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Michael Sippey (Vice President of Product for Medium.com) on Your Goal Should Be to Wow Your Customers Every Time
Michael Sippey, the Vice President of Medium.com shares about why it's important to ask yourself what you can be doing in your business to improve your customers experience better, how can you find their needs and solve them, and why you should never stop trying to wow your customers.
Ladies and gentlemen on today's show we have the incredible pleasure of interviewing, the Vice President of Medium! Michael Sippey welcome onto the Thrivetime Show, how are you sir!?
Michael, for all of our listeners out there that are not super familiar with what Medium.com is, I'd like for you to share about Medium.com and what it is?
Medium is an online publisher where anyone can come and write stories.
It was founded by a co-founder of Twitter
We create a personalised experience where people can purchase a subscription to read about a wide variety of topics.
Michael Sippey, I know that today you are the Vice President of Medium.com, but I'd love for you to share what a typical day looks like for you and what all you are responsible for?
I manage a team of 20-25 people who do product management and design.
I work with the rest of the executive team to determine where we are going and what we should be working on
Most of my days are spent in meetings.
I have to mentally curse less and less per day.
Now, I know that you are kind of a big deal now, but I'd love for you to share about your first "real" job after you finished school?
I went to school at Colgate University and majored in English Literature
My first job was at a software company
I loved the team and the people. I really got hooked on the startup environment
Michael Sippey, I would love for you to share about your time spent at 512 2nd Street and what you learned there?
It was an unbelievable time. It is in a neighborhood of a market
It is in a place called South Park which is where the conception of the internet really took place.
The thing that I loved about working here was that it really felt like we were a tight knit team all growing and working together.
It was lead by an incredible woman who at the time was a groundbreaking pioneer
I love the Giants. Buster Posey really defined the modern team.
When do you believe that your career first began to gain traction?
It actually was at Advent. I was a young person who was new to tech and could just work hard.
They gave me some responsibility in a project management role.
I know that you are passionate about the concept of "Get In The Van." Can you share what you mean by this?
The more time you can spend listening to or talking to your customers, the better off you are.
Before you start making on a project, get a team together and meet 30 potential customers. If you can't get 30 people to meet you and your team then you probably don't have a product
Michael, why do you believe that is so vitally important for entrepreneurs to talk to their customers at least once per day?
Michael, I watched a presentation that you gave online where you stressed the importance of asking 3 questions:
What problem are we solving?
This is what I tell people who are building products
You have to know in detail what problem you are trying to solve
At Medium we send you an email called "The Daily Digest"
The problem we solve is sifting through Medium and finding what you really need to read
At Medium, we see that we are solving a problem who are curious about the world. People who are looking for facts.
We have a set of curation guidelines. It is about the quality of the writing that makes sure the story actually has a point.
There are thousands of stories published on Medium every day
We have tools to filter stories
Some of articles you can actually listen to it
How will we measure success?
We look at weather or not the subscription business is growing
Are we giving our customers enough value?
***I'd love to have you break down what why these are so important…
Michael, I'd love to hear about your role at Twitter?
I was Vice President for Twitter for 2 years
Vine is no longer a product
It started as an app where people could make 6 second looping videos
The kids are using Tick Tock
The founder of Vine is coming out with a new version of vine
What one Tech Person do you really look up to?
There are two people:
You come across as a very intentional person, what does the first four hours of your typical day look like and what time do you like to get up?
I wake up at 6:00 am
I will run
I leave the house at 7:30 am
Drop the kids off at the bus
In the office at 8:30 am
I plan my day
Meetings start at 9:30 am
Lunch at 12:00 pm
If you could go back 20 years and talk to yourself, what would you say?
Take more risks personally and professionally
The biggest risks I took were starting a business after I left Twitter and also when we bought a project house.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Building Medium and other ventures
You come across as a very well read person, what are two or three books that you would recommend for all of your listeners to check out and why?
The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Far Sighted – Stephen Johnson
ACTION ITEM: What can you be doing in your business to make your customers experience even better when they try your product/service? How can you find their needs and solve them?
Jason, what has been your role at elephant in the room over these past few years? My role, other than my position has been to wow our customers. And your title, I believe was the super manager. Correct. And now you coach business coaching clients. I do. And our goal is to wow our customers because when people are wowed, they will tell their friends. Now. So on today's show we decided to have the vice president of medium.com to come join us on the show to share with us why your goal should be to wow your customers each and every time it's worth it. It's worth that extra dime to wow those customers, Jason, we have to stop everything. Tell the customers about the new meds, the new meds. Oh, the Andes mints. Yeah, the new meds. Oh yeah. So we scrapped our old butter mints and replaced them with better mints.
So you're saying we used to have butter mints and the Elephant in the room. Men's grooming lounge. Yeah. You know those like soft round ones. And why did we replace them with the Andes myths? Because the Andes are what people are asking for. They are something that goes above and beyond. My understanding is the uh, the, the, the uh, Andes mints might cost more. They do, but they wow the customers. Absolutely. And when people are wowed, they'll tell their friends. Now on today's show we teach how to wow your customers and we are joined here with the incredible Michael Sippey, the vice president of medium.com.
Some shows don't need a celebrity in a writer to introduce the show. This show dots to me, eight kids co created by two different women, 13 moat tie, million dollar businesses. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the thrive time
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yes, yes, yes and yes. Thrive nation. Welcome back to another exciting addition to the thrive time show on your radio and podcast download. On today's show, we are interviewing the vice president of medium.com Mr. Michael Sippey. Welcome onto the thrive time show. How are you sir?
I am great. I'm great. The rain has broken here in San Francisco and it's a nice day. It's good.
Now what I want to ask you, you have this career that is a epic and growing. And so for all the listeners out there who are not super familiar with you, I know all of you are going to Google, search your name right now and try to figure out the DD tapestry that has made your career what it is. Can you explain to us a, to the listeners out there, what medium.com is and what it does?
Yeah, sure. Uh, we are an online publisher. We run a platform where anybody can come and write stories. Uh, we've been around for about five years, uh, started by uh, the I, one of the co founders of Twitter after he left where I am, so anybody can come on, right? ADM. Uh, then we curate a great stories that are written by the community and we commission original writing from professional journalists and writers and we package all of that up into a personalized experience for people that come and register on medium. And we sell subscriptions for unlimited access to those stories. So we're essentially been growing the subscription business for the last year and a half, and it's going really well. And we're essentially a platform where you can come and, and read about a wide variety of topics from a technology and programming and Java script and all the things that are happening in tech to artificial intelligence to help and all of the things that are happening in medicine to, uh, all the way to kind of self help and personal stories that people are sharing about their lives.
I know there's none of our listeners eat our, our, our people without talent other than me. So I want to know on behalf of the people out there who have no talent, um, what does it mean to be the vice president? I mean, what does your schedule look like on a daily basis? Are you hopping into a board meeting and smoking cigars? You order a nuclear strike is what we're asking, right? Do you have the power to hit red button?
I can. I can rarely order a nuclear strike.
Hmm. And I gave him the Guard Day
is pretty busy. So I am, uh, I manage a team of about 20 to 25 people across the organization that do product management and design and data science and uh, and support for our users. And so I, and I'm work with the rest of the executive team to help kind of work on the strategy for medium and where we're going, what we should be working on. And so I, my day is, uh, pretty much scheduled back to back with meetings from about eight 30 til about six, uh, pretty much every day and then find some time in there for, uh, catching up on email and chatting with folks. But I get a lot of my energy out of working with the team and spending time and talking through hard problems. And so I really enjoy it.
Now this is a z, this is a question I've never asked to a guest before ever, ever come off the cock. I just, I want to know, dries up my call. I wanna apologize up front cause immediate medium is growing. It's a great company. It's growing. Things are going well, a z, you and I own multiple companies and we're in the Bible belt. So the Bible belt, like if you wanted to really go off at somebody in curse, you might say something like, well shucks. Shucky darn, really. You know? Um, how often Michael, during your typical day to make this company grow and to, to grow the team and to hold the team accountable and to set the vision, how often do you mentally curse [email protected] you personally as the vice president,
mentally, mentally, or out?
Mentally we say shucks, Chuck's there. That's not so great. And I just think your swell,
uh, the goal is less and less every day. Right?
Right. He's
trying to essentially help people get better
every day. So it happens, you know, probably, you know, multiple times a day where you're swearing on the inside. Right. And what am I 29
he and resolutions is to do left swearing on the outside.
There you go. That's a good move now. Okay, so now, now you're kind of a big deal. We know you're kind of a big deal bad. Look for you to share about your first real job after you finished school. You know, when you, where did you go to school and what was your first job after school?
So, uh, I think I'm only a big deal with my mom and maybe my kids, but um, but after I went to school at Colgate university, which is upstate New York, I majored in English lit. I moved out to California. Um, my first kind of real job after college, um, I did a bunch of like working, I worked for a law office for awhile. Um, but my first like real job in tech was at a software company called advent software, which is actually still around. And they did something that I had no idea what it was and I barely know what it didn't now, which is like portfolio management software for biocide money management firms and, but I love the team and I love the people that I kinda got hooked on startup culture and, and how technology works.
I went to the Google map there cause I'm a real cyberstalker. I went to five, 12 second street. Can you talk to us about five 12 second street and what it was like working there.
So it was, it was kind of an unbelievable time. So that right now that now second street in San Francisco is in a neighborhood called top of the market and we're five 12 second street is right around the corner from a little park called South Park. And South Park is essentially the kind of ground zero for what happened with the Internet over the last 20 years, um, in San Francisco. And so, but back then when I, when I first started working there, this is pre web. So I w I started working there in 1991. The neighborhood was not what it is today. There's been a lot of development like right around the corner is the today is the, um, is where the giants ballpark is. And that wasn't built yet. The giants are still playing at candlestick, so like neighborhood is completely transformed. And the building, the thing that I loved about working at five 12 with per advent was when I joined, we were somewhere between 30 and 40 people.
Um, and it really felt like this unbelievably tight knit group of folks that, that acted like a team. We had software engineers, we have sales people, we had support people. We had, um, you know, for folks from kind of a bunch of different disciplines who were all, uh, rowing in the same direction, trying to solve the same problem for our customers. And that was really inspiring. Um, even though I didn't really understand the problem space at all, and the team was, uh, essentially so passionate that you really started to understand, um, more about the business every day that I was there. And it was led by an incredible woman. So Stephanie Demarco, who is the CEO and advent, um, at the time, this was the early nineties, was a really a groundbreaking pioneer of being a female CEO of a tech startup, working in financial services. Um, and she just led that company with such passion around the business, around the customers and compassion and empathy for her employees. And it was just really an incredible time to incredible, incredible time to be there.
Now, speaking of, of passion here, are you passionate about your San Francisco giants? Cause your room, you guys were pretty close, right? You are within, I'm looking at Google Earth now. You right four blocks away from the stadium. Oracle Park right there, my friend.
Yeah, I love the giant. In fact like I, I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity to participate in uh, in a season ticket traffic later this week where I get to work with, you know, a group of other folks and pick out games for the year. So
do you like all time? Great. San Francisco giant. Are you going to go with, will Clark? Uh, maybe Kevin Mitchell, are you going with Matt Williams? You go in with a Barry bonds. Who's your all time favorite giant?
Uh, I'm going to go with buster posey.
Buster Posey. [inaudible].
Okay. Yeah, I'm going with buster. You basically defined like the modern era of the giants and it's just a stall word of the team that basically leads that clubhouse. So I'm going with buster
and we're going to get back into this interview about business busy kind of businessy kind of things, business. He kind of is. But I do, I do want to ask you one last question cause Michael Sippey, you have all the insider information. You know, you're in that tech world. You're right there you are at five 12 second street but basically four to five blocks away from the stadium. Do you, I know he's, you know, it's, it's come out of a phd. A lot of people have alleged things, but do you think that that that Barry Bonds was on steroids?
Uh, yes I did.
Okay. Just wanted what, did you still cheer though?
Okay. Yeah
of course. Like home runs like, you know, well he was amazing.
Do you think that it would be a good move for baseball to go ahead and accept the use of steroids moving forward and just to say we allow it, do you think that would be good for the game moving forward? Cause that that's kind of mine proposal.
I think that it would be bad. I think that would be bad for again.
Okay. Well I'm not, I'm not a purist.
You don't think I'm sort of a purist that way. And I actually don't think that balance should end up in all of that.
Alright. I, I don't know in all sincerity, I do agree with you cause I think if he gets in and it sets the precedent, next thing you know, we're going to have the incredible hulk in the whole thing. Okay. So now we go back to our businessy kind of questions. When in your career did you believe that you first began to really gain some traction where you thought, Oh God, an idiot, I know what I'm doing, I'm having some success, I can call my mom. And when did you feel like you finally got some traction? Exactly.
I got to call my mom. I think it actually was an advert and it really was a product of the environment that I was in, which was really supportive and learning and they took risks on people. So I was a young, you know, young person in like new to tech and then English lit major. Um, and essentially just worked hard and uh, proved that I had half a brain and they gave me some responsibility to, uh, essentially become, have my first product management role. Um, and I went from essentially doing kind of marketing assistant type jobs and organizing events into doing real product management. And it was, uh, it was a real challenge, but uh, but I felt kind of lucky and blessed to be given that opportunity. And it's, I'm super grateful for that team for how they taught me how to do it. Um, which was a lot of fun.
I saw one of your, uh, interviews or one of your presentations on this thing called youtube CZ or you good with youtube? We're in Oklahoma. Not a big part here. It's big with the kids. Yeah. Big with the kids that people are starting to use, the Google and the youtube. These are things people are starting to, Oh, I think I've had a girl, the Oklahoma. These are just now started figuring out what are your things you talked about was getting a van. And I say that all the time in the office. I'm always, you know, cause the 18 was such a big thing as a kid. Oh yeah. He admit Mr t he's like, we have to get there quickly. Step one, we've got to get in this thing and then we've got step two. We gotta wait, we gotta make sure the van door never fully shuts or the helicopter door we could fall out. But it doesn't matter because as Matt, you don't have time to get to a full stop. We do a rolling stop, get out. Talk to me about right. Talk about getting the van. What's that about?
Alright, so, so here's, here's what the thing that you learned is that as a product manager really early on, which is the more time that you can spend listening to or talking with your users or your customers, the better off you are. So I had a, a, a board member who taught us this, uh, this methodology of um, of a, she called sinked up now or market validation back then where it was essentially before you, even when you had the first inkling, an idea for a product, the thing you should do is essentially get into van, which is get a group of people that are going to have to be responsible for building the product and supporting the product. So in our case, back in the early nineties, there was like engineering manager, QA person, product manager and support person and you'd go and you'd go get meetings with 30 customers and it's like a 20 something year old product manager.
I had this board member telling me, okay Michael, your job is to go schedule 30 meetings with potential users of this product idea that you have. And if you can't get 30 meetings so you don't have a product and these spend, you basically get in the van with the rest of the team and you go see all these customers and you ask them a series of structured questions of like, Hey, we think you have this problem. Do you have this problem? We think this solution could help you do it. Let's talk about it. And you asked them, you know, would you pay for it? How much would you pay for it? Would you Beta test it? Would you like recommend other people for us to talk to? And that's really the only way to start to validate whether or not the idea that you have is a, is the right idea before you write a single line of code. And so that process has been super useful for me throughout my career. And now working in kind of consumer Internet where you have, we have access to a lot more people. Those same principles apply, which is how do you go and concept and test your idea before you actually go invest a lot of engineering resources and a lot of design resources in the building.
Uh, in Oklahoma, in Oklahoma, we're, we're kind of, you know, Z, we're kind of a little bit behind the times with the technology and a one of these, uh, websites that the young whippersnappers are out there using. We talked about the Google, the youtube is zip. You heard about this thing called t witter? No, but I've heard the one that's twit a terror. Yeah. But I quit twit spaced. Her twit hurt Twitter. You barely knew her. I mean Twitter and we went. Okay. So I want to ask you, Michael Sippey, talk to me about your role working with t winter.
Uh, so I was a vice president of product at Twitter for a couple of years, um, and uh, worked on, uh, basically the mobile apps and the website. Um, worked on a product called Brian for a little while. Um, essentially like help lead the product management team and design team at Twitter for two years.
What happened with vine. I know that beaver was obsessed with vine for awhile there. What happened to vine? Where's vine now?
Vine is a no longer a product, which is a shame. I thought it was a really creative, really creative product. [inaudible] yeah, it was like you'd love it. I think what happened is that it started as um, uh, an app where anybody could make, you know, six seconds, six seconds looping videos. And what happened is that people that were really, really good at that were the folks that got really popular. And so it's sort of like they couldn't really figure out how to turn it into a bigger community product. And then I think Twitter can figure out like how to really use it best inside Twitter. And so, uh, vines no longer, um, a lot of folks are using, a lot of kids are using TechTalk now. It's a thing that is very similar to what vine was back in the day. Um, and a old cofounder of Vine, uh, is actually working on a new version of vine called bite. So the idea is still out there of how do you essentially give people tools to make short, uh, fun videos to share with their friends. So
you are very good. The five 12, a second street building was very close to Dropbox. Have you ever met Paul Graham? Hung out with Paul Graham, met the great Paul Graham.
I met Paul. He wouldn't remember, but I met him years and years ago at some party.
Okay. Of all the tech people you've worked with throughout your career, is there one person that you look up to the most because you're in the, this is what you do. You're in this space. If you ever met somebody where you thought, wow, that guy, that lady, wow, that is the sharpest human I've ever met in this tech space.
So, uh, there are two people, um, one of whom they're both investors at Andreessen Horowitz. So mark Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, um, both people that I've looked up to for a really long time and I've been lucky enough to get to know Ben a little bit, uh, because he's on the board of medium. Uh, the company I work for. And so she's just a really tremendous guy. And his book, the hard thing about hard things, it's, um, is really, really great. So I highly recommend Ben's book.
Oh preacher, that book is awesome. That book is awesome.
Yeah. Yeah, I put it so good. And then, um, I've had the opportunity, I really look up to mark, um, because he has such an enormous brain and it's such a very thinker and I've had the opportunity to be, um, in meetings with them a few times and just feel really lucky to have that experience work, uh, being able to be with them.
When you spent time with Ben, did you talk about uh, 1990s a gangster rap at all?
We have occasional,
nineties gangster out. And the fun part is like, I get a thrill like watching the warriors because he has courtside seats. So it's fun, like as the camera pants always see, been watching the warriors. So that's always fun.
There it is. There it is. Okay. Now I watched the presentation that you gave online where you stressed the importance of asking three questions. And so I'm going to tee up these questions and I want z to kind of interrogate you about these questions. Okay? So of course number one is asked, you know, what problem are we solving? Who are we solving it for and how will we measure success? So let's go with the first one here, Mr. Michael Sippey. Um, what problem are we solving? Why is it so important to ask that question?
Yeah, so this is where I tell, this is what I tell people that are building a, that are building products. So especially as product managers, but they're really responsible for being able to answer these three questions. Cause if you, if you can't answer these three questions, then you really can't help guide a team to build the right things. So what problem are we solving? I like people fall in love with technology and instead what you have to fall in love with is the user and their problem. You have to really understand the problem really deeply in order to build great software to go solve that problem. So the first job of a pm is to really understand like, what problem are you trying to solve?
What problem are we trying to solve? So like for instance, some of the, some of the projects that you've been working on, give us the, the project and then the problem that was solved. Give us some examples.
Yeah. So we, uh, we send a a medium you can, when you, when you sign up for an account, we will send you an email every day that we call the daily digest, which is a personalized email for you based on the tens of thousands of articles that have been published in the last week on medium. What are the best ones for you every day. Um, and the problem that we're trying to solve there is make medium. Like how do we deliver, uh, how do we help you sift through all of the great stories on medium to find the best things for you to read. And so we, uh, we essentially look at like, at how do we make medium a part of your daily, your daily email habit and solve the problem with you. You know, getting smarter about the world, getting smarter about your job, um, getting smarter about yourself and making sure that we're crafting, uh, and you know, product that is personalized you based on your history of reading and interacting with medium so that we can deliver you a great email product. So it's really about, you know, how do we solve that problem for you of like having a great stories to literally for you, um, every day that can help you get smarter about, uh, the things that you want to get smarter about.
Now you, you say the next question is who are we solving it for? So it medium. Are you solving problems for extremely right of center libertarian slash conservatives or extremely left of center, uh, or is it for everybody or who are you solving problems for it? medium.com.
Yeah, that's a great question. So we're, because we're a platform where anybody can come in, right? Uh, we, we don't really think about solving it for a particular political ideology. We do see that, um, we're solving it for people that are curious about the world, right? So we've decided that we want to go after a segment of folks that care about, uh, complex issues that are willing to dive in and understand like the array of facts that are available to them and listen to, uh, uh, diversity
only Democrats. Then basically only Democrats is what he's saying. Here's the only Democrat that's only Republicans. Maybe alcaide I'm trying to [inaudible] this up. Okay.
I actually don't think that's true.
Okay, good. I just, I wanted to, I want it to stop because there's somebody out there, you know, when you guys curate stuff, I think there's somebody out there that thinks there's maybe a bias in it. How do you guys do that or how does that work if somebody is come that, you know what I mean? If somebody is a very left of center of a right of center and they're wanting to, you know, figure out what they want to look, how do you, how do you do that there? How do you keep it objective?
So we essentially, we have a set of curation guidelines that we put published online. But basically it's not about political ideology. It's about the quality of the writing and about the quality of like, making sure that headlines are not click baity make sure that the story has a point. Make sure that it's well written, make sure that it's not spam, make sure that it's, uh, it's not essentially just trying to like, while people up, but it's actually a considered piece. And so, um, I think that we, you know, we're, we're still learning and evolving. Those will evolve those criteria over time. But that's the thing.
That's great. So how many writers do you have? How many people have, like on a typical, I don't know, day, week, month, however you, how do you want to put that into perspective? How many writers do you have writing in?
Yeah, well, there's, there's thousands of stories that are published on medium every day. Uh, and not every writer writes every day, right? So there's many more, many, many, many times the number of writers in there are pizzas published every day. And we have, um, you know, between kind of 10, 20,000 stories published on an average day. I mean,
wow. So do you read every one and then categorize them yourself? Is that kind of your daily routine?
Yeah. No. Yeah. I, that's all I do.
Yeah. That's awesome. He knows everything.
No, we have a, we use a variety of tools, um, for filtering those and for putting the right stories front of curators, whether that's through um, kind of machine learning and algorithm.
If you don't have a room, you don't have a room full of like guys with thick glasses on. They're just sitting there just reading articles all day long. Right. It'd be drinking and drink monster drinks or caffeine drinks.
Well that we have, yeah, we view those people, but not that they're not reading it,
you know, if, if medium is looking to add, I need to use, you guys use a variety of tools. If you're looking for an additional tool. I've often been called a tool. Yeah. So I wouldn't be a great reader. The empire, can I, you know, I'd probably, if we could get like the articles on audio, I'm going to me IBI, you know, [inaudible] more a variety of tools.
Some of our articles they actually make available so that you can
say you had a problem for me and you solved it already. I like that one step too.
How do I read while driving?
Right. Well what clay just reads, he says the worst driver in the world plays Rooney. Mike live a funny and true story for you. Do you, do you happen to drive a Tesla?
You do? Okay. So one of my, uh, do you have the self driving thing? Is that a thing you use?
No, no, that terrifies me.
Well there's a, there's a guy who's a client of mine who lives in Dallas who is trying to edit a franchise disclosure document, which by the way is 160 page document of just legal ease. And it's all when you franchise the business, you know, you have to make this crazy thing. So this guy puts the car on self driving mode and begins to edit the FDD while driving and then thinks this is kind of fun. I'll send photos through clay cause he knows how against the self-driving feature you need it because you're the worst driver. What world self drive. You can never be worse than you driving. I could never at all do anything but just be in pure panic and terror. Being in a self driving car, you can try to be in a car with you driving. It's on my watch. Okay. Okay. So now I want to, I wouldn't ask you this, here you are a guy who's talked a lot about, you've got to ask the question, how do you measure success at medium right now? How will you measure success? How do you measure success? What does that look like?
Yeah. So we look at, um, I mean the ultimate measure of success for our business because we're selling subscriptions is those is the subscription business growing. And, uh, and that is for us, what I love about the work that I'm doing right now. And so that ties the value that we're creating for readers, uh, directly to, you know, do they love it enough and do they want it enough to pull out their credit card? And that's a mix of publishing the right stories, making sure that we're finding the right stories, that we're personalizing the experience for them, and that they're getting an experience like either in the app or on the web or in their inbox that they care about. And so that, for us, it's kind of the ultimate measure of success. Just like Netflix, just like Spotify, just like Hulu, you know, are they growing their subscribers factory base back for us as the core measure of success?
No. You come across as a very intentional guy and I'm sure it would be very easy to spend your entire day reading every article on media or to be distracted by calls from people or, you know, there's a lot of ways you can get distracted with this world of constant communication and connectivity. Um, how do you spend the first four hours of your typical workday and what time do you wake up? Most days?
So I'm usually up between six and six 30. Um, on a good day, I will run. Um, I usually leave the house between like around seven 30, uh, drop the kids with the bus. Uh, into the office by about eight 30, um, meetings you hear usually don't start till around nine 30. So I spent in the morning kind of planning my day, looking at my calendar, um, making sure that I'm kind of prepared for what's coming up through the reps for the day. And then it's kind of off to the races. I do, you know, I don't eat much in the morning. I just do like coffee basically. Um, and uh, and then, you know, by, you know, 12 or one, it's uh, it's kind of, you know, time for a little bit of salad. So just try to like kind of keep trying to stay healthy, trying to stay focused. That's basically it.
Now, do you have certain, have you have a certain book, if you could look back and say, okay, maybe it's the hard thing about hard things or it could be any books. Is there a certain book that you would say, this is a book I definitely would recommend every aspiring entrepreneur should read and here's why.
Oh yeah. Well, yeah. Well, all right. So Ben's book is really great. Um, I also recommend, uh, Daniel Kahneman's book thinking fast and slow, um, which is about kind of the two modes of thinking in the way that your brain works. Um, kind of the reactive thing and the, and, and the more thoughtful, uh, way to kind of process emotion and process ideas. Um, that's a good one. I also really enjoyed, I just read, um, Steven Johnson played his book, farsighted, um, which is all about, um, how we make hard decisions and, uh, that's very, very big. Um, I would definitely recommend that.
Z, I'm going to paint you into a corner here. My friend. We've got a guy on the show who's his sort of a big deal. We think he's a big deal. He, his mom thinks he's a big deal. Apparently Twitter thought he was a big deal. Medium thinks he's a big deal. What is your final question you have here for the man and the myth and the legend if you didn't? One of the questions I'd love to ask is, you know, as you go through life, we learn things, we learn things, we learn things. And, and it's, uh, uh, this is kind of a pretend thing. If you could go back 20 years and talk to yourself, what would you tell yourself?
Oh, that's a great question. Um,
I think, uh, I think I would tell myself to take more risk. Wow. Um, that, that, uh, I remember, um, yeah, he used to walk in this neighborhood on the way to work and there was a sign in the window that someone had put up that said leap and the net will appear. And I wish I had taken that advice. Um, more frequently. I would essentially like take more risks. Uh, both, you know, personally, professionally, like there's, um, there's really, you can just be bolder and be more true to yourself and take more risks.
Well, I now segue, last question for me is what was the biggest risk you took?
Uh, that's a good question. I think, um, I, I started a company after I left Twitter. Uh, that was a lot of fun. Um, I think the biggest risk I took was with my wife. We, we bought kind of a project of a house, uh, and read it back together. Um, and that, and that kind of proved us out. But like, we took a big risk and every step along the way when we thought we were kind of done with this project, like things kind of turned around and we were able to make it work.
Fantastic. Okay. Mike? I, this is actually my last one now. So where do you see your secret last one? This is the secret one because you're, you're a clever man. Fun to talk to. Uh, where do you see yourself in, uh, say you can either tackle it five or 10 years. I'll let you choose.
Oh Man. So I think five is easier than 10, so I just turned 50. Um, I love what I do. Uh, and I'm committed to, to building mediums. So I think that it's really about, um, you know, in five years my, my kid will be out of high school and away at college. And so
don't worry this time about the limit of the shift, but I like love
working and so I love what I do. I love managing teams. I love working with people. I love building products, and so I don't see that changing in the next five years. I still have a lot of stuff to go. Oh, fantastic. Sam's hardware.
Now, do you have a particular, if you could sit down with all the listeners today and say, Mr Listener, Mrs Listener, I want to give you one piece of advice. Would you want to be riskier? Yes. You can sit down and say, here's the hard conversation you need to have right now. I wish someone would've had this hard conversation with me. What's that knowledge bomb, that truth, that epiphany, that that set hot sauce that all the listeners need to hear today.
Trust your gut. Felony something trusted.
Trust it. That's awesome. Oof. Z my head. You know what? That was the sound of my bracket. That's a good, that gets a bomb chicken a holy cow too. Yeah. Okay. I'll give him a hug.
Oh, me.
Give him the Gallagher button.
Why were you big? Shout out to Drake.
Back to you sir. Um, how really this is, this is not even a question then was really more of a hanging up. This is really more of, it's more of a statement. How can you sleep at night knowing knowing that your home team stole Kevin Durant. Oh, dad is Oklahoma. I mean, how do you sleep at night or do you have to medicate yourself? You want to know how did you medicate yourself greatly or what? [inaudible]
Aye. I sleep,
I sleep very well. Safe. And the knowledge of a gazillion wins every season. Oh, that's just dirty. Oh, they've got the great weather. You've got out the trash, you've got south park around the corner. You've got everything from us. Oh, well Michael Sippey, thank you so much for being on the show.
Really Fun. Thanks guys.
You Bet. Well done. Now Jason, if you're out there, let's just say that you're, you're uh, you could give a big shout out to one of your clients. Big shout out client, a client that you're working with. Okay. That is just doing really well. I will say angels touch, they are a auto body detailer and a detail shop in Bourne, Massachusetts. They are number one on Google right now. Come on. They didn't just hit number one on Google. Yep. And are they wow. In their customers, they are wowing their customers. They have two dogs that greet you when you walk in. What's the, uh, what's the Botox, uh, business you work with? They've been doing such a great job, revitalize medical spa. You vitalize medical spa, they have been killing it. They had one of their biggest days, $10,000 a day. That's a day not week last, uh, last week.
Now, who are the ladies who you deal with? Who are the owners of the company so of revitalize that is, um, Krista and Lindsey, Christa and Lindsey. Can you make sure you share this podcast with them? Absolutely. I'll tell you, I have, I've got a complaint real quick. Oh, let me talk about wow. And customers, right? I go in there to revitalize and I said, hey, you know, 38, 39, 39 years old. Now I'm looking to, you know, get some botox. And what were their names again? It was Christa and Lindsey. Kristen Lindsey. Okay. Which, which is the one who has the little edge to her hoses. Lindsay or Krista who's, um, they are both super awesome, but I think Krista has a little bit more of an edge. No, I think it was Krista who had said, she says, you know, we could start, we could do a botox but I'd recommend to save money.
Why don't we just Redo your whole face? And I'm going really? And then I realized it wasn't actually them, it was probably a competitor of theirs, but right. But it could have been that. It could've been them. And if you're out there, uh, just ladies, um, I just want you to know that, uh, I will never be a botox customer of yours because you don't have enough cosmetic, uh, things that can fix my face like mine. It's all right, but they've got hair removal. You ask and ask them if they've ever fixed somebody who looks exactly like Jabba the Hutt facially say, have you ever totally fixed that? Cause if they have, I'll be, I'll be a customer. But seriously, those are great ladies. They wow their customers. Oh they really do. And we've got angels. The angels, people are wowing their customers. Yep. They are.
Who else is, well, there's, there's, what's your one more you can think of right now that maybe a win, maybe from the coaches meeting this morning, maybe, maybe a different client, maybe a client that you're not working with. Maybe a client you are working with. Can you think of just one more? Well, just maybe one more hot. I've got, I've got a house, I've got a hot, well the good folks at Papa Gallows, pizza pizzeria. Oh yeah. These guys in Satellite Beach, Florida, they are killing the game. They have great hand tossed pizza. And uh, if you Google search papa gallows reviews or Papa Gallo's pizza in satellite beach, you can see what it's like to wow your customers. And they're actually on a trip right now to Colorado just to explore and to research and to study other companies to see if they can take their wow game to the next level.
They're trying to see other restaurants in Denver that are wowing to see if they can take back some of those ideas to wow their customers more. And Jason, why would they want to wow their customers more when they're already wowed? Well, I mean, you want to wow as many people as possible. You never want to stop. Like that's like, you know, we want to provide a wow service at elephant in the room and then we want to do it up to a certain point. And Mick, no, we're good. Who does it benefit the most? When you, wow the customer, it benefits you as the business owner. Yes. It's the most selfish thing you could possibly do. Wowing your customers is the most selfish thing you could possibly do. So the ladies that revitalize, they are selfish. They're out there. Wow. Their customers. Oh yeah. Those guys had papa Callow's dish.
Oh Wow. And their customer office. And then you've got the guys up there, the angels, angels, angels touch. Wow. When their customers, how selfish, how dare they now thrive nation. If you're out there today, we encourage you to be a doer. And not just to hear her. Now is your time to enter. Act Now is your time to take that action. Get off the wall. Don't be the person that the eighth grade dance who's on the wall. Get off the wall. Get in the game. The dance party has started. We only have a limited amount of time left on this planet. Be a doer. Book a ticket to one of our business conferences. Be a doer scheduled 13 point assessment. Be a doer. Subscribe to the online school. Do it. It's 20 bucks a month. You say, I can't afford it. We have a scholarship. What? Yeah, just email info at thrive time.
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The most important issue in space development is reducing the cost to orbit. While there are other possible ways to reduce the cost to orbit, we feel that Single Stage To Tether is the most promising approach (see flash demo).
Using a suborbital rocket of around 40,000 Kg gross mass, you could take a payload of about 4,000 Kg to the end of an orbiting spinning tether. Because of the tether, the rocket only has to provide a bit over half the delta-V of going to orbit. This makes it much easier to make the rocket a reusable launch vehicle (RLV). If the rocket is an RLV then the cost to orbit could be as low as $6/lb. This is more than 100 times cheaper than the best current launch prices of around $1,000/lb to LEO and $6,000 to GEO. This kind of savings can be had with a modest tether tip velocity of 2.5 km/sec due to a number of factors. After the tether is fully loaded with solar cells and thrusters, it could handle a 4,000 Kg payload every 90 minutes. This would require a few RLVs.
The huge potential market is tourism but there are some other markets for such a system and some problems to be worked on. Tethers have had a bad reputation and there are some reasons why tethers have not yet been used. Still, this method of reducing cost to orbit seems very practical and with far lower development cost and risk than any other method of which I am aware. I have a few thoughts on who might finance this.
The key to getting the tether system up for a reasonabl cost is bootstrapping from an initial small tether. At first you could not fly your reusable rocket with a full load, because the tether can not handle that much, but it would still be the cheapest way into space.
We are working on an initial design we call CateCATS1. From this we will try to estimate time for rollout and costs. An initial tether project could be using a lunar tether to pickup regolith and return to Earth for fun and profit. We also have a list of Future space projects that might become reasonable once launch costs are reduced. Used throughout these web pages are some bibliographic references.
We are working on a space tether simulator that anyone can use for free. This simulator can also be used as a "projectile simulator", "rocket simulator", "drag simulator", "reentry simulator", "meteor simulator", "solar sail simulator", or general "space simulator" for looking at atmospheric drag and heating on projectiles or rockets. You may need to install the newest versions of the Java JRE for the applets to run right. You can also get a new Netscape or a new Internet Explorer. To try the simulator, click on "Run the Space Tether Simulator" below, then click on "Design point" or "Rocket 20km", and then click on "Start Simulation".
Run the Space Tethers Simulator - Java applet will run in web browser.
Documentation for users - Descriptions of inputs and outputs.
Known bugs or limitations - Some of the known problems.
Description of models - Basic ideas for simulating different things.
View or download the source - Java source for Space Tethers Simulator.
Good ideas are recognized as such and spread. I got most of the ideas for this web site from discussions with my father, Henry Pratt Cate Jr., starting in late November 2002. He has recognized their merit from published papers, space conferences and the Internet. Some publications similar to the ideas on this site are at tethers.com, paper in 1995, and one in 1982. On usenet Henry Spencer has discussed the idea. Some of the key people in spreading tether ideas over the last 10 years have been Robert Forward, Robert Hoyt and Joseph Carroll. Many tether ideas were published by Hans Moravec, Jerome Pearson, Robert Forward, and Arthur C. Clarke more than 20 years ago. Jerome Pearson is still active in tethers at Star-Tech Inc. It seems Hans Moravec heard of tethers from John McCarthy who thought about tethers in the 1950s. Some people call a spreading idea a meme (see memes.org.uk or memecentral.com).
I think that spreading the ideas on how we could get to the moon was an important part of actually getting to the moon. Robert Goddard said, "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." In a 1920 report Goddard outlined the possibility of sending a rocket to the Moon. Robert Heinlein worked on the movie "Destination Moon" (1950) and Wernher Von Braun (who studied Goddard) worked on Colliers magazine articles (1952) and the TV show "Man and the Moon" (1955) with Disney. Likewise, spreading ideas for ways to achieve low cost to orbit should help us actually get low cost to orbit. I think space enthusiasts are too pessimistic right now. I am trying to publicize the ideas I like best with this web site and posts to newsgroups. If you like these ideas, and want to see this dream turned into reality, do what you can to spread the word, link to us, tell others, email someone, etc.
For an introduction to tethers try Scientific American.
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March 30th, 2009 | 131 replies
Release Date: 2006 | Tracklist
Review Summary: In the overtone of cynicism and depression, this album pushes on, creating a beautiful piece of a young trilogy.
The Fall of Efrafa are a strange band to pin down, stylistically and conceptually. The band has decided that they will only record 3 albums, all linked together in a trilogy, about reimagining of the mythological and political overtones in the book Watership Down by Richard Adams. First off is this album, "Owsla" (meaning warrior or defender), which creates the backbone of a narrative about an unarmed society dealing with the end of a war against mankind. The society clings to the dated beliefs of their elders, and will not break free of these ideologies. Followed by that is "Elil" (meaning enemy or predator), which tells the story of these beliefs and the oppressive reign of religious indoctrination. In this part of the trilogy, the society throws away the rule of their God, Frith. The final chapter is "Inle" (meaning death), it is the final recording of The Fall of Efrafa, and the last in the trilogy, dealing with hope in the face of death. It is important to note that every member of this band is a vegan and an atheist, and the lyrics of the trilogy itself show that, with the talk of a dwindling religion (link to Christianity?) to the overthrowing of an old God (link to God of Christianity?). The band aren't assholes about their opinions either, they love to talk discuss them with anyone and everyone, saying, "It is easy to label this as preaching or arrogance, but communication is how we learn. Debating such issues only helps us become more aware of our actions."
As I said, this band is not easy at all to pin down. In the most barren of terms, they are a combination of hardcore, folk/ambient black metal, post-rock and post-metal. But according to Channing Freeman, that is the most god awful description to ever be mouthed. The band is an absolute tour de force. From pulsing, crushing, fast-paced hardcore, to ambient stretches, to throat-shattering vocals from Alex; this band definitely is a tight knit group that has an idea of the music their writing and where they want it to go. An ambient intro of cello's greets your ears and from the beginning you know, there will be no joy in this album, it will be bleak, and it will be depressing. The intro flows right into the beginning ambient guitar of "Pity the Weak," a track that takes your face and stomps it in the mud hundreds of times before they let you have another breather. The story of a race too arrogant and ignorant to realize their actions are only bringing them faster and faster to their ultimate death and destruction, the vocals of a melancholy story are only reinforced by a slew of riffs and drum fills in the background pounding the song forward. The band themselves together throughout the entire album show a cohesiveness not shown in most bands, playing an absolutely tight rhythm section between the bass player, a glued together guitar section where both the guitar players can switch lead and backing without skipping a heartbeat.
In an absolute breathtaking ending to the album, "The Fall of Efrafa" wraps up the first part of the trilogy incredibly well. The story of the societies desperate attempt to overthrow and be rid of the Efrafa, "Even when we have nothing left to live for, it is our instinct to survive. Even when we are scared and alone we can muster the energy to make the final charge." Throughout the album, the band show a great understanding of what they're doing, and know where they went their songs to go. Every member of the band has tight playing, and the vocalist absolutely shreds his throat to pieces. If you're looking for a band that has new ideas and takes those places, The Fall of Efrafa just might be for you. If you're looking for a depressing album that may just reflect our own society, The Fall of Efrafa might be for you. If you're looking to get your head crushed by furious music, The Fall of Efrafa might be for you. In the overtone of cynicism and depression, this album pushes on, creating a beautiful piece of a young trilogy.
They are the warmongers
And they will make our laws
A paw will fall upon the weak
They will mark the day
In death we make our charge, our last lament x2
To turn the tide, in our numbers;
the final will fall - they have our fear
We have the will
A battle cry will sound out
shrill against the night
and with it our retribution
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March 31st 2009
Album Rating: 4.5
wtb working coding and huge pounding dicks
too much you not listening to them
itchyandscratchy
Ya almost definitely.
then this overrate will stay. stop being a fag before i go to your house at night and download them.
NortherlyNanook
yeah, you overrated this quite a bit. i'd give it a 3.5, maybe a 4 on a good day.
whatever boats your float, though. it's still nice to see this reviewed.
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Athom
The band isn't assholes
thanks redskyforqueers
love you too qt pie.
dtf?
i'm always dtf!
you're right you should just download it
DWittisarockstar
holy shit someone reviewed this.
I liked it.
Tits McGee
terrible review
CompanionCube
cmon guys this is almost as good as he says it is POS'D
lol looks like you negged
that was a mistake
not a bad review, they do say that their values are as important as their music. gonna check their stuff out, it sounds like cult of luna's salvation to me, which is an awsome album.
BallsToTheWall
Rules.
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WOLA enables local and bidirectional communication between a WAS server (Liberty or Full Profile) and processes in z/OS, which can be batch jobs, IMS or CICS servers. A WAS Java Enterprise (JEE) application can access a z/OS native application, or be accessed by it, provided that both run on the same partition (LPAR). This article is about identity assertion and propagation in "outbound" applications, that is, originating from WAS and accessing a program in CICS. The outbound access from Java EE applications follows the JCA standard.
It is worth mentioning alternative JCA adapters for remote or local CICS access like CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG).
"genuser" is a user id on the z/OS security system authorized to access business logic in CICS, a COBOL program for example.
"genuser's" password is encoded just to avoid accidental exposure. It is not a cryptographic protection and can be easily reversed.
"OLASERVER" represents the CICS server.
The configuration file must be protected, from reading and writing. Its exposure opens the door to several transactions in CICS environment. Even protected, the infrastructure personnel will always have access to this information.
A fixed service user on the target system, such as "genuser". The only advantage is not to use a password for authentication. Still no traceability. This option is supported on calls between JEE servers (Java X Java), but not by WOLA.
Now, WAS Liberty still authenticates Elisa and Carlos when they access the application for the first time but now the z/OS security system (RACF) is used. Elisa and Carlos are registered in RACF and have permission to run the necessary programs in CICS. All components of the transaction are executed under the authority of the real user (Elisa / Carlos), including the database SQL instructions performed by the program. We have total traceability.
This option is currently supported only by Liberty JVMSEREVR which is part of CICS TS 5.3 or by Full Profile using the CICS Transaction Gateway. We will not test that scenario here.
In order to test identity assertion we have built an application with a servlet and an EJB. The EJB makes a standard JCA call to a CICS/COBOL program using WOLA. The COBOL retrieves control information from z/OS through CICS calls and returns this information to the EJB. Finally, the authenticated user in the WAS and the information extracted by the COBOL program are shown in the browsed for comparison.
The variable cf contains the "connection factory" and is is an object of type "interaction spec." Both instantiated at startup EJB.
The parameters for the CICS program are passed through a CICSUserCommarea type object that translates the parameters exchanged with the CICS program. Although the program uses a single parameter area for input and output, the JCA standard specifies separate areas. The program returns the identity of the executing user on CICS and this information is passed back to the servlet.
03 W-RREALM PIC N(256) USAGE NATIONAL.
03 W-RUSER PIC N(256) USAGE NATIONAL.
1.  EXEC CICS ASSIGN USERID(CICS-USER) END-EXEC.
*    MOVE FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF (W-RUSER, 1208) TO RACF-RUSER.
*    MOVE FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF (W-RREALM, 1208) TO RACF-RREALM.
The first statement retrieves the user ID while the second gets remote user data mapped in the case of scenario 3. The realm identifies how the remote user has been authenticated and may contain a domain name or an LDAP server ID. The information is maintained in its original UTF-8 form so, there is an EBCDIC conversion. For scenario 2 test these statements were commented.
The "keystore" is required to maintain digital certificates, since we require access protection ("<transport-guarantee> CONFIDENTIAL </ …>") in the application web.xml. The "safRegistry indicates we authenticate users on z/OS. SAF (System Authorization Facility) refers to the interface. the implementation is IBM's RACF, present in the test machine. the tag "<administrator-role>" determines that administrator users for this server must belong to group "WAS" in SAF (RACF).
Unlike other adapters, WOLA requires the partner process to register before you can perform calls. As there could be different WAS servers in the LPAR, each WAS instance is identified by a 3-part name. In the case of Full Profile, this name is composed of the cell name, node, and server and can not be modified. For Liberty Profile, names are of free choice, provided that the combination is unique in the LPAR. When CICS register, it will also provide a unique name, referenced in the connection factory as the "register name" (CICSAOR2). What happens can be read as follows: An instance of CICS is registered with the name "CICSAOR2" to an instance of WAS, named as "Liberty/WOLA/ SERVER1".
There is no userid/password in connection factory. the useCicsTaskUserId="true" parameter causes the authenticated user in WAS to be forwarded to CICS.
Communication is established as follows: CICS identifies the WAS by DGN + NDN + SVN (Liberty + WOLA + SERVER1) and register with the RGN name (CICSAOR2). Then, to call this CICS, just use the register name (RegisterName="CICSAOR2″) on a connection factory in WAS, as previously shown.
Note: In a real environment, the implementation of the two activation transactions above should be automated as a part of CICS startup.
The above diagram can be read as: WAS and CICS are z/OS started tasks. An application running on WAS by the user ID accesses CICS. The end user identity is passed to the transaction BBO$, which runs under the user who issued the command START_SRVR (LNKSRVID). The transaction BBO$ starts a new transaction BBO# asserting the user's identity to the identity forwarded by WAS. The BBO# transaction in turn runs the desired program. No password is passed or checked during all process.
Additionally, the user whose identity is ID must be authorized in CICS to run the transaction BBO# and to link the program.
Scenario 2 requires user authentication on z/OS what limits it to internal users: employees and collaborators. In general, customers and suppliers have no direct access to z/OS.
In CICS version 5.3, scenario 3 can be implemented by setting the appropriate features in a Liberty JVMSERVER (a Liberty Profile which is part of CICS), along with LDAP authentication. It is also possible to implement scenario 3 with WAS Full Profile accessing CICS on z/OS via CTG. In this case, WAS can run remotely, in a distributed environment.
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Q: devise vs. devise_token_auth: How to handle authentication for both a web app and API I'm writing an application that will primarily be accessed via API, but will also have views for editing via web app.
I would like to create a User model with authentication and authorization across both platforms.
I'm having trouble understanding the relationship between the devise and devise_token_auth libraries, other than that the former is recommended for most rails apps and the latter is great for API-only authentication.
For my case, what is the appropriate library to use, or should I be using both? Should I be generating the User model via devise and then adding the token auth to it? Do both systems use different authentication schemes? I'm just trying to understand why devise_token_auth exists apart from devise.
I'm also just a bit confused about the added complexity of token-based authentication. What would be wrong with simply having the users be registered and managed through devise, generating an API secret key for them, and then having them sign their API requests with that. Why the need for token based auth in the API?

A: devise_token_auth is an advanced method of API authentication which may, or may not, be overkill for your application. Essentially, a new token is generated for each API request.
Depending on what your needs are, you may be fine with token-based authentication, or perhaps even HTTP Basic auth, which devise supports out of the box.


Armenia international Mkhitaryan, who arrived at the Emirates in January from Manchester United in a swap deal involving Alexis Sanchez, was forced off just after the hour mark in Thursday's 4-1 Europa League quarter-final, first-leg victory over CSKA Moscow.
The 29-year-old, who has scored one Premier League goal for the Gunners, was seen clutching his knee and, after the match, Wenger confirmed the midfielder will not be fit enough for the clash against the Saints.
He said: "He has a knee problem, we don't know how bad it is, we have to assess it tomorrow morning. He will certainly be out for Sunday."
Wenger has also revealed number two keeper David Ospina, who was replaced in goal by Petr Cech for the European encounter, will be out of action for the next two-to-three weeks with an ankle injury.
"The scan today was reassuring, he will be out for two to three weeks," he added.
"Yesterday we were scared it was a very serious injury but the scan was reassuring. Yes [he did it in training] - he just moved back from a shot and sprained his ankle, without any contact. It was just a bad movement."
Arsenal's only major absentee is midfielder Santi Cazorla who is not expected to return until next season.


Coleman, Mercedez (2018) Weight management in obese adults: the role of internalized weight stigma and self-compassion. Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia.
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Background: Obesity is now considered to be a global epidemic, with rates of obesity continuing to rise. Despite the increase in public health messages, many obese individuals struggle to manage their weight. Moreover, obese individuals are frequently subjected to stigma, which becomes internalized and may have an impact on weight management outcomes. Interestingly, the psychological construct of self-compassion has been identified as a potential protective factor against Internalized Weight Stigma (IWS) in obese adults and has been found to be related to better weight management outcomes.
Thesis Portfolio Aims: This thesis explores the role of IWS and self-compassion during weight management in obese adults. Weight management behaviours were defined as any adaptive or maladaptive behaviours to increase, maintain or reduce weight.
Design: A systematic review and mixed-methods synthesis was conducted to explore what is currently known about the role of IWS on weight management behaviours in overweight and obese adults. Weight management behaviours were categorised into physical activity and eating behaviours. The empirical paper explored the influence of self-compassion during weight management in nine obese adults accessing NHS Tier 3 weight management services, using a qualitative constructivist Grounded Theory Lite approach.
Results: Fifteen studies met the inclusion criteria for the systematic review, of which, ten were quantitative and five were qualitative. The results from the systematic review highlighted that IWS was related to maladaptive eating behaviours and reduced engagement in physical activity. The empirical paper presents a grounded theory of self-compassion during the weight management process. Five categories were constructed within the data: relating to self, interacting with others, relating to food, difficulty managing weight and developing self-compassion.
Conclusions: IWS and self-compassion may have fundamental roles in weight management for obese adults. Findings are discussed in relation to the current literature and recommendations for future research are suggested.


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Matt Egbert
Matt is a doctoral candidate in History with a specialization in North African Christianity, martyrdom, and sainthood from the 4th to 7th centuries. His dissertation emphasizes the North African Christian community's unique perspective on death, which developed due to the region's liminal position between the Mediterranean and Trans-Saharan trade networks. He received his M.A. degree in Ancient History from King's College London in 2013, with his thesis tracing the agonistici branch of the Donatist Church and its role as both a religious and socio-economic movement. Prior to his graduate work, Matt obtained his B.A. from Campbellsville University in History and English.
Brooks Hudson
Brooks is a studying American history, specializing in the transformation of law, culture, and medicine from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression. His dissertation traces the evolution of America's first opiate crisis and the reaction to it. He highlights how this period was pivotal in solidifying a criminal justice approach regarding addiction and narcotic use, and more importantly, the ways it expanded law enforcements' ability to surveil and police personal behavior. He received his B.A. from Murray State University, winning the Beasley Award for outstanding undergraduate. He completed his M.A. at MSU in 2017.
J. David Kemp
David graduated cum laude from the University of Mississippi in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in history. In 2001 Mr. Kemp received his Master of Arts in history from Lehigh University. His thesis entitled "'Musk-Cats and Monkies:' Africans and Domestic Slavery, the Judicial Process, and Somerset's Case in Eighteenth-Century England" was cited in the 2002 edition of Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement. While residing in Pennsylvania Mr. Kemp was an instructor of record at Ryder University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey where he taught world history. He later taught world history at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Mr. Kemp is currently in his second year as a PhD student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. In addition to the black Atlantic, his academic areas of interest include colonial America and early modern Europe. Mr. Kemp plans on expanding his previous scholarship on Somerset's case into his doctoral dissertation.
Liana Kirillova
Liana is a doctoral candidate in History, specializing on the Youth Movement in the Soviet Union in the context of the Cold War and Soviet Internationalism. Her dissertation focuses on the Soviet student construction brigade movement in the 1960s-1980s and the role of international students in these Soviet shock-work constructions. Liana received her M.A. degree in History from SIUC in 2016 and the Specialist degree in International Relations from Udmurt State University (Izhevsk, Russia) in 2014. She is a recipient of an Outstanding Thesis Award (2016) and Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship (2016). Liana has published articles in Essays in History and Vestnik Udmurtskogo Universiteta.
Geoff Lybeck
Geoff Lybeck is a doctoral candidate in historical studies specializing in twentieth-century American environmental history. His dissertation focuses on the effects of the Clean Air Act and its amendments (1963--1990) on the politics, industries, and communities with interests in the Illinois Basin, one of America's largest fossil fuel energy reserves. (Title: "From the 'Coal Wars' to the 'War on Coal': The Struggle over Environment, Politics, Industry, and the Communities of the Illinois Basin, 1945--2016").Geoff received his MA in history from SIUC in 2017. The culmination of his master's and early-doctoral work, a study of the 1832 cholera epidemic, the subsequent discourses of disease, and their roles in American religious-community formation, received the Stanley Zucker Prize and will be published in Ohio History.
Antonio (He/him) is a Graduate Assistant and Instructor of Record pursuing his PhD in Historical Studies. He is the 2022 recipient of the David P. Werlich Scholarship for Latino Studies research. He is a Graduate Dean's Fellow and the recipient of the 2020 History Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. His field examination topics focus on Modern Latin American History, Modern Middle Eastern History, and Modern American History, with research tools in Spanish and German language translation and Postcolonial Theory. He is also completing Graduate Certificates in Africana Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The aim of his dissertation research focuses on an analysis of the archives located at Mexican Consulates along the Mexican/American border, centering on the investigation of lives, underscoring the negotiated spaces of resistance which served as connections between gender and culture, breaking down obstacles to membership in the American family, who engaged in the court cases brought by American citizens of Mexican descent during the Mexican repatriation of the 1930's. He earned an M.A. in History (2020) from Southern Illinois University, where his research, "Women's Resistance and Consequence in the Struggle for Chimeric Space in Post-Revolutionary Iran," illustrated the locative spaces created by women to counteract impositions from dual patriarchally prone nationalistic identities. In 2009, Antonio earned a B.S. in History and an Illinois Professional Educator's License from Northern Illinois University. He has served in numerous elected positions in the community, at the Varsity Center for the Arts and the Jackson County Stage Company, and at the school, in Graduate Assistants United and the History Graduate Student Association. He is part of the editorial staff for Legacy, the journal of undergraduate student research, has assisted the Center for Teaching Excellence with the Presidential Election Research Project, and is the Coordinator for the annual Illinois Southern Regional History Day Contest."
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Emine Turkmen (she/her/hers) is a doctoral student and Graduate Assistant at Historical Studies specializing in twentieth-century Middle Eastern and American history and politics. She received her B.A. in History from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and her M.A. in American Studies at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. She briefly attended Bilkent University Department of History (American History Track) and Latin and North American Studies at Middle East Technical University for a master's degree. She completed several internships at non-governmental organizations, think tanks, and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Istanbul. She is vice president of the History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) at SIUC. Her research interests are nineteenth-century Ottoman-American relations, Turkish-American Relations, Turkish History, Cold War History, and American politics in the Middle East.
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Q: Local store not working in Internet Explorer - Ext JS I have a local store here that I put into my application. It works great in Firefox but when I launch it in Internet Explorer(9), the entire app crashes. Any idea?
Here's the code:
var filters_2 = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', { //temp store
    fields: ['field1'],
    data : [
        { field1: 'Filter 1' },
        { field1: 'Filter 2' },
        { field1: 'Filter 3' }
    ]
});

(The purpose of this store is to load the fields into a combobox elsewhere in my app)
Is there a require or something to that nature that I am missing? Any ideas?

A: try adding field1 in quotes in data
var filters_2 = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', { //temp store
fields: ['field1'],
data : [
    { 'field1': 'Filter 1' },
    { 'field1': 'Filter 2' },
    { 'field1': 'Filter 3' }
]

});

A: Try defining a model for your store, sometimes extjs doesn't handle the 'fields' configuration option very well as it is only there for backwards compatability with Extjs 3.X code that has been updated to work with 4.X.
Ext.define("FilterModel", {
    extend: "Ext.data.Model",
    fields: [
        {name: "field1", type: "string"}
    ]
});

var filters_2 = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', { //temp store
    model: "FilterModel",
    data : [
        { field1: 'Filter 1' },
        { field2: 'Filter 2' },
        { field3: 'Filter 3' }
    ]
});


In this episode we examine what James Cone, the father of Black Theology, meant when he said, "Jesus is Black" and if it's still true today.
Your question resurfaced thoughts of the Sunday school literature that I grew up with that excluded black faces from it's artwork. In my teens, Malcolm X's critiques of Christianity escalated my feelings of cultural exclusion from the church. By the time I reached college (in the early 90's), I was almost convinced that Christianity might just be a colonial tool of cultural assimilation. That is, until I was invited to a black church in Baltimore Maryland.
I know today that white "like" wool does not mean that Jesus has wooly hair, and feet "like" bronze does not mean that Jesus had black skin. But, in that moment, the pastor fortified my identity as a "Black Christian" . He gave me hope that there was a place for me within the Christian community.
For clarification, I also believe that the entire human race shares one common ancestor (see Acts 17:26). That said, I'm confident that Jesus would embrace the "blackness" that falls under the umbrella of his humanity. I'm certain he'd also lay claim to every other racial classification that we can come up with…black, white, or other.
Eric–Thanks for kicking things off.
I've put the curse of Ham & it's impact upon theology/church on the list for future conversation.
What did you think about Cone's use of the Parable of the Sheep & Goats to come to the conclusion that Jesus is Black? Given that line of reasoning do you still think Jesus is Black?
Jesus must be black but he can't just be black if we are to address issues of poverty that He outlined in Mathew 25:31.
Mass media institutions generally choose dark faces when determining who must become the poster children for poverty in America. But the dark face of poverty covers up the fact that 42% of the 45+ Million people who live in poverty in America are white.
It is true that a disproportionate number of blacks are affected by poverty and mass incarceration. But millions of white people live in a vacuum of darkness because there is not a liberation ideology that gives them permission to have a voice in social issues that have been portrayed as unique to the "black struggle".
I would say that James cones declaration of Jesus' blackness probably did for many what that Baltimore preacher did for me. The idea that Jesus is able to see the world through the lenses of the black struggle fortified me. But it also limited my scope in a way that did not allow me to empathize with people who white skin did not save them from an invisible form of oppression.
Cone's view seems to look at the visible victims of systemic oppression. As a black man It means a lot to know that God sees and identifies with my struggle. But, God does not just look at the outward appearance. He looks at the heart.
As I expand my scope I have to acknowledge that the oppressors are in greater peril than those who are the victims. A black Jesus can (and does) restore dignity to the social construct of blackness. But a black Jesus may be ill equipped to empathize with the very real darkness that masks the oppression of people with light skin.
I choose to identify with the underprivileged.
I choose to give my life for the hungry.
I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity.
I choose to live for and with those who find themselves seeing life as a long and desolate corridor with no exit sign.
This is the way I'm going.
If it means suffering a little bit, I'm going that way.
If it means sacrificing, I'm going that way.
As I revisit his words I am reminded that racism and poverty are symptoms of deeper issue…the absence of God's love governing in the hearts and minds of men.
Black people have a unique perspective on lovelessness. There is a possibility that if the world see's black faces loving God, loving each other, and extending an invitation to those who don't look like us, the world might change.
I saw a glimpse of this possibility displayed in the lives of those who lived through the horror of the shooting at Emanuel A.M.E church in South Carolina. That love was powerful enough to remove a confederate flag. But that work was done by a multicultural Jesus that seeks to redeem all of humanity. So Jesus is still black but he is also so much more.


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Introducing Qore: Taking you behind the curtain with PlayStation
Susan Panico Sr. Director, PlayStation Network
Today we are announcing that Qore: Presented by the PLAYSTATION Network, a highly interactive, monthly lifestyle gaming program covering the world inside PLAYSTATION is on its way to PS3. Qore has been developed to give PS3 users early access to game related content at a level of quality, interactivity and depth. Everything is filmed in HD. Qore will feature exclusive news, developer interviews, in-depth game previews and behind-the-scenes looks at PlayStation games and special access to game demos, special beta invitations, game add-ons and other downloadable game-related content.
Our premier episode will be available on Thursday, June 5. The premier episode includes in-depth exclusive and never-before released content on upcoming PlayStation titles such as SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Secret Agent Clank, Soul Calibur 4 and Afro Samurai, as well as the latest Blu-ray Disc trailers, an exclusive SOCOM: Confrontation theme with an invitation to the SOCOM: Confrontation beta, art galleries and other surprises. We also know that many of you are big fans of Veronica Belmont, the widely-known host of numerous online video programs and podcasts and an avid gamer, so we've chosen her to be your host.
To get Qore, simply log onto PSN and go to the PLAYSTATION Store, as you would purchase any other form of downloadable content. Once the single Episode or annual subscription is purchased, that month's episode will be downloaded under the "Game" heading on the Cross Media Bar (XMB). Users who purchase the "Qore Annual Subscription" will notice only that month's episode is available to download. The following month, the new episode will automatically appear in your download list. The introductory price for Qore is $2.99 for a single episode and $24.99 for an annual subscription of 13 episodes, using your PLAYSTATION Network wallet.
As Peter Dille mentioned in a previous PLAYSTATION Network post, the broader service and community initiatives launching on the PLAYSTATION Network this year such as Qore, PlayStation Home and the Video Download Service are all evidence of our dedication to delivering an all-encompassing entertainment experience for PS fans. Qore is the first in a series of planned original programming specifically created for the PLAYSTATION Network community and we hope you enjoy it.
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Red Square and other Moscow landmarks are being visited by World Cup fans doing a bit of sightseeing between matches. But just upriver, more adventurous tourists will find an anonymous-looking apartment block whose history sheds light on the Soviet Union's darkest days. VOA's Henry Ridgwell reports.


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Garage fire early Monday in southeast Topeka determined to be intentionally set
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Dec 16, 2019 at 8:28 AM Dec 16, 2019 at 5:59 PM
A Monday morning garage fire in southeast Topeka that caused an estimated $10,000 in damage was determined to be intentionally set, officials said.
The blaze was reported shortly after 7 a.m. in a single-story detached garage behind a residence at 2847 S.E. Illinois Ave.
Topeka Fire Department shift commander Chuck Gatewood said at the scene that first-arriving crews found the garage fully involved in flames.
Firefighters quickly put out the blaze and conducted a search inside the structure, finding no one inside.
Crews remained on the scene past 8 a.m. as they continued to knock down hot spots, as smoke continued to come from the roof on the east side of the building.
Initially, the address where the fire occurred was listed as 1302 S.E. 29th. The address corresponded to numbers on the south side of the garage facing S.E. 29th.
However, Gatewood said at the scene that 1302 S.E. 29th didn't match any official property listings.
It was later determined that the address for the garage was 2847 S.E. Illinois Ave. The residence is located on the northwest corner of S.E. 29th and Illinois Avenue.
All of the estimated $10,000 loss was to the structure, Topeka Fire Department officials said.
Topeka police assisted by blocking traffic on S.E. 29th between Indiana Avenue on the west and Illinois Avenue on the east.
Anyone with information about the fire may call Shawnee County Crime Stoppers at 785-234-0007 or 1-800-222-TIPS.


The Airbrush Makeup Guru: Drag Airbrush Makeup video tutorial with Temptu Pro Multicolors!
Drag Airbrush Makeup video tutorial with Temptu Pro Multicolors!
Is silicone based airbrush makeup really viable for eyes? A lot of makeup artists love airbrushing foundation, but quite a few still have doubts when it comes to eyeshadows, especially with silicone based makeup. Maybe they are just too fond of their brushes, or maybe they haven't experimented at length with the possibilities that silicone colours can mean to eye makeup. More realistically, they may be wary of the challenges that the very mobile and often uneven skin on eye area poses, especially when using a medium that requires a relatively long drying time.
When Temptu Pro came out with a collection of new S/B shades called Multicolors I couldn't wait to try them and confront those very doubts for myself. As always I purchased my set from wonderful CRC Makeup, who ship worldwide. Drag makeup has always been the perfect context in which to test the possibilities offered by any makeup line, stretching them both creatively and technically. I was inspired by the makeup of LaLa McCallan, which is always airbrushed in its entirety (with water based colours) safe for an undercoat of creme products used to create an even canvas for airbrushing on top. I decided to pursue a very classic (and hopefully classy!) at this stage, leaving more experimental looks for the next round.
The results of the experiment are in this video, of which I am also proud as it is, as far as I know, the first entirely airbrushed drag makeup tutorial ever. The colours used for the eyes are all from the Multi Colors set. The set consists of 12 wonderful shades, which you can see in the airbrushed swatches posted below. The colours are of course extremely pigmented and vibrant, and like the rest of Temptu's S/B line the coverage is fantastic. There are ten matte shades and two shimmers, Pearl and Platinum, created especially for this set and not included in the standard Shimmers Set they offer. Application, as you can see in the video, is extremely smooth.
Drying the colours with air only after application is essential, as is a light dusting of clear setting powder. An extra step that I took off camera and totally on a whim was a couple of spritzes of Makeup Forever's Mist & Fix setting spray. After taking these precautions, the makeup did not move, crease, or smudge for the entire time of filming and the extensive photo session that followed. It was still perfect when our model went to take the makeup off. For giggles, I told him to soak his face with water and dry it to see what would happen. Nothing moved in the least. Silicone eye makeup offers perfect and super fast blending possibilities, and when properly set is indestructible. I hope this video will inspire more makeup artists to experiment with it, as it is definitely worth it.
The whole tutorial was shot using Temptu's starter kit with the 2.0 compressor and the brand new SP 40 airbrush. We also used AirPod for blush and final highlights. We will post an in depth review of the system very soon. You can also find a review of the whole S/B line here and here.
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I really love the makeup used for this amazing drag queen!