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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Elie Danziger can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/05/the-ecosystem-multiple-navigating-the-transatlantic-fate-of-biosphere-1-%c2%bd/. About the post: Experimental "ecosystems" emerge from the relation between facilities. The DSE case shows how ecosystems are defined relationally, not only through interoperability (as with LEO), but also through ever-analogical definitions: the "ecosystem" idea is located at the meeting point of fully-interdependent instantiations by various experimental facilities across continents. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

In this podcast, Dr. Valentin Fuster discusses a groundbreaking study from the Orbiter 2 trial, which explores how dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) can predict the efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in relieving angina in patients with stable coronary artery disease. The study reveals that the degree of ischemia, as measured by DSE, is strongly correlated with improvement in symptoms, offering new insights into patient selection for PCI treatment.

Olivier de GUERRE, président de Phitrust, pionnier de l'investissement solidaire et de l'engagement actionnarial Peut-on mettre son argent dans l'armement, la pharmacie ou le pétrole ? Comment un catholique peut-il donner du sens à l'argent qu'il investit ? Chacun de nous est face à des choix et ces choix donnent une forme à la société. Pour cette raison, nul ne peut s'abstraire de la dimension morale et sociale de nos avoirs. Proclero est un fonds créé en 2012 sur l'initiative de la Communauté Saint-Martin qui, dépendant directement du Saint-Siège, compte 175 prêtres et diacres, envoyés dans 30 diocèses en France et à l'étranger. Le but de cette SICAV est de développer la responsabilité morale des investisseurs, de financer la formation des prêtres et de promouvoir la Doctrine Sociale de l'Église dans le monde de la finance et de l'économie. Olivier de Guerre, président de la société de gestion Phitrust, est un pionnier de l'investissement solidaire et de l'engagement actionnarial. Il donne une conférence ce matin au Cercle Interallié à Paris : « Investir en cohérence avec la Doctrine Sociale de l'Eglise : comment le faire par l'engagement actionnarial et dans l'investissement social et solidaire ? ». Il explique notamment pourquoi le Saint-Siège ne crée pas de label ; il distingue l'investissement durable de l'investissement responsable. Le rapport au temps et à l'accompagnement des sociétés est un élément clé de la DSE. Le rendement n'est pas recherché à n'importe quel prix, même si au bout du compte, à la lumière de certaines entreprises comme La Varappe à Marseille, celui-ci peut tout à fait satisfaire un actionnaire exigeant. Phitrust reçoit 300 projets par an, en sélectionne entre 5 et 10 pour un volume de placement de l'ordre de 100 millions d'euros.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Just prior to DSE, I was in Palm Springs to take part in an executive retreat for the digital signage crowd, organized and run by my friends at invidis, the consultancy and publishing company based in Munich. They have done these events in Europe for a few years now: an invitation-based two-day gathering that is part networking, part knowledge-sharing and part R&R - from golf to cocktails. I was along because they needed some eye candy, and there was probably also a California mandate to include a senior citizen. But Florian and Stefan from invidis had me there, as well, to do some interviews with attendees. It was a bit like herding cats because of the size of the resort, and varying schedules, but we managed to trap eight attendees in front of the camera and mikes. There are video versions you can watch, but for those who like to listen to interviews as they walk or drive (I've even heard swimming!), here's the second of two round-ups, with four interviews in each. This one has: Jeremy Gavin of Screenfeed; Shawn O'Connell, who recently joined Uniguest; Stan Richter of SignageOS; And Trey Courtney of Mood Media.

Just prior to DSE, I was in Palm Springs to take part in an executive retreat for the digital signage crowd, organized and run by my friends at invidis, the consultancy and publishing company based in Munich. They have done these events in Europe for a few years now: an invitation-based two-day gathering that is part networking, part knowledge-sharing and part R&R - from golf to cocktails. I was along because they needed some eye candy, and there was probably also a California mandate to include a senior citizen. But Florian and Stefan from invidis had me there, as well, to do some interviews with attendees. It was a bit like herding cats because of the size of the resort, and varying schedules, but we managed to trap eight attendees in front of the camera and mikes. There are video versions you can watch, but for those who like to listen to interviews as they walk or drive (I've even heard swimming!), here's the first of two round-ups, with four interviews in each. This one has: Frank Pisano from Bluefin Bryan Meszaros of OpenEye Global George Clopp of Korbyt and the baritone, no mike needed, voice of IV Dickson of SageNet.

Sonos is about to flex so hard at ISE their booth needs its own area code (and wait'll you see their pro installation debut!). Reality check - when's the last time you gave your AV standards more than just a casual swipe right? DSE is ghosting Vegas for San Diego's sunny shores in 2025!Tune in to AVWeek, where Tim Albright and industry experts serve up the hottest tea on the latest developments in the commercial AV world! Break down the DSE's power move to SoCal, Sonos's explosive ISE takeover, and the not-so-subtle art of keeping your AV/IT standards up to date and explore how evolving standards are shaking up the game in our hyper-connected world.Host: Tim AlbrightGuests:Dawn Meade – Dawn on TwitterMatt Scott – Omega Audio VideoTom Aburthnot – Empowering.CloudLinks to sources:AV Magazine – Sonos' First Speaker for CommercialrAVe Pubs – DSE 2024 Highlights, plans for 2025Article3 – IT & AV StandardsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to our monthly podcast with Neil Hughes-Hutchings, Senior Health and Safety Consultant at AfterAthena Limited. In this episode, we continue our theme of musculoskeletal back injuries and discuss display screen equipment (DSE) and ergonomics. We'll highlight the regulations that require employers to undertake suitable risk assessments of workstations and provide relevant information and training to DSE users. We'll also discuss the risks associated with working from home and provide tips on how employees can help themselves.

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Fourth Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!It's no lie when people sigh the phrase, “they don't make ‘em like they used to.” There was a sense of quality, of pride, some might even say a spirit, in things. Centuries, even decades ago, I remember a time when folks lived by their trade and the traditions they kept… as well as the superstitions. This Halloween, miro amal, we take a step back in time, to hear tales of the past, told by the bright future of tradition. Who am I referring to? Why, it's our good pals Veronika and Alex from the United Kingdom. These two, in the ageless fashion of the Roma people, are entertainers on that thing you call an app, eh, tik-tok, as well as the other social medias. Hours of laughter can be found from them. But not tonight. From spirits and figures to demons and vampires, the Old World still keeps its shadows reserved for evil to reside in. Waiting for the unwary passerby and the chance to strike. Make no mistake, the mysterious moors and quiet villages are still blanketed by a timeless fog that cloaks the entities of malice that stalk the night. Believe the folk tales. Lock your doors and windows. Hide as if your life depended on it! Because, on the night of All Hallow's Eve, immortal creatures stalk the earth, and they are looking for you!!Check out Veronika and Alex's videos here:https://www.tiktok.com/@veronikaandalex1https://www.tiktok.com/@veronicaveronika12Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Fourth Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!You are a dot. A mere speck, in the eyes of the universe and all its dimensions. And you thought your promotion put you on top of the world? Ha! Some of us, with our heads truly in the clouds, know that, with all that space to inhabit, worlds being created and destroyed, there must be others like us. Out there. Somewhere. With this thought, we find ourselves in great company alongside Luiee Bloo, who fiends for music and all its facets. To him, as infinite as harmony can soar, there are just as many unknowns that linger in our minds. From ghosts to aliens, you're sure to feel the full spectrum of chills that rattle down your spine. Join us on miro vardo and have a cup of coffee. You'll need it seeing as you won't sleep tonight…You can check out Luiee Bloo's amazing music here: https://www.instagram.com/luieebloo/Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Fourth Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend, I'm Esma Kallai. Oh good, you're here. Help me for a moment. I'm trying to pick between a pickled salamander sandwich or a refreshing tarantula salad. Hmm… it reminds me a bit of a friend of mine, who, sort of finds herself between two cultures that clash in ways, Romani and Haitian. Now, as you'll soon find out, our Bibi Jaz is not one to turn from a challenge. She found a way to live with both cultures and all the skeletons in their closets. Perhaps you can say, she's got the “best of both worlds”? But be warned, I make light of the horror that is about to unfold my dear listener. Jazmine's stories are not for the cowardly. Should I give you a moment to turn on an extra light? You'll need it. Come to think of it, why not toss that tarantula salad in between those savory salamanders? So crunchy and meaty! Mmm! I won't lose my appetite from what you're about to hear, amal, but I can't promise you'll feel at all peckish when we're through…You can reach Bibi Jaz and inquire about her services here: https://www.instagram.com/kashtana_kartas/Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Fourth Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!O Verda Darano takes a short blast to this past Friday the 13th with two of Pierce's childhood friends, Norman Miran and Ruben Vasquez. Be warned, dear listener, this episode is not for the faint of heart. From taboo to terror, this night was the Luckiest Unlucky Day between childhood friends. Dare to listen in on the hijinks that span over decades?Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent

Non solo consigli "da Studio Aperto" come "non uscire nelle ore più calde e bere tanta acqua", ma tanti suggerimenti pratici per creare una sana relazione tra spostamenti e vita famigliare! Condivido con voi alcune attività salva-viaggio che io stessa utilizza anche ora che le mie figlie sono più grandicelle, preparate gli appunti :D Se volete raccontarmi la vostra esperienza, o condividere altre idee con i genitori che mi seguono, ti aspetto su instagram.com/elenacortinovis_

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Fourth Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!Esma Kallai isn't with us this episode, but leaves us with this message: Time truly flies when you're in between realms as I have been. What does a ghoul have to do to get some rest and relaxation? I'm in between stops on my way to a galaxy light years from here and I have to run and grab a couple extra oxygen tanks and laser pistols… you never know what can happen among the stars! I hate to leave you on such short notice, but time is of the essence and I haven't enough time to sit and smell the coffee. Speaking of which, you should grab yourself a cup, and even a little cake too, and sit down for tonight's encounter. I'll leave you in very capable hands… he has a lot to catch you up on…Catch-up with DSE and find out what we've been up to the last few months in this episode. We talk animation, film, and of course- a spooky story just for you!Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent

David Shapiro is the Producer / Director at DSE, an Atlanta-based script-to-screen promo video production company generating Corporate, Commercial and Documentary showcases for worldwide audiences. DSE produces powerhouse promo videos for corporate and charitable clients, as well as fascinating feature-length documentaries, consistently striving to deliver effective storytelling for on-line platforms and theatrical audiences.

David Shapiro is the Producer / Director at DSE, an Atlanta-based script-to-screen promo video production company generating Corporate, Commercial and Documentary showcases for worldwide audiences. DSE produces powerhouse promo videos for corporate and charitable clients, as well as fascinating feature-length documentaries, consistently striving to deliver effective storytelling for on-line platforms and theatrical audiences. The post David Shapiro with DSE appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

光明頂. 2024 04 19 - 發展DSE產業 正義迴廊有乜問題？ 陶傑 馮智政

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit leesimon.substack.com財富的累積和集中，本來就是歷史的常態。但為甚麼過去幾年家族辦公室這個詞彙，忽然被吹噓起來。究竟甚麼是家族辦公室？為甚麼港府近年間對這個概念忽然著迷？其實在政府大張旗鼓說發展甚麼家族辦公室樞紐之前，香港已經有許多財閥家族。十多年前，我離開了任職多年的壹傳媒，在一個因緣際會之下，我為香港一個家族做了一份報告。當年委託我做這份報告的家族，其實沒有告訴我為甚麼他們對做這個專題研究的原因。但他們倒是有一個很具體的要求：「可不可以告訴我們，洛克菲勒家族的基金是如何管理和運作的？」適逢這幾日周凱旋基金會捐了六千萬支援 DSE 的女考生，在社會上也引起了一些關注。今日就趁這個機會，分享我這個布衣平民對財閥家族的觀察。

光明頂. 2024 04 17 - 考生考試前要先參與升旗禮 小紅書疑泄DSE考題 或違23條 陶傑 馮智政

The single most unifying event in a long time just happened this Monday, April 8th; the TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. Not just any eclipse, but one with the moon very close to earth, which means the shadow of the eclipse was the widest in recent memory, allowing the most amount of North Americans to view it in history. For a brief moment, everyone that could was looking skyward, not just with our eyes, but with our hearts, hope, dreams, etc. THE PARTY OF THE CENTURY...But, we've been partying so long now that the police are coming to put an end to it. Yes, the interest rate hiking FED has begun putting out the fire of fun that we've all gotten accustomed to since the bear market low in 2009. It's been amazing, but nothing goes straight up forever, and the clock may have just run out with this week's unification of our collective mood, and focus on a single point in the sky, while we forget the reality of our world. So, take a few minutes to listen and view the chart of what history tells us about what comes next. If you want help in setting up an action plan, call us at 640.CALL.DSE (640.225.5373)Here's a chart to follow along:Chart 1: Stress, NO Stresshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1MUc4d2FiFOIYApLqG6QjEBAzu8VAuk0l/view?usp=sharingMUST READ REPORT, free from our friends at Elliott Wave International:https://www.elliottwave.com/KenTo learn more, visit:https://dsetrading.com/Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/ken-goldberg/

About the Guest(s): Dr. Leah M. Kelley is a storyteller, writer, activist, teacher educator, education consultant, and parent who identifies as neurodivergent and otherwise disabled. She was a K-12 public school teacher for over 25 years and has extensive experience supporting inclusion. Her newly published book, “The Person Who Arrives: Connecting Disability Studies to Educational Practice for Teachers, Parents, and Others,” evolved from her doctoral research, which she completed at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She is currently working as an adjunct professor in the faculty of education - teacher education program at UBC (University of British Columbia) and guest lecturing colleges and other programs and organizations such as CASE (The Canadian Association for Supported Employment). Dr. Kelley's work focuses on connecting disability studies in education (DSE) to educational practice, strength-based perspectives for supporting neurodiversity, addressing ableism, inclusive practices and pedagogy, and cultivating advocacy. Episode Summary: In this episode of the Think Inclusive podcast, Leah Kelley joins Tim Villegas for a profound discussion on the intersections of storytelling, education, and disability advocacy. Right from the onset, the conversation delves into Leah's unique approach to writing and her pursuit of inclusivity through narratives. The dialogue transitions into exploring the importance of whose story is being told when discussing disability and how storytelling serves as a potent tool for learning and connection.The episode further delves into Leah's recently published book, which embodies her dedication to inclusion, her disruptive approach to traditional academic formatting, and her belief in the power of bringing diverse voices to the forefront. Touching on topics ranging from relationships being central to learning to questioning stereotypical notions of disability, Leah challenges conventional thought with her ideas of radical acceptance and the continuous process of arrival in educational and personal contexts.Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/TmXEj6c9L3__xIMls4ZJ4c9gVKcKey Takeaways:Storytelling as an Invitational Tool: Leah emphasizes the power of storytelling in altering perspectives and engaging with complex ideas.Whose Story Is It Anyway: The conversation highlights the critical analysis of whose stories are being told, especially in the context of disability.Radical Acceptance and Arrival: Leah explains how radical acceptance of individuals and the concept of continuous arrival are intertwined in educational environments.Disability as Normal: The episode addresses the stigma and language surrounding disability, advocating for acceptance and understanding of disability as a natural human variation.Relational Approach to Education: The exchange reaffirms that nurturing relationships are at the core of inclusion, learning, and advocacy.Resources:Leah Kelley's Book: https://a.co/d/esG2PWKFacebook Group - Parenting Autistic Children with Love and Acceptance: https://www.facebook.com/ParentingAutisticChildrenWithLoveAcceptance30 Days of Autism: https://30daysofautism.blog/MCIE: https://mcie.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT There is a lot of glass in public and commercial spaces, and the pro AV and digital signage industries have been applying all kinds of technologies to turn things like windows and dividers into part-time or full-time displays. In most cases, those jobs have come with compromises. There are films that might start curling at the corners, or discolouring. Mesh systems that look pretty good from the front, but terrible from the rear. And most recently, super-thin foils that need to be adhered to one side of glass panes. So what if the LED display was actually part of architectural-grade glass? That's the premise of a company called Clear Motion Glass - a Pennsylvania-based technology start-up that comes at the business from the angle of commercial glass. Clear Motion is a spin-out from William Penn Performance Glass, which has for many years been making and supplying laminated and tempered glass for commercial buildings. Unlike other products on the market, Clear Motion's LED displays are sandwiched inside sheets of laminated safety glass - so when a building goes up or is being retrofitted, the glass panels that go in are also active, highly-transparent displays. I had a good chat with Todd Stahl, a glass industry veteran who runs both the established and start-up businesses. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT David: Todd, thank you for joining me.  Todd Stahl: Hey Dave. Yeah, I appreciate you having us on. It's going to be a pleasure to talk about some LED glass with you.  David: Yeah, tell me about the company. I saw you guys at DSE back in December. You were busy almost the whole time. So I didn't really have the time or the chance to have any kind of a detailed LED conversation, but I know that the company has not been around that long, but it's grown out of a pretty well-established “performance glass company.” Todd Stahl: Yeah. A little bit about the history there. So, at Clear Motion Glass, we're making the LEDs inside of the glass. I came across the LED glass around June of 2022, so I've had it for just about two years. The parent company is William Penn Performance Glass, and that's another company I started in 2011. We deal with high-end architectural Glass.  So, a cliffnote version: We go to the top architects in the country, and they're like, “Hey, who are you designing for?” And they'll say to us, “Hey, we want some really cool glass to go in the elevators for the Empire State Building.” So we got into the architectural space with glass, and actually, we'll William Penn, who was just voted one of the top 50 glass producers in North of North America. So something that we're definitely pretty proud of around here.  Then I came across LED glass around 2022, I thought it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen put inside a glass, and I wanted to be a part of it. David: So when you say you came across it, what do you mean by that?  Todd Stahl: So, there's another product in glass, another glass product that's been around, I'm going to say right around since 2000. It's a glass that goes frosted to clear from the turn of a switch, Switchable glass. So there's a company called Smart Film Blinds, and they were an applied film company that would actually take that, what we would call switch glass, but they just took the film and applied it to existing glass, and it was owned by Alan and Tracy Ackerman, and then they had this connection with LED Glass they weren't quite sure what to do with it. They knew it was really cool. And it had a chance to be really something big, but they were more of a film company, and then he and I got introduced, through a need that we had for some smart film, the switchable film, and then eventually we had a partnership for a while. Then we decided basically that I'll stick with the glass part, what I'm best at, and he'll stick with the film part, which was what they were best with. But that's how I got introduced to it, right around two years ago.  David: What you're marketing now is Clear Motion Glass. Is that your own product or are you reselling somebody else's manufactured product?  Todd Stahl: We have partners overseas, such as a company called Filmbase. That's where we get the actual LED grid or LED mesh. We bring that to my facility in York, Pennsylvania, which is in the south-central Pennsylvania area, we're 20 minutes south of Hershey, close to Harrisburg, and then we actually fabricate everything as a finished panel here. So we'll make the glass, we'll get the interlayer components. We have a laminating machine that actually works by pulling a vacuum and heating it up to certain temperatures. After that, it comes out, and we have a clear LED glass display.  David: So laminated glass is something that's been around forever. So this is just basically sandwiching the mesh in between sheets of laminated glass?  Todd Stahl: Yeah, absolutely. We're definitely making a sandwich component. We start with a piece of glass, say that's your component number one. Then, we start with the inner layer materials.  In a case like this, we use a couple of different techniques, but we use EVA, which is ethyl vinyl acetate. Then we'll actually put the LED mesh grid on top of that, then we put another piece of EVA, then we go with the finished component of the sandwich, another piece of glass, and we stick them in an oven, we run a certain cycle, and about four hours later, we have a laminated piece of glass, exactly how you described. It's a sandwich makeup for sure.  David: Was there a lot of R&D work involved in it? Because I would imagine if you're putting an LED mesh inside of an oven, then going to a very high temperature and all that, I'm thinking if I didn't know much about this stuff, I'd be wondering, what's all that heat going to do to this thing? Todd Stahl: Yeah. You know, we have to make sure that it can withstand certain temperatures, obviously, and if you don't heat, and just in general, if you don't get laminated glass hot enough, it doesn't bond, it does not bond correctly. What you have to achieve is cross-linking and cross-linking is basically the interlayer material to the glass itself, and that happens at a temperature of around 110 degrees Celsius, so it's not getting hot enough to cook a Turkey in there, so we're not really dealing with extremes. I think a lot of people might think when you're actually making glass out of what we call a batch, you know that's where the glass is heated up to 2000 degrees and you're really dealing with some extreme temperatures. It's not quite the same extremes at all when you're dealing with laminated glass.  David: So tell me what performance glass is, and what high-end performance glass is because I don't know the glass world terribly well.  Todd Stahl: Yeah, sure. So, so what William Penn performance glass is the performance name kind of all started because our glass looks great and it, but it's an all safety rated glass. So that's kind of the performance part of the glass. So, if you're looking at our glass, say that's used for glass handrails, that's a very specific glass that's chosen to withstand the certain load requirements of a structural application, and typically most of our handrails are tempered, and laminated glass. So there are two ways on this planet to make a piece of glass safety-rated. You either temper it or you laminate it. We happen to do both of those things in a lot of our projects, and it's kind of funny like obviously safety-rated glass is strong, but the only thing that's really taken into consideration when you're referring to safety glass are you automatically assume it's going to break and what happens when it breaks, right? So with tempered glass, you put a lot of stress on the glass itself through a heating and cooling process, and whenever that glass breaks, it breaks into small panels that would not be able to potentially cause a life-threatening wound, and then you have the exact opposite with laminated where if a rock hits your car, if that's ever happened to you the rock doesn't come through and the pieces of the glass, the shards don't come through, they stay together. So you got those two things to the requirements when you're thinking about what is safety rated glass.  David: With the Clear Motion product, is it an indoor product only, an outdoor facing product, or what are the use cases?  Todd Stahl: So what's really cool about our LED glass is that almost wherever you're using architectural glass right now, you can now use our LED displays. So it can be used in exterior applications, a building facade, glass canopies, and railings that may be exterior. All of the components are kind of encapsulated inside that glass, and that glass is making a nice, really safe, cozy home for the LED display inside of it. David: And it's bright enough that it can be on a glass curtain wall like an auto dealer?  Todd Stahl: Oh, yeah, absolutely. I think that's one of the really cool applications for it. In fact, you had mentioned at the trade show and boy, were we busy? I think I was just talking about this yesterday. We scanned around 450 people in that short show. Our voices were a little strained by the end of the evening. So, the brightness of our display at the show, Dave, was only running around 4%, and I thought that was one of the more amazing things about the product because it was still kind of bright at 4%. Later we started bringing that up because a few potential clients wanted to see it at 50-60% brightness. So yeah, you can totally use this as an exterior sign and get whatever brightness you need. I think some of the products are well over 10,000 nits depending on the needs, and I think one actually lasted up to 15,000 nits, so plenty bright for the outside.  David: Yeah, once you get to 3,500, you're good.  Todd Stahl: Yeah, exactly. David: On transparency. I see on your website that it says there is up to 90 percent transparency.  Todd Stahl: Yeah, so when you get to some of the pixel pitches that are viewed from say, a distance of around a hundred feet, I think the pixel pitch at a 20, I believe that one may allow up to 90 percent of light to come through. It's really cool. I mean, you have this really great display, and then you're just getting all this, and you're not cutting off any spaces so if you have a traditional LED display, you can only view that from one side and I think that's kind of what's really amazing about this product and a lot of times when you're looking at the product, you don't even realize that it's transparent until the image would say it's rotating from one image to the next. And you're like, Oh, wow, that's clear, there are people behind there. So I think, yeah, it's really cool in that application.  David: From what I saw, because it's this mesh material, with super thin wiring in between each of the LED lights.  The challenge I've had with a lot of trans or “transparent products” is that they look good from the front side, particularly at a distance, but when you look at the back end of the things, there's a mesh, like a metallic mesh or something like that, a grid system that kind of makes it look like crap. Todd Stahl: Yeah. With a lot of the applied films that have been out there before, and there's not a whole lot of them, but there are a few, certainly from that backside, it doesn't look at all like the front, and the same thing, with the LED actual metal meshes, again, they look phenomenal from the front, and you get behind, and you're like, man, what am I looking at here? So with our product, what's really cool about that is you get a little bit of the halo effect, from the image that's playing on it, that you can see from, say, the view side of the glass, and then you get a slight reflection off of that front piece of glass that kind of bounces back through. So you see a little bit of a glow or a halo in the background, but it is not an eyesore, and it looks pretty good. You can see out, and you have a very clear picture of the people that you're looking through or whatever object you would be doing from the back of the product. It looks really good. It's a good look from the backside.  David: Yeah, there are numerous products out there that now do this kind of foil mesh effect, and you have to adhere it to the inside of a sheet of glass, which is all fine and everything else, but it doesn't look that good from the inside, does it? Todd Stahl: No, it really doesn't. The concept here, we touched on hockey a little bit, earlier, but you know, we have, you have all these hockey nets in the arena to protect the fans that a puck doesn't hit them, and most of those meshes are black. It's harder for our eyes to kind of pick up the black mesh than it is for white. There are some that have whites, but not many, and the black is blended in a lot easier. I'm a big hockey fan, so I've been to a few arenas, and the white ones are a little harder to, I think it takes away from the image more, and that's why we're using a black LED mesh.  When we first started, it was white, and it just didn't have as good of a; again, I thought it took away from the product from the backside.  David: So presumably there are limits in terms of the size of a glass panel that you can do because you've got a laminate in an oven of some kind and that they're only so big. So if you have, to use the example I mentioned earlier of, an auto dealer's glass curtain wall where the sheet of glass might be pretty darn big. How do you put multiple units together? And what does that look like in terms of cabling and everything?  Todd Stahl: Yeah. So we're always kind of limited in size by a couple of different things. Sometimes it might be the actual raw product glass that we're using. Some sheets are available to us, bigger and smaller, the width of the laminating materials, and then our oven as well. So basically, in our oven here in Pennsylvania, we can laminate an LED panel roughly about 6x10 feet. You know, that's a pretty sizable piece of glass, and then what we can do, if you're doing a glass facade it kind of gets into a little bit more of how the glass is installed, but you're basically stacking the panels. there's a control unit. That attaches to each panel of glass, and then those control units are all tied together and then that gives you one cohesive image plane from one panel to the next.  David: Do you have much of a seam in between them?  Todd Stahl: So, if you remember, at the trade show, I think we had two panels out there and we had a seam in the middle. So I'll see the seam, you'll see the seam, but when the image is playing, you really don't even notice it's there. A lot of times, depending on the application, a glass facade is a little different, because you're going to have all most likely all four edges of the glass covered, but, we have a lot of applications where the panels are being butt jointed together and it's a nice polished edge there. So, yeah, with the image running and stuff, you really don't even see it unless you get within a couple of feet of it.  David: So we're talking millimeters, not inches, in terms of a gap.  Todd Stahl: Yeah, absolutely. You know, a gap's going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of three, three-sixteenths of an inch, plus or minus. David: So not much at all.  Todd Stahl: Yeah, not much at all. Like I said, it's pretty cool. When that image is going, you're like, it just looks like one big piece of glass.  David: And there are technical limits, like if, let's say, an airport curtain wall that might be like 80 feet high for the side of a terminal or something like that. Can you do that?  Todd Stahl: Absolutely. That can all be tied in. You'd have several zones there, and depending on how you're handling the programming from a laptop, and something like that, you just say zone one's the entire thing, and then you might break it down into individual zones if you want different things playing at different times, but yeah, we this is definitely designed to do entire glass facades or, curtain walls. David: All those little lights generate some heat. How does the heat get out?  Todd Stahl: Yeah, so we've been working with these products for about two years now, and I always expect when I put my hand on the glass to touch it, that it's going to be nice and warm, but it really isn't. The heat definitely dissipates quickly. There is some energy consumption, and we have charts for that. So once we get into a building design, we can get in there and say, “Hey, this is what you're going to need for your power requirements.” But it has very similar power requirements to current LED displays that have been around for a while. But yeah, it doesn't really create much heat. You would think it creates more, and I'm telling you, whenever anybody sees it, one of the first things that they almost always do is, “Oh, I expected that to be warm” and they touch it, and it really isn't.  David: Well, one of the criticisms or let's say what a naysayer might say about this, is, “All right, if I buy this, glass panel with the LED mesh embedded inside of it, what happens if there's a dead pixel? I'm stuck with that forever. It can't be repaired because it's sandwiched in between two sheets of glass.”  Todd Stahl: You know, it was my biggest concern. We spent a good bit of time.  I think the lifespan of the LED bulbs we're using is right under 11 years. So we found the biggest problem that we've encountered, and this took us a while before we were going to bring it to market because that's by far the biggest concern; anyone looks at that and goes, it's not the first time I've ever seen a bulb, you know? So there's a couple of things. There's been a lot of research and development to make sure when it comes out of lamination that we've already caused any bulbs to fail before those processes, and we actually have a little bit of a protocol we've developed. So, one of the biggest reasons a light bulb is going to fail is the heat and pressure in that vacuum. It's not so much the heat, but the pressure because there's a little bit of movement in there. So if all those connection points aren't just right, you're going to get a bulb that may come out after you've done all of the work, and then you fire it up, and you know, there's a lot of bulbs, and a diode and only one is bad, it's not good. So we actually have a pre-laminating process we run to actually replicate what is going to go through the stressors of the lamination process. And if we find a bulb or a diode that might not be working, we can replace it after that pre-cycle of lamination.  Now, on the flip side, let's say it's out there, it's in the field. If we use annealed glass on the front surface, so, annealed is not tempered, but the backlight would be tempered, so you're still dealing with a, fully safety rated tempered and laminated makeup. We actually have a drilling process where we can drill a core out of the glass, and we can actually replace that LED diode. What our experience is that once they come through lamination so far, with all the panels we've been working on we have not had one go out and we've put them in some areas of our glass production facility near our tempering oven, which is a really cool piece of equipment. It has a 600 horsepower blower that when the tempered glass comes through, it cools it to dissipate the heat, but it draws some dust, there's some heat back there. We've had a panel running there for two years in that condition without any issues. But yes, you can actually replace the bulbs if you need to, if one goes out.  David: So I'm curious when an architect and a general contractor puts a building up, they're thinking in terms of being there for decades, with maybe the exception of football stadiums, which seem to need to be replaced every five years or so. Is 11 years an acceptable operating lifespan for a sheet of glass for a builder or for a building owner?  Todd Stahl: Yeah. I mean, our interlayers, they last 20-30 years. The interlayers and the glass products, yeah, they're going to last a very long time. When we've been bringing this product to market I think, the event back to the switch light is one of the first times you're us glass guys are introducing electricity into the mix. And at first that back in 2000, I mean, it was really cool. It had the wow factor, but it didn't quite last as long for me. I didn't really get into the product until recently. But you know, that product will last around 10 years as well, and we don't get a whole lot of callbacks very often with any of our glass products.  But it seems like most clients are happy with a 10-year usage. That's been pretty good for the Switch Lite product. We talk about a decade out there to the architects and designers now that, that's a number that they all seem to be very happy  David: Let's say a car dealer goes in, they're fine, they're thinking in terms of the glass that they put in is there for 10 years, and they may switch it out anyways?  Todd Stahl: Yeah, I think you know that everybody wants to be fresh and new. So we found a lot of these high-end retail stores that we've designed with, for instance, a high-end jewelry line, and let's say they have started in California with a new design. They take that design and they move it east to New York City. By the time they get to New York City, whether that's been five to eight years, and they redesign the whole thing over again. So there's a cycle and I think, especially with retail, and a lot of these buildings, they always want to have a new, fresh look, and I think a lot of times they're redesigning in under ten years for a lot of applications.  David: I'm guessing I could be wrong here, but I'm guessing that there's hyper-competition from China for, what I would say is conventional LED displays and so on; you're probably going to have less competition for what you're doing because of the sheer weight of, even if they can make glass cheaper over in China, shipping glass panels over here would be just ghastly expensive, right? Todd Stahl: Yeah, definitely. It's pretty heavy to air freight glass, so it's always nice that there's this thing called the ocean between us and China, especially us being we've been a manufacturer forever, and thankfully, it is a little expensive to ship a finished product like that and take some time. So, yeah, and you know, right now, we're kind of pretty far ahead of the curve in how to actually laminate this properly. Our feeling was when we got involved with this, all right, we got the LED technology. Now we'll just throw it in some glass, and we got a home run and it wasn't quite as easy to just throw it in glass and end up with a finished product, you know? There are still some areas. We are not the only ones in the world laminating this product, but there are, from what I know, under five; we're the only ones who can do it with thin and large panels. We're the only ones that I know of that are actually doing some of the very specific things to make sure it's going to perform properly in these laminated glass applications. In our process, we are patent protected in our process where I think we're just like in the first phase, I don't know all the legal terminology, but we're going through the patent process for the way we laminate it.  David: Which will help you over here, won't help you with Chinese products, but again, there's that ocean thing in between. Todd Stahl: Yeah, absolutely. We have a few intellectual properties here and I'm not one to get into too many legal battles, but we would have some type of recourse if someone does come and is trying to laminate in a similar technique the way we do it. David: I suspect you're kind of looking around the corner as to where this is going and the types of technologies that are emerging. Do you kind of see this as, what you have right now is Gen 1, and over time the light emitters will get smaller, the wiring will be even thinner and so on? Todd Stahl: Yeah, absolutely. I think that's exactly the way I see it going. I mentioned earlier: I really am a glass guy, and this is a glass company by people who absolutely love glass. Now, that's a Will Penn. Clear Motion, we have that same feeling as well, but this is more of a technology company. And what we're talking about today, like you said, generation one. We're going to revisit this in under five years, and it's going to look, I think, a whole lot different.  David: Who's buying it right now? And are you in the field with this?  Todd Stahl: So we're working on probably over 50 to 60 current projects right now in the design phase. Almost everyone we're working with has signed NDAs. So we can't necessarily say the clients that we're designing with right now. But one's a high-end fast food restaurant. They want one of these in each restaurant and that's actually for an exterior application.  David: Are these proposals or purchase orders?  Todd Stahl: They are proposals right now, so a lot of verbal commitments. We have a project we're working on in the Middle East in the design phase right now, that's 18 months out, the funding has been approved. They're designing it in the UK and then we're working with the audio visual company, I think in Texas. So this is really brand new.  David: You're in startup mode!  Todd Stahl: We really are, and this is the third company I've started literally from scratch, and I think it'll be the last one because boy, it is challenging. It takes a lot of energy. There's this great energy when you're starting it, and this is a little extra challenging because this is brand new. No one has ever seen clear LED glass displays like they just did not exist four years ago.  People might've thought they saw something similar. Like you said, it was a film or a grid that was put behind the glass. But when people are seeing this now, we're creating a new market, we're educating people to that market, and we're educating ourselves.  David: I'm guessing when people come to a stand at a trade show, you're at, the architects and the people who design physical spaces are the ones who are going, this is more like it. They haven't really liked the idea of films or foils and all that because of how they look at the back end or they're worried about a film sort of, particularly if it's exposed to UV light and all that, it's going to yellow and on and on…  Todd Stahl: So what the feedback from the A&D community has been? We did an AIA show in San Francisco last June, and we had one or two clients, say, “Hey Todd, we have the budget for this. We have clients who want this product, and we've been looking for it for years.” Then we start designing the project with them, and that's the thing: once I shake hands with an architect, we might not actually have that project begin production for 24 months to a year. So, depending if the building's coming out of the ground or if it's just a remodel of an existing one, it's a very long cycle until we actually get orders placed, and you know, something I've been dealing with for 30 years. It's kind of the way the industry is.  David: Infrastructure projects are never quick, are they?  Todd Stahl: No, they really aren't, but the A&D world is kind of our background. It's where we've been for a very long time in that space, and we've definitely noticed that companies, individuals in the audio-visual world respond to this entirely differently. This doesn't have as many questions in their minds. They're more educated because we've been used to dealing with LEDs for a very long period of time. So it's kind of interesting how the two markets work together, like the DSE show where we introduced the product, I would say more to the audio-visual world if I'm using the right terminology there, it was received just as with that much energy, a lot of more understanding right away, not as many technical questions. David: It's a variation on stuff they've been seen before, but maybe a better variation. Todd Stahl: Yeah, absolutely, and the architects, like you were saying, and even in general, I think even though LG makes an applied film. The North American President of, I forgot the gentleman's name, he was in my shop a little over a year ago, and we were working with his film, and then we showed him our LED glass, and he was blown away by it. David: “There goes my business”  Todd Stahl: Well, I think he was like, I'm going to make that too. I don't think he was worried about his business, but that applied film that they had been using, again, from a very long viewing distance, the product looks great. It's not yet ready to be viewed in shorter viewing distances, but the fact that it's applied, I do think that there is something like when you're buying a high-end product, you don't want people to be able to come up and pick it off, and I mean that definitely happens with every piece of film, I think I've ever worked with in my life. The first thing people do is take their fingernails, and they try to scrape the edge of it. It's just something that is instinctual about humans. But I think if you take that film now, I always say, if you put a piece of film on glass, it's just film. Once you laminate that film inside of the glass, you now have a glass product that protects it.  It does what you were saying. It prevents it from being yellowed over time because the inner layer blocks out almost 100 percent of the UV rays. So I think it's a great home for the LED mesh.  David: So does William Penn and Clear Motion Glass, do they operate separately, or are you kind of in the same office, the same building, and everything else, it's just different business cards? Todd Stahl: No, actually, we are in the same overall building complex, but we're not connected physically. So Clear Motion, basically has the equivalent of its own social security number, which down here in the business and for business, the IRS wants us to have EIN numbers for our businesses. So Clear Motion has an EIN number. Will Penn has an EIN number, obviously, but they definitely operate as two companies but obviously very close connections.  David: And you are running both?  Todd Stahl: I am running both right now, and spoiler alert: two's a lot harder to run than one.  David: Yes, I bet. If people want to find you online, they just go to ClearMotionGlass.com?  Todd Stahl: Yeah, that's it. They can find us there. There are some emails there. They can shoot an email to us and we'd love to talk to anybody if this product's right for them we're really excited about it and definitely creating a lot of energy with it. David: Are you at a trade show anytime soon?  Todd Stahl: Yeah, so we're doing Infocomm, I believe. It's the middle of June out in Vegas. Are you going to be there?  David: Yes.  Todd Stahl: Awesome, man. We get to meet in person, then. We'll carve out some time for that, Dave.  David: Absolutely, yeah, and that's a good show for you. There are tons of pro-AV people there. Todd Stahl: Yeah, I love that. That's a new space for us. So we're a little extra excited cause that's definitely not like a glass trade show is.  David: All right. Todd, thank you so much for your time.  Todd Stahl: All right. Yeah. I appreciate it, Dave. It was a pleasure.  

Marian Sandberg Started doing PR for Jack Kelly/Group One in 1996 and barely left the industry since!  Marian has diverse work experience spanning several industries and is currently the Vice President & Market Leader for LDI, DSE, and XLIVE at Questex. Prior to this, Marian worked at Informa from November 2016 to December 2019 as the Content Director for the Live Experience Group, where she was responsible for digital editorial, content strategy, video production, and conference content. Marian also shaped brand marketing strategy and monitored site metrics to optimize practices. Before Informa, Marian was the Editor at Live Design Magazine from February 2004 to November 2016.  Marian also completed the New York Iron Man in September 2023 which is a huge achievement.  This episode sponsored by Roe and Stratum Productions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geezersofgear/message

As this episode's title states, "the ticking has stopped". That's the time bomb that has been ticking away since Oct 2023. Bomb experts know that just before the explosion, the ticking stops...then BOOM. Viola, here we are. The public has never been so exposed to disaster in the past century, and now all concentrated in just a few names. Listen in and follow along with the charts below and see with your own eyes. It's very late at the party, and only bad things happen from here on. If you want help in setting up an action plan, call us at 640.CALL.DSE (640.225.5373)Here are the charts to follow along:Chart 1: The Magnificent 7https://drive.google.com/file/d/127Fw900Ilii7k5uoVzNX_tHdAEzm21O2/view?usp=sharingChart 2: NOT SINCE 1929https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sW4BXP2Uzm5r9wLnFz4mppuUNJnLOgKJ/view?usp=sharingChart 3: DEFAULTS early in new cyclehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1z8axlXk9ppd5EpFRo-6FDT6TNNOYYBn6/view?usp=sharingMUST READ REPORT, free from our friends at Elliott Wave International:https://www.elliottwave.com/KenTo learn more, visit:https://dsetrading.com/Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/ken-goldberg/

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Fourth Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend, I'm Esma Kallai. See, I told you you'd get lucky one of these days… You caught me in between destinations. Where am I headed? South! In this case, Fantabulous Florida. Surprised? Well, what did you expect? I spend all this time between worlds, I could use a little humidity and ocean breeze. You need to leave the fog to appreciate it, no? But listen, shun mon, I'm making this little trip to visit a friend of mine. The regular cast of creeps I spend time with beyond the known all had something to say about this next excursion. They adevel had to put themselves in my business! But a good friend is a good friend, and I'm not one to deny living in my truth. Neither is he. Who do I speak of? Florian Tacorian, a beacon of truth in a world designed against us. In fact, we live authentically in SPITE of all that crosses our paths. Why? Because we are the forces to be reckoned with, the names whispered that tremble the earth, legends among men…For Florian's videos and other resources, click here: https://linktr.ee/florida.florianMusical Performances:Shalamon, composed by Albert Horvath, was performed by Alex Udvary on cimbalom, Ryan Goldie on guitar, and Pierce Horvath on violinBasav Roma Lavuta's Magyar Roma Notak was performed by George Batyi on violin, Alex Udvary on cimbalom, and Billy Rose on guitarDreaming of You, composed and performed by Pierce HorvathThank you to all our listeners for keeping us going with four amazing seasons within 3 years of frightening fun! Yous are the life-blood of what keeps Dead Scared Ent. going!Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent

Por marcador 2-1, 5-2 en el global, el rebaño se dejó fuera a Forge FC, en la Concacaf Copa de Campeones, y espera rival, el cual puede ser América. ¿Para qué está el equipo de Fernando Gago? Polémico arbitraje dentro del área del futbol de norte y centroamérica. Triunfos para PSG y Lazio en los octavos de final de la UEFA Champions League. La gira de Jaime Lozano por Europa llegó a Santiago Giménez; Ignacio Ambriz fue presentado como entrenador de Santos; ya conocemos los autos de Mercedes y McLaren. Muere Diego 'Puma' Chávez, jugador de Bravos (Q.E.P.D) Se realizó el desfile de los Chiefs. Luis Arraéz perdió arbitraje salarial con Marlins de Miami. Hoy recordamos a Ricardo Rodriguez.

The accompanying three charts included in today's episode point to only one logical conclusion about the next few years of lifestyle in America...PAIN AND SUFFERING for most of us. Tune in as Ken takes only a few minutes to illuminate what history, not himself, but HISTORY shows is set to arrive next on the lifestyle calendar. It's not too late, in fact it's the perfect time to take protective action for your wealth, legacy, family, and perhaps how you'll spend the rest of your life. This is a critical listen, so share it with those you love.If you want help in setting up an action plan, call us at 640.CALL.DSE (640.225.5373)Here are the charts to follow along:Chart 1: Step Away From The HOPIUM...it's going to kill you!https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s5_6MaDfYcoOybXQoqcLAwb8Jh4zl9iL/view?usp=drive_linkChart 2: Peaked Pendulum Proclaims Problemhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/11VgvOV6UCDtPN8_R8mg0lKvriNsPOVin/view?usp=sharingChart 3: 2024 Wellness Checkhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1M-xupnP_Ue2Yr4rXnzuqkPf903D5ZnT7/view?usp=sharingMUST READ REPORT, free from our friends at Elliott Wave International:https://www.elliottwave.com/KenTo learn more, visit:https://dsetrading.com/Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/ken-goldberg/

This week on Dark Rhiino Security's Security Confidential podcast, Host Manoj Tandon talks to James Potter. James is an Active Directory veteran with nearly 25 years in the field. A native of Detroit, James started his career at the University of Michigan where at the tender age of 17, he helped U of M develop their computer systems. For the next two decades James earned his stripes in consulting with organizations like Ernst & Young and PwC before founding his own company, DSE, in 2019. At DSE, James leads a dynamic group of architects, engineers, and SMEs who help large international organizations secure and modernize their AD infrastructure. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest where—like a true son of Michigan—he restores old cars in his spare time.     00:00 Introduction 00:18 Our Guest 01:11 Starting in Active Directory 06:29 Has the security changed on a Jet Database? 08:06 The 3 tiers of security 11:44 What should SMBs do? Compliance vs Security 13:12 When you're small, you're the easiest target 16:40 Biggest risks that organizations face 20:02 Why do we still have Active Directory? 23:40 Foundational things that you should be doing 26:44 Escalation of Privileges  29:55 Asset Inventory: how do you control anything if you don't know what you have? 40:47 Mergers and acquisitions 43:50 DSE and Connecting with James

James Potter, CEO of DSE, joins us in the studio for great conversation and exclusive insight on Reputational Harm from Data Breaches, Cybersecurity Reputation Management and Operational Leadership. Find more on DSE here: https://www.dse.team/ Topics discussed:•           Target Breach & Surprises most don't know about•           Data Breach Consequences•           Reputational Damage Cybersecurity•           Data Breach Fallout•           Online Reputation After Data Breach•           Brand Image After Data BreachTry KiteWorks today at www.KiteWorks.comVideo Explanation Get Aura today! Complete Online Safety from friends at Cyber Threat Group. Watch Video Episodes! And Please...Subscribe to our YouTube Channel. Want to help us out? Leave us a 5-Star review on Apple Podcast Reviews. Submit Your Questions Direct and Find out more www.CyberCrimeJunkies.com Stay up-to-date on Cybersecurity with VIGILANCE Newsletter. Want Gear? We love our Small Business Sponsor, BlushingIntrovert.com. has it all. Women's clothing, cool accessories supporting Mental Health Research. https://blushingintrovert.com

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Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Third Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan this season, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!Hurry, hurry! Bundle up! Watch your step, the caravan is rather slippery when it snows this time of year. Speaking of which, I hope you and I are good company for each other. The annual sickness of hollies and jollies has yet again befallen the world- and even the next! All this merriment is just too, too much. It's even affected me! I just lined the outside of my verda with lights and garland. I know, ghastly! I've lost my senses, but I'm glad you're here with me to prowl back to the depths of dread and doom! Tonight, miro amal, we travel to icy, snow-ridden England, centuries ago, to a man just wrapping up his practice as a physician for the cold evening- yet not until he tends to one last patient... But, before that, there are TWO GHOULS who are clawing and gnashing their fangs to speak with us. I hope you brought them presents…The story read on this episode is "The Ghost's Summons" by Ada BuissonBe prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent

On this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we have a detailed conversation with James Potter, founder of DSE, about Active Directory.James boasts over two decades of expertise in Active Directory security, serving as a trusted consultant for major companies. His focus is on fortifying security measures and devising strategies to strengthen critical systems. He's collaborated with diverse teams, identifying vulnerabilities and implementing robust security measures while balancing cost, usability, and security for each client's specific needs.Beyond consultancy, James proudly leads a team at DSE, providing cutting-edge security solutions to global corporations. Actively engaging in the security community, he shares insights through conferences, publications, and forums, emphasizing continuous learning and innovation to counter evolving threats.His passion lies in aiding organizations to navigate the dynamic threat landscape, ensuring resilient security frameworks and efficient business objectives. Whether crafting secure Active Directory environments, conducting assessments, or delivering tailored training, James's dedication ensures exceptional results surpassing client expectations.James can be found on LinkedIn here: James Potter

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Third Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan this season, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!I'm so glad you've decided to join me on this journey. It's always a pleasure when there's company on my caravan. If you're all settled in, we'll head for our destination. We're going to the heart of Downtown Chicago to a building nestled among the many highrises and spectacles. Hard to believe that horror and thrills can reside among the steel and concrete, no? But amal, that's just it. Tonight we visit a non-believer, a man of logic. Although a creative in his own rights, Carlos Medina of Done by Design doesn't allow his imagination to get the best of him. Spooks and specters? Ha! Not for him. Yet, as you'll hear, he doesn't deny the unexplainable. What manner of unknowns do we speak of? Av mansa, come with me, back to a crisp Chicago October high above the bustling streets to a dimly lit office space. Let's see if we can turn you into a believer tonight… If you'd to learn more about Done by Design, head on over here: https://www.donebydesign.org/Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent

The Digital Signage Experience (DSE) is less than two weeks away, and, again, it will be co-located with the LDI Show. The industry's only exclusively digital signage show, DSE includes both a two-day exhibit hall and an educational component. DSE's David Drain joined me on my latest videocast to talk about the event — after watching, consider registering here. (P.S. code “rAVe,” and you can gain entry into both LDI and DSE for free.)

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Everybody who is active and experienced in the digital signage space knows the big evergreen challenge for solutions providers and end-users is content production - keeping programming on screens fresh and relevant, but also attractive. A lot of companies in the ecosystem - and not just the software guys - have some degree of template libraries and finished content that can be updated or pushed straight to screens. That's a piece of the solution. But there's also a demand for tools that make it easy and efficient to produce good-looking material for screens. In looking over the exhibitor list for the upcoming DSE trade show, I came across Design Huddle, and wondered, "Who is that and what do they do?" It's a small West Coast US startup that has B2B graphic design software that allows brands, agencies, and other platforms to create what it describes as lockable digital, video, print, and presentation templates for their users. There are some similarities to solutions like Canva, but also a lot of distinctions. The one that would particularly interest a lot of tech companies in this industry is the ability to fully integrate and white label the Design Huddle toolset inside something like a CMS. I haD a great chat with CEO and co-founder Dave Stewart, who is based (I'm jealous) in Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, there's LA traffic, but it's lovely by the water ... Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Dave, thank you for joining me. Can you tell me what the Design Huddle is all about? Because it's unfamiliar to me.  Dave Stewart: Yeah, absolutely. Ultimately, we are an enterprise focused on software as a service platform that focuses on templating and content creation in an easy and accessible way. We're definitely API-first, so we have a big focus on platform integrations where our customers are programmatically creating content, but then we're also really focused on end-user experience so people who are actually designing, whether that's static content or motion content in a browser, are able to really easily fill in pieces of a video template or create content really for any purpose. What kind of content would they be creating in the context of digital signage, which is obviously what I'm interested in?  Dave Stewart: Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, we were actually really surprised. We're relatively new to digital signage, and within the last year, we had to get up to speed ultimately because a couple of players in this industry came to us and really expressed, “Hey, content is a big issue for us, right? We can sell these really expensive screens and they're great, but our customers are just really struggling with what are we going to put on them and how's that going to look good, right? We can have a great-looking screen without good-looking content, so there's a problem.”  So, I've been educating ourselves on this very recently, and it's really a combination of things like static content where it's like, I'm just displaying basic information that might be somewhat real-time or just informational, then also, motion content for things like, imagine the signs that are up on a football stadium or in a basketball gym, where you want to show basic animated content, that's talking about whatever the context is for that sport or things like that. So it's been a little bit of everything, but imagine anything that can be shown on a sign, someone's creating that somewhere, right?  Right. Is the core idea that the end user, the operator would be selecting from a template library or are they creating stuff from scratch or how does it work? Dave Stewart: Yeah, absolutely. We are actually just the software. We're not actually playing in the content game ourselves. We just make it really easy to create content on our platform, and generally, that's going to mean importing from existing design files and animation files that you've created elsewhere. We can import PDFs and maintain all the layers. So any static content that's generated in any Adobe product or Figma, we can essentially just import it in and maintain that. In After Effects, you can now export to a format called Lottie files and Lottie files can be imported into our system and now essentially we can have really rich animations generating After Effects that are really easily customizable by an end user and also programmatically via API. So that's the starting point for most of our customers is generating their content on their side, whether they're contracting with an agency or they have a team internally, it's building these things. The main thing they're focused on is, we just don't want to have to do these customs per customer. I was super surprised to find out that some of the initial interest from us, these hardware companies have content teams that are literally generating content individually for their customers and to me, that was crazy. but they had to, because that was the way they were going to sell their hardware.  So we're just changing that a bit where it's like, just do that once, right? Generate some templates for them and then give them the power, empower them to actually make the changes for themselves, or, again, do it programmatically for them. So I'm curious. Is this the sort of thing that is best suited to somebody who's already a motion graphics designer, an animator, somebody with quite a deep set of creative skills or maybe technical skills?  Dave Stewart: I would say a big focus of ours is when it comes to who we are going to sell to. Definitely, software companies are high up on that list who have a general system that's trying to do a lot of things and specifically in digital signage, that might be a CMS or any of these other acronyms that we've come to find out exist here where they're trying to do a lot of things. We're just the content piece, and we feel like we can really stand out by creating a best-in-breed, seamlessly integrated white-labeled product that can fit into their platform in a way that feels proprietary but adds best-of-breed, innovative content creation ability. Now, when it comes to who's creating that content whether they have an internal design team with some expertise or whether they contract an agency just to initially create them a set of templates, it can work either way. I will also say, though, that we do work with brands directly, where brands are creating branded content that might be shown on lots of screens but they want to empower regular users to be able to make changes to those templates while still adhering to brand consistency and their brand guidelines and so like our locking feature is big in that situation because someone creates a template but then now anybody can actually make basic adjustments to it. So it sounds like it's a little reminiscent of what I've been hearing in the last year about AI and how generative AI isn't going to really replace designers, but it does add a considerable layer of efficiency in that you can remove some of the drudgery and some of the building block stuff and automate that or streamline that but it's not meant to just take designers out of the equation. Dave Stewart: No, definitely not. I feel like we're really excited about AI and everyone says that, but I'll get more specific for you. I think, for us right now, we actually just sent out an AI survey to our customers to try to prioritize the main things that they're really interested in. For us, the basic stuff, like background removal, like removing background from images, which we already do, and background from videos. You have things like speech-to-text to provide like auto captioning and things like that. Obviously, generative AI, where you're prompting via text to say, “Hey, I want an image that shows this, or I want to alter this one image to include this”, all those things fit in really well with what we do, but where we want to take that even further is, okay, let me generate a whole bunch of template ideas for you that are basic iteration changes from a set of templates that we may train a model on. So we're actually gonna take all your content you've made and the holy grail for us is, let us shoot out and show you a bunch of previews of a bunch of similar-looking templates that follow the same kind of styles, maybe themes or layouts. But in a new way you're still starting with the designer that needs to set the standard but you're able to generate content in a much quicker way and remove a lot of the monotonous activity that's usually involved there.  So what would be involved in using it? Dave Stewart: Yeah, absolutely. So typically what will happen is, again, two sides of our business. We have a platform side where we're going to be very hands-on with our customers and integrate this into some platform that they already have, where there are already users where they need to add on templating or improve some existing content creation suite that they have inside that. So, we would inherit those users and they seamlessly became part of that platform. The other side of the business is, okay, their turnkey solution where we might work with an agency or brand directly. We white label it and they log into a portal that like we create, but it's white labeled for you on your domain. and the idea is that a user is just signing up and accessing a template in a way where you are just a distribution mechanism to provide them content that way. Either way, it's going to be in the context of a browser, whether that's on desktop or mobile and generally it's going to be filling out a template that someone has gotten you, let's call it 80 percent of the way there. Okay. So like you were saying earlier, it's not really that you would go in and say, I want to do a 15-second promotional spot for a car dealer and I would go find a template that seems to be about retail or car dealers or whatever it may be and I can monkey around with that. This is more important than what you already have and automating and making it much more efficient to do that sort of thing. Dave Stewart: Honestly, I think it's both. We have some customers that definitely fall more in the former, for sure, where they have more generic content that they're trying to reach a lot of people with and they're creating more generic content that could be used for different purposes while still allowing the user to really personalize it for themselves. But then, we also have customers that are trying programmatically.  So, let's walk through the car dealer one then. If I'm Bob's shovels in Fairbanks, Alaska or whatever it may be and I want to create five ads for our fall clearance event and I don't have Motion graphics animator on my team or anything like that. What would I do?  Dave Stewart: Yeah. No, absolutely. So in that situation, again, they're not necessarily like someone that small isn't going to be our customer directly. We're going to inherit them from the fact that they work with some other company, whether that's an agency or they have digital signage. Let's imagine that. They bought a digital sign and part of that came a subscription to some sort of content creation suite and we just designed how it all just so happens to power that content creation suite. That would be the scenario where we might be involved with a small business like that. In that situation, that would entail that the agency or the hardware company that is providing that software suite has created some basic templates for this type of customer, which is exactly what we're seeing happen by the way.  and again, I was very surprised about this, that these hardware companies would actually have content teams doing this but that's exactly what's happening. and so, the content teams are just really excited that they don't have to do super personalizing custom graphics, both motion and static for the customer anymore. They can just create templates and let the customer have them themselves.  So one of the main reasons that end users and solutions providers to some degree struggle with all of this in terms of content is cost. Agency costs are higher and everything else and the idea of these kinds of tools is attractive for a number of reasons. But one of them is, this will lower my costs of producing content. I assume you guys have done some sort of calculations to say to your potential customers that if you use our stuff, you can potentially save this kind of money. Dave Stewart: Yeah. Ultimately, not that we're in the business of replacing designers that you might already have on staff, but most of the time we're getting brought in a situation where there's a design team and currently what they're super focused on is super monotonous, non creative work where they're taking a Photoshop file and making basic text changes and dropping in images. and think about the salary of someone like that and what you're paying for. We would say, we're not trying to replace that person but let's focus that, some of that person on something actually creative, that's going to move the needle for your business, not on this monotonous work that could absolutely be done by the user themselves in a simple templating solution. So, that's how we'd approach it and so when we talk about cost savings, again, you could think about the fact that, Hey, this salary is gone, but ultimately we'd say, no, let's just repurpose that salary for something useful. Okay.  So do you want to go back to skill sets? What realistically do you need to use this? You're going to be a designer or something already?  Dave Stewart: Yeah. I would say, look, Canva is a really interesting thing to look at because Canva came on the scene and showed everyone that a platform like this in the browser can be really easy to use and we can remove a lot of the friction and difficulty that's been associated with static and motion content in the past. And so Canva has really educated the market on what's possible and that anybody can kind of design following templates and ultimately, I would say, while we're not trying to be Canva whatsoever, there's clearly a lot of overlap in what we do in terms of a simple user interface, a really easy to create templating solution. The big differentiation there is clearly that we're fully white labels and we're embedding this into some proprietary solution, typically in a way that really well fits into that ecosystem, whatever it might be in a seamless way.  So, how did the company get started?  Dave Stewart: Yeah, absolutely. So as I mentioned, digital signage is relatively new for us and we're really excited about it, but ultimately, we operate in other verticals, so the opportunity originally was more like as we do in terms of media types, we support print, even large format prints. For instance, we were at ISA earlier this year and our focus going to that was actually more on non-digital billboards and things like that. That was actually really interesting, by the way, as an aside, because, on the plane ride there, some people behind me were talking about one of our larger customers who's actually a major player in digital signage and it opened my eyes to, wow, this is a much bigger company than I even realized. and they're having content issues. There must be lots of additional opportunities here. So, going into that show, again we shifted and pivoted. It's like, Hey, you know what? Digital signage is actually a bigger opportunity than we thought. But to answer your question, again, starting in some of those other media types, we just saw the need for really simple white labeled, digital content creation, whether that be for ads, whether that's just basic social media graphics and posts and basic print collateral. There are lots of sites that are just offering like, whether that's a printing website or whether that's an agency just providing content to their users. Content is content and at the end of the day and it can be all sorts of things. We've really just focused on how do we create a really consistent experience for both motion and static? How can we really seamlessly tie together? Even like print and digital content in a really simple to use easy editor and that has ended up applying to lots of industries and it's been really exciting to find that out  In terms of the business itself, what would be the breakdown roughly of what you're doing for print, what you're doing for online, what you're doing for digital display, like digital signage is digital signage?  Is digital signage a big component of it, or is it just something you're trying to educate the market on and grow? Dave Stewart: Yeah. Honestly, like I mentioned, we've just gotten into digital signage recently, so clearly it's not a huge piece of the pie yet. We do have very large goals in digital signage Though, we actually do see digital signage being a pretty decent slice of the pie, within the next two years, but as of right now, I'd say that it's hard because of the number of customers versus actual revenue. A lot of our revenue is tied to digital, for sure. So, there are a lot of use cases for ads, social media graphics, things like that, which were our bread and butter. We have a lot of print-focused customers. The revenue is not as high there. There's just more of them, quantity-wise. But I would say that both of those are fairly client counts evenly split. It's definitely skewed more revenue-wise toward digital and what's been really interesting is a lot of these digital-focused, even with social media. They are the ones that push us into video, right? So, like motion content, as it pertains to digital signage, we were already creating HD-quality video just to try to serve that digital market with a priority to know about digital signage. So it's been really interesting to see that a lot of the things that we've done can apply in other areas and it's really just about how we can make a better mousetrap when it comes to end user simplicity of content customization and then programmatic API first control of a platform like this?  Are you constrained at all in terms of formats and resolutions and things like that are obviously day to day things in digital signage? Dave Stewart: Yeah, what's really cool is that from the beginning, we've made it really easy to do basic resizing and that an end user could actually resize. So, if there's a slightly different aspect ratio as we can obviously find very frequently on digital signage. Our algorithm will automatically move things around for you and try to keep the design kind of integrity maintained. Now that doesn't work perfectly when you have huge aspect ratio shifts, like clearly if you're going portrait to landscape, it's not going to necessarily work as well. But yeah, it is a big component of this. I would say that on the other side of it, on the programmatic side, we will have customers that will create different templates for slightly different aspect ratios and then ultimately they'll use our API to populate all of them at once with the same data. So you're now spitting out a whole bunch of creativity at one time, leveraging the same data images, text colors, all of it. Now you've just generated a whole pack for users that might have signs of different sizes. So in terms of outputs, you can do HD video.  Dave Stewart: Absolutely. Yeah. Now we haven't gotten into a 4k yet. There hasn't been demand because typically 4k is going to be created on professional desktop software. We can do it and we are thinking we're going to get pushed into that. and honestly, it's just going to take one customer that kind of just tells us they really need it to pull the trigger on it, but absolutely, 1080p video we've been doing from the beginning.  And are there any other issues around the output files? Like the video is 30 frames per second, that sort of thing? Dave Stewart: Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So we're trying to follow all the industry standards there and honestly, even if a client has very specific requirements when it comes to Codecs and it comes to specific quality of specific items. We're a very customizable platform like we have settings for all of those things that we can match what you need. One of the bigger things has been transparent video. So, we actually are one of the few browser tools that actually supports transparent video, which is difficult because it's not cross browser. There's not one format that works cross browser on that and so importing transparent video files and maintaining them is obviously huge for things like background removal and things like that. But that's been a big one because combining that with our support for Lottie files, which I mentioned Lottie files earlier, but they're really exciting what you can do with them and that plus just bit motion clips that you've either pulled from our stock libraries or that you've shot yourself. Putting all that together, there's a lot of really cool things you can do and they're now attainable by a user who's not a professional motion graphic artist. So yeah, it's really cool. What's possible now.  So I'm very curious about the programmatic piece, and I think for people listening, it's important to understand we're not talking about programmatic advertising here where you're talking about programmatic content creation. Dave Stewart: Yeah, and I will say the overlap there is we do have some clients that are in ads and they will actually use our template platform to do A/B testing on those ads where we'll pass in slightly different colors, slightly didn't copy, to generate a bunch of creatives at once. That's our overlap in the ad space, but yes, when we talk about programmatic, I really just talk about programmatic content creation and the fact that with our API, you can generate all sorts of variations of content very quickly, including videos. We have some clients that don't even show our editor to the user. It's really just about, Hey, I want to generate a video that's 15 seconds from this template where it incorporates the customer's brand, their colors and their tagline and their company name. So, spit this out and show them this. It's that easy, right? You don't even have to have them open the editor and do it themselves. Can you give me a good example of how. You could use APIs and data tables and everything else to automate the production of a whole bunch of media pretty quickly.  Dave Stewart: Yeah, absolutely. So if you are at a campaign that you were pushing, where you're really just trying to get out consistent messaging and you were needing to do that again, I won't even limit this to digital signage because a lot of our clients will choose us because of the fact that we can operate there and across their other marketing collateral at the same time.  But the idea would be if the messaging is the same and you already have branded templates that are the starting point for a lot of different content you might be creating, great. Pass in the mess, the specific messaging, pass in specific keywords to generate images or pass in the specific images directly. Let us fill all of those in at once and generate a whole campaign pack for you in one shot. What about for scale? Let's say you have, I don't know, a retailer that has 800 locations across North America and they want to be hyperlocal about the marketing or messaging or, “Here's our store manager for this location” or whatever. They have a template. They want to knock out 800 unique versions of this or with some variations on it. What kind of time is involved in doing that?  Dave Stewart: It's a great question. I'm glad you brought that model because we were actually operating in the franchise space before we even looked into digital signage at all because franchises specifically that have these locations all over the place had this issue with print, had this issue with social media that's been around for a very long time and so they would come to us because what will happen is those store managers or locations are either one requesting individual personalized graphics from the corporate design team on a very regular basis and kind of and completely, taking off all their time doing that, or two, they're going rogue and building off-brand content and it looks terrible and the marketing manager is finding it online and is just pissed off.  So one of those two things is happening and where we would come in is look, the only way that you're going to solve that is if you make it easy for them, because if it's not easy, they're going to try and do it themselves. or if they have to wait for you to do it for them, they will do it themselves. So the only way to do it is, Hey, how do we make this such an easy process that anybody can come in and feel like this is going to be the fastest way anyway and it's also going to look great. Why not use that? So ultimately what will happen is, again, the brand manager, corporate team, or whoever is going to create the template. Ultimately, that franchise, franchisee, that store manager, whoever it is, is going to log into the system and they're going to find the template.  If they just and , most of the time, these are super locked down. So I have this template and ultimately, I just want to let the store put their store hours right here and maybe some sort of sale information on a specific percentage discount on something, whatever that thing might be and so literally, the user is just going to click that, change the text and then export it, right? It doesn't take any time whenever you've really focused on the template.  So yeah, they can't go in and change it to Comic Sans or put in a picture of their dog or whatever.  Dave Stewart: No, our locking feature is something we spent a lot of time on. You can take it very far. Most of our clients will lock down almost everything, but we've made it to where you have full control over exactly what users can and can't do.  You were talking earlier about Canva and there are a few kinds of platforms out there that are variations on this, or do some of what you're doing. I'm also thinking about Promo and Shaker Media over in Korea. When you get asked about your company versus those kinds of companies, particularly Canva, what do you say?  Dave Stewart: Yeah, no, absolutely. It's really interesting because, again, we don't really compete with Canva, like even with Canva Enterprise solution, we don't really compete with them because ultimately, customers are coming to us because they want this white-labeled and embeddable into their own platform or make it seem proprietary. They want to have control.  Right now, when you go to Canva, you have no control, right? They control the interface. They control the layout. They control the flow. You have zero say in terms of what the user then can do and where they can go and go off crazy and get lost inside the Canva ecosystem. We're like the opposite, right? The whole goal of this is you make it what you want. You show exactly what you want. You lock down what you want and it looks like it's yours and that's why people are going to come to us.  A lot of overlap and functionality, like you said, when it comes to content creation, features and things like that, we definitely have focused on more of some of the more niche-specific things that Canva hasn't, like for instance, for print, we have full CMYK capability, Canva doesn't really. It's a conversion process for them, but we started from the ground up. For large format prints, we support really large format printing for things like large banners and things. That's not something you're really going to do on Canva. For video, this idea that we can support, like these, Lottie files and transparent video, like Canva just launched Lottie files, but their implementation is really simple where you can only really use basic, almost GIF-type content. We've taken it way further. We just go deeper on the more professional aspects and then, again, are more focused on the white-label, embeddable nature of it.  You have a booth of some kind at Digital Signage Experience. I assume you're there to start building partnerships and creating awareness that you exist. If I'm a CMS software company, that is probably the best example, what kind of work is involved if I say, “This is awesome, I'd love to integrate this into my overall solutions offer and have it white labeled.” Is that a three-month journey, a twelve-month journey, or allocating five people to work on it for a month or just how does all that come together? Dave Stewart: Yeah, that's a great question. Now we're really excited about DSE coming up. This is the first time we're even attending and we're really excited to exhibit based on, again, what we've heard and who's going to be there. So super excited about that and I'd say that when it comes to who we're trying to reach there and understanding how it would work to work with us, for a CMS company, honestly, our messaging, you'll see this in our booth is all about and we feel like you've ever actually tried to do some level of content creation already as part of a platform and so our messaging is mostly, “Hey, let's upgrade that. Let's make that a little better. Let's improve that inside of your system because we can do that and make it still feel like it's yours.”  So that is our focus in terms of messaging to them and I would say that in terms of the actual implementation for a company like that, we have a lot of walk-before-you-run type solutions when it comes to integrations. So a lot of our customers will actually start by initially just using our kind of turnkey portal that we have out of the box and then getting their initial customer buying on there and starting to create the templates that way, before actually doing the deep integration. While they're doing that, they're slowly starting to build the integration in and they could do a really basic integration where they're mostly just embedding all of our components in a simple way and then facilitating fairly basic workflows and then that's like a starting point. Then we would say that the next step is, okay, how do we incorporate some of the other data that you have in your CMS to do the automatic population of content where we can take event-specific information or location-specific information and start injecting it automatically, leveraging our API. So that would be like a second step and then how do we make sure that this feels seamless at every part of your workflow, maybe that's a third step. So we would say that a really basic integration takes a team one or two months, typically, just to get started and then we would say that if you're doing something really deep, maybe a few months after that, over time, starting to get it ingrained more and more. And what are the commercial aspects of this? If I am a CMS software company, I think this is really intriguing. What's it going to cost me to work with Design Huddle?  Dave Stewart: Yeah. So again, being enterprise-focused, we found that there are no two customers alike. We actually assign what we call personas to their end users and we say, we have some customers, like their users come into the system once a year and we have some customers where they're using the system every day. We can't price that the same; it's going to be a little bit different. When we talk about API-driven fully use cases where there's no end-user or direct interaction with our editor, that's a little simpler because we can just price it based on API activity and it's fairly straightforward. But when we talk about end users, no users are the same, so we actually do a pretty custom proposal process for customers and we dig into their specific use cases and try to assign a persona to these users. Still, ultimately, the idea would be that, in a user-based kind of pricing proposal like that, the more users you bundle, the bigger discount there is and then we have overage tiers where the cost per user gets cheaper as they grow.  The idea is that we're scaling together and things get cheaper and you get to get more profitable over time.  But for the purposes of referencing this, I'm sure there are people listening, thinking this is really interesting, but is this going to cost me like a quarter million dollars or something?  Dave Stewart: Oh, no!  It's $500 for Starter, $750 a month for Pro and then you've got Enterprise and as you said, that depends on all kinds of variables.  Dave Stewart: Yeah and each one of those, just to be clear, includes a certain number of users, right? and the number of users that's included, again, is getting into what I was just trying to describe as it can vary a little bit. But yes, we're definitely not a quarter-million-dollar product, starting point, right? We have a basic setup fee, which is usually in the low thousand s and then, in the hundreds typically for most initial engagements or low thousand s.  For that setup, that's because you're going to spend all this time working with your partner companies to sort out how to do this. Dave Stewart: We are very hands-on. I know a lot of companies say that, but honestly, for us, it's a huge waste of our time to spend a lot of time with you upfront, try to get it going and then it does not succeed. So we do everything we possibly can at the beginning of the engagement to make sure that you have the tools you need. We actually create custom documentation for every customer that lays out exactly what they need to do based on a consultation session where we talk through the specific platform, what they need to do, what they're trying to accomplish, give them tips and tricks and advice based on what we've seen successful for other customers. That's all part of it. In addition, obviously, training for content creation, like getting your templates in the system. All of that is very front-loaded and so that's where our setup fee is really focusing on that initial time we're going to spend with you to make sure that it's successful. Yeah, I've certainly seen some setup fees from software companies where I thought, okay, that's just a cash grab. But that definitely doesn't sound like the case here. Dave Stewart: No, it really isn't. Honestly, we're probably doing that at a cost, to be honest and then the idea is that once you're in, it's a great thing, like as much as we make our team available around the clock to answer, to always be around support wise, like we hear, as you can imagine, less and less from clients over time, right? So if we can make them successful at the beginning, They're really easy long term and we're just growing together and they're happy and, then, all of our support costs are front-loaded for that reason.  You're a virtual company, West Coast. How many people are in the company? Dave Stewart: So yeah, the latest count is, I'm about to hire another one, so around 12-13. We're relatively small.  Canva's got 3,500 or something like that?  Dave Stewart: Oh yeah and it's fun, right? We're a really nimble team. You know, this is my second go-around. My last company, I took it to about 150 employees before I exited, so we're still pretty early on our journey here and that's really exciting for us because we see so much opportunity in this.  I do expect this to grow a lot in the next two years. but we are a lean team of seasoned and professional software professionals and we're able to do a lot with a fairly small team right now.  And is this bootstrapped or venture-backed? Dave Stewart: Yeah, great question. My previous company actually started in the 2009 timeframe when everything crashed and there was really no money going around the way that it was capitalized. It ended up biting me in the end, and it left a bad taste in my mouth.  So going into this, my partners and I were really trying to bootstrap this from the beginning. I wanted full control over how this is going to work. That said, very early on, we had a large company come to us and say, “Hey, we really want to use you guys, but we're too worried about whether you're going to be around next year.” That company is Smartsheet, right? They own a company called Brand folder, which was the one interested in us. Smartsheets is a public company, they're very large, so they ended up becoming a small minority partner. They did basically a strategic round with us. That's a very small percentage, but ultimately it gives a lot of people a little bit more comfortability working with us because they're our backstop. The only reason that they invested was really just to make sure that we were going to stick around because they were going to be so invested in us. So they're there for that reason that said we are fully, sustainably and profitable at this point. So we, actually, are currently setting our own. Of course, we're in a really good position and we're excited about that coming from my previous experience. If people are going to DSE, they'll be able to find you on the exhibit floor and I know you're coming to the mixer; and if they want to find you online, how do they do that? Dave Stewart: Yeah, absolutely. They can definitely check out our website, designhuddle.com. You can reach out to schedule some time with us. We are doing some of the DSE kind of promotional material. You may have just seen an email about us there where you can schedule some time with us at the show. but yeah, we would love to hear from you. We'd love to talk with everyone. As I mentioned, we're excited to learn more about this industry and get deeper into it and we'd love to have all the conversations we need to figure that out. Great. All right, thank you, Dave. Much appreciated.  Dave Stewart: Awesome. Thanks so much, Dave. It was a pleasure.

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Third Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan this season, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!The Witching Hour has finally fallen upon us. The veil between dimensions is at its thinnest and the air is filled with the frenzy of the unknown. Take it all in with a deep breath amal, it's Halloween! The one night of the year we cherish. Candles flicker in Jack O' Lanterned porches. Ghosts sway with the breeze on trees. Spiderwebs glisten with the dew of the morning after the blackest of nights. A festival of splendor I'd say. Appreciated by young and old. Our next guest is one of the many that take part in the festivities, but draws a line in the sand after a point. That point is the line of demarcation between the fun and fancy free frolics of the orange autumnal jubilee and the cold, endless recesses of blackness, haunted by the spirits and entities our feeble minds cannot comprehend. Don't worry though, I saved you a seat, right next to me, so we can visit her and listen to her tales of terror on this our favorite day of the year. Are you frightened? You should be…Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent 

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Third Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan this season, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!Latchi Ratyi miro amal, Good evening friend, I'm Esma Kallai. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't take you for the hesitant type. If you're friends with me, you know we move head-on into the fray. Danger to us is like brains to the zombie- or a good pair of kamashi on sale! In some ways, life isn't worth living if we don't stray from the straight and narrow path into the unknown, even the esoteric at times. Isn't that what makes being scared just so satisfying? I know we think so! But, our friend tonight, Ray Martinez of Done by Design, has his limits. Like any red-blooded human in these modern times, he enjoys a good horror picture. Can't get enough of ‘em. But it's when the scares become reality, when you can't change the channel and walk away,that's when his line is drawn. When was the line drawn for him? Well, in our usual fashion, it's time to journey into the world of the fantastic, the world of fear- and there's a seat right next to me on this verda amal. Are you all settled in? …Good. Because it's time to find out…If you'd to learn more about Done by Design, head on over here: https://www.donebydesign.org/Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent 

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Third Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan this season, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend, I'm Esma Kallai.  If you know me, you know I rarely stay in one place for long. The reason? Simple. There's so much in this world, the next, and the many thereafter that makes existence worth exploring. But, throughout the many journeys I have taken, I find there are things, things and people, that connect them all together. It takes on the likeness of an ethereal spider web, glistening in between the stitches of each world and the next. This world you inhabit amal, happens to have its strongest ties between mortal souls. Alive… and dead. Be it blood, tears, history; I find that there are bonds between man that cannot be explained. Bonds of friendship. Bonds of horror. Tonight, Jezmina von Thiele and Paulina Stevens, the Romane Titans that make up the Romanistan Podcast, sit side by side with us in our Verda Darano as well travel to places and people where fear lives within. There's no turning back, the bonds are molded, your fate is sealed!!Interested in hearing our episode on The Romanistan Podcast? Listen here if you dare: https://www.romanistanpodcast.com/podcast-1/episode/7dd48f5e/spooky-stories-x-o-verda-darano-crossoverBe prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent  

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Third Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan this season, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal. Good Evening friend, I'm Esma Kallai. My caravan has taken us from coast to coast and to worlds beyond and back. Each journey colored by its own shade of shadows. Yet each of these shadows, adorned in fables and lore, can be deemed mere hallucinations by some. Figments of an overactive mind, riddled with fears and folktales. But reality, true reality, the reality we inhabit amal, is more petrifying than we can think. What do you fear when you have conquered the Boogeyman? Man. The people among us and their ability to rob us of our naivety. Tonight, we visit our friend Sharon Peterson of Incredible Bats to hear her ventures in the truth, both inspiring and horrifying. Do you dare to hear what lurks behind the truth? Here's a hint: her many bats and creepy creatures are the least of your worries… Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent  

Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal, Good Evening Friend! You're listening to the Third Season of O Verda Darano! We go Beyond the Caravan this season, visiting fiends from around the country and globe, Roma and Gadje alike. We'll talk with businesses, wildlife efforts, and true characters that will surely entrance your ears with each passing minute!Latchi Ratyi Miro Amal. Good Evening friend, I'm Esma Kallai. I'm ever thrilled to see you here for tonight's journey. It seems like ages since we've crossed paths. But come along, the moon is high and the trees stir. Is it goblins? No. Ghouls? Nem. Spirits? Nothing of the sort amal! Tonight, we go beyond my caravan of fears, and head to Austin Texas to pay a visit to some of our companions of the twilight. There's no rush, they just so happen to be “hanging around”... as will we be when we speak with Hilary Pelham and Alexandria Haynes of the Austin Bat Refuge. Oh come-come, don't tell me you're afraid of bats? Shun man, listen to me. Take a deep breath, muster up your courage, and open your mind and heart. You'll find tonight will never leave you the same…Be prepared to travel to places and dimensions not suited for man or beast! Dead Scared Entertainment brings you fear you can hear! A brand-new concoction of Roma storytelling through a broadcast-style podcast.Click on our Linktree to stay connected with all things DSE: https://linktr.ee/deadscaredent  

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日前討論到芯片的市場現象，有讀者提問：「為何台積電無法賺更多錢？」首先，有個因果關係我們必須搞清楚：世界上只有少數生產芯片的工廠，例如台積電，究竟是因為這個行業難度很高？還是因為成本高但又不是特別賺錢，所以不是很多人願意投資，結果令到工廠的數目不多？其實前日的文章，主要就是想讓大家重新了解，像半導體行業，雖然某些時候可以賺取豐富收益，然而大多數時候，賺錢能力一般；而當中提到可以賺取豐富收益的「特殊環境」，例如是微型電腦興起的 1980 、 1990 年代，Wintel 組合，是某程度上是歷史的偶然。我也明白朋友為何對「台積電股價不及 NVIDIA 」的現象大惑不解。因為在我們深層的思維當中，認定了「困難的事情必然是賺錢的」。同樣道理，難入的大學課程，也一定是最賺錢的神科；這無疑是十分常見的思維方式，但絕對不是合符邏輯的思維。如果極端地打個比喻：我不知有幾多人能做「手倒立跑馬拉松」，難度足夠高吧？那麼「手倒立跑馬拉松」能否賺大錢呢？賺錢與否，與困難度的因果關係又是什麼？我不是說沒有關係，但究竟甚麼是因，甚麼是果呢？趁 DSE 放榜，不如今天打算以選擇科目進入大學為例嘗試解釋，為何狀元學生都選讀醫。選科，其實也是個投資的決定。讀醫又是否真的最賺錢？是因為醫科難入才最賺錢？還是因為做醫生最賺錢，所以最「叻」的學生才去讀醫？醫科 vs 工程每年中學文憑考試（DSE）放榜，傳媒都會例行公事地訪問「狀元」，而「狀元」也會例牌地說讀醫是為了服務人群、救人於危難。坊間也自然有些 Cynical 的人會說，讀醫賺錢多，然後便沒有然後。但我想補充一點，即便你認為讀醫是最賺錢的，但根據我粗略蒐集得來的數據，各行各業賺錢最多的，並非醫生。我們應當分清「賺得最多」和「普遍來說賺得最多」這兩個概念。甚麼行業最賺錢？比如說演藝行業、體育明星，當中有人窮奢極侈，但也有人就只是窮，收入兩極化的情況，可能比社會平均更嚴重。所謂狀元，其實都是保守和避免風險的人。他們選擇讀醫科，說穿了就是：「即使是這個行業中，你的表現只是一般，收入也會普遍地高於社會上的其他行業。」其實入醫科不用明明科科都拿 5**，偏偏這些就是乖學生，所以寧願做多一點，也不願意冒險。我認為這樣的性格，確實適合成為醫生。有些專業就是需要這種思想謹慎，「唔怕一萬最怕萬一」的人；他們雖然很少會做出創新的事，但也不會犯大錯；可以說，他們選了醫科，醫科也選了他們。順帶一提，若以平均收入計，現今美國最賺錢的學科是工程。道聽途說，許多醫科生花在學校讀書，以及在培訓、實習的時間，遠超於其他專業，很多人甚至要到50歲左右，才還清學債。所以，雖然有很多優秀的中學生，在讀本科的時候會仍然說他們會讀準醫科（Pre-med），但最終入醫學院的人其實並不多。另外，工程和醫學都有一個共同特點，就是只要你努力，那怕不是很有創意的人，一樣可以有不錯的事業；但正如以上所講，我們的社會確實需要大量謹慎勤奮的人。但同時社會也要有創新的一面，要有人願意冒險，肯去嘗試用不同方法解決問題，而工程的特點正在於，假如你是個喜歡創新且善於解決問題的人，工程可以給你提供實現理想的機會，相反如果你是喜歡守規矩的人，工程亦一樣有空間讓你發揮。所以，從學生選擇讀甚麼，也可以反映出美國和香港社會文化差異；見到有朋友感嘆香港的教育制度不能培養出具有創新和冒險精神的人，這一點我是十分認同的。投資者 vs 投機者回到今天的主題，假如今天可以讓大家釐清一個概念，那就是困難的事和是否能賺錢，可以是完全沒有關係，應該分開看待。有很多人想當然地覺得，台積電是因為門檻高，所以應該很賺錢，但這其實是個典型的思考陷阱。就正如大家直覺認為，入醫科很難，所以醫生一定賺很多錢。我甚至乎可以大膽講，台積電也好，NVIDIA 也好，當然想讓外界覺得，他們是獨一無二，別人莫講是模仿，那怕是要有基本條件去跟他們競爭也不容易。但試問那一間公司會讓人覺得自己是很易模仿，任何人都做得到？但自從美國 2022 件推出所謂的晶片法案之後，明顯見到台積電的股價對比 NVIDIA ，表現明顯落後了很多。簡單講，未來幾年，美國將會有資金投入製造芯片的工廠；雖說目前芯片供應不足，可能會維持一段日子，但這是只周期性的現象，而不是結構現象。當工廠多了，競爭大了，對台積電不會是好事。然而對 NVIDIA 那卻可能是好事，畢竟選擇多了，成本也應該更低。請記住，股價反映未來；不用等到廠房投產，從股價走勢的分歧，就已經可以預見到未來的市場環境。假如勉強地用「醫生 vs 工程師」作比喻，我會說台積電這種公司，就像DSE 狀元醫生，而 NVIDIA 更像那些有創意的工程師；前者只是希望穩陣地賺取比別人更多的錢，後者則像過山車那樣，更多跌宕起伏。有人可能會先入為主地想：「賺錢嘅嘢，就梗係悶聲發大財喇！」但不要忘記，在另一邊廂亦有人會相信，一生人可以賺大錢的機會不多，可能就只有幾次時機，錯失了一次，可能要等十年、廿年，所以他們只要一見到機會，就狠狠下注，而且是一注獨贏，義無反顧。以上兩種觀點，也是投資和投機的分別。投資計算成本、收入和回報率，是「收租佬」的心態。投機者經常不計成本，不理會目前，心目中只見到最終的理想。投資者是很現實的，投機者卻要有點天真；兩種人幾乎可以說是南轅北轍，風馬牛不相及。投資者和投機者，甚至是對立的；當投機者見到投資者坐享其成，就會想如何在這一池死水，興風作浪。社會，不可能全是投資者，也不可以全是投機者。假如人人都是投機者，個個到一心去做拓荒，最終恐怕連社會最基本需要都沒有人打理。但假如全部人都走去做收租佬，社會亦不會進步；即是，假如所有的人都選擇「穩陣地賺取比別人更多的錢」，社會漸漸會出現一種保守的「尋租文化」。尋租文化又是甚麼呢？現今社會表面上看不起尋租者，很多人在心底裡，卻偏偏想成為當中的一份子。社會對尋租者，最主要指控有三個：一，壓縮成本；二， 囤積居奇哄抬物價；三，賺到盡。但有一點必須搞釐清，壟斷市場也不一定等於有能力去做以上所講的三件事；兩者是有分別的。我甚至乎會覺得，連自己也有點濫用「尋租」這個詞。以上這些問題，來日再談。話說回來，那怕是最簡單的收租，也不等於沒有完全風險。假如你用 4% 借錢來買一個有 4.5% 回報的收租物業，你一樣面對風險，例如物業租不出去，又或者租客不交租等。換個角度看，任何社會都無法完全消除所有的風險；所以每個社會都需要有人願意冒險，資本主義的真正意義在於：「有些人願意犧牲目前的享受，換取未來更大的收入。」未來，是充滿未知的，所以資本主義一定有人會輸錢。記得在 2008 年金融危機，我聽過一句話：「不會輸錢的資本主義，就像沒有原罪的基督教一樣，都是假的。」資本主義的不確定性；有人視為缺點，但正面看其實也可以是優點。如半導體行業周期現象，由市場環境轉變開始，最先是有一、兩家企業願意放手一搏，又或者剛好「食正條水」，在開始的一段時間，這些先行者賺取到不尋常地多的利潤，他們會吸引更多資金，讓產能擴張。但是當每家企業都投入資本，結果整個行業就出現產能過剩；然後就是價格競爭，利潤消散，有些企業甚至因此而倒閉，有些人會失業，有些投資血本無歸，有些借貸變成壞帳，有些銀行或會出現危機。但不少消費者卻可以用更低的代價，享受到從前只有少數人才負擔得起的產品和服務。自從資訊科技革命，很多消費者享用到的服務幾乎是免費的，假如馬克斯時光旅行到今日的美國，他會肯定地說，資訊科技革命，就是在實現共產主義理想。理性思維與慣性思維由於資本主義的不確定性，所以社會裡，必然有投機者。投機者，有人覺得他們只是憑運氣，但他們總是覺得自己有先見之明。投機者不可能等到收集所有資訊之後才作出決定，因為到所有事情都一清二楚，時機已失。投機者必須在限的資訊條件下作決定；而在旁人眼中，這些決定往往是不可理喻。講到這裡，其實已經進入哲學範疇。究竟甚麼是理性？是否經過深思熟慮才算理性？有些人的確是這樣去理解。這也是為何有很多人認為，經濟學是空中樓閣，就是因為他們認為經濟學假設了人是理性的，而人卻不是理性的。對不起，理性不一定等於深思熟慮，更加不等於是完全合符邏輯。理性的假設只不過是：「每個人會視乎自己想達到的目標去作出選擇。」理性，也不代表了解一切而掌握所有資訊。相反，學會如何在資訊不完整的情況下做出決定，這也是一種理性。究竟理性的人會選擇追求穩定，還是追求理想？還是兩者根本沒有必然的矛盾？有人相信悶聲發大財，他們覺得那些想冒險改變世界的人，是不切實際，是「非理性」的。另一邊廂，有些人見到機會，他們也會覺得不願意冒險的人，是「非理性」的。以上的兩個例子，都是誤解了理性。事實上，不論是投資者抑或投機者，大多數都只是憑直覺，他們往往都是先有了決定，事後才穿鑿附會，找個理由解釋自己的行為。正如那些選擇讀醫科的 DSE 狀元，你問他們為甚麼讀醫，他們的解釋卻又是千遍一律的「行貨」。說穿了，我們大多數時候都是依賴慣性思維，但這仍然不代表人是非理性。人，總不可能將每件事都拆解到最基本，然後逐步推理，甚至乎推理的過程，亦其實有很多既定的方法，這些一切都是某程度的慣性思維。現代社會透過教育去灌輸這些慣性思維，節省了很多腦袋的運算能力，所謂社會精英理論上就是純熟地掌握了這些慣性思維的好學生。社會也將他們放置在機器中，擔當比其他人更重要的角色；而這種精英的慣性思維方式，反而普遍地被定義為理性。順帶一提，我有不少朋友眼中的理性，就是做專業人士，每個月不論公司賺蝕，薪水袋袋平安，累積投機的本錢；當每個月都有穩定收入，他們才有條件去買樓、買股票以小博大。反過來說，也有人認為，雖然資本家每個月出糧給你，承擔風險，但他們往往才是真正賺大錢的人；有趣是，而這些資本家在投資過程，往往著眼於資金成本和現金流，他們很少會想一注獨贏十倍八倍。以上專業人士和資本家的觀點，彷彿完全對立，但其實一樣理性。兩種人、兩種心態，其實總是在某種均衡的狀態中。我甚至認為根本不應該如此簡單地二元對立去想問題；人絕對可以追求穩定的投資回報，亦同時是理想主義投機者。事實上，經濟學教曉我們，分散資產是平衡回報和風險，最直接、有效的方法。所以，各位同學，要是你不是甚麼狀元，不是讀醫科的材料，不打緊；要記得是路有很多條，你也不會亦不應只行一條路。事實上，我認識的醫生，很多都會買股票買樓，賣股票賣樓給他們，一樣很賺錢的。最後，有興趣重溫昨天分享的朋友，以下是文章和 Podcast 的連結： This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit leesimon.substack.com/subscribe

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Carleen Matthews is an early adopter to both CrossFit and our DØSE program. Carleen is a mother, affiliate owner, Games athlete and a person who "wants in" on all things mindset. She shares her beginnings of CrossFit, after becoming sober in 2010, and her journey to and through competing at the CrossFit Games. We dig into the delicate line between being committed to the training process and what can easily become obsessive behavior and how she has used 'mindset' in getting to know her WHO. Carleen will be partaking in The Big Fish fundraising event June 9th that will last 30 hours to support veterans along with some of our other BTE friends Vincent Ruiz and Street Parking founders Miranda and Julian Alcaraz.@TeamCarleen@crossfit-st-helens@bigfish_foundationDONATE HERE - Please consider supporting Carleen's fundraising effortsIf you'd like to support the show financially, please consider these options:1. Sign up for DØSE for only $9.99/mo or $99/year2. Buy a t-shirt and rep BTE!Please subscribe, review, and share if you find this valuable.

If there was ever a CrossFit OG, Karl Steadman is it. Karl discovered CrossFit in 2003 and was immediately drawn to its counter-culture 'alternative' approach to not fitness but more importantly, a 'career' path. With curiosity and novelty driving his pursuits, Karl has dedicated his professional life to sharing the impacts of CrossFit with others. He has been an affiliate owner, has delivered over 400 CrossFit seminars, and now is the UK affiliate liaison for CrossFit HQ. In this episode we hear about his experience with the Dose, his relationship to 'doing hard things', and how he navigates fitness today. With 20 years under his belt, Karl continues to evolve and shares what 'getting better' looks like for him.Karl is on Instagram @KarlSteadman Want to do the DØSE workout Karl shares his experience with?! Head to btwntheears.com for your FREE DØSE.Please subscribe, review, and share if you find this valuable.If you'd like to support the show financially, please consider these options:1. Sign up for DØSE for only $9.99/mo or $99/year2. Buy a t-shirt and rep BTE!

Miranda and Julian started their company, Street Parking in 2016 after establishing themselves in the CrossFit community in their respective roles. Miranda as a Flowmaster for CrossFit seminar staff and CrossFit Games athlete, and Julian as a CrossFit Games athlete. Their story of building the Street Parking community and the commitment to building it, alongside their family and tight-knit staff, is inspiring to say the least. These leaders embrace authenticity, hard work and vulnerability in their work, their family and their relationship with fitness.Check out the Miranda at @fearlessmirandaJulian at @009julianStreet Parking @streetparking Sign up for the DØSE to immerse yourself in the experiences we dive into with our guests or visit our website for more.Please leave a review and share the Between the Ears Podcast if you find it valuable!

Oakley Woodhouse is a powerhouse of a human. She owns the incredible Forest Flow CrossFit in the UK, is a member of the CrossFit Seminar Staff team, works for The 180 Project non-profit bringing fitness and health to at risk and vulnerable populations, and is a highly accomplished athlete. Who Oakley is, though, is far deeper than her accomplishments. She is an incredible soul whose energy is contagious, story inspiring, and is certainly leaving the world a better place than she found it.Check out Oakley at @ojaywoodhouse Forest Flow CrossFit @ForestFlowCrossFitThe 180 Project @180ProjectUKSign up for the DØSE to immerse yourself in the experiences we dive into with our guests or visit our website for more.Please leave a review and share the Between the Ears Podcast if you find it valuable!

Sheri began her dental career in 1995 as a dental receptionist in Hartville, Ohio. She continued her career progression as a dental assistant & trainer until 2006, when she officially moved to the position of practice management. In 2008, Sheri graduated from Malone University, receiving a business management degree.  She has also received DANB dental assistant certification, attended Stark State College Dental Hygiene Program, and has attended numerous continuing education and training courses over her career. During her career, Sheri has worked in every aspect of dental practice, including laboratory work and fabricating dentures. Her management experience includes both general & specialty dentistry, dental practice operations, practice workflow, and dental insurance billing. Listen to this information-packed Financial Flossing episode discussing:  ✔️ Learn how DSE Practice Solutions helps dental practices' front desk. ✔️ The challenges most dental offices face and how DSE can help.  ✔️ Vetted technology solutions for remote billing.  ✔️ How DSE makes sure there is a successful implementation with your team.  ✔️ Why diversifying away from insurance makes sense.  ✔️ Conversation about dental insurance and the MA state law.  Website: https://dsepractice.com/ 614-915-5780  sheri.jolly@dsepractice.com Mon-Friday 9am – 5pm DSE Practice Solutions takes the burden off your front desk. They can focus on interacting with the patients, ensuring they are happy and well-informed. We work behind the scenes to verify insurance, update benefits in your software, and follow up on claims that haven't been paid promptly. We also write appeals, make phone calls, and increase your reimbursement. The best part? It costs less than hiring more employees. It also increases the checks and balances, safeguarding your practice against embezzlement, employee turnover, and slow collections. We are proud to provide successful dental practices + modern business solutions. #dentistry #dentists #orthodontics #endodontics #prosthodontics #dentalinvestor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices