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As the dust settles on the proposals that the Finance Minister made in the Budget earlier this month, some aspects have become clearer while questions remain on others. We will dwell on topics such as: Why did the Minister choose to be less aggressive on the fiscal deficit front than she could have? Why were Andhra Pradesh and Bihar given special consideration when such action was within the purview of the Finance Commission? And what does the changeover from cooperative federalism to competitive federalism mean for the States? Guest: Lekha Chakraborty is a Professor at National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), and Governing Board Member of International Institute of Public Finance, Munich. Host: K. Bharat Kumar Edited by Jude Francis Weston

Meet AESD's newest Governing Board Member Leticia Castro. Mrs. Castro was recently appointed to serve on our Governing Board. In addition to serving our community, she is a parent in AESD and an educator. Tune in to this episode to learn more about Mrs. Castro and her passion for serving the Avondale community.

In season 4 episode 13, we're joined by Tanya Suarez – Founder at IoT Tribe to explore the potential of quantum and IoT convergence, the latest advancements in quantum, and the challenges on the horizon. Plus, we'll get into the possibilities and transformative use cases of quantum now and into the future! Sit back, relax, tune in and discover… (01:28) About Tanya (04:10) Net Zero Tech Alliance (06:38) What is quantum? (11:56) What does it look like for quantum and IoT to work together? (13:05) BMW quantum use case (15:18) Start up quantum businesses (16:26) Why has quantum accelerated yet? (18:43) Security concerns in quantum (23:43) How can quantum contribute to sustainable smart city development? (27:05) How long until full scale quantum capabilities? (30:15) Prediction for IoT in 2023 And much more! Thank you to today's episode sponsors... 5V Tech! Discover how 5V Tech can help you unlock your scaling potential in cutting-edge tech and IoT, here: https://www.weare5vtech.com/ ABOUT THE GUEST Tanya Suarez, Founder of IoT Tribe, Co-founder of BluSpecs and Governing Board Member at the General Assembly of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), specialises in uniting startups and corporations in IoT, AI, and Immersive Technologies. She's a renowned expert in blockchain, Fintech, and eHealth, working with global clients to deliver innovative solutions. Tanya is a sought-after panel moderator, speaker, and advisory board member for startups. She's a key figure at the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation and a World Economic Forum Digital Leader. Connect with Tanya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyasuarez/ ABOUT IOT TRIBE IoT Tribe accelerates global tech growth, fostering partnerships and innovation. Trusted by corporates, governments, investors, and startups, we drive fast-track technology adoption, co-creation, data insights, and intrapreneurship. Our unique collaborative ecosystem fuels disruption, offering unparalleled tech access for partners and equity-free scaling for startups. Find out about IoT Tribe: https://www.iottribe.org/ And Net Zero Tech Alliance: https://netzerotechalliance.org/ Learn more about QuIC: https://www.euroquic.org/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE IOT PODCAST ON YOUR FAVOURITE LISTENING PLATFORM: https://linktr.ee/theiotpodcast Sign Up for exclusive email updates: https://theiotpodcast.com/ Contact us to become a guest/partner: https://theiotpodcast.com/contact/ Connect with host Tom White: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom5values/

Heather Rooks joins Mike to talk about her lawsuit against the Peoria Unified School District.

Welcome back to another episode of Breaking Battlegrounds that tackles a range of pressing topics. Our first guest, Arizona Representative Matt Gress, candidly shares his concerns about the homeless hotel conversion in Scottsdale. Join us as we dissect the intricacies of this issue and its potential implications. Representative Gress also provides insights into President Biden's recent visit to Arizona and his pivotal role in the ADE's School Safety Taskforce.Shifting gears, we sit down with Tim Chapman, Senior Advisor of Advancing American Freedom. Tune in to gain a comprehensive understanding of conservative trends and the impactful initiatives spearheaded by AAF.Concluding our episode, we engage in a thought-provoking dialogue with Dr. Owen Anderson, a distinguished professor at ASU specializing in philosophy, religious studies, and theology. Building on our ongoing exploration, Dr. Anderson provides fresh insights into the nuanced landscape of free speech on ASU's campus._Connect with us:www.breakingbattlegrounds.voteTwitter: www.twitter.com/Breaking_BattleFacebook: www.facebook.com/breakingbattlegroundsInstagram: www.instagram.com/breakingbattlegroundsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/breakingbattlegrounds-Representative Matt GressMatt Gress represents Arizona's 4th Legislative District. Matt Gress is a former public school teacher, school board member and an active member of the local community. He is passionate about public service and solving problems. As our state representative, Matt will work with both sides – Republicans and Democrats – to find solutions to issues such as reducing the cost of living, increasing teacher pay, reducing crime and addressing Arizona's water crisis.Matt is endorsed by some of our community's most respected organizations: Arizona State Troopers, the Arizona Police Association, the Arizona Fraternal Order of Police, the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, the Professional Firefighters of Arizona, the Arizona Nurses Association, the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona.Like many, Matt came here from somewhere else — small town Oklahoma. The youngest of four, he was raised by a single mom in a single-wide trailer. Growing up, Matt's family didn't have much, but that never stopped them from dreaming big. Matt learned the value of hard work, to respect his elders and to count his blessings.Matt worked his way through college driving school buses, and became the first in his family to earn a degree. While attending the University of Oklahoma, Matt was selected for the distinguished Harry S. Truman Scholarship — awarded to only one college student in each state who possesses leadership potential and a call to public service. After graduating, Matt was accepted to join Teach for America, a national teaching corps focused on serving in high-need, high-poverty schools. Matt taught high school English.From 2017 to 2021, Matt served as a Governing Board Member in the Madison Elementary School District. While on the board, Matt fought to keep schools open during COVID-19, supported increased school choice and advocated for parents and taxpayers to have a seat at the table in curriculum, hiring decisions and budgeting, including expensive procurement contracts.Matt is a budget hawk. He holds a Masters in Public Administration, with a focus on state and local government finance and public management, from Syracuse University. Here in Arizona, Matt has served as a faculty associate at Arizona State University and as a budget analyst at the Arizona State Capitol, learning exactly where our tax dollars go. Currently, he serves as the state's top budget chief in the Arizona Governor's Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting. There, he has authored budgets directing billions of new dollars towards K-12 education and teachers.Matt also has experience in energy, water and technology policy, previously serving as an advisor at the Arizona Corporation Commission, where he worked on issues related to expanding broadband, lowering energy rates, reducing regulations on small businesses, and enhancing the stability of our power grid. Matt, along with his partner Daniel, is proud to call Arizona and District 4 his home. He's an avid volunteer in the community, and plans to focus in the Legislature on solutions that can bring both sides together.Matt is a proud Rotarian and past president of the Phoenix-Arcadia Rotary Club, a Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy Fellow, a former board member of the Madison Education Foundation, and previously served as a commissioner on the Maricopa County Planning and Zoning Commission.Tim ChapmanTim Chapman is a Senior Advisor at Advancing American Freedom (AAF), a public policy advocacy organization founded by Vice President Mike Pence. He is also a Principal at P2 Public Affairs where he works with clients to build national campaigns to influence public policy. Chapman has served as the Executive Director of Heritage Action, Chief of Staff at the Heritage Foundation, and as an adviser and staff to Senators DeMint, Nickles and Hutchinson.Chapman's experience in conservative policy advocacy is extensive as he was a co-founder of Heritage Action - the advocacy arm of The Heritage Foundation – and a former Executive Director at Stand for America, an advocacy organization founded by Ambassador Nikki Haley. Tim has built and maintained policy coalitions on the right that have helped shape the consensus within the GOP and he has helped craft messaging/activist campaigns that have resulted in policy victories.Dr. Owen AndersonDr. Owen Anderson is a professor of philosophy, religious studies, and theology at ASU and he writes about the radical ideologies of class, race, and gender used by some to coerce students and prevent free speech. He is also a pastor at Historic Christian Church of Phoenix. Recently, he has been working on the problem of DEIB, antiracism, decolonizing the curriculum, secular universities, and the loss of academic freedom.  The philosophy behind these movements is presented in our universities as “the fact of the matter.”  Why is that?  And are we still allowed to think critically and discuss alternative ways of understanding the world and our history?  Rousseau, Marx, and Freud dominate the mind of the current secular university professor. We can do much better. Substack:  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com

Christy Smith is campaigning to represent CA27 in the U.S. House of Representatives. The current Congressman, Republican Mike Garcia won the district in 2020 by 333 votes out of over 340,000 that were cast. Yet Mike's voting record and public statements while in office have represented only the most extreme MAGA fringe and not the entirety of this very purple district.  In this conversation with Christy, we discuss a wide range of issues from saving our democratic institutions to student debt relief, environmental issues to education, and we even discuss her position on providing police and first responders with the resources they need. We also discussed the politics of 2022 including how it's different campaigning this year vs. 2020; Christy shares how she's connecting with folks such as college-educated women in her district, many of whom have never voted for a Democrat before; she also specifies ways she's reaching out to another important constituency of CA27, Latinos; and we talk candidly about how her opponent Mike Garcia, despite his campaign promises to be a moderate, has actually governed as an extremist kowtowing only to the MAGA fringe of his Party. Christy has a long track record in public service in the district she hopes to represent in Congress. While serving in the CA State Assembly, Christy authored nine bills which became law focusing on education reform, homeowner protections, college affordability, good governance and protection for victims of human trafficking. Prior to the State Assembly, Christy served two terms as a Governing Board Member of the Newhall School District, notably helping to secure $60 million in resources for facility and technology upgrades for the school district. It's also worth noting that Christy graduated high school in Santa Clarita, went to College of the Canyons (before graduating from UCLA) and has also raised a family in the Santa Clarita Valley. https://www.christyforcongress.org/ https://twitter.com/ChristySmithCA https://www.politicsandreligion.us https://twitter.com/coreysnathan

Christy Smith is campaigning to represent CA27 in the U.S. House of Representatives. The current Congressman, Republican Mike Garcia won the district in 2020 by 333 votes out of over 340,000 that were cast. Yet Mike's voting record and public statements while in office have represented only the most extreme MAGA fringe and not the entirety of this very purple district.  In this conversation with Christy, we discuss a wide range of issues from saving our democratic institutions to student debt relief, environmental issues to education, and we even discuss her position on providing police and first responders with the resources they need. We also discussed the politics of 2022 including how it's different campaigning this year vs. 2020; Christy shares how she's connecting with folks such as college-educated women in her district, many of whom have never voted for a Democrat before; she also specifies ways she's reaching out to another important constituency of CA27, Latinos; and we talk candidly about how her opponent Mike Garcia, despite his campaign promises to be a moderate, has actually governed as an extremist kowtowing only to the MAGA fringe of his Party. Christy has a long track record in public service in the district she hopes to represent in Congress. While serving in the CA State Assembly, Christy authored nine bills which became law focusing on education reform, homeowner protections, college affordability, good governance and protection for victims of human trafficking. Prior to the State Assembly, Christy served two terms as a Governing Board Member of the Newhall School District, notably helping to secure $60 million in resources for facility and technology upgrades for the school district. It's also worth noting that Christy graduated high school in Santa Clarita, went to College of the Canyons (before graduating from UCLA) and has also raised a family in the Santa Clarita Valley. https://www.christyforcongress.org/ https://twitter.com/ChristySmithCA https://www.politicsandreligion.us https://twitter.com/coreysnathan

Capturing the Intersection of Social, Economic and Technology Advancements with a Robust Developer Blockchain Toolkit John deVadoss leads ngd enterprise inc, in Seattle, WA, with a focus on the blockchain developer experience and tooling; he and his team build the premier developer toolkit for the blockchain industry – the N3 Blockchain Toolkit.John is a Governing Board Member of the Global Blockchain Business Council where he works on industry standards for blockchain interoperability. He was a co-founder of the InterWork Alliance, which merged with the GBBC in 2021.Earlier in his career at Microsoft, John incubated and built Microsoft Digital from zero to $0.5B in revenue. During his two-decade career at Microsoft, he built and led the architecture capability and team for .NET, Enterprise Strategy et al. He also led the team that build the Enterprise Frameworks and tools for Visual Studio.NET. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crypto-hipster-podcast/support

In the U.S., we say we're growing global citizens, but are we really? Being a global citizen means that we're willing to have uncomfortable conversations, we are willing to see others' points of view, and we're cooperative across borders about global events.   It's interesting to look at how other countries' educational systems operate and believe that we can all learn so much from one another.   This week on the podcast, I'm talking with Brantley Turner, the founding American principal at Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School and new director of East Asian Education for the Dwight Schools Network. As someone who grew up in the U.S. education system and has in-depth knowledge of the Chinese system, Brantley has a unique perspective of global citizenship and preparing children in a variety of cultures.   Brantley shares why local learning is so valuable, what people need to know about global education systems, why we need to truly let our kids fail (instead of just telling them they can), and why a cooperative model is important in China and beyond. About Brantley Turner: For the past 10 years, Brantley Turner served as the Founding American Principal and a Governing Board Member at Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School where she passionately led all aspects of the school's international administration. August 2022 she will take on a new role as Director of East Asian Education for the Dwight Schools Network.   While operating Qibao Dwight, Brantley took the school from a start up to an institution that is peer-recognized as showcasing excellence in teaching and learning, management and curriculum innovation. This success story of China's only cooperatively-run, independent Sino-U.S. high school is thanks to her abilities as an innovator and solution-oriented creative thinker.   Brantley brings every ounce of her knowledge of multiple different industries to the challenges of international education. These broad reference points and an extremely open-minded approach to her close collaboration with the Principal, Wang Fang, set her apart in the industry. She has impeccable written and spoken Mandarin.   Her goal is to share the incredible successes of the Qibao Dwight faculty and students and the approaches that best supported them, so that others may enjoy also being swept up by the vital work of educating globally-minded students. Connect with Brantley on LinkedIn. Jump in the Conversation: [2:05] - Comparing and contrasting US and China education [3:30] - Are we up for continued dialogue [5:02] - Not all children can attend certain schools in China [6:48] - Why cooperative model is important in China and beyond [9:20] - Addressing the hate and negative stereotypes in media of the Chinese [10:10] - We can't solve global crises without cooperation [11:27] - Changes in life and relationships from living abroad [13:08] - Living abroad is an unshackling [15:31] - Key takeaways for global citizenship [19:00] - How kids in China respond to “What are you interested in?” [19:55] - Don't negate what's important to the culture [21:25] - 3 things that can better prepare our youth to be global citizens [26:12] - Internationalization of education isn't the westernization of education [28:12] - Turbo Time [30:10] - What people need to know about creating global systems [31:40] - What Brantley brings to global education [33:55] - How others can be activists [36:18] - Brantley's Magic Wand [38:05] - Maureen's Takeaways   Links & Resources Connect with Brantley on LinkedIn Tim Ferris TED Talk: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals Email Maureen Maureen's TEDx: Changing My Mind to Change Our Schools The Education Evolution Facebook: Follow Education Evolution Twitter: Follow Education Evolution LinkedIn: Follow Education Evolution EdActive Collective Maureen's book: Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids Micro-school feature on Good Morning America The Micro-School Coalition Facebook: The Micro-School Coalition LEADPrep

On our final episode of Demystifying the Carbon Markets, host David Greely sits down with Governing Board Member of the ICVCM and Managing Director + Head of Sustainable Finance at IIF, Sonja Gibbs, to explore the ongoing efforts in establishing core carbon principles and benchmark standards to scale integrity and governance in the voluntary carbon markets in time to meet the necessary requirements of urgent climate action.

Our guest-producer this month, Michael O'Driscoll, invites us to listen to the introductions of the late Douglas Barbour (March 21, 1940 - Sept 25, 2021) from readings held at the University of Alberta. What are we listening to when we hear introductory remarks from past readings spliced together? By asking us to listen to remember, this episode remembers Barbour in his element —in sonic performance — and what we hear in the selected recordings is a combination both of poetic sound and sounds of deep care as he welcomes each writer to the microphone. EPISODE NOTESA fresh take on sounds from the past, ShortCuts is a monthly feature on The SpokenWeb Podcast feed and an extension of the ShortCuts blog posts on SPOKENWEBLOG. Stay tuned for monthly episodes of ShortCuts on alternate fortnights (that's every second week) following the monthly SpokenWeb podcast episode.Guest Producer: Michael O'DriscollSeries Producer: Katherine McLeodHost: Hannah McGregorSupervising Producer: Judith BurrGUEST PRODUCERMichael O'Driscoll is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He teaches and publishes in the fields of critical and cultural theories with a particular emphasis on deconstruction and psychoanalysis, and his expertise in Twentieth-Century American Literature focuses on poetry and poetics as a form of material culture studies. His interests in material culture range from sound studies, archive theory, radical poetics, and technologies of writing to the energy humanities and intermedia studies. He is a Governing Board Member and a member of the U of Alberta research team for the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership Grant.AUDIOAudio played in this ShortCuts is excerpted from the SpokenWeb's audio collections held by the University of Alberta. The audio is currently being catalogued by SpokenWeb researchers. Audio of Douglas Barbour reading “The Gone Tune” is from the cassette tape recording of The Bards of March (15 March 1986). Audio of Douglas Barbour's introductions are selected from readings recorded in 1977-1981. The poets introduced are, in order of audio appearance: Tom Wayman, Phyllis Webb, Fred Wah, Maxine Gadd, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, Penn Kemp, Leona Gom, John Newlove, Sheila Watson, Robert Kroetsch, and bpNichol. RESOURCESNeWest Press: IN MEMORIAM: DOUGLAS BARBOUR (1940-2021), https://newestpress.com/news/in-memoriam-douglas-barbour-1940-2021 Douglas Barbour (March 21, 1940 - September 25, 2021), https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2021/09/douglas-barbour-march-21-1940-september.html“Sounds of Trance Formation: An Interview with Penn Kemp.” Produced by Nick Beauchesne & Penn Kemp forThe SpokenWeb Podcast and starts with a clip from the Trance Form reading hosted by Douglas Barbour at the University of Alberta (1977).

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck and Sam are joined by Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Matt Gress, a Republican running for the Arizona State House in Legislative District 4. Elected in 2010 as Utah's 16th Senator, Mike Lee has spent his career defending the fundamental liberties of all Americans and advocating for America's founding constitutional principles. Senator Lee serves as the Ranking Republican on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, and on the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining.In addition, Senator Lee continues to lead Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee as the Ranking Member, after spending the last two Congresses as Vice Chairman and Chairman, respectively. He also serves on the Senate Commerce Committee and the Senate's Special Committee on Aging.Lee graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Political Science, and served as BYU's Student Body President in his senior year. He graduated from BYU's Law School in 1997 and went on to serve as law clerk to Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, and then with future Supreme Court Justice Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.Matt Gress is an Arizona conservative, running to represent us in the State House. Matt believes in common sense principles like small government, balanced budgets and individual liberty.From 2017 to 2021, Matt served as a Governing Board Member in the Madison Elementary School District. Where he fought to keep schools open during COVID-19, supported increased school choice and advocated for parents and taxpayers to have a seat at the table in curriculum, hiring decisions and budgeting, including expensive procurement contracts.Matt has served as a faculty associate at Arizona State University and as a budget analyst at the Arizona State Capitol, learning exactly where our tax dollars go. Currently, he serves as the state's top budget chief in the Arizona Governor's Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting.Connect with us:www.breakingbattlegrounds.voteTwitter: www.twitter.com/Breaking_BattleFacebook: www.facebook.com/breakingbattlegroundsInstagram: www.instagram.com/breakingbattlegroundsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/breakingbattlegrounds This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com

Capturing the Intersection of Social, Economic and Technology Advancements with a Robust Developer Blockchain Toolkit John deVadoss leads ngd enterprise inc, in Seattle, WA, with a focus on the blockchain developer experience and tooling; he and his team build the premier developer toolkit for the blockchain industry – the N3 Blockchain Toolkit.John is a Governing Board Member of the Global Blockchain Business Council where he works on industry standards for blockchain interoperability. He was a co-founder of the InterWork Alliance, which merged with the GBBC in 2021.Earlier in his career at Microsoft, John incubated and built Microsoft Digital from zero to $0.5B in revenue. During his two-decade career at Microsoft, he built and led the architecture capability and team for .NET, Enterprise Strategy et al. He also led the team that build the Enterprise Frameworks and tools for Visual Studio .NET. Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil's experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over one hundred podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil's primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.

Genetic Engineering and Society Center GES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM (via Zoom) NC State University | http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium GES Mediasite - See videos, full abstracts, speaker bios, and slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite Twitter - https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU Technology, Ag. Intensification, and the Future of Agriculture George Kennedy, Wm. Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agriculture, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, NC State University Website This presentation will explore the challenges to agricultural sustainability associated with technology driven agricultural intensification. Abstract Technological advances have driven agricultural productivity and defined agricultural production systems. Addressing the challenges to global agricultural in the coming decades relating to population growth and climate change, while minimizing negative environmental and health impacts and social disruption will necessitate major changes in agricultural production systems and agroecosystem structure. Sustainable production systems must rest on deep knowledge of crops and pest/disease biology and ecology. And they must be compatible with farmers' objectives and those of the institutions that influence what farmers do. This presentation will explore these concepts and their implications relating to the intensification of agricultural production and the future of agriculture. Speaker Bio Dr. George G. Kennedy, a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at North Carolina State University, is known for his work on the ecology and management of insect pests of agricultural crops, insect-plant interactions, and the epidemiology and management of insect-vectored plant viruses. He holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Entomology from Oregon State and Cornell Universities, respectively. He served as Department Head of Entomology at NCSU from 2009-2014 and has authored or co-authored over 240 research publications and has co-edited 5 books. His research focuses on fundamental processes acting on pest populations at multiple levels of biological organization, ranging from sub-organismal to landscape scale, and on improving the efficiency and sustainability of arthropod management in agricultural crops. Currently, he is working in collaboration with faculty in entomology, plant breeding, and plant pathology at NC State and other institutions to explore landscape-level processes that drive thrips population dynamics and pest status, and on the evolution and epidemiology of insect-vectored plant viruses, including research in Kenya and Tanzania on drivers of evolution in cassava mosaic begomoviruses. An important component of his research program involves the application of fundamental research to management of arthropod pests and sharing his findings with the agricultural community to facilitate the realization of new pest management practices. He is a Fellow, Honorary Member, and past Governing Board Member and President of the Entomological Society of America. He has received ESA's Award for Excellence in Research and Founders Memorial Award and the Entomological Foundation Medal of Honor for contributions to entomology. He is also a recipient the North Carolina State University Borlaug Award for his contributions to agriculture. GES Center - Integrating scientific knowledge & diverse public values in shaping the futures of biotechnology.

Over 30% of all charitable giving happens in December—but how often do we think about the impact of technology on charities and nonprofits? What does digital transformation look like when the change beneficiaries are not the funders? For this episode, we sat down with Helen Knight of Helen Knight Consulting, a DEI speaker and digital transformation consultant specializing in the nonprofit sector. Simply put, Helen fights poverty with technology. You'll hear specifically how digital transformation impacts mission delivery, how private industry can be a better neighbor to nonprofit, and why innovation isn't always the answer.  Later, Helen establishes diversity as practically necessary for collective business intelligence, explores the neurobiological data supporting gender diversity in tech, and makes a fascinating case for the ways in which diversity gaps actually map directly onto technology gaps. And finally, Helen shares several key observations and top-of-mind concerns regarding data governance, leadership, and the current ecosystem. Helen Knight is a visionary strategist leading award-winning technology transformations at non-profits across Canada, providing strategic IT consulting and also speaking on IT transformation, diversity and inclusion. Helen runs the nonprofit support hub TechforSocialGood.ca, is a Governing Board Member of the not-for-profit technical agency Cybera Inc., and also serves as (the first female) President of the CIO Association of Canada's Calgary chapter. 

In our first episode, we meet Oakland California based, CALPEP, a grass-roots HIV community organization serving the area's most marginalized populations. During the COVID pandemic, they turned their in-person counseling into social technology-based outreach and care. We also talk with partners of the Alliance for Advancing Health Online, a new initiative to advance public understanding of how social media and behavioral sciences can be leveraged to improve the health of communities around the world.Hosted by Ben Plumley, of A Shot In The Arm Podcast, the panelists are; Professor Heidi Larson, Founding Director of Vaccine Confidence Project, AAHO partner, and author of the recently published book “Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away.”Jennifer Siler, Vice President of Global Community Engagement at Sabin Vaccine Institute, AAHO partner. Dr. George Woods, practicing neuropsychiatrist, CALPEP Board Member and Governing Board Member of Stanford Medicine & Sutter Health Collaborative Cancer Care Consortium.Useful linkswww.bayareaglobalhealth.orgwww.sabin.orgwww.vaccineconfidence.orgwww.cdc.govwww.who.intwww.calpep.org#VaccineTrust #VaccineEquity #VaccineEquity #VaccineConfidence #VaccineAcceptance #VaccineHesitancy #socialmediahealth #techandinnovation #healthinnovation #healthequity #healthforall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Manish Chokhani is one of India's most respected financial market experts. He is a Director at Enam Holdings and a Governing Board Member at Flame University. He is one of the wisest people I know of, and the kindest. His insights and advice are the result of a life of critical thinking, reading, curiosity, and humility. We cover a lot in this show, and this conversation is going to teach all its listeners a lot about life than just thinking, learning, and investing.

In this episode, we talk with Aneelah Afzali about her advocacy for Muslims and other minority groups in America, and how she is building bridges between various faith and other groups in the Pacific Northwest. Aneelah is the Executive Director of the American Muslim Empowerment Network at the Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS-AMEN). She also serves as a Governing Board Member of the Faith Action Network (FAN), on the Steering Committee of the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network, and on the Advisory Board of Washington for Black Lives.    MAPS-AMEN website: https://www.mapsredmond.org/amen/ Get in touch with MAPS-AMEN: amen@mapsredmond.org   Produced by Nicole Gibson Music: Shesh Pesh by JR Tundra

This episode was created by SpokenWeb contributors Deanna Fong (Concordia University) and Michael O'Driscoll (University of Alberta), with additional audio courtesy of the radiofreerainforest Fonds at Simon Fraser University's Special Collections; the Hartmut Lutz Collection, made digitally available by the SSHRC-funded People and the Text project (https://thepeopleandthetext.ca/); and support from Jason Camlot, Hannah McGregor, Stacey Copeland, and Judith Burr. Special thanks to Deanna Reder and Alix Shield of The People and the Text Project, and to Mathieu Aubin, bill bissett, Hartmut Lutz, Maria Campbell, and T.L. Cowan for permission to share interview and performance audio. SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.Episode Producers:Deanna Fong is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University where her research project, “Towards an Ethics of Listening in Literary Study” intersects the fields of Oral History and Literature through an investigation of interviewing and listening practices. She co-directs the audio/multimedia archives of Fred Wah, and has done significant cataloguing and critical work on the audio archives of Roy Kiyooka. Her critical work appears in the recent publications Canlit Across Media (MQUP, 2019) and Pictura: Essays on the Works of Roy Kiyooka (Guernica Editions, 2020). With Karis Shearer, she co-edited Wanting Everything: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch (Talonbooks, 2020).Michael O'Driscoll is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies in the Faculty of Arts, and Special Advisor to the Provost as Convenor for Congress 2021 at the University of Alberta. He teaches and publishes in the fields of critical and cultural theories with a particular emphasis on deconstruction and psychoanalysis, and his expertise in Twentieth-Century American Literature focuses on poetry and poetics as a form of material culture studies. His interests in material culture range from sound studies, archive theory, radical poetics, and technologies of writing to the energy humanities and intermedia studies. He is a Governing Board Member and a member of the UAlberta research team for the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership Grant.Interviewees:Mathieu Aubin is a Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University where he is co-leading the Oral Literary History project. His work currently focuses on the role of literary events in advancing LGBTQ2+ social justice initiatives in Canada since the second half of the twentieth century. He has published on queerness and feminism in Vancouver's small presses and literary magazines in Canadian Literature.Clint Burnham was born in Comox, British Columbia, which is on the traditional territory of the K'ómoks (Sathloot) First Nation, centred historically on kwaniwsam. He lives and teaches on the traditional ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including traditional territories of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ), Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), and Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm) Nations. Clint is Professor and Chair of the Graduate Program, Department of English, Simon Fraser University and works on psychoanalysis, Marxist theory, Indigenous literature, and digital culture. His most recent book is Does the Internet have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture, (Bloomsbury, 2018), and he is co-editing, with Paul Kingsbury, Lacan and the Environment forthcoming in 2021 from Palgrave. (Photo by Chris Brayshaw)Treena Chambers is a Métis scholar who has worked as a bookseller, union organizer, researcher, and writer. She has a BA from SFU in International Studies and is currently a Masters' student in the SFU School of Public Policy. She brings her experience as a mature student and her Métis background into her studies of decolonization and identity. Her 2018 essay "Hair Raizing" was shortlisted by the Indigenous Voices Awards, as well her 2020 work "Forest Fires and Falling Stars." She has also contributed work to the book "unsettling EDUCATIONAL MODERNISM".T.L. Cowan is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Digital Media Cultures) in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC) and the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto. T.L.'s research focuses on cultural and intellectual economies and networks of trans- feminist and queer (TFQ) and other minoritized digital media and performance practices. This work includes a monograph, entitled Transmedial Drag and Other Cross-Platform Cabaret Methods, nearing completion. T.L. is also a performance artist, who appears in alter-ego form on cabaret stages and in video screens as Mrs Trixie Cane. Credits:The following are Creative Commons attribution licensesTake Me To the Cabaret by Billy MurrayOld phonograph “Cabaret”https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_Various_Artists/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_05052009/Take_Me_to_the_CabaretNight on the Docks by Kevin McLeodhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Jazz_Sampler/Night_on_the_Docks_-_SaxBlur the World by Tagirijushttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Manuel_Senfft/Easy_2018/manuel_senfft_-_blur_the_worldQueer Noise by isabel nogueira e luciano zanattahttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/isabel_nogueira_e_luciano_zanatta/unlikely_objects/07_-_isabel_nogueira_e_luciano_zanatta_-_unlikely_objects_objetos_improvveis_-_queer_noiseThe following are spoken word performance clipsMathieu Aubin interviews bill bissett, courtesy of recordist.“Mayakovsky” by the Four Horsemen, courtesy of Radiofreerainforest, Simon Fraser University, Special Collections and Rare Books. Hartmut Lutz interviews Maria Campbell, courtesy of The People and the Text, T.L. Cowan performance of Mrs. Trixie Cane at Edgy Women Festival, courtesy of performer.

Zach talks about the Republican and Democrat ideas around child tax credits and allowances, the Democratic version of which came out in the American Rescue Plan Act, and what it says about the future of the Republican Party and politics overall in terms of meeting the needs of the working family. Tucson Police Officers Association asks for more funding and more police officers, and Zach talks about why Councilmember Kozachik's approach is on point. Then, Chris King, governing board member of the Vail School District comes on to talk about how the District has navigated COVID, and what the future looks like in light of the Governor's Executive Order last week.

Scot Crow has extensive experience in corporate, mergers and acquisitions and tax law. His clients rely on him to advise them with respect to their complex financial transactions as well as serving as their outside general counsel. Scot provides proactive advice with respect to sensitive management matters, litigation management, day to day transactional needs and objective assessments for the development of successful business strategies.Scot has served as lead counsel in numerous mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, private offerings, venture capital financings, mezzanine debt offerings, divestures and other related transactions, with an emphasis in the following business sectors:Dental Services (DSO)Assisted LivingLegalized Marijuana (Growth, Production and Sales)Commercial TransportationHealthcare ConsultingPrecious Metal RefinementCharter SchoolLegalIndustrial ManufacturingRestaurant/Entertainment

Zach catches up with TUSD Governing Board member Ravi Grivois-Shah about his first month on the job with TUSD, updates, and a review of the TUSD budget for the next couple years. IBM VP Calline Sanchez joins Zach and Devon Underwood to talk about IBM and workforce development.

Zach sits down with Natalie Luna-Rose for the first time after her successful campaign for the TUSD Governing Board, to discuss the pressing issues in front of her as she takes the dais, including hybrid learning, student enrollment loss, budget shortfall and more. Then, Diana Charbonneau of IMPACT of Southern Arizona talks #GivingTuesday and how to support hers and other nonprofits in Greater Tucson; The Open Studio Tours team comes on the air to talk about a creative way to explore artists' studios and purchase their art this week only!

Zach chats with TMC VP of Community Benefit, Julia Strange, about CEO Judy Rich's email to local schools asking for more in-person learning, and the shortage of available nurses; newly-elected TUSD Governing Board member Ravi Grivois-Shah talks about the new composition of the board, hybrid-learning and COVID response, and what comes next for him as he prepares to take his seat. Devon Underwood of The Talent Store discusses how companies can make the right hires for Key Positions as they either pivot or see growth right now, and the status of the Tucson talent market.

Chris Ferris is an IBM Fellow and CTO for Open Technology and Governing Board Member of Hyperledger. In this exciting podcast we discuss "is open source the future of blockchain"? Open source has increasingly converted enterprises to both use its technology and contribute to its code base. In a similar manner open source in the form of its open governance approach has some important lessons for blockchain networks to analyse and adopt. Have a listen and let us know if you think open source is the future of blockchain?   What is blockchain? At its essence a blockchain is an audit log of successive records where each successive record in that audit log is cryptographically bound to all of the log entries before it. Blockchain can be used as a means of ensuring that there hasn't been any tampering of the contents of that audit log. There are other technologies that are built out around it to give it purpose.   What is open source? The formal definition of open source is that it's software whose source code is made freely available and can be redistributed and it can be modified. The Open Source Initiative has ten dimensions defining what is open source and the terms for its distribution: Free redistribution Source code must be included in program Derived works can be modified and freely redistributed Integrity of the author’s source code No discrimination against persons or groups No discrimination against fields of endeavour Distribution of license License must not be specific to a product License must not restrict other software License must be technology-neutral   History of open source & why are enterprises contributors to open source In 1983 open source was known as the “free software” movement with Microsoft labelling it as the “enemy”. In 1998 “free software” evolved into “open source”. Microsoft wasn’t the enemy anymore and it along with Red Hat, Intel, Alibaba Group, Google, Facebook and of course IBM became some of the biggest enterprise contributors to open source. What is important to understand is that whilst open source is free many firms such as IBM, Red Hat or Microsoft offer services to support the software or build commercialised versions of open source software. Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director at Hyperledger was also involved in the original formation of the Apache Software Foundation. At the foundation they have an expression called Do-ocracy, which is where you roll up your sleeves, you get down and you do the work. From an open source perspective, even from a corporate or an enterprise engagement in open source perspective it really is about the notion of do-ocracy. Enterprises like IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat and others get involved in open source projects because they’re of strategic interest and/or they’re using that technology as a function of a platform, offering or tools they they’re selling. Their contribution to open source projects is out of self-interest. Chris gives the example that if IBM is using Kubernetes to power the container orchestration within the IBM Cloud, “..well, then we would be silly not to contribute to Kubernetes to keep it, you know, functioning to add new features and capabilities, improve the performance, and so forth”.   Hyperledger & the Linux Foundation   Jerry Cuomo, another IBM Fellow had been working on a skunkswork project internally around building blockchain technology for enterprises. Jerry discussed with Chris on whether or not to open source this blockchain enterprise technology or to have it as proprietary. Chris stated to Jerry “.. this isn't going to be successful if it's just proprietary IBM technology, how are we going to get other companies to buy into an IBM only capability? I said, so I think it really needs to be open source and it needs to be open source under an open governance model” Chris brought a proposal to Jim Zemlin,

Recorded April 16, 2020 - I speak with medical expert, Dr Richard Farnam, to discuss the current status of the Coronavirus. We discuss... The current status of the Coronavirus pandemic How we're doing with 'flattening the curve' How to prepare for a 2nd wave of Cornavirus How to boost your immune system What 'new norm' we need to adapt to ...and more. * * * * * Dr. Richard Farnam is the world's leading expert on intraoperative ureteral fluorescence imaging. He completed his residency training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and is a practicing Urogynecology specialist in El Paso, Texas, where he lives with his wife Nanda and their four children. Dr. Farnam is one of the nation’s leading experts in Surgical robotics, and is a renown professional speaker and surgical instructor and mentor. Dr. Farnam has a passion for education and host an medical education VLOG. Dr. Farnam holds two clinical associate professorship appointments at Texas Tech and Burrell Collage of Medicine. He one of a handful of accomplished Gynecologic Surgeons who have performed over 2500 Robotic surgical procedures. His patient base travels from thirty six states and six countries. He is the elected Vice Chairman of the AAGL Special interest group on Robotic surgery and former board member. Dr. Farnam is a Governing Board Member of Tenet Transmountain campus in El Paso, Texas. Dr. Farnam is a reviewer for the Journal of minimally invasive gynecology, and has also published on robotics in multiple peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Farnam also conducted the first human trials of IS-001 ureteral fluorescence in the world in 2017. Dr. Farnam is Board Certified in OB/GYN and Urogynecology.

Sponsored By: Panelists Richard Littauer | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman Guest Georg Link (http://www.georglink.de/) Bitergia (https://bitergia.com/) | CHAOSS (https://chaoss.community) Show Notes In this episode we talk with Georg Link, an Open Source Strategist. He is Director of Sales for Bitergia and Co-Founder, Governing Board Member of the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project. He’s a native of Germany, but currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska. 04:21 Georg explains how he spent his last five years as he joined the PhD program, how he dove into Open Source, and his research focus. 5:25 The topic of metrics is discussed for Open Source. 07:52 The roots of the CHAOSS Project is explained and how it started at the Open Source Leadership Summit in 2017. 10:36 The topic of Red Hat’s contribution to Prospector as part of Project CHAOSS is explained and how it took the approach of taking metrics and providing an interface for analysis. 11:55 A question was posed to Georg about his perspective of his view when he started getting into the data behind Open Source and what kind of revelations he had. 15:29 One of the guys wants to know what Georg’s expectations are of these projects when they use metrics outlined and what will they do with it. 19:09 Georg talks about the two main reasons why he sees the metrics being implemented. 19:26 Justin brings up how Drupal does a comprehensive state of their community once a year and how they really go into metrics and Richard wants to know what metrics we have, and Georg expands on this topic. 22:26 Georg shares checking out CHAOSS.community/metrics to see shared metrics. 25:10 Richard wants to know how people who are not in an OSPO, who have a project, or are solo maintainers, or a team of people working on a project, how can they use these metrics to make their code better in the long run? Georg gives his recommendations on how to do this. 29:08 Georg explains who metrics are useful to and a question was asked from one of the guys as to how people can learn about different things from metrics without getting involved in the CHAOSS community if they don’t have time. Georg gives his advice. 33:38 Georg chats about what was different at the recent CHAOSSCON, what he’s focused on, and what he’s doing moving ahead. Listen on as he states, “It was the BEST we’ve had!” Spotlights 39:11 Justin’s spotlight this week is a TechRepublic article called, “Linux Foundation study throws the open source sustainability debate into question,” by Matt Asay. 39:38 Eric’s spotlight is a controversial one called Web3 Sustain Event-Blockchain. 40:47 Richard’s pick is Jekyll, to build websites really easily and fast using Ruby. 41:15 Georg gives a shout out to the LibreOffice community. Links Georg Link, PhD (https://georg.link/) Georg Link (http://www.georglink.de/) Georg Link Twitter (https://twitter.com/georglink) Georg Link Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/georglink) Bitergia (https://bitergia.com/) Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/en) OSPO (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-does-open-source-program-office-do) CHAOSS Participate (https://chaoss.community/participate/) CHAOSS Metrics (https://chaoss.community/metrics/) Finos Foundation (https://finosfoundation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FINOS/overview) Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) (http://cve.mitre.org/index.html) Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/) Cauldron (https://cauldron.io/) Tech Republic article by Matt Asay (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/new-study-throws-the-open-source-sustainability-debate-into-question/) Sustain Web3 event-Blockchain (https://web3.sustainoss.org/) Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/) LibreOffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/) Special Guest: Georg Link.

Liliam López is the President/CEO of The South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Founder of the South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation, serving both organizations since 1994. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a Major in Political Science from St. Thomas University and a Certificate in Paralegal Studies from the University of Miami. Through her leadership, The SFLHCC has become one of the most important and influential chambers of the U.S. with over 1,450 members. She is charged with planning and coordinating over 20 chamber events annually for the membership of the organization with the objective of providing opportunities for businesses to connect, build and establish relationships. Lopez is actively involved with many organizations, to name a few: Governing Board Member of Larkin Charter School for Health Sciences Serves on the Board of Directors of the Beacon Council Board Member of the Miami-Dade Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Board Member of the Small/Micro and Minority/Women Business Owned Enterprise of Miami Dade County Public Schools Serves for The Advisory Council of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the City of Miami Beach Commission on Women Serves for The Advisory Board of Precision Medicine and Health Disparities Collaborative of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College and the University of Miami President's Council for Florida International University (FIU) Served on the Entrepreneurial Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Regional Economic Information Network (REIN) as the only Hispanic woman on the board Former Board Member of the Alliance for Aging Former Board Member of WLRN and former Chair of the Hispanic Affairs Committee for the City of Miami Beach Lopez implemented a scholarship program through her SFLHCC Foundation in 1995, which has granted over $750,000 in scholarships to financially disadvantaged high school minority students of Miami Beach Senior High School; for those pursuing a career in business and hospitality. She also founded the Education Enhancement Fellowship Program that provides students from Miami Beach Sr. High School and Miami Springs Sr. High School with an opportunity to attend a conference in a different state of the U.S. The objective is to empower students and teach them to become successful business leaders engaged in their communities. This program has served 180 students. Due to the uniqueness and success of this program, the South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation was inducted as a Champion of Miami-Dade County Public Schools' Academy of Hospitality & Tourism. Lopez was the producer and host of a weekly television show for 10 years “Panorama con Liliam Lopez” that aired on WLRN Cable-Tap. The program highlighted the career of executives, elected officials, and entrepreneurs at the local, state and national levels. The SFLHCC has also been engaged in international affairs, particularly with Latin America and Spain. The SFLHCC's leadership hosted: The Mayor of Murcia, Spain and his delegation The former President of Ecuador, the Honorable Lucio Gutierrez Two former Ladies of Panama and Honduras His Highness, Prince Abdulaziz bin Ali bin Rashid Al Nuaimi of Ajman, United Arab Emirates Lopez strongly believes in social causes and in giving back to the community. She implemented a program “Help our Children” where children of Centro Mater (an after care and early childcare school for financially disadvantaged families) receive 950 toys annually. This program was established over 15 years ago. López has received numerous awards, including: 2018 Golden Age Award presented by the Latino Center on Aging 2016 NFL/ Hispanic Heritage Foundation Leadership Award 2016 Women of Wealth Award presented by the Women of Wealth Magazine in which she was featured in its cover 2014 Women's Fund “Woman Giving Back Treasure” Award 2014 Thomas Gibson Award 2014 Take a Walk in Her Shoes Award presented by Chapman's Community Partnership for the Homeless 2014 Community Business Leadership Award presented by UNIDAD's New Generation Leadership & Workforce Institute 2014 Women of Impact Award presented by the Miami Dade County Women's History Coalition; the Big Brothers, Big Sisters' 2013 Miracle Maker Award 2012 Broward Women of Distinction Award 2010 Women Extraordinaire presented by South Florida Business Leader 2010 St. Thomas University Global Entrepreneur Award 2008 Induction to Miami Dade College's Hall of Fame 2007 Miguel Cervantes Award presented by Nova Southeastern University 2006 March of Dimes Award in the Education and Training Category 2003 Business Woman of the Year Award” CEO non-profit category presented by the “South Florida Business Journal;” “In the Company of Women” award presented by the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation Department 2002 Keys to the City of Miami Beach presented by the former Honorable Mayor David Dermer Lopez is married to Architect/Urban Planner, Alfredo Sanchez, and they have a 19 year- old daughter, Lillian Karina Sanchez, currently attending her first year at The University of Miami School of Engineering.

Charles Stone a lifelong resident of San Mateo County. He graduated from UC San Diego and Santa Clara University School of Law. Charles is an attorney by profession and is Of Counsel to the Law Offices of Katherine R. Moore, in addition to running his own small practice. After a long history of education activism and youth sports volunteerism in Belmont, he was elected to the Belmont City Council in 2013 and served as Mayor in 2017. In 2018, he was elected to serve a second term. Charles has also served on the San Mateo County Transit District Board of Directors since 2015 (Chair, 2018), the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board of Directors (Caltrain) since 2018, and the San Mateo County Library Joint Powers Authority Board of Directors since 2014 (Chair, 2018 - present.) He was part of the working group that brought Peninsula Clean Energy to live and serves as a Governing Board Member with that organization, as well. He is a strong supporter of the San Mateo County High School Mock Trial program and served as a scorer from 2005-2018. In 2018, Charles began coaching the Carlmont High School Mock Trial team. Charles lives in Belmont with his wife, Jessica, and two daughters, Sophia and Sara (who both attend public school). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/freeman-means-business/support

SpokenWeb is a literary research network, dedicated to studying literature through sound. But how did this project begin? What kinds of literary recordings inspired it and where were they found? And what happened next in order for these recordings to be heard? For this inaugural episode of the SpokenWeb Podcast, Katherine McLeod seeks to answer these questions by speaking with SpokenWeb researchers Jason Camlot, Annie Murray, Michael O'Driscoll, Roma Kail, Karis Shearer, and Deanna Fong. All of their stories involve a deep interest in literary audio recordings and all of their stories, or nearly all, start with a box of tapes... Find out more at https://spokenweb.ca/Guests: Jason Camlot, Annie Murray, Michael O'Driscoll, Roma Kail, Karis Shearer, and Deanna FongHost & Writer: Katherine McLeodProducer: Cheryl Gladu RESOURCESBernstein, Charles, ed. Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed. Charles Bernstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.Camlot, J., Swift, T. (eds) (2007) Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule, 2007)Fong, Deanna and Karis Shearer. Gender, "Affective Labour, and Community-Building Through Literary Audio Artifacts," No More Potlucks, online http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/gender-affective-labour-and-community-building-through-literary-audio-artifacts-deanna-fong-and-karis-shearer/McKinnon, Donna. "A New Frontier of Literary Engagement: SpokenWeb's network of digitized audio recordings brings new life to Canada's literary heritage." https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/faculty-news/2018/august/a-new-frontier-of-literary-engagementMorris, Adalaide, ed. Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.Murray, Annie and Jared Wiercinski. "Looking at Archival Sound: Enhancing the Listening Experience in a Spoken Word Archive." First Monday 17 (2012). https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3808/3197Shearer, Karis. "Networks, Communities, Mentorships, Friendships: An SSI Reflection" http://amplab.ok.ubc.ca/index.php/2019/07/09/networks-and-communities-an-ssi-reflection/Toppings, Earle. "Gwendolyn MacEwen." Accompanying Material by Earle Topping about Gwendolyn MacEwen. Earle Toppings Fonds. Victoria University Library (Toronto).Urbancic, Ann, editor. Literary Titans Revisited: Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties. Ed. Ann Urbancic. Toronto: Dundurn P, 2017. BIOSKatherine McLeod is an affiliated researcher with SpokenWeb at Concordia University. After receiving her doctorate from the University of Toronto, she held a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship with TransCanada Institute (University of Guelph) and a SpokenWeb post-doctoral fellowship at Concordia University. She has published on performance and Canadian literature, and her research focuses on broadcasts of poetry on CBC Radio. Most recently, she has co-edited with Jason Camlot, CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019). She tweets from @kathmcleod and curates a list of Montreal poetry readings at http://wherepoetsread.ca/.Cheryl Gladu is a podcast producer with SpokenWeb. She is an interdisciplinary Phd Candidate at Concordia University, studying collaborative communities in both the design and business schools. She first got involved in podcasting through a media project for Future Earth called the Worlds We Want. You can learn about her broad range of seemingly unrelated interests at cgladu.com.*Jason Camlot is the principal investigator and director of The SpokenWeb, a SSHRC-funded partnership that focuses on the history of literary sound recordings and the digital preservation and presentation of collections of literary audio. Camlot's critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford, 2019), Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (Routledge, 2008), and the co-edited collections CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019) and Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule, 2007). He is also the author of four collections of poetry, Attention All Typewriters, The Animal Library, The Debaucher, and What the World Said. He is a professor in the Department of English at Concordia University in Montreal.Deanna Fong recently defended her PhD in English at Simon Fraser University, where her research focuses on the intersections of auditory media, event theory, literary communities, and affective labour. With Ryan Fitzpatrick and Janey Dodd, she co-directs the audio/multimedia archive of Canadian poet Fred Wah, and has done substantial cataloguing and critical work on the audio archives of Japanese-Canadian poet and painter Roy Kiyooka. She has been the first Student Representative on the SpokenWeb Governing Board and has participated on SpokenWeb's Metadata Task Force. She is also cataloguing the "Readings in B.C." collection of audio recordings at SFU Special Collections.Roma Kail is the Head of Reader Services at Victoria University Library in the University of Toronto. She participates in and manages operations and services related to reference, research, instruction, access and circulation. Her current research and coursework involves completion of a certificate in Archives and Records Management from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information.Annie Murray is Associate University Librarian for Archives and Special Collections at the University of Calgary, where she oversees The Canadian Architectural Archives, Special Collections, the University of Calgary Archives and the Library and Archives at the Military Museums. She is a longtime co-applicant in the Spokenweb project to develop web-based interfaces for the exploration of digitized literary audio recordings. She is currently overseeing the preservation of the EMI Music Canada Archive, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Michael O'Driscoll is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, and Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Arts. He is a Governing Board Member and lead U of Alberta Researcher for the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership Grant.Karis Shearer, Director of the AMP Lab and the SoundBox Collection, is an associate professor at UBC's Okanagan campus in the Department of English and Cultural Studies. She leads SpokenWeb's Pedagogy Task Force and contributes expertise in the areas of Canadian poetry, performance, pedagogy, and media culture.

Today’s conversation is with a quartet of key contributors to the Open AR Cloud initiative.- Jan-Erik Vinje is the Managing Director and Co-founder of the Open AR Cloud, and spends his days as the Senior AR-Architect and lead developer at Norkart.- Christine Perey is the Governing Board Member for the Open AR Cloud as well as the Founder and Board member of the AR for Enterprise Alliance.- Jason Fox is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and key contributor to the Open AR Cloud.- Colin Steinmann is a Co-founder of the Open Ar Cloud as well as an AR Product Manager at Bent Image Lab.Together with several other contributing members, they’ve authored a comprehensive report on the state of the AR Cloud.In this conversation, we dig into that report, including the motivations behind the initiative and how they are enacting some of the recommendations within the report.They do clarify their intention is not to build AR Cloud infrastructure or a particular data set. Christine Perey explains the goal is to enable interoperability and connectedness between an infinite number of public and private AR Clouds.They make the case for both broad and targeted involvement by the community to ensure the spatial internet is even more inclusive, safe, and broadly useful than what has come before.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.

Is Cloud Native just a synonym for Kubernetes? How to make sense of the sea of tools & frameworks that pop up daily? What can we learn from others that made the transformation and most of all: Where do we start?We got answer to all these and many more questions from Priyanka Sharma (@pritianka) – Dir. of Alliances at GitLab and Governing Board Member at CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). In her work, Priyanka has seen everything from small startups to large enterprises leveraging Cloud Native technology, tools and mindset to build, deploy & run better software faster. She advises to start incrementally and whatever you do in your transformation make sure to always focus on: Visibility (which leads to transparency), Easy of Collaboration (which increases productivity & creativity) and Setting Guardrails (this ensures you stay compliant & avoids common pitfalls).We ended the conversation around the idea of needing “Cloud Native Aware Developers” which can follow best practices or standards such as those promoted by CNCF or OpenSource projects such as keptn.shhttps://twitter.com/pritiankahttps://www.cncf.io/https://keptn.sh/

Is Cloud Native just a synonym for Kubernetes? How to make sense of the sea of tools & frameworks that pop up daily? What can we learn from others that made the transformation and most of all: Where do we start?We got answer to all these and many more questions from Priyanka Sharma (@pritianka) – Dir. of Alliances at GitLab and Governing Board Member at CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). In her work, Priyanka has seen everything from small startups to large enterprises leveraging Cloud Native technology, tools and mindset to build, deploy & run better software faster. She advises to start incrementally and whatever you do in your transformation make sure to always focus on: Visibility (which leads to transparency), Easy of Collaboration (which increases productivity & creativity) and Setting Guardrails (this ensures you stay compliant & avoids common pitfalls).We ended the conversation around the idea of needing “Cloud Native Aware Developers” which can follow best practices or standards such as those promoted by CNCF or OpenSource projects such as keptn.shhttps://twitter.com/pritiankahttps://www.cncf.io/https://keptn.sh/

This is episode 2 of the podcast and my guest today is Ms. Denise JennisonPublic Education is Denise's passion. She has served as a public education advocate for the past thirty years. A few short weeks ago she was hired as the San Ramon Valley Unified School District’s new Communications Specialist. In this position she will support the District’s complex and ever-changing needs in managing communications. From social media to district-wide communications, to site specific assistance. Just prior to this new position, Denise was a Governing Board Member of SRVUSD from 2010-2018. She believes that a strong public education system is the cornerstone of a strong democracy. She lives with her husband in the San Ramon Valley, which is where they raised their four sons. They all attended local public schools. Both of her parents were public school teachers. She has made it her life’s work to find a way to elevate public education to its rightful place in our society so that every child has an opportunity to succeed. I think you will really enjoy our conversation as Denise addresses the challenging roll of a board of education trustee. How she became such a strong advocate for education, some of the key leadership skills she has developed along the way, and how you can get involved in supporting our local school district. I present to you Ms. Denise Jennison!Contact Denise, email: cmjenn@pacbell.net If you enjoyed the show, please take a moment to subscribe! Who in our community do you want to hear from? Are you interested in being a guest? Please provide me your feedback. There are so many ways to connect with me. Send me a message on Nextdoor, join our Facebook group Power in the Valley Podcast, leave a voice message, or connect on Twitter @powervalleypod.As Max Patrick said, “The power to shape your reality lies within you, therefore the most important voice you will ever hear is your own.”And we are here to show the Power in the Valley Join the Power in the Valley Podcast Facebook GroupFollow the show on Twitter: @powervalleypodLeave me a message with your feedback: 925-587-8199

Shrinking budgets have been a fact of life in school districts all around the nation. Some schools are now looking to parents to help offset some of the lost school funding. How are these school leaders approaching parents? How are parents responding? Is this a viable solution to covering school budget gaps? Follow: @aasadan @bamradionetwork Marc Jackson has served as Superintendent in Silver Valley USD for the last 8 years and represented Region 12 for the Superintendency Council from 2008-2011. He represents ACSA by serving as a Governing Board Member for the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), and is very familiar with Washington politics, especiallyas it relates to Impact Aide and Reauthorization.

Why success in the Everglades is a key test for our species. Our special guest: Shannon Estenoz, Governing Board Member, South Florida Water Management District and Everglades champion. Also: We take our Time Machine for a spin! And more on dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico. The post The Ocean Doctor – THE LARGEST ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION EVER ATTEMPTED appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.