's show, when they will draft the 10 worst moments in Vikings history? 47:00: One current Viking who is rising quickly.

00:11:47 Iron thinks Toast should help IMT 00:23:50 yami wants to talk creators and NACL 00:42:50 dez's take: the overpolishing of esports has killed a lot of the scene 01:01:45 Alienware break 01:08:00 Emily Rand joins HLL 01:16:10 chadcyberdemon asks about transition from journalism to stage 01:25:54 lazerfruit's take: GG will beat BDS 3-1 and are/will be the second strongest NA team at worlds 01:35:20 fearidan's take: LCS has been super entertaining, but it's not enough 01:51:20 sylveke's take: the best way for the west to win at worlds is by developing creative strategies rather than playing meta. 01:58:55 prongs's take: LCS talent's growth is limited by Riot 02:11:45 Outro

Introduction: Host Michael Rand provides perspective on the latest sports on TV battle, which has left nearly 15 million subscribers to Charter/Spectrum cable without ESPN and other Disney-owned channels just as sports ramp back up again. This squabble has a different feel to it, and Rand wonders if we will look back on this as a turning point. 10:00: Rand welcomes in four members of the Gophers baseball team for a discussion of the upcoming season, pace of play rules in college baseball and the impact of the transfer portal in college sports. The players joined Rand out at the State Fair on Monday. 31:00: A big statement from the Twins, who are playing as consistently well as they have all season and now lead the AL Central by seven games.

Nynaeve faces her greatest fears. Rand seeks guidance on his powers from an unexpected source. Join us as we discuss Season 2, Episode 3, "What Might Be." Want to join the watch party? Do you have a question you need answered? A theory? Or an answer to the final question?  Contact us at: Website: https://wotwatchparty.wordpress.com/  Email: wotwatchparty@gmail.com Twitter: @wotwatchparty | https://twitter.com/WOTWatchParty Discord: https://tinyurl.com/5n84fkez  You can also find Rhuarc and Saimma on Facebook moderating WOT fan communities:  Cold Rocks Hold: An Inclusive Wheel of Time Fan Community Wheel of Time TV Series Wheel of Time TV Series - No Spoilers Page OTHER WATCH PARTY PODCASTS Watch Party: Lord of the Rings - https://watchpartylotr.podbean.com/  A Watch Party of Ice and Fire - https://watchpartyiaf.podbean.com/  Watch Party: Gaiman - https://watchpartygaiman.podbean.com/  CREDITS Intro and Outro Music: Find You, by Lion Spring (Rebekah Rolland). https://www.rebekahrolland.com/  This is a production of the Watch Party Podcast Network.

Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse joins host Michael Rand for a look back at the long weekend in sports, which included a 20-run outburst by the Twins on Monday. Royce Lewis hit his third grand slam in an eight-game span, pushing the division lead to six games. The Twins have been hitting well lately, and they've been doing it without Byron Buxton. He had another injury setback, and Reusse is concerned about Buxton's long-term future. Reusse and Rand also get into the Vikings' season, with a prediction from Patrick that the Vikings will repeat as NFC North champions thanks in large part to the mediocrity of the rest of the teams. But they won't benefit from the "Football Gods" to the same degree as last season. Has that fortune found P.J. Fleck's Gophers instead?

"Healing from Rejection" / King Rand Richey / Omegaman Episode 10426 Recorded 9-5-2023 on OMEGAMAN  omegamanradio.com  

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Our coverage of The Wheel of Time rolls on with Episode 3! These Arches are prettttyyy crazy. Join Paul, Dave, Luke, and Kyle as they break down Nynaeve going through her trial, Egwene & Elayne becoming closer and closer, Rand's introduction to a familiar face, a proper introduction to our new sea-faring friends, and everything in between!! Discord Link: https://discord.gg/CFuY8bCA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, Rand hunts; Fain lays traps; and Cadsuane politicks.The Patreon thank-yous end at about 5:39 (without ads)The discussion relating to S2E1 and S2E2 ends at 30:38 (without ads) (There's also a chapter marker)Ali's Bingo Card for WINTER'S HEART can be found here!Check out THE HOT NUANCE BOOK CLUB!~~~Material covered in this episode: Chapters 32, 33 and 34 of WINTER'S HEART.This episode contains SPOILERS through THE END of WINTER'S HEART.~~~SUPPORT STRIKING ACTORS AND WRITERS BY DONATING TO THE ENTERTIANMENT COMMUNITY FUNDCheck out our TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, and TIKTOKCheck out our Patreon at patreon.com/wheeltakesEmail us at wheeltakespodcast@gmail.comUS-friendly MERCHANDISE: https://www.zazzle.com/store/wheeltakesmerch/productsEurope-friendly MERCHANDISE: https://wheel-takes-merch.myspreadshop.co.uk/allSend us a card!Wheel Takes PodcastP.O. Box 1457El Segundo, CA 90245Ali's nicknames confusing you? Check out our NAME KEY!Check out the Prediction Tracker: https://bit.ly/37cyadl!~~~Support the Prague Shakespeare Company!US-based donation link: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=P3XXBTWT4SKLY__;!!LpKI!yRseJwkaasaNLZf5LUF-SJG--u97dLQUppRndhKmWCQxNXuV5SUOaJdbb7svXF1Kug$Donate via check:Payable to: Prague Shakespeare Company AmericaPrague Shakespeare Company America1111 North Country Club DriveShoreacres, TX 77571Memo: In Support of PSCEuropean resources: https://www.pragueshakespeare.com/support-psc.html~~~Music: DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS by Alexander Nakarada.Art: Collin Rice.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5747467/advertisement

Our coverage of The Wheel of Time rolls on with Episode 2! This episode is a hefty one now that Rand is fully involved in the show. Join Paul, Dave, Luke, and Kyle as they break down Nynaeve & Liandrin's budding relationship, Egwene & Elayne's newfound friendship, Rand's new lover, a fantastic battle scene, THE twist of early Wheel of Time, and everything in between!! Discord Link: https://discord.gg/CFuY8bCA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introduction: Host Michael Rand couldn't believe his eyes, and neither could most of you. Daniel Jackson somehow managed to get his foot in bounds on a fourth down play late against Nebraska, changing the narrative of the game and perhaps the entire season for both teams in a 13-10 Gophers victory in Thursday's opener. Rand marvels at the play itself and the impact it had on how we view the game in retrospect. 8:00: The Twins lead the Guardians by five games with 28 to play, a comfortable but not insurmountable lead. Can they hold on, especially now that Cleveland has added three dispatched Angels pitchers? Rand and Twins beat writer Bobby Nightengale discuss the home stretch and other key issues with the Twins. 32:00: A new deal for T.J. Hockenson.