Let's do some simple analysis of our PIN capture and see how PIN works or ICMP and also ARP and we'll try and draw the exchange of messages and the packets that are being sent and we'll use Wireshark to extract that information. So we have our captured packets here, 42 packets, some are ARP, some are ICMP. Let's start with the very first packet. Let's see who sent it and we look at the Ethernet source address and we check the hardware address and correspond or check that to our nodes and if we confirm that node 1 has the hardware address that matches the source of packet 1 or frame 1, so node 1 sent that. Who does it send to? Our destination is a special case address here. This all Fs address as a hardware address represents broadcast. So essentially node 1 sent this Ethernet frame to everyone on the same LAN. Our network topology was that on the same LAN as node 1 there was only one other node, node 2 but in general there could be other nodes on the same subnet. So we'll try and draw this exchange and what I'll draw is that a message, a time sequence diagram will draw these vertical lines to represent the nodes and what's happening at those nodes over time. That one wasn't so straight, a bit better. And we'll see that for the first message the source was node 1 and the destination was broadcast. So broadcast means that this message will go from node 1 to everyone on the LAN. We will not draw it sending to itself, it will go to node 2. So we'll draw a line saying this first message which was an ARP request was sent from node 1 to node 2. Now in our case there's only one other node but in general let's say that there are some other nodes. How do we draw that? Well one thing I might do is show a few other lines to illustrate some other nodes in this network and then show that this ARP request to illustrate it's not just sent to node 2 but to other nodes. Maybe one approaches this to illustrate that if there were other nodes on the same subnet as 1 they would also receive this ARP request, it's broadcast. Then what happens next? Node 2 receives it. The request is saying, the summary information gives us good information about what the idea of this packet is. It's saying from node 1 who has the IP address <IP_ADDRESS>. If you do tell me at <IP_ADDRESS>. And the details of that packet we have a hardware type and a protocol type. The hardware type indicates the technology used at the lower layer Ethernet and the protocol type at the network layer IP version 4. The size is the size of the addresses for each of those layers. In bytes a hardware address or MAC address is 6 bytes or 48 bits an IPv4 address is 4 bytes or 32 bits and this is a request and then the actual addresses so the sender MAC address, the sender IP address and the target MAC address which gives us a special case of all zeros because we don't know it yet. If we knew it we wouldn't have to ask what it is. Our target IP address is <IP_ADDRESS>. We want to know the MAC address for node 2. So we send this ARP request, node 2 receives it and sends back a reply because node 2 does know the MAC address. It sends back <IP_ADDRESS> is at this MAC address. We could check the source and destination addresses to see that it is sent from node 2 to node 1. Looking at the contents of this the sender MAC address is that of node 2 the sender IP is that of node 2 the target MAC we're sending it back to the source node 1 which is 1.11 as an IP address. The result of this when node 1 receives this second frame it has learnt the MAC address 08002F it has learnt the MAC address of node 1 and now can send the next ICMP request to node 1. Let's draw that. It comes back an ARP reply comes back and this was not broadcast it's unicast from node 2 direct to node 1 and as a result node 1 learns the MAC address of node 2 and now can send the IP packet for the ICMP request to node 2. You'll see ARP come up in many other exchanges it's needed before we can communicate with a node with an IP address. Back to our capture frame number 3 now that node 1 knows the router hardware address it sends the ICMP echo request destination is node 3 but because it needs to go to the router it would actually physically go to the node 2 so the Ethernet frame and this ICMP echo request destination of the next immediate destination is node 2 the IP header includes a variety of fields importantly the source is node 1 destination is node 3 the router will use the destination to know to forward it on and the ICMP message which is the purpose of this message includes the information of the type of the message it's a PIN request some sequence numbers we'll see those change in a moment some timestamp and some data let's draw it first this is coming from node 1 to node 3 but it actually goes via node 2 just draw a small arrow there to indicate this packet is going to node 3 but node 2 forwards it on and it is an ICMP echo request I'll just write a PIN request it'll go to node 2 which will forward it on to node 3 and node 3 should eventually reply let's extend our diagram here we need a bit more space and let's go to our reply and then we'll analyze them a bit more depth node 2 a little bit later sends back an echo reply so we'll draw that the ICMP reply and let's look at them in a bit more depth first we'll open the PIN request so we see the structure of the PIN request it's a frame of 98 bytes containing the Ethernet header the IPv4 header and then the ICMP packet let's first draw that as a general outline we can draw the packet one way simply to draw the headers so we think we'll make some space the structure is we have an Ethernet header IPv4 header simply IP and then the ICMP and the total length is 98 bytes so let's record that on our diagram what we'll do is draw this packet and we can use such a picture as a summary of what's going on we can understand the packet structure and while we're here let's check the length of each of the headers what are the three components that make up those 98 bytes if we go back to the packet in Wireshark and maybe we'll just close that and return to it an easy way to see that we've selected the packet number 3 or frame number 3 the Ethernet header it may be quite small but when we click on that right down the bottom of the window of the Wireshark window just above the start menu in Windows is the length of the Ethernet header it says Ethernet comma 14 bytes so we know Ethernet header is 14 bytes IPv4 is 20 bytes and the rest is the ICMP message which is 64 bytes so let's record those values Ethernet header we just noticed 14 IP was 20 bytes and ICMP was 64 that's the total 64 plus 20, 84 plus 14 is our 98 bytes so we know the size of each of the components sometimes it's useful to stop there in terms of drawing the packet but sometimes it's some additional information can be valuable to draw and of course each header is made up of a number of fields it's difficult to draw all possible fields but some fields of importance like the Ethernet header let's have a look at it I'll double click to bring it up again in a different window the Ethernet header there are three fields the destination, the source and the type destination is that of in this case is that of the node 2 the MAC address of node 2 and the source is that of node 1 and the type indicates what's inside this Ethernet frame which is an IPv4 data frame so we could list those in the diagram if we want such level of detail maybe one easy way to list it is we have the source, the destination and the type and we could list the values there maybe the source equals and I will not write the full value the source is this value 0, 8 through to 2f where as the destination you could write the full value but as you see I struggle writing sometimes on the computer save a bit of time the destination ah I've made a mistake here the source is 5e destination is 2f let's the source 5e the destination almost the same but it finishes with 2f and this is really node 1 and node 2 but the MAC address and the type says it's IPv4 so if you want to draw some of the field information then you could do it as well but as you can imagine as we start to do the same for IP headers we use up a lot of space it's very hard to visualize all the different fields so we may select some of interest maybe with IP we've got a number of fields, what's of interest usually the source and destination IP addresses not the MAC addresses but the source IP addresses so in the IP header has a number of fields the version, IPv4, the header length the protocol which indicates what's inside this IP datagram which is an ICMP packet and the source and destination addresses source is 1.11 destination is <IP_ADDRESS> and then the ICMP header what's important inside there let's have a look, you may not draw it all look at the structure, it says the type of the message it's a ping request code, if there's a subtype a check sums used for error detection we have some ID and some sequence number so as we do different pings we may have different IDs and the sequence number, the first ping will be 1 the second ping in this set will be 2, 3, 4 and so on there's a timestamp included to indicate so that when we get the response we can calculate the roundtrip time and then the data in this case I don't think there's any need to draw any of that information but we should maybe at least keep track it's an ICMP I'll write it in here echo request so this diagram summarizes that one packet and it's useful to at least draw the rectangles and the names of the header fields in the packet so you can quickly see what's the structure of the packet and even the size and in some cases include some of the important fields on that diagram you could try and draw it for the ICMP echo reply it would be very similar structure but different values in the fields and similarly you could draw the packets for the ARP request and ARP reply so these two types of diagrams are very useful when you're studying protocols the sequence of messages being sent between which node and which other node and the structure of the packets being sent the format of those packets try and extract that information from Weishark as you can see in this packet maybe the data is of interest the data in ICMP ping requests are not important ping is just sending a message of any data the data is not what's being communicated it's just used to measure the time the round trip time so often the data is not important what does ping do to create some fake data well the first 8 bits actually use for a timestamp but if we see here from this byte onwards we see it just increments the values 101112 as a byte 1314 it goes up to 37 in this case if the data was large it would keep going so it's just a way to create some dummy data just increment every byte if we go back to our capture see what other information we have the echo reply we've already drawn that on a sequence diagram we could draw the structure but it would look similar to the ping request and then one second later there's a second echo request and then another second later the third echo request and so on so this is the packets being generated about every one second by the source and getting a reply quite quickly and the difference between the time of the reply and the request for example in this packet 1.03 seconds in this case it's 3.3 milliseconds to 1 so the difference is about 2.3 milliseconds now this is a difference recorded by TCP dump there may be also some additional time from when the ping software gets it so it depends upon the processing of your computer so the actual difference reported in the output if we see it may be slightly larger than what's seen in TCP dump but you should see a similar trend there so we have a quick coverage of how ARP works and also ICMP and how we can use Wireshark to draw the sequence of messages and also the structure of those messages


So we haven't been living in a post-Roa America for very long, but it's already proven to be a disaster, expectably so. It's disastrous for women. It's disastrous for doctors. It is truly barbaric. And what I think will be different this time is that women now have access to social media and cell phones that have cameras so they can share their stories. It's not like this is all going to be conducted specifically in the dark. Now women can take to social media and explain why this ban on abortion affects their lives in a negative way. It impacts their lives in a way that might cause death. So even if that is one benefit to living in the social media era, a detriment could be that women may inadvertently incriminate themselves because many women will be forced to cross state lines. And with these bounty hunting laws popping up, we don't know if they could be sharing their story as a means of educating, but end up leading to a situation where they're prosecuted. So we don't know how bad this is going to get, but just a couple of weeks in it's already bad. It's proving to be as barbaric as we anticipated it being. So as the Hill reports, a 10-year-old girl was denied an abortion in Ohio after the Supreme Court ruled last week that it was overturning Roe v. Wade demonstrating the tangible impacts that the High Court's decision is having on patients seeking access to the medical procedure. A child abuse doctor in Ohio contacted Dr. Katelyn Bernard, an obstetrician gynecologist in Indiana, after receiving a 10-year-old patient who was six weeks and three days pregnant, the Indianapolis Star reported. That patient is now heading west to Indiana, given that an abortion ban in Ohio, which prohibits the medical procedure when fetal cardiac activity begins around six weeks, had become effective quickly after the High Court issued its decision. Now pause for a moment. This is why women denounced the six-week abortion ban in Texas, these fetal heartbeat bills, because most women don't even know that they're pregnant. And in the instance of this 10-year-old child, she was three days too late, forced to cross state lines for healthcare. Why? Because a group of unelected religious zealots on the Supreme Court declared that this isn't actually an inalienable constitutional right. I mean, it's just, it's a nightmare. It is a nightmare situation. And what people don't realize is that it's not as simple as, oh, well, I don't want to have a child, I'm going to get an abortion. Even if women have the right to do that because it's their own bodies, most abortions aren't really that simple.  And now that's a bit more complicated. Doctors are in this situation where they don't necessarily know what they should or shouldn't be doing.  You know, this is a decision that doctors have to weigh out. And this is how it affected one woman who shared her experience on Instagram. So she showed this horrific image of her bruised stomach, adding, I'm just going to leave this here. This is what I look like right now. I almost died last weekend. I feel like less of a woman, all because of the overturn of Roe v. Wade. I had an egg topic pregnancy and it was unilaterally decided by a bunch of people who don't even know me that the fetus growing inside of me that never should have been there because I did have birth control was more important than myself. I needed an abortion. I waited for days for surgery because even though my tube ruptured, they weren't allowed to treat me without speaking to lawyers, etc. I lost 1000 cc's of blood. I had tubes shoved down my throat. And now I'm missing huge parts of myself that will affect me for the rest of my life. I'm devastated and I'm in pain.  So prior to Roe v. Wade being overturned, if a woman had an egg topic pregnancy, which is life-threatening, that fetus is not viable, but before doctors just did what they needed to do to save that woman's life. In that instance, give her an abortion, but now they can't just intervene and give that patient healthcare. They have to consult with lawyers. And so when you're in this current legal gray area in states like Louisiana, where a trigger law goes into effect, but it's not technically active for a certain period of time, doctors are left wondering, we don't know what we're supposed to do. So as Greg Sgt. of the Washington Post explains, as one provider puts it, the fear of facing extensive jail time in hundreds of thousands of dollars and fines if medical professionals interpret the law incorrectly will lead to patients being turned away for care that they desperately need. Similarly, an emergency room practitioner testifies that medical emergencies related to pregnancy will be much harder to evaluate. Medical pros will be working under threat of prosecution for making critical life-saving decisions about how to treat patients with dangerous pregnancies and miscarriages. Still, another warns that doctors will be reluctant to direct patients to seek emergency treatment amid pregnancy complications for fear of being accused of attempting to induce abortion, possibly resulting in patient death. And one gynecologist testifies to the fear that doctors will feel forced to refuse necessary appropriate care to avoid prosecution. She notes that it's unthinkable that she may be forced to choose between my patience and my liberty. And this is healthcare we're talking about. These doctors entered the field to save lives, and now they're in a situation where legally they may not be able to intervene and save these lives. This is barbaric. Civilized countries do not subject doctors and patients to this. Civilized societies take care of people. They not only allow for abortion because it is healthcare, but they don't even put the burden on patients.  Healthcare in this country is cost prohibitive, so a lot of people who want to seek out medical care might not be able to because they don't have insurance or maybe they do have insurance, but they can't afford the co-pays. So we don't even have universal healthcare. And now we're forcing women to give birth. We don't even offer paid maternity and paternity leave. And now we're forcing people to give birth.   Why? Why is this being forced upon all of us? Because just five unelected religious selage shows that this is how it has to be now. That states can ban something that we all grew up knowing as a constitutional, inalienable right. And it's not like these red states weren't chipping away at the right to an abortion, over-regulating abortion clinics, trying to find ways to chip away at it, death by a thousand cuts. But now it's over. We're firmly in the post-row era and women are going to die.  And it's been a couple of weeks and this is already happening. This is already a nightmare. Now, I want to go to an article from Newsweek. We're not going to dive into it. But this article profiles the owner of Mississippi's last abortion clinic, which of course was forced to close down. And it talks about Diane Durzis, who owned this clinic. And she explains that abortions, they affect everyone, including families that you wouldn't necessarily expect it to affect, i.e. evangelicals. Because these homeschooled, overly sheltered children aren't given proper sex education, which of course leads to unwanted pregnancies. Because abstinence only education simply does not work. It is a proven failure. And she even discusses how patients tell her that they're against abortion while they're having the procedure. And you'd be surprised how common it is for so-called pro-life, i.e. forced birthers and evangelicals to actually get abortions. Because they think, well, my case is different. I'm unique. I'm against abortion. But in this instance, I needed it because of health reasons. Or I needed it because this was one mistake that I didn't want to make. A lot of evangelicals, they get abortions too. They won't admit it, but they do get abortions. And Diane is confirming that because it's different for them, right? All these other women, they're just casually being risky, having promiscuous, unprotected sex. And that's why they're getting pregnant. It's their fault. It's not my fault though. So I should be able to have an abortion. Except this is an issue that is going to affect every single person, directly or indirectly. You may be a man who can't get an abortion or get pregnant, but understand that this will still affect you. You have a sister, a daughter, perhaps, a significant other who may one day need an abortion. And in some way or another, this will touch every single American. This is going to ruin lives. This is going to end lives. So I don't know what else to say about the situation. We predicted it would be a disaster and it is a disaster. And a really good point that Cenk Jueger made about bodily autonomy is that we value bodily autonomy so much that the right to bodily autonomy is almost universally recognized. I mean, think about this. This is really about saving lives, right? They consider freedom. Right? They consider fetuses human beings.  But you know, these abortions must be stopped because we've got to save lives. Okay, well, do we force people to give up kidneys? Do we force people to donate blood against their will? No, we don't do that because the right to bodily autonomy is something that as human beings, we acknowledge is something that we should protect. But not women. And it's because we never respected women in this country. They didn't get the right to vote until the 1920s. We don't value them as equal human beings. We've always perceived them culturally and legally as inferior to men. And this is just being enshrined in law now because of these religious zealots on the Supreme Court. As society advances and moves forward and acknowledges that abortion is something that is necessary in a civilized society, they're taking us backwards because they never valued women because their religious doctrine dictates that women are unequal to men.  Eve was a part of Adam. So she's just like an appendage to him, not a full human with her own autonomy and desires and right to life as well. So this is the United States of America.


Hi everyone, this is Dr. Ruscio. Let's discuss some questions regarding the elemental diet. If you haven't heard of the elemental diet, the elemental diet is essentially a very gut-friendly meal replacement shake that has been shown at least in one study to be highly effective for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and in a number of other studies to be able to reduce inflammation and autoimmunity in the gut as we've seen inflammatory bowel disease. And there's certainly a wealth of anecdotal reports that show that the elemental diet can be a very powerful healing tool for those especially who have been non-responsive to other therapies. And essentially how the elemental diet is used is very similar to how some people are doing these juice cleans or liquid cleanses where you essentially subsist on nothing but these meal replacement shakes for anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks. Now the couple of weeks is reserved for more severe cases but in many cases just a few days as a reset and then a partial utilization of these maybe as a meal replacement for breakfast on most days going forward can be very helpful for some recalcitrant cases that have been otherwise non-responsive to other therapies. And thankfully they have been shown to be very safe and we have gone through a very extensive review of the safety literature and found no negative long-term effects in fact even some positive long-term benefits. Let's cover a few questions regarding elemental diets. More specifically we recently released a formula known as elemental heal and there were a couple of questions about the formula and the application and some of these questions I think are very important. They're a little bit more advanced but I wanted to take a moment to speak to these because if nothing else some of these questions actually illustrate an error in thinking that if we can get to this foundational piece of thinking about things in the wrong way then we can prevent ourselves from thinking our way out of treatments that could potentially help us. And this is actually quite a serious problem where there's this quote by Mark Twain which is don't let your school and get in the way of your education. And what I see more often than I'd like to admit is patients who've done a little bit of research on the internet which is great but they then know enough to doubt recommendations by reputable sources and unfortunately they talk themselves out of treatments that could otherwise help them because they have a little bit of information enough to be dangerous as it's also said. So let's look at a few questions here. Angela says if the elemental heal is to be sipped on slowly throughout the day similar to the way an IV drip would be slowly administered which is true how would a person allow for meal spacing so that the migratory motor complex can do its job? The cleaning waves of the migratory motor complex clean house in the small intestines during periods of fasting without food or calories which is critically important in the management of SIBO. Okay so this question is problematic because the question is framed in such a way where this person is making a false assumption and that false assumption is that the only thing that's important or the predominant piece that's important for successful management of SIBO revolves around the migratory motor complex. Is the migratory motor complex which is essentially these cleaning waves of contraction that help clean debris out of the intestinal tract, is that the only factor that leads to success with IVS and with SIBO? No, in fact I would be very suspicious that if we had clear data to answer this question which we don't but if we did that it's only the minority of cases where this is actually something that's problematic so the question is fundamentally flawed. Now let me outline this a little bit further. What are the problems? The problem here is that we have the outcome data showing that the elemental diet clearly leads to somewhat remarkable improvements in many cases of SIBO and an IBS and also an inflammatory bowel disease. So we have the outcome data. We should be looking at the outcomes and not inferring from mechanisms, right? And I actually talk about this in Healthy Gut, Healthy You and I'll see if I can put a screenshot of this section up here but there's an entire chapter dedicated to how to evaluate health claims and one of the points I make is don't think small. Don't think about a mechanism and then try to infer from that mechanism what the treatment should be. Here's how this plays out. You have two people, okay? Two people with SIBO and with IBS and with digestive symptoms. Now one reads this that the migratory motor complex is very important and you need to not eat so as to allow the migratory motor complex to clean house in the intestines and so when confronted with the option of going on the elemental diet she declines and therefore she does not feel any better. Person two does not get wrapped into this thinking and they continue to think big and they say well this in a clinical trial has shown to be a very effective treatment. So irrespective of what some of this mechanistic information suggests I'm going to go forward and go on the elemental diet and they end up feeling much better. So the key point here is we don't want to take a mechanistic tidbit of academic information and allow that to thwart us from doing something that can help us especially when we have the outcome data to guide our decision making. So don't think small about a mechanism, think big in terms of what the outcome data shows. It's an incredibly key point and I wouldn't be overly concerned about the why because you need to know the what before you know the why. And what I often times see people doing is floundering in the why and they're missing the mark on the what. So in this case the what is the elemental diet, the why is less relevant. Now and this is really unfortunate that I have to do this but we can go tick for tack with mechanisms. So the mechanism of migratory motor complex could that be a negative? Probably not, it doesn't really matter. But what could be happening? What are some of the positive whys? Well we know that the elemental diet can reduce inflammation, can starve and lead to a resolution of small intestinal bacterial growth and speculatively due to its low prebiotic content may actually help resurrect and restore some of the serotonin cells in the intestine to more normal levels. But we shouldn't as a patient you shouldn't get wrapped up in this level of thinking because it's very easy to get misled if you're looking at these bits and bytes of mechanisms. How can you know if what you're thinking about doing will help you? You can look at what happens when a group of people undergo the intervention and see what the outcome in those people has been. We know with the elemental diet the outcomes there are fantastic. So focus on the what, the outcome data don't get overly wrapped into the why. Okay, so hopefully that is helpful, again if you want to understand that in more detail I outlined that in the book. One of the lessons is don't think small, don't think about mechanism, think about outcome. This is a key point because this really, I've seen so many times people get wrapped up into the mechanism and then they talk themselves out of things that could help them because they think that mechanism is the most important thing. And then only later do they find out that their thinking was erroneous and they finally undergo the therapy that was able to help them because they were able to get to the what and not get overly wrapped up in the why. So continuing along the same vein, Robbie asks, curious as to why you used folic acid instead of folate? I have the MTHFR gene and I've been told to stay away from folic acid because it blocks methylation pathway, Dr. Ben Litch recommends staying away from it. Any chance you'll discontinue folic acid in your elemental drink. So again, this is someone who's taking a why and they're potentially thwarting their ability to try successful treatment because they're not looking at the what. The what outcome is that for people, even with MTHFR, presumably because we have large data sets in various populations showing the elemental diet can be helpful, some of those people likely have MTHFR and still have a positive outcome. Remember that one of the best ways to optimize methylation and many methylation experts agree on this is by fixing your gut. So if the elemental diet helps you fix your gut, that trumps the fact that an elemental diet formula may have folic acid in it, which I believe virtually every elemental formula with the exception of maybe one contains folic acid. So I think it's a moot point. But again, to try to get into some of this why, even though we shouldn't, we should be focusing on the outcome, I'll put up here on the screen for you a study that essentially found a group of patients, a large group of patients in Asia who had MTHFR and were given folic acid. Yes, folic acid, which is supposed to be poisonous, actually saw, I believe, was a 30% reduction in stroke. So I think there are many inferences that are being drawn from gene data that have not been bor out yet. So I would not get overly pulled into that world. Here's one example that illustrates that people with MTHFR actually benefited from folic acid supplementation. Could you criticize some of the finer points of the study potentially? But I think it illustrates a very powerful point, which is the utility of gene testing is really not there yet clinically. We are still very early in our understanding, and I think there's months that we don't yet fully understand. Now, let me outline that even further yet still, because I don't want to come off as a contrarian. I'm open to anything that has been shown to be helpful, but the gene testing doesn't seem to have been shown to be helpful yet. Rather, there are mechanisms that we can infer if we facilitate a certain mechanism may help someone, but you have to qualify that in an outcome study with humans. You have to qualify that that mechanism when facilitated or downregulated or upregulated or whatever actually will produce a health outcome in the people that undergo the intervention. So we've already shown a large study in an Asian population who were administered folic acid and had MCHFR, so they shouldn't be taking folic acid, actually had a reduction in stroke. But let's look at other evidence that supports this. The diet fit study by Christopher Gardner over at Stanford, his study essentially found that genotype was unable to predict who would respond to a diet in any beneficial way. And another, meaning the patients went through these gene tests, the gene test suggested this diet and the gene-guided diet had no impact on outcomes for weight. For the yet still, another study has shown in an ApoE cohort that may be at high risk for cardiovascular involvement that a gene-guided diet had no benefit compared to a normal control diet for improving cardiovascular risk markers. So I understand that if you don't feel well and someone tells you about this mechanism of MCHFR slowing down your detoxification and needing folic or folate to help with that, I understand it's attractive. But right now, I don't think that the data is there supporting these approaches. Now, I'll be very happy to change my mind when we can show some positive outcome, but for right now, for methylation, I think the best thing you can do is optimize the health of your gut. Dr. Karefitsjeral describes this, I think, very eloquently as addressing methylation upstream. So now you get to the upstream source of a toxic burden in your body, the gut, and by alleviating that, you alleviate all these detox pathways that may not be running optimally, per chance that could be MCHFR, by addressing the upstream source of the problem. So if you have MCHFR, I have zero concern with you using elemental heal due to the folic acid content. And then finally, BL asks, does the elemental diet work to reduce hydrogen sulfide SIBO? Again, there's some potentially faulty presumptions built into this question. How do you know you have hydrogen sulfide SIBO? This is not available outside of the research setting, testing for the hydrogen sulfide SIBO, that is. There is a urine test that may speculatively tell you that you have hydrogen sulfide SIBO, but it is in no way super form validated. So this is likely a presumed hydrogen sulfide SIBO. Why is it presumed? It's probably presumed because this person tested negative for SIBO via the breath test, but has symptoms. So what you're actually asking is, can the elemental diet help for digestive symptoms in someone who's negative for SIBO? And the answer there is absolutely yes. Now is it guaranteed? No, no treatment is 100% guaranteed. There's always a subset of people that may not respond well to any therapy. But the elemental diet tends to be very helpful for digestive involvement as a general rule. So again, I don't mean to be overly critical or nitpicky, but it's important to understand when we are getting too granular and mechanistic in our thinking. Natural and alternative medicine claims to be holistic. So you would think the way that we look at these things would be holistic. But instead, there's a tendency to look at things in these very reductionistic frameworks. I can't use the elemental diet because it contains folic acid and I have empty HFR. I can't use the elemental diet because you'll be sipping on it throughout the day and never be fast and therefore you won't be able to have a migratory motor complex facilitation. Those are very reductionistic ways of looking at your healthcare and the human body. So it's important to zoom out and look at what the outcome data shows. What happens in people, in clinical trials, undergoing these interventions. And the good news is a lot of benefit is vectored by the elemental diet. It doesn't mean it's going to work for everyone. It doesn't mean that for some people there may not be a negative reaction. But I want to try to zoom us out and get people away from thinking in these very reduced, very mechanistic frameworks because I see routinely patients who again, have talked themselves out of undergoing certain therapies that have been shown to be helpful. Because they read something about a mechanism that may be associated with that treatment that may not be good. Yet they're missing the fact that there's this outcome data showing that when a person like you does this treatment, there's a general tendency to see global improvement in how they're feeling. So don't overlook the simple outcome data at the expense of the convoluted mechanisms because that can mislead you. And ultimately, it will be a disservice to you or for your clinician thinking this way, it will be a disservice to your patient. And again, regarding all of this, I remain open as a body of evidence and literature evolves. But for right now, I want to try to prevent people from getting pulled into speculation, especially with gene testing. I don't think we're there yet. And I want to prevent people from thinking that for whatever reason due to meal frequency and elemental diet may not be a health-promoting treatment. If you want to learn more about the elemental diet, there's a whole section about this in my book, Healthy Got Healthy You, that details the different formulas that can be used, how they can be used, the safety data, troubleshooting. And so I'd highly recommend checking out the book. And the elemental diet formula that we've released is called Elemental Heal. And I invite you to try that per the guidelines laid out in Healthy Got Healthy You. Remember, don't think small. Even though sometimes these mechanisms seem alluring, they can often mislead you. So keep your thinking big picture. And truly, this can help you get healthy and get back to your life. This is Dr. Ruscio. I hope this has helped you. If you have any questions or comments, please let me know. Thank you.


Inequality generated by freedom is irrelevant to anything important in life. Yes, there are problems in the world. Those problems are solved by more freedom, not less freedom. You do not solve problems of poverty by reducing freedom for some for the sake of the wealth of others. You do not solve any problem by using violence against some for the benefit of others. What we should all unite around is the idea of a non-cursion, the idea of true freedom, freedom from coercion, and a state that does one thing and one thing only, which is protect us from force, protect us from fraud, protect us from foreign invaders, and otherwise, leave us alone. Somebody said, who will manage the economy? Nobody! The economy doesn't need to be managed because all the economy is us. It's individuals and individuals don't need mother government managing their lives.


The Hilton family has almost always been associated with luxury lifestyles and glamour. Kathy and Rick Hilton live even more lavish than their daughter Paris Hilton. Owning mansions in Bel Air, the Hamptons, and even a luxury penthouse in Manhattan. With a net worth of an estimated $350 million, Kathy Hilton is the richest cast member to ever star on the reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She's even openly said she only did the show to spend time with her sister and fellow cast member Kyle Richards because it's not like she needed the money. When Real Housewives of Beverly Hills gave fans a glimpse into Kathy's life in home, beyond the gates of the legendary Hilton family mansion, you'll find a mix of opulence, endless wealth, and a touch of quirky charm. Let's dig into the mansion's extravagant lifestyle, love story, and more of Kathy and Rick Hilton. Kathy and Rick Hilton are well known for their prominent status in society. Their love manages to transcend the glitz and glamour often associated with their name. Kathy Hilton born Kathleen Elizabeth Avenzino on March 13, 1959, and Richard Howard Hilton born on August 17, 1955, first crossed paths in the high society circles of LA. The couple's initial meeting was marked by a magnetic connection, but it was made easier as they both came from affluent families. Kathy and Rick shared plenty of common ground in their upbringing and values. Their courtship took place against the backdrop of the opulent lifestyle that accompanies the Hilton name. Rick, an heir of the Hilton Hotel Empire, brought his business skills and entrepreneurial spirit to the relationship. Kathy, on the other hand, was already a well-known socialite with a keen sense of fashion and style. Together, they formed a power couple that would navigate the challenges of balancing family life and high-profile responsibilities. The couple tied the knot on November 24, 1979 in a lavish and star-studded ceremony when Kathy was only 20 years old. However, she keeps most details of her wedding and marriage under wraps. As their love story unfolded, Kathy and Rick Hilton welcomed four children into their lives, Paris, Nikki, Baron and Conrad. Despite the demands of their respective careers and public scrutiny that often accompanies a life in the spotlight, the Hiltons remained committed to their family. Kathy and Rick Hilton have weathered the storms of life together, supporting each other through successes and challenges. Their enduring love and commitment has definitely served as a foundation for their family's growth and success. While they keep their romance pretty private, Kathy has opened up about the kind of gifts she and Rick give each other. She once said, For our big anniversary, you're not gonna believe what I got. It was a sterling silver shell. But Rick collects shells. It was for him. As for Kathy's gift to Rick, a sweater. I buy him a sweater for Christmas and his anniversary always. Kathy has opened the doors to the mega mansion she shares with Rick, especially for the real housewives. Located in Bel Air, Los Angeles, their longtime-standing home boasts 14,980 square feet of space, along with seven beds and eight baths. Walking in, first impressions make all the difference, seeing the grand entry foyer with black and white checkerboard floor underfoot. Kathy also loves decorating for Christmas and stars super early, just like me. But more on that in just a little bit. Over in the kitchen, the space boasts an all-white theme with top-grade appliances, including a double oven and there's also a center island and butler's pantry. There's a formal living room with fireplace, as well as an epic dining room with crystals, chandelier overhead. In season 11 of Real Housewives, viewers got to see more of Kathy's Bel Air estate.  Inside, Kathy's home decor mixes classic, traditional touches with a modern twist. For example, there's a cabinet of blue and white figurines and an antique painting hanging over the grand staircase. But there's also artwork from Takashi Murakami and an Andy Warhol portrait of Mick Jagger. Elsewhere, Kathy and Rick's home boasts a wood paneled lounge with another fireplace and a classic vibe, a space that always looks cozy when she decorates it for Christmas. Aside from the tennis courts, the sprawling grounds boasts some charming landscaping and plenty of spaces to sit and entertain. Of course, there's also a large swimming pool and sun loungers. In fact, Kathy and Rick's yard is somewhat famous. It inspired this set of the Real Housewives season 11 reunion and recently the Hilton Matriarch gave the space a makeover too. Kathy and her designer added a new outdoor dining set to the yard as well as more seating around the fireplace and through an updated accessories such as new outdoor pillows and table linens. Now, I told you we talked more about Christmas. Christmas is also the holiday where the Hilton's go big, especially Kathy who showed off her incredible Christmas decor including her many, many stunning trees. Kathy shared, I normally start decorating on October then keep adding until December. The only thing she doesn't do though, lights. She added about why she doesn't put up the lights. It's just that I'm not actually good at it and I like things perfect. Each year usually Kathy changes the color scheme but regardless it always looks beautiful such as the other year where she set up the family mansion with red, gold, white and a ton of tinsel. In the Grand Foy the space features lighter colors and silver tinsel to give it that miracle on 34th Street kind of feeling. Because Kathy and Rick's mansion is so large she does get some help decorating from a wonderful lady that helps me and she's a young man that comes and helps me with all the stuff that's really high up because that's a little scary, she said. Over in the wood paneled lounge they set up another beautiful Christmas tree. Kathy goes all out for the Hilton family's Christmas morning too. She said, I do a really fabulous Christmas Day brunch where she cooks a frittata with really nice vegetables and sour cream and caviar and these little cinnamon rolls, bacon and pancakes with melted butter and really good syrup. During an episode of Real Housewives fans got a glimpse of some of the items underneath the Hilton Christmas tree and the gifts were just as fancy as you'd imagine with boxes from Bakara and Dr. Barbara Sturm and one from Hermes. Now while Kathy and Rick's Bella mansion is their home base that's only the tip of their real estate portfolio. Back in 1999, they paid $2.4 million for a 7-bedroom 3-acre property in the Hamptons which they rent out over summer seasons for $400,000 or more. In 2016, they paid $9.3 million for another large mansion in Bel Air and in 2014, they paid $2.5 million for a gorgeous condo in New York City's exclusive Pierre Hotel. Speaking of New York City while Kathy and Rick own a flat at the exclusive Pierre Hotel they're used to luxury living in the Big Apple. In fact, they raised their family in the bougie Waldorf Astoria building some years back. I mean Paris Hilton even talked about this in her book, I remember. For moving into their California mansion Kathy and Rick Hilton raised their kids Paris, Nikki, Baron and Conrad in a luxury 30th floor penthouse at the posh Waldorf Towers at the hotel. While that might seem like an odd place to raise a family the Hilton's have major ties to the hotel world. I mean obviously not only is Rick part of the famous Hilton Hotel family but Kathy used to work in the banquet and sales department at the Waldorf Astoria. The Hilton's were able to live in the penthouse in the residential section of the Waldorf because Rick's father had owned the hotel since the 1940s and they went on to live there for nine years. Kathy spoke about the experience saying it was very, very lovely. We loved being in close quarters under one roof except when Paris would sneak out of the service elevator. In terms of the rest of Kathy and Rick's glamorous life I could go on and on and of course they have perks like their own staff too including full-time butlers working in their home and a regular staff on rotation for special events. When it comes to hosting special events nobody throws a gathering celebration or a classy party like Kathy. When she hosted a viewing party for the real housewives of Beverly Hills she went all out as expected decorating her backyard with balloons that spelt out Beverly Hills while serving guests the largest pizza in the world from Big Mamas and Papa's Pizzeria in LA. And when Kathy hosts she only wants the best which includes catering from celeb chefs and those amazing 950 back rack candlesticks on her table display. While that wraps up our look into the luxury lifestyle and homes of Kathy and Rick Hilton we got a taste for how opulent their lives really are. Before we go though answer this question for me if you had the resources in the time would you host amazing themed parties at your home for different events? Let me know in the comments if that's your type of thing. Don't forget to hit subscribe and turn on those notifications so you never miss a video. Follow me on Instagram to chat and I'll see you all in another one. Bye!


What's going on guys and welcome back to any other video so in this one I want to show you a dropshipping store that recently sold on Flipper.com for $82,500. One of the best things about building a brand and building a dropshipping business that many people actually forget is once you've built up that brand once you've built up a bit of traction and you have a consistent profit coming in each month you have built an asset an asset that is worth money to give you an idea then of what your business may potentially be worth in the future or perhaps you're already running a profitable business and you've been thinking about selling it I'm going to be breaking down everything behind this store so you can see exactly what it takes to sell a business for this sort of money and take home a nice lump of cash that you can then go on to fund other business ventures before we jump into it though I want you to take a quick second to have a think about what you reckon this business was making each year for it to be worth and actually somebody buy and bid on this business for $82,500 jumping on to Flipper.com then just to show you guys a bit of proof so this is the store in question you may recognize this store if you're a follower an avid follower of the channel it's called Miracle Sofa it was sold by public auction and there was indeed only one bid and that bid was for $82,500 let's jump on to the original listing then this was actually the listing I reviewed quite a few months ago now just taking you through their best selling products showing you the store that sort of thing so I'm going to recap it and just show you essentially all of the numbers their best selling products how they're sending those products so you can see exactly what goes into a business that recently sold for over 80 grand so Miracle Sofa is an e-commerce website focused on selling sofa covers to top tier English speaking countries so this will be things like the UK US Canada Australia New Zealand they're kind of like the big five it's been doing it since 2019 so the business is only three years old I say only three years old because that's still a young age for a business and now you might be thinking 80 grand and only six grand profit per month isn't very impressive for a three-year-old business but if you could tell me any job out there that would give you that sort of pay rise in three years then I don't think you'll be able to do that and once you see how much time is involved in running this business as well then you'll soon see that this is a very healthy return on how much time is involved in actually running it and as they say it's actually low maintenance easy to run and brings consistent profits so here's their revenue and profit from the last 12 months we can see it's been kind of on a downward trend ish this is probably because the stores been for sale so they've been perhaps neglecting it a little bit and even so over the course of last 12 months they've been able to turn over 366 thousand US dollars with an annual profit of 70 grand jumping back up then what I want to find and show you now is the operations so this should take two hours per week for the new owner so as you can see only two hours per week 15 minutes per week meeting with the team so you're talking less than three hours a week to run a business which is bringing home 70 grand so not a bad return at all on your time investment what is great to see about this business though is that sales are relatively consistent throughout the year so it's not a pump and dump product it's not a product that spikes massively in popularity for three months of the year and then is unheard of as we can see it's a sort of product that sells consistently throughout the year which is a really good thing because it means you can rely on sales and you can rely on money coming through the door without having to scramble and find other products to kind of dip in and out if you're selling those sorts of things we can see it's still an active business as well so this is still a product what you're about to see what I'm about to show you is still active and working and with January of 2023 a turnover of 22 grand and $5,000 profit and the last month that featured is February because this is when the store was sold of a 12 grand turnover and a two grand profit they jump into their primary expenses then because this reveals how they're making the money and then we'll jump into the description and contextual information so the cost of goods is 14 grand a month that is to fulfill their orders I suspect this will have been recorded during one of their bigger months obviously when they're doing sales of 22 grand and 12 grand their cost of goods isn't going to exceed that advertising of 10 grand so their primary advertising source at the moment is Google ads software so this will be Shopify and apps and things like that probably an accounting software of for a business of this size as well and contractors so that'll be people that's helping them process orders customer service that sort of thing and of course transaction fees so this will be processing fees for Shopify or for Stripe and PayPal if they're using it but we'll see in a second when we take a look at their Shopify store okay so the operations to deliver the product to the customer the operations mainly involve order fulfillment and customer supports this will be emails and it'll be placing orders with suppliers or I imagine they're using a 3PL so I'll just be sending a CSV file with all the customer information and what they've ordered so they can process it that way and like they said here should be no more than 15 minutes a week meeting with the team just to make sure everything is being taken care of like I mentioned order fulfillment is a simple process I'm involved sending the orders to the supplier and then uploading tracking numbers to Shopify this is done on the daily business a daily basis and handled by a part-time worker customer support is email based and handled by a full-time worker these will be VA's typically based in the Philippines or somewhere like that and where the cost of living is a lot lower and as they say in terms of marketing the key things needs to be done on a regular basis and looking over the Google ads and sending out marketing emails to the list takes approximately two hours per week for the new owner so in my opinion 80 grand is a pretty good price for this business because it's a little bit more than one year's profit they have a tried and tested and proven concept they know this is a product that sells and can be sold profitably using Google ads so with the right input with the right skills and you could even bring in an agency when your business is making this sort of money to take over things and if you take away this two hours per week because you're having an agency take care of that then you've pretty much got a fully automated business that's just going to keep bringing in money on a recurring basis for you let's take a look at some of their top channels and so we can see exactly where their customers and traffic are coming from number one is paid search so this will be put in their website sorry this will be put in their website at top of a Google search when a customer is searching for so for protector or something like that they obviously have a pretty big email listening as this is where the second biggest refer is coming from and they also have some direct traffic as well so that'll be somebody going direct via a link we can see their top countries then number one and by quite a distance is the United States followed by Canada Australia New Zealand so on and so forth so there's actually not much presence there in the UK so that could tell you that there's a really good opportunity to be had here and sell a similar product here in the UK jumping on to the Shopify store then so we can see exactly what an 80 grand business a profitable business looks like there's nothing like really kind of out of the ordinary here or anything not to take anything away of course but I was going to say nothing too special they do all of the fundamentals really well and that's all it takes a lot of people when they get started in Shopify and dropship and they try and over complicate things and go with crazy fonts and crazy colors and crazy images and it just doesn't work stick to simple and simple often works best using my handy koala inspector then which is a free Chrome extension every anybody can use by the way it tells us well let's go back to the structure so we can see what their theme is it's a copy of a custom theme Henry's edits not quite sure what that is so it's obviously some sort of custom theme which they've been invested in if going on to products and then best sellers we can go straight to their best-selling product page so I imagine this is probably where they're forwarding the majority of their traffic to and with our products like this actually comes in many different sizes and many different colors you want it to be as straightforward and easy as possible i.e. not confusing for your customer to make a purchase that's another place where I see a lot of people fall down is they'll have all of these different variants and it doesn't like make it crystal clear what the customer is actually buying and if there's any confusion whatsoever the customer is not going to buy so here we can clearly see it's a step-by-step process couldn't be any simpler so you start off by selecting the color they have the actual images as the variants which is a nice touch so let's say I want coffee and the next thing I need to select the size of my sofa and then I can just go ahead and click add to basket it couldn't be any easier than that as we move down there's a few little touches here which are custom which are probably original to these guys like this section here of trust badges this isn't the sort of content that you see on every other dropship in store so it really helps set them apart from any competition and look like the original seller and brander of this product as we move down as well they're kind of featuring these big names to piggyback off the reputation of these guys whether they have been featured in those articles on those brands or on those websites I'm not 100% sure I haven't checked that but that's another common and popular strategy I see a lot of stores using and as we move down we can see a nice image of a lady here a customer service assistant so that could be somebody who does customer service it could be taken from place it but it's a really good way of like humanizing the brand so people feel safe and comfortable shopping with them this gift is a really nice touch as well because it just shows how incredibly easy it is to fit the product they do a really good job of kind of melting away or putting to bed any potential hesitations a customer might have with a product like this so they kind of really nail down how easy it is to install have an installation guide at the top here they have it on the actual product page so when a consumer comes onto the page then they know everything there is to know about this product and therefore again it's just going to put their mind at ease when it comes to making a purchase they also have this again reiterated a customer service assistant I'm going to hazard a guess here and say he's not doing the customer service but you never know at the end of the day free worldwide shipping in 7 to 22 business days that pretty much confirms that they're drop shipping the fact that it's not faster than that so a way that the new owner if you're watching this and potentially if you want to kind of build on top of what you already have here you could look at branding the product if you're going to spend that sort of cash on a business you're obviously looking at this for the long term so by getting your logo printed in the corner of these things again we're really just help kind of differentiate you and own the product so to speak and with that being said then guys I think I've pretty much covered all bases of the store pretty much showing you let's take a look at this YouTube video actually so they have boxes here which are branded with Miracle Sofa and they have a lorry with Miracle Sofa on and they have this big office with Miracle Sofa vans with Miracle Sofa I'm going to hazard a guess I mean I've got stores that make a lot more money than this and I don't have big offices and vans and things transport in my products so I'm gonna hazard a guess that they've it's one of those and what's the word I'm looking for like mock-ups we just upload your logo and then it puts on the side of things for you but let me know what your thoughts are do you think they really have offices of this size and these vehicles delivering them probably not and so with that base of the guys that pretty much wraps up the video hope you found it interesting hope you stuck with me anything I can help you with by the way I have any questions on anything whatsoever just post it down below I read every single one so I will see it and I will get back to you if you want some help getting started and starting your own profitable business make sure you check out my free training I recently updated it and it's absolutely awesome if I may say so it literally covers every single step you need to take to start your very own business to watch that it's a hundred percent free just check out the top link in the video description down below thanks for watching guys I'll see you in the next video on Friday cheers


Half a billion kilometers from the Sun there's an oblate spheroid in orbit around it and we just put a spacecraft there in order to study it just a few weeks ago. Now by studying it we think that not only are we going to learn more about the planet itself, we're going to learn about the solar system and potentially our origins here on Earth. And this is your space pod for July 27, 2016. It's an incredible place, completely alien to anything that you may be able to experience here on Earth. And you know the name of that planet we call it Jupiter, the largest in our solar system. It's over 300 times more massive than the Earth and if we hollowed it out we could fill it up with about 1300 Earths in volume. Surprisingly it's actually one of the hardest targets for us to study up close here in our solar system. NASA's Juno spacecraft is going to be doing just exactly that. And what we're going to learn from it? Well first we need to understand how have we explored Jupiter so far? A naked eye object, Jupiter has been known since antiquity thanks to the fact that it's the third brightest object in the sky behind Venus and the Moon. Galileo Galilei, the famous Italian scientific polymath, pointed his self-built telescope to view Jupiter in 1610 and the astonishing discovery of four bright objects which we now call Jupiter's Galilean moons changed how we viewed our place in the universe. Astronomical observation continued until we finally had the technology to send robotic spacecraft on our behalf to study Jupiter directly. The two spacecraft, Pioneer 10 and 11, flew past Jupiter in 1973 and 1974 respectively, giving us our first detailed images of Jupiter's atmosphere showing something much more turbulent and complex than the best ground-based images could at that time. The next pair of spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, flying past in 1979, showed us the atmosphere in detail that will only be matched by Juno's JunoCam instrument. It also showed us that those four Galilean moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto were fascinating places that begged for further study. In addition, our understanding of Jupiter increased, finding it composed mostly of hydrogen and helium. Our next robotic explorer was named after the man who first looked himself, Galileo. Launched in 1989, its six-year journey took us into the atmosphere of Jupiter with a probe and it remained in orbit till 2003. During those many years of operations, it returned data showing us that Jupiter and the Galilean moons warranted a more thorough investigation. We studied Jupiter because after the sun, it's the second most massive object in our solar system. A majority of the material that formed the planets is with Jupiter, and that can tell us quite a lot about the state of our solar system and its infancy 4.6 billion years ago. Enter Juno, equipped with a suite of modern scientific instrumentation that can help us answer those inquiries about Jupiter and our origin, and most certainly give us even more questions to ask. Launched on August 5, 2011, Juno got off to a powerful start riding a United Launch Alliance Atlas V in the 551 configuration. Vicious. On a trajectory past Mars' orbit, it made several deep space maneuvers to align itself for a gravitational slingshot with the Earth on October 9, 2013, using the flyby as a test to see how its instruments were working. Finally, after nearly three years of cruising outward, Juno finally arrived at Jupiter, going into orbit the evening of July 4, 2016. To begin a mission expected to last until February 2018. The rather short duration is a direct result of Juno's orbit, carrying it through Jupiter's intense radiation belts as it skims a mere 5,000 kilometers above the cloud tops. That damaging radiation will eventually destroy some of Juno's sensitive instruments, but scientists are confident that they will gather plenty of the data they want before that occurs. And that data will tell us just what may lay beneath the atmosphere. We're certain that there's a cloud layer, followed by a layer of an incredible substance known as liquid metallic hydrogen, and below that, possibly, a rocky core the size of Earth. Juno's orbit brings it close enough that variances in the density of either of these layers can be detected through radio doppler experiments. We'll finally have a solid understanding of a few of the secrets the Jupiter has been keeping from us. Studying the powerful magnetic field generated by Jupiter and the monster aurora seen there will help us understand the dynamics of the Jupiter system better. Instruments on board, looking in infrared light, will also help us determine the amounts of gases such as methane and water vapor that are in Jupiter's atmosphere. These have varied over time due to a process currently unknown to us. We'll finally have a good understanding of a few of the secrets that Jupiter has been keeping from us. After all, the spacecraft is named Juno after the wife of Jupiter, who was able to see through a veil he laid out so Juno wouldn't catch him with any of his lovers. Boy, those ancient Greeks sure knew how to party hard. Thanks for watching The Space Pod. I'm Jared Head. So what do you think? Tell me in the comments below what is your favorite mission that has explored Jupiter so far and what is something that you are looking forward to from NASA's Juno mission. And of course, don't forget to like and subscribe to us across our multiple platforms where you can access tomorrow's live show and our space pods. And speaking of that, here is our big shout out that we do during every showing of our space pods, which is our shout out to all of our patrons who make these space pods possible. Without you, we would not be doing this and people would not be able to watch us. So thanks to you for all you do in contributing and crowdfunding us in order to make these space pods possible. And if you would like to help contribute to making space pods, visit us at patreon.com slash space pod. So until the next space pod, keep exploring.


Live from London, England, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 London. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here's your host, Dave Vellante and Paul Gillis. Welcome back to the London Doc Lens, everybody. This is HPE Discover 2016, and this is theCUBE, the worldwide leader in live tech coverage. Susan Blockers here, she's a CUBE alum, and she's now the Vice President of Data Center Infrastructure Group at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Another CUBE alum, Kate Swanberg is here. She's the head of technology, communications, and strategy at DreamWorks Animation. Ladies, great to see you again. Thank you. Thanks for coming back in theCUBE. Another great HPE Discover. We're rockin' and rollin'. Good to be in London, so. So, Susan, let's start with you. You've been at this now for a couple of years at HPE. That's right. You guys are hittin' the groove swing as we like to say sometimes. Give us the quick update on what's going on in your group, the Data Center Infrastructure Group. Well, one of the things that's going on is that the group is actually somewhat new. We've taken our infrastructure from across the entire company, server storage, networking, and brought it together in one organization with a shared engineering infrastructure so that we can speed and accelerate our own innovation, and get it out to our customers faster, so that they have differentiated value from HPE across the entire Data Center Infrastructure stack. Excellent, and Kate, last time we talked, you took us through some of the things that you were doing at DreamWorks. Give us the update on your side. What's happened in the last, let's see, it was six months ago, maybe? Well, one of the most fun things that's happened is that we've released a new movie called Trolls that's out in theaters right now, and of course, our partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise brought that movie to life. It's always so much fun when we've got a new movie in the theater, and this one is so joyous, and so happy, and such good music. I mean, kids' faces just light up when they see it, and honestly. A few adults, too. Yeah, it's one of the things that makes it so fun to work at DreamWorks Animation is bringing products like that to market. And honestly, the partnership that we have with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, it allows us to focus on that creativity. One thing, you've made my twin five-year-old daughters very happy. They've seen the movie twice. They play all the characters around the house. It's wonderful. We were talking earlier, you were saying that you think, I said your data center infrastructure must be somewhat unusual because of the volumes of the type of work you do. You said you don't think that's really the case so much anymore. Can you explain that to me? One of the interesting things about feature animation is that we're such a computationally complex industry. I mean, making a feature animated movie has more components and parts than a Boeing 747. So 10 years ago, I think our manufacturing process, the process of creating a film was unique and it put us in a high performance compute, almost a super computing environment. However, what we're seeing in today's business world across all the other verticals, whether it's oil and gas or retail, is the desire to have on demand image generation for fast decision making. Almost every business on the planet wants that and that requires tremendous compute, tremendous delivery through network and storage. And quite frankly, the data explosion is affecting everybody. So while I think that we're on usually the cutting edge because of our product and what it takes, I think that most other companies around the world are facing the same sort of technological challenges we are. The movie business has always been pretty technologically advanced, but now the intersection of computing in movies has just exploded in the last really decade plus. Maybe you could talk about that a little bit in terms of your adoption level of technology. Well, one of the things about the films that we make is the amount of compute required for them. So on any given film, we will typically require 80 million computing hours to render all of the images across a couple of years of processing. And what we use exclusively for that are the ProLiant Blade servers in our environment and we have for over a decade. It's one of the areas that HP continues to innovate in. We partner with HP because they're so dedicated to engineering and R&D and clearly that exists in the labs group, but what a lot of people may not know is how deep that engineering goes in the business units as well. So every time that we get a new generation of those ProLiant Blade servers, they're more energy efficient, they're more performant and artists are getting more iterations. This isn't, much of the innovation that's happened in data center infrastructure has actually come from the web scale companies. Where do you look to them for inspiration, I guess, in the innovations that you bring to your own products, the open source tools and such? Yeah, so while we're looking just in general to bring innovation organically first of all and some of that innovation is coming from the result of the machine research project that we've been embarking on over the last couple of years that's looking at things like memory, centric compute and photonics as ways to really break through Moore's law and accelerate running these really data intensive workloads. Another area is really building a set of strategic partners with folks like Docker and Mesosphere and Arista and networking and things like that so that we're really covering innovation not only from within HPE but through our partner ecosystem. And last but not least, we've made a recent acquisition in this area of supercomputing with the acquisition of SGI. And so that is giving us 140 of the top 500 biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world. And with that capability, what we're able to do is really bring that innovation to a whole new set of enterprise customers and that's been really exciting in areas, not just in an area like DreamWorks Animation but in more traditional industries as well. To follow up on that, maybe you can position the SGI acquisition a little more clearly because it was not a very expensive acquisition but this is a company that was well known for its technology innovation. They're just kind of under-resourced and never really able to break out. What potential do you see there for your enterprise customers? Well, we see potential in two areas. First of all, they had literally more than 100 patents in areas that we think are going to dramatically extend and expand our high performance computing capabilities, especially on the high end. So where our Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Apollo platform was bringing HPC to sort of mid-range kind of enterprise customers with the aggregation of SGI, we now have that high end and it's really enabling us to talk to everybody from three-letter agencies in government and countries all the way through to enterprises. And then some of that technology we're actually integrating into our mission critical platform, our Superdome X technology, which is the most robust, reliable, available, scalable, never go down type of infrastructure. And so we see both of those areas as where we're going to take advantage of the innovation from SGI. Is DreamWorks an SGI customer today or? We're not today. We actually started as an SGI customer when we opened our doors. And so we understand some of the historic engineering that HPE is now taking on and we're really impressed by these choices. Now, you guys, go ahead, Paul. You're in such a performance demanding business, what are the choke points still?  Well, it's interesting because when you say choke points, one of the first things we all think about is sort of speeds and feeds. And frankly in that space, we're pretty highly optimized. There's always areas that we can do better, but really the places that we're focused right now are in spaces that we haven't focused on before and we must do it. Things like security and data-driven analytics. Security's become such a critical element of our business in the last few years. And so what we're looking for from our partner Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a multi-level security plan. We want security within the infrastructure components. We want it across the infrastructure components. One of the reasons that we're moving to the software defined networking is because that software actually connects with the software within the blades and the storage devices to make sure it's secure across the board. That type of work is work we need a partner for. The other is, of course, data-driven analytics. On any given film, we're producing half a billion digital files. Half a billion digital files, it's difficult to know what the components and the graphs that make up each one of those are made of. The more information that we get about that, the more resilient we can make our render farm and our scheduling, which means that render jobs finish faster, artists see them sooner and decisions are made better. Big data problem. Big data problem and a fast data problem. You guys had a Q and A spotlight, I think this morning, right? What was that all about? Maybe take us through some of the questions that you got. Well, it was really about the data center of the future. Where are we going? I mean, Kate just talked about security as an aspect of the data center of the future. We see that as critical. It's about building a secure hybrid IT platform. As we look beyond our current horizon, we're kind of coining a phrase called the cognitive data center. And the cognitive data center is one that enables our customers to really seamlessly move between a multi-cloud environment, both on-premise and off-premise. It provides deep learning and AI kind of analytics that are real time to give the insights that our customers are going to need. And the third area is really around enabling our customers to really focus on where they want to go from a business outcome and having the data center dynamically aggregate itself through that composable infrastructure kind of story. So we're bringing those ideas together in this cognitive data center. So is that the roadmap for the future data center? Is that how you would describe it? And one of the interesting things that I think we're all seeing, DreamWorks has been around for 22 years now. In the earliest days, we were doing hand-drawn animation. We were producing one movie every three years. And we've gone through multiple transformations in our business. We've moved from hand-drawn animation to CG. We've moved from one movie every three years to be able to produce two or three movies every single year. One of the things that we're seeing though is that those transformations are happening faster and faster. It used to be you had a three, four, five year outlook and to be able to transform and get ready for the future and be future-proof. You don't have that luxury any longer. What we're looking at now is a data center that is more future-proofed, that allows us to be scalable but agile as well. We want to access artists from all over the world. We want that data to be on demand. We want the data to come to us and we want it to be secure. And so what that means is a hybrid situation where we've certainly got on-prem because we still have a studio and that's where a lot of the artists are. But the off-prem and the hybrid nature of that means that we can become more agile and access creativity wherever it is. We heard a lot of talk, talk at the keynote about composable infrastructure, drum that HV is beating hard these days. What does that mean to you? What it means to me is that the infrastructure is actually architected to understand each other. I love the concept of the Cognitive Data Center because quite frankly, that is our expectation. Our expectation is that each one of these components, each one of these elements is actually aware of how it's going to interact with the other elements within the data center and because of that it's actually going to provide us the business with a optimized awareness of everything that's happening and an optimized performance for the end user. All right, let's talk about women in tech. One of our favorite topics on theCUBE. So, you know, there are some notable examples. Obviously Meg, we heard her up on stage today. Ginny Rometti is another one. Jay Sri Ulal, the CEO of Arista, one of my business heroes. The CEO of General Motors is becoming a tech company. I mean, every company is a tech company. So there are some notable examples, but it's half the workforce, women are half the workforce, probably 10, maybe 15% of the cube guests we get. Are women still a long way to go? Right? What's your perspective, Susan? Well, look, it takes work. And I think that my personal perspective is that we've invested a lot of energy into bringing women together to talk about how to make ourselves more visible and more known and things like that. But at some point we have to stop being introspective about it and start asking the way that companies operate to change. And one of the examples that I'm trying to drive is really looking at the processes that we use to put talented folks in front of senior executives so that they have, you know, earlier visibility and people know them. And so that when those jobs come up, these women, these top talent, high potential women are top of mind. And I think that's something that, you know, still needs to be worked on, but I see the opportunity really makes some positive changes at HPE there. Do you have a perspective on this, Kate? I mean, the research suggests, shows pretty clearly that both diversity in people of color, also women, helps companies succeed, drives KPIs and business metrics. What's the perspective maybe from DreamWorks? Well, I can actually say that I completely agree because at DreamWorks Animation, we actually have a tremendous amount of diversity, particularly with women in the workplace. But across the board, we are a highly diverse company, even compared to others in the media and entertainment space, had a lot of women leaders. I think what it comes down to is a lot of our women leaders are on the creative side and on the business side and on the finance side. And I think that what we want to see now is in the same area of technology, we want to see that same level of growth. DreamWorks has embraced it in all of the other areas and where I think we need to focus as a country and as a world is in the education system. I think the STEM programs, and for me personally, the STEAM programs that add the A in there for art, that those are the ones that we have to assure ourselves that young women can avail themselves of that they're easy and that they're encouraged at a very young age. And once we do that, nothing's going to hold them back. Yeah, and it's actually striking the number of people actually, women who participate in computer science degrees that actually don't go into the technology field. We've been doing some work on that and research and there's a ways to go, but I think transparency's a big part of it. I'm encouraged by what a lot of firms are doing in terms of opening up and doing their own analysis. Meg Whitman has set a great example with our board and so she really focused on diversity and when she helped build the board for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and so I think that's a shining example of what can be done when you put your mind to it. Okay, we got a wrap, but Kate, we'll give you the final word on Discover 2016 in London, what's your takeaway? I am so excited about this show. I really feel like now we're a year into Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and boy, are they hitting their stride. Everything about where they're going is where we need a partner to head so that we can focus on our movies and they can help us get there. Awesome, got to see trolls, I haven't seen it, but isn't John Cleese, was any of the voice of one of the trolls? We've got, no, Justin Timberlake, do it all. Justin Timberlake, yeah. John Cleese of Kubella. Come on, yeah. You're dating yourself, though. Yeah. That doesn't take much. One look and I'm dated. All right, thanks very much for coming to Kube. Thank you so much. See you guys. All right, keep right there, buddy. We'll be back with our next guest, we're live from Discover 2016 in London. Right back.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2023 Jeep Gladiator Sport S Max Toe Package is stock number 24T49A. I'm here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep and Jeep Gladiator headquarters. This 2023 Jeep Gladiator has the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine. It's paired up with the 8-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this Jeep is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside, underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood, show you all the options, and just give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Black clear coats of color should all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, subscribe to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as have access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube, and stay current on our ever-changing and vast inventory here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the painted 17-inch alloy wheels. These are a $995 option, and they are in excellent shape, and it has Bridgestone Duler AT tires. These are 245-75R17 tires. I would say that they have probably about 60 to 70% of the tread left on them. Come in underbody, looks like it's been undercoated. We didn't do that, but it looks like somebody's undercoated it. This is a one-owner clean title history, clean car fax from right here in Wisconsin. Cool thing about this one is it comes with the color-match fenders, front bumpers in really nice shape. You get the factory fog lights on there, the seven-slotted color-match grille. The hood is in excellent condition as well. I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. And the passenger side front fender, absolutely perfect. Passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. And as you go down this side of this 2023 Jeep Gladiator, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing a vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. And you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful and that brought it to you. Very clean down that side. Didn't see any dents or dings on the doors. And this back wheel is in fantastic condition as well. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. And once again, you can see that frame has been undercoated. Looks really good under here. And it's like that all the way underneath. I like that whoever had this before did that. It's a really nice feature. Has nice factory side steps as well. You get the T50 on the doors, you can take these doors off. I was like showing the hinges so that you know there's no corrosion on them. But the T50 Torx bit is what you use to take those off. We did a demo on how to take your doors off. If you want to check that out, that's in the upper right hand part of the screen and linked in the description below. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in absolutely perfect condition. Does have the full towing package and includes the max tow package which gives you the 410 gears as well as the Dana 44 wide front and rear axles. Receiver hitch, 4 pin and 7 pin wiring. The tailgate is absolutely perfect. No dents or dings on there. It does come with a mopar, trifold tonneau cover, didn't see any rips or tears in that. Has the shock down assist tailgate. You also get the case for the front hard top pieces. And that comes with the vehicle. And this is a spray and bed liner from Mopar. You also have a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in back here. You also have the LED bed lighting. The bed's absolutely perfect and that spray and bed liner goes onto the tailgate. Shuts nice and solidly. Coming around to the driver's side just as clean as that passenger's side. No major dents or dings on the box here. And for full disclosure, this back wheel is just as nice as the rest. Four wheel disc brakes on the Gladiators. You also have the 3M rock guard on there to protect your investment. On the rest of the side of the Jeep, no dents or dings on the doors. And once again, all the hinges are in very nice condition. You might say that, Brett, you're paranoid about these hinges, but I have seen low mileage vehicles crowed. Heated power mirrors, but these are absolutely perfect. Take a quick look at the back seats. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. This one also has the insulated hard top, which is a nice value sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These headrests fold down for better visibility when nobody's riding back here. These seats fold down like so. You get a storage area back there. And you can lock these seats in the upright position so if you have the top off of this vehicle, you can lock those and you have a nice locked storage area. There are bolts underneath these insulation pieces to get this hard top off. We did a demo on how to take the hard top off your Gladiator. That's in the upper right-hand part of the screen and linked in the description below. You get a lockable storage container under there as well, and this is where your bolts go for the doors and roof and windshield. This one also comes with the heavy-duty all-weather slush mats. You get two USBs, two USB-Cs, 115 volt, 400 watt plug-in back here as well. And you get the child safety locks on the back doors. Inside and bottoms of the doors all look really good on this truck.  They're Arno rips or tears on these seats. They're in fantastic condition. I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in. Driver's seat height adjuster, lumbar, and factory all-weather floor mats up here. That's for your cargo plug-in. Turn that on. Auto headlamps, tilt, telescopic steering wheel, hauler mirrors, and locks. Hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see this one has 14,069 miles. You get the 7-inch LCD display. With the digital speedometer and compass display, the instrument cluster is very nice and clean. It comes with the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, and audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. This is the 8.4 4C radio. You get AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities on this one. You also have the factory navigation system. There is Highway 41, so that is working nicely. You get your heated seats and heated steering wheel controls, as well as your backup camera, which they've made those HD, so you can get hooked up to your boat camper or trailer the first time every time. You can zoom in on that receiver hitch for even better results. Down here are your climate controls, including your dual climate controls, and then you can get to the heated seats and steering wheel controls, and then you have all your different apps in here. It does have off-road pages and projection manager. You can project your cell phone to the screen. We did a demo on Android Auto with an 8.4. If you want to check that out, that's in the upper right-hand part of the screen and linked in the description below as well. The off-road pages take a second to load, so while they are loading, I will point out you get the more tactile volume tune and climate controls down here, as well as heated seats and steering wheel controls, start-stop capabilities, stability control, and speed select crawl control. You may be lost but never stuck in a gladiator, and here are the off-road pages. So as you watch that steering angle, as I turn the wheel, those wheels or those tires up top actually change, and the degree changes as well, which is pretty cool. You get your transfer case, if it's in two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, and you also get latitude, longitude, and altitude on there. Your accessory gauges and pitch and roll, which when you're outside and are in GPS or satellite signal, they actually work, and they're pretty cool. Push button start, there are your power window controls. Here's another USB, USB-C and AUGS hookup, 8-speed automatic transmission, 4x4 shifter on the floor, and you get the keyless entry with remote start. Get the flipper key on there, definitely really nice key fob. Always like those. This one does have the kind of mineral gray painted dash. I like that as well, and it's really amazing how much sound deadening those insulation pieces do for the gladiators and wranglers. I really like those. Home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, assistant SOS buttons, and an auto dimmy mirror. Start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, and hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality, condition, options, and of course, cleanliness of this gladiator inside and out. Very very nice vehicle. Under the hood, we have the 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 engine, 285 horsepower, 260 foot pounds of torque engine base, very clean ones, very smooth. Once again, this Jeep has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. There's the emission sticker, and this Jeep is 100% ready to go. Probably one of the nicest used gladiators we've had on our lot, I'd say ever. And a very rare package with the Sport S, the black wheels, and the max tow package. I would highly recommend it for make quality and condition standpoint, and I would ship this one anywhere, California, Texas, New York, Florida, whoever's going to get this vehicle is going to be very happy with the quality and condition on it. 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