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In the first few months of the second Trump administration, the White House in effect declared war on the nation's colleges and universities, and particularly the most selective and prestigious among them. Vice President JD Vance had famously declared in 2021 that “the universities are the enemy,” but conservative antipathy against higher education for its alleged role as the breeding ground of progressive ideology goes back at least to the 1960s. In that turbulent decade, the universities became entangled in national debates over the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement, and the counterculture. The present-day controversies over political activism on college and university campuses echo the debates of the 1960s in important ways.Neil L. Rudenstine has been a key observer and participant in the shaping of American higher education since the 1960s. He served as President of Harvard University from 1991 to 2001, after decades of teaching and administrative experience that included service as Dean of Students, Dean of the College, and Provost at Princeton University. His career in academic administration began by chance in the fall of 1967, when as a junior professor of English at Harvard he came across a left-wing student group “imprisoning” a recruiter from the Dow Chemical Company in protest against the company's complicity in the Vietnam war. His intervention was credited with helping to bring the protest to a peaceful resolution, and led to his involvement as an academic administrator in later campus debates over subjects including identity politics, climate change, and America's global role. In his new memoir, Our Contentious Universities: A Personal History, Rudenstine draws upon his experiences to explain why universities have become increasingly fractious institutions and why they have come to be at the center of the country's culture wars. In this podcast interview, the former Harvard president discusses the sources of student and faculty radicalization in the 1960s, the parallels between the ‘60s campus protests and those of today, and the financial and institutional difficulties that beset many of the country's leading universities. He suggests ways that the universities can respond to the political attacks against them from the Republican Party, and also how they can attempt to restore public trust and better serve the needs of the nation and the world.

Our guest this time, Kane Brolin, will quickly and gladly tell you that as a blind person born in Iowa in 1965 he was mightily blessed to be born in that state as it had the best programs for blind people in the nation. Kane was born prematurely and, because of being given too much oxygen he became blind due to a condition known as retinopathy O. Prematurity. In fact I am blind due to the same circumstance. As it turns out, Kane and I share a great many life experiences especially because of the attitudes of our parents who all thought we could do whatever we put our minds to doing. Kane attended public school and then went to Iowa State University. He wanted to be a DJ and had a bit of an opportunity to live his dream. However, jobs were scarce and eventually he decided to go back to school at Northwestern University in Illinois. He formed his own financial and investment company which has been in business since 2002. He is a certified financial planner and has earned the Chartered Special Needs Consultant® designation.   We talk quite a bit about financial matters and he gives some sage advice about what people may realize are good investment ideas. He talks about investing in the stock market and urges investing for the long term. I leave it to him to discuss this in more depth.   Kane is quite committed to “pay it forward” insofar as dealing with blind people is concerned. He is currently the president of the National Federation of the Blind of Indiana. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Penny Forward, Inc., a not-for-profit founded and run by blind people which strives to build a diverse and aspirationally-focused community of blind people who help one another achieve financial fitness, gainful employment, and overall fulfilment in life.   I find Kane quite inspirational and I hope you will do so as well. He has much to offer and he provided many good life lessons not only about financial matters, but also about blindness and blind people.       About the Guest:   Born in 1965, Kane Brolin spent his formative years in the state of Iowa and later went on to earn a Master's degree from the JL Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, which is near Chicago.  Since the year 2002, he has owned and operated a financial planning and investment management business based in Mishawaka, Indiana, located not far from The University of Notre Dame.  Over the years, he has become a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional and has earned the Chartered Special Needs Consultant® designation.  When doing business with his clients, securities and Advisory Services are offered through Commonwealth Financial Network, a Registered Investment Advisor which is a Member of FINRA and SIPC,.   Having been totally blind for all his life, Kane feels indebted to many people who selflessly gave of their time, talent, and resources to help him acquire the education, skills, and confidence that enable him to lead a busy and productive life in service to others.  Many of those who made the biggest impact when Kane was growing up, also happened to be members of the National Federation of the Blind.  So after getting established on his current career path, he increasingly felt the impulse to give back to the organized blind movement which had served his needs from an early age.   Kane co-founded the Michiana Chapter in the National Federation of the Blind in 2012 and subsequently was elected to serve a two-year term as president of the Indiana State Affiliate of the NFB in October, 2022.  He is thankful for the early introduction of Braille, as well as for the consistent drumbeat from parents, peers, and professors which set and reinforced continuously high expectations.     In addition to his work with the NFB, Kane serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Penny Forward, Inc., a not-for-profit founded and run by blind people which strives to build a diverse and aspirationally-focused community of blind people who help one another achieve financial fitness, gainful employment, and overall fulfilment in life.   Kane lives in Mishawaka with Danika, his wife of 27 years, and their four children.  Kane and Danika were active foster parents for 11 years.  The Brolin family have been committed to numerous civic organizations; they and their family are active in their place of worship.  Giving back to the world is a continuously high priority.  They endeavor to teach their children by example, and they impart to them the wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “You can all be great, because you can all serve.”   Ways to connect with Rob:   BrolinWealth.com LinkedIn public profile nfb-in.org pennyforward.com   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Hi, everyone. I am your host, Michael Hingson, or you can call me Mike. It's okay. And this is unstoppable mindset where inclusion, diversity in the unexpected. Meet today. We're going to do a little bit of all. We're inclusive because my guest Kane Brolin, or if you're from Sweden, it's Brolin, and it's pronounced Brolin, not Brolin, but Kane bralin, or broline, is in Indiana, and Kane also happens to be blind, and has been blind his entire life. We'll get into that. He is very much involved in investing and dealing with money matters that I'm interested to get a chance to really chat about it's always fun to talk to people about how they're helping people with finances and money and getting insights. And I'm sure that he has some to to offer. So we'll get to that. Kane also happens to be the president of the National Federation of the Blind of Indiana, and so that keeps him busy, so he deals with money, and he's a politician to boot. So what else can you ask for? I pick on Kane by doing that, but nevertheless, Kane, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here. Thank   Kane Brolin ** 02:34 you. And there are there are times when the politics and the money issues can be a dream. There are other times it can be an absolute nightmare, either one, either one or both and and the thing that ties those together in common ground is that I walk in in the morning, and sometimes they have no idea what I'm about to walk into. So it does make for an adventure. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 02:57 the Fed has lowered interest rates. What do you think about that?   Kane Brolin ** 03:01 Well, there is some ramification for what happens in the consumer marketplace. The main thing that I've been hearing today is that even with those lowering of short term interest rates, you're seeing some long term interest rates go down the mortgage rates, especially, and those two are not necessarily always related. You don't always see the long term interest rates that the market determines through supply and demand. They don't always go in sync with the short term baseline rate that the Federal Reserve banking system sets, but in this particular case, they are, and what I've been reading this morning is that that may be at least good news in the short run for consumers, because they'll be paying Lower interest for new mortgages and also perhaps lower credit card rates or credit card payments. Of course, the downside is that if one invests and is lending money instead of borrowing it, that means sometimes lower rates of income that you can get from things like a certificate of deposit or an annuity. So there's always two sides of the same coin, and then it depends on which side you happen to be looking at. At the moment, right now, the market seems to like this convergence of interest rate activities, and the stock market has generally been up today. So by the time people hear this, that won't matter because it's a whole different day, but, but right now, the early returns coming in are pretty good for the the common human being out there trying to just manage their money.   Michael Hingson ** 04:54 Well, that's not really surprising, in a sense, because rates have been high for a while. Yeah, and things have been tough. So it's not surprising that people have made, and I would put it this way, to a degree, the marketing decision to respond favorably to the rates going down, and I know there's been a lot of pressure for the thread to lower its rate, and so they did. And I think that a lot of different entities kind of had to respond in a reasonably positive way, because they kept saying that it's time that the rates go down. So they had to respond. So we'll see how it it all goes. I   Kane Brolin ** 05:33 think, you know, and there's an issue I think that's salient to people with disabilities, blind people, included, if it's less expensive for the consumer to borrow money, it should follow that in the coming weeks, it should be less expensive for businesses to borrow money if they need some, and they may be more inclined to open up more jobs to people or to not shrink the jobs or The hiring that they have done by laying people off so and that's what I was just about. No one is a recession, and so it may mean that there are openings, there's room in the job market for more of us, because the thing I'm most passionate about in this whole game of helping blind people is getting us access to money and getting us access to gainful permanent work.   Michael Hingson ** 06:24 And that's what I was actually going to going to talk about, or not talk about a long time, but, but mention was that the real test will be how it affects the job market and the unemployment rate and so on. And I hope that that that will go down. I know it's been sort of ticking up a little bit, although in reality, of course, for persons with disabilities, the unemployment rate is a whole lot higher than around 4% so it'll be interesting to see how all that goes all the way around. But even just the national unemployment rate, I would hope that if that has been an excuse because the rates have been high, that now we'll see that start to drop, and, you know, so we'll see. But I think it's a it's going to be one of those waiting games to see how the world responds. Of course, we have a whole political thing going on with the election and I'm sure that some people on the political side like the the drop better than people on the other side do, but again, we'll see how it all goes. So it's it makes life fun. Well, tell me a little bit about you, if you would, sort of maybe the early cane growing up and all that sort of stuff. You were born, according to your bio, back in 1965 so I was 15 at the time, so I remember the year. So you've, you've been around a little while, though, however, so tell us a little bit about the early cane.   Kane Brolin ** 07:54 Yeah, I don't remember too many years, or any years, really, prior to about maybe 1971 or 72 with any degree of real clarity. You know, I would say that my early years were a mixed bag, but in the main they were good, of course, being immediately confronted with rLf, or retinopathy of prematurity, as they call it these days, and being blind from the very beginning, most people would probably out there consider it a tragedy. But if I if I knew that it was my fate to be a blind person, which I suppose it is, then I won the lottery as being a blind person, I think. And that might be a controversial statement, but the truth is that there is no place in the United States, and probably no place in the world that would have been better for me to grow up in in the late 1960s and 1970s than in Iowa, because now there was, there was no other blindness in my family. It's not hereditary. My parents had no idea how to deal with it in the very beginning.   Michael Hingson ** 09:12 Were you born prematurely? I was, yeah, which is why I weigh you have that   Kane Brolin ** 09:16 something like two pounds, 10 ounces at birth. So there is a part of me that realizes that I am very fortunate to be alive, and I'm very fortunate that my brain has functioned pretty well for most of my life. You can't always count on that either, you know, and when you get when you get older, my my father was a very bright person, and yet he lived during the last 10 years of his life, he struggled with dementia and some other problems so but I can say that I've had a good run so far, and you know what they what they didn't know. At least my parents and others in my family knew what they didn't know. And I. But when you don't know what you don't know, you flounder and and settle for almost anything, including fear. But when you know what you don't know, then you understand you need to research things. And I happened to be in a state that had been graced by the presence of Dr Kenneth Jernigan, principally. And of course, other people that I had no idea who they were at that time. You know, folks like James gaschell and James on VIG right, and and others. I think Joanne Wilson came out of that mix. I didn't know her either, but I've read about all these people in the past, but, but first and foremost, my parents found out that Dr Jernigan was number one, very brilliant. Number two did not settle for low expectations. And number three had the advantage of being both the head of the Iowa Commission for the Blind, which was a state sanctioned Agency, and the National Federation of the Blind, which is, or, you know, has been for most of the last 84 years, the leading advocacy organization and civil rights organization of the Blind in in the United States. Now, I'm not here to make a political point about that, but in Iowa, they were definitely more well known than anyone was, and because he could pull strings which influence things like educational budgets, and he also had very much a civil rights mindset and an aggressive mindset of going forward and breaking down barriers, this is a rare combo platter of traits and possibilities that I very much benefited from. And when I say that, I mean that from the very beginning, at five or six years old, I had Braille. I didn't have Braille in the beginning, but, but my parents did and and my dad actually knew enough about it to construct a set of blocks with print lettering on one side, Braille on the other side. And so not only did I have a really good teacher in my first couple of years of public school education named Doris Willoughby, some may be familiar with her. I know Doris will rip she has passed on in the past couple years, but she made a great impact in in my life, and a very deep impact in others lives too. But because of her influence and like minded people, I had access to books. I had access to mostly mainstreamed integrated education, where I was in the classroom with other sighted students, except for certain parts of certain days, you know, I had access to a great big wall mounted tactile map that was like a puzzle. And I understand Dr Jernigan designed that one too, where I could actually feel and take apart the states of the Union. And so I could tell where Oklahoma was, where Massachusetts was, where Indiana is. I could tell the shapes of the various states. I thought it was kind of curious that California, where you are from, Michael, is shaped very much like a banana, or at least that's what occurred to me at that time. I had recorded books. I had talking books. And you know, while there are things I did not get out of a mainstream public education that I kind of wish I had gotten out of it, from a social standpoint, from an athletic standpoint, the academics were on point, and I had access to resources, and I kind of just was living in a in a dream world, in a way, because even through my college days, I thought, Well, gee, it's great that we have all this now. Why is there all this blind civil rights stuff going on now? Because this was solved from the beginning of my childhood. Little did I realize that that is not the case in most other parts of the country or the world, but I got what I needed to at least have a shot on goal at success, and I'm very grateful for that, and it's one of the reasons that I have chosen to dedicate a portion of my life, during my prime working years, even to the National Federation of the Blind, because I want to pay this forward and help out some people that may not have had all the advantages that I had, even, even in the bygone days that I was growing up,   Michael Hingson ** 14:23 sure? So tell me, because I went through some of the same experiences you did in terms of being born premature and becoming blind due to rLf, which stands for retro enteral fibroplasia. And if people want to know how to spell that, they can go by thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at ground zero. And you can learn how to spell it there, because I don't remember how to spell it. We put it in the book, but that's what I remember. But so when you be when it was discovered that you were blind, how did your parents handle that? What did they say? Right? What did the doctors say to them? Because my experience was and, you know, of course, I didn't know it at the time, but my parents told me later that the doctor said, send him off to a home because he could never amount to anything, because no blind child could ever contribute to society. What was, if, from your understanding from your parents, what was what happened to you? If any   Kane Brolin ** 15:21 doctor ever said that to them? They never told me about it. What I what I do know is that there is an eye doctor that was a part of their lives, who I saw a couple of times, probably in my childhood, who was a a female optometrist or maybe an ophthalmologist in the area, and they really had a lot of respect for her. I never felt marginalized or dismissed. Yeah, as a part of my childhood, part of it is that I don't think my parents would have tolerated that, and my   Michael Hingson ** 15:55 parents didn't, either my parents and my parents didn't either they said, No, you're wrong. He can grow up to do whatever he wants, and we're going we're going to give him that opportunity. And they brought me up that way, which is, of course, part of what led to my psyche being what it is. And I too, believe in paying it forward and doing work to try to educate people about blindness and so on, and supporting and and I've been involved with the National Federation of the Blind since 1972 so it's been a while. Yeah, I would say,   Kane Brolin ** 16:27 I know I remember. I have a very, very fuzzy memory of being four, maybe five years old, and I know that they considered putting me into the Iowa Braille and sight saving School, which was a school for the blind in Iowa no longer exists, by the way, but they did consider it and decided against it. I don't think they wanted me to just go off to boarding school I was five. I know that that does work for some people, and I know that in later years, I've read that in some cases, even Dr Jernigan believed that schools for the blind were better, especially in places where there wasn't a truly sincere effort by public school systems to integrate and set high expectations for blind students. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 17:13 of course, here in California, for example, in the 50s and so on, as the California School for the Blind we had and and earlier, Dr Newell Perry, among others, who was a blind mathematician. Of course, Dr tembrech was was out here, and there were values and reasons why the schools could make a difference. My parents were pushed really hard by my elementary school principal to send me off to that school, and I actually remember hearing shouting matches between them, because parents said ah and and I didn't go to the school. I don't know what it was like by the time we moved out here and we were putting me in kindergarten, first and second grade. So like in 5657 I'm not sure what the school was like, but my parents didn't want me to not have a real home environment. So, you know,   Kane Brolin ** 18:12 yeah, and so, you know, I remember my childhood is, well, it wasn't like everybody else's childhood. One of the the issues happened to be that my the neighborhood that my family lived in, did not have a lot of kids in it that were my age for most of the time I was there, the schools in the early to mid 70s at least that admitted blind students in the town that I grew up in, which was Cedar Rapids, Iowa, there was only one set of schools on the opposite side of town where they were sending blind kids for those resources. Now that later changed and the decision was made. I guess I made the decision to stay out there. So one of the differences was that I was bussed from the southeast side of town to the southwest side of town. So there were kids I got to know through school, but I didn't have any kind of social life with most of them, with a couple different exceptions, through my childhood. So it was a lot of academics, it wasn't a lot of play time, right? That certainly informed how I grew up, and it's made me a little bit struggle to understand and and be a really sensitive, playful, patient type parent, because my my kids and I'll, we'll go there when we get there, but my, my children, I have four, they're all still in home right now, are very normal kind of rambunctious kids that enjoy and struggle with the same things that any other kids do. They are all sighted, but, but my parents were. Was pretty strict. They set high expectations, but some of that was high expectations for behavior as well. So I really wasn't ramming around and causing trouble and getting into mischief and, you know, getting on my bike and riding for miles outside the way kids did in the 70s. So there there were limitations in my childhood, but, but, you know, my parents, too, expected me to utilize and to have the resources that would lead me to be anything I wanted to be. And I honestly think that if I had said, I want to be the President of the United States, they would not have ruled it out. Now, the only thing I've really been president of is several different civic organizations and the Indiana branch of the NFB. You know, that's something not everyone does. I've interviewed a governor before when I was a journalism student. That was fun, and I've met congress people, but they did not set the limitations. You know, sometimes maybe I did, but but they didn't. And so I'm really grateful for that, that as long as I knew what I wanted, they made sure that I had the tools and access to whatever training they knew about that could help me to   Michael Hingson ** 21:18 get there. So you you went through school. And I think our our younger lives were fairly similar, because I also, when I went into fourth grade, and we finally had a resource teacher in the area, I was bused to the other side of town for that. And all of that kind of came together when I started high school, because everyone in Palmdale went to the same high school, so anyone I knew prior to going across town, I got to know again, and still knew as as friends growing up, but we all went to high school together. But you know, I hear exactly what you're saying, and my parents did not impose limitations either, and I'm very blessed for that. But you went through school and then you went to college. Tell me about college.   Kane Brolin ** 22:19 It was a fun experience. Glad that I went through it. I attended Iowa State University for my bachelor's degree. I know that you've never, ever heard this before, but I really dreamed about being a radio personality. And I say that sarcastically. It's what I wanted to be, because I had a cousin that was in the business. But of course, since then, as I've gotten more into blind blindness culture and met many other people that I never knew growing up, I know that that the media and especially radio as a gift, is really fascinating to many of us, and a lot of us have had rotations in different parts of that, especially with the advent of the internet, but this was back during the 70s and 80s, and what I wanted to be at first was a DJ. Used to pretend to be one at home all the time and then, but I also knew where the library was, and I developed a great love of books and information and data. To some degree, I wasn't really a math guy, more of a word guy, but I then developed a deep interest in journalism and investigation and research, and so by the middle to late 80s, what I wanted to be was, let's just call it the next Peter Jennings, if one can remember who that is, right. And I'm sure that there are probably, you know, facsimiles of him today,   Michael Hingson ** 23:50 but it's hard to be a facsimile of Peter Jennings. But yeah, he really is,   Kane Brolin ** 23:55 and that he was great and but you know the disadvantage, the advantage and the disadvantage of going to Iowa State University. I Why did I go there? Because any of my few relatives that had gone to college, including my dad, had had gone there. My dad was very loyal to his alma mater, and he told both myself and my sister, who is a very different person and not blind at all. If it was good enough for me, it's good enough for you, and if you want me to pay for it, here's where you're going to go. Now, Iowa State is mostly an engineering and agricultural school. It's a land grant institution. And I know that land grant institutions are a little controversial in today's climate where there is more of an emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion and making up for some past societal wrongs, but these are deeply respected institutions that mainly turned out people that ended up well, doing things like building. Bridges and being mechanical engineers and developing new seed corn hybrids and things of this nature. It did have a telecommunicative arts program, and I was in it, but there were very few of us in it, and I did get a chance to get my hands on the equipment. I was a broadcaster, first on a student radio station at Iowa State called K usr. Then I actually did work for pay, sort of for a number of years for w, O I am and FM, which were flagship stations of what we would now call the the NPR network. You know, these were around since the 20s, and I actually did work for them. I was on air a little bit. I ran the control board a lot, and I worked for those two stations on a part time basis, probably about a three quarter time basis, for several years after leaving college, and it was really a student job, but I had trouble finding any other more meaningful work in the industry. What I gradually came to find out is that I loved radio, but radio really didn't love me, and I wasn't really thinking strategically. At that time, I graduated in 1988 it is that very same year that a little known figure from Kansas City named Rush Limbaugh hit the American airwaves like a ton of bricks. And because of him and some other people like him, all of a sudden, local stations realized that they could drop their news and information programming, stop hiring so many people, and because Mr. Limbaugh was as popular as he was, they could basically run a lot of satellite based programming, have somebody sort of halfway monitor the board and hire somebody else to program computer systems that would put automated commercial breaks on and things like this, and they wouldn't really have to produce local content. We also saw the elimination of the equal time standard and the Fairness Doctrine, which required local stations to put on a variety of viewpoints and air programming every week that was in the public interest, that didn't necessarily have commercial value. And so the things I wanted to do became a lot harder to do, because by the time I was ready to get hired to do them, not a lot of radio stations were hiring people to do it, even in the even in the television world, and so strategically, I was buying into a sinking market, and That wasn't a great place to be at that time. And so with some reluctance, after a lot of fruitless job searching, I chose another path, not necessarily knowing where that path would lead. And so the last time I ever got paid to run a shift for a radio station was in late June of 1993 I've been a guest on a couple of different shows and some podcasts like this one. I greatly enjoy it. I've even thought about doing some internet broadcasting. I don't have the time, really to do that now, but, but, and I miss it, but I have found out there are ways of diverting the skill sets I have to another path.   Michael Hingson ** 28:25 And what path did you choose?   Kane Brolin ** 28:28 Initially, the path I chose was graduate school. I was fortunate enough to have gotten good enough grades that I was able to get approved by a number of different business schools. You know, the first path I really wanted to do is be a Foreign Service Officer for the diplomatic corps. I applied for the US Department of State. And I had some hopes in doing that, because around 1990 a gentleman named Rami Rabbi. You may know him, I do did became the first blind person ever to be a Foreign Service Officer. Now, he had advantages. He had traveled the world. I had traveled to Mexico and Costa Rica, and I spoke Spanish, and I was pretty fluent, but he was a little bit more qualified in different ways that they were looking for. So I wanted some international experience. I applied for the Peace Corps, and I had no real shot at that. What they were looking for was something very different from what I was then. But I did apply to the Foreign Service, and I made it almost all the way down the hiring process. I made the final 3% cut among the class they were looking at in 1990 and 91 I went to Virginia to, I think Alexandria and I sat for the last round of interviews and simulations that they did. Unfortunately, I was in the top 3% and they wanted the top 1% so I had a really fun few days out there at the government's expense. But I also found that I was not going to be hired to be the second blind. Foreign Service officer. I later found out that Mr. Robbie had to actually file a lawsuit and win that lawsuit to get his opportunity. So I know that the system were not exactly bought in to blame people doing this on a regular basis. I know there's others that have gotten there since that, and I've met one of them, but but that that wasn't for me, but they also said what I really needed was more management experience. I'd never done anything in management, so I decided to go to management school or business school as graduate school. I got accepted by a few different places. I chose Northwestern University in Chicago. My sister had gone through that program. I guess that's maybe one of the reasons I selected that one. I could have gone to a couple of others that also had accepted me, and sometimes I wonder what would have happened had I done that. But I did spend two years in Chicago land met some of the most impressive people that I've ever met in my life. Figured out train systems and pace bus systems, and went all over the place and had friends in the city, not just in the school. I made the most of that time, and that's what I did from 1993 to 1995 unfortunately, I found out you can get a an MBA or a master of management, but they still, still weren't hiring a lot of blind people out there. And so while my associates were getting jobs at McKinsey and Company, and Booz Allen Hamilton, as it was known at that time, and they were working for Bank of America, doing all kinds of interesting things and and also brand management companies like disco and Kellogg and all that. I got all of one job offer coming out of one of the top 5b schools in the country, and I took that job offer, which led me to Midland, Michigan, where I knew nobody at that time, but I spent about three and a half years doing various types of business research for the Dow Chemical Company, and that did not last as a career, but I got a chance to make the first real money I had ever earned. At that time through another connection that wasn't related to Dow, I happened to meet the woman that I eventually married and am with now, and have had four kids with, and so that was a whole different kettle of fish. But at the end of 98 I was downsized, along with several others in my department, and we decided at that time that entrepreneurship was probably not a bad way to go, or, you know, something that wasn't just strictly speaking corporate. In 2000 I landed in the South Bend, Indiana area, which is where she is from. I had never lived here before. This is where I am now. And while struggling to find a place here, I realized that I could get hired on as what is called a financial advisor. I had no idea what that was. Well, you know, with a business degree, I could probably be a credible hire as a financial advisor. Little did I know that that involved tele sales. In the very beginning, never thought I was a salesperson either. Since then, I have found out that I have more selling ability than I had ever thought that I might and that that is an honorable profession if you're convincing people to do what is right for themselves. And so I've found that over the years, being what I am enables me to, well, in a way, keep my own hours. We've chosen the small business, sort of independent contracting route, rather than the employee channel, working for a bank or for somebody else's brokerage. I get to be a researcher, I get to be a public speaker now and then, and I get to help people problem solve, which is something I would not have had a chance to do on the radio. And when someone comes up to you, as a few people have and have, said, you know, thank you for making it possible for me to retire and to do what I want to do, and to spend time with grandkids and to live where I want to live. You know, that's a that's definitely a hit. That's a great feeling to have someone say, Thank you for helping me to do and to be what I didn't know I could do or be. So   Michael Hingson ** 34:38 investing isn't what you had originally planned to do with your life. So I can't say that it was necessarily a lifelong goal from the beginning, but you evolved into it, and it seems to be going pretty well for you.   Kane Brolin ** 34:51 Well, yeah, I think it has. It's investing means different things to different. People, to some clients, the goal is, I just don't want to lose money. Please put me in something that earns a little bit, but I don't want the chance for anything I'm in to go down for others. What investing means is, I want to be more aggressive. I want to build what I have. What do you think about this or that opportunity? What stock should I be in? Because I really want to grab onto an opportunity and seize the day and have as much as I can have at the end of the day. And you know, For still others, it means, it means giving. It means building something up so I can pass it along, either to a charity, to the kids, to the grandkids, to to my religious institution of choice, whatever that is. So I find that investing is not just investing, the the at the root, at the heart of investing, the heartbeat of it, is really the people that I serve. And you know, I was told early on, hey, you don't have a practice. All you're doing is practicing, unless you have people to be in front of. And so in my mind, you know, and I'm not that much of a quantitative guy. I'm I'm not the person out there working as an actuary for Symmetra Life Insurance Company figuring out how much money has to go in and how much it must earn to be able to give 50,000 people the payouts they want from an annuity till the end of their projected lifespans. That's that's not where I am. I'm not designing a mutual fund that's more like what a certified financial analyst would be. I am a Certified Financial Planner practitioner, and what a CFP does is takes numbers that you see and translates those into action steps that I can explain in plain English terms to a client I'm in front of that can give that individual person, family or small business the kinds of outcomes that they want. So I'm on the retail end of the food chain, and my job is to try to take the numbers that others are generating and boil that down into something that is digestible to the common man and woman, that allows them to, we hope, live the way they want. So   Michael Hingson ** 37:29 I gather from listening to you though, that you enjoy what you do.   Kane Brolin ** 37:36 I do particularly when it works.   Michael Hingson ** 37:39 Well, there's times.   Kane Brolin ** 37:40 There are times it gets a little tricky. 2001 2002 I know that you had a very personal experience that vaulted you, Michael, into this, into the realm of the famous, or the Almost Famous, on 911 I remember what 911 was like as a very small time retail investment person working out of a field office. I was somebody's employee at that point. I was working for American Express financial advisors, and I remember my life was never in danger in 911 but there were a lot of clients that thought their money and their data were in danger, and then the country that the country itself, might even be in danger. And so I morphed during that week from being a telemarketing person trying to set appointments with people I'd never met to being a person who was trying to dole out comfort and a feeling of security and solace to people I had met who the few that I was managing their accounts at that time, calling them and saying, You know what, your money and your data are safe. I'm here. The company that you have your stuff invested with is based in Minneapolis. It's not based in the Twin Towers, the markets are shut down. There will be volatility, but you're not crashing today, just so   Michael Hingson ** 39:08 the other the other side of it, the other side of that, was that during that week after September 11, there were a lot of people who were working and moving, literally Heaven and Earth, if you will, to bring Wall Street back. And I know I'm working with some of those companies and providing them with the backup equipment, or not so much at the time, backup equipment, but the equipment that would be able to read existing tape backups and put that back on computers. And I know, I think it was Morgan Stanley had found an office space sometime during the week after September 11. Then, as they describe it, it was the building with a floor the size of a foot. Football field, and they scrounged and scavenged and got their providers of equipment, like IBM to provide them with computers, even taking them from IBM employees desks to provide enough equipment to be able to set up what was the equivalent to the trading floor that had been in the world trade center that was destroyed on September 11, and literally from Friday afternoon that would have been the 14th to the 16th in 36 hours. They not only reconstructed physically what the trading floor was but because of what we provided them with, they were able to completely reconstruct what everything looked like on their computers. So when Wall Street reopened on the 17th, everything was like it was when everything shut down on the 11th now, I think there's some blessings to the fact that the towers were struck before Wall Street opened. I don't know how much easier that made it maybe some, but the reality is that data is backed up regularly, so they would have been able to to survive, but the fact that the markets hadn't opened in the US certainly had to help. But by Monday, the 17th, they brought Wall Street back, just as if nothing had happened. It was a monumental feat to be able to do that. That is a story   Kane Brolin ** 41:37 that I would love to read, because I've never heard that story before, and that makes me feel very unintelligent. Michael, you know, I can't even imagine the logistics and the people and just even the imagination that it would take to reconstruct that. I'm sure it was 1000s. I'm sure it was 1000s of people. And I'm sure that probably that's something that somebody had thought about even before the 911 incident happened. I don't think that was invented out of whole cloth on Friday the 14th, but that's a story that would be a very captivating book, and if no one's written it, then, gosh, would that be a fun thing to research and write.   Michael Hingson ** 42:21 Well, you know, the reality is, the SEC required that all data from financial institutions had to be backed up and kept available off site for seven years. So first of all, the data was all around and that's why I think it was an especially great blessing that the markets hadn't opened, because all the backups from the previous night, and probably from all the not only the futures, but the sales from foreign markets, were pretty much all backed up as well. So everything was backed up. That, of course, was the real key, because getting the hardware, yes, that was a logistical nightmare that they were able to address, getting the computers, getting everything where they needed it. Then companies like ours providing them with the wherewithal to be able to pull the data from the tapes and put it back onto the computers. It had to be quite a feat, but it all worked. And when Wall Street opened, it opened as if nothing had happened, even though some of the the offices were now in completely different places across the river. But it all worked, incredible. Yeah, I was, it was, it was pretty amazing. I knew people from the firms. And of course, we helped them by providing them with equipment. But at the same time, hearing about the story later was was really quite amazing, and and they did a wonderful job to bring all that back. So it was pretty, pretty amazing that that all that occurred. So that was pretty cool all the way. And   Kane Brolin ** 44:00 of course, the other struggle was in 2007 2008 I remember when I would be sitting at my desk and I'm not a day trader, I'm, I'm, I'm a long term investor. That's what most of my clients want. I'm not in there, you know, trading, trading daily options. I'm not doing inverse leveraged products that have to be bought in the morning and then sold in the afternoon under most cases. But I remember sitting at my desk in 2008 when the great recession was going on with the financial crisis happened and and when banks and huge investment banks, brokerage institutions were, in some cases, completely failing, that's a whole other story that was chronicled in books like The Big Short as an example, but I remember sitting at my desk and timing it and watching in a five minute period of time. As the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was back in in those days, was, was what maybe 6000 or so as a benchmark. It was going up and down by a margin of error of 800 points in five minutes, it would be 400 up one minute, and then 400 down from that level. In other words, an 800 point swing within a five minute period of time. There was one day I went to take a test, because I have continuing education on a pretty regular basis, had to go to a testing center and take a test that lasted maybe three hours. I got back, and I think the market for at least the Dow Jones had dropped by 800 points during the time that I was in the testing center. And that gives you some stomach acid when that sort of thing happens, because even though it it's, you know, things always bounce back, and they always bounce up and down. Clients call and they say, oh my gosh, what happens if I lose it all? Because people really think that they could lose it all. Now, if you're in a mutual fund with 100 different positions, it's very unlikely, right? All of those positions go to zero. What I found out is that when people's money is concerned, it's emotional. Yeah, it's all rational. They're not looking at the empirical data. They're thinking fight or flight, and they really are concerned with what in the world am I going to do if I go to zero? And   Michael Hingson ** 46:38 it's so hard to get people to understand, if you're going to invest in the market, it has to be a long term approach, because if you don't do that, you can, you can disappoint yourself, but the reality is, over the long term, you're going to be okay. And you know now, today, once again, we're seeing the evidence of that with what the Fed did yesterday, lowering by a half a point, and how that's going to affect everything. But even over the last five or six years, so many people have been worried about inflation and worried about so many things, because some of our politicians have just tried to scare us rather than dealing with reality. But the fact of the matter is that it all will work out if we're patient and and allow things to to work. And what we need to do is to try to make wise decisions to minimize, perhaps our risk. But still, things will work out.   Kane Brolin ** 47:43 Yeah, I remember, I think, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is what always used to get quoted, at least on the radio and the television. It was somewhere in the somewhere in the 11,000 range, before the 2008 debacle. And it fell to, I think, 6400 right was the low that it reached. Now it's over 41,000   Michael Hingson ** 48:11 closed up above 42 yesterday. I'm not   Kane Brolin ** 48:13 sure it very well may have so you know when you when you really think about it, if you just stayed in and it's more complicated than that. One of course people have with the market is that when the market crashes, they also may need to get their money out for different, unrelated reasons. What if I lost my job as a result of the market crashing? Right? What if? What if there is a need that I have to fulfill and that money has to come out for me to make a house payment. You don't know that. And so that's the unfortunate part, is that a lot of the academic missions don't take into account the real human factor of real people that need to use their money. But if you could stand to hang on and leave it in, it would be worth you know, what would that be like six or seven times more than it was in 2008 but that's not what what clients often do. They they often want to sell out of fear when things are down, and then wait too long to buy back in when the elevator has already made its way quite a ways up, right?   Michael Hingson ** 49:25 I remember once, and I don't remember what the cause was, but Rolls Royce dropped to $3 a share. And there were some people saying, this is the time to buy. It is it's not going to go away. And those who did have done pretty well. Bank   Kane Brolin ** 49:44 of America was $3 a share for quite some time. It was, it was technically a penny stock. This is Bank of America, you know, one of the leading financial institutions in the in the country, which, incidentally, has a very interesting. History. It wasn't born in New York, it was born in the south, right? But, yeah, if you only knew what those trough opportunities were and knew exactly when to buy in and and I'm constantly telling people, look my my goal is, is not so much to figure out what to buy but when to buy in. We're trying to buy low and sell high, and just because something did well last year doesn't mean you have to hang on to it. It might mean we want to trim that position a little bit, take some profit and and pick something that doesn't look as attractive or sexy because of last year's lackluster returns, but maybe this year. It will just due to changing conditions. Financial markets run in cycles. And it's not that some things are inherently good or bad. Some things are in favor now. They were not in favor last year, and they might not be in favor, you know, two years from now, but they are now. So that's the hard part. You're not supposed to really time the market. We can't predict all these things, but that's why you encourage people to diversify and to have some things that are not correlated with each other in terms of doing well or badly at the same time. So you can always sometimes be gaining with in with your left hand, while your right hand is is struggling a bit. Hence,   Michael Hingson ** 51:25 the need for people who are certified financial planners, right? So there you go. So you, you got married, what, 27 years ago, and you married someone who was fully sighted, who probably didn't have a whole lot of exposure to blindness and blind people before. How did all that work out? Obviously, it's worked out because you're still married. But what was it like, and was it ever kind of an uncomfortable situation for you guys?   Kane Brolin ** 51:58 I don't think blindness. Surprisingly enough, I don't think it was super uncomfortable for her. Now, she had not encountered lots of blind people before, maybe not even any before. She met me, but I met her, and this is where I had it easy. She didn't have it easy, but I met her through her family. I knew my wife's name is Danica. I knew her brother before I knew her, because he and I had been buddies. We for a little while. We ended up living in the same town up in Michigan, and it was not here in the South Bend area where she is, but I went home and had a chance to be to tag along as he was doing some some family things and some things with his friends so but, but my wife is a very interesting father. She has a very interesting dad who is no longer with us. May he rest in peace? No, no. Hello. Sorry. My nine year old just made a brief appearance, and she's incorrigible.   Michael Hingson ** 53:00 You wouldn't have it any other way. No, there   Kane Brolin ** 53:03 are days when I would, but I don't. So anyway, the I found out some interesting things raising kids as a blind parent too, but you know, her dad did not see really any kind of limitations when the world around him was racist he really wasn't. When the world around him was ableist. He really didn't. And one of the things he encouraged me to do, they had a little acreage Danika parents did. And he actually asked me one time when it was a leaf blowing or leaf storing season, it was in the fall, lots of oak trees, different things there to drive the garden tractor, as there was a Baleful leaves behind that he was taken to an area where they would eventually be burned up or composted or something. And I did that. He had an old garden tractor with a, you know, his gas powered, and it had pedals and steering wheel, and he would literally run around alongside it, didn't go very fast, and tell me kind of when and where to turn. I'm told that I almost crashed into the pit where the basement of the home was one time, but I didn't. So he was one of these people that like saw virtually no limitations. Encouraged his kids and others to do great things. He didn't have a great feel for people. He would have been an anti politician. He had trouble remembering your name, but if you were a decent person and treated him right, it didn't matter if you were black, purple, green, blind, deaf, whatever. He saw it as an interesting challenge to teach me how to do things. He taught me how to kayak. He taught me how to cross country ski. Back in those days before climate change, we actually got quite a bit of snow in the area where I live, even as early as Thanksgiving to. I'm in November. And so the first couple of winters that we lived here, and we would go to a local park, or, you know, even just out in the in the backyard of where his property was, and, and, and ski, Nordic ski, not downhill ski, really, but it was, it was an amazing exercise. It's an amazing feel to be able to do that, and I have no memory, and I had no relatives that that were in touch with the true Scandinavian heritage, that ancestry.com says that I have, but the act of doing a little bit of Nordic skiing with him gave me a real feel for what some people go through. Because traditionally, skiing was a form of transportation in those countries. In the Larry P you skied to work, you skied to somebody else's house. So, you know, I thought that that was fun and interesting. Now, the last few winters, we haven't gotten enough snow to amount to anything like that, but I do have, I still have a pair of skis. So no, that may be something that we do at some point when given the opportunity, or some other place where we have a bit more of a snow base.   Michael Hingson ** 56:10 Well, I'm sure that some people would be curious to to know this being blind and doing the work that you do, you probably do. Well, you do the same things, but you probably do them in different ways, or have different technologies that you use. What's some of the equipment and kind of technologies that you use to perform your job?   Kane Brolin ** 56:32 Well, you know, I wouldn't say that. I'm cutting edge. I'm sure there are people who do differently and better than I do, but I do most of my work in a PC based environment. It's a Windows based environment at the present time, because the broker dealers and the other firms that I work through, you know, I'm independent, in a way, meaning I pay my own bills and operate out of my own space and have my name of Berlin wealth management as a shingle on my door, so to speak. But you never walk alone in this business. And so I chose, ultimately, a company called the Commonwealth financial network to serve as my investment platform and my source of technology, and my source of what is called compliance, which means, you know, they are the police walking alongside what I do to make sure that I've documented the advice I've given to people, to make sure that that advice is suitable and that I'm operating according to the law and in the best interest of my clients, and not Not taking money from them, or, you know, doing phony baloney things to trade into a stock before I recommend that to somebody else. You know, there's a lot of malfeasance that can happen in this type of industry, but all these securities that I sell and all the advice that I given are done so with the blessing of the Commonwealth Financial Network, which is a member of FINRA and SIPC, I just need to point that out here. But they also provide technology, and most of their technology is designed to work in a Windows environment, and so that's typically what I have used. So I use JAWS.   Michael Hingson ** 58:23 And JAWS is a screen reader that verbalizes what comes across the screen for people who don't know it right, or puts   Kane Brolin ** 58:28 it into Braille, or puts it into Braille in the in the in the early days of my doing the business, many of the programs that we had to use to design an insurance policy or to pick investments, or to even monitor investments were standalone programs that were not based on a web architecture that would be recognizable. And so I was very fortunate that there was money available from the vocational rehab system to bring somebody in from Easter Seals Crossroads here in Indiana, to actually write Jaws script workarounds, that is, that could help jaws to know what to pull from the graphics card on the screen or in the system, to be able to help me interact. Because otherwise, I would have opened up a program and to me, it would have just been like a blank screen. I wouldn't be able to see or interact with data on the screen. Now, with more things being web based, it's a little easier to do those things. Not always. There are still some programs that are inaccessible, but most of what I do is through the use of Windows 10 or 11, and and with the use of Jaws, I do have, I devices. I like Apple devices, the smaller ones. I'm actually speaking to you using an iPad right now, a sixth generation iPad I've had for a while. I have an iPhone so I can still, you know, look up stock tickers. I can send 10. Text messages or emails, if I have to using that. But in general, I find that for efficiency sake, that a computer, a full on computer, tends to work best and and then I use that more rapidly and with more facility than anything else, right? I use the Kurzweil 1000 system to scan PDFs, or sometimes printed documents or books, things like that, into a readable form where I'm trying to, trying to just kind of anticipate what other things you may ask about. But you know, I use office 365, just like anybody else might. You know, I I have to use a lot of commonly available programs, because the people monitoring my work, and even the clients that I interact with still need to, even if they have sight, they need to read an email right after I send it. You know, they've my assistant has to be able to proof and manipulate a document in a form that she can read, as well as one that I can listen to or use Braille with. I'm a fluent Braille reader and writer. So there are some gizmos that I use, some braille displays and Braille keyboards and things of that nature. But, you know, most people seem to be under the misconception that a blind guy has to use a special blind computer, which must cost a king's ransom, not true, if anybody's listening to the program that isn't familiar with 2024 era blindness technology, it's mostly the same as anybody else's except with the modifications that are needed to make stuff accessible in a non visual format, and   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:45 the reality is, that's what it's all about. It's not like it's magically expensive. There are some things that are more expensive that do help. But the reality is that we use the same stuff everyone else uses. Just have some things that are a little bit different so that we are able to have the same access that other people do, but at the same time, that's no different than anyone else. Like I point out to people all the time, the electric light bulb is just a reasonable accommodation for light dependent people. Anyway, it's just that there are a whole lot more people who use it, and so we spend a whole lot more time and money making it available that is light on demand to people. But it doesn't change the fact that the issue is still there, that you need that accommodation in order to function. And you know that that, of course, leads to and, well, we won't spend a lot of time on it, but you are are very involved in the National Federation of the Blind, especially the NFB of Indiana, and you continue to pay it forward. And the NFB has been all about helping people to understand that we're not defined by blindness. We're defined by what we are and who we are, and blindness is happens to be a particular characteristic that we share   Kane Brolin ** 1:03:09 well, and there's a lot of other characteristics that we might not share. As an example, somebody, I don't know that he is involved in the NFB as such, but you know blind, if you're involved in American Blind culture and and that you've probably heard of a man named George Wurtzel. He is the brother of the guy that used to be president of the NFB of Michigan affiliate. But I understand that George is very good at things that I am not at all good at. He, you know? He understand that he almost built his own house from the ground up. His skill is not with computers and email and all this electronic communication that they do today, but he's a master woodworker. He's an artisan. You know, I I'm also involved, and I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it, I'm also involved with an organization called Penny forward, which is, you know, it could be the direction that I ultimately head in even more because it dovetails with my career. It's financial, education and fitness by the blind, for the blind, and it was started by a young man named Chris Peterson, who's based in the Twin Cities, who is not an NFB guy. He's actually an ACB guy, but his values are not that much different, and he's been a computer programmer. He's worked for big organizations, and now he started his own and has made a full time business out of financial fitness, educational curricula, podcasting, other things that you can subscribe to and buy into. And he's trying to build a community of the varied blind people that do all kinds of things and come from all sorts of backgrounds. And in one of the later editions of his podcast, he interviewed a man who's originally from Florida, who. Founded a company called Cerro tech that some might be familiar with, Mike Calvo, and Mike came to some of the same conclusions about blindness that you and I have, except that he's much younger. He's from Florida, and he's a Cuban American. He's a Latino whose first language growing up probably was Spanish, and who actually came out of, out of the streets. I mean, he was, he was in gangs, and did all kinds of things that were very different from anything I was ever exposed to as a young person. So I think in a lot of ways, we as blind people face the same types of issues, but we don't. None of us comes at it from the same vantage point. And, you know, we're, we're all dealing with maybe some of the same circumstances, but many, many, we've gotten there in very many different ways. And so I try to also impose on people. We are all different. We're a cross section. We don't all tie our shoes or cook our meals the same way. We don't want to live in the same environment. We don't want to do the same hobbies. And we don't all have better other senses than sighted people do. I don't know how many times you've heard it. I'd be a very rich man if I had $1 for every time someone said, Well, yeah, but you know, being blind, your hearing must be so much better, your sense of smell must be so much more acute. Well, no, the the divine forces in the universe have not just compensated me by making everything else better. What do you do with someone like Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf. There are people with plenty of people with blindness, and also other morbidities or disabilities, or I don't even like disabilities, different different abilities, different strengths and weaknesses. Along with blindness, there are blind people who also happen to be autistic, which could be an advantage to them, in some ways a disadvantage to others. I would like to go beyond the discussion of disability and think of these things, and think of me and others as just simply being differently able, because, you know, what kinds of jobs and roles in life with people that have the characteristic of autism, maybe they are actually better at certain things than a non autistic person would be. Maybe overall, people who live with the characteristic of bl

For the first episode of our third season, co-hosts Ted Stank and Tom Goldsby speak with Haslam College of Business lecturer Paul Fortunato and partners from his Supply Chain Project Management (SCM 430) course at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Fortunato, a former executive with Dow Chemical Company, invited Lori Maurer, director of the center for supply chain excellence, and Riley Clayton, logistics and supply chain manager, from Albemarle to talk with Ted and Tom about the corporation's three-year involvement in his course.UT's top-ranked supply chain management programs are held up by their real-world relevance and the close work with corporate partners such as Albemarle, a leading provider of lithium, bromine, and other essential chemical elements.Don't miss this exciting discussion on talent identification, university and business collaborations, and real-world supply chain challenges addressed by UT students. To open the episode, our hosts also talk about the impact of U.S. port strikes, economic growth numbers, the upcoming presidential election, and more! Is your company interested in partnering with the University of Tennessee? Learn more about becoming a member of our renowned Supply Chain Forum. The episode was recorded virtually on October 28. Related links: The U.S. economy remains engine of global growth in latest IMF forecasts Election-year effect: scenarios that could impact the supply chain Don Maier on understanding the impact of organized labor on the U.S. supply chain For the fifth year, UT ranked No. 1 in the SEC and No. 4 nationally for SCM programs by U.S. News and World Report Register for the Fall 2024 Supply Chain Forum, Nov. 12–14 in Knoxville Become a Supply Chain Forum member Subscribe to GSCI's monthly newsletter Read the latest news and insights from GSCI Text the Tennessee on Supply Chain Management team!

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This CEO Is Fighting Inflammation – Sea Star Medical -$ICU- CEO, Eric Schlorff, Shares Timeless Advice Guest: Eric Schlorff has served as the Chief Executive Officer of SeaStar Medical Ticker: $ICU Website: https://seastarmedical.com/ Sea Star Medical YouTube: / @seastarmed Bio: Since 2019, Eric Schlorff has served as the Chief Executive Officer of SeaStar Medical, responsible for the management, strategy, and operations of the company. He has extensive experience in financial planning and managing large, complex organizations and as well as deep knowledge of SeaStar Medical's business operations, including the scientific basis, regulatory requirements and sales and marketing channels. Prior to joining SeaStar Medical in 2016, Mr. Schlorff spent more than 20 years at Dow Chemical Company, serving in served in multiple role, including Global Director of Alternative Investments for the Dow Chemical Pension Plan, Global Finance Leader for Crop Protection & Seeds at Dow AgroSciences, Global Market Intelligence Leader at Dow AgroSciences, Global Financial Manager of Royalties at Dow Agrosciences, Senior Investment Manager of Alternative Investments at Dow Chemical Company, New Business Development of Pharmaceuticals at Dow Chemical Company, Global Financial Analyst within the New Businesses division at Dow Chemical Company, and Global Financial Analyst within Dow AgroSciences at Dow Chemical Company. Mr. Schlorff has a bachelor's degree in chemistry and biology from Mac Murray College, an M.S. in pharmacology from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and a master's in business administration from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/smartmoneycircle/support

Sameer Bharadwaj received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Harvard University. He started his career as a research engineer at Dow Chemical Company before progressing into multiple executive roles at Cabot Corporation. Today, as the CEO of Orbia, he leads a purpose-driven company that is addressing critical global challenges spanning water & food security, decarbonization & the energy transition, and information access & connectivity. Orbia's strategic innovations —whether advancements in more environmentally-friendly PVC and fluor technologies, lighter-footprint solutions for urban climate resilience, precision agriculture, telecommunications, or the EV transition—are emblematic of the company's transformation journey in bringing purpose to life and sustainable solutions to market.In this conversation with Dave Young, the Global Leader of the BCG Henderson Institute's Center for Climate & Sustainability, Sameer highlights Orbia's approach to integrating sustainability into its business model and leveraging its diverse portfolio to drive global development and pursue a net-positive future.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Time to Reinvent? Early Bird Registration is Now Open for the September Design Your New Life in Retirement Program - Learn More ________________________ Let's face it. Retirement isn't for everyone - especially a "traditional retirement." An increasing number of people are choosing to work longer or to reinvent themselves and create their own new path forward. Mark Walton joins us to discuss his new book Unretired: How Highly Effective People Live Happily Ever After. You'll be interested in the learning about the three paths he found people are pursuing as more fulfilling alternatives to a traditional retirement. One of them may be an intriguing option for you. Mark Walton joins us from California. ________________________ Bio Mark S. Walton is a Peabody award-winning journalist and business author, Fortune 100 management consultant, and Chairman of the Center for Leadership Communication, a global executive education and communication enterprise with a focus on leadership and exceptional achievement at every stage of life. He is additionally Founder and Chairman of the Second Half Institute at the University of California, the nation's first university-based program to focus on personal leadership and career development in midlife and beyond. In addition to his most recent book, "UNRETIRED: How HIghly Effective People Live Happily Ever After" Mark is the author of "Boundless Potential: Transform Your Brain, Unleash Your Talents, Reinvent Your Work in Midlife and Beyond" was the focus of a national PBS TV special of the same name, and "Generating Buy-In: Mastering the Language of Leadership," published by the American Management Association and selected by Business Week as one of the Top 30 business books of the year. He has been a Professor of Leadership in the U.S. Navy's Advanced Management Program, at Toyota University, and at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he taught leadership skills and strategies at the Senior Executive Institute and in the MBA and Executive MBA programs at the nationally top-ranked Kenan-Flagler Graduate Business School. As Chairman of the Center for Leadership Communication, Mark has taught extensively in corporate universities and management development programs nationwide, and has worked individually with CEO's, Division Presidents and a wide range of other senior executives and professionals at many of the world's leading organizations, including: Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Dow Chemical Company, Duke Energy Corporation, General Electric Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, NASA, and the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Earlier in his career, Mark was an internationally-recognized network television news anchorman, correspondent and analyst, specializing in political leadership and national affairs. A founding correspondent of Cable News Network (CNN), he served as CNN's first Chief White House Correspondent and, later, as CNN's Senior Correspondent, traveling the nation and world from CNN headquarters in Atlanta. The book 'CNN: The Inside Story' characterizes him as "one of a small group of renegades who changed the face of TV News." While at CNN, Mark was a recipient of broadcast journalism's premier honor, the coveted Peabody Award, for his role as Correspondent in CNN's live coverage, from Moscow, of the failed Soviet coup in 1991 and the subsequent fall of Communism. His reporting and writing have also been honored with The National Headliner Award, Ohio State Journalism Award, Cable Ace Award, the Gold Medal of the New York TV and Film Festival and the Silver Gavel of the American Bar Association. ________________________ For More on Mark S. Walton Unretired: How Highly Effective People Live Happily Ever After Boundless Potential: Transform Your Brain, Unleash Your Talents, Reinvent Your Work in Midlife and Beyond The Second Half Institute ________________________ Podcast Episode You May Like

State Senator Jeremy Moss, a Southfield Democrat, shares his insights as a Jewish legislator during a moment of "permeating antisemitism" in Michigan. He says his experiences with antisemitism have been questioned and "word policed."  As people react to the Israel-Hamas War from home, Moss believes his own U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is "contributing to the divisiveness," and he says he can't vote for her (1:09).  Also, MIRS meets up with Mary Draves, the former Dow Chemical Company executive who's running in Michigan's competitive 8th Congressional district (37:03).  Additionally, Steve Norris – a harm reduction and recovery support director in Oakland County – is concerned about different opioid remediation efforts becoming less collaborative (52:07). 

Charli has treat for you this week listeners as Heather Cykoski joins the pod. Heather Cykoski, Senior Vice President, Industrial and Process Automation, Member of the Executive Leadership Team, leads the Industrial Automation business in North America to be our customer's digital and automation partner for sustainability and resiliency. A passionate global business leader with 25 years of international experience leading multi-divisional, multi-cultural teams across the energy value chain, Heather brings a strong track record of excellence in both business and leadership. She began her career at the Foxboro Company in 1998, as a member of the Professional Leadership Program, with roles in engineering and business development.Starting in 2005, she held several leadership roles at ABB in marketing, sales, and strategic investments. Joining as North American Manager for British Petroleum and Shell in 2007, Vice President, Group Accounts, working with The Dow Chemical Company, successfully executing chemical plants and new investments in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. In 2010, she led ABB's partnership with Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco's joint venture in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. A partner from concept through lifecycle. In 2012, she managed Group Strategic Project investments including East Africa's liquid natural gas and North America's gulf coast chemical and liquid natural gas investments. Most recently, leading ABB's global Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Industry business. In August 2023, Heather returned to Schneider Electric with a clear mandate to be an “impact maker” in energy transition, harnessing the full portfolio and strength of our company, AVEVA, and strategic partnerships. In addition to her professional experience, Heather is deeply involved in the community and is a fierce advocate of women in STEM. She serves on the Board of Directors of Fluitron and the World of Affairs Council. She has been honored with the Gamechangers Progress Champion Award in 2022 and 2023; WeQual Americas Leadership Excellence Award in 2021 and named a Global Leader of Influence, World Affairs in 2021; 10 Most Influential Women in Technology 2020 and a member of the Global Women's Forum for Economy & Society, Paris France. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University and IMD's Executive Leadership from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Read up at EmpoweringPumps.com and stay tuned for more news about EPIC in Atlanta this November!Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com 

Watch The X22 Report On Video No videos found Click On Picture To See Larger PictureThe climate agenda has failed, it doesn't matter how much money they throw at it the people will always reject it. Biden paying companies billions to push his agenda. Financial pundits are now predicting a market correction. The [DS] lost again. Trump got his bond amount reduced and the appeals court removed other issues. The panic everywhere, the [DS] cannot stop Trump. They will now intensify their attacks. They are already projecting their [FF] event during the election. They will try to stay in power, they will create chaos and try to shift the blame to Trump. This will fail just like everything else. Trump and the patriots know the playbook .   (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:13499335648425062,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-7164-1323"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="//cdn2.customads.co/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs"); Economy PANIC IN BRUSSELS: Climate Alarmists Lose Again, as EU Shelves ‘Nature Law' for Lack of Support In Another Victory for Protesting Farmers Against the background of the surging nationalist and populist right-wing parties ahead of the European Union elections in June, political leaders in the old continent have started to ditch many of its failing, crippling environmental policies – mostly under pressure from the great European Farmers' revolt. The last victim of this process is the European Union's flagship policy to restore damaged habitats, called the ‘Nature Law.' The law is now hanging in the balance, as a vote to pass it on Monday was canceled after Hungary withdrew its support for the bill. The EU countries' environment ministers called off the vote after Budapest said it would no longer back the policy. How One 12-Page Pamphlet Tells the Story of God, Gold and Glory Hungary's decision wiped out the slim ‘reinforced majority' of countries in favor. Reuters reported: “The nature law is the latest EU environmental policy to come under fire as policymakers try to respond to months of angry farmers' protests over complaints including strict green EU regulations. The EU has already weakened numerous green rules to attempt to quell the protests.‘The agricultural sector is a very important sector, not only in Hungary, but everywhere in Europe', Hungary's state secretary for environment Aniko Raisz told reporters on Monday. Source: thegatewaypundit.com Biden Admin Hands Billions To Manufacturing Titans To Go Green The Biden administration announced billions of dollars of funding for initiatives meant to reduce carbon emissions in the manufacturing sector on Monday. The Department of Energy (DOE) is giving out as much as $6 billion to 33 different projects in 20 states designed to reduce emissions generated by industrial production, with some of the nation's largest industrial corporations named as recipients, according to a DOE press release. The supported projects are to be involved in manufacturing metals, cement, chemicals, food products, glass, iron and paper. Dow Chemical Company, one of the largest chemical companies in the U.S., is slated to receive up to $95 million to build a facility near the Gulf of Mexico that would capture 100,000 tons of carbon each year and use that carbon to produce components for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, according to the DOE's description of the envisioned project Another selected awardee is Unilever, one of the world's largest consumer goods companies, which will use as much as nearly $21 million from the DOE to decarbonize ice cream production at four different sites across the country, according to the DOE. Specifically, Unilever will use the funds to switch out natural gas boilers with electric models and deploy he...

Bienvenidos a un nuevo directo en Telegram. Hoy vamos a hablarles del flúor, ese elemento químico amarillo que siendo muy corrosivo, tóxico y altamente reactivo, es capaz de combinarse químicamente con casi todo, nos lo metemos en la boca por “nuestro bien». Los textos que utilizaré provienen del libro “Dossier Flúor” del dr Jean-Marc Brunet y de “The fluoride deception” de Christopher Bryson más algunas adaptaciones libres y artículos escritos por mi en el pasado ya que conocía de los peligros del flúor desde hace más de 20 años. Decirles que mi hija que tiene 18 años jamás ha utilizado pasta de dientes con flúor y tiene una excelente salud dental. El flúor constituye el núcleo elemental de algunas de las mayores fortunas que el mundo ha visto jamás, la riqueza casi inimaginable de los Mellons de Pittsburgh y los Du Ponts de Delaware. Y no es de extrañar que la advertencia en el tubo de pasta de dientes sea tan dramática. La misma potente sustancia química que se utiliza para enriquecer uranio para armas nucleares, para preparar el gas nervioso Sarín y para arrancar acero y aluminio fundidos del mineral de la tierra es la que damos a nuestros hijos a primera hora de la mañana y a última de la noche, con sabor a menta, fresa o chicle. El flúor es una sustancia química tan poderosa que se ha convertido en la savia de la industria moderna, bombeada a toda máquina cada día a través de innumerables fábricas, refinerías y molinos. El fluoruro se utiliza para producir gasolina de alto octanaje; para fundir metales clave como el aluminio, el acero y el berilio; para enriquecer uranio; para fabricar placas de circuitos informáticos, pesticidas, cera para esquís, gases refrigerantes, plástico de teflón, sartenes, alfombras, ropa impermeable, vidrio grabado, ladrillos y cerámica, y numerosos medicamentos, como Prozac y Cipro. “Crea el problema y luego vendeles la solución» frase que bien podría haber dicho Bernays, el mas famoso creador de opinión del siglo XX que también contribuyo a promocionar el flúor. En el libro de Chrystopher Bryson “El engaño del Flúor” nos muestra correspondencia entre el publicitario y el NIDR (Instituto nacional de investigación dental) para que este hiciera campaña a favor de la fluoración. ¿Conocen ese lema que dice “los expertos recomiendan”? Pues es de Bernays. Pero eso ya fue en los 60 y todo esto empezó tras la gran depresión del 1929, cuando las grandes multinacionales no sabían que hacer con sus productos por la gran caída de la demanda. Entre ellos el azúcar. Gerald Judy Cox, químico que participó en la causa de la caries y su “solución». El sr Cox, desarrollo las patentes para transformar la caña de azúcar y el azúcar común sin refinar (que terminaba pudriéndose) en algunos de los productos azucarados que conocemos hoy día. Por si no lo sabían son los ácidos que quedan encima de los dientes tras la transformación del azúcar por las bacterias lo que provoca la caries. Pues este señor que ayudó a que el azúcar terminase empleándose de forma masiva en todo tipo de productos, chicles incluidos, terminó siendo uno de los mayores defensores del uso del flúor para evitar dicha caries, ¿curioso no? Pero veamos dónde empezó todo. Durante la gran depresión, algunas empresas, sobre todo la Aluminum Company of America ALCOA, se enfrentaban a un espinoso problema. Uno de los compuestos naturales del aluminio es la criolita. La criolita es una roca que contiene aluminio, flúor y sodio. Su fórmula química es: Na3AlF6 Por tanto, la criolita contiene tres átomos de sodio, uno de aluminio y seis de flúor en su molécula. Cuando queremos aislar el aluminio, obtenemos como residuo una sal, el fluoruro de sodio. Se trata de una sustancia altamente tóxica que no se encuentra en la naturaleza en su estado puro sino en combinaciones menos peligrosas. El fluoruro de sodio es, por tanto, una sustancia química artificial. Al ser tan tóxico, su comercio esta limitado. Se utiliza en la fabricación de veneno para ratas, como agente blanqueador, como coagulante del caucho, como fijador de tintes, etc. Estos usos del fluoruro de sodio eran ampliamente insuficientes. Se acumulaban enormes reservas de este veneno, sobre todo porque las autoridades gubernamentales impedían a las empresas verterlo en los ríos porque los peces tienen la mala costumbre de morirse después. Como no vendían suficiente y no podían deshacerse de él fácilmente, tuvieron que buscar otra salida para el fluoruro de sodio. Como es habitual en la industria, el problema se remitió a una organización especializada en encontrar soluciones. El Instituto Mellon de Pittsburgh recibió el encargo de encontrar una solución al problema del fluoruro de sodio. El Instituto Mellon, fundado en 1911 por Andrew y Richard Mellon, es un laboratorio de ciencia aplicada abierto a todos los empresarios estadounidenses. Cuando un industrial o fabricante tiene un problema, acude al Instituto y contrata a un científico durante un año. El trabajo del científico consistía en mejorar el producto o encontrarle un nuevo mercado. El Instituto Mellon está actualmente siendo demandado por su defensa acérrima del amianto. El bioquímico Gerald J. Cox del que hablamos antes recibió el encargo de estudiar la delicada cuestión del fluoruro de sodio. Los peligros de esta sustancia química se conocían desde hacía tiempo. Ya en 1920, dos organismos gubernamentales, la Oficina de Minas y el Departamento de Agricultura, expresaban su preocupación por la contaminación por fluoruro. Mientras tanto, sin embargo, el Servicio de Salud Pública de EE.UU. permanecía en silencio. Hacia la década de 1930, el Servicio de Salud Pública pasó a depender del Departamento del Tesoro. De 1921 a 1933, el Secretario de este Departamento no fue otro que el Sr. Andrew W. Mellon, cofundador del Instituto Mellon, acaudalado financiero de Pittsburgh y miembro de una de las familias más ricas y poderosas de Estados Unidos. La familia Mellon posee y controla, entre otros, el Mellon National Bank, Gulf Oil, Koppers Corp. y la Aluminum Company of America. Antes de ocupar el cargo de Secretario del Tesoro, Andrew Mellon fue Presidente de la Aluminum Company. Fue uno de los más feroces opositores a la campaña contra la contaminación por flúor, ya que la Aluminum Co. era la principal contaminadora en este ámbito. En 1931, dos químicos de la Aluminum Co. descubrieron la causa de las horribles manchas marrones que casi todos los habitantes de Bauxite, Arkansas, tenían en los dientes. El agente responsable era el flúor, presente de forma natural en el agua de la ciudad dada la presencia de una industria minera del mineral del aluminio, la bauxita, que termino dando el nombre al pueblo. El Servicio de Salud Pública también se interesó por la fluorosis dental. En 1933, un miembro del personal, el dentista H. Trendley Dean, fue enviado a estudiar los distintos lugares del país donde la población presentaba este tipo de manchas en los dientes. El objetivo era averiguar qué proporción de flúor era necesaria para provocar tales trastornos. El Sr. Dean descubrió que incluso concentraciones mínimas provocaban las manchas en determinados individuos. Llegó a la conclusión de que con una concentración de una parte por millón, ya el 10-20% de la población presentaba esas manchas. Mientras tanto, el bioquímico Gerald J. Cox, que refinó el azúcar para luego curar las caries que esta provocaba, seguía trabajando para encontrar una solución al problema del flúor. En 1939, publicó su informe de investigación: "...Hay que replantearse la opinión predominante", escribió, "de que el agua debe estar completamente libre de fluoruros...". Sugirió añadir fluoruro sódico al agua potable para prevenir la caries dental. La sugerencia de Cox fue recibida con gran cautela por los funcionarios de salud pública. Incluso el dentista Dean del Servicio de Salud Pública, que dijo haber notado una reducción de la caries dental en lugares donde había mucha fluorosis, expresó sus reservas sobre la teoría de Cox. Todo el mundo era consciente de la falta de pruebas sobre los beneficios de los fluoruros en la dentición humana. Por otro lado, estaba claro que los fluoruros eran venenos extremadamente peligrosos como demostró el médico y científico danés Kaj Roholm en 1937. Y aqui entra el primer presidente de la Sociedad de Toxicología, el Dr Harold Hodge, elegido para encabezar la División de Farmacología y Toxicología de la Comisión de Energía Atómica de los Estados Unidos (AEC) y firme defensor de la fluoración del agua. Pocos saben que el Dr. Hodge, el principal investigador de flúor del país que formó a una generación de decanos de facultades de odontología en los años cincuenta y sesenta, fue el toxicólogo jefe en tiempos de guerra del Proyecto Manhattan. Allí ayudó a coreografiar los tristemente célebres experimentos de radiación en humanos, en los que se inyectaba plutonio y uranio a pacientes hospitalizados -sin su conocimiento o consentimiento- para estudiar la toxicidad de esas sustancias químicas en humanos. Hodge también se encargó de estudiar la toxicidad del flúor. La construcción de la primera bomba atómica del mundo había requerido cantidades ingentes de fluoruro. Así que, por ejemplo, en nombre de los fabricantes de bombas, supervisó de forma encubierta uno de los primeros experimentos de fluoración del agua pública del país. Mientras se decía a los ciudadanos de Newburgh, Nueva York, que el flúor reduciría las caries en sus hijos, en secreto se tomaban muestras de sangre y tejidos de los residentes que eran enviadas a su laboratorio atómico para su estudio. La Universidad de los estudios clasificados de fluoruro de Rochester – cuyo nombre en código es Programa F – se llevaron a cabo en el Proyecto de Energía Atómica (AEP), una instalación de alto secreto financiado por la AEC (La Comisión de Energía Atómica de los Estados Unidos) y alojados en el Strong Memorial Hospital. Se produjo allí uno de los experimentos de radiación más notorios en humanos durante la Guerra Fría, en el que los pacientes hospitalarios confiados fueron inyectados con dosis tóxicas de plutonio radiactivo. La revelación de este experimento por cuenta de la periodista Welsome Eileenen la convirtió en ganadora del premio Pulitzer tras escribir “Los archivos del plutonio: Los experimentos médicos secretos de Estados Unidos en la Guerra Fría”. Llevó a una investigación presidencial de los EE.UU en 1995, y un pago en efectivo de varios millones de dólares para las víctimas. El Programa F no trataba de mejorar la salud de los dientes de los niños. Surgió directamente de litigios contra el programa de la bomba y su principal objetivo era proporcionar munición científica que el gobierno y sus contratistas nucleares podrían utilizar para derrotar a las demandas por lesiones personales. El protocolo para las inyecciones de plutonio, que fue escrito por Wright Langham y no se hizo público hasta 1995, reveló que el experimento fue el resultado de la reunión de Rochester, así como de "numerosas conversaciones con el Coronel Warren, el Coronel Friedell y el Dr. LH". Hempelmann. Curiosamente el dr Hempelmann se casó con Elinor Pulitzer la nieta del editor de periódicos Joseph Pulitzer cuyo nombre llevan los “prestigiosos” entre comillas premios periodísticos. A cada paciente se le asignaron las iniciales "HP" seguidas de un número. Según un documento, "HP" significaba Human product "producto humano". Los médicos buscaban pacientes que tuvieran un metabolismo relativamente normal. Según el plan provisional, el grupo decidió que a cada paciente se le inyectaría un promedio de cinco microgramos, o cinco millonésimas de gramo de plutonio. Aunque la dosis prevista era cinco microgramos, la cantidad real de plutonio inyectada a los pacientes varió de 4,6 a 6,5 microgramos. La dosis de radiación acumulada recibida por cada paciente dependía de dos factores: la cantidad de material radiactivo inyectado en el cuerpo y cuánto tiempo vivían los sujetos. Cuanto más vivían los pacientes, mayor era su dosis acumulada. Antes de que comenzaran las inyecciones en humanos, a tres ratas se les inyectó en las venas de la cola la misma solución de plutonio que Langham y Bassett planeaban administrar a los pacientes. Sólo un pequeño porcentaje del plutonio fue a parar a los hígados de los roedores, lo que hizo que los dos científicos tuvieran más confianza en que el plutonio inyectado en los seres humanos "no sería absorbido en alta concentración por un solo órgano como el hígado", escribió Bassett. Wright Langham y Samuel Bassett se guardaron sus temores sobre posibles daños hepáticos y otras consecuencias para la salud a largo plazo y, finalmente, los pacientes fueron dados de alta del hospital sin que nunca les hubieran dicho lo que les habían hecho. Durante el resto de sus vidas, los inyectados llevaban dentro de sus cuerpos el plutonio que habían recibido en la sala metabólica de Samuel Bassett. Algunas veces se ‘inventaban’ operaciones para biopsiar órganos internos de pacientes ‘supuestamente’ enfermos y controlar su depósito en los tejidos. La energia nuclear estuvo bien vista en aquel tiempo y por desgracia ahora tenemos otro renacimiento de su popularidad. En esa época se realizaban radiografías con fluoroscopios en las zapaterías especializadas en bebés y niños con desastrosos resultados a largo plazo. Era normal retirar la estática de los discos de vinilo con un cepillo que contenía polonio 210 o llevar un reloj de muñeca con pintura de radio. Todo el mundo apoyaba la radiación y sus oscuros secretos siguen hoy dia a buen recaudo, pero prosigamos. Algunas de las empresas mas importantes USA se involucraron en la carrera para producir la bomba atómica…Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Du Pont, Clinton Engineering Works, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, National Carbon Company, Speer Carbon Company, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak, Allis-Chalmers, General Electric, General Motors, Kellogg…lo que se conoció como Proyecto Manhattan. Curiosamente si buscan Proyecto Manhattan en la wikipedia observarán que ni uno solo de los nombres de empresas que citan autores como Manuel Sánchez Ron aparecen allí, ¿raro, verdad? Entre ellas estaba una fábrica química de la compañía Du Pont, la Nemours Company en Deepwater, Nueva Jersey…se dedicó a producir millones de libras de fluoruro para el proyecto Manhattan. La conexión entre la fluoración del agua que defendía el Dr. Hodge y la industria nuclear es clara. A la industria nuclear, al igual que a la del aluminio y a la de los fertilizantes le sobraban cientos de miles de toneladas de flúor y meterlo en la boca de los contribuyentes era una buena forma de deshacerse de dicho residuo. Dejaremos en la descripción del podcast un documental muy aclarador titulado “El Engaño Del Flúor”. En el Estado de Wisconsin, dos dentistas, Frank Bull y John Frisch, se organizaron para poner en marcha el siniestro movimiento de la fluoración. En aquel momento, el trust del aluminio pertenecía en secreto a la Casa Rockefeller; 25 años antes había pertenecido a Andrew Mellon de Pittsburgh; a su muerte, la Casa Rockefeller se apoderó discretamente de él, negando oficialmente cualquier relación con Alcoa a través de su agente de prensa; Sin embargo, el Manual de Industriales y el informe anual del Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores de Rockefeller informaban de que el yerno de Andrew Mellon, miembro de la Casa Rockefeller, era el propietario, junto con su esposa, de la empresa Alcoa. La Casa Rockefeller, posee con su esposa la mayor parte de los fondos de la Compañía de Aluminio. Para aumentar el control de Rockefeller en las reuniones del consejo de Alcoa, Donald K. David, testaferro del Instituto Rockefeller, fue nombrado uno de los directores. Los ingenieros de ventas de Rockefeller pronto descubrieron que si el fluoruro de sodio se podía vender por sólo 1,5 centavos de dólar la libra, se obtendrían unos beneficios de 15 millones de dólares al año. El anuncio de Cox fue acogido con entusiasmo. Los peces gordos del Rockefeller Center se pusieron inmediatamente manos a la obra para preparar una gran campaña de fluoración del agua potable de 16.750 municipios estadounidenses. La operación se puso en marcha hacia 1945. Justamente los técnicos de Alcoa trabajaron mano a mano con químicos del Instituto Mellon y otras multinacionales (Dow Chemical Company, Colgate, Kellog, DuPont) hasta conseguir lo que hoy día se conoce como “la mafia del flúor” (Stephen 1995). En 1944, Oscar Ewing se convirtió repentinamente en uno de los principales empleados de Alcoa. Unos meses más tarde, el Sr. Ewing fue nombrado administrador de la Agencia Federal de Seguridad, actual Departamento de Salud de los Estados Unidos. Ewing recibió 750.000 dólares por un motivo que nunca se reveló, incluso después de que el congresista Al. Miller, de Nebraska, reuniera los datos sobre la donación y presentará su informe al Congreso. El Servicio de Salud Pública de EE.UU., que había sido puesto bajo la jurisdicción de la Agencia Federal de Seguridad de Ewing por el Congreso, lanzó una campaña de promoción masiva en todo Estados Unidos. Bajo la administración de Ewing, se votaron presupuestos enormes, se dieron millones de dólares a colegas médicos y dentistas y, en 1951, pidió y obtuvo dos millones de dólares para promover la idea de la purificación del agua potable. Una de las primeras medidas adoptadas fue establecer una prueba en dos ciudades piloto, Newburgh y Kingston. El agua de Newburgh estaba fluorada, la de Kingston no. El Cuerpo Comisionado del Servicio de Salud Pública de Estados anunció que en 5 años examinarán los dientes de los escolares de las dos ciudades y que la fluoración habría reducido la caries en un 50%. Dado que se transporta en la sangre, el flúor debe encontrarse en todas las partes del cuerpo. Al igual que los huesos, los dientes contienen derivados del flúor. El esmalte dental está compuesto por un 3% de dentina y un 97% de una combinación salina muy íntima de fosfato cálcico, carbonato y flúor. En total, un hombre de 70 kg. contiene de 95 a 100 g. de fluoruro combinado, suministrado y repuesto por la dieta en una forma salina compleja que, en casos normales, garantiza su fijación y ausencia de efectos nocivos. Parte de la ingesta diaria se fija para construir y renovar los huesos y los dientes; la otra parte circula y se elimina en las heces y la orina. Debo mencionar de pasada que las industrias médica y conservera de alimentos utilizan desde hace tiempo fluoruros alcalinos y alcalinotérreos. Ambas saben perfectamente que son a la vez antisépticos potentes y tóxicos algo parecido a lo que pasa con el Bisfenol A de las botellas. Es increíble como habiendo más de 1300 artículos científicos sobre la alta toxicidad de los fluoruros todavía se permita su comercialización sin apenas controles y que se hable de las ventajas de añadirlo al agua y a todo tipo de cosas. Parece que no hemos aprendido nada de la historia de otras sustancias de las que también nos dijo la ciencia que eran seguras como el plomo en la gasolina, el amianto, el DDT, etc Poderoso caballero es don dinero y en este caso la población en general no ha sido advertida de los peligros del flúor ya que las supuestas ONGs y los grupos ecologistas están patrocinados por los mismos fabricantes de este veneno. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ACCIDENTES Y ENVENENAMIENTOS POR FLUORURO El fluoruro, el ingrediente activo de muchos pesticidas y rodenticidas, es un veneno poderoso, más venenoso que el plomo . Debido a esto, la ingestión excesiva accidental de fluoruro puede causar síntomas tóxicos graves. Cada año hay miles de informes a los centros de control de intoxicaciones en los Estados Unidos relacionados con la ingestión excesiva de pastas dentales, enjuagues bucales y suplementos con flúor. Los accidentes de fluoración del agua , que provocan niveles excesivos de fluoruro en el agua, han sido una de las fuentes de intoxicación aguda por fluoruro . FLUORURO Y FLUOROSIS DENTAL La ingestión excesiva de flúor durante los primeros años de la infancia puede dañar las células formadoras de los dientes, provocando un defecto en el esmalte conocido como fluorosis dental . Los dientes afectados por fluorosis tienen una decoloración visible, que va desde manchas blancas hasta manchas marrones y negras . Según los Centros para el Control de Enfermedades , el 32% de los niños estadounidenses tienen actualmente algún tipo de fluorosis dental, y entre el 2 y el 4% de los niños padecen las etapas de moderada a grave (CDC 2005). Según el Dr. Hardy Limeback , Jefe de Odontología Preventiva de la Universidad de Toronto, "es ilógico suponer que el esmalte dental es el único tejido afectado por la ingestión de bajas dosis diarias de flúor. FLUORURO Y ALERGIA/HIPERSENSIBILIDAD Como lo reconoce Physicians' Desk Reference , algunas personas son alérgicas o hipersensibles al fluoruro. El ensayo clínico más grande, financiado por el gobierno, encontró que el 1% de las personas expuestas a 1 mg/día de fluoruro presentaban reacciones alérgicas/hipersensibles, incluidas reacciones cutáneas, malestar gástrico y dolor de cabeza FLUORURO Y LOS RIÑONES Los riñones desempeñan un papel vital en la prevención de la acumulación excesiva de fluoruro en el cuerpo. Entre las personas sanas, los riñones excretan aproximadamente el 50% de la ingesta diaria de fluoruro. Sin embargo, entre las personas con enfermedad renal, la capacidad de los riñones para excretar se ve notablemente afectada, lo que resulta en una acumulación de fluoruro en el cuerpo . Es bien sabido que las personas con enfermedad renal tienen una mayor susceptibilidad a los efectos tóxicos acumulativos del fluoruro. De particular preocupación es la posibilidad de que el fluoruro, cuando se acumula en el sistema esquelético, cause o exacerbe la osteodistrofia renal , una enfermedad ósea que se encuentra comúnmente entre personas con enfermedad renal avanzada. Además, se ha demostrado definitivamente que el fluoruro envenena la función renal en dosis altas durante exposiciones a corto plazo tanto en animales como en humanos. El impacto de dosis bajas de fluoruro, administradas durante largos períodos de tiempo, no se ha estudiado adecuadamente. Un estudio reciente en animales, realizado por científicos de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de EE.UU. (Varner 1998), informó que la exposición a sólo 1 ppm de fluoruro causaba daño renal en ratas si bebían agua durante un período prolongado, mientras que un nuevo estudio realizado en China encontró una mayor tasa de enfermedad renal entre los seres humanos que consumían más de 2 ppm (Liu 2005). Por lo tanto, los efectos adversos para la función renal que causa el fluoruro en dosis altas durante períodos cortos de tiempo también pueden replicarse con dosis pequeñas si se consume durante períodos prolongados. FLUORURO Y EL CEREBRO La capacidad del fluoruro para dañar el cerebro representa una de las áreas de investigación más activas sobre la toxicidad del fluoruro en la actualidad. La preocupación por el impacto del fluoruro en el cerebro ha sido alimentada por 18 estudios en humanos (de China, México, India e Irán) que informaron déficits de coeficiente intelectual entre niños expuestos a un exceso de fluoruro, por 4 estudios en humanos que indican que el fluoruro puede entrar y dañar el feto cerebro; y por un número creciente de estudios en animales que encuentran daños al tejido cerebral (a niveles tan bajos como 1 ppm) y deterioro del aprendizaje y la memoria entre los grupos tratados con fluoruro. Según el Consejo Nacional de Investigación de EE.UU. , "es evidente que los fluoruros tienen la capacidad de interferir con las funciones del cerebro”. Los hallazgos de efectos neurológicos en humanos expuestos al flúor son coherentes con los resultados recientes de más de 40 estudios en animales publicados desde 1992, y se ven reforzados por ellos. Al igual que los estudios en humanos, los estudios en animales han informado de un deterioro en los procesos de aprendizaje y memoria entre los grupos tratados con flúor. 6) Los estudios en animales también han documentado pruebas considerables de los efectos tóxicos directos del flúor en el tejido cerebral, incluso a niveles tan bajos como 1 ppm de flúor en el agua (Varner 1998). Estos efectos incluyen: -- reducción de los receptores nicotínicos de acetilcolina; -- reducción del contenido lipídico; -- deterioro de los sistemas de defensa antioxidante; -- daños en el hipocampo; -- daños en las células purkinje; -- aumento de la captación de aluminio; -- formación de placas beta-amiloides (la clásica anomalía cerebral de la enfermedad de Alzheimer); -- Exacerbación de las lesiones inducidas por la deficiencia de yodo. -- acumulación de flúor en la glándula pineal. FLUORURO Y LA GLÁNDULA PINEAL En la década de 1990, se descubrió que la glándula pineal es un sitio importante de acumulación de fluoruro dentro del cuerpo , con concentraciones de fluoruro más altas que los dientes o los huesos. Estudios posteriores en animales indican que la acumulación de fluoruro en la glándula pineal puede reducir la síntesis de melatonina en la glándula , una hormona que ayuda a regular el inicio de la pubertad. Se descubrió que los animales tratados con fluoruro tenían niveles reducidos de melatonina circulante y un inicio más temprano de la pubertad que los animales no tratados. El científico que realizó la investigación concluyó: "La seguridad del uso de fluoruros se basa en última instancia en la suposición de que el órgano del esmalte en desarrollo es más sensible a los efectos tóxicos del fluoruro. Los resultados de este estudio sugieren que los pinealocitos pueden ser tan susceptibles al fluoruro como el órgano del esmalte en desarrollo" ( Lucas 1997). El hecho de que el impacto del fluoruro en la glándula pineal nunca haya sido estudiado, ni siquiera considerado , antes de la década de 1990, pone de relieve una importante laguna en el conocimiento que sustenta las políticas actuales sobre el fluoruro y la salud. Según el Consejo Nacional de Investigación de EE. UU ., "cualquier agente que afecte la función pineal podría afectar la salud humana de diversas maneras, incluidos efectos sobre la maduración sexual, el metabolismo del calcio, la función paratiroidea, la osteoporosis posmenopáusica, el cáncer y las enfermedades psiquiátricas”. FLUORURO Y LA GLÁNDULA TIROIDES Según el Consejo Nacional de Investigación de EE. UU ., "varias líneas de información indican un efecto de la exposición al fluoruro sobre la función tiroidea", particularmente entre personas con deficiencia de yodo. El potencial del fluoruro para alterar la función tiroidea se ilustra más claramente por el hecho de que, hasta la década de 1970, los médicos europeos utilizaban el fluoruro como medicamento supresor de la tiroides en pacientes con hipertiroidismo (tiroides hiperactiva). Se utilizó fluoruro porque se encontró que era eficaz para reducir la actividad de la glándula tiroides , incluso en dosis tan bajas como 2 mg/día. Hoy en día, muchas personas que viven en comunidades fluoradas están ingiriendo dosis de fluoruro (1,6 a 6,6 mg/día) que se encuentran dentro del rango de dosis (2 a 10 mg/día) que alguna vez utilizaron los médicos para reducir la actividad tiroidea en pacientes con hipertiroidismo. Esto es particularmente preocupante considerando el problema generalizado del hipotiroidismo (tiroides poco activa) en los Estados Unidos. Los síntomas del hipotiroidismo incluyen obesidad, letargo, depresión y enfermedades cardíacas. FLUORURO Y ENFERMEDADES ÓSEAS Es bien sabido que la exposición excesiva al fluoruro causa una enfermedad ósea llamada fluorosis esquelética . La fluorosis esquelética, especialmente en sus primeras etapas , es una enfermedad difícil de diagnosticar y puede confundirse fácilmente con diversas formas de artritis , incluidas la osteoartritis y la artritis reumatoide . En sus etapas avanzadas, la fluorosis puede parecerse a una multitud de enfermedades de huesos y articulaciones. En personas con enfermedad renal, la exposición al fluoruro puede contribuir y/o exacerbar la osteodistrofia renal . FLUORURO Y FRACTURA ÓSEA La mayoría de los estudios en animales que investigan el efecto del fluoruro sobre la resistencia ósea han encontrado que el fluoruro no tiene ningún efecto o tiene un efecto negativo sobre la resistencia . Según el Consejo Nacional de Investigación de EE. UU. , "El peso de la evidencia indica que, aunque el fluoruro podría aumentar el volumen óseo, hay menos resistencia por unidad de volumen". Los estudios en poblaciones humanas que consumen fluoruro en el agua potable han encontrado una asociación entre la fluorosis dental y un aumento de las fracturas óseas en los niños ; y entre el consumo prolongado de agua fluorada y el aumento de fracturas de cadera en los ancianos. Ensayos clínicos en humanos cuidadosamente realizados , incluidos dos "ensayos doble ciego", han descubierto que el fluoruro (en dosis de 18 a 34 mg/día durante sólo 1 a 4 años) aumenta la tasa de fracturas óseas, particularmente de cadera, entre pacientes con osteoporosis. . FLUORURO Y CÁNCER Según el Programa Nacional de Toxicología, "la preponderancia de la evidencia" de estudios de laboratorio 'in vitro' indica que el fluoruro es un compuesto mutagénico . Muchas sustancias que causan daños mutagénicos también causan cáncer. Si bien las concentraciones de fluoruro que causan daño mutagénico en estudios de laboratorio son más altas que las concentraciones encontradas en la sangre humana, existen ciertos "microambientes" en el cuerpo (por ejemplo, los huesos y la vejiga ) donde las concentraciones de fluoruro pueden acumularse a niveles comparables a, o en exceso de aquellos que causan efectos mutagénicos en el laboratorio. Se ha descubierto que el fluoruro causa cáncer de huesos (osteosarcoma) en estudios gubernamentales con animales y se ha descubierto que las tasas de osteosarcoma entre los hombres jóvenes que viven en áreas fluoradas son más altas que las de los hombres jóvenes que viven en áreas no fluoradas. El osteosarcoma, aunque poco común, es un cáncer muy grave. Los niños que desarrollan osteosarcoma enfrentan una alta probabilidad de muerte (generalmente dentro de los 3 años) o amputación. La exposición al fluoruro también se ha relacionado con el cáncer de vejiga , particularmente entre los trabajadores expuestos al exceso de fluoruro en el lugar de trabajo. Según el Consejo Nacional de Investigación de EE. UU., "se deben realizar más investigaciones sobre el posible efecto del fluoruro en el riesgo de cáncer de vejiga”. FLUORURO Y EL TRACTO GASTROINTESTINAL Entre personas hipersensibles al flúor , se han producido dolencias gastrointestinales tras la ingestión de comprimidos de 1 mg de flúor o el consumo de 1 ppm de agua fluorada. En ensayos clínicos cuidadosamente controlados , se ha descubierto que una sola ingestión de tan solo 3 mg de fluoruro produce daños en la mucosa gástrica en voluntarios adultos sanos. Nunca se ha realizado ninguna investigación en la mucosa gástrica para determinar el efecto de dosis más bajas con exposición repetida. FLUORURO Y CARIES (Caries) Según el consenso actual de la comunidad de investigación dental, el beneficio principal, si no el único, del fluoruro para los dientes proviene de la aplicación TÓPICA en la superficie exterior de los dientes, no de la ingestión . Por lo tanto, tal vez no sea sorprendente que las tasas de caries hayan disminuido a tasas similares en todos los países occidentales en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, independientemente de si el país fluora o no su agua . Hoy en día, las tasas de caries en toda Europa occidental continental son tan bajas como las tasas de caries en los Estados Unidos, a pesar de una profunda disparidad en la prevalencia de la fluoración del agua en las dos regiones. En los países que fluoran el agua, estudios recientes a gran escala sobre salud dental (utilizando métodos científicos modernos no utilizados en los primeros estudios de los años 1930 y 1950) han encontrado pocas diferencias en la caries , incluida la "caries del biberón" , entre las aguas fluoradas. y comunidades no fluoradas. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Conozcamos algunos datos del proyecto Manhattan. El Proyecto Manhattan fue un proyecto de investigación y desarrollo llevado a cabo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial entre los años 1942 y 1946 que produjo las primeras armas nucleares, liderado por los Estados Unidos con el apoyo del Reino Unido y de Canadá. El Proyecto Manhattan comenzó de forma modesta, creciendo progresivamente hasta tener más de 130 000 empleados y alcanzar un coste de casi 2000 millones de dólares de la época, unos 70.000 millones en la actualidad. Más del 90 % del presupuesto se destinó a la construcción de fábricas y a la producción de materiales fisibles, con menos del 10 % destinado al desarrollo y producción de armas. La investigación y producción tuvieron lugar en más de 30 lugares por todos los Estados Unidos, Reino Unido y Canadá. En junio de 1944 el Proyecto Manhattan tenía alrededor de 129 000 trabajadores empleados, de los que 84500 eran trabajadores de la construcción, 40500 eran operadores de planta y 1800 eran personal militar. Como al final diseñaron una bomba con U-235, el material que se utiliza en los reactores comerciales y que solo es el 0,7% de todo el uranio se tuvo que separar dicho uranio de los otros radioisótopos que no eran necesarios como el el U-238 que es al que se le denomina uranio empobrecido. De cada gramo de uranio natural el 99,284 % de la masa es uranio-238, el 0,711 % uranio-235,2 y el 0,0085 % uranio-234. Separar el U-235 del U-238 fue una tarea titánica en aquella época y se utilizaron tres métodos principales ya que la centrifugación supuso un gran desafío técnico por la complejidad de los rodamientos y ejes necesarios para separar los radioisótopos de uranio. El proceso requería altas velocidades de rotación, pero a su paso por determinadas velocidades se creaban vibraciones armónicas que podían romper la maquinaria. Por ello, era necesario obtener una rápida aceleración para superar estas velocidades. producir un kilo de uranio-235 por día precisaría de hasta 50000 centrifugados con rotores de 1 metro, o 10000 centrifugados con rotores de 4 metros, asumiendo que fuera posible construir estos últimos. Por eso se recurrió al uso de calutrones, la termoforesis y la difusión gaseosa. Los calderones son una especie de imanes gigantes que separaban los dos tipos de radioisótopos calentando el uranio e ionizándolo para luego recogerlo por electromagnetismo en dos zonas diferenciadas. Debido a la escasez de cobre durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los electroimanes fueron hechos con miles de toneladas de plata prestadas por el Departamento del Tesoro de los Estados Unidos. La termoforesis (también denominada termomigración, termodifusión, efecto Soret, o efecto Ludwig-Soret) es un fenómeno observado en mezclas de partículas móviles, cuando diferentes tipos de partículas exhiben distintas respuestas ante la presencia de un gradiente térmico. Esta técnica no es practica para trabajar a gran escala y apenas fue empleada pasando a realizarse la separación de isótopos de uranio por difusión gaseosa o lo que es lo mismo mediante el uso de centrifugadoras. La difusión gaseosa fue una de las varias tecnologías para la separación de isótopos de uranio desarrolladas por parte del Proyecto Manhattan para producir uranio enriquecido forzando que el hexafluoruro de uranio (único compuesto del uranio gaseoso) atraviese membranas semi-permeables. Esto produce una ligerísima separación entre las moléculas que contienen uranio-235 y uranio-238. Mediante el uso de una gran cascada de muchos pasos, se pueden conseguir grandes separaciones. Los edificios de proceso construidos para albergar estas máquinas en cascada fueron en su momento los más grandes jamás construidos, hablamos de 600 etapas en una larga estructura en forma de U de 800 metros de longitud, que contenía 54 edificios contiguos. La preparación de la materia a tratar, el hexafluoruro de uranio (conocido en el mercado como hex ) fue la primera aplicación para el fluoruro producida comercialmente, y los problemas generados por el manejo tanto del fluoruro como del hex como gases corrosivos fueron significativos. El proyecto Manhattan se llama así porque la oficina que escogió el jefe de ingenieros militar se ubico en el 18.º del 270 Broadway en Nueva York. Además estaba cerca de la oficina en Manhattan de Stone & Webster, el principal contratista del proyecto…así que se quedó con ese nombre. El mando militar corrió a cargo del general Groves y el mando científico ya saben de J. Robert Oppenheimer, apodado el padre de la bomba. En 1944 se adquirió 560 000 kg de mineral de óxido de uranio a compañías que explotaban minas en el Congo Belga. Para poder evitar informar al Secretario del Tesoro estadounidense Henry Morgenthau Jr. sobre el proyecto, utilizaron una cuenta bancaria especial no sujeta a las habituales auditorías y controles por los que tenían que pasar este tipo de fondos. Entre 1944 y el momento en el que dimitió del Fondo en 1947, Groves depositó un total de 37,5 millones de dólares en la cuenta del Fondo. La minería de uranio en Colorado producía alrededor de unas 700 toneladas de uranio al año. Realmente utilizaron los tres procesos encadenados, primero producían uranio enriquecido del 0,71 % hasta el 0,89 % en la planta S-50 de termoforesis que pasó a ser la primera etapa. Este material se usaba en el proceso de difusión gaseosa en la planta K-25, produciendo un producto enriquecido hasta un 23 % que a su vez alimentaba a la planta Y-12 con los calutrones, llegando allí hasta al 89 %, lo suficiente para las armas nucleares. Decir que la planta con los calutrones estuvo en un principio siendo operada por científicos de Berkeley para eliminar fallos y conseguir un índice operacional razonable. Pero fueron finalmente sustituidos por operadoras formadas por Tennessee Eastman (la Kodak) que solo habían recibido una educación secundaria. Cuando compararon los datos vieron que las lugareñas producían mucho mas uranio que los doctorados. A fecha de julio de 1945 se habían entregado alrededor de unos 50 kg de uranio enriquecido hasta un 89 % de uranio-235 en Los Álamos. Estos 50 kg al completo, junto con uranio adicional enriquecido al 50 %, dio un promedio resultante de uranio enriquecido al 85 %, que fueron utilizados en la bomba Little Boy. O sea unos 100kg de U235 al 85%. El uranio natural se compone principalmente de uranio-238 (U-238), que no es fisible, y uranio-235 (U-235), que es fisible. Para producir 100 kg de U-235 enriquecido al 85%, primero debemos determinar la cantidad de uranio natural requerida y luego calcular la cantidad de UF6 necesaria para alcanzar ese enriquecimiento. La relación entre el peso atómico del U-235 y el U-238 es aproximadamente 0.72. Por lo tanto, necesitamos 14.285 kg de uranio normal para obtener 100 kg de uranio enriquecido al 100% y 12.142 kg para que este solo al 85%. En 12 gramos de uranio normal hay 3*10²³ átomos y en todos esos kilos hay una cifra enorme aproximada de 3 x 10^25 átomos de uranio. El UF6 se utiliza para enriquecer uranio, y en el proceso, se convierte todo el uranio (tanto el U-235 como el U-238) en UF6. Por lo tanto, necesitamos 6 átomos de flúor por uno de uranio, o sea 18 x 10^25 átomos de flúor. Lo que equivale a unas 50 toneladas de flúor de las que nunca mas se supo. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Invitados: …. Dra Yane #JusticiaParaUTP Médico y Buscadora de la verdad. Con Dios siempre! No permito q me dividan c/izq -derecha, raza, religión ni nada de la Creación. https://youtu.be/TXEEZUYd4c0 …. UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX CANALES TELEGRAM Promocional donde hacemos los directos https://t.me/UnTecnicoPreocupado Abierto para comentarios https://t.me/MiVidaMiOxigeno Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: !LA LECHE¡ FLÚOR EN LA LECHE https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/10/03/la-leche-fluor-en-la-leche/ Compañias proyecto Manhattan en el libro “Descubrimientos: Innovación y tecnología siglos XX y XXI” De José Manuel Sánchez Ron https://books.google.es/books?id=qt-hIQrbNSkC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=compa%C3%B1ias+proyecto+Manhattan+General+Electric&source=bl&ots=TEYYZZR26s&sig=vIiRUxpH4XqtJ-3u0caXw56K7Fs&hl=es&sa=X&ei=3kQdVKz3DpKd7gaisoD4Cw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=compa%C3%B1ias%20proyecto%20Manhattan%20General%20Electric&f=false LA CONSPIRACIÓN DEL FLUORURO https://detenganlavacuna.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/conspiracion-fluor/ Nexo entre la industria nuclear y la peste del siglo xxi: El cáncer https://www.burbuja.info/inmobiliaria/threads/n-exo-entre-la-industria-nuclear-y-la-peste-del-siglo-xxi-el-cancer.356104/# Las empresas del amianto y el encubrimiento empresarial https://www.lawsuit-information-center.com/asbestos-corporate-cover-up.html Dust diseases and the legacy of corporate manipulation of science and law https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090870/ Harold Hodge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hodge Roholm, Kaj. "Intoxicación por flúor: un estudio clínico e higiénico, con revisión de la literatura y algunas investigaciones experimentales". 1937. https://archive.org/details/FluorineIntoxication/mode/2up The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War https://web.archive.org/web/20110810032922/http://www.fluoridealert.org/p-files.htm “The Plutonium Files”. Las filtraciones de los experimentos médicos del Proyecto Manhattan https://kurioso.es/2011/01/17/%E2%80%9Cthe-plutonium-files%E2%80%9D-las-filtraciones-de-los-experimentos-medicos-del-proyecto-manhattan/ Pres. Clinton's Remarks on Human Radiation Experiments (1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StId27Dmx78 Luis Hempelmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Hempelmann Artículos científicos sobre el uso inadecuado de fluoroscopios para medir el tamaño del pie a niños y bebes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18139719/ Radiation Exposures from the Use of Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscopes https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM194909012410903 Diez protagonistas para entender el ‘caso Alcoa’ https://www.laopinioncoruna.es/economia/2021/03/07/diez-protagonistas-entender-caso-alcoa-39193998.html ¿QUIERES SEGUIR FUMANDO? PUES NO LEAS ESTO https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/09/20/quieres-seguir-fumando-pues-no-leas-esto/ ¿QUIERES SEGUIR FUMANDO? PUES NO LEAS ESTO SEGUNDA PARTE https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/09/21/quieres-seguir-fumando-pues-no-leas-esto-segunda-parte/ ¿QUIERES SEGUIR FUMANDO? PUES NO LEAS ESTO TERCERA PARTE https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/09/22/quieres-seguir-fumando-pues-no-leas-esto-tercera-parte/ 23 NUEVO desORDEN MUNDIAL (El FLUOR es MATARRATAS ) (Lista de aguas fluoradas) https://www.ivoox.com/23-nuevo-desorden-mundial-el-fluor-es-matarratas-audios-mp3_rf_2998013_1.html BIOTERRORISMO; MEDICAMENTOS Y VACUNAS https://nuevodesordenmundial.com/?page_id=105 SAL YODADA, LO QUE NADIE TE CONTO https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/12/15/sal-yodada-lo-que-nadie-te-conto/ AGUA Y OTROS VENENOS COTIDIANOS Y CÓMO EVITARLOS (articulo en blog) https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2019/12/16/venenos-cotidianos-y-como-evitarlos/ UTP76 Agua y otros venenos cotidianos (audio en Ivoox) https://www.ivoox.com/utp76-agua-otros-venenos-cotidianos-audios-mp3_rf_45571703_1.html TODO LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER PARA EMPEZAR LA GUERRA CONTRA LA GEOINGENIERÍA (lluvia de peces) https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2022/12/22/todo-lo-que-tienes-que-saber-para-empezar-la-guerra-contra-la-geoingenieria/ UTP 44 Los piratas somalies y los depósitos radiactivos que provocaban cáncer https://www.ivoox.com/utp-44-los-piratas-somalies-depositos-audios-mp3_rf_32634697_1.html El Engaño Del Flúor (video documental sobre el libro del mismo nombre) https://archive.org/details/el-engano-del-fluor Papers sobre daños del flúor https://web.archive.org/web/20120325012242/http://www.fluoridationfacts.com/science/papers/papers_index.htm CUATRO ESTUDIOS QUE DEMUESTRAN QUE AGREGAR FLUORURO AL AGUA POTABLE PONE EN PELIGRO INNECESARIAMENTE EL CEREBRO DE LOS NIÑOS https://fluoridealert.org/articles/four-studies/ LUKE (2001): DEPOSICIÓN DE FLUORURO EN LA GLÁNDULA PINEAL HUMANA ENVEJECIDA https://fluoridealert.org/studies/luke-2001/ Estudio sobre el flúor en España citado por la Dra Yane https://twitter.com/ayec98_2/status/1719392296842510633 Articles of Interest - Fluoride & the Brain: FAN's Translation Project: Chinese Research on Fluoride's Neurotoxicity https://fluoridealert.org/researchers/translations/complete_archive/ Pagina en web archive por si se pierde https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/chinese/index.html New Evidence on Fluoride & the Developing Brain - FAN, January 17, 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://fluoridealert.org/2007research/01.html Excerpts from NRC Report - FAN, March 28, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://fluoridealert.org/health/epa/nrc/excerpts.html Yet more research on fluoride and the brain - FAN Science Watch June 25, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/news/12.html Fluoride's effects on the brain - Ellen Connett, Director, Fluoride Action Network Pesticide Project, April 19, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/pesticides/nrc.brain.april.2004.htm Fluoride Linked to Low IQ, Studies Show - Fluoride Action Network August 25, 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/1655.html In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility May 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/psr.html On the Neurotoxicity of Fluoride Phyllis Mullenix, Ph.D., September 14, 1998 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/pmullenix.htm Fluoride & The Brain: An Interview with Dr. Phyllis Mullenix Interview by Paul Connett, PhD, October 18, 1997 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/mullenix-interview.htm Fluoride & the Pineal Gland IFIN Bulletin, March 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/IFIN-269.htm Rat Studies Link Brain Cell Damage With Aluminum and Fluoride in Water Wall Street Journal October 28, 1992 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/wsj-isaacson.htm Available Full-Text Papers Online - Fluoride & the Brain: (back to top) FAN's Translation Project: Chinese Research on Fluoride's Neurotoxicity https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/chinese/index.html FULL-TEXT (pdf): Xiang Q, et al. (2003). Effect of fluoride in drinking water on children's intelligence. Fluoride 36: 84-94. https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://fluoride-journal.com/03-36-2/362-084.pdf FULL-TEXT (pdf): Lu Y, et al (2000). Effect of high-fluoride water on intelligence of children. Fluoride 33:74-78. https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoride-journal.com/00-33-2/332-74.pdf FULL-TEXT (pdf): Varner JA, et al. (1998). Chronic administration of aluminum-fluoride and sodium-fluoride to rats in drinking water: alterations in neuronal and cerebrovascular integrity. Brain Research 784: 284-298. https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/varner-1998.pdf FULL-TEXT (pdf): Mullenix P, et al. (1995).Neurotoxicity of sodium fluoride in rats. Neurotoxicology and Teratology 17:169-177. https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/mullenix1995.pdf FULL-TEXT (html): Lin Fa-Fu; et al (1991). The relationship of a low-iodine and high-fluoride environment to subclinical cretinism in Xinjiang. Iodine Deficiency Disorder Newsletter Vol. 7. No. 3. (August). https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/idd.html 1300 artículos sobre toxicidad de los fluoruros publicados en PUBMED https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22Fluorides%2Ftoxicity%22%5BMAJR%5D&sort=date&sort_order=desc Proyecto Manhattan https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proyecto_Manhattan Valor del proyecto https://fxtop.com/es/calculadora-de-inflacion.php?A=2000000000&C1=USD&INDICE=USCPI31011913&DD1=01&MM1=01&YYYY1=1942&DD2=30&MM2=10&YYYY2=2023&btnOK=Calcular+equivalente ……………………………………………………………….. 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Bienvenidos a un nuevo directo en Telegram. Hoy vamos a hablarles del flúor, ese elemento químico amarillo que siendo muy corrosivo, tóxico y altamente reactivo, es capaz de combinarse químicamente con casi todo, nos lo metemos en la boca por “nuestro bien». Los textos que utilizaré provienen del libro “Dossier Flúor” del dr Jean-Marc Brunet y de “The fluoride deception” de Christopher Bryson más algunas adaptaciones libres y artículos escritos por mi en el pasado ya que conocía de los peligros del flúor desde hace más de 20 años. Decirles que mi hija que tiene 18 años jamás ha utilizado pasta de dientes con flúor y tiene una excelente salud dental. El flúor constituye el núcleo elemental de algunas de las mayores fortunas que el mundo ha visto jamás, la riqueza casi inimaginable de los Mellons de Pittsburgh y los Du Ponts de Delaware. Y no es de extrañar que la advertencia en el tubo de pasta de dientes sea tan dramática. La misma potente sustancia química que se utiliza para enriquecer uranio para armas nucleares, para preparar el gas nervioso Sarín y para arrancar acero y aluminio fundidos del mineral de la tierra es la que damos a nuestros hijos a primera hora de la mañana y a última de la noche, con sabor a menta, fresa o chicle. El flúor es una sustancia química tan poderosa que se ha convertido en la savia de la industria moderna, bombeada a toda máquina cada día a través de innumerables fábricas, refinerías y molinos. El fluoruro se utiliza para producir gasolina de alto octanaje; para fundir metales clave como el aluminio, el acero y el berilio; para enriquecer uranio; para fabricar placas de circuitos informáticos, pesticidas, cera para esquís, gases refrigerantes, plástico de teflón, sartenes, alfombras, ropa impermeable, vidrio grabado, ladrillos y cerámica, y numerosos medicamentos, como Prozac y Cipro. “Crea el problema y luego vendeles la solución» frase que bien podría haber dicho Bernays, el mas famoso creador de opinión del siglo XX que también contribuyo a promocionar el flúor. En el libro de Chrystopher Bryson “El engaño del Flúor” nos muestra correspondencia entre el publicitario y el NIDR (Instituto nacional de investigación dental) para que este hiciera campaña a favor de la fluoración. ¿Conocen ese lema que dice “los expertos recomiendan”? Pues es de Bernays. Pero eso ya fue en los 60 y todo esto empezó tras la gran depresión del 1929, cuando las grandes multinacionales no sabían que hacer con sus productos por la gran caída de la demanda. Entre ellos el azúcar. Gerald Judy Cox, químico que participó en la causa de la caries y su “solución». El sr Cox, desarrollo las patentes para transformar la caña de azúcar y el azúcar común sin refinar (que terminaba pudriéndose) en algunos de los productos azucarados que conocemos hoy día. Por si no lo sabían son los ácidos que quedan encima de los dientes tras la transformación del azúcar por las bacterias lo que provoca la caries. Pues este señor que ayudó a que el azúcar terminase empleándose de forma masiva en todo tipo de productos, chicles incluidos, terminó siendo uno de los mayores defensores del uso del flúor para evitar dicha caries, ¿curioso no? Pero veamos dónde empezó todo. Durante la gran depresión, algunas empresas, sobre todo la Aluminum Company of America ALCOA, se enfrentaban a un espinoso problema. Uno de los compuestos naturales del aluminio es la criolita. La criolita es una roca que contiene aluminio, flúor y sodio. Su fórmula química es: Na3AlF6 Por tanto, la criolita contiene tres átomos de sodio, uno de aluminio y seis de flúor en su molécula. Cuando queremos aislar el aluminio, obtenemos como residuo una sal, el fluoruro de sodio. Se trata de una sustancia altamente tóxica que no se encuentra en la naturaleza en su estado puro sino en combinaciones menos peligrosas. El fluoruro de sodio es, por tanto, una sustancia química artificial. Al ser tan tóxico, su comercio esta limitado. Se utiliza en la fabricación de veneno para ratas, como agente blanqueador, como coagulante del caucho, como fijador de tintes, etc. Estos usos del fluoruro de sodio eran ampliamente insuficientes. Se acumulaban enormes reservas de este veneno, sobre todo porque las autoridades gubernamentales impedían a las empresas verterlo en los ríos porque los peces tienen la mala costumbre de morirse después. Como no vendían suficiente y no podían deshacerse de él fácilmente, tuvieron que buscar otra salida para el fluoruro de sodio. Como es habitual en la industria, el problema se remitió a una organización especializada en encontrar soluciones. El Instituto Mellon de Pittsburgh recibió el encargo de encontrar una solución al problema del fluoruro de sodio. El Instituto Mellon, fundado en 1911 por Andrew y Richard Mellon, es un laboratorio de ciencia aplicada abierto a todos los empresarios estadounidenses. Cuando un industrial o fabricante tiene un problema, acude al Instituto y contrata a un científico durante un año. El trabajo del científico consistía en mejorar el producto o encontrarle un nuevo mercado. El Instituto Mellon está actualmente siendo demandado por su defensa acérrima del amianto. El bioquímico Gerald J. Cox del que hablamos antes recibió el encargo de estudiar la delicada cuestión del fluoruro de sodio. Los peligros de esta sustancia química se conocían desde hacía tiempo. Ya en 1920, dos organismos gubernamentales, la Oficina de Minas y el Departamento de Agricultura, expresaban su preocupación por la contaminación por fluoruro. Mientras tanto, sin embargo, el Servicio de Salud Pública de EE.UU. permanecía en silencio. Hacia la década de 1930, el Servicio de Salud Pública pasó a depender del Departamento del Tesoro. De 1921 a 1933, el Secretario de este Departamento no fue otro que el Sr. Andrew W. Mellon, cofundador del Instituto Mellon, acaudalado financiero de Pittsburgh y miembro de una de las familias más ricas y poderosas de Estados Unidos. La familia Mellon posee y controla, entre otros, el Mellon National Bank, Gulf Oil, Koppers Corp. y la Aluminum Company of America. Antes de ocupar el cargo de Secretario del Tesoro, Andrew Mellon fue Presidente de la Aluminum Company. Fue uno de los más feroces opositores a la campaña contra la contaminación por flúor, ya que la Aluminum Co. era la principal contaminadora en este ámbito. En 1931, dos químicos de la Aluminum Co. descubrieron la causa de las horribles manchas marrones que casi todos los habitantes de Bauxite, Arkansas, tenían en los dientes. El agente responsable era el flúor, presente de forma natural en el agua de la ciudad dada la presencia de una industria minera del mineral del aluminio, la bauxita, que termino dando el nombre al pueblo. El Servicio de Salud Pública también se interesó por la fluorosis dental. En 1933, un miembro del personal, el dentista H. Trendley Dean, fue enviado a estudiar los distintos lugares del país donde la población presentaba este tipo de manchas en los dientes. El objetivo era averiguar qué proporción de flúor era necesaria para provocar tales trastornos. El Sr. Dean descubrió que incluso concentraciones mínimas provocaban las manchas en determinados individuos. Llegó a la conclusión de que con una concentración de una parte por millón, ya el 10-20% de la población presentaba esas manchas. Mientras tanto, el bioquímico Gerald J. Cox, que refinó el azúcar para luego curar las caries que esta provocaba, seguía trabajando para encontrar una solución al problema del flúor. En 1939, publicó su informe de investigación: "...Hay que replantearse la opinión predominante", escribió, "de que el agua debe estar completamente libre de fluoruros...". Sugirió añadir fluoruro sódico al agua potable para prevenir la caries dental. La sugerencia de Cox fue recibida con gran cautela por los funcionarios de salud pública. Incluso el dentista Dean del Servicio de Salud Pública, que dijo haber notado una reducción de la caries dental en lugares donde había mucha fluorosis, expresó sus reservas sobre la teoría de Cox. Todo el mundo era consciente de la falta de pruebas sobre los beneficios de los fluoruros en la dentición humana. Por otro lado, estaba claro que los fluoruros eran venenos extremadamente peligrosos como demostró el médico y científico danés Kaj Roholm en 1937. Y aqui entra el primer presidente de la Sociedad de Toxicología, el Dr Harold Hodge, elegido para encabezar la División de Farmacología y Toxicología de la Comisión de Energía Atómica de los Estados Unidos (AEC) y firme defensor de la fluoración del agua. Pocos saben que el Dr. Hodge, el principal investigador de flúor del país que formó a una generación de decanos de facultades de odontología en los años cincuenta y sesenta, fue el toxicólogo jefe en tiempos de guerra del Proyecto Manhattan. Allí ayudó a coreografiar los tristemente célebres experimentos de radiación en humanos, en los que se inyectaba plutonio y uranio a pacientes hospitalizados -sin su conocimiento o consentimiento- para estudiar la toxicidad de esas sustancias químicas en humanos. Hodge también se encargó de estudiar la toxicidad del flúor. La construcción de la primera bomba atómica del mundo había requerido cantidades ingentes de fluoruro. Así que, por ejemplo, en nombre de los fabricantes de bombas, supervisó de forma encubierta uno de los primeros experimentos de fluoración del agua pública del país. Mientras se decía a los ciudadanos de Newburgh, Nueva York, que el flúor reduciría las caries en sus hijos, en secreto se tomaban muestras de sangre y tejidos de los residentes que eran enviadas a su laboratorio atómico para su estudio. La Universidad de los estudios clasificados de fluoruro de Rochester – cuyo nombre en código es Programa F – se llevaron a cabo en el Proyecto de Energía Atómica (AEP), una instalación de alto secreto financiado por la AEC (La Comisión de Energía Atómica de los Estados Unidos) y alojados en el Strong Memorial Hospital. Se produjo allí uno de los experimentos de radiación más notorios en humanos durante la Guerra Fría, en el que los pacientes hospitalarios confiados fueron inyectados con dosis tóxicas de plutonio radiactivo. La revelación de este experimento por cuenta de la periodista Welsome Eileenen la convirtió en ganadora del premio Pulitzer tras escribir “Los archivos del plutonio: Los experimentos médicos secretos de Estados Unidos en la Guerra Fría”. Llevó a una investigación presidencial de los EE.UU en 1995, y un pago en efectivo de varios millones de dólares para las víctimas. El Programa F no trataba de mejorar la salud de los dientes de los niños. Surgió directamente de litigios contra el programa de la bomba y su principal objetivo era proporcionar munición científica que el gobierno y sus contratistas nucleares podrían utilizar para derrotar a las demandas por lesiones personales. El protocolo para las inyecciones de plutonio, que fue escrito por Wright Langham y no se hizo público hasta 1995, reveló que el experimento fue el resultado de la reunión de Rochester, así como de "numerosas conversaciones con el Coronel Warren, el Coronel Friedell y el Dr. LH". Hempelmann. Curiosamente el dr Hempelmann se casó con Elinor Pulitzer la nieta del editor de periódicos Joseph Pulitzer cuyo nombre llevan los “prestigiosos” entre comillas premios periodísticos. A cada paciente se le asignaron las iniciales "HP" seguidas de un número. Según un documento, "HP" significaba Human product "producto humano". Los médicos buscaban pacientes que tuvieran un metabolismo relativamente normal. Según el plan provisional, el grupo decidió que a cada paciente se le inyectaría un promedio de cinco microgramos, o cinco millonésimas de gramo de plutonio. Aunque la dosis prevista era cinco microgramos, la cantidad real de plutonio inyectada a los pacientes varió de 4,6 a 6,5 microgramos. La dosis de radiación acumulada recibida por cada paciente dependía de dos factores: la cantidad de material radiactivo inyectado en el cuerpo y cuánto tiempo vivían los sujetos. Cuanto más vivían los pacientes, mayor era su dosis acumulada. Antes de que comenzaran las inyecciones en humanos, a tres ratas se les inyectó en las venas de la cola la misma solución de plutonio que Langham y Bassett planeaban administrar a los pacientes. Sólo un pequeño porcentaje del plutonio fue a parar a los hígados de los roedores, lo que hizo que los dos científicos tuvieran más confianza en que el plutonio inyectado en los seres humanos "no sería absorbido en alta concentración por un solo órgano como el hígado", escribió Bassett. Wright Langham y Samuel Bassett se guardaron sus temores sobre posibles daños hepáticos y otras consecuencias para la salud a largo plazo y, finalmente, los pacientes fueron dados de alta del hospital sin que nunca les hubieran dicho lo que les habían hecho. Durante el resto de sus vidas, los inyectados llevaban dentro de sus cuerpos el plutonio que habían recibido en la sala metabólica de Samuel Bassett. Algunas veces se ‘inventaban’ operaciones para biopsiar órganos internos de pacientes ‘supuestamente’ enfermos y controlar su depósito en los tejidos. La energia nuclear estuvo bien vista en aquel tiempo y por desgracia ahora tenemos otro renacimiento de su popularidad. En esa época se realizaban radiografías con fluoroscopios en las zapaterías especializadas en bebés y niños con desastrosos resultados a largo plazo. Era normal retirar la estática de los discos de vinilo con un cepillo que contenía polonio 210 o llevar un reloj de muñeca con pintura de radio. Todo el mundo apoyaba la radiación y sus oscuros secretos siguen hoy dia a buen recaudo, pero prosigamos. Algunas de las empresas mas importantes USA se involucraron en la carrera para producir la bomba atómica…Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Du Pont, Clinton Engineering Works, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, National Carbon Company, Speer Carbon Company, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak, Allis-Chalmers, General Electric, General Motors, Kellogg…lo que se conoció como Proyecto Manhattan. Curiosamente si buscan Proyecto Manhattan en la wikipedia observarán que ni uno solo de los nombres de empresas que citan autores como Manuel Sánchez Ron aparecen allí, ¿raro, verdad? Entre ellas estaba una fábrica química de la compañía Du Pont, la Nemours Company en Deepwater, Nueva Jersey…se dedicó a producir millones de libras de fluoruro para el proyecto Manhattan. La conexión entre la fluoración del agua que defendía el Dr. Hodge y la industria nuclear es clara. A la industria nuclear, al igual que a la del aluminio y a la de los fertilizantes le sobraban cientos de miles de toneladas de flúor y meterlo en la boca de los contribuyentes era una buena forma de deshacerse de dicho residuo. Dejaremos en la descripción del podcast un documental muy aclarador titulado “El Engaño Del Flúor”. En el Estado de Wisconsin, dos dentistas, Frank Bull y John Frisch, se organizaron para poner en marcha el siniestro movimiento de la fluoración. En aquel momento, el trust del aluminio pertenecía en secreto a la Casa Rockefeller; 25 años antes había pertenecido a Andrew Mellon de Pittsburgh; a su muerte, la Casa Rockefeller se apoderó discretamente de él, negando oficialmente cualquier relación con Alcoa a través de su agente de prensa; Sin embargo, el Manual de Industriales y el informe anual del Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores de Rockefeller informaban de que el yerno de Andrew Mellon, miembro de la Casa Rockefeller, era el propietario, junto con su esposa, de la empresa Alcoa. La Casa Rockefeller, posee con su esposa la mayor parte de los fondos de la Compañía de Aluminio. Para aumentar el control de Rockefeller en las reuniones del consejo de Alcoa, Donald K. David, testaferro del Instituto Rockefeller, fue nombrado uno de los directores. Los ingenieros de ventas de Rockefeller pronto descubrieron que si el fluoruro de sodio se podía vender por sólo 1,5 centavos de dólar la libra, se obtendrían unos beneficios de 15 millones de dólares al año. El anuncio de Cox fue acogido con entusiasmo. Los peces gordos del Rockefeller Center se pusieron inmediatamente manos a la obra para preparar una gran campaña de fluoración del agua potable de 16.750 municipios estadounidenses. La operación se puso en marcha hacia 1945. Justamente los técnicos de Alcoa trabajaron mano a mano con químicos del Instituto Mellon y otras multinacionales (Dow Chemical Company, Colgate, Kellog, DuPont) hasta conseguir lo que hoy día se conoce como “la mafia del flúor” (Stephen 1995). En 1944, Oscar Ewing se convirtió repentinamente en uno de los principales empleados de Alcoa. Unos meses más tarde, el Sr. Ewing fue nombrado administrador de la Agencia Federal de Seguridad, actual Departamento de Salud de los Estados Unidos. Ewing recibió 750.000 dólares por un motivo que nunca se reveló, incluso después de que el congresista Al. Miller, de Nebraska, reuniera los datos sobre la donación y presentará su informe al Congreso. El Servicio de Salud Pública de EE.UU., que había sido puesto bajo la jurisdicción de la Agencia Federal de Seguridad de Ewing por el Congreso, lanzó una campaña de promoción masiva en todo Estados Unidos. Bajo la administración de Ewing, se votaron presupuestos enormes, se dieron millones de dólares a colegas médicos y dentistas y, en 1951, pidió y obtuvo dos millones de dólares para promover la idea de la purificación del agua potable. Una de las primeras medidas adoptadas fue establecer una prueba en dos ciudades piloto, Newburgh y Kingston. El agua de Newburgh estaba fluorada, la de Kingston no. El Cuerpo Comisionado del Servicio de Salud Pública de Estados anunció que en 5 años examinarán los dientes de los escolares de las dos ciudades y que la fluoración habría reducido la caries en un 50%. Dado que se transporta en la sangre, el flúor debe encontrarse en todas las partes del cuerpo. Al igual que los huesos, los dientes contienen derivados del flúor. El esmalte dental está compuesto por un 3% de dentina y un 97% de una combinación salina muy íntima de fosfato cálcico, carbonato y flúor. En total, un hombre de 70 kg. contiene de 95 a 100 g. de fluoruro combinado, suministrado y repuesto por la dieta en una forma salina compleja que, en casos normales, garantiza su fijación y ausencia de efectos nocivos. Parte de la ingesta diaria se fija para construir y renovar los huesos y los dientes; la otra parte circula y se elimina en las heces y la orina. Debo mencionar de pasada que las industrias médica y conservera de alimentos utilizan desde hace tiempo fluoruros alcalinos y alcalinotérreos. Ambas saben perfectamente que son a la vez antisépticos potentes y tóxicos algo parecido a lo que pasa con el Bisfenol A de las botellas. Es increíble como habiendo más de 1300 artículos científicos sobre la alta toxicidad de los fluoruros todavía se permita su comercialización sin apenas controles y que se hable de las ventajas de añadirlo al agua y a todo tipo de cosas. Parece que no hemos aprendido nada de la historia de otras sustancias de las que también nos dijo la ciencia que eran seguras como el plomo en la gasolina, el amianto, el DDT, etc Poderoso caballero es don dinero y en este caso la población en general no ha sido advertida de los peligros del flúor ya que las supuestas ONGs y los grupos ecologistas están patrocinados por los mismos fabricantes de este veneno. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ACCIDENTES Y ENVENENAMIENTOS POR FLUORURO El fluoruro, el ingrediente activo de muchos pesticidas y rodenticidas, es un veneno poderoso, más venenoso que el plomo . Debido a esto, la ingestión excesiva accidental de fluoruro puede causar síntomas tóxicos graves. Cada año hay miles de informes a los centros de control de intoxicaciones en los Estados Unidos relacionados con la ingestión excesiva de pastas dentales, enjuagues bucales y suplementos con flúor. Los accidentes de fluoración del agua , que provocan niveles excesivos de fluoruro en el agua, han sido una de las fuentes de intoxicación aguda por fluoruro . FLUORURO Y FLUOROSIS DENTAL La ingestión excesiva de flúor durante los primeros años de la infancia puede dañar las células formadoras de los dientes, provocando un defecto en el esmalte conocido como fluorosis dental . Los dientes afectados por fluorosis tienen una decoloración visible, que va desde manchas blancas hasta manchas marrones y negras . Según los Centros para el Control de Enfermedades , el 32% de los niños estadounidenses tienen actualmente algún tipo de fluorosis dental, y entre el 2 y el 4% de los niños padecen las etapas de moderada a grave (CDC 2005). Según el Dr. Hardy Limeback , Jefe de Odontología Preventiva de la Universidad de Toronto, "es ilógico suponer que el esmalte dental es el único tejido afectado por la ingestión de bajas dosis diarias de flúor. FLUORURO Y ALERGIA/HIPERSENSIBILIDAD Como lo reconoce Physicians' Desk Reference , algunas personas son alérgicas o hipersensibles al fluoruro. El ensayo clínico más grande, financiado por el gobierno, encontró que el 1% de las personas expuestas a 1 mg/día de fluoruro presentaban reacciones alérgicas/hipersensibles, incluidas reacciones cutáneas, malestar gástrico y dolor de cabeza FLUORURO Y LOS RIÑONES Los riñones desempeñan un papel vital en la prevención de la acumulación excesiva de fluoruro en el cuerpo. Entre las personas sanas, los riñones excretan aproximadamente el 50% de la ingesta diaria de fluoruro. Sin embargo, entre las personas con enfermedad renal, la capacidad de los riñones para excretar se ve notablemente afectada, lo que resulta en una acumulación de fluoruro en el cuerpo . Es bien sabido que las personas con enfermedad renal tienen una mayor susceptibilidad a los efectos tóxicos acumulativos del fluoruro. De particular preocupación es la posibilidad de que el fluoruro, cuando se acumula en el sistema esquelético, cause o exacerbe la osteodistrofia renal , una enfermedad ósea que se encuentra comúnmente entre personas con enfermedad renal avanzada. Además, se ha demostrado definitivamente que el fluoruro envenena la función renal en dosis altas durante exposiciones a corto plazo tanto en animales como en humanos. El impacto de dosis bajas de fluoruro, administradas durante largos períodos de tiempo, no se ha estudiado adecuadamente. Un estudio reciente en animales, realizado por científicos de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de EE.UU. (Varner 1998), informó que la exposición a sólo 1 ppm de fluoruro causaba daño renal en ratas si bebían agua durante un período prolongado, mientras que un nuevo estudio realizado en China encontró una mayor tasa de enfermedad renal entre los seres humanos que consumían más de 2 ppm (Liu 2005). Por lo tanto, los efectos adversos para la función renal que causa el fluoruro en dosis altas durante períodos cortos de tiempo también pueden replicarse con dosis pequeñas si se consume durante períodos prolongados. FLUORURO Y EL CEREBRO La capacidad del fluoruro para dañar el cerebro representa una de las áreas de investigación más activas sobre la toxicidad del fluoruro en la actualidad. La preocupación por el impacto del fluoruro en el cerebro ha sido alimentada por 18 estudios en humanos (de China, México, India e Irán) que informaron déficits de coeficiente intelectual entre niños expuestos a un exceso de fluoruro, por 4 estudios en humanos que indican que el fluoruro puede entrar y dañar el feto cerebro; y por un número creciente de estudios en animales que encuentran daños al tejido cerebral (a niveles tan bajos como 1 ppm) y deterioro del aprendizaje y la memoria entre los grupos tratados con fluoruro. Según el Consejo Nacional de Investigación de EE.UU. , "es evidente que los fluoruros tienen la capacidad de interferir con las funciones del cerebro”. Los hallazgos de efectos neurológicos en humanos expuestos al flúor son coherentes con los resultados recientes de más de 40 estudios en animales publicados desde 1992, y se ven reforzados por ellos. Al igual que los estudios en humanos, los estudios en animales han informado de un deterioro en los procesos de aprendizaje y memoria entre los grupos tratados con flúor. 6) Los estudios en animales también han documentado pruebas considerables de los efectos tóxicos directos del flúor en el tejido cerebral, incluso a niveles tan bajos como 1 ppm de flúor en el agua (Varner 1998). Estos efectos incluyen: -- reducción de los receptores nicotínicos de acetilcolina; -- reducción del contenido lipídico; -- deterioro de los sistemas de defensa antioxidante; -- daños en el hipocampo; -- daños en las células purkinje; -- aumento de la captación de aluminio; -- formación de placas beta-amiloides (la clásica anomalía cerebral de la enfermedad de Alzheimer); -- Exacerbación de las lesiones inducidas por la deficiencia de yodo. -- acumulación de flúor en la glándula pineal. FLUORURO Y LA GLÁNDULA PINEAL En la década de 1990, se descubrió que la glándula pineal es un sitio importante de acumulación de fluoruro dentro del cuerpo , con concentraciones de fluoruro más altas que los dientes o los huesos. Estudios posteriores en animales indican que la acumulación de fluoruro en la glándula pineal puede reducir la síntesis de melatonina en la glándula , una hormona que ayuda a regular el inicio de la pubertad. Se descubrió que los animales tratados con fluoruro tenían niveles reducidos de melatonina circulante y un inicio más temprano de la pubertad que los animales no tratados. El científico que realizó la investigación concluyó: "La seguridad del uso de fluoruros se basa en última instancia en la suposición de que el órgano del esmalte en desarrollo es más sensible a los efectos tóxicos del fluoruro. Los resultados de este estudio sugieren que los pinealocitos pueden ser tan susceptibles al fluoruro como el órgano del esmalte en desarrollo" ( Lucas 1997). El hecho de que el impacto del fluoruro en la glándula pineal nunca haya sido estudiado, ni siquiera considerado , antes de la década de 1990, pone de relieve una importante laguna en el conocimiento que sustenta las políticas actuales sobre el fluoruro y la salud. Según el Consejo Nacional de Investigación de EE. UU ., "cualquier agente que afecte la función pineal podría afectar la salud humana de diversas maneras, incluidos efectos sobre la maduración sexual, el metabolismo del calcio, la función paratiroidea, la osteoporosis posmenopáusica, el cáncer y las enfermedades psiquiátricas”. FLUORURO Y LA GLÁNDULA TIROIDES Según el Consejo Nacional de Investigación de EE. UU ., "varias líneas de información indican un efecto de la exposición al fluoruro sobre la función tiroidea", particularmente entre personas con deficiencia de yodo. El potencial del fluoruro para alterar la función tiroidea se ilustra más claramente por el hecho de que, hasta la década de 1970, los médicos europeos utilizaban el fluoruro como medicamento supresor de la tiroides en pacientes con hipertiroidismo (tiroides hiperactiva). Se utilizó fluoruro porque se encontró que era eficaz para reducir la actividad de la glándula tiroides , incluso en dosis tan bajas como 2 mg/día. Hoy en día, muchas personas que viven en comunidades fluoradas están ingiriendo dosis de fluoruro (1,6 a 6,6 mg/día) que se encuentran dentro del rango de dosis (2 a 10 mg/día) que alguna vez utilizaron los médicos para reducir la actividad tiroidea en pacientes con hipertiroidismo. Esto es particularmente preocupante considerando el problema generalizado del hipotiroidismo (tiroides poco activa) en los Estados Unidos. Los síntomas del hipotiroidismo incluyen obesidad, letargo, depresión y enfermedades cardíacas. FLUORURO Y ENFERMEDADES ÓSEAS Es bien sabido que la exposición excesiva al fluoruro causa una enfermedad ósea llamada fluorosis esquelética . La fluorosis esquelética, especialmente en sus primeras etapas , es una enfermedad difícil de diagnosticar y puede confundirse fácilmente con diversas formas de artritis , incluidas la osteoartritis y la artritis reumatoide . En sus etapas avanzadas, la fluorosis puede parecerse a una multitud de enfermedades de huesos y articulaciones. En personas con enfermedad renal, la exposición al fluoruro puede contribuir y/o exacerbar la osteodistrofia renal . FLUORURO Y FRACTURA ÓSEA La mayoría de los estudios en animales que investigan el efecto del fluoruro sobre la resistencia ósea han encontrado que el fluoruro no tiene ningún efecto o tiene un efecto negativo sobre la resistencia . Según el Consejo Nacional de Investigación de EE. UU. , "El peso de la evidencia indica que, aunque el fluoruro podría aumentar el volumen óseo, hay menos resistencia por unidad de volumen". Los estudios en poblaciones humanas que consumen fluoruro en el agua potable han encontrado una asociación entre la fluorosis dental y un aumento de las fracturas óseas en los niños ; y entre el consumo prolongado de agua fluorada y el aumento de fracturas de cadera en los ancianos. Ensayos clínicos en humanos cuidadosamente realizados , incluidos dos "ensayos doble ciego", han descubierto que el fluoruro (en dosis de 18 a 34 mg/día durante sólo 1 a 4 años) aumenta la tasa de fracturas óseas, particularmente de cadera, entre pacientes con osteoporosis. . FLUORURO Y CÁNCER Según el Programa Nacional de Toxicología, "la preponderancia de la evidencia" de estudios de laboratorio 'in vitro' indica que el fluoruro es un compuesto mutagénico . Muchas sustancias que causan daños mutagénicos también causan cáncer. Si bien las concentraciones de fluoruro que causan daño mutagénico en estudios de laboratorio son más altas que las concentraciones encontradas en la sangre humana, existen ciertos "microambientes" en el cuerpo (por ejemplo, los huesos y la vejiga ) donde las concentraciones de fluoruro pueden acumularse a niveles comparables a, o en exceso de aquellos que causan efectos mutagénicos en el laboratorio. Se ha descubierto que el fluoruro causa cáncer de huesos (osteosarcoma) en estudios gubernamentales con animales y se ha descubierto que las tasas de osteosarcoma entre los hombres jóvenes que viven en áreas fluoradas son más altas que las de los hombres jóvenes que viven en áreas no fluoradas. El osteosarcoma, aunque poco común, es un cáncer muy grave. Los niños que desarrollan osteosarcoma enfrentan una alta probabilidad de muerte (generalmente dentro de los 3 años) o amputación. La exposición al fluoruro también se ha relacionado con el cáncer de vejiga , particularmente entre los trabajadores expuestos al exceso de fluoruro en el lugar de trabajo. Según el Consejo Nacional de Investigación de EE. UU., "se deben realizar más investigaciones sobre el posible efecto del fluoruro en el riesgo de cáncer de vejiga”. FLUORURO Y EL TRACTO GASTROINTESTINAL Entre personas hipersensibles al flúor , se han producido dolencias gastrointestinales tras la ingestión de comprimidos de 1 mg de flúor o el consumo de 1 ppm de agua fluorada. En ensayos clínicos cuidadosamente controlados , se ha descubierto que una sola ingestión de tan solo 3 mg de fluoruro produce daños en la mucosa gástrica en voluntarios adultos sanos. Nunca se ha realizado ninguna investigación en la mucosa gástrica para determinar el efecto de dosis más bajas con exposición repetida. FLUORURO Y CARIES (Caries) Según el consenso actual de la comunidad de investigación dental, el beneficio principal, si no el único, del fluoruro para los dientes proviene de la aplicación TÓPICA en la superficie exterior de los dientes, no de la ingestión . Por lo tanto, tal vez no sea sorprendente que las tasas de caries hayan disminuido a tasas similares en todos los países occidentales en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, independientemente de si el país fluora o no su agua . Hoy en día, las tasas de caries en toda Europa occidental continental son tan bajas como las tasas de caries en los Estados Unidos, a pesar de una profunda disparidad en la prevalencia de la fluoración del agua en las dos regiones. En los países que fluoran el agua, estudios recientes a gran escala sobre salud dental (utilizando métodos científicos modernos no utilizados en los primeros estudios de los años 1930 y 1950) han encontrado pocas diferencias en la caries , incluida la "caries del biberón" , entre las aguas fluoradas. y comunidades no fluoradas. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Conozcamos algunos datos del proyecto Manhattan. El Proyecto Manhattan fue un proyecto de investigación y desarrollo llevado a cabo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial entre los años 1942 y 1946 que produjo las primeras armas nucleares, liderado por los Estados Unidos con el apoyo del Reino Unido y de Canadá. El Proyecto Manhattan comenzó de forma modesta, creciendo progresivamente hasta tener más de 130 000 empleados y alcanzar un coste de casi 2000 millones de dólares de la época, unos 70.000 millones en la actualidad. Más del 90 % del presupuesto se destinó a la construcción de fábricas y a la producción de materiales fisibles, con menos del 10 % destinado al desarrollo y producción de armas. La investigación y producción tuvieron lugar en más de 30 lugares por todos los Estados Unidos, Reino Unido y Canadá. En junio de 1944 el Proyecto Manhattan tenía alrededor de 129 000 trabajadores empleados, de los que 84500 eran trabajadores de la construcción, 40500 eran operadores de planta y 1800 eran personal militar. Como al final diseñaron una bomba con U-235, el material que se utiliza en los reactores comerciales y que solo es el 0,7% de todo el uranio se tuvo que separar dicho uranio de los otros radioisótopos que no eran necesarios como el el U-238 que es al que se le denomina uranio empobrecido. De cada gramo de uranio natural el 99,284 % de la masa es uranio-238, el 0,711 % uranio-235,2 y el 0,0085 % uranio-234. Separar el U-235 del U-238 fue una tarea titánica en aquella época y se utilizaron tres métodos principales ya que la centrifugación supuso un gran desafío técnico por la complejidad de los rodamientos y ejes necesarios para separar los radioisótopos de uranio. El proceso requería altas velocidades de rotación, pero a su paso por determinadas velocidades se creaban vibraciones armónicas que podían romper la maquinaria. Por ello, era necesario obtener una rápida aceleración para superar estas velocidades. producir un kilo de uranio-235 por día precisaría de hasta 50000 centrifugados con rotores de 1 metro, o 10000 centrifugados con rotores de 4 metros, asumiendo que fuera posible construir estos últimos. Por eso se recurrió al uso de calutrones, la termoforesis y la difusión gaseosa. Los calderones son una especie de imanes gigantes que separaban los dos tipos de radioisótopos calentando el uranio e ionizándolo para luego recogerlo por electromagnetismo en dos zonas diferenciadas. Debido a la escasez de cobre durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los electroimanes fueron hechos con miles de toneladas de plata prestadas por el Departamento del Tesoro de los Estados Unidos. La termoforesis (también denominada termomigración, termodifusión, efecto Soret, o efecto Ludwig-Soret) es un fenómeno observado en mezclas de partículas móviles, cuando diferentes tipos de partículas exhiben distintas respuestas ante la presencia de un gradiente térmico. Esta técnica no es practica para trabajar a gran escala y apenas fue empleada pasando a realizarse la separación de isótopos de uranio por difusión gaseosa o lo que es lo mismo mediante el uso de centrifugadoras. La difusión gaseosa fue una de las varias tecnologías para la separación de isótopos de uranio desarrolladas por parte del Proyecto Manhattan para producir uranio enriquecido forzando que el hexafluoruro de uranio (único compuesto del uranio gaseoso) atraviese membranas semi-permeables. Esto produce una ligerísima separación entre las moléculas que contienen uranio-235 y uranio-238. Mediante el uso de una gran cascada de muchos pasos, se pueden conseguir grandes separaciones. Los edificios de proceso construidos para albergar estas máquinas en cascada fueron en su momento los más grandes jamás construidos, hablamos de 600 etapas en una larga estructura en forma de U de 800 metros de longitud, que contenía 54 edificios contiguos. La preparación de la materia a tratar, el hexafluoruro de uranio (conocido en el mercado como hex ) fue la primera aplicación para el fluoruro producida comercialmente, y los problemas generados por el manejo tanto del fluoruro como del hex como gases corrosivos fueron significativos. El proyecto Manhattan se llama así porque la oficina que escogió el jefe de ingenieros militar se ubico en el 18.º del 270 Broadway en Nueva York. Además estaba cerca de la oficina en Manhattan de Stone & Webster, el principal contratista del proyecto…así que se quedó con ese nombre. El mando militar corrió a cargo del general Groves y el mando científico ya saben de J. Robert Oppenheimer, apodado el padre de la bomba. En 1944 se adquirió 560 000 kg de mineral de óxido de uranio a compañías que explotaban minas en el Congo Belga. Para poder evitar informar al Secretario del Tesoro estadounidense Henry Morgenthau Jr. sobre el proyecto, utilizaron una cuenta bancaria especial no sujeta a las habituales auditorías y controles por los que tenían que pasar este tipo de fondos. Entre 1944 y el momento en el que dimitió del Fondo en 1947, Groves depositó un total de 37,5 millones de dólares en la cuenta del Fondo. La minería de uranio en Colorado producía alrededor de unas 700 toneladas de uranio al año. Realmente utilizaron los tres procesos encadenados, primero producían uranio enriquecido del 0,71 % hasta el 0,89 % en la planta S-50 de termoforesis que pasó a ser la primera etapa. Este material se usaba en el proceso de difusión gaseosa en la planta K-25, produciendo un producto enriquecido hasta un 23 % que a su vez alimentaba a la planta Y-12 con los calutrones, llegando allí hasta al 89 %, lo suficiente para las armas nucleares. Decir que la planta con los calutrones estuvo en un principio siendo operada por científicos de Berkeley para eliminar fallos y conseguir un índice operacional razonable. Pero fueron finalmente sustituidos por operadoras formadas por Tennessee Eastman (la Kodak) que solo habían recibido una educación secundaria. Cuando compararon los datos vieron que las lugareñas producían mucho mas uranio que los doctorados. A fecha de julio de 1945 se habían entregado alrededor de unos 50 kg de uranio enriquecido hasta un 89 % de uranio-235 en Los Álamos. Estos 50 kg al completo, junto con uranio adicional enriquecido al 50 %, dio un promedio resultante de uranio enriquecido al 85 %, que fueron utilizados en la bomba Little Boy. O sea unos 100kg de U235 al 85%. El uranio natural se compone principalmente de uranio-238 (U-238), que no es fisible, y uranio-235 (U-235), que es fisible. Para producir 100 kg de U-235 enriquecido al 85%, primero debemos determinar la cantidad de uranio natural requerida y luego calcular la cantidad de UF6 necesaria para alcanzar ese enriquecimiento. La relación entre el peso atómico del U-235 y el U-238 es aproximadamente 0.72. Por lo tanto, necesitamos 14.285 kg de uranio normal para obtener 100 kg de uranio enriquecido al 100% y 12.142 kg para que este solo al 85%. En 12 gramos de uranio normal hay 3*10²³ átomos y en todos esos kilos hay una cifra enorme aproximada de 3 x 10^25 átomos de uranio. El UF6 se utiliza para enriquecer uranio, y en el proceso, se convierte todo el uranio (tanto el U-235 como el U-238) en UF6. Por lo tanto, necesitamos 6 átomos de flúor por uno de uranio, o sea 18 x 10^25 átomos de flúor. Lo que equivale a unas 50 toneladas de flúor de las que nunca mas se supo. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Invitados: …. Dra Yane #JusticiaParaUTP Médico y Buscadora de la verdad. Con Dios siempre! No permito q me dividan c/izq -derecha, raza, religión ni nada de la Creación. https://youtu.be/TXEEZUYd4c0 …. UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX CANALES TELEGRAM Promocional donde hacemos los directos https://t.me/UnTecnicoPreocupado Abierto para comentarios https://t.me/MiVidaMiOxigeno Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: !LA LECHE¡ FLÚOR EN LA LECHE https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/10/03/la-leche-fluor-en-la-leche/ Compañias proyecto Manhattan en el libro “Descubrimientos: Innovación y tecnología siglos XX y XXI” De José Manuel Sánchez Ron https://books.google.es/books?id=qt-hIQrbNSkC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=compa%C3%B1ias+proyecto+Manhattan+General+Electric&source=bl&ots=TEYYZZR26s&sig=vIiRUxpH4XqtJ-3u0caXw56K7Fs&hl=es&sa=X&ei=3kQdVKz3DpKd7gaisoD4Cw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=compa%C3%B1ias%20proyecto%20Manhattan%20General%20Electric&f=false LA CONSPIRACIÓN DEL FLUORURO https://detenganlavacuna.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/conspiracion-fluor/ Nexo entre la industria nuclear y la peste del siglo xxi: El cáncer https://www.burbuja.info/inmobiliaria/threads/n-exo-entre-la-industria-nuclear-y-la-peste-del-siglo-xxi-el-cancer.356104/# Las empresas del amianto y el encubrimiento empresarial https://www.lawsuit-information-center.com/asbestos-corporate-cover-up.html Dust diseases and the legacy of corporate manipulation of science and law https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090870/ Harold Hodge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hodge Roholm, Kaj. "Intoxicación por flúor: un estudio clínico e higiénico, con revisión de la literatura y algunas investigaciones experimentales". 1937. https://archive.org/details/FluorineIntoxication/mode/2up The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War https://web.archive.org/web/20110810032922/http://www.fluoridealert.org/p-files.htm “The Plutonium Files”. Las filtraciones de los experimentos médicos del Proyecto Manhattan https://kurioso.es/2011/01/17/%E2%80%9Cthe-plutonium-files%E2%80%9D-las-filtraciones-de-los-experimentos-medicos-del-proyecto-manhattan/ Pres. Clinton's Remarks on Human Radiation Experiments (1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StId27Dmx78 Luis Hempelmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Hempelmann Artículos científicos sobre el uso inadecuado de fluoroscopios para medir el tamaño del pie a niños y bebes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18139719/ Radiation Exposures from the Use of Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscopes https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM194909012410903 Diez protagonistas para entender el ‘caso Alcoa’ https://www.laopinioncoruna.es/economia/2021/03/07/diez-protagonistas-entender-caso-alcoa-39193998.html ¿QUIERES SEGUIR FUMANDO? PUES NO LEAS ESTO https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/09/20/quieres-seguir-fumando-pues-no-leas-esto/ ¿QUIERES SEGUIR FUMANDO? PUES NO LEAS ESTO SEGUNDA PARTE https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/09/21/quieres-seguir-fumando-pues-no-leas-esto-segunda-parte/ ¿QUIERES SEGUIR FUMANDO? PUES NO LEAS ESTO TERCERA PARTE https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/09/22/quieres-seguir-fumando-pues-no-leas-esto-tercera-parte/ 23 NUEVO desORDEN MUNDIAL (El FLUOR es MATARRATAS ) (Lista de aguas fluoradas) https://www.ivoox.com/23-nuevo-desorden-mundial-el-fluor-es-matarratas-audios-mp3_rf_2998013_1.html BIOTERRORISMO; MEDICAMENTOS Y VACUNAS https://nuevodesordenmundial.com/?page_id=105 SAL YODADA, LO QUE NADIE TE CONTO https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/12/15/sal-yodada-lo-que-nadie-te-conto/ AGUA Y OTROS VENENOS COTIDIANOS Y CÓMO EVITARLOS (articulo en blog) https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2019/12/16/venenos-cotidianos-y-como-evitarlos/ UTP76 Agua y otros venenos cotidianos (audio en Ivoox) https://www.ivoox.com/utp76-agua-otros-venenos-cotidianos-audios-mp3_rf_45571703_1.html TODO LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER PARA EMPEZAR LA GUERRA CONTRA LA GEOINGENIERÍA (lluvia de peces) https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2022/12/22/todo-lo-que-tienes-que-saber-para-empezar-la-guerra-contra-la-geoingenieria/ UTP 44 Los piratas somalies y los depósitos radiactivos que provocaban cáncer https://www.ivoox.com/utp-44-los-piratas-somalies-depositos-audios-mp3_rf_32634697_1.html El Engaño Del Flúor (video documental sobre el libro del mismo nombre) https://archive.org/details/el-engano-del-fluor Papers sobre daños del flúor https://web.archive.org/web/20120325012242/http://www.fluoridationfacts.com/science/papers/papers_index.htm CUATRO ESTUDIOS QUE DEMUESTRAN QUE AGREGAR FLUORURO AL AGUA POTABLE PONE EN PELIGRO INNECESARIAMENTE EL CEREBRO DE LOS NIÑOS https://fluoridealert.org/articles/four-studies/ LUKE (2001): DEPOSICIÓN DE FLUORURO EN LA GLÁNDULA PINEAL HUMANA ENVEJECIDA https://fluoridealert.org/studies/luke-2001/ Estudio sobre el flúor en España citado por la Dra Yane https://twitter.com/ayec98_2/status/1719392296842510633 Articles of Interest - Fluoride & the Brain: FAN's Translation Project: Chinese Research on Fluoride's Neurotoxicity https://fluoridealert.org/researchers/translations/complete_archive/ Pagina en web archive por si se pierde https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/chinese/index.html New Evidence on Fluoride & the Developing Brain - FAN, January 17, 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://fluoridealert.org/2007research/01.html Excerpts from NRC Report - FAN, March 28, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://fluoridealert.org/health/epa/nrc/excerpts.html Yet more research on fluoride and the brain - FAN Science Watch June 25, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/news/12.html Fluoride's effects on the brain - Ellen Connett, Director, Fluoride Action Network Pesticide Project, April 19, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/pesticides/nrc.brain.april.2004.htm Fluoride Linked to Low IQ, Studies Show - Fluoride Action Network August 25, 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/1655.html In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility May 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/psr.html On the Neurotoxicity of Fluoride Phyllis Mullenix, Ph.D., September 14, 1998 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/pmullenix.htm Fluoride & The Brain: An Interview with Dr. Phyllis Mullenix Interview by Paul Connett, PhD, October 18, 1997 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/mullenix-interview.htm Fluoride & the Pineal Gland IFIN Bulletin, March 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/IFIN-269.htm Rat Studies Link Brain Cell Damage With Aluminum and Fluoride in Water Wall Street Journal October 28, 1992 https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/wsj-isaacson.htm Available Full-Text Papers Online - Fluoride & the Brain: (back to top) FAN's Translation Project: Chinese Research on Fluoride's Neurotoxicity https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/chinese/index.html FULL-TEXT (pdf): Xiang Q, et al. (2003). Effect of fluoride in drinking water on children's intelligence. Fluoride 36: 84-94. https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://fluoride-journal.com/03-36-2/362-084.pdf FULL-TEXT (pdf): Lu Y, et al (2000). Effect of high-fluoride water on intelligence of children. Fluoride 33:74-78. https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoride-journal.com/00-33-2/332-74.pdf FULL-TEXT (pdf): Varner JA, et al. (1998). Chronic administration of aluminum-fluoride and sodium-fluoride to rats in drinking water: alterations in neuronal and cerebrovascular integrity. Brain Research 784: 284-298. https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/varner-1998.pdf FULL-TEXT (pdf): Mullenix P, et al. (1995).Neurotoxicity of sodium fluoride in rats. Neurotoxicology and Teratology 17:169-177. https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/mullenix1995.pdf FULL-TEXT (html): Lin Fa-Fu; et al (1991). The relationship of a low-iodine and high-fluoride environment to subclinical cretinism in Xinjiang. Iodine Deficiency Disorder Newsletter Vol. 7. No. 3. (August). https://web.archive.org/web/20110903120105/http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/idd.html 1300 artículos sobre toxicidad de los fluoruros publicados en PUBMED https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22Fluorides%2Ftoxicity%22%5BMAJR%5D&sort=date&sort_order=desc Proyecto Manhattan https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proyecto_Manhattan Valor del proyecto https://fxtop.com/es/calculadora-de-inflacion.php?A=2000000000&C1=USD&INDICE=USCPI31011913&DD1=01&MM1=01&YYYY1=1942&DD2=30&MM2=10&YYYY2=2023&btnOK=Calcular+equivalente ……………………………………………………………….. Música utilizada en este podcast: Tema inicial Heros ……………………………………………………………….. Epílogo Alonso del Rio - Abrete Corazon https://youtu.be/mOOuivbwijY?feature=shared

Michigan Senate Candidate Michael Hoover, a True Voice for Michigan. Candidate Hoover is a fifth generation born and raised Michigander and has fought his entire life for the American Dream. He had a successful career at the Dow Chemical Company and several highly successful small businesses where he hired, trained, and supported hundreds of employees. “Michigan deserves a better future. Let's build it together” -Mike Hoover 

A native of Baton Rouge and member of Capitol Senior High school class of 1995.  In 1996, after working at K&B Drug Store for a short time, with supportive enforcement from his mother Levar joined the U.S. Navy. He spent 6 years as a nuclear Submarine Machinist Mate on 2 nuclear submarines and a submarine repair ship. This is where he grew his love for traveling and watersports. After the Navy, Levar held positions of  employment with Northrop Grumman, Dow Chemical Company, and ExxonMobil for a combination of 17 years.  Meanwhile in 2008 Levar started mentoring in church with the youth, young adults and prison ministries and volunteered in the community with Big Buddy, 100 Black Men and Volunteers in Public Schools. In 2017 determined to do more with misguided youth and along with supporting fathers he established the 501c3 nonprofit Fathers On A Mission (FOAM) while working shift work for DOW. Levar launched FOAM with the mission of supporting Fathers, Father Figures and mentoring misguided youth. Levar is also a father of 6 and a father figure to hundreds. On any given day you can find him in schools and the community empowering youth through open dialogue on Enhancing Your Greatness or providing social services intervention to Fathers and Father Figures. Because of his consistent, effective, and impactful work Levar has been recognized by some of the best organizations and companies in the city and state. He is the recipient of the 2018 Emerge Center Baton Rouge Area Volunteer Activist Award, 2018 Louisiana Association of Non-Profits (LANO) Community Leaders Alumni, 2019 ExxonMobil Responsible Care Award, 2020 Business Report Executive Leadership Academy Alumni, the 2020 NAACP Trailblazer Award, a 2020 BlueCross BlueShield Foundation Angel Award Honoree, 2022 New Orleans Saints and Community Coffee Military and Community Volunteer Honoree, and 2023 Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF) John W. Barton Sr. Excellence in Nonprofit Management Rising Star Award. 

With AI's involvement in treasury rapidly developing, this week's guest looks at the benefits and how we can adapt. On this episode of The Treasury Career Corner, Adam Glasser, Corporate Treasurer at Vantage Specialty Chemicals joins us to talk about his thoughts on AI and the future of the industry. He also shares details about his unique career, how vantage measures success and top tips for junior treasurers. Adam started his career in real estate development planning with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide back in 2005. At his next employer, Dow Chemical Company, he made the switch from real estate management to treasury, becoming their Customer Credit Treasury Manager in 2014. He joined Agrofresh as Assistant Treasurer in 2015 before returning to Dow as Senior Investment Manager, Financial Risk and Portfolio Investments. In 2020, he joined Randa Apparel & Accessories as Corporate Treasurer before taking the same title and Vantage Specialty Chemicals, where he works today. On the podcast we discussed… Adam's unique career journey His switch from real estate to treasury The challenges facing treasurers in 2013 How treasurers can leverage AI now vs in the future The metrics Vantage measure Why he joined Vantage Top tips for junior treasurers Switching from larger- to smaller-scale roles Why it's OK to ask for help You can connect with Adam Glasser on LinkedIn and tune into the episode with Gary McGuire, mentioned in the episode, here. Are you interested in pursuing a career within Treasury? Whether you've recently graduated, or you want to search for new job opportunities to help develop your treasury career, The Treasury Recruitment Company can help you in your search for the perfect job. Find out more here. Or, send us your CV and let us help you in your next career move! If you're enjoying the show please rate and review us on whatever podcast app you listen to us on, for Apple Podcasts click here! If you're interested in learning more about the fundamental pillars of treasury, download my free Corporate Treasury eBook by clicking here!

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... Product Mastery Now with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode:  Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). Hershey, the chocolate maker, was the last winner, in 2022. The winners of the award can teach us valuable lessons about innovation. To help us learn some of those lessons, Sally Kay is with us. She has served on PDMA's OCI Committee for several years. Sally spent 36 years with The Dow Chemical Company and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. After working in R&D, Finance, Sales, and Marketing she focused her career on various areas of innovation and new product development. Since retiring, Sally has started her own consulting business, Strategic Product Development, which focuses on the front end of the innovation process. 

  Ray McGinnis is an author and investigative reporter Book: Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored by Ray McGinnis: Paperback, Kindle Article: The Vietnam War: Riding The Tiger - the problem with Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary by Ray McGinnis FREE Borrowable Ebook: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass The Gulf of Tonkin resolution McNamara admitted that nothing happened on August 4, 1964 (Gulf of Tonkin incident) Video: Gulf of Tonkin: McNamara admits it didn't happen General Maxwell Taylor said that John F. Kennedy was the "one man" who was "strongly against…sending ground troops to Vietnam" One of the talking heads in the Burns-Novick documentary is Leslie Gelb Gelb was director of the project that produced the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War Kennedy wanted to withdraw ALL American personnel from Vietnam by the end of 1965 Kennedy stood up to Khrushchev in Berlin General Maxwell Taylor was a hawk who wanted American troops in Vietnam Kennedy reminded Taylor "In your assessment you should bear in mind that the initial responsibility for the effective maintenance of the independence of South Vietnam rests with the people and government of that country." The narrator says "Kennedy also authorized the use of napalm" and "agent orange" Dow Chemical Company manufactured napalm B for the American armed forces from 1965-69 The use of napalm in Vietnam began in March 1965 i.e. almost a year and a half after Kennedy was killed American bombing operations of the Vietnam War all took place after President Kennedy was assassinated Kennedy and McNamara had authorized only training and specifically forbade combat of US personnel Kennedy and McNamara were not informed that US personnel were leading air strikes with South Vietnamese pilots A character assassination of President Kennedy has been going on in the media ever since he was killed Strategic Hamlet Program in South Vietnam Strategic Hamlets were being built in areas where there were no Viet Cong Another talking head is Rufus Phillips who is identified as "USAID" Phillips was a CIA officer and protege of Edward Lansdale Lansdale was a CIA operative working under the cover of the US Air Force Who does the CIA really work for? American volunteer Pete Hunting died in Nov 1965 But his death is shown in the 1961-63 episode (i.e. when Kennedy was President) Lansdale sabotaged Kennedy's initiatives in Vietnam in 1961 FREE Borrowable Ebook: Censhorship in Vietnam: Brave New World by Thomas Bass CIA's Phoenix Program in Vietnam targeted civilians and not soldiers By the CIA's own estimates at least 41,000 Vietnamese civilians were killed under the Phoenix Program Why Statistics Matter and Order of Battle estimates omitted in episode The Order of Battle study estimated the number of Viet Cong fighters was in the range of 40,000 to 50,000 Colonel James Winterbottom ordered the team to bring down the figure to 20,000 Finally in the printed version it was pushed down further to 16,500 General Harkins ordered the estimates of the casualty figures for the Viet Cong be inflated by 30% and the casualty figures for the South Vietnamese Government be artificially reduced by 30% Senator Mike Mansfield’s report to the president in 1962 recommending American withdrawal from Vietnam Kennedy told Mansfield he wanted to proceed with a complete military withdrawal from Vietnam But he told Mansfield he couldn’t do a complete withdrawal until he was re-elected in 1964 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963 Download this Ebook in EPUB or MOBI format President Kennedy informed General Taylor in the fall of 1963 of the plan to withdraw 1000 US personnel in December 1963 Three days before Kennedy was killed,

Russ DeLozier knew early in his career that sustainability would play a significant role in the rest of his life. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology, majoring in chemical engineering, and found himself working at The DOW Chemical Company. From there, he began a career in sustainability, specifically in the flooring industry, leading sustainability efforts for Shaw Industries, J+J Flooring Group, and Engineered Floors.While at Shaw, Russ established the largest nationwide carpet recycling program and was directly involved in the reverse logistics of over half-billion pounds of post-consumer carpet. While at J+J Flooring Group, Russ helped lead the company to become the first in the industry to achieve 3rd party certification for Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL).Until 2020, Russ was the longest-serving Mill representative to the Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) Board, where he was actively involved in the 2012 CARE MOU Negotiation process and the implementation of California's trial Carpet EPR legislation, AB-2398. He is the past recipient of CARE's Carpet Recycler of the Year and one of only two two-time recipients of CRI's distinguished Joseph J. Smrekar Memorial Award, which recognizes individuals who show exemplary service to the carpet and rug industry.

Amen Herbert Dow, who is pictured here Uh is founded a company in 1895 called the Dow Chemical Company. And what he had done was he had invented a way that you could cheaply produce a chemical called bromine. And so he would sell it for 36 cents a pound around the US. He couldn't sell it in Germany because there was a company there that also produced bromine and they had a monopoly on the market. And they uh

How has Dow Chemical Company's tax function gone from being described as a ‘black box' by company leadership to saving millions of dollars and becoming an established strategic partner within the business in just four years? Marcelo Vieira, Dow's Director of Tax Strategy and Global Tax Operations and Andrea Gronenthal, EY Americas Strategic Tax Transformation Leader, discuss how Dow has evolved into one of the few tax departments that enjoys a granular yet global view of its risks and opportunities. EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. The views of third parties set out in this publication are not necessarily the views of the global EY organization or its member firms. Moreover, they should be seen in the context of the time they were made.

In this episode of Industrial Theory, host Kerry Siggins sits down with Sam Smolik to discuss his 50+ years of experience managing energy and petrochem facilities, as well as his new book, “The Daily Pursuit of Excellence.” Reflecting on the evolution of industrial cleaning practices, Kerry and Sam discuss the value of facility owners supporting and engaging with advancing standardized safety training. They dive into the importance of having a strong company culture that also extends to contractors, and the influence Sam's leadership experience has had in his recent work as an author. Sam also details the message he plans to share at the upcoming Safety Council Summit, that “every job can be done safely.” Guest: Sam Smolik spent his career in a series of global executive leadership roles at The Dow Chemical Company, Shell, and LyondellBasell Industries. His focus during his 50+ year career was on leadership, people development, operational excellence, management systems, sustainable development, and achieving superior performance. Sam has recently authored a new book, “The Daily Pursuit of Excellence,” to share his experiences and leadership techniques for improving personal effectiveness, influencing others, and enhancing organizational performance. Smolik graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering degree from The University of Texas at Austin. He currently serves on the board of directors for Axalta Coating Systems, Evergreen Industrial Services, and Ducks Unlimited.

On this episode, Matt Hansen shares his big ‘why' for transitioning from corporate executive to investor. He then dives into his lessons learned from early mistakes and the incredible mindset and system for success that has led to a 10X in his net worth. What you'll discover:   - His conversational, nurturing, educational approach to working with investors - The story of his first multi-family investment and what he learned - Matt's system for choosing profitable investment properties - The book that helped him become a big picture thinker - What's in his investment portfolio   More about Matt:   In 2015, Matt Hansen was a Global Supply Chain Director at the Dow Chemical Company and moved to Olin Corporation (another chemical company) as a result of a divestiture. He retired in 2020, after 31 years in the corporate world. Now, he's invested in over 2,200 units of apartment buildings across Texas, Tennessee, and Florida and is passionate about educating others on passive apartment investing. Matt holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration in Marketing & Management with a minor in Economics. He and his wife Renee have been investing in real estate for over 30 years and are also crypto and venture capital investors. In his free time, he enjoys reading, watching movies, traveling, biking, and spending time with his wife and two kids.   Ways to connect with Matt:   https://hansenholdings.com/   Other useful links and resources:   Yakov's recommended reading: Vivid Vision by Cameron Herold   Free Trainings on “How To Raise More Capital & Find High Net-Worth Investors on Auto-Pilot”: findmoreinvestors.com/capital   Enter our monthly raffle by leaving a 5-star review and emailing a screenshot to: reviews@findmoreinvestors.com   Connect with Yakov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yakovsavitskiy/ https://www.instagram.com/yakovsmart7/ https://www.facebook.com/yakov.smart3   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Positive Fat Bass Intro Loop by WinnieTheMoog Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6093-positive-fat-bass-intro-loop License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://linktr.ee/taigasoundprod   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Just Keep Going (Loopable) by chilledmusic Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/7245-just-keep-going-loopable License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Business Of Dreams by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/9392-business-of-dreams License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://cemmusicproject.wixsite.com/musiclibraryfiles   #realestateinvesting #capitalraising #realestate #passiveinvesting

Synopsis: Andrew Sandford and Michael Paglia are the President and COO, respectively, of ElevateBio BaseCamp, a cell and gene therapy technology company powering transformative therapies. They join us from the company's manufacturing facilities in Waltham, Massachusetts, for a discussion about the landscape of company creation in the cell and gene therapy space and how ElevateBio is helping companies bring innovation and therapeutics to clinics and patients to help treat and cure diseases. They talk about how ElevateBio is driving next-generation technologies like gene editing and regenerative medicine that empower new therapies in the industry. They also cover what they think the next two decades in this space will look like, opportunities they feel are untapped, and advice for their younger selves. Biographies: Andrew Sandford brings over 20 years of experience in building, operating, and leading life science technology and manufacturing companies and will continue to extend ElevateBio BaseCamp strategic partnerships in the field of cell and gene therapy. Prior to ElevateBio, Andrew worked in several leadership roles to oversee the successful implementation of strategic business development, marketing, and manufacturing operations. Notably, as Global Vice President of Business Development, Biologics for Catalent Pharma Solutions, Inc., his teams were responsible for driving revenue expansion, enabling the transformation of Catalent to a global biologics services provider. Prior to Catalent, Andrew held various leadership positions at Selexis Inc, Lonza Corporation, and Dow Chemical Company, creating strategic value through global business and licensing opportunities and increasing business unit profitability. Most recently, Andrew was an Executive in Residence for Anzu Partners, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of VREX Therapeutics, and Founder, Inventor and Managing Director of Arthropod Biosciences. Michael Paglia has spent the last twenty years in biotechnology building, leading and motivating process development and manufacturing teams to support clinical programs from early development to late-stage clinical trials. Currently, Michael is the Chief Operating Officer at ElevateBio BaseCamp, leading facility, process development and manufacturing operations for a broad portfolio of cell and gene therapy products and technologies. Prior to ElevateBio, Mike was the Vice President of CMC Operations at Oncorus and Program Lead for the development of a next-generation oncolytic immunotherapy platform. Prior to Oncorus, Michael was the Sr. Director of Technical Operations and Head of Cellular Process Development and Manufacturing Operations at bluebird bio.

Our guest is Johanna Soderstrom - Chief People Officer at Tyson Foods. As a member of the Tyson Foods' enterprise leadership team, Johanna brings over two decades of experience in global people solutions, employee engagement, and talent development. Before that, she served as Chief HR Officer at The Dow Chemical Company and oversaw the company's cultural and organizational transformation through the DowDuPont merger and spin-off. Johanna is also a member of the board of Neste. In this episode of Scaling Culture, Ron and Johanna discuss: How does Tyson make core values come to life across 139,000 staff worldwide?  What tactics helped Tyson achieve 78% completion on their employee engagement survey? What mindset shift / aha moment transformed Johanna's approach to employee experience? For more information about Johanna Soderstrom, please follow her on LinkedIn. To learn more about our books or the Scaling Culture Masterclass online, please go to ScalingCulture.Org. Lastly, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a comment and share the podcast with one of your friends or colleagues. We'll be back soon with another incredible guest!

What do you get when you try to cross classic horror movies with screwball comedy with a cast of all-stars from the 1980s? If you said Transylvania 6-5000, you'd be right! This is a movie about two tabloid journalists who go to Transylvania to investigate stories of Frankenstein's monster running loose, and once there the intrepid duo cross paths with vampires, wolfmen, mad scientists, and Michael Richards. Transylvania 6-5000 stars Jeff Goldblum, Carol Kane, Ed Begley Jr., Jeffrey Jones, John Byner, and the first appearances of Geena Davis and Michael Richards. It's a fun, light-hearted horror comedy romp written and directed by Rudy De Luca on behalf of the Dow Chemical Company who financed the picture in order to launder money out of Yugoslavia. (No joke.) So if you like campy horror and screwball comedy, then this is the movie for you! The Salty Nerd Podcast is the only movie review podcast that would tackle this oddball film, for sure. If you want to subscribe to a great film review podcast that does a TON of movie reviews, you can't go wrong with the Salty Nerds! They drop daily episodes covering a variety of movies and TV shows, so if you're looking for a fun movie podcast, look no further and sign up now! And if you'd like to support the Salty Nerd Podcast and get exclusive content - 4 new podcasts a week PLUS access to a huge back catalog of members-only episodes - the consider becoming a Patron over at our members area. It's just $5 a month. Sign up here: http://www.saltynerdclub.com

(SEALING ORDER) In 2014, the Federal Court, in the liability phase of the trial, held that the respondents' (collectively “Dow”) 705 Patent for fabricated products made from ethylene polymer blends was found to be valid and infringed by a product manufactured by Nova Chemicals Corporation (“Nova”). The 705 Patent issued in 2006 and expired on April 19, 2014. Dow was held to be entitled to damages under the Patent Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. P-4, and had to elect either an accounting of Nova's profits or damages sustained by reason of Nova's infringement under s. 55(1) of the Act. The quantum of that award was to be assessed by reference. Dow elected an accounting of profits. The reference judge was required to determine the manner in which damages payable to Dow pursuant to ss. 55(1) and 55(2) of the Act should be calculated. The principles articulated by the reference judge allowed for the calculation of the accounting of profits to be disgorged by Nova and made payable to Dow. That decision was upheld on appeal. Argued Date 2022-04-20 Keywords Intellectual property - Patents, Medicines, Damages - Intellectual property — Patents — Medicines — Damages — Respondent seeking remedy of accounting of profits following determination applicant had infringed respondent's patent — What is the proper conceptual approach to determining how to calculate a disgorgement of profits in the patent context? — Are “springboard profits” on products sold after patent expiry available at law?. Notes (Federal Court) (Civil) (By Leave) (Certain information not available to the public) Disclaimers This podcast is created as a public service to promote public access and awareness of the workings of Canada's highest court. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Court. The original version of this hearing may be found on the Supreme Court of Canada's website. The above case summary was prepared by the Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada (Law Branch).

Paul Harvey - Dow Chemical Company

Video Version https://vimeo.com/672153514 About the Podcast My guest today is Sam Smolik, SVP Americas Manufacturing (retired) for LyondellBasell and author of the book, "The Power of Goal Zero". After his retirement, Sam decided to share the lessons learned during his journey and years of experience - the best practices and techniques for achieving Operational Excellence - and that led him to authoring his book, "The Power of Goal ZERO" (published in June 2021). Through the telling of personal stories and sharing his experiences, "The Power of Goal ZERO" provides a proven roadmap for demonstrating strong leadership, creating a culture of excellence, implementing organizational change, developing effective management systems, and achieving superior performance. In today's competitive environment, individuals and organizations must be best in class to compete and win. The book is designed for leaders and aspiring leaders at all levels to improve personal effectiveness, organizational efficiency, and motivation of people; with the principles helping to enable rapid transformation in any organization. In my interview of Sam, you will gain insights that will undoubtedly help you and your organization become best in class. About Sam Smolik Before retiring from LyondellBasell Industries in 2017, Sam served as Global Vice President for Environment, Health, and Safety for LyondellBasell, Royal Dutch Shell, and The Dow Chemical Company (where he started his career). Sam earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and currently serves on the Engineering Advisory Board there. In addition, Sam currently serves on several Boards of Directors including; Axalta Coating Systems, Evergreen Industrial Services, and Ducks Unlimited. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-smolik-7084725/ Company: LyondellBasell Title: SVP Americas Manufacturing (retired) Website: https://www.lyondellbasell.com/ Headquarters:  Houston, Texas (for US) Year Founded: 2007 (as a result of the acquisition of Lyondell Chemical Company by Basell Polyolefins. Company Type: Publicly Traded (NYSE; LYB) Practice Areas:  LyondellBasell is one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world and produces materials and products that are key to advancing solutions to modern challenges like enhancing food safety through; lightweight and flexible packaging, protecting the purity of water supplies through stronger and more versatile pipes, improving the safety, comfort and fuel efficiency of many of the cars and trucks on the road, and ensuring the safe and effective functionality in electronics and appliances. LyondellBasell sells products into more than 100 countries and is the world's largest producer of polypropylene compounds and the largest licensor of polyolefin technologies. In 2021, LyondellBasell was named to Fortune Magazine's list of the “World's Most Admired Companies” for the fourth consecutive year.

Rick Lombardi is a former executive at The Dow Chemical Company. Rick led 1000's of employees through leadership training over his 36 year career. On this episode, Rick shares some of the key concepts of how to develop your leadership skills inside and outside of your career. Rick shares when he unearthed his unconscious biases and how we can be more aware of these biases to lead a more productive and fulfilled life.

A group of scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have one word for you. Just one word. Plastic. Well, polyurethane to be precise. This widely used material is almost never recycled. Now the lab has teamed up with Northwestern University and Dow Chemical Company to, you might say, modernize how polyurethane is made and handled. Joining the Federal Drive with more, the fuels and products group leader at Argonne's systems assessment center, Troy Hawkins.

La historia de Estados Unidos no podría entenderse sin DuPont. Tampoco podría entenderse el concepto del sueño americano. Porque la historia de la compañía, nacida hace más de 200 años, está intimamente ligada a los grandes eventos que han definido a la sociedad norteamericana.Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, un hugonote nacido en París en 1739, era un ambicioso economista, editor y político, cercano a la corte de Luis XVI, gracias a sus escritos y sus ideas sobre libre comercio. El rey le dio diferentes cargos, y contó con él para negociar el Tratado de París, por el que Inglaterra reconoció la independencia de Estados Unidos. En un primer momento, apoyó la revolución francesa, pero acabó defendiendo físicamente a Luis XVI y a Maria Antonieta durante el asalto a Tullerías. Fue condenado a la guillotina, pero se libró por la caída de Roberpierre. Emigró a Estados Unidos en 1799.Allí pudo aprovechar los contactos que había hecho durante la negociación del Tratado de París, sobre todo con Thomas Jefferson. Pero el protagonista de la compañía que lleva su apellido no es él, sino su hijo, Éleuthère Irénée, que fundó E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company en 1802. Se lanzó cuando, estando de caza, se dio cuenta de que el mercado de la polvora, cara y de mala calidad, ofrecía gran potencial.Con capital francés y maquinaria importada de Europa, creó la primera fábrica, que producía polvora de tal calidad que logró grandes ventas desde el primer momento. Además, aprovechando la cercanía familiar con el Gobierno, comienza a venderle pólvora al ejército. Con el estallido de la guerra de 1812, las ventas se multiplican. A mediados del siglo XIX ya era la mayor proveedora de pólvora del país, gracias, en parte, a la fiebre del oro, las guerras contra los indios en la expansión hacia el Oeste, y los conflictos en los que se implica Estados Unidos. En la Guerra Civil, DuPont ya suministraba la mitad de la pólvora del ejército de la Unión.Pero el gran salto se produce con el cambio de siglo. A comienzos del XX dejan de centrarse solo en las actividades bélicas (aunque un acuerdo para fabricar y distribuir dinamita dispara sus ventas), y se expanden a nuevos sectores, creando dos laboratorios pioneros en investigación, que desarrollan nuevos productos como la celulosa o la laca. También comenzó a fabricar plásticos de nitrocelulosa, y se hizo con varias empresas para agregar nuevas líneas de productos como colorantes, pinturas, ácidos o químicos pesados.En los años 20 empiezan a apostar por el desarrollo de polímeros, un esfuerzo del que surgen algunos de los productos y patentes más importantes de su historia, como el nylon, el neopreno, el plexiglas o el teflón.También se introduce en la industria automovilística, al hacerse con un importante paquete de acciones de General Motors. Pierre du Pont llegó a presidir la compañía, hasta llevarla al liderazgo mundial. Tuvo que vender su participación por las leyes antimonopolio.Pero lo más relevante de la relación entre DuPont y General Motors tiene que ver con la contabilidad. Uno de los comerciales emitió un informe interno en el que proponía una fórmula sobre el retorno de la inversión, que aún hoy se conoce como Fórmula DuPont, y que con el tiempo se ha convertido en el famoso ROE, o retorno sobre el capital. Esta fórmula supuso un paso de gigante en la evolución de las empresas, que solo medían ventas y costes, sentando las bases de la gestión moderna.A pesar de la diversificación, los esfuerzos bélicos seguían siendo clave para la compañía. No obstante, las guerras era un campo de pruebas para sus nuevos productos. Eran proveedores para EEUU de productos para ruedas, paracaídas... y, por supuesto, de pólvora. Además, durante aquella época, participan en el Proyecto Manhattan para el desarrollo de la bomba atómica, con la construcción de instalaciones.El siguiente gran paso de la compañía se produce en los años 80, cuando entra en el negocio del petróleo, con la compra de Conoco. Aquella operación, que se convirtió entonces en la mayor fusión de la historia, aseguraba el acceso de DuPont al suministro de petróleo, imprescindible para elaborar sus productos. Fue clave, por ejemplo, para el lanzamiento de sus alfombras resistentes a las manchas, que se convirtieron en las más vendidas de Estados Unidos.En 1999, DuPont vendió su participación en Conoco, y entró en una nueva época empresarial, con la compra de una productora de semillas híbridas de maiz, convirtiéndose en una de las mayores productoras de plantas híbridas y modificadas genéticamente del mundo.En los primeros años del siglo XX vende o escinde algunos de sus principales negocios.La fusión con Dow Chemical Company, la otra gran química de Estados Unidos, fue el último gran cambio. El proceso se completa en 2017, y da lugar a una nueva empresa, valorada en 130.000 millones de dólares. El consejo de administración de ambas compañías decide separar el grupo en tres empresas independientes cotizadas en bolsa, cada una especializada en un campo: : una empresa de agricultura, llamada Corteva; una de ciencia de materiales, plásticos y otros químicos, que es Dow; y otra para los productos especializados, que es DuPont. Esta última incluye todo lo relacionado con la nutrición, la salud, la electrónica, las comunicaciones, y la seguridad y protección. En una historia de más de 200 años, DuPont no ha estado libre de polémicas. La más importante seguramente sea la del C-8, un producto utilizado para obtener teflón, y por la que fue denunciado por ocultar sus efectos: es un material cancerígeno, que puede provocar malfornaciones en el embarazo y otros problemas sanitarios. Tuvo que pagar millones de dólares en multas y compensaciones.También fue, junto a General Motors, la creadora y máxima productora de los CFC, una familia de sustancias dañinas para la capa de ozono. También tuvieron que enfrentarse a otra polémica por las presiones que ejercieron sobre una editorial para evitar la distribución de un libro ('Dupont, tras el telón del nylon'), que criticaba el papel de la familia Du Pont en la sociedad americana. Además de numerosas acusaciones a lo largo de la historia de fijación de precios en diferentes productos.Casi 220 años después, DuPont mantiene la sede en Wilmington, el mismo lugar en el que fue fundada. Da trabajo a casi 100.000 personas en todo el mundo, gran parte de ellos científicos e ingenieros. Y ha sido clave en la historia empresarial, para bien, y para mal.

Christine Mei is the CEO of Gathered Foods, makers of Good Catch®, a chef-driven revolutionary food company developing flavorful, 100% plant-based seafood alternatives.She is a global leader with extensive consumer goods experience - based in the US, China, and Hong Kong - with roles in general management, marketing, strategy, sales, and operations. Christine has held various leadership positions at the global, regional, and local levels across Beiersdorf, Royal Philips, The Coca-Cola Company, The Dow Chemical Company, Nike and Procter & Gamble.Most recently, Christine has been an investor and mentor for SKU, a CPG accelerator based in Austin TX, and also serves on the Board of Directors for Naturally Austin. She holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas and an MBA from Rice University.In this conversation, Christine and I discuss the critical importance of developing a leadership legacy, how true leadership develops through difficult times, and how we need to find opportunities to think outside of the day to day.Discover more:Interested in coaching services, check out Live for Yourself Consulting and Dr. Benjamin Ritter.

This week I sat down with my new colleague, Dennis R. Deziel, B&C's and our consulting affiliate's, The Acta Group, Senior Government Affairs Advisor, to discuss Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) reform. Dennis served as Director of Federal Government Affairs for the Dow Chemical Company when the TSCA amendments were considered and eventually enacted by Congress in 2016. After leaving Dow, Dennis served as EPA Region 1 Administrator (New England). I thought it would be interesting to speak with Dennis and seek his views on TSCA reform, as it was happening when he was a senior executive for one of the world's largest chemical companies, and then as a Senate-confirmed political appointee, after TSCA reform was enacted and he was part of the team implementing the new law. ALL MATERIALS IN THIS PODCAST ARE PROVIDED SOLELY FOR INFORMATIONAL  AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. THE MATERIALS ARE NOT INTENDED TO CONSTITUTE LEGAL ADVICE OR THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES. ALL LEGAL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ANSWERED DIRECTLY BY A LICENSED ATTORNEY PRACTICING IN THE APPLICABLE AREA OF LAW. ©2021 Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.  All Rights Reserved

Ep #12 - Dr. Bibiana Campos Seijo on Science Journalism, C&EN, and Being a Powerlifter Hello Soft Matter People! Welcome to another episode of The Soft Matter Show. Our today's guest is Dr. Bibiana Campos Seijo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bibianacamposseijo/). Bibi is the current editor-in-chief of Chemical and Engineering News. In this episode, Bibi shared her thoughts on the world of science journalism and science communication. Bibi talked about her journey across the world to pursue science journalism. On a side note, Bibi is a strong person, Well... Bibi is a very strong person, in 2016, Bibi broke the world record in powerlifting for her weight and age class by lifting a massive 320 lb. Please check the show notes to see the video: https://twitter.com/BibianaCampos/status/734382177459314688?s=20 Announcement on Virtual Polymer Physics Symposium Before we start this episode, I have a small announcement. Karthika Suresh, Jelena Dinic, and I are organizing a Virtual Polymer Physics Symposium for graduate students and postdocs. This virtual symposium has research talks from students and postdocs, perspectives from academic and industry panelists, and discussions on diversity. In the panel, we have Dr. Irada Isayeva from the U.S. FDA, Dr. Kurt Koppi from Dow Chemical Company, Dr. LaShanda Korley from the University of Delaware, Dr. Amanda Marciel from the Rice University, and Dr. Vivek Prabhu from the U.S. NIST. Please check out: lu.ma/vpps21 for more details. The abstract submission is open until July 23rd! Please register as a speaker or attendee at lu.ma/vpps21 Thank you, Now let's hear from Dr. Bibiana Campos Seijo Read more: Dr. Bibiana Campos Seijo https://cen.acs.org/static/about/staff_landing/biobcs.html E-mail: b_campos-seijo@acs.org Amal Narayanan https://www.thesoftmattershow.com E-mail: amalnarayanan@thesoftmattershow.com

Scott Megill, President & CEO at Coriell Life Sciences joins the premiere episode of season 3 of RadioRev to talk about pharmacogenomics and how it relates to mental health care. In this episode, Scott discusses some of the silver linings that emerged over the last year in healthcare, answering questions like: What's unique about Coriell's approach? What's the role of personalization in the work that you do? How does pharmacogenomics improve mental health treatment? To connect with Scott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottmegill/ To learn more about Coriell Life Sciences: https://www.coriell.com/ Scott Megill is President and Chief Executive Officer of Coriell Life Sciences (CLS). With a vision to translate decades of cutting-edge genetic research into insights that empower the most precise medical care, Scott launched Coriell Life Sciences out of the renowned Coriell Institute for Medical Research in 2013. Under his leadership, CLS earned recognition as IBM's Global Entrepreneur of the Year and has grown to become an internationally trusted provider of comprehensive medication risk management solutions, bioinformatics, and genetic interpretation and reporting services. Pioneering innovation in precision medicine, Scott is a driving force in setting the industry standard for pharmacogenomics and advancing a healthier world. An entrepreneurial leader recognized for unlocking the power of technology to fuel smarter healthcare, Scott spearheads collaboration with major healthcare providers, payers, employers, physicians, and other providers to help improve lives and reduce healthcare costs. He is passionate about educating others and is an advocate for the advancement of precision medicine through his involvement with organizations, including the Employer and Provider Health Innovation Roundtables, Personalized Medicine Coalition, Business Group on Health, Health Action Council, among others. Scott previously served as CIO at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research and held business technology leadership roles at Dow Chemical Company and Rohm and Haas. He also founded the Moorestown Robotics Club, an organization that immerses New Jersey elementary, middle, and high school students in the excitement of science and technology through international robotics competitions. Scott holds an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from Villanova University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from Drew University.

Can you hear me  now Podcast  Episode 2: REFERENCES:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing-levels-trust-are-devastating-america/616581/https://time.com/5929252/edelman-trust-barometer-2021/https://knightfoundation.org/articles/restoring-trust-in-a-polarized-age/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/disinformation-conspiracy-theories-inoculation-edelman-corporate-america-1132325/https://www.theharbingergroup.com/https://www.rj47llc.com/https://argyleprusa.com/about-us/leadership-team/harlan-loeb/Rob Johnson (00:19):Welcome everyone to episode two of the "Can You Hear Me" podcast, I'm Rob Johnson, former Chicago TV news anchor and now President of the communications consulting firm, Rob Johnson Communications.Eileen Rochford (00:32):And I'm Eileen Rochford CEO of marketing strategy and public relations firm The Harbinger Group. We created "Can You Hear Me" because we both have a passion for communications and I mean really good communications, but we saw a growing need for C-Suite level leadership and other executives to frankly, just be better at it. And so that's why we're here with you today. And we will be joined by a man who knows all about this, former Edelman global crisis and risk lead Harlan Loeb. He's now senior managing director at Argyle USA. Harlan's a recognized expert in crisis and reputational risk management. He has extensive experience in global crisis preparedness, He has developed a reputational risk resilience model for corporate officers and their boards, has worked across nearly every industry sector in existence, representing clients such as Dow Chemical Company, Kraft GE Healthcare, Harley Davidson, CME group, Mitsubishi Corporation and SC Johnson among many, many more is licensed to the Bar in Illinois and Wisconsin.Eileen Rochford (01:37):He's practiced law with Godfrey & Kahn. And then as Regional Counsel for the ADL, he's also a professor of Crisis Litigation & The Court of Public Opinion at Northwestern University Law School and a lecture in Ford scholar at the Kellogg school of management. Finally, I'll just say, Harlan is someone for whom I have the utmost respect, not only for his incredible intellect and vast knowledge of everything reputation, but also for his character. And his decency is truly just one of my very favorite people. Someone I admire deeply, and I continue to learn from to this day. I'm thrilled that he's here today with us, Rob, really excited.Rob Johnson (02:12):We're very lucky to have you Harlan and it's great to be with you. So here's a question for you. Who do you trust? Or more directly, who don't you trust? The erosion of trust in our institutions isn't a recent occurrence. It's been trending slowly in this direction for a very long time. The issue is that public trust is eroded in our social institutions, such as government, business, non-government organizations, NGOs, and the media. In fact, the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer, a study published annually by global communications firm Edelman, unveiled its findings recently after conducting more than 33,000 online surveys in 28 countries between October and November of 2020.Eileen Rochford (02:53):I gotta say Rob, the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer findings scared the crap out of me, totally, totally honestly, to quote this report, the findings reveal, "A new era of information bankruptcy and a trust ecosystem fund able to confront it." and further it says "In the United States, 57% of us believe our country is in the midst of a cold civil war." It's also worth noting here that our trust meaning us as Americans of our own us government dropped another five points just between May 2020 and January 2021 from what was already ridiculously low level. So this is bad. I mean really bad. And here's why- when people in a society lose trust in their institutions and in each other, the nation collapses. So what we're discussing today is of the utmost importance to every one of us at every company, institution, organization, person, it's incredibly important. I just want to add, um, to put a fine point on it that the CEO of Edelman, Richard Edelman, he wrote this essay that accompanied the release of their 2020 report. And here's how he put it. "The urgent issues confronting society require a knowledgeable public able to make choices based on unbiased information- not fear, compulsion or conspiracy theories. Every institution must play its part in restoring facts to their rightful place at the center of public discourse as the essential step to emerging from information of bankruptcy." So that really puts that fine point on the severity of this current state of affairs.Rob Johnson (04:36):No, and you can see that it's just trending in the wrong direction. Now, before we dive deeper, let's define two terms that you may hear and have heard frequently, misinformation and disinformation. According to dictionary.com, misinformation is false information that is spread regardless of intent to mislead. So you may do it unintentionally, but you still don't mislead people. Today misinformation spreads very easily. Thanks to technology, of course, on social media users have shared story after story, without checking if they were true and many times, they are not true. Misinformation was dictionary.com's word of the year back in 2018. Misinformation was top of mind that year with governments, businesses and the broader culture grappling with how to stop dangerous misinformation, which then can become disinformation highly.Eileen Rochford (05:22):And disinformation is defined by dictionary.com is "false information in a hostile act of tactical political subversion." It is also used more generally to mean "deliberately misleading or biased information, manipulated narrative or facts or propaganda." So disinformation is knowingly spreading misinformation. So I think this is a perfect time to bring in my longtime friend and corporate communications expert, Mr. Harlan Loeb. Harlan, thank you for joining us today.Harlan Loeb (05:58):Thank you for having me. I am honored and humbled, and I'm also, I'm also a bit of a refugee of the trust barometer having been at Edelman for 11 years working on that, and it seemed like the news kept getting more challenging to use it, to put it deeper mystical.Eileen Rochford (06:16):I can only imagine. I mean, you've been at the heart of this, uh, data collection and analysis for a long, long time, and now you're with Argyle, but you're still seeing the data come out. I'm sure it's very concerning to you as it is to the rest of us. And I want to ask, Harlan, I'm sure you've seen this whole thing kind of coming down the pike over the past decade or more. Can you tell us from your perspective what's driving these sometimes massive disinformation campaigns and really how does all of that affect trust and distrust?Harlan Loeb (06:51):Sure. So, uh, yeah, it's been in the works for quite quite a long time and I use this phrase a lot, so I'll just tee it up now. And that is the erosion of the sanctity of facts. Um, facts now are, are optional and, um, you can create your own facts set with whatever tropes you feel, uh, convey your message or convey your anger or convey whatever the sentiment and emotion of the day might be. Uh, so it's, it's been good. It's been in the works for quite some time and it well predates, um, it well predates two presidencies actually. So as I, as I look at it or I start thinking about it, the, the, if you remember the movie and both of you might be too young to remember the movie, um, "Good Morning, Vietnam," in which Robin Williams...Rob Johnson (07:43):We're not that young, we're not that young. It's a great movie, great movie.Harlan Loeb (07:48):...It is an excellent movie. And if you remember, you know, obviously, uh, Robin Williams is this dynamic, uh, morning host for, for the military. And he has, if you look in the background these two, and I think they, they almost in my, my mind as I look kind of traced back in my mind, it looked like they were twins, but the fact checkers that were kind of sitting in another room and kept X-ing out what he wanted to say. So most of what he had to say was censured and, and scripted by the military so that the Vietnam war was portrayed in exactly the terms that the generals wanted to convey. And I think that that's where we, where we are right now is that we have somebody on high in many different ways is kind of scripting the narrative and instead of being one person, it's everybody.Harlan Loeb (08:39):And so as I look at, um, the social crisis really, that has unknown dimension now and is, has, this has consequences, the rampant kind of polarization and native populism completely really it erodes any, any notion of the sanctity of facts. Um, as you, as you well know, the social media, the deep web has profoundly divided this country. Social media is from the data that I've looked at the largest source, not only of misinformation and disinformation, but of, of pick your own facts and the addiction that we, many of us have, if not all of us, have to the web and to the kinds of things that we look at and so forth really in, in known and unknown ways is really changing our brain chemistry. And that for me is extraordinarily, uh, extraordinarily frightening. Um, and as I said, the, you know, the populous narratives really, they well proceed.Harlan Loeb (09:43):Our most recent president certainly aided and abetted the proliferation of exactly what we're talking about. Um, but as we've been talking about, it was 10 years in the making. And so as we look at our societal institutions, even the military, which has historically been the most trusted entity that we have is down considerably in trust. Um, and other institutions, the Supreme court, for example, is still a trusted entity on the higher end of, of the data on trust, but it's still down 23% last I checked from where it was at it's high. So we're just in a profoundly distrusting society. And as we'll talk about, look, you know, looking at the avenues for change, I think will, is incumbent upon all of us, particularly the United States, uh, and it's possible, it's within reach because I believe the majority of Americans are just kind of watching what's happening, but, but believe in the sanctity of facts and believe in civil society, but are just don't know where to go and how to activate. So I do think that there is hope, um, particularly in light of shows like this and the opportunity to discuss exactly these challenges that we're confronting that seem insurmountable. I do believe that there's hope.Rob Johnson (11:00):That's good to hear. And you've heard us define a couple of terms already. We also want to define mistrust and distrust, which are basically synonyms with similar meanings. We mentioned a minute ago about the erosion of trust and social institutions, such as government, business, NGOs, and the media. Let's focus on business here, and Harlan, what are the implications of distrust on businesses? How can it hurt their bottom line?Harlan Loeb (11:26):I, in some cases, companies that are profoundly distrusted, there's a kind of what I would call private activism. There's there's, there's individuals and organizations and population sets that will, um, look for the alternative. So if you're, let's say you're looking at big box shopping, and if you profoundly distrust, I don't want to say the name of a company, but I will, if he profoundly distrust Safeway, um, he may go to Walmart. So they, they look at, so if there's an option, obviously they'll pivot. Um, if there's an option and it's no more expensive and they'll make, they'll make a pivot. Um, what I see happening is consumers in particular, what I would call transactional trust. They trust the specific, uh, transaction or encounter that they're, that they're involved in. So for example, if they're investing in Pfizer stock, which has been doing well lately, given COVID, um, if the investment buys the stock, they don't really need to trust Pfizer.Harlan Loeb (12:40):They trust in the stock price. And so it's a transactional trust, which is fragile because as soon as stock goes down, they become concerned. All the Pfizer's has done very well. So I do think that there's transactional trust amongst, um, largely US, uh, and beyond, but the US, um, the US in the context of, of how, and in what ways do they still have trust. But again, as I say, it's a transactional trust, which I think is fragile, and they don't really need to pay attention to some of the hiccups in the road that many of these companies have had. Um, and what winds up happening. And this is where I think the trust and distrust collides. And I'm sure you guys, I'm certain, you guys are familiar with Purdue Pharma and all their histrionics that have going on there. So if you look at Purdue Pharma, they were making billions of dollars, essentially creating opioid addiction, um, which I see as a vivid example of the sources of distrust, which is OxycontinHarlan Loeb (13:44):And some of these, these, these, these opioids are necessary and people depend on them, but when you begin to exploit it for, for, uh, material gain and you begin to, to engage in distrust and mistrust campaigns, which they certainly did, um, you're really aiding and abetting an addiction to opioids. But where, where distrust is created across, you know, we're distressed is created, um, or mistrust both, is there filling bankruptcy and absolving themselves of any penalties and protracted litigation. They have privileges these big, large companies that are larger than life have privileges in many ways, granted to them by our Congress and Senate and, and, and political leaders to engage in those kinds of things where kind of the average companies can't. Um, so you have government abled, privileges and loopholes that the rest of our society doesn't have, which is aiding and abetting, as I've said, and contributing it's seriously to distrust because there's, it's, it's not a level playing field. Um, and so, so as you look at those that example, and it's just one of many, our largest institutions, which are the backbone of at least our, our financial system, um, are played by special rules and, and, you know, live in a neighborhood that only 5% of us can ever get, can ever touch.Eileen Rochford (15:17):So that's, that's a really interesting observation Harlan. Um, you're starting to tell me more about the next thing that I wanted to ask you, which really is specifically about barriers to trust right now, in this day and age, kind of across the board, you know, building off of the facts and figures we shared, um, from the Edelman Trust Barometer about why people were less trusting as institutions you're starting to get at that, um, the actual barriers. Can you tell us about other barriers similar to the two that you've cited thus far? This is a very big topic, I think that there, there have to be additional barriers.Harlan Loeb (15:57):It's a great question. And when I think about all the time and I keep re-litigating what the right answer or, or on-ramp is. So I do think it's, yeah, it's about barriers, but it's also about the lack of greater social connectedness and durable structures for our kind of social engagement and social life. So for example, we'd have little, you know, like, uh, I don't want to say, mini communities, you know, family, friends, uh, you know, a circle of trust because of our, our we're, we're social by design as human beings. And so we have those communities and we have those relationships. So for example, um, if you look at business, you know, the Starbucks near me, there's an affinity that I have and that we all have for wherever are, and I know Rob, you don't drink coffee, but you can get their other options.Harlan Loeb (16:51):Um, the, uh, we have there's affinity plays all over the place. You see affinity for companies, for the people that work at a particular company. So I do think that there's hope in terms of connectedness, in what I would say, community level, uh, associations with business, you know, community connectedness with the Jewel that we have two blocks away and the people that work there. So I do think that there is connectedness and reason for hope as it relates to what I would say, mini community, um, structures, business structures, social structures, and so forth, where we have abandoned our, uh, our, our way and given shape, um, to the populists, to the, to the, to those that have their own agenda. Um, I, that continues to be disturbing, but where I see hope and where I see where I see, um, and we experienced it, you know, in client relationships and all kinds of, uh, all kinds of connectedness, whether it's clients, whether it's a social activity, whether it's, whatever it is, there are people by design, crave, concrete, meaning person, purpose, and identity, um, both individually and collectively.Harlan Loeb (18:17):So I do think that we do see that, um, what I'm in this, I'm a big fan of David Brooks. So I, I cite him often, um, what David Brooks has said and, and said, well, I think is that American life is really an open space and a, not an, a space not filled with individuals, um, if we're in it, and if we're failing to foster belonging, legitimacy, and trust what we are, what we're confronting as a failure in our largest institutions. Um, and if you look at that, and this is where I think one of the largest sources, if not the largest source of not only misinformation and arguably disinformation, but the biggest source of mortgaged trust, profoundly mortgaged trust, is our Congress, candidly, because they're using their bully pulpits to, uh, really play out in, in, on candid camera, if you will rub their, uh, frustrations of the, of their core constituencies.Harlan Loeb (19:20):Instead of working through the institutions, they use their platforms really to raise the profiles, um, in an are what I would consider an are out of control culture, and it just feeds the beast. And I think that is amongst the most dangerous sources of distrust that we have is just a Congress and a government that is profoundly distrusted, and mistrusted, um, yet people are consuming what it is that these particularly with a very divided Congress and Senate, um, they're, they're putting out tropes that are just feeding, uh, anger and populism. And if you can be angry, you must be angry. If you can't be outraged, you must be outraged. I mean that's, I think, one of the largest sources of distrust, and I do think what, where we're going to need Eileen to kind of roll back is to say, okay, let's localize this let's localize. If we begin to kind of put, put the dots on a map or put together an X, Y grid, if you localize, you'll see promise for sure.Rob Johnson (20:25):Well, and I think you're giving people the red meat that they want. And you're, um, while you're sitting here talking about all the problems and the problems are many, I'm glad that we're sitting here also trying to come up with solutions as well. For those of you who aren't sure what you're listening to, this is the, "Can You Hear Me?" podcast, Rob Johnson, Eileen Rochford and our special guest today, Harlan Loeb, thrilled to have him along. So I think everybody's becoming more familiar, especially those in the C-suite and leadership positions about the term ESG, which is Environmental Social Governance, which are a set of standards for a company's operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments. Now it's basically investing in companies that are doing good in and for society. So, how focused, Harlan, should companies be on this now? It's a thing. And how tripped up can a company get if it's walking the walk, but it's not, it's talking the talk, but it's not walking the walk?Harlan Loeb (21:20):Excellent question. Um, so ESG, as I understand, it really started out as kind of an investment structure, a wall street framework, uh, for investing, um, query, whether there was, you know, bottom-up, top-down and side-to-side, really commitment and reshaping the way in which social governance, um, is constructed and construed. And I, and I do think that we're still in the state of kind of a toggle between those that really say, you know, this is the opportunity where we need to be servant leaders, and this is the opportunity and the framework to do that. And then I think there are others, particularly in the financial services space where their, their governance, if you will, their governance, um, standards and their governance commitments are rock solid. But if you look at, at, at, at retail or consumer, really, truly consumer focused and entities and others, most of them really struggle with governance and have the social part down pretty well.Harlan Loeb (22:28):And the environmental part, at least in what they say down pretty well. Um, and so for, uh, a concept or a framework, I should say that was really conceived as a capital markets play, um, it does hold, I think, considerable potential for boards and leadership teams to define themselves. It gives boards and leadership teams and the opportunity to take this and define purpose, uh, which is a struggle for many companies. If they say, well, what are you, what is your purpose? Why do you exist? What are you doing that has purpose? What is your social good? Um, many can say, you know, for example, we talked about Pfizer, they're providing absolutely profoundly necessary, uh, vaccines and saving lives and saving, and thankfully in the wake of COVID, uh, COVIDs erosion, uh, we are the beneficiaries of a lifesaving, lifesaving, uh, vaccine, you know, on the other hand, what are that social good?Harlan Loeb (23:30):That is social purpose, but what else, what other accountabilities are there in the SG framework? So I think companies are really grappling with it. And it depends, as we say, in the law, you take your planets where you find them. Um, I think some companies are, are many, in fact, one we're working with right now are really struggling, are they are, they're walking to use your phrase, Rob they're walking and talking at the same time, but not sure which is which. Um, and so I think for particularly in financial services, they're still struggling to define purpose because of the transactional nature of many financial service firms, um, and banks that would include in that. So I think we're on the right path. I, I don't think there's sufficient clarity, and I think everybody's looking for this, and it's trying to find who, who has clarity, who is the genie in the bottle that we need to pull out to help us really define an animate, what each of the E S and G mean in each of their silos individually and collectively what they mean and define that, and to help companies find their, find their Klieg light to direct them in the ways in which they need to go in order to, to really create an ESG plan.Harlan Loeb (24:51):That's not the investment based. The only, that is really that helps them define who they are as companies and create identity in ways, uh, which I think are absolutely critical.Eileen Rochford (25:03):I'm curious, Harlan, is there an example that you could give us maybe of a company or an institution that has, or have good ESG intentions, but poor execution and that the execution that was so poor reputationally?Harlan Loeb (25:22):Um, so again, there's a number I'm trying to avoid clients here. Um...Rob Johnson (25:30):So many clients who he has to take a while to like, okay, I don't want to go down the list there.Harlan Loeb (25:35):...there, there, there are two right now that are just struggling. They're just, they're kind of like, I don't know, I'll use the expression, "They can't find their Fanny with two hands on this." They've got one, the governance part down, then I'll use this unbelievable ironclad in governance. They've, it's an Illinois based company just to keep us in the same jurisdiction. Um, it's an Illinois based company, a wonder couple company that very few people have heard of. They don't have any real presence online. They don't there, there's just there's, so they're, they're very good at, on the governance trump, because they know it well. And they're transactionally minded. They have no idea what ENS mean and literally not. And we're, thankfully we have experts in the space, uh, here in the US and in Canada. Um, the woman in Canada is actually grew up in Baltimore.Harlan Loeb (26:27):So she has insights on both sides of the fence and they're struggling. They just, they've never had a construct like this. There's, there's no context for them in the E and the S park. And until recently, when they were, when, um, they were asked, the question is whether or not they would underwrite drilling in the Arctic and in Alaska where they, and they, they, they, they weren't, no one was taking out policies or anything like that. But the question, the open question was, and it's obviously a contentious question- would you support even profoundly necessary drilling, um, fuel up near Alaska and in the Antarctic? And they didn't know how to answer the question because they had no framework in the E and the S part to have a context for what defines, how they vet that question. And so we've been working with them to try to, for now, they, because they're not, they're not underwriting that.Harlan Loeb (27:27):And they're, they're not have been asked to they're, they're able to take, put out what I would say, a fairly prosaic holding statement, but it's something they need to grapple with. And we keep pushing them. You've got a great opportunity here because you're not on the hot seat just yet to, to, to begin to create a framework for answering that question, answering the question as to, what are, what are your guardrails for financing and, and issuing policies on those kinds of things? And it's been, uh, it's been fascinating cause they they'll engage with us, but then they get a bit overwhelmed and they kind of pushed back. And this, I say with all, all affinity for lawyers, it's being run by their general counsel, the general counsel is running, which tells you everything you need to know. And a wonderful lawyer. It has nothing to do with that is running the ESG program.Harlan Loeb (28:18):It shouldn't, that's, that's fine to have the lawyer involved, but they need the people with the social, you know, the social intuition, which many financial firms just don't have. There's just, that's just not in the DNA historically financial services. So it's, it's, it's a great opportunity for them because they're one of the more successful companies that no one's ever heard of. Their investors, uh, you know, that the investors are huge, you know, at State Street it's, um, Mr. Fink's Farm, I'm forgetting the huge firm in New York. Um, they've got almost half of their, of their shares are held by huge, huge companies like State Street and Vanguard and it'll come to me in a second company and all of them very committed to ESG, but reasons unknown, I mean, they all are playing in the SG space, particularly Mr. Fink, but query what it actually means.Rob Johnson (29:17):Well I think you bring up a great point, Harlan, because, um, I know when I'm giving advice to some of my clients and they're letting the, everything, I would always say bounce that off the lawyers. That's the smartest thing that doesn't mean let the lawyers run the whole show because, um, their sensibilities and the sensibilities of people, other people in the C-suite, um, are, are not always aligned. They're partially aligned, but they're not always aligned. So let's make sure we differentiate between handling a crisis of a company's making and reputational resilience, which would be in part weathering a disinformation storm that would be out there. So, Harlan, what does CEO need to be thinking about when it comes to these? (Loeb): Just information storm? (Johnson): Yeah. Well also, I mean, listen, I was sort of differentiating between, okay, you have a crisis, you have to deal with it. That's one thing. And, and it, it happened because of something at the company. And then there is what other people are saying about you that may not be true. The disinformation storm that you just referenced, how does a CEO, how does a leader deal with that?Harlan Loeb (30:23):Carefully. Um, carefully and constructively. I, um, yeah, so, right, exactly. And it's a good point. I mean, so I think the, the disinformation or misinformation, usually if they're doing, if they're, they should be the first and hopefully our many companies are the first to see kind of the, the, the, um, I guess the, the embers, you know, those are the kind of dull flame that's kind of growing. They they're the monitoring, the analytics, the kinds of things that companies are, are, are using now. And it's becoming far more affordable and far better on analytics. They all see it. They see, they see those kinds of things. Assuming that they're not the source of it themselves, which creates, that's a whole other question. And it's, unfortunately there's a lot going on in that space too, but they see it well before anybody else does. So they see kind of the, the, the, uh, the fuse kind of being lit.Harlan Loeb (31:35):And so I always say servant leadership, transparency, candor, and proactive engagement, particularly on bad news. And I, again, I use a litigation, uh, litigation context for that. If you're, if you're in litigation and you have the opportunity to speak first, and there is really bad news, there is, there is a, it kind of a, uh, a cancerous part of your, of your case, define it on your terms. Get it out there on your terms and define it, take the, you know, take the oxygen out of the issue, not entirely, but frame it in your terms. So if, make it clear to the, you know, to the, make it clear to the jury, make it clear in your, your early pleadings. Uh, this is a lot of lawyers just supposed to be afraid to do this, but the good ones aren't because the good, the good, good lawyers are really strategists and not will.Harlan Loeb (32:33):And lawyer second, strategist first, and they're outstanding. So define the issues on terms as best you can. So those companies just are afraid to do that because most CEOs- boards are a little different now- but most chairman and CEOs are absolutely petrified of the unknown. They crave predictability and certainty with such a, it's almost like your nails going into like, you know, going into rod iron. And so what we've pushed companies to do over and over again, we've had greater success, ironically, as everything is known, no matter what. So you might need to get out there because it's going to get out there. So servant leadership, transparency, accountability, define your issues. You know, as we say, in the law, candor to the tribunal, own your mistakes, um, and provide clarity and direction of what you're going to do. Here's what, and I think if you look at, um, United Airlines and I worked on this with a big team for in the early days when the, if you recall, and it was covered, sure Rob, you covered this,Harlan Loeb (33:40):But, um, when United Airlines on one of the flights out of Chicago had to exit a passenger who did not take well to being exited, uh, and the situation was not handled as nicely as it can. And United out of the gate, unintended, um, out of the gate, didn't handle it well. They didn't, it didn't get to Oscar Munoz quickly enough. It was handled by somebody lower in the ranks and they, they had an opportunity to own a mistake and they absolutely blew it. They then owned it in ways in which, um, servant leadership operates at its best where Oscar just owned it. And unfortunately had a heart attack in the middle of it all, uh, or a hard episode in, uh, and, uh, that's when I got involved, but over the, over the year, year and a half United just turned it around, turned it around, completely owned their mistakes, uh, were completely profoundly candid, um, and their performance up until up until COVID for all airlines, but their, and their performance, their performance and, and reputation went up.Harlan Loeb (34:48):I mean, it was down obviously in the wake of that, but it was, it went up higher than it was before the, before the, uh, passenger exiting. So if, if you can begin to operate and kind of owning your mistakes, don't hide behind the lawyers. Don't do any of those kinds of things, own your mistakes. You're, you're to build trust, you have to own your issues and, and own your, your challenges and be very clear and transparent about it and interact with most companies again, and their leaders are petrified because they lose control when they do that.Eileen Rochford (35:19):So, Harlan, I'm really curious, um, they're talking about responding how a company can respond well, when confronted with a situation that obviously they were not prepared for at all. Um, but absent to that in a normal course of business, what should companies be doing to kind of fill their trust bank and build reputational resilience in this current environment? What advice do you have on that?Harlan Loeb (35:46):Ask the right questions, look at your stakeholders set, both, you know, full stakeholder set. And again, for each company, it's a different nuance stakeholders means a lot of things, in a lot of different ways, but ask to engage with your, engage with your audiences, engage with your stakeholders before they, they seek you out. Um, so for example, we were talking about ESG. You know, if you were to look at that, what do they think? You know, how do it, what do they think about and whether it could be shareholders, it could be your top shareholders. Uh, what do you think about ESG? What do you think about our approach? How are we integrating strategy with risk? Is it, is this working? What do you think? Um, and not just the board, don't just rely on the board. Um, you'd look at you, look at, um, does it come, and this is really hard for companies and this there's a lot of data on this.Harlan Loeb (36:43):So as a side note, almost every company I know if it's doing well is in some form of transformation. Most companies don't recognize early enough that transformation, constant transformation is the, this is just the way in which our, our capital markets and, and most, I would even say small cap on up companies have to look at the world and have to look at the changing dynamics of everything we've talked about and more of our operating environment. So engaging with those that who really give you license and enable your existence and enable your profitability, enable your, um, brand value and your brand profile, what are the, what are they thinking and what, what can they contribute to your transformation, uh, efforts? And so I think I don't, I don't think companies do a particularly, shouldn't say company, most companies don't do a particularly good job of, of surveying if you will, their constituents to get a sense that nailed is of good of good governance in, in Washington, to get a sense of what their constituents think and what they need and where their sentiments are and so forth.Harlan Loeb (37:55):So I, that's where I think companies have to engage as citizens, if you will, as citizens, coast citizens, well, with our, you know, with our citizenry. And, um, and I just don't see that happening with this, with the dimension and kind of connectedness that needs to happen. And the irony of it all is given all the instability, the distrust, all the things that we're, we're encountering right now. And the, if you can be outraged, you must be outraged. And there's no, there's no side, but my side. Now is the time for companies to begin to engage and take, you know, and kind of, um, dial down the anger, Geiger counter. Um, so I do think we see, you know, we see good, good CEOs do that. Good CEOs, not only talk to their board, but good CEOs and Oscar Munoz used to do that, will show up at the airport and ask passengers how they're feeling about United and tell them I don't, I'm literally using the word, you know, BS out loud. I don't want that. I want you to tell me how you, what your experience has been. It's what he did in the wake of, uh, United issue.Rob Johnson (39:05):I'm glad you're bringing it up Harlan because, you know, the United thing was very high profile. And I think a lot of people, not only in the media, but also communications professionals were sitting there thinking, why did it take them so long to get it right? Because once they got it right, to your point, it was like, that's the way you're supposed to do it. But on the front end, they're a big corporation, which leads me sort of to my next question here. And I'm not trying to make this sound self-serving for all of us to, you know, this is not, this podcast is not an exercise in business development. It's an exercise in sort of learning best practices, but I've found and I'm sure Eileen and Harlan you've found as well, that there's a challenge, getting people and companies to be self-aware enough to understand that they need this help. They're so focused on the bottom line sometimes. And here's what we need it's right in front of me, sometimes this need, isn't something that's, you know, um, right on their plate necessarily. It should be. So how do you get these companies to understand that in this day and age, especially with social media, especially with disinformation and misinformation, that this should be a priority for company X?Rob Johnson (40:17):I think it, it, it kind ofHarlan Loeb (40:21):Kind of hearkens back to what I was saying a bit earlier, I think, and eager to get your thoughts. I, I, again, I think it, it, it, it's kind of the shoe leather campaign. You know, I remember when I, I spent two years before going to law school, I'm sorry, year and a half before I went to law school, working on a campaign for a, um, a congressmen in Milwaukee that was running for US Senate. I wound up backing out when Herb Cole got into the race and he could outspend him by five, 10 fold. Um, and I just watched how he engaged. He didn't, he didn't believe in opportunity cost. He believed that if he could show up to a, uh, a, um, an event in pick a pick a place in Wisconsin, uh, like in Racine, thank you. That was very close.Harlan Loeb (41:13):I was thinking of the ones way up north in Wisconsin. He could, we could be in Racine, Wisconsin for the event of, uh, some organization. And then at the same time, drive up to Eau Claire, Wisconsin to be, to be with, um, Obey in, uh, Congressman Obey the next day or the next or that evening. So he didn't really know the definition of opportunity costs. So I, I look at companies, I don't care what size they are and how, how well they think they're doing and how ivory tower the chairman or CEO might find themselves, um, humility and engagement with your stakeholders. Because if, because of the point I made earlier, because we're in a constantly transforming society now, more than ever, because it's very difficult to get a sense of where your constituents are in any moment because it's fluid and it has increasingly fluid and skeptical and so forth.Harlan Loeb (42:09):But creating that kind of connectivity is essential. It's absolutely essential, no matter how big you are, because all it takes is a kind of Purdue Pharma type bad, uh, bet or, or thinking that they're larger, you know, larger than life, which a lot of these, a lot of these institutions unfortunately do either willingly or not is to get a sense of what your, your core constituents want and how it's fluid and what's changing. And again, I don't, I don't know that leadership teams are equipped to do that. They don't know who who's the person who does that and how do they do it, which seems very kind of basic. But I do think that there's, there's, we're always talking about, depending on what the crisis of our crisis of the decade is, is are these new, I remember, you know, new governance structures or, um, when Me Too hit they were starting.Harlan Loeb (43:05):And I did a ton of work in the Me Too space, bringing on new people in companies to deal with those kinds of things. So every time there was a bit of an issue, there's somebody who comes in as kind of the tsar of that challenge or risk, instead of looking more holistically at what, you know, what, what, and where are the opportunities and where are, where are we falling short? And it just, I think they've outgrown or they feel that they have outgrown any sense of kind of interconnectedness and, and engagement. And I think that's profoundly dangerous. It's going on forever, but now it's really, it's, there's a real referendum in play right now because you can't trust, and it goes back to where we started almost all societal institutions at this part at this point. So make it personal.Rob Johnson (43:53):Well that's, this is great stuff, Harlan, and we can't thank you enough. I mean, we've gotten into misinformation, disinformation, mistrust, distrust, reputational resilience, ESG, a lot of topics that we've talked about today. Are there, are there any final thoughts that you have, um, as we wrap this thing up today?Harlan Loeb (44:12):And I've been blessed and yet the two of you are part of this to have people, um, to know almost everybody I want to say everybody I know, but most of the people with whom I engage and I'm certain, it's true for the both of you, really believe in purpose, really believe in the sanctity of fast and the sanctity, of, of integrity and the sanctity of purpose. And I think the majority of Americans live their lives, whether it's sounded from a religious perspective or social perspective in principal directed ways. Uh, I think our government has done us a great disservice, but our communities for the most part, despite what's going on in neighborhoods with shootings and so forth. But the majority and people are taking positions on that. The majority of us are well-intended, want to live wholesome fulsome lives and are committed to purpose, integrity, and doing the right thing. Where we're falling short is how do we, how do we in this age of, and this is the irony, the age of greater connectivity to everything than we've ever had, we've been profoundly distracted by that connectivity because it's not the right form of connectivity.Harlan Loeb (45:25):It's, it's transactional connectivity, it's momentary connectivity. It's like that. And I don't even know my kids use it where you can type something out and it disappears within 30 seconds. So nobody can trace it. We live in that world and I, but I do think Snapchat. Thank you. Um, so I do think that we need to, we kind of got to dig down and build community kind of, as I say locally, because I do think that we'll, we can get beyond this, but it will take a lot of effort, hold Congress today, you know, hold Congress accountable and to hold other institutions that are just going outside the lines, if you will, um, to hold them accountable- you can't laugh. In my mind, Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy to avoid litigation and to avoid accountability. Somebody has got to step in there and say, no, that's not happening. We're not going to allow it. That's not a, that's not a democratic society. That's not as civil society that allows a big company like that, that's made billions at the expense of a lot of people who've died from overdosing on opioids. That's not accountability. That's, that's arguably criminal behavior.Eileen Rochford (46:41):Well, I appreciate and applaud your glass half full perspective here and agree with you that we can dig deep here. Um, and there's, um, a brighter future ahead, but we all have to work together, like totally agree with you. And thank you for that perspective Harlan.Harlan Loeb (47:01):I think we have to believe in people and I don't know what choice we have and there in my life, I've been blessed and I'm certain you have to most of the people I know are people of integrity and purpose and conviction. And, and while we're all trying to delete lives in a very, very busy, disconnected environment, I think as we look at our kind of local institutions, whether they're religious or social, or, uh, educational professional circles, there's a lot of psychic income out there. A lot of, as my dad used to say, psychic income out there to keep us encouraged and keep us focused on, on those that are doing the right thing. Those are kind of that think and engage in ways that we're used to. I think it's a profound minority of our public that's driving, it always is, that is driving much like Europe in the, you know, in the 1930s and 40s, a very small public it's driving everything. And we need to address that.Eileen Rochford (48:05):Yes, we absolutely do. Well, thank you. This has been an extraordinary discussion on what I think all of us agree is this vital topic for C-suite executives and business leaders. They need to consider all of this when it comes to managing their companies through this really new set of value propositions that, um, have profound implications for all of us and for every organization. I'm Eileen Rochford, CEO of The Harbinger Group. Thanks for joining us for another episode of "Can You Hear Me?"Rob Johnson (48:36):And I'm Rob Johnson, president of Rob Johnson communications. Coming up on the next episode of "Can You Hear Me?" diversity equity and inclusion DEI. It's become a major focus of most corporations, but if you want to weigh in, what will you have to do to satisfy your customers, your clients, and your employees? We'll dig into that on the next episode of "Can You Hear Me?" We hope you'll join us then. And we thank you for joining us today.Eileen Rochford (49:00):And thank you for being with us Harlan.Harlan Loeb (49:02):My pleasure was a privilege. 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Cynthia “Cynt” Marshall CEO of the Dallas Mavericks President & CEO, Marshalling Resources Consulting Retired AT&T SVP-Human Resources & Chief Diversity Officer Cynt Marshall has been a dynamic force for inclusion and diversity within the Mavericks organization and over a 36-year career at AT&T. When Cynt was hired as new the CEO of the Mavs in March 2018, she set her sights on a culture transformation. Her vision was for the Mavericks organization to become the NBA standard for inclusion and diversity, and brought transparency, trust and her values-based leadership style that evolved the company culture in her first 100 days.  Prior to her joining the Mavs, Cynt founded Marshalling Resources, a consulting firm specializing in Leadership, Diversity & Inclusion, Culture Transformation and overall optimization of people resources. Upon the company naming its first Chief Inclusion Officer in June 2017, Cynt worked with The Dow Chemical Company to develop and implement a strategy for institutionalizing an inclusive culture. Cynt’s notoriety began many years ago as a young Officer at AT&T and grew exponentially when she served as Senior Vice President – Human Resources & Chief Diversity Officer at AT&T. There she was responsible for identifying and developing leaders, aligning employees with the company’s vision and priorities, overseeing major business unit HR support, performance development, employee engagement, skills transformation initiatives, EEO and Affirmative Action. In March 2020 and several times prior, Cynt was selected as one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Corporate America” by Black Enterprise magazine and named to Ebony magazine’s 2016 “Power 100” list. In 2014, industry analysts and members of the press conferred on Cynt the HR Executive of the Year - Best in Biz Award. For her efforts on behalf of the people of North Carolina, in 2013 Cynt received the prestigious Leadership North Carolina Governor’s Award, which honors just one citizen each year for lifetime achievements. Cynt graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with degrees in Business Administration and Human Resources Management and holds four honorary Doctorate degrees. She has chaired a variety of non-profit boards and is currently on the board of Dallas CASA, Dallas Regional Chamber, Texas Women’s Foundation, Texas 2036, T.D. Jakes Foundation, and a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC). She is also on the Board of Directors of BGSF Staffing and Blinktbi, Inc. The fourth of six children, Cynt grew up in Richmond, California, and lives in the Dallas area. She and her husband, Kenneth Marshall, have four adult children.

Jordan and Amy continue the topic of diversity in emergency management through the practitioners lens in this episode. Kait Culy from DOW Chemical Company joins the Practically Practical team to discuss the progress made in the emergency management sector regarding diversity and inclusion. Episode Highlights: Companies and agencies can't just talk the talk. They have to walk the walk. Diversity can also include a wide range of age groups. It doesn't take grand new programs to create change. It just takes authentic implementation. Find Kait on Instagram at @kaitrunswithpups

What type of leaders do we need now? In this discussion Andrew Liveris AO, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company and the former Executive Chairman of DowDuPont, and Liveris Academy Scholar Javan McGuckin discuss what makes leaders effective, the current challenges leaders are facing, and how young leaders can rise to these challenges and promote social responsibility. They talk about the need for a new class of leaders and enterprises, Andrew's own leadership development journey, and the challenges facing a post-COVID world.

On this episode we sit down with MBA Association President Danielle Chatman-Moore as she discusses why she chose Broad, her responsibilities as president as well as her internship experience at Dow Chemical Company. Music: "The Real World" Written By: Andrew Dean Piland Performed By: SOLO Produced By: SOLO Via Soundstripe.com

It’s our 200th Episode of starting the Podcast and we want to celebrate in a super fun way! We did something a little different this time. Business Unveiled is going on the road. That’s right. A road tour. As we wrap up the year 2020 and a global pandemic, what better time to celebrate than to start traveling again. I'm so excited for all the growth we have experienced in 2020 and here to share some of her top Facebook advertising tips, my guest today is Aja Price, Founder of Notably Gray. Main Topics: -If you’re thinking of running Facebook or Instagram ads for your business, this is the first thing to consider -The biggest mistakes we see business owners and marketing agencies make on Facebook and Instagram advertising -Top strategic goals to consider before wasting your money Key Takeaways: -Create a strategy -Arm yourself with the basics -Types of ads to consider To check out The Gray Collective Facebook Group Click HERE: https://angelaproffitt.com/facebookad... View the beautiful luxury resort Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal Click HERE: https://angelaproffitt.com/waldorfcabo More About Our Guest: Aja Price is a creative strategist and savvy copywriter with a passion for empowering women to plan for marketing success and encouraging young women to pursue entrepreneurship. Aja is the Founder and Chief Strategist for Notably Gray, a digital marketing company for creatives and women in business. With over 15 years in the hospitality industry and more than eight years in nonprofit, Aja's dynamic experience includes serving large brands: Hyatt, Marriott, and Girl Scouts. Aja's most notable work includes several program initiatives written exclusively for Girl Scouts: Promise to Vote, a non-partisan program encouraging citizens to vote, and GEMS (Girls in Engineering Math and Science,) an immersive introduction STEAM program encouraging young women to pursue STEAM careers. Both programs continue today. In both program initiatives, Aja successfully led a team in securing funding and strategic partnerships with the League of Women Voters, the Secretary of State, University of Kentucky, Western Kentucky University, Verizon, Dow Chemical Company, LG&E, and KU. Currently, Aja serves on the board of NAWBO Nashville, the National Association of Women Business Owners, as program chair, is an ambassador for Collective615, a coworking space for women, and is set to launch an entrepreneurial program in January of 2021 for girls grades 10-12 called Notably, Her. Every position held has been a stepping stone to empowering women, building up the youth, creatively disrupting the industry, and leaving a legacy for the future. The name "Notably Gray" draws inspiration from Beyonce's single "I Was Here." Leveraging experience to empower women and youth in leaving a notable footprint. This episode is brought to you by The GSD Academy. This step-by-step, business productivity online program will share with you exactly how to shift your mindset, set boundaries, build rock solid processes, customize your message in order to strategically grow your revenues and Get Shit Done by clicking HERE: https://angelaproffitt.com/gsdacademy

Hans Borgt is responsible for driving industrial cleaning safety and advancement of technology within the Dow Chemical Company and is the driving force behind Dow’s push to eliminate manual hydroblasting activities across Dow’s global facilities. Hans is also on the executive board of SIR (the industrial cleaning safety association in the Netherlands and Belgium), co-founder and steering committee member of the Global Industrial Cleaning Coalition (GICC), President of the European Water Jetting Institute (EWJI), and editorial board member of the Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (HEDH). Hans and host Kerry Siggins discuss Hans’ passion for safety and the advancement of technology and why he stepped in to turn around the European Water Jetting Institute in early 2020. Hans is an icon in the industrial cleaning industry and this episode is not to be missed!

In part 1 of this episode, Dr. Ginny Baro sits down with Jerome Peribere, who retired as president and CEO of Sealed Air Corporation in December 2017 after serving in that role since March 2013. He previously worked for 35 years at The Dow Chemical Company, where he held various leadership roles worldwide. In this episode, Jerome shares why leadership has nothing to do with hierarchy, how to be optimistic during tough times, and the key differences between positive and negative stress. If you enjoyed this content, leave us a five-star rating so others can also find us, subscribe to hear more, and share this podcast with your friends. And if you want to stay in touch and hear from us, join our community to receive valuable strategies and expert advice at www.executivebound.com. To reach us, email info@executivebound.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/visionaryleaderscircle/message

This Supply Chain Now episode was originally published as episode 117. This episode of Supply Chain Now features Sherrika Sanders, PhD. Sherrika Sanders received her undergraduate degree from Xavier University of Louisiana in Chemistry. After receiving a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry and completing postdoctoral research, Sherrika enjoyed a 9 year career as a Senior Scientist, Technical Services Scientist, and Group Leader for The Dow Chemical Company. While at Dow, she contributed to the expansion of the Dow EPDM polymer portfolio and supported custom compounders in the development of Dow product offerings. Following her tenure at Dow, Sherrika became the R&D Director at Authentix, Inc. located in Dallas, TX. In this role, she managed development, formulation, scale- up, quality and commercialization of markers for authentication solutions while also leading the Environmental, Health and Safety function for the Company. Currently, Sherrika has returned to the plastics industry as the Senior Technical Engineer for Manner Polymers in McKinney, TX. Given the breadth of her role, no two days are the same. Each day is exciting and provides a unique opportunity to make a difference within the company and the customers they serve. Learn more about Manner Polymers: www.MannerPolymers.com Upcoming Events & Resources Mentioned in this Episode Subscribe to Supply Chain Now and ALL Supply Chain Now Programming Here: https://supplychainnowradio.com/subscribe Leave a review for Supply Chain Now: https://ratethispodcast.com/supplychainnow Connect with Scott on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/scottwindonluton/ Connect with Sherrika on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherrika-sanders-phd/ Supply Chain Now Ranked #3 Supply Chain YouTube Channel: https://tinyurl.com/yazfegov Download the Q3 2020 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: freight.usbank.com/?es=a229&a=20 Check Out News From Our Sponsors: U.S. Bank: www.usbpayment.com/transportation-solutions Capgemini: www.capgemini.com/us-en/ Vector Global Logistics: vectorgl.com/ Verusen: www.verusen.com/ This episode was hosted by Scott Luton. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/episode-117.

About Chris Weikart, PhD    As Chief Scientist at SiO2 Materials Science, Dr. Weikart is responsible for managing both internal and external R&D initiatives, including collaborative studies at domestic and international universities, customers and research organizations. He has oversight for the company’s innovation strategy and the development of new technologies to address customer-centric problems. Dr. Weikart works closely with SiO2’s Scientific Advisory Board and technical consultants for launching new technical initiatives. He also works closely with the intellectual property department to provide technical support for patent filings and trade secret preservation. He is the technical ambassador and spokesman at conferences, customers, and regulatory bodies. Dr. Weikart earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He worked in Central Research at the Dow Chemical Company for 12 years in various R&D, engineering and leadership roles. Dr. Weikart earned a 6 Sigma Black Belt.     About SiO2   SiO2 Materials Science is a materials science company with deep roots in chemistry and engineering. We use proprietary, advanced, material science, to bring our client’s innovation to life. Our patented technology applies a unique glass-like barrier onto any plastic surface. Our products are engineered to combine the durability and dimensional precision of plastic with the physical and barrier properties of glass. We provide an end to end solution from the design, engineering, molding, barrier coating, to packaging for our clients. Our most prominent solutions take the form of primary packaging for biological drugs and blood collection tubes for genomic testing and liquid biopsies.   https://thomsinger.com/podcast/Si02  

Paula Tolliver, former Corporate Vice President and CIO and CDO of Intel Corporation and former Corporate Vice President of Business Services and CIO at the Dow Chemical Company. Paula was instrumental in a number of key mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures at Intel and Dow Chemical including the $15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye by Intel and the $15 billion acquisition of Rohm and Haas ROH.N by Dow Chemical.

Episode Summary1) Navigating an environment that has not been made for you or to support you is difficult at best. It is left to you to figure out how best to exist in this world, unfortunately. 2) Professional networks ARE so important to helping Black women and other minority women in finding that balance and sense of self in this world3) The work that Iris and others are doing is soooooooooooooo important, however they cannot do it alone. Allies are needed, but not the superficial, surface level ones that don't actually mean what they say or do anything outside of saying meaningless words. We need people who are going to be in this fight to change this environment for the long haul. Dr. Iris Wagstaff Bio:She is a scientist, educator, mentor, researcher and STEM advocate. She currently serves as a STEM Program Director in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department of AAAS where I manage a $15 Million Dollar portfolio focused on broadening participation in STEM, workforce development ,and inclusive technology and innovation ecosystems. She served as a 2015-2017 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the DOJ National Institute of Justice Office where I developed and led an agency-wide diversity and inclusion initiative. She is a native of Goldsboro, NC with a BS and MS in Chemistry from UNC-Greensboro and NC A&T State Universities respectively; and a PhD in Science Education from North Carolina State University. Iris worked as a research chemist at the Dow Chemical Company for 15 years leading analytical project teams and company-wide diversity initiatives. She has over 20 years of STEM outreach and advocacy developing informal science programs, mentoring, resourcing parents, leading k-12 STEM teacher professional development, and building strategic partnerships between industry, academia, and community organizations.She is also a social scientist with a research focus on examining factors that predict science self-efficacy, science identity, and STEM career intent in underrepresented/under-served youth populations. She serves on the Boards of several organizations that include the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), the Chemical Society of Washington (CSW), and Science, Engineering, and Math Links (SEM). She is an adjunct chemistry professor at UNC-Greensboro where she leads diversity and inclusion efforts to broaden participation in the chemical sciences. She has received several honors that include the 2019 DC Metro HBCU Alumni Alliance Award for Education, the 2019 AERA Science Teaching and Learning Research Award, the 2019 BEYA Science Spectrum Trailblazer Award, the 2018 NOBCChE Presidential Award for Mentoring, the 2017 Women of Color in STEM K-12 Promotion of Education Award, and a 2016 nomination for the NSF Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math, Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-r-wagstaff-ph-d-57140717?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BhOrS0zRAQ6uPmifs2I0T%2FA%3D%3DSupport the show (https://cash.app/$drtoshia)

You've Never Seen September continues with a look at yet another film featuring Geena Davis; however, she's criminally wasted in the Dow Chemical Company-produced Transylvania 6-5000. Starring Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. as two intrepid reporters who are tasked with going to Transylvania to find out if found footage of Frankenstein is real, and if it is, what the monster is up to. Once they arrive, the story goes completely off the rails with "vampires," "wolfmen," and not a laugh throughout the film. The Projection Booth's Mike White and OughtFiveFilm's Father Malone join Chris to talk about the film, it's lack of comedy and Geena Davis' outfit. You can follow Chris Stachiw at @Casualty_Chris and the Kulturecast @kulturecast. The music is Tigerblood Jewel's The Bayou. You can also subscribe to the Kulturecast on iTunes here. Also, don't forget to check out our official Facebook page for news, upcoming reviews, contests, and new content along with our Patreon page.

Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Geena Davis, Michael Richards, and more come together for a zany horror-comedy that may or may not have been a money laundering scheme by the Dow Chemical Company. Seriously. This is TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000!

In this episode our investment director, Neil Cameron, discusses with Tony Kingsbury, Director of Sustainability at Dow, how an upstream material supplier and member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste can have a profound impact to enable the circular economy.

In this episode of the ASIAL Security Insider podcast, we speak with Crisis Communication expert Tony Jaques, about how businesses can maintain effective communication with clients and staff during a crisis such as the COVID-19 Pandemic. Dr Jaques is a frequent conference presenter on issue and crisis management and has run professional workshops in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and throughout Asia. In addition he is author of the books "Issue and crisis management: Exploring issues, crises, risk and reputation" (2014) and “Crisis Proofing: How to save your company from disaster" (2016). He also teaches in the Masters Programme at RMIT University, where he completed his Ph.D. in the field of issue management. Prior to committing to full time consultancy he was Asia Pacific Issue Manager for The Dow Chemical Company

During this episode, You, Me, and Your Top Three host and CGS Advisors CEO, Gregg Garrett, speaks with Randy Urban, Global CIO at Martin Brower. Randy is responsible for keeping quick service restaurants stocked and operating during this time of disruption. He speaks about trends in the global QSR industry and transformations that are taking place in his firm. And, of course, he speaks about his top three – from his first boss who instilled customer centricity into his system, to a systems thinker who taught him to not accept mediocracy, to a modern-day transformation artist. And you have to hear what Randy has to say about the need to find your catalyst. About Randy Urban Randy Urban is a transformation leader that incorporates innovative leadership techniques to drive high performing teams and engaged team members. Randy is the Global CIO for Martin Brower. In his role, Randy leads the progressive adoption of information and digital technology to lead the rapid expansion of the QSR business capabilities and revenue growth. Prior to his role with Martin Brower, Randy spent time with Adient / Johnson Controls as a Vice President in the Digital Office. He has also worked at Delphi Automotive, Solutions Consulting Group, and the Dow Chemical Company. Randy is a graduate of Central Michigan University and Kettering University. Show Highlights Segment 1: Overview 1:02        That pattern of resiliency that is emerging from COVID-19. 3:27        Can we return to the original? And should we? 5:18        Never waste a good crisis. 7:02        Leading a  global Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) provider. 8:58        Randy Urban – a life of stability mixed with great opportunities. Segment 2: The “Top Three” 13:08      Randy’s ‘Top Three’: Ron (Rocky) Brock – acute attention to detail & relentless focus on the customer. 17:44      Randy’s ‘Top Three’: Doug Quada – don’t accept mediocrity. Always consider the broader organizational requirements. 22:37      Randy’s ‘Top Three’: Peter Diamandis – there is a wealth of information that can influence your thinking and behavior if you seek them out.  (Singularity University) 29:36      Hints on leveraging the one-way relationship: Go out and talk to other people – industry conferences, other professionals, etc. Segment 3: Disruption & Transformation 31:52      “You have to still run your current business.” 34:52      The requirements of digital transformation. 40:04      The Quick Service Restaurant industry. 43:58      The effects of ‘Fresh’ on QSR – shortening the window of delivery. 46:52      The impact of Autonomous  and AI on the QSR industry. 50:10      Hint for managing through transformation. 52:38      The impact of the trend of personalization. Segment 4: Leadership & Wrapping Up 54:30      “The essence of leadership in influence.” 55:46      Thinking in terms of abundance versus scarcity. 59:48      “I think to think of gratitude in leadership – being thankful to the people around you and giving people compliments.” 1:01:45  Keep in touch with Randy Urban, Martin Brower. Additional Information Contact Randy Urban: Randy’s LinkedIn Contact Gregg Garrett: Gregg’s LinkedIn Gregg’s Twitter Gregg’s Bio Contact CGS Advisors: Website LinkedIn Twitter

Resumes. The Modern Resume & How to Align Jobs with Passions. Today we discuss job recruiting, talent acquisition, hiring Millennials, Gen Z, and Generation Alpha. As someone that is entering the workforce or looking for a new job do we need a resume or has LinkedIn replaced it? We discuss side hustles and how we can create careers out of them. We also discuss how to attract top young talent by aligning jobs to their passions.  Erin Wike, MBA, a career coach and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, sits down with Erik Qualman to discuss these topics and more.  Erin Wike Bio: Erin Wike, MBA, has 15 years of experience working in Marketing, Advertising, and Digital PR. She has worked on a variety of projects for companies like McDonald's, Kellogg's, Qwest, General Mills, Nokia, PetSmart, Dow Chemical Company, Texas Instruments, Allstate, Ally Bank, and Discover. Erin is now a Career Coach and Lecturer in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Erik Qualman Bio:  #1 Best Selling Author and Motivational Speaker Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached 35 million people. His Socialnomics work has been on 60 Minutes to the Wall Street Journal and used by the National Guard to NASA. His book Digital Leader propelled him to be voted the 2nd Most Likeable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. Have Erik speak at your conference: eq@equalman.com  Learn more at https://equalman.com/

A public meeting on Thursday will cover an environmental settlement with the Dow Chemical Company. The Saginaw Bay Agricultural Conservation Awards are coming in December. Huron Pines has reached a major milestone in river restoration.

Podcast moderator Chris Hagler from EY's Climate Change and Sustainability practice talks with Paul Sobel, Chairman of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), Rodney Irwin, Managing Director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development's (WBCSD) Redefining Value and Education, and Mark Weick, former Director of Sustainability Programs at the Dow Chemical Company, about leveraging enterprise risk management to manage environment, social and governance (ESG) risks. 

This special podcast episode features an abridged recording of “When Great Technology Meets Great Finance Professionals” a panel discussion from the 2018 Current Financial Reporting Issues Conference hosted by Financial Executives International. The panel, moderated by Myles Corson, included David Fabricant, SVP, Global Record to Report Controller at American Express and Dan Werries, formerly Global Director for Finance Systems, Purchasing Systems and Analytics at the Dow Chemical Company and now VP Information Technology, Corporate Enablement at Intel Corporation. They discuss how integrating technology into the finance function can create more than just immediate efficiencies and cost savings.

Supply Chain Now Radio, Episode 117 “Full Access: Sherrika Sanders, PhD with Manner Polymers” Learn more: www.FullAccessOnline.com Hosted exclusively by www.SupplyChainNowRadio.com Featuring: Sherrika Sanders received her undergraduate degree from Xavier University of Louisiana in Chemistry. After receiving a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry and completing postdoctoral research, Sherrika enjoyed a 9 year career as a Senior Scientist, Technical Services Scientist, and Group Leader for The Dow Chemical Company. While at Dow, she contributed to the expansion of the Dow EPDM polymer portfolio and supported custom compounders in the development of Dow product offerings. Following her tenure at Dow, Sherrika became the R&D Director at Authentix, Inc. located in Dallas, TX. In this role, she managed development, formulation, scale- up, quality and commercialization of markers for authentication solutions while also leading the Environmental, Health and Safety function for the Company. Currently, Sherrika has returned to the plastics industry as the Senior Technical Engineer for Manner Polymers in McKinney, TX. Given the breadth of her role, no two days are the same. Each day is exciting and provides a unique opportunity to make a difference within the company and the customers they serve. Learn more about Manner Polymers: www.MannerPolymers.com This episode was hosted by Scott Luton. For more information, please visit our episode page at www.supplychainnowradio.com/episode-117.

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CEO Brian Fielkow walks through creating and maintaining a good work culture then reveals how prospective employees can find out if they fit a new workplace’s culture.   You'll Learn: Why customers pay for culture Brian’s definition of a healthy work culture How to discover if you are a cultural fit at the interview stage   About Brian: Brian Fielkow, J.D., is the CEO of Jetco Delivery, a multimillion-dollar Houston-based trucking and logistics company with 200+ employees that was named a “Top Workplace” by the Houston Chronicle, highlighted on the 2015 Inc. 5000 list, and given the Gold Safety Award by the DOW Chemical Company. Brian is also the author of “Driving to Perfection: Achieving Business Excellence by Creating a Vibrant Culture.”   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep401

CEO Brian Fielkow walks through creating and maintaining a good work culture then reveals how prospective employees can find out if they fit a new workplace's culture.You'll Learn:1) Why customers pay for culture2) Brian's definition of a healthy work culture3) How to discover if you are a cultural fit at the interview stageAbout BrianBrian Fielkow, J.D., is the CEO of Jetco Delivery, a multimillion-dollar Houston-based trucking and logistics company with 200+ employees that was named a “Top Workplace” by the Houston Chronicle, highlighted on the 2015 Inc. 5000 list, and given the Gold Safety Award by the DOW Chemical Company. Brian is also the author of “Driving to Perfection: Achieving Business Excellence by Creating a Vibrant Culture.”Items Mentioned in this Show:Sponsored message: Learn a new language anytime, anywhere with BabbelBrian's website: www.BrianFielkow.comBrian's book: Driving to Perfection: Achieving Business Excellence by Creating a Vibrant CultureBook: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Pat LencioniBook: The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win by Jeff HadenView transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep401.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hamilton Perkins Collection makes unique bags from sustainable materials. Each bag is made from pineapple leaf fiber, recycled plastic bottles and billboards. We've been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and The Washington Post. Some customers include West Elm, Zappos, and The Dow Chemical Company. hamiltonperkins.com

Karen Carter is the Chief Human Resources Officer and Chief Inclusion Officer at the Dow Chemical Company. She is responsible globally for guiding and directing Dow's efforts to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and workforce. “My job, in a nutshell, is to ensure that we have an environment that gives everyone a fair chance, those processes, those policies, how we evaluate people, and how we hire people…if you’re not focusing deliberately on including, you will ultimately exclude.” Karen has 25 years of experience with Dow, but she only recently moved into the HR space. Before assuming her current responsibilities, she held the role of North America Commercial Vice President, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP). In her role, Karen was a member of the global business leadership team and was responsible for the overall profit & loss of P&SP’s North America region, which is part of Dow’s Performance Plastics Division and represents more than $18.4B in sales Karen has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Howard University and a master’s degree in international business from DePaul University. In 2014, Karen was named to the prestigious Forty Women to Watch Over 40 list for her innovative leadership contributions Dow Chemical has been in existence for a little over 120 years. With 50,000 employees around the world, it has revenue in excess of $40,000,000,000. Karen describes the company as a combination of a science and technology organization with a goal to develop and deliver solutions that are essential to human progress. One main focus of Dow is on consumer care, for example ingredients for prescription medications and vitamins.  Another one of their markets is packaging, for instance, keeping meat fresh, and as Karen touches on in our conversation, there's actually technology that is used to make a plastic that enables meat to still be fresh for a few days. The last market that is a main focus is infrastructure - things like roads and bridges and buildings and mega structures like stadiums. What does diversity and inclusion mean?Karen says, diversity is the collection of all of our unique differences. We talk about diversity across multiple dimensions, and most people tend to migrate directly to race, gender, ethnicity, however, there are other dimensions of diversity – for example, military experience or cultural fluency. Inclusion is the intentional and deliberate action we take to create a culture that embraces and values those differences. There are several technologies that Dow Chemical is leveraging in the diversity and inclusion space. They use a Workday People Portal that allows them to be much more transparent with information directly to employees and it allows leaders to have easy access to data that helps them make better decisions. For example, being able to see the last 50 promotions a leader has made to ensure that talent is diverse. As Karen shares in our conversation, we still have a long way to go when it comes to diversity and inclusion in organizations today. Some good strides have been made, but not enough. Things you will learn: Why companies are choosing to hire non-HR people to lead HR What does a Chief Inclusion Officer do? Typical biases that occur in most organizations How to measure D&I How D&I impacts engagement Technologies Dow Chemical is leveraging in the D&I space Why the conversation around D&I is so critical right now Contact: Karen Carter on LinkedIn  

Welcome to Moments, a podcast by SASE, the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers.  On Episode #2, Randy Hsu sits down and chats with Weber Ng, who is an Operations Leader at the Dow Chemical Company. Weber shares stories about his upbringing, his duty served in the Singaporean armed forces, and how STEM has helped shape his career, eventually bringing him the responsibility of the design, install, and staffing of a new manufacturing plant.   Music Credits: SOLANTA - Feels Like Bliss

¡Capitulo impromptu en la conferencia de #SHPE2018 en Cleveland, Ohio! Tuvimos una sobredosis de sabor Venezolano en este episodio. Converse con Erika Sanchez Garrido y Adrian Cottin, Ingenieros, Venezolanos y ante todo: Maracuchos. Maracaibo es el centro de la industria petrolera venezolana y es famosa por su musica y el calor de su gente. Los Maracuchos se reconocen por tener un humor unico, ser sumamente carismaticos y su acento inconfundible. Erika es Ing. Quimica y Directora asociada para Norteamerica en The Dow Chemical Company. Actualmente lidera un equipo de mas de 20 personas para un negocio que factura $1 Billon de dolares anuales. Estaba en SHPE2018 como reclutadora para Dow y panelista para varias ponencias sobre Latinas en STEM. Adrian es Ing. Electronico en Northrop Grumman y cuenta con mas de 15 años de experiencia en la industria de defensa. Es lider de ADELANTE, un grupo de afinidad para empleados de Northrop Grumman. Estaba en la conferencia de SHPE2018 para recibir el “SHPE STAR Award” por sus esfuerzos en crear iniciativas que fomenten la diversidad en su compañia. Nos pusimos super Venezolanos en este episodio hablamos de muchas cosas: La Diaspora Venezolana por el mundo Que mantiene a un profesional mas de 10 años en una empresa La falacia del work/life balance El impacto de poder dar y recibir feedback Los retos que tienen profesionales jovenes para conectar con otras generaciones Tacticas para Millennials comenzando su carrera

¡Capitulo impromptu en la conferencia de #SHPE2018 en Cleveland, Ohio! Tuvimos una sobredosis de sabor Venezolano en este episodio. Converse con Erika Sanchez Garrido y Adrian Cottin, Ingenieros, Venezolanos y ante todo: Maracuchos. Maracaibo es el centro de la industria petrolera venezolana y es famosa por su musica y el calor de su gente. Los Maracuchos se reconocen por tener un humor unico, ser sumamente carismaticos y su acento inconfundible. Erika es Ing. Quimica y Directora asociada para Norteamerica en The Dow Chemical Company. Actualmente lidera un equipo de mas de 20 personas para un negocio que factura $1 Billon de dolares anuales. Estaba en SHPE2018 como reclutadora para Dow y panelista para varias ponencias sobre Latinas en STEM. Adrian es Ing. Electronico en Northrop Grumman y cuenta con mas de 15 años de experiencia en la industria de defensa. Es lider de ADELANTE, un grupo de afinidad para empleados de Northrop Grumman. Estaba en la conferencia de SHPE2018 para recibir el “SHPE STAR Award” por sus esfuerzos en crear iniciativas que fomenten la diversidad en su compañia. Nos pusimos super Venezolanos en este episodio hablamos de muchas cosas: La Diaspora Venezolana por el mundo Que mantiene a un profesional mas de 10 años en una empresa La falacia del work/life balance El impacto de poder dar y recibir feedback Los retos que tienen profesionales jovenes para conectar con otras generaciones Tacticas para Millennials comenzando su carrera

¡Capitulo impromptu en la conferencia de #SHPE2018 en Cleveland, Ohio! Tuvimos una sobredosis de sabor Venezolano en este episodio. Converse con Erika Sanchez Garrido y Adrian Cottin, Ingenieros, Venezolanos y ante todo: Maracuchos. Maracaibo es el centro de la industria petrolera venezolana y es famosa por su musica y el calor de su gente. Los Maracuchos se reconocen por tener un humor unico, ser sumamente carismaticos y su acento inconfundible. Erika es Ing. Quimica y Directora asociada para Norteamerica en The Dow Chemical Company. Actualmente lidera un equipo de mas de 20 personas para un negocio que factura $1 Billon de dolares anuales. Estaba en SHPE2018 como reclutadora para Dow y panelista para varias ponencias sobre Latinas en STEM. Adrian es Ing. Electronico en Northrop Grumman y cuenta con mas de 15 años de experiencia en la industria de defensa. Es lider de ADELANTE, un grupo de afinidad para empleados de Northrop Grumman. Estaba en la conferencia de SHPE2018 para recibir el “SHPE STAR Award” por sus esfuerzos en crear iniciativas que fomenten la diversidad en su compañia. Nos pusimos super Venezolanos en este episodio hablamos de muchas cosas: La Diaspora Venezolana por el mundo Que mantiene a un profesional mas de 10 años en una empresa La falacia del work/life balance El impacto de poder dar y recibir feedback Los retos que tienen profesionales jovenes para conectar con otras generaciones Tacticas para Millennials comenzando su carrera

Hamilton Perkins Collection makes unique bags from sustainable materials. Each bag is made from pineapple leaf fiber, recycled plastic bottles and billboards. We've been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Money Magazine. Some customers include West Elm, Zappos, and The Dow Chemical Company. hamiltonperkins.com

Hamilton Perkins Collection makes unique bags from sustainable materials. Each bag is made from pineapple leaf fiber, recycled plastic bottles and billboards. We've been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Money Magazine. Some customers include West Elm, Zappos, and The Dow Chemical Company. hamiltonperkins.com

Hamilton Perkins Collection makes unique bags from sustainable materials. Each bag is made from pineapple leaf fiber, recycled plastic bottles and billboards. We've been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Money Magazine. Some customers include West Elm, Zappos, and The Dow Chemical Company. hamiltonperkins.com

Crystal has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at San Antonio, and professional experience in engineering, logistics and operations management. She has worked in engineering and management positions for notable companies such as Pratt & Whitney, Dow Chemical Company and Union Pacific Railroad. Crystal’s experience as a minority woman, coming from an underserved community and advancing to a career in mechanical engineering, sparked the idea to create an organization that would offer underserved young women equal opportunity to pursue professional careers. She wanted to create an organization that would help disadvantaged young women receive free mentorship and professional etiquette training that would help them through school, encourage them to pursue college, and inspire them to pursue professional careers. Her nonprofit organization was founded and started in Austin, TX on December 19, 2016 as a passion project and personal, divine assignment from God. As the CEO & Founder of The Proverbs 31 Women’s Organization, Crystal leads and manages the organization’s Board of Directors and program operations to provide free mentorship and professional etiquette training classes to underserved young women across the state of Texas. She also owns a consulting company, Brand Your Biz, that specializes in nonprofit consulting, working with brands through social media marketing, and helping entrepreneurs, bloggers and social media influencers build and expand their brands online. To learn more about Crystal', check out her website: www.crystalngumezi,com, and follow her on Instagram & Twitter: @crystalngumezi.

Episode #148 with KJ Blattenbauer- Fake It To You Make It! KJ Blattenbauer founded Hearsay to help companies everywhere exceed their potential through a truly customer-focused promotional experience. A figure in the public relations industry for more than 20 years, KJ has worked for leading American brands and succeeded with reputable public relations agencies, including The Dow Chemical Company, Fleishman Hillard, U.S. Bancorp, and Life Time Fitness. She has even been recognized as one of the Twin Cities’ 25 Women to Watch by The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. KJ holds a bachelor’s degree from The University of North Dakota, where she was a Division II athlete, and a master’s degree from The University of St. Thomas, as well as a certificate in fashion industry essentials from Parson’s School of Design. TOP POINTS FROM THE EPISODE: Pros of entrepreneurship=flexibility Entrepreneurs must be accountable for themselves! Fake it to you make it! People don't believe in themselves enough PR for your company; Start sharing helpful information with your community! STAY CONNECTED:  Twitter: @kjmediadarling or @hearsaypr; Instagram: @girlabttown or @hearsaypr; website: www.girlabttown.com or www.hearsaypr.com Thank you again for joining us today please check out our webpage at riseupforyou.com for more podcast episodes, webinars, articles, free resources, and events to help you get to the next level in your life! You can also follow us on twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, and Youtube @riseupforyou If you know anybody that would benefit from this episode please share it with them and help spread the knowledge and motivation. Please support Rise Up For You by writing a review on iTunes. Your feedback will really help the success of our show and push us to continuously be better!  So don’t forget to show your support! SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOR WEEKLY EPISODES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Join The Higherside Chat podcast as host Greg Carlwood talks corporate conspiracies, Robin William's death, and media manipulation with guest, Richard Belzer. Unfortunately, we find ourselves living in a world, where it seems corporations are allowed to shamelessly poison us through pharmaceuticals and nutrient deficient foods. We are now in the middle of a devastating crisis, compounded in part, because the channels for conquering this corporate corruption have dried up, and seeking restitution and solutions through our justice system is but a dream. Today's guest, Richard Belzer has dedicated much of his life to researching the corporatocracy of America and joins The Higherside to discuss the revolving door between the corporate sector and government that has become a burden to society, while giving the privileged elite a notable advantage. 3:00 As a successful comedian and actor, Richard has ran in the Hollywood circle for years. And yet, despite his successes and the temptations to rest on his laurels, Belzer has spent his life researching conspiracies and leveraged his celebrity status to help shed a light onto some of life's more unsavory subjects. Richard explains how his rebellious nature and investigative inclinations proved to be valuable assets in his exploration. 5:42 In his book "Corporate Conspiracies: How Wall Street Took Over Washington", Belzer lays the framework for how and why we currently find ourselves in an unwinnable war against corporations. Richard also elaborates on the circumstances surrounding the death of Robbin Williams, the role of Big Pharma, and why is his mind, Williams' death was a murder, not suicide. Greg and Richard detail the ways in which the system is designed to embolden pharmaceutical companies, the racket created to ensure their profits remain strong, and the correlation between the mood of the country and drug use. 15:00 With the effects of corporate products felt throughout various aspects of our lives, Greg and Richard take a moment to address the most well-known and influential kingpins in this arena: Dow Chemical Company and Monsanto. With Monsanto bearing the burden of being "the world's most evil company", Richard expounds on the multiple products, such as saccharin, Roundup, GMOs, and Agent Orange, and their devastating effects on both people and planet. Belzer also offers up solutions to this insurmountable issue including limiting their financial influence in politics. 26:50 After discussing Big Pharma and food deserts, Greg and Richard move onto examining Hollywood's use of propaganda to sculpt the collective consciousness and glorify the military industrial complex. In his book, Belzer references movies such as "American Sniper" and "Zero Dark Thirty" as transparent examples of government influence in Hollywood. They also discuss the CIA's use of the mainstream media as another weapon in the arsenal during Operation Mockingbird as far back as the 1950s. 34:42 Richard explains his thoughts on the responsibility of actors when choosing roles. He articulates on the sovereignty of actors, and their ability to turn down parts that may run counter to the personal beliefs. Become a Plus Member at www.TheHighersideChatsPlus.com/subscribe to hear a second hour of all THC episodes. This week's included: - The Prison Industrial Complex, The Drug War, and it's role in the big conspiracy - the bank bailout and why it shouldn't just be glossed over - the prospect for a bailout round 2 - Bayer's role in the development of Heroin - what Richard thinks about the motivations behind the JFK assassination - Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 - Richard's thoughts on the Franklin scandal, blackmail, and pedophilia networks in elite circles - words of artistic inspiration, and Richard's advice to people who aren't living out their dreams due to fear, pressure, and the multitude of things that hold them back

I have been thinking about shame for a couple of years now. Mostly, I have socially unacceptable thoughts about it. But since reading Jennifer Jacquet's book, Is Shame Necessary? New Uses For An Old Tool, I have been both relieved and emboldened. So I'm releasing my shame around championing shame. I'm thrilled to welcome Jennifer to the show to expand on her ideas around effective uses of shame when dealing with large-scale cooperation dilemmas like climate change, over-fishing, and racism. In this episode, Jennifer mentions high profile examples like Justine Sacco whose life was ruined by a single tweet, and Walter Palmer, the dentist who shot Cecil the Lion. She also makes a distinction between shaming corporations versus individuals. As such, it is a form of punishment that scales well. If you would like to see the tour de force example of the public shaming of the Dow Chemical Company by The Yes Men, here is the video. The response is detailed in this video. Here's the manel-shaming featuring David Hasselhoff, plus the article that did the math on statistical proof of sexism with regard to the issue. In the Rubenation segment, Ruben mentioned our friend, J.B.MacKinnon and his excellent book, The Once And Future World. If you love the planet, you should read it. This interview goes well with episode TNP67: Confronting Whiteness with Rachael Rice and Marybeth Bonfiglio. Check out more of Jennifer's work at jenniferjacquet.com

Dr. Marquita M. Qualls has over 25 years of leadership experience in consulting, coaching, and motivating people who want to produce order out of their chaos. Though a scientist by training, she commands a masterful understanding of the human aspects needed to thrive in today’s fast-paced and competitive business environment. She founded Entropia Consulting, a small management consulting firm that focuses on helping individuals become more productive and effective leaders. Listen on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or TuneIn In this episode, I asked Dr. Qualls several questions, including: What was your dream growing up? What inspired you to pursue a degree in Chemistry? What are some of the biggest lessons you learned about yourself during your years with Glaxo? Tell us about your transition from Glaxo to starting your own consulting business? What is the exact problem your clients are having and how are you able to help provide a solution through your coaching services? Share one of your road blocks that caused you to have to take a major detour. What happened and how did you overcome it and get back on track?  How do you learn to love doing hard work you don't want to do? Why is learning a super power? What does successful leadership look like? What can we look forward to with you? Are there any big dreams and goals on your vision board for the next 5-10 years and beyond that you'd care to share with us? Links and resources mentioned: Marquita Qualls on Entropia Consuting Marquita Qualls on Twitter Marquita Qualls on LinkedIn Marquita's Fav Resources: Schedulista Marquita's Fav Book: Oh, The Places You'll Go!   Marquita M. Quall's Bio Marquita M. Qualls, Ph.D. has over 25 years of leadership experience in consulting, coaching, and motivating people who want to produce order out of their chaos. Dr. Qualls possesses the rare combination of strong technical ability and impressive soft skills. Though a scientist by training, she commands a masterful understanding of the human aspects needed to thrives in today’s fast-paced and competitive business environment. Her technical side drives an ability to gather perspectives and analyze feedback, while at the same time connecting with clients and guiding them towards achieving results. This has enabled her to function and make seamless transitions between the scientific and non-technical worlds. She has a gift for listening to what's not being said and asks the probing questions to help you arrive at a solution. Her style is often described by her clients as energetic, engaging, and empowering. She understands what it takes to be an extraordinary leader. She is a former National President of a professional technical organization and was a member of the team that created the Leadership Development System® for the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. She has also served on the editorial advisory board of Chemical & Engineering News, The Chemical Science Roundtable of the National Academies, and an Entrepreneur in Residence with Innovate Mississippi . Dr. Qualls has consulted with teams and coached professionals within governmental, educational, corporate, and nonprofit sectors including the Department of Homeland Security, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Jackson State University, P&G, Purdue University, The Dow Chemical Company, and American Chemical Society, Association of Women in Science, NOBCChE and SACNAS. Dr. Qualls’ professional career was rooted at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the world. During nearly a decade at GSK, she held roles of increased global responsibility spanning drug development, technology evaluation, program management, strategy development, and people development. She founded Entropia Consulting, a small management consulting firm that focuses on helping individuals become more productive and effective leade...

This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg we review three governance cases to see what progress has been made since we first discussed them. These are governance issues at FIFA, The Dow Chemical Company, and the passenger cruise industry.

Last week Ryn talked about a specific example of governance failures at The Dow Chemical Company involving CEO Andrew Liveris. This week Ryn is going to continue with that thread and discuss Agile and Governance.

And you thought that sponsorships for the Olympics were all about consumer products and services. Meet the Official Carbon Partner of the Sochi Games. It's Dow Chemical Company – also, by the way, the Official Chemistry Company of the International Olympic Committee. Dow is deploying its new Climate Solutions Framework to create the first-ever, 100-percent carbon-neutral Olympic Games. The initiative embraces hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon emissions generated by activities related to the games, including global supply-chain arrangements and travel to and from the site by fans and the media. But the effort doesn't stop there – it's part of a broader three-year effort by Dow to address the carbon footprint of Russian homes, industry and agriculture. Dr. Nicoletta Piccolrovazzi, technology and sustainability director for Dow Olympic Games, joins us to talk about how the program was developed, and what Dow hopes to accomplish on the carbon-mitigation front – not just for Sochi and Russia, but for future Olympics as well. Let the games begin.