Podcasts about Context

Dan and Micah discuss Psalm 46:10 and explain why many take this verse out of context. Also the guys talk about Dan's new book "Handle With Context: 28 Bible Verses We Love To Quote But Often Misunderstand."

Mario Bava takes a strong step forward with a film commonly referred to as the first giallo film! Your deadicated hosts tackle LA RAGAZZA CHE SAPEVA TROPPO aka THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1963)! Take a listen to hear the literary beginnings of giallo as a genre, through to the impact editing has on tone between the Italian and American releases (where it's known as EVIL EYE). Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 26:19; Discussion 45:45; Ranking 1:02:13

Welcome to Walking the Way. My name is Ray, and I really want to say thank you to everyone for listening in as we continue to explore what it means to have a regular rhythm of worship.  CreditsOpening PrayerJohn BirchBible verseEzekiel 38:2Thought for the dayRay BorrettBible PassageEzekiel 38The Holy Bible, Modern English Version. Copyright © 2014 by Military Bible Association. Published and distributed by Charisma House.Prayer Handbookprayer handbook WTW 2026.pdfSupporting Walking the WayIf you want to support Walking the Way, please go to: https://ko-fi.com/S6S4WXLBBor you can subscribe to the channel: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkingtheway/subscribeTo contact Ray: Please leave a comment or a review. I want to find out what people think and how we make it better.www.rayborrett.co.ukwalkingthewaypodcast@outlook.comhttps://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/8782930952435243719

In the August 2026 episode of 12:01: The Death Penalty in Context, DPI Racial Justice Storyteller Taylor Bonner speaks with Rafiah Muhammad-McCormick, Director of Community Outreach for Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP) and founder of Rodney's Village, a violence prevention non-profit. A murder victim's family member and community advocate, Ms. Muhammad-McCormick discusses how the loss of her son shaped her approach to violence prevention and death penalty advocacy, the importance of community accountability, and the resources victims and their families need to heal after violence.

The Detroit Lions are built to contend now, and ownership expects more than a 9-8 season. Detroit Lions owner Sheila Hamp emphasized increased roster depth and declared the team a contender, and she clarified that last season's record was not up to the organization's standards after a top-to-bottom review. Are the Detroit Lions legitimate contenders right now? Yes, the standard has moved to contention. Detroit Lions owner Sheila Hamp told Fox 2's Dan Miller that the team has more depth than ever and said they are "definitely going to be a hunter," reflecting an organization ready to win. As Jeff Risdon noted, the combination of top-end talent and improved depth removes excuses. The expectation inside Allen Park is to compete at the top of the NFC. Questions exist, as they do for all 32 teams, but Detroit's roster composition supports a win-now posture. What did Sheila Hamp really say about 9-8? She stated that 9-8 is a winning record but not good enough for the Detroit Lions. Hamp explained that after last season the organization conducted a thorough, top-to-bottom self-assessment, identified several things to improve, and corrected them, aligning the entire building on bringing a winner to Detroit. Context matters. Too many people clipped only the “nine and eight is a winning season” part. The full message rejected complacency and reaffirmed rising standards. As Jeff Risdon emphasized, the owner's tone was engaged and demanding, not satisfied. Which front office moves matter for 2026 roster building? Dwayne Joseph has been promoted to vice president of player personnel, a significant elevation that positions him for future assistant GM or GM consideration and reflects trust in his evaluations. Former offensive tackle Jamarco Jones joined Detroit as a scouting fellow, adding a recent-player lens to the evaluation process during a critical roster-shaping period. These behind-the-scenes changes matter now because they directly touch preseason evaluation, cutdown decisions, practice squad planning, and potential trades. As Jeff Risdon put it, this stretch is about sorting how many at each position to keep and who to shop or stash, and those calls funnel through player personnel and evaluations. What should fans watch in the Lions at Bengals preseason opener? Expect a stress test for the trenches and a fast read on depth. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is expected to play a couple of series, and Cincinnati is focusing on linebackers and a revamped defensive tackle group that will challenge the Detroit Lions offensive line regardless of which unit is on the field. Per Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell, Lions rookie Blake Miller will play, while Lions rookie Tate Ratledge will not. Some Bengals starters will appear, but the night is about Detroit's evaluations more than the score. #detroitlions #lions #detroitlionspodcast #sheilahamp #dancampbell #joeburrow #dwaynejoseph #jamarcojones #danskipper #giovannimanu #bradholmes #johndorsey #tateratledge #blakemiller #cincinnatibengals #detroitlionsoffensiveline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Andy McPhee. A former critical care nurse and educational healthcare publisher, Andy McPhee, who's classified as a White Man, has also written four nonfiction books for young adults and written or edited more than 750 newspaper and magazine articles. We'll discuss his 2026 publication, The Doctor's Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America. McPhee examines a 1788 melee caused by New Yorkers discovering a White Woman's corpse had been stolen. We use this event to examine the White Supremacist history of looting black burial grounds. Gus T.'s beloved Medical Apartheid, written by the genius Harriet A. Washington, devotes a meaty section to the well-recorded history of Whites' stealing black bodies for experimental and anatomical purposes. Washington tells us that White medical colleges were often strategically located in regions with high populations of black people. During our discussion, we deconstructed how the historical practice of White people stealing black bodies continues in the 21st century with a highly unregulated international trade in body parts.This provides context for the missing skull of Sade C. Robinson as well as the missing organs of Kendrick Johnson in Georgia. Gus T. made a point to ask Mr. McPhee why he used the term "niggling" to describe a scene of conflict in the text. After initially pretending he quoted someone else, McPhee admitted this was his word choice alone. He offered many unsolicited apologies and said he likes to think of himself as an "anti-racist." He easily conceded that niggling is mighty close to niggras. Fuller does explicitly suggest that we avoid terms like "negative" & "negate" because these terms are phonetically and semantically similar to the Racist insult reserved for black people. #TheCOWS17Years #Philadelphia #BodySnatcher #CounterRacism #Niggling #GlobalWhiteSupremacy #NewYork #ShawnUtsey #ChrisBaker #GrandisonHarris #HarvardMedicalSchool #Strapping #JeffreyDahmer #Oddities Call-In Number: 720.716.7300 Code: 564943#

Topics covered in this episode: Claude Code /insights Post-quantum crypto lands in Python MCP goes stateless — and FastMCP gets renamed inshellisense - IDE style command line auto complete Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Xweather Xweather combines enterprise-grade weather intelligence with agent-ready APIs, natural language capabilities, and an MCP server so your agents can adapt workflows, automate responses, and make better decisions based on real-world conditions. Michael will tell you more about them later in the show. Get started for free at pythonbytes.fm/xweather Connect with the hosts Michael: Mastodon / BlueSky / X / LinkedIn Calvin: Mastodon / BlueSky / X / LinkedIn Show: Mastodon / BlueSky / X Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesday at 7am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: Claude Code /insights Michael's Insights: michael-kennedy-claude-code-insights-2026-08-09.html Be careful sharing these outputs, they include details references to your projects, errors, security findings, etc. ;) /insights reads your last 30 days of local session transcripts and hands back an interactive HTML report on how you actually work. One command, zero setup: type /insights in a session, or run claude -p "/insights" from the shell for a non-interactive version that just prints the path Reads what's already on disk: pulls session logs from ~/.claude/projects/, skipping agent sub-sessions and anything under 2 messages or 1 minute Project areas: clusters your sessions into themes like "CLI Tooling" or "Documentation" with session counts Friction analysis: categorizes where things went wrong by root cause - and quotes your own prompts back at you Interaction style: tells you whether you're a delegator or a micromanager, plus which workflows are worth doubling down on Actually actionable: suggests concrete CLAUDE.md additions and Claude Code features you're not using The catch: Haiku does the per-session classification, so the first run takes several minutes; results cache to ~/.claude/usage-data/facets/ and the report lands at ~/.claude/usage-data/report.html Calvin #2: Post-quantum crypto lands in Python pyca/cryptography 48 ships ML-KEM (key establishment) and ML-DSA (signatures) — NIST's post-quantum standards, now one pip install away. Big deal because it's the 11th most-downloaded package on PyPI (~1.2B downloads/month) and sits under Ansible, Certbot, Airflow, and paramiko. No PQ there, no PQ anywhere in Python. Trail of Bits did the work (Rust bindings, cross-backend API, tests, AWS-LC backend support), funded by the Sovereign Tech Agency. Timing tracks a June 22 White House order setting federal deadlines: PQ key establishment by end of 2030, PQ signatures by end of 2031. Not a drop-in swap — the wire sizes explode. ML-DSA-65 signatures are 3,309 bytes vs Ed25519's 64; ML-KEM-768 public keys are 1,184 bytes vs X25519's 32. Hardcoded field sizes and length prefixes will bite. API looks like the existing asymmetric primitives, except ML-KEM is encapsulate/decapsulate rather than a Diffie-Hellman exchange. SLH-DSA (the hash-based conservative backstop) is still in progress. The primitives are here, but protocols haven't caught up — so you won't be running post-quantum Certbot this week. 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The link is in your podcast player's show notes and on the episode page. Thanks so much to Xweather for supporting Python Bytes. Calvin #3: MCP goes stateless — and FastMCP gets renamed From Philipp Acsany over at Real Python The 2026-07-28 spec landed July 28 and the Python SDK shipped 2.0.0 the same day. Biggest rewrite since MCP launched, and it's breaking on purpose. Context for scale: the Tier 1 SDKs are pulling close to half a billion downloads a month, with TypeScript and Python each past a billion total. The headline is the stateless core. The initialize/initialized handshake and the Mcp-Session-Id header are both retired — protocol version, client identity, and capabilities now ride in _meta on every request, with an optional server/discover RPC if a client wants capabilities up front. Any request can land on any instance behind plain round-robin, no shared storage. Server-initiated calls are the hard part of the migration. Sampling, elicitation, and roots/list no longer call back to the client; instead the server returns resultType: "input_required" and the client retries with inputResponses attached. Multi Round-Trip Requests, MRTR. Also: Mcp-Method and Mcp-Name are now required headers so gateways route on headers instead of cracking JSON bodies, and missing-resource errors move to standard 32602. Deprecation sweep with an actual policy behind it — Roots, Sampling, Logging, and the legacy HTTP+SSE transport all deprecated with a twelve-month minimum offramp. Tasks graduated out of the experimental core into a real extension, which is what the formalized extensions framework was for. MCP Apps is now an official extension too, so a tool call can return sandboxed interactive HTML. Auth picked up RFC 9207 issuer validation, issuer-bound credentials, and a shift from DCR toward CIMD. Python SDK 2.0 is where it gets personal: FastMCP is now MCPServer, no alias, no shim. McpError → MCPError. Wire types went snake_case (is_error, input_schema) and moved to a standalone mcp_types package, with mcp.types kept as a permanent alias. One Client object replaces the old transport + ClientSession + initialize() stack. httpx became httpx2. Sync handlers run on worker threads now, so asyncio.get_running_loop() raises inside them. The good news: one MCPServer serves both protocol eras, so 2025-era clients keep working with nothing to configure, and a Resolve(fn) parameter lets one tool body cover MRTR and the old path. 1.x is maintenance-and-security-fixes only — pin mcp>=1.28,

The Experience Strategy Podcast | theexperiencestrategist.substack.com It's a book launch episode. Human Context: How Intelligent Companies Build Customers — Dave Norton's new book — released yesterday on Amazon. Joe and Aransas have read the galley. This episode covers the why now, the four frameworks at the book's core, and how companies are meant to actually use it. What's in This Episode Why Dave felt compelled to write this now. It goes back to 2015 and Digital Context 2.0, his first book, in which he argued that context would be the organizing logic that brought channels, tools, and technologies together in service of the human. It didn't quite unfold that way — companies didn't want to share data, API ecosystems were slow to develop, and the consumer-enabling vision got stuck. Then generative AI arrived and changed everything. Context is now the literal engine that makes LLMs work. But there's a problem: every AI company in the world is thinking about context as their asset — something to extract from consumers and use against them to sell more. Dave wrote Human Context to plant a stake in the ground against that direction. The book argues that context belongs to the individual, and intelligent companies will build around enabling people rather than extracting from them. The two definitions of context — and why they matter. Joe sharpens the distinction that runs through the whole book: AI companies think of context as the model's context — the information fed into the system to make it work. What the book argues is that companies need to think about the customer's context — the situations, mindsets, and life circumstances of the individual they're serving. These are not the same thing, and confusing them is how companies end up building technology that serves the platform instead of the person. The four frameworks. The book is organized around four interconnected frameworks: Stupid/Dumb/Smart/Genius — co-developed with Joe Pine in 2016 and referenced in Dave's 2023 HBR article, this framework helps companies understand when and why to use intelligence. Dumb means no context is being collected — not a pejorative, just a description of the state. Smart means iterative sense-and-respond. Genius is what generative AI has now made genuinely possible — anticipatory, deeply contextual support. Stupid is when intelligence is turned adversarially against the consumer: wasting their time, getting in the way, or pursuing nefarious motives. Situational Markets — the move away from demographic targeting toward situations. What people have in common is not age or income bracket — it's that they find themselves in common situations. Companies that learn to identify, size, and design for situations are already operating at a different level of contextual sophistication. Demographics, as Joe puts it memorably, tell you nothing — a point he illustrates with the famous example of two people born the same day in the same town, one of whom became King Charles and the other Ozzy Osbourne. Modes — the mindset and behavioral state a person is in at a given moment. Combined with situation, modes give a company a genuinely rich picture of what the individual needs right now. Dave has been developing this framework for twelve years. Time Value — the measurement framework. How do you evaluate a dumb experience using time value? A smart one? A genius one? The book distinguishes between time saved, time well spent, and time well invested — giving companies a way to think about what their interactions are actually delivering. Demographics and personas: a gentle funeral. Joe makes the case cleanly. Demographics are shifts in bell curves — everyone is somewhere on every curve, and they tell you nothing about what any individual values or needs. Personas were a useful intervention when product designers needed reminding that real humans would use their products. But reducing a person to a persona is an injustice to both the individual and to the company's own capability. The frameworks in Human Context are designed to replace both. How the book is meant to be used. Dave is unapologetic: the book introduces the concepts, but the real work happens in the workbooks. Ten industry-specific workbooks accompany the book — covering how to size situational markets in your category, how to map modes, how to apply the frameworks to your actual business model. There's also a case study. The core ask of the reader: spend real time asking what it would actually take to move away from demographic thinking and start sizing situations instead. How Dave wrote it — and why provenance matters. Every chapter started as Dave's own writing, in some cases material he'd been developing for over a decade. AI was used to synthesize, consolidate, and accelerate — combining multiple drafts, simplifying, and then editing back to his voice. He's transparent about this in the book itself, with a dedicated provenance section. His position: books built with AI assistance should always include provenance notes explaining the origins of the content. All the ideas are his. The tools helped him get them out faster than he could have alone. An audiobook is coming. Dave briefly considered recording it himself, heard the professionals on ACX, and wisely hired a narrator. Joe recorded the opening and closing of The Transformation Economy himself and let the professionals handle the rest. Aransas, for her part, heavily negotiated to narrate her own book, Courage Capital — forthcoming from Hachette in 2027. Key Quotes "We almost forgot that humans are intelligent too. We're actually the source of all the context that's being fed into the technology." — Dave Norton "AI companies think of context as the model's context. What we need to think about is the customer's context — the individual's context." — Joe Pine "Demographics tell you nothing about an individual person and how you might provide them with value. Prince Charles and Ozzy Osbourne — same day, same town." — Joe Pine "Calling a person a persona is an injustice. We are not personas. We are human beings with agency, and every human being is unique." — Joe Pine "The system has to be redesigned to support your needs and to empower you to do what you care about in the way that fits your life and values." — Aransas Savas "Books that are generated using AI should always have a section on provenance." — Dave Norton "The fact that you came up with these ideas years ago does not take away one iota from how valuable they are today." — Joe Pine Get the Book Human Context: How Intelligent Companies Build Customers by Dave Norton is available now on Amazon (Kindle and print). Early sales and reviews on Amazon make a real difference — if the book is useful to you, take 30 seconds to leave a review. The ten industry workbooks are available alongside the book at www.stonemantel.co Connect with Dave on Substack at theexperiencestrategist.substack.com. The Experience Strategy Podcast is hosted by Dave Norton and Aransas Savas — subscribe, reply to any episode email, and let them know what you're working on.

CHAPTERS00:00 The tooling gap between a working demo and production02:15 Token prices are rising. Why that is the wrong thing to panic about06:57 What constrains supply: data centers, power, cooling, hardware08:30 Where generative AI prototypes actually go to die10:58 Why something that looks 80 percent done is closer to 20 percent14:16 Silent regressions and testing a non-deterministic system15:37 What Prove AI is incubating and the three personas behind it20:26 Guardrails for agents doing finance and legal work23:02 Context bloat, wasted tokens, and who is supposed to fix it24:56 The coordination tax in multi-agent systems27:47 Does AI engineering need proofs the way software engineering did30:36 Why compliance talk is premature without observability32:15 Where the human in the loop still matters34:42 Trusting agents with real money36:57 The food inspection analogy for cross-vendor accountability38:50 Building the logging system for AI39:36 Where to find Prove AI

"Take care not to practice your righteousness in the sight of people, to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven." Matthew 6:1

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Racist Suspect Greg Garrett. Classified as a White Man, Garrett is a long time professor at Baylor University in Texas and the author of dozens of books which examine different areas of the System of White Supremacy. We'll discuss his 2026 text, White Lies: Dismantling Ten Cultural Myths About Race, This text alleges to examine various "myths" that White people tell themselves about Racism. Gus noted that the terms "lies" and "myths" are not synonymous and have substantially different meanings. White people fabircate a variety of lies to maintain the System of White Supremacy. Gus highlighted how that White people like Garrett cannot be ignorant about Racism - he detailed that his White mother and grandmother early on discussed how White men and White Women are expected to behave to maintain White Power. Gus also challenged the notion of "separation" between White people and non-white people. Since generations of people classified as White have bragged about sexually abusing black people, it's ahistorical and dishonest to suggest that White people remain far away from black people. To further evidence this point, Garrett details how he and a large cohort of other Whites - some of them classified as LGBTQ (antisex) have invaded St. James Baptist Church in Austin, Texas. This is a historically black church, and its White influx matches the city-wide spike in White residents. Garrett tells us that none of the black church members have ever chided him for Racist conduct, and, like a young Jeff Dahmer, he enjoys an unchallenged reputation as a kindly, not Racist White Man. Gus branded him a Racist Suspect early and often for his trifling book and faux allegations of victimhood. #TheCOWS17Years #WhiteLies #BaylorUniversity #PatrickDennehy #JamesByrdJr #Waco #JesseWashington #CounterRacism # #GlobalWhiteSupremacy #Oklahoma Call-In Number: 720.716.7300 Code: 564943#

I gave a lecture about "Blending the Elements of Experiential Design" on Saturday, June 6, 2026 at Seattle XR in Seattle, Washington. (PDF of Slides]. At the end, I run through some examples of the types of interdisciplinary fusion that I see within the context of immersive storytelling and immersive art. This lecture also digs into the process-relational philosophical foundations, as well as how I'm gaining additional inspiration from Empedocles, Aristotle, and the Classical Quadrivium (Four Arts) of Math, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy. For my 30+ hours of coverage of Venice Immersive, then I apply this archetypal framework to help describe the context, quality, character, and story of each of these projects. You can see an overview of how I've been using this framework in this PDF on "Venice Immersive 2025 Archetypal Categorizations" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01M5NcOYzx0 One of goals of this talk was to further define the archetypal nature of the elements, and how I'm conceiving of them as a possibility space of design tradeoffs (C.S. Peirce's "Firstness"), but also as the concrete decisions that an experiential designer makes ("Secondness"), and then finally how these decisions are experienced more from a phenomenological experience as the audience as we feel, sense, act, and make sense of these experiences, and what they might mean ("Thirdness"). I do not actually dive into Peirce's concepts of Firstness, Secondness, or Thirdness in this specific talk, but I wanted to elaborate on these concepts in this write-up as these have been crucial concepts to help translate the overall abstract Firstness quality of my talk, and ground it into the Secondness of something that is a bit more practical and pragmatic. For Peirce, his semiology is grounded into a triune theory of actualization that goes from a non-Boolean possibility space as Firstness, and then grounds into a Boolean actualization of secondness, and then an interpretant mediates from the concreteness of the Secondness object back to the Firstness of the fundamental archetypal qualities or meaning. I find speculative philosopher James Bradley's summary of the Peirce's triune semiology to be the most easy to digest in his essay titled, "Beyond Hermeneutics: Peirce's Semiology as a Trinitarian Metaphysics of Communication." I can also recommend this article on "Peirce's Theory of Signs" from the The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for a comprehensive recap, and there's also this excellent YouTube series primer by Philosign's Markus Raninen titled The Basics of Semiotics. But here's Bradley's description of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness, which I find myself coming back to again and again. "Within the fundamental speculative triunity of activity, difference and order, or firstness, secondness and thirdness, semiology is an analysis of order or thirdness… Thirdness is analyzed as idea or sign, as the exchange of information between individual entities, and as interpretation; in other words, thirdness is itself a threefold of sign, object and interpretant. Here, sign occupies the position of firstness because it is the potentiality for interpretation; object occupies that of secondness because it is determinate; and the interpretant occupies that of thirdness because the interpretant has the sign-interpreting or sign-ordering role, and so has the status of a third. [24] Thus for Peirce semiology is the analysis of the triune relation of sign, object and interpretant." It's still a bit obtuse, and one way that I like to think about it is through the experience of communication. You have a possibility space of meaning you want to convey (Firstness of the sign/potential), then you choose specific words that convey that meaning (Secondness of the object), then someone listens to those words and phrases, and then connects those words back to a meaning space (Thirdness of the interpretant mediating between the two). For Peirce, each of the Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness can also refer to themselves, like you can have a Firstness of Thirdness or Secondness of Firstness. It gets a little bit confusing, but I found the following graphic from Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy (2021) by James Bradley and edited by Sean McGrath to be very useful. Within the context of immersive storytelling, then it's a semiotic process of communication of meaning where you're able to use all sorts of affordances from game design, literature, social dynamics and relations, music, film, lighting, architecture, dance, theme park design, sensory design, and embodiment. My Elemental Theory of Presence attempts to simplify this into the following: Fire Element of Active Presence: Interactivity, Agency, Game Design Air Element of Mental & Social Presence: Meaning, Semiotics, Language, Possibility, Form, Relationality Water Element of Emotional Presence: Experiential Processes, Story, Film, Music, Cycles, Time Earth Element of Environmental & Embodied Presence: Sensory, Immersive, Worldbuilding, Space I elaborate on the various philosophical frameworks that I'm leaning up within this talk that I gave on June 6, 2026, but since then I've been diving more into Peirce and his Triune Metaphysics and Semiology of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness, which has been a helpful framework as I've been applying the elements to my Venice Immersive Coverage and categorizing the elemental center of gravity for each of the nearly 40 projects that I covered. Again see this framework in this PDF on "Venice Immersive 2025 Archetypal Categorizations" to see how I have been thinking about each of these projects. I used this approach in the introductions for each of my podcast episodes from Venice (see the links down below). Firstness of Fire: Creativity, Novelty, Intention, Purpose, Goals, & Aristotle's Final Cause Secondness of Fire: Interactivity & Core Gameplay Loops Thirdness of Fire: Agency & Will For Active Presence Examples of Fire: Game Design, Locomotion Options: No Movement, Automatic movement, Teleportation, or free roaming. The LIVENESS of the Live, To what degree does the experience encourage the expression of will and agency? And to what degree does that alter how the narrative unfolds (narrative agency vs participatory interactive moments that customize and flavor the experience)? Adventure, Exploration, Creativity, Novelty, Freedom, Will, and Collective Action. System Dynamics, & iterative feedback loops Firstness of Air: Peirce's "Sign," Intended Meaning, Pattern & Form, Archetypal Possibility Spaces, Relationality, & Aristotle's Formal Cause Secondness of Air: Peirce's "Object" Within A Triadic Semiotic Process (i.e. a specific action, word, harmonic, or action that points to a larger meaning.) Thirdness of Air: Peirce's "Interpretant," Sensemaking Thoughts, Expectations, & Social Dynamics For Mental & Social Presence Examples of Air: Literature, Language, Semiotics, Communication, Symbols, Abstractions. Single Player vs Multi-Player, Suspension of Disbelief and Plausibility, Social Dynamics, Anticipation of the Future, Possibility Spaces, Types of Choices. Realms of Speculative Imagination, How is meaning communicated? Dialogue amongst characters, voice-over narration, environmental storytelling, non-verbal associative dream logic. Mental friction from puzzles. Rules & Mechanics. Use of certain types of AI and Conversational Interfaces with Virtual Beings Firstness of Water: Time, Cycles, Harmonics, Value, & Aristotle's "Material Cause" (in Whitehead's event ontology, then base reality is processes, relationships, and possibilities of value & not Substance) Secondness of Water: Experiential Processes That Provide Contrasts Thirdness of Water: Feelings for Emotional Presence Examples of Water: Cinematic Film Tradition, Music, Harmonics, Rhythm, Pacing, Editing, Contrasts, Emotion, Memory, Dreams, Images, Soul, Psyche, Symbols, Lighting, Mood, Collective Unconscious Firstness of Earth: Space, World, Context, & Aristotle's Efficient Cause Secondness of Earth: Environment & Worldbuilding With Situated Perspectives in that Context Thirdness of Earth: Sensory Perception & Sense of Place for Embodied & Environmental Presence Examples of Earth: Worldbuilding of a spatial context & culture. Architecture, Theater, Theme Park Design, Dance, Are you a ghost or an embodied character? Sensory Experience: Touch/Haptics, Hearing/Spatial Sound, Smells, Vision. Relation of Immersive Tech to Environment as either VR, MR, or AR. Virtual CGI vs Cinematic 180/360 Video, Again, check out this PDF on "Venice Immersive 2025 Archetypal Categorizations" to see how I've ranked nearly 40 projects from Venice Immersive 2025 on the relative elemental center of gravity. Some projects feel more like a cinematic immersive film, which would be a bit more biased towards the Water Element. Some projects are more focused on the experience of a world that was build, and more focused on the Earth Element. Some projects are asking you to Read a book together with other people, which is more focused on the Air Element. And then other more game-like experiences are focused on using interactions as their primary mode of engagement, and so they're more focused on the fire element. There are 64 total combinations of the elements in terms of the first, second, third, or four centers of gravity, and you can see the comprehensive visualization here: Technically, all four elements are always happening all at once all at the same time. However, in experiential design, then creators can emphasize and blend elements together. So I find that ranking the elements can be helpful in determining an overall center of gravity, and that looking at the first two centers of gravity can achieve a sufficient job of creating some ad hoc, immersive and "elemental genres....

As carbon credit markets evolve, financial institutions, investors, and corporates are playing a larger role in project development and financing, while growing expectations around quality, permanence, and transparency are reshaping the market. At the same time, insurance solutions tailored to these projects are becoming increasingly important in supporting investment and continued growth. In this episode of Risk in Context, Marsh's Aaron Bailey and Lara Whitmore speak about the changing carbon credit market, the increasing focus on higher-cost carbon removal projects, and the role insurance can play in helping support market confidence and expansion. You can access a transcript of the episode here. To learn more about carbon credits, visit our dedicated page. For more insights and insurance and risk management solutions, follow Marsh Risk on LinkedIn and X and visit marsh.com.

In this episode of HFS Unfiltered, Saurabh Gupta, President of HFS Research, is joined by Anuj Krishna, Cofounder and President - Technology & Growth of MathCo, to discuss one of the least understood reasons enterprise AI stalls: the absence of context. The pattern is everywhere. Enterprises have sky-high AI ambitions, yet pilots multiply and almost none reach production, what Saurabh calls “death by a thousand POCs.” In research HFS and MathCo ran together, roughly two-thirds of enterprises admitted they don't know where their knowledge lives; it's trapped in people's heads, undocumented processes, and scattered data. Anuj's argument: organizations obsess over models when the real advantage lies in context, who they are, how they work, and the knowledge behind their decisions. The conversation goes deep on what context actually is, why it can't be static, and who should own it, including the shift toward a federated model with “context stewards” by function. Anuj also lays out how MathCo differs from the platform owners and SIs racing to be “context kings”: rent the tech ecosystem, but own the intelligence, because you can't own your intelligence unless you own your knowledge, and an organization's context is its personality. Saurabh closes with a sharp thesis: models and agents will become a utility, and neither will differentiate you, but context is your identity, and owning it is the only sustainable advantage going forward. Read the associated Take 5 Report, titled "Fund the context layer and close the 2.5x AI ambition gap," here: https://www.hfsresearch.com/research/fund-layer-ai-ambition-gap/ #EnterpriseAI #ContextEngineering #AgenticAI #OwnYourIntelligence #MathCo #HFSResearch #AIStrategy #DataGovernance #DigitalTransformation #FutureOfWork

Margo shares financial considerations when choosing a business structure for your US therapy practice. Episode Show Notes: kayladas.com/episode181 Margo's Website: heartfeltcfoandtaxservices.com/healthcare-industry Book a Discovery Call with Margo: mmcfosolutions.com/discovery-call Margo's Community: skool.com/heartfeltcfo/about Free Therapist Private Practice Community: facebook.com/groups/exclusiveprivatepracticecommunity Passive Income Personality Quiz: kayladas.com/passiveincomequiz American Clinical Supervisor Therapist Directory: americanclinicalsupervisor.com Canadian Clinical Supervision Therapist Directory: canadianclinicalsupervision.ca Credits & Disclaimers Music by Denis Pavlov Music from Pixabay The Designer Practice Podcast and Evaspare Inc. has an affiliate and/or sponsorship relationship for advertisements in our podcast episodes. We receive commission or monetary compensation, at no extra cost to you, when you use our promotional codes and/or check out advertisement links.

"Everybody thinks that autonomous heavy equipment is commonplace, whereas in fact the adoption is basically zero."Frederik Filz-Reiterdank said that to us from the operator's seat of an autonomous roller, on a live chip fab site in upstate New York, with his dozers and dump trucks working away behind him.His company, Crewline AI, raised a $7.1M seed earlier this year led by Initialized Capital and Nebular to automate the machine operators hate driving.What we got into:✅ Why the roller is the wedge for construction autonomy, and why the excavator falls last✅ A retrofit kit that turns a standard drum roller into a self-driving one in under an hour✅ Selling a "virtual roller operator" instead of renting out a robot✅ The four month insurance grind nobody warns robotics founders about✅ Why 95% of candidates are disqualified the moment they hear about the forward-deployed lifestyleFull episode now live on YouTube and Spotify.#bricksandbytes #bricksbytes #bricksbucksandbytes #aec #construction #constructiontech #ai #vcOur Sponsors:BreadCrumb- 50,000+ projects globally. All running safer, faster, with Breadcrumb. - breadcrumb.coAphex is the multiplayer planning platform where construction teams plan together, stay aligned, and deliver projects faster – check out aphex.coArchdesk - “The #1 Construction Management Software for Growing Companies - Manage your projects from Tender to Handover” check archdesk.comChapters00:00 Teaser01:00 Introduction and Context of the Conversation03:43 Autonomy in Construction: Current State and Misconceptions09:21 Choosing Rollers: The Perfect Wedge for Automation11:47 Understanding Pain Points in Construction14:55 Business Models: Robotics as a Service vs. Outcome-Based Pricing18:49 Deployment Strategy for Autonomous Rollers21:00 Insurance and Liability Challenges22:09 Building Trust with Customers24:45 Overcoming Skepticism in Construction27:49 Future of Automation in Construction32:10 First Steps for Contractors

Most enterprise AI projects don't fail on the model. They fail on context. That's the line that stuck with me from my conversation with Geetesh Iyer at Data + AI by Databricks Summit on The Ravit Show, right after his talk on the rise of the AI Context Engineer!!!! The pattern he laid out is one a lot of data teams will recognize. Accuracy looks great in the pilot. Then you scale, the inputs get messy, and the answers start breaking down. People blame the model or the data. Geetesh makes the case that both are usually fine. What's missing is the context, which definition of revenue to trust, why a metric changed last quarter, how leaders actually read the numbers. That knowledge lives in people's heads, not in the system.His answer is a new role built from the analyst seat: the AI Context Engineer. The person who encodes that business context so AI can be trusted at scale.We got into:- What an AI Context Engineer actually is, and why the role is showing up now- Why accuracy holds in pilots but falls apart at scale - Why the model and the data usually aren't the problem - The four layers of enterprise context, and the one most companies miss - Whether the harder part is the skills or the organizational buy-in - The one thing a leader should do tomorrow if this hits homeHis framing for all of it: AI is the engine, context is the fuel. And the people best positioned to provide that fuel are already on your payroll.Full interview below. Worth a watch if you're trying to get AI analytics past the pilot stage.#data #ai #databricks #wisdom #theravitshow

Paige started her journey to financial independence at 45 with student loans, negative net worth, and an average income in Los Angeles—yet she'll reach FI by 2025. Sam lives on $12,000 per year in the same expensive city and champions "retiring often" instead of early retirement. Together, they prove that every excuse about FI being impossible is just a limiting belief waiting to be shattered. Key Topics Discussed Introduction and Context 00:00:00 Brad provides context for this 2017 episode, explaining how Paige challenged their limiting belief about achieving FI in high cost of living areas. Paige's FI Discovery 00:05:00 Paige shares how she discovered FI at 44 after getting her first 'real' job, introduced by Sam to Mr. Money Mustache, and started her journey with negative net worth. Sam's Early FI Journey 00:15:00 Sam discusses how his parents automated investing for him, the importance of starting early, and his approach to 'retiring often' instead of just early retirement. Living on $12,000/Year in LA 00:25:00 Sam breaks down his extraordinarily low burn rate in Los Angeles, including creative housing solutions, no car payments, and extreme DIY lifestyle. The Alley Will Provide 00:35:00 Paige and Sam discuss their non-minimalist approach to possessions, finding everything from vacuum cleaners to furniture in alleys and thrift stores. Housing Arbitrage and The DIY House 00:45:00 Discussion of how they purchased a house with a gas leak for $475k in LA, using Sam's DIY skills to make it work despite traditional financing challenges. Breaking Down Limiting Beliefs 00:55:00 Paige addresses common excuses for not pursuing FI: late start, student loans, high cost of living, average income, and shows how she's overcoming each. Path to FI by 2025 01:05:00 Paige outlines her concrete plan to reach FI with less than $500k, leveraging the age 55 rule, catch-up contributions, and eventual Social Security. Hot Seat Round 01:15:00 Rapid-fire questions covering favorite blogs, articles, life hacks, biggest mistakes, and advice for their younger selves. Notable Quotes "The alley will provide." — Paige "Don't retire early, retire often." — Sam "The best time to start investing was twenty years ago. The second best time is today." — Sam "Earning more, but still living on thirty, I feel so much freer. It feels so different." — Paige "Forgive yourself for not having done it sooner. Because if you get hung up on that, you're just going to get stuck." — Sam Key Takeaways Calculate your own FI number using 25x your annual expenses, then work backwards to determine your timeline If you have kids, automate investing for them early—open accounts and make saving the default, not a decision Explore creative housing solutions in your area: roommates, house hacking, or arbitraging neighborhoods for lower rent Learn one new DIY skill per month using YouTube—start with something currently costing you money (car maintenance, home repairs) If you're over 50, maximize catch-up contributions to retirement accounts and research the age 55 rule for your 401(k) Track where free resources appear in your community—thrift stores, community boards, bulk trash days, online marketplaces Set up automatic transfers to investment accounts to remove decision fatigue and make saving the default Resources and Links ChooseFI Episode 041 (original) Mr. Money Mustache Blog Mad Fientist Blog Big ERN (Early Retirement Now) Jim Collins stock series Frugal Woods Personal Capital YouTube (DIY learning) Jocko Willink podcast

Was the identification of Nero Caesar with 666 built on a convenient modern theory—or does first-century archaeology confirm the calculation?In this episode, Jay Rogers examines the Murabba'at papyrus, an ancient Aramaic commercial document that preserves the spelling Neron Kaisar, the exact form of Nero's name that produces 666 when calculated through Hebrew gematria.Rather than relying on speculation, this evidence comes directly from the world in which Revelation was written.Jay explores the archaeological discoveries from the Judean Desert, the significance of the 666 and 616 manuscript traditions, and why the spelling of Nero's imperial title matters for understanding the Beast of Revelation. He also addresses common objections and demonstrates how historical evidence strengthens the case that John's original audience would have immediately recognized the reference.If Revelation was written in the first century, the number 666 may not point to a distant future ruler at all—but to a persecuting emperor already known throughout the Roman world.Watch all of our videos and subscribe to our channel for the latest content >HereHere

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we begin Book Four of the Psalms by exploring Psalms 90–95. These songs remind us that the Psalms are more than ancient poetry—they are a prayer journal that gives voice to our deepest fears, joys, questions, and hopes. As you read them, let them shape your own conversations with God.We begin with Psalm 90, the only psalm attributed to Moses. In it, Moses reflects on the brevity of life and prays, "Teach us to number our days." What would change if we truly lived with that perspective? Even in the midst of life's hardships, this psalm points us toward God's faithfulness and includes a beautiful prayer we can pray over our families and friends.Psalm 91 answers the struggles of Psalm 90 by reminding us that our true shelter is the Most High God. No matter what we face, our security is found not in our circumstances but in God's presence and protection.As we continue through Psalms 92–94, we discover reasons to praise God for His steadfast love (chesed), His faithfulness (emunah), His wisdom, and His justice. These psalms remind us that the righteous flourish by remaining rooted in God, that His wisdom is beyond our understanding, and that He sees every act of evil. While human injustice may seem to prevail for a time, God will one day make every wrong right. He is the righteous King, and His people remain His treasured inheritance.Finally, Psalm 95 calls God's people to joyful worship by celebrating His greatness as Creator and King. Yet the psalm ends with a sober reminder from Israel's history: worship is more than singing. Hearts that truly know God respond with obedience. Looking back at Israel's failures encourages us to trust God's voice today.Throughout these psalms, we see a consistent invitation: remember who God is, trust Him through life's uncertainties, and live each day in light of His eternal kingdom.If you want the FREE hand outs that go along with this series, sign up for our newsletter at our website. Our website is The Context and Color of the BibleWe are on Facebook - The Context and Color of the Bible | FacebookWe are on Instagram - @contextandcolorofthebibleWe are on YouTube - The Context and Color of the Bible - YouTubeMusic: Tabuk by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4453-tabukLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Dr. José P. Zagal is a game scholar and Director of the School of Interactive Games and Media at the Rochester Institute of Technology and avid game player as well. He teaches courses on game design, ethics in video games, and experimental games. Professor Zagal taught his first university-level class in 2000, has since supervised multiple award-winning student projects, and many of his former students work at leading game studios worldwide. Dr. Zagal has edited and authored numerous books and articles on game ethics, games education, game design, role-playing games, and more. He most recently co-authored Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy (MIT Press 2024) and co-edited Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons (MIT Press 2024) and The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies (Routledge 2024). He was honored as a Distinguished Scholar by the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and named a Fellow of the Higher-Education Videogame Alliance (HEVGA) for his contributions to games research. He also serves as the Editor-In-Chief of DiGRA's flagship journal Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association (ToDiGRA). Please check out these relevant links: RIT School of Interactive Games and Media The Quiet Year Prof. Zagal's Google Scholar Profile Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Chile: Early History, Context, and Adoption Cyberpunk 2020 Ghost Busters (West End Games) Phoenix Dawn Command Welcome to Dice in Mind, a podcast hosted by Bradley Browne and Jason Kaufman to explore the intersection of life, games, science, music, philosophy, creativity, and literature through interviews with leading creatives. All are welcome in this space. Royalty-free music "Night Jazz Beats" courtesy of flybirdaudio. Please follow us: Twitter/X: https://x.com/diceinmind Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/diceinmind.bsky.social

2026-08-09 Jesus, Son of Manby Pastor Chris BergScripture Reference: Mark 9:9-13And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean. And they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things aand be treated with contempt? But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.” Notes, outline and a summary from this sermon are made by Pocket AI and found here:This sermon explores the theological significance of the title "Son of Man," centering on Mark 9:9–13. The discussion examines why Jesus favored this specific designation and how it encapsulates his dual nature as both fully human and fully divine.The Context of the TitleFollowing the Transfiguration, Jesus charged Peter, James, and John to remain silent about what they had seen until the "Son of Man" had risen from the dead.Intentionality: Jesus specifically chose this title over the first-person "I" to emphasize a specific prophetic identity.Qualification of Witness: The disciples were not yet qualified to testify about the Transfiguration because they could not comprehend Christ's glory without the context of his resurrection.The Elijah Connection: Jesus clarifies that John the Baptist fulfilled the prophecy of Elijah's return. Just as John suffered and was rejected, the Son of Man was destined for the same path—a reality the disciples were hesitant to accept.The Three Pillars of the "Son of Man"1. A Title of HumanityJesus is the "God-man." While his deity was often questioned during his earthly ministry, modern doubts often lean toward his humanity.Under the Law: To redeem those under the law, Christ had to be born under the law (Galatians 4:4–5). Only a human could serve as a substitute for human sin.The Perfect Sacrifice: Animal sacrifices were temporary provisions. A permanent solution required a sinless human life—a "body prepared" for sacrifice (Hebrews 10:4–7).Sympathetic High Priest: His humanity allows him to sympathize with human weakness, having experienced hunger, exhaustion, and temptation.2. A Title of HumilityThe title reflects Christ's "emptying" of himself (Philippians 2:5–8).Example of Service: He moved from the glories of heaven to the rejection of man.Preparation for the Cross: By using this title, Jesus was mentally preparing the disciples for a suffering Messiah rather than the immediate political conqueror they anticipated.3. A Title of Deity and DominionParadoxically, "Son of Man" is also a claim to divine authority, rooted in the prophecy of Daniel 7:13–14. Mandeville Bible Church   "Where God's Word is Our Foundation"https://www.mandevillebiblechurch.org/Come and see that God's Word is alive and at work right here in Mandeville.. and throughout the world!All are welcome. 217 Carroll Street, Mandeville, LA 70448Church Office: (985) 626-3114Sunday Service: 9:30AMAdult Sunday School: 10:45-11:30AMNursery and Children's church available.

In this message Pastor Jason explores 2 Samuel 9 and the powerful story of King David and Mephibosheth. Examining the radical kindness and covenant love David extends to the line of Saul, we see a picture of how God's grace operates in our own lives. Though Mephibosheth had no claim or standing at the royal table, David proactively sought him out, restored his inheritance, and invited him to dine at the king's table continuously. This sermon reminds us that despite our spiritual brokenness and shortcomings, God extends an invitation for us to take a seat at His table through His steadfast love and grace.(00:00) - Introduction & Context of 2 Samuel 9 (01:40) - Scripture Reading: 2 Samuel 9 (05:11) - Mephibosheth Didn't Belong at the Table (10:17) - Proactive & Radical Love (16:52) - We Are Mephibosheth (25:42) - A Seat at the Lord's Table (27:11) - Taking a Humble Posture Before God (29:23) - Rejoicing in the Lord's Provision (33:01) - Inviting Others to the Table (36:20) - Invitation & Preparation for Communion  David: Faith, Failure, and the Pursuit of GodDavid is one of the most well-known figures in Scripture—a shepherd, a warrior, a king, and a man after God's own heart. But his story is not just one of victory; it is also marked by failure, brokenness, and repentance. In this series, we'll walk through the life of David to discover what it means to pursue God in every season—when we are chosen, when we are tested, when we fail, and when we are restored. Series Memory Verse – Psalm 63:1"O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water."Pastor Jason Foreman preaches from the Prior Lake Campus.

This past week we did a two-parter on the desegregation of the military. For today's "Sunday Context" episode, we revisit an episode we dd about the time First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt took an airplane ride in a small plane piloted by Charles “Chief” Anderson, a Black pilot and member of the Tuskegee airmen.Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss how the photo caused a sensation, and controversy — and helped bolster the case for Black pilots to serve in WWII.Join our America250 newsletter community! Subscribe for free to get the latest news and analysis of how America250 is playing out. Paying subscribers get access to early, ad-free versions of the show. Plus bonus features throughout the year. To support our work and get access to everything, subscribe now.This Day is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.comGet in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Follow us on social @thisdaypodOur team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Welcome back to another unstructured In My Opinion episode. Matt shares an update on losing weight to run faster, the explosion of Chinese super shoes and Dynafish, a potential marathon world record attempt in jeans, HYROX plans, coaching updates and why he has backed away from frequent sauna use. Be coached by Matt: https://www.sweatelitecoaching.com/coaching-2026 Join the Shareholders Club / Private Podcast Feed: https://www.sweatelite.co/shareholders Matt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattinglisfox/ Matt Training Log - Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/6248359/ Contact Matt: matt@sweatelite.co Matt opens with updates on the Sweat Elite Podcast, including changes to the private feed, a new weekly subscriber hangout and a small number of coaching opportunities becoming available. The main discussion centres around losing weight to run faster, prompted partly by Josh Kerr's visible change in body composition alongside his recent performances. Matt reflects on his own marathon career, including a period where gaining roughly 3.5 kg coincided with slower marathon performances before intentionally losing around 4 kg and returning to consistent sub-2:20 racing. Matt explains the simple approach he has personally used - maintaining a modest calorie deficit on most days while prioritising high-volume, satiating foods, then aggressively increasing carbohydrate intake around important training. Rather than trying to remain perfectly fuelled every hour of every day, he discusses using roughly 12-hour windows before major sessions and races to maximise carbohydrate availability, followed by substantial refuelling afterwards. He also discusses why he avoids obsessing over daily scale weight, instead looking at longer-term trends and carbohydrate cycles. Matt believes intentional weight-loss phases should generally be relatively short - around 6 to 12 weeks for most athletes and rarely beyond 20 weeks - rather than becoming a permanent part of training. The conversation also tackles the stigma surrounding weight loss in endurance sport, RED-S, disordered eating and the potential danger of becoming obsessed with numbers. Matt stresses that this approach is only relevant to runners who genuinely have weight they can healthily lose and that improving performance should never come at the expense of long-term health. Later in the episode, Matt shares updates from the Chinese running shoe world, including upcoming laboratory testing of several Chinese super shoes and the rapid growth surrounding Dynafish. He discusses distribution delays, demand in China and plans for bringing more shoes into international markets. Matt also considers racing the Sydney Marathon in jeans and potentially attempting the marathon world record for running in jeans, before discussing his future racing ambitions, interest in trying HYROX and whether an Ironman is something he would ever consider. Finally, Matt explains why he has stopped frequent sauna sessions after noticing increasing fatigue and deteriorating training quality, despite initially introducing sauna as part of his marathon preparation. Topics: 00:00 Welcome and Setup 00:27 Topics and Context 02:46 Pro Podcast Changes 03:46 Subscriber Hangouts 06:05 Coaching Spots Open 07:12 Why Weight Matters 08:18 Josh Kerr Example 09:45 My Marathon Weight Shift 14:41 Stigma and Pushback 20:08 Simple Weight Loss Framework 24:34 Carb Timing for Workouts 28:59 Risks and Obsession Trap 30:38 Carb Cycles Not Scales 31:44 Avoid Number Obsession 32:47 Who Should Cut Weight 35:46 Coaching And Stigma 37:36 Chinese Shoe Lab Tests 39:39 Dynafish Distribution Plans 43:36 Sydney Jeans Marathon 45:40 Weight Loss And Future Goals 50:55 HYROX Versus Ironman 52:31 Sauna Fatigue Lesson 57:25 Wrap Up And Next Steps

Title: How Christ forms the Crucial Core of ConfidenceScripture Reading: 1 John 5:16-17Series: Bizarre BibleDo you ever question where true, unshakeable confidence comes from, especially in your spiritual life? Exploring a 'bizarre' passage from 1 John 5:16-17, this sermon unpacks five 'C's—Context, Contrast, Clinging, Confidence, and Christ—to reveal Christ as crucial for confidence. It highlights how Clinging to the one, true Jesus, even amidst Contrast between sin leading to life and sin leading to death, grants believers Confidence in salvation, prayer, and forgiveness, all resting in Christ's finished work. Embrace Jesus today to find an unshakeable confidence rooted in His finished work, assuring your salvation, hearing your prayers, and granting your forgiveness.

The provided sources describe the development and technical foundations of Llama 2 Long, a series of open-source language models designed to effectively handle extended context windows of up to 32,768 tokens. Researchers from Meta achieved this through continual pretraining on long-form data and a critical modification to Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE), which reduces the numerical decay that typically hinders a model's ability to process distant information. This approach significantly improves performance on complex tasks like document summarization and long-form question answering while simultaneously boosting results on standard short-context benchmarks. Furthermore, the authors introduce a cost-effective instruction tuning method using synthetic data that allows the model to surpass proprietary alternatives like GPT-3.5-turbo-16k. The documentation also includes a theoretical analysis of positional encoding granularity and validates that these scaling improvements follow a predictable power-law relationship. Consistent with the original Llama 2 series, the models maintain stringent safety standards even when processing much denser information.10 sources

This week, Shaun's been feeling bored with Dylan out of town & has decided to take up a new hobby as a way of meeting people but wants to run it by Remington before really getting into it. After Remington chooses between Chainsmoker Cat and Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, will he have found what he's looking for? Meanwhile Remington questions whether or not Shaun has thought this through. If you'd like to give us feedback, ask a question, or correct a mistake, send an email to AnimeOutOfContext@gmail.com. Like our show? Check out our friends AnimEighties for more anime reviews! Visit our Patreon at patreon.com/AnimeoutofContext if you would like to contribute to the show and get hundreds of hours of bonus content ranging from clips from our pre-episode banter, bonus episodes (including the 4 years of the 12 days of April Fools), our prototype Episode 0, to even getting shout-outs in the show! Intro and Outro are trimmed from "Remiga Impulse" by Jens Kiilstofte, licensed by MachinimaSound to Anime Out of Context under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 which the licensor has modified for the licensee to allow reproduction and sharing of the Adapted Material for Commercial purposes

The registered trademark symbol looks tiny, but for business owners it carries far more weight than a normal keyboard character.In this episode, we break down how to type the ® symbol on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android, plus the more important question: when are you actually allowed to use it?You'll learn the most common shortcuts, reliable mobile workarounds, and the difference between ®, ™, and ℠. We also cover one of the most common mistakes founders make: assuming that filing a trademark application means they can immediately start using the registered trademark symbol. It does not.For Windows users, we explain the classic Alt plus 0174 shortcut. On Mac, we cover Option plus R and how Character Viewer can help when keyboard layouts behave differently. For iPhone and iPad users, we look at text replacement as a practical shortcut. On Android, we discuss symbol menus, keyboard differences, and why there is no single shortcut that works perfectly across every device.Then we move beyond typing.A registered trademark symbol is a notice. In the United States, it communicates that the mark has federal registration status. That is different from simply claiming trademark rights. Businesses can often use ™ or ℠ before registration, but ® should be reserved for marks that are actually registered.We also discuss why “registered” does not mean “I own this word everywhere.” Trademark rights are connected to a specific mark and specific goods or services. A software company with a registered name does not automatically control that same word in every unrelated category. Context and scope matter.Another practical question is whether ® needs to appear after every mention of a brand. Usually, that is not the best approach. Repeating the symbol constantly can make clean marketing copy look like it caught a case of legal punctuation. A better strategy is to create brand guidelines explaining where the symbol should appear, how the mark should be written, and which logo versions are approved.That matters because trademark use is not just a legal-team issue. Marketing, sales, product, design, web development, agencies, distributors, and vendors may all touch the brand. If each group handles trademark notices differently, inconsistency spreads fast.We also explore business hazards, including using ® before registration, assuming one registration covers every product or service, failing to track registration maintenance, and believing that the symbol itself somehow enforces the brand.Spoiler: it does not.A trademark symbol can communicate rights, but it cannot monitor competitors, renew registrations, update packaging, fix old website files, or send a thoughtfully stern letter on your behalf. Brand protection still requires strategy, process, and judgment.The episode also tackles several trademark myths. No, a pending application does not equal registration. No, registering a mark does not grant universal ownership of a word. No, you usually do not need ® after every occurrence. And no, inaccurate use should not be treated as a harmless branding shortcut.For founders and small business owners, the real lesson is bigger than memorizing Alt plus 0174 or Option plus R. Trademarks are business assets. They can influence branding, marketing, licensing, expansion, investor diligence, acquisitions, and competitive positioning. Trademark decisions belong inside a broader intellectual property strategy.If your company has a valuable name, logo, slogan, product identity, or service brand, this episode gives you a practical framework for understanding what the registered trademark symbol means and how to use it more intelligently.You'll leave knowing the shortcuts, the distinctions, the common mistakes, and the bigger strategic questions to ask before your team starts dropping ® into every deck, webpage, and piece of packaging it can find.To chat about this one-on-one, grab a free consult at strategymeeting.com

The conversation covers a range of topics, including the midterms, democratic socialists, electability, transgender athletes in sports, the Democratic Party's strategy, primary elections, international law, and political strategy. The conversation covers political stance changes, hypocrisy and international law, the brilliance of Mondani, squatter removal service, LeBron's decision, and the WNBA All-Star Weekend. It delves into the shifting political stances, the impact of Mondani's actions, and the controversy surrounding the WNBA All-Star Weekend. The conversation delves into the legacy of Josh Allen, the comparison between Caitlin Clark and Josh Allen, the double standard in sports, the impact of race in sports, the Emmett Till comparison, and the context of analogies in sports discussions.TakeawaysThe debate over electability vs. social issues is a key concern for the Democratic Party.The conversation around transgender athletes in sports raises questions about the focus on a minority issue in the larger context of women's sports. Political stance changes can lead to accusations of hypocrisy and raise questions about international law.The brilliance of Mondani's actions has forced conversations about international law and political hypocrisy. The legacy and impact of Josh Allen in football.The double standard and racial bias in sports discussions.Chapters00:00 Setting the Stage03:25 The Midterms and Democratic Socialists05:06 Electability vs. Social Issues06:35 Transgender Athletes in Sports09:02 Democratic Party's Strategy and Priorities17:00 Primary Elections and Black Voters23:32 International Law and Political Strategy28:47 Political Stance Changes29:04 Hypocrisy and International Law30:02 Brilliance of Mondani35:19 Squatter Removal Service42:50 LeBron's Decision48:07 WNBA All-Star Weekend51:13 The Legacy of Josh Allen52:04 Comparing Caitlin Clark and Josh Allen53:06 The Double Standard in Sports55:22 The Impact of Race in Sports01:07:03 The Emmett Till Comparison01:10:07 The Context of Analogies

AI agents can write code for hours, but ask them to do real work in the real economy, and they break. Mitch Troyanovsky is co-founder of Basis, a unicorn AI company whose agents run autonomously for hours — sometimes days — completing complex tax returns end to end. His answer to the reliability problem: stop grading outcomes, and start supervising the process.This is a definitive, reference-style conversation on building long-horizon AI agents. Mitch walks through the full history — from ReAct and the AutoGPT crash to reasoning models and RLVR — and explains why the industry abandoned process supervision in 2023, and why it's now coming back at a completely different scale. We go deep on behavior specs, the open standard Basis just released with Braintrust for defining and evaluating how agents behave across entire trajectories, with no ground truth required.Along the way: why context is really runtime training data, why your documentation must be treated like a codebase, ontologies as "worlds for agents to live in," the judge-as-agent architecture, why Basis hires philosophy majors as Language Architects, deploying agents as "onboarding 300 brilliant alien employees," and Mitch's prediction for when the bitter lesson swallows the harness.(01:09) Why Basis Engineers Whisper to Their Agents(04:12) Accounting as Compression: an Intelligence Layer Over the Economy(06:11) Defining Long-Horizon: When You Exceed the Context Window(08:24) Anatomy of a Multi-Day Autonomous Trajectory(10:19) Handoff Design: Optimizing Output for the Reviewer(11:17) ReAct and Why Reasoning Must Regulate Its Own State(12:33) Large Working Memory, No Long-Term Memory(14:13) Compounding Errors: Why AutoGPT and BabyAGI Broke(15:51) Opus 3, o1, o3: the Three Real Paradigm Shifts(17:07) Titrating Inference Compute Across Easy and Hard Steps(18:23) Process Reward vs. Outcome Reward: "Let's Verify Step by Step"(20:32) RLVR and Why the METR Curve Overstates Reliability(22:09) Verifiable at Runtime: the Real Reason Coding Won(25:14) No Ground Truth, No Cheap Verification, No Data(26:55) Encoding Deterministic Checks From Human Review Process(29:18) Synthetic Data Limits: Generating Artifacts, Not Text(33:16) 100 Evals Pass — Does It Generalize to Production?(35:53) Primary Sources vs. Pre-Training Knowledge(36:37) Behavior Specs: Markdown, Judges, and True/False/N.A.(39:58) Specificity vs. Brittleness in Spec Authoring(42:18) Context as Runtime Training Data(44:21) Judge-as-Agent: Trajectory Maps and Sub-Agent Attribution(46:45) The Move 37 Objection: Reliability Over Optimality(50:02) The Magic Box Model: Building Without Weights Access(52:41) "Nothing Paradigm-Shifting Has Changed Since o3"(54:56) Open-Sourcing the Behavior Spec Standard With Braintrust(01:02:54) Ontology Design: Virtual Filesystems, Graphs, Embeddings(01:04:20) Canonical vs. Non-Canonical: Docs as Codebase(01:06:33) Language Architects and Writing for Runtime Interpretation(01:09:05) Deployed Intelligence: 300 Alien Employees With No Context(01:11:10) Closing the Loop: Signal → Context, Tools, Harness(01:12:50) Context Slop: the Mistake Most Agent Builders Make(01:14:29) Reward Function Design and Credit Assignment Over Trajectories(01:17:01) Will the Bitter Lesson Swallow the Harness?(01:18:46) Business Moats vs. Technical Moats(01:21:03) Paradigm Thinking Over Timeline ADHD

In this episode of Baltic Ways, recorded on the sidelines of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, host Indra Ekmanis speaks with Inta Mieriņa, a political sociologist and director of the Center for Diaspora and Migration Research at the University of Latvia. Dr. Mieriņa discusses her path to being awarded a prestigious European Research Council grant and unpacks her new project comparing how European societies received Ukrainian refugees. The conversation also traces her groundbreaking work surveying the Latvian diaspora, from a landmark 14,000-person study to plans for a permanent diaspora consultation panel that could give emigrant communities a stronger voice in policymaking.Baltic Ways is a podcast from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, produced in partnership with the Baltic Initiative at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of AABS or FPRI.Image: A mural in Riga, Latvia, titled "Kopā Mēs Esam Spēks," meaning “Together We Are Strong.” Artwork by Dainis Rudens, Ēriks Caune, and Beatrise Bīriņa. (liveriga.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fpribalticinitiative.substack.com

The Department of Defense made headlines when it announced plans to test testosterone levels in active military members. The debate that followed was loud, political, and almost entirely missed the point. Jenni and Daniel are not interested in the political conversation. They are interested in the clinical one, and in this episode they take a current news story and do what they do best: strip away the noise and get to what actually matters. They start with the basics. Testosterone is not simply a marker of masculinity- it is a marker of health. Vitality. Mood. Cognitive clarity. The capacity to make good decisions under pressure. Too high creates its own problems. Too low, which is far more common, particularly in high-stress, sleep-deprived environments like military service, produces depression, fatigue, irritability, and a creeping sense that something is fundamentally off. Daniel's phrase for it, borrowed from their recent conversation with Dr. Rachel Rubin, says it precisely: I don't feel like myself. But the number alone tells you almost nothing. A reading of 450 might have one man feeling like he's on top of the world and another quietly falling apart. Context matters. Individual baseline matters. And the systems surrounding that number- sleep, stress, relationships, mental health, nutrition and physical strength matter as much as the hormone itself. Testing testosterone without addressing those systems is, as Daniel puts it, throwing a pill at a very complex situation. Jenni brings women into the conversation and makes the case that hormonal testing is not a male-only issue. She shares her own experience discovering her testosterone was in the basement despite being a muscular, physically active person, and explains why estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone together form the constellation that optimizes women's physical, sexual, and mental health. She makes the point that neither testosterone nor estrogen belongs exclusively to one gender- men need estrogen, women need testosterone, and balance is individual, not categorical. Daniel ties it back to the bio-psychosocial model- the framework that Jenni and Daniel have built their entire clinical practice around. You can test the biology. But if the psychology is suffering (anxiety, depression, unprocessed trauma) and the social dimension is broken, (relationships in conflict, connection absent isolation growing), the biology will follow. Each system pulls on the others. Fix the sleep and the testosterone improves. Improve the testosterone and the irritability decreases. Decrease the irritability and the relationship gets better. The relationship getting better reduces stress. The stress reduction improves sleep. You pull one string and it moves another one. They close with the thing that surprises most people when they say it out loud: the antidote to stress is connection. Not a supplement. Not a number. Not a protocol. The ratio of connection to disconnection in your life is one of the most powerful health metrics available- and it's the one almost nobody tracks. This episode is for veterans and first responders. It's for anyone who has wondered why they don't feel like themselves. It's for women who have never been told to test their testosterone. It's for men who didn't know that low testosterone looks like depression. And it's for anyone who has been waiting for someone to say that their relationships, their sleep, their stress load, and their hormones are not separate conversations- they are one conversation, and it starts here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most CHROs have a fraud problem they didn't sign up for. Deepfakes in video interviews. Synthetic IDs at the application stage. AI-generated credentials that pass every automated screen. Only 31% of CHROs say they're confident in their ability to prevent hiring fraud, and the technology making it easier gets more sophisticated every quarter. Nik Daruwala, Vice President of Sales at Checkr, has spent 21 years in B2B technology sales, including thousands of direct conversations with HR leaders trying to protect their hiring funnels without losing speed. Checkr powers background verification for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart, and was the first API in the background check industry. In this episode, he covers: Why hiring fraud appears at every stage of the funnel, from the initial application through post-hire monitoring, and what a continuous identity verification strategy actually looks like in practice How CHROs should be thinking about partnering with their CISO to address a risk that's moved from the cyber stack into the talent pipeline https://thehrmixtape.com/episodes/trust-at-speed-hiring-fraud-deepfakes-and-the-identity-risks-chros-cant-ignore-with-nik-daruwala Why the speed-versus-safety trade-off in hiring is a false choice, and what good looks like when both coexist in the same program Timestamps [00:00:39] Context: this conversation was recorded live at the Checkr booth at SHRM 2026 [00:01:01] How enterprise hiring changed over 24 years: global sourcing, the normalization of remote hiring, and why the explosion of application volume made quality screening harder [00:02:50] The CHRO anxiety most people aren't talking about: making sure candidates throughout the funnel are actually who they claim to be [00:04:13] Only 31% of CHROs have confidence in their ability to prevent hiring fraud, and why the AI tools now available to candidates are changing that threat surface fast [00:04:39] The three identity threats CHROs weren't trained for: deepfakes in interviews, synthetic IDs at the application stage, and AI-generated credentials that pass automated screens [00:06:44] Why most organizations are reactive on hiring fraud, and the parallel to the early days of cybersecurity: you don't prioritize it until you have your first incident [00:08:42] Where fraud actually shows up across the hiring funnel: application, interview, background check, and continuously post-hire [00:09:41] The speed-versus-compliance trade-off is a false choice, and why the best hiring programs don't ask their teams to make it [00:13:27] Nik on what it actually means for trust to be a competitive advantage, and why that should be the north star for every hiring program [00:16:00] The two-to-three year horizon: AI automating talent sourcing and administrative tasks, continuous monitoring as table stakes, and why the hiring decision stays human Brought to You by Paylocity Paylocity is the fastest growing unified platform for HR, Finance, and IT. Paylocity brings your people, processes, and data together in one place so HR leaders can spend less time managing systems and more time doing the work that actually moves their organizations forward. Learn more at paylocity.com Keywords: hiring fraud, background checks, identity verification, deepfakes, synthetic IDs, AI-generated credentials, CHRO priorities, talent pipeline security, hiring at scale, continuous monitoring, background screening, hiring compliance, HR technology, Checkr, credential fraud, HR risk management, fraud prevention, remote hiring risk, AI in hiring, talent operations

On today's show, I'm talking about what happens when context disappears and people start responding to what they think someone represents instead of what was actually said or done. I look at how missing information turns into certainty, how labels replace the individual, and why context can matter without excusing harmful behavior.This episode is supported by Enhanced-Mind Counseling. If you're looking to understand the patterns behind your relationships, attachment, or the dynamics you find yourself in, you can reach out through my website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://enhanced-mind.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Continue the discussion on Fetlife: @Enhanced-MindDon't forget to follow the show and leave a 5-star rating so others can find it.Want to be on the show or have an idea for an upcoming episode?Email me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TheKinkPerspective@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Find me on Substack - Enhanced-Mind's Substack | Chris C. | SubstackI have a book out, Tangled Desires: Exploring the Intersection of BDSM and Psychology. You can find it where you purchase most eBooks. Print version available now.#Psychology #Context #Control #Language

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we tour Psalms 81–89 and discover a powerful thread running through these songs: God desires to bless His people, draw near to them, and remain faithful even when they fail.Psalm 81 begins with joyful celebration of the Exodus, but God reminds Israel that blessing flows from listening to His voice. Rather than portraying God as harsh and eager to punish, these psalms repeatedly show Him ready to bless His people when they return to Him.We then explore Psalms 82–83, where God is presented as Judge over every nation and every lesser spiritual power. Israel's God is not merely a local deity; He is the Most High who rules over all.Psalms 84–87 shift our attention to the beauty of God's presence. The psalmists delight in the Tabernacle, celebrate Jerusalem, and use names such as Lord of Hosts and Most High to proclaim God's greatness. Along the way, we see recurring themes of drawing near to God, righteousness, and God's steadfast chesed love.Psalm 86 gives us a beautiful model for prayer: “Guard my life, bring me joy, teach me, and give me an undivided heart.” It also looks forward to the day when all nations will worship the Lord.Finally, we wrestle with Psalm 88, the darkest psalm in the Psalter and the only one that does not end with praise. Yet Psalm 89 immediately answers with worship and a reminder of God's covenant with David. Even when God's people wander, He promises that He will not remove His steadfast love.As Book Three of the Psalms closes with a doxology, these songs leave us with a lasting hope: God remains faithful to His covenant, His kingdom, and His people.If you want the FREE hand outs that go along with this series, sign up for our newsletter at our website. Our website is The Context and Color of the BibleWe are on Facebook - The Context and Color of the Bible | FacebookWe are on Instagram - @contextandcolorofthebibleWe are on YouTube - The Context and Color of the Bible - YouTubeMusic: Tabuk by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4453-tabukLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Fresh off the opening weekend of Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster, the Deep Cut trio welcome friend of the pod Koh Zhi Hao to talk about The Odyssey. Listen to us break down the differences in Nolan's adaptation of Homer's poem, discuss who gave a bad performance in this, and finally answer the question; Does Chris Nolan make movies for stupid people? Take an odyssey to our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:02:40 Introducing film and Zhi Hao00:09:59 Formats we saw and general reactions00:40:35 Context and favorite moments00:55:12 Favorite technical aspects01:08:46 Phaeacia, Helen, and other details01:19:54 The gods' influence on characters01:30:37 Nolan's influence01:34:48 Odyssey viewing formats01:44:10 Closing

Ever read a Bible verse and assumed you knew exactly what it meant? This message kicks off a new series by unpacking why a verse pulled out of context can turn into something it was never meant to say. You'll walk away with five simple questions that will change the way you read Scripture for the rest of your life.Scripture referenced in this message:· Matthew 4:4· 2 Timothy 2:15· Nehemiah 8:1-8· Psalm 119:18· Luke 24:27· Philippians 4:13· Philippians 4:10-13· Jeremiah 29:11· Acts 17:11THIS WEEK'S CONTEXT CHALLENGERead the entire book of Philippians. As you read:1. Circle repeated words.2. Underline commands.3. Mark connecting words.4. Identify Paul's main concerns.5. Choose one frequently quoted verse.6. Read the paragraph surrounding it.7. Write one sentence explaining its meaning in context.Learn more about salvation, info about Destiny Church, or how to give by visiting our website.Real | Relevant | Relationship

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the Counter-Racist Weekly Review 08/01/26. This broadcast examines current events from across the globe to learn what's happening in all areas of people activity. We cultivate Counter-Racist Media Literacy by scrutinizing journalists' word choices and using logic to deconstruct what is reported as "news." We'll use these sessions to hone our use of terms as tools to reveal truth and neutralize Racists/White people. #ANTIBLACKNESS This week, we analyze systemic violence, educational exclusion, state surveillance, and the ongoing war on Black autonomy: **The Weaponization of the Legal System & State Torture: We deconstruct the "not every tragedy is a crime" rhetoric shielding suspects as the high-profile murder trial continues. We directly link the new subpoenas issued in the Nolan Wells death probe to this week's Texas grand jury indictment in the horrific drowning death of Daniel Erving. We contrast these ongoing investigations with the rare legal choice given to Ivy Kelly after spending decades behind bars, and scrutinize the systemic gun violence crisis that leaves thousands dead while White Men and Women refuse to act. **Systemic Educational Exclusion & Historical Erasure: We examine the deliberate bottlenecks of elite schooling as statistics reveal only three Black students gained entry into Stuyvesant High School this year. We couple this extreme exclusion with a massive lawsuit filed against the Park City School District, alongside Utah's holiday honoring a Native American massacre. We apply counter-racist logic to show how public education and state histories are structured to maintain white dominance while marginalizing non-white youth. **The Architecture of Mass Surveillance & Digital Displacement: We track the rapid expansion of the corporate surveillance grid, investigating whether Flock safety cameras are actively spying on Southern California residents. We analyze these tracking mechanisms alongside the growing renter-owner wealth gap, which is wider than ever and pricing non-white families completely out of the market. We expose how municipal surveillance and economic warfare work in tandem to monitor, control, and financially displace non-white populations. **Immigration Terror, Global Deportation, & Political Theater: We confront the overt white supremacy within federal enforcement, analyzing leaked footage that shows immigration agents using racial slurs during raids targeting Latinos. We examine the sports entertainment industry's intersection with state violence as we review how Kenya's first NFL player, Daniel Adongo, was likely given CTE and then deported by the Trump administration. Finally, we expose the hypocrisy of the White House pushing healthy eating while simultaneously cutting landmark federal nutrition education programs. #EndStageWhiteSupremacy #TheCOWS17Years #CounterRacism #MediaLiteracy #DanielErving #NolanWells #IvyKelly #DanielAdongo #StuyvesantHigh #FlockSafety Call-In Number: 720.716.7300 Code: 564943#

Taking a weekend course can make you see tongue posture, restricted movement, and mouth breathing everywhere you look. But recognizing a pattern is vastly different from truly understanding it.In this solo episode, Hallie Bulkin addresses "The Myo Gap" - the space between noticing an isolated anatomical finding and developing the clinical depth to understand how it fits into a child's connected, multi-system picture. She unpacks why a restricted frenulum or forward resting tongue is merely a data point rather than an automatic diagnosis or treatment plan, and explains how shallow understanding leads clinicians to jump directly to conclusions, quick referrals, or "cookbook" exercises.Hallie breaks down how to conduct a deeper assessment by analyzing real-time compensations, motor coordination, sensory processing, and overall physical development. You'll learn why true clinical competence often leads to making fewer but far more valuable referrals, how to navigate honest parent conversations without false certainty, and why real clinical judgment requires mentored practice over quick information.Key Topics & TakeawaysThe "Sensitization" Trap: How new clinical learning creates pattern-recognition bias where every finding looks like the primary root cause.Observation vs. Diagnosis: Why a restricted frenulum or forward tongue posture is an initial observation point, not an immediate reason to prescribe exercises or surgical releases.Reading the Connected System: How to evaluate tongue function relative to jaw mechanics, lip seals, nasal breathing, overall muscle tone, sensory processing, and motor coordination.Selective, Value-Driven Referrals: Why advanced clinical discernment leads to fewer automatic referrals for releases and results in clearer, function-based communication with ENTs, dentists, and surgeons.Honest Parent Conversations: The shift from presenting false certainty ("Your child has a tie, so they need a release") to leading transparent, nuanced clinical discussions.Soundbites"Recognizing a pattern can feel a lot like understanding it before the depth is actually there. An observation is not a diagnosis, and it's definitely not a treatment plan.""Structure matters, but function matters more. Context determines what the structure actually means.""Confidence isn't giving parents a quick, simple answer—it's being able to separate what you know from what you suspect."Timestamps 001:04 - The Gap Between Knowing and Understanding Myo 02:50 - Clinical Sensitization & Pattern Recognition 04:23 - Case Study: 3-Year-Old with Low Tone 06:23 - What Deeper Assessment Looks Like 07:35 - Assessing a 2-Year-Old for Feeding Concerns09:04 - Myo Does Not Replace the Rest of the Child 10:20 - Structure vs. Function & Better Referrals 12:03 - Assessing Infants & The Feeding Dyad 13:28 - Communicating Honestly with Parents 15:20 - Myo vs. Feeding Therapy & Multi-Disciplinary Care 16:26 - How to Build True Clinical Competence18:21 - The Myo Method & Closing Thoughts Links & ResourcesThe MYO Method: Elevate your clinical reasoning, bridge assessment gaps, and master orofacial patterns at TheMyoMethod.com.Fast Myo Screening Tool: Stop guessing during your intakes and download the checklist at FastMyoScreening.com.WORTH A LISTEN: CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEYEpisode 132: Feeding With A Twist of Myo with Hallie Bulkin, MA, CCC-SLP, COM.Episode 150: Where To Start And End With TOTS?.STAY CONNECTED

Richard Adams's sermon titled "Of Hell" (subtitled in some editions as "The Wicked Shall Depart from Christ into the Greatest Torments") was preached in May 1659. Context & Publication Series Origin: It was delivered as part of The Morning Exercise Methodized, a series of 28 sermons organized by Thomas Case and preached at St. Giles in the Fields, London, in May 1659. First Publication: The collection was published in 1660 as a systematic overview of Christian doctrine. Text & Topic: Preached on Matthew 25:41 ("Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels"), the sermon provides an exposition of eternal punishment, distinguishing between the pœna damni (the pain of loss) and pœna sensûs (the pain of sense).

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Late last year TRADITION published our largest issue ever—350+ page volume on the intellectual legacy of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt”l, released in cooperation with the Rabbi Sacks Legacy on the occasion of his 5th yahrzeit. Among that collection's many essays exploring R. Sacks' thought is a particularly pertinent one titled  “Inclusive Orthodoxy: Vision, Context and Connections” by Rabbi Dr. Benjamin J. Elton, who serves as the Chief Minister and Senior Rabbi of The Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia. Inclusive Orthodox Judaism was an idea that Sacks championed during his tenure as Chief Rabbi of Britain, and Elton's essay lays out this conception of inclusion—its roots and sources, its possible flaws, alternative models and how they differ from Sacks' vision. In this conversation Elton recalls hearing someone say “We have no spare Jews, so if our common boat is too small we best better builder a bigger boat.” That was so on point that we chose it as the title for this episode, which also touches on issues of Jewish unity since October 7th, and—for R. Elton's community of Sydney—since the Bondi Beach massacre of last December. Read the entire special issue on Rabbi Sacks' intellectual legacy open access at TraditionOnline.org, order a hard copy to have in your library, and renew your subscription to our quarterly print journal. The post No Spare Jews appeared first on Tradition Online.

This week, Shaun has an important question for Remington; are kaiju deserving of love? Hopefully 3 episodes of Kaiju Girl Caramelise will be enough to figure it out! Meanwhile Remington leaves Shaun wondering what's in Godzilla's pants. If you'd like to give us feedback, ask a question, or correct a mistake, send an email to AnimeOutOfContext@gmail.com. Like our show? Check out our friends AnimEighties for more anime reviews! Visit our Patreon at patreon.com/AnimeoutofContext if you would like to contribute to the show and get hundreds of hours of bonus content ranging from clips from our pre-episode banter, bonus episodes (including the 4 years of the 12 days of April Fools), our prototype Episode 0, to even getting shout-outs in the show! Intro and Outro are trimmed from "Remiga Impulse" by Jens Kiilstofte, licensed by MachinimaSound to Anime Out of Context under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 which the licensor has modified for the licensee to allow reproduction and sharing of the Adapted Material for Commercial purposes  

Lue Elizondo claims regarding UFO crash retrievals spark intense debate. Learn the facts behind these statements and current aging research.This breakdown examines the ongoing UFO controversy surrounding Lue Elizondo and his assertions about retrieved craft. We analyze the specific claims made and the skepticism they have generated within the community. Whether you follow aerospace developments or are curious about the intersection of testimony and evidence, this analysis clarifies the current narrative.Beyond the skies, we shift focus to the biology of aging. Science is exploring methods for reversing aging by resetting epigenetic status. We discuss the current state of this research and what it could mean for human longevity. Finally, we highlight the upcoming webinar, The Green Mountain Mystery, scheduled for August 8, 2026, which promises to expand on these themes.Subscribe for weekly science and aerospace breakdowns. Leave a comment below sharing your thoughts on whether epigenetic advancements will realistically impact human lifespans in our lifetime.Topics: Is the public is being played in the Coulthart/Elizondo (contrived) controversy over UFO crash retrievals? https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2082427737881362878Jorge Pabon reveals more details about his eight-man covert mission to an underground civilization of Ant People in 2023. https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2082428426460282899 Trump administration bans import of humanoid robots on national security grounds. https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2082551263217029309Lue Elizondo claims lack of progress in reverse engineering retrieved UFO crash material: https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2082638348942782951 Dr Phil Reveals ET Disclosure will happen with no context nor instructions https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2082998753443684452Irony of Pentagon officials involved in the cover-up of ET life are being given press coverage in releasing breadcrumbs concerning the scope of ET visitation. https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2083157222612193408 Reverse ageing is not a delusional belief by those claiming to have been part of "20 and back" secret space programs. https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2083162150093078528 The Forgotten "8th Force" That Inspired Star Wars is secretly being studied under Green Mountain, Alabama. https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2083169950638707127 Join Dr. Salla on Patreon for Early Releases, Webinar Perks and More. Visit https://Patreon.com/MichaelSalla/

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Kilian Korth joined the show to have a discussion around ultrarunning's growing professionalization without sophisticated regulated drug testing, the limits and trade-offs of WADA/USADA-style regimes, and why "doping" as a blanket term obscures intent and severity. We unpack gray areas such as THC thresholds, TUE complexity for common medications, transparency vs backlash, influencer incentives, and the future pressure regenerative medicine and technology (e.g., super shoes) may place on sport rules. Kilian: IG: @runtoughmindset | Substack: https://substack.com/@runtoughmindset Sponsors: LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/HPO (free sample pack with purchase) deltaG: https://deltagketones.com Code: BITTER20 (20% Off) True Nutrition: https://truenutrition.com/hpo Code: HPO (20% Off) Episode Summary & Notes: Zach Bitter & Kilian Korth on PEDs, incentives, and doping in ultrarunning Context & framing Conversation is the third appearance by Kilian on Zach's podcast; shifts from traditional training/racing episodes toward current events in running. Sparked by recent doping-related controversies (Cam Hanes / Sage Canaday online conflict, Mike McKnight's discussion of BPC-157 use on Hanes' podcast). Both emphasize moving beyond narrow focus on specific peptides/cases to broader structural issues. Activism, incentives & tribalism Skepticism of modern activism: good causes often get distorted by perverse incentives (attention, platform growth, organizational self-preservation/mission creep). Online environments (especially short-form social media) reward polarization over curiosity or truth-seeking. Parallel drawn to low-carb diet advocacy: movement shifted from exploration of pros/cons toward dietary supremacy and identity attachment. Both hosts value changing one's mind with new evidence and prefer evolving conversations over tribal "debates" aimed at winning. Core problem in ultrarunning Rapid professionalization and financial incentives exist, but sophisticated testing (especially out-of-competition) is essentially absent. Honor-code system + high rewards creates conditions in which some athletes near the top are likely to use PEDs. Contrast with Olympic sports (e.g., swimming) where positives occur even with lower financial stakes. "Doping" is an unhelpful blanket term that equates intentional, high-impact cheating (e.g., EPO) with gray-area or accidental cases. BPC-157 and gray areas BPC-157 is an experimental peptide with very limited human data (one small study of 12 people among 36 total studies reviewed). Anecdotally has been used for tendon/muscle healing; on the WADA banned list at all times (no TUE pathway currently). Gray areas exist in WADA criteria themselves (performance enhancement potential, health risk, "spirit of the sport"). THC example: banned in-competition with a relatively high threshold; removed alcohol from the list is an example of changes over time. Distinction between letter of the rules vs. moral/cosmic fairness; between intentional advantage-seeking and medical/recovery use. Testing realities & practical challenges Full USADA/WADA-style regimes require whereabouts reporting, out-of-competition testing, and significant lifestyle constraints (conflicts with the free-spirited, remote nature of trail/ultrarunning). Even gold-standard systems have loopholes (missed whereabouts, remote camps, short-acting substances timed around sleep windows). Half-measures are expensive, burdensome, and unlikely to deter determined cheaters. Middle-of-pack and age-group athletes face different calculus; many use legitimate medications (inhalers, etc.) that may or may not require TUEs depending on type and dose/threshold. Possible paths forward discussed Transparency and honesty should be encouraged rather than punished (both hosts respect that Hanes and McKnight disclosed BPC-157 use). Practical ideas: Optional "non-competitive / open" checkbox so athletes using regulated substances can still participate without affecting results/records. Tested vs. non-tested divisions (bodybuilding-style model). More education needed around legitimate medical use (TUEs, Global DRO checks). Focus should prioritize the small professional/elite tier where financial and competitive incentives are highest over age-group minutiae. Future regenerative medicine and longevity interventions will force further adaptation; sport has already accepted large performance gains from technology (super shoes) more readily than internal/medical ones. Influencers & broader culture Influencer economy adds complexity: financial incentives to promote products or share experimental practices; difference between sharing personal experience vs. recommending use. Transparency with clear caveats is preferred; pure anecdote-driven advice remains problematic. Societal issues (tribalism, algorithmic incentives, low scientific literacy) make clean solutions difficult inside a small niche like ultrarunning. Closing notes Both stress nuance over black-and-white absolutism Conversation aims to push the sport toward honest discussion of incentive structures rather than endless case-by-case outrage. Kilian's Substack article ("The Run Tough Mindset") and upcoming documentary Forged in Failure are referenced as related material.  

In this week's message of our Summer at Bethlehem series, Pastor Chris Bell from 3Circle Church in Fairhope, Alabama explores the critical concept of spiritual hydration through the lens of John 7:37–38. Physical dehydration leads to fatigue, vulnerability, and sickness—but soul dehydration carries far more dangerous, eternal consequences.   Set against the historical backdrop of the Feast of the Tabernacles (Festival of Booths), Pastor Chris reveals the profound significance of Jesus interrupting the most sacred day of the Jewish festival. While the priests poured out water to commemorate God's provision in the wilderness, Jesus stood up and declared that He Himself is the fulfillment of that promise—the source of eternal, living water.  

To mark 300 episodes of the Beautifully Broken Podcast, Freddie Kimmel goes solo behind the mic for an unscripted reflection on nearly eight years of conversations about health, healing, and human potential. He unpacks why personalized medicine — not another supplement, device, or biohack — is the throughline of everything the show has covered, and why both legacy medicine's one-size-fits-all disease model and the biohacking industry's overhyped claims miss the same fundamental point: context matters more than content, and healing happens in relationship, not in isolation. The episode also turns personal — Freddie shares recent grief over the loss of two friends from his Broadway and NYC theater years, including a loss to suicide, and reflects on his own journey through metastatic cancer, chronic illness, and building a business untethered from sponsorship incentives. He closes with a direct call to action: the world needs people to show up as warriors, not consumers, and to take radical ownership of their health, their time, and their voice. Episode Highlights 00:01 Reflecting on 300 episodes and why guests have been hard to choose 02:22 Gratitude for listeners, reviews, and the team behind the show 04:50 What's changing: bringing video to every episode 07:15 The disease paradigm and the case for personalized medicine 09:24 Why biohacking and longevity claims are becoming overhyped 11:46 Context over content: building the Biological Blueprint course 14:08 Rewriting the light module and pushing into nuance 16:28 Vitamin D, information vs. transformation 18:51 Processing the loss of two friends, including a loss to suicide 21:16 Crisis support and sitting with grief 22:53 Cancer, agency, and perspective on time 25:09 America's opportunity gap and a call to step up 26:56 Healthcare spending vs. national health outcomes 27:28 This is everyone's call to action 29:02 Thank God for failure: the Broadway ceiling story 30:03 Self-acceptance and letting go of old narratives 32:17 Staying untethered from sponsorship incentives 34:18 Closing thoughts, gratitude, and the ask Upgrade Your Health LightPathLED: https://lightpathled.pxf.io/c/3438432/2059835/25794 Code: beautifullybroken Silver Biotics Wound Healing Gel: https://bit.ly/3JnxyDD 30% off with Code: BEAUTIFULLYBROKEN MaxGen Labs: https://maxgenlabs.com/BEAUTIFULLYBROKEN CONNECT WITH FREDDIEWork with Me: https://www.beautifullybroken.world/biological-blueprintWebsite and Store: (http://www.beautifullybroken.world) Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/freddie.kimmelYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@beautifullybrokenworld Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.