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Okay, on another episode of Soothing Semantics, I'm your host, Rafi Pinsky. Make sure to subscribe, like, share, leave your comments. I'm gonna be looking into this camera. For all of your real estate needs in South Florida, make sure to follow Rafi The Realtor on Instagram. Sent up to my weekly newsletter credit to Ricky Karuth, who we have on the show today for all of your real estate needs. So, without further ado, Ricky Karuth. What's up, man? How you doing, bro? Good, bro. It's really nice to finally meet you. Yeah. Yeah, we got over here in Miami a couple days ago. Flew in, went to the Sequerium. Sequerium yesterday. Well, Miami's the only place you can go somewhere. Takes 30 minutes. Takes an hour and a half to go right back where you were. It's great, right? What's up? Yeah, it was wild, so we were late to dinner and stuff. But yeah, man, we got a big event. We got 700 agents registered for this event. We're actually shooting this inside the room where the event's gonna be later today, and I'm excited. I'm excited too, man. It's been a good two years in change since I started following you. Uh-huh. So, haven't met you yet. Finally, we get to meet. Yeah. And I've just been implementing a lot of the things you've been talking about, the weekly email. And it's funny because I would have, you wouldn't think you'd have such a powerful agent in Alabama of all things, because I'm a New Yorker originally. And when you're from New York, do you think that everything revolves around New York? Yeah. And so when you have someone in a state that's not as popular, but you're doing business at the level you are, it goes to show you that the hard work can be done anywhere. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I almost see it as an advantage because we don't have 10, $20 million homes, and you know, I don't know, man.  This goes to show you how much of an impact you can make on somebody, regardless of where you are.  Now, you know, you can make videos and get, you know, found online, and you could be anywhere. Yeah, that's great. So that's what's really cool, man, is internet made the world a smaller place. I mean, back in the day, it might have, it would have been impossible, honestly, for somebody from New York to hear what this guy in Alabama is doing and, you know, be inspired by, you know, the strategies and implement, like it, I mean, it would have pretty much not happened at all unless the Alabama age, it became like a speaker and like, you know, ended up being on a stage or you know what I mean? Like without social media, you know, I wouldn't be able to make the impact that I have because like when I got into the coaching side, I was still selling, you know, and I sold like five years as I was building the coaching brand. I wouldn't have been able to do that without social media where I'm selling and building the brand, you know, cause like I could every day work on the brand by making videos and still sell real estate, you know, versus back in the day, you didn't have the option to make videos and post them online, so I'd have to, I would have had to like do a lot of traveling and speaking and write a book, you know what I mean? Like it was, that's the world we live in now. It's crazy. You know, yeah, there's just so much opportunity. But it's so crazy that so many people don't implement it. And it's not even just older people cause you know how it is older people like, oh, I don't want to do it. I don't want to be on video, yada, yada, but even I'm 29, people in their 20s don't want to do it at all. Well, there's the thing that people, it's almost like they don't want to make calls either, right? So they don't want to make calls. They don't want to do videos. It's all kind of the same thing. But what people need to understand is that it's not just about being on video, right? You get a video where you're not in the video of houses where you're talking over the video or music over the video. You can do written work, you can write blogs. You can do a podcast where you're not even on video pictures, the list goes on and on and on for things that you can do on social media to build your brand without even showing your face. So I don't know. It's kind of like, I don't want to be on video so they don't do social media at all.  When the winners in the world see them as just slight road bumps, right? They just kind of, it was like when I started with the weekly email, I didn't have business cards. I didn't have a website. You know, nowadays, like people won't even like make a call unless they have a business card that their business card is made, right? Or their website perfect and all this stuff. It's like, I didn't have any of that. I just went. Cause the goal is to help, you know, connect a buyer and a seller.  If I had business cards and websites and stuff like that. So yeah, it's the age old thing, man. People just let anything stop them in their tracks.  Can't do that. And they just don't do it. Or if they're, I'm scared to make calls. So I'm just not going to do it. Not even going to try. It's like, no, just give it a try. You know, just saying they have a social. Just start creating. Dude, I've been doing social for six years now. And like literally, like literally, like in the past month, let's just say, I've finally figured out YouTube. Right? That's the moment. Yeah. In the last 30 days. Okay. Right. I've been doing it for six years. I'm about to hit a hundred thousand. So I noticed that. All right. Congrats. Yeah. But like in the last 30 days, I'm just now figuring out how to do YouTube. In what sense? What didn't you know? How to create content people would watch. How to make a thumbnail appealing, how to, what subjects to talk about, how to write the titles, and what the demeanor and what the flow of the videos need to be to retain watchers. Well, I think it's mostly the, ooh, you know, well, that's Instagram, right? So that's Instagram. And those do really well. The green screen article, those are my biggest watched videos on Instagram. But it's, I figured out a little hack there, right? Who's like finding an intriguing article. They're gonna read the headline, and they're like, oh, what does Ricky have to say about this? As I'm saying, ooh. So they're like really like, okay, what the hell's fixin' to happen?  You know, that's a little hack. Same thing with Instagram stories. I realized that if I erased all yesterday's stories and started to refresh, wrote like a paragraph on a story where people had to put their thumb on it to stop the story to read it, then Instagram would fire it through the algorithm, right? And then if I could add something at the end where it makes some DME too, where if they put their thumb on it, they're spending time on that piece of action story, and then they're DMing me, then Instagram's like, oh, and Instagram blows it up. So my Instagram story views went from 2,000 to 20,000 or 25,000, like that. Just realizing that that's a hack. So same thing with YouTube. Like, and like, I'm just figuring all this stuff out after six years of literally posting every day on every platform, and I'm just getting to a place where I feel like I kinda know what I'm doing to a point where I feel like I can actually grow. You know what I mean? So that's what that's what's interesting is that a lot of people are scared to do social and all this, and I'm six years in and posting every day, and I'm just not getting to a place where I feel like, okay, I think I understand how to grow on Instagram and YouTube. Most people would never have the fortitude to go 60. I think that's really the biggest issue is they're afraid of the judgment and they have no guarantee how long it's gonna take until they get it. You know, I've been doing the podcast for three years, man. You know, I've been posting weekly episodes more or less nonstop for three years. You know, and there's a lot of things I'm getting. There are things I still, you know, need time to learn. But it's like, I just know that these things are so valuable. It's crazy.      In one way, boring, like what? Yeah, just not interesting, not good editing, not good hooks, you know, the whole nine yards. Right, just bad content. You have more enthusiasm, a lot more. I remember in the earlier videos, it was a lot more monotone and suddenly you started to become a lot more bubbly. Well, I think at the beginning I was bubbly. I think that then I went kind of, you know, monotone.   You're putting out different content. Your tone's different, your mannerisms are different. You know, your knowledge is different. Your experience of creating content is different. You're just different. You're different all around. Every six months you're basically reinventing yourself on social. So yeah, I mean, if you go back to older videos and stuff and now I'll look back at the videos I'm doing now and be like, I think I'll look back at the videos I'm making right this second and be like, those are okay. Because the videos I'm gonna make next year are gonna be better. And so the videos I'm making now, I'm like, I'm gonna look back. See the videos I made in the past, I'm like, those suck. The videos I'm making now, I think I'll look back in a year or two and say those were okay. And the videos I'm gonna make in a couple of years I think will be good, not great. And so I'm gonna be working towards trying to make great videos, which won't happen for another three to five or more. Okay, well, it's also, it's good that you have, it's good that you kind of have the ability to do it even if you're not perfectly happy with it. I think that's the key. You have to.  I liked it when I posted it. You know what I mean? So that's part of it is like, you don't know. So you post and you learn. 100%. I do wanna, I wanna talk about this whole thing with Nardo. What do you think it's gonna be? I mean, for people who don't know just to, just to kind of be quick with it. You know, there was this lawsuit where it was in Missouri, Kansas City, I'm pretty sure, right? And long story short, the sellers ended up paying, well, this is standard, but the sellers paid the buyer's agents and the buyer, the buyer's agent negotiated about $10,000 less on the price. And so they felt, why should we pay an agent who's working against us? So now there's this whole long suit and, you know, now, people don't do it. Well, basically what it is, is that it's not even about an incident, right? It's about the general way that the industry operates in terms of the listing agent negotiates a commission.  And what this group of sellers are saying is, hey, we shouldn't have to pay that out of the purchase price, right? And to me, it's kind of like, well, number one, you agree to all this. Number two, it's the same thing to me as a subcontractor, like, you know, a roofer comes and bids your job, say for $15,000, and then they pay a subcontractor $12,000 to actually do the work, right? They pocket $3,000. It's almost the same thing, you know? Like, we negotiated to sell your property for five or six percent. What do you care what I do with the money, right? I'm using the money to entice all the agents in the area and give them the incentive to bring us a buyer. And so a group of sellers saying, we shouldn't have to pay that, we want our money back, right? It's a refund lawsuit. They want their money back. The sellers want their money back. There's about 250 plus thousand transactions during the period of time that's under trial right now. And you've got the CEOs of Remax and Keller Williams and Home Services of America, Caldwell Baker, Got Deposition, and many, many others, right? And I've been following it every day. It's a three-week trial that started this week. And the way that I actually view the whole thing is that it's a group of owners that don't understand how the business works. If you take, and what they're trying to do is make it to where it's illegal to pay the buyer agent out of the listing side commission, where it's viewed as a kickback, where the buyer agent commission can't be on the HUD, you can't pay the buyer agent at all out of the deal anywhere. And so the buyer will have to pay their own agent, which will completely flip the industry upside down, which in turn will create a lot of opportunity for the opportunist out there. We'll also lose a lot of agents and the commission pool will be reduced dramatically, 30, 40, 50%. But there was a study that agents steer clients away from lower buyer commission offered properties, offered listings, right, for sale. I've never steered anybody. I don't know anybody that has, but I guess it happens, right? There was a survey in M&D where it's about 50-50. People think they steer, people don't think they steer 50-50. But there was a study where the lower the buyer agent commission offered the longer the property set on the market. When that commission got below 2%, 75% of the properties that offered less than 2% didn't sell, right? And so it's like, if that's the case and you're trying to take buyer commission totally out of the equation, you're hurting yourself, seller, by not offering an incentive for the thousands of agents in your area to bring you a buyer. There's not really gonna be many buyer agents, honestly. And a lot of the buyers who don't wanna pay an agent out of their own pocket are gonna kind of fin for their self, not be represented. It's gonna be a mess, right? You're just, you're really gonna screw up the whole thing right now. It's running like a well-oiled machine. Is anyone bringing this to their attention the same way you are? Are they making these same points? Who, bringing it to who's attention? To whoever has to deal, whoever is finalizing this case. Not really, you know, I've been reading and I've been covering this every day on my YouTube. Every day in court, I've been going through the notes and explaining everything to everybody and giving my thoughts and stuff. And from what I can tell, the notes I hear, it makes me think, man, what are these lawyers on the defendant's side? NAR is in the suit, NAR, Kella Williams' remix, all these companies. It's like, I hear, I mean, I'm reading the notes and I'm thinking, I need to fire these lawyers. What is going on? You know what I mean? It's insane that we heard from two of the plaintiffs who are the property owners that are in on the class action that are asking for their money back. We heard from two of those so far. Well, actually four of those so far, we've got notes on two of them. And when you read it, it's like, oh my gosh, these people don't even understand how this works.  And she's like, I'm doing this for her and I'm doing this for my kids because my kids are becoming to the age where they're gonna start buying homes and I'm thinking, you don't pay a commission when you buy, lady, number one.  And she said, I know my mom worked really, really hard for her clients and stuff.   You're right, so you can be in that position. Yeah, you're gonna tell your mom to go refund all those buyer agent commissions back to those sellers, right? It's wild, man, like they don't get it. For sell by owners, on average, sold for like 30% less on their own than they would have with an agent. You know, that's like real stats.  You know what I mean? Like if you take all this out of the equation and you run it like the Wild Wild West and have buyers where they ever have to pay their own agent or not have one, it's gonna be a mess. It honestly is, and here's the thing. I think a lot of people know that, right? You know, I don't know what people are thinking, but like the plan is lawyer, for example, right? Michael Ketchmark, like, man, it's like, do you understand? Like I don't think you understand the industry. And what I really feel like it is is you got a group of owners that don't understand how it works and how beneficial the current system is. And they went to a lawyer, not understanding how it works, saying this is unfair practice, right? And so then the lawyer says, oh, we got a case here against these corporations that are worth billions. And so I believe it's a typical lawyer situation where it's like, let's go make this big case and let's go after all these people for all these millions, these companies for all these millions. So now you've got, I believe, owners that understand how it works and how great the current model is with paying by our agents out of the listing agent commission, a lawyer who looks at that and says, let's go make some money. And in order to make the money, you're gonna have to change how we operate in the industry. So for me, I look at it, I'm thinking, he's taking advantage of the property owners that don't understand the way the industry works. And he himself probably doesn't understand how it works and how beneficial the current system is, right, but they got dollar signs in their eyes. I believe that, I believe it's just like, maybe they believe deep down the heart, this is unfair practice, but if they understood that it's not unfair practice, all this is negotiable. Like the lady that went on the stand, that her mom was an agent, she was like, the buyer agent got 20% of my equity, right? Like some say she bought it for 100, sold it for 150, for example, and she got 10,000, 20% of her above what she paid for. That's what I'm guessing she was talking about. And then you add the other buyer agent, I mean, the listing agent commission in there, it's 40%, right? 20 and 20 is 40. And she's like, I was so sad when I realized we're gonna get so little or something like that. And I was thinking number one, like you don't have to use an agent. Right. You can sell it on your own. You can also negotiate the commission. You can also go to a discount brokerage, right? There's a lot of different options. Like you don't have to use an agent. It's not mandatory, right? And all of this is negotiable. That's what's wild about this whole thing.  Where do you think it's gonna go? Do you think it's gonna go in the favor of that one really or do you think it's gonna go? Well, an analyst group says it's a 50-50 on this trial. But what's interesting is there's another trial early next year, the Mora case. And it's the exact same case. It's gonna be in Illinois. And it's gonna be early next year. I don't know exactly when, probably Q1. And they say that's a 75% chance of the plaintiffs winning and this whole thing getting flipped on its head. But the thing is, is that if the plaintiffs win either one of those cases, the defendants will appeal. They're gonna appeal it. And it'll go through the appeal process which drags everything out for years. It's gonna be drug out. And then if in fact it's gonna become a law where a buyer agent commission is viewed almost like a kickback and it cannot be on the HUD, you cannot pay them out of the listing side commission legally, then that has to go through a big process. You know what I mean? It's gonna make it to where it's actually a rule and actually a law. So like if this in fact does go down, it would take a lot in my opinion like five, 10 years to actually make it to where we had to start operating under these new rules or whatever. So it's gonna be so telegraphed. You're gonna have plenty of time to realize or to figure out how to deal with it in your business. But it's gonna be so much opportunity because I mean, number one, you're gonna have like these buyer agents that emerge who specialize in only buyers, right? People that are like, they advertise like I only work with buyers or do not work with sellers. I'm a buyer specialist.  They're gonna have big clients, clients that want representation that are doing these big deals. And there's gonna be a big market for buyer agents, right? You're gonna have the split, it's gonna be very interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you'll have people that work buyers and sellers, of course, but then you're gonna have a lot of buyers who just don't have the money or just elect not to pay. They're probably gonna try to avoid doing it, especially in the middle market. Yeah, yeah. In the lower end market and stuff like that where people can barely come up with a down payment and all this stuff. There may be like financing products that come out that include the buyer agent commission into the loan, which I get now, the property's gonna have to appraise. So now you're still getting the 3% or whatever it is out of the appraise value, which we're doing now, right back where we were. If a buyer agent isn't included, it's not like the seller's gonna take 3% less than appraise value because the buyer agent is involved, they're still gonna get the maximum amount. This isn't gonna change prices.  You know, the current model is the best model. I think maybe what the best solution is, is to have better disclosure to the buyers and sellers about how it works, right? I think that there should be just better disclosure. That's really what should happen at the end of the day. You should leave it like it is and just have better disclosure to the consumers.  It's so crazy.  I think either way though, listing agents are gonna be key. Well, for the listing agents, if this were to go down like this, it's probably gonna reduce their commission of 3%. Okay, so you're gonna list them for 3% and even two in some markets, all right? So two or 3%. And then you're gonna be doing double the work a lot of times because the buyers are gonna come straight to you. Right. So now you gotta deal with the buyers showing on the property.   So you're gonna have to be dealing with the buyers, looking at properties, when they bring the offer, you're gonna have to be probably handling all that as well if they're not gonna pay their own agent or have a lawyer, draw up stuff. Definitely more work for the listing agent. Yeah, so you're looking at the listing agent doing twice the work, dealing with two parties instead of one for half the money. Because normally when you work both sides, you get the full 5% or 6% what it was agreed to. It's like, you get the full commission, that's what they are hiring. That's the price that they're willing to pay you to sell the property.  You know, I'm using it to incentivize, basically look at it as marketing. You know, I'm incentivizing all the agents to sell the property. When you take that away, you don't have a bunch of other agents out there working to try to find the buyer. It's definitely gonna create less if an incentive for agents to do the job at the highest level, it's just what it is. Yeah, it's gonna, if it goes through, it'll change a lot of stuff, but I mean, I don't, you know, we'll lose a lot of agents. That's equal to two. The industry will crush a lot of agents right out of the business. We already lose agents just because interest rates went up. I mean, could you imagine if buyer agent commissions went away, it would just, we would lose half the agents in the industry, I believe. And, but it would still be an amazing career, an amazing industry to be in, extremely lucrative and a great platform to, you know, to become a millionaire and leverage into other, you know, other verticals. Absolutely, absolutely. I'm gonna keep in touch. I mean, I'm gonna continue to follow you as always and just get your insights and everything. I would have loved to, I think, we probably have to get ready for this, right? So let's wrap this up. Yeah, I didn't even fully introduce you, but if you don't know who Ricky Caruth is, make sure to follow him on Instagram and YouTube. I already know you so well. It just didn't even occur to me. I just went right into the episode. So guys, thank you for watching another episode of Soothing Semantics. I hope you enjoyed. There's so much more information that you can check out on Ricky's channels. And, obviously, for all of your South Florida real estate needs, make sure to check out Rafi the Realtor, sign up for the weekly newsletter. Also, make sure to go on to YouTube and look up Ricky Caruth Weekly Newsletter because this is something he emphasizes all day long. It has really, really helped my business. I highly, highly, highly, I don't even highly suggest it's an understatement. You need to get a weekly email set up on your business. Make sure to like, subscribe, and share. Ricky, thanks again for coming. Thank you, bro. Appreciate it. Cool. Until next time.


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Hello all of you And thanks Michael for the invitation to here. Thanks for organizing everything Yeah, my name is Harald Zettelhofer Let's make it Harald Zettelhofer was a little easy for me to pronounce, but maybe not for others Yeah, I've my background is actually I've been working on Databases and PHP projects for quite a while now so I started with as a database consultant in the mid 90s and I've been working with PHP since 99 so also quite a while and Especially with with databases My my topic was always performance. So I've worked on quite large projects here for a large enterprises mainly on Oracle databases and Performance was always an issue here. So I was always the one that was called when the database was slow and we really had Projects here for large medical companies with document management systems with millions of documents and they had performance issues in their applications and At least The first impression was always that the database is slow but The more I worked with these projects the more I saw that it's not always the database most time the problems are Originated in the application itself and that's what I want to talk about today So we could fill a lot of talks with performance tuning for databases Today, I'd like to focus on what we can do from the database and why it's not always The database itself that is slow, but we can do a lot directly in the application Yeah, right now I'm working for for Dynatrace as a Technology strategist Dynatrace is a company in application performance monitoring. So We have a tool that monitors the application the full Transaction from the browser so from what the user is doing there all the way through the network load balances web servers caching layers Application down to the database and especially in the application really down to code level so we can see What's executed where performance issues are where errors occur and can do root cause analysis very easy here But to start with my presentation Let me tell you a little story here most of these stories start with once upon a time I'd like to start with as long as everything runs fine and runs fast We are like in paradise right so no problems No Discussions no no issues, but then all of a sudden when we have users out there that experience performance issues Then the problem starts so the user calls The application is slow. What's going on here? I can't work anymore and then in the in the operation Department typically the blame game starts so This is what what I saw with with many of these projects when someone was or something was slow First they looked at network monitoring locks. Okay network was fast different peoples got involved and A lot of times it goes to the development team them because when the infrastructure is running fine servers are running Memory is Available in Yeah Just enough CPU is fine then it goes to development and We already we also had such an example in-house where we had to create or that the developers had to create a report for Meeting rooms so a reservation report for meeting rooms and that report was just slow So it got back to development. What development did here is they added Simple logging logic Just they captured the timestamp before they accessed the data and the timestamp after they access the data Before they created the report and then they found out. Okay, that took 45 seconds And it was easy Not my fault so it has to be someone else or something else and if we Look at the code here and we see okay. It's load data for room It's probably loading data from the database. Okay, so it's the databases fault And it went all the way to the DBAs Well, the DBAs had their own tools To check the performance here and they looked at slow queries in the database and They found out that all of the queries that were executed there were actually faster than one millisecond So it was easy not my fault So whose fault was it then and then the blame game started so what what happened actually The problem was We executed for that request we executed 25,000 database statements and The 40 seconds that were really spent in the database For these 25,000 seconds we have yeah Each web request is faster than or in average 1.5 milliseconds so the database is not really slow here and This is what we see a lot of times so the database performance hotspots or Performance hotspots where we see that in the application most time is spent in the database Has several reasons on the one hand and this is in my opinion the most important. It's the application design and Then database queries how they are executed and how they are designed and For sure also the infrastructure of the database server and for sure the network with connections But to bring that into a pie chart most of the time is really Caused by the application So that means most of the performance issues of the database can be fixed in the in the application We don't need to bother the DBAs here in detail and this is Feedback that we get from a lot of developers out there it's Slow database queries and slow database queries is not necessarily because of missing indexes or whatever It's really the design of the query itself in efficient application code and too many database queries so too many database queries the example that we had before and That's this Factor here that I want to talk about in the next couple of minutes here too many database queries Where do they come from? Let's do an exercise here We have to create a code for creating a list of courses So we have schools departments in schools and each department offers courses when we consider the database now just as a data storage and we have Existing access code for the database and we can just focus on creating the code here to Create the results that we want and this is actually a situation that we see a lot of times when we are using ORM layers so object relational mappers access Libraries for databases like doctrine for PHP or for Java hibernate. So doctrine is actually based on this hibernate approach so access to the database is coded there and We just use these layers in In our code so actually the developer a PHP developer does not really need to care about databases care about SQL language care about what the database is doing there on the one hand It's easy for the developer because he can focus on on his duties on the other hand We will see what the disadvantages are of that. So in that case we have school entities We have a loop we get each school out of these set of schools We loop over the departments for each school We look over the courses for each school and then we print it out. So department name and the course title Let's imagine we have 10 different schools 20 departments per schools and 50 courses per department. So what would we? end up here what we What we see here is a typical We call it the n plus one problem So where does this n plus one come from n is actually the number of different entities and for 10 schools 20 departments and 50 curses per department plus one initial query to get the set of entities We end up in 1001 database statements Just to create that list so if We have a different approach here to not use these Libraries these existing libraries, but if we as a developer are able to Create SQL code directly and send it to the database. What would we get here? We could create one query a join query where we join the source tables and get back the result set and just loop over the result set and and Print out that list We end up in one Database statement instead of ten thousand and one and that's quite performance improvement The only thing we have to consider here is that as a developer Coding development PHP code. We are no longer just Focusing on on PHP here, but we also consider SQL Because we consider the database not only as a data storage, but as a Powerful engine not only for storing data, but also for getting data back and we can leverage that Receiving too many records. Let's get back to that example before we want to filter that list to only show Curses in category SQL with a level expert and Let's imagine we have in total three courses For that criteria we still would create 10,001 queries in the database because we are doing the filtering in the application This is also something that we can easily add To the query in the database just by adding a word loss Category and level so we receive back three records and still have one Database query and Especially for databases that already have a high number of connections that already have a high load This is very important because we can reduce the load to the database here reduce the number of connections and We can save a lot of Resources we can we We don't need such a powerful database machine here caching and I'm not going to talk about Application caches here As we are talking about applications, but let me talk about leveraging database caches by Doing the right things in the application itself and for databases that are used in from PHP a lot of times we see a lot of in the one hand my SQL on the other hand Oracle and the SQL cache or the data cache in these databases is Significantly different and that's why I'd like to mention that here. So the the my SQL query cache stores Results so really result sets for queries in the cache So whenever a new query with the exact same text is Executed in the database and data is available in the cache then the result set is sent back from the cache That means if you have a query Select whatever and the next query select in in upper case letters. It's a different query It's really a full text comparison The Oracle SQL cache is a little different here. It also stores the information for the text of the of the SQL statement, but it does not store the result set the data But it stores the execution plan That means if We send a query to the database the database Optimizer first has to decide how data is extracted from the data tables and This execution plan is or can be stored then in the in the SQL cache from Oracle The big benefit here is that this parsing of the statements are creating the execution plan or from a Programming language perspective. Let's call it compilation Is the most time-intensive process here and also the Process that requires most of the CPU time and that's why it's very cool to store that in the database and again here Select in lower cases and selecting upper cases are different statements So if we receive the first statement and then receive the second statement It has to be parsed again because it cannot be found in cache the difference now is that for prepared statement That we sent from the application In in Oracle No matter what the content for the for the values of the bind variables in prepared statement is we will see an example later We will in most times Get the same execution plan However, the data set the result set is different. So in in Oracle when the when when when the database checks content in the cache it considers only the statement without the bind variables while in my SQL as the result set could be different it has to Set the bind variables first to check whether data is available in the cache anyway, but we will have that in an example So for instance Small piece of PHP code We create a PDO connection to an oracle database and send four different queries to the database select star from country where code is for different values So that's for different statements It has to be parsed four different times because when we receive the second statement in the database The execution plan cannot be found in the cache. It has to be parsed again However, the execution plan is probably the same so it could be used from cash, but it cannot be found there and what we see in In in in a in a database metric dashboard here that most of the time is really spent for parsing the So so the the dark blue section here for parsing the statement and if we check the CPU We have a very high CPU usage because of this a lot of statements That has to have to be parsed again and again So how could that be done differently? We can prepare a statement and use a bind variable here and just for the execution we set the Value for this bind variable to different values and in that case for the execution the execution plan For that statement is taken from the sequel cache statement There's no requirement to pass the statement and this makes it much faster And we also see that then in the in the result dashboard we there are some Times for sure spent for for parsing because initially it has to be parsed to be stored in the cache But CPU usage is is very low and again this on the one hand Saves a lot of resources on the database server and saves a lot of time that is not Creating overhead performance overhead in our transactions anymore Another thing and this is already getting a little into the database is Using indexes in Some companies or some organizations indexes are just seen as responsibility of database administrators, so the developer Creates his code and the DBA has to make sure that the Indexes are created accordingly I have seen a lot of Organizations where the creation or the definition of the indexes in detail where under responsibilities of the developers so developers created their code created their queries their sequel statements and Developers also defined the columns that had to be indexed for a proper access of the table That's why I'd like to mention it here. So what is an index an index is a data structure? Where a search value is is referenced to a destination table just like in a book an index when you look for a certain keyword in a book You don't want to go through the entire book to find the word You reference it in an index and then you get a list of pages where you find information for that can see that In a similar way So an index is used in a in a sequel statement when we have a where clause for instance like we had before where we filtered the result set to Sequel courses with level expert we had this where clause and then such an index is Used or can be used As an example here, we have a sequel statement Select star from msd where length is 10 So what happens here when we look at the execution plan and in my sequel? This is easy just by using explain Then in that case we see that no index is used it tells us no possible keys and the result set is 70 something thousand rows So why is that in that case because when we look at the existing indexes show indexes for that table We cannot find an index on that color however, if we use a different column in the where clause if we Filter it on group ID then we have a possible key and it's also used and The resulting number of rows is only 15 So on the one hand, it's it's faster in the database because of the Rows that have to be extracted on the other hand Transferring the data over the network is faster because we have much less data to be transmitted in the application It's faster because we have much less row to be processed It's always good to use indexes here But indexes are not only used for for ware clauses indexes are also used when tables are joined for instance like we had The example before where we joined the schools with the departments and the courses if we Are not using indexes there then we would again have these 10,000 rows, but when we or Actually We still have the 10,000 rows, but we need to do a full table scan on each table and then match the Criteria defined in the joint so in this example here, I Have a couple of tables joined and I see that the execution plan Uses these different keys and has just a small number of result sets Resulting rows We have to be a little careful here because in in sequel statements. There are so-called index killers So we can have certain Structures there to restrict result sets or join tables that are just not using indexes and For joining tables on the one hand, it's very popular because it's a very easy way to Do restrictions to use a so-called in gloss where we have a sub query and then we have a Query on top of that and we say where ID in and then the list of That the resulting list of the sub query and this is this is what we call an index killer Because these tables cannot be joined with the index and that's why it the explain plan also says Possible key null and has the full number of rows here in the result set So very useful commands here in my sequel are for instance the explain and Then just the sequel statement because this shows the execution plan How that statement would be executed and also to show indexes for table names. So if you Do the explain select whatever and then you find out that your statement is probably not Executed as you would expect it then you can use to show indexes to check Whether the index that you would expect to be used is available at all or maybe there's a better index Maybe a different column would make more sense It especially with with complex queries with complex structures. This can be a little tricky and sometimes requires some Experience on on how to to optimize that in general from from the developers perspective, so I Saw that a lot of times and a lot of developers tend to say well, I Focus on the business logic. I don't care what the database is doing because this is used for data storage Others should care about that on the other hand. I'm really convinced that if a developer Has knowledge about what's happening in the database and why this is happening in the database then We can avoid a lot of troubles already in development because Performance is not just a nice to have feature performance is really essential performance is considered by by the Google search results in your result ranking of your of your website Performance is more and more important a lot of people expect in online job, so we typically see this level of three seconds so when when a page Renders longer than three seconds a lot of people already are leaving and not returning to the online job so In my perspective the database is not what's slow In general, but the way it's used from the application and that's why it's very important to make Developers self-sufficient so that they get an understanding what's happening in the database even if We have to use existing libraries and we cannot Define our sequel code by ourselves at least the developer should get awareness for what's happening there So if the developers is I will definitely run into a problem here I have to maybe Escalate that to a different level to give it to a different team. They have to create new methods new access methods for data in the database that are Fulfilling my requirements then this has to be done and With with APM tools performance monitoring tools We are really able then to see for a certain web request that's coming in what is Executed in the database for instance. What what statements does this the trigger or See that in a transaction flow to see okay I have one web request and this triggers So many Executions to the database. However this Too many database statements is actually also The same for external web services, so Database could be fast, but when we call database Thousands of times the web request will be slow the same as for web services If we have a web service an external one and that's fast, but we call it a lot of times Then our entire transaction will be slow For single select statements, we can have them listed then by execution time and also by number of Executions and then it's easy to Do a breakdown? Where is this statement used at all or? The other way around to drill down to the database as I mentioned before For from the application even if the developer does not have access to the database itself The developer can see the execution plan and can see how this statement is executed and maybe raise I need an index here or My table structure or my my my few that I'm using in the table So I can not only use tables, but Predefined queries that are stored in the database. We call that fuse are executed and the developer So the few is on the one hand completely transparent It can be used as a table But when we see from our development team already that there is a few in the background and The query the joints to that few is slow and missing indexes and maybe called 500 times Then we can raise that problem from here because the faster the sooner we find problems the cheaper It is to fix these problems the longer we wait maybe until production The more expensive it gets so what are The key takeaways that I'd like to give you is much time spent in the database does not necessarily mean that the database is slow Performance hotspots typically that we see are too many secret statements missing caching Not missing caching because the cache is not available missing caching because we are using bind variables The bad query design for prepared fuse for instance, so inefficient joins Index miss usage or not used at all or wrong indexes It's also not good just to index every column for sure to extract data It would be very fast, but once we are doing updates to a table Then the database does not only need to update the table, but it does need to update every single index here so the more indexes I get the faster my Select might be but the slower the updates will be We have to find the right balance here or undersized database servers, but for sure if we Follow other best practices. We don't need that many resources on the server for that and really let the developers know and create awareness in your development teams that they Really care for what's happening in the database and always keep in mind that DBA is our friend Thank you very much. So if there are any questions Please let me know or meet me during lunch. I'm happy to have a chat about that


First thing I'm gonna do is use one of these little things. You see those little knives?  It's gonna allow that lime to get in there and get that flavor in there. Flip it over, do it again. This part's real simple. Grab your Dano's taco. That's the orange top. We put the O in taco. And we're gonna sprinkle generously and we're just gonna coat this bad boy. Press it in, flip it over, do it again. Now I'll get you a big one-gallon ziplock. Fold this over so I can get it in there easily. Fold it back over. So now it's in there laying flat. Half a bundle of cilantro, it stems and all. Pick it all up, throw it in the bag. Now it's real simple. I got me three limes. You lay it in there, straight in the bag. I'm sure there's easier ways to do this, but this is how I do it. Then we'll just seal this bad boy.  Let it sit for about 20 minutes, and then on the grill we go. All right, we got our fire burning really hot. Look at that, that flavor, it's on there. So we're just gonna throw it straight on for the rest of our juice on there. And let that bad boy cook. So just flip it over, let it keep cooking. All right, before we flip it, we're gonna give it another little dusting of Dano because you can never have enough Danos. Looking good, looking good. All right y'all, I think we're ready. Let's go get us a bite. So let's get a look. Look at all that taco flavor right there. That's gonna be some good juices. Let's cut into this bad boy. All right, that's how it should look. Let's give it a try. It's amazing how much of that flavor got into the meat.  That is the best blank steak I've ever made. Seriously, and I've made some really good blank steaks. This right here, the lime juice, the taco, cilantro. How much easier can it get than that? You guys, are you about the taco life? Give that a try, yum, yum, get you some. We'll see you next time, keep sprinkling. That's amazing. Seriously, look at that. Wow.


Hi friends welcome back to my channel and welcome if you are new here. I am here today to share with you a very exciting video. We are going to be talking about fast food. I'm going to share with you 10 fast food restaurants that are nationwide so you should have no problem finding all of these are the majority of these in your area and I'm going to share with you the best choices that you can make at these fast food establishments to stay within your point whether you follow blue green or purple these food choices are point friendly delicious and satisfying and great if you're just on the go and you need food now. So if you want to hear what my top 10 fast food restaurants are and the best choices that you can make stay tuned. The list is the All-American McDonald's. There are several great choices that you can make at McDonald's that help you stay within your points budget but allow you to grab a quick meal on the go. So first I want to share with you guys the Egg McMuffin. Now this is a great breakfast option if you're needing something quick and fast on the go. So the points for the Egg McMuffin are eight on both the blue and purple plan and nine on the green plan. So again if you're needing a breakfast on the go this is a fantastic choice. As far as lunch or dinner options go one thing that is great is the Southwest salad without dressing is five points on both the blue and purple plan and nine on the green plan. So this is a great option if you're wanting a quick salad and if you have your own dressing or maybe you just prefer to even eat it without the dressing you can't beat the smart points on a salad. Another great option is the four piece nugget that is going to be five smart points on all plans. So again a great option if you're wanting a quick and easy meal. Next up is the hash browns.  So you can go ahead and grab your Egg McMuffin and a hash brown and have a decent pointed fast food meal. Next up is a hamburger. So if you're feeling all things hamburger you can get a McDonald's hamburger for eight smart points and that's eight smart points on all plans and last but certainly not least is the filet of fish. So if you're wanting a fish sandwich it is 12 smart points on all plans. So again there's some great options at McDonald's for you to grab and stay within your points and still allow you additional points for the rest of your meals throughout the day. Number two is Kentucky Fried Chicken. You instantly think no way it's fried chicken but there are actually several great options at Kentucky Fried Chicken that are low in smart points and again it's chicken so it's a good source of protein and it doesn't have to be fried. There are several grilled options at Kentucky Fried Chicken as well. So number one is the grilled chicken breast. You can have the grilled chicken breast for three smart points on all three plans. So the grilled chicken is a great option for three smart points. You can have a couple pieces of grilled chicken for six smart points. Also the original drumstick so this is the fried drumstick is three smart points on all plans. So again you can opt for the grilled chicken for three smart points or you can grab a fried original crispy drumstick for three smart points. What if you want to side with your piece of chicken? The best options for sides are the mashed potatoes with gravy is two smart points on the purple plan and four on the green and blue.  The corn is zero smart points on both the blue and purple and two smart points on the green plan. So you can have a breast of chicken or a drumstick some mashed potatoes and gravy and some corn and you have a well-rounded meal for really under 10 smart points. Next up is the mac and cheese. Sometimes you just want some mac and cheese. The mac and cheese side at KFC is five smart points on all plans. So you could opt for that instead of the mashed potatoes and gravy and you don't have to feel guilty for five smart points. And the last thing at KFC that's point friendly is going to be the snack size famous bowl. This is going to be six points on purple seven on blue and eight on green. Granted this is the snack size so it is going to be a smaller portion but you can still have the famous bowl on WW. So KFC is a great fast food option. Number three is Burger King. So Burger King again like McDonald's is a great fast food option. There are several things that you can pick up at Burger King that are point friendly. So number one is the Whopper Junior with no mayo. That is seven smart points on all plans. The entire Whopper Junior just without mayo. Now if you want to add mayo to that it is going to be 10 smart points on all plans. So again you guys a Whopper just a smaller version of it. Seven points without mayo or 10 points with mayo. Next up is the Value Onion Ring. So you can grab your Whopper Junior in a Value Onion Ring and that is five smart points on all plans. So you can have a burger without mayo in an onion ring for 12 points. Not bad not too shabby Burger King. Next up is the grilled chicken sandwich with no sauce. It's five smart points on blue and purple and eight smart points on green.  So by skipping the sauce and maybe adding your own condiment to your burger your chicken sandwich you can definitely save on smart points. So sometimes getting your favorite food without the sauce is the best way to go. And lastly from Burger King you can have a nine piece chicken fry for eight smart points on all plans. So again this is those fried chicken finger type of things similar to a chicken nugget but in a fry shape. And not bad great option to have also at all of these restaurants a side salad with or without dressing is a great thing to pair with any of these items as well. I just didn't mention that because a salad is zero points if there's no cheese or croutons on it. So that's always a good option as well if you're not wanting to spend points on a side. Next up is Taco Bell. So when you're feeling a taco Taco Bell in my opinion is the best choice for a fast food Mexican restaurant. One that you can just drive up grab your food and go. And the best choices at a Taco Bell are going to be their fresco menu. Basically what this means is there's no cheese and there's no sour cream and instead they substitute that with a pico de gallo. So it is zero smart points for the topping on your taco. Therefore the items on the fresco menu are way less smart points than your traditional crispy or soft taco. So the first item on the fresco menu is the chicken soft taco. And that is going to be four smart points on all plans. And of course that is fresco style. So these are all without the cheese and sour cream. Also on the fresco menu is the fresco crunchy beef taco which is also four smart points on all plans. You can have two tacos for eight points not bad not bad at all. And lastly on the fresco menu is the soft steak taco. So this is a soft taco which is also four smart points. So a general rule of thumb is if you're picking a taco whether it's crunchy or soft off of the fresco menu it is going to be four smart points.  And the other item I wanted to share with you from Taco Bell is the Doritos loco taco. And this is only five smart points. And this is not fresco style. This is just ordered straight up off the menu. The Doritos loco taco is five points. And also at Taco Bell any of their mild medium extra extraordinarily hot sauces are zero points. So you can punch up the flavor of whatever you're buying at Taco Bell with their salsa for an additional zero smart points. Next is Subway. Now as you might think Subway is a great WW friendly place to go. Yes and no there are a lot and a lot of options on the Subway menu that are not point friendly. Never ever get their cookies my friends. They're like six points for one cookie. No thanks. But there are several great options on Subway's menu for you to have that are low smart points. So number one is a six inch turkey on nine grain bread. That is six smart points on all plans. Now all of these sandwiches are without condiments. So on this particular turkey it would be no condiments other than salt and pepper and vinegar. You can have all of those for zero additional points. But if you are going to add a light mayo to your sandwich oh my gosh mustard you can also put mustard on there for zero points. But if you are going to add a light mayo to your sandwich light mayonnaise on a six inch at Subway is going to cost you an additional two smart points. So that same six inch turkey on nine grain bread is eight smart points with light mayo. Still not bad. Also a six inch oven roasted chicken is six smart points on the green plan. But only five smart points on blue and purple. And again that is without pointed condiments. Also a six inch turkey and ham or black forest ham is six smart points on all three plans. So you can add those condiments and really not elevate the smart points a whole lot. You can even add a slice of cheese to your sandwich. Just make sure you're counting those additional points because these point values again are for a sandwich without a pointed condiment just with the meat and the veggies. And lastly from Subway the six inch rotisserie chicken is going to cost you six smart points on both blue and purple and seven on the green plan. So four or five sandwich options at Subway. You can also turn any of these sandwiches into a salad and all you have to count is the protein source. If you are on the blue or purple plan if you add their turkey to your salad it's zero points. And then again you're only counting for anything that has points. Cheese, croutons, dressing. So sandwiches and salads are a great option at Subway. And next is Wendy's another place that is a given as far as being WW friendly. But there are again some good choices at Wendy's and there are some bad choices at Wendy's. So I want to share with you the good choices. So let's start with the well known WW friendly chili. Now the small chili on the green plan is for smart points but on the blue and purple plan it is only three smart points for a small chili. A large is going to cost you six smart points on the green plan but only five on the blue and purple. So chili is a great option make sure you are getting it without cheese. You can add onions for zero additional points and if you do decide to use the packet of saltine crackers that come with your chili that's going to cost you an additional smart point. So chili is absolutely a win-win at Wendy's. Next up is the Wendy's grilled chicken sandwich. This is going to cost you nine points on the green plan and seven on the blue and purple. And this is with sauce. So if that chicken sandwich happens to come with mayo or whatever type of sauce is on there this point value includes that sauce. So that's pretty awesome. Next is the four piece nugget. Now the four piece nugget at Wendy's is actually five smart points versus the four smart points at McDonald's. It must have something to do with the breading that they use but still a four piece nugget is five points. Now just be aware that if you add any sauce to your nugget honey mustard ranch barbecue you're going to have to count the additional points for that. These five points are just for the four piece nugget. Also you can grab the Southwest avocado salad and you can use half of the packet of dressing. So this is the salad itself and half of the packet of dressing and it's going to cost you nine smart points on the green plan and eight smart points on the blue and purple plan. So again you can't beat it and you're still getting half of the dressing for the smart points. Not bad. And lastly at Wendy's you can have the crispy chicken sandwich. This isn't the last one. Sorry about that. Second to last the crispy chicken sandwich is going to cost you ten smart points on all plans. And again this includes whatever sauce is on there which I think is mayonnaise. But this is that fried crispy chicken and it's ten smart points. And now the last item I would suggest at Wendy's is going to be the Wendy's junior hamburger and that is seven smart points on all plans. I always want to throw in a hamburger option because I love hamburgers and you can have them if you just get the smaller versions of them. So the junior hamburger with mayo, ketchup, all the goodies is seven smart points on all plans. I find myself gravitating towards Wendy's a lot because I feel like for a fast food chain other than a subway it has the lowest smart point options and the most options that are low smart points. So Wendy's for me is the one that I go to the most. Definitely comment down below and let me know which of these is your go to fast food restaurant. Next up is Jimmy John's. Now this is very different from Subway because a half of a Jimmy John sandwich is eight inches versus the six inch that you get from Subway. So I want to share Jimmy John's with you because they actually have a fan-tastic low point sandwich option. But first let's talk about the eight inch Jimmy John. So you can have the eight inch turkey tom without mayonnaise for eight smart points on the green plan and seven on the blue and purple. So again, this is without mayonnaise and I will caution you that Jimmy John's does not carry a light mayo and that's unfortunate that they haven't opted to carry a reduced fat or a light mayo.  So be aware that if you do add mayo to these sandwiches, it's skyrockets the smart points. So I would suggest adding mustard or maybe a vinegar or even bringing your own side of ranch or whatever it is that you like on your sandwiches. Next up at Jimmy John's is the thinny reduced fat chips which I'm excited about this. They just brought these on board in my area at least are four smart points a bag. So you can actually have a bag of chips for four smart points which is a great pairing with a sandwich. So way to go on bringing in a reduced fat chip.  And lastly my friends at Jimmy John's and the best choice in my opinion is going to be the turkey tom unwich. Now this is the sandwich that does not have bread. So it is all of the sandwich fixings wrapped in lettuce. This sandwich is going to cost you six smart points on the green plan, but on the blue and purple plan it is zero smart points.  So it is five points just to add the mayo. So this is again where I say bring your own condiment, bring your own sauce for your sandwich, save yourself the five smart points and you can get out of Jimmy John's with a zero point turkey tom unwich on the blue and purple plan. And lastly at Jimmy John's if you're looking for a zero point side they have the best dill pickles and that is zero points. So you can grab your sandwich and a dill pickle and you have a well-rounded lunch. Next is Chick-fil-A. Unfortunately we do not have a Chick-fil-A where I live, but fortunately we are getting one which is the talk of this town is that we are soon to get a Chick-fil-A and it is by where I live which is amazing because I live in the country. So that's super exciting. So I definitely wanted to look up some point-friendly options at Chick-fil-A. Now when I was in Vegas I ate at Chick-fil-A and I found my favorites. So I want to share with you some of the top WW friendly items at Chick-fil-A. So number one is the one that we all know and love and that is the Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets. So you can have the 12 piece nugget for three smart points on the green plan or zero on the blue and purple. 12 nuggets and they are so good you guys. Now these are not breaded. These are grilled but they are delicious and you can pair that with the side of their honey mustard for only three smart points. So if you are on the blue or purple plan you can have 12 nuggets aside a honey mustard for three points. That's pretty awesome. Next at Chick-fil-A is their fruit cup. Now their fruit cup is one smart point on all plans and this is a question I see all the time. Why is the fruit cup one point? The reason is is because that fruit cup contains Mandarin oranges. That is where your one smart point is coming from. Now if you choose not to eat the Mandarin oranges the fruit cup now is zero smart points but you still can't beat a fruit cup for one point.  What a low point lunch or dinner. Next up at Chick-fil-A is the grilled chicken sandwich. This is going to cost you eight points on the green plan or six on the blue and purple. This is the grilled chicken breast with mayo or whatever sauce they use on a bun. You can't beat it for the smart points. Pair that with your one point fruit cup and that's a great choice for lunch or dinner. Next up at Chick-fil-A is the Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich. Now this is the grilled crispy fried chicken sandwich and it is 12 smart points on all plans. So you don't have to always have grilled chicken. You can opt for the fried chicken or the fried fish sandwich.  You can choose to have a hamburger or a fried sandwich and just take the hit on your smart points. So last at Chick-fil-A is the kale crunch salad. Now I have no idea what this is but it is three smart points on all plans. So you could pair this with your crispy chicken sandwich or your grilled chicken nuggets or sandwich and it's three smart points and you're getting in some kale and some greens. So Chick-fil-A again is one of the top choices on WW. Next up is Panda Express. Now this is another well-known WW friendly fast food establishment to eat at but Panda again is tricky similar to some of these other ones. You have to watch what you're choosing at Panda Express because things like the orange chicken are double digit smart points. So you want to have some healthier options where you're getting a large amount or a well-filled plate of food for low smart points. So I want to share with you some of the top choices at Panda Express. So number one is going to be the string bean chicken. This is four smart points on the green plan and three on blue and purple and so this is a serving of the string bean chicken. Normally when you go to Panda Express you can buy a meal that has several sides. So I'm going to give you these are the sides that you can add to that meal or you could just buy these sides individually by themselves. Next up is the broccoli beef. This is also four smart points on all plans. So you could do some string bean chicken for four, some broccoli beef for four and you have an eight smart point lunch or dinner. Not bad for Chinese food. Also you can opt for the mushroom chicken and this is going to cost you six smart points as well or maybe you want a mushroom chicken but you're wanting an egg roll as well. You can have the veggie spring roll for six smart points. So that's a great option to pair with one of these Panda sides or as part of your meal. Also the kung pao chicken and the black pepper chicken are eight smart points on all plans. So it's a little higher in points but you can have your kung pao and your black pepper chicken as part of your meal at Panda Express. Next up is the wok fired shrimp. This is five smart points. Not bad. So if you're wanting some seafood the wok fired shrimp is a fantastic option. Also at Panda on a side note you can have the mixed veggies for zero smart points and if you want a little sweet treat after your Chinese food the fortune cookie is only going to cost you one point on all plans. So again Panda Express is a great place to go. You have to watch the number of sides that you're getting because if you have three or four sides your points are going to skyrocket rather quickly but you can even have a cookie at Panda Express after your meal and stay within your point. And last but certainly not least we have to talk about pizza. Your best option for pizza is going to be Papa Murphy's.  And we're talking pizza not cauliflower crust not any type of veggie crust but full blown pizza. So the first choice at Papa Murphy's is going to be their herb chicken Mediterranean. The family size which is the largest size that you can get thin crust is seven smart points on the green plan and six on blue and purple. So again the family size is the largest size pizza so you're going to have quite a large slice for the smart points and that herb chicken Mediterranean pizza is so good. It has feta and it has sun dried tomatoes and it has their chicken that is so flavorful and delicious. So that's a great option at Papa Murphy's. One piece of a family size pizza is plenty for a meal. Next up is the thin crust large size pepperoni pizza is going to cost you seven smart points per slice. Not bad if you want pepperoni pizza. You can also offer the Hawaiian large thin crust pizza for six smart points per slice which is still not bad for some Canadian bacon and pineapple. And lastly at Papa Murphy's another great option is the large thin crust veggie pizza and this is also going to cost you six points for a slice. Not bad six to eight points for a slice of pizza is not bad at all. You can even have two pieces maybe even three and work it into your day. And I have an honorable mention that I want to throw in here because it's someplace that most of us frequent regularly and that is Starbucks. So I wanted to share with you some great options when it comes to Starbucks both food and drink related. So first let's talk food. My favorite thing on the Starbucks menu whether it's breakfast lunch or dinner is going to be their reduced fat turkey breakfast sandwich. It is so good and it is six smart points on all plans. It's on an English muffin. It has turkey bacon and cheese. It's really truly delicious and it's nice and filling and satisfying and they do have this all day long. So you can have this for any meal and you can't beat six smart points. Also another great food option at Starbucks is going to be their egg white red pepper sous vide. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right but basically they're egg bites and those are five smart points on all plans and they are absolutely delicious as well. Now this particular one the red pepper is the lowest in smart points. So pick that one if you are feeling some egg bites from Starbucks and the last food option that I want to share with you is the spinach feta and egg wrap. This is seven smart points. So the spinach feta and egg wrap is a great choice. Pair that with your cup of coffee and again you have a great breakfast lunch snack dinner. Speaking of coffee let's talk a little bit about some of the great point friendly drinks at Starbucks. Number one is an americano that is strictly espresso over ice. You can add a sugar-free syrup to that for zero points. The only thing that is going to have points in an americano is if you add any type of half and half or creamer or almond milk but you could have a black americano with a sugar-free syrup for zero smart points. What I like to do if I'm looking for a zero smart point drink at Starbucks is I will ask them to just add a splash of two percent milk and it's not enough to actually count as points. So if you're looking for either a zero or low smart point coffee beverage a hot or iced americano is an excellent choice. Also another low point coffee beverage at Starbucks is going to be a skinny 16 ounce or grande latte with sugar-free syrup. You can have that for four smart points. No matter what sugar-free syrup you choose a 16 or grande, skinny or non-fat latte hot or iced is going to only cost you four smart points. You guys you can have a breakfast sandwich and a latte for 10 points. That's what a lot of us spend on breakfast anyways and it's quick and it's easy and it's Starbucks so that's an excellent choice. And last for drinks that I want to share with you is one of my favorite non-coffee drinks that is zero. Yes zero smart points at Starbucks and that is the passion iced tea. So when you order this you have to ask for the passion shaken iced tea unsweetened otherwise they put in a liquid sugar and then you're really going to have some points. So ask for it unsweetened and ask them to add either the whole earth sweetener or whatever sweetener alternative of your choice. Have them shake that up with the passion tea so that it gets nice and mixed in there and it's zero points. You can have the 32 ounce for zero smart points. So delicious it's refreshing it's sweet it's fruity it's absolutely delicious. So one of my go-tos when I don't want coffee at Starbucks but Starbucks is not out of the question you just have to make the right choices. All right my friends there are my top 10 fast food restaurants nationwide and some of your best choices no matter what plan you're following on WW and I even threw in an 11th one for you just for fun. So I hope that this helped give you some great ideas of some of the things that you can choose at your local fast food restaurant. Now I know a lot of us don't eat fast food all the time but life happens and there are times when we are hungry and we're out and about or it's too late to go home and make lunch or dinner and fast food is an option. So make sure that you're choosing the WW point friendly options the healthy options and you can still indulge in fast food on your journey and not feel bad about it. There are also a lot of bad choices at fast food so I hope that this helped you with several great options at 10 of the most popular well 11 of the most popular fast food or restaurant establishments. If you're new to my channel welcome welcome I'd love to have you stick around doing my youtube community to do that all you have to do is hit that subscribe button and that little bell that way you're notified whenever I upload something new you don't want to miss out. 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And that's the location of oil facility in Bayelsa State, where he used the waters of Sundanakinda, putting fishermen out of work. The community is now calling for government and international aid, or be diving deep into that issue. Victor will see him in the charge of the surgery, but there are doubts if he will be able to make it to the African Cup of Nation in January. We'll be taking a look at the national dailies this morning like we always do. Welcome to the breakfasts and plus TV Africa. I am Justin Acadone. And I am Massey Boko. It's good to have you join us this beautiful Friday morning. And as usual, we set off with top trending. Usually conversations generate a lot of reaction across the entire country in different spaces, by the way. On top trending this morning, we'll look at the number one is the fact that the commissioner of police for Lagos State, Hakim Udumosou says Lagos State is the safest right now in the entire country. And that's because he's also saying this period in time, people coming to the city, coming to the state do business, and they can go about their normal businesses and go out without any issues. Also, as a way of saying, it's all right to come into Lagos State and enjoy the festive period without any issues. There will be plans to ensure that everyone is protected and nothing is going to happen to anyone. That's it. But that has also generated a lot of conversation. A lot of people are saying, oh, how safe are we really sure? What is the indices? How did we arrive at all of this? And for me, I would say, it feels like when you start bragging, these elements begin to hear you, and we're going to show up and then show you what it is like. Show you pepper, like we say in our local parlance. That is indeed what is to be expected. But when he comes out and says that Lagos is the safest state in Nigeria, I don't know what yardstick he used, or yardsticks he used in coming out with such a statement. Because I personally, would I say I have suffered some challenges security-wise in the past few months. So just I've had reported cases of, I mean, pocket cases of violence and security challenges in Lagos stayed specifically on the mainland. So if he is saying that Lagos is the safest state in Lagos, maybe he's blowing his own trumpet in Nigeria, rather. So he's blowing his own trumpet.  And I think it's based on the premise that first of all, he stated that traffic robbery, robbery during traffic has actually reduced because a climb down on the hood looms and what have you.   Also all of this still ongoing. So I think that there's a lot of work to be done.  Usually I think it's not important for us to begin to talk about the things that we're doing because security is a very sensitive issue. We're dealing with people who are at some point, you would say that they're working or even smart ahead of you, they're working ahead of you. And it's such a short way you have the Nigerian police force not having everything, you know, within its powers to fight crime and criminality. It's important that you would just keep it low. But it's a good thing. I just feel like we should just double the effort. There's a lot that needs to be done. You know, you still have pickpockets, you still have theft, you still have issues of people. I mean, all sort of issues. Yes, you might just say, OK, XYZ has actually reduced, but necessarily, you know, I just think that there's a lot of work that needs to be done. We commend the effort, however, and we also see there's a lot of work that needs to be done. You can also take out the fact that as much as we're saying, oh, it's safest place, how about, you know, the harassment from police officers? That's also another threat. So how safe is that? I mean, how save are we? The fact that you constantly experience police brutality as, you know, you go about your business. All right, maybe if he based his assumption on the comparison between Lagos policing and maybe other police commands across Nigeria, he might want to come and say that we have indeed been doing so much in our command. These are the numbers of arrests that have been made and the numbers that have been, you know, been persecuted in court. And of course, maybe over time, the reports they are getting is that the hoodlums maybe have a bit of some of the operations in the state. But then again, I just feel that when they have done good, we should be the one commanding them and not let them praise themselves. That's just my humble opinion that I had.  They're doing enough. Everyone is doing enough for what we say that there's a lot of work that needs to be done. Another issue I must also appreciate is the fact that he mentioned the collaboration that all of this has not been achieved or by the Niger Police Force Board. The entire agency collaboration. With all the, you know, security agencies. And usually if you find out, you know, the struggle, the challenge that the security, you know, force actually experience is the fact that there's always a disconnect with other sister bodies. I mean, all the security agencies. So I like the fact that credit was actually given to all the security agencies. It's not entirely the Niger Police Force. But however, we're saying there's a lot of work that needs to be done. I'm also thinking that whatever it is, that whatever plans that we have, we should just, you know, keep it very low because it's a very sensitive issue. And so we know the people that we're dealing with we'll just keep all of this, you know, in secret and then go ahead to work. Yeah, then again, to add to all of that, the fact that there was interagency collaboration, you know, to achieve that particular fit is something that I would give the Lagos State Government, I mean, kudos for. Because in as much as some people are saying that there's a proliferation of various agencies in Lagos, but sometimes when you just take your time and try to analyze you, you wouldn't understand that they are actually doing things and we can see the impact of all of their work. For instance, we have last month, we have the Neighborhood Security Watch and all of that. We even have local vigilantes here and there, the Odwa, the OPC, you know. So over time, they work together in unison and where the police can not ordinarily get to on time, you know. I've had cases of robbery and it was the members of the OPC that came in handy and on time, you know, to help solve the situation and eventually those bad guys, as it were, were taken to the police station. Well, like I mentioned earlier, there's a lot of work that needs to be done and we commend the efforts and all that's been done. But I think that we need to do more to ensure that that they are actually safe. Yeah. Also, again, Nigel Petro-Price, East of the West in West Africa, that's according to an index put together by the cable. You know, Merci, over time, I've heard reports that we pay one of the list prices when it comes to fuel in the continent, in the world. But then again, if you want to measure all of this, it's not just about what we are paying per pump price, it's also about what we are earning, you know, vis-a-vis putting them together side-by-side as per how sustainable it could be, or it is, because even if we are paying the least price, our purchasing power, the value of the Naira is not really something to write home about. At the end of the day, we don't really end that much, you know, to sustain, you know, these are basic things that we spend mornies on. Very valid points that you have raised right there, we don't end that much. So you want to ask yourself, what is the minimum wage for us right now? And you also want to begin to ask yourself, like we mentioned earlier on, I mean, in the course of a conversation, you would also find that there are some basic things that need to be in place, and as soon as you have these basic things in place, it is easy, okay? It's easy. So in comparison, as much as we have on that list, you want to ask yourself, these countries that we're being compared with, we are the largest producer of crude oil in West Africa, Nigeria is. Nigeria is a giant of Africa. Nigeria should not be importing hakuud. We have no business. However, importing crude, you know, our fuel, however you want to put it. So it's quite unfortunate that as the highest producer of crude in West Africa and the region, when I'm comparing ourselves with these other countries, where we should be leaving by example, first of all, we have the crude, we export it, and then import it to Petro. So why don't we have our refinery working? I mean, all of this you put together, so it doesn't, you know, because in comparison, according to the laws that actually guide comparison, you need to compare things that are unlike polls and you also begin to know that, okay, it's the same. So they have similarities and what have you. So if you look at some of these factors, I'm thinking that, how did we even arrive at that? It is really, it doesn't really, really add up for us to begin to compare ourselves. I feel that it gives us up, you know, it gives us a way, it exposes our weakness if we actually do that, because that's what's going on. How many of this, I mean, these countries that we have actually put ourselves against, how much quantity of crude do they even produce? How many of these countries produce crude in this instance? So you begin to talk about basic infrastructure standard of leaving. In 2016, reports actually had that, you know, Nigeria at the time, 59% of our population had access to electricity. Meanwhile, in Egypt at the time, 100% had access to electricity. I mean, so you begin to, there are all the factors that you just begin to use to measure. Now we have a situation where the government is saying, oh, we want to take away, we can't continue with the subsidy because, you know, the resources that we spend on subsidy 1.8 trillionaire would be actually used for other, you know, projects, hospital, you know, road infrastructure and what have you. But the question would be, you know, how much of this have we seen, right? And then you also have a situation where we're planning has been over 200 billion or thereabouts for palliatives and, you know, the cost of transportation. It doesn't really make sense. So I feel like usually with all of this comparison, what it does is it just exposes our witness as a country and puts us out there. I agree with you, Merson, because if I have to do a bit of basic economics, you know, if we were to really do some comparison based on what's the average Nigeria and that's the minimum which of about 30,000 if you were going to just get the value in dollars, that amounts to about six dollars. You know, that's what the average Nigerian, you know, ends as a minimum which every month, you know, if you want to go for that, you know, divide the six dollars over 30 days, you now know how much, which is less than less than one cent. But we leave on the daily basis. Less than one cent. So it's not up to what? It's not up to what again. Because I know, I know, I know that in Ghana, we're looking at 12 cities now about 12 cities. That's what like, I think it's for the, if I'm not mistaken, if you put all of that together, like, if you multiply it and in a day or day or about, you're looking at 12 cities, that's about two dollars or day or about. You can imagine. And again, so the average Nigerian pays about 50 cents, you know. It's not too, you're saying it's not two dollars? No, I'm talking about to buy, to buy fuel. Okay. A pump price of fuel is over 200, it's about 200 Naira. And if you do the math at the end of the day, you're paying 50 to 60 cents to actually buy the fuel when you indeed end up about It's really, let's just say the situation is it is totally embarrassing that we begin to compare ourselves with the likes of, I mean, I'm not saying that, you know, these countries are not doing very well. You put yourself against Uganda.  That's a standard of living in Uganda. I'm sure they actually live above two dollars, you know, daily. Well, that's just the situation of things in Nigeria. So if we're doing a comparison that's by vis-a-vis what other countries are paying for the price of fuel, we should also do a holistic, you know, comparison vis-a-vis the purchasing power vis-a-vis, you know, the standard of living, the cost of living in Nigeria. So that way we can indeed, you know, part ourselves in the back and say, yes, we are paying so much, you know, or so little for fuel in the country. We step on the brakes right now when we return we'll definitely come through with off the press. We do have a guest who will join us to make sense of all of the of all of the big stories that we'll be making it on a national daily specifically around.


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