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A quick preface, this podcast is being recorded a few days late as I had a winter virus which stopped me working. But for completeness, and for those who catch up weekly, a short podcast with the key headlines.   On today’s podcast: Canada’s Magna to invest $70 million in new EV battery plant in Michigan Tesla’s new 4680 battery cell to be produced at LG Korean factory Tesla's Fremont Factory Reopens - Parts Shortage Led To Shutdown Tesla Giga Berlin Will Test Production in May & Start Full Production by July/August     Show #1004   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Thursday 25th February. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.     CANADA’S MAGNA TO INVEST $70 MILLION IN NEW EV BATTERY PLANT IN MICHIGAN https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/canadas-magna-to-invest-70-million-in-new-ev-battery-plant-in-michigan   TESLA’S NEW 4680 BATTERY CELL TO BE PRODUCED AT LG KOREAN FACTORY https://electrek.co/2021/02/25/tesla-4680-battery-cell-lg-korea-factory/   TESLA'S FREMONT FACTORY REOPENS - PARTS SHORTAGE LED TO SHUTDOWN https://insideevs.com/news/490471/tesla-fremont-factory-shut-down/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=RSS-all-articles   TESLA GIGA BERLIN WILL TEST PRODUCTION IN MAY & START FULL PRODUCTION BY JULY/AUGUST https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/rumor-tesla-giga-berlin-will-start-production-in-july-august     You can listen to all 1003 previous episodes of this this for free, where you get your podcasts from, plus the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – remember to subscribe, which means you don’t have to think about downloading the show each day, plus you get it first and free and automatically.   It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast.   And  if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing.   Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, I’ll catch you tomorrow and remember…there’s no such thing as a self-charging hybrid.     PHIL ROBERTS / ELECTRIC FUTURE (PREMIUM PARTNER) BRAD CROSBY (PREMIUM PARTNER) PORSCHE OF THE VILLAGE CINCINNATI (PREMIUM PARTNER) AUDI CINCINNATI EAST (PREMIUM PARTNER) VOLVO CARS CINCINNATI EAST (PREMIUM PARTNER) NATIONALCARCHARGING.COM and ALOHACHARGE.COM  (PREMIUM PARTNER) DEREK REILLY FROM THE EV REVIEW IRELAND YOUTUBE CHANNEL (PREMIUM PARTNER) RICHARD AT RSEV.CO.UK – FOR BUYING AND SELLING EVS IN THE UK (PREMIUM PARTNER)   DAVID AND LISA ALLEN (PARTNER) GARETH HAMER (PARTNER) eMOBILITY NORWAY HTTPS://WWW.EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM/  (PARTNER) BOB BOOTHBY – MILLBROOK COTTAGES AND ELOPEMENT WEDDING VENUE (PARTNER) DARIN MCLESKEY FROM DENOVO REAL ESTATE (PARTNER) JUKKA KUKONEN FROM WWW.SHIFT2ELECTRIC.COM RAJEEV NARAYAN (PARTNER) IAIN SEAR (PARTNER)   ADRIAN BOND (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ALAN SHEDD (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ALEX BANAHENE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ALEXANDER FRANK @ https://www.youtube.com/c/alexsuniverse42 ANDERS HOVE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ANDREA JEFFERSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ANDREW GREEN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ANDY NANCARROW AND LILIAN KASS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ASEER KHALID (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) BÅRD FJUKSTAD (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) BLUNDERBUSS JONES (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRIAN THOMPSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) BRUCE BOHANNAN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) CHARLES HALL (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) CHRIS HOPKINS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) CHRISTOPHER BARTH (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) COLIN HENNESSY AND CAMBSEV (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) CRAIG ROGERS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DAMIEN DAVIS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DAVID FINCH (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DAVID MOORE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DAVID PARTINGTON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DAVID PRESCOTT (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DON MCALLISTER / SCREENCASTSONLINE.COM (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ED CORTREEN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ERIC HANSEN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ERU KYEYUNE-NYOMBI (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) FREDRIK ROVIK (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) GENE RUBIN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) HEDLEY WRIGHT (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) HEINRICH LIESNER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) IAN GRIFFITHS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) IAN (WATTIE) WATKINS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JACK OAKLEY (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JAMES STORR (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JAVIER CARMELO DÍAZ PÉREZ (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JIM MORRIS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JOHN SCHROEDER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JON AKA BEARDY MCBEARDFACE FROM KENT EVS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JON MANCHAK (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JUAN GONZALEZ (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) KEVIN MEYERSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) LAURENCE D ALLEN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) LEE BROWN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) LUKE CULLEY (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) MARCEL WARD (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) MARTY YOUNG  (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) MIA OPPELSTRUP (PARTNER) MIKE WINTER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) NATHAN GORE-BROWN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) NATHANIEL FREEDMAN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) NEIL E ROBERTS FROM SUSSEX EVS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) OHAD ASTON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PAUL STEPHENSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PETE GLASS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PETE GORTON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PETER & DEE ROBERTS FROM OXON EVS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PHIL MOUCHET (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PHILIP TRAUTMAN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) RAYMOND ROWLEDGE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) RENE KEEMIK (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) RENÉ SCHNEIDER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ROB HERMANS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ROB FROM THE RSTHINKS EV CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ROBERT GRACE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) RUPERT MITCHELL (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) SEIKI PAYNE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) STEPHEN PENN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) STEVE JOHN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) THOMAS J. 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Meet Arron   Aaron serves as the Director of Analytics for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, and he has done so since September of 2020. Before joining the Timberwolves, Aaron broke into the NBA as the Analytic Systems Coordinator of the Detroit Pistons, ultimately being promoted to the Director of Research and Analytics of the Pistons. Aaron has previously held positions as an Actuary Consultant for Milliman and Optim Insights and he resides in Minneapolis with his wife and his two-year-old son.    What is it like for you to be working for a Basketball Association in the state of hockey?   This is a weird season because there are no fans at the games, but it seems like people are really into the team here. I see timberwolves gear around town when going out shopping and stuff. So it doesn't feel like they're second fiddle to the wild, it feels like you know, people are pretty into all the teams here.   Can you talk a little bit about the journey that ultimately landed you with the Detroit Pistons back in 2016 and how that has made you who and where you are today?   My first 15 years of professional work as an actuary, of course, where I worked for a health insurance company and a couple of consulting companies. For people who don't know, actuaries are sort of the math and statistics people that that work for insurance companies or hospitals or auto insurance companies, life insurance companies and usually are applying math and statistics to the quantification of risk. I specialized in the health insurance industry, but also throughout my time working as an actuary, I tended towards the more technical side of things like doing a lot of programming work, you know, being sort of the tech support guy amongst, the teams of actuaries I worked with. That was really what I enjoyed doing was more of the technical side of things. I built up a pretty solid skill set of programming skills, database skills and I was always really interested in sports analytics. It started out with baseball, you know, the Moneyball revolution that kind of took off in the early 2000s. Even before the movie, in the early day back in the old message boards, back in the day where people are discussing this stuff it was just really intriguing to me. I actually had a boss at my first job, who was pretty into it, as well and he kind of got me, you know, digging deeper into those rabbit holes of what some of the really cool work was being done in the industry. So I mostly applied it to trying to prove that the Cubs were the best team and the Cubs had the best players and winning my fantasy baseball leagues. There was a lot of really great public work going on in baseball at the time so it was nice, you didn't have to do a lot of your own work. It was really when the other sports started to take off when a lot of the opportunity popped up when, when basketball and football started to realize like, "Hey, we should be using data to make better-informed decisions as well."   How did the Detroit Pistons ultimately come into the picture?   As more teams started to hire people, I started to realize that this is something I could actually do for a job, I started exploring what I have to do to do that. How many teams are hiring, what are they looking for, and what employees? At the time I actually was living in Colorado, I met someone who worked for the Colorado Rockies. He agreed to have a beer one night, and you know, I just picked his brain about it. It was a bit of a discouraging conversation at the time, because he said, "Your best bet is to have a friend or family member who owns a team or already works for a team," and that’s not really anything I can control. But I still kept exploring, and I was still focused mostly on baseball at the time, but starting to get really interested in the basketball side of things as that was really starting to take off. So then in 2013, when I was starting on the process of leaving Optim Insight, I said, "Hey, if I'm going to look for something new, why not try this sports thing?" So that summer I started searching online and looking for any team that was hiring and just applying for everything. Anything that was posted, I would just apply for it just to see what would happen. Sometimes I heard nothing, sometimes I got an immediate canned rejection letter that was clearly just generated by a computer. But a couple of the teams wrote back and they would write some follow-up questions. Some of them have some technical tests, they would have you do some pretty basic stuff. Ultimately, It didn't work out, but I did gain a little bit of insight at least into what they might be looking for. I also realized that I wasn't quite prepared and I didn't have any of the requirements so I had no shot.    What were some of those requirements?   At the time, a lot of people were listing that they wanted an advanced degree. They wanted a lot of experience doing this actual work. It's one of those situations where you have to have the experience before you get the job. I also realized that despite having some decent technical skills, I wasn't quite on the level of what they were looking for. Seeing even some of the public work that was going on out there I thought that's really good stuff that I'm not quite capable of doing yet so I need to get to that level if a team is actually going to give me a shot. So then that was 2013 and ended up getting a job at Milliman then later in 2014, that fall, I got a phone call one day from Gabe Farkas with the San Antonio Spurs. He mentioned that "Hey, you'd applied for this job with us last year. It wasn't the right fit for the role we had, but we have this new and we're hiring for and I remember your resume, I think you might be an okay fit for it." I ended up doing a phone interview, a technical screen where they sent me some work to do and I had to send back, going out for an on-site interview. I ended up not getting that job, but it made me think that this could happen if I keep pushing for it. I was totally thrilled, like by the fact that he even remembered me from a year before and reached out to me unsolicited.    So you were realizing that you were getting closer. What did you do to ultimately bring yourself over that mountain top?   I just kept working on my technical skills on the side, building up a pretty good database of basketball data at home that I could work with so I could do some projects to be able to show people some work that I'd done. I just kept trying. Typically teams would hire in the offseason so jobs would get posted in the July-August timeframe. So that following summer in 2015 I just applied for everything. Again, I got some rejection letters, got some technical screens, didn't get hired again that year, but just kept plugging away, kept plugging away. I started to do more networking as well, just connecting with other people that were doing public work. A lot of the guys at the time were writing for Nylon Calculus, and have since gone on to work for teams, just connecting with those guys online as much as I could. I didn't go to any of the industry conferences. They're expensive and once you're with a team and they're paying for it it's worth it, but it's hard to justify, you know, a $600 ticket when it's out of pocket. Then next summer 2016, the Pistons posted a job. This is what I got really excited about because, for the first time, it was a job that seemed right in my wheelhouse, as far as the specific things they were looking for. So I was in the process of planning a wedding as well and I applied for the job on a Sunday evening and got a call on Tuesday. They gave me an assignment on Wednesday, and I had to turn in by Friday. The following week I got the second round and another technical screen with another two-day turnaround. So I went through those couple of rounds and just kept progressing and they called me for an in-person interview. I got married on Saturday, then I flew out on Tuesday for my in-person interview to Detroit, got a call on Friday that I had the job offer, accepted right then and there, and two weeks later had packed up all my stuff into my car was driving across the country.   What were you doing for the Pistons and what was their need that you filled?   I was the Analytic Systems Coordinator so essentially there was a new data vendor they were going to be using and they were going to have this massive influx of new data, and they needed someone to come in and set up some back end infrastructure for that, and then start to make sense of the data so they could use it in the analysis they were doing. That just fits really well with some of the experiences I had in healthcare. I'm just setting up easy-to-use, efficient back-end systems, and then building out our whole reporting infrastructure from there. Having done all this basketball work on the side like setting up my own database at home for personal use, and, building some of my own tools and reporting infrastructure, all fit perfectly with what they were looking to do. I was fortunate in that a lot of the jobs that teams are hiring for more heavy on the statistics side, like the predictive modeling which are the guys with PhDs and stats. While I've done a lot of statistical modeling as an actuary, that wasn't my biggest strength. My forte was more like infrastructure and programming so for them to be looking for that more than the modeling side was really fortunate for me.   What is the future of analytics in the NBA from your perspective?   The future is happening right now with player tracking data, and all the additional insights we've gained from that. It's been in the league less than 10 years now and we've learned a lot from it, but it's still a largely untapped resource and I think there's still a lot to be learned from there. Getting that type of player tracking data for leagues other than the NBA because right now, it's mostly just an NBA product and we've got players are coming out of college player, and we're coming from overseas. So just learning how to best make use of that player tracking data is a big part of it. As we talked about before, the sports science side is going to be a big part of it. You're trying to better quantify and predict injury risk and fatigue and how that impacts performance.    Are you guys doing any analytics around fans in the stands and homecourt advantage against away and how that's changed during the current world that we live in?   I've seen some stuff being done publicly with that. When they did the bubble last year, it was interesting because it was a natural experiment to see how much does travel matter and how much does actual home court matter. It's weird though because it was such a unique situation that it wasn't going to be necessarily replicable to a normal season and there weren't that many games to truly learn, like, the variance from game to game for just the bubble sample might be higher than the actual effect of those things. I think everyone is predicting the edge of homecourt advantage, and predicting how much travel matters. Like we're on the second game with back to back and the other team has been off for three days, how will that affect our team. I think every team is doing, you know, the basic stuff there. Obviously, teams are pretty close to the vest with what they're doing there, but it's definitely something that has to be considered just even to evaluate how good all the teams are. Because us in Minnesota, being in the Western Conference, despite being in Minnesota, we have one of the worst travel schedules in the league. I think Portland is actually the worse as far as the number of miles traveled, but for teams like Detroit, and Cleveland, their schedules aren't so bad. They have a lot of short flights, and they have a decent cluster of cities, all in the same geographic region. So yeah, there definitely is a disparate impact across the league and it's important to quantify that.   What's one of your favorite data points or pieces of analytics that you like to collect and gather and review?   On the data, I have to be a little more coy, but I will just say I am a person who finds efficiency, very important. I can't get into specific stats or anything like that, but along a very similar line, one of the most enjoyable parts of the role for me and it's something that's related to what we do, though not directly all the time is the draft workout process. The league has pretty strict rules about how it's set up, you have six guys max, they can't play against professional players, and there's a time limit to what you can have them do. But seeing these kids come into what is almost like a tryout for an NBA team is very cool. Some of these guys are guys who are projected to be picked in the top five, some of them are projected to be undrafted and have to go overseas, but like seeing these guys chase their dream, it's a really cool experience.   So risk is always a part of this, tell me about your relationship with risk.   I forget the actual slogan of the professional actuarial society because I've been out of the game for a little while. But I think risk is opportunity is the site of actuaries slogan. Everything that we learn about being an actuary is about managing risk and quantifying risk. So I think you would find that most actuaries temperamentally tend to be more on the risk-averse side because it's what they do for a living and so much of their job is about, you know, not having a company go out of business, because of the decision, they may say that they're a little conservative on those types of things.   Have you ever looked at your analytics before a game, and said to yourself after reviewing that we're gonna have a good game tonight, or I really think we're gonna win tonight's game based on what I'm seeing?   There definitely have been some instances like that. It's generally just driven off of either a specific matchup or a trend that you see in the way a certain team is playing and you think the coaching staff has come up with a fantastic strategy for attacking that.

Batman #421 & #422 Phil and Lilith review Batman #421 & #422 (July-August 1988) featuring parts 2 and 3 of the “Dumpster Slasher” trilogy featuring a serial killer, an out of control Robin, and a typo title.  PLUS: reviews of Batwoman season 2 episode 2, Future State: Dark Detective #2 and Batman White Knight: Harley Quinn #4. Show Notes: Batman #421 & #422: We Are the Knight Episode #10 Find all of our Social Media & Merchandise here: https://linktr.ee/capesandlunatics Follow Phil Perich on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Nightwingpdp Follow Lilith Hellfire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LilithHellfire Produced by: http://www.southgatemediagroup.com Production Team: Phil Perich SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS Order our book Pod Life: Podcaster Stories orderpodlife.smgpods.com When you shop at Amazon.com using this link, every dollar you spend supports our podcast network and doesn’t cost you a penny more. amazon.smgpods.com Hunt a Killer – Get 20% off on your first box with Coupon Code SOUTHGATE www.huntakiller.com Tweaked Audio Headphones – Get 30% off, Free Shipping, and a Lifetime Warranty with Coupon Code – SOUTHGATE www.tweakedaudio.com Support the Capes and Lunatics Podcast on Patreon www.patreon.com/capesandlunatics

Welcome to the official start of Aquarius season! With a powerful Full Moon in Leo appearing this Thursday, we are nearing the end of a cycle that began in Leo season of 2020, so think back to the patterns from last July & August. In the first part of this episode, host Cardsy B gives us a reading and pulls the card of the week, the Four of Swords. The Knight laying in stillness helps remind us that sometimes it’s worth being alone in our energetic field. In the second part of the episode, Cardsy is joined by Erroll Angara, Co-Founder and COO of Indistry TV, a platform to stream TV and music content by independent creators; a fierce leader who spent over a decade on Wall Street prior to launching her own business. No wonder Cardsy chose her as the Nine of Wands in her signature ‘Badass Bitches Tarot’ deck... discover how Erroll combines business, intuition and magic as a winning recipe in her own life. ... Find out more about Cardsy B and The Hex and the City Podcast

Coach Caliendo meets with his top Coaching staff of Coach Bill Sandillo, Mike Manderino and Zach Casto about the upcoming 2021 Baseball trip to Italy in July/August. They discuss lots of learning experiences for players, parents and coaches during this trip. They also go around the horn and discuss key areas on organizing fun and... The post Discussion on the keys to practice organization and benefits of Caliendo Sports International Baseball Trip to Italy in 2021 appeared first on Baseball Outside The Box.

In this episode, we interview Dr. Courtney Diehl, an equine veterinarian who published her book Horse Vet, Chronicles of a Mobile Veterinarian in 2014. She has been an equine veterinarian since 2000. She completed a 12 month internship at a private referral practice in Saratoga Springs, NY working primarily with Thoroughbreds. She then owned and operated a solo equine mobile practice in Eagle, CO until 2007, where she partnered with George Platt, DVM. Dr. Platt and Burney Chapman, CJF, were well know for groundbreaking treatment of laminitis using the heart bar shoe. Dr. Diehl went on to complete a Fellowship in Internal Medicine and Critical Care at Hagyard, Davidson, McGee in Lexington, KY in 2007, before returning to Colorado. Dr. Diehl worked closely with Dr. Platt from 2001 until his death in 2011. Diehl and Platt were co-speakers at the AFA annual conference in Portland, OR in 2009. In 2012, Diehl and Cricket McLaren, CF Successfully treated 'the worst laminitis case of their careers,' not only saving the horse, but returning him to full performance. The case report was published in the July/August 2013 American Farriers Journal. Dr. Diehl has been a speaker at several private clinics on laminitis, and spoke at a No Laminitis! conference in OR. She serves on the board of directors of the Colorado Horse Council. Dr. Diehl enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters, riding her horses and skiing the Steamboat powder when she's not out on calls. You'll get a lot out of this interview from this accomplished veterinarian.  

  Engineering Influence welcomed the project team for the Weekend ABC Superstructure Replacement Project led by Kelly Guild (WSP, Bridge Lead), Gary Runco (VDOT NOVA, The District Structures and Bridge Engineer), and Pooya Azar (Martins Construction Corp., Vice President and Director of Operations for Wilson) to discuss the details of their award winning project.The project was also featured in the July/August 2020 issue of CE Magazine, which can be read here.Register for the first ever virtual Engineering Excellence Awards Gala here.  

Feeling particularly reflective as the US electoral process inches toward a conclusion, Allan and Darren chat about what they see as the short- and long-term challenges facing Australian foreign policy. In the short term, the bilateral relationship with China looms largest. Allan makes that case that the Prime Minister (or Foreign Minister) should make a speech clearly outlining Australia’s position, while Darren wonders whether the PM has already said what he wants to say. And what specific diplomatic moves available to the government? Darren offers some thoughts on whether the ongoing trade disruptions are simply coercion, or whether other geoeconomic or industry policy motives may be a factor. The two also debate the distinction between “the Chinese government” and “the CCP”, and compare it to distinguishing the Trump administration from the United States as a whole. The other major short-term issue discussed is cooperation with Australia’s regional partners, Southeast Asia in particular. The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) may offer an opportunity for Australia to develop deeper ties, though Darren raises whether shared security interests are a necessary condition for really substantive cooperation. He also speculates on whether Australia’s experience with economic coercion and protecting against foreign interference could be a useful source of advice, while Allan counters that Asian nations have been grappling with these questions for decades, even centuries! Allan also previews PM Morrison’s trip to Japan this week. Looking to the longer term, Allan and Darren describe a range of possible futures, the kinds of investment strategies Australia could pursue now to prepare for future challenges, and potential risks to a long-term strategy. We thank AIIA intern Mitchell McIntosh for his help with research and audio editing and Rory Stenning for composing our theme music. Relevant Links PM Lee Hsien Loong gave the keynote address at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue Opening Dinner on 31 May 2019 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore: https://www.pmo.gov.sg/Newsroom/PM-Lee-Hsien-Loong-at-the-IISS-Shangri-La-Dialogue-2019 Lee Hsien Loong, “The Endangered Asian Century: America, China, and the Perils of Confrontation”, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2020: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/2020-06-04/lee-hsien-loong-endangered-asian-century Stephen Dziedzic, “Scott Morrison unveils Government plans to reassert Australia's influence in South-East Asia”, ABC News, 14 November 2020: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-14/australia-canberra-new-aid-south-east-asia-scott-morrison/12883088 Joe Biden, “Why American must lead again: Rescuing U.S. Foreign Policy After Trump”, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2020: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-01-23/why-america-must-lead-again Government of Victoria, “Victorian Pledge For Institute Of Infectious Disease”, 13 November 2020: https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/victorian-pledge-institute-infectious-disease Tim Alberta, “Elissa Slotkin Braces for a Democratic Civil War”, 13 November 2020: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/13/elissa-slotkin-braces-for-a-democratic-civil-war-436301 David French, Divided we fall: America’s secession threat and how to restore our nation”, Pan Macmillan Australia: https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781250201973/  Ezra Klein podcast interview with Evan Osnos, “Joe Biden, explained”, 7 November 2020: https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast/2020/11/7/21554198/joe-biden-evan-osnos-president-2020-election-white-house-donald-trump Little Red Podcast, “Xi Dada and Daddy: Power, the Party and the President”, 2 November 2020: https://omny.fm/shows/the-little-red-podcast/xi-dada-and-daddy-power-the-party-and-the-presiden?in_playlist=the-little-red-podcast!podcast “P.E. with Joe”, Monday 23 March 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0go1pTda8

Join us as we share a few articles from the July August 2005 Scottish Rite general of Freemasonry and maybe get to the bottom of what's going on with that darn goat. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sslodge357/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sslodge357/support

Severity measurement scales for atopic dermatitis are important in clinical trials as objective outcome measures and they are often required for government and private insurance plans. These scales are sometimes underused by clinicians for a number of reasons, including time constraints and lack familiarity. Dr Patrick Fleming joins Dr Kirk Barber, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, to talk about his article in the July/August edition of the Journal, reviewing the most commonly used atopic dermatitis measurement scales and gives his take on user guides and scoring explanations and inter-scale comparisons. Dr Patrick Fleming is an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Toronto, and a dermatologist at Lynde Dermatology in Markham, Ont. And he is also working at the COVID Centre at Women's College Hospital. JCMS Author Interviews is produced by David McGuffin of Explore Productions. Our theme music is by Lee Rosevere.

MSM 481: Things That I Don’t Talk About with The Other 7th Grade Teachers Jokes: Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Middle School Science Minute: Science and Art I was recently reading the July/August, 2020 issue of “Science and Children” a publication of the National Science Teaching Association. In this issue, I read the “Science 101“ column written by Matt Bobrowsky. His article was entitled “What’s a Fun Activity that Combines Science with Art?” Reports from the Front Lines The Twitterverse Web Spotlight: How US schools punish Black kids | 2020 Election https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFJ37ri-Saw

This is Listen to the Editors, a series of interviews with journal editors to unveil the trends in research on Operations and Supply Chain Management.   I am your host, Iuri Gavronski.   This month, we are posting in our podcast a workshop promoted by the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and the Journal of Business Logistics.   The editors-in-chief for these four journals convened online on Aug 20, 2020 to promote a workshop for reviewers and we find very interesting their insights on ethics on publication, how do you interact with the editors, and what is expected from the reviewers. I hope our listeners enjoy this episode.   The editors that were presenting and discussing were: * Barbara B. Flynn; Professor Kelley School of Business at the Indiana University, co-EIC for the Journal of Supply Chain Management * David Cantor; Professor of Supply Chain Management at Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business, co-EIC for the Journal of Supply Chain Management * Wendy Tate; Professor of Supply Chain Management Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee, co-EIC for the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. * Louise A. Knight, Full Professor at the University of Twente, co-EIC for the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. * Robert D. Klassen; Professor of Operations Management at Ivey Business School, co-EIC for the International Journal of Operations and Production Management * Constantin Blome, Professor in Operations Management at the University of Sussex Business School, co-EIC for the International Journal of Operations and Production Management * Beth Davis-Sramek; Gayle Parks Forehand Professor of Supply Chain Management; Auburn University; Co-EIC for Journal of Business Logistics We also post below some conversations that ensued in the chat for the Zoom session: 09:10:44 From Ted Farris : Never was "taught" how to review as a doctoral student so developed my own process. What order do you suggest one conducts a review...red the whole thing through or in pieces and then the whole thing through. For example, I start with the abstract and then go to the tables and figures (to make sure they stand by themselves), then the references, then the conclusion, then the main text. 09:16:14 From Ted Farris : Time to conduct a review...how long should it take? 09:17:18 From Himanshu Shee : It is my work, wondering why can’t I reuse it in my work again. Looks silly but I am still curious to use!! 09:18:56 From Gina McNally : What is the red flag level for plagiarism checker? 09:19:13 From Louise KNIGHT : Every article must make an original contribution, so recycling your own work is not considered acceptable 09:20:17 From Barbara Flynn : We'll talk about the red flag level during the Q&A, but we start getting alarmed as that number approaches 20%. 09:20:22 From Marika Tuomela-Pyykkönen : What software would you recommend for checking the (self)plagiarism? 09:22:17 From Louise KNIGHT : Déjà lu: On the limits of data reuse across multiple publications Erik M.van Raaij https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2018.06.002 09:22:19 From Ted Farris : I am writing a reprise of a published paper written in 2002 (since so much has changed) and am submitting to the same journal. What % of the original content is usable? 09:22:24 From Himanshu Shee : Each journal has a fixed format and empirical study has a kind of fixed writing style. So overlapping of text and methodological context get duplicated easily. Wondering how to rephrase or make different!! 09:26:10 From Constantin Blome : @Himanshu: There are of course some overlaps in the methodology section. That is to a certain extent okay, but there are many different ways to express also statistics and everybody makes his or her life easier by avoiding copying also in these sections. Having said that copying particularly in the other sections is a no-go, including self-plagiarism. 09:26:51 From Ted Farris : good tip on authors running a plagiarism checker! As a reviewer should I assume the editors have done this or should reviewers runs a checker? 09:27:28 From Barbara Flynn : Yes, our submission systems automatically do this for every submission, and we pay close attention to it. 09:27:32 From Constantin Blome : @Ted: Most journals run them now. 09:27:52 From Louise KNIGHT : Editors will run checks but a reviewer should raise any concerns with the editor 09:28:26 From Barbara Flynn : Yes, it's always appropriate to contact the editor if you have any sort of concerns as a reviewer. 09:29:08 From Constantin Blome : What editors are often less aware of and where reviewers can do a great job is where similar data has been used before. It is always helpful in case reviewers identify that content-wise (not plagiarism-wise) is similar. 09:30:09 From Louise KNIGHT : Journals provide guidelines to reviewers. Also check out general advice on reviewing provided by publishers, for example from Elsevier: https://www.elsevier.com/reviewers/how-to-review 09:33:49 From Gina McNally : Should reviewers include their recommendation in the comments to the authors? 09:35:53 From Constantin Blome : Some journals don't want to have that recommendation included, they make this explicit, but to a certain extent it also provides clarity. However, most important is the constructive feedback, not the recommendation per se, as the AE/ Editor should come up with the conclusion. 09:36:01 From Louise KNIGHT : For JPSM, we prefer not - you provide the recommendation separately. If it's a difficult call, then add a note to the editor. 09:38:00 From Himanshu Shee : On average two days will be good I guess…. To read and make the report ready…. Can’t afford more than that! 09:38:35 From Beth Davis-Sramek : At JBL, it's fine to include your recommendation. I generally start with an "overview" section. In it, I offer positive comments and then say something like, "however, there are some issues that are offered in more detail below that prevent me from recommending that the paper move forward." There can be a "soft" way to communicate a rejection, but I think it's important to provide clarity to the author(s). 09:40:06 From Ted Farris : at what point as a reviewer is a paper so bad that you stop in the middle and return it to the editor 09:40:06 From Himanshu Shee : Does the editor engage more than 3 reviewers to reject a paper? 09:40:08 From Constantin Blome : I agree here. Sometimes it is strange to receive a very friendly review, but then the author writes to the editor that this is a clear reject. It's important to be friendly and constructive, but also authentic. Not easy at all. 09:41:00 From Constantin Blome : @Ted: I would say, almost never. 09:42:13 From Beth Davis-Sramek : @Ted: My hope would be that if we send the paper out for review, then it is worth a full review. We will desk reject those that do not meet a minimum quality threshold. 09:43:37 From Anníbal Sodero - Ohio State University - Fisher College : I typically read the main paper cited by the paper I am reviewing and usually skim through a couple of other ones. I like to ensure authors are building on the work of others in a "proper" way, that is, that there is no misrepresentation. A common mistake is to cite a work just for the sake of having a reference, while the work actually contradicts what the authors are claiming. It also helps me to understand where the authors are coming from and what is the contribution they are making. 09:44:59 From Himanshu Shee : What exactly the desk review comprises of, it takes up to a couple of wks even to reject or decide on to put forward to review. 09:48:54 From Beth Davis-Sramek : @Himanshu: At JBL our goal will be to return a desk-rejected manuscript very quickly. I think two weeks is reasonable. 09:49:16 From Constantin Blome : At IJOPM desk rejects takes 1-5 days typically. If it takes longer then there is a reason for it (internal discussions on the manuscript etc). I guess 95% are done in 1-5 days. We have two steps: editorial assistant (who is also an academic) and then one of the four EICs. 09:49:22 From Louise KNIGHT : @Himanshu: Desk reviews vary - sometimes it is very clear that the standard is inadequate or there is not a good fit to the journal. Sometimes a much closer reading is needed, and this reveals that we do not think the paper has a fair prospect 09:49:49 From Constantin Blome : Interestingly enough we receive then emails from authors asking whether we read the manuscript at all as the turnaround time is fast. Of course, we do;-) 09:51:53 From Beth Davis-Sramek : HA! - So maybe two weeks isn't reasonable! Good point - some are very clearly desk rejects, and others may require more feedback, especially if we see potential and suggest to authors that they can fix the issues and resubmit. 09:53:26 From Ted Farris : Are there times of the year when it is best to submit something...are reviewers more available at different times (Christmas Break v middle of a semester) 09:54:08 From Barbara Flynn : I don't think so, but there are definitely better times for authors - we see seasonality in submissions. For example, a lot of manuscripts are submitted at the end of the summer, just before classes begin. 09:55:04 From Constantin Blome : Reviews over July/ August take longer. We also see that in the pandemic reviews slowed down. 09:55:12 From Ted Farris : A lot of times I comment to the authors about "unsubstantiated conjecture" where they do not support statements or make statements out of the blue. Reasonable comment to the authors? 09:55:40 From Barbara Flynn : Definitely. It's up to authors to make their points clear, not the reviewers and readers to guess. 09:55:45 From Constantin Blome : absolutely, but always good to give the example and give an example how this could be done better. 09:56:29 From Constantin Blome : Often the authors aren't aware that statements are not supported, but of course you don't have to list every unsupported sentence. 09:57:07 From Barbara Flynn : Agreed, it seems obvious to the authors because they are so familiar with the literature, but it's not obvious to others. 09:57:40 From Beth Davis-Sramek : I might also rephrase it to something like, "you need to provide more evidence from the literature that supports this statement/hypothesis/rationale" etc... 10:02:49 From Louise KNIGHT : I agree with that suggestion for rephrasing the point! 10:04:27 From Gina McNally : Can you post the references here in the chat, please? Thanks! 10:04:39 From Himanshu Shee : What methodology is usually a winner? Survey, interviews, mixed methods, longitudinal studies? 10:04:50 From jmuniz : Thanks for share the knowledge. Go Vols 10:06:35 From Constantin Blome : Important is that plagiarism only show "potential plagiarism" and we have to check then whether it is "real plagiarism". 10:07:06 From Arun Kumar Deshmukh : How much is the tolerable limit of similarity index? 10:07:14 From Juliette : Thank you for they great tips! 10:07:35 From Constantin Blome : There is no fixed percentage, but we look in far more detail with 20% or more. 10:07:38 From Juliette : *the not they 10:08:36 From Arun Kumar Deshmukh : Thanks Constantin Blome 10:09:39 From Himanshu Shee : It is so easy to get over 20% plagiarism adding those 1% coming’s from the references, key words and jargons etc… 10:09:50 From Constantin Blome : However, there are also many papers we still send out that have more than 20% in the software indicated, but it is not showing clear cases of plagiarism. So it depends. 10:10:28 From Himanshu Shee : Thanks Constantin 10:10:50 From Constantin Blome : Just to share, the nastiest emails I got from authors were all around plagiarism scores. 10:11:10 From Barbara Flynn : Huff, A.S., 2009. Evaluation of research design and outcomes. In Huff, A.S., Designing Research for Publication, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. Koberg, D. & Bagnall, J., 1976. The Universal Traveler. New York: William Kaufman. De Bono, E., 1999. Six Thinking Hats. Boston: Little, Brown. Also http://www.edwdebono.com/ 10:11:27 From Wendy Tate : I agree with Constantin re the emails! 10:14:06 From Louise KNIGHT : A very low (artificially low) score in the plagiarism checker can be a trigger for a closer look. The tool indicates % recognised text, that's all - the rest is for editors to interpret 10:15:28 From Arun Kumar Deshmukh : Sometimes we get a paper with a newer method for review. Should we refuse to review it or the other part of the manuscripts should be evaluated without commenting on the method part? 10:15:56 From Constantin Blome : Personally, I also think that in some institutions PhDs reviews continuously for their supervisors. This would be considered highly unethical. 10:16:45 From Constantin Blome : I. suggest contact the editor. 10:18:17 From Arun Kumar Deshmukh : Thanks a lot 10:22:43 From Ted Farris : the better journals that I review for typically send feedback after all the reviews are in plsace 10:23:04 From Himanshu Shee : I suppose the journal offers a summary of the all reviews so one can see what others have done vs you 10:23:14 From marcon.arthur : Is it appropriate to contact the editor when the reviewers were not clear in their review or when they provide contradictory recommendations? For example, contacting the editor via email when we are working on the corrections of the paper 10:23:59 From Arun Kumar Deshmukh : As an editor, how you decide the fate of manuscripts when two reviewers suggest minor revision and one suggests the rejection? 10:24:03 From Constantin Blome : yes, this is fine Marcon 10:25:14 From Barbara Flynn : It's always fine to contact the editor about anything 10:25:24 From Constantin Blome : @Arun: first, we read the manuscript, but typically AEs would make the call first. But this is not different to any other combination of recommendations. 10:25:48 From Constantin Blome : I agree with Barb.   Background music: ================= “Night & Day” by Dee Yan-Key is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/years_and_years_ago/08--Dee_Yan-Key-Night___Day

In this special edition of JCMS Author Interviews, Kirk Barber, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery talks with Dr Jensen Yeung, about his article, "Management of Plaque Psoriasis with Biologics in Women of Childbearing Potential," in the special July/August supplement edition of JCMS. With women making up fifty percent of Psoriasis patients, what does published data reveal about the safety of treating pregnant and breastfeeding women with biologics? Listen and learn more! Dr Jensen Yeung is a dermatologist and medical director of the Phototherapy Education and Research Centre of Women's College Hospital, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and an Associate Editor of JCMS. Our theme music is composed by Lee Rosevere And our producer is David McGuffin of Explore Podcast Productions in Ottawa.  

Kateki Vinod, MD, discusses some of the existing and emerging tools for expanding glaucoma diagnosis and management beyond the office, as featured in the July/August 2020 issue of Glaucoma Today.

The Batman Family comic book series ran for 20 issues from September–October 1975 to October–November 1978 and featured solo and team-up stories starring Batgirl and Robin. The lead story in the first issue teaming Batgirl and Robin was originally intended for publication in an issue of 1st Issue Special. The series additionally featured reprints of Golden Age and Silver Age stories. Many issues of Batman Family featured Batman supporting characters such as Alfred Pennyworth, Vicki Vale, the Elongated Man, the Huntress, and Ace the Bat-Hound. Writer Bob Rozakis introduced the Duela Dent character in issue #6 (July–August 1976) and revived the original Batwoman in issue #10 (March–April 1977). The series began featuring only new material as of issue #11 (May–June 1977) and the Man-Bat began appearing as a regular feature. Batman Family converted to the Dollar Comics format with issue #17 (April–May 1978).

The Batman Family comic book series ran for 20 issues from September–October 1975 to October–November 1978 and featured solo and team-up stories starring Batgirl and Robin. The lead story in the first issue teaming Batgirl and Robin was originally intended for publication in an issue of 1st Issue Special. The series additionally featured reprints of Golden Age and Silver Age stories. Many issues of Batman Family featured Batman supporting characters such as Alfred Pennyworth, Vicki Vale, the Elongated Man, the Huntress, and Ace the Bat-Hound. Writer Bob Rozakis introduced the Duela Dent character in issue #6 (July–August 1976) and revived the original Batwoman in issue #10 (March–April 1977). The series began featuring only new material as of issue #11 (May–June 1977) and the Man-Bat began appearing as a regular feature. Batman Family converted to the Dollar Comics format with issue #17 (April–May 1978).

“God calls people to pioneer,” says Jeffery Portmann, “and simultaneously He calls others to become settlers.” Portmann isn’t talking about the settlement of new frontiers, however. He’s talking about ministry through the local church. In this episode of the Influence Podcast, I’m talking to Portmann about why the Church needs both pioneers and settlers, as well as how best to be one or the other. I’m George P. Wood, executive editor of Influence magazine and your host. Jeffery Portmann is executive director of the Church Multiplication Network, the church planting arm of the Assemblies of God (USA). He authored “Developing Leaders from Within” in the July/August 2020 issue of Influence magazine. ----- This episode of the Influence Podcast is brought to you by My Healthy Church, distributors of Bible Engagement Project. Most people have access to the Bible, but few regularly engage with it. Bible Engagement Project equips churches with digital Bible study resources to help people of all ages read and understand Scripture so they can become more like Jesus and live radically changed lives. Bible Engagement Project is available in both English and Spanish. Visit BibleEngagementProject.com to learn more.

Deadpool #54-#55 In this week’s episode, our (anti)heroes review “End of the Road” from Deadpool #54-#55 (July-August 2001) featuring Deadpool’s quest to earn 3 million dollars. The job? Kill the Punisher! Show notes: Deadpool #54-#55: Wade's World--The Deadpool Podcast Episode #114 Find all of our Social Media here: https://linktr.ee/capesandlunatics Follow Phil Perich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NIghtwingpdp  Follow Lilith Hellfire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LilithHellfire Produced by: http://www.southgatemediagroup.com Production Team: Phil Perich SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS Order our book Pod Life: Podcaster Stories orderpodlife.smgpods.com When you shop at Amazon.com using this link, every dollar you spend supports our podcast network and doesn’t cost you a penny more. amazon.smgpods.com Hunt a Killer – Get 20% off on your first box with Coupon Code SOUTHGATE www.huntakiller.com Tweaked Audio Headphones – Get 30% off, Free Shipping, and a Lifetime Warranty with Coupon Code – SOUTHGATE www.tweakedaudio.com Support the Capes and Lunatics Podcast on Patreon www.patreon.com/capesandlunatics

Cases of coronavirus are once again on the rise in Idaho. According to Dr. David Pate, during today's panel of Idaho doctors, we are in "Idaho's third spike," following phases of rising infections in March-April and again in July-August.

 If you follow me on social media, and many of you do, I have made no secret since about July /August where my allegiances lie in this election and I have clearly stated MULTIPLE times why. This election is not Right vs Left. It's good vs evil. THAT’s why the new film The Trump I Know is so very important because the Left controls our airwaves and have spent over 3 years portraying Donald Trump to be something other than what he really is. Filmmakers Joe Knopp and Daryl Lefever join me this week to give their thoughts on this election, what it means to the future of this country, and what their experiences were interviewing the strong women who know Donald Trump best. The real Donald Trump, and not the media portrayal of him. Learn more about the film at www.thetrumpiknow.com

*This episode of Responsively Yours was recorded by Tara Barnes.*Ending racism has been a priority for United Methodist Women for a long time. Even with all I’ve learned, during this time I’ve realized that there is still so much I don’t know or that I need to relearn about the history of the United States and the ways that I and other white people are co-opted into a racist system and benefit from it, even without our conscious assent. Some of you may have a similar sense of needing to shift and change very quickly. How can there be so much to learn? How can there still be so much I didn’t see? How can all our efforts at change (in ourselves, our organization, the church and the nation) have fallen so woefully short?- - -This episode originally appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of response, the award winning magazine from United Methodist Women.Visit www.UnitedMethodistWomen.org to find out more.

Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with host Kristina Finch. In this episode, we talk with Grace Browning, author of How to Host a Harpy Hour in the July-August 2020 issue of Harp Column. For more practical harp news and information visit www.harpcolumn.com, and tune in for [...] The post Harp Column Podcast Episode 68 appeared first on Harp Column.

This is the audio version of an FAA Safety Briefing LiveVideo Broadcast.The original LiveVideo broadcast can be accessed at https://www.FAASafetyBriefing.com/July-August2020.html and qualifies for FAA WINGS and/or AMT Credits. The July / August 2020 issue focuses on the importance of human factors in aviation. Feature articles and departments address stress, fatigue, decision making, cognitive bias, and more. We also take a closer look at the humans behind the FAA’s Human Factors team to see how their work is helping improve aviation safety.

The learning objectives for this week's 483: Explain the typical out of specification range of potency for many compounded formulations Discuss a type of testing that is both economical and scientifically sound Discuss the 5 elements of an SOP on potency testing should include This week we'll be looking at one observation the FDA made at a facility concerning the potency testing of their drug products. While there's not much direction given to pharmacies through USP Chapter , there's still a need for testing this critical attribute of our preparations. In fact, doesn't give us any requirements for testing for potency or the interval at which we should test our preparations. USP Chapter , Stability considerations in dispensing practice, only helps us look for signs of chemical instability (i.e. potency) but still gives us no interval to guide the frequency of potency testing that should be performed. USP Chapter says: Pharmacists should avoid ingredients and conditions that could result in excessive physical deterioration or chemical decomposition of drug preparations, especially when compounding...Pharmacists should establish and maintain compounding conditions that include the ensuring of drug stability to help prevent therapeutic failure and adverse responses. USP Chapter , Stability Considerations in Dispensing Practice Throughout the rest of USP , it talks about what can cause chemical instability and the signs you should look for in particular dosage forms. However, even gives no direction on how frequently potency should be tested on sterile preparations Observation 8 Going by this 483 observation, the FDA would like to see: A plan in place for how frequently you're testing your preparations for potency The acceptable criteria for potency (less or greater than 10% loss/gain of potency) Written SOPs for the frequency and criteria of your potency testing program Written SOPs for what to do when a preparation falls out of specification for potency So how do compounders come up with a frequency for testing their batches for potency? In manufacturing there's a concept known as "skip lot" testing for critical attributes of products for processes that are under a state of control. However, the manufacturer must justify this decision to perform skip lot testing. In an FDA Guidance, "Q6A Specifications: Test Procedures and Acceptance Criteria for New Drug Substances and New Drug Products: Chemical Substances" the FDA gives details on what attributes could be chosen for skip lot or periodic testing: Data generated during product development may be sufficient to justify skip lot testing or elimination of some or all attributes from the specification. Q6A Specifications: Test Procedures and Acceptance Criteria for New Drug Substances and New Drug Products: Chemical Substances There's no debate on whether potency testing will give extra assurance that your product/preparation is of the purported and expected potency which in turn ensures the safety of the preparation for the patient. However, cost does become a factor as extra testing increases the cost of a batch and will be passed on to the patient. I'd like to suggest a scientifically and statistically sound procedure for determining how often compounders test for potency. Let's talk about what you would want to have in an SOP that dictates potency testing for your compounded preparations (sterile or non-sterile). The SOP should consist of:3 Verifying that the compounded preparation is correct at the start of the program by appropriate potency testing in an independent quality control lab. Choosing a sampling interval, which will define the maximum out of specification (OOS) limits that will be detected (Surprisingly, these intervals can be relatively long. For example a failure rate greater than 5.5% should be detected if every 25th lot (or batch) of a preparation is tested, which is a 4% sampling plan) Setting up a scheduled or random sampling plan for the preparation to be sent out for potency testing Collecting and recording the testing data Reverifying the preparation if it fails a test or if changes are made to the formula, procedures or people making the preparation The key to a skip lot testing program is the initial testing and results. The initial verification test(s) should illustrate that the product's potency attribute is under a state of control through the processes and procedures used for compounding that particular preparation. At first, perhaps sending 3 consecutive verification batches off for potency testing to verify all are within the specified potency range (e.g. +/- 10% the preparation's potency is greater than 90% and less than 110% of the labeled concentration) would suffice for maintaining that your process and preparation are under a state of control. That being said, if all verification batches are within specification you can now justify an interval based on statistical data. The table below provides guidance on the frequency for potency testing batches and the percentage of the time it should detect an out of specification result. Zolner W, IJPC, Quality-Control Analytical Methods: A Guide to Quality Control Testing for the Compounding Pharmacist, Volume 10 No. 4 July August 2006 Just to explain the table a little further:, 2% sampling rate means you'll be sampling 1 lot out of every 50 and this will detect an OOS failure greater than 10% of the time. 3% sampling rate is testing 3 lots out of 100 or 1 out of every 33 batches 4% would be testing 1 out of every 25 lots 5% would be testing 1 out of every 20 lots 50% would be testing every other lot For regulators you should be able to show that your process is under a state of control for your compounds, you've established a procedure for potency testing and that you have a procedure in the case of a potency failure. When you have a potency failure you'll need to figure out the root cause, correct the problem and re-validate the compound for potency. If you'd like a guide on how to go about finding the root cause check out this post on investigations and CAPAs. References USP Chapter , Stability Considerations in Dispensing Practice Q6A Specifications: Test Procedures and Acceptance Criteria for New Drug Substances and New Drug Products: Chemical Substances Zolner, W; International Journal of Pharm Compounding, Quality-Control Analytical Methods: A Guide to Quality Control Testing for the Compounding Pharmacist; Volume 10 No. 4 July August 2006

Dr Catherine McCuaig joins Dr Kirk Barber, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, for a fascinating discussion about her article in the July/August edition of the Journal. It is a retrospective single-centre study of children with IBD under anti-TNF treatment between 2013 and 2016. Forty patients with CSE related to anti-TNF were referred to Dr McCuaig's pediatric dermatology clinic. A control group was randomly selected from patients receiving anti-TNF for IBD, who were referred to the dermatology clinic for other conditions unrelated to anti-TNF. Dr. Catherine McCuaig is a pediatric dermatologist at Montreal's Ste Justine University Hospital Centre, and a clinical professor of dermatology and pediatrics at the University of Montreal. Theme music is by Lee Rosevere. JCMS Author Interviews is produced for the Canadian Dermatology Association by David McGuffin of Explore Podcast Productions in Ottawa. davidrcmcguffin@gmail.com

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 16, 2020 is: cronyism • \KROH-nee-iz-um\ • noun : partiality to cronies especially as evidenced in the appointment of political hangers-on to office without regard to their qualifications Examples: "From the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the New Deal, America's national parties retained their incoherence because most of the important political power was at the state and local level…. Some states and cities were better governed than others, and there was plenty of cronyism and corruption throughout the country, but the stakes of national elections were lower than today." — Lee Drutman, The Cato Policy Report (The Cato Institute), July/August 2020 "Civil service regulations attempted to eliminate cronyism by setting strict rules governing hiring, firing and promotions within professional government services…. Under the system used in Idaho Falls, promotions rely heavily on scores from written, oral and other tests." — Bryan Clark, The Idaho Falls Post Register, 4 Apr. 2017 Did you know? "Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him" (Ecclesiasticus 9:10). Practitioners of cronyism would probably agree. The word cronyism evolved in the 19th century as a spin-off of crony, meaning "friend" or "pal." Crony originated in England in the 17th century, perhaps as a play on the Greek word chronios, meaning "long-lasting," from chronos, meaning "time." Nineteenth-century cronyism was simply friendship, or the ability to make friends. The word didn't turn bad until the next century, when Americans starting using cronyism to refer to the act of playing political favorites.

Amazing Spider-Man #349-#350 Welcome back to Ultimate Spider-Cast!  This time Phil and Lilith review Amazing Spider-Man #349-#350 (July-August 1991) featuring the return of the Black Fox, Uncle Ben (what?) and the menace of Doctor Doom! Show Notes: Amazing Spider-Man #349-#350: Ultimate Spider-Cast Episode #90 Find all of our Social Media here: https://linktr.ee/capesandlunatics Follow Phil Perich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nightwingpdp Follow Lilith Hellfire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LilithHellfire Produced by: http://www.southgatemediagroup.com Production Team: Phil Perich SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS Order our book Pod Life: Podcaster Stories orderpodlife.smgpods.com When you shop at Amazon.com using this link, every dollar you spend supports our podcast network and doesn’t cost you a penny more. amazon.smgpods.com Hunt a Killer – Get 20% off on your first box with Coupon Code SOUTHGATE www.huntakiller.com Tweaked Audio Headphones – Get 30% off, Free Shipping, and a Lifetime Warranty with Coupon Code – SOUTHGATE www.tweakedaudio.com Support the Capes and Lunatics Podcast on Patreon www.patreon.com/capesandlunatics

The newest theme in business is to create a sense of "belonging" - the feeling of being included, respected, and fully involved in the company, team, or organization. After conversations with more than 40 Diversity and Inclusion leaders, here are my thoughts on why Belonging is the key to figuring this out. Read this article for the various frameworks and examples. Reference Materials Why Diversity has become a business priority. The value of belonging at work, in HBR Women in the Workplace 2019, by McKinsey Introducing People Success: Helping People Be their Best and Do their Best at Work, Glint Why Inclusive Leaders Are Good for Organizations, and How to Become One. The Trouble with Gender Targets Dobbin, F., & Kalev, A. (2016, July-August). Why diversity programs fail: And what works better. Harvard Business Review, 94(7-8), 52-60. Toward a systemic and inclusive framework. In B. M. Ferdman & B. R. Deane (Eds.), Diversity at work: The practice of inclusion (p. 3–54). Jossey-Bass. https:// doi.org/10.1002/9781118764282.ch1 Plaut VC1, Garnett FG, Buffardi LE, Sanchez-Burks J. (2011) “What about me?” Perceptions of exclusion and whites’ reactions to multiculturalism. Macdonald G1, Leary MR. Psychol Bull. 2005 Mar;131(2):202-23. Why does social exclusion hurt? The relationship between social and physical pain. Why rejection hurts. https://www.edge.org/conversation/naomi_eisenberger-why-rejection-hurts Walton, G. M., & Cohen, G. L. (2007). A question of belonging: Race, social fit, and achievement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(1), 82–96. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.92.1.82 https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0022-3514.92.1.82 Fear of Being Different Stifles Talent. https://hbr.org/2014/03/fear-of-being-different-stifles-talent Shore, L.M., Randel, A.E., Chung, B., Dean, M.A., Ehrhart, K.H., Singh, G. (2011). Inclusion and diversity in work groups: A review and model for future research. Journal of Management, 37. Making it safe: the effects of leader inclusiveness and professional status on psychological safety and improvement efforts in health care teams, Ingrid M. Nembhard Amy C. Edmondson Value Inclusion, Belonging, and Equity for All, by Workday

Allyuh! September is a BIG month for de T’ingz, so it’s only right that I hit you with a long overdue solo recording filled with essential information. This podcast is short and sweet so yuh have no excuse for not listening lol! Love you! The July/August recap T’ingz Nice 6-year anniversary Price increases beginning September 14 New merchandise designs New jewelry designs Introducing advertisements Patreon memberships --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/niceish/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/niceish/support

Hiiii! We're baaaack! On this episode, we recap the month of July, talked about the WAP music video/song, we agreed to disagree on the words unthaw or defrost and talked about Mo's new hobby. Ps Happy Birthday to those of you with July/August birthdays! Hope y'all enjoy!!

If you're looking to relax to the sweet sounds of your colleagues talking about diagnosing and treating ocular surface disease, then this is the episode for you! All of these articles can be found in the July/August issue of Modern Optometry and are read by the authors themselves. First up is Damon Dierker, OD, FAAO, with a summary of the latest innovations in dry eye treatment (0:56), followed by Seema Nanda, OD, who has some great tips for differentiating between Sjögren syndrome dry eye and non-Sjögren syndrome dry eye (9:37). The next article in the episode is from the issue's subfocus on the female eye, but also crosses into the realm of ocular surface disease. Tracy Doll, OD, FAAO, provides an examination of the changing ocular surface through the stages of life (21:32). Last but not least, no episode would be complete without the latest addition of our Up Close column (31:35). This time you'll learn all about MOD's own Leslie O'Dell, OD, FAAO.

Tonight we review all the results from Tropical Aggression, announce final rankings for the July/August period, announce huge contender matches for tomorrow's Superstars in Los Angeles, and much much more! Join us at 10 PM EST!!!

Looking for career inspiration? Tune in to the latest episode of Strategies LIVE! as Aileen Hinsch, manager of business development and practice group management at Crowell & Moring, and Jenn Smuts, chief marketing officer at Connolly Gallagher, swap stories about identifying unlikely mentors, moments they leapt into “scary” but gratifying new roles, extracurricular activities that made them better legal marketers and so much more. This issue of Strategies LIVE! is coincides with the subject matter featured in the July/August issue of Strategies magazine. A special thank you to this issue’s sponsors, Firmseek, Tenrec and Vivid Graphics. These partners are ready to help you identify solutions that fit your firm’s needs.

Ahmad Aref, MD, MBA, provides an update on the complex relationship between cannabis ingestion and glaucomatous optic neuropathy, as featured in the July/August 2020 issue of Glaucoma Today.

Ultimate Spider-Man #95 & #96 Welcome back to Ultimate Spider-Cast!  This time Phil and Lilith review Ultimate Spider-Man #95-#96 (July-August 2006) featuring the Ultimate Universe version of Morbius, the son of Dracula. Show Notes: Ultimate Spider-Man #95 & #96: Ultimate Spider-Cast Episode #86 Find all of our Social Media here: https://linktr.ee/capesandlunatics Follow Phil Perich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nightwingpdp Follow Lilith Hellfire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LilithHellfire Produced by: http://www.southgatemediagroup.com Production Team: Phil Perich SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS Order our book Pod Life: Podcaster Stories orderpodlife.smgpods.com When you shop at Amazon.com using this link, every dollar you spend supports our podcast network and doesn’t cost you a penny more. amazon.smgpods.com Hunt a Killer – Get 20% off on your first box with Coupon Code SOUTHGATE www.huntakiller.com Tweaked Audio Headphones – Get 30% off, Free Shipping, and a Lifetime Warranty with Coupon Code – SOUTHGATE www.tweakedaudio.com Support the Capes and Lunatics Podcast on Patreon www.patreon.com/capesandlunatics

This is the audio version of an FAA Safety Briefing LiveVideo Broadcast.The original LiveVideo broadcast can be accessed at https://www.faasafetybreifing.com/July-August2019.html and qualifies for FAA WINGS and/or AMT Credits. The July/August 2019 issue of FAA Safety Briefing focuses on the aviation safety culture. Feature articles explore what a sound safety culture is and offer ways you can integrate those principles into your everyday flying and airman duties.NOTE: While many of the ideas covered in the WINGS quiz are included in the presentation, you may need to download a copy of the magazine from: https://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/2019/media/JulAug2019.pdf to complete this course for WINGS / AMT Credits

Show notes for Episodes 42 – July/August 2020 Use of total underwater colonoscopy to navigate endoscopic challenges – CGH Performance of radiographic imaging after incomplete colonoscopy for non-malignant causes in clinical practice. – GIE Cognitive Deficit and white matter changes in persons with celiac disease: a population based study. -Gastroenterology Endoscopic gastric body plication for… Continue reading GI Pearls – July 2020 – Episode 42 Gastroenterology Literature Review

  Welcome to another edition of My Big Fat Pull List’s Current Issues. Our top stories for this episode include looking at the latest alien invasion targeting Marvel Comics in Empyer, examining how Amazon’s deal with the apocalypse in Wonder Woman: Dead Earth from DC Comics, trying to clean That Texas Blood off our hands … Continue reading Current Issues – Episode 7 (July/August 2020) →

For the pilot episode of Radio Imbibe, we talk to Alba Huerta of Julep in Houston and Ivy Mix of Leyenda in Brooklyn about the challenges of owning a bar during the COVID-19 crisis. We also chat with Matty Newton, the illustrator who tackled our July/August 2020 issue, about how he took on such a challenging project; ask Abigail Gullo from Ben Paris in Seattle to mix a favorite summer cocktail, the Old Cuban; and hear from Brooklyn bar owner St. John Frizell about his experiences with Fort Defiance and Gage & Tollner in the era of COVID-19, in an essay he wrote for our July/August 2020 issue. Radio Imbibe is the audio home of Imbibe magazine. In each episode, we dive into liquid culture, exploring the people, places, and flavors of the drinkscape through conversations about cocktails, coffee, beer, spirits, and wine. Keep up with us at imbibemagazine.com, and on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and if you're not already a subscriber, we'd love to have you join us--click here to subscribe.

Dr. E. Michael Jones returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his article “Iconoclasm in St. Louis: How Identity Politics Became Identity Theft” which is in the current July/August issue of Culture Wars. Dr. Jones is the editor of Culture Wars magazine and the author of many books including the recently published Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality.

In 1890, French inventor Louis Le Prince vanished just as he was preparing to debut his early motion pictures. He was never seen again. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll consider the possible causes of Le Prince's disappearance and his place in the history of cinema. We'll also reflect on a murderous lawyer and puzzle over the vagaries of snake milking. Intro: In 1826, schoolteacher George Pocock proposed a carriage drawn by kites. George Sicherman discovered an alternate pair of six-sided dice that produce the same probability distribution as ordinary dice. Sources for our feature on Louis Le Prince: Christopher Rawlence, The Missing Reel: The Untold Story of the Lost Inventor of Moving Pictures, 1990. Thomas Deane Tucker, The Peripatetic Frame, 2020. Adam Hart-Davis, ed., Engineers: From the Great Pyramids to the Pioneers of Space Travel, 2012. Jenni Davis, Lost Bodies, 2017. Charles Musser, "When Did Cinema Become Cinema?: Technology, History, and the Moving Pictures," in Santiago Hidalgo, ed., Technology and Film Scholarship: Experience, Study, Theory, 2018. Richard Howells, "Louis Le Prince: The Body of Evidence," Screen 47:2 (Summer 2006), 179–200. John Gianvito, "Remembrance of Films Lost," Film Quarterly 53:2 (1999), 39-42. Irfan Shah, "Man With a Movie Camera," History Today 69:1 (January 2019) 18-20. Violeta María Martínez Alcañiz, "The Birth of Motion Pictures: Piracy, Patent Disputes and Other Anecdotes in the Race for Inventing Cinema," III Congreso Internacional Historia, Arte y Literatura en el Cine en Español y Portugués, 2015. Atreyee Gupta, "The Disappearance of Louis Le Prince," Materials Today 11:7-8 (July-August 2008), 56. Justin McKinney, "From Ephemera to Art: The Birth of Film Preservation and the Museum of Modern Art Film Library," Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 33:2 (September 2014), 295-312. Denis Pellerin, "The Quest for Stereoscopic Movement: Was the First Film Ever in 3-D?", International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media 1:1 (2017). Ian Youngs, "Louis Le Prince, Who Shot the World's First Film in Leeds," BBC News, June 23, 2015. Kevin Brownlow, "The Inventor Vanishes," New York Times, Nov. 18, 1990. "How Is the Technology That Was Used to Reconstruct the Oldest Film in History?", CE Noticias Financieras, English ed., May 13, 2020. Chris Bond, "Leeds Celebrates Its Film Pioneer," Yorkshire Post, Oct. 24, 2017. Adrian Lee, "Whatever Happened to the True Father of Film?", [London] Daily Express, June 29, 2015. "Louis Le Prince: Time to Honour Cinema's Forgotten Pioneer," Yorkshire Post, Sept. 16, 2013. Troy Lennon, "Movie Pioneer Caught in a Disappearing Act," [Surry Hills, N.S.W.] Daily Telegraph, Oct. 14, 2008, 38. Kieron Casey, "The Mystery of Louis Le Prince, the Father of Cinematography," Science+Media Museum, Aug. 29, 2013. Listener mail: Agnes Rogers, How Come? A Book of Riddles, 1953. Wikipedia, "Lateral Thinking" (accessed July 25, 2020). Edward de Bono's website. Wikipedia, "Situation Puzzle" (accessed July 25, 2020). Paul Sloane, Lateral Thinking Puzzlers, 1991. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Eric Ridenour. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Congress is rightly considering substantial reforms to federal data-privacy law. In particular, there is a pressing need to preempt states from subjecting organizations to multiple, conflicting privacy rules. The debate now is not over whether to pass new legislation, but how to design such a law to protect consumers while encouraging continued innovation. Rob and Jackie discuss one proposal with its sponsor, Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA), honorary co-chair of ITIF. MentionedRobert D. Atkinson, Daniel Castro, and Doug Brake, “Technology Should Be Part of Any Stimulus Plan,” ITIF Innovation Files blog post, March 13, 2020. Office of Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA), “DelBene Introduces Legislation to Protect Consumer Privacy,” news release, March 29, 2019. ITIF, “DelBene Privacy Bill Would Protect Consumers Without Undermining Innovation,” news release, March 29, 2019. ITIF, “ECJ’s Irresponsible Decision in Schrems Case Will Wreak Havoc on Global Data Flows,” news release, July 16, 2020. RelatedDaniel Castro, Ben Miller, and Adams Nager, “Unlocking the Potential of Physician-to-Patient Telehealth Services” (ITIF, May 2014).Daniel Castro, “5 Lessons the U.S. Can Learn from European Privacy Efforts,” Government Technology, July-August, 2019.

Kyle Williams shares his story of healing from a moderate-to-severe diagnosis of ulcerative colitis. For complete show notes, visit http://youcuredwhat.com/podcast/kyle[1:45] Kyle gives his background with ulcerative colitis, which started in 2015 or 2016. He was going through a stressful time in his life. [3:00] Kyle noticed blood in his stool (he was 29 or 30 at the time). [4:00] Kyle had his first ulcerative colitis flare at work shortly after noticing blood in his stool. After that, he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. [5:30] After the initial flare, Kyle's overall health went into a tailspin. [8:00] After taking antibiotics, Kyle began having horrible abdominal pain and got C. diff. [12:40] From California, Kyle moved back in with his mother in Florida. [15:00] Kyle began eating a new diet: the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. [18:00] Kyle noticed slow progress from the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. [22:00] Kyle began seeing a therapist to see if that would help his health. [23:40] After a while on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, Kyle went on a binge at 2017 Christmastime: ice cream and pancakes galore. [25:00] Kyle went back on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, and things were not getting better. Every bowel movement was bloody and painful. [26:15] Kyle began feeling shame; he was buying adult Depends because he was afraid of soiling himself. [27:30] Kyle began going to a support group and he went back onto medication in July/August 2018. [30:15] From his initial diagnosis of mild ulcerative colitis, after getting another colonscopy, Kyle was diagnosed with moderate-severe ulcerative colitis. He was at risk of needing to have his colon cut out surgically. [32:30] With medication and a nightly rectal enema, Kyle's bleeding stopped within a week. [33:10] Backtracking to March of 2018, Kyle had a horrible panic attack and convulsions and Kyle had to be taken away from a convention in an ambulance. [35:20] After the panic attack, Kyle began seeing a new doctor. Kyle's new doctor, Dr. Marcus Ettinger, told him that he should consider the carnivore diet (eating only animal foods and salt). [36:40] Kyle's doctor (the one before Dr. Ettinger) told him that the drug he was on (mesalamine) was not going to work anymore. Kyle was going to have to go on Remicade/Humira, an immunosuppressant. This drug is extremely expensive ("a crap-ton of money"), it compromises the patient's immune system, and once you go on it, you may never be able to come off the drug. [39:45] Kyle decided he would go on the carnivore diet. [40:50] When Kyle started on the carnivore diet, he ate just beef, salt, and drank water. [46:25] What results did Kyle see upon adopting a carnivore diet in October 2018? [48:00] Kyle began weaning off medications in March 2019. [50:50] What other steps has Kyle taken beyond the carnivore diet in his healing journey? [51:30] Even beyond diet, Kyle's doctor promotes the importance of environment (light, water, and magnetism) on biology (and therefore health). [54:20] Kyle thinks his resilience is improved (he can cheat greatly on his carnivore diet at times without feeling ill effect) because of his improved environment. [58:50] What changes has Kyle made to improve his environment? The first item he changed is reduce artificial light, especially blue light (a specific spectrum of light). He uses blue-blocking glasses for this. [1:02:10] Kyle also credits getting more sunlight with improving his health. Especially morning and evening sun. [1:09:00] Kyle has also seen benefit from utilizing the Wim Hof Method. Kyle has done the Method's specific form of breathing exercises and cold exposure. [1:14:45] "I could not have made the health recovery I have made while caring too much about what other people think of me." [1:17:45] Does Kyle consider himself cured of ulcerative colitis? [1:19:00] Now that he has improved his health, what's one thing Kyle enjoys doing that he couldn't do before? [1:23:00] Kyle gives his closing thoughts regarding humans being made to be outside, regarding comfort, and regarding personal growth.

Batman Knightfall Part 13 & 14 Phil and Lilith continue the Knightfall journey with a review of Showcase ‘93 #7-#8 (July-August 1993) featuring the TWO part plan of Two-Face to gain control of Gotham’s crime families and murder Batman. Show Notes: Batman Knightfall Part 13 & 14: Before the Bat Episode #157 Find all of our Social Media & Merchandise here: https://linktr.ee/capesandlunatics Follow Phil Perich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nightwingpdp Follow Lilith Hellfire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LilithHellfire Produced by: http://www.southgatemediagroup.com Production Team: Phil Perich SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS Order our book Pod Life: Podcaster Stories orderpodlife.smgpods.com When you shop at Amazon.com using this link, every dollar you spend supports our podcast network and doesn’t cost you a penny more. amazon.smgpods.com Hunt a Killer – Get 20% off on your first box with Coupon Code SOUTHGATE www.huntakiller.com Tweaked Audio Headphones – Get 30% off, Free Shipping, and a Lifetime Warranty with Coupon Code – SOUTHGATE www.tweakedaudio.com Support the Capes and Lunatics Podcast on Patreon www.patreon.com/capesandlunatics

Drs. Priya Vakharia and Shriji Patel join to preview the July/August 2020 issue of Retinal Physician, including a discussion of shaving during vitrectomy for retinal detachment, low vision technological applications, retinal vein occlusion management, and telemedicine. Retinal Physician can be found online at http://www.retinalphysician.com.Relevant Financial Disclosures: Dr. Sridhar is a consultant for Regeneron and Alcon,

We discuss the origins of tessellations in Islamic art and ask how architecture affects our work-life balance. Plus: author Shelley Klein recounts her childhood in a mid-century house in Scotland and we preview Monocle’s city-themed July/August issue.

Today on the Friends in Beauty Podcast we welcome Matia Johson. Matia Johnson is a native Washingtonian, strategic communications specialist, visual design guru, screenwriter, and newlywed!  She has an undergraduate degree in English and Communications, and a masters in Producing Film and Video. Since entrepreneurship has always been a core desire for Matia since her early 20s, she decided to act on this desire.  With over 10 years of experience in publications, program development, and communications in both the government and nonprofit field, she has developed a niche for branding and has established Innovative Minds Media, DC’s premier branding agency for small business start ups.  “IMM” specializes in digital  branding, marketing, and small business tools for Creatives, those who are looking to open their own business, or take their business to the next level.  As a rising entrepreneur herself, Matia continues to trust in GOD, determination, skills, and passion to see her dreams, and other people’s, take the shape of reality.  In this episode, Matia shares her entrepreneurship journey and how it led to her creating Innovative Minds Media. She also shares her love for networking and gives us her top 3 branding tips which are the core things that most businesses overlook when they’re starting out and even when they’re operating. Matia also shares with the Friends in Beauty community how you can go about being featured in an upcoming issue of IMM and what’s next for the magazine. Enjoy this episode!   Leave us a 5 star review and share this episode with a friend or 2 or 3. info.friendsinbeauty@gmail.com   Resources Mentioned In This Episode: -Ronne Brown - @ronnebrown -Girl CEO - @girlceoinc -July/August 2020 issue of IMM featuring Akua Robinson - https://issuu.com/info-immmagazine/docs/imm_june_july_2020_issue -Hashtag #IMMFeature for a chance to be featured in IMM Mag or their Social Media.   Announcements: We’re on Apple Podcasts - www.bit.ly/FIBPodItunes! Join our Facebook community… If  you’re looking for a community of like minded, ambitious, and supportive #FriendsinBeauty all working to leave our mark on the beauty industry, join us here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsinbeauty   Social Media Info: Innovative Minds Media (Website) - innovativemindsmedia.com Innovative Minds Media (Instagram & Facebook) - @innovativemindsmedia Innovative Minds Media (Twitter) - @immcreativemag Friends in Beauty (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter) - @friendsinbeauty Friends in Beauty (YouTube) - Friends in Beauty Akua Robinson (Instagram,Twitter) - @akuarobinson AkuaRobinson (Facebook) - Akua Robinson MUA Akua Robinson (Website) - www.akuarobinson.com #FriendsinBeauty #FIBPodcast

The boys break down the Cam Newton to Patriots signing, NBA schedule comes out for July/August and the Rockies release their 60 man schedule

TERRIFICON Mitch and artist/writer Jerry Ordway are Back! As the guys talk comics over pizza they look back at comic book legends Denny O'Neil and Joe Sinnott who passed away this week. Plus talk of Michael Keaton returning as Batman, comic book shops and Sara the waitress drops by. All that and more in this pizza-packed episode of the POWER COSMIC! See the guys when The World's Greatest Comic Con -TERRIFICON returns in 2021 on July - August 1 at Mohegan Sun! #terrificon #comicbooks #DennyONeil #JoeSinnott #Batman #Keaton

Executive Director Tom Hardiman and Marketing Director John McMullen discuss the upcoming industry reports and preview the July/August 2020 issue of MBI's Modular Advantage magazine.

You may have seen the term Anti-Racist pop up on social media this past week, or before. Being anti-racist is viewing all racial groups as equal and supporting policies that lead to equality and justice. It not only means to acknowledge that racism exists, but to fight it whenever it arises. Don’t be tone deaf either. I cannot speak for my brother, for I have never walked as a minority in America. But my forebears did. They experienced racism as Irish immigrants in America, the No Irish Need Apply, and all that hardship that mentality symbolizes. Under British overlords, they were stolen or sentenced to slavery, often in Barbados, or even the U.S. “The curse of Cromwell: revisiting the Irish slavery debate” By John Donoghue, searches through the comparison between Irish and black slaves. Donoghue is an associate professor of history at Loyola University, Chicago. Published in 18th-19th Century Social Perspectives, Early Modern History Social Perspectives, Features, Issue 4 (July/August 2017), Volume 25 A few excerpts from this work, both relevant, and insightful: “Cromwell himself oversaw the first wave of colonial transportation to the Caribbean. Writing to parliament after leading the slaughter at Drogheda (Drohg heed ah) in September 1649, the general reported that the ‘officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes’. Slipping easily into imperial voice, Cromwell argued that massacre and transportation were benevolent forms of terrorism, as they would frighten the Irish into submission and thus ‘prevent the effusion of blood for the future’. In this light, the history of Irish slavery should lead to solidarity with—rather than scorn for—the deep history driving the Black Lives Matter movement. Interracial solidarity may be the only means by which we can lift the curse of Cromwell that still haunts the Irish in America.  “Importantly, Irish servants and others from England and Scotland referred to themselves as ‘slaves’. African slaves also regarded Irish field hands as slaves. An anonymous writer on Barbados, most likely Major John Scott, wrote in 1667 that the Irish were ‘derided by the negroes, and branded with the epithet of “white slaves”’. Africans referred to the Irish as slaves, as the Irish did themselves, to reflect the brutal exploitation they endured as unfree plantation workers who, having been kidnapped or transported, were violently forced to work against their will. Irish sailors voyaging to the West Indies on commercial ventures or with Prince Rupert’s Royalist fleet in 1652 would have seen Irish people subjected to plantation bondage. In 1655, Irish sailors had themselves been transported after being captured serving with Royalist forces.” The Irish race – faced 800 years of attempts to euthanize us. An Gorta Mor, The Great Hunger, whose epicenter was Black 47, is only the most famous. Still they, and we, stand. The Jewish race - faced the Holocaust, and 6 million of them were murdered. Still they, and we, stand. The American Indian race – Driven from their centuries long owned land, treaties violated and starvation. Still they, and we, stand. The Black and Brown race – faced Slavery. Still they, and we, stand. Unfortunately, I am sure there are other such defining cultural attempts at systemic euthanasia. Why did so many Irish become cops, lawyers and then judges, with each succeeding generation following, even to today? This doesn’t lessen the Black cause, it validates it. Despite attempts by others, an equal opportunity gained through hard work, perseverance, wisdom and planning was available to us, often with a hand down for the ones coming after.  Blacks did not, and some still do not, have that.  To revisit Donaghue above, “… approximately twelve million Africans who endured the Middle Passage to the Americas from the early sixteenth century through to the late nineteenth century, who, if they lived (approximately two million of them perished), faced perpetual slavery for themselves and their children, something whites never or almost never experienced.”  The difference for the Irish is that it did not pass on to their children. You cannot equate Irish bondage with perpetual, racial slavery, as experienced by Black slaves. Similarities, certainly. Understanding and empathy, certainly. But surely you can see the systemic racism evident past and present, not just in America, but systemic here for sure. Is silence consent?  Are you, like me, afraid to speak up at times, for fear of saying the wrong thing to our brothers and sisters, and be accused of being a racist, which would crush my human loving soul, while really just wanting to help? In both interest and profession, I study our Irish and American history, and in overlap, I know just a little of what Black history is.   But, just a little. I listen, I strive to understand, to do more than just empathize, and then, do whatever I can to help. I asked a friend and former colleague, Ken Surratt, who is black, for advice - I feel helpless - what can I do? His response was, “Whenever you see racism, Stand Up - each and every time.” Simple and direct, impactful  and powerful – repetition and perseverance wear away the stone. And illuminates. NYT: May 29 there was a column titled An Antiracist Reading List.  Ibram X. Kendi wrote on books to help America transcend its racist heritage. It is NOT absolutist.  He is NOT saying ALL whites, or all Americans.  He is just saying that: No one becomes “not racist,” despite a tendency by Americans to identify themselves that way. We can only strive to be “antiracist” on a daily basis, to continually rededicate ourselves to the lifelong task of overcoming our country’s racist heritage. We learn early the racist notion that white people have more because they are more; that people of color have less because they are less. I had internalized this worldview by my high school graduation, seeing myself and my race as less than other people and blaming other blacks for racial inequities. To build a nation of equal opportunity for everyone, we need to dismantle this spurious legacy of our common upbringing. One of the best ways to do this is by reading books. Not books that reinforce old ideas about who we think we are, what we think America is, what we think racism is. Instead, we need to read books that are difficult or unorthodox, that don’t go down easily. Books that force us to confront our self-serving beliefs and make us aware that “I’m not racist” is a slogan of denial. Check out The Times for the list, if you are interested. In the first letter to the Corinthians, Paul is providing instruction to the faithful and trying to describe what the Spirit provides for the Church. He writes, “There are many different gifts, but it is the same Spirit; there are many different ways of serving, but it is the same Lord. There are many forms of activity, but in everybody it is the same God who is at work in them all. The particular manifestation of the Spirit granted to each one is to be used for the general good”. History tells us we cannot seek the easy way out, it only prolongs the end of a society, whether it be Roman Society, or American. You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break. Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. No color, No religion No nationality Should come between us. We are all children of God – said Mother Theresa Harry S Truman said that the hyphenated American refers to the use of a hyphen (in some styles of writing) between the name of an ethnicity and the word "American".  It was an epithet used from 1890 to 1920 to disparage Americans who were of foreign birth or origin, and who displayed an allegiance to a foreign country through the use of the hyphen. It was most commonly directed at German Americans or Irish Americans (i.e. Catholics) who called for U.S. neutrality in World War I. Former President Theodore Roosevelt in speaking to the largely Irish Catholic Knights of Columbus at Carnegie Hall on Columbus Day 1915, asserted that,[4] There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. Now, that is tough to hear. I consider myself a good American. Patriotic, willing to sacrifice for my country, for the greater good. I am sure I don’t believe all of what President Roosevelt said here. I understand the concept, but …  I know the power of my community when we stand together.  We all walk in many communities. So, I guess I get it, even if I do not subscribe completely, at least not yet. Mind you, this contemplation is coming from a guy who publishes an Irish-American newspaper, Irish books, this Irish-American podcast, and has had a great life because of the support of this Irish-American community.  I am not looking a gift horse in the mouth. Where I came from made me. Who I am, and choose to be though, will make me better. That does not mean I cannot see others not as fortunate, or in need of help. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. I can see need, and I can fight those who ignore it, intentionally or not, side by side with those in need. Isn’t that reaching a hand down to pull them up, too? A great friend and civic leader, Marilyn Madigan, posted on FB a graphic that said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” I believe that is true.  We cannot walk out of church with a replenished soul, and then stomp, or kneel on the neck, of someone that we disagree with or meet up with. We cannot protect one person’s rights, and ignore another’s, let alone a whole race’s. An officer’s indefensible actions, once, over a career, or over 9 minutes… ? It is much more than being just about justice.  It is about Human Rights, which transcend, pretty much anything. Every man, woman and child’s rights. I understand, as a white male, that I will never understand what it is to be black in America. Yet, I understand some of it, in shared experiences, in No Irish Need Apply, and all the symbolism and racism attached to that, in my roots. A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry. Injustice makes me angry. Disregard for Human Rights makes me angry. Disregard for God’s creation, makes me angry. In my daily movements, instead of seeing a transaction needed to be completed before moving on to the next item on my to-do list, what if I saw each person I meet, as they are - a gift of God, loved beyond measure? There would be fewer transactions, but many more encounters with the living God. For me, this life is temporary; I strive to live in a way aimed at earning the next one. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package indeed. Would this difference in approach, this taking of a breath, a moment in a busy day, yield a different result, and relationship? It did, it does, for me. So then, as for me? I will choose love. *** As always, I end with a bit of the Irish: Nuair a stadann an ceol, stadann an rince (When the music stops, so does the dance) Keep playing your music. Wider audiences need to hear it. Thank you to all the gang here at WHKRadio, especially the production genius, Josh Booth, as well as Gerry Quinn and Tim Vaughn.  Your endless support is so appreciated. We drop a new podcast every 2nd Friday at 5 pm, alternating weeks with our two times a month eBulletin that goes out to over 12,000 opted-in subscribers. I hope you will sign up for that too, on either our web or Facebook page. For a list of events to come, stories and much more, check out the website, or follow our FB, Twitter and Instagram pages to keep up with all the shenanigans to come. If you are like me, and like to hold the paper in your hands when reading, pick up your copy of the Ohio Irish American News at any one of 211 locations in and around Ohio. The list and archived interactive copies are also on the website, at ohioianews.com.  There are many more songs and stories; I hope we will write new ones - of joy, of unification.  Here, and across the pond. 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