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Seth Godin: This is Strategy Seth Godin has published 21 bestselling books that have changed the way people think about work. He writes one of the most popular blogs in the world, and two of his TED talks are among the most popular of all time. His blog is at seths.blog and his newest book is titled This is Strategy. Seth writes this: “It's not clear to me why business plans are the way they are, but they're often misused to obfuscate, bore, and show an ability to comply with expectations.” In this conversation, Seth and I explore the key components of a modern business plan. Key Points Big problems require small solutions. We often skip strategy because most of us have trained our whole lives for tactics. A modern business is clear about systems and the status quo. Use the system if you intend to change the system. Assertions are the heart of a business plan. Leaders need to have empathy for someone else's “better.” Articulating alternatives helps you stay resilient when some of your assertions are inevitably wrong. Find people to support you who have a track record of shipping. A useful business plan gets easier over time and persists (any maybe even thrives) when the world changes. The six sections of a modern business plan: Truth Assertions Alternatives People Money Time Resources Mentioned This is Strategy* by Seth Godin Interview Notes Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes How Leaders Build, with Guy Raz (episode 491) How to Grow Your Business, with Donald Miller (episode 629) Doing Better Than Zero Sum-Thinking, with Renée Mauborgne (episode 641) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

Welcome to The Adams Archive, where we dive deep into the stories beneath the headlines and uncover the truths that mainstream media won't touch. Hosted by Austin Adams, this podcast explores hidden narratives, controversial topics, and the intricate web of politics, culture, and society. Join us as we peel back the layers to reveal what's really happening in the world today. First, we uncover how the same man arrested in an Election Day terror plot was granted a special visa under the Biden-Harris administration. We'll examine the implications of this startling revelation and what it means for national security and immigration policies. Building on the theme of political intrigue, we explore President Trump's groundbreaking appearance on Andrew Schulz's podcast. We'll discuss how Trump's foray into alternative media signifies a shift in political communication and why it's resonating with the public, especially compared to Kamala Harris's controversial podcast appearances. Continuing our examination of censorship and information control, we delve into Reddit's recent ban of a forum dedicated to sharing information about Thomas Crooks, the would-be Trump assassin. We'll question why open discussions are being stifled and what this means for free speech in the digital age. In the realm of academic freedom and societal division, we analyze a shocking incident involving a University of Kansas professor caught advocating for violence against Trump supporters. We'll discuss the repercussions of such rhetoric in educational institutions and its impact on the growing political divide. Shifting focus to transparency in politics, we scrutinize a revealing clip of Vice President Kamala Harris during a live interview, fueling speculation about her being fed information through a hidden earpiece. We'll connect the dots on how this ties into broader concerns about authenticity and trust in our leaders. Finally, we turn to natural disasters and government response, examining the aftermath of Hurricane Milton that struck Florida. We'll assess the devastation and critique the administration's handling of the crisis. Additionally, we'll delve into President Biden's controversial comments about controlling the weather, opening up a conversation about conspiracy theories and the plausibility of weather manipulation. Don't miss out on these eye-opening discussions that challenge the status quo. Subscribe to The Adams Archive now to stay informed and engaged. Follow us on YouTube, Substack, and social media for exclusive content, updates, and more. Your support means the world to us, and together we can seek the truth and make a difference. All the Links For easy access to all our content and platforms, visit: https://linktr.ee/theaustinjadams ----more---- Full Transcription  Adams archive.  Hello, you beautiful people and welcome to the Adams archive. My name is Austin Adams, and thank you so much for listening today. On today's episode, we are going to be discussing how the same man who was just arrested in the election day terror plot, Was actually given a visa, a special visa under the Biden and Harris administration.  Then we will be moving on to our next subject, which is that president Trump just went on to Andrew Schultz's podcast and he continues to go on these podcasts, which I think is probably the best move we saw Kamala do this in like the worst way ever when she went on the call her daddy podcast, which is a female centric sex podcast,  and now Trump just continuing to go on. Um,  the largest shows in the country without making himself look like a fool. So we'll look at some of those clips and what they discussed. Then we'll move on to Reddit banning the forum dedicated to sharing information about Thomas Crooks. Now, why would they want to do that? I wonder. We'll talk about that too. Uh, then we had the university of Kansas professor that was, uh, discussing in front of his class on a recorded call,  talking about Trump supporters and how they should be lined up and shot. And there is some breaking news about his position at that university that we will discuss as well. Then we'll move on to a clip that just came out of the. President, vice president, presidential candidate, Harris, who is in a live interview, and there's been all this speculation about the earrings that she wore during the debate. She's been wearing them literally every interview since, and she's on a zoom call and she says something that alludes to. What everybody's thinking and believes, which is that somebody is feeding her all this information.  Then the last conversation we will have is around Hurricane Milton that just struck Florida last night.  Now we'll look at some of the devastation, some of the conversations surrounding it. Wasn't as big as we thought, doesn't look like it, but I'm sure there is still some terrible terrible destruction in its wake. So we'll look at that. And then we'll also discuss the response from the current  president, as well as the VP. And the last clip will be around Biden discussing  them controlling the weather.  Are you a conspiracy theorist?  Probably if you listen to the show. All right, all of that more, but first go ahead and hit the subscribe button, leave a five star review. That is the only way that you can help move this podcast forward. And help get the word out. So tell your friends, tell your family, leave a five star review, hit the subscribe button, head over to YouTube. You can watch all the clips that we're looking at talking about. You can see my wonderful face as we're talking about them and head over to Ronan basics. com. You've heard about me talk about this for a few months now. However, we just. Now are getting in one of our main products, which is the Faraday phone sleeve. So you can head there right now. You can purchase one. It will be shipped to you the same day. All right, head over there. Check out our products, the EMF blocking Faraday hat, the RFID blocking wallets, and the Faraday phone sleeve. Can't forget about the beanies as well. So head over there. Ronan basics. com and without further ado, let's jump  into it. Alright,  the very first topic that we're going to discuss today is that there was a immigrant who was arrested,  arrested in an election day terror attack. So allegedly him and another individual were going to go to the elections. Uh, and Cause mass, mass, mass.  Terror  by killing as many people as possible becoming martyrs. But let's go ahead and read this article comes from the post millennial says the Afghan man arrested Tuesday by the FBI for allegedly convinced by allegedly concocting an election day terror plot was allowed to enter the United States of America as a special immigrant in September of 2021. Nasir Ahmad  Tahiti, 27 entered The US with a special visa during the Biden Harris administration's chaotic and botched American withdrawal. Now, one thing that I have to question is how concerned should we be about this happening by somebody else? Now, if there's one plot, there's probably two plots.  There's all of these immigrants that are here that are here for a reason, right? Maybe some of them are here to, to improve their family's situation and outcome. Maybe some of them are here to, I don't know, move drugs. and human trafficking. Maybe some of them are here to escape a gang ridden country that they come from,  which is great. Do it legally, right? Do it legally should absolutely be able to immigrate here just like almost every one of our ancestors did.  However, the amount that have come over the border in the last four years alone  is saying is the same amount of people as One to two states combined 10 million. The number has been thrown down 16 to 20 million now immigrants in our country. And when you understand that the total population is roughly 330 million,  that starts to become a big issue, right? Especially when we talk about housing. We talk about jobs, we talk about inflation, homeless crisis, uh,  you name it, this will exacerbate the issue.  Now one issue that we can kind of foresee as a result of this is the amount of terrorists and gang affiliated members. We saw this with all the Venezuelan gangs, we saw this now with this Islamic state group, ISIS, right? So they've been sending people here and they are going to attempt these things. Yeah.  This year, Ahmad Tawheedi entered the U. S. with a special visa during the Biden Harris administration,  during the botched American withdrawal from Afghanistan that says that saw 13 U. S. personnel killed and billions of dollars in military hardware left to the Taliban. The FBI has charged Tawhidi with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group. He allegedly confessed to the FBI that he and a juvenile co conspirator were planning an election day terrorist attack on large crowds, and both were anticipating Islamic martyr deaths. Tawhidi had reportedly wrapped up his affairs, liquidated his assets, and bought a one way ticket for his wife and child to fly back to Afghanistan. Tawhidi could be sentenced to 35 years in prison.  Uh,  Let's see what else here it says on October 7th FBI assets allegedly caught Tahiti and the juvenile at a rural location in Western District, Oklahoma, where they had purchased, received, and took possession of two AK 47s, 10 magazines, and 500 rounds of ammunition.  The Department of Justice news released explained upon receiving the rifles and ammunition. Tahiti and the juveniles were arrested. I wonder how they like, what kind of went into that,  but  this is just the beginning guys. This is just the beginning.  The men who were going to attack American citizens on the election day that were caught by the FBI were immigrants allowed here under Biden and Harris. And this is the one of many attacks that we can assume that we're going to see. One of many, because what are these people here for? How many other terrorists, how many terrorists, other affiliated people are here?  How many of these attacks are already planned?  And who's responsible for this?  Well, I think we own the answer to that. And it's the, the, the organizers of this mass illegal migration, the ones who are paying people, busing them in, sending them to states. We, we do not understand, like I, there was a good quote that I saw the other day, it said something about,  it said something about  the people who run our country, the people, the people who run the world are either naive and stupid. Or  I got to look at the quote, but there's a great quote around it. And the idea is that they're maliciously doing this or they're that dumb, right? Do they want people to be having massive terrorist attacks? I would hope not. What I, what the issue is, is very likely. And I think everybody agrees on this at this point is the reason that there's this mass migration is they want to flood the States, the battleground States with immigrants. Go look at where these people have gone and settled  the number one States.  Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, right? All of the states that they want to flood with new citizens and not, and maybe they're not even thinking about this generation. Maybe, maybe they aren't even thinking about, Oh, how am I going to get this generation to vote for me? No, it's two generations from now, four election cycles. They're thinking ahead because if they get an immigrant husband and a wife here, and they have a child here, Regardless of the situation, that child gets immigrant status. That child gets granted a green card. That child is now a American citizen doesn't even need a green card.  Now what now that child generally like 70 percent of people, 80 percent of people stay in the state that they were born in, especially if they're low income.  Now,  what let's see four election cycles, five election cycles later, that person's 20. And they're voting Democrat.  So they look at these numbers and they say, okay, if we get 10 million people  here, we send 2 million to Michigan. We send 2 million to Pennsylvania of those, that million that settles. I think it was 770, 000 in Michigan. Of that 770, 000, there's 350, 000 couples who are going to have an average of two kids, which is another 770, 000 people.  And in five election cycles,  the same state that we lost by a margin of 20, 000 votes now has 700, 000 more people in poverty who are 80 percent likely to vote Democrat.  So they're not playing checkers here and they, maybe they are,  maybe they are that stupid to think that if they flood these illegal immigrants here and maybe they're not that stupid to think that they can get them to vote without voter ID, which we know happens.  But even so, the biggest problem is going to be that our country is going to be taken over, taken over by people who do not share the same values as us,  who did not grow up in a democratic society,  adhere to Sharia law, who are stopping women from going to school. They can't drive cars, they can't show their face, Right?  It's unbelievable. And this is just the beginning. This is just the beginning of these terrorist attacks. This is just the beginning of the gang issues that we're going to see with these Venezuelan gangs, MS 13, cartels,  because of the border.  Moving on.  Trump went on to Andrew Scholl's podcast,  Flagrant,  and I think this is brilliant. I think he should have been doing this all along. Podcasts are the news of today. There's far more people that listen to a podcast than that listen to the news. Makes sense, right? People trust podcasts, like 80 percent of the 80 percent of people pulled, trust a podcast compared to like 16 percent of people that were pulled, trusted traditional news media.  So if that's where people are  and that's where people's trust are, then maybe you should go to the people that are genuine and have those conversations there. And that's what Trump's done.  And this says president Trump Schultz podcast was widely celebrated on social media with supporters of the 2020 24 GOP nominee during Trump as the funniest president in American history.  Uh, the unfiltered interview released on Wednesday and published to Axe, formerly Twitter, covered a range of topics.  Uh, let's watch some of the clips. Don't really care about their opinion on it.  Let's see.  And, here we go.  Elon interviewed me on something. And I think they said 275 million hits. That's  a lot of people. That was a wreck. That's a nation. Yeah. But it's a whole new different way of, uh, Can I ask you a question? Getting the word out, right? About Elon specifically. Is he your favorite African American? You know, he's a great guy  with, I mean, he's obviously a brilliant guy. Yeah. I mean, when I saw the rocket engines come back, I said, what is that? Like a couple of years ago, you know, I've seen rockets go up and then they crash into the water and I see the, the engines are coming back and they're landing, they're landing and they land on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace with a little dot and they land right on the top of the spot.  Alright, one thing to say.  Imagine getting interviewed by President Trump and crossing your legs like that in front of him. How dare you, Andrew Schulz? How dare you? Wearing high  Wearing half White socks halfway up your shin and crossing your legs.  Like you are running in a marathon in New York. The little dot and they land right on the top of the spot. And my wife can't parallel park.  Most people can't.  But no, he's great. But he's got a great heart. He was with me, as you know, on the other night. Yeah. And we were honoring a man who got killed at a rally. Corey, firefighter, great guy. And it was a beautiful evening. But Lee, Elon  went out. Yeah. And he loved the crowd. He loves the country. And he's picked a side. A lot of people don't want to pick a side. I have a lot of people that are  Big supporters of me. Yeah, but they they won't go all out. You know, they they can't  Yeah, there's a car. Yeah  There is of course, but there's also a liability I mean, you know some people I respected a lot when this guy was up there doing jumping jacks You gotta vote for Trump. You gotta  Yeah. He was jumping high. He looked quite African.  He's in good shape. I look, I'm looking at his waist, I'm saying, wait a minute, does he work out or something?  But he's, he is, he really, and he had a, he had a great time.  This is quite a dangerous interview for Trump, by the way. Like, Andrew Scholes is not, uh, not, not setting him up for failure here with a few of the jokes that he's already made trying to see if Trump will bite. But, uh, do him all so far. And, you know, he's, he's not out that much. He's probably, maybe a little, would you say he's a little reclusive, possibly? He's also busy. He's got like five different companies. He's very busy and maybe a little reclusive. Yeah. He had the greatest time. He was saying, look at these people. We had a hundred thousand, more than a hundred thousand. It was a record. It was nobody's ever said, and it was, it was a celebration of a life. And it was really a mega, it was a mega deal. He was a big mega person. His family was there and two other people that were very badly hurt were also celebrated. They were very badly hurt. They weren't actually expected to live. Yeah. And they live, and, uh, they had incredible doctors. Some of those country doctors are better than the big doctors that we spend a lot of money on, and they don't do as good. I will tell you right now. I don't want to knock anybody, but those country doctors saved two people, because I was told that three would Country doctors? No, think of that. Three would be in trouble, and three were gonna, now, quarry immediately, but the other two were so bad that they thought they wouldn't make it. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, those country doctors, they pulled them, they pulled them together. They did a great job.  All right. So there's one, let's take a look at another one. Uh,  here we go. There is a question, but there's also a liability. I mean, you know, some people I respected a lot when this guy was up there doing jumping jacks, you got to vote.  Also what we just watched and here's about Biden.  Over the last week, I have to, well, we talk about funny or sad. I think it's more sad than funny. Yeah. He has one ability I don't have. Yeah.  He sleeps. He can sleep. This guy goes on a beat,  and he lays down on one of those, you know, six ounce, they weigh six ounces and he can't lift it. They're meant,  they're meant for, they're meant for children, young people, and old people to lift. They're aluminum, you know, hollowed aluminum. They weigh very little. And he can't lift, and somebody convinced him he looks great in a bathing suit. And when you're 82, typically bathing suits aren't gonna make you look great. Right, right. You're not gonna be enhanced. Yeah. Alright? It's just one of those things. I can't be sure about that, but  typically you don't Depends what he's packing. I don't know what the hell he's packing, but it's I don't wanna know. And I don't wanna know either. I don't know. But, but He has an ability to fall asleep while on camera. He can lie down on one of those things, and in minutes, he's stone cold out. And he's got cameras, because he's the president, so they have cameras on him. And then they show him sleeping on the beach.  You'll never see me sleeping in front of a camera.  Oh,  and last one here. Let's go ahead and  see which one. Let's watch this right here.  Get up. How much did China buy today? Sir, they bought. I'd call him up and say you're behind. You have to buy 50 billion. Do you think Biden does that? Biden's sleeping.  But I, over the last week, I have, what we talk about, funny or sad. I think it's more sad than funny.  He has one ability I don't have. Yeah. Yeah, so that's the last thing. Alright, so,  He's holding his own, right? He's on a comedy podcast and seems to be getting the comedians to laugh. Now, one thing I think he talks about there, which is true. We see a lot of the battles between Trump and Biden died down now, which a lot of people have talked about this. If that man was your grandpa, you would just be pissed that they're putting him in this position. You would be mad that they're, they're putzing this old man around and pretending like he's actually doing a job that he's not doing.  And it's honestly pathetic that our country is doing that to him in the deep state, which is, we all know why we've talked about it before. He's a puppet. He can be controlled at a whim. Um, there's too much, too much dirt. There's too many, you know, too, too many, uh, pieces of blackmail out there on him that have been discussed, but, uh, you know, we all know the reason why. Same reason they have Kamala there. They can control them.  And so moving on.  Reddit bans forum dedicated to sharing information about would be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks. So  Thomas Crooks, the assassin of Donald Trump had a Reddit forum named after him where people were sharing all of this information, all of this information about the attempt of assassination, uh, trying to figure out who was he, was this the person that they're saying he is, was it somebody else trying to figure out this conspiracy  and Reddit took it down.  Why would they do that?  Why would they do that? People sharing information about a presidential assassination. So it says a forum dedicated to sharing information about would be assassin Thomas Crooks has been banned from Reddit. Crooks was killed by snipers after launching an assassin, but yeah, we know.  It violated rules against posting violent content, they say. And that archive of the subreddit shows it was a popular forum that generated high level engagement.  And the posts issued on the forum vary, but all pertain to seeking answers and sharing information about the historical assassination attempt.  Questions about Crook's security failures that day and whether the attempt was an inside job were discussed in the section before the ban. Reddit did not  provide any example of the violent content shared that went against the company's policies.  Reddit is the latest news website to block information from being shared. Now, we remember with the last one, During this one, we remember Fox News live censoring the discussion in a congressional hearing, which I didn't know was even allowed, right? They're calling it a live feed  of a public official's discussion in our government. I guess they're a private company and they can do whatever they want. But actively, during the live feed, cutting the feed when a question was asked about the multiple shooters theory.  And I'm sure these people were getting somewhere. That's what we're seeing in today's modern society where they cannot, we see it with the hurricane. We see it with every one of these things. They cannot, they can no longer control the narrative. The narrative has gotten out of control. I, I heard a, a comparison during a podcast recently where they talked about how the church loved the printing press, originally loved the printing press, and because they could print all these bibles and get the word out about what the, and, and frame the discussions in the way that they wanted to, but then.  Then other people were using that to spread information about the church's corruption.  And they didn't seem to like it anymore. Right? They, they, they called for people to stop using it. And that's what we're seeing with social media, right? They, they created these social platforms to control us with narratives. They created these social platforms so that they could push out propaganda. And now they've lost control of it. We are, we are winning the information war where the minute a hurricane comes out and we see the response from, from our government,  we're able to see right through it, look up the patents and see that this could not, this could be potentially not as natural as we thought it was.  The government is now scrambling, scrambling, setting up intermediary, uh, discussion forums with social media platforms, trying to censor every conversation that, that poses a threat to their narrative,  scrambling, because they created something that they no longer control. And  people are seeing through all of their propaganda now. We can no longer be influenced the way that we were just 15 years ago.  And so it says Google scrubbed the assassination attempt from its auto complete search engine. Facebook warned against sharing photos of President Trump raising his fist in the air after the rally, falsely alleging that they were AI generated. In following accusations of election interference by the Trump campaign  and Republican lawmakers, both big tech corporations have since fixed their faults.  But they're all doing it. They're doing it still. And they're doing it subtly. They're not doing it the same way that they were with mass censorship campaigns the way that they were during COVID because there's not as much profitability in this. And if they lose, they're going to be in trouble.  We've talked about how Trump needs to just come out and say, Hey, whoever is lying, whoever is lying in these news media organizations, I'm going to come after you.  And if that was on the other side, maybe that's a concern, right? Maybe you say, and maybe it should be a concern from our side. Maybe he shouldn't go after them.  But It's absolutely election interference. If you're  putting yourself in a position where you are influencing the election,  putting yourself in a position where you are propping up one candidate and you're the single largest purveyor of information in the country and what you're censoring is true, factually true, that can be proven in the court of law.  So  pretty crazy. Hopefully they move the forum somewhere else.  Well, let's see if anybody has anything to say about this. Doesn't look like it.  But I wonder why they would do that. Maybe because they were getting somewhere.  As simple as that. Maybe, maybe a single post, a single position, a single picture, a single comparison, a single paragraph could have been the reason that Reddit pulled this down. Because they don't want to let you know the truth. They do not want you finding it out.  Why would they not want that? There's plenty of violent Reddit threads. There's plenty of violence on X. This is the reason that X is so important.  And despite the constant barrage of violence on X, I still like to utilize it. And I'm still trying to grow my platform there. Go check it out. The Austin J Adams on X.  But I think that the violence on X is actually a psyop. There's constantly on X people getting killed. There's all these hyper violent videos that are being shared, just pushed right into your face within two seconds, you're going to see somebody, you know, they don't even give you time to scroll or tell you what's about to happen. And you'll see somebody get like beat up or stabbed or something crazy. And it hasn't been as bad in the last few weeks, but I think that's absolutely a sign up. I absolutely think that there is, uh, these accounts that are hyper violent on acts are being pushed to want to get people off of the platform and to create a narrative around the platform that is negative. I don't think that those are actually people who, at least the largest of the accounts are actually people who are wanting to just continually push. Super crazy, violent videos. I think that those videos are specifically being pushed onto X so that they can continue their narrative about it being an unsafe place for free speech and a violent platform with antisemitism. All they have to do is create all these bot accounts that they pay overseas and then push out all the videos to suit the narrative that they want with faceless accounts. None of those videos that are being pushed by people like that ever are from an individual. They're always from  Some 18 plus this, whatever this, like they're just paying people to pump out media so that it suits their narrative so they can go after Trump and push it as this crazy unhinged platform.  But we need that platform for situations exactly like this, where people can have discussions, figure things out outside of traditional media without any censorship.   All right, now moving on here, there was a University of Kansas professor who sat in front of a recorded classroom session and said that Trump voters should be lined up And mass murdered.  But then he goes, Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. I think we should cut that one from the recording.  Now, this man, let's see, Professor Phil Lowcock.  Not sure that applies here. Professor Phil Lowcock, the director of international student athlete support who works at the university's  sport and exercise science department.  In this article says a professor of the University of Kansas, let's go ahead and watch the clip first, because let's just give our own context around it here. But let's go ahead and watch this clip.  Guys are smarter than girls. You got some serious problems.  Uh,  that's what frustrates me.  Let's see not getting any volume here   All right, here we go. And here is the clip.  That's what frustrates me. There are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don't think females are smart enough to be president.  We could line all those guys up and shoot them. They clearly don't understand  the way the world works.  Did I say that? Scratch that from the recording. I don't want the deans hearing that I said that.  Now his point there was, there's going to be certain men, only men are going to not vote for Kamala Harris, which again is an insult to the intelligence of women.  Also, more so than what you're saying about men voting for women, or yeah, men aren't going to vote for women because they think they're dumb. No, maybe we think Kamala Harris is incompetent. If you throw Tulsi Gabbard up there, I would have been highly interested. I think she should have been the running mate of Trump. I think Kamala is incompetent. I think Kamala is unintelligent. I don't think Kamala is well equipped to take office.  But for this man, a professor, the people who are educating your children, you are paying money, a university, this isn't even a community college with some stupid professor. This man was chosen. He may very well have tenure, right? Maybe not now that we see what the result of this is, but  how, how unbelievable. This is something that if you would have looked back and this should be historically looked back on as The same way that we look back on some of the biggest atrocities ever and how they unfolded, right? This professor in a university is on recording saying Trump supporters should be lined up in shot.  That's where we've gotten to. And this is supposed to be the tolerant left, right? This is supposed to be the party of tolerance.  And we've seen that they're exactly the opposite of that. Right?  Right. We've seen that they, they are the ones who are calling for violence. They are the ones who are slinging insults. They are the ones who are going in front of our children and claiming that you should shoot people based on their political ideology. That is not what our country is founded on.  I love people who are Republicans. I love people who are Democrats. I love people who are libertarians, who are  everything in between.  None of none of them should have violence inflicted upon them because of their political leanings.  And what you have to understand about people's political leanings is very often than not, and I did a whole episode on this and like the predeterminants of your political voting.  There's a lot of factors that go into your, your vote that come from where you come from, the state you were born in, the parents you were born to your socioeconomic status, your, uh, your job, your education level. There's so many predeterminants of this to just say, Oh, all those people are bad people and they should be murdered.  That sounds like something out of  Nazi Germany.  All that class over there should be lined up and murdered. Mass murder, genocide for political ideology. That's what this professor wants.  Now he has since been put on leave.  It says after the video was uploaded on X. Let's see if there's a  Uh, after the video was uploaded on Axe formerly Twitter, there was a fury with calls for Professor Lowcock to be fired and resigned. Some users even wanted to see criminal charges be filed. I mean, it's literal incitement of violence. You're not allowed to say that you should do this to that. Like, yeah, you want to talk about speech that is maybe not imminent violence, but like it's pretty damn close. Maybe you shouldn't go to jail for it, but you should definitely be fired. And you shouldn't be representing a school and  educating children. Okay.  He needs to be fired immediately. It was bad enough. He said it, but then he tried to cover it up. One user said,  let's see what else we got here.  Somebody else says, what the hell is wrong with people? He should not be allowed to teach and should be investigated. This is one of the many reasons why colleges have become a scam and the money grab. Yep.  Uh, the university of Kansas released a statement after the backlash and announced that the professor administratively. Let's go ahead and read their statement here. It says a statement from the university regarding a classroom video. Here is the University of Kansas's response. And they said the university is aware of a classroom video in which an instructor made an inappropriate reference to violence. The instructor is being placed on administrative leave pending further investigation. The instructor offers his sincerest apologies and deeply regrets the situation. So they're probably not going to fire him. His intent was to emphasize his advocacy for women's rights and equality. And he recognizes he did a very poor job of doing so. The university has an established process for situations like this and will follow that process. Let's go ahead and see. What the actual response to this was because that's a crazy statement to then back him up and saying, Oh, he cares about women's rights. That's why he said you should line up and shoot an entire group of people.  Oh, and they eliminated,  eliminated people from making comments. How hilarious.  Of course they did because they don't want free speech.  So that is wild. That is crazy. And that's what we're paying tens of thousands of dollars for your children to be taught. By people like that. And then for the university to go and defend him. Oh, we're going to place him on administrative leave. Don't worry about it. But all he was trying to do is defend women's rights. No, all he was trying to do is say an entire half of the country should have a genocide committed against them for their political ideology. Now, speaking of  Kamala Harris's competency, there's a clip going around right now where Kamala Harris was on a zoom call. And on this Zoom call that Kamala Harris was on, she decides to cover her face and talk to somebody, somebody, who could that somebody be,  and say, It's a live broadcast. And the microphone picks it up.  People have speculated, I being one of them, One thing you'll notice about Kamala Harris is every single interview Kamala Harris has been a part of since the debate, she's wearing those same earrings, the same earrings that everybody is accusing her of having somebody in her ear telling her exactly what to say. Now we have confirmation of that.  In this clip, you will see Kamala Harris speaking to whoever that individual is that's inside of her ear, telling them that it's a live broadcast. Embarrassingly, because she didn't even know that they could pick it up on the microphone, which is hilarious. So let's go ahead and watch this video, and you'll hear her say right at the start of it, It's a live broadcast.  Here we go. Hear that?  We really got to watch those, those areas and those.  She covers her mouth like this and goes, it's a live broadcast to whoever she's speaking to. That's in her ear.  Who else would she be talking to?  Right? What does she, who, what are they trying to tell her there?  As my video goes away, let's go ahead and watch the rest of the clip and see if we can get a little bit more contacts.  It's a live broadcast. Listen for that.  Flood. Uh, I watch those, those areas in those communities, so it takes quite a while for that water to drain.  Thank you very much.  Hey Ken, I have a question for you. You, you mentioned words matter and um, I know there's a lot of, um, media following this, this briefing. So there have been, um,  we've gone from a Cat five to a cat now watch how much she struggles, which that a lot of folks have been using as downgrade. But it sounds like you're cautioning us that that may communicate a sense that the danger is lessened when, in fact, it's not. Can you talk a little bit about that? Because I know a lot of folks are watching right now and  would love to have your feedback on how we should be talking about this.  Already, we have sent more than 1, 000 federal personnel to be on the ground in Florida to assist with what needs to happen in the state to prepare for this hurricane. And we will continue to scale up those efforts.  To the people of Florida, and in particular, the people of the Tampa  region,  we urge you to take this storm seriously. As has been said before, this is a storm that is expected to be of historic proportion. And many of you, I know, are tough, and you've ridden out these hurricanes before. This one's going to be different.  And so we ask you that by every measure understand it's going to be more dangerous, more deadly, and more catastrophic. So please listen to your local Now you can see  In this clip, you can see the same earrings, the same earrings, the little pearls with the two gold hoops on or on the side of it, holding it in and they wiggle every time she moves her head. The same exact hearing, she has not taken these hearings off. And I want to go back and look at all the interviews prior to the debate and see if she ever wore these earrings prior to that, because I don't believe that that was the case. They're talking about they know what they're doing. And if you are told to evacuate, please evacuate immediately.  Wait, Kamala Harris said it might as well do it. And in the hours and days ahead, president Biden and I, and our administration will continue to do everything we can to protect the people who have been in the path of this storm. And once the storm has passed, we will be there to help folks recover and rebuild.  All right. Now discussing the hurricane here, let's go ahead and look at some of the discussions surrounding it and some of the damage.  Here's a video from Fox News, and his point is that they've turned this entire hurricane into a PR battle, right? None of the, there's zero genuine concern coming from Kamala or Biden. All they're worried about is the optics, that's all they've been worried about this entire time, and they've been scrambling to try and look like they've been doing anything at all to help the citizens, or that they actually care. And all they've seen the people talk about is how, um, They see right through it. Everybody knows that they don't really care. Everybody knows that they're just trying to make it appear as if they're doing enough or giving enough money, or they have the funds to be able to even help. And we all know that that's not true.  Here's the clip.  Out today and defended his administration's slow response to hurricane Helene, calling any criticism of it, disinformation and pointing fingers at Trump.  There's been reckless and irresponsible and relentless promotion of disinformation and outright lies about what's going on.  Former President Trump has led this onslaught of lies. Assertions have been made that property is being confiscated.  That's simply not true.  They're saying people impacted by these storms will receive 750 in cash and no more. That is simply not true either.  They're saying that money needed for these crises are being diverted to migrants. What the heck are they talking about? Stop it. It's outrageous. It's just not true. Biden's fighting Trump harder than the hurricane. If he should be angry at anybody, he should be angry at his team. They didn't pre position assets in North Carolina to help in the foothills. Just like Afghanistan and the border, the hurricane's now Trump's fault.  Americans have lost power, their homes. Some of them, even their husbands. They're not worried about what politicians say on TV. They are worried because they haven't seen FEMA all week.  Criticizing your government isn't misinformation. It's a God given right of every American.  Instead of battling to save lives, the Biden Harris administration is treating natural disasters like a PR battle. They need to be won with words instead of fast action.  There have always been issues, uh, in disasters. Maui, uh, certainly this, this happened where there's misinformation or there's scams, but we've never seen anything like we have at this level. The administration will also continue to work out, to, to work out and call out  misinformation. And conspiracy theories around the storm and federal and state responses. This is wrong, dangerous, and it must stop immediately. Are we concerned about any misinformation or disinformation regarding evacuations that we need to clear up at this point?  There's been a lot of misinformation out there, Madam Vice President, that's for sure. The only misinformation we've heard is that Biden's doing a great job. Oh, and if You just drive your electric car, cat five hurricanes will shrink into cat twos.  Americans are naturally suspicious of the government after they lied to us about, oh, I don't know, Vietnam, Iraq, COVID, Russia, the president's health.  This isn't a cheap fake. North Carolina sees the aftermath and Biden and Harris were late.  So let's look at one more clip about this and then we'll discuss it, which Biden, they cut it off early in that which they don't want to spread to spread the misinformation and malinformation. Let's go ahead and watch this, which is where Biden mentions the weather manipulation. Here it is. Now the claims are getting even more bizarre.  Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congresswoman from Georgia, is now saying the federal government is literally controlling the weather. We're controlling the weather.  It's beyond ridiculous. It's got to stop.  Moments like this, there are no red or blue states.  There's one United States of America where neighbors are helping neighbors. Volunteers and first responders are risking everything, including their own lives, to help their fellow Americans.  State, local, and federal officials are standing side by side. Let me repeat, no one should make the American people question whether their governments will make sure that this is acting on a strike. They'll be there.  What did he just say? No one, let me make this clear. Okay, make it clear. Tell me. No one should make the American people question  Make it clear. Let me repeat. No one should make the American people question whether their governments will make sure that this is act around strikes. They'll be there. We will. Now the claims are getting even more bizarre. No one should be, let me make this clear. Let me repeat this. No one should be Believing their government will be active in Shrana. People question whether their governments will be make this sure that this is active on a strike. We'll be making sure the actor amount of strikes, they'll be there. We they'll be there. We'll make the sure to act amount of strikes. We'll be there says Biden. Nobody should be concerned about their government.  Make the shirt a active amount of strikes. We'll be there.  Okay. Thank you so much. So going back to the original point here and the original clip where people are talking about it is he's sitting here trying to say, Oh, we wouldn't, we would never control the weather. How ridiculous, what a conspiracy theory. Well, when you go back and read the paperwork,  when you look at the long list of patents, when you go back and look at the long list of military history, where we did this very thing, when you go watch the Michio Kaku Discussion, I believe it was on CNN, discussing how we manipulated the weather in Vietnam. How we are actively looking for ways to shrink storms, grow storms, right? Oh, we stopped doing that, somebody said. I saw, I saw somebody post about this. And they said, well, we would never do that. We would never do that because there was dangers. And this was in a Ground. News article that was posted on social media. And said we would never do that because there was dangers of making them bigger. Yeah, bitch, you made it bigger. That's our claim. That was the whole claim. Yes, absolutely. You can manipulate the weather. Yes, absolutely. There is patents. Yes, absolutely. The FBI, the CIA, the government has in the past manipulated weather for their own purposes.  We saw it in Vietnam.  We saw it in China, we saw it in, there's, there's so many examples of this that we saw in our own Gulf Coast in the 1940s.  Example after example, and here he is sitting in front of you. You know, it's not, it's, that's all a conspiracy theory. Just like COVID was a conspiracy theory. Just like, you know, the election interference was a conspiracy theory. Just like the Hunter Biden laptop was a conspiracy theory. Just like the vaccine causing health issues was a conspiracy theory. Just like, Time after time after time after time again,  almost every one of these things. And I'm actually really surprised that Biden called this out. And the reason I'm surprised that he called this out is there's maybe 50 percent of the right that knows this or understands this, or is hearing about this weather manipulation.  That leaves a whole other 75 percent of the population who maybe hadn't heard about weather manipulation up until the point that Biden calls out and says, these conspiracy theorists mentioning weather manipulation. That was the, the worst thing Biden could have done about the weather manipulation was call it out on national television, because now the other 75 percent of people who weren't hearing about it, because you have all these liberals and Democrats in their own echo chambers, not using X, using Instagram, using whatever social media platforms, Tik TOK. Not hearing about the fact that our own government has been manipulating our weather for decades, almost almost an entire century now, over a century now, since 1916.  Now you're going to have people looking into it who weren't looking into it.  Just like people found out eventually, even if they were liberal, even if they were Democrats, that the vaccine was not the best choice for the family after you pushed it and pushed it and pushed it and pushed it.  That lockdowns didn't work. That mass didn't work.  That Vietnam was under false pretenses.  Right? So many examples of these conspiracies that the government said were conspiracies that ended up being true. And now him saying on national television that this is just a conspiracy theory, and these people are crazy, and this congresswoman is wrong, and so are all of you.  Now he's opened that door for so many people who would have never heard about that. And again, it is one of the worst things he could have done, is actually mention that on live television.  So, with that, I will leave you, my friends. I hope you have a wonderful day. Thank you so much for listening. Head over to ronanbasics. com r o n i n b a s i c s dot com. Check out our new website. Just got done redoing it. It is under the final stages of construction, but you can go check it out. See where we're at. Look at some of the products and I appreciate you. I love you. Subscribe, leave a five star review, and I hope you have a wonderful day.   

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Chaining language model (LM) calls as composable modules is fueling a new way of programming, but ensuring LMs adhere to important constraints requires heuristic “prompt engineering.” The paper this week introduces LM Assertions, a programming construct for expressing computational constraints that LMs should satisfy. The researchers integrated their constructs into the recent DSPy programming model for LMs and present new strategies that allow DSPy to compile programs with LM Assertions into more reliable and accurate systems. They also propose strategies to use assertions at inference time for automatic self-refinement with LMs. They reported on four diverse case studies for text generation and found that LM Assertions improve not only compliance with imposed rules but also downstream task performance, passing constraints up to 164% more often and generating up to 37% more higher-quality responses.We discuss this paper with Cyrus Nouroozi, DSPY key contributor. To learn more about ML observability, join the Arize AI Slack community or get the latest on our LinkedIn and Twitter.

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PREVIEW: #ARGENTINA: Comment by colleague Mary Anastasia O'Grady of WSJ re a possible explanation as to why the maverick Libertarian reformer President Javier Milei is making decisions that appear inconsistent with campaign assertions and promises.   More later. 1920 Buenos Aires.

This week, Florida's Governor, Ron DeSantis, ratified a law that puts to a halt any potential misapplication of a legislation, which was initially put in place to shield our students from explicit content in their schools. The law now creates a stringent barrier for those Florida individuals unaffiliated with the state's educational network from making needless objections to book titles. DeSantis unveiled his thoughts a day preceding the bill signing, expressing disapproval of the misuse of parental rights and curricular transparency as a means of dismissing books from schools. The Governor deems such actions fallacious, hoping to combat the futile efforts aimed at discrediting the school's literary choices. He asserted, 'The deliberate attempts to overrule every book's worthiness, with clear intent to belittle the system, are inherently incorrect. Such behavior bears the mark of overstepped political motivations and theatricality, and not of genuine concern for the educational value of the materials.' Governor DeSantis refrains from indulging those pursuing visibility through efforts aimed at censoring classical literature. He indicated that these efforts are more politically driven than educationally inclined, undermining the genuine purpose of literary instruction. He remarked, 'We have no tolerance for these misleading endeavors to evince public recognition. Your assertions that state law necessitates the removal of classic books are nothing but misrepresentations of the true intentions of the law to guard the credibility of educational content.' 'These false claims disrupt the rightful path of our students' learning journey,' DeSantis added. He is steadfast in his pursuit to preserve classic literature within our educational system, staunchly opposed to efforts directed at banning them, veiled under the guise of parental concerns. The Governor declaimed, 'A critical portion of the objections raised—around 90% of them—actually pertain to books that hold an integral position in our educational system. Remember, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' tops recommended reading by the state's education department. Assertions that the Florida law prohibits reading it are baseless.' He challenged statements suggesting that the inclusion of books about important figures like Hank Aaron, whose biography was a Book of the Month selection by the Florida Department of Education, was disallowed. These attempts to levy claims on state-endorsed literature are clearly misguided, according to DeSantis. 'Books that are part and parcel of our educational system cannot simply be dismissed falsely under state law,' he insisted. His condemnation of such efforts is as strong as his intent to preserve the quality and integrity of Florida's education. Mocking a teacher's whimsical act of blanketing over all books in a classroom, Governor DeSantis referred to it as the epitome of a passive-aggressive stance, which he refuses to entertain. 'It's nothing more than a farce to gain attention,' he said, dismissing the act as a misplaced notion directing critique at the state. DeSantis holds no tolerance for such groundless antics aimed at deriding the educational norms established over time. 'Such nonsensical drama is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,' the Governor stated firmly, standing up against the propagated illusion of implied censorship. 'Here's a simple test,' he continued. 'If an image from a book is unfit for airing on your broadcasts, then, indeed, it's probably unwarranted in a sixth-grade classroom. But that's not the case for our state-endorsed books.' His proposed test offers an insightful perspective on the appropriateness of the content. By making this comparison, he counteracts the smear campaign against core literature implying they're inappropriate for an educational environment. DeSantis' remarks underline the importance of preserving the praiseworthy facets of the education system, clearly demarcating the line between genuine concerns for appropriateness and politically-driven efforts to delude the public with fallacious arguments. As we move forward, the Florida Governor's resolve to maintain the integrity of curriculum selection and learning content serves as a poignant reminder of the primary goals of education system: Enlightenment, empowerment, and maintaining the enduring value of classical literature. Real News Now Website Connect with Real News Now on Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RealNewsNowApp/ X Twitter: https://twitter.com/realnewsapp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realnews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realnewsnowapp Threads: https://www.threads.net/@realnews/ Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/realnewsnow Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@RealNews YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@realnewsnowapp End Wokeness: https://endthewokeness.com #realnewsnowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This audio is brought to you by Endress and Hauser, a leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has move to defend the statement made by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address (SoNA) on Thursday night that "the end of loadshedding is finally within reach". This, despite South Africa rapidly descending into Stage 6 loadshedding only hours after the conclusion of the speech and the prospect of ongoing high levels of power disruptions until at least Wednesday. Speaking as a hastily convened briefing - moved to Sunday instead of the Monday morning initially scheduled for the Minister's regular update on the implementation of the Energy Action Plan - Ramokgopa refused to accept that the President's statement had caused any embarrassment. Instead, he argued that the SoNA statement was in line with both his repeated assertions that the "corner had been turned", as well as a fact-based analysis of loadshedding trends, which he even went as far as to suggest pointed to Eskom "outperforming" against its summer plan that warned of ongoing loadshedding at Stage 4. "So, I really don't understand what is meant by [the SoNA statement being] embarrassing," he remarked in response to a question posed by Engineering News. He then highlighted that Eskom and government had regularly noted the "inherent risk" of periods of intense loadshedding given the commitment that "no corners would be cut" on planned maintenance or safety, notwithstanding the propensity for unplanned outages across the poorly maintained and aged coal fleet. Claims of sabotage made by ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula were downplayed, but not entirely dismissed, with Ramokgopa indicating that Eskom continued to investigate any suspicious incident with the help of the law-enforcement agencies. But he also expressed confidence in the Eskom leadership, management and workers and their commitment to ending loadshedding. Eskom head of generation Bheki Nxumalo indicated that the rapid deterioration that led to a series of changes to the intensity of loadshedding after the President's address - initially from Stage 2 to Stage 3 at 22:00, then to Stage 4 at 2:00 and then later to Stage 6 - had been triggered by the failure of two 800 MW-apiece units at Medupi and high levels of boiler tube leaks across nine power stations, which collectively reduce supply by 4 400 MW. One of the Medupi units was removed from service as Ramaphosa was wrapping up his address, because of a chain used to help remove ash from the boiler had failed. A second Medupi unit tripped soon afterwards, resulting in unplanned outages spiking to above 17 600 MW and the declaration of Stage 6. Planned outages stood at above 6 700 MW at the time of the declaration, while partial load losses were above 6 200 MW. Ramokgopa indicated that the intensity of loadshedding should reduce materially by Wednesday and immediately following the Sunday briefing, Eskom announced Stage 5 loadshedding, despite unplanned breakdowns of above 17 500 MW and planned maintenance of more than 6 800 MW. Eskom said the modest de-escalation in loadshedding was facilitated by Eskom having "successfully replenished its pumped storage dam levels", as well as the return of some other generation units. Nxumalo insisted the generation business remained focused on achieving an energy availability factor of 65% by the end of its financial year on March 31, and denied that the target had been to achieve an average EAF of 65% for the entire 2023/24 period. The EAF has been on a declining trend for several years and dropped to a dismal 54% last year, well below even the disputed EAF recovery targets set by the Eskom board. The net result was South Africa's worst-ever year for loadshedding.

This audio is brought to you by Endress and Hauser, a leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has move to defend the statement made by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address (SoNA) on Thursday night that "the end of loadshedding is finally within reach". This, despite South Africa rapidly descending into Stage 6 loadshedding only hours after the conclusion of the speech and the prospect of ongoing high levels of power disruptions until at least Wednesday. Speaking as a hastily convened briefing - moved to Sunday instead of the Monday morning initially scheduled for the Minister's regular update on the implementation of the Energy Action Plan - Ramokgopa refused to accept that the President's statement had caused any embarrassment. Instead, he argued that the SoNA statement was in line with both his repeated assertions that the "corner had been turned", as well as a fact-based analysis of loadshedding trends, which he even went as far as to suggest pointed to Eskom "outperforming" against its summer plan that warned of ongoing loadshedding at Stage 4. "So, I really don't understand what is meant by [the SoNA statement being] embarrassing," he remarked in response to a question posed by Engineering News. He then highlighted that Eskom and government had regularly noted the "inherent risk" of periods of intense loadshedding given the commitment that "no corners would be cut" on planned maintenance or safety, notwithstanding the propensity for unplanned outages across the poorly maintained and aged coal fleet. Claims of sabotage made by ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula were downplayed, but not entirely dismissed, with Ramokgopa indicating that Eskom continued to investigate any suspicious incident with the help of the law-enforcement agencies. But he also expressed confidence in the Eskom leadership, management and workers and their commitment to ending loadshedding. Eskom head of generation Bheki Nxumalo indicated that the rapid deterioration that led to a series of changes to the intensity of loadshedding after the President's address - initially from Stage 2 to Stage 3 at 22:00, then to Stage 4 at 2:00 and then later to Stage 6 - had been triggered by the failure of two 800 MW-apiece units at Medupi and high levels of boiler tube leaks across nine power stations, which collectively reduce supply by 4 400 MW. One of the Medupi units was removed from service as Ramaphosa was wrapping up his address, because of a chain used to help remove ash from the boiler had failed. A second Medupi unit tripped soon afterwards, resulting in unplanned outages spiking to above 17 600 MW and the declaration of Stage 6. Planned outages stood at above 6 700 MW at the time of the declaration, while partial load losses were above 6 200 MW. Ramokgopa indicated that the intensity of loadshedding should reduce materially by Wednesday and immediately following the Sunday briefing, Eskom announced Stage 5 loadshedding, despite unplanned breakdowns of above 17 500 MW and planned maintenance of more than 6 800 MW. Eskom said the modest de-escalation in loadshedding was facilitated by Eskom having "successfully replenished its pumped storage dam levels", as well as the return of some other generation units. Nxumalo insisted the generation business remained focused on achieving an energy availability factor of 65% by the end of its financial year on March 31, and denied that the target had been to achieve an average EAF of 65% for the entire 2023/24 period. The EAF has been on a declining trend for several years and dropped to a dismal 54% last year, well below even the disputed EAF recovery targets set by the Eskom board. The net result was South Africa's worst-ever year for loadshedding.

If you're involved in thought leadership in any way, you ought to be aware of the dangers of false assertions. Here's Comsteria's Colin Kelly with more.  Looking for new ways to get your message across with clarity and personality? Ask about our Presenting With Confidence prsentation skills training. www.comsteria.co.uk

In today's Lecture, exploring the Course and its assertions, Professor Renaldo McKenzie asks a fundamental question that raises a vital observation briefly explored in this lecture. It begins to analyze the Caribbean post-independent experience and the black/brown position in the world today. We begin by reviewing the course outline, highlighting that Caribbean Thought explores diverse currents that have come to define the Caribbean. We presented the main themes and began considering: The Paradox of Sovereignty: Cuba and Haiti's Struggle for Freedom and the Challenge of Development (Chapter Excerpt). By Rev. Renaldo McKenzie, Author of NeoLiberal Globalization Reconsidered, Professor of Caribbean Thought, at Jamaica Theologica Seminary Brain Teaser: Quiz: What do Haiti and Cuba not have in common with D.R., Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados? 1. Poorest in the world 2. Black and brown people. 3. Granted freedoms 4. Taken Freedoms5. Embargoes and shaky diplomacy and international relations6. Debt, dependency and non-competitiveness7. Formerly colonized Options: A. 2, 5, 6 and 7; B. 1, 4 and 5; C. 1 only 3; D. 3 and 4; E. 1, 4, and 4; F. All of the above. The Answer Reveals A Complex Tapestry of Independence and AdversityWith its vibrant cultures, rich histories, and diverse peoples, the Caribbean region has long been a subject of fascination and study. Within this complex tapestry of Caribbean thought lies a brain teaser, a puzzle that invites contemplation and analysis. This quiz, exploring the nuanced differences among various Caribbean nations, catalyzes deeper reflection on the socio-political landscapes of these countries. At the heart of this brain teaser lies a question: What sets Haiti and Cuba apart from the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados? The options presented delve into a myriad of factors, from economic status to historical legacies, shedding light on the unique trajectories of these nations. Upon closer examination, the correct answer emerges 1, 4, and 5. This selection illuminates key distinctions between Haiti, Cuba, and their counterparts. Firstly, Haiti and Cuba are the poorest nations in the Caribbean, grappling with economic challenges exacerbated by external pressures such as embargoes and diplomatic complexities. Unlike their counterparts, who have experienced varying degrees of economic stability, Haiti and Cuba find themselves ensnared in a cycle of poverty and dependency. Secondly, the notion of granted freedoms versus taken freedoms emerges as a pivotal theme. While countries like Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados have navigated the complexities of post-colonial governance and attained a degree of political autonomy, Haiti and Cuba have a tumultuous history of fighting for their independence. Yet, despite their efforts to chart their own destinies, they remain ensnared in geopolitical struggles, their sovereignty undermined by external interventions. Thirdly, embargoes, shaky diplomacy, and international relations are formidable barriers to progress for Haiti and Cuba. Unlike their counterparts, who have forged diplomatic alliances and pursued avenues of economic growth, Haiti and Cuba are marginalized on the global stage, grappling with the repercussions of contentious international policies.... Let's take "A Deeper Look," check out the 3-hour lecture, and subscribe to get the upcoming Lectures, https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal Renaldo McKenzie is the Creator and Host of The NeoLiberal Round and Author of "Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance," and a new book coming in February, Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered. Renaldo graduated from graduate  @penn  and is currently  @georgetownuniversity  as a Doctoral Candidate. Please support us at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support. Visit us: The NeoLiberal https://theneoliberal.com https://renaldocmckenzie.com. ⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

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Tough conversations on controversial topics don't have to be a disaster, even if had over holiday visits and meals. The key to civil and productive conversations is to ask good questions. The right question can turn monologues into dialogues, surface-level discussions into deeper ones, and might even open a closed mind or two.  Here are six questions I've found helpful for creating good conversations:  First: What do you mean by that? The definition of words shapes debate. Don't assume you are always using the same dictionary.  Second: How do you know that is true? Assertions aren't arguments, and this question takes you beyond comparing opinions.  Third: Where did you get this information?   Fourth: How did you come to this conclusion? Everyone has a story.  And the last two: What if you're wrong? And, What if you're right? Ideas have consequences. These questions take ideas to their logical conclusion. Oh, and the best question: What are you thankful for?  From all of us at the Colson Center, Happy Thanksgiving.  This Point is republished from 11.28.19. 

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Step into the world of linguistic exploration with us on today's podcast episode! We embrace the joy of collective learning and our shared curiosity about linguistic acts. Discover the power of communication, moods, emotions and how they shape our existence.Karin shares her journey of encountering "linguistic acts" during her ontological coaching studies. Uncover the fascinating link between language, moods, emotions, and our way of being.Explore how language, mood, emotion, and the body intertwine to create our reality. In a world filled with talk but often lacking listening, we'll look into the importance of language's structure.Join us as we journey through the 6 basic linguistic acts (constructs of language), which are: Assertions, Declarations,Assessments,Requests, Offers, and Promises. Discover the intricacies of each and how they impact our interactions.Learn the art of effective requests and offers and why clarity matters in communication. Navigate the slippery promises and the importance of shared meaning, trust, and involvement in linguistic acts.As we wrap up, we invite you to reflect on your words and consider how they shape your world. Are you making clear requests, offering your best, and honouring your promises? Tune in and embark on this linguistic adventure with us!Click

Episode #284. Is grass-fed beef truly the eco-friendly choice? Join me as I sit down with George Monbiot, acclaimed environmental activist and author, to challenge popular beliefs about regenerative agriculture. Discover the debate on carbon offsetting, the global impact of cattle ranching, and uncover why George believes that our current understanding might just be the world's most significant greenwash. Specifically, we discuss: Introduction (00:00) Who is Allan Savory? Exploring the "Is Livestock Grazing Vital for Climate Change Mitigation?" Debate (01:22) The Environmental Impact of Beef Consumption: Allan Savory's Claims and Evidence (05:39) The Flaws in Allan Savory's Supporting Studies (13:26) Soil Carbon Saturation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (18:05) The Distinction Between Carbon Storage and Carbon Sequestration (21:04) Misunderstandings Surrounding Carbon Credit Schemes (26:17) Identifying Genuine Carbon Offset Programmes (33:04) Overlooking Carbon Opportunity Costs: Common Misconceptions (34:28) Debunking the Myth: Is Carbon Opportunity Cost a Grand Deception? (41:26) Is It Too Late for Climate Change Reversal? (52:03) Allan Savory's Assertions in Light of Contrary Evidence (57:54) George Monbiot Reflects on the Calibre of His Debate with Allan Savory (1:09:20) Livestock Farming and Farmer Revenues: Dispelling Myths (1:12:21) George Monbiot Shares His Sentiments on the Degradation of the Natural World (1:20:15) Why It Matters: The Imperative to Care (1:22:50) Outro (1:24:27) You can find a comprehensive database of George Monbiot's work on his website, https://www.monbiot.com/, which encompasses his journalistic work and books. Get his book ‘Regenesis' here. Connect with him on Twitter/X, Instagram, and Threads. Search “George Monbiot” on YouTube to find a wealth of videos like his short film with Greta Thunberg, this TED Talk, and this fascinating video about wolves and the balance of nature. If you missed George Monbiot's first episode on The Proof, addressing food, politics, and the environment, make sure to listen to it here. Optimise your health with InsideTracker's biomarker analysis. Get exclusive access to InsideTracker's new ApoB test, and a significant discount at insidetracker.com/simon. Enjoy, friends. Simon Want to support the show? The best way to support the show is to use the products and services offered by our sponsors. To check them out, and enjoy great savings, visit theproof.com/friends. You can also show your support by leaving a review on the Apple Podcast app and/or sharing your favourite episodes with your friends and family. Simon Hill, MSc, BSc (Hons) Creator of theproof.com and host of The Proof with Simon Hill Author of The Proof is in the Plants Watch the episodes on YouTube or listen on Apple/Spotify Connect with me on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook Nourish your gut with my Plant-Based Ferments Guide Download my complimentary Two-Week Meal Plan and high protein Plant Performance recipe book

In today's fast-paced world, where life seems to move at lightning speed, the quest for eternal youth has gained significant traction. People are constantly searching for ways to reverse the effects of aging and improve their overall well-being.In this recent episode of Your Infinite Health, Dr. Trip and LeNae Goolsby delve into the topic of age reversal, challenging the claims made by renowned scientist Dr. David Sinclair. Drawing from their extensive experience in integrated medicine, the hosts offer a refreshing perspective on achieving optimal health and tackling the aging process.LeNae and Dr. Trip emphasize the importance of taking a holistic approach to health. Rather than relying on one-size-fits-all solutions, they advocate for individualized interventions that address multiple aspects of well-being. This includes stress reduction, proper nutrition, regular exercise, and hormone therapy.They also shed light on the powerful mind-body connection and its transformative impact on our health. LeNae and Dr. Trip explain how our thoughts and emotional responses to information can affect our stress levels and overall well-being.LeNae and Dr. Trip also analyzes the claims made by Dr. David Sinclair regarding age reversal. While acknowledging the significance of stress reduction, nutrition, exercise, and regular body scans, the hosts emphasize the importance of comprehensive interventions. They introduce the idea of optimizing hormone levels through bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, which plays a crucial role in their integrated approach to health optimization and anti-aging efforts.In the pursuit of perpetual youth, it is essential to approach age reversal from a multifaceted perspective. By implementing stress reduction techniques, adopting a nutritious diet, maintaining regular exercise routines, and considering hormone therapy, individuals can take steps towards achieving optimal health and combating the effects of aging.Dr. Trip Goolsby & LeNae Goolsby are the co-founders of the Infinite Health Integrative Medicine Center, and are also the co-authors of the book “Think and Live Longer”.TakeawaysHolistically address stress, nutrition, exercise, hormones for aging.Use mind-body connection for relaxation and healing.Consider comprehensive therapies for optimized health, anti-aging.ConnectDr. Trip Goolsby & LeNae Goolsby are the co-founders of the Infinite Health Integrative Medicine Center, and are also the co-authors of the book “Think and Live Longer”.

2023-08-08 Weekly News - Episode 201Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/HJHCDA-UbV8?feature=shareHosts: Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions: Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube.  Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github  Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop Buy Ortus's Books 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Learn Modern ColdFusion (CFML) in 100+ Minutes - Free online https://modern-cfml.ortusbooks.com/ or buy an EBook or Paper copy https://www.ortussolutions.com/learn/books/coldfusion-in-100-minutes   Patreon Support (Amazing)We have 40 patreons: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and AnnouncementsPassing the Baton: Lucee 5.4 and Hibernate ORMAs of Lucee 5.4.1.8, new Lucee builds will no longer bundle the (Lucee) Hibernate extension. This means that if you rely on Hibernate ORM in your CFML application, you will need to manually bundle the Hibernate extension into your Lucee server. Let's read on for more info.The NewsFirst, let's start with the official note from the Lucee 5.4.1.8 Stable Release notes (courtesy of Zac Spitzer):Lucee ORM is no longer being developed or bundled by the Lucee Team, Ortus have forked and taken over the development of ORM for Lucee, see Introducing: The Ortus ORM Extension.It seems that Lucee has made the decision to 1) trim the Lucee installation size by no longer bundling the Hibernate extension with new Lucee installations, and to 2) halt further development on the Lucee Hibernate extension. It is unclear whether "no longer being developed" is referring to new features only, or whether that includes bug fixes and security patches as well.This news means that Micha and the LAS team can focus on the Lucee server platform, bringing you speed and stability, while Ortus provides the Hibernate integration for a powerful database ORM layer.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/passing-the-baton-lucee-6-and-hibernate-ormNew Releases and UpdatesColdBox v7.1.0ColdBox 7.1 introduces several new features that expand the capabilities of the framework and facilitate better development practices:Scheduled Tasks DebuggingYou can now add a debug argument to your task definitions, and your console will add tons of debugging for your tasks:`task( name : "My Task", debug : true )`toRedirectTo() MatcherYou can now use this matcher to test relocations in a nice fluent expectation:`expect( event ).toRedirectTo( "main.index" )`REST on{errorType}Exception() ConventionThanks to our very own Gavin Pickin you can now create exception handlers in your REST Handlers that follow the on{type}Exception() convention and you can listen to specific error type exceptions:`function onTypeMismatchException( event, rc, prc )`https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-710-releasedTestBox v5.2.0 and v5.3.0v5.2.0New FeaturesFaster Performance with Updated MixerUtilTESTBOX-375Introduces enhancements to the MixerUtil module, resulting in faster performance during dynamic mixins and enhancing the flexibility of your test suites.More Control with bundlesPattern in TestBox InitTESTBOX-376Adds the bundlesPattern parameter to testbox.system.TestBox's init method. This new addition gives you greater control over defining the pattern for your test bundles, making test organization a breeze.Introducing TestBox ModulesTESTBOX-377Brings a game-changing feature to TestBox - Modules support! Now you can create and utilize modules to extend TestBox's capabilities, opening up endless possibilities for tailored testing workflows. Check out our docs: https://testbox.ortusbooks.com/in-depth/modulesBug FixesQuery Compatibility in ExpectationTESTBOX-346Addresses an issue where using expect(sut).toBeInstanceOf("something")) with a query could cause unexpected behavior. This has been resolved, ensuring a smoother testing experience with query objects.Improved cbstreams FunctionalityTESTBOX-374Fixes issues related to cbstreams outside of ColdBox, ensuring seamless functionality in various environments.ImprovementsEnhanced toBeInstanceOf() HandlingTESTBOX-20Improves the handling of toBeInstanceOf() expectations for Java classes, making it even easier to write precise and robust tests for Java objects.v5.3.0New FeaturestoBeIn() and toBeInWithCase() ExpectationsTESTBOX-379These new expectations allow you to verify the presence of a needle within a string or an array target. With the toBeIn() expectation, you can easily check if the expected needle exists in the target. Additionally, toBeInWithCase() performs a case-sensitive check for the needle in the target. These powerful expectations enhance your testing capabilities and streamline the validation of data within your tests.New Matchers and Assertions for String StartTESTBOX-380With these new matchers and assertions, namely toStartWith(), toStartWithCase(), startsWith(), and startsWithCase(), you can validate whether a string begins with an expected prefix. These matchers come with their appropriate negations, allowing you to easily test and verify the starting points of strings in your application.New Matchers and Assertions for String EndTESTBOX-381TestBox v5.3 introduces powerful matchers for checking the end of strings. The new matchers include toEndWith(), toEndWithCase(), endsWith(), and endsWithCase(). These matchers enable you to confirm the presence of an expected suffix in a given string, making it convenient to test the endings of strings during your test suite executions.Bug FixesonSpecError suiteSpecs CorrectionTESTBOX-378In previous versions, there was a minor issue with onSpecError, where the suiteSpecs attribute was mistakenly referred to as suiteStats. With TestBox v5.3, we have fixed this bug, and the attribute is now correctly recognized as suiteSpecs. This ensures that error reporting and handling in your test suites function as expected, providing you with accurate and helpful feedback during testing.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/testbox-v52-release-embracing-performance-and-extensibilityhttps://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/testbox-v53-releaseOrtus Redis Extension v3.0.0We are very excited to bring you another release for our Redis Lucee Extension. This release: Updates the underlying Redis java driver from v2.9.3 to v4.4.3 Added SSL and username support to RedisClusterCache configuration Added username support to RedisCache ( non-cluster ) configuration These enhancements have been made to ensure full compatibility with both standalone Redis implementations, as well as AWS Elasticache configurations and authentication mechanisms.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/ortus-redis-extension-v300-releasedLucee Script Runner UpdatedThe Lucee Script Runner has been updated with some additional features:luceeVersionQueryYou can now specify a query string to run with the following syntax to select which version of Lucee you want to run, it overrides `luceeVersion`.CompilePassing in `-Dcompile=true` on the command line or compile: true will compile all the code under specified webrootThis is great for catching any invalid CFML during CI before it hits production, also great for checking your code against the latest 6 snapshot to catch any errors introduced which causes errors with your codebaseWindows Runner support for Github actionsThe `action.yml` has been updated to use Windows syntax for running script-runner. You can see examples in the image extension repo: https://github.com/lucee/extension-image/actionshttps://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-script-runner-version-query-compile-github-actions-windows-support/12865https://github.com/lucee/script-runnerWebinar / Meetups and WorkshopsICYMI — Hawaii ColdFusion Meetup Group — CF Scheduled Tasks: more than you may know, and shouldSpeaker: Charlie ArehartFriday July 28th, 2023 at 3pm PTIf folks were asked to discuss CF scheduled tasks, I suspect most would feel "there's not much 'to say", but there really is a lot more to working with them simply "setting a given url to run on a given schedule" (did you know it could be a CFC, for instance?).There are both more features than most realize, as well as solutions to common problems people can face when running them, and a lot of myths regarding old limitations that have since been lifted. In this talk, veteran CF troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will address all these and more, starting with a focus on tools and techniques for solving common problems with them, then showing several ways to create them (yes, even more than just cfschedule and the CF Admin UI).He'll then review several features of using tasks that you may have missed—to include distinguishing which few are NOT available in CF Standard.He'll also discuss briefly the underlying quartz open source framework that powers them (and offers still more extensibility), as well as the underlying neo-cron.xml file and tips for protecting that, and he'll even identify ways to control/allow access to managing tasks that may surprise many. He'll conclude with alternatives when the base features don't suit you.https://hawaiicoldfusionusergroup.adobeconnect.com/p6izv4ia43a7/Hawaii ColdFusion Meetup Group — Graph QL & ColdFusionSpeaker: Mark TakataFriday, August 25, 2023 @ 12 PM HAST (Hawaii Standard Time)GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for executing those queries with your existing data. It provides a more efficient, powerful, and flexible alternative to REST.In ColdFusion 2023 we are providing a native method of consuming and sending data across GraphQL using GQL. This includes support for fragments, variables, aliases, queries, mutations, subscriptions and more.Also, this talk will go over on why to use Graph QL over REST APIs.https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/294631289/Adobe Upcoming EventsAdobe ColdFusion Workshop WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 20239:00 AM EDTOnline EventBrian Sappeyhttps://adobecf-1day-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/Join the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premise.The workshop will explore: The major features in the latest release of Adobe ColdFusion How to use CFML to develop, test, and deploy web applications Adobe ColdFusion constructs and functions How to reuse code in Adobe ColdFusion The Adobe ColdFusion application framework and basic database operations Object-oriented programming and object-relational mapping Basic error handling in Adobe ColdFusion PDF, forms, and spreadsheet support in Adobe ColdFusion  Webinar - Road to Fortuna Series: Exploring the New Google Cloud Platform Features FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 202310:00 AM PDTOnline EventMark Takatahttps://google-cloud-platform-adobe-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/ During the Road to Fortuna Series: Exploring the New Google Cloud Platform Features webinar, Mark Takata will explore the new native hooks that Adobe ColdFusion is adding to work with the Google Cloud Platform. He will focus on features related to the GCP FireStore document database, Storage capabilities, and PubSub messaging features, providing attendees with valuable insights into how these features can be leveraged to optimize application development and delivery on the Google Cloud Platform. The session will be highly technical and will provide attendees with practical examples and use cases.CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.comRecent Releases Into the Box 2023 Videos is available for purchase as an EXCLUSIVE PREMIUM package. https://cfcasts.com/series/itb-2023  Subscribers will get access to premium packages after a 6 month exclusive window. Into the Box Attendees should have their coupon code in the email already!!!! 2023 ForgeBox Module of the Week Series - 1 new Video https://cfcasts.com/series/2023-forgebox-modules-of-the-week  2023 VS Code Hint tip and Trick of the Week Series - 1 new Video https://cfcasts.com/series/2023-vs-code-hint-tip-and-trick-of-the-week  Coming Soon More ForgeBox and VS Code Podcast snippet videos ColdBox Elixir from Eric Getting Started with Inertia.js from Eric Conferences and TrainingAdobe CF Summit WestLas Vegas 2-4th of October.Get your early bird passes now. Session passes @ $199 Professional passes @ $299. First round of speakers has been announced - with some great sessionshttps://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/ STUDENTS can get a free pass if they are enrolled at tertiary level educational institutionsOrtus CF Summit Training - ColdBox 7 Zero to HeroDate: October 4th - 5th, 2023 | Right after Adobe CFSummit, 2023Speakers: Luis Majano & Gavin PickinLocation: Las Vegas, NevadaVenue: Regus - Las Vegas - 3960 Howard Hughes Parkway Paradise #Suite 500 Las Vegas, NV 89169 United StatesTicket Price Early Bird Price: $499 (Available until August 18th, 2023) Regular Price Tickets: $699 25% Discount today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/659169262007/?discount=modernize Spotlight Less than 2 miles from the Mirage - 30 mins walk Next to Marriot hotel - 2 min walk 1 mile to Top Golf - 20 min walk 5 min walk to Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse 5 min walk to starbucks 5 min walk to Lo-los chicken and waffles WIN WIN WIN WINhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-coldbox-from-zero-to-hero-tickets-659169262007?aff=oddtdtcreator Into the Box LATAMNovember 30th - more details to followUniversity of Business in El Salvador.ITB 2024 Locations: Washington, DC Dates: May 15-17, 2024 More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week07/26/2023 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Considering UTC And Recording Activity Streak Data In ColdFusionFor as long as I can remember, I've been storing Date/Time values in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) within my ColdFusion applications. UTC is "the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time" (source). Date/Time values get stored in UTC and then - as needed - translated back into a given user's timezone during the rendering process. This is why, when I added the concept of "workout streaks" in Dig Deep Fitness (my ColdFusion fitness tracker), my initial instinct was to use UTC. Unfortunately, this approach quickly broke down.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4492-considering-utc-and-recording-activity-streak-data-in-coldfusion.htm07/27/2023 - Tweet X Post(?) - Brad Wood - Automated CommandBox Server TestsI've fully automated the tests in my CommandBox Server Tests repo. Now, with a single Task Runner, I can fire off hundreds of tests across dozens of servers to check for regressions. https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/commandbox-tests 07/31/2023 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Auto-Saving Form Data In The Background Using The fetch() APIIn Dig Deep Fitness, my ColdFusion fitness tracker, the main gesture of the app is the "Perform Exercise" view. In this view, the user is presented with a series of inputs for resistance weights, reps, and notes. Depending on how fast a user is moving through their workout, they may be on this one view for several minutes without submitting the form back to the ColdFusion server. This "pending data" makes me nervous. As such, I've started auto-saving the form data in the background using JavaScript's fetch() API.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4494-auto-saving-form-data-in-the-background-using-the-fetch-api.htmBeacons : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Beacon_APILocalStorage: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage_API/Using_the_Web_Storage_API08/02/2023 - Blog - Ben Nadel - My ColdFusion "Controller" Layer Is Just A Bunch Of Switch Statements And CFIncludesThe more experience I get, the more I appreciate using an appropriate amount of complexity when solving a problem. This is a big part of why I love ColdFusion so much: it allows one to easily scale-up in complexity if and when the requirements grow to warrant it. When I'm working on my own, I don't need a robust framework with all the bells-and-whistles. All I need is a simple dependency-injection strategy and a series of CFSwtich and CFInclude statements.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4497-my-coldfusion-controller-layer-is-just-a-bunch-of-switch-statements-and-cfincludes.htmCFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 85 ColdFusion positions from 56 companies across 39 locations in 5 Countries.2 new jobs listed in the last two weeksFull-Time - SIS New ColdFusion C1 - Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaPosted: July 26, 2023https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/SIS-New-ColdFusion-C1-at-Pune-Maharashtra/11592Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer - Washington, DC,  United StatesPosted: August 01, 2023https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/CFDeveloper-Washington-DC/11593Other Job LinksThere is a jobs channel in the CFML slack team, and in the Box team slack now tooForgeBox Module of the WeekColdBox Vite & ColdBox Vite Helpers by Eric PetersonThis module provides a `vite` helper function in your views for loading files generated byVite and the coldbox-vite-plugin in your ColdBox applications.https://www.forgebox.io/view/vite-helpershttps://www.npmjs.com/package/coldbox-vite-pluginVS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekHeadwindBy Ryan HeybournHeadwind is an opinionated Tailwind CSS class sorter for Visual Studio Code. It enforces consistent ordering of classes by parsing your code and reprinting class tags to follow a given order.Headwind runs on save, will remove duplicate classes and can even sort entire workspaces.https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=heybourn.headwindThank you to all of our Patreon SupportersThese individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox,  ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox. You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutionsDon't forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses everyone. Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription. 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Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer with California-based SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), displayed his gargantuan ignorance with regard to the UFO phenomenon in a recent opinion piece. Links/Sources: Did government just announce aliens are real? UFO whistleblower lacks evidence. (msnbc.com) Contact you Senator: U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators Contact you House representative: Find Your Representative | house.gov FLYING SAUCERS AND SCIENCE by Stanton Friedman: https://amzn.to/3rKPYcx Check out my YouTube channel: Quirk Zone - YouTube Extraterrestrial Reality book recommendations: Link to ROSWELL: THE ULTIMATE COLD CASE: CLOSED: https://amzn.to/3O2loSI Link to COMMUNION by Whitley Strieber: https://amzn.to/3xuPGqi Link to THE THREAT by David M. Jacobs: https://amzn.to/3Lk52nj Link to TOP SECRET/MAJIC by Stanton Friedman: https://amzn.to/3xvidfv Link to NEED TO KNOW by Timothy Good:  https://amzn.to/3BNftfT Link to UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE, VOLUME 1:  https://amzn.to/3xxJvlv Link to UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE, VOLUME 2: https://amzn.to/3UhdQ1l Link to THE ALLAGASH ABDUCTIONS: https://amzn.to/3qNkLSg --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-quirk/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-quirk/support

What can we do to make testing easier? Carl and Richard talk to Dennis Doomen about Fluent Assertions, an open-source set of extension methods to help write better tests. Dennis talks about working on Fluent Assertions for over a decade and the great team of folks that have helped it grow. With tens of millions of downloads, you should check it out! The conversation also digs into how these types of open-source projects don't make money, even though they help many people. Could we fix that?

What can we do to make testing easier? Carl and Richard talk to Dennis Doomen about Fluent Assertions, an open-source set of extension methods to help write better tests. Dennis talks about working on Fluent Assertions for over a decade and the great team of folks that have helped it grow. With tens of millions of downloads, you should check it out! The conversation also digs into how these types of open-source projects don't make money, even though they help many people. Could we fix that?This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5634793/advertisement

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas' website.I. THESISJesus was a zealot, advocating violence to overthrow the occupying Romans as well as the corrupt priesthood.For Jesus, the Kingdom of God is very much of this world [144]. John 18:36 has been totally misunderstood [117]. The kingdom is political.Jesus intended that the twelve tribes be reconstituted for a single purpose: war [123].Jesus was a violent man. The God of violence is “the only God that Jesus knew and the sole God he worshipped” [122]. However, later Aslan seems to backtrack: “Nor can Jesus be labeled a violent revolutionary bent on armed rebellion…” [79].Yet Jesus failed to reestablish nation of Israel [19].The church changed the true Jesus into a more heavenly figure with merely otherworldly interests. They “transformed Jesus from a revolutionary zealot to a Romanized demigod, from a man who tried and failed to free the Jews from Roman oppression to a celestial being wholly uninterested in anyearthly matter” [171]. The apostle Paul was the leader of this reinterpretation. “[Paul's] conception of Jesus as Christ would have been shocking and plainly heretical, which is why, around 57 C.E., James and the apostles demand that Paul come to Jerusalem to answer for his deviant teachings” [190]. The early church followed suit, and replaced the zealot Jesus with a heavenly figure [144], putting Paul's letters into the N.T. Today we have the wrong N.T., thanks to Paul's influence [215].Yet the Messiah was to be the Prince of Peace. "He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore" (Isa 2:4). (Joel 3:10 – preparation for war.) "He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore" (Mic 4:3).How would the church have survived through 60 years of disillusionment, given they knew Jesus' mission was a failure?In short, Jesus was a revolutionary zealot. Not just a radical man with an amazingly spiritual message, but a violent encourager of murder, rioting, and violent takeover.II. STRENGTHS & INSIGHTSStyleHis no-nonsense approach (despite the many erroneous claims) leaves no doubt as to where the author stands. I find this preferable to the ambling, highly qualified language of many religious writers.Aslan uses highly florid language, which makes reading him rather enjoyable -- provided the reader recognizes the many rare words he uses.Historical backgroundGood job describing various sects of the Jews and zealots and pseudo-messiahs.Great analysis of the working relationship between Pilate and Caiaphas.Nice explanation of the origins and thinking of the Samaritans.Historical insightPoor farmers of Galilee subjected to indignity of turning over earnings to rapacious priests! [92]Demolishes the Roman Catholic notions of the virginity of Mary and the papacy of Peter [35].Helpful reminder that the Temple served as a bank [7].Unlike other itinerant wonder-workers in the ancient world, Jesus healed gratis [103].The Romans' victory over Israel in the First Jewish War (66-70 AD) wasn't merely over the Jews, but over their god.John the Baptist's popularity perhaps increased through his not relying on his priestly privileges [82]. (John was a Levite, born to Levite parents -- see Luke 1.)Aslan admits that it is more likely the Gnostics borrowed from Christianity when they constructed their esoteric doctrine and myths, rather than the other way around [261].The belief in a dying and rising messiah did not exist in Judaism [165]. (Right--but that doesn't mean the Messiah couldn't die or rise! What about Isa 53?)Things you may want to knowInteresting parallels between Jesus' Transfiguration and Moses' ascent on the mountain with his three companions [131].Cicero: “barbarian superstitions” of monotheism. Tacitus: “while they permit all that we abhor.”Josephus notes 24 sects in and around Jerusalem. And he calls Annas (Ananus) “the great hoarder of money” [198-199].Bible difficultiesCritics keep us on our toes!Two examples: Philip's wife is Salome, not Herodias. A solution? Also, the well-known difficulties surrounding Luke's census of Quirinius [30].III. APPROACHArguments from silenceJohn the Baptist doesn't realize who Jesus is in Mark 1. This means that the story has been jazzed up in the other gospel accounts [87].There is no cliff in Nazareth over which to push Jesus. Aslan is saying that since he does not think there is such a cliff in Nazareth, it didn't exist. But topography can change. Besides, I have seen such a precipice in Nazareth.The nighttime trial of the Sanhedrin was illegal -- therefore it didn't take place. [157]. Yet the Sanhedrin felt urgency in dealing with this situation before Passover.Barabbas couldn't have been released because the custom is “nonsensical” [149]. Yet Pilate negotiates with the crowd over Jesus' possible release. Why would such a custom contradict what we know of Pilate?Speculation“So when Stephen saw the gaggle of hirsute men and ragged women huddled beneath a portico in the Temple's outer court—simple provincials who had sold their possessions and given the proceeds to the poor….—he probably did not pay much attention at first” [164].Paul wasn't asked by the high priest to hunt down Christians… [183] Yet by Paul's own admission (Acts 22:4-5), “I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.”Fondness for quoting liberals at far end of theological spectrum.Calling into question uncontroversial points, e.g. that Acts is part 2 of Luke [167].Leading statements: Jesus' brothers named after great heroes of Judaism (implying a radical revolutionary tendency ran in the family) [230].Shock statements that aren't quite true… but are later clarified, once the shock has been felt -- usually a few paragraphs later.E.g. the Romans walking up cliff side of Masada, “shields up, swords drawn” – as Aslan makes clear, he well knows it took many weeks for the Romans to advance up that side of the mountain [57].Or that the meeting between Pilate and Jesus is ludicrous…. A reasonable argument can be made for it having happened. Aslan claims the “trial” before Pilate “beggars the imagination” and is “pure legend” [148]. There was no “trial” before Pilate [241]. Yet the gospels never say there was a trial. Further, while at first Aslan mocks the idea, later on he states that for a potential political prisoner, Pilate might well have made time to see him -- and John Meier makes a compelling case for the position [244]!Assertions without proofJesus ChristJesus could not have understood the "Son of Man" as a divine figure (as in 4 Ezra) [144]. But what about Daniel 7?Mark 9 tells us that Jesus' transfiguration affected only his clothes [251] (which it doesn't) -- therefore his body (unlike Moses' -- Exod 34) wasn't glowing.There are no OT messianic prophecies that say the Messiah will do miracles [248]. Really?! How about Isaiah 42, 60, etc?More than a few biblical scholars have openly labeled Jesus a magician [108-109]. I know of only one (Morton Smith).All the miracle stories of Jesus have been embellished [104].Daniel's Anointed One isn't killed (Dan 9:26), but only cut off [166]. Yet it's not clear whether "cut off" implies death, so there's no room for dogmatism here.Jesus didn't stay in the desert for a time of testing, but in order to spend time learning from John the Baptist [89].Apostles and other leadersMatthew isn't Levi [97]. Yet two names were common (e.g. Simon Peter, John Mark).Jesus recruited from among “the fishing village's disaffected youth” [96]. But why can't Simon and Andrew be the same age as Jesus? (Rob Bell wants them to be teenagers, but he goes too far.)Few if any of the apostles agreed that Paul was a disciple [184-185].Paul never recounts his Damascus Road experience, which is a fabrication of Luke [184]. Yet see Acts 22. The fact that the three accounts (Acts 9, 22, 26) have minor differences suggests Luke wasn't making up the story, nor was he concerned to rewrite it to make it less problematic.None of the apostles spoke Greek [193]. Jesus and his disciples were illiterate peasants [203, 226]. Aslan should read Alan Millard's Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus.The Jerusalem Christians didn't evangelize – they just blended in [263]. Yet Acts 4, 5, 12!James took no baths [197].The church in Rome fell under authority of the Jerusalem church [203].Some assertions have weak proof, e.g. that Stephen led the independent Hellenistic community [181], and that the Hellenists held that Jesus came not to fulfill the law, but to abolish it (!). Or that the Church of Jerusalem was demolished in 70 AD [150, 212]. James and the Jerusalem Christians stayed in Jerusalem, awaiting coming of the Lord, and so were killed by Titus' army. But that would mean that they ignored Jesus' prophecy [Luke 21:20].IV. TONEMocking, SarcasticStephen's “long and rambling diatribe” [168].Luke is Paul's sycophant [184-185].On 500 soldiers accompanying the prisoner Paul: “This is absurd and can be flatly ignored” [266]. But there's a plot afoot involving 40 men determined to kill Paul. The conspirators are armed, armed disturbances were somewhat common in Palestine, and the Romans know it. What number of soldiers does Aslan think the officer should have dispatched: 40? 100? 150? Might not the number of conspirators have been snowballing? Is this not a case of better safe than sorry?Reactionary comments -- which are frequently overstatements“With the help of his disciples he blocks the entrance to the courtyard, forbidding anyone carrying goods for sale or trade from entering the Temple. Then, as the crowd of vendors, worshippers, priests, and curious onlookers scramble over the scattered detritus, as a stampede of frightened animals, chased by their panicked owners, rushes headlong out of the Temple gates and into the choked streets of Jerusalem, as a corps of Roman guards and heavily armed Temple police blitz through the courtyard looking to arrest whoever is responsible for this mayhem, there stands Jesus, according to the gospels, aloof, seemingly unperturbed, crying out over the din: ‘It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.”'” [74-75]Cleansing of temple caused a “riot” in the Court of the Gentiles [147].Jesus' apostolic band was “armed with swords” [146]. But there were only 2, and Jesus discouraged their use – hence the unanimous pacifism of the early church.The “brief but bloody tussle” although two swords weren't enough [78].“Thus, on a bald hill covered in crosses, beset by moans of agony from hundreds of dying criminals, as a murder of crows circled eagerly over his head waiting for him to breathe his last…” [159]Disunity and strife suppressedThe early Christians were fearful of John the Baptist's continuing influence: “frantic attempt to reduce John's significance” – and the truth that “Jesus very likely began his ministry as just another of his disciples” [89].In Acts Luke “paints a picture of perfect harmony between Paul and the council's members…” [191]Gal 2:11 = “fierce public feud” [266]– yet no evidence Peter lashed out in return, or rejected Paul's correction.Superior attitudeEven in the vocabulary: 98 lucubration; 108 Lugdunum (ancient Lyon)As though this were his own insight: “To the Jews, a crucified Messiah was nothing less than a contradiction in terms. The very fact of his crucifixion annulled his messianic claims” [178]. Credit belongs to Paul more than to Aslan. Or the observation that wisdom is personified in Wisdom of Solomon as a woman (Sophia), in order to better connect with those with a Greek philosophical background [179]. But this is in Proverbs, and is well known to those who read the Bible.“Two decades of scholarly research” [xx] – perhaps absorbed from the ultraliberal institutions where he did his study? (Harvard University, U Cal Santa Barbara, Santa Clara University -- Jesuit)Negative feelingPalpable hostility towards biblical Christians. Aslan admits his anger – “I angrily discarded my faith as if it were a costly forgery….” [xix].Paul's anger at James and the original apostles “seeps like poison through the pages of his later epistles” [207].One wonders if Aslan has projected his own negative emotions onto Paul!V. ERRORSWell over 100, not even counting all the mistakes highlighted in other sections of this podcast!Life of JesusPhil 2:7 doesn't support the incarnation – because Jesus is one of God's first creations, the "firstborn" [189]. But what about Ps 89:27? "And I will appoint him to be my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth."The incarnation is rejected [88], as well as the divinity of Christ. But what about Mal 3, Ezek 34, Ps 110, and many other passages?Jesus was a tekton (builder, carpenter, mason...) only in Mark 6:3 [34]. Aslan has forgotten Matt 13:55.“He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” suggests arson [89].Aslan assumes "the Kingdom of God is at hand" means that the end of world is near [80] –a common mistake among those unfamiliar with the already/not yet of Christian theology.The Parable of the Sower is mainly anticlerical [101]. Yet the parable is about loving one's neighbor.The Temple in Jesus' time was 500m x 300m – this was the complex, not the temple proper. (To be fair, in John's gospel, however, sometimes the entire Temple Mount complex is referred to as the temple.)Jesus was joking when he told the leper to go show himself to the priest, since the leprosy was gone. Aslan seems to have misunderstood Lev 14 [112].There would have been no need for a large band of soldiers to snatch Jesus -- yet later Aslan admits a sizeable crowd went to Gethsemane to arrest Jesus [153]! He seems to be changing his mind, or rethinking, even as he is writing his book.After confessing he's the Messiah, Jesus then muddies everything by identifying himself with the Son of Man in Daniel (Mark 14:62) [144]. Aslan seems unable to grasp the two sides of the Messiah, Lion and Lamb (Rev 5) -- the same mistake so many of Jesus' Jewish contemporaries made.When the crowd (manipulated by Annas and Caiaphas) is manipulating Pilate – “We have no king but Caesar!” -- Aslan claims they couldn't have said that [152].Pilate is portrayed as a righteous but weak-willed man in the gospels [47]! He is increasingly exonerated in the gospels [151]. He tries to save Jesus because he thinks he may be the Son of God (!) [152]The crucifixion required three iron spikes [159]. Actually, the skeletal evidence of crucified persons indicates the Romans used four nails.Crucified people would hang on the cross for hours [159]. Actually, days were a more common.Mark wasn't interested in Jesus' resurrection [29]. Really? What about Jesus' predictions of his resurrection, several of which Mark records?Our author claims the series: Last Supper—Betrayal—Arrest—Sanhedrin—Herod & Pilate—Cross—Burial—Resurrection is what it is for liturgical reasons [153-154]. But what else could it be if Jesus was betrayed?Re: Luke 24:44-46 – there isn't a single line of scripture on the suffering, death, and resurrection on the third day of the Messiah [177].  But the resurrection is prefigured in Dan 6; Gen 22; Ps 16; Ezek 37 and more clearly identified in Dan 12 and the DSS 4Q521.The apostlesPaul was uninterested in the words of Jesus [187]. Common claim. What about Acts 20:35? 1 Cor 11? Quite a few allusions to Jesus' words?James forces Paul to (hypocritically) back down from his anti-Torah position, taking an oath and joining others in this vow (Acts 21:23)….[195-197, 208-209]. But what about 1 Cor 9:20? "To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law." Besides, Paul has a positive view of the law (read Romans). He argues that the gospel is for the Jew first, then the Gentile (Rom 1:16) – and this is in one of the letters Aslan agrees Paul actually wrote. Further, Paul's custom was to share the gospel with the Jews, through speaking invitations at synagogues… When he wore out his welcome, then he turned to the Gentiles. If he were as anti-Torah as Aslan insinuates, it is doubtful he would ever be invited back for a second lesson!Paul disagrees with James over salvation [206]. They use the same passages to prove opposite things (James 2; Romans 4). But works and faith are two sides of a coin. Aslan's position is based on an old and tired argument. Paul required nothing for salvation but faith in Christ [215]. Aslan claims Rom 10:13 contradicts Matt 7:21 [187].Aslan misses Paul's point in 2 Cor – which he calls "Corinthians" (proofreader lapse?) – when he makes Paul call the Jerusalem apostles "servants of Satan…" [192]. But Paul's opponents valued prestige, comfort, honor; they did not suffer. The "super-apostles" Paul excoriates cannot be the Jerusalem apostles, who it seems were nearly as poor as Paul!Re: Paul's arrest in Jerusalem: He is mistaken for the Egyptian – and this is the only reason he was taken into custody by the Romans [194-195]. But Paul denied being this person, and the text makes it clear that once corrected the commander still decides to refer the case up the ladder of command (Acts 21:39).After his meeting with the Jewish leaders in Acts 28, "Paul vowed from that moment on to preach to none but the gentiles, ‘for they will listen' (Acts 28:26-29)” [196]. Yet the text indicates a mixed reaction -- some Jews were persuaded by Paul. True, in Acts 28:28 Paul says he will focus on the Gentiles, but not only the Gentiles. In fact, this isn't a change of missionary strategy for Paul, since that has been his method all along: first the Jew, then the Gentile...James (presumably unlike Paul, who cared little about earthly matters) truly cares for the poor [272]. What? Gal 2:10! 2 Cor 8-9!Simon Peter “swore he witnessed the resurrection with his own eyes, as did many others among them…" [156]. This is false. There were no eyewitnesses of the resurrection, unless the Roman soldiers were able to see what was happening (which seems unlikely). Many witnessed Jesus after the resurrection, however.Later ChristianityAslan confuses the Circumcision Party (as in Titus 1 and Acts 15) and Jewish Christianity [186].James loses credibility to Paul because of the nascent doctrine of the virginity of Mary (James being Jesus' brother) [202]. An interesting possibility, and there may be some truth in it, but biblical Christians accord equal respect -- and obedience -- to the teaching of both James and Paul.The Ebionite movement continuing to teach the theology of James [272]. Yet biblical scholars note that this movement wasn't really a Christian movement, since they rejected Christ's divinity. In Zealot Aslan seems to believe that James believed in the Second Coming of his brother -- in contradiction to the Ebionites.Judaean Christians shared with none but their fellow Jews. Love thy neighbor means one's fellow Jew [121]. But what about Luke 23:34, Luke 10:25-37? Matthew 5:38-48?Ancient languagesGreek errors: Matt 11:12 – the kingdom “operates by force” [251]. In Acts 15, Aslan has krino mean “I decree” rather than "It is my judgment" [270]. Overstated! He spells basileus (king) as "Baselius" [234].Hebrew: He denies that in Isa 7:14 'almah is virgin. Yet the point is that that was how the ancient Jews understood it, as evidenced in the LXX, where 'almah is rendered parthenos. Aslan writes Xristos and Yesus ha Xristos – confusing the two languages!Latin: dinarii should be denarii. Aslan claims Pilatus means “skilled with the javelin” [46] -- yet at most this means "armed with a javelin."Other: the kingdom of Medea [139] should be Media.Dating & ChronologyPaul's conversion 37 AD [265] (more like 32 or 33 – which Aslan admits, citing Martin Hengel).Phil about 49 AD [170 AD]. But Paul hadn't even visited Corinth that early. Philippi wasn't a city visited on the First Missionary Journey!1 Cor written 50 AD [175]. This is too early -- See the Gallio Inscription.Peter and Paul were executed 66 AD [196]. He should have given a range of acceptable dates, since the persecution began in 64, and Nero died in 68.All four the gospels were written after 70 AD [75]. But most scholars put Mark c.65 AD. (E.g., the fire and other details of 70 AD are missing in the prophecy of Mark 13.)Paul wrote only 7 letters….. [264]Aslan makes it sounds like Nero sends Vespasian after Masada. (I had to read this section three times to figure out what was going on!) Simple proof-reading would have caught that [60-61].Gospel of Thomas in late 1st or early 2nd century. More likely dates to the late 2nd C.Eusebius' church history Aslan puts in the 3rd C – yet it was probably written in the 320s. All scholars consider his Historia Ecclesiae a 4th-century work.The Sepphoris synagogue(s) date to the 5th and 6th century. Yet Aslan implies that the Byzantine period synagogue was there in the 1st century [38]. Aslan fails to mention that, as he paints a picture of cosmopolitan and wordly Jews.Jesus had a two-year ministry. John's gospel suggests a ministry of 3 or 3.5 years.Old Testament / Judaism errorsAslan mocks the notion that the law was given through angels, as Stephen claims in Acts 7 [168] Later, however, he but admits the idea does come into Judaism (as we see in Gal 3:19).Passover celebration is mainly a political act [144]. While there are political nuances, it was far more than a mere political statement.Aslan uncritically accepts the tradition that when serving in the Holy of Holies the high priest was tied to a rope, in case he died while on duty [9] , without letting the reader know that this is in doubt. The tradition might be true, but it is a mistake to present a possibility as a fact.His view of the Conquest is extreme (utter annihilation) [15]. The O.T. depicts a replacement of the Canaanite population through war, flight, conversion, and intermarriage.David spoke about himself in Ps 16, not the Messiah [166-167]. Yet that doesn't mean the application is wrong. In general, the early Christians used texts to prove Jesus was the Christ that were widely accepted in Judaism.VI. [OUTLANDISH] QUOTESPaul insists he is far superior to all the other apostles [185]. “Simply put, Paul does not consider himself the thirteenth apostle. He thinks he is the first" [186].About the Gospels: “Factual accuracy was irrelevant. What mattered was Christology, not history” [154]. Yet Christianity is a historical religion—a faith anchored in history. If God did not visit our world, if Jesus did not take our sins on the Cross and rise from the dead, then our faith is vain.“Simon Peter was “displaying the reckless confidence of one uninitiated in the scriptures” [166]. Yet I'm not so sure those lacking training would have been as confident as Simon Peter. After all, he was learned in that he had received three years of training from the best teacher on earth -- far better than the typical course of being a disciple to a rabbi.“Paul had no idea who the living Jesus was, nor did he care" [187].“Paul's breezy dismissal of the very foundations of Judaism was as shocking to the leaders of the Jesus movement in Jerusalem as it would have been to Jesus himself” [186].“The story of the zealous Galilean peasant and Jewish nationalist who donned the mantle of messiah and launched a foolhardy rebellion against the corrupt Temple priesthood and the vicious Roman occupation comes to an abrupt end, not with his death on the cross, nor with the empty tomb, but at the first moment one of his followers [like Paul] dares suggest he is God” [169]. But Paul was thoroughly Jewish. The idea of Christ's divinity was not easily digestible -- especially to a Jew.VII. CONCLUSIONThe thesis – that Jesus was a failed revolutionary – is a failed thesis. It is deeply flawed.Aslan makes the same mistake made by those who rejected Jesus as true Messiah in his own day!Aslan admits that once he rejected Christianity he was “confused and spiritually unmoored” [xix]. This shows in his book.One appropriate adjective for the thesis / book: tendentious.Zealot received many accolades—I notice that none are from biblical scholars.Should people read this book?Although I cannot recommend the book as a source for solid information, there are some interesting parts.Further, so much is skewed that many Christians will be put off by Zealot. They will feel belittled.However, teachers, preachers, and other church leaders should know their Bibles well enough to be able to refute these claims, to give truth and confidence to those who may be rattled by teachers like Aslan. That means someone needs to wade in and devote some time to untangling the critics' arguments.

Assertions made public this week by former U.S. intelligence official David Grusch about secretive government programs to recover and reverse-engineer crashed technology manufactured by non-human intelligences have brought the world to the brink of ET reality acceptance. Links/Sources: David Grusch Former Intelligence Official Says U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin - YouTube (3) sigmawhalegrindset

The Legal Team discusses the process involved with filing a tenant's assertion and the standards for doing so.

Dependent types are a more expressive type system in programming languages used to catch a larger class of errors at compile time. What are would be typically assertions at runtime can now be caught at compile time.Show notes:Proposition as TypesParse, Don't Validation“Scala vs Idris: Dependent types, now and in the future”Resources:http://www.e-pig.org/downloads/ydtm.pdfhttps://gist.github.com/Hirrolot/27e6b02a051df333811a23b97c375196Proof Theory Impressionism: Blurring the Curry-Howard LineType Systems - The Good, Bad and UglyDependent types for practical useIdris: Practical Dependent Types with Practical ExamplesMaking Illegal States unrepresentableCan types replace validationhttps://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/WG2.8/26/slides/xavier.pdf

Should you go carnivore? If you ask that question to my next guest on the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show, the answer would be a resounding yes. In today's podcast, I have the pleasure of chatting with my former rugby teammate turned neurosurgeon, Anthony Chaffee, MD. Dr. Chaffee is a fierce advocate of the carnivore diet and has completely eliminated all plant-based foods from his repertoire citing them as toxic and carcinogenic.  No fruits. No vegetables. No carbohydrates. No sugar. No artificial sweeteners. His diet consists entirely of meat and water, and he says he feels incredible. In today's conversation, we talk about:

Greg talks about how making modest assertions can actually strengthen your argument (referencing an article by Dolores Morris), then he answers a question about why God would predestine people for salvation if he gave us free will.   Topics: Commentary: Strengthen your argument with modest assertions. (00:00) If God gave us free will, why would he predestine anyone for salvation at all? (35:00) Mentioned on the Show:  Reality Student Apologetics Conference – March 24–25, 2023 in Philadelphia, PA; April 21–22, 2023 in Augusta, GA Upcoming events with Stand to Reason speakers STR Outposts STR's Ambassador's Creed Weaker Assertion → Stronger Argument by Dolores G. Morris Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity's Toughest Challenges by Greg Koukl Question about predestination from the previous episode Related Links: God Reforms Hearts: Rethinking Free Will and the Problem of Evil by Thaddeus Williams (on the question of whether libertarian free will is required for real love) “Forced Love” Is the Wrong Way to Look at It by Amy Hall

This is a podcast, and that was an assertion. Joseph spent a year exploring the nature of assertions like this in his thesis (which was mostly written after midnight, apparently). This is also the last interview conducted by last year's student producer, Amelie. Thank you Amelie for all the work you did for the podcast, and for helping us get to where we are. Reed community members can read Joseph's thesis, “Asserting as Committing,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/9e17a67d-63a5-4b51-b128-a357ecc8ff9f

In a recent telephone conversation, Agent Berrellez made several assertions and asked me to look at them with an open mind, to which I agreed.  In this episode, we analyze those assertions seeking factual support and consistency.  In the end, our review leaves us questioning many of the contentions aired in "The Last Narc" and doubting the veracity of the witnesses relied upon by the prosecution, Agent Berrellez, and the filmmakers.  

This podcast focuses on assertions as identified by ISA 315 (Revised 2019) and also provides useful guidance to candidates on how to tackle questions dealing with these.

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Welcome to The Open Door! This week (Aug. 10) we move, virtually, to Australia. We're heading to Perth, the capital of West Australia. We'll discuss theology and philosophy in the context of Catholic life there. Our welcome guest is Frank Calneggia. He's the author of Assertion and Refutation (En Route Books and Media, 2022). In it he challenges another Australian thinker, the theologian Tracey Rowland. On what grounds? Her understanding of natural law, a subject dear to our Thomist hearts. Among the questions we will ask are the following. Please feel free to suggest your own.1. Frank, if we may, could you first tell us a bit about yourself?2. How fares the Church in Australia today? What kind of leader is Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Cardinal George Pell's successor?3. What's the philosophical climate in Catholic educational institutions? Can you give us more background on John Finnis and Peter Singer, two well known Australian philosophers.4. How did you come to lock horns, as it were, with Tracey Rowland? What are some of the chief claims in her influential essay “Natural Law: From Neo Thomism to Nuptial Mysticism” (Communio: Fall, 2008)?5. Can we understand natural law apart from Catholic theology?6. Does St. Paul appeal to natural law in his Epistle to the Romans?7. Just what is natural theology?8. Following St. Thomas Aquinas, the guiding principle of your book is “The study of philosophy does not consist in knowing what others have thought but to know the truth of things.” Why is this principle controversial in our “interesting times”?9. Pilate asks Jesus “What is truth”? How would St. Thomas answer this question?10. You are a keen student of papal encyclicals. The American Solidarity Party is sometimes called “the party that reads the encyclicals.” If there were such a party in Australia how might it challenge status quo politics in your country? https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/assertions-and-refutations/

Assertions of Tamil Nadu's autonomy & identity are at play in ongoing 44th Chess Olympiad, with DMK-led state govt continuing its discourse on federalism, say political observers.----more----Read the article here: https://theprint.in/india/from-bojack-in-veshti-to-black-queens-triumph-chess-olympiads-tamil-identity-politics/1066230/

A Supreme Court majority found in West Virginia v. EPA that the federal agency lacked authority to make bold assertions of authority based on old vague statutes in areas where Congress clearly chose not to act. Will Yeatman authored Cato's brief in the case. He explains the case's importance to administrative law going forward. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chris Smith and Ivana Ivanovic of Retool drop by The MongoDB Podcast to discuss the State of Engineering Time report. How are developers spending their time, what tools are aiding them to be more productive and efficient, and why does it matter? All this and more in their conversation with host and MongoDB Principal Developer Advocate, Mike Lynn.Highlights of the conversation include: [1:51] Ivana talks about the State of Engineering Time report[3:09] Chris Smith's involvement in the creation of the report[4:42] Understanding the consequences of administrative overlay to people's time[6:40] Surprise learnings from the report[9:20] Chris' experience as a developer advocate and where he spends his time in engineering[10:44] Does Chris agree with the results of the survey?[13:00] The report structure and its assertions[14:59] How long it took to produce the report[15:40] Assertions around remote work life and productivity compared to pre-COVID

On this episode I have a fascinating conversation with Kimberly Watson Smith. Kimberly has been the leading voice in debunking the “Who killed Joseph Smith” film and the theory it presents. Not only do we cover that but we also dig into what the “Doctrine of Christ” movement is, Its founder and also some of their ideas. We wrap up our conversation by talking about some amazing prophetic parallels and events surrounding the martyrdom of Joseph & Hyrum Smith. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dave-kirkenbower/support

The Sage of Tampa Bay Sports has watched the film and studied the pedigrees, and now he's prepared to slap a grade and an evaluation on the Buccaneers' 2022 NFL Draft. And there's much more on the buffet with Joe, […] The post Ira Kaufman Talks Jamel Dean, Rachaad White's Mental Game, More Todd Bowles' Assertions On Offense, The Bruce Arians Loss, A Fresh Twist On The Great Defensive Tackle Debate, And More appeared first on JoeBucsFan.com.

Prince Andrew denied that he was not being helpful in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, even though the United States Federal government and Berman both said he had not been forthcoming when approached. So, who was telling the truth? Let's take a look back and see what went down. (commercial at 7:16)To contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/prince-andrew-angry-and-bewildered-at-claims-he-wouldnt-help-fbis-epstein-probe/

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In auditing financials we assess risk with assertions.  What are the risks and assertions you make in your own financial life?  Using budgets and other types of financial tools can help reduce your risks.  This episode will open your eyes to decision making by understanding risks and assertions.

Understanding your risks and assertions are important to understanding your finances.  Don't run from them understand them. Complete your net worth statement and your budget to get the year going and finish strong.