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Season 3: Episode 7“Letting Go: The Path to Miracles”TaHa: 17-20What do you rely on to get through the day? Your car, phone or even your morning cup of coffee are things you may lean on to manage your life. What if you were told to cast all that aside? In this episode, Dalia Mogahed and Hajj Hisham Mahmoud explore the spiritual meaning of the staff of Moses (s) and how we all have the tendency to lean too far on our means, yet only have to “let go and let God”  to see Allah's miracles manifest in our lives. You will learn: 

More on the tannaitic dispute of the previous daf. Delineating the logic of amplification - ribui u-miyut vs. kelal u-prat u-kelal. They're two different schools of thought, and the rationale holds across the Talmud, for each of them. But they're also very similar. Plus, taking an oath in an unavoidable way. Also, one who took an oath, but he forgot about the item he had foresworn... Likewise, forgetting an oath itself -- these aspects of forgetting will affect whether an offering is required. Including some mockery from the colleagues in the land of Israel. Plus, the case of someone who unwittingly breaks his oath -- what if he had remembered? Would he have broken the oath anyway, or not?

Dr Kirk lectures about empathy.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/KIRK to get 10% off your first month.00:00 The types of empathy02:01 Compassionate empathy 04:51 Sympathy07:20 Emotional vicarious empathy11:24 Somatic empathy13:24 Phenomenological empathy21:18 Rapport empathy26:59 Cognitive empathy33:22 Background empathy43:36 Defining the groups of empathy46:22 Emotional availability empathy 47:43 Attunement empathy51:19 Delineating types of empathy59:09 Summary of types of empathyBecome a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOUZWV1DRtHtpP2H48S7iiw/joinBecome a patron: https://www.patreon.com/PsychologyInSeattleEmail: https://www.psychologyinseattle.com/contactWebsite: https://www.psychologyinseattle.comMerch: https://teespring.com/stores/psychology-in-seattleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychologyinseattle/Facebook Official Page: https://www.facebook.com/PsychologyInSeattle/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kirk.hondaJanuary 6, 2025The Psychology In Seattle Podcast ®Trigger Warning: This episode may include topics such as assault, trauma, and discrimination. If necessary, listeners are encouraged to refrain from listening and care for their safety and well-being.Disclaimer: The content provided is for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. Nothing here constitutes personal or professional consultation, therapy, diagnosis, or creates a counselor-client relationship. Topics discussed may generate differing points of view. If you participate (by being a guest, submitting a question, or commenting) you must do so with the knowledge that we cannot control reactions or responses from others, which may not agree with you or feel unfair. Your participation on this site is at your own risk, accepting full responsibility for any liability or harm that may result. Anything you write here may be used for discussion or endorsement of the podcast. Opinions and views expressed by the host and guest hosts are personal views. Although, we take precautions and fact check, they should not be considered facts and the opinions may change. Opinions posted by participants (such as comments) are not those of the hosts. Readers should not rely on any information found here and should perform due diligence before taking any action. For a more extensive description of factors for you to consider, please see www.psychologyinseattle.com

Help Stop The Genocide In American Ghettos Podcast is a platform for ordinary law abiding citizens from Emmanuel Barbee friends list and from his social groups who are emerging artists, allied healthcare professionals, church leaders, and upcoming entrepreneurs to promote their products and services to people from the podcast community. This no holds-barred talk show focus on promoting grassroots advocacy, business, finance, health, community-based solutions, employment and Christianity which speaks to the interests of our listeners. Broadcasting on multiple social networks throughout the United States and around the globe. This show will provide insight on how our creative abilities can be used to create tangible change in our communities. These are not just online groups for me to sell my book but rather groups for us to build our own network so we can support one another.

In the realm of human connection, few topics captivate us quite like love. It's a melting pot of desire, vulnerability, and the profound yearning to be truly seen and understood by another. Yet despite love's universal allure, the path to cultivating deeply fulfilling bonds is often obscured by unspoken expectations, unresolved patterns, and the echoes of past wounds.Mark Groves, a Human Connection Specialist and founder of Create the Love, joins Dr Scott to explore the complexities of connection – from the dizzying heights of passion to the depths of rupture and repair.Together, they dive into the paradigm of "liberated love" – a conscious and intentional approach to using our relationships as catalysts for personal growth and expanded freedom. They'll examine how childhood experiences shape adult relational dynamics, the influence of societal narratives, and the transformative power of taking responsibility for our own evolution.With candor and vulnerability, Mark shares his own triumphs and struggles in navigating intimacy, offering a window into the art of active constructive responding, the significance of clear relational agreements, and the profound impact of unconditional love – a love that holds space for pain, loss, and the inevitable rifts that accompany any deep bond.Topics We Break Down:The paradox and art of loving and the fierce dedication to truth that defines liberated love.Distinguishing performative and authentic behavior by understanding the science of your body.Different ways to create space for a third, truer reality between you and a partner or friend.Understanding how responsive and spontaneous desire influence our relationships. Recognizing that everyone in a relationship is playing out their wounds. The possibility of loving someone and realizing your paths are not aligned.Delineating between compromise and self-abandonment. The role of intention in creating codependence.

Casey Zander (IG: @CaseyZander) is a dating coach for men with over 500,000 subs on YouTube.  His videos went viral for their organic nature and his simple explanations using a whiteboard. He specializes in mid and late game interactions with women.  Casey is originally from Bismarck, North Dakota but now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.  ———————————————————— Ready to build a network of amazing women and high-status men? Michael's Men of Action is a one-on-one Master's program that teaches men how to create elite  social lives by becoming higher status. Click this link to learn how you can have a High-Status lifestyle now: https://m.moamentoring.com/podcast Click here to join the Men of Action community and watch the High-Status Networking 101 course: https://m.moamentoring.com/moa-community Interested in joining the Men of Action sales team? Apply here: https://www.moamentoring.com/jobs/sales Men of Action has an affiliate program! Post pre-made content and get paid passively: https://www.moamentoring.com/affiliate ———————————————————— 0:00 Intro 0:37 Starting the channel 2:29 Using the markerboard 4:16 People overestimate the necessary production 6:11 Best time to shoot content 7:24 Only missed 3-4 workouts in 10 years 8:52 *Where the house party game came from 12:51 *Restarting your status 14:38 *Social calibration 16:26 Books and people who had an impact 18:18 *The Adam and Eve analogy 22:57 *“Hypergamy is the original sin” 27:29 Leave her on read for three weeks 31:31 Don't be head over heels in love with her 34:36 *Different game skill sets 39:36 Don't try to emulate other men 42:26 *Having more casual sex when being broke 47:06 *Women must invest in you outside the bedroom 50:55 Being better in bed is no guarantee of attraction 53:00 The front-end, mid and back-end game framework 57:32 “Make your attention like a drug” 1:00:02 Being in the present and not overthinking 1:04:56 Content congruent to your personality 1:07:37 “I promise to only use this knowledge for good” 1:11:06 Stoicism 1:13:48 *Women are attracted to discrepancies in SMV 1:19:06 “She can't hurt you” 1:21:24 *“Women don't want men who want them” 1:28:27 Sexual vs emotional attachment 1:32:37 Delineating women by their age 1:35:14 *The male friend test 1:40:05 *Spending money because of pain 1:47:38 Creating your own niche 1:52:55 Volume and speed of execution 1:55:01 Learning through personal experiences 1:57:41 Women want you to have imperfections 1:59:00 The ability to tell stories 2:01:44 *Lessons in business automation 2:05:13 *Content creation automation 2:07:01 Business product 2:10:13 Social media

I share my interview with Kait Ann-Michelle, in which we dive deep into the topic of women's hormone imbalances. We discuss the common misconceptions and fallacies in the industry when it comes to hormones, differences between synthetic and bioidentical hormones, the importance of Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), the need for a more holistic approach to women's health, and much more.In this episode, I discuss: [00:00] Intro[01:35] Why Mav created SLAE hormone solutions[06:18] Limitations of supplements for hormone deficiencies[08:22] Pros and cons of BHRT vs. supplements[11:09] What to expect from supplements vs. actual hormones[12:47] Differences between synthetic and bioidentical hormones[17:17] Stigma around women using supplements[20:30] Potential downsides of BHRT[22:29] Concern about cancer[23:33] Treating symptoms over numbers[25:33] Desiccated thyroid vs. Synthroid/Levothyroxine[26:00] Hormone and fear of estrogen-related cancer[28:40] Importance of lab work in understanding and managing hormone levels[30:51] Challenges women face in getting the proper lab work done[34:05] Misconceptions around estrogen dominance[38:38] Problems with prescribing Synthroid[41:17] Treating hypothyroidism with T3 and T4 [43:10] Delineating between negative feedback from hormone deficiencies vs. excesses[44:42] Starting BHRT at low doses[47:45] Relationship between PCOS and testosterone[50:02] Visceral fat won't just disappear with thyroid hormones[52:08] Importance of lifestyle factors in weight loss[55:41] How Mav's views on hormones evolved since working on SLAE[1:02:27] Balancing lifestyle and hormone optimization[1:05:00] Need for honest self-assessment and accountability[1:06:47] Embracing the reality of your capabilities and making necessary changes[1:10:14] OutroResourcesKait Ann-Michelle on Instagram: @kaitannmichelleKait Ann-Michelle on YouTube: Kait Ann-Michelle - YouTubeElev8 Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0w8LZvbjDNxp6NNI2rweDB?si=26edc1d827174922 If you are ready to lose 25+ lbs. and make the “after” photo last forever, click to learn more about SLAE Online CoachingFollow Maverick on InstagramJoin Maverick Online Coaching on FacebookFollow SLAE Hormone Solutions on InstagramWebsite for SLAE Hormone SolutionWebsite for Maverick Online Coaching Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Missing VHS tape and a burial board. 0:00Slang phrases and their origins. 4:38Cultural preservation, imposition, and ethnocentrism. 11:56Conflicts within families due to differing beliefs and values. 20:35Family dynamics and cultural preservation among Native American siblings. 26:01Cultural loss and its impact on family dynamics and identity. 34:27Cultural practices, family dynamics, and language revitalization. 42:17Language and logic in indigenous communities. 49:22Differences in logic and reasoning between individuals. 53:49Cultural schemas and understanding Native American realities. 59:16Hosts: Aaron Brien (Apsáalooke), Shandin Pete (Salish/Diné)How to cite this episode (apa)Pete, S. H., & Brien, A. (Hosts). (2024, April 18). #54 - Fencepost Philosophy: Familial Boundaries Delineating Logic, Tradition and  [Audio podcast episode]. In Tribal Research Specialist:The Podcast. Tribal Research Specialist, LLC. https://www.buzzsprout.com/953152/14644168How to cite this podcast (apa)Pete, S. H., & Brien, A. (Hosts). (2020–present). Tribal Research Specialist:The Podcast [Audio podcast].  Tribal Research Specialist, LLC. https://tribalresearchspecialist.buzzsprout.comPodcast Website: tribalresearchspecialist.buzzsprout.comApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribal-research-specialist-the-podcast/id1512551396Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1H5Y1pWYI8N6SYZAaawwxbTwitter: @tribalresearchspecialistFacebook: www.facebook.com/TribalResearchSpecialistYouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCL9HR4B2ubGK_aaQKEt179QWebsite: www.tribalresearchspecialist.comSupport the show

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing. Highlighting Mahua literature's distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors' grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness. He foregrounds the historical links between Malaysia and other Chinese-speaking regions, tracing how Mahua writers engage in the “worlding” of modern Chinese literature by navigating interconnected literary spaces. Focusing on writers including Lin Cantian, Han Suyin, Wang Anyi, and Li Yongping, whose works craft signature literary languages, Chan examines narrative representations of multilingual social realities and authorial reflections on colonial Malaya or independent Malaysia as valid literary terrain. Delineating the inter-Asian “crossings” of Mahua literary production—physical journeys, interactions among social groups, and mindset shifts—from the 1930s to the 2000s, he contends that new perspectives from the periphery are essential to understanding the globalization of modern Chinese literature. By emphasizing the inner diversities and connected histories in the margins, Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature (Columbia UP, 2022) offers a powerful argument for remapping global Chinese literature and world literature. Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include modern Chinese literature, Singapore and Malaysian Chinese Literature, Southeast Asian Chinese Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Urban Studies. Li-Ping Chen is a teaching fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include literary translingualism, diaspora, and nativism in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing. Highlighting Mahua literature's distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors' grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness. He foregrounds the historical links between Malaysia and other Chinese-speaking regions, tracing how Mahua writers engage in the “worlding” of modern Chinese literature by navigating interconnected literary spaces. Focusing on writers including Lin Cantian, Han Suyin, Wang Anyi, and Li Yongping, whose works craft signature literary languages, Chan examines narrative representations of multilingual social realities and authorial reflections on colonial Malaya or independent Malaysia as valid literary terrain. Delineating the inter-Asian “crossings” of Mahua literary production—physical journeys, interactions among social groups, and mindset shifts—from the 1930s to the 2000s, he contends that new perspectives from the periphery are essential to understanding the globalization of modern Chinese literature. By emphasizing the inner diversities and connected histories in the margins, Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature (Columbia UP, 2022) offers a powerful argument for remapping global Chinese literature and world literature. Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include modern Chinese literature, Singapore and Malaysian Chinese Literature, Southeast Asian Chinese Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Urban Studies. Li-Ping Chen is a teaching fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include literary translingualism, diaspora, and nativism in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

An on-the-go Hondo Carpenter is back with a private conversation that only true Insiders can get and only available on the Fans First Sports Network. On this episode, Hondo talks about setting the Raider record straight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing. Highlighting Mahua literature's distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors' grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness. He foregrounds the historical links between Malaysia and other Chinese-speaking regions, tracing how Mahua writers engage in the “worlding” of modern Chinese literature by navigating interconnected literary spaces. Focusing on writers including Lin Cantian, Han Suyin, Wang Anyi, and Li Yongping, whose works craft signature literary languages, Chan examines narrative representations of multilingual social realities and authorial reflections on colonial Malaya or independent Malaysia as valid literary terrain. Delineating the inter-Asian “crossings” of Mahua literary production—physical journeys, interactions among social groups, and mindset shifts—from the 1930s to the 2000s, he contends that new perspectives from the periphery are essential to understanding the globalization of modern Chinese literature. By emphasizing the inner diversities and connected histories in the margins, Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature (Columbia UP, 2022) offers a powerful argument for remapping global Chinese literature and world literature. Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include modern Chinese literature, Singapore and Malaysian Chinese Literature, Southeast Asian Chinese Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Urban Studies. Li-Ping Chen is a teaching fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include literary translingualism, diaspora, and nativism in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing. Highlighting Mahua literature's distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors' grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness. He foregrounds the historical links between Malaysia and other Chinese-speaking regions, tracing how Mahua writers engage in the “worlding” of modern Chinese literature by navigating interconnected literary spaces. Focusing on writers including Lin Cantian, Han Suyin, Wang Anyi, and Li Yongping, whose works craft signature literary languages, Chan examines narrative representations of multilingual social realities and authorial reflections on colonial Malaya or independent Malaysia as valid literary terrain. Delineating the inter-Asian “crossings” of Mahua literary production—physical journeys, interactions among social groups, and mindset shifts—from the 1930s to the 2000s, he contends that new perspectives from the periphery are essential to understanding the globalization of modern Chinese literature. By emphasizing the inner diversities and connected histories in the margins, Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature (Columbia UP, 2022) offers a powerful argument for remapping global Chinese literature and world literature. Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include modern Chinese literature, Singapore and Malaysian Chinese Literature, Southeast Asian Chinese Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Urban Studies. Li-Ping Chen is a teaching fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include literary translingualism, diaspora, and nativism in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing. Highlighting Mahua literature's distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors' grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness. He foregrounds the historical links between Malaysia and other Chinese-speaking regions, tracing how Mahua writers engage in the “worlding” of modern Chinese literature by navigating interconnected literary spaces. Focusing on writers including Lin Cantian, Han Suyin, Wang Anyi, and Li Yongping, whose works craft signature literary languages, Chan examines narrative representations of multilingual social realities and authorial reflections on colonial Malaya or independent Malaysia as valid literary terrain. Delineating the inter-Asian “crossings” of Mahua literary production—physical journeys, interactions among social groups, and mindset shifts—from the 1930s to the 2000s, he contends that new perspectives from the periphery are essential to understanding the globalization of modern Chinese literature. By emphasizing the inner diversities and connected histories in the margins, Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature (Columbia UP, 2022) offers a powerful argument for remapping global Chinese literature and world literature. Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include modern Chinese literature, Singapore and Malaysian Chinese Literature, Southeast Asian Chinese Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Urban Studies. Li-Ping Chen is a teaching fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include literary translingualism, diaspora, and nativism in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing. Highlighting Mahua literature's distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors' grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness. He foregrounds the historical links between Malaysia and other Chinese-speaking regions, tracing how Mahua writers engage in the “worlding” of modern Chinese literature by navigating interconnected literary spaces. Focusing on writers including Lin Cantian, Han Suyin, Wang Anyi, and Li Yongping, whose works craft signature literary languages, Chan examines narrative representations of multilingual social realities and authorial reflections on colonial Malaya or independent Malaysia as valid literary terrain. Delineating the inter-Asian “crossings” of Mahua literary production—physical journeys, interactions among social groups, and mindset shifts—from the 1930s to the 2000s, he contends that new perspectives from the periphery are essential to understanding the globalization of modern Chinese literature. By emphasizing the inner diversities and connected histories in the margins, Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature (Columbia UP, 2022) offers a powerful argument for remapping global Chinese literature and world literature. Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include modern Chinese literature, Singapore and Malaysian Chinese Literature, Southeast Asian Chinese Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Urban Studies. Li-Ping Chen is a teaching fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include literary translingualism, diaspora, and nativism in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts.

Today's Episode:Learn Chinese | Delineating '既 (jì)...又 (yòu)': Expressing Compound Actions | HSK 4-5The Learn Chinese Podcast is brought to you by LC Chinese School. Listening to our podcast is an enjoyable way to learn Chinese at your own pace, whenever and wherever you are! Contact our head teacher Chen Huimin at info@lcchineseschool.com if you want to learn Chinese or have additional questions about our Chinese programs.Visit our website www.lcchineseschool.com and sign up for a FREE Chinese Trial Class

Rece Davis and Pete Thamel discuss what we didn't see when Bill Belichick swung by the College GameDay set at the Army - Navy game, who their Heisman Trophy votes went to, and quarterbacks landing in the transfer portal. Then they look at the most motivated teams going into the end-of-the-year bowl games before giving a preview of some upcoming podcast postseason episodes.   00:00 Delineating the Army - Navy rivalry spirit from all other games 6:27 Lee Corso archival video behind-the-scenes moment 8:35 Bill Belichick's on-set surprise 13:08 Rece and Pete disclose their Heisman Trophy votes 18:50 Quarterbacks in the transfer portal 27:06 Should coaches emphasize pursuing a QB or developing one? 28:32 Coaches' biggest challenge is player retention 31:20 Producers Taylor and Sara share their experience at the Army - Navy game 38:21 Race for the Ribeye payoff could take place at the Rose Bowl 42:26 Bowl games: Who is motivated vs. unmotivated? 49:38 Podcast postseason episodes coming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rece Davis and Pete Thamel discuss what we didn't see when Bill Belichick swung by the College GameDay set at the Army - Navy game, who their Heisman Trophy votes went to, and quarterbacks landing in the transfer portal. Then they look at the most motivated teams going into the end-of-the-year bowl games before giving a preview of some upcoming podcast postseason episodes.   00:00 Delineating the Army - Navy rivalry spirit from all other games 6:27 Lee Corso archival video behind-the-scenes moment 8:35 Bill Belichick's on-set surprise 13:08 Rece and Pete disclose their Heisman Trophy votes 18:50 Quarterbacks in the transfer portal 27:06 Should coaches emphasize pursuing a QB or developing one? 28:32 Coaches' biggest challenge is player retention 31:20 Producers Taylor and Sara share their experience at the Army - Navy game 38:21 Race for the Ribeye payoff could take place at the Rose Bowl 42:26 Bowl games: Who is motivated vs. unmotivated? 49:38 Podcast postseason episodes coming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Healthcare Market Matrix, host John Farkas sits down with Mitch Holdwick, Director of Consumer Transformation at Innovaccer, the number one platform for value-based care that unifies patient data across systems and care settings, and empowers healthcare organizations with scalable, modern applications that improve clinical, financial, operational, and experimental outcomes. With over fourteen years of experience with a healthcare marketing focus, Mitch has an honest approach to consumer engagement strategies and has successfully led teams working to drive volume with business and service line priorities. Throughout the episode, John and Mitch discuss how Innovaccer is unifying patient records and patient data and how Innovaccer is marketing in the health systems.   Show Notes (1:12) Introducing Mitch Holdwick and Innovaccer (8:30) The Unification of Patient Records and Patient Data (16:21) Rediscovering the Joy of Medicine (18:18) How Innovaccer is Marketing in the Health Systems (23:02) Delineating between Target Markets (31:33) Measuring Success with Proactive Engagement Strategies (37:21) Customer Relationships and Engagement Initiatives (50:15) Innovaccer's Newer Products and Offerings (54:06) Closing Thoughts  

Episode page with video, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #236 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Sofie Roux, the visionary Gen Z Founder & CEO of BloomBox Design Labs, which is transforming education through innovation.  Sofie's journey began long before her studies at Stanford University, where she studies civil engineering and architecture. It all started with "Sparkly and Smart," an art enterprise that remarkably raised $300,000 to support girls' education. Today, through her revolutionary BloomBoxes ingeniously crafted from repurposed shipping containers, she's reshaping education in Malawi by crafting vibrant STEAM learning environments.  Unravel the revolution of the BloomBox, an educational space breaking barriers by merging innovative technology with architecture, designed to host an array of teaching resources for optimum learning. From its humble beginnings, built and shipped from North America, to transitioning operations to South Africa for economic and environmental sustainability, Bloombox has become a beacon of hope. This initiative has not only curtailed costs but has boosted local economies, creating new job opportunities, and reinforced its mission to bring quality education worldwide. What's Sofie's favorite mistake related to this project? How did she react? And what did she learn in the process?  Questions and Topics: Tell us about the functionality of the BloomBox? Starting with the why What was your spark for this passion for helping girls in Africa? Tell us more about the tech of the BloomBox and how it's used? Was the retractable solar panels part of v 1.0? Design spec or lesson learned? With the Bloombox – there are apparent iterations and learning — is that continuous improvement or learning from mistakes, or both? Tell us how you raised the money? “Sparkly and Smart” — website and Etsy The website shows the overall design and installation process. Talk to me about how the end-to-end process design matters, not just the hardware design… Tell us about Design Thinking and how that influences your work and the BloomBox? At Stanford what are the opportunities to learn about Design Thinking and entrepreneurship, formal or informal? Social benefit corporation vs. not-for-profit? Bloombox Design Labs: Revolutionizing Education Through Innovative Solutions Sofie Roux, a Gen Z visionary and CEO of BloomBox Design Labs, seeks to transform the educational landscape with innovation at the helm. Her journey, which commenced even before her tenure at Stanford University studying civil engineering and architecture, is evidently embellished with radical innovations and projects. One such project entails the creation of Bloomboxes from repurposed shipping containers. These blocks have become instrumental in reshaping education in Malawi. Positioned within the learning environment, Bloomboxes are transforming the way students learn and interact with educational materials. After months of sweat, effort, collaboration, $80,000 on technology and meticulous planning, Sofie and her team encountered a debilitating setback when shipping their first BloomBox. But every dark cloud has a silver lining. This setback unlocked a pivotal lesson for Sofie – accounting for important aspects that one might overlook during the planning process, and rallying the community for support during the implementation phase. Building an Innovative Learning Environment with the BloomBox At its core, the BloomBox strives to provide access to quality education for every child, especially girls, worldwide. Crafted from upcycled shipping containers and fitted with a retractable solar roof system, the Bloombox is more than just a classroom – it represents a merging of innovation and education. Designed to host about twenty laptop computers connected to an off-grid server, the BloomBox is equipped with premier technology, lights, fans, projectors, mobile furniture, and a teacher's desk. It also boasts an extensive library of educational resources, transforming it into a full-fledged maker space. Strategic Innovations and Iterations: Fostering Local Economies Since its inception, the BloomBox project has seen considerable growth and progression. Initially, the boxes were built and shipped from North America. However, the need to cut costs shifted this operation to the South African development community, including Malawi. This strategic move not only curtailed expenditures, but also boosted local economies, employing locals whilst galvanizing the project. The transition further aided in building a team in Africa that assists in the ongoing BloomBox installations. Sofie relies heavily on her team's expertise and knowledge – from essential observations to rigorous technicalities – to keep improving the BloomBox design and making it more effective, useful, and sustainable. Sofie's vision proves that architecture is more than designing spaces; it's about creating environments that positively impact people's lives while fostering technology, innovation, and community empowerment. Her journey continues as she plans to scale the project, potentially connecting to Starlink for satellite internet access and reaching more schools, thus proving that the BloomBox design will never be truly done but constantly evolve with each implementation. Embracing Social Enterprise: A Creative Approach to Address Global Educational Problems Sofie Roux, through her BloomBox project, highlights that businesses can champion an aim beyond monetary gain. Her venture is not merely about designing a product to secure returns; instead, it's built around a social cause – to provide quality education access using creative methodologies. She acknowledges her education at Stanford University, a transformative time spent partaking in the Technology Ventures program and working in maker spaces. These experiences undoubtedly embellished her innovative approach to identifying and solving societal issues. Delineating the BloomBox: A Sustainable Social Benefit Corporation As the founder and CEO of a blooming social benefit corporation, Sofie has had to invade some uncharted territories. Often, sustainable development projects need to conjure creative funding methods to continue on their journey, given that government funding might not always be possible. Sofie's BloomBox, for example, is left with the goal of reaching 67 more schools, and this objective requires secure financing. One creative method Sofie proposes is the commercial sale of BloomBox revolutionary roof design, separating it from its educational purpose and marketing it to any sector requiring off-grid power supply. The plan also involves running BloomBox as an enterprise, balancing between an arm that installs BloomBoxes for free at educational institutions and another that seeks commercial gain to sustain the project. Creating Microeconomies Using the BloomBox Design Sofie's vision doesn't stop at providing access to quality education. She has a novel idea of creating a microeconomy around each BloomBox. Connecting with Starlink to access satellite internet is a significant part of this plan. The idea is simple: while providing free internet access to the students attending the school where the BloomBox is installed, the neighboring community members can get online access for a small monthly fee. As the surrounding community continues to pay these modest fees over time, they would eventually cover the cost of the BloomBox, creating a sustainable, mutually beneficial system. The prospect of limitless possibilities that can arise from someone having a connection to the internet is exciting, and Sofie wants to facilitate those possibilities through the BloomBox initiative. Nurturing Courage and Trust in a Social Enterprise Social enterprises, such as BloomBox, often have to navigate a landscape filled with uncertainties. It takes courage to call out potential issues that might arise, requiring team members to speak up despite fears of offending or erring. It involves trusting others once you've done all within your capacity. Sofie shares her experience of trusting others when lifting a BloomBox with a rusty chain did not go as planned. Despite the mishap, she chooses to focus on the positive takeaways and lessons learned from the incident, offering valuable insights for entrepreneurs at every stage of their entrepreneurial journey. Encouraging Support for Entrepreneurs and Continued Growth As Sofie's story unfolds, it becomes clear that supporting other entrepreneurs is vital in inspiring novel solutions and innovations. Entities like the Stanford Technology Ventures program, and other community supporters, by providing access to resources and encouraging innovative action, actively contribute to the success of ventures like BloomBox. Sofie's journey, along with her fellow entrepreneurs, is still in progress, with new lessons learned, challenges negotiated, and opportunities created every day. The continuous growth and evolution of BloomBox and similar ventures promise an inspirational future for aspiring entrepreneurs. Discover more about her journey and BloomBox Design Labs here.

Rece Davis and Pete Thamel discuss the unchanged College Football Playoff rankings, how closely the top five teams are grouped, the latest on the Michigan investigation, the legal system getting involved, and the most effective punishment if the Big Ten finds the Wolverines guilty. Then, Bill Connelly stops by to talk about what an upset would look like from Penn State, USC and TCU. Plus, the NCAA has a ripe chance to let the good PR flow. 0:00 New CFP rankings 5:44 The CFP Committee's consistency and football judgement 8:06 The latest Michigan twist! 9:52 Delineating between information sharing and on-site scouting 15:36 How Michigan should be punished 19:52 Big Ten teams' history of suing the conference 24:04 Bill Connelly, Michigan at Penn State 28:11 Ole Miss at Georgia 31:15 USC at Oregon 35:21 Oregon vulnerable secondary 37:26 Would Caleb Williams skip a bowl game? 41:25 Texas at TCU 44:20 Texas avoiding rakes 50:27 NCAA do the right thing with JMU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rece Davis and Pete Thamel discuss the unchanged College Football Playoff rankings, how closely the top five teams are grouped, the latest on the Michigan investigation, the legal system getting involved, and the most effective punishment if the Big Ten finds the Wolverines guilty. Then, Bill Connelly stops by to talk about what an upset would look like from Penn State, USC and TCU. Plus, the NCAA has a ripe chance to let the good PR flow. 0:00 New CFP rankings 5:44 The CFP Committee's consistency and football judgement 8:06 The latest Michigan twist! 9:52 Delineating between information sharing and on-site scouting 15:36 How Michigan should be punished 19:52 Big Ten teams' history of suing the conference 24:04 Bill Connelly, Michigan at Penn State 28:11 Ole Miss at Georgia 31:15 USC at Oregon 35:21 Oregon vulnerable secondary 37:26 Would Caleb Williams skip a bowl game? 41:25 Texas at TCU 44:20 Texas avoiding rakes 50:27 NCAA do the right thing with JMU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're ready to invest, and you've got a lump sum waiting to be put to use. What do you do next? How do you buy individual stocks — and should you? In this episode, SoFi's Head of Investment Strategy Liz Young is joined by Shannon Saccocia. Shannon Saccocia, CFA, is the Chief Investment Officer of NB Private Wealth (“NBPW”), a division of Neuberger Berman. Liz and Shannon talk about how to navigate the market, and ways to anchor yourself in your investment choices. For more, read Liz's column every Thursday at On The Money by SoFi, sign up for the SoFi Daily Newsletter, and follow Liz on Twitter @LizYoungStrat. Notable mentions in episode: (00:00) - Intro (05:00) - How would you invest $50,000? (09:03) - Balancing between diversification and concentration (14:56) - ETF vs. Mutual Fund vs. Individual Stocks (22:23) - One simple rule: If you don't get it, don't buy it (24:29) - Anchor a buy in your logic behind it (25:58) - How do you think about interaction in a portfolio? (29:05) - Delineating objectives in a portfolio (33:57) - When is momentum investing useful? (36:28) - The Hot Minute (39:59) - Liz' Takeaways Additional resources: SoFi Daily Podcast: 5-minute daily episodes covering the latest business, economic, and stock market news you need to start your day. The SoFi Daily Pod is available on Apple and Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. SoFi Daily Newsletter: Sign up for the SoFi Daily to receive the latest financial news in your inbox every day.  Investing 101 Center: At SoFi, we believe investing is for everyone — which is why we've created a hub with info for beginners and experts alike. Start exploring to get investment education, advice, resources, and more. Wealth Investing Guide: Information you need to know to make your money work harder for you. Recommended reading: What is Asset Allocation? Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio for Beginners How Many Stocks Should I Own? What is Portfolio Management?

On this week's episode of Inside the Headset presented by CoachComm, Braxton Harris, the Head Coach at Houston Christian University, shares his lifelong dream of being a football coach, how he takes lessons from past experiences and applies it to current challenges, and his takeaways from his AFCA 35 Under 35 Experience. Coach Harris is in his first season leading the Huskies and was a member of the 2018 AFCA 35 Under 35 class.   Follow Coach Harris and Houston Christian Football on social media here:  @Coach_BHarris & @HCUFootball  Show Notes:  1:05 Introduction  1:34 Coaching and Recruiting in Houston  5:55 When did you know you wanted to be a football coach?   9:32 How did you go about joining the staff at UMHB?  12:03 Delineating between being a player and a coach  15:27 Opportunity at Waco HS and Experience with Texas Friday Night Lights  19:47 Transition back to college football at Texas Lutheran  21:32 Learning how to coach unfamiliar positions   25:07 Which stops during your career have been special to you?  27:54 Experience in your first head coaching gig  31:22 Taking lessons from previous experiences and applying it to current situations  33:23 Transition from being a HC to a position coach at Campbell   40:34 Learning how to recruit when scholarships are involved  42:24 Transition to Houston Christian  45:44 What tasks did you start doing right after getting the HC job at HCU?  50:13 Experience in AFCA 35 Under 35   52:34 Conclusion 

On this week's episode of Inside the Headset – Presented by CoachComm, Scotty Walden, the head coach at Austin Peay, talks through his journey as a football coach. Coach Walden shares how he got his first opportunities in coaching, the learning curves he experienced throughout his career, and how he has grown into the coach he is now. Coach Walden, a member of the 2019 AFCA 35 Under 35 Class, led the Governors to a huge week 3 victory.   Follow Coach Walden and Austin Peay Football on social media here:  @APSUcoachSW & @GovsFB  Show Notes:  0:52 Introduction  1:36 Experience as a transfer and with the transfer portal  8:14 What was the moment that led you to wanting to be a football coach?  10:35 Experience playing middle school football in Texas  12:26 Starting out as a student assistant coach   15:07 Transition to Offensive Coordinator in year two as a coach  17:05 Delineating the line between being a former player and coach  21:05 Learning curve of being a first-year coordinator  24:47 Transition to ETBU and continuing to develop as a coach  31:35 Where did you go to learn and grow your offensive system?  34:33 Leading coaches who have more experience  38:12 Transition to Head Coach at ETBU  41:25 Biggest challenges in first year as a head coach   43:11 Decision process behind the move to Southern Miss  45:35 Serving as an interim head coach during 2020 season  49:08 Opportunity to become head coach at Austin Peay  52:27 Biggest difference in year 1 and year 2 at Austin Peay/Biggest place of growth in career  57:27 Growth in the hiring process  1:00:22 Conclusion  For more information on CoachComm visit https://www.coachcomm.com/

In this episode of Dreams With Deadlines, host Jenny Herald dives into the dynamic world of marketing with Renata Lerch. Renata shares her career journey, highlighting the evolution of marketing's role beyond departmental boundaries and the integration of operational strategies in creating a seamless brand experience. From her extensive global experience to her deep dive into different methodologies, Renata explores how these frameworks have shaped her approach to marketing.Key Things Discussed: The integration of operational strategies in marketing, aligning it with broader organizational goals. The power of blending frameworks to foster adaptation and team buy-in. Practical insights into applying methodologies in marketing for improved collaboration, prioritization, and iterative success. Show Notes [00:00:38] The Evolution of Marketing and Agile Methods. Renata discusses her career journey, integrating operations into marketing for a cohesive brand experience. She mentions Lean, Six Sigma, Scrum, and Agile methodologies' impact, emphasizing the need for framework-agnostic approaches with systems and design thinking. [00:04:21] Applying Scrum in a Marketing Environment: Team Composition and Roles. The discussion highlights roles in Scrum translated to marketing teams. The product owner's role as a liaison is crucial, and the scrum master role's absence in small marketing teams is discussed. [00:09:03] Applying Empiricism and Lean Thinking in Marketing: Mindset and Frameworks. Renata stresses mindset shifts, invoking consumer perspectives, fostering collaboration, and using frameworks for decision-making and campaign building. Transparency, data democratization, and benefit mapping are highlighted. [00:14:14] Scrum Ceremonies in Marketing: Sprint Planning and Retrospectives. The importance of sprint planning, flexible sprint duration, and the significance of retrospectives in recognizing wins and enhancing team dynamics is discussed. [00:18:50] Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives: Combining or Delineating? Renata talks about the choice between separate or combined sprint reviews and retrospectives, based on agile marketing leaders' preferences and organization size. [00:20:02] Aligning Backlog, Product Goals, and Sprint Goals in Marketing. Prioritization, deadlines, and the interconnectedness of marketing with other departments shape the marketing backlog. The synchronization of marketing goals with company deliverables is highlighted. [00:28:16] Balancing Iteration and Quality: Definition of Done in Marketing. Renata talks about the challenge of balancing iteration and quality in marketing's definition of done, emphasizing compliance with brand standards, quality, and voice and tone. [00:30:17] Blending Frameworks and Fostering Adaptation in Agile Marketing. Renata discusses blending Scrum and Kanban, adapting to the team's comfort level, and gaining buy-in through iterative, open-minded, and data-driven approaches. [00:33:49] Embracing Scrumban for Visualizing Work and Managing Overload. Renata shares her Scrumban implementation experience, emphasizing the value of visualizing work and understanding team culture. [00:36:09] Overcoming Misconceptions and Embracing Flexibility in Scrumban. The challenge of people confusing Scrum's prescription with Scrumban's flexibility is discussed, focusing on understanding best practices that work for the team. [00:44:43] Quick-Fire Questions for Renata: Dream with a deadline: Renata's dream is to have a team that is highly focused and synchronized, both within the marketing team and across the organization, understanding priorities and interdependencies, and being aware of the company's direction. Advice for embarking on an agile transformation journey in marketing: Start small and iterate. Begin with one team or implement tools like Jira or Trello to initiate the agile process, and then gradually expand and refine the approach. Biggest fail in working with agile methods: Renata shared an experience where the CEO of an organization disrupted agile processes, causing confusion and undermining progress. The key learning was that while bottom-up initiatives can work, without top-level support, it becomes challenging to sustain agile practices effectively. Books that shaped Renata's thinking: Renata highlighted the significance of the book "Systems Thinking" as a paradigm-shifting resource. She also mentioned that books on meditation offer valuable perspectives on agile methodologies. Specifically, she found Donella Meadows' book to be incredible. Relevant links: Jeff Sutherland, Inventor and Co-Creator of Scrum Donella Meadows, lead author of the books The Limits to Growth and Thinking In Systems: A Primer Thinking in Systems, by Donella Meadows About the Guest:Renata Lerch is a visionary leader and Agile marketing expert with a passion for exploring the possibilities of Design Thinking and Artificial Intelligence Applications in Marketing. Renata is a published author, renowned speaker, and trilingual executive, skilled in motivating teams and transforming marketing strategies.Follow Our Guest:Website | LinkedIn Follow Dreams With Deadlines:Host | Company Website | Blog | Instagram | Twitter

Sarah's new book: LIVE, LAUGH, TRUE LOVE: A Step-By-Step Guide to Dating and Finding a Meaningful Relationship from a Divorce Attorney, is written from the perspective of a divorce attorney, essentially working backwards. Delineating all of the things she routinely watches go wrong in relationships. Sarah shows the reader the pitfalls to avoid and termed the 6 main reasons relationships fall apart the Fail Factors or F-Words. They are: 1) Fundamental Values, 2) Fear, 3) Foundation, 4) Fairy Tale, 5) Family and 6) Fixing. Raised by a mother who has practiced Family Law for almost thirty years, and still practices, Sarah feels as though she has been exposed to the issues Family Law practitioners encounter on a daily basis, her entire life. Sarah has also been a yoga instructor since 2000, and a spin instructor since 2004. She continues to teach. Sarah incorporates her experience as an instructor into her lawyering style. Teaching has enabled Sarah to maintain calm even under the most rigorous of pressures. It has provided her with the invaluable opportunity to command the respect and attention of any group of individuals she addresses, and it is her nurturing nature that gravitated her, both, to teaching and to the practice of, specifically, Family Law. FREEBIE: Is This Still My Forever Person? https://divorceredefined.cindystibbard.com/opt-in-6a63c29e-c38f-4b9b-a944-20c9f5a02a0d

Sarah's new book: LIVE, LAUGH, TRUE LOVE: A Step-By-Step Guide to Dating and Finding a Meaningful Relationship from a Divorce Attorney, is written from the perspective of a divorce attorney, essentially working backwards. Delineating all of the things she routinely watches go wrong in relationships. Sarah shows the reader the pitfalls to avoid and termed the 6 main reasons relationships fall apart the Fail Factors or F-Words. They are: 1) Fundamental Values, 2) Fear, 3) Foundation, 4) Fairy Tale, 5) Family and 6) Fixing. Raised by a mother who has practiced Family Law for almost thirty years, and still practices, Sarah feels as though she has been exposed to the issues Family Law practitioners encounter on a daily basis, her entire life. Sarah has also been a yoga instructor since 2000, and a spin instructor since 2004. She continues to teach. Sarah incorporates her experience as an instructor into her lawyering style. Teaching has enabled Sarah to maintain calm even under the most rigorous of pressures. It has provided her with the invaluable opportunity to command the respect and attention of any group of individuals she addresses, and it is her nurturing nature that gravitated her, both, to teaching and to the practice of, specifically, Family Law.

Where the first declension includes mostly feminine nouns with -a- at the end of their base, second declension includes mostly masculine and neuter nouns with -o- at the end of their base. The second declension has different forms from the first declension but the uses of the cases are the same.  However, there's another important distinction between first and second declension: the -o- at the end of the base in second declension is weak and it doesn't show up as -o- as often as the -a- shows up in first declension.  The second-declension -o- can appear as -u-, as in the nominative singular (-us) or the accusative singular (-um) or it can appear as -i- as in the genitive singular and nominative plural (-i) and the dative and ablative plural (-is).  Here are the endings for second declension masculine, beginning with the singular.  The nominative singular: -us or in some cases -er. We'll discuss that in a second.  The genitive singular: -i  Dative: -o  Accusative: -um  Ablative: -o and an irregular vocative: -ě  In the plural the endings are:  -i  -orum  -is -os -is.  The vocative is regular here in the plural. It's identical to the nominative -i.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liam-connerly/support

If you want to know what kind of team culture really exists at a company, look very carefully at how product roadmaps are developed and executed. That, says Jenny Herald's guest on this episode of Dreams With Deadlines, is where you can see the “messy, bloody war” that may or may not be going on behind the scenes. Agile consultant Maarten Dalmijn, author of a forthcoming book about using sprint goals to deliver better products more efficiently, shares fascinating insights on project management and how to optimize it.Key things discussed Why agile software development isn't about delivering more stuff more quickly. How three common gaps in understanding, effort and results hobble projects. What the Cynefin Framework is and how to leverage its domains in managing complexity – along with chaos. Why less up-front planning and more adjustment along the way enables nimble project management and a quicker path to desired outcomes. Ways to identify and mediate opposing goals that can mire projects in constraint and micromanagement. The interplay between product goals, Scrums and OKRs. Show Notes [00:03:27] Diving into the “why” behind Maarten's decision to write his soon-to-be-published book – or any book – at this point in time. [00:04:30] What Scrum can look like (flexible and supportive of change) versus what people think it should be. [00:06:48] Why being agile is about more than just shipping more stuff faster. About Maarten's effort to define what makes a successful Scrum, the outputs that drive desired business and customer outcomes and obstacles commonly encountered. [00:08:57] "Succeeding with Sprint Goals: Empowering Teams with Better Ways of Delivering Value," which is forthcoming in May, is comprised of four parts. [00:09:32] Maarten shares in the book a personal story about a childhood exercise on a Dutch island that parallels the journey of discovery that is software development. [00:13:26] A closer look at the three gaps, a model originated by leadership strategist Stephen Bungay, including: The Knowledge Gap: What we know is less than we'd like to know. The Alignment Gap: What we're likely to do versus what we actually do. The Effects Gap: The difference between desired results and actual outcomes. [00:15:51] How to avoid getting lost in “the fog of beforehand,” which can result in overcompensation and analysis paralysis that constrains or slow decision-making. [00:18:28] Humble Planning: It's not about planning less. It's about reducing upfront planning in order to leave room for critical adjustments later in the project life cycle. [00:20:17] About Dave Snowden's Cynefin Framework, designed to help manage complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis – a sort of field guide for decision-makers. [00:21:19] Delineating the domains encompassed by the Cynefin model and how they apply in a software development context: Confusion Clear Complicated Complex Chaotic [00:23:40] Understanding self-imposed friction and how rigid plans can lead to massive breakdowns in desired business outcomes. [00:27:16] How opposing goals fracture teams and slow – if not defeat – mutually desirable results while team alignment (internally and with partners) supports success. [00:30:21] Navigating “Roadmap Hell” and how a traditional project management mindset yield binary, inflexible processes that create conflict and self-defeat. [00:32:45] Want to see how agile a company culture really is? Look at their mindset around road mapping – that's where business and IT really come together and reveal the turf wars and rigidity! [00:34:06] Teasing out Part II – the “beating heart” – of Maarten's book: Sprint Goals: They depend on a clear understanding of intent, what the team is trying to achieve and why it matters. It's key to integrate foundational sprint goals into every Scrum. OKRs have a role to play in helping to prevent or break the feature factory loop. [00:36:32] Understanding the interplay between product goals, Scrums and OKRs; how they fit together in multi-faceted ways with multiple protocols. [00:38:42] About applying North Star Metrics – when and how they work and the constellation of factors that can influence measures and strategic adjustments. [00:41:42] What happens when companies don't use sprint goals? It disempowers teams. It restricts information, understanding and decision-making ability. It reduces flexibility. It leads to technical debt and prioritizing speed over quality. [00:44:42] Quick-Fire Questions for Maarten: What is Your Dream with a Deadline? Finishing up his book secure in the knowledge that he has delivered what he intended – and then some! How do you define a good sprint goal? It includes everything in the acronym FOCUS: Fun, Outcome-oriented, Collaborative, Ultimate and Singular. What's the takeaway he most wants for those who read his book? More joy, a sense of empowerment, flexibility, freedom, less effort that yields more results! Relevant links: "Succeeding with Sprint Goals: Empowering Teams with Better Ways of Delivering Value," by Maarten Dalmijn and Friso Dalmijn. More about leadership Strategist Stephen Bungay's The Three Gaps. More about Dave Snowden and the Cynefin Framework. About Our Guest:Maarten Dalmijn worked with award-winning start-ups, scale-ups and corporations in various roles before taking the leap as an independent Product Management, Agile and Scrum consultant. By blending the world of Product Management and Agile, Maarten helps teams beat the Feature Factory and uncover better ways of delivering value together.Follow Our Guest:Website | LinkedInFollow Dreams With Deadlines:Host | Company Website | Blog | Instagram | Twitter

John Gent, DM of our D&D one-shot from the RPGaming Faversham event, joins us to discuss everything and anything about his favourite Dungeons & Dragons setting. 03:04 - History of Ravenloft 21:42 - Responsive Bleakness 33:53 - Delineating "Depression" 42:43 - Integrating Ravenloft into your Campaign Find Thinking Critically online: Website: https://www.thinkingcritically.co.uk Socials: @ThinkCritDnD Dungeons, Dice, & Dudes: https://linktr.ee/DDandD Patrons: Tabletop Journeys @ttjourneys: https://ttjourneys.com/ Joe from The Fourth Leg @jcd0818: https://anchor.fm/james-h-anderson Optional Rule @optionalrule: https://www.optionalrule.com/ Matt Street @mpstreet88: https://www.virtualtimehustle.com/ Intro Music: 'Local Forecast' by Kevin MacLeodIntermission Music: 'Chill' by Kevin MacLeodOutro Music: 'Local Forecast - Elevator' by Kevin MacLeod Podcast art by Lily from https://www.beiworkshop.com/

Back by popular demand!The Relationship Room is a safe place to discuss ideas that help us navigate interpersonal relationships. Ali Hendry, DIVA magazine's own Holistic Relationship Coach (PCC) and columnist, digs in with curiosity, compassion and a sweet garnish of humour. This week Ali talks to sex therapist and author, Lucie Fielding. Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC (she/they) is a queer, trans misogyny-affected (TMA) femme and a sex therapist practicing in Virginia and Washington State, a sex educator.Lucie is also the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (2021). Together they discuss:· Delineating labels and identity· Diving into the awkwardness of sex· Ways of moving into desire and pleasureGet in touch with Lucie (she/they):IG: @sexbeyondbinarieswebsite: https://luciefielding.com Want to see more pictures of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's May issue here.Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVApodDIVA: Queers for your EarsThe world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary peopleGet in touch: poddiva@diva-magazine.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new editorial perspective was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on March 21, 2023, entitled, “Cancer-associated fibroblasts: challenges and opportunities.” Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are a type of cell that plays a key role in the tumor microenvironment. While these cells have been extensively studied, their precise role in cancer development and progression is still not fully understood. In this new editorial perspective, researchers Hossein Tavana and Gary D. Luker from The University of Akron and the University of Michigan provide a comprehensive overview of CAFs, including the origins, characteristics, heterogeneity, and functions of CAFs, as well as CAFs in the detection and treatment of cancer. The authors suggest that a deeper understanding of cancer-associated fibroblasts is crucial for the development of effective cancer therapies. They note that these cells are involved in a variety of important processes, including tumor growth, angiogenesis and immune evasion. However, targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts has proven to be a challenging task, in part because of their complex and multifaceted nature. Despite these challenges, the researchers are optimistic about the future of research into CAFs. They note a number of studies targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts in emerging therapies. The authors conclude by emphasizing that a deeper understanding of cancer-associated fibroblasts and the tumor microenvironment could ultimately lead to the development of personalized therapies that are tailored to the unique characteristics of each patient's cancer. “Delineating cross-talk of CAFs with cancer cells and other stromal cells, uncovering the role of CAFs in resistance to chemotherapies and immunotherapies, addressing challenges associated with CAFs heterogeneity to develop CAFs subtype-targeted therapies in the context of specific tumor types, and addressing the potential toxicity of such therapies especially when combined with other treatments will expedite the ongoing efforts for the translation of therapies against CAFs.” Editorial perspective: DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28385 Correspondence to: Hossein Tavana - tavana@uakron.edu Subscribe for free publication alerts from Oncotarget - https://www.oncotarget.com/subscribe/ Keywords - fibroblasts, cancer-associated fibroblasts, tumor microenvironment, therapeutic targeting About Oncotarget Oncotarget is a primarily oncology-focused, peer-reviewed, open access journal. Papers are published continuously within yearly volumes in their final and complete form, and then quickly released to Pubmed. On September 15, 2022, Oncotarget was accepted again for indexing by MEDLINE. Oncotarget is now indexed by Medline/PubMed and PMC/PubMed. To learn more about Oncotarget, please visit https://www.oncotarget.com and connect with us: SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/oncotarget Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Oncotarget/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/oncotarget Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oncotargetjrnl/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@OncotargetJournal LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oncotarget Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/oncotarget/ Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/user/Oncotarget/ Media Contact MEDIA@IMPACTJOURNALS.COM 18009220957

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.03.02.530762v1?rss=1 Authors: Guttesen, A. a. V., Gaskell, M. G., Cairney, S. A. Abstract: Sleep supports memory consolidation via the reactivation of newly formed memory traces. One way to investigate memory reactivation in sleep is by exposing the sleeping brain to auditory retrieval cues; a paradigm known as targeted memory reactivation (TMR). To what extent to acoustic properties of memory cues influence the effectiveness of TMR, however, has received limited attention. We addressed this question by exploring how verbal and non-verbal memory cues affect oscillatory activity linked to memory reactivation in slow-wave sleep. Fifty-one healthy adult males learned to associate visual stimuli with spoken words (verbal cues) and environmental sounds (non-verbal cues). Subsets of the verbal and non-verbal cues were then replayed during sleep, alongside previously unheard control cues. For a subset of the participants, the voice of the verbal cues was mismatched between sleep and learning. Memory cues (relative to control cues) prompted an increase in theta/alpha and spindle power, which have been heavily implicated in sleep-associated memory processing. Moreover, verbal memory cues were associated with a stronger increase in spindle power than non-verbal memory cues. There were no significant differences between the matched and mismatched conditions when analysing verbal memory cues in isolation. Our findings suggest that verbal memory cues may be more effective than non-verbal memory cues for triggering memory reactivation in sleep, as indicated by an amplified spindle response. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.08.527710v1?rss=1 Authors: Duvick, L., Southern, W. M., Benzow, K., Handler, H. P., Mitchell, J. S., Kuivinen, H., Gadiparthi, U. K., Yang, P., Soles, A., Scheeler, C., Rainwater, O., Serres, S., Larson, E., Nichols-Meade, T., You, Y., Zoghbi, H. Y., Ervasti, J. M., Cvetanovic, M., Koob, M. D., Orr, H. T. Abstract: Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by an expanded polyglutamine tract in the widely expressed ATXN1 protein. To elucidate anatomical regions and cell types that underlie mutant ATXN1-induced disease phenotypes, we developed a floxed conditional knockout mouse model (f-ATXN1146Q/2Q) having mouse Atxn1 coding exons replaced by human exons encoding 146 glutamines. F- ATXN1146Q/2Q mice manifest SCA1-like phenotypes including motor and cognitive deficits, wasting, and decreased survival. CNS contributions to disease were revealed using ATXN1146Q/2Q;Nestin-Cre mice, that showed improved rotarod, open field and Barnes maze performances. Striatal contributions to motor deficits were examined using f- ATXN1146Q/2Q;Rgs9-Cre mice. Mice lacking striatal ATXN1146Q/2Q had improved rotarod performance late in disease. Muscle contributions to disease were revealed in f- ATXN1146Q/2Q;ACTA1-Cre mice which lacked muscle pathology and kyphosis seen in f- ATXN1146Q/2Q mice. Kyphosis was not improved in f-ATXN1146Q/2Q;Nestin-Cre mice. Thus, optimal SCA1 therapeutics will require targeting mutant ATXN1 toxic actions in multiple brain regions and muscle. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

This episode was posted on the 13th day of the 13th hour of the 13th month...Well ok it's actually January but still pretty spooky! That is right the boys are back and we are delivering you another chapter in the series that got its name from the day we celebrate! Listen up as the boys have a vastly more positive talk about the sequel that came out a year after the first and really set the tone for the franchise more so then the original! Check it out and make sure you all avoid following men with bags on their heads into the woods!

Escaping the harm inflicted by a narcissistic partner is one of the most challenging things many of us will ever attempt. Today on the podcast we get a really insightful masterclass from Ross Rosenberg, author of The Human Magnet Syndrome, on how individuals can understand the influences and effects of unhealthy relationships. Ross sheds some light on very important yet tricky questions, such as whether people are able to change, how to limit the damage someone has done to us, and what differentiates the types of people in this framework. He also talks about what happens when we don't love ourselves, and a little of his own family history and trauma. Listeners can expect to come away with some great introductions to useful tools such as “relationship math” and the “observe not absorb” technique. So if you want to give your healing journey a big boost and start stepping away from patterns of dysfunctionality today, be sure to tune in to this conversation.Key Points From This Episode: Looking back at Ross' path into working with the subject of narcissistic abuse.  Introducing the concepts of family trauma and its legacy in our later relationships.  The Human Magnet framework and the chemistry of unconscious attraction.  How narcissists and codependents relate and connect to each other.  Ross explains his usage of the term “zero-sum balance.”  Why The Human Magnet Syndrome is such a powerful and resonant tool for therapists!  An explanation of the “soulmate to cellmate phenomenon” from Ross' book.   “Relationship math” and how this explains our actions around happiness and partners.   Ross' plans for his next book, which deals with the cure for codependency.   Signs of pathological narcissism; the categories that Ross uses to help readers get clarity.  Tools for dealing with the damage that narcissists inflict, and the levels of connected trauma.  Ross unpacks his “observe not absorb” technique.  Can narcissists change? Ross shares some insight into the most important question!  Gaslighting, boundaries, and selfishness; why codependents are the only ones who query themselves. Delineating codependency and the issue that Ross has with the term “empath.” Ross provides some of his impactful video resources for you to access. Read or download the transcript hereIf you are a Christian woman who thinks you may be in an emotionally destructive marriage, learn more at https://flyingfreenow.comI'll send you (free!) the first chapter of my book, Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage, which has an assessment to help you figure out if your relationship is abusive or not. All you have to do is hop on my mailing list at https://flyingfreesisterhood.com/free-downloadYou can also find out about our online education and support program for women of faith at https://joinflyingfree.comAnd finally, if you are a divorced Christian woman who wants to take back her life and get healthy, lose weight, have amazing relationships, get things done, build a business or career, and even find a good man (if you want one) - check out Flying Higher at https://joinflyinghigher.com

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On this week's Defense with DC installment, Keith and guest host Dan Carrel discuss Alabama-Tennessee, Kentucky-Mississippi State, and SMU-Navy games o different aspects of defense. Shownotes: -Alabama-Tennessee -Split manipulation -Defending stacks -Delineating how to play different stacks -Max splits becomes man -What to prepare for with stacks -Motion into stacks -Mesh from condensed splits -Mesh alert -Kentucky vs. Mississippi State -Drop 8 -Middle push -Closing the B-gap -3 Man X-Stunt -SMU vs. Navy -4-4 1 high -Preparing for 4-verts -Defend the Horn blocks -Good edges, reduce alley

This week Bart and Zach breakdown last week's season defining games and sneak a peak at the week 6 games. Is the Big 12 already prepped for basketball season? Is Georgia a top team? Have our hit seats been put on ice? Should you be more scared to not be on our list? Join along for all that and more as we take down the impossible task of explaining college football. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/outkickyourcoverage/message

LEADERSHIP REQUIRES DELINEATING 'TRUTH FROM FACTS' AND NARRATIVE FROM REALITY “The narrative is itself a tool of control, manipulation and misinformation. This can be powerful in creating an augmented reality. When used nefariously the narrative is a dark form of leadership. Leaders must be diligent and intentional about the reality they choose to live in as compared to the reality the remainder of the world experiences daily. Leaders who are out of touch, find themselves in lofty positions all alone or in dark, damp cells wondering what went wrong. Lead the narrative, lead it well.” J Loren Norris ​ Watch the video or catch the episode Leading Leaders Podcast 9-7-22: http://www.jlorennorris.com/podcast/leadership-requires-delineatingtruth-from-facts-and-narrative-from-reality Leading Leaders Podcast for Tell It Like It Is TV --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/j-loren-norris/message

LEADERSHIP REQUIRES DELINEATING 'TRUTH FROM FACTS' AND NARRATIVE FROM REALITY “The narrative is itself a tool of control, manipulation and misinformation. This can be powerful in creating an augmented reality. When used nefariously the narrative is a dark form of leadership. Leaders must be diligent and intentional about the reality they choose to live in as compared to the reality the remainder of the world experiences daily. Leaders who are out of touch, find themselves in lofty positions all alone or in dark, damp cells wondering what went wrong. Lead the narrative, lead it well.” J Loren Norris ​ Watch the video or catch the episode Leading Leaders Podcast 9-7-22: http://www.jlorennorris.com/podcast/leadership-requires-delineatingtruth-from-facts-and-narrative-from-reality Leading Leaders Podcast for Tell It Like It Is TV --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/j-loren-norris/message

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Zach sits down with Dr. Danielle King, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Social Sciences to talk about her research of micro-aggressions for Black professionals at work. Want to know more about our LinkedIn Learning courses? Check them out! https://bit.ly/3k4havy Connect with Dr. King on LinkedIn & Twitter. https://bit.ly/3tPvfTn https://bit.ly/3y8YOS4 Read the research paper mentioned in the show titled "When thriving requires effortful surviving: Delineating manifestations and resource expenditure outcomes of microaggressions for Black employees." https://bit.ly/3QBkFc3 Watch the video of Dr. King and her colleagues describing their work on the research paper. https://bit.ly/39Dc6Nk Interested in supporting Living Corporate? Check out our Support page. https://bit.ly/3egO3Dk

Dr Rebecca Levy of the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Stanford, joins the podcast to discuss her recent work looking at epilepsy in NGLY1 deficiency. Delineating the epilepsy phenotype of NGLY1 deficiency Rebecca J. Levy, et al https://doi.org/10.1002/jimd.12494

In Session 185, AKA Inside JABA Series #11, I'm joined by Drs. Linda LeBlanc, Jeff Tiger, and Javier Virues-Ortega for a deep dive into automatically maintained behavior. This session was inspired by the study Javier and his colleagues published in the Spring 2022 issue of JABA (Virues-Ortega, Clayton, Perez-Bustamante, Gaerlan, and Fahmie, 2022).  In this episode, we discuss the nature of, and challenges with automatically-maintained problem behavior. And this is tackled from both conceptual and treatment angles. As I mention in the episode, I don't encounter these types of problem behaviors that frequently these days, so it was a treat to update my knowledge in this area.  It's easy to think of automatic reinforcement as a monolith, but as it turns out, even dividing it up between positive and negative reinforcement may not be sufficient enough to render effective treatment.  We spent probably the first 25-30 minutes discussing some of the known challenges associated with assessing and treating these repertoires, and then spend the remaining time discussing Javier and his colleagues' paper, which presented two very unique investigations.  If you work with individuals with these profiles, you'll want to listen all the way through, and better still, check out the paper itself.  Here are some of the studies we discussed: Functional analysis patterns of automatic reinforcement: A review and component analysis of treatment effects (Virues-Ortega et al., 2022) An analysis of the reinforcing properties of handmouthing (Goh et al., 1995) Delineating subtypes of Self Injurious Behavior maintained by automatic reinforcement (Hagopian, Rooker, and Zarcone, 2015). A retrospective analysis of stereotypy: Applicability of the behavioral subtyping model (Wunderlich, Hemstreet and Best, 2022; not discussed during this episode, but in the same issue of JABA, and on my list to read next).  Lastly, I'd be remiss if I did not take a minute to thank Linda LeBlanc for reaching out to me to start the Inside JABA series. As I tell her every chance I get, I consider it an honor to be involved with the flagship journal in our field. If someone told me as an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire that I'd be regularly involved with JABA in some capacity, I wouldn't have believed them.  As some of you might know, Linda's term as Editor in Chief is expiring, but we are planning to continue the podcast series with incoming EIC, Dr. John Borrero. More info on this to come, but in the meantime, please enjoy this installment of the Inside JABA Series. 

Persuasive storytelling creates extraordinary opportunities, allowing us to engage with customers and partners in a meaningful way.  But how do we craft a memorable story that connects with our professional goals? What does it mean for leaders to let the story do the work? Esther Choy is the President and Chief Story Facilitator at Leadership Story Lab, a consulting firm that celebrates the art and science of storytelling as an essential element of business success.  Esther also teaches in the executive education programs at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and she is the author of Let the Story Do the Work: The Art of Storytelling for Business Success. On this episode of Workplace Forward, Esther joins me to discuss the three levels of communication mastery outlined in her book, describing what differentiates proving from persuading and why effective leaders need to do both. Esther explores how her research around wealth creators and experience with family-owned companies informs her work in storytelling for business. Listen in to understand why the best storytellers are also story collectors and learn to share persuasive, personal stories without divulging your private business. Themes explored in this week's episode: Esther's 3 levels of communication mastery (and why most people get stuck in Level 2) How self-awareness + an event with a deadline can catalyze us to Level 3 Communication Mastery What differentiates proving from persuading and how effective leaders do both How Esther is integrating wealth creators into her work around business storytelling What Esther learned about first-generation ultra-high-net-worth individuals from her research for ‘Transforming Partnerships with Major Donors' How family-owned businesses differ from other companies The connection between being a good storyteller and a story collector What senior leaders struggle with when it comes to storytelling How Esther's own leadership has changed in the last 2 years Delineating the difference between sharing what is personal vs. what is private  Why Esther encourages leaders to waste time doing something unproductive Resources from this episode:  Read along with this Workplace Forward Podcast episode's text transcript Learn more about Esther's work at leadershipstorylab.com  Follow Esther on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram Subscribe to Leadership Story Lab on YouTube Read Esther's column in Forbes  Buy a copy of Esther's book, Let the Story Do the Work Listen to the Family IN Business Podcast Download Esther's research study, ‘Transforming Partnerships with Major Donors'  Explore the NPR piece on Dollywood Listen to Esther's interviews with Chris Herschend and Robert Pasin Register for Esther's monthly Story Lab I would love to hear from you! Have an idea for a podcast or a question you want me to address? Interested in additional support, resources and workshops? Here are all the ways you can interact with me! Tweet me @TeganTrovato Email tegan@brightarrowcoaching.com Follow me on Facebook @BrightArrowCoaching Follow me on Instagram @TeganTrovato Connect with me on LinkedIn: Tegan Trovato Download free tools and sign up for my newsletter, coaching and workshops at https://www.brightarrowcoaching.com/

Mathieu Cognac is the VP of Global Sales Operations and Marketing Operations at MessageBird, an omnichannel communications platform for businesses to communicate with their customers, which includes household names like Facebook, Google, Uber, WhatsApp, and Airbnb. In this episode, Jeremey, Mathieu, and guest co-host Jenna Sacks discuss 2022 revenue planning, hiring challenges, and operating based on Amazon's principles. Visit Salesloft.com for show notes and insights from this episode.

This week's Misfit Entrepreneurs are Alex and Leila Hormozi. Alex and Leila are an entrepreneur power couple. They have scaled three companies to well over $100M in cumulative sales across 3 different industries (software, service, eCommerce) and continue to grow. Their companies include Gym Launch, a service and coaching company, Prestige Labs, a premium supplement company, and ALAN a lead management software firm. In fact, they took Gym Launch from 1 employee to over 70 and $28 million in revenue in just 3 years. Needless to say, Alex and Leila have not only figured out how to scale and grow companies quickly and effectively, but they've also found the right balance as a couple to do it well and I want to dig into all of this with them in this episode. Alex Hormozi Podcast – The Game Alex and Leila both have Youtube Channels where they give a lot of advice Alex and Leila met in 2016 through online dating. Both were very focused on their careers. But they met for the first data and found a lot of commonalities including their love of business and their backgrounds. How they saw business was similar. In fact, after Alex heard what Leila wanted to do, he told her to skip all that and come work with him. Over 3-4 weeks of them talking and her learning more about the Gym Launch concept, she saw a great opportunity to work together. She ended up leaving her business and joining him with Gym Launch. They ran the business as just them for a year and then began to build out the teams, etc. They actually were doing such a good job that some gyms could not handle the capacity they were creating for them, and it caused problems. In fact, Alex and Leila almost gave up. They re-worked the business model so they or a rep for them did not have to be present and things took off. From there, they got into supplements specifically for gyms. They also developed a lead management software and other solutions. Alex mentions that they had a logistically challenged business that they had to fix, even though they were very good at doing what they did. Alex was good at the solution side, but Leila is really good at putting the team and leadership into place. What has been your secret to working well as a couple? Leila They want to be around each other is the foundation. You have to desire to be around each other all the time. There is never anything between them – they don't allow things to go un-addressed, fixing them when they come up. Delineating each other's responsibilities is important. Making sure to drive toward the same goals. How does your dynamic work or change during tough times? Alex We are fairly even keeled. It's important to separate a circumstance from emotions. It is not a reflection of who you are, it just is.  Separating the stressor from the response is a key skill. Finding out what information each other is working with that the other doesn't have when there is a problem. Staying in each other's lanes when it comes to making decisions in the business is also very important. They trust each other to make the best decision, but seek input as needed. What are the principles you use to develop a successful business and teams? A lot of it is psychology. Really understanding people and making sure to put them in the best place to succeed. Being willing to have good, but hard conversations. Working on your emotional intelligence is very important to success. You pick the people, you assemble the people, you coach the people. “Sharp mind, kind heart, strong will.” Core values: Candor, Micro-speed/macro-patience, have humility, give credit/take blame At the 23 min mark, Alex and Leila talk about their culture… “To have a great company – marry the smarts and the hearts.” Explain your marketing and lead strategy… Fundamentally, there are 2 ways to grow a business: Get more customers or make it each customer more profitable. Fancy fails, simple scales. Paid media, earned media, owned media are the areas of marketing. Referrals are one of the best and easiest ways to grow. You should not scale other areas until the word of mouth is a significant driver of your business. Mastering an area is that it will continue to produce once you've set things up and don't have to be involved in it constantly. Give an example of a front-end offer that works well? Win-win. For Gym Launch, a customer can start using Gym Launch absolutely free and if they don't make at least $4000 in their first 30 days, you don't have to continue. Back-end? Value ladders should never stop. You solve problem one and problem two, but solving problem two creates problem 3 that needs a solution and so on. Value ladders typically stop at the level of competence of the entrepreneur selling them. Your job is to continuously grow your ability to find and solve problems building out your value ladder. Alex's book on this is called Hundred Million Dollar Offers ​ Best advice for an entrepreneur starting out today? If you are not moving at the pace you want to look at what you may be lacking. Is it a skill? Is it a belief? Is it a character trait? Identify this and go seek it. Let go of any identity that you hold – identity is habit and may not serve you in the way you need to succeed. Start with a blank slate and become the person you need to be through the habits needed to succeed at what you are doing.   Best Quote: To have a great company – marry the smarts and the hearts.   Alex and Leila's Misfit 3: Alex: Think in decades not months. ​ Leila: 99% of your thoughts are not true. Alex: Do the boring work. Leila: ​Feelings are not to be obeyed, but something to be managed. Alex: Volume begets skill. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the more you do. ​ Leila: ​Learning how to make smart decisions is one of the best skills you can require. Don't build up decision debt. Show Sponsors: Check Out Freshbooks' "I Make a Living Podcast" www.Freshbooks.com/podcast 5 Minute Journal:  www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com/Journal

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I am getting down and dirty with dollars today and holding nothing back. Get the real deal on: Delineating a business from a hobby. Making choice investments wisely. Picking coaches/mentors (or NOT) with the proper guidance. The #1 thing I CANNOT stand in business right now. How to appropriately price your business and services. Dealing with imposter syndrome when it comes to charging people. Buckle up. Love the podcast? Ugh, we love you back. Leave us a review, so we can continue to grow and bring all this free love to you. CONNECT Follow @thedailyhypepod and @ashli_p on Instagram – make sure to say hi in the DMs! I love getting to know everyone x Check out ashlipollard.com for our consulting services. GOODIES for the DO-ERS— ASHLI WITH AN EYE: Have you checked out @ashliwithaneye? It's my t-shirt (and more!) shop for badass women makin moves - for the do-ers not the dreamers. (www.ashliwithaneye.shop) Get $10 off with code DAILYHYPE or $30 off if you follow all 3 accounts (@ashliwithaneye, @thedailyhypepod, @ashli_p). Send me a DM after you've followed all three accounts for the $30 off code! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thedailyhype/message

Delineating how the essence of Purim is a call for Authenticity, the 2 conflicting sentiments of 'Be True to Yourself', Gladwell debunks common understanding of the effects of alcohol, & why Jews drink, dress & sniff on Purim

In This Episode:We get to listen to Eli Seitz about how he takes micro concepts or inspiration and expands on those ideas. From historical records to award-winning media we cover all the bases!The Games:The Last Place On Earth!!Kickstarter for Thursday!!Get In Touch With Eli:TwitterItch.ioGames Mentioned:The Quiet Year | No Dice No MasterSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/dydpodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last nine years writing and teaching for Dirshu International'sDaf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode ofFine Tuned Halachadelves into an important Halachic textand extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at ravkiv@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast is powered by JewishPodcasts.org. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click jewishpodcasts.fm/signup to get started.

Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz has spent the last nine years writing and teaching for Dirshu International's Daf Yomi B'Halacha,In general,every episode of Fine Tuned Halacha delves into an important Halachic text and extracts important nuggets of direction,history and most importantly,an understanding of how the Jewish legal system developed and continues to guide the lives of a committed people.While the learning tends to align with the seasons we find ourselves in,we are confident it will resonate well beyond the calendar into your consciousness.Please leave us a review or email us at ravkiv@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Drive with Dr. Peter Attia Podcast Notes Key Takeaways All sugars are not created equal“Is glucose a sugar? Yes. Is fructose a sugar? Yes. Are they the same? Not even close.” – Peter AttiaGlucose & fructose have dramatically different metabolic effectsFructose doesn’t stimulate insulin secretion the way glucose does but that doesn’t mean it’s healthyRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org In this “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode, Peter and Bob talk all about sugar and sugar substitutes and provide a way to think about sugar consumption. The conversation begins by defining the various forms of sugar, delineating between added sugar and naturally occurring sugar, and describing the important variables that determine the potential for metabolic damage from consumption. They then take a dive deep into three main categories of sugar substitutes—non-nutritive sweeteners, alcohol sugars, and leaving allulose, in a class by itself—including the safety profile of each, impact on blood sugar and insulin, side-effects, taste preferences, and more.  If you’re not a subscriber and listening on a podcast player, you’ll only be able to hear a preview of the AMA. If you’re a subscriber, you can now listen to this full episode on your private RSS feed or on our website at the AMA #18 show notes page. If you are not a subscriber, you can learn more about the subscriber benefits here.  We discuss: Delineating the various forms of “sugar” (2:00); Added sugar vs. naturally occurring sugar (12:30); Important variables related to sugar consumption: Density, volume, and velocity (17:00); Alternatives to sugar: Non-nutritive sweeteners (22:30); Alternatives to sugar: Alcohol sugars (34:15); Alternatives to sugar: Allulose (39:00); Contextualizing risk when it comes to sugar substitutes (45:00); Why some people report feeling better when eliminating non-nutritive sweeteners from their diet (46:30); The impact of sweetness—Cephalic insulin response and the metabolic drive to eat more (49:45); and More. Learn more: https://peterattiamd.com/ Show notes page for this episode: https://peterattiamd.com/ama18/  Subscribe to receive exclusive subscriber-only content: https://peterattiamd.com/subscribe/ Sign up to receive Peter's email newsletter: https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/ Connect with Peter on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.

In this “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode, Peter and Bob talk all about sugar and sugar substitutes and provide a way to think about sugar consumption. The conversation begins by defining the various forms of sugar, delineating between added sugar and naturally occurring sugar, and describing the important variables that determine the potential for metabolic damage from consumption. They then take a dive deep into three main categories of sugar substitutes—non-nutritive sweeteners, alcohol sugars, and leaving allulose, in a class by itself—including the safety profile of each, impact on blood sugar and insulin, side-effects, taste preferences, and more.  If you’re not a subscriber and listening on a podcast player, you’ll only be able to hear a preview of the AMA. If you’re a subscriber, you can now listen to this full episode on your private RSS feed or on our website at the AMA #18 show notes page. If you are not a subscriber, you can learn more about the subscriber benefits here.  We discuss: Delineating the various forms of “sugar” (2:00); Added sugar vs. naturally occurring sugar (12:30); Important variables related to sugar consumption: Density, volume, and velocity (17:00); Alternatives to sugar: Non-nutritive sweeteners (22:30); Alternatives to sugar: Alcohol sugars (34:15); Alternatives to sugar: Allulose (39:00); Contextualizing risk when it comes to sugar substitutes (45:00); Why some people report feeling better when eliminating non-nutritive sweeteners from their diet (46:30); The impact of sweetness—Cephalic insulin response and the metabolic drive to eat more (49:45); and More. Learn more: https://peterattiamd.com/ Show notes page for this episode: https://peterattiamd.com/ama18/  Subscribe to receive exclusive subscriber-only content: https://peterattiamd.com/subscribe/ Sign up to receive Peter's email newsletter: https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/ Connect with Peter on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.

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*Evangelical Convictions: A Theological Exposition of the Statement of Faith of the Evangelical Free Church of America. Free Church Press: Minneapolis, MN. 2011. Article 7: The Church.

With the aftermath of the Tyrant's fall and Harold gone, the BFGs look towards future plans on what to do next.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.06.21.157412v1?rss=1 Authors: Quinn, A. J., Green, G. G., Hymers, M. Abstract: The spatial and spectral structure of oscillatory networks in the brain provide a readout of the underlying neuronal function. Within and between subject variability in these networks can be highly informative but also poses a considerable analytic challenge. Here, we describe a method that simultaneously estimate spectral and spatial network structure without assumptions about either feature distorting estimation of the other. This enables analyses exploring how variability in the frequency and spatial structure of oscillatory networks might vary both across the brain and across individuals. The method performs a modal decomposition of an autoregressive model to describe the oscillatory signals present within a time-series based on their peak frequency and damping time. Moreover, an alternate mathematical formulation for the system transfer function can be written in terms of these oscillatory modes; describing the spatial topography and network structure of each component. We define a set of Spatio-Spectral Eigenmodes (SSEs) from these parameters to provide a parsimonious description of oscillatory networks. Crucially, the SSEs preserve the rich between-subject variability and are constructed without pre-averaging within specified frequency bands or limiting analyses to single channels or regions. After validating the method on simulated data, we explore the structure of whole brain oscillatory networks in eyes-open resting state MEG data from the Human Connectome Project. We are able to show a wide variability in peak frequency and network structure of alpha oscillations and reveal a distinction between occipital high-frequency alpha and parietal low-frequency alpha. The frequency difference between occipital and parietal alpha components is present within individual participants but is partially masked by larger between subject variability; a 10Hz oscillation may represent the high-frequency occipital component in one participant and the low-frequency parietal component in another. This rich characterisation of individual neural phenotypes has the potential to enhance analyses into the relationship between neural dynamics and a person's behavioural, cognitive or clinical state Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

We hope that the topic of today’s episode is relevant not just for translators or interpreters, but for all freelancers! While we are used to working from home, we know that it's been an especially stressful time during the COVID-19 pandemic to delineate between work and personal time.In this episode, we talk about different ways to delineate your work day—not in a general sense of setting boundaries, like we discussed in Episode 1 on Work/Life Balance, but specifically how to signal to yourself that your work day has come to an end— and how to shift from work mode to after-work mode, your time to rest and recharge.This topic was a request from our listener and colleague Emily Safrin, who also happens to be the winner of our giveaway! A huge thanks to everyone who participated, and congratulations to Emily on winning a one-on-one financial mentoring session with Susie Jackson. We hope to do more fun events like this in the future to thank you, our listeners, for your support.Back to the topic of delineating your work day… Since the pandemic began, many of us have had to deal with a disrupted schedule, care for kids or other family members, and work different hours than we’re used to working. It's more important than ever to think about different ways to draw the line between work and personal time, ways to end the work day and decompress.Here is a summary of our conversation:- Our own struggles related to delineating when the work day starts and when it ends- What you can do at the end of your work day to set yourself up for success for the following day- Why clearing your office space, desk, or computer from clutter may be helpful- How you can use the timer method recommended by Matt Baird in Episode 18- Mindful ways to transition from work mode to rest mode with the help of exercise, reading, music, or creative hobbies- Our thoughts on the Workday Shutdown Ritual in the Full Focus Planner- Why visual cues can be helpful in establishing your own Workday Shutdown Ritual- What you can change about your physical environment to relax and get ready to rest- Why self-reflection, acts of kindness, or help offered to colleagues or clients can be the perfect way to end the day on a high noteResources we mentioned in this episode:Amanda Calvin’s website and Instagram accountEpisode 1: Work/Life ClarityEpisode 17: Coping With Quiet Work PeriodsEpisode 18: Creating a Four-Day Work Week with Matt BairdFull Focus PlannerEpisode 14: Smart Habits during Social Isolation: A Special Episode with Sara Maria HasbunHow to post a podcast review on Apple PodcastsOn June 9th, we’ll be sending our email subscribers a summary of this episode with a link to the show notes so you can quickly find all the resources that we mentioned.Our next episode will be available on June 16th. Our colleague Corinne McKay will be talking about smart habits for creating professional partnerships, and we can’t wait to share this episode with you!

In an attempt to save our fuck up, we turn out of towtla for an episode. Only to be brought right back in.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.05.15.093369v1?rss=1 Authors: Rees, D. J., Roberts, L., Carisi, C. M., Morgan, A. H., Brown, R., Davies, J. S. Abstract: Neuronal mitochondrial fragmentation is a phenotype exhibited in models of neurodegeneration such as Parkinson's Disease. Delineating the dysfunction in mitochondrial dynamics found in diseased states can aid our understanding of underlying mechanisms for disease progression and possibly identify novel therapeutic approaches. Advances in microscopy and the availability of intuitive open-access software has accelerated the rate of image acquisition and analysis, respectively. These developments allow routine biology researchers to rapidly turn hypotheses into results. In this protocol, we describe the utilisation of cell culture techniques, high-content imaging (HCI), and subsequent open-source image analysis pipeline for the quantification of mitochondrial fragmentation in the context of a rotenone-based in-vitro Parkinson's Disease model. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

We start lesson 5 off right, in the worst, wrongest way.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.28.063461v1?rss=1 Authors: Hong, S.-J., Sisk, L., Caballero, C., Mekhanik, A., Roy, A. K., Milham, M., Gee, D. G. Abstract: Childhood experiences play a profound role in conferring risk and resilience for brain and behavioral development. However, how different facets of the environment shape neurodevelopment remains largely unknown. Here we sought to decompose heterogeneous relationships between environmental factors and brain structure in 989 school-aged children from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. We applied a cross-modal integration and clustering approach called Similarity Network Fusion, which combined two brain morphometrics (i.e., cortical thickness and myelin-surrogate markers), and key environmental factors (i.e., trauma exposure, neighborhood safety, school environment, and family environment) to identify homogeneous subtypes. Depending on the subtyping resolution, results identified two or five subgroups, each characterized by distinct brain structure-environment profiles. Notably, more supportive caregiving and school environments were associated with increased myelination, whereas less supportive caregiving, higher family conflict and psychopathology, and higher perceived neighborhood safety were observed with increased cortical thickness. These subtypes were highly reproducible and predicted externalizing symptoms and overall mental health problems. Our findings support the theory that distinct environmental exposures differentially influence neurodevelopment. Delineating more precise associations between risk factors, protective factors, and brain development may inform approaches to enhance risk identification and optimize interventions targeting specific experiences. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Dr. Mark E. Shaw teaches about how The Addiction Connection defines the problem of addiction and how it defines the solution for addiction. Delineating all the talking points of the TAC's unity statement, Mark brings scriptural encouragement for the battle for the heart of addiction.

Picture this scenario: It’s Monday morning and you’re driving into work. Cars are typically bumper to bumper at this hour, but not today. Traffic’s flowing so well, you’ll have enough time to stop and get Starbucks before your 8 a.m. meeting. Then, WHAM! You hit a pothole. It came out of nowhere. The next thing you know your car’s making a loud thumping sound. You pull over to the side of the road and, sure enough – you’ve got a flat. To make matters worse, you don’t have a spare tire. In an instant, your morning commute went from smooth to stressful. It’s time to call a tow truck. Oh, and never mind Starbucks, you’re not even going to make it to that 8 a.m. meeting. Wouldn’t it have been nice if you had a little warning about that pothole? A simple road sign or barrier would have helped you avoid a morning of chaos.   Warnings signs are helpful for many scenarios in life – especially as you develop your Affiliate extension strategy. There’s a lot you can learn from other organizations that have experienced challenges during this process, so you can account for and avoid potential pitfalls (or potholes) with your own program. Experts from our Affiliate Solutions team recently discussed the most common pitfalls they see organizations experience with an extension program: Expectation-setting Delineating responsibility Identifying decision-makers Developing repeatable processes Testing oversight   Listen in as they offer planning tips to avoid these issues, so you can experience a more seamless affiliate extension – free from any potholes. And if you need help developing your EHR extension strategy, or have questions about specific challenges you’re facing, let’s talk. We’ll listen to your needs and help you determine the best roadmap for your organization and its affiliates.

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In the final episode of Beneath the Subsurface Season One, we're focusing on Well Data Products and the full gamut of subsurface intelligence that can be gleaned from leveraging Well Data with Seismic. Caroline Brignac sits down with Jason Kegel, Ted Mirenda and Katie Fearn for a deep dive into the evolution of well data and how it’s used in today’s workflows.EXPLORE MORE FROM THE EPISODEProduction ForecastingCompletion DataWell Data ProductsInterpretation ProductsWell Production DataGlobal Well DataUS BasinsTABLE OF CONTENTS00:00 - Intro01:42 - Evolution of Well Data Products at TGS03:25 - Production Data & it's Uses07:38 - Production Data and Thesis Work09:09 - Longbow: A Well Performance Visualization Tool with Analytics12:08 - What is Well Performance Data Used For?15:04 - Validated Well Headers & Interpretation20:26 - Well Logs and Production Data for Students, Interns & Early Career22:30 - Historical Production and Well Data24:43 - The Marriage of Seismic and Well Data: Interpretation26:48 - Historical Data and Microfiche?!29:44 - What About Offshore Well Data Products?34:34 - How Much Gulf Of Mexico Data Does TGS Have?39:00 - Seismic or Well Data... Why Not Both?40:20 - Analytics Ready LAS Data (ARLAS)43:49 - Eye Opening Data for Early Career48:48 - TGS Projects & Careers51:37 - Conclusion  EPISODE TRANSCRIPTCaroline:00:12Hello and welcome to Beneath the Subsurface a podcast that explores the intersection of geoscience and technology. This is Caroline Brignac from the well data products group at TGS. In This episode we'll explore our well data products and how they prove to be critical datasets for any exploration and development program. So go ahead and we'll get started with introductions for today's podcast. We've got Jason Kegel with us. Jason why don't you to tell us a little bit about yourself? Jason:00:39Sure. My name's Jason. I work with the geology group here at TGS. I'm a geologist I've been here for six years. I work pretty closely with our well data products and our seismic products. Caroline:00:50Awesome. Thanks Jason. We also have Ted Miranda with us. Ted, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? Ted:00:55Sure. Thank you. Caroline. Ted Mirenda. So I'm with TGS. Well, data products group. I've been here for 10 years now. A primary task was to bring production data to TGS and commercialize that product. It's been a lot of work and exciting. Caroline:01:12That's awesome. I'm really excited about having Katie with us. She's a production geologists for a super major. Katie, welcome. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and your experience with TGS. Katie:01:21Thank you, Caroline. I am a recent graduate school graduate and I loved my time at TGS where I got to use Longbow and R360 and then I carried those things that I had learned and into my schoolwork in grad school and it's been awesome. Caroline:01:39So Katie, you started with us as an intern, correct? Katie:01:42Correct. Caroline:01:42That's awesome. Well, we're really excited to have you here and talk a little bit about what your experience with TGS, our products and how you use it in the industry. So one thing that we know a lot about TGS is that it's known as a seismic company. However, TGS offers a wide range of other products such as products in well data. Ted, would you mind telling us a little bit about the well data products division and how it's evolved over time? Ted:02:07Sure. I guess we can step back to 2002 when TGS officially acquired a little company called A2D that gave A2D's the resources to further go out and I believe in acquire Riley's electric log inventory. So that led to the largest commercial well log library. Other resources that TGS provided or enabled was the ability to digitize hard copies and raster logs to LAS. And that library has grown over time where I came into play now 10 years ago after growing the LAS library TGS made the the decision to what's next with well data, well, let's bring in production data. That's when I came into mix. We started building our production data library up. It's been a long challenging project, but it's really paid off. One of the things that critical decision we decided to do was not acquire any production data assets, but build that data from the ground floor up. That meant more work. But in the long run, it's a more valuable product. Caroline:03:25So when you talk about production data, what exactly are you talking about and what does that look like? Ted:03:30Well, we're talking about the full historical production record of every well in the United States. So when you think about different pieces of information that our clients use and need what the well has produced, the reservoir fluids captured from each wellbore is about as important a piece of information as you can have going forward. So we capture that information, really important to tie it to the proper wellbore and a really detailed well header record. There's a lots, a lot of other processes that we do with that as well to then provide the data to our clients. Caroline:04:16So we know that we have, Jason has some experience as well as Katie with this dataset. Would you mind telling us about how you guys use it in your role in the industry? Jason:04:25Sure. So I know at TGS we use the production data quite a bit, looking at our different mapping projects we have. So when we look across the entire, especially United States and look for new areas to shoot on shore seismic, we like to have a really good background information on what companies are actually producing, how much they produced in the past. Can a lot of times tell you where the, where the new plays are and it's always been said that where you found oil before you'll find oil again. And that's been proven over and over again. When we look at the Permian basin, which has been producing since, you know, the 1910, 1920s and today it's one of the biggest basins in the world and we're still finding oil there. So it's nice to really see those historical records of production and where people have gone. On top of that, the Longbow database gives you completion information so you can start really seeing where exactly within the geology has been drilled and how they have done it. So you can get some engineering insight into that as well. Over the years at TGS we've brought all that together to really start looking at new areas where clients want to go and where we can start bringing them seismic. Caroline:05:34So Katie, we knew that you started off as an intern here at TGS a few years ago and we know that you worked with Jason on his team to help sort of guide where we'd go next with our products. What was your experience with the production dataset and Longbow? Katie:05:48So I used the production and information during my project, both at school and at during internship to help me understand the reservoir better so that I could clear up any uncertainties that I was curious about. So for example, I use production data during my time at school to help me understand if there was any reserves left that were not taken out. Ted:06:19Yeah, I know a lot of our clients then use that data to look for bypass opportunities. Another one of the many capabilities of leveraging production data. Jason talked about moving into the completion data side of what we call completion data. Kind of led that evolution. You know, horizontal drilling, unconventional tight reservoirs, fracking, I mean that led to a whole new need for different attributes captured about a well record. So we identify those pretty early on. I had been collecting those and now provide that kind of information to our clients. Not just perf intervals. What is the, what is the producing interval subsurface depth, but the length of the lateral that's being completed and produced correlating production rates, any U R S 2000 foot laterals, another way to really do better well economics and evaluation of assets. So it's, it never ends, you know, the data needs are constantly evolving and changing as industry changes and we follow that path. Jason:07:38So Katie, you said that you use some of our production data with your thesis work, correct. And that was in the, in Louisiana, the Tuscaloosa Marine shale, right? Katie:07:47Yes. Jason:07:47So the Wells and the data that you used there, were they mostly conventional Wells or where we also tried to look at some of the unconventional Wells there too, to define that play that you are looking at. Katie:08:01Right. So I would say the majority, I also focused on the lower Tuscaloosa, which was mostly conventional Wells. Jason:08:09So those Wells, they helped you define that play area and then you had to go deeper and deeper into the log data. Correct. Trying to see exactly what the formation was made up. And you did a sort of a real exploration study of that lower Tuscaloosa Marine shale Longbow helped you kind of understand exactly where the production had become historically and where it might go now and where, where people are drilling currently in the Tuscaloosa Marine shale. Katie:08:39Right. And we also did that with the Austin chalk too. That was another one of our big projects. Jason:08:44Right. And then when you, in the group that was here all from the university of Lafayette worked with us, we also looked up into the Haynesville and looked at some of the smack over units using Longbow quite a bit, looking for trends in conventional plays historically and then seeing where those went unconventionally and if Longbow is the, the main generator of the majority of that data. Caroline:09:09So for those of you listening in who may not be familiar with Longbow is that is our our visualization tool that sits on top of our well performance database. Ted, would you like to add to that? Ted:09:19Yeah, that's right. So you know, production data is a fairly complex data model, right? So you need a tool to search and search your way through that data library, identify Wells that are appropriate to your project assignments so Longbow started out as really as that initial search engine. Hey, you're connecting to almost 5 million Wells, right? In a cloud based database and you're typically going in your assignment, you're going to identify subsets of Wells based on location, geology, formation, operator assets. Hey, examine these assets that are for sale and tell me if it's worth it, right? So Longbow provides that search engine. However, over the, the years and the time, we've incorporated quite a bit of analytics into the search engine. So we're really proud of that. It's if you can think of having a search engine connected to a live database of every well and include analytics, make a bubble in contour map on six month cumulative by zone, you know, all that in one. It saves time. So it's been exciting. We've had great feedback from clients and we are really focused on, Hey, what do our clients want? That's what we put in Jason:10:46When you go. When you talk about analytics Ted, what has been the biggest benefit of forecasting for Longbow? Ted:10:54Well, okay, so that is another good point. Production data being the historical production for the wellbore. Again, the reservoir fluid produced once me and my team, I felt we were comfortable and really good at acquiring that data. I always wanted to move into the forecasting realm as well. So we have added to the, to the product feature every single month. Now every, well all active wells get forecasted to their economic limit, giving our clients quick access to EURs. So from that perspective, I can look at historical data for an example like Katie gave about looking for bypass opportunities. Where did prior operators leave hydrocarbon in the ground with forecasting, I can look at, okay, what's the total proposed value of an asset? How much is that asset going to produce? How much remains that's already there in the, in the analytic tool. So, and again, the different analytic tools include besides mapping, probability graphs, scatter plotting and charts. It's the full gamut. Jason:12:08So we have, Katie who has worked with this data as an intern. I work with this data internally with project development and sales. And then I know that I've gone out with you before and we, we sell this data, we try to give our clients opportunities to use this data. Are our clients, strictly exploration type geologists or engineers or do we have other sort of venues where this data's important in the oil and gas industry? Ted:12:36You know, that's a good point. I mean, our clients cover all those gamuts. You know, one thing, again, with production data, it's a valuable piece of information across an integrated oil company. Enterprise exploration, geologists exploration is of course petroleum engineering department, reservoir engineers that have to forecast production. It's really become a big tool also in the A&D world investment banking A&D world at oil companies, business development. And that's what I like about production data. Everybody finds a use and value out of it, Jason:13:23Right? And it seems everybody wants to know how long that well is going to last and where the next well is next to it. It's going to produce as much that really hard to find that information from anything other than production data. Ted:13:33And what's, you know, what's, what's recently happened and I was looking at right, or like writing a paper on this topic. But you know, right now, most of the think tank forecast for supply, they're all like redoing those and lowering them, you know, the Unconventionals. And we, when we started doing our forecast models, we realized that the horizontal Wells had to be looked at differently. And the decline rates on those, those Wells now are, what would I say, exceeding what we thought they would be. Ted:14:08We had this, you know, unconventional production had made perhaps a real the world with the real comfortable setting of endless oil supply and and you see the think tanks now readjusting those forecasts. So our model changed as well. We're looking at studies and how long Unconventionals are really going to produce and readjusting the EURs. And does that also have quite a bit to do with parent child relationships and how they're stacking Wells within the reservoir? It does, and right now that's what everybody's trying to figure out. That is really challenging looking at spacing, refracking spacing, how does another child affect the, the, the parent well and etc. What is the proper spacing that we try and provide the data to our clients to help them do that? Jason:15:04Right. And in some of those cases you said before with our header products that we have, that really has led to Delineating some of the production data with the validated well header. Can you explain a little bit more about how the validated well header helps understand different laterals and how that traces back to production? Ted:15:25Yeah. Yeah. And that's that's another key point, I think what was attractive to building production data here at TGS? You know, you go out and collect production data and for the most part, I mean, when you're getting public production data, the reality is that data is really coming in at a surface level. I mean, what does the state regulator care about? They just want to know how much did operator produce. So your severance, you're paying severance tax below the surface, they're not so much concerned about which zone is that coming from in which borehole? So here at TGS we have, we can leverage our validated well header dataset, which is our proprietary header where we've gone in, looked at the subsurface and identified missing boreholes. So we are in the process of tying our production data now to that validated header. So really moving production data down to the, to the, what we call the 12 digit API level. And that's really making a difference to our clients. Jason:16:39I know it's helped internally where we've gone used the perforation information. Ted:16:43That's right. Yup. Jason:16:45And actually track the perforations. And I'm not sure if you, you might've done this with this, some in your internship, Katie, where we looked at the perforated intervals on the Wells and then when we are doing our cross sections, we would actually see exactly where the perforations were and see where that oil was coming from. And that helps in a lot of situations in basins where you, you don't know a lot about the basin or you're going somewhere new and you're mapping and we'd see, you know, you'd see the Austin chalk and the Buddha and the Eagleford and you try to wonder, well, where exactly in those formations are they getting the oil from? Without those perforations that we'd got from Longbow, we couldn't truly track that back. We've been doing that more and more with the help from interns when you were here a few years ago and also with our newer interns to, to really try to understand that and then provide that on another level through R360 to start understanding where these Wells are actually producing from, which in some states they don't, they don't provide that information. Ted:17:42That's right. And that that really is a really neat project. I know for me and my team at the, and Ted talking about the production data, leveraging Jason and the geoscientists and the interpretation type work you do on your workstations where we can take our production, our perfs, you guys load it in, match it up with the LAS, correlate that production to the actual producing zone. It takes a while to do that, but we're doing that in projects going across different basins and it's really exciting. Jason:18:15No, it's been, it's been very valuable for us that in some of the test information that Longbow has also has in some states like Oklahoma and Texas, let's say, they don't have produced water for a lot of the production. So the only things that you can look back are some of the actual, that the test data that you have where you can find that water. And then a lot of these areas where you're running analytics on some of these Wells to see when they watered out or how much water they have per volume of oil. That's the only place you can get it. And then when you max that match that back to the perforated interval, you can really start understanding some more about those horizons and how much oil or how much oil you have left, but also how much water you're getting out, which is a huge issue right now with a lot of the unconventionals is water not only how much water you're putting in to stimulate if that's what you're doing, but how much formation water you're actually taking out and that could be a, that could be that the factor in having a well that's a good well or not good at all. Caroline:19:19So I know we've touched on production data and the well performance database that TGS offers, but TGS also offers other data like well logs, various types of well logs our validated well header that Jason just mentioned. Katie, I'm curious about your experience as a student getting data from TGS. Can you tell us a little bit of what that was like and how you use other well data with production data to help solve some of the, the issues you guys were running into? Katie:19:48I'm sure. Well, TGS was really helpful because like Jason said, if Jason and Ted said to the state, you don't have to provide good data to the public. So TGS' well logs, their production data was far superior to anything that I saw. So it definitely helped not just at school cause I use this product at UL but I also got to use it in our projects. So it made the uncertainties that were, we were curious about less uncertain. Right. Cause the subsurface is always uncertain. Caroline:20:26So to follow to build on that, Jason, how do you, how do you work more with well logs and production data together, especially when you're working with a group of young interns like Katie and her, her fellow interns Jason:20:39Well one of the things that we do in our group quite a bit is either look for for new areas or sort of redefine basins that have already had had exploration. So the main thing we do when we do that as we get as many well logs as we possibly can. So that's the, the LAS that we have for those areas. Working for TGS is nice because we have access to quite a bit of data. So we pull all those together and we start just doing cross-sections and fence diagrams and make picking our formation tops so that we have a real good general understanding of the basin. As we're doing that, we're also looking at the production data. So each one of those Wells is either a producer or not a producer or maybe it was just a stratigraphic exploration well. But the reason those Wells exist are to make somebody money. So hopefully they're all producers. Jason:21:32So we learned as much from a dry hole as we do from a hole that's not dry. That's where the production data comes in really handy cause we can see exactly how much oil they got out of that well when it was drilled, when it was plugged and abandoned. Some of the issues that might've gone on with it. So we can understand from looking at just some of the well logs themselves than the caliper per se, to see where you had the whole breakup and see where you might've had engineering issues with that well, where they might have crossed faults that might've caused to loss of production in certain areas. And we can tie that back using production to see exactly how these reservoirs work. And we can track that around better to see where explorationists, might need help delineating new fields or new areas. And that's where the seismic comes in with TGS to where we can try to get the seismic out to help limit some of these problems that were we might be seeing in some of the Wells. Caroline:22:30Out of curiosity I know that we offer a long range of historic production data. Recently we just acquired a company called Lasser that goes back far beyond the 1970s. As a geologist, would you say that having a larger dataset going back further in time is more beneficial for you to help solve problems? Jason:22:54Absolutely. So the one thing we've always ran into is not enough data, right? We always want more data. We want to see the complete picture of the entire basin. So having that data that goes farther back in time, that historic production data really helps because we have a lot of those well logs that are sort of historic historics our well logs and our Las don't stop at 1970 or earlier. The production data depending on state isn't necessarily at a strict cutoff of 1970 but that historic data really helps with that production to really start understanding how those wells were drilled. And like I said before exactly what was it producer and what wasn't producer and if it was producing, how long did it produce for? There's been lots of of technology advances that have really increased how much oil you can get out of the ground or gas you can get of the ground. Jason:23:45That's on a purely engineering basis and you can start to see that in the production data, but you can really start seeing that in some of the LAS data when you start looking at the curves and understanding some of the petrophysics behind the Wells. And not only that, you start understanding the basin. So when you look at some of these really old wells, a lot of them are really shallow just to sort of understand that's as far as they could drill to. That's where the technological limit was. But depending on the basin, some, some people in the forties and 50s had drilled all the way to basement. You really want those type of data points when you're understanding the entire basin. The deeper you understand the basin, the more history you can put into it. The more basin modeling you can do. If you can understand the basin from initial infill to present day and the erosion intervals that have been between there. We see that quite a bit in our base in temperature models, which is one of the products that we do that builds off of our LAS data. Caroline:24:43What other tools, interpretation tools do you use internally that TGS helps provide or provides to our clients? Jason:24:49Well firstly I mentioned the basin temperature models. That's one that we, we helped build and we provide to clients and that's a product where we look at the entire basin. We pick the tops in it from 2000 to 3000 Wells from the LAS. And then we do basin temperature modeling on that entire basin with grids and horizons, start understanding the the basin from completed from basement all the way up to the top and understanding the infill. We also provide other products, sort of worldwide called our facies map browser. And this is mainly offshore, but this is looking at sequence stratigraphy within offshore basins. Jason:25:29This one we also use well data and seismic data where we can and integrate the two of them to, to have a real good understanding and picture of the basin. So the geologists that use this data can jump right in to the basin and have a real good working knowledge of what's going on there. One thing in the industry, I've been in this industry for eight years now and I've seen lots of mergers and you know, lots of layoffs unfortunately with people, but groups shrink and grow all the time. And when they grow, people need to jump into new basins they've never been. So one thing that we provide with some of our well data products like the facies map browser and the basin temperature models easily help people easily get acclimated with basins they may have never worked. It's a, it's a real quick and easy way to understand the stratigraphy and understand some, some components of the basin you might not have thought about before. Jason:26:25Then we've been moving on with the basin temperature model is that the background into TOC models. So actually looking at total organic carbon within the same basin using the background of our basin temperature model and then working with core labs to really understand some of our vitrinite reflectance and core data points. So that's the new thing we're doing particularly in the Permian basin. Ted:26:48And I want to add another point on Lasser that Lasser acquisition, which was a, again, exciting for our team. Jason talked about the need for historical data. Sure. acquiring that data set. Now, the only way you could really replicate that public data is if you went to physically went to the individual railroad commission, district offices and loaded up a bunch of microfiche. So that data's digital. We've got it now. What's really neat is we're running it through our modern QA and QC processes. So adding data production volumes in Texas all the way back to the 30s, and then taking further, taking the lease level production data and allocating it to a well level. Nobody in industry is doing that right now from nobody from a vendor perspective. So that project that's ongoing and will be completed before the end of the year. Having historical production back to the 30s allocated to the well level, excited about that and proud of our team to get that done. Caroline:27:55Not to ask a silly question, but what is microfiche is that what you said? Ted:28:01I said microfiche, yeah. Jason:28:01You don't remember Microfiche? (Laughter) Caroline:28:02You're talking to a millennial. Jason:28:04I feel so old. Ted:28:06The point there is the data is not digital, it's manual, it's on microfilm. Microfiche it's lots and lots of hours of labor to recapture that data in database format. And now that we've got it, it's going to be real exciting. Jason:28:27My experience with microfiche was always in elementary school going to the library. So at the library they always had stacks of microfiche that had historical newspapers from the past and you can still find them and they're really, they're almost like little slides like you remember, do you remember what slides looked like? (Laughter) No, it's done. That's true. It's already 2020. [inaudible] There was a special microfiche reader to see them. And you flip through each one of them. But that's how they always documented historical papers. So we'd go back and have to do research projects and you'd have to go find your little microfiche from the library. And when you looked it up, you would slide through and it was like a little projector screen that read the fiche from like the little, little tiny film and scrolled through the little film. So it is almost like a negative Ted:29:17It's a picture of a document. So I'm not the only millennial in the room. So Katie, I'm gonna make a safe assumption that you did not know what that was? Katie:29:23Nope, no, I had no idea what that was, but I have seen it in movies. So thank you for that visual like connected the two for sure. Ted:29:31That's right. But that, that tells you how you know how- Caroline:29:37How hard to find it, how hard to find that data is. Ted:29:39That's right. There weren't computerized records back then, but we still need the data Caroline:29:44Absolutely. Katie:29:44So you've talked a lot about onshore, so do you offer the same kinds of products offshore as well or what do you, how does it go from onshore to offshore? Jason:29:58That's a good question, actually, because with TGS and with the amount of data that we have onshore as really dense area of log data per se, so we can do areas like the Permian, the Eagleford or the DJ basin and fill them in with 5,000 Wells and pick tops and all 5,000 of those Wells. And they all have temperature points. So we can do our base in temperature models there. Offshore, it gets a little bit more difficult because there are, the data's not so close together and offshore particularly say in the Gulf of Mexico, the geology gets a little more tricky, particularly with basin temperature models because you start dealing with more salt. You start dealing with just having the water to sediment differences that you'll- we understand pretty well, but the more well data you have, the more we can make those interpretive products. Jason:30:55So we have, sort of, different products offshore and like I mentioned before, we have the facies map browser is almost exclusively offshore because we can do that along mainly 2D lines, so long 2D lines that go over large areas and are- usually have a few wells connected to them in exploration areas. So the newest one of those is what we're trying to start now in Mexico and the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico where a few years ago we shot a really large 185,000 kilometer 2D survey called Gigante. So we interpreted that whole survey and we shot gravity and magnetics over it. So we actually have a gravity and magnetics model that we've built on that area that helps a lot in exploration, but we've also interpreted all the seismic to pick certain horizons. We would like to go a few steps further and actually understand your stratigraphic facies and your sequence stratigraphy that's in there. Jason:31:56And that's what we're, we're trying to do now with the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico. And it's a little bit easier there because there's less wells there and a lot of the operators that are moving in there since they opened up Mexico aren't there. So they don't have as big a knowledge base as they do in the U S Gulf of Mexico. And that big large knowledge base in the U S Gulf of Mexico from the operators that have been there for 40 or 50 years has really limited multi-client type interpretation studies. Because say the Exxons or the Shells or the Chevrons have been in these basins for so long, especially the Gulf of Mexico that they have the working knowledge of those basins and they train their employees on that pretty easily. So they don't necessarily need an outside company like TGS to sort of give them the boost or the the heads up or the, the first step to get into a basin. Jason:32:53Whereas in other basins around the world where we have facies, map browsers, we've had them for a while, we have new companies coming in and going more often. So they sort of like having that extra layer of knowledge that we can offer on shore. In the Gulf of Mexico though we did do a post-well analysis, which is just looking at specific wells and I think we have a little over a hundred now and they're either dry holes or or discoveries and they sort of show the stratigraphy they show why it was a dry hole or why was it a discovery. We match that up with seismic and certain areas so you can see the structures that were being drilled at the time. So we do have that. And then in the Mexico side of Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico, we have production data on both sides now. Jason:33:41So we actually have the contract with the Mexican government to provide not only the seismic but the well log data in Mexico, but also the production data in Mexico. On the U.S. Gulf, we have the contract to deliver log data. So companies that drill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, they actually send their log data to TGS. We hold it for the 26 month timeframe. And then we clean that data up. We provide our LAS plus package. We provide that back to the BOEM or BSCE, the government entity that sort of controls the Gulf of Mexico. And then we also provide that to any other company that would like to purchase it. So we're the - TGS is actually, we've had that contract for a little over 10 years now and we've just renewed it this year. Katie:34:34So like how much coverage do you have in the Gulf of Mexico? Data-Wise. Jason:34:38Data-wise? So all of it really. So with the, with the recent acquisition of spectrum, we now have 2D coverage that extends all the way from Florida to the Rio Grande Valley really. So we have 2D coverage that covers, there are, TGS is a seismic company. Our core seismic area has always sort of been 3D seismic anyway, has always sort of been the Mississippi Canyon, DeSoto Canyon, Atwater Valley area. We have lots of 3D seismic. We're currently shooting seismic there. We'll just finished up some new nodal surveys there and doing reprocessing. But we have 2D and 3D coverage across the whole area and well data we have all of it. We have every well that's ever been drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. Ted:35:27On the production data song for Gulf of Mexico. The data's really, really nice from that perspective. I mean every well is reported oil, gas and water, monthly production. Well tests are extensive in the Gulf of Mexico. Perhaps the federal government does a better job of reporting well test data, making sure operators are testing those Wells annually and semiannually and getting that data out to public. So you also get access to certain pressure data in there, you know, flowing tubing pressure, bottomhole pressure, et cetera. So that data sets we like working with that. And now on the Mexico side, you know, we've got full coverage of Mexico petroleum industry. There's about 21,000 Wells with production in Mexico. About 1100 of those are offshore and we have captured and calculated monthly production for all of those Wells. So that was a fun project. Learning to translate certain wellheader attributes from Spanish to English that was fun to do. Converting units of measurement down there from a, you know, average daily rates to total monthly production. Bottom line is that data's now standardized in our library monthly oil and barrels in Mexico, monthly gas and MCF water in barrels. And,looking at the data, there are world-class wells in Mexico, so I think the continued release of data from Mexico. Hopefully we'll stay on track there with the, the government releasing data. Like I said, there's there's been some really gigantic flow rates down there, particularly offshore and no reason to think there's not great opportunity there. Seismic Katie:37:36Where's your seismic that you just shot in Mexico. Where does the location lies? Jason:37:40So the, the 2D seismic that's there, the original Gigante is all offshore and covers the entire Mexican Gulf of Mexico 2D. So it covers everything and it even goes sort of around the horn of the Yucatan near Belize. So it covers everything sort of almost into the Caribbean. We've also been doing looking at reprocessing efforts to extend some of our, to extend the seismic onshore to offshore and the Sureste and Tampico areas. And then we're also looking at 3D programs as well. Katie:38:15Very nice. Jason:38:16So there's quite a bit there. And that's not the only place that we have seismic or well log data. So TGS is actually always, I always try to remind me, we have well log data worldwide. So we have data. Do you know Russia and Africa and Australia and Malaysia all over Europe. And all over South America as well. And seismic too. I sort of focus on Western hemisphere so I know a little bit more about that part, but that's still quite a quite a large area sometime. And we're we're, we're looking at wells and seismic all across, both North and South American. Ted:38:53Don't forget Canada. Jason:38:55And Canada too, we have quite a bit of seismic in Canada as well. Caroline:39:00Nice. So one question I have for the table, we know that as TGS is predominantly a seismic company, but we also offer well data. How does that, how does that really help our clients when we offer two very different and unique datasets together? Jason:39:19I think the biggest part of that is making a complete geologic picture for explorationists. So you need the seismic to really sort of understand areas where we don't have well data and that well data really helps the seismic become better. One of the good examples of that is in some of our reprocessing efforts we're doing offshore, we're incorporating as much well data as we can, particularly Sonic data so that we can really understand the velocity models. And really make sure that we can tie those velocity models when they come out and with our seismic comes out in depth that our wells tie perfectly with them. The more well data we have, the better our seismic is going to be at the end of the day. We've always tied a few Wells that we can here and there, but since TGS has so much well data, it's a real benefit to our clients to be able to use that in the seismic processing and in reprocessing as more wells come out. Caroline:40:20So I'm just curious, you know, we are now offering a new product in the well data group. That's our analytics ready LAS that basically allows us to offer even more data. How do you feel about the machine learning algorithms that we're using in forecasting or with well logs? How do you feel about using that as geologists, Katie and Jason? Jason:40:42So one of the things that we've noticed quite a bit with this is you get a really nice big picture and particularly with analytics ready, we like to call it just ARLAS AR-LAS is that that big picture of that first presentation you can get, particularly when it comes to velocity models in Sonic where you don't have seismic. So one of the great images, and I don't know if I can explain this well through through radio, but one of the great images that you can have is with regular well data you have lots of lots of holes. So we didn't drill every place we could and then every place we drilled through time, we didn't do every log we could do. So a lot of the well logs that we have, particularly on onshore might have one or two curves. They might have a resistivity and a gamma ray or some of the older ones just might have an SP curve. Jason:41:32What can start doing with AR or the analytic ready Las is incorporate sort of Sonics into all of those logs and start understanding where we have those deviations in Sonic across the whole area where it hasn't been drilled. So from a big picture, it really helps you understand how that would tie together where you might want to drill next or what might, what interesting features you wouldn't see where a well isn't drilled without having seismic. And if you have seismic then you can tie them both together as well to kind of have a better understanding of of your depth processing. Ted:42:13And I might add onto that AI question back on the production forecasting a challenge. So we're offering both methodologies now of course we have our, you know, our traditional hyperbolic curve fit type forecasting algorithms that work well and offering the physics based you know, probabilistic spread forecasting new. Your question is how do we think about that? It's like, how does the industry think about that? I know everybody's talking about it. Everyone's trying to figure it out. To me, getting a million forecast in a couple of seconds is impressive. Right? And getting that full spread on each, well a P 10 through a P 99 forecast right at your fingertips. It's powerful stuff. Caroline:43:07Yeah. I'd be really curious to see where machine learning and artificial intelligence takes TGS in the future with other types of derivative products that we end up discovering and producing and really making sure that we're getting these to the industry to reduce cycle time. So I think that's pretty cool. Jason:43:22Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think we're, we're already moving in that direction with filling in log curves and in the seismic side trying to understand different seismic bodies. So using machine learning and AI to serve as a tool to understand where salt is in a quicker, more timely fashion or to even start understanding easier ways to define horizons or define some amplitude attributes as well. Jason:43:49[To Katie] So you've seen our data and played with our data and hopefully in the future is you're, you know, experiencing your geology career, you'll get to use it much more. Ted:44:01I think she's just scratched the surface with our data, right. I know all that data. Jason:44:06You had the unique opportunity to use it to come into our -come into the company and see what it was like to have that much data at your fingertips. Can you tell us a little bit about how, what that was like and how, how that's different from then to school to now that you're, you're in the industry. Katie:44:24So I came into TGS knowing nothing, well, not knowing nothing, but you know, minimal. You think you, every time you start somewhere you like think you know something, but you really don't, which I've learned again third time. Ted:44:37Right? Katie:44:37So at TGS, I wouldn't say it was just, I learned how to work with all this data, which was overwhelming at first. It was like I learned how to, I don't know, act, not just like socially in an office, right? But I also learned like what's important, what's not important. It's easy to get bogged down in the details when you go from zero to 100 real quick. Caroline:45:03So you've really had a unique perspective. Especially compared to a lot of us at TGS, you started off in an internship with us getting into the data and learning the data, applying the data. Right. And then I believe maybe you've even used it in your thesis. Katie:45:20Right. Caroline:45:20And now that you're in the industry, what has that looked like for you? Ted:45:26How about, how about how do you access data being an industry now? Katie:45:31When I've looked at data, it tells me, it makes me feel comfortable. It clears up uncertainties.. It's not telling me what's going on, but at least I'd like have more of a general idea. So when I look at these large amounts of data that I get for a project, let's say like I did in grad school, it's okay, I have this data. What does the data tell me? Does it tell me if it's pinching out? Does it tell me if it's, you know, this big chunk or maybe the depositional environment. That's what I looked at a lot in well logs the petrophysics. Jason:46:08No, it's understandable. You get thrown a lot of data in these situations and it's how you put that together, how you can efficiently use it. And that's something that we're always trying to make easier for people. It helps in a lot of situations, particularly in, in super major type of companies or in a lot of different companies, even smaller companies that they have geo techs that efficiently use our data before they give it to you. Right? So a lot of times you never, you'll never get to see the first part of, you know, where did this data come from because it all just ends up on your desktop. Right? Katie:46:42Right. So like I, what I liked about my experience I guess at TGS is I saw the beginnings, right? What a geotech would put it in. So I like got to see that visual fresh or put my own spin on it when we were using Longbow. So making those bubble plots or looking at URs and decline curves. I don't have, I don't, I haven't gotten that experience yet, but I'm a Guppy. Caroline:47:10So it was like you were getting access to data sets such as the, you know, the EURs and the forecasting database that you probably didn't necessarily have access to while you were working on your masters. Katie:47:21Right. And didn't know about until it came to TGS. Ted:47:26And the ability to build that project from scratch. I imagine a lot of times now in industry, you walk in and sit down and there are gigantic projects already existing and workflows established as opposed to like starting at the beginning. Katie:47:46Right. Which is overwhelming. Like I remember Jason was like, Hey, y'all are going to map from Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. That was very overwhelming. Now I just, you know, you get a project and it, someone's already, most of the time, I don't know picked through it. So you don't, it's not very fresh. Jason:48:09But now you're not afraid of the deep end of the pool. Katie:48:10I don't know about that... Jason:48:10Right. We threw you right in the deep end and I, you can swim. You're ready to go. Katie:48:18Oh no. I'm still learning. Jason:48:18Well that's good. Never wanna stop learning. Ted:48:22We're all still learning. Katie:48:22Right. But I'm really still learning. As a new worker bee. Jason:48:30So Katie, is there anything we haven't seen you in a little while? I know that you're, you're in Louisiana now. Is there anything that you want to ask us that you're interested in from a, from your perspective after you've graduated and are now moving onto bigger and better things that might help you in the future? Katie:48:48Maybe not something that would- maybe wouldn't help me in the future, but also help other people that are looking for jobs. Is, are y'all looking for employment? Like looking to employ anyone or what does that look like? It sounds like you're doing a lot of work. So do you have people to fill these positions or are you, how does that go for y'all? Do you even know? Jason:49:10Well, that's one of those great HR questions where, you know, we're always, we're always just busy enough to need new people. (Laughter) Caroline:49:20And I think with, you know, new departments that were growing especially new datasets like Ted is talking about Mexico and Canada, I feel like it really helps to position us to grow, you know, as a company as a whole. So opportunities are always always coming up. Yeah. Jason:49:36I know particularly with our internship program, we're always looking for, you know, young, exciting new talent that can, that can come in and help us out. But also like you did learn about data from sort of the bottom up and take that knowledge base to other companies. So we don't only like training people to come and stay with us or we're perfectly happy bringing in interns and having them go out in the world and and learn something from us that they can bring somewhere else. Katie:50:06Oh sorry. I would say that that's why I like had not, I think that working at TGS was nice for others to see cause they knew that I had experience I guess with production data, which is a cool talking point I think. Caroline:50:22And just to build off of that, Ted has done a really great job building this new initiative, which is getting our well performance data in the universities to work with people like you, Katie, while you were getting your masters to make sure that we're able to provide data to other other programs and get geologists or young geologists access to data sets that they wouldn't have or wouldn't be familiar with whenever they're entering the workforce. Ted:50:48That's right. So, you know, we're happy to donate donate our products, donate production data and Longbow to the universities. As you know, at ULL they brought it into the geoscience and engineering groups. And now we're sitting on the, what the 20 workstations in the lab and part of the curriculum. So it's exciting at the same time, giving the students access to these data products learning actual, you know, working product tools. When they do get hired and hit the, hit the workforce, they're ahead of the game and ready to go. Now, from my selfish perspective, it helps to get feedback and make the products better. So it's a win win for both. Caroline:51:37Well, thanks everyone for coming out today and having this conversation, you know, hanging out, covering a lot of really awesome topics, kind of, you know, exploring where TGS is headed next, where we've been, where we're going. Katie, you know, especially thanks to you for coming all the way from New Orleans to sit with us and kind of give us your insight and your opinions and let us know how it's, how the journey has been for you. So thanks, Jason. Thanks Ted looking forward to the next, the next episode. Katie:52:01Thank you for having me. Jason:52:03Yeah, thanks Katie, it's been great Ted:52:04Thank you.

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Bob Keiller CBE is one of the most highly regarded and well respected figures in Scottish and British Business.  He is the former Chief Executive of Wood Group, a multinational energy services company which generates in excess of $10 billion in revenue, employs more than 55 thousand people and operates in over 60 countries. In December 2015 he assumed the role as Chairman of Scotland's national economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise, a role which he served for three years, stepping down at the end of 2018.  He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2017, for services to business and entrepreneurship, and in addition to a host of previous accolades such as Entrepreneur of The Year, Scottish Businessman of the year, and being inducted into Entrepreneurial Scotland's Hall of Fame, he was named as Scotland’s “icon of the year” in the 2018 Barclays Entrepreneur Awards. He’s a TEDx speaker, a LinkedIn Influencer with more than 155,000 followers, Chief Storytelling Officer at The Lens, and he now acts as a Business Advisor through his consultancy firm, AB15, where he works with companies, ambitious leaders and social enterprises, with the focus of inspiring others to succeed.    00.00 Trailer 00.12 Introduction 01.50 Bob’s early life 05.30 Bob’s career path 11.50 How did Bob evolve from someone managing 2 people to managing over 40,000 13.50 How did Bob navigate his way to the position of CEO? 16.50 Who was Bob’s best boss? 18.10 Why are core values so important? 19.50 Do core values define culture? 20.30 Delineating and implementing a businesses values 23.00 Should people be dismissed if they don’t adhere to values? 24.00 How did Bob’s specialities become his specialities? 27.00 Helping people and businesses on a pro bono basis rather than taking a position on a board 28.20 Bob on not being driven by ego 29.50 How Bob became an Influencer on LinkedIn 32.40 First things a new business should do 35.00 Using technology to grow a business 36.30 Business in Scotland 39.00 Geography as a limitation to funding a startup 41.30 Bob on his personal values 43.20 Bob on his purpose 45.50 Bob’s approach to business storytelling 49.10 What does the future hold for Bob? 50.30 Bob on his legacy 51.30 How does Bob define success? 52.30 Best piece of advice 55.00 Speaking to 20 year old self 56.20 Changing the world     You can find Bob at: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/bobkeiller https://twitter.com/bob_keiller   Find Inspired Edinburgh here: http://www.inspiredinburgh.com https://www.facebook.com/INSPIREDINBURGH https://www.twitter.com/INSPIREDINBURGH https://www.instagram.com/INSPIREDINBURGH

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Emphasizing the need for a multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary, integrative framework for understanding massive trauma and its aftermath, this presentation examines victims/survivors’ experiences primarily from the psychological perspective. It briefly describes how victims are affected by mass atrocities, their reactions, concerns and needs. Delineating necessary elements in the recovery processes from the victims’ point of view, the presentation will focus in particular on those elements of healing that are related to justice processes and victims’ experiences of such processes. Reparative justice insists that every step throughout the justice experience -- from the first moment of encounter of the Court with a potential witness through the follow-up of witnesses after their return home to the aftermath of the completion of the case -- presents an opportunity for redress and healing, a risk of missing or neglecting the opportunity for healing victims and reintegrating them into their communities and societies, or, worse, causing (re)victimization and (re)traumatization. While restitution, rehabilitation or compensation may only come after the process has concluded, there are still opportunities along the way. Although not sufficient in itself, reparative justice is nonetheless an important, if not necessary, dynamic component among the healing processes. Missed opportunities and negative experiences will be examined as a means to better understand the critical junctures of the trial and victims’ role within the process that can, if conducted optimally, lead to opportunities for healing. Yael Danieli is a clinical psychologist in private practice; victimologist; Director of the Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children (which she co-founded in 1975 in the New York City area) and Founding Co-President of the International network of Holocaust and Genocide Survivors and their Friends. She has done extensive psychotherapeutic work with survivors and children of survivors on individual, family, group and community bases. Dr. Danieli has studied in depth post-war responses and attitudes toward them, and the impact these and the Holocaust had on their lives. She has lectured and published worldwide in numerous books and journals, translated into at least 17 languages on optimal care and training for this and other victim/survivor populations, and received several awards for her work, the most recent of which is the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). In 2008 she was appointed Advisor on Victims of Terrorism for the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and helped organize the first Symposium on Supporting Victims of Terrorism at the UN. She was appointed Distinguished Professor of International Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, helping to build the first doctoral program in international psychology. She has served as consultant to the International Criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Court on issues related to victims and staff care, consultant to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Rwanda government on reparations for victims, and has led ongoing Projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Promoting a Dialogue: "Democracy Cannot Be Built with the Hands of Broken Souls") and in northern Ireland.

Where there is Mars – Let there be Venus! Oh, and let Americans know history!Caroline welcomes Stephen Kinzer, whose splendid book, "All the Shah's Men," just out in paperback, and including an urgent hyper-pertinent preface, "The Folly of Attacking Iran," is a book truly that all Americans (certainly candidates) should read. Delineating not only the 1953 American coup that overthrew the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh, and installed the Shah, this book provides us with Venus, historically informed reverent intimacy with a rich culture, whom we all would do well to understand and ally with its long desire to have truly just leadership. Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has worked in more than fifty countries. He has been New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul, Berlin, and Managua. His books include "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq." The post The Visionary Activist Show – March 13, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.

Good morning. It's wonderful to see you again on this Lord's Day as we continue our study of the sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter five. When we were together last Lord's Day, we completed the study of the beatitudes, the introductory section to the Sermon on the Mount. And now as we turn to resume the Sermon beginning in chapter five, verse 13, we enter a section that is, at least in its symbolism and language, almost surely to be rooted in our memory. Very, very familiar language. “You are the salt of the earth,” Jesus says. “You are the light of the world.” These two very powerful metaphors have been used and misused throughout Christian history. And now we confront these right in the text as Jesus is delivering the sermon on the Mount. Now, when we ended the beatitudes, we ended a distinct section of the Sermon on the Mount, but it's all part of one literary unit.Now we need to remember the historical occasion of the delivery of the sermon on the Mount. When Jesus, we are told in John chapter five, had gathered together the crowds. They had gathered unto him and he went up on the mountain and sat down. His disciples came to him. He opened his mouth and began to teach them. So, Jesus gathers his disciples, but we also know that there was a larger crowd that had come to the end of chapter four. We're told that large crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan. And so we should expect that there are really two audiences for the Sermon on the Mount. There is the audience of the disciples whom Jesus has called. He has called them together. And there are those who are gathered in the crowd who have also come because they are the overhears of what Jesus is saying primarily to his disciples.That's a very important thing for us to recognize. There's a sense in which there are those who are overhearing what Jesus speaks to his disciples, because Jesus here is speaking of his own. He's speaking of those who will come to faith in him. He's speaking of those who will be in his church, his body and his bride. He's speaking specifically to his own, but there are others who are assuredly overhearing. The “you” is addressed to those who come to him by faith, to those who are in what we shall come to know as the church, those who are his own. We do not expect that the world will live by the Sermon on the Mount. We do not expect that the world will have its conscience shaped by the Sermon on the Mount. We do not expect that the world will have a, an immediate intellectual understanding of the Sermon on the Mount.But we do expect that God's people, Christ's people, are to see this sermon as a sermon directed to us, a sermon directed to us in the present. Yes, very, very clear in the passage we begin today. This is a sermon addressed to us in the present, but it's also in its entirety an eschatological passage showing us as it were a vision from the future, from God's future, from the completion, the consummation of how things will be seen in terms of what should have been and for what God's people should be. But in Matthew chapter five, we pick up in verse 13. Very familiar language. Jesus says, “You are the salt of the earth. B ut if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty? Again, it is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”Now, one of the dangers of the Sermon on the Mount is that we tend to take these familiar verses out of context. We take them out of the context of the Sermon itself. And we take the Sermon out of the context of the gospel of Matthew. We take the gospel of Matthew out of its context within the New Testament. And we take the New Testament out of its context in terms of the entire canonical shape of Scripture. And that is always dangerous. We need to take the big view and then zero in on the precise understanding of this passage. One of the ways we injure the interpretation of the Sermon is by breaking it into separate components and saying, “Well, now, here's one section. And here's another section in particular.” One of the things we are wanting to do is to treat the beatitudes as separate from the rest of the Sermon.And that's a problem because what we find in Matthew chapter five beginning at verse 13, builds on the beatitudes. In other words, what begins here is an indictment of Christ's people if they fail to demonstrate the kind of Christ-likeness that should be the hallmark of his disciples. Jesus is saying, “Your following of me, your coming-to-me-by-faith, and the transformation that comes into your life must be evident.” There must be a demonstration of Christianity in our lives. This is to be a faith that is demonstrated in the evidence of the transformed life. And this is clearly the expectation of the Lord himself. He follows the beatitudes with this very strong statement: “You are the salt of the earth.” Now we know what salt is. And we understand it because it's necessary to life. We understand the chemical structure of salt is one of the first things you learn in chemistry class.And you understand that salt is one of the most common compounds found throughout all of creation. That life itself, biosis, seems to require salt. And of course, the human body requires salt. Certainly very interesting is something that just a couple of weeks ago showed up on YouTube and some of the other internet things. It was a 14 year old boy who was trying to run cross country when all of a sudden he realizes something is running behind him. And he looks over his shoulder and here comes a deer. It was caught by a photographer. And the deer is chasing this boy.He tries to lose the deer. The deer will not be lost. The deer finally comes up behind him and he stops and just tries to cover his head. He's laughing. He doesn't know whether he's supposed to be scared. “What is this deer going to do?” The deer puts her front legs over his shoulders and starts licking his neck. Now, one thing that a 14 year old boy is not ready for is a female deer running him down and putting her legs over his shoulder and starting to lick his neck. He's laughing. And finally someone comes and shoos the deer way. And the wildlife people determined that the deer was starved for salt.And that deer actually have the ability to smell salt. And they smelled it on the perspiration of this boy running cross country. And he ended up a love interest that he wasn't expecting, a deer who was actually after nothing more than salt. We have to have salt. And by the way, those of us who live in this part of the country have to understand this. One of the perplexing things to newcomers to Kentucky is how many little towns, villages and hamlets are named something “lick.” There's Buffalo lick and deer lick and doe lick. It's the same thing. It's because there are salt deposits where these animals come in order to lick the salt. It's necessary. There is an instinct in them to go after this salt. And we understand the necessity of it. We understand that this chemical compound is incredibly powerful.Now, one of the things that we could do with this passage is try to enumerate all the different ways that salt has been used and try to apply those metaphorically to say, “Well, this includes the church, the churches to do this.” And we can play with this. We can say that the one thing salt is a preservative. And, and we know that it is. And again, living here in Kentucky, anyone who's ever had Kentucky country ham knows that salt is a preservative, because that is all that you basically have: ham and brine and time equals a country ham. And sometimes you just need to realize this is not an elegant thing to see. As a matter of fact, every once in a while, someone has given a country ham, especially those who have pastorates in the country.I was given a country ham from time to time. I preached down in Glasgow a few years ago and was given a country ham. And, you know, that's a wonderful thing to be given. It's a wonderful gift. It's a gift of love, especially when it's a home-cooked country ham. Someone has done this himself or herself. But I have to tell you, it is an awkward thing to receive in public. It stinks. It is ugly. It is beautiful only to those who have eyes to see. There's the old story of a seminary student who happened to come from another part of the country, went out to preach and was given one of these country hams. He opened it up when it was in the trunk of his car, because it was stinky.He opened it up and saw it covered with all kinds of mold and stuff. And he threw it away on the side of the road thinking that it was rotten. He got back to the dormitory and told the other students what had happened. And they got in their car and tried to chase it down to find out exactly where he had discarded it. Because of course it isn't spoiled. That's the way it's supposed to be. You eat only what's inside. Salt is a preservative. There's bacon. Other forms of meats have been salted. And by the way, if you lived as most persons lived throughout human history, the only meat you're likely to have is meat that is immediately fresh or that is desiccated and cured by salt. That's about all there was. If, for instance, you were headed on a sea voyage or on a trip of anything, you took the equivalent of meat jerky, because it was salted and preserved and dried out.That was the only way you could take it. It was the only way it could be preserved. Is the church to be a preservative? Well, you could take that metaphor and say, “The church is to preserve those things, which ought to be preserved where the church has found.” There ought to be that preservation of the enduring things, the eternal things of God's truth. You could also speak of salt as something of an antiseptic. And it seems to work that way as well. And one of the things that sometimes happens is how salt stings in a wound, but it also seems to cleanse a wound. Salt does all kinds of things, but I'm going to suggest to you that that kind of preaching on this passage is not very helpful. Delineating the different purposes of the chemical compounds of salt and suggesting that, metaphorically, those should be extended to the church really doesn't help much here, because the point is more direct than that. Jesus appears to be using salt as a metaphor for this one point: that salt that has lost its savor or has become tasteless is worthless. In other words, the simplicity of this point seems to be that a disciple who doesn't look like a disciple, a disciple who isn't living like a disciple, a disciple who isn't speaking and talking and behaving like a disciple, is worthless to the kingdom.And we probably need no extended points beyond that, because following the beatitudes, that seems to be the essential point that Jesus is making here. He doesn't extend this out with different points about salt. He simply says, “If salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It's no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.” Now, the salt that was found and used in the ancient near east came from two basic sources. One was the dead sea, or the ocean itself, where by allowing the evaporation of the water, one would end up with the salt. But you did not use the salt from the dead sea, because it was so contaminated by other chemical compounds and heavy metals and all the rest that it was absolutely worthless. And it was also tasteless. Now was Jesus making a direct reference to this? We do not know, although that would have been very common to the understanding of the day. There is salt. That is absolutely worthless. Salt, once it has been used in the curing of meat or that is excess and not absorbed by the flesh, is salt that is useless. It's taste and usefulness has been destroyed and it is simply thrown out.So the idea that salt could become useless is probably not an impossibility to the understanding. We understand that it can become contaminated. What it means exactly for the salt to lose its savor is a little difficult perhaps to understand. It will always remain somewhat salty, but Jesus appears to be using something that by its very, well, awkwardness points to the issue: salt that is no longer salty is useless. So what do you do with it? It can't be made salty again. It's not good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. We read this passage with great danger if we do not recognize the warning that is in it. It's a warning against easy-believism. It's a warning against just some kind of tacit statement of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ without a genuine reception of Christ by faith. Without a genuine discipleship that follows. It is a severe word of indictment against nominal Christianity. It is against those who simply say, “Yes, I'm a Christian! But it's a matter of some kind of tag of some kind of membership.” It's not of a life transforming experience in coming under the sovereignty of the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.And there are those of course who are nominal Christians. And of course you understand that that is only possible if one allows yourself to be the oxymoron of nominal and Christian, because in the New Testament, those two do not go together. That's not to say they are not found. They are found. For instance, they're found in the parable of the sower and the soils. Whereas, you know, Jesus says there are four different kinds of soil reflecting four different kinds of hearts. There is the one that is the asphalted heart. The gospel does not even penetrate. And then there is the heart of the shallow soil, the superficial who gives the appearance of life. But when the full noonday sun comes out, this Christian withers and just disappears. Dies. And then there is the thorny soil. And in that soil, the seed is struggling because this is a heart that is contaminated with mixed motivations and allegiances.And then there is the good soil that yields a crop, some 30, some 60, some a hundred fold. “He who has ears,” Jesus said, “let him hear.” We should not be surprised that there are those who are superficial in their response to the faith. In their response to the gospel. In their response to Christ. But their superficiality shows. That's the point. Eventually those who have eyes to see and ears to hear understand that that kind of superficiality shows in the parable. It shows when the full noon sun comes out as a metaphor of persecution. And when that sun bears its heat down upon that young seedling that is in that shallow soil, it withers and dies.This is a warning in Matthew chapter five in the Sermon on the Mount against nominal Christianity. “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty? Again, it is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” Now, as we have said, this is building upon the beatitudes. This is an indictment. It is a challenge. It's a test. We should read this passage the way the disciples would have heard it: “Are we really the followers of Christ?” But there is also a different and an additional meaning to this verse. And it has to do with the impact of Christ's people in the society. Now, we would not know that merely from Matthew 5:13. We know that from what follows in this passage. In verses 14 and following, after Jesus spoke to his people and said, “You are the salt of the earth,” in verse 14, he says, “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden, nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket but on the lampstand. And it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”Now again, one of the dangers of any Bible study is that we'll take a verse out of context, and this is perhaps particularly dangerous and seductive when the verses are very familiar to us. And this verse is familiar to us. “You are the light of the world” is familiar to us by its use. And it's familiar to us by its misuse. Just to be very clear: this is not talking about the United States of America. This is talking about the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. One of the earliest of the Pilgrim fathers, John Winthrop, speaking of their ambition to establish a Christian community in which the pilgrims came, after all, to establish. He said, “This shall be as a city upon a hill.” C-I-T-E is the way he spelled it. In other words, this city, which is to be established on gospel principles, shall be a light unto the nations.That metaphor was left with the pilgrims, by and large, until president Ronald Reagan picked that up and applied it to the United States. He spoke of the United States as a city upon a hill. We understand what he meant by that, that the United States was to be an example to other nations. But in fairness to the Sermon on the Mount, this is not talking about any nation. Not even the United States of America. It's speaking of Christ people. It's speaking of the church. The church is the light of the world. And the church is to be, as it were, the city that is set upon a hill. In order to understand this passage, we need to understand something that comes along before this. This has to do with the fact that one of the primary points of identity for Israel as God's covenant people is that Israel was to be the light to the nations.This is familiar language. The Jewish people hearing Jesus speak of this would have understood that this was what was assigned to Israel. We can find this, for instance, in the prophet, Isaiah. In Isaiah chapter 42 and verse six, the Lord speaks to Isaiah to say, “I am the Lord and I have called you in righteousness. I will also hold you by the hand and watch over you. And I will appoint you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations, to open blind eyes, to being prisoners from the dungeon. And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.” That's verses six and seven of Isaiah via chapter 42. Here, Israel is told, “You are to be as my people, a light to the nations.” This is in fulfillment of what was given as a witness unto Abraham and the Abrahamic covenant when we were told, “Through you and your seed, all the peoples of the earth shall be blessed.”They are blessed by the fact that Israel was to be a light to the nations. Not just to bear testimony to Israel's faith in the one true and living God, but to be a light unto others, that they too would come to know Yahweh, Jehovah, the one true and living God. We find that in Isaiah 42:6 and also in Isaiah 49, verse six, just a few pages over. The Lord speaking through Isaiah chapter 49 verse six, he says, “It is too small a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel. I will also make you a light to the nations so that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.” In other words, here, Israel is told, “It's not just about you. It's about the fact that I will raise you up. I will preserve the tribes of Jacob and I will restore the preserved ones, the remnant of Israel, in order that my covenant people will be a light of the nations. Why? So that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.” And how would this be accomplished?Well, Isaiah also speaks of that in a messianic prophecy that is very familiar to us in Isaiah chapter nine verse two. Very, very familiar language to us. “The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. Those who live in a dark land, the light will shine on them.” So how does Israel become a light to the nations? Well, even in Isaiah, we are told that this is a messianic vision. This is a messianic promise. Through the Messiah the people who have dwelled in darkness will see a great light. In covenantal history, God's faithfulness to his promises to Israel are a demonstration of this light. The fact that God preserved his covenant people from their exile and brought them back and restored them is a testimony to this light. But in reality, it was only in the coming of the Messiah that the light was truly seen. The light was truly evident. The light was truly so present and undeniable that it became as a light unto the nations. Israel never fulfilled its universal purpose in itself. Its universal call and universal mission is fulfilled only in Christ.When Jesus says, “You are the light of the world,” therefore, he is picking up one of the most powerful metaphors. One of those powerful messages is identifying Israel. And he says, “It's fulfilled in you, in those who are my own.” But we also know it is fulfilled in Christ. Just think of the prologue to John's gospel. John chapter one. What do we read here? “In him was life. And the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it.” This is another very clear statement of the fact that it is in the Messiah that the light has come.Just for instance, in the prologue to John's gospel, when he shifts from speaking of Jesus to speaking of John the Baptist, he said, “There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify about the light so that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but he came to testify about the light. There was the true light, which coming into the world, enlightens every man. He was in the world and the world was made through him and the world did not know him. He came into his own and those who were his own did not receive him. But as many as received him to them gave he the right to become the children of God. Even to those who believe in his name, who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor the will of man, but of God.”Light becomes a powerful metaphor for our own salvation. We are enlightened by the gospel, and we are enlightened in order to see the gospel. Peter, writing to the church, in I Peter chapter two verse nine says this: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession.” Now, again, that is picking up the language very much like on the Sermon on the Mount. That is picking up the language of the Old Testament address to Israel. And now Peter says to the church, “You are the fulfillment of this. You are the recipient of these promises, and you in this present age are the demonstration of what God had promised to do through Israel so that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”So our salvation here is pictured as being taken from darkness to light. A little footnote: Does that mean that God is finished with Israel? By no means. Paul addresses this in the center of the book of Romans, where he makes very clear that there will be an outpouring of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in the latter days, so that Israel will respond to Christ by faith. And thus the light will shine through them to the nations. But Jesus in Matthew chapter five is speaking to his own disciples and to those who are overhearing him and he says, “You are the light of the world.” This takes on a great deal of meaning. We need to understand that Jesus does not say that these are the marks of the church's aspiration. He doesn't say “You should try to be the salt of the earth.”He doesn't say, “You should try to be the light of the world.” He doesn't say, “If you're really faithful, if you're really true, you will be salty and you will be illuminating.” He says, “My people are these things, essentially. If you are my people, then you are salty and you are enlightening. If you are my people, you are the salt of the earth and you are the light of the world.” This is not something Jesus holds out as an aspiration. It's an established reality. It's an objective reality. “If you are my people, this is who you are: salt of the earth and the light of the world.” Jesus presses this metaphor. He says, “A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”I don't know if you've seen one of these maps, but the maps are absolutely fascinating. They are maps of the world at night taken by satellite. National Geographic published several of these. You can find them at the National Geographic website. If you haven't seen them, you need to see them because it tells you so much about the world. Because what you see is, is where light is found at night, and where the light is found, two other things are found. Human beings and modernity. Human beings and electricity. You find concentrations of human beings in a display of electricity at night in these incredible satellite maps. And where do you see illumination? Let's just say you take the east coast and the west coast of America, and you go about a hundred or 200 miles in. And there are bands of light all around. It's like the borders where the ocean hits are just illuminated with light. And as you come further into the country, there are now more sporadic groupings of light. You can identify cities. You don't even have to have place names. You can see Pittsburgh and Louisville and Cincinnati, and you can see Dallas and Houston and Chicago, and you can just travel. You can see these cities, but then the further west you go, the more darkness there appears. Why? Because the population density is going way down.Now, there are people there. And there is electricity there, but they're spread out in such a way that they're not concentrated. So they're not caught on the satellite image in the same way. You can certainly see why Canada is so affected by the United States. All you have to do is see one of these maps of North America at night, because what you see is that virtually the entire Canadian population in terms of its density is right along the American border. The further north you go, it's dark. The rest of the world is very interesting because the rest of the world is relatively dark. Now, of course, in Europe, you have a great deal of light. And then also now in the Pacific rim, you have a great deal of light, in places like Australia. Where there are concentrations of population, you see the light, but you see that a great deal of the world is in darkness.What's very interesting about that kind of map is that it tells you where electricity is found, and it tells you where human beings are found in density. But where there is darkness, even though there is no electricity, it actually doesn't mean there are no human beings, because some of the largest cities in the world - and remember that the largest cities in the world are now in what we would call the third world or the two-thirds world or the developing world, or the global south, depending on what terminology you want to use - do not show up like the major cities of the north. But they are teaming with millions and millions and millions of persons. What do they lack? Well, according to this map, what they lack is access to electricity. But of course from a gospel perspective, it will be fascinating to see where light would show up in terms of the presence of gospel congregations.That would be interesting, wouldn't it? If we had some kind of satellite image where all of a sudden, we could see the population of the world, and we could see not light bulbs being reflected in terms of the satellite perception, but what if we could see the gospel? What if we get to see gospel preaching? What if we could see evangelism as illuminated in that way? I think we would be embarrassed to see the disparity between, for instance, North America, where we would have a lot of light, thankfully of gospel churches, and where the rest of the world would be so hungry for the same. That's not to say that our task in this country is complete. It's not to say this country is a Christian country. If anything, the passage we're reading right now should be an indictment of American Christianity because of its nominalism and because of its superficiality. There is not enough light there nor enough demonstration of the transforming power of the gospel. But a city set upon a hill cannot be hidden any more than on one of these satellite maps. A city that has electricity, that has the lights on, cannot be hidden. It cannot happen. The satellite will find that light and will display it on the image. And again, I would just suggest you go and look at it, because it's just a matter of sheer fascination. “A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” Christ's people will become evident. Christ's people will be evident in the world by the saltiness that is the proof of the gospel. And by the light, the illuminating power of the gospel, that is our assignment. “A city set on a hill cannot be hidden,” Christ says, “nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand.”And it gives light to all who are in the house. Now, one of the other things we have to keep in mind about this is that we have this ability to walk into a room and flip on a switch, and there is light. And I really like that. But you realize how much that becomes ingrained within us, and you know, to your own embarrassment, as I share that embarrassment with you, how that training and patterning comes out. Because what happens when the electricity goes out? You still turn on the switches. When you go in the room, it's just human nature. We're so well-trained in that way. There's no electricity, but you enter a room. What do you do? You turn on the light. And when you turn on the light, you're shocked when nothing happens, because it's supposed to come on. That light is supposed to illuminate the room. But we have light bulbs all over. I can't imagine how many light bulbs are in the house in which we live. I don't want to ever have to count them.It takes a lot of light, and we use light in so many different kinds of ways. Just think of all the light bulbs in this building. They're there for a purpose. It would be ridiculous to go to the trouble to light a lamp only to cover it up. That's insane. It is likewise insane for a Christian to claim to follow Christ and to give no demonstration of it. And furthermore, it defies the very purpose of God in bringing enlightenment to us if we are not a light unto others. No one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel or under a basket, but puts it on a lampstand. Now, another one of the ways that we can be fooled and, perhaps, made more complacent in understanding this passage is that light for us is such an easy thing.It is a matter of flipping a switch or plugging in a lamp and putting in a light bulb. We have very powerful little lights that can now be carried on a key chain. There's no excuse for us not to have light. We have energy. We have power, and we have access to light. We live in multi-room houses in which every room has its own illumination, but the vast majority, if not all of them, of those hearing Jesus speak would almost assuredly be living in homes that would have been one room in terms of a living area. And they did the most amazing thing back during this time: when it was dark, they slept. Because it was relatively difficult to do much of anything else. Because even when we think about lamps and candles, we need to realize that in the first century, those are still very, very dim in terms of the light that they put out.I have in my library a lamp from the time of Jesus. It's a beautiful little thing. You would have poured a little oil into it. You would have put a little cotton wick into it and you would have lit it. And it would have put off a very, very dim glow, perhaps enough just to take care of some of the necessities of life. But it would not light so that you could read very well. It would not light so that you could do the cooking. It would light just enough so that you would be able to do the necessary things at night: get ready to go to bed and to sleep. Jesus said it would be foolish for someone to go to all that trouble, to light a lamp, and then put a basket over it.You wouldn't do that. Instead, you'd put it on a lampstand, because the whole purpose of having it is to maximize the light. And so in a house, you would put it on a lampstand so that there would be some glow in the entire room. So also God's people are not to hide their witness. Christ's people are not to be an invisible people, but are to be evident by the illumination that comes through us, through Christ's disciples to the world. Lest we would miss the point, verse 16 makes it emphatically clear: “Let your light shine before men.” So Jesus here is very clear in increasing the specificity. He increases the sharpness of his point by making this now an imperative, because the verses of 13 and 14 and then 14, continuing into 15, were descriptive. Now, of course, since they're in the Sermon, we know they're also in the context as words of encouragement and, indeed, admonition, but they are descriptive. “You are the salt of the earth.” “You are the light of the world.” But in verse 16, it becomes a command and an imperative. “Let your light shine before men.” Why? How? “In such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your father who isn't heaven.”So Jesus here says to his own people, “It's not just that you are the salt of the earth. And it's not just that you are the light of the world. It is that my purpose in you is that you would let your light shine before the world, before humanity, before men, in such a way that they would see your good works.” There is no message more clear in the New Testament than salvation by grace through faith. There is no message more repugnant to the New Testament than works-righteousness, but there is no point more easily missed than the fact that the salvation which comes to us by grace through faith is to become evident in good works, which are done to the glory of God. There is no tension between Paul and James. There is no confusion between grace and works. The New Testament is clear. Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to the glory of God alone.[inaudible]There is no question that in the new Testament works-righteousness is described as an anti-gospel. It is a fatal misconstrual of the gospel. It is the opposite of the logic of the gospel. It is a denial of grace, and it is a repudiation of faith. It leads not to life but to death. But is a fatal misunderstanding of the gospel of grace if we think that grace never becomes evident. Because the New Testament is clear here. Jesus is clear. Grace does become evident. Grace becomes evident in the life of the one who has been saved by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone. There's the evidence of good works. There's the evidence of the transforming power of Christ in the life. There's the evidence that old things are now gone. Behold, all things have become new. There is the evidence of the fact that the things we once hated, we now love, and the things we once loved, we now hated. The things which we once could not do and would not do, we now find ourselves doing, and we find Christ's pleasure in doing them. But our good works are not to draw attention to the works nor to the worker. Our good works are not to draw attention to ourselves in terms of our goodness. That's the temptation, isn't it? We all want to have the merit badge of good works. But what we are told here is that these works are to be done. “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they would see your good works” and then do what? “and glorify your father, who is in heaven.”I met a parent, a mother actually, of one of our students. A couple of years ago, I happened to be preaching in a church. And I did not know that this was a home church and one of our students. And, and yet I was thrilled. And then his mother came up to me and she said, “I want to tell you why I believe in the gospel.” She said, “Now, I always believed in it. But I want to tell you why I believe in it in a whole new way now.” She said, “Because I know my son and I know who he was, and I know who he is. And I know there can be only one explanation for that. And that is the power of God and Jesus Christ.” She said, “I have never known anyone who was headed in so many wrong directions simultaneously as he was.”I never knew that a mother could find such shame in a son and such fear in what might happen next. And she said, “But when he came to faith in Christ, everything changed.” And she said, “You know, I doubted it, because he had tried every scheme imaginable. He tried this and that, and he'd come home with plan A and plan B. But none of them worked.” And she said, “So I was somewhat skeptical.” Then she said, “But I have seen the proof positive because of the change that's coming to his life.” She said, “Nothing explains this except Jesus. Nothing possibly could explain this.” She said, “You know, everything, he once loved, he just left. And now he's doing this stuff he used to make fun of.” And she said, “You know, the strangest thing is I'm embarrassed, because as a mother, I was praying for him this way, but I was praying but not believing that I would ever see this.” She said, “But the weirdest thing is his former friends find him such a puzzle.” She said, “They still come around to ask about him thinking that he's going to fall back into their ways. And yet, he doesn't. But he does see them and he just keeps witnessing to them.” And she said, “The amazing thing is they keep coming back.”Well, that was one mother's testimony, a testimony of what she has seen happened in her own son, the son who had gone in every bad direction imaginable and is now called as a minister of the gospel of Christ. Not in some flash and immediate thing that in which he just showed up at the seminary right after having a conversion experience. No, this was after some time when this that is commanded in the Sermon on the Mount had been demonstrated in his life. The demonstration had been there. And on the basis of that, the church celebrated this call in his life. One of the things I said to her is, “Look, you know, there isn't a student at the seminary who doesn't have this kind of story. It's not always as graphic. It's not always as dramatic as the story you have told, but this is the story of every sinner transformed by grace.”This is the apostle Paul's testimony. This is Romans chapter seven that leads into Romans chapter eight. This is a story of what happens in the life of one whose heart despises the things of God and is now transformed to the love of the things of God. A heart that is entirely self-centered in animosity towards God, an egocentrism as the very root of its operation that is transformed. And only the grace of God in Christ can explain this. And God is glorified. “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works.” And they better be there. That's the demonstration. That's the indictment of easy-believism and nominal Christianity. This is the passage that follows the beatitudes and says, “Look, those are not sweet little sayings that are to be written just like their little pithy maxims be found in a greeting card or printed on a calendar somewhere and hung on a wall. This has to be the defining mark of my people. And my people will show themselves, as my people, the same way that salt is undeniably salty and light is undeniably bright. My people will make themselves evident. Let your light so shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who was in heaven.” When this is true, when this happens, then God is glorified through the power of the display of the gospel of Christ. This passage is not first and foremost about the church in the world but about the church before her Lord. But it is also about the church in the world. And it's not about political influence. It's not about cultural influence. It's about gospel influence: the salt of the earth.And the light of the world.We are to let our light shine before men in such a way that they may see our good works and glorify our Father, who is in heaven. And when that happens, we bring a focus on the gospel. We demonstrate the preeminence of Christ and we show the power of the gospel and transformed the lives. And the end result of that is that God is glorified. Again, it comes back to the fact that what we believe is that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to the glory of God alone.Let's pray together.Father, we are so thankful for this passage. Thank you for setting these words in such an order that we understand how one point leads to another, how one theme leads to another, how one verse blends into another, how your consistent and progressive revelation in Scripture helps us to see all that we need to see in order to be your disciples in this generation. Father, thank you for informing us through Christ that we are, as his people, salt and light, the salt of the earth, the light of the world. Father, may we live by the power of the gospel and the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit in us. Maybe we live as Christ's people under the authority of Scripture in such a way that people may see our good works and glorify you. We pray this in the strong name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. God bless you. We'll see you next Sunday. 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