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The complexity of cyber security implications for businesses, and therefore their lawyers, “has exploded” in the last few years, and the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) being used in such criminal activity cannot be understated. In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back Norton Rose Fulbright partner and Australian head of cyber security Annie Haggar to discuss how and why this year is so busy for cyber lawyers, the proliferation of election disinformation and misinformation and how this impacts cyber lawyers, how the nature of such legal work will continue shifting ahead of 2030, and how data breaches involving AI are changing the game. Haggar also delves into how businesses can navigate the threat of AI and its intersection with cyber security, whether this intersection is the next frontier for cyber lawyers, lessons from recent case law involving Medibank and an ASIC proceeding involving a financial services provider, and what the rest of the year looks like for lawyers in this space. If you like this episode, show your support by  rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (The Lawyers Weekly Show) and by following Lawyers Weekly on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you have any questions about what you heard today, any topics of interest you have in mind, or if you'd like to lend your voice to the show, email editor@lawyersweekly.com.au for more insights!

In this week's episode we hear from Russell Haggar, CEO and co-founder of VyperCore. Russell shares his fascinating journey in the "hard tech" space, revealing the challenges and triumphs of creating breakthrough technology in a highly competitive market. With over 35 years of experience, Russell explains how VyperCore is reinventing general purpose computing.We delve into:• VyperCore's innovative technology, which aims to enhance general-purpose computing performance up to five times without altering existing code, specifically targeting the data center market with efficient accelerator cards. • The launch of VyperLab as a confidential cloud-based environment for performance testing, showcasing significant improvements on benchmarks• The challenges of securing funding for silicon startups, particularly the need for effective collaboration with European and US investors. Additionally, Russell discusses VyperCore's strategic presence in Cambridge and Bristol to leverage local talent while promoting a hybrid work model and fostering connections within the silicon community.Produced by Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

THE GOD WHO SEESThis fortnight we are delighted to be joined, all the way from the UK, by Kate Coleman. Kate shares her journey as one who is passionate about breaking ground for God. Both as one that was saved from no Christian background, thrown into Christian leadership in a tradition that initially did not recognise her as a leader, and a multiplicity of ways that she has been breaking ground ever since. Kate was the first Black Female Ordained within her tradition in the UK, and she has become critically acclaimed for her influence across the British church for her reflections on leadership shifts required in our churches. One of the highlights of this conversation was her reflections upon Haggar, and the God who sees us. Both when we are discouraged and despondent, and yet sensing the call to Pioneer. But also for those who are in seats of power with the potential to release others into leadership! Tune in today.Instagram - www.instagram.com/exponential_australia Facebook - www.facebook.com/exponentialausAvailable now on YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS

In this episode of Working Class Audio, Matt welcomes mastering engineer Adam Haggar who has worked with Migos, Belinda Carlisle, and The Antlers. In This Episode, We Discuss: Adam's Journey In The Audio Industry Different Cities, Studios, And Roles Within The Music Industry His Approach To Mastering And Building His Business The Importance Of Networking Challenges Of Maintaining High Standards In A Competitive Industry Value Of Staying Connected To One's Passion For Music Links and Show Notes: Adam s Site Matt's Rant: Los Angeles Credits: Guest: Adam Haggar Host/Engineer/Producer/Editor: Matt Boudreau WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell The Voice: Chuck Smith

Today we air a phone call made in 1964 by President Lyndon Baines Johnson to the Haggar slacks company, and it's a conversation you can't unhear. Florida residents are pissed at Sylvester Stallone simply because he's trying to protect his creativity, or at least that's what Sylvester said. Discover what kind of smell caused a packed airplane of passengers to land for a full 24 hours. And we give you the origin of many famous phrases that you may well use yourself. Find out all that and more on a packed “What You Do.”

What's up, dudes? Today we're talking about the present Santa brought me for Christmas 1985. Yes, it's the Defender of the Universe itself: Voltron! Joining to dig into these Christmas wishbooks is my buddy Lucas Hinojosa and DJ Chad Sheppard! We dig into the history and awesomeness that is the mighty robot! It's a Voltron Christmas!From days of long ago, from uncharted regions of the universe, comes a legend, the legend of Voltron, Defender of the Universe. A mighty robot, loved by good, feared by evil. As Voltron's legend grew, peace settled across the galaxy. On planet Earth, a galaxy alliance was formed. Together with the good planets of the solar system, they maintained peace throughout the universe. Until a new horrible menace threatened the galaxy. Voltron was needed once more. This is the story of the super force of space explorers, specially trained, and sent by the alliance, to bring back Voltron: Defender of the Universe.The series was primarily edited from Beast King GoLion (Hyakujū-ō Goraion), and it features a team of five young space explorers commanding five robot lions which can be combined to form Voltron. In this undefined future era, the Voltron Force is in charge of protecting the planet Arus, ruled by Princess Allura, from the evil King Zarkon of planet Doom, his son Lotor, and the witch Haggar. Each episode huge killer "ro-beasts" terrorize the people of Arus. In the decades that followed, companies produced Christmas tie-in merchandise, such as ornaments, sweaters, and stockings as well.Lion robots? Check. Flaming swords? For sure. Edited and sanitized original anime for American audiences? I'm looking at you, Sven! So grab your key, hop in your lion, and form your mighty robot to this episode on Voltron Christmas! Give us a buzz! Send a text, dudes!Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Totally Rad Christmas Mall & Arcade, Teepublic.com, or TotallyRadChristmas.com! Later, dudes!

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Today on BOLD STEPS, Pastor Mark Jobe gives a word of encouragement to those who are waiting, as we continue our study of the book of Genesis and as we turn our attention to chapter 16. We'll discover the story of Abraham, Sarah, and Sarah's handmaid, Haggar.  God had promised a child to Abraham and Sarah … but because they were impatient, they decided to take matters into their own hands!  And in doing so, they caused huge problems … not only for themselves, but for us, too!Support the show: https://www.moodyradio.org/programs/bold-steps-with-dr-mark-jobe/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Episodio para Fans - Episodio 69 de R80 Magacine, spin off de Remake a los 80, revista en formato podcast. ¿Recuerdas el temazo Winner Takes it all de la banda sonora de Yo el Halcón? Quizás por el nombre no caigas, pero en cuanto lo escuches, seguro que te trasladas a aquella emocionante escena en la que los pulsos no dejaban de sucederse a modo de montaje videoclipero, será entonces cuando esta canción no deje de sonar una y otra vez en tu cabeza. Su creador, "Sammy Haggar", de él y de este tema musical, te habla Agustín Lara en este nuevo episodio. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Escúchanos también en www.remakealos80.com Recuerda suscribirte a nuestro canal de You Tube para estar al día de nuestros directos https://www.youtube.com/@remakealos80 Síguenos en Instagram y Twitter @Remakealos80 y búscanos en Telegram, te dejamos el enlace a nuestro grupo de para que compartas tus opiniones e interactúes con nosotros: https://t.me/joinchat/GXsRJYMd3wQVBG2vEscucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Remake a los 80, cine y videoclub. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/248910

Daily Dose of Hope April 9, 2024  Day 3 of Week 2   Scripture reading for today – Genesis 21-23 Psalm 107; Mark 8   Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope.  Please keep me posted on how you are doing with your daily Bible reading.  I know keeping up with the reading can be a challenge but I do feel like it is worth it.  God is good and he will honor our efforts.  We have to know God's Word to live God's Word.   The drama continues in Genesis!  What I find so fascinating is that nothing is really held back in Scripture.  There is no pretending that these people who God works through don't have faults.  Rather, their faults are front and center for all to see.  And today we see more of the this.  Isaac, the son of Abraham and Sarah, is born and Sarah is once again enraged with Haggar and Ishmael.  She feels like Ishmael is mocking Isaac so she decides to throw them both out of household.  Thus, Haggar is back out in the desert with her son.  There is probably a lot to say about Sarah's cruelty and jealousy, but for now I just want to focus on how God once again meets Haggar in the desert.  In her darkest hour, God shows up.  He provides everything her little family needs to survive.  Think about your own life.  How has God shown up in the middle of your deserts?   The next chapter has Abraham almost sacrificing his son, Isaac.  This passage has always kind of bothered me.  It seems inconsistent with God's character to want Abraham to kill his son.  And remember, when something seems off, we need to dig deeper.  What is God doing here?  In the past, Abraham doubted God.  Think about all the mishaps we have been reading about.  He tried to have children his own way instead of waiting on God.  He repeatedly tried to pass Sarah off as a sister instead of his wife. By asking Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, God was testing Abraham.  Does Abraham finally trust God?  He is finally ready to trust in God's provision?  I don't think God ever intended harm to come to Isaac.  I think he wanted to see how much Abraham had grown.   Besides that, this passage is a beautiful foretelling of another sacrifice.  God himself sacrificed his only son in order for us to be reconciled to a holy God.  John 3:16, For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.    Now, let's jump to Mark 8.  Again, there is a lot of great substance here but I want to focus on the end of the chapter, specifically verses 34-38.  This is a pretty tough passage about what it means to truly be a disciple of Jesus.    Somehow, in our American Christian lifestyles we have lost sight of what it means to really be a disciple. We tend to think that being a disciple is about going to church, being a good person, and maybe sometimes giving some money to a worthy cause. We have narrowed down discipleship to a list of tasks. We have accepted comfort and being good enough. How wrong we have been.  Being a disciple of Jesus is not about tasks, it is certainly not about comfort, but all about heart.  There is self-sacrifice and maybe even some pain involved.  Jesus says, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Wow. How many of us like to deny ourselves?  That doesn't sound very comfortable.  We also have to take up our cross.  Ouch. Carrying a cross doesn't sound like much fun either.  I would imagine it would be heavy and quite difficult.  And yet, this is how Jesus describes following him. Then, he says that those who want to gain their lives will have to lose them. Total surrender to him.  We are no longer our own.  We belong to Jesus.  Are you ready to be a true disciple of Christ?   I didn't touch on Psalm 107 today but do take some time to read through it.    Let's chat again tomorrow.  Have a great day!   Blessings, Pastor Vicki  

Daily Dose of Hope April 7, 2024  Day 1 of Week 2 Scripture reading for today – Genesis 16-18; Mark 6 Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, the daily devotional that complements New Hope Church's Bible Reading Plan.  Our aim is to read the Bible in a year, growing in our walk with Jesus along the way.  If you recall, at the end of last week, we met Abram and talked about how God promised to make him a father of many nations.  Despite some bad choices, God uses Abram in a powerful way.  We see the continuation of this in today's Scripture.  God promises to give Abram and Sarai a son but when it doesn't happen in their timing, they decide to take matters in their own hands.  Sarai devises a plan to have Abram sleep with her handmaid, Haggar, in order to bear him a son.  When Haggar does get pregnant, Sarai isn't happy at all.  Despite the fact that this was all her idea, Sarai becomes furious with Haggar and abuses her.  Haggar leaves and heads into the desert, a dangerous scenario for a pregnant handmaid in those days.  But God meets her there.  He sends an angel who tells her to go back to Sarai and promises that her son, Ishmael, will be a strong and defiant man.  I used to read this Scripture and really burn with anger toward Sarai.  Why was she so mean to Haggar and why didn't she just trust God to begin with?  But over the years, I've realized how often I take matters into my own hands, I don't wait for God's timing, I jump the gun and say and do things without listening to God's clear instructions to wait on him.  While I in no way condone her treatment of Haggar, it's easy to see how she burned with jealousy.  She wanted to be the one who was pregnant with Abram's child!  She wanted to see God's promise come true right now!!!  Of course, we know the end of the story.  God's mercies are so very good.  He cared for Haggar in her hour of need, and he cared with Sarai, despite her disobedience.  And God also cares for us, despite ours.  What's fascinating to me about this power couple, Abram and Sarai, is how very normal they are.  They have times in which they make such crazy choices that leave us scratching our heads and then they have times in which their obedience toward God is incredible.  After the Sarai and Haggar situation, we move right into God's covenant with Abram.  This is when God changes Abram's name to Abraham and changes Sarai's name to Sarah.  God tells Abraham to circumcise all the men in his household and he does it.  He doesn't argue, he doesn't complain and talk about how painful it will be; he just obeys.  God reconfirms his promise to give Abraham the land of Canaan, to give him a son through Sarah (he's more specific this time!), and make him the father of many nations.  From that point forward, circumcision was a sign of belonging to the people of God.  It's easy to spend a lot of time on the Genesis scripture because there is a lot of it but I hope you also made it through Mark 6.  There is a lot of substance there as well!  I wanted to focus on just one portion of that chapter, verses 6-13, when Jesus sends out his disciples.  I've always had a particular affinity toward this Scripture.  I like to picture Jesus telling his disciples to go into the towns two by two, take nothing with them, and simply preach about the Kingdom, telling people to repent.  I wonder what they are thinking – are they scared and apprehensive like I might be, do they consider changing professions?  The best part of the Scripture to me is that they did it; they did exactly what Jesus told them to do.  This was such a huge step of faith.  I mean, they brought nothing with them!  They didn't pack snacks or make sure the local inn had space for them, just in case.  They trusted Jesus.  And the message he had them preach was simple – Repent!  I think sometimes we make things way too hard and complicated.  If we just did what Jesus said to do and trusted his guidance, how much easier things would be for us.  Please know I'm saying this to myself as well.  But here is the thing – Jesus sends all of us out into the towns to preach about him.  The disciples were sent and so are we (after all, we are his disciples too!) Jesus sends us into our neighborhoods, our workplaces, our communities, and our families.  What message are we preaching into these places?  What message do you bring with you? Blessings, Pastor Vicki

Struggling podcasters/backyard wrestlers agree to fill in for a babysitting job. What starts off as a quiet night of pizza and video games quickly spirals into bloody chaos as they find themselves fighting for relevancy. On Episode 603 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss the throwback horror, heavy metal, wrestling flick Here For Blood from director Daniel Turres! We also discuss how to turn a comic strip into a film, the delicate balance you need to strike in a horror comedy, and what House of the Devil would look like if Lloyd Kaufman directed it. So grab your favorite spooky gimmick mask, lace up your wrestling boots, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Troma, expensive box sets, independent cinema, E.T., Eddie Torres the Extra Testicle, wrestling, heavy metal, throwback horror, the halftime show, Fantastic Four casting, Franklin Richards, is it possible to make a good Fantastic Four movie?, Josh Trank, Capone, Major League, Pedro Pascal, Roger Corman, The Bear, Andor, Joseph Quinn, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ralph Dibney, The Mandalorian, too much of a good thing, Madame Web, Final Cut, Lloyd Kaufman, Charles Band, Carny Shyster, comic strips, Fred Basset, For Better or Worse, Family Circus, Groo, The Far Side, Steven From Providence, Doug Allen, Nancy and Sluggo, Heavy Metal, Fritz the Cat, Beetle Bailey, Wizard of Id, Haggar the Horrible, Franky the Mobster, Dee Snider, Shawn Roberts, Daniel Turres, AI written synopsis, throwback 90s horror, pro-wrestling horror, heavy metal horror, the effects of steroids, Dr. Zahorian, Survivor Series, Neon Maniac, Nightbreed, Herr Starr, Repo Man, The Butcher Shop FX Studio, behemoth, House of the Devil if Lloyd Kaufman directed it, disconnected film openings, safe spaces in horror, striking a balance between horror and comedy, Powerman 5000, Pantera, Karl Gotch, George Hackenschmidt, Baseball Furies, watching bloody movies on Valentines Day, I Saw the Devil, Kim Jee-woon, Cobweb, Career Killers, Maximum Overdrive, Pat Hingle, The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum, I egress, and The Fantastic Foreskin.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

If you are a regular visitor to the Cloud County Ground at Chelmsford, or indeed many of the away fixtures, you might well recognise Dan Haggar, or "Kit Man Dan" as he is sometimes known. A passionate Essex fan and regular supporter of "98 Not Out", it was high time we got him on for a chat. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/98-not-out/message

In this episode of the HeronCode Women in Leadership podcast, we're joined by Muna Merghani, Chief HR and Sustainability Officer, who shares her journey and insights from over 20 years of experience in humanitarian aid, development management, and corporate sustainability. Muna discusses the importance of leadership and the challenges she faced transitioning to the C-suite. She emphasizes the need for leaders to be adaptable, make fair decisions, and prioritize the human factor over policies and regulations.On this episode Muna discusses:Mentors during early careerMaking a lasting impactLeading through difficult timesNavigating gender dynamics in the industryGen Z's perception of social developmentFor more information, visit Heroncode.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here, we unpack the recently released 2023–2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy, its implications for lawyers and legal service providers, and the best practice principles that will be pertinent moving forward. In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back Cyber GC founder principal Annie Haggar (a former winner of the General Counsel of the Year category at the Australian Law Awards) to discuss how and why the federal government's new cyber security strategy has emerged, how Australia is faring relative to overseas counterparts on cyber matters at present, and the headline takeaways for lawyers and legal services providers from the new strategy. Ms Haggar also dives into how the market has responded to the new strategy, the extent to which various legal practice areas have received suitable guidance, the questions lawyers, firms, and teams must be asking of themselves and their businesses, whether proactive refusal of work from those whose processes aren't up to scratch should be implemented, why lawyers must be at the heart of cyber responses moving forward, and why lawyers need to view cyber as part and parcel of their duties to the courts, clients, and the broader community. If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (The Lawyers Weekly Show) and by following Lawyers Weekly on social media: Facebook, X and LinkedIn. If you have any questions about what you heard today, any topics of interest you have in mind, or if you'd like to lend your voice to the show, email editor@lawyersweekly.com.au for more insights!

Action-driven VS-alike Greedland by @GamerskyGames gets the chef's kiss, @RubberDuck_G's Evil Wizard gets the sorcerer's seal of approval & @SuperMeatBoy's Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine… just sounds kinda ick. Right?  SHOWNOTES: 00:00:10 - Intro 00:03:35 - Greedland  00:08:10 - Evil Wizard 00:13:40 - Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine 00:26:57 - MHG Chat: Street Fighter 6 and accessibility 00:53:27 - Outro

Pastor Mary Jean talks how important covenant is and uses the example of Haggar with Ishmael.

Sponsor: ⁠⁠Clo3D Foundations For Intimate Apparel Online Course⁠⁠ Use code: Underdressed for 20% off Larissa's Brand https://www.entrechatdance.com/ https://www.instagram.com/entrechatdance/   The Squad https://www.thesquadnation.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thesquad_nation/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-squad-creative-consulting-group/ https://www.facebook.com/sqdnation   Hanky Panky https://www.hankypanky.com/ Bibliography   Design, Sewing, & Construction:   Armillas, Alexandra. “Sewing Techniques to Create Luxurious Couture Lingerie,” ThreadsMagazine.com, Retrieved from: https://www. threadsmagazine.com/2008/11/20/create-couture-lingerie-2 Accessed January 14, 2023   Betzina, Sandra. “Sewing Lycra Blends,” ThreadsMagazine.com, Retrieved from: https://www.threadsmagazine.com/project-guides/sewing-with-knits/sewing-lycra-blends Accessed August 26, 2022   Busque, Pamela. “Elastic Fact File” Threads Magazine, October/ November 2004, 51. Cloake, Dawn. Lingerie Design on the Stand. London, B.T. Batsford, 2000   Cole, Julie (Julie Christine). Patternmaking with Stretch Knit Fabrics. New York: Fairchild Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2016.   Collins Brealey, Julie. Making Corsets. Marlborough, The Crowood Press, 2021.   The Editors of Cy DeCosse Incorporated. Singer Sewing Reference Library: Sewing Lingerie. Minnetonka, Cy DeCosse Incorporated, 1991.   Czachor, Sharon. Sewing with Knits and Stretch Fabrics. New York, NY: Fairchild Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc., 2016.   Haggar, Ann. Pattern Cutting for Lingerie, Beachwear and Leisurewear, Second Edition. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2004   Gibb, Helen. Ribbonwork: The Complete Guide. Iola, Krause Publications, 2004.   Joseph-Armstrong, Helen. Draping for Apparel Design. New York: Fairchild Publications, 2000.

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...  Righteous indignation of the end times:   (Comments by Joan Boney)    I believe we live in the end times now.  Wickedness increases on the earth and in the apostate churches and that signals the wrath of God that is to come upon this earth as judgment from God for that is not far away.   In the past years, I was furious over that which I was seeing in the churches.  Pastors were adding things to the Bible and telling their congregations things which were not in the Bible.   In one non-denominational church that I visited, the pastor said:  "Sarah and Haggar were 1/2 sisters."  When I got home, I searched the Bible and couldn't find that which Pastor taught.  I called Pastor and told him I was in his church service when he said this and I told him I could not find this in the Bible and I asked him, "Where this is in the Bible?"   Pastor replied:  "I can't remember where it is in the Bible."   I said, "It's very important to me, so would you look it up and tell your secretary where it is and have her call me and tell me?"   Pastor was very quiet for a few seconds and then he replied with great anger saying:  "Okay ... It's not in the Bible!"     (That pastor lied to me, pretending he couldn't remember where it was in the Bible while he knew it wasn't in the Bible and he just made it up and spoke it to the congregation by his own will.)   All this is very evil and disturbed me greatly.   Pastor did not show any sorrow nor did Pastor repent over what he did.  How can this be?  

In this episode of the Cyber Security Uncut podcast, Annie Haggar, principal at Cyber GC, joins hosts Phil Tarrant and Major General (Ret'd) Dr Marcus Thompson to discuss the emerging legislative and regulatory frameworks surrounding business cyber security requirements. The podcast begins by unpacking the federal government's recently introduced cyber security strategies and the potential benefits of introducing a Cyber Security Act to simplify cyber legislation. Haggar then provides case studies to detail the legal implications of substandard cyber security practices for businesses that have been breached. The podcast wraps up with a discussion surrounding how to build greater awareness of cyber security requirements in the business world and the evolving domain of cyber law. Enjoy the podcast, The Cyber Security Uncut team

In this episode of the Cyber Security Uncut podcast, Annie Haggar, principal at Cyber GC, joins hosts Phil Tarrant and Major General (Ret'd) Dr Marcus Thompson to discuss the emerging legislative and regulatory frameworks surrounding business cyber security requirements. The podcast begins by unpacking the federal government's recently introduced cyber security strategies and the potential benefits of introducing a Cyber Security Act to simplify cyber legislation. Haggar then provides case studies to detail the legal implications of substandard cyber security practices for businesses that have been breached. The podcast wraps up with a discussion surrounding how to build greater awareness of cyber security requirements in the business world and the evolving domain of cyber law. Enjoy the podcast, The Cyber Security Uncut team

In today's episode, I have the amazing opportunity to sit down and chat with the two leading researchers into Stenophylla. Join me in this exciting discussion!

Shits and Giggles with HR Episode #1 What is Right About the Recruitment Industry Could Be Written on a Stamp! Join Lisa Haggar and Katrina Collier to discuss what is wrong with the recruitment industry. The horror stories of people going through 6 rounds to get a job and then getting no reply, or how people receiving job offers then leave their job, only to be told that the job they applied for & won, has been made redundant before they even start! Sharing Resources Mentioned By Katrina in the Podcast Katrina's Website The Robot-Proof Recruiter Getting back to people: https://circlebackinitiative.com/ https://end-ghosting.com/ Places to feedback: https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/interview/ https://indeed.com https://www.kununu.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell You Can Read the Shits and Giggles with HR Episode #1: What is Right About the Recruitment Industry Could Be Written on a Stamp! Transcript Below: What is wrong with the recruitment industry?   0:0:0.0 --> 0:0:0.600 Darren A. Smith Let's start. 0:0:10.10 --> 0:0:13.970 Darren A. Smith Welcome to the Shitz and Giggles with HR podcast. 0:0:14.760 --> 0:0:17.830 Darren A. Smith We're here with Lisa. Haggar, Lisa. Say hello, please. 0:0:18.750 --> 0:0:20.20 Lisa Haggar Good evening. Hello everybody. 0:0:20.820 --> 0:0:23.690 Darren A. Smith And we're also here with Katrina Collier. Hello, Katrina. 0:0:24.330 --> 0:0:25.220 Katrina Collier (Guest) Hello. 0:0:25.690 --> 0:0:46.420 Darren A. Smith Hi I'm your host, Darren Smith. We'll come back to these lovely ladies in a moment. Our topic for tonight and I'm going to blame Lisa for this is what is right about the recruitment industry could be written on a stamp. Katrina, I'm just gonna come to you and ask what's your name in this game? What do you do? 0:1:6.690 --> 0:1:7.510 Darren A. Smith Let's stop listening. 0:0:47.140 --> 0:1:11.40 Katrina Collier (Guest) So I am best known as the author of the Robot Proof Recruiter that I have been in the recruitment industry for nearly two decades, and I spend most of my time delivering design thinking workshops to fix candidate experience and recruitment. And I also have a coaching and mentoring group that's probably me in a nutshell, but plenty plenty of experience in their recruitment and talent acquisition space. 0:1:11.700 --> 0:1:18.200 Darren A. Smith Brilliant. Brilliant. But we wanna get into that and ask you what's wrong with this industry. Let me just come to Lisa for first. Lisa, what do you do? 0:1:19.730 --> 0:1:28.920 Lisa Haggar It's a good question. I tell people I knit Jelly for a living because when you tell them the work in HR, it switches people off quicker than if you're the tax man. So I knit Jelly Darren. 0:1:29.530 --> 0:1:30.210 Darren A. Smith Yeah. 0:1:30.280 --> 0:1:30.540 Darren A. Smith Yeah. 0:1:33.520 --> 0:1:33.750 Darren A. Smith It's. 0:1:36.800 --> 0:1:37.350 Darren A. Smith OK. 0:1:37.770 --> 0:1:38.270 Darren A. Smith That's good. 0:1:31.270 --> 0:1:39.940 Lisa Haggar Or otherwise known as the ******** from HR Queen of HR on LinkedIn, the opinionated small 5 foot blonde who has a lot to say about most things. 0:1:40.670 --> 0:1:42.580 Darren A. Smith Lovely. And how do you guys know each other? 0:1:44.250 --> 0:1:44.940 Katrina Collier (Guest) LinkedIn. 0:1:44.200 --> 0:1:48.510 Lisa Haggar Uh, Katrina's fabulous, and I know everybody who's fabulous on LinkedIn. Simple. 0:1:48.490 --> 0:1:52.860 Katrina Collier (Guest) Is it LinkedIn? I don't know how we know each other. That's hilarious. Yeah, LinkedIn. 0:1:50.890 --> 0:1:58.40 Lisa Haggar It is, yes, yes, I remember. I remember the day we met Katrina. Do you mean you? You can't remember that wonderful time? I don't know. 0:1:58.610 --> 0:1:59.110 Katrina Collier (Guest) Yeah. 0:2:0.410 --> 0:2:1.420 Darren A.

Michael Stitt, who has been with Haggar for 23 years, shares the rich history of the company and its partnership with the Pro Football Hall of Fame on the latest episode of the Mission. Haggar produces the official Gold Jacket of the Hall of Fame — one of the three iconic symbols associated with the Hall of Famers. The Mission Podcast, episode 164.

Listen to today's podcast to see God's lovingkindness shown in Abram's family quagmire, particularly regarding Haggar the Egyptian and her son. If you have found yourself in a very complex situation, listen to see how God can sort you out graciously. He is the Lord who sees you in all your confusion when no one cares. We pray you will see Him and His lovingkindness as you listen to today's episode. Please feel free to share this episode with anyone you believe might benefit from it. Jehovah sees, and He sees you!

What does the story of Abraham, Haggar, and Sarah have to say to the Galatian Christians? Follow along as Paul creates an analogy, teaching us that we must not think that we are under the law as a slave, but rather, we are to trust in the LORD and not in our own righteousness.

Safety Director Cam Haggar joins Herb in Spacious Podcast Studio A to talk about some very powerful information our safety software, NIXN, is providing us to help keep us safe.  Shout-outs, and an announcement about boot and safety glasses reimbursement!

We're throwing punches in bunches on this week's episode! Any game that lets you throw a punch could be on the show! We're talking chibi characters in crossover costumes, crawling dungeons and ruthlessly killing normal enemies, unusually long beat em ups, awful androids, and we've got the ultimate punching lightning round! Join us in Discord and at GameThatTune.club and tell us your favorite beat em ups and fighting games! Check out our Patreon page! Patreon.com/GameThatTune is the home for exclusive content! We've got GTT GEMS, MIXTAPES, all new MOVIE COMMENTARIES and more stuff in the works, so check out the page and consider supporting the show as we attempt to grow and create more great stuff! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Lance Riviere, Damian Beckles, Bradford Stephens, Taylor Y, Sam L, Mork, Tasty, Grimmory, PhoenixTear2121, UnsaddledZebra, Aakadarr, TheKerrigan, and Ravsieg! Check out our 24/7 VGM stream for a radio station featuring games we've used on the show! We've loaded up over 1,000 soundtracks in our stream and have more coming all the time! New episodes of Game That Tune record LIVE on Wednesdays at 9 PM EST on numerous platforms: YouTube Twitch Facebook The show takes podcast form and becomes available for download Tuesday mornings! Find it on Apple Podcasts or GameThatTune.com and enjoy! We always want to hear from you, especially if you have a request! Email us at GameThatTune@gmail.com, find us on Facebook or on our new social media platform http://GameThatTune.club

Jason Gottesman and Neal Lesher are back with State Rep. Jesse Topper to discuss efforts to impeach Larry Krasner, hearings on inflation in PA, and what can be done at the state level, Happy the Elephant, and fashion advice, unofficially sponsored by Haggar.

Jason Gottesman and Neal Lesher are back with State Rep. Jesse Topper to discuss efforts to impeach Larry Krasner, hearings on inflation in PA, and what can be done at the state level, Happy the Elephant, and fashion advice, unofficially sponsored by Haggar.

A few years ago we dropped the word "productivity" as something we needed to continuously improve because it doesn't address safety or quality.  Instead, we started using "execution" as the action we needed to continually optimize, therefor including productivity, safety, and quality as the three major tenets comprising execution.  Some safety talk, an ESOP question from Derek True, and quite a few shout-outs!

Educating upwards will help you deliver a better candidate experience You may know Lisa Haggar as the self-described 'lass with sass' on LinkedIn or perhaps from her 3 decades contributing to the HR profession. Either way, she is a brilliant person to talk to about tough subjects, like this one! Strap yourselves in for this one, as we laugh and chat about: experiencing recruitment as a HR candidate and the problem with grilling applicants and interviewer power-games, inspired by this post. experiencing the worst candidate experience, to know how to make it better! not paying people their worth and what you could do instead. don't lowball, develop people! great questions to ask at interview, no matter your age or the seniority of the person interviewing you. be bold enough to educate upwards. the difference of being spoken at or with. giving referrals to the companies that deliver a great candidate experience. Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍

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What do you wish you knew when you first got started? We spend way too much wondering how things could have been different, but we also don't spend nearly enough time learning from people ahead of us to make sure we don't repeat the same mistakes. Our guest today Jeff decided to write a book titled When: Things I Wish I Knew When I Was STARTING OUT, STARTING OVER, and Trying To GET AHEAD.  Jeff has spent the last 38 years traveling a journey of success, failure, the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. A journey that started with a desire to be a teacher that was put on hold by a new desire to become a leader of a company. Now after a successful career as a senior executive for companies like Michaels, Fossil and Haggar, Jeff has come back to where his journey started. The desire to teach and mentor. He wants to help individuals and companies reach their full potential. His passions are two-fold.  First, is to help individuals realize how to get the most out of themselves. To help assist them with getting rid of all the anchors of doubt that weigh people down and stop them from finding their true passion. He wants you to find fulfillment in your life and career. His belief is not just to dream the impossible but actually do it. Second, Jeff's corporate experience can still prove invaluable for any company that is looking to make a change or trying to figure out how to get out of troubled waters. https://amzn.to/30Aj94S (Buy When on Amazon) Topics Covered: Having the courage to leave home and start fresh Balancing family time and career Creating an epic connection with your kids You don't have to have everything to be an intentional father How to connect with guest https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-wellen-095a851/ (LinkedIn) https://www.jeffwellen.com/ (Website) Thank you for Listening to the Episode! Be sure to subscribe on https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-military-veteran-dad-podcast/id1448127126 (Apple), https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9taWxpdGFyeXZldGVyYW5kYWQubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M (Google), https://open.spotify.com/show/2I1mwoZ0VaR9tLdCwwxsg2 (Spotify), or wherever you get your podcasts. And feel free to drop us a line at ben@militaryveterandad.com. Follow Ben on Social Media to stay up to date on Military Veteran Dad – https://www.facebook.com/benjamin.killoy (Facebook) | https://twitter.com/BenKilloy (Twitter) | https://www.instagram.com/militaryveterandad/?hl=en (Instagram) | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-killoy/ (LinkedIn) For help, resources, and community support, please join the https://www.facebook.com/groups/militaryveterandad (Military Veteran Dad) Facebook Group. Be sure to check out all the http://www.freedadcourse.com/ (free courses) available to help come home to a better tomorrow. Heads Up: My episodes may contain affiliate links! If you buy something through one of those links, you won't pay a penny more, but we'll get a small commission, which helps keep the lights on. Thanks! Support this podcast

With consumers increasingly demanding ethical business practices, one of the biggest priorities for law departments this year must be to bolster standards and expectations for a business' suppliers and partners, says one award-winning GC. On this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, host Jerome Doraisamy welcomes back Accenture strategic partnerships global legal lead Annie Haggar (who won General Counsel of the Year at the 2021 Australian Law Awards) to discuss the nature and state of affairs in ecosystem relationships, the need to respond to increasing consumer demand for ethical business practices, identifying practical steps to operationalise change and balancing proactive and reactive action to improve supply chains. Ms Haggar also delves into where improving supply chains sits in the triage of urgent priorities in 2022, opportunities that can and will arise from solving supply chain issues, how doing so can elevate one's sense of self as a legal professional, lessons learned from such tasks, and becoming more than just a GC in such action. If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (The Lawyers Weekly Show) and by following Lawyers Weekly on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.   If you have any questions about what you heard today, any topics of interest you have in mind, or if you'd like to lend your voice to the show, email editor@lawyersweekly.com.au for more insights!

Final Fight, titolo Capcom del 1989 è il protagonista di questa puntata del podcast. Questa volta ne parlo in compagnia del dinamico duo di Retrogaming Lives, Roberto e Piermarco. Ecco il loro podcast: Retrogaming Lives Se volete seguire le mie avventure ho aperto un mio profilo instagram Arcade Mike Se volete essere sempre aggiornati su tutto ciò che facciamo potete seguirci su telegram: Gruppo Telegram ArcadestoryGroup Canale Telegram Arcadestorynews oppure potete seguire i nostri social: Canale youtube Arcadestory Profilo instagram Arcadestory Pagina facebook Arcadestory Pagina facebook Arcadestory Carpi Canale Twich Arcadestory Sito Arcadestory In oltre vi ricordo che esiste il canale telegram della Lega dei Videogiochi dove iscrivendovi riceverete gli aggiornamenti ogni volta che un canale podcast membro della lega pubblicherà qualcosa. Canale Telegram Lega dei Videogiochi: https://t.me/LDVpodcasts Ecco i membri appartenenti alla LDV: ATARITECA GameRevs - La Voce del Videogiocatore Facciamo DOS Chiacchiere QuantiGigaAllaPanca? Intrappolati nel Retrogaming BUON ASCOLTO

Absent adult supervision from Emily this week, Herb fumbled his way through a recording (sorry for the background noise!) with Safety Director Cam Haggar.  Listen to see how both Cam AND Herb might fall victim to the dunk tank!  Price is Right, Shout-outs, and a couple announcements.DON'T FORGET: if you want to receive podcasts via text, you can test  the word "unstop" to (833) 799-0458 and you'll be re-enrolled.ALSO: if you have a smart-phone, you can search for Sargent On-Track on the Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Pocket Casts app on your phone, where you can subscribe and get them each week when they're released.

When times are tough, it is easy to wonder if God will come through. We might even take steps boldly to "help God out"...doing what we "hope" God will think is good idea—without really waiting on God in the circumstance. El Roi is a name for God that Haggar uses to communicate her experience how "God sees and hears us!" #GodSeesMe #IAmLoved #messiahyl

In this week's episode of On Track Podcast, Herb and Emily chat with Safety Director Cameron Haggar about how he came to be a Sargent. Two folks win the Newton-Grindle award getting their hands on brand new Sargent corn hole boards - send in a shoutout for your chance next week. Plus the Price-Is-Right was nice and tight - find out if you were this week's lucky guesser! 

It’s not easy to keep a digital audience engaged. And it’s especially hard when the product you’re trying to engage them with is … produce. And yet, Avocados From Mexico has set a gold standard for what it means to build a funnel and engage an online audience and it has somehow found the secret recipe for success (and also guacamole).On this episode of Up Next in Commerce, I was excited to talk to Ivonne Kinser, the Head of Digital Marketing and Ecommerce for Avocados From Mexico, and learn her many tales about how the company has used out-of-the-box ideas to take something that rarely gets marketing love — produce — and turn it into must-engage-with content. She took us behind the scenes of creating one of the top digital campaigns for multiple Super Bowls, and she dove into what the future of digital marketing looks like, including why Avocados From Mexico has been ahead of the trends when it comes to things like NFTs and blockchain. Enjoy this episode!Main Takeaways:Impressions Matter: Impressions are a metric that often is hard to really judge the importance of. But when you can correlate impressions to search activity, it becomes clear that building an awareness of the brand through impressions and exposure can drive conversations on social media. This in turn leads to more Google searches and native activity on a brand’s page.Eternal Iteration: You have to iterate constantly in order to adapt to changing consumer behavior. Constantly changing your platform is not a signal that your platform is failing or wrong, in fact it’s a sign that you are staying on the cutting edge and trying to meet consumer expectations at every turn.The Powers That Be: When setting a path for the future, it’s important to differentiate between trends and fads that will come and go and the forces that will actually drive companies and consumers toward a new way of operating long-term. For example, rather than get caught up in the hot new social network or gaming platform, think about investing in the technology that powers that network (A.I., ML, 5G, AR/VR, etc).For an in-depth look at this episode, check out the full transcript below. Quotes have been edited for clarity and length.---Up Next in Commerce is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Respond quickly to changing customer needs with flexible Ecommerce connected to marketing, sales, and service. Deliver intelligent commerce experiences your customers can trust, across every channel. Together, we’re ready for what’s next in commerce. Learn more at salesforce.com/commerce---Transcript:Stephanie:Hey there. And welcome back to Up Next in Commerce. This is your host, Stephanie Postles, CEO at Mission.org. Today on the show, we have Ivonne Kinser who currently serves as the head of digital marketing and ecommerce for Avocados From Mexico. Ivonne, welcome to the show.Ivonne:Hi. Thank you for the invite.Stephanie:Yes. So happy to have you on. I think I just spent an hour going through your guys' website and then I got hungry and I realized it's probably not best to have avocados and salsa right before an interview. So let's see how it goes, I was willing to take the risk.Ivonne:Maybe it's a good thing because you can always get... Go for an avocado.Stephanie:Yes. Yeah, I agree. So before we dive into Avocados From Mexico, I was hoping you could touch on your background a bit. I saw that you moved from Venezuela to Dallas in 2001 and I thought that would be a fun point to jump off on hearing a bit about what inspired that move and what brought you here.Ivonne:Yeah. I mean, if you think about it now, that was a long, long time ago. I came and my first job here actually in Dallas, I have been here for over 20 years or 20 years this year actually. And I oversaw over 20 countries, the campaign of or the advertising for American Airlines across 20 countries in Latin America. And I was there for a long time, I think relatively I was there for about five years before I went to the resource group in Dallas and then I started going from agency to brands and brands to agency.Ivonne:I like both sides of the business until a point where I made a decision and I really liked to stay on the brand side. So I stayed there and right now I have been with Avocados From Mexico for seven years now.Stephanie:Wow.Ivonne:And counting. Yeah.Stephanie:That's amazing. So what pulled you to Avocados From Mexico? Because when you look at your background and what you just went through, it seems like such an interesting jump and what was the draw there?Ivonne:It is interesting. That's a great story. My career is full of stories but this one is one of my favorite ones because I have... I was also on the brand side with American Airlines after managing their account on the agency side, I went to the brand then Haggar company, Haggar Clothing then for a while I even go on my... I went on my own. I was very curious about entrepreneurship and just implementing my own ideas. It went great. It was on the fashion side, it went great, but I really missed the security and the stability of the corporate world and is when I went back then and went to Haggar Clothing and then Avocados From Mexico. But to your question my point is that fresh produce was nowhere in my experience or in my career.Ivonne:I was in transportation, telecommunications, fashion, apparel, retail, never even like the minimal experience in the fresh produce category and then the recruiter of Avocados From Mexico contacted me because they were studying the company actually, which is the marketing arm of two organizations, the growers and exporters of Avocados From Mexico in Mexico and the importers and the Packers and distributors of Avocados From Mexico... Hass avocado in the United States, they came together and created a marketing arm to market their products, avocados coming from Mexico. So at that point they appointed the president who is my boss, Alvaro Luque and he has been there from the beginning 2014, 13, and the recruiter contacted me and asked me if I was interested in going and speaking with them, with Alvaro and I was like, "What? What am I going to do with avocados?"Ivonne:I mean, I have... And that was before the first Super Bowl so I didn't even know that brand existed or anything. And she said, "Just go and talk to him and if you're not interested then fine, but I think that you would like it because it's a very entrepreneurial organization, is a very forward thinking and he is looking to really make an impact in the marketing industry." So that got me curious and I went and talked to him and yes I was fascinated with his vision. He told me the magic words. He say, "I want someone who... I'm looking for someone to build the digital marketing department from the ground up." And when I told him like, "Why me? I don't have any experience in the category."Ivonne:He told me that he was not looking for someone with the experience but he was looking for someone with very good solid expertise in the digital marketing side of the business who was very creative and who would be able to do what nobody else has done. And those are my magic words. I'm very creative. I love creative freedom and do exactly that, what nobody else has done. And besides is one of the very, very few cases in marketing where the marketing budget increases year over year because it's proportional to the sales volume and the sales volume of avocados have been growing year after year... Year over year since 2007 and especially since 2013. So I was sold.Stephanie:That's great. Yeah. I mean, such a good story and it's so interesting too when I think about other produce items in a grocery store, you would never even think like, "This avocado bag has a whole content strategy behind it." And they do Super Bowl commercials and like the stuff that you guys are doing to me seems so innovative. You're taking all the risks, you're trying things but what did it look like before you joined? How were they marketing and selling avocados? What was the landscape before maybe they entered the digital world?Ivonne:So when I started there, that was 2014, there was no digital marketing department per se. I mean, we were doing... We had a social media and we had a Facebook page and we have a few bloggers creating content, but I think that was about it. And then I started in September and my first assignment was okay now you have to build up Super Bowl digital campaign. And I was[crosstalk 00:08:43] okay. Yeah, whatever that means, right? But what has been very exciting about it is that we were talking offline before there was no preconceived notion of how a marketing practice should be. And that was... I think that is what has allowed us to do everything that we have done because nobody has ever say, "No, that's not the way we do things here." There was nothing.Ivonne:So we start creating, at least I can speak for my department that I started creating the marketing department that I thought and I think right now that is the right for these time. And one of the things that a lot of companies do is to become complacent and keep doing things the way they have been doing it for years without even realizing they are doing them. In our case, there was nothing. So it was a blank slate for us to build whatever our imagination can see. And like I was saying, my first assignment was... Was in September, I started in September, right? Super Bowl is next February and building a campaign, you can not build a campaign in just two weeks. So what's literally my first assignment is now you have to build a Super Bowl campaign. And it was the first time we went to the Super Bowl with a TV spot.Ivonne:So I did what I thought that it was best and not knowing or having an experience of what even means to be a winning Super Bowl campaign, right? I just did... Put a lot of love and passion into that but the best I could. And then I remembered that the very next day after the Super Bowl I had a call from one of my agencies and says, "Congratulation for the digital campaign." And I said, "Why? What for? What happened?" They say, "It was number two after Procter & Gamble."Stephanie:Wow.Ivonne:I said, "What does that mean?" And then it was in terms of the most social interactions, the campaign with the bigger bus after Procter & Gamble, imagine that. And that was the first year. After that we launched six more and every single year we were either the top one digital campaign or top two digital campaign. Of course now I knew, "Okay, somebody is measuring this. We're very competitive." So and then we purposefully look for that first and second place but the first year happened just spontaneously. We didn't even try.Stephanie:I mean, I want to dive more into that because I just watched your Super Bowl commercial from 2020 and it was so funny about what your avocado needs. It needs a helmet, it needs a baby carrier for it so it gets more skin to skin contact. I mean, it was really good, writing and super funny, which I feel like sometimes I don't always laugh at things. It actually was giving me a good belly laugh and I want to hear how you go about developing content in a way that you did especially with your Super Bowl commercials that are winning awards and coming in number two, how do you guys even start creating that campaign from scratch to make it connect with a lot of people?Ivonne:Yeah. You know that... I will say the most challenging thing about the Super Bowl is connecting that content across the different departments and disciplines because the concept of the TV spot comes from the brand team and the brand agency. So and I have my team and different agencies. We're like I mentioned before, we're very entrepreneurial organization. So pretty much every lead of every department gets to choose their advertising partners, whomever you feel more comfortable working with for whatever reason based on expertise or closeness or whatever it is. So then we have to... When the brand team define what is going to be our theme and they go to market to test three or four options and then they decide this is the commercial we're going out with. Then they give that to the digital team, to my team and I share it with my agency and we start concepting the digital campaign. And the digital campaign have to be able to stand alone and live on its own, stand up on its own but it has to have some connecting tissue with the TV spot. It has to look like the same story.Ivonne:But that is a huge challenge because how can you bring a story that in TV is 30 seconds and transform that in an experience that it has to keep users engaged for three weeks, because that's the time when we launch the digital campaign until the game day is about two, three weeks. So it's a big challenge. And we have... We develop all the experiences in digital with that connecting tissue in mind but created for digital audience is not only for them to watch, but for them to experience, to play with it, to interact with it, et cetera.Stephanie:Yes. How do you think about building out a call to action that gets people to go back to your website? Because oftentimes I watched these Super Bowl commercials and I definitely have more brand love towards the brands that make really good engaging or funny content. But I don't know if I've always felt drawn to go right over to the website. How do you think about making it a funnel that's actually going to convert and pull people into your avocado community?Ivonne:Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to tell you the story, I tell you I have many stories about the Super Bowl but let me tell you one that will illustrate a great, great example. Years ago, we also had a float in the Thanksgiving Macy's Parade and it was the same dynamic. The brand team who also manages PR has this project or this idea to go do the Thanksgiving Macy's Parade with a float. So we had a float then the CEO comes to my team and say, "Hey, we're doing this in brand so what you guys have to do is to create a digital campaign to go with this float in Macy's Thanksgiving Day, but it's going to launch three weeks before then we start concepting." So what we did is how we can do so users keep coming back after three weeks, every day, right?Ivonne:Because you want them to go come every day and participate every day and interact every day. So what we did is that we develop an interactive map and the story was that we're bringing the float from Michoacan, Mexico from where our avocados come from all the way to New York and you will see how... Stopping in key cities across the United States from Mexico all the way to New York city. So in each city we have videos, we had what are we doing in that video, in that city, et cetera, et cetera. But the key was that the only way the float can move is when users tweet or hashtag. So the more they tweet the faster the float goes to New York and we know that we have to be in New York by a certain day.Stephanie:Wow.Ivonne:So that was so exciting. I mean, users were so excited about it that the day of the parade, when we were monitoring the conversation online and you could see the excitement and users saying, "That's my float." And that was the most rewarding feeling because they felt that was their float because they brought it from Mexico. And just to wrap up the story, we deliver more impressions of, or campaign than the Macy's Parade hashtag, imagine that and-Stephanie:That's impressive and crazy.Ivonne:Yeah. I mean, we're just... Have the power of engaging the audiences, they work on your behalf and because we don't have the dollars that the multi-billion dollar brands have to compete in this type of competition if you call it, like the Super Bowl, for example. But we still have been top one and top two in terms of the most talked about brands and it's because we engage the users and they do it for us.Stephanie:I mean, that's why when I was digging into this Avocados From Mexico company, it was so exciting because at first I'm like, "It's a company about avocados." And I started seeing all these things you're doing I'm like, "They are really pushing the limits when it comes to marketing and being super creative of how to pull people into these funnels and get them engaging." And, yeah, it's super impressive. How do you think about the ROI around a Super Bowl commercial versus a float in the parade? What should the ROI look like or what should companies be going after when thinking about these really big moonshot level marketing campaigns.Ivonne:So every company is different and every company has different goals, right? But we don't manage or sales, we're a marketing organization but our job as a marketing organization we have two objectives that which is, build the brand Avocados From Mexico in the US and increase the demand of Avocados From Mexico in the US. So when we create these campaigns that has an enormous boss what we want to do is to put avocados top of mind. When you have, and I give you the examples of Super Bowl campaigns, when you have, for example 7 billion impressions that was a Super Bowl this year, 7 billion potential impressions on social media. Yes. I mean, you can tell the consumer heard about Avocados From Mexico a whole lot. So when they go to the grocery store, you're top of mind and and our conversation of course is very strategic.Ivonne:So we wrap our conversation around a fun story but really in the core of it, there's recipes, there's conversations about how to consume the avocado. In Super Bowl, for example, we say guacamole, we talk a lot about guacamole and Super Bowl. There's a research company called YouGov, the previous two years they did a survey one month after the Super Bowl and they publish their results and they say the winning brands one month after the Super Bowl. And Avocados From Mexico also is among the top one or top two in terms of purchasing tension increase even a month after the Super Bowl. So, and another thing is when you go and see... We're talking about billions of impressions in social media, right? And then you may think, "So what is even an impression? Who cares?"Ivonne:But it is important because that huge conversation that happen in social media is just a reflection of users engage talking about it. And when we go to, for example, and check the Google trends, how the searches for Avocados From Mexico, the brand, the brand name, the search for the brand name the peaks overlap. When our conversation on social media is very, very high, you also see those peaks of Avocados From Mexico, the brand name search is very, very high at the same time. So, yes, I mean, all this huge conversation that we create with campaigns like Super Bowl, Cinco de Mayo and Thanksgiving Macy's Parade, it really impacts the interest for the brand. So going back to our objectives which is build the Avocados From Mexico brand in the US check and increasing the demand of Avocados From Mexico in the US check, because we have seen also how these YouGov for example, is one of the companies that have shown the increase in purchase intention.Stephanie:Yes. Yeah. That's amazing. So, I mean, thinking about all these marketing campaigns that you've done, what is one of the more risky ones that you've done that actually ended up working where maybe people on your team were like, "It's not going to pay off."Ivonne:Yeah. One thing that I always start thinking even a year before the next Super Bowl is what kind of technology I'm going to integrate in the activation. I think that we live in a world that is dominated and I say this in a very positive way, I believe in technology as a positive force to move the industry forward. So, and there's new technologies every year and I see the technology not as a shiny object, at least not all of them but as a... Like I says, is what is moving the world forward and the marketing industry forward. So I start thinking about what technology I'm going to bring the next year. So last year and it was actually that campaign that you referred at the beginning, I wanted to bring the Vatoms that actually right now are super, super popular right now.Stephanie:What are they?Ivonne:NFT or they call it also NFT. Have you heard about NFT?Stephanie:I mean, I've heard of NFT is in the non-fungible tokens-Ivonne:Yes[crosstalk 00:24:25]Stephanie:Okay. Okay.Ivonne:Yeah. Yeah.Yeah.Stephanie:Al right.Ivonne:So then those are super, super popular right now in 2020. 2020, the other name is Vatoms.Stephanie:Okay.Ivonne:In 2020, we actually were the first... One of the first brands that use that as a marketing tactic and we were the first brand to put one of four advertising assets in the blockchain and that was even before everybody[inaudible 00:24:59]Stephanie:Wow. That's so early. You guys are ahead of every trend, basically.Ivonne:Yeah. I mean-Stephanie:Have you done AR already. I was thinking you have to probably have an Augmented Reality experience with your avocado. You guys have done everything.Ivonne:We did, actually was part of that same strategy. So what happened is last year I say, "Well, I want to do something with NFT, let's call it NFT even though we call it Vatoms last year, but NFT and we did, but what it makes so challenging to be early adopter or a trail blazer that you're bringing something that it hasn't been done before is that it's really, really hard to explain and sell the idea within the organization is like we're putting money towards these, we're allocating budget toward these and it's something nobody has done before is that going to work. And honestly, the answer is, I don't know. I mean, how can you know? You don't know if it's going to work but what we do is when we experiment with that kind of things, we experiment cheap as much as we can and we are really well prepared to pivot if we need it.Ivonne:So my agencies, and when I select my agency partners, it has to be someone that is extremely fast moving that or adaptable and can choose with a call cheap directions because if not, it wouldn't work for the type of approaches that we take. And when you can move that fast and when you have partners that can move that fast, the risk is minimal because we're in... I mean, in the digital space you can course correct in real time and you're going to be fine. The problem is when you don't have the right partner that can move that fast and you know that the campaign is failing or there's room for improvement or it needs to be optimized and you cannot react quickly. But it was a big success in terms of the, it created a lot of buzz and a lot of... Media talk about it and a lot of consumers came and visited our site and participate in our games too because of that.Stephanie:Yeah. That's amazing. So tell me a bit more about the NFT strategy. I mean, I understand the concept of them putting on the blockchain a scarcity thing, limited quantity but what were you actually putting on the blockchain? And are you going to do it again in 2021 now that more people understand the concept of it because of the NBA top shot stuff that really put it on the radar of a lot of people who maybe wouldn't have known about it before?Ivonne:Yeah. So what we did is a mix between Augmented Reality, actually it started... The idea started with Augmented Reality so users will sign up to get at the UTA wallet and then they will go to Google Walmart, for example, and then they will find avocados, digital avocados all over and they will capture the digital avocados with their mentor reality and save them to their data wallet-Stephanie:Like a Pokemon Go kind of game.Ivonne:Kind of. Yes.Stephanie:Okay.Ivonne:Exactly. Exactly like that. So they will call it the avocados and then exchange it for every avocado that they collect is a point. So it was part of a big game. So, but when one of those was a crown that you also saw in the TV spot and that crown also, we place it in the... To develop these kinds of objects, it requires special coding so we coded and somebody... And then users will participate to win it and the winner, we will send them the instructions and it was an object that could be placed in the blockchain and they could then sell it or collect it or save it for later or whatever they wanted to do. So it was like testing the waters without going all in but we want to do one. I think that's one of our goals as a company is just, if anything is going to be tested out there in marketing, in the fresh produce industry, we want to lead that.Ivonne:And of course we saw this is coming at some point. In fact, it came a year later but we know this is coming, this is common in marketing so we have to do this. So we did that the previous year, just to name another technology, we built an experience with IBM Watson, the artificial intelligence and that's another great story because it was such a creative implementation of Watson that even IBM contacted me and to her, "How do you guys do this? Tell me the story," and whatever. And then they send an email to all their subscribers using our campaign as a case story like, look how creative Avocados From Mexico is using Watson in a marketing campaign, because it was a totally unexpected application of what so now artificial intelligence tool.Stephanie:Wow. I mean, you're basically giving you a peek into the future, just thinking I want to know what you're thinking at all times, because you probably are thinking two or three years ahead of what other brands when it comes to a marketing and technology perspective are even thinking about right now. So what are you focused on over the next year or two? What are you guys betting on that maybe other people would look at, you'd be like, "Ivonne, that's definitely not going to play out. No one's interested in that." What are you guys shooting for right now or focused on building from a marketing campaign perspective.Ivonne:Yeah. So two things I want to say about that. First, let me tell you, we're in the middle of planning 2020, 2022 planning our fiscal year ends in June and it starts in July, so we're right now are planning processes in full swing. So any ordering process is six months. So in one of the first meeting, the opening meeting where I get to talk to my team before they start even thinking about what are we going to do for next year? I wanted to make very clear where has to be our focus and I told them and something that is... I think is served as a guide, when we look at the future, we need to see what are those forces moving us toward the future. Instead of looking at what is trending because I wanted them to differentiate what are the trends and what are the forces. The trends are now and they may fade, but the forces are what is going to build the future. In this case right now where we are, I will say the forces are definitely artificial intelligence, machine learning, data, 5G is going to change the way we consume content and the way we consume video.Ivonne:The trends, for example, on the other side are I will put gaming in that side is trending right now. I will put in home fitness, I will put... It's a trend, it may be permanent but it's not something so transformational as it is artificial intelligence, data and machine learning. So what are we focusing in the future? We choose to launch a platform called Avocado Nation, is an intelligent platform with artificial intelligence and machine learning engine at the core of it. We call it the next fix of avocados because it has the same intelligence power, obviously much smaller than Netflix but it was... The inspiration was the way Netflix deliver personalized content to their consumers. And as most of the content production companies, they have like 30% success rates in the shows that they put out there. I believe that the last number that I saw for Netflix is like 70% and it's because they really, really relied on that intelligence.Ivonne:So inspired with that, we say we want to create the Netflix of avocados and that's just one of the portions of this intelligent platform. And we have right now over 100 videos our goal is to get 2,000 videos eventually. And it's videos like any format, short videos, long videos, funny, serious of videos that it could be... It could go from a dating show to a recipe show, all kinds of videos to give the consumers a variety of content for them to interact with and in the meantime, the machine is learning from those interactions and helping us to make predictions in the future about what is the content that our first party data is more engaged with.Stephanie:Yes. Yes. I was just going to say the first party data access is probably... Is that big driving force behind creating an entire platform like this.Ivonne:Big driving. Actually, that was the purpose because with all third party cookies going away and all that, we have been working on that for several years now. And right now we have over 100 million users on our consumer data platform and we have a costume audience, that's our core audience, about 30 million consumers. So we already have... Again, we have been preparing for this since 2015 talking about looking toward the future and when all this happened and a lot of brands are scrambling to get ready quickly, we already have our audience. You never complete with... I'm the one building my audience. That's something that the machine keeps learning, the algorithm keeps learning but we're in a very, very good shape in terms of first party data.Stephanie:Yes. I think it's interesting too that you approach the platform in a way like an AI first focused way where I talk to and hear from a lot of brands and many of them are very focused on content, creating their own series and figuring out how to make that work for the company. But it's very interesting hearing that you're essentially approaching it like a Netflix style model and even thinking back to... I don't know if you remember the earlier Netflix days where when they started coming out with their own originals and people were like, "They're not good." It's like the whole time they were just using that as training data, they were learning what we like. They were learning what makes for a good series, what kind of format are people looking for? And I love how you guys are approaching your platform with that as a focus first instead of trying to figure it out afterwards and figure out, "Why aren't people interacting? Why aren't they loving this series?" Super smart.Ivonne:Yeah, exactly. And you know what? I have my agency, I have several agency partners but I have one that is over all the development and optimization of the website, et cetera. And I told them, "This is an ongoing project, is going to be always an ongoing project because... And I want to iterate every single week because the algorithms are learning. And as we learned about how users are interacting, there's always going to be something to optimize and change and improve the user experience and the user journey. So it's a mind shift because you are iterating and calling it changing, tweaking, it doesn't mean that the platform need is broken, it means that there's always, always, always the consumer behavior is changing and if you forget about that and just launch something and leave it, is going to be outdated next month. So you have to change as your consumer expectations and preferences change all the time, it never stops.Stephanie:Yes. How do you want... I mean, when thinking about your employee base, it sounds like they're working on a ton. You can be working on Super Bowl commercials, you can be working on day to day, like traffic generation. You can be working on an entire content platform where maybe you're trying to bring on new musicians and getting new series created. How do you instill a sense of creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit in them so that they're willing to jump around and work on all these things?Ivonne:It's just a lot of fun. I mean, I think that is... I work with seven agency partners because I think we do so much and every one of them has a specialization in one of the digital... The areas of digital and all of them I think say that Avocados From Mexico is their most fun account. And is one, because it's a fun brand but also because also they have a lot of creative freedom. I really value creative idea that is also strategic. We're very, very strategic. And as long as it ties to the strategy, the sky is the limit, their imagination is their limit. And then we really have fun bringing these crazy ideas. And we do so much that is impossible for one person to bring all the good idea. So everybody has the opportunity to participate and to lead and manage their own projects and they work also very collaborated between all of them and all the agencies, it feels like one big agency working together but it's really different partners.Stephanie:Mm-hmm (affirmative)Ivonne:And it's all about ownership, when people feel the ownership of a project it's amazing what they can do.Stephanie:Yeah. That's awesome. So do you have any advice around working with agencies? Because we've heard from quite a few people that a lot of them have worked with agencies, they didn't have good experiences they ended up the creative and the branding and marketing campaigns back in house. And so how do you go about making sure that you're setting up a great partnership and finding these agencies like these that you speak so highly of?Ivonne:I believe that the agency choice is such a personal choice. Let me explain, the person that is... Or the company culture, the culture of the team, this agency is going to work with internally, the decision maker within the organization has to be a perfect match with the agency. And with that, I want to say, there's not a perfect agency for every... There's not a one pit soul. And I'm not talking about, there's great, great agencies that may not be a good fit for certain people or certain companies. In my case and in the case of Avocados From Mexico, just because we have the freedom to slate the partners we want to work with, they are a perfect match. And I think that makes a difference.Ivonne:So what is my criteria, is that they have to be a very, very creative agency, which of course, any agency should be, but it's a different kind of creativity. They have to move fast, they have to be nimble, they have to be a non-conformance. They have to be... There's so many things that it wouldn't work for us if it wouldn't be that way. And I think that every... That freedom that we have to select our partners should be... Any company should have it because it's like selecting a life partner or selecting a business partner is someone you really, really have to compliment each other and fit perfectly.Stephanie:Yeah. Really, really good advice. All right. Let's shift over to the lightning round. The lightning round is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. This is where I ask a question and you have a minute or less to answer. Are you ready to Ivonne?Ivonne:Yes. Stephanie:All right. Hard one first, what one thing will have the biggest impact on ecommerce in the next year?Ivonne:Data.Stephanie:All right. Tell me a bit more, what are you thinking around data?Ivonne:Well, data, and I think that companies... Any company, any technology company that has anything to do in that feel of ecommerce is really, really fast right now creating the new best solution. There are things they are working on right now that are going to come out next week or in a month or two months that doesn't exist now. And they are building all that based on data they are capturing now as we speak. So I think that data is going to be the big driver for technology capabilities, for how the technology is and users are going to interact with each other. And there's so much data out there that we are learning right now how to organize it and how to activate it. And that knowledge is what is going to be used to build the next generation of ecommerce tools.Stephanie:Yes. Love it. When you want to get into the creative mindset, what do you do to get into that-Ivonne:I walk.Stephanie:You walk?Ivonne:I walk in nature. It's very unfortunate what happened to the world in this last year. A lot of people... So really sad consequences but I can tell you in my case I think professionally speaking, it was my best year ever. It was my most creative year, my most productive year because I realized that the way I create is by being close to nature and being with my own thoughts and using that reflecting on things that I talk with people in the industry, things that I read but then going back and retrieve and reflect on those things. And I think definitely, I think that everybody should have that space to let their creative power to work on[inaudible 00:46:44]Stephanie:Yeah. I love that. I feel that I also... Yeah, I get very inspired when I'm just out walking and hiking and yeah, I think that's definitely a way to jumpstart that.Ivonne:Yeah. And I like to, I go on a bike, right now that it's getting warmer here in Texas is biking time again and I think my best ideas come when I'm on the bike or when I'm walking, because you don't have interruptions, you don't have a phone ringing, you don't have texts, you don't have anything. So it's you and your thoughts and the brain is an amazing machine that is processing everything that came in at some point and organizing it and making sense of it and coming up with new outputs.Stephanie:Yes. Yeah. You just have to bike on down to Austin, when you get here, we can go on a hike and we'll be super creative and you'll be really in shape so...Ivonne:Awesome.Stephanie:It'd be great.Ivonne:Love to.Stephanie:If you had a podcast what would it be about and who would your first guest be?Ivonne:That's a hard one. I think it will be definitely something related with technology. It will about disruptive technology and new shield solutions. I don't know exactly it doesn't come to my mind what will be my first guest but I think that I would love to interview a woman in technology. I think it's a field where women are being very successful but it was not until recently that they really had a place on the table in that industry. So it would be very interesting to learn how that has been and how it feels to be one of these top technology companies, preferably if she is a founder of a technology company and see how she leaves and interacts in an industry that only until recently became recognizing female as leader.Stephanie:Yes. That sounds like a good one. I would for sure listen to that. Well, Ivonne, thanks so much for coming on the show. It's been really fun to get a peek into some of your marketing and digital strategies and yeah, it was just really fun feeling like I had a chance to glimpse into the future with you. Where can people find out more about you and Avocados From Mexico?Ivonne:So we, Avocados From Mexico on Twitter is Avos From Mexico and about me, I have the same in Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn is all Ivonne Kinser, I-V-O-N-N-E K-I-N-E-R.Stephanie:Amazing. Thanks so much, Ivonne.Ivonne:Thank you.

My guest this week is Lisa Haggar. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-haggar-540a68117/ HR Couch: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9056688/ Lisa titles herself as “The HR Coach”; tasked with “Putting the Human back into HR”; and is one of the most energetic voices on LinkedIn in trying to achieve it. Earlier this year, Lisa founded “The HR Couch”; “a pioneering new way of learning, sharing, collaborating and changing the way we work in HR and as leaders, to become more people-centric.” But where has the ‘Human' gone? Was it ever there? Whose responsibility are ‘the people' anyway? They're just a few of the topics I'm looking forward to exploring, as I welcome Lisa to the show.

Closing the Gap from HRD to CEO with Lisa Haggar #27Nick Day is joined on The HR L&D Podcast sofa by Lisa Haggar, a strategic and innovative Human Resources Director who always seems to be helping, coaching or advising others! Her energy seems to be limitless and it is clear from all of her activities that Lisa is highly skilled in translating business visions into HR initiatives that really do improve performance, profitability, growth and employee engagement.Lisa is a genuine influencer, LinkedIn guru and HR disruptor and so I am delighted to welcome her today to the HR L&D Podcast!In this “Closing the Gap from HRD to CEO” episode with Lisa Haggar on The HR L&D Podcast, we also explore: * Why are you so passionate about closing the gap between HRD to CEO? * How have you gone about writing your HRD to CEO programme? * What are the three main reasons why there are so few HRD who make it CEO's? * Do you think gender has anything to do with why so few HRD's are making it to CEO status? * Where does the CIPD fit into the HRD to CEO journey? * What's Lisa's secret for gaining huge LinkedIn engagement? * The one thing about HR Lisa would change (and why)!Links highlighted in this “Closing the Gap from HRD to CEO” episode are included below: * Lisa Haggar LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-haggar-540a68117?originalSubdomain=uk * Nick Day, Host of The HR L&D Podcast LinkedIn Profile * JGA HR Recruitment: Leading HR RecruitersOf course, if you are an HR or L&D Leader listening to this podcast and you have an HR-related vacancy that you would love some specialist human resources recruitment support with – please also get in touch with me! I would love to help show you what a great HR recruitment experience feels like! You can reach out to me directly at nick@jgarecruitment.com or give me a call – 01727800377www.jgarecruitment.com Thanks for listening folks – I look forward to bringing you the next episode of the HR L&D Podcast real soon

Reds walk off Cards. Blues trade Allen. Iggy's coffee is cold because the microwave is gross. The bathroom toilet is never flushed in the morning. We got it bad and that ain't good. Car talk. Thoughts on Jake Allen trade. Van calls in to ask about big shot TV guy clothes. Haggar. The olds talk shopping in stores. 

Hello, hello and welcome to the Marios Podcast. You are listening to a series on the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This is episode four, so if you are just joining us, guess what(?), you can binge listen all four episodes on your favorite podcast app, or at mariosministries.com! And I do recommend you go back now and start with episode one.  That will provide you the necessary context and background for today's discussion.  I am so thankful that you are listening though. I believe God is speaking to us through this study and revealing Himself to us in very special ways, so I hope you endure until the end.  Today, the God of Abraham, Part 4.  We left Abraham after receiving a reiteration of God's promise towards him and actually receiving a sign of the “Abrahamic covenant,” remember that term? And do you remember what was the sign? That's right, it was circumcision. God also changed Abram's name to Abraham, for he was going to be the father of multitudes. God also change Sarai's name to Sarah.  Abraham then did what God asked of him. On the very day he received the message from God, He circumcised himself, Ishmael (the son he had had with Haggar, which we also learned was NOT the son of the promise) and his whole household. So, we pick up now in Genesis chapter 18.  Here we learned that the Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre. The text tells us he looked up and saw three quote-unquote “men” (we'll discuss more about why I put that in quotes) and he ran to them. He bowed before them and listen to how he speaks, “O Lord, [he says] if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant….” And in that manner, he offers them refreshment and rest through his hospitality. Abraham seems to recognize these men, these beings, as coming from God, by the way he treats them. One of them seems to speak from the Lord. Some have suggested these was the presence of the pre-incarnate Jesus, but we have nothing to really go on that. Perhaps we can say they are heavenly beings; I'll show you why in a second.  But, whoever they are, these messengers from God accept Abrahams invitation and he and Sarah work to make them feel honored. As they eat, they ask Abraham, where is your wife? And he says, she in a tent.  This is important, I want to slow down here so that we can all get what is happening. The Lord is going to speak and with this sort of calling out to Sarah, it's almost like he is drawing her inn. She needs to hear what God is going to say. She is in fact standing behind the door and will now surely be attentive. Here's why I say this is important. In the Hebrews 11 passage we have already referenced in previous episodes, the Hall of Faith passage, as it is known, Abraham's faith is not the only one mentioned. Sarah's is also mentioned, independent of Abraham.  Here's Hebrews 11: 11: “By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.” Do you see that? By faith Abraham believed God. But it was by faith also that Sarah herself will conceived past her child-bearing years. Don't forget that as we read this scene.  The Scriptures tell us that “the Lord said [to Abraham], ‘I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.”  Now, before we get into Sarah's reaction. Let us consider that the term Lord here is different from the term that Abraham used when he first saw the men. In our English Bible the difference can be missed because it is merely identified as Lord in small letters or lord in small capital letters. The term Abraham used in the beginning is in small letters. It is the Hebrew word Adonai, meaning lord or masters. But Here, when Scripture tells us who is speaking the term is Lord in all small caps, it means Yahweh, which you've probably heard was not pronounced for the Jews but it refers to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the Israelites specifically.  So, what we are about to hear are the very words of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That's what this, “The lord said, in verse 10 means.” It can get confusing with the three beings, but let's stay alert.  Now, Sarah, again is listening to this behind the tent and she laughs saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?”  On the one hand, you can sympathize with her, just as we did with Abraham. Think about it, the Lord gave this promise to Abraham decades before when they were younger, and nothing happened. That was the whole Haggar episode, right. They can't have children, so they are going to “help God” fulfill his promise. God rejected that and insists she will bear a son, even now.  It is almost as if God wanted to wait until the day when they could not, humanly speaking, rear children, beyond any medical issues that she might have had, so as to leave no doubt who was bringing this child about. The time is now where both Abraham and Sarah scientifically unable to bear children.  And that is the point, isn't it? It is as though, this is the perfect time now for the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to shine.  The Lord said to Abraham, why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘shall I indeed bear a child, now in that I am old?' Is anything too hard for the Lord?  That question still reverberates throughout the earth's atmosphere. Is anything too hard for the Lord? Remember that as you face your own struggles, your own impossible promise. Is anything too hard for the Lord?  The answer is plain. Which is why Sarah, sort of comes to her senses and, realizing what she has done, she tries to deny that she had laugh because she was afraid. Which is, of course, is another bone headed move. Can we hide anything from God? Of course not, and God calls Sarah out on it on verse 15, saying, “No, but you did laugh.”  Always remember, let the fear of the Lord lead you to repentance. There is no fooling God.  But do not lose sight of what we are doing here. We are getting to know the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in very meaningful way. Nothing is impossible for him. And nothing is hidden from him. He is omniscient, that is he knows everything, and he is omnipotent, that is, he is all powerful. This is our God.  The story then shifts. Genesis 18:16 tells us that the men that were with Abraham “looked down toward Sodom” this is where Abraham's nephew Lot chose to live. Abraham goes to send them on their way and God says, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?” He continued, “For I have chosen him… to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice…”  Again, we must step back and stand in awe of this God. The God of Abraham, cares. He is going to reveal His plan to Abraham, out of His great love for his children. He is going to invite him in into his plan and revealed his sovereign will.  The Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not. I will know.”  The story tells us that the men that were visiting him went towards Sodom, but the Lord remain with Abraham. Then Abraham drew near to God and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Supposed there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing…” Abraham is assuming, as we all do most times, that there are about 50-50 righteous and unrighteous in any given place. Don't we assume that? But that is not reality. The Lord tells him, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”  So, Abraham presses the matter, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.  Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” So he's asking if there's forty five.  God again is clear, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”  Abraham continues this line of thought and asks about 40, 30, 20, and the Lord answers him, with incredible love and patience on each, even emphasizing, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.” And the Lord leaves.  Friends, listen closely, especially you young people, or if you have kids. We have a generation today that is eager to fight for justice. Listen closely, you are not more compassionate the Jesus. You are not more loving than our God. You are not even close to being as interested in the wellbeing of the poor, the marginalized and the oppressed than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Indeed, if you want to fight for justice, stop following the fads of the world and come under the guidance and authority of Scripture, of the Word of the One True Judge of heaven and earth. It is the only way to change the world.  We get to chapter 19 here, in the book of Genesis, where Scripture reveals to us that the two that left Abraham where angels who are now entering Sodom. Lot was at the gate and sees them, bowed before them and asks them to come to his house to spend the night (similar to the way Abraham received them, somehow, they both knew these were messengers from God). They refuse at first, saying they would stay at the town square, but he insists, and they acquiesce. He serves them but soon the hospitality turns to horror as the real reason why God had sent the angels there was revealed.  The wickedness of the people of Sodom, except Lot, had become so great that they headed down to Lots house and demanded that he gave the two angels to them the they may, [quote] “know them” [end quote].  This phrase to know them, of course, is the same type of phrase used in Genesis 4:1 when Adam “knew his wife Eve,” and she became pregnant, so we know the level of corruption that the Sodomites had reached.  It is hard for us to imagine, but we can see why God had heard the cry against these people who would sexually assault strangers in this manner. Verse 4 of Chapter 19 tells us that “both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house to demand this.  Lot went out to try to calm them down saying, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.” But they are enraged now. The level of tension is so violent Lot offers to bring out his two daughters instead. We really don't know if he's just trying to buy time, for this is a horrible proposition too, but they are not having it and they push him against him, threatening to deal with him even worse than with the angels, who they intend to grab by force. Verse 9 says they “drew near to break the door down,” when the angels reached out, grabbed him and brought him in. They struck everyone with blindness. And, as you can imagine is chaos ensued.  They tell Lot and his family to get out of the city for they will destroy it.  Lot tells his sons-in-law who were supposed to marry his two daughters, but they don't take him seriously.  The angels say to him, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”  But he lingered. The angels seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, Scripture says, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.  Just think of the patience and care of the God of Abraham.  The angels tell him, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”  Lot pleads to be allowed to go to a nearby city and he is allowed to do so. The angel says, “Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there.”  Lot get there with the rising of the sun and Scripture tells us, “the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.  And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.”  This too is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob friends. He will not put up with wickedness forever. He will intervene on behalf of the oppressed. And woe to those who are the oppressors, they will know true justice.  Will pick up here next time.

Today, Pastor Bill will draw a parallel between Abraham's wives and sons. Abraham's son Isaac represents God's promise and providence... Whereas the law is represented by Haggar and her son. The law refers to the biblical laws of the old testament. People can often become obsessed with upholding the law, some even become obsessive in making that others keep the law down to the last detail. This type of obsessive behavior can cause people to lose sight of what truly matters... the grace of Jesus.

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