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Is AI likely to result in a dystopian future for health professionals and patients – or could it be used to free up more hours in the day for pharmacists to do their jobs? AJP Podcast host Carlene McMaugh sits down with Michael Bakker, chief pharmacy information officer for SA Pharmacy, about the barriers to digital transformation for pharmacists, overcoming resistance to change, and what the future might look like. The pair discuss common misconceptions about AI – including that it could replace key health workers such as pharmacists. “We're not talking about robo pharmacists, right?” says Bakker. “There's tasks and processes that will be impacted by the advent of AI, but they could also happen with non-AI things. “If we took one task and process just to kind of put it under the microscope, a hospital pharmacy service spends probably about a third of their clinical workforce time on performing medication histories. “And so you could go, ‘well, there's many different ways that digitally, we could do that a lot better now if we just had better linked data or atomic data around medicines where it’s easy to go, oh, this person’s on perindopril five milligrams once a day, and it's easy to convert that over to your hospital system. “And you can see the dispensing record for the patient, and if we had all of the dispensing records and prescribing records going up to My Health Record, it's pretty easy to conceptualise a way where you go, ‘well, I can see that they're on that regularly. I'm just going to convert that to their hospital medicine and just continue that there'. “That could be done without any AI. “The technology is not the barrier there. It's the investment and the prioritisation of that development work that needs to be there and having the high quality data sitting in my health record to be able to reutilise it. “They might sound like big things, but they're quite small. It's not like we're waiting for some technology to come along that doesn't exist yet. “The AI ones that I think scare people is around the decision making and to be able to decide what to do, and the door's starting to open there as to what that future state might look like to my network.” Bakker told McMaugh he had recently posted to LinkedIn about the United States having opened the policy door to having AI agents being able to prescribe for patients. “It's just a very interesting concept that it's not an automated thing that they can do this, they need to undergo all of their approvals through the FDA.” While he is not aware of this happening in practice, Bakker says it poses the question: what would this look like? “Is that going to be an AI agent is taking an action on behalf of say a prescriber when they're talking to their patient. So they're saying, ‘I'm going to give you amoxicillin 500mg four times a day' and then it's just going to generate the prescription. “And so that's kind of minimally invasive and risky. You have to prove quality and things like that so that it's not going to mistake the drug name or anything; or is it going to be far more dystopian where it's going to diagnose and take action to prescribe a recommended therapy for a patient, which is a little bit more scary? “So not everything is a one or a zero or a yes and a no. “There's lots of gradients in between in there, and so I think people get very alarmed and rightfully so as to what the really crazy dystopian future might look like and what's my role going to be in that if these things come about. “But there's a lot of work in between where we can just see the chipping away at tasks and processes through better technology, that are things that take an enormous amount of time, as good as the pharmacy workforce is at doing these types of things thoroughly… “If we were reviewing information that was presented to us that was kind of curated so that we don't have to go and do a preliminary history for a patient, then go into the patient room and validate it with them, then come out, reconcile it with what they're actually on and then get it changed, we can walk straight in going, ‘well, I can see what you're normally taking, but can you help me understand how you're actually using these on a day to day?' “You could be saving an hour a day for a clinical pharmacist that can be redirected into other tasks.” Highlights include: 00:56 – “Digital maturity can mean lots of things.” 02:24 – Getting started 03:27 – Barriers to digital transformation 06:44 – Insights from developing the Australian practice standard for pharmacy informatics 10:03 – How is AI currently being used to manage medicine safety, especially in rural or remote areas? 13:43 – No robo pharmacists 19:22 – How can pharmacists who are not tech experts start to build their digital literacy and become effective champions for changing their workplaces? 22:23 – Retaining the human touch 25:44 – Encouraging buy-in, including from pharmacists who have concerns 28:20 – “Soft skills are crucial.” 29:51 – Using AI to build a strong business case for new initiatives 32:56 – The most exciting emerging AI and digital trends 34:53 – As pharmacy workflows become more digitalised, what new types of dispensing and prescribing errors are we seeing and how can we mitigate them? 37:51 – “Get great at pharmacy first at all areas of pharmacy.” 39:27 – How could pharmacy look in 10 to 15 years? 41:46 – Learning from other sectors You can access the full transcript of this podcast here. While we endeavour to ensure all important words and phrases are correct, please note there may be some minor inaccuracies in the transcription. ACCESS PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Go here for the full list of active AJP podcasts. These can also be accessed via Apple Podcasts and Spotify  Carlene McMaugh

Zijn huiskerken een bijbelse terugkeer naar de eenvoud van Handelingen of een bedreiging voor de stabiliteit van de kerk? In deze Cvandaag Podcast gaat Jeffrey Schipper in gesprek met theoloog en gemeentestichter Erik Bakker. Volgens Bakker ontmaskeren huiskerken iets pijnlijks in onze kerkcultuur: ons comfort, consumentisme en vasthouden aan bestaande structuren. Is de huiskerk een spiegel die we liever vermijden? Of juist een kans om opnieuw te ontdekken wat het betekent om kerk te zijn? Maak tijd voor een eerlijke, prikkelende en verdiepende themapodcast!

Hoe kan het ook anders: in de nieuwste aflevering van De Urkerland Podcast is de plaatselijke politiek weer prominent aanwezig. Albert Brouwer en Jelle Bakker reageren op de laatste nieuwtjes. Ze geven commentaar op de politieke columns van de laatste tijd én ze filosoferen over de prognose. Altijd gevaarlijk, omdat zetels heel makkelijk de ene of de andere kant kunnen opvallen. Maar misschien is er toch in grote lijnen iets te schetsen? En wat is er aan de hand met de vrije kavels in de Zeeheldenwijk? Albert gaat tot slot in op een ronduit verbijsterend bericht dat hij aan het begin van het afgelopen weekeinde ontving.

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Albert Brouwer en Jelle Bakker nemen in de nieuwste aflevering van De Urkerland Podcast onder andere ruim de tijd om in te gaan op de vele ontwikkelingen in de plaatselijke politiek. Nu de verkiezingen steeds dichterbij beginnen te komen, roeren partijen zich. Welke ontwikkelingen moeten we in de gaten houden? En is er al iets te zeggen over de samenstelling van het volgende college? Inmiddels zijn ook bijna alle lijsttrekkers bekend en leren we nieuwelingen aan het politieke spectrum ook beter kennen. Al die Jan Loosmannen krijgen een eigen gezicht. Uiteraard gaan de podcastmakers ook even in op alle ontwikkelingen rondom een paar grote letters die onlangs op Urker bodem werden geplaatst (en inmiddels alweer zijn weggehaald).

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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: Welcome to thinkenergy, a podcast that dives into the fast, changing world of energy through conversations with industry leaders, innovators and people on the front lines 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, Hi everyone. Welcome back. Today on thinkenergy, 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 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. Why? Because trees contracting 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 dance, 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 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 cause considerable damage to our city's urban forests. 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 1000 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. And other utilities helping us identify and act to mitigate risk associated with vegetation. I'm really excited to have Lynn Petesch 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 Petesch, welcome to the show.   Lynn Petesch  05:34 Thank you. Thanks for having me.   Trevor Freeman  05:36 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.   Lynn Petesch  05:45 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 there is a concern, and or improving operational efficiencies. So Overstory very much becomes a decision-making tool for their programs were 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 storm. They might be working on a wildfire mitigation risk so the company, more broadly, was founded in 2018 by Anniek 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.   Trevor Freeman  07:33 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?   Lynn Petesch  08:12 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 customer 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 was two things that really resonated with me. One was hearing that utility caused wildfires could be as 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 WiFi 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   Trevor Freeman  09:40 That's great. And I really love, you know, talking to people from a variety of areas that they 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 you know, recent grads about what is a green. In career. What is it? What does a career in climate change look 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.   Lynn Petesch  10:15 Yeah, I guess when I was young, I thought you had to be a scientist to work on time, yeah. And I think now anyone can find an angle on how to contribute to it. And I think it needs everyone to help contribute.   Trevor Freeman  10:24 Yeah, any job can be a green job if you care about it and if you make it that okay. So let's 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.   Lynn Petesch  10:41 Yeah, so when we started working with utilities, I think at that point, everyone was kind of assessing whether satellites could be kind of 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 m-o we really were the leading provider to find out, where are the trees, how close are they, 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 and in Colorado, you have very different terrain than maybe in Ottawa. So detecting tree species has been really interesting, detecting the health of trees, 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, hundreds, 10s of 1000s of miles at a time, and some of these utilities, they might have 1000s, if not 10s of 1000s, 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 prioritization, 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, their 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 intention? 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.   Trevor Freeman  12:44 Absolutely. And looking forward, I know I'm kind of 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 it still a lot of growth to happen?   Lynn Petesch  13:01 Yeah, I think vast majority utilities are now leveraging remote sensing. It could be lighter, 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 shared resilience, first picture of risk. So you know, we imagine a world where you can, kind of like, see the emerging risks, and you can start becoming proactive. Being proactive in the 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 their territory so that 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, the regulators 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 now the data is often scrambled across different people. Certain people have access to it and certain people don't.   Trevor Freeman  14:25 Great. Okay, so let's get into the specifics here. I want to actually talk about specifically what you what Overstory does. How do you find we've kind of talked about vegetation management, obviously, you're supportingHydro 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?   Lynn Petesch  14:47 Yeah, that's the part that I deal with the most often. So excited to get into specifics. Implementing with Overstory is actually pretty easy. I mean, when we start working with a customer, we need to know where is your grid. So we need to understand where your power lines are. Planning. We need to understand the main configurations of them. How tall are the poles, etc, so we can really compute that whole focus of where the trees in relation to your power lines, to your conductors. That's all ultimately that we're focusing on. Increasingly, we're all seeing 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 are first needing to understand, where are the trees, what is their height, 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 it to that risk to the conductor. And we look at your right of ways. Now, I think the interesting part about your question is the what is high risk? And that is, can be very different across different utilities, and I think that's the maybe the 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. And 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 running 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 built 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.   Trevor Freeman  16:49 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 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 the utility do with that information?   Lynn Petesch  17:37 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, they 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 socket 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 other one, the second use case, is this targeted program creation, and I'll use the Hydro Ottawa use case for that. You know, they had suddenly a view about where are all of their hazard trees? 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 cost outages. And there's many others, sort of like hotspotting, is a very common term about starting to become proactive and doing something for a specific program. And the third one 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 we 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 really 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 the 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 budgets, secure your budgets, or really have some data to kind of back you up on what the problems are that you're facing.   Trevor Freeman  21:05 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 6000 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, and every sector right now, and the utility sector is 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?   Lynn Petesch  21:59 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 intelligent about their vegetation. So when you say yes, Hydro Ottawa has that many 1000s of kilometers of overhead lines, we need to a 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 that whereas the trees How tall are, they were and they were 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 in the with ground truthing, has been really important for us to also build that trust in the technology.   Trevor Freeman  23:42 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, 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's, let's get into kind of the success of it at 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 that 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, you know, are you actually reducing weather related outages? Are you seeing the impact of using the overstory tools and methodology to support utility partners?   Lynn Petesch  24:58 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 side of 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 that the consequences are really strong, but what we can impact is the tree cost outages, right? 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 amounts of these trees that were dying off and they at any point, was just a little bit too heavy wind could be toppled over and fall on the line, we had a 44% reduction in tree cost outages. That's a real, tangible number. You can see, I'm thinking about utility as well. In the on the East Coast, a co op that runs through very rural areas. In those areas, you have a trees outside of the right of way that are toppling over on two lines. So tree cost outages are a huge issue for them, and it's really impacting their safety and safety those key, key KPIs that utilities are always tracking and by us just giving them a rank order of which has a tree they had so many of them, which has a tree to even go to first, because if that has a 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 the line, you will have, like one rural cabin that will not have power. And that led to a reduction of something around 90% of tree cause outages is 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 real impact on your tree cost outages. And it's if I think about our customer in California, Pacific Gas and Electric, for example, it's a lot around 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 itself a really big use case. Because right now, if you don't have an understanding about where your risks are, you might be spending 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.   Trevor Freeman  27:29 Absolutely, yeah, there's, there's only so many resources you can 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 is an area that is obviously of great interest for your organization. We're fortunate here at Hydro Ottawa, and 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, like, a very quick primer on why utilities are a factor when it comes to wildfires first, and then how your organization is supporting that.   Lynn Petesch  28:13 So unfortunately, utility cost wildfires tend to be the most catastrophic wildfires because they're critical infrastructure, and we've obviously seen that happen across the world, in in the US recently, again and again. But utility cost wildfires, as I said at the beginning, are also the actual wildfires that are preventable. So that's really where we're lying to lying into a lot of the forests right now. They've become Tinder boxes. That is obviously because of fire suppression policies? That's because of forest management techniques that have been leveraged in the last couple of 100 years that are slowly changing at different paces? Canada's had some, unfortunately, some really bad fire seasons recently as well. And so where overstory wanted to place itself as a net prevention space to even not add to the point where you have a spark, because there's a lot of tools out there that focus on mitigation and what is, 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 that the vegetation that could touch your conductor, right? That's I've been speaking about that 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 because 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. 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 that, you know, there's a lot of wildfire risk map 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 of the protecting their communities.   Trevor Freeman  30:29 Got you 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, 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.   Lynn Petesch  30:49 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, spread out without there even be any 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.   Trevor Freeman  31:15 Super interesting and fascinating work to get involved in. As you mentioned, this is obviously an area of, I don't even know if I call it growing concern anymore, great concern for for the utility industry and all of us. Yeah. 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 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?   Lynn Petesch  31:52 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 it 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 polls, and if there's any failures potentially on those as well as further weather exposures, right? It becomes, then about the soil moisture. It comes about the wind speed. It becomes around 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 centimeter that may drop down to 15 or 10 centimeters, so the resolution will get higher. There's other sources that we're exploring already flying, sometimes aerial imagery that is at that five to 15 centimeters, then you would really start seeing soon, you can start seeing a leaf on a on a tree. It gets really impressive. There's lighter there's lots of other kind 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 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 risks. So that is, that is another angle that at Overstorey We're chasing right now.   Trevor Freeman  33:35 Yeah, I'm glad you brought up that. You know, 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 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, well, I think what I'm hearing from you is could potentially be leveraged in that next level to understand, what pulls do we have? What health are they in? What you know, what's happening with that conductor? Is it sagging too much? Is it in good health? Like there's, there's all this opportunity that's really fascinating to hear.   Lynn Petesch  34:31 Yeah, already. Now, when we look at transmission corridors, we look at the sag of these lines, and the terrains are also really challenging, something 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.   Trevor Freeman  34:48 Very cool. Well, Lynn, very interesting to hear this. I'm really glad you came on the episode or the show today to talk to us. Fascinating to hear what Overstory have 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?   Lynn Petesch  35:13 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 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 they kind of, I think about them for like, months afterwards. 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 books, yeah.   Trevor Freeman  35:41 Yeah, we're 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 thing.   Lynn Petesch  35:53 It'll be called in January.   Trevor Freeman  35:56 Absolutely. So same question, but a movie or a show?   Lynn Petesch  36:00 Yeah, I'm not a big movie buff, but I recently rewatched What's Eating Gilbert Grape, 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. awesome.   Trevor Freeman  36:20 Awesome 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 go?   Lynn Petesch  36:27 French Polynesia, because it's so far I've never been a friend who went. I'm sure it's very expensive to go there, so it'd be great for someone too. Yeah, no, that's a place I'll go one day.   Trevor Freeman  36:41 So, yeah, fantastic. Who is someone that you admire?   Lynn Petesch  36:45 Yeah, that's a it's a tricky one, because I was thinking about, like, people, you know, in, I know, family, etc. But like, if I were to think about a, and it's a little left field, 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 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 I know, filthy with energy and kind of like drive. So I'm a big, big fan of Tina Turner.   Trevor Freeman  37:38 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 like, learning about Tina Turner listening to some music.   Lynn Petesch  37:47 Yeah, she's great woman.   Trevor Freeman  37:48 Yeah, good answer. Last question, what's something about the energy sector, or let's expand that to kind of the climate sector that you're really excited about?   Lynn Petesch  37:59 Yeah, I'm gonna take a very high level. But I think the thing I've always 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 liked 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. We're moving that direction, no matter what's happening right now. So that's exciting.   Trevor Freeman  38:55 Yeah, okay, when I know my listeners are probably roll 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. And we really feels like we're at an inflection point. And very great to have you working on one aspect of it that people probably don't think about a lot. So thanks very much for what you're doing.   Lynn Petesch  39:19 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 very keen eye for, unfortunately, trees that are in poor health right now. So that's one of the professional things I've developed.   Trevor Freeman  39:35 Carry like a spool of red ribbon around you can, like, tie on the at risk trees and 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.   Lynn Petesch  39:45 Thank you so much.   Trevor Freeman  39:46 Take care. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the thinkenergy 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..

Albert Brouwer verblijft momenteel in de Franse Alpen en Jelle Bakker zit op de redactie van de krant. Daarom bespreken de heren deze keer telefonisch het laatste nieuws met elkaar. Het zijn vooral de aanstaande verkiezingen die hen bezighouden. De een na de andere partij geeft duidelijkheid over de kandidaten. Tegelijk zijn er ook partijen die daar wel druk mee bezig zijn maar nog steeds geen helderheid kunnen geven over wie er in maart gekozen kan worden. Daarnaast is er aandacht voor de mannen van Hart voor Urk, die met behulp van een podcast (met beeld) de aanval op 'ze' geopend hebben. Brouwer en Bakker nemen daarnaast ook even de tijd om het te hebben over de diverse trieste en zorgelijke berichten van de laatste paar dagen.

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

De spoedeisende hulp van het Spaarne Gasthuis heeft tijdens de afgelopen jaarwisseling opnieuw een onrustige nacht achter de rug. Dat zegt SEH-arts Sjoerd Bakker in het radioprogramma Haarlem Vandaag op Haarlem105. Vooral het aantal vuurwerkslachtoffers lag hoger dan vorig jaar. Volgens Bakker begon oudjaarsdag al hectisch. “De avond volgde op een dag met veel gladheid. We hadden al een enorme toeloop van mensen door glij- en valpartijen”, vertelt hij. “Toen die stroom opdroogde, kwamen de eerste vuurwerkslachtoffers binnen. We hebben geen moment stilgezeten.”

Albert Brouwer en Jelle Bakker maken in hun eerste podcast van het nieuwe jaar de balans op. Ze kijken terug op een zeer enerverend jaar, dat door het overlijden van Pieter Oost een verdrietig einde kende. De kerstkrant wordt nog even doorgenomen en dan was er nog dat bijzondere verhaal over de Jachin Boazkerk.

Hoe maakte De Vries zijn foto's? Aflevering 2 van de podcast duikt in het ambacht: glasnegatieven, lichtval, verdwijnpunten en dierenportretten. Fotograaf Anneke Bloema vertelt waarom zijn techniek zo uitzonderlijk was.

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Net als vorig jaar kun je weer genieten van een speciale kerstaflevering van Klankcast met NPO Klassiek-presentator Jet Berkhout. Welke klassieke en andere muziek associeert Jet met Kerst? "Het gaat alle kanten op, maar het wordt heerlijk en het bindmiddel, de maïzena, wordt de heerlijke kerstsound." Van Lang Lang tot Mariah Carey – met een bijzondere verrassing tegen het einde van de aflevering! Spotify-playlist: https://bit.ly/jet-kerst-playlist  Optreden van harpiste Marleen de Bakker bij NPO Klassiek: https://bit.ly/NPO-Klassiek-Marleen-de-Bakker 

Albert Brouwer en Jelle Bakker spreken elkaar misschien wel voor de laatste keer in 2025. Ze hebben veel te bespreken. Over een plaatsgenoot die ondanks een flinke val in Frankrijk de moed erin houdt. Over een enorme berg stenen die in de haven gekieperd wordt en over de decembermaand die op Urk bekend is komen te staan als culinaire marathon. Het onderwerp dat dit keer echter de meeste aandacht vergt, is het veelbesproken interview met Christiaan Wolff Mitchell-van Dijk, sinds kort remonstrants predikant in Leiden en Alphen aan den Rijn. Het stuk in de krant van vorige week leverde een golf aan zeer uiteenlopende reacties op. Hoe gaat de redactie daarmee om? En welke overwegingen speelden een rol bij het besluit om dit verhaal te publiceren? In deze podcast worden ook de laatste Urkerland-mokwinnaars bekendgemaakt. De prijzen kunnen tijdens kantooruren worden afgehaald op Het Spijk 4.

Catharina Th. Bakker heeft een nieuwe biografie geschreven deze keer over Fré Dommisse. Catharina was eerder in de studio om te praten over haar vorige boek Lijfarts van de koning, na de presentatie van dit boek kreeg zij van twee verschillende mensen de tip om zich eens te verdiepen in het werk en leven van Fré Dommisse. Dommisse schreef in de vorige eeuw op jonge leeftijd over haar ervaringen in het gesticht.

Kun je als ouder geven wat je nooit hebt geleerd? Met Bram en Fimme Bakker | The Trueman Show #254   Deze week in The Trueman Show: ex-psychiater Bram Bakker en zijn zoon Fimme Bakker.    Bram werkte jarenlang als verslavingsdeskundige, maar zag niet dat zijn eigen zoon verslaafd was, tot ze eindelijk durfden te praten. Tijdens de honderd theatervoorstellingen die ze samen maakten, kwam oud zeer naar boven: trauma's, misverstanden en generatieslange patronen die jarenlang onder de oppervlakte hadden gelegen.    In deze aflevering voeren vader en zoon een open en rauw gesprek over trauma, verslaving, opvoeding, heling en de diepere waarheid achter mentale gezondheid.   Bram is een van de weinige psychiaters die het aandurft om publiekelijk te breken met de traditionele GGZ. Hij legt uit waarom hij gelooft dat veel van de psychiatrie rust op aannames, protocollen en machtsstructuren die mensen eerder vasthouden dan bevrijden.   Fimme, cabaretier en herstellend verslaafde, vertelt hoe zijn eigen worstelingen hem dwongen om diep in zijn familiegeschiedenis te kijken. Hij deelt wat het van hem vroeg om oude patronen los te laten en hoe de relatie met zijn vader veranderde toen ze elkaar eindelijk écht begonnen te zien.   In deze podcast: De grootste leugen in de psychiatrie De GGZ van binnenuit: protocollen, macht en “eenheidsworst” Waarom de zorg nieuwe inzichten tegenwerkt Hoe trauma generaties lang wordt doorgegeven De rol van angst, controle en het lichaam Fimme's reis door verslaving, herstel en bewustwording Bram over zijn jeugd, misbruikervaring en schaamte Ademwerk, lichaamstherapie en de weg naar heling   Word Member en bekijk Uncensored op That's the Spirit: https://thatsthespirit.nu/in   Volg ons op: Instagram: / thetruemanshowpodcast Facebook: / thetruemanshowpodcast Telegram: https://t.me/s/jornluka?before=217 X: / TruemanshowNL   Wekelijks op de hoogte blijven van alle afleveringen, updates, boekentips en de blogs van onze gasten? Schrijf je in voor de nieuwsbrief: https://thetruemanshow.com/nieuwsbrief/  Samenwerken met de Trueman Show? Stuur een mail naar partners@thetruemanshow.com   Deze podcast wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door de volgende sponsoren*:   PREMIÈRE: ONVOORWAARDELIJK? | Met Bram en Fimme Bakker  Op 14 januari 2026 organiseert That's the Spirit een exclusieve screening van de documentaire Onvoorwaardelijk?. Wil je daarbij zijn? Meld je dan aan voor de early access: https://events.thatsthespirit.nu/event/filmpremiere-onvoorwaardelijk   AMARAPURE Verminder de impact van blauw licht in de donkere dagen met de AmaraPure blauwlichtbrillen. Bestel via https://amarapure.com en ontvang 10% korting met code TMS.   MODERN NATIVE Geef je lijf wat het écht nodig heeft met de natuurlijke orgaansupplementen van Modern Native. Gebruik code TMS voor 10% korting: https://modernnative.nl/orgaanmix   NORD VPN Exclusieve NordVPN Deal: Probeer het nu zonder risico met een geld-terug-garantie van 30 dagen! https://nordvpn.com/truemanshow   PINE POLLEN Boost je testosteron en ervaar meer energie, focus en geluk. Gebruik code TMS en bestel Pine Pollen met 10% korting: https://pinepollenpoeder.nl   *Dit betreft een commerciële samenwerking, The Trueman Show ontvangt commissie bij aanmelding via de affiliate link

Hoe raakte Anja Keuter ooit in de politiek verzeild? Jelle Bakker denkt het antwoord te hebben en haalt in De Urkerland Podcast een verhaal op over een onbegrijpelijke miskleun van de gemeente. Verbaasd hoort Albert Brouwer het verhaal aan. Hoe kan het dat er geen belletje gaat rinkelen? In hun gesprek gaan Brouwer en Bakker ook nog even in op een bijzonder gesprek met een groep Urkers: 25 jaar geleden keken ze vooruit naar het jaar 2025. De verwachting was destijds dat Urk dan toch zeker een eigen ziekenhuis zou hebben. Onlangs keken ze terug op toen én vooruit naar 2050. Een andere opvallende bijeenkomst was een reünie van een groep predikanten. Maar die ene dominee was er niet bij.

Iris Bakker (27) is actrice, theatermaker en zangeres. Ze studeerde af aan de opleiding Muziektheater aan Codarts Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Tijdens haar opleiding liep ze stage bij OpusOne in de musical Fun Home, waarvoor ze een Musical Award-nominatie voor ‘Aanstormend Talent' ontving. Na haar studie was ze te zien in verschillende theaterproducties, series en films, zoals Pijnstillers en Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden. Momenteel vertolkt ze de rol van Mo in de nieuwe musical van Alex Klaasen: Stoornis of my Life. Presentator: Bo Fasseur

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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.

In this STtalks, Micah Bakker and Joel Van Veldhuizen from Rock Bottom Dairy in Iowa, and Eric Zwiefelhofer with STgenetics join us to discuss their reproductive and genetic successes. They delve into the farm's reproductive programs, including their synchronization protocols, and discuss how STgenetics programs like Vision+75™ and Chromosomal Mating® aid in herd management and achieving the dairy's genetic goals. Discover how these practices have contributed to Rock Bottom Dairy's accolades.00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome00:38 Farm Overview and Management02:09 Reproductive Success and Awards02:53 Reproductive Program Details08:35 Genetic Program and Goals10:02 Genomic Testing and Its Benefits13:30 Chromosomal Mating® Program16:37 Future Goals and Conclusion

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW 0:00 SEG 1 Speaker’s Stump Speech is titled "harbinger or a warning sign?" and is about some of the wins in Missouri elections last night and is brought to you by https://www.hansenstree.com/ 19:10 SEG 2 Andy Bakker, Executive Director of Liberty Alliance USA | TOPIC: Missouri Congressional map changes | Amendment 4, A.K.A. The Protect MO Voters Amendment | In 2026, Missourians will vote on Amendment 4, prohibiting foreign nationals from funding ballot measure campaigns, increasing transparency, and punishing initiative petition fraud. | Who Is Hansjörg Wyss and Why Is He Targeting Missouri? | Protect MO Voters, the campaign supporting Missouri Amendment 4, filed a formal complaint with the Missouri Attorney General’s Officehttps://x.com/LibertyAllUSA https://libertyallianceusa.com/ 34:39 SEG 3 Jetsons are here https://newstalkstl.com/ FOLLOW TIM - https://twitter.com/SpeakerTimJones FOLLOW CHRIS - https://twitter.com/chris_arps 24/7 LIVESTREAM - http://bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMS RUMBLE - https://rumble.com/NewsTalkSTL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW 0:00 SEG 1 Speaker’s Stump Speech is titled "harbinger or a warning sign?" and is about some of the wins in Missouri elections last night and is brought to you by https://www.hansenstree.com/ 19:10 SEG 2 Andy Bakker, Executive Director of Liberty Alliance USA | TOPIC: Missouri Congressional map changes | Amendment 4, A.K.A. The Protect MO Voters Amendment | In 2026, Missourians will vote on Amendment 4, prohibiting foreign nationals from funding ballot measure campaigns, increasing transparency, and punishing initiative petition fraud. | Who Is Hansjörg Wyss and Why Is He Targeting Missouri? | Protect MO Voters, the campaign supporting Missouri Amendment 4, filed a formal complaint with the Missouri Attorney General’s Officehttps://x.com/LibertyAllUSA https://libertyallianceusa.com/ 34:39 SEG 3 Jetsons are here https://newstalkstl.com/ FOLLOW TIM - https://twitter.com/SpeakerTimJones FOLLOW CHRIS - https://twitter.com/chris_arps 24/7 LIVESTREAM - http://bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMS RUMBLE - https://rumble.com/NewsTalkSTL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stel je voor, je loopt in de 17e eeuw door de binnenstad van Leiden en je hoort iemand op een hoorn blazen. Je weet wat dat betekent. Je gaat af op het geluid en de geur van versgebakken brood. Je wandelt de hoek om en ziet twee trotse mensen bij hun uitgestalde broodjes staan, net uit de oven. Je zou zo wat kadetjes bij ze willen bestellen. Dat is wat dit schilderij van Jan Steen losmaakt als je ervoor staat. Wie zijn deze bakkers? Waarom zijn ze op deze manier geschilderd? 

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.

Hoe was het dagelijks leven in de 17de eeuw? Het antwoord op die vraag krijg je in de tentoonstelling 'Thuis in de 17de eeuw'. Hoe woonden ze, hoe werkten ze, hoe vermaakten ze zich? Van 's ochtends vroeg tot 's avonds laat.  In deze podcast hoor je ook welke bijzondere vorm er is gekozen voor deze tentoonstelling. Een soort levensgrote kijkdozen… een decor van karton.  Janine Abbring gaat met conservator Maartje Brattinga op bezoek in het atelier van kunstenaar Steef de Jong.

I'm joined by Darla Bakker and her three daughters—Andrea Kolstad, Danielle Brandt, and Laura Feller. Darla and her husband, Jeff, live on a farm near Ruthton, Minnesota, where they raised their girls. Today, their daughters are raising families of their own in Minnesota and Nebraska—but one thing hasn't changed: their love of gathering around the table.This spring, Darla published her third cookbook—Darla Bakker's Family Favorites, 3rd Edition—and this one is truly a family project. Her daughters helped organize, edit, and contribute recipes of their own, making it a generational reflection of Midwestern cooks. Within 349 spiral bound pages, they share more than 830 recipes. What a treasure to be handed down to generations to come.From classic Midwest comfort foods to gluten and dairy free updates for a new generation, this episode celebrates the love and laughter that fill the Bakker family kitchen. And stay tuned for a surprise message from Darla's seven grandchildren that's sure to melt your heart.You'll find all of Darla's recipes in her cookbook, but here are a few we talked about in the episode that are on my website randomsweets.com:Turkey Pot Pie with Cream Cheese CrustGoulashOne-Pot Sausage & Penne Pasta DinnerAsian MeatballsDarla's Potato Salad Dressing (Cooked Dressing)Apple Cider Doughnut Loaf CakeThe Bakker family's story is a reminder that recipes aren't just about ingredients—they're about community and connection. Whether it's rhubarb slush on a summer day or hot dish in the dead of winter, food is how we remember, celebrate, and love one another.And if you ever wonder whether one of Darla's dishes made it into the book…well, just ask her: “Is this recipe in your book?”Order Your Copy of Darla Bakker's Family FavoritesCopies are available for $20 plus $5 shipping by emailing Darla at jdbakker@woodstocktel.net, or you can pick one up at Johnson Flower Box, 155 N. Tyler Street, Tyler, MN.Meet Your Host and Producer, Staci Mergenthal⁠RandomSweets.com⁠#ourSweetMidwestLifeWebsite ⁠randomsweets.com⁠Instagram ⁠@potatoesandmittens⁠Instagram ⁠@randomsweets⁠Facebook: ⁠Funeral Potatoes & Wool Mittens⁠Facebook ⁠Random Sweets⁠Pinterest ⁠@staciperry⁠Email: ⁠staci@randomsweets.com⁠Midwest Food Podcast

I denne uges episode af Aktieuniverset har vi interview med Frans Bakker om $IREN og den seneste udvikling i selskabet. Vi ser også nærmere på situationen i Mellemøsten, hvor der måske er en løsning på vej mellem Hamas og Israel. Derudover gennemgår vi diverse markedsnyheder, ugens køb og dykker ned i ugens tema: cirkulær økonomi i AI. Alt dette og meget mere! Denne episode er sponsoreret af Nlogic. Få skræddersyet din cybersecurity. Læs mere på Nlogic.dk. Denne episode er sponsoreret af Finobo. Få et gratis økonomitjek hos specialisterne i låneoptimering ved at bruge linket:finobo.dk/gratis-oekonomitjek-aktieuniverset/Prøv den nye omlægningsberegner på Finobo.dk/beregner-omlaegningsberegner/?utm_source=aktieuniverset Denne episode er sponsoreret af investeringsfonden NewDeal Invest.Du kan finde fonden på din danske handelsplatform under PMINDI eller NewDeal Invest.På eToro findes porteføljen NDI-FutureTech.Er du virksomhed, kan du investere i hovedfonden via Virksomhedsskatteordningen (VSO).Læs mere på newdealinvest.dk.  Tjek os ud på:FB gruppe: ⁠facebook.com/groups/1023197861808843⁠X: ⁠x.com/aktieuniverset⁠IG: ⁠instagram.com/aktieuniversetpodcast⁠ DISCLAIMER:Aktieuniverset indeholder markedsføring af investeringsforeningen Portfoliomanager NewDeal Invest, kl n (PMINDI), som Mads Christiansen er investeringsrådgiver for. Podcasten kan ligeledes referere til andre fonde.Indholdet i podcasten udtrykker alene værternes og gæsters egne holdninger, refleksioner og analyser, og skal ikke opfattes som en personlig anbefaling af bestemte værdipapirer eller strategier. Podcasten skal ikke anses som investeringsrådgivning, da den enkelte lytters finansielle situation, nuværende aktiver eller passiver, investeringskendskab og -erfaring, investeringsformål, investeringshorisont, risikoprofil eller præferencer ikke kan inddrages. Det afhænger af den enkelte investors personlige forhold og målsætning, om en bestemt investering eller investeringsstrategi er hensigtsmæssig, og vi anbefaler, at man rådfører sig med sin investeringsrådgiver, inden en eventuel beslutning om investering tages.PMINDI kan findes via Nordnet (https://www.nordnet.dk/markedet/investeringsforeninger-liste/18148998-portfolio-manager-new-deal-invest), Saxo Bank (https://www.saxoinvestor.dk/investor/page/product/Fund/38109485) eller ved at søge på ”DK0062499810” i din egen netbank.PMINDI er kun egnet for investorer med høj risikovillighed og en investeringshorisont på mindst 5 år. Alt investering medfører risiko, herunder potentielt tab af kapital. Historisk afkast er ikke en indikator for fremtidigt afkast, der kan afvige meget eller være negativt.Læs PRIIP KID for PMINDI for fulde risikoscenarier: https://fundmarket.dk/newdeal-invest-kl-n/. Overvej risici og fordele nøje før investering.Læs mere om risici her: https://newdealinvest.dk/risici/ og generelt om investeringsforeningen på www.newdealinvest.dk.Vil du have en månedlig oversigt over alle positionerne i PMINDI? Så skriv dig op til nyhedsbrevet her:https://newdealinvest.dk/nyhedsbrev/. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, the hosts delve into their favorite quotes from the Second Apocalypse series by R. Scott Baker, exploring themes of vengeance, morality, and the ambiguity of the text. They discuss the significance of hope and regret in history, the role of teachers in learning, and cultural interpretations of hell. The conversation highlights the complexity of ignorance and certainty, showcasing the depth of Baker's writing and its philosophical implications. In this conversation, the participants delve into the intricate themes of power, knowledge, and the human experience. They explore how power can be both a source of safety and a catalyst for danger, the nature of political power, and the complexities of human emotions and desires. The discussion also touches on the significance of doubt, the tragedy of knowledge, and the beauty of language and imagery in literature. Through various quotes and reflections, they highlight the importance of understanding the nuances of truth and the impact of our beliefs on our actions.Send us a messageSupport the showPage Chewing Blog Page Chewing Forum Film Chewing PodcastSpeculative Speculations Podcast Support the podcast via PayPal Join Riverside.fm Co-Hosts and friends: Jarrod Varsha Chris Jose Carl D. Albert (author) Holly Tinsley (author) Susana Imaginário (author) Tim Hardie (author) Thomas J. Devens (author) Michael R. Fletcher (author) Janny Wurts (author)

Man bidrager til præcis den splittelse, som onde aktører forsøger at skabe med droneoverflyvningerne, når man rejser utidige spørgsmål og misbruger situationen til politiske drillerier. Det mener Lars Barfoed, der er tidligere vicestatsminister og justitsminister for Konservative og nu menigt medlem af Moderaterne. RADIO IIII har spurgt en lang række kilder, om den danske regering bedre kan beskytte Danmark, hvis de ikke får kritik samtidig, efter at Mette Frederiksen i en videotale konstaterede, at tiden IKKE er til hurtige meldinger eller mistillidserklæringer til de danske myndigheder. Og Lars Barfoed var altså den eneste, af dem vi har talt med, der gav statsministeren ret. Værter: Laura Lin og Peter MarstalSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

TAKEAWAYSThere is a lost and dying world around us that needs to hear the gospel of Jesus ChristDon't give up and never give in when it comes to standing for the truth of the Word of God and the salvation messageThe church is not called to entertain; the church is called to endurePursue the heart of the Father so that you will not be deceived by the Devil

Jamin besluit het roer om te gooien en zijn bullshitbaan in te ruilen voor een bakkersopleiding. Maar kan hij zijn aandacht bij de lessen houden als de Franse gastdocent wel heel knap blijkt te zijn? Uitgegeven door Heartbeat Spreker: Matthijs Meulblok

Chef Syrco Bakker grew up in the Netherlands with roots firmly grounded in Indonesia. Learning skills from his Dutch Chef father & cooking family feasts with his Indonesian mother- he has blended the two worlds to open a sustainable destination restaurant in the hills of Ubud Bali, Syrco Base.

In this episode, Hilary Duff and Daniel Moore speak with Dutch-born, Australian-based designer, artist, and environmental activist Joost Bakker about his pioneering work in sustainability, zero waste design, and the circular economy. While not a registered architect, Joost is known for groundbreaking projects such as Greenhouse by Joost, Silo, and the Future Food System at Melbourne's Fed Square, Joost shares how his upbringing in the Netherlands and later life in Australia shaped his philosophy of designing self-sufficient ecosystems that produce their own energy, water, and food. Joost discusses why “waste” is a recent human-made phenomenon, exploring how industrialisation disrupted the closed-loop systems humans shared with nature for millennia. He reflects on his commitment to using unconventional materials, like cork, hemp, and magnesium-oxide boards, and the criteria he applies to ensure every material choice aligns with circular economy principles. The conversation also delves into the challenges and breakthroughs of delivering his zero-waste projects, from navigating regulatory barriers to working with unlikely partners to raise industry standards. Looking ahead, Joost shares his optimism for a future where circular design becomes mainstream, powered by the demands of younger generations for meaningful climate action. He offers advice for emerging architects and designers on integrating sustainability into their practice and reflects on his own collaborative approach, bringing together experts, manufacturers, growers, and chefs to reimagine the built environment. This is an inspiring deep dive into a career built on the belief that beauty, innovation, and environmental responsibility can, and must, coexist. Our sponsor Brickworks also produces architecture podcasts hosted by Tim Ross. You can find ‘The Art of Living', ‘Architects Abroad, and ‘The Power of Two', at brickworks.com.au or your favourite podcast platform. If you'd like to show your support please rate, review, and subscribe to Hearing Architecture in your favourite podcast app. If you want to know more about what the Australian Institute of Architects is doing to support architects and the community please visit architecture.com.au This is a production by the Australian Institute of Architects Emerging Architects and Graduates Network, in collaboration with Open Creative Studio. The Institute production team was Katie Katos, Claudia McCarthy, and Mark Broadhead, and the EmAGN production team was Hilary Duff and Daniel Moore. This content is brought to you by the Australian Institute of Architects Emerging Architects and Graduates Network, in collaboration with Open Creative Studio. This content does not take into account specific circumstances and should not be relied on in that way. This content does not constitute legal, financial, insurance, or other types of advice. You should seek independent verification or advice before relying on this content in circumstances where loss or damage may result. The Institute endeavours to publish content that is accurate at the time it is published, but does not accept responsibility for content that may or will become inaccurate over time. We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia where this podcast was produced, as the first storytellers, the first communities and the first creators of Australian culture. I extend that respect to the Traditional Custodians of country throughout the multiple places abroad where this podcast was recorded.  We thank Traditional Custodians for caring for Country for thousands of generations.  and recognise their profound connection to land, water, and skies.

In this week's basketball coaching conversation, Charlotte Hornets Assistant Coach DJ Bakker joins the Basketball Podcast to share insights on offensive concepts vs. switching.DJ Bakker is the Head Coach of the Greensboro Swarm and an Assistant Coach with the Charlotte Hornets, bringing over a decade of NBA coaching experience and a proven track record in player development and team success. In the 2024–25 season, Bakker led the Swarm to their first playoff appearance in franchise history, finishing with a 31–19 record—best in team history and fourth overall in the G League. Under his leadership, the Swarm ranked third in Defensive Rating, top five in Net Rating, and first in both Clutch Net Rating and Offensive Rating. His dual role with the Hornets included overseeing the development of young NBA talent, including 2024 sixth overall draft pick Tidjane Salaun.Before joining the Hornets organization, Bakker served as an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks during the 2023–24 season. He played a key role in shaping the team's offensive identity to maximize the strengths of Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard, while also working individually with Khris Middleton and Malik Beasley. That season, the Bucks finished fifth in Offensive Rating and Bakker was part of the coaching staff for both the 2024 NBA All-Star Game and the playoffs. His G League success began with the Motor City Cruise, where he led the team to a 31–15 record in its inaugural season and a playoff berth, while developing five future NBA players.Bakker's coaching journey includes player development roles with the Detroit Pistons, Toronto Raptors, and Dallas Mavericks, where he worked with emerging stars like Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, and OG Anunoby. He also served as an advance scout for the Orlando Magic and began his NBA career with the Chicago Bulls. His foundation in skill development was shaped at ATTACK Athletics under Tim Grover, where he trained over 35 NBA players. Known for his adaptability, communication, and tactical clarity, Bakker continues to build competitive, development-focused environments at both the NBA and G League levels.

Gerbrand Bakker is auteur, columnist en hovenier, en een van de meest vertaalde hedendaagse Nederlandse schrijvers. Zijn (internationale) doorbraak kwam met ‘Boven is het stil' (2006). Het boek werd bekroond met onder meer de toonaangevende International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, is bewerkt voor toneel en verfilmd, en werd in meer dan dertig landen verkocht. Zijn roman ‘De omweg' stond op de shortlist voor de Libris Literatuur Prijs en werd bekroond met de Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, een voorloper van de International Booker Prize. Zijn meest recente roman is ‘De kapperszoon' (2022). In de autobiografische reeks Privé-domein publiceerde Bakker al drie boeken: ‘Jasper en zijn knecht' (2016), ‘Knecht, alleen' (2020), en ‘Moeder, na vader' (2023). Nu is daar een vierde aan toegevoegd: ‘Aan mij heb je niks'. Femke van der Laan gaat met Gerbrand Bakker in gesprek.

Today's AgNet News Hour highlighted the resilience and passion of California's dairy industry, featuring an in-depth interview with Joseph Bakker of Back Road Ranch and Countryside Dairy in the Tulare–Visalia area. A third-generation dairyman, Bakker shared his journey in agriculture, managing over 6,000 cows and farming 2,000 acres with his family. His deep ties to both the land and the community reflect the strength and legacy of California's dairy families. The episode dove into the many challenges facing dairymen in California—from relentless regulation and water scarcity to labor hurdles and rising operational costs. Despite these burdens, Bakker remains hopeful, expressing optimism about the future of the industry and calling for smarter policy, more education, and greater public understanding of where our food comes from. Host Nick Papagni and co-host Josh McGill emphasized the importance of representation for farmers on state boards and in politics. They underscored the lack of understanding in Sacramento about the day-to-day realities of agriculture, stressing the need for firsthand engagement and visibility from the ag community. Listeners also learned more about Bakker's family, his children's involvement in football at Central Valley Christian School, and how sports and farming go hand in hand in instilling strong values and work ethic. In the second half of the episode, the show transitioned to industry updates from the Almond Board of California. Encouraging news included tariff reductions in Pakistan, reduced inspections for EU-bound shipments, and insights into pest control and facility registration in China. These updates show that California's almond sector continues to fight for global competitiveness. As the episode closed, Nick and Josh issued a call to action—inviting farmers to bring kids out to the farm, champion FFA, and foster ag literacy. Their message: support your local farmers, drink more milk, and never underestimate the power and necessity of California agriculture. Stay connected at AgNetWest.com and catch the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

What has no beginning, end, or middle and touches every continent?If you answered, “the ocean”- Correct!Or the ‘living infinite', as Jules Verne called it in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. This latest episode of 2050 Investors is a splashy one as host Kokou Agbo-Bloua dives deep into the mysteries of the oceans aboard the modern-day Nautilus, the Nautile.In 2022, at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), 150 member states pledged to preserve or safeguard thirty percent of the world's oceans by 2030: or “30 by 30”. While a positive step in the right direction, more still needs to be done.Join Kokou in this daring adventure exploring the importance of the ocean in shaping Earth's climate, providing food and habitat for animals and humans alike, the economy and so much more!But be aware as the adventure does take a dark turn when we encounter the deep-water alter ego of the Great Pacific Garbage patch. We will learn about the devastating effects of plastic pollution, envisioning a Kraken monster born from our own waste.Later in the episode, we speak with Nisha Bakker, Director Partnerships at The Ocean Cleanup. The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit foundation working daily to rid the world's oceans of plastic. Nisha emphasises the need for a global effort to change the system of plastic production and waste management, mentioning the development of a Plastic Treaty. However, she's optimistic of growing awareness and progress in ocean and river cleaning initiatives.As the journey concludes, Kokou reflects on the resilience depicted in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea," leaving listeners with a poignant reminder that, despite the challenges, we can persevere.About this showWelcome to 2050 Investors your monthly guide to understanding the intricate connections between finance, globalisation, and ESG.Join host Kokou Agbo-Bloua, Head of Economics, Cross-Asset & Quant Research at Societe Generale, for an investigation of the economic and market megatrends shaping the present and future, and how these trends might influence our progress to meeting 2050's challenging global sustainability targets.In each episode, Kokou deep dives into the events impacting the economy, financial markets, the planet, and society. Through a magical blend of personal anecdotes, in-depth research and narratives overlaid with music, sound effects, and pop culture references, there's certainly something for everyone.Kokou also interviews industry-leading experts, personalities, entrepreneurs and even Nobel prize winners! You will learn from the best on a wide range of subjects on current affairs, market shifts, and economic developments.If you like 2050 Investors, please leave a five-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your support will help us spread the word and reach new audiences. If you're seeking a brief and entertaining overview of market-related topics and their business and societal implications, subscribe now to stay informed!Previous episodes of 2050 Investors have explored ESG-influenced financial assets, climate change, AI, greenflation, smart cities, globalization, plastic pollution, food, health care, biodiversity, the energy transition, and more.CreditsPresenter & Writer: Kokou Agbo-Bloua. Producers & Editors: Jovaney Ashman, Jennifer Krumm.Sound Director: La Vilaine, Pierre-Emmanuel Lurton. Music: Cézame Music Agency. Graphic Design: Cédric Cazaly.Whilst the following podcast discusses the financial markets, it does not recommend any particular investment decision. If you are unsure of the merits of any investment decision, please seek professional advice.Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Send us a textIn this episode, DJ talks with Unsha Bakker, a dedicated nurse navigator, about her vital role in guiding patients and caregivers through brain tumor diagnoses. She shares her journey into nursing, the barriers underserved communities face in accessing care, and the human side of nursing, emphasizing the importance of mental health support and self-care for both patients and providers.Support the showRare Enough is a podcast powered by Head for the Cure, sharing real stories of resilience, hope, and community from those facing brain tumors and the people who walk beside them. Subscribe, listen, and share, because every story matters, and no one should face brain cancer alone. Follow on Instagram @RareEnoughPodcast Learn more at BrainsfortheCure.org

We know that Western culture lives excessively, endlessly seeking the newest and shiniest new thing.  Its shocking that 40% of our food goes to waste, one third of our building materials are never even used. But this way of life will be short lived and thankfully being wasteful is now  on the nose and cool cats like Joost are making waves by making junk UBER COOL. What can we do to create a new way forward in what he describes as the most exciting time in human history?Support the ShowCasual Support - Buy Me A CoffeeRegular Support - PatreonBuy the Book - Futuresteading - live like tomorrow matters, Huddle - creating a tomorrow of togethernessPod Partners Rock: Australian Medicinal Herbs    Code: Future5We Talked AboutKeeping family as number one Keeping it real with family to ensure they are presentHis journey through waste which began using other peoples junkSpending his spare time in junkyards collecting and using other peoples wasteEven the poster boy doesn't get everything right - examples of things that haven't workedFor every project that gets up there are 3 or 4 which didn't - that's having a go! And through the Process we discover a new way forwardAttracting like minded people to build a community and deliver amazing projectsShowcasing the innovation and vast knowledge that exists in this countryCreating binless hospitality businessesCurating the message for living waste free so that people understand it.Considering materials based on their ability to be recycledLiving in the most exciting time in human historyGetting creative to find solutions that allow us to continue our existing lives with minimal compromiseThere's something mentally wrong with us when we endlessly chase the next, new, shiny, big thing. Being properly nourished and connected to the outdoors satiated our desires and replace our desire for STUFF.Using plants to support our sleepReverting to primitive practices to reconnect to ourselvesStarting our day with simple, natural world practicesIf we've got 3 hours to be on social media, surely we've got time to make our everyday actions more intentional.We feel great after gardening not just because its sensorially beautiful but because you are breathing in microbiomesObservation is a lost trait we need to rebuildHis fascination with the perfect sized branch for birdsAll his buildings are covered in 8 mil rio mesh because it's perfect for the birdsIf you really want to understand why he makes the decisions he does then check out his instagram pagesLinks You'll LoveThe Greenhouse film - Future Food System InstagramSupport the show

Today, our host, Pastor Ricky Bakker, and co-host Mondo De La Vega, discuss the spirit of rebellion plagueing the nation and fueling protests and insurrection by paid agitators, and the importance of abiding in biblical direction such as honoring the laws of the land and maintaining strong borders. Peaceful protesting is encouraged and the church should be the place to find much-needed peace so we act in faith, not fear. If we want a blessed nation, we must turn back to God.

Containing Matters of Milkweeds.Timestamps:introductions, recent non-podcast reads (0:00)general overview and discussion of linguistics and science fiction (28:28)Ursula K. Leguin - "Author of the Acacia Seeds" (1974) (1:06:09)Bibliography:Akmajian, Adrian et al. - "Linguistics: An Introduction to language and Communication" (2001)Ahearn, Laura M.- "Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology" (2021)Alim, H. Samy - "The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race" (2020)Artichoke - "Le Guin the Reconstructionist" https://onionandartichoke.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/le-guin-the-reconstructionist/Bakker, Peter, Yaron Matras - "Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide" (2013)Burton, Strange et al. - "Linguistics for Dummies" (2012)Dyke, Heather - "Weak Neo-Whorfianism and the Philosophy of Time," Mind and Language, volume 37 (2022)Everett, Caleb - "A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think" (2023)Freedman, Carl (ed). - "Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin" (2008)Le Guin, Ursula K. - "The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination" (2004)Le Guin, Ursula K. - "Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places" (1989)Sapir, Edward, Pierre Swiggers - "General Linguistics" (2008)Sebeok, Thomas - "Perspectives in zoosemiotics" (1972)Spivack, Charlotte - "Ursula K. Le Guin" (1984)Stableford, Brian - "Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia" (2006)wonders"Westfahl, Gary (ed.) - "The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy: themes, works, and White, Donna - "Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K. LeGuin and the Critics" (1999)Whorf, Benjamin Lee et al.- "Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf" (2012)

Your Host Pastor Ricky Bakker and Co-Host Mondo De La Vega engage in a timely and relevant discussion about a world that is drunken with information, yet starving for application! Hear about global events today as they relate to end times bible prophecy, how the key to winning souls, providing encouragement and hope, and feeding and clothing the poor, is still the church.

Today the panel discusses why the church must have unity, and how in the end there will only be two schools of thought instead of numerous denominations. Hear how we must take a stand in the world or risk letting sin in, and how pride keeps God from moving in.

Join host Pastor Ricky Bakker and co-host Mondo De La Vega as they discuss Ephesians 1:3, our predestination by God for us to be with Him for eternity, and Genesis 15 where God Himself walks in Abram's place in the Covenant. Hear how Jesus willingly suffered our punishment so that God's Will, our redemption, would be made possible and listen to a message from Pastor Jim Bakker explain Jesus' purpose on the cross.

The Jim Bakker Show today features Host of the Jim Bakker Family Show, Pastor Ricky Bakker, and Co-Host Mondo De La Vega! Hear about the prophesied existence of and examples of false prophets in today's world, especially on social media outlets. The bible warns they will rise. Learn how to not be deceived by them. Hear why you should never pay for prophecies or healing from self-proclaimed prophets. Do we have the faith to accept what has already been paid for?

  Head-ON with Roxanne Kincaid – May 7, 2025 On this edition of Head-ON with Roxanne Kincaid, Roxanne delivers three fierce hours of truth-telling, political critique, and sharp-tongued humor from a proudly liberal, Appalachian transbilly perspective. Broadcasting live amid a personal health scare and ongoing fundraising efforts, she pulls no punches while skewering what she repeatedly calls the “Nitwit Nero,” “Orange Julius Geezer,” and MAGAT administration. Main topics include: Authoritarianism & Abuse of Power: Roxanne tears into the administration's deportation plans to countries like Libya and Rwanda, calling them a “slave trade” enabled by Pentagon funds and blatant human rights violations. She highlights federal judges pushing back against misuse of the Alien Enemies Act, particularly rulings from Judges Sweeney, Rodriguez, and Murphy. Religious Grift & Hypocrisy: With fire aimed at “Christian grifters” like Jim Bakker, Roxanne slams the prosperity gospel as a con. Bakker's demand for $1,000 donations, while his ministry faces foreclosure, exemplifies the cynical monetization of faith. Religious bigotry and antisemitism, especially targeting Jewish politicians like Gov. JB Pritzker, are called out directly. Sanctuary Cities & Counter-Trolling: The administration's war on sanctuary cities gets spotlighted during a visit by “Secretary HotMama” to Illinois, met with brilliant shade from Pritzker's team. The trolling press release earns Roxanne's praise for mocking cosplay law enforcement antics and dodgy constitutional respect. Attacks on LGBTQ+ Health: The MAGAT administration's cancellation of $800M+ in LGBTQ+ health research—including HIV prevention—is called a cruel erasure of queer communities from public health priorities. SNAP Restrictions in Louisiana: Gov. Jeff Landry's ban on buying candy or soda with food stamps, part of his “Make America Healthy Again” campaign, is framed as a thinly veiled assault on the poor, diabetics, and public dignity. World Cup Chaos Ahead: With mega-events looming, Roxanne calls out the US's crumbling infrastructure and visa backlogs, warning that MAGAT mismanagement could embarrass the nation on the world stage. Spying on Allies: A Wall Street Journal exposé alleging US intel is spying on Greenland and Denmark stirs outrage. Denmark's Foreign Minister calls it a betrayal; Roxanne sees it as more MAGAT overreach in pursuit of imperial fantasies. Media & Democratic Infighting: Roxanne roasts millionaire pundits and centrist Dems who bash Biden while ignoring MAGAT extremism. In her view, limousine liberals and profit-hungry networks are fueling division. Judicial Win in NC: There's a glimmer of hope as right-wing Judge Jefferson Griffin drops a bid to toss overseas ballots, clearing the way for Justice Allison Riggs' certified victory. Roxanne hails it as democracy fighting back. Additional highlights: Roxanne prepares for a CT scan in Durham and may launch a GoFundMe. The show faces a $968 fundraising gap and depends on listener support. A racist woman in Minnesota raises money on GiveSendGo—proof, Roxanne says, that hate still sells in MAGAT America. Pritzker signs an executive order protecting autism-related data. A 1972 Soviet satellite is falling back to Earth (location unknown). The Trump admin allegedly dismantled a key CDC infection control committee. Rumors swirl about MAGAT Surgeon General pick Casey Mean, a “wellness influencer.” Tone: Blunt, biting, and unfiltered, with moments of gallows humor and sharp satire. Roxanne blends grassroots outrage with deep concern for democracy, human rights, and community. Her message: resist the fascism, expose the grifters, support the truth.