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Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 30:05

Desiree Grace is the General Manager of Flex Wind and Andrea Olson is an author and Customer-Centricity expert.

Bernadette Del Chiaro on the Benefits of Distributed Solar

Flanigan's Eco-Logic

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 35:16

Bernadette Del Chiaro has a new job. She has left her longstanding and most effective role as the Executive Director of the California Solar and Storage Association, and joined the Environmental Working Group (EWG) as a senior vice president. She makes clear that she is not leaving the fight for distributed solar and storage. The attack on net energy metering, and the downturn in the California Solar industry are alarming. Bernadette is just supporting the fight from a different position. EWG is focused on health... the food we eat, the air we breathe, the power we rely on.Bernadette makes clear the benefits of local, distributed solar and storage. It saves everyone money, not just those that have panels on their roofs. It creates local jobs. It helps the State meet our climate protection goals. And all ratepayers save money as our utilities do not have to build new power plants. They also do not need to spend billions of dollars on new transmission and distribution lines. She points out that while generating solar in the desert is very inexpensive, it's the cost of the transmission to bring it to us that jacks up power bills. This has been quite out of sight of California's ratepayers but the resulting rate increases are severe.She discusses how there are now two million California homes, businesses, schools, organizations, and public facilities of all kinds that now have solar. And as a result, she explains, the State did not need to build 16,000 MW of new generating capacity. Again, distributed resources -- paid by individual home and business owners and others -- are saving us all money. But despite this, our utilities continue to attack distributed generation.Ted and Bernadette talk about future models" Will utilities embrace networked distributed resources, or will they resist, potentially amplifying grid defection? Already utilities have imposed fees on solar system owners... disincentivizing solar and storage and the benefits that they provide. So the fight goes on. Bernadette is clear that there is stronger need than ever for advocacy of the benefits of distributed generation, warning that the force of utility profit-making is daunting, and needs a strategic and more-diligent-than-ever approach.

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CL so close now - Villa move into 6th!

Married to Claret and Blue - an Aston Villa Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 35:37

Husband and wife team Verna and Rupert discuss the game and the huge implications for Villa's chances of Champions League qualification for the second year runningThe toughest of the remaining games complete and that's 21 points from 24 and fast finishing Villa seem calmer than some very nervous teams above.A very measured performance, full of exceptional individual games Some unlikely heroes:Cash MOM?Onana MOM?Mings Emery team selection excellent and worked a treatThe tactics perfectPlayers scores Subs Ramsey sending off last minute drama Distributed by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

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DistributED: Schneider Electric Provides Compliance Guidelines

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Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 24:05

Mike Montanari is the Vice-President of Channel Development and Charles DeCorpo is the Director of Transformation Operations at Schneider Electric.

The Brinae Alexander Interview

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Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 120:43

For our 3rd interview we had the pleasure of interviewing Brinae Alexander! Brinae is a Tennessee Hoops legend leading Riverdale high school to 3 straight AAA state championships including a 34-0 season. Although the behind the scenes weren't always the best she proved she belonged in college making her mark at Vanderbilt and at Maryland. She talked about her high school success, college ups and downs, her coaching aspirations, and much more!https://linktr.ee/pullup3 | Distributed via SteadyHype Studios

Are Inherited Roth IRA Account Required to be Distributed?

Estate Planning Daily

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 1:57

Are Inherited Roth IRA Account Required to be Distributed? Need estate planning help? Click to set up your free consultation - https://cmslawfirm.com/estateplanningstrategysession

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Regret Proof Your Business Part 2 - David Shavzin & Maria Forbes

Dreamcatchers

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 27:20

What if your team, not your revenue, is the key to a successful business exit? In Part 2 of the Regret-Proof series, Jerome Myers and Maria Forbes of Stratis Human Capital Solutions explore how people issues like misalignment, legacy hires, and founder-dependence quietly drain business value. Learn how to turn your workforce into your strongest asset, whether you're years from selling or fielding offers now. [00:00 – 04:30] Why Human Capital Is the Missing Link in Exit Planning Human capital is a strategic value driver, not just HR Buyers assess workforce strength, leadership alignment, and role clarity Growth and exit readiness should be aligned and simultaneous [04:30 – 08:30] Alignment: The First People Challenge “Cloning yourself” limits innovation and scalability Misalignment hinders synergy, efficiency, and growth True alignment means matching instincts and strengths to roles [08:30 – 13:30] Hiring Habits: Staff vs. Stakeholders Staff support the owner's goals; stakeholders co-own company growth Stakeholder teams drive autonomy, performance, and purpose Hiring habits must evolve to boost retention and enterprise value [13:30 – 18:00] Growth Bottlenecks: Managing Alone Won't Scale Top-down leadership reduces agility and resilience Distributed leadership unlocks execution and team potential Role mapping supports clarity, development, and onboarding [18:00 – 26:00] Regret-Proofing Through People Strategy Outdated systems and poor onboarding weaken enterprise value A healthy, independent, connected workforce attracts buyers Start early to ensure your exit results in pride, not regret Key Quotes: “Alignment is a value driver. When you're in good alignment, a potential buyer can see that.” — Maria Forbes “If you're calling them staff, then they are your supporters. If you're calling them your team, then they're stakeholders in the growth of your company.”— Maria Forbes Connect with David! Website: https://getonthevaluetrack.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidshavzin/ Connect with Maria! Website: https://firepowerteams.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariacforbes/ Ready for your next chapter? Start Your Assessment Now

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116: How to Retire Early (Seriously)

Rich Habits Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 50:12

In this week's episode of the Rich Habits Podcast, Robert and Austin share the step by step blueprint on how anyone can retire early.---

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EP 143: The Tragic Case of Abbriella Faye Elliott

So Violento So Macabro Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2025 24:19

Between 2003 and 2016, the National Violent Death Reporting System recorded 2,188 homicides of youth aged 11–18, with about 7% involving a current or former boyfriend as the perpetrator. A 2021 CDC survey also revealed that 1 in 12 high school students face physical dating violence and 1 in 10 face sexual dating violence. These alarming statistics highlight the urgent need for safer, healthier relationships for youth. This is the tragic case of Abbriella Faye Elliott.You can listen to our NEW episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all other streaming platforms.—Entre 2003 y 2016, el Sistema Nacional de Reportes de Muertes Violentas registró 2,188 homicidios de jóvenes de entre 11 y 18 años, de los cuales aproximadamente el 7% involucraron a un novio actual o anterior como el agresor. Una encuesta de los CDC realizada en 2021 también reveló que 1 de cada 12 estudiantes de secundaria sufre violencia física en el noviazgo y 1 de cada 10 sufre violencia sexual en el noviazgo. Estas alarmantes estadísticas resaltan la necesidad urgente de relaciones más seguras y saludables para los jóvenes. Este es el trágico caso de Abbriella Faye Elliott.Puede escuchar nuestro NUEVO episodio en Spotify, Apple Podcasts y todas las demás plataformas de transmisión.—If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 911. For confidential support and resources, the hotlines and organizations listed below are available to assist you.Teen-Specific Domestic Violence ResourcesLove Is RespectWebsite: loveisrespect.orgPhone: 1-866-331-9474Text: Text "LOVEIS" to 22522Chat: Available on their website (anonymous and confidential)That's Not CoolWebsite: thatsnotcool.comThis site is for middle school and high school youth, with interactive material that addresses issues like digital abuse, controlling behavior, and online harassment. Domestic Violence ResourcesFlorida Domestic Violence Hotline:Phone: 1-800-500-1119Available 24/7, this hotline connects callers to the nearest certified domestic violence center. Translation services are available when needed.National Domestic Violence Hotline:Website: thehotline.orgPhone: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)TTY: 1-800-787-3224Available 24/7, this hotline offers free, confidential support, crisis intervention, safety planning, and referrals to local service providers in over 200 languages.—Link + Sources:New York Post: https://nypost.com/2025/04/07/us-news/florida-girl-allegedly-killed-by-her-estranged-ex-boyfriend-two-weeks-after-16th-birthday/NBC 8 News: https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/hernando-county/teen-found-dead-near-cypress-lake-preserve-believed-to-be-murdered-deputies-say/NBC 8 News: https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/hernando-county/teen-found-dead-near-cypress-lake-preserve-believed-to-be-murdered-deputies-say/PEOPLE: https://people.com/boy-16-stabs-teen-girl-to-death-in-very-violent-attack-police-say-11709984Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14637641/Indictment-Cameron-Cubel-Abbriella-Elliott-Adolescence.htmlTampa Bay 10 News: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/crime/teen-girl-murder-abbriella-elliott-cameron-cubel-hernando-county/67-855c56d1-3f34-4be7-9faa-d868a5c284c1News Week: https://www.newsweek.com/90-percent-teens-killed-partners-girls-most-killers-men-1396133— Distributed by Genuina Media — Follow Us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SVSM_PodcastThreads: https://www.threads.net/@svsm_podcastTwitter/ X: https://www.twitter.com/SVSM_PodcastBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/svsmpodcast.bsky.socialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoViolentoSoMacabroPodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@svsm_podcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@svsm_podcast

Who Was Surprised to be at Pope Francis' Funeral?

Question of Faith

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 27:50 Transcription Available

Send us a textSPONSOR: Briefcase MarketingCleveland Vocations Director Father Eric Garris shares his unexpected experience of being in on vacation in Rome and ending up at Pope Francis' funeral and his last public appearence on Easter Sunday. What began as a trip to celebrate Easter with Cleveland priests studying abroad transformed into a historic moment as Father Garris found himself witnessing history firsthand and becoming a media expert of sorts for various American media outlets. Fr Garris details:• Originally traveling to Rome for Holy Week and Carlo Acutis' canonization.• Distributed communion at St. Peter's during Holy Week Services.• He received news of Pope Francis' death while praying at John Paul II's tomb.• Joined other priests in the prayers for the dead in St. Peter's Square.• Attended the papal funeral alongside other Cleveland and Ohio priests.• Reflected on Pope Francis' commitment to being with his people until the end.• Discussed the universality of the Church gathering at such historic moments.• Noted how many young people came for canonization of Carlo Acutis but ended up like him attending a Papal funeral.• Emphasized trust in the Church's continuity as the conclave approaches.We also briefly touch on the upcoming papal conclave and set some parameters that the Cardinals might use to determine the next Pope. The Pillar has thoughts, as does the National Catholic Reporter to give two perspectives from both extremes.SPONSOR: Briefcase MarketingAt Briefcase Marketing, we create marketing that inspires action and delivers results. We will:Clarify your message to attract the right audience.Streamline your website to convert more visitors into customers, donors or volunteers.Create consistency to build trust and deepen relationships across every marketing platform (Emails, Ads, Social Media, Etc).Check out just two of their successful clients and their most recent client, Womankind who we know well.WomankindTheology of the Body CLESt. John Cantius ParishChurch Search is St Peter's Basilica in Rome.The week's readings on St. Peter and more.We'll be covering the upcoming conclave beginning May 7th in future episodes. If you have questions of faith, email mhayes@dioceseofcleveland.org.

Episode 126: Collaborative Referencing with Dr. Suma Devanga

Aphasia Access Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 36:41

Lyssa Rome is a speech-language pathologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is on staff at the Aphasia Center of California, where she facilitates groups for people with aphasia and their care partners. She owns an LPAA-focused private practice and specializes in working with people with aphasia, dysarthria, and other neurogenic conditions. She has worked in acute hospital, skilled nursing, and continuum of care settings. Prior to becoming an SLP, Lyssa was a public radio journalist, editor, and podcast producer. In this episode, Lyssa Rome interviews Dr. Suma Devanga about collaborative referencing, gesture, and building rich communicative environments for people with aphasia. Guest info Dr. Suma Devanga is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, where she also serves as the director of the Aphasia Research Lab. She completed her PhD in Speech and Hearing science from the University of Illinois. Urbana Champaign in 2017. Dr. Devanga is interested in studying aphasia interventions and their impacts on people's everyday communication. Her recent work includes investigating a novel treatment called the Collaborative Referencing Intervention for Individuals with aphasia, using discourse analysis methods and patient reported outcome measures, studying group-based treatments for aphasia, and studying the use of gestures in aphasia. Additionally, she is involved in teaching courses on aphasia and cognitive communication disorders to graduate SLP students at Rush. She also provides direct patient care and graduate clinical supervision at Rush outpatient clinics. Listener Take-aways In today's episode you will: Understand the role of collaborative referencing in everyday communication. Learn about Collaborative Referencing Intervention. Describe how speech-language pathologists can create rich communicative environments. Edited transcript Lyssa Rome Welcome to the Aphasia Access Aphasia Conversations Podcast. I'm Lyssa Rome. I'm a speech language pathologist on staff at the Aphasia Center of California, and I see clients with aphasia and other neurogenic communication disorders in my LPAA-focused private practice. I'm also a member of the Aphasia Access podcast Working Group. Aphasia Access strives to provide members with information, inspiration, and ideas that support their aphasia care through a variety of educational materials and resources. I'm today's host for an episode that will feature Dr. Suma Devanga, who is selected as a 2024 Tavistock Trust for Aphasia Distinguished Scholar, USA and Canada. In this episode, we'll be discussing Dr. Devanga's research on collaborative referencing, gesture, and building rich communicative environments for people with aphasia. Suma Devanga is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, where she also serves as the director of the Aphasia Research Lab. She completed her PhD in Speech and Hearing science from the University of Illinois. Urbana Champaign in 2017. Dr. Devanga is interested in studying aphasia interventions and their impacts on people's everyday communication. Her recent work includes investigating a novel treatment called the Collaborative Referencing Intervention for Individuals with aphasia, using discourse analysis methods and patient reported outcome measures, studying group-based treatments for aphasia, and studying the use of gestures in aphasia. Additionally, she is involved in teaching courses on aphasia and cognitive communication disorders to graduate SLP students at Rush. She also provides direct patient care and graduate clinical supervision at Rush outpatient clinics. Suma Devanga, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm really happy to be talking with you. Suma Devanga Thank you, Lyssa, thank you for having me. And I would also like to thank Aphasia Access for this wonderful opportunity, and the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia and the Duchess of Bedford for recognizing my research through the Distinguished Scholar Award. Lyssa Rome So I wanted to start by asking you how you became interested in aphasia treatment. Suma Devanga I became interested in aphasia during my undergraduate and graduate programs, which was in speech language pathology in Mysore in India. I was really drawn to this population because of how severe the consequences were for these individuals and their families after the onset of aphasia. So I met hundreds of patients and families with aphasia who were really devastated by this sudden condition, and they were typically left with no job and little means to communicate with family and friends. So as a student clinician, I was very, very motivated to help these individuals in therapy, but when I started implementing the treatment methods that I had learned, what I discovered was that my patients were showing improvements on the tasks that we worked on in therapy. Their scores on clinical tasks also were improving, but none of that really mattered to them. What they really wanted was to be able to easily communicate with family, but they continued to struggle on that, and none of the cutting-edge treatment methods that I learned from this highly reputable program in India were impacting my patients' lives. So I really felt lost, and that is when I knew that I wanted to do a PhD and study this topic more closely, and I was drawn to Dr. Julie Hengst's work, which looked at the bigger picture in aphasia. She used novel theoretical frameworks and used discourse analysis methods for tracking patient performance, as opposed to clinical tests. So I applied to the University of Illinois PhD program, and I'm so glad that she took me on as her doctoral student. And so that is how I ended up moving from India to the US and started my work in aphasia. Lyssa Rome I think that a lot of us can probably relate to what you're describing—that just that feeling of frustration when a patient might improve on some sort of clinical tasks, but still says this is not helping me in my life, and I know that for me, and I think for others, that is what has drawn us to the LPAA. I wanted to sort of dive into your research by asking you a little bit more about rich communicative environments, and what you mean by that, and what you mean when you talk about or write about distributed communication frameworks. Suma Devanga So since I started my PhD, I have been interested in understanding how we can positively impact everyday communication for our patients with aphasia. As a doctoral student, I delved more deeply into the aphasia literature and realized that what I observed clinically with my patients in India was consistent with what was documented in the literature, and that was called the clinical-functional gap. And this really refers to the fact that we have many evidence-based aphasia treatments that do show improvements on clinical tasks or standardized tests, but there is very limited evidence on these treatments improving the functional use of language or the everyday communication, and this remains to be true even today. So I think it becomes pretty important to understand what we are dealing with, like what is everyday communication? And I think many aphasia treatments have been studying everyday communication or conversational interactions by decontextualizing them or reducing them into component parts, like single words or phrases, and then we work our way up to sentence structures. Right? So this approach has been criticized by some researchers like Clark, who is an experimental psychologist, and he called such tasks as in vacuo, meaning that they are not really capturing the complexity of conversational interactions. So basically, even though we are clinicians, our ultimate goal is improving everyday communication, which is rich and emergent and complex, we somehow seem to be using tasks that are simplified and that removes all of these complexities and focuses more on simple or specific linguistic structures. So to understand the complexities of everyday communication, we have shifted to the distributed communication framework, which really originates from the cultural historical activity theories and theories from linguistic anthropology. Dr. Julie Hengst actually proposed the distributed communication theory in her article in the Journal of Communication Disorders in 2015, which highlights that communication is not just an individual skill or a discrete concept, but it is rather distributed. And it is distributed in three ways: One is that it is distributed across various resources. We communicate using multiple resources, not just language. We sign, we use gestures, or facial expressions. We also interpret messages using such resources like dialects and eye gaze and posture, the social context, cultural backgrounds, the emotional states that we are in, and all of that matters. And we all know this, right? This is not new, and yet, we often give credit to language alone for communication, when in reality, we constantly use multiple resources. And the other key concept of distributed communication theory is that communication is embedded in socio- cultural activities. So depending on the activity, which can be a routine family dinnertime conversation or managing relationships with your co workers, the communicative resources that you use, their motives, and the way you would organize it, all of that would vary. And finally, communication is distributed across time. And by that we mean that people interpret and understand present interactions through the histories that they have experienced over time. For example, if you're at work and your manager says you might want to double check your reports before submitting them based on prior interactions with the manager and the histories you've shared with them, you could interpret that message either as a simple suggestion or that there is a lack of trust in your work. So all in all, communication, I think, is a joint activity, and I think we should view it as a joint activity, and it depends on people's ability to build common ground with one another and draw from that common ground to interpret each other's messages. Lyssa Rome I feel like that framework is really helpful, and it makes a lot of sense, especially as a way of thinking about the complexity of language and the complexity of what we're trying to do when we are taking a more top-down approach. So that's the distributed communication theory. And it sounds like the other framework that has really guided your research is rich communicative environments. And I'm wondering if you could say a little bit more about that. Suma Devanga Absolutely. So this work originates from about 80 years of research in neuroscience, where rodents and other animals with acquired brain injuries showed greater neuroplastic changes and improved functions when they were housed in complex environments. In fact, complex environments are considered to be the most well replicated approach to improve function in animal models of acquired brain injury. So Dr. Julie Hengst, Dr. Melissa Duff, and Dr. Theresa Jones translated these findings to support communication for humans with acquired brain injuries. And they called it the rich communicative environments. The main goal of this is to enrich the clinical environments. And how we achieve that is by ensuring that there is meaningful complexity in our clinical environments, and that you do that by ensuring that our patients, families, and clinicians use multimodal resources, and also to aim for having multiple communication partners within your sessions who can fluidly shift between various communicative roles, and to not just stay in that clinician role, for example. Another way to think about enriching clinical environments is to think about ensuring that there is voluntary engagement from our patients, and you do that by essentially designing personally meaningful activities, rather than focusing on rehearsing fixed linguistic form or having some predetermined goals. And the other piece of the enrichment is, how do we ensure there is a positive experiential quality for our patients within our sessions. And for this rather than using clinician-controlled activities with rigid interactional roles, providing opportunities for the patients to share stories and humor would really, you know, ensure that they are also engaging with the tasks with you and having some fun. So all of this put together would lead to a rich communicative environment. Lyssa Rome It sounds like what you're describing is the kind of speech therapy environment and relationship that is very much person-centered and focused on natural communication, or natural communicative contexts and the kinds of conversations that people have in their everyday lives, rather than more sort of strict speech therapy protocol that might have been more traditional. I also want to ask you to describe collaborative referencing and collaborative referencing intervention. Suma Devanga Yes, absolutely. So traditionally, our discipline has viewed word-finding or naming as a neurolinguistic process where you access semantic meanings from a lexicon, which you use to generate verbal references. And that theoretical account conceptualizes referencing as an isolated process, where one individual has the skill of retrieving target references from their stores of linguistic forms and meanings, right? So in contrast to that, the distributed communication perspective views referencing as a process where speakers' meanings are constructed within each interaction, and that is based on the shared histories of experiences with specific communication partners and also depending on the social and physical contexts of the interaction as well. Now this process of collaborative referencing is something that we all do every single day. It is not just a part of our everyday communication, but without collaborative referencing, you cannot really have a conversation with anyone. You need to have some alignment, some common ground for communicating with others. This is a fundamental feature of human communication, and this is not new. You know, there is lots of work being done on this, even in childhood language literature as well. Collaborative referencing was formally studied by Clark, who is the experimental psychologist. And he studied this in healthy college students, and he used a barrier task experiment for it. So a pair of students sat across from each other with a full barrier that separated them so they could not see each other at all, and each student had a board that was numbered one through 12, and they were given matching sets of 12 pictures of abstract shapes called tangrams. One participant was assigned as the director, who arranged the cards on their playing board and described their locations to the other, who served as the matcher and matched the pictures to their locations on their own board. So the pair completed six trials with alternating turns, and they use the same cards with new locations for each trial. And what they found was that the pairs had to really collaborate with each other to get those descriptions correct so that they are placed correctly on the boards. So in the initial trials, the pairs had multiple turns of back and forth trying to describe these abstract shapes. For example, one of the pictures was initially described as “This picture that looks like an angel or something with its arms wide open.” And there had to be several clarifying questions from the partner, and then eventually, after playing with this picture several times, the player just had to say “It's the angel,” and the partner would be able to know which picture that was so as the pairs built their common ground, the collaborative effort, or the time taken to complete each trial, and the number of words they used and the number of turns they took to communicate about those pictures declined over time, and the labels itself, or the descriptions of pictures, also became more streamlined as the as time went by. So Hengst and colleagues wanted to study this experiment in aphasia, TBI, amnesia, and Alzheimer's disease as well. So they adapted this task to better serve this population and also to align with the distributed communication framework. And surprisingly, they found consistent results that despite aphasia or other neurological conditions, people were still able to successfully reference, decrease collaborative effort over time and even streamline their references. But more surprisingly, people were engaged with one another. They were having really rich conversations about these pictures. They were sharing jokes, and really seemed to be enjoying the task itself. So Hengst and colleagues realized that this has a lot of potential, and they redesigned the barrier task experiment as a clinical treatment using the principles of the distributed communication framework and the rich communicative environment. So that redesign included replacing the full barrier with a partial barrier to allow multimodal communication, and using personal photos of the patients instead of the abstract shapes to make it more engaging for the patients, and also asking participants to treat this as a friendly game and to have fun. So that is the referencing itself and the research on collaborative referencing, and that is how it was adapted as a treatment as well. And in order to help clinicians easily implement this treatment, I have used the RTSS framework, which is the rehabilitation treatment specification system, to explain how CRI works and how it can be implemented. And this is actually published, and it just came out in the most recent issue in the American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, which I'm happy to share. Lyssa Rome And we'll put that link into the show notes. Suma Devanga Perfect. So CRI is designed around meaningful activities like the game that authentically provides repeated opportunities for the client and the clinician to engage in the collaborative referencing process around targets that they really want to be talking about, things that are relevant to patients, everyday communication goals, it could be things, objects of interest, and not really specific words or referencing forms. So the implementation of the CRI involves three key ingredients. One is jointly developing the referencing targets and compiling the images so clinicians would sit down with the patients and the families to identify at least 30 targets that are meaningful and important to be included in the treatment. And we need two perspectives, or two views, or two pictures related to the same target that needs to be included in the treatment. So we will have 60 pictures overall. An example is two pictures from their wedding might be an important target for patients to be able to talk about. Two pictures from a Christmas party, you know, things like that. So this process of compilation of photos is also a part of the treatment itself, because it gives the patients an opportunity to engage with the targets. The second ingredient is engaging in the friendly gameplay itself. And the key really here is the gameplay and to treat it as a gameplay. And this includes 15 sessions with six trials in each session, where you, as the clinician and the client will both have matching sets of 12 pictures, and there is a low barrier in between, so you cannot see each other's boards, but you can still see the other person. So you will both take turns being the director and the matcher six times, and describe and match the pictures to their locations, and that is just the game. The only rule of the game is that you cannot look over the barrier. You are encouraged to talk as much as you like about the pictures. In fact, you are encouraged to talk a lot about the pictures and communicate in any way. The third ingredient is discussing and reflecting on referencing. And this happens at the end of each session where patients are asked to think back and reflect and say what the agreed upon label was for each card. And this, again, gives one more opportunity for the patients to engage with the target. The therapeutic mechanism, or the mechanism of action, as RTSS likes to call it, is the rich communicative environment itself, you know, and how complex the task is, and how meaningful and engaging the task has to be, as well as the repeated engagement in the gameplay, because we are doing this six times in each session, and we are repeatedly engaging with those targets when describing them and placing them. So what we are really targeting with CRI is collaborative referencing and again, this does not refer to the patient's abilities to access or retrieve those words from their stores. Instead, we are targeting people's joint efforts in communicating about these targets, their efforts in building situated common ground. That's what we are targeting. We are targeting their alignment with one another, and so that is how we define referencing. And again, we are targeting this, because that is how you communicate every day. Lyssa Rome That sounds like a really fascinating and very rich intervention. And I'm wondering if you can tell us a little bit about the research that you've done on it so far. Suma Devanga Absolutely. So in terms of research on CRI thus far, we have completed phase one with small case studies that were all successful, and my PhD dissertation was the first phase two study, where we introduced an experimental control by using a multiple-probe, single-case experimental design on four people with aphasia, and we found significant results on naming. And since then, I have completed two replication studies in a total of nine participants with aphasia. And we have found consistent results on naming. In terms of impact on everyday interactions, we have found decreased trouble sources, or communicative breakdowns, you can call it, and also decreased repairs, both of which indicated improved communicative success within conversational interactions. So we are positive, and we plan to continue this research to study its efficacy within a clinical trial. Lyssa Rome That's very encouraging. So how can clinicians target collaborative referencing by creating a rich communicative environment? Suma Devanga Yeah, well, CRI is one approach that clinicians can use, and I'm happy to share the evidence we have this far, and there is more to come, hopefully soon, including some clinical implementation studies that clinicians can use. But there are many other ways of creating rich communicative environments and targeting referencing within clinical sessions. I think many skilled clinicians are already doing it in the form of relationship building, by listening closely to their patients, engaging with them in authentic conversations, and also during education and counseling sessions as well. In addition to that, I think group treatment for aphasia is another great opportunity for targeting collaborative referencing within a rich communicative environment. When I was a faculty at Western Michigan University, I was involved in their outpatient aphasia program, where they have aphasia groups, and patients got to select which groups they want to participate in. They had a cooking group, a music group, a technology group, and so on. And I'm guessing you do this too at the Aphasia Center of California. So these groups definitely create rich communicative environments, and people collaborate with each other and do a lot of referencing as well. So I think there is a lot that can be done if you understand the rich communicative environment piece. Lyssa Rome Absolutely. That really rings true to me. So often in these podcast interviews, we ask people about aha moments, and I'm wondering if you have one that you wanted to share with us. Suma Devanga Sure. So you know how I said that getting the pictures for the CRI is a joint activity? Patients typically select things that they really want to talk about, like their kids' graduation pictures, or things that they are really passionate about, like pictures of their sports cars, or vegetable gardens, and so on. And they also come up with really unique names for them as well, while they are playing with those pictures during the treatment. And when we start playing the game, clinicians usually have little knowledge about these images, because they're all really personal to the patients, and they're taken from their personal lives, so they end up being the novices, while the patients become the experts. And my patients have taught me so much about constructing a house and all about engines of cars and things like that that I had no knowledge about. But in one incident, when I was the clinician paired with an individual with anomic aphasia, there was a picture of a building that she could not recognize, and hence she could not tell me much at all. And we went back and forth several times, and we finally ended up calling it the “unknown building.” Later, I checked my notes and realized that it was where she worked, and it was probably a different angle, perhaps, which is why she could not recognize it. But even with that new information, we continue to call it the “unknown building,” because it became sort of an internal joke for us. And later I kept thinking if I had made a mistake and if we should have accurately labeled it. That is when it clicked for me that CRI is not about producing accurate labels, it is about building a common ground with each other, which would help you successfully communicate with that person. So you're targeting the process of referencing and not the reference itself, because you want your patients to get better at the process of referencing in their everyday communication. And so that was my aha moment. Lyssa Rome Yeah, that's an amazing story, because I think that that gets to that question sort of of the why behind what we're doing, right? Is it to say the specific name? I mean, obviously for some people, yes, sometimes it is. But what is underlying that? It's to be able to communicate about the things that are important to people. I also wanted to ask you about another area that you've studied, which is the use of gesture within aphasia interventions. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Suma Devanga Yes. So this work started with my collaboration with my friend and colleague, Dr. Mili Mathew, who is at Molloy University in New York, and our first work was on examining the role of hand gestures in collaborative referencing in a participant who had severe Wernicke's aphasia, and he frequently used extensive gestures to communicate. So when he started with CRI his descriptions of the images were truly multimodal. For example, when he had to describe a picture of a family vacation in Cancun, he was, you know, he was verbose, and there was very little meaningful content that was relevant in his spoken language utterances. But he used a variety of iconic hand gestures that were very meaningful and helpful to identify what he was referring to. As the sessions went on with him, his gestural references also became streamlined, just like the verbal references do, and that we saw in other studies. And that was fascinating because it indicated that gestures do play a big role in the meaning-making process of referencing. And in another study on the same participant, we explored the use of hand gestures as treatment outcome measures. This time, we specifically analyzed gestures used within conversations at baseline treatment, probe, and maintenance phases of the study. And we found that the frequency of referential gestures, which are gestures that add meaning, that have some kind of iconics associated with them, those frequencies of gestures decreased with the onset of treatment, whereas the correct information units, or CIUS, which indicate the informativeness in the spoken language itself, increased. So this pattern of decrease in hand gestures and increase in CIUS was also a great finding. Even though this was just an exploratory study, it indicates that gestures may be included as outcome measures, in addition to verbal measures, which we usually tend to rely more on. And we have a few more studies coming up that are looking at the synchrony of gestures with spoken language in aphasia, but I think we still have a lot more to learn about gestures in aphasia. Lyssa Rome It seems like there that studying gestures really ties in to CRI and the rich communicative environments that you were describing earlier, where the goal is not just to verbally name one thing, but rather to get your point across, where, obviously, gesture is also quite useful. So I look forward to reading more of your research on that as it comes out. Tell us about what you're currently working on, what's coming next. Suma Devanga Currently, I am wrapping up my clinical research grant from the ASH Foundation, which was a replication study of the phase two CRI so we collected data from six participants with chronic aphasia using a multiple-probe, single-case design, and that showed positive results on naming, and there was improved scores on patient reports of communication confidence, communicative participation, and quality of life as well. We are currently analyzing the conversation samples to study the treatment effects. I also just submitted a grant proposal to extend the study on participants with different severities of aphasia as well. So we are getting all the preliminary data at this point that we need to be able to start a clinical trial, which will be my next step. So apart from that, I was also able to redesign the CRI and adapt it as a group-based treatment with three participants with aphasia and one clinician in a group. I actually completed a feasibility study of it, which was successful, and I presented that at ASHA in 2023. And I'm currently writing it up for publication, and I also just secured an internal grant to launch a pilot study of the group CRI to investigate the effects of group CRI on communication and quality of life. Lyssa Rome Well, that's really exciting. And again, I'm really looking forward to reading additional work as it comes out. As we wrap up. What do you want clinicians to take away from your work and to take away from this conversation we've had today? Suma Devanga Well, I would want clinicians to reflect on how their sessions are going and think about how to incorporate the principles of rich communicative environments so that they can add more meaningful complexity to their treatment activities and also ensure that their patients are truly engaging with the tasks and also having some fun. And I would also tell the clinicians that we have strong findings so far on CRI with both fluent and non-fluent aphasia types. So please stay tuned and reach out to me if you have questions or want to share your experiences about implementing this with your own patients, because I would love to hear that. Lyssa Rome Dr. Suma Devanga, it has been great talking to you and hearing about your work. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. Suma Devanga It was fantastic talking about my work. Thank you for giving me this platform to share my work with you all. And thank you, Lyssa for being a great listener. Lyssa Rome Thanks also to our listeners for the references and resources mentioned in today's show. Please see our show notes. They're available on our website, www.aphasiaaccess.org. There, you can also become a member of our organization, browse our growing library of materials, and find out about the Aphasia Access Academy. If you have an idea for a future podcast episode, email us at info@aphasiaaccess.org. Thanks again for your ongoing support of aphasia. Access. For Aphasia Access Conversations. I'm Lyssa Rome. References Devanga, S. R. (2025). Collaborative Referencing Intervention (CRI) in Aphasia: A replication and extension of the Phase II efficacy study. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00226 Devanga, S. R., Sherrill, M., & Hengst, J. A. (2021). The efficacy of collaborative referencing intervention in chronic aphasia: A mixed methods study. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 30(1S), 407-424. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00108 Hengst, J. A., Duff, M. C., & Jones, T. A. (2019). Enriching communicative environments: Leveraging advances in neuroplasticity for improving outcomes in neurogenic communication disorders. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 28(1S), 216–229. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0157 Hengst, J. A. (2015). Distributed communication: Implications of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) for communication disorders. Journal of Communication Disorders, 57, 16–28. Https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2015.09.001 Devanga, S. R., & Mathew, M. (2024). Exploring the use of co-speech hand gestures as treatment outcome measures for aphasia. Aphasiology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2356287 Devanga, S. R., Wilgenhof, R., & Mathew, M. (2022). Collaborative referencing using hand gestures in Wernicke's aphasia: Discourse analysis of a case study. Aphasiology, 36(9), 1072-1095. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2021.1937919

DistributED: Business Development Without Strategy with Desiree Grace and Andrea Olson

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 32:45

Desiree Grace is the General Manager of Flex Wind and Andrea Olson is an Author and Customer-Centricity Expert.

Episode 152: American Journal 3rd Would-Be Trump Assassin Who Murdered His Parents Plotted With Ukrainians, Distributed Neo-Nazi Propaganda

Renegade Talk Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 109:34

3rd Would-Be Trump Assassin Who Murdered His Parents Plotted With Ukrainians, Distributed Neo-Nazi Propaganda

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The State of Data Security: A Distributed Crisis

Data Security Decoded

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 28:25

Welcome to the Data Security Decoded podcast by Rubrik Zero Labs. Join our host Caleb Tolin and Head of Rubrik Zero Labs Joe Hladik as they dive deep into the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, from incident response to emerging threats. Joe shares insights from two decades of experience, including his work on high-profile cases like the SolarWinds breach, and breaks down the complex relationship between nation-state actors and cybercrime. Learn about the challenges of data sprawl, identity management, and why treating identity as the new perimeter isn't as simple as it seems. Joe also shares insights into the new report from Rubrik Zero Labs, The State of Data Security: A Distributed Crisis. Whether you're a security practitioner or executive, this episode offers valuable perspectives on data security posture management and the future of threat detection.

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Packers Offensive Lineman Donovan Jennings - Special Guest

Lombardi’s Legends

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 23:59

Donovan Jennings, Packers offensive lineman, joins the show. We chat about his path to Green Bay, look back at his rookie season, and look ahead to year two. X: @LombardiLegends Instagram: LombardisLegends Facebook: @LombardisLegends YouTube Channel: @lombardislegends Intro/Outro Music – Green And The Gold (West Coast Packers Anthem) (feat. Joey G). Played with permission from Young Trav and Joey G - Support them (@youngtrav_951 and @jhussle714 on IG): young-trav Support our sponsors! @leapspirits: Paying homage to the iconic end zone celebration that was created by a Green Bay legend, Leap Vodka is inspired by the best attributes of the world's finest vodkas. #CelebrateLikeYouScored #TakeTheLeap. Visit https://leapspirits.com/ to find it in a restaurant or retail store near you! 40% alcohol by volume. Distributed by Capitol-Husting Company – Milwaukee, WI & Noelke Distributors – La Crosse, WI. You must be of 21+ or of legal drinking age. Please drink responsibly. @rehablabwisco and @drsam.wagner: Rehab Lab clinics and practitioners work with world-class athletes both in and out of season, as well as patients who simply want to lead a healthier, more active lifestyle. We help athletes get healthy and stay healthy, and assist in taking their skills to the next level! Regardless of the sport, Rehab Lab staff look to provide our athletes an edge over their competition. We take this same approach with all of our patients. Everyone at the Rehab Lab is treated like world-class athletes because we believe that life is a sport and you deserve the best we have to offer. Whether you do CrossFit or Barre, Running or Golfing, or if you just want to be able to work without pain, we take our proven methods and put them to work for you. Our goal is to get you back to 100% and doing what you love faster than anywhere else in the world. #Packers #PackersPodcast #GoPackGo

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EP 506: How Distributed Computing is Unlocking Affordable AI at Scale

Everyday AI Podcast â€“ An AI and ChatGPT Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 22:26

Everyone's chasing bigger AI. The real opportunity? Smarter scaling.Distributed computing is quietly rewriting the rules of what's possible—not just for tech giants, but for everyone building with AI.We're talking cost. We're talking scale. And we're definitely talking disruption.Tom Curry, CEO and Co-Founder of DistributeAI, joins us as we dig into the future of distributed power and practical AI performance.Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Thoughts on this? Join the convo.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:Distributed Computing for Affordable AIOpen Source vs. Proprietary AI ModelsGPU Demand and Compute LimitationsEdge Computing and Privacy ConcernsSmall Business AI Compute SolutionsFuture Trends in AI Model SizesImpact of Open Source AI DominanceTimestamps:00:00 Rising Importance of AI Compute06:21 AI Model Resource Constraints09:24 AI Models' Efficiency vs. Complexity12:24 Edge Compute for Daily Tasks16:00 Compute Cost Drives AI Market16:58 AI Models: Balancing Cost and Innovation20:43 Adaptability in Rapidly Changing BusinessKeywords:Distributed computing, compute, GPUs, generative AI, ChatGPT, large language models, open source models, proprietary models, affordable AI, scale, Distribute AI, spare compute, Tom Curry, mid-level businesses, accessible AI ecosystem, API access, power grid, NVIDIA, OpenAI, tokens, chain of thought, models size, reasoning models, edge computing, cell phones analogy, data privacy, DeepSeek, Google Gemini 3, Eloscores, open models, hybrid models, centralized model, OpenAI strategy, Anthropic, Claw tokens, commoditization, applications, government contracts, integration, UX and UI, technology advancements, private source AI, business leaders, AI deployment strategy, flexibility in AI.Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info)

Noémie Merlant on Acting, Filmmaking, and Fashion

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 23:47

In this episode of Louis Vuitton [EXTENDED], Loïc Prigent sits down for an authentic and spontaneous conversation with actress, director, and Friend of the House Noémie Merlant. Together, they explore the significance of womanhood in her work and the evolving role of women in the film industry. Noémie also shares insight into her creative process, inspirations, and daring artistic choices, revealing how she channels personal experiences into cinematic expression—most notably in her latest film, Les Femmes au Balcon.Distributed by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Noémie Merlant sur le cinéma, la réalisation et la mode

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 24:15

Dans cet épisode de Louis Vuitton [Extended] – le Podcast, Loïc Prigent engage une conversation authentique et spontanée avec l'actrice, réalisatrice et Amie de la Maison, Noémie Merlant. Ensemble, ils explorent la signification de la féminité dans son travail et l'évolution du rôle des femmes dans l'industrie cinématographique. Noémie partage également son processus créatif, ses inspirations et ses choix artistiques audacieux, révélant comment elle transcende ses expériences personnelles en une catharsis artistique, notamment dans son dernier film, Les Femmes au Balcon.Distributed by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

DistributED: Tom Click Testifies To Congress

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 31:11

Tom Click is the President and CEO of Patriot Aluminum Industries.

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 32:58

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Distributed batteries for grid resilience Zach Dell (CEO & Founder @ Base Power)

Transmission

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 37:13

As the energy transition accelerates, batteries are no longer just utility-scale infrastructure - they're moving into homes, neighbourhoods, and communities. Residential storage is emerging as a powerful tool for improving grid reliability, reducing electricity costs, and giving consumers more control over their energy use. This shift is being driven by falling technology costs, growing demand for backup power, and the need for faster, more flexible ways to support an increasingly electrified grid.While most attention in the battery world focuses on utility-scale systems, Base Power is scaling something different: a distributed, behind-the-meter fleet of residential batteries installed across Texas homes.Zach walks us through the business model, the reasons residential deployment is faster and more scalable than many assume, and how Base's vertically integrated strategy is unlocking both customer trust and capital efficiency. From billing and software to partnerships with utilities, the conversation unpacks what it takes to bring batteries to the grid at speed and at scale.In this episode of Transmission, Quentin is joined by Zach Dell, CEO and founder of Base Power, a fast-growing startup redefining how residential batteries are deployed and monetised in the U.S.Over the course of the conversation, you'll hear about:The story of Base Power and why it is focusing on distributed, behind the meter residential deployment.How Base participates in ERCOT markets and plans for ancillary services.Zach's take on cost curves, solar + storage vs nuclear, and the future of distributed energy.The role of vertical integration in reducing cost and increasing speed at every step of the process.Why more granular price signals in Texas could supercharge DER investmentAbout our guestBase Power is a Texas-based energy company pioneering a new model of home energy service by combining residential battery storage with retail electricity provision. Founded in 2023, the company aims to enhance grid reliability and affordability through a network of distributed, software-connected batteries across Texas homes. For more information on Base Power, head to their website.Zach Dell is the founder and CEO of Base Power. A Texas native with a background in finance, Zach started Base after working in New York and seeing the opportunity to accelerate battery deployment through a distributed, vertically integrated model.About Modo EnergyModo Energy helps the owners, operators, builders, and financiers of battery energy storage solutions understand the market - and make the most out of their assets.All of our podcasts are available to watch or listen to on the Modo Energy site. To keep up with all of our latest updates, research, analysis, videos, podcasts, data visualizations, live events, and more, follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter. Check out The Energy Academy, our bite-sized video series breaking down how power markets work.

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Distributed batteries for grid resilience Zach Dell (CEO & Founder @ Base Power)

Transmission

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 37:13

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EP 140: The Tragic Case of Pamela Alcantara Rubiera

So Violento So Macabro Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 39:39

A 26-year-old woman from the Bronx, known for her unwavering faith, compassion, and commitment to helping others, was found dead on the outskirts of the city — leaving those who knew her heartbroken and searching for answers. After vanishing on an otherwise quiet Sunday night, her disappearance raised more questions than anyone could have imagined. This is the tragic case of Pamela Alcantara Rubiera.

Packers Defensive Lineman Karl Brooks - Special Guest

Lombardi’s Legends

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 19:07

Karl Brooks, Packers defensive lineman, joins the show. We chat about his path to Green Bay and his growth on and off the field, as well as look ahead to his mindset and preparation headed into next season. X: @LombardiLegends Instagram: LombardisLegends Facebook: @LombardisLegends YouTube Channel: @lombardislegends Intro/Outro Music – Green And The Gold (West Coast Packers Anthem) (feat. Joey G). Played with permission from Young Trav and Joey G - Support them (@youngtrav_951 and @jhussle714 on IG): young-trav Support our sponsors! @leapspirits: Paying homage to the iconic end zone celebration that was created by a Green Bay legend, Leap Vodka is inspired by the best attributes of the world's finest vodkas. #CelebrateLikeYouScored #TakeTheLeap. Visit https://leapspirits.com/ to find it in a restaurant or retail store near you! 40% alcohol by volume. Distributed by Capitol-Husting Company – Milwaukee, WI & Noelke Distributors – La Crosse, WI. You must be of 21+ or of legal drinking age. Please drink responsibly. @rehablabwisco and @drsam.wagner: Rehab Lab clinics and practitioners work with world-class athletes both in and out of season, as well as patients who simply want to lead a healthier, more active lifestyle. We help athletes get healthy and stay healthy, and assist in taking their skills to the next level! Regardless of the sport, Rehab Lab staff look to provide our athletes an edge over their competition. We take this same approach with all of our patients. Everyone at the Rehab Lab is treated like world-class athletes because we believe that life is a sport and you deserve the best we have to offer. Whether you do CrossFit or Barre, Running or Golfing, or if you just want to be able to work without pain, we take our proven methods and put them to work for you. Our goal is to get you back to 100% and doing what you love faster than anywhere else in the world.

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Chapter 26, Early Computer Music (1950–70)

The Holmes Archive of Electronic Music

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 99:27

Episode 166 Chapter 26, Early Computer Music (1950–70). Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes. This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corresponds to a chapter in the text and an associated list of recommended works, also called Listen in the text. They provide listening examples of vintage electronic works featured in the text. The works themselves can be enjoyed without the book and I hope that they stand as a chronological survey of important works in the history of electronic music. Be sure to tune-in to other episodes of the podcast where we explore a wide range of electronic music in many styles and genres, all drawn from my archive of vintage recordings. There is a complete playlist for this episode on the website for the podcast. Let's get started with the listening guide to Chapter 26, Early Computer Music (1950–70). from my book Electronic and Experimental music. Playlist: EARLY COMPUTER MUSIC (1950–70) Time Track Time Start Introduction –Thom Holmes 01:40 00:00 1. Tones from Australia, 1951. All produced using the CSIR Mark 1 computer built at the CSIR's radio-physics division in Sydney. The computer had a speaker—or hooter—to signal when operations were completed. A clever programmer thought of manipulating the signal tones into a melody. 02:18 01:42 2. Alan Turing's computer music. 1951. Recording made of tones generated by the mainframe computer at the Computing Machine Laboratory in Manchester, England. Snippets of the tunes God Save the King, Baa, Baa Black Sheep, and Glenn Miller's swing classic In the Mood. Plus, the voices of computer lab members listening to the sound as it was recorded. Original acetate recording from 1951 restored by University of Canterbury composer Jason Long and Prof Jack Copeland. 01:55 02:36 3. Max Mathews, “Numerology” (1960). Introduced by a narrator. From the album Music From Mathematics, Bell Telephone Laboratories. While working at Bell Labs in telecommunications research, Max Mathews was one of the earliest computer engineers to use a general-purpose computer to program music and digitally synthesize musical sound. His programming language Music I allowed composers to design their own virtual instruments, a breakthrough during those pioneering days of computer music. “Numerology” was composed to demonstrate the various parameters, or building blocks, available to the composer using this programming language: vibrato (frequency modulation), attack and decay characteristics, glissando, tremolo (amplitude modulation), and the creation of new waveshapes. 02:49 04:38 4. John Robinson Pierce, “Beat Canon” (1960). Introduced by a narrator. From the album Music From Mathematics, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Played by IBM computer and direct to digital sound transducer. 00:52 07:28 5. James Tenney, “Noise Study” (1961). So named because “each of the ‘instruments' used in this piece includes a noise-generator.” 04:24 08:20 6. “Bicycle Built For Two (Accompanied)” (1963) From the demonstration record Computer Speech - Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet (He Saw The Cat), produced by Bell Laboratories. This recording contains samples of synthesized speech–speech artificially constructed from the basic building blocks of the English language. 01:17 12:42 7. Lejaren Hiller, “Computer Cantata, Prologue to Strophe III” (1963). From the University Of Illinois. This work employed direct computer synthesis using an IBM 7094 mainframe computer and the Musicomp programming language. 05:41 14:00 8. J. K. Randall, “Lyric Variations For Violin And Computer” (1965-1968). J. K. Randall's piece had a complex section that pushed the limits of computer processing power at the time. Although the section consisted of only 12 notes, each note was 20 seconds long. Each note overlapped with the next for 10 seconds, making the total length of the section only about 2 minutes. But this required 9 hours to process on one of the fastest computers of the day. 03:34 19:40 9. John Robinson Pierce, “Eight-Tone Canon” (1966). “Using the computer, one can produce tones with overtones at any frequencies.” Produced at Bell Telephone Laboratories. 03:53 23:14 10. Pietro Grossi, “Mixed Paganini” (1967). “Transcription for the central processor unit of a GE-115 computer of short excerpts of Paganini music scores. Realized at Studio di Fonologia musicale di Firenze (Italy). 01:46 27:08 11. Pietro Grossi, “Permutation of Five Sounds” (1967). Recording made on the Italian General Electric label. Realized at Studio di Fonologia musicale di Firenze (Italy). Distributed in 1967 as a New year gift by Olivetti company. 01:33 28:54 12. Wayne Slawson, “Wishful Thinking About Winter” (1970). Produced at Bell Telephone Laboratories. 03:53 30:26 13. John Cage and Lejaren Hiller, “HPSCHD” excerpt (1967-1969). The piece was written for Harpsichords and Computer-Generated Sound Tapes. Hiller and Cage staged a lively public performance in 1968 at the University of Illinois in Urbana. The first 10,000 individual recordings came with an insert in the form of a computer printout insert designed to allow the listener to program their own performance. And I quote from the jacket: "The computer-output sheet included in this album is one of 10,000 different numbered solutions of the program KNOBS. It enables the listener who follows its instructions to become a performer of this recording of HPSCHD. Preparation of this material was made possible through the Computing Center of the State University of New York at Buffalo." I happen to have three copies of this album, each with the printout. 07:20 34:16 14. Jean-Claude Risset, “Computer Suite From "Little Boy" (1968). Realized at Bell Laboratories. 04:28 41:46 15. Peter Zinovieff, “January Tensions” (1968). Zinovieff's notes, from the album: “Computer composed and performed. This piece is very much for computer both in its realization and composition. The rules are straightforward. The computer may begin by improvising slowly on whatever material is first chooses. However, once the initial choices are made then these must influence the whole of the rest of the composition. The original sounds must occasionally be remembered and illustrated but a more and more rigid structure is imposed on the randomness. The piece was electronically realized and composed in real time by an 8K PDP8/S and electronic music peripherals.” 09:48 46:12 16. Barry Vercoe, “Synthesism” (1969). Realized in the Computer Centers of Columbia and Princeton Universities using MUSIC 360 for the IBM 360 mainframe computer. Vercoe authored this musical programming language. 04:33 56:00 17. Charles Dodge, “The Earth's Magnetic Field” excerpt (1970). Composer Charles Dodge helped close the gap between computer music and other electronic music practices in 1969– 70 by working on computer code at Princeton University and then traveling to Bell Labs to have the code synthesized by a mainframe computer. The work, “Earth's Magnetic Field” (1970) was an outcome of this process. Dodge realized this piece by fusing computer composition with synthesis, one of the earliest examples of a practice that would become the norm many years later but that was quite difficult at the time. He used a “general- purpose sound synthesis program” written by Godfrey Winham at Princeton University. Every sound in the piece was computed into digital form using the IBM/ 360 model 91 at the Columbia University Computer Center and then converted into analog form at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. 07:45 01:00:32 18. Irv Teibel, "Tintinnabulation (Contemplative Sound)" from Environments (New Concepts In Stereo Sound) (Disc 2) (1970 Syntonic Research). One side of the record is a rare work of purely electronic computer music in a series that otherwise consisted of natural ambient sounds. It used computer-generated bell sounds, falling back on Teibel's experience processing sounds on an IBM 360 mainframe computer at Bell Labs. The record was promoted for meditation. A sticker on the cover read, "A Sensitizer for the Mind." From the liner notes: “As an illustration of the possibilities currently under examination, Syntonic Research decided to experiment with bell sounds as an environmental sound source. . . . Tintinnabulation can be played at any speed, from 78 to 16 rpm, in full stereo. At different speeds, the sounds change in tone and apparent size, although the harmonics remain unchanged. The effect, unlike real bells, is fully controllable by the use of your volume, bass, and treble controls.” 30:10 01:08:16 Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations. Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and Bandcamp.

Championship futures, UCLA is the underdog, and Olivia Miles in the Portal!

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 130:14

In this episode, we recap the Sweet 16 ad Elite 8 Matchups, previewing the Final Four and who's who in the transfer portal.https://linktr.ee/pullup3 | Distributed via SteadyHype Studios

Championship futures, UCLA is the underdog, and Olivia Miles in the Portal!

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 115:24

In this episode, we recap the Sweet 16 ad Elite 8 Matchups, previewing the Final Four and who's who in the transfer portalhttps://linktr.ee/pullup3 | Distributed via SteadyHype Studios

Kenny Werner

Moods & Modes

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 47:25

In this episode, Alex welcomes pianist, composer, and educator Kenny Werner, author of the landmark book Effortless Mastery. Kenny's teachings have revolutionized the way musicians think about practice, performance, and creativity. Though widely respected for his playing, Werner's profound influence as a teacher has often eclipsed his musical output—something this episode sets out to correct. Alex and Kenny dive deep into the philosophy behind Effortless Mastery, a system of learning and unlearning that helps musicians quiet their inner critics, accept where they are, and move forward with intention and ease. They also explore how spirituality, rhythm, and breathing all play essential roles in accessing “the space”—that elusive zone where creativity flows freely. Follow Alex @alexskolnick and Moods & Modes @moodsandmodes Moods & Modes is hosted and produced by Alex Skolnick. Executive Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Edited by Justin Thomas. Music by Alex Skolnick and the Alex Skolnick Trio. Artwork by Mark Dowd. Distributed by Studio Kairos. Resources & Links: Kenny Werner's website & music: https://kennywerner.com Effortless Mastery (book and courses): EffortlessMastery.com Berklee's Effortless Mastery Institute: Berklee.edu Alex's Patreon: patreon.com/alexskolnick Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1.17 King of Wands

Soul Operator

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 18:10

"You encounter another mutant human-like creature. This one is small, with grotesque features. It has bulging eyes and some sort of respiratory affliction. It greets you excitedly, clearly lonely and hungry. How do you react?"General Warnings:-Fear-Isolation-Paranoia Episode Specific:-Child in distress-Gore in the form of transformation-Characters not being believed-Descriptions of violenceTessa Whitlock played by ⁠Tatiana GefterAnisha Amin played by Addie NofalNathan Sutter played by Mike LeBeauKillian Walker played by Lucas MartinezJenny Park played by Angie MinJohn-Michael Cassidy played by Dylan GriggsHen Connors played by Nova LimbFareeha Elamin played by Dalia RamahiConnie Laughten played by Gail SullivanAdditional voices provided by:Taylor MichaelsLyssa JayPine GonzalezAudio editing and music by ⁠J Strautman⁠Follow us on ⁠twitter⁠, ⁠tumblr⁠, ⁠instagram, bluesky, and tiktok Check out Welcome to the Habitrails for yourself on the Knave of Cups shop. For $5 off your orders of $25 or more, use the code SOUL at checkout.For transcripts, check out our website.Support us on Patreon for early access to ad free episodes.Produced and Distributed by Rusty Quill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#117 10 Financial Advisor Website Mistakes

The Stephen and Kevin Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 26:30

Are you unknowingly turning away prospects with your website? In this video, we break down the 10 most common mistakes on financial advisor websites—and show you exactly how to fix them. Whether you're building a site from scratch or revamping your current one, this guide will help you avoid critical errors that hurt user experience, SEO, and lead generation. Failing the 5-Second Test? Remember, visitors form first impressions fast. If your homepage is cluttered, confusing, or generic, you're likely losing business before the conversation even starts.Here's what we cover:1. Failing the 5-Second Test – First impressions count.2. Relying on Stock Photography – Authenticity beats generic visuals.3. Accepting Old Copywriting – Cut the jargon and connect.4. No Advisor-Generated Content – Build trust and visibility.5. Neglecting SEO – Help prospects find you on Google.6. Inconsistent or Weak Branding – Your website should reflect your firm.7. Underwhelming Bio Pages – Personal connection starts here.8. Lack of Models – Make complex ideas easy to digest.9. Weak CTAs – Motivate meaningful action.10. Not Using Tracking & Analytics – Improve what you measure. This is a must-watch for any advisor looking to upgrade their digital presence. If you're serious about converting website traffic into real conversations, this is where you start. Like this video if it helped you Comment with your biggest website challenge Subscribe for more tips on advisor marketing and branding#FinancialAdvisorWebsites #WebsiteMistakes #AdvisorMarketing #FinancialMarketing #FailingThe5SecondTestAllianz Investment Management LLC is a registered investment adviser and wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. Investment involves risk including possible loss of principal. There is no guarantee the funds will achieve their investment objectives and may not be suitable for all investors.Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing. For a prospectus with this and other information about the Fund, please call 877.429.3837 or visit www.allianzIMetfs.com and review the prospectus. Investors should read the prospectus carefully before investing.Distributed by Foreside Fund Services, LLC. Foreside Fund Services, LLC is not affiliated with Allianz Investment Management LLC or Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America.

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DistributED: Meet IDEA's President Patrick Knight

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 24:39

Patrick Knight was named President of IDEA in January 2025.

Distributed CI and Git with Lars Wirzenius

Open Source Security Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 27:27

Lars Wirzenius discusses his innovative CI/CD system Ambient, which uses isolated virtual machines without network access to enhance security, and his work on Radicle, a peer-to-peer Git collaboration platform. Together, these projects offer a glimpse into a more distributed future for software development, addressing key challenges in current CI/CD systems like long wait times, security vulnerabilities, and centralized infrastructure limitations. The blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/2025-03-ambient-radicle-lars-wirzenius/

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The History & Power of Distributed Tracing with Christoph Neumueller & Thomas Rothschaedl

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 56:19

So you think Distributed Tracing is the new thing? Well - its not! But its never been as exciting as today!In this episode we combine 50 years of Distributed Tracing experience across our guests and hosts. We invited Christoph Neumueller and Thomas Rothschaedl who have seen the early days of agent-based instrumentation, how global standards like the W3C Trace Context allowed tracing to connect large enterprise systems and how OpenTelemetry is commoditizing data collection across all tech stacks.Tune in and learn about the difference between spans and traces, why collecting the data is only part of the story, how to combat the challenge when dealing with too much data and how traces relate and connect to logs, metrics and events.Links we discussedYouTube with Christoph: LINK WILL FOLLOW ONCE VIDEO IS POSTEDChristoph's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophneumueller/Thomas's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rothschaedl/

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Episode 265: Sean Goggins on Sustainability through CHAOSS

Sustain

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 41:20

Guest Sean Goggins Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer chats with guest Sean Goggins, a tenured full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Missouri. Sean discusses his extensive involvement in the open source community, particularly through his work with the CHAOSS Project, a Linux Foundation initiative focused on understanding and improving open-source project sustainability. Their conversation covers Sean's academic background, his role in CHAOSS, the importance of distributed leadership, and how metrics can impact the sustainability of open source projects. Sean also shares insights into his teaching methods, the challenges of maintaining open source software, and the future direction of his work on CHAOSS and Augur. Hit the download button now! [00:01:25] Sean shares that he's a professor specializing in software engineering, algorithms, data science, and visualization, and he discusses his tenure status and passion for research and open source work. [00:02:41] Sean explains how open source leadership is distributed rather than centralized. [00:04:45] We hear how the CHAOSS Project emerged from studying open source governance and leadership. Sean and Matt Germonprez started working on open source collaboration data and a metrics-focused discussion at a Linux Foundation Summit that led to the founding of the CHAOSS Project in 2017. [00:08:23] Richard asks Sean how he balances research, teaching, and open source. Sean discusses how he splits time between research (40%), teaching (40%), and service (20%), with CHAOSS being a major part of his research efforts. [00:13:27] Sean explains that the Augur Project was born out of a need for structured open source data tracking. [00:15:18] Richard asks Sean if he teaches his students about open source, and he explains that he uses CHAOSS and Auger to teach students about GitHub collaboration, pull requests, and open source workflows. [00:19:25] Sean shares his insights on research and open source. He emphasizes his involvement in maintaining software and aiding organizations in making sense of CHAOSS metrics through Augur, which has given him a deep understanding of open source development. [00:20:44] Sean explains why he thinks metrics help make projects more sustainable and how the CHAOSS community has benefitted from fostering a welcoming environment for both technical and non-technical contributors. [00:25:23] We hear some challenges within CHAOSS where it's been difficult to build a strong developer community around CHAOSS software tools and maintaining open source software requires significant effort. [00:28:11] He goes further to explain how to be a better project and that there's potential for improving project sustainability through structured mentoring and governance. [00:35:07] Sean shares CHAOSS Project's future and research goals. Quotes [00:03:46] “Distributed leadership: this exists in most of open source. There's not often a single individual who drives an entire project.” [00:09:18] “You have 40% of your time for teaching, 40% of your time for research, and 20% of your time for service.” [00:12:15] “There's a challenge of being a university professor. The advantage is you can do what you want, the challenge is that you have to set your own boundaries.” [00:23:12] “A leading indicator for community health is how many newcomers you have coming in over time.” [00:28:14] “How can I have a better project? It's the same as going to a family reunion and saying, ‘How can we be a better family'?” Spotlight [00:37:25] Richard's spotlight is BibtexParser. [00:38:21] Sean's spotlight is Stuart Geiger. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) richard@sustainoss.org (mailto:richard@sustainoss.org) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/tags/sustainoss) Open Collective-SustainOSS (Contribute) (https://opencollective.com/sustainoss) Richard Littauer Socials (https://www.burntfen.com/2023-05-30/socials) Sean Goggins Website (https://www.seangoggins.net/) Sean Goggins X (https://x.com/sociallycompute) Nora McDonald Website (https://www.noramcdonald.net/) Nora McDonald-Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (https://cyberinitiative.org/research/researcher-directory/mcdonald-nora.html) Sustain Podcast- 3 episodes featuring guest Georg Link (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/georg-link) Sustain Podcast- 2 episodes featuring guest Dawn Foster (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/foster) Matt Germonprez-Univ. of Nebraska Omaha (https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-information-science-and-technology/about/faculty-staff/matt-germonprez.php) The Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit-Tokyo, Japan 2025 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-kernel-maintainer-summit/) Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (https://sloan.org/) CHAOSS (https://chaoss.community/) CHAOSS-GrimoireLab (https://chaoss.github.io/grimoirelab/) CHAOSS-Augur (https://github.com/chaoss/augur) Kelly Blincoe-University of Auckland (https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/k-blincoe) James Howison (https://james.howison.name/) Sustain Podcast- episode 218 featuring guest James Howison (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/james-howison) Sustain Podcast-episode 243 featuring guest Elizabeth Barron (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/elizabeth-barron) Sustain Podcast-episode 65 featuring guest Brian Proffitt (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/briant-proffitt) Sustain Podcast-2 episodes featuring guest Duane O'Brien (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/duane-obrien) Sustain Podcast-episode 200 featuring guest Stuart Geiger (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/geiger) Digital Infrastructure Podcast- 2 episodes featuring guest Rayya El Zein (https://dif.fireside.fm/guests/rayya-el-zein) BibtexParser (https://bibtexparser.readthedocs.io/en/main/) Stuart Geiger (https://css.ucsd.edu/people/profiles/sgeiger.html) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Sean Goggins.

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Leave Juju alone, Chavez picks the Sooners and Busted March Madness Brackets

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 133:29

On this episode we dive into the first 2 rounds of the NCAA tournament, Aaliyah Chavez's announcement, wnba draft prospects and more!https://linktr.ee/pullup3 | Distributed via SteadyHype Studios

Carlos Alcaraz sur l'ambition, la résilience, et les racines de sa passion

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 19:23

Dans cet épisode de Louis Vuitton [EXTENDED], Loïc Prigent rencontre Carlos Alcaraz, jeune prodige du tennis et Ambassadeur de la Maison, sur le court qui l'a vu grandir. Dans cette conversation captivante, il se confie sur les souvenirs marquants et les valeurs qui l'inspirent. Il dévoile sa quête d'excellence et sa vision singulière de l'équilibre, aussi bien sur le court qu'en dehors. Une plongée fascinante dans l'univers d'une génération de champions où ambition et authenticité tracent l'avenir du sport.Distributed by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Carlos Alcaraz on Ambition, Resilience, and the Roots of His Passion