Podcast appearances and mentions of Eric Hoffman

In this episode, Dr. Amber Jackson sits down with GCA's Bronze Partner, ChiroSecure, to demystify the complexities of insurance in the chiropractic field. Join us as we delve into practical strategies for navigating the insurance landscape, avoiding common pitfalls, and maximizing reimbursement. Our guests provides invaluable insights into the latest changes in insurance policies, best practices for handling claims, and proactive steps to safeguard your practice. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or new to the field, this episode will equip you with the knowledge to build a more resilient and financially stable practice. Tune in to empower yourself with essential tools for "cracking the code" in chiropractic insurance! Interested in learning more about ChiroSecure? You can visit them at https://www.chirosecure.com/or reach out to Mr. Eric Hoffman at eric@chirosecure.com  Follow us on our socials! IG: @gachiropatients X: @GAChiro2020 FB: Georgia Chiropractic Association TikTok: @gachiroassociation ***If you're a member of GCA and would like to be a featured guest or segment speaker on the podcast, email sgonzalez@gachiro.org for more information on how you can get involved! If you're interested in becoming a GCA member, partner or sponsor visit gachiro.org or call us during office hours at 770-723-1100.

Guest Speaker Eric Hoffman - Recorded Sunday 10/27/2024

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In this episode, Dr. Ray Foxworth interviews Eric Hoffman, a risk management expert in chiropractic care. They discuss common issues like board complaints and financial disputes, emphasizing the importance of communication and transparency. They explore the Chiro Jobs platform, the shift from independent clinics to associateships, and the concept of 'stagging,' a form of free internship. The conversation highlights finding the right practice fit, future corporatization of chiropractic care, and its benefits, including safer care, increased patient access, and greater lobbying power.

Marion County DNR Officer Eric Hoffman talks about boating safety and fishing regulations.

03/03/24 | We're excited to have the National Director of Speed the Light, Eric Hoffman, with us this morning for our Missions Convention! Eric challenges us to live for the cause of Christ in everything we do, which includes giving generously above and beyond to the cause of missions.

Guest Speaker, Rev. Eric Hoffman shares his heart for the lost.Watch the message at: https://abundant.church/resources/sermons/

In recent years, literacy has emerged as a prominent national issue, prompting a call to action in communities across the country. Building Our Future has stepped forward to confront the reading crisis in our own Kenosha County. Through strategic partnerships with schools, agencies, and organizations, an important initiative unfolded, leading to the introduction of Wisconsin Reading Corps as a literacy support at Brass Community School and Wilson Elementary School during the 2021-2022 academic year. The success story continues, with its expansion to additional schools: Jefferson Elementary, Grewenow Elementary, Somers Elementary School, Frank Elementary and Riverview School in Silver Lake. In this episode, we sit down with Felicia Dalton, Director of Strategic Initiatives with Building Our Future, Eric Hoffman, Director of Wisconsin programs with Wisconsin Reading Corps, and Kristy Makowka, Interim Principal from Jefferson Elementary. Together, they shed light on the power of literacy and the strides being made to equip K-3 students with the essential reading skills they need. Discover the passion, dedication, and impact of these literacy champions as they discuss their experiences, the challenges faced, and the victories achieved in the pursuit of a more literate and empowered future for the youth in Kenosha County. Tune in, be inspired, and share this episode with others to spread the word about the efforts underway to build a brighter, more literate future for our community.

Dr. Jay and Brad sit down on this week's TechTalk episode to interview a father and son duo, Dr. Stu Hoffman, DC and Mr. Eric Hoffman. Dr. Stu Hoffman, a philosophically aligned risk management entrepreneur, has served the profession as a chiropractor for 30+ years and as a business owner of ChiroSecure, a chiropractic malpractice insurance company, for 25+ years. Dr. Hoffman is a graduate of Life University, where he received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree, and he continues to give to the profession alongside his children, Dr. Jordan Hoffman, Brandon Hoffman, and Eric Hoffman. Eric Hoffman, a graduate of Arizona State University, has an entrepreneurial spirit and leader mentality with experience as the Executive Director of ChiroSecure, CEO and Founder of Hoffman Ventures, LLC, and Founder of Chiro Jobs. Born into a family of devoted chiropractors, Eric's early years were filled with industry conferences and events, which laid the foundation for his unwavering commitment to the field. Eric has now spent over 12 years as a steadfast protector of chiropractors from lawsuits with ChiroSecure and isn't planning on stopping anytime soon! ChiroSecure provides a superior malpractice coverage with many unique insurance features and long-term solid protection. ChiroSecure's philosophy of combining discerning chiropractic underwriting practices, competitive insurance premiums and aggressive malpractice claim management is designed to protect you and your future. Your career is important to ChiroSecure, and that starts with protecting you when it matters most. ChiroSecure puts you and your practice first and is dedicated to supporting you throughout your chiropractic career. Contact Eric and Stuart at: https://www.chirosecure.com/ Stu@chirosecure.com  Eric@chirosecure.com  Eric@chirojobs.com

Dr. Jay and Brad sit down on this week's TechTalk episode to interview their guest, Eric Hoffman. Eric Hoffman, a graduate of Arizona State University, has an entrepreneurial spirit and leader mentality with experience as a Co-Founder of Growth Media, Executive Director of ChiroSecure, CEO and Founder of Hoffman Ventures, LLC, and Founder of Chiro Jobs. Having spent over 12 illustrious years as a steadfast protector of Chiropractors from lawsuits with ChiroSecure, Eric Hoffman is now on a mission to secure your future through Chiro Jobs. Born into a family of devoted Chiropractors, Eric's early years were filled with industry conferences and events, which laid the foundation for his unwavering commitment to the field. Chiro Jobs takes pride in offering an unparalleled platform for both employers and job seekers in the Chiropractic industry. Our user-friendly website connects qualified professionals with prestigious clinics, creating a network of opportunities. With advanced search options, personalized job alerts, and a treasure trove of resources to help you stay informed about the latest industry trends, Chiro Jobs is your one-stop solution for a thriving career in Chiropractic. Join us today and invest in a promising tomorrow! So, whether you're a seasoned Chiropractor with years of experience or an aspiring professional ready to make a mark in the world of Chiropractic, Chiro Jobs has got you covered. Together, let's shape the future of this remarkable profession, ensuring optimal health and well-being for all. Visit Chiro Jobs today at https://www.chirojobs.com/

3.34 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people.  Today, Eric Hoffman joins me. He is a prolific co-conspirator on such projects as The Treasure Vaults of Zadabad, Black Power - Black Magic, and the cyber-punk RPG, Wetwired!   Between Gamehole con, excessive disc golfing, kickstarters and general life nonsense I was slow getting this out. This was recorded over a month ago and I don't remember all that we talked about. I am looking forward to giving it a listen when it drops. I know  The sun burns bright and our supplies are running low.  Sisters and brothers, let get rambling. ———————————————————————————————— Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/RPG_Ramblings ———————————————————————————————— Eric Hoffman DRIVETHRU: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?author=Eric%20Hoffman ———————————————————————————————— Jeff Jones Twitter: @I_Am_Jeffrey Itch.io:  https://jeffrey-a-jones.itch.io DriveThru: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?author=Jeffrey%20A%20Jones Intro and Outro Music: Jungle Juice by Wataboi from Pixabay.com/music Sound Effects:  https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffrey-jones6/message

3.34 Welcome RPG Ramblings with Jeff Jones. This a weekly show exploring the various details of the TableTop RPG hobby through discussions with interesting people.  Today, Eric Hoffman joins me. He is a  prolific co-conspirator on such projects as The Treasure Vaults of Zadabad, Black Power - Black Magic, and the cyber-punk RPG, Wetwired!   Between Gamehole con, excessive disc golfing, kickstarters and general life nonsense I was slow getting this out. This was recorded over a month ago and I don't remember all that we talked about. I am looking forward to giving it a listen when it drops. I know  The sun burns bright and our supplies are running low.  Sisters and brothers, let get rambling. ———————————————————————————————— Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/RPG_Ramblings ———————————————————————————————— Eric Hoffman DRIVETHRU: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?author=Eric%20Hoffman ———————————————————————————————— Jeff Jones Twitter: @I_Am_Jeffrey Itch.io:  https://jeffrey-a-jones.itch.io DriveThru: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?author=Jeffrey%20A%20Jones Intro and Outro Music: Jungle Juice by Wataboi from Pixabay.com/music Sound Effects:  https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffrey-jones6/message

This is the missions dream session from the Next Gen Summit '23. . Vision casting, relationship building, and practical youth and children's ministry teaching. . The NextGen Summit exists to provide you with the resources and teaching you need to help the next generation discover their calling. . Who is Eric Hoffman? . Eric Hoffman was appointed to serve as director for Speed the Light in January 2018. . In the three years Hoffman served as district youth director (DYD) for Illinois, giving to Speed the Light increased by more than $300,000. . Prior to serving as DYD, he was youth pastor at Abundant Life in Alton, Illinois — one of the Top 20 Giving Churches for Speed the Light during his tenure. . “Eric and Liz have a strong record of cultivating generosity and a passion for missions,” says General Superintendent Doug Clay. . Eric and his wife, Liz, have three children. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/illinoisstudentministries/message

Eric Hoffman ministered this morning

It's Youth Takeover Sunday! And we are talking about giving God our YES with special guest - Eric Hoffman, our National NextGen Missions Director. Check out www.afa.church for more info!

Ep 210Apple's $50 million butterfly keyboard lawsuit gets final approval; payouts to begin soonApple Tap to Pay director Eric Hoffman leaves after eight yearsMleko na flašu, direktno od proizvođačaMlekomapApple introduces the 15-inch MacBook AirApple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple silicon to Mac ProThree New Macs Complete the Apple Silicon Transition - TidBITSArs Technica:macOS Sonoma drops support for another wide swath of Intel MacsHackintosh nastavlja da živi i sa SonomomNew Mac Pro Features Upgradeable SSD, Apple Selling 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB SSD KitsHector Martin špekuliše zašto je Mac Pro takav kakav jesteConstant Geekery: Does Apple Even CARE About the MAC PRO?Apple's new Proton-like tool can run Windows games on a MacAirPods redefine the personal audio experienceAirPods Pro 2 Gaining 'Adaptive Audio' Feature That Dynamically Adjusts to Your EnvironmentApple previews new features coming to Apple services this falliOS 17 Compatible With iPhone XS and Newer, Available in Beta TodayiPadOS 17 Drops Support for These iPadsApple Announces watchOS 10 With Widgets, Redesigned Apps, and More12 Compelling Features Coming to Apple's Operating Systems in 2023 - TidBITStvOS 17 brings FaceTime and video conferencing to Apple TV 4KApple announces powerful new privacy and security featuresIntroducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple's first spatial computerApple Reveals 'Vision Pro' Headset and visionOSMarques Brownlee: Apple Vision Pro Impressions!Snazzy Labs: Apple Vision Pro Is Impressive, But I'm Worried…Daring Fireball: First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOSApple to Provide Developers With Vision Pro Development KitsJonathan Wight slomio Vision Pro prototype prvog dana :)Berza tipično u svom filmuApple announces winners of the 2023 Apple Design AwardsThe VergeLisa: Steve Jobs' sabotage and Apple's secret burialMatt Mullenweg: Power of OneZahvalniceSnimano 10.6.2023.Uvodna muzika by Vladimir Tošić, stari sajt je ovde.Logotip by Aleksandra Ilić.Artwork epizode by Saša Montiljo, njegov kutak na Devianartu.60 x 80 cmulje/oil on canvas2023.

This content is for Members only. Come and join us by subscribing here In the meantime, here's some more details about the show: It's a warm welcome then to the man himself: Dr. Brad Stone - the JazzWeek Programmer of the Year 2017, who's here every Thursday to present The Creative Source - a two hour show, highlighting jazz-fusion and progressive jazz flavours from back then, the here and now, plus occasional forays into the future. Please feel free to get in touch with Brad with any comments or suggestions you might have; he'll be more than happy to hear from you: brad@soulandjazz.com or follow him via Facebook or Twitter. Enjoy! The Creative Source 16th March 2023 Artist - Track - Album - Year Vince Ector Organatomy Trio+    South Philly Groove    Live @ The Side Door    2023 Dave Stryker Trio    Deep    Prime    2022 Tammy McCann    Canaan Island    Do I Move You?    2023 Diane Marino    Moonray    I Hear Music    2022 Sue Palmer and Her Motel Swing Orchestra    Last Call    Movin' Along    2022 Eric Hoffman & Ken Hatfield    See You Tomorrow (À Demain)    Stirrings Still    2022 Hailey Brinnel    Walk Between Raindrops    Beautiful Tomorrow    2023 Michael Dease    Shorty's Tune    The Other Shoe: The Music of Gregg Hill    2023 Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest    Esperanto    Olympians    2023 Anthony Branker & Imagine    Sunken Place    What Place Can Be For Us?    2023 Swiss Jazz Orchestra & Christoph Irniger    Point of View    The Music of Pilgrim    2022 Anat Fort Trio    First Dance    The Berlin Sessions    2023 Andrew Moorhead    A Key in a Pool    Interleaved    2023 Jivko Petrov Trio (JP3)    Hotel Zurich    On the Way    2022 Brad Goode    Pentacles    The Unknown    2023 Mr. Chair    Fuschia    Better Days    2023 Ian Dogole    Sun Song    Quinta Essencia    2022 Mark Lockett    G&T    Swings & Roundabouts    2023 Don Aliquo    Salt and Light    Growth    2022 Shawn Maxwell    Appointment With    Story at Eleven    2023 Slavo Rican Assembly    Intro Elevation    Intercosmic    2022 Ingrid Laubrock    Afterglow    The Last Quiet Place    2023 Steve Roach    The Continent    Ambient Church NYC    2022 Hub Hildenbrand    DVAL    Athem    2022 The post The Creative Source (#CreativeSource) – 16th March 2023 appeared first on SoulandJazz.com | Stereo, not stereotypical ®.

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Jazz Guitar Life "sat down" with New York City Jazz Guitarist Ken Hatfield and Singer/ Trombonist Eric Hoffman to talk about their latest duo release titled Stirrings Still. We also get into how Big Tech's Predatory Business Practices Are Hurting Musicians!It's an extremely candid, insighful, informative and entertaining interview that goes deep into what it is like being a working professional in the Jazz Industry. Honestly, you don't want to miss it! And for more Jazz Guitar related content including interviews, reviews and more, please visit Jazz Guitar Life at www.thejazzguitarlife.com. As always, I'd love to hear or read your feedback so don't be shy! Enjoy :)

NextGen Missions Director Eric Hoffman stops by to encourage us all. This generation is more generous than any before it. He charged us to give one million seconds of prayer this year.

What you'll learn in this episode:   The difference between jadeite and nephrite, and why both are known as jade Why Chinese artisans have chosen to carve jade for thousands of years Why jade can be purchased at dramatically different price points How to spot a pseudo jade that has been dyed or polymer treated Why a healthy sense of skepticism is the most important thing a new jade collector can have   About Eric Hoffman   Eric Hoffman is an aficionado of Chinese jades for over 40 years. He is the owner and operator of Far East Gallery, which is dedicated to lovers of Chinese arts, antiques, antiquities, and—most especially—jades and snuff bottles. A member of the worldwide organizations Friends of Jade and the Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, jade consultant to the Chinese Cultural Relics Association, and contributing editor to Adornment magazine, Prof. Hoffman has written many articles and reviews on this fascinating subject.   Additional Resources: Website Introductory Articles on Jade: http://hoffmanjade.com/Adornment_Jade.pdf https://asianart.com/articles/hoffman/index.html   Photos available on TheJewelryJourney.com   Transcript: Jade is a popular gemstone that even the most avid jewelry collectors often know little about. Much of the confusion stems from the fact that two distinct stones share the same name. Enter Eric Hoffman, a jade dealer and author who is an expert on identifying different types of jade. He joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about jadeite jade vs. nephrite jade; why jade can either be extremely valuable or basically worthless; and how new collectors can find quality pieces. Read the episode transcript here.  Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the second part of a two-part episode. If you haven't heard part one, please head to TheJewelryJourney.com. Today, my guest is Eric J. Hoffman, who's extremely knowledgeable about jade. Eric is the owner of Far East Gallery and HoffmanJade.com. He is a seller and a buyer, and he knows a lot about what makes jade valuable. He's also an author. Welcome back.    But you said there's a white jade that's a nephrite, and then there's another kind of white jade that's a jadeite, right?   Eric: That's right. When you're talking about white jade, it makes a big difference whether it's nephrite or jadeite. White nephrite is very desirable. White jadeite is kind of a waste material. In fact, it's often dyed or polymer-treated to make it look like something it's not.   Sharon: When you say something it's not, what do you mean? Is it to try and fool people? Why do carvers value white jade so much?   Eric: Again, you have to distinguish between the two types of white jade. The nephrite is desirable to carvers because it can be carved thin and it's not going to break on them while they're carving. The jadeite is generally valued for jewelry, and people don't want a white stone ring. They want the nice, imperial green, apple green jadeite. Back in the late 80s, around 1989, someone figured out how to polymer treat and dye white jadeite to make it look like the imperial green, desirable jadeite.   Sharon: Wow, there's a lot to learn when it comes to stone. The white nephrite that's called jade, when it comes to carving, it's harder to carve. Am I right?   Eric: All carving is hard, but at least the nephrite's not going to break on you. It's not going to crumble. It's not going to cleave like some minerals like fluorite, for example, might do. There are carvings in jadeite as well. It's a little less tough and a little bit harder.   Sharon: But jadeite is what was in Burma. Maybe I'm getting confused. I'm trying to keep it straight. When you talk about the Chinese, that's more of the nephrite jade, and when you talk about the Burmese, that's more of the jadeite, right?    Eric: In terms of where they come from, but there's not much of an industry in Burma carving jadeite. The jadeite comes out of the ground in Burma, and it goes immediately to China where it is made into jewelry and carvings and artifacts and so forth.   Sharon: I'm just getting confused. If somebody says to me, “This is a jade bracelet,” and it's green, what do I ask? Where it came from, or is it nephrite or jadeite? What do I ask?   Eric: The question would be is it nephrite or jadeite. The answer will probably come back that it's jadeite. When you see jade bangle bracelets, for example, they're usually but not always jadeite. Usually if it's a vivid apple green, it's probably jadeite. If it's a darker grayish green, it's probably nephrite.   Sharon: What if it's white? I'm thinking of a hand-made bangle. If they say it's white jade, is that just treated jadeite?   Eric: They would probably not stop at white. They would try to dye it or polymer treat it to try to fool you into thinking it's a more valuable type of jade.   Sharon: So, when somebody says to me, “This is jade,” they really mean jadeite, right? There's nephrite, but most things are jadeite. I'm just trying to understand this.   Eric: It's a complicated subject for sure. Most of the jewelry, but not all that you encounter, will be jadeite. There is nephrite jewelry, but it's probably 10 to one in favor of jadeite.   Sharon: When I was talking to Elyse, she was saying that most of the time the carvings are too large to be used for jewelry, as you were saying, but there are smaller things such as beads and things like that. Is that jade jadeite? Why are they made into small items?   Eric: Jade is found in small quantities, so that's one thing that limits the size. It's costly material, at least the higher grades of jadeite. That would be another thing that limits the size.    Sharon: What would icy jade be? Tell us about icy jade.   Eric: That's another interesting subject. When you're judging jadeite, you're looking at the color. You look at what's called the texture, which is the fineness of the individual, microscopic crystals. It affects the kind of polish the jade can take. You look at the clarity. You'd like to find jade that doesn't have inclusions or black spots in it. There's also something called translucence. As jade becomes more and more translucent, you get to where you can almost read text through it. That's called icy jade.   Sharon: Do you look at whether it's jade or icy jade? Do you look at it under a microscope to decide if you're going to buy it or judge it?   Eric: No, you can see right away that it's an example of icy jade, but it's fairly rare material. It didn't used to be worth anything particularly more than other jades until Christie's, some years ago in a marketing coup, changed the name from water jade to icy jade.   Sharon: Water jade to icy jade.   Eric: And it took off. In the many pieces I've handled over the decades, I only have one piece of icy jade.   Sharon: That's you've handled or that you would be willing to part with?   Eric: Both.    Sharon: Putting icy jade aside, when you evaluate a piece of jade, do you look under a microscope at all? Is that part of your process? I don't know what you look for.   Eric: Generally, no. Generally, a 10x loupe is about all you need to evaluate jade. For example, with a 10x loupe, you can look and see if dye is seeping into the little boundaries between regions on jadeite. The other instrument that is sometimes useful would be a refractometer, which is occasionally brought into play to distinguish between a nephrite and a jadeite.   Sharon: Somebody brought my mother a gift back from China, and she said it was jade. Would that have been an imitation jade? I don't know what she paid for it. I don't remember. Was it a jade jadeite versus—I mean, nephrite doesn't sound like it's in the picture.   Eric: It could have been any one of those. There are some fairly simple tests of hardness and specific gravity and so forth that you can run to tell what you're looking at.   Sharon: As a collector and, as you can tell very obviously, somebody who knows nothing about jade or nephrite or Mawsitsit or icy jade, what would you say to a collector just starting out? What should they look for? What should they have with them? I got rid of my refractometer a long time ago. I said, “Forget it. I never use it.” What would they do with it?   Eric: The one thing you should always have with you is a 10x loupe. The other thing you should always have with you is a healthy sense of skepticism. I assume that any ancient jade I'm shown is a brand-new fake until proven otherwise. When you're shown a gorgeous piece of jade jewelry, you should be a little skeptical as to whether it's natural or has been treated in some way.   Sharon: Treated meaning coated with color to make it look a different color or a stronger color?   Eric: There have been examples of coating, but I was really referring to was what started back in 1989, with the polymer treatment of pretty much worthless white jadeite.   Sharon: How would I know? How would a collector know?   Eric: It's a problem. At a certain price level, you would go to the GIA. They would look at your piece with an infrared spectrometer and tell you yes or no, whether it's natural or colored or had been treated. But this test, of course, costs a few hundred dollars, so you're probably up in the $20,000-$30,000 price range before it becomes worthwhile doing that.    Sharon: If you're buying a less expensive piece that's not a $20,000 piece, what would you say a collector should look for? Should we look for translucency? If they tell me something is old, how do I know?   Eric: If you don't have a $100,000 spectrometer laying around in your basement, you should probably look for a dealer you can trust who does have access to one, either directly or through a lab like GIA.   Sharon: I can tell you're on the East Coast if you say a basement, because who knows what a basement is out here? In fact, I did see a house with a basement, and I was floored. I thought a house with a basement in Los Angeles—   Eric: No basements in Los Angeles?   Sharon: No basements out here, or maybe just a few old, old houses. So, what attracts you? Do you like the color of the jade you buy? Whatever you put on your site, do you like it?   Eric: Yes, the colors of nephrite are more subdued and softer and more subtle, but I find them attractive. The colors of jadeite are brighter and a more vivid green. There's also lavender, which is very attractive. So, yes, the color is one thing, and the extreme toughness of nephrite, what it lets carvers accomplish.   Sharon: If something is lavender, depending on price range, you could add polymers to make it lavender? Is it nephrite or would that be jadeite, or both?   Eric: That is jadeite, yes. Unfortunately, lavender is faked as well. Polymer-treated lavender does exist. It's usually so garish looking that you can dismiss it right out of hand, but a really good imitation can be a little harder to tell. Once again, you rely on an infrared spectrometer to tell the difference.   Sharon: Do you have one lying around your house?    Eric: I have no infrared spectrometer.   Sharon: In the thousands of years they've been carving jade, whether it's in China or Burma or wherever, is there natural lavender jade? What are the natural colors?   Eric: Oh yes, there is natural lavender. It's a softer, more subtle lavender. It comes from Burma along with the other jades, so it does exist.   Sharon: Are there any other colors? There's green; there's white; there's lavender. There are different shades of green, but what else? Is that it for all the jades?   Eric: There is a red. There's a reddish brown, russet and black.   Sharon: And they all come from Burma and then they're shipped off to China? Or are they in China?   Eric: The jade is all from Burma and it's almost universally carved in China.   Sharon: So, if somebody shows me a piece—I keep going back to this example of a bangle bracelet—and somebody says it's from China, it's really been dug out of the ground in Burma and shipped off to China to be made into something. Is that what you're saying?   Eric: That's correct. If it's jadeite, the raw material came from northern Burma and the work was almost certainly done in China.   Sharon: O.K. You must really take people aback when you start asking them questions. They probably think you're just another person who doesn't know anything about jade.   Eric: Once again, you want to find a dealer you have some faith in.   Sharon: Do you think you have those dealers? Because you're a dealer, do you think the people you get your material and your carved objects from, are they trustworthy? If they call you and say, “Hey, do I have a deal for you,” do you say, “O.K., let me hear about it”?   Eric: There are dealers I buy from and there are dealers I sell to. I also sell jade books, books about jade.   Sharon: Tell us about some of the things you're written about or the names of the books.   Eric: At one point, I might have been the number one seller of jade books in the world. I've written about that. I've sent a lot of the best ones to China. Even though the shipping cost can be horrendous for a big, heavy book, it doesn't seem to bother anybody in China to pay it.   Sharon: You must have clients from all over the world.   Eric: Yeah, I've probably shipped to about 20 to 30 countries.   Sharon: Besides the books, who contacts you from all over the world to say, “Hey, I saw this object on your site”?   Eric: I get that all the time, people showing pictures. Invariably it's imitation ancient jades.    Sharon: How about when they want to buy something from you? Do they come from all over the world?   Eric: I ship all over.    Sharon: Tell us what you've written about. If you're the number one seller, people really trust what you have to say about jade. Are you writing from a mineral perspective for what to look for? What are you telling them? What are you writing about in the books?    Eric: As an engineer, it's the technical aspect I appreciate the most. Telling jade from pseudo jade has been a side specialty.   Sharon: I shouldn't send my bracelet from the swap meet to you because I should just assume it's pseudo jade. That's what you're saying, right?   Eric: It pays to have a healthy sense of skepticism. I assume everything is fake until proven otherwise.   Sharon: How would somebody prove otherwise to you? Because it's old and they're brushing the dirt off of it? How would they prove it?   Eric: Perhaps the most reliable thing in dealing with ancient jades is to take a close look at the tooling techniques and looking for modern toolmarks, which would not have been used a thousand plus years ago.   Sharon: Do you often find when you're evaluating a piece for you to buy to resell, will someone tell you, “Oh, this is made with old tools,” and then you'll find a modern tool mark and hand it back?   Eric: There's no handing back. A lot of times, you have to buy in a dark, dingy corner, no recourse, no refund, cash only.   Sharon: I guess I'm thinking about a big show or something like that. You're saying they pull you aside. Do they open their raincoat or something?   Eric: At a big show, of course, the vetting has already been done for you. But that's reflected in the very high prices, so it's hard to buy anything at a big show for resale.    Sharon: As a collector, if we were going to buy or evaluate a piece and we don't have our handy refractometer with us, what should we be doing in terms of the sense of skepticism? It's like how on Antiques Roadshow you see people all the time who believe they have pre-Columbian artifacts and they're proven to be fake. Should we look for contemporary toolmarks? Is that one tell?   Eric: You've opened another new subject, and that's pre-Columbian jade. Jade was carved in Central America roughly about the time of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty. In fact, there's some thought that perhaps there was communication between China and the jade carvers in Central America because a lot of the motifs are the same. But in Central America, at that time, they were using string and abrasives and stone files, not metal tools.   Sharon: When was this?   Eric: This would have been maybe 500 to 1,000 years ago.    Sharon: Not that long ago, really, when you compare it to China or even other places in the world.   Eric: That's right. For the first several thousand years, China carved with the same kinds of tools before they had metals.   Sharon: That's really interesting. Tell us a bit more about when we should come to a person like you, what we'll find in the books and chapters you've coauthored. Are we only going to find technical stuff, or are we going to find history? Are we going to find anything else?   Eric: There are jade books that cover all of that. Unfortunately, they're not all in the same book. The book I worked on most recently was by Richard Hughes in Bangkok. It's a big, heavy book. It's costs $200 just to mail it from Bangkok to the United States. It's not the kind of investment everybody will make, and it does focus on the gemology aspects of both nephrite and jadeite.    Sharon: When are you going to be writing your book about history? You say there's not a book that encompasses it all. Forget the minerology, but the history, the carving, how it's done. When are you going to write it?   Eric: I don't think you should wait for it. I've been assembling notes for about 20 years. Elyse asks that same question about once a week.   Sharon: So, I should come back to you in 10, 15 years?   Eric: 10 years would be good.   Sharon: For somebody like me, it would be an easier book to write because I don't know the technical stuff. The history and the carving would be interesting and fast to write.    Eric: While you're waiting the 10 years, there is actually a book that was written called “Jade Lore.” I'm not sure when it was written; possibly in the 40s. That does cover, in a very readable way, a lot of the history along with a little bit of the technical.   Sharon: But isn't it out of print because it's been so long?   Eric: It's out of print, but you can find copies. It was written by a journalist who was on-site in China around the time the Qing Dynasty was falling apart, and a lot of these pieces were coming onto the market.   Sharon: When was that? How long ago?   Eric: The Qing Dynasty fell in 1911, 1912. I think this book was written either in the 30s or 40s. It was written by somebody who really knew how to write a lively story.   Sharon: Where have you been? If you're saying you look at these objects or jewels, have you been to some of the places and seen them directly, or is it mostly when somebody brings you into a dark corner?   Eric: I've been to Taiwan. I have not been to mainland China. As I mentioned earlier, the Chinese really want to repatriate and bring back into the country the best jades as well as jade books. To get pieces of jade now, you pretty much have to stumble across American collections or European collections.   Sharon: I think that's true of other pieces too. It seems that the Chinese are very interested in repatriating a lot of older jewelry. We're being told they're the ones who drive the prices up. Is that also true in jade?   Eric: Oh, absolutely. In fact, there's a book on that subject as well.    Sharon: Which is?   Eric: On the whole subject of repatriating these pieces back into China.    Sharon: What do people do with them when they have them back in China?   Eric: What do they do with them in China?   Sharon: Yeah.   Eric: Some of those will end up in museums in China. Others end up in private collections of millionaires.   Sharon: Eric, I see Elyse in the corner there. You have to go pack your bags so you can get ready for your next trip to Myanmar or mainland China. You've been to Taiwan. Thank you very much for being with us today.    Eric: It's a pleasure. Thank you for inviting me.   Sharon: It's been great. We will have photos posted on the website. Please head to TheJewelryJourney.com to check them out.   Thank you again for listening. Please leave us a rating and review so we can help others start their own jewelry journey.

What you'll learn in this episode:   The difference between jadeite and nephrite, and why both are known as jade Why Chinese artisans have chosen to carve jade for thousands of years Why jade can be purchased at dramatically different price points How to spot a pseudo jade that has been dyed or polymer treated Why a healthy sense of skepticism is the most important thing a new jade collector can have   About Eric Hoffman   Eric Hoffman is an aficionado of Chinese jades for over 40 years. He is the owner and operator of Far East Gallery, which is dedicated to lovers of Chinese arts, antiques, antiquities, and—most especially—jades and snuff bottles. A member of the worldwide organizations Friends of Jade and the Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, jade consultant to the Chinese Cultural Relics Association, and contributing editor to Adornment magazine, Prof. Hoffman has written many articles and reviews on this fascinating subject.   Additional Resources: Website Facebook Introductory Articles on Jade: http://hoffmanjade.com/Adornment_Jade.pdf https://asianart.com/articles/hoffman/index.html   Photos available on TheJewelryJourney.com   Transcript: Jade is a popular gemstone that even the most avid jewelry collectors often know little about. Much of the confusion stems from the fact that two distinct stones share the same name. Enter Eric Hoffman, a jade dealer and author who is an expert on identifying different types of jade. He joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about jadeite jade vs. nephrite jade; why jade can either be extremely valuable or basically worthless; and how new collectors can find quality pieces. Read the episode transcript here.    Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the first part of a two-part episode. Please make sure you subscribe so you can hear part two as soon as it's released later this week.    Today my guest is Eric J. Hoffman, who's extremely knowledgeable about jade. Eric is the owner of Far East Gallery and HoffmanJade.com. He is both a seller and a buyer, and he knows a lot about what makes jade valuable. He's also an author who has written about jade. I don't know about you, but I know nothing about jade. So, Eric is going to tell us about his path, tell us about jade, and educate us about collecting the gem. Eric, welcome to the program.   Eric: Thank you for inviting me to talk about my favorite subject.   Sharon: Thanks for being here. Tell us about your journey. I know you didn't start out in jade. You started out in a different field, but how did you get into jade?   Eric: I definitely did not start out in jade. Around 1970, I was on the bench designing communication circuits for satellites. My technician was an amateur minerologist, a rockhound, and he dragged me off one weekend to a gem show in Pennsylvania. At the show, they had a gem-carving contest. This was pretty much the first time I realized you could carve gemstones.    The winner of the contest was a gorgeous cat sitting on its haunches, about six or seven inches tall, carved out of tiger eye. It was on a platform that was rotating under a spotlight, so you got all the play of color off the tiger eye. It was an incredible thing to see, and it really got me interested in carved gemstones. It didn't take too long to realize the best stone to carve was jade, and the best carvers at carving jade were the Chinese. They've been at it for 8,000 years. That's how I got started.   Sharon: Tell us about jade. You mentioned you have a gallery and that you're a dealer. I have a lot to ask you. Tell us a little about jade itself.   Eric: Jade is a very interesting gemstone. There are a lot of gemstones that go by multiple names, but I think jade is the only example where two different stones go by the same name, jade. There's nephrite jade and there's jadeite jade. Both of those are carved. The jadeite is more commonly seen in jewelry and the nephrite is more commonly seen in carvings and artifacts.   Sharon: So when I hear or see something about nephrite, it's jade, no matter what you're saying.   Eric: That's right. Both nephrite and jadeite are properly called jade. There are a lot of jade imitators around that are not jade, but those two stones are.    Sharon: What are the differences between nephrite and jadeite? When I read about jadeite, I don't know the difference. Is that jadeite is or is it jade?    Eric: Nephrite jade is the historically first jade. It's the jade that has been carved for 8,000 years by the Chinese. It's a calcium magnesium silicate, and the thing that makes it unique is that it's the toughest of all the stones. It's the hardest to break of all the stones.    Jadeite, which has very similar properties, is a sodium aluminum silicate. It's a different stone. In fact, both of these stones are rocks. Technically they're mixtures of minerals, but we call them rocks. The thing that makes nephrite so tough is its fibrous structure that's matted together, like the fibers in the felt in a felt hat, which makes it extremely difficult to break and allows carvers to work it very thin.   Sharon: Is white jade nephrite? What is white jade? Where does jade come from? It's in the ground, but is it in the same place in the ground? Does somebody do something with it afterward? Do they add a chemical or something?   Eric: They're found in very different regions. Actually, they're found all over the world, but most commonly the nephrite that the Chinese were using, at least for the past 1,000 years or so, has come from a region in western China called Hotan. The jade you're likely to encounter in jewelry is jadeite. It comes from the northern part of Burma, and it was only in the late 1700s that it became commonly seen in China.   Sharon: When you say it's been carved for thousands of years in China, the nephrite jade that's in the Hotan region, what was it about this stone that attracted carvers and kept it going for so long?   Eric: The initial thing that attracted the Chinese carvers 8,000 years ago—this was even before metals came into common use in China—was the extreme toughness of jade. It could be used for hammers, axes, adzes, chisels, tools, weapons. It was like the high-tech material of its day 8,000 years ago.   Sharon: When you say that other people are carvers, I think of objects. Was it made into objects also?   Eric: It started out being made into functional objects, tools and then weapons. But it was in such high regard that it soon became kind of a kingly material used in the royal court, and it started to pick up significance other than being a practical material.    Sharon: When people started to want jade jewelry, they moved to the other kind, jadeite.    Eric: The jewelry that was used in the ancient days is not something we would probably wear today. They tend to be more like plaques worn from robes, maybe suspended from a belt. Around the late 1700s China got control of the northern part of Burma, which was a warlike tribal area, and that's where jadeite is found. Jadeite had brighter, more attractive colors than nephrite, so it immediately caught on for jewelry in China.   Sharon: Tell us about your business with both kinds of jade, I presume. Will people pay more for the nephrite from your gallery? Will you pay more knowing you can resell it for more?   Eric: I didn't intend to get into business. What happens if you're a collector is you always want some particular object, so you buy the first one that comes by. Then a better one comes along maybe a year or two later, and now you're struck with two of them. I'm constantly selling the extras and using any proceeds to acquire new items.    Jade can be a very expensive stone. We normally think of jade lumped in with the semiprecious stones, but in the highest grade, jadeite and red diamonds are the two most expensive, valuable gemstones. An extreme example of that would be the famous Barbara Hutton jade necklace, which is 27 spherical beads of jadeite. It sold a few years ago at auction for $27 million, $1 million per bead.   Sharon: Wow! Which is stronger? Are they both as strong, the jadeite and the nephrite? Can you throw both of them against a wall?    Eric: Nephrite is the tougher stone by a little bit. As I said, it's the toughest of all the stones. In fact, it may be toughest natural substance in the world. I'm not certain about that, but it's certainly the toughest of the stones, the hardest to break. Jadeite is a little less tough but a little bit harder, so it makes a better ring stone, for example.   Sharon: How long ago did you decide to start an online gallery, Far East Gallery and HoffmanJade.com? You've coauthored books about jade. How long ago did your collecting become more of a business?   Eric: Far East Gallery goes all the way back to the early 70s, which precedes the world wide web and the internet. As soon as the web arrived, I started a web-based business, which is worldwide at this point.   Sharon: You said there was something you had planned for online, another web page or more information.   Eric: Just a few days ago, in fact, I added a page on jade jewelry. This was at the urging of my wife, the jewelry historian.   Sharon: That's Elyse Karlin, I should say.   Eric: Elyse Karlin, whose computer I'm using right now. Other than that, the website consists of jade objects, some of which can be used for jewelry and snuff bottles, which is another side interest of mine.   Sharon: When I see a piece of jewelry and the person I'm buying it from says it's jade, should I ask if it's nephrite or jadeite? Should I assume it's jadeite or nephrite? I don't know what I should do.   Eric: It always pays to ask. If it's a carving, it could be either. If it's jewelry, it's probably jadeite, but there is also nephrite jewelry.    Sharon: I think I told you that I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico a few years ago before Covid, and somebody was trying to sell me Mawsitsit earrings. I had never heard of Mawsitsit. They told me it was a very unusual kind of jade and it was going to overtake jade in a sense. Since I knew nothing about it, I didn't know if they were giving me a line. Tell us about Mawsitsit.   Eric: If it was a good price, you probably should have bought them. Mawsitsit is a very interesting stone. It's kind of a cousin of jadeite. It has a lot of jadeite in it, but also some other components such as kosmochlor and other minerals. It's found in only one tiny, little region in Burma. It's sort of a vivid green with black streaking through it.    Sharon: If I remember—this was years ago— it was sort of black with blue and green. Is Mawsitsit something special? If I talked to a person who really knows jade and I say Mawsitsit, do they know what I'm talking about?   Eric: I would say probably yes. It's a desirable stone in its own right, although it is technically not jade. It has a lot of jadeite in it.   Sharon: I think it's the first and only time I have ever encountered this stone. When you say it's harder than any known natural substance, is it harder than diamonds? You usually think of diamonds as the hardest thing there is.   Eric: Actually, what I said is it's tougher, which means it's harder to break, but it's not especially hard. Hardness is the resistance to scratching, and of course diamond is at the very top of the scale. Nephrite comes in at about a 6.5 on the Mohs scale, which means it's just barely good enough to make a good ring stone and not get scratched up.   Sharon: You see both kinds, the jadeite and the nephrite, in the ground. Diamonds are cubic. Are they cubic? I can't remember. Shows you what I know. What form is it? Is it in squares or cubes?   Eric: Jadeite is usually mined out of the ground mostly in northern Burma. The nephrite forms up in the mountains, at least for the past thousand years. If you go back 7,000 or 8,000 years, there were sources of nephrite in China itself. But for the past few thousand years, it forms up in the mountains, tumbles down the mountains in the course of time, and bounces down the rivers and gets rounded off into pebbles or cobbles that are plucked out of the rivers in Hotan one at a time.   Sharon: 8,000 years ago in China, they would go up and mine this nephrite, and today they just pick it up when it comes down the mountain? Is that what you're saying?   Eric: They were always picking it out of the rivers because river jade, or alluvial jade, is more desirable than mountain jade. But because jade is so tough, the things they have to do to wrench it from the mountain are so destructive to the jade that it puts cracks through it and creates all kinds of problems for the carver.   Sharon: Tell us about your business today. Do people call you and say, “I have this carving or this piece of jade from a thousand years ago. Are you interested?” Tell us what you would do when you encounter that.   Eric: That does happen sometimes. Pretty much all of my customers come via the website, and we have discussions back and forth by email until finally a sale is made. It is very hard to evaluate ancient pieces from pictures or jpgs alone, particularly so since there is quite an active industry in China cranking out fakes.   Sharon: Is there an industrial use for jade?   Eric: Not that I can think of. It seems to me that it would make a good bearing material for things like ship propellers, but as far as I know, it's never been used in that regard.    Sharon: So, you have the opportunity to touch an object or get your hands on it to see if it's an antique or not. What do you do when somebody from China contacts you and says, “I like the piece you have on your site”? What do you do?   Eric: Oddly enough, I send a lot of jade back to China. They're very interested in repatriating old pieces, so when I get them, a lot of it goes back to China where it started out.   Sharon: But you have the opportunity to see if it was actually an older piece as opposed to a fake.   Eric: Unfortunately, there's no scientific way to date a piece of jade, so it does come down to my experience and opinion and the opinions of others. There are some scientific tests for other kinds of antiques like ceramics, but not for jade.    Sharon: Can you tell us about the articles you've authored? You've coauthored two articles that are in very well-known books. There's a book about to come out and one book that has already come out and seems to be very well-regarded. Can you tell us about those?   Eric: One of the things I love to talk about is jade versus pseudo jade. Jade has so many different imitators, and learning to distinguish one from the other is a main interest of mine. The articles in the books go into that. The first three jades I bought when I was starting out in the early 1970s were not jade. I made my mistakes early. I guess as Elyse says, in jewelry, if you're not making mistakes, you're not buying enough jewelry.    Sharon: So, that means I should go out and buy more then. How did you find out they were pseudo? Did somebody tell you?   Eric: No, that would be too simple. You can run some fairly easy tests, such as hardness testing and specific gravity or density testing. That helps rule out many of the pseudo jades.   Sharon: What is it that attracts you? Why jade? Why not another stone? You saw the tiger eye and fell in love with it. Why didn't you just keep all the tiger eye?   Eric: There are a lot of wonderful carvings done in tiger eye, which is a chalcedony. It's a little bit harder than jade. It's nowhere near as tough as jade, so it cannot be carved as finely and thinly. You can't do the various things that are done with the jade material because of its extreme toughness.   Sharon: Is it because you thought, “I have to get it back to Los Angeles. It's easier. It's not going to break”? Is that why you brought that to Los Angeles? I guess I still don't have an answer to why jade.   Eric: I guess the answer to that is that I've always been interested in the Chinese decorative arts, and when it comes to carving, the Chinese always pick jade. They have carved other stones along the way, but jade is always at the top of the heap.    Sharon: Is that because there's a lot more jade in China? I guess I think of different things, not so much the stones, when it comes to China.   Eric: No, there are a lot more other kinds of stones in China than jade. Jade is not particularly rare in the average grades, but it's more uncommon than the jade imitators.   Sharon: But you said it's not in the lower grades or lower echelons. It's not as expensive or as valued. It's the white jade that's valued by carvers.   Eric: White jade is an interesting subject. In the case of nephrite, white jade is very desirable and very much in fashion right now. A particular kind of white jade called mutton fat jade is highly sought out and very expensive. Now, when you switch to the other jade, jadeite, white jade is almost worthless. In fact, it wasn't too long ago that white jade in Burma was crushed and used as a road fill. That's how little was thought about it. Yet that same stone in its very highest grade formed those million-dollar bead necklaces. I don't think there's any other stone that has such a wide range of value.    Sharon: It was used to be crushed for roads at the lower end, and at the higher end, it was used in very expensive jewelry. That's what you're saying?   Eric: At the highest end, you have the Barbara Hutton necklace at $1 million per bead. At the lowest end, it was crushed and used for driveways and road fill. It's the same stone, jadeite.    Sharon: But you said there's a white jade that's a nephrite, and then there's another kind of white jade that's a jadeite, right?   Eric: That's right. When you're talking about white jade, it makes a big difference whether it's nephrite or jadeite.   Sharon: We will have photos posted on the website. Please head to the JewelryJourney.com to check them out.

Our guest today on Let’s Talk Knoxville was Eric Hoffman, Department of Natural Resource Officer about hunting and ice fishing.

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This month we talked to Tenable's director of research product management Ray Carney and Eric Hoffman, director of partnerships and alliances at Greynoise, about the formation of a new research alliance program.Announced in mid October, this is intended to facilitate collaboration and information sharing between industry partners, and support best-practice coordinated vulnerability disclosure in order to promote increased cooperation in order to reduce an attacker's free time.Follow along for more from Tenable Research:Subscribe to the blogFollow Tenable's Zero Day team on Medium

Eric Hoffman said, “To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.”  In this episode, we're going to talk about the state of disequilibrium that so many of us find ourselves in—what used to work in church leadership and ministry doesn't seem to work anymore.  And we're going to talk about why that disequilibrium is actually a gift.THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:We live in a time of great disequilibrium.When we talking about disequilibrium, it is helpful to think of it in the context of a “complex adaptive system.” A complex adaptive system is a network of organisms, relationships, and connections that interact in such a way as to maintain some kind of balance.Complex adaptive systems want to remain in a state of equilibrium.Disequilibrium happens when something in the system changes.The dodo bird went extinct because it had lived in a state of equilibrium for so long that it couldn't survive changes in its system.In Surfing the Edge of Chaos, the authors argue that "prolonged equilibrium is a precursor to death."But when a system experiences disequilibrium, it has the opportunity to become stronger, more resilient, and healthier. For about the past 1700 hundred years, the church in the West has existed in a state of relative equilibrium.But the culture changed and now the church exists in a state of disequilibrium.The church needs to embrace the disequilibrium because that will make it stronger, more resilient and healthier.RELEVANT RESOURCES AND LINKS:Books mentioned:Surfing the Edge of Chaos, by Richard Pascale, Mark Milleman, and Linda GiojaOnline courses and cohorts:Leading Your Church Through ChangeAdaptive Church Leadership Cohort  

In this podcast we talk to Professor Eric Hoffman, Dr Nick Screaton, Professor Philippe Grenier and Professor Joon Beom Seo, guest editors of a recent BJR special feature on Functional imaging of the lung.

Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman join Jason for another chapter in their ongoing series looking at classic films by the great Akira Kurosawa. This time: his deeply moving and complex film Ikiru, an internal, domestic drama that reveals some astounding truths about the human condition. Join Dom, Eric and Jason for an hour-long exploration of this very special picture. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave feedback on iTunes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-sacks/message

Akira Kurosawa is obviously one of the greatest filmmakers in history, but Jason hadn't seen many of the master's films. That begins to change this week as his friends Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman join Jason for the first of a multi-part series exploring Kurosawa's classic. This week they discuss Ran and Throne of Blood, two loose Shakespeare adaptations moved to Japan. Ran is famously one of the most beautiful and bleakest films ever made, while Throne of Blood has one of the most famous endings in film history. Whether you're a Kurosawa expert or still learning your way, we think this episode will give you a lot to think about. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-sacks/message

Antonio Flores, president and chief executive officer of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), leads a conversation on the role of Hispanic-Serving Institutions in higher education. FASKIANOS: Welcome to CFR's Higher Education Webinar. I'm Irina Faskianos, vice president of the National Program and Outreach here at CFR. Today's discussion is on the record, and the video and transcript will be available on our website, CFR.org/academic. As always, CFR takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. We are delighted and honored to have Dr. Antonio Flores with us today to discuss the role of Hispanic Serving Institutions. Dr. Flores is president and chief executive officer of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. Established in 1986, HACU represents more than five hundred colleges and universities committed to Hispanic higher education success in the United States, Puerto Rico, Latin America, and Europe. During his tenure as president of HACU, the association has nearly tripled its membership and budget, expanded its programs, and improved legislation for Hispanic Serving Institutions, and increased federal and private funding for HSIs. He previously served as director of programs and services for the Michigan Higher Education Assistance Authority, and the Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority. And, needless to say, he's taught at public and private institutions, conducted research and policy studies on higher education issues. And so it really is wonderful to have him with us today to talk about HACU, how HACU is committed to the role of Hispanic Serving Institutions, and to serving underrepresented populations. Obviously, we are very much looking to develop talent for the next generation of foreign policy leaders, and really look forward to this conversation. So, Antonio, thank you for being with us. It would be great if you could talk about the Hispanic Serving Institutions, their role in higher education, and your strategic vision for HACU broadly. FLORES: Thank you, Irina, for those very flattering remarks and introduction. And of course, we're delighted to be part of the series here today and talk a little bit about what HSIs are doing and how they can do more of the great work they've been doing for the nation, and HACU's role as well in promoting them. And suffice to say that Hispanic Serving Institutions have become the backbone of not only Hispanic higher education, but also the American labor force. Because there are more—there are more than 560 now HSIs across the nation, enroll the vast majority, more than 5.2 million of them, of underserved students who historically have not been adequately served in higher education, including Latinos. And it just happens that this population, the Hispanic population, is contributing more than half of all the new workers joining the American labor force today. And that proportion is likely to continue to increase in the years ahead. In addition, of course, they serve scores of African Americans, of Asian Americans, Native Americans, and all Americans. So they are really a microcosm of American diversity. And for that very reason, going forward as these populations continue to increase demographically, their representation in the labor force will only continue to develop. The latest Census Bureau report for 2010 to 2020 indicates that more than 51 percent of all the population growth in the nation is attributed to Hispanics. So there we have it. It's just the reality of the facts. And therefore, HSIs are now the backbone of America's labor force, because ultimately the demands of the global economy are such that we need to step up to the plate and really educate at a much higher level, and train at a much higher level those underserved populations, particular Hispanics, so that we can remain competitive in that global economy. And that includes the preparation of top-notch leaders for foreign service careers. And so if we were to summarize how we view HSIs with respect to America's challenges today, and opportunities in the future, I would say that there are three dimensions that define HSIs vis a vis the United States of America and its future in the world. Number one is diversity. And I already alluded to some of that. But diversity is not just with respect to the fact that they have the most diverse student population on their campuses. But it's also the diversity across types of institutions because we have community colleges, we have regional universities, and we have research-intensive, or R1 institutions. So we have within campuses tremendous diversity, and we have across campuses nationwide institutionally diversity as well. And so that's the name of the game. And that's the name of the game for America, is diversity. And it's the name of the game for the world. It's a very diverse world out there. And so the more attuned those top-notch leaders that were looking to educate in our institutions are with respect to their diversity, the more not only knowledgeable and experienced and sensitive to that diverse reality of the world and of America, the much better leaders they are going to be. And so diversity, again, is that one unavoidable element of our world and of our country. The second, I think, very important element or dimension of HSIs is the dynamism. They are very dynamic institutions that are really doing a magnificent job with fewer resources than the rest of the field. They don't have the big pockets or big endowments. They don't have the applications they need from the federal government they should get. And yet, they excel at educating those who come to their campuses. Just to give you an idea, Opportunity Insights is a name of an organization that does socioeconomic analysis of graduates from students from colleges across the country. And particularly they focus on how institutions educate and position in careers those who come from the lowest quintile of entering freshmen to college. And they believe that those who graduate, they graduate and see what proportion of those who came in the lowest quintile move to the top quintile in terms of earnings. And in the last report I saw, nine of the ten top institutions in that regard were Hispanic Serving Institutions. Nine of the top ten. It's not the Ivy League institutions, for sure. It is those institutions that I mentioned that are part of our group of HSIs. And in fact, the number one is Cal State LA in that report that I saw. And so, again, because they are very dynamic, creative, innovative, and resourceful with respect to using what little they have to optimize the educational outcomes of those who come to their campuses. And not just educational outcomes, but career outcomes. Once they are in the workforce, their earnings are higher than those of others from the same lowest quintile when they enter college. So dynamism is the second major component. And I would say deliverance. Deliverance for underserved populations is another important quality that HSIs represent, because they are ultimately serving—for the most part, the majority of their students are first-generation college students, many of them from immigrant families who are unfamiliar with the educational system and with the intricacies of going through a college education, because they themselves never had that opportunity to pass down. So they are at a very distinct socioeconomic disadvantage coming from those types of families who are also low income, because to be an HSI not only does an institution have to have more than 25 percent of its enrollment being Hispanic, but also they have to show that the majority of their students are Pell Grant eligible—in other words, needy, low-income students. And the other criterion is that they have to spend on average per student less than the average of their peer institutions. So they are efficient, very cost-effective, and they serve the neediest of our society. So there you have it. Diversity, dynamism, and deliverance for the most needed in our society. That's what HSIs are all about. And so they really are in need of much greater support from the federal government, the state governments, and from the corporate community and the philanthropic community. And our association advocates for that to be the case, with some success but not enough. We have been able to increase the appropriations for them from Congress over the years, but they are way behind other cohorts of minority-serving institutions that get much more money per student than HSIs do, despite the fact that they—for instance, they not only educate 67 percent of all the 3.8 million Hispanics in college today; they also educate three times as many African Americans as all the HBCUs combined. Let me repeat that: More than three times as many African Americans go to HSIs as they go to HBCUs, OK? And more than 42 percent of all the Asian Americans in college today attend HSIs. They also educate more than twice as many Native Americans as all the tribal colleges and universities put together. And then we have other groups of different national origins who come to our campuses. So they are extremely diverse. And so that's, in a nutshell, what HSIs are all about. And they've been growing, about thirty new HSIs per year, because demographically it's how the country's moving. There are more Hispanic young people emerging from high school and going to college than from any other group. And conversely, the non-Hispanic White student enrollment has been declining continually year after year for the last ten years. Look at the numbers. And that's not going to stop. In major states, like California and Texas, for example, the two largest in the nation, more than 50 percent—about 52-55 percent of the K-12 enrollment is Hispanic. If you add the other minority populations, overwhelmingly these states futures are diverse and Hispanic. And so is the country. Other states are moving in the same direction, whether it's Florida, or Illinois, or New York, New Jersey. The main states in the nation are moving in those—in that direction. So that's why it's so essential for Congress, the states, corporate America, and philanthropic America to invest in these institutions much more than they have been doing, because they represent the very future of this nation. To the extent that the new generations of graduates coming out of them are equipped with the right tools to succeed as scientists, as technicians, as professionals in whatever field they choose, our country will thrive. And the opposite will happen if we don't. It's that simple. And so that's what I wanted to just briefly say as an introductory commentary on HSIs. FASKIANOS: Fantastic. Thank you very much for that. We're going to go to the group now for their questions. (Gives queuing instructions.) So I'm going to first go to Manuel Montoya, who has raised his hand. Q: Thank you very much, Irina. And, Dr. Flores, it's a real pleasure to have you on the call. I appreciate all the work that you do for HACU and for Hispanic Serving Institutions. I am with the University of New Mexico. I'm an associate professor in international management at UNM, but I also do a lot of work with my cohorts on supporting HSI—our HSI designation. We are a Hispanic Serving Institution and an R1 institution as well. All of the things you said are really important. And I had a comment and then a question. I think this question of—this idea of diversity being the name of the game is not to be underestimated. I think that the students that go through HSI-designated institutions, I think that they have the potential to reshape and recalibrate what we mean when we say we are ambassadorial in the world. And the United States needs to upgrade and change its relational dynamics, political and economic, to include diverse voices that come from the learned and lived experiences of people who traditionally come from first-generation families, first-generation students. And HSIs are equipped to do that. So my question becomes, you mentioned wanting to track some people into the foreign service exam. But what other types of experiences or opportunities do you think are best practices for students that are coming out of HSIs to participate in the larger international relations frameworks and careers that are setting the global agenda? FLORES: That's a good question, Professor Montoya. And let me share with you briefly something that I mentioned before we started the webinar to friends at CFR. And that is that HACU has a very robust national internship program that places upwards of five hundred undergraduates, and some of our graduate students, with federal agencies, including the State Department. We signed an MOU with the late Secretary Powell, who at that time was very much committed to increasing the number of Latinos in the Foreign Service, and other underrepresented populations. And that remains in place, although not with the numbers that we would like to see. And yet, there are other agencies that also have a foreign or abroad projection, like Department of Agriculture, for example. And others that have offices across the world. And so we are very much into helping them find the right talent they need, and getting them also as interns experience those agencies, and putting them on the right track to become full-fledged employees once they graduate. So that's one of the things that we've been doing. We need to do much more of that. I accept that the number is, as impressive as they may sound, are very minute when it comes to the populations that we're talking about. And our own association has made it a priority to expand its international reach. And we have, depending on the year, anywhere from forty to fifty universities across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain that are affiliated with us to do precisely what you suggest, which is student mobility and experience abroad. And so—and in both directions, also that they would come to be in the U.S. And so we have the beginnings, I think, of a major push to make sure that many, many more young people who—they have a kind of an almost organic connection to international affairs, in this case Latinos, because most of them come from families who immigrated or have roots in other countries, and are really very much culturally adept to international roles. So your point is well-taken. And you'll see a lot more activity from our end as an association in that regard. FASKIANOS: Thank you. I'm going to take the next question from Shoshana Chatfield. Q: Yes, hello. I wanted to say thank you for such a wonderful presentation and for really exposing me to some of the issues that I wasn't aware of previously. I am the president of the United States Naval War College. And since I've been here over the past two years, I have been actively trying to expand our recruiting effort to make our vacancies on our faculty available to members of the community. And yet, I'm not seeing any appreciable difference in the applicant pool. And I wondered if you could advise me how I might approach this differently to raise awareness about hiring to these war colleges who have not traditionally had a high representation of faculty who come from the same backgrounds that you described. FLORES: Thank you. Thank you for your very timely question, President Chatfield. Let me say that one of the first things that I would suggest is that you join our association as a college. Why would that be helpful to your effort? Because then you will connect with presidents and CEOs of five hundred-plus community colleges, regional university, and so forth, and school districts that are also affiliated with that, that are defined as Hispanic-serving school districts. So that even in high school you will have a presence through our association's outreach to them, and that you also would network with peers of diverse institutions across the country who may have robust pipelines of Ph.D. graduates and others who could fit your own aspirations, in terms of getting some of those faculty on your campus, some of those administrators, and some of those as students. Because, at the end of the day, probably—you probably want to have a much more diverse student body. And that can come from precisely that opportunity to not only interact but formally establish relationships with some of those colleges to transfer, for instance, from community colleges or from high schools that we interact with on a regular basis. So that would be one suggestion. We also have in our association a very, very nimble system called ProTalento. It's online. That is P-R-O-T-A-L-E-N-T-O, ProTalento. And that that—you can go to our website, find it. And we have on that website a very robust database of individuals who are looking for opportunities at different colleges. That are already teaching, or doing research, or both, and are looking for other opportunities. And also, we have institutions that are looking for them. And the system basically matches them. So you can go there and find a goldmine, so to speak, of talent. FASKIANOS: Thank you very much. Great question. And we have a written question, a couple written questions in the chat. This one comes from Andrea Purdy, who is an associate professor of Spanish at Colorado State University. We are anticipating reaching HSI status. And in talking to my students, a comment they have made to me is that they don't always feel welcomed all over the university. There are niches, but overall the sense of belonging is not felt. They also commented that while they are beginning to see themselves in classrooms, they don't see themselves in the faculty. What suggestions do you have for universities to make sure that the inclusivity is felt at all levels? FLORES: Well, it's similar to the previous question in some—in some regards, because ultimately the first thing you want to do as a college or university, it has to be job number one, is to create a climate—a campus climate of support and welcoming feelings for the students, that they feel not only appreciated but they feel really supported and welcome to the institution. And so the point made is how can we recruit or how can we diversify faculty and staff? Well, again, you go—you know, when you want to catch fish, you go fishing where the fish are. And the fish are in some of the HSIs, those that are already more developed institutions. And many of them are regional universities or R1s or R2s. And those could be a source of talent for institutions like Colorado State, that is lacking some of their representation. And of course, I want to insist that please visit ProTalento. And you may be surprised how much success you could have in getting people from that database to consider your institution. But of course, faculty and staff who look like the students are essential to create that culture, that campus climate of appreciation and welcoming, I would say. FASKIANOS: Thank you. Let's go next to Rosa Cervantes, who has a raised hand. And please unmute yourself and tell us your affiliation. Q: Good afternoon. Thank you for taking my questions. My name is Rosa Isela Cervantes. I'm the director of El Centro de la Raza at the University of New Mexico, and also special assistant to the president on Latino Affairs. And I really interested in what you said, Mr. Flores, about the diversity of students at HSIs, and that we serve three times the amount of—if I heard correctly—of African American students at HSIs than BCUs, is that correct? Is that— FLORES: That is correct, yes. Q: OK. And I wanted to see if you could expand a little bit about that, and also maybe think through or talk to how we can do some coalition building with folks. Because I really feel like HSIs are completely underfunded, right? You've stated it, we've heard it. But yet, they're so robust and they do so many different things for so many different students. I wonder how we might continue—and we're a member of HACU—but I wonder how we maybe think through some conversations to really get out the word about that idea, that HSIs are that robust, that HSIs do served large populations of students. And sometimes some of the most neediest students that require more money, right, for their funding. And so I just think that's very interesting. I think—I don't think a whole lot of people know about it or understand that. I had a faculty member at a different institution actually question me, because I had read that somewhere. And I think we need to talk more about it. So I'm just wondering your thoughts about coalition building and what else we can do, and how other ways that HACU needs our support to make that happen. FLORES: Thank you for your excellent question, Ms. Cervantes. And let me share with you that last week I was in Washington, D.C. most of the week and met with a number of Congress individually, including your great senator, Mr. Lujan. And guess what? There was a lot of good conversation about that point. And I have also talked with a number of African American members of Congress who didn't know that, and who actually had themselves—(background noise)—and who actually have themselves a significant number of HSIs in their districts. And they didn't know that they had all these HSIs in their districts. And so I think the word is getting out there. And, more importantly, the appreciation for the fact that these institutions really are very diverse, and not only do they educate the vast majority of Latinos and Latinas, but they also educate a larger number, as we said, of African Americans and others than the HBCUs, for example. And they didn't know that. And then—so I think that mindset might begin to change, because at the end of the day the funding and support should be focused on the students. And ultimately, if you help the neediest of students you have the more diverse population, but you have the fewest dollars per student coming from Congress. There has to be something wrong there with that equation. So there is an inequity that we are, as an association, trying to remedy. And we need all the help we can get from all—our own Latino organizations and HSIs, but also from others including the HBCUs. It's not about reducing funding for them or anything like that. They can and should be getting even more. But not—but HSIs shouldn't be treated as second-class institutions. They are not. They are the backbone, again, of America's labor force, in terms of training that labor force to be competitive in the global economy. So they have to be treated appropriately and equitably. Basically, it's about equity in terms of funding. And right now, things are not at all equitable, but we're changing that gradually. And thank you for your question. Q: Gracias. FASKIANOS: So we have a written—several written questions. So Sandra Castro, who is assistant dean of the undergraduate programs at Adelphi University says: What recommendations do you have for institutions that are striving to become HSIs in preparing for this designation? What internal changes and institutional infrastructure is necessary to truly serve the Latino student body? FLORES: I will suggest three things. One is, begin to work more closely with institutions that are already HSIs and that are doing a good job being HSIs, that are recognized for having, as they say, best practices with respect to being an HSI. And learn from them. Learn how it is that they do what they do well. And begin to then—and the second point is, educate your own leadership at your institution about how they can be much more effective and receptive to the inevitable demographic change in their student population to become an HSI, and how they can make the most of it in terms of student success, and also learning the ropes of how to get grants and funding to improve services for this population. And the third thing that I would recommend very strongly is that, you know, take a very hard look at all of your outreach and marketing materials, and revise them accordingly so that you reflect that commitment to diversity, in particular to Latino inclusion, in terms of bilingual materials and outreach to families and communities. Because many times the decision about whether to go to college or where to go to college by a student is really influenced very heavily by the family, the parents particularly, because of the tremendous pressure that many of them have in starting to work to contribute to the family income, because they come from low-income families. So working with those families and making them aware of the importance of getting a degree, a college degree, and postponing some of that lower-income—some of the minimum-wage salary that they could get as a high school graduate, and working with those families is very important. Working in their language and culture is even more important for some of them. FASKIANOS: Great. I think this is a good segue to the next question from Eric Hoffman, who got an upvote. He's the dean of the Honors College at Miami Dade College. And his question is: How can we get the Hispanic and Latinx students out of their community and expand their aspirations to colleges and universities in states and areas far from home? FLORES: Well, you know, it's an excellent question, in the sense that historically—because these are first-generation college students for the most part, whose families have not had the opportunity to educate themselves in college. And their temptation is to stay home. Especially sometimes it's worse for female students to move away from home. And my suggestion is that you, again, will work with those families as closely as you can to make them aware of the fact that moving away doesn't mean—moving away physically doesn't mean moving away from the family otherwise, that they will ultimately remain connected to the family. And now with technology it's even easier. You know, we have Facetime. We have all kinds of other ways of interacting that were not available just some years ago. And they ultimately need to consider the best options in terms of financial aid and the quality of education they're going to get, and a few of the studies that they want to pursue. Sometimes all of those things are not available locally, so you have to go where all of those are. And I think that once there is a process of education for the family in that regard, they tend to be much more flexible. We experience some of that with our own national internship program, because we place them primarily in the Washington area, but also in other places. And I personally get to intervene sometimes with some families in their language, in Spanish, to reassure them that the young woman that was going to be placed somewhere else in Washington, D.C. or elsewhere was going to be OK, and she was going to come back home after the ten-week experience, or fifteen-week internship. And, guess what? After they experienced that, their siblings—they were trailblazers for their siblings and for neighbors, and all that. Now we don't have that problem, at least with our internship program. We have thousands of applicants and, unfortunately, we can only place about five hundred a year, annually. And so it does pay off to invest in working with families closely. And again, it's a generational effect, because then younger siblings or relatives will not have that kind of issue going forward. FASKIANOS: You had mentioned that you were in D.C. last week meeting with members of Congress. And we obviously have a new secretary of education, Dr. Cardona. Have you seen a shift from the Biden administration in their approach and what they're doing from a federal level to support the HSIs? FLORES: Oh, absolutely. I mean, there is just no question about that. The shift has been dramatic. And this administration and Congress are—have shifted gears and are actually investing more than anything else in people, investing in the economy to create more jobs, investing in education to prepare the labor force much better, investing in health to protect people from not just the pandemic but from other diseases that we experience. And just in general, the infrastructure, they just passed that bill in the House, is to improve the lives of people across cities, across states, by improving their infrastructure. It is not just about roads and bridges. It is also about water systems that are decaying and are affecting the health of people. It is about the lack of access to broadband connectivity. It is all of those things that will improve the lives of people. And so there, no question. And HSIs have improved—again, not to the extent that they should be supported. But we are in a much better situation now than we were just a couple of years ago. FASKIANOS: Thank you. I'm going to take Nathan Carter's written question, and then Mike Lenaghan, I know you wrote a comment/question in the chat, but I'd love for you just to raise it and speak it, because I'm afraid I might not get it exactly correct. So Nathan Carter from Northern Virginia Community College in the Washington D.C. metro area. I am the—NOVA's chief diversity equity and inclusion officer. We are an emerging HSI. When we look at our enrollment data here in fall 2021, we see a clear decline in quote/unquote “new” Hispanic students, both male and female. We wish to discuss this growing issue and recognize what may be the current obstacles or community issues happening right now in the Hispanic community that will help us explain what we see and how we can reach out to the Hispanic community to help address what could be a growing problem across various states. So I think if you could comment on that, and how to, you know, have that discussion. FLORES: Well, thank you for that question. It's something that, of course, has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Because a lot of our colleges and universities, HSIs and others, did not have the endowments or the money to immediately make—shift gears in the direction of the technology required to move from in-person to online teaching and learning, and to train faculty and staff to manage all of those new systems. And that's on the institutional side, that there was that kind of reality of not getting all of the necessary resources to make that shift immediately and successfully. On the receiving end you have families and communities that do not always have the connectivity to broadband and the devices at home and the space at home to learn online. And so it was a one-two punch—institutional and students were hit very hard. And therefore, many of them withdrew. And apart from the fact that when it comes to the rate of infection, hospitalization and death, Latinos were worse hit than any other population, so much so that during the pandemic Latinos shrank their life expectancy by three years, compared to two years for Black and 0.68 years, so less than a year, for non-Hispanic Whites. So you do have all of those things. And ultimately, that means that the students served by these institutions come from those very families that were hardest hit in their health as well. So they couldn't go to school. They were trying to survive. And many did not. And so there was a drop in the enrollment, and particularly at community colleges, is where the—they were the hardest hit with respect to that, just like that community that is emerging as an HSI. So we are pushing very hard for that to be remedied, not just for the pandemic, but for the long term. Because I think the hybrid models of teaching and learning should—will remain in place for the long haul. And we need to make sure that those families, those communities that have been historically underserved and underfunded get that necessary technology at home to do that type of educational experience. We also need to make sure that the institutions that are suffering the most get the most help to beef up their infrastructure. And not just in terms of technology, but also in terms of expanding classrooms and also creating labs that are very expensive to create for technology of science or engineering types of degrees, which are the most in demand. And in some states, it's even—it's worse than in others because a lot of students are homeless. A lot of students are homeless. And in a state like California, where we have the largest concentration of Latinos, for example, that problem has been rampant and recognized by the state as a huge priority. So what they need to do is also build affordable housing even on campuses, so that those students have a place to live in a decent, humane way. And so there are many things that come to create this perfect storm against populations like low-income Latinos, and African Americans, and others. FASKIANOS: Thank you. I'm going to ask Mike Lenaghan to ask his question live. Q: Thank you very much, Irina. And it's a pleasure to see you, Dr. Flores. I am Mike Lenaghan from Miami Dade College, and truly cherish the empowerment we've enjoyed through the vehicle of HACU. It's been my experience, basically with a great deal of labor-intensive and purposeful leadership development, to have my scholars—just me, as one faculty member—successfully transfer to over 139 colleges and universities in the United States, all of whom required financial support and almost all of whom were able to avoid loans. This is over a twenty-year period. My question is: How might I, as a faculty member, also someone who's labor-intensive, be empowered, possibly mediated by HACU, to share basically how to set up my Hispanic students and their families and their relatives for the kind of success my scholars have enjoyed at Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Georgetown, UVA, Duke, UCal Berkeley, and so on? Which, when the right combination of chemistry and self-identification occurs, each of my Hispanic/Latinx scholars basically knows what they uniquely bring and add, as well as what they uniquely can address and engage in each school. I realize I am just a microcosm in a larger macrocosm, but I'm wondering does HACU have a role to play that might mediate some education and sharing, not just a book or a strategy, but something that could be shared, including some of what I like to call my all-stars, who have enjoyed operating in the context of HACU as a launching pad. Thank you, sir. FLORES: Thank you for your very, very important work, Professor Lenaghan. And thank you for your very caring teaching and supporting our students, your scholars. And ultimately, you have a lot to offer to the academic community as a faculty who cares about these students not only doing well but excelling and going to places that perhaps their families never thought of them being able to go. And I think it begins with learning from people like you what is it you've been doing so well to help those that you have helped to excel. And HACU can be a platform for you to share that. We ultimately have annual conferences and other meetings where your expertise and your success can be shared with others to adapt it to their own needs and replicate what you've been doing so well in other places, so that many more can go onto those very selective institutions, and others. And of course, I don't know if we've been connecting—I insist on this point, on connecting with families, because many of the Latino families—and maybe in the Miami area it's a little different because a lot of the Cuban and South American families perhaps come from a more middle-class background than in places like Texas or California. And maybe they had already some collegiate experience in their home countries, and they immigrated there, or whatever. But that helps a lot, OK? When they come with that background. But when they don't, when they are immigrants who come without even a high school diploma from their home countries, and they don't know the language, their highest expectation is at least to get their high school diploma and start working somewhere. And so taking them to the next level, it takes a lot of work. And it takes a lot of work in terms of making sure that they understand that if their child has the talent, and has the persistence and discipline, et cetera, et cetera, to go places, that they can be very helpful to him or her in ensuring that there is a space at home where they can study, that they do concentrate on their studies, and that they really aim for those places that you mentioned and don't settle for second-best of going to some institution, but make that their goal: I'm going to go to X or Y Ivy League or very selective institution because I have with it takes, but it's going to take a lot of nurturing and support. And the parents can be very helpful, even if they don't have an education, by really making sure that their child has the space and the time at home to concentrate and study. That will go a long way. But really, let them flourish. And so HACU can be a platform in three different ways. One is, allowing individuals like yourself, who are excelling in their teaching, to share their best practices with others. Secondly, we also, of course, have to recognize that we have some programs already in HACU that are very effective, especially those that are focused on moving a critical mass into STEM degrees. And we're going to emphasize that even more going forward. And thirdly, that we, as an association, have the ability to influence federal agencies and others—and corporations to invest in the kinds of practices that you may be successful at. And I'll give you a couple examples. We just got a planning grant from NSF, HACU did. And we are almost done with the planning for one year, because we want to submit a multiyear, multimillion grant to NSF with an emphasis on moving as high as possible, to the PhD. in fact, Latinos all the way from community college up to the research one institutions. And we are working on that proposal to be submitted early next year. But we could, I'm sure, learn from what you're doing. And so we could influence agencies to also invest more. We have a new program under NSF for HSIs that you can apply for a grant to expand what you're doing with more students, more parents. And the same thing is true with respect to other agencies. I was just in Washington last week and met with the undersecretary of the Department of Commerce to discuss the technology program, where our institutions will each have a role to play. And so we have the role of advocating and influencing agencies and Congress to invest in institutions like yours, Miami Dade, and professors like you, so that you can do more of exactly what you are doing. So please feel free to send us an email at HACU. You can send it to my attention. And I'll make sure that it finds its way to the right staff in charge of the kinds of programs that you are dealing with. We do have great staff that follows up on situations like yours. FASKIANOS: Fantastic. We will circulate after this an email with some of the resources you've mentioned and the email that we should be sharing, Dr. Flores. So we have another question, and it follows onto Mike's question, from Arturo Osorio, who's an associate professor at Rutgers University. Any advice or programs that you know to help connect the parents of the Hispanic Latino Students to the higher education experience? Many of our students are first-generation Americans and also first-generation college students. This creates a large cultural and experiential gap for parents to bridge on their understanding of what kids are going through and support them. As a result, many of the students have very stressful moments as they navigate away from the family to their college life. FLORES: Yeah. Excellent question. And my suggestion is that please send us an email. We have an office in HACU that is designated to promote pre-K-12 and higher education collaboration. The executive director of that office is Jeanette Morales. Jeanette Morales has a team, and they work with clusters or consortia of colleges, universities and K-12 schools, particularly secondary schools, to move out successfully many more of those underserved students to college and be better prepared to succeed in college. It is more substantive than just a college visitation thing or admissions officers talking with them at an event. They actually have early college interventions for high school students. So they actually earn even college credit when they are creating high school for the most advanced students. But they also have opportunity for professors from some of those universities and community college to teach as visiting teachers in those high schools, where they may not get the resources to hire faculty for advanced courses and for the courses that are required to be successful in especially STEM degrees, like advanced math, advanced science, and so forth. So that office and our association has been in place for the last seventeen years. It was that far back when we first saw that more than half of the battle to succeed in college has to be won in K-12. And it has to be won with families on your side, because first-generation college students do depend largely on families to make decision after high school. So please feel free to contact Jeanette Morales or myself in my email at our San Antonio headquarters. FASKIANOS: Thank you very much. We are at the end of our time. I just wanted to ask if you could just do really briefly what you're doing internationally to encourage—you know, and we don't have a lot of time. But I don't want to leave without—you had told me in our pre-call just a little bit. So if I you could just give us a wrap-up on that, that would be fantastic. FLORES: Yeah. We think of international education not as an appendage, not as a luxury, not as an add-on proposition, but as an integral part of a college education, in this case. And we hope that the vast majority of our young people will have a chance to experience a study abroad. And of course, it's like a big dream, because right now if you look at the numbers, only about 5 to 7 percent, max, of all the 350,000 American students going to study abroad are Latino. And the same number, roughly the same percentage, is African Americans and others. And conversely, only about maybe 3 percent of all the students coming from other countries come from Latin America—1.3 percent only from Mexico, which is right next door to us, OK? So that has to change. And it has to change because people who have an international experience ultimately expand their horizons and their vision of the world and are more effective not only professionals but citizens of the world. And we feel that it is very important for our young people to do that, not as a—as a kind of a luxury, or anything like that, but as an integral part of their development as professionals. And so we plan on being even more keen on affecting legislation that will provide more resources for our institutions and international programming, and ourselves as an association being much more engaged in getting more international institutions to affiliate with us to promote that mobility, that experience, independent of whether the government decides to invest or not. FASKIANOS: Wonderful. Thank you very much. Antonio Flores, this has been really a great discussion. And thanks to everybody for their terrific questions and comments. We really appreciate it. HACU is lucky to have you. We're fortunate to have you leading this great association. As I mentioned, we will send out a link to this webinar, also some of the resources you mentioned, email addresses and the like. And I'm sure everybody knows it, but it's worth repeating, the HACU website, HACU.net. You can follow them on Twitter at @HACUnews. So go there. You can also follow us at @CFR_Academic. And please go to CFR.org, ForeignAffairs.com, and ThinkGlobalHealth.org for CFR's resources on international affairs and the like. So I hope you're all staying well. Dr. Flores, thank you again. And we look forward to your continuing involvement in this webinar series. The next invitation will be for December, and we will be sending that out under separate cover. FLORES: Thank you very much, Irina. Thank you, everyone. (END)

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Eric Hoffman joins Jason to talk about two amazing neo-noir films, Robert Altman's astounding The Long Goodbye and Wim Wenders's equally brilliant The American Friend. Eric and Jason talk nontraditional narrative, the brilliance of these two directors and some outstanding performances. It's an hour and ten minutes of fascinating listening. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave feedback on iTunes! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-sacks/message

This week, Eric Hoffman leads Jason on a discussion of two classic Japanese films directed by the brilliant Kenji Mizoguchi. Sansho the Balliff is a tragic story of a wealthy family separated and the slavery they endure, while Ugetsu tells a very human war story set in the sixteenth century. Eric and Jason chat about the filmmaking style of Mizoguchi and team, their political stance in the post-War period, and the resonances that helped make these essential watches. It's a fascinating hor and fifteen minutes' listen and we hope you enjoy. If you did enjoy this show, please subscribe and leave feedback on iTunes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-sacks/message

Jacques Tati directed some of the most wonderfully humorous and charming comedies of all time. Eric Hoffman joins Jason to discuss Tati's short filmography and delight in Tati's meticulous attention to detail, his clashes between urbanism and tradition, and his deep influences on other filmmaking greats. This was Jason's first time watching a Tati film and he was blown away by the experience. It's an hour of great discussion we're sure you'll enjoy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-sacks/message

This week Eric Hoffman joins Jason to talk about two 1970s films that take on the idea of a pandemic in very different ways. In George Romero's The Crazies, a virus is loose in a small Pennsylvania town that makes all its residents crazy. Jason loves the low budget, handmade feel of the film while Eric was frustrated by its amateurishness. But Eric and Jason agree on No Blade of Grass, a heavy downer of an ecological fable directed by Cornel Wilde. Whether you've seen these movies or not, we think the pod is worth a listen. And of course, there are SPOILERS aplenty! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-sacks/message

Eric Hoffman and Jason Sacks have been fans of DC Comics' 1980s take on the Shadow for a long time. WiIn this second of a two-part look at that comic series, Eric and Jason ponder the anarchic, memorable brilliance of this unique and bizarre comic series. Andy Helfer and Kyle Baker's The Shadow is creatively unwieldy yet astonishingly charming. For good measure, Eric and Jason also look at Baker and Helfer's equally great - and totally different - Justice Inc. Join them for an hour and twenty minute exploration of some brilliant comic books. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

Eric Hoffman joins Jason to talk about one of Alfred Hitchcock's classic films, the 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much. You may be familiar with the 1950s version of this film starring Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day, but the earlier movie is actually better than th remake, with more complex characters, more clever scenes and a more satisfying climax. Eric and Jason explore what makes the earlier film better as well as how it fits into Hitchcock's long career. It's a fast paced hour long conversation we think you will enjoy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason-sacks/message

Eric Hoffman and Jason Sacks have been fans of DC Comics' 1980s take on the Shadow for a long time. With an introductory four-parter by Howard Chaykin and a follow up series by writer Andrew Helfer and artists Bill Sienkiewicz, Marshall Rogers and Kyle Baker, the comic looked great for its time. But does it still stand up today? Eric and Jason ponder what evil lurks in the hearts of men in the first of a two-part look at that comic series. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

Matt Wagner's Grendel Cycle is one of the longest running independent comic books in history. Eric Hoffman joins Jason to discuss Grendel Tales Omnibus Volume 1, which contains four interesting and complex short stories, including work by James Robinson and Steven Seagle. Those stories are great, but Jason and Eric are bigger fans of Devils and Deaths, a brilliant two-parter by Darko Macan and the late, lamented Edvin Biukovic. Those are outstanding comics and Eric and Jason dissect why those comics are so outstanding. It's 70 minutes of great discussion about some classic comics, and we think you'll enjoy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

The CBC's Andrew Kurjata speaks with the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club's Angela LeFebvre and Eric Hoffman about why they put an old piano on skis.

Matt Wagner's Grendel Cycle is one of the longest running independent comic books in history. Eric Hoffman joins Jason to discuss Grendel Omnibus Volume 4, which we agree is the best volume of the series so far because it includes the fantastic action movie on paper War Child, the intriguing novel Past Prime (written by Greg Rucka) and the disappointing Devil Quest. You won't be disappointed by this hour of interesting conversation about one of the finest comics of any era. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

Welcome to the podcast of Odessa First Assembly. Join us for a powerful message from the National Speed the Light Director, Eric Hoffman. His message is all about missions and is so powerful! We hope this message will be an encouragement to you, and we would love to hear from you! If you would like to send a testimony, prayer request, or find more information about Odessa First Assembly, please go to odessafirstassembly.com.

Eric Hoffman and Jason Sacks, 2 of the editors of Steve Gerber: Conversations (published by University Press of Mississippi) are joined by writer and critic Nick Hanover to discuss three of Steve Gerber's late '90s and early 2000s comics: Hard Time, the revival of Howard the Duck and a two-part Superman Elseworlds story by Gerber. The team delves deep into Gerber's work, exploring the ideas and motivations behind those often brilliant comics. This is the third part of a multipart series about Gerber, because Jason loves talking about Gerber! Steve Gerber: Conversations is available in ebook and print form via Amazon and other outlets. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

Host Shaunestte Terrell talks with Delaware County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Hoffman about his work holding perpetrators of child sexual and physical abuse accountable for their actions. Eric talks about a few cases that made a big impact on his career and the role that all adults have in protecting children from abuse. Eric Hoffman is the prosecuting attorney for Delaware County, Indiana. He initially joined the Delaware County Prosecutor’s office as a law clerk in 2001 and has served the office in a variety of roles throughout the past nineteen years. Eric prosecutes most homicide cases and other selected crimes of violence including sexual abuse of adults and children. He has become active in both enforcing and improving Indiana’s failure to report child abuse and neglect statute. Eric serves as the Chairman of the Regional Child Fatality Review Committee and is a member of the Indiana Statewide Child Fatality Review Committee. Host- Shaunestte Terrell Guest- Eric Hoffman

Special thanks to our guests for this episode - Eric Hoffman - National Speed the Light Director Assemblies of God and Micah Mac - Youth Evangelist. Get more info on Lead the Generation at www.leadthegeneration.comInterested in over 100 hours of training videos from our conferences.  Check out Lead Now here: https://www.leadthegeneration.com/leadnowDo you love what Lead the Generation is doing to train and equip youth pastors?  Consider making a small investment to support our ministry.  https://www.leadthegeneration.com/donateWatch the video of this podcast on Eran Holt's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EranHoltPeter Reeves YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDTgGXVFLdKKrqtsb7rxhqgSpecial Thanks for Josh Leak Music for the instrumental music for the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6XY3F5GeobkAO2_YggWEQSupport the show (http://www.leadthegeneration.com/donate)

Eric Hoffman and Jason Sacks, 2 of the editors of Steve Gerber: Conversations (published by University Press of Mississippi) are joined by writer and critic Nick Hanover to discuss three of Steve Gerber's 1990s comics: Foolkiller, Sludge and Nevada. The team delves deep into Gerber's work, exploring the ideas and motivations behind those often brilliant comics. This is the second part of a multipart series about Gerber, because Jason loves talking about Gerber! Steve Gerber: Conversations is available in ebook and print form via Amazon and other outlets. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

Q&A with National STL Director, Eric Hoffman by Excel Youth

Eric Hoffman and Jason Sacks, 2 of the editors of Steve Gerber: Conversations (published by University Press of Mississippi) are joined by writer and critic Nick Hanover to discuss four of Steve Gerber's great 1970s comics: Morbius the Living Vampire, Son of Satan, Shanna the She-Devil and Guardians of the Galaxy. The team delves deep into Gerber's work, exploring the ideas and motivations behind those often brilliant comics. This is the first part of a multipart series about Gerber, because Jason loves talking about Gerber! Steve Gerber: Conversations is available in ebook and print form via Amazon and other outlets. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

Eric Hoffman is the Chief Operations Officer for EveryWarrior.org in Shreveport Louisiana. Matt and Eric worked together at Air Force Basic Military Training, and Eric went on to retire as a Major. He know works as a Defense Contractor by day, and helps Active Duty families access resources in the Shreveport area through his work with Every Warrior.

Welcome to the first BONUS episode of The ISM Show. In Episode One, we featured a segment with our National Speed The Light Director, Pastor Eric Hoffman. Today, we're happy to bring you his FULL INTERVIEW. You're going to love the truth nuggets Pastor Eric drops all throughout this conversation. . . . If you liked this episode, share it with a friend The ISM Show is a weekly youth ministry show featuring students and leaders from the Illinois Student Ministries family. Hear from students that are using their talents to change their communities and well as youth leaders from around the nation that are influencing this next generation of world changers. . Follow Us! Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ilsmonline Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ilsmonline Tik Tok:https://www.tiktok.com/@ilsmonline YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYApOb5GYPvnedAgEXjmhHQ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/illinoisstudentministries/message

In 130: ACL Injury Update!  Interview with Orthopedic Specialist-Dr. Eric Hoffman we have a great talk about managing patients with ACL injuries before, during and after surgery. We did add a some info about who gets certain "grafts" and important post-op "Do's and Don'ts". We did a little "shout out" to the Anterior Lateral Ligament and talked about so much more! Want to join the OEP community? Click HERE to jump onto our email list. SUBSCRIBE at the bottom of the page.WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE!! Click HERE to check it outAre you looking for One on one Coaching? We have it!Ask me your ortho evaluation questions and I will answer them on the show: paul@orthoevalpal.comBe sure to check out our 360+ videos on our YouTube Channel called Ortho Eval Pal with Paul MarquisFollow our Podcast show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most all other podcasting platforms. Just search: Ortho Eval Pal Podcast and Enjoy!10% DISCOUNT for Ortho Eval Pal listeners interested in a buying a B-Strong Band Package. Click HERE to shop and add discount code SusieLachowski#ACL#OrthoEvalPal#DrEricHoffman#KneeRehab#PhysicalTherapy#OrthopedicsSupport the show (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6GY24EJMBHTMU&source=url)

In part six of the epic interview Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman and I conducted with famed comics writer/editor Jim Shooter, we discuss why John Byrne hates Shooter, Chris Claremont's commitment to characters, the corrupt practice of lapping, freelancing later in life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

This is part five of the epic interview Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman and I conducted with famed comics writer/editor Jim Shooter. This time we discuss Frank Miller's meteoric ascent as comics' greatest artist, the way Walt Simonson explained to Shooter that Thor would be turned into a frog, the secret origin of Epic Comics, the evolution of Marvel between different generations, Shooter's time at Disney, and much more --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

Jim Shooter is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in comics history. Loved by some, hated by others, and misunderstood by many, Shooter stands alone as one of the most complex figures ever to work in comics. Several years ago, in preparation for Jim Shooter: Conversations, Eric Hoffman, Dominick Grace and Jason Sacks had the chance to interview Shooter for several hours. We will share that interview over the next several weeks. In part one, Shooter discusses his childhood, his traumatizing experiences working for the legendary Mort Weisinger, and Shooter's rise to the editor-in-chief role at Marvel. Come back every Wednesday morning for the next several weeks to hear the next parts of our fascinating conversation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

Words Matter w/ Pastor Eric Hoffman by Excel Youth

It's a special look back at 20 years of the Super 32 on the Short Time Wrestling Podcast! Back in 2000, I was still in college at Old Dominion. I was working on tracking down results from any and all high school tournaments and after attending my first USA Wrestling Cadet & Junior Nationals the summer prior, I started covering more off-season stuff for the first iteration of Mat Talk Online. This involved fall folkstyle events from USAW and the AAU, spring freestyle and paying attention to out-of-state tournaments where Virginia teams participated. One of those tournaments popped up in 2000, my fourth year in college at ODU and my fourth running Mat Talk Online. It was the Super 32. I first noticed it that fall when a local wrestler in the coverage area of the newspaper I was working at won at 119 pounds. George Dodson was an Eagle Scout from Denbigh High Sc hool who never reached the Group AAA state tournament. Then I saw Drake Dickenson’s name. Drake wrestled at Magna Vista in the Southwest portion of Virginia before crossing the state line to wrestle for Dave Barker at Eden-Morehead. And that’s how it all began for me. This list is a look back at things that make me go “oh wow,” and is not designed to be an inclusive list. During the 2005-08 years, I ran InterMat for the NWCA, which then owned the site. So my knowledge of high school wrestling from that era was in top form. Prior to 2005, I worked and lived in Virginia, so that’s where the lion’s share of my knowledge existed. In 2000, the very first champion was at 101.1 pounds and it was host Morehead’s Chris Moore defeating future Virginia four-time state champion Matt Epperly of Christiansburg, Virginia. Epperly went on to wrestle at Virginia Tech and qualified for the NCAA Division I Championships twice. Current UNC Pembroke coach Othello “O.T.” Johnson claimed a title at 163 pounds, beating Chris Ward of James Madison High School in Virginia. One time in Fargo, Ward got out after curfew. Team Virginia coach Ben Summerlin ran him outside until he puked. In 2001, David Barker cites this as a turning point in the tournament’s second year. Virginia powerhouse Great Bridge shows up and crowns four champions. Daren Burns, who wrestled at UNC Greensboro, was third at 190 pounds. He got better. In 2002, the word is out. The Super 32 is now challenging the Lock Haven Fall Classic as the top preseason event on the east coast and the event is starting to gain traction nationally. A middle school division is added as well. Ashtin Primus from Connellsville, Pennsylvania comes down and cradles his way to a title. Future Division III All-American Donny Ooton of Great Bridge wins at 140, while future Old Dominion All-American Chris Brown wins at 145. In 2003, we’ve got nationally ranked wrestlers hitting one another before the finals. Eric Hoffman, a future NJCAA national champion from Iowa Central and D1 national qualifier comes out from Iowa where he falls in the finals to Dusty McKinney at 125. A pair of future two-time D1 All-Americans meet in the finals at 103 where Tyler Nauman of Middletown, Pennsylvania beats eighth-grader Scotti Sentes of Riverside, Florida, 6-2. Primus wins another title, this time at 135. Future Missouri All-American Raymond Jordan of New Bern, North Carolina beats future Limestone Division II national champion Dan Scanlan of Loudoun County, Virginia 4-1 in the finals at 171. Scores of future Division I wrestlers who don’t place. Moving to 2004, Ashtin Primus wins his third straight Super 32. Hammer champions include – well, they were pretty much all hammers. At 112, Ian Moser of Delaware beat Walker Faison of Virginia in a bout with two of the best lightweights in the country. New Jersey brought a strong group from Bound Brook as Nick Murray and Andrew Flanagan won titles. Top-ranked wrestlers Patrick Bond of Great Bridge, Cody Gardner of Christiansburg and Kenny Lester of Oviedo, Florida swept the top three weights. In 2005, Brandon, Florida’s talented crop of hammers comes in, led by Eric Grajales at 103 pounds. Grajales bests Steve Mitcheff of Ohio 7-0 in the finals. Among the names at 103 were Matt Snyder and Nic Bedelyon of Pennsylvania – shout out to the late Wayne Danger – Eric Dunnett of New Jersey, Zeke Hofer from Colorado, Joey Lazor of Georgia and Andrew Williams of Virginia. No, I’m not going to load up all these brackets, because this is where the podcast will get significantly larger. UWW media guy Eric Olanowski was also in this bracket. At 112, North Carolina’s Brandon Davis emerged as the champion, but wasn’t heard from much in college. Current Huntingdon College head wrestling coach Matt Oliver, beat Marshall Peppelman in the semifinals and felt to Davis in the final. Anyone remember Ryan Fields from Ohio? Yup. He was the champ at 119, beating future D1 All-American Walter Peppelman in the finals. Future All-American Jarrod Garnett of Virginia Tech doesn’t place. 13-seed Abbie Rush, a future Boston U. wrestler, stormed into the finals, beating future All-American Peter Yates and past champ Ian Moser. He falls to Mike Robinson of Lewistown, Pa., who later on in the year will hand Mike Grey of Delbarton, New Jersey, his first high school loss at the Beast of the East. Robinson was given a #42 seed at the Super 32 and won it. He was unseeded when he fell in the finals to Kellen Russell at the Beast. Tyler Nauman beat Peter Yates in the blood round. Bishop Lynch from Texas came out and brought some studs as Luke Silver and Luke Ashmore won titles. Christiansburg’s Andrew Clement won 10 matches – although two were forfeits – to claim third at 140. Nick Nelson, a future All-American at Virginia, stopped Ashtin Primus in his bid for a fourth title with a fall in the finals at 145. Nelson had earlier edged Bubba Jenkins and then beat Matt Cathell of Delaware and Bryan Tracy of Paulsboro, New Jersey in the semis. Jon Reader of Davison, Michigan had four pins and a major to reach the finals against Matt Epperly. Reader won 4-1. Future NCAA champion Dustin Kilgore was third, losing by fall in the quarters to eventual champion Tommy Spellman of New Jersey. Spellman beat Reynolds’ Lawrence Beckman in the finals. Yes, of those Reynolds Beckmans. You know what, if I do this for every year, it’ll be longer than the three-hour finals show I put on from the Asian Championships. So let’s look at JUST THE FINALS for 2006 and the numbers. Nine Division I All-Americans, of them, there was two-time champion David Taylor from Graham, Ohio. You also have Division II champion Tommy Abbott of Delaware, two-time NJCAA champion and NAIA All-American Jamelle Jones, also of Delaware. The head-to-heads of note saw Pennsylvania’s Troy Dolan beat Jarrod Garnett of Delaware. Man, Delaware had a good crop of guys in that era. Collin Dozier of Virginia over Tyler Nauman of Pennsylvania, Dustin Kilgore of Ohio beat Jordan Blanton of Illinois in a battle of future three-time All-Americans. Jones beat future NCAA finalist Chris Honeycutt of St. Edward at 189. New York’s Kyle Dake, wrestling at 112, lost to Virginia’s Michael Garafalo and Georgia’s Joey Lazor and finished 7/8. Olanowski won this bracket by the way. At 119, returning champion Brandon Davis of North Carolina fell to the 7/8, which wasn’t yet wrestled. Among champion Frank Perrelli’s victims – a guy named Creed, a Levi Strauss, Scotti Sentes and Josh Kindig. That was just to reach the finals. Ok, the first two were more for name effect. His opponent, Gabriel Espinosa of Florida beat Travis Coffey of North Carolina, Nic Bedelyon and Eric Grajales to reach the finals. Nick Nelson repeated, winning at 145 pounds with a 5-3 win over Tommy Abbott. Future Division III champion Vincent Renaut was ousted in the blood round by future Buffalo Bull John-Martin Cannon at 152. Scott Winson beat Ben Bennett in the semis at 160, Jordan Blanton beat Cam Simaz in the semis before falling to Kilgore in the finals. Moving to 2007, which was the second-to-last year I attended because when you move away from the East Coast, getting to North Cacka-lacky ain’t so easy. First, the finals stats: seven Division I All-Americans, one three-time D1 champion, and a Greco-Roman World teamer – Max Nowry. At 125, Eric Grajales beat Pennsylvania’s Jordan Oliver 1-0, Collin Palmer of Ohio beat Kenny Courts of Pennsylvania 4-2 at 135. Future All-Americans to fall were Walter Peppelman, who lost to Tony Jameson of Ohio and Ed Ruth, who lost to Michigan’s Jacob Burge 5-4 at 171. Anthony Clinton of North Carolina won by injury default over Virginia’s Max Huntley, who hadn’t yet transferred to Blair Academy. Now, the fun stuff. A.J. Schopp beat Devin Carter for third at 103, Jeremy Sandoval of Texas beat Tony Ramos for fifth at 125, Jarrod Garnett beat Josh Kindig for third at 130, Marshall Peppelman beat R.J. Pena of Oregon for third at 140, future All-American from The Citadel, Odie Delaney was fifth at 215. Other “what the heck” stats include: Max Nowry beating A.J. Schopp in the semis, Grajales beating Ramos 8-0 in the semis, future Cornell backup Joe Stanzione beating Joey Lazor. There’s some weird tie-in there with Dake if you can do the math. Collin Palmer over Taylor Massa in the semis. Sightings of C.J. Napier of Kansas and Carson Fields of Georgia at 135. Another Kansan, Aldon Isenberg finishing second to Trevor Melde of New Jersey at 140. The aforementioned free-wheeling Tony Jameson of Ohio. Future four-time NAIA champion Brock Gutches beating future Division III All-American Emmanuel Ajagbe of New Jersey in the consolation semis at 145. Joe Booth making his national breakout performance at 152. My friend Nate Schy still can’t stand him from his fantasy wrestling draft picks. He even told him such on Facebook. Eric Cubberly of Ohio beat Scotty Winston of New Jersey in the finals at 160. Ed Ruth beat Jordan Blanton in the semifinals and this is before Ruth ever went to Blair. Jacob Burge’s semifinal op

Crazy new table style that you may be able to incorporate or be inspired by or just straight up steal. Known as a Multiple Dice, Multiple Results, Single Roll tables or more colloquially as a Che Table ?? Shout out to Eric Hoffman whom I mention imprecisely a few times. Thank you Eric for your inspirational wandering monster table design, incorporating a secondary result for rolling a double. GoogleDrive drive.google.com/open?id=1gNd1CADmi4z8kdh8n0vrhCaK8Etp515S Email Address checormack@gmail.com

Every meal is more than a meal. We share more at our tables than food and drink. Eric Hoffman, our Executive Pastor of Outreach & Ministry Strategy, teaches about the practical ways we can invite those around us to our tables. We've created...

Every meal is more than a meal. We share more at our tables than food and drink. Eric Hoffman, our Executive Pastor of Outreach & Ministry Strategy, teaches about the practical ways we can invite those around us to our tables. We've created...

In this episode of the Local Leaders Podcast, Austin sits down with AG National Fine Arts Director, Eric Hoffman, to discuss missions and how to get buy in from leaders.

Dom Grace and Eric Hoffman, Jason's co-editors of Steve Gerber: Conversation (now available at Amazon and many other outlets) join Jason to talk about the life and fascinating career of one of comics' most original and unique creators. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classiccomics/support

Jesse and I are excited to have our pastor on the show today! We’re part of the discipleship program that he started at our church, and you’ve probably heard us talk about the program many times if you've been following me online the last few years. Jesse actually joined the Discipleship Program shortly after we moved to TN. It ended up profoundly impacting his life. I was more reluctant to be a part of it, but I finally said yes the next year... and well, my life will never be the same! Many of you have asked me to share more details on the program, so I'm honored that Eric took time out of his schedule to record a podcast to explain more of the backstory of the Discipleship Program and how it came about. In this episode, Eric explains how he used to live his life in a performance-based way. He saw his worth as being tied to what he accomplished. He also felt that he couldn’t trust others, and had to rely on himself to get things done. Eric and his wife got stuck in a rut that they couldn’t find their way out of. They knew they needed help, so they accepted the opportunity to go away for a period of intense counseling. This turned his life upside down, even though he found it incredibly hard to have some very unhealthy patterns in his life exposed. Because of what he learned through counseling and in-depth study, he knew he could never go back to where he once was. He invited 12 men to join him on this journey of studying and reading and growing together. This became the basis for the Discipleship Program that now has impacted hundreds of lives in our local community. I’m so excited for you to hear Eric share about some of the foundational principles that have changed my life as well as some first steps you can take if you’re feeling stuck. (Also, Eric talks about some tools and resources you can dive into if you want to learn more about your emotions and how to live wholeheartedly.) In This Episode: [00:25] - Welcome back to the Crystal Paine Show! I give a little backstory about today’s guest, our pastor Eric Hoffman. [03:37] - The first six months after we moved were a low point for Jesse. He struggled to find his worth outside of his work. [06:36] - Being part of the Discipleship Program at our church is truly what God used to radically shift his perspective and understanding of God. It also helped him uncover and discover his giftings and the way he is wired.  [08:29] -I share how I was very reluctant to sign up for the Discipleship Program and talk about how exhausting and hard it was for me to go through it the first year. And yet, ultimately, it ended up changing my life in powerful ways. And then, Jesse and I have both had the opportunity to lead small groups through the program the last few years. [10:36] - Eric takes us back to his less-compassionate days, and explains what brought him to where he is today. [14:08] - We hear a story about Eric’s conversation with a friend in a coffee shop. [16:12] - How did Eric manage to keep living out of the truths of what he had learned in day-to-day life? [19:11] - I talk about how much the program has changed not only my life, but also those of the women I’ve gotten to walk through it with. [22:37] - What are some first steps that people can take to get out of living in a rut? Eric shares a lot of practical tools and resources here. [32:54] - Eric leaves us with a great idea of something that he and his wife do with their kids at the dinner table to teach them how to express their emotions in a healthy way. Links and Resources: Eric Hoffman Galatians for You by Tim Keller The Prodigal God by Tim Keller Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller Timothy Keller Wholehearted 8-Part Message Series The Bible Project: Word Study: Lev - “Heart” The Voice of the Heart by Chip Dodd What Am I Feeling? by Dr. Josh Straub and Christi Straub Crystal’s Favorite Things on Amazon CrystalPaine.com MoneySavingMom.com YourBloggingMentor.com Crystal’s Instagram account (I’d love for you to follow me there! I usually hop on at least a few times per day and share behind-the-scenes photos and videos, my grocery store hauls, funny stories, or just anything I’m pondering or would like your advice or feedback on!) Have feedback on the show or suggestions for future episodes or topics? Send me an email: crystal@moneysavingmom.com Note: This post contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, we may receive a small commission — at no additional cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

In this episode you'll learn: How being an entrepreneur is a job: you have to take it seriously Why you need to have savings built up before you launch out on your own How "no" is a big motivator Why Instagram isn't the panacea everyone thinks it is How secondary and tertiary destinations can help solve the overtourism problem How to get professional quality photos and videos without spending a lot Discussed in this episode: Their Food Travel Blog: With Husband In Tow Their Company: WHIT Media

"A hex crawl is really just a dungeon where every room has six exits." -Eric Hoffman "(dumb stares)" -Jason and Jose They're back! After a long hiatus, Jason, Eric and Jose have returned to service all of your hex-crawling needs! In Episode 5 of Hex Talk, the guys answer some questions from a long-time fan (Cody loves our nuggets), and they reveal their new shared-GM hex-crawl setting, The Forlorn Shores. The guys discuss why and how they created the Forlorn Shores, detail how each GM manages their respective areas, and laugh about first-session follies. If you enjoy this episode, leave a review and let the Hex Talk guys know what else you want to hear! Craig Brasco, artist - https://craigbrasco.com Flower Liches of the Dragonboat Festival, Kabuki Kaiser - https://kabukikabuki.wordpress.com Inkwell Ideas (Hexographer, Dungeonographer) - https://inkwellideas.com   Hex Talk Podcast: Email Address - hextalkpodcast@audiodungeon.com Twitter handle - @HexTalkPodcast Discord Channel - https://discord.gg/vfuxQwN Web Site - https://hextalk.audiodungeon.com  

Hex crawl! We enlist some help from Eric Hoffman and Jason Hobbs to talk about this type of adventuring in your rpg’s. Announcements 2018 Listener Survey – 77 responses so far compared to 29 the last time we ran it. Eric Hoffman from Stormlord Publishing (on drivethru affiliate link), publisher of Black Powder Black Magic... The post 184 Hex Crawl appeared first on Gaming and BS RPG Podcast.

We know playing “Bad Guys” is an integral part of early childhood development — but, as some older kids who are more exposed to the media know, real people can do bad things, too.  We had planned to release a “Bad Guys” episode of Ear Snacks on Valentine’s Day, but first we wanted to explain to you, the parents, how and why we are approaching such a difficult topic, especially in the wake of last week’s tragedy in Parkland, Florida.  This episode is not intended for kids. Jane Lindholm hosts Vermont Edition and But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public Radio.  Like Ear Snacks, But Why usually speaks to kids directly about the real world, but last year they released an episode for parents entitled “How Do You Talk to Kids About Violence in the News?”  We spoke with Jane about about creating this episode, how media creators can address difficult topics with kids, and about her own experience as a parent of two young children. We share an excerpt from an interview with an older listener (Grey, 8) that won’t be included in next week’s “Bad Guys” episode, but it illustrates how older kids begin to understand the distinction between pretend evil-doers and people in the real-world who treat others in scary, unkind ways. We reference Dr. Robin Gurwitch (child psychologist at Duke University), Teacher Tom Hobson (early childhood educator & author), and Eric Hoffman’s book “Magic, Capes, Amazing Powers: Transforming Superhero Play in the Classroom” — oh, and we also feature an impromptu visit from 9-month-old guest percussionist. We'd love to talk more with you - if you have any comments, feedback or anything to share, please reach us via e-mail or on social media - on Twitter @andrewypolly or on Facebook.

John Gonzalez and Amy Sherman stop by Unruly Brewing Company where they learn more about Muskegon and Lake Michigan, which Amy calls the "Greatest of the Great Lakes."Segment 1: Muskegon Mayor Steve Gawron and Lynn Vogel of the Muskegon County Convention & Visitors Bureau.More info at http://visitmuskegon.org/Segment 2 (Listen at): Karen Breckon of the West Michigan Tourist Association stops by to talk about beautiful Muskegon, as well as other things to do along the Lakeshore.More info at https://www.wmta.org/Segment 3 (Listen at 19:03): Eric Hoffman of Unruly Brewing Company stops in. The brewery has been open for three years in downtown Muskegon.More info at http://unrulybrewing.com/Segment 4 (Listen at 29:00): John and Amy talk about Muskegon's Burning Foot Beer Festival, and BEER OF THE WEEK. This week it's Unruly's Menace, a Belgian IPA, which is made with a blend of trappist yeast and American hops.More on Behind the Mitten at https://www.facebook.com/behindthemitten/

Professor Michael Hanna, Senior Consultant Neurologist at Queen Square, UCL, London, discusses the developments in genetics in neuromuscular diseases with Eric Hoffman, Gordon Holmes lecturer at the ABN meeting 2017, in Liverpool. Professor Eric Hoffman (Binghampton University, USA) describes in this conversation his extensive work on the rare condition of Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy. This is the last of a series of podcasts recorded at the 2017 ABN meeting, held in May, in Liverpool, UK. More on this subject on the Practical Neurology website: http://pn.bmj.com/, where you can find these particular articles as well: "Muscle disease" - http://pn.bmj.com/content/9/1/54; "Muscle diseases: mimics and chameleons" - http://pn.bmj.com/content/14/5/288.

John Gonzalez and Amy Sherman of MLive and "Behind the Mitten" spend some time with Eric Hoffman of Unruly Brewing in Muskegon and Allen Serio of the Burning Foot Beer Festival at Pere Marquette Park.This Podcast was recorded Jan. 12, 2017 at the Michigan Brewers Guild Conference in Kalamazoo.John and Amy talk to Allen about how the festival began, and how popular it has become in just two years. Tickets for this year's festival (Aug. 26, 2017) go on sale in June. More on Burning Foot at https://www.facebook.com/burningfootbeerfest/?fref=tsMore info on Unruly at https://www.facebook.com/UnrulyBrewing/?fref=ts Behind the Mitten is a one-hour radio show that airs on 10 stations across Michigan. More on BTM at https://www.facebook.com/behindthemitten/

  Hey Love! Today, I’m excited to introduce you to one of my pastors and my friend- Eric Hoffman. In this post Christmas offering, I thought it’d be good for us to focus on a gift so special, that Jesus told His disciples it was actually better for them that He go so the Gift…

Hey Love, in this week’s episode, I confess that I used to be a compulsive liar even well into adulthood. I tell you about the time a friend in my college sorority lovingly confronted me on it, how I attempted to stop unsuccessfully on my own strength… and then feeling so defeated, started stealing food…

Eric Hoffman is the Director of Maracatu Pacifico. Located in West Oakland California, Maracatu Pacifico is a community-based performance group that brings Afro-Brazilian maracatu music and dance from Northeastern Brazil to the San Francisco Bay area. Maracatu Pacífico draws its inspiration from both traditional maracatu nações (especially Estrela Brilhante do Recife and Maracatu Leão Coroado), and more "modern" maracatu groups like Maracatu Badia and Maracatu Nação Pernambuco. We owe great thanks to these groups (and their mestres) for their inspiration, teaching, and example, especially Pitoco de Aira of Estrela Brilhante and Nininho of Maracatu Badia. We strive to be as respectful of this tradition as we can be, and constantly work to improve our understanding and practice.Maracatu Pacífico was founded in late 2012 under the leadership of director Eric Hoffman, with an emphasis on community and personal development through the study of Maracatu rhythms. He is also a long-time member of Grupo Samba Rio. You may have also seen him hanging around California Brazil Camp. Sponsored by GoSamba.net!

We haven't spent much time traveling in France. We've spent lots of time in Ireland, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, but not France. We've dipped our toes into the sea that is France in the past, but never dived deep. It was one of the reasons why were were so excited for our French river cruise. To taste French food, drink French wine, and hang out with some French goats. We extended our stay beyond the week long cruise, to spend time in exotic places likes Aix-en-Provence and Lyon. But, no matter how hard we tried to love France, it just didn't take. Traveling in France is just not as easy as it's neighboring countries. Part of it was due to language, part of it was due to what was going on in France this summer, and part of it had to do with French food, believe it or not. On this week's episode of our culinary travel podcast, we apologize to the French as we admit how hard it was to travel in France We are Amber and Eric Hoffman. We are food travel bloggers, meaning, we travel on our stomachs in search of the best of food and travel. Not only do we share what to eat and where to eat when traveling, but we like to tell the story behind the food. We interview chefs and wine makers and cheese makers. We've spent hours enjoying a wine travel lunch, talking with wine makers and tasting wine all over the world. Yes, most of the culinary travel podcast focuses on luxury travel and culinary travel, including Michelin Star restaurants and five star luxury travel experiences, but we also walk through food markets, test out cooking classes, and eat street food around the world. Please do follow us, on our culinary travel journey. For more from the With Husband In Tow Podcast and to see this week's show notes click here: http://www.withhusbandintow.com/s2e08/

I can hardly believe it's been four years since we left the US. Even more, I can't believe we celebrate 15 years of marriage in the same week. It's certainly a week to celebrate: 4 years of With Husband In Tow (but really 15) During this week's episode we talk a little less about our food travel experiences, and we get a lot more personal. Yes, we tell fun stories about how much we disliked traveling in Central America, how I relieved myself of my sins in Bulgaria, and got food poisoning, and we dispel the notion of romantic train travel through Europe. We talk about how one of the best things that has happened to us as a result of this travel lifestyle is the ability to travel with friends. That we've been able to create a supportive network of travel bloggers and digital nomads, who have truly become our friends. But, we share the life of an entrepreneur, the ups and downs, and the stress that we feel on a regular basis while trying to make this crazy travel blogging life of ours sustainable.  We are Amber and Eric Hoffman. We are food travel bloggers, meaning, we travel on our stomachs in search of the best of food and travel. Not only do we share what to eat and where to eat when traveling, but we like to tell the story behind the food. We interview chefs and wine makers and cheese makers. We've spent hours enjoying a wine travel lunch, talking with wine makers and tasting wine all over the world. Yes, most of the culinary travel podcast focuses on luxury travel and culinary travel, including Michelin Star restaurants and five star luxury travel experiences, but we also walk through food markets, test out cooking classes, and eat street food around the world.  For more from the With Husband In Tow Podcast and to see this week's show notes click here: http://www.withhusbandintow.com/s2e07/

Canadian travel blogging duo, Macrae and Carolann, have hung with us in Thailand and France. We sit down with them, on a French river cruise, about their traveling experiences, and some of the strange foods they've eaten in their travels. We are Amber and Eric Hoffman. We are food travel bloggers, meaning, we travel on our stomachs in search of the best of food and travel. Not only do we share what to eat and where to eat when traveling, but we like to tell the story behind the food. We interview chefs and wine makers and cheese makers. We've spent hours enjoying a wine travel lunch, talking with wine makers and tasting wine all over the world. Yes, most of the culinary travel podcast focuses on luxury travel and culinary travel, including Michelin Star restaurants and five star luxury travel experiences, but we also walk through food markets, test out cooking classes, and eat street food around the world. Please do follow us, on our culinary travel journey. For more from the With Husband In Tow Podcast and to see this week's show notes click here: http://www.withhusbandintow.com/s2e06/

We chat with Brian on our recent Viking River Cruise about some of his favorite foods, and where to travel for good eats We are Amber and Eric Hoffman. We are food travel bloggers, meaning, we travel on our stomachs in search of the best of food and travel. Not only do we share what to eat and where to eat when traveling, but we like to tell the story behind the food. We interview chefs and wine makers and cheese makers. We've spent hours enjoying a wine travel lunch, talking with wine makers and tasting wine all over the world. Yes, most of the culinary travel podcast focuses on luxury travel and culinary travel, including Michelin Star restaurants and five star luxury travel experiences, but we also walk through food markets, test out cooking classes, and eat street food around the world. Please do follow us, on our culinary travel journey. For more from the With Husband In Tow Podcast and to see this week's show notes click here: http://www.withhusbandintow.com/s2e05/

No, we don't talk with some goats, but we talk about hanging out with some goats, in France and the Czech Republic. #GoatLove. We are Amber and Eric Hoffman. We are food travel bloggers, meaning, we travel on our stomachs in search of the best of food and travel. Not only do we share what to eat and where to eat when traveling, but we like to tell the story behind the food. We interview chefs and wine makers and cheese makers. We've spent hours enjoying a wine travel lunch, talking with wine makers and tasting wine all over the world. Yes, most of the culinary travel podcast focuses on luxury travel and culinary travel, including Michelin Star restaurants and five star luxury travel experiences, but we also walk through food markets, test out cooking classes, and eat street food around the world. Please do follow us, on our culinary travel journey. For more from the With Husband In Tow Podcast and to see this week's show notes click here: http://www.withhusbandintow.com/s2e04/

Software engineer and Google employee John Eric Hoffman welcomes Matt and Andy to his house (next door to Todd Glass's, coincidentally) to talk about machine learning, neural networks, Maxwell's Demon, DeepDream, natural language processing and the recent short sci-fi film written by AI (and co-starring past guest Humphrey Ker).

Amy Sherman and John Gonzalez of Behind the Mitten recorded this show from Unruly Brewing Company in Muskegon on March 16, 2016. This show aired on March 20.Thanks to our host, Eric Hoffman, who is the owners and brewmaster at Unruly.Show Notes:Segment 1: Eric of UnrulyMore info: https://www.facebook.com/UnrulyBrewing/?fref=tsSegment 2: Carla Flanders of the Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce (9:50 mark)More info: http://muskegon.org/Segment 3: Bob Lukens of the Muskegon County CVB (18:55)More infoL http://www.visitmuskegon.org/ Segment 4: Hilary Rohman of Rebel Pies, plus the return of Eric Hoffman for Beer of the Week. (Tropic Thunder, an Imperial IPA)More on Behind the Mitten:https://www.facebook.com/behindthemitten/

Traveling the world for fun and to explore is a dream for some. Amber and Eric Hoffman decided to go beyond dreaming and found a way to make it work.

Adventures! Adventures! Come and get your adventures! This week on Spellburn we’re going to review three recent Third Party Publisher adventures for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game: Claytonian JP’s “The Wizardarium of Calabraxis,” Carl Bussler and Eric Hoffman’s “Prayers of the Forgotten,” and Stephen Newton’s “Stronghold of the Wood Giant Shaman.”   Links […]

Adventures! Adventures! Come and get your adventures! This week on Spellburn we're going to review three recent Third Party Publisher adventures for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game: Claytonian JP's “The Wizardarium of Calabraxis,” Carl Bussler and Eric Hoffman's “Prayers of the Forgotten,” and Stephen Newton's “Stronghold of the Wood Giant Shaman.” Links mentioned […]

The second part of the interview with printmaker Eric Hoffman.

Eric Hoffman is a kind printmaker I met on Instagram while attempting to soak up all I can from more experienced printmakers creating inspiring work.

Tonight's episode features Eric Hoffman. Eric runs www.purplepride.org and will be talking all things Vikings.  He can be found on twitter: @purpleprideorg Dan Heins, aka Burgandy and Dave Cherney, aka Road Warrior from DFW (www.dynastyfootballwarehouse.com) take to the airwaves to do live interviews with NFL insiders. From Beat Writers to Staff, we'll bring you local NFL action from various training camps and teams around the league. This information is intended to be fantasy football relevant. Follow us on twitter @Dan_DFW and @RoadWarrior_DFW.  

On this week’s episode of Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews Eric Hoffman of Hoffman Farms in Trenton, Missouri. Eric runs an elaborate grass-based dairy program and is struggling to maintain margins as milk prices plummet.

Prof. Eric Hoffman and Dr. Gary Rudoren are comedy researchers who've created Comedy by the Numbers: 169 Secrets of Humor and Popularity.

Matt and Bob Odenkirk get a lesson in funny from "Comedy by the Numbers" authors Prof. Eric Hoffman and Dr. Gary Rudoren.