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Welcome to Al's Insights. These short, sharp episodes dive into key one liners, golden nuggets or phrases Al has come across through either books he's reading, lessons he's learning or snapshots from the many men inside HPF and their wisdom and experiences shared. Getting Pushback in life, our role as leaders and the desire to become more are today's topic combined with news of Al becoming a father again!

Welcome to Al's Insights. These short, sharp episodes dive into key one liners, golden nuggets or phrases Al has come across through either books he's reading, lessons he's learning or snapshots from the many men inside HPF and their wisdom and experiences shared. Enjoy these short episodes that will give you plenty of good stuff to reflect on, taking in exactly what you need through each and every one of these messages. When you live through the questions you ask yourself, you gain power and wisdom to forge ahead with the life that you truly desire. Don't rest too long the weeds will take the garden The best you can do vs ALL you can do Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion Everything that giant tree contains is in that seed

Welcome to Al's Insights. These short, sharp episodes dive into key one liners, golden nuggets or phrases Al has come across through either books he's reading, lessons he's learning or snapshots from the many men inside HPF and their wisdom and experiences shared. Enjoy these short episodes that will give you plenty of good stuff to reflect on, taking in exactly what you need through each and every one of these messages. When you live through the questions you ask yourself, you gain power and wisdom to forge ahead with the life that you truly desire. Wherever you are, Be there With knowing that there's more, I'm willing to go through the darkness The ONLY reason I invest in myself is to give more to others Don't wish for a better wind, develop the skills to set a better sail

A 70 year old man with a history of BPH, HTN and dyslipidemia presents with a 3-day history of perineal pain, intermittent fever, dysuria, and difficulty initiating urine stream. He denies GI upset and is taking fluids without difficulty. He denies sexual activity with others for the past three years. He is alert, oriented and appears slightly uncomfortable while seated. Abdominal and scrotal exam are WNL, there is no penile discharge and digital rectal exam reveals a tender, enlarged prostate. UA reveals positive leukocyte esterase and > 10 WBCs per HPF. With a working diagnosis of acute bacterial prostatitis, which of the following is the most appropriate antimicrobial option in this clinical scenario?  A. Ciprofloxacin PO x 10 days B. IM Ceftriaxone as a one-time dose with doxycycline PO BID X 10 days C. IV piperacillin with tazobactam for 5 days D. Nitrofurantoin PO BID x 5 days.  Visit fhea.com to learn more!

Al the Founder discusses the 5 Core Values of HPF, where they originated from and why they are all you need to live an extremely successful life. We explore the opposite of these values and the breakdowns and pit Al landed in throughout life when not applying them. Whilst each of them stand on their own, they are all interlinked together which is what creates the compound return in life to develop, grow and lead in Family, Self and Service

Meet Kristal who is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specialises in helping Men in this modern world have an actionable blueprint that can set them up for not only understanding their wives at a deeper level but building a stronger relationship whilst maintaining their own personal power and integrity. Join us on a powerful session that discusses both Al the Founder of HPF's position on Relationships today and the research and clinical work that Kristal has done to gain a framework on the path forward for you, your wife and your family

Welcome to Al's Insights. These short, sharp episodes dive into key one liners, golden nuggets or phrases Al has come across through either books he's reading, lessons he's learning or snapshots from the many men inside HPF and their wisdom and experiences shared. Enjoy these short episodes that will give you plenty of good stuff to reflect on, taking in exactly what you need through each and every one of these messages. When you live through the questions you ask yourself, you gain power and wisdom to forge ahead with the life that you truly desire.  

Member Tom Hill has been crushing his journey with HPF. Dive into an inspirational episode as he shares his experience from the inside, a winning culture, the attacks we face as fathers in the modern world and how to arm yourself for success...

Welcome to Al's Insights. These short, sharp episodes dive into key one liners, golden nuggets or phrases Al has come across through either books he's reading, lessons he's learning or snapshots from the many men inside HPF and their wisdom and experiences shared. Enjoy these short episodes that will give you plenty of good stuff to reflect on, taking in exactly what you need through each and every one of these messages. When you live through the questions you ask yourself, you gain power and wisdom to forge ahead with the life that you truly desire.

Ever wonder what truly fuels The Financial Bloke's passion? In this special episode, Ben Law switches seats from host to guest as he chats with David Egerton-Warburton on the Boots Off Log On! podcast. Dive deep into the heart of Agricoach and discover why aligning families, growing wealth, and protecting legacies are more than just Ben's day job—they're his life's mission. This episode unpacks the real challenges farming families face, from scaling operations and next-gen struggles to navigating the tricky waters of succession planning. Learn how communication, trust, and preparation can transform a farm into a High Performing Family (HPF), sustaining wealth and relationships across generations.Ben also shares personal stories that reveal why becoming a HPF is crucial to avoid the so-called ‘three-generation curse'. Whether you're a farmer or simply interested in what it takes to build and maintain family wealth, this episode is packed with insights you won't want to miss.Tune in now to gain a behind-the-scenes look at what drives Ben and how he's helping families secure their future. And if you're curious about what it really means to be a High Performing Family, this episode might just change the way you think about wealth and legacy.-----------------------Ben spent over 20 years working with successful business owners and farming families which allowed him to unearth the timeless principles on how to successfully grow, protect and maintain wealth.If you want to learn the principles of how to grow your family's wealth throughout the generations, then you might consider joining The AgriCoach Podcast each fortnight for more Wealth & Wisdom.Disclaimer: The information contained in this podcast is general in nature and for education purposes only. It is not financial advice. It is not legal advice. No one should act on the information without appropriate specific advice for your particular circumstances. Ben Law is a former financial advisor but is no longer licensed and cannot and will not give you specific or personal advice in this podcast. The Financial Bloke Group Pty Ltd accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage occasioned by any person acting or refraining from action as a result of reliance on the information in this podcast.https://thefinancialbloke.com.au/

Welcome to Al's Insights. These short, sharp episodes dive into key one liners, golden nuggets or phrases Al has come across through either books he's reading, lessons he's learning or snapshots from the many men inside HPF and their wisdom and experiences shared. Enjoy these short episodes that will give you plenty of good stuff to reflect on, taking in exactly what you need through each and every one of these messages. When you live through the questions you ask yourself, you gain power and wisdom to forge ahead with the life that you truly desire.

James has entered his second season with HPF, but he came to us in pieces - physically, mentally and emotionally. After nearly 9 months out the door with his wife stating she's "never coming back", we created James 2.0 who steered the ship towards reconciliation and having his family back together under one roof. Strap yourself in for an inspirational and heartfelt story filled with success, and not to take anything away from this outcome, but this is stock standard on what we do...

Coach Ben has been involved with HPF for years, contributing to a huge number of success stories. If you're on the outside, this is going to be a huge episode for you.  For existing members, learn more about your Coach, his background and the vision of where HPF is going

Join our COO Adam Tasker and I as we discuss the evolution in HPF, the amazing men on the inside and what sets us apart from those riding our coat-tails trying to keep up. The journey has been nothing but painful and extremely rewarding at the same time, becoming the bedrock for a generational legacy for families all across Australia

In this two-episode special, we hear from five students active in the 2019 mobilization to protect Mauna Kea from the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. Part 2: "The Occupation Bachman Hall" shares the experiences of students who occupied the Board of Regents' office building on the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus during the fall 2019 semester. Their 117-day sit-in was the longest in UH history. These stories were recorded in conjunction with the Kūkulu Exhibit "Hoʻomana" brought to the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa through a partnership between HPF grantee Mauna Kea Education & Awareness and KTUH. Student voices (in order of appearance): Beau Shishido, Anuhea Tavares, Kāhili Liu-Hanohano, and ʻIhilani Lasconia. Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii

In this two-episode special, we hear from five students active in the 2019 mobilization to protect Mauna Kea from the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. Part 1: "Students Standing for Mauna Kea" focuses on action up on the Mauna during the summer of 2019. These stories were recorded in conjunction with the Kūkulu Exhibit "Hoʻomana" brought to the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa through a partnership between HPF grantee Mauna Kea Education & Awareness and KTUH. Student voices (in order of appearance): ʻIhilani Lasconia, Makanalani Gomes, and Kāhili Liu-Hanohano. Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii

Steve is into his 2nd season with HPF, and through the challenges of one of many growing up and proving to his father his worth, he has established himself as an amazing businessman, husband and father to his beautiful kids. Very inspiring story...

In this special episode, we take a step back and share some of the voices of the HPF board and grantmaking committee whose volunteer service and leadership behind the scenes is crucial to the work. We ask them: why do you choose to serve with HPF? Mahalo to these directors and grantmakers for sharing their voices: Ashley Galacgac, Hina Kaʻōpua-Canonigo, James Maunakea Secritario, Jonathan Pilikai Fisk, Katherine Burke, Natalie Debiasi, and Nikki Cristobal. Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii

After being told he had Terminal Cancer and only 9 months left to live, Aidan signed up to HPF and is now into his second season with us. On the brink of death he's not only extended his life and proven science wrong, but with the dangerous line he walks every day with a growth on his frontal lobe, his perspective and advice on Fatherhood, Life and HPF is invalauable. A truly unique episode and one for the ages...

Paul came to us when life was in a very dark place. After not feeling ready for fatherhood, coupled with serious hospitalisations of his son Parker, he got hit again with the breakdown of his marriage. Taking full ownership over what he could control, Paul has embarked on a phenomenal journey with HPF and is now into his 2nd season with us. Listen in on an inspiring transformation that has seen Paul 2.0 emerge and become the best version of himself, for himself and his son Parker...

12 months ago he was walking a heavy and dark line towards his children not having their father anymore. Ben just signed for a second season with HPF recognising the value of being in a team environment that's got his back. Listen to this incredible turnaround as he shares emotional insights that are far too common for far too many fathers walking alone...

Fabien has been involved with HPF for nearly 2 years as an expert helping men rewire themselves and undo the past trauma and self sabotage that holds them and their relationships back. Dive into this episode where we discuss the challenges men face in the modern world and how to become their greatest asset, instead of their greatest liability...

Meet Eric, a HPF Tribesman who's spent over $100,000 over the years on various programs and groups. Eric discusses the value of personal investment but also how much he feels at home with HPF - an organisation that pushes the standard of performance as a husband, father and man to another level...

Stu is a great story, one of many men inside HPF who knew something needed to change and he took ownership and stepped up to make it happen. Listen in on an inspiring story from a man who is very switched on and crushing life now…

Jason came to us short and cranky with his boys, pushing his juggernaut 4th gen business and creating new business ventures and trying to keep himself together and repair relationships and, and, and - the story keeps going like it does for most. Listen in on his transformation, what he's doing with HPF and where he's heading, leading the way for his sons to follow now…  

Lead Story:   US tobacco companies selectively disseminated hyper-palatable foods into the US food system: Empirical evidence and current implications Addiction Hyper-palatable foods (HPF) contain fat and sodium, fat and simple sugars, and carbohydrate and sodium at specific thresholds to induce hyperpalatability, creating an artificially rewarding experience. This study compared tobacco companies who owned food companies to food companies not owned by tobacco companies, with regard to hyperpalatability between 1988 and 2001. Upon review of industry documents, this study found that tobacco companies “selectively disseminated” HPF into the US market. Tobacco-owned foods were 29% more likely to be classified as fat and sodium HPF and 80% more likely to be classified as carbohydrate and sodium HPF than foods that were not tobacco-owned. As late as 2018, market saturation of fat and sodium HPF was close to 60% and carbohydrate and sodium HPF was almost 20% regardless of tobacco ownership. Further research should consider the links between industries to appreciate potential impact on public health.   Read this issue of the ASAM Weekly Subscribe to the ASAM Weekly Visit ASAM

Today we're talking about hyperpalatable foods, what makes food delicious and drives cravings, and what that means to us as consumers and individuals trying to become experts on our own nutrition.Content warning: we do touch on certain aspects of eating disorders and disordered eating patterns in this episode4:52 Hyperpalatable foods (HPF) are foods that are engineered to be extremely tasty, appealing, and “addictive.” HPFs contain combinations of fat, sugar, salt, and other flavors that stimulate the reward centers in the brain. There are not “bad” foods; they are foods engineered to be exceptionally delicious.6:56 When we crave HPFs, it's not because we're “broken;” it's because we're reacting just as these foods are supposed to make us react.7:30 We talk through the official definition and characteristics of a HPF, as defined by a research team in 2019. HPFs contain a specific combination of nutrients, create an artificially enhanced eating experience, and slow one's satiety mechanisms.9:38 A “bliss point” is an optimized combination of sugar, fat, salt, texture, aroma etc. that create maximum palatability and irresistibility. Bliss points light up the reward and craving centers in the brain, making us want to keep eating.14:00 We have seen the rise of packaged foods over decades. Some of the tactics used to market snack and frozen food products are the same tactics used to market tobacco. For more information on the food labeling legislation and law around selling junk food to minors in Oaxaca: https://foodtank.com/news/2020/10/mexican-state-of-oaxaca-becomes-first-to-ban-selling-junk-food-to-children/19:11 In 2016, it was discovered that the sugar industry had funded and published research in the 1960s to highlight the hazards of fat, while simultaneously downplaying the risks of sugar. There is a lot of lobbying behind various diet trends that gain, and lose, popularity over time.20:52 HPFs are generally less expensive and more accessible. This makes it outrageously easy to consume HPF, and overconsumption leads to poor health outcomes.21:23 Are HPFs addictive? We delve into the controversy around this topic and why we can't answer definitively.  More research needed in this area.25:05 HPFs seem to hijack and dysregulate normal appetite control signals in the brain, driving addictive-like consumption, especially in vulnerable individuals. Understanding how HPFs impact us can help give these foods less powerful and leave us more informed around our food choices.30:39 Research found that a food was more than 4 times more likely to be an HPF in 2018 than in 1988. A substantial sample of popular foods in the US food system found that most foods were HPFs. 33:55 The implication of this entire body of research is that we live in a food environment in which a majority of foods are designed to take advantage of our psychology and neurobiology.35:36 How do we navigate this information? How do we balance flexibility with also promoting healthful food choices? We talk about the implications of this knowledge and how we can promote balance rather than fear around HPFs.Due to limited space in show notes, email for references: kate@katelymannutrition.comDon't miss future episodes! Subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform.Follow along with Michael at @michaelulloapt on IG, Threads, Twitter, and Tik Tokhttps://www.michaelulloa.com/Follow along with Kate at @klnutrition on IG and threadshttps://www.katelymannutrition.com/

Brian Giffin spotlights the history and great works of the Homeless Pets Foundation, founded in 1998 and helping thousands of animals find forever homes, stability, and quality of life.   Giffin talks about the history of the foundation, founded in 1998 by Dr. Michael Good, and visits with Taylor Hoskins, adoptions manager at HPF as well as Dr. Phil Good, who carries on his father's vision and legacy today.   Pull up a chair, this is a good one!   www.cuopfga.org   www.henssler.com  www.daycosystems.com www.drakerealty.com   www.esogrepair.com  www.ingles-markets.com  www.jrmmanagement.co   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join me and Linh on this podcast as we talk about on why we exist and what lead to the creation and evolution of HPF.

30 Years HAMdj (NL) 1993-2023 - Part 06 The Notorious H.A.M. (The Forgotten!!! - Classics 1990-2001) This month a mix i made in 2004, 19 years ago. And is still maybe conciderd as one of my best old school vinyl mixes so far. Got a lot of positive feedback on this mix over the years from every corner of the world. By this mix i got invited to do a set in the "Hardhouse Generation" on Fresh FM radio. And did some sets at the legendery dutch underground station D.O.T.F (Defenders of the faith, Old School radio) So for me this 30 Years HAMdj show is not complete without this mix. Because it was an important demomix throughout my carreer. So sit back and enjoy the trip through memory lane!! 01.2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This (Orchestral Mix) [BYTE 12006] 02.X-es - Beat Boy [FREAKY 1011-5] 03.Digital Boys Feat. Cool De Suck - Kokko (Elettro Mix) [DS 003] 04.Booming Support - Rode Schoentjes (Extended Mix) [BASIC 201-5] 05.SL2 - Way In My Brain [XLT-24] 06.Public Energy - Three 'O Three [PRO 5] 07.TronikHouse - Up Tempo [KMS-036] 08.Bass Boy - Let The Bass Be Louder (In Control Techno Mix) [MID 91125] 09.Beat In Time - Time [12CLSPIRIT7] 10.WestBam - The Mayday Anthem [865 867-1] 11.Set Up System - Fairy Dust (Blastomania Mix) [BTI 9105] 12.Joe Inferno - Tribal Church (Other Mix) [NMX 890] 13.The Prodigy - AndroÔd [XLT-17] 14.L.A. Style - James Brown Is Dead [DEC 9005] 15.Cubic 22 - Night In Motion [BTI 9104] 16.The Ultimate Seduction - Housenation [INT 1401] 17.Meng Syndicate - Sonar System (3 A.M. Mix) [MMI 9071] 18.Speedy J - Pullover [MMI 9068] 19.Mainx - 88 To Piano [HIT 6.014-R] 20.World Party II - Forget-It! [HPF 915] 21.Digital Boy - Tilt 21 [FLY 6726025] 22.After Dark - Cardiac (Sonic Mix) [HARD 001] 23.D.H.S. - The House Of God (The Remix) [X - 12099] 24.Turntable Hoschis - Psychic Complexx [OVER 006-12 25.Angel Ice - Je N'aime Que Toi [BB 027] 26.Mark N-R-G - Second Anual Report [OVER 004-12] 27.Pleasure Game - Le Seigneur Des TÈnËbres (Predator Mix) [MMI 9062] 28.Powell - I Am Ready (First Take) [DROP 0104-6] 29.Quadrophonia ñ Quadrophonia [656768 6] 30.Dj Trajic - Trajic Society [UC 237] 31.Jeff Porter - ABX J‰ger [Love 002] 32.Digital Boy - 1-2-3 Acid! (Hi-Speed Mix) [FLY 118] 33.Master Techno - My Noise [STD 42.12.31] 34.Maurizio Braccagni - Tribal Techno [BRA 001] 35.909 Bass Line - Duplicated [MMI 9317] 36.Channel X - Groove To Move [BB 033] 37.Channel X - Rave The Rhythm [BB 025 38.Phenomania - Who Is Elvis? [ETCR 01] 39.Second Phase - Mentasm [RS 9109] 40.D.J.P.C. - Inssomniak I Come Back (Concrete Mix) [146.083-5] 41.M.N.O. - God Of Abraham [TM 003] 42.Ramirez - Orgasmico [DFC8903] 43.Tones Energy - Phantasm [none] 44.In-10-S - Like A Real Drugdealer [DO 348] 45.Edge Of Motion - Set Up 707 [DJAX-UP-135] 46.Suburban Knights - The Art Of Stalking (Stalker Mix) [MS-13] 47.Digital Boy - Wave 128 [ITS 012] 48.Digital Boy - OK Alright! (Digital Boy '96 Remix) [ITS 003]

A special episode with HPF founder John Witeck. As we approach the end of HPF's 50th year, we sit down with Mr. Witeck to hear about how it all began. Tags: Hawai‘i, Hawai'i, Hawaii

In this special episode, get a close look at HPF's Giving Project, how it's taking “community giving=community doing” to the next level, and how YOU can get involved.  Mahalo nunui to members of our Giving Project family for sharing their reflections (in speaking order): Micky Huihui, Kaulana Ing, Chase Livingston, Mary Tam, Greg Kahn, Sean Aronson, Maxx Ramos, Tyler Sonnemaker, Rachel James, James Maunakea Secritario, and Angel Permito-Kaheaku. Learn more about the Giving Project at www.hawaiipeoplesfund.org/giving-project/. Tags: Hawai‘i, Hawai'i, Hawaii

A conversation about the past, present, and future of demilitarization activism with seasoned organizers Joy Enomoto and Kyle Kajihiro from Hawaiʻi Peace & Justice (HPJ). HPJ is a long-time HPF grantee working to promote peace, social justice, and ea in Hawaiʻi through community organizing, popular education, nonviolent direct action, and art as a tool for social change. HPJ's Koa Futures Initiative aims to develop a strong and dynamic grassroots demilitarization movement that confronts the perilous challenges facing Hawaiʻi and the world, to remove the destructive land use practices of the u.s. military, and grow decolonial futures as kīpuka aloha ʻāina in the midst of military occupation. Website: https://hawaiipeaceandjustice.org/   Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii

Join us in a special tribute to HPF Member Ren who was in a dark place earlier this year that lead to the breakdown of his marriage. Fast forward to now and it's flourishing, on track to be better than it ever was before! How you might ask? That's the magic of HPF, but listen in and gain at least some insights into his story and what he shares in a journey that's had phenomenal success.

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Stable radial-velocity variations at the rotation period of AD~Leonis -- A test case study of current limitations to treating stellar activity by D. Kossakowski et al. on Tuesday 13 September Context: A challenge with radial-velocity (RV) data is disentangling the origin of signals either due to a planetary companion or to stellar activity. In fact, the existence of a planetary companion has been proposed, as well as contested, around the relatively bright, nearby M3.0V star AD Leo at the same period as the stellar rotation of 2.23d. Aims: We further investigate the nature of this signal. We introduce new CARMENES optical and near-IR RV data and an analysis in combination with archival data taken by HIRES and HARPS, along with more recent data from HARPS-N, GIANO-B, and HPF. Also, we address the confusion concerning the binarity of AD Leo. Methods: We consider possible correlations between the RVs and various stellar activity indicators accessible with CARMENES. We applied models within a Bayesian framework to determine whether a Keplerian model, a red-noise quasi-periodic model using a Gaussian process, or a mixed model would explain the observed data best. We also exclusively focus on spectral lines potentially associated with stellar activity. Results: The CARMENES RV data agree with the previously reported periodicity of 2.23d, correlate with some activity indicators, and exhibit chromaticity. However, when considering the entire RV data set, we find that a mixed model composed of a stable and a variable component performs best. Moreover, when recomputing the RVs using only spectral lines insensitive to activity, there appears to be some residual power at the period of interest. We therefore conclude that it is not possible to determinedly prove that there is no planet orbiting in synchronization with the stellar rotation given our data, current tools, machinery, and knowledge of how stellar activity affects RVs. We do rule out planets more massive than 27M_E (=0.084M_J). We also exclude any binary companion around AD Leo with Msini > 3-6M_J on orbital periods

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Stable radial-velocity variations at the rotation period of AD~Leonis -- A test case study of current limitations to treating stellar activity by D. Kossakowski et al. on Tuesday 13 September Context: A challenge with radial-velocity (RV) data is disentangling the origin of signals either due to a planetary companion or to stellar activity. In fact, the existence of a planetary companion has been proposed, as well as contested, around the relatively bright, nearby M3.0V star AD Leo at the same period as the stellar rotation of 2.23d. Aims: We further investigate the nature of this signal. We introduce new CARMENES optical and near-IR RV data and an analysis in combination with archival data taken by HIRES and HARPS, along with more recent data from HARPS-N, GIANO-B, and HPF. Also, we address the confusion concerning the binarity of AD Leo. Methods: We consider possible correlations between the RVs and various stellar activity indicators accessible with CARMENES. We applied models within a Bayesian framework to determine whether a Keplerian model, a red-noise quasi-periodic model using a Gaussian process, or a mixed model would explain the observed data best. We also exclusively focus on spectral lines potentially associated with stellar activity. Results: The CARMENES RV data agree with the previously reported periodicity of 2.23d, correlate with some activity indicators, and exhibit chromaticity. However, when considering the entire RV data set, we find that a mixed model composed of a stable and a variable component performs best. Moreover, when recomputing the RVs using only spectral lines insensitive to activity, there appears to be some residual power at the period of interest. We therefore conclude that it is not possible to determinedly prove that there is no planet orbiting in synchronization with the stellar rotation given our data, current tools, machinery, and knowledge of how stellar activity affects RVs. We do rule out planets more massive than 27M_E (=0.084M_J). We also exclude any binary companion around AD Leo with Msini > 3-6M_J on orbital periods

It takes a village to discover and learn the details about a new planet. Consider TOI-532b. It was discovered using HPF — the Habitable-zone Planet Finder — an instrument attached to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory. A dossier then was compiled by HPF, a space telescope known as TESS, and several smaller telescopes on the ground. It took dozens of astronomers at many organizations to make it work. Astronomers have confirmed more than 5,000 planets in other star systems. There are several ways to find them, with different instruments and telescopes for each technique. It takes time and more instruments to fill in the details. HPF participates in both sides of the work. It's designed to find planets orbiting cool, faint stars. But it also follows up discoveries made by TESS. TOI-532 is one of many collaborations. The system is about 440 light-years away. The star is cooler, smaller, and much fainter than the Sun. The planet, TOI-532b, is a half-dozen times the diameter of Earth, and more than 60 times Earth's mass. That puts it in a special category, between Jupiter and Neptune, two giants of the solar system. TOI-532 is in Orion, which is high in the southeast at dawn. The star is just above bright orange Betelgeuse, which marks the hunter's shoulder.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Oil prices have swung extremely since the onset of the pandemic, from negative values to well over $100 per barrel. This podcast featuring portfolio manager Mike Dragosits unpacks what those swings mean for investors. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:45 - Why oil prices have swung so extremely? 04:03 - The likelihood of this roller coaster continuing 06:32 - Who have been the winners so far? 09:43 - The story of large-cap oil companies 12:18 - Other strategies for energy investors 15:14 - Compare and contrast: large cap vs small cap Hosted by: Mike Dragosits, CFA Portfolio Manager Harvest ETFs David Kitai Content Writer & Editor Harvest ETFs https://harvestportfolios.com/hpf About Harvest Portfolios Group Inc. Founded in 2009, Harvest is a Canadian Investment Fund Manager. Harvest offers an innovative suite of exchange traded funds, mutual funds and publicly-listed structured fund products designed to satisfy the long-term growth and income needs of investors. We pride ourselves in creating trusted investment solutions that meet the expectations of our investors. For additional information: Please visit www.harvestportfolios.com, e-mail info@harvestportfolios.com  or call toll free 1-866-998-8298.

Join us July 15, 7-8pm HST for a live Listening Lounge hosted by HPR's Generation Listen. We'll listen to highlights from the first season of Hawaiʻi Rising and talk story about HPF and the making of the podcast with moderator Paige Okamura, aka DJ Mermaid (host of Hawaiʻi Kulāiwi and Bridging the Gap). Registration link here and on the HPF website.

A 40-year-old man with no past medical history presents to the clinic to establish care. He reports that he had a prior urinalysis that revealed blood as an incidental finding. The urinalysis was done as a standard screening test by his former employer. He denies ever seeing any blood in his urine and denies any voiding difficulties, dysuria, sexual dysfunction, or any history or risk factors for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). His review of systems is otherwise negative. He has smoked a half-pack of cigarettes per day for the past 10 years and exercises by jogging 15 minutes and lightweight training daily.    On examination, his vital signs are normal and the entire physical examination is unremarkable. A complete blood count (CBC) and a chemistry panel (electrolytes, blood urea nitrogen [BUN], and creatinine) are normal. The results of a urinalysis done in your office are specific gravity, 1.015; pH 5.5; leukocyte esterase, negative; nitrites, negative; white blood cell count (WBC), 0; red blood cell count (RBC), 4 to 5 per high-power field (HPF).    Be sure to listen until the end when I will be presenting four questions with multiple choice answers and check back on Friday to the May's Anatomy Podcast instagram page for the answers!    Case Files: Family Medicine   To try my absolute favorite CBD product line from Cured Nutrition, use code "MAY10" at checkout for 10% off your entire order or simply click the link here Cured Nutrition   If you're interested in consuming slow-release caffeinated vanilla or matcha lattes, or if you're a coffee drinker who wants a little more collagen and protein in their diet, use code "MAY15" at checkout for 15% off your entire order or simply click the link here Strong Coffee   Use my WearFigs code to get a $20 gift card on purchases of $100+ http://fbuy.me/ofl13   For nursing tips, my experiences, and more musings on the show, follow our Instagram @_maysanatomy or follow my personal account  @mayyazdi   This is an Operation Podcast production. chase@operationpodcast.com

The weight of the world can sit on our shoulders, crippling us as men who feel like they don't have the energy or opportunity to rise up and win.  In this episode we go through 10 key points that are the embodiement of the Winners circle in HPF and how we win, and how you can too...

On Lā Honua (Earth Day) 2022, kiaʻi from different movements for land and water across Oʻahu gathered in Waialeʻe on the North Shore to build solidarity and connect with the movement to protect the Kahuku community from a proposed military radar. In this short podcast special, we take you on a march to the proposed radar site and spotlight a speech by Kainoa Azama, a young leader who heads the Hui Sivila ʻŌpiopio o Koʻolaupoko (Jr. Koʻolaupoko Civic Club), a 2021 HPF grantee. Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii

In this special episode, we take you to Kuamoʻo on Hawaiʻi island to hear the mo'olelo of the Battle of Kuamo'o on the ‘āina where it happened and to talk story with Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer about the impacts of uncontrolled real estate development and the promise of an alternative economics rooted in aloha ‘āina. Kamana Beamer is a professor at the University of Hawaiʻi - Mānoa, a founding member of ʻĀina Aloha Economic Futures, and the executive director of HPF community partner Aloha Kuamo'o ‘Āina, an organization that stewards the historic site of the Battle of Kuamo'o in the Kona district of Hawai'i Island. Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii

(Initially posted December 2, 2020) Nikolai Veresov helps to distinguish cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and cultural-historical theory (CHT). Highlights include: 0:35 - What is CHAT? (Ant's confession) 1:58 - Nikolai's preference for clarification over comparison 3:39 - Veresov (2020): Two theories with many strengths 5:51 - Nikolai's appreciation and respect for CHAT 7:27 - Nikolai's concerns about CHAT 8:36 - Historical background of CHT, Activity Theory, and CHAT 15:24 - Why is this important? 19:17 - Is Nikolai alone here? 23:18 - Three coexisting theories 25:55 - Specific features of CHT and of CHAT 32:20 - Is CHAT more about systems while CHT is about individuals? 34:45 - Personality, transformation, and metamorphosis (CHAT and CHT) 38:31 - Is there a metamorphosis dynamic in CHAT? 40:44 - The concept of contradiction in CHT and in CHAT 43:41 - An example of dialectical unity (life and birth and death) 48:52 - Vygotskian application of dialectical unity (not subject-object but individual-social) 54:12 - Example: development of HPF or cultural forms of behavior? 59:36 - Mediation in CHAT and in CHT 1:04:11 - Can tools ever have more agency than individuals? 1:09:50 - Should perezhivanie make an appearance in CHAT? 1:16:49 - Is CHAT concerned with cultural or social *development*? 1:19:28 - Where is Vygotsky in CHAT? 1:21:32 - Can developmental CHT principles map onto CHAT-esque domains? 1:25:13 - Nikolai's objection Veresov (2020) "Identity as a sociocultural phenomenon: the dialectics of belonging, being and becoming" is here: http://tiny.cc/pty5tz

(Originally posted Jan 10, 2020 at Chats about CHT http://tiny.cc/kmylsz) Chat 2 with Vygotskian psychologist, Nikolai Veresov. Highlights include: 1:52 - The great puzzle of Vygotsky's time (The "Crisis of Psychology") 6:30 - Even Kant thought the crisis was unsolvable 9:22 - How to see the invisible (W. Wundt's experimental research challenge & discussion of Lower and Higher Psychological Functions, e.g., logical memory, voluntary attention, imagination) 19:50 - Why did Wundt separate LPF and HPF, and how did he study HPF? 22:43 - Vygotsky's main contribution (not just theory but *new method*) Key point: when something is currently invisible, or inaccessible, (e.g., HPFs), see if you can go back to its infancy and track its development before it "disappears underground" http://nveresov.narod.ru/KIP.pdf - see Nikolai's paper, "Introducing cultural historical theory: main concepts and principles of genetic research methodology"

No doubt it can feel like women are a mystery to us at times, but in this phenomenal session where both husband AND wife are encouraged to listen to, we have an incredible guest Katrina who has worked with many women and talks all things intimacy and connection. We peel back the unspoken layers to help both men and women understand fundamental traps to avoid and the simple perspectives and turnarounds that can have your love life and homestead flourishing again!  Definitely one for the HPF history books you do NOT want to miss out on...

¶“1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God... 14And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1,14).Hebrews 1:3“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;” ¶“6...though he was in the form of God, [he] did not count equality with God a thing to be held on to, 7but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”¶“9Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow...” (Philippians 2:6-10).

Jaerick Medeiros-Garcia and Blake McNaughton are the president and vice president of Makahanaloa Fishing Association on Hawaiʻi Island. Makahanaloa Fishing Association seeks to grow and protect their community's rights to provide food for their families and maintain the generational bonds to the treasured shoreline areas of Hilo Palikū. The Association is currently trying to establish permanent and protected access to the shoreline of Pepeʻekeo on Hawaiʻi Island through the Public Open Lands and Natural Resources Conservation Commission. Education, outreach, and activation of this community-focused stewardship effort is the primary goal of the Association as they fight to stop the continual degradation of access to the ʻāina that nourishes their bodies and spirit. To see photos from our visit to Pepeʻekeo in November, visit the HPF blog at www.hawaiipeoplesfund.org/blog/. Tags: Hawaii, Hawai'i, Hawaiʻi

Who is Al, and what drives him? Find out more about the Founder of RDM and HPF from childhood traumas to relationship breakdowns that forged the family man building big achievements with an amazing team to help steer fathers and families in the right direction…   Available on ITunes, Spotify and other podcast platforms

In today's special episode, HPF takes you to Keaukaha on Hawai'i Island, where we joined the Ioane ‘Ohana and the King's Landing community for their Makahiki ceremony in November. Featuring live music and an interview with Keli'i “Skippy” Ioane. To learn more about King's Landing, check out our interview with ʻĀinaaloha and Haʻawina Ioane in episode 5 "Keliʻi William Ioane Legacy Foundation: Growing Up in King‘s Landing." Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii

Settling in life over a period of time will ALWAYS burn you. Especially as a father, you may think you are content or everything will be ok, but sooner or later the whole truth and reality comes in to unhinge you...   Find out why we have never settled with RDM, HPF and our Kozzie Event and hear of personal shares where we have settled and when we haven't and what that's meant both ways and how you can apply the same approach to win.

We dive deep in this episode with HPF member Nathan Hitchcock as we explore his upbringing, profession in the education industry, heartfelt family trauma with one of his children and life in the modern world as a man and human being.   Join us as we explore patience, presence and living a life with persistence where regardless of what life throws at you, you keep standing up and moving forward...

Deux membres de la Garde de Nuit, association francophone des fans de Game of Thrones présentent une émission sur comment la saga de G.R.R. Martin a été adaptée en série. Adrien, aka Eridan sur la Garde de Nuit, co-administrateur du site la Garde de Nuit, secrétaire-adjoint du Bureau de l'association. Contribue à l'enrichissement de l'encycloédie en ligne de la Garde de Nuit, anime la relecture "Au fil des Pages" du site, participe aux émissions de la Garde de Nuit sur twitch ou au podcast Son du Mur. Représente parfois l'association lors d'événements IRL (festivals Imaginales) et participe aux relectures bénévoles de la Garde de Nuit auprès des éditeurs pour les ouvrages traitant de l'œuvre de George R.R. Martin. Christophe aka Crys sur la Garde de Nuit, membre du forum depuis 2006 et rédacteur d'articles pour le blog. A participé a quelques émissions pour la Garde de Nuit comme la série d'émissions consacrées à la série sur France Inter comme VL Media, mais aussi l'émission anniversaire des 20 ans d'OCS. Actif sur le Twitch comme le podcast du Son du Mur de la Garde de Nuit. A ses heures perdues, quand il ne pense pas à Martin, également nouvelliste chez plusieurs éditeurs associatifs (Rivière Blanche, Arkuiris, Gandahar, HPF, etc.). Consacre un podcast au cinéma en costumes environ une fois par mois avec deux amis cinéphiles : La Douve. Les thématiques de l'émission : - Une saga littéraire inadaptable ? - Les négociations avec George / Qui sont D&D (filmographie, etc..) - Casting, décors, costumes : vieillir les personnages, tourner en extérieur, des costumes pas vraiment historiques, etc… - L'épisode pilote et les enjeux d'adaptation : - La place de GRRM dans le processus. - Adapter et faire des choix de simplification d'intrigues (ex: Tywin et Arya, les dialogues d'exposition de Cersei), faire des choix visuels (le kitsh de Martin…). - Montrer la violence à l'écran versus au fil des pages : deux approches différentes, et une réception différente + trauma-porn/surprise-porn pour faire le buzz - Le dépassement des livres : Comment adapter quand on n'a plus de matériel d'origine ? - Saga ancienne, problématique actuelle : la modernisation des représentations (Loras Renly, Tyrion Shae, Robb Tanselle, Asha lesbienne), les polémiques autour de la série - La place de la musique et l'importance du générique Plus d'informations sur https://www.histoireenseries.com

Welcome back to our weekend Cabral HouseCall shows! This is where we answer our community's wellness, weight loss, and anti-aging questions to help people get back on track! Check out today's questions:  Caroline: I have worked with a functional practitioner for a year and a half to heal my H pylori infection. To treat Hpylori, I used biocidin, bio-HPF and triple probiotics for two months. Now I take bio-HPF and probiotics daily and have no symptoms, however, if I stop bio-HPF, the symptoms come back within two days. I feel amazing on the herbals, but feel extremely defeated that I still have the infection. I am now interested in antibiotics but I am scared of the long term side effects. Do you ever feel like cases are in need of antibiotics or is there is deeper reason I am not fully treating H pylori? I take HCL with my meals to help digestion and have no stomach pain but is it better to avoid these while treating H pylori? Lisa: Dr. Cabral- Thanks for sharing so much great information!! My question is about my granddaughter, 3 years old, who has been diagnosed with enamel hypoplasia (soft enamel). By the time you read this she will have undergone surgery to put crowns on several of her teeth due to widespread decay. Her pediatric dentist says it is due to my daughter having had some some of fever during the pregnancy at the same time the baby's teeth were forming and that there is nothing that can be done for it. The dentist said my granddaughter will always have soft enamel and will probably end up with lots of crowns or implants, possibly false teeth. My daughter is beside herself because she feels it is her fault. She provides good dental care, lots of tooth brushing, limited sugar and processed foods, and no fruit juice. I'm in school for nutritional therapy and even though I've learned a great deal, I'm not sure how to help my granddaughter. She is a picky eater, which might be due to her teeth being uncomfortable - we don't know. Please help me understand what might be done from this point on to help her have the best outcome possible. Thank you! Lisa N Darren: Good day Dr. Cabral. We appreciate all you do. May seem like a trivial question and I'm not putting you on spot to promote any brand but when you highlight the benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar you typically talk about Bragg's. Would like to know if other brands like Vermont Village, Heinz, Dynamic are also good to use given they're USDA organic, GMP, non GMO and contain the "Mother" too. Thank you Luann: Hello Dr. Cabral! I hope all is well with you today! Do you have any insight into why my face gets very red when I exercise compared to the rest of my body? This has happened even when I was a little kid, and even when I was young and in very good shape running track and cross country. It also happens to my son who is and has always been very athletic. Thank you! Lu Brooke: Hello. My son is almost three. About 6 months ago he had giardia. We gave him what was prescribed and he cleared up. Since then, however, whenever he gets over tired or off schedule for a day, the next day he has diarrhea. We had him retested and he tested negative for giardia but positive for leukocytes in his stool. Do you have any thoughts on what it may be or what the best protocol to help his little guys would be? Thanks so much for your time! Krystle: Hi Dr. Cabral, My question is a bit threefold, so thank you in advance for your review and guidance! I delivered identical twin boys at 33.5 weeks, resulting in a 23 day NICU stay. One of my twins was required to be on a CPAP for lung support. This twin is constantly contracting rsv - the first time needing hospitalization for oxygen support. I've been told asthma may be inevitable, so I would like to strengthen his lungs, immunity and try to prevent further complications down the line. My other son is frequently battling eczema - both who are now 2, have been diagnosed with a minimal stove too egg allergy and have been advised they will grow out of it. I have noticed that by removing dairy and gluten, the eczema clears up. Wondering if there are any connections between both twins symptoms or if they are requiring separate treatments. I appreciate your suggestions! Thank you for tuning into today's Cabral HouseCall and be sure to check back tomorrow where we answer more of our community's questions!  - - - Show Notes & Resources: http://StephenCabral.com/2101 - - - Get Your Question Answered: http://StephenCabral.com/askcabral   - - - Dr. Cabral's New Book, The Rain Barrel Effect https://amzn.to/2H0W7Ge - - - Join the Community & Get Your Questions Answered: http://CabralSupportGroup.com - - -  Dr. Cabral's Most Popular At-Home Lab Tests: > Complete Minerals & Metals Test (Test for mineral imbalances & heavy metal toxicity) - - - > Complete Candida, Metabolic & Vitamins Test (Test for 75 biomarkers including yeast & bacterial gut overgrowth, as well as vitamin levels) - - - > Complete Stress, Mood & Metabolism Test (Discover your complete thyroid, adrenal, hormone, vitamin D & insulin levels) - - - > Complete Stress, Sleep & Hormones Test (Run your adrenal & hormone levels) - - - > Complete Food Sensitivity Test (Find out your hidden food sensitivities) - - - > Complete Omega-3 & Inflammation Test (Discover your levels of inflammation related to your omega-6 to omega-3 levels) - - - > View all Functional Medicine lab tests (View all Functional Medicine lab tests you can do right at home for you and your family)

Meet Micky Huihui and Matthew Kaulana Ing at the Hawaiʻi People's Fund. HPF has helped to support, build capacity, and amplify the impact of grassroots social change movements in Hawaiʻi since 1972. In this introductory episode of Hawaiʻi Rising, you'll hear about HPF's roots in the social movements of the 1970s, about year-round funding opportunities, and about how this podcast fits into HPF's mission.   Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii

Christians Should Not Fear DeathFear comes from uncertainty. Fear comes from the unknown. Why should anyone be afraid when they know what will happen and that it is a good thing? That's why Paul is so bold about the idea of dying. He knows what comes after he dies: he will be with the Lord.Jesus Christ died and was raised from the dead. Death could not hold Him. With His resurrection, He “abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Timothy 1:10 NKJV). Jesus has the “keys of hell and of death” (Revelation 1:18 KJV). He is in control, even of death. Why should we be afraid?“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 5:8 KJV)

In this special HPF edition we talk to our Culture, Systems and Operations man Adam about the value of our back end work that connects to our members. We are pioneering a service to fathers at the highest level connecting facts and feelings in a unique and specific way that continues to lead to massive breakthroughs. Find out how, and how you can apply this to your life as well to get back in front again the right way.

In this special HPF edition we dive into the emotional and stressful parts of life, both the good and the bad to gain an understanding of where you are relative to your health and wellbeing. Here, Energy Coach Ken dives into chemical influences in your emotions and stress as well as the only approach you should have to achieving a higher level of performance in life – as a whole.

In this first episode of HPF, I share what our over goals are for the podcast and why we started this podcast. As always, please subscribe and help us to spread the message of high performance fatherhood.

Nikolai Veresov helps to distinguish cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and cultural-historical theory (CHT). (Initially published December 2, 2020) Highlights include: 0:35 - What is CHAT? (Ant's confession) 1:58 - Nikolai's preference for clarification over comparison 3:39 - Veresov (2020): Two theories with many strengths 5:51 - Nikolai's appreciation and respect for CHAT 7:27 - Nikolai's concerns about CHAT 8:36 - Historical background of CHT, Activity Theory, and CHAT 15:24 - Why is this important? 19:17 - Is Nikolai alone here? 23:18 - Three coexisting theories 25:55 - Specific features of CHT and of CHAT 32:20 - Is CHAT more about systems while CHT is about individuals? 34:45 - Personality, transformation, and metamorphosis (CHAT and CHT) 38:31 - Is there a metamorphosis dynamic in CHAT? 40:44 - The concept of contradiction in CHT and in CHAT 43:41 - An example of dialectical unity (life and birth and death) 48:52 - Vygotskian application of dialectical unity (not subject-object but individual-social) 54:12 - Example: development of HPF or cultural forms of behavior? 59:36 - Mediation in CHAT and in CHT 1:04:11 - Can tools ever have more agency than individuals? 1:09:50 - Should perezhivanie make an appearance in CHAT? 1:16:49 - Is CHAT concerned with cultural or social *development*? 1:19:28 - Where is Vygotsky in CHAT? 1:21:32 - Can developmental CHT principles map onto CHAT-esque domains? 1:25:13 - Nikolai's objection Veresov (2020) "Identity as a sociocultural phenomenon: the dialectics of belonging, being and becoming" is here: http://tiny.cc/pty5tz

¿Quieres mejorar la calidad de tu mezcla? En este episodio veremos algunos tips para poder tener un mix más limpio, tener un buen balance de volumen y mantener a la congregación enfocada en el servicio. No olvides suscribirte a nuestro podcast para escuchar más tips y estrategias de mezcla y visítanos en www.mixnsound.com para más recursos.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.09.03.281956v1?rss=1 Authors: Heiligenstein, X., de Beer, M., Heiligenstein, J., Eyraud, F., Manet, L., Schmitt, F., Lamers, E., Lindenau, J., Kea-te Lindert, M., Salamero, J., Raposo, G., sommerdijk, N., Belle, M., Akiva, A. Abstract: With the development of advanced imaging methods that took place in the last decade, the spatial correlation of microscopic and spectroscopic information - known as multimodal imaging or correlative microscopy (CM) - has become a broadly applied technique to explore biological and biomedical materials at different length scales. Among the many different combinations of techniques, Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) has become the flagship of this revolution. Where light (mainly fluorescence) microscopy can be used directly for the live imaging of cells and tissues, for almost all applications, electron microscopy (EM) requires fixation of the biological materials. Although sample preparation for EM is traditionally done by fixation and embedding in a resin, rapid cryogenic fixation (vitrification) has become a popular way to avoid the formation of artefacts related to the chemical fixation/embedding procedures. During vitrification, the water in the sample transforms into an amorphous ice, keeping the ultrastructure of the biological sample as close as possible to the native state. One immediate benefit of this cryo-arrest is the preservation of protein fluorescence, allowing multi-step multi-modal imaging techniques for CLEM. To explore further the potential of cryo-fixation, we developed a high pressure freezing (HPF) system that allows vitrification under different environmental parameters and apply it in different CLEM workflows. In this chapter we introduce our novel HPF live instrument with a focus on its coupling to a light microscope. We elaborate on the optimization of sample preservation and the time needed to capture a biological event, going from live imaging to cryo-arrest using HPF. We will address the adaptation of HPF to novel correlation workflows related to the forthcoming transition from imaging 2D (cell monolayers) to imaging 3D samples (tissue) and the associated importance of homogeneous deep vitrification. Lastly, we will discuss the potential of our HPM within CLEM protocols especially for correlating live imaging using the Zeiss LSM900 with electron microscopy. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.31.274928v1?rss=1 Authors: Ben-Yishay, E., Krivoruchko, K., Ron, S., Ulanovsky, N., Derdikman, D., Gutfreund, Y. Abstract: Birds strongly rely on spatial memory and navigation. However, it is unknown how space is represented in the avian brain. Here we used tetrodes to record neurons from the hippocampal formation (HPF) of Japanese quails - a migratory ground-dwelling species - while the quails roamed a 1x1-meter arena (~2,100 neurons from 21 birds). Whereas spatially-modulated cells (place-cells, border-cells, etc.) were generally not encountered, the firing-rate of 12% of the neurons was unimodally and significantly modulated by the head-azimuth - i.e. these were head-direction cells (HD cells, n=260). Typically, HD cells were maximally active at one preferred-direction and minimally at the opposite null-direction, with preferred-directions spanning all 360{degrees}. The HD tuning was relatively broad (mean ~130{degrees}), independent of the animal's position and speed, and was stable during the recording-session. These findings support the existence of an allocentric head-direction representation in the quail HPF, and provide the first demonstration of head-direction cells in birds. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

¿Alguna vez has visto un botón llamado /80 en una consola, pero no sabes qué es? En este episodio veremos qué es este botón, para qué lo podemos utilizar y cómo nos ayudaría en nuestra mezcla. No olvides suscribirte a nuestro podcast para aprender más acerca de equipo de sonido y sus componentes y visítanos en www.mixnsound.com para más recursos.

Nikolai and I continue chatting about GRM, the "genetic research methodology" that unifies Vygotsky's Cultural-historical theory. GRM is the experimental side; CHT is the theoretical side. This is chat 4. (Originally published April 21, 2020 at Chats about CHT http://tiny.cc/kmylsz) Highlights include: 0:58 - Nikolai discusses his new book (translation of Vygotsky's late lectures for teachers) 6:01 - How many laws did Vygotsky discover? 11:20 - Our goals for today - Conducting a Vygotskian Experiment (Principle 4) 12:30 - Nikolai's role in identifying the 5 Principles of Genetic Research Method 14:42 - Why this experimental principle is important 15:01 - Relation between Principle 4 (experimental principle) and Mediation (theoretical principle) 20:31 - Two types of mediators: physical tools and psychological tools (i.e., signs) 24:48 - The principle of signification distinguishes human from other types of development 28:14 - Who mediates? (as opposed to What mediates?) 32:10 - Interdependence of social interaction and mediation 34:48 - Signification vs signalization: Vygotsky's departure from Pavlov (speech is not a 'second signal system') 40:24 - Is a genre synonymous with a sign or family of signs? 42:46 - Veronika Nourkova's research on the development of memory 44:43 - How is the Principle of Developmental Tools related to the rest of Cultural-historical Theory? 50:20 - Vygotsky's neglected "most important" law of cultural development: The Law of 4 Stages 1:00:24 - HPFs develop at different rates -- law of 'de-synchronicity' 1:05:37 - The importance of Principle 4 as an experimenter and researcher 1:08:29 - What is universal about human psychological development? 1:11:11 - How the law of 4 stages can support research - e.g., Minson study 1:15:16 - Some examples of how (uniquely human) cultural memory works 1:21:27 - Importance for teachers -- very interesting! 1:25:48 - When Nikolai was young . . . and always late 1:28:59 - Which kinds of research questions can be answered with Principle 4? 1:31:56 - Are there ways to identify students' differing rates of HPF development? 1:34:29 - A favorite joke about motivation 1:39:09 - Which HPFs are in action in certain academic tasks? References: L. S. Vygotsky's Pedological Works, Vol. 1 Foundations of Pedology - http://tiny.cc/vtlhnz Tools of the Mind - https://toolsofthemind.org/about/history/ "Refocusing the Lens of Development: Towards Genetic Research Methodology" - http://tiny.cc/wflhnz

Chat 2 with Vygotskian psychologist, Nikolai Veresov. (Originally published Jan 10, 2020 at Chats about CHT http://tiny.cc/kmylsz) Highlights include: 1:52 - The great puzzle of Vygotsky's time (The "Crisis of Psychology") 6:30 - Even Kant thought the crisis was unsolvable 9:22 - How to see the invisible (W. Wundt's experimental research challenge & discussion of Lower and Higher Psychological Functions, e.g., logical memory, voluntary attention, imagination) 19:50 - Why did Wundt separate LPF and HPF, and how did he study HPF? 22:43 - Vygotsky's main contribution (not just theory but *new method*) Key point: when something is currently invisible, or inaccessible, (e.g., HPFs), see if you can go back to its infancy and track its development before it "disappears underground" http://nveresov.narod.ru/KIP.pdf - see Nikolai's paper, "Introducing cultural historical theory: main concepts and principles of genetic research methodology"

This episode is brought to you by me. If you like this show and want to support it, please visit my courses on Pluralsight and buy my new book "200 Things Developers Should Know", which is about Programming, Career, Troubleshooting, Dealing with Managers, Health, and much more. You can find my Pluralsight courses and the book at www.developerweeklypodcast.com/AboutDennis is a veteran architect in the .NET space with a special interest in writing clean code, Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing and everything agile. He specializes in designing enterprise solutions based on the .NET technologies as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building and maintaining enterprise systems. He is the author of www.fluentassertions.com, a very popular .NET assertion framework, www.liquidprojections.net, a set of libraries for building Event Sourcing architectures and he has been maintaining coding guidelines for C# on www.csharpcodingguidelines.com since 2001. He also keeps a blog on his everlasting quest for better solutions at www.continuousimprover.com. You can reach him on twitter through @ddoomen.Show resources:www.fluentassertions.comwww.liquidprojections.netwww.csharpcodingguidelines.com Dennis's GitHub profileDennis's blog: www.continuousimprover.comFollow Dennis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ddoomenSlides of the presentation Trials and tribulations of a successful open-source project Full transcript:Barry Luijbregts  0:17 Welcome to another episode of developer weekly. This week I'm talking with Dennis Dolman about managing a successful open source project. Dennis is a veteran architect in the dotnet space with a special interest in writing clean code, domain driven design, event sourcing and everything agile. He specializes in designing enterprise solutions based on the dotnet technologies, as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building and maintaining enterprise systems is the author of fluent assertions.com a very popular dotnet assertion framework, liquid projections dotnet a set of libraries for building event sourcing architectures, and he has been maintaining coding guidelines for C sharp on C sharp coding guidelines.com since 2001. He also keeps a blog on his everlasting quest for better solutions at continuous improver.com you can reach him at Twitter through Dennis Doomen. Hey, welcome To the show, Dennis, thank you for your time. Also, how are you doing? Dennis Doomen  2:03 Great, thank you for asking. Yeah, really great. By the way, my Twitter handle is d Doman doing Yes. Yeah. Yes. Barry Luijbregts  2:12 I will put all of this in the show notes so that people can check you out and follow you from there. Dennis Doomen  2:19 If you read up the bio like that, and then it's like, really? Is that me? Am I really doing all this stuff? And then I think like, yeah, I'm actually doing all this stuff. Not as active as I used to be. But still, yeah. Barry Luijbregts  2:33 You seem pretty busy indeed. Dennis Doomen  2:35 is the combination of 23 years of software development, and I have a lot of passions. But yeah, to be honest, since this topic is about open source, it's sometimes struggling to find the time to work on all these things at the same time, so it is a lot of things. Yeah, Barry Luijbregts  2:51 I can imagine. So your your bio says that you are an architect, right? Does that mean that you just draw pictures all day? Dennis Doomen  3:00 I like to believe in according architect, I don't really believe in architects that just, indeed draw pictures and PowerPoint or dry or something. I really like to be part of the development team. So generally, I spend about 30% of my time on coding. And the rest is, you know, the typical things that architect does. meetings, alignments, code reviews, and the drawing a PowerPoint picture occasionally. I have to say, the last couple of weeks, I've been particularly busy with alignment related works. So most of my coding happens in the evening, unfortunately, but that will change soon again. But Up to now, yeah, I've managed to spend almost half of my time still on production code. Barry Luijbregts  3:43 That's excellent. Yeah, cuz that's fun, isn't it? Dennis Doomen  3:46 Oh, yeah. I mean, I just said I spent the last four weeks not doing it. And I really, really miss it. You know, working with team building something that goes into production. I'm a finisher person. So I like to build something put production, see how it runs, optimize it. That is my I'm not the person that starts new things and then moves on. I love to finish things and really make it production ready. Barry Luijbregts  4:10 Right. That's very good. So today I wanted to talk to you about open source, you have a lot of open source projects. So I want to talk about what you're doing and how you make it successful and aspects of open source. But let's just take a step back for the listener and talk about what open source is. So to you what actually is open source and what's the alternative and why does it exist? Dennis Doomen  4:38 That's a good question and think about this. Open source is, is software that you can use for free of course, that's the the generic generic definition that most people understand. But it doesn't come for free. I mean, it is free, but it doesn't come for free. If you use open source over for me, it means that that's kind of a policy that I use it myself as much Clients projects is that if you use something like that, you need to make sure that either there's a big group of people behind that. So it's there to last, you know, they and the group is capable of providing support, or the quality of that code needs to be good enough that in case, the author authors that that were behind a project, abandon the product project, that you're capable of taking that code and make it your own, because in the end, it is still something that you are responsible for. And, yeah, so that means that you if you use some open source library, you have to you have to actually make sure it makes sense, you know, which also includes the vulnerabilities the how fast people react to issues, do they accept pull requests, how well is the documentation written, doesn't have proper tests, unit tests that will also help you understand? So I actually just as critical to open source as I am to the code that I'm writing myself or the team is writing. So yeah, so and the conference Or the alternative, of course, is commercial software, which also comes with the pros and cons. Yes, you get good support. Of course you pay for that. But there's also risk that because it's proprietary, and it's closed. And if you find a bug or something like that you kind of left to the gods to fix the buck in time, which is a bit easier with open source software. Barry Luijbregts  6:22 Right. So, open source software is open as in you can see the source you can contribute to the source and it is generally free, right? And then close software, you need to pay for it. And it's all a black box, basically. Dennis Doomen  6:36 Yeah, but you get something in return, of course, you get support. In general, you get support. Usually, commercial software is also a bit more tested regularly. But again, you have to depends what open source software you use. If you use some some obscure library. That usually is not the case. But if you use one of the popular libraries, especially the Java or JavaScript world, of course, you get like good support for that. Barry Luijbregts  6:59 Right because That's obviously the the the nightmare scenario where you rely heavily on an open source project in your production software, and then it gets abandoned. Dennis Doomen  7:09 Yeah, doesn't get updated. happens. I mean, it's almost inevitable. Sometimes people just abandon the product because it's been replaced by something more mature, or maybe Microsoft has built something similar. It always happens. I know, for instance, a very popular logging library called lib blog, which was beautiful because it didn't add the requirement or didn't add a dependency to your project, just a couple of source files. And which would make your code independent of the specific logging library has been abandoned because Microsoft now has created their own abstraction in HPF in dotnet core, right, there's good reasons for that. And that means you need to you need to move away from that. Yeah, sometimes it's not entirely clear what the future is a I've been a very active user of an hibernate for years. The dotnet open Object relational mapper. For a while it looked like it was kind of dead in the water. And now it's getting traction again. But of course, we have Microsoft Entity Framework, which is supposed to be competitor. Yeah, of course, the one from Microsoft is supported by Microsoft, it's part of the built that framework. And that is a trade off that you're going to take. It has less features, you know, versus an open source thing. He said, with more and more projects, I noticed proxy kits, which is something that colleague from the dotnet community, they mean he created, which is a beautiful little proxy that you can use in your dotnet application without the deployment footprint, which serves a real purpose. But since Microsoft is not building something inside the dotnet framework, he decided to abandon it or to stop developing. This is normal. This will happen eventually. Barry Luijbregts  8:49 Yeah, absolutely. I can imagine plus people get busy and just, you know, start doing other things with their lives. Dennis Doomen  8:55 Of course, they get children, they shift focus, they move to a different platform, and No, that happens all the time. Yeah. But I'm still here. I'm still here. I don't have to go away. Barry Luijbregts  9:07 Yeah. And we can rely on you to just keep pulling these great open source projects forwards. Dennis Doomen  9:12 Well, the good thing is I'm not pulling it down myself alone. I mean, there's more people involved. That is also crucial, of course. Yeah. Barry Luijbregts  9:19 All right. Let's talk a bit about that. So let's let's first start with your open source contributions. You have a lot, you have fluid assertions, you have liquid projections and C sharp coding line guidelines. Why did you start those? Dennis Doomen  9:34 Yeah, and they also have, I think, fluid caching, and caching and I have beacon which is a built light tool. Barry Luijbregts  9:45 Yes. Oh, God, you're so busy. I actually saw your your GitHub profile. And you can see the activity charter on your GitHub profile. And you just put me to shame man, because it's all green. Dennis Doomen  9:56 Now, it's not that bad. No, no, maybe it looks like that. Because I don't not every evening, I have the energy to work on that. I'm always struggling between writing on my, my next blog post. Mostly fluid assertions. I have done a bit of development recently I do mostly do the code reviews, and handle the discussions from people that want to contribute or have questions that don't align with the philosophy of the library. That is my big, it's almost like I'm the architect again, also for this library. But I have a good good friend Jonas, Leah Europe, who is in Denmark, who is very active right now. I even can't keep up with all the things he's doing sometimes. Yeah. Barry Luijbregts  10:36 And this is on fluent assertions. Yes. Just search. Yes. And and what is that? Exactly? Can you expand a bit on what what it is and why it is there. Dennis Doomen  10:44 It's a small library to make your the assertions and unit tests a bit more readable. I mean, if you're a fan of fluid API's, then you will love it. If you hate fluid API's, because those people exist as Well, you'll hate it. And it's really optimized to make the error messages that when you're, I don't know, the result of your test does not match what was expected that you get really clear messages. This is one of the unique selling points, Barry Luijbregts  11:15 right? Because normally when I do unit tests and an assertion fails, it's it's sometimes difficult to find out why that actually is exactly Dennis Doomen  11:23 so it will include the actual variable that you're asserting on. So it tries to read the stack trace. And you can usually also add, like a because to it to emphasize like, what is it? Why does this thing have to be true? Is that a false? Because what I hate is that expected it, what does it do is a expect the true found false? What does that say? I want to know like, I mean, you can still do that if you do something like my variable should be true. And it isn't true, it will say, expected my variable to be true, but it's false, which is a slight improvement with the least you know, my Variable if my variable has a more functional name, it will help you. But you can also add a message to it like because and then you can describe some functional expectation there. On my one, my unit test to be crystal clear, I want to have a clear range act and assert part. And I treat my unit tests in general as documentation. That's why I also love test driven development and fluent assertions really ties well in to that philosophy. Barry Luijbregts  12:25 Yeah, right. I just I can't wrap my mind around test driven development as in I do understand what it is, I just have such a hard time actually doing it. You know, Dennis Doomen  12:36 it's all about, you know, treating your code as or treating your test as a kind of specifications. And I literally call my test projects dot specs instead of dot test. Because Yeah, I when I when I tried to design a class, and usually I've already thought about the scope of that class and the responsibility of the class in the bigger picture, and then I just thought to spin up scenarios. Usually I even create a test class. And then at the top of my class, like all the functional scenarios that I think the class should adhere to, and then start implement those tests. And while I do that dummy effect that I'm trying to define the expected behavior triggers thoughts about, wait a second, what if this happens, what if that happens, and immediately when I do that, I write it to do it at the top of the page, so that I don't forget to call for that scenario, and then I start to implement it. I'm not that dogmatic that it's really like, you don't write a single line of production code until there's a test. That's what TDD actually tells you. I'm a bit more practical than that. But I definitely use my test as a way to drive the behavior of my class. And after that, my tests are not just a safety net, they also documentation. This also applies by the way to flow decision if you go to the tests. The goal of those is to also because quite often if I get a question on the internet about some behavior of an API fluency I generally don't go to the implementation, I go to the tests to see how it is whatthis petition what this specific API will look like. I refer people to that specific test case, which is the promise of TDD. And I generally believe in that. Barry Luijbregts  14:15 Yeah, I think it's a good, good way to work. So just to step back for people that don't know what test driven development is, it is when you first create your test and then write the code to make that test work basically. Correct. Yes. So all right, does that. So that's fluent assertions. And that's a very specific use case, really, you know, to help with unit tests, very niche thing, but still, it has 50 million downloads, right? That's a lot. Oh, how did you do that? 50 Dennis Doomen  14:42 I didn't do anything. I mean, yeah, what did I do? I think I felt myself like, why is it successful and it is a bit of a mystery for me as well. If I had to move Things that I think have been, you know, have been cultivated to that is probably because it's, first of all, it's a library. You know, it's not a framework, it's not something that if you buy into it that you're stuck forever. I know that people have switched over from n unit to fluent assertions just by using a regular expression. So it means that if you if you start to use it, it's not like you're stuck until the end of time. That's a big difference already. Barry Luijbregts  15:25 Add an add on to your project. Yeah, so much. Exactly. Dennis Doomen  15:28 Yeah. This is for me is also like, I love to build libraries, not frameworks, because I know, I also love to use libraries, not frameworks, because frameworks, yeah, they use you. And you know, you have to derive from base classes, which makes it very hard to change later on. And it's only used in test code. I mean, nobody's using a couple of people are but generally people use flute assertions in their test code, which means it's not as production critical. You know, performance is not that production critical. Yes, what I mentioned Before uses, I've been using TDD from the start. So even if somebody reports a bug, the first thing I do is I create a test case to verify that there's a bug exists. And if so I'll fix it after. So basically, the test will fail, then I fix the bug, and then I make sure that test is green. And White, is it successful documentation. I've been pretty adamant about documentation since day one. Support I would say is pretty good. I see that there's a lot of activity on StackOverflow. Most of the questions I don't even have to answer myself. There's a quite big community. Of course, that didn't happen from the start. In the beginning, I had to spend a lot of time on this. It's quite extensible. So if you want to you can you can build all kinds of extra extensions to the framework, build your own extensions or your your own assertions have documented that. And yeah, and it will make your test more readable than it doesn't have a catchy name. I don't know. I like flew in the I mean, all my open source libraries have something fluidity in the name. I don't know. Yeah. Or liquid? Yes. Yeah. But it's all the same. I actually look for that. I have fluid caching fluent assertions, liquid projections. Yeah. What's in a name? And yeah, Barry Luijbregts  17:13 very good. Very good job. So you're saying documentation is a big part of it? Yeah. Because when I started using something, and the documentation isn't there or isn't good, then I tend to just go away and look for something else that I that's easier to use. Because I'm looking for ease of use. Of course, I want to use this right now. I want to be able to implement it right now. And if I run into any trouble, it should be right there. So did you create the documentation yourself at first? Yeah. Dennis Doomen  17:41 Yeah, I did. I had the various versions of that in the past. It wasn't code blocks, of course. But since since it, I think, three, four years I've been using GitHub Pages with a Jekyll template behind that. I've had some help from people like Somebody helped me set a cloud fare and somebody else created the logo for me. I use them minimal mistakes, which is kind of a general template for that. So over time I started to I didn't look like that from the start. I mean, if I look in the past, I found a very ugly codeplex page a long time ago, it's still getting somewhere. Right? Yeah. But yeah, there's so much stuff available for free to set it up with the documentation. Yeah. And of course, people contribute to me what I do these days since the documentation is part of the same repository. If somebody creates a pull request, I actually we actually asked them to also add a, like a small addition to the documentation and add a row to the release notes, because they're all part of the same repository, which helps, of course, to streamline this whole process. Right, yeah, this is the maturity that happened over the years, you know, trying to find the best way to deal with documentation, and how to keep it up to date. And, of course, there's some ad side note as well, that pays for all the DNS Sorry, all the domain names. Most of the stuff is free these days very easy to set it up. Barry Luijbregts  19:06 So you have documentation, everything is on GitHub. Do you have other plumbing setup for building and testing things? Dennis Doomen  19:14 Yes, of course. In the past, I used a simple batch script. And that's funny because I also use my open source project to try new things over time. I did once in a presentation about the evolution but I remember that in 2009, about a year after we started making an open source, we use a simple batch file, you know, just to which calls M is built, and that's it. And then I think somewhere in I don't know 2014 15. We moved to SATA, which is a PowerShell built based build script, because I really strongly believe in build local as you build remotes, so I treat my build server just as a, as a trigger, you know, it's too triggered to build to run the build script, collect some results. And that's it. But I want to be able to run everything locally as I do it remotely. Because I want to be able to make sure that my nougat package that comes out of that is correct has the right dependencies and I want to be able to debug that if something goes wrong. Then I think I moved removed to cake, which was a built framework using C sharp, but that didn't really like it wasn't really C sharp, was kind of their own language. And since last year, we switched to nuke, which is also a C sharp based build system, but it's very mature, very nice to work with, allows me even to the book, put breakpoints in my build script. And I use App fair as my build engine which is free. So that's nice. Barry Luijbregts  20:43 Yeah. That is nice. Yes, because some of this stuff does cost money, right? You need a domain name correct. You have all sorts of other small costs. And of course your time as well, that costs money. Dennis Doomen  21:00 Well, the time is just private time. That's what it is. It's just my personal investment in that. Barry Luijbregts  21:07 And do you get time from your employer to work on this? Dennis Doomen  21:11 No, yeah, I can. I just don't have enough time period. I am officially have a day a week to work on all kinds of stuff, coaching presentations. But I'm so busy with my clients, I can't really find time. I know in the past that I fixed some bugs, you know that we run into a project and use that to fix it. But generally, I'm too busy. So I don't have that much time. I mostly do it in the evening, on the weekends. Barry Luijbregts  21:34 Right. Dennis Doomen  21:36 So and I don't get paid. So that's the thing. Barry Luijbregts  21:38 Yeah. You don't get paid that that's the thing. Yeah. So what about the rest of the costs? How do you how do you cover those? Do you have sponsorship or, Dennis Doomen  21:46 and not really, what what I'm very happy with the fact that JetBrains is really supporting the dotnet community. I get free licenses for almost everything and also everybody who contributes As an active contributor to the project gets a gets a resharper, a writer or whatever you want to use, which is awesome. And I've always done that. This is not the reason, by the way, and why I'm such a proponent of the IDE writer. But it just happens to be like that before when I was still using Visual Studio. I benefited from a free resharper license. I also use semantic merge, which is awesome C sharp merge tool, which gets free licenses for but that's about it. I fee is already free. GitHub is free. So in general, it's just time. Barry Luijbregts  22:32 Yeah, right. Yeah. So that's, that's actually a very great incentive for the community that they could get free licenses for IDs and other tools. Dennis Doomen  22:41 And there's a lot of tools that a lot of companies that do that I don't use that many different tools but in generally I think gets cracking which is my I think I also have a free license by the way gets cracking is my most my popular. My favorite gets a user interface. tried many of them. I think I have a free license for that as well. actually add a banner to the for the searchers landing page. Barry Luijbregts  23:03 Right. And what about the dotnet foundation? That's a foundation that helps open source projects. Right? Yeah. Are you a part of that too? Do you want to be? Dennis Doomen  23:13 I'm not sure. I'm not part of that. I have contacted once and had to fill a little information I still haven't figured out what it adds to me what will I gain from it? Right. I have to talk a little bit with because I know that found the the, the board member the lead board member I know I know. I know her so I need to check a little bit like what what do I gain from that? I haven't really spent a lot of time on the data fortunately. Barry Luijbregts  23:39 Right? Because I what I think the one of the things that they do is provide coaching as well as to how to build and create your, your community. And I think you already have a very good community actually Dennis Doomen  23:53 That's my point. Yeah, it evolved over time. So I don't need anything there. I don't need legal support. If I happen, then I can use my employer for that. No, no need for it right now. But in general, if you need to do your own marketing a little bit, I mean, yeah, I've done a lot of presentations over the last 10 years, not about fluids assertions, but also about mostly about architecture, but also about test driven development. And of course, I will use flow decisions now. And I might not even mentioned that it's a, you know, little plug of the library. That's how I do it. And everything that I designed came because I needed something I was missing something and I talked about that a blog about that. I do sometimes report we actually I spent a while on StackOverflow. It's probably a couple of years ago, where I was checking all the unit testing related questions and try to answer them and sometimes use that as a opportunity to plug flow decisions a little bit. I don't remember exactly how active I had been so long ago already. Yes, 12 years. Barry Luijbregts  24:59 That's a long time. Yeah, but then you did do a lot of marketing, also indirectly by doing your presentations, of course, because people see you, and then they check you out. And then they get to live their Dennis Doomen  25:10 True. True. Yeah. And I've also been very open about the design philosophy. And fluent assertions itself is also you can see it as a project, you learn new things from it. So when I started using nuke as an example, for my build tool, I write a blog post about it. When I was thinking about all the backwards compatibility issues that we're facing, I use that also to write about that or talk about that. There's a little it also creates a lot of inspiration for me to experiment and talk about topics related to that and use that as opportunities to, to also like coach clients, for instance, because they're also running the same problems, releasing branching strategies, all that stuff. It's Barry Luijbregts  25:49 like a real project. Dennis Doomen  25:50 It is. It is absolutely a big one. And yeah, it's quite popular. Barry Luijbregts  25:59 Absolutely. So lots of people have downloaded this millions. And so also people that use it in older applications, I imagine Yeah, as in applications that now run in production, and they just forgot about or will never update again. So how do you deal with supporting older frameworks? For instance, I see on one of your pages that you still support dotnet 4.5, right runs on dotnet 4.5, which is relatively old. How do you decide that you want to still support that? Dennis Doomen  26:33 It is a matter of costs, as in if it's relatively easy to support it without making my development effort more complicated. I'll keep it in. Especially with the recent cross compilation cross compilation process that that has, it has been fairly easy to support multiple different frameworks. It's just a matter of putting a target frameworks property in your CSS. support. And that is enough. And of course, some things won't compile. So you have to play around a little bit with if def statements. Unknown Speaker  27:09 So it's not that bad. Dennis Doomen  27:13 But yeah, every major release, which happens every couple of years, we tend to drop things. I mean, latest official version right now is five point 10. When was five introduced, I think have it somewhere written down. Version five was introduced in 2018. Beginning and deed which included all that four, five, that standard 1416 and two Oh, which was the version use cross compilation, before that it was a bit more painful to use portable class libraries, maybe some of the listeners remember that. And then all kinds of fish share projects, which was a concept officially introduced. But if I go really back, it was quite hard to remember that in the beginning. We had to do link files. Barry Luijbregts  27:58 So good luck, remember Yeah, Dennis Doomen  28:00 he basically we had we had, like, I think, multiple projects for every targets framework yet a separate project and they use linked files to refer to each other. Which was annoying, because if you started to rename files or split files, yes, they didn't compile. Yeah, it got a lot better with the shared products. They were introduced, I think in 2014. But now, with cross compilation, it comes for free almost. But to be fair in dotnet, in the fluid decision six, which we're working on right now, we're probably not we're probably we have already dropped all the oldest frameworks. Right, Barry Luijbregts  28:35 right. Yeah, we've come a long way in sharing code across multiple projects. Absolutely. And now it's way more easy with dotnet standards. Dennis Doomen  28:46 Oh, it's so easy. Although it's not 100% foolproof solution. I've run a couple of times in something that is supposed to work. It's supposed to compile and it actually compiles I would write Microsoft nougat package. But then at runtime, it may actually throw an exception like platform not supported exception, which is a bit annoying. So it's not, it is kind of a leaky abstraction here and now. Yes, generally and that that has cost us a lot of time trying to figure out how that works. Like somebody says, like, hey, why can't you just support someone version bla bla bla, just by talking to these though that status version, then you do. And then you have to use a certain Microsoft extension library for certain target frameworks. And that can become a bit unwieldy sometimes. Barry Luijbregts  29:29 Right? Yeah. Dennis Doomen  29:30 Which still means you have to test every target framework. So we create this project, obviously, using a shared project. But we do actually run the tests for every Docker platform to make sure that everything works as expected. Oh, Barry Luijbregts  29:42 my goodness, what a lot of work. Dennis Doomen  29:44 It is. But yeah, to be fair, we didn't write this in one year's 12 year endeavor. Lo things change over time, and there's a lot of help. I mean, especially last six months, I've seen an influx of pull requests, so quite incredible. The community has been very active reading Barry Luijbregts  30:01 Yeah, so do you have many active contributors? Dennis Doomen  30:05 I have, I think I would say like about 10 people that are generally quite active, they come back. Some of them are also incredibly critical. They they propose huge refactoring or huge changes, which feels like they might be too risky. But yeah, they also, you know, trigger large discussions will select sometimes, discussions that I like, I can't even do this in between work, I just have to spend time with understand what they mean. But there's about 10 regular contributor, and there's one person that is extremely active. That's Jonas from Denmark, Barry Luijbregts  30:39 who helps me like Dennis Doomen  30:40 who spends almost every day on the project right now, which is awesome because it really allows us to move faster these days. Barry Luijbregts  30:49 Alright, so these contributors are they mostly very experienced developers are they also juniors, Dennis Doomen  30:56 I see different things. I see people that still struggle to get I see People that are very experienced and I are thinking about the fundamental behavior of the library. One of the unique selling points of fluent decision is a method called, should be equivalent to which is used to do deep object graph comparisons. And it has certain behavior in place, how it deals with collections. And I've had discussions about like people saying, you know, we should change this, and we should change that. And they're completely redesigning it come with proposals, which is almost like you won't expect that from an open source project. You know, the same way async support, how to deal with making sure that you don't create that locks in your unit test. And there have been people participating in that. Also, I don't know if you know, Claire, the Vault Key. Yes, the leader of the data foundation that you just mentioned, and she has been very involved, especially like five for four or five years, helping me make the framework, support multiple libraries deal with all The PCL complexities, especially when the time when Microsoft was redesigning the framework, we had something called dotnet. Five, which was a moniker a couple of years ago, which is weird, because now we get dotnet. Five as well. Yeah, yeah. And she was really adamant. I met her a couple of times in New York, we spent a lot of time explaining all these complexities. That's how the hell did I also notice frustrations used by a couple of Microsoft open source dotnet, SDK libraries, which will also, which is a good thing. Barry Luijbregts  32:30 Wow, that's a very good thing. Yeah. So if people want to jump into fluid assertions and want to help out and contribute to something, what kind of issues do you have? Are they all very complex? Or do you maybe also have like jumping issues? Yes, people that are starting out in open Dennis Doomen  32:48 source. Yeah, this is something we have, there's a couple of issues a lot of them actually, we use a label called help wanted to emphasize that these are things which are relatively constrained In terms of scope and complexity, so it's quite easy to jump on boards. And we have a slack account, which specific channels for developing the library instead of using it. In general, we're very open very easygoing doesn't mean that we say yes to everything, by the way, because yeah, as you can imagine a big library like this with a lot of users, you have a lot of responsibility, making sure you don't break things. Not just source control, compatibility, even binary compatibility. So sometimes we actually trying to think of writing down some design guidelines. Yeah, it's incredible. It's almost like a real project. Yeah, we need I mean, people need to understand what kind of behavior is expected. You know, if somebody passes a nail into into a B methods, what kind of behavior do we expect to be consistent? You know, sometimes you also get like, hey, I want to add this not be alternative. And then we need to start thinking about okay, but if you do this with this method, then you Probably also need to do it for the other ones, otherwise it becomes inconsistent. And in the past, we didn't really care too much about it. But now, yeah, we sometimes ask them, like, Are you willing to, you know, take it a bit further. If not, then sometimes means we have to do more work. But quite often people are quite quite, quite open. So yeah, wait. Yeah, yeah, it is. Alright. It goes. It's also another very complicated project. Barry Luijbregts  34:26 Right. Yeah. And, and it is a library, another framework? Dennis Doomen  34:31 Yeah. Which makes it a lot easier to develop new features. Yeah. Barry Luijbregts  34:36 So I would definitely encourage listeners, if they want to jump into open source, or just find another open source project to contribute to just go to fluent assertions.com. And go to the GitHub page, pick something out, work on it, and then put in your pull requests, and maybe it gets in there. Yeah. Dennis, thank you so much for your time today. Thank you for spending it with me also and I hope you're continuing with your great work and finding the time to do so. Dennis Doomen  35:07 I will and it was an honor was fun to talk about my favorite open source project. Barry Luijbregts  35:13 Alright, you can find Dennis on twitter at D Dolman and add all this other websites that will be included in the show notes. Alright, bye bye.

Channel 23: Infinite looper with LPF, HPF & flanger

As layoffs continue in waves, many people are wondering how they'll make ends meet and manage their expenses. One of those expenses could be a mortgage. What should you do if you can no longer afford it? In this bonus episode, I talk with mortgage executive and Work It Daily executive member, Todd Palmer, about options for those concerned about their mortgage payment during this crisis. Come join the conversation and learn what you need to know.Todd's article on the topic: https://www.workitdaily.com/cant-pay-your-mortgage-options Connect with Todd on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddpalmer0/ HPF's HOPE Hotline: 888-995-4673 (https://995hope.org/)

Gather Bards!! Lend an ear and come back to the land of Krefeld Germany with Podcast from the Twilight World and bare witness the nascency of Blind Guardian!!  -----------------------------------------------------------------  Today we bring you an exclusive interview with the Blind Guardian's  Inaugural drummer Hans-Peter Frey! In this interview the fabled minstrel will take us on a journey through time as we: Travel in time to early Krefeld and the historic events that would lead to the formation of Lucifer's Heritage, the band destined to became Blind Guardian!!  Sit by fire and listen as the mythic mistrial and your fellow bard unearth the secrets of the  Battalions of Fear (demo)  and delve deep into its forgotten lore!!   Reflect on Hans-Peter's journey following his departure from Blind Guardian as we look toward the future of HPF V!!   -----------------------------------------------------------------   Become with your bardic brothers and sisters on facebook:  https://m.facebook.com/groups/305186503697893?ref=m_notif¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic  Join the elite 400, bring the festival's return:  https://www.change.org/p/bgoa-act2?recruiter=139284845&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink  Subscribe here to prepare HPF's new solo album dropping late July:  https://www.youtube.com/user/hpfmusic  For more 8 bit music of the bards visit:  https://www.youtube.com/user/UnseeingSecurity  Take HPF's recommendation and check out new vinyl at:  https://www.tonzonen.de/  -----------------------------------------------------------------  Remember, no one should ask you for the name of the one who chants the story...

Welcome to the Good Life Property Management podcast! I’m your host, Steve Welty. This is a show for property management entrepreneurs who want to build not only a great business but also great lives. I’m here to help you gain the freedom to live life on your own terms while creating a positive impact in the world. Also, please check out Steve Welty’s Music! In this episode, I chat about our mastermind, Tribe Denver, and takeaways from our tribe gathering. In addition to our mastermind, I visited HPF High Performance Forum from Darren Hardy. Give 10%, spend 10% on yourself, and invest 10% of your income on yourself. I decided to attend the HPF as part of investing 10% in myself. I talk about my experience with my strategic coach. One important lesson I’ve learned is that we are all good at different things. My superpower is being able to come up with a bunch of ideas. Gaining new capabilities is better than earning cash, which is one of the reasons I’m investing in myself to learn more and gain more capabilities. To make more money, you have to work less - you have to do fewer things. Constantly being busy leaves you no time to transform, to go deeper with empathy, or to be more patient. Be a business with a mission, not a mission with a business. I dig into how I’ve paired down my books to only 25 books, as I’m keeping only the books that have had a significant impact on my life. I revisited my “one thing” after rereading The One Thing again and realized there are multiple “one things.” Even though they don’t directly impact my business, they affect you, which impacts your business. I’ve focused on my state of being, and recently read “Top five regrets of the Dying” study, and four of the five regrets, as I interpret them, are about honoring your true self.  There are three categories to have your “one thing.” My spiritual one thing is to meditate. Physical one thing is to strength train daily. A mental game for me is focusing on learning instead of watching TV on the weekend. Marriage with words of affirmation to my wife everyday. Please share this episode with a friend and leave a review of Good Life Property Management!   In This Episode: [01:20] - Takeaways from the Tribe Denver mastermind. [03:10] - My experience with High Performance Forum. [04:25] - What has been happening on my personal front. [06:04] - Gaining new capabilities is better than gaining cash.  [07:13] - I breakdown one of my favorite mantras, “To make more money, you have to work less.” [08:36] - Why I was resistant to rereading The One Thing [10:33] - What’s the domino you can knock over that will knock over the other dominoes? [13:09] - Charles Krackower’s dying letter “I live the life I intended”. [16:06] - How I cultivate my team of “A Players” at Good Life. [17:48] - The team at Keller William’s and how they chose their “one thing”. [18:59] - Reflective questions I encourage you to consider!   Links and Resources: Steve Welty's Music steve@goodlifemgmt.com Steve Welty on Facebook Tribe Mastermind The One Thing by Gary Keller

Hawai‘i People's Fund is a publicly supported community fund established in 1972 to provide grants to progressive grassroots social change organizations working in Hawai‘i. They are a unique partnership of donors, activist grantmakers and grantees committed to positive social change and a more equitable distribution of wealth, resources and power. Hawai‘i People's Fund assists groups considered too small, too new, or too controversial by traditional funding agencies. Hawai‘i People's Fund brings together those who want to invest in justice with those who are actively pursuing justice in a united vision for social change. Their philosophy of community-based strategic philanthropy offers a unique alternative to traditional charitable giving. Individuals who contribute to Hawai‘i People's Fund are investing in their community's future by supporting projects that seek out the root causes of social problems and pose new solutions. Priya Prabhakar has the honor of speaking to Micky Huihui, the executive director of the Hawai’i People’s Fund about how HPF subverts the hegemonic white savior paradigm of Western NGOs, their work with over 800 community-based organizations committed to social change, settler-colonialism in Hawai’i, and more.

BOOM! Brand new episode en dit keer met hele speciale gasten. De Fellas (voorheen HPF) kwamen een bezoek brengen aan de CONVO tafel. Frsh, Geechi, Spens en Brasco kwamen langs voor een uitgebreid interview. Zo geven ze een update over Eves, hun view over de rapgame, waarom ze zich niet erkend voelen en hun succes van het laatste album Lang Leven De Flex 2.

BOOM! Brand new episode en dit keer met hele speciale gasten. De Fellas (voorheen HPF) kwamen een bezoek brengen aan de CONVO tafel. Frsh, Geechi, Spens en Brasco kwamen langs voor een uitgebreid interview. Zo geven ze een update over Eves, hun view over de rapgame, waarom ze zich niet erkend voelen en hun succes van het laatste album Lang Leven De Flex 2.

It’s been a while since we were in the basement, but now the season is close so you’ll have us...

When should you commit to getting urine? When can you wait? When should you forgo testing altogether? When do I get urine? Symptoms – either typical dysuria, urgency, frequency in a verbal child, or non-descript abdominal pain or vomiting in a well appearing child. Fever – but first look for an obvious alternative source, especially viral signs or symptoms. No obvious source? Risk stratify before “just getting a urine”. In a low risk child, with obviously very vigilant parents, who is well appearing, you may choose not to test now, and ensure close follow up. Bag or cath? The short answer is: always cath, never bag. (Pros and cons in audio) What is the definition of a UTI? According to the current clinical practice guideline by the AAP, the standard definition of a urinary tract infection is the presence of BOTH pyuria AND at least 50 000 colonies per mL of a single uropathogen. Making the diagnosis in the ED: The presence of WBCs with a threshold of 5 or greater WBCs per HPF is required. What else goes into the urinalysis that may be helpful? Pearl: nitrites are poorly sensitive in children.  It takes 4 hours for nitrites to form, and most children this age do no hold their urine. Pearl: the enhanced urinalysis is the addition of a gram stain.  A positive gram stain has a LR+ of 87 in infants less than 60 days, according to a study by Dayan et al. in Pediatric Emergency Care. When can I just call it pyelonephritis? In an adult, we look for UTI plus evidence of focal upper tract involvement, like CVA tenderness to percussion or systemic signs like nausea, vomiting, or fever.  It is usually straightforward. It’s for this reason that the literature uses the term “febrile UTI” for children.  Fever is very sensitive, but not specific in children. The ill-appearing child has pyelonephritis.   The well-appearing child likely has a “febrile UTI”, without upper involvement.  However, undetected upper tract involvement may be made in retrospect via imaging, if done. How should I treat UTIs? For simple lower tract disease, treat for at least 7 days.  There is no evidence to support 7 versus 10 versus 14 days.  My advice: use 7-10 days as your range for simple febrile UTI in children. Pyelonephritis should be treated for a longer duration.  Treat pyelonephritis for 10-14 days. What should we give them? Sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim (Bactrim) is falling out of favor, mostly because isolates in many communities are resistant.  There is an association of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) with Bactrim use.  This may be confounded by its prior popularity; any antibiotic can cause SJS, but there are more case reports with Bactrim. Cephalexin (Keflex): 25 mg/kg dose, either BID or TID.  It is easy on the stomach, rarely interacts with other meds, has high efficacy against E. coli, and most importantly, cephalexin has good parenchymal penetration. Nitrofurantoin is often used in pregnant women, because the drug tends to concentrate locally in the urine.  However, blood and tissue concentrations are weak.  It may be ineffective if there is some sub-clinical upper tract involvement. Cefdinir is a 3rd generation cephalosporin available by mouth, given at 14 mg/kg in either one dose daily or divided BID, up to max of 600 mg.  This may be an option for an older child who has pyelonephritis, but is well enough to go home. Whom should we admit? The first thing to consider is age.  Any infant younger than 2 months should be admitted for a febrile UTI.  Their immune systems and physiologic reserve are just not sufficient to localize and fight off infections reliably. The truth is, for serious bacterial illness like pneumonia, UTI, or severe soft tissue infections, be careful with any infant less than 4-6 months of age. Of course, the unwell child – whatever his age – he should be admitted.  Think about poor feeding, irritability, dehydration – in that case, just go with your gut and call it pyelonephritis, and admit. What is the age cut-off for a urine culture? In adults, we think of urine culture only for high-risk populations, such as pregnant women, the immunocompromised, those with renal abnormalities, the neurologically impaired, or the critically ill, to name a few. In children, it’s a little simpler.  Do it for everyone. Who is everyone? Think of the urine rule of 10s: 10% of young febrile children will have a UTI 10% of UAs will show no evidence of pyuria Routine urine culture in all children with suspected or confirmed UTI up to about age 10 What do I do then with urine culture results? From a quality improvement and safety perspective, consider making this a regular assignment to a qualified clinician. Check once in 24-48 hours to find possible growth of a single uropathogen with at least 50 000 CFU/mL.  Look at the record to see that the child is one some antibiotic, or the reason why he may not.  Call the family if needed. A second check at 48-72 hours may be needed to verify speciation and sensitivities. The culture check, although tedious, is important to catch those small children who did not present with pyuria and who may need antibiotics, or to verify that the right agent is given. Ok, so your UA is negative…now what? The culture is cooking, but you are not convinced.  Below is the differential diagnosis for common causes of pyuria in children:   What kind of follow-up should the child get? The younger the child, the more we worry about missing a decompensation.  Encourage the parents to call the child's primary care clinician for a re-check in a few days, and to discuss whether or not further work-up such as imaging is indicated.  As always, strict return to ED precautions are helpful. Who needs imaging? A more accurate question is: what is an important anomaly to detect? Vesiculo-ureteral reflux – a loose ureteropelvic junction causes upstream reflux when the bladder constricts. Uretero-pelvic junction obstruction – in older children or young adults with hematuria, UTI, abdominal mass, or pain.  Infants born with UPJ obstruction have congenital hydronephrosis. Ureterocoele – a cystic mass in the bladder.  It is not malignant, but can cause ureteral dilation, and hydronephrosis.  Treatment is surgical. Ectopic ureter – either a duplication of the draining system, or an abnormal connection, such as the epidydimis or cervix. Posterior urethral valves – occur only in boys, and they are a bit of a misnomer.  The most common type of congenital bladder outlet obstruction, posterior urethral valves are just extra folds of membrane in the lumen of the prostatic urethra.  Usually ablation by cystoscopy does the trick. Urachal remnant – a leftover from fetal development, and an abnormal connection between the bladder and the umbilicus.  Look for an “always wet” belly button in an infant, or an umbilical mass with pain and fever in an older child. Imaging of choice as an outpatient? Renal and bladder ultrasound (RBUS) after the first UTI is recommended (although incompletely followed in practice). If the RBUS is positive, or with the second UTI, DMSA scan to evaluate possible renal scarring. So, with all of this testing – are we over doing it? Like anything, it’s a balance.  A few tips to avoid iatrogenia by way of a summary. If a child over 3 months of age is well, has no comorbidities, has a low grade fever "in the 38s" (38-38.9 °C) without a source, especially if less than 24 hours, you are very safe to do watchful waiting at home. More to the point, an otherwise well child with an obvious upper respiratory tract infection has a source of his fever. If your little patient has risk factors for UTI, or you are otherwise concerned, send the UA and send the culture.  You can opt out of the culture by middle school in the otherwise healthy child. And finally, deputize parents to carry the ball from here – the child needs ongoing primary care and his pediatrician may elect to do some screening.  Don’t promise or prime them for it – rather, encourage the conversation. BONUS: Suprapubic aspiration (details in podcast audio; video below) BONUS BONUS: Infant Clean Catch Technique Step One: feed the baby, wait twenty minutes.     Step Two: clean the genitals with soap and warm water and dry with gauze.  Have your sterile urine container open and at the ready.     Step Three: one person holds the baby under his armpits with his legs dangling.  The other person gently taps the bladder (100 taps/min), then massages the lower back for 30 seconds.     Step Four: Clean Catch! (can also repeat process)   References Bonsu BK, Shuler L, Sawicki L, Dorst P, Cohen DM. Susceptibility of recent bacterial isolates to cefdinir and selected antibiotics among children with urinary tract infections. Acad Emerg Med. 2006 Jan;13(1):76-81. Coulthard MG, Lambert HJ, Vernon SJ, Hunter EW, Keir MJ, Matthews JN. Does prompt treatment of urinary tract infection in preschool children prevent renal scarring: mixed retrospective and prospective audits. Arch Dis Child. 2014 Apr;99(4):342-7. Dayan PS et al.  Test characteristics of the urine Gram stain in infants

Today's Interview is with Kent Morris who is widely recognized for his church sound training abilities. He has more than 30 years of experience working with A/V, has served as a sound mixer for several noted performers, including Paul Baloche and Israel Houghton, and is a product development consultant for several leading audio manufacturers.   Here are the some of questions I ask Kent (and I even give a few of his nuggets - but you'll want to listen for all the great stuff).   How should we view the sound tech role in the worship team?   "The sound tech is the only member of the congregation that's also a member of the worship team…they are a liaison between the congregation and the stage."     What are some ways worship leaders don't lead their sound techs well.   "Get tech team up on stage and talk face-to-face as rehearsal begins…"     What are some crucial questions that the WLs fail to ask their sound techs?   "Ask the question: 'What would it take it do this.'"     What does your ideal sound check look like?   As a worship leader, how would you persuade a sound tech to be at rehearsal?   How can sound techs help the WL deal with the “more me” problem and volume wars on stage?   What's some advice on transitioning from wedges to in-ears?   Many churches have a rotating group of techs that serve. How do we get a consistent sound from week to week?   How can techs get more hands-on training and development?   Where are some resources for learning how to mix well?   What happens if your sound tech doesn't have an ear for music?   How many singers before mix gets too hard to manager   How do you mic a choir without getting the feedback? Kent gave some details instructions, so here's a quick synopsis of that:  Choir mixing is difficult because it's an area mic'ing High Pass Filter - turn off low frequency response  On basic board, take Bass knob down 5 - 8 db On large format board with HPF, set to 150 Hz   250 - 500 Hz is the fundemental vocal range - prominent.  Go to 315 Hz and pull down - takes overbearing muddy sound down The high frequencies can be taken out too: Treble knob down Add LPF  Sites: ChurchSoundCheck.com http://www.churchsoundcheck.com/   SoundMadeSimple.com http://www.soundmadesimple.com/     PSW - Professional Sound Web Live Sound International Magazine http://www.prosoundweb.com/search/results/ffb0b4732e716718c0413e9f9b93a68f/     Worship Leader Magazine http://worshipleader.com/   Worship Musician Magazine http://www.christianmusician.com/magazines/     

Join us in this latest Academic Lesson from the world created by author J.K. Rowling as we discuss how copyright and Fair Use laws affect the world of Fan Fiction. Host Keith Hawk from MuggleNet and Co-host John Granger, the Hogwarts Professor, discuss a variety of topics relating to the Harry Potter series with a Special Guest Speaker and a Student Guest Speaker during each lesson. In this lesson, we perform a lively discussion Live at Ascendio 2012 with HPF's own Heidi Tandy, who is an Intellectual Property Attorney in the muggle world.  MuggleNet Academia is a podcast from the staff of the World's No. 1 Harry Potter website, MuggleNet.com (http://www.mugglenet.com/).