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Send us a textEnergy expert Amy Myers Jaffe returns to EvC to chat with Ed about Energy and Artificial Intelligence. Nearly every aspect of the economy seems to be impacted by the stunningly rapid development of AI. Energy is no exception. Ed and Amy have a wide-ranging discussion that covers a lot of ground and touches on several hot topics, including: How AI is transforming the production, distribution, and consumption of energy; The energy needs of data centers; Whether or not AI is an asset or liability for the clean energy economy; The role of tech companies; The geopolitics of AI; Security vulnerabilities created by increasingly AI-dependent energy infrastructure; And Canada-US relations.(01:35) Skip IntroDetailed Notes available on the show pageAbout Our Guest:Amy Myers Jaffe is a leading expert on global energy policy, sustainability, and geopolitical risk. She is widely published on energy, commodity markets and finance and is author of several books, including her most recent book, Energy's Digital Future and Oil, Dollars, Debt and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold. Jaffe serves as Director of the Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York University's School of Professional Studies and is a research professor who teaches graduate-level courses examining clean technology innovation and business and global climate finance. Jaffe is a regular contributor to the popular podcast “The Energy Gang” and a frequent media commentator in television and print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times of London and CNN International. Jaffe holds a career prize in energy economics from the US Association for Energy Economics and also served as the organization's President in 2020.Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts___Energy vs Climatewww.energyvsclimate.com Bluesky | YouTube | LinkedIn | X/Twitter

Send us a textThere's something in Carbon Removal for everyone — are we building enduring relationships to advance the sector?A bonus EvC episode - on February 27, 2025, EvC co-host Ed Whittingham hosted a panel discussion at Carbon Removal Canada's Carbon Removal Day in Ottawa. They cover a number of topics including the changing political headwinds in the US, efforts to bolster investment in Canada, and silicon valley's interest in CDR. Plus, they take a few audience questions.Detailed show notes on episode page.About Our Guests:Lucy Hargreaves is the VP of Corporate Affairs & Policy at Patch, a SF-based carbon markets platform that's accelerating investment into global climate action at scale. Beyond her work at Patch, Lucy is part of the core team driving Build Canada and Canada Spends, volunteer-led initiatives focused on helping Canadian entrepreneurs share their ideas for a bolder, richer, freer country and making government spending more accessible and transparent.  Daniel Kelter is Carbon Removal Canada's Director of Government Relations, a strategic policy advisor who excels at connecting political insight with industry challenges. With experience working alongside Members of Parliament and navigating the intricacies of hard-to-decarbonize sectors like fertilizer and steel, Daniel has been instrumental in crafting advocacy strategies that forge strong government-industry partnerships."Jorden Dye is the director for the Business Renewables Centre-Canada and the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Centre, both initiatives of the Pembina Institute focused on accelerating climate action through corporate procurement. His work includes leading a community of over 60 participating organizations across Canada to spur renewable energy development and developing educational resources to introduce carbon dioxide removal to new audiences.Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts___Energy vs Climatewww.energyvsclimate.com Bluesky | YouTube | LinkedIn | X/Twitter

Send us a textEd chats with four movers & shakers in Canadian climate philanthropy.On Nov. 13, 2024, nine prominent Canadian family foundations, including EvC's David Keith's, announced a combined pledge of $405 million, all dedicated to accelerating Canada's shift to a low-carbon economy. They touch on: Why this financial commitment occurred and why now The challenges facing climate advocacy today and in the near futureWhat needs to succeed in the next 3-5 years How philanthropy should respond when governments start to roll back key pieces of climate and environmental legislation - just like what we're seeing already happening in the US post-inauguration.About Our Guests:(01:23) Claire Seaborn is an expert advisor to the Clean Economy Fund, former Chief of Staff to Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, and now a lawyer practicing at Torys LLP.(08:39) Devika Shah is the Executive Director of Environment Funders Canada, an umbrella organization for environmental foundations.(15:17) Bruce Lourie is President of the Ivey Foundation, one of the largest climate funders in the country.(20:55) Eric St-Pierre is the Executive Director of the Trottier Family Foundation, also one of Canada's largest climate funders.Detailed show notes on episode page...___Energy vs Climatewww.energyvsclimate.com Bluesky | YouTube | LinkedIn | X/Twitter

Send us a textSupport Energy vs Climate on #GivingTuesdayEnergy vs Climate is a labour of love – we hosts don't draw a salary from the show because we feel strongly about the public service benefit of the project.But, we still have production costs. So, we're asking one last time for you to please consider making a one-time or monthly donation in our only annual donation campaign. Thanks in part to last year's generous supporters, just yesterday we recorded a show with New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells. It was a terrific conversation (thanks to all who sent in questions), and we look forward to dropping it on our feed in the next few days. We're nearly at our goal of $5000 - by helping us to reach this goal, you're helping to keep Energy vs Climate on the air.Thanks so much everyone. Now back to EvC's irregularly scheduled programming.-Ed, Sara and David___Energy vs Climatewww.energyvsclimate.com Bluesky | YouTube | LinkedIn

Climate Book Reviews is co-hosted by EvC's own Ed Whittingham and his friend Roger Thompson, Associate Dean and Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University in New York. Each episode highlights some climate related books worth knowing about. This episode is an interview with New Zealand author Kirsten McDougall about her novel, She's a Killer. At times hilarious and at other times troubling, the book is set in the not-too-distant future and features a near genius with sociopathic tendencies facing the realities of her severely climate impacted world. For more info on the CBR podcast, check out climatebookreviews.com Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts___Energy vs Climatewww.energyvsclimate.com Bluesky | YouTube | LinkedIn

In episode 89 of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by Voxbox, Toby Jackson joins Sam and Mark to talk about finding the joy in a script that can only be described as wonkily written, how to re-live a historical documentary without giving too much away, we try and go a bit saucy, and Sam brings out a wonderful little girl train character in the wildcard!Our VO question this week is all about how playing video games can help influence your character decisions.Get involved! Have you got a Wildcard suggestion that we should try or an idea for the show? Send it to us via Mark or Sam's social media or email it directly to podcast@britishvoiceover.co.ukScript 1Next you want to find out some initial information about what type of EVC they would like, and discuss some options with them, such as what the benefits or disadvantages would be with certain product choices. The types of things a customer would need to consider are aesthetics, cost, safety features, connectivity from the installation location, and finally, whether it is a suitable product for the existing electrical system at the property, which you will assess when you conduct the site survey but the customer should understand that this could affect the product options available to them.Script 2Most of what we know about Wallis Simpson is the unforgettable affair that led to the abdication of King Edward VIII. Yet, Bessie Wallis Warfield was once just a girl from Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. So how exactly did this American socialite and divorcée lure the King of England away from the throne - and what was Edward's strategy here? Did he ever really want to become King at all? Was Wallis simply a guaranteed way out of a life he never wanted in the first place?**Listen to all of our podcasts here - you can also watch on YouTube, or say to your smart speaker "Play How Do You Say That?!"About our guest: Manchester based voice actor Toby Jackson started out studying game design at University so that he could become a game developer, but left that course after one week because he "didn't like how they were doing things!" One of his first jobs was making e-learning programs for students – which inspired him to learn how to be a voiceover because those e-learning programs needed vo! Fast forward four years, and he has just voiced his first video game set to be released soon and carried on his game development journey by making his own game and documenting it all online. Toby's Website Toby's Facebook page Toby on YouTube @tobyjvoiceover on Instagram @tobyjvoiceover on TwitterResources: Click here for the Wildcard Generator and don't forget to think of an action your character...

A personal message from EvC co-host Sara Hastings-Simon.You can find more information on cancer screening in Canada at the Canadian Cancer Society website.___Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systemswww.energyvsclimate.com Twitter/X | Bluesky | YouTube | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram

In this week's episode of The Enablement Edge, hosts Amber Mellano and Steve Watt are joined by Seismic's own Irina Soriano and Meganne Brezina. The conversation revolves around their must-read book, "Tomorrow's Enablement for Today's Leaders," which introduces the transformative Enablement Value Chain (EVC) framework. The EVC approach underscores the criticality of integrating analytics, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and distinguishing between field enablement and field activation to drive tangible business outcomes. Irina and Meganne share valuable insights about field activation and its role in bolstering traditional enablement efforts. They share practical advice for leaders on measuring and demonstrating the impact of enablement programs in driving engagement, behavior change, and business outcomes. This methodical approach ensures enablement professionals can tangibly link their initiatives to organizational success, securing much-needed buy-in from leadership for continual investment in enablement activities.A recurring theme is the importance of adaptability and continuous learning in the rapidly evolving world of enablement. Irina and Meganne stress the need for a methodological yet flexible strategy that can scale as the organization grows, encouraging practitioners to push for innovation while exercising patience for outcomes. By sharing their experiences and actionable insights, the duo aims to equip fellow enablers with the knowledge and tools needed to advance their careers and significantly impact their organizations.—Guest BioIrina Soriano, VP of Enablement at SeismicIrina has over a decade of global enablement leadership experience. She joined Seismic in 2019, taking on the challenge of establishing the company's enablement department from the ground up. With diverse experience across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the US, Irina possesses a deep understanding of varied markets and a successful track record in building enablement teams. Beyond her role, she's an active contributor to industry organizations, leading the New York Women in Sales Enablement (WiSE) chapter and she has been recognized as a Top 20 Enablement Influencer. Irina is committed to gender equality, published her first book, "Generation Brand," in 2021, and empowers individuals through TEDx talks and mentoring. She also founded SISTERLY with her sister Jo to create a community for women to liberate limiting beliefs and grow into their full potential in business. Irina resides in NYC with her husband, Chris, and is a stepmother to twins.Meganne Brezina, Senior Director, Enablement at SeismicAn active participant in the enablement community and a practitioner for over ten years, Meganne was named a 2023 Enablement Legend Award winner by the Enablement Squad for her frequent contributions. She is a member of the Revenue Enablement Society and its Indianapolis chapter, and she founded and currently leads the Indianapolis chapter of Women in Sales Enablement. For WiSE, she also serves on their global board of directors as a global lead. Recently, she was invited to be an Enablement Advisor for RISE, a new organization conducting research and providing strategic insights to advance the profession of enablement.She earned her Certified Change Management Practitioner designation last year from ACMP and published a book with Irina Soriano called "Tomorrow's Enablement for Today's Leaders," which articulates an innovative approach to strategic enablement with the Enablement Value Chain.Outside of work, Meganne is a mother to three children under the age of seven, wife to her entrepreneurial husband Chuck, and still makes time to ride horses on a weekly basis.—Guest Quotes“There's a handful of us that have been doing this kind of thing for a long time, but there's still always the need for innovation. And it's very hard to sometimes get that information. We were just reaching a point where folks are like, ‘What else is there? I've done all of it. Where's the next best thing that I can implement in my practice?' So we knew there was a need, but it was even much bigger than we originally anticipated.” – Irina Soriano“Due to the high velocity that many organizations are experiencing, this theory of change management is becoming more and more important. It's important in the way that we're communicating with the field. It's important in the way that we're managing our own enablement initiatives and how we're really rolling them out. ‘How are we doing this in an effective way that truly drives the behavior changes?' And I think that all starts in the way that we manage that strategy up front.” – Meganne Brezina—Time Stamps 00:00 Episode Start04:38 Meganne and Irina's key to enablement05:39 Tomorrow's Enablement for Today's Leaders09:58 What is different in the Enablement Value Chain (EVC)13:40 Identifying the analytics that really matter21:02 Field Enablement vs. Field Activation25:10 What are field councils?29:00 The state of enablement in 202432:20 On the Edge—LinksConnect with Irina Soriano on LinkedInConnect with Meganne Brezina on LinkedInConnect with Steve Watt on LinkedInConnect with Amber Mellano on LinkedInCheck out SeismicCheck out Irina and Meganne's book Tomorrow's Enablement for Today's Leaders

Mac Kremer leads the pricing strategy practice at K1 Investment Management. He is experienced in B2B SaaS investing and value creation work. In this episode, Mac shares strategies for growing SaaS businesses through price increases, upsells, cross-sells, and increased usage. It discusses the complexities of implementing pricing systems and emphasizes the importance of flexibility and understanding your pricing model. Additionally, it highlights the need to educate sales teams on value-based selling to reduce discounting and improve sales effectiveness.   Why you have to check out today's podcast: Discover valuable strategies for growing SaaS businesses, including ways to expand, manage and track revenue streams effectively. Understand the complexities of implementing pricing systems in various-sized companies and find out solutions from simple tools to more sophisticated systems. Learn practical tips on communicating value to customers, helping sales teams to sell more effectively reducing the reliance on discounts.   "Sit down with whoever's responsible for pricing, decide to set up a committee and a cadence and just start talking about it more and more." - Mac Kremer   Topics Covered: 01:35 - How Mac found himself in pricing 02:42 - Describing his role at a private equity firm as both an advisor and consultant 03:38 - Discussing the importance of customer conversations in understanding value propositions 05:47 - Explaining that value can also include benefits beyond profit 07:28 - Similarities and differences between B2B and B2C purchasing decisions 08:49 - Using ROI calculators and the ability of sales reps to contextualize ROI within the business's specific goals 09:56 - How ownership of pricing in a company depends on its stage of development 14:01 - Importance of forecasting and budgeting for pricing activities 16:00 - Understanding the sources of revenue growth highlighting the four ways to grow a customer: Win, Keep, Grow 19:49 - What to focus on when it comes to net revenue retention 21:35 - Variety of pricing systems used and how it depends on the complexity of pricing models used 23:55 - The complexities of implementing and managing pricing systems as companies grow 25:57 - Helping salespeople understand and communicate value 29:06 - Mac's best pricing advice   Key Takeaways: "Customer conversations are so critical to understanding the value proposition of your solution, and where you kind of see your customer's perceiving value before you even start to talk about price." - Mac Kremer "The best place to start when you're having customer conversations is, you can go in and you can kind of engineer the true value calculator, the EVC, the economic value to the customer. But I think it's also just understanding their perception of the value that they're receiving. Because I think value comes in a lot of different forms, even outside of just profit." - Mac Kremer "A lot depends on the complexity of your pricing model when you go to think about what system we should be using?" - Mac Kremer   People/Resources Mentioned: Maxio: https://www.maxio.com Chargebee: https://www.chargebee.com Gainsight: https://www.gainsight.com NetSuite: https://www.netsuite.com/portal/home.shtmlSalesforce:https://www.salesforce.com Tableau: https://www.tableau.com   Connect with Mac Kremer: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mac-kremer/   Connect with Mark Stiving: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stiving/ Email: mark@impactpricing.com  

Welcome to OrchestrateSales.com‘s Inside Sales Enablement Season 3 Enablement History. Where we hop in the Enablement Time machine and explore the past, present, and future of the elevation of a profession.On a superfun ISEs3 Episode 13, Erich Starrett is joined in the Orchestrate Sales studios by Meganne Brezina, CCMP™. Meganne is not only the Senior Director of Enablement at Seismic, she's published Tomorrow's Enablement for Today's Leaders: The Strategic Guide to Demonstrating Value and Driving Outcomes alongside Irina Soriano.Highlights from the episode include...PAST:⌛️ While carrying a bag for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (in partnership with John Deere) she quickly learned that hitting four or five dealerships and educating their salespeople how to sell to horse people was far more productive than going directly to 50 farms. ⌛️ Meganne's next stop was Exact Target, which was in the process of being acquired by Salesforce. She moved into an operations role and saw an opportunity to educate the customer facing team about the power of their internal "customer data warehouse" and spoke at SKO. That is when Meghan Gendelman came up to her and said "you need to be in Enablement!" And thus it began. ⌛️ In search of "what the heck is enablement?" Meganne searched the company directory and and up popped Brian Noss and Nina LaRouche (who co-leads the Indianapolis Chapter of WiSE with her today!)⌛️ Her early experience in Engaging the Revenue Enablement Society was being sold by vendors vs. solving problems in community. PRESENT

In Episode 24, Larry Galizio, Ph.D. visits with Evergreen Valley College Dean of Nursing and Allied Health, S. Lu Crary, and EVC nursing student, Alma Arevalo. They discuss the importance of access to and diversity in nursing academic programs, the expanding and acute need for nurses in California health care, and the impact that SB 895 (Sen. Richard Roth) could have to students and communities. SB 895 presents a pilot opportunity for California's community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees in nursing, providing an affordable and immediate pathway for nursing education.Learn more about SB 895, legislation to pilot BSNs at California community colleges.Visit Evergreen Valley College's site for Nursing and Allied Health  

Welcome to EVC! Join us as Pastor Bart walks us through some of the final hours before Jesus' crucifixion, diving into a powerful sermon on betrayal. Reflect on your own experiences: Have you ever faced betrayal? Explore how, even in our deepest pain, God's plan for our life remains unwavering. Message Notes: http://bible.com/events/49224810

Fueling Kentucky chats with EPIC Alumna Hailie Newman on what's new in her world. From her recent ventures with Kentucky legislation, to her continued involvement with the EPIC program, and now educating the fuel and convenience space on alternative EVC options, Newman shares what has been keeping her busy since the start of 2024.Fueling Kentucky is the podcast for all things fuel and convenience in Kentucky. Produced by KPMA, Fueling Kentucky provides listeners with timely information and insights about KY's fuel and convenience industry, highlights KPMA members in action, and continues the ongoing awareness of our industry's importance to the Commonwealth.

As we kick off a brand new year of podcasts, this week Robert speaks with Behyad Jafari, CEO of the Electric Vehicle Council in Australia.    As you may know our first Everything Electric live event of 2024 kicks off in Australia at the Sydney Olympic Park on February 9th, 10th & 11th, and in the lead up to this event we're showcasing all the electrifying things happening ‘Down Under'!   Working with all stakeholders across the sector, from OEMs to Banks, big Retail, Government and of course consumers, the EVC of Australia is a leading force in pushing change forward in a country that has huge opportunities for an electrified future.   This podcast is a fascinating insight into some of the challenges and triumphs Behyad and his team have faced in their mission to accelerate the uptake of EVs in Australia     Why not come and join us at our next event: https://fullycharged.live/     Support our StopBurningStuff campaign: https://www.patreon.com/STOPBurningStuff   Become a Fully Charged SHOW Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fullychargedshow   Become a YouTube member: use JOIN button above   Buy the Fully Charged Guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean Energy : https://buff.ly/2GybGt0       Subscribe for episode alerts and the Fully Charged newsletter: https://fullycharged.show/zap-sign-up/   Visit: https://FullyCharged.Show Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fullychargedshw Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/fullychargedshow   #fullychargedpodcast #fullychargedshow #everythingelectric #fullychargedlive

We are excited to bring you a special live taping of Energy vs Climate  from November 22, 2023 at the Ampersand in Calgary. Energy vs Carbon Removal is a dive deep into this still relatively new climate mitigation pathway. The IPCC and other bodies increasingly view Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) as a critical tool to reduce CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and bring warming back down to 1.5C by century's end. It seems like new carbon removal start-ups are springing up weekly. But the barriers to commercializing CDR tech remain daunting. Will CDR live up to its hype or fail to launch?EvC partnered with carbonNEXT's series Carbon Talks for this live show.energyvsclimate.com@EnergyvsClimate

On the final episode of Energy vs Climate Season 4, we're covering the basics of solar geoengineering. We're joined by The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada, to unpack the debate over the role of further research, the place of these technologies in the global climate toolkit, and the role for Canada in research and governance.EPISODE NOTES@1:36 Right Honourable Kim Campbell, Canada's 19th and first female Prime Minister@2:56 Solar geo-engineering resources@2:56 David vs. David on solar geo-engineering, David Suzuki - the Nature of Things@8:31 Toward a responsible solar geoengineering research program, David Keith@11:15 Climate Overshoot Commission and what is climate overshoot?@16:50 EvC and special guest Adrien Abécassis on COP27@23:40 Solar geo-engineering International Non-Use Agreement@25:00 “Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton quits Google...”-The New York Times@25:30 Alberta investing billions into CCUS@29:37 Solar geo-engineering project in Sweden halted@44:40 Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid – Robert J. Sternberg@60:01 Termination shock from solar geo-engineering definedenergyvsclimate.com@EnergyvsClimate

Met vandaag o.a. Enschedeër kwam met uitvinding: de afritsbare sneaker; De Bazuin speelt met EVC tweede herdenkingsconcert Vuurwerkramp ooit; Enschedese sprak op Nationale Dodenherdenking op de Dam; Een terugblik op de eerste openbare Maibaumfest en een nieuwe editie van In Depot.

傅賢毅（Filip Šebok）是捷克「國際事務協會」（AMO）的中國研究員，他的專長就是捷克與中國以及與台灣的關係。捷克，在歐洲裡，是一個在民主陣線上很活躍的國家。在這幾年，面對中國的威嚇，及俄羅斯對歐洲社會的分化和滲透，他們持續堅持他們的民主價值。在90年代，當時的第一任總統哈維爾（Václav Havel），除了為中國的人權及西藏圖博的發聲之外，1995年，他也在聯合國50週年的會議上發表支持台灣加入聯合國。他卸任後也在 2004 年拜訪台灣。隨著中國的崛起，捷克之後也出現了積極與中國建立關係的總統，但這幾年捷克跟台灣的關係依然很友善：布拉格跟台北成為姐妹市，兩個城市的動物園也開啟了「穿山甲」計畫；2022年，捷克的智庫「歐洲安全政策價值中心 EVC」到台灣駐點；2023年，現任總統在選舉當選後，與台灣總統蔡英文通電話。三月，眾議院議長率領160人的訪問團來到台灣，並在台灣立法院發表一則以自由民主為主軸的演說。究竟捷克如何看待中國和台灣的關係？又有哪些政治與經濟的考量？A conversation with Filip Šebok, Project Manager and China Research Fellow at the Association for International Affairs (AMO), on Czechia (Czech Republic) turning away from China to build a stronger connection with Taiwan.本集採訪時間為，2023 年 2月 24日聽眾可參考本集逐字稿可利用這個多國語言官網來推薦《來自五星的你》：https://chinainfluencepod.comRead about this podcast in English, German, French, Russian, and Vietnamese.鬼島之音最「紅」的節目《來自五星的你》，第二季將麥克風轉向歐洲，探討在歐洲的中國人，以及曾經生活在中國的歐洲與中亞人，藉由各方觀點來探討何謂「中國影響力」。本季邀請諸多華語流利的歐亞學者，來自烏茲別克、拉脫維亞、烏克蘭、波蘭等國，分享其中國研究內容，剖析中國外交手段；也專訪在歐洲的華語人士，有匿名留學生、流亡作家貝嶺、香港社運人士鄺頌晴，聆聽他們的人生故事，以及踩到中國政治紅線的親身觀察。追蹤鬼島之音！ Facebook｜IG｜Twitter | YouTubeTwitter: @陳映妤 Alicia Chen（主持）@吳怡慈 Emily Y. Wu（製作） @Min Chao（資料收集）林仁斌（剪接）顏廷芸（執行）陳奕文（逐字稿） 萬巧蓉（行銷）支持鬼島之音: https://patreon.com/TaiwanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Met vandaag o.a. Enschedese Hessel bosch maakt al 50 jaar foto's en komt met nieuw boek over zijn werk; Enschedese werkte aan nieuwe lesmodule om Nederlandse klanken te leren; Twente tegen Pesten draagt steentje bij aan dag tegen pesten en EVC ziet door teruglopende ledenaantallen en stijgende energiekosten club in problemen komen

On Season 4 Episode 8 of Energy vs Climate. David, Sara,  Ed, and special guest Dr. Chris Bataille, Adjunct Research Fellow at Columbia University's Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP) and researcher with the Institut du Développement Durable et de Relations Internationales (IDDRI.org), discuss contracts for difference policy and and how can it help industrial decarbonization. EPISODE NOTES:Dr. Chris Bataille, Adjunct Research Fellow at Columbia University Centre on Global Energy Policy.@1:12 EvC season 4, Ep. 3: Inflation Reduction Act and impacts to Canada@4:20 Contract for Difference (CfD) – Explained@5:50 CfD in Alberta's electricity market, supporting renewables deployment by Sara Hastings-Simon@6:52 CfD example in the UK electricity market, supporting renewables deployment@10:22 The Climate Policy Certainty Gap and How to Fill It, by UCalgary School of Public Policy Dale Beugin and Blake Shaffer@13:16 Canada's pancake stack of sticks and carrots: Output based pricing system, the Clean Fuel Standard, methane regs, oil and gas emissions cap, CCUS tax credit, Emissions Reduction Fund, and Clean Growth Program@15:05 Canada vehicle emissions regulations on par with California@15:45 EvC Season 3, Ep. 32: Rebecca Dell, ClimateWorks Foundation, on Decarbonizing cement@19:42 Canadian subsidies can compete with the USA's Inflation Reduction Act@29:28 EvC Season 2, Ep. 10: Sally Benson, Stanford University, on Carbon Capture@40:04 Shell Quest carbon capture and storage project@46:50 Dr. Emily Grubert on lowering emissions through process over carbon captureenergyvsclimate.com@EnergyvsClimate

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Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.16.528416v1?rss=1 Authors: Lee, S.-H., Ryu, J. Abstract: An object occupies an enclosed region in the visual field, which defines its spatial extent. Humans display exquisite finesse in spatial extent perception. Recent series of human neuroimaging and monkey single-cell studies suggest the spatial representation encoded in the early visual cortex (EVC) as the neural substrate of spatial extent estimation. Guided by this EVC hypothesis on spatial extent estimation, we predicted that human estimation of spatial extents would reflect the topographic biases known to exist in spatial representation in EVC, the co-axial and radial biases. To test this prediction, we concurrently assessed those two spatial biases in both EVC and perception by probing the anisotropy of population receptive fields in EVC, on the one hand, and that of spatial extent estimation in human, on the other hand. To our surprise, we found a marked topographic mismatch between EVC and perceptual representations of oriented visual patterns, the radial bias in the former and the co-axial bias in the latter. Amid this topographic mismatch, the extent to which the anisotropy of spatial extents is modulated by stimulus orientation is correlated across individuals between EVC and perception. Our findings seem to require a revision of the current understanding of functional architecture in EVC and its contribution to visual perception: spatial representation in EVC (i) is governed by the radial bias but only weakly modulated by the co-axial bias, and (ii) do contribute to spatial extent perception, but in a limited way where additional neural mechanisms are called in to counteract the radial bias in EVC. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Our friend Necey joins us with her inspiring five birth stories today! Necey had a scheduled Cesarean for her first birth, a redemptive VBAC for her third, two scheduled C-sections after that, and a VBAC after three Cesareans for her fifth baby. She shares how her VBA3C was a spiritual journey that gave her the strength to advocate among skeptics and have faith in herself to follow the path she knew she needed to take. We are so in awe of Necey's powerful stories!Additional LinksNecey's Family YouTube ChannelHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode DetailsFull TranscriptMeagan: Hello, you guys. It's February and we have more beautiful stories coming your way. Today we have our friend Necey. Her name is Donice but she goes by Necey. She has a whole bunch of stories. She is unique because she is a VBAC and then a VBAC after two Cesareans. She has five cute kiddos and she had an unexpected Cesarean like a lot of us do, then a VBAC, and then two Cesareans, and then a VBAC. I think it's cool that you have a VBAC after multiple Cesareans and then you have a VBAC. I'm so excited for her to share her stories today, all five of them. So amazing. Review of the WeekBut of course, we have a review of the week. I'm going to share it from koggli. Sorry, I always butcher the names. The subject is “The Reason I Got My VBAC.” It says, “I cannot thank these ladies enough for the impact they had on me and my second birth. My first was a 24-hour labor with an emergency C-section. After delivering my precious son, I was sure I never wanted to go through a C-section again. Through their knowledge and resources, I was able to feel much more prepared for my second birth. Because of these ladies and all of the ones who have also shared all of their testimonies, I had a successful VBAC in October 2020 with a little girl.” She had a little boy and then she had a little girl. “Now I am preparing for my second VBAC with another little girl due October 2022” which means at this time of recording, she just had her baby a couple of months ago. So koggli, if you are listening, please write us. Let us know how it went. It says, “Because of them, I became so passionate for VBACs and the beautiful redemption they can bring. Thank you, ladies.” Well, thank you koggli. So excited for you. Congrats on your VBAC. I can't wait, I hope, to hear about your second VBAC. So as usual, we love reviews from you guys. They are so amazing. They warm my heart. You can leave them in all sorts of different ways. You can do it on Apple Podcasts, Google, Instagram, and Facebook or just email us at info@thevbaclink.com. Whatever it may be, we would love to know what you think about the podcast. Necey's Stories Meagan: Okay. I can't wait. Let's dive into your stories. Five stories. Obviously, everyone starts with a C-section, so let's dive into that. Necey: Okay. First, I want to say thank you for allowing me to be able to come on your podcast and share my story with you and your listeners. Okay, so first we're going to talk about Joshua. He's my firstborn. When I got pregnant with him, it was my first one. I didn't know anything about anything. Meagan: Right? You just don't know what you don't know. You know you're going to have a baby. That's what that pregnancy test confirms, right?Necey: Yes, yes. I just didn't take good care of myself. I was eating. I was just happy to be pregnant so I took it as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted. I gained a lot of weight rapidly. Around 7 months, I ended up getting diagnosed with gestational diabetes. That made me have to go to the doctor more often, sometimes twice a week, and get a lot of non-stress tests. I didn't know what I was doing or what the tests were for. So then at around 37 weeks, I went in and got a non-stress test done. I didn't pass it. They said that he wasn't moving the way they wanted him to move and therefore, they took me to get an ultrasound to make sure that he was still doing okay. The measured fluid and everything. The nurse ended up calling the doctor. The doctor said to have me go home and have me come back in the morning, and if it's the same then we'll go from there. So fast forward, my husband and I come back the next day. Nothing changed, so they said that they were going to have to keep me at the hospital I was at because it wasn't the original one I was supposed to be at. They said it was because it had a children's hospital inside. Meagan: A NICU, uh-huh. Necey: Yes. They wanted to make sure that if there were any complications with him that we would have the option. They ended up taking me up to labor and delivery. I thought I was going to get induced, but once I got up there, and when the doctor came, my family was there and she just was like, “We're going to do a C-section.” I was like, “Okay.” Meagan: Oh!Necey: Yeah. I was just like, “Okay.” We didn't know. Meagan: Right. Necey: I heard the nurse ask her, “You're not going to induce her? You're just going to give her a C-section?” The doctor was like, “Yeah. Just going to give her a C-section.” I didn't know. I was just like, “Okay.” So I did the C-section and everything went good, no complications. As she was pulling him out, she said, “Oh, that's what happened. The cord was wrapped tightly around his neck.” I now know that just because the cord is wrapped around the neck doesn't mean that you cannot deliver your baby vaginally. Meagan: Correct, yeah. It actually happens all of the time. Babies come out with nuchal cords all of the time. Necey: Yeah. So you know, I was just like, “Okay.” I was just happy that my baby was born. He was born 6 pounds, 11 ounces I believe via C-section. Everything went good. I was just happy to be a first-time mom. So for my second pregnancy/baby, I had another son, Reggie the Third. He was actually a successful VBAC. The pregnancy was fine. No complications and no gestational diabetes which I was happy about that. Everything was fine. I actually went into early labor with him on Thanksgiving Day.Meagan: Oh, a turkey baby. Necey: Yes. I guess it was all of the food. And then so I actually was going some Black Friday shopping because I never had labor before. My husband and I were at the store and I kept going back and forth to the bathroom. I was just telling him, “I don't know. It keeps feeling like I have to go to the bathroom but nothing is happening. It's kind of weird.” He was just like, “Okay.” So one time when I was going back to him, I ended up having a contraction that stopped me in my tracks. I was like, “Wait a minute. Is this possible? Oh, a contraction.” So I was like, “Okay. Oh, Lord. Just let me make it through this so I can get back to him because I don't know what's going on.” I made it back to him and I was like, “I think we need to go home because I feel like I may be having contractions.” He was just like, “Okay.” So I got home, called the exchange line, and told them what was going on. They wanted me to go on and get checked out. I did and I went about midnight. They let me go at about 8:00 in the morning and said I was contracting. I just didn't have any change. I went home and relaxed. At around 6:00, so that was Thursday, then Friday around 6:00, I started to have contractions. I was like, “Wait a minute. It's time now.” So I had my sister and my sister-in-law, so family over. I ended up on all fours making this moaning sound. My sister is on the phone calling my doctor. My sister-in-law is massaging my back and she was like, “I'm almost sure you're in labor.” So they said to go back and I went back. They checked me and I was about 4-5 centimeters dilated. So they said, “Yeah, you're in labor.” Active labor is what they called it. I immediately asked for an epidural. I didn't even try to labor. I was like, “Give it to me. I want it now.” Meagan: Yeah, that's okay. Necey: Although I had the epidural, for some reason, I still felt my son. He felt like he was coming out of me. Some hours had passed, maybe about 8 or 9 hours or so, but before that, the nurse ended up checking me and she was like, “You're complete. I just have to wait until the doctor comes.” She called the doctor and I was like, “I think I feel him.” She was like, “Oh, I just checked you. You're good. You're complete. You've got time,” is what she said. She had me do some practice pushes and as they had my legs open, my mom and my mother-in-law were like, “Oh, I think you need to close your legs.” Meagan: I thought I had time.Necey: Right? I was like, “Okay, why? He's right there, isn't he?” She was like, “Yeah.” So then the doctor ended up coming. Actually, I had a resident. He ended up coming in and the doctor soon followed. I didn't even get to push. I pushed a time and a half. I didn't even get to push hard or anything. He just came right out. I think my body had already done it for me, just unaware that that's what it was doing. He was born 6 pounds, 14 ounces. Meagan: Okay. Necey: Yes, so I'm in the 6-pound range. So yeah. Then for my third baby, Miss Addison, my first baby girl, the same thing. No gestational diabetes. The pregnancy was actually good. We were on track for another VBAC, but around 40 weeks, I went in for my check-up and the doctor was just like, “I wonder why you haven't gone into labor.” I was actually thinking the same thing. So she said to follow her to the ultrasound room. I did and she did a quick check to examine and she was like, “Oh, that's what's going on. She's transverse inside of you.”Meagan: Sideways. Necey: Yeah. I had no clue what that meant. I was just like, “Okay, transverse.” I've heard of breech or head-down. She told me to come back the next day and do an EVC.Meagan: ECV. Necey: ECV, I'm sorry. Meagan: It's a version where they are trying to manually, from the outside, rotate the baby. Necey: Yes. She said if that was successful, then good. If not, we would have to do another C-section. So of course, it wasn't successful and I didn't know anything about Spinning Babies or anything like that because I probably would have tried some of those things, but yes. We ended up going for a C-section, got prepped, and for some reason, when they got me to the operating room, I became very panicked. I started shouting and asking them to get me up. I didn't want to do it. The whole team lifted me up and the doctor talked to me. She calmed me down. We went on with the C-section. Everything went good. She was actually 8 pounds even. Meagan: A big jump, about a pound heavier than your other babies. Necey: Yes, so I don't know how or why, but that's what it was. So for my next pregnancy/birth, it was my daughter Madeline. Her pregnancy was good too with no complications and no gestational diabetes again. However, I was still with the same provider, so since I had two Cesareans, she said she wasn't comfortable with doing a vaginal because I actually unknowingly started to advocate for myself with her. I just asked. I asked and asked. She always told me no, so I was just like, “Okay.” I didn't think I had another choice, but I did try to compromise with her. I was like, “If I go into labor before the scheduled date, can I just have her vaginally or try it out?” She was like, “I guess. I really don't want to do it, but maybe so.” I didn't go into labor though. So I went to the scheduled Cesarean and I think for my last birth, I had trauma so I was just scared. I started to panic again. This time, it was before we got into the operating room. It was right after they gave me the spinal tap. It was so bad. It was really bad. I was a little embarrassed, but they ended up saying that they had to give me some medicine. They ended up giving me Xanax. I was scared because they said it was not good for the baby. It messes with the baby's heart. They were like, “We really don't have another option because we really need you calm.” So I just agreed. But after I got that, I didn't even know what it was, but I was really relaxed. I didn't have a care in the world. We did the C-section and Madeline was born. She was 6 pounds, 12 ounces. Meagan: Okay. Necey: I know. So I don't know. But yeah. It was good and no complications, just the panic attack. Oh, and you know what? Yes. My husband did say that she didn't respond. I didn't know because I was out of it. And so he said that he got scared because she didn't respond for a while. I'm just assuming it was because of the medicine, but she was fine. I just thank God that she was okay. I was very depressed after that. I think it was a trauma for me, so I didn't want to have any more babies. I didn't want to go through the delivery process or any of that. I ended up getting pregnant again. Meagan: Oops, someone else had a plan for you. Necey: Yep. So with this pregnancy and birth, I knew deep inside that I didn't want to do it, but I was okay with having another C-section. I wasn't looking to be pregnant. It was actually at the end of the COVID lockdown, so I have all of these friends and I see people having these babies and I tell my husband, “We missed the wave. We did good.” And then nope, we got caught right up in the wave. So yeah. Her story is a journey for me. I didn't realize I had trauma with the rest of the other two births before her. One day while I was minding my business and having some alone time, I heard the Holy Spirit tell me that I was pregnant, that I was going to have my baby vaginally, that I needed to call my sister to have her bring me some pregnancy tests, and that this is going to be a faith entrenched journey between me and God. Meagan: That just gave me the chills. Necey: I'm telling you, I was scared. I thought I was tripping. I said, “No, I am not,” but I decided to be obedient, so I called my sister. She came over with three pregnancy tests and sure enough, every single one of them was positive. Meagan: Pregnant!Necey: My husband and I were like, “How did this happen?” We thought we were doing good, but when God has other plans for us, His plan always trumps what we want to do. I remember my friend telling me that she ended up not going to doctors anymore. She ended up doing midwives. She told me that they had done research that the midwives are saying that there is more research out saying that it's possible for people to have vaginal births after multiple Cesareans. Meagan: At this point, you've had three technically, right? You've had a vaginal birth in between, but you've had three. Necey: Yes. I had three. I called the midwifery info she gave to me. They said no. They said maybe if it would have been one that they would be able to do it, but they gave me the information for somebody else. I called them. They said no. After that, it was just a rabbit hole with a lot of no's, so I decided to call my previous doctor although I had that trauma. I just didn't really feel as comfortable as I did once with her. It was just familiar to me. Meagan: Some comfort there and familiarity.Necey: Yes. I ended up calling her and went to my appointment, but that was the last appointment I went to her because she did a couple of things that I feel like as a provider, you just shouldn't do even as a person. It's like she was passively trying to get me to get a tubal done. Meagan: Oh. Necey: Yes. She was like, “I need to know if you want to get a tubal or not because I need to schedule your C-section at a different hospital so we can do it all at the same time.” I was like, “Okay.” I didn't say anything to her. I didn't plan on getting one, but even if I did or didn't, I didn't say anything. I actually wanted to talk to her about having my baby vaginally. Meagan: Right, yeah. Necey: That was a red flag and I just said, “Okay.” Then the second thing was that she asked me about the routine testing that most doctors do which is fine. I didn't have a problem with it. It's just that she started to say because I told her that I didn't know. I would tell her at the next visit. She was just like, “Well, the sooner the better in case your baby has any disabilities and you want to terminate your pregnancy.”Meagan: Oh, whoa. Necey: Yes. I was shocked because I couldn't believe she had said that to me. But for me, if that's what God wanted to bless me with a baby with disabilities, I'm okay with that because I'm going to do what I need to do. I just thought that was kind of out of line that she would do that. It hurt my feelings a little bit, but I was like, “Okay. This is the only choice I have.” The third thing was after we were wrapping up and she was leaving out, she said in a low tone but I could hear her clearly, she was like, “Well, thanks for keeping us in business.” I was like, “Okay. Have a good day.” Meagan: Maybe a little unprofessional. Necey: Yeah. But I had been with her since my second birth and my second pregnancy, so that was just new for me. I decided I wasn't going to go back to her. That was in January. I found out I was pregnant in November, so from the beginning of January to the end of February, I didn't have a doctor. I'm calling. I actually wrote a letter to one of the head obstetricians in my area of a big institution where I'm from. She actually called me back. That phone call had me in tears because he basically was laughing at me literally and telling me that it is a joke. No institution here would ever–Meagan: He went out of his way to call you back to tell you that you are a joke. Necey: Yes, that, “No institution in our area or anywhere is going to allow TOLAC after three Cesareans.” I was just like, “Okay, God. Why would you tell me this? Why would you have me go down this road if it's not true? This is impossible. Nobody is going to let me do this.” After I went on my rant, I was just like, “Whatever.” I just kept going. I kept on and ended up finding a doctor who ended up giving me a referral to a high-risk clinic here. But in between that time, I ended up hiring a doula. I suggest anybody that's pregnant, get a doula if you can. I ended up joining some Facebook groups and following people on Instagram. It's where I found you guys, The VBAC Link Community and it was so encouraging for me just to know that I wasn't alone. There are people out there who are going through the same things. I ended up going to the high-risk clinic and they told me that they were going to accept me as a patient. Of course, they told me all of the cons of TOLACing after three Cesareans. They said that they suggested that I get a repeat C-section. I told them that I didn't want to do it, but this was the first time that I understood that even if I didn't want to do it and someone forced me to it, they said that it was assault. I said, “Is it?” They were like, “Yeah. If you don't consent to it, we can't do that.” I was like, “Oh. Okay.”But yeah, so to her birth. My water ended up breaking. I did want to say that they told me they would absolutely not induce me. No Pitocin. I had done a little research, so I knew that. They said that Pitocin can increase uterine rupture rates or the percentage of it, so I wanted to stay away from it. They had told me that. That Wednesday, fast forward to my labor and birth with her, my water broke at 1:00 AM on Wednesday. I never had experienced that before, so I'm like, “I think that's what it is,” because it kept coming out in gushes. I had a doctor's appointment Thursday morning, so I tried to do some walking to try to get things moving because I wasn't contracting. I didn't feel anything. I went to the doctor Thursday morning and told them what had happened. Of course, they wanted me to go to triage and get checked out to get the test done to make sure that it was actually my water. We went home. We didn't go back right away. We waited a long time. We went back at 11:00 at night, got the test done, and it was my water. I had to be admitted and I was scared, but I knew the word that I had so I held on to it. We got upstairs and the first resident that came in was really forceful and was like, “You have to sign this paper saying that you are declining the C-section.” We were like, “Okay. Can you give us a second?” The nurse that we had was really, really good, the first nurse. Both nurses. She talked to me. She consoled me. She explained things further than what the resident was saying. My husband and I ended up signing the paper, but I still had no change. My water was ruptured. Meagan: Were you contracting? Okay, yeah. Just ruptured, but nothing happening yet. Necey: Yes ma'am. They ended up telling me that I had to get induced. Meagan: You're like, “But they said they wouldn't.” Necey: Yes. So my husband and I were scared. I was like, “I don't know about that. I thought you guys said I wasn't going to be able to do that.” They were like, “Basically, your options are to get Pitocin or have a repeat C-section.” The nurse was really nice. We asked her if we could take a second to just pray and talk among ourselves. She was like, “Okay,” but she stayed there. She didn't leave. Meagan: Amongst ourselves like him and I and a doula. Necey: Yes. Yes. So we looked at each other and that's what we kind of said. She was like, “Oh, well I wanted to pray with you guys.” Yeah. It was so shocking. I wasn't expecting it. We said, “Okay.” After she prayed, the atmosphere just changed. I was like, “You know what?” I'm taking this hospital gown off. I brought my own gown. I'm putting that on. I had the affirmation vision board that I had made. I pulled that out. I turned off the lights. We brought LED light candles and lit the room up and put on our worship music and just went in. I'm like, “You did something there,” talking to the nurse. They started me on Pitocin. I told them I wanted to start at 0.5. They said they don't usually do that. They usually start around 2. I told them I was scared and that I would rather start off low and work my way up. They ended up saying, “Okay.”Meagan: Good for you. Necey: So then the doula ended up getting there. This was around 3:00 PM. She was there and I started contracting. They put in an internal fetal monitor, I think is what it's called. Meagan: An FSC or an IUPC. A lot of times with VBAC or TOLAC, they put this IUPC monitor in to tell them exactly the strength of the contractions so they can manipulate the Pitocin. The FSC is the little probe monitor that goes on the baby's head to tell them exactly what the heart rate is. Necey: Yeah, they put the one– Meagan: IUPC, intrauterine pressure catheter is what it's called. Necey: Okay, you got it. But yeah, so they did that. Between 3:00 and I would say around 10:00ish, I was still just at a 3. The contractions were getting stronger and they didn't want to check me often because my waters were broken. They didn't want to introduce infection. I was, is it B strep positive? Meagan: Group B strep, GBS? Necey: Yes, yes. I was positive for that. Meagan: So they probably wanted to do antibiotics. Necey: Yes, so all of that is going on and then the shift changed and the other nurse came in. She was just like, “Okay. I just took these classes. I want to put you in all of these positions.” She and my doula had me, I don't know what the position was but they had me laying on the bed and I had to arch my back and they had the birthing ball in between my legs. Meagan: That's Walcher's. Oh, arch your back laying on your side?Necey: Yes, that's exactly what it is. Meagan: Oh, okay okay. Like a Sims position, like a side-lying position? Necey: I was calling it swimming. Meagan: Sims, yeah. Exaggerated probably. Or there's the flying cowgirl where you are really, really arched. Necey: I think I may have done that one too. They were on it. I had no clue. I was just doing what they told me to do. All I knew was that I was feeling contractions. I started going back and forth to the bathroom. I ended up throwing up. It was unmedicated for me too. We didn't find out the gender. It was a surprise for us. We thought that the journey was more important than that at that point. At about 10:45ish, the nurse and my doula were like, “I really believe that you are in transition,” because I was making these weird noises. Meagan: Isn't it funny how our body just intuitively makes weird noises but at the same time, we're like, “Oh wait. That's a good noise.” Necey: My doula said, after it was over, she looked at me and she was like, “I have never in my life heard anything like that.” We all laughed about it at that point, but yeah. For some reason, the resident doctor that was there would not let the nurse check me. I don't know why, but the nurse kept asking and was like, “I really just think she's ready.” I don't know. It was just taking the doctor a really long time, but she finally got there. She comes and she was ready to check me. I was like, “Wait. You have to wait. Here comes a contraction.” The contraction comes and I'm like, “Okay. It's over. Check me now. Let's move fast.” She did. I was complete. They were like, “Okay. Get ready. We're going to do a couple of practice pushes and get things going.” They were like, “Whatever position you want.” I ended up on the bed in the weirdest sideways– it was just really weird. They were like, “Okay, if that's what you want to do.” I'm like, “Okay, I guess.” Meagan: That's what my body is doing, yeah. Necey: The room quickly filled up with people. I pushed two times and I ended up yelling out, “It burns,” because it burned. Meagan: Uh-huh, the ring of fire. Necey: Yes, that's what they said. They chuckled and they were like, “Yeah, that's the ring of fire. That's supposed to happen.” My husband was all, “I see the head.” I'm like, “Oh, it's happening!” Then I pushed again and I mean, she popped out. We didn't get it on camera. We videoed the whole thing, but my husband, I guess, got so excited. He snatched the camera from the doula and accidentally cut it off, so we missed her actually coming out. Meagan: Darn it!Necey: I know. I couldn't be mad though. He was excited. She was born. Hannah Faith, 6 pounds, 5 ounces. She came out. He was screaming, “You did it. God did it, honey.” I'm like, “Yeah, God did it.” Everybody in there was in awe. The doctor– I even asked. I said, “Has anybody in here ever witnessed a vaginal birth after three Cesareans?” and everybody said no. This was amazing. And so she was born. I'm happy she was born. I didn't realize just how much I needed to have a healing birth, this faith journey with God and me, and just the information I learned about giving birth. It only took five, but–Meagan: But hey, you learned and grew with each one. Necey: Yes ma'am. Yeah. So that's it. My babies. But that's why her name is Hannah Faith. Meagan: That's so beautiful. Necey: Thank you. It was our journey. We didn't even have a name picked out either. Meagan: It just came. Everything fit just perfectly. Necey: Yes. Meagan: Yes. And do you know what? Something that you did for all of those providers that were there, is you proved to them, and not that you were there to prove anything, but you proved to them and showed them that it's possible because I guarantee before that, they were probably all a little doubtful and a little skeptical, right? But there it goes. It happens. The hardest thing with VBAC after– so from VBAC after two Cesareans, ACOG is like, “Okay. Vaginal birth after two Cesareans is reasonable. We feel like it's okay. We know that the rupture rate is anywhere between .2-1.5% depending on the study.” But then VBAC after three Cesareans, there's not a lot out there and it's because we're not doing them and providers are cutting people off saying, “Nope. You had those two. You're done.” But then we've had story after story after story of VBAC after three Cesareans where they're beautiful and they pan out. Look, you had Pitocin. Do you know what your Pitocin got to?Necey: 5. Meagan: A 5. See? You had Pitocin and you had an IUPC. I want to talk a little bit about that because sometimes, it's a less-ideal thing because it's an intervention, right? But sometimes, a provider may agree to allow a VBAC after multiple Cesareans. If you're feeling stuck and there's no one in your area and it's a rule, you could talk to them and say, “Let's have this. Let's watch what my contractions are doing. I'm willing to have this intervention for this birth. I never want to say to give in to anything, but it's just an option because it sometimes brings comfort to those providers and I guarantee that that's what it did. In the beginning, they were like, “No, you can't have Pit,” and then it was like they totally forgot that they said that. So they were saying one thing and doing another. That happens a lot of the time, so you are just living proof, right? VBAC after three Cesareans with an induction. I mean, yes you went into spontaneous labor. Your membranes ruptured spontaneously, but then labor didn't start. It probably would have in time, but they jump-started it. They jump-started it with Pit, so it's possible. It is possible. There are not enough studies out there because it's not happening. Necey: It's not. That's actually a goal of mine to just advocate and give a voice to the problem. Maybe the issue is the fact that we are being denied and the proper research isn't given because during my research, YouTube, The VBAC Link Community, and others, I saw multiple women having vaginal births after two, three, and I even saw four. If we could get across the board and get a good average and a good study was done, then maybe we can move forward. Meagan: Right, it's just getting the person and getting the connections to start back. It's going to start with people just like us, just regular old humans. It's going to start with us facilitating this. We have our Dr. Natalie Elphinstone, I think is how she says it, she is doing maternal assisted Cesareans which is something also very foreign and not heard of. Everyone is like, “No, that's not possible,” and here it is and it's happening. As each of us starts implementing things, maybe it takes writing these providers like you did. It is unfortunate that they called just to laugh at you and say, “Yeah, right.” Maybe write back and say, “I just wanted to let you know that this happened.” Necey: That's what my doula said to do. I haven't done it yet. I actually had forgotten and I think I should too. Meagan: Yes. It's just that every little thing. I wanted to write a note to my doctor too because he was like, “Good luck. No one's going to want you out there.” I remember yelling. I'm holding my baby and should be not thinking about my doctor, but that's exactly where my mind went. I was like, “Screw you. Look at what I just did. This happened. You told me this wouldn't happen. You told me I would never get a baby out of my pelvis because it was so small.” Yeah. It just goes to show that one, we are capable of amazing things. Our bodies are incredible. God is good and it's okay. It's okay. It's not like you're shoving his face in it and saying, “Oh, look at this,” but it's like, “Hey. I want you to know that this happened. I even had Pitocin.” And then he might look at it and scoff and say, “Whatever,” or he might be like, “Hmm. All right. Maybe I shouldn't doubt.”Necey: That's the biggest thing. It is possible. It just goes to show that we are all human, even doctors. It's not to discredit them at all, but nobody knows everything and we should work together as a birthing team and not as an enforcer and just the patient. This should be a collective thing. I think a lot more can get done if it goes that route. Having a doula is very important during pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum. My doula came a week later to do the postpartum visit and she asked me how I was feeling. I was fine and she was just like, “Well, how are your feet?” I was like, “Well, they seem like they are a little bit swollen.” She was like, “I think you should check your blood pressure because there is such a thing as postpartum hypertension.” I said, “Okay.” I checked it and my blood pressure was really, really high, almost stroke level high. She said, “You need to go to the emergency room now.” I'm just thankful that we had the doula because I probably would have just gone on. I was feeling fine. I ended up going. I had to stay. They had to put me on magnesium and some other things for a couple of days. They sent me home with some medicine, but everything ended up fine after that, but I just want people to be aware that postpartum is care too and there are those signs. Meagan: Yes. So often, postpartum is just forgotten about. It's hard because we are so focused on birth and pregnancy and all of these things, but then we forget about postpartum. If something is not seeming totally right, and it's normal to have– especially if you've had a lot of fluids or medicines or anything like that, it's normal to be swollen, but if you're getting more swollen or you weren't swollen and now all of a sudden you're swollen, that's definitely a sign of postpartum hypertension. It's definitely something to call and discuss. It never hurts to just call. Even if it's nothing, it never hurts to call and just check out. Necey: Yes, yes. Meagan: Thank you so much for sharing all of your stories and spending time with us. Necey: No problem. Thank you again for having me. Meagan: Absolutely. ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Meagan's bio, head over to thevbaclink.com. 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Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.07.527461v1?rss=1 Authors: Ahn, J., Ryu, J., Lee, S., Lee, C., Im, C.-H., Lee, S.-H. Abstract: Background: Although transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is widely used to affect various kinds of human cognition, behavioral studies on humans have produced highly inconsistent results. This requires a clear understanding of how tDCS impacts the system-level neural activity, a prerequisite for the principled application of tDCS to human cognition. Objective: Here, we aim to gain such understanding by probing the spatial and temporal cortical activity of the human early visual cortex (EVC) in diverse aspects while controlling the polarity and presence of tDCS. We target EVC to capitalize on its well-established anatomical and functional architecture that is readily accessible with non-invasive quantitative neuroimaging methods. Methods: To create an electric field in EVC precisely and effectively, we tailored high-definition stimulation montages for 15 individual brains by running electric field simulations. We then conducted an fMRI (functional magnetic neuroimaging)-tDCS experiment on each brain with a sham-controlled crossover design over multiple days. We quantified tDCS effects with eight measures, tested their significance with mixed ANOVA, and further validated their robustness to across-voxel and across-subject variability. Results: The anodal application of tDCS gradually elevated baseline BOLD activity of EVC and sharpened its spatial tuning by augmenting surround suppression without affecting its evoked activity. Conclusions: Comparisons of our and previous findings suggest the fundamental differences in tDCS effects between the visual and motor cortices, inhibitory and excitatory effects predominant in the former and latter, respectively. This calls for considering the differences in the excitatory-inhibitory recurrent network between brain regions in predicting or interpreting tDCS effects. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Aflevering 175: Jerrol Lashley.   Vandaag is Jerrol Lashley onze gast. Hij was anderhalf jaar geleden al te gast in de prisonshow aflevering 107, die nog steeds terug te luisteren is. Jerrol is o.a. expert jeugdproblematiek en adviseur straatcultuur.  De reden waarom we Jerrol opnieuw uitnodigen is vanwege de steekincidenten met dodelijke afloop waarvan er onlangs een in zijn regio, in Hoorn plaatsvond.  Een 16-jarige jongen stak een 14-jarige jongen dood. In aflevering 173 spraken we onder andere met direct betrokkenen, vandaag willen we het perspectief vanuit het jeugdwerk een podium geven. In de podcast spreken we over EVC. In een EVC-traject laat je je eerder verworven competenties en werkervaring in beeld brengen en ontvang je een Ervaringscertificaat. Met een EVC-traject kun je een (toekomstige) werkgever bijvoorbeeld aantonen dat je voldoet aan een bepaalde beroeps- of branchestandaard of dat je beschikt over bepaalde competenties.   -------------- en podcast van en door Frans Douw en Edwin Kleiss. Publicatie: Vrijdag 23 december 2022. www.prisonshow.nl  Een initiatief van stichting Herstel en Terugkeer. www.herstelterugkeer.nl  Voor ons doorzoekbare archief ga je naar: https://www.herstelterugkeer.nl/podcast 

On Season 4, Episode 6 of EvC, Sara, David and Ed tackle the thorny and always controversial topic of carbon offsets, live at Avatar Innovations at The Energy Transition Centre in downtown Calgary.An offset in principle is paying someone else - a company, or a country - to reduce emissions that you yourself cannot, or simply will not reduce. What is the role of offsets in helping the world to avoid dangerous climate change? What's 'additionality' when it comes to offsets, and is it fundamental or merely an after thought? How are offset markets regulated to ensure integrity? And should you bother to click that "yes" button to offset your flight emissions?EPISODE NOTES@1:10 EvC Live held at the Energy Transition Center, at the Ampersand @2:02 Infidelity Offsets video from Climate Ad Project@4:15 Business Renewable Centre of Canada @4:48 Guide to Purchasing Carbon Offsets with Pembina Institute  @5:48 CDM mechanism to reduce emissions by developed countries - Kyoto Protocol @10:05 Additionality, permanence, leakage 101 @23:09 Example of voluntary offsets @24:30 Two flavours of offsets: Alberta Emissions Offset Registry and the Emissions Performance Credit Registry @32:41 Discussion on the quality of voluntary offsets @37:43 Gaming the system with low quality voluntary offsets  @53:50 Low-cost American airline, JetBlue, moving away from carbon offsets energyvsclimate.com@EnergyvsClimate

Today, Pastor Bart is sharing the Vision for EVC and the exciting plans for the future of our church.

Erin and Cleadus Shelton of EVC Homes are the definition of a rags to riches success story. Back in Season 2 Episode 3, they shared how they went from poverty and homelessness to becoming one of the most prominent and successful real estate investors in the Central Valley. On today's episode, we wanted to bring Erin and Cleadus back on the podcast to share two of their most recent million dollar flips in one of the most historic and prestigious neighborhoods in Fresno, CA: 4190 N Van Ness Blvd, Fresno, CA 93704 621 E Santa Ana Ave, Fresno, CA 93704 EVC Homes is well known for their top of the line, jaw-dropping, quality work in the Central Valley. With a quick Google search of these two properties, you will find just how beautiful they turned out. To check out all of EVC's current and previous projects, including the two million-dollar flips they discussed today, you can find them them on social media @evchomes

Sara, David and Ed are back for Season Four of Energy vs Climate on September 20th with a lineup of shows that we're really excited about. Until then we'd like to share Sara's guest appearance on an episode of The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder from earlier this summer.The Energy Transition Show covers the full range of energy transition globally, including grid power, all fuels, transportation systems, macro economics, and more. Featuring interviews with some of the smartest and most knowledgeable people in energy, longtime energy expert, Chris Nelder explores the global energy markets and their ongoing transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewables.We're glad to be sharing this show with fans of EVC who aren't already familiar with the energy transition show,  and to those of you who are, we hope you enjoy Sara and Chris's wide ranging and deep dive into Canada's energy transition. Find The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder and subscribe wherever you listen now onto the show.

Yesterday, we had Servapalooza! This event is the perfect opportunity for people to find their place to serve at EVC. Here, Bart shares our church's vision for being a church that serves one another and our community.

Energy vs Climate is still on summer hiatus, but we wanted to pop in with a very special recording of an in-person event we hosted at the end of July at Annex Ale Project in Calgary. In the show, we cover some thoughts on the climate news of the summer, answer some live audience questions, and tease some potential future topics we hope to cover on EvC. We had a great time engaging with folks in person so stay tuned for more information about future in-person programming by subscribing to our emails at energyvsclimate.com.  

Hi, Sarah here. We're still in a summer break, but we've got an exciting in person, Energy vs Climate meet and greet coming up that we wanted to tell you about.  Subscribers to our emails will receive the details next week. And tickets are limited.  So if you're not signed up for EVC emails, yet head over to energyvsclimate.com and subscribe today. Thanks and hope to see you soon. 

Lina Forrestal sits down with first time mom Des'Rae Matthews as she shares what it was like having a transverse baby and an EVC procedure. Spoiler alert: the EVC procedure wasn't successful and Des'Rae had a C-section. She shares what it was like navigating all of the feelings of trying everything to have her baby come out naturally but then end having a C-section. A transverse baby is when the baby is positioned horizontally in the uterus. An ECV procedure is an "External cephalic version", which is a procedure healthcare providers will use to rotate the baby to head-down in the uterus. Connect with Des'Rae here: https://www.instagram.com/craftroom_creations/ Support the show

The cement and concrete industry is an essential part of the Canadian and global economies. Concrete, made from cement, is a material that is used in virtually every building construction and infrastructure project across the country and the world. It's also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Cement and concrete production account for roughly 7% of global emissions annually.On Episode 32 of Energy vs Climate Ed, David, Sara, and guest Dr. Rebecca Dell of the ClimateWorks Foundation examine the most promising technology and process solutions for decarbonizing cement and concrete. They discuss the key opportunities and challenges on the path to doing so, and debate what governments should do to encourage the industry to get on board.EPISODE NOTES: @0:00 Register for EvC's Season Three Finale: Ask Us Anything Episode@2:18 @rebeccawdell, ClimateWorks Foundation@3:19 What's in Concrete: Illustration@16:04 – California Ran on Nearly 100% Clean Energy This Month - BNN Bloomberg@25:25 – LC3 – Limestone Calcined Clay Cement@28:30 – Sustainable Building Materials - Geopolymer Concrete@30:45 – CarbonCure's Sustainable Concrete Solution - Concrete Technology Reducing Carbon Impact@31:21 – Solidia® – Sustainable cement manufacturing and concrete curing technologies@33:10 – Oxygen loss in biosphere 2 - Severinghaus@40:03 – The LEILAC Pilot Plant | Direct Separation Calcinating Technology@42:14 – Investment Tax Credit for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage - Canada.ca@45:46 – Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) (WBCSD)@50:12 – Lehigh Cement and Enbridge Agree to Advance a CO2 storage solution in Alberta@51:10 – Liberal climate plan looks to guarantee a carbon price, no matter who is in power | CBC News@1:03:00 – Low Carbon Fuel Standard | California Air Resources Board@1:04:18 – Clean Fuel Standard - Canada.ca@1:07:00 – Joint statement: Canada's Cement Industry and the Government of Canada announce a partnership

In this episode, Dr. Galizio speaks with Evergreen Valley College President Dr. Tammeil Gilkerson. President Gilkerson talks about how she views California Community Colleges (CCC) as portals to opportunity for social and economic mobility as well as her own personal and professional journey. We learn of her current role as President at EVC, located in the Evergreen district of East San Jose, and her hopes for the future of California's community colleges. Additionally, President Gilkerson discusses her role as Co-Chair on the Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce and work the taskforce has done in raising awareness regarding students' basic needs and addressing food, housing and transportation insecurities that affect CCC students.To read the Affordability Taskforce's latest report on food insecurity, click here.

David, Sara and Ed are back March 23rd with a new episode of Energy vs Climate.  Until then, we'd like to share another podcast with you.Smart Prosperity: The Podcast with Eric Campbell offers fresh takes on the current affairs, business, technology and ideas behind the green economy. With a decidedly Canadian twist. The Smart Prosperity episode we'd like to share with you digs into Carbon capture technology and why climate experts are divided over it. Ed was Eric's guest on the episode, along with Susannah Pierce, President of Shell Canada and Christina Hoicka, Canada Research Chair in Urban Planning for Climate Change at the University of Victoria.   Fans of EvC's own carbon capture episode with Stanford's Sally Benson from season 2 will find this episode builds on our discussion. On the whole, Smart Prosperity: The Podcast covers similar topics to us here at Energy vs Climate, while offering a different perspective, one we hope listeners will find interesting and enlightening. Find it and subscribe wherever you listen. 

My guest is Anthony Portillo! Anthony is running for EVC for the LPPA in this years upcoming convention. We talk about the LPPA, his run for EVC, current problems within the state, woke comedy, the Russia/Ukraine war & more!Adam Nutter:https://linktr.ee/AdamNutter

On Episode 27 of EvC, from gas stoves to hot water heaters and furnaces, what might electrifying the home look like in Alberta and Canada? And should we? Guest Bruce Nilles of Climate Imperative helps David, Sara and Ed break down the future of natural gas in the home. @2:10 ecoENERGY for Renewable Power@2:14 AB Emissions reduction programs@2:37 Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign@3:39 Climate Imperative, @brucenilles@5:07 – Erin O'Toole out | National Post@5:47 – Meat Consumption Pacing Up Climate Change? @16:23 – Residential Indoor Air Quality Guideline, Human Health Risk Assessment for Ambient Nitrogen Dioxide@18:56 – Study: Pollutant Exposures from Natural Gas Cooking Burners@20:48 – NO2 exposure shows causal link with Asthma, Scientists find the climate and health impacts of natural gas stoves are greater than previously thought@28:18 - Effective Kitchen Ventilation for Healthy Zero Net Energy Homes with Natural Gas@32:26 – Berkeley gas hook-up ban appears likely to spread to other California cities@32:13 – America's Natural Gas Utilities Add One New Customer Every Minute@33:33– California first state to phase out gas-powered lawn equipment , New York City banning natural gas hookups for new buildings @34:30 – DECC_Heat_Pumps_in_District_Heating_-_Final_report.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)@34:31 – Cold Climate Heat PumpsThe Electrification and Deep Retrofit Potential of Canadian Federal Buildings - RMI

The FUNNY Joel Getz joins me! We talk about Joel's overcoming his bias towards the Mises Caucus and his problems with the Catherdral caucus. We talk about woke comedy and Dave Chappelle's last special. We also go over the awful LPPA meetings and we also talk about Joel's EVC run for the LPPA.Adam Nutter:https://linktr.ee/AdamNutter

Un evento o Enfermedad Vascular Cerebral (EVC), puede ocurrir cuando una arteria se obstruye produciendo interrupción o pérdida repentina del flujo sanguíneo cerebral o bien, ser el resultado de la ruptura de un vaso, dando lugar a un derrame. Las secuelas de una EVC pueden variar desde leves hasta severas, y pueden incluir parálisis, problemas de raciocinio, del habla, problemas de visión, y problemas en la coordinación motora. En este programa, te diremos de qué forma la atención inmediata puede salvar la vida de la persona y aumentar sus posibilidades de una recuperación exitosa.

Fala gurizadinha, tudo bão com vocês?Eu sou Pedro Beraldo e este é o metalismo podcast.Neste episódio 57 eu converso novamente com a Mylena Monaco vocalista do Sinaya, mas hoje nós vamos falar da EVC Extreme vocal club, primeira escola referência em vocal extremo do Brasil.Mylena nos conta como que funciona a plataforma da escola.A vocalista, professora e líder do Sinaya, conta que já formou mais de 40 alunos.E Mylena fala que a EVC é muito mais que uma simples escola é também um espaço para networking.E sempre lembrando que estamos no @metalismocast nas redes sociais e no site metalismocast.podcloud.siteChega de falatório e vamos pra essa conversa que está muito massa.Links relacionados:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/extremevocalclub/Site: https://extremevocalclub.com/site/

President Biden has announced federal employees will be required to get a Covid vaccine or submit to regular testing in order to work. The announcement comes as US economic growth for the second quarter brought the economy back to pre-pandemic levels. We'll hear from Cary Leahy of Decision Economics. Also in the programme, thirty years after the overthrow of President Siad Barre in Somalia, the country is still struggling to rebuild. We take a closer look at its prospects, and Professor Laura Hammond of the School of Oriental and African Studies explains the country's current situation. Somalia is rapidly building an online economy, and Mohamed Abdala Mohamud talks us through the Faras Online Market. And Abdalah Abdullahi Mohamud of Somalia's largest telecoms provider Hormuud, which is behind the popular money transfer app EVC+, explains how Somalia has become a near-cashless society. And the BBC's James Clayton gets an inside look into a gas-powered cryptocurrency mine. All through the show we'll be joined by Rachel Puppazoni of ABC News in Australia, and Paddy Hirsch of NPR in Los Angeles. (Picture: US President Biden. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

US economic growth for the second quarter brought the economy back to pre-pandemic levels. The BBC's Samira Hussain talks us through the latest data, and we get analysis from Dr Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University. Also in the programme, thirty years after the overthrow of President Siad Barre in Somalia, the country is still struggling to rebuild. We take a closer look at its prospects, and Professor Laura Hammond of the School of Oriental and African Studies explains the country's current situation. Somalia is rapidly building an online economy, and Mohamed Abdala Mohamud talks us through the Faras Online Market. And Abdalah Abdullahi Mohamud of Somalia's largest telecoms provider Hormuud, which is behind the popular money transfer app EVC+, explains how Somalia has become a near-cashless society. Plus, the BBC's Russell Padmore reports on how the pandemic has impacted the finances of Europe's football clubs.

Si decimos enfermedad venosa crónica (EVC) la cosa puede sonarte a chino, a enfermedad rara o grave. Pero si te decimos que las piernas cansadas, las arañas vasculares o las varices son algunos de los síntomas y signos habituales de EVC, seguro que ya te suena más cercano. De hecho, un 48% de los españoles tienen EVC (también llamada insuficiencia venosa crónica), afecta más a las mujeres, sobre todo a partir de los 35-40 años, y hasta un 40% de las embarazadas la sufren en algún grado.La EVC no es, en general, grave, pero se trata de una enfermedad progresiva que puede llegar a deteriorar mucho la calidad de vida de quien la sufre. Para hablarnos de ella viene al podcast uno de los mayores expertos de España, el Dr. Rodrigo Rial, cirujano vascular y presidente de la Sociedad Española de Flebología. En sus propias palabras: "La mala noticia es que se llama 'enfermedad venosa CRÓNICA'. No podemos curarla. La buena noticia es que tiene tratamiento, y muchas veces es tan eficaz que no habrá síntomas ni progresará la enfermedad".Escucha este episodio si quieres saber más sobre la EVC: sus causas, signos y síntomas, riesgos, qué tratamientos funcionan y cuáles no, tipos de cirugías, complicaciones... Con la llegada del verano se siente aún más la pesadez y el cansancio en las piernas. Por eso, nuestro mecenas de junio es precisamente Cedraflon, una crema para piernas cansadas con una triple acción muy interesante: alivia, refresca e hidrata, gracias al extracto de cidra de Córcega y el mentol. Cedraflon es también ideal para después de correr o hacer tu entrenamiento de fuerza. ¡No sabéis cómo lo agradecen mis piernas!Recuerda que las notas de este episodio están, como siempre, en el post que acompaña a este audio y que puedes encontrar en mi blog www.thebeautymail.es

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El código ictus es una medida hospitalaria dirigida hacia mejorar los tiempos de evaluación de pacientes que presentan la sospecha de un evento vascular cerebral o ictus para que reciban tratamiento en el menor tiempo posible. Nuestro invitado: Dr. Juan Calleja, especialista en neurología Time stamps Presentación del Dr. Calleja … 1:35 Caso clínico 1 … 6:00 Código ictus … 7:20 Evaluación del paciente con sospecha de ictus … 12:20 Abordaje inicial … 15:20 Estudios de laboratorio … 17:20 Tratamiento ... 19:00 Terapia endovascular ... 21:20 Continuación del caso clínico ... 23:20 Contraindicaciones absolutas y relativas de la trombólisis ... 24:50 Definición de una trombólisis exitosa ... 29:40 Cuando sospechar sangrado post trombólisis ... 33:15 Manejo de la presión arterial ... 35:00 Estudios de extensión ... 38:00 Segundo caso clínico ... 39:40 Ictus del despertar ... 41:00 Cuidados generales y prevención secundaria ... 46:25 Para llevar a casa ... 49:40

Marie Sikorová si nejdřív založila živnost jako z nouze ctnost. Vedlo ji k tomu její tělesné postižení. Ale po čase se jí podnikání proměnilo v radost a vášeň. Marie má velmi vzácné genetické onemocnění, tzv. syndrom EVC. V naší zemi je jediná. Měří pouhých 141 centimetrů a má další přidružené potíže. Marie usilovala roky o plný invalidní důchod, ale bez úspěchu. Proto se rozhodla založit si živnost a podnikat. Začala vyrábět ze sádry figurky, které prodává jako 3D omalovánky. Zpočátku se ke své práci stavěla spíš negativně. Cítila se ukřvděná a bez podpory. Ale do roka se z Marie stala sebevědomá a nadšená živnostnice, která je na svou práci hrdá. Dokonce se rozhodla přestat usilovat o invalidní důchod, aby se mohla věnovat podnikání.

El EVC o conocido popularmente como derrame cerebral o embolia, es un evento que deja secuelas graves, permanentes e incluso puede causar la muerte de las personas que sufren este problema. Para conocer más del tema el Dr. Erick M. Janicek, Médico Urgenciólogo y jefe de urgencias del Hospital Galenia, nos platica más detalles. En el episodio 53 de nuestro podcast médico conoceremos qué es el evento vascular cerebral (EVC), cuándo ocurre, los tipos de EVC que existen, quienes son las personas más propensas a padecer EVC y los síntomas más comunes. El EVC ocurre cuándo hay una interrupción en el flujo sanguíneo al tejido cerebral. ¡No te pierdas ninguno de nuestros episodios preparados especialmente para ti! ➡️ENLACES DE INTERÉS YouTube | ¿Cómo categorizar una urgencia?

Canada's Climate Plan was just updated with a price on carbon rising to $170 per tonne by 2030, and billions in funds for energy retrofits, clean energy and green infrastructure. Can the plan meet the goals of the Paris Accord and reduce emissions by 30% by 2030 and get Canada to net-zero by 2050? We talk to the Energy vs Climate panel of experts to find out. We talk to EvC host Ed Whittingham, energy expert Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon, Dr. David Keith of Harvard and Dr. Mark Jaccard, author of “The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success.” Listen to the full Energy vs Climate podcast and learn more in the Green Energy Futures blog: www.greenenergyfutures.ca

En este episodio hablaremos acerca de diferentes tips para prevenir un infarto cerebral, hablaremos acerca de qué es este padecimiento, cómo poder identificarlo y además, conocer por qué es la principal causa de discapacidad en adultos de más de 55 años.

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En esta entrevista Milena nos habla de su infancia, como se imaginaba que los locutores estaban metidos dentro de la grabadora de la abuelita; su adolescencia yendo a los remotos de Los 40 Colombia; su paso por la EVC con su programa La Jungla; el paso por El Locutorio y sus proyectos cercanos.

EVC chief executive Behyad Jafari joined the program to discuss a proposal by government to tax electric vehicles. “Victoria simply won’t reach its goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 if it taxes electrical vehicles. This is deeply counter-productive and makes very little sense,” Mr Jafari said. “No other nation on Earth has thought it sensible to apply a special new tax to electric vehicles. “It makes no sense to keep burning foreign oil that clogs our air with pollution. Why would we slow the transition to cleaner and healthier air by imposing a new and unnecessary tax?” The post Electric Vehicle Council chief executive Behyad Jafari appeared first on Mitchell's Front Page.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 423 welcomes Alex Horsman to the podcast to chat with Skyler on the following topics: his work with Ammo.com; the Ammo.com Resistance Library; graduating the University of Missouri (Mizzou) with a business and economics degree, and their Austrian School trained economics professors (lawsuit); becoming a digital nomad after graduation and living in 4 different countries in the last two years; experiences in Bali (Indonesia), Colombia, Lisbon (Portugal), and Sao Paulo (Brazil); constantly being offered drugs in Lisbon (Portugal decriminalization); unschooling and Sudbury schooling (Free to Learn by Peter Gray); Utah history and politics; COVID-19 and tourism; LibertasBella.com merchandise business; Tuttle Twins and the Mises Summit at Jekyll Island; Robert Kyosaki and Jeff Berwick feud; EVC logo colors origin; predictions on Trump pardoning anybody of note; and more.

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The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, says commercial banks in the country owe telecommunication over N17bn for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data access. This debt, according to him, accumulated following the regulator’s suspension of its determination on USSD pricing in 2019. Danbatta spoke at ATCON’s virtual forum, themed Meeting the interests of government, consumers and telecoms companies in the era of Covid-19 and post COVID-19 pandemic for digital economy development’on Thursday. Danbatta announced that it had revised the determination on the USSD in order to protect the interests of consumers and support a robust telecommunications sector. The EVC noted that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, had already been briefed on the development with a view to ensuring a quick settlement of the debt. --- This episode is sponsored by · Afrolit Podcast: Hosted by Ekua PM, Afrolit shares the stories of multi-faceted Africans one episode at a time. https://open.spotify.com/show/2nJxiiYRyfMQlDEXXpzlZS?si=mmgODX3NQ-yfQvR0JRH-WA Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/newscast-africa/support

This week Jason Fishman speaks with Ashton Addison, CEO and Founder of EventChain. Ashton walks us through how he was able to Test, Optimize, and Scale his business.   Ashton Addison has been involved in the blockchain industry since 2013 and is the CEO and Founder of EventChain. Ashton founded the online FinTech and digital currency news broadcasting networks Crypto Coin Show, FinTech News Network, Blockchain Interviews, Blockchain top 5 and is considered a Key Opinion Leader in the Blockchain industry. He has extensive crypto community support on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. He is a public speaker and thought leader of his generation, speaking in 10 countries on business topics such as digital finance, digital economics, and blockchain protocol scalability. By applying his experience from decentralized technology and cryptocurrency to EventChain’s SmartTicketing platform, he aims to make events cheaper and more accessible to everyone. EventChain, founded by Ashton Addison in 2017 intends to allows everyday people attend or create events while avoiding the monopolistic and ethically questionable ticket-service providing industry. EventChain’s advanced blockchain technology allows event managers, party organizers, schools social clubs and individuals to use the Ethereum decentralized network to manage and execute events and ticket sales globally, free of third party charges.EventChain’s mission is to make ticketing easier and transparent by providing advanced functionality of SmartTickets using EVC Tokens (built on the Ethereum blockchain). Those who hold EVC tokens will get special privileges like early bird discounts, reduced ticket prices, and priority seating. There will be a number of payment gateways to buy products and services from 205000 vendors from across 180 countries, but privileges and benefits will be available to only those who use EVC tokens.

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Click to watch SPIE Future Video Codec Panel DiscussionRelated episode with Gary Sullivan at Microsoft: VVC, HEVC & other MPEG codec standardsInterview with MPEG Chairman Leonardo Charliogne: MPEG Through the Eyes of it's ChairmanLearn about FastDVO herePankaj Topiwala LinkedIn profile--------------------------------------The Video Insiders LinkedIn Group is where thousands of your peers are discussing the latest video technology news and sharing best practices. Click here to joinWould you like to be a guest on the show? Email: thevideoinsiders@beamr.comLearn more about Beamr--------------------------------------TRANSCRIPT:Pankaj Topiwala: 00:00 With H.264 H.265 HEVC in 2013, we were now able to do up to 300 to one to up to 500 to one compression on a, let's say a 4K video. And with VVC we have truly entered a new realm where we can do up to 1000 to one compression, which is three full orders of magnitude reduction of the original size. If the original size is say 10 gigabits, we can bring that down to 10 megabits. And that's unbelievable. And so video compression truly is a remarkable technology and you know, it's a, it's a marval to look at Announcer: 00:39 The Video Insiders is the show that makes sense of all that is happening in the world of online video as seen through the eyes of a second generation codec nerd and a marketing guy who knows what I-frames and macro blocks are. And here are your hosts, Mark Donnigan and Dror Gill. Speaker 3: 00:39 Dror Gill: 01:11 Today we're going to talk with one of the key figures in the development of a video codecs and a true video insider Pankaj Topiwala. Hello Pankaj and welcome to The Video Insiders podcast. Pankaj Topiwala: 01:24 Gentlemen. hello, and thank you very much for this invite. It looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. Mark Donnigan: 01:31 It is. Thank you for joining Pankaj. Dror Gill: 01:33 Yeah, it sure will be a lot of fun. So can you start by telling us a little bit about your experience in codec development? Pankaj Topiwala: 01:41 Sure, so, I should say that unlike a number of the other people that you have interviewed or may interview my background is fair bit different. I really came into this field really by a back door and almost by chance my degree PhD degree is actually in mathematical physics from 1985. And I actually have no engineering, computer science or even management experience. So naturally I run a small research company working in video compression and analytics, and that makes sense, but that's just the way things go in the modern world. But that the effect for me was a, and the entry point was that even though I was working in very, very abstract mathematics I decided to leave. I worked in academia for a few years and then I decided to join industry. And at that point they were putting me into applied mathematical research. Pankaj Topiwala: 02:44 And the topic at that time that was really hot in applied mathematics was a topic of wavelets. And I ended up writing and edited a book called wavelet image and video compression in 1998. Which was a lot of fun along with quite a few other co authors on that book. But, wavelets had its biggest contribution in the compression of image and video. And so that led me finally to enter into, and I noticed that video compression was a far larger field than image compression. I mean, by many orders, by orders of magnitude. It is probably a hundred times bigger in terms of market size than, than image compression. And as a result I said, okay, if the sexiest application of this new fangled mathematics could be in video compression I entered that field roughly with the the book that I mentioned in 1998. Mark Donnigan: 03:47 So one thing that I noticed Pankaj cause it's really interesting is your, your initial writing and you know, research was around wavelet compression and yet you have been very active in ISO MPEG, all block-based codecs. So, so tell us about that? Pankaj Topiwala: 04:08 Okay. Well obviously you know when you make the transition from working on the wavelets and our initial starting point was in doing wavelet based video compression. When I started first founded my company fastVDO in 1998, 1999 period we were working on wavelet based video compression and we, we pushed that about as much as we could. And at that, at one point we had what we felt was the world's best a video compression using wavelets in fact, but best overall. And it had the feature that you know, one thing that we should, we should tell your view or reader listeners is that the, the value of wavelets in particular in image coding is that not only can you do state of the art image coding, but you can make the bitstream what is called embedded, meaning you can chop it off at anywhere you like, and it's still a decodable stream. Pankaj Topiwala: 05:11 And in fact it is the best quality you can get for that bit rate. And that is a powerful, powerful thing you can do in image coding. Now in video, there is actually no way to do that. Video is just so much more complicated, but we did the best we could to make it not embedded, but at least scalable. And we, we built a scalable wavelet based video codec, which at that time was beating at the current implementations of MPEG4. So we were very excited that we could launch a company based on a proprietary codec that was based on this new fangled mathematics called wavelets. And lead us to a state of the art codec. The facts of the ground though is that just within the first couple of years of running our company, we found that in fact the block-based transformed codecs that everybody else was using, including the implementers of MPEG4. Pankaj Topiwala: 06:17 And then later AVC, those quickly surpassed anything we could build with with wavelets in terms of both quality and stability. The wavelet based codecs were not as powerful or as stable. And I can say quite a bit more about why that's true. If you want? Dror Gill: 06:38 So when you talk about stability, what exactly are you referring to in, in a video codec? Pankaj Topiwala: 06:42 Right. So let's let's take our listeners back a bit to compare image coding and video coding. Image coding is basically, you're given a set of pixels in a rectangular array and we normally divide that into blocks of sub blocks of that image. And then do transforms and then quantization and than entropy coding, that's how we typically do image coding. With the wavelet transform, we have a global transform. It's a, it's ideally done on the entire image. Pankaj Topiwala: 07:17 And then you could do it multiple times, what are called multiple scales of the wavelet transform. So you could take various sub sub blocks that you create by doing the wavelet transfer and the low pass high pass. Ancs do that again to the low low pass for multiple scales, typically about four or five scales that are used in popular image codecs that use wavelets. But now in video, the novelty is that you don't have one frame. You have many, many frames, hundreds or thousands or more. And you have motion. Now, motion is something where you have pieces of the image that float around from one frame to another and they float randomly. That is, it's not as if all of the motion is in one direction. Some things move one way, some things move other ways, some things actually change orientations. Pankaj Topiwala: 08:12 And they really move, of course, in three dimensional space, not in our two dimensional space that we capture. That complicates video compression enormously over image compression. And it particularly complicates all the wavelet methods to do video compression. So, wavelet methods that try to deal with motion were not very successful. The best we tried to do was using motion compensated video you know, transformed. So doing wavelet transforms in the time domain as well as the spatial domain along the paths of motion vectors. But that was not very successful. And what I mean by stability is that as soon as you increase the motion, the codec breaks, whereas in video coding using block-based transforms and block-based motion estimation and compensation it doesn't break. It just degrades much more gracefully. Wavelet based codecs do not degrade gracefully in that regard. Pankaj Topiwala: 09:16 And so we of course, as a company we decided, well, if those are the facts on the ground. We're going to go with whichever way video coding is going and drop our initial entry point, namely wavelets, and go with the DCT. Now one important thing we found was that even in the DCT- ideas we learned in wavelets can be applied right to the DCT. And I don't know if you're familiar with this part of the story, but a wavelet transform can be decomposed using bits shifts and ads only using something called the lifting transform, at least a important wavelet transforms can. Now, it turns out that the DCT can also be decomposed using lifting transforms using only bit shifts and ads. And that is something that my company developed way back back in 1998 actually. Pankaj Topiwala: 10:18 And we showed that not only for DCT, but a large class of transforms called lab transforms, which included the block transforms, but in particular included more powerful transforms the importance of that in the story of video coding. Is that up until H.264, all the video codec. So H.261, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, all these video codecs used a floating point implementation of the discrete cosign transform and without requiring anybody to implement you know a full floating point transform to a very large number of decimal places. What they required then was a minimum accuracy to the DCT and that became something that all codecs had to do. Instead. If you had an implementation of the DCT, it had to be accurate to the true floating point DCT up to a certain decimal point in, in the transform accuracy. Pankaj Topiwala: 11:27 With the advent of H.264, with H.264, we decided right away that we were not going to do a flooding point transform. We were going to do an integer transform. That decision was made even before I joined, my company joined, the development base, H.264, AVC, But they were using 32 point transforms. We found that we could introduce 16 point transforms, half the complexity. And half the complexity only in the linear dimension when you, when you think of it as a spatial dimension. So two spatial dimensions, it's a, it's actually grows more. And so the reduction in complexity is not a factor of two, but at least a factor of four and much more than that. In fact, it's a little closer to exponential. The reality is that we were able to bring the H.264 codec. Pankaj Topiwala: 12:20 So in fact, the transform was the most complicated part of the entire codec. So if you had a 32 point transform, the entire codec was at 32 point technology and it needed 32 points, 32 bits at every sample to process in hardware or software. By changing the transform to 16 bits, we were able to bring the entire codec to a 16 bit implementation, which dramatically improved the hardware implementability of this transfer of this entire codec without at all effecting the quality. So that was an important development that happened with AVC. And since then, we've been working with only integer transforms. Mark Donnigan: 13:03 This technical history is a really amazing to hear. I, I didn't actually know that Dror or you, you probably knew that, but I didn't. Dror Gill: 13:13 Yeah, I mean, I knew about the transform and shifting from fixed point, from a floating point to integer transform. But you know, I didn't know that's an incredible contribution Pankaj. Pankaj Topiwala: 13:27 We like to say that we've saved the world billions of dollars in hardware implementations. And we've taken a small a small you know, a donation as a result of that to survive as a small company. Dror Gill: 13:40 Yeah, that's great. And then from AVC you moved on and you continued your involvement in, in the other standards, right? That's followed. Pankaj Topiwala: 13:47 in fact, we've been involved in standardization efforts now for almost 20 years. My first meeting was a, I recall in may of 2000, I went to a an MPEG meeting in Geneva. And then shortly after that in July I went to an ITU VCEG meeting. VCEG is the video coding experts group of the ITU. And MPEG is the moving picture experts group of ISO. These two organizations were separately pursuing their own codecs at that time. Pankaj Topiwala: 14:21 ISO MPEG was working on MPEG-4 and ITU VCEG was working on H.263, and 263 plus and 263 plus plus. And then finally they started a project called 263 L for longterm. And eventually it became clear to these two organizations that look, it's silly to work on, on separate codecs. They had worked once before in MPEG-2 develop a joint standard and they decided to, to form a joint team at that time called the joint video team, JVT to develop the H.264 AVC video codec, which was finally done in 2003. We participate participated you know fully in that making many contributions of course in the transform but also in motion estimation and other aspects. So, for example, it might not be known that we also contributed the fast motion estimation that's now widely used in probably nearly all implementations of 264, but in 265 HEVC as well. Pankaj Topiwala: 15:38 And we participated in VVC. But one of the important things that we can discuss is these technologies, although they all have the same overall structure, they have become much more complicated in terms of the processing that they do. And we can discuss that to some extent if you want? Dror Gill: 15:59 The compression factors, just keep increasing from generation to generation and you know, we're wondering what's the limit of that? Pankaj Topiwala: 16:07 That's of course a very good question and let me try to answer some of that. And in fact that discussion I don't think came up in the discussion you had with Gary Sullivan, which certainly could have but I don't recall it in that conversation. So let me try to give for your listeners who did not catch that or are not familiar with it. A little bit of the story. Pankaj Topiwala: 16:28 The first international standard was the ITU. H.261 standard dating roughly to 1988 and it was designed to do only about 15 to one to 20 to one compression. And it was used mainly for video conferencing. And at that time you'd be surprised from our point of view today, the size of the video being used was actually incredibly tiny about QCIP or 176 by 144 pixels. Video of that quality that was the best we could conceive. And we thought we were doing great. And doing 20 to one compression, wow! Recall by the way, that if you try to do a lossless compression of any natural signal, whether it's speech or audio or images or video you can't do better than about two to one or at most about two and a half to one. Pankaj Topiwala: 17:25 You cannot do, typically you cannot even do three to one and you definitely cannot do 10 to one. So a video codec that could do 20 to one compression was 10 times better than what you could do lossless, I'm sorry. So this is definitely lossy, but lossy with still a good quality so that you can use it. And so we thought we were really good. When MPEG-1 came along in, in roughly 1992 we were aiming for 25 to one compression and the application was the video compact disc, the VCD. With H.262 or MPEG-2 roughly 1994, we were looking to do about 35 to one compression, 30 to 35. And the main application was then DVD or also broadcast television. At that point, broadcast television was ready to use at least in some, some segments. Pankaj Topiwala: 18:21 Try digital broadcasting. In the United States, that took a while. But in any case it could be used for broadcast television. And then from that point H.264 AVC In 2003, we jumped right away to more than 100 to one compression. This technology at least on large format video can be used to shrink the original size of a video by more than two orders of magnitude, which was absolutely stunning. You know no other natural signal, not speech, not broadband, audio, not images could be compressed that much and still give you high quality subjective quality. But video can because it's it is so redundant. And because we don't understand fully yet how to appreciate video. Subjectively. We've been trying things you know, ad hoc. And so the entire development of video coding has been really by ad hoc methods to see what quality we can get. Pankaj Topiwala: 19:27 And by quality we been using two two metrics. One is simply a mean square error based metric called peak signal to noise ratio or PSNR. And that has been the industry standard for the last 35 years. But the other method is simply to have people look at the video, what we call subjective rating of the video. Now it's hard to get a subjective rating. That's reliable. You have to do a lot of standardization get a lot of different people and take mean opinion scores and things like that. That's expensive. Whereas PSNR is something you can calculate on a computer. And so people have mostly in the development of video coding for 35 years relied on one objective quality metric called PSNR. And it is good but not great. And it's been known right from the beginning that it was not perfect, not perfectly correlated to video quality, and yet we didn't have anything better anyway. Pankaj Topiwala: 20:32 To finish the story of the video codecs with H.265 HEVC in 2013, we were now able to do up to 300 to one to up to 500 to one compression on let's say a 4K. And with VVC we have truly entered a new realm where we can do up to 1000 to one compression, which is three full orders of magnitude reduction of the original size. If the original size is say, 10 gigabits, we can bring that down to 10 megabits. And that's unbelievable. And so video compression truly is a remarkable technology. And you know, it's a, it's a marvel to look at. Of course it does not, it's not magic. It comes with an awful lot of processing and an awful lot of smarts have gone into it. That's right. Mark Donnigan: 21:24 You know Pankaj, that, is an amazing overview and to hear that that VVC is going to be a thousand to one. You know, compression benefit. Wow. That's incredible! Pankaj Topiwala: 21:37 I think we should of course we should of course temper that with you know, what people will use in applications. Correct. They may not use the full power of a VVC and may not crank it to that level. Sure, sure. I can certainly tell you that that we and many other companies have created bitstreams with 1000 to one or more compression and seeing video quality that we thought was usable. Mark Donnigan: 22:07 One of the topics that has come to light recently and been talked about quite a bit. And it was initially raised by Dave Ronca who used to lead encoding at Netflix for like 10 years. In fact you know, I think he really built that department, the encoding team there and is now at Facebook. And he wrote a LinkedIn article post that was really fascinating. And what he was pointing out in this post was, was that with compression efficiency and as each generation of codec is getting more efficient as you just explained and gave us an overview. There's a, there's a problem that's coming with that in that each generation of codec is also getting even more complex and you know, in some settings and, and I suppose you know, Netflix is maybe an example where you know, it's probably not accurate to say they have unlimited compute, but their application is obviously very different in terms of how they can operate their, their encoding function compared to someone who's doing live, live streaming for example, or live broadcast. Maybe you can share with us as well. You know, through the generation generational growth of these codecs, how has the, how has the compute requirements also grown and has it grown in sort of a linear way along with the compression efficiency? Or are you seeing, you know, some issues with you know, yes, we can get a thousand to one, but our compute efficiency is getting to the, where we could be hitting a wall. Pankaj Topiwala: 23:46 You asked a good question. Has the complexity only scaled linearly with the compression ratio? And the answer is no. Not at all. Complexity has outpaced the compression ratio. Even though the compression ratio is, is a tremendous, the complexity is much, much higher. And has always been at every step. First of all there's a big difference in doing the research, the research phase in development of the, of a technology like VVC where we were using a standardized reference model that the committee develops along the way, which is not at all optimized. But that's what we all use because we share a common code base. And make any new proposals based on modifying that code base. Now that code base is always along the entire development chain has always been very, very slow. Pankaj Topiwala: 24:42 And true implementations are anywhere from 100 to 500 times more efficient in complexity than the reference software. So right away you can have the reference software for say VVC and somebody developing a, an implementation that's a real product. It can be at least 100 times more efficient than what the reference software, maybe even more. So there's a big difference. You know, when we're developing a technology, it is very hard to predict what implementers will actually come up with later. Of course, the only way they can do that is that companies actually invest the time and energy right away as they're developing the standard to build prototype both software and hardware and have a good idea that when they finish this, you know, what is it going to really cost? So just to give you a, an idea, between, H.264 and Pankaj Topiwala: 25:38 H.265, H.264, only had two transforms of size, four by four and eight by eight. And these were integer transforms, which are only bit shifts and adds, took no multiplies and no divides. The division in fact got incorporated into the quantizer and as a result, it was very, very fast. Moreover, if you had to do, make decisions such as inter versus intra mode, the intra modes there were only about eight or 10 intra modes in H.264. By contrast in H.265. We have not two transforms eight, four by four and eight by, but in fact sizes of four, eight, 16 and 32. So we have much larger sized transforms and instead of a eight or 10 intra modes, we jumped up to 35 intra modes. Pankaj Topiwala: 26:36 And then with a VVC we jumped up to 67 intro modes and we just, it just became so much more complex. The compression ratio between HEVC and VVC is not quite two to one, but let's say, you know, 40% better. But the the complexity is not 40% more. On the ground and nobody has yet, to my knowledge, built a a, a, a fully compliant and powerful either software or hardware video codec for VVC yet because it's not even finished yet. It's going to be finished in July 2020. When it, when, the dust finally settles maybe four or five years from now, it will be, it will prove to be at least three or four times more complex than HEVC encoder the decoder, not that much. The decoder, luckily we're able to build decoders that are much more linear than the encoder. Pankaj Topiwala: 27:37 So I guess I should qualify as discussion saying the complexity growth is all mostly been in the encoder. The decoder has been a much more reasonable. Remember, we are always relying on this principle of ever-increasing compute capability. You know, a factor of two every 18 months. We've long heard about all of this, you know, and it is true, Moore's law. If we did not have that, none of this could have happened. None of this high complexity codecs, whatever had been developed because nobody would ever be able to implement them. But because of Moore's law we can confidently say that even if we put out this very highly complex VVC standard, someday and in the not too distant future, people will be able to implement this in hardware. Now you also asked a very good question earlier, is there a limit to how much we can compress? Pankaj Topiwala: 28:34 And also one can ask relatively in this issue, is there a limit to a Moore's law? And we've heard a lot about that. That may be finally after decades of the success of Moore's law and actually being realized, maybe we are now finally coming to quantum mechanical limits to you know how much we can miniaturize in electronics before we actually have to go to quantum computing, which is a totally different you know approach to doing computing because trying to go smaller die size. Well, we'll make it a unstable quantum mechanically. Now the, it appears that we may be hitting a wall eventually we haven't hit it yet, but we may be close to a, a physical limit in die size. And in the observations that I've been making at least it seems possible to me that we are also reaching a limit to how much we can compress video even without a complexity limit, how much we can compress video and still obtain reasonable or rather high quality. Pankaj Topiwala: 29:46 But we don't know the answer to that. And in fact there are many many aspects of this that we simply don't know. For example, the only real arbiter of video quality is subjective testing. Nobody has come up with an objective video quality metric that we can rely on. PSNR is not it. When, when push comes to shove, nobody in this industry actually relies on PSNR. They actually do subjective testing well. So in that scenario, we don't know what the limits of visual quality because we don't understand human vision, you know, we try, but human vision is so complicated. Nobody can understand the impact of that on video quality to any very significant extent. Now in fact, the first baby steps to try to understand, not explicitly but implicitly capture subjective human video quality assessment into a neural model. Those steps are just now being taken in the last couple of years. In fact, we've been involved, my company has been involved in, in getting into that because I think that's a very exciting area. Dror Gill: 30:57 I tend to agree that modeling human perception with a neural network seems more natural than, you know, just regular formulas and algorithms which are which are linear. Now I, I wanted to ask you about this process of, of creating the codecs. It's, it's very important to have standards. So you encode a video once and then you can play it anywhere and anytime and on any device. And for this, the encoder and decoder need to agree on exactly the format of the video. And traditionally you know, as you pointed out with all the history of, of development. Video codecs have been developed by standardization bodies, MPEG and ITU first separately. And then they joined forces to develop the newest video standards. But recently we're seeing another approach to develop codecs, which is by open sourcing them. Dror Gill: 31:58 Google started with an open source code, they called VP9 which they first developed internally. Then they open sourced it and and they use it widely across their services, especially in, YouTube. And then they joined forces with the, I think the largest companies in the world, not just in video but in general. You know those large internet giants such as Amazon and Facebook and and Netflix and even Microsoft, Apple, Intel have joined together with the Alliance of Open Media to jointly create another open codec called AV1. And this is a completely parallel process to the MPEG codec development process. And the question is, do you think that this was kind of a one time effort to, to to try and find a, or develop a royalty free codec, or is this something that will continue? And how do you think the adoption of the open source codecs versus the committee defined codecs, how would that adoption play out in the market? Pankaj Topiwala: 33:17 That's of course a large topic on its own. And I should mention that there have been a number of discussions about that topic. In particular at the SPIE conference last summer in San Diego, we had a panel discussion of experts in video compression to discuss exactly that. And one of the things we should provide to your listeners is a link to that captured video of the panel discussion where that topic is discussed to some significant extent. And it's on YouTube so we can provide a link to that. My answer. And of course none of us knows the future. Right. But we're going to take our best guesses. I believe that this trend will continue and is a new factor in the landscape of video compression development. Pankaj Topiwala: 34:10 But we should also point out that the domain of preponderance use preponderant use of these codecs is going to be different than in our traditional codecs. Our traditional codecs such as H.264 265, were initially developed for primarily for the broadcast market or for DVD and Blu-ray. Whereas these new codecs from AOM are primarily being developed for the streaming media industry. So the likes of Netflix and Amazon and for YouTube where they put up billions of user generated videos. So, for the streaming application, the decoder is almost always a software decoder. That means they can update that decoder anytime they do a software update. So they're not limited by a hardware development cycle. Of course, hardware companies are also building AV1. Pankaj Topiwala: 35:13 And the point of that would be to try to put it into handheld devices like laptops, tablets, and especially smartphones. But to try to get AV1 not only as a decoder but also as an encoder in a smartphone is going to be quite complicated. And the first few codecs that come out in hardware will be of much lower quality, for example, comparable to AVC and not even the quality of HEVC when they first start out. So that's... the hardware implementations of AV1 that work in real time are not going to be, it's going to take a while for them to catch up to the quality that AV1 can offer. But for streaming we, we can decode these streams reasonably well in software or in firmware. And the net result is that, or in GPU for example, and the net result is that these companies can already start streaming. Pankaj Topiwala: 36:14 So in fact Google is already streaming some test streams maybe one now. And it's cloud-based YouTube application and companies like Cisco are testing it already, even for for their WebEx video communication platform. Although the quality will not be then anything like the full capability of AV1, it'll be at a much reduced level, but it'll be this open source and notionally, you know, royalty free video codec. Dror Gill: 36:50 Notionally. Yeah. Because they always tried to do this, this dance and every algorithm that they try to put into the standard is being scrutinized and, and, and they check if there are any patents around it so they can try and keep this notion of of royalty-free around the codec because definitely the codec is open source and royalty free. Dror Gill: 37:14 I think that is, is, is a big question. So much IP has gone into the development of the different MPEG standards and we know it has caused issues. Went pretty smoothly with AVC, with MPEG-LA that had kind of a single point of contact for licensing all the essential patents and with HEVC, that hasn't gone very well in the beginning. But still there is a lot of IP there. So the question is, is it even possible to have a truly royalty free codec that can be competitive in, in compression efficiency and performance with the codec developed by the standards committee? Pankaj Topiwala: 37:50 I'll give you a two part answer. One because of the landscape of patents in the field of video compression which I would describe as being, you know very, very spaghetti like and patents date back to other patents. Pankaj Topiwala: 38:09 And they cover most of the, the topics and the most of the, the tools used in video compression. And by the way we've looked at the AV1 and AV1 is not that different from all the other standards that we have. H.265 or VVC. There are some things that are different. By and large, it resembles the existing standards. So can it be that this animal is totally patent free? No, it cannot be that it is patent free. But patent free is not the same as royalty free. There's no question that AV1 has many, many patents, probably hundreds of patents that reach into it. The question is whether the people developing and practicing AV1 own all of those patents. That is of course, a much larger question. Pankaj Topiwala: 39:07 And in fact, there has been a recent challenge to that, a group has even stood up to proclaim that they have a central IP in AV1. The net reaction from the AOM has been to develop a legal defense fund so that they're not going to budge in terms of their royalty free model. If they do. It would kill the whole project because their main thesis is that this is a world do free thing, use it and go ahead. Now, the legal defense fund then protects the members of that Alliance, jointly. Now, it's not as if the Alliance is going to indemnify you against any possible attack on IP. They can't do that because nobody can predict, you know, where somebody's IP is. The world is so large, so many patents in that we're talking not, not even hundreds and thousands, but tens of thousands of patents at least. Pankaj Topiwala: 40:08 So nobody in the world has ever reviewed all of those patent. It's not possible. And the net result is that nobody can know for sure what technology might have been patented by third parties. But the point is that because such a large number of powerful companies that are also the main users of this technology, you know, people, companies like Google and Apple and Microsoft and, and Netflix and Amazon and Facebook and whatnot. These companies are so powerful. And Samsung by the way, has joined the Alliance. These companies are so powerful that you know, it would be hard to challenge them. And so in practice, the point is they can project a royalty-free technology because it would be hard for anybody to challenge it. And so that's the reality on the ground. Pankaj Topiwala: 41:03 So at the moment it is succeeding as a royalty free project. I should also point out that if you want to use this, not join the Alliance, but just want to be a user. Even just to use it, you already have to offer any IP you have in this technology it to the Alliance. So all users around the world, so if tens of thousands and eventually millions of you know, users around the world, including tens of thousands of companies around the world start to use this technology, they will all have automatically yielded any IP they have in AV1, to the Alliance. Dror Gill: 41:44 Wow. That's really fascinating. I mean, first the distinction you made between royalty free and patent free. So the AOM can keep this technology royalty free, even if it's not patent free because they don't charge royalties and they can help with the legal defense fund against patent claim and still keep it royalty free. And, and second is the fact that when you use this technology, you are giving up any IP claims against the creators of the technology, which means that if any, any party who wants to have any IP claims against the AV1 encoder cannot use it in any form or shape. Pankaj Topiwala: 42:25 That's at least my understanding. And I've tried to look at of course I'm not a lawyer. And you have to take that as just the opinion of a video coding expert rather than a lawyer dissecting the legalities of this. But be that as it may, my understanding is that any user would have to yield any IP they have in the standard to the Alliance. And the net result will be if this technology truly does get widely used more IP than just from the Alliance members will have been folded into into it so that eventually it would be hard for anybody to challenge this. Mark Donnigan: 43:09 Pankaj, what does this mean for the development of so much of the technology has been in has been enabled by the financial incentive of small groups of people, you know, or medium sized groups of people forming together. You know, building a company, usually. Hiring other experts and being able to derive some economic benefit from the research and the work and the, you know, the effort that's put in. If all of this sort of consolidates to a handful or a couple of handfuls of, you know, very, very large companies, you know, does that, I guess I'm, I'm asking from your view, will, will video and coding technology development and advancements proliferate? Will it sort of stay static? Because basically all these companies will hire or acquire, you know, all the experts and you know, it's just now everybody works for Google and Facebook and Netflix and you know... Or, or do you think it will ultimately decline? Because that's something that that comes to mind here is, you know, if the economic incentives sort of go away, well, you know, people aren't going to work for free! Pankaj Topiwala: 44:29 So that's of course a, another question and a one relevant. In fact to many of us working in video compression right now, including my company. And I faced this directly back in the days of MPEG-2. There was a two and a half dollar ($2.50) per unit license fee for using MPEG-2. That created billions of dollars in licensing in fact, the patent pool, MPEG-LA itself made billions of dollars, even though they took only 10% of the proceeds, they already made billions of dollars, you know, huge amounts of money. With the advent of H.264 AVC, the patent license went not to from two and a half dollars to 25 cents a unit. And now with HEVC, it's a little bit less than that per unit. Of course the number of units has grown exponentially, but then the big companies don't continue to pay per unit anymore. Pankaj Topiwala: 45:29 They just pay a yearly cap. For example, 5 million or 10 million, which to these big companies is is peanuts. So there's a yearly cap for the big companies that have, you know, hundreds of millions of units. You know imagine the number of Microsoft windows that are out there or the number of you know, Google Chrome browsers. And if you have a, a codec embedded in the browser there are hundreds of millions of them, if not billions of them. And so they just pay a cap and they're done with it. But even then, there was up till now an incentive for smart engineers to develop exciting new ideas in a future video coding. But, and that has been up the story up till now. But when, if it happens that this AOM model with AV1 and then AV2, really becomes a dominant codec and takes over the market, then there will be no incentive for researchers to devote any time and energy. Pankaj Topiwala: 46:32 Certainly my company for example, can't afford to you know, just twiddle thumbs, create technologies for which there is absolutely no possibility of a royalty stream. So we, we cannot be in the business of developing video coding when video coding doesn't pay. So the only thing that makes money, is Applications, for example, a streaming application or some other such thing. And so Netflix and, and Google and Amazon will be streaming video and they'll charge you per stream but not on the codec. So that that's an interesting thing and it certainly affects the future development of video. It's clear to me it's a negative impact on the research that we got going in. I can't expect that Google and Amazon and Microsoft are going to continue to devote the same energy to develop future compression technologies in their royalty free environment that companies have in the open standards development technology environment. Pankaj Topiwala: 47:34 It's hard for me to believe that they will devote that much energy. They'll devote energy, but it will not be the the same level. For example, in developing a video standards such as HEVC, it took up to 10 years of development by on the order of 500 to 600 experts, well, let's say four to 500 experts from around the world meeting four times a year for 10 years. Mark Donnigan: 48:03 That is so critical. I want you to repeat that again. Pankaj Topiwala: 48:07 Well, I mean so very clearly we've been putting out a video codec roughly on the schedule of once every 10 years. MPEG-2 was 1994. AVC was 2003 and also 2004. And then HEVC in 2013. Those were roughly 10 years apart. But VVC we've accelerated the schedule to put one out in seven years instead of 10 years. But even then you should realize that we had been working right since HEVC was done. Pankaj Topiwala: 48:39 We've been working all this time to develop VVC and so on the order of 500 experts from around the world have met four times a year at all international locations, spending on the order of $100 million per meeting. You know so billions of dollars have been spent by industry to create these standards, many billions and it can't happen, you know without that. It's hard for me to believe that companies like Microsoft, Google, and whatnot, are going to devote billions to develop their next incremental, you know, AV1and AV2 AV3's. But maybe they will it just, that there's no royalty stream coming from the codec itself, only the application. Then the incentive, suppose they start dominating to create even better technology will not be there. So there really is a, a financial issue in this and that's at play right now. Dror Gill: 49:36 Yeah, I, I find it really fascinating. And of course, Mark and I are not lawyers, but all this you know, royalty free versus committee developed open source versus a standard those large companies who some people fear, you know, their dominance and not only in video codec development, but in many other areas. You know, versus you know, dozens of companies and hundreds of engineers working for seven or 10 years in a codec. So you know, it's really different approaches different methods of development eventually to approach the exact same problem of video compression. And, and how this turns out. I mean we, we cannot forecast for sure, but it will be very interesting, especially next year in 2020 when VVC is ratified. And at around the same time, EVC is ratified another codec from the MPEG committee. Dror Gill: 50:43 And then AV1, and once you know, AV1 starts hitting the market. We'll hear all the discussions of AV2. So it's gonna be really interesting and fascinating to follow. And we, we promise to to bring you all the updates here on The Video Insiders. So Pankaj I really want to thank you. This has been a fascinating discussion with very interesting insights into the world of codec development and compression and, and wavelets and DCT and and all of those topics and, and the history and the future. So thank you very much for joining us today on the video insiders. Pankaj Topiwala: 51:25 It's been my pleasure, Mark and Dror. And I look forward to interacting in the future. Hope this is a useful for your audience. If I can give you a one parting thought, let me give this... Pankaj Topiwala: 51:40 H.264 AVC was developed in 2003 and also 2004. That is you know, some 17 years or 16 years ago, it is close to being now nearly royalty-free itself. And if you look at the market share of video codecs currently being used in the market, for example, even in streaming AVC dominates that market completely. Even though VP8 and VP9 and VP10 were introduced and now AV1, none of those have any sizeable market share. AVC currently dominates from 70 to 80% of that marketplace right now. And it fully dominates broadcast where those other codecs are not even in play. And so they're 17, 16, 17 years later, it is now still the dominant codec even much over HEVC, which by the way is also taking an uptick in the last several years. So the standardized codecs developed by ITU and MPEG are not dead. They may just take a little longer to emerge as dominant forces. Mark Donnigan: 52:51 That's a great parting thought. Thanks for sharing that. What an engaging episode Dror. Yeah. Yeah. Really interesting. I learned so much. I got a DCT primer. I mean, that in and of itself was a amazing, Dror Gill: 53:08 Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Mark Donnigan: 53:11 Yeah, amazing Pankaj. Okay, well good. Well thanks again for listening to the video insiders, and as always, if you would like to come on this show, we would love to have you just send us an email. The email address is thevideoinsiders@beamr.com, and Dror or myself will follow up with you and we'd love to hear what you're doing. We're always interested in talking to video experts who are involved in really every area of video distribution. So it's not only encoding and not only codecs, whatever you're doing, tell us about it. And until next time what do we say Dror? Happy encoding! Thanks everyone. 

Draper names a new President, working with architects on projects, and building educational partnerships to build up the AV workforce.

Draper names a new President, working with architects on projects, and building educational partnerships to build up the AV workforce.

Draper names a new President, working with architects on projects, and building educational partnerships to build up the AV workforce.

EVC isquemico, ictus, stroke. Entrevista con Dr. Juan Calleja

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EVC isquemico, ictus, stroke en entrevista Dr. Juan Calleja

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Another celebrity has entered the ICO endorsement field. Major key. This time it’s Snapchat star, DJ Khaled. What is a BADCOIN worth? And Travis and Joel open the Bad Crypto Lexicon of Crypto-terminology so you know what all these crazy words mean. Got FOMO or FUD? No worries, we’ll sort it out as we’re mooning our way to lambos on episode #32 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. SHOW NOTES: http://badco.in/032 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: iTunes: http://badco.in/itunes Stitcher:  http://badco.in/stitcher Google Play: http://badco.in/play Soundcloud: http://badco.in/soundcloud YouTube: http://badco.in/youtube FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: @BadCrypto - @joelcomm - @teedubya Facebook:  /BadCrypto - /JoelComm - /teedubyaw Facebook Mastermind Group: /BadCrypto LinkedIn: /in/joelcomm - /in/teedubya Instagram: @BadCryptoPodcast Email: badcryptopodcast[at]gmail[dot]com Phone: SEVEN-OH-8-88FIVE- 90THIRTY DONATE CRYPTO TO THE SHOW: If you'd like to donate a bit of cryptocurrency to The Bad Crypto Podcast, feel free to send copious amounts to the following locations:  $BTC: Bitcoin: 3HgKzHs3hB9oxqVLkBqmBXnkvmmVDSXuth  $ETH Ethereum: 0x1cc3335e292fd9a956746f1467046e2198a8c69d  $LTC Litecoin: LchSx4xHwXY5JBXVB72bf86VHEBgSmjTbC  $DOGE Dogecoin:  DPTjFZS4z9xPqfnCY8XrPNpMinYFZ9WsxK GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 BITCOIN FREE: We have an affiliate code with Coinbase.  If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you spend at least $100 in crypto.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well. Win-Win. Coinbase is one of the most popular and well-known brokers and trading platforms in the world. Their platform makes it easy to securely buy, use, store and trade digital currency. Users can purchase bitcoins, Ether and now Litecoin from Coinbase through a digital wallet available on Android & iPhone. Do your own due diligence, some people have had some customer support issues.  Neither Joel nor Travis can attest to that.  If you do use Coinbase, once your coins clear, move it to an offline wallet or if you choose, move them over to another exchange. Here is a list of all of the top crypto-currency exchanges.  Choose one that you like. DISCLAIMER: Do your own due diligence and research.  Neither Joel Comm nor Travis Wright are NOT FINANCIAL ADVISORS. We are sharing our journey with you as we learn more about this crazy little thing called cryptocurrency.  We make NO RECOMMENDATIONS.  Don't take anything we say as gospel. Do not come to our homes with pitchforks because you lost money by listening to us. We only share with you what we are learning and what we are investing it. We will never "pump or dump" any cryptocurrencies. Take what we say with a grain of salt.  You must research this stuff on your own! Just know that we will always strive for RADICAL TRANSPARENCY with any show associations. Show Edited By: Aaron The Tech (http://aaronthe.tech) Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bad Cryptober has arrived! We celebrate by building the Bad Crypto Street Team where you can get a piece of one BILLION tokens being made available for your benevolent hosts. How many fractional bitcoins make a whole bitcoin? We caught up with GoldMoney.com owner Peter Schiff, who says Bitcoin is a bubble and bound to become worthless. Bitcoin and Billions and Bubbles, oh my! Lock and load for episode #31 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Complete show notes and links are on our website at: http://badco.in/031 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: iTunes: http://badco.in/itunes Stitcher:  http://badco.in/stitcher Google Play: http://badco.in/play Soundcloud: http://badco.in/soundcloud YouTube: http://badco.in/youtube FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: @BadCrypto - @joelcomm - @teedubya Facebook:  /BadCrypto - /JoelComm - /teedubyaw Facebook Mastermind Group: /BadCrypto LinkedIn: /in/joelcomm - /in/teedubya Instagram: @BadCryptoPodcast Email: badcryptopodcast[at]gmail[dot]com Phone: SEVEN-OH-8-88FIVE- 90THIRTY DONATE CRYPTO TO THE SHOW: If you'd like to donate a bit of cryptocurrency to The Bad Crypto Podcast, feel free to send copious amounts to the following locations:  $BTC: Bitcoin: 3HgKzHs3hB9oxqVLkBqmBXnkvmmVDSXuth  $ETH Ethereum: 0x1cc3335e292fd9a956746f1467046e2198a8c69d  $LTC Litecoin: LchSx4xHwXY5JBXVB72bf86VHEBgSmjTbC  $DOGE Dogecoin:  DPTjFZS4z9xPqfnCY8XrPNpMinYFZ9WsxK GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 BITCOIN FREE: We have an affiliate code with Coinbase.  If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you spend at least $100 in crypto.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well. Win-Win. Coinbase is one of the most popular and well-known brokers and trading platforms in the world. Their platform makes it easy to securely buy, use, store and trade digital currency. Users can purchase bitcoins, Ether and now Litecoin from Coinbase through a digital wallet available on Android & iPhone. Do your own due diligence, some people have had some customer support issues.  Neither Joel nor Travis can attest to that.  If you do use Coinbase, once your coins clear, move it to an offline wallet or if you choose, move them over to another exchange. Here is a list of all of the top crypto-currency exchanges.  Choose one that you like. DISCLAIMER: Do your own due diligence and research.  Neither Joel Comm nor Travis Wright are NOT FINANCIAL ADVISORS. We are sharing our journey with you as we learn more about this crazy little thing called cryptocurrency.  We make NO RECOMMENDATIONS.  Don't take anything we say as gospel. Do not come to our homes with pitchforks because you lost money by listening to us. We only share with you what we are learning and what we are investing it. We will never "pump or dump" any cryptocurrencies. Take what we say with a grain of salt.  You must research this stuff on your own! Just know that we will always strive for RADICAL TRANSPARENCY with any show associations. Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What’s the best way to store your bitcoin? We’ve got 12 different methods you can use to secure your digital currency. What if you want to sell your stuff and accept Bitcoin as payment. We can tell you how to make it happen. And how can you become a millionaire and never pay taxes? Well, we can’t help you with that… sorry. But we can report the latest crypto news and make complete fools of ourselves. That’s what you get when you tune into episode #30 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Complete show notes and links are on our website at: http://badco.in/030 GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 FREE BITCOIN: Joel and Travis both use Coinbase, the most popular cryptocurrency exchange. If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you invest at least $100.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well.  Win-Win! http://badco.in/coinbase SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: iTunes: http://badco.in/itunes Stitcher: http://badco.in/itunes Google Play: http://badco.in/play Soundcloud: http://badco.in/soundcloud YouTube: http://badco.in/youtube FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: @BadCrypto - @joelcomm - @teedubya Facebook:  /BadCrypto - /JoelComm - /teedubyaw LinkedIn: /in/joelcomm - /in/teedubya Instagram: @BadCryptoPodcast Flipboard: http://badco.in/flip DONATE CRYPTO TO THE SHOW: If you'd like to donate a bit of cryptocurrency to The Bad Crypto Podcast, feel free to send copious amounts to the following locations: Bitcoin: 3HgKzHs3hB9oxqVLkBqmBXnkvmmVDSXuth Ethereum: 0x1cc3335e292fd9a956746f1467046e2198a8c69d Litecoin: LchSx4xHwXY5JBXVB72bf86VHEBgSmjTbC GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 BITCOIN FREE: We have an affiliate code with Coinbase.  If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you spend at least $100 in crypto.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well.  Win-Win. Coinbase is one of the most popular and well-known brokers and trading platforms in the world. Their platform makes it easy to securely buy, use, store and trade digital currency. Users can purchase bitcoins, Ether and now Litecoin from Coinbase through a digital wallet available on Android & iPhone. Do your own due diligence, some people have had some customer support issues.  Neither Joel nor Travis can attest to that.  If you do use Coinbase, once your coins clear, move it to an offline wallet or if you choose, move them over to another exchange. DISCLAIMER: Do your own due diligence and research.  Neither Joel Comm or Travis Wright are FINANCIAL ADVISORS. We are sharing our journey with you as we learn more about this crazy little thing called cryptocurrency.  We make NO RECOMMENDATIONS.  Don't take anything we say as gospel. Do not come to our homes with pitchforks because you lost money by listening to us. We only share with you what we are learning and what we are investing it. We will never "pump or dump" any cryptocurrencies. Take what we say with a grain of salt.  You must research this stuff on your own! Just know that we will always strive for RADICAL TRANSPARENCY with any show associations.     Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So now you’ve got Bitcoin. What can you do with it? In this episode we’ll discuss places you can shop and things you can buy with your coin. Want to know how coin market cap is calculated? Yeah, we’ve got that. And Bitcoin has reached $7200… in Zimbabwe.   These stories, and instructions on how you can get free BADCOIN, in episode #29 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Complete show notes and links are on our website at: http://badco.in/029 GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 FREE BITCOIN: Joel and Travis both use Coinbase, the most popular cryptocurrency exchange. If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you invest at least $100.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well.  Win-Win! http://badco.in/coinbase SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: iTunes: http://badco.in/itunes Stitcher: http://badco.in/itunes Google Play: http://badco.in/play Soundcloud: http://badco.in/soundcloud YouTube: http://badco.in/youtube FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: @BadCrypto - @joelcomm - @teedubya Facebook:  /BadCrypto - /JoelComm - /teedubyaw LinkedIn: /in/joelcomm - /in/teedubya Instagram: @BadCryptoPodcast Flipboard: http://badco.in/flip DONATE CRYPTO TO THE SHOW: If you'd like to donate a bit of cryptocurrency to The Bad Crypto Podcast, feel free to send copious amounts to the following locations: Bitcoin: 3HgKzHs3hB9oxqVLkBqmBXnkvmmVDSXuth Ethereum: 0x1cc3335e292fd9a956746f1467046e2198a8c69d Litecoin: LchSx4xHwXY5JBXVB72bf86VHEBgSmjTbC GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 BITCOIN FREE: We have an affiliate code with Coinbase.  If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you spend at least $100 in crypto.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well.  Win-Win. Coinbase is one of the most popular and well-known brokers and trading platforms in the world. Their platform makes it easy to securely buy, use, store and trade digital currency. Users can purchase bitcoins, Ether and now Litecoin from Coinbase through a digital wallet available on Android & iPhone. Do your own due diligence, some people have had some customer support issues.  Neither Joel nor Travis can attest to that.  If you do use Coinbase, once your coins clear, move it to an offline wallet or if you choose, move them over to another exchange. DISCLAIMER: Do your own due diligence and research.  Neither Joel Comm or Travis Wright are FINANCIAL ADVISORS. We are sharing our journey with you as we learn more about this crazy little thing called cryptocurrency.  We make NO RECOMMENDATIONS.  Don't take anything we say as gospel. Do not come to our homes with pitchforks because you lost money by listening to us. We only share with you what we are learning and what we are investing it. We will never "pump or dump" any cryptocurrencies. Take what we say with a grain of salt.  You must research this stuff on your own! Just know that we will always strive for RADICAL TRANSPARENCY with any show associations.     Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Bad Crypto Podcast! If this is your first encounter with us, you might be wondering the what the heck this is! To celebrate our 250,000 download, we decided to do a parody song that is really bad. We hope it doesn't put you off too much.  In fact, it may make you smile.  Just don't admit it to anyone. We never thought anyone would have to apologize to N'Sync. I guess we're the first. We're sorry... not sorry. Complete lyrics and links are on our website at: http://badco.in/buybuybuy GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 FREE BITCOIN: Joel and Travis both use Coinbase, the most popular cryptocurrency exchange. If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you invest at least $100.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well.  Win-Win! http://badco.in/coinbase SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: iTunes: http://badco.in/itunes Stitcher: http://badco.in/itunes Google Play: http://badco.in/play Soundcloud: http://badco.in/soundcloud YouTube: http://badco.in/youtube FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: @BadCrypto - @joelcomm - @teedubya Facebook:  /BadCrypto - /JoelComm - /teedubyaw LinkedIn: /in/joelcomm - /in/teedubya Instagram: @BadCryptoPodcast Flipboard: http://badco.in/flip DONATE CRYPTO TO THE SHOW: If you'd like to donate a bit of cryptocurrency to The Bad Crypto Podcast, feel free to send copious amounts to the following locations: Bitcoin: 3HgKzHs3hB9oxqVLkBqmBXnkvmmVDSXuth Ethereum: 0x1cc3335e292fd9a956746f1467046e2198a8c69d Litecoin: LchSx4xHwXY5JBXVB72bf86VHEBgSmjTbC GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 BITCOIN FREE: We have an affiliate code with Coinbase.  If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you spend at least $100 in crypto.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well.  Win-Win. Coinbase is one of the most popular and well-known brokers and trading platforms in the world. Their platform makes it easy to securely buy, use, store and trade digital currency. Users can purchase bitcoins, Ether and now Litecoin from Coinbase through a digital wallet available on Android & iPhone. Do your own due diligence, some people have had some customer support issues.  Neither Joel nor Travis can attest to that.  If you do use Coinbase, once your coins clear, move it to an offline wallet or if you choose, move them over to another exchange. DISCLAIMER: Do your own due diligence and research.  Neither Joel Comm or Travis Wright are FINANCIAL ADVISORS. We are sharing our journey with you as we learn more about this crazy little thing called cryptocurrency.  We make NO RECOMMENDATIONS.  Don't take anything we say as gospel. Do not come to our homes with pitchforks because you lost money by listening to us. We only share with you what we are learning and what we are investing it. We will never "pump or dump" any cryptocurrencies. Take what we say with a grain of salt.  You must research this stuff on your own! Just know that we will always strive for RADICAL TRANSPARENCY with any show associations. Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re back from Nexus Earth in Aspen, Colorado and we are infused with blockchain superpowers! In this episode, you’ll discover some of what we are bringing back for you, including a series of interviews with some of the biggest movers and shakers in Crypto, beginning with Bitcoin legend, Roger Ver. We’ll crack the code on Atomic swaps. And we’re opening a private mastermind for Bad Crypto fans. It’s the 28th episode of The Bad Crypto Podcast, and it begins… now. Complete show notes and links are on our website at: http://badco.in/028 GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 FREE BITCOIN: Joel and Travis both use Coinbase, the most popular cryptocurrency exchange. If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you invest at least $100.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well.  Win-Win! http://badco.in/coinbase SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: iTunes: http://badco.in/itunes Stitcher: http://badco.in/itunes Google Play: http://badco.in/play Soundcloud: http://badco.in/soundcloud YouTube: http://badco.in/youtube FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: @BadCrypto - @joelcomm - @teedubya Facebook:  /BadCrypto - /JoelComm - /teedubyaw LinkedIn: /in/joelcomm - /in/teedubya Instagram: @BadCryptoPodcast Flipboard: http://badco.in/flip DONATE CRYPTO TO THE SHOW: If you'd like to donate a bit of cryptocurrency to The Bad Crypto Podcast, feel free to send copious amounts to the following locations: Bitcoin: 3HgKzHs3hB9oxqVLkBqmBXnkvmmVDSXuth Ethereum: 0x1cc3335e292fd9a956746f1467046e2198a8c69d Litecoin: LchSx4xHwXY5JBXVB72bf86VHEBgSmjTbC GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 BITCOIN FREE: We have an affiliate code with Coinbase.  If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you spend at least $100 in crypto.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well.  Win-Win. Coinbase is one of the most popular and well-known brokers and trading platforms in the world. Their platform makes it easy to securely buy, use, store and trade digital currency. Users can purchase bitcoins, Ether and now Litecoin from Coinbase through a digital wallet available on Android & iPhone. Do your own due diligence, some people have had some customer support issues.  Neither Joel nor Travis can attest to that.  If you do use Coinbase, once your coins clear, move it to an offline wallet or if you choose, move them over to another exchange. DISCLAIMER: Do your own due diligence and research.  Neither Joel Comm or Travis Wright are FINANCIAL ADVISORS. We are sharing our journey with you as we learn more about this crazy little thing called cryptocurrency.  We make NO RECOMMENDATIONS.  Don't take anything we say as gospel. Do not come to our homes with pitchforks because you lost money by listening to us. We only share with you what we are learning and what we are investing it. We will never "pump or dump" any cryptocurrencies. Take what we say with a grain of salt.  You must research this stuff on your own! Just know that we will always strive for RADICAL TRANSPARENCY with any show associations.     Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan says Bitcoin is a fraud, and is summarily called out by his own people. What’s the deal with China?  And if you’ve ever bought concert tickets, you know that scalpers and ridiculous fees often get in the way of a great experience. We’ll talk with the CEO of one company that intends to disrupt the ticket game. It’s all kinds of sleep-deprived crypto fun on episode #26 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Complete show notes and links are on our website at: http://badco.in/026 GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 FREE BITCOIN: Joel and Travis both use Coinbase, the most popular cryptocurrency exchange. If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you invest at least $100.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well.  Win-Win! http://badco.in/coinbase SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: iTunes: http://badco.in/itunes Stitcher: http://badco.in/itunes Google Play: http://badco.in/play Soundcloud: http://badco.in/soundcloud YouTube: http://badco.in/youtube FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: @BadCrypto - @joelcomm - @teedubya Facebook:  /BadCrypto - /JoelComm - /teedubyaw LinkedIn: /in/joelcomm - /in/teedubya Instagram: @BadCryptoPodcast Flipboard: http://badco.in/flip DONATE CRYPTO TO THE SHOW: If you'd like to donate a bit of cryptocurrency to The Bad Crypto Podcast, feel free to send copious amounts to the following locations: Bitcoin: 3HgKzHs3hB9oxqVLkBqmBXnkvmmVDSXuth Ethereum: 0x1cc3335e292fd9a956746f1467046e2198a8c69d Litecoin: LchSx4xHwXY5JBXVB72bf86VHEBgSmjTbC GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 BITCOIN FREE: We have an affiliate code with Coinbase.  If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you spend at least $100 in crypto.  The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well.  Win-Win. Coinbase is one of the most popular and well-known brokers and trading platforms in the world. Their platform makes it easy to securely buy, use, store and trade digital currency. Users can purchase bitcoins, Ether and now Litecoin from Coinbase through a digital wallet available on Android & iPhone. Do your own due diligence, some people have had some customer support issues.  Neither Joel nor Travis can attest to that.  If you do use Coinbase, once your coins clear, move it to an offline wallet or if you choose, move them over to another exchange. DISCLAIMER: Do your own due diligence and research.  Neither Joel Comm nor Travis Wright are FINANCIAL ADVISORS. We are sharing our journey with you as we learn more about this crazy little thing called cryptocurrency.  We make NO RECOMMENDATIONS.  Don't take anything we say as gospel. Do not come to our homes with pitchforks because you lost money by listening to us. We only share with you what we are learning and what we are investing it. We will never "pump or dump" any cryptocurrencies. Take what we say with a grain of salt.  You must research this stuff on your own! Just know that we will always strive for RADICAL TRANSPARENCY with any show associations. Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Manchak, CEO, San Luis Obispo EVC This conversation was with Mark Sylvester, Ambassador for 805connect and Mike Manchak, the CEO of the San Luis Obispo Economic Vitality Corporation, EVC This conversation focuses on how the EVC and 805connect became partners and the role of the EVC in stimulating the economy in the northern part of the 805 region. Mike talks about his history in economic development efforts and how this project is helping pull together several key strategies for the region. 805conversations are produced weekly. More information can be found at 805connect.com

This Episode of ControlTalk NOW: The Smart Building Podcast includes: ControlTalk Now: The Smart Building Podcast October 19, 2014, is sponsored by International Systems of America (ISA). ISA is a unique systems provider, beginning with their ability to quickly deliver new parts for existing and legacy systems from virtually any manufacturer. “At ISA, we take great pride in our extensive product and service offerings for fire, energy, security and communication systems. And when ISA solutions come together to make a real difference for our customers—helping solve critical issues—we know our focus and dedication are paying off.” Project Haystack Announces Haystack Connect 2015 Conference. This is THE EVENT that Connects Community and Ecosystem — Driving Smart Data, Smart Devices, Smart Buildings and Smart Business! COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO –October, 14, 2015 Project Haystack, a non-profit, 501C organization focused on developing common standards to streamline the interchange of data among today’s smart devices announced the dates and venue for the Haystack Connect 2015 conference. See How Honeywell Integrates Access and Security. We caught up with the very knowledgable and passionate Roger Rebennack at the 2014 ASIS Show in Atlanta. See what makes the Honeywell Webs-AX Access and Security so special. From modular control to seamless integration, WEBs-AX Security offers a range of options for meeting the needs of nearly any size or type of building or network of facilities. WEBS-AX Security is open and scalable, offers complete, seamless integration, and it can provide you energy savings — that’s why you should want WEBS-AX Security in your building! Building Energy Efficiency Frontiers and Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) – 2015 Funding Opportunity Announcement. The Building Technologies Office (BTO)’s Emerging Technologies Program has announced the availability of nearly $8 million under the Building Energy Efficiency Frontiers and Innovations Technologies (BENEFIT) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001166. This FOA combines an early-stage research and development topic (Innovations) with a later-stage research and development topic (Frontiers) that complements the core funding provided to the national labs. Cyber Security EYE-OPENER: Project SHINE Reveals Magnitude of Internet-connected Critical Control Systems. Cyber Security eye-opener article about Project SHINE that revealed that 2.2 million SCADA and BACnet devices were identified as being directly or indirectly exposed to hacking. In review of Rasshid’s article, Marc writes, “Project SHINE Reveals Magnitude of Internet-connected Critical Control Systems. 2014 ICS Cyber Security Conference October 20-23, 2014 in Atlanta, GA. As the longest-running cyber security-focused conference for the industrial control systems sector, the 2014 ICS Conference will cater to the energy, utility, chemical, transportation, manufacturing, and other industrial and critical infrastructure organizations. The conference will address topics covering ICSs, including protection for SCADA systems, plant control systems, engineering workstations, substation equipment, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and other field control system devices. Interview with Automated Buildings’ Ken Sinclair, who reviews Automated Diagnostics & Analytics for Buildings, the theme of the automatedbuidlings.com October issue, stemming from the recently published book by the same title. Ken covers a myriad of topics including the founder mentality, Automated Buildings’ four training sessions at AHR 2015, and the increasingly critical theme of IoT and developing the next generation of building automation experts and “passing the dusty stuff in our heads” off to the up and coming Young Guns of the HVAC industry. AutomatedBuildings.com provides news, product releases and connection to the ever changing community that is creating our present definition of smart, intelligent, integrated, connected, green, and converged large buildings. GC Valves — Solenoid Valve TechTip: Sensible Precautions (Part 1): MECHANICAL & MATERIALS CONSIDERATIONS: Solenoid valves are your fastest acting option when controlling flow, they can be repaired in-line (without breaking plumbing connections in most designs), and they can be less costly than other electrically operated valves. Review the measures that can increase your satisfaction with solenoid valves. ControlTrends Around the World: India. Do you want to know what it takes to be a successful building automation controls system integrator or smart buildings controls provider in India? India is one of the fastest growing markets in the world for building automation and smart building controls and we had a chance to talk with the top movers and shakers in this expansive market. Rob Allen’s 7 Minutes in Control: Neptronic’s EVC Controller — Low Cost, High Performance VAV. This ultra-informative episode of Rob Allen’s 7 Minute in Control reviews the Neptronic EVC Conroller. Neptronic offers an exceptional low cost, high performance stand-alone or BACnet MS/TP, VAV solution — that works! The EVC products are geared for the Light Commercial Contractor, DDC Controls Contractors, and the savvy end-user customer. NO sign-up fees, NO sales minimums, and NO training requirements, Neptronic’s VAV low cost solution features easy to configure, drop-down menu programming. The post ControlTalk NOW for the Week Ending October 19, 2014 appeared first on ControlTrends.

Students filmmakers from the Educational Video Center (www.EVC.org) visit the WWRL studios and talk about how EVC is teaching them how to make documentary films. They also discuss their work on this semester's important documentary topic: “Disconnected Youth” which will premiere June 6th at Lincoln Center.  Air Date 5/3/12