Podcasts about alternative forms

Join us for a heartfelt conversation between psychoanalyst, Chanda D. Griffin and choreographers, Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley. Our guests share their embodied and scholarly knowledge about anti-blackness and creativity. They inspire and challenge us to think beyond the confines of white supremacist structures and invite us into new imaginaries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's podcast episode, our contestants compete in The Great Behind the Numbers Take Off, 2024 health trends edition, where they will try and cook up the most interesting predictions for the coming year. They'll discuss why healthcare is going to be a hyper-partisan issue in the 2024 US election campaigns; how that will affect how people think about and deal with their own healthcare going forward; and why the coming year will create unprecedented challenges for patients when it comes to affording care and treatment, leading them to explore other options for accessing and paying for care. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Rajiv Leventhal and Lisa Phillips.   Follow us on Instagram at:  https://www.instagram.com/insiderintelligence/   For sponsorship opportunities contact us: advertising@insiderintelligence.com For more information visit: https://www.insiderintelligence.com/contact/advertise/ Have questions or just want to say hi? Drop us a line at podcast@emarketer.com    For a transcript of this episode click here:      © 2023 Insider Intelligence 

Every single rocket that has ever been launched into space has been a rocket that burned some sort of fuel.  These chemical fuel rockets have worked well for making the short trip to orbit. Beyond that point, however, they are not necessarily the best option for space travel.  There are a host of proposed methods for space travel that don't involve rockets, some of which have already been tested.  Learn more about alternative forms of space flight and the possible future of space exploration on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp Visit BetterHelp.com/everywhere today to get 10% off your first month ButcherBox Sign up today at butcherbox.com/daily and use code daily to choose your free steak for a year and get $20 off."  Subscribe to the podcast!  https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Cameron Kieffer   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nell Simmons Co-Host of The Does That Make Sense Podcast dials back in this week. We unpack some recent trending topics. Seasonal depression and SI is REAL right now (00:11:29) Christmas tree, a star or Black angel at the top?(00:14:28) Charleston White says its feminine to groom and lotion (00:17:50) Mark Bryan pushing gender norms with how he dresses (00:27:19) The importance of representation and seeing yourself reflected back to you (00:32:31) Should men disclose to women they are dating if he has been with men in the past? (00:34:21)

Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit; Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest; The latest in startup business news

On today's episode of The American Land Man Podcast, we are back in the studio talking with Blake Shelby. Blake is a fellow Whitetail Properties land specialist in Louisiana and Arkansas! Blake brings a wealth of knowledge of the entire land-buying process to the table. We discuss: -Growing up in the Outdoor Industry -What it really takes to be a Whitetail Properties Land Specialist -First impressions of LandGate -Utilizing LandGate to sell his first 7 figure property -Renewable energy in land sales -How to use LandGate for market and price trends -Pro's and Con's of solar panels And so much more! Connect: -https://www.whitetailproperties.com/agents/blake-shelby -https://bit.ly/NeilHaugerWhitetailProperties -https://bit.ly/NeilHaugerFacebook -https://bit.ly/NeilHaugerYouTube -https://bit.ly/NeilHaugerInstagram --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/neil-hauger/support

Mo is the Founder of Mojo Supermarket. Ad Age's Small Agency of The Year. In this episode, we explore Mo's journey and the experiences that drove him to launch an agency that creates the work he's always dreamed of.We talk about creating an environment in which people can bring their true selves to work, new forms of agency growth and how to prevent adland from becoming a robot industry. Where to find Mo:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mosaid/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mojo_said/Mojo Supermarket: https://mojosuper.market/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Scholarship is frequently imagined as a solitary pursuit, done mostly in archives or with books. This CHI Salon will feature scholars pursuing alternatives to this model and who regularly publish scholarship that emerges out of community activism, who co-write or co-edit books, and who actively seek out and create new models of authorship and research. Amherst Presidential Scholar Karma Chávez (UT-Austin) and Amherst College Press authors Megan Jeanette Myers (Iowa State) and Edward Paulino (John Jay) discuss their past publication experiences and the opportunities and challenges of collaborative scholarship. This panel is in honor of Open Access Week 2022 (Oct. 24-30). Participants: Karma Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas-Austin. The author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (Washington, 2021), Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Illinois, 2013), and the book of interviews Palestine on the Air (Illinois, 2019), Chavez has also co-edited four volumes: Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation (with Eithne Luibhéid, U of Illinois Press), Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (with the Feminist Editorial Collective: other members are: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Aren Z. Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Mishuana Goeman, and Amber Jamilla Musser, NYU Press), Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies (with Cindy L. Griffin, SUNY Press) and Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method (Penn State University Press). Megan Jeanette Myers is associate professor of Spanish at Iowa State University where she co-directs the Languages and Cultures for Professions program. She is also a Faculty Fellow for Active Learning and Engagement at Iowa State's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Myers is the author of Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature (UVA, 2019), co-editor of the multimodal and multivocal anthology, The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic (ACP, 2021), and just returned from a Fulbright Fellowship in the Dominican Republic.  Edward Paulino is associate professor of Global History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Paulino is the author of Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic's Border Campaign against Haiti, 1930-1961 (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2016) and co-editor of The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic (ACP, 2021). His scholarly articles and chapters have appeared widely and his research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, and the New York State Archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Scholarship is frequently imagined as a solitary pursuit, done mostly in archives or with books. This CHI Salon will feature scholars pursuing alternatives to this model and who regularly publish scholarship that emerges out of community activism, who co-write or co-edit books, and who actively seek out and create new models of authorship and research. Amherst Presidential Scholar Karma Chávez (UT-Austin) and Amherst College Press authors Megan Jeanette Myers (Iowa State) and Edward Paulino (John Jay) discuss their past publication experiences and the opportunities and challenges of collaborative scholarship. This panel is in honor of Open Access Week 2022 (Oct. 24-30). Participants: Karma Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas-Austin. The author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (Washington, 2021), Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Illinois, 2013), and the book of interviews Palestine on the Air (Illinois, 2019), Chavez has also co-edited four volumes: Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation (with Eithne Luibhéid, U of Illinois Press), Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (with the Feminist Editorial Collective: other members are: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Aren Z. Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Mishuana Goeman, and Amber Jamilla Musser, NYU Press), Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies (with Cindy L. Griffin, SUNY Press) and Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method (Penn State University Press). Megan Jeanette Myers is associate professor of Spanish at Iowa State University where she co-directs the Languages and Cultures for Professions program. She is also a Faculty Fellow for Active Learning and Engagement at Iowa State's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Myers is the author of Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature (UVA, 2019), co-editor of the multimodal and multivocal anthology, The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic (ACP, 2021), and just returned from a Fulbright Fellowship in the Dominican Republic.  Edward Paulino is associate professor of Global History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Paulino is the author of Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic's Border Campaign against Haiti, 1930-1961 (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2016) and co-editor of The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic (ACP, 2021). His scholarly articles and chapters have appeared widely and his research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, and the New York State Archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

Scholarship is frequently imagined as a solitary pursuit, done mostly in archives or with books. This CHI Salon will feature scholars pursuing alternatives to this model and who regularly publish scholarship that emerges out of community activism, who co-write or co-edit books, and who actively seek out and create new models of authorship and research. Amherst Presidential Scholar Karma Chávez (UT-Austin) and Amherst College Press authors Megan Jeanette Myers (Iowa State) and Edward Paulino (John Jay) discuss their past publication experiences and the opportunities and challenges of collaborative scholarship. This panel is in honor of Open Access Week 2022 (Oct. 24-30). Participants: Karma Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas-Austin. The author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (Washington, 2021), Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Illinois, 2013), and the book of interviews Palestine on the Air (Illinois, 2019), Chavez has also co-edited four volumes: Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation (with Eithne Luibhéid, U of Illinois Press), Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (with the Feminist Editorial Collective: other members are: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Aren Z. Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Mishuana Goeman, and Amber Jamilla Musser, NYU Press), Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies (with Cindy L. Griffin, SUNY Press) and Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method (Penn State University Press). Megan Jeanette Myers is associate professor of Spanish at Iowa State University where she co-directs the Languages and Cultures for Professions program. She is also a Faculty Fellow for Active Learning and Engagement at Iowa State's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Myers is the author of Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature (UVA, 2019), co-editor of the multimodal and multivocal anthology, The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic (ACP, 2021), and just returned from a Fulbright Fellowship in the Dominican Republic.  Edward Paulino is associate professor of Global History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Paulino is the author of Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic's Border Campaign against Haiti, 1930-1961 (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2016) and co-editor of The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic (ACP, 2021). His scholarly articles and chapters have appeared widely and his research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, and the New York State Archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scholarship is frequently imagined as a solitary pursuit, done mostly in archives or with books. This CHI Salon will feature scholars pursuing alternatives to this model and who regularly publish scholarship that emerges out of community activism, who co-write or co-edit books, and who actively seek out and create new models of authorship and research. Amherst Presidential Scholar Karma Chávez (UT-Austin) and Amherst College Press authors Megan Jeanette Myers (Iowa State) and Edward Paulino (John Jay) discuss their past publication experiences and the opportunities and challenges of collaborative scholarship. This panel is in honor of Open Access Week 2022 (Oct. 24-30). Participants: Karma Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas-Austin. The author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (Washington, 2021), Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Illinois, 2013), and the book of interviews Palestine on the Air (Illinois, 2019), Chavez has also co-edited four volumes: Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation (with Eithne Luibhéid, U of Illinois Press), Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (with the Feminist Editorial Collective: other members are: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Aren Z. Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Mishuana Goeman, and Amber Jamilla Musser, NYU Press), Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies (with Cindy L. Griffin, SUNY Press) and Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method (Penn State University Press). Megan Jeanette Myers is associate professor of Spanish at Iowa State University where she co-directs the Languages and Cultures for Professions program. She is also a Faculty Fellow for Active Learning and Engagement at Iowa State's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Myers is the author of Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature (UVA, 2019), co-editor of the multimodal and multivocal anthology, The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic (ACP, 2021), and just returned from a Fulbright Fellowship in the Dominican Republic.  Edward Paulino is associate professor of Global History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Paulino is the author of Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic's Border Campaign against Haiti, 1930-1961 (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2016) and co-editor of The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic (ACP, 2021). His scholarly articles and chapters have appeared widely and his research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, and the New York State Archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season 2, Episode 38: On Alternative forms in drama. a mini-lecture by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/caridad-svich/support

S2 E37 This week Allison and Mandy chat about the alternative forms of healing they have experienced and how these modalities have been used for centuries. They discuss how the pharmaceutical industry shifted the narrative to create the program that anyone who used these ‘alternative' forms of healings were quacks and it couldn't be trusted. They chat about how excited they are to see some of these modalities become more mainstream and share about their experiences. Allison shares about her experience using the Harmonic Egg and explains a bit of the background. They also discuss energy healing, cranial sacral, light therapy, acupuncture, sound healing and have a good time poking fun at each other along the way. See what Allison and Mandy are up to on Instagram @soul.star.energy.collective and check out their website at soulstarenergycollective.com to book a reading a healing session or to check out upcoming courses. Mentions: Gail Lynn harmonicegg.com

News Flashes – Follow Ben on Twitter for more… Hot tub vs. cold pool for recovery? Here's the answer: Short-term effects of two different recovery strategies on muscle contractile properties in healthy active men: A randomised cross-over study...12:41 Easy aerobic activity can counteract some negative effects of bad sleep: Regular running can prevent early death caused by lack of sleep, study says...15:47 Probably smart to throw in some coenzyme Q10 also: Effectiveness of Coenzyme Q10 Supplementation for Reducing Fatigue: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials...20:13 The latest systematic scientific review of all the different "forms" of creatine back up what I've said for a long time: simple ol' pure creatine monohydrate works best, especially for the $: Efficacy of Alternative Forms of Creatine Supplementation on Improving Performance and Body Composition in Healthy Subjects: A Systematic Review...24:00 Wow: you can use this thing to input any medication and see what nutrient deficiencies it causes: https://mytavin.com/...27:57 Thyroid issues? Shockingly, a recent meta-analysis found 37% of individuals were misdiagnosed and another cohort study found 61%. One of the most ignored aspects? GI health...38:23 The Relationship between Gastrointestinal Health, Micronutrient Concentrations, and Autoimmunity: A Focus on the Thyroid Symptoms Originally Attributed to Thyroid Dysfunction Were Instead Caused by Suboptimal Gastrointestinal Health: A Case Series and Literature Review   Episode Sponsors:  HigherDose: Get your own Infrared Sauna Blanket, Infrared PEMF Mat, or magnesium detox drops and chews at HigherDOSE.com/Ben today and use my exclusive Promo Code: BEN at check out to save 15% off! BiOptimizers: The 7 essential forms of magnesium included in this full spectrum serving help you relax, unwind, and turn off your active brain after a long stressful day so you can rest peacefully and wake up feeling refreshed, vibrant, and alert. Go to magbreakthrough.com/ben and use code ben10 for 10% off any order  ARX: Whether your goals are bigger muscles, increased strength, stronger bones, or just to look good in a bathing suit, ARX can help you achieve all of these and more but do so in a fraction of the time it would take compared to traditional equipment. Go to arxfit.com/ben to check it out! Essentia: Essentia organic mattresses are the only mattress to score best on eliminating all sleep-interrupting stimulants. Experience Essentia for yourself and save an additional $100 on your mattress purchase using code BENVIP atmyessentia.com/bengreenfield. Kion Aminos: Building blocks for muscle recovery, reduced cravings, better cognition, immunity, and more. Go to getkion.com/bengreenfield to receive 20% off on monthly deliveries and 10% on one-time purchases.

On this week's podcast, Drs.Feigenbaum and Baraki review new papers on weight stigma, obesity medications, rate of strength gain, and more. Articles: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827322001793 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9378667/ https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Abstract/9900/Impact_of_Different_Mechanical_and_Metabolic.52.aspx https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Fulltext/2022/09000/Efficacy_of_Alternative_Forms_of_Creatine.42.aspx For more of our stuff: App: https://tinyurl.com/muus5pfn Podcasts: goo.gl/X4H4z8 Website: www.barbellmedicine.com Instagram: @austin_barbellmedicine @jordan_barbellmedicine @leah_barbellmedicine @vanessa_barbellmedicine @untamedstrength @derek_barbellmedicine @hassan_barbellmedicine @charlie_barbellmedicine @alex_barbellmedicine @tomcampitelli @joe_barbellmedicine @rheece_barbellmedicine @cam_barbellmedicine @claire_barbellmedicine @ben_barbellmedicine @cassi.niemann @caleb_barbellmedicine Email: info@barbellmedicine.com Supplements/Templates/Seminars: www.barbellmedicine.com/shop/ Forum: forum.barbellmedicine.com/

Season 2, Episode 9: A lecture on Alternative Forms in Drama by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/caridad-svich/support

The demographics of Canada's prison population are far out of line with the rest of Canada. As part of the Provocation Ideas Festival and the Toronto International Festival of Authors, Nahlah Ayed hosts a panel discussion on challenges facing the legal system, and how to build a better court.

Welcome to the first episode of The FITFO podcast, I am your host Bryan Verduzco, just a regular dad trying to figure this parenting thing out. This podcast is about my quest to become a better dad by learning new skills, tips and tactics that I can pass along for generations to come by interviewing dynamic dads, miraculous moms, educational thought leaders, health industry experts, medical practitioners, entrepreneurs and parents from all walks of life. I hope it helps you become a little bit better for the people that matter most in your life too! Today's guest is Matt Beaudreau... Matt is the founder of Acton Academy Placer and Co-Founder of Apogee Strong. As a career educator, Matt has delivered TEDx talks, consulted with Universities, and created programs that have helped to push education into the 21st century for teens across America. He currently hosts The Essential 11 podcast, which focuses on gaining world-class advice from prominent guests in business, media, sports, education, and entertainment. Beaudreau is also a world-renowned keynote speaker, speaking to over 250,000 people across the globe with clients ranging from Lockheed Martin and the United States Air Force to Caterpillar and Honeywell, among many others. Please enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Bryan takes first swing at live intro 6:59 What is Acton Academy? 12:27 Developing critical thinking without report cards 14:52 Does it work? 20:20 Where the term teenager began... 25:30 Fire. Aim. Ready. 29:39 Kids will do what you do, before they do what you say. Family rules, virtues, values. 38:45 How to join the movement as an educator/entrepreneur 45:22 Matt's advice for launching a podcast 55:30 Parental tips; You get to choose Happiness Follow these dads: Matt: https://twitter.com/MattBeaudreau https://instagram.com/mattbeaudreau https://essential11podcast.com/about-us/ Bryan: https://instagram.com/bduzco Intro Music, Audio & Video Credit: https://instagram.com/aly_fromthevalley Referenced in the show: https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Grow-Academy-Learning-Upside/dp/0999520504 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto https://www.actonacademy.org/find https://apogeestrong.com/ The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life https://a.co/d/2Rrfy3M

*Prompted by his own experience of living with depression and the escalating levels of depression and anxiety across the Western world, Johann Hari set out on a three-year investigation, interviewing experts and sufferers the world over. *He questions the conventional wisdom about depression – essentially that it's all in our heads, caused by an imbalance in our brain chemistry – and the efficacy of antidepressants. *Looking outside our heads, rather than within, Hari argues, we can identify an alternative source for the rise in mental-health issues: disconnection from truly rewarding work, from other people, from meaningful values to live by, and even from the natural world. *To improve our mental health, we need to seek connections – renewing links with others, finding fulfilling work, building better cultural values and tapping into our spiritual sides. *In short, better mental health is a society-wide effort, rather than a matter confined to doctor and patient. Theme 1: Effectiveness of Antidepressants - 0:29 Theme 2: The True Causes of Depression - 8:40 Theme 3: 7 Alternative Forms of Antidepressant - 20:08 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://insights.memod.com/the-body-keeps-the-score HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: YouTube. (2019). Johann Hari: The Antidote for Loneliness. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2Na1E3iVg. YouTube. (2019). Johann Hari: To Treat Depression, Provide Meaningful Work, Housing & a Basic Income, Not Just Drugs. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSFliBttQI. YouTube. (2019). Loneliness kills: How to fight depression with social support | Johann Hari. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp-L844-5k8. Full Title: Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions Year of Publication: 2018 Book Author: Johann Hari To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078HSDZSQ/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_GQWGNZTMKPAR7BJPF677 Book Insight Writer: Laura Gladwin Editor: Tom Butler-Bowdon Producer: Daniel Gonzalez Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Tom Evans

In this Bonus Episode, Conor Berry and I discuss some questions we received regarding our previous episode on fasting: Can you fast from things other than food? What about people who have present or past eating disorders? Can they, or should they fast? Conor also mentions another resource in this episode on the topic of feasting: The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Capon If you find this episode interesting or helpful, please share it with others and leave a rating and review on your podcast app, as that helps other people discover this podcast and its content. Make sure to visit the Theology for the People blog at nickcady.org

Nearly a half-million people and counting have chosen to help Ukrainians by booking Airbnb rentals in that war-torn country. Why? On this episode of the What the Fundraising podcast, my guest Lynne Wester and I untangle some of the factors behind this impulse to give 1:1 rather than through traditional nonprofit organizations. The founder of Donor Relations Guru, her team partners closely with nonprofits large and small to develop a sound strategy, leveraging technology to create meaningful, sustained donor engagement. In many cases, it all starts with a step-by-step plan that honors “small but mighty” as well as longtime loyal supporters, engendering goodwill, trust and repeat contributions year after year. Many of us saw during the pandemic that our nonprofit partners were more committed than we realized, eager to step up and continue giving without bells, whistles, events, and swag. The impetus to support whatever cause is genuine. The question is: Do we honor their giving well enough? Lynne highlights ways in which we cultivate good faith by treating donors with respect and personalized expressions of gratitude – whatever their level of giving. You'll enjoy Lynne's candor and personal take on everything from managing anxiety to advocating for more no-strings-attached, non-judgmental practices when it comes to aiding people in need. Listen now to hear us discuss all of this in addition to more about “analysis paralysis,” the merits of data-driven strategy, and ways to make inroads with nonprofits that are fearful of shaking up the status quo!

Kip Williamson is a Flatlander originally out of Angola Indiana, an AFA competitor in the 80s, and a Fat House member. He was known in the 90s as the “Video Guy”.  He created “Juvenile Trickery”, “Alternative Forms of Transportation” and UGP videos such as “Face Value” & “Mission of Nonsense”. As well as the GT Bicycles flick “Direction”.  A GT team tour announcer and held many other positions at GT such as Contest Team Manager & Freestyle Division consultant. Kip hosted the action sports TV show “54321” on Fox Sports, ESPN's Dave Mirra Super Tour, and co-hosted and was a creative consultant on "Dave Mirra's Trick Tips Volume 1".  He was the Mountain Dew tour Announcer for 2 years (10 stops), and the X- games announcer when Mirra did the first double flip in X Games history (San Francisco 2000). Special Thanks to our man Shaun Jarvis for handling the Banter socials!Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=UQKYSLSH7CBXY)

Gas prices have soared past the two dollar mark in Metro Vancouver - but what does that mean for how British Columbians choose to commute?; and in our 2nd half, we discuss ways to cut back on food waste.

In this episode with Robert Petrozzo, The co-founder of RallyRd., we talk all things alternative investments: What is alternative investing? What forms of alternative investing exist? Why are people interested in alternative forms of investing? What is RallyRd and what can you invest in there? The future of RallyRd and alternative investing

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Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode Andrew is joined by Caroline Chambers, the author of Just Married: A Cookbook for Newlyweds, to discuss how she has explored alternative forms of publishing and how writers can create independently-owned income streams. Caroline Chambers is a recipe developer, food writer and author. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Chat Sh*t Get Fit - Chatting Supplements. In this episode, we explore the popular world of creatine supplementation. Creatine is naturally created in the body you can get it from food such as red meat and some fish. So do you need to supplement it? Well, the fact there's a massive £££ industry would indicate that you need to supplement it to make a difference. Is that really the case? In this episode, we answer  What is creatine? Do you really need to supplement it? How much do you actually need to make a difference? Do you need to load creatine? Can too much at once be harmful (especially long term!) Is there a difference between all the different types with their varying buzz words and ranging price tags? We also discuss what Bill takes and what his Instagram followers have as well as seeing Bill live on-air consume some creatine in the "dry scooping" fashion.   We discuss numerous products in this one but to keep it simple we'd recommend heading over to somewhere like MyProtein and buying the basic Creatine Monohydrate. As of writing this, you can get a 500g bag (100 servings) for £9.59. Not too shabby aye! Any more questions about this supplement get in touch.   NOTE: Before taking any supplements it's important you consult your doctor/GP first to ensure there are no health issues/ medication conflicts.    Want to join our fitness community Train Primal? We have 3 different fitness programmes designed for different goals! Primal Life, Primal Fit, Primal Apex. You also have the opportunity to work with us on a 1-1 basis where we provide bespoke online personal training for those of you that are ready to make a real, lasting change and who want the support of expert, personal guidance to get you there. All details for this can be found here.   Want to support the Podcast? We have a discount code (PRIMAL10) for a fantastic coffee brand. Cannonball Coffee. Great tasting and super powerful which WILL give you a boost in the gym. We spoke to Cannonball Coffee on a previous podcast and you can listen to that here to see why we are such fans. So if you want to support us in some small way and get some great coffee head to cannonballcoffee.co.uk and use code PRIMAL10 for 10% off any order.   New to the show? Head back to episode 1 "Let's Chat, Covid & Fitness" where we give an introduction into who we are and talk about the current state of ourselves and the fitness industry during this covid pandemic   Find us on Instagram @bill_trainprimal @coachtomreardon   Website: www.chatshitgetfit.com Email: csgfpodcast@gmail.com   Studies Mentioned ISSN Benefits of Creatine Supplementation for Vegetarians Compared to Omnivorous Athletes: A Systematic Review Efficacy of Alternative Forms of Creatine Supplementation on Improving Performance and Body Composition in Healthy Subjects Changes in Fat Mass Following Creatine Supplementation and Resistance Training in Adults ≥50 Years of Age: A Meta-Analysis International society of sports nutrition position stand: diets and body composition A buffered form of creatine does not promote greater changes in muscle creatine content, body composition, or training adaptations than creatine monohydrate  

Jason joins New Theory podcast as he discusses ways to secure funding for your business. Check out JSV Capital here: https://bit.ly/3zoBUoB

In this podcast episode, I go further in-depth on a tweet I had recently about alternative forms of wealth and living on your own terms. Some alternative forms of wealth I discuss: — Health — Youth — Time — Family — Friends — Community — Purpose While monetary wealth is important, it's only one part of the overall wealth we can attain in our daily lives. By understanding what forms of alternative wealth we value most, we can use financial planning to maximize the efficiency of monetary wealth.

Join me and Tom Arguello from the Green Health Project discuss food, diet, and alternative forms of healing. We also delve into luck, the Gateway Experience, meditation, cancer, bio individuality, the importance of garlic, pH balance, gut importance, and MORE. Find me on Instagram: @mymariaa777Find me on Twitter: @mymaria777Find my guest on Instagram: @thegreenhealthproject Check out my new website: www.mymaria777.com Subscribe please! ILYSFM 

From questionable forms of income to “people really make money doing that?” Come find out about some alternative forms of income. Connect with the Show- Instagram: @whatthetriopodcast Facebook: What The Trio?! Website: www.whatthetriopodcast.com Venmo: @WhatTheTrioPodcast Connect with Kawehi's Photobooth Business: Facebook: Honey+Girl PB Instagram: honeyandgirl Website: www.honeyandgirl.com Submit a joke/topic for the podcast on the shows website.

On this shot of bourbon-soaked storytelling, Juliette pays off an old debt, takes on a new form of torture, records in East LA, considers a brick wall, kills the teddy bears, cleans up Van Nuys Blvd., puts a gig on the books, improves timing, checks an ego, wrenches all wrong, and understands the price of music.        

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We are most familiar with retributive justice, but could other forms of justice be more effective? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringtheopposition/message

Do you want to improve your life and have accepted the fact that you need to keep on learning? Not everyone has the patience to flip through the pages of a book, even if learning and application are required steps towards improvement. With technology today, there will be a form of learning that would fit your style. Beyond Alpha Podcast: Filipino Sensible Conversations about self-development, health and fitness, e-commerce, business and investing, dating and relationship, and men's style Visit our website https://iambeyondalpha.com/ Follow our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iambeyondalpha/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/iambeyondalpha/ Twitter https://twitter.com/iambeyondalpha Pinterest https://www.pinterest.ph/iambeyondalpha/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9SXIbgrqBzuOWMx-P3dAQw Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0xs047mAs9IquBeZtdFJJ6 Google Podcast https://bit.ly/3jwvRpl Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/beyond-alpha-podcast Anchor https://anchor.fm/iambeyondalpha

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1. Common Calls for Service Regarding Special Needs (4:32)2. The importance of training in handling situations with special needs (8:53)- The difference between Awareness and Acceptance3. The Strategy to close the gap between law enforcement and the special needs community (14:38)- Training & Tools - PECS Cards, Sensory Kit, Special Needs Events4. How Tools Work With Policies (23:40)- Alternative Forms of Communication- How do our officers have access to this information on a call for service?- How do we implement this program?- Buy-in from communityHelpful Links:Sgt. Stefan Bjes website - https://www.bluelinespectrumsafety.com.Link for Sensory Kits - https://christophersvoice.org/how-we-help/christophers-sensory-kitsSoccer Program -  http://www.chicagotopsoccer.com/

In Episode 06, R+Sessions interviews the founders of Non School, an independent organisation which hosts and supports a slew of programs bridging the gap between academia and practice in architecture. Comprising of workshop sessions, conferences, lectures and projects that works to cultivate diversities in the discipline of architecture. Join us as we sit down with Bryan Chee, Hazazi Hamzah and Ashran Bahari to discuss on a wide range of topics from architectural education all the way to regional architectural collaborations with Non School. For more information on Non School, please visit their site at https://www.non-school.com/

This episode continues Peter McGraw’s exploration of marriage and its alternatives. He speaks to Vicki Larson, an author of a book that presents models of less traditional forms of marriage. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the I’m Not Joking community today: petermcgraw.org Peter McGraw Twitter Peter McGraw LinkedIn

This episode continues Peter McGraw’s exploration of marriage and its alternatives. He speaks to Vicki Larson, an author of a book that presents models of less traditional forms of marriage. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the I’m Not Joking community today: petermcgraw.org Peter McGraw Twitter Peter McGraw LinkedIn

In this chat… Nabil Istafanous of Celtic Capital talks with us about avenues for non-traditional bank financing. We're all pretty focused on SBA lending right now but there are other instruments for companies that aren't “clean as a whistle” to traditional banks. We learn about ABL (Asset Based Lending) and the types of companies that are appropriate for this type of financing. Nabil isn't your traditional lender; he talks about a wide range of alternatives, creativity is important in times of uncertainty, and how a company is financed is no exception.Learn more by reading this episode's blog post

The NBA is finding a way to maintain their TV deals, but should we be excited for the events? We talk with NBC Sports' Tom Haberstroh about just that.

Blair wants firms to get paid to write their proposals, which is the first of his four phases of client engagement.   LINKS “Different Pricing Models” - 2Bobs episode 61 “A Beginner’s Guide to Negotiating” - 2Bobs episode 53 “Alternative Forms of Reassurance” - 2Bobs episode 46 Transcript

In this episode I chat with Swedish comedian and producer Camilla Fågelborg (@fagelborg). Camilla and I met in LA on an improv course at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Half of this conversation was recorded outside in sunny LA under a lemon tree and then we moved indoors due to cries of a baby. Cries, it was more like laughter, the baby was clearly enjoying our conversation which was great and everything, I just wished it would have shut up for a minute. All jokes aside, this was a fun conversation. Camilla talked about strategies she puts in place when she gets anxious or stressed, such as binging on reality TV, her love for ASMR, how she has to go off the radar when she gets into creative mode and loads more!Happy listening :)Steve - @offkeysteve See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode, Bernice and Kali explore alternative forms of healing. After a soul retrieval this past weekend, Kali has a lot to share about the experience and how healing it was. They talk about their opinions, skepticism, and curiosity about both Western medicine and alternative forms of healing.

In this episode, we are going to answer some listener questions. We cover a fair bit of ground, however, here are the highlights: Should you be investing in the outskirts, or investing in the inner rings of capital cities? What happens if the builder runs away with your money during a renovation and where to get help. What to do if your financial planner becomes a little bit too pushy & recommends property to get paid a commission. Real Estate Investment Trusts, do they make good investments? We refer back to a number of past episodes with some great intel & you can check them out here: Luke Metcalf: Episode 16 Kate Lumby: Episode 4 Jarrod McCabe: Episode 42 Frank Gelber: Episode 37 Bryce Holdaway: Episode 47 Fair Trading: Resolving Building Disputes Master Builders Association:  http://www.mbansw.asn.au/ Download the transcript: www.thelephantintheroom.com.au/podcasts057 Work with Veronica? info@gooddeeds.com.au Work with Chris? hello@wealthful.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Blair and David analyze and then look beyond the requests for reassurance potential clients make during the late stage of a sale to address their underlying motivations.   LINKS “Transtheoretical Model” (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983; Prochaska, DiClemente, & Norcross, 1992)   TRANSCRIPT DAVID C. BAKER: Blair, today I want to ask you about something that I've heard you talk about for many years and it's this notion of alternative forms of reassurance. BLAIR ENNS: Yeah. DAVID: We used to do this event together and we did it for like 10 years running. BLAIR: You mean that one where I carried the both of us. DAVID: Yeah. That's the one, right. Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely the one. I remember listening particularly attentively to this one section that you used to talk about because it was a new concept to me, but I was also really fascinated by it and I thought, mainly I thought the title was just perfect and you called it something like the alternative forms of reassurance and as I recall at a certain point in the sales cycle when an agency is in the process of landing a new client, that prospective client still wants a little bit more information and they might ask for something and this was a way as I recall, where you could kind of redirect the question and provide alternative means of reassurance. You remember those days? BLAIR: Yeah, I remember those days fondly and the way you described it, I think of a judo move. We're talking about late in the sale and I guess I'll back up in a minute and explain why reassurance is important late and it's not important at all early, but we're talking about late in the sale when your job as a salesperson is to reassure this nervous late stage client and they ask you for things. I was counseled to look beyond the request, the specific request and look at the motivation for the request and sometimes the request is the negotiation, the request is to cut price. Maybe you're just negotiating, but maybe there's something else going on here or maybe they're asking for a money back guarantee or maybe they're asking for references or maybe they're asking to do things a little bit differently. DAVID: Right. BLAIR: In a lot of those situations, you have to think about what is the client buying from you. Anytime they hire your firm, they're buying a path to their desired future state, and so when you put forward a proposal in front of them with a price attached and they look at that price, you are essentially pricing their desired future state discounted for uncertainty. In every price, there is an uncertainty discount that's built in or there's some math around an uncertainty discount that the client is doing. Looking beyond the motivation for the request late in the buying cycle, again, it might be to cut price, it might be to offer references or it might be to do the engagement differently. It's not universal, but many times they see a lot of risk in the engagement and they're simply trying to mitigate that risk. They're trying to lower that uncertainty. BLAIR: So if the engagement fails because of what's known as performance risk and that is you're the provider, your questionable ability to do the job, if in the end you don't end up doing what you say you're going to or to the quality that you say you're going to and you affect the outcome, but then the client is on the hook for that and if they think there's a great chance that that's going to happen, then if it's really high, they won't hire you at all. But if it's a little bit lower than that, maybe they'll see the risk and decide, "Well, for the level of risk that I'm taking, I want a lower price." So that's just one example, asking for a lower price where the client's really just trying to mitigate their risk, factor in uncertainty or another way of putting it is they're looking to be reassured that everything's okay and those are all different kind of spins on what is essentially the same topic, a nervous late stage client wondering, "Well, what if this goes wrong?" DAVID: So if you handle this well, can you in effect eliminate that discount a bit from a pricing standpoint? If you handle that reassurance correctly, can you close that gap and leave less money on the table? Is that part of it as well? BLAIR: Oh, yeah. I couldn't sit here and say you're going to eliminate all discounts forever and still close the deal. But the vast majority of them, especially with good clients, like a value buyer who doesn't see themselves as spending on an expense, but investing in a solution or an opportunity, a value buyer who maybe starts negotiating or asking for a discount, you can almost always offer an alternative form of reassurance as long as you're able to look past the request and discern the true motivation and see what's going on underneath. If you don't mind, I wouldn't mind backing up and just talking about why reassurance is important late. DAVID: Yeah, sure. BLAIR: I'm fond of saying that selling isn't about talking people into things. My definition of selling is selling is three steps. It's helping the unaware, inspiring the interested and reassuring the intent, and this is a truncated, bastardized and otherwise manipulated version of a change management model that's called "The Transtheoretical Model" developed by Dr. James Prochaska and some of his colleagues, it often goes by TTM, so it's a model of understanding how people go about change and I would just interject here and say that I believe that buying is changing and therefore selling is change management, so that's a model. It's a way of looking at the world is thinking of buying is changing, therefore selling has change management. Okay, if you believe that, then you can go to the world and grab a number of these great change management models and there's a bunch of them out there. In the last 10 years, there's been some really interesting ones. BLAIR: You can take any of those change management models and you can apply it directly to the world of selling. This woman I worked with years ago, her name was Pauline O'Malley. She's a sales trainer in Vancouver. She dropped Prochaska's model in my lap. Now I don't teach so much to that model anymore other than the idea that you should think about the client going through this arch in the sale and they go from unaware of the fact that they have a problem to aware of the fact that they have a problem or opportunity and interested in solving it. When they're interested, they're kind of gathering information and assessing the pros and cons. Then they move to forming the intent to act. So they go from unaware to aware which we'll call interested and then intent, intent on solving their problem. BLAIR: I mentioned there's three steps, help the unaware, inspire the interested and reassure the intent. So let's just put help the unaware aside for a minute because that's really when you call somebody and say, "Hey, we're in the business of X. Can I be of assistance to you?" and they say, "I don't have any need for X." They don't have a problem. So let's put them aside. In your CRM, they would be a lead, maybe, but you wouldn't create an opportunity because there's no fit there on the subject of need. So that leaves the interested and the intent, an early stage buyer and a late stage buyer. So your job as salesperson is to inspire that early stage buyer who is interested, they're aware of the fact that they have a problem or an opportunity. They're gathering information, assessing the pros and cons and thinking about whether or not they should do something about it. BLAIR: When people are at that interested stage, they overweight in their mind the possible benefits of change. So they're quite prone to inspiration. So they're actively looking for an inspiration. They're looking for, if it's somebody buying design, they might be looking at portfolios. If they're buying advertising, they're looking at an advertising reel, they're looking at examples of best work and they're getting all emotional and inspired by it and they're trying to just move themselves to the next level where they form the intent to act. So somebody who's interested overweights the benefits of change and they underweight the costs or potential consequences of things going wrong. There's a line, when they cross the line and go from interested to intent when they decide, "Okay, I'm going to do this. I'm going to hire a firm like yours to help me achieve X." Just a few hours after they crossed that line, things shift. Now they start to underweight the benefits of change and they start to overweight in their minds all of the things that could go wrong. DAVID: Skeptical essentially. BLAIR: Yeah, skeptical, prove it to me. So your job as salesperson flips. It goes from trying to inspire somebody to trying to reassure them. If you want to create buyer's remorse or feed buyer's remorse then inspire. Try to inspire somebody- DAVID: Who's skeptical. BLAIR: Who doesn't want to be inspired. DAVID: Yeah. BLAIR: Yeah, exactly. DAVID: Yeah. BLAIR: When you're on the buying side, it feels like somebody is trying to manipulate you through emotions. DAVID: Oh, yeah. So these three stages, and I'll just say them again for folks where this language is new, help the unaware, inspire the interested and reassure the intent. These occur and this is chronological and you mentioned early on that there is a point for reassurance and then I introduced this whole idea about the way you used to talk about this of alternative forms of reassurance and then you jumped in and said, "We don't want to offer alternative forms of reassurance too early." So now you've explained why we need to wait. What are some signs that they've crossed away from interested into the intent stage so that we don't offer the wrong things at the wrong time? BLAIR: I remember working for a design firm and presenting our portfolio to a prospective client and he kept banging his hand on the desk going, "Oh, yes,. Oh, that's beautiful work. That's fantastic." He kept crossing his legs and re-crossing his legs and I thought, "Wow, this is a little bit like the fake orgasm scene in the movie When Harry Met Sally." He was getting very, well, the technical word is aroused. He was getting very excited by the work that we were showing him. The firm that I was with at the time had world class creative work and the portfolio was beautifully shot and mounted on these boards, old school, wise. Man, as a new business person, I'd walk into a meeting and I have that portfolio and I think, "Wait till they see our work." It was just a great thing to have. So this guy was reacted so viscerally to the work that we were showing. BLAIR: At some point, we progressed through the sale, that conversation, a couple of others. We uncover a specific opportunity. It's a late stage opportunity at some point and we come back to the table and I bring the president of the firm with me and we come back to present the proposal. Now, we've got all of the decision makers around the table and the president says, "Hey," and he had a habit of doing this and I think a lot of people will identify with this, he said, "Hey, before we present the proposal, there's a few new people in the room, they haven't seen our portfolio, so let me just take a few minutes and just walk through some of our portfolio." So he walked through the same portfolio, nothing. There was no emotional response whatsoever and the guy who could barely contain himself the last time he saw this work sat there stone faced and so did all of his colleagues. BLAIR: There was just absolutely nothing and I thought, "What is going on here?" I kind of put it away and it wasn't until I was taught to view things this way that I realized that we're trying to inspire somebody who is nervous. We're trying to say, "Look how great things could be." DAVID: Yeah. They felt like you were wasting their time almost, like you were manipulating them in a way, like trying to generate the same reaction they had. It's like, "I've already seen this. I've already had this reaction, get to my questions," right? That was what was happening, BLAIR: Yeah. Then your question is what are the signs that they've crossed the line? So that's one. DAVID: Right. BLAIR: Another one is the questions that they ask you late in the buying cycle when they're driven by a fear of making mistake, they're these very specific, almost unimportant questions and they're often dismissed by the firm. It's like the discovery session that you talked about, that would be the first step, "How long does that take and who needs to be involved on our end?" "It is half a day or a day and you would need to be involved and Bob over there and maybe a couple of others." That's the wrong answer to that very specific question. DAVID: What's the right answer? BLAIR: The right answer is, and this is just an example of the right answer, it's the precision with which you answer, "Discovery sessions take six hours. We do them in our office. We expect that certain key people will be present. That will be you, Bob over there and these other three people that you've identified in the sale and the outcomes look like this." So the answer to this seemingly innocuous question is an answer that shows we've done this before. We do it all the time. We have a bulletproof way of doing this. DAVID: Yeah. So that's where the reassurance comes from in this case. It's almost like what's going on in the buyer's mind at this point? Are they pretty close to buying and they're just sort of condensing themselves or are they talking to themselves? I mean, are these really important questions to them? BLAIR: I think these are vitally important questions. One of the alternative forms of reassurance is what I call process frame case studies, and we'll talk about that in a minute, but another alternative form of reassurance is offer to breakup the sale into phases. So instead of the client making like $100,000 commitment to you say, "Why don't we take it one step at a time? First step is a diagnostic and it's $15,000." Then with an out clause. So the out clause would be, "At the end of that first step, when we present our findings and recommendations, if you feel like you don't like the direction this is going, you don't like working with us, whatever it is, we can just call it quits right there." So there's a phased engagement that's reassuring to the client. Okay, I don't have the same financial commitment. The out clause, I can get out after the end of that first phase if this isn't going well. Then you could even layer in one of my favorites, which is a money back guarantee. BLAIR: So you could say at that point in the sale, when you're describing the out, you could say, "At that point, if you decide that we're not the right firm, we're not going in the right direction, or you don't like working with us for whatever reason and you don't want to proceed, then we're just going to give you your money back. Because if we failed that badly, then we owe it to you to give you your money back." So that's an example of string together three different alternative forms of reassurance when the client might be asking for a discount or they might just be sitting there nervously, not asking for anything specifically, but you can tell they're nervous and you're looking for ways to kind of assuage those nerves.   DAVID: I was never a fan of the money back guarantee thing. In fact, because we've shared many clients over the years and when you come up and you're not there and I'm just joking with them about how our outlooks are very similar and I used to always say, "He is wrong about a few things, six specifically," I would say. Then of course that always made them curious like, "Well, what are the six?" Rather than just saying, "Yeah, he's wrong about a few things," and I would bring this up about the money back guarantee because I always felt like it would insert this thought in somebody's mind that, "Well, why do you even offer a money back guarantee?" Oh, some people want their money back? It always bothered me. I don't know if you do that anymore. Did you ever have to give somebody's money back? BLAIR: One of the first pieces of business I closed on my consulting practice, somebody, late stage buyer, we're kind of at the end. He's nervous and he's asking for references and I didn't have any references because he was like my third or fourth client and I didn't have any references. So I was kind of stalling and saying, "Yeah, yeah, I'll get you references when it gets to the right point." DAVID: Give me me for years, I'll get back to you. BLAIR: He said, "Forget about references. Give me a guarantee and we're good. We'll do this." I paused and I had already decided that this is going to be a principle of mine in my consulting practice. I paused and said, "Well, everybody gets a money back guarantee. If you're not happy, I'll give you your money back," and he went, "Done." DAVID: You didn't have to give it back though. BLAIR: No, I didn't have to. I'll get to the point when I did once. DAVID: Oh, okay. BLAIR: That discussion proved to me that the guarantee and the references, they're effectively the same thing. If you don't have good references, I had a client recently email and say, "I can't figure out what went wrong. The client said all the right things. It sounded like we were going to be hired. Checked their references and then didn't hire us." I said, "Well you might want to have another look at your references. So instead of handing out those references, you might think about a guarantee." At first I made a point of stating it to everybody and then I would just use it when I felt it was appropriate. Then I had one client where the engagement went poorly. Effectively, I let the client take control. I let him reach over and grab the wheel. It was a positioning engagement that went poorly. BLAIR: Then many months went by and he called, about six months later, and he said, "Hey, yeah, I'm not all that happy with the engagement and the outcome." He said, "We didn't really get anything from it, but I estimate that we're 50% responsible. How do you feel about giving us half of our money back?" I said, with great relief, I said, "That's a small price to pay to get you off of my conscience." DAVID: Because you'd been thinking about it too. BLAIR: I'd been thinking about how poorly I had underperformed. I just regretted, from the moment when he talked me into doing it his way rather than the way that I always did it, I just regretted it and it was on my mind always. I knew I didn't deliver value and I thought it was really big of him to own up to the fact that he had some responsibility in it and if he would've said, "Please give me my money back." I would've given it all back. DAVID: Yeah. BLAIR: We've talked about this before, I just don't care about money. In situations like that, it's not that I don't care about it. There are other things that are far more important to me. So I have given money back. There are probably one or two other times when I've given partial refunds that I can't remember. DAVID: One of the alternative forms of reassurance that you list and talk about is references and I've got my own story to tell on that one. I quit giving references many, many years ago and I explained it on my website. I think I've got four points about why I think they're really not all that useful and this is why I don't do it and so on. Partly folks were just wearing out references. BLAIR: Yeah. DAVID: Asking them for advice when they should have been asking me and my references didn't sign up to give free advice and there's all those reasons. But anyway, about two years ago, I think it was, I got the opportunity to do a really large project and this person, really good person, really great firm, asked for references and I explained that I don't do it and here's why. He just insisted. I decided to violate my own policy and give him references. I said, "How many do you want?" and he said, "Oh, give me eight." Okay, so I gave him eight references. He called every single one and the relationship did not go well and partly it was my fault. I would say 60% of it was my fault and so the majority of it, but it just reinforced to me again, it's like set a policy and then stick with it and follow your instincts a little better. I should have done that. I should have done what you recommend here, when somebody asked me for references, they're not asking for references, they're asking for something else, right? So let's get back on track. What is it they're asking me when they ask me for references? What are they really asking me? BLAIR: They're asking, is everything going to be okay? DAVID: Yeah. BLAIR: With references it's a little bit tricky because they're a completely valid form of reassurance. DAVID: Sure. BLAIR: But timing is everything because I think a nervous late stage prospect, they'll never be closer to hiring you without actually hiring you than they are the moment they hang up the phone from talking to one of your best clients of really good reference. DAVID: Right. BLAIR: Right. So they hang up the phone and then immediately like tick, tick, tick, buyer's remorse seeps back in. So if you're giving out references, maybe you want to give out three references and you'll say, "Okay, how much time do you need to talk to these people? Do you need half a day or do you need the full day?" "Well, I'm going to need the full day." You see how I'm leading by asking an either or question, not how much time, "Oh, a couple of weeks." No. "Do you need half a day or do you need a full day?" "I need a full day." "Okay, I'm going to call you or let's put a call on that calendar for the day after tomorrow, so I'm going to give you 24 hours to check these reference, all day tomorrow to check these references and I'm going to call you the next morning." Even better, call it the end of the day and the last thing you want to do is give references on a Friday and then have the call on a Monday. DAVID: They'd think of all the reasons they might not want to hire you over the weekend. BLAIR: Yeah. So if you're using references, think about momentum is so important so the references mop up that buyer's remorse, but then if the client's allowed to sit there and think for long, then all of the nervousness is going to seep back in. So see if you can't position it so that there's a conversation with you in a short but acceptable timeframe that you've given your perspective client to check your references. DAVID: Yeah. Then of course have the right sort of references. Thinking back to you said earlier. BLAIR: Yeah. DAVID: "Oh, the problem is the references. They don't like you." Yeah, I just want to list because we don't have a lot more time. I want to list some of the alternative forms of reassurance and some of these don't need a whole lot of discussion. There are a couple that are really interesting to me for sure and I think they will be to our listeners. So one of them is references. Another is the guarantee, which you've touched on. The one that interests me the most I think is this idea of case studies and you touched on this because it indicates that you've done this before, which assures the prospect what? What's so beautiful about that? BLAIR: The takeaway is little variability in process equals little variability in outcome. DAVID: Right. BLAIR: Right. So think about a nervous late stage client and then you think of the typical creative firm trying to close a nervous late stage client and case studies are appropriate when they're in the right form for closing. When they're in a more traditional before and after format, they're more a tool of inspiration that you would use early. So we teach our clients how to build process frame case studies that really take, they take your typical before and after case study and they take the proprietary methodology that you claim to have. DAVID: You claim to have. Right, I see some skepticism there. BLAIR: Yeah. We have a whole term that people have to do on building a proprietary methodology, IP development before they're able to do the closing with case studies term. So process frame case studies, you take your IP, you take your typical before and after case study, you cut up your case study and put it back together in a way that tells a story that shows that you A) have a novel point of view and path to solving your client's problems, and B) you use it. DAVID: Right. BLAIR: Because if you think of most creative firm case studies, it's, "All right. Here's the case study. Here's the challenge," and what happens is in presenting the case study, the creative person or the principal of the firm or the salesperson always falls in love with the story. It always happens. The person presenting it falls in love with the story and gives this detail they completely lose track of what's important to the client. DAVID: Yeah. BLAIR: If you're the salesperson in that situation, you're telling a story and the client's thinking, "Okay, I don't care about this story. I don't care about what you did for somebody else. I am interested in your methodology a little bit because what I'm really interested in is how you will solve this type of problem for me." DAVID: Yeah, yeah. BLAIR: Right, so you show one case study. Your journey has to be described by this replicable path and when you show the second case study, that's where the proof is in the pudding. You demonstrate that lo and behold you followed the same path. DAVID: Right. BLAIR: Some of the tools may be different. The outcomes are going to be different. The findings or recommendations are all going to be different and specific to the client but you followed the same path and that path is framed by this intellectual property that falls out of your perspective on how things should be done so all of these things tie together. You show one, two, three case studies, different clients, different situations, different levels of investment, different outcomes for each client, but the same methodology. Nothing reassures old nervous late stage client like a process frame case study because it says we've done this before. We do it all the time. We have a defined way of working. It's a bulletproof way of working. Now, people say that in the sale, but they never prove it and the work that they show almost demonstrates the opposite of what they should be proving in that moment. DAVID: I want to overlay a positioning question here. So you could have a poorly positioned from that would have good references. You could have a poorly positioned firm that offers a money back guarantee. Is there a connection between good positioning and good process frame case studies? BLAIR: Is there a connection between good positioning and a good process frame case studies? There's a starting point. DAVID: Do you need to be a well positioned firm in order to have a powerful process frame case study? BLAIR: Yeah. So if you're a poorly positioned firm, let's just take a full service ad agency and that's just a poorly broadly positioned firm, and then you've got a case study that says, "Here's how we'd go about ad campaigns." Ad campaigns is such a big phrase. It's such a vast territory that could include so many different things. It's just not narrow enough. Plus, there's so many firms in that space. So are you likely to show something novel? You might show something repeatable, that's half of the battle. At least that's something you can build on, right? We'd coach our clients, "Well, start there. Let's just start with a repeatable process and let's build the propriety over time." DAVID: Yeah. BLAIR: Right. So that's another way to look at it. DAVID: We fall into the trap of talking about positioning as if it's all about the clients you serve, but it feels to me like part of positioning is how you serve those clients as well. So there might be a hundred firms that serve the same kind of client, but how you solve problems, which you've put a lot of thought into them, which doesn't vary much, your earlier point about little variability, that's part of the positioning story too. You're not moving away from positioning when you start talking about process. It reinforces your positioning. Not only do you serve the same kinds of clients or the same demographic, it's a horizontal positioning, but you also serve them in the same way, you've done this so much. It sounds like a beautiful part of the story to me. BLAIR: Yeah. Here's a great metaphor that I think fits perfectly. You're going in for surgery next week and you have a meeting today with the surgeon. You're not looking for inspiration. You're nervous. You're worried about things that could go wrong because you're late in the buying cycle, right? DAVID: What would inspiration even look like? BLAIR: Imagine how good life's going to be with your new hip. The inspiration would be I can just imagine being pain free and you're still thinking about having the surgery. Then you decide I'm going to do this, I'm going to get my hip replaced, and then you go into talk to the surgeon a few days before the surgery and you're a nervous late stage prospect. So it's just the kind of an informational meeting and he explains a few things to you, introduces himself and says, "Do you have any questions?" and you say, "Yeah, I have a question. My question is how is this going to work?" "What do you mean?" he says. "Well, can you just walk me through how the surgery goes?" He might misinterpret your question. He might think, "Well, you're questioning my ability to do this?" Right? Or he might say, "You know what? You don't need to know. I'm the expert. Don't worry. Everything is going to be okay." BLAIR: But you do need to know and you're not reassured by that. There's a little bit of reassurance in him saying, "I've done this a lot of times." But the reason why you want him to describe the surgery is not because you have the capacity to judge the effectiveness of his technique, but it's because you want him to prove to you that he knows what he's doing. You want him to prove to you that he does this all the time and he knows what he's doing. His response could be, "Well, surgery is an organic creative process. I'm going to cut you open and then just figure it out once I get inside." DAVID: That's not going to be a reassuring statement, right? BLAIR: No, but that's the answer that creative firms give all the time. DAVID: Because they think that repeatability is death for them. BLAIR: Yeah, so the client asks, "How is this going to work?" What they really want to know is, "Can you describe in detail, thereby proving to me that you've done it before, you do it all the time, you have a bulletproof way of doing it?" and they don't even see the intent behind the question and it's, "Well, creativity. It's good. It's creative." I am overstating it obviously and being a little bit disparaging. We just need to see what the reassurance that the client is looking for in asking the question. What you want the surgeon to say is you want him to pull down a model of the piece of a hip and say, "All right, here's how it's going to work. We go in through here. I resect this, I do this." DAVID: Yeah. BLAIR: You want him to explain it to you in such detail and say, "And here's a video of the entire operation if you want to take it home and watch it." There's no question this person is the expert. DAVID: Yeah. BLAIR: So the answer can be anything, but it has to prove you've done this before. You do it all the time. You've got a bulletproof way of doing this. DAVID: In the middle of this long explanation that the surgeon's obviously given before, the patient may not even need more information and the surgeon shouldn't be so in love with explaining this, that they draw on and on, right? BLAIR: You got it. DAVID: They ought to look for sign that, "Okay, I've done." BLAIR: You, the patient might say, "Okay, no, I got it. That's enough. I don't even understand what you're saying." DAVID: Yeah, you're not going to leave a sponge inside me. Let's move on. BLAIR: Yeah. DAVID: This is very, very good. It reminds me of the days when we used to do this. We need to do it again some time, but this is fascinating, alternative forms of reassurance. I love what you're doing here and I hope you folks listening to this have picked up some good tips. Thank you, Blair. BLAIR: Thanks, David. That was fun.

Dear listeners! Earlier this year for a periode of 6 months Chintan Kella was a guest researcher at Wageningen University. His main topic the alternative ways of orgnaizing. Alternative could be entirely non capitalist system however Chintan and his colleagues are studying several different layers between capitlaism and other ways of organizing. Trust is crucial element of any interaction among humans. However there is a huge difference whether the trust is based on the given word or it is based on contracts with the involvment of complicated and rigid institutions and lawyers. To dconduct the field study of these alternative forms of organizations Chintan chose the street vendors of India which is a significan portion of Indian society that is largely unregulated meanwhile it's effectiveness in supplying and distributing food and other goods is superior compared to any other organization in the Indian context. Chintan's other resarch topic is Auroville which is a township in India with the population of around 2,5 thousand people with the intention to operate without politics, religion and the role of the money is reduced significantly. Auroville was initiated based on it's mission that is just referred as: A Dream "There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme Truth; a place of peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weaknesses and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the concern for progress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the search for pleasure and material enjoyment. Beauty in all its artistic forms, painting, sculpture, music, literature, would be equally accessible to all; the ability to share in the joy it brings would be limited only by the capacities of each one and not by social or financial position. For in this ideal place money would no longer be the sovereign lord; individual worth would have a far greater importance than that of material wealth and social standing. There, work would not be a way to earn one’s living but a way to express oneself and to develop one’s capacities and possibilities while being of service to the community as a whole, which, for its own part, would provide for each individual’s subsistence and sphere of action. In short, it would be a place where human relationships, which are normally based almost exclusively on competition and strife, would be replaced by relationships of emulation in doing well, of collaboration and real brotherhood." Enjoy the show! Useful links: Full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/VTy7sRrBvc8 Wachama's website: www.wachama.org Wachama on SoundCloud: @user-545643610 Links provided by Chintan: Auroville: www.auroville.com/ Social Enterprises : www.auroville.org/contents/3371 Savi: www.auroville.org/contents/386 Denmark: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania Norway: www.liberstad.com/ Scotland: www.findhorn.org/ Italy: www.damanhur.org/en/what-is-damanhur

The Elephant in conversation with Dr. Kizza Besigye, Uganda's opposition leader.

Interesting alternatives to current burial practices include freeze-drying and shattering a corpse; and dissolving bodies in purpose-built alkaline washing-machines.

Technology is a form of material culture and is a human activity. The way in which humans view technology is a social construction in which people use social processes of interpretation and negotiation. The mundane rituals that humans carry out when interacting with technology are loaded with emotional overtones. The interaction with technology in most cases become habit. The dependence and isolation that result from technology use is invisible and seems natural to membership groups that use it. Chelsea Schelly, the author of Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America (Rutgers University Press, 2017) and my guest for this episode, studied technology and the way in which people of four alternative lifestyles live without such dependency on technology. In our interview, we discuss the way in which people at The Farm, Twin Oaks, Dancing Rabbits, and Earthship Biotecture lived their daily lives by sharing some technology and living without most of it. Chelsea Schelly, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Dr. Schelly is also the author of Crafting Collectivity: American Rainbow Gatherings and Alternative Forms of Community. She is currently developing a project to further research the economy of these four communities. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He earned his doctoral degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from Walden University. His most recent paper, to be presented at the upcoming American Society for Environmental History conference, is titled Down Lovers Lane: A Brief History of Necking in Cars. You can learn more about Dr. Johnston’s work here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology is a form of material culture and is a human activity. The way in which humans view technology is a social construction in which people use social processes of interpretation and negotiation. The mundane rituals that humans carry out when interacting with technology are loaded with emotional overtones. The interaction with technology in most cases become habit. The dependence and isolation that result from technology use is invisible and seems natural to membership groups that use it. Chelsea Schelly, the author of Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America (Rutgers University Press, 2017) and my guest for this episode, studied technology and the way in which people of four alternative lifestyles live without such dependency on technology. In our interview, we discuss the way in which people at The Farm, Twin Oaks, Dancing Rabbits, and Earthship Biotecture lived their daily lives by sharing some technology and living without most of it. Chelsea Schelly, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Dr. Schelly is also the author of Crafting Collectivity: American Rainbow Gatherings and Alternative Forms of Community. She is currently developing a project to further research the economy of these four communities. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He earned his doctoral degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from Walden University. His most recent paper, to be presented at the upcoming American Society for Environmental History conference, is titled Down Lovers Lane: A Brief History of Necking in Cars. You can learn more about Dr. Johnston’s work here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology is a form of material culture and is a human activity. The way in which humans view technology is a social construction in which people use social processes of interpretation and negotiation. The mundane rituals that humans carry out when interacting with technology are loaded with emotional overtones. The interaction with technology in most cases become habit. The dependence and isolation that result from technology use is invisible and seems natural to membership groups that use it. Chelsea Schelly, the author of Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America (Rutgers University Press, 2017) and my guest for this episode, studied technology and the way in which people of four alternative lifestyles live without such dependency on technology. In our interview, we discuss the way in which people at The Farm, Twin Oaks, Dancing Rabbits, and Earthship Biotecture lived their daily lives by sharing some technology and living without most of it. Chelsea Schelly, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Dr. Schelly is also the author of Crafting Collectivity: American Rainbow Gatherings and Alternative Forms of Community. She is currently developing a project to further research the economy of these four communities. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He earned his doctoral degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from Walden University. His most recent paper, to be presented at the upcoming American Society for Environmental History conference, is titled Down Lovers Lane: A Brief History of Necking in Cars. You can learn more about Dr. Johnston’s work here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology is a form of material culture and is a human activity. The way in which humans view technology is a social construction in which people use social processes of interpretation and negotiation. The mundane rituals that humans carry out when interacting with technology are loaded with emotional overtones. The interaction with technology in most cases become habit. The dependence and isolation that result from technology use is invisible and seems natural to membership groups that use it. Chelsea Schelly, the author of Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America (Rutgers University Press, 2017) and my guest for this episode, studied technology and the way in which people of four alternative lifestyles live without such dependency on technology. In our interview, we discuss the way in which people at The Farm, Twin Oaks, Dancing Rabbits, and Earthship Biotecture lived their daily lives by sharing some technology and living without most of it. Chelsea Schelly, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Dr. Schelly is also the author of Crafting Collectivity: American Rainbow Gatherings and Alternative Forms of Community. She is currently developing a project to further research the economy of these four communities. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He earned his doctoral degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from Walden University. His most recent paper, to be presented at the upcoming American Society for Environmental History conference, is titled Down Lovers Lane: A Brief History of Necking in Cars. You can learn more about Dr. Johnston’s work here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology is a form of material culture and is a human activity. The way in which humans view technology is a social construction in which people use social processes of interpretation and negotiation. The mundane rituals that humans carry out when interacting with technology are loaded with emotional overtones. The interaction with technology in most cases become habit. The dependence and isolation that result from technology use is invisible and seems natural to membership groups that use it. Chelsea Schelly, the author of Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America (Rutgers University Press, 2017) and my guest for this episode, studied technology and the way in which people of four alternative lifestyles live without such dependency on technology. In our interview, we discuss the way in which people at The Farm, Twin Oaks, Dancing Rabbits, and Earthship Biotecture lived their daily lives by sharing some technology and living without most of it. Chelsea Schelly, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Dr. Schelly is also the author of Crafting Collectivity: American Rainbow Gatherings and Alternative Forms of Community. She is currently developing a project to further research the economy of these four communities. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He earned his doctoral degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from Walden University. His most recent paper, to be presented at the upcoming American Society for Environmental History conference, is titled Down Lovers Lane: A Brief History of Necking in Cars. You can learn more about Dr. Johnston’s work here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology is a form of material culture and is a human activity. The way in which humans view technology is a social construction in which people use social processes of interpretation and negotiation. The mundane rituals that humans carry out when interacting with technology are loaded with emotional overtones. The interaction with technology in most cases become habit. The dependence and isolation that result from technology use is invisible and seems natural to membership groups that use it. Chelsea Schelly, the author of Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America (Rutgers University Press, 2017) and my guest for this episode, studied technology and the way in which people of four alternative lifestyles live without such dependency on technology. In our interview, we discuss the way in which people at The Farm, Twin Oaks, Dancing Rabbits, and Earthship Biotecture lived their daily lives by sharing some technology and living without most of it. Chelsea Schelly, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Dr. Schelly is also the author of Crafting Collectivity: American Rainbow Gatherings and Alternative Forms of Community. She is currently developing a project to further research the economy of these four communities. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He earned his doctoral degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from Walden University. His most recent paper, to be presented at the upcoming American Society for Environmental History conference, is titled Down Lovers Lane: A Brief History of Necking in Cars. You can learn more about Dr. Johnston’s work here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, we look at an alternate forms of software engineering beyond the typical developer led roles. We consider developer operations (Dev Ops) and also platform engineering roles (specifically cloud native).

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During this week’s radio show you will learn about Slow Food – What It Is, and Why Its Cultivation is Important, Food Consumption’s Affect on Climate Change and What Can Be Done About It, The Value of Alternative Forms of Agriculture, Especially In Urban Areas and Vertical Farming’s Far Reaching Benefits

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68. The friends talk about alternative forms of energy such as wind and solar energy and suggest ways to cut down on energy consumption.

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