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Entrevistam Roberto Galli, músic i membre de l’organització del concert homenatge a Víctor Uris, aquest divendres a la Plaça Espanya de Palma.
This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Running a private Ubuntu Mirror It is possible to set up a local server to keep a synchronized copy of all the Ubuntu packages, allowing later installs of packages for any local machine even in the absence of an internet connection. To do this a script called apt-mirror can be run on the server. crontab 0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/apt-mirror The location of the mirror is specified in apt-mirror.conf /etc/apt/apt-mirror.conf set mirror_path /disk/ftp/Mirror set cleanup_freq daily set mirror_verbose yes The origin servers are specified in mirror.list . It is possible to choose which architectures and Ubuntu releases to fetch as well as whether to fetch just the binary packages or also the sources. /etc/apt/mirror.list deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse deb-i386 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security main restricted universe multiverse deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse #deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse #deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security main restricted universe multiverse #deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse #deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse clean http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu The mirrored packages could be served up to local machines in a number of ways, I am using vsftpd to serve the files via FTP. /etc/vsftp.conf anonymous_enable=YES anon_upload_enable=YES anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES dirmessage_enable=YES xferlog_enable=YES connect_from_port_20=YES listen=YES pam_service_name=vsftpd seccomp_sandbox=NO isolate_network=NO anon_root=/disk/ftp/ no_anon_password=YES hide_ids=YES pasv_min_port=40000 pasv_max_port=50000 write_enable=YES On local machines, the mirror on the server can then be specified as the source for apt to use to retrieve packages. /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources Types: deb URIs: ftp://server/Mirror/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu Suites: noble noble-updates noble-backports Components: main universe restricted multiverse Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg ## Ubuntu security updates. Aside from URIs and Suites, ## this should mirror your choices in the previous section. Types: deb URIs: ftp://server/Mirror/mirror/security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu Suites: noble-security Components: main universe restricted multiverse Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg Provide feedback on this episode.
In PARSHA & PROSE, Rabbi Gemara and Avrum, discuss the Torah portion of Va'era, and its narrative that centers on God's reaffirmation of His covenant with the Israelites and the beginning of Moses' mission to confront Pharaoh, setting the stage for the dramatic liberation from Egypt. Through the lens of Leon Uris' novel Exodus, this portion takes on a more expansive and humanistic dimension. Uris delves into the psychological and emotional struggles of the characters, particularly Ari Ben Canaan, who grapples with his own identity and divine mission. The novel's portrayal of Ben Canaans' doubts mirrors the themes of faith, perseverance, and the longing for freedom found in Va'era. Uris illustrates the tension between divine destiny and human agency, emphasizing that while the Israelites' liberation is divinely ordained, it is also shaped by the courage and resolve of individuals. This duality, highlighted in the Torah text and brought to life in Uris' narrative, underscores the complexities of divine intervention and the human spirit in the face of oppression. In SHIVIM PANIM, the beginning segment of PARSHA AND PROSE, Rabbi Gemara and Avrum schmooze about: a) the 'Brisker way' in learning, b) former Israeli Hostage, the very erudite and spiritual, Sapir Cohen, c) and the sensitivity of Judaism toward courts and convicted defendants.
In PARSHA & PROSE, Rabbi Gemara and Avrum, discuss the Torah portion of Va'era, and its narrative that centers on God's reaffirmation of His covenant with the Israelites and the beginning of Moses' mission to confront Pharaoh, setting the stage for the dramatic liberation from Egypt. Through the lens of Leon Uris' novel Exodus, this portion takes on a more expansive and humanistic dimension. Uris delves into the psychological and emotional struggles of the characters, particularly Ari Ben Canaan, who grapples with his own identity and divine mission. The novel's portrayal of Ben Canaans' doubts mirrors the themes of faith, perseverance, and the longing for freedom found in Va'era. Uris illustrates the tension between divine destiny and human agency, emphasizing that while the Israelites' liberation is divinely ordained, it is also shaped by the courage and resolve of individuals. This duality, highlighted in the Torah text and brought to life in Uris' narrative, underscores the complexities of divine intervention and the human spirit in the face of oppression. In SHIVIM PANIM, the beginning segment of PARSHA AND PROSE, Rabbi Gemara and Avrum schmooze about: a) the 'Brisker way' in learning, b) former Israeli Hostage, the very erudite and spiritual, Sapir Cohen, c) and the sensitivity of Judaism toward courts and convicted defendants.
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger - move fast and fix things with application monitoring that helps developers get it done.Show linksURI Parsing and Mutation in Laravel 11.35 Set Data on a Fluent Instance in Laravel 11.36 New Eloquent Relation Existence Methods in Laravel 11.37 Laravel VS Code Extension Public Beta Aaron Francis: Laravel Solo, Courses, Screencasting, and more Ghostty Is a Fast, Feature-Rich, Cross-Platform Terminal Laravel News 2024 Recap Wirechat - Laravel Livewire chat package Automated API documentation of Laravel API resources Log Alarm Package for Laravel Token Forge - API Token Management with Laravel Breeze Get a Server's Public IP Address With PHP One-time Password Manager for Laravel A Laravel Package for the Quickpay API Microsoft Teams Notifications Package Laravel Microsoft Graph Using AI to Manage Translations in Laravel Dummy - Generate PHP class instances populated with dummy data using Faker TutorialsManaging concurrent requests with Laravel session blockingUsing Fluent to work with HTTP client responses in LaravelDynamic page updates with Laravel Blade fragmentsConverting collections to queries in Laravel using toQuery()Laravel whenLoadedCustomize the truncation of HTTP client request exceptionsUsing withoutWrapping to flatten API responsesCustomizing data transformations with Laravel castsPreserving collection keys in Laravel API resourcesWorking with URIs in LaravelDiscover file downloads in Laravel with Storage::downloadWorking with JSON attributes using Laravel's array castsAdding request context in Laravel applicationsExtracting sequential data with Laravel's takeWhileDeep array manipulation with Laravel's replaceRecursive methodFiltering collection objects by type with whereInstanceOfConverting Laravel models to JSON for API responsesAccessing raw model data with Laravel's attributesToArray methodOptimizing factory data creation with Laravel's recycle methodEarly view data preparation with Laravel view creatorsManaging proxy trust in Laravel applicationsCustomizing model date formats in LaravelOptimizing large data delivery with Laravel streaming responses
This week's topics include nasal sprays and URIs, Paxlovid in prevention, endometriosis and ovarian cancer, and diabetes after COVID-19.
TOO FUNNY FOR WORDS (Viva Editions; May 21, 2024; 978-1632280961; $18.95 is a delightful and captivating exploration of Jerry Adler's illustrious career in the entertainment industry. With humor, insight, and a touch of nostalgia, Adler shares entertaining anecdotes and stories about working alongside legendary personalities like Paul Rudd, Robin Williams, Meryl Streep, Larry David, James Gandolfini, Alan Arkin, Woody Allen, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Barbra Streisand, Joe Pesci, Paul Reiser, George Clooney, Richard Burton, Richard M. Nixon, Katharine Hepburn, Julie Andrews, Orson Welles, and many, many more! Who almost turned down his iconic role on The Sopranos because he could not sing? Did Katharine Hepburn really build the Uris building? How did a simple handshake with President Kennedy almost end in disaster? This book promises readers a fascinating and engaging journey through his career as a theater director, producer, and actor that has spanned over 70 years. Adler's unique perspective and witty storytelling style blends wit, warmth, and entertaining storytelling gives readers an insightful peek behind the curtain to some of the most beloved figures in entertainment history.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.
TOO FUNNY FOR WORDS (Viva Editions; May 21, 2024; 978-1632280961; $18.95 is a delightful and captivating exploration of Jerry Adler's illustrious career in the entertainment industry. With humor, insight, and a touch of nostalgia, Adler shares entertaining anecdotes and stories about working alongside legendary personalities like Paul Rudd, Robin Williams, Meryl Streep, Larry David, James Gandolfini, Alan Arkin, Woody Allen, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Barbra Streisand, Joe Pesci, Paul Reiser, George Clooney, Richard Burton, Richard M. Nixon, Katharine Hepburn, Julie Andrews, Orson Welles, and many, many more! Who almost turned down his iconic role on The Sopranos because he could not sing? Did Katharine Hepburn really build the Uris building? How did a simple handshake with President Kennedy almost end in disaster? This book promises readers a fascinating and engaging journey through his career as a theater director, producer, and actor that has spanned over 70 years. Adler's unique perspective and witty storytelling style blends wit, warmth, and entertaining storytelling gives readers an insightful peek behind the curtain to some of the most beloved figures in entertainment history.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.
Seit letzter Woche gibt es im Salon Mondial einen Einblick in die Arbeit der ukrainischen Künstler:innen, Journalist:innen und Macher:innen des INKER Comic Magazins, welche seit zwei Jahren gegen den russischen Angriffskrieg in der Ukraine anschreiben. Kuratiert wurde die Ausstellung von Anna Hodel vom Slavischen Seminar der Universität Basel und der Gastprofessorin Svitlana Pidoprygora von URIS, dem Ukrainian Research Switzerland. von Mirco Kaempf
The JournalFeed podcast: These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member.Monday Spoon Feed:Using online telemedicine platforms, the authors found that it was appallingly easy to rapidly obtain inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for symptoms of viral URIs by paying a nominal fee. This highlights the need for increased education and regulations around inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics to safeguard the public and uphold good medical practices.Tuesday Spoon Feed:Clinicians have an important role in advising families on the appropriate evidence-based treatments for upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) in children.
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Josie Baker, Salvatore Ingala, and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #292. News Updating BIP21 `bitcoin:` URIs (18:07) PSBTs for multiple concurrent MuSig2 signing sessions (46:30) Discussion about adding more BIP editors (58:33) GitLab backup for Bitcoin Core GitHub project (1:11) Releases and release candidates Eclair v0.10.0 (1:03:24) Bitcoin Core 26.1rc1 (1:05:18) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29412 (1:06:53) Eclair #2829 (1:17:29) LND #8378 (1:19:06) BIPs #1421 (1:20:28)
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
In this 276th episode I welcome pediatric anesthesiologist Dr. rita Saynhalath to the show to discuss how to manage kids presenting for surgery with a recent URI. We discuss the evidence for proceeding versus postponing, whether the type of virus matters, and how to handle COVID infections. Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor 75 and use my code accrac50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
En 1946, trois-cent enfants juifs, n'ayant connu que les ghettos, les camps de concentration et les ruines, s'entassent dans un vieux remorqueur ancré en port de Chypre, l'Exodus, et menacent de mettre à exécution un pacte de suicide collectif s'ils ne peuvent pas appareiller pour la Palestine. Dans ce best-seller publié en 1958, Léon Uris, qui assista à cette tragédie en tant que correspondant de guerre, raconte comment ils vont tenter de forcer le blocus britannique pour atteindre la Terre promise, seulement armés de leur courage et de leur foi en l'avenir.
Soy Checkoff: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/Prime Future Newsletter: https://primefuture.substack.com/Leachman Cattle of Colorado: https://leachman.com/URUS: https://www.urus.org/In agriculture, we have exponentially more examples of people collecting data than we do of people using data to unlock real value supported by real dollars. Cattle genetics company Leachman Cattle is one of those few who demonstrated the ability to do just that. "You know, we kinda had set our own course to analyze our own data, to gather our own data to store it. And that's just been part of our model. It certainly wouldn't have been the cheapest route to go. But if you go the cheapest route, which is you put your data in a breed association, then we wouldn't have had any proprietary data or indexes. And I think it is that information and the way we use that information that. That led to the opportunity that we had to do business with URUS."That's Lee Leachman, and Uris, who he mentioned there at the end, just agreed to acquire a majority stake in Leachman Cattle to take these proven proprietary genetics and build programs around them that optimize the entire value chain. "We want to build systems that capture value for dairy farmers and beef cattle ranchers that bring more money back to the farm. And to do that, we've gotta optimize these animals from conception to consumption, and we've gotta have enough structure to pass the value back."Lee Leachman chats with Janette Barnard on today's Future of Agriculture podcast. Lee's going to share more about his background and his company during the conversation, but I actually wasn't a part of this one. This interview was conducted by my good friend and occasional co-host on this show, Janette Barnard. Long time listeners know Janette from previous episodes that she has co-hosted with me, and I hope you all are subscribers to her email newsletter, which is called Prime Future, which you can signup for at primefuture.substack.com.
My guest today is Tom S. Lehman, who goes by Middlemarch on Twitter. Tom is the creator of Ethscriptions, an NFT standard for inscribing base64 encoded URIs in the data field of EVM transactions. Prior to Ethscriptions, Tom was co-founder and CEO of popular lyrics site and content company Genius. Ethscriptions are inspired both by Bitcion Inscriptions and the Ethereum practice of appending hex encoded UTF-8 strings to the data field of regular transactions, a gesture that has been used by hackers and artists to communicate onchain. The best way to think of Ethscriptions is as an alternative to smart contracts. Instead of executing and verifying logic onchain inside of a function call in an EVM smart contract, Ethscriptions leave the validation of minting and transfer events to offchain indexers, which can follow the protocol's standard to decide whether transactions mutated Ethscription state. Instead of reverting invalid transactions when they're sent, Ethscriptions indexers ignore them, despite their successful inclusion in the chain. This makes Ethscriptions a more Bitcoin-style protocol experiment, where a new software reads new meaning into data stored using existing rudimentary blockchain affordances. At the same time, Ethscriptions is an artistic meditation that questions the presumed legitimacy of L2s and NFT standards like ERC-721, which both make certain assumptions about how meaning should be stored and computed on Ethereum and other EVMs. It was fantastic talking with Tom who is an energetic builder and independent thinker. I hope you enjoy the show. As always, this show is provided for entertainment and education purposes only and does not constitute financial advice or any form of endorsement or suggestion. Crypto is risky and you alone are responsible for doing your research and making your own decisions. Links Ethscriptions.com The infamous TechCrunch Disrupt appearance (2013)
Michael Hendrickx, Principal Security Engineering Manager at Microsoft, joins Nic Fillingham and Wendy Zenone on this week's episode of The BlueHat Podcast. Michael works in Azure security at Microsoft and leads a team focused on conducting penetration tests on Azure services. The team draws inspiration from the bug bounty community and external sources, leveraging their insights and findings for their research. Michael also discusses the curiosity and exploration mindset needed for both engineers and researchers when it comes to investigating and discovering security vulnerabilities, how developers can effectively protect sensitive data transmitted over insecure networks, and the potential risks and challenges associated with third-party integrations in web applications. In This Episode You Will Learn: Server-side request forgery and its importance in the context of securityPotential security vulnerabilities associated with different parts of a URIImportance of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and investigation among developersSome Questions We Ask: What is the focus and target audience for "Shift Left?" Should researchers engage in URL manipulation to identify potential vulnerabilities?What security vulnerabilities should developers be aware of when designing web applications?Resources: View Michael Hendrickx on LinkedInView Wendy Zenone on LinkedInView Nic Fillingham on LinkedInDiscover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Title: Pediatric Anesthesia Concerns and Management for Orthopedic Procedures Introduction: Providing anesthesia for pediatric orthopedic patients poses unique challenges for anesthesiologists. The approach must consider the psychological development of the child and the prevalence of respiratory infections. Pain management, management of concomitant diseases, and risk reduction for adverse events are crucial aspects of anesthetic care. This blog post will review the perioperative concerns specific to pediatric orthopedic procedures, discuss pain control methods used, and highlight anesthetic considerations for certain surgeries. Listen to Audio via a Free Preview to our AnesthesiaExam Advanced Board Review Course or stay updated via our newsletter below Claim CME Credit Select Pediatric Perioperative Concerns: Anxiety in the Pediatric Patient: Pediatric patients undergoing orthopedic surgery often experience varying levels of anxiety and distress. Preoperative stressors can include unfamiliar environments, procedures, hunger, fear of pain, and separation from parents. Certain risk factors contribute to preoperative anxiety, such as ages 1 to 5 years, shy temperament, prior negative medical experiences, high cognitive levels, and parental anxiety. Unaddressed anxiety can lead to postoperative behavioral changes, including generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, aggression, and nighttime crying. It can also result in higher pain scores and increased pain medication requirements after surgery. Strategies to mitigate preoperative anxiety include presurgical preparation programs involving site visits, videos, books, and child-life interventions. Allowing parental presence during anesthesia induction can help alleviate separation anxiety. Pharmacologic interventions like oral midazolam can improve compliance and reduce negative behavioral changes in the short term. Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URI): Pediatric patients presenting for orthopedic surgery with current or recent URIs pose a challenge for anesthesiologists and surgeons. Children commonly experience URIs with symptoms like a runny nose, cough, and fever. While the viral infection may reside in the nasopharynx, the lower respiratory tract remains sensitive for up to 6 weeks after URI symptoms have resolved. This increased sensitivity puts patients at risk for perioperative complications like laryngospasm, bronchospasm, and oxygen desaturation. Delaying surgery for 6 weeks after URI resolution is often impractical, as another URI is likely to occur. For elective surgery, severe symptoms and complications warrant postponing surgery, but clear nasal discharge in an otherwise healthy patient may proceed with elective surgery. Clinical decision-making becomes challenging for cases falling between these extremes. Factors such as patient age, comorbidities, prior cancellations, surgery complexity, and urgency are considered when deciding whether to postpone surgery. If elective surgery is delayed, most clinicians would wait 2 to 4 weeks after URI symptom resolution. Anesthetic Management for Orthopedic Procedures: Pain Management: Pain control for pediatric orthopedic patients involves a multimodal pharmacologic approach to minimize opioid requirements. This approach includes non-opioid analgesics, local anesthetics, and regional anesthesia techniques. Regional anesthesia, such as peripheral nerve blocks and caudal anesthesia, is particularly valuable for postoperative pain control. Recent studies have confirmed the safety of regional anesthesia in the pediatric population. Anesthetic Considerations for Select Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeries: Scoliosis Surgery: Anesthetic concerns during scoliosis surgery include optimizing neuromonitoring signals, managing blood loss, preventing positioning-related injuries, and minimizing the risk of postoperative visual loss. Pediatric orthopedic surgeries present unique challenges for anesthesiologists. Effective management of preoperative anxiety, careful consideration of upper respiratory tract infections, and appropriate pain control strategies are essential for successful outcomes. Anesthesiologists must tailor their approach to the specific needs of pediatric patients undergoing orthopedic procedures to ensure their safety and well-being. Reference Wu JP. Pediatric Anesthesia Concerns and Management for Orthopedic Procedures. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2020 Feb;67(1):71-84. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2019.09.006. PMID: 31779838; PMCID: PMC7172179. Anesthesiology Board Review Newsletter Subscribe for Discounts, Free Videos, Course Calendar & More! * indicates required Email Address * Ultrasound Block Course applicable in Pediatric Anesthesia for Orthopedic Procedures includes: Certificate of Completion Ultrasound Guided Interventional Pain Atlas Continuing Medical Education Credit Online access to Webinar (additional CME Credit) Regional Anesthesia: Lower Extremity Nerve Blocks for Femoral Nerve Block Genicular Nerve Block Sciatic Nerve Block Popliteal Nerve Block Common Peroneal Block Tibial Nerve Block Block Ankle Block Upper Extremity Anesthesia for Fractures and Reductions Brachial Plexus Block Axillary Nerve Block Suprascapular Nerve Blocks Truncal and Fascial Plane Blockade Transversus abdominis plane block Paravertebral Nerve Block Intercostal Nerve Block Erector Spinae Block PENG Nerve Block IPACK Nerve Block and much more! Caudal Epidural and Spine demonstrations available as well. Register Now! Or Email DRosenblum@rmcpain.com to arrange a private workshop with your Department. NRAP Academy: Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia and Interventional Pain Workshops Subscribe for Discounts, Free Videos, Course Calendar & More! * indicates required Email Address *
Introduction: Providing anesthesia for pediatric orthopedic patients poses unique challenges for anesthesiologists. The approach must consider the psychological development of the child and the prevalence of respiratory infections. Pain management, management of concomitant diseases, and risk reduction for adverse events are crucial aspects of anesthetic care. This blog post will review the perioperative concerns specific to pediatric orthopedic procedures, discuss pain control methods used, and highlight anesthetic considerations for certain surgeries. Listen to Audio via a Free Preview to our AnesthesiaExam Advanced Board Review Course or stay updated via our newsletter below Claim CME Credit Select Pediatric Perioperative Concerns: Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URI): Pediatric patients presenting for orthopedic surgery with current or recent URIs pose a challenge for anesthesiologists and surgeons. Children commonly experience URIs with symptoms like a runny nose, cough, and fever. While the viral infection may reside in the nasopharynx, the lower respiratory tract remains sensitive for up to 6 weeks after URI symptoms have resolved. This increased sensitivity puts patients at risk for perioperative complications like laryngospasm, bronchospasm, and oxygen desaturation. Delaying surgery for 6 weeks after URI resolution is often impractical, as another URI is likely to occur. For elective surgery, severe symptoms and complications warrant postponing surgery, but clear nasal discharge in an otherwise healthy patient may proceed with elective surgery. Clinical decision-making becomes challenging for cases falling between these extremes. Factors such as patient age, comorbidities, prior cancellations, surgery complexity, and urgency are considered when deciding whether to postpone surgery. If elective surgery is delayed, most clinicians would wait 2 to 4 weeks after URI symptom resolution. Anxiety in the Pediatric Patient: Pediatric patients undergoing orthopedic surgery often experience varying levels of anxiety and distress. Preoperative stressors can include unfamiliar environments, procedures, hunger, fear of pain, and separation from parents. Certain risk factors contribute to preoperative anxiety, such as ages 1 to 5 years, shy temperament, prior negative medical experiences, high cognitive levels, and parental anxiety. Unaddressed anxiety can lead to postoperative behavioral changes, including generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, aggression, and nighttime crying. It can also result in higher pain scores and increased pain medication requirements after surgery. Strategies to mitigate preoperative anxiety include presurgical preparation programs involving site visits, videos, books, and child-life interventions. Allowing parental presence during anesthesia induction can help alleviate separation anxiety. Pharmacologic interventions like oral midazolam can improve compliance and reduce negative behavioral changes in the short term. Anesthetic Management for Orthopedic Procedures: Anesthetic Considerations for Select Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeries: Scoliosis Surgery: Anesthetic concerns during scoliosis surgery include optimizing neuromonitoring signals, managing blood loss, preventing positioning-related injuries, and minimizing the risk of postoperative visual loss. Pain Management: Pain control for pediatric orthopedic patients involves a multimodal pharmacologic approach to minimize opioid requirements. This approach includes non-opioid analgesics, local anesthetics, and regional anesthesia techniques. Regional anesthesia, such as peripheral nerve blocks and caudal anesthesia, is particularly valuable for postoperative pain control. Recent studies have confirmed the safety of regional anesthesia in the pediatric population. Pediatric orthopedic surgeries present unique challenges for anesthesiologists. Effective management of preoperative anxiety, careful consideration of upper respiratory tract infections, and appropriate pain control strategies are essential for successful outcomes. Anesthesiologists must tailor their approach to the specific needs of pediatric patients undergoing orthopedic procedures to ensure their safety and well-being. Reference Wu JP. Pediatric Anesthesia Concerns and Management for Orthopedic Procedures. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2020 Feb;67(1):71-84. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2019.09.006. PMID: 31779838; PMCID: PMC7172179. Anesthesiology Board Review Newsletter Subscribe for Discounts, Free Videos, Course Calendar & More! * indicates required Email Address * Ultrasound Block Course applicable in Pediatric Anesthesia for Orthopedic Procedures includes: Certificate of Completion Ultrasound Guided Interventional Pain Atlas Continuing Medical Education Credit Online access to Webinar (additional CME Credit) Regional Anesthesia: Lower Extremity Nerve Blocks for Femoral Nerve Block Genicular Nerve Block Sciatic Nerve Block Popliteal Nerve Block Common Peroneal Block Tibial Nerve Block Block Ankle Block Upper Extremity Anesthesia for Fractures and Reductions Brachial Plexus Block Axillary Nerve Block Suprascapular Nerve Blocks Truncal and Fascial Plane Blockade Transversus abdominis plane block Paravertebral Nerve Block Intercostal Nerve Block Erector Spinae Block PENG Nerve Block IPACK Nerve Block and much more! Caudal Epidural and Spine demonstrations available as well. Register Now! Or Email DRosenblum@rmcpain.com to arrange a private workshop with your Department. NRAP Academy: Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia and Interventional Pain Workshops Subscribe for Discounts, Free Videos, Course Calendar & More! * indicates required Email Address *
En esta historia les contamos como una persona logra pasar 48 veces por las URIS y dos veces por la cárcel sin ser atendido por el sistema penitenciario.
El fotógrafo español Matías Uris, en su foto-libro Toshiva (Dalpine, 2019), reflexiona sobre la saturación de imágenes en la sociedad contemporánea. La limpieza del disco de su computadora le hizo darse cuenta de la cantidad de material gráfico que almacenaba y, probablemente, jamás volvería a usar. Reconociendo su consumo obsesivo de imágenes, el fotógrafo reflexiona sobre la cultura del desecho, la falsedad del culto por la imagen de los selfies y las redes sociales y lo impersonal de la "basura digital". Consideramos si su propuesta de crear un ecologismo de la fotografía, pudiera contribuir a recuperar la dignidad de una expresión artística de tanto valor documental.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
EP296 - Guardian Baseball Co-Founder Matt Kubancik Episode 296 is an interview with Matt Kubancik (@mattkubancik), CEO and Co-Founder of Guardian Baseball. Matt is a serial e-commerce entrepreneur who was the founder of Street Moda, Co-Founder of SKU Vault, and most recently Co-Founder and CEO of Guardian Baseball. Mark is an experienced Marketplace seller, and his current business Guardian Baseball is a hybrid seller selling both wholesale and owned brands direct to consumer from a Shopify site, and via multiple marketplaces including Amazon. Guardian Baseball is an early adaptor of Buy with Prime, and shares in the interview, that they would migrate off Shopify if necessarily to keep using Buy with Prime. He also discusses a number of the current limitations with the Buy With Prime offering. Episode 296 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Friday September 23, 2022. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 296 being recorded on Friday August 23rd 2022 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:38] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott showed listeners today we have a fun interview this is kind of a both a TBT a throwback for me and then also modern discussion around by with Prime but to set it up we are very excited to welcome mat kubancik to the show welcome mat. Matt: [1:00] Thanks Scott and Jason have my own. Scot: [1:02] Matt what's your what's your current title you have you have 50 things you're always doing so I never know what to say other than. Matt: [1:08] Always doing but Maine. Scot: [1:10] Entrepreneur genius. Matt: [1:11] Yeah sometimes sometimes a genius sometimes but that's the life of an entrepreneur I co-founder and CEO of Guardian baseball.com or multi-channel hybrid direct to consumer and brand partner of you know some of the biggest. Brand names and Sporting Goods retailer so predominantly in the baseball and softball market and we're on Amazon Walmart eBay and on our Shopify site. And we were named the fastest growing e-commerce retailer by ink magazine in the Inc 5000 and number 180 overall this year. Jason: [1:48] Amazing that congratulations I definitely want to jump into it but before we do you know our listeners always like to get a little bit of a gist of our guests background and so I'm imagining you you went to college and got a degree in baseball e-commerce is that how you started. Matt: [2:05] No not at all actually spent six months in in college dropped out was one of the original I started selling on eBay 1999. Um during think my first year of high school sold baseball cards ironically and then. Started selling fashion and store stock Closeouts Retail Arbitrage early days of eBay and then when I was 18 years old. I met an executive that was retired from the Footwear industry and him and I started a company called Street motor together, and we were a early on 2000s multi-channel retailer and I met Scott through signing Channel advisor when I was 19 years old I remember signing my contract, verbally over the phone like a grain to the contract and then I went into school and said hey I'm going to withdraw after six months of Indiana University so. Dropped out and did 100 million over, 10 11 years mainly thanks to the a lot of connections Channel advisor helped me create you know Market places like Amazon eBay buy.com back in the day, a lot of the shopping channels like Shopzilla and sites like that and we exited that business in 2017. And been involved in e-commerce and various other companies and degrees. Jason: [3:30] That's an amazing story for a couple of reasons first of all I love everybody that that helps helps fun they're beginning through Retail Arbitrage have you seen the latest version of we Retail Arbitrage kind of making the rounds right now. Matt: [3:46] What is the what is the latest version of I probably have but I'm wondering what it would lose. Jason: [3:50] It's dudes buying Walmart frozen pizza and then selling it as a ghost Kitchen on doordash. Matt: [3:56] I love it yes I actually posted that somebody needs to hire that guy with the tick tock video yeah. Jason: [4:01] Yeah that that was amazing and then one thing that's that I found peculiar about your background is most people tell me they even back then Scott was too fancy to actually talk to customer so it's kind of impressive that you were able to meet Scott in person back then. Matt: [4:16] Yeah the I would think I was like 18 and I was a channel advisor conference and I had a beer in my hand and he walked up to me and I remember he was like are you are you 21 I was like I don't think so. Jason: [4:26] So it was mostly a liability concerns. Scot: [4:30] Yeah yeah Matt Matt's a brilliant marketer and he would bring these t-shirts to the shows he did he did Wingo as my homeboy and then was a twingo made Millions so those are some of the best best marketing gimmicks, and I will show up at the show and I was wearing this this t-shirt with a picture of Miss really weird. Jason: [4:49] I feel like it's even it's gotten increasingly true and more much more true in the last month that you could sell more of those t-shirts the Wingo made me Millions. Matt: [4:59] Yeah it was a it was a lot of fun so. Scot: [5:04] And then so then that was your primary thing so then you did you guys realize that you needed to build you look at all the software for shipping and inventory management and build your own and then you, tell the story of that. Matt: [5:19] Oh yeah so it was like 2012 or 2011 and kind of the only inventory platform out there other than like something on the level like sap Oracle custom build for like larger retailers or Manhattan, a red Prairie was what was it called Scott like Stone Edge or something what was it was on Old access bit database yeah and I remember, they actually got bought out by a former competitor of Channel advisor so and there were so many Channel advisor clients on there so we tried to launch that in our warehouse and my childhood friend and he says who got an engineering degree and eventually became the CEO of skew vault, tried to implement that and then him and a programmer who was programming a bunch of stuff Slava who's the co-founder skew vault try to implement that system and it just didn't work properly for us so they came back to me a few months later and they were like hey we're just going to build it and I was kind of like okay if you guys can really do that and you know it worked we built a skew Vault version 1 out of Street Motors warehouse and then eventually I help those guys kind of get the business off the ground. [6:25] Was original co-founder Andy just exited the business lat ironically a week before Channel advisor so, to a company out of the UK and you know still work with Andy on a daily basis and good friends so really proud of those guys and yeah it was it was a great thing we did up having, thousands of customers and help them with their fulfillment needs and help a lot of the big direct to Consumer and Shabba fine Amazon retailers on a SAS, like platform manage their inventory and cycle counts and you know all that kind of stuff. Jason: [7:00] And so was q v predominantly like a order management system or I guess I always thought of it as kind of like a almost like a dim and a CMS and a way am I thinking of it wrong. Matt: [7:12] Predominately a warehouse management system you know we never we had a really good partnership with people like Channel advisor and, and other channel listing tools so Andy was always very adamant on not disrupting those Partnerships I think you saw a lot of, a lot of our competition would eventually move into the channel management and then disrupt those Partnerships so we always relied on and Scott was a huge part of that, and driving force and then Channel advisor folks were always a huge you know big partner of skew vaulting especially in the early days of really driving that home so we never really got into the listing. Pain management we really tried to rely on our. Excellent capability of functioning in the warehouse so providing quality control integrating with the shipping carriers like ship work shipstation. Companies like that and and then integrating with the channel Partners like a channel buzzer. And providing all the quality control Pick Pack you know scan in audits inventory sinking buffers all that type of normal WMS type of functions. Scot: [8:17] Cool so you you were a e-commerce entrepreneur so you've done that then you did software-as-a-service so you get the check that off the box and then I saw on LinkedIn you've also been working with a turbo host so that's actually getting into my world of cars now tell me tell me how you got into that one. Matt: [8:34] I just really like nice cars and you know I started renting them on Taro and I was down in Florida which is like a second home for me and I had one of my best friends move down there and from Louisville, and we just started buying cars it started with one so I didn't have to like rent Ontario anymore and then you know the turo market got really flooded so what I started to concentrate on was more mid-tier Exotics, so we bought cars like Porsches and Ferraris and then Terro raised there, they used to have a lower like coverage they would do like 150,000 and it was something that I was used to you know Scott on very well versed in the marketplaces I think if somebody looks at my. You know in between companies I've always consulted and I've always been brought in by big Brands to be on marketplaces Amazon eBay and how to really run and function those within a larger organization, so I really adapted well to the turo marketplace because I felt it was much like an eBay or an Amazon type of, mentality where they provide the customers you provide the inventory and then provide the service, and then you don't have to worry about all the legal jargon and a lot of the compliance and you know worrying about marketing spend, and Roi so you know we had three or four cars and and still working with my partner on that. Scot: [9:57] Cool it's a as I got into this Mobility space myself I was poking around it's like otter oh and then I saw the CEOs name is Andre Haddad and he's actually an eBay guy and it rang a bell and I had met him a couple times in eBay meetings so it's funny you've already kind of made that correlation there's a lot of, e-commerce people in the mobility world that I run across and then so my big question is if a Ferrari is a mid exotic for you what what's up there about already like Bugattis here like. Matt: [10:29] Like it in your old Ferrari California so it's something like a hundred and thirty thousand dollars and then we drop you know 20,000 into it to fix it up and it's running. You know we run it at like 750 to 1,000 a day where I would consider a more like. If you look at a competition like in Miami or Vegas they're generally running in the you know the Uris has or the Bugattis of the world so that would I would consider kind of the luxury like Newark here. Scot: [10:57] Got it where's and Lambo is kind of in the middle. Matt: [11:00] I would say Leo Lambo Huracan would be kind of be in the middle mid-tier luxury. Scot: [11:05] What's your daily driver their ass. Matt: [11:07] I have five kids now so it's a Ford Expedition in Louisville Kentucky but I have to I have two choices in Suburban or yeah there's no. Scot: [11:15] Low exotic low exotic yeah a lot of gold fish floating around in the car there I'm a that's our bread and butter here at spiffy is the five kids think you guys are Jim. Give them and give them lots of food to throw around back there. Matt: [11:33] Applesauce back and everything yeah I'm the Costco dead. Jason: [11:37] Spiffy spiffy charges extra for apple sauce stains just so you know. Side note I just got back from Vegas from grocery shop a grocery e-commerce show in the big news in Vegas is they just announced that formula one is coming to Las Vegas. Scot: [11:54] Yeah yeah that's gonna be awesome. Jason: [11:56] They're doing a track that's going to be on the Strip their clothes in the strip for a week it's going to that could be pretty cool. Matt: [12:03] Who's at that shop talk conference that they're involved in. Jason: [12:06] It's put on by the same people that started shop talk yes but it's more focused specifically on the like Grocery and Food Industries. So you've got all this Marketplace experience you got your fashion experience through shoot Street Mota. How'd you get there. Matt: [12:39] So I started the business with a friend of mine he owns the largest travel baseball organization in the state of Kentucky it's called The Wolves baseball organization he's around my age, Jewish kid from l.a. got recruited to play baseball in Kentucky so moved here were both only children both the same age both outside of Kentucky so we got along real well, he started training my kids he's really good with people really good people skills, really good with developing children and just teamwork and a lot of stuff and so we just started Guardian as a as honestly. It was supposed to be a lifestyle based business he was paying full retail from a local sporting goods store, for all his equipment and uniforms and I was this is when I was Consulting for the company that had bought Street mode and I was like hey, you know why don't we just go direct to the brands will sell some stuff on Amazon you know we'll have a little half a million dollar business. [13:35] And so we started working with like the wrongs and the Wilsons of the world and the Maru cheese and when I got into this business you know coming from the fashion business and when I consulted I consulted a lot of direct-to-consumer apparel Brands and launching them on. Amazon and helping with them their Logistics and health and beauty and those are very. Competitive Industries in the direct-to-consumer world right and they're very Advanced and a lot of their metrics and there's just heavy competition and there's a new direct-to-consumer player subscription boxes which is very competitive market and there's always something new. But in the Sporting Goods industry and you know Jason if you play baseball growing up is the same Brands like the same Louisville Sluggers Easton's. Of the world and you are having some direct-to-consumer. Brands that are kind of infiltrating the baseball and softball world but it's very much like an accessories like they might be a Brandon sunglasses or a bad brain and batting gloves but there's not really a big brand kind of doing it all, and there's almost no direct-to-consumer penetration so it's something that. [14:34] As we started evolving the business we started by buying just equipment then we would go to the brands and we started making our own equipment with them so we go to them and say hey. [14:44] You guys do black pink bags for girls that's really cool but like a lot of the girls are sick of black pink so we're going to make black Tiffany we're going to make black rose gold. How about we do these like new colorways kind of relating into the fashion business so you know I was still active in fashion and Consulting for and working with a lot of Brands like Puma, Steve Madden and Brands like that so I know kind of the colorways that are clicking and women's heels or Footwear and sneakers so I would and apparel and I would kind of put those over, and say okay maybe baseball and softball is a year or two behind so we kind of started doing that and that worked really well. And then we started producing our own cleats which are an Amazon bestseller so we're you know we out sell some of the biggest brands on the market came from Footwear so we started making kids cleats, our Guardian one of our Guardian kids please says over 6 700 reviews on Amazon it's one of the top sellers, we had inventory we have more inventory coming in so we just started started with cleats and then we started making sliding Nets bat bags. Um and then we released a baseball bat with a huge kind of direct-to-consumer startup brand that's taking over a lot of the market in the BB core which is high school and college is called stinger, bad company and we did a collab with them and it was called The Guardian bat by stainer and standards whole thing is basically the traditional direct to consumer. [16:07] Where they're you know the normal high school and college bats are costing three to five hundred dollars and they come in around 250 price point, 260 price point it's the same quality most of their sales are direct they do have a few retailers, and we came in and did a brand collaboration and we we had over 120,000 views 130,000 reviews on bat Bros which is the independent bat testing and they rated as a top five bat, and then when it came out for three or four months it was a top five bad on Amazon in terms of sales so. You know that's kind of what we're doing now and kind of evolving the business into more of a direct-to-consumer and making our own equipment and then working on with brand collaborations like a supreme would in the fashion business where, putting a guardian and going to a traditional brand and saying hey instead of just doing black and navy and red catching equipment let's do a kid's shark-tooth let's do a camouflage but like blue and green camo or something so we're kind of making it fun. And it's been good you know it's been a fun ride we're growing rapidly we, closing investment with Matt Joyce this year he came on as an owner so my business partners Evan I own the business along with a 14-year major Leaguer who just retired, and he was kind of a good Target for us we didn't want somebody that was just just going to sign a check like a really really big guy that was a Hall of Famer something and wasn't want to be active we wanted somebody that. [17:36] Was very entrepreneurial and Matt owns a line of gyms and Florida he does a bunch of real estate Investments and he's had kind of a blue-collar dad you know family raised him type of hard-working mentality and we wanted somebody like that. So he came on this year and we're really glad to have him and he's kind of helped line out a hole. Roster of athletes with us so we're very early on in The Cutting Edge of Ni El marketing and yeah so we're just kind of a cutting-edge retailer. Jason: [18:06] Interesting so a couple of quick questions jump to mind when you first got in the the baseball business, I would call that the sporting goods in general and I'm kind of assuming you'll correct me if I'm wrong baseball in particular is a little bit of a digital lagger right so, like you don't think of like Rowling and Wilson as kind of digital first companies. Matt: [18:31] No I would say the industry overall is is very traditional and they don't like a lot of change in the industry I think that's the baseball and softball equipment baseball in all I mean you see baseballs really losing out to Big sports like football and basketball and they're trying to figure out how do we become more engaged with the fan so I don't just think it's. Just necessary the equipment Brands I think it's overall as a sport but we definitely do see that in the baseball and softball equipment you know I think they don't really. They get they hand me these 500-page catalogs and there's 498 pages that are literally dedicated to male athlete ages 14 and above. And what they really forget and they do make equipment for him but it's not a focal point of their business and that's what Guardian kind of focuses on, is the softball Market is very underserved and then the youth market and if you think about the under 8 years old that's the most kids Everybody Plays little league right ever played buddy place, t-ball and coach pitch and then as you kind of Rise through the ranks then maybe you get more involved in swimming or maybe you get more involved in Lacrosse and that's your sport, or basketball or football and then you stop playing baseball so we are our cleats actually really Market to a 12 and under, and that's where really really kind of honing in the market and then the softball markets been huge you know two of our biggest influencers are Bella Dayton and Jasmine Perez chica they play for Arizona and Texas. [19:56] Their videos on Tik-Tok and Instagram we've done on marketing as and IL marketing have. Gotten hundreds of thousands of views and actually get more views than Major Leaguers we work with, and softball NCAA softball I think it was last 2021 surpassed college or viewership, for college men's baseball in the world series for the first time ever so college softball and softball in general is a very underserved Market by these Brands and it's something that, we're working with them on to develop more items and we're also working on ourselves of really kind of dressing that market and putting women at the Forefront. Jason: [20:33] Yeah that's super interesting I want to come back to the influencers but I'm just trying to make sure I understand so you started Guardian. In a lot of categories like a bunch of the aspirational Legacy Brands it's really hard to get a license to sell them right so you know. You do you want to start new footwear company you're not getting a Nike license you know it's really hard to get get a wholesale agreement with Oakley folks like that was it easy to get like Wilson in drawing to sell to you. Matt: [21:02] Yes it because of my business partners. The 14 travel teams he has the largest so those companies were already knocking down the door to be his uniform. Facility and and that sort of thing and at that time we started the business 45 years ago and like you said they're kind of behind the times of e-commerce so they hadn't started to clean up the marketplaces like a lot of the fashion brands or Electronics Brands had, on the Amazon and eBay world yet now they're starting to make a lot of those and they've kind of grandfathers as they in and putting those in those contracts. Where we've been able to do some special stuff like a lot of Brands we have you know brand registry with are able to come and do viral videos on the Amazon Marketplace and do a lot of things like that. Jason: [21:43] Yeah well you you anticipated my next question which is like it's often for those Brands controversial if they want to be on marketplaces and particularly on Amazon so with do I was that part of the discussion where they already on Amazon was it a foregone conclusion that they were okay with their products being a marketplaces or is that something you had to kind of evolve into. Matt: [22:03] Some of the brands are receptive to it you know I think there's three buckets there's you know brands that are like hey you can sew on your own.com but you can't sell in marketplaces then we've had brands that are like, hey you can be an authorized retailer but you have to kind of like follow these guidelines and fall in line you can't change product items we're not going to make smu's for us, and then we have a third brand the third option where a lot of and these are I would say these are more of your up-and-coming Brands and more of your brands that are, maybe number two that are really trying to take the market share of number one, you know like what's the car rental company that always said we're number two were working going to work harder so those type of brands are the brands that we really have the best relationships with like a stainer that's, kind of said hey go ahead and take not only can you be on Amazon but we're going to give you the keys to the kingdom here's brand registry go run with it, and you know do video ads do all type of editorial marketing handle all that for you so we're kind of acting like an agency in that type of a relationship, more were handling that and following all their guidelines working when it with ownership working with the executives, and then carrying their core merchandise and also making exclusive merchandise for the Amazon Walmart type of marketplaces. Jason: [23:16] Gotcha so not only are you doing it but you're helping them get better at it and is that controversial at all like are you potentially enabling them to go direct and not need you as much. Matt: [23:27] I think yeah I think we you know that is controversial right I think you know I spent. Six figures on an event in Florida last year hosting all the top equipment Brands and was very adamant on here's our vision you know I think we're going to be like a Target or a Costco where. This industry is a little unique because you're always going to have. The traditional brands on the Major League field and in the college's so this is not a. An industry where people are just going to say okay now I'm going to wear all birds instead of Cole Haans right where so there's always going to be elements of the industry like people are always going to want to use a Rawlings glove or you know a little Slugger bat right. Or a Marucci bat so. Working with those vendors and carrying that type of merchandise that the people demand kind of creates the ability for us to make our. Merchandise that we make. You know advertised more and have more effect in the market because we're carrying both so and we kind of have always said that that we're going to be like a Costco or a Target and carry our own private label but we always want the Best Brands and the best equipment in there. Jason: [24:38] Yeah so then that brings me back to the influencers because in my mind the world is slightly changed a little bit like hey. But influencers have become a much more effective comment marketing tactic in almost every category but but in Sporting Goods particularly like, Sporting Goods that have a significant College element like baseball historically the influencer wasn't the player it was the University because the players we're not allowed to be in for answers but the the team's I'll sign contract so you so if you were super rich you could go buy a bunch of colleges they are would use your gear and then you were the de facto market leader but you know for the last couple years it's been legal for those individual players, to be their own brand and in some sports a lot of those players had then. Opted out of using the team sanctioned equipment is like and I was curious is that happening in baseball at all and is that going to open the door for more brands or have they figured out how to keep it locked down pretty well. Matt: [25:41] Yeah so not so much on the latter part of the equipment I'll kind of get into that in a minute but the obviously we were very. Early on as soon as that IL law came out we were one of the first, people to start signing College athletes and we've kind of been at the Forefront as a retailer and especially even outpacing a lot of Brands a lot of brands are asking actually asking us for advice and how we run the program so we have it, about 15 College athletes now between baseball and softball signed to our roster and we utilize them and. Not so much in a sales standpoint you're seeing a lot of traditional retailers out there big box stores are signing these college athletes and they're having them like take a picture in a shopping cart, like in their store and it just looks very like hey use my code at the checkout for 10% off. And what we really try to do if you check out our Instagram or Tik-Tok as we do a little a lot of viral like videos of Just interviewing them, we fly them in or will fly out and do a lot of photo shoots with the video team and will do videos of them using different equipment Guardian Brandon also non Guardian Brandon some of our brand partners, which they're really appreciative of and will leverage that content not only on social media but on our website email marketing but also on the marketplaces, and it's you know, I think the new wave of Amazon you've had this wave of Scott seen the different cycles of e-commerce retailers out there and I think direct to Consumer brands are really going hard. [27:06] Are really coming hard on the Amazon Marketplace so I think really the private label companies you know that are strictly just trying to create a commodity product on Amazon, are really going to be forced out by brands that are really bringing really good content and really good marketing on the Amazon platform much like the direct to Consumer brands of the last five years did on social media. Scot: [27:28] Got it so one way of reframing Guardian is you know there's some percentage of your stuff that you sell that the bread and butter its existing Brands but then you're also inside of their building a DTC brand to fill in the holes that by selling other people's stuff you realize hey maybe there needs to be a bat that's kind of like you know it's BBCOR this and we'll all that jazz but it needs to be at a lower price point is that a is that a fair. Matt: [27:51] That's exactly that's a yeah. Scot: [27:54] Cool so you're like a delicious d2c doughnut or a yeah with a with a good feeling so, so one of the reasons I wanted to get you on the podcast is you've been out there pretty vocal talking about by with prime so maybe explain for listeners who don't know what that is what it is from your perspective and then then how you guys got looped in on that. Matt: [28:18] Yeah so by with prime is a new offering from Amazon and it integrates into. Platforms like Shopify and Bigcommerce. And it allows a e-commerce retailer to pool their FBA inventory if they're on Amazon or they can send in inventory into Amazon. And there's a button on the Shopify site or the Bigcommerce site that bypasses the normal checkout process and it's just a one click buy now with Prime and then that item is fulfilled by Amazon, and that can choose and what type of box or whatever and you can actually deliver it in very competitive pricing compared to UPS FedEx you know a lot of the mail consolidators in one to two business days. Scot: [29:06] Got it and then if I. Matt: [29:08] It's a lot like it's a dressed-up it's like a gastropub version of their original like multi what was it called mer multi-channel fulfillment service. Scot: [29:17] Yeah yeah but with a consumer front end to it. Matt: [29:20] Yes with the consumer and actually some of the people in that department are like. Hey we had this originally for like five or ten years but they just dress it up and gave it a good logo so and some more front-end technology but you know it's a very compelling offer. Scot: [29:35] Yeah so the user consumer is I go to your website and I see I'm in the checkout process and it says hey you're a prime user you can just you've already got your payment and everything with Amazon and you know you're familiar with the prime promise which is the fast free shipping and then I just essentially press a button in her my Amazon credentials and I'm good to go is that. Matt: [29:56] Yeah and it's actually before the checkout process so if you it actually supports variation so, if you were selling red dresses and you had extra small and small and FBA but you were sold out and medium and you I'd meet him in your Warehouse then, it would actually if you chose the extra small or small would populate that button on the checkout before you click or on the item page before you added it to check out. Scot: [30:17] So you need you need to make it an inventory aware that it's in a FB a kind of thing okay interesting yeah alright but then the you know so, so this has been another reason this was topical is you know if we kind of rewind I like five years I think there's been this kind of started this got on my radar well first of all shopify's Mantra is arming the rebels right and so that folks being a Star Wars fan that invokes a Star Wars kind of thing and then you're kind of like well who's the Death Star and it turns out Amazon's the Death Star and their arm the rebels so then they've been poking Amazon. Jason: [30:52] Oddly Kylie Jenner is Luke Skywalker in that metaphor but yeah. Scot: [30:56] Sure yeah and and then and then the Shopify social media started to really poke around Amazon it made fun of Jeff Bezos was in some tabloids for some pictures that surfaced and they were making fun of that and then his divorce and all that and then I was sitting there watching that you and I have seen other companies kind of poke the Amazon Baron it hasn't gone very well for him sitting there watching as like this is not gonna go well for these guys and then sure enough you know flash word to hear Shopify has hit some issues with growth rates they over-invested in the post covid world and then famously Toby the CEO was talking about he got asked on a conference call a Wall Street conference call what he thought about by with Prime and he's like oh we love Innovation and we would we would love to adopt it well then they had to backtrack that so are you guys caught up in that like are you know because they basically are now telling Merchants that if you use it, it's pretty hard language they're saying you're probably going to be open to fraud and we can't protect you and so they're definitely heading down this path I think of, trying to make it very hard for you to use this feature. Matt: [32:13] In terms of like are you asking what would I do as a business or in terms of where do you think the industry will kind of go. Scot: [32:19] We'll have has you know I'm assuming you're tracking this pretty closely because you're all you always are yeah. Jason: [32:25] Did you get the threatening letter from from Shopify. Matt: [32:27] Yeah it's we didn't get a threatening letter but we've seen all the pop-up of the terms of service and are account that popped up. Scot: [32:33] Yeah yeah it reminds me of the early days of eBay where they were like there's this thing PayPal we think it's very suspicious and we're not really sure you should use you should use our crappy payment thing that takes 50 clicks and rarely works but it's so super secure, yes so that that's interesting do you where do you think that you know as a merchant, you are on this platform and you want the flexibility to do everything how does it make you feel as from a business perspective to. Matt: [33:00] From a business for so personal and then where the industry is heading I mean where the industry is heading I think you have to look. Amazon is going to rule the world of logistics you know you've seen FedEx come out with the reports where they've had one of their biggest messes ever and I think. You're seeing Amazon trunks more and more and it's the more reliable you know delivery than a lot of the common carrier so. And I've seen you know Scott we've seen what GSI and eBay and Walmart I mean Rockies Han launched of a competitor try to take out FBI I mean these are huge companies that really tried to take on Amazon and Logistics front. And I can tell you I've used what is now I guess Shopify Logistics or whatever they're going to rename it but deliver and, it it did not really work for our business you know I can't speak for other people but it had a lot of bugs in the integration it's there's a lot of flaws with the delivery process and I don't know if that was the best egg acquisition for deliver and I don't know if it'll really work out. For a merchants and so I think there's a lot of there's a lot of progress that Amazon has made to really out do a lot of everyone in the logistics world. [34:14] And I just don't know if other people are going to be able to keep up and I think Innovation is always going to you know fee if Amazon is able to deliver things in one to two days for a Shopify, at prices than most Shopify Merchants can negotiate directly with UPS or FedEx or USPS for standard shipping then you know. [34:35] I understand what's good for Shopify and they want him to go through the checkout but what's good for their merchants on their platform than somebody might actually start to. Take that business platform because I know as as a business owner and as a CEO I would I would make the Assumption if Shopify came in and said that. And we saw by with prime become successful as we've seen in some initial few weeks of launching it, then we would probably consider re-platforming maybe to a Bigcommerce or maybe somebody that Amazon had a really good relationship with. And maybe that's not you know the smartest move at this point but in the future when you know we can deliver Goods because part of our selling feature to people to outdo the box stores, is not you know because people can go to a dicks or Academy, and they can have the much better selection they VIP programs and everything so something we instituted on Guardian baseball.com is when I set out to start the business is I wanted to offer a free 6-month extended warranty, on all bats and equipment. [35:35] Because the Brand's only offer a year so we're a year and a half and I said if we compete with these brands in a world of price monitoring and price mapping and the price is the same everywhere if we're going to have a pair of cleats listed on Amazon and F ba and then we're selling them with standard shipping on our website then the only thing we really have to do is play with price and discounting, and enduring a world of price parity that's impossible so for a d2c Merchants that plays on the Amazon space you have to able to offer that same offering, of that one to two day shipping like Amazon does on your own D2 seeing if you. [36:06] Then you can't really expand in the Amazon because you're just going to cannibalize your own sales on on your own d2c site so I think you have to offer it both so I think Innovation will always continue to succeed, in the market and I think Brands will start to partner with people that are going to partner with Amazon. Scot: [36:23] Yeah often kind of war game did this Jason I'm pretty sure we've said this on the podcast a couple times if I was personally Amazon and I got the job of disrupting Shopify, you know what I would do is I would leverage FBA and I would go and I get as many Shopify people using FBA and then then that would give me the hook to then say well let's say they came out with a competing platform or or they just. They wanted you to go to a, friendly third party platform like let's say it's Bigcommerce or something then then you just kind of proved to me that that is enough hook for the merchants to to make a front-end switch because that that, that fast relatively inexpensive shipping is so important to most companies and because customers expect. Matt: [37:09] And I think Amazon has the war chest to say if Java does come out with that I mean. And I go to the by with prom team and say hey look I have to lever I have to change the Bigcommerce it's going to cost me X you know if you want me to continue using by with prime what can you guys do for me I mean you know. Scot: [37:26] Yeah so you hinted that it's going really well are there any stats you can share with us so like I guess there's one thing would be you know you can only show it so many times because there's going to only be a surface area of inventory that's an FBA but then when it's shown is that got higher conversion than other things anything you can share there would be interesting. Matt: [37:46] So it does have some cons there's a lot of things that are on the road map with by with prime but I mean the obvious obviously the successes are, we're seeing a slight Improvement do the familiar with the prime badge and also the estimated shipping dates the Fulfillment costs are generally 25 to 30 percent less than we can currently negotiate and I'm with a lot of mail consolidators, you know resellers a post office obviously you know I've been in this world so I know that different ways to negotiate with FedEx ups and a lot of the mail consolidators. In the quicker delivery times are generally seen 24 to 48 hours max we're seeing is 72 hours and the a big con of that as you can keep the customer data unlike regular FBA sales. Um and they're also offering you know obviously I was doubted accelerate I spoke at by with Braun conference prior to accelerated Amazon HQ, last week and it accelerate they announced that they're you know offering a bunch of different initiatives that are kind of new for Amazon where they're offering. Brands are participating by with prime the ability to actually mark it on the Amazon platform but back to their d2c site. [38:53] So there's a lot of compelling offers out there that they're kind of opening up the amazon Universe to which is kind of unique and I was actually surprised about. But one of the big issues that they're working on is the conversion tracking so our marketing pixels don't record purchases made from the by with prime button which is something that they're working on. And the akan that they're working on other are releasing this is you can purchase you can only purchase one bearing at a time so it's not like a checkout experience, where you can group a bunch of different items you actually have to like physically buy one item go back to the site so we have a lot of multicart, on our website unlike Amazon which is a lot of single item you pts and so we're seeing you know on a lot of those bulk they're still going to do the traditional checkout process because I don't think it's like it's hard to really explain that to the customer we're like hey if you want to buy the single item go with by with Prime. So we're seeing at limited success with a lot of 10 items. [39:53] If we don't currently with the current integration with Shopify it doesn't have the inventory transparency so we have to double up with an mcf integration. So it's something. You know it's kind of a unique situation with our business model because we have a separate FB a skew so there's some you know quarks in there, and there's some different things that they're really kind of coming out so with but it's I call them cons but it's really things that are calling the roadmap and right as they kind of said at the conference to me and a large group of you know. Agencies and sellers is we wanted to get it out there in the marketplace and I said that's smart and then we want to work on these as opposed to having a perfect program and releasing it a year later. Jason: [40:38] Yeah so I actually just realized we didn't. We didn't articulate a couple things for visitors to just make sure everybody is tracking Guardian baseball is running on Shopify. And you are an early adopter by with prime so and you even you promoted on the homepage right so you've got like very distinctive branding by with prime which is Amazon's program that you know if you're already a Prime member gives you that, that Prime service level of fulfillment and the prime wallet even when you buy it on Guardian baseball so. A couple of things kind of jump out at me there. You hit one that is a big problem for me is the multi skew problem but I think of the by with prime checkout flow is being very similar to the traditional shot PayPal flow. In that the checkout button shows up on as a separate button on the pdps but PayPal also let you. Like use PayPal as the payment method in the cart for the multi skew purchase so you Amazon doesn't have a solution for that today but you could imagine that they would enable by with prime both on the product level and at the cart levels. Matt: [41:54] Yes and that's what they're working towards. Jason: [41:56] Yeah so so that's always one big problem because you know side note most e-commerce sites are not very profitable if the if the, if the average items per order is 1 so so we definitely we need to sell more stuff in most cases to make this profitable the threatening letter I would add to is not Shopify saying hey you're not allowed to accept by with, it's simply them saying in our opinion their security flaws in, doing this kind of thing and we might not be able to indemnify you if there's a fraud problem as a result of that right like that's that's the kind of passive-aggressive, approach shopify's taken to date on it and it is funny to me because all of those same security holes would also be true of PayPal by the way and Shopify has never really complained about PayPal before. Um so that gets me to the other big problem I see for both Prime and I'm curious if I'm wrong or if you're seeing it by with prime only works for existing Prime members there's no onboarding experience so if I'm not a Prime member and I go to Guardian baseball.com I see this huge well go on the homes thing that says by with prime which I don't have Prime and then when I'm looking at an individual skew I want to buy there's a by with prime checkout button, and I could click that button but I won't be allowed to check out because I don't I don't have Prime and so if the only. Scot: [43:21] Who doesn't have Prime. Matt: [43:23] I'm glad it's got Evans. Jason: [43:27] Nobody listening to this podcast but there's 100 million Prime members in the world so even if we assume, 70 million of them are in North America 80 million if you want to be really aggressive are in North America there's 240 million households in North America so two-thirds of the households in the United States of America would be the answer like can't click that button right and so I guess I went like you've got this fragmented inventory you have some of your inventory you can you can fulfill through the the Shopify check out some you can only fulfill through by with prime but then like you have no way to give the non-prime members access to that is that a am I making up a problem and that hasn't been a problem for you or do you think you have, have non-prime members that are kind of in the whole right now on that. Matt: [44:16] I think that's something to Amazon can better communicate we are obviously limited to what they can do on the side but a normal customer can still do the normal checkout process of adding the cart. But I think yeah that's obviously something Amazon can do and then also doesn't support discounts which is a big not only the conversion tracking but discount so obviously a lot of direct to Consumer sites. Like us are offering discounts or first-time customers or email you know pay 25% off with this code or Black Friday Cyber Monday so the currently does not support so it's very limited, but we really feel it's kind of right now in its use and this is going to change in the next three to six months but right now it's kind of like a fast lane, you know where you're paying like at Disney World for the fast ticket or whatever the top-of-the-line and we really feel that hey you can go through your normal checkout process. But we also have this ability we're going to a fast pass you know if you want it now you don't want to Discount you know you want it quicker and you want that problem delivery. Jason: [45:13] Yeah so it's weird like here's how I like I totally agree with how you're thinking about by with prime you also take shop pay on the site and I would argue there's a different set of pros and cons to shop pay for different customers in different circumstances it seems like the solution to all these that none of these companies are willing to do is you ought to be able to just expose the by with prime button to known Prime members and you ought to be able to just expose the shop pay check out to known shop pay holders. Matt: [45:46] I love that idea. Jason: [45:47] Yeah trust me when you suggested to Amazon they're not going to like you because they, because they want that logo everywhere but yeah so that that seems like the, the state of by with prime right now it's super interesting and it's super interesting you're saying like man if Shopify ever said we it's a it's a hard know then that would make you reconsider the platform like that you know like that speaks volumes that's interesting. Matt: [46:14] I think you know I think Amazon's coming out with this program in there. [46:19] I think everyone say okay is is a lot of these direct-to-consumer Shopify Brands going to adapt Amazon FBA and I think a number of them are but I think what also this is going to help. A lot of Amazon Brands a lot of Amazon DTC brands that are really executing well like a guardian on marketing, on creating good content in there not just these Dropship Private Label Amazon sellers, that are out there and you know let's go Source one or two products on Alibaba and sell them under some name and compete with the Chinese but really people that are building a brand you know the brands that are getting acquired by the aggregators and those type of brands. And those brands that may be. Our and expanded into Walmart expanded into other categories but are scared to kind of make that big investment into a Shopify site and hire the marketing team and really become like a full-fledged direct-to-consumer I think. What Amazon's doing on the marketing front. And the Fulfillment front is going to help these Amazon d2c Brands and I think what's going to happen is going to create a rise of the next wave of d2c or the next kind of. Trendy type of companies that come out there so you've seen obviously a lot of trends like 2010's as flash sales and then you saw direct to Consumer Brands and subscription boxes, and the direct to Consumer Brands predominantly grew on social media Instagram Facebook when the iOS changes you know weren't adapted and traffic was still cheap so. [47:44] I think you're going to see a lot of these the next wave of cool direct to Consumer Brands will come from Amazon and they will adapt on the data see sites with the help of Amazon. Scot: [47:54] Prick. Matt: [47:55] And I don't think you're going to see as much D to see big brands that are adapting the Amazon by with Prime at least initially and I think eventually that you'll see a lot more adoption once a lot of these quirks are worked out. Scot: [48:09] Yeah a lot of d2c Brands got born off Facebook but apple and the atti DFA of kind of crushed that so now Amazon used is kind of the way to go so I think what you're saying right. Matt: [48:20] Yeah I think so and I think that's going to create a next wave of either the brands are going to adapt from a t2c over to Amazon or you're going to see these kind of Amazon native people that have kind of running this world like I have for the last two decades that really know how to master the marketplace know how to assemble the teams of marketing customer service and everything and use the right technology stocks, for those businesses and really adopt and really grow really Innovative brands. Scot: [48:47] I know you need to go and like four minutes so we could wrap it a fire this. Matt: [48:50] You're good you can tell Ron few months if you. Scot: [48:52] About dying dying to know what do you think about all the FBA Roll-Ups they were all quite the fashion and now they seem to be hitting some hard times did you ever buy into that trend. Matt: [49:03] I think anyone in this market I mean you look at a lot of our outspoken people on social media of those, you know it's tough to acquire that many Brands and I think there are some people that are successful with it that are more going in The Tortoise and the Hare that you know we all I'm hearing some successful people where there's let you know. By maybe they own 15 brands or they own 10 brands but obviously the big big aggregators that everyone talks about are obviously struggling you're seeing layoffs so. I wasn't really you know how to directly opinion on it I thought it was there's no way they could acquire that many Brands and with it with the market model of not keeping the entrepreneurial on because I think there's always an art form to e-commerce you can have all the analytics you want you can have all the data scientists and, and all the formula but you know when you hire College grads and to run these businesses that don't have experience you it's always a touch and feel there's always 20-30 percent art right, that somebody needs to know and the older I get I realize that I have that on the marketplace of how to really build the brands and how to adapt Brands to that, and that's why I've been successful and I'm realizing that's my strength so I think some of those aggregators really didn't have that kind of DNA of the entrepreneur and keep that intact and that might have been a downfall of some of those. Jason: [50:21] Yeah it's it is interesting I can certainly see companies kind of being born direct-to-consumer on Amazon having their first customers come from Amazon and then outgrow Amazon over time where you want your own URLs or move to other things which like I mean I think, anchor is kind of the Prototype. Matt: [50:42] That yeah that was that's a really good. Jason: [50:45] But I do think I think it's really risky whether you're a rollup or an individual brand or whatever it's really risky to think I'm Amazon is always going to be my exclusive, acquisition Channel because the problem is Amazon Super efficient at getting the maximum, fee for each customer you acquire and so yeah you can buy some of those you know customers at first to get started but you're always going to be paying the highest price and you know the big news that came out this month is I forget what their new name was but Pharma packs which has been a top five, seller on Amazon for like 10 years, and exclusively sell through Amazon they just they declared bankruptcy and they're like one of the biggest most successful Amazon sellers of all time and to me that's a cautionary tale for, like at some point you need to diversify your customer acquisition you can't solely rely on Amazon as that is that source for you. Matt: [51:42] I think yes I think it's a part of a Playbook and you have to adhere to other channels and grow in other channels but you know obviously. Amazon's one of the biggest places to acquire customers one of the most successful so I think it's always going to be in a portfolio but it needs to be part of a whole portfolio. Jason: [51:58] Hundred percent that's why they robbed the money from the banks right because that's what, that's where the money is but man I think that's going to be a good place to wrap it because we have used up our lot of time as per usual if you got value out of this episode we sure would appreciate that five star review on iTunes. Scot: [52:16] Matt we really appreciate taking time to tell your arterial story and share with us your thoughts about both Prime if lister's want to look you up online other than going in and buying some stuff that Guardian baseball what should they do. Matt: [52:29] I'm on LinkedIn Instagram and it's (2) Matt Kubancik
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SLOGG Holiday Episode: https://thewonderpodcast.podbean.com/e/holidays-1610325700/#more-16200342 Introduction to SLOGG: https://atheopaganism.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/introducing-slogg-the-winter-demi-sabbath/ Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com S3E02 TRANSCRIPT: ----more---- Mark: Welcome back to the Wonder Science-based Paganism. I'm your host Mark. And today we are going to talk about do it yourself, religion, because that's really what our naturalistic science-based pagan paths are about. It's really about tailoring a set of practices and activities and observances to your own personal needs. And we're going to unpack all that in this. Yucca: That's right. And a good place to start. Is talking about, what's the point? Why, why are we doing this? We're white humans, not just us, but why do humans do this religion thing in the first place? And what need is it filling? Because it certainly is. We're all doing it in some form or another. Mark: Right. Or at least certainly many of us in the modern world, many of us are doing it. But when you look all over the world, you see that every culture historically has had religious traditions of one kind or another. And not all of those have been pointed at the same purpose. So we wanted to be really clear about what we see as the appropriate purposes for a naturalistic pagan. This, for example, in Christianity, the goal is to reach salvation, right? Your stained by original sin and whatever sins you've accumulated. You have to get those all washed out of your soul and then you go on and hopefully you go to heaven, right? That's that's the whole end. You do that through the intercession of Jesus and so forth. That is not at all, even remotely related to what our religious practices are about. So, another example is in most kinds of Buddhism the idea is that you want to balance your karma so that eventually you can step off of the wheel of time. Into something else. And I'm sure that there's a definition of what that is, but I don't know what it is, but the idea is to leave material reality, you keep coming back to it in reincarnated forms until you've balanced your karma and then you leave. right. We don't want to do that either. We don't really believe that that's what's going on here on planet earth. Yucca: sure. Yeah. So that's not our goal, right? Our goal isn't enlightenment or. Going to heaven or things like that. And you know, we're saying our, but it is also very personal. So we can talk about in general paganism, we can talk about naturalistic paganism in general, but it really also comes down to the individual. So although mark, you and I have a lot in common what each of our. Practices are going to be like, are going to be slightly different because we have different goals, different values, different experiences in the world. Mark: Sure. Yucca: And that's a starting place. Mark: But I think that the commonality is what I would focus on in terms of the purpose of naturalistic paganism, which is to enhance happiness. Yucca: Agreed. Yeah. Mark: And what makes a given person happy will vary from person to person. But what we want our practices to do is to contribute to the happiness of the practitioner and those around them, and to contribute to making a better world. And I mean, I think that we can say that in, in a general sense, right. Yucca: Think so. Yeah. And those second two are almost requirements for the first time. Mark: It is. I mean, if you make everybody around you miserable, it's very to be happy. Yucca: Yeah. Right. And, and, you know, we do have a choice about how we respond to things, but it also is really hard to be happy if you're starving and everyone around you is starving and everything is, you know, burning and all of that. So, you know, we're, we're part of a larger system. Mark: And part of what we acknowledge as science-based pagans is that we are social creatures. We fit within ecosystems. We have responsibilities beyond to ourselves, to the broader fabric of the context that we live in. And I think that what people find is that. As they move away from that individualistic idea of, you know, I've got this soul and I've got to take care of it. And that's my only duty and job in life as they move away from that kind of idea. And they start to understand themselves in a reciprocal relationship with the world and their fellow humans. I think that enhances happiness a lot. But it also, of course, Provides more of a sense of responsibility to, to act well. And in accordance with a better world, this more sustainable world, a kinder world, a more peaceful world, Yucca: Right. Mark: more just world. So when we talk about the, the goal. Those are, those are the general things that we're talking about in terms of our naturalistic paganism. Now, theoretically, I could imagine that there might be a naturalistic paganism that has some other entirely different goal, but I have a very hard time imagining what it would be because if you're really informed by science, You understand the predicament that humanity is in Right. now in relation to the ecosystem and you understand the majesty of the ecosystem. And given that, I think it would be very hard to have a very selfish kind of naturalistic pagan path. I mean the self is important. This is the only life we get. You know, we want to be happy. We want to thrive. We want to achieve the goals that we have, but at the same time, there's that other sense of of, you know, needing to lift those around us and needing to relate to nature in a way that's, that's appropriate. And. Yucca: Right. so given that, I think though that each individual is going to have a different way of going about meeting and achieving that. Mark: Absolutely. And I think that the primary indicator of that. The atheopagan path and other naturalistic pagan paths is that we encourage people to develop their own rituals because different styles of rituals and different kinds of activities are going to be effective for different people. And so instead of going to mass and having, you know, communion, which is this thing that. You know, it's like a machine, everybody goes through exactly the same process. Right. Instead we really encourage people to cultivate the art of ritual development and the ritual skills to be effective, going into a, a ritual state of mind, like drumming and singing and chanting and dancing and you know, all of those kinds of things. So I just to start with that is the very first thing that, that turns this into a DIY religion because we really do want you to do it yourself or do it with your fellow people in, you know, in a, a planning group rather than just. Taking a, a ritual out of a book or or cribbing it from some other culture, which of course is appropriation. Yucca: Choosing in the first place, what rituals and why you want to be doing, because what, there, there's definitely going to be some themes, right? Thinking about seasonal observances and types of rites of passage, that that is common to many humans. But what your going to feel the need for a ritual in your specific life and your specific practice is going to be different than someone else's and that's not only just okay, but that's good. That makes complete sense because what's the point of going through a ritual that isn't going to serve you. Mark: Right. Yucca: the motion, right? Why go through the motion? If it's not going to do anything for you, if it's not going to bring you closer. To that goal that you have Mark: Right. Right. And what that means though, is that ritual arts become part of your personal toolkit. You know, you don't have to wait around for. A Sabbath On, the wheel of the year or a or a particular cycle of the moon. I mean, you, you can wait for those things if you want to. I mean, you don't have to wait very long for a particular part of the moon. I mean, the longest is 28 days. Right. But don't have to, if you feel really stuck in your life, for example, and it's weighing you down and it's depressing, you, you can pull those ritual skills out at any time to create a ritual, to help yourself get going and feel better. Kind of do some repair on your self esteem and, and set some clear, a clear path for where you're going to go. And honestly, I really wish everybody had that toolkit with them. I feel that, you know, these ritual arts have been developed over tens of thousands of years by humans. And it's only very, very recently historically we've lost them. You know, it's, it's only in the last. Thousand years, 1500 years, something like that. Really? Not very much time at all that maybe 2000 years when the ritual started being taken away by priests and no longer belonging to the people in, in the Yucca: where yeah, we're in the world. Mark: Yeah. Depending on where you are. So that said, one of the things about being a naturalistic pagan is you develop ritual skills, right? You figure out what works for you, and you learn how to do rituals. That fi that feel meaningful and good and pleasurable for you. And that's a great thing because meaning and pleasure are good. We always say that meaning and pleasure are good. We are four. You're having those. Yucca: Yes. So those are some great tools, but there are other tools we're using this framework of your DIY religion that we have. So we can talk about ritual as a tool. But we can also talk about things like daily practice. That's something that we mentioned a lot on this podcast, right? Mark: Yeah. I mean, I have my daily practices. I know you have your daily practices. And those can really vary depending on who you are. If you're a night owl, you know, maybe waking up to watch the sunrise every day is not a part of your daily practice. It's Yucca: Sure. Mark: you're just not going to do that. Right. Yucca: And depending on where you live too, if. Mark: right. Yucca: You're in the middle of Seattle, that might not be the most rewarding thing, right. Might not be possible. Maybe you're going to tune in with something else that fits your, your location in your, your rhythms and cycles better. Mark: right. Rather than waking up to watch the fog slowly start to glow Yucca: He Mark: the morning. And just assuming that there's a sun back there Yucca: Yeah, not to say that that might not. Beautiful in its own. Right. But it might not be the same experience that somebody on the top of a clear mountain top is going to get Mark: exactly. Yucca: yeah. Mark: So once again, as we've said so many times as you start to figure out your daily practices, we come to the fact that ours is a religion of Place. right? Yucca: Place. Yes. Mark: It's a, it's a religion where you relate to the landscape of where you live and to the ecosystem of where you live and to the, the sky phenomena where you live, the clouds, the sunsets, the sunrises, the intermittent, the, the moon cycles, the intermittent things like meteor showers and comments and stuff like that. Some of those will be universal. When there's a comment visible, it's visible for half of the world. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: when some of the, but moon cycles are the same, right. For everybody. Yucca: Yes. Although that does look different depending on which hemisphere you're in, Mark: Yes, it does. Yucca: which is quite well, which is quite fun. Mark: So it, it becomes it becomes a matter of first of all, building that relationship through greater understanding of what your context is, and then choosing those daily practices, both in relation to yourself and maybe in relation to your family. And in relation to the world that are fulfilling and give you a sense of of connection and meaning and contentment. Yucca: Right. Yeah. And, and, and spiraling it and seeing what those different units that you're a part of is part of developing your particular practice. Right. And seeing where. You know, maybe I could, I could think of a situation in which it might be self partnership, family extended family, neighborhood, community, you know, there's different ways or it might, you know, you might jump straight from self to family or not include family or whatever it is. Right. And again, that's just going to be based on what your particular situation is. Mark: Right. If you're a person who feels sort of pressed in on by the demands of your family quite frequently, maybe what you want is a personal practice. Maybe what you want is something where you are able to block out a little chunk of time and space every day and say, this is about. It's about my growth. It's about my development. It's about my happiness. And so I'm going to do this thing, you know, and it can be very brief. My daily practice, I think I probably spend two minutes in the morning and maybe as much as three minutes in the evening, honestly, that little of course the candles are. In the evening. And so they continue to burn and I come back and contemplate them once in awhile. Yucca: But in terms of active time, it's sort of like when you're doing a, a recipe, there's your active cooking and then there's the, oh, it's in the oven or it's cooling. Like those are two different times. Mark: exactly. That's exactly. So, so a personal practice is. It's a really important way. I think, to do a number of things for one thing, a personal practice can just be very influential over your psychology. It can really help you to feel like, you know, I'm living a meaningful life here. I'm living a life where I'm acknowledging the relationships that I have and my responsibilities as well as the benefits that I have out of those relationships. And I am. I am a person who is seeking to grow and become wiser over time. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And that's really important, you know, that's that is. Core to living a fulfilling life. When you, I was referred a, an article recently about the, the five regrets that dying people often express. And typically they are around not having paid enough attention, not having sought to evolve. Having spent too much time on work, not enough time on relationships. And a relationship with yourself and with the world is every bit as much a relationship as your relationship with your partner, your relationship with your ecosystem, any of those, you know, knowing who you are and having that evolve over time is really essential for human happiness. Yucca: And that daily practice is a moment that you can take to check in with yourself and make sure you're not just on autopilot. Right to, to stop for a moment and evaluate what you're doing and if that's what you want to be doing and just do a little bit, of course, correction, because sometimes the things, those, those things that you were just talking about, those regrets, those are, those are big things. Those are big life style. Habits. That's not just something that you decide one day like, oh, I'm, I'm just going to be more present. And then all of a sudden you are like, that's something that you practice and have to make adjustments for over and over again. And that what we've talked about so far ritual and daily practice, those two tools combined is one of the ways to allow that to happen, Mark: Huh, Yucca: whatever it is that you're working towards. Mark: absolutely. Yeah. So that's personal practice. And experimenting with different kinds of things that you might do with that. And that's, this is a really important point to make about experimentation. I think because if the point of this is to be happy and fulfilled and have a healthier relationship with the world around us, then expecting ourselves to do some huge pile of. Observances and rituals and you know, all that kind of stuff. When we really don't want to do them, that's not helping. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And on the other hand, not doing anything isn't really helping either. So there's this point of experimentation in the middle where it's like, okay. Daily practice. Yeah. I'll take that. I'm going to do a little thing to start with in the day and maybe that'll grow from there. Moon observances. Well, that sounds a little frequent to me. Not sure I want to do something every month. Maybe I'll put that aside wheel of the year observances. Well, those are important to me. That's every six weeks, so six and a half, seven weeks. And and I really want to acknowledge the passing of the seasons and all the metaphors that those mean to me. So I am going to do those. So there's this. There's this sort of picking and choosing from a menu of options that I think each of us is empowered to do on our own. And that that's by definition, that's a DIY religion, right? It's do it yourself. Here's a, here's a big menu of options. You, you know, select as many as you like from columns, a, B and C. Yucca: Yes. And something to add onto with that, that I think is, is really important to bring up. But when we talk about choosing the things that worked for you and the things that don't work for you, that sometimes it's going to take, sometimes the things that are going to work for you might take practice to get to there. And they might not be comfortable at first, if you're not used to doing a daily practice, making yourself do that every day. It might suck a little bit, but there's benefit from doing that. It's sometimes you've got to get past the uncomfortable part to get to the benefit. Like if you, for anyone who's learned to draw. Think back to how uncomfortable it was to be behind the wheel the first time, just your heart racing, or if it wasn't driving, riding a bike or doing whatever it was that you did the thing about just how terrifying that was in the beginning. But now you don't even think about it. You just do it, but it's worth it because now you can drive yourself where you need to go or ride wherever you need to go or whatever it was. Right. Mark: And not only that, but once, once you do fall into a groove with a daily practice, you'll find that if you miss it, it bugs you, it, it just, it, something feels a little off and you'll find yourself going back to it because it, it adds something positive in your life and you don't want to be without that positive. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: So it's, it's kind of a funny thing. It's like first it may feel a little forced and you have to deal with the critic voice, of course, which we've done an episode about before. And we've talked about many times that critic voice inside you, that's saying, ah, this is stupid. Why are you doing this? You have to contend with that and push past it. But there will come a time when that all calms down and it becomes very normal, very normative to to do these activities. And when you don't do them, you feel like there's kind of something missing from the day. I, I, I wish I had done that. And then you'd go back to it the next day. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And there's no, you know, we don't have like concepts of sin and, you know, Stuff like that. So there's nothing wrong with missing a day. Yucca: We were joking before recording that there aren't any pagan police coming to get you because you forgot your full moon ritual or something like that. Mark: I promise I'm not going to give you a phone call. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: So, you know, you select those pieces. Yucca, you mentioned before we were recording meditation is a great example. if you decide that you want to start a meditation practice, even if it's a very brief one, even if it's like five minutes, five minutes of meditation, for someone that hasn't done it, it can be very uncomfortable. Your mind Yucca: haven't done it in a long time, he used to do it. And you dropped the practice for five years coming back. It's rough. Yeah. Mark: is in your mind will spin all over the place and you'll find yourself sitting there thinking I'm not really meditating. This is not meditation. I'm not getting where I'm supposed to go. And the truth is you're going to have to push through that for a while. It's just like any other skill, if it's really rusty or if you never developed it, you're just going to have to do it badly for a while until you start doing it better. Yucca: Yeah. So there's, there's a balance to take a look at between looking at what's what's working for you. What's worth working to make it work for you. And, you know, what is it that you really want to be doing? Mark: right. Yucca: So, yeah. Mark: And that goes along very well with the overall goal, which is happiness. And growth, right? Because we are dynamic systems, we humans. And if we stagnate, we're not happy. If we're, if we're stuck in a, in a particular rut, generally we will not be happy for long. So growth becomes very important and the way that humans grow over time and as they become wiser and that teaches them to be kinder to themselves and to others and to be happy. To find the happiness in life. So it's this, it's this trade-off early on between doing what's comfortable, which is the easy part and doing what forces growth, which is the lessee's T part. But it's worth it. Yucca: yeah. So another thing that many pagans do is a seasonal practice. And of course, this looks different depending on where, where your place is. Mark: Right. If you have seasons, Yucca: If you have season, well, everyone has seasons, but it's what seasons do they have? Right. Mark: And, and the, the transition of seasons care can be very subtle. We have some folks in the community who live in Florida and Louisiana, and yes, they have seasons. They don't have extreme seasons really? They, they kind of go from hot and humid to warm and a little less humid. And then back to hot in here. Yucca: And then in that case, Again, looking at whatever your place is, the, what you focus on for your observations of the year might shift somewhat. You might have a little bit more of a night focus than a day focus, or it might be focused more on the types of creatures who are migrating through at the time and all of that. I mean, there's just so much you certainly don't have to be in. You know, Britain or somewhere that has the sort of stereotypical seasons to people to have a practice of paying attention to the world around you, because that's what it's really about is paying attention to those cycles in the world, around you. Mark: That's right. That's right. And then of course there are also layers of metaphorical meaning which can be placed over those as well. And we have episodes about creating your own wheel of the year and about cellar and episodes about each one of the seasonal. The solstices equinoxes and the points between those. So you can go back into the archive and listened to episodes that did go into more detail about Yucca: this'll be our third year going through the the holidays. Yeah. Mark: that's right. Yucca: So. So you can check us, see if we said the same thing each year or we're totally different. Mark: Well, hopefully we've said somethings that are different. Cause I like to think that my practice is growing and deepening and I'm discovering new things. So, hopefully it's not all exactly the same. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: So yes, seasonal observances are things that we can do. And and that is often a big focus of a pagan practice. Speaking of focuses, another thing we can do is we can create altars, which in the atheopagan tradition and we call focuses because we associate the word altar with sacrifice and Yucca: And worship. Yeah. Mark: and we're not really doing those things. Yucca: But a focus. It brings your focus in that's what you're choosing to focus on in your life. Mark: Yes. And we've done episodes about that as well, but it bears saying that's one of the things that's on that big menu. Some people don't want to build a focus. For many of us having one or more focuses in our home. Really helps us to remember, oh Yeah. I'm living a spiritual path here. I'm a, this, and it's this time of year. And these are the meanings that, that means for me. And there's a shell that I picked up on the beach when walking with my lover and I, that was a beautiful day. All the. All these stories that the objects on the focus tell to you because of your memories that are associated with them. So it's, it's a concrete way of having a presence of your practice in your home all the time. whether you're feeling it or not, Yucca: Yeah. Mark: you know, that that's part of what's helpful about it. Yucca: And it can help create that physical structure. Right? That's if you're, if you've got a daily practice and you go to your focus or altar everyday for that. And during, during your seasonal observances, you're changing it out. You know, it creates a little bit of that structure that is just helpful to have something that. That doesn't just have to have you remembering in your brain all the time that there's something built into your environment that just leads you into doing the thing that you want to be doing. Mark: Yes. I mean, for me personally, having a focus is really important. I've had one for 30 years, even during the time when I left paganism, I didn't take my old altered down. I just let it collect dust for about five years, but I couldn't quite bring myself to take it apart. It was just too meaningful to me. So. So that's another piece, another, another option that you have as you develop your DIY religion. Right? And then there are other kinds of observances other than seasonal observances, like moon observances, we just mentioned. Right. And people. Often associate the, the new moon or the first little Crescent of the moon as being a time for new beginnings for for starting new projects for brainstorming and maybe doing divination around new. Directions for themselves. And in many cases they see the fullness of the moon, the full of the moon as the fulfillment of those things. And then as it wanes the departure of those things. So you can pick the time of the moon that you want to celebrate a particular thing going on in your life. According to that map, Yucca: Sure. Yeah. Or. Yeah, meaning you find with it Mark: And the kick, you know, that can be as simple as just going out and watching the moon for a while. Maybe leaving some like a, a pretty bottle of water in the Moonlight to quote, capture the Moonlight unquote so that you can use that water on your altar later on. And it feels like special water. Or I mean, they can be complicated, you know, complex rituals could be as little as just going out for a walk under the moon or singing a song to the moon. Really depends on you. But the good thing about having some kind of a lunar practice is it gets you out under the sky. Yucca: Yes. Mark: It, it connects you into that cycle. You always know what time of. What's part of the cycle the moon is in, right. And it's just healthy. It's healthy to get out under the nighttime sky and observe what's going on. Feel that incredible sense of smallness in relation to all those stars. Yucca: And don't, don't miss out on the new moon period because when the moon isn't. You can see the rest of the cosmos better. Right? So we make a point. We go out every single night for at least a little time. That's part of our daily practice is some Sun-Times and star time. But when there isn't the moon, that's when you can, if you live somewhere away from light pollution, that's when you see the Milky way, right. That's when you see the stars that you don't normally see, that's when you might catch a meteor, that's when. It reveals more, the new moon it's the full moon is beautiful itself and it lets you see the ground better. It lets you see the little creatures moving around and the wind going through the plants and all of that. But it's just both of those times of the month are just so, so different depending on whether the moon is there or not. Mark: Yes. Yeah. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: So that's a lunar set of observances, and that can be something that you do every month or even more often than every month, if you want to celebrate different cycles or it can be something that you only do when you have some work that you want to do on a particular issue that's happening in your life or thing that you're struggling with, or it can be something that you just do once in a while, because you feel like celebrating. Yucca: Right. Or because it's warm enough to, Mark: Yeah, Yucca: yes. And if you perhaps live in Ontario, maybe you don't want to go out to look at the moment in January, Mark: but you might, Yucca: perhaps. Yes. Mark: if it's clear and there's Moonlight on snow, that is some beautiful, Yucca: Yeah. Mark: that's really beautiful. Yucca: Well, they do say there's no such thing as bad weather. Just bad clothing. Mark: Yes. I think that's a Swedish thing, which totally makes sense to me. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: I maybe Icelandic? Yucca: I don't know where it's from, but I, I hear I, I appreciate it when I hear it from different folks. That puts me to shame. Sometimes I go, well, I'm pretty good about getting outside, but sometimes, you know, I need to just say. Gets warmer clothes on and get myself out there instead of hiding inside, although hiding with the cat and some cocoa and a book is pretty wonderful too. Just maybe not every single day. Mark: perfect segue. Yucca: That's right. Unintentional. Mark: Yes. but a perfect segue because the next thing for us to talk about is invented holidays. Yucca: Yes. Which is why we chose this topic. But this week you have one coming up, right? Mark: I do next weekend on the 15th, which is the third Saturday in January. I celebrate a holiday called slog all caps, S L O G G. And it is the winter Demi Sabbath of coziness and silly hats. So it's a time when you, you know, you put on your really good woolen socks and a silly hat, and you, you get yourself all nice and cozy indoors and you make mold wine or cocoa or hot cider and and enjoy reading poems and singing songs. And Jeff's. Just have a really nice cozy sort of communal time of defying, the horrible weather that's outside. Yucca: That you've just been tapping to slog through. Mark: exactly. So, and we'll put I, I wrote a blog post about this a couple of years ago, and we'll put a link to that in the episode notes. But there are lots of other invented holidays and you can invent your own. Some of them are based in historical events, like, Einstein's birthday, for example, which is March 14th, which is also PI day, because 3.14, right? And that is often celebrated by atheists as sort of a celebration of science and mathematics and critical thinking and skepticism and all that good kind of stuff. I like it for the PI. Yucca: Yes along those same lines. There's URIs. And a little bit, little bit later on, we have may the fourth. Mark: Yes. which is star wars day, may the fourth be with you? URIs diet is the, the night that the, the anniversary of the night, that URI Geiger, Irene first orbited the earth, Yucca: Yeah. Mark: the entry of humans into space. Yucca: So it's kind of a celebration of just all that cool space science, nerdy, wonderfulness. Mark: Yeah, a lot of planetariums and science museums have celebrations of Yuri's night, Yucca: yeah, Mark: which can be really fun. I mean, they have, they have exhibits and they have dancing and it's just a lot of fun. Yucca: yeah. Oh, what are some other ones? Mark: Wolf Inuit. Yucca: That was, yes. Oh, that one's too cute. That was, that's a pretty new one too. Mark: Yes. It was invented by an eight year old apropos of pretty much nothing, I guess, just decided we should have this holiday and you celebrate it with a cake shaped like a moon, and it's a day to be nice to dogs. You give, you give presents to dogs. So it's a celebration of our relationship with the canine world. Yucca: And they've been with us for a while. Mark: They have Yucca: really have we've, we've changed each other in many ways. Mark: we have there I just read recently about a new burial that had been found. And I think it was, I want to say 15,000 years old and it was a burial of both a person and a dog together. And there were some grave goods. So it was clear that there was really a you know, a recognition there of that relationship. Yucca: Then, of course there's ones that could be from one's cultural heritage. Right. So. You know, St. Patrick's day or St. David's, you know, even though they've got the St in there, but you know, their celebrations of UN's Irishness or one's Welshness or, you Mark: or, or Hogmanay on new year's Eve which is a Scottish celebration burns night. Yucca: And I'm sure that there are many other groups might have similar types of days. Just not being a member of them. I'm not sure what, what they would be, but Mark: know that many atheists also celebrate Darwin's birthday because evolution is so pivotal in our understanding of the nature of life. Yucca: yeah. So there's going to be, there's lots to choose from and with like the eight year olds or like mark, if you see a need. Well, you can create one. Mark: And you'll, you'll be, you probably won't be surprised, but you still may be very pleased by how. Responsive people around you will be to the suggestion of having a holiday for no apparent reason. People, people are always looking for an opportunity to have a good time and, you know, especially at this time of the year, when it can be so bitter I just felt like it was necessary to, you know, waiting around until the, the, the seventh or so of February. Roughly the mid point between the winter solstice and the spring Equinox. It was just too long. I needed a holiday in the middle. Yucca: Yeah. Well, especially coming out of, just back to back holidays Mark: Right, Yucca: end of the previous year. Yeah. Mark: right. So I think maybe what we can do now is just to loop back to. You know your initial question, Yaka. What's the point? We, we do this. Not because we're under some obligation too, which is how it is in many other religions. You know, that we are tasked with this work that we must do in order to fulfill the spiritual requirements of whatever the religion is. That's not us. This is optional. Right. But. It'll make your life better. It will, it will help you to be happier. And in my experience, as a happier person, it helps other people around me to be happier which just makes for a more pleasant life generally. And if I'm looking for reasons to be happy like flowers, blooming, or the pattern of the clouds in the sky or any of those things Yucca: migrating or, Mark: Yeah. All the goldfinches at my bird feeder right now. It's really cool. Then I am, then I'm experiencing more of those happiness neuro-transmitters right. The dopamine and the serotonin that just help us to have a more pleasant experience of our lives. And it, and when we are happier, We're also more empowered. Yucca: We're more effective Mark: We are. Yucca: We do a better job at whatever, whatever it is that we do, whether that's a traditional career or parenting or, you know, being a good partner or a good steward of the land, we're just better at it. Mark: Yeah. Yeah. because we're not burning our bandwidth on stress. Right. I mean, stress is incredibly consumptive of your internal resources. And if you are under stress as all of us are at, you know, at some level all the time and with COVID and so forth, we're all under, pretty severe stress right now. This is a way of counter contravening. Some of that. Of helping us to say yes, there are stressful things in my life. And yet look at that tree blowing in the wind. That's amazing. And getting that little sort of, ah, feeling that comes from those neuro-transmitters. So we invite you, especially if you're new to the practice. To, you know, consider the options in the menu that we described in this podcast episode go and visit other podcast episodes as resources. And there's a lot of stuff on the atheopagan ism blog as well. Atheopagan ism.org. How to create rituals about occasions for creating rituals and daily practices and all that good kind of stuff. There's no better time to start than now. Hey, it's Steven the new year. Yeah, So, you know, might as well, if you've been thinking about this, you might as well put a toe in and see how it feels. And even if it's a little awkward at first, you know, give it a chance, give it a chance Yucca: worrying. And just, just remember those times when you pushed through that Mark: yeah. Yucca: when it has worked out. Mark: Right. Okay. Well, this has been a great conversation as always Yucca. Thank you, so much, Yucca: Thank you, mark. Mark: everybody have a great week.
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Join the discussion on Facebook!TranscriptJonathan VanHorn:Welcome to the tooth and coin podcast, where we talk about your adventure of being a dental practice owner. In these episodes, we're going to be talking about problems that you will likely face as a practice owner, as well as give an idea about actionable solutions that you can take so that you can get past this problem in your practice. Some of these concepts are really big ones. Some of them are very specific, but we hope that these episodes help you along with your journey. Now, a very important piece for you to understand is that this is not paid financial advice. This is not paid tax or legal advice. We are not your financial advisors. We are not your CPAs. This is two CPAs talking about informational and educational content to help you along with your journey. 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This is not a dental specific marketing discussion. I will talk a lot about my experiences anecdotally working with, you know, two, 300 dentists and, you know, talking to thousands of dentists over the past, you know, five to 10 years about different topics, including marketing. So I am not like you said, I am not a subject matter expert when it comes to marketing to dental practices or for dental practices and trying to stir up patients. But I have had a lot of conversations and this, this is more kind of reaching into the, so the, to the, to the textbook versions of marketing from my book, business education and experience and ma, and combining that with that anecdotal, those anecdotal conversations, I've had over many different conversations with dentists over the last, you know, five to 10 years in people building their practices and things like that. So I want to make sure that we get that out there, that we're not pretending that we're, you know, marketing URIs or anything like that. We are not. And if you think that a couple of CPAs, our, our marketing areas, then we got some Oceanside land to celly Irene, Arizona. So, so anyway, so yeah, so I love talking about this kind of stuff. Cause it's, you know, there's a lot, a lot, a lot of people have new questions about advertising in general and things like that. And it's a, it's a really interesting discussion.Joseph Rugger:Sure. Well, one of the things that we've got on our monthly deliverable that we get to our clients, we have a four questions report that we have. And one of the things that we put on every single four questions report is what percentage of your business are you spending on what we call growth expenses? And that really comes in kind of three main, big categories. One is advertising slash marketing. One is consulting and one's continuing education, you know, in our message to our clients is, you know, as we get a chance to look at that, the more that you're spending on these growth expenses, the faster the practice should be growing. So I'll be interested to kind of dig into that a little bit and kind of get some of your thoughts, I guess, kind of first and foremost, Jonathan, I guess we probably needed to tackle the why, or like, what's the, what's the purpose? Like why do we care about marketing? You know, and maybe, maybe getting a chance to kind of drill in and, you know, just some questions that our audience can kind of ask themselves when it comes to advertising and marketing, like, like what's the purpose of what it is that we're doing. So maybe just kind of speak to maybe some, some different, different places that we can go when we talk about the purpose of the marketing.Jonathan VanHorn:Yeah. Like on a high level marketing is effectively just trying to, to create awareness around your, whatever it is you're doing. So whether it be about your dental practice or, you know, some type of new service that you're offering or, or something of the, of the source, you know, marketing is, is, is creating awareness. And it's doing that in a way that can be received by the masses. And then, you know, I guess you could also make an argument that marketing is also attempting to get a certain group of people to do a certain thing that you're trying to spur or something you're trying to have someone receive your message. And so in marketing, there's the three M's or I'm sure there may be more, this is just how we've, you know, a couple of CPAs have dumbed it down and that's a, there there's the message, the market and the medium, we're sure the three, again, it's the PRI you know, dozens of other things that are included in this, but this is just a, like a textbook example of some of the ways to dumb down marketing, but you know, the purpose of all of the, of the message of when you're doing marketing is to try and have someone act and do something that usually means in create, which is usually spurred to create an interaction between that person and whatever it is you're doing.Jonathan VanHorn:So in this example, to be a dental practice, to try and call the dental practice or interact with the dental practice in some way is typically what a mark w typically the purpose of marketing and the dental practice.Joseph Rugger:So as we look at the, kind of the different things, like why would a dental practice want to do marketing and advertising? Like, you know, as we, as we maybe kind of, kind of siphoned through the stuff that you've seen, that's worked and not worked, you know, I think there's kind of the old adage that says, if you don't know what you're looking for, you don't have a target to shoot at you'll, you'll hit it every time you don't hit nothing every single time. So maybe talk about some of the, the different pieces that might make sense for our audience to kind of think through when they're thinking about, well, why are we advertise?Jonathan VanHorn:Yeah, that's a really important question for every, every person to consider whenever they're considering doing marketing in the first place, the simple answer is that they want new patients, the, or to grow their dental practice, I guess, is an even simpler answer. They want to grow the dental practice, which usually means they're trying to grow revenue, which usually means that they're trying to make more money. That's usually the reason they're trying to do it, whether it be making more money in the short term, through income or in the long-term and through building equity into a better, bigger, better practice, that can be more valuable to people down the road for some type of an exit inside of the business marketing is kind of the, the, the energy that the spend on marketing sometimes can be considered to be the energy that's fueling that growth, which surprisingly it's not always the case, but you know, that is that's in general, the reason why people try to do marketing, you know, the, the really important thing for the people for everyone to consider is, you know, you know, you're going to be doing marketing.Jonathan VanHorn:Why is that? If you've already made the decision, you're going to start marketing for whatever reason and why, why is it now to me, you know, and this is anecdotal, but the reason people typically market or start marketing, or one of the big errors people make in marketing is by just casting that really wide net, like, I just want to grow my practice. And like, so I'm just gonna start marketing because I've been told that's what I'm supposed to do. And that, that does typically see, or that does seem to be inefficient. It seems to have a lot of cost involved and not create a lot of return on the spend of that advertising spend. So, you know, whenever there people are considering advertising, they have to meet, try and be as specific as possible of what you're trying to accomplish with that marketing campaign.Jonathan VanHorn:Now, if you think about it, if you're a startup dental practice, or if you are a, say a, you know, an established multi-doctor office, you know, you should be thinking of marketing in very different ways. And people always seem surprised by this, but some of the fastest growing dental practices that are more established spent almost nothing on marketing. It's one of these things that, you know, just because you're spending the money, it doesn't mean that you're being efficient and actually growing in ways it can be done in other ways. So, so, yeah, so consider very carefully why you're doing the marketing some big categories, and then just examples of, of different, you know, campaigns of what people are trying to do in marketing is, you know, we're trying to gain new patients. Okay. Well, what type of new patients are you trying to gain? Are you trying to get any patients or are you trying to just, you know, grow your patient count because you've got all this excess capacity and your business of like, you know, I've got, well, I've got nine operatories and I've got two doctors working and I've got, you know, three hygienists that are going, but, you know, we've got, so we've got room for another, you know, I dunno, 800 more patients.Jonathan VanHorn:So I need 800 more patients so that this practice can be operating at the capacity. It should be in order for, to be able to make the percentages that I need, if that's the case. Okay. Well, what type of patients, you know, what type of new patients who, when I say type, I'm not saying like, you know, well, it's, you know, it's this, this or this, I'm saying, what's the demographic of the type of patients you're trying to attract your business, that fits your culture, that fits your niche area, that fits the things that you're trying to do. Another specific examples, you know, trying to market for specific cases, let's say that you're already an established office and you've got, you know, you're a one doctor office and you're pretty, you know, pretty booked most of the time, but you're starting to add something like implants to your practice as a new service line, and you want to attract to implant patients.Jonathan VanHorn:Well, that could be something you could create an actual campaign around after maybe you've exhausted your current patient pool to make sure that your patients are educated, that this new service exists and things like that. So, yeah. So that's a bit longer of an answer, which, you know, obviously I tend to do, but, but that, that those are the things that you need to consider whenever you're going to be taking on marketing. Some people today may actually not know, not actually know this, but marketing actually used to in a lot of states, I used to be illegal for Dennis to do it just because it wasn't considered to be perhaps professional, but eventually, you know, you know, logical minds prevail that, Hey, if, you know, if you're, if you're doing this, you need to be able to tell patients that are out there, that you're doing this. So the best way to do that is through marketing.Joseph Rugger:Got it. So we've got this really simple, this really simple concept of the three M's the market, the message and the medium. So can you maybe just go through a couple of examples of just kinda walk us through just at a very simple high level, maybe a couple of examples. So you mentioned implants, right? So maybe talk through, you know, if somebody came to us and said, Hey, I'm thinking about doing some marketing for implants. So maybe like walk us through the market, the message and the medium, just to kind of simplify things down and just get our audience thinking about, you know, what may make the most sense for them.Jonathan VanHorn:Yeah. So, you know, the first thing I would say is talk to a marketing person. I'm not a marketing person, but what I, the in terms of the, in M and M for the market might be something just as an example, maybe you're in Northeast Arkansas and, you know, you're, you're trying to start implants and something like that. And your you're looking at your market, you know, you have to think about what, what type of people, you know, usually we want to get implants in terms of, you know, I know there's wide Ray of wide varying reasons of people are getting an implant, but, you know, maybe it's, you know, it's for cosmetic reasons, maybe they don't want to have just the, you know, the tooth be pulled or something like that. And so sort of thinking about who it is you want to attract to your practice and you always have to kind of weigh like, who is it that I want to attract versus, you know, do I just want to try it to literally everybody too, that might want an implant.Jonathan VanHorn:And there's probably some mathematical like numbers out there that could help quantify that in a way. But I would think that probably the most marketing people would say, you just want to really get the message out there to the people that might need it and then try and pull them back in. So that would be, that would be the market. The message would be, you know, how you would craft whatever story you're trying to tell and that marketing message to get that person to create that interaction, that, that reaction. So they're were, they're either aware, number one, they're aware of your practice offering the service. And number two has that creates that interaction has a call to action for you to actually do something inside to where, or when I say you, I mean, the, the, the receiver of the message to actually do something, to call into the office, and then hopefully, you know, create that interaction that turns into an appointment, which hopefully turns into a case.Jonathan VanHorn:And then the medium is how you're casting. You know, that message now today's day and age. There's a lot of different ways to do it. You know, you can do it from a, he knew a postcard you can do through a mailer, you'd have a magazine ad. You could be doing presentations, you could be on social media, you could be doing Facebook ads. You could be in Facebook groups, you could be a thousand different places. And mediums nowadays advertising is like the is very, very, very ingrained into our life. Nowadays, 20 years ago, we would receive something like seven or eight marketing messages a day. And like now it's like a thousand or something insane like that. Like we just, and so it's really hard to actually see some of these things come in and sometimes it looks like it really caused ya. It's, I'm sure there's a lot less than a thousand, but it's, it's a lot. So, so going to say those, those are the three ends and again, have a marketing person talk to you about these things. Don't talk to me about these things, because I'm not, I'm not going to know everything about what you guys are going through, but that's, that's that in general, and like on a, on a educational level is, is, is something that conceptualize,Joseph Rugger:Well, you were talking about the message. And, and back in the back in the days that actually used to run a big, big healthcare business, they talked about that in marketing and advertising in, in crafting your message in healthcare, you don't sell the drill, you don't sell the drill bit. You sell the hole. In other words, we're not selling the big, fancy new machine that we just bought, or the big attachment that goes on the new fancy machine we're selling the result. Right? So if we, if we think about the dentistry world and how that applies, you know, we're not selling, you know, the newest, latest, and greatest technology we're selling, how you feel about yourself and what your smile looks like. We're, we're selling results and, you know, smile open mouth again for the first time in years, because you're proud of your smile.Joseph Rugger:Like those are the why's behind the message. So however it is that you're going to craft your message. I would just encourage you to think in terms of, we don't want to sell the drill. We don't sell the drill bit. We want to sell the whole, we want to sell the result. What is it that, what is it that we're able to do? You know? So what are, what are some things that have kind of stood out to you, Jonathan, as you've probably seen tons and tons of different dental marketing stuff. So like you, and I both know, like we go out to Google and we search for a dentist in prosper, Texas, and all of a sudden we're going to have all kinds of stuff, start popping up all over our stuff. I go do a search for Henry Schein. And now all of a sudden, my Google is now inundated with all kinds of dental equipment and dental supplies and that kind of thing. What are some things that maybe have stood out to you? Just kind of from a marketing and advertising standpoint?Jonathan VanHorn:Yeah, I mean, so the, the thing that has stood out to me that I think is the most surprising to people. Is that just because it works in prosper, Texas doesn't mean it works in little rock Arkansas or in, you know, Olympia, Washington. It just because, just because, you know, it works from one place doesn't mean it's going to work somewhere else. And the story I tell people about this one is I had a long time ago, there was a guy who did a startup and escapes me where he was from, but he was sitting in a startup and he was talking about how he was going to make a hundred dollars, 120 new patients a month. I was like, man, this guy's killing it. Like, he's just crushing it with the new patient numbers. And because like an average for a startup is somewhere between 30 and 50, that's pretty average for a startup of new patient flow.Jonathan VanHorn:And this guy was just destroying it. And he said an awesome, so happy for him. I asked him in a very plainly, what is your dream for marketing? It's like, the only thing I'm doing for marketing is this postcard only thing I send it out to all these people. And like, I mean, tons of new patients and like that. And I was like, man, that's amazing those I do you mind that? And again, since we're virtual, we've, we've, you know, we had a lot of crazy ideas over the years and our firm to try and provide extra value to our people. Like if you, do you mind, if I share this postcard, I'll find just, you know, like hide your, your contact information and your pictures and stuff like that that are on here. And just like share this for some other people that are doing startups that are not in geographic areas that you're in so that they can have some similar success to you.Jonathan VanHorn:And like, yeah, sure know, great. I was like super excited. I was like, Hey man, I'm going to share these people. This postcard that gets like a hundred, 150 new patients a month or whatever, it's gonna be like super high value. We had all these thoughts of like, maybe we should, you know, create this big marketing vault and our company or our bike and have marketing staff. And we could create all these formulas and like have this, this extra value, like to add as an additional service for our CPA firm. And I share that, that postcard with a few people, and I had followed up with a few of them seeing how, how it had done like three different geographic locations and like, pretty much all of them were like, yeah, I didn't get a single patient out of it. Oh my goodness. I was a slide or, you know, well, if I shared it with four people and you know, two of them did it, one of them got like nothing out of it.Jonathan VanHorn:The other one was like, yeah, maybe, you know, five patients and it basically paid for itself, which is okay. And so, you know what, that was that what the big, you know, moment of that was like, okay, so this can be a, a huge success in some areas and be completely, you know, inefficient in other areas. So a big lesson, one thought is that, you know, it, it really depends on where, who you're marketing to and how you're marketing. And everybody is different. Like one of the, probably one of the most complicated things to do in this world is to try and have someone else try and subliminally, subliminally, have someone else do something, or it makes someone else do something like that. That's a very hard thing to do. I mean, there are multi-billion dollar brands out there that spend billions of dollars doing that, trying to do this now, trying to get you to drink.Jonathan VanHorn:Whenever you sit down at a restaurant to order a Coke, instead of a Pepsi or to order, you know, to drink a monster energy drink, instead of a Gatorade, there are so many different things that by, you know, an affliction shirt instead of a button up or a polo or an Underarmour. I mean, there are so many things, things out there that try and do that, and it's really hard to do well. And the reason is, is because everyone's unique. Like we're all different. What ha what, what pulls us together? You know, what ma pulls us to do? Something is very personal in nature. And so like, I, that you're not going to get me to do something the same way. You're going to get someone else to do something in different areas of the country. That just, it just varies. The medium matters. If I had to guess why it didn't work for those other people.Jonathan VanHorn:And it wasn't because of the, the, the, the message was any different or because it just didn't resonate with that area that, that the town that they were in, it was probably just that the people that they were being marketed to in that area were wasn't really successful. That medium is one that is more likely to work. Whereas in the other areas, the country that was tried out were just areas where mailers just didn't work very well. That, that that's to me is the, and that that's very frustrating for a lot of people to think of because us as rational individuals, usually one like say, okay, everything fits into a box. We can create this statistical model to where, you know, we can find the most efficient way of doing something every time, the end of the day. It's not like that. You've got to test and test and test and test and test to what you said about, you know, selling the whole yeah.Jonathan VanHorn:You know, whenever you're trying to get someone in and you're not trying to sell them because of the fact that you're usually, you're not trying to sell them like, oh, you know, I'm, I, I, I am very good at doing crowns. So I'm going to try and sell you a crown. Now, you're usually trying to say, you know, Hey, we're gonna be able to help you not have pain, or we're going to try to help you sleep better at night, or you're going to feel better about your smile afterwards. You're selling a result, not a, you know, not, not the way that you do it. So that's the kind of my, my story about, you know, some, a surprising thing about, you know, the, the, the three M's of every situation is different. And the only real way that you're going to be able to know what to do next is by trying something, and then having fail, assuming that you are trying to grow your business and practice.Joseph Rugger:Yeah. Yeah. So interesting about the medium. So I remember the first time that I learned about Yelp. I don't remember when it was 10 years ago. Let's just say it was that I first learned about Yelp is probably longer than that. And a buddy of mine, we were, I was hanging out with him and he was in the bay area in California. And he's like, yeah, there's this review system it's called Yelp. It'll help us find the best place to eat with the best food. It's like, you can even set up separated by this. And, and I get out to California and the bay area, and we're hanging out and I'm like looking at these Yelp reviews. And these restaurants would have like 200 Yelp reviews. And I'm like, man, what a great tool that must be awesome. I bet that's driving new business. And then I returned home to Northeast Arkansas to check out the Yelp reviews.Joseph Rugger:And there was like no Yelp reviews on anything. So if those restaurants would have spent all of this time and energy on something that wasn't helpful, the medium's not right. Maybe Northeast Arkansas would have responded well to a postcard in the mail versus a Yelp review. If you're in the bay area, very tech savvy place, right. Silicon Valley's right next door. That's probably going to be a lot, lot more, you know, I think that, I think that I've heard a lot of practices having some success with making sure that they've got good Google reviews. I don't know about you Jonathan, but whenever I go out and look at something and buy something, one of the things I'm trying to just take a quick peek at is, is any kind of online review that can kind of give me, give me an indication of what I'm, what I'm working with and what I'm looking at, you know?Joseph Rugger:And, and like, even if it's like, I'm going to buy something on Amazon, like a product on Amazon, first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to know that they've probably had a couple of buddies that went out and wrote them five star reviews. So I'm also going to know that there's going to be some crazy people that are out there that are never happy that have written some one-star reviews. I don't know why maybe it's like that train wreck thing, but I'm like, like geared towards going and reading the one-star reviews first to see if I can actually find any legitimate, any legitimate, real complaints about the product or the business or the location versus, you know, being able to tell these are crazy folks that are out there. So what are some of the, what would you say are some of the more successful mediums? I mean, do you find that a lot of practices are successful, you know, trying to encourage their patients to do Google reviews? I don't know if even Yelp is still a thing, is Yelp even still a thing, does that even even apply to the dental world, you just have it in the bay area. What are some things that you've seen in that, in that whole, that whole area be successful?Jonathan VanHorn:Yeah. So I mean, it, again, it really depends, like if you're in an area that is, has a lot of, you know, people in there, you know, from their young families, like from Tony, from the age of Tony to the age of probably 50 ish then, or if you're an area that has people that are mostly up from 40 to 75 or something like that, like what's successful in one area is going to be very different than another. And just because of their age, that doesn't mean that it's, you know, a slam dunk. It just means that there's a higher probability that something might be, you know, be better in that medium than the other one. So, you know, the amount that, how tech savvy it is, cause you gave an example at Northeast Arkansas with Yelp and like, nobody really cared about Yelp in Northeast Arkansas because it didn't have any saturation.Jonathan VanHorn:No one really used that technology, but that was, you know, probably 15 years ago at this part. Right. I would assume like somewhere in that, and nowadays, you know, there probably is some type of a reviews. I do that with restaurants. Like I will look at reviews on restaurants and usually it's like Google reviews or, you know, like TripAdvisor, if we're traveling out of town, I go to TripAdvisor and look at reviews for things like that. So for me, like if you're marketing in that way, that is a good way of getting me. Now, if you have like a Google ad, I'm actually a person that's a little bit more turned away by Google ads than I am someone who like actually likes to look like that that gives priority to Google ads. Because I think, well, it's someone who's spending a lot of money on this.Jonathan VanHorn:Maybe it's, you know, maybe the reason they're having to spend the money is because, you know, because the product doesn't speak for themselves. Right. So that's why I usually go and look at the reviews and things like that. So in terms of what's successful, everything's successful. Everything is how it works. The only thing that I would probably say it doesn't really work or seem to work anymore is yellow pages, which I think, again, I don't know if those are a thing, but they used to come in and drop one off by our office door. I guess they finally stopped doing that and probably went straight to the recycle bin. Didn't it? Yeah. So, but that, that's a good question because it leads us into another thing is, you know, is, you know, we have, when I came on and started doing this, you know, even seven, eight years ago, we would see, you know, a thousand, 2000, $3,000 a month for yellow page ads.Jonathan VanHorn:And we'd go in and say, Hey, how many people are finding us through yellow pages and black nun? I was like, well, how many, what was the last time you looked to the yellow pages? I don't know what years at 2021, I guess 1996, maybe 97. You know, so sorry. If anybody out there is like, there's some, I know there's one person out there is like, oh, I love the elevators. Where are you guys giving him so much crap? Well, in and out of the elevators are on your phone. I mean, I think Yelp is Yelp. Yelp is the elevators, right? Like I'm about the same company. Yelp stands for is yellow pages like that. I was assuming that, but anyway, so you know, it, it just depends on things. And whenever, whenever you're doing this, you gotta have a way you need to have some type of, of a tracking mechanism to see if what you're doing is working to, because those people that were to spend that money on the L pages, you know, I, I challenged a few of them to just say, Hey, just cut it off for a year or six months.Jonathan VanHorn:And like, if you start seeing new patients drop, then dude pick it back up. Maybe like if it's worth it. And if you know, then, you know, Hey, it is what it is. I would say universally though, in terms of marketing, I think every dental practice will find success in an internal internal referral system, having your PA doing a really good job for your patients and then having them go out and, you know, talk about your practice is a really good way of growing a business. I don't think, I think that works in every market. I don't think the only market that won't work in is the markets where you're not actually giving doing it that good of a job out. I would probably make an argument that is where that wouldn't work, because you, you would have people that are going out and spreading negative messages about you.Jonathan VanHorn:Now, I'm not saying that every, every person who patient that comes in has the correct perception of what type of service they received. Not saying that. I'm just saying that you got to hit, you know, the majority of them to do a good job and hopefully promote that, that, you know, that, that, that snowball effect in our practice now, obviously for like a startup practice, that's very hard to do because you know, maybe one in 50 patients is going to actually refer you to somebody. Your job is just to hope that hopefully I've provided enough value to that patient to have them become a referral for you.Joseph Rugger:Good stuff, good stuff. Well, Jonathan, I always get a chance. I always love to get a chance to pick your brain and talk a little bit about all the different business stuff that you've gotten a chance to see out in the dental space. And hopefully you guys have found this helpful, don't forget your three M's of marketing. Since we're going to have a quiz, a pop quiz, you got to make sure you've got your market. Right. You've got to have your message, right. You've gotta have your medium, right. So those are our textbook three M's anything else to add as we kind of wrap this thing up?Jonathan VanHorn:Yeah. The only other real point that probably is important for people to under, to, to, for me to circle back on is make sure that you understand why you're going to be doing the marketing. We've seen so many practices succeed and do so well. And when you go and look at those growth expenses, it's like 0.2% of the revenues going to marketing nothing almost. And then we'll have other practices that are spending 10 to 15% of the revenue trying to drive growth. And it just doesn't seem to be, you know, didn't seem to be doing the job. Like if you just cut away at that 10 to 15%, you would just be, you you'd just be making more money and then could hopefully go and spend that in, in, in more efficient and more efficient manner inside of your business or grow it better, whether it be through, you know, training your staff or training yourself, or, you know, just providing a better patient experience.Jonathan VanHorn:There's a lot of things that, that money could have been used for now. I do believe advertising works. I believe that, you know, a strong marketing campaign is, is incredibly valuable. And, but I just believe that you need to have ways to track that internally. So where you can, you know, be, give a fair analysis to your advertising, spend every six months to see if w what you're spending the money on is working for you. And again, don't just rest on your laurels that, you know, Hey, I'm using this company that someone else used and it worked for them just because it worked for them. Doesn't mean it will work for you. You still have to go in and do the, do the work, or have somebody in your team that does the work to be able to analyze if that was correctly. And it gets a really quick disclaimer there, you know, your CPA doesn't typically do that. We don't, we don't do that for our clients. That'd be something that if you wanna have a conversation with us about that, we could give you some ideas of, Hey, here's, here's the way the math behind this and how you'd contract this too. But that's not like a service that a, a CPA firm typically does for, for dental practices. So, yeah. So that's, that's the, that's the last point I have on that.Joseph Rugger:All right. Well, thank you guys again for joining us. It's always a pleasure to have you, and we'll talk againJonathan VanHorn:Soon, I guessJonathan VanHorn:That's it for today, guys. I hope you enjoyed this episode of the tooth and coin podcast. 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This conversation was recorded on June 7th, 2021. In this interview, we talk with Deborah Korenstein, MD, about medical overuse and overdiagnosis. We discuss her April 2021 publication in JAMA Internal Medicine, the Accuracy of Practitioner Estimates of Probability of Diagnosis Before and After Testing as well as the diagnostic process, the teachability of diagnostic reasoning, cognitive biases, and other topics.Who is Deborah Korenstein?Dr. Deborah Korenstein is Chief of the General Internal Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Her clinical work focuses on care to adult survivors of childhood and other high-risk cancers. As a researcher and an educator of physicians in training, she is interested in improving the value of care while minimizing unnecessary and potentially harmful tests and treatments. To learn more about mitigating medical overuse, check out the ABIM Foundation's Choosing Wisely campaign and Dr. Korenstein's project Testing Wisely.Factoids:In this week's episode, we list some factoids on the overprescription of antibiotics for viral URIs, the incidence of incidentalomas, and the detection of PE with high resolution CTA. If you'd like to read the articles from which these factoids were taken, check them out below:1. 2019 Update on Medical Overuse: A Review in JAMA Internal MedicineHighlights: Procalcitonin does not affect antibiotic duration in patients with lower respiratory tract infection (4.2 vs 4.3 days)Incidentalomas are present in 22% to 38% of common magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography studies9% of women dying of stage IV cancer are still screened with mammographyClinics commonly overprescribe antibiotics (in 39% of all visits, patients received antibiotics)State medical liability reform was associated with reduced invasive testing for coronary artery disease, including 24% fewer angiograms2. Overdiagnosis in primary care: framing the problem and finding solutions in BMJ (2018)Highlights:Overdiagnosis is defined as the diagnosis of a condition that, if unrecognized, would not cause symptoms or harm a patient during his or her lifetimeOverdiagnosis can harm patients by leading to overtreatment (with associated potential toxicities), diagnosis related anxiety or depression, and labeling, or through financial burden.Many entrenched factors facilitate overdiagnosis, including the growing use of advanced diagnostic technology, financial incentives, a medical culture that encourages greater use of tests and treatments, limitations in the evidence that obscure the understanding of diagnostic utility, use of non-beneficial screening tests, and the broadening of disease definitions.
In 1958, the American author Leon Uris published Exodus, the novel about Israel's founding that became an international phenomenon. Its hero, though an Israeli kibbutznik, was portrayed as a blond, blue-eyed man of culture and elegance, a portrayal reinforced by the film version of the novel, which starred Paul Newman. Whether or not this was his point, by portraying Israelis as racially white and as Western in their sensibilities, Uris was making it easier for most Americans to identify with Israel and its cause. This week's podcast guest, the frequent Mosaic contributor Matti Friedman, argues that Americans still see themselves in Israel―just not always in the way that Uris hoped. In a recent essay, Friedman finds in the American reaction to the Jewish state's recent confrontation with Hamas the same mythology that once animated Uris's writing—only in reverse. Where in Uris characters are portrayed with distinctly Western sensibilities so as to attract Americans to Israel, contemporary portrayals of Israelis are now advanced by those who wish to distance Americans―and the world―from Israel. Musical selections are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.
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En el telefilme, fue la última llamada que Mike Hanlon (de Derry) hizo. Pero en el libro, lo primero que supimos, es que alguien se había suicidado a causa de Eso. Stan y Patty Uris fueron víctimas de aquel payaso que acosa Derry, ¿pero cómo? Espero sea de su agrado y lo disfruten, además si gustan, me dejen por aquí, en los comentarios, si tienen interés en escuchar algún relato en especial o si quieren algo de un autor de su gusto. Colóquense unos audífonos o auriculares y disfrútenlo. Si les gustó, pueden seguirme en mis redes sociales: ·Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fer.mr.bones/ ·Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fer.mr.bones/?_rdc=1&_rdr & https://www.facebook.com/FernandoPalaciosAKAMrBones ·Twitter: https://twitter.com/FerMrBones También lo encuentras en Spotify y cualquier otro servicio de podcast. https://anchor.fm/fernando-palacios94 https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/historias-de-espantos/id1554046415 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Today's TALK JAM episode features Susan telling a story (again!)... this time about the battle of the Exodus (a barely-seaworthy boat) to bring concentration-camp survivors and their families to what was then Palestine (later the state of Israel) in 1947, at a time when the British ruled over Palestine and bent over backwards to accommodate the Arabs in the region... This incredible battle, documented in Leon Uris's epic novel EXODUS, finally broke the British policy to keep survivors behind barbed wire in refugee camps and led, inexorably, to the founding of a new (old) nation.The novel EXODUS also led to a major defamation suit by a man mentioned in the book as having performed medical experiments in the camps on prisoners. This great story of THEIR epic battle, which could have destroyed Uris's career, is chronicled in Leon Uris's QBVII (Queen's Bench VII), where the case was argued. Both novels are incredibly good reading; find them and read them if you can!!Our Political Talk today discusses the meaning of the word 'coattails' in political terms--what does it mean, how do politicians use it, and is it really helpful? Also a quick history lesson on the only President (Zachary Taylor) who refused to be sworn in on a Sunday, and how a politician whose term had expired MAY have been president for 24 hours; and a brief take on a new Congresswoman from Florida, who will have a special flag outside her office door... Today's episode is brought to you by the audiobook version of STEALING FIRE, the Broadway love story by Susan Sloate, read by Mapuana Makia:https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fire/dp/B08JTS6RNFLink for EXODUS on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Leon-Uris-ebook/dp/B01N65HQI8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1610145694&sr=1-1Link for QBVII on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/QB-VII-Leon-Uris-ebook/dp/B01MSZ2CEM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3PFEUN8T0AOB3&dchild=1&keywords=qb+vii&qid=1610145751&s=digital-text&sprefix=QBVII%2Cdigital-text%2C200&sr=1-1Link for EXODUS movie (starring Paul Newman) on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Paul-Newman/dp/B00006FDAU/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=exodus+movie&qid=1610145850&s=movies-tv&sr=1-1
Arc 3 (The Rebellion) Episode 27: Ashes, Ashes After a quick goodbye to Uris, and tension amongst them after the night before, the party sets off to the city of Absyn. Dae finds a toy. Aramin finds his master. Peren finds the truth. Welcome to Anyways… D&D! This was the twenty-eighth session of our Dungeons and Dragons 5e campaign. Our cast includes: AJ as Quinn, a human wild magic sorcerer, Calista as Lyra, an elven druid, Carlos as Fer, a human barbarian, who will be absent for the coming episodes, Maria as Esmenée, a tiefling druid, Matt as Aramin, an aasimar ranger, Valerie as Peren, a half-elven paladin, and Dylan, our dungeon master. Find us online on Twitter here! Session highlights and memes can also be found on Twitter here. The music for this episode was "Heroic Age", “Dreams Become Real”, "Gathering Darkness", and “Division” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 #qwahqwah
In today's episode we discuss: —Transmission & Prevention: Pediatricians published best practices for breastfeeding mothers who were positive for or exposed to COVID-19 in JAMA Pediatrics. The authors express that while the literature is uncertain on risk of COVID-19 transmission through breastmilk, this route of transmission seems unlikely, and protective antibodies are likely to be the only SARS-CoV-2 related material to be transmitted. They believe their proposed practices for breastfeeding while infected with COVID-19 will promote safe breastfeeding, although they note these suggestions may change overtime. · Is there an association Between Early Treatment With Tocilizumab and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19? Investigators on the STOP-COVID (Study of the Treatment and Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19) team retrospectively analyzed data of 3,924 COVID-19 patients from 68 US hospitals admitted to the ICU. They compared estimated 30-day mortality rates of patients that received tocilizumab (an IL-6 inhibitor) in the first 2 days of ICU admission verses those who did not. The researchers performed inverse probability weighting to ensure that baseline and severity of illness factors were balanced between the study groups. The results revealed an estimated 30-day mortality of 27.5% in patients treated with tocilizumab, compared to 37.1% in patients without tocilizumab, suggesting the drug's benefit in treatment of critically ill COVID-19 patients. · Investigators affiliated with Yale School of Medicine performed a systematic review of 86 studies worldwide (n=2560 patients) on dermatologic manifestations in COVID-19 patients and found associations with chilblains/pernio like lesions at 51.5%, erythematous maculopapular rashes at 13.3%, and viral exanthem at 7.7%. Average time of skin lesion onset was 7.9 days after upper respiratory infection symptoms in adults and 1.5 days in children. These findings suggest that dermatologic manifestations may be another way to identify COVID-19 and better manage the spread of disease. —R&D: Diagnosis & Treatments: At what times during infection is SARS-CoV-2 detectable and no longer detectable using RT-PCR-based tests? A systematic review of 32 longitudinal studies examined the accuracy, temporal sensitivity, and optimal sampling sites and strategies for SARS-CoV-2. The authors reported on a total of 1,023 COVID-19 RT-PCR confirmed participants and 1,619 test results for 11 different sampling sites at various times during SARS-CoV-2 infection. They found that the highest rate of virus detection was within 4 days of symptom onset at 89%, which fell to 54% between 10 and 14 days. The authors discuss that the accuracy of RT-PCR is limited, early testing minimizes false negative results, and lower respiratory tract or fecal testing may be preferred sampling sites when testing more than a few days post symptom onset. · There is clinical impact of monocyte distribution width and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio for distinguishing COVID-19 and influenza from other upper respiratory tract infections according to a cohort study conducted at Taipei Medical University Hospital (Taiwan), that analyzed potential biomarkers of SARS-CoV-2 infection in 174 patients (9 with nasal swab RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19, 24 with influenza confirmed via rapid-test, and 141 determined to have common URIs). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/covid19lst/support
This week on Four Corners I sit down with My colleague Uris Parker about wrestling knowledge, promo styles, and Championship belt designs. Join us in the convo --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mylesjai/message
Arc 2 (Vacrye) Episode 20: Bye Bye, Lily Sebastian The party was way in over their heads and suffered a devastating loss to Aetruk. They learn that he is of the Fist's "Hidden", who are magic users who sow mistrust of other magic users throughout Addesh. As the party, and Uris, mourn the loss of a friend, they decide on their next steps. Welcome to Anyways… D&D! This was the twenty-fourth session of our Dungeons and Dragons 5e campaign. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the next few episodes all were recorded on Discord. Our cast includes: AJ as Quinn, a human wild magic sorcerer, Calista as Lyra, an elven druid, Carlos as Fer, a human barbarian, who will be absent for the coming episodes, Maria as Esmenée, a tiefling druid, Matt as Aramin, an aasimar ranger, Valerie as Peren, a half-elven paladin, and Dylan, our dungeon master. Find us online on Twitter here! Session highlights and memes can also be found on Twitter here. The music for this episode was "Heroic Age", "Fluffing A Duck", "Private Reflection", and "Rites" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 #qwahqwah
What scared me about this bug is how EASY it is to execute, no MITM, no special software.. its all exploiting of existing software.. Let us discuss The SSDP engine in Firefox for Android (68.11.0 and below) can be tricked into triggering Android intent URIs with zero user interaction. This attack can be leveraged by attackers on the same WiFi network and manifests as applications on the target device suddenly launching, without the users' permission, and conducting activities allowed by the intent. Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-security/security-operations/gl-redteam/red-team-tech-notes/-/tree/master/firefox-android-2020 https://twitter.com/init_string https://twitter.com/LukasStefanko/status/1307013106615418883 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/message
Heidy Gil siempre ha tenido trabajos difíciles, con hijos de habitantes de calle y desplazados por la violencia. Pero nada como el de ser profesora de Literatura en la Cárcel Distrital de Bogotá y en algunas URIS. Y, ahora, en épocas de coronavirus, lo que empezó como una vocación terminó en miedo. Con más de 1.000 contagiados en las cárceles del país y con un hacinamiento del 55 por ciento, dar clases es toda una odisea.
Heidy Gil siempre ha tenido trabajos difíciles, con hijos de habitantes de calle y desplazados por la violencia. Pero nada como el de ser profesora de Literatura en la Cárcel Distrital de Bogotá y en algunas URIS. Y, ahora, en épocas de coronavirus, lo que empezó como una vocación terminó en miedo. Con más de 1.000 contagiados en las cárceles del país y con un hacinamiento del 55 por ciento, dar clases es toda una odisea.
This conversation took almost an hour, so I split it into two shows: Part 1 talks mostly about the RFC itself, what it means and why. Part 2 goes into personal experiences with the RFC and with syndication in general, in particular in the context of web comics. This is part 1. The why When serving most RSS/Atom feed readers today, you have to choose: Do you make a complete feed with all the things you ever published, or do you make a shorter feed with just the latest entries? This is a trade-off with pros and cons, and it seems like a trade-off you have to make, but a solution to let your Atom feed have the cake and eat it too existed already 13 years ago, if only any of our feed readers would adhere to it: RFC 5005, Feed Paging and Archiving The what https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5005 was published in September 2007 The XML namespace for RFC 5005 elements is http://purl.org/syndication/history/1.0, aliased as fh below. Section 2 defines the complete feed: It is one document (Atom file) that contains the entire set the feed describes. The document is marked with an fh:complete element. Section 3 defines the paged feed: It is a series of documents connected with Atom link elements with rel set to the link relations first, last, previous or next. Section 4 defines the archived feed: It has a subscription document that may change at any time, and a series of archive documents that are expected to have stable contents and URIs. The link relations defined are current, prev-archive and next-archive. The semantics are clearer: prev-archive refers to previously published entries, and because the contents are stable you can stop when you see a URI to a document you already have. Archive documents are marked with the fh:archive element. The who In this show I’m talking to: fluffy Federated social web: https://queer.party/@fluffy Writes and makes things in several creative fields: https://beesbuzz.biz/ Publ is like a static site generator, but dynamic. It produces RFC 5005 archive feeds, of course: http://publ.beesbuzz.biz/ Thoughts on ephemeral content vs content worth archiving and how they relate to protocols: https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/5709-Keeping-it-personal Jamey Federated social web: https://toot.cat/@jamey Blog: http://minilop.net/ Made a prototype full-history reader that follows RFC 5005 links: http://reader.minilop.net/ Made a webcomic reader mostly mentioned in Part 2: https://www.comic-rocket.com/ Made a WordPress plugin implementing RFC 5005: https://github.com/jameysharp/wp-fullhistory Made an RFC 5005 archive feed synthesizer for sites with a predictable post frequency and URL structure: https://github.com/jameysharp/predictable/ Hosted at https://fh.minilop.net/ Was on HPR 9 years ago, talking about Xorg! http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0825 Conversation notes Google Reader was terminated 2013-07-01, all subscription data permanently gone on 2013-07-15: https://www.google.com/reader/about/ Mastodon had Atom feeds with paging, but the feeds went away when OStatus went away: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/11247 HTML4 does indeed define the HTML link relations: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.12 It has prev rather than the previous of RFC 5005, but mentions that some browsers support previous as an alias. HTML5 also defines the HTML link relations: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html Here previous is a lower-case must for historical reasons. IANA manages the Registry of Link Relations: https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml It references RFC 5005 for the Section 4 relations, but not the Section 3 ones. RFC 5005 singles out its own Section 3 (Paged Feeds) as the best-effort, loose, discouraged model. Section 3: Therefore, clients SHOULD NOT present paged feeds as coherent or complete, or make assumptions to that effect. Section 4: Unlike paged feeds, archived feeds enable clients to do this without losing entries. I’m confused about it in the show, but the RFC is clear that an archived feed has one dynamic subscription document, which points to a chain of immutable archive documents. Back in 2002, Aaron Swartz published his joke MIME-header-based RSS 3: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000574 The cultural context at the time and the rivalry between RSS 0.91+, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom deserves a show of its own.
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COVID: How it affects dermatology, how it affects us, and dermatology/COVID overlap Some articles we discuss: Immunosuppressed patients are not at increased COVID risk. (JAAD, Gisondi et al) - The risk of infection/URIs with psoriasis biologics is small. (JAAD, Lebwohl et al) - The AAD has a COVID derm registry. (JAAD, Freeman et al) - COVID may be androgen-mediated. (JAAD, Wambier & Goren) - COVID toes. (Clin Exp Dermatol, Alramthan & Aldaraji) - PPE based on COVID route of transmission. (JAAD, Gupta & Lipner) - Varicelliform eruption in COVID. (JAAD, Marzano et al)
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Les États-Unis , terre familière pour Mappemonde. Los Angeles, Baltimore, Philadelphie... Bref, aux quatre coins de ce grands pays, nous avons déjà parcouru un grand nombre de villes, mais parler de la musique d'un état en particulier, c'est une première. Notre invité du jour, Marin, a choisi le New Jersey pour cette nouvelle escale. Il y aura donc beaucoup de guitares d'adolescents dépressifs, mais ça sera bien contrebalancé par le cloud rap de Clams Casino, la deep house de Kerry Chandler, ou le hip hop industrialisé de Dälek. La musique du New-Jersey Alabama 3 - Woke up this morning The Dillinger Escape Plan - Clip the Apex…. Accept instruction The Feelies - Loveless Love Dälek - Spiritual Healing Pinegrove - Old Friends 070 Shake - Make it there Clams Casino - Waterfalls Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All Taana Gardner - Heartbeat (party version) Sharon Van Etten - Hands Todd Edwards - Light of the Son Kerri Chandler - Atmosphere (Kerri's Foundation Dub) Abonnez-vous dans nos réseaux Même après plus de 120 épisode, c'est toujours pareil : pour suivre Mappemonde, vous pouvez vous abonner à la page Facebook ainsi que le compte Instagram. Vous pouvez écouter l'intégrale des podcasts via iTunes et autres plateformes de podcast (cherchez : « mappemonde radio campus paris » et abonnez-vous aux updates). Une émission animée et réalisée par Léo Vesco, Maxime Valette et Antoine Carrière. Mappemonde est une émission créée par Thomas Guillot pour Radio Campus Paris. Générique réalisé par Antonin Rey. Photo : Jersey city © Uris
Les États-Unis , terre familière pour Mappemonde. Los Angeles, Baltimore, Philadelphie... Bref, aux quatre coins de ce grands pays, nous avons déjà parcouru un grand nombre de villes, mais parler de la musique d'un état en particulier, c'est une première. Notre invité du jour, Marin, a choisi le New Jersey pour cette nouvelle escale. Il y aura donc beaucoup de guitares d'adolescents dépressifs, mais ça sera bien contrebalancé par le cloud rap de Clams Casino, la deep house de Kerry Chandler, ou le hip hop industrialisé de Dälek. La musique du New-Jersey Alabama 3 - Woke up this morning The Dillinger Escape Plan - Clip the Apex…. Accept instruction The Feelies - Loveless Love Dälek - Spiritual Healing Pinegrove - Old Friends 070 Shake - Make it there Clams Casino - Waterfalls Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All Taana Gardner - Heartbeat (party version) Sharon Van Etten - Hands Todd Edwards - Light of the Son Kerri Chandler - Atmosphere (Kerri's Foundation Dub) Abonnez-vous dans nos réseaux Même après plus de 120 épisode, c’est toujours pareil : pour suivre Mappemonde, vous pouvez vous abonner à la page Facebook ainsi que le compte Instagram. Vous pouvez écouter l’intégrale des podcasts via iTunes et autres plateformes de podcast (cherchez : « mappemonde radio campus paris » et abonnez-vous aux updates). Une émission animée et réalisée par Léo Vesco, Maxime Valette et Antoine Carrière. Mappemonde est une émission créée par Thomas Guillot pour Radio Campus Paris. Générique réalisé par Antonin Rey. Photo : Jersey city © Uris
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Source: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI This is a classic, and is worth remembering. I referred to it in one of my Monday Morning Thoughts posts (a cloud native smell) and, while some of what is referenced feels quite dated now, a lot of the thinking is still very valid, even in this age of a more centralised management of web resources (by cloud companies). In fact, I guess the web administrators of those cloud companies need to pay attention. Note that there's a difference between permanent resources (such as those referred to in this article) and ephemeral ones which are often used in cloud computing contexts.
In this Episode, my friend and colleague Marianne Borden returns to the show to discuss 3 common symptoms/illnesses in pediatrics: fever, the common cold (URIs), and gastroenteritis. We discuss what to expect when your child gets sick, what you can do at home to help alleviate symptoms, and when to worry. After the discussion, I answer some phone in questions about tantrums and behavior issues in toddlers and young children.
A conversation with gravel guru, Yuri Hauswald of Gu Energy Lab looking at nutrition for big rides and gravel bike suspension. This week's tech corner sponsored by Thesis covers the range of suspension options for gravel bikes. Yuri Hauswald Instagram Gu Energy Labs Tech Corner sponsored by Thesis Automated transcription (please excuse the typos!) Welcome everyone to the gravel ride podcast. I'm your host Craig Dalton. This week on the podcast we've got Yuri Hauswald from Gu Energy Lab. If you followed the gravel scene at all, you've probably seen Uris name come up from time to time. Yuri is a past dirty Kanza champion and you'll find them all over the world racing his gravel bike and advocating for people to get outside in his capacity working for Gu Energy labs. Yuri's got some great tips and tricks around nutrition and hydration that really came to bear in this year's dirty Kanza as well as some great insight into suspension for gravel bikes and when we're going to see them start to have some impact in the market. But first we've got this week sponsored tech corner with Randall from thesis bike. Thanks Craig. So today we're going to talk about suspension on gravel bikes. Tech Corner with Randall from Thesis: Today, we’re going to talk about suspension on gravel bikes. A gravel bike, for me, is a bicycle that performs at a high level on everything from road with a set of road slicks to borderline cross-country riding with a set of knobby 650Bs. For gravel bike suspension, what we want is comfort and control while still maintaining the performance of the bike in all the conditions it’s going to be ridden. So, in order, the first thing I’d be looking at is my wheel tire package. What I want is a high volume tire with a supple casing, set up tubeless on a rim that’s wide enough to support that tire at low pressures without the tire squirming around. The next thing I’d be looking at is seatpost. A traditional seatpost can give you some flex, but it’s pretty limited, so from there you might look at a suspension seatpost. But really, if you’re adding that weight, you might as well add a dropper post. A dropper, again, is going to take your weight off the front wheel - which means off your hands - and put it more over the rear wheel, while at the same time giving you more distance between your butt and your saddle so that you can use your legs as suspension. That is going to make a considerable difference in the amount of shock absorption of your overall system. Next up: touch points. Cushy bar tape and a slightly cushier saddle than you might run on a pure road bike are going to take a lot of the edge off, they add a trivial amount of weight, and they’re relatively inexpensive to add. Now, at this point is where I would stop, but some people might want even more cushion. For them, I’d recommend a suspension stem. What I like about a suspension stem is that it doesn’t compromise your steerer tube or the front end of your bike, and it’s entirely non-proprietary, so you can swap it in and out of any bike. If all of these things aren’t enough, what you might be looking for is a drop bar mountain bike. This means a suspension fork up front or even a rear suspension. However, keep in mind that while that sort of bike is fantastic on the dirt, it’s going to be a bit compromised on the road because it’s going to have some slop and extra weight in the system that are going to take away that snappy feel that you’re used to a road bike with road slicks. What’s great about a gravel bike is the ability to ride at a high level on any sort of terrain, whether it be road or dirt. So my take is: start with your wheel tire package, add a dropper post, add some cushy touch points, and go have a fantastic ride. Yuri, Welcome to the show Well thanks for having me, Craig. I'm stoked to stoke to be on right on. I've always wanted to ask you this question every time I've, I've seen you, but can you describe your background as a cyclist? Like how did you get into the sport and then what ultimately drew you to the gravel part of the market? Yeah, that's, that's a good question cause I didn't, I don't have like sort of the traditional cyclists, uh, introduction into the sport. So, uh, I was a stick and ball kid growing up, you know, soccer, baseball, football and Lacrosse. And then I just, um, Lacrosse is the sport that took me to college. I played collegiate lacrosse a cow, um, and was the captain of the team and MVP and this and that. So that was like, that was my sport all through high school and college. Um, and so I had a good, like endurance engine from all the running we had to do. Uh, but I wasn't riding a bike and I actually didn't discover the bike until I went and taught at a prep school back east in Pennsylvania. This was 93, 94, 95. Uh, and some of the folks I taught with were avid mountain bikers and, um, they started taking me out on rides and I was on a borrowed gt like NASCAR in cutoff jeans and Chuck Taylor's, no joke, total hack. Uh, but I loved it. I loved the adventure of it. I love the camaraderie of it, um, that, you know, exploring new places. We're riding out in like French Creek, uh, park out there like Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, places like that. Really, really technical stuff. So I was constantly wrecking and breaking parts. Uh, my first bike actually was a specialized stump jumper and I got it because one of my students worked in a bike shop and, uh, hooked me up with a little bit of a deal as his teacher, um, on a mountain bike. And then it just went from there. Um, I, I, I truly fell in love with the sport and the community around it. And, uh, when I moved back to California in 96, uh, is when I really started getting into the racing and, and starting to work my way up through the ranks. And was that on the mountain bike primarily or did you drift into the road as well? Uh, when I first got into riding, it was only mountain bike. I didn't touch a road bike. I think I got my first road bike. I know when I got my first road bike, it was a giant. Um, and it was in 96 and my first century was the Santa Fe century because I was working. Um, I had started my master's through St John's on in literature and, uh, I was living in Santa Fe. Uh, the friend had some dudes who just opened up a bike shop and then one thing led to another. And once I finished my summer of, towards my master's, I started working in the bike shop and became full mountain biker bag, uh, and gave up on my master's and started riding bikes and then started teaching elementary school actually. Um, so yeah, that's how I got into it. And then on the mountain bike side, you started to get drawn to, to the, sort of the more endurance events. Is that right? That's true. That took us, it took a number of years that probably took seven, eight, nine years before I realize that, uh, I wasn't, you know, that good of a cross country racer. I was decent, you know, I mean, I, I worked my way up all the way to Semipro, which is a category that doesn't exist anymore. Um, but that was sort of the stepping stone between expert and pro because that was such a huge gap back in the day to go from being an expert to pro. So they had a semipro category and I made it to that category, but I, there was no way in hell I was gonna ever get out of that category because I was just packed water. Uh, and um, it was actually in 2003 that I did my first 24 hour, um, event as part of a four man team. Um, with mark, we're uh, another buddy of mine, Glen Fan, he's a shop owner up here in Santa Rosa and a gentleman named Kirk Desmond. We did the 24 hour four man national championships that were held at Laguna Seca and we did the geared category, but just as sort of our U to everybody, we did it on single speeds and we ended up winning. So we won the four man national championships in the geared category on single speeds that year. So that was my first introduction to like, you know, back to back hours of, of going hard for 24 hours. And then it wasn't until buddy dared me in 2006 to do my first, uh, 24 hours solo that I really sort of discovered that I have the ability to sort of be that diesel engine and just pedal at a relatively good pace for long periods of time. And, um, I did multiple years of Solo, uh, 24 hour racing and had some, some success with that. And that has actually what allowed me to turn pro. Uh, but you know, when I say that a lot of people think, you know, the, the endorsements and the big money checks started rolling in. Right. And I got to quit my day job. Not True at all. I was really, really nobody. Um, it was just three letters on my license that, um, meant a lot to me. Um, and I still was teaching and you know, traveling during the summers and living out of my car and following the normal circuit and racing as much as I can. But I think it was probably around 2007, 2008 that I started doing more of the eight hour, 12 hour, a hundred mile mountain bike kind of races and um, and kind of figuring out that that was more my jam than the short XC stuff. Yeah, I imagine you see a lot of parallels between the type of community that was evolving around the 24 hour scene back in those years with what's going on in gravel today. Oh, definitely. Yeah, definitely. The, the 24 hour scene was super familial and supportive and, uh, there was a tight knit group of us, uh, that we're, we're pretty close and that's one of the things that when I discovered dirty cans in 2013, that was the first year I went out there, uh, is what really attracted me to gravel was, you know, Midwestern hospitality, the grovel family. Um, the embrace of that family is warm, it's genuine, uh, and it makes you feel welcome. And, you know, it was, it was that and you know, had been obviously pushing your physical limits in, in new terrain and, and a new sort of discipline of racing that really, uh, attracted me to, to the gravel scene. And I've been, you know, an avid gravel fan ever since 2013. Yeah. It seems like some of those early events, they really set the marker from sort of alter endurance perspective of gravel and subsequently many events have kind of rolled that back to make them a little more accessible. With your 24 hour background, obviously like going into a 200 mile event wasn't completely foreign, although I'm sure it was really hard that first year in 2013. Where do you, where do you think that mix in gravel events is gonna land? Do we have room for the ultra endurance side and the shorter events? Uh, I do, you know, I mean, you see events, you know, offering up, you know, gravel events off, some offering up in, you know, multi distances to kind of appeal to a lot of different folks. Something like a Rebecca's private Idaho, which has, you know, three or four distances, the big one, which is, you know, a hundred miles. And then there's like a, I think a 25 mile, and then there's sort of a tweener distance of 60 miles. So, uh, you know, and then you saw that dirty Kanza two years ago, uh, offered, you know, the super me, uh, you know, the DKA Xcel, um, and, and also has multiple distances underneath the 200, the 100, the 50, and I think they now have a 25 a as well. So I think there's plenty of room. Um, so to offer a lot of different distances because gravel appeals to folks who are wanting to get off pavement, you know, and um, get onto this sort of the quiet back country where you don't see any cars for days kind of events. Um, so I, I think there's, there's definitely room for growth, for events to have multiple distances and that appeals to a lot of folks. Yeah, it's been interesting to me as I personally got drawn into the sport. I was an observer from the side about events like the tour divide and these sort of long distance, multi-day bike packing style races. Um, and I never actually did one of those, but I got drawn into the sport just because it was aspirational to be out there having such an adventure. And in, in my life I tend towards more of the shorter events just because I don't have the time or the physique or the commitment to kind of train up to those 1214 hour events. I really prefer the six hour long events, but I totally get your point. I think there's room for it all. And in the lifetime of a gravel cyclists, hopefully we all get the opportunity to push ourselves to something like dk 200 because I think it's just this huge monumental life milestone that you can take away from having achieved something like that. Oh, most definitely, man. I mean you, you talk about, you know, monumental like life achievements. I feel like my finish this year, while my slowest, possibly my worst finish ever, um, was the most rewarding. Um, because I got to earn the coveted gravel grail this year, which means I finished five, two hundreds of dirty cans. Uh, uh, I also struggled mightily with the heat this year and was showing signs of heat stroke at the last aid station at one 50. So, um, I was really pleased to get through this year and get that grail and, and not have to return again to do another 200 if I don't want to. Well, you were certainly not alone from all accounts. I can hear that people were struggling with that heat and it's hard enough an event as it is. You probably had an experience that was similar to sort of many of the mid packers and the tail end experience every year. Uh, possibly. Yeah. I mean, I, yeah, I passed so many people sitting under trees myself. I was under a tree at times fixing a couple of flats. Uh, so yeah, I mean the, it's funny Kansas, the weather always has a way of humbling folks and keeping you honest, whether it's, you know, the wind, whether it's the humidity, whether it's the heat, whether it's rain and mud. Um, mother nature always seems to have a, have a hand in how things shake out. Uh, out there in the Flint hills. Yeah. I imagine you got to try to control the things you can and just accept the things you can't in an event like that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and I know how to sort of mitigate having had heat stroke a few times. I know how to, how to try to keep it at bay a little bit. So I had a, um, my pit was prepared for me when I came in at one 50 with ice and I was wearing sun sleeves, so we shoved ice bags onto my wrist cause that's one of the spots to bring your core temp down and know I saw my back and I had a frozen camelback, uh, waiting for me. And um, yeah. So they were able to sort of patch me up and push me along my way and I didn't lose too much time, you know, maybe three minutes or something like that. And that last pit, uh, but those last 50 miles were really, really difficult for me. So did you roll out of that last pit with the ice bags kind of just strapped to your body wherever they can fit? Yeah, so, uh, we put ice inside pantyhose and we tie them off so they make nice little porous ice bags that melt on you. And so we shoved two into the sleeves that I had on my arms right on my wrist. Uh, Maya camelback had a, a reservoir that had been frozen so the water would slowly melt and hopefully some of that cool heat would go through on my back then we had multiple cold towels and other ice bags shoved around my neck and down my jersey. And that was about it. A kick in the ass and get Outta here, let's, you know, knock out those last 50 miles. So that's, that's how I dealt with it. I over hydrated to be just because I knew that I needed to keep the fluids going in. Um, and I was using, um, our goos liquid rock cane drink mix because I have a hard time dealing with solids or gels in the heat. So I was going for liquid calories. Yeah, yeah. I was going to ask you about, you know, in the things that you can control, nutrition is obviously one of them and it's an area where you have a lot of expertise from goo. Can you walk us through how you approach nutrition for a 200 miler on a hot day? Yeah, totally. I'd be happy to do that. So I mean nutrition, your nutrition plan, I mean everyone's nutrition plan is going to be unique to their system. So I just want to put that disclaimer out there right now that what works for me, you know, may not work for everybody. And also, uh, since we're talking about disclaimers that, you know, I am a goo employee. I've worked for them for six years in the office and I've been at Goo athlete for 14 years. So, obviously I'm very biased, but, uh, I wouldn't be using their products if they didn't work for me. Um, so for me, uh, you know, obviously like the week leading up to an event and you want to be hydrating, sleeping well, mitigating your stress as much as possible, you know, having with meals just so you're topping up all of your glycogen stores and, uh, making sure you have those, those energy reserves ready to be tapped into you come race day, uh, with an event like 30 cans of that starts at six in the morning. I don't typically eat breakfast cause that would mean I would have to get up at like three if I wanted to eat like a proper breakfast. So I think I got up at four 30 this year and had a half of a Bagel with a little bit of avocado on it and that was it. Um, my usual cup of coffee two just to, you know, get things rolling. Uh, and then as far as nutrition goes, I only had one, um, solid bit of food that would, could be considered, you know, normal food throughout the day. Um, and I relied on our rock cane gels, which have three times the branch chain amino acids are rock cane drink, uh, our electrolyte capsules to help with, um, the humidity and all the, you know, the potassium and sodium that I was losing. Um, and then our rock cane BCA capsules, which help with mental acuity and they buffer muscle fatigue. So I sort of, um, shoot for, uh, 200 to 250 calories per hour. And that could be a combination of, you know, Gel and the rock cane drink in my bottles. Um, maybe some of our choose, which is a chewable form of Goo, but I think I only had one sleeve of those, um, throughout. So I basically for 13 hours was only using our rock tane drink, which is 250 calories per bottle. And our rock cane gels. Uh, and one bit of solid I had with that mile 68 station, I had a, um, a Hawaiian done PB and j little, you know, little square. Uh, but that was about all I could stomach solid, you know, solid food wise. Um, and then it was just tons of water trying to, you know, eat every 20 to 30 minutes. But it was hard for me to keep track of time because at mile 40, somebody wrecked me out and it snapped my Garmin off my bike and I had to put it in my pocket so I couldn't look at time, distance or the turn by turn directions. So I was, I was riding blind actually for the whole day pretty much after mile 40, trying to stay in groups. And um, actually I tasked, uh, I don't know if you know Spencer Palisson who used to work for Velonews, but we're in a group for a long time and we've written a bunch together. So I asked him to tell me every 20 minutes, like 20 minutes has gone by and blessed Spencer's hard. He'd be like 20 minutes, dude. He would just shout that out when we were in the group. So I knew I could eat or drink. You see that 20 minutes theory. And so we did that for many miles out on the prairie. So I had a couple other little little curve balls thrown at me, um, during the day that sort of threw off my regular, uh, you know, fueling strategy. But I was all, all liquid calories and Gels, um, along with some castles. Um, and then like the old, I had low middle sip of flat coke at the one 58 station, but I was afraid that it was going to upset my stomach cause I was already dry even coming into that, coming in to that aid station. So I was worried about like too much sugar or anything like that, but it tasted really good. So I just a few sips of that to see if it could like, that'll may sound like a tad. That's interesting. I don't usually think about the liquid calories, but it makes sense to kind of take a little bit in there and then supplement it or really supplement your, your, your good nutrition, um, the gels with the liquid as well each hour. Yeah. I mean liquid calories are awesome, especially in the heat because they're super easy for your body to digest and process. Um, you're not getting, you know, like cotton mouth trying to chew on, you know, some form of solid food. Uh, I find it just works really, really well. I mean, case in point. So our raw cane drink was, I think I was one of the early testers of it, probably back in like 2009 or 10. Um, but our head of r and D who's a former Olympian, MAG DBU, she won western states, the big iconic a hundred mile run in 2015 she ran for 19 hours all on rock chain drinks. So 250 calories per hour. That was her plan. It was super hot that year and that got her through. So I know. And, and, and plus, like I said before, like I've, I've been using our products for, for, for over a decade. And so my system is really used to that and, and I have a routine. Um, so for folks out there who are listening, you know, needs, they need to get, pick and choose, find what products work for them, train with it, race with it, and refine their nutrition plan for their, for what works for their system. Uh, but for me, like I said, it's a, it's our gels and our drink and some of our castles and maybe if it's not so hot bits and pieces of, of solid food, but when it was as hot as it was out in Kansas, like solid food just does not sound palatable to me. Um, and so I just stuck with in liquids and gels. Yeah. I think one of the interesting things that writers need to sort of internalize is there is a hard cap as to the amount of calories your body can absorb in an hour. Yeah. So 350. Yeah. So you're going to sort of waiting an hour and a half to binge at an age station is really going to put you in the hurt locker pretty quickly. Yeah. Because then all of your blood is going to go right to your stomach to try to process that. You've shocked your system because you've just overloaded it. So, um, I have a, have a phrase that I actually stole from my friend Rebecca Rush. I call it the sip, sip, nibble, nibble, plan, right. You're just constantly taking in little the drip drip of nutrition, right? Whether it's your fluids or your gels or whatever it is, but little bits of it, you know, every 20 minutes, um, is way better than like you said, just throwing a whole bunch down. Um, and hoping your body can process that. Yeah. Slow you down. You know what I mean? At the same time, because you know, when you throw all that, all those calories into your gut, your soul, your body's going to try to process that, which means blood's not going to your muscles, which you need to, you know, keep peddling your bike and things can spiral out of control. So I like to adhere to the sip, sip, nibble, nibble, nutrition explained. Yeah. And to remind yourself, I think one of the tips that I employed when I was doing iron man was I just had an old Timex watch and I set an alarm for every 20 minutes to say just eat and drink. Remember that no matter what. Yeah, totally. Uh, you could do that. Yeah, I do that on my Garmin sometimes, but I'm like, I've been doing this for so long, it's just like ingrained in me. I also typically shove a couple of gels right in the cuff of my shorts. So they're like, you know, right there on my quads. So I sort of see them when I'm peddling. Um, it also makes, makes the gels like more liquidy cause they get heated up on your leg and it's just that reminder that, oh yeah, I've got a gel sitting there. I better eat that now. And then you know, I reload it. So I just constantly have these gels sitting on my legs while I'm pedaling that remind me to eat. It sounds silly, but it is a good visual reminder that you need to eat. Yeah, no, I think that's a great tip. And the other thing that I saw a lot of on bikes at dirty Kanza are the Bento style boxes. For sure. Those are, those are, those are awesome. I haven't found a Bento box though. That doesn't rub my legs when I get out of the saddle sometimes, you know, I find that, um, when I get out of saddle, my legs will hit that. So I don't typically ride with the Bento box. But that's a great, that's a great tip too. You know, I wear a camel, that chase vest, which has stowage right on the front chest straps. So your food is right there on your chest too, which is a nice reminder to eat and you can segment it, you know? So like for me, I'm kind of Geeky or I have these little systems that just keep things square for me when I'm not thinking right. Like the right side of my chest is, is like all gels. The left side of my chest is like chews and maybe a bar, which I had bars in all of my chase vest, but I never touched a bar for 13 hours. Um, so there's just little things and like speaking of Geeky things, I do like aisle my rock cane bottle, which is it, which is my drink is always on the is is always on the cage. That's on my seat tube. So I don't even have to think. I know I reached down to the my seat tube cage that that is my calories waters on the down tube, you know, just little systems that I have in place that have worked for me that kind of keep things straight. Yeah. I think they're so important. I mean, I failed to be able to do simple math eight hours into an event. So just sort of having everything where it needs to be, so I don't have to think getting, getting that reminder that it's time to eat and drink and knowing exactly where to grab. It's just one of those things that you can control, you can train for that's gonna make you more effective. Yeah, exactly. And, and, and, and at the end of the day it's less thinking that you have to do because I kind of go into, I call it sort of robot mode where I turn off all my non essential functions with me and it's really like, I don't think about too much, I'm just paddling, focusing on my breathing, my eating and having, you know, my food where I know it exactly needs to be is one less thing I have to think about. I reach into this pocket, that Gel is going to come out, I reach into that pocket, you know, maybe something solids gonna come out. I grabbed that bottle. I know it has calories. Like just, yeah, it just makes it more, it's like, I dunno, simpler. Um, when like you say you're not thinking straight after eight, 10, 12, whatever hours. Yeah, absolutely. Well, transitioning a little bit, I've, I've wanted to talk to you, I saw you down at seawater and I know you had the opportunity to ride the nine or full suspension bike down there and spend some time on it here in Marin county. I'm curious to, to sure. To just get your thoughts about suspension in general and where we're going to see it. Is it going to start having an effect in the racing? Will we start seeing pro's moved to suspension simply because it's faster. You spent a lot of time on a lot of different parts, different types of equipment. What are your thoughts about suspension in the gravel ravel game? Um, well, so just a couple of disclaimers here. Just so you know, everybody's clear. I am sponsored by Laos, which is the Icelandic company that has pioneered, you know, the front suspension fork of sorts for gravel bikes. And they have, uh, they have, um, a bike also specifically designed for gravel. And yes, a niner, um, is about to release MCR, the magic carpet ride, which is a full suspension gravel bike, uh, with a fox front fork that has about 40 millimeters of Daphne and the rear is about 50. Um, so I've been a huge fan of, of the Laos front fork, um, since I got introduced to it probably about three years ago. It was a game changer, um, on many, many levels. I mean, probably the most beneficial one is that it dampens, you know, the impact that your hands, your shoulders, your upper body is taking. Um, when you're rotting, you know, for 10, 12, 13 hours over the slinky hills in, in, in Kansas. So it keeps your upper body fresher, um, less fatigue. You're also able to corner descend better because you're not getting bounced around so much in the front end. You, you can track better with, with the front fork and not four cows, about 30 to 40 millimeters of dampening. Um, the biggest thing I noticed with riding the magic carpet ride is the descending, I mean, you can, you can rip the dissents on a, on a full set suspension, gravel bike for sure. Um, and then the dampening effects too, just as an aging endurance athlete, like anything that can take the edge off the terrain, that'll allow my body to be fresher over 200 miles or whatever the distance is, you know? Yes, please. I'll take that. Uh, you know, I don't need to get, you know, smashed by a really hard stiff light bike. Um, at this point in my career. So I think you're gonna start seeing more, um, suspension bits, uh, enter into gravel. I think you're already starting to see it with some, you know, folks doing like envy doing specific gravel bars that maybe have a little bit of, I have those new g gravel bars that have a little bit of, you know, dampening in, in the way that they have done the carbon. We've, I think, uh, Louth has a similar bar, uh, the whole full suspension thing. I think nine are sort of on the front end of that. Um, we'll just have to see how well it goes. Um, I've been enjoying the magic carpet ride for sure. Uh, I noticed a huge difference like when you're trying to motor through really chunky stuff, it just, it just takes the edge off. You reminds me of when you see a Modo rider like ripping through like the woopty whoop sections and they're just like skimming across the top of all those bumps. I feel like, um, you hit a certain speed on the magic carpet ride and it does the same thing with chunky terrain. You can just really sort of blast through it at a nice high frequency and not get bounced around all over the place. And I had a few opportunities to sort of test that on some group rides and noticed a huge difference. Um, you know, for full disclosure, I've only probably put three to 400 miles on that bike. Uh, and so I'm looking forward to getting some more miles on it, um, later this summer. Yeah. It'll be interesting choice for consumers to try to figure out like, am I really, is that the bike for me or am I looking for something that's more on road and off road that can do fairly capable off road but can also, you know, be my road touring bike or whatever. True. Um, so then maybe, you know, a traditional bravo bike would just allow front fork is, is the option for them because that front fork will allow you to, you know, to get off road. Yeah. I think a lot of it will be dependent upon what people, you know, riding tendencies are on and what they're looking to do. But, uh, the magic carpet ride is awesome for just taken away a lot of the, the, the vibrations and the big hits that you take sometimes when riding on gravel roads for hundreds of miles. Yeah. It was interesting when I interviewed Louth they were talking about riding it on the roads and I couldn't help but think about some of those roads in Sonoma county were having a little bit of front suspension might be helpful for sure. Yeah, it makes a huge difference and you know, there's not a huge weight penalty. I think that what you gain in, you know, comfort and uh, speed and cornering and stuff like that outweighs any weight, this advantage that that fork might have. Interesting. Well, I know you've got a busy calendar coming up and a bunch of great gravel events. One of the ones I want to highlight now, it was on a recent episode of the gravel ride podcast was the adventure ride revival ride and Marin, Tom boss mentioned your name and said, hey, if it wasn't for Uri, we really wouldn't have been thinking about this at this year. So I'm excited. What's going on with that ride. Oh, that was so I'm blushing. That was so nice to Tom boss. Thank you, Tom. I've known Tom for a long time. That's awesome. Well, adventure arrival is a collaborative event between Moran County Bicycle Coalition and the nor cal high school league, which my wife is the EDF and both both programs have teen trail stewardship programs that they are, uh, promoting. And one of the best things about this ride is that the registration fees are going to go help support these, uh, team trail stewardship programs so that we're able to develop the next generation of stewards who are going to be maintaining, hopefully creating new trails. Particularly, you know, in a zone like Marin where, um, trail access trail creation is, um, kind of a contentious, you know, topic at times with folks. Um, and so we came together. A group of us, uh, is working closely with, uh, Matt Adams, one of the owners of Mike Spikes. They're a huge supporter of this event. We put together really rad route that is, uh, incorporates a little bit of pavements and fire road, maybe a little bit of single track, um, that highlights some really cool zones in Marin. Uh, and it's going to be based out of Fairfax. It's September 7th. Uh, we'll have great food, beer, music, uh, but people can know that like their registration dollars are going to benefit, uh, you know, things that will help you know, our future as cyclists. Uh, as people who enjoy playing in the outdoors. And, you know, it's possibly, you know, creating, you know, like kids that might go work for, you know, the park system or you know, other groups that are all about trail advocacy. So I'm really excited to be a part of this event. So goo will be one of the nutrition sponsors, but it's super fun working with passionate folks like Tom and Mike and my wife and Dana and other folks, um, to, to, to bring an event like this to life. Cause it's the first of its kind in Mirena gravel, you know, ride kind of, I wouldn't call it a race per se. Um, but yeah, it's going to be a great day. September 7th, if you haven't signed up do it people. Yeah, definitely. I'm excited about it being obviously here in mill valley and in Moran County. I'm really excited to get athletes from other parts of the bay area and hopefully other parts of the country to come in and sample what we have because I do think it's an amazing area and having covered the scene for, you know, as long as I have, I get jealous that other parts of the country have these marquee events and we've yet to kind of establish one in Marin county. Yeah, it's true. You know, it's tough. I mean, we live in one of the most beautiful places in the world, but work that also sort of, um, you know, restricts what we can do too because there's so much private land and there's so many restrictions on who can use what trail and this and that. Whereas, you know, you look at somewhere like the Flint hills of Kansas and you have, you know, this grid network of thousands of miles, right, of, of empty gravel roads. You know, you look at Rebecca's private, Idaho's same sort of deal. Uh, so yeah, it is cool that we're finally able to pull something like this together, get all the right permits, the permission. That's where, you know, Tom's expertise comes in, you know, having worked for years with, with advocacy and other groups and stuff like that. So yeah. It's cool. Yeah. Hopefully we sell it out and it's an event that, um, continues to grow in, in years to come. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Tom was describing how he, I think he had to work with three different land ownership organizations to get the root knocked out this year, which I mean, for the average race promoter would probably be prohibitive to even pull it off for sure. And then, you know, and then there's certain groups that get their noses bent, you know, that were doing this or they weren't involved. And it, yeah, you know, it can be complicated, but, uh, hopefully at the end of the day people see that this is all about the kids really, um, and our future and creating stewards that we'll want to protect in and, you know, expand the growth of, of trail access here in Marin and maybe that will ripple out into other parts of, of the country too. Um, so yeah, stoke for adventure revival on September 7th. Yeah. Well thanks for all the time today. Your, I appreciate it. I appreciate your years of advocacy and participation in the gravel community. You've really been a, just sort of a good steward for the gravel brand, if you will. Oh, thanks. Yeah, I was an accidental, uh, grappled, devote t I mean really like I said, 2013 I had no idea what I was getting into when I went out until my first 30 cans have no clue whatsoever. I went out there because we were [inaudible] as a sponsor, um, to check it out and I fell in love with it. So, um, yeah, I'm proud to be part of the crew that's helping push it here in California and you know, also seeing northern California athletes like Amedee, Rockwell, like Alison Tetrick a do really well at, you know, these iconic events like dirty cans and stuff like that. Makes me really proud. Let's, let's keep, let's keep singing. It's thanks and praises. Yeah, absolutely. Well good luck and everything you've got upcoming and if I don't see you before I'll definitely see you in September at a venture or revival. Awesome. Thanks Craig. Been great chatting with you. Big thanks again to Yuri for coming on the podcast this week. Yuri has been an amazing advocate for the sport of gravel cycling and he's always been super approachable. So when you find them out there in an event, go up and give him a high five. I don't know about you, but I took away some really helpful tips from Yuri this week in terms of how to handle the nutrition for long events. The value of having a system for where you put things. So you just don't have to think and the value of having a timer to remind you to eat and drink and to know what you're going to eat and drink. I think all of these things add up and they're in the category of things you can control when preparing for a big event. So that's it for this week. Big thanks to our sponsor thesis spike for the Tech Corner, and another reminder to just hit subscribe on your favorite podcast app as we're doing a bit of planning for the upcoming year, and we'd like to know how many of you are out there listening. As always, feel free to hit me up on Instagram or Facebook or shoot me an email. craig@thegravelride.bike. We look forward to hearing from you. Until next time, here's to finding some dirt under your wheels.
Once upon a time, in a pre-antibiotic world, bacteriophages were a hot research topic in this country and elsewhere. In the 1940’s, Eli Lilly had seven OTC bacteriophage products available – good for everything from abscesses to URIs and mastoiditis. However, with the advent of antibiotics, the research into and use of phages ceased in the US. But in the age of antibiotic resistance, we’re back at phage research, and its wildly interesting and extremely important to explore. Phages are bacterial viruses that invade and kill bacterial cells: an obvious answer to antibiotic resistance. Listen to my conversation on New Frontiers with phage scientists Paul Turner and Benjamin Chan of The Paul Turner Laboratory at Yale University, get the background on all things phage research, and hear a handful of inspiring case reports from “pond to bench to bedside” as Drs. Turner and Chan like to say. Sit back and listen to this terrific podcast, and be sure to comment on iTunes, share with your colleagues, and let me know your thoughts! ~DrKF
Did you know that up to 9% of URIs are eventually complicated by acute sinusitis in children? This episode of PEM Currents, the Pediatric Emergency Medicine podcast focuses on making the diagnosis of acute bacterial rhinosinusitis clinically and when to pull the antibiotic prescription trigger. PEMBlog.com @PEMTweets References Chow AW, Benninger MS, Brook I, Brozek […]
On this LAB Radio, episode Aaron Mangal and Chris Groshong talk security, the Internet and origin story of how MetaCert helps protect users from malicious links with CEO and founder, Paul Walsh. Paul Walsh, CEO and founder of MetaCert and co-founder of W3C Mobile Web Initiative Paul is an early web pioneer in security and safety for users having helped create projects like the W3C Mobile Web Initiative who's mission includes "ensuring that the Web be available on as many kind of devices as possible". He also helped create standards and classifications for Uniform Resource Locations (URLs) as a part of his work at the W3C organization. "I'm CEO of MetaCert. In 2017 we completely eradicated phishing on Slack for the crypto world. In 2018 we pretty much brought a stop to phishing for the crypto world on Telegram. 2019 is going to be our most important year - our mission is to eradicate phishing for everyone who uses our new email security solution for native mobile email. Previously... I was part of the team that helped to launch technologies such as AIM, Internet Radio, Online Games and X2 56K Modem Protocol while working at AOL during the 90's. I co-instigated the creation of the W3C Standard for URL Classification/Content Labeling and I'm one of the seven original Founders of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. I also own a full patent for Malware and Phishing detection and prevention inside a mobile app WebView with more pending. I own an Indian restaurant in Ireland - Michelin Star for 10+ years. [I am a] Irish. Father. Wine Drinker. Advanced Open Water Diver, Snowboarder, Skydiver Wannabe and Seasoned Traveller." -Paul Walsh This new broad access of the web we are seeing today has brought new challenges such as malicious individuals who seek to steal peoples data and even worse Cryptocurrency and the value within. The MetaCert team began by providing authenticity and monitoring of social media channels like Telegram and Slack which has a wave of malicious bot attacks on users, encouraging them to click on compromised links and put their sensitive data into fake websites which ultimately leads to theft. MetaCert aims to protect businesses from malicious threats and unsafe URLs inside Messaging Apps MetaCert has a patented enterprise-grade security API which can lookup over 2,000 shortening services and check it against a massive database of 10 billion classified URLs across 65 categories in a fraction of a second. MetaCert boasts the biggest threat intelligence system on the planet. The second to them is OpenDNS (run by Cisco) which has classified 2 million domains across 60 categories. One of the reasons for building its own threat intelligence system was to prevent false positives (which is a problem with current solutions on the market automatically blocking too many innocent sites). MetaCert recently released a beta of their email security solution which helps verify the safety of links: After listening to this episode you will learn: How Paul was an early semantic web pioneer in the 90s and created the W3C Mobile Web Initiative Why Paul felt websites and search engines should show more metadata and have an identity certificate What a Universal Resource Identifier (URI) is and why they are important How Webview works and was a vulnerability in our mobile use of the Web Why they got a patent in place for security around Webview to protect themselves from tech giants like Google Why the first iteration of MetaCert was for child safety and built a database for pornographic content How MetaCert saw the opportunity to organize and classify URIs and created the biggest Cyber Threat Intelligence Database to date How the MetaCert API works How MetaCert leverages a reward system for compensating people (Validators) for helping identify and log links Why the MetaCert "Green Shield" icon has become a pillar in their branding and marketing to the public Paul's vision for decentralizing governance around content, link filtering and working group/committee creation A fake news identifying browser add-on called TrustedNews which is 100% powered by MetaCert About how Paul is considering moving away from Ethereum (first time mentioned in public) For show notes and more visit: LAB Radio Episode 49
Ledger Cast — Crypto, Bitcoin, Trading, and the Blockchain Ecosystem
Welcome to Ledger Cast, hosted by me, Brian Krogsgard (@ledgerstatus on twitter), and in this episode I'm joined by a special co-host, Derek Waltchack. Ledger Cast is a cryptocurrency trading and blockchain ecosystem podcast. You can subscribe to new episodes of Ledger Cast on iTunes, on Google Play, on Stitcher, on YouTube and via RSS. The information in this podcast should not be construed as investment advice, it is purely educational material and you should always do your own research before buying. In this episode of Ledger Cast, Derek and I interview Paul Walsh, the CEO of MetaCert, and the head of the MetaCert Protocol. MetaCert is creating the MetaCert Protocol to bring their online trust and reputation platform to the blockchain. They see many benefits for taking centralized information and decentralizing it, and they are creating the MetaCert Protocol to address that. In this conversation, we discuss the use case for establishing trust for online links, the products MetaCert currently offers, and the benefits of the MetaCert Protocol. Here's the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/s-ROfQVfWo8 MetaCert offers several products right now on their centralized platform. They have a browser extension that adds reputation scores to website URLs. They also have additions for messaging apps like Slack and Telegram to help organizations prevent scammy URLs from infiltrating their communities. They see the next big battleground for online security as taking place in large part within chat apps; the crypto community is certainly familiar with that threat. The blockchain allows us to shift our centralized database to a decentralized registry. The Protocol features built-in game mechanics, rewarding participants with Tokens for submitting and validating the categorization of URIs. This incentivized system is the heart of the Protocol. In addition to rewarding participants, the Token will help mitigate the risk of bad actors trying to spoil the quality of the registry. MetaCert's network can be integrated at most layers of the system: hardware (like your network router), software like a messaging app, or the end user via a browser extension. They currently collect and license their reputation scores to other centralized entities, and they see value in creating a broadly used decentralized reputation blockchain. We discuss with Paul some of the potential issues we see with MetaCert as a distributed protocol, and other questions someone would have for a centralized company creating a decentralized protocol. And at the end of the interview, we wrap up with our own thoughts on MetaCert. MetaCert has been around since 2011 and Paul is an experienced entrepreneur, with a long history working on the web and in the security realm. We were both impressed with what they are doing and what they're building. MetaCert ICO The MetaCert ICO details aren't out yet, but most of the information is near ready and pending the completion of legal review. They are seeking to raise $40 million, including in a private sale. They have thus far received a lot of interest. There's no discount or bonus for the private sale, but it allows some investors to have a larger allocation of tokens for the protocol. Paul said that 75% of the team tokens are going to be locked up and vested over a three year period; he notes he's skeptical of some of the short lockup periods of other ICOs. Users of Cryptonite will receive tokens as users. Once the network launches, users can pay to use the extension with tokens, but also can earn tokens by participating in the network by reporting websites and establishing online reputations for websites. The MetaCert Protocol will operate on the Ethereum blockchain. Links discussed in the show MetaCert's main website MetaCert Protocol website Cryptonite browser extension Phishtank shared database for phishing Their Telegram security bot ConsenSys is partnering with them for some of their blockchain elements They are going to partner with Rocket Chat to implement their token Ocean Protocol to create a decentralized database Ledger Status links and information Ledger Status Learn is launching really soon, which will offer educational material, community, and more My free Telegram channel where I distribute charts and analysis that's a little more in depth than Twitter Follow @ledgerstatus on Twitter Learn about Derek Derek Waltchack is a partner at Shannon Waltchack -- a full service commercial real estate and property management firm in Birmingham, Alabama. Derek is interested in all things cryptocurrency and blockchain. He's been investing actively since early 2017. Check out our introductory interview to learn more, and be sure to follow @dwaltchack on Twitter. Interested in sponsoring? We'd love to talk to interested parties about sponsorship opportunities. We are open to suggestions, but are not seeking deals that include promos for ICOs, etc. But if you do something interesting in the space and want to chat, contact us. Music: "Oh, the chains" by Joel Madison Blount
Stephen King's IT – Part 1 – The Shadow Before – Chapter 3 – Six Phone Calls 1985 – 1 Stanley Uris Takes a Bath Float Down Here with your favorite Stephen King Veteran Melissa, IT Fanboy Ben, and First-Time Reader Luke as they discuss Stephen King's IT chapter 3 section 1. The post TPTFDH 003 – IT Ch. 3 pt. 1 – Stanley Uris Takes a Bath appeared first on The Podcast That.
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We have brought back one of our favourite guests for this episode. Hit play and listen to Paul Walsh from MetaCert, who talks about how important it is to stay safe in the crypto communities on various platforms and how you can take measures to prevent attacks! ABOUT THE GUEST On today’s episode, we have one of our previous guests, Paul walsh who’s been ensuring safety whilst clicking on links. Paul is the founder of MetaCert, a security company that protects the crypto community from phishing attacks on mainstream messaging applications. He co-instigated the creation of the W3C Standard for URL Classification/Content Labelling and is one of the seven original Founders of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. He owns a full patent for the checking of URIs for Malware and Phishing inside mobile apps. WHAT’S NEW? (2.36) We have been in the cryptocurrency world for 4 weeks now and we've already hit a 100 million messages inside slack alone. This shows how big our utility is. The number of people who received an alert is 58 k who are members of the community. And the total number of alerts should be more than that according to me. But these are the people who have MetaCert. The only other security app relying on other companies like MetaCert to secure slack hit 16 million but we have 1.2 billion messages on the whole with 1 million in the crypto world HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAVED FROM MALICIOUS LINKS? (6:11) We're monitoring all that and logging it all. We plan to build a global central threat intelligence system. When we are monitoring communities, we see attacks happening over multiple communities with the same person being the culprit sometimes. We have come up with a way to stop attacks as soon as they are on slack API or chat bots. As soon as they happen, we catch the culprit who'll be immediately blocked. That website will be labelled. So that other people will know. The person will be banned. This will thus be based on behaviour of phishers. SHOULDN'T THIS BE ON SLACK OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR PLATFORM ORGANICALLY? THAN JUST COMMUNITIES? (11:14) We had a talk with slack and they are not interested in working with us. They wanted to use Google safe browsing API. In my opinion that's a bad decision because I have a full patent and MetaCert already has the world's biggest advance threat intelligence system which would react much more quickly to phishing attacks. We're able to classify attacks in a way Google can't. Maybe they'll realise our advantage in the future. Slack is designed for communities where by you verify the integrity of the person who joined. It wasn't designed to cope with communities where you would have people joining it without knowing if they can be trusted. Most companies with a huge number of employees are concerned a lot about internal hacks compared to external hacks. Humans are the weakest links not the software. What I articulated to slack was that they need to be mindful about communities because they comprise of thousands of powerful people are working in big companies who're probably going to never use slack in case there's a problem with security. This would be a huge customer loss for slack. And Instead of saying we don't support communities they need to take actions to protect them. WHAT ABOUT TELEGRAM? YOU SAID THAT YOU WEREN'T ON IT THE LAST TIME WE SPOKE (13:31) We’re currently doubling down on slack which is a bigger challenge for the vast majority of people in crypto. Thus, we're not working on telegram now. We're working on browser add-ons which will protect you in a similar way our slack app does. We will put telegram on the roadmap. Nothing until 3-4 months. Which we realise is a long-term in the crypto world. ARE YOU LOOKING AT OTHER THREATS OR JUST PHISHING? (15:16) We’re looking at Wallet address. When you open a website, which is verified you are able to see the URL in green. We want to do something similar with wallet addresses I have spoken to certificate authorities to make crypto wallets have cheaper extended valid certificates to prevent phishing attacks. HOW DO WE SPEED THIS UP AND HELP MORE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS? (16:50) Every crypto company with slack needs to have MetaCert. Educate people about checking URLs. I'm working on two manuals, one for companies and one for investors. People working in crypto companies need to be mindful about their own security by making sure they're shredding documents and changing passwords every couple of months. Use two factor authentications. Use Google authenticator. Things like that help educate people. I'VE BEEN ASKED IF METACERT SHOULD DECENTRALISE ITS DATABASE AND WHY PEOPLE SHOULD TRUST METACERT. (18.53) We started research on whether it was feasible to decentralize our database so that we reduce the risk of MetaCert becoming the single point of failure. We’re able to cope with brute force attacks. Decentralizing our database is new to us. We’re looking closely at doing it. We’re always looking to address the problems faced by the crypto world. ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THAT WILL HELP OUR LISTENERS? (22:00) It would be rude for me not to bring up Equifax. Unfortunately, it’s easier to attack than to defend. To have a third of all people to have their social security number exposed and compromised is very scary. To have Equifax be the central point of failure is very scary. It’s ridiculous how easy it is to steal your identity in the US. If this was decentralized where we didn’t have one point of breach, that would be good. In the crypto world, everybody needs to wake up now. Everybody in this world has a target on their back. Not just individuals, companies, ICOs, have a target on their back. We’re going to see easy compromises. We’re going to need to stop and think. Use different passwords for different websites. Use two factor authentications. Look at all your social media accounts. Educate people in your company. Constantly remind them about the importance of being proactive. People are going to look for information from your trash bins. If you can go into somebody’s crypto world, you empty it. Cyber criminals are going to get much more sophisticated. My strategy is to try and strike up partnerships with companies that work with token launches and ICOs. The more information we put out through podcasts like this, for the community, the better. The developer community excites me. It takes a lot to gain their trust. When they see that you care, when they believe in you and see that you’re trying to solve a problem, they tend to help you back. That’s what excites me. Another observation is when I see banks telling people to click a link to open a secure message inside a browser. It just becomes easier to phish people. As for hacks, they hack, they steal and then they upload to the dark web where they sell that information to potentially tens or thousands of people. They make it easy for people to search that data. SO IF BANKS SHOULDN’T SEND YOU LINKS TO CLICK, WHAT SHOULD THEY DO? (33:00) Just send you the email! Asking you to log into your account and not ask you to click links. I spoke to a bank about this. In the crypto world, you will get people saying, don’t be stupid. I’m frustrated by seeing so many people lose money. You’ve always got new people coming into the crypto space. Aside from Coinbase, everything else is a complicated process. It’s going to be difficult to tell people what to do and what not to do if everything’s this complicated. You can’t expect mainstream people to comprehend all that. One of the biggest opportunities is to improve the UX and UI in the space. One of the things that we’re working on is a trust mark for MetaCert. When investors see the trust mark, they know that best practices are being followed.
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After talking about a company picnic, Andrew and Steve talk about some RASPBERRY!, dead hard drives, Microsoft, LSB, Intel, Digital Homicide, file URIs, Netbeans, Payara, Oracle, and a few other tidbits that they thought was relevant at the time.
In this episode, I’m looking at PSR-7, the second of two core components which Zend Expressive (http://www.masterzendframework.com/zend-expressive-introduction/) is built on. Zend Framework team lead, Matthew Weier O'Phinney (https://mwop.net) describes it as: a set of standard HTTP message interfaces so that we can create an ecosystem in which PHP developers can create re-usable middleware that they can share. The PSR site (http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-7/) describes it as: common interfaces for representing HTTP messages as described in RFC 7230 and RFC 7231, and URIs for use with HTTP messages as described in RFC 3986. To find out more information on it, check out these key links: https://mwop.net/blog/2015-01-08-on-http-middleware-and-psr-7.html http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-7/ http://www.masterzendframework.com/zend-expressive-introduction/ https://github.com/zendframework/zend-expressive Questions/Comments/Suggestions @zfmastery (https://twitter.com/@zfmastery)
Uris is a leader in the world of research as it relates to IoT Security. This interview is a great learning tool to educate business leaders and your peers about where IoT is going and what it means to you and your business.
Andrew Bailey and Matthew Petschl discuss the UN taking over the Internet, people dropping off it, copyright gone amok, Microsoft's woes, Apple's woes, data URIs, Fourier Transforms, and more.
What role will museums and libraries play in the information technology landscape of the future? Todd Carter presents his vision of museums and libraries empowered by Web 2.0 and crowd-sourcing technologies. He will focus on improving media annotation with open-sourced anthologies, linked open data, tagging with linked data URIs, semantics, machines, and crowd-sourced human computation. Todd Carter is the CEO and co-founder of Tagasauris, Inc., a metadata curation platform that incorporates crowd-sourcing, machine learning, linked open data, and the semantic web. Todd is widely respected as a leader in the digital asset, photography, and linked open data community, with over 20 years experience working with photo archives, libraries, museums, and information technology systems. Tagasauris has been featured in The New York Times, Wired, Business Week, The Economist and others. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Tagasauris and The Museum of the City of New York a grant to annotate the museum's archive. Tagasauris is rolling out it's first photo product in 2012 and hopes to be a game-changer in the media industry.
With three different audio and video codec formats each supported by the diverse HTML5 capable Web browsers, plus the need to deal with fallback for older browsers, HTML5 media is not the simple solution we have all been hoping for. But on the other hand, HTML5 media will make your life easier, since it offers some features that are hard to get with traditional Adobe Flash, such as a standardised JavaScript API, integrated CSS support, and built-in support for accessibility and internationalisation through captioning, subtitling, and audio descriptions. Additionally, devices such as the iPhone and iPad will only support HTML5 media and not Flash. So for any serious practitioner it's a technology you can no longer ignore. W3C invited expert Silvia Pfeiffer will talk through the big issues on this important topic. Dr Silvia Pfeiffer has worked on novel media technology for more than 15 years and is an internationally renowned expert in new Web video standards. Silvia completed her PhD in Mannheim, Germany, on audio-visual content analysis. She then spent 7 years at the CSIRO developing new video technology for the Web in the "Annodex" project. In 2007, she co-founded Australian video company Vquence which offers consulting and technology services for Web 2.0 video. Silvia is now an invited expert on four W3C video-related working groups. She is making contributions to the new audio and video elements in HTML5, to media annotation standards, to media fragment addressing via URIs, and to video accessibility technology for hearing and seeing-impaired people (captions, audio annotations etc). Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
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