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How did IHRA initially fail after they were bought by IRG? What would a merger between IHRA and WDRA look like? Send your questions from the pits to GoingBracketRacing@gmail.com! Head over to EigthMileApparel.com for GBR MERCH!

Nearly three-quarters of voters in Wisconsin say their incomes haven't kept up over the past four years and more than half say that's their top issue this fall. The Institute for Reforming Government is out with a new poll that says “kitchen table issues” dominate the minds of voters heading into November. IRG's poll said 47% of voters said the economy is their top issue for the election. Another 8% said their personal finances. The poll shows that 17% of voters say the border is their top issue. Overall, 71% of voters told pollsters their income has not kept pace with inflation.Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxxFull story: https://www.thecentersquare.com/wisconsin/article_39fce8e6-446a-11ef-ba78-e7039588e467.html

In the latest episode of The Retail Tea Break podcast, I speak to a retail trailblazer! Linda Johansen-James is the Founder and CEO of International Retail Group. The “Billion Dollar Brand Maker”, specialises in brand launches, in-store design, sales training, franchising, and has a track record of generating $1.7 billion in revenue and attracting top brands.Linda's years of experience shines through in this episode, as she discusses everything from shaking up shopping malls to training thousands of staff. She encourages the c-suite to work the shop floor, she expects staff to stick to the 4 second rule and she expects you to know the LTV of your customer. This episode is FULL of golden nuggets! So grab your cup of tea, sit back and listen…Topics:· Starting out with a shopping cart· Nurturing retail staff and writing a script· Going back to basics· Pivoting during Covid· Supporting the next generation of retailersFor more information visit: https://irg-retail.com/To read the IRG magazine: https://irg-retail.com/international-retail-magazine/Transcription and show notes available at: https://theretailadvisor.ie/

It's not often Suncorp's CMO Mim Haysom is mentioned in the same conversation as Leonardo da Vinci but the latter's rare ability to combine creative and analytical thinking is what 50 Australian CMOs working with WPP were briefed on recently as the next frontier for business growth and their own professional cred and advancement. Indeed, Marc de Swaan Arons, a former Unilever marketer who co-founded the non-profit Institute for Real Growth [IRG]  - backed globally by Google, Meta, WPP and Tata Consulting - says there's a ‘massive opportunity' for marketers to increase influence and impact with executive leadership colleagues via ‘humanised growth'. How? In this instance, it's by customer-minded marketing bosses offering their strategy and insights nous to help build out divisional and all-of-company stakeholder-employee management blueprints and programs. It may seem fanciful and foreign to already stretched marketing remits but a new global study by IRG across 450 CEOs, CFOs, CMOs and HR leads suggests the notion would be welcomed by company leaders and seen as a credibility enhancer for marketers - if they don't turn it into a land grab on colleagues. Suncorp's Haysom and Piedmont Healthcare's CMO Douwe Bergsma (US) are already front-running the trend, says de Swaan Arons, who also injects some cool pragmatism into the ESG, DE&I and purpose programs often championed by marketing teams. He cites the raging success and subsequent reality check for marketers working on Dove's acclaimed Campaign for Real Beauty rollout in 2004 - within two years of that launch, it was in trouble. Purpose had usurped product development. Here's more from de Swaan Arons and the Institute for Real Growth's new study.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sridhar Chityala • DGI 435 • Who runs US - Biden or Soros? • IRG in Hamas, Hezbollah & Yemen

On this episode of The PowerDrift Podcast, we are in conversation with LCR Honda Idemitsu rider Takaaki Nakagami & Idemitsu Lube India Deputy Managing Director Akira Kitagawa. We've talked about everything from the first edition of the BharatGP, Takaaki's inspirations, and influences to Idemitsu's high-performance IRG 7 engine oil and the story behind it. Listen to it now. Disclaimer: No claim is being made in this video. In case of any query or for more information. Contact us by direct message on social media handles only.

We talk to reproductive rights journalist and author, Rebecca Grant, about her Peabody Award winning episode of This American Life and her new book BIRTH: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America. Then we welcome back CJ Szafier to talk about IRG's new report on What Wisconsin Wants. Guests: CJ Szafir, Rebecca Grant

EPISODE 1477: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to SparkLabs Group co-founder Bernard Moon about the latest innovation in South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam Bernard Moon is a Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Group, which is a network of accelerators and venture capital funds that has invested in over 350 companies across 6 continents since 2013. With 8 accelerators in locations such as Seoul, Taipei, Sydney, Singapore and working with major research universities, such as Arizona State University. SparkLabs Global Ventures is a seed and Series A fund that primarily invests in the U.S. and Asia. SparkLabs Ventures is a Series A fund in South Korea. Bernard was previously Co-founder & CEO of Vidquik, a web conferencing & sales solutions platform, and continues to serve as an advisor and board director. Previously, he was Managing Director of the Lunsford Group, which is a private investment firm consisting of entities in technology, health care, and real estate. He was Co-founder and VP of Business Development at GoingOn Networks, a social media platform for companies. He led their product development where BusinessWeek recognized GoingOn in their "Best of the Web" list for 2007. Bernard is also a guest writer to various technology journals, such as VentureBeat, Mashable, TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb. Prior to this, Bernard was a Director at iRG, a leading boutique investment bank in Asia. Prior to iRG, Bernard was Co-founder & VP of Business Development & Marketing at HeyAnita Korea, a leading voice portal and solutions provider, which was joint venture between Softbank and HeyAnita, Inc. Bernard was responsible for establishing strategic partnerships and helping to build the company from its conceptual stage to a 54-person operation. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.He serves on the advisory boards to Seoul National University's Graduate School of Data Science and Nanyang Technological University's EcoLabs (Centre of Innovation for Energy), and sits on the Board of Directors for the American Red Cross of Silicon Valley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the wake of the damning IRG report into equality and dignity issues in the Defence Forces, Katie Hannon speaks Roslyn O'Callaghan about her own experiences in the army and a devastating sexual assault she suffered at the hands of a more senior officer. If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed please visit www.rte.ie/helplines.

Matt Kittle guest hosts. Guests include State Senate President Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield), IRG's director of State Budget and Government Reform Alex Ignatowski, and Heather Smith of the MacIver Institute on the Biggest lies of 2022.

Une des idées reçues les plus tenaces veut que les anarchistes soient des poseurs de bombes et des black blocs... C'est tellement commode pour éviter de regarder en face la richesse de cette pensée politique d'émancipation. Dans cet épisode, je pars à la découverte du courant non-violent allemand et son importance dans la lutte anti-nucléaire allemande. Une interview de Lou Marin dans son appartement à Marseille un apres-midi de juin. Bibliographie de l'épisode: le SNCChttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee fraction armée rougehttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraction_armée_rouge Journal grassroots revolutionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graswurzelrevolution IRGhttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationale_des_résistant(e)s_à_la_guerre congres de IRG a sheffield en 1972 Lanza del vastohttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanza_del_Vasto documentaire Tous au larzac à voir :) revue anarchisme et non violencetous les numéros de la revue sont ici !!!https://cras31.info/spip.php?article495 Rudolf Rockerhttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Rocker Max Netlauhttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Nettlau Pierre ramu anarchiste autrichien (pas trouvé:) ) Centrale de Philipsburghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze7x_DsGyG4 Les jours libertaires 1987 1993 franckfurtdes moments sociaux à la révolution sociale Ruddolf Bahrohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Bahroet son livre l'alternativehttps://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1979/05/SINGER/35115 Gustav landaeurhttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Landauer Les femmes de Rosenstrassehttps://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2005/05/VIDAL/12195 une critique anarchiste de la légitimation de la violencehttp://www.atelierdecreationlibertaire.com/Une-critique-anarchiste-de-la-justification-de-la-violence.html en réponse à ce livrehttps://www.editionslibre.org/produit/prevente-comment-la-non-violence-protege-l-etat-peter-gelderloos/ Michael siedmanhttp://www.palim-psao.fr/article-presentation-critique-du-livre-de-michael-seidman-ouvriers-contre-le-travail-83870544.html Juan García Oliverhttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Garc%C3%ADa_Oliver collectif désobéissance libertairehttp://www.atelierdecreationlibertaire.com/+-Collectif-Desobeissances-libertaires-+.htmlhttps://anarchismenonviolence2.org/spip.php?rubrique30

O destaque é a pesquisa IRG que foi divulgada ontem que entrevistou 1,5 mil eleitores entre de 8 a 12 de agosto. Com margem de erro de 2,5% e o grau de confiança, 95%. E foi registrada no Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) PR-02663-2022 e BR-00310-2022. Mostra números da corrida ao governo do estado, e também a presidência da república aqui em nosso estado. Na disputa ao governo do Paraná, Ratinho Junior tem 58,7% e é seguido pelo ex-senador Requião (PT), 21,3%. Para presidente da república num cenário apenas no Paraná, Bolsonaro tem 49,5% e é seguido pelo ex-presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) com 30%; o ex-senador Ciro Gomes (PTD), 5,9%. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jovem-pan-maring/message

In this episode of Culture Matters, we're joined by Talia Babel-Jones, Manager of Learning and Development in Finance and also Co-Chair of our Veterans and Allies Inclusion Resource Group(IRG). Talia shares the tremendous work this IRG does to provide a safe space for Indeedians who are veterans, allies, and spouses. She also provides tips on how veterans can stand out in the recruitment process and increase their chances of landing the job. Take a look at our open roles at the link below. indeed.jobs

Dos personas que se conocieron en prisión mientras aguardaban su ejecución, lograron planear su final y ejecutar antes, un acto de protesta en contra de los británicos; ambos combatientes eran judíos pertenecientes a grupos clandestinos, el primero de ellos Moshe Barazani quien nació en Iraq en 1926, llegó a vivir a Jerusalén cuando tenía 6 años y muy joven se unió a un grupo paramilitar judío que luchaba en contra del Imperio Británico; el 9 de marzo de 1947, la policía colonial lo capturó llevando una granada que sería utilizada en el asesinato de un oficial británico en Jerusalén, por esta razón fue llevado a prisión por posesión de armas ilegales. El segundo de ellos fue Meir Feinstein quien se unió a la organización judía de defensa; el utilizó un certificado de nacimiento falso para enlistarse en el ejército británico a la edad de 16 años durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, de donde sacó armas británicas de contrabando para el Irgún; Meir participó en una misión de sabotaje en una estación ferroviaria. Por estas razones los dos fueron sentenciados a muerte; pero ellos planearon que durante la noche anterior a que se efectuara la sentencia, se quitarían la vida haciendo explotar una granada, el plan fue terminar como bombas suicidas en su prisión británica; así elevaron su protesta final en Jerusalén y evitaron ser colgados la mañana siguiente.

Keegan is joined by FattyMac for his rampaging Vader, double IRG, triple Dew list!   798/800 11 Activations Imperial Officer (Vigilance, Portable Scanner) Darth Vader (Force Push, Saber Throw, Tenacity, Seize the Initiative) 3x Stormtroopers Scout Troopers (Strike Team) (DLT-19x Sniper) 2x Imperial Royal Guards 3x Dewback Rider (T-21 Blaster Rifle) Implacable•, Vader's Might•, New Ways to Motivate Them••, Fear and Dead Men••, Master of Evil•••, Darkness Descends•••, Standing Orders•••• Major Offensive, The Long March, Roll Out, Advanced Positions Sabotage the Moisture Vaporators, Payload, Hostage Exchange, Intercept the Transmissions Limited Visibility, Clear Conditions, Rapid Reinforcements, Supply Drop

In today's episode, we get to know .irgWe talked about: Breakfast, Relationships, Releasing projects, Financing the dream, and a bunch of other things! Tap in with .irg https://lnk.bio/irgmusic-Intro Music-.irgSweetie Stay connected with Earspace on Instagram @EarspacePodcast

Kol Tzion HaLo khemet, “La voz de la lucha de Zion”, la red de radio oculta operada por la organización militar Irgun, salió al aire alrededor de Palestina con Esther Raziel-Naor. La radio transmitía mensajes relacionados al Irgún, reportes militantes pro sionistas, que de otra manera serían censurados por los británicos. Las transmisiones en hebreo desde Tel Aviv a menudo presentaron al líder del Irgún, Menachem Begin hablando sobre los objetivos del movimiento militante. Además de un corto período después de que los británicos decomisaran el transmisor en 1944, la estación transmitía regularmente hasta su cierre el 14 de mayo de 1948, mientras que Israel se preparaba para declarar su independencia. Begin sí volvió a utilizar la estación en junio de 1948 para motivar a los miembros del Irgun a no pelear después de que el primer ministro David Ben-Gurion haya ordenado el hundimiento de la nave marítima Altalena, el cual tenía armas destinadas para el Irgun.

In this interview, my special guest Craig Paisley shares his secrets to billing close to 7-figures as a solo recruiter.  He finished the year on $950,000 to be exact. How was he able to accomplish this amazing feat? There were several factors, of course, but Craig believes that the biggest key to his success was his tech stack. In this episode, Craig reveals his preferred automation tools and how he leverages recruitment technology to fill jobs faster than his competitors. Craig started his recruitment business, Industrial Resource Group, in 2009. He specializes in recruiting for companies from the food and beverage manufacturing and distribution industries across the United States and Canada. In 2021, IRG was awarded 56th Forbes Best Recruiters – Professional Search. Episode Outline and Highlights [2:57] Craig shares how he got into recruiting and what inspired him to set up IRG. [6:43] Bravely setting out to start a new venture in the most challenging economic climate [9:19] How scaling down became a key to Craig's success  [15:42] Billing more while being solo with the help of an effective tech stack [17:18] Craig shares an overview of his tech stack (Bullhorn, Herefish, TextUs, Daxtra, 3DIQ) [21:10] Understanding Herefish and making the most of automation to save time and increase profits [26:25] How to choose an optimal tech platform [38:29] Craig breaks down his step-by-step sourcing process and typical turnaround time for vetting and submitting candidates. [41:20] Choose your clients wisely to enjoy success [47:31] The metrics simplified – Craig's system for self-management [52:08] Quality vs quantity – Craig explains why less is more in his business [53:22] Emphasizing the importance of working in a niche market Starting a Recruitment Firm During the Great Recession Prior to becoming a business owner, Craig was a successful full-desk recruiter with the same firm for 10 years and worked his way up to VP of Sales. When he eventually launched his own staffing firm in 2009, the timing wasn't ideal. When I asked how he survived the first 12 months as a new business during the great recession, Craig described it as “kind of fighting… you claw and you edge your way in any place that you can… it was tough, it was a grind, I just pounded the phones and I worked hard.  Any opportunity and position I got, I worked hard on it and luckily I was able to make placements and string enough together to where I sort of built up some momentum.” Leveraging Automation Tools Craig was able to make 2021 his best year yet in terms of personal production, just shy of one million dollars.  How did he do it? By leveraging automation tools. Some of the recruitment technology stack we discussed include: Bullhorn Herefish Textus Daxtra 3DIQ Craig reveals his exact system and end-to-end sourcing process. He's built a “candidate generation machine” that enables him to source, vet and submit candidates quickly and efficiently.  Even though the majority of his searches are contingent, he is able to outperform his competitors and win the day. Automating mundane tasks can be extremely profitable by saving time and increasing productivity. As Craig puts it, previously the majority of his phone calls were reaching out to candidates to try and talk to them about a position. Now the outreach part is automated and his phone calls are more focused on screening candidates, getting them prepared for interviews, and closing deals. Vetting Your Clients Well With the rising demands for candidates, how is IRG able to compete with other recruiting companies in such a tight job market with more openings than candidates available? Craig's secret is choosing their clients wisely. “I think I have more success because of where I am starting from. What I mean by that is if I partner with good companies that have good reputation, that have good positions with great opportunity of growth, good salary, bonuses, all that stuff, if I am going to the market with those kinds of positions, it is going to be easy for me to get more candidates.”  Our Sponsors This podcast is proudly sponsored by i-intro®.  i-intro® is an end-to-end retained recruitment platform. Our technology and methodology allows recruiters to differentiate themselves from the competition, win more retained business, bigger fees and increase their billings. Be sure to mention Mark Whitby or The Resilient Recruiter for a 25% discount. Book your free, no-obligation consultation here: www.recruitmentcoach.com/retained  Craig Paisley Bio and Contact Info A dedicated business owner with over 20 years of experience in the staffing industry.  Experienced in all areas of staffing including Clerical, Accounting & Finance, Maintenance & Engineering, Sales, Light Industrial, etc.  With honesty and integrity, Craig's passion lies in the successful recruitment of personnel in the food, beverage, and pet food manufacturing and distribution industries for companies across the United States. Specialties: Over 10 years of manufacturing and distribution based recruitment experience with a focus and emphasis on partnering with companies from food, beverage and pet food industries across the United States and Canada. Craig started his career as a full desk recruiter placing exempt and non-exempt maintenance personnel in California.  He then moved into a regional management position within the same division before moving on to build a clerical division for a joint venture/new company.  From there, Craig moved into a director role focused on light industry and left the company after 10 years as the VP of Sales responsible for multiple states and offices. Craig started IRG in 2009, building the company to 8 internal employees before downsizing to a solo operation in early 2020.  Currently ranked the 56th best staffing in the US by Forbes. Craig on LinkedIn IRG Solution website link IRG on Twitter @JobsIRG People and Resources Mentioned Bullhorn website link Herefish website link Textus website link Daxtra website link 3DIQ website link Connect with Mark Whitby Get your FREE 30-minute strategy call Mark on LinkedIn Mark on Twitter: @MarkWhitby Mark on Facebook Mark on Instagram: @RecruitmentCoach   Subscribe to The Resilient Recruiter

On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Mitch Hecht, Founder and Chairman, International Recycling Group (IRG) and Chris Dow, IRG's CEO. They discuss the challenges of recycling plastics and IRG's work in developing processes for the recycling industry to take in all plastics and rapidly sort them in an automated way for use by recyclers. Find out more about International Recycling Group at https://www.internationalrecycling.com.

Hour 1, segment 1:- Today on Americanuck Radio, we are very honored to have Mr. Tom Quiggin join us once again to give his counter terrorism expertise on the current situation we face, along with a look back in time which traces how we got where we are today. Today's show, among other topics, will cover the Canadian gov. coverup of the air India bombing. (AUDIO) Trudeau is speaking with Hillary Clinton about Afghanistan aftermath instead of Joe Biden. Tom chimes in on this and explains how Justin can hang with the queen of the left, while touting his feminist cred.(AUDIO) More Trudeau audio, where the imbecile talks about a "she-cession."People who are so stuck on wokeness just can't get themselves off that track, as Tom mentions.Reports of Canadians and Americans still stuck in Afghanistan are running rampant. Nobody seems to know exact numbers, but a Canadian military spokesman slipped and said it was the Canadian foreign affairs department who are standing in the way.------------------Hour 1, segment 2:- The discussion goes to understanding our past to realize how we got here today.Tom gives his insight on the Air India bombing which occurred during Brian Mulroney's admin in 1985.One would think that when the largest mass murder in history might make the acting PM look for the truth, but that wasn't the case.Twenty years later, PM Harper and Bob Rae did a little digging into the incident, which was productive.Tom gets into the India connection, which is really an eye opener.He also speaks about the 2019 downing of the UIA airliner in Iran, which killed many Canadian citizens. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard were said to be responsible.The damning evidence against the Trudeau government is that there was an HOC motion to list Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Later, after Iran brought down the UIA airliner, Trudeau still hadn't followed through with designating the IRG a terrorist organization.Tom explains how he got involved in getting to the bottom of the Air India tragedy, which is really quite interesting.A disaster which largely falls on the Canadian government, which includes abuse of the survivors of all the victims. A history of utter neglect by the Canadian government certainly ties both  massacres together.--------------------Hour 2, segment 1:- Tom gets into the murder of a Canadian journalist, which was a result of the Air India bombing.The journalist was getting very close to exposing several key figures in Canada who were covering up the truth about the bombing.That case is cold, as well as that of another murder of a journalist in the UK who was also hot on the trail of discovering the truth of Air India.This is straight out of the former Soviet Union.The discussion returns to the UIA flight that was shot down, and Tom dissects the events which led up to the missile being fired.The working assumption of the shootdown, as Tom explains, should be one of something doing stupid.The Iranian Revolutionary Guard is further explored, as well as the rattling of the system post Soleimani assassination.Afghanistan is the focus of the remainder of the hour.We are still at the peak of the crisis, as Tom says. With so many unaccounted for Americans and Canadians still left behind, the real crisis may be yet to come with hostage situations.Biden could very well have a Jimmy Carter hostage situation on his hands.Tom also explains how China sees that when Biden is provoked or pushed into a corner, he absolutely cowers.They still desire to take Taiwan and they also see, through the American retreat in Afghanistan, the American government as impotent to respond.  --------------------Hour 2, segment 2:-  Into the final segment of the show, the question of who will now want to ally with America is posed.Tom touches on this. He mentions several malfunctions within the U.S. armed forces, including horrible accidents and a laughable, embarrassing wokeness.The military has a job to kill people and break things. It mustn't be involved in society, nor a platform for perverse social experimentation.That garbage and rot must be kept separate from our fighting forces. It is a very harmful, fatal distraction.Command failure in the abandonment of American military equipment is also touched on.The Canadian military failure of internal discipline is also a point of discussion. The politics of the Trudeau government has also been used to sideline those in the military who don't toe that line.The Dany Fortin situation is a good example of this.How effective is the military when Gen Fortin's chopping off at the knees is at the forefront?How many will look at that travesty,  decide they don't want that to happen to them, and simply resign?-------------------This is a very fascinating conversation!Keep up with Tom and all his wonderful work by clicking the links below:https://cointr.ee/QuigginReporthttps://t.me/quigginreportACheck out his new book below, "The New Order Of Fear."https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SPK3Z4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=quiggin+order+of+fear&qid=1625228182&sr=8-1

2 rockets fired from south Lebanon towards western Galilee. Israel attacks IRG targets near Aleppo.PM vows legal repercussions over Ben and Jerry's settlement ban.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three weeks ago, the hosts invited Mayor Joe Schember to be a guest to talk about environmental racism. Since then, there has been zero response from the City of Erie Government and the Mayor. In this mini episode of Our Erie, the hosts aka citizens to be heard insightfully share their response of being 'ghosted' and decided to make a public call. Please read the following letter to the Mayor from the hosts of Our Erie: "Hello Mayor Schember, Our names are Marty Nwachukwu, DaVona Pacley, Lydia Laythe and John C. Lyons. We're the producers of the popular podcast Our Erie. In less than 4 months, our podcast has been downloaded over 3,000 times and 72% of our listeners are 23-34 years of age. We're really excited to reach out to you today, because we want to have you as a guest on our podcast! We were hoping to record with you for an hour over Zoom at 6pm on one of the following dates: April 30 or May 7. We know you're committed to ending racism in Erie - and our podcast has consistently addressed the issues of racism, both locally and nationally. We know you're aware of the countless intersections between environmental degradation and racism - how developments that have destructive impacts to the environment and public health are consistently placed in communities of color. As such we thought you would be especially interested in a discussion topic we're planning: The Story of Plastic, IRG and Racial Justice through an Environmental lens. On Wednesday, March 31st at 6:00pm, the Film Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania is hosting a Zoom discussion of “The Story of Plastic” a new documentary about plastic recycling with one of the film's producers, Stiv J. Wilson, and concerned city of Erie residents. We thought viewing the film - and how it relates to your efforts to end racism in Erie - would be a powerful discussion to help our community become more engaged in local development, politics - and elections. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns before agreeing to be our guest. We're really excited about the intersectionality of issues in this topic and think you'd be a great voice to have. Thank you so much. Sincerely, The Our Erie Team" -- Tuesday's episode is with Dr. Sherez Mohamed of Merchyhurst University. -- Continue the conversation at https://msha.ke/ourerieseries This podcast is produced by John C. Lyons, Marty Nwachukwu, DaVona Pacley and Lydia Laythe. Funding provided by United Way of Erie and Ember+Forge. Music by LiteShado. -- Like & Follow us on: Instagram - @ourerieseries Facebook - @ourerieseries -- We appreciate you for listening to the Our Erie podcast! Peace. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ourerieseries/support

Inclusion is one of Indeed’s core values. We recognise and celebrate all groups and communities. To talk about an IRG that we haven’t discussed before, Chris speaks to Virginia Campy, client Success Specialist in our Scottsdale, AZ office and also the Scottsdale Site Lead for our All Generations Empowered IRG. All Generations Empowered (AGE) provides opportunities for networking, community outreach and education while exploring the benefits and challenges of a multi-generational workplace. Chris and Virginia discuss how Indeed and other organizations can be more welcoming to all generations. Indeed’s mission is to help people get jobs and during this time we want you all to know we are here to help. For more visit https://www.indeed.com/lead/here-to-help

In this episode of Here to Help, we will learn about the importance of the Vets & Allies IRG. Indeed CEO Chris is joined by Timothy Kirk, the IRG’s Regional Co-Chair to understand why transitioning to the workforce from the Military brings its own set of challenges that may not be apparent to others. Indeed’s mission is to help people get jobs and during this time we want you all to know we are here to help. For more visit https://www.indeed.com/lead/here-to-help

Inclusion is one of Indeed’s core values. We recognise and celebrate all groups and communities. To talk about an IRG that we haven’t discussed before, Chris speaks to Virginia Campoy, client Success Specialist in our Scottsdale, AZ office and also the Scottsdale Site Lead for our All Generations Empowered IRG.All Generations Empowered (AGE) provides opportunities for networking, community outreach and education while exploring the benefits and challenges of a multi-generational workplace.Chris and Virginia discuss how Indeed and other organizations can be more welcoming to all generations.

In this episode of Here to Help,  we will learn about the importance of the Vets & Allies IRG. Indeed CEO Chris is joined by Timothy Kirk,  the IRG’s Regional Co-Chair to understand why transitioning to the workforce from the Military brings its own set of challenges that may not be apparent to others.

Host and American Family Farmer Doug Stephan www.eastleighfarm.com presents the latest Farm and Agri News. Farmers and Distillers are working hand-in-hand as they come together to produce Hand Sanitizer, with the Farmers providing the corn. Next, we meet Lacey and Paul Cannon of Indigenous Regeneration. www.indigenousregeneration.org Lacey is the founder of and serves as Executive Director. She oversees 17 acres of educational land restoration projects on the San Pasqual Indian Reservation. She has over 20 years’ experience in organic farming and five years of marketing experience. Paul is the co-founder of IRG. He is a descendant of the Kumeyaay nation and was raised on the San Pasqual Band of Mission Reservation. He is also a singer and songwriter who has co-written with major Grammy winning pop stars, and even made the top 50 on American Idol. Finally, Host Doug opines about how Government is favoring huge Agri-Business and suggests that you investigate getting an SBA loan at www.sba.gov

Linda Johansen-James is CEO of IRG- International Retail Management and Consulting Group. IRG is the trusted leader in direct-to-consumer retail operations for many of the world’s top brands. Headquartered in Las Vegas and New York, IRG is comprised of the top professionals in the industry. Instrumental in the worldwide success of many leading brands, Linda and her husband Max grew the Proactiv® business from 4 locations to over 400 staffed locations, 1500 employees and 900 automated stores throughout North America, Australia and New Zealand which proudly served over 54 million guests, amassing more than $1.7 billion in sales. World-renowned brands including Guthy-Renker, Nestle, Great Foods, Revlon, and Hess Toy Truck are just a few of the many companies and manufacturers who partnered with Linda and her team to launch and or expand their presence into the retail arena and for their expertise, customer convenience, increased sales and profits. https://www.irg-retail.com/ Jen DeVore Richter is the former head of advertising for NASA at Kennedy Space Center turned Certified Platinum Business Coach who won “Innovator of the Year” in 2019 for her results based marketing strategies. She is a published author, keynote speaker, and media personality whose ideas and systems have been featured on NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, PBS, and HuffPost. Subscribe to the magazine for free at www.BossWomenRockMagazine.com Order her latest book at www.BossWomenRockBook.com Join the free community for speakers, authors, coaches, and service based professionals: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BossWomenRockSuccess Watch Jen’s keynote speaker videos at www.jendevore.rocks For business coaching inquiries visit www.jendevore.com Email collaboration, speaking, and consulting inquiries to jen@jendevore.com

Flyover Politik Podcast 1-9-20 Today’s Show: 1- Iran missile attack brings out the worst in our media and progressives 2- More Iran Media Coverage they now are PR firm for DNC and IRG 3- News and Social media Nuggets College Crazy DO use gender neutral pronouns don’t use the bible GAY SHIT New terms like Front Hole/ 1st gender neutral American recants Golden Globes- Ricky slashes them then they preach anyway Everything is Racist Girl raises 1 mil by selling nudes/Media keeps lying on wildfires Liberal Shit- PPFA report released 939K abortions 618Mil federal funding Military Corner- new deployment list no there isn’t a draft! 4- This is America Omar laughs during briefing and MSDNC carries Iran Propaganda on US Deaths that was false Next Show 1-15-19

The killing of Iranian Al-Quds Force Commander, Major General Qassem Soleimani by the United States (January 3rd, 2020), launched a shock wave that ripples through the Middle East. Qassem Soleimani was the Al-Quds Force commander. The Al -Quds force is an elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRG). The IRG reports directly to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Soleimani was the spearhead, the lead strategist – in charge of designing, leading, and implementing Iran’s hegemonic vision in the Middle East. His role was to spread Iran’s reach and influence and make Iran the superpower in the region. And he did so primarily by creating, supporting, and nurturing a network of militias throughout the Middle East including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Iraqi Shi’ite militias, Yemeni Houthi forces, Afghan and Pakistani Shi’ites militias, etc. Under Soleimani’s command, Iran deepened its hold in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and the Gaza Strip. Some argue that the assassination of Soleimani will increase tensions in the Middle East. This outlook confuses cause and effect: Tensions in the Middle East have intensified over the past decade because of the violent Iranian aggression which Soleimani spearheaded. Aggression which has led to Syria's destruction and the disintegration of Lebanon and Iraq. Aggression that threatens maritime routes and safe passage in the Arab (Persian) Gulf and the Red Sea, a direct attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities that spiked oil prices and compromised the world's oil supply. Aggression that has fueled and intensified tensions - including direct military confrontations - between Iran and its proxies and Israel. What to expect over the next few days? In my view, Iraq will be the main arena. From a regional point of view, an internal flare-up in Iraq could lead to a drastic Iranian move, which has two possible – and perhaps parallel tracks. One track is a missile attack on Israel from western Iraq. The other is direct Iranian military intervention in Iraq.

听众朋友早上好，今天是 11 月 26 日又一个星期二，农历冬月初一，欢迎收听全球字体新闻联播。 本期节目，首先回顾文字技术相关的消息、值得关注的字体设计竞赛以及海外知名厂商的动向；随后，我们将对比介绍国内手机品牌和操作系统的字体定制案例；最后，向大家推荐两份别具一格的出版物。 另，本台微信小程序已上线，由轻芒提供技术支持。在微信中扫码即可打开，也可搜索「字谈字畅」或「TypeChat」获取。 下面是本期内容的详细报道。 参考链接 新中国第一代字体设计师徐学成先生于 2019 年 11 月 1 日逝世，享年 91 岁 The Type 的「上海活字」栏目 UTC #160 会议上，位于扩展 G 区的 4939 个 CJK Unified Ideographs 字符被确认收录至 Unicode 13 IRG #25 会议上通过决议补录 13 个中国科技用字 Greg Hitchcock 撰文纪念 TrueType 技术发布三十周年 Figma 官方博客撰文介绍部分 OpenType 特性及其在 Figma 软件中的应用 Updike Prize for Student Type Design（Updike 学生字体设计奖） Granshan 2019 字体设计奖公布；郭永祥的作品「风骨楷」获三等奖，逄格会的「翻滚积木字库」、厉致谦的「行楷 Next」获提名 微软推出编程字体 Cascadia Code，并在 GitHub 开源 Typotheque 纪念 20 周年庆，全场五折 Adobe Fonts 登陆 iOS 13 Adobe Creative Cloud 旗下移动设备端 app 一览 Adobe InDesign 2020 (v15.0) 版本新特性 vivo 定制字体「vivo Type」发布，由丹麦设计机构 Kontrapunkt 及方正字库联合定制 OPPO 定制字体「OPPO Sans」发布，由美国设计机构 Pentagram 及汉仪字库联合定制 MIUI 11 发布「动态字体系统」，所用的字体家族「小米兰亭 Pro」由方正字库定制 「Smartisan T 黑」字体家族发布，基于方正悠黑家族定制 汉仪松阳体，浙江丽水松阳「城市字体」，吴勇主创设计，汉仪字库出品 阿根廷出版的西班牙语字体排印主题期刊 tipoGráfica，在网上免费公开过刊存档 Sincerity/Irony Heldane Specimen Book，Klim Type Foundry 出品的诗集兼字体样张 主播 Eric：字体排印研究者，译者，The Type 编辑 蒸鱼：设计师，The Type 编辑 欢迎与我们交流或反馈，来信请致 podcast@thetype.com​。如果你喜爱本期节目，也欢迎用支付宝向我们捐赠：hello@thetype.com​。 The Type 会员计划已上线，成为我们的会员，即可享受月刊通讯、礼品赠送、活动优惠以及购物折扣等权益。

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From ASM Microbe 2019, the Microbials meet up with Susanna L. Harris and Alex Politis to talk about mental health in graduate school and NIH peer review. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swansonand Michael Schmidt Guests: Susanna L. Harrisand Alex Politis Subscribe to TWiM (free) on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Android, RSS, or by email. Get the entire ASM Podcast Network via our Microbeworld app. Become a patron of TWiM Links for this episode PhD Balance Susanna’s video(Vimeo) NIH Center for Scientific Review TWiM Listener survey Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or recorded audio) to twim@microbe.tv  

IRG (Ideographic Rapporteur Group) 是一个我们多次提及的工作小组，而关于它的组织、成员与运作，听众或许知之甚少。今日本台有幸邀来 IRG 青年专家 Eiso，与大家分享 IRG 幕后的故事。同时，Eiso 也将进一步为我们介绍 CJK Unified Ideographs 相关的基本概念、历史信息以及工作进展的最前沿。 参考链接 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2/IRG (Ideographic Rapporteur Group)（国际标准化组织与国际电工委员会·第一联合技术委员会·第二分委员会·第二工作组·表意文字小组） UTC（Unicode Technical Committee，Unicode 技术委员会） 魏安（Andrew C. West）博士，英国语言学家、汉学家；开设有个人网站 BabalStone 井作恆（John H. Jenkins） 曲理查（Richard Cook）博士 小林劍?（Ken Lunde）博士 康立论（Lee Collins），Unicode 创始人之一。 SAT 大正新修大藏经文本数据库（大正新脩大藏經テキストデータベース, The SAT Daizōkyō Text Database） ISO/IEC 2022，使用七位或八位编码表示各种文字的通用技术规范，包括中国国标 GB 2312 在内的东亚各国文字编码均遵从此标准 中文资讯交换码（CCCII，Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange） 中日韩统一表意文字（CJK Unified Ideographs） Chữ Nôm（?喃） Unicode 标准附件第 38 号：Unihan 数据库 Unihan 数据库搜索站 日本「文字情報基盤整備事業」 韩国历史信息统合系统（한국역사정보통합시스템） Unicode 标准附件第 45 号：U 源表意文字 统一字汇及排序（URO，Unified Repertoire and Ordering） 中日韩统一表意文字扩展 G 区草案 工尺（chě）谱 表意文字异体字数据库（IVD，Ideographic Variation Database） 嘉宾 陈永聪（Eiso Chan）：国际标准化组织表意文字小组（ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2/IRG）青年专家，主要从事 Unicode 和 OpenType 东亚部分相关工作 主播 Eric：字体排印研究者，译者，Type is Beautiful 编辑 蒸鱼：设计师，Type is Beautiful 编辑 欢迎与我们交流或反馈，来信请致 podcast@thetype.com​。如果你喜爱本期节目，也欢迎用支付宝向我们捐赠：hello@thetype.com​。 Type is Beautiful 会员计划已上线，成为我们的会员，即可享受月刊通讯、礼品赠送、活动优惠以及购物折扣等权益。

My guest this week is Mark Micire, group lead for the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Previously Mark was a program manager at DARPA, an entrepreneur, and a volunteer firefighter. The topic of this conversation is how DARPA works and why it’s effective at generating game-changing technologies, the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA, and developing Robotics and technology in high-stakes scenarios. Links Intelligent Robotics Group DARPA Camp Fire DARPA Defense Sciences Office First DARPA Grand Challenge Footage - looks like a blooper reel FEMA Robotics   Transcript Ben: [00:00:00] [00:00:00] Mark, welcome to the show.  I actually want to start let's start by talking about the campfire. [00:00:04]Camp Fire [00:00:04] So we have a unprecedented campfire going on right now. It's basically being fought primarily with people. I know you have a lot of experience dealing with natural disasters and Robotics for emergency situations. So I guess the big question is why don't we have more robots fighting the campfire right now? [00:00:26] Mark: [00:00:26] Well, so the believe it or not. There are a lot of efforts happening right now to bring robotics to bear on those kinds of problems. Menlo Park fire especially has one of the nation's leading. Groups, it's a small called kind of like a squad of folks that are actually on Menlo Park fire trained in their absolute career firefighters who are now learning how to leverage in their case. [00:00:57] They're [00:01:00] using a lot of uavs to to do Arrow aerial reconnaissance. It's been used on multiple disasters the we had the damn breakage up in almost the same area as campfire. And they were using the the uavs to do reconnaissance for for those kind of things. So so the the ability for fire rescue to begin adopting these two new technologies is always slow the inroads that I have seen in the last say five years is that they like that it has cameras. [00:01:32] They like that it can get overhead and can give them a view they wouldn't have been able to see otherwise the fact that now you can get these uavs. That have thermal imaging cameras is frighteningly useful, especially for structure fires. So that's so that's the baby steps that we've taken where we haven't gone yet that I'm hopeful we'll eventually see is the idea that you actually have some of [00:02:00] these robots deploying suppressant. [00:02:01] So the idea that they are helping to, you know, provide water and to help put out the fire that that's a long leap from where we are right now, but I would absolutely see that being within the realm of the possible. Sybil about gosh now friend 2008. So about 10 years ago NASA was leveraging a predator be that it had with some with some. [00:02:27] Imagery technology that was up underneath it. Um to help with the fire that was down in Big Sur and I helped with with that a little bit while I was back then I was just an intern here at Nasa and that's I think a really really good example of us using of the fire service leveraging larger government facilities and capabilities to use Robotics and usually these and other things in a way that the fire service itself frankly doesn't have the budget or R&D [00:03:00] resources to really do on their own. [00:03:00]Ben: [00:03:00] [00:03:00]So you think it's primarily a resources thing [00:00:00] Mark: [00:00:00] t it's a couple factors there's resources. So, you know outside of I'll say really outside of DHS. So the problem that homeland security has a science and technology division that does some technology development outside of that. There's not a whole lot of organizations outside of commercial entities that are doing R&D a for fire rescue the it just doesn't exist. [00:00:28] So that's so that's that's your first problem. The second problem is culturally the fire service is just very slow to adopt new technology. And that's not it. It's one part. You know, well, my daddy didn't need it in my daddy's daddy didn't need it. So why the heck do I need it right at that? [00:00:49] That's it's easy to blame it on that. What I guess I've learned over [00:04:00] time and after working within the fire service is that everything is life-critical? There's very few things that you're doing when you're in the field providing that service in this case Wildfire response where lives don't. Kind of hang in the balance. [00:01:09] And so the technologies that you bring to bear have to be proven because what you don't want to do is bring half-baked ideas or half-baked Technologies and frankly have your normal operations have have that technology in a fail in a way that your normal operations would have provided the right kind of service to protect those lives God. [00:01:33] So the evaluation and also kind of the acceptance criteria. For technology is much much higher in especially the fire service. Then the many other domains that I've worked in. I can only think of a few other ones and you know, like aircraft safety and automobile safety tend to be the same where [00:05:00] they're just very slow to roll in Technologies and other things like that, but those two areas that I just described have government and other groups that are providing R&D budgets to help push that technology forward. [00:02:06] So when you get the. You get the the combination of we don't have a lot of budget for R&D and we're very slow to accept new technology because we have to be risk adverse that those two tend to just make that domain of very slow-moving Target for new technologies. [00:02:21]Enabling Innovations in Risk Averse Domains [00:02:21] [00:02:21]Ben: [00:02:21] that actually strikes me as very similar to to NASA. [00:00:03] Actually. We're , there's always the the saying that you know, you can't fly it until you've flown it and do you see any ways for. Making Innovations happen faster in these risk-averse domains you have any thoughts about that? [00:00:16]Mark: [00:00:16] It's it's tough. I mean so short short answer is I don't know. I've been trying for the last 15 years and [00:06:00] I'm still still swinging at it the. [00:00:29] The trick is just to keep going and ultimately I think it just comes down to exposure and the folks the the decision makers within the respective Fields just being comfortable with the technology. So as we now have automobiles that are sharing the highways with us that are controlling themselves and I'm not even talking like fully autonomous, you know, driverless Vehicles, you know, the fact that we have, you know, Tesla's and other high-end cars. [00:00:59] They have Auto Pilots that are Auto steering and Lane keeping and stuff like that the ability for folks within the fire rescue domain to start becoming comfortable with the idea that machines can make decisions that are in life. Critical scenarios and if they can make the right decision on a regular basis, it sounds weird to say that something completely removed from the fire service may help improve the ability for fire service to adopt those [00:07:00] Technologies. [00:01:27] It seems weird to think that that's the case. It's absolutely the case and I you know, like I've been doing this for longer than well. I guess 10 or 15 years now as much as I hate to admit that and I've seen a dramatic change in that now I can go into a room and I can talk about. Averaging and unmanned air vehicle and I'm not laughed out of the room. [00:01:48] There's a comfortableness now that I see these domains accepting that they wouldn't before so, you know, hopefully we're making inroads. It's not going to be a fast path by any stretch. Yeah culturation is something that I don't think people think about very much when it comes to technology, but that's a really good point. [00:02:09] I have geek we don't and that's that's unfortunate. And the one thing I've learned over time. That as Geeks we have to realize that sometimes the technology isn't first that there's a lot of other factors that play in. [00:02:20]Mark's Mission [00:02:20] [00:02:20] Ben: [00:02:20] Yeah, absolutely.  something that I want people to hear about is I feel like you're one of the most [00:08:00] mission-driven people that I know and not to put you on the spot too much but could you tell folks what you do? [00:00:07] Like why you do what you do? [00:00:11] Mark: [00:00:11] Um well and it really depends. I'll say in yeah, you can appreciate this a depends on what it is. I'm doing so, you know for my day job. I work at Nasa have always been a space geek and an advocate for humans finding ways of working in space and one of the best ways that I have found that at least for my talents that I can help enable that is to leverage machines to do a lot of the precursor. [00:00:42] Work that allows us to put humans in those places. It turns out strangely enough of it a lot of the talents that I use for my day job here also help with work that I do on the side related to my role as search and rescue Personnel in FEMA [00:09:00] that a lot of the life safety critical things that we have to do to keep humans alive in the vacuum of space also apply to. [00:01:11] Women's Safe and finding humans at and around and after disasters and so I've always had this strange kind of bent for trying to find a technology that not only ties to a mission but then you can very clearly kind of Point your finger at that and say well that's that's really going to help someone stay safer or do their job more effectively if they had that piece of equipment. [00:01:39] Those are fun, you know. An engineering standpoint. Those are the kind of Base requirements that you want and and it always helps with there's a lot of other technology areas that I could have played in and I like the fact that when I'm when I'm making a design decision or an engineering trade that I can look at it and really grounded out [00:10:00] into okay. [00:02:02] Is that going to make that person safer? Is that going to make them do their job better? And it's really motivating to be able to. To have those as kind of your level one requirements as you as you try to design things that make the world better. [00:02:14] Intro to IRG [00:02:14] [00:02:14]Ben: [00:02:14] and So currently you're the head of IRG. [00:00:05] Yeah group lead is the official title. So I'm the group leader of the intelligent robotics group. Yeah, and I bet that many people haven't actually heard of the intelligent robotics for group at Ames which is kind of sad, but could you tell us a publicly shareable story that really captures IRG as an organization? [00:00:22]Mark: [00:00:22] [00:00:22] Serve, yeah, well, I would say that it is it is a an interesting Motley Crew of capabilities that that allow robots to go do things and all kinds of different domains. We have folks within our group. That specialize in ground robotic. So we have [00:11:00] Rovers that have quite literally gone to the ends of the Earth and that we've had them up in the northern Arctic. [00:00:49] We've had them in desert in Chile. We they've roamed around just about every crater or interesting Landmark that we have in California here and long story short. We have folks that not only work with and make ground robotics smart, but then. Of them and one of the things I adore about the team is that they're all filled capable. [00:01:13] So we all subscribe to the philosophy that if we're not taking this equipment out in the field and breaking it. We're probably not learning the right things. And so none of our robots are garage queens and stay inside inside of the lab that we love like to take our stuff outside and take them out into these domains where they're really really tested. [00:01:34] We have a group here. Subgroup within RG that's working on Technologies for the International Space [00:12:00] Station. So we have a free flyer and have worked with many of the free Flyers that are up on the International Space Station. Now, there's a new one that we are building. That should fly very soon here called Astro B, which is all you can think of it as in astronauts assistant. [00:02:01] So it's able to not only do things on its own but hopefully will be helpful to astronauts and also allow ground controllers to to have a virtual presence on the International Space Station in the way that they the way they haven't been able to. Let's see. We're turns out that when you're working with robots like this having very good maps and representations of the world's that you are exploring becomes important. [00:02:27] And so we have a sub grouped here.  That works with planetary mapping. So in the best, I guess most digestible way of describing that is that if you've ever opened up [00:13:00] Google Google Earth and kicked it into Google moon or Google Mars mode. That most of the especially the base in Ministry imagery and other products that are in that in that Google Earth We're actually generated by my group. [00:03:00] And so it turns out that when you get these pictures and imagery from satellites, they're not always right and they need a lot of kind of carrying and coercing to make them actually look correct. And so my group has a suite of software. Where that's all publicly available the that can be used to make that imagery more correct and more digestible by things like Google Earth and other systems like that and then you know in general we at any given time have, you know, north of 30 to 40 researchers that are here. [00:03:38] Doing all kinds of work that is relevant to robotics relative [00:14:00] relevant to space and yeah, and it's an awesome group and every single one of them is motivated and exactly the right kind of ways. [00:03:52]Organizational Nitty-Gritties: IRG [00:03:52] [00:03:52] Ben: [00:03:52] Yeah. I mean having having worked there I completely agree with that statement from personal experience. [00:03:58] And actually related to to the motivations something that I really like doing is digging into the nitty gritties of organizations that really generate Innovations. So so look what tell me about the incentives that are  at play in IRG like what really what motivates people like, how are people sort of rewarded for success and failure and how do those pieces work? [00:00:12] Mark: [00:00:12] Well, I and. I'm going to say this and it's going to sound super simple. But the IRG is one of the few places and it's one of the reasons why I wanted to when I was given the opportunity to be the group lead that I took it is I still feel like I RG is like one of the last one of the few places. [00:15:00] I guess I'll say where the research can kind of be up front. [00:00:34] We're creativity can be king and we can kind of focus on doing the good work in a way that I'll just say that is a little bit more difficult when you're out. A commercial world because you know chasing the next product sometimes has a whole bunch of things that come along with it. You know, what is the market doing what you know our is this going to be supported by Senior Management other things like that that we that we don't have to deal with that as much it has to align with NASA's Mission. [00:01:06] It has to align with what the focus is our of the agency, but I will. That because we have such good researchers here our ability to create a proposal. So we end up just like everyone else writing proposals to to NASA itself and winning those proposals that they that they were kind of ization is actually in the [00:16:00] fact that these researchers get to do the research that they're wanting to do and all the research that's being handed down to them by, you know, a marketing team or some corporate exec. [00:01:40] The other thing that is huge here and I know. Probably experienced it during your tenure when I say the folks are here for the right reasons. We all know every single person within IRG and I'll say that within especially NASA Ames out here in Silicon Valley every single one of us could go a thousand yards outside of the fence and be making two to three times what we make working for the government. [00:02:08] And that's not it's not so much a point of Pride. But what it does is it just helps relieve the the idea that folks are are are here for the money you're here for the research and you here for the science. I use the best analogy I make quite often is I used to. [00:17:00] I used to teach as an Adjunct professor at a community college doing and this is more than this is about 15 years ago in the courses were on like PC repair and other things it was this certification called A Plus and the I used to confound the other professors because I used to always take they had one section that they would do and it was 8 a.m. [00:02:52] On Saturday morning. It was like a it was like an 8 a.m. To 1 p.m. And it was just one day a week and I used to always take that one and the other professors were like, why are you taking an 8 a.m. Saturday course and I would smile at them and say. Because every single student it's in there. I know they want to be there. [00:03:14] I know that they are motivated and want to be there because no one in their right mind is other than a motivated student is going to get up at 8 a.m. On a Saturday morning to go learn about PC repair and to add in to everyone's surprise, but not my surprise. I had a [00:18:00] 100 percent pass rate on that test because it was independently tested outside out of out of the classroom and I. [00:03:39] So just smile because it was like wow, you must be a great professor and I'm like, no, I've got great students because they all are motivated to be there. So that's effectively what I have here within NASA sitting inside of you know, this Silicon Valley bubble is I have a whole bunch of frightening Lee smart people that are motivated to do good science and have absolute have financial reasons to go elsewhere and decided for themselves. [00:04:07] This is where they'd rather work. Yeah and do so the in terms of the majority. Let's break that down a little bit the way that projects happen is that you do a proposal to like, who do you propose projects to I guess [00:19:00] is the the correct question. Well the the fun part and this is one of the the freedoms and NASA has. [00:04:36] Can really propose to anybody we have projects here that our commercial so we work with like for instance. We're doing work with Nissan on autonomous vehicles. And and if actually done some really really interesting work there, you know related to visualization and other things like that which which borrows a lot from work that we do with the Rovers so so we can work with companies. [00:05:03] We work with Within. First so NASA itself. One of the ways that NASA works is that because we have multiple centers, you know, NASA Ames for instance in our group will propose to NASA headquarters. So we just pitched a couple of months ago we pitch to a program that was doing satellite-based Technologies and I flew to NASA headquarters in DC and we [00:20:00] pitched it to a much like you would do to a VC or any. [00:05:35] No any funding source, if you were a company doing it in the valley and you pitch it and we and we want it. We also work with other government agencies. So we have done work for DARPA. We've done work with the Marine Corps. It turns out that the dod Department of Defense is interested in a lot of the ways that we have worked with autonomous vehicles as the Department of Defense tries to figure out how they want to work with autonomous vehicles. [00:06:05] So it's easy for us to open a conversation with Department of Defense and say hey, here's what we did for our Rovers our uavs or whatever and this may be something that you know, you may want to consider and a lot of times they'll come back and say well look we not only want to consider that but we'd also like to go ahead and kind of put you on proverbial payroll here and how do you either do the work for us or help us [00:21:00] understand? [00:06:30] You know, what are the important parts of this we can work with Academia? And so we will often have projects where we partner with a university and we will go in and do a joint proposal either to NASA or all of the different funding sources that that are out there. And so NASA. Has a lot of flexibility in a way that you know myself having previously worked in the Department of Defense. [00:06:58] NASA can do something unique and that NASA can be a consult or NASA can do work for a private company. We have a thing called a space act agreement and like the Nissan workout was talking about there. It seems odd that that a government organization would be able to receive a paycheck if you will. [00:07:18] Yeah from a private Corporation. And it turns out that NASA has a very unique way of doing that and we leverage that frankly as often as we can. [00:22:00] So I realized that's probably a really long answer to a simple question and that's to say we can take money from just about anybody as long as it is legal and it benefits NASA in some way. [00:07:41] Those are the only two real catches that we have. We You Know It ultimately has to benefit and NASA's Mission as. You know being Shepherds of taxpayer dollars, but as long as we can justify that we can work with a lot of different funding sources. [00:07:58]Aligning with NASA's Mission [00:07:58] [00:07:58] Ben: [00:07:58] And what is NASA's mission right now? Like how do you know whether something is within the purview of NASA's Mission or not? [00:08:08] Mark: [00:08:08] Well, I NASA takes its guidance from from a lot of different places. I mean, we you know, there's the two A's. NASA, you know with respect to you know Aeronautics. I'm sorry, the what we have Aeronautics and we have space right and those are the two kind of built into the name, you know missions that are in there. [00:08:29] We [00:23:00] also you know, the we take direction from NASA headquarters. And they are putting out, you know, we have the science side, especially for space which is really driven a lot by the Decay deal surveys and other kind of Direction with respect to where we want to see and it sounds kind of funny to say but it's like where we want to see mankind go in terms of, you know, space exploration and other things like that, but we also have Earth Sciences, you know, some of the kind of flipping back to to the the. [00:09:02] It's up in Northern California some of the some of the best especially satellite imagery that is coming through there's actually being processed through NASA's Earth Sciences missions. And so, you know, there's a worldview and a bunch of other tools that are out there that as as the Earth Sciences. [00:09:24] With all of the different things that are affecting especially, you know, the climate and everything else. It turns out that [00:24:00] NASA's mission is also to benefit that and to help with Earth observations in a way that ultimately helps us understand how we might be impacting other worlds when were able to achieve going there [00:09:42] [00:09:42]NASA-> DARPA [00:09:42] [00:09:42] Ben: [00:09:42] Got it. I'm going to transition a little bit  from your time at Nasa to then your time at DARPA. And what I wanted to know is like what were some of the biggest shocks transitioning from NASA to DARPA and then now back from DARPA to NASA because they're both government agencies, but they feel like they have very different fields at least from the outside. [00:00:20] Mark: [00:00:20] Yeah. Um, gosh, that's there's especially from NASA to DARPA.  It was I guess the biggest things that come to mind one as a program manager. It is frightening Lee empowering to go to an organization where you know [00:25:00] where you're at Nasa here. We you know with Ed My Level and with the group kind of scenario that I just described to you. [00:00:51] We're in the trenches right? We're trying to do the science. We're doing the research and we're we're trying to make a kind of an impact at a kind of a ground level right when you go in as a program manager at DARPA your your. Trying to change a field. So you have your basically being given the power to say within this field within this field of let's say autonomous vehicles. [00:01:19] I see the following Gap and in stating that and in creating kind of the the request for proposals and other things that you do that bring researchers to darpa's door you're saying. You're not saying I'm going to go do this technology technological thing you're saying I think everyone needs to focus on this part of the [00:26:00] technology landscape. [00:01:44] That's a that's a different conversation at a very different level and it was startling to be frankly one of those program managers where you say. Hey, I don't think the field is doing this right and then to have an entire field turn to you and say oh, okay. Well then let's. From the thing that you want that you're suggesting that that's that isn't interesting and kind of empowering position to be in. [00:02:11] but has a NASA does too but DARPA specifically especially with Department of Defense type technologies that eventually roll out into civilian use your ability to just speak at such a different level and at a level that is. Accepting of risk in a way that NASA does not do that for DARPA. You almost have to have if it's not ready [00:27:00] yet. [00:02:43] If it's not risky enough that you can have a program not basically make the cut DARPA because it didn't have enough custo. It didn't have they call it and dark within DARPA. They called The Laugh ability test and that if your if your idea isn't just crazy enough that it's almost laughable. Then then then it didn't it didn't it's going to have to work a lot harder to get there. [00:03:07] And so I'd say the probably I guess in conclusion the risk and just the empowerment to move an entire field than a different Vector that that would probably be the biggest difference as I had between between my NASA world and then going over and being able to Moonlight as a program manager [00:03:26]Fields Impacted by DARPA [00:03:26] [00:00:00] Mark: [00:00:00] and what are some fields that you. All like DARPA has really moved that concept is incredible and makes sense. And I it hasn't been expressed. So concisely before  I'd love some [00:28:00] examples of that. [00:00:02] Mark: [00:00:02] What are the best and I think the most recent example that we can now see the impact for is is autonomous vehicles. [00:00:12] I mean you have to remember the that that now is over a decade ago that the original that the first DARPA Grand Challenge happened and what you know, I was reflecting on this while I was being chased down by a Tesla on the way into work this morning that clearly was autonomously driving itself. And I remembered that in most people forget that the first arpa Grand Challenge. [00:00:38] First of all was millions and millions of dollars in investment and no one won. Yeah one got to the finish line. And in thinking about risk and thinking about risk acceptance what I think that's one of the best data or a really good data point of darpa's not only saying this is really hard. We're going to call it a Grand Challenge and we're going to have these [00:29:00] vehicles basically racing across the desert that if that wasn't gutsy enough from a risk standpoint, but they also then failed and then did it again and said, you know what week we literally had. [00:01:16] Humvee flipped over on fire on in the desert and that was on the evening news for everyone to enjoy to the embarrassment of DARPA and the dod and everybody else and then they said you know, what? No, we're going to double down. This is really worth it. And we need to make this happen and the the impact for that is huge because that then became, you know kind of the ground floor. [00:01:46] Of the vehicles that we now have running around especially out here and you know in the Bay Area you got fully autonomous vehicles now that are able to navigate their way through, you know through all of the different difficulties in the complex situations [00:30:00] that can be presented. The folks that were that Noble Sebastian threatened and his Stanford team that won the the the Grand Challenge that those people went on to to work for you know, what was the Google autonomous car which eventually became way Mo and all of the different companies and talented is sprung out of all of that. [00:02:25] That was all born over a decade ago by an organization that is using your taxpayer dollars to do. Risky things and to say for this it's for this autonomy thing. We really think that vehicles are where the money needs to be spent and spent in a real way that that takes guts and it's still in my mind one of the only organizations that really able to kind of make an impact like that until that entire field. [00:02:53] Hey, I don't think you're doing this right and here's what I want you to do and I'm going to put money behind those words and we're going to go change the world and a [00:31:00] decade later. We've got autonomous vehicles quite literally beside you on the highway. That's pretty awesome. [00:03:07]Levels of Risk DARPA Shoots For [00:03:07] [00:03:07] Ben: [00:03:07] That is incredibly awesome. [00:03:09] Do you have a sense of what the level of risk that you're shooting for is I'm thinking just sort of. Like what is the the acceptable or even desired failure rate or is there a sense of how many fields per decade you're shooting for? Right because you think about it and even if it's changing one field per decade. [00:03:42] The amount of change that comes out of something like autonomous cars or even  the human computer interaction that came out came from the 60s might even make the whole thing worth it. So do does anybody even  think about it in terms of numbers at all? [00:32:00] [00:00:03] Mark: [00:00:03] So I never heard it framed that way the thing that the Mantra that was always drilled into US was that that it was that the way that you kept score was by the number of Transitions and how how DARPA and I guess that's more of a general DOD term. [00:00:25] That's to say for something you create how many times did. Someone take that technology and go use it for something and so, you know, we would count a transition as you know, well, you know Army decided to take our autonomous vehicle and use it for this but we also got contacted by Bosh and they are interested in leveraging that thing that we built with this new sensor that they're commercially making available and we provided the missing link that now allows them to use that safely. [00:00:59] Vehicles and so you kind of keep score internally on [00:33:00] that basis. The other thing though that darpa's doing is you got multiple horses in the race. So DARPA is organized into multiple floors that have different specializations. So they have like and just a couple examples. I have like the biological technology office and the micro technology office and each one of those. [00:01:29] Floors has a specialization in so the idea that you're bringing in these program managers, you're empowering them to go change their respective fields. And then you're doing that across multiple broad domains like biology and micro technology and other things like that. That's pretty that's pretty and that's awesome in a way that it provides overlap because when I was for instance where I work, What's called DSL which is the defense Sciences office, which is to say it works on [00:34:00] kind of first principle science and physics and Mathematics and other things like that the fact that you can as somebody who's working that go talk to somebody who was fundamental in the development of mems technology, which is what MTO the micro technology office. [00:02:21] That's what they work. And then you want to see how let's say that new chip that is leveraging mems technology might. By law might be able to parallel or be inspired by biology and go get one of the experts from the biotechnology office to you know to scrimmage on some new idea that you're having or whatever that that's that's awesome. [00:02:44] And what that does is that just ends up being kind of this this this multiplier this Catalyst for innovations that are then, you know, you've got multiple domains that are all kind of being affected in the same kind of positive feedback loop. So I would say that's the biggest thing to directly to your question that I don't ever remember anybody saying, okay. [00:03:03] We're not [00:35:00] hitting quote. We need you know, we need another six domain changing ideas organize, you know not have satisfied or obligation of Congress. I don't ever remember any kind of conversations like that. [00:03:16]Organizational Nitty Gritties: DARPA [00:03:16] [00:03:16]Ben: [00:03:16] Yeah that description of the like cross-disciplinary interactions is shockingly similar to some descriptions that I've heard of bell labs and it's the parallels that are really interesting. [00:03:32] And I want to dig into sort of the organizational nitty-gritties of DARPA as well. So all of the the program managers who are the sort of the the drivers of DARPA, you're all  basically temporary employees. And so how did the incentives their work? what are your goals as. Program manager and what drives people, what incentivizes them to do their work? [00:00:04]Mark: [00:00:04] [00:36:00] Well, so you're right you're there. So as a DARPA program manager you therefore it's. Typically to two-year renewable contracts. So you you go in you have basically two years at which point you're evaluated as to how well your programs are doing and then you may be renewed for typically another two years. [00:00:26] Most program managers are there for about three years and that that's kind of the the center of the bell curve is three years the motivation simple and that you're you're being. Given one of the largest.  within certainly within DOD. If not within just the overall research community and DARPA has a bit of a Swagger. [00:00:51] It has a bit of a like a brand recognition that when DARPA says that we are going to now going to focus on this particular type of sensor this particular type of technology that you as [00:37:00] a program manager. You have the ability to go talk to the best of the best the the the folks that are. Either changing or moving or working in those those respective technology bases that you can drop somebody an email and the fact that it's you at DARPA dot mil that that will probably get you a response that you might not have been able to get otherwise. [00:01:28] And so so that's you know, that's I would say one of the biggest kind of motivators that are incoming program manager has as they're going in and then the the other big motivator there is you're not you're there for a limited amount of time. So for years may sound like a lot of time it's not it's really is not because you it takes about to go from like idea on the back of a napkin. [00:01:57] To you know to kick off of a program it takes about a year. [00:38:00] There's a for as much as it looks like it's loose and free and a little crazy in terms of the ideas and stuff like that. It turns out that there's a pretty regimented all jokingly call it a hazing ritual that's on the backside that involves multiple pitches. [00:02:21] There's a level of. Programmatic oversight called a tech Council that you have to go present to that is extremely critical of whatever it is. It is that you're you're presenting and I'll admit it some of the toughest pitches and certainly the toughest like presentations that I ever prepared for. My first tech Council was way more difficult than anything I ever did like for my PhD dissertation or anything. [00:02:52] Like that and so yeah, and so, you know once the so if if you're on a let's say a three year time scale and it takes you a year to get a [00:39:00] program up and running you have got enough time to maybe make two or three dents in the universe, which is what you're hoping to probably do when you go in the door. [00:03:16] And then the other thing that could happen is as program managers are cycling out. So, you know you everybody's on kind of disorder. Even in their out after three years the other program managers have to then inherit the programs that are run up and running that some previous program manager, you know may have pitched in awarded but is now headed off to you know, make you know, buku bucks and industry or whatever and so it's another disc I'll say distraction that you have because program managers sometimes naively myself included go in thinking. [00:03:47] Okay. Well, I'm just going to go in and. Ditch my own ideas, and I don't even know what this inheriting other programs thing is but I'm going to try to avoid that as much as possible and now you've got three or four or five different programs that you're running and hopefully what you've done is you've built a good [00:40:00] staff because you're able to assemble your own staff and you can kind of keep keep the ball running but that's kind of a that's the cycle if I can give you kind of a you know, the the the day in the life kind of you is that you're going to go in. [00:04:19] You're going to be pitching and coming up with new ideas and trying to get them through Tech Council. Once they get through Tech Council, then you've got a program up and running in as soon as that programs up and running then you've got to be looking toward the next program while your staff. You know the ball rolling on your other on your other programs, then you rinse and repeat at least three or four times [00:04:43]What does success or failure look like at DARPA [00:04:43] [00:00:00] Ben: [00:00:00] and what does the end of a program look like either success failure or question? [00:00:11] Mark: [00:00:11] Um, it depends on the program and it depends on the objectives of the program, I guess, you know, the grand challenges always end with [00:41:00] a huge Fanfare and robots presumably in a running through Finish Lines and other things like that. There's other programs that end much much more quietly. We're a technology may have been built that is just dramatic. [00:00:37] We enabling and and the final tests occur and a lot of times DARPA may or may not have an immediate use for the technology. Are that the reasons for the Technology Building being built.  Innocence the program started and so you may see the companies basically take that technology back and continuing improving on it or incorporating it into their products and you know, and that's a very kind of quiet. [00:01:07] Quiet closure to what was a really really good runner really really good program and then presumably you would see that technology pop up and you know in the consumer world or in the, you [00:42:00] know our kind of our real world, you know in the next four to five years or so, and so there's a it's the full spectrum as you would probably imagine that that some of the program's some of them fail loudly some of them fail quietly. [00:01:35] And the successes are the same some of the successes are with great Fanfare and then other times and I'll say some of the most enabling Technologies are out there sometimes close their their time and their tenure at DARPA very quietly. And then some years later go on to do great things for the public. [00:01:53]How DARPA Innovations get into the world [00:01:53] [00:01:53] Ben: [00:01:53] That's something that I hadn't thought about so the sort of expectation of the model of how the the technology then gets. Into the world is just that the people who are working on it as part of the program are then the ones to go and take the ball and run with it. Is that accurate? [00:02:18] Mark: [00:02:18] Absolutely, and [00:43:00] I'd say that that's a difference so strictly speaking. [00:02:22] No research happens Within darpa's Walls, and I guess that's one of the things that that both Hollywood and the description of DARPA. Sometimes get confused is be. That you know DARPA is this this, you know, presumably the warehouse full of mad scientists and you go inside and everybody's in lab coats and it looks like something out of X-Files and that's not it's not the case at all that DARPA is there to to first, you know catalyzed Technologies for DOD purposes, but. [00:02:59] But those those folks that are working for DOD are also companies that are producing products made many of them are producing products that are very much outside of DOD and so the spillover and the fact that the DARPA can and I'll say relatively quietly create technology that [00:44:00] is that is just it's a catalyst for the greater good or the the greater use of Technology more broadly that that is a it's a wonderful. [00:03:28] Ability that DARPA has that a lot of other labs don't have that ability to do so you take and I'll give you an example. So let's take like either Air Force research Labs or Army research lab or any of the research Labs that are with the particular branches of the military that does have actual researchers much like NASA Ames here. [00:03:49] We have actual researchers that are inside of our four walls that are doing work and we can do work that you know is it can be exclusive to the government? But but in darpa's case because there is no research being done within its four walls that most of the contractors most of the what they would call the performers the folks that are performing the technology development that depending on the mostly depending on the contract and the contracts are usually written such that those companies can take those Technologies and and use them for [00:45:00] whatever they'd like after the the terms of the contract is done [00:04:26]Improving the Process of Getting DARPA Innovations into the world [00:04:26] [00:04:26]Ben: [00:04:26] something that I've always wondered is you try so many things at DARPA and there's there's no good way of sort of knowing all the things that have been tried and what the results were. Is there any there ever any thought. having it better knowledge base of what's been tried who tried it and what the result was because it feels like for  every technology that was developed by a company who then picks it up and runs with it. [00:00:04] Sometimes there's a something that's developed by a lab that. Is full of folks who just wanted to do the research and sort of have no desire to then push it out into the world so is there is there any effort to make that better make that [00:46:00] process better? [00:00:06] Mark: [00:00:06] Yes, and no but this is a bit of a trick question and I'll answer that. [00:00:12] Well, I'll answer the tricky part. First of all, let me ask let me back up. The obvious answer is that DARPA especially within the last five years or so on his been working much harder to be more open with the public about the work that's being done. You can hit darpa's website and. To the 80th percentile of an understanding of the work that's being done within within DARPA did that the balance of the twenty percent is stuff. [00:00:44] That's either classified or is of a nature where you would just need to do a little more digging or talking with the program manager to really understand what's happening. Okay. So that's a straightforward answer the trick. The trick answer here is that it's better sometimes. Have folks go in that don't know their [00:47:00] history. [00:01:05] The don't know why that previous program failed because since that previous program ran technology may have changed. There may be something that's different today that didn't exist 10 years ago. When that was when that program was also tried the there was this interesting effect within DARPA that because your. [00:01:31] Managers out about every three to four years and because I'll say it like this because DARPA didn't in the past had not done a very good job of documenting all of the programs that it had been running that there was a tendency for a program manager to come to the same Epiphany that a equivalent program integer had come up with a decade earlier. [00:01:56] But that doesn't mean that that program shouldn't be funded. Now. There were folks within DARPA that had been there for a long [00:48:00] time. So interestingly enough the caught the support contractors, so we call him sita's which is systems engineering technical assistance, and there are some CDs support staff that has been there for multiple decades. [00:02:20] So they were back at DARPA during the you know, roaring 80s and 90s, which is kind of, you know, some of the the Heyday for some of the more crazy DARPA stuff that was happening that you would have a program manager go and Pitch some idea. Timers in the back start, you know lean one would lean over to the other one in elbow on the you know, and pointed a slide and they both Giggle and then you would ask them later is like hey, what was the what was the weird body language? [00:02:48] He's like, yeah, you know, we tried this back in the 90s and and he didn't work out because Laser Technology was insufficiently precise in terms of its timing or you know, some other technical aspect or whatever, but it's good to see you doing this because I think it [00:49:00] actually has got a fight. [00:03:06] Chance of making it through this time and hearing that and watching that happen multiple times was interesting because we tend to We tend to say oh well if somebody already tried it and I you know, I'm probably not going to try it again. Whereas with DARPA that's built into the model. The the the ignorance is an essay. [00:03:26] It is ignorance. It's not necessarily it's ignorance of the fact that the idea and the Epiphany you just came up with may have been done before. For that is all I want to believe it's by design that then they will allow a program to be funded that may have been very similar to one that was funded earlier. [00:03:48] But because it's under a new it's under a whole new set of capabilities in terms of technology that if you do that intelligently that that's actually a blessing for for folks that are trying to come up with new programs. [00:04:04]The Heilmeier Catechism [00:04:04] [00:04:04] Ben: [00:04:04] The [00:50:00] concept of forgetting things that has been tried feels almost Blasphemous in the the face bright. [00:04:12] It's right. Like that's why I do wonder if there's sort of a middle ground where you say we tried this it failed for these reasons and then whenever someone wants to pick it up again, they can they can know that it's been tried and they have to make the argument of this is why the world is different now. [00:04:31]Mark: [00:04:31] yes. So that is actually part of within DARPA and one of the framings that they use for pitch is this thing called a Heilmeier catechism and and it's basically a framework that one of the previous DARPA directors made that said if you're going to pitch an idea pitch it within this Framing and that kind of helped that will help you kind of codify your argument and make it succinct one of the Lines within the. [00:00:27] Ism is why is this why can this happen now and that addresses that [00:51:00] kind of ignorance that I was talking about before as a program manager when you pitch that thing and you realize that some program manager did it back in 87 and you're all bummed because you're like, oh man, you can't come up with an original idea and these four walls that somebody hasn't done it previously that. [00:00:52] Then then you just after you get over, you know, the being hurt that you know that your idea is already been done. Then you go talk to some of the original contractors you go talk to some of the sita's you talk to the folks that were there and figure out what is different and then and that is part of the catechism that is part of the what is different. [00:01:13] Now that will enable this to work in a way that it didn't work previously. [00:01:18]Best ways to Enable Robotics [00:01:18] [00:01:18] Ben: [00:01:18] Yeah. The catechism is I think a. Our full set of questions that people don't ask enough outside of DARPA and I'll definitely put a link to it in the show notes. So I do know we're coming up on time. So as a final question, I want to ask [00:52:00] you've been involved in robotics in one way or another for quite some time in Academia and in governments and start. [00:01:42] And it's a notoriously tricky fueled in terms of the amount of hype and excitement and possibility versus the reality of robots coming into especially the the unstructured real world that we live in and why do you think of there? There's a better way to do it from sort of all the different systems that you've been a part of like is there an entirely different system. [00:02:10] What would you change to make to make some like more of that happen?   [00:02:16] Mark: [00:02:16] I this and I hate to say like this. I don't know that there's I don't know that there's much I would change. I think that right now especially working in robotics. That is I look at the. The capabilities the [00:53:00] sensors the all of the enabling work that we have right now in terms of machine learning and autonomy and everything else like it. [00:02:41] This is a great day to be alive and working in the field of Robotics in a way that you know, and I'll feel like the old man is I say this but you know, I started this back in the late 90s early 2000s and frankly when I think of the tools and the platforms and sensors that we had to work with. Um that that you spent especially my experience was a grad school grad student experience. [00:03:08] But when I remember how much time we would spend just just screwing around with sensors that didn't work right in platforms that weren't precise in their movements and you know, just all the other aspects that make robotics robotics and I now look at today the fact that you know, we've got kind of. [00:03:30] Bischoff platforms that we can go find that [00:54:00] you can use that that for these lower low-cost platforms. You can really dig deep into research areas that are still just wide open. The fact that now, you know in the mid-2000s if you wanted to do a Thomas car research you needed to be especially or basically. [00:04:03] They don't know how to work high power crazy high power servos and other things like that. Now you go buy a Prius like or Tesla or something, you know what I mean and you're off and the platforms built for you. We you know, the the lidar the computing power and everything else we have today. I might answer your question right now. [00:04:23] I don't know that I would change a thing. I maybe naively believe that we have all of the tools that we need to really really. Make dramatic impacts [00:55:00] and I believe we are making dramatic impacts in the world that we're living by enabling Automation and autonomy to do really really incredible things. [00:04:43] The biggest thing is is for folks to to go back and to kind of along the line of the last line of questioning the you would have had as far as you know, forgetting and remembering the things that we've done in the past. I find that some of the best ideas that I'm seeing that are coming forward into Robotics and autonomy are. [00:05:01] Ideas that were really born back in the 90s.  We just didn't have the computing power or the sensors to pull it off and now we do and so it's almost a go look back and look at you know, kind of create a Renaissance of us going back and looking at some of the really really great ideas. That just didn't have their day. [00:05:23] Back when you know when things were a little more scarce in terms of computing and algorithmic complexity and other things like that that we can now address in a really kind of powerful way that [00:56:00] is quite a note of optimism.  I really appreciate it mark, thank you so much for doing this. I want to let you get on with your day. [00:00:06]  I've learned a ton and I hope other folks have as well. Absolutely. Well, thank you for having me on I appreciate it.  

Unicode 11.0 发布。围绕本次 Unicode 的更新，我们侧重讨论了与汉字及汉语使用者相关的内容，以及全球人民喜闻乐见的 emoji 新字符。 参考链接 TypeSchool「从指尖到数位」西文字体设计课 2018 夏季招生启动 〈文瀛讲坛选——日文字体排印超级入门〉，《字谈字畅》第 53 期 Podcasts Analytics Beta 更新部分功能 Taschen 出版社重印 1454 年版的《古腾堡圣经》（The Gutenberg Bible） WWDC18 于 6 月 4 日召开；新版操作系统 macOS Mojave 披露，Apple Podcasts（播客）进入 watchOS 5 Mojave (Mohave)，北美原住民民族；据 2015 年统计数据，Mojave 语母语者仅有 200 人 Unicode 11.0.0 于 6 月 5 日发布 Unicode 11.0 及 12.0 封面设计征集（现已截止） IUPAC（International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry，国际纯化学与应用化学联盟） 2016 年 11 月 30 日，IUPAC 发布 113、115、117、118 号元素的名称；2017 年 5 月 9 日，中国科学院、国家语委、全国科技名词委联合发布这些元素的中文名称 BMP（Basic Multilingual Plane，基本多文种平面） 114、116 号元素的中文名称「? U+2B4E7」和「? U+2B7F7」不在 BMP 之内 IRG #50 会议于 5 月 21 至 25 日在北京大学召开 Unicode 11.0 新增 66 个 emoji 字符 Bok choy，俗称「小白菜」，该英语词的发音源于粤语「白菜」的发音 〈Kerning Panic·字谈字串（六）Emoji（再次）拯救世界〉，《字谈字畅》第 64 期 《字谈字畅》第二十四轮抽奖结果 主播 Eric：字体排印研究者，译者，Type is Beautiful 编辑 蒸鱼：设计师，Type is Beautiful 编辑 欢迎与我们交流或反馈，来信请致 podcast@thetype.com。如果你喜爱本期节目，也欢迎用 PayPal 或支付宝向我们捐赠，账户与联络信箱一致：podcast@thetype.com。

Unicode 标准是什么，Unicode 联盟是如何构成的，Unicode 技术委员会是怎样工作的？本年度「斗牛犬奖」得主——梁海，为我们揭开 Unicode 的帷幕，与我们分享 Unicode 的人与事。 参考链接 IBM 公开发布其企业字体家族 IBM Plex，以及相关的设计应用指南 〈这些再熟悉不过的游戏与电影中，藏着西文「字体」的分类与历史〉，机核电台节目，吴涛（Metaphox）作为嘉宾参与 〈和我一起参与 Unicode Technical Committee〉，梁海发布于知乎专栏 UTC（Unicode Technical Committee，Unicode 技术委员会） Unicode Consortium（Unicode 联盟） Unicode 是什么 Unicode 成员，以及成员等级和会费 Unicode FAQ，其中的 Basic Questions（基本问题）模块，解答了关于 Unicode 的常见疑问 ISO（International Organization for Standardization，国际标准化组织） ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2（国际标准化组织与国际电工委员会·第一联合技术委员会/第二分委员会/第二工作组） ISO/IEC 10646，即 UCS（Universal Character Set，通用编码字符集），由 ISO 制定的编码字符集国际标准，与 Unicode 标准保持同步 GB 13000—2010《信息技术——通用多八位编码字符集（UCS）》，等同采用国际标准 ISO/IEC 10646:2003，与 Unicode 4.0 同步 IRG（Ideographic Rapporteur Group，表意文字小组），负责人为香港理工大学电子计算学系教授陆勤博士 Unicode 10.0.0，Unicode 标准最新版，发布于 2017 年 6 月 20 日 ICU（International Components for Unicode，Unicode 国际组件） CLDR（Common Locale Data Repository，常用本地设置数据汇集） BMP（Basic Multilingual Plane，基本多文种平面） UTC 下设的两个核心小组 Emoji Subcommittee（表情符号子委会） Script Ad Hoc（文字特别小组） 蒙古⽂特别会议报告，2017 年 9 ⽉ 29 ⽇，内蒙古呼和浩特 TYPO Labs 2018，2018 年 4 月 12 至 14 日，在德国柏林举办 IRG #50 将于 2018 年 5 月 21 至 25 日在北京大学召开 Surrogates ，即「代理（对）码位」 IUC (Internationalization & Unicode Conference) 〈U 外八辅字整理第一批，附带一些八辅外、U 外地名字〉，王谢杨发表于知乎专栏 The Bulldog Award（Unicode 斗牛犬奖）；2017 年 Unicode 授予梁海斗牛犬奖，表彰其在蒙古文编码技术方面的杰出贡献 Unicode-tan，Unicode 的卡通形象，由 DeviantArt 社区的 alamedyang 创作 Unicode: the Movie，内含〈Unicode 之歌〉 补充资料 Introduction to Unicode Technical Committee Behind the Curtain: How the Unicode Consortium Works 嘉宾 梁海：多语言字体技术开发者 主播 Eric：字体排印研究者，译者，Type is Beautiful 编辑 蒸鱼：设计师，Type is Beautiful 编辑 欢迎与我们交流或反馈，来信请致 podcast@thetype.com。如果你喜爱本期节目，也欢迎用 PayPal 或支付宝向我们捐赠，账户与联络信箱一致：podcast@thetype.com。

Zu Gast heute: Harro Hieronimus. Als Geschäftsführer der IRG kennt Harro die Welt der Regenbogenfische ganz genau. Haltung, Zucht und seltene Arten sind seine Geheimnisse, die er uns in diesem Interview offenbaren wird. Ganz besonders beliebt sind Regenbogenfische aufgrund ihrer farbenfrohen und intensiven Färbung.

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