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Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote were joined by Kevin Fishbain of The Athletic to discuss the latest Bears storylines as they prepare to face the Vikings on Sunday.

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Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote discussed how Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees shared a piece of advice recently that stuck with Bears quarterback Caleb Williams.

The Saint Lucia National Trust is advancing plans to complete the Walcott House project, with renewed emphasis on the contributions of the Walcott family to Saint Lucia's cultural heritage. The initiative will highlight the lesser-known work of Roderick Walcott alongside that of his brother, Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott and their mother, teacher Alix Walcott.

Episode 315Sponsored by:WTB WoodworkingCheck out WTBwoodworking.com for all your woodworking needs! In store specials, Giveaways, custom wood milling, and more!Huntingdon Valley PA Store now open!Enter the giveaway by going to:https://www.wtbwoodworking.com/giveaway00:00 Introduction to Jeff Friegan Hankey09:57 Jeff's Journey in Woodworking and YouTube18:22 The Evolution of Content Creation25:06 Challenges and Triumphs in Video Production28:02 The Art of Carpentry and Editing29:19 Inside Jokes and Merchandise31:26 Family Life and Parenting33:22 Travel Plans and Adventures36:20 Texas Events and Woodworking Community38:12 Food Wars: In-N-Out vs. Whataburger41:25 Karaoke Nights and Memorable Experiences45:08 Premium Upgrades and Shared Logins46:05 Maker Camp Excitement48:41 Midwest Maker Meetup Plans51:19 Event Improvements and Attendance Goals53:24 Bench Updates and Personal Projects01:01:57 The Challenges of Workspace Design01:02:35 Crafting with Cherry: A Woodworker's Delight01:03:48 Building an Office Pod: Enhancing Productivity01:07:08 Navigating Shop Logistics: The Struggles of Movement01:07:29 Product Development: The Journey of P Squared 3D Printer Stands01:10:24 Collaborating with Influencers: The T-Pain Connection01:12:24 Production Challenges: Sourcing Hardware and Inventory01:18:00 Completion of Built-Ins: A Milestone Achieved01:25:18 Design Choices and Aesthetic Preferences01:27:25 The Importance of Lighting in Design01:29:23 DIY Tools vs. Buying Tools01:35:58 The Value of Time in Tool Making01:38:35 Indulgent Tools in Woodworking01:44:28 Closing Thoughts and Future PlansPlease consider becoming a patron of our show!http://ILOVEAWP.comPodcast:https://www.instagram.com/anotherwoodshoppodcast/https://www.youtube.com/anotherwoodshoppodcast https://www.etsy.com/shop/awpstore Dan:https://www.instagram.com/danieldunlap.woodworks/ https://www.youtube.com/danieldunlap  https://www.etsy.com/shop/ddwwstore Braden:https://www.instagram.com/littlebugwoodworking/ https://www.youtube.com/@littlebugwoodworking https://littlebugwoodworking.com/Support the show

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In this interview of Just Tap In, Emilio Ortiz sits down with Ke'oni Hanalei for an exploration of Hawaiian and Mu/Lemurian wisdom, humanity's future, and what Ke'oni describes as a coming “completion event.” Drawing from teachings passed through his grandmother and a lineage spanning more than a thousand generations, Ke'oni shares Lemuria, Atlantis, the fifth world, Christ consciousness, reincarnation, heart coherence, prophecy, human evolution, and the spiritual meaning of our age. Together, Emilio and Ke'oni examine the idea that humanity may be moving through an Atlantean cycle, that AI could represent an evolutionary threshold, and that the transition ahead may be about remembering sacredness, self-love, authenticity, and inner authority.The conversation moves beyond lost civilizations into spirituality, consciousness, awakening, New Earth, ascension, Lemurian teachings, Atlantis, AI and consciousness, reincarnation, ancient wisdom, prophecy, and the evolution of the soul. Ke'oni explains why he sees Mu as the absorption of love, Atlantis as the challenging of love, the fifth world as movement beyond attachment to time and material reality, and love as the destiny of this universe. He and Emilio also explore whether technology will reveal if humanity repeats old patterns or completes them, why “unity consciousness” should never become assimilation, why inauthenticity may be spiritual disconnection, and how self-reflective love could become part of what comes next. This episode is for anyone drawn to Lemuria, Mu, Hawaiian spirituality, consciousness expansion, the fifth dimension, New Earth, Christ consciousness, sacred wisdom, human potential, and where humanity is headed next.___________________PODCAST CHAPTERS00:00 – Ke'oni Hanalei Intro1:03 - Opening a 20,000-Year-Old Mū Prayer3:09 - The Great Reassembly Happening on Earth4:39 - Raised Inside a 1,017-Generation Lineage11:32 - What Earth Changes Are Trying to Tell Us15:19 - The Plasmic Beings Who Came Before Lemuria17:40 - The Waters & the Coming Completion Event18:31 - How the Completion Event Could Affect Humanity19:36 - The Fifth World, Lyra & the Six Star Lineages22:18 - Why the Fifth Element Is Gravity23:05 - Is the Human Heart Actually a Black Hole?25:08 - Christ Consciousness & Escaping Reincarnation28:44 - Your Life Purpose May Be Coded Into Your Name34:55 - The True Origin & Destiny of Humanity38:07 - What Really Happened to Lemuria?40:58 - Lemurian Shapeshifters & the Atlantean Timeline43:07 - How Close Are We to the Completion Event?46:15 - Is AI Repeating What Happened in Atlantis?48:34 - The Fern Predicting a “Quantum Leap” for Humanity51:23 - The Greatest Form of Self-Harm52:43 - His Grandmother's Greatest Teaching54:03 - The Problem With “Unity Consciousness”56:51 - Could AI Actually Free Humanity?59:06 - What Would an Authentic New Earth Look Like?1:04:11 - The Ancient Way His Grandmother Raised Him1:06:43 - What We Still Don't Understand About Time1:10:55 - What Must Humanity Correct Now?1:12:33 - After 20,000 Years of Wisdom, What Are Humans?1:13:11 - Ke'oni's Message to Future Humanity1:14:53 - What Happens When We Finally Complete the Trauma?1:15:45 - Closing: Restoring Humanity's Buoyancy___________________Guest: Ke'oni Hanalei, Mū-Hawaiian Lineage Holder✦ Website | https://www.pohala.net/✦ Free ‘ULU Membership | https://www.ulu.pohala.net/Host: Emilio Ortiz✦ IG | https://www.instagram.com/iamemilioortiz/✦ Subscribe to Channel | https://www.youtube.com/EmilioOrtiz___________________© 2026 Emilio Ortiz. All rights reserved. Content from Just Tap In Podcast is protected under copyright law.Legal Disclaimer: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by guests on Just Tap In are solely those of the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Emilio Ortiz or the Just Tap In Podcast. All content is for informational purposes only and should not be considered professional advice.

Following Christ is a journey –  what a wonderful journey it should be!  In today's 3 chapters in 2nd Corinthians we see how Paul opens out more and more to them the wonder and challenges of this journey.  We are reminded of Solomon's ‘vision' that “the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until …” [Prov. 4 v.18]!   Yes, until the “full day” comes, when faith is turned to sight.   Is the path you are treading, shining brighter and brighter?  Are you “bringing holiness to completion”?The increasing spiritual darkness around us – should make the brightness of our path more evident! But sadly, ‘official' Christianity is showing ever more clearly that God “has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn …”  [John 12 v.40]. The ‘evidence' was there for them to ‘see' in the days of Jesus but their minds refused to accept what their eyes saw!  They were unable to “turn.” And today!  The contrast between “light” and “darkness” has grown really great; those in darkness have convinced themselves there never was a Creator.We are challenged to clearly understand what Paul means!  He says, “while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened – not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.” [5 v.4]  The more we are “further clothed” in our minds, the pathway before us will become increasingly clear and  bright.    “We are always of good courage”, says Paul, “and we would rather be away from the body and present with the Lord” [v.8]  Those who believe their “soul” is immortal usually misunderstand Paul's meaning.  Mortality will be “swallowed up” when Christ returns as Paul explained in detail in 1 Cor. Ch. 15 also when he stated his expectation of what is “laid up for me” in 2 Tim 4 v.7,8.  We will be physically “at home with the Lord” when he returns.  Paul challenges them (and us) to be more and more spiritually “at home” with him now so that when we “appear before the judgement seat of Christ (when) … each one … receive(s) what is due for what he has done in the body …” [v.10]    This means what he has done in “the body” of Christ – as Paul made clear in Ephesians 1 v.22,23.Chapter 6 in today's readings ends by making the Corinthians aware of God's promises of the life to come in his kingdom as recorded in the Old Testament (he quotes from Lev. 26 v.12 and Isaiah 52 v.11).   Ch. 7 starts, “Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement … bringing holiness to completion in the fear (awe) of God”.  He tells them to “widen your hearts” [6 v.13]  How “wide” is your heart?. Our readings are the essential ‘food' for our hearts; God's scriptures are a foundation ingredient if our hearts are to really become wide and so see “the path” really clearly so that we anticipate the “full day” with the greatest eagerness.     

Devotion : Nehemiah 6:15-7:4 / Completion! by Community Lutheran Church

The most expensive training may be the training your team forgets six months later.This week I spoke with Alex Mozes, CEO of Gravity Learning, about why so much corporate training looks successful on paper but fails to create lasting behavior change. We explored the difference between completing a course and actually learning a skill, why engagement scores and five-star ratings can miss the bigger picture, and how science-backed, interactive learning can create measurable outcomes. Alex also shared lessons from his years in the online learning industry, including his experience helping grow Udemy, and explained why human connection, practice, accountability, and discomfort still play such an important role in developing people. Here are the highlights:● Completion doesn't equal learning. A course can generate strong engagement and positive feedback without actually transferring the skills people need to use on the job.● Behavior change is the real measure of success. Effective learning should be evaluated by whether people actually apply new skills weeks and months after the training ends.● Human connection still matters. Communication, collaboration, feedback, leadership, and other interpersonal skills require practice, accountability, and interaction that technology alone may not replicate.● AI can enhance learning without replacing people. AI can provide additional opportunities for practice and simulation while human facilitators create accountability, challenge assumptions, and push learners beyond their comfort zones.● Training should create measurable outcomes. Organizations can get more value from their learning investments by focusing on science-backed methods, measurable skills, practice, and sustained behavior change. About the guest: Alex has spent over 20 years in the learning space, including scaling Udemy from employee #15 to a global team serving 100 million learners. Today, he leads Gravity Learning, a workforce development company applying cognitive science to manager training; confidently tracking learning transfer for six months after programs end to ensure behavior change actually sticks.Alex brings a unique perspective on why corporate training often fails and how science‑backed methods can deliver measurable outcomes. His experience spans startups, IPO readiness, and ed‑tech innovation, leadership, L&D strategy, startups, and business. Connect with Alex:Website: https://gravitylearning.com/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alexmozes Connect with Allison:Feedspot has named Disruptive CEO Nation as one of the Top 25 CEO Podcasts on the web.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonsummerschicago/ Website: https://www.disruptiveceonation.com/ #CEO #leadership #startup #founder #business #businesspodcast

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Aug. 29, 2026 Daily Devotional: “From Intention to Completion” 2 Corinthians 8:11"Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means."We live in a world full of good intentions. We start projects with enthusiasm, make commitments with a sincere heart, and envision big goals for our lives and faith. But somewhere between the initial spark of motivation and the finish line, life happens. Distractions set in, energy fades, and what began as an "eager willingness" sits half-finished. ​When Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, they had genuinely wanted to help believers in need. They were the first to step up with a willing heart. Yet, a year had passed, and the help had still not been delivered. Paul didn't condemn their motives; instead, he offered a gentle nudge toward follow-through: Finish what you started. ​Notice the grace embedded in Paul's instruction: "according to your means." God does not measure the faithfulness of your completion by comparing it to others, nor does He ask you to give or do beyond what He has entrusted to you. What He values is integrity—aligning our outward actions with our heart's original willingness. Obedience isn't found in the beauty of our intentions; it's revealed in our willingness to follow through. Whether it's a spiritual discipline you meant to build, a forgiving conversation you promised to have, a act of generosity you intended to send, or a God-given dream you set aside, God honors the small, steady steps of completion. 2 Corinthians 8:11 addresses the gap between good intentions and tangible action, focusing specifically on Christian generosity, integrity, and follow-through. Paul encourages them to let their final effort match their initial eagerness. Paul emphasizes that God does not demand what someone does not have. Generosity is not evaluated by the total financial amount, but by willingness matched with proportional capacity. True willingness is proven when actions align with words. ​Examine your "half-finished" list and identify what is one good commitment or God-given prompt you started with enthusiasm but never finished? Then, ​take one small step although you don't have to complete everything today. What is one practical step you can take within your current means to move closer to the finish line?

Captain James Fanell (US Navy, retired), co-host Gordon Chang: Fanell warns that China is nearing completion of a military installation on Triton Island in the Paracels, expanding its "ring of control" in the South China Sea. He cautions that China may soon fortify Scarborough Shoal, threatening to block the northern South China Sea and degrade U.S. naval operations. In response to this rising coercion, the Philippines is boosting its 2027 defense budget by 6.3%, allocating $800 million for modernization with a heavy focus on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance drones. Fanell urges more assertive naval cooperation to deter further Chinese expansion. (5)

A special fundraising gig is taking place in Ballyvaughan next week (Saturday, 5th September), with musician Áine Tyrell and friends taking to the stage at Greene's Bar to help raise funds for the new North Burren Community Centre at Gleann Ciosog.   The project has planning permission, €165,000 in Community Recognition funding and has now reached the tender stage, but further funding is needed to keep the project on track for Phase 1 completion in October.   Joining Alan Morrissey were musician Áine Tyrell and Bríd Fahy from the North Burren Community Group. Image (c) Áine Tyrell

DFW Airport is moving forward with Islamic foot-washing stations inside Terminal D bathrooms, and the details are out. The privately funded project registers at around $300,000 and puts dedicated Wudu ablution stations in both the men's and women's concourse restrooms. Officials say it's about keeping floors dry and sinks intact after travelers wash their feet in regular fixtures. Completion is targeted for the end of the year. Terminal D handles the bulk of international traffic. Similar stations already exist at places like Chicago O'Hare and Houston Bush, and DFW has had limited ablution facilities near its interfaith chapel for years. This expands the practice into the main restrooms. The filing calls it basic infrastructure for safety and sanitation. Plenty of Americans are asking a different question: why special plumbing for one ritual while every other traveler just uses the sinks? This isn't about private funding or wet floors alone. It's about what airports decide is worth accommodating in the middle of Texas. Watch the full conversation for the filing details, the practical defense, the cultural signal, and the commonsense pushback. Pat also covered: JD Vance calls out socialism and the fraud epidemic running through America Did Stacey Abrams fall asleep while interviewing Kamala Harris? James Talarico's girlfriend is real — and we have the footage Savannah Guthrie body-shames Chrissy Metz on national television Rosie O'Donnell deadnames her own daughter five times in one interview Would you use a special foot-washing station at the airport if it was there? Do you see this as simple maintenance, or does it feel like something bigger is being normalized? If you want unfiltered truth and commonsense analysis that cuts through the noise, hit subscribe and turn on notifications. 00:00 Pat Gray UNLEASHED! 00:17 Pat & Crew Go on Vacation Next Week! 03:22 JD Vance on Socialism 06:49 JD Vance on Stopping Fraud 10:28 ~$40 Trillion in National Debt 13:01 TWO WHOLE MONTHS WITHOUT MITCH MCCONNELL! 14:55 Who will Fill Karoline Leavitt's Position? 18:43 Kamala Harris: "Who is a Legitimate American Citizen?" 21:37 AOC Walking her Dog 24:25 James O'Keefe Exposing the Minnesota Voting Polls 28:26 Peggy Flanagan on Affirming Trans Kids 33:01 Airport Foot Washing 34:29 DFW Airport has Become a NIGHTMARE! 38:05 Fat Five 52:55 Ken Paxton is Confident Texas will Stay Red 54:53 Ken Paxton is Fighting an Uphill Battle 57:14 James Talarico's Girlfriend Spotted? 59:17 Texas' Election Climate is Tough for Republicans This Year 1:04:15 Abdul El-Sayed's Half-Sister 1:13:53 Marco Rubio on the Keto Diet 1:15:44 Savannah Guthrie Body Shames Chrissy Metz? 1:18:15 Rosie O'Donnell Deadnames her Own Daughter?! 1:26:04 What is the Pigeon App? 1:30:27 'White House Cyborg' Finally Speaks 1:32:26 Enes Freedom Hype Promo 1:34:17 Royce White Wants to Play in the WNBA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts Kyle Reno and Bill Elliff walk through Philippians 1. They explore how Paul's prayers taught us to grow in thanksgiving, praying with joy, asking God to finish the work He began, and praying for love, knowledge, discernment, purity, and blamelessness. Please let us know how the OneCry Podcast has impacted your own story by emailing us at info@onecry.com You can find many more downloadable revival resources and join the movement at www.onecry.com   

DFW Airport is moving forward with Islamic foot-washing stations inside Terminal D bathrooms, and the details are out. The privately funded project registers at around $300,000 and puts dedicated Wudu ablution stations in both the men's and women's concourse restrooms. Officials say it's about keeping floors dry and sinks intact after travelers wash their feet in regular fixtures. Completion is targeted for the end of the year. Terminal D handles the bulk of international traffic. Similar stations already exist at places like Chicago O'Hare and Houston Bush, and DFW has had limited ablution facilities near its interfaith chapel for years. This expands the practice into the main restrooms. The filing calls it basic infrastructure for safety and sanitation. Plenty of Americans are asking a different question: why special plumbing for one ritual while every other traveler just uses the sinks? This isn't about private funding or wet floors alone. It's about what airports decide is worth accommodating in the middle of Texas. Watch the full conversation for the filing details, the practical defense, the cultural signal, and the commonsense pushback. Pat also covered: JD Vance calls out socialism and the fraud epidemic running through America Did Stacey Abrams fall asleep while interviewing Kamala Harris? James Talarico's girlfriend is real — and we have the footage Savannah Guthrie body-shames Chrissy Metz on national television Rosie O'Donnell deadnames her own daughter five times in one interview Would you use a special foot-washing station at the airport if it was there? Do you see this as simple maintenance, or does it feel like something bigger is being normalized? If you want unfiltered truth and commonsense analysis that cuts through the noise, hit subscribe and turn on notifications. 00:00 Pat Gray UNLEASHED! 00:17 Pat & Crew Go on Vacation Next Week! 03:22 JD Vance on Socialism 06:49 JD Vance on Stopping Fraud 10:28 ~$40 Trillion in National Debt 13:01 TWO WHOLE MONTHS WITHOUT MITCH MCCONNELL! 14:55 Who will Fill Karoline Leavitt's Position? 18:43 Kamala Harris: "Who is a Legitimate American Citizen?" 21:37 AOC Walking her Dog 24:25 James O'Keefe Exposing the Minnesota Voting Polls 28:26 Peggy Flanagan on Affirming Trans Kids 33:01 Airport Foot Washing 34:29 DFW Airport has Become a NIGHTMARE! 38:05 Fat Five 52:55 Ken Paxton is Confident Texas will Stay Red 54:53 Ken Paxton is Fighting an Uphill Battle 57:14 James Talarico's Girlfriend Spotted? 59:17 Texas' Election Climate is Tough for Republicans This Year 1:04:15 Abdul El-Sayed's Half-Sister 1:13:53 Marco Rubio on the Keto Diet 1:15:44 Savannah Guthrie Body Shames Chrissy Metz? 1:18:15 Rosie O'Donnell Deadnames her Own Daughter?! 1:26:04 What is the Pigeon App? 1:30:27 'White House Cyborg' Finally Speaks 1:32:26 Enes Freedom Hype Promo 1:34:17 Royce White Wants to Play in the WNBA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a technology that was developed in America 140 years ago, refined by a small group of teachers most people have never heard of, practiced professionally by licensed men and women who charged money for it, and then almost completely forgotten. It is called treatment, and every affirmation circulating on the internet descends from it. Every abundance meditation borrows its grammar. The entire modern manifestation world stands on a foundation this word describes, and almost nobody teaches the original discipline anymore. ⠀ Here is why the difference matters. An affirmation has no ending. You repeat it and repeat it and there arrives no moment where the work concludes. A treatment finishes. Completion is built into the architecture, and that single structural feature solves the problem I spent years failing to solve on my own. In this deep dive I walk you through everything. The origin. Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker. The five movements — recognition, unification, realization, thanksgiving, release. The four instruments people confuse with each other. The five errors that stop treatments from taking hold. And the four rules for writing your own. Then in the second half of the episode I read ten new treatments aloud that I wrote for you. Money, receiving, the body, right work, love, guidance, protection, hard seasons, the self you are becoming, and someone you love. Speak them with me and hold onto them for the rest of your life.  

Knee osteoarthritis is a leading cause of chronic pain and disability, with limited disease modifying therapies—yet glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists may reduce progression to total knee arthroplasty. In this episode of RAPM Focus, Executive Editor Anahi Perlas, MD, FRCPC, explores whether or not GLP-1 receptor agonists may reduce the risk of arthroplasty for total knee osteoarthritis with Ryan D'Souza, MD, and Jay Karri, MD. Their conversation follows the April 2026 publication of their original research paper, “Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist use and risk of arthroplasty for knee osteoarthritis: retrospective database analysis.” Dr. Anahi Perlas is a professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Toronto. She is the Director of Research and the Director of the Perioperative POCUS Fellowship at Toronto Western Hospital. Additionally, Dr. Perlas is an Executive Editor of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and a founding and current member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Editorial Board on point-of-care ultrasound, overseeing the ASA Certificate of Completion in POCUS.  Dr. Ryan D'Souza is a pain physician and professor of anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic. His major focus lies in neuromodulation, guideline development, and evidence appraisal. He serves on the Board of Directors of NANS and has authored over 200 publications. He is a section editor for Neuromodulation journal and Journal of Pain Research, and also serves on the editorial board for RAPM.  Dr. Jay Karri is an assistant professor of physiatry and pain medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. His clinical and research interests include musculoskeletal ultrasound, neuromodulation, and technical considerations in pain interventions. He serves on the ASRA Pain Medicine Guidelines and Regulatory Advocacy Committee, and is an Associate Editor at the Regional Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine journal.  *The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice, and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner's judgement, patient care, or treatment. The views expressed by contributors are those of the speakers. BMJ does not endorse any views or recommendations discussed or expressed on this podcast. Listeners should also be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions. By listening to this podcast, listeners agree not to use its content as the basis for their own medical treatment or for the medical treatment of others.  Podcast and music produced by Dan Langa. Find us on X @RAPMOnline, LinkedIn @Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, Facebook @Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, and Instagram @RAPM_Online. 

The transition from summer break to school in the fall can be challenging for any child. It can be even more difficult for children who have a hard time with change given trauma and attachment issues and their placement in foster care or being adopted. In this episode, we are joined by Emily Johnson, who has years of experience supporting kids in going back to school. Emily is a foster caregiver, adoptive parent, and birth parent. Emily helps us understand what children are going through and offers practical guidance on ways to support them through the transition from their summer routines to the often more structured, demanding and earlier mornings of going back to school. 30 min This episode is eligible for a Certificate of Completion. The post Back-To-School Support for Foster and Adoptive Children appeared first on Foster Adopt Minnesota.

Send us Fan MailCustomer experience is changing. The focus is moving beyond simply having conversations with customers towards actually completing the task or resolving the issue.In this episode of Cavell Cloud Conversations, Finbarr is joined by Chris Morrissey from Zoom to explore how AI is transforming contact centers, from virtual agents and workflow automation to agentic AI, orchestration and decision intelligence.The conversation looks at why businesses need to move beyond AI hype and focus on measurable outcomes. Chris explains how AI can complete workflows during customer interactions, connect systems behind the scenes and help organisations deliver faster, more effective resolutions.The discussion also explores how businesses should approach AI adoption. Rather than trying to transform everything at once, starting with focused use cases can help organisations demonstrate value, build internal confidence and create a foundation for wider adoption.Key TakeawaysAI can do more than have a conversation. The next stage of customer experience is about AI actually completing tasks and resolving customer needs during the interaction.Start small, prove the value and build from there. Successful AI adoption does not necessarily require a massive transformation programme. Focused use cases can demonstrate results and create confidence for further investment.Integration is becoming critical. AI can only deliver on its promise when it can access the systems, data and workflows needed to complete a customer's request.The technology stack is converging. The traditional boundaries between contact center, communications, automation and AI platforms are becoming increasingly blurred.The goal should be better outcomes, not simply lower costs. AI can create efficiencies, but the opportunity is to reinvest those savings into better customer experiences and continued innovation.

New vs Established – Which is right for you?Buying off the plan can be a great way to get into the market.✔️ Secure your property with a 5–10% deposit✔️ Enjoy extra time to save before settlement✔️ Potentially benefit from market growth while construction is underwayBut it's important to know the trade-offs.⚠️ Completion dates can change, and there may be minor variations to layouts and finishes.Established homes, on the other hand, let you see exactly what you're buying and move in sooner.There's no one-size-fits-all answer—it all comes down to your goals, timeline and lifestyle.Thinking about buying? We'd love to help you weigh up the pros and cons of both options.#PropertyTips #OffThePlan #FirstHomeBuyer #PropertyInvestment #RealEstate #NorthernBeaches #HomeBuying

THE #BEARS ARE BACK! We get you updated on ALL the news coming out of #BearsTrainingCamp and look at why the completion % in camp practices is about as useless as spaghetti flavored ice cream. GET IN THE CHAT AND LET'S GO!!!!!!!Grab a cold one, kick your feet up and LET'S GO! Get in the chat and let's talk #ChicagoBears The show with no blueprint that HAS IT ALL COVERED! ANYTHING goes! Haters? Aww, how adorable! LET'S GET IT!!!!!!!!!#CalebWilliams #DaBears #Bears #NFL #ChicagoBears #NFCNorth #TTNLNetworkFor expanded TTNL Network coverage, head over to https://www.TheTapeNeverLies.com to sign up and become a TTNL Network patron! You'll gain immediate access to shows like X's with the O's, Draft MOB, Master Class and ALL TTNL Network pop up shows! It's the best $10 a month you can spend for your Chicago football fix.To order Matt Waldman's Rookie Scouting Portfolio(RSP) head over to https://mattwaldmanrsp.com/Follow the crew: One stop shop for ALL TTNL Network social media! https://linktr.ee/TTNLNetwork TTNLNetwork (@TTNLNetwork) https://twitter.com/TTNLNetwork TTNL Network Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thetapeneverlies Phil Ottochian (@phil_ottochian) https://www.instagram.com/phil_ottochian/ Shayne Marsaw (@wasram) https://twitter.com/wasram Ivan Vargas (@IvanV_TTNL) https://twitter.com/IvanV_TTNL Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

After 150 episodes and more than two million downloads, it's time to close one chapter and begin another. In this final episode of Unfuk Nation, I reflect on the journey, thank everyone who made it possible, and introduce my new podcast, Truth + Conversation—where philosophy and real-life problems collide. Join me for the next conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Nick Gonios, VP of Learning Transformation and Company Ambassador at TalentLMS, to explore one of the biggest hidden challenges in corporate learning: the Completion Trap. As AI rapidly transforms the workplace and organizations race to reskill their workforces, traditional learning metrics are increasingly falling short. Completion percentages and attendance figures may look impressive on a dashboard, but they reveal very little about whether employees can apply what they've learned to improve business outcomes. In this conversation, Nick explains why organizations have become fixated on measuring learning activity instead of learning impact, how outdated KPIs continue to reinforce the problem, and why this disconnect is creating friction, reducing productivity, and slowing organizational transformation.Key topics covered include:Why course completion is a poor indicator of real learning and competence.What TalentLMS' latest research reveals about learning metrics, employee behavior, and business impact.How AI can move beyond content creation to deliver personalized, relevant learning experiences.Practical steps organizations can take to align learning initiatives with productivity and business outcomes.Next StepsIf you enjoyed this discussion, don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe to UC Today for more conversations with industry leaders shaping the future of work, AI, learning, and enterprise technology.

https://enlighteninglife.com/august-2026-energy-report/It's August, the 8th month which means that the year is winding down. By the time August ends it feels like the holidays are just around the corner, then the year is over. I feel like this year has been in a holding pattern. Things are happening, but many things are starting and nothing is completing. I think August will be the turning point for that. August is the 8th month and in a 2026, which is a 1 year, it's a 9, the number of endings. But these are not normal or usual endings, this is closure if we are ready for that. If you are part of the GPS 2026 group, I explained this in the August call. You can join that program at this link. August energy theme is completion, and that is more than endings that must occur for beginnings. Completion is being finished, complete, with no loose ends, no regret, no second chances or second guessing our actions or intentions. If you are given an opportunity for completion this month, take it all the way to the end. Completion must happen before true beginnings can occur. August 2026 has 2 eclipses which is not rare for August but it brings back the August 21, 2017 eclipse which was called the Great US eclipse. It was at 28 Leo and that correlates to the current degree of the North Node, which just moved into Aquarius. I think there is a synergy there so we will have to wait to see how that plays out. The Universe has interesting ways of creating solutions to the dark agendas that are currently wreaking havoc on the planet. Read the rest of the article on the Enlightening Life blog at this link. Created, narrated, and produced by Jennifer Hoffman.Artwork by Jennifer Hoffman.Copyright (C) 2004-2026 by Jennifer Hoffman, all US and international rights reserved.Visit enlighteninglife.com for more information.Please note our policies regarding copyright infringement, content misuse, and theft of intellectual property. We prosecute all infringers and have a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for abuse, infringement, misappropriation, and illegal use of our content. You can read our full Terms of Use at enlighteninglife.comemail support@enlighteninglife.com with questions

Allen covers Dominion’s $800M tariff hit, Eversource’s 84% profit drop, Nordex’s record quarter, and a looming floating wind vessel shortage. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Good Monday, everyone. Let us start this week with a number. Eight hundred million dollars. That is what tariffs on steel and aluminum added to Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. Dominion President Bob Blue shared the damage on a second-quarter earnings call. Two hundred and thirty million dollars … just in the latest quarter alone. That is on top of the five hundred and eighty million from the quarter before. The project is eighty-one percent complete. Thirty-one turbines are already spinning … producing more than four hundred and fifty megawatts. But the finish line just moved. Completion is now expected by the end of twenty twenty-seven. Weather delays. Vessel maintenance. And some particularly complicated turbines to install. Blue says the project will still save customers money. And Dominion expects to pocket more than five hundred million dollars in savings from grid upgrade cost shifts. The total price tag … eleven-point-six billion dollars. Now … if Dominion is feeling the squeeze in Virginia … Eversource up in New England is feeling something worse. The utility’s second-quarter profit dropped eighty-four percent. Net income fell to just fifty-three-point-seven million dollars. Why? A one-hundred-and-sixty-four-million-dollar charge tied to the offshore wind projects they already sold. South Fork Wind. Revolution Wind. Eversource got out of offshore wind back in twenty twenty-four … but the bills keep coming. Higher-than-expected payments to Global Infrastructure Partners are dragging down the bottom line. So one company builds through the pain. Another walks away … and still pays for it. But here is some good news. Over in Hamburg, Germany … Nordex just posted a quarter that would make any CEO smile. Sales up sixteen percent. EBITDA … more than doubled … to two hundred and twenty-four million euros. Margins hit ten-point-three percent. Net income … one hundred and eleven million euros. Up from thirty-one million a year ago. And orders? Up thirty-two percent. Three-point-one gigawatts of new turbine orders in just one quarter. Their total order book now stands at eighteen-point-four billion euros. Nordex CEO José Luis Blanco confirmed the full-year guidance. The onshore wind giant is not just surviving. It is thriving. Now … let us go to sea. Classification society ABS says floating offshore wind is about to create a brand-new problem. Not enough ships. A new report says demand for large anchor-handling vessels and multipurpose support vessels will surge as floating wind projects go from small demonstrations to full commercial scale. Here is the number that tells the story. A single one-gigawatt floating wind farm needs about one hundred and ninety-eight anchors … and nearly two hundred kilometers of mooring lines. That is far more than a single deepwater oil and gas platform. ABS says shortages in certain vessel classes could hit as early as twenty twenty-nine. Global floating wind capacity is expected to grow from about two hundred and seventy megawatts today … to fourteen gigawatts by twenty forty. The race for ships … has begun. And speaking of ships … Japan just finished building one. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines held a naming ceremony in Nagasaki for the Wind Whale. Japan’s first coastal deck carrier built specifically for offshore wind. One hundred and forty-nine meters long. A flush deck designed so that monopiles, towers, blades and nacelles can roll right on from the stern. It even has dynamic positioning … so it can transfer cargo directly to installation vessels at sea. Built in China by Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering … the Wind Whale will carry foundations from a factory in Okayama to construction sites around Japan. A country that once built ships for oil … now builds them for wind. And finally … back home in Iowa. The state Supreme Court ruled that the CEO of Global Fiberglass Solutions can be held personally liable for dumping thirteen hundred used wind turbine blades across the state. CEO Donald Lilly and another executive argued they were never in Iowa. The court disagreed. Lilly signed the contracts. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird put it plainly. They were hired to recycle used wind turbine blades. Instead … they dumped them. Four hundred blades piled up along Interstate 35 near Ellsworth alone. The lesson? You can build an industry on clean energy. But you still have to clean up after yourself. So what does all of this mean … if you work in wind? It means the money is real now. Projects are not getting canceled. They are getting more expensive. And that changes the math for every engineer, every project manager, every supply chain director reading a bid today. Tariffs come and go. But an eleven-billion-dollar project does not stop on a dime. It means the vessels you need may not be there when you need them. If you are planning a floating wind project for the early twenty thirties … your vessel strategy should already be on paper. It means manufacturers who kept their discipline … who held their margins and grew their order books … are the ones writing the next chapter. And it means accountability is coming to every corner of this business. You cannot just build turbines. You have to manage the turbines. This industry asked the world to trust it with the future of energy. That trust comes with responsibility. And that is the state of the wind industry for August 3rd, 2026.

In this episode of CCA On the Air, Alliance Engagement Director Jennifer Torres sits down with Anika Van Eaton and Brendan Williams from uAspire to unpack their December 2025 report, Caution: Prices May Vary. After analyzing 211 financial aid offers from institutions across 34 states, uAspire found that the way colleges communicate cost to students is inconsistent, jargon-filled, and in some cases deeply misleading — with real consequences for enrollment, persistence, and completion. Financial aid communication, it turns out, isn't just a formatting problem; it's a structural barrier standing between students and their degrees. Listeners will hear what the data actually shows and what states, systems, and campus practitioners can do right now to make financial aid offers work better for students.

Today, we finished our study of Judges chapter five. The audio recording device unfortunately lost power about 15 minutes into the discussion.

Grote's Bears report: QB Caleb Williams talks mindset about improving completion percentage full 986 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:41:53 +0000 QoG5J55x1V916xMJiqqvm2UbyQk6VRRi nfl,chicago bears,sports Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show nfl,chicago bears,sports Grote's Bears report: QB Caleb Williams talks mindset about improving completion percentage Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote bring a thoughtful, fast-moving approach to Chicago sports, pairing sharp insight with real personality. They break down the day's biggest stories across the NFL, MLB, NBA and college sports, with Chicago always leading the conversation — from the Bears and Cubs to the Bulls, White Sox and more. Known for smart analysis, honest takes and lively discussion, the show offers Chicago fans a well-rounded, informed perspective on everything happening in the city's sports landscape. Catch the Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show live Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on 104.3 The Score or on the Audacy app. © 2026 Audacy, Inc. Sports htt

Please listen to Part 1, You Don’t Always Have the Words, before listening to this episode. In Part 1, Madilyne and her birth mother Aimee describe from their unique perspectives their experiences of Madilyne and her siblings being removed from Aimee‘s care and living with their grandparents, then a foster family, and eventually an adoptive family. In this episode, Aimee and Madilyne share what it was like not seeing each other for several years. They also share about the process of rebuilding their relationship, including the joys, heartaches, setbacks, and growth they have experienced individually and in their relationship. Content note: This episode includes mention of suicide. Please listen with care. 55 min This episode is eligible for a Certificate of Completion. The post Reunification is a Process, Not an Event: Part 2 with Aimee and Madilyne appeared first on Foster Adopt Minnesota.

We spend so much time learning how to achieve, but almost no time learning how to finish. Today we're talking about completion anxiety, the discomfort that can follow success, and why giving yourself permission to pause might be the next step forward. Contact: hello@drjenniferblossom.com  IG: @drjenniferblossom  My Nautral-Bioactive Peptides 

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Fresh off Mary Kay Cabot's interview, Ken Carman pushes back on her read that Deshaun Watson faces less hostility from Browns fans than social media suggests, arguing her own comment about scheduling road games to shield Watson from home jeers actually proves his point. That spirals into a proposal to ban callers who cite training camp completion percentages and touchdown counts as evidence in the Sanders-Watson debate, with the crew mocking how meaningless "stats" from unpadded practices against non-tackling defenses really are. They debate whether the show's own audience has been conditioned to care about this shallow analysis anyway, trace the trend of charting practice throws back over a decade to Brian Hoyer and Baker Mayfield-era coverage, and wonder what directives Browns reporters like Daryl Ruiter are getting from their bosses. It closes with a plan to poll callers on both Watson's chances and whether stat-obsessed callers should get the boot.

In this episode, host Ross Frey, Senior Product Manager and resident MTM/CMR strategist, sits down with Cindy Henry, Director of Payer Products at Outcomes, to unpack one of the biggest changes hitting Medicare Advantage plans: CMS's intent to return the CMR completion rate to the Star Ratings program beginning in measure year 2027. Ross and Cindy explore how the industry reacted to the latest CMS Advance Notice, why the CMR measure's return matters, and how MTM strategy has quietly shifted during its two‑year placement on the display page. Together, they outline the pressures plans are feeling—from shrinking margins to rising expectations around clinical quality—and the renewed focus on the value of medication therapy management, total cost of care, and local pharmacy engagement. A key topic throughout the episode is the impact of CMS's expanded MTM eligibility criteria, which significantly increases denominators for 2025 and beyond. Cindy explains how this shift forces payers to rethink scale, budget, ROI, and operational models, while Ross shares Outcomes' cut‑point predictions and how performance is likely to redistribute once the measure becomes active again. The conversation also highlights Outcomes' strategy to support both health plans and community pharmacies as they prepare for 2027. Ross describes work underway to reduce documentation burden, streamline workflows, leverage new technology, and allow pharmacists to practice at the top of their license—ultimately helping MTM delivery scale without sacrificing quality. By the end of the episode, the message is clear: Plans that begin modeling, staffing, vendor alignment, and workflow modernization now will be best positioned when Star Ratings recalibrate in 2029. Listeners are encouraged to explore Outcomes' latest prediction models and analysis at outcomes.com

What does Bears quarterback Caleb Williams have to do to increase his completion percentage in his second year with Ben Johnson? full 729 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:44:06 +0000 riyjMZq13rY5NF2IZuiGjUnmoxDueK7m #chicagobears,sports Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show #chicagobears,sports What does Bears quarterback Caleb Williams have to do to increase his completion percentage in his second year with Ben Johnson? Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote bring a thoughtful, fast-moving approach to Chicago sports, pairing sharp insight with real personality. They break down the day's biggest stories across the NFL, MLB, NBA and college sports, with Chicago always leading the conversation — from the Bears and Cubs to the Bulls, White Sox and more. Known for smart analysis, honest takes and lively discussion, the show offers Chicago fans a well-rounded, informed perspective on everything happening in the city's sports landscape. Catch the Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show live Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on 104.3 The Score or on the Audacy app. © 2026 Audacy, Inc.

What does Bears quarterback Caleb Williams have to do to increase his completion percentage, plus Jamal Collier calls in to talk Bulls (HOUR 2) full 2538 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:09:00 +0000 KdsD6SZpDzqsoYC65d3x4fv8c7sjSsoX sports Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show sports What does Bears quarterback Caleb Williams have to do to increase his completion percentage, plus Jamal Collier calls in to talk Bulls (HOUR 2) Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote bring a thoughtful, fast-moving approach to Chicago sports, pairing sharp insight with real personality. They break down the day's biggest stories across the NFL, MLB, NBA and college sports, with Chicago always leading the conversation — from the Bears and Cubs to the Bulls, White Sox and more. Known for smart analysis, honest takes and lively discussion, the show offers Chicago fans a well-rounded, informed perspective on everything happening in the city's sports landscape. Catch the Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show live Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on 104.3 The Score or on the Audacy app. © 2026 Audacy, Inc.

Zoom became synonymous with video meetings, but its next chapter is about delivering business outcomes through AI. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Gary Sorrentino, Global CIO of Zoom, about the company’s evolution from a video conferencing platform to an enterprise AI platform designed to move organizations “from conversation to completion.” Drawing on nearly five decades in technology leadership, Gary explains why CIOs should prioritize integrated AI platforms over disconnected point solutions, how better data drives better AI outcomes, and why the future of work is about enabling effective collaboration wherever work happens. He also shares his perspective on AI agents, deepfake detection, usage-based AI, and the leadership skills technology executives will need as human and digital workforces increasingly operate together. This episode is presented by Mailtrap — Modern Email Delivery for developer & product teams. Learn more at mailtrap.io

Why does finishing one dream often reveal the next? In this episode, I introduce the Soul Map Spiral™ and explain why dream completion isn't a straight line—it's a living, embodied process. We explore the key thresholds along the journey, including the Dream Spark, the Soul Yes, the Preservation Chamber, and the Expression Gate, and why each one prepares you for what's next. I also introduce the No-Drama Path to Completion—the relational, emotional, and embodied work that helps us stop abandoning what matters most. We'll explore relational sovereignty, the Drama Triangle, reparenting, embodiment, and the invisible patterns that can derail meaningful dreams. Because From Dreaming to Done™ isn't about dreaming bigger. It's about honoring the dream your heart and soul began—and becoming the person who can finish it.

Jacob Tobey gets fired for cheating on his girlfriend and perhaps we have reached peak morality. We talk some World Cup as we head into the semifinals and we have chalk. Bob has some money riding on it, but Phil and Jeff dash his hopes of fortune. Then we get into it on NBA Free Agency. Our crack investigative journalists got a mic into a recruiting trip made by the spurs own Luke Kornet. Daffy is not amused. Check out the website and drop us a note. Next week we will have a number for you to call in and leave your comments, which we might listen to.

The Eternal Significance of Seven by Autumn Dickson There are many patterns in the Old Testament. The story of Naaman, the Syrian, falls right in line with one of these patterns. Naaman was a Syrian captain. The Lord utilized Naaman to deliver Syria. He was a good man, but he was also a leper. A captured Israelite girl resided as a servant in his home. She audibly wishes that Naaman could visit the prophet in Israel because the prophet could cleanse him of his leprosy. The testimony of the captured servant girl reaches Naaman and through a series of diplomatic relations, Naaman finds himself outside of Elisha's door. Elisha doesn't come out, but he does send instructions for Naaman. 2 Kings 5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. Naaman is supposed to wash in Jordan seven times. He's annoyed about these instructions for a number of reasons: Elisha didn't come out to greet him, the river Jordan isn't as nice as the rivers in his homeland, and it seems like such a silly thing. Despite his annoyance, his servants are able to convince to wash seven times. He does so, and he is cured of his leprosy. I actually talked about this story four years ago when I went through Come Follow Me the first time. I talked about how arbitrary it was for Naaman to wash seven times in the river Jordan. I still stand by the principles I taught in that post. However, I am now four years older and wiser, and I have learned that washing in the river seven times is not arbitrary at all. Seven is a very symbolic number. In the bible, the number seven symbolizes completeness, so let's look at this story from that angle and let's also generalize the details just a tad so that they become relatable. A man wants to be clean (it specifically says that he was “cleansed” from leprosy). He has to go to a prophet to figure out how to be cleaned. The prophet instructs him to “be complete,” and he will be cleansed. He is cleansed. I think this is so cool. If we want to be clean in our day and age, the Lord still works through the same patterns. He works through His prophets to point us in the right direction. Through his prophet, we are given instructions. If we follow through on those instructions towards completion, we are cleansed. Naaman's story is a parallel for receiving salvation. I was definitely mistaken in thinking that seven was an arbitrary number. However, I actually love that I made the mistake because it led me to an important realization: bathing in the river seven times is not what healed Naaman. I don't think there was some odd organism in the river that year that ate away at his chronic bacterial infection. I think the Lord healed him for his obedience. And isn't that the key here?! As Latter-day Saints, we believe in salvation through grace. Naaman didn't actually wash off his leprosy in the river. He was healed by the Lord. It was a gift that was given to him. But the Lord didn't cleanse Naaman until after Naaman was obedient in washing seven times, in being “complete.” Latter-day Saints believe that salvation is a gift; we also believe we will be judged by our actions and whether we followed the Lord. The Lord judges us, cleanses us, and gives us that gift of salvation if He judges us worthy. We see this same pattern multiple times in the Old Testament. It was the same with the walls of Jericho. The Israelites were instructed by the prophet to circle the city seven times, and the Lord made the walls come down so that they could enter into the promised land. The Israelites didn't make the walls come down; they were obedient and the Lord judged them and enabled them to enter into the promised land. We work towards completion, and the Lord cleanses us so that we can enter into the Celestial Kingdom. So what does it mean to be complete? There are probably a lot of things to be said about reaching completion, but the first thing that came to mind in this particular moment was the captive Israelite girl. There were skirmishes along the border of Syria and Israel. Syria would perform raids into Israel, and they would steal women and children and turn them into slaves. This is likely how she came to be a slave in Naaman's household. She was young. Some biblical scholars believe she was anywhere from 8-14 years old. We know nothing of her family, whether they were killed or put into slavery elsewhere or whether she was simply taken away from them. What we do know is that she was in a pagan household, and despite her youth, she believed in a prophet in Israel. Belief will take us so far, and yet, she takes it beyond belief. That little servant girl held true compassion. She loved Naaman's household enough to want Naaman to be cured and okay. Despite the fact that Naaman might have been partially to blame for her slavery, she had compassion. Completion does not mean perfection. If we specifically strive towards perfection, we often end up discouraged. Instead, I would hope that we strive for completion. In my mind, completion means that we become beings that mirror Christ. We have faith. We have enough love in our hearts that our actions follow suit. That little servant girl reflected Christ. She loved the very people who betrayed her. Being betrayed enabled her to save Naaman. We don't know if she had to work through homesickness or anger or deep depression, but we do know she loved. I think that love helped her be complete in the sense that she turned outwards and was like Christ, but I also have the distinct impression that her love healed her. No matter what she went through, that love healed her enough that she could be compassionate. I testify that the Lord teaches us His gospel in patterns. He teaches His gospel again and again and again through His servants, the prophets. I testify that He is the one who gives salvation to us, and I also testify that doing our best to become the kind of person who reflects Him brings healing and joy and peace into our lives no matter what we've been through. Autumn Dickson was born and raised in a small town in Texas. She served a mission in the Indianapolis Indiana mission. She studied elementary education but has found a particular passion in teaching the gospel. Her desire for her content is to inspire people to feel confident, peaceful, and joyful about their relationship with Jesus Christ and to allow that relationship to touch every aspect of their lives. Autumn was the recipient of FAIR's 2024 John Taylor Defender of the Faith Award. The post Come, Follow Me with FAIR – 2 Kings 2–7 – Part 2 – Autumn Dickson appeared first on FAIR.

Happy 250th! The bulls are bubbling up! Yentervention – it is a thing. Labor market predictions. PLUS we are now on Spotify and Amazon Music/Podcasts! Click HERE for Show Notes and Links DHUnplugged is now streaming live - with listener chat. Click on link on the right sidebar. Love the Show? Then how about a Donation? PayPal.Donation.Button({ env:'production', hosted_button_id:'JJJHP2GDEJC7J', image: { src:'https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif', alt:'Donate with PayPal button', title:'PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!', } }).render('#donate-button'); Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter Warm-Up - 250 Years! - We have the scorecard - Bulls are on the loose! - Kevin Hassett - what a putz - RAM JOB! Markets - Google's first day in the DJIA - a good one - SpaceX bonds already losing -Yen slips to 1986 levels - Yentervention? WHAT A PUTZ! - Trump Accounts launch July 4, with the NYSE and Nasdaq set to ring the opening bell from the Oval Office. - Program gives a $1,000 Treasury-funded investment account to U.S. children born from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2028. - Kids under 18 can have accounts, but only newborns in that four-year window get the federal seed money. - Parents, family, employers, nonprofits, and governments can add money, with a general $5,000 annual contribution cap. - Money is invested in index funds and generally locked up until the child reaches adulthood. - Kevin Hassett pitched it as a way to teach kids about markets, ownership, saving, and compounding. His argument is that the more young people get exposed to investing early, and market ownership becomes less of an upper-income club. - However - > the government is handing out taxpayer-funded brokerage seed money while selling it as capitalism. - Also odd: the benefit may skew toward families who already know how to file forms, open accounts, and add more money. - So basically it is a forced financial-literacy experiment wrapped in a political brand name, with a socialist starter check to teach capitalism. First-Half Winners and Losers - S&P 500 finished the first half up roughly 7% to 8%, with the rally led by AI hardware, chips, memory, and data-center infrastructure. - Biggest winners were the shovel sellers: Sandisk up about 780%, Micron up about 296%, Western Digital up about 240%, Seagate up about 226%. - Overseas AI hardware ripped too: South Korea's Kospi up 123%, helped by Samsung up 169% and SK Hynix up 303%. - Semiconductor ETFs had a monster Q2: iShares Semiconductor ETF up 86.8%, VanEck Semiconductor ETF up 64.8%. - Japan's Nikkei rose about 38%; FTSE 100 gained about 5.8%. - Losers were the software/platform names that could not prove immediate AI payoff. - Microsoft was down about 24% despite being one of the biggest AI spenders. - Momentum stocks had one of their worst stretches in two decades as the Magnificent Seven slipped on capex worries. - Crypto and gold also lagged the AI-infrastructure trade. - Equity BULLS are running like it was San Fermin, Spain... MORE.... - Gold biggest quarterly loss since 2013 - Japan best quarter ever - Oil starts and ends - Kospi best quarter in 30 years - Stoxx 600 best Q in 5 years Something is going to break! - When Micro announced earnings, and we see that companies are panicking (News about existential threat to smaller tech players).. We said something is going to break - MU shares lifted to ATH on the news - big big beat - Micron's latest quarter showed a dramatic acceleration from the year-ago period, with revenue rising from $9,301 to $41,460 and EPS increasing from $1.91 to $25.11. - HUGE uptick in guidance - Apple increased pricing, Dell is increasing prices next week (17%), Microsoft raised price on XBox, HP across the board increase, Lenovo/Xiaomi increases, - NOW: Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy memory chips from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies Korea Goes All-In On AI Memory - Samsung and SK Hynix are backing a huge South Korea chip buildout tied to AI memory, HBM, advanced DRAM, packaging and data centers. - Samsung's plan includes hundreds of trillions of won for new fabs, including HBM facilities in Cheonan and Onyang. - SK Hynix is expanding Yongin and planning a major new chip base as it rides demand from Nvidia-linked HBM supply. - Government angle: Seoul wants domestic chip capacity treated like national infrastructure, not just corporate capex. - The state is trying to lock in supply-chain control before China, Taiwan, Japan and the U.S. pull more production into their own subsidy zones. - Market wrinkle: AI memory is hot now, but memory companies have a long history of overbuilding into strong pricing cycles. - Governments are no longer just subsidizing chips — they are helping plan semiconductor cities. RAM Job? - Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron were hit with a U.S. antitrust class-action lawsuit over alleged DRAM price fixing. - Allegation: the big three coordinated supply cuts while shifting capacity away from regular DDR3/DDR4 memory and into high-bandwidth memory for AI servers. - Plaintiffs say the three companies control roughly 90% of the DRAM market. - Conventional DRAM prices allegedly jumped about 700% over four years. - Complaint argues that in a normal commodity market, at least one supplier would usually increase production when prices spike. - Instead, the lawsuit says all three moved in the same direction at the same time. DRAM: We Have Seen This Movie Before - Yes, there was a similar DRAM price-fixing scandal in the 2000s. - DOJ investigation covered alleged DRAM price fixing from roughly 1998 through 2002. - Hynix pleaded guilty in 2005 and agreed to pay a $185 million criminal fine. - Samsung pleaded guilty in 2005 and agreed to pay a $300 million criminal fine. - Infineon pleaded guilty earlier, in 2004, and agreed to pay a $160 million fine. - Micron was involved in the investigation but received amnesty/cooperation treatment rather than the same criminal fine path. - Several executives were also charged or pleaded guilty. - State AGs and private plaintiffs later pursued civil cases tied to overpayment claims. - Difference now: the new case is not yet proven and appears focused on alleged coordinated supply restriction during the AI/HBM boom. Chevron and Microsoft - Chevron Corp signed 20-year deal with Microsoft for data center power. - Agreement supplies natural-gas fired generation for massive West Texas facility. - Project Kilby expected online 2028, ramping to 2.67 gigawatts. - Full output enough to power more than 530,000 Texas homes. - Chevron partnering Engine No. 1, final investment decision planned later. - Deal follows prior reports of exclusive long-term power negotiations. More Oil News - Drill baby Drill - Interior Department cutting federal drilling bonds by 95% to spur exploration. - Required bond drops from $500,000 to $25,000 for leases. - Bonds ensure cleanup costs don't fall on taxpayers if wells abandoned. - Policy change aims to encourage more oil and gas development. - Proposal subject to 60-day public comment after Federal Register publication. Dow 52,000 and the Tech Bounce - Dow closed above 52,000 for the first time Monday, finishing at 52,182.74. - S&P 500 gained 1.18%; Nasdaq jumped 2.07%. - S&P and Nasdaq snapped five-session losing streaks. - Alphabet rose 4.8% on its first day as a Dow component. - Tesla gained 8.5%; SpaceX rose more than 7%. - The bounce came after last week's tech selloff, with investors rotating back into mega-cap and AI names. Comcast Breaks Itself Up - Comcast plans to split media and connectivity into two separate companies. - NBCUniversal and Sky would be spun off in a tax-free deal; Comcast keeps broadband, wireless, and cable. - Completion expected within a year. - Shareholders would own both Comcast and the new NBCUniversal. - Comcast shares rose on the news; Charter also jumped as investors speculated Comcast could eventually pursue a broadband-scale deal. AI Trade Gets a Warning Label - Bank for International Settlements flagged the AI boom as a financial-stability risk. - The main concerns: elevated valuations, investor complacency, complex funding structures, and debt financing across the AI supply chain. - BIS also warned that record public debt and leveraged hedge-fund activity in sovereign bonds could amplify shocks. - Quote from BIS General Manager Pablo Hernandez de Cos: "Policy actions must reinforce each other." - The interesting part: central bankers are not saying AI is fake; they are saying the financing stack may be fragile. Inflation Back Above 4% - BEA's PCE price index rose 4.1% year over year in May. - April was 3.8%; March was 3.5%; February was 2.9%. - This keeps pressure on the Fed because PCE is the Fed's preferred inflation gauge. - Core PCE may later be revised lower because of BEA methodology changes. - Goldman estimated May core PCE could be trimmed to 3.2% from 3.4%; JPMorgan expected 3.3%. - Funny-but-real detail: part of the potential revision comes from how BEA prices portfolio management, legal services, and computer software. Jobs Report Becomes Bad-News-Is-Bad-News - June payrolls are due Thursday because markets are closed Friday for Independence Day. - The setup is awkward: strong jobs could mean stronger economy, but also higher odds of Fed hikes. - Looking back - May payrolls were hot at 172,000 versus an 85,000 forecast, with unemployment steady at 4.3%. - Remember - after the June Fed meeting, policymakers were clearly focused on inflation, not rescue cuts. Oil, Iran, and the Market's New Weird Routine - Oil stayed volatile around renewed U.S.-Iran tensions and peace-talk headlines. - Brent rose 1.6% Monday to $73.15; WTI rose 2.2% to $70.75. - Markets rallied anyway, helped by signs talks would resume and shipping routes were stabilizing. - The odd market behavior: geopolitical escalation keeps getting followed by de-escalation headlines and risk-on rallies. - This is now part of the trading pattern: weekend war scare, Monday relief rally, repeat. --- New attacks by USA on Iran happened at approx 4:30PM on Friday (markets closed) and then a halt to the fighting on Sunday - before the futures opened. Odd : Wendy's Becomes a Meme Stock - Wendy's became the latest retail-trader short-squeeze target. - Stock surged 25% last Wednesday, then gained another 9% Thursday. - Barron's said the move followed a CFO shakeup and WallStreetBets attention. - New CFO Steve Cirulis came from Potbelly and is also taking the Chief Strategy Officer title. - Wendy's had fallen 47% over the past year before the rally. - Short interest was nearly 30% of the public float, making the stock easier to squeeze. - Trian, Nelson Peltz's firm, owned nearly 15 million shares valued around $93 million. SpaceX Bonds Slip After Big Debut - SpaceX sold $25 billion of investment-grade bonds, its first major public debt deal. - Demand was huge, with roughly $85 billion to $98 billion of orders. - The 10-year tranche priced about 1.4 percentage points over Treasurys. - Bonds weakened quickly after pricing. - The 10-year yield rose near 6%, with the spread moving above 1.6 percentage points. - Longer-dated 2046 and 2056 bonds took the most pressure. - The pushback: bond buyers want more yield for a company still funding rockets, Starlink, AI/data-center spending, and Mars ambitions. - Clean read: equity investors bought the story; bond investors immediately marked it down. Yentervention - Yen weakened again, pushing toward the 162-per-dollar zone and near its weakest level in about 40 years. - Japan keeps warning it is ready for "decisive action" or to respond "at any time." - Market does not seem scared for long. - Japan already spent heavily defending the yen, including a roughly $73 billion yen-buying operation after the currency broke past 160. - U.S. rates are still high, the Fed is not rushing to cut, and the Bank of Japan is still moving slowly. - That keeps the carry trade alive: borrow cheap yen, buy higher-yielding dollars. - Japan's foreign reserves fell 5.6% in May after intervention, showing the defense is expensive.   Love the Show? Then how about a Donation? 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