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As AI changes the way nonprofits connect with donors, the big question is: can technology make fundraising more personal, not less?  Derric Bakker, CEO at DickersonBakker, explores how fundraising has moved from personal, relationship-based work to more transactional communication. He shares how AI can help nonprofits bring personalized donor experiences to more people, not just major donors.  The discussion covers key ideas such as listening to donors, personalizing messages, showing genuine thanks, building trust, respecting donor timing, and focusing on long-term relationships.   Derric also highlights the importance of using AI responsibly. Nonprofits should be honest when AI is involved and should never use technology to trick or pressure donors. Trust is at the heart of successful fundraising, and once it is lost, it can be difficult to rebuild.   The conversation also looks at how nonprofits can use AI to scale personal communication while keeping the human side of fundraising strong.   Overall, the message is simple: use AI to strengthen relationships, not replace them. The future of fundraising should combine smart technology with genuine human connection.  HIGHLIGHST   [02:00] Derric's Professional Journey   [06:07] The Shift Toward Transactional Fundraising  [10:37] Genesis of A Better Way to Fundraise   [16:46] Core Principles of Relationship Fundraising  [21:17] AI Ethics and Maintaining Donor Trust   [35:19] The Future Outlook for Fundraising  Resources:  Connect with Derric:  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/derricbakker/  Website: betterwaychampions.org/  Website: dickersonbakker.com/  Mentioned in the episode:  A Better Way to Fundraise - Treat Every Donor Like a Major Donor: How AI is Enabling Major Giving at Scale - And Reshaping the Future of Philanthropy: amazon.com/Better-Way-Fundraise-Reshaping-Philanthropy    Better Way Champions — Resources and a growing community of nonprofit leaders working to rethink the future of fundraising: BetterWayChampions.org    Better Way Champions on Substack — Derric's latest writing on fundraising, philanthropy, AI, and the changes reshaping our sector: https://betterwaychampions.substack.com/subscribe 

Fiona Spruill is CEO of Overstory, a company helping electric utilities reduce power outages and wildfire risk using satellite imagery, aerial data, and AI-powered vegetation intelligence. Since joining as employee number 10 and later stepping into the CEO role, Spruill has helped Overstory evolve from a vegetation mapping startup into a resilience platform serving many of North America's largest utilities. In this episode of Inevitable, Spruill explains why vegetation management is one of the largest operating expenses for utilities and how improving grid resilience starts with better risk prioritization—not simply collecting more data. The conversation explores how Overstory combines satellite imagery, computer vision, and customer data to help utilities identify vegetation threats, wildfire fuels, and infrastructure risks before disasters occur. Spruill also discusses selling into the utility industry, the growing importance of resilience as climate risks expand beyond the western U.S., and how the company navigated an extraordinary leadership transition following the loss of co-founder and CEO Indra den Bakker. Note: Overstory is an MCJ portfolio company Episode recorded on July 22, 2026 (Published on August 11, 2026). In this episode, we cover:  (0:00) An overview of Overstory (4:44) Why vegetation management is one of utilities' biggest expenses (6:17) How Overstory helps prevent outages and catastrophic wildfires (7:33) From vegetation mapping startup to grid resilience platform (9:14) Why utilities need better prioritization (12:03) What utilities see inside the Overstory platform (14:12) How satellite imagery, aerial data, and AI power the product (17:31) Supporting wildfire prevention and public safety power shutoffs (19:16) Where Overstory fits within utility resilience strategies (21:21) Lessons from selling climate technology to utilities (25:18) Serving both rural co-ops and North America's largest utilities (28:21) How wildfire risk is expanding globally (30:26) Fiona's leadership journey and Overstory's evolution (34:44) Building a global remote-first company and culture (38:21) Overstory's fundraising journey and investor partnerships (42:09) Measuring climate impact through operational change Enjoyed this episode? Please leave us a review! Share feedback or suggest future topics and guests at info@mcj.vc.Connect with MCJ:Cody Simms on LinkedInVisit mcj.vcSubscribe to the MCJ Newsletter*Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant

Tom Bakker is a talented engineer who has worked in LPBF, custom machine building, and on semiconductor equipment. Now he wants to make LPBF metal printing cheap. With Metal Base, Tom is developing a low-cost system that will make LPBF accessible. He has already sold 6 to beta testers, and the systems are running there. Now, through Kickstarter, he’s sold 20 more. We hear about how Tom is planning to make LPBF accessible and how far he has come. This episode of the 3DPOD is brought to you by Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions, the industry leader in large-scale 3D metal printing and operator of the world’s largest wire arc additive manufacturing facility. Backed by Lincoln Electric’s 130-plus years of deep expertise in welding, metallurgy, automation, and process control, Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions helps manufacturers push beyond the limits of traditional part production, enabling greater design flexibility, more agile sourcing strategies, and new possibilities for producing large, complex metal components. 

Het is een tijdje stil geweest rondom de podcast van Het Urkerland. Maar inmiddels zijn Albert Brouwer en Jelle Bakker terug van vakantie. We bevinden ons nog steeds in de nieuwsluwe weken van het jaar. Toch lagen er diverse actuele onderwerpen klaar om even na te bespreken. Daarnaast had Albert via een vaste luisteraar een heel bijzonder verhaal opgedaan. Een link tussen Urk en het veraf gelegen Paaseiland. Hoe zit dat?

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message. On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Annette Bakker, Ph.D., CEO at the Children's Tumor Foundation, and Andrew Lo, Ph.D., Finance Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, talk about the methods and economics for turning abandoned drug candidates into new therapies for patients. Annette and Andrew share the story of Gomekli, a formerly shelved Pfizer drug candidate spun out into SpringWorks Therapeutics, and approved in 2025 for NF Type 1 tumors (Merck KGaA subsequently acquired SpringWorks for $3.9 billion). They also detail plans for bringing more shelved candidates back into development, using a shared data infrastructure and a matchmaking tool to pair interested drug developers with investors and funding. Access this and hundreds of episodes of the Business of Biotech videocast under the Business of Biotech tab at lifescienceleader.com.  Subscribe to our monthly Business of Biotech newsletter. Get in touch with guest and topic suggestions: ben.comer@lifescienceleader.comFind Ben Comer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bencomer/

Warning: This discussion contains major spoilers for the entire Second Apocalypse series, including The Aspect-Emperor novels.Our spoiler-filled reread of The Second Apocalypse continues with Part IV: The Warrior from The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker.This section marks the return of Kellhus to center stage as he begins his uneasy journey alongside Cnaiür. Looking back after finishing the entire seven book series, these chapters reveal countless layers of foreshadowing that are easy to overlook on a first read.In this episode, we discuss Kellhus' reunion with Cnaiür, Moënghus' lasting influence over both father and son, and the complicated relationship that begins to form between Kellhus, Cnaiür, and Serwë. We also explore the brutality of the northern wilderness, the nature of the Sranc, the first hints surrounding Kellhus' mysterious halos, and several fascinating clues that point toward revelations much later in the series.Along the way, we examine Bakker's incredible prose, the philosophical ideas hidden beneath the action, and some of our favorite passages from Part IV: The Warrior.Page Chewing BlogBecome a Page Chewing MemberPage Chewing ForumJoin Captivate.fmJoin PodMatchWant to be a guest on Page Chewing? Send Steve a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/17812034246205083f1bfa4f1Send a message via SpeakPipePodcast equipment used (Amazon Affiliate links):Rodecaster DuoRode PSA1+ Professional Studio ArmRode Procaster Microphone

379: How to Treat Every Donor Like a Major Donor (Derric Bakker) Episode SummaryNonprofit leaders and fundraisers are exhausted, and the instinct when results slip is to simply work harder. In this episode of Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership, Derric Bakker, Founder & CEO of DickersonBakker, argues that today's struggle is not a down cycle teams can out-hustle but a structural shift in how people give, driven by demographics, the widening wealth gap, fraying community and religious ties, and donors who now expect the personalized experience every consumer brand delivers. Returning after his 2022 conversation (Episode #181), Derric makes the provocative case behind his new book: the relational behaviors long reserved for the top 1 percent of major donors, listening first, personalizing every touchpoint, stewarding consistently, and protecting trust, can become the operating system for fundraising at every level. He explains where AI makes that possible at scale, where it must never replace the human on the other end, and what a practical first step looks like, from rethinking donor survey data to reimagining portfolio size and gratitude. Listeners come away with a clear-eyed diagnosis of why the old model broke and a hopeful sense of the leadership and board decisions that move an organization toward a better way.About DerricDerric Bakker is the Founder & CEO of DickersonBakker, a fundraising consulting and agency firm that helps nonprofit organizations grow, thrive, and make a bigger impact, with a team of more than 50 working with over 100 clients a year. Across more than three decades in the sector, Derric moved through three chapters, roughly a decade as a frontline practitioner, a decade in consulting, and leadership of the firm he launched in 2010 that later merged to become DickersonBakker, and he is now entering a fourth focused on writing, teaching, and thought leadership as Andrew Olson takes the helm as president. Mentored early in his career by the legendary Jerry Panas, Derric built his expertise on relationship-based major gift fundraising, the foundation of his new book. Reflecting on the pace of change, he often points out that nearly everything about the work has been transformed by technology since he started, yet many of fundraising's core assumptions have stubbornly stayed the same.ResourcesConnect with Derric Bakker on LinkedIn and learn more about DickersonBakkerDerric's book: A Better Way to Fundraise: Treat Every Donor Like a Major Donor — explore the book and discussion guides at betterwaychampions.orgRecommended reading: Nonprofit AI by Nathan Chappell (who, with Brian Crimmins, was a past guest on Episode #211, Is Philanthropy in a State of Crisis?)Registration is open for Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy - Learn more at institutepl.orgLearn more about Inperium, a nonprofit that helps health and human services organizations grow without sacrificing their mission: Inperium.orgLearn more about the leadership resources at Armstrong McGuire: ArmstrongMcGuire.com

Agnete Vienberg Hansen, ph.d-studerende og underviser på Københavns Universitet, bakker hundrede procent op om den omstridte KU-underviser Lino Vogts ret til at bringe et billede med teksten "Death, death to the IDF" i forbindelse med sin undervisning på Københavns Universitet. Noget, han ellers har fået massiv kritik for.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leer je een taal beter bij de bakker dan uit een lesboek?Veel taaldocenten herkennen het: leerlingen kennen de woorden en grammatica, maar vinden het spannend om een echt gesprek te voeren.In deze aflevering vertelt docent Duits Gorik Hageman hoe hij met leerlingen Duits oefent in een echte stad. In de Duitstalige Belgische stad Eupen bestellen ze een broodje bij de bakker, kopen ze een treinkaartje en bestellen ze een ijsje – niet als rollenspel, maar in gesprekken met echte mensen.Wat doet zo'n ervaring met leerlingen? Hoe verandert spanning in zelfvertrouwen? En hoe organiseer je als docent zo'n real-life taaldorp?Een aflevering over spreekvaardigheid, praktijkgericht taalonderwijs en dat ene moment waarop een leerling denkt: ‘Hé, ik kan iets van Duits.'

Trees are a major cause of power outages. They're also a wildfire risk—when branches hit a conductor, a small spark can become a big blaze. Lynn Petesch of Overstory joins thinkenergy to talk trees, exploring how AI, satellite imagery, and vegetation intelligence help utilities prevent outages and reduce wildfire threats. Including Hydro Ottawa, who saw a 44% drop in tree-related outages since partnering with Overstory. Listen in for how we work together to keep the grid safe in an era of extreme weather.   Related links    Overstory: https://www.overstory.com/ Lynn Petesch on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnpetesch/    Trevor Freeman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-freeman-p-eng-8b612114    Hydro Ottawa: https://hydroottawa.com/en      To subscribe using Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinkenergy/id1465129405 To subscribe using Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wFz7rdR8Gq3f2WOafjxpl To subscribe on Libsyn: http://thinkenergy.libsyn.com/ --- Subscribe so you don't miss a video: https://www.youtube.com/user/hydroottawalimited Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydroottawa Stay in the know on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HydroOttawa Keep up with the posts on X: https://twitter.com/thinkenergypod --- Transcript: [00:00:00] Trevor Freeman: Hi everyone, and welcome to the summer edition of Think Energy. We are officially in podcast vacation mode. So while our normal day-to-day work continues, we're taking a brief pause from our kind of regularly scheduled episodes to recharge, to think about what's coming up in the year ahead content-wise, and just do some planning. But while we do so, we don't want to leave you without anything to listen to, so we look back at some of our favorite insights and episodes over the past year, and that is our summer rewind. So this summer, we're tackling a pretty significant and overarching theme that's really defining the current state of the energy transition, and that is the collision between digital infrastructure and physical infrastructure as it relates to our energy grid. It's this really kind of fascinating look at old versus new, traditional versus up-and-coming, and how we progress to meet the energy needs of our customer base, the growing energy needs as we electrify, as we, you know, expand, while also implementing new technology to protect our grid, protect our assets, to better manage things. So it's kind of a common theme in a lot of episodes that we have done in the last little while and a lot of the conversations that we're having. So in Part 1 today, we're kicking things off with a look at the physical world of our grid and how we're using new technology to protect it, and that is our conversation with Overstory. So we'll re-examine how we use high-resolution satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to act as kind of a shield almost, you know, helping utilities proactively manage our vegetation and reduce vegetation-to-powerline contact, which can reduce power outages, wildfires in many cases, and really has been an important tool for us here at Hydro Ottawa as well as in the utility industry more broadly. So sit back and have a listen to my conversation with Lynn Pedesch from Overstory, and enjoy this summer rewind.   [00:02:26] Trevor Feeman: Welcome to Think Energy, the podcast that dives into the fast-changing world of energy through conversations with industry leaders, innovators, and people on the frontlines of the energy transition. Join me, Trevor Freeman, as I explore the traditional, unconventional, and up-and-coming facets of the energy industry. If you have any thoughts, feedback, or ideas for topics we should cover, please reach out to us at thinkenergy@hydroottawa.com.   [00:02:58] Trevor Freeman: Hi everyone, welcome back. Today on Think Energy, we're going to be talking about trees. Yes, you heard that correctly—trees. I know this is a show about energy, but there's actually a very real connection between our electricity grid and those slow-growing, majestic givers of shade, lumber, fruit, and so many more benefits. Honestly, who doesn't love trees? But I'm not just kicking this episode off in my capacity as a tree hugger. Let's take a look at this through a utility lens, and I will use Hydro Ottawa as an example. Hydro Ottawa's service territory includes some very rural and very forested areas. Even our urban territory has a fairly extensive tree canopy. As a result, Hydro Ottawa trims about 60,000 trees each year. Now why? Because trees contacting power infrastructure is a big problem. Tree interference remains a leading cause of power outages for us. Strong winds force them onto our wires. Heavy snow or freezing rain builds up and weighs down branches, breaks limbs, and increases the risk that part of a tree may touch a line. And in some extreme cases, heavy storms can even send trees or branches crashing into our poles, damaging the poles. The struggle between power lines and trees—which again, don't get me wrong, we all love trees—has been going on for years. There is a constant struggle between trimming enough and getting the right trees trimmed and maintaining as much tree coverage as we can. In 2022, we identified a disruptor in this stance. The solution came through a partnership with Overstory, a company that uses satellite imagery, infrared technology, and artificial intelligence to help utilities manage vegetation and trim trees more efficiently. And the timing could not have been better. Just days after we started working with Overstory in the spring of 2022, the Derecho hit Ottawa. Our Ottawa-based listeners will remember this storm well. It was monumental in the history of our city and indeed for us as a utility. Winds reached 190 kilometers an hour. For our non-metric listeners, that's nearly 120 miles per hour. The storm ripped through poles, houses, and caused considerable damage to our city's urban forest. Overstory played a crucial role during the cleanup and in helping us level up our vegetation management strategies moving forward. We realized that the insights we got from Overstory would help improve our proactive approach to tree encroachment and hazard identification, and this is essential in this era of extreme weather events. We know that climate change is causing more frequent and more extreme weather events. According to Climate Central, the number of weather-related power outages in the United States increased by 78% between 2011 and 2021. And severe weather accounted for over a thousand outages across Nova Scotia just in the year of 2024. We want to keep you connected during these heavy storms, and that's why we're looking to organizations like Overstory. So what does Overstory do to help us keep the lights on? Well, without giving away too much, because we're going to get into the details shortly, Overstory, through a detailed analysis of the scans they do of our entire grid, identifies high-risk areas which we can then prioritize and better focus our resources when it comes to vegetation management. This level of monitoring and focus reduces the risk of trees from coming into contact with our poles and disrupting your connection to the grid. The results speak for themselves. Since partnering with Overstory, we've reduced vegetation-related outages by 44%. And that's only part of the story. As we'll discuss further, Overstory also plays a crucial role in helping utilities prevent wildfires in high-risk areas across North America. Similar to extreme weather, wildfire frequency and intensity is also increasing, in part due to climate change, expanding cities, and many other factors. And when wildfires do happen, these stories are heartbreaking. What many people don't realize is that lots of wildfires are sparked by trees making contact with power lines. And that is why Overstory plays a key role in tagging areas where those fires are most likely to ignite and spread, making it easier for utilities to prioritize trimming work and vegetation management in those areas. To dive more into how Overstory is helping us here at Hydro Ottawa and other utilities, helping us identify and act to mitigate risk associated with vegetation, I'm really excited to have Lynn Pedesch on the show today. Lynn is Overstory's Head of Customer Success and has spent the past 10 years building customer-facing teams with a specific focus on technologies that tackle the climate crisis. She began her career working for the United Nations and the diplomatic service of her home country Luxembourg, before moving into the tech sector to really work in environments where she could drive impact more quickly and at greater scale. Lynn Pedesch, welcome to the show.   [00:08:05] Lynn Pedesch: Thank you. Thanks for having me.   [00:08:07] Trevor Freeman: Okay, so let's start at the very top with a high-level look at what Overstory does and how the organization came to be.   [00:08:15] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, let me tell you about Overstory. I mean, we are a vegetation intelligence platform. We use remote sensing and AI to give electric utilities, including Hydro Ottawa and others, a clear system-wide view of their risk. They always do it because they want to address three things, or sometimes more, but kind of there's always a few goal posts, and it's either improving reliability, reducing wildfire risk if that is if they're in an area where that is a concern, and/or improving operational efficiencies. So Overstory very much becomes a decision-making tool for their programs. We're used mostly by the vegetation management people, operations people, wildfire mitigation teams, and they each time they want to either use a program that exists, prioritize it, reshape their work, they might be preparing for a storm, they might be working on a wildfire mitigation risk. So the company more broadly was founded in 2018 by Aniek Schouten and Indra den Bakker—this was back in the Netherlands. And they were leveraging or getting really interested in satellite imagery and were very initially using it for deforestation purposes. So the climate resilience DNA has always been with us, but like any startup, we were looking at that kind of target audience that was most interested in what we had to offer. And pretty quickly, we landed on the electric utilities. They had the most pressing need to use remote sensing at scale to solve very big problems, honestly. And so we pivoted into that space of electric utilities. And then in 2020, Fiona Spruill, who's our CEO right now, she joined us. She shaped the company into what it is today, and that is really around building safer and more reliable operations.   [00:10:14] Trevor Freeman: That's great, and I want to dive into some of the details. Our listeners will know that we talk a lot about grid modernization here and talk a lot about better intelligence of what's happening on the grid in all aspects. And something we haven't really talked about and I'm excited to talk to you about today is the sort of vegetation management side of it. So really excited to get into the details, but before we do that, I'm always really curious to understand, you know, the people behind the conversations. How did you get into this area of, you know, high-tech vegetation management? I touched a little bit on your bio in the intro, but give us a sense of, you know, how did Lynn come to be in the space that you're in right now?   [00:10:52] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I wouldn't say I grew up thinking I was going to work in this space, but I love working in it now. So actually right out of college, I went to work for the United Nations, but then in the last 15 years, I started working at high-growth tech companies, startups, and I've always been focused on leading and building CS operations, which is basically the customer success teams. They're the ones that are in front of the customers, implementing these software programs, kind of working very closely with customers, solving problems. And about four years ago, I decided that I did want to focus the rest of my career on solving the climate crisis more broadly. And I remember very clearly that I came across Overstory and there were two things that really resonated with me. One was hearing that utility-caused wildfires could be a thing of the past—like they are preventable—and the other thing was learning about this world where vegetation is the biggest cause of outages, which is, you know, I did not know before! And so I think, you know, having these very clear goals is very compelling to kind of work on something where it's so easy to understand what the big problems are. So I joined Overstory, and for the last couple of years, I've been building a team that gets really deeply embedded in these utilities, specifically with the vegetation management and the wildfire mitigation teams. And we work on their programs, we understand their programs, we help them reshape their programs, we roll out obviously the software element that is Overstory. It's been very fun and rewarding work.   [00:12:30] Trevor Freeman: That's great. And I really love, you know, talking to people from a variety of areas that touch on climate change and the climate crisis, and I think there's a bunch of us who share that passion of wanting to do something. I spoke with a group of recent grads about what a green career, what a career in climate change looks like, and really it looks like whatever you want it to look like. There are so many aspects that touch on this. So kind of neat to hear how that was your passion and then you figured out where it made sense for you to enter into the climate sphere, so that's great.   [00:13:06] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I guess when I was young, I thought you had to be a scientist to work on climate, and I think now anyone can find an angle on how to contribute to it, and I think everyone needs to help contribute.   [00:13:15] Trevor Freeman: Yeah, any job can be a green job if you care about it and if you make it that. Okay, so let me get back to Overstory. Tell us a little bit about the evolution of the company. You talked about it kind of founding about seven years ago. Tell us how it's evolved and progressed over those seven years.   [00:13:30] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, so when we started working with utilities, I think at that point everyone was kind of assessing whether satellites could be a good use case for analyzing vegetation. We're now talking about 30-centimeter imagery, so the resolution of satellites has become incredible. You can really see branches, you can detect species of trees, you can see if they're healthy or not. So initially that was kind of our MO. We really were the leading provider to find out where the trees are, how close they are in terms of proximity to your network, so to the conductor, which is the risk. You know, we're looking at the terrain. If you're looking in the mountains in Colorado, you have very different terrain than maybe in Ottawa. So, you know, detecting tree species has been really interesting, detecting the health of trees, and how that decline is furthering. A lot of utilities are experiencing a lot of tree decline, die-off right now. So that was how we started. And then we started working with the really big utilities, and you had to think about this problem at scale. Now we might be scanning with satellites tens of thousands of miles at a time. And some of these utilities, they might have thousands, if not tens of thousands of trees that could pose a risk to their network. They might have had a really big, large weather event, a storm that knocked over some of their system. So at that point, it all becomes about that decisioning tool. Everything starts becoming a priority. And I think that's now where we're really leaning into, is making not just surfacing the data, but making it very actionable. Utilities have a lot to deal with. They deal with very tight budgets, they deal with crew constraints, they might have an aging workforce, there's regulatory pressure, they're really vulnerable to storms, increasingly there's a lot of wildfire exposure. So everything becomes a decision of where should I focus my attention, where can I get the biggest bang for my buck, what should I do, what should I not focus on. And that decisioning is where we really want to be a key player in.   [00:15:47] Trevor Freeman: Absolutely. And looking forward, I know we're jumping the gun here, we haven't gotten into the details of what you do, but looking forward, what is your vision for kind of the future of this space and how it's going to continue to evolve? Are you mature as a company yet or as a sector, or is there still a lot of growth to happen?   [00:16:04] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I think the vast majority of utilities are now leveraging remote sensing. It could be LiDAR, it could be drones, it could be satellites, so that has become a pretty established tooling within the sector. I think what our vision really is, is providing utilities that share resilience-first picture of risk. So, you know, we imagine a world where you can kind of see the emerging risks and you can start becoming proactive. Being proactive in this space of vegetation management has been really challenging. You never know where the next tree is going to fall, and over the last couple of years, customers suddenly have access to this risk across the territory so they can start being proactive about it. As a matter of fact, that was a key use case also with the team at Hydro Ottawa, is to start launching these proactive programs. And I think when we think about it, we get very excited about the world in which anyone from the field crews to the vegetation managers to the operation folks to the execs to the regulators, the community partners who think about the safety of their communities, all have that kind of shared view of risk. Just imagine, they all understand the same risk, they operate off the same sheet, and they make the same data-driven decisions. That could solve a lot of problems, because right now the data is often scrambled across different people—certain people have access to it, and certain people don't.   [00:17:33] Trevor Freeman: Great. Okay, so let's get into the specifics here. I want to actually talk about specifically what Overstory does. How do you find—we've kind of talked about vegetation management, obviously you're supporting Hydro Ottawa and other utilities in our vegetation management programs—how do you find and tag high-risk vegetation? What is high risk? Like, what do you actually do on a day-to-day basis?   [00:17:58] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, that's the part that I deal with the most often! So excited to get into the specifics. Implementing with Overstory is actually pretty easy. I mean, when we start working with a customer, we need to know where your grid is, so we need to understand where your power lines are running. We need to understand the main configurations of them, you know, how tall are the poles, etc., so we can really compute that whole focus of where the trees are in relation to your power lines, to your conductors. That's all ultimately that we're focusing on. Increasingly, we're also focusing on the ground, I'll be talking about that as well. We then task these satellites over your territory. We do that during the leaf-on season, so that will be the summer, essentially. And then we run all these models. So we first need to understand where the trees are, what is their height, and what is their health. An unhealthy tree is much more likely to fall and cause damage to your power lines. We're looking at the fuels on the ground. We can help you determine what type of equipment you might need to attack certain types of vegetation, and we always compute that risk to the conductor, and we look at your right-of-ways. Now, I think the interesting part about your question is what is high risk, and that can be very different across different utilities. And I think that's the maybe unique part with Overstory, is that we can configure it to your standards. So every utility has very unique components. If you're on the West Coast and you're concerned about wildfires, your tolerance to risk will be very different than if you're on the East Coast where you're mostly concerned about not causing too many outages. Including that, you might have specific trimming specifications. The crews run around with chainsaws, they know exactly how far out they need to trim, how much they can trim, and there's a bit of a risk tolerance thing. So we build very configurable risk frameworks for all of our utility partners, so "high" means one thing to Hydro Ottawa, means something different to a customer in California that is facing a very different type of risk.   [00:20:04] Trevor Freeman: So you're out there assessing, essentially just for the context of our listeners, you know, we've got power lines that run overhead, they run through residential neighborhoods, commercial areas, but also forested areas, treed areas where there's lots of vegetation near our equipment. Your company really gets an understanding of the interaction between the vegetation and our lines, and says these ones are too close, or this is a tree that's, you know, not healthy and could come in contact with your lines based on your analysis. So help us, like let's paint that picture a little bit more detailed. How do utility companies take the information that you are coming up with, that your analysis is coming up with, and use that to run a vegetation management program more effectively? What does a utility do with that information?   [00:20:56] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, so we always center it around four main use cases. One is optimizing a program that already exists, it's creating a targeted program for you, it's quantifying your work, and risk reporting. And I'll dive into each and every one of them a little bit to illustrate a bit more what that could mean. So when we think about program optimization, a lot of utilities have existing vegetation management cycle, they might have a regulatory obligation to visit their territory every four years, for example. Now a lot of times, they've been doing their program the same way for the last 10, maybe 20 years, but the conditions in their territory are different, right? I mean, the things we're seeing, the storms are heavier, there's more tree decline that we're seeing right now. So they know they need to adapt and they need to adjust it, but it's big programs with lots of budgets attached to it, a lot of crews running around, so starting to think about how you can start pulling a circuit that you're meant to trim forward, or starting to tackle an area where you say is more residential, there's fewer trees, focusing on your high-risk areas first, re-managing these programs is one key component that we work with a lot of companies on, and thinking about Oklahoma Gas and Electric, for example, that they have a budget and they can only do that much with the budget, and it was really about reinventing where they can get the biggest impact. The second use case is this targeted program creation, and I'll use the Hydro Ottawa use case for that. You know, they suddenly had a view about where all of their hazard trees are. Hazard trees are these trees that are declining, they're dying or they're dead, and they could have an impact on your system. Now suddenly you know where they are, so you can start building a targeted program about dedicating some time and budget and crews to actually going and addressing those trees. That has a big impact on your reliability and on reducing tree-caused outages. And there's many others, sort of like hot-spotting is a very common term about starting to become proactive and doing something for a specific program. The third use case is work quantification, and I think there, when you think about it again, there's large contractors that are running around managing your territory, and now utilities for the first time often have that data to actually assess how much work there is. So that's really helpful in terms of negotiating your contracts, getting better bids. Some utilities say it's pretty hard to find contractors that want to work on their system because it's very hard to estimate how much work there is. Or they might have a budget to mow certain vegetation along a transmission corridor. Just knowing how much vegetation there is is a really helpful tool to address it and prioritize it in the right way. And then the fourth use case is risk reporting, and that is about getting that baseline view about your risk and tracking it year-over-year. And this is really where we want utilities to have that data to report it out to their boards, insurers, regulators, and often it's used to defend your budget, secure your budgets, or really have some data to kind of back you up on what the problems are that you're facing.   [00:24:26] Trevor Freeman: Great. So you talk about data, and, you know, each of those use cases that you mentioned or strategies that you mentioned really are about getting the right information in the hands of the right people to make decisions and sort of more efficiently and effectively make decisions. But it's a lot of data. And so Hydro Ottawa has over 6,000 kilometers of lines, you know this of course as our partner. We have a big territory and we have a fairly treed territory. That's a lot of data points. You're collecting a lot of data from your satellites, you're doing analysis on that. How are you doing that analysis? Is it—you know, AI is kind of a buzzword in every sector right now, and the utility sector's no different. Are you using some form of AI or machine learning analytics? What are you doing in terms of, you know, crunching the numbers and coming up with the right actions?   [00:25:25] Lynn Pedesch: Totally. Yeah, AI is a buzzword, but it's also very exciting. I think utilities have really embraced it already. They're using it for demand forecasting, they're using it for customer service, they're using it for asset planning. I mean, at the core, Overstory has been using AI to turn remote sensing data into operationally useful intelligence about their vegetation. So when you say, yes, Hydro Ottawa has that many thousands of kilometers of overhead lines, we need to rank it to them: This is your worst circuit, this is your worst area, this is the area where you have the most hazard trees, for example. So we can really rank order on a span level from the worst to the best, right? So that could be one thing. It's still an overwhelming amount of data. So where we started by using AI to kind of predict where the trees are, how tall are they, what was their relation to the conductors, now what we're really excited about or kind of leaning into with AI is how to intelligently kind of assess and prioritize risk. So not every hazard tree has the same impact. If a hazard tree falls on a line where more houses are dependent on, you will knock out the power of more people. So it's always a prioritization exercise, and leveraging AI for that is what is most exciting to us right now. And I think it's important to note that we also don't just want it to be a black box. All of the models we've built, they're always validated by certified arborists and kind of our utility partners, and I think at this stage, this is very important, because every tree that we find exists in the real world, and so validating this AI with ground-truthing has been really important for us to also build that trust in the technology.   [00:27:14] Trevor Freeman: That's great. And I do think it's helpful for our listeners to kind of understand the context before this. This work is sort of done—you know, in the absence of a tool like yours, it's sort of done, you know, there's a degree of manual effort here. There's a degree of patrolling the lines, there's a cycle of vegetation management. So if you've done a line this year, in three years or four years or five years, you want to be looking at it again. This takes a little bit of that—I don't want to call it guesswork, but it takes a little bit of that manual effort out of the equation and really focuses efforts in the right way, and it's only with the tools that, you know, you folks are using that you're able to do that volume of analysis and get that pinpoint accuracy. So that's fantastic. Let me get into the success of it all, like the big picture. We've obviously talked a couple times here that you're our partner here at Hydro Ottawa, so I know the success that we're having with you, but, you know, tell us some of the great success stories with other utility partners. Are you actually reducing weather-related outages? Are you seeing the impact of using the Overstory tools and methodology to support utility partners?   [00:28:28] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah. I mean, weather-related outages can mean many things. You have trees knocking over, like the pole might crack, etc. You know, those, there's a lot of things that can happen during a storm, and I've heard a lot of stories about some of the storms that Ottawa has experienced in the past years where, you know, you could have had anything and they're just heavier and the consequences are really strong. But what we can impact is the tree-caused outages. And that we've proven with Hydro Ottawa where, within a year, by focusing that targeted program on going to an area where you had a massive amount of these trees that were dying off, and at any point with just a little bit too heavy wind could be toppled over and fall on the line, we had a 44% reduction in tree-caused outages. That's a real, tangible number you can see. I'm thinking about a utility as well on the East Coast, a co-op that runs through very rural areas. In those areas, you have trees outside of the right-of-way that are toppling over onto lines, so tree-caused outages are a huge issue for them and it's really impacting their SAIDI and SAIFI, those key KPIs that utilities are always tracking. And by us just giving them a rank order of which hazard tree—they had so many of them—which hazard tree to even go to first, because if that hazard tree were to fall on a line, a ton more people are going to be out of power than if the other one were to fall on the line where you will have like one rural cabin that will not have power. That led to a reduction of something around 90% of tree-caused outages to 70%. It's still a long way to go, but it was a really tangible number that you can see, and it shows that if you then do that proactive work, you have a real impact on your tree-caused outages. And if I think about our customers in California, Pacific Gas and Electric for example, it's a lot about helping them understand where they don't need to go. So it's kind of doing something of a visual inspection and actually skipping certain spans. That can be in itself a really big use case, because right now, if you don't have an understanding about where your risks are, you might be sending trucks to roll for hours around areas where there is not really any tangible work to be done. So redirecting them to the right areas is where we've seen a lot of success there, and that obviously leads to budget wins, right? You'll be saving a lot of money by doing that, and those are kind of the use cases that we chase and that we kind of help prove the cases on.   [00:31:07] Trevor Freeman: Absolutely. Yeah, there's only so many resources you can throw at this, and making sure that we prioritize and focus those resources in the right spot is absolutely critical. You were just talking about the West Coast and you mentioned this earlier, I know wildfires is an area that is obviously of great interest for your organization. We're fortunate here at Hydro Ottawa in that we haven't really had to deal with that much, but anybody who's, you know, following the news knows this is a major problem for us. So how, what is your role in helping those utilities prevent wildfires? Maybe give us a very quick primer on why utilities are a factor when it comes to wildfires first, and then how your organization is supporting that.   [00:31:52] Lynn Pedesch: So unfortunately, utility-caused wildfires tend to be the most catastrophic wildfires because they're critical infrastructure, and we've obviously seen that happen across the world and in the US recently again and again. But utility-caused wildfires, as I said at the beginning, are also the actual wildfires that are preventable. So that's really where we're lying into. A lot of the forests right now, they've become tinderboxes. That is obviously because of fire suppression policies, that's because of forest management techniques that have been leveraged in the last couple of hundred years that are slowly changing at a different pace. Canada's had some, unfortunately, some really bad fire seasons recently as well. And so where Overstory wanted to place itself is in that prevention space—to even not get to the point where you have a spark, because there's a lot of tools out there that focus on mitigation and what do you do when you see that first plume of smoke coming up, and so we've landed in kind of really focusing on the prevention side so that utilities are hopefully in the future not the ones that spark any of those catastrophic wildfires. We've already always been looking at the vegetation that could touch your conductor, right? That I've been speaking about a lot. But now we're really excited for the first time and we recently announced that we launched a fuel detection model. So that's us looking at the ground fuel conditions, and those are actually usually the key contributors to the spark that spreads the fire. We're now providing that to utilities as a much higher resolution than ever before. For me, it's interesting cause I've spent a lot of time looking at trees, and now I'm going into the field and I'm looking at the ground, and it's a new perspective! But yet again, we could just, you know, we don't want to overwhelm our customers with a lot of maps and showing the fuel conditions necessarily, we can really help them identify those spans where a single failure would have the greatest consequence. So yet again, it's about how to make that data—there's a lot of wildfire risk maps out there—but make it a very actionable list of spans that if they were to tackle those, they are very proactively reducing the risk of igniting a fire and as a result obviously protecting their communities.   [00:34:10] Trevor Freeman: Got it. So it's not just about the overhead trees, branches, etc., contacting the line, it's, you know, if a switch goes, if an insulator pops, if something happens that will cause sparks, what's happening on the ground below that line, and how do we make sure it is able to withstand sparks that might happen.   [00:34:29] Lynn Pedesch: Exactly. If you have dry grasses, if you have sagebrush, if you have certain types of fuels, they're just much more likely to spark a fire and then spread out without there even being any trees. You have these prairies along Texas that can blow up in a fire very quickly, and the fires can spread to tremendous sizes. And so understanding the fuels on the ground is really important.   [00:34:55] Trevor Freeman: Super interesting and fascinating, fascinating work to get involved in. As you mentioned, this is obviously an area of, I don't even know if I'd call it growing concern anymore, great concern for the utility industry and all of us. So with the technology that's, you know, we talked about AI a little bit ago, it's literally growing before our eyes, it's really evolving fast. Do you see your technology evolving along with it? What's kind of next for your organization? You talked about getting into sort of the ground vegetation management—what comes next? How do you see it evolving as AI and tools evolve?   [00:35:32] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I mean, if we see that the future is where we want to support a grid that is much safer and reliable as I mentioned, we also want to make sure it's resilient to the climate and the economic pressures that there are. So our initial focus and our continued focus and where we have a lot of our expertise has been with vegetation. Now we're starting to look at the ground fuels, then that naturally evolves into looking at the asset vulnerabilities, so, you know, the actual poles and if there's any failures potentially on those, as well as further weather exposures, right? It becomes then about the soil moisture, it becomes about the wind speed, it becomes about the rain precipitation, etc. So there's a myriad of things that we can start looking at and that we want to start looking at in order to get that more holistic view of risk and go beyond just vegetation. Right now where we're investing most heavily in is that wildfire risk. There's also the resolution that we see with satellites right now is at 30 centimetres, that might drop down to 15 or 10 centimetres, so the resolution will get higher. There's other sources that we're exploring already, sometimes flying aerial imagery that is at 5 to 15 centimetres. Then you really start seeing—then you can start seeing a leaf on a tree! It gets really impressive. There's LiDAR, there's lots of other kinds of remote sensing technologies that we're looking to leverage in the future. And then as a company as well, we're starting to obviously also expand internationally. We started working with utilities in New Zealand that have very similar problems and various regulatory changes, they also have a problem with wildfire risk. So that is another angle that at Overstory we're chasing right now.   [00:37:18] Trevor Freeman: Yeah, I'm glad you brought up that understanding of other assets beyond just vegetation has kind of been running through my head of—we talk about, and I think we've talked about it here on the show, if we haven't I should do an episode on that, like a digital twin. A digital twin of our grid, and really having a good understanding of not just, you know, a line drawn on a map of, "Hey, your circuits run this way," but really physically what's happening out there and it being able to sort of model that, interact with it in a digital way to understand if we do X, Y, and Z, what happens. So the technology that you guys are using to really get good imagery and understanding of what's out there, I think what I'm hearing from you is that could potentially be leveraged in that next level to understand what poles do we have, what health are they in, what's happening with that conductor, is it sagging too much, is it in good health, like there's all this opportunity. That's really fascinating to hear.   [00:38:15] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, already now when we look at transmission corridors, we look at the sag of these lines, and the terrains are also really challenging things to look at. So there's a lot of factors that need to be taken into account, and that can only expand as we want to look at risk more beyond just the vegetation element.   [00:38:34] Trevor Freeman: Very cool. Well, Lynn, very, very interesting to hear this. I'm really glad you came on the show today to talk to us. Fascinating to hear what Overstory's up to. I know that we're super excited to be working with you here at Hydro Ottawa, and excited for what comes next. We always end our interviews with a series of questions, so I'm going to dive into those, and here we go. What is a book that you've read that you think everyone should read?   [00:39:00] Lynn Pedesch: I was thinking about an author more than a book. My favorite author is Jonathan Franzen. If I would recommend one book, it'd probably be The Corrections, his most famous one, I believe. But they're like these chunky 800-900 page books where you kind of get immersed in these families and you feel like you know them at the end, and then they kind of, I think about them for like months afterward! They're really good reading, at least for the winter when it's cold and you spend a lot of time inside, so probably Jonathan Franzen's books, yeah.   [00:39:31] Trevor Freeman: Yeah, we're recording this just before the holidays and I think we'll be releasing the episode after, but winter is such a great time to curl up with a book and it's awesome to have a good recommendation of a nice thick book.   [00:39:41] Lynn Pedesch: It'll still be cold in January, especially in Ottawa!   [00:39:44] Trevor Freeman: Absolutely, absolutely. So, same question, but a movie or a show?   [00:39:49] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I'm not a big movie buff, but I recently rewatched What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I don't know if you've seen it, with Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio, and I always felt like Leonardo DiCaprio should have received an Oscar for that performance back when he was 14, but yeah, it's a beautiful movie.   [00:40:07] Trevor Freeman: Oh, nice! Yeah, that's a bit of a blast from the past, but you're right, that is a fantastic one. If someone offered you a free round-trip flight anywhere in the world, where would you go?   [00:40:17] Lynn Pedesch: French Polynesia, because it's so far, I've never been. I had a friend who went, and I'm sure it's very expensive to go there, so it'd be great for someone to pay! Yeah, no, that's a place I'll go one day, so yeah.   [00:40:31] Trevor Freeman: Fantastic. Who is someone that you admire?   [00:40:34] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, that's a tricky one because I was thinking about people in my family, etc., but if I were to think about a public persona—and also a bit of a blast from the past—I'll think about Tina Turner. She's been my icon since I'm a kid. I was always listening with my dad to Tina Turner. And I think the word that I've probably most used in today's episode was like "resilience," and I always think about her as like possibly the most resilient woman in the world who reinvented herself and her career in her 40s and 50s, and is this complete power woman, you know, always done everything at her own terms. So I get so much energy from, not just her music, I've seen so many documentaries about her, and she's always been this kind of woman that fills you with energy and kind of drives you. So, I'm a big, big fan of Tina Turner.   [00:41:28] Trevor Freeman: That's fantastic. I have to say, that's never come up on the show before, and now I need to go and dive down a rabbit hole of learning about Tina Turner and listening to some music. That's a really good answer. Last question: What's something about the energy sector or, let me expand that to kind of the climate sector, that you're really excited about?   [00:41:47] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I'm going to take a very high level, but I think the thing I've been following the most is like that broad topic of the energy transition, and I think the recent changes or like kind of the way we talk about it has become a lot more interesting because it used to be this kind of fluffy, big kind of vision, and now we're in that phase where it just has to be very practically implemented. And we're trudging along with it, no matter the political climate, etc., there is kind of a move forward. And I actually really like the way that, I think when I first started learning about it or getting interested in it, it was always about renewables, and now it's around just sort of like needing to build a system that is both like low carbon and climate resilient, and there's something in that like way we talk about it now that I find really interesting. There's immense amounts of innovation in it, so, yeah, I'm just enjoying following what's happening on that and how we are moving that direction no matter what's happening right now, so that's exciting.   [00:42:48] Trevor Freeman: Yeah, good one. I know my listeners are probably rolling their eyes because I say this all the time, but it's a very exciting time to be in this industry, and very exciting to kind of see the evolution of energy and how we're interacting with it, how it's impacting our society. It really feels like we're at an inflection point, and very great to have you working on one aspect of that that people probably don't think about a lot, so thanks very much for what you're doing.   [00:43:13] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, exactly! When you start working for Overstory, the one thing that happens is wherever you go, you see trees and power lines, and I have a very keen eye for, unfortunately, trees that are in poor health right now, so that's one of the professional things I've developed.   [00:43:28] Trevor Freeman: You carry like a spool of red ribbon around, you can tie on the at-risk trees, just so someone could come along! Lynn, thanks so much for coming on the show today, really appreciate it. It's been great chatting with you.   [00:43:38] Lynn Pedesch: Thank you so much. Take care.   [00:43:40] Trevor Freeman: Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Think Energy podcast. Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, and it would be great if you could leave us a review—it really helps to spread the word. As always, we would love to hear from you, whether it's feedback, comments, or an idea for a show or a guest. You can always reach us at thinkenergy@hydroottawa.com.  

Our spoiler-filled reread of The Second Apocalypse continues with Part III: The Harlot from The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker.This section places Esmenet at the center of the story, revealing both the cruelty of Earwa and the remarkable resilience that makes her one of the series' most compelling characters. Looking back with the knowledge of all seven books, these chapters are filled with moments that carry far more weight than they did on a first read.In this episode, we discuss Esmenet's difficult journey, Achamian's growing doubts, the introduction of Xinemus, and the political and philosophical themes woven throughout the Holy War. We also revisit the unsettling role of the Skin Spies, the Consult's manipulation behind the scenes, and the many clues Bakker quietly plants that only become apparent on a reread.Along the way, we explore the series' portrayal of power, gender, and agency, debate Achamian's decisions, examine the symbolism behind Bakker's worldbuilding, and share some of our favorite quotes and moments from these chapters. As always, our conversation leads to plenty of theories, questions, and connections that stretch far beyond this section of the novel.Warning: This discussion contains major spoilers for the entire Second Apocalypse series, including The Aspect-Emperor novels. If you haven't finished all seven books, we recommend reading the series before listening.Join us as we continue our journey through one of fantasy's most rewarding rereads, uncovering new details, challenging old assumptions, and appreciating just how much Bakker hides in plain sight.Podcast equipment used (Amazon Affiliate links):Rodecaster DuoRode PSA1+ Professional Studio ArmRode Procaster Microphone

What if we could hear nature's ultrasonic communication -- and talk back? From a bat's shrill speech to a peacock's infrasound mating call, conservation technology researcher Karen Bakker takes us through a sound bath of animal noises that are far outside humanity's range of hearing, demonstrating how artificial intelligence has translated the incredible complexity of nature's soundtrack. She asks us to consider the moral weight of such transformative technology and explores the futuristic opportunities presented for conservation, interspecies communication and more.(This episode originally aired in 2024.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The spoiler-filled reread of The Second Apocalypse continues as we tackle Part II: The Emperor from The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker.This section shifts the focus from Achamian to the political chaos surrounding Emperor Xerius III, introducing one of fantasy's most entertainingly paranoid rulers while laying even more pieces on Bakker's enormous chessboard. On a reread, it's remarkable how much is happening beneath the surface.We discuss Xerius' blend of brilliance and delusion, the Consult's subtle manipulation of the Nansur court, early clues surrounding the Skin Spies, and the political maneuvering driving the coming Holy War. We also revisit Cnaiür's tragic introduction, Moënghus' mysterious influence, and one of the series' first major battles, viewed very differently now that we know where the story ultimately leads.Along the way, we speculate about hidden gods, revisit details that may have been quietly foreshadowing events thousands of pages later, and enjoy some of the surprisingly dark humor that often gets overlooked in Bakker's work.As always, this discussion contains major spoilers for the entire Second Apocalypse series, including The Aspect-Emperor novels. If you haven't finished all seven books, consider this your warning before listening.

Derric Bakker is founder and CEO of DickersonBakker, fundraising strategist, consultant, speaker, and author of A Better Way to Fundraise: Treat Every Donor Like a Major Donor. For more than three decades, Derric has helped nonprofit organizations strengthen their fundraising, leadership, strategy, and capacity for impact. What began almost by chance with his first fundraising position in 1990 grew into a career spanning frontline development, major gifts, capital campaigns, organizational leadership, and consulting. Today, Derric leads a national team of more than 50 professionals serving nonprofits across the country. He is also a leading advocate for reimagining relationship-based fundraising by using AI and emerging technologies to extend the principles of major gift fundraising across the entire donor base. In this episode, we talk about Derric's journey from his childhood as an itinerant pastor's son to the McDonald's breakfast that changed his future trajectory, the work in fundraising that shaped his professional life, and his thoughts on living a life of purpose. 

Lieve Freundinnen (m/v/x), niet schrikken maar we hebben een MAN te gast in de nieuwste aflevering van DAMN, HONEY de podcast *gasp* Het gebeurt niet vaak, maar soms komt er eentje op je pad die Echt Wat Te Zeggen heeft. En tja, dan moet je! Dan ga je! Het is historicus en schrijver Alex Bakker, gespecialiseerd in transgendergeschiedenis. Zijn nieuwste boek heet Transgender pioniers en speelt zich af in het roerige Berlijn, in de jaren tussen de 1e en 2e Wereldoorlog aka het Interbellum. De levensreddende medische zorg voor trans mensen begon toen en daar. Alex deed voor zijn boek uitvoerig onderzoek naar een revolutionair seksuologisch instituut waar oprichter en arts Magnus Hirschfeld probeerde te begrijpen wat trans mensen nodig hebben. Twee van zijn cliënten waren Dora Richter (een trans vrouw van in de 30, opgegroeid op het platteland en diepgelovig katholiek) en Gerd Katter (een jonge trans man van 18 uit de stad, die in de leer was voor timmerman). Dankzij bewaard gebleven bronnen wist Alex hun levens (grotendeels) in kaart te brengen. We hameren altijd erg op historisch besef en als het gaat om transgendergeschiedenis weten we lang niet genoeg. Wat kunnen we leren van de verhalen van Dora en Gerd? Waarom is het zo belangrijk dit soort verhalen te kennen? En hoe staat de transgenderzorg er nu voor? Verder: Wat zien we daar bewegen daar op de bovenlip van ML? Is het een... snor? Ga voor de shownotes en het transcript naar damnhoney.nl/aflevering-291DAMN, HONEY wordt gemaakt door Marie Lotte Hagen en Nydia van VoorthuizenIn deze aflevering hoor je een advertentie voor ONSZELF! Steun ons maandelijks vanaf 1 euro en krijg onze eeuwige dank én toegang tot onze tweewekelijkse bonuspodcast ‘Je doet het er maar mee’ die je gewoon kunt luisteren via je favoriete podcastapp. Bonusbal word je via petjeaf.com/damnhoney.editwerk: Daniël van de Poppejingles: Lucas de Gier website: Liesbeth Smit DAMN, HONEY is onderdeel van Dag & Nacht Media. Heb je interesse om te adverteren in deze podcast? Neem dan contact op met Dag en Nacht Media via adverteren@dagennacht.nlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Warning: This discussion contains major spoilers for all seven books of The Second Apocalypse, including events from The Unholy Consult. If this is your first journey through the series, we strongly recommend reading the novels before listening.In this episode, Sean and I dive into Part I: The Sorcerer, revisiting the opening chapters with the benefit of knowing where the story ultimately leads. What once seemed like simple worldbuilding now reveals itself as an astonishing web of foreshadowing, hidden clues, and philosophical foundations that shape the entire seven-book series.We discuss Achamian's role as the emotional heart of the story, the introduction of the Mandate Schoolmen, the first appearances of Skin-Spies and the Consult, the growing influence of Maithanet, and the early hints surrounding the Holy War. We also explore Bakker's use of the Seswatha Dreams, the nature of sorcery, the Outside, fate versus free will, and how compassion functions in a world built on manipulation.Along the way, we revisit Esmenet's heartbreaking introduction, laugh about Achamian's infamous "morning apocalypse," and marvel at just how much Bakker quietly establishes in only a handful of chapters.Whether you're revisiting Earwa for the tenth time or following along after finishing the series, join us as we examine the details, speculate about long-term connections, and inevitably miss a few things along the way.

EP 88: Iedereen heeft er eentje. Dat stemmetje in je hoofd dat precies weet te vertellen wat je allemaal fout doet. Bij mij zegt het: niemand zit op jou te wachten. Bij Angèle: je bent niet goed genoeg. Zij noemt het haar favoriete kutgevoel. En laat dat stemmetje nou net in mediumschap de grootste spelbreker zijn.Want zodra jij tijdens een reading denkt "ik zit alles te verzinnen", schiet je cognitieve brein aan. En dat brein werkt niet mee. Dat is niet voor rede vatbaar op dat moment. De spirituele wereld werkt via je creatieve brein, via je fantasie. Daarom voelt het als verzinnen. En daarom moet je leren om dat stemmetje voorbij te laten drijven als een wolkje.In deze aflevering praat ik met Angèle Bakker. Ondernemer, businesscoach, en iemand die dingen zó helder kan brengen dat je vanzelf aan de slag gaat met jezelf. We kennen elkaar al jaren en samen runnen we Rise & Shine, businesscoaching voor mediums.We hebben het over:Je favoriete k$tgevoel: waarom je brein negativiteit twintig keer zwaarder weegt dan positiviteitWaarom affirmaties voor de spiegel niet werken als je er geen moer van meentMildheid als tussenstap: je hoeft niet meteen van jezelf te houden, wees eerst gewoon een beetje liefWat er letterlijk in je hoofd gebeurt tijdens een reading (en waarom je me tijdens het werk geen rekensom moet vragen)Waarom mediumschap voor de luien en de dommen isOpmerkzaamheid trainen: van Buisman-potjes tot ontbijttafels van vroegerOvergave, het moeilijkste wat er isHoe je omgaat met een kritische toehoorder tijdens een demonstratie ("dat is niet specifiek genoeg")Zou je tegen een ander zeggen wat je tegen jezelf zegt?Over AngèleAngèle Bakker is ondernemer en doet vooral wat ze leuk vindt: businesscoaching, AI, websites bouwen, online zichtbaarheid en nog veel meer. Samen maken we ook de podcast Rosita en Angèle denken hartop, waarin we hardop denken over alles wat ons bezighoudt.https://angelebakker.nl/Rosita https://www.rositabelkadi.nl/

Tien gemeenten zijn deze week door het kabinet op het matje geroepen, omdat ze achterlopen met de uitvoering van de spreidingswet. Ze moeten volgens asielminister Bart van den Brink meer doen om een opvangplek voor asielzoekers te realiseren. Waarom lukt het deze gemeenten niet zich aan de spreidingswet te houden? Is het onwil, een gebrek aan ruimte of spelen er andere belangen? In deze podcast zoomen we in op drie van deze 'weigergemeenten': Westland, Valkenswaard en Aalten. Samen met regionale verslaggevers kijken we hoe de discussie daar wordt gevoerd, waarom de weerstand zo hardnekkig is en hoe inwoners, bestuurders en politici tegen de opvang van asielzoekers aankijken. De redenen waarom het in de gemeenten niet wil vlotten met de asielopvang verschillen. In het Zuid-Hollandse Westland zetten gemeentebestuur en bewoners de hakken in het zand. "De tendens in het Westland is gewoon: wij willen nul asielzoekers", vertelt Omroep West verslaggever Steffie Taal. Ze vangen al statushouders en Oekraïners op en willen het daarbij houden.  In Valkenswaard wilden inwoners tien jaar geleden juist dat een asielzoekerscentrum in de gemeente zou blijven. Inmiddels vangt de gemeente geen asielzoekers meer op. Volgens Chris Bakker, onderzoeksjournalist van Omroep Brabant, is het sentiment inmiddels anders. "In de gemeente willen ze alleen kleinschalige opvang. Maar dat betekent wel dat er meerdere opvanglocaties nodig zijn om te voldoen aan de opgave", aldus Bakker. In Aalten wil de gemeente graag voldoen aan de spreidingswet en een opvang realiseren, maar inwoners zijn verdeeld. Na protesten is de gemeente op zoek naar een geschikte plek. Volgens regioverslaggever Davie Klein Gunnewiek van Omroep Gelderland vindt Aalten het oneerlijk dat ze nu op de lijst met weigergemeenten staan. "De gemeente is teleurgesteld. Omdat de gemeente het gevoel heeft dat ze er alles aan doen om te kijken waar een asielzoekerscentrum kan komen", aldus Klein Gunnewiek. Reageren? Mail naar dedag@nos.nl (mailto:dedag@nos.nl). Presentatie en montage: Bart Tuinman Redactie: Lisa Konings Eindredactie: Judith van de Hulsbeek

Je opent je mailbox en AI biedt aan om je berichten samen te vatten. Je zit in een meeting en een tool maakt automatisch notulen. Copilot vragen om een presentatie te bouwen? Ook dat kan. Of je laat ChatGPT meedenken over een lastig artikel, rapport of klantgesprek. Slimmer werken met AI op de werkvloer is niet langer meer een droom, maar werkelijkheid!Wat komt aan bod?Wat AI vandaag al kan betekenen voor kenniswerkersWaarom Copilot steeds interessanter wordt op de werkvloerHoe AI je mailbox, agenda, meetings en documenten kan ondersteunenWaarom AI handig is als assistent, maar gevaarlijk als automatische pilootHoe je betere prompts maakt zonder technisch gedoeWaarom context belangrijker is dan slimme prompttrucjesWaarom je kritisch denkvermogen juist belangrijker wordt door AIHoe AI je werk kan versnellen, maar ook je focus kan slopenWelke AI-tools nuttig zijn en welke vooral ruis opleverenIn deze aflevering van de Tijdwinst Podcast spreekt Björn Deusings, productiviteitsexpert en persoonlijke effectiviteitscoach, met senior trainer time management, David Bakker, over de voordelen van AI op de werkvloer. Je hoeft niet meer alles te kopiëren en plakken. AI kan meekijken in je documenten, je mailbox ordenen, actiepunten uit vergaderingen halen, conceptmails schrijven of zelfs een presentatie maken op basis van bestanden. Björn en David bespreken onder andere de opkomst van Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini en Claude.AI neemt niet zomaar je werk over. Maar wel het werk waarin jij zelf geen duidelijke waarde meer toevoegt.'Maar het is niet alleen een ode aan AI, maar ze vertellen je ook waar je mee moet oppassen en hoe je voorkomt dat je slimmer gereedschap op een domme manier gebruikt.Wil je weten hoe je AI slim inzet zonder jezelf buitenspel te zetten? Wil je ontdekken welke taken je beter kunt automatiseren en waar jij juist zélf waarde blijft toevoegen? Bekijk of beluister dan deze aflevering van de Tijdwinst Podcast.

In this spoiler-filled reread episode, we return to the prologue of The Darkness That Comes Before and discover just how much of The Second Apocalypse is hidden in plain sight. We unpack the founding of the Dûnyain, Kellhus's first steps beyond Ishuäl, the mystery of Moënghus, the shadow of the First Apocalypse, and the early hints of the Consult, the No-God, and the Nonmen. Along the way we debate whether Kellhus is already the villain, what the Logos really means, and why Bakker opens the series with the Dûnyain instead of Achamian. If you've finished the series, this is a deep dive into the seeds of everything that follows.Podcast equipment used (Amazon Affiliate links):Rodecaster DuoRode PSA1+ Professional Studio ArmRode Procaster Microphone

In deze aflevering van De Schaal van Hebben test Stijn Goossens de Zendure SolarFlow 2400 AC+, een stekkerbare thuisbatterij die inspeelt op het einde van de salderingsregeling in 2027. Voor de duiding sprak hij energie-expert Jeroen Bakker, die op zijn site (jeroen.nl) huishoudens adviseert over eigen energiebeheer. De SolarFlow 2400 AC+ komt van het Chinese merk Zendure en positioneert zich als plug-and-play-oplossing: je sluit het systeem aan op een gewoon stopcontact, bij voorkeur op een aparte groep, en koppelt het via een P1-meter aan je slimme meter. Een elektricien is in principe niet nodig. De basisopslag bedraagt 2,4 kWh, uitbreidbaar door modules onder elkaar te klikken tot een maximum van 16,8 kWh. De accu weegt ruim 26 kilo, draait op LiFePO4-cellen en kost per module ongeveer 1.100 euro. Het systeem is vooral relevant voor huishoudens met zonnepanelen en een dynamisch energiecontract: overdag laden met eigen zon of goedkope stroom, in de piekuren ontladen. Ingebouwde AI moet voorspellen wanneer laden en ontladen loont. In het gebruik viel de soepele installatie op. Het systeem is semi-mobiel en heeft bij stroomuitval één stopcontact voor het direct aansluiten van apparatuur, handig voor bijvoorbeeld medische apparatuur of een vriezer. Toch plaatst Bakker kanttekeningen bij de rentabiliteit. Hij waarschuwt voor verkopers die grotere accu's aanraden dan nodig; uit zijn analyse van ruim 1.300 energieprofielen blijkt dat veel huishoudens genoeg hebben aan een thuisbatterij tussen 5 en 7 kWh. Ook is er brandrisico: de brandweer waarschuwde daar in april voor. Zendure zegt een blussysteem te hebben ingebouwd. Luister de podcast voor het eindoordeelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In de laatste aflevering voor het zomerreces hebben Albert Brouwer en Jelle Bakker een gast: Marieke van Veldhuisen. De medehoofdredacteur van de krant heeft de laatste kadernotavergadering van de gemeenteraad bijgewoond. Ze doet verslag van de opvallendste onderdelen van deze jaarlijkse marathonvergadering over de financiële stand van zaken in de gemeente Urk. De aflevering wordt afgesloten met een nieuw lied van Fokke Hoekstra. Hij zingt over plaatsgenoten ‘die et niet maar wieten'.

This AI:AM highlights cut brings together Cameron Berg, David Duvenaud, Michiel Bakker, Shawn “swyx” Wang, and Bing Xu to examine what we understand about frontier AI systems and what happens as more decisions move into their hands. Berg grounds model-consciousness debates in experiments on architecture, agency, valence, and welfare, while Duvenaud argues that even well-aligned AI could gradually disempower humans through ordinary economic choices. Bakker frames Europe's AI challenge as a sovereignty problem, and swyx turns to practitioner stakes around agents, evals, maintainable code, and who owns the system of record. Xu closes the loop at the infrastructure layer, arguing that self-improving compute and GPU-kernel automation may deepen rather than weaken the CUDA moat. For full show notes, links, and references, read the episode page:https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-am-4-cameron-on-model-consciousness-duvenaud-s-gradual-disempowerment-swyx-s-ai-eng-alpha/ Mercury: Command is Mercury's new conversational interface, giving you natural-language access to your finances and helping you take actions within your existing permissions and approval policies. Visit https://mercury.com to learn more and apply online in minutes. Sponsor: Claude: Claude by Anthropic is an AI collaborator that understands your workflow and helps you tackle research, writing, coding, and organization with deep context. Get started with Claude and explore Claude Pro at https://claude.ai/tcr CHAPTERS: (00:00) About the Episode (00:38) Special Sponsor (02:26) Model consciousness indicators (10:47) Valence inside models (Part 1) (17:09) Sponsor: Claude (19:01) Valence inside models (Part 2) (19:01) Misalignment and uncertainty (25:16) Gradual disempowerment threat (35:10) Slow zones and successors (47:41) Europe's AI bind (55:13) Frontier code benchmarks (01:01:59) Routing and memory (01:10:42) Agent infrastructure strain (01:16:25) Self improving infrastructure (01:27:56) Routing compute costs (01:35:39) Sovereign AI financing (01:42:24) Judging AI judges (01:47:26) Building AI DNA (01:52:38) Episode Outro (01:55:09) Outro PRODUCED BY: https://aipodcast.ing SOCIAL LINKS: Website: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai Twitter (Podcast): https://x.com/cogrev_podcast Twitter (Nathan): https://x.com/labenz LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nathanlabenz/ Youtube: https://youtube.com/@CognitiveRevolutionPodcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-cognitive-revolution-ai-builders-researchers-and/id1669813431 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yHyok3M3BjqzR0VB5MSyk

What if the thing holding your business back isn't a lack of strategy, confidence, or effort? What if some of the challenges you're experiencing around visibility, pricing, receiving clients, or growing your business didn't actually start with you? In this conversation with Carolina Bakker we explored a fascinating topic that many coaches sense but rarely discuss. Carolina believes that some of the fears, limitations, and protective behaviors showing up in our businesses may be connected to inherited patterns, family conditioning, and survival instincts passed down through generations. We talked about why smart, capable coaches often know exactly what they should do but still struggle to do it. We explored the fear of visibility, the discomfort around receiving money, the pressure to earn success, and why so many coaches find themselves repeating the same business patterns despite investing in courses, certifications, and marketing training. If you've ever found yourself wondering, "Why do I keep doing this?" or "Why does this feel harder for me than it seems to for everyone else?" this episode offers a completely different lens through which to view your business challenges. Guest Bio Carolina Bakker is the Rat Race Release Coach and creator of Business Healing Bootcamp. She helps highly perceptive, spiritually open women entrepreneurs release generational patterns, protective reflexes, and inherited limitations that may be affecting their business growth. Through Family Constellation work, intuitive guidance, and energy-based coaching methods, she helps clients create greater confidence, visibility, and success. Connect with Carolina Website: https://coachingbycarolina.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carolinabakker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rat_race_recovery Resources for Coaches Take the Endotype Formula Quiz and discover your Coaching Superpower: https://endotype.com/ Book a Connection + Direction Call: https://ravingcoaches.com/C&D

Topdrukte in Brussel vandaag. EU-leiders zijn bij elkaar om te praten over drugs, asiel, Oekraïne en geld. Even verderop zijn de NAVO-ministers van Defensie op bezoek bij Mark Rutte. Genoeg te bespreken dus met De Telegraaf-correspondent Alexander Bakker, live vanaf het NAVO-hoofdkwartier bij Sven op NPO Radio 1. Sven op 1 is een programma van Omroep WNL. Meer van WNL vind je op onze website en sociale media: ► Website: https://www.wnl.tv  ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/omroepwnl  ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omroepwnl ► Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/wnlvandaag ► Steun WNL, word lid: https://www.steunwnl.tv ► Gratis Nieuwsbrief: https://www.wnl.tv/nieuwsbrief 

Van bushokjes tot digitale schermen langs de snelweg: buitenreclame is overal wel te zien. De sector groeit, mede dankzij de opmars van digitale schermen, terwijl gemeenten miljoenen verdienen aan reclameconcessies. Maar hoe werkt die wereld achter de schermen eigenlijk en welke rol spelen exploitanten daarin? Sita Bakker van brancheorganisatie Outreach is te gast in BNR Zakendoen. Macro met Mujagić Elke dag een intrigerende gedachtewisseling over de stand van de macro-economie. Op dinsdag en vrijdag gaat presentator Thomas van Zijl in gesprek met econoom Arnoud Boot, de rest van de week praat Van Zijl met econoom Edin Mujagić. Ook altijd terug te vinden als je een aflevering gemist hebt. Blik op de wereld Wat speelt zich vandaag af op het wereldtoneel? Het laatste nieuws uit bijvoorbeeld Oekraïne, het Midden-Oosten, de Verenigde Staten of Brussel hoor je iedere werkdag om 12.10 van onze vaste experts en eigen redacteuren en verslaggevers. Ook los te vinden als podcast. Economenpanel De ECB verhoogt voor het eerst sinds 2023 de rente. En de groei van de Nederlandse economie valt dit jaar flink lager uit dan afgelopen jaren, waarschuwt DNB. Dat en meer bespreekt presentator Thomas van Zijl vanaf 11.00 in het economenpanel met Barbara Baarsma, hoofdeconoom van PwC Nederland en hoogleraar marktwerking- en mededingingseconomie aan de UVA en Jan-Paul van de Kerke, senior-econoom bij ABN AMRO. Voor de podcast, zie sjabloon. Luister l Economenpanel | Zakenlunch Elke dag, tijdens de lunch, geniet je mee van het laatste zakelijke nieuws, actuele informatie over de financiële markten en ander economische actualiteiten. Op een ontspannen manier word je als luisteraar bijgepraat over alles wat er speelt in de wereld van het bedrijfsleven en de beurs. En altijd terug te vinden als podcast, mocht je de lunch gemist hebben. Contact & Abonneren BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 11:00 tot 13:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail. Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Albert Brouwer en Jelle Bakker hebben een volle agenda. Ze gaan in op diverse reacties van luisteraars, ze staan stil bij twee heftige rechtszaken én ze nemen de tijd om de plannen van de nieuwe coalitie te bespreken. Het akkoord ligt, vers van de pers, bij hen op tafel. Daarin lezen ze onder andere diverse nieuwe woorden.

De wereld van buitenreclame digitaliseert, maar hoe verkoop je reclame tijdens piekuren? In ‘De top van Nederland’ een uitgebreid gesprek met Sita Bakker, directeur van Outreach, brancheorganisatie van exploitanten van buitenreclame. Presentator Thomas van Zijl vraagt haar waarom lokale overheden steeds strenger worden voor buitenreclame. Over Outreach Outreach is een samenwerkingsverband van de Nederlandse buitenreclame-exploitanten Centercom, Bauer Media Outdoor, JCDecaux, OV Media, Ocean Outdoor, Schiphol Media, Jumbo, Plus Retailmedia, Albert Heijn Retail Media Services, blowUP media, CSDM en TAG Outdoor. Over Thomas van Zijl Thomas van Zijl is financieel journalist en presentator bij BNR. Hij presenteert dagelijks ‘BNR Zakendoen’, het Nederlandse radioprogramma voor economisch nieuws en zakelijk inzicht, waar 'De top van Nederland’ onderdeel van is. Ook is hij een van de makers van de podcast ‘Onder curatoren’. Abonneer je op de podcast Ga naar ‘De top van Nederland’ en abonneer je op de podcast, ook te beluisteren via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of The Responsive Lab, Carly and Scott sit down with Derric Bakker, CEO of DickersonBakker. With more than three decades of experience as a practitioner, consultant, and business leader, he helps organizations move beyond legacy fundraising models toward relationship-centered approaches. You'll hear about:* Why fundraising feels harder now and how this represents a fundamental shift, not just a cyclical downturn* What "treat every donor like a major donor" actually means in practice * How younger donors are increasingly behaving like major donors in their selectivity and relationship expectations* Why 94% of nonprofit leaders agree change is needed, but 70% say it's not happening* Where AI fits into relationship-based fundraising without replacing human connection* Using data and technology to personalize donor experiences at scale* Simple changes you can make this week to start expressing genuine gratitude and listening to donorsLinks from the episode:* Connect with Derric on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derricbakker/* Visit Better Way Champions: https://betterwaychampions.org/* Get "A Better Way to Fundraise - Treat Every Donor Like a Major Donor": https://a.co/d/0cF5FgIr* Connect with DickersonBakker: https://dickersonbakker.com/Looking for technology that helps you build deeper donor relationships with less work from your team? Learn more at virtuous.org.

In de autovrije buurt Merwede in Utrecht ontwikkelt Lingotto samen met Blink en Nuvia Real Estate drie bouwblokken: de transformatie van het bestaande Depot en de nieuwe stadsblokken Cix Theatre en Cix City. Met elkaar vormen die drie blokken als het ware een doorsnede van de nieuwe buurt. Met een programma bestaande uit woningen, kantoorruimtes, commerciële ruimtes, een food court, een cultuurhuis, een theater, een culturele broedplaats en een maaklab belooft dit het levendigste deel van Merwede te worden. In gesprek met ontwikkelaar Martijn Bakker van Lingotto over de plannen.Het ontwerp voor het Depot Het ontwerp voor Cix City en Cix Theatre Hij heeft een liefde voor atypische gebouwen, vertelt Martijn in de podcast. Hij geniet van de uitdaging die dat soort gebouwen vormen… om het eigen karakter en ruimtelijkheid te behouden en tegelijkertijd het gebouw weer tot leven te brengen met een sluitende programmering ervan.Het Depot in Merwede is zeker een atypisch gebouw. Het is in de jaren '80 ontworpen door Aronsohn Raadgevend Ingenieursbureau als medicijnopslag voor samenwerkende apothekers. Het gebouw is ongeveer vijftig bij zeventig meter groot en bestaat uit twee hoge verdiepingen die Martijn omschrijft als een soort ‘kathedralen' dankzij het ‘bos van betonnen kolommen' dat erin te vinden is.Het Depot bestond oorspronkelijk uit twee lagen. Vanwege de enorme verdiepingshoogte van die lagen, krijgt iedere laag er nu een tussenverdieping bij. Om daglicht diep in het gebouw te brengen, krijgt het Depot ook een groot atrium. Interessant daarbij is dat de architect, Mei Architects & Planners, ervoor gekozen heeft om het ‘bos van betonnen kolommen' daarin te laten staan. Na verschillende opties voor de programmering van het Depot onderzocht te hebben, waaronder stadstuinbouw, krijgt het gebouw nu onderin over twee lagen een ‘cultureel canvas' met een food court en cultureel programma. Daarboven komt over twee lagen een ‘living lab' waarin allerhande makers een plek kunnen krijgen. Helemaal bovenin, in een nieuwe houten opbouw, komt ook weer over twee lagen kantoorruimte.In Merwede is het Depot straks het enige gebouw dat nog herinnert aan zijn geschiedenis als industrieterrein. Aan zijn oost- en zuidzijde grenst het Depot straks aan het nieuwe park langs het Merwedekanaal en krijgt het daaraan een zonnig terras. Op zonnige dagen gaat dat binnen Merwede een geweldige plek worden, voorspelt Martijn.Cix City en Cix TheatreAan zijn westzijde grenst Depot straks aan een wijkplein, waar ook de andere twee stadsblokken komen te liggen die Lingotto hier met Blink en Nuvia ontwikkelt: City City en Cix Theatre. Deze stadsblokken zijn ontworpen door Marc Koehler Associates en VenhoevenCS, en bevatten in totaal 295 woningen, van sociale huur tot vrije sector koop, van studio's en appartementen tot duplex- en triplexwoningen en penthouses. Daarbij bevat Cix City, dat aan zijn westzijde aan de Europalaan ligt, ook een van de gedeelde parkeergarages voor de buurt, net als ruimtes voor cafés/restaurants, plus een culturele broedplaats. Cix Theatre voegt daar een cultuurhuis en theater aan toe.In het stedenbouwkundig plan is ingezet op een stevige mix van programma en op de opdeling van de bouwblokken in kleinere panden. Martijn is hier enthousiast over. Dat gaat naar zijn idee een levendige buurt opleveren die dankzij al die panden toch een menselijke schaal zal hebben. In de podcast gaat hij ook in op verschillende andere aspecten van de plannen, zoals de inpassing van de parkeergarage.MerwedeLabAan de basis van de plannen van Merwede ligt een enorme hoeveelheid afspraken tussen de ontwikkelaars en gemeente Utrecht. In de podcast is Martijn daar kritisch op. Het maken van die afspraken kostte veel tijd en energie, en vervolgens worden ze door de tijd eigenlijk alweer ingehaald. Het levert wel een goede buurt op, moet hij toegeven, maar had dat niet anders gekund? Het wordt in Nederland regelmatig allemaal zo dicht geregeld dat er nog maar weinig ruimte overblijft om te ondernemen – wat hij juist zo graag doet.Als het over Merwede gaat, is hij het meest trots op het MerwedeLab en wat dat allemaal voor de buurt betekent. Martijn geeft aan dat hij te pas en te onpas een dergelijk lab ook op andere plekken voorstelt. Door middel van het MerwedeLab zijn namelijk in Merwede op allerlei vlakken, zoals social design, ecologie en duurzame materialisering, experts bij het gebied betrokken die er anders niet zo snel bij waren geweest. De stappen die vervolgens zijn gezet, zijn ook nog eens door alle ontwikkelaars gezet. De bedachte combinatie van entrees, fietsenstalling en gemeenschappelijke ruimtes komt straks overal in de buurt terug. Een succesfactor was daarbij dat via het MerwedeLab de ambitie gedurende het proces is opgeschroefd zonder de betrokken ontwikkelaars daarbij te dwingen dit toe te passen. Het was een stimulerend proces. Deze podcast wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door AGC. Halverwege deze podcast vertelt Anton Peters van AGC over hun team International Building Projects, dat ondersteuning biedt aan architectenbureaus die over de grens werken.Het beeld bij de podcast toont links Cix Theatre en rechts Cix City. Het beeld is gemaakt door VenhoevenCS architecture+urbanism.

De versterking van de kades in de Urker haven bevindt zich nog steeds pas in de voorbereidende fase. Inmiddels begint duidelijk te worden dat deze enorme operatie ook onbedoelde neveneffecten heeft. Albert Brouwer en Jelle Bakker wandelen in de nieuwste aflevering van De Urkerland Podcast in gedachten over de Urker havens, want ook de boulevard en de Dormakade komen nog even langs. Waarom heet deze kade eigenlijk zo? En waarom stelt iedereen de laatste tijd ineens die vraag?

Hulpverleners in Nederland luiden de noodklok. Waar ambulancepersoneel, politieagenten, brandweerlieden en ziekenhuismedewerkers vroeger konden rekenen op onvoorwaardelijk respect, staan ze vandaag de dag steeds vaker bloot aan verbale agressie, fysieke dreiging en diep wantrouwen. Hoe heeft het zover kunnen komen? Wat is de impact op hun thuisfront? En hoe draaien we deze zorgwekkende maatschappelijke spiraal weer om?In deze aflevering gaan we in gesprek over de diepere oorzaken van de toenemende agressie tegen hulpverleners. Van de blijvende impact van de coronaperiode en politieke polarisatie tot de escalerende rol van alcohol en drugs in het uitgaansleven. Ook kijken we kritisch naar de rol van sociale media (zoals TikTok-challenges met geweldfilmpjes) en de verschuiving in onze opvoedcultuur: waarom gaan ouders tegenwoordig verhaal halen bij de leraar in plaats van hun eigen kind aan te spreken?We spreken Dr.Heilwine A.H.M. Bakker, Rob Zandbergen, Oud-Commissaris binnen de Politie en Irene Nollen, projectleider in het Ziekenhuis.--------Rescue Workers Foundation:https://balans-en-impuls.nl/over-ons/rescue-workers-foundation/Kom ook naar de VU en praat mee met Ad, Jelle, Govert en de bijzondere gasten (Mike Eman en Ernst Hirsch Ballin)

Western South Dakota Catholic Foundation - The growth of the Rapid City Diocese and its parishes. We also discuss upcoming events hosted by the WSDCF

Alex Bakker is historicus, schrijver en onderzoeker. Hij is gespecialiseerd in de Tweede Wereldoorlog en transgendergeschiedenis en werkte mee aan televisieseries, documentaires en tentoonstellingen. Bakker brak door met zijn autobiografische boek ‘Mijn valse verleden'. Later volgden de boeken ‘Trangender in Nederland' en ‘Een halve eeuw transgenderzorg aan de VU'. Nu verschijnt ‘Transgender pioniers. Dora, Gerd en Dokter Hirschfeld in het roerige Berlijn, 1919-1933', over de eerste trans mensen in de geschiedenis die een medische transitie ondergingen. Bakker onderzoekt welk effect hun levens hebben gehad op de positie van transgender personen, vooral nu er in verschillende landen transrechten worden afgenomen en decennia aan emancipatie bij het grofvuil worden gezet. Ellen Deckwitz gaat met Alex Bakker in gesprek.

[ENG follows NL] Wie is Sylvia Wynter, en waarom moet iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in dekolonialisme haar leren kennen? Sylvia Wynter is een vooraanstaande Caribische kunstenares en denker. In haar werk – zowel filosofische essays als romans en teksten voor theater en film – uit ze radicale kritiek op het westers humanisme. Ze stelt dat dit humanisme zwarte, inheemse en gekoloniseerde volken uitsluit van de definitie ‘mens'. Wynter ontwikkelt nieuwe kaders voor het bestaan buiten koloniale constructies om. Leer van religiewetenschapper Justine Bakker waarom Sylvia Wynter een grote denker is. Sylvia Wynter: Rethinking the Human | Grote denkers met religiewetenschapper Justine Bakker Denkwerk 2026 Zaterdag 7 maart 2026 | De Lindenberg, Nijmegen Radboud Reflects en de Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen Like deze podcast, abonneer je op dit kanaal en mis niks. Bekijk ook de agenda voor nog meer verdiepende lezingen: https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects Wil je geen enkele verdiepende lezing missen? Schrijf je dan in voor de nieuwsbrief: https://www.ru.nl/rr/nieuwsbrief ENGLISH Who is Sylvia Wynter, and why should anyone interested in decolonialism get to know her? Sylvia Wynter is a prominent Caribbean artist and thinker. In her work which includes philosophical essays, novels, and texts for theatre and film she expresses radical criticism of Western humanism. She argues that this humanism excludes black, indigenous and colonised peoples from the definition of “human”. Wynter develops new frameworks for existence outside colonial constructs. Learn form scholar of relgion Justine Bakker why Sylvia Wynter is a Great Thinker. Denkwerk 2026 | Saturday 7 March 2026 | De Lindenberg, Nijmegen Radboud Reflects and Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Like this podcast and subscribe to this channel. See the agenda for more in depth lectures: https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects Please subscribe to the newsletter: https://www.ru.nl/rr/newsletter

Today's guest is Carolina Bakker, Rat Race Release Coach. Carolina helps women entrepreneurs release the generational patterns and protective reflexes that keep their business stuck, through her Business Healing Bootcamp. She uses intuitive guidance, constellation work, and energy healing to release what's blocking business growth and create real transformation. If you've ever sensed that your business growth is limited by something older than you, something ancient even, you're going to want to hear this conversation.Visit Carolina Bakker's Website: coachingbycarolina.com

This week Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by DJ Bakker, head coach of the 2025-26 G-League Champion Greensboro Swarm.In this episode Bakker shares insights into managing constant roster turnover and creating alignment between the Swarm and the Charlotte Hornets to ensure consistent development, terminology, and expectations across both levels. The conversation dives deep into offensive philosophy, including how Greensboro became one of the highest-scoring teams in G League history by prioritizing elite spacing, early-clock decision making, paint touches, and unselfish play. Bakker also details his approach to defensive principles, pick-and-roll coverage, practice structure, and the importance of over-communication and adaptability in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. Regardless of what level you are coaching, this episode includes concepts on building identity, maximizing personnel, and developing players in today's game.All that and more on Episode 329 of the Coaching U Podcast presented by Noah Basketball.Noah Basketball is trusted by 28 NBA teams, over 200 NCAA programs, and over 1,000 high school programs to capture and analyze key shooting metrics to help your players perfect their shot and reach their max potential.Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠noahbasketball.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

MLVC speaks with writer Tiff Bakker about her recent article "Lesbians are reclaiming Madonna as we await her new album, Confessions 2." We have a fun chat about Madonna's queer allyship throughout the years, expectations for Confessions 2 and our hopes for a Madonna/Kylie Minogue duet! Read Tiff's article at The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentis... Follow MLVC on all social channels: @mlvcpodcast Subscribe to MLVC's YouTube channel Donate to the podcast on Venmo: mlvcpodcast Listen to more episodes on Spotify/Apple/Amazon/Google Play or here: https://mlvc.podbean.com/ #mlvcpodcast #madonnapodcast #madonna #confessions2

Ingrid Bakker is a Principal architect, a board director for Hassell and a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.Craig Guthrie is a specialist in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design with over 25 years of experienceAs Hassell Studio Principals Ingrid Bakker and Craig Guthrie talk about the legacy for Melbourne and how the newly-built Metro Tunnel uses design to increase the city's liveability. 

Have you been hesitant to add roses to your garden? This week on the podcast, Joanne talks with Paul Zimmerman about Jackson & Perkins' expansion into Canada, what it means for rose lovers, and why these cold-hardy, Canadian-grown roses may be easier to grow than many gardeners think. In this episode: Roses are becoming more accessible for Canadian gardeners. Jackson & Perkins roses are now available in the Canadian market, with roses being grown, tested, and shipped within Canada through their partnership with Bakker. Modern roses are not as high-maintenance as many people think. Paul challenges the old idea that roses are fussy and chemical-dependent, explaining that many newer roses are bred for better disease resistance and can be grown sustainably with good soil, smart plant choice, and realistic expectations. Choosing the right rose for the right purpose is key. Roses should be selected based on their role in the garden, whether for height, spread, colour, season-long interest, or vertical growing, rather than just choosing one because the flower looks pretty in the pot. Learn more at jacksonandperkins.ca. Find them online on Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and Instagram. Find Paul Zimmerman online at paulzimmermanroses.com and watch his how-to videos on YouTube. Have a topic you'd like Joanne to discuss? Email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne on her website: down2earth.ca Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. Down the Garden Path Podcast On Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low-maintenance as possible.  In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing distill their horticultural and design expertise and their combined experiences in helping others create and maintain thriving gardens into one easy-to-read monthly reference guide. Get your copy today on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube.

Welcome back to Blade Runner: Electric Dreams. Tracking down missing LAPD replicant, Leah, who appears to have shot and killed her colleague, Sandor, the rep detect unit is getting closer and interested parties have taken notice. With some new information from the Esper Wall database Percival and Fenna head out into the city in possession of a photo depicting a young Leah, an image that shouldn't exist. Meanwhile, after taking a brutal beating in the back of the Aurelian's butterfly shop, Bakker and Novak are roughly awoken, tied to chairs in a leaky pre-war apartment complex. Join: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd5_xAWJ4yX6NZ5cZaccqPw/join Community Discord: https://discord.gg/z2NW53APFa Merch: https://mystery-quest-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp Members and Patrons get $7 off your order - that's like a free membership along with your stylish new adventuring attire! Check out Blade Runner RPG here: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/blade-runner-rpg/ The scenario is 'Electric Dreams' and is included in the starter set: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/blade-runner-rpg/starter-set/ Podcast: https://www.pickaxe.uk/mystery-quest Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/MysteryQuest Follow the Cast: Tom: @AngoryTom Dan: @apocplayers⁩ Lydia: https://twitch.tv/squidgame Ravs: @Ravs_ Danann: ⁠@apocplayers ⁠ Editing & Sound Design: Oscar Henderson Thumbnail Art: Jack Bailey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome back to Blade Runner: Electric Dreams. Percival and Fenna investigate Leah's last known steps on the LAPD's Esper Wall a vast surveillance network of cameras spanning the entire city. Meanwhile detectives Novak and Bakker head out to Animoid Row seeking the craftsman behind Leah's synthetic butterflies. Join: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd5_xAWJ4yX6NZ5cZaccqPw/join Community Discord: https://discord.gg/z2NW53APFa Merch: https://mystery-quest-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp Members and Patrons get $7 off your order - that's like a free membership along with your stylish new adventuring attire! Check out Blade Runner RPG here: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/blade-runner-rpg/ The scenario is 'Electric Dreams' and is included in the starter set: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/blade-runner-rpg/starter-set/ Podcast: https://www.pickaxe.uk/mystery-quest Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/MysteryQuest Follow the Cast: Tom: @AngoryTom Dan: @apocplayers⁩ Lydia: https://twitch.tv/squidgame Ravs: @Ravs_ Danann: ⁠ @apocplayers ⁠ Editing & Sound Design: Oscar Henderson Thumbnail Art: Jack Bailey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Começou por ser advogado, mas é hoje um dos mais reconhecidos produtores de televisão do país. Veio dos Países Baixos para Portugal para um projeto de três meses... Mas já cá está há 32 anos. Pai de quatro filhas, é apaixonado por cães e tem o sonho de vir a construir um hotel para eles.

(1:50) Journalist Lucien Baard over Rudi Bakker, de voormalig directeur van S.E. Fireworks (18:30) Schrijver Maartje Wortel over de Deense schrijver Tove Ditlevsen (57:15) Ineke van der Hurk praat met historicus Mineke Bosch over gynaecoloog Catharina van Tussenbroek

Session 3 - The Apostolic way (Eddie Bakker) by Eglise La Cité

Met vandaag: Beperkte openstelling van grens tussen Egypte en Gaza | Nederlandse ambassadeur in Canada over haar werk | Koken uit een 300 jaar oud kookboek van Clara Feyoena| Maarten Heijmans en Cor Bakker maken voorstelling over Ramses Shaffy | Presentatie: Mieke van der Weij

Artificial intelligence is powerful, but what about natural intelligence? This hour, TED speakers explore the intrinsic genius in animal language, insect behavior, plant anatomy and our immune system. Guests include neuroscientist Greg Gage, computational neuroscientist Frances Chance, social psychoneuroimmunologist Keely Muscatell and environmental researcher Karen Bakker. We want to dedicate this episode to Bakker who passed away in August 2023, only a few months after giving her TED Talk. Her research and legacy continue to inspire. Original broadcast date: March 8, 2024TED Radio Hour+ subscribers now get access to bonus episodes, with more ideas from TED speakers and a behind the scenes look with our producers. A Plus subscription also lets you listen to regular episodes (like this one!) without sponsors. Sign-up at plus.npr.org/ted.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

What if your hardest seasons were actually shaping something divine in your story? Join me for a heartfelt conversation with Mitch Bakker, founder of IDA Design and author of Drawn, as he shares how a crisis of faith led him to discover God’s fingerprints in everyday life. Through powerful storytelling, Mitch reminds us that even our detours and doubts can lead to deeper purpose. Together, we explore faith, resilience, and the beauty of human connection—like the moving story of a man who gave his kidney to a friend’s son. This episode invites you to see God’s grace in unexpected places and find hope through the power of your own story. And remember, I'd love to connect more on Instagram, where you'll find me at @donnaajones. And don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode! Xo, Donna Listen in to learn more : (00:19) - Seeking God Through Life's Challenges (09:44) - Life's Lessons Through Pain and Hope (20:10) - Healing and Redemption Through Forgiveness (28:22) - Drawing Strength Through Stories Donna’s Resources: Order a copy of my latest book - Healthy Conflict, Peaceful Life: A Biblical Guide to Communicating Thoughts, Feelings, and Opinions with Grace, Truth, and Zero Regret. It is available anywhere books are sold– here is the link on Amazon. If you need a helpful resource for someone exploring faith and Christianity or simply want to strengthen your own knowledge, you’ll want a copy of my book, Seek: A Woman’s Guide to Meeting God. It’s a must for seekers, new believers, and those who want to deepen their confidence in their faith. Connect with Mitch Bakker Website https://www.mitchbakker.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bakker.mitch Pick up a copy of his book, Drawn Connect with Donna Instagram: @donnaajones Website: www.donnajones.org Donna’s speaking schedule: https://donnajones.org/events/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

The Hornets have hit the backend of their preseason schedule, getting ready to face Memphis in Greensboro. Sam Farber and Rob Longo preview all the action, and Sam sits down with Greensboro Swarm head coach DJ Bakker to discuss what fans can expect from the Swarm this season.