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Host Tricia Pritchard sits down with Janet Leise to discuss a non-profit organization run by volunteers. ILR provides learning and recreational opportunities for personal fulfillment in an informal environment.ILR WebsiteFacebook

On this special episode of Coffee House Shots, economics editor Kate Andrews is joined by shadow home secretary Chris Philp to discuss the Tories' newly announced plan to tackle immigration. On legal migration, their proposal includes plans to end worklessness in order to stop the reliance on low-paid migrant workers. And on illegal migration, the line is ‘zero tolerance' on small boats, including a removals deterrent much like the Rwanda plan, as well as other changes to the legal framework. One of the more controversial elements of their strategy is on citizenship. The Tories want to increase the period before migrants can apply for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) from five to ten years, and after that, it will take a further five years – rather than 12 months – to achieve British citizenship. Which safe and legal pathways would people be able to use? How would the Conservatives ensure that the ‘best and the brightest' are allowed in? Produced by Natasha Feroze and Oscar Edmondson.

Send us a textPart two of our riveting conversation with Investigator Buckingham delivers the long-awaited conclusion to our courtroom cliffhanger. After a deadlocked jury and a surprising nine-to-three split for acquittal on the aggravated arson charge, the prosecution regroups with amended charges. Buckingham walks us through the intense second trial, complete with expert witness drama, mental health defense tactics, and an unexpected courtroom revelation that nearly derailed the entire case. Through persistence and masterful testimony techniques, justice is finally secured for the community affected by this devastating fire.The episode takes an authentic turn as our hosts dive into a candid discussion about ADHD, anxiety, and panic attacks in the fire investigation field. Scott and Chasity share personal insights about managing these challenges while maintaining professional excellence, offering a rare glimpse into the human side of fire investigation.In our WTF (We Train Frequently) segment, we highlight an incredible opportunity for fire investigators: free training at the National Fire Academy. Mark your calendars for the application period opening March 15th through April 15th, 2025, for the highly sought-after Fire Investigation Essentials course (R07).The episode wraps up with our popular "Can You Use It in a Sentence?" segment, featuring the word "deflagration" and teasing a new mystery abbreviation (ILR) for next time. Whether you're a seasoned investigator or new to the field, this episode offers the perfect blend of technical knowledge, real-world experience, and professional growth insights.Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed the episode, give us 5 stars, hit the follow button, and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and anywhere you are listening in from. Follow us on social media!Instagram: @infocus_podcastLinkedIn: INFOCUS podcastFacebook: INFOCUS podcastTikTok: @infocus_podcast

Thinking of moving to the UK? This episode is your ultimate guide to UK visas. I moved to the UK 5 years ago and it's been the best thing I've ever done. I'm STILL in love with London! If you're serious about moving to the UK, this episode will break down everything from tourist and work visas to permanent residency and dual citizenship in the UK. Plus, grab our Ultimate Guide to UK Visas for free, designed to help break down all the visa options and process to move to the UK!In this Episode:Deciding on the Right VisaFactors to consider when choosing a visaImportance of visa type for residency optionsTourist VisasOptions and restrictions for short stays and remote workTypical duration, costs, and eligibilityWork VisasSkilled Worker Visa: requirements, costs, and pathways to residencyHealth and Care Visa: eligibility for healthcare rolesTemporary Worker Visas: options for short-term employmentBusiness and Investment VisasInnovator and Start-Up Visas: eligibility and funding requirementsInvestor Visa: requirements for high-net-worth individualsStudy VisasStudent and Child Visas: duration, costs, and requirements for educationShort-Term Study: eligibility for shorter coursesFamily VisasPartner and Parent Visas: requirements for joining family in the UKAdult Dependent Relative Visa: support for long-term careOther Visa OptionsAncestry Visa: for those with UK heritageYouth Mobility Scheme: two-year work and travel optionSteps in the Visa Application ProcessEligibility, required documents, and the online application processProcessing time, biometrics, and handling rejectionsPermanent Residency and CitizenshipDifferences between Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) and citizenshipBenefits of ILR and steps to gaining full British citizenshipReady to start your UK journey? Tune in, take notes, and download the Ultimate Guide to UK Visas for a step-by-step breakdown. I can't wait to see you in the UK!

Howard Pearce has spent the last five decades in Radio, working for many local and National stations across the country. These have included Radio Victory, Radio 210, Radio Luxembourg, Radio 2 and Virgin 1215 AM.In this weeks edition of Radio Greats, Howard sits down with Luke to share stories of his past five decades - which include getting the bug for radio. Joining Victory from its launch and presenting for Radio 210, how recording a demo at the Villa Louvingy in Luxembourg landed him trouble but also got him a job on Radio Luxembourg. Hosting a Syndicated show on ILR and presenting on BBC Radio 2, to spending most of the 90's on Virgin 1215 AM. Presenting on Thames Radio and Smooth and how old friends brought him back onto the radio with UDJ and Sunshine Radio Online.Thank you to Aircheck Downloads, Radio Moments and Howard for use of content.

Artificial intelligence is a charged term- one that has been around, but has taken on new meaning in the last couple of years. As the first crossovers of AI and HUMAN RESOURCES emerge, many issues are coming out. People are both excited and afraid of its implications. Employees and their managers are afraid of cultural and measurement shifts (and career arcs in general). Executives are worried about missing out on ways to increase the top and bottom line. Boards are concerned about threats to corporate strategy and new and unseen risks that could put the company (and them) on the front page of the Wall Street Journal However, the news isn't all scary and the world is not becoming Skynet yet! SUSAN YOUNGBLOOD is an expert on the intersection of AI and Human Resources. Equipped with broad executive experience and board expertise, she is the ideal person to help us get our arms around the AI/HR intersection at the employee, manager, executive and board level. I spoke with her on the conundrum that decision-makers face as technology and people collide. SUSAN is a technology CHRO who has launched, acquired, and transformed companies at Fortune 50 and FTSE 100 companies such as IBM, BNY Mellon (BK), and London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG.L) as well as a tech startup, As a leader in the HR field, Susan enabled high growth and faster time to market by navigating teams through the human capital agenda at critical inflection points: New company launches, Rapid scaling, M&A, Global expansion, Digital transformation, and Large-scale cost reduction. Having dealt with company strategic issues, Susan has also managed global crises and assisted companies in mitigating extensive risks. https://open.spotify.com/episode/092y3urUEfDav5JTaraAbI?si=2a6c0eb7905747c2 Wealth Actually on Spotify Susan's Background AI and Human Resources How are companies are leveraging AI today? When implementing AI, what are some of the risks companies take? What are some big mistakes companies have made with AI ? Proper governance: what should it look like within businesses? How are boards responding to the AI and Human Resources implications? Are the scary things about AI for workers? What are the implications for various types of workers: The General Workforce Managers Middle Managers Executives With all of this worry, are there opportunities for the workforce? How do you prepare your workforce to embrace AI? https://youtu.be/HmdN8jL7iOY?si=ALUnFs0lbo0cV38x How do we find Susan? SUSAN YOUNGBLOOD LINKEDIN Additional Background on Susan Susan serves on the Board of Directors for Cornell University's ILR school, is onthe Advisory Council for SUNY College of Optometry, and she is an angel investor. Sheholds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Vassar College and a Master ofIndustrial and Labor Relations (MILR) degree from Cornell University, where shewas also the assistant coach of the women's tennis team. https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Actually-Intelligent-Decision-Making-1-ebook/dp/B07FPQJJQT/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Although hybrid teams can offer a number of benefits, leaders often find that the practices they have come to depend on for managing in-person teams do not translate well to the hybrid context. And with hybrid team management being the responsibility of both leaders and team members alike, where can you look for opportunities for improvement?Join professor Brad Bell, director of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at Cornell's ILR School, as he reviews the top five ways that hybrid teams are mismanaged and presents strategies for creating a high-functioning work mode for all team members.What You'll LearnHow leading hybrid teams is similar to but also different from leading traditional, in-person teamsHow to establish a hybrid team identity and facilitate shared understandingStrategies for supporting the social climate of your hybrid teamHow to encourage team members to participate in the leadership processHow to improve virtual interactions through an agile technology infrastructureThe Cornell Keynotes podcast is brought to you by eCornell, which offers more than 200 online certificate programs to help professionals advance their careers and organizations. Brad Bell is an author of seven programs:Hybrid Work StrategyAdministrative Management ProgramHR AnalyticsRecruiting and Talent AcquisitionHR TransformationHuman Resources ManagementStrategic Human Resources LeadershipDid you enjoy this episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast? Watch the Keynote. Follow eCornell on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X.

Unionization is shaking up the auto industry, delivering meaningful gains toward fair pay and other benefits for workers in the U.S. The efforts are particularly significant in the South where a legacy of racist labor laws continues to propagate disparity within the workforce.In this episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, Andrew Wolf, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell's ILR School, delivers insights on the recent union vote at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the implications for similar efforts led by auto workers – and employees in any industry – in the South and beyond.Hosted by Keynotes senior producer Chris Wofford, this episode explores: The UAW victory at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, TN on April 19th Right-to-Work and Jim Crow laws, and the Southern Discount What to expect for the UAW vote at Mercedes plants in Tuscaloosa, ALThe future of the auto industry and auto unions with the shift towards electric vehiclesLearn more in Andrew Wolf's April 2024 Vox interview covering the potential impact of Volkswagen's unionization in Tennessee on auto workers across the nation.Follow Wolf on X (formerly Twitter).Enroll in eCornell's labor relations certificate program, and check out other law and human resources online certificate programs to discover the latest best practices for labor-related legal issues in the workplace. Follow eCornell on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X.

Welcome to Church Chat, the show where we have the conversations about ministry you wish we were having. Today Josh and Emily are joined by Dan Spino, Discipleship Pastor at West Shore Free Church in Mechanicsburg, PA! They talk about why clarity is important, how the corporate world can benefit the church, ministering from your wounds, results vs. systems, leveraging feedback, valuing people over the organization, being addicted to our ideas, church culture shock and more! Dan provides strategic leadership for many ministries at West Shore. He has a diverse background in organizational talent and culture and has a Master's Degree in ILR, and a Master's of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Dan and his wife, Stephanie, reside in downtown Mechanicsburg. For fun, he enjoys working on house projects, traveling, visiting coffee shops and getting to the ocean. Mentioned in this episode: Deep Discipleship by J T EnglishChurch Chat 2 with Matt SaxingerEFCA East Cohorts Listen to more Church Chat episodes. Connect with EFCA East efcaeast.comInstagramFacebook

Do you have a hiring strategy for people with a criminal record? Learn about the challenges and myths these non-traditional workers face when looking for employment, and discover technology-based solutions your organization can use to hire a more diverse workforce. In this episode, Timothy McNutt, director of the Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative at the Cornell ILR School, explains the Yang-Tan Workability Incubator's Restorative Record, a new tool to help employers and job seekers look beyond traditional résumés, cover letters and background reports that narrow talent pools.Tune in to explore:Complexities of criminal recordsHiring strategies for non-traditional candidatesEvidence-based predictors of job success vs. risk-based assessments of workers“Ban the Box” policyThe Yang-Tan Workability Incubator's Restorative RecordLearn more about eCornell's Diversity & Inclusion certificate programs.Did you enjoy this episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast? Watch the full Keynote. Follow eCornell on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X.

Here is our August roundup, and the first podcast with Sonia both leading and at the editing helm (eek!). This month we cover statistics, illegal working fines, asylum support, homeless refugees, adult dependent relatives and some EUSS updates. Following feedback from our reader survey, we have included timestamps below. We will also link directly to the quiz when we post on Free Movement about the podcast. Policy (01:00) Journalists perform a public service in exposing dodgy lawyers. But… Twitter, Musk's X, Threads, social media and Free Movement Look closer: our summary of the latest Home Office statistics Tripling maximum illegal working fines for employers to £45k per worker is a terrible idea   Asylum (10:14) Home Office change in practice increases risk of homelessness for recognised refugees More delays, more refusals, no ‘bad faith': the latest trafficking statistics What next for evacuated Sudanese nationals? Is the Home Office unlawfully treating asylum claims as withdrawn? High Court demands radical change to Home Office asylum support ‘Systematic and routine' use of hotels for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is unlawful   Family (26:00) Getting an adult dependent relative visa is hard but not impossible   EU (28:29) Who qualifies as a “durable partner” under the EU Settlement Scheme? Post-Brexit spouses aren't protected by the Withdrawal Agreement, Court of Appeal confirms   Work routes (30:00) What is the immigration skills charge? How to apply for a religious work visa   Immigration (31:30) No Windrush compensation for man whose ILR lapsed while imprisoned abroad How do I become an OISC adviser? Updated articles (35:50) General grounds for refusal: alleged deception, false information and innocent mistakes How to apply for a UK Expansion Worker visa What are the financial requirements for UK spouse and partner visas? How to make a complaint to the Home Office

In Season 11, Episode 3 of "The Power Of Owning Your Career" podcast, Simone's special guest is Lisa Csencsits, Director, Human Resource, Leadership and DEI Professional Programs for The Scheinman Institute at Cornell University, ILR. In this enlightening episode, Lisa shares her career journey and the invaluable investment she made in her own education. She emphasizes the critical importance of aligning career choices with your priorities, underlining the idea that your professional path should resonate with what truly matters to you. She has learned how to say "yes" and "no" in her career choices. She shares insight into the strategies she employed to manifest her dream job, turning her aspirations into reality.  Moreover, the episode explores the intriguing topic of approaching career risk, shedding light on the strategies and mindset required to navigate it successfully.  You can connect with Lisa on LinkedIn or by email at lc638@cornell.edu . Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to listen to each new episode on Sunday mornings. ↪️Join The After Show Discussion in our LinkedIn Group. ↪️Leave a review https://ratethispodcast.com/driverseat ✨ Become the Most Successful You! https://www.careerbreakthroughcall.com

Major averages closed higher. It's the S&P 500's first consecutive positive sessions of the month. Morgan Stanley's Lisa Shalett and Wells Fargo's Scott Wren break down the action. Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff talks the housing market gridlock as mortgage rates climb to 20-year highs. He also discusses his new property tech startup Pacaso, fractional ownership for second homes. Art Wheaton, director of Labor Studies at Cornell's ILR, on the possible upcoming UAW strike—who has the leverage and what it would mean for the economy. Blueshirt Group's Gary Dvorchak on Secretary Raimondo's high-stakes trip to China. Plus, Bernstein analyst Nikhil Devnani breaks down the highlights from Instacart's S-1.  

Philip Chryssikos has been one of the countries most recognisable News Voices on ILR for the last 30 Years, having spent most of that career working under the Capital Group.In this weeks edition Philip chats to Luke about how he always wanted to work for Capital and how he never let his dream die away, but also how he was part of the launch team with Star FM, how he would change personas from News reading to Radio presenting and what it was like to achieve that dream before he was 30.Big Thanks to Philip and Aircheck Downloads for use of content.

I first met Jason in Lawrenceburg Indiana a few years ago. We were randomly placed as pole partners in the final event of the Whiskey City Rodeo. Jason reached out to me a few weeks ago and said hey I'd love to be on the podcast if you'd have me. Of course, I said yes and it was awesome to hear his story. Turns out he has competed at the International Lineman's Rodeo in Kansas 22 times in his career. If that wasn't special enough, he and a few others decided to form a team to raise money for St. Jude's Hospital and they crushed it! They raised thousands of dollars and were able to present the check on stage during the awards banquet. They are returning to the ILR this year with the team and goals of reaching new highs. If you feel called to support this cause (full details are in the episode about why they chose this cause) then you can scan the QR code in the photo above or reach out to them at CLIMBINFORKIDS@AMEREN.COM

OUT NOW radiorollback.podbean.com Radio Rollback Episode 35 The Ray Clarke Interview On this Episode I chat to Ray Clarke of Radio Caroline Ray is still having a fantastic radio career that began on the Ross Revenge. Hear how Ray managed to get his dream to broadcast on Radio Caroline. How he then found his way to ILR and the BBC.  Plus the making of one of the best and longest Caroline documentaries. Thanks to The Pirate Radio Hall Of Fame, for the Caroline audio https://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/ Ray Clark's books available here https://www.rayradio.co.uk/#books.html Email jeffmartinmedia220@gmail.com © 2023 Jeff Martin Media

Today's guests are a pair of broking executives clearly relishing an opportunity to lead a business through a period of accelerated growth in a market that is extremely favourable. James Baird (pictured left) and Paul Richards (right) are co-CEOs and Managing Partners of Consilium, the wholesale and specialist insurance and reinsurance broker that is part of the expansive Aventum group. Aventum Group CEO David Bearman laid down a marker back in Episode 82 almost two years ago and it's worth re-listening to that podcast to put this one into context: https://www.thevoiceofinsurance.com/podcast/episode/33b1d9c1/ep-82-david-bearman-ceo-aventum-dont-walk-into-a-crowded-room This encounter is a tour de force. Whilst both James and Paul have worked together for most of their long careers they are relatively new arrivals to the Aventum fold. But you wouldn't know from listening in here – the two are brimming with enthusiasm for their new home. Consilium already places $500mn of Gross Written Premium and has incredibly ambitious growth targets, but what is refreshing is that we aren't talking about a familiar tale of private Equity backing, debt leverage, M&A and exit multiples. Here we are only using those terms to define what Consilium isn't. And that's what's so fascinating. Consilium is a young broker with an average age way below that of these two interviewees and this interviewer. It has a progressive mindset on the application of tech in broking, much of which it develops in-house, yet in other ways it is incredibly traditional, balking at debt leverage, external equity investment and M&A for volume. The calculation here is that by growing organically whatever it loses in leverage the broker wins culturally, because it only hires people it feels will fit in and buy into the intermediary's more stable culture. It also banks on that solid environment being a plus for customers who benefit from continuity of service. It's definitely different. And with 30% organic growth on the cards, it certainly seems to be doing something right! Listen on for a really interesting and refreshing encounter. James speaks first. NOTES: Some Abbreviations. GL is General Liability and the ULR and ILR are respectively the Ultimate and Incurred Loss Ratios. LINKS We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo: https://www.advantagego.com/

The role of the state in reforming religious and social practices is a subject of heated debate in India. This is especially so when such reforms involve claims of women. A recent example is the debate around marital rape. In this episode we go back more than 130 years and examine the reactions to the British government  increasing the age of consent for women from 10 to 12 years and how these led to India's first sedition trial. Research Assistance: Jiyon Chatterjee  If you like our podcast do consider supporting us with a donation at the link below: https://www.dakshindia.org/donate/ Reading list Chitranshul Sinha, The Great Repression India, Viking 2019 IshitaPande, "Phulmoni's body: the autopsy, the inquest and the humanitarian narrative on child rape in India." South Asian History and Culture 4.1 (2013): 9-30. Queen-Empress vs Hurree Mohun Mythee (1891) ILR 18 Cal 49 https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1410526/ Host: Leah Verghese This is a Maed in India production. Producer: Nikkethana K Sound Mixing: Lakshman Parsuram Project Supervisor: Shaun Fanthome  

Don't you love it when everything works out exactly as it should? 2 ILRies, not on campus at the same time, crossed paths in their professional lives, got married, and the rest is history.Actually, it's not that simple. In a When Harry Met Sally type interview, Aron and Nancy tell their story, test their knowledge in the Newlywed Game, and prove that the ILR school is a well oiled machine.Not sponsored by or affiliated with Cornell University

В этом выпуске подкаста мы отправимся в Сибирь, где на набережной Енисея в самом сердце Красноярска каждую субботу на утренней пробежке встречаются десятки людей.Поэтому героиней этого выпуска стала амбассадор parkrun / 5 вёрст Россия, ex-event директор красноярского паркрана, куратор бегового направления I love running Красноярск, любящая мама и жена - Анна Король. И вот о чем Анна нам рассказала: - Как попала в бег, на паркран и в ILR. - Где бежала свой первый марафон и не получила медаль на финише. - Как стала амбассадором, какие локации поддерживает и какие запустились с её помощью. - Как волонтерская команда в Красноярске выживает зимой. - Где и с кем можно побегать в Красноярске и его окрестностях помимо субботы. - Как местные комьюнити посвящают в скайраннеры. - И какие блины взял с собой её муж на "Красноярские Столбы"! А ещё специальный вопрос от нашего недавнего гостя - Михаила Мешкова, выпуск с которым доступен по ссылке: https://proparkrun.mave.digital/ep-20Соц.сети героини выпускаАнна Король Instagram: https://instagram.com/korol_anna_a 5 вёрст Красноярск набережная Instagram: https://instagram.com/5verstkrasnoyarsk ВКонтакте: https://vk.com/5verstkrasnoyarsk Telegram: https://t.me/Vverstkrasnoyarsknaberezhnaya I love running КрасноярскInstagram: https://instagram.com/ilovesupersportkrsk Подкаст: https://music.yandex.ru/album/9978955 Наши соц.сети Telegram: https://t.me/parkrunkuzminki Дзен: http://zen.yandex.ru/parkrun ВКонтакте: https://vk.com/proparkrun YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCgd4wCN6Dle6VGIW8lqh5Qw Instagram: https://instagram.com/proparkrun А чтобы новые выпуски не заставили себя ждать поддержите нас через любой удобный банк: Тинькофф: https://www.tinkoff.ru/cf/5KMk5eWWwq Сбербанк: https://www.sberbank.ru/ru/person/dl/jc?linkname=yhxQMPX1ZrCX5kpn2

Arson is the crime of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property. Though the act typically involves buildings, the term can also refer to the intentional burning of other things, such as motor vehicles, watercraft, or forests. The crime is typically classified as a felony, with instances involving a greater degree of risk to human life or property carrying a stricter penalty. Arson which results in death can be further prosecuted as manslaughter or murder. A common motive for arson is to commit insurance fraud. In such cases, a person destroys their own property by burning it and then lies about the cause in order to collect against their insurance policy. A person who commits arson is referred to as an arsonist, or a serial arsonist if committed several times. Arsonists normally use an accelerant (such as gasoline or kerosene) to ignite, propel and directionalize fires, and the detection and identification of ignitable liquid residues (ILR's) is an important part of fire investigations. Pyromania is an impulse control disorder characterized by the pathological setting of fires. Most acts of arson are not committed by pyromaniacs. Blackmail is an act of coercion using the threat of revealing or publicizing either substantially true or false information about a person or people unless certain demands are met. It is often damaging information, and it may be revealed to family members or associates rather than to the general public. These acts can also involve using threats of physical, mental or emotional harm, or of criminal prosecution, against the victim or someone close to the victim. It is normally carried out for personal gain, most commonly of position, money, or property. It is also used, sometimes by state agencies, to exert influence; this was a common Soviet practice, so much so that the term "kompromat", transliterated from Russian, is often used for compromising material used to exert control. Blackmail may also be considered a form of extortion. Although the two are generally synonymous, extortion is the taking of personal property by threat of future harm. Blackmail is the use of threat to prevent another from engaging in a lawful occupation and writing libelous letters or letters that provoke a breach of the peace, as well as use of intimidation for purposes of collecting an unpaid debt. In many jurisdictions, blackmail is a statutory offense, often criminal, carrying punitive sanctions for convicted perpetrators. Blackmail is the name of a statutory offense in the United States, England and Wales, and Australia, and has been used as a convenient way of referring to certain other offenses, but was not a term used in English law until 1968. Blackmail was originally a term from the Scottish Borders meaning payments rendered in exchange for protection from thieves and marauders. The "mail" part of blackmail derives from Middle English male meaning "rent or tribute". This tribute (male or reditus) was paid in goods or labor; hence "blackmail". Alternatively, it may be derived from two Scottish Gaelic words blathaich - to protect; and mal - tribute or payment. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/law-school/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/law-school/support

Vidéos insultantes montrant des policiers plaisantantautour d'un chant religieux :la Mauritius Tamil TemplesFederationet le Tamil Council expriment dans des correspondances au Commissaire de police ! Dans une lettre adressée au Commissaire de Police, Anil Kumar Dip, DevarajenKanaksabee, président du Tamil Council, dit avoir pris connaissance des vidéos montrant des scènes violentes de brutalité policière, en circulation sur les réseaux sociaux. Dans l'une d'elles, des policiers forcent un suspect à réciter un chant religieux. Ce que le Tamil Council juge humiliant. Ilréclame ainsi une rencontre avec le Commissaire de Police Anil Kumar Dip, et prévient qu'un mouvement de protestation pourrait être organisé devant les Casernes Centrales et le Parlement. La Mauritius Tamil Temples Federation a aussi adressé une correspondance au Commissaire de police exprimant son indignation. L'homme de loi, RoobenMooroongapillay, a également écrit au Commissaire de police et affirme qu'au moins sept offenses sont commises dans les vidéos en question. Il évoque aussi les vidéos dans lesquelles les policiers forcent les détenus à chanter l'hymne national, tout en plaisantant dessus.

But why did he take figure skating for gym (twice)?This is the episode to listen to when you need a huge laugh and also need to be inspired or  feel nostalgic.Dave's words of wisdom were so good that we didn't even finish our speed round. We left space for you to absorb his message.There's a reason he was chosen to welcome incoming ILR freshmen for 15 years. You can see him every day on TV reporting the weather and other important events, you might see him ice skating at Rockefeller Center, and if you see him out on the town in NYC, he truly wants you to say hello.This is a great episode.Find Dave at NBC New York at 11:00 and 4:00 (eastern)and @davepricetv for Instagram and TwitterListen next to his brother Rob's episode #7:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1820290/episodes/9752048

Jim Connolly is Founder & CEO of ILR, LLC (www.IndustryLeadingResults.com), an organizational behavior consulting practice. Jim's expertise in human behavior and organizational process helps companies hire the right talent and close the gap between performance and results. He has worked with over a hundred companies and completed more than 2,700 behavioral interviews. He has honed a process that can tell you today what you'll know about an employee six months after you hire them. He is highly skilled at completing an in-depth analysis of a person's qualifications, strengths, and character. Mentioned in this Episode:StrengthsFinder 2.0Now, Discover Your StrengthsAngela Duckworth on Passion and SuccessBrene Brown & James Clear interview Part 1Brene Brown & James Clear interview Part 2Contact Jim: Jim@IndustryLeadingResults.comTime Codes:(3:10) -  What is the difference between a Doctorate and a PhD?(4:59) - What field are you getting your Doctorate in?(6:07) - What are the problems are you solving for companies?(8:07) - Are there people who are programmed to be explorers and those who are not?(10:15) - Jim's work in Change Management.(13:45) - What are the best practices for behavioral interviewing?(35:43) - How should employers be thinking about developing their people?(39:29) - Can you build average people into high-performers?(43:11) - How do you think about "drive" as a personality trait?(46:54) - What's the right way to think about training people to become high performers?(57:39) - What is the purpose of business?

Rakiety suborbitalne w służbie nauk biologicznych - mgr inż. Tomasz Noga O rakietach suborbitalnych i ich wykorzystaniu a szczególności rakiety ILR-33 BURSZTYN Zapraszamy na wykład przygotowany we współpracy z Polskim Towarzystwem Astrobiologicznym https://astrobio.pl/

Navigating this “VUCA World” with Marc LainhartAired Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 12:00 PM PST / 3:00 PM ESTFeedspot's Best 70 Inspirational Podcasts to Listen to in 2022! #24 – INSPIRED LIVING! https://blog.feedspot.com/inspirational_podcasts/Join ‘ILR' Host Marc Lainhart – The Intuitive Prospector™ this “Wisdom Wednesday” as Marc discusses several ways to navigate and be aware of this “VUCA World!”We now live in a connected society where change can be fast-paced, constant and unpredictable. Rapid advances in technology have created an environment where the internet, smartphones, and social media are ubiquitous, and the 2008 global financial crisis has increased the sense of turbulence, danger and unpredictability in certain areas and are still being felt around the world to this day. We may have noticed that we are living in what the Navy Seals refer to as — and are trained to perform in — a “VUCA World.” That's an acronym for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. The United States Army War College was one of the first organizations to use the VUCA acronym, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. Military planners were worried about the radically different and unfamiliar international security environment that had emerged, so they used VUCA to describe it. VUCA stands for:Volatile – Change is rapid and unpredictable in its nature and extent.Uncertain – The present is unclear and the future is uncertain.Complex – Many different, interconnected factors come into play, with the potential to cause chaos and confusion.Ambiguous – There is a lack of clarity or awareness about situationsMarc has been predicting and forecasting that volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are going to become more and more prevalent in our world for the last few years and on previous ILR shows, including the stability of both Democracy, unity and divide in the United States, continued global transformations, war and power shifts and even some big findings and announcements from outside of our planet that will contribute to our “Roaring 20s!” Join Marc as he shares some personal tips, experiences, breathing exercises (and a short meditation) of how to be a “Prospector” navigating in a “VUCA World” full of constant change, chaos, flux and flow…Ready to go “PROSPECTING!”TIME ZONES FOR LIVE SHOW:10 am PT (Hawaii)12 pm PT (Seattle)1 pm MT (Colorado)2 pm CT (Chicago)3 pm ET (Boston)8 pm (London)9 pm (Rome)Locate, Listen and Leave us a Review of ‘INSPIRED LIVING' now streaming on any of your favorite Podcasting Platforms!OMTIMES INTERNET GLOBAL PLAYER: INSPIRED LIVING RADIO – LISTEN LIVE FROM ANYWHERE AROUND THE PLANET: https://omtimes.com/iom/category/conscious-li/inspired-living/OMTIMES RADIO CALL-IN LINES: 1-202-570-7057POST A QUESTION ON THE ‘ILR' PUBLIC FACEBOOK PAGEFOLLOW ‘ILR” ON INSTAGRAM, TWITTER AT: @INSPIRED4USSPIRITUAL CONSULTING – LIFE. LOSS. LOVE. Based in Seattle, Washington, Marc Lainhart is an award-winning, internationally respected and tested British trained Psychic and Spiritual Medium and Best American Psychics 2020 Psychic of the Year. Marc's work as a Radio Show Host, Hiking Guide, Metaphysical Teacher, Inspirational Thought Leader, Certified Healthcare Provider, and Writer striving to help, inspire, guide, teach, and transform others in connecting to spirit, self, and this wonderful world around us! With his own Near Death Experience (NDE) and several personal tragedies, Marc has spent the last several years deciphering and demystifying the sensational subject matter of death and dying and now endeavours to help others from around the world tap into and flex their intuitive muscles and abilities. Marc accomplishes this passion, love, and working for spirit on a daily basis through deep meditations, Qigong energy exercises, personal readings, online webinars, lectures, speaking engagements, personal mentoring and development, fun and intuitive workshops, local-spiritual hikes, daily inspirational writings, and many personal healing sessions throughout the year. Marc is looking forward to “Spiritually Prospecting” directly with you so that together you can explore and discover your own “Spiritual Gold!”#MarcLainhart #InspiredLiving #MarcLainhartVisit the Inspired Living show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living-radio/Connect with Marc Lainhart at http://www.marclainhart.com/Subscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazineConnect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

Carla Grant Pickens, IBM's vice president of leadership Development & Succession and Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, as well as Vanessa Bohns, ILR associate professor and author of the book, “You Have More Influence Than You Think,” join ILR Dean Alex Colvin to discuss the unique challenges that companies have faced during COVID, and how both employers and employees can adapt moving forward.   Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu! 

In this latest Hot Topics Podcast, Dr Neal Tucker reflects on the NHSE Rescue Package and asks if we are going to strike are we clear what we want general practice to be? Time for us to make up our minds.In research we look at multimorbidity clusters and consultation rates - how should this influence funding? Also a ray of hope for patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction with empagliflozin - but is it as good as it appears to be? And two papers on AF screening including implanting a mini-ECG machine in your chest wall. Sounds like a lot of effort, but does it help???ReferencesBJGP MM & Consultation RatesNEJM Empagliflozin & HFpEFLancet STROKESTOP study & ILR study

Hans and Jason are back again this week with a show answering some common questions about the differences in the iRay Bravo and Bolt TL35 thermal rifle scopes. These two scopes are very similar but have their differences and Hans and Jason lay out the specs side by side and then explain the strong points of both models. Later in the show they offer their initial review of the new iRay ILR-1000 modular/add-on laser range finder for the iRay Rico MK1 thermal rifle scopes. They explain how the ILR connects to the scope and the basic functions it offers. If you're looking to buy thermal optics or night vision and need pre-purchase advice, check out https://outdoorlegacygear.com or give Jason & Hans a call at (877)350-1818

ESTRENO del Camino del Discípulo – ILR 19/08/2021. En el mensaje de hoy 19/08/2021, Mariela González Carreiro y Maritza Mata, nos van a contar de forma sencilla, "Porqué oramos, adoramos y alabamos los cristianos?" Vs. Lucas 11:5-13. Con mucho amor, hacemos este segmento que llamamos "El Camino del discípulo", para compartir juntos este maravilloso sendero. Aquí te contaremos algunos testimonios, de cómo Dios está obrando en nuestras vidas, y verás que también, ya está obrando en la tuya! Si te gustó el video y fue de bendición para vos, te invitamos a que le des "Me Gusta" , y lo compartas en tus Redes con el hashtag #IglesiaLaRocaRioGallegos y no olviden suscribirse a nuestro canal, haciendo click en el Logo del final, al lado de nuestros videos sugeridos. Es muy importante para nosotros. Gracias!! Escúchalo en nuestras Redes: en facebook Iglesia La Roca Río Gallegos @iglesiaLaRocaRioGallegos, en nuestro canal de YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/IglesiaLaRocaRioGallegos y en nuestra web site www.larocaiglesia.com/podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/la-roca-iglesia/message

In recently released leaked audio, ESPN broadcaster Rachel Nichols implied that Maria Taylor was chosen for the job because she is Black and the network was “feeling pressure” about its “crappy longtime record on diversity.” Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times deputy Sports editor, joins to break down the situation and provide insight on what it's like to be a BIPOC woman covering sports. Plus, listeners call in to tell us their similar workplace experiences and why diversity in the workplace is important.   Read her article here.

- Musique - La libre antenne de l’artiste, auteur et interprète Dadju, qui vient annoncer la sortie de son nouvel album Poison, qui est sorti le 15 novembre 2019. Ilrépond aux questions de Claudy Siar, de Céline Guillaume et des auditeurs leaders de la Génération Consciente (Whatsapp au 00.336.37.42.62.24). (Rediffusion) Cliquez sur le nom de l'artiste pour en savoir plus, et sur les titres des chansons pour visionner leur clip : Dadju Compliqué Dadju Ma Vie Dadju Confessions Dadju Bobo au Coeur Dadju featuring Nekfeu Paire d'As Dadju Toi d'abord Dadju Bob Marley

This episode features a conversation of members and friends of the atelier with Professor Steve Barley about doing ethnographies of work and occupations. In particular, we discussed his research about technicians and long-term interest in grounding organization research in the study of work and technology. In the chat, Steve shares his experience in managing collective ethnographic projects and his forecast of future themes in the study of work, technology, and organizations. Steve Barley is the Christian A. Felipe Professor in the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Steve earned his Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, where he collected data for his work on funeral directors and the introduction of CT scanners. He began his career at the ILR school at Cornell, where he engaged in several collective projects that went beyond producing new knowledge for our field and offered new models for doing that. He left Cornell for Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering, where he is Professor Emeritus. Steve's Profile:https://tmp.ucsb.edu/people/stephen-barleyFurther Information:Barley, S. R. (1996). Technicians in the workplace: Ethnographic evidence for bringing work into organizational studies. Administrative Science Quarterly, 404-441.Barley, S. R., & Kunda, G. (2001). Bringing work back in. Organization Science, 12(1), 76-95.Barley, S. R., Bechky, B. A., & Nelsen, B. J. (2016). What do technicians mean when they talk about professionalism? An ethnography of speaking. In The structuring of work in organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.Bailey, D. E., & Barley, S. R. (2020). Beyond design and use: How scholars should study intelligent technologies. Information and Organization, 30(2), 100286.

Spencer Levy ’92, the chairman of Americas Research and senior economic adviser for CBRE, joins ILR Dean Alex Colvin to discuss the impact COVID-19  has had on the world of work.   Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu! 

For this week's Feature Discussion, please join authors Igor Klem, Pasquale Santangeli, Mark N.A. Estes III, and Associate Editor Victoria Delgado as they discuss, in a panel forum, the articles: " The Relationship of LVEF and Myocardial Scar to Long-Term Mortality Risk and Mode of Death in Patients with Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy," "Prognostic Value of Non-Ischemic Ring-Like Left Ventricular Scar in Patients with Apparently Idiopathic Non-Sustained Ventricular Arrhythmias," and "Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy: Prediction Without Prevention of Sudden Death." Dr. Carolyn Lam: Welcome to Circulation on the run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. We're your co-hosts. I'm Dr. Carolyn Lam, Associate editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. Dr. Greg Hundley: And I'm Dr. Greg Hundley, Associate editor, Director of the Pauley Heart Center in Richmond, Virginia. Well Carolyn, this week we've got another sort of double feature with a forum and our focus is going to be on myocardial scar that's observed with late gadolinium enhancement during cardiovascular magnetic resonance and the two author groups we'll be discussing the impact of that scar on the development of ventricular arrhythmias. But before we get to that, how about we grab a cup of coffee and jump into the other articles in the issue? Would you like to go first? Dr. Carolyn Lam: I certainly would. Although I have to say, can't wait for the double feature. I love those, and this is right up your alley too. All right. But first, the first paper I want to talk about provides new randomized trial information regarding the benefits of catheter ablation in atrial fibrillation in patients who also have heart failure. Now, this is a sub-study of the CABANA trial. Dr. Greg Hundley: So Carolyn, remind us a little bit about the CABANA trial first. Dr. Carolyn Lam: I thought you might ask. Well, CABANA randomized 2,204 patients with atrial fibrillation who were 65 years or older or less than 65 with one or more risk factors for stroke at, it was huge at 126 sites, and they were randomized to ablation with pulmonary vein isolation or drug therapy. Now of these, 35% of 778 patients had New York Heart Association Class II or higher at baseline, and really formed the subject of the current paper. Although this sub-study was not specifically designed to evaluate patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, about 91% of the patients with a clinical diagnosis of heart failure participating in CABANA for whom such data on injection fraction were available, really had an ejection fraction of above 40% and fully 79% had an ejection fraction above 50%. So excitingly, this is really majority talking about, have HFpEF. Now, what did they find well in patients with New York heart Association Class II or III heart failure at trial entry, most of whom did not have a reduced ejection fraction. Dr. Carolyn Lam: There was substantial clinical outcome benefits with the ablation over drug therapy with a 36% relative reduction in the primary composite endpoint of death, disabling stroke, serious bleeding or cardiac arrest. Benefits were evident for both all-cause mortality and atrial fibrillation reduction. However, the effects on heart failure hospitalization were small and not significant. Authors also caution that these results should not be viewed as practice changing until they are reproduced in a confirmatory trial of ablation in the same population. And this is beautifully discussed in an editorial by Lynda Rosenfeld and Alan Enriquez from Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Greg Hundley: Oh, wow. Thanks Carolyn. Well, my first paper comes from the world of basic science and it's from Professor Thomas Braun, from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research. So Carolyn, vascular smooth muscle cells show a remarkable phenotypic plasticity allowing acquisition of contractile or synthetic states, but critical information is missing about the physiological signals that promote formation and maintenance of contractile vascular smooth muscle cells in vivo. So BMP-9 and BMP-10 are known to regulate endothelial quiescence after secretion from the liver and right atrium. And these investigators are studied the role of BMP-9 and 10 for controlling formation of contract, all vascular smooth muscle cells. Dr. Carolyn Lam: Greg, talking about vascular smooth muscle cells always reminds me of their role in pulmonary hypertension, am I right? Dr. Greg Hundley: Yes, Carolyn. So these investigators found that in mouse models, BMP-9 and BMP-10 act directly on vascular smooth muscle cells for induction and maintenance of their contractile state, and surprisingly the effects of BMP-9 and 10 in vascular smooth muscle cells are mediated by different combinations of BMP type 1 receptors in a vessel bed specific manner. And therefore, just as you suggest, Carolyn, these results may offer new opportunities to manipulate blood pressure in the pulmonary circulation. Dr. Carolyn Lam: Thank you, Greg. Well, my next paper provides the first proof of principle of gene therapy for complete correction of Type 1 Long QT syndrome. Dr. Greg Hundley: Ah, so tell us a little bit about Type 1 Long QT syndrome, Carolyn. Dr. Carolyn Lam: Okay. Well Type 1 long QT syndrome is caused by loss of function variants in the KCNQ1 and coded potassium channel alpha sub-unit. And that is essential for cardiac repolarization providing the slow delayed rectifier current. Now no current therapies target the molecular cause of this Type 1 long QT syndrome. Well, this study from Dr. Michael Ackerman colleagues from Mayo Clinic Rochester really established a novel dual component suppression and replacement KCNQ1 gene therapy approach for Type 1 long QT syndrome. And it's the type that contains the KCNQ1 short hairpin RNA to suppress endogenous expression and a codeine altered short hairpin RNA immune copy of this KCNQ1 for gene replacement. Dr. Carolyn Lam: So this very novel approach rescued the prolonged action potential duration in inducible pluripotent STEM cell cardiomyocytes derived from four patients with unique Type 1 Long QT syndrome, causative, KCNQ1 variants. So it's super cool. Just go have a look. Dr. Greg Hundley: Well, thanks Carolyn. Dr. Carolyn Lam: I want to also tell you about other things in the mail bag. We have ECG Challenge by Dr. Dai on “Severe Arrhythmia Caused by a Chinese Herbal Liqueur. What's the Diagnosis?” I'm not going to tell you. You have to go see. We have Dr. Karen Sliwa writing a beautiful Joint Opinion paper from the World Heart Federation and American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and European Society of Cardiology on "Taking a Stand Against Air Pollution, the Impact on Cardiovascular Disease." Dr. Greg Hundley: Well, thanks Carolyn. So I've got a couple other articles. First Professor Yacoub has a global rounds describing and working towards meeting the challenges of improving cardiovascular health in Egypt. Those are really interesting features to learn about cardiovascular care worldwide. Next there's an In Depth article by Professor Thum entitled, "Therapeutic and Diagnostic Translation of Extracellular Vesicles in Cardiovascular Diseases, Roadmap to the Clinic." And then finally, a Research Letter from Dr. Bottá entitled, "Risk of Coronary Artery Disease Conferred by Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Depends on Apologetic Background." Well, Carolyn, what a great issue and how about now we proceed on to that double feature? Dr. Carolyn Lam: Oh, I can't wait. Thanks Greg. Dr. Greg Hundley: Well, listeners, we are here for a really exciting feature discussion today that's going to focus on imaging, in particular magnetic, resonance imaging, and some new findings in that era and how those findings may pertain to ventricular dysrhythmias. With us today, we have Dr. Igor Klem from Duke University who will be discussing a paper, Dr. Pasquale Santangeli from University of Pennsylvania, our own associate editor, Dr. Victoria Delgado from Leiden and an editorialist, Dr. Mark Estes from UPMC in Pittsburgh. Welcome to all of you. Well, Igor, we're going to start with you. Could you tell us what was the hypothesis for your study and what was your study population in study design? Dr. Igor Klem: Yes. Good morning, Greg and thanks for the invitation. We wanted to know if you have a patient who you diagnosed with non ischemic cardiomyopathy based on clinical grounds and you refer him for a cardiac MRI study with contrast, what is the additional information that you get from the MRI study? And so we wanted to compare, and that's primarily related to the findings on scar imaging with late gadolinium enhancement. And we wanted to compare that to one of the most robust clinical parameters in cardiology, which is left ventricular ejection fraction, and in particular using a cutoff of 35%, which somehow in our clinical management has sort of as established as a break point for many clinical decisions. Dr. Igor Klem: And so we created a registry among three centers of patients who undergo a cardiac MRI study, where we found an LVEF of less than 50% and we followed them for a number of outcomes. One is all caused death. And then we wanted to separate a little bit the events into those who have cardiac mortality to look at a little epidemiology because in those patients, we have two major adverse events: one as heart failure related mortality. One is arrhythmia related mortality. Dr. Greg Hundley: And how many subjects did you include? Dr. Igor Klem: We included about a thousand patients from three centers and coming to the major findings of our study, we found that both left ventricular ejection fraction, as we know, is a robust marker of all cause mortality and cardiac death. And so it was the presence of myocardial scar on cardiac MRI. But the major difference was in relation to the arrhythmic events. We founded left ventricular ejection fraction in particular, when we use the 35% cutoff actually had very little predictive power to inform us who is at risk of arrhythmic events. In contrast, there was a very strong and robust relationship or multiple statistical methods to stratify patients who are at risk for sudden cardiac death, appropriate ICD shock, as well as arrhythmic cardiac death. Dr. Greg Hundley: Very good. Well, Pasquale understand you also performed a research study utilizing cardiovascular magnetic resonance. Could you describe for us your hypothesis as well as what was your population and your study design? Dr. Pasquale Santangeli: Thank you, Greg. And of course, thanks to the editor for the interest in our paper. I need to thank also the first call authors Daniele Muser and Gaetano Nucifora for putting together a registry of 70 institutions throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan and the our hypothesis came from a clinical need. We do know that patients with idiopathic ventricular re we ask, which includes not sustain a weakness like PVCs or non-sustained VT. Very few of them, but there is a group of them that have a higher risk of ending malignant and up comes in terms of your ethnic events over follow-up. And prior studies have shown that by doing an MRI and showings and the detecting scar related announcement, there is an increase with how we make events of a follow-up. However, if you do look at those studies late, an answer's been reported in up to 70% of these patients, which you never view is a highly practical way of re-stratifying these patients, because you have a risk factor that is present 70% of those, then it's hard to use it for clinical decision-making. Dr. Pasquale Santangeli: So in this registry, which you put it again at 686 patients with panel data idiopathic, not sustained ventricular arrhythmias, which were defined by a normal WBC gene status, a normal echocardiogram and a normal stress test. We looked at whether there is a specific pattern of late announcement. So how basically I believe lands, and it looks on the MRI, they may predict better or outcomes over follow-up. And again, we use a composite and Pauline the full cost mortality, but associated cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation or a hemodynamically unstable BP, or in a subgroup of patients that underwent ICD therapy. We also looked at, I approve SED shocks. Dr. Pasquale Santangeli: The groups were divided in three different categories. The first one, which is a larger group of 85% of patients and no late announcement. The second group, the one with late announcement, which represents the remaining 50% of 15% of patients, we divided it into a ring light pattern, which was defined as that word says, as a ring like distribution of the lead announcement in the mid-market segments, which involves a three consecutive continuous segments in a short axis view. It looks like really at least half the ring or three-quarters of the ring. Dr. Pasquale Santangeli: And the other group is the one that had the leader announcement without a ring light pattern. And it's interesting that the third and the latest announcement was not that similar between the ring light and the one without ring light late announcement. What we did find though for our follow-up the patient with a ring light pattern, a significantly higher rate of the primary composite endpoint, which happened in the median follow-up about 61 months so it was quite long. And the composite outcome occurred in 50% of patients in the ring light group versus 19% in the no ring light a positive announcement group and a 0.3%. So really, really rare in patients. So then concluded that of course, late announcement does provide some information in general, particularly the type of announcement that increases the risk significantly. Probably although this has to be confirmed prospective fashion patient with a ring light pattern may benefit from other forms of interventions, including potentially defibrillator therapy in a prophylactic fashion. Dr. Greg Hundley: Very nice. So now listeners, we're going to turn to our associate editor. One of the imaging experts here at Circulation, Dr. Victoria Delgado. Victoria, you see a lot of papers come across your desk and as an imaging expert, what attracted you to these two papers? And what do you think are their significance? Dr. Victoria Delgado: Thank you, Greg. I think that these two papers are important because right now, if we follow the clinical guidelines, we decide implantation. For example, of an ICD based on the ejection fraction, and we see that in many patients based on ejection fraction, they may not benefit ever from an ICD because they don't have arrhythmias. What other patients who do not meet the criteria often injection fraction below 35%. They may have still arrhythmias. So the article by Igor highlights the relevance of the amount of burden of late government Huntsman with CMR, in patients with non ischemic cardiomyopathy, which are sometimes very challenging patients on how to decide when we implant an ICD or not. We need sometimes to base the decision on genetics. Dr. Victoria Delgado: If we have an on the other hand, the paper of Pasquale, these were patients with normal echocardiogram. So what patient, having arrhythmias where we don't see on echocardiogram, that is the first imaging technique that we usually use to evaluate these patients. We don't see anything, but CMR can give us more information in terms of structural abnormalities and particularly not only the burden of scar, but also the pattern of the scar. And we have seen in other studies that for example, not only for ICD implantation, but for ventricular tachycardia ablation. The characteristics of that scar and some areas where these are short of panel that can be targeted for that ventricular tachycardia ablation can lead to much more precise treatment if you want of these patients. Dr. Greg Hundley: Thank you, Victoria. So it sounds like listeners we're hearing late gadolinium enhancement, regardless of EF could be forecasting, future arrhythmic events. And then also the pattern of late gadolinium enhancement, where contiguous segments in a ring-like fashion may also offer additional prognostic information. Well, now we're going to turn to our editorialists and as you know, listeners at Circulation, we'll bring in an editorialist to really help put things together and uniquely here today, we have Dr. Mark Estes, who is really not an imager per se, but like many of us uses the information from imaging to make clinical decisions. Mark, how do you see this late gadolinium enhancement as perhaps a new consideration for placement of devices? Dr. N.A. Mark Estes: Greg, that's one of the key questions. There's no doubt, not only based on these two studies, which extend our prior information about LGE and patients with valid and non ischemic cardiomyopathies that scar burden is important in predicting not only total mortality, but arrhythmic events. All of the criteria that were used in the original ICD studies, which include the definite, the Skuid half Danish and made it our it trials use only ejection fraction and functional status, no imaging. These are legacy trials. Now, many of them, a decade or more older. And the treatment of advanced heart failure has progressed to the point that the total mortality is dramatically lower than it was at the time of these studies. In some instances down to 4 or 5% per year. The studies are important in that they identify a subgroup of patients with low ejection fractions, less than 35%, who might qualify for ICDs, who are unlikely to benefit. Dr. N.A. Mark Estes: They also identify a group of patients with preserved ejection fraction greater than 35%, less than 50 in whom the risk of sudden death may be substantial. And it extends prior observations about patchy, mid Meyer, cardio wall fibrosis, subendocardial, subepicardial and important ways. But the key issue here, and it was alluded to with Pasquale's comments about prospective validation, is that when one has a risk stratifier and identifies a high risk population that has to be linked to an unequivocal therapy, it improves survival. And we don't have that link quite yet. Dr. N.A. Mark Estes: Prospective randomized trials are unlikely to be done in the low ejection fraction because they would probably be considered unethical. Given the trials that have shown the benefit you can't randomize to defibrillator versus an implantable loop recorders. I think the future really lies in risk stratification for people with preserved ejection fractions greater than 35%, less than 50 using LG in that patient population. Currently, I think the best information we can give to clinicians is to stick with the AHA guidelines, which is PF less than 35% with dilated, nonischemic class II symptoms who have had optimal medical therapy for at least three months using perhaps in that patient population LGE for shared decision-making in patients about the magnitude of the risk. And I think that's as far as we can go pending future studies, and there is one which we can discuss later on the CMR study at just that preserved ejection fraction LGE randomizing to defibrillator versus ILR. Dr. Greg Hundley: Thank you, Mark. So listeners just really quickly, let's go back to each of our experts and ask them, you know, in 20 seconds, Igor, Pasquale, Victoria, and Mark, what's the next study that needs to be performed in this space? Igor, we'll start with you. Dr. Igor Klem: Well, number one, following on Mark's comment on the less than 35% population, I think that it's unlikely that they're randomized clinical trial is ethical in this population, but we may consider a wealth of registry data by now that shows that there is a subgroup of patients who have a lower risk or lower benefit from an ICD. I think in the preserved ejection fraction above 35%, maybe up to 45%, 50%. That's an interesting study that's coming up. Maybe there's more trials that can provide us that robust information that we need today in order to change the guidelines to risk stratify, not based on the LVF, but on the presence of scar or maybe subgroups of scar. Dr. Greg Hundley: Pasquale? Dr. Pasquale Santangeli: Yes. So I think of course, one of the major studies is the one already alluded by this, which is a prospective study that links as specific therapy like ICD or even additional risk factors like we've been using program's stimulation some of these patients to further risk for the five to see what they can benefit. Dr. Pasquale Santangeli: Based another one that I think is important for the study that we did is a mechanistic more study to understand why the ring light pattern was there, as opposed to other patterns. We do believe we think that some of these patients may have an initial form of lb dominant arrhythmogenic paramount. There wasn't really a detective before and ran. Now, if we actually extending our study and have a registry to try to screen also the family members or patients with ring light pattern to understand whether there is a familiar component to it, because really we do not see this type of pattern that commonly and it'd been associated with lb dominant. Magnetic kind of alpha in some others, small studies. Dr. Pasquale Santangeli: So that's the other part to dig in a little bit more into the field type for these patients to understand why one pattern versus another happens and whether that gets main to, to explain why there's a higher risk in one population versus another. Dr. Greg Hundley: Victoria. Dr. Victoria Delgado: Yeah. Following what has been said. I think that from the imaging point of view, we are always criticizing in a way that we increase the burden or the cost of healthcare. But I think that these studies or any randomized study where MRI or echo is used in order to design a therapy and show the value of using that imaging technique to optimize the health care costs is important. So I will not add much on which sort of populations, but probably patients within non ischemic cardiomyopathy with preserved ejection fraction that do not fulfill the recent scores, for example, in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy to be implanted with an ICD. But probably if we see a lot of scar on a AGE where specific patterns that can help to decide which are the patients that have benefited from an ICD implantation, for example. Dr. Greg Hundley: Thank you. And finally Mark. Dr. N.A. Mark Estes: But I think all the major points have been hit here. And unfortunately we have a bit of a dilemma. And that dilemma is that these legacy trials for ICDs, which selected based on low ejection fraction and functional class II were done at a time when contemporary heart failure treatment was not as good as it currently is pharmacologically. And it's been reflected with a lower total mortality. When the mortality in this patient population gets down to the 4 and 5% per year, it's unlikely that any intervention for prevention of sudden death is going to impact on that total mortality. Dr. N.A. Mark Estes: So I do think that the registries hold a lot of promise, giving us insights into the subgroup of patients that previously would have been selected for defibrillators who may not have as much benefit or who may benefit the most. And I think that they will play an important part in perhaps refining the risk stratification with greater sensitivity and specificity in the patient population, less than 35%. I think the CMR guide trial is going to be a critical trial and looking at ICDs in the patient population between 35 and 50%, but we need to be mindful of one thing. And that in the Danish trial, they get a sub study looking at about 240 patients using LGE. And they found that ICD in patients with LGE that was positive, did not make a difference in survival or total mortality. So again, we need to get the data. I think the best clinical practice has come out of the best clinical evidence. You'll clearly be limitations to what we can do, but I think in the future, we'll have much better data to make these judgment calls. Dr. Greg Hundley: Very good. Well listeners, we want to thank our panelists, Dr. Igor Clem, Pasquale, Santangeli, Victoria Delgado, and Dr. Mark Estes for this wonderful discussion related to magnetic resonance imaging, late gadolinium enhancement, and how it may be useful in identifying those at risk for future arrhythmic events. On behalf of both Carolyn and myself, want to wish you a great week and we will catch you next week on the run. Dr. Greg Hundley: This program is copyright of the American Heart Association, 2021.  

Rebecca Kehoe, CALS ’05, M.S. ’08, Ph.D. ’10, associate professor of human resources studies at the ILR School, and ILR Dean Alex Colvin discuss her research around “star” employees and their effects on co-workers and employers. Learn more about Kehoe’s most recent study regarding star employees: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/pros-and-cons-working-star Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu!

Tony Byers, director of Diversity & Inclusion Programs at the ILR Center for Advanced HR Studies, and ILR Dean Alex Colvin examine the increased emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and what individual employees can do to improve their workplaces. Learn more about Cornell’s Diversity & Inclusion Program: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/programs/professional-education/topic/diversity-and-inclusion Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode.Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu!

The Roaring 20’s and Psychic Predictions & Forecasting with Marc LainhartAired Wednesday, January 13, 2021, at 12:00 PM PST / 3:00 PM EST Join ‘ILR’ Host Marc Lainhart – The Intuitive Prospector this “Wisdom Wednesday” LIVE for the first show of 2021 as Marc discusses the upcoming decade of our “Roaring 20’s,” with Psychic Predictions, and Forecasting for the year ahead or the year of the “5” or Freedom, Love, and Adventure! Let’s go “PROSPECTING!”Be Inspired! Inspire Others! Inspired Before We Expire!” -ILROMTIMES MEDIA & MAGAZINE -GLOBAL INTERNET SHOW – INSPIRED LIVING RADIO!TIME ZONES:⏰ 10 am PT (Hawaii)⏰ 12 pm PT (Seattle)⏰ 1 pm MT (Colorado)⏰ 2 pm CT (Chicago)⏰ 3 pm ET (Boston)https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living-radioOM TIMES RADIO CALL-IN LINES: 1-202-570-7057POST A QUESTION ON THE ‘ILR’ FACEBOOK PAGEFollow us over on Instagram and Twitter at: @INSPIRED4USPlease “SUBSCRIBE” on iTunes and then leave us a “RATING and REVIEWS,” If you “feel or felt” inspired, encouraged, motivated when listening to any of our past shows over the last 5 seasons or the inspiring shows for season 6, and please enjoy the positive energy and messages ‘ILR’ brings to the airwaves!What topics would you like to hear about in 2021…WE ARE “LISTENING!”INSPIRED LIVING RADIO – Apple iTunes PodcastAbout MarcSPIRITUAL CONSULTING – LIFE. LOSS. LOVE. Based in Seattle, Washington, Marc Lainhart is an award-winning, internationally respected and tested British trained Psychic and Spiritual Medium and Best American Psychics 2020 Psychic of the Year. Marc’s work as a Radio Show Host, Hiking Guide, Certified Diver, Metaphysical Teacher, Holistic Healer, Inspirational Thought Leader, Certified Healthcare Provider, and Writer is to serve, heal, guide, teach, transform, and inspire others in connecting to spirit, self, and this wonderful world around us! With his own Near Death Experience (NDE) and several personal tragedies, Marc has spent the last several years deciphering and demystifying the sensational subject matter of death and dying and now strives to help others from around the world tap into and flex their own intuitive muscles and abilities.Visit the Inspired Living show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living-radio/ Connect with Marc Lainhart at http://www.marclainhart.com/#PsychicPredictions #InspiredLiving #MarcLainhart

Tanuja Gupta, one of the original organizers of Googlers for Ending Forced Arbitration, and ILR Dean Alex Colvin examine the role her group played in ending the practice at her company, as well as getting the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act passed in Congress. Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu!

Happiness Hacks and “Seeing” into 2021 with Marc Lainhart – The Intuitive Prospector™Aired Wednesday, November 25, 2020, at 12:00 PM PST / 3:00 PM EST Join us this “Wisdom Wednesday” on INSPIRED LIVING RADIO for the last show of 2020 as Host Marc Lainhart – The Intuitive Prospector™ discusses Inspirational and motivational “Happiness Hacks” and what he “Sees” for the year of 2021!?INSPIRED LIVING RADIO will be BACK for the 6th season starting in January, 2021 with an exciting new lineup of shows, wonderful and knowledgeable guests and interesting and transformative topics…Join us in 2021 for the new season of “ILR” over on OMTimes Radio, Media and Magazine!Be Inspired! Inspire Others! Inspired Before We Expire!” -ILROMTIMES MEDIA & MAGAZINE…LIVE GLOBAL INTERNET SHOW – INSPIRED LIVING RADIO!12PM PT / 1PM MT / 2PM CST / 3pm ET / 8pm UKhttps://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living-radio/OM TIMES RADIO CALL-IN LINES: 1-202-570-7057SPIRITUAL CONSULTING – LIFE. LOSS. LOVE. Based in Seattle, Washington, Marc Lainhart is an award-winning, internationally respected and tested British trained Psychic and Spiritual Medium and Best American Psychics 2020 Psychic of the Year. Marc’s work as a Radio Show Host, Hiking Guide, Certified Diver, Metaphysical Teacher, Holistic Healer, Inspirational Thought Leader, Certified Healthcare Provider, and Writer is to serve, heal, guide, teach, transform, and inspire others in connecting to spirit, self, and this wonderful world around us! With his own Near Death Experience (NDE) and several personal tragedies, Marc has spent the last several years deciphering and demystifying the sensational subject matter of death and dying and now strives to help others from around the world tap into and flex their own intuitive muscles and abilities.Visit the Inspired Living show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living-radio/ Connect with Marc Lainhart at http://www.marclainhart.com/#HappinessHacks #InspiredLiving #MarcLainhart

“Philadelphia Inquirer” labor reporter Juliana Feliciano Reyes and ILR Dean Alex Colvin discuss the role that cities like Philadelphia are playing, through initiatives such as the Fair Workweek law, to secure workers’ rights.Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu!

Farther Farms builds technologies to improve the way food is made. Hear about Co-Founder and CEO Mike Annunziata's path to starting Farther Farms, the ways in which they are using technology to make food processing more sustainable, and how Cornell propelled him to where he is today. From an undergraduate degree in ILR, to working for Cornell, to earning his MBA from Johnson, Mike has a long history on the hill. Learn about the different entrepreneurship programs that Cornell offers to students of all backgrounds looking to pursue their own unique ventures, and how success is often linked to the people you surround yourself with. “I always had an affinity for food and really what it represents in bringing people together, creating opportunities for engagement and to build relationships.” Hosted by Andrew Brady '10. Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly. *The views expressed by the podcasts featured in this episode do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Cornell University.

Academy Award-winning American documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert and ILR Dean Alex Colvin discuss Reichert’s Oscar-winning film, “American Factory,” as well as the recent upturn in union activism, the rise of B Corps and the future of work. To learn about Reichert’s connection to the ILR School, read: ILR Expertise Utilized by Academy Award Winner Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu!

Eduardo Porter, economics reporter at The New York Times, and ILR Dean Alex Colvin discuss how technology, service sector jobs and Universal Basic Income could affect the future of work. Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu!

Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, and Dean Alex Colvin discuss the shifts that have occurred in unions – from their approaches, to their membership, to their leadership, and what must continue to happen to benefit all workers. Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu!

ILR student and activist Sherell Farmer joins host Daniel James II for a conversation about police brutality, protest experiences, tokenism in student organizational culture at Cornell, and much more.  And just like that, a new show is born.  Welcome to Black Voices on the Hill from WVBR News.  Instagram: @blackvoicesonthehill https://www.wvbr.com/blackvoices Music provided by OZSOUND. Channel: https://goo.gl/qnhQtD.

In the conclusion of this two-part episode, Liz Shuler, the secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO and Dean Alex Colvin discuss the Fight for 15, the gig economy, and the role millennials will have in the future of unions.Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu!

Liz Shuler, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, and Dean Alex Colvin discuss the atmosphere of today’s unions. The duo examines the surge of strikes nationwide, the increase of worker activism and the growth of diverse union leadership. Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu!

La libre antenne de l’artiste, auteur et interprète Dadju, dont l'album Poison est sorti le 15 novembre 2019. Ilrépond aux questions de Claudy Siar, de Céline Guillaume et des auditeurs leaders de la Génération Consciente (Whatsapp au 00.336.37.42.62.24). Cliquez sur le nom de l'artiste pour en savoir plus, et sur les titres des chansons pour visionner leur clip : DadjuCompliqué DadjuMa Vie DadjuConfessions DadjuBobo au Coeur Dadju featuring NekfeuPaire d'As DadjuToi d'abord DadjuBob Marley

JC Tretter ’13, the newly-elected president of the National Football League Players Association and Dean Alex Colvin discuss the NFL’s tumultuous spring – from the latest collective bargaining agreement, to COVID-19, to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ilr.Cornell.edu.

Randi Weingarten ’80, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Dean Alex Colvin discuss the “return of the strike” and how Weingarten has worked to build community both inside and outside of the union. Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ilr.Cornell.edu.

Dean Alex Colvin and New York Times reporter Eduardo Porter discuss the impact of the coronavirus on workers and the economy in the U.S. and around the globe. Fill out this short questionnaire to provide feedback, or to suggest a guest or topic for a future episode. Learn more about ILR by visiting us on the web at ILR.Cornell.edu!

This week we talked about aesthetics, New Orleans, DC shoes, cherry garcia and ILR with our special guest host, Candace!!!!Support Whatever's On Our Minds by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/woomradioFind out more at http://www.natdpow.com

In our inaugural episode, Cornell ILR School Dean Alex Colvin and Katrina Nobles, director of programs for ILR’s Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution, discuss LGBTQ worker rights.

Marc Lainhart and Kim Thalken – Inspired LivingAired Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 12:00 PM PST / 3:00 PM ESTJoin us this “Wisdom Wednesday” on INSPIRED LIVING RADIO as host Marc Lainhart and Kim Thalken do their LAST SHOW TOGETHER as co hosts celebrating the creation and the evolution of Inspired Living.**Marc Lainhart will continue hosting ILR solo**INSPIRED LIVING – INTERNET RADIO AT: 12PM PST / 1PM MT / 2PM CST / 3pm EST: https://lnkd.in/eBpHBiRABOUT:Kimberly Thalken is a tested and certified Psychic-Medium and Channel, approved as an official Psychic reader for events at the Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment, Master-Instructor in Energy Healing, Hypnotherapist, Author, Radio Show Co-Host on “Inspired Living with Marc and Kim” and the founder of Love First®. Where Life Transformations Happen in Encino, CA.Kimberly’s work focuses on elevating consciousness–connecting her clients to their own inner wisdom and power so that they bring forth the highest aligned realities and optimize their full potential of all they came here to be.CONTACT: www.lovefirst.infoSPIRITUAL CONSULTING – LIFE. LOSS. LOVE. Based in Seattle, Washington, Marc Lainhart is an award-winning, internationally respected and British trained Spiritual Psychic-Medium. He is a dedicated Metaphysical Teacher, Holistic Healer, Inspirational Thought Leader, Certified Healthcare Provider, Writer, and Radio Show Host who is passionate to serve, heal, guide, teach, transform, and inspire others to connect with spirit and self in the wonderful world that surrounds us! With his own Near Death Experience (NDE) and several personal tragedies, he has spent the last several years deciphering and demystifying the sensational subject matter of death and dying and now strives to help others from around the world tap into and flex their own intuitive muscles and abilities.“Once a Student of Extreme Loss and Tragedy. Now a Teacher of Hope and Healing!” -The Intuitive Prospector™MarcLainhart.com

He had dreams of being an astronomer, ended up going to law school, but landed at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Meet Dr. Alex Colvin, the new Dean at ILR. https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/  https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/worker-institute  https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/union-leadership-institute   https://nysaflcio.org/press-releases/demand-platform-work-nys-another-turning-point-our-changing

Feelgood radio from Birmingham's king of breakfast radio, Les Ross on BRMB in October 1979. Tighter than earlier ILR years, but replete with smiles from the off-the-cuff humour and the general energy, sound and feel.   Enjoy here too the ad breaks, with so many famous singalong ads. and an interesting music policy.

We all know that the first slide in all our HR/People reports is headcount. Headcount last month, a few months back, and the entire year last year. It's typically a bar graph, showing the ups and downs of your headcount. For the eager analyst, there may also be a trend line. With the help of Maya Carmeli, CEO and Co-Founder of Cally, we are calling BS on current HR metrics. While the HR world has become a bit more interested in metrics, it has become focused on the wrong metrics (or at least useless metrics). Maya calls them vanity metrics and questions the data collection methods that are providing no strategic value for decision making (she LOVES the headcount metric too!). Maya also wants to call BS on siloed HR departments where this data and knowledge about the company and its people are held up. It's time to democratize people metrics to the folks that make decisions every day, your leaders.  Maya is the CEO & Co-founder at Cally, software that gives voice to employees and helps managers be better leaders to their teams. Maya holds a Bachelors in HR and Labor Relations from Rutgers University and a Masters from Cornell’s ILR school. She has a background working in human resources and team consulting, specifically in large companies where she realized that traditional HR is broken. Maya was born in Brooklyn and was raised both in Tel-Aviv and the NY/NJ area. For fun, Maya likes to ski, read academic papers like a nerd, and drink excessive amounts of coffee (like a New Yawker). Find her on Twitter and LinkedIn. 

Julio Casado '08 studied Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, received a Master’s degree in Management from the Harvard University Extension School, and is a 2018 Fellow of the New Leaders Council. He was born in Dominican Republic, grew up in Harlem, and is proud to call the Bronx home. Hear about how Julio's experience at Cornell in the ILR school directly launched him into a career in the labor relations and HR world, and how the power of the Cornell network helped him to get where he is today. Learn about the the different entrepreneurial paths he's pursued since graduation and how he currently consults in talent management and fundraising with a focus on advancing social impact organizations as well as being the Co-Founder of Smart Professions, which provides talented freelancers skills training and infrastructure support critical to their personal and professional growth. Additionally, Julio serves as the President of La Unidad Latina Foundation, a non-profit organization that propels students dedicated to advancing the Latino community from high school to college graduation and beyond. Together with the Alpha Chapter of Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc., LULF established the Latino Living Center endowment fund to support the Program House and cultural events for Cornell's Latino community. Julio previously served as a Business Operations Manager at a Bronx, NY middle school and as a Human Capital consultant. Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly. *The views expressed by Fresh from the Hill hosts and guests do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Cornell University.

The flying scotsman himself joins the fray as i talk to him about his league racing, his karting experience and how ILR has changed his life . A well know figure within our community and a great guy to talk to. Have a listen! If you would like to be featured send a DM to @_Soupcooler or email OneMicOneWheel@gmail.com Many thanks to LK Racing for sponsoring this podcast.

He loved the thought of a career in sound, fascinated by the pictures it could create. His early steps in radio took him to Radio Luxembourg's London studios working alongside the greats like Freeman and Everett; and his production was born from the most basic of equipment and a huge amount of creativity.   He was to become one of the UK commercial radio industry's earliest commercial producers as ILR began in the seventies. His work at Nottingham's Radio Trent was to be recognised consistently in awards. Here he tells of radio's early days, his friendship with Fluff Freeman, his more unsettled times in the industrial strife of the era, and the generous moment he claims as the best in his life. In his own words, this is the Alan Bailey story. The whole 'Conversations' series can be previewed [here](https://www.davidlloydradio.com/conversations). Music by[Larry Bryant](http://www.larrybryant.com).

Another commentator joins the fray for an interview! In this one, i spoke with my commentary partner from ILR; Owen Wyatt. We talk about his favourite moments in league racing, how he overcame his hatred of his own voice and how he sees the league racing community in general.

Video version https://youtu.be/26Fai7FQWG8In my previous post, I looked a little at the history of medicine — starting in medieval times, when medicine began to be the remit of scholars and we saw the nascent emergence of evidence-based practice. Compare that with early surgery, purely physical procedures performed often by barbers and butchers… anyone with a big knife, really. As medics learned more about the structures and functions within the body, surgery and medicine became more closely aligned, eventually enabling specialization within disciplines based on the systems of the body. Now surgery and medicine are distinct but allied parts of the same profession, and nowhere is there more crossover than in cardiac electrophysiology.I explored some of the pros and cons of the increasingly specialized and sub-specialized — sometimes sub-sub-specialized — nature of medicine in general, and cardiology, electrophysiology, and devices in particular.Now let’s look at some of the benefits of professional specialization into electrophysiology: starting with the ever-growing array of implantable devices we have to help us diagnose and manage arrhythmias, starting with Implantable Loop Recorders — ILRs.ILRs are devices implanted under the skin which recognize and record heart rhythms. The implantation of an ILR is a quick, minimally invasive, almost painless and very safe procedure, with a tiny incision usually done as a day case and with only local anesthetic. It can be done in aseptic conditions in procedure rooms or even at the patient’s bedside.Here we have the Biotronik Biomonitor 2; the Abbott’s (St. Jude) Confirm Rx; and the Medtronic Reveal LINQ. They’re all very small so once they’re implanted the patient shouldn’t have any discomfort or even much awareness of them. The insertion site heals as quickly as any other small superficial wound, with minimal, usually barely visible scarring.So, when do we decide to implant an ILR?When someone comes into your clinic with symptoms that could be related to a heart rhythm disorder, such as palpitations, pre-syncope or syncope, the first thing you’ll do is get a 12-lead ECG. A 12-lead can give us a lot of information about the electrical conduction system of the heart, and there may be underlying problems that a 12-lead shows clearly. The problem is, an ECG taken in the clinic is only a snapshot of that moment in time.What we often need is to have our patient attached to a monitor for a longer period of time. We want to see our patients’ heart rhythm when they have the symptoms they’re reporting. It might be that they only get the symptoms when they’re up and about, so having a heart monitor that allows the patient to get on with their normal life is ideal. Sometimes a patient’s symptoms are serious enough or worrying enough that they’ll need to be admitted to hospital for monitoring, but it’s clearly better, both for the patient and for the allocation of clinical resources, if they can go home while they’re monitored.The next step, then, is a Holter monitor: a 3-lead or 12-lead ECG attached externally that can monitor the patient for up to 72 hours. Some Holter monitors have a button that the patient can press when they have symptoms, or it can be useful to ask your patient to keep a diary of their activities and symptoms.What, then, if your patient comes back into the clinic, has a 72-hour recording of their heart behaving perfectly normally, and no symptoms throughout the recording period? What if they have problematic, even potentially harmful symptoms which sound convincingly like a heart rhythm disturbance, but which only happen, say, every few months? We can’t dismiss a convincingly cardiac-sounding syncope in a patient who’s likely to go home, fall down and break a hip just because we haven’t YET got evidence of their arrhythmia. So, we need to monitor them for longer.Enter “The ILR”.Implantable Loop Recorders can monitor your patient for up to three years from insertion (and they’re improving all the time). They can detect a wide variety of arrhythmias, fast, slow, regular, irregular, regularly irregular, and pauses. You can set specific parameters according to the needs of your patient — useful when one patient has a comfortable resting heart rate of 47bpm, and another patient hits the floor when they drop below 60bpm.The ILR automatically detects and records heart rhythm disturbances, and transmits information and alerts through wireless technology ( Abbott(St. Jude), Biotronik, or the Medtronic). The information transmitted and stored is secure and compliant with international and local data privacy legislation. The ILR transmits information using a wireless device usually kept at the patient’s home; this device also allows patients to report symptomatic episodes. This can be incredibly useful, allowing the team analyzing the data to match symptoms to heart rhythm disturbances and work out the root cause of the problem.ILRs are purely diagnostic devices: they record but they don’t treat arrhythmias. Once we’ve worked out the exact cause of the patient’s symptoms we may have a few treatment options, so let’s look at some case studies.Case Study 1:Here’s a report received from a Abbott (St. Jude) Confirm Rx device.We have a single ECG lead, so we can start to have a closer look and analyze the rhythm. Firstly, we can see P waves. We’re only looking at a single lead, so we’re not going to worry about whether our complexes are positive or negative. Where we can see P waves we can also see that they’re closely followed by QRS complexes and that the QRS complexes are nice and narrow. We can see a T wave after the QRS, so we’ve got a good idea of the heart rhythm and can work out intervals within the complexes.In this report, the device has identified this as an episode of bradycardia. At 49bpm, it’s on the edge of normal limits — this is where we need to think about what the patient was doing at the time. If they were climbing a flight of stairs, their heart rate didn’t increase to meet demand, and they felt dizzy, then we’ve got an answer. If, on the other hand, they’re asleep or resting, and if they were asymptomatic while their heart rate was arguably slightly slow, then maybe we can call that normal for this patient, and we can re-programme the monitor to only alert us of bradycardia at less than, for instance, 45bpm. This is where it’s really useful to be able to find out how the patient felt at the time.We can also see from this report that it is basing its rate on ventricular sensed beats — VS — and it also tells us the number of milliseconds between each beat. We can use this to judge pauses and to work out the patient’s heart rate more accurately, and this is especially useful in irregular heart rates. There are a thousand milliseconds in a second, so a rate of 1000 milliseconds is one beat per second or a heart rate of 60bpm. Our patient has an RR interval — the gap between one R wave and the next — of 1074 milliseconds. So, just slightly less than 60bpm. A little further on it records an 1102 millisecond RR interval — so we’re on our way down towards around 52–54bpm.So, is it bradycardia, or is it normal sinus rhythm? Well, this case is a good reminder that everybody’s different, and all we can say, without associated symptoms, is that it seems to be normal for this patient.Case Study 2:Our next case is a recording from a Medtronic Reveal LINQ device. There are a few differences in the interface of different devices, but they all give us the same information. We have our ECG rhythm strip, we can see that it’s labeled VS, for ventricular sensed events, and we can see the RR interval in milliseconds.So what are we looking at here? It’s not bradycardia, although there are some RR intervals of 1790 milliseconds, and it’s not tachycardia, although there are some RR intervals of only 570 milliseconds. The patient actually marked this as a symptomatic episode, so we need to know what’s going on.Firstly, is this an atrial originating rhythm? The discerning eye might spot a P wave before each NARROW QRS, so we know this is an atrial based beat. It has a P wave, it’s a nice narrow QRS complex, it’s following the right pathways in the heart’s conduction system. On this slide, we start off with 3 narrow QRS complexes, with associated P waves and, although a little slow, they’re regular. However, after our third normal QRS complex, we have an early beat. This has a much wider morphology than our previous QRS and is followed by what we call a compensatory pause. This means that the next normal-looking P-wave driven QRS complex falls in about where it would if there’d been another normal beat preceding it, instead of this bizarre early complex. Then we have the same pattern repeated, a narrow complex beat followed by an early broad complex beat and then a compensatory pause. We call this bigeminy — ‘two twins’.Every part of the conduction system in the heart, even down to every cell, has the ability to initiate a heartbeat. The heart works best when the beats originate from the SA node, at the top of the conduction system, and travel through the normal pathways: the AV node, bundle of His, the bundle branches and the Purkinje fibers and through every cell of the heart muscle. These pathways give us a synchronized, coordinated heartbeat, with everything happening at exactly the right time. As we work our way down through the conduction system, we find that every part has its own intrinsic rhythm that will kick in as a safeguard if there’s no signal from above. More on this in another episode!Why do we think this patient has bigeminy? We know that the patient’s normal QRS complexes are narrow, and the premature complexes are wide, taking up almost 200 milliseconds, and so we might assume that the early beat originates from the ventricles. It’s not following the normal conduction pathways, it’s less synchronized than this patient’s normal sino-atrial beat, so we get a broader QRS. All the premature beats have the same shape, the same morphology, and so we know that they originate in the same place in the heart. We can get an idea of where the premature beat originated by the shape of the QRS complex, however, to locate exactly where the originating focus of these beats, is if we catch these beats on a full 12-lead ECG. And if we can pinpoint it then we can ablate it — knock out this tiny problem area and hopefully solve the problem completely.Actually, you’ll notice from this ECG strip that the patient has 8 of these bigeminal beats, and then reverts into a sinus rhythm. Although we tend to assume that a broad complex beat is a ventricular premature beat/complex (VPB/VPC), it’s important to remember that you can get also get broad complex beats with an atrial focus which largely follows normal conduction pathways but with some partial conduction disorder. We call this an atrial beat with aberrancy — it can occur when an early beat comes before the heart has completed its refractory period, and so one of the bundle branches is at a more excitable phase than the other. This causes asynchronicity between the bundle branches and a broad complex on the ECG.Whether these are ventricular beats or aberrant atrial beats, we know that our patient had symptoms when this occurred, so we need to get a 12-lead ECG and work out our treatment options, which may be medication or further EP studies with possible ablation.Case Study 3:Next, we have a case study of a patient with who had recurrent syncopal episodes, in whom we fitted a Medtronic Reveal device. You can see that the device has flagged up a long pause at 5 am. The patient didn’t report symptoms at this time, but we can probably assume that he was asleep, because we know that had he been awake with a pause of this length he would certainly have known about it. The ILR shows us a few seconds before the event so that we can see some regular beats with slightly increasing intervals, and then complete standstill. The report even tells us that the recording was suspended for 10 seconds while it wasn’t receiving any signal from the heart.So this is a long pause, very long, and then — at last! — a beat… and then another pause, and back to its normal rhythm.Phew! So here we have a diagnostic report, we know why the patient has been fainting, and we know that we want to put a pacemaker in him. He had no P waves during his pause, so we can’t call it any kind of AV block, we can’t see any activity at all during his pauses. Of course, we called this patient in for a pacemaker, had him sitting happily in the waiting room pre-procedure, when…This happened! The patient, of course, fainted in the waiting room. We can see on his ILR report that he was having pauses of increasing length, leading to two separate fainting episodes just while he was waiting for his procedure. The patient was very symptomatic and very keen to get his pacemaker! I can’t stress enough how essential the ILR was in diagnosing and ensuring timely treatment of these profound, potentially life-threatening pauses.Case Study 4:Our last case study is of a 46-year-old male patient who was referred to us for repeated syncope and pre-syncope events. He’s had an echocardiogram, a 12-lead ECG, a 24 hour Holter monitor, and hadn’t identified any cause for his fainting. We sent him for some fairly invasive catheter EP studies, which were also normal. Without a clear cardiac cause, we referred him to a neurologist, who also declared the patient to be normal! But his symptoms continued, so we decided on an ILR.Have a look at this patient’s Medtronic Reveal Report. As well as the ECG, it can show us graphs of heart rate and rhythm. We can see just from the graph that this patient’s heart rate is all over the place: 60bpm, 150bpm, a completely irregular ventricular rate.You can also see on the ECG that we have a run of this irregular, fast rhythm, then a three-second pause, and then the heart has reverted into sinus rhythm, at a normal rate. So what was this fast, irregular, narrow complex rhythm? We can’t see P waves, so we know that the atria aren’t contracting in an organized fashion. We can see that it’s narrow complex, so it’s not VT, and that the patient comes out of it themselves (and had a pulse!) so it’s not VF. So it’s fast, with no P waves, irregularly irregular, and not terrifying? It’s AF. It’s the most common cardiac arrhythmia, and it always needs some form of treatment, whether we can control the rhythm or rate because it can cause all kinds of problems — most notably an increased risk of stroke. This patient spontaneously reverted to sinus rhythm which is great, so we can say he’s having paroxysmal AF, during which he’s symptomatic.So how do we treat this patient? Well, he had a little pause… should we put a pacemaker in him? Or should we try EP studies again, knowing now that he has episodes of AF, and ablate the root cause? Or should we medically manage his AF with a lifetime of anti-arrhythmic drugs, beta-blockers, and even blood-thinners if we can’t keep him in NSR?We went with the AF ablation, and we left the ILR in for the duration of its battery life so that we can see if we’ve cured the AF.And…We have! He’s had no episodes of AF, none of the symptoms he used to have, and he doesn’t need any permanently implanted devices or lifelong medication for his heart.These are some of the great successes of ILR technology, which can be an incredibly useful diagnostic tool. In the next episode, we’re going to expand on implantable devices and look at some devices that don’t only record and monitor but can also treat arrhythmias — implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs).Here at EPme.me we love feedback; our aim is to help you learn so please do get in touch with ideas for sessions you’d like to see. Whether you work in electrophysiology, devices, both or neither, we want to hear from you. Follow our YouTube channel to keep up to date with leading cardiac electrophysiology from around the world. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our free ECG cheatsheet — you’ll wonder how you did without it.COMING UP: Next few weeks, we’re gonna be talking about using devices in arrhythmia diagnosis. 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Aired Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 3:00 PM ETFavorite 2018 ‘ILR’ Shows & Inspirations with Marc & KimJoin us for another “Wisdom Wednesday” of INSPIRED LIVING RADIO as we discuss our favorite ‘ILR’ topics and past shows of 2018 and open the phone lines to take your questions, comments, what has “INSPIRED” you in 2018 and of course FREE readings and “Spiritual Chats!” This show is dedicated to YOU… OUR “INSPIRED LISTENERS!”Listen Live: https://youtu.be/WPIerDuG8KQOM TIMES CALL-IN LINES: 202-570-7057INSPIRED LIVING – INTERNET RADIO AT: 12PM PST / 1PM MT / 2PM CST / 3pm EST: https://lnkd.in/eBpHBiR*This is the last LIVE show of 2018 with Marc and Kim as the holidays approach and will be replaying our favorite ‘ILR’ Encore Shows through the month of December. Both Marc and Kim will be back in January of 2019 for the 4th SEASON of INSPIRED LIVING RADIO!!!

In this week's episode, Garrett & Alex sat down with Jim Bellas, Kate Marden and Molly Sampson from Diplomatic Language Services (DLS). This week, we sat down with DLS in Arlington, VA. We discussed:the mission and history of DLS (5:15 ) language curriculum and teaching jobs (8:15), Ciiculum Development (25:15) resume Dos and Donts ( 38:00) , obtaining language ILR testing and language refresher training (45:00) with DLS. Links from the Episode: Diplomatic Language Services

Aired Wednesday, 14 February 2018, 3:00 PM ETLOVE and FREE ReadingsJoin us this “WISDOM WEDNESDAY” at 12pm PST / 1PM MT / 2pm CST/ 3pm EST on INSPIRED LIVING RADIO as Marc and Kim talk about the very important topic of LOVE LOVE and more LOVE.OM TIMES CALL IN LINE: 1-202-570-7057 orSUBMIT your questions here. We’ll address any spiritual topic you want to talk about or areas of life you’d like to receive guidance.ENCORE SHOWS & SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES:Now on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inspired-living/id1088056392?mt=2Now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsvzjz4kasppNLIsxFUj_beT2tU8dlM5qOM Times Radio Archives: http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living/Facebook Group Page – INSPIRED LIVING RADIO: http://www.facebook.com/groups/953052554715269/Twitter Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: INSPIRED LIVING! http://twitter.com/Inspired4UsGoogle+ Communities Page: INSPIRED LIVING with Marc & Kim: http://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111118826880689715612Instagram Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: http://instagram.com/inspired4us/“You are the Inspired and the Inspiration!” ~ILR

Aired Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 3:00 PM ET Inspired Living Radio Is Back For 2018!!! Join us this “WISDOM WEDNESDAY” at 12pm PST / 1PM MT / 2pm CST/ 3pm EST on INSPIRED LIVING RADIO as we move into the new year with 2018 PREDICTIONS, OPEN PHONE LINES, FREE READINGS AND SPIRITUAL CONVERSATIONS! A full hour dedicated to all of our wonderful “INSPIRED LISTENERS” all around the world! Follow this link: http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living/ OM TIMES INTERNET RADIO CALL-IN LINE: 1-202-570-7057ENCORE SHOWS & SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES: Now on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inspired-living/id1088056392?mt=2 Now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsvzjz4kasppNLIsxFUj_beT2tU8dlM5q OM Times Radio Archives: http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living/ Facebook Group Page – INSPIRED LIVING RADIO: http://www.facebook.com/groups/953052554715269/ Twitter Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: INSPIRED LIVING! http://twitter.com/Inspired4Us Google+ Communities Page: INSPIRED LIVING with Marc & Kim: http://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111118826880689715612 Instagram Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: http://instagram.com/inspired4us/ “You are the Inspired and the Inspiration!” ~ILR

Aired Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 3:00 PM ET Inspired Listeners OPEN PHONE LINES AND FREE READINGS! FUN! FUN! FUN! Join ‘ILR’ LIVE this “Wisdom Wednesday” at 12pm PST / 3pm EST with Kim and Marc as they open the phone lines for questions, spiritual conversations and FREE readings. A full hour dedicated to all of the “Inspired Listeners” all around the world! Follow this link: http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living/ OM TIMES INTERNET RADIO CALL-IN LINE: 1-202-570-7057 ENCORE SHOWS & SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES: Now on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inspired-living/id1088056392?mt=2 Now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsvzjz4kasppNLIsxFUj_beT2tU8dlM5q OM Times Radio Archives: http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living/ Facebook Group Page – INSPIRED LIVING RADIO: http://www.facebook.com/groups/953052554715269/ Twitter Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: INSPIRED LIVING! http://twitter.com/Inspired4Us Google+ Communities Page: INSPIRED LIVING with Marc & Kim: http://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111118826880689715612 Instagram Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: http://instagram.com/inspired4us/ “You are the Inspired and the Inspiration!” ~ILR

Aired Wednesday, 16 August 2017, 3:00 PM ET Celebrating Our 100th Episode! Join ‘ILR’ LIVE next “Wisdom Wednesday” at 12pm PST / 3pm EST and celebrate with Kim and Marc as they open the phone lines for questions, spiritual conversations, FREE readings, and discussions on their favorite past ‘ILR’ shows. A full hour dedicated to all of the “Inspired Listeners” all around the world! http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living/ Marc and Kim will also be doing a Pre-Show Facebook Live at 11:15am PST / 2:15pm EST taking your questions, feedback, shows you want to see in 2018 or just stop by and say hello! Closed Inspired Living Radio Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/953052554715269/ OM TIMES INTERNET RADIO CALL-IN LINE: 1-202-570-7057 ENCORE SHOWS & SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES: Now on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inspired-living/id1088056392?mt=2 Now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsvzjz4kasppNLIsxFUj_beT2tU8dlM5q OM Times Radio Archives: http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living/ Facebook Group Page – INSPIRED LIVING RADIO: http://www.facebook.com/groups/953052554715269/ Twitter Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: INSPIRED LIVING! http://twitter.com/Inspired4Us Google+ Communities Page: INSPIRED LIVING with Marc & Kim: http://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111118826880689715612 Instagram Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: http://instagram.com/inspired4us/ “You are the Inspired and the Inspiration!” ~ILR

Aired Wednesday, 26 July 2017, 3:00 PM ET OPEN PHONE LINES, FREE READINGS, SPIRITUAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MARC & KIM ON INSPIRED LIVING RADIO! Join us for this “WISDOM WEDNESDAY” at 12pm PST / 1PM MT / 2pm CST/ 3pm EST on INSPIRED LIVING RADIO as we open the phone lines and our Facebook/Twitter pages to the “Inspired Listener” community for your questions, free readings, and “Spiritual Awesomeness!” http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living/ OM TIMES INTERNET RADIO CALL-IN LINE: 1-202-570-7057 ENCORE SHOWS & SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES: Now on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inspired-living/id1088056392?mt=2 Now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsvzjz4kasppNLIsxFUj_beT2tU8dlM5q OM Times Radio Archives: http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living/ Facebook Group Page – INSPIRED LIVING RADIO: http://www.facebook.com/groups/953052554715269/ Twitter Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: INSPIRED LIVING! http://twitter.com/Inspired4Us Google+ Communities Page: INSPIRED LIVING with Marc & Kim: http://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111118826880689715612 Instagram Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: http://instagram.com/inspired4us/ “You are the Inspired and the Inspiration!” ~ILR

Nonphysical abuse through psychological and emotional means is an integral component of trafficking and slave-like practices. Hosts Seth Daire and JJ Janflone discuss Seth's unpublished paper on the topic that ties together psychological coercive methods used in trafficking, torture, and domestic abuse. The loss of control and identity that can be a part of trafficking are traumatic. To be controlled to the degree required for slavery and trafficking means that even if there are no rapes, threats or bruises, the person has been abused. To effectively prevent and prosecute sex and labor trafficking, and to effectively assist survivors, we need to better recognize and understand the role of psychological coercion within human trafficking. Biderman’s Framework and Trafficking Survivors Method Trafficker Application 1. Isolation Kept away from family and friends so no social support. Social isolation increased the power imbalance to make victims more dependent. This led to depression and loneliness. 2. Monopolization of Perception Limited exposure to and understanding of the outside world. Monopolized their attention, so felt presence of trafficker when gone. Constantly watched. 3. Induced Debilitation and Exhaustion Deprivation of basic human needs such as food, sleep, and health care. Victims worked day after day for long hours. Some victims were forced to consume drugs or alcohol. 4. Threats Threats of arrest or deportation, and against family members. Threats of violence and death. Fostered anxiety and despair. 5. Occasional indulgences Occasion kindness gave victims positive motivation for compliance, as it provided a reprieve from abuse. As it was unknown when indulgences would be given, this created anxiety to please and not make mistakes in hope of an emotional or material reward. 6. Demonstrating "Omnipotence" and "Omniscience" Traffickers claimed influential connections to law enforcement, immigration officials, or deities. This created paranoia, fear, doubt of their sense of reality, and a sense they did not control their fate. 7. Degradation Insulted, humiliated, denied privacy and dignity. Reduced to basic animal-level concerns. 8. Enforcing Trivial Demands Focused on petty concerns developed habits of compliance to keep them entrenched. Also created a need to be perfect, which led to stress and anxiety, especially since work was debilitating due to lack of sleep, food, and social support. Sources: Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. Evans, Patricia. The Verbally Abusive Relationship. Blue Ash: F+W Media, Inc., 2009. Seligman, Martin. Learned Optimism. New York: Random House, 2011. https://chs.ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/Psychological%20Coercion%20in%20HT%20QHR%202014.pdf http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153263#pone-0153263-t002 http://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/files/ilr.law.uiowa.edu/files/ILR_96-2_Kim.pdf http://www.familytx.org/research/Psy%20Abuse.pdf http://www.sciencedirect.com.du.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S0277953611003169 http://0-search.credoreference.com.bianca.penlib.du.edu/content/entry/sageiv/psychological_emotional_abuse/0?searchId=d85ef433-486f-11e6-a370-0a80f32943a1&result=0 http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testimonials-project/testimonies/testimonies-of-the-defense-department/military-training-materials https://health.iom.int/sites/default/files/pdf/iom_notebook4.pdf http://0-search.proquest.com.bianca.penlib.du.edu/docview/1649691694/fulltext/42C1516D598F40CBPQ/1?accountid=14608 http://search.proquest.com.du.idm.oclc.org/docview/1791013996/416BE75802DA4B48PQ/6?accountid=14608 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3104951/ http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(15)70016-1/fulltext http://humantraffickingcenter.org/psychological-abuse-inherent-part-human-trafficking/

Ayelet Waldman, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and activist, talks about her new non-fiction book A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, in which she describes a month long experiment treating her unstable moods with minuscule doses of LSD. Finding psychotropic med prescriptions of little help, Waldman became intrigued by the work of Dr. James Fadiman, a psychologist and researcher who has chronicled the positive effects of microdosing LSD. Waldman is also a lawyer, an accomplished former federal public defender and former teacher at Boalt Hall, U. C. Berkeley's law school. Her legal career includes working to rescue women from prison and advocating for drug-policy reform.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Method to the madness is next. You're listening to method to the madness, a weekly public affairs show on k a l expertly celebrating bay area innovators. I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer, and today I'll be talking with novelist and essayist. I yell at Wildman. We'll be talking about her new book, a really good day. How microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life. Chris, your pleasure to be here. It's great. After I first [00:00:30] got lost on campus, which I will probably do till the end of time, it's on your used to teach on camera. Speaker 2:I taught here at the boat law school for seven semesters yet I want to talk about your new book. I really liked it and so glad the superficial level of it. It's a diary of you microdosing for 30 days, but yes, it's so much more than that. It's about how the war on drugs has failed drug reform policy. It's about psychedelic research. It's about your family. Yes. It's about mood disorders and how they affect family. So you're a legal professional. Yes. And you are a a federal public defender. A criminal defense [00:01:00] lawyer. Tell us the journey of how you got to a schedule one illegal drug for your mood disorder. So it was really a matter of desperation. So I have a mood disorder, but I have a mood disorder that was for many, many years, very well controlled. You know, I'm not one of those people who doesn't take our medicines. Speaker 2:I took my medicine and I took it regularly. My mood disorder was diagnosed as premenstrual dysphoric disorder and the easiest way to understand that is just pms on steroids. It took a while to get the diagnosis. I had a lot of misdiagnoses [00:01:30] first, but eventually I got the diagnosis. I was treated by a psychiatrist who had an expertise in women's mood and hormones and she put me on a very easy to follow very specific medication regimen. I took a week of antidepressants right before my period and for many years that worked great. It was life altering. I mean it was amazing there. I was one month, didn't know what to do, cycling uncontrollably the next month, popping a pill and feeling much better. But then of course I got older [00:02:00] and when you hit your forties when you're a woman, you enter into this protracted period of peri-menopause, which isn't menopause when you stop getting your period, but it's kind of like the build up to that and there's so little literature on it. Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought you'd just like some, one day you're stopped getting your period. I didn't know that. For years I would get two periods a month, three periods a month, no periods, skip a bunch, get one, skip four again, another one, you know, it was just completely unpredictable and crazy. So your mood is fluctuating madly because your hormones are fluctuating madly [00:02:30] and my specific medication regimen required me to know exactly when I was going to get my period and I didn't know anymore and that catalyze this kind of mood disaster. I became a very, very depressed, but my kind of depression is an activated depression, so it's not like I crawled into bed and went to sleep. I was still very productive, but I was very quick to anger, very irritable. I was very difficult to live with and I would get into these spirals where I would be horrible to the people in my family and then I would feel shame and depressed [00:03:00] and I ultimately became suicidal before I began the microdosing experiment, I had left the place of ideation and was more into a kind of more planning phase. Speaker 2:At one point I was standing in front of my medicine cabinet, kind of evaluating its contents to see what was the most dangerous drug in it. Spoiler alert, Tylenol. I have a lot of stuff in my medicine cabinet, but that is a dangerous drug and that's when I decided to try this crazy thing. That's illegal schedule one. I decided to try micro-dosing with LSD. Tell us how you did that. You, you met [00:03:30] James Fadiman. I reached out to James Fadiman. I use an old time researcher on psychoactive drugs. The 60 60 the sixties he, yes, he was a Stanford t and a couple of other people had a study specifically designed to evaluate the effects of LSD on creative problem solving. Fadiman and his colleagues invited these 28 engineers, architects, people in those sort of beginnings of the computer industry because this was like 1966 right? Right. Speaker 2:Yeah, right. LSD was illegal. Right? They said to these people, bring a problem. You're not, [00:04:00] we're not, we're not inviting you here to seek God. We're asking you to bring, you know, a math problem and engineering problem, a design problem, something that you've had really a hard time figuring out. Bring your intractable problem to this experience and we'll see what happens. And so these people came in and they got dosed with LSD and the researchers watch them. And what was remarkable is that many of them not only solve their problems, but went on to have these profound insights into their work. Very few of them had kind of spiritual awakenings. [00:04:30] The study was, he said to bring in to problems that you have been unable to solve for one reason or another. Exactly directed it to problem solve. It was all about sort of set and setting. Speaker 2:It was like intention, right. You know that stupid thing they say before you do your yoga. Having the intention to solve your problem actually resulted in some number of these individuals solving their problems, going on to file patents and and create in some cases, companies based on these. Then of course that research was shut down and if adamant describes it, he says that he had just dosed [00:05:00] a subject group. The LSD was about to hit and they get this letter informing them that their specific permit was going to be rescinded. And so he looks at the letter and he looks at his colleague and he says, I think we got this letter tomorrow. But you know, it was really, it's a shame that that research was shut down because I think what we're seeing now with this resurgence of interest in LSD and particularly micro-dosing, which are to define it for your audience, a microdose is a small dose, a dose that's too small to elicit [00:05:30] any perceptual effects. Speaker 2:But so sub psychedelic thing. Yeah, new tripping. But it's large enough to have metabolic effects. So in a sense we're looking for something that can act in a way that you almost don't notice. If I had slipped it into your coffee right now, you would not know that you were micro-dosing except at the end of the day after our interview, after the rest of your work, you might go home and think, Huh, that was a really good day. Okay, so, so, so I know [inaudible] yes, she's written a book by Psychedelic and spiritual journeys. I said, but that's [00:06:00] not the kind of book that I'm likely to read because I'm not a particularly psych psychedelics or spiritual personal. Great is you're not. So I'm very practical. I was raised by atheist parents whose atheism was as dogmatic as a Hasidic Jews, Judaism. I mean we were, my parents raised me to have disgust for religion and for spirituality of all kinds, which I struggle with, you know, I'm trying to overcome. Speaker 2:We all try to overcome the biases of our parents. So I'm, I'm looking on the Internet. I'm in this place of profound depression, Anhedonia. [00:06:30] And I see this talk that Jim is giving and he talks about microdosing and he says that at the end of the day, people report that they had a really good day. And I felt like I'd been hit in the head with a mallet, like a real echos all. I wanted a really one really forget really good. I just wanted a good day. I wanted a day where I didn't feel this kind of sense of despair and inability to take pleasure in my family and my husband did my [00:07:00] marriage and my surroundings and so I reached out to him and he is the most loving, generous man. I mean, look, I'm a person with daddy issues. I get that. I have a very typical, my father's much older than my mother, and you talk about this in the book. Speaker 2:I was 40 when I was born, so he was older, which in the 60s that was really old, but he was a very uninvolved father and he also had his own mood disorder, so he was, it's hard to live with a parent with a mood disorder as my children can likely attest. Dr Fadiman's generosity, his warmth is his willingness to [00:07:30] talk on the phone with me for hours about my issues, about my problems, about, you know, what I tried was really, it was an, it was a novel experience for that's what you wanted. Yeah. In a, in a way or my dad and I have known one another's mood disorders forever and we've literally never spoken about it once. So one day I'm a visiting my parents and my father comes out of this room, this kind of junk room and he hands me this stack of micro cassette tapes and he says, here, do something with these tapes of my [00:08:00] psychotherapy sessions from the 80s so I have this pile of tapes of my dad's therapy and for years I just couldn't even look at them. Speaker 2:I was just like, Ugh, you know, you want to tell me how you're feeling, just talk to me. But then eventually I actually did a whole story for this American life about these tapes cause I did eventually listen to them hoping for great profound insight and got nothing. But what you did get, it's so hilarious in the history of communism, all my dad will ever talk to you about is like the history of Zionism, the history of communism, [00:08:30] Stalin's five year plan, like seriously anything you want to know about Stalin's agrarian policy. And so I put in the tape, you know what I really wanted to hear as I love my daughter, I was expecting to hear insights into his problematic relationship with his children, his terrible marriage, all that stuff. But what I ended up getting was, let me tell you a little about Stalin's five year plan. Speaker 2:I mean, he, his therapist just sat and talked about that for hours at a time. You know, you talk about how you don't get so worked up about these very issues. You just mentioned that your father, you're more circumspect [00:09:00] during that 30 days. I certainly was during those 30 days, I had a capacity for equanimity that I had not had before. I had a resurgence in my ability to enjoy beauty, my family to feel loved, to feel connected to the world. Um, I was less irritable. I didn't less judgment, less judgmental. I didn't lash out. It was really like cognitive behavioral therapy in a pill. You know, I had been in cognitive behavioral therapy, I had been in all these treatment modalities and they just hadn't worked [00:09:30] because I couldn't make myself do them. And with the LSD I was more receptive and I was more able to do that work that was necessary to maintain my mood. Speaker 2:I also incidentally, and you know this hearkens back to Jim's work in the 60s I was more productive, way more productive. This was not hypomania. This was like sit down, get to work, focus, make interesting connections, which is again not a surprise. We know that large doses of LSD, sort of more typical [00:10:00] doses cause different parts of your brain that don't normally communicate to communicate in new ways and they want to talk about that. The default mode network. Yes. So the default mode network, I mean in the most simplistic way, this is that part that like Rut that you are in your head that tells you to react in certain ways and it's kind of that directive mode. That was the voice in my head that told me I was worthless and I was useless. I was unlovable and it was a very old, very familiar set of reactions [00:10:30] and patterns, patterns and thoughts and beliefs. Speaker 2:And you know the brain develops patterns. It's what the brain likes to do. An LSD in a large dose takes your default mode network offline. It allows new patterns to form an old patterns to be kind of exploded. I'm too afraid to do an LSD trip. I was still too afraid, but in micro doses, based on my experiment and based on all of my reading and based on the research I've done on the neurochemistry of LSD and on the anecdotal evidence of many, many, many people who have now been micro-dosing [00:11:00] is that a similar function seems to occur with regular micro-dosing. It doesn't take the default mode network offline, but it allows you to develop new thought patterns and new ways of reacting. It takes you out of those traditional unproductive reflexes. And that's the neuroplasticity that you know, neuroplasticity means, you know, the way that your brain grows and changes. Speaker 2:You want a neuroplastic brain. A neuroplastic brain is a good brain. Babies' brains, very neuroplastic old ladies [00:11:30] brands, old dudes, brands less neuroplastic. You want your brain to change and grow and to constantly be, be able to think in new ways. And so you can teach an old dog new tricks with microdosing as an old dog. Look, I always resist anything that comes off as a panacea. You know, anytime you go to like a new age therapist who says, I'm going to work on your job muscles and that's going to solve your ankle pain, your back pain, your issues with your father and your flatulence problem. I see. I always [00:12:00] feel like that's the sign of a charlatan if like one thing can solve all your problems. So I, I'm very careful about making claims about microdosing, but I do think that the way that LSD and other psychedelics work on the brain holds great promise for mental illnesses that are particularly related to patterns of thinking, which, you know, a mood disorder, depression. Speaker 2:There are studies going on now, and I'm curious where they're gonna go with Jeff sessions as I knew both, uh, UCLA, NYU [00:12:30] and Johns, John Hopkins there, I think clinical stage two, two and into three. So they did a very smart thing in those research facilities. They said, we're going to study depression and anxiety in people with fatal illnesses confronting the end of their lives. And it's still Simon, not LSL Simon, not LSD. First of all, most people don't even know what psilocybin is. It's actually the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms. But LSD, you know, LSD. Ooh, everyone's scared of LSD. It has terrible connotations. Timothy Leary, Ken Casey, you know, summer of love, blah, [00:13:00] blah, blah. Siliciden what's that? Nobody really knows that I, I can't spell it. I mean, yes, I'm dyslexic, but seriously, I wrote a whole book about this and I cannot spell silicide, but to saved my life, it was easier to get permission to study psilocybin and is a lot easier to get permission to give a psychedelic drug or any schedule one drug to someone who's dying anyway, so the studies were designed not because there's something unique about the depression at the end of life, but rather because that was the way that permission could be granted from the FDA and DEA. Speaker 2:The results have been remarkable, really remarkable. [00:13:30] I know they're unprecedented. Michael calling radar. The New Yorker about a couple of articles can is coming out with a book. I said to Michael Dell, I wonder if it's okay that like, I'm, my book's coming out before yours. He's like, oh no, no baby. You go ahead and let's see what happens. First. Mine was constructed as this experiment and then it goes off into the research, into the law. I mean, I, I talk, I spent a lot of time talking about the law and the war on drugs and I want to talk about that. Let's talk about the, the, the racism. I mean, there's never been a war on drugs that hasn't been race based in this country. It's all, I think [00:14:00] the best way to think of the war on drugs as it is a warm people of color. Speaker 2:The very first drug law in the United States was targeted at Chinese opium dens. At that point in time. There were a lot of people using opium, but the typical opium user was a white southern woman who tippled from her laudanum bottle all day long. That's opium mixed with alcohol. People gave opium to their babies to make them sleep. You know, there are all of these medicines, patent medicines that were opium based, but the law targeted Chinese immigrants in opium dens and it was really about [00:14:30] them. It wasn't about the opium per se. If you're of, you know, a wave of immigration, it's, it's characterized as, you know, fear that they'll rape white women, but it really is just, it's financial panic as xenophobia. Marijuana got tied closely to Mexican Americans. And you can see all this rhetoric at the time in the Hearst newspapers about how marijuana crazed were raping white women. Speaker 2:Alcohol is closely correlated with sexual violence in our culture but not marijuana. So again, cocaine [00:15:00] gets tied to African American communities, not because they used cocaine more, absolutely not, but it's a way to target and link and criminalize you're, there were these myths that cocaine use made African-Americans, although of course at the time they said Negroes immune to lower caliber bullets. So somehow, you know, snorting some cocaine would make a person immune to a bullet. And so that's why police departments, at least the theory is to police departments use higher caliber guns. That became the standard. So again, and [00:15:30] again, you see the war on drug tied to criminalizing communities, communities of color. And the latest iteration of this, which began in the 60s and which I thought was ending or at least drawing to a pope full close, was this rabid began with Nixon, went through Reagan, amped up with Clinton. Speaker 2:Let's be very clear targeting of communities of color with draconian prison sentences for drug crimes. So in a world where white people [00:16:00] use drugs more than people of color, you had far more people of color being arrested and incarcerated. You know, in America you go to jail for longer for marijuana in some cases, then you go to jail for murder in Europe, I mean our drug laws are out of control and we saw this massive increase in incarceration rates as a result of people of color, but also women suddenly, you know, women have had very rarely been incarcerated. The numbers were very low because women don't commit violent crimes. There's one genetic marker that you can pretty much use to evaluate [00:16:30] the likelihood of somebody committed and violent crime. And it is the y chromosome. The population of women in prison increased dramatically because of all these drug laws in these mandatory minimum sentences. Speaker 2:And I thought we had started to understand that, you know, across party boundaries, I've, I've had conversations with Senator Orrin Hatch about the injustices of the mandatory minimum sentences and the over incarceration rate. But with the election of Donald Trump in this, most schizophrenia of elections were, on the one hand, there are a bunch [00:17:00] of states that decriminalized marijuana for recreational use. Marijuana is a schedule one drug. At the same time, we elected Donald Trump who put a as attorney general, the most retrograde, racist, malevolent, incompetent, cruel and vicious white supremacist. He says he's going to go after marijuana. Yeah, that's what he's going to do. If I were in the legal cannabis business, I would be terrified to ask you about that. We don't really know yet what you're going [00:17:30] to die or what about those clinical trials that we were just tying back? Will they be shut down? Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know if they're flying under the radar enough. If they have DEA, you know the results that you know the subjects are white. By and large, people are much more inclined to be sympathetic when the subjects are white. I don't know. But here's, I do know the United States has imposed its drug policy on the world through a very aggressive campaign that involved pox, Americana treaties and a kind of putative moral [00:18:00] leadership. So we've dictated to south and Central America. We've dictated to Europe. So when England for example, began a very small but very, very effective heroin distribution program that cut overdose rates, cut crime, and also incidentally got people off heroin. But the United States put so much pressure on the British government that they shut that program down. All the people that participate in that program, most of them went on to die. Speaker 2:So we've managed to impose our draconian prohibitionist view of drugs on the world. But the only benefit that I can see [00:18:30] to having a Cheeto, dusted mad man is our president, is that we have no moral authority. We have no claim to moral authority. Portugal, which decriminalized drugs is not going to pay any attention to a Donald Trump said the American war on drugs has destroyed Latin America. In rich, the cartels, Columbia for a long time was a country that was simply controlled by more in cartels and people lived in this kind of state of incarceration and terror [00:19:00] and this was all caused by the United States war on drugs and now countries have started to reject it. And I think that that is the one benefit of having this America first platform is that the rest of the world can go on and do good cause we haven't used our moral authority very well. Speaker 2:We spend so much money on this war on drugs like up to a trillion now or something. This lunatic for what drugs are cheaper and easier to get, which tells you that they're coming into the country more often. You're not winning a war if drugs are easier to get. You know, LSD is a non-addictive [00:19:30] drug in the entire history of LSD usage. There are two cases, human fatalities that have been attributed to LSD and those are actually suspect. So basically there's no fatal dose of Ellis, no addiction, no addiction. But you know what's more dangerous right now is that we have a situation where we have an opioid crisis in this country. Many of the states that voted so vigorously in favor of Donald Trump are littered with bodies of people dying from opioid addiction, and that is a direct result of the failed war on drugs. Speaker 2:If [00:20:00] you want to treat people and save people's lives, you have to have a harm reduction approach to drug addiction. Not at not a prohibitionist approach. You have to get in there and provide services and help and safe injection sites and safe drugs. This is typically what happens. Someone gets a prescription for O for Oxycontin, for say back pain for which it is not useful. They take it, they take it, they take it, they get addicted. Then their doctor says, well you can have any of oxycontin anymore cause you're an addict. And then they don't have any oxycontin. [00:20:30] So they go out on the street and maybe first they try to buy some pills and they get some and, but eventually pills are hard to find. They're harder to buy. They're more expensive, you know, it's cheap heroin deep, you know, it's fast, heroin's fast, then their heroin addict, and then they're criminalized. Speaker 2:Then they're criminalized. Then they're in the underground market. Then there's no FDA checking the quality of their drugs, and now heroin is quite often cut with much stronger fentanyl, hundreds of times stronger, and people are overdosing because they take an amount of drugs that they, [00:21:00] they think is a heroin, but it actually turns out to be fentanyl. It is a white epidemic in many ways. There are many, many white victims. Certainly the vast majority, maybe Jeff sessions will be willing to listen to some reason. Although again, this is a man who said that no good person has ever smoked pot. This is a man who made a quote unquote joke about the KKK, which he said he was until they, he found out I had smoked. He went there. He was fine with them until he found out they smoked pot. I wanted to ask you about how you approach drugs in your family, but you used the term harm reduction. Speaker 2:Yes. Yeah. [00:21:30] So we have, that may be the most radical thing in my book, not the taking of the LSD. I have four kids who range in age from 13 to 22 so these are our rules. We don't lie to our children about drugs ever. And they know we never lie to them. We don't allow others to lie to them. So when they are given misinformation in school programs, school programs on dare, which for many, many years taught all of this ridiculous and misinformation, it's now been improved. But you know, it basically said to kids, you know, marijuana will kill you. And then a kid will hear that message and [00:22:00] then think of their cousin who's a freshman at Yale and an ace student and a wake and bake smoker. And then they reject the whole message of dare. But anyway, they're better now. But like we educate our kids, we inundate them with information and then we have some very specific rules when it comes to pop. Speaker 2:For example, we talk a lot about the effects of marijuana on the adolescent brain. I think there's compelling evidence that the, that that that is not great that it, it does cause damage to developing brains in particular. But we are realistic. They live in Berkeley. There's no way they're going to wait till [00:22:30] their frontal lobe is fully formed before they smoke pot. So after much negotiation, we reached the agreement that nobody could smoke pot. So there were 15 only on the weekends. And if your grades drop at all, you are not only grounded but I will drug test you and you get your drug tests from Amazon, right? Yes. I can test my kids urine. I buy your intestines. I tested my LSD from a kit that I bought on Amazon. Basically I have a supply cabinet in my house that's full of MTMA testing kits. Speaker 2:Cause MTMA is the drug that I'm most concerned [00:23:00] with right now. It, it causes your body to overheat and if you have heart issues or high blood pressure, it's, you shouldn't be taking it. Basically the stupidest place to do it is like in the desert while dancing. Yes. Or at a rate where there's some thousands of people and you don't want your body temperature to be raised. And it also does this peculiar thing. It makes me more susceptible to water toxicity. What people are selling is MTMA isn't, most of the time kids will buy drugs and they'll think they're buying Molly. And it turns out that they're buying something much more toxic. So my daughter's a student at Wesleyan University and [00:23:30] half, 11 kids, I think ended up in the Er having taken something they thought was m DMA that turned out to be a synthetic called Ab Fubu, NACA Spice or k two. Speaker 2:And it was very toxic. And one of them had to be intubated and defibrillated before he, um, and he, he survived thankfully. So I keep testing kids in my cabinet and I say to my kids, those are there, if you ever are inclined to take a pill and put it in your body, first you have to test it to make sure that what you're taking is what you think you're taking because it is not safe to [00:24:00] just, and this has been a success in your household. Yes, and and in fact there have been instances where pills were people, not my own children, but others have taken a testing kit and then reported to me that it was not in fact what they thought it was threw it away. I count that as a life save. If your kid ever overdoses on heroin year, will you want your kid to be around my kid? Speaker 2:Because if your kids around a kid who has him had this kind of harm reduction education, what they're probably going to do is throw them in the bath tub with some cold water, maybe dump them in the parking lot of [00:24:30] an er and they're going to overdose and die. My kids, they know exactly what to do. They make two phone calls, they call nine one one and they say, comment with Narcan. Now we have a heroin overdose and that can cure an overdose instantaneously and they call mommy and mommy comes and deals with the legal consequences. Your last book, love and treasure was about the Holocaust. There is a character in your memoir about your microdosing Laszlo, who I think you met when you were working on love and treasure. Yes, that's such a beautiful [00:25:00] story. So allowing lowered design, his real name is a holocaust survivor, a Hungarian holocaust survivor who became very wealthy in America. Speaker 2:Very problematic relationships, difficult relationships. I'm very depressed and he went on a an Iowaska journey until I met Lazo. I, I never understood the appeal of Iowasca, but Laszlo had this incredible experience. He went to Latin America, I don't know where he's okay, but he had a guide and they had a guide and it was all very safe. So [00:25:30] his father died in the Holocaust. He and his mother survived and he had always felt this sense of, of shame and guilt for having survived. And in a way was angry the way his child was angry at his father for not having said because saying goodbye to him and had felt, even though he knew his way, he wasn't abandoned, that his father was murdered by the Arrow cross in the Hungarian fascists. He still felt the sense of, you know, a child's feeling of abandonment. Speaker 2:And he spoke to his father and he had this incredible spiritual experience that resolve that [00:26:00] pain for him. To this day I became obsessed with this idea of like, did you really speak to your father or is it saw in your head? I mean, and when I was talking to researchers about this, they would always say to me, why is that the question you're asking? I mean, isn't the interesting question that this experience resolved his pain and yet you're obsessed with whether it was real or not, and what do you even mean by real? And that's when you know, it's like, look at the results instead. I have high hopes. I think micro-dosing is kind of, it's like training wheels, right? [00:26:30] I mean microdosing for those of us who are not interested in tripping, we're talking about using a medication, the way people use antianxiety medications, but it's a medication that's actually much safer. Speaker 2:Say yes and less addictive my, but it's not an option. And that's the sad thing, right? And my message for this book is we need decriminalization. And we need research. And first the research, let's do the microdose study at the University of South Carolina. Mike met Hoffer's doing research on MTMA and PTSD with patients who have treatment resistant PTSD [00:27:00] and he has had astonishing results, which makes sense, right? MTMA is a drug that works on memory. It disconnects traumatic memories from the trauma so that you can explore the memory without the the traumatic feelings associated with it. And instead from a place of love and support, empathy, empathy, the MTMA research has the tentative preliminary support of the VA because they know that soldiers are committing suicide at astronomical rates and they have to do something. So my hope [00:27:30] is that the Pentagon and the VA will look at this research and say, we can't afford not to continue this. Speaker 2:You know, my husband and I have used MTMA at the suggestion of Sasha and an Shogun to Sasha was, it was a chemist, a local Berkeley chemist who was famous for bio as saying different drugs or synthesizing drugs and then taking them on him to himself to sort of assess their facts. And though he wasn't the first person to synthesize MTMA that honor goes to Merck. He was one of the first people to try it on himself. [00:28:00] But, um, my husband and I have used MGMA as a marital therapy tool, which is what we would, and it was initially used as, as a therapeutic tool and it's very profound and very effective and it allows us to sort of discuss the problems of our, in our relationship in a supportive and loving way. So I've been doing a lot events around the country and at every event there are a bunch of people come up and tell me they're microdosing and they say it loud and they say it proud and they're not ashamed and they're micro-dosing with LSD or psilocybin. Speaker 2:And that's great. And then there are a bunch of people who come up to me and they asked to speak to me privately [00:28:30] and they confess with great shame and embarrassment that they have a mental illness. And the idea that in our society, you don't need to be ashamed about using illegal drugs, but you need to be ashamed about being mentally ill. That's heartbreaking. And that's something we need to change. So that's one of the things that I as a person with a mental illness feel like it is my job to be public because this is not something to be ashamed of and I won't allow others to experience that shame. [00:29:00] Okay. Running out of time and I wanted to ask you, what is next on your plate? The Vallejo novel to my publisher, I'm working on a TV show that it's based on a true story but it's an it's narrative. Speaker 2:It's not documentary and it's basically about why we don't believe women who have been raped even when they do everything right and I'm working on another TV show about the first women combat soldiers in a legal combat soldiers in United States military history team, lioness in the Iraq war and because I feel like now for the next [00:29:30] four to eight to forever years, the work that I do has to have meaning and it has to have greater purpose and I'm trying to figure out what that means for me right now. If somebody has a about your book, they can go to our website, which is ILR, waldmann.com and there's lots of resources there. There's lots of articles about the research, and I have lots of resources for people with mental health issues, and I have lots of articles about the drug war, all sorts of things. Twitter, Facebook, email, and I'm easy to reach. [00:30:00] That was, I yell at Waldmann, novelist, SAS, former federal public defender and criminal defense lawyer. We'd been talking about her new book, a really good day. How microdosing made a mega difference in my mood, my marriage, and my life. You've been listening to method to the madness. We'll be back next Friday. Speaker 3:Yeah. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Aired Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 3:00 PM ET Spiritual Mediumship, Past, Present, Future with Paul Jacobs Join us for this “WISDOM WEDNESDAY” at 12pm PST / 1PM MT / 2pm CST/ 3pm EST on INSPIRED LIVING RADIO as we welcome back to ILR special guest, Paul Jacobs! http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living/ OM TIMES INTERNET RADIO CALL-IN LINE: 1-202-570-7057 Paul Jacobs is a world renowned medium that has been working with spirit for over 26 years and studied under Gordon Higginson. Paul gave up his business to become a professional medium to help serve spirit and humanity. He is a highly esteemed Tutor at the Arthur Findlay College, Author and President of Longton Spiritualist Church in the UK. Paul has helped many students over the decades develop their mediumship abilities and is highly regarded as the best in his field. He is known by his students as being passionate about his work and his genuine interest in helping to further their development and understanding of the spirit world. Website: http://www.paul-jacobs.com/

This audio, courtesy Lindsay Reid, show Ian in full flow, hosting News-Scene as he waved farewell to Hallam. This half-hour programme illustrates the depth of news aired on late seventies ILR (commercial radio).

A station's closure is always sad. High hopes dashed, usually when the money fails to flow through the door in sufficient quantity to pay the milk bill. Gwent Broadcasting (GB Radio) launched from Newport, South Wales in 1983, promoted by one of those thin flex-discs through letterboxes. After a period of financial difficulty, it closed in April 1985 and the transmitters relayed neighbouring Red Dragon from Cardiff. The two stations then formally merged. Alongside Centre in Leicester, these two stations were the key casualties in ILR's early expansion.

Aired Wednesday, 30 March 2016, 3:00 PM ETFOR THE FIRST TIME on INSPIRED LIVING RADIO, we will be inviting 2 lucky “Inspired Listeners” to join Marc, LIVE on the air to interact, ask questions, get a quick reading from Marc or share their personal story of how the spirit world sends us signs, symbols, and synchronicities! ONE SHOW YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS!Join Co-Host Marc Lainhart – The Intuitive Prospector this Wednesday at 12pm PST / 3pm EST on INSPIRED LIVING RADIO as he discusses, explains, and explores how we can further engage, feel, and see how the spirit world blends with our world on a daily basis.Are we paying attention in life? Your guides, angels and those in the spirit world are always sending us signs, symbols, and omens to help guide us in the right direction. There are signs everywhere for us to witness and observe that is if we are paying attention and we are aware of their presence, energy, and vibration. So for those who are ‘incarnate’ (in the physical, flesh human form), how do we interpret the meaning of signs that we are being shown from those who are ‘discarnate’ (not having a physical body) in the spirit world? Some signs can be obvious, coming in “loud and clear” while others signs may be very subtle in nature, but one thing we do know for sure is that signs, symbols, and synchronicities are intrinsically linked with much synergy and flow between our world and the spirit world.***TO QUALIFY*** and be our Special Guest on ILR, you will need to LIKE/FOLLOW and COMMENT “THAT YOU WOULD LOVE TO BE OUR GUEST” on any of the INSPIRED LIVING RADIO Social Media Pages:Facebook Group Page – INSPIRED LIVING RADIO: https://www.facebook.com/groups/953052554715269/Twitter Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: INSPIRED LIVING! https://twitter.com/Inspired4UsGoogle+ Communities Page: INSPIRED LIVING! with Marc & Kim https://plus.google.com/u/0/communiti…/111118826880689715612Instagram Page or Follow us @Inspired4Us: INSPIRED LIVING https://instagram.com/inspired4us/“You are the Inspired, and the Inspiration!” ~Inspired Living

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2013 Jingles update Coventry Talking Newspaper would like to thank the following companies for their support, donations and free services in making the music themes, jingles and voice overs possible for our show. Clare Anderson UK Female Voice Over Artist www.voiceovers.co.uk - Voice over recordings and voice talent AKM Music - Royalty free music. Non copyright downloads 2015 Jingles update [podloveaudio src="http://kmy.7d3.mywebsitetransfer.com/radiojingles/Radio_Jingles_demo.mp3" title="Outlook 2015 Jingle Package " chapters="my-chapter-field"  duration="00:03:05"] [podloveaudio src="http://kmy.7d3.mywebsitetransfer.com/radiojingles/Radio_Jingle_inst.mp3" title="Instrumental Music Jingle " duration="00:00:34"] Following a purchase of licenses to use the non-custom music from premium beats for new theme music, we set to create the music introduction jingles. The jingles used in the demonstration above use the jumper soundtrack from premium beats,  existing voice overs (provided by Clare Anderson and  voiceovers Ltd)  were used and the track completed with the singing vocal talents of Josiah Ruff . To save costs, all the editing and production was completed by the in-house production and studio team at Coventry Talking Newspaper meaning all the work was completed under the £150 ($230) budget. The backing tracks and vocals were imported into audacity, edited and enhanced using nectar enhancement software. Our youtube clip shows the process involved. Power Intro Jingles One advantage to obtaining all the vocal only cuts is the fact the vocals can be added to any background. Some radio stations create "power intros" by adding vocal elements to the start of songs. It's very easy to do and can sound effective. Although we would never need power intros, I played around with some as an example. [podloveaudio src="http://kmy.7d3.mywebsitetransfer.com/radiojingles/powerintros.mp3" title="Power intro example "] Do we like these jingles? They turned out to better than we ever expected and better than anything else we have heard. By using a specialised music company to focus on the music, a vocal talent company to provide the best singing voices and our own production skills to taylor to our exact needs, we managed to bring the absolute best of everything together.  The outcome blew us away. Secondly the combination is unique. The ability to link different musical works to any vocal singer around the world using the internet and correct production software means a very open market to create something specific. What are radio jingles? Jingles are an audio way to identify a station, brand or program through music and voice or vocals.  The radio times wrote an article analysing the radio jingles used on radio 1 throughout the years. Radio has traditionally opted for sung jingles to build an image in the listeners mind, whereas TV concentrates more on visual effects to create an image.  Sung vocals are more expensive than spoken voice and many brands opt for a spoken voice when budgets are tight. The bbc academy offered a workshop on creating radio jingles in 2013. How to make your own radio jingles? Whilst you can go to 3rd a party company to create TV or radio jingles, its really easy nowadays to locate the best music,  vocalist and voice over online and craft together with the some of the worlds best software. Creating your own jingles enables people to retain control of the production. Then mix the best of everything for a complete tailored fit. Better still, if you know of a good vocalist and use can source some free background music then free jingles are a possibility if you have a PC and some of the free audio editing software available. There are four points to making your own jingles:  Locate music, find vocals, add a voice over and mix together.  Here is a list of companies that can assist with the four points in  Jingle production. 1. Find Music Royalty free and license music that can be purchased for your radio jingles jamendo Starts from £59 per track premium beat Cost per track. Several license options available. **Top pick for quality  pond5 Cost per track. Several license options available. akm music Cost per album, then unlimited usage audio jungle Cost per track. 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Professor Leachman explores the origins of Industrial Engineering Operations Research, his particular interests in the field, and an extensive analysis of supply chains from Asia to California and the dispersal of goods to U.S. markets.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next. Hmm Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad swift and along with Rick Karnofsky, I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with Professor Robert Leachman of the [00:01:00] industrial engineering and operations research department at UC Berkeley. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics, his master's degree in operations research and a phd in operations research all from UC Berkeley. Professor Leachman has been a member of the UC Berkeley Faculty since 1979 professor Leachman, welcome to spectrum. Speaker 4: Thank you.Speaker 3: The department [00:01:30] that you're in, industrial engineering and operations research, those two fields, how did they grow together? Speaker 4: Well, if we trace the whole history, industrial engineering started shortly after the turn of the century focused on improving the efficiency of human work and over the years it grew to address improving the efficiency of all production and service systems. Operations. Research started during World War Two focused on [00:02:00] mathematic and scientific analysis of the military strategy, logistics and operations. And it grew to develop that kind of analysis of all production and service systems. So in that sense the fields grew together. But in another sense they're different. Operations research steadily became more focused on the mathematical techniques for analysis of operations, whereas industrial engineering always has been more focused on the operational [00:02:30] problems and the engineering practice of how to address those problems. So in that sense, the two fields are complimentary. So how is it that things have changed over say the past 20 years? Well, I think the domain for ILR has, has changed as the u s s become less a manufacturing based economy and more a service space that has increased the focus and service areas [00:03:00] for applying industrial engineering operations, research type thinking and analysis, be it things like healthcare, financial engineering, energy conservation. And there's certainly been a lot more activity in supply chain analysis, particularly multi-company supply chains and even the contractual relations between those companies. Speaker 5: Okay. Speaker 3: And in your work, which complimentary technologies do you find the most helpful and have the most impact? Speaker 4: Well, I [00:03:30] think certainly the, the progress in computing power or the progress in automated data collection and the data resources we have now makes a lot more things possible now that weren't possible before and certainly changes how I do things. We can do much more analysis than, than we used to be able to do. Speaker 3: The idea of keeping things simple, which is sort of an engineering paradigm of sorts, right? Is that still a virtue or is that given [00:04:00] way to a lot of complexity that all these other capabilities lend themselves to? Speaker 5: Yeah, Speaker 4: I think there's a Dick Dichotomy here in industrial practice. I think simplicity wins out. If you have an elegant, simple solution that will triumph. I think the incentives are a little different in academic research, especially mathematical research from the kind of an elegant theory is one where you start with a [00:04:30] small set of assumptions and you derive a great complexity of results and analysis out of that. And so sometimes I think there's kind of a different direction between what's really successful in practice and what's really successful in academia. Speaker 3: What is the research like in industrial engineering and operations research? In terms of the academic research and theoretical research that happens? Speaker 4: Well those [00:05:00] doing research on the mathematical methodology of operations research considered themselves to be theoreticians and those doing work on advancing the state of the art and engineering and management practice are often labeled as quote applied and quote researchers, but I always flinch a little bit at that term. I think the implication is that those advancing the state of the art of practice are merely applying quote unquote the mathematical methodology [00:05:30] developed by the theoretical researchers, but that's not my experience at all. If and when one is able to advance the state of the art, it comes from conceptualizing the management problem in a new way. That is, it comes from developing the insight to frame in a much better way. The question about how the industrial system should be run at least as much as it comes from applying new mathematical sophistication and moreover available mathematical methodology. Almost always has [00:06:00] to be adapted once the more appropriate assumptions are realized in in the industrial setting. Speaker 4: So in that sense the quote unquote applied IUR researchers actually do research that is basic and theoretical in that scientific sense I talked about and that is its theory about how the industrial systems and organizations should be run. So beside the efficiencies and productivity gains that you're striving for, [00:06:30] are there other benefits to the industrial engineering and operations research? I spend a fair bit of time working on what I call speed and that is speed in the sense of the time to develop new products, the time to ramp up manufacturing and distribution to bring into market. And my experience in a lot of industries, especially high technology, is that the leaders are not necessarily the ones [00:07:00] with the lowest cost or the highest efficiencies, but they're almost always the ones with the greatest speed. And IOR can do a lot for improving the speed of that development and supply chain. Speaker 4: And that's an area I work on. And that has applications across the board taking things to market. Absolutely. And we have expressions like a time is money or the market [00:07:30] window or things like this, but they're often very discrete in nature like you're going to make the market window or you're not the way we describe it, but that's, that's not the reality is that everything is losing value with time. There is a great value on on bringing stuff out earlier. Everything is going obsolete and that is undervalued. In my experience in organizations, most people have job descriptions about cost or perhaps revenue, but a, there's little or nothing [00:08:00] in there about if they do something to change the speed, what is it worth to the company, so we work to try to reframe that and rethink that to quantify what speed is worth and bring that down to a the level of NGO, every engineer so that they can understand what impact their work has on speed and that they can be rewarded when they do things to improve speed. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:08:30] you are listening to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. Today's guest is professor Robert Leachman of the industrial engineering and operations research department at UC Berkeley. We are talking about analyzing supply chains. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 3: [00:09:00] can you give us a, an overview of this kind of mathematical analysis that you use in your work? Speaker 4: Okay, well let me take a recent topic. I've spent a lot of effort on and that is, uh, studying the, the supply chains for containerized imports from Asia to the United States. [00:09:30] Over the years I have been fortunate to have access to the all the u s customs data to see who's bringing in what goods and declared values their pain to bring those in. And I've been fortunate to have access to the transportation rates and handling rates that they're paying. And I can start to lay out the picture of the supply chains for each company and how it can be best managed. And so that involves mathematics [00:10:00] to describe the variability and uncertainties, uh, the variabilities in the shipment times and the chances for mistakes, the uncertainties in sales in various parts of the u s and so on. And then putting together the mathematics to simulate this so that we can now see how alternative supply chains behave. And also the impact of changes in government policy such as fees on the imports or improving the infrastructure [00:10:30] with uh, expanded ports or rail lines or uh, highways and the like. This is kind of a long, large effort to where we've been able to replicate inside the computer the whole trade going on and then inform both policy analysis for the governments and for the importers themselves. Speaker 3: California in particular, it's a real destination for the Asian supply chain. Are there peculiarities about California that you could tell us about? Speaker 4: [00:11:00] Well, close to half of all the waterborne containerized imports from Asia to the u s enter through the California ports. A few include Long Beach Los Angeles in Oakland and there are very good economic reasons why this happens and this has to do primarily with managing the inventory and supply chains. If you think about the alternatives of at the factory door in Asia, we can decide how much is going to go [00:11:30] to various regions of the United States before we book passage on the vessels. Then considering the lead time, you need to book a vessel at least two weeks in advance. And considering the answer it needs and so forth is that you're committing how much is going to go where one to two months before it gets there. Whereas if you simply ship the stuff to California and then after it gets here, now reassess the situation based on how much arrived in California [00:12:00] and what is the updated need in the supply chain in the various regions in the u s then you can make a much more informed allocation, a match the supply to demand much better and you'll reduce the inventory in the system and you'll decrease the time until goods are sold and people will be able to get their goods earlier. Speaker 4: The big nationwide retailers we have in the U S and also the nationwide, uh, original equipment manufacturers that resell the good once they're here in [00:12:30] the u s practice, these kind of supply chains. And so they bring the stuff to California and then reship. So that means that a, we have a critical role in supply chains and more comes here then goes elsewhere. If you were to think about doing what we do at, say, the port of Seattle or, or through the canal to the Gulf or east coast, then you would have to ship into that southern California market, which is the largest local market in North America. And that would be much more expensive [00:13:00] than if you start there and ship out from there. So you don't have to ship that local market stuff. The downside of that is that there's a huge amount of pollution created with all the truck traffic to bring the boxes from the ports to a cross dock or a warehouse and trans ship the goods, reload them and send them back to a rail yard and so on. Speaker 4: And uh, that creates traffic. It creates pollution, creates concern for the governments and rightly so. Uh, and [00:13:30] so there's been a lot of proposals that maybe there should be some sort of special tax on the containers to pay for infrastructure and to pay for environmental mitigation and the like. So I've done some of the studies of that question from the point of view of the importers of what is the best supply chain for them in response to changing infrastructure or changing fees and taxes, changing prices at the California ports. I'd probably some studies that have [00:14:00] been a highly controversial and got a lot of people excited. I did two scenarios. One where there's just taxes placed on the boxes and there's no improvements in infrastructure. And the answer to that scenario is a pretty significant drop, especially the lower value imports where inventory is not so expensive as simply moved to other ports. Speaker 4: But then I also did a scenario where if there was a major improvement in infrastructure of moving [00:14:30] a cross docks and import warehouses closer to the ports and moving the rail yards closer to the ports to eliminate the truck trips and alike, uh, that even as high as $200 a box, this would be a value proposition to the importers of the moderate and expensive imports as they would make California even more attractive than it is now. And so that got picked up by one camp saying, see we can tax them and they will stay and pay. Uh, but they didn't [00:15:00] quite read the fine print in the sense that no, you have to build the infrastructure first and then you can use that money to retire the bonds. But if you tax them first without the infrastructure in place, they will leave. The bill passed the California legislature. Speaker 4: But, uh, fortunately governor Schwartzenegger staff contacted me and talked about it and I think they got the story straight and the governor vetoed the bill. But the challenge remains is that I find it intriguing that generally [00:15:30] the communities near the ports are, are generally hostile to a logistics activities. They don't want warehouses, they don't want truck traffic, they don't want rail yards. Uh, and this tends to mean the development of those kinds of things happens much further out in greenfield spaces, which of course increases the congestion increases and the transportation. And I mean, there's something almost comical about hauling stuff around when we don't know where they should go yet. [00:16:00] But there's an awful lot of that that happens. So there's still a lot of potential to improve the efficiency of the supply chain. Speaker 3: Okay. Would this experience that you've had doing some research and then getting involved a little bit in the public policy side of it, is that something that you could see yourself doing more of? Speaker 4: Well, I guess it is that I was asked by a government agency that the Metropolitan Planning Office for Southern California is, is, [00:16:30] is as the acronym Skag s c a g southern California Association of governments. And they asked me to, to look at the problem and I, and I was happy to do so. I think in one sense it's, it's nice to make a contribution to public policy so that we can have a more informed public management just like it is to help private companies do that. But on the other hand, a political process is pretty messy, pretty frustrating at [00:17:00] times is that usually things are a little more sane inside a company, but it's important and I'm Speaker 2: glad to do it. You are listening to spectrum on k l x Berkeley. Our guest is professor Robert Leachman, the industrial engineering and operations research department at UC Berkeley. We are talking about analyzing supply chains and global trade Speaker 3: to sort of address the idea that [00:17:30] all these efficiencies and productivity gains take jobs out of the economy. Is there some swing back where there are jobs that are created by all these changes? Speaker 7: Yes. Speaker 4: Well, let me divide this into two pieces. First, with regard IOR type work, where we're developing systems to manage supply chains or industries better is that I've been doing this kind of thing [00:18:00] since about 1980 in industrial projects in the U S and abroad. Uh, and I don't ever remember a single project where what we did resulted in a decline in employment. And in fact a lot of those were companies and crises. And if we hadn't been successful, I think a lot of people would have been put out of work. And every one of those projects created new engineering, managerial jobs to manage the information technology that was being used to run the system [00:18:30] better. So kind of on a micro scale of doing projects, it's not my experience that IUR type work reduces in employment. And when I think about the larger scale of all the offshoring of manufacturing from the U S to Asia, the companies doing this are more profitable and the costs of the consumers are much less. Speaker 4: And if you look at the gross national product and the like, these numbers are pretty good and the average [00:19:00] income of Americans is very high compared to the rest of the world. But the distribution to that income bothers me a lot. Increasingly, we're a society of a small number of very wealthy people and a lot of people who were much worse off. And in the era when we manufactured everything that provided a huge amount of middle-class type jobs and we don't have that anymore. We have low paying service jobs and we have a lot of well paying [00:19:30] engineering and management jobs. And that concerns me. I think all the protests we start to see going on even today here on campus, uh, illustrate that. Speaker 3: How do you see the outsourcing of manufactured goods to low wage regions? And supply chain efficiencies playing out over time? Speaker 4: Well, certainly the, the innovations in supply chain management have enabled it, but you know the difference in in salaries between [00:20:00] this part of the world and there has always been there and that wasn't something that was created right and it's not going to go away immediately. Take some time. I think there's, there's little question that Asian goods will cost more. The Asian currencies have been artificially low for a long time, but they are starting to move up as energy gets more deer, transportation costs go up. Our interest rates have been artificially [00:20:30] low since the recession and before. I don't think those low interest rates will last forever and when they go up then inventory gets more expensive and so those supply chains all the way down to Asia will get more expensive. I think we've done a lot of brilliant engineering and other technology improvements that have lowered costs a lot, but I think those costs are going to go up and as they do, then the answer for the [00:21:00] best supply chains is going to bring some stuff back to America. And that's already happening first. The very bulky stuff like furniture and it left North Carolina, but now much of it is come back and I think you'll, you'll see that the, the most expensive items to ship around will be the first to change. Nowadays the big importers have very sophisticated departments studying their supply chains and I truly [00:21:30] believe that they could save a penny per cubic foot of imports. They will change everything to do it Speaker 4: and so things can change very fast. Following the economics Speaker 3: and I understand you're a musician, can you give us some insight into your, a avocation with music? Speaker 4: Well, I'm a jazz pianist. I had come up through classical piano training but then at middle school, high school age, moved to the bay area and [00:22:00] there was lots of jazz happening here and I was excited by that and I actually learned to play jazz on the string bass first. But I had a piano in my room and the dorm I lived at here at Berkeley. And so I was playing a lot and listening to records of people I really enjoyed. And there was lots of jazz happening here and other musicians and we learn from each other and you grow your vocabulary over time and I was gone a couple of years between, Speaker 5: yeah, Speaker 4: Undergrad and Grad school working in industry, but [00:22:30] when I came back here to Grad school then I was playing bars in north beach and the like, but at a certain point you have to decide whether you're going to be a day animal or a night animal. You don't have the hours to do both, but art is very important to me and lyrical jazz piano is very important to me. It's, it's a way to do expression and creativity that I don't think I've found another medium that can match it. Speaker 3: Professor Leishman, thanks very much for coming on spectrum. My pleasure. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:23:00] irregular feature of spectrum is to present the calendar of the science and technology related events happening in the bay area over the next two weeks. Brad Swift joins me for this. Speaker 3: Get up close to a hundreds of wild mushrooms at the 42nd annual fungus [00:23:30] fair being held this year at the Lawrence Hall of science in Berkeley. Eat edible mushrooms, meet vendors and watch culinary demonstrations by mushroom chefs. Get the dirt on poisonous mushrooms and checkout other wild funky from the medicinal to the really, really strange mushroom experts will be on hand to answer all your questions and to identify unknown specimens brought in by the visitors. My cologists will present slideshows and talk about foraging for mushrooms. [00:24:00] Find out how different mushrooms can be used for treating diseases, dyeing cloth or paper and flavoring foods. The fair will be Saturday and Sunday, December 3rd and fourth from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day. There is a sliding admission charge to the hall of Science, which includes all the exhibits and the fungus fare. Check their website, Lawrence Hall of Science. Dot Orgy for details. Speaker 8: On Tuesday, December 6th [00:24:30] at 7:00 PM the Jewish community center at 3,200 California street in San Francisco is hosting a panel discussion on digital overload. Debate continues over the extent to which connectivity is changing the QALY of our relationships and reshaping our communities. Now there are major concerns about how it's changing our brains. Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Tech reporter Matt. Righto wired Steven Levy and rabbi Joshua Trullo. It's joined moderator, Jonathan Rosen, author of the Talmud [00:25:00] and the Internet to address pressing ethical questions of the digital age, including what are the costs of growing up digitally native are our children casualties of the digital revolution. What are the longterm effects of net use? Visit JCC s f.org for tickets which are $20 to the public, $17 for members and $10 for students. Speaker 3: Women's earth alliance presents seeds of resilience, women farmers striving in the face of climate [00:25:30] change Tuesday, December 6th that the David Brower center in Berkeley. The doors will open at 6:00 PM for reception and music program is at 7:30 PM it entails stories from the field by India, program director, RWE, Chad shitness, other special guests and Speakers to be announced. Admissions is $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Speaker 8: December is Leonardo art science evening rendezvous [00:26:00] or laser will take place. Wednesday, December 7th from six 45 to 8:55 PM at Stanford University's Geology Corner Building three 21 zero five in addition to socializing and networking, there will be four talks showing the kitchen of San Jose State University will speak on hyperfunctional landscapes in art and offer a fresh outlook at the technological adaptations and how they can enhance and enrich our surroundings rather than distract us from them. UC Berkeley's Carlo [00:26:30] squint and we'll show how knots can be used as constructivist building blocks for abstract geometrical sculptures. NASA's Margarita Marinova will share how the dry valleys event Arctica are an analog for Mars. These are the coldest and dry rocky place with no plants or animals and site. Studying these dry valleys allows us to understand how the polar regions on earth work, what the limits of life are, and to apply these ideas to the cold and dry environment of Mars. Finally, San Francisco Art Institutes, [00:27:00] Peter Foucault will present on systems and interactivity in drawing where drawings are constructed through mark making systems and how audience participation can influence the outcome of a final composition. Focusing on an interactive robotic trying installation. For more information on this free event, visit leonardo.info. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:27:30] now new stories with Rick Karnofsky Speaker 8: science news reports on research by UC San Diego, experimental psychologist David Brang and vs Ramachandran published in the November 22nd issue of plus biology on the genetic origins of synesthesia. The sense mixing condition where people taste colors or see smells that affects only about 3% of the population, half of those with the condition report that family members also [00:28:00] have the condition, but parents and children will often exhibit it differently. Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist, David Eagleman published in September 30th issue of behavioral brain research that a region on chromosome 16 is responsible for a form of synesthesia where letters and numbers are associated with a color Brang hypothesizes that the gene may help prune connections in the brain and that soon as synesthesiac yaks may suffer a genetic defect that prevents removing some links. [00:28:30] An alternate hypothesis is that synesthesia is caused by neurochemical imbalance. This may explain why the condition intensifies with extreme tiredness or with drug use. Bring in colleagues believe that it is actually a combination of these two that lead to synesthesia. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: spectrum is recorded and edited by me, Rick Klasky, [00:29:00] and by Brad Swift. The music you heard during this show is by David [inaudible] off of his album folk and acoustic. It is released under the creative Commons attribution license. Thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via [00:29:30] our email address is spectrum dot kalx@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Professor Leachman explores the origins of Industrial Engineering Operations Research, his particular interests in the field, and an extensive analysis of supply chains from Asia to California and the dispersal of goods to U.S. markets.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next. Hmm Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad swift and along with Rick Karnofsky, I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with Professor Robert Leachman of the [00:01:00] industrial engineering and operations research department at UC Berkeley. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics, his master's degree in operations research and a phd in operations research all from UC Berkeley. Professor Leachman has been a member of the UC Berkeley Faculty since 1979 professor Leachman, welcome to spectrum. Speaker 4: Thank you.Speaker 3: The department [00:01:30] that you're in, industrial engineering and operations research, those two fields, how did they grow together? Speaker 4: Well, if we trace the whole history, industrial engineering started shortly after the turn of the century focused on improving the efficiency of human work and over the years it grew to address improving the efficiency of all production and service systems. Operations. Research started during World War Two focused on [00:02:00] mathematic and scientific analysis of the military strategy, logistics and operations. And it grew to develop that kind of analysis of all production and service systems. So in that sense the fields grew together. But in another sense they're different. Operations research steadily became more focused on the mathematical techniques for analysis of operations, whereas industrial engineering always has been more focused on the operational [00:02:30] problems and the engineering practice of how to address those problems. So in that sense, the two fields are complimentary. So how is it that things have changed over say the past 20 years? Well, I think the domain for ILR has, has changed as the u s s become less a manufacturing based economy and more a service space that has increased the focus and service areas [00:03:00] for applying industrial engineering operations, research type thinking and analysis, be it things like healthcare, financial engineering, energy conservation. And there's certainly been a lot more activity in supply chain analysis, particularly multi-company supply chains and even the contractual relations between those companies. Speaker 5: Okay. Speaker 3: And in your work, which complimentary technologies do you find the most helpful and have the most impact? Speaker 4: Well, I [00:03:30] think certainly the, the progress in computing power or the progress in automated data collection and the data resources we have now makes a lot more things possible now that weren't possible before and certainly changes how I do things. We can do much more analysis than, than we used to be able to do. Speaker 3: The idea of keeping things simple, which is sort of an engineering paradigm of sorts, right? Is that still a virtue or is that given [00:04:00] way to a lot of complexity that all these other capabilities lend themselves to? Speaker 5: Yeah, Speaker 4: I think there's a Dick Dichotomy here in industrial practice. I think simplicity wins out. If you have an elegant, simple solution that will triumph. I think the incentives are a little different in academic research, especially mathematical research from the kind of an elegant theory is one where you start with a [00:04:30] small set of assumptions and you derive a great complexity of results and analysis out of that. And so sometimes I think there's kind of a different direction between what's really successful in practice and what's really successful in academia. Speaker 3: What is the research like in industrial engineering and operations research? In terms of the academic research and theoretical research that happens? Speaker 4: Well those [00:05:00] doing research on the mathematical methodology of operations research considered themselves to be theoreticians and those doing work on advancing the state of the art and engineering and management practice are often labeled as quote applied and quote researchers, but I always flinch a little bit at that term. I think the implication is that those advancing the state of the art of practice are merely applying quote unquote the mathematical methodology [00:05:30] developed by the theoretical researchers, but that's not my experience at all. If and when one is able to advance the state of the art, it comes from conceptualizing the management problem in a new way. That is, it comes from developing the insight to frame in a much better way. The question about how the industrial system should be run at least as much as it comes from applying new mathematical sophistication and moreover available mathematical methodology. Almost always has [00:06:00] to be adapted once the more appropriate assumptions are realized in in the industrial setting. Speaker 4: So in that sense the quote unquote applied IUR researchers actually do research that is basic and theoretical in that scientific sense I talked about and that is its theory about how the industrial systems and organizations should be run. So beside the efficiencies and productivity gains that you're striving for, [00:06:30] are there other benefits to the industrial engineering and operations research? I spend a fair bit of time working on what I call speed and that is speed in the sense of the time to develop new products, the time to ramp up manufacturing and distribution to bring into market. And my experience in a lot of industries, especially high technology, is that the leaders are not necessarily the ones [00:07:00] with the lowest cost or the highest efficiencies, but they're almost always the ones with the greatest speed. And IOR can do a lot for improving the speed of that development and supply chain. Speaker 4: And that's an area I work on. And that has applications across the board taking things to market. Absolutely. And we have expressions like a time is money or the market [00:07:30] window or things like this, but they're often very discrete in nature like you're going to make the market window or you're not the way we describe it, but that's, that's not the reality is that everything is losing value with time. There is a great value on on bringing stuff out earlier. Everything is going obsolete and that is undervalued. In my experience in organizations, most people have job descriptions about cost or perhaps revenue, but a, there's little or nothing [00:08:00] in there about if they do something to change the speed, what is it worth to the company, so we work to try to reframe that and rethink that to quantify what speed is worth and bring that down to a the level of NGO, every engineer so that they can understand what impact their work has on speed and that they can be rewarded when they do things to improve speed. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:08:30] you are listening to spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. Today's guest is professor Robert Leachman of the industrial engineering and operations research department at UC Berkeley. We are talking about analyzing supply chains. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 3: [00:09:00] can you give us a, an overview of this kind of mathematical analysis that you use in your work? Speaker 4: Okay, well let me take a recent topic. I've spent a lot of effort on and that is, uh, studying the, the supply chains for containerized imports from Asia to the United States. [00:09:30] Over the years I have been fortunate to have access to the all the u s customs data to see who's bringing in what goods and declared values their pain to bring those in. And I've been fortunate to have access to the transportation rates and handling rates that they're paying. And I can start to lay out the picture of the supply chains for each company and how it can be best managed. And so that involves mathematics [00:10:00] to describe the variability and uncertainties, uh, the variabilities in the shipment times and the chances for mistakes, the uncertainties in sales in various parts of the u s and so on. And then putting together the mathematics to simulate this so that we can now see how alternative supply chains behave. And also the impact of changes in government policy such as fees on the imports or improving the infrastructure [00:10:30] with uh, expanded ports or rail lines or uh, highways and the like. This is kind of a long, large effort to where we've been able to replicate inside the computer the whole trade going on and then inform both policy analysis for the governments and for the importers themselves. Speaker 3: California in particular, it's a real destination for the Asian supply chain. Are there peculiarities about California that you could tell us about? Speaker 4: [00:11:00] Well, close to half of all the waterborne containerized imports from Asia to the u s enter through the California ports. A few include Long Beach Los Angeles in Oakland and there are very good economic reasons why this happens and this has to do primarily with managing the inventory and supply chains. If you think about the alternatives of at the factory door in Asia, we can decide how much is going to go [00:11:30] to various regions of the United States before we book passage on the vessels. Then considering the lead time, you need to book a vessel at least two weeks in advance. And considering the answer it needs and so forth is that you're committing how much is going to go where one to two months before it gets there. Whereas if you simply ship the stuff to California and then after it gets here, now reassess the situation based on how much arrived in California [00:12:00] and what is the updated need in the supply chain in the various regions in the u s then you can make a much more informed allocation, a match the supply to demand much better and you'll reduce the inventory in the system and you'll decrease the time until goods are sold and people will be able to get their goods earlier. Speaker 4: The big nationwide retailers we have in the U S and also the nationwide, uh, original equipment manufacturers that resell the good once they're here in [00:12:30] the u s practice, these kind of supply chains. And so they bring the stuff to California and then reship. So that means that a, we have a critical role in supply chains and more comes here then goes elsewhere. If you were to think about doing what we do at, say, the port of Seattle or, or through the canal to the Gulf or east coast, then you would have to ship into that southern California market, which is the largest local market in North America. And that would be much more expensive [00:13:00] than if you start there and ship out from there. So you don't have to ship that local market stuff. The downside of that is that there's a huge amount of pollution created with all the truck traffic to bring the boxes from the ports to a cross dock or a warehouse and trans ship the goods, reload them and send them back to a rail yard and so on. Speaker 4: And uh, that creates traffic. It creates pollution, creates concern for the governments and rightly so. Uh, and [00:13:30] so there's been a lot of proposals that maybe there should be some sort of special tax on the containers to pay for infrastructure and to pay for environmental mitigation and the like. So I've done some of the studies of that question from the point of view of the importers of what is the best supply chain for them in response to changing infrastructure or changing fees and taxes, changing prices at the California ports. I'd probably some studies that have [00:14:00] been a highly controversial and got a lot of people excited. I did two scenarios. One where there's just taxes placed on the boxes and there's no improvements in infrastructure. And the answer to that scenario is a pretty significant drop, especially the lower value imports where inventory is not so expensive as simply moved to other ports. Speaker 4: But then I also did a scenario where if there was a major improvement in infrastructure of moving [00:14:30] a cross docks and import warehouses closer to the ports and moving the rail yards closer to the ports to eliminate the truck trips and alike, uh, that even as high as $200 a box, this would be a value proposition to the importers of the moderate and expensive imports as they would make California even more attractive than it is now. And so that got picked up by one camp saying, see we can tax them and they will stay and pay. Uh, but they didn't [00:15:00] quite read the fine print in the sense that no, you have to build the infrastructure first and then you can use that money to retire the bonds. But if you tax them first without the infrastructure in place, they will leave. The bill passed the California legislature. Speaker 4: But, uh, fortunately governor Schwartzenegger staff contacted me and talked about it and I think they got the story straight and the governor vetoed the bill. But the challenge remains is that I find it intriguing that generally [00:15:30] the communities near the ports are, are generally hostile to a logistics activities. They don't want warehouses, they don't want truck traffic, they don't want rail yards. Uh, and this tends to mean the development of those kinds of things happens much further out in greenfield spaces, which of course increases the congestion increases and the transportation. And I mean, there's something almost comical about hauling stuff around when we don't know where they should go yet. [00:16:00] But there's an awful lot of that that happens. So there's still a lot of potential to improve the efficiency of the supply chain. Speaker 3: Okay. Would this experience that you've had doing some research and then getting involved a little bit in the public policy side of it, is that something that you could see yourself doing more of? Speaker 4: Well, I guess it is that I was asked by a government agency that the Metropolitan Planning Office for Southern California is, is, [00:16:30] is as the acronym Skag s c a g southern California Association of governments. And they asked me to, to look at the problem and I, and I was happy to do so. I think in one sense it's, it's nice to make a contribution to public policy so that we can have a more informed public management just like it is to help private companies do that. But on the other hand, a political process is pretty messy, pretty frustrating at [00:17:00] times is that usually things are a little more sane inside a company, but it's important and I'm Speaker 2: glad to do it. You are listening to spectrum on k l x Berkeley. Our guest is professor Robert Leachman, the industrial engineering and operations research department at UC Berkeley. We are talking about analyzing supply chains and global trade Speaker 3: to sort of address the idea that [00:17:30] all these efficiencies and productivity gains take jobs out of the economy. Is there some swing back where there are jobs that are created by all these changes? Speaker 7: Yes. Speaker 4: Well, let me divide this into two pieces. First, with regard IOR type work, where we're developing systems to manage supply chains or industries better is that I've been doing this kind of thing [00:18:00] since about 1980 in industrial projects in the U S and abroad. Uh, and I don't ever remember a single project where what we did resulted in a decline in employment. And in fact a lot of those were companies and crises. And if we hadn't been successful, I think a lot of people would have been put out of work. And every one of those projects created new engineering, managerial jobs to manage the information technology that was being used to run the system [00:18:30] better. So kind of on a micro scale of doing projects, it's not my experience that IUR type work reduces in employment. And when I think about the larger scale of all the offshoring of manufacturing from the U S to Asia, the companies doing this are more profitable and the costs of the consumers are much less. Speaker 4: And if you look at the gross national product and the like, these numbers are pretty good and the average [00:19:00] income of Americans is very high compared to the rest of the world. But the distribution to that income bothers me a lot. Increasingly, we're a society of a small number of very wealthy people and a lot of people who were much worse off. And in the era when we manufactured everything that provided a huge amount of middle-class type jobs and we don't have that anymore. We have low paying service jobs and we have a lot of well paying [00:19:30] engineering and management jobs. And that concerns me. I think all the protests we start to see going on even today here on campus, uh, illustrate that. Speaker 3: How do you see the outsourcing of manufactured goods to low wage regions? And supply chain efficiencies playing out over time? Speaker 4: Well, certainly the, the innovations in supply chain management have enabled it, but you know the difference in in salaries between [00:20:00] this part of the world and there has always been there and that wasn't something that was created right and it's not going to go away immediately. Take some time. I think there's, there's little question that Asian goods will cost more. The Asian currencies have been artificially low for a long time, but they are starting to move up as energy gets more deer, transportation costs go up. Our interest rates have been artificially [00:20:30] low since the recession and before. I don't think those low interest rates will last forever and when they go up then inventory gets more expensive and so those supply chains all the way down to Asia will get more expensive. I think we've done a lot of brilliant engineering and other technology improvements that have lowered costs a lot, but I think those costs are going to go up and as they do, then the answer for the [00:21:00] best supply chains is going to bring some stuff back to America. And that's already happening first. The very bulky stuff like furniture and it left North Carolina, but now much of it is come back and I think you'll, you'll see that the, the most expensive items to ship around will be the first to change. Nowadays the big importers have very sophisticated departments studying their supply chains and I truly [00:21:30] believe that they could save a penny per cubic foot of imports. They will change everything to do it Speaker 4: and so things can change very fast. Following the economics Speaker 3: and I understand you're a musician, can you give us some insight into your, a avocation with music? Speaker 4: Well, I'm a jazz pianist. I had come up through classical piano training but then at middle school, high school age, moved to the bay area and [00:22:00] there was lots of jazz happening here and I was excited by that and I actually learned to play jazz on the string bass first. But I had a piano in my room and the dorm I lived at here at Berkeley. And so I was playing a lot and listening to records of people I really enjoyed. And there was lots of jazz happening here and other musicians and we learn from each other and you grow your vocabulary over time and I was gone a couple of years between, Speaker 5: yeah, Speaker 4: Undergrad and Grad school working in industry, but [00:22:30] when I came back here to Grad school then I was playing bars in north beach and the like, but at a certain point you have to decide whether you're going to be a day animal or a night animal. You don't have the hours to do both, but art is very important to me and lyrical jazz piano is very important to me. It's, it's a way to do expression and creativity that I don't think I've found another medium that can match it. Speaker 3: Professor Leishman, thanks very much for coming on spectrum. My pleasure. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:23:00] irregular feature of spectrum is to present the calendar of the science and technology related events happening in the bay area over the next two weeks. Brad Swift joins me for this. Speaker 3: Get up close to a hundreds of wild mushrooms at the 42nd annual fungus [00:23:30] fair being held this year at the Lawrence Hall of science in Berkeley. Eat edible mushrooms, meet vendors and watch culinary demonstrations by mushroom chefs. Get the dirt on poisonous mushrooms and checkout other wild funky from the medicinal to the really, really strange mushroom experts will be on hand to answer all your questions and to identify unknown specimens brought in by the visitors. My cologists will present slideshows and talk about foraging for mushrooms. [00:24:00] Find out how different mushrooms can be used for treating diseases, dyeing cloth or paper and flavoring foods. The fair will be Saturday and Sunday, December 3rd and fourth from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day. There is a sliding admission charge to the hall of Science, which includes all the exhibits and the fungus fare. Check their website, Lawrence Hall of Science. Dot Orgy for details. Speaker 8: On Tuesday, December 6th [00:24:30] at 7:00 PM the Jewish community center at 3,200 California street in San Francisco is hosting a panel discussion on digital overload. Debate continues over the extent to which connectivity is changing the QALY of our relationships and reshaping our communities. Now there are major concerns about how it's changing our brains. Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Tech reporter Matt. Righto wired Steven Levy and rabbi Joshua Trullo. It's joined moderator, Jonathan Rosen, author of the Talmud [00:25:00] and the Internet to address pressing ethical questions of the digital age, including what are the costs of growing up digitally native are our children casualties of the digital revolution. What are the longterm effects of net use? Visit JCC s f.org for tickets which are $20 to the public, $17 for members and $10 for students. Speaker 3: Women's earth alliance presents seeds of resilience, women farmers striving in the face of climate [00:25:30] change Tuesday, December 6th that the David Brower center in Berkeley. The doors will open at 6:00 PM for reception and music program is at 7:30 PM it entails stories from the field by India, program director, RWE, Chad shitness, other special guests and Speakers to be announced. Admissions is $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Speaker 8: December is Leonardo art science evening rendezvous [00:26:00] or laser will take place. Wednesday, December 7th from six 45 to 8:55 PM at Stanford University's Geology Corner Building three 21 zero five in addition to socializing and networking, there will be four talks showing the kitchen of San Jose State University will speak on hyperfunctional landscapes in art and offer a fresh outlook at the technological adaptations and how they can enhance and enrich our surroundings rather than distract us from them. UC Berkeley's Carlo [00:26:30] squint and we'll show how knots can be used as constructivist building blocks for abstract geometrical sculptures. NASA's Margarita Marinova will share how the dry valleys event Arctica are an analog for Mars. These are the coldest and dry rocky place with no plants or animals and site. Studying these dry valleys allows us to understand how the polar regions on earth work, what the limits of life are, and to apply these ideas to the cold and dry environment of Mars. Finally, San Francisco Art Institutes, [00:27:00] Peter Foucault will present on systems and interactivity in drawing where drawings are constructed through mark making systems and how audience participation can influence the outcome of a final composition. Focusing on an interactive robotic trying installation. For more information on this free event, visit leonardo.info. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:27:30] now new stories with Rick Karnofsky Speaker 8: science news reports on research by UC San Diego, experimental psychologist David Brang and vs Ramachandran published in the November 22nd issue of plus biology on the genetic origins of synesthesia. The sense mixing condition where people taste colors or see smells that affects only about 3% of the population, half of those with the condition report that family members also [00:28:00] have the condition, but parents and children will often exhibit it differently. Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist, David Eagleman published in September 30th issue of behavioral brain research that a region on chromosome 16 is responsible for a form of synesthesia where letters and numbers are associated with a color Brang hypothesizes that the gene may help prune connections in the brain and that soon as synesthesiac yaks may suffer a genetic defect that prevents removing some links. [00:28:30] An alternate hypothesis is that synesthesia is caused by neurochemical imbalance. This may explain why the condition intensifies with extreme tiredness or with drug use. Bring in colleagues believe that it is actually a combination of these two that lead to synesthesia. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: spectrum is recorded and edited by me, Rick Klasky, [00:29:00] and by Brad Swift. The music you heard during this show is by David [inaudible] off of his album folk and acoustic. It is released under the creative Commons attribution license. Thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via [00:29:30] our email address is spectrum dot kalx@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I think that this is Thameside's first stereo test transmission. While the show is  still mono  the opening and closing "do you ever have difficulty" jingles are remixed and in stereo. I wonder how they did that? Paul James has a brand new Beatles spot. It's very hot in the studio and he assures us that Sarah is reading the dedications with her clothes off. (In our dreams!) Sarah mentions (amongst others) Thameside listeners at Hammersmith Hospital, Windy Miller, snoopy, cupcake, the copycats club, Robin Holbert. As well as more ILR outtakes Dave has CB dedications for Red Rooster, Blue Wheeler and Orange Club in the Rayners Lane area. He also talks about Steve Walsh from Radio Invicta (another fine London pirate) who is advertising Svenson hair weaving in the local press.