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A 59% majority of the public now says President Donald Trump's policies have worsened economic conditions in the country, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, up from 51% in March and on par with the worst numbers Joe Biden saw during his presidency. Americans remain broadly unhappy with the nation's economy, the survey finds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tarptautinė interneto rinkos tyrimų ir duomenų analizės įmonė „YouGov“ neseniai Vokietijoje atliko apklausą, kuri parodė, kad 79 procentų gyventojų mano, jog Vladimiras Putinas yra „labai“ arba „gana“ pavojingas Europos taikai bei saugumui. Apie Donaldą Trumpą tą patį mano 74 procentai gyventojų. Vis dėlto jau 80 metų Jungtinės Amerikos Valstijos yra pagrindinis taikos Europoje garantas, apsaugantis nuo Rusijos (o prieš tai – SSRS) keliamos grėsmės. Tačiau paralelės tarp Trumpo ir Putino tuo nesibaigia. Ne taip seniai Jungtinės Valstijos kartu su Rusija balsavo prieš Jungtinių Tautų rezoliuciją, smerkiančią Rusijos agresiją prieš Ukrainą. Kyla klausimas, kuo skiriasi Putino požiūris į Ukrainą nuo Trumpo požiūrio į Grenlandiją arba, jei jau apie tai prakalbome, į Panamą ir Kanadą. Plačiau - vedamojo skiltyje.Didžiosios Savaitės išvakarėse – naujas „Artumos“ numeris, kurį pristatys žurnalo vyriausiasis redaktorius Darius Chmieliauskas.Spaudos apžvalga: apie Bažnyčios atsaką į globalias krizes ir autoritarizmo iššūkius (parengė Giedrius Tamaševičius).„Krikščioniškos minties puslapis“: Timothy Radcliffe OP „Meilė, pranokstanti visus mūsų žodžius“.„Tėvo Antano pasakojimai“: kun. Antanas Saulaitis SJ apie Bažnyčią ir valdžią.Gabrielės Gailiūtės-Bernotienės radijo apybraiža „Apie laimę nusivalyti langus“.Redaktoriai Rūta Tumėnaitė ir Julius Sasnauskas.-------- Persiųstas laiškas --------Tema: Popiežius ir pasaulis - balandžio 12 d.Data: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:15:33 +0300Kas: Mažoji studija Kam: laidos.anonsai@lrt.ltKopija: Guoda Litvaitienė Popiežius ir pasaulis. Septintoji diena - šeštadienis, balandžio 12 d., 14.05 per LRT RadijąKodėl Europai reikia moralinio atsinaujinimo ir apie laimę nusivalyti langus"Tarptautinė interneto rinkos tyrimų ir duomenų analizės įmonė „YouGov“ neseniai Vokietijoje atliko apklausą, kuri parodė, kad 79 procentų gyventojų mano, jog Vladimiras Putinas yra „labai“ arba „gana“ pavojingas Europos taikai bei saugumui. Apie Donaldą Trumpą tą patį mano 74 procentai gyventojų. Vis dėlto, jau 80 metų Jungtinės Amerikos Valstijos yra pagrindinis taikos Europoje garantas, apsaugantis nuo Rusijos (o prieš tai - SSRS) keliamos grėsmės. Tačiau paralelės tarp Trumpo ir Putino tuo nesibaigia. Ne taip seniai Jungtinės Valstijos kartu su Rusija balsavo prieš Jungtinių Tautų rezoliuciją, smerkiančią Rusijos agresiją prieš Ukrainą. Kyla klausimas, kuo skiriasi Putino požiūris į Ukrainą nuo Trumpo požiūrio į Grenlandiją arba, jei jau apie tai prakalbome, į Panamą ir Kanadą" Plačiau - vedamojo skiltyje.Didžiosios Savaitės išvakarėse – naujas "Artumos" numeris, kurį pristatys žurnalo vyriausiasis redaktorius Darius Chmieliauskas.Spaudos apžvalga: apie Bažnyčios atsaką į globalias krizes ir autoritarizmo iššūkiusą (parengė Giedraus Tamaševičaus)."Krikščioniškos minties puslapis": Timothy Radcliffe OP "Meilė, pranokstanti visus mūsų žodžius"."Tėvo Antano pasakojimai": kun. Antanas Saulaitis SJ apie Bažnyčią ir valdžią.Gabrielės Gailiūtės-Bernotienės radijo apybraiža "Apie laimę nusivalyti langus".Redaktoriai Rūta Tumėnaitė ir Julius Sasnauskas.

Dave made it to March Madness and all Jeff got was a lousy T-Shirt.  Actually it is a cool T-Shirt of the Korean design.  Dave got the 2025 T from Kansas City ASL guys that has all participants on the back as various leader or  Hero counters. There will be a lot of interviews in the show this year and we will start with Paul Works and Dan Best, who give us a great preview of the WWI game as well as many other interesting tidbits.  On with the show!Opening song was a repeat from episode 204, DC Hero.SHOWTIMES0:1 Song DC HERO4:00  Interesting Chat18:00  Interview with Dan Best and Paul Works54:21 Total Running TimeDC Hero-- Concept: Dennis Donovan-- Lyrics: Dennis Donovan, Rich Spilky, Stephen Stewart-- Vocals: Stephen Stewart-- Mixing/Technical: Jim BeraPlayin' ASL, in the P.T.O.The Marines vs. Jappos, Code of BushidoRead all the SSRs, and I started to schemeComing up with a plan, when I noticed something:There is one DEMO, to blow stuff awayAnd with a gleam in my eyes, I knew I'd found the way:There's a Japanese private, in the Second World WarWasn't sure how to use one, but he knew for sureThat one DEMO, felt good in his handsDidn't take long, to understandJust one DEMO, will beat the foeBut a one-way ticket, for DC heroesSo he did a banzai           No way he'd get dropped   With his H.E. man purse           Those Yankee Devils will be stopped!By a DC Hero,For Nippon he will die!He's a DC HeroHe's got one  DEMO,DC Hero Yankees will die!DC Hero   Yankees will die!He won't sur-vive this fight.On a road without a name, out on CorregidorThere's a Sherman Tank Dozer, stopped in hex G4Yeah, this day is his last, filled with lots of painThat one  DEMO, gonna win the gameSo he started chargin'8 MF enough?But if he gets wounded Gettin to the target will be tough!For a DC Hero   for Nippon he will die!He's a DC Hero   for Nippon he'll die!YEAH   DC HERO   Nippon he'll die!That one DEMO,      Nippon he'll die!He's gonna win   Gonna win tonightSHOWTIMES0:1 Song DC HERO4:00  Interesting Chat18:00  After Action Report45:00 What's in the Box?57:10 Total Running Time 

I've been humming “Every Rose Has it's Thorn” for a week.

Donald Trump continues to see some of the most positive ratings of his political career, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, which finds the president-elect poised to enter his second term with far more positive sentiment behind him than when he last occupied the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

!!! COREPETITUS - mokyti (apsi)moka! Daugiau informacijos: https://bit.ly/3DqTGhz !!! ĮSPĖJIMAS: epizode minimos seksualinės prievartos ir kitos tamsios temos, tad jautresnius/jautresnes rekomenduojame klausyti atsargiai. Naują Proto Pemzos sezoną nusprendėme pradėti įsibėgėdami palengvai, taigi, imdamiesi dar vieno serijinio žudiko istorijos mūsų regione. Genadijaus Michasevičiaus pavardė daugeliui true crime sekėjų nėra labai gerai pažįstama. Tačiau apie ją yra girdėjęs kiekvienas bent kiek detaliau sekęs įvykius mūsų regione SSRS griūties aušroje. Nors ir užgožtas daug "didesnių" vardų savo kategorijoje, Michasevičiaus, arba Vitebsko byla yra per daug šiandien neafišuojamas, tačiau reikšmingas epizodas sovietinėje kriminalinėje istorijoje, ir toli gražu ne tik dėl to, ką darė pats Genadijus Michasevičius. Epizode sužinosite, kokio skaičiavimo buvo priverstas imtis Vilius, kokia kūno dalis vyre labiausiai patinka Povilui, bei kodėl visa šutvė pasakojimo pabaigoje spjaudėsi. Įsijunkite! Iliustracija: @tinymischiefs. Muzika:  Leberchmus, Lexin_Music, Musicalmix2020, NaturesEye, RibhavAgrawal.

In Today's episode, we explore the latest firearm releases making waves. Kimber unveils the all-metal CDS9 CCW 9mm, while Savage Arms modernizes takedown rifles with the REVEL CLASSIC and REVEL DLX. Barrett introduces the SSRS for military use, enhancing squad support. Faxon Firearms supports Hornady's .338 ARC with new barrels and uppers, and Browning updates its iconic Citori shotgun with the innovative 825 model.

Lluvias en toda la Isla Advertencia de Inundaciones Urbanas y de Riachuelos que expiraba a las 4:00pm. Para ADJUNTAS, CIALES, GUAYANILLA, JAYUYA, JUANA DIAZ, OROCOVIS, PEÑUELAS, PONCE, UTUADO AND VILLALBA⚠️ Aviso de Inundación Repentina incluye Yauco PR, Hormigueros PR, San Germán PR hasta las 5:30 PM AST Recomendaciones: Los Ñeta-Josué Montijo En este ensayo, Josué Montijo investiga de forma detallada los orígenes de la organización que marcó una época y que hoy día mantiene su vigencia en el recuerdo y en otras organizaciones que llevan el mismo nombre, desde Ecuador hasta España. Una lectura amena, importante, que sin duda abrirá un debate necesario. Montijo es autor de la novela criminal EL KILLER. Dos ensayos: Histórico sobre la carcel en la década del 1980 Etnografía sobre los ñeta https://libreriaelcandil.com/products/los-neta-josue-montijo La Vellonera Vitriólica: Un Viaje Intemporal al Puerto Rico de Hoy y Ayer https://libreriaelcandil.com/products/vellonera-vitriolica https://www.80grados.net/la-vellonera-vitriolica-un-viaje-intemporal-al-puerto-rico-de-hoy-y-ayer/ “Siguiendo la venerable tradición de periodistas literarios que buscan captar distintas perspectivas de la realidad puertorriqueña, el veterano cronista Rafael Matos publica este 2024 la “Vellonera vitriólica", bajo el sello de Mariana Editores, una antología poblada de personajes domo muertos paraos, racistas elegantones, incordios sociables, reguetoneros melancólicos y hasta un mini ejército de niños guerreros verdes en lucha ecológica.” Otras actividades El Rally de Trump, más allá de la “isla basura” Donald Trump en el Madison Square Garden: agravios, misoginia y racismo El incendiario mitin fue el colofón de una campaña cada vez más agraviada para Trump, cuya retórica se ha vuelto más sombría y amenazante. https://www.nytimes.com/es/2024/10/28/espanol/estados-unidos/donald-trump-mitin-madison-square-garden.html “El mitin de clausura de Donald Trump en el Madison Square Garden el penúltimo domingo antes de las elecciones en Estados Unidos fue una descarga de rabia contra un sistema político y legal que lo impugnó, imputó y condenó, una muestra vívida y a veces racista de la energía sombría que anima al movimiento MAGA” “El enemigo interno” “Pero Trump ha pagado poco precio político a lo largo del tiempo por sus propios comentarios incendiarios en el pasado —este año ha menospreciado ciudades con grandes poblaciones negras como Detroit y Milwaukee—, por no hablar de los de sus sustitutos y partidarios.” ¿Por qué NYC y por qué MSG? 20 de febrero1939 Repuesta: Una broma de mal gusto de un comediante de EEUU enfurece a Puerto Rico en año electoral https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-trump-harris-broma-basura-a4513a76f000626edb58c1127ca9a986?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=social Crítica a la crítica ¿Hipocrecía demócrata? ¿Indignación de boca y reafirmación con acciones? Costo político See how offensive Puerto Rico joke could backfire on Trump in Pennsylvania https://youtu.be/byPZCIet300?si=Qg6Z905yKwGKHo9_ ¿Al igual que el comunismo del PNP, apunta a mover un público? Encuastas: Encuestas electorales 2024: Harris vs. Trump https://www.nytimes.com/es/interactive/2024/espanol/estados-unidos/encuesta-elecciones-presidencial.html ¿Quién es favorito para ganar? ¿Harris o Trump? Esto dicen las encuestas Según la última encuesta nacional de CNN —realizada por SSRS del 20 al 23 de octubre— antes de las elecciones del martes 5 de noviembre, Trump y Harris se encuentran empatados. https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2024/10/28/quien-favorito-ganar-elecciones-presidenciales-ee-uu-2024-encuestas-orix/ ¿La presidencia se decidirá en el Colegió Electoral? Estados péndulos: Pensilvania (19 votos electorales) Georgia (16 votos electorales) Carolina del Norte (16 votos electorales) Michigan (15 votos electorales) Arizona (11 votos electorales) Wisconsin (10 votos electorales) Nevada (6 votos electorales)

Hurricane Helene has killed more than 20 people across four states, and millions are without power. An Israeli official told CNN the military is working to verify whether Hezbollah's leader was killed in a strike. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has pleaded not guilty to five federal charges. A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS shows the presidential candidates tied among likely voters in a critical swing state. Plus, inflation cooled significantly last month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kas yra kontrafaktinė arba alternatyvioji istorija ir kodėl verta ja užsiiminėti? Kodėl istorikai vengia kelti klausimą „Kas būtų, jeigu…?“Su kokiais didžiausiais iššūkiais susiduria praeities tyrinėtojai, nusprendę imtis alternatyvų svarstybų? Kiek toli galima eiti tyrinėjant neįvykusios istorijos plotmę?Kontrafaktinės istorijos galimybės bene pirmą kartą Lietuvos istorikų buvo aptartos 1999-aisiais televizijos laidoje „Būtovės slėpiniai“ (ciklas „Janas Mateika ir Žalgiris Lietuvos istorijoje“, epizodas „Neįvykusi istorija“).Kaip Alfredui Bumblauskui pavyko įtikinti Edvardą Gudavičių imtis tokios temos svarstybų? Kokie klausimai nagrinėti šioje laidoje?Jeigu A.Bumblauskas turėtumų laiko parašyti neįvykusios senosios Lietuvos valstybės istoriją, nuo kokio alternatyvios istorijos siužeto pradėtų savąjį pasakojimą, kokius kontrafaktus svarstytų ir kokiu lemtingu įvykiu tokią knygą užbaigtų?Ar Vilnius liktų tokios alternatyvios Lietuvos istorijos sostine, o gal sostinę reikėtų iškelti į Kėdainius, Biržus, Klaipėdą arba… į Rygą?Alfonso Eidinto knygoje „Kitokios istorijos ilgesys. Alternatyvūs (kontrafaktiniai) pasakojimai“ centrinis siužetas – „Lietuva narsiai pasipriešina SSRS agresijai 1940 metais“. Lietuvos visuomenė iki šiol svarsto dilemą: o jeigu šūvis būtų iššautas, kas tada? Kokių tikslų buvo įmanoma pasiekti nusprendus priešintis?Norberto Černiausko knygos „Fado: Trumpa neįvykusi Lietuvos istorija“ galiniame viršelyje pirmasis sakinys skamba taip: „Įsivaizduokite, kad Lietuvos neištiko didžiausia XX a. katastrofa: šalis nebuvo okupuota ir išvengė Antrojo pasaulinio karo siaubo. Įsivaizduokite, kad nepriklausomos valstybės gyvenimas tęsėsi kupinas politinių realijų, ūkio reformų, sporto varžybų ir rokenrolo šėlsmo“. Kaip šio intriguojančio pasakojimo autorius atsako į klausimą - „Kokiu būdu Pirmoji Respublika galėjo išsigelbėti?“Su kokiais didžiausiais iššūkiais šioje alternatyviojoje istorijos versijoje Lietuvos Respublika susiduria po Antrojo pasaulinio karo?Žvalgantis į Nepriklausomybės epochą tenka pripažinti, kad joje irgi būta pavojingų pasirinkimų: „arba-arba“. Koks kontrafaktas, pokalbininkų nuomone, iki šiol buvo pats dramatiškiausias?Pokalbis su istorikais prof. dr. Alfredu Bumblausku, prof. dr. Alfonsu Eidintu, doc. dr. Norbertu Černiausku.Ved. Aurimas Švedas

Eleitores americanos registrados que assistiram ao debate presidencial de terça-feira (10) concordam amplamente que Kamala Harris superou Donald Trump, de acordo com uma pesquisa da CNN com espectadores conduzida pela SSRS. O analista de Internacional Lourival Sant'Anna e Clifford Young, presidente do Ipsos nos Estados Unidos, comentam os efeitos do debate na corrida eleitoral americana

Jau ne vienerius metus birželio dvidešimtąją minima Pasaulinė pabėgėlių diena, o šiais metais daugiametę migracijos patirtį turinčios Lietuvos organizacijos jungiasi ir pristato net savaitės trukmės renginių programą.Lietuvos muziejų asociacijos apdovanojimuose metų renginiu pernai tapo Kauno IX forto muziejuje surengtas Birželio sodas. Šis renginys yra simbolinė jungtis tarp praeities ir dabarties, primenanti apie 1941 m. birželio 14 d. pradėtą masinį Lietuvos gyventojų trėmimą į atšiauriausius SSRS kraštus.Ttęsiame LRT KLASIKOS pasakojimų ir pokalbių ciklą „100-as balsų Dainų šventei“. Kolegė Justė Luščinskytė supažindins su Vytautu Skripkausku, kuris 55-erius metus vadovavo pučiamųjų instrumentų orkestrui „Septima“ Vilniaus Žirmūnų gimnazijoje.Iš trijų juostelių ant laisvalaikio kelnių ar džemperio, net batelių šono atpažinsime didžiausius sporto meistrus, superžvaigždes ir savo kaimyną, mėgstantį „išeiginius treningus“. „Adidas“ – vienas originaliausių prekės ženklų, skaičiuojantis jau 100-mečio istoriją, kurioje nemažai kompromituojančių momentų, bet kartu ir didžiulių laimėjimų. Apie sėkmingus ir kompromituojančios kompanijos „Adidas“ momentus – Ievos Buinevičiūtės pasakojimas.Kastytis Sarnickas kadaise sulaužė reperių tradicijas repuoti apie tai, ką pats esi patyręs, ir susikūrė alter ego – Kastetą. Su bičiuliu įkūręs garso įrašų studiją jis beveik atsitiktinai tapo dabar jau legendinės grupės „G&G Sindikatas“ nariu. Šiandien Kastytis yra ir literatūriškų muzikos albumų, ir muzikalių romanų autorius.Ved. Kotryna Lingienė

This week, we are talking to Darby Steiger, Director of Qualitative Research and Survey Design at SSRS. Darby tells us about her Jewish upbringing, how she landed in Cleveland and how it's become increasingly difficult to get people to participate in surveys. We recorded this conversation with Darby Steiger at Bnai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike.

A recent poll has indicated that a significant portion of US citizens lack confidence that a just outcome will emerge from the Manhattan criminal trial linked to former President Donald Trump. Only a little over two-fifths of those surveyed, or 44% to be precise, expressed confidence in the jury's potential to lay down an unbiased verdict. Contrastingly, a larger percentage, 56% of those polled, revealed skeptical views on the fairness of the pending verdict. This figure came out of a survey conducted in partnership by CNN and SSRS. The data reflects an underlying concern from the general public towards the balance and impartiality of the judicial proceedings. The poll further shed light on the public perception of the underlying charges against Trump, focusing on the incident where he faces 34 separate counts relating to alleged false business recording linked with reimbursing hush money to a former adult film star, Stormy Daniels. A mere third of the sampled American population, precisely 33%, are convinced of Trump's illegal conduct in this particular matter. Interestingly, the study unearthed that sentiment is evenly divided concerning how the New York criminal justice system is treating Trump. The respondents stood at an exact tie at 34% for both views, one asserting Trump is experiencing leniency, and the other believing he faces harsher treatment compared to the average criminal defendant. A meager fraction of 13% of those surveyed believe that Trump's experience with the legal process is comparable to other ordinary criminal defendants. This opinion further highlights the public's polarized perspective of the former leader's dealings with the judiciary. Despite the prevailing uncertainty towards the trial process, there's a collective agreement among Americans—encompassing a massive 73% —that the accusations against Trump should not eliminate his qualifications for the Oval Office. Such a stance emphasizes that political ambition should be judged on a wider spectrum beyond legal predicaments.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vyriausybė pritarė įstatymų pataisoms, kurios sudarytų sąlygas dideliems Vakarų ginklų ir šaudmenų gamintojams, įskaitant ir Vokietijos karinės pramonės milžinę „Rheinmetall“, kuo greičiau kurti čia savo gamyklas. Naujasis krašto apsaugos ministras Laurynas Kasčiūnas sako, kadiki liepos – Seimo pavasario sesijos pabaigos – Lietuvos gynybos pramonės reguliavimas bus iš esmės naujas.Konservatoriai siūlo keisti sovietinio dizaino kelių ženklus. Pasak parlamentarų, šiuo metu didžioji dauguma Lietuvoje galiojančių ir naudojamų kelio ženklų, atsižvelgiant į jų dizainą, yra identiški ar panašūs į SSRS okupacijos metu patvirtintus kelio ženklus.NATO vadovas Jensas Stoltenbergas pareiškė, kad Aljanso narės turi garantuoti ilgalaikį ginklų tiekimą Ukrainai, ministrams rengiantis aptarti pasiūlymą dėl 100 mlrd. eurų penkerių metų fondo.JAV prezidentas Džo Baidenas Kinijos vadovui Si Dzinpingui pasakė, kad Jungtinės Valstijos nori, jog pasikeistų platformos „TikTok“ savininkai, Kongresui svarstant uždrausti šią populiarią programėlę, jei ji neatsiskirs nuo nuo savo savininkės – Kinijos įmonės „ByteDance“.

This Episodes Questions:  I want to make this printer as safe as possible but it will require a lot of power.  AC powered heat beds are getting more and more common but every video I watch on the topic makes a point to talk about SSRs failing with the power on (closed circuit?) even when talking about high quality and over-spec SSRs.  A thermal fuse will prevent a melted bed but then I still have a potentially dangerous situation with 120v AC power.  I am very well aware of the recent A1 recall and don't want to turn this into a bambu discussion.  I think we can all agree they shouldn't have put an AC powered heater on a bed slinger and call it a day  Peter    .STL files are ubiquitous, but are there better alternatives such as .3MF? What are the pros and cons of different file formats? Also, do you have any recommendations for export settings when exporting a 3D file from a CAD program. Thanks! Austin Hi Guys, I enjoy listening to your show here in the UK in my workshop. 3D printing started as a much loved hobby and has now turned into a big part of my small business 3d printing light fittings. Anyway, I'm currently running a bunch of Ultimaker 2's and looking to to upgrade. I print pretty much everything with 1mm - 1.5mm walls and a 0.5mm layer height, lots of spiralize/vase mode. Id love to hear your opinions on which printers can print wide walls and big layer heights with good cooling to speed my production up. I found that the matchless nozzles from 3D solex helped btw. Its definitely time to ditch the old UM2's though (I'm not considering Ultimakers, they're now hugely overpriced IMHO). I'm not after huge build volume either. Bamboo is a no for me due to IP worries. Thanks and keep up the good work! Jamie Norris Green - Leeds - UK

Hour 1 -  Good Tuesday morning! Here's what Nick Reed covers this hour: Biden once again told his often exaggerated story about the time a minor fire occurred at his Delaware home as a result of a lightning strike in 2004 that he says almost claimed first lady Jill Biden's life. Special counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges relating to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. The Supreme Court has indicated it will expedite consideration of a petition by special counsel Jack Smith on whether former President Trump can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump has the upper hand over Biden in two critical battleground states – Michigan and Georgia – with broad majorities in both states holding negative views of the sitting president's job performance, policy positions and sharpness, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS. Hillary Clinton is reportedly gearing up to take on a larger role in President  Biden's re-election campaign — a decision that is receiving a fair amount of mockery from both sides of the political aisle. Biden claims Ronald Reagan sent "Air Force Helicopter One" to take him to the hospital when he had a brain aneurysm in the 1980s.

Taproot was band name I remembered from back in the day so when I heard they had their first album out in over 11 years I had to check it out. Tune in to hear my thoughts. Taproot - SCSSRS ⁠https://open.spotify.com/album/3KtkgdjSTdTzkHdYQ0cglt?si=2TjQO3WmS-e6ot7m1qApnQ ⁠Discord ⁠ ⁠https://discord.gg/4BRr3TWbC2⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠  ⁠https://www.instagram.com/livelistenerased/⁠ ⁠Twitter⁠  ⁠https://twitter.com/Livelisteneras1⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠  ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/380146857215506/⁠ #taproot #scissors #music #newmusic #review #musicreview #5minutereview #livelistenerased #podcast #youtube #discord #trending

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, enfrenta continuos obstáculos debido a calificaciones laborales ampliamente negativas en general, preocupaciones generalizadas sobre su edad y una menor confianza entre los votantes alineados con los demócratas, según una nueva encuesta de CNN realizada por SSRS.Para conocer sobre cómo CNN protege la privacidad de su audiencia, visite CNN.com/privacidad

Spaudos apžvalga.„Vilnius jau seniai atiduotas vystytojams ir miestiečiams nebepriklauso. Medžiai neneša pelno, todėl jų neverta saugoti . O paminklai augina politinį kapitalą, ypač kai jų stilistika atkeliauja iš devyniolikto amžiaus ir primityvaus mąstymo. Todėl jų tik daugės“, – sako nuo Vilniaus vasarai atitolusi menotyrininkė Agnė Narušytė.Anykščiuose, garsėjančiuose lietuvių literatūros klasikų muziejais, nėra krašto muziejaus, bet Anykščių rajone Svėdasų seniūnijoje jau ketvirtą dešimtmetį veikia Svėdasų krašto muziejus. Pastaruosius dvejus metus muziejaus pastatas – istorijos paminklas, menantis 19-tą amžių – buvo renovuojamas. Ir štai visai neseniai muziejus vėl atvėrė duris.Šios savaitės „Klasikos koncertų salės“ programos apžvalga.Rytoj Lietuvos gyventojų genocido ir rezistencijos tyrimo centras Tuskulėnų rimties parko memorialiniame komplekse atidaro parodą „Tariama vyriškumo mokykla“ apie Lietuvos vyrus prievartinėje SSRS kariuomenėje. Ši slegianti patirtis yra mūsų vyrų, tėvų ir senelių gyvenimo dalis. Kokius klausimus paroda kelia?Brazilė komiksų kūrėja Julia Nascimento šią vasarą praleido Kaune. Ji pamėgo varškės sūrelius, atrado lapų pūstuvus, lankė muziejus, šventė tradicines šventes ir visas savo patirtis sudėjo į grafinį „Kauno vasaros dienoraštį“.Sekmadienį prasidėjo dviejų Vokietijos organizacijų kelionė dviračiais nuo Vilniaus iki Klaipėdos, kurioje septyniolika kultūros ir istorijos studentų iš Vokietijos ir Lietuvos ieško kultūrinių šių šalių sąsajų, tyrinėdami istorinį Klaipėdos kraštą.Šiandien fotožurnalistikos tėvu vadinamam fotomenininkui Henriui Cartier-Bressonui būtų sukakę 115 metų. Kokį pagrindą jis padėjo šių dienų fotografijai?Ved. Urtė Karalaitė

This week's EYE ON NPI is gonna do you a solid, thanks to Sensata - Crydom's Series 1 AC Panel Mount Solid State Relays (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/s/sensata-crydom/series-1-ac-panel-mount-solid-state-relays). Solid state relays are a great replacement for mechanical relays, when you want to have high speed switching or want to avoid contact corrosion and replacement. Crydom makes a ton of different SSR's in a variety of power ratings, and while they share the same name as mechanical relays...there's a lot to watch out for when updating your designs! We've highlighted SSR's before on EYE ON NPI (https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/01/07/eye-on-npi-te-ssrmp-series-solid-state-relays-eyeonnpi-digikey-teconnectivity-digikey/). As we've covered before, usually when folks start out turning AC power on and off, they tend to use a relay. Relays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay) are simple: inside is a mechanical switch with a ferromagnetic throw. When a nearby coil of wire has current going through it, the coil becomes an electromagnet and pulls the throw to one side. Relays are electrically and mechanically isolated because there's air between the electromagnetic coil and the switch throw. They're very inexpensive and come in many shapes and power capabilities. (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/power-relays-over-2-amps/188) Because relays are electro-mechanical, they have to two properties that may be undesirable. First is speed: it takes a few milliseconds (say about 10ms) to energize that coil and move it to the side. The second is mechanical wear and failure: relays will eventually fail from mechanical stress or oxidation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_protection). Every time you switch the relay, a little arc is formed from the mechanical chatter, which creates a little burn on the contact. It's a very small oxidation, but it adds up, and the more you use a mechanical relay, the faster it will fail. The fail rate depends on the load type, activation voltage, contact material, etc., but they're in the 10s of thousands. Relays not meant for high speed or repetitive switching, which is why a lot of them are plug-in or easily swappable. That's where SSRs come in! DigiKey carries over 3,000 different SSR configurations from Sensata (https://www.digikey.com/short/j2mpw3br) including a few options that can control DC and can be switched at low voltages like 3 or 5V DC, great for integration with a microcontroller or microcomputer. Some of the SSRs like the D2490 (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/sensata-crydom/D2490/140621), can even handle up to 90 Amps at 280VAC! These SSRs come in a classic 'hockey puck' shape - two large slots makes them easy to mount onto a heat sink, then 4 terminal blocks with plastic protection. And one of the nice things about Sensata SSRs is that there's a whole family of accessories such as clear plastic covers, thermal pads and heat-sinks. The heat-sinks, in particular, are going to be really important when dealing with switching high currents. For example, the D2490 (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/sensata-crydom/D2490/140621) has a forward voltage of 1.15V on the output, which means that at 10 Amp output, you'll see 1.15 * 10 Amp = 11.5 Watts of power to dissipate - not too bad - but that power rises linearly, so at 20A its 23W, and at 40A its 50W. That heat needs to be pulled away, and a big chunky heatsink will do the job nicely. We've noticed that SSRs tend not to be cooled off with fans, probably because it would be a source of failure in a dusty environment. Check out the Senata documentation for how to calculate your heat sink size (https://www.sensata.com/sites/default/files/media/documents/ourproducts_HS-Series-Heat-Sinks_brochures.pdf), DigiKey also stocks all of the Sensata SSR Heat Sinks you can carry (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/s/sensata-crydom/series-1-ac-panel-mount-solid-state-relays) as well as thermal pads, lug terminals and clear covers that protect you from high voltage, and the SSR from your grubby fingers. No matter what load you're switching, Sensata has an SSR that will fit perfectly into your design & budget with over 3,000 different SSR offerings (https://www.digikey.com/short/j2mpw3br) - all stocked by DigiKey for immediate shipment! Order your Sensata Crydom SSR and matching heat sink today, and you'll have a safe and reliable solid state relay in your hand by tomorrow afternoon.

In this episode of The Real ResQ, we are joined by Matthew Fader. Matthew, originally from the United States, has lived in Sweden for the second half of his life.  Our conversation jumps right into his first rescue and why he has been in search and rescue the majority of his life. At 19 years old, he helped an unconscious surfer with a head laceration, by providing CPR to him on the beach.  After a helicopter came to extract the victim, and from that day forward, he knew what he wanted to do!  He made a move to Sweden with his now wife and has made his life there. While living in Sweden, Matthew wanted to continue working in the field of rescue. He found the Swedish Sea Rescue Society (SSRS) and has been with them ever since. He tells us all sorts of stories from his time with SSRS. One of these stories includes a time when he and the SSRS deployed to Greece to help with the influx of refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean. Enjoy!   https://therealresq.com/home https://www.facebook.com/therealresq https://www.instagram.com/therealresq   https://www.sjoraddning.se/information-english   Thank you for sponsoring this episode of The Real ResQ; Breeze-Eastern, https://www.breeze-eastern.com/ Axnes, https://www.axnes.com/ SR3 Rescue Concepts, https://sr3rescueconcepts.com Airwaav, https://airwaav.com/ VersaLifts https://vlifts.com/

Po naujais rašytojo Herkaus Kunčiaus knygos „Šaltasis karas“ viršeliais sutelpa keturi kūriniai: herojinė operetė, vesterniška operetė, kriminalinė operetė ir politinė operetė. Kas jungia visus šiuos kūrinius?Kaip reikėtų nusakyti operečių romano žanrą? Kas tai yra?Pirmoji operetė „Trumpa didingos baltų genties istorija“ užbaigiama prekybos centro „Akropolis“ pastatymu, kuris yra tuo pat metu ir finalinis žmonijos egzistavimo akordas. Ar tai pritarimas Francis Fukuyama požiūriui, kad Vakarų civilizacijos (o kartu ir prie jos atstovus telkiančių prestižinių klubų 2004-aisiais vėl pritapusiems lietuviams) istorija (kurią vertėtų įamžinti rašytojo plunksna) iš esmės baigiasi? O gal – istorija gali pasibaigti, jeigu aptingsime ją kurti apsigyvenę prekybos centre?Antroji vesterniška operetė „Traukinio apiplėšimas Bezdonyse“ pasakoja apie tai, kaip 1908 m. rugsėjo 26 d. žemaičių kilmės bajoras, revoliucionierius ir būsimas Lenkijos viršininkas Józefas Piłsudskis drauge su bendražygiais Bezdonyse apiplėšė iš Varšuvos į Sankt Peterburgą vykusį traukinį. Kodėl J.Piłsudskio personaliją vertėtų pri(si)minti XXI a. Lietuvos visuomenei?Trečioji kriminalinė operetė „Danaja ir Piktadarys“ pasakoja apie 1985 m. birželio 15 d. iš Kauno atvykusio Broniaus Maigio Leningrado (Sankt Peterburgo) Ermitaže įvykdytą politinio vandalizmo aktą. Jis sieros rūgštimi apliejo Rembrandt'o paveikslą „Danaja“. Kokia prasmė šiandien mąstyti apie šį keistą įvykį?Ketvirtoji politinė operetė „Perestroika“ prasideda Michailo Gorbačiovo atėjimu į valdžią ir baigiasi Lietuvos nepriklausomybės atkūrimu. Kas iš tiesų buvo M.Gorbačiovas - žmogus pakeitęs pasaulio istoriją, laisvės nešėjas pavergtoms tautoms, o gal – visų pirma karjeristas aparatčikas, nuoširdžiai norėję išgelbėti SSRS, bet neapskaičiavęs galimų savo veiksmų pasekmių ir nesuvaldęs prasidėjusių procesų?Ar tikrai žiaurius praeities demonus ir baimės pamėkles galima nugalėti pokštaujant bei ironizuojant?Pokalbis su rašytoju Herkumi Kunčiumi, kompozitoriumi Šarūnu Naku, architektu Algirdu Kaušpėdu.Ved. Aurimas Švedas

Pasaulio lyderių rubrikoje pokalbis apie Didžiosios Britanijos premjerą Rishi Sunaką. Apie jį pasakoja LRT RADIJO bendradarbė šioje šalyje Viktorija Rinkevičiūtė.Šiandien minimos partizano, politinio kalinio Antano Lukšos, Juozo Lukšos -Daumanto brolio, 100-osios gimimo metinės. Pokalbiai su jo dukra Dalia Lukšaite-Maciukevičiene, sūnumi Kęstučiu Lukša ir Lietuvos gyventojų genocido ir rezistencijos tyrimo centro Okupacijų ir laisvės kovų muziejaus vyresniaja patarėja muziejinei veiklai Ramune Driaučiūnaite.„Džiaugiuosi, kad tuo metu mums pavyko pripažinti Lietuvos nepriklausomybę, tai buvo drąsus gestas. Michailas Gorbačiovas ir jo pakalikai į tai reagavo labai griežtai, grasino mums“, sako Valeriu Matei, Moldovos Aukščiausiosios Tarybos deputatas, pasiekęs, kad 1990 m. gegužės 31 dieną Moldova pirmoji pripažintų Lietuvos nepriklausomybę. Interviu su juo. Tuometinė Lietuvos Aukščiausiosios Tarybos narė Laima Liucija Andrikienė vyko į Moldovą stebėti pripažinimo proceso.Nors drąsus, tačiau teisine prasme šis Lietuvos nepriklausomybės pripažinimas nebuvo toks reikšmingas kaip vėliau tą padariusios Islandijos, nes tuo metu Moldova pati buvo SSRS dalis. Apie teisinius šio pripažinimo aspektus pokalbis su VDU Teisės fakulteto dekanu prof. Dainiumi Žalimu.Ved. Agnė Skamarakaitė

SUPPORT US AND HELP US GROW: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/altwire/Hey, music lovers! Tune in to this episode of the Altwire Podcast featuring Stephen Richards, the lead vocalist of the legendary band Taproot. In this episode, Stephen takes us behind the scenes of their highly-anticipated new album, SCSSRS, which is set to release this fall. As the driving force behind Taproot, Stephen shares his insights on the writing and recording process of their new album and updates us on what's been going on in his life in the 11 years since their last album 2012's The Episodes. Much like their last album, this “episode” is a must-listen.…you're welcome for that pun.

Pro Sovietų Sąjungos tvoros plyšius į žmonių gyvenimus vis dvelkteldavo vakarietiškas skersvėjis. Gyvenimas už Geležinės uždangos daugeliui atrodė nepasiekiamas, nes toks ir buvo. Tačiau noras dingti iš SSRS ir pradėti naują etapą drąsiausiųjų galvose virto planais. Tėvas ir sūnus Brazinskai - pirmieji, įvykdę sėkmingą keleivinio lėktuvo užgrobimą Sovietų Sąjungoje. Šaltojo karo įkarštyje KGB šiems kontroversiškiesiems lietuviams skyrė dar vieną titulą - piratai. Pabėgėlių kelias į vakarus buvo nuklotas rubliais, klasta, krauju ir poezija, tačiau tik perlipti Geležinę uždangą - nepakanka. Epizode sužinosite kas daugiau nei prieš penkiasdešimtmetį iš Sovietų Sąjungos vijo Praną Brazinską ir jo sūnų. Kokie dažni buvo lėktuvų užgrobimai jų "aukso amžiuje"? Kas yra žmogus pelėsis? Ir kodėl Viliui buvo sunku pasirinkti už ką sirgti? Iliustracija: @tinymischiefs Muzika: Katzen Tupas, Geoff Harvey, Alex Kizenkov, Roman Senyk Music, u_abgh4u57ax, Platon Davydov, UNIVERSFIELD, Alex Grohl

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.03.07.531613v1?rss=1 Authors: Kim, S.-Y., Lim, W. Abstract: We are concerned about the main encoding granule cells (GCs) in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG). Young immature GCs (imGCs) appear through adult neurogenesis. In comparison to the mature GCs (mGCs) (born during development), the imGCs show high activation due to lower firing threshold. On the other hand, they receive low excitatory drive from the entorhinal cortex via perforant paths and from the hilar mossy cells with lower connection probability pc (= 20 x %) (x: synaptic connectivity fraction; 0 less than or equal to x less than or equal to 1) than the mGCs with the connection probability pc (= 20 %). Thus, the effect of low excitatory innervation (reducing activation degree) for the imGCs counteracts the effect of their high excitability. We consider a spiking neural network for the DG, incorporating both the mGCs and the imGCs. With decreasing x from 1 to 0, we investigate the effect of young adult-born imGCs on the sparsely synchronized rhythms (SSRs) of the GCs (mGCs, imGC, and whole GCs). For each x, population and individual firing behaviors in the SSRs are characterized in terms of the amplitude measure Ma(X) (X=m, im, w for the mGCs, the imGCs, and the whole GCs, respectively) (representing the population synchronization degree) and the random phase-locking degree Ld(X) (characterizing the regularity of individual single-cell discharges), respectively. We also note that, for 0 less than or equal to x less than or equal to 1, the mGCs and the imGCs exhibit pattern separation (i.e., a process of transforming similar input patterns into less similar output patterns) and pattern integration (making association between patterns), respectively. Quantitative relationship between SSRs and pattern separation and integration is also discussed. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Kaip 1944–1956 m. politinę padėtį vertino Lietuvos gyventojai? Kodėl to meto Lietuvos visuomenėje būta optimizmo vertinant karinę bei politinę padėtį? Kaip įsivaizduotas išlaisvinimas iš sovietų režimo Lietuvoje? Kodėl vienu iš svarbių neišsenkančių gandų apie esą būsimą karą tarp SSRS ir Vakarų šaltinių buvo sovietinė žiniasklaida?Kiek šios nuotaikos ir lūkesčiai buvo specifinė pokario sovietizuojamos Lietuvos visuomenės mentalinė-emocinė savybė? O gal šiuo atveju reikėtų kalbėti apie analogiškas nuotaikas pokaryje tvyrojusias Vidurio Rytų Europoje?Kada įvyko lūžis visuomenės lūkesčiuose, kada ėmė aiškėti, jog Lietuvos iš sovietų jungo nei JAV, nei kitų Vakarų valstybių kariuomenės tikrai neišvaduos?Kokios priežastys skatino žmones trauktis į pasyvųjį pogrindį? Kokias išeitis turėjo žmonės, nusprendę pasišalinti iš savo aplinkos ir kartu – iš vietos sovietinių pareigūnų akiračio, nuslėpti savo praeitį ir tikrąją tapatybę? Kaip ir kur gyveno „nelegalai“? Kuo jie vertėsi?Ar pasitraukusieji į sovietinės realybės šešėlį turėjo galimybę suklastoti savo dokumentus ir taip mėginti grįžti į normalų gyvenimą?Kaip efektyviai sovietinės visuomenės priežiūros bei represavimo institucijos gebėjo kovoti su tais, kurie nusprendė slapstytis ar keisti tapatybę?Pokalbis su istorike, monografijos „Pokaris Lietuvoje. Belaukiant išlaisvinimo“ autore, dr. Regina Laukaityte.Ved. Aurimas Švedas

Šiame pokalbyje istorikas, rašytojas, diplomatas Alfonsas Eidintas pasakoja apie savąjį kelią į praeities tyrimų pasaulį. Kas lėmė šio žmogaus apsisprendimą rinktis istoriko specialybę nors tai sovietmečiu buvo ne tik mokslo kiek ideologijos sfera? Kokios profesinės bėdos kamavo šioje epochoje gyvenusius ir dirbusius praeities tyrinėtojus? Kodėl A.Eidintas ilgainiui pradėjo ieškoti saviraiškos galimybių grožinės literatūros srityje? Kokios naujos galimybės atsiveria prieš istorinio romano autoriaus akis, lyginant jo veiklos sferą su mokslininko darbu?Ką profesionaliam istorikui naujų patirčių ir gebėjimų prasme gali duoti diplomatinė tarnyba?Kas yra kontrafaktinė arba alternatyvioji istorija ir kodėl verta ja užsiiminėti?Kokie neįvykusios istorijos siužetai yra svarstomi naujausioje A.Eidinto knygoje „Kitokios istorijos ilgesys. Alternatyvūs (kontrafaktiniai) pasakojimai“?Kokiomis prielaidomis remiantis yra kuriamas centrinis minėtoje knygoje pasakojimas „Lietuva narsiai pasipriešina SSRS agresijai 1940 metais“?Kokias svarbiausias klaidas Lietuvos Respublikos politinis elitas padarė tarpukario epochoje kurdamas santykius su bolševikine Rusija? Kokius klaidingus sprendimus 1940-ųjų birželio mėnesį padarė tuometinis Lietuvos Respublikos prezidentas Antanas Smetona?Kokių tikslų buvo įmanoma pasiekti nusprendus priešintis?Kaip klostosi kontrafaktinė istorija A.Smetonai sutelkus politinį ir karinį elitą vieningam veikimui?Ko mus galėtų išmokyti kontrafaktinės istorijos siužeto apie apsisprendimą priešintis sovietinei armijai svarstybos karo, kurį Rusija pradėjo Ukrainoje, akivaizdoje?Pokalbis su istoriku, rašytoju, diplomatu prof. Alfonsu Eidintu.Ved. Aurimas Švedas

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, Scott Sewell, about the Power BI Dynamics 365 Sales Templates. Some of the highlights: Daryl's Europe trip Scott's superpower is working with Data, from SSIS/Kingswaysoft to SSRS to Power BI How Scott got into using the Titanic What not to do when starting with Power BI Scott explains a star schema for Daryl Scott walks through his Power BI Templates Using pre-GA Power BI Solution imports Scott shares his proposal story Julian's Info and other links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mscottsewell Twitter: @scottsewell GitHub: https://github.com/mscottsewell YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MSFT_ScottSewell Power BI ❤️ Dynamics 365 Sales! Report Templates - https://github.com/mscottsewell/Power-BI-D365-Sales Power BI modeling guidance for Power Platform - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/powerbi-modeling-guidance-for-power-platform A "Solution" for Power BI with Dynamics 365 Sales - https://youtu.be/mcdpm_5skpA Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes. Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser. Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Hey Identifier, #ronjohnson #mandelabarnes #midterms2022 Across two states with Republican-held Senate seats that could prove pivotal to control of the chamber in this fall's elections, one incumbent faces an evenly divided electorate while the Democrat holds a narrow edge in the other, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS. In Wisconsin, the survey shows no clear leader, with 50% of likely voters behind Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and 49% backing his Democratic challenger, state Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes. In the race for retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey's seat in Pennsylvania, Democratic state Lt. Gov. John Fetterman stands at 51% support to Republican candidate Mehmet Oz's 45% support among likely voters, an advantage narrowly outside of the survey's margin of error. Leave us a Voice Mail or Support https://anchor.fm/the-identity-booth/message https://anchor.fm/the-identity-booth/support Sub to the channel here https://www.twitch.tv/theidentitybooth Donate https://streamlabs.com/projecteto/tip The Goal: Try to Identify with you as you try to identify with me. Find Heero here: https://linktr.ee/the_identity_Booth outro Hey Baby (Produced By Melv) Take Care --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-identity-booth/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-identity-booth/support

GUEST: Chuck Mains, Government Affairs Consultant/Lobbyist HOST: Harry Brelsford, The CannaTech Group Recent surveys reflect a steady increase over the past decade of Americans supporting legalizing cannabis.  The market research firm SSRS found that 69 percent of Americans are in favor of adult-use legalization, and 92 percent back legalizing cannabis for medical use.  Harry Brelsford of The CannaTech Group sits down with Chuck Mains, Government Affairs Consultant/Lobbyist to discuss these findings, and how it is affecting government affairs.  Watch the Interview @ TheCannaTechGroup.com

Listen to Hina Fatima share her journey and passion to help and support women. Hina is a Personal coach Trauma/Anxiety Relief Life Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, Trained Suicide (c-SSRS), and Harassment Prevention Specialist.

When it rains it pours, According to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, American's outlook on the state of the US is the worst it has been since 2009. Nearly 7 in 10 say President Joe Biden hasn't paid enough attention to the nation's most pressing problems. When recently confronted about support, The president has been lashing out to a few reporters. Boyd Matheson with Inside Sources joins the show to explain what this may mean for future support.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Una nueva encuesta muestra hasta qué punto los estadounidenses han dejado de temer a la marihuana.La mayoría de los encuestados informó que consideran que el alcohol es más dañino que la marihuana, lo que indica cuánto han evolucionado las percepciones en torno a la planta en Estados Unidos.La encuesta, realizada por la empresa de investigación de mercado SSRS, mostró que más de la mitad de los encuestados (58 por ciento) creen que el cannabis es más seguro que el alcohol. Millennials, Gen Z, Gen X y Boomers, en ese orden, señalaron que piensan que el cannabis es menos riesgoso que el alcohol.Una mirada más profunda a los resultados muestra que estos están en línea con lo que han demostrado las encuestas anteriores sobre marihuana o cannabis: la gran mayoría de los estadounidenses cree en la marihuana medicinal legal (92 por ciento) y otro porcentaje cree en la marihuana para uso lúdico (69 por ciento).Si bien las políticas nacionales siguen siendo lentas para adoptar el cambio, con cada año que pasa, las personas en los EE. UU. continúan acostumbrándose a la marihuana.Al comentar sobre los resultados de la encuesta, Paul Armentano, subdirector de la Organización Nacional para la Reforma de las Leyes sobre la Marihuana en Estados Unidos, señaló en un comunicado que: los votantes apoyan la legalización de la marihuana independientemente de la afiliación a un partido político.Armentano continuó diciendo: “En un momento en que la política nacional sigue estando muy polarizada, los funcionarios electos deberían unirse de manera bipartidista para derogar la política fallida de prohibición del cannabis. Es una de las pocas reformas políticas en las que los votantes de derecha e izquierda pueden estar de acuerdo, reportó The GrowthOp.ADEMÁSEn general, el contenido de CBD de los productoontaminantes preocupan a la industria del CannabisUn nuevo informe analítico ha demostrado que, a medida que la popularidad de los productos de CBD continúa aumentando, muchas empresas están siendo objeto de un mayor escrutinio por negligencia relacionada con sus prácticas de prueba de pureza.Esto es según los datos recopilados por la firma de análisis con sede en Israel Leafreport publicados el 25 de mayo de 2022, encontraron que el 20 por ciento de las marcas de cannabis no están realizando ninguna prueba de pureza en sus productos, y solo el 7 por ciento de ellos están probando toda su selección para detectar contaminación.s de cannabis tiende a diferir de lo que figura en la etiqueta en aproximadamente un 25 por ciento.El informe examinó aproximadamente 4 mil 400 productos de 188 marcas que producen productos con infusión de CBD para poder evaluar con precisión el nivel de transparencia y marketing honesto presente en la industria. Las marcas probadas incluyen NuLeaf Naturals, Green Roads CBD, High Falls Hemp, entre otras.Algunos datos del informe:El 28 por ciento de los distribuidores optó por no realizar ninguna prueba de pesticidas.El 26 por ciento se olvidó de determinar si había metales pesados ​​presentes en sus productos.El 24 por ciento no se molestó en probar microbios como bacterias.//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////España es el centro de cultivo de marihuana más importante de EuropaAsí lo ha asegurado el miércoles 1 de junio de 2022 el teniente coronel de la Guardia Civil y jefe de la Comandancia de Tarragona, Jordi Verger. La Guardia defiende esta conclusión basándose en que la principal empresa distribuidora de energía eléctrica, recuperó en 2021 hasta 159 millones de kilovatios hora (kWh) de energía procedente de fraudes vinculados a plantaciones cannabis, equivalente al consumo anual de 45 mil hogares, reportó el periódico OK..No te olvides de visitar www.cannabishispano.com suscribirte al podcast y dejar tus comentarios en tu plataforma preferida.Hasta la próxima…//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Disclaimer Cannabis Hispano no promueve ni participa en actividades ilegales relacionadas con el uso o la venta de marihuana o sus derivados.

This week we recap 4/20 around the country, and look at the latest comments from Senator Schumer to the National Cannabis Policy Summit. Then we take a look at the newest candidate to inhale in a campaign ad, as two red state candidates take different approaches to the cannabis issue in their state. And finally we take stock of one new survey about American cannabis attitudes and one new study from Australian researchers that attempts to explain those results.    We'll be discussing all those stories and more on the BEST cannabis podcast in the business... As we like to say around here, “Everyone knows what happened in marijuana today, but you need to know what's happening in Marijuana Tomorrow!”  ----more---- Segment 1 - How Was Your 4/20? https://www.marijuanamoment.net/schumer-makes-promise-on-marijuana-legalization-bill-timeline-after-repeated-delays/   https://www.marijuanamoment.net/politicians-and-government-agencies-celebrate-4-20-as-marijuana-legalization-movement-spreads/   https://www.marijuanamoment.net/brands-celebs-and-organizations-celebrate-marijuana-holiday-4-20-amid-push-for-federal-legalization/ ----more---- Segment 2 - One State, Two State, Red State, Police State?   https://www.marijuanamoment.net/another-us-senate-candidate-smokes-marijuana-in-campaign-ad-calling-for-reform-on-4-20/   https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-mace-walks-trump-tightrope_n_624cb3ede4b0d8266ab249fe   https://twitter.com/IAmNickReynolds/status/1517538889585594368----more---- Segment 3 - New Study, Same Results https://ssrs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Marijuana-and-the-American-Public-2022_SSRS.pdf   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10826084.2022.2063893?journalCode=isum20 ----more----Big Finish Link: Go Fund Me for Alan Brochstein's recovery: https://www.gofundme.com/f/medical-fundraiser-for-alans-recovery ----more---- This episode of Marijuana Tomorrow is brought to you by Cannabeta Realty, CageFree Cannabis and The Emerald Farm Tours.

In today's episode, we discuss the new SSRS training reports available with QM10. Join Gretchen and Jamie as they discuss how the new reports were designed and how this will impact the lives of our customers moving forward!   Key Takeaways 00:30 Introducing today's topic and guests 01:20 What are the improvements we have made to SSRS reports? 03:24 Gretchen explains how this will impact the user experience 04:41 There is a new parameter to exclude training activities that are not due yet from your reports 06:25 Looking at multiple departments in a single report is a possibility moving forward 07:51 It is possible to sort all users that do not belong to a department, which can be especially useful for external users 08:59 We are sure those new upgrades will improve compliance and give better visibility of the training status 10:15 Thank you to our guests and listeners!

CNN Poll States Nearly 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden's job performancehttps://www.spreaker.com/user/9922149/nearly-60-percent-of-americans-disapprovhttps://gorightnews.com/cnn-poll-states-nearly-60-percent-of-americans-disapprove-of-bidens-job-performance/https://rumble.com/vuw35q-cnn-poll-states-nearly-60-percent-of-americans-disapprove-of-bidens-job-per.htmlhttps://rumble.com/embed/vs9x38Nearly 60 percent of Americans disapprove of President Biden's job performance as his approval rating sinks even further, according to a new CNN poll. Fifty-eight percent of Americans said they disapprove of Biden's performance, while only 41 percent approved. The same poll in December found that 49 percent of Americans approved and 51 percent disapproved of Biden.In the new survey, only 36 percent of independents and 9 percent of Republicans approved of the job Biden is doing. Eighty-three percent of Democrats still approve of Biden, but that's a drop from 94 percent from last summer.In a sign of how tough it could be to turn the tide, when those who disapproved of Biden were asked to name one thing that they approved of during his tenure, 56 percent could not come up with an answer.The survey is the latest in a string of polls showing Biden's approval plummeting. The administration has been hit with criticism from across the political spectrum over inflation, its handling of the coronavirus, foreign policy and more.It has responded by touting its infrastructure bill and deployment of vaccinations across the country, though those arguments have thus far failed to stop the backslide in Biden's poll numbers.The poor polling has caused Democrats to sound the alarm over the November midterm elections, warning that such low approval ratings could lead to Republicans flipping both chambers of Congress.The concern is put in particularly sharp relief when compared to the 2010 cycle, when a massive Republican wave helped the GOP flip more than 60 House seats and retake the chamber. In January 2010, Americans were roughly evenly split on how then-President Obama's first year in office went. Now, 57 percent of Americans said Biden's first year in office was a failure.CNN poll, conducted by SSRS, surveyed 1,527 adults from Jan. 10 to Feb. 6 digitally or by telephone with a live interviewer. It has a 3.3 percentage point margin of error.[Source: The Hillhttps://thehill.com/homenews/administration/593712-nearly-60-percent-of-americans-disapprove-of-bidens-job-performance]

In this episode, I remind everyone that based on the newest language published by the Department of Homeland Security, I am likely listed as a domestic terrorist. According to them, anyone who goes online to spread mis- dis- or mal- information can sow discord or undermine the public trust in U.S. government institutions. Basically, we are to bow at the alter of government and if we disagree with them or their policies, we are going to be classified as enemies of the state. This is a direct affront to our First Amendment and further evidence that an authoritarian regime devoid of substance would rather intimidate and punish it's citizens who disagree, rather than make a more compelling argument. This is exactly what's happening in Canada as a result of the Freedom Convoy. The PM Trudeau and the Ottawa Police stopped funds from flowing to the truckers by intimidating GoFundMe. Then police were told to arrest people for the crime of “mischief” if they were to bring food and fuel to the truckers. Mainstream news outlets are calling the protest an “insurrection” and an act of “sedition.” They label these protesters as Nazis, racists, anarchists and more in an attempt to discredit them. That false narrative is not getting the tracking they want. A police officer even took to social media to say, “What is happening in Ottawa, with the clear political influence on the police, to physically exert political will on peaceful protesters... is so very wrong, on so many levels." He's right. In just the last year we've seen the DOJ weaponized by the Attorney General to go after parents, calling them domestic terrorists. Now anyone who dares speak against the government can be considered one, too. We are watching the law enforcement arm of the executive branch become a tool for suppression, censorship and intimidation. I then move to how the FDA just lost an argument to prevent Pfizer from releasing all 55,000 pages of it's safety trial information regarding their mRNA vaccine. The FDA wanted a slow drip of 500 pages at a time, but the Texas judge refused. Now Pfizer has been quietly adding language, warning that, “Unfavorable pre-clinical, clinical or safety data” may impact business. How bad is it when yet another enforcement mechanism of the Executive Branch is more interested in protecting the pharmaceutical company at the expense of the health of Americans? Finally, another devastating poll has come out on President Joe Biden. The poll, which was carried out by independent research company SSRS from January 10 to February 6, 2022, sampled 1,527 adults via the web and phone. The poll had a margin of error of 3.3 with a 95% confidence level. The poll showed approval for Biden has fallen across the board, with 58% of Americans disapproving of the way he's handled his job, a “significant drop” from his approval numbers in CNN polling in 2021. Worse, 56% of all who were polled, when asked what has Biden done that you approve of, said, “Nothing.” Not one, single thing. That is disastrous for this administration! However, if they continue to weaponize their departments to go after messages they don't like, maybe they don't have to worry about their poll numbers. Maybe that's the reason they are so desperate to label dissent as domestic terrorism. If they can scare enough people to remain silent, they will continue to rule. Let's hope enough of us see through their attempts to usurp our Constitution. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and GETTR by searching for the Alan Sanders Show.

Episode Summary:Why Cannabis Stocks Are Trading HigherElon Musk takes a shot at Bernie Sanders$QSR Restaraunt Brands purchases Firehouse SubsGuests:Matt Hammond, IPO Warriors 10:00https://www.Ipowarriors.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/warrioripoCybin CYBN CEO Doug Drysdale 48:00Jake Wujastyk, Co-Founder, TrendSpider 62:00Twitter: https://twitter.com/Trendspider_Jhttps://www.trendspider.com Enter promo code BZ25 to get 25%Chris Capre  https://2ndskiesforex.com/ 93:00Hosts:Spencer IsraelTwitter: https://twitter.com/sjisraelAaaron BryTwitter: https://twitter.com/aaronbry5Subscribe to all Benzinga Podcasts hereClick here for BENZINGA TRADING SCHOOL Get 20% off Benzinga PRO here Become a BENZINGA AFFILIATE and earn 30% on new subscriptionsDisclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Unedited TranscriptHappy Monday, everybody, the markets are back open. Let us know in the chat. What y'all are watching and trading today. A B here, Spencer with me as always Spencer, how are we doing today?We're doing well. We're doing well. Uh, how do we want on the new intro? I saw I saw a new intro. I think it, I think it's, it's part of the way there. I don't think it's all the way there. Do you want to run with the, uh, part of the way there and new intro, the old intro, or just roll? Why don't we roll? No intro today.Let's just rolling. No intro. This is the show it is starting actually already has started. Somy question may be is what has taken a bigger haircut? My head or my portfolio? I don't know. I mean, hopefully your, your portfolio is not taking too big of a haircut. Considering cannabis stocks are all up nicely today. They are, um, using some of my handy-dandy metrics out of the top five trending tickers on social media.So Reddit, Twitter, all the whole investing sphere, two out of the top five trending stocks are in the cannabis space. Spend six. Guess what those two stocks are. Okay. Okay. Without looking two of the top five trending, trending on social media stocks today, um, Uh, are they both stocks? Are any of them? ETS?Are they both? Stocks is one of them kind of be growth? Nope. Damn. Okay. Oh, for one is one of them Grogan. Nope. One for two. Okay. Is one of them, are they both? Are they OTC? No. Uh huh. A Tilray would be the third, the third guest. So Ray's one of them. I see the other one in the chat sundial. Yep. Tiller and sundial are two of the top five trending tickers.Uh, the non-cannabis stocks in that top five are Tesla, Nvidia and Vivian. Okay. So, um, we're, we're going to talk about all this today. Let's talk about everything so that, you know, Tilray and the rest of the cannabis stocks are up on the news that the Republicans are bringing forth a bill to legalize cannabis in the United States.Um, Spencer, do you know anything more about that bill? Uh, another due to present it today, uh, I got to give the, give it to the Republicans. They just basically just hijacked and one of the key issues on the democratic platform and said, well, we'll take that. Thank you very much. Yeah. They're basically saying, Hey, if you guys aren't going to do this, we will and we'll get the credit for it because it's one of those measures that's widely popular throughout the, um, you know, all voters in the United States.So it's, it's. You know, one of those things that'll be a good, easy political win for the Republican so we can get it through which we will see. Um, but either way, I mean, even if they don't, because then if the Democrats step in and have problems with the bill and they can say, oh, Hey look, it's the Democrats holding up, um, you know, legalizing cannabis, which again is something that's, that's very popular.Um, solar up saying, yeah, they, they want to legalize the profits, but we'll see. I mean, I assume there will be, you know, we'll see if, if there can be bipartisan, um, support and work done on the bill. I'm not very bullish on that. We should probably save this discussion for later on, on this show, because we're going to have a cannabis related CEO, uh, on Doug Drysdale was a CEO of Simon to your CYB N related to cannabis, uh, kind of right.Tangentially. It's the same idea of legalizing a drug. It's the same idea, uh, surviving, um, psychedelics are a few years behind cannabis. Um, in everything, right? In terms of regulatory changes, legalization and capital markets a few years on cannabis. So, um, I would be curious to get Doug's thoughts on all this, but I, that being said, speaking of guests, uh, we skipped it on here.Cause our first guest will be on here joining in, in a minute or so. Um, Matt Hamon from IPO warriors is going to recap, uh, last week in IPO lane and preview what is to come this week in IPO's. I'd be curious to hear how Matt played a reveal. And last week I mentioned our Drysdale, uh, from Simon. That'll be at 1245.Love Jake, would you ask Dick from transporter on the show one and Chris Capri from seconds guys trading on the show at one 30. So do as a favor, hit that like button, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell your friends, neighbors, dog. And, uh, we can get ourselves off to a good show today. Good start to the week.So like you said, markets in the green, at least last I checked I'm in the green. You're in the green row on the green. What about Dylan? What about Igor? What about bear for one of the chats? I actually took a little thump ski it's in the red right now, but it looks like it's coming back up. I don't know.Yeah, I know it dropped about a quarter for cent out of nowhere at around 11:40 AM Eastern. So that's interesting that 20 minutes ago, I know we'll keep an eye on that. Uh, Q Q kind of same thing, but yeah, Spencer, so big headline over the weekend was of course, Elon Musk on Twitter, uh, you know, took a shot at Bernie Sanders, which some people love.Some people didn't love. Uh, but, but overall, the, the bigger story here is just Tesla's price action in the last week. Um, the stock let's pull up a chart so we can wait, I'll pull my, while you talk, this stock is down more than 15% in the last week. So we're used to seeing Tesla stock, you know, take rips up.Of course, nothing goes straight up. There will be dips along the way, but usually with Tesla, those are followed by bigger rips. The question is, will we get that bigger rip or what will we see the weakness continue? And Tesla's chart. What is test on a bear market? Is that what this is? Where, uh, let me, I'm going on a different chart here by standard definition of going down 20% or more, um, from its all time highs yesterday in a bear market.Oh my God. Yeah. I mean, we, like I said, we will see, cause a lot of times these dips are followed by bigger rips. And that will be the question with Tesla stock. I think this week will be very, very important to see, um, who knows by the end of the week, we could be back at all time highs at around 1200 or we could come all the way back down to 800.So anyone out there that's trading Tesla, let me know how you are trading it in the chat. I'm very curious, you know, are you, are you playing it with the options? Are you buying the stock? Are you buying the dip? Um, let us know what you think about Tesla, because right now it just seems like there's a lot of wins being taken out of the sale.Of course, Elon Musk has a lot of different reasons to sell stock. Part of it is that if he doesn't sell any now than a lot of his options can expire, um, without him exercising them because you can only exercise so many each quarter. So if he doesn't start doing it now, um, he literally needs money to pay the taxes, right.And, and like, and she doesn't have the money they're there. They're the adage goes, there are a bunch of reasons to sell a stock, um, paying taxes, being one of them. There are only a few reasons to buy one reason to buy. There's only one reason. One reason to buy. Well, yeah, we'll say there's only one reason buy what's the other reason using the one, one reason why talking to.Well, if you're like a inset. Yeah. But if you're say short a stock, you need to buy it to cover. You know, there, there are multiple reasons you can buy something. If you're an insider, like Elon Musk is, and you're going to buy the stock. There really is only one reason because you think it's going higher.There are a multitude of reasons is why you would want to sell a stock. But I think regardless of what that reason is for Elan, um, for Tesla, shareholders and Tesla fans in general, seen him sell stock is a bear sign. So we shall see. But right now, Tesla down about 4% on the day, continuing, uh, uh, bear trend for the stock, which we haven't said in a while.So, um, again, let us know in the chat, how you guys are trading it. Um, etc. Same Tesla just approved to sell electricity and sexist. We'll see if that can be a catalyst for the stock, but who knows, Dave is saying he's buying the dip every time it's on sale. So it has been proven right? Time and time again, buying the dip always works.Isn't that the rule, it always works except in some stocks. Yep. So Spencer, before we get to Matt Hammond, we've got one more headline, this one in the restaurant space. Um, so if you're a, you know, a fan of fast food chains, whatever this may interest you, uh, QSR. Yeah. We know it. Owners of burger king and Timmy hoes over owners of burger king, Tim Horton's, Popeye's just acquired another brand today and an all cash deal, a sandwich.Franchise, you know which one that is Spencer? I, well, I saw the headline, it was firehouse subs. It was $5, billion dollars for firehouse. So some expensive subs. So that just goes to show you guys, if you open a sub shop and you do well and you franchise it out a little bit, you can sell it for a billion dollars.A restaurant brands goes out, buys, firehouse, and then a $1 billion cash meal, uh, you know, will, it looks like the markets like the move for QSR up about a percent, but nothing crazy. So we will see how prior house is able to impact, uh, restaurant brands is, you know, revenue, balance sheet overall, but just some, just some headlines in the restaurant space.That is, that is a, those are some expensive stuff. That's all I'll say by Shelly, congrats to the firehouse subs, seriously, that company donates a portion of their profits to firehouses. So, so congrats to them. Great job. Yeah. Who knows? Maybe they'll stop that. Now that they're under new ownership. I doubt it.I hope not. Um, Shelly pointed out another headline in the, in the restaurant, fast food space. So McDonald's announced a partnership is still relevant. It's about to be holiday season. So every time Mariah Carey she's and it's here, it's here. It makes it come back every year around Christmas time. So we've seen, McDonald's do this with a few other artists have, have, you know, deals.They have one with BTS the popular, uh, K-pop Korean pop band. They have one with Travis Scott. Um, so now they're doing the same with Mariah K. Yeah, I know. So anyway, uh, so we know it's approaching Mariah Carey's season. Uh that's that's in a couple of weeks though. Uh, you know what season is now? It's Manhattan season.It's IPO season. Let's get mad at him and all the total talks to my POS. Is he at? Nah. Hey, I'm doing great. How are you guys doing it is IPO season. Um, we had an off season there and, uh, some, some pretty big ones. So, uh, okay, excellent. I can't wait to hear how you put revealed last week. So here you go. I told you I was going to watch for Vivian, but it did play out what we'll get to that one in a second.Um, first thing I wanted to say is thanks to everybody who contributed to the fundraising campaign. I said, I wanted to get some better streaming equipment. I want to live stream. Some IPOs have been talking with Benzinga they've at least indicated. Maybe we'll do a little bit more switching out to watching some of these actually go live.I think it would have been pretty fun to watch some of what ribbon did, uh, you guys have, you know, talking to Rowan, he's going to kick me out some gear as well. Uh, but we, uh, we got $2,000 in under one week. Um, and I really appreciate all the support. Some of the things I'm gonna use that for is improving the presentation quality of these, uh, kind of weekly shows.I would like to do some live streaming of the IPO debuts. And if time allows, I will do some video breakdowns of the IPO as before, uh, before they go live. Um, really appreciate that. It's not too late to contribute more, I'll buy more stuff and, um, you know, improve things even better. You should have some equipment on the way, man.Yes. So I've heard and I, and I'll ask for some, if you guys have some t-shirts or stuff, I'll wear those on the, on the show and with what I'm doing. So, you know, uh, yeah. Yeah. Well say what's on your waist. Some schwag sweats. Okay. So we actually had a lot of really good ones. Um, we talked about sent a one off 25%.We'll just run through these real quick. I didn't like this as a play. I don't generally like, uh, anything that dumps like that anyway, uh, dumped off the debut. If you did say, Hey, wait, this is below the IPO price. It's dip this far. How, you know, how bad could it get? Um, you know, you were rewarded not just with a retracement up to , which is a lot of times all that we see.Um, but if you held through that and said, okay, well, I'll give this some room to run. Uh, it just for no real reason blew up, uh, head up to 2250. And you know, one of the things about trading is you're looking for, uh, stocks with catalysts. You're looking for volatility. That's what you're looking for in day trading.And that's why I like IPO is not, all of them are going to do this. Uh, but if you have, if you like this company, I guess a lot of people do like this company, um, you know, your catalyst is, Hey, it's IP. Uh, the momentum, the volatility, the volume are all going to be about as high as you can ask for on the days that they IPO, which is what make these attractive targets for a day traders.So St was one society pass. If you remember last week, I said, Hey, this kind of, you know, a crappy, uh, Asian e-commerce ish, you know, S IPO that really looks sort of weird with a pretty low float. This could be a stealth IPO. Um, I tried to get in on this, and unfortunately we will hit the indication price rate before it debuted.So I had mindset at 1350 and it debuted at 1550 and then dropped to 15. So if I had been a little bit more aggressive out of caught this ride from 15 through four halts, top tier, like 42 or something, um, came back here around 30 and we see these just run the same pattern, ran up to 52. Uh, the next morning ran up to 70 and we saw these with thanks.Uh, C pop, um, TRS. Why do you suppose that is? I don't know if we've ever, if I've ever acted that before. Yeah. So there's different theories about this. Um, Having talked about it with a bunch of people and putting our heads together. The thing that makes the most sense to me is that, you know, whoever's buying it way up here is not trying to buy low and sell high.They're almost like trying to buy high and sell low, um, or really just buy high and not give a crap. I was going to say, buy high and sell higher. I thought, well, I mean, who's buying, I mean, they are pushing this up through halts on day two, you know, and somebody paid somebody up at $60 for a garbage company.I mean, we saw EJH was one of them that did this and it's like a cleaning company in China. Uh, w and w which spiked yesterday through some Holtz off some random, I mean, they're, they're low float to begin with. They tend to try to do things to deter us from seeing them or for wanting to play them.They're so bad that, um, you know, no one in their right mind is going to pay this thing. The IPO price was a $99, you know, who is going to say, okay, well, this company has no revenue or barely any revenues. The, uh, the, the platforms that they run are garbage. Uh they're they're just losing money. You know, who's going to pay $15.It's so bad that it's good. It's so bad. That it's good. That's what I think. I know. I mean, my, my answer and for this until proven otherwise is that they're all, they all have ties to China. I mean, we saw FCU. The was a uplifting. They all have a similar on underwriters. This one was max. We've seen a lot of them that were, uh, boasted securities.We saw a bunch that were network one financial Sutter, and a lot of these companies have done IPOs together. They've co-written, um, you know, been the co-writers on IPOs as the underwriters. So there's sort of like, they must happen my theory and they use the same lawyers and they have, uh, my opinion is that they're helping Chinese and other wealthy Asians, especially Chinese follow money out of China.So if you have a whole bunch of money in a bank account in China, and you're trying to get it into Hong Kong or Singapore or into the Western markets, what you can do is you can issue shares somehow out to, you know, if you can hand shares cheaply to your cousin or your uncle or some affiliated partner outside of China then, and just tell them, Hey, I will control the, you know, control it, just control the float.And I will buy, you know, as much of this stuff as I can, uh, with this say $200 million I have in a bank account here in China, you know, that money as I buy those shares that no one else has no. You know, who else is participating in this market? Not a lot of people. So if I'm the only one buying your shares, I'm basically giving you that money and moving that money from China to, um, you know, to the west.And I talked about last week, pets, pets was one that I had called out a month ago and sent out to my newsletter when it was about a dollar 30 or a dollar for. Because they had the same underwriter do a direct offering of 30 million shares basically at about 60 or came out to about 30 cents a share when you factored out the warrants and the profits.And you're like, well, that should just sink the share price, but it didn't, it did a little bit, um, but it came right back up and now it's up at $6. You know, it was at $4 when we talked about it on the show last week. So why are they doing this? Why is hoodie H UDI? Why has that got to $45 in the last, you know, few months?Why has, why did TRX go all the way up to a hundred dollars? And then in one day lost 90% of its value with, you know, with no headline, no new news, no nothing. Um, why does, uh, w and w sometimes randomly pop, why do, uh, you know, why do these go well? Because in my opinion, they're moving money. They're using these as vehicles to get money out of Asia and into, you know, Western markets and the seat after, after this happened, I went back and said, geez, you know, Y you know, what, what did I miss here to not make me just put my limit order at like 16 or 20 for that matter?And I went back and I looked up, the CEO is, you know, extensive experience doing startups in Shanghai. The CFO, you know, is Chinese. So, um, you know, there are hands FCU V when we look back at it, we said, oh, we had our eye on it. And it took a day before they ran it from like five or $6, all the way to 25. Uh, in one day after their up listing, and then now it's come way back down, but what was up there?Oh, the whole, like the only three employees are all very, very Chinese as in, they don't even have American alias names. They're Chinese engineers. So this tie back to China, and that makes sense if you're a wealthy Chinese person with tons of money in China right now, given what, you know, president Xi is doing over there, he is basically cracking down on the wealthy and if I was a rich person, uh, or a rich person in China, more specifically, I would be trying to get my money out of there too.And it's not easy to do that. So even if you're paying a 30, 20, or 30% premium on the shares that maybe get bought out or sold by other people, um, and this is an effective way to, and it's not the first time that the stock market has been used as a way to funnel cash out of a country. The Russians were doing this in the nineties.Um, and that's, that's the only answer that I have. How does, you know, how do completely garbage companies make insane runs? Uh, that all of a sudden, I mean, this one's still kind of holding on, but I don't, it's, it's, it's nowhere near any reasonable valuation and all of these tend to Peter out, or they all do Peter out eventually.And when I look at pets and what they're doing there, I'm just like, okay, I'll just, I sold enough. You know, I bought in at basically a dollar 20 and I sold enough when I reached eight on one of these days where it gets by. That I've already paid for my position. And now I can just sit back and if they run it, I think they're still running it because it hasn't fallen out yet.And when it does fair enough, fair enough. Anyway, I try to call these out when I I've made huge profits on some of these, uh, I made 30,000, $33,000 on a thousand shares of TRX. When it debuted, it went opened at 17, went into a three-hour hall and opened up again at $50. You know, so if you can spot these and you take kind of a, okay, well, you know, I'll, I'll give it a shot approach to it.I mean, the, the returns have been massive. UTME that was another one. Anyway, back to the more traditional kind of fun and boring ones that are also profitable. If you play them right. Expensify, we said we liked, uh, we got in here at the debut. I do like taking a $2 profit rate off the run. Um, it's sort of, kind of the easiest, I would say two hours and trading is defined a good, you know, a good company with these guys had to have a positive baseline financials.They're somewhat brand recognized the float wasn't too big and it gave you exactly what you expected right off the debut. So you buy a thousand shares, get in it, you know, say 39 75, sell it at 42. That's like a really pretty comfortable, easy 5% win, uh, right off the bat. Uh, the market. Wasn't really rewarding.These IPO's on day one, the way that we've seen maybe three or four weeks ago. So this one pulled back a bit. You could try to double dip. I generally don't do that. Uh, but where the real money was in these plays and I'm taking notes for kind of the next set of, uh, of IPOs is a, these day two runs. Uh, this one actually touched $50 today.You talked about that a lot. So especially for brand name IPO's, a lot of people are starting to kind of come into the IPO. I'd say that the number of followers I've got has been much higher over the last two weeks than the, you know, the previous six months. And I think a lot of people are keying in on it and it's, in some ways you have to adjust because if everybody's buying in pre debut, that's less demand once it actually goes live.But a lot of people are kind of catching that overnight media cycle where the, you know, the headlines say, you know, Expensify pops 50% on its debut, and they're not talking about this move. They're talking about the IPO price was like 18, and then it debuted at I. Yeah, I, and you know it, wherever you can do the same thing.I I'm hoping we can get to that because I, I was taken aback at the ferociousness of the day to run in green river. And I guess I shouldn't have been, but I was cause. Because it seemed to go straight down, skip through the, to that one that, or, you know, black ways, again, $2 taker just right on the debut, $2 in your out hole, you know, and you can hold these and they come back in.I wanted to show you one thing about holding IPOs. And again, I don't consider playing a debut to be super risky is, um, okay. People who played this cocoa water, uh, you guys were talking about it this morning and that was a, it was actually not a good debut play. Uh, and which is why, you know, when people ask me, oh, what do you think of this company?I'll say, well, you know, for a long-term position, I don't, I wouldn't suggest buying debut. Um, but you do want to start watching it then, because then you kind of know where it's ranges, where it trends. But if he did say, oh no, this one's going to do great. Uh, everyone loves it. Uh, I'm gonna, I'm going to buy the debut and you got stuck in it and you didn't get any kind of day to run.I've held IPO debuts for, you know, usually it's about a month before you're gonna see what it's going to turn around or not. And the catalyst you're looking for after the debut is the end of the media. Um, or the, uh, press release kind of silence, period. I guess they call it. And the first earnings report.Now, these guys happen to come in with a very strong earnings report. And if you had liked this company enough to buy the debut and you have the conviction to buy it there, why not hold it here? See what it does. And. You know, today you finally gotten, you know, today was the first day after a month, basically a trading that you got an opportunity to take your profits.Do you stop there? Probably I do. If I'm holding a bag and I'm given the opportunity to cut it for a non loss, I'm out, um, very rarely will I hold longer than a day to have it come back and then say, no, I'm going to get greedy. Uh, that's only hurt me when I've tried to be pigs, get slaughtered anyway, a vaccine city by the halt, uh, by the debut, this had a ton of buzz, low float, sell the halt right there.Easy as pie and take your profits. Say thank you. Uh, derm debut below. Where did I put ribbon? Okay. I would love your thoughts here. Cause it seemed like he just went straight down and I, and I want to pull it up on, um, give me a second. I'll pull it up and we can look at the, uh, the chart here. So ravines pretty much exactly what I said.It would do two things. One, I had just taken a win on a. What was it? The, uh, Backblaze or the one before that was earlier in the day and after take a win off and just be like, okay, that's the one I wanted. I am, you know, I can try to keep playing more, but I ended up starting to make bad decisions and, uh, try to control against that.Uh, Ratheon was on one hand, a great a, you know, I mean, how much more social media buzz and momentum could you ask for than any V play when Tesla just broke a thousand and it had a lot of other great, uh, you know, I had a lot of good storylines to it. The Amazon deal it's Ford as an investor, um, but had a huge float and I don't like huge floats the floats 153 million shares.And we S I think I said on the show that it reminded me a bit of snowflake and Coinbase. And my, and my, uh, theory was that we'd get about 10, 15 minutes of upward momentum and then correction, which is exactly what we saw. And for me, I'm not long EVs. I still think that, you know, at some point in the not so distant future, the market is going to realize that selling vehicles is only so profitable that not everybody, um, is just going to buy one model.And, uh, you know, they got supply chain issues. It's just the valuations on these don't line up with what automobiles have traditionally sold for. And I think eventually we see that I don't know when it's going to happen. Clearly it wasn't this week. Um, w I did, you know, so I was in the gym and I was watching, you know, ticker in between sets.And when I saw it kind of come here, I think I'd got off my run and it was a hundred. I thought I already missed that dip here, but, you know, maybe that's the, maybe that's the place to buy for the day to media run, because this is clearly going to get a ton of media hype. And then it started moving down again.And I kind of said, um, maybe, you know, maybe it's not as hard as I thought it was, but clearly if you saw this and bought in for the day too, and I mean, you're in an excellent position. It's a one, I mean, Clayton has pointed out. I, I, I, I lost sight of it. Yeah. I mean, w w w we did, we hit one 50. Yeah, we did.We hit one 50. Holy cow. Holy moly. So if I had pulled that day, you know, that day one trigger down here, I would have sold it, maybe one 20. Anyway, I just don't like I went through over the weekend. I went through and I really needed to do a bit of a self evaluation of Metro. And I make so much more on IPO and sort of like, you know, I like to stack guys like Mitch, uh, and the, you know, the blanking on his name there, the guy that does the, the selection.I mentioned Chris. So they have, I mean, the, the, the, the amount of money that they've made for traders in their spec, like the spec catalyst to me, is kind of similar to the IPO. It's like, you know, what's coming up, you know, that it's going to have a merger vote, you know, that it's going to DCE back and become, you know, a name and that's going to be immediate, you know, the next door.That was pretty obvious media catalyst. And I went from like 11 to 18 in one day. Uh, so these, you know, I like specs and IPO's because no, where, you know, it's so easy to time what's going to happen with everything else in FDA announcement, that's going to come off market. Or, you know, whoever gets the news first is going to get it.And some, a spike right up, you know, you don't know that that's coming or these other plays. And I looked back and I just I've done so well on these words, swing trades, where you're trying to find the bottom and, you know, read the trend and you have to wait, you know, a long time to make your money.Whereas an IPO, I want to make money in like one or two days at keep my, you know, my money in cash. You know, the market can crash one day and I'm not exposed. And I'm just in a, to me, it's it fits my style. Uh, if you can't sit there and play these in real time, would your screen all day, you know, then it's not a great trade.If you're good at day trading and reading charts and all that stuff, you know, maybe that's better for you. I'm not. Uh, I ended up, you know, with a long list of bags, waiting for them to turn around. I like to get in, get out, hold for one or two days, maybe three, if I really think it's hot and maybe I should have read this one a little bit more.It's also, is it a price where it could come down a lot more as well? So, um, never been great with EVs, but we'll see this week, there's a lesson to take forward from this week that maybe we will, uh, be able to catch. So, um, let's, uh, jump through affinity. I think we've recovered, uh, covered those. So this week's featured IPOs.Do you want to say anything more about ribbon? No. I was just curious to hear how you played it. I mean, I sorta lost sight of it today, so I was surprised to see it at one 50. I realistic. I felt like going in, we were, we were Jones in for, for a rock pole on the way that was wrong. That was wrong. Uh, but it just sorta had those vibes near, but Hey, sometimes the obvious place to play.So, uh, what do we have this week? Ooh, she was asking me when I became a speck fan. Uh, the first fact that I really banked money on was, um, what was that? Uh, Nicola. So I've been in SPAC since pretty much the second one. That was it. That was the second big one of this. Yeah, that was yeah. After fan do. And I got FanDuel like the day after it disrespect or not FanDuel or DraftKings drafting.So I got, I got dressed and that was like, I didn't really know what a SPAC was. And I think a lot of his back was that in, in may of 2020, so that put them on the maps, put us up, put us on the map. And since then I've played a TMC Michonne. Uh Chris's you know, uh, I got high on cue. I got, uh, they're they're, they're a handful they've been, they've been pretty good.Uh, and it just, you know, don't get greedy, take your profits and, uh, you know, look for the next one. I'm actually almost always sell out, but by the time I see, you know, 20 to 30% up, I'm just like, yeah. So thanks, bye. You know, and, uh, raise up the cash. And then they run up to like a hundred percent gainers, but that's okay.My room, I have two rules and trading. They are, uh, written here. So I don't forget. They are take like you can't read them, take profits without regret. And don't chase. Those are my two rules. As long as I stick to those, every time I break those and get myself in trouble, when I stick to those rules to do pretty well.You got the calendar. I saw one, the other jumped out to me, but so, so let's run through the boring ones. Sure. Uh, sonar group is not so boring when you consider solar coding for. And they do have, this has sexy all over it. Yeah. And they have, so they don't have any revenues, no point in going over financials, they do have 50 million in customer deposits for their sign-on vehicle.Um, as I understand, those are deposits that, uh, I don't know what the refundability is on those, but when you combine two hot, you know, you're talking about eco solar and Evy and that's, you know, how, how much more do you want there? Right. And you can't put Bitcoin in it's can you, um, so not, yes. Yeah. Right.But you can buy with Bitcoin. That would be the next catalyst. Um, but, uh, yeah. Uh, they, if they mined Bitcoin with the spare solar power, then maybe you could, you could pump this up even more than it is, but this is about as much, um, kind of hype buzzwords. You can cram into something right now. And I got to try this one because, you know,yeah, Wednesday, we don't have any until Wednesday kind of a little bit thinner week. This week, Iris energy. This is a Bitcoin miner. Uh, they don't hold Bitcoin on its balance sheets apparently. But if Bitcoin, how is that possible? Uh, maybe they just sell it right away. I'll on mine and they sell it. Okay.That's something new. I gotta, I gotta research a little bit more, but they do have positive cashflow and operating profit, which leads me to believe that they are selling these, um, And they're basically they're using IPO money to buy more hardware. So if they're successful in mining, why not scale up? Uh, especially when the price of Bitcoin, at least a lot of people believe it's headed to, um, you know, to a hundred thousand.So if the, unless Bitcoin crashes before Wednesday, uh, this looks like a pretty hot play. S D I G, and a couple of the other, all the other Bitcoin IPOs have done pretty well. So 8.27 million shares. That's pretty low float. I like this. Uh, you know, the trend is your friend Bitcoins are trending. So we got my point, right.With all these IPO's. So we've got Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. None of them have priced yet. Right. Do we have an expected w we have the ranges, but we don't have the pricing until, and the pricing can change, especially for the hot ones can change dramatically. Can you give the range on these if you have them?Okay. For, I don't know, they might've pulled as C S E V already. That's too bad. Let me see a Sono price range. 14 to 16. Okay. Um, we've got, uh, IRN 25 to 20. So for the hot ones, we often see them get bumped by, you know, a dollar or two price out of range, a price at the high end and things start pricing at the low end then, unless, you know, if you get a discount to that then, okay.Maybe that's interesting. Uh, in other words, the debut comes live below the IPO price. That's been a pretty safe, uh, play, as it works its way back up to the IPO price, you would expect not a lot of IPO price, uh, buyers are selling, uh, for an immediate loss. So, um, but kind of pricing in the middle that has not been a very good, a sign of strength and I'm generally sitting on the sidelines for those.Okay. Um, but yeah, I mean, solar, Evie, and Bitcoin to lead off the schedule, those, you know, once they should be fun, uh, user testing, this is a platform for companies to test user engagement processes. Uh, maybe it's a good business revenues up 44% last nine months gross profit up 51%. Um, but negative cashflow, negative operating loss, negative income.This is kind of just one of those SAS plays where I've never heard of this company before. It reminds me a little bit of this company was like internet advertising program IAP or something. I don't know the. If you, if there's no brand recognition, they have to be really strong to get, you know, people to come in and buy them.And there's also a sort of odd follow on offering lurking in the, this is not the, it's not a lock of expiration, but they have the right to sell an additional 27 million shares. If the price is 10% above the IPO price, you know, it's something like over 10 days in the previous week or something like that, the point is that the debut price will likely be over 10% to begin with.So if the IPO price on this is, uh, 15 to 17, let's say they debut at 17 or 18, and then it actually debuts at 20. So if they IPO price at 17 or 18 and debut at 20, you already at that 10% level, and then it's, it's think it's a hundred days or something 90 days, then they can, you know, then they can sell them 27 additional shares, which almost doubled, you know, it's more than doubles the float.And I don't really like it when I see those kinds of things just gives me shivers, like remembering what coping had hidden in its, uh, lockup period, which was probably the worst IPO I can recall. Um, playing that was the day was you'd have like 60 or 65 and miss now at 27 and never even gave you like a.Courtesy rebounded any point, really? It just was a downward downward dumpster fires. Alright, super interesting here. Um, res, now this one is, I mean, a similar customer engagement and communication. Revenue's up 2.6% gross profits up 60% again, negative baselines. And unfortunately it comps to Weaver, which last week did not do well on its debut and brace has a higher valuation, but I think it might appeal to more businesses.So I don't know, 8 million shares. It's just, I don't feel super good about these. And given that there are others that I do like more this week, I probably just let these pass. I can't play every single IPO. There are people who have that approach, you know, for them and they really manage those trades.They're better at day trading than I am. They buy on the dip and just hold it for ever sometimes. But, uh, this one to me, both of these sort of user cutting and Braves, both in customer engagement, if user testing, somehow those, well, maybe that changes my opinion on Brays, but I'm looking forward more to this one.It's a sweet garden. Now we talked before about how restaurant chains have done really well on their IPO's. And I kind of include bros in that, uh, you know, in that group because it's a chain. It does well on. You know, on a limited number of locations, the theory being well, if you raise a bunch of money and expand it nationwide, it'll do even better.So this one is like, kind of, I guess they say plant forward, which I read as vegetarian, but I guess they probably have some meat in there somewhere. Maybe they do. I'm a little bit deeper. I'm not a vegetarian, but Hey, you know, everybody wants to go out to eat how they want to. But, uh, interestingly, they acquired this company called spice food and this company looks pretty interesting.They're basically like a robotic powered restaurant system. So you're kind of getting a technology angle on a restaurant chain and given what bros did given what Portillo's did even, uh, F w R G, which is some, you know, breakfast restaurant that I'd never heard of a chain has done, you know, did well off of its date, IPO debut.So these guys are article last week that robot sales like industrial robot sales are at an all time high. I didn't see that. And that, and that kind of makes me feel like this is in alignment with some of the trending topics in the market right now. Okay. So the rebounding out of COVID revenues up 50%, I mean the revenue numbers mean nothing.We've talked about this before. If you're going to compare how a restaurant did for any P you know, the last six months, nine months, 39 weeks, whatever, uh, to the year before we're still making comparisons to. And I just kind of have to throw those out the window, uh, negative cashflow, net income, and operating loss.I don't love though to see that in a restaurant industry, others have been, I think a, you know, Portillo's was, you know, positive and its financials. Um, but I said, I don't want, I'm not going to miss the next chain restaurant play and, uh, bros, Portillo and F WRG. They all did well for IPO's it's 12.5 million shares.It's got healthiness to it. It's got the sort of, and although, you know, Oatley did badly today and beyond meat hasn't done well, there is still a demand for in health forward plant forward eating. And I want to give a, you know, I want to give a restaurant chain, um, you know, I'm going to stick with the trend there and try the rest of the rest.Ha ha healthy food. Alternate is not hot right now though. So, well then maybe we get a reasonable entry price on this as well. All right. That's the glass half full approach. Okay. Fair enough. KinderCare. Yeah, the main thing is just again, so KinderCare learning, um, education centers, blah blah, blah, 1500 locations reopening momentum.They make revenue. This is something this should not be allowed to be a public company. I'm sorry, just to not, no, no. Forget to forget that this should not be a for profit. Like childcare in the, in the U S is so unaffordable. And now we have companies that are going to be publicly traded. They have to answer to investors and the answer to wall street about their stock price and their, their margins and their, and China just made that move a few months ago and killed all the private.This should not, I, this I, that might not be a popular opinion, but I mean, this should not be a publicly traded company. I missed we're talking about childcare, whatever. Just tell us, tell us about the IPO. Ah, yeah. W gross profits are up 3534%, but again, we're talking about comps to lock down, so I can't count much in there.They do have positive baseline financials. So cashflow income operating profit are all positive. So it's a big company. I mean, you're talking about 1500 locations and I mean, we're a capitalist society. If our social different socialistic approach to working, you know, the private market's gonna, you know, is the only, it's our only hope of we can otherwise we're just gonna have, you know, who's going to be the educated future.I mean, I agree with you. I th but we're talking about the holistic approach. We have the socialistic approach to K through 12. It's just pre-K that people versus this is ages six to 12. So this competes with, um, with public school. Okay. Yeah, I do six to 12. I think it's a lot of like preschool and afterschool.I kind of skipped over because I just sort of like, nah, maybe this company is pissing me off next change the subject. All right. Six weeks to 12 years old. Oh, six a week. Wait. Okay. Whatever I, I w oh yeah. Yeah. We've been filling a need there. I have an 18 month year old kid and a child. And, you know, there are days when we would like to just put her in someone else's care if we found someone trustworthy.I bet. All right. Um, no, I love my daughter. I love spending time with her, but it's a lot better. Anyway, uh, Austin gold, this one is sort of like, Hmm, well maybe, uh, it's a gold exploration company in Nevada with corporate offices in Vancouver. Uh, they are revenue, which means they basically just are exploring right now.And the website is horribly lacking. Uh, it looks like something a kind of intern might build as a test project and a web development company. And for me, that's a red flag. I, uh, you know, I mean there's pages where it says like, uh, error content missing on their press releases. Uh, their investor page is basically blank.Um, and since I am a designer developer, I do find that, especially for these sort of low float under the radar IPO's unless I'm looking for it to be terrible. Uh, not having a strong, solid website is sort of like, I don't know how seriously I can take this company if, um, you know, if they don't even have an updated website, uh, I want to I'm with you.One interesting thing though, is that, uh, some people I know who have some knowledge of Nevada and gold mining said that these guys are operating before areas that they're operating in are the right areas to be operating in. Um, and the CEO just last week sold his previous company for $2.8 billion, which was it's really M resources.And he sold it at a, something like a 30, 40% premium to the share price. So Cheryl, you know, shareholders are happy with that. Uh, the float is 3 million shares, but Roth capital is not a particularly loved underwriter. Uh, they must've done something. I still haven't nailed it down, but they have sort of a reputation for screwing, uh, IPO buyers and people tend to avoid them.Um, we've also seen a lot of their, IPO's just seem to get terminally rescheduled and we're up against the clock. We, we, we got, oh, that low. We're on time. Yes. Awesome. That Hammond runs IPO warriors joins us every Monday to run through the weeks late an IPO. And we appreciate that Matt, or as a pleasure and go to the newsletter.I get the newsletter. I feel warriors.com. I'm going to start adding some more, uh, kind of featured breakdowns on individual IPOs. Um, my kind of longer-term vision is to have time to make videos, to put on there as well, to break down some of these with a little bit more in-depth analysis of the actual financials, uh, when I'm reading on Twitter, that kind of thing.So, uh, stay tuned, sign up for the newsletter. Follow me on Twitter. Thanks guys. Have a good week. All right, let's keep it going here. Our next guest has been waiting patiently backstage dog Drysdale. I've mentioned him at the top of the show. He was the CEO of Sayven ticker. CYB N a B. It's bringing him on the show.How are we doing Doug? Happy Monday. Thank you for taking time out of your day to join us here on Benzinga live. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. Thanks gentlemen. Thanks for having me today. You're welcome. So real quick, before we get started for some of our audience that may not be familiar, do you mind just giving us a quick rundown of what it is that Simon does and what the mission is there?Yeah. So Simon is a biopharmaceutical company and we're working to transform psychedelic drugs that we've known about for decades now into actual therapeutics for mental health disorders, like depression, addiction, and anxiety disorders. Got it. So last week, I know we saw some news about M C Y B 0 0 3.So that's one of your guys's PR proprietary drugs. Do you mind just overviewing that news real quick? Yeah. Last week was actually an historic week, uh, in the many decades that people have been working on trying to transform these molecules into actual therapeutics. Two pieces of data came available. One was from one of our peers that for the first time in a 200 plus patients study unequivocally proving that siliciden, which is the active ingredient that comes originally from magic mushrooms, proving that it works in depression and they're paid in helping treat people, people with depression, both the solid and robust resolve at the same time.Simon released data showing that finally after decades, we're able to completely transform this molecule and turn it into something that's actually useless as a therapeutic. The downside visceral assignment historically has been that clinic times are eight hours. So your patients are in the clinic for eight hours a day.And significant side effects and adverse events and would see why B3 we've shown that we can cut this clinic time in half and we can reduce potential for side effects like nausea and headache and other adverse events in half as well. So a major breakthrough. So essentially you're saying that so psilocybin on its own, which, which, like you mentioned, is, um, what's found in magic mushrooms has been proven to help with depression, but there've been downsides, um, to just take an oral.So psilocybin, so with CYB three, you were able to kind of address some of those downsides, um, to, to the actual psilocybin. Exactly. So we've taken psilocybin, we've made it synthetically in the lab and then we've modified it to improve the profile so that it's has a safer profile for patients and pay spend half the time in the clinic.Got it. So, so for some people out there that may have, um, some of these psychological disorder, major depression disorder, um, bipolar, and I know some of them have, have tried a lot of different things and, um, you know, different medicines on the market don't work. So, so is this something that, uh, can be seen as an alternative to helping these patients when those other medicines don't seem effective?Yeah. And once approved they have. So when you look historically back at how we treat depression, we typically use drugs called SSRS, which unlike Prozac. And when you look back over the last couple of decades, on average, a SSRI is typically I know better than placebo in patients with mild to moderate depression and many patients try two or three or more of those Sri's before running out of options.And so a CYB three now provides once it's approved another option for patients to tackle their depression and addiction and anxiety disorder. Did Doug, this has Spencer here. I want to ask you, um, about the, the headline we got late last week, and we're getting again here today about just through the Republican, a bill to legalize cannabis.Uh, I sort of grew up these two things together. I know they're not really technically the same thing, but I sort of look at, um, psychedelics as, as sort of following the cannabis lead in every respect in terms of just regulation and capital markets. Um, I'm wondering if, if, if the move by, by the GOP, if that has sort of changed your, um, changed the, the, the equation at all for a psychedelic regulation at large in the U S.No, not really quite different. So I see that there's a general sentiment change towards looking at these alternative types of treatments and that's all positive. We're looking at drug development that needs to go through the FDA and we're planning studies plan that are coming up in early, early next year.Um, FDA has granted breakthrough therapy status to sub assignment. So they've indicated that this molecule was really potentially important in mental health and da just, uh, came out and said that manufacturers should be making more of these substances to allow more research to be done. So I think we're seeing very positive signs, but DEA and FDA, when it comes to turning these molecules into actual therapeutics that can be prescribed by a physician.So, so Doug is there, uh, you know, a lot of opposition from, I guess, you know, what you could call like big pharma, some of the producers of these SSRS that see, uh, this field as maybe something that's emerging as a competitor to them. So are there, are they, do you see that opposition for big pharma? No. I think the big pharma will see this as an opportunity.When you look across the big pharma space, many of their psychic psychiatry departments have gone over the years. They've become neurology departments. And so there's really been very little innovation in psychiatry in maybe 30 years. So when you look at the total addressable market of all these indications that psychedelic companies are working towards, it's around $300 billion annually.So I think the big pharma will absolutely be interested in this is a space where there's been very little innovation for separately. So Doug for Simon. I mean, I, you know, the namesake comes from psilocybin and mushrooms, but I understand that you're working on other drugs as well. Which other, uh, you know, drugs are you working with outside of psilocybin?Yes. We're working on some other molecules that are related. Uh, these molecules are called tryptamines, which are all like serotonin, which is a naturally occurring. You're a transmitter in your brain. As we're working on some other tryptamines for anxiety disorders. We're also working on a range of molecules called phenethyl means.And these are molecules that are related to MGMA or masculine that might help with PTSD in the future. So we have about 50 molecules in our library currently, and we're taking our lead two candidates into the clinic very shortly. Wow. So, so for investors, you know, our, our, our audience here is mostly retail investors some day traders.What could they be looking out for just in the end, not with cyber in particularly, but just in the industry as a whole, like, are we so early stage that maybe, um, you know, we continue to see some of these names get beaten down or do you think it'll be pretty quickly once we start seeing, okay. People are really noticing that, Hey, look in the psychedelic space, this has actual value and potential, and we can see those investors start coming.Yeah, there has been a bit of a rush over the last couple of years, companies rushing into this space. Uh, but I think we're moving from a period of news to a period of Qaeda. So Simon was one of the first companies sort of the state of this last week. And I think those data points will start to really separate companies from each other and differentiate them.So look out for data. That's coming out of clinical studies over the next six to 12 months, and that'll reset some of these companies apart, I think from some earliest stage organizations that are not quite up to speed yet. Good question here from our chat. Um, how does the FDA's new designation for, for a Simon's work, uh, affect the timeline for commercialization?This is from solar up. Yeah, potentially the breakthrough therapy status, uh, could accelerate the timeline to, to commercialization. There's two things really, uh, the first is that, uh, FDA provides a rolling review. And that just means that they're looking at the data that you submit in real time, not, not in lumps at certain time points, and that's much more efficient.You also get to collaborate with that day and ask questions, which means that instead of guessing what they're looking for, you can take advice on what they're looking for. And typically we breakthrough therapy status to FDA requires perhaps just one phase three study, which are the big expensive studies rather than two.So that can save time and cost of coming to market as well. Got it. So do you have any like ballpark timeline on when you hope to get some of these drugs through the pipeline that the approval? Yeah, so unfortunately drug development is quite slow. Um, but for a reason, the good regaining payments have to be, have to be safe and they have to be tested well so that they can be prescribed for patients.So from where we are today, we're looking at those kind of four to five-year timeframe, still to get through those major critical studies with the first one kicking off in early 20, 22. And then from Brando, likewise, with cannabis or as well as what happened to cannabis, do you foresee it being a case of we get a medical first and recreation and then, and then later on some states doing both at the same time, or, yeah, I don't think so.These are very much going down the pharmaceutical route. And the concept here is that they will be given under supervision or clinical setting and combined with psychotherapy. So patients will go through a period of therapy associated with the treatment, and it seems to be the combination of psychotherapy and the molecule of the drug itself that lead to these good outcomes.Uh, in some studies we've seen that four times, the effect size of SSRI is a four times greater effective at treating depression when combining the psychotherapy, uh, with the molecule. So it's hard to see with this current generation of molecules, uh, that there'll be a recreational. Okay, that makes sense.So, Doug, have you seen a big shift over the last couple of years, just in sentiment regarding, uh, some of these drugs becoming, you know, uh, like viable treatments, because I'm sure, you know, five years ago there would be doctors that scoffed and said, oh, this isn't real medicine, et cetera, but now it seems like more and more people are taking this field seriously.And it's not just doctors. I mean, first of all, psychiatrists are typically fairly open-minded about trying new treatments for their patients, but then you add in the FDA and the DEA throwing their support behind this work. And then also major chip biotech funds. Many of which have invested in Simon are really getting behind this as well.And when you start to see the smart money getting into the space and we know that there's real potential. Got it. So I think one of the, you mentioned that in the last 30 years there hasn't been that much, uh, you know, development or improvement in psychiatric care. Um, and I think one of the problems is that a lot of doctors, you know, see it as, okay, I'm going to prescribe someone, uh, you know, this SSRI and that should help alleviate the symptoms or help solve the problem.But, um, you know, oftentimes a lot of psychiatrists talk about some more holistic measures on top of the medicine. Uh you know, looking at some of these other holistic, you know, things people can do to improve their mental health outside of the drug, or is it simply, um, you're just trying to develop this molecule that you think will be a better.Well, it sounds for the molecule. Let's make sure that these molecules are, have realistic duration that can be scalable and let's make sure they're safe and well tolerated. So we minimize the side effects, but you also want to make sure given the nature of these molecules that they're given in a safe environment.So we've created a psychotherapy program called embark. It takes in six domains of best practice, like a therapy. And we using that to train therapists that will apply to therapy in our clinical trials. And we're making that open source. So therapists can get trained. They want to do that, but also to make sure that we're applying it's like therapy in a consistent way and putting patients in a safe environment.Yeah. I was just curious if that was part of the, I guess quote unquote treatment plan is like, okay, we'll, we'll get, um, this patient on say C Y C Y B3, but that patient should also be getting, I don't know, X amount of hours of sleep a week or exercise, you know, having the other things that help factor into someone's mental health outside of just what drugs they're taking.Yeah, of course. I mean, exercise, eating well, getting good sleep are all good contributors to mental health. When we look back at some of the academic studies that have been performed using psychedelic drugs, uh, those that have reduced or eliminated the psychotherapy have been shown to be less effective.So really does seem to be a combination of the psychotherapy and the drug together. So it forms a kind of a package that helps people overcome the trauma. That's underlying that depression, all. So Doug, what drew you to this industry? I mean, do you have more of a psychiatric background or more of a chemistry background?You know, how did you get here? Yeah, I started out my career in a lab, uh, but I've been in, in, uh, pharmaceuticals in the healthcare industry for 30 years. So I've been developing drugs for, for that time. And, uh, you know, like most of us, you guys too, I'm sure we all know someone in a loved one, family, friends has been affected by depression or addiction.It's tragic as soon as it's all around us. So in 30 years of drug development, I don't think I've had an opportunity in that time to help as many people in such a profound way as we can with the psychedelics. So, so our mission to really turn these into therapeutics once and for all. So, but do you have anything that drew you particularly to psychedelics or was it just that you identified that, Hey, this is a good opportunity here to maybe help tackle some of these problems once and for all the truly groundbreaking.I mean, I can set, I have family and friends have been deeply impacted by this and to be able to combine your work with helping the people that you love is never a bad thing. And it's red, you see data like we see with psychedelics and how profound the effect can be. Literally patients who have spent years of addiction walking away from a psychedelic session and free from those addictive cravings for weeks or months at a time from just one session.I not seen anything like that in my career. So this is an enormous. Got it. Well, Doug, thank you for coming on the show today, we will have to get you back on as Sabin announces more data and news. Um, I know a lot of us here at Benzinga are kind of, you know, following this industry closely and very fascinated by the, um, you know, the progress that has been made so far.Uh, so Doug, thank you again for coming on. Thanks for having me guys. Um, all right. It's one. O'clock we're going to have our next guest on, in his second before I bring them on, though. Uh, AB did you see what Luminari is doing today? L a Z R L a Z R. We had them on the show on Friday and we're up 11% today.Let's go. I'm not saying Benzinga is why Luminari is up 11% today, but I'm also not saying ending is not why. Yeah. I've heard some kids on the street are calling the Benzinga bump. Um, oh, I thought that's something different.I got both errands to live for that one. Oh man. All right. Well, I, I don't even know how to follow that up, so I'm just gonna bring my man Jake on the stream. Jake, how we doing? Hey, how are ya? Thanks for asking what's up. Jake? Who Jasick from trend spider. Jake. I thought of you this morning because we're talking about Grogan and I know that's one of your favorites.So I'm sure you're happy today. I do like it. Yeah. Now I have it as a long-term investment. It's not something I actively trade, so I just keep dollar cost averaging in, but yeah, definitely a nice day kind of a weird market out there. Honestly, got a lot of, uh, what I like to call Christmas colors in the watchlist.You don't really have, you know, a lot of green, a lot of red, it's just kind of just every other stock I have in the watch list is either red or green. So getting the Christmas color vibe there right now, but definitely kind of weird with, with spy is a weekly candle from last week. That's something that does have me a little cautious.I do kind of lighten, lighten some of my positions today. It was a definitely a huge week for me last week in the trading arena. So I definitely don't want to be giving back profits. So, um, I did lighten things up. I still, I think marijuana is probably just getting started, but you know, uh, we have to kind of look at the broad markets before we look at individual names too much.And, and yeah, so with, with spy, I'd really want to, to get above last, week's hide for this to be a little bit of a more risk on sentiment, but Bitcoin is, well, you have this weird pump last night, and now all of a sudden you're back to where we started. So just kind of a weird market. It is OPEX this week.So that's something to keep in mind. Uh, Yeah. So that's, yeah, I'm not in any options positions this week, uh, for that reason, just you, you have some crazy mo

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We welcome Power Platform expertise in the form of Two Alex! Alex Dupler and Alex Powers both work at Microsoft. The organization they work for and their first names aren't the only thing that these two share! They also both have a lot of experience with and passion for the Power Platform. Alex Powers is a member of the Power BI Customer Advisory Team (PBICAT), and Alex Dupler is a Program Manager focused on BI & Data Infrastructure. These guys know data! Follow Two Alex: Alex Dupler Twitter Alex Powers Twitter Two Alex Youtube Channel References in this Episode: Raw Data with Brad and Kai from Agree Media Episode Timeline: 7:00 - The woes of Stack Ranking, Data storage options, more fun with names! 22:00 - What draws you to data?, The value (and drawbacks) of Excel, and the path to Power BI 36:40 - Two Alex-similarities and differences, Rob tells a story of someone crossing him, and one of Rob's favorites-the art of using BI to drive action 59:00 - When BI and IT collide, the 2 Alex's non-traditional BI path, the value of being an expert even if you aren't THE expert 1:16:00 - Two Alex LOVE helping people, is there value to documentation?, knowing the Business portion of Business Intelligence 1:37:00 - Advertising performance discussion Episode Transcript: Rob Collie (00:00:00): Hello friends. Today's guests are Alex Powers and Alex Dupler, collectively known as Two Alex. They're both Microsoft employees in very different roles, but both have their feet rooted firmly in the power platform. You might be familiar with their YouTube show. I interact with them primarily on Twitter and a little bit on Reddit. And this is the first time I've had really any conversation of length with Alex Powers. And it's the first time I've had any conversation at all with Alex Dupler. And no surprise here, really, really cool people. We had a lot of fun, really dynamic and inspiring, interesting conversation that wound through a number of topics, including some show favorites, like non-traditional backgrounds, and closing the action loop, and imposter syndrome. We talk about how years ago Alex Powers wrote a review of my book that called out the intermission in the book and how, what a delight that was at the time to read. Rob Collie (00:00:57): And that leads to a conversation about how we're always essentially at our own little intermission in our expertise curve. You're always in the middle somewhere. And if we started doing metrics on this podcast, you'd probably find that this one ranked very highly in opinions expressed per minute. Ooh. What could he mean? Let's get into it. Announcer (00:01:21): Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? Announcer (00:01:25): This is the Raw Data By P3 Adaptive podcast. With your host, Rob Collie, and your cohost Thomas LaRock. Find out what the experts at P3 Adaptive can do for your business. Just go to p3adaptive.com. Raw Data by P3 Adaptive is data with the human element. Rob Collie (00:01:49): Welcome to the show. Alex Powers and Alex Dupler. How are you today, gentlemen? Alex Dupler (00:01:54): I'm doing great. It's great to chat with you. Alex Powers (00:01:56): Rob, back-to-back meetings. I'm glad that Luke found us some time here. I was so hesitant about this podcast, just cause I love listening to it. I was like, "I don't know, should I do it? Should I do it? Should I do it?" Rob Collie (00:02:08): The answer is yes, you should do it. Alex Powers (00:02:10): I appreciate Alex D and Rob just pulling us all together. Yeah. Rob Collie (00:02:13): We've already backstage a little bit been laughing about this. So let's bring it out to the front stage. The two of you combined, what do we refer to you as? Are you the Two Alex's? Or something different? Alex Dupler (00:02:23): So we learned separately from our wives that the correct pluralization is two Alex. Rob Collie (00:02:30): See, I just don't buy this. I still think Alex's. I mean, we could get really funky and say, Alexi. Tom LaRock (00:02:36): I was going to say, that's what I think. Yeah, Alexa, Rob Collie (00:02:39): But I mean, think of it this way. There's fish, and that's plural. But even there, there's still fishes, which refers to different species of fish. Yes. I think. Is that what it is? Alex Powers (00:02:51): Yeah, that's right. Fishy. Yes. Rob Collie (00:02:53): I don't know. So the two Alex, are you guys seriously going to go by that now? Is that going to be the new thing, or? Alex Dupler (00:02:58): Well, the YouTube channel is called Two Alex. Rob Collie (00:03:01): How'd the two of you come to know one another? Is it just like, oh, we're both working in data and we're both named Alex. So you're like, you see each other from across the room and your eyes meet across the internet? Alex Powers (00:03:10): I would say across the internet, for sure there. Just because he's up in Redmond, I'm kind of located in St. Louis, Missouri. From there it was kind of this, I think natural, just both being active in the community. Alex D you can keep me honest there, I'm sure we were connecting on Twitter a little bit there before, definitely in the subreddits. One of my earliest memories of was, Hey, this thing isn't folding. And I was like, oh my gosh, it's Power Query. I've got to tackle this. I've got to answer this question. Reddit is where I hang out at. I would say from there that's when we really started coming chat more and more, but Alex D I'll let you kind of tell your side of the story. Alex Dupler (00:03:43): Yeah. Yeah. My recollection is that the first time we interacted with each other, where it wasn't just some random poster on Reddit, was side conversations on Microsoft teams within Microsoft. There's some internal discussions where salespeople can get their question answered and sometimes the questions are interesting. And so, yeah we had some side conversations. Plus back then, when Alex wasn't on the product team, he didn't always have full visibility into the roadmap. And so we would chat on the side about what we would do with the roadmap. Not that we would do a better job, just a different job. Rob Collie (00:04:19): Yeah, I get you. Yeah, I understand. I understand. What are the two of your roles at Microsoft today? Alex Dupler (00:04:25): I work for Microsoft advertising. We're the organization that sells the ads that go on Bing, as well as some partner websites like Yahoo search and AOL search and stuff like that. And I work in the business function of the sales org. So I do BI for a sales team. And it just happens to be at Microsoft, and that influences the technologies that we use. IPM are like data warehouse and big cube stuff. Rob Collie (00:04:50): Cool. We're going to have to circle back to that for sure. And Alex P what are you up to these days? Alex Powers (00:04:56): Yep. So senior program manager on the Power BI customer advisory team, so PBI CAT for maybe those out in the community. I'm called as kind of that last bastion of hope sometimes, where I'm not very close to the solution, not close to the architecture, just come in and fix it. Where Alex D, he owns the solution, he owns the finished product. That's a line of visibility that I completely lose in my day to day. But you get variety, you get to do different things. Some days it's maybe a DAX challenge, next day I'm writing C#. The next day, I'm writing kind of new report, kind of clicky, clicky, draggy droppy experiences. So a vast rich tapestry of Power BI. Rob Collie (00:05:32): So you're on the CAT team with a number of people that have already been on the show, right? Adam Saxton, Casper, Chris Webb. You're part of that crew? Alex Powers (00:05:41): Yep. Rob Collie (00:05:41): I hear that that crew continues to expand, it's like this great gravitational attractor. It's like just hoovering all of these people. Let's just have it on the record. Does the Power BI CAT team have ambitions of world takeover? Alex Powers (00:05:53): Every day. And I think what you're seeing right now is a lot of formality. Community contributors, experts, decades of experience. They're now turning into bosses, they're now turning into managers. So they're getting further away from the technology and kind of now being people managers. I'm enjoying our livestream here because Rob is laughing. He's like, oh, I know that exact feeling. Rob Collie (00:06:14): I do. I do, right. I got a request today from some media outlet to interview me for Power BI tips. And I'm like, gosh folks, I'm probably not that person. You want to talk about strategy, okay, that's different. But I have gotten further and further. I still build some Power BI stuff for sure, for my own purposes. But I don't have that day to day, like, this is my life. That's not how my day goes anymore. I'm back to the management game after years of being out of it. Yeah. Growing a company tends to keep you out of the actual hands-dirty data trenches that started the whole thing. Alex Dupler (00:06:52): Well, if you ever start stack ranking, that's when it's going to be time to sell it. Rob Collie (00:06:56): True story, stack ranking was the reason why I actually stopped being a manager at Microsoft. At one point, I just said, I'm done applying the system for you. I was sick of it. And I understand it's gone now. I found out the hard way that stepping back from a management position didn't just relieve me of that stack ranking thing that I found immoral and uncool. It also took me out of a lot of the important conversations. I just didn't have nearly the input or influence that I had before. And that was hard. If I was still at Microsoft today, my career at Microsoft would still have suffered like a multi-year setback because of this era where I just said, I'm done. I know that at this point, the whole stack rank thing has been gone for a long time, but it was still a number of years later after I left that it still persisted. No, we're never going to do that. We're never going to play lifeboat with human beings. I mean, it really sucked, right? Basically, if you built a really good team, either by recruiting or by development or both, you were punished for it. Alex Dupler (00:08:04): Yeah. Apply this to Alex's team. You want to stack rank Chris Webb and Casper and Adam? Tom LaRock (00:08:09): I will. I'll do it. Rob Collie (00:08:11): Which one of them gets told that they had a terrible year? Right? Tom LaRock (00:08:16): I'd be happy to do it. Rob Collie (00:08:20): Hey, listen. As long as we put that kind of phenomenal power in the hands of a benevolent tyrant, like Tom, it's perfectly safe. What could go wrong? Alex Dupler (00:08:29): That is what they said about solar winds. Tom LaRock (00:08:34): My first criteria, having known them for many years, is Jaeger consumption. So we'll just start with that and work our way down the stack. Rob Collie (00:08:44): Which way are we going to sort that list though? We sort it largest to smallest, or smallest to largest? I mean, I could see that list being sorted either way. Tom LaRock (00:08:50): We'll try it both ways and see how it shakes out. Rob Collie (00:08:53): Yeah. I mean, it could be like a honeypot, right? Put some Jaeger out there, see who goes for it? You're getting the 3.0. We won't be doing any of that, thankfully. Now, Alex P, you were previously in a different role, right? Alex Powers (00:09:10): Yes. So, here at Microsoft less than two years, came in through the premier field engineer side to support, really had a blast there kind of proactive engagements training, probably train like 4,000 Tableau users on the Power BI. So just like the grind of doing it day in, day out, talking about the product, I just absolutely loved that. Transitioned to kind of field sales roles. There it's competitor competes, a lot of disinformation where they're saying, well, Power BI can never do this. What do you mean it can't do that? Here's an article. Here's me, kind of the whizzbang demo. That's probably where I got my hyperlink chops for those that kind of know me on the community. Alex Powers (00:09:44): This is the good and bad of the pandemic is like, Hey, we're making some career advancements, we're working long hours, whatever else it may be. A lot of my goal whiteboard over here was, Hey, I want to be on the Power BI CAT team. Had that visibility, just kind of did those grinding over the fall and winter months when we're all stuck inside. But I'm sorry, Thomas. I don't know how good I would be at the Jaeger thing, just because I don't have that peer connection. I haven't met my coworkers. So that's tough for a lot of people that I think are just making career jumps during the pandemic right now. Rob Collie (00:10:16): Yeah. I mean, it's weird. I live in a completely altered reality where we've been a hundred percent remote, I've been a hundred percent remote for 11 years. Probably more closer to 12, actually. Our company was a hundred percent remote from the beginning, basically out of necessity. To me, it's shocking how many people who've been at this company for a long time have never met each other face to face. We did a gathering, a team gathering in 2019. We didn't do one in 2020. I don't remember why we didn't do that. We haven't done one this year, either. We're hoping to maybe do one in 2022. We've hired so many people in the last year that there's like half the company that I haven't ever been in person with. Alex Powers (00:11:02): It's tough. Rob Collie (00:11:03): It's different, isn't it? Alex Powers (00:11:04): Yeah. I think it was like the good meme the other day where it's like, Hey, here's your company culture, it's just like an empty cubicle. And it's like, well, people don't even have that anymore. It's just, here's your new job, here's your new email. Log in, welcome to the company. Great friend of mine, Mark Beedle, I know kind of joined T3 adaptive. I love that he's like, this is where I want to be. I think of the P3 of the past, where you take the group, I think, up to Seattle or some of the different areas. And then it was like, oh wow, they're all getting together and having fun. You know, I tried applying for the job, but unfortunately your Excel file was corrupt and I couldn't pass the test. Rob Collie (00:11:36): Oh, I see. I see how this [crosstalk 00:11:38]. Alex Powers (00:11:38): Yeah, what happened with that, Rob? Rob Collie (00:11:39): I don't know, man. Alex Powers (00:11:40): That's really what I wanted to corner you on today. Rob Collie (00:11:43): That might've been part of the test, Alex. Alex Powers (00:11:45): I literally thought it was, that responded that way. I was like, I don't know if they're testing me with a corrupted file. Alex Dupler (00:11:50): Yeah. You need to have mastered the Open XML format of the Excel file, and be able to track down the corruption in the Power Query. Rob Collie (00:12:00): I saw a joke or a meme on some social media a couple of years ago about cast iron, the hipsters with their cast iron and how you have to take care of it and everything like that. And then after you're done with that, you have to dry it in the sun for 24 hours. And someone goes, 24 hours? And they go, yeah, if you're not willing to go to the Arctic, you don't deserve cast iron. So it's like that kind of test. Yeah. Alex Dupler (00:12:23): We beat the crap out of our cast iron, it's just fine. Rob Collie (00:12:26): Okay. And now Alex Dupler. You're working in BI in the advertising wing, within Bing but also the affiliated networks like Yahoo and things like that. And so you mentioned that you're in charge of the data warehouse and you're in charge of, you said big cube. Alex Dupler (00:12:42): Yeah. Rob Collie (00:12:43): For a year I worked on Bing, and maybe this is a completely different dataset than what you actually end up caring about, but the state of the world back then was there was this giant distributed commodity hardware database system, data storage system called Cosmos. Alex Dupler (00:12:58): Yep. Rob Collie (00:12:58): One of the world's foremost write-only data stores. It was amazing at storing data. You could never get anything useful out of it. There was only one person in the entire organization, named Jamie Buckley, who was capable of actually running queries against this thing. And so if you wanted any information whatsoever about what searches were being run and things like that, yeah sure, you could try to write a query against this thing. And what would happen is you'd get syntax error after syntax error after syntax error, and then eventually you kick off a query and it wouldn't give you any errors. And you're like sweet. And it would run and run and run and you go away and you'd come back like a day and a half later and then you'd get a runtime error. Alex Dupler (00:13:38): Yeah. And when it works, you get a CSV. And so we still have that. I think when I was getting trained on it, which they said it had something like 5% of the world's data in it. Cause it's not just Bing, it's X-Box and a whole bunch of stuff. It's this really cool exabyte scale thing. But nobody knows how to use it, partially because it uses scope scripts, which the only commercial product they've ever been used in is the ATLS gen one analytics feature, which was not a successful product and is being deprecated. And so you can't hire people that know how to use it, there's just like a bunch of vendors that have learned it. And I can't write it either. Also, I don't know if this was your experience, but the engineers are allergic to writing documentation. It's got these petabyte sized tables with 400 columns and there'll be a data dictionary and it doesn't have any descriptions of any of the columns. Rob Collie (00:14:33): This does match my experience, yes. Alex Dupler (00:14:35): So we use that some, we also have other partners. I mean, it's a huge organization. We just missed getting touted in the quarterly earnings as having crossed $10 billion for the last fiscal year. I think the public number is like 9.95 or 9.5 billion. Yeah so it's a real business, even though the market share is pretty small. It turns out advertising is just a really, really good business. So we take a bunch of data out of there, and then also from partners that take data in there, and put it all in Databricks and make it available to folks that way. And we love Databricks because our analysts, they can come with whatever skills they have, and they can be successful on day one. Because they don't have to learn SCOPE or KQL or whatever. Alex Dupler (00:15:22): They can write Python, they can write R, they can write SQL, there's a cube so they can do Power BI, they can do Excel. They can do whatever they want, all in the same data. Now, if they want to do things that are super fancy, they may have a hard time using the cube. So they got to write something. Rob Collie (00:15:41): Yeah. Alex Dupler (00:15:42): But if you're a PM owning a project, you can drag and drop in that cube all day long and have a good time. And then the other thing that we like about the setup we have is, with the data in Data Lake, our partners that have their own generous Azure budgets, they're not running queries against our server. Whereas if we put it in Synapse or SQL, when they want to query our data, we're paying for this compute. But here they just mount it onto their own compute system, and they pay for it. And that's great. We like when other people pay to use our data. Rob Collie (00:16:15): So it's funny, I actually expected that the answer to the question was going to be, oh no, no, we fixed all that. That original system is completely straightened out, it's got a much more human friendly interface. But it turns out that you just have other systems that are human friendly. And those things have to... on the order of one-time investments to figure out how to populate those things from the great Oracle that is Cosmos. Alex Dupler (00:16:41): Yeah that's largely true. I mean, in Cosmos, they've implemented the ATLS APIs. So you can mount data in Cosmos directly to a Spark engine and do stuff that way, if you want. Yeah. Basically that's how they've done things. You will not be surprised to learn that Microsoft likes to reuse names. Maybe you've seen this phenomenon before in the word power, but yeah. Cosmos, the internal exabyte scale data platform is not the same as Cosmos DB, the Azure product, which is for, I couldn't even describe it. It's for, like, everything. Rob Collie (00:17:19): Yeah. I mean, there's only so many cool nouns. And furthermore, the set of cool nouns in the world is further refined by the ones that computer scientists gravitate to. So you end up with a really small population of words. And the chances... It's like the pigeonhole principle from math, right? You need 450 names, you only have 300 words. So you're screwed. And so you end up with things like the word dashboard being repurposed to mean something kind of niche in Power BI. That's one that I wish we could get a do-over on. And you know, I'm a sinner. I named some things poorly in my day. I'll give you an example. When PowerPivot V1, and actually several versions of PowerPivot, at least in 2010, there were those two drop zones, extra drop zones in the pivot table field list, for slicers. Rob Collie (00:18:11): Cause Amir insisted that we make slicer layout really easy as opposed to tedious. So we had these extra drop zones, and one drop zone put the slicers down the left-hand side of the pivot table and one put them across the top of the pivot table. What did I name those two zones? Horizontal and vertical slicers. For years after that, when I taught that product to classes, they go, oh, what does a horizontal slicer do that's different than a vertical slicer? And I just sit there with my head in my hands like, it should have been left and top, Rob. Why did you... Previous Rob, why were you so nerdy and stupid at the same time? Left and top. Alex Dupler (00:18:48): Well you see, in an indimensional cube, there are some things that are horizontal and some things that are vertical. Once you understand what the tubal is, it'll all make sense. Rob Collie (00:18:59): Yes. So let's go back to basics and... Yeah, no. It's just left and top. Yep. These are what you call own goals. Can't make these things up. It's even funnier, by that point in my career when I made that mistake, I was already kind of like this rabid high priest of naming. Like, we should be better. And here I was in the course of delivering those sermons, just committing tremendous sins out the back of the church. It's just like. Alex Dupler (00:19:31): Yeah, it turns out we should be better in, oh crap, I got an hour before this presentation, what am I going to call this thing? Those are two overlapping states of being. Rob Collie (00:19:41): You know, people's hearts are in the right place. So I still think that the two of you probably might've gravitated toward each other just a little bit, maybe like 1% more, because of the shared first name. Can I be allowed like an extra 1% gravity on this? Alex Powers (00:19:54): 99. I mean, a lot of Alex's within Microsoft that are doing Power BI, we've all kind of banded together. Rob Collie (00:19:59): There's like an Alex crew? Alex Powers (00:20:01): Hell yeah. Big time. There's multiple Two Alex's, too. Rob Collie (00:20:04): As we've established, once you get above like three or four Alex, it's suddenly Alex's. That's when it becomes plural. Alex Dupler (00:20:10): There are at least two Alex's working at Microsoft in the Power BI ecosystem that are smarter than either of us. Rob Collie (00:20:17): Well I mean, going back to something we were talking about earlier, every single person, every single consultant at P3 is a hell of a lot better at Power BI than I ever was. I can't even argue that it's like, oh, I'm off my peak. It's not that at all. They were always going to be much, much better. It's very humbling. Like in the real sense of the word, when you sort of get put in your place. Alex Powers (00:20:40): Is this like a time thing, Rob? Cause I feel it too. It's like the early days, Power Pivot and Power Query were something like, I'm digging, I'm learning all of these things. And then like everything else is kind of passing me by and it's like, yeah I'll catch up to that at some point. And I see the wild stuff that people are doing nowadays, like, I don't know what nights and weekends they're spending learning this product, but I'm working twice as hard and I'm still not catching up. Alex Dupler (00:21:00): Yeah. I was watching the other demo the other day. And he was talking about how you should have your report and your data model in two separate PBIX's. This was Mike Carlo. It was a great demo. But then he was like, and to make this really easy, what we're going to do is we're going to edit the PBIX. And I was like, hold on a second. You can't do that. That's not allowed. Rob Collie (00:21:22): [crosstalk 00:21:22] Like actually hacking the file? Like he got into the file structure? Alex Dupler (00:21:25): Yeah. Rob Collie (00:21:26): I do love me some file hacking. For me, I think it's not necessarily a question of time. It's actually that the universe has returned to its default state with respect to me. Which is, the whole time I worked at Microsoft, in all the years I was on the engineering teams, I worked with plenty of people who were super technical, but also enthusiastically technical. When VB.Net came out, and ASP.NET, I had some colleagues that just dove into that. They loved it, it was the most amazing thing. And I just could never... I was still at that point going like, okay, well I learned how to write my VBA, and I'm sticking with it. That's where the frontier of my coding, actual procedural coding, is still VBA six. Rob Collie (00:22:09): For some reason, DAX and data modeling, as technical tools go, DAX and data modeling really, really spoke to me. Like I freaking loved it and still do, still do to this day. And Excel formulas are kind of the same thing, right? This is the handful of exceptional technologies that really seem to appeal to my nervous system, and none of the others do. And by the way, M is another example that does not appeal to me at all. Alex Powers (00:22:38): I am the opposite. I love M. Rob Collie (00:22:39): Really? You love M? Alex Powers (00:22:40): I love, love, love. Hell yeah. Rob Collie (00:22:42): You're not my species then, you're something completely different. Alex Dupler (00:22:47): So I think one of the big things that drew me to data modeling, so there's a lot of constraints. And with programming, it's like, there's such an open world. Like the only programming I could ever really get my head around was VBA. That's where I started. You didn't have to have a big, complicated object model. There was just Excel. That was your object model. And it made everything so much easier. And you're like, okay, well, what I'm trying to do is move these cells to those cells. And with data modeling, especially in Power BI, it's like, well, I need one column for these relationships. And I need these relationships to flow in one direction. The constraints make it a much more manageable problem, but also opens up room for more creativity. Rob Collie (00:23:30): I agree. And also VBA comes with a macro recorder, the world's greatest set of training wheels. It's like, if I want to build an app from scratch, I can't like act out like pantomime what the app will do, and have something spit out code for it. Alex Dupler (00:23:48): Draw some stick fingers in Figma and just drag them around, and get some code from that. Rob Collie (00:23:51): Yeah. It's like, mock up the UI in Balsamiq or something, or Vizio, and then start mashing on the screen with your finger and say, okay. And then speaking out loud, what should happen at that... there's no macro recording for actual software developers. Alex Dupler (00:24:04): I think we got to tell Charles that, that's what he's got to do with his AI driven power apps development. Rob Collie (00:24:09): Yeah. It's we need to turn this into a LARPing thing, right? You just act out the application in the real world with these cameras... Holo lens. There it is. We've solved the world's problems. Take that for low code development. Alex Powers (00:24:26): Well, I like how Power Automate's now watching your points and clicks, and generating flows for you. Rob Collie (00:24:32): See, I didn't know that it did that. Alex Powers (00:24:33): Oh yeah. You're training the machine. You don't even have to write the code anymore. It's like, oh, automation is here. It's really here now. Rob Collie (00:24:41): It's always a feel good moment to meet a fellow VBA 6-er. The world used to be lousy with us. We were just everywhere. It's kind of a dying art. Office has got this new JavaScript API, Office Scripts. That's incredible. Again, in theory. I haven't touched it, because it's not reaching out and grabbing me by the eyeballs. I'm tempted though. It's sort of like, oh, a new VBA six and they have a macro recorder and I'm like, okay, maybe, maybe. This might be the way I learn JavaScript someday, is Office Scripts. Alex Dupler (00:25:09): Yeah, that sounds like how I'd learn it, except Excel is dead to me. I mean, I use Excel for note taking and PM stuff, but data work, I don't use it. Because first of all, Power Query is the way to go. And in Excel, when you have Power Query over, you can't save the Excel file. Rob Collie (00:25:28): Really? Alex Dupler (00:25:29): Yeah, Power Query takes a lock, like a lot of the old school windows. And you can't get back to the main- Rob Collie (00:25:34): Modal window. Alex Dupler (00:25:35): Yeah. So you can't save, you can't refer back to the data. You can't open stuff. And it's not like Excel ever crashes when you're working with lots of data. So saving, it's not that important. And if you want to say, first you have to evaluate your queries or set them to disable load. But if you've already loaded some, if you do something to disable load, it destroys the cells. I just said, I'll do it all in Power BI. No more Excel. Not because there's anything wrong with Excel. It's just that that user experience was just so unacceptable to me. I lost so many hours of work. Tom LaRock (00:26:10): Wait, what do you mean, not that there's something wrong... Clearly there's something wrong with Excel. Alex Dupler (00:26:14): Yeah. Rob Collie (00:26:15): Alex, you're cut from a cloth that I understand very well. Your sarcastic cynicism is, ooh, it speaks to me. Yeah, we've come to the right place. Even I, team Excel guy, I am really on team Excel. I haven't written any DAX in the Excel environment in several years. It's all Power BI, all the time now. Alex Dupler (00:26:38): The other big thing is why would you want to write DAX in an environment that you can't schedule to refresh? Unless you don't have pro licenses, like... Alex Powers (00:26:47): Hold on, let me challenge you now. Here we go, this is a little taste of Two Alex. So I love Ken Puls, where he's saying, Hey, I don't want the heavy weight of Power BI. If I can do as much as possible within Excel, be it Power Query or even Power Pivot. I would agree that. Alex Powers (00:27:03): Be it kind of power query or even power pivot. I would agree that the development experience is severely lacking. That's not to say that the power BI side is the best in the world, obviously Dax studio, et cetera. But I would much rather take a lightweight application over a heavy one every day and then just import that data model into power BI when I'm ready. Rob Collie (00:27:19): To me, the primary value of these technologies in Excel is as an on-ramp to the power BI universe for the authors. Tomorrow's power BI authors are today living in Excel. And the reason, I've said this multiple times on this podcast of multiple different people at Microsoft, but the reason why I'm, I don't want to use like the passive aggressive version of the word disappointed. Let's use the completely neutral version of the word disappointed. The reason why I'm disappointed that there isn't more investment there is because that is the gateway drug, and as a universe, as a community, like we really need to care about bringing those new people on. And that's where they're going to come to. To tell those same people, "No, put Excel down and start learning this in a completely new environment," their immune systems reject that because they've been sold a million times on the idea that something's going to replace Excel. They know better by now. Rob Collie (00:28:23): But no one in that category, like the V lookup and pivot route, none of them resist the idea of there being crazy, powerful new versions and features of the things that they're already doing. You get them 48 hours into that new world, and they're more than happy to switch to the power BI environment. They're excited about it. Those same people who would have rejected it 48 hours before. You got to take them on that path and this thing not getting the love that I think it deserves, I understand it's from the perspective of our real production environment is the power BI environment. I get that. But the on-ramp, they are doing some things about that, even things that I didn't know, because they're targeted at people who don't know about this stuff and I already do. Brian, when he was on the podcast, was talking about how they're using machine learning, advanced clippy generation seven, to detect the people who should be interested in this stuff and sort of pointing them to power BI. And there actually was really good uptake of that. That feature didn't fire for me because I don't use V Lookup or regular pivot tables anymore. Alex Dupler (00:29:23): That's almost exactly the journey that I went on. Like many of your guests, I did not go to school for power BI. I actually, I went to school for chemistry and I worked as a chemist for a couple of years. I was doing lab work and I was very bad at lab work. I mean, I understood the chemistry, but I would break glassware that was expensive and stuff like that. Which when you make $15 an hour, breaking expensive glassware is a good way to get in trouble. So I was like "Okay, well I grew up in a very computer centric family. Maybe I can do some of this Excel stuff." And so I was doing visual basic, and we were doing some dashboards, like operational reporting. And I had Excel in this company. I loved the people there, but it was not a successful business. We had maybe a hundred thousand dollars in revenue per employee with high CapEx, because we had these big, expensive instruments that we had to buy and chemicals and all sorts of stuff, lots of HVAC. So there was not enough money to pay people to live in Seattle, so every office license was a battle. Alex Powers (00:30:31): Wow. Alex Dupler (00:30:31): I was looking at, okay, what can I do with Excel 2007, because we had some of that I think we had enough licenses, but it didn't really check. So we didn't really pay too much attention. But then I was like wanting to use power query because I had sort of discovered it was easier, but I couldn't. So I was like, "Okay, how do I get this macro to run as a service so that I can refresh these dashboards on these dowels that we bought second hand?" Rob Collie (00:31:01): You know, if it weren't for the a hundred thousand dollars of revenue per employee, at a certain point, that story sounded like season two of Breaking Bad. The HVAC, the cap ex, oh you mean a hundred thousand dollars per employee per week? Okay. Alex Dupler (00:31:18): No, no, no, per year. Rob Collie (00:31:19): Then it's meth. Alex Dupler (00:31:20): Yeah, no. So this is the environmental testing industry. And the way it works is your tests have to be defensible to the EPA. So the EPA puts up a spec and says the test needs to be done this way. And when it's done, it has these parameters in terms of statistical reusability. And that means that one lab's product is a commodity compared to the other lab's product. And so you can't get outside profits. All you can do is compete on service and price. And if you take a high CapEx business and bolted to professional services, you're not going to get good margins. Rob Collie (00:31:59): Unintended consequences of everything, right? Alex Dupler (00:32:01): Yeah. I mean, Rob, can you imagine your business, if you are charging professional services business model, but you bolted on a whole, huge amount of consumable costs to every delivery? Rob Collie (00:32:14): Yeah. It sounds like we can safely not choose the wine in front of me. Alex Dupler (00:32:19): That's how I first encountered the 2017 standalone web, maybe it was 2016. The first time power BI was split out. I was doing office 365 admins and I got like a push notification. I was like, "This is cool." And I built some stuff and I showed it to my manager and he was like, "That's cool. How much is it?" "$10 a month." "Nope, can't afford it." And that's when I started looking for jobs anywhere where they had good Excel people. Rob Collie (00:32:46): Yeah, and to put that in perspective, this is the punchline to many jokes when people ask us how much it is. We go, "It's $10 a month per user." We all just start laughing. Like, "Oh my God, it's like stealing. It's so cheap." Alex Dupler (00:32:58): I didn't even have that many users. Rob Collie (00:33:02): I mean, this might be $30 a month. You know, like, nope. Alex Dupler (00:33:06): No. Rob Collie (00:33:07): It's like when we first moved to Cleveland back in the day, it was right in the middle of the financial crisis. We were looking at real estate and everything. And there were houses for sale in Cleveland for $10,000, like $10,000. And I started laughing. I'm like, imagine the deal going down. This house has been on the market for 180 days at $10,000. And you come in and say, "Look, I've got a cash offer. I'm willing to pay asking price. But the grill out back? You need to leave it." And the owner's like, "Mmmmm." Alex Dupler (00:33:43): My wife's best friend lives in Cleveland and they recently bought a house. And so we looked at a bunch of Zillow listings. I'm like, "Oh man, we could pay cash. Move next door." And they're sort of north of the Cleveland Clinic, that super nice neighborhood up in there. I was like, "Oh yeah, we could buy a very nice house, but our family is not there." Also, have you looked at the weather? It's not Seattle. Rob Collie (00:34:05): No, it's not Seattle, but I'll tell you what, here's an interesting description of statistics. When we moved to Cleveland, it wasn't because we wanted to, it was because basically my kids had been taken to Cleveland and so we're trying to console ourselves. We're like, "Okay, well, okay. It's going to be colder. There's going to be snow. Okay, okay. But at least it isn't going to be as overcast." And then we looked it up and Cleveland has more overcast days per year than Seattle. So we were like, "Damn, that sucks." However, it turns out that the definition of overcast days is very, very, very important. Because like an overcast day in Cleveland is like 75% of the sky is covered by clouds. That's an overcast day. At no point in time ever is Cleveland under a one mile thick, oppressive blanket that starves you, where you don't even have any idea where the sun is in the sky. So number of days is one of those misleading statistics. Total amount of oppressive cloud cover needs to be a different statistic. Trust me, there's more sun in Cleveland on an ongoing basis than there is in Seattle. Those winter and fall months, man, those are rough. Alex Dupler (00:35:16): That's not the part that bothers me. I was born and raised in Seattle. It's the shoveling your driveway in March, that part of it. Rob Collie (00:35:24): You could just be the delinquents that we were and just get a four wheel drive vehicle and say, "Screw it." Alex Powers (00:35:31): You don't shovel in March. After February, you don't shovel. It's in my contract. I don't shovel after March 1st. That's it. Because it's going to melt. Alex Dupler (00:35:40): Eventually. Alex Powers (00:35:40): It'll melt by the end of the month. Rob Collie (00:35:43): By the end of the month. Alex Powers (00:35:44): By the end of the month, it'll be gone. The rainstorm's coming. Sunshine's going to happen. I ain't shoveling. No, I put that in my contract years ago. Rob Collie (00:35:53): Cleveland's where I learned the rule, we do not adopt dogs that require walking. Alex Powers (00:35:58): Yes. Rob Collie (00:35:58): They need to be able to go out in the backyard and come back in. I fell so many times on ice. I eventually got, they're like crampons essentially. Alex Dupler (00:36:06): Yak tracks? Rob Collie (00:36:08): Yak tracks, that's what they are. Yak tracks or something else. You can't intentionally slip on yak tracks. It's crazy. But without them, just any day now broken hip. Alex Dupler (00:36:19): Our friends that lived there, they just got a golden retriever. We met the puppy when we were visiting with them this summer. Very cute, but I think they have some of those walks in their future. Rob Collie (00:36:29): So you start looking for a job, that's what led you into Mount Redmond? Alex Dupler (00:36:34): Yeah, I literally went looking for jobs good with Excel in Seattle. I found a contract position into Microsoft, making sure that the salespeople were assigned to the right customers and got paid on the right quota because advertising the agency model, it makes that much more complicated. Because we were in this model where we'd try and keep all the customers of an agency with the same salesperson which makes a lot of sense, especially when you're the underdog and you have relatively few sales resources, you get more leverage. But customer's change agencies all the time, have no respect for our compensation cycles, and so it was quite the nightmare. Rob Collie (00:37:15): Yeah, I love that. Like, so here's how we'll define the world for our benefit, "Oh world, you did not get the message. World, please don't change. Don't have your own things going on." Yep, that sounds like a software engineering problem from the nineties back before the industry kind of got wiser. So you start talking about the show. It seems like with a format like that, it's got to wander, which is what our show does too, by the way. So what are some of the most entertaining or valuable corners that you found yourself wandering into over time? Alex Powers (00:37:48): I'm still excited with our first episode where we talked about kind of beyond the desktop where it's no longer just development in [inaudible 00:37:56] desktop. It now almost takes like five different applications to build something at scale, which is like a good and bad thing. Well, you're getting more tools, seeing new things faster, more performing, et cetera, but why do I need 10 tools? Can we solve that within the desktop application? And we just had a really good conversation, a lot of attendees there, providing their own thoughts. And it kind of comes back to like this overwhelming feeling of learning power BI it's. Like I have to learn 20 new things all the time, learning, learning, learning. It's just never ending. That was my key episode. Alex Dupler (00:38:26): I agree. I mean, I think that's been the central theme of the whole show. I mean, we did that first episode and then we've talked, we've had the same conversation about these tools in so many different contexts. What are the different ways to do dev ops in power BI? What are different ways to measure how you're doing in terms of the effectiveness of your models? And so all of that is sort of external to the desktop application. Alex Powers (00:38:52): I think the best part, too, is that we're not from these traditional backgrounds of 20 years of BI or 20 years of kind of dev ops. We're learning this real time, sharing our experiences of, Rob, I think you call us power users or business users that find these tools, that get empowered by this technology. That is the seat in which we sit in. Hey, I found Excel 2010 power query add in 2013, 2016. I'm fighting with my IT admins. Can you please just upgrade to the next monthly release that will solve all my problems? Where Alex D is on the other series fighting tooth and nail for a 2007 license. It's kind of funny to hear that conversation. Rob Collie (00:39:32): $10 a month. We need those charity commercials like Sally Struthers used to do. This is Alex Dupler. For $10 a month, less than the price of a cup of coffee, you could get him an O 365 license. Alex Dupler (00:39:50): Yeah. So we ended up getting some E3 licenses and some E1 licenses, which meant I could work in power query, not using my personal license, but using the company's license. And then when I tried to share it with my coworkers, they only had E1. They couldn't use desktop. They had to use power query online or Excel online. And there was no power query online. And so even once we sort of modernized, we installed like a windows server 2012 and it was already 2015 and I was okay, this is our modernization. Alex Powers (00:40:26): So Rob, I'm going to steal one of your quotes here if you don't mind. Rob Collie (00:40:30): No, please do. We have an open source quote license at P3. Alex Powers (00:40:35): Well, I'll buy you a 2007 Excel license too, if I have to. Rob Collie (00:40:39): Fantastic. Alex Powers (00:40:39): But one of the items you had said a long time ago, I believe it was either in your book or maybe some of the video recordings you used to do in the studio with a nice button up shirt. You said, "There are two types of people when it comes to technology, those who can see the possibilities and bring about change and those who are about to be affected by it." And I always look at this and I look at things like had kind of talked about with the Excel users who haven't even gotten to this experience yet. There is still somebody out there today that is using Excel 2007 and their employer or their this, their that, or whatever their situation they're red is like, "I just see this little rectangle. It hasn't changed. Why do you want me to go invest in any of this stuff?" Like how often are you still seeing this? Rob Collie (00:41:17): Anecdotally in our public classes, which I haven't taught in a while, I've taught one as recently as let's say two years ago. And when I taught public classes for P3, I still stubbornly insisted on using the Excel version of this stuff to teach. Again, because of that onboarding effect. Alex Powers (00:41:34): Yep. Rob Collie (00:41:34): I think I was the only one left at our company that was still stubbornly doing that and I wasn't bothering to argue with others and whatever. So I did this for years, probably the first one of those classes I taught would have been like in 2011. So fighting with different versions of Excel, all the different students showed up with, for a long time, that was like a quarter of the class. The instructions for the class were very clear, show up with this version or don't bother. And they'd show up and no, they had a version, didn't even have power pivot and couldn't get power pivot. And so it was so bad for a while, we would bring spare laptops. If we traveled to another city, we'd be lugging spare laptops with us and they'd just be there ready to go like the hot swap with a student. That problem really went away though. I reached the point where I'd survey everybody at the beginning of class, "What version of Excel are you on," or whatever. And everyone, every single person in the class would be on the basically some version of recent 365. Rob Collie (00:42:32): I really do think that the person who's trapped on 2007 or hell even 2010 or 2013, they're out there, but they are really a tiny, tiny fraction of the world now. Whereas that used to be an overwhelming problem. So it's really testament to how successful O 365. Alex Powers (00:42:52): I would agree. Rob Collie (00:42:53): It's like, I was kind of like cynically betting against it forever, like the tortoise and the hare. Like I woke up one day and that's the world. The world is O 365. I think everyone's on the modern, not everyone, but it rounds to everyone, is on the modern wave of the tools. But they're still shocked when I show them, when we show them, "Did you know that this is in here?" And they're just like, "What?" Alex Powers (00:43:19): How is that in here? Rob Collie (00:43:20): They get angry because they start to realize how much of their life they have lost by not being told. Alex Powers (00:43:27): What I was always seeing was people had to live in two worlds. Like I went to some of the Excel boot camps, Michael Alexander, absolutely transformed on my personal laptop. I'm having the best time of my life in these three-day boot camps. I'm loving, loving, loving. At the very end though, I have to go back to work on Monday. I saw what could be, and I'm now back to what is. And it's just very difficult to kind of live in that middle space. For those that are still out there and listening to this, Hey, look at your surroundings. Hopefully Office 365 is coming within your organization. But if not, kind of like Alex D's story, I just went looked somewhere else. I saw the future that was coming, and I bet it all myself and I went for it. And I think that me and him both kind of share those stories, too. Alex Dupler (00:44:08): Inside of Microsoft, in my little corner of the Microsoft that most people in Microsoft don't even know about, I put together a class that I've given a couple of times, Modern Excel for Managers. And basically I would just show them power query and X Lookup. We didn't even talk about Dax. But just to like get them thinking like, "Hey, if you're doing some annoying thing in Excel, maybe there's a couple ways to make it a little bit better. Maybe you've never even seen the formula bar before." I had one person that I worked with who I was like, I didn't handle it very well at first. But she was like, "Can you add these numbers together for me?" And I was like, "Yeah." Alex Powers (00:44:52): Just a standard Excel formula bar? Is that what you're talking about? Alex Dupler (00:44:55): She was like, "Can you show me the difference between these two numbers?" "I can do that for you, but here, let me come over here and show you something." Rob Collie (00:45:04): So there was another program manager on being, because I was such an Excel, I'd come from the Excel team, I'm such an Excel zealot, that all someone had to do was say that they needed Excel help and I was there. Alex Powers (00:45:17): Oh yeah. Rob Collie (00:45:18): This person, they developed a habit of having me do all of their Excel work for them. This is one of my peers. And then of course passing off the work as their own. Fine, I wasn't that career minded, really. Six months after this is when I volunteered to no longer be a manager. So climbing the corporate ladder wasn't some voracious appetite of mine. So, okay, fine, fine. I knew what was happening, but I was still okay because the Excel problems were so fun. Keep them coming. Then one day this person asked me for Excel help. And there were these two columns of numbers. And this person had subtracted column two from column one to create column three and then added up column three to get the difference. Alex Powers (00:46:04): I'm waiting for the reveal, because there's a big story here and I'm loving it right. Rob Collie (00:46:09): I said, "Well, you know, you could have just summed column one and column two, and then taken the difference between the two sums." And they said, "But wouldn't the answer be different?" There was this moment of silence. I'm looking. I'm looking at them. They're looking at me. I'm looking at them. They're looking at me. At that moment, they realized that they couldn't use me anymore because I was now dangerous. I now knew that they didn't know math. They didn't just not know spreadsheets, they didn't know math. They were exposed. This person is now an executive at Google. Tom LaRock (00:46:48): This person being the executive at Google. I have no doubt probably doesn't know math. However, as somebody who uses technology and knows that data can be dirty and whatnot, I would actually, if it was me Rob, I would say do it both ways and make sure the answers match. Because you know what? We both seen it where it didn't work out. Rob Collie (00:47:10): That's true. But like when you see all the numbers in front of you, you physically see them all. You've got access. There's nothing hidden going on here. Oh, by the way, Tom, what's your degree in again? Tom LaRock (00:47:21): I have a master's in mathematics from Washington State University. Rob Collie (00:47:23): Masters, yep. Yeah, the masters in math is what allows Tom to say, "I'm not sure." Tom LaRock (00:47:29): Now hold on. Hold on. We've seen it. We've seen it. Rob Collie (00:47:35): There's a name for this. It's like the distributive property or associative property or something. There's some property that we learned in middle school. Tom LaRock (00:47:41): See, that's math with paper and pencil. Now we're talking about using Excel for math. So the tool, there could be something like, "Hey wait," and that's why we tell you, "well, just do it both ways." Even Wayne Winston would probably say, "Yeah, well have two columns. They should match. If they don't match..." Rob Collie (00:47:58): No, no he would not, not in this particular case. Tom LaRock (00:48:01): You're right. He wouldn't. Rob Collie (00:48:02): Every time I tell this story, someone always sort of like takes a sympathetic stance towards the antagonist and I end up feeling like a heel. Tom LaRock (00:48:09): You shouldn't. You shouldn't. Rob Collie (00:48:12): But come on. Tom LaRock (00:48:15): I'm with you. I have no doubt that they don't know math because I come across the same people. I do. Rob Collie (00:48:22): It's think it's the intersection of all of those things, That I was being used the whole time. Tom LaRock (00:48:27): Yes. Rob Collie (00:48:29): Which I had kind of made my peace with. But then on top of that, this incredibly aggressive ladder climber, the kind of person who really was kind of like willing to climb over the bodies of their colleagues. There's something delicious about, even though I was the rube in the whole story up until a certain point. I was being taken advantage of and I knew it. But even me in that situation, there was that moment of just like jaw dropping dumbstruck, like just looking at this person going, "Oh my God, you did not do that." Alex Powers (00:49:09): I'm going to lift us up from the depths here of career and everything else. I thought you were going to take us into that they didn't use cell references, which I've seen people type in column A plus column B's value in an equals. And it's like, "Well, why didn't you just do A1 plus B1?" Mind was blown. So I love that those moments still exist and you find them out in the wild every once in a while. And it's not massive warehouse MPP processing, et cetera, et cetera, that everyone's like, "Oh, this is the," I call it the BI bubble. Everyone's out here living in the BI bubble, writing C sharp, doing tabular and coding, blah, blah, blah. People are still excited about the very simple things that technology can achieve for them. Alex Dupler (00:49:56): My in-laws, they own a brewery in Rinton and they make great beer. I offered to help my mother-in-law with some of her bookkeeping that she does on inventory. And she was showing me how she was doing it. And she was like, "Okay, I get these numbers in Excel. And then I get out my calculator." And I was like, "Okay, let me show you how you can do this differently." And I showed her. She was like, "No, no, that's going to be too hard. I'm going to stick with the calculator." And I was like, "Okay, that's fine." Alex Powers (00:50:20): I still get the, "I don't trust Excel, so I double check with the calculator." Rob Collie (00:50:25): My first exposure to that, I was in college. I was working for a construction management firm that was building the new chemistry building on Vanderbilt campus and I was working in the management trailer. I was sort of all purpose ... we called me the lackey. I would just do whatever anybody needed. Sometimes I'd go out in the building and take measurements for things or whatever. But most of the time, I was just doing paperwork and stuff. They turned over the spreadsheet for this latest change order to the project to Vanderbilt management. And the price tag, it was an Excel spreadsheet and it had a column of values that were summed and there was a number at the bottom of it. And I remember the guy Tony who worked for Vanderbilt going, "Well, someone's going to have to double check these numbers. We can't just pay this contract." And my boss was just looking at him going, "Come on. That's what the spreadsheet is for is for doing that." And Tony's like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. But still, I mean, we can't just pay this number." I can understand that stance a little better, anyway, I just looked like a giant meany. But remember. This was someone who was taking advantage of me. Alex Powers (00:51:36): I agree. I agree. Alex Dupler (00:51:38): One of the things that I wanted to touch on in this conversation, something you've brought up a lot, which is going from BI to taking action within the report. And I got to tell you, this concept terrifies me. As a BIPM, I'm terrified of it. And I totally agree that the value is there, but in the BI space, we are really bad at testing. And if I think about how going from, Hey, I've got a report and these are the numbers to someone's going to click a button and it's going to change something in a system of record, the level of quality and testing goes up and I think really threatens the quick solution thing that you've also talked about is your bread and butter of like, Hey, we're going to do this really fast and it's going to blow your mind. But if I got to throw all that testing in there to make sure I don't blow up your source system instead, I don't know how those two things coexist. Rob Collie (00:52:39): Yeah. that's a fair point. I mean, for a moment there, when you were saying the taking action part and this terrifies you, before I understood the subtleties of your point, I was going to make the joke like, "Oh, you want this to be like the psychic hotline. It's for entertainment purposes only. Please don't use this report to take any action." Alex Dupler (00:52:57): It does make my job easier, I will admit, but it is a little bit more nuanced than that. Rob Collie (00:53:02): Okay, okay, fine. So anyway, I still managed to sneak the joke in there without ... it's not a joke at your expense because your point is different. Okay, there's escalating versions of this with escalating versions of responsibility and test implications and things like that. So you can just start with report design and working backwards from the types of action, your constituents, the users of your report. In classes what I would teach this concept on the end of the last day, as sort of like a religious sermon. I would encourage people to think of the users of their reports as each one of them sitting in front of like some gigantic cartoonish bat computer looking thing with these giant oversized 1960s, pop art colored buttons and they're labeled things like "open more stores" or "adjust hours of locations" or "increase head count, reduce head count" or "change product mix" or whatever. It's actually kind of interesting, when you imagine e ... Rob Collie (00:54:03): ... mixed or whatever, right? It's actually interesting when you imagine it that way to give it that physical manifestation, it actually becomes a little bit easier, for me anyway, to imagine what these people can do, because every role in a company really has a finite number of actions that they can take. Now, finite in terms of their categories of actions. It's certainly infinite when you get into the details of what are you going to do. And if you start to think of them from that perspective and you think, okay, what I should do is build reports that advise them or at least are helping inform them as to which control they should touch on their dashboard and directionally which way they should move it. Rob Collie (00:54:45): And it sounds like not that important of a trick, not that powerful of a trick, but if you actually apply that methodology faithfully, you end up with a vastly different portfolio of reports that you have built. Even I, very often, don't live up to my own principle in this regard. Because it's so easy. It's so seductively easy. It's the path of least resistance to grab all the data, load it up, make the model, that's fun, and then it's like flowing downhill. It's just like, oh, this is the easy and fun part, right? And then inevitably, you just start slapping together some reports. And those reports, in some ways, are just exposing the coolness of what you've built. Rob Collie (00:55:29): Now, that still leads to some very, very useful things. That's mind-blowingly better than what you ended up with in the old dark ages of Excel or even traditional BI. But I mean, oh my God, we were just talking about it on the last podcast. Some of the things that I have seen in the world that were supposed to be helping people make decisions were better described as their opponents in the process. This report was something that you had to fight to figure out what you should do at your dashboard. Rob Collie (00:55:59): So even before we start with any sort of actual software integration and taking action and things like that, that's a really, I think, important religion to develop. And again, when you're at your best, your absolute gold medal in the Olympics celebrated by the world best, maybe 30% of your output will live up to this. You just can't, you can't execute that way all the time. It's really, really hard. But it's software development. You are building software when you're building reports. You should have the same sort of mindset, if you can, as the Power BI team has when they sit down to design a new feature in their software. Alex Dupler (00:56:38): I totally agree. One of the questions I've been asking a lot, because I've been working on reports for the salespeople to take to the customers is, what is the conversation you're going to have with the customer? Not, what is the metric, but how does this fit into the conversation? And part of this is because my superpower and my career is going and building tools for the thing I used to do. And I think a lot of BI people come from that, where they were in the business and they were doing a thing, they just started making the reports for that thing. And somewhere along the line, they either work away from it for too long or they solve those problems. They had to learn how to make reports for something they haven't done for years. And I think that's a difficult transition and one I've been going through. Alex Dupler (00:57:26): But yeah, learning how to ask questions of the user, because they're not just going to tell you... what they tell you isn't what they need. You have to learn how to learn from what they say, what they actually want. Rob Collie (00:57:42): Yeah, it's a fine art. And by the way, when you've been in "BI", building the same reports for a long time, generally speaking, looking backwards anyway, those reports also sucked because they were constrained by what was possible at the time. And so they were never very ambitious. And most of those reports amounted to... A lot of times they just amounted to the data dump import that's used for something else. It's just, again, it's the opponent. It's better than nothing, but it's meager, meager help. And suddenly you're given this brand new tool set that's capable of so much more. Rob Collie (00:58:22): And unfortunately what I see a lot of times, when you give Power BI to an IT department, they go, "Oh hot damn, the new SSRS." This is the new reporting services. We're going to use it like reporting services. Load that big one flat wide table and pigeonhole it as visualization. It's just like, "Come on." Alex Powers (00:58:45): I'm telling you my favorite DAX is always written from the IT department. It's just written like a massive sequel statement, 400 lines. None of it makes any sense. It's like, "Can we just calculate, maybe another table here or there." Alex Dupler (00:58:59): The folks coming from the IT department, the one thing they do have going for them is that they did learn to format their code. Sometimes people coming from the Excel world, they learned that they can't format their code. And so I'm not sure that I would agree that the worst DAX comes from the IT department. Because you take a DAX statement and you take all the formatting out, and you've just made it 10 times worse. Alex Powers (00:59:21): From readability, yeah, I would agree. Rob Collie (00:59:24): I gave a talk one time where I asked the trick question of, what's the number one programming language in the world? And

We didn't know what to expect when we sat down with Greg Beaumont, Senior Business Intelligence Specialist at Microsoft specializing in serving Microsoft's Healthcare space customers' technical Power BI issues.  What we got was an insightful, delightful, and impactful conversation with a really cool and smart human! References in this Episode: The Game Azure Health Bot The Future Will Be Decentralized-Charles Hoskinson Spider Goats Episode Timeline: 3:10 - The magic of discovery with the Power Platform, It's all about the customers(and Greg has a LOT of customers!), and Greg's Data Origin Story 21:10 - The IT/Business Gap, Getting good BI and keeping data security is a tricky thing, The COVID Challenge hits Healthcare 43:00 - Power BI-Not just a data visualization tool, a very cool discussion on Genomics and using data to save lives, the importance of Data Modelling 59:10 - The Bitcoin Analogy, The VertiPaq Engine and when is Direct Query the answer 1:08:30 - We get a little personal with Greg, Azure/Power BI integration and Machine Learning, Cognitive Services and Sentiment Analysis Episode Transcript: Rob Collie (00:00:00): Hello, friends. Today's guest is Greg Beaumont from Microsoft. Like one of our previous guests, hopefully, Greg has one of those interface jobs. The place where the broader Microsoft Corporation meets its customers at a very detailed and on the ground level. On one hand, it's one of those impossible jobs. More than 100 customers in the healthcare space look to Greg as their primary point of contact for all things technical, around Power BI. That's a tall order, folks. And at the same time, it's one of those awesome jobs. It's not that dissimilar, really, from our job here at P3. Rob Collie (00:00:45): In a role that, first of all, you get broad exposure to a tremendous number of organizations and their problems, you learn a lot super, super quickly. When you're doing it right, your work day is just nonstop magic. The power platform is magic and not really because of the technology, but instead because of its impact on the people who use it, who interact with it, who benefit from it, whose lives are changed by it. And again, I can't stress this enough, software usually doesn't do this. And as we talked with him, Krissy and I just couldn't stop nodding, because we could hear it, he lives it, just like we do. And I hope that just leaps out of the audio for you like it did for us. Rob Collie (00:01:32): No surprises here, Greg didn't start his life as a data professional. He's our second guest on this show, whose original training was in biology. And so, some familiar themes come back again, that good data professionals come from a wide variety of backgrounds, that the hybrid tweeners between IT and business are really where the value is at today. And I love this about Greg, that we made a point of talking about how much easier it is today to break into the data profession than it's ever been and what an amazing thing that is to celebrate. Rob Collie (00:02:06): We talked about COVID and specifically its impacts on the industry. How that has served as a catalyst for many organizations to rethink their analytic strategy, the implications of remote work, data privacy and security. And of course, it wouldn't be an episode of Raw Data, if we didn't nerd out about at least one thing. So, we get a little bit into genomics and the idea of DNA and RNA as forms of biological computer code. And as you'd expect, and want, Greg is far from a one dimensional data professional, just such an interesting person, authentically human, a real pleasure to speak with, so let's get into it. Announcer (00:02:47): Ladies and gentlemen, could I have your attention, please. Rob Collie (00:02:51): This is the Raw Data by P3 adaptive podcast with your host, Rob Collie. Find out what the experts at P3 Adaptive can do for your business. Just go to p3adaptive.com. Raw Data by P3 Adaptive is data with the human element. Rob Collie (00:03:13): Welcome to the show, Greg Beaumont. How are you? Greg Beaumont (00:03:17): I'm doing well. How are you all? Rob Collie (00:03:19): I think we're doing pretty well. Greg Beaumont (00:03:19): Awesome. Rob Collie (00:03:20): Business is booming. Data has turned out to be relatively hot field, but I think it's probably got some legs to it. And the Microsoft platform also, well, it's just kind of kicking ass, isn't it? So, business wise, we couldn't be better. I think personally, we're doing well, too. We won't go into all that. What are you up to these days? What's your job title and what's an average day look for you? Greg Beaumont (00:03:39): So, I'm working in Microsoft and my title is Technical Specialist. And I'm a Business Intelligence Technical Specialist, so I focus almost exclusively on Power BI and where it integrates with other products within the Microsoft stack. Now, I'm in the Microsoft field, which is different from a number of guests you've had, who work at corporate and we're working on the product groups, which is that I'm there to help the customers. Greg Beaumont (00:04:01): And you hear a lot of different acronyms with these titles. So, my role is often called the TS. In the past, it was called a TSP. It's just a change in the title. Sometimes you might hear the title, CSA, Cloud Solution Architect. It's very similar to what I do, but a little bit different. But effectively from an overarching standpoint, our goal in the field as Technical Specialists is to engage with customers, so that they understand how and where to use our products, and to ensure that they have a good experience when they succeed. Rob Collie (00:04:29): Your job is literally where the Microsoft organism meets the customers. Greg Beaumont (00:04:34): Yep. Rob Collie (00:04:35): That's not the role I had. I was definitely on the corporate side, back in my days at Microsoft. I think the interaction between the field and corporate has gotten a lot stronger over the years. I think it's a bit more organic, that interplay, that it used to feel like crossing a chasm sort of thing. And I don't think that's really true anymore. Greg Beaumont (00:04:54): At a green, I think that's by design, too. So, with the more frequent release schedules and also kind of how things have changed under Satya, customer feedback drives the roadmap. So when these monthly updates come out, a lot of it is based off of customer demand and what customers are encountering and what they need. So, we're able to pivot and meet the needs of those customers much more quickly. Rob Collie (00:05:15): Yeah, you mentioned the changing acronyms, right? I mean like yes. My gosh, a thousand times yes. It's almost like a deliberate obfuscation strategy. It's like who's what? Why did we need to take the P off of TSP? I mean, I'm sure it was really important in some meeting somewhere, but it's just like, "Oh, yeah, it's really hard to keep track of." It's just a perpetually moving target. But at the same time, so many fundamentals don't change, right? The things that customers need and the things that Microsoft needs to provide. The fundamentals, of course, evolving, but they don't move nearly as fast as the acronym game. Greg Beaumont (00:05:52): Right. I think that acronym game is part of what makes it difficult your first year here, because people have a conversation and you don't know what they're talking about. Right? Rob Collie (00:06:00): Yeah, yeah, yeah. Greg Beaumont (00:06:00): And if they just spelled it out, it would make a lot more sense. Rob Collie (00:06:03): Krissy was talking to me today about, "Am I understanding what Foo means?" There's an internal Microsoft dialect, right? Krissy was like, "Is Foo like X? Is it like a placeholder for variable?" I'm like, "Yes, yes." She's like, "Okay. That's what I thought, but I just want to make sure." Krissy Dyess (00:06:18): That's why there's context clues in grade school really come into play when you're working with Microsoft organization, because you really got to take in all the information and kind of decipher it a bit. And those context clues help out. Greg, how long have you been in that particular role? Has it been your whole time at Microsoft or are have you been in different roles? Greg Beaumont (00:06:36): So, I should add, too, that I'm specifically in the healthcare org, and even within healthcare, we've now subspecialized into sub-verticals within healthcare. So, I work exclusively with healthcare providers, so people who are providing care to patients in a patient care setting. I do help out on a few other accounts, too, but that's my primary area of responsibility. Greg Beaumont (00:06:55): So, I started with Microsoft in 2016. I was actually hired into a regional office as what's called the traditional TSP role and it was data platform TSP. So, it was what used to be the SQL Server TS role. A few months later, the annual realign happened, I got moved over to Modern Workplace because they wanted to have an increased focus on Power BI, and I had some experience in that area. Plus, I was the new guy, so they put me into the experimental role. A year later, that's when they added the industry verticals and that's when I moved into what is kind of the final iteration of my current role. And the titles have changed a few times, but I've effectively been in this role working with healthcare customers for over four years now. Rob Collie (00:07:35): And so, like a double vertical specialization? Greg Beaumont (00:07:37): Yeah. Rob Collie (00:07:37): Healthcare providers, where there's a hierarchy here? Greg Beaumont (00:07:40): Yeah, yeah. Rob Collie (00:07:41): Those are the jaw dropping things for me is sometimes people in roles like yours, even after all that specialization, you end up with a jillion customers that you're theoretically responsible for. Double digits, triple digits, single digits in terms of how many customers you have to cover? Greg Beaumont (00:07:58): I'm triple digits. And that is one of the key differences from that CSA role that you'll see on the Azure team is they tend to be more focused on just a couple of customers and they get more engaged in kind of projects. And I will do that with customers, but it's just, it's a lot more to manage. Rob Collie (00:08:14): Yeah. What a challenging job. If you think about it, the minimum triple digit number is 100, right? So, let's just say, it's 100 for a moment. Well, you've got 52 weeks a year plus PTO, right? So, you're just like, "Okay." It is very, very difficult to juggle. That's a professional skill that is uncommon. I would say that's probably harder than the acronym game. Greg Beaumont (00:08:37): Yeah, there's been times I was on a vacation day and I got a call. I didn't recognize the number. I'm like, "Okay, I'm going to have to route this to somebody because I'm off today." And they're like, "Well, I'm the VP of so and so and we need to do this." And I'm like, "Okay, I got to go back inside and work now, because this is an important call." So, you have to be flexible and you're correct, that it makes it a challenge to have that work-life balance also, but the work is very rewarding, so it's worth it. Rob Collie (00:09:01): Yeah. It's something that vaguely I have a sense of this. I mean, transitioning from corporate Microsoft to, I mean, you can think of my role now as field. I'm much, much closer to the customers than I ever was at corporate. And yes, Brian Jones and I talked about it a little bit. And this is a bit of an artifact of the old release model that it was like every few years, you'd release a product, which isn't the case anymore. But that satisfying feeling of helping people, like even if you build something amazing back at Microsoft in the days that I was there, you were never really around for that victory lap. You would never get that feedback. It even never make it to you. Rob Collie (00:09:37): It was years later muted whereas one of the beautiful things about working closely with customers and our clients with Power BI, and actually the Microsoft platform as a whole, is just how quickly you can deliver these amazingly transformational like light up moments that go beyond just the professional. You can get this emotional, really strong validating emotional feeling of having helped. And that is difficult to get, I think even today, probably, even with their monthly release cycles, et cetera. By definition, you're just further removed from the "Wow" that happens out where the people are. Greg Beaumont (00:10:15): Yep. And I'm sure you all see that, too, with your business is that a lot of work often goes into figuring out what needs to be in these solutions and reports, but when you actually put it in the hands of leaders, and they realize the power of what it can provide for their business, in my case for their patients, for their doctors, for their nurses, it becomes real. They see it's actually possible and it's not just a PowerPoint deck. Rob Collie (00:10:38): And that sense of possibility, that sense of almost child-like wonder that comes back at those moments, you just wouldn't expect from the outside. I had a family member one time say, "Oh, Rob, I could never do what you do." Basically, it was just saying "How boring it must be, right?" It's so boring working with software, working with..." I'm like, "Are you kidding me? This is one of the places in life where you get to create and just an amazingly magical." It's really the only word that comes close to capturing it. You just wouldn't expect that, right? Again, from the outside like, "Oh, you work in data all day. Boring." Greg Beaumont (00:11:17): I'd add to that, that I'd compare it to maybe the satisfaction people get out of when they beat a game or a video game. That when you figure out how to do a solution and it works and you put in that time and that effort and that thought, there's that emotional reward, you get that I built something that that actually did what they wanted it to do. Rob Collie (00:11:35): Yeah. And after you beat the video game, not only did that happen, but other people's lives get better as a result of you beating this game. It's just like it's got all those dynamics, and then some. All these follow on effects. Greg Beaumont (00:11:46): It's like being an athlete and enjoying the sport that you compete in. Rob Collie (00:11:50): Yeah. We're never going to retire. We're going to be the athletes that hang on way too long. Greg Beaumont (00:11:56): Yep. Rob Collie (00:11:58): So, unfortunately, I think our careers can go longer than a professional athletes, so there's that. I can't even really walk up and down stairs anymore without pain, so. So what about before Microsoft? What were you up to beforehand and how did you end up in this line of work in the first place? Greg Beaumont (00:12:15): Sure. And I think that's actually something where listeners can get some value, because the way I got into this line of work, I think today, there's much more opportunity for people all over the world from different socioeconomic backgrounds to be able to break into this field without having to kind of go through the rites of passage that people used to. So, I was actually a Biology major from a small school. Came from a military family. I didn't have corporate contacts or great guidance counseling or anything like that. My first job right out of school was I said, "Oh, I got a Biology major. I got a job at a research institution." They're like, "Okay, you're going to be cleaning out the mouse cages." And it was sort of $10.50 an hour. Greg Beaumont (00:12:53): So, at that point, I said, "Okay, I got to start thinking about a different line of work here." So, I kind of bounced around a little bit. I wanted to get into IT, but if you wanted to learn something like SQL Server, you couldn't do it unless you had a job in IT. As an average person, you couldn't just go buy a SQL Server and put it in your home unless you had the amount of money that you needed to do that. Side projects with Access and Excel. Small businesses did things probably making less than minimum wage and side gigs, in addition to what I was doing for full-time work to pay the bills. Eventually caught on with a hospital where I was doing some interesting projects with data using Access and Excel. They wouldn't even give me access to Crystal Reports when we wanted to do some reporting. That was really where I kind of said , "Data is where I want to focus." Greg Beaumont (00:13:41): We did some projects around things like Radon Awareness, so people who would build a new house now, they're like, "Oh, I have to pay $1500 for that Radon machine down in the basement." But when you talk to a thoracic surgeon and their nursing team and you hear stories about people who are nonsmokers, perfectly healthy, who come in with tumors all over their lungs, you realize the value there and by looking at the data of where there's pockets of radon in the country reaching out to those people has value, right? I think it's that human element where you're actually doing something that makes a difference. So, that kind of opened my eyes. Greg Beaumont (00:14:14): I then after that job, I got on with a small consulting company. I was a Project Manager. It was my first exposure to Microsoft BI. It was actually ProClarity over SQL Server 2005 and we were working with data around HEDIS and Joint Commission healthcare performance measures for one of the VA offices. So, I was the PM and the Data Architect was building the SSIS packages, built out kind of skeleton of an analysis services cube. He asked me to lean in on the dashboarding side, and that's also where I started learning MDX because we were writing some MDX expressions to start doing some calculations that we were then exposing in ProClarity. And at that point, it was like, "This is magic." Greg Beaumont (00:14:57): From a used case perspective, what they were doing traditionally doing was they'd send somebody in from some auditing agency, who would look at, I think it was 30 to 60 patient records, for each metric and then they take a look at where all of the criteria hit for that metric, yes or no. And it would be pass/fail, how good is this institution doing of meeting this particular expectation. So, it would be things like, "Does a patient receive aspirin within a certain amount of time that they've been admitted if they have heart problems?" Something like that. With looking at it from a data perspective, you can look at the whole patient population, and then you could start slicing and dicing it by department, by time of day that they were admitted, by all of these different things. Greg Beaumont (00:15:38): And that's when I kind of said, "This is really cool, really interesting. I think there's a big future here." And I kind of decided to take that route. And from there, I got on with a Microsoft partner, where I stayed for about six years. And that's kind of where I was exposed to a lot of very smart, very gifted people. And I was able to kind of learn from them and then that led to eventually getting a job at Microsoft. But to make a long story short, today, you could go online and get Power BI Desktop for free. There's training resources all over the place, and you could skill up and get started and get a great job. I'd like to tell people take the amount of time you spend every night playing video games and watching television, take half that time and devote it to learning Power BI and you'll be amazed at how far you get in six to 12 months. Rob Collie (00:16:24): That's such good advice. I'm not really allowed to play a lot of video games, so I might need more time than that. But I had my time to do that years ago, learning DAX and everything. A couple of things really jumped out at me there. First of all, you're right, it was almost like a priesthood before. It was so hard to get your foot in the door. Look, you had to climb incrementally, multiple steps in that story to just get to the point where you were sitting next to the thing that was SSIS and MDX which, again, neither of those things had a particularly humane learning curve. Even when you got there, which was a climb, you get to that point and then they're like, "And here's your cliff. Your smooth cliff that you have to scale. If you wanted a piece of this technology," right? Rob Collie (00:17:11): You wanted to learn MDX, you had to get your hands on an SSAS server. The license for it. And then you had to have a machine you could install it on that was beefy enough to handle it. It's just, there's so many barriers to entry. And the data gene, I like to talk about, it does. It cuts across every demographic, as far as I can tell, damn near equally everywhere. Let's call it one in 20. It's probably a little less frequent than that. Let's call it 5% of the population is carrying the data gene and you've got to get exposure. And that's a lot easier to get that exposure today than it was even 10 years ago. Greg Beaumont (00:17:50): I'd completely agree with that. The people in this field tend to be the type of people who likes solving puzzles, who like building things that are complex and have different pieces, but who also enjoy the reward of getting it to work at the end. You've had several guests that have come on the show that come from nontraditional backgrounds. But I'm convinced that 20 years ago, there were a lot of people who would have been great data people, who just never got the opportunity to make it happen. Greg Beaumont (00:18:14): Whereas today, the opportunity is there and I think Microsoft has done a great job with their strategy of letting you learn and try Power BI. You can go download the dashboard in a day content for free and the PDF is pretty self-explanatory and if you've used excel in the past, you can walk through it and teach yourself the tool. I think the power of that from both the perspective of giving people opportunity and also building up a workforce for this field of work is amazing. Rob Collie (00:18:42): Yeah. I mean, all those people that were sort of in a sense like kind of left behind, years ago, they weren't given an avenue. A large number of them did get soaked up by Excel. If they're professionally still active today, there's this tremendous population of Excel people if they were joining the story today, they might be jumping into Power BI almost from the beginning, potentially. And of course, if they were doing that, they'd still be doing Excel. But there's still this huge reservoir of people who are still tomorrow, think about the number of people tomorrow, just tomorrow. Today, they're good at Excel and tomorrow, they will sort of, they'll have their first discovery moment with Power BI. The first moment of DAX or M or whatever, that's a large number of people tomorrow who are about to experience. It's almost like did you see the movie The Game? Greg Beaumont (00:19:36): I have not. Rob Collie (00:19:37): There's this moment early in the movie where Michael Douglas has just found out that his brother or something has bought them a pass to the game. And no one will tell him what it is. He meets this guy at a bar who says, "Oh, I'm so envious that you get to play for the first time." Also, this is really silly, but it's also like the ACDC song For Those About To Rock, We Salute You. For those about to DAX, we salute you, because that's going to happen tomorrow, right? Such a population every day that's lighting up and what an exciting thing to think about. Do you ever get down for any reason, just stop and think, "Oh, what about the 5000 people today who are discovering this stuff for the first time." That is a happy thing. Greg Beaumont (00:20:16): Yeah, I actually had a customer where one of their analysts who turned out to be just a Power BI Rockstar, he said, "I'd been spending 20 years of my life writing V-lookups, and creating giant Excel files. And now, everything I was trying to do is at my fingertips," right? And then within a year, he went from being a lifelong Excel expert to creating these amazing reports that got visibility within the organization and provided a ton of value. Rob Collie (00:20:42): And that same person you're talking about is also incredibly steeped in business decision-making. They've been getting a business training their whole career at the same time. And it's like suddenly, you have this amazingly capable business tech hybrid, that literally, it just like moved mountains. It's crazy. We've talked about that a lot on the show, obviously, the hybrids, just amazing. And a lot of these people have come to work for us. Rob Collie (00:21:09): That's the most common origin story for our consultants. It's not the only one. I mean, we do have some people who came from more traditional IT backgrounds, but they're also hybrids. They understand business incredibly well. And so, they never really quite fit in on the pure IT side, either. It's really kind of interesting. Greg Beaumont (00:21:26): Yeah, I think there's still a gap there between IT and business, even in kind of the way solutions get architected in the field. It's understanding what the business really wants out of the tool is often very different from how IT understands to build it. And I think that's where people like that provide that bridge, to make things that actually work and then provide the value that's needed. Rob Collie (00:21:47): There's such valuable ambassadors. It's just so obvious when IT is going to interact with a business unit to help them achieve some goal. It's so obvious that, of course, who you need to engage with IT. IT thinks, "We need to engage with the leaders of this business unit." They've got the secret weapon, these hybrid people that came up through the ranks with Excel. The word shadow IT is perfect. These people within the business, like they've been Excel people for their entire careers, they have an IT style job. Rob Collie (00:22:22): Almost all the challenges that IT complains about with working with business, you take these Excel people and sort of put them in a room where they feel safe. They'll tell you the same things. They're like, "I had exactly the same problems with my 'users,' the people that I build things for." And yeah, there's such a good translator. And if the communication flows between IT and business sort of through that portal, things go so much better. That's a habit. We're still in the process of developing as a world. Greg Beaumont (00:22:51): Yeah. And in healthcare that actually also provides some unique challenges. With regulation and personal health information, these Excel files have sensitive data in them, and you have to make sure it's protected and that the right people can see it. And how do you give them the power to use their skills to improve your organization, while also making sure that you keep everything safe. So, I think that's a hot topic these days. Rob Collie (00:23:15): Yeah. I mean, it's one of those like a requirement, even of the Hello World equivalent of anything is that you right off the bat have to have things like row level security and object level security in place and sometimes obfuscation. What are some of the... we don't want to get to shop talky, but it is a really fascinating topic, what are the handful of go-to techniques for managing sensitive healthcare information? How do you get good BI, while at the same time protecting identity and sensitivity. So often, you still need to be able to uniquely identify patients to tie them across different systems, can identify them as people. It's really, really, really tricky stuff. Greg Beaumont (00:24:02): And I think just to kind of stress the importance of this, you can actually go search for look up HIPAA wall of shame or HIPAA violation list. When this information gets shared with the wrong people, there's consequences and can result in financial fees and fines. And in addition to that, you lose the trust of people whose personal information may have been violated. So, I think a combination of you said things row level security and object level security as a start, you can also do data masking, but then there's issues of people export to Excel. What do they do with that data afterwards? Greg Beaumont (00:24:37): And then there's going to be tools like Microsoft Information Protection, where when you export sensitive information to Excel, it attaches an encrypted component. I'm not an MIT expert. I know how it works. I don't know the actual technology behind it. But it attaches an encrypted component where only people who are allowed to see that information can then open that file. So, you're protecting the information at the source and in transit, but you're still giving people the flexibility to go build a report or to potentially use data from different sources, but then have it be protected every step of the way. Greg Beaumont (00:25:11): So like you said, without getting too techie, there's ways to do it, but it's not just out of the box easy. There's steps you have to go through, talk to experts, get advice. Whether it's workshops or proof of concepts, there's different ways that customers can figure that out. Rob Collie (00:25:28): Yeah. So because of that sort of mandatory minimum level of sensitivity handling and information security, I would expect, now that we're talking about it, that IT sort of has to be a lot more involved by default in the healthcare space with the solutions than IT would necessarily be in other industries. Another way to say it, it's harder for the business to be 100% in charge of data modeling in healthcare than it is in other industries. Greg Beaumont (00:26:02): Yep. But you can have a hybrid model, which is where the business provides data that's already been vetted and protected and there might be other data that doesn't have any sensitive data in it, where it's game on, supply chain or something like that. But having these layers in between, the old way of doing things was just nobody gets access to it. Then there was kind of canned reporting where everybody gets burst in the reports that contain what they're allowed to see. But now, you can do things in transit, so that the end users can still use filters and build a new report and maybe even share it with other people. And know that whoever they're sharing with will only be able to see what they're allowed to see. It gets pretty complex, but it's definitely doable and the customers that are doing it are finding a lot of value in those capabilities. Rob Collie (00:26:48): That's fundamentally one of the advantages of having a data model. I was listening to a podcast with Jeffrey Wang from Microsoft and he was talking about it. And I thought this was a really crisp and concise summary, which is that the Microsoft Stack Power BI has a model-centric approach to the world whereas basically, all the competitors are report centric. And what does that mean? Why does that even make a difference? Well, when you build a model, you've essentially built all the reports in a way. You've enabled all of the reports. You can build many, many, many, many, many like an infinite number of different reports based on emerging and evolving business needs without having to go back to square one. Rob Collie (00:27:28): In a report-centric model, which is basically what the industry has almost always had, almost everywhere, outside of a few notable examples, Power BI being one of them. When a report centric model, every single change, I remember there being a statistic that was just jaw dropping. I forget what the actual numbers were, but it was something like the average number of business days it took to add a single column to a single existing report. It was like nine business days, when it should just be a click. And that's the difference. And so, preserving that benefit of this model centric approach, while at the same time, still making sure that everyone's playing within the right sandbox that you can't jump the fence and end up with something that's inappropriate. Very challenging, but doable. Greg Beaumont (00:28:15): Yep. That reminded me of an old joke we used to tell in consulting and this was back in the SharePoint Performance Point with Analysis Services days is there be a budget for a project, there'd be change requests along the ways, they discover issues with the data. And at the very end of the project, they rushed the visualization to market. And they're like after six months, with 10 people dedicated on this project, "Here's your line chart." Rob Collie (00:28:39): Yeah. I had a director of IT at a large insurance company one time, looking me in the eye and just brutally confess. Yeah, my team, we spent three months to put a dot on a chart. And that's not what you want. Greg Beaumont (00:28:59): Right, right. Rob Collie (00:29:01): That was unspoken. This was bad. To the extent that you're able to tell, what are some of the interesting things that you've seen in the healthcare space with this platform recently? Anything that we can talk about? Greg Beaumont (00:29:15): Yeah, so I think I'd start with how everything changed with COVID. Just because I think people would be interested in that topic and kind of how it changed everything. I actually had a customer yesterday at a large provider who said, "COVID was the catalyst for us to reconsider our investment in analytics, and that it spurred interest from even an executive level to put more money into analytics because of the things that happened." So obviously, when it hit everybody was, "What in the world is going on here?" Right? "Are we even going to have jobs? Is the whole world going to collapse or is this just going to be kind of fake news that comes and goes?" Everybody was unsure what was going on. Greg Beaumont (00:29:50): At the same time, the healthcare providers, a lot of them were moving people to work from home and these were organizations where they had very strict working conditions because of these data privacy and data security considerations, and all of a sudden, you're in a rush to move people home. So, some of my counterparts who do teams, they have some just amazing stories. They were up all night helping people set up ways to securely get their employees to a work-from-home type experience, so that they only had essential workers interacting with the patients, but then the office workers were able to effectively conduct business from home. Greg Beaumont (00:30:25): Additionally, there were use cases that were amazing. So, Microsoft has now what's called the Cloud for Health where we're effectively taking our technology and trying to make it more targeted towards healthcare customers and their specific needs, because we see the same types of use cases repeat from customer to customer. One of those use cases that came out of COVID was called Virtual Visits. And I actually know the team that built that solution, but because of patients who were on COVID, they didn't know how contagious it was. Greg Beaumont (00:30:56): There were people being put on ventilators, who weren't allowed to see their families and they were setting up a team's application, where people were actually able to talk to their family and see their family before they went under, right? There were chaplains who were reading people their last rites using video conferencing, and things like that. So, it was pretty heavy stuff, but I think from a healthcare perspective, it showed the value technology can provide. Greg Beaumont (00:31:21): And from our perspective in the field, it's like we're not just out there talking about bits and bytes. It kind of hit home that there's real people who are impacted by what we're doing and it adds another kind of layer of gravity, I'd call it, taking what you do seriously, right? I had another customer, they were doing some mapping initiatives with some of the COVID data because they wanted to provide maps for their employees of where the hotspots were. Greg Beaumont (00:31:46): And we were up till I think 11:00 at night one night working through a proof of concept. And they said, "Yeah, what's next is we also want to start mapping areas of social unrest." I said, "Wow, social unrest. Why are you worried about that?" And they said, "Well, we expect because of this lockdown, that eventually there's going to be rioting and issues in all different parts of the world." And at that time, I just kind of didn't really think about that, but then a lot of those things did happen. It was kind of just interesting to be working at night and hearing those stories, and then seeing how everything kind of unfolded. Greg Beaumont (00:32:18): Another example, look it up, there's an Azure COVID Health Bot out there and then there's some information on that, where you can ask questions and walk through your symptoms, and it will kind of give you some instructions on what to do. Another one that is even popular now is looking at employees who are returning to work. So, when people return to work find out vaccination status, "Are you able to come back to work? Are you essential? Are you nonessential?" I don't think a lot of customers were prepared to run through that scenario when it hit. Greg Beaumont (00:32:48): So, having these agile tools where you can go get your list of not only employees, but maybe partners that refer people to your network, because you might not have all the referring doctors in your system. So with Power BI, you can go get extracts, tie it all together and then build out a solution that helps you get those things done. I'd say it was eye opening. I think for customers and also for myself and my peers, that we're not just selling widgets. We're selling things that make a difference and have that human perspective to it. Rob Collie (00:33:20): Yeah, that does bring it home, doesn't it? That statement from an organization that COVID was the catalyst, evaluating and investing in their analytic strategy? Greg Beaumont (00:33:29): Yep. Rob Collie (00:33:30): Being in BI, being an analytics is one of the best ways to future proof one's career because at baseline, it's a healthy industry, there's always value to be created. But then when things get bad, for some reason, whatever crisis hits, it's actually more necessary than ever because when you've been in a groove when a an industry or an organization has been in an operational groove for a long time, any number of years, eventually, you just sort of start to intuitively figure it out. There's a roadmap that emerges slowly over time. Now, even that roadmap probably isn't as good as you think it is. If you really tested your assumptions, you'd find that some of them were flawed and analytics could have helped you be a lot more efficient even then. Rob Collie (00:34:14): But regardless, the perception is that we've got a groove, right? And then when the world completely changes overnight, all of your roadmaps, your travel roadmaps, none of them are valid anymore. And now, you need a replacement and you need it fast. And so, what happens is, is that analytics spending, BI spending, whatever you want to call it, or activity, actually increases during times of crisis. So, you got a healthy baseline business. It's an industry that's not withering and dying in good times, but it actually it's like a hedge against bad times. Rob Collie (00:34:47): When I saw that research years and years ago, when I was working at Microsoft Corporate, we just come out of the dot-com crack up, we'd seen that BI spending it across the IT industry was the only sector that went up during that time where everything else was falling. It's like, "Oh, okay." So, not only do I enjoy this stuff, but I really should never get out of it. It's like one of the best future proofing career moves you can make is the work in this field. And so, I mean, we've seen it, right? The early days of the COVID crisis, you're right when no one knew the range of possible outcomes going forward was incredibly wide. The low end and the high end were exponentially different from one another. Rob Collie (00:35:29): And so, we experienced in our business, sort of a gap in spring and early summer last year. We weren't really seeing a whole lot of new clients, people who are willing to forge a brand new relationship. Again, what happens when a crisis hits? You slam on the brakes. No unnecessary spending first of all. Let's get all the spending under control, because we don't know as a company what's going to happen in the industry, right? You see a lot of vendor spending freezes and of course, to other companies, we're a vendor, right? So, our existing clients, though, doubled down on how much they used us and how much they needed us. Rob Collie (00:36:08): And then later in the year, the new client business returned, and we actually ended up, our business was up last year, despite that Q2 interruption and sort of making new friends. And this year, holy cow like whatever was bottled up last year is coming back big time. And so, yeah. You never really want to be the ghoul that sort of morbidly goes, "Oh, crisis." From a business perspective, yeah, anything that changes, anything that disrupts the status quo tends to lead to an increased focus on the things that we do. Greg Beaumont (00:36:43): Yeah, I think something you said there, too, was when you don't know what's going to happen was when the business intelligence spending increased. I mean, the intelligence and business intelligence, it's not just a slogan. The purpose of these tools is to find out the things you don't know. So when there's uncertainty, that's when BI can provide that catalyst to sort of add some clarity to what you're actually dealing with. Rob Collie (00:37:06): Yeah, I've been using, even though I'm not a pilot, I've never learned to fly a plane or anything. I've been using an aviation metaphor lately, which is windshield is nice and clear. You might not be looking at the instruments on your cockpit very much, right? You know there's not a mountain in front of you, you can see how far away the ground is. And you could sort of intuit your way along, right? But then suddenly, whoosh clouds. And oh, boy, now, you really need those instruments, right? You need the dashboards, you need the altimeter, you need the radar. You need all that stuff so much more. Rob Collie (00:37:37): And so, and our business has kind of always been this. The reason I've been using this metaphor is really for us, it's like given how fast we operate, and I think you can appreciate this having come from a Microsoft partner consulting firm before Microsoft years ago, our business model, we move so fast with projects. We're not on that old model with the original budget and the change orders and all of that. That was all dysfunctional. Rob Collie (00:38:01): It was necessary, because of the way software worked back then, but it was absolutely dysfunctional. It's not the way that you get customer satisfaction. So, we've committed to the high velocity model. But that means seeing the future of our business financially two months in the future is very difficult relative to the old sort of glacial pace, right? If there's a mountain there, we're going to have months to turn around it. Krissy Dyess (00:38:26): To add a bit to your analogy there, Rob. I am married to a pilot and I have gone up in the small tiny airplane. And before the gadgets, there's actually the map. The paper map, right? So, you had the paper map, which my husband now would hand to me. And he'd tell me, "Okay, let me know the elevations of different areas to make sure we're high enough, we're not going to crash into the mountains." Krissy Dyess (00:38:47): What's happened is people just they got used to different ways that they were doing things. They were forced into these more modern ways. And I think even now, this wave of seeing this catalyst we can change and how are other people changing is also driving the people to seek help from others in terms of getting guidance, right? Because even though you've had the change, it doesn't necessarily mean that the changes that you made were 100% the right way and you can learn so much from others in the community and the people that are willing to help. Krissy Dyess (00:39:24): And I think that's one of the things too, that our company provides as a partner, we're able to kind of go alongside. We've seen what's works, what doesn't work, what are some of those pitfalls? What are those mountains approaching? And we're really able to help guide others that want to learn and become better. Rob Collie (00:39:42): Yeah. I mean, this is us getting just a little bit commercial, but you can forgive us, right? That high velocity model also exposes us to a much larger denominator. We see a lot at this business that accumulates. The example I've given before is and this is just a really specific techy, so much of this is qualitative, but there's a quantitative. It's sort of like a hard example of like, "Oh, yeah, that's right. This pattern that we need here for this food spoilage inventory problem is exactly the same as this tax accounting problem we solved over there, right?" As soon as you realize that you don't need to do all the figuring out development work, you just skip to the end. Rob Collie (00:40:22): And really, most of the stuff that Krissy was talking about, I think, is actually it's more of the softer stuff. It's more of the soft wisdom that accumulates over the course of exposure to so many different industries and so many different projects. That's actually really one of the reasons why people come to work here is they want that enrichment. Greg Beaumont (00:40:38): Yeah, that makes sense. Because you see all these different industries and you actually get exposed to customers that are the best in the business for that type of, whether it be a solution or whether it be a product or whether it be like a framework for doing analytics or something like that. So, you get that exposure and you also get to contribute. Rob Collie (00:40:55): Even just speaking for myself, in the early days of this business, when it was really still just me, I got exposure to so many business leaders. Business and IT leaders that, especially given the profile of the people who would take the risk back in 2013, you had to be some kind of exceptional to be leaning into this technology with your own personal and professional reputation eight years ago, right? It was brand new. So, imagine the profile of the people I was getting exposed to, right? Wow, I learned so much from those people in terms of leadership, in terms of business. They were learning data stuff from me, but at the same time, I was taking notes. Greg Beaumont (00:41:33): Everybody was reading your blog, too. I can't count the number of times I included a reference to one of your articles to help answer some questions. And it was the first time I was introduced to the Switch True DAX statement. And then I'd print that. Rob Collie (00:41:47): Which- Greg Beaumont (00:41:48): Sent that link to many people. "Don't do if statements, do this. Just read this article." Rob Collie (00:41:53): And even that was something that I'd saw someone else doing. And I was like, "Oh, my God, what is that?" My head exploded like, "Oh." Yeah, those were interesting days. I think on the Chandu podcast, I talked about how I was writing about this stuff almost violently, couldn't help it. It was just like so fast. Two articles a week. I was doing two a week for years. There was so much to talk about, so many new discoveries. It was just kind of pouring out in a way. Krissy Dyess (00:42:24): Greg, you came in to the role around 2016. And to me 2017 was really that big year with the monthly releases where Power BI just became this phenomenon, right? It just kept getting better and better in terms of capabilities and even the last couple years, all the attention around security has been huge, especially with the health and life science space. And last year, with this catalyst to shift mindsets into other patterns, working patterns using technology, do you feel like you've seen any kind of significant shifts just compared to last year or this year? Greg Beaumont (00:43:05): Yeah. And so something that burns my ears every time I hear it is when people call Power BI a data visualization tool. It does that and it does a great job. Rob Collie (00:43:11): I hate that. Greg Beaumont (00:43:12): But it's become much more than that. When it launched, it was a data visualization tool. But if you think about it at that time, they said, "Well, business users can't understand complex data models, so you have to do that in analysis services." Then they kind of ingested analysis services into Power BI and made it more of a SaaS product where you can scale it. There's Dataflows, the ETL tool, which is within Power BI, which is an iteration of Power Query, which has been around since the Excel days. So, now you have ETL. You have effectively from the old SQL Server world, you have the SSIS layer, you have the SSAS layer. With paginated reports, you have the SSRS layer. And you have all these different layers of the solution now within an easy to use SaaS product. Greg Beaumont (00:43:55): So this evolution has been happening, where it's gobbling up these other products that used to be something that only central IT could do. And now, we're putting that power by making it easier to use in the hands of those analysts who really know what they want from the data. Because if you think about it, the old process was is you go and you give the IT team your requirements, and they interpret how to take what you want, and translate it into computer code. Greg Beaumont (00:44:21): But now, we're giving those analysts the ability to take their requirements and go do it themselves. And there's still a very valid place for central IT because there's so many other things they can do, but it frees up their time to work on higher valued projects and I see that continuing with Power BI, right? But like we're adding AI, ML capabilities and data volumes keep increasing then capabilities I think will continue to expand it. Rob Collie (00:44:46): Greg, I used to really caused a storm when I would go to a conference that was full of BI professionals. And I would say that something like, "What percentage of the time of BI project, traditional BI project was actually spent typing the right code?" The code that stuck, right? And I would make the claim that it was less than 1%. So, it's like less than 1% of the time of a project, right? And everyone would just get so upset at me, right? But I just didn't understand why it was controversial. Rob Collie (00:45:19): Like you describe like yeah, we have these long requirements meetings in the old model. Interminably long, exhausting, and we'd write everything down. We'd come up with this gigantic requirements document that was flawed from the get-go. It was just so painful. It's like the communication cost was everything and the iteration and discovery, there wasn't enough time for that. And when I say that the new way of building these projects is sometimes literally 100 times faster than the old way. Like it sounds like hyperbole. Greg Beaumont (00:45:53): It's not. Yeah. Rob Collie (00:45:54): It can be that fast, but you're better off telling people, it's twice as fast because they'll believe you. If you tell them the truth, they'd go, "Nah, you're a snake oil salesman. Get out of here." Greg Beaumont (00:46:07): Yeah. And I think the speed of being able to develop, too, it's going to basically allow these tools to be able to do things that people didn't even dream of in the past. It's not just going to be traditional business use cases. I know in healthcare, something that's a hot topic is genomics, right? Genomics is incredibly complex then you go beyond Power BI and into Azure at that point, too and Cloud compute and things like that. Greg Beaumont (00:46:31): So, with Genomics, you think about your DNA, right? Your DNA is basically a long strand of computer code. It is base pairs of nucleic acids, adenine, thymine, and guanine, cytosine that effectively form ones and zeros in a really long string. Rob Collie (00:46:46): Did you know it effortlessly he named those base pairs? There's that biology background peeking back out. Greg Beaumont (00:46:52): I did have to go look it up before the meeting. I said, "Just in case this comes up, I need to make sure I pronounce them right," so. Rob Collie (00:46:59): Well, for those of us who listen to podcasts at 1.5x speed, that is going to sound super impressive, that string there. Greg Beaumont (00:47:05): Yeah. I should call out, too, though that I'm not a genomics expert, so some of what I'm saying here, I'm paraphrasing and repeating from people I've talked to who are experts, including physicians and researchers. So, this long string of code, if you sequence your entire genome, the file is about 100 gigabytes for one person, okay? At 100 gigabytes, you can consume that, but if you want to start comparing hundreds of people and thousands of people in different patient cohorts, all of a sudden, it gets to be a lot of information and it gets very complex. Greg Beaumont (00:47:35): If you think of that strand of DNA as being like a book with just two letters that alternate, there's going to be paragraphs and chapters and things like that, which do different things. So, one of the physicians I spoke to worked with Children's Cancer. Here's kind of where the use case comes in. So, you take something breast cancer where there's BRCA1 or BRCA2, BRCA1, BRCA2 genes where if you have it, there's a measurable increased probability that you'll get that type of cancer within a certain age range. There's a lot of other diseases and cancers, where it might be 30 genes. And depending on different combinations of those genes, it changes the risk of getting that specific type of cancer. Greg Beaumont (00:48:17): But this physician told me that there are specific children's cancers, where they know that if they have certain combinations of genes, that they have a very high probability of getting this cancer. And when the child actually feel sick and goes to the doctor, it's already spread and it's too late. So, if you can do this sequencing, basically run it through machine learning algorithms, so it will determine the probability, you could effectively catch it at stage zero. Because these cancers, it's something that could be related to growth hormones and as you're growing up, and as you become an adult, you're then no longer at risk of getting that childhood cancer. So, if they could identify it early and treated at stage zero, instead of stage 4, it sounds sci-fi, but the tools are there to do it. Greg Beaumont (00:49:01): It just never ceases to amaze me that you watch the news and they talk about self-driving cars and identifying when a banana is ripe, and things like that. But it's like, you know what? These same tools could be out there changing people's lives and making a measurable difference in the world. I think just especially post COVID, I'll expect to see a lot more investment in these areas. And also, interest because I think that might be one of the positives that comes out of this whole experience. Rob Collie (00:49:27): I do think that the sort of the worlds of Medicine and Computer Science are on a merging course. Let's not call it collision course. That sounds more dramatic. There is a merging going on. You're right DNA is biologically encoded instructions by an RNA. The mRNA vaccine is essentially injecting the source code that your body then compiles into antibodies. It's crazy and it's new. There's no two ways about it. Rob Collie (00:49:56): mRNA therapies, in general, which of course they were working on originally as anticancer and sort of just like, "Oh, well, we could use it for this, too." And there's all kinds of other things too, right? Gosh, when you go one level up from DNA or some point of abstraction, you get into protein folding. And whoa, is that... Greg Beaumont (00:50:15): Crazy, yeah. Rob Collie (00:50:16): ... computationally. We're all just waiting for quantum computers, I think. Greg Beaumont (00:50:20): Now, I'll have to call out that I'm making a joke here, so people don't take me seriously. But if you think about it, the nucleus in each of your cells contains an important model of that DNA, right? There isn't just a central repository that everything communicates with. You have a cache of that DNA in every cell in your body, except red blood cells, which perform a specific task. There may be more of the power automated the human body. But cheap attempt at a joke there, so. Rob Collie (00:50:44): Well, I like it, I like it. Let's go in with both feet. I've also read that one of the reasons why it's difficult to clone adult animals is because you start off with your original DNA, but then you're actually making firmware updates to certain sections of the DNA throughout your life. And so, those edits that are being made all the time are inappropriate for an embryo. Greg Beaumont (00:51:09): Yep. Rob Collie (00:51:10): And so, if you clone, you create an embryo, right? And now, it's got these weird adult things going on in it. That's why things kind of tend to go sideways. It can all come back to this notion of biological code and it's fascinating. A little terrifying, too, when you start to think of it that way. I've listened to some very scary podcasts about the potential for do-it-yourself bioweapon development. There was this explosion back, in what, in the '90s when the virus and worm writers discovered VVA. Remember that? We call them the script kiddies that would author these viruses that would spread throughout the computer systems of the world. And a lot of them, the people writing these things were not very sophisticated. They weren't world renowned hackers. Greg Beaumont (00:51:53): For every instance where you can use this technology to cure cancer, you're right that there's also the possibility of the Island of Dr. Moreau, right? You go look up CRISPR Technology, C-R-I-S-P-R, where they can start splicing together things from different places and making it viable. And 10 years ago, they had sheep that were producing spider webs in their milk and it's just, there's crazy stuff out there if you kind of dive into the dark depths of Biology. Now that we went down the rabbit hole, how do we correct course, right? Rob Collie (00:52:23): Well, we did go down a rabbit hole, but who cares? That's what we do. Greg Beaumont (00:52:26): Even you kind of step it back up to just kind of easy use cases in healthcare, so one of the ones that we use as a demo a lot came from a customer, and this was pre-COVID. But something as simple as hand washing, you don't think about it much. But when you're in the hospital, how many of those people are washing their hands appropriately when they care for you. And there's some white papers out there, which are showing that basically, there are measurable amounts of infections that happen in hospitals due to people not washing their hands appropriately. So, a lot of healthcare organizations will anonymously kind of observe people periodically to see who's doing a good job of washing their hands. Rob Collie (00:53:04): I was going to ask, how is this data collected? Greg Beaumont (00:53:06): This customer actually had nurses who were using a clipboard and they would write down their notes, fax it somewhere, and then somebody would enter it into Excel. So, there was this long process. And with another TS, who covers teams, we basically put a PLC together in a couple days, where they enter the information into a power app within teams, so they made their observation, entered it in. It did a write back straight to an Azure SQL Database at that time. Now, they might use the data verse. And then from Azure SQL DB, you can immediately report on it and Power BI. It even set up alerts, so that if somebody wasn't doing a good job, you could kind of take care of the situation, rather than wait for two days for the Excel report to get emailed out, and maybe lower the infection rates in the hospital. Greg Beaumont (00:53:53): So, it saved time from the workers who are writing things down and faxing things just from a sheer productivity perspective. But it also hopefully, I don't know if it will be measurable or not, but you'd have some anticipated increase in quality, because you're able to address issues faster. And that's the simplest thing ever, right? You can spend a billion dollars to come up with a new drug or you can just make sure are people washing their hands. Rob Collie (00:54:17): Both data collection and enforcement, they happen to be probably the same thing. There's like, "Oh, I'm being watched." The anonymity is gone. That's a fascinating story. Okay. What kinds of solutions are you seeing these days? What's happening out in the world that you think is worth talking to the audience about? Greg Beaumont (00:54:38): We're seeing this ability to execute better where the tools are easier to use, you can do things faster, but there's still challenges that I see frequently out there. So, I know something that you all are experts in its data modeling and understanding how to take a business problem and translate it into something that's going to perform well. So, not only do you get the logic right, but when somebody pushes a button they don't have to go to lunch and come back, they get a result quickly. That's still a challenge. And it's a challenge, because it's not always easy, right? I mean, it's the reason cubes were created in the first place was because when you have complex logic and you're going against a relational database, the query has to happen somewhere, but like that logic. Greg Beaumont (00:55:19): So take for example, if somebody wants to look at year over year percent change for a metric and they want to be able to slice it by department, maybe by disease group, maybe by weekend versus weekday, and then they want to see that trend over time. If you translate that into a SQL query, it gets really gnarly really fast. And that problem is still real. One of the trends I'm seeing in the industry is there's a big push to do everything in DirectQuery mode, because then you can kind of manage access, manage security, do all of those necessary security things in one place and have it exist in one place. Greg Beaumont (00:56:00): But when you're sending giant gnarly SQL queries back to relational databases, even if they're PDWs with multiple nodes, it gets very expensive from a compute perspective, and kind of when you scale out to large number of users, concurrency is still an issue. So that's something where you look at recently what Power BI has come out with aggregations and composite models. That's some of the technology that I think can mitigate some of those problems. And even if we think about something like Azure synapse, right? You can have your dedicated SQL pools then you can have a materialized view. A materialized view is effectively a cache of data within synapse, but then you can also have your caches in Power BI, and kind of layer everything together in a way that's going to take that logic and distribute it. Greg Beaumont (00:56:46): Does that make sense? Rob Collie (00:56:47): It does. I think this is still a current joke. The majority of cases where we've encountered people who think they want or need DirectQuery, the majority of them are actually perfect poster children case studies for when you should use cash and import mode. Right? It turns out the perceived need for DirectQuery, there is a real percentage of problems out there for which DirectQuery is the appropriate solution and it is the best solution. But it's the number of times people use it is a multiple of that real ideal number. Rob Collie (00:57:17): I think part of it is just familiarity. Still, I've long talked about how we're still experiencing as an industry the hangover from most data professionals being storage professionals. Everyone needed a database, just to make the wheels go round. The first use of data isn't BI. The first use of data is line of business applications. Every line of business application needed a database, right? So, we have minted millions of database professionals. this is also why I think partly why Power BI gets sort of erroneously pigeonholed as a visualization tools, because people are used to that. They're used to, we have a storage layer and reports layer, that's it, right? Rob Collie (00:57:56): Reporting services was Microsoft's runaway successful product in this space. Paginated reports is still around for good reason. And I think that if you're a long-term professional in this space with a long history, even if you're relatively young in the industry, but you've been working with other platforms, this storage layer plus visuals layer is just burned in your brain. And this idea of this like, "Why do you need to import the data? Why do you need a schedule? Why do you need all this stuff?" It's like as soon as people hear that they can skip it, and go to DirectQuery, they just run to

Įsibėgėjus atostogų sezonui policija fiksuoja išaugusį sukčiavimo atvejų skaičių nuomojant būstus. Realių sąlygų neatitinkantys skelbimai apie sodybų ar apartamentų nuomą labiausiai paplitę socialiniuose tinkluose. Ekspertai žmones ragina neapsigauti dėl įtartinai žemos būsto kainos ir prieš pervedant pinigus patikrinti informaciją apie nuomotojo veiklą internete.Nuo šiol visi Lietuvos piliečiai gali gauti vakciną nuo Covid – 19.Pasaulio lietuvių bendruomenės valdybos pirmininkė Dalia Henke ir Sveikatos apsaugos ministerijos Elektroninės sveikatos sistemos ir informacinių išteklių skyriaus vyriausiasis specialistas Lukas Galkus.Garso performansai ir laisvosios Baltarusijos palaikymo iniciatyva „Belkos triukšmas“ šiandien kviečia išreikšti savo balsą šalia buvusios SSRS radijo ryšio trukdymo stoties. Čia menininkai Audrius Šimkūnas ir Juozapas Kalnius, pasitelkę „Belkos“ trumpųjų radijo bangų imtuvus, skleis triukšmą performanso metu prie buvusios SSRS radijo transliacijų trukdymo stoties – objekto nr. 61 (Žaliakalnio gimnazijos stadione, Galinio Pylimo g. 17, Klaipėda).Paulius Selezniovas.Lietuvoje vyksta rengistia renginiai apie globėjus ir globą. Ką reikia žinoti apie globą supančius apie globą supančius mitus, kas galėtų tapti globėju, kas stabdo žmones tapti globėjais ir kodėl iki šiol daugiau nei 1500 vaikų vis dar gyvena globos institucijose, dauguma iš jų - paaugliai.Globos ekspertė Rugilė Ladauskienė.Savaitės įvykių apžvalga. Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademijos profesorė, politologė Jūratė Novagrockienė ir Mykolo Romerio universiteto docentas Virgis Valentinavičius.Sporto pranešimai. Studijoje Marius AndrijauskasDaumantas Butkus iš Palūšės.Savaitės komentaras. Autorė – žurnalistė Rita MiliūtėVed. Rta Kupetytė

Abstract of the talk… Are you a seasoned T-SQL developer, used to solve each and every challenge by writing plain old SQL? But, now you need to leverage data coming from semi-structured or unstructured sources? What if I tell you that you can get your mission accomplished by writing your favorite T-SQL syntax? In this session, you will learn what is a Serverless SQL pool within Azure Synapse Analytics, how it works behind the scenes, and how can you preserve your "T-SQL Ninja" status even when dealing with the data coming from CSV and Parquet files, or from NoSQL database. Bio… I'm making music from the data! PowerBI and SQLServer addict, MCT, Pluralsight Author, blogger, speaker...Interested in everything related to data - always eager to extract valuable info from raw data in the most effective way. Multi-year experience working with (predominantly) Microsoft Data Platform (SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, and Power BI). Father of 2 and true football (and Barca) fan!

This DeshBhakt special episode is dedicated to the real #SSR fans who are still looking for a closure and for the past one year. Real fans who have lived under the illusion that unemployed actors like #Kangana, TRP hungry wolves like #Arnab and paid social media influencers, lawyers and 'experts' were fighting for justice and for SSR :( In this extended episode we take a take a look at how people were hoodwinked into believing conspiracies linked to Sushant - even when facts were scarce or absent. How News TV ripped into pieces - any journalistic code and mislead the nation for MONTHS and how #Reha was reduced to an object of national shame. In the age of misinformation - cases like this will happen again, more SSRs will be used for ulterior motives - for politics and to distract us from REAL issues. The real tribute to SSR would be - that we take this as a warning for the future. Warning - not to be used again. *** Unlock MEMBER ONLY - Discord / Chats / Content **** PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/thedeshbhakt YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmTM_hPCeckqN3cPWtYZZcg/join MERCH - https://kadakmerch.com/thedeshbhakt Chapter Heads: 00:00 - Afterlife-The SSR Story 01:19 - Sushant : The Heartbreaking News 02:25 - Importance of Mental Health 05:06 - Bollywood Mafia & The Nepotism Angle 07:33 - Deep Strings Attached or Controversies? 10:33 - Connection with Disha Salian - the 'smoking gun' 12:16 - Need for TRPs lead to new Narratives 13:39 - Perfect Villain : Rhea Chakraborty 16:08 - Bollywood : A druggy industry! 17:35 - Politics: Apna Kaam banta bhaad mein jae Janta! 19:17 - Controversial 'Queen' : Kangana 21:14 - Conspiracy Kings: Vibhor & Ishkaran 22:01 - The Fake News factory had a great time! 25:15 - 1 year : The AfterMath *** SUBSCRIBE / FOLLOW US *** YouTube: - https://youtube.com/thedeshbhakt Twitter :- https://twitter.com/thedeshbhakt Web - https://thedeshbhakt.in/ Instagram :- https://instagram.com/akashbanerjee.in Facebook :- https://www.facebook.com/akashbanerjee.in Podcast - https://anchor.fm/thedeshbhakt **More DeshBhakt Videos** The Deshbhakt Episodes: https://bit.ly/3eLgvLv INDIA IN EMERGENCY: https://bit.ly/3dM4Bj8 Bhakt Banerjee Rocks: https://bit.ly/2VuFQlf B&D Media and the Public: https://bit.ly/389jjzw Akash-Vaani: https://bit.ly/3eKvN3h Credits : Writer : Sarthak Goswami Editor : Tushar Chaudhary Producer : Avishrant Singh --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thedeshbhakt/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedeshbhakt/support

In Episode 10 we chat to Mary-Anne Collis, Conservation Officer with Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels. Mary-Anne tells all about her conservation experience across the globe, and how she ended up working with “Irn-bru” squirrels in Loch Lomond & the Trossachs. Scotland is home to 75% of the UK's red squirrel population, and SSRS is doing loads of amazing work to protect them. In the last 70 years the UK has seen a huge decrease in numbers, with the surviving red squirrels being pushed further and further north year on year. These beautiful little beasties are struggling due to habitat loss, competition, and disease, with the introduced grey squirrels limiting their populations into small pockets throughout Scotland. Did you know you can log on to SSRS website and check out their squirrel sighting map? You can also notify them of any squirrels you see in your area – grey or red. Both are important! Support Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels work: Facebook - @SavingScotlandsRedSquirrels Twitter - @ScotSquirrels Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels Youtube Website - www.scottishsquirrels.org.uk Report UK wide squirrel sightings - www.squirrelaccord.uk/report_sightings Follow Wee Blue Dot - we're social animals! Facebook - @WeeBlueDot Twitter - @weebluedot Instagram - @weebluedot WBD LinkedIn Email - weebluedot@gmail.com Music: "Savannah (Sketch)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

NSO Sovietų Sąjungoje buvo toks pat tabu, kaip ir seksas. Tačiau 1977 m. rugsėjo naktį stebėtos „Petrozavodsko medūzos“ ignoruoti nebuvo įmanoma. Milžiniškoje teritorijoje šimtų žmonių stebėtas įvykis ne tik susuko galvas galybei kvalifikuotų liudininkų, bet ir davė startą oficialiems NSO tyrimams SSRS. Sužinokite apie lemtingą reiškinį bei sovietinę NSO tyrimų programą: kas ir kaip ją vykdė, bei kuo ji skyrėsi nuo įgyvendinamos JAV.

Melissa Herrman is the president of SSRS overseeing research and polling for a number of high profile companies- think CNN & ESPN! She is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers & has worked with her current company over 22 years. Melissa is smart & articulate, she is extremely driven and her story touches on the theme of making the most of every opportunity big or small. Her impressive career has been shaped by recognizing and seizing opportunity through hard work and dedication, as well a celebrating your individuality. Melissa is a busy mom of two young adult children and part of the leadership team for a brand new chapter of the philanthropic organization "100 Women who GIve". We know you will love getting to know Melissa and we are thrilled to welcome her to the Whole Inspired Community! Check her out at: www.ssrs.com www.100womendowningtown.org

1991 m. sausio 14 Maskvoje buvo surengtas protesto mitingas dėl SSRS kariuomenės vykdytų žudynių Vilniuje. Reportaže – tuometinės Lietuvos diplomatinės misijos Rusijoje vadovo E. Bičkausko, Rusijos istoriko Ju. Afanasjevo, politilogo A. Piontkovskio, disidento S. Kovaliovo prisiminimai. Pirmojo Rusijos prezidento B. Jelcino kalbos archyvinis įrašasEkonomikos ir inovacijų ministrė Aušrinė Armonaitė susitiko su buvusia kandidate Baltarusijos prezidento rinkimuose S. Cichanouskaja. S. Cihanouskajos patarėjo F. Viačorkos komentarasSeimas baigia pirmąją savo sesiją. Apie sesijos rezultatus kalba liberalas Eugenijus Gentvilas ir valstiečių ir žaliųjų atstovas Tomas TomilinasPrisiekė naujoji generalinė prokurorė Nida Grunskienė. Generalinės prokuratūros atstovės spaudai Elenos Martinonienės komentarasVed. – Olga Ugriumova

La secrétaire générale du SSRS nous parle des difficultés actuelles de la culture.

La secrétaire générale du SSRS nous parle des difficultés actuelles de la culture.

Chris Finlan is a Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Power BI team, the creator of the popular and incredibly adorable mascot Paginated Report Bear, and a huge Philadelphia sports fan.  We try very hard not to hold that last item against him!  He's done it all, from the product team to pre-sales, technical training, database administration and sales operations.  Tom is off this week, so P3 Senior Principal Consultant Justin Mannhardt steps in to fill the void.  The guys cover quite a bit, including: Working in sales vs engineering Power BI, Paginated reports and SSRS; What are the differences? How to make friends after a certain age Seattle area COVID reactions Can someone cheat at Scrabble and still lose? Ignite announcements, Premium Gen 2 and the premium per user license, the differences between Pro and Premium options, and Rob has some fun with Chris about some pricing

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Armenia and Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh ConflictBroadcast 2020 10 11 Intro  [presenter signs on] Today we're going to be talking about the most recent flare-up in the ethnically Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh. This is a de facto independent region within the borders of Azerbaijan. Large-scale military hostilities began on the 27th of September and continues with mounting civilian and military casualties and huge dangers of escalation loom.History of the countries involved The histories of these two countries are long and complicated. For the purposes of this show it is important to note that over the last few centuries or so they have been part of the Persian, Ottoman and Russian Empires.The formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922 begins the creation of the modern states of both Armenia and Azerbaijan (as SSRs of the USSR by 1936), more or less.The region in question, Nagorno-Karabakh is situated inside Azerbaijan. Amidst some murky machinations I won't pretend to understand, the region was designated an Autonomous oblast, possibly because of its majority armenian population, but this demographic make-up is contested by some historians. Historian Robert Service and some others are happy to blame Stalin for everything and call it a day. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 both countries emerged with their current borders, Azerbaijan has an exclave which no one seems to be worried about, and Armenia supports the ethnically Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and some bordering regions, the territories of the Republic of Artsakh. This area is de jure part of Azerbaijan. Its independence is not recognised internationally.Guerilla fighting over this region began in 1988, and escalated as the USSR dissolved. Moving on,A look at the economies of the countriesArmeniaEnergy mostly comes from Russia - gas, nuclear.Domestic production of hydroelectricity.30% exports from minerals - gold, copper, molybdenum (used in some steels and other alloys)top exports of Armenia are Copper Ore ($693M), Gold($344M), Rolled Tobacco ($266M), Ferroalloys ($196M), and Hard Liquor ($195M). top imports of Armenia are Petroleum Gas($340M), Refined Petroleum ($227M), Diamonds ($175M), Cars($174M), and Broadcasting Equipment ($140M)Nuclear power plant. Azerbaijan Energy independent. Produces a huge amount of oil and gas.top exports of Azerbaijan are Crude Petroleum ($16.1B), Petroleum Gas ($1.52B), Refined Petroleum ($524M), Tomatoes($177M), and Gold ($151M).top imports of Azerbaijan are Gold($1.29B), Cars ($437M), Iron Pipes ($388M), Petroleum Gas ($313M), and Gas Turbines ($282M).Pipelines from Azerbaijan through Georgia and into Turkey.Huge oil and gas reserves offshore. 13 energy companies have signed deals with the state energy company to explore and exploit these resources. The Republic of Artsakh carries out some mining of copper and gold but largely depends on the Armenian diaspora and Armenia government for funds. There seems to be some potential for a tourism market, serving mostly Armenian wants but war is no good for tourism. History of the dispute As noted earlier, the modern borders of this region have been imposed on historic areas which were part of larger empires and kingdoms.Inter-ethnic tensions have been present for a long time. In the 20th Century conflict arose as the Ottoman Empire started to hit the rocks. There was the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire from 1914-1923. The widespread Armenian diaspora is a result of this genocide. Ethnic cleansing never acknowledged by Turkey.1923: Nagorno-Karabakh, in Azeri SSR territory assigned to Armenia SSR due to majority Armenian population and other alleged political considerations.Under the USSR tensions were present but seemed to be under some kind of control.From 1988-1994 guerilla warfare turns into open warfare as USSR dissolves. Inter-ethnic violence is a feature of this conflict. Several pogroms are in the record, notably Sumgay'it in 1988, Baku pogrom in 1990, these targeting Armenia populations in the east of Azerbaijan.Inside Nagorno-Karabakh itself in 1992 Azeris were massacred in the Khojaly [(g)ho-jaly] pogrom.From 1994 this issue was largely shelved as a  "Frozen conflict" and ignored by what passes for the "international community."Current status of dispute In 2016 a flare up in the conflict killed 200. Shooting in July 2020 killed at least 16.Early in the morning of 27th of Sept, depending on whose side you believe, one sides army began firing on the other. This quickly escalated, heavy weapons - tanks, conventional aircraft and drones - are being used, civilian casualties.Predictably, the Azeris blame the Armenians and vice versa. As the Armenians are benefitting from the status quo - that is, the Republic of Arstakh continues to exist inside the borders of another country.There is not time to go through the ins and outs and the daily occurrences of the conflict, although I understand that this is a current niche hobby of people on the internet. This presenter does not possess the overarching military knowledge to draw out the complexities of this conflict into a cohesive whole. For that, I apologise. Suffice it to say that the situation is very fluid, there already is about a million Azeris displaced in their own country by Nagorno-Karabakh. As of Thursday about 75,000 ethnic Armenians have been displaced by the conflict.Continued fighting will only produce more refugees and more bodies. This must stop.International significance Currently Russia is doing what it can to not get directly involved in this conflict. The stakes are very high. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova issued a diplomatic warning: “The downing of an Armenian SU-25 by a Turkish F-16, as claimed by the Ministry of Defense in Armenia, seems to complicate the situation, as Moscow, based on the Tashkent treaty, is obligated to offer military assistance to Armenia”.This is a serious warning because if this would be grounds for Russia to invoke the Collective Security Treaty and, under the terms of the alliance then Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan would get involved in the conflict, in addition to the current players. This will provide impetus for Turkey and NATO to get more involved, more mercenaries will be employed, Iran will be dragged in and this could be the basis for World War Three.International involvement Turkey is openly supporting the conflict, deploying drones and aircraft and reportedly recruiting jihadis from the Syrian conflict to fight in Azerbaijan. Now, these jihadis are from a pool of Sunni extremists who have been fighting in Idlib against the Syrian government. These anti-government militias have been offered 3- or 6-month contracts at 7k-10k Turkish lira per month ($1250 - 1800 aud/mo). Mercenaries offered jobkeeper money to defend oil and gas facilities in Azerbaijan. I thought these people were meant to be fighting for a Free Syria? Guess I was mistaken…Please note that Turkish media is calling these reports "fake news". Russia is supplying Armenia with weapons. Iran is facilitating this supply. (Russia cannot resupply Armenia directly since there is no land border so they'll be using the Iranian border as an access point.) Israel is selling a lot of weapons to Azerbaijan. Russia sells weapons to both sides but only has a military alliance with Armenia.  Turkey's involvement is NOT HELPING peace efforts. they should be encouraging negotiations rather than escalating the problem.Call for deescalation and peace  De-escalation:Immediate ceasefire - don't assigning blame: ceasefireEngagement in peace talks (Minsk group, set up in 1992 by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)years of negotiation without resulthelp azerbaijan & armenia to resolve this issue and live in peaceErdogan:  “Given that the USA, Russia and France have neglected this problem for nearly 30 years, it is unacceptable that they are involved in a search for a ceasefire,” Now, this statement is telling - it shows us that Turkey is sceptical that there can be a ceasefire negotiated by the Minsk group. This is fair enough in the 'scales of justice sense' but is unacceptable considering the risk of further escalation and the increasing body count.UNSC?problematic because the UN has passed four resolutions calling for the withdrawal of Armenian forces from Nagorno-Karabakh.but we should not get distracted: what is needed, and needed right now is immediate ceasefire. Before blame is ascertained, before this or that report is confirmed or disproved the fighting needs to stop.Turkish involvement must stop (drones, F-16 attacks on civilian areas)welcome the news that Canada has stop drone salesJihadi mercenaries must not be used - we've seen what happens (Syria), there have been many reports of recruitment by Turkey of Jihadis from Syria. Although Israel to stop selling weapons to Azerbaijanwe condemn reports of the use of cluster bombs.Russian arms supplies to Armenia must stop.In short, all parties who are enabling the continuation of this conflict must cease these activities and put their energies to a ceasefire followed by peace negotiations. Enduring Peace:Is there a possibility of ending conflict "once and for all"? this could happen if the Republic of Artsakh agrees to dissolve.it is clear that international law does not support its existenceit is correct that the Armenian ethnic majority have been in the region for millenia.the issue here is that both sides are correct.First, though, both sides have to come to the negotiating table in good faith and for real peace.  [Presenter signs off]

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Mornings on the Mall Tuesday, June 9, 2020 Hosts: Mary Walter and Vince Coglianese Executive Producer: Heather Hunter Guests: Clayton Neville, Susan Ferrechio, David Murray, Kevin Hassett 5-A/B/C -- CORONAVIRUS / WHO: ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD IS RARE - Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare,’ WHO says  Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday, casting doubt on concerns by some researchers that the disease could be difficult to contain due to asymptomatic infections. Some people, particularly young and otherwise healthy individuals, who are infected by the coronavirus never develop symptoms or only develop mild symptoms. Others might not develop symptoms until days after they were actually infected. Preliminary evidence from the earliest outbreaks indicated that the virus could spread from person-to-person contact, even if the carrier didn’t have symptoms. But WHO officials now say that while asymptomatic spread can occur, it is not the main way it’s being transmitted. “From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said at a news briefing from the United Nations agency’s Geneva headquarters. “It’s very rare.” https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar 5-D -- LATEST ON GEORGE FLOYD: FLOYD FUNERAL TODAY:The black man whose death has inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice will be buried today in Houston, carried home in a horse-drawn carriage. George Floyd, who was 46 when he was killed, will be laid to rest next to his mother. On May 25, as a white Minneapolis officer pressed a knee on Floyd's neck for several minutes, the dying man cried out for his mother.  His funeral will be private.  A public memorial service was held Monday in Houston, where he grew up. Some 6,000 people attended. Under a blazing Texas sun, mourners wearing T-shirts with Floyd's picture waited for hours to pay their respects. https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-06-09/the-latest-george-floyd-to-be-buried-in-houston Ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin bail set at up to $1.25 million for George Floyd murder charges. Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd during an arrest, had his bail set at up to $1.25 million Monday. [...] The 44-year-old former cop, who has been in jail for nearly two weeks, appeared in Hennepin County District Court via a remote video feed, wearing an orange jumpsuit and blue mask, with handcuffs.Chauvin will have to post $1.25 million bail if he wants to be released with no conditions, Judge Jeannice Reding ordered.But he can be released after posting $1 million bail if he agrees to abide by conditions that include appearing for all future court appearances, does not work in a security capacity, and does not possess firearms or retain a firearms permit, Reding said. 5-E -- DOJ WANTS TO TALK TO PRINCE ANDREW: US prosecutors seek interview with Prince Andrew over Epstein link The US Department of Justice has requested an interview with Prince Andrew as part of its criminal investigation into the alleged sex trafficking ring once operated by Jeffrey Epstein, according to a person familiar with the matter. The request, initiated by federal prosecutors in the Manhattan US Attorney's office, is part of a mutual legal assistance treaty request -- a form of cooperation between countries for assistance in the investigation or prosecution of criminal offenses -- submitted to the UK's Home Office, according to the source. A spokesman for the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, Nick Biase, said: "I cannot publicly comment on communications with foreign governments on investigative matters, including confirming or denying the very existence of such communications." 6-A -- TRUMP POLLS SINKING: TRUMP'S NUMBERS KEEP SINKING   - CNN Poll: Trump losing ground to Biden amid chaotic week. (CNN) As protesters gather daily near the White House and the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the American public is souring on President Donald Trump. A new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds Trump's approval rating down 7 points in the last month as the President falls further behind presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, whose support now stands at its highest level in CNN polling. The survey also finds a growing majority of Americans feel racism is a big problem in the country today and that the criminal justice system in America favors whites over blacks. More than 8 in 10 also say that the peaceful protests that have spread throughout the nation following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers are justified. Americans now consider race relations as important a campaign issue as the economy and health care, according to the survey.  Overall 38% approve of the way Trump is handling the presidency, while 57% disapprove. That's his worst approval rating since January 2019, and roughly on par with approval ratings for Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush at this point in their reelection years. Both went on to lose the presidency after one term. In the race for the White House, among registered voters, Trump stands 14 points behind Biden, who officially secured enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination in CNN's delegate estimate on Saturday. The 41% who say they back the President is the lowest in CNN's tracking on this question back to April 2019, and Biden's 55% support is his highest mark yet. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/cnn-poll-trump-biden-chaotic-week/index.html BIDEN HAS MORE SUPPORT AMONG WOMEN THAN HILLARY DID: Biden Has More Support From Women Than Clinton: Campaign Update. (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden’s lead among women over President Donald Trump is now even larger than Hillary Clinton’s in 2016, according to a weekend poll. Biden leads Trump by 21 percentage points in a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll published Sunday. Biden has 56% support among female voters compared to Trump’s 35%. NBC exit polls from 2016 had Clinton with a 13 percentage point lead over Trump among women. The poll also found Biden with double digit leads among African American voters, 82% to 9%, Latinos, 57% to 33%, voters 18 to 34, 54% to 35%, whites with college degrees and independents, 45% to 35%. Biden had an 8 percentage point lead over Trump among voters 65 and older, 51% to 43%. Trump led Biden among men, 50% to 42% and all white voters, 49% to 43%. His biggest margin over Biden was among whites without college degrees, where Trump led 55% to 37%. Biden’s national lead of 7 percentage points among all registered voters over Trump remained unchanged from the NBC/WSJ poll in April. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-has-more-support-from-women-than-clinton-campaign-update/ar-BB15cuQE BIDEN LEADS TRUMP IN MICH: Biden, the presumed Democratic nominee, leads Republican Trump in Michigan 53-41, according to a poll conducted by EPIC-MRA of Lansing between May 30 and last Wednesday.https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/06/07/michigan-poll-biden-leading-trump-12-points/3153501001/ RELATED: 80% of US voters believe things are out of control in the country, with majorities concerned about the coronavirus, the economy and President Trump’s ability to unite the nation, according to latest NBC News/WSJ poll. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-80-percent-voters-say-things-are-out-control-u-n1226276?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma TRUMP PLANS TO CAMPAIGN IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS:President Trump plans to resume campaign rallies in the next two weeks as states move forward with reopening businesses and allowing gatherings to resume. The details of the rallies, including when and where they will take place and what safety protocols will be implemented, have not yet been decided. Trump’s last campaign rally took place in Charlotte, NC, in early March, before most states issued stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.  Campaign Confirms: Trump Plans To Relaunch His Rallies In The Next Two Weeks: President Donald Trump will soon hit the road for another round of campaign rallies, Trump 2020 reelection officials confirmed to the Daily Caller.The campaign is planning to relaunch in-person events within the next two weeks. Trump last graced the stage at an official campaign rally in March, and campaign manager Brad Parscale is reportedly preparing a list of potential sites willing to relax coronavirus social distancing guidelines to allow spectators to attend.Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and staff have scouted several potential locations, including Jacksonville, FL, Savannah, GA, and Phoeniz, AZ and Dallas, TX. All could also potentially host the next Trump rally. 6-D -- CHICAGO VIOLENCE: - Chicago experiences its most violent day in 60 YEARS as 18 people are shot dead in 24 hours during unrest sparked after George Floyd's death https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8400457/Chicago-experiences-violent-day-60-YEARS-18-people-gunned-1-day.html Last Sunday Was The Deadliest Day In Chicago’s History Going Back To 1961 While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961… In a city with an international reputation for crime — where 900 murders per year were common in the early 1990s — it was the most violent weekend in Chicago’s modern history, stretching police resources that were already thin because of protests and looting. “We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the crime lab. “ … I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.” AUDIO: "I don't know about you, but I haven't seen shit like this before, not in Chicago." - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on leaked audio discussing the violence/looting/riots all over the city. https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1270225866774196226 7-A -- 7:05 AM - INTERVIEW - Correspondent Clayton Neville in Houston, TX  TOPIC: Preview George Floyd's funeral today *The black man whose death has inspired a worldwide reckoning over racial injustice will be buried today in Houston, carried home in a horse-drawn carriage.  George Floyd, who was 46 when he was killed, will be laid to rest next to his mother. On May 25, as a white Minneapolis officer pressed a knee on Floyd's neck for several minutes, the dying man cried out for his mother.  His funeral will be private.  A public memorial service was held Monday in Houston, where he grew up. Some 6,000 people attended. Under a blazing Texas sun, mourners wearing T-shirts with Floyd's picture waited for hours to pay their respects. https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-06-09/the-latest-george-floyd-to-be-buried-in-houston 7-B/C - LOCAL RESPONSE TO THE RIOTS AND THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD   Prince George’s County school board members proposes defunding police in schools. Plan to remove police from Prince George's County Public Schools passes first step Prince William County Superintendent calls for renaming of Stonewall Jackson High School, Stonewall Middle School Virginia city removes slave auction block from its downtown corner. The city of Fredericksburg, Va., removed a slave auction block from a downtown corner last Va. judge temporarily blocks removal of Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond days after Northam announced plans to bring it down Friday after two years of discussions among city council. Montgomery County councilmember aims to declare racism a public health emergency.  Council will introduce a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis and receive an update on Covid-19 public health planning and recovery, at virtual meeting on June 9 (TODAY).   7-D -- TERRY CREWS FACES BACKLASH:  Actor Terry Crews faces backlash over "black supremacy" tweet. Actor Terry Crews sparked controversy on social media Sunday after he tweeted about the need for all people to come together to defeat racism in the U.S. “Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth. Like it or not, we are in this together,” he tweeted. The statement was met with criticism online. Tyler James Williams, who starred with Crews in “Everybody Hates Chris," responded to his tweet by saying that he knows Crews' heart, but “no one is calling 4 black supremacy & the narrative that we are hurts our cause & our people.” The Independent newspaper reported that Crews clarified his tweet in his response to Williams. “I understand, Tyler. I was not saying Black supremacy exists, because it doesn’t. I am saying if both Black and Whites don’t continue to work together—bad attitudes and resentments can create a dangerous self-righteousness. That’s all.” The death of George Floyd in police custody has sparked protests and, at times, unrest across the country. Protesters have called for new accountability in policing and called on the country to reexamine itself when it comes to opportunities for minority communities. Crews has posted about Floyd's case in the past. Shortly after the May 25 death, he said on Instagram that his heart was “broken.” “George Floyd could be me. I could easily, easily be that man on the ground with that police officer's knee on my neck. That could easily be me," he wrote. https://www.fox5dc.com/news/terry-crews-faces-criticism-over-black-supremacy-tweet TWEETS: Terry Crews responds to critics after being slammed for 'black supremacy' tweet: ORIGINAL TWEET: terry crews @terrycrews:Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy. Equality is the truth.Like it or not, we are all in this together.7:25 PM · Jun 7, 2020https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269772603524169728  RESPONSES: terry crews @terrycrews: Jun 7: I agree. I'm not discussing white people here. there are "gatekeepers of Blackness" within our own community who decide who's Black and who's not. I have often been called out for not being "black enough". How can that be? https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269830932346703872 terry crews @terrycrews: Jun 7: Any Black person who calls me a coon or and Uncle Tom for promoting EQUALITY is a Black Supremist, because they have determined who's Black and who is not. https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269840577127788545 terry crews @terrycrews: 21h: I believe it is important we not suffer from groupthink, and we keep minds of our own, and be allowed to ask difficult questions to each other. I believe this dialogue is important as we get through this trauma together. I love you. https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269999181713666049 terry crews @terrycrews: 21h: Please know that everything I've said comes from a spirit of love and reconciliation, for the Black community first, then the world as a whole, in hopes to see a better future for Black people.https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/1269999181101363200 RESPONSES TO TERRY CREWS: Jermaine Watkins @JermaineWatkins: Jun 7: Terry Crews: “Defeating White supremacy without White people creates Black supremacy.” Twitter: (video of person breaking things) https://twitter.com/JermaineWatkins/status/1269784951488200706  @BellaBizzyBody: Jun 7: Dear Terry Crews, without Power, Black supremacy is impossible. With White people holding this much power, Black supremacy is impossible. Please stop. https://twitter.com/BellaBizzyBody/status/1269792052809568256 7-E -- MORE LOCAL IMPACT FROM THE RACE DEBATE: Prince William County Superintendent calls for renaming of Stonewall Jackson High School, Stonewall Middle School. School Board chairman backs superintendent's call to change 'Stonewall' schools' names. Prince William County School Board Chairman Dr. Babur Lateef said Friday he agrees with Superintendent Steven Walts’ call to rename Stonewall Jackson High School and Stonewall Middle and believes the school board will take action to do so before the new school year begins in August. “I think it very well will [happen before next school year] and I think that it should,” Lateef said in an interview Friday afternoon.  Lateef said the full board supports changing the schools' names. He said he and his fellow board members have privately discussed the Stonewall schools' names for weeks in exchanges that first began after news of Ahmaud Arbery’s death.  https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/superintendent-calls-for-renaming-of-stonewall-jackson-high-school-stonewall-middle-school/article_78922952-a759-11ea-9404-0799409aeda3.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share / https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginia-superintendent-rename-stonewall-jackson-high/2325113/   FREDERICKSBURG / VA CITY REMOVES SLAVE AUCTION BLOCK: Virginia city removes slave auction block from its downtown corner. The city of Fredericksburg, Va., removed a slave auction block from a downtown corner last Friday after two years of discussions among city council. The 800-pound block was taken out of the ground after its removal was delayed by legal battles and the coronavirus shutdowns, according to the city’s website. The removal came as protests over police treatment of minorities and police brutality erupted in Fredericksburg and across the country over the past couple of weeks.“This is the significant step in living City Council’s directive to relocate the historic artifact, and to work to better tell a more complete history of Fredericksburg – specifically its storied African American history,” the city’s press release read.Local tradition, records and statements identify the stone as a location where slaves were sold. But the city’s website notes, “There is no direct quote noting that a slave stood on the block to be sold, but there are statements made in the post-Civil War years by African Americans stating they were sold on that corner.” 8-A -- 8:05 AM - INTERVIEW - SUSAN FERRECHIO - chief congressional correspondent for the Washington Examiner  Democrats unveil sweeping legislation in response to protests of police brutality Congressional Democrats grapple with police defunding efforts   POLITICO: Democrats unveil police reform bill: Before introducing the police reform bill, Bass, Hoyer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California and other top Democrats gathered in the Capitol in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the amount of time an officer held his knee on Floyd's neck. The Democrats, all clad in kente stoles, knelt together on the floor to honor Floyd and other black Americans killed by police. [...]While the legislation proposes a sweeping overhaul of current laws — including moving to ban chokeholds and making it easier to sue police officers who unjustly injure or kill citizens — it doesn’t answer liberals’ most aggressive demand to “defund the police.” Police departments are largely funded at the state and local level, although there is significant federal aid.Democrats want to lower the federal threshold for when police officers can be charged with using excessive force and limit “qualified immunity,” which currently shields officers from lawsuits over their misconduct, according to a draft outline obtained by POLITICO.Democrats are also seeking to create a National Police Misconduct Registry, end racial profiling, bar the use of “no-knock” arrest warrants in drug cases, develop a national standard on using force, and limit the transfer of military equipment to police departments, among other initiatives. Defund the Police? Pelosi Dodges: At a press conference with House and Senate Democrats, Pelosi was asked about defunding the police, to which she did not respond to directly. She mentioned the legislation on racial profiling and police brutality the House plans on passing. Pelosi also said in her response that the U.S. needs to “‘rebalance some of our funding’ and have those debates at the local level,” according to NBC’s Leigh Ann Caldwell. https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/08/nancy-pelosi-defund-police-question/ Democrats are vowing to call the House back into session before the end of the month to pass legislation designed to fight racial disparities in the criminal justice system. The Justice in Policing Act aims to rein in the use of excessive force by law enforcers, particularly the violence targeting blacks and other minorities, who die disproportionately at the hands of police. Republicans in the House are looking to quickly release their own police reform proposal, with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) leading the efforts on the plan. 8-B/C -- 8:15 AM - INTERVIEW - DAVID MURRAY - Prince George’s County school board Member  PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY TO DEFUND POLICE IN SCHOOLS:Prince George’s County school board members propose defunding police in schools. Plan to remove police from Prince George's County Public Schools passes first step.  HYATTSVILLE, Md. (FOX 5 DC) - A proposal to remove police from Prince George's County Public Schools passed the first step on Monday night -- but there are questions over whether it would even be legal based on current Maryland law. Several PGCPS board members announced their proposal at a Black Lives Matter protest outside the District Court in Hyattsville, calling for armed police to be removed from schools entirely. "What we're saying is that there's not a place for police officers, armed police officers in Prince George's County Public Schools and not only that... we think that that money can be better served supporting our students with more social workers, more mental health professionals, more academic interventionists to get elementary school students reading on grade level," said PGCPS school board member David Murray.  This comes after more than a week of nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The school system there ended its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department.  Activists across the country are calling on diverting money from police budgets to mental health efforts and investment in communities -- some have called that defunding the police. 8-D -- 8:35 AM - INTERVIEW - KEVIN HASSETT - economist and Senior Advisor to President Trump  TOPIC: Discuss the state of the economy and the recent jobs report. The U.S. economy entered a recession in February, a group of economists declared Monday, ending more than a decade of steady if slow growth. The economists said employment peaked in February and fell sharply afterward, marking the beginning of the downturn. A committee within the National Bureau of Economic Research, a trade group, determines when recessions begin and end. It defines a recession as "a decline in economic activity that lasts more than a few months." The committee acknowledged, however, that in this case the depth of the economic downturn so far also played a role in its decision. Strong June jobs report would ‘absolutely affect’ a phase 4 coronavirus deal, Trump aide Kevin Hassett says. Another coronavirus relief package is all but inevitable, but its contents depend on whether the U.S. economy sees another blowout jobs report next month, Kevin Hassett, a senior advisor to President Donald Trump, told CNBC on Monday.Hassett, the former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, said on “Squawk Box” that “the odds of there being a phase four deal are really close to 100%,” even after the jobs data for last month  far exceeded expectations. A repeat performance in June would “absolutely affect the things that we pursue” in additional legislation, he said.The U.S. just saw its biggest month-to-month job gains ever: The Labor Department reported Friday that nonfarm payrolls in May rose by 2.5 million and the unemployment rate fell to 13.3%, shocking economists who anticipated that more than 8 million additional jobs had been shed.   =------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mornings on the Mall Podcast - 2020-6-9 [00:00:00] 5:00 am - Mornings on the Mall [01:00:17] 6:00 am - Mornings on the Mall [02:00:27] 7:00 am - Mornings on the Mall [03:00:37] 8:00 am - Mornings on the Mall

Dar kai kamerų neturėjom pas mus lankėsi daug veikiantis, artistas, dainų kūrėjas ir išradėjas Viačeslavas Mickevičius arba geriau žinomas kaip Slavka, šį kartą nusprendėme jį dar kartą pasikviesti, nes tada labai patiko. Klabėjom apie keistus talentus, dabartines veiklas, plagijatus ir kt.APIE KĄ KALBĖJOM:Talentai:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrrnYa0-Hgo&t=2shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8U64LFU-lEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4D2Y1cILyI&t=169shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLgQEYwb5S8Slavkos dainos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKBlt4UMCeMRusijos Harry Potter ir Let It Be:https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/5650/harry-potter-jk-rowling-Russian-rip-offshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LrUTzijqz8Radijų Instaliacija:https://en.delfi.lt/culture/largest-radio-installation-record-has-been-set-in-vilnius.d?id=82055495https://www.patreon.com/pralauzksaltahttps://open.spotify.com/show/0WridV6XmV62ZLxpLX9d4K?si=ik8D7-_5T2OzMT_1oP3mvwhttps://itunes.apple.com/lt/podcast/pralau%C5%BEk-vien%C4%85-%C5%A1alt%C4%85/id1364954186?mt=2Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mantasgm/https://www.instagram.com/jankusairidas/https://www.instagram.com/pralauzkvienasalta/

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The Sanders Surge that saw the Vermont senator’s stock rise in Iowa has continued, with a new poll showing the socialist presidential contender leading all his rivals nationally — including longtime front-runner Joe Biden. The poll, conducted by SSRS for CNN, has independent Bernie Sanders ahead of the ex-vice president by three points. Read the article here!

Learn how the Verizon Operations Automation team was able to take a monolithic .NET, SSRS, and SQL Server application and re-deploy it in AWS utilizing only open source solutions. To comply with data governance and SOX compliance requirements, the application was re-architected to include only the reporting modules, optimized for AWS, and moved to CentOS EC2 and Amazon RDS MySQL. Required .NET code was kept in-tact, stored procedures updated, schemas converted with AWS Schema Conversion Tool, data was migrated, and 19 on-premise servers were migrated to single EC2 and RDS instances with Auto-scaling Groups.

Koncertu „Pirmoji repeticija“ berniukų ir jaunuolių choras „Ąžuoliukas“ skelbia jubiliejaus renginių pradžią. Istorinė repeticija įvyko 1959 metų rugsėjo mėnesį Vilniuje ir nuo tada prasidėjo Hermano Perelšteino įkurto choro istorija, besitęsianti iki šių dienų. Kas yra „Ąžuoliuko“ sėkmės raktas?Prieš 80 metų Vokietija ir SSRS pasirašė sienos ir draugystės sutartį, pagal kurią Lietuva atiduota Sovietų Sąjungos įtakos sferai. Istorinis žvilgsnis į Molotovo - Ribentropo pakto pasekmes Lietuvai.Architektai piešia Vilniaus geležinkelio stoties naują veidą: aikštę be automobilių, jungtį su Naujininkų rajonu bei autobusų stoties problemą visi mato vienodai. Kaip keisis sostinės geležinkelio stotis ir jos prieigos?LRT žurnalistai toliau ieško lietuviškų istorijų ten, kur gyvena mūsų tautiečiai. Giedrė Trapikaitė ir Adomas Šimkus jau išskrido į Airiją. Kokių čia kolegos ieškos istorijų?Taip pat laidoje lietuviškos ir užsienio spaudos apžvalgos, apie lietuvių grybavimo ypatumus kalbėsime su gamtininku Almantu Kulbiu. Bus ir kitų temų.Ved. Gabija Narušytė.

Poll Party is back with a big guest this week! Adam has Intellicast co-host, Brian Lamar, join for the first half of the episode to discuss some of the latest news in polling, including the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the latest in the Battle of the Nates, and a follow-up conversation on electability. The guys then discuss the new online poll of the week from NORC Amerispeak (which you can read here: https://apnews.com/1ad13f32984a4480a45738ead2b4c0d8), as well as a bonus poll about Kentucky (Read it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u8YVWbHfqEgiA5WpK3jow5QrSim3zjLJ/view). On the second half of the episode, Adam is joined by past AAPOR President and Chief Methodologist at SSRS, David Dutwin. They discuss how David got started in the public opinion industry, his presidential address from the AAPOR Annual Conference this year, the advice he would give about the state of polling going forward, and more! We then have some fun and do a new Mount Rushmore, this time of other presidents you would have on a new Mount Rushmore. This is a can’t miss episode! You can watch David’s presidential address from this year’s AAPOR conference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkvCc7GTypw You can follow David on Twitter at @DDutwin. You can follow SSRS on Twitter at @SSRS_Research or visit their website at www.ssrs.com. You can join the conversation by reaching out to us on Twitter at @PollPartyPod, by email at PollPartyPod@gmail.com, or leave us a voicemail at 312-620-7187.

Trump Approval Trump Approval Post-Democratic Debate Polling Ipsos Poll Conducted for Reuters Harris and Warren rise and Biden slides after first Democratic debates (SSRS for CNN) Kamala Harris surges in Iowa as Bernie Sanders suffers after debate (Suffolk University/USA TODAY) Data from the Suffolk University/USA TODAY Poll Harris Gets Big Debate Bounce While Biden Sinks (Quinnipiac) Harris Surges After First Democratic Debates (Morning Consult) Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris Looked Like Winners At The First Debates (HuffPost/YouGov) Washington Post-ABC News poll Crisis on the border Three-quarters of Americans say there's a crisis at the border (SSRS for CNN) Perceptions of LGBTQ Population Americans Still Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population (Gallup) Is America Great Again? American Pride Hits New Low; Few Proud of Political System (Gallup) Trump's July 4th plans Few Aware of Trump July 4 Speech Plan (Monmouth) Trends in Fourth of July Foods What's In And What's Out For Fourth Of July Celebrations (Open Mind Strategy for Food Network) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Acknowledgement of CountryShantha Rau Barriga, founding director of the disability rights division at Human Rights Watch, discusses the disproportionate rates of violence and imprisonment experienced by people with disability in Australia, and the importance of accountability and allyship. Shantha will be speaking at the Wheeler Centre next Friday 5th AprilExcerpts from the Melbourne solidarity rally to show support for Muslim communities on Tuesday 21 March. Speakers included Roj Amedi from Colourcode, Mohd Halmy from the Islamic Council of Victoria and Husain Al Qatari, union delegate for the Preston Chemist Warehouse StrikeCarolyn Graydon, manager of human rights law program at ASRC, discusses fast track asylum seeker process for people living in community and changes to SSRS payments. Recent updates from the Djab Wurrung embassy: Victorian Trades Hall has come on board and VicRoads has given an undertaking that no work will start until 22 April - however support is still urgently needed! Merret joins us to talk about youth detention in the Northern Territory and new laws that go against Royal Commission recommendations.The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: (Lady Lash, Yadu - new track, check it out!) (Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions) 

 7:00 Welcomes & Belated Happy New Years7:15 Alternative News7:20 Recognition of 2019 as the year of Indigenous Languages. This segment features interviews with language activists Kaimana Barcase from Hawaii and Denver Breda from South Africa.7:30 Interview with Creatrix Tiara, Queer Lady Magician Creatrix Tiara who uses magic to deconstruct expectations and stereotypes of gender and race based privilege. Her show "queer lady magician" smashed at the MICF and returns this midsumma festival.7:40 Featured song I got new shoes by the Bipolar polar bears.7:45 A Fair Go for Nature - Interview with Tim Winton at the ALP Fringe Conference in December 2018 speaking on the effects of pollution and mass extinction and what we should be doing about it.8:08 Featured song I wanna see you again by Rachel Brennan and the Pines.8:09 CEO of Refugee Council of Australia Paul Power and Jana Favero, Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at the ASRC discuss the developments in refugee policy concerning SSRS cuts (Status Resolution Support Services) and the Fast Track legal process at the ALP Fringe conference.8:21 Community Announcements of upcoming and current events including 3CR supported Invasion Day protest outside Parliament at 10:30 January the 26th.8:27 Making New Years Resolutions on Air & Goodbyes.    

TEMOS: Nato ultimatumas Rusijai Kaip Reagan uždusino SSRS Žalstiečiai ir perversmas Putinas kaip atpirkimo ožys Paksas Kremliuje Konservatoriai = liberalai? JT Migracijos Paktas Vokietijos mokslas XX a. pradžioje 200 milijonų kinų be moterų Belaukiant netikėto kandidato į LR prezidentus Rusijos opozicija ir kodėl Navalnas yra Putino projektas Ukrainiečių buduliai Lietuvoje Bačiuliui reikia gudrafono. Ne Huawei Mes būsime labai dėkingi jei remsite mus Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/baciulisirramanauskas Mūsų Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ba%C4%8Diulis-ir-Ramanauskas-261379194566105/ Radioshow ir SSG platinami čia: https://www.youtube.com/user/whatlooksrightisrigh/videos

Today’s episode is a bit of a special one! Typically, a guest expert from Solabs is featured — but on this episode, Ericka and Philippe will take you through today’s topic: SSRS reports for training. With Solabs QM 10, clients have access to a sharepoint portal which contains two different types of reports: excel reports and SSRS reports. Today, Ericka will be focusing on the SSRS reports for training, featuring: the training compliance distribution report, employee training compliance report, training compliance by department report, employee training compliance history report, and more! This episode will bring to light more information on the logic behind what is presented on all these nice graphical reports available through Solabs QM training functionality. Ericka gives examples, answers questions from Philippe, and gives an overview of each type of report— explaining how to use it and what it offers.   Key Takeaways: [:27] About today’s episode with Ericka and Philippe. [1:31] Ericka gives a general overview of the Solabs SSRS offering. [4:40] About the training compliance distribution report: how to use it and what it offers. [7:48] How to use the employee training compliance report and what it offers, as well as some examples. [11:30] About the training compliance user distribution by range report. [13:52] Ericka explains the training compliance by department report. [17:22] Ericka gives an overview on the departmental training compliance per user report. [19:15] All about the training compliance department status per user report. [23:42] Ericka explains the employee training compliance history report. [28:00] Ericka speaks about the usefulness of the job title training requirement report. [31:34] Ericka wraps up this week’s episode! [32:45] If you have questions or feedback for this week’s episode, you can email Ericka at Ericka.Podcast@Solabs.com, Solabs at Info@Solabs.com, and visit the doc portal at docs.solabs.com.   Mentioned in this Episode: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) docs.solabs.com Ericka.Podcast@Solabs.com Info@Solabs.com

Yes, I know, I made up a new term, "Currentcy". I am sure there is a better word for what I am thinking, but I have already typed this one, and changing it at this stage of the game, would simply require too much effort. But probably not as much effort as writing this whole paragraph to justify it, but now I've gone and done that, so there is really no going back now. So let's talk about Currentcy. The other side of the Mirror I have been spouting off quite a bit lately, about the evolution of Microsoft Business Applications, and partners needing to get up-to-speed. No small topic to be sure, and one that will be crucial to Microsoft's success with growing our mutual customer base. What I have not spoken about as much, is the view of all of this massive "change", from the existing customers standpoint. It seems they are not nearly as excited as we are. Congratulations! You've been force upgraded from Hamburger to Lobster! But I'm allergic to shellfish! The concept of keeping instances current, and ultimately everyone on the same version, has clear value to Microsoft and its Partners. With the rapid advancement of the platform, supporting old versions is just not an area where any of us wants to invest our precious time and resources. I mean, we're in a damn race here... against... well... everybody. For new customers, the "story" looks pretty amazing, for existing customers... not so much. I feel the earth move under my feet When Microsoft launched Dynamics CRM Online back in 2011, a fair number of customers jumped on the bandwagon. The growth trajectory has been pretty steady since. Customers paid us, and other partners, a lot of money to customize their instances to fit their needs over the years. But I don't know that enough of them grasped the difference between on-premise vs. SaaS, beyond the subscription vs. perpetual cost aspects. I don't think they fully appreciated what "out of their control" means. Many customers invested large sums of money, building mission critical applications, on top of a tectonic plate. This is not a Microsoft issue, it is a SaaS issue, and the entire world is racing to SaaS as fast as they can. Businesses today, will need to have flexible knees. Buyer's Remorse You know that feeling you get, when you see the new model of your 3 year-old car, at a stoplight? Wow! They completely redesigned it! It looks so modern; faster and more powerful, yet with better gas mileage, and the new tech they added is incredible. Suddenly looking back at your car, it seems like a piece of shit, even though you were perfectly happy with it.... yesterday! That's it, I'm trading it in on a new one. But wait a minute, I am upside-down on mine... damn, I'm stuck. Maybe in a year or two... This is where a segment of on-premise customers are sitting today. They are envious of the features, but have not yet recovered their prior investments. It takes a pretty confident person to march into their bosses office and ask for more money, when they said "This is all we will ever need" the last time they asked. Just Stay On-Premise? That is certainly an option, and one that many are electing apparently. You already own the software, it's functioning adequately for your business, and you spent a buttload of money getting it the way you want... so why are Microsoft and your partner hammering you to move to the cloud all the time? Is there really a compelling reason? A reason that is compelling enough to jump from the static world of on-premise, to the continuous motion word of SaaS? It depends. Don't you hate when people say that? You just want a black and white, yes or no answer, but instead you get an "It Depends". Maybe we should review the pros of each, which also are mostly the cons of the other. Pro On-Premise You own the software, unless you also purchased Software Assurance, your ongoing cost to Microsoft is zippo. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. After all the pain and expense of getting it exactly "right" for your organization, the system is finally running like a well-oiled machine, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. There is a person, or persons, who are being paid to keep that system humming, and they have job security. If something goes haywire, you have direct access to the database as an option to fix it. You can write SSRS reports using SQL, since you can access it directly You finally got all of your finicky integrations working. You can utilize a large amount of cheap additional storage. Its works fast, even with lousy, or no internet connection. You can continue to use the "Classic UI" indefinitely. Some third-party solutions you depend on don't have a SaaS version. Plus 50 more reasons that are unique to you. Pro SaaS All future development of any consequence by Microsoft, will be on the SaaS products. You are not "Frozen in Time". Scale up and down as needed without buying infrastructure that sits idle. Servers will always be patched as soon as possible, meaning the security will be at least as good as on-premise and probably a lot better. Disaster Recovery is baked in. Create Customer, Partner or Community facing web portals. Consistent and known back-end, to simplify partner development and support. Advanced AI capabilities and Relationship Insights Dynamics 365 for Marketing, Field Service and Project Service Automation capabilities. Access to the full suite of Citizen Developer "Power Platform" tools, so you are not completely hostage to your partner, or the one person on your staff who built everything. Never have to Upgrade again... Period. Microsoft support has full telemetry on your SaaS instances allowing then to more quickly fix your issues. The same telemetry allows Microsoft to fix issues before you are even aware of them. Depending on your size, Microsoft will foot the bill to move your ass over. Plus 50 more reasons that are unique to you. I have to give credit to several MVPs who helped me flesh out the above lists, Nick Doelman, Mike Ochs, Aiden Kaskela, Joel Lindstrom and Andrew Butenko. The Price of Currentcy Back to the topic of this post, as I think about it, there is obviously a cost to keeping current, but there is also a cost to not keeping current. Some of these costs have nothing to do with Microsoft, but rather are specific to your own industry, competition or customer expectations. For example, let's say that you and your primary competitor, are both using Dynamics on-premise. You hear through the grapevine, that your competitor is moving to the SaaS version. Would that concern you? I would venture to guess that your on-premise system aligns to the description often provided by the leader of the Dynamics Engineering team, James Phillips, as a "Forms over Data, reporting system". As long as your competition was limited to the same capabilities, no problem. But what if they add everything under the Pro SaaS column above to their arsenal? Uhoh! Maybe you want to explore doing this first! Let's assume you are on the SaaS version... and for those that aren't, this will be a peek at what they get to deal with. Updates every six months. That sounds scary as hell! It is scary, and it is bumpy, but getting less so with each update. Updates bring new capabilities, and if you are on-premise you might not know what those are, but you don't necessarily have to activate them immediately. In theory, new "potentially disruptive" features and capabilities are off by default, so you should not have to worry about your users running around like the house is on fire every six months. I say "in theory", because some things will not be off by default, or they won't stay off indefinitely. Updates are probably the biggest issue that we all need to worry about. They will add some angst to your life every six months, even if they go perfectly smoothly. If they don't, then you will find yourself scrambling for a little while grabbing the loose wires and reconnecting them. You should also prepare to be frustrated, when Microsoft makes available a robust new feature in an update, that you just paid dearly to have custom developed. Maybe you can ask your developer for a refund. The real price of currentcy, is "Change Management", a term that seems to have risen in prominence with the SaaS revolution. In the on-premise world, it reared its head every several years, or for some customers, once a decade. In the SaaS world it is now a minimum every six months, and maybe more often than that. "Change Management" is a bitch. The biggest appeal to moving to SaaS, are the promised gains in productivity, efficiency, engagement, analytics, etc., but none of those are automatically "realized", they are just made "available". In fact, Change Management is such a big topic, I think I'll save it for another post.  

SSRS is great -- it comes with SQL Server, provides quite a bit of functionality, but sometimes doesn't always perform well. In this episode we welcome back Bert Wagner as he chats with us about some of the ways he has improved his under-performing reports. Our conversation focuses on SSRS itself -- we are going to assume you can tune the queries in SSMS from previous episodes or the interwebs. What do you think of our list? Did we miss one? Let us know! The show notes for today's episode can be found at http://sqldatapartners.com/2018/09/27/episode-148-high-performance-ssrs. Have fun on the SQL Trail!

Prieš 25 metus regėjome stebuklą: paskutinis okupacinės kariuomenės kareivis paliko nepriklausomą Lietuvą. Tuomet dar faktiškai beginklė valstybė priveikė vieną didžiausių pasaulyje karinių mašinų, daugiau nei 50 metų padėjusią laikyti Lietuvą po sovietų padu. Kai Lietuva paskelbė atkurianti nepriklausomą valstybę, čia buvo per 200 tūkstančių SSRS kareivių su tankais, lėktuvais, laivais ir bazėmis strateginėse Lietuvos vietose. Daliniai pasienyje kontroliavo mus skyrusią nuo pasaulio geležinę uždangą. Praėjus daugiau nei trejiems metams paskutinis Rusijos karinis ešelonas išvažiavo iš Lietuvos. Net greičiau nei iš kitų buvusių Rytų bloko šalių.Penktadienio „Dienos temoje“ su Audriumi Matoniu – tie, kas betarpiškai prisidėjo maksimalistinę idėją paverčiant realybe: derybų dėl okupacinės kariuomenės išvedimo delegacijos buvęs vadovas Česlovas Stankevičius – signataras, ambasadorius, buvęs krašto apsaugos ministras, ir derybininkų koordinatorius Aleksandras Abišala – signataras ir buvęs ministras pirmininkas.

In this episode (brought to you by KingswaySoft), Ulrik and Joel go through the October '18 release notes for Power BI and analytics. Topics discussed: October '18 release notes for Power BI Embedded Power BI visuals in Dynamics 365 forms SSRS reports in unified interface and mobile Preview feature--run SSRS reports from Power BI Premium Deeper PowerApps integration with Power BI CDS connector for Power BI--get your labels Enhancements to links in Power BI dashboards Power BI in Dynamics 365 portals What are data flows PowerQuery in CDM Intellisense in PowerQuery What happened to CDS-A What happened to Customer Insights Predictive lead scoring This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the  CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

In this episode (brought to you by KingswaySoft), Ulrik and Joel go through the October '18 release notes for Power BI and analytics. Topics discussed: October '18 release notes for Power BI Embedded Power BI visuals in Dynamics 365 forms SSRS reports in unified interface and mobile Preview feature--run SSRS reports from Power BI Premium Deeper PowerApps integration with Power BI CDS connector for Power BI--get your labels Enhancements to links in Power BI dashboards Power BI in Dynamics 365 portals What are data flows PowerQuery in CDM Intellisense in PowerQuery What happened to CDS-A What happened to Customer Insights Predictive lead scoring

Sam Nasr is all about getting involved with user groups. Show Notes: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group (meetup) SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Hyland Software Xamarin Dev Days Central Ohio .NET Developers Group (CONDG) Tech Elevator Code School NextPlex Meetup.com Sam was kind enough to provide his email address in the podcast Sam Nasr is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Theme music is "Crosscutting Concerns" by The Dirty Truckers, check out their music on Amazon or iTunes.

Oddaja podcasta BIMpogovori v kateri gostimo Boruta Hafnerja - govorimo o vlogi Stanovanjeskega sklada RS danes in v prihodnosti; viziji uporabe BIM pristopa na projektih SSRS, predstavitvi na BIM Forumu 2017, ... To je oddaja v kateri ustvarimo nov BIM profil - "BIM Coach" ;-)

Power BI has been getting a lot of attention recently, but it represents only the cloud platform of Microsoft’s BI strategy. As clearly announced last fall, the other main platform, deployed on premises, is SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The release of SQL Server 2016 represents a major leap forward for SSRS. Jason and John welcome guest Riccardo Muti, from the SSRS team at Microsoft to discuss the past, present and future of this venerable BI tool. Recorded August 11, 2016 Check out the show notes at https://bifocal.show/2017/07/20/episode-6-select-from-reports/

Att flyktingmottagande ställs mot välfärd är inget nytt, men vad säger de som jobbar inom välfärdssystemet? Det här avsnittet av Människor & Migration handlar om de människor som jobbar med flyktingmottagande och deras arbetssituation. Podden gästas av socionomen Jenny Sepulveda Westman, läraren och Vi står inte ut-engagerade Charlotte Lilja Pittuco, samt Akademikerförbundet SSRs samhällspolitiska chef Ursula Berge. Tillsammans med Arena Idés utredningschef Lisa Pelling och kommunikationsansvarige Maja Dahl pratar de om hur det är att jobba med flyktingmottagande, vilka konsekvenser de politiska förslagen får i deras vardag och vilken roll facket kan spela när politikerna använder medlemmarna som slagträ i debatten.

Rolf Westerström, CEO of the Swedish Sea Rescue Society, SSRS, speaks about how their organisation has developed over the last 20-25 years, how accidents as ESTONIA, SCANDINAVIAN STAR & JAN HEWELIUSZ was a wakeup call and what impact they had on the development of new, faster and more safe rescue boats and how mass evacuation now is looked upon in a completely different way. Rolf also gives the background to the "Yellow Boats" (gula båtarna) an initiative by the media house Schibsted to assist refugees in need for sea rescue in the Mediterranean Sea, which until Christmas has saved more than 600 lives.  Rolf is retiring soon, he has got a perspective on the shipping industry since the 60's and he thinks that it's his job to make sure that each and every politician realises that we always cross water, when we leave our countries or our continents. Listen to this wise and humble man and tell someone about it - that is the best way to get the Shipping Podcast more well-known, which is our common goal. This episode was brought to you by the Swedish Mercantile Marine Foundation. Thank you for listening!

Well here we are at the final episode for our Agent Carter Valediction podcast and it's time to say our farewell to Peggy Carter and the team of the Strategic Scientific Reserve. On this episode we discuss the return of Howard Stark, the incorporation of an infamous Jack Kirby plot device from the 1970s Captain America comic books, some of the most emotional moments in the series so far and a fantastic post-credits scene. We discuss the feedback we've received through our Facebook group (Defenders TV Podcast on Facebook) and from twitter where we are @defenderscast make sure you follow us through both of these sites to hear about our future news and episodes including our trip to New York Comic Con in October 2015. Synopsis Agent Carter E08 - Valediction The SSR are called to the site of a mysterious massacre in a cinema where 47 people apparently murdered each other for no reason. Detective Sousa finds a canister at the site which releases a gas causing him to attack Thompson and Peggy Carter. The team quickly realise that this is item 17, the gas stolen from the SSRs captured stash of Howard Stark's inventions. Howard returns to New York and reveals that this is "Midnight Oil" the substance at the heart of the Finow mystery. The team have a race against time to stop the rest of the gas being released on the unsuspecting celebrants of VE day in Times Square. Unfortunately Howard is captured and twisted by Dr. Fennhoff to become the pilot of the plane carrying New York's destruction. Peggy and Jarvis work together in the air and on the ground to save Howard and all of New York. Peggy returns to the SSR to rounds of applause from her former team mates but finds that Thompson takes the credit for her successful operation. Undeterred she has one last mission to take care of, the disposal of the final vial of Steve Rogers blood. Peggy bids a tearful farewell to Steve as the episode ends. After the credits the captured Dr. Fennhoff meets his new cell mate. A very familiar face in Captain America's rogue's gallery... We've come to the end of our Agent Carter podcasts we've had great fun talking about this series. Thank you so much for listening to us, providing us feedback through twitter, facebook and email. We're gone for a while but will return with Marvel's next kick ass female hero Jessica Jones on Netflix. As always though if you have any thoughts on Agent Carter, Ant-Man, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Fantastic Four or of course Daredevil and the future Netflix shows please send them to feedback@defenderstvpodcast.com and we'll discuss them on our future podcasts. The Defenders TV Podcast will return next week with our thoughts on the season finale of Agent Carter "Valediction" . John and Derek Defenders TV Podcast Date recorded: 31/08/2015 Date published: 01/09/2015 MP3, 61.53 mins, 192kbps, 85.0 MB

We're a bit shaken by this week's episode of Agent Carter SNAFU, the penultimate episode of Agent Carter season 1, as we lose one of the SSRs finest in the 7th episode. We discuss the meaning of S.N.A.F.U., the confirmation of a Marvel super-villain in Doctor Faustus and obviously this big death. As well as this we discuss our plans for New York Comic Con in October and some feedback from Lauren and Amy of The Peggy Carter Podcast over on Assembly of Geeks. In Agent Carter SNAFU, written by Chris Dingess and directed by Vincent Misiano, Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) is cornered and under interrogation by her former SSR colleagues, as Agents Thompson (Chad Michael Murray) and Sousa (Enver Gjokaj), along with Chief Dooley (Shea Whigham), attempt to extract all she knows about Howard Carter and Leviathan. Despite a valiant attempt by Jarvis (James D'Arcy) to have Peggy released,with his fake signed confession from Stark, the rouse fails just as Peggy discovers the true identity of the enemy within, catching Doctor Ivchenko (Ralph Brown) communicating in Morse code with Dottie Underwood (Bridget Regan). However, Ivchenko already has Dooley conditioned to keep Carter under lock and key and steal Item 17 from the Stark weapon inventory. His parting gift to Dooley, as Leviathan make their move with the stolen weapon, is a highly experimental and explosively unstable vest that he is made to wear. As the SSR mistakenly zero in on Carter, Peggy reveals the truth about her own investigation to her colleagues to gain their trust and to expose Ivenchenko as the true enemy. However, all is too late as the SSR pay the ultimate price for their mistake. Thanks again for joining us for our Agent Carter SNAFU podcast. If you have any thoughts on Agent Carter, Ant-Man, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Fantastic Four or of course Daredevil and the future Netflix shows please send them to feedback@defenderstvpodcast.com and we'll discuss them on our future podcasts. The Defenders TV Podcast will return next week with our thoughts on the season finale of Agent Carter "Valediction" . John and Derek Defenders TV Podcast Date recorded: 24/08/2015 Date published: 25/08/2015 MP3, 58.07 mins, 192kbps, 79.8 MB

Daugelis yra girdėję Sovietų Sąjungos kaip „blogio imperijos“ apibūdinimą. Tačiau kas yra imperija ir ar SSRS iš tikrųjų ja buvo? Kuo skyrėsi ir kuo ji buvo panaši į kitas kolonijines imperijas, pvz., carinę Rusiją? Lietuvos istorijos instituto vyresniosios mokslo darbuotojos prof. dr. Rasos Čepaitienės paskaitoje „Ar Sovietų Sąjunga buvo imperija?“ taip pat aptariama, kokia nacionalinė politika buvo vykdoma sovietmečiu ir kaip šiame kontekste atrodė Lietuvos sąjunginė socialistinė respublika.

Daugelis yra girdėję Sovietų Sąjungos kaip „blogio imperijos“ apibūdinimą. Tačiau kas yra imperija ir ar SSRS iš tikrųjų ja buvo? Kuo skyrėsi ir kuo ji buvo panaši į kitas kolonijines imperijas, pvz., carinę Rusiją? Lietuvos istorijos instituto vyresniosios mokslo darbuotojos prof. dr. Rasos Čepaitienės paskaitoje „Ar Sovietų Sąjunga buvo imperija?“ taip pat aptariama, kokia nacionalinė politika buvo vykdoma sovietmečiu ir kaip šiame kontekste atrodė Lietuvos sąjunginė socialistinė respublika.

In this episode I talk about some issues upgrading SSRS to SQL 2012 sent in by a viewer. I also talk about some PowerShell to handle out Workflow history is maintained. I also cut through the crap on SharePoint 2013's Shredded Storage. I also give Host Headers a little love.