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[Hors-série 4] La palpation, la fin d'une ère ? | Augustin Castel (@castel_physio), kinésithérapeute du sport & OMT

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2025 8:23


Success is Subjective Podcast
Episode 303: Rewriting the Script - From Grief to Healing with Maya Kruger

Success is Subjective Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 25:35


In this episode of Success Is Subjective, drama therapist and trauma specialist Maya Kruger invites us into a story shaped by creativity, resilience, and a life-altering turning point. Raised in Israel by academic parents, Maya felt caught between expectations and her love for theater—until an unexpected event in her final year of high school changed everything. What followed was a journey through military service, an Outward Bound program in Colorado, and a leap of faith into NYU's drama therapy program. Along the way, Maya discovered that true impact doesn't require a spotlight—it requires presence, compassion, and emotional courage. Now a licensed therapist and mother of two, she blends artistry and trauma work to help others navigate their own breaking points. This conversation is a testament to the quiet power of reinvention and the many ways we define success beyond the stage.Maya's Resources:WebsiteInstagramOutward Bound Connect with Joanna Lilley  Therapeutic Consulting AssociationLilley Consulting WebsiteLilley Consulting on Facebook Lilley Consulting on YouTubeEmail joanna@lilleyconsulting.com#TherapeuticConsulting #LilleyConsulting #Successful  #TherapeuticPrograms #Therapy #MentalHealthMatters #Podcast #PodcastCommunity #TheJourney #SuccessIsSubjectivePodcast #TheUnpavedRoad #PFCAudioVideo #TraumaRecovery #TherapyJourney #Healing #MayaKrugerTherapy #PersonalGrowth #TherapyWorks

ThinkEnergy
Summer Rewind: Reimagining heating and cooling with district energy systems

ThinkEnergy

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 54:15


Summer rewind: Scott Demark, President and CEO of Zibi Community Utility, joins thinkenergy to discuss how our relationship with energy is changing. With two decades of expertise in clean energy and sustainable development, Scott suggests reimagining traditional energy applications for heating and cooling. He shares how strategic energy distribution can transform urban environments, specifically how district energy systems optimize energy flow between buildings for a greener future. Listen in.   Related links   ●     Scott Demark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-demark-83640473/ ●     Zibi Community Utility: https://zibi.ca/ ●     Markham District Energy Inc: https://www.markhamdistrictenergy.com/ ●     One Planet Living: https://www.bioregional.com/one-planet-living ●     Trevor Freeman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-freeman-p-eng-cem-leed-ap-8b612114/ ●     Hydro Ottawa: https://hydroottawa.com/en   To subscribe using Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinkenergy/id1465129405    To subscribe using Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wFz7rdR8Gq3f2WOafjxpl    To subscribe on Libsyn: http://thinkenergy.libsyn.com/  --- Subscribe so you don't miss a video: https://www.youtube.com/user/hydroottawalimited    Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydroottawa    Stay in the know on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HydroOttawa Keep up with the posts on X: https://twitter.com/thinkenergypod  ---- Transcript: Trevor Freeman  00:00 Hi everyone. Well, summer is here, and the think energy team is stepping back a bit to recharge and plan out some content for the next season. We hope all of you get some much needed downtime as well, but we aren't planning on leaving you hanging over the next few months, we will be re releasing some of our favorite episodes from the past year that we think really highlight innovation, sustainability and community. These episodes highlight the changing nature of how we use and manage energy, and the investments needed to expand, modernize and strengthen our grid in response to that. All of this driven by people and our changing needs and relationship to energy as we move forward into a cleaner, more electrified future, the energy transition, as we talk about many times on this show. Thanks so much for listening, and we'll be back with all new content in September. Until then, happy listening.   Trevor Freeman  00:55 Welcome to think energy, a podcast that dives into the fast changing world of energy through conversations with industry leaders, innovators and people on the front lines of the energy transition. Join me, Trevor Freeman, as I explore the traditional, unconventional and up and coming facets of the energy industry. If you have any thoughts, feedback or ideas for topics we should cover, please reach out to us at think energy at hydro ottawa.com, Hi everyone. Welcome back one of the overarching aspects of the energy transition that we have talked about several times on this show is the need to change our relationship with energy, to rethink the standard way of doing things when it comes to heating and cooling and transportation, et cetera. This change is being driven by our need to decarbonize and by the ongoing evolution and improvement of technology, more things are becoming available to us as technology improves. On the decarbonization front, we know that electrification, which is switching from fossil fuel combustions to electricity for things like space and water heating, vehicles, et cetera, is one of the most effective strategies. But in order to switch out all the end uses to an electric option, so swapping out furnaces and boilers for heat pumps or electric boilers, switching all gas cars to EVs, et cetera, in order to do that in a way that is affordable and efficient and can be supported by our electricity grid. We need to think about multi strategy approaches, so we can't just continue to have this one way power grid where every home, every business, every warehouse or office tower satisfies all of its energy needs all the time directly from the grid with no adaptability. That isn't the best approach. It's not going to be affordable or efficient. We're not going to be able to do it fast enough. The multi strategy approach takes into account things like distributed energy resources, so solar and storage, et cetera, which we've talked about many times on this show, but it also includes approaches like district energy. So district energy is rethinking how energy flows between adjacent buildings, looking for opportunities to capture excess energy or heat from one source and use that to support another, and that is the focus of today's conversation to help us dive into this topic, I'm really happy to welcome Scott demark to the show. Scott has been a champion of sustainability, clean energy solutions and energy efficiency in the Ottawa real estate and development industry for over 20 years now, he has overseen many high performance development projects, and was one of the driving forces behind the Zibi development in downtown Ottawa, and most applicable for today's conversation the renewable district energy system that provides heating and cooling to the Zibi site. Scott is the president and CEO of the Zibi community utility, as well as a partner at Theia partners. Scott the Mark, welcome to the show. Thanks. Nice to see you. Trevor, so Scott, why don't we start with definitions are always a good place to start. So when we talk about a district energy system, give us a high level overview of what exactly that means.   Scott Demark  04:15 Sure a district energy system is, is simply the connection or interconnection of thermal energy sources, thermal energy sinks. And so really, in practical terms, it means, instead of buildings having their own furnace and cooling system, buildings connect to a hydronic loop. A hydronic loop is just pipes filled with water, and then the heat or the cooling is made somewhere else, and that heat or lack of heat cooling is in a pipe. They push the pipe to the building, and then the pipe extracts the heat, or rejects the heat to that loop. And so it's simply an interconnection of. Uh, as it forces in sinks for federal energy.   Trevor Freeman  05:03 And I guess one of the important concepts here is that buildings often create heat, not just through a furnace or not just through the things that are meant to create heat, but, you know, server racks, computer server racks, generate a lot of heat, and that heat has to go somewhere. So oftentimes we're cooling buildings to remove heat that's being created in those buildings, and then other buildings nearby need to be heated in order to make that space comfortable.   Scott Demark  05:31 Is that fair to say? Yeah, absolutely. Trevor, so, a an office building in the city of Ottawa, big old government office building, you'll see a pretty big plume on the roof in the wintertime. That's not just kind of the flue gas from a boiler, but rather it is actually chillers are running inside to make cooling, and they're just selling that heat to the atmosphere, even on the coldest day of the year. So it's people, you know, people are thermal load. Computers are thermal load, and so is solar gain. You know, January is pretty dark period for us, meaning low angle sun, but by this time in a year, you know, at the end of February, there's a lot of heat in that sun. So a glass building absorbs a lot of sun an office building will lead cooling on the sunny side of that building a lot of the time, even in the dead of   Trevor Freeman  06:18 winter, yeah. So a district system, then, is taking advantage of the fact that heat exists, and we don't necessarily need to either burn fossil fuels, or, even if it's a, you know, a clean system, we don't have to expend energy to create heat, or create as much heat if we could move that heat around from where it's kind of naturally occurring to where we need   Scott Demark  06:41 it. That's right at the very core of a district energy system. You're going to move heat from a place that it's not wanted to a place that it is wanted. And so in our example of the office building, you know, on the February day with the sun shining in and the computers all running, that building's getting rid of heat. But right next door, say, there's a 20 story condo. Well, that 20 story condo needs heating and it also needs domestic hot water. So year round, domestic hot water represents 30, 35% of the heating load of any residential building, so at all times. So a district energy system allows you to take that heat away from the office building and give it to the residential building, instead of making the heat and and dissipating that heat to the atmosphere in the office building. So, yeah, it's, it's really a way to move, you know, from sources to sinks. That's, that's what a district energy system does well.   Trevor Freeman  07:37 So we've kind of touched on this a little bit, but let's dive right into, you know, we talk a lot on the show about the energy transition this, this push to one, move away from fossil fuel combustion to meet our energy needs, and two, shifting from a kind of static, centralized energy system like we have right now, big generators, large transmission lines, et cetera, to more of a two way flow, distributed energy system. What is the role of district energy systems within that transition? How do they help us get closer to that sort of reality that we talk about?   Scott Demark  08:15 I think the biggest way that they help is economies of scale. Okay, so by that, I'll explain that. Imagine there's a lot of technology that's been around a long time that is very scalable to the building level, but most of them are fossil fire. Okay, so the the cheapest way to heat a building in Ottawa is to put a gas fired boiler in. That's the cheapest capital cost, first cost, and it's also the cheapest operating cost, is to put a gas boiler in that industry is well established. There's lots of trades who could do it. There's lots of producers who make the boilers. When you start to try and think about the energy transition and think about what you may do to be different, to be lower carbon, or to be zero carbon, those industries are, are just starting right? Those industries don't exist. They don't have the same depth, and so they don't have the same cost structure, and oftentimes they don't scale well down to the building. And therefore a district energy system aggregates a bunch of load, and so you can provide a thermal energy so at scale that becomes affordable. And that is, you know, a very good example of that would be where, you know, you might want to go and and recover heat from some process. And we'll talk about Zibi as the example. But if you want to go recover heat from some process and bring it in, it doesn't make sense to run a pipeline to a source to heat one building. You can't make financial sense of it, but if you're heating 20 buildings, that pipeline, all of a sudden makes sense to take waste heat from somewhere, to move it somewhere else. The other advantage is that truly, district energy systems are agnostic to their inputs and outputs for heat. So once you. Establish that hydronic loop, that interconnection of water pipes between buildings. What the source and what the source is doesn't matter. So you may have, at one point, built a district energy system, and Markham District Energy System is a great example of this. Markham district energy system was built on the concept of using a co generation facility. So they burned natural gas to make electricity. They sold electricity to the grid, and they captured all the waste heat from that generation, and they fed it into a district energy system. Well here we are, 20 plus years later, and they're going to replace that system, that fossil fired system Augment, not fully replaced, but mostly replace that system with a sewer coupled energy recovery and drive those heat recovery chillers to a sewer system. So they're putting a very green solution in place of a former fossil solution. They don't to rip up the pipes. They don't have to change anything in the buildings. They only have to change that central concept now, again, Markham could never do that at a one building scale. They're only that at the community scale.   Trevor Freeman  11:08 So you mentioned, I want to pick on something you said there. You talked about a sewer heat energy system. They're pulling heat from the sewer. Just help our listeners understand high level kind of, why is there heat there for us to pull like, what's the what's the source there?   Scott Demark  11:26 Yeah, so when we shower, when we flush toilets, all, all of that is introducing heat into a sewer system. So we're collecting heat from everybody's house into the sewer system. The sewer system also sits below the frost line. So call it Earth coupled. You know, it's the earth in Ottawa below the frost line sits around eight, eight and a half c and so at that temperature and the temperature of flushing toilets we we essentially get a sewer temperature in the on the coldest day of the year, but it's around 1010, and a half degrees Celsius. And obviously, for lots of the year, it's much warmer than that. And so I think, you know, a lot of people are kind of familiar with the concept of geo exchange energy, or that. Lot of people call it geothermal. But geo exchange where you might drill down into the earth, and you're taking advantage of that 888, and a half degrees Celsius. So you're exchanging heat. You can reject heat to the earth, or you can absorb heat from the earth. Well, this is the same idea, but you accept or reject from this sewer. But because the sewer is relatively shallow, it is cheaper to access that energy, and because it's warm, and on the coldest day, a couple of degrees make a big difference. Trevor and most of the years so much warmer, you're really in a very good position to extract that heat, and that's all it is. You. You are just accepting or rejecting heat. You don't use the sewage itself. It doesn't come into your building. You have a heat exchanger in between. But that's what you do.   Trevor Freeman  12:58 I agree. And we've talked before on the show about the idea that you know, for an air source, heat pump, for example, you don't need a lot of heat energy to extract energy from the air. It can be cold outside, and there is still heat energy in the air that you can pull and use that to heat a building, heat water, whatever. So same concept, except you've got a much warmer source of energy, I guess. Yeah, exactly. And you know, Trevor, when you look at the efficiency curves of those air source heat pumps, you know, they kind of drop off a cliff at minus 20. Minus 22 In fact, you know, five or six years ago, they that that was dropping off at minus 10. So we've come a long way in air source heat pumps. But imagine on that coldest, coldest day of the year, you're still your source is well above zero, and therefore your efficiency. So the amount of electricity you need to put into the heat pump to get out the heat that you need is much lower, so it's a way more efficient heat exchange. Great. Thanks for that, Scott. I know that's a bit of a tangent here, but always cool to talk about different ways that we're coming up with to heat our buildings. So back to district energy, we've talked through some of the benefits of the system. If I'm a building owner and I'm have the decision to connect to a system that's there, or have my own standalone, you know, traditional boiler, whatever the case may be, or even in a clean energy want to heat pump, whatever. What are the benefits of being on a district system versus having my own standalone system for just my building?   Scott Demark  14:30 Yeah, so when you're wearing the developers hat, you know they're really looking at it financially, if they have other goals around sustainability. Great that will factor into it, but most of them are making decisions around this financially. So it needs to compete with that. That first cost that we talked about the easiest ways, is boilers, gas fired boilers is the cheapest way. And so they're going to look to see it at how. Does this compare to that? And so I think that's the best way to frame it for you. And so the difference here is that you need to install in your building a cooling system and a heating system. In Ottawa, that cooling system is only used for a few months a year, and it's very expensive. It takes up space, whether you're using a chiller and a cooling tower on the roof, or using a dry cooler, it takes up roof space, and it also takes up interior space. If you do have a cooling tower, you have a lot of maintenance for that. You need to turn it on and turn it off in the spring, on and fall, etc, just to make sure all that happens. And you need to carry the life cycle of that boiler plant you need to bring gas infrastructure into your building. You generally need to put that gas boiler plant high in your building, so, so up near the top, and that's for purposes of venting that properly. Now, that's taking real estate, right? And it's taking real estate on the area that's kind of most advantageous, worth the most money. So you might lose a penthouse to have a boiler and chiller room up there. And you also, of course, lose roof space. And today, we really do try to take advantage of those rooftop patios and things. Amenities are pretty important in buildings. And so when I compare that to district energy at the p1 level p2 level in your building, you're going to have a small room, and I really do mean small where the energy transfer takes place, you'll have some heat exchangers. And small you might have a space, you know, 10 or 12 feet by 15 to 18 feet would be big enough for a 30 story tower. So a small room where you do the heat exchange and then Trevor, you don't have anything in your building for plant that you would normally look after. So when you look at the pro forma for owning your building over the lifetime of it, you don't have to maintain boilers. You don't have to have boiler insurance. You don't have to maintain your chillers. You don't have to have lifecycle replacement on any of these products. You don't need anybody operating, those checking in on the pressure vessels. None of that has to happen. All of that happens on the district energy system. So you're really taking something you own and operate and replacing that with a service. So district energy is a service, and what, what we promised to deliver is the heating you need and the cooling you need. 24/7 you second thing you get is more resilience. And I'll explain that a little bit. Is that in a in a normal building, if you if the engineers looked at it and said you need two boilers to keep your building warm, then you're probably going to install three. And that is kind of this n plus one sort of idea, so that if one boilers goes down, you have a spare and you need to maintain those. You need to pay for that. You need to maintain those, etc. But in district energy system, all that redundancy is done in the background. It's done by us, and we have significantly more redundancy than just n plus one in this example. But overall, you know, if you have 10 buildings on your district energy system, each of those would have had n plus one. We don't have n plus 10 in the plant. And so overall, the cost is lower, I would say, if you look at it globally, except the advantages you do have better than N plus one in the plan, so we have higher resiliency at a lower cost.   Trevor Freeman  18:26 So we know there's no such thing as a miracle solution that works in all cases. What are the the best use cases for district energy system? Where does it make a lot of sense.   Scott Demark  18:37 Yeah, in terms some, in some ways the easiest thing, spray work doesn't make sense. So, so it doesn't make sense in sprawling low rise development. So the cost of that hydronic loop, those water pipes, is high. They have to fit in the roadway. It's civil work, etc. And so you do need density. That doesn't mean it has to be high rise density. You know, if you look at Paris, France, six stories, district energy, no problem. There's there's lots and lots of customers for that scale of building. It doesn't have to be all high rise, but it does. District energy does not lend itself well to our sprawling style of development. It's much more suited to a downtown setting. It also kind of thrives where there's mixed use, you know, I think the first example we're talking about is office building shedding heat, residential building needing heat, you know, couple that with an industrial building shedding heat. You know, the these various uses, a variety of uses on a district energy system is the best because its biggest advantage is sharing energy, not making energy. And so a disparity of uses is the best place to use that, I think the other, the other thing to think about, and this is harder in Canada than the rest of the world. Is that, you know, it's harder on a retrofit basis, from a cost perspective, than it is in a in a new community where you can put this in as infrastructure, day one, you're going to make a big difference. And I'll, you know, give a shout out to British Columbia and the Greater Vancouver area. So the district, you know, down in the Lower Mainland, they, they kind of made this observation and understood that if they were going to electrify then District Energy gave economies of scale to electrify that load. And they do a variety of things, but one of the things they do is, is kind of district geo exchange systems, so, so big heat pumps coupled to big fields, and then bring heat a bunch of buildings. But these are Greenfield developments Trevor. So as they expand their suburbs, they do need to build the six stories. They very much have kind of density around parks concepts. So now Park becomes a geo field, density around the geo field, but this infrastructure is going in the same time as the water pipes. It's going in at the same time as the roads, the sidewalks, etc, you can dramatically reduce your cost, your first cost related to that hydro loop, if you're putting it in the same time you're doing the rest of the services.   Trevor Freeman  21:15 So we're not likely to see, you know, residential neighborhoods with single family homes or multi unit homes, whatever, take advantage of this. But that sort of low rise, mid rise, that's going to be more of a good pick for this. And like you said, kind of development is the time to do this. You mentioned other parts of the world. So district energy systems aren't exactly widespread. In Canada, we're starting to see more of them pop up. What about the rest of the world? Are there places in the world where we see a lot more of this, and they've been doing this for a long time?   Scott Demark  21:47 Yeah. So I'd almost say every everywhere in the northern hemisphere, except North America, has done much more of this. And you know, we really look to kind of Scandinavia as the gold standard of this. You look to Sweden, you look to Denmark, you look to Germany. Even there's, there's a lot of great examples of this, and they are typically government owned. So they are often public private partnerships, but they would be various levels of government. So you know, if you, if you went to Copenhagen, you'd see that the municipality is an owner. But then their equivalent of a province or territory is, is actually a big part of it, too. And when they built their infrastructure ages ago, they did not have an easy source of fossil fuels, right? And so they need to think about, how can we do this? How can we share heat? How can we centralize the recovery of heat? How can we make sure we don't waste any and this has just been ingrained in them. So there's massive, massive District Energy loops, interconnecting loops, some owned by municipalities, some of them probably, if you build a factory, part of the concept of your factory, part of the pro forma of your factory is, how much can I sell my waste heat for? And so a factory district might have a sear of industrial partners who own a district energy loop and interfaces with the municipal loop, all sort of sharing energy and dumping it in. And so that's, you know, that's what you would study. That's, that's where we would want to be. And the heart of it is just that, as I said, we've really had, you know, cheap or, you know, really cheap fossil fuels. We've had no price on pollution. And therefore what really hasn't needed to happen here, and we're starting to see the need for that to happen here.   Trevor Freeman  23:46 It's an interesting concept to think of, you know, bringing that factory example in, instead of waste heat or heat as a byproduct of your process being a problem that you need to deal with, something, you have to figure out a way to get rid of it becomes almost an asset. It's a it's a, you know, convenient commodity that's being produced regardless, that you can now look to sell and monetize.   Scott Demark  24:10 Yeha, you go back to the idea of, like, what are the big benefits of district energy? Is that, like, if that loop exists and somebody knows that one of the things the factory produces is heat, well, that's a commodity I produce, and I can, I can sell it if I have a way to sell it right here, you know, we're going to dissipate it to a river. We may dissipate it to the atmosphere. We're going to get rid of it. Like you said, it's, it's, it's waste in their minds, and in Europe, that is absolutely not waste.   Trevor Freeman  24:36 And it coming back to that, you know, question of, where does this make sense? You talked about mixed use, and it's also like the, you know, the temporal mixed use of someone that is producing a lot of heat during the day, when the next door residential building is empty, then when they switch, when the factory closes and the shift is over and everybody comes home from work. So that's when that building needs heat, that's when they want to be then taking that heat two buildings next to each other that both need heat at the same time is not as good a use cases when it's offset like that.   Scott Demark  25:10 Yeah, that's true. And lots of District Energy Systems consider kind of surges and storage. I know our system at CB has, has kind of a small storage system related to the domestic hot water peak load. However, you can also think of the kilometers and kilometers and kilometers of pipes full of water as a thermal battery, right? So, so you actually are able to even out those surges you you let the temperature the district energy system rise when that factory is giving all out all kinds of heat, it's rising even above the temperature you have to deliver it at. And then when that heat comes, you can draw down that temperature and let the whole district energy system normalize to its temperature again. So you do have an innate battery in the in the water volume that sits in the district energy system, very cool.   Trevor Freeman  26:04 So you've mentioned Zibi a couple of times, and I do want to get into that as much as we're talking about other parts of the world. You know having longer term district energy systems. Zibi, community utility is a great example, right here in Ottawa, where you and I are both based of a district energy system. Before we get into that, can you, just for our listeners that are not familiar with Zibi, give us a high level overview of of what that community is, its location, you know, the goals of the community, and then we'll talk about the energy side of things.   Scott Demark  26:34 Sure. So Zibi was formerly Domtar paper mills. It's 34 acres, and it is in downtown Ottawa and downtown Gatineau. About a third of the land masses is islands on the Ontario side, and two thirds of the land mass is on the shore, the north shore of the Ottawa River in Gatineau, both downtown, literally in the shadows of Parliament. It is right downtown. It was industrial for almost 200 years. Those paper mills shut down in the 90s and the early 2000s and my partners and I pursued that to turn it from kind of this industrial wasteland, walled off, fenced off, area that no one could go into. What we're hoping will be kind of the world's most sustainable urban community, and so at build out, it will house, you know, about six, 7000 people. It will be four and a half million square feet, 4.24 point 4, million square feet of development. It is master planned and approved and has built about, I think we're, at 1.1 million square feet. So we're about quarter built out now. 10 buildings are done and connected to the district energy system there. And really, it's, it's an attempt to sort of recover land that was really quite destroyed. You can imagine it was a pretty polluted site. So the giant remediation plan, big infrastructure plan, we modeled this, this overall sustainability concept, over a program called one planet living which has 10 principles of sustainability. So you know, you and I are talking a lot about carbon today, but there's also very important aspects about affordability and social sustainability and lifestyle, and all of those are incorporated into the one planet program, and encourage people to look up one planet living and understand what it is, and look at the commitments that we've made at CV to create a sustainable place. We issue a report every year, kind of our own report card that's reviewed by a third party, that explains where we are on our on our mission to achieve our goal of the world's most sustainable   Trevor Freeman  28:57 community. Yeah. And so I do encourage people to look at one planet living. Also have a look at, you know, the Zibi website, and it's got the Master Plan and the vision of what that community will be. And I've been down there, it's already kind of coming along. It's amazing to see the progress compared to who I think you described it well, like a bit of an industrial wasteland at the heart of one of the most beautiful spots in the city. It was really a shame what it used to be. And it's great to see kind of the vision of what it can become. So that's awesome.   Scott Demark  29:26 Yeah, and Trevor, especially now that the parks are coming along. You know, we worked really closely with the NCC to integrate the shoreline of ZV to the existing, you know, bike path networks and everything. And, you know, two of the three shoreline parks are now completed and open to the public and and they're stunning. And, you know, so many Ottawa people have not been down there because it's not a place you think about, but it's one of the few places in Ottawa and Gatineau where you can touch the water, you know, like it's, it's, it's stunning. Yeah, very, very cool.   Trevor Freeman  29:57 Okay, so the. The the next part of that, of course, is energy. And so there is a district energy system, one of the first kind of, or the most recent big energy. District Energy Systems in Ottawa. Tell us a little bit about how you are moving energy and heating the Zibi site.   Scott Demark  30:17 Yeah. So, first I'll say, you know, we, we, we studied different ways to get to net zero. You know, we had, we had a goal of being a zero carbon community. There are low carbon examples, but a zero carbon community is quite a stretch. And even when you look at the Scandinavian examples, the best examples, they're missing their they're missing their energy goals, largely because some of the inputs that are District Energy System remain fossil, but also because they have trouble getting the performance out of the buildings. And so we looked at this. We also know from our experience that getting to zero carbon at the building scale in Ottawa is very, very difficult. Our climate's tough, super humid, super hot summer, very cold, very dry, winter, long winter. So it's difficult at the building scale. It's funny Trevor, because you'd actually have an easier time getting to zero carbon or a passive house standard in affordable housing than you do at market housing, and that's because affordable housing has a long list of people who want to move in and pay rents. You can get some subsidies for capital, and the people who are willing to pay rent are good with smaller windows, thicker walls, smaller units, and pass trust needs, all those kinds of things. So when down at Zibi, you're really selling views. You're competing with people on the outside of Zibi, you're building almost all glass buildings. And so it's really difficult to find a way to get to zero carbon on the building scale. So that moved us to district energy for all the reasons we've talked about today already. And so when we looked at it for Zibi, you really look at the ingredients you have. One of the great things we have is we're split over the border. It's also a curse. But split over the border is really interesting, because you cannot move electricity over that border, but you can move thermal energy over that border. And so for us, in thinking about electrifying thermal energy, we realized that if we did the work in Quebec, where there is clean and affordable electricity, we could we could turn that into heat, and then we could move heat to Ontario. We could move chilled water to Ontario. So that's kind of ingredient, one that we had going for us there. The second is that there used to be three mills. So originally, don't target three mills. They sold one mill. It changed hands a few times, but It now belongs to Kruger. They make tissue there so absorbent things, Kleenexes and toilet paper, absorbent, anything in that tissue process. That's a going concern. So you can see that on our skyline. You can see, on cold days, big plumes of waste heat coming out of it. And so we really saw that as our source, really identified that as our source. And how could we do that? So going back to the economies of scale, is could we send a pipeline from Kruger, about a kilometer away, to Zibi? And so when we were purchasing the land, we were looking at all the interconnections of how the plants used to be realized. There's some old pipelines, some old easements, servitudes, etc. And so when we bought the land, we actually bought all of those servitudes too, including a pipeline across the bridge. Canadian energy regulator licensed across the bridge into Ontario. And so we mixed all these ingredients up, you know, in a pot and came up with our overall scheme. And so that overall scheme is is relatively simple. We built an energy recovery station at Kruger where, just before their effluent water, like when they're finished in their process, goes back to the river. We have a heat exchanger there. We extract heat. We push that heat in a pipe network over to Zibi. At Zibi, we can upgrade that heat using heat recovery chillers to a useful temperature for us, that's about 40 degrees Celsius, and we push that across the bridge to Ontario, all of our buildings in Ontario then have fan coil units. They use that 40 degree heat to heat buildings. The return side of that comes back to Quebec. And then on the Quebec side, we have a loop. And all of our buildings in the Quebec side then use heat pumps so we extract the last bit of heat. So imagine you you've returned from a fan coil, but you're still slightly warm. That slightly warm water is enough to drive a heat pump inside the buildings. And then finally, that goes back to Kruger again, and Kruger heats it back up with their waste heat and comes back. So that's our that's our heating loop. The cooling side is coupled to the Ottawa River. And so instead of us, we. Rejecting heat to the atmosphere through cooling towers. Our coolers are actually coupled to the river. That's a very tight environmental window that you can operate in. So we worked with the Ministry of the Environment climate change in Quebec to get our permit to do it. We can only be six degrees difference to the river, but our efficiency is on average, like on an annual basis, more than double what it would be to a cooling tower for the same load. So we're river coupled, with respect to cooling for the whole development, and we're coupled to Kruger for heating for the whole development. And what that allows us to do is eliminate fossil fuels. Our input is clean Quebec electricity, and our output is heating and cooling.   Trevor Freeman  35:44 So none of the buildings, you know, just for our listeners, none of the buildings have any sort of fossil fuel combustion heating equipment. You don't have boilers or anything like that. Furnaces in these in these buildings?   Scott Demark  35:54 No boilers, no chillers, no. that's awesome. And   Trevor Freeman  35:58 That's awesome. And just for full transparency, I should have mentioned this up front. So the Zibi community utility is a partnership between Zibi and Hydro Ottawa, who our listeners will know that I work for, and this was really kind of a joint venture to figure out a different approach to energy at the Zibi site.   Scott Demark  36:16 Yeah, that's right. Trevor, I mean the concept, the concept was born a long time ago now, but the concept was born by talking to hydro Ottawa about how we might approach this whole campus differently. You know, one of hydro Ottawa companies makes electricity, of course, Chaudière Falls, and so that was part of the thinking we thought of, you know, micro grids and islanding this and doing a lot of different things. When Ford came in, and we were not all the way there yet, and made changes to Green Energy Act, it made it challenging for us to do the electricity side, but we had already well advanced the thermal side, and hydro, you know, hydro makes a good partner in this sort of thing, when a when a developer tells someone, I'd like you to buy a condo, and by the way, I'm also the district energy provider that might put some alarm bells up, but you put a partnership in there with a trusted, long term utility partner and explain that, you know, it is in the in the public interest. They're not going to jack rates or mess with things, and then obviously just hydro has had such a long operating record operating experience that they really brought sort of an operations and long term utility mindset to our district energy system.   Trevor Freeman  37:35 So looking at a system like the Zippy community utility or other district energy systems. Is this the kind of thing that can scale up over time? And, you know, I bring this up because you hear people talk about, you know, a network of district energy systems across a city or across a big geographic area. Are these things that can be interconnected and linked, or does it make more sense as standalone district energy systems in those conditions that you talked about earlier.   Scott Demark  38:06 Very much the former Trevor like and that's, you know, that's where, you know, places like Copenhagen are today. It's that, you know, there was, there was one district energy system, then there was another, then they got interconnected, then the third got added. And then they use a lot of incineration there in that, in that part of the world, clean incineration for garbage. And so then an incinerator is coming online. And so that incinerators waste heat is going to be fed with a new district energy loop, and some other factory is going to use the primary heat from that, and then the secondary heat is going to come into the dictionary system. Disciplinary system. So these things are absolutely expandable. They're absolutely interconnectable. There are temperature profiles. There's modern, modern thoughts on temperature profiles compared to older systems. Most of the old, old systems were steam, actually, which is not the most efficient thing the world. But that's where they started and so now you can certainly interconnect them. And I think that the example at Zibi is a decent one, because we do have two kinds of systems there. You know, I said we have fan coil units in in the Ontario side, but we have heat pumps on the other side. Well, those two things, they can coexist, right? That's there. Those two systems are operating together. Because the difference, you know, the difference from the customer's perspective in those two markets are different, and the same can be true in different parts of the city or when different sources and sinks are available. So it is not one method of doing district energy systems. What you do is you examine the ingredients you have. I keep saying it, but sources and sinks? How can I look at these sources and sinks in a way that I can interconnect them and make sense? And sometimes that means that a source or a sink might be another district energy system.   Trevor Freeman  39:59 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, systems that maybe work in parallel to each other, in cooperation with each other. Again, it's almost that temporal need where there's load high on at one point in time and low on the other point in time. Sharing is a great opportunity.   Scott Demark  40:14 Yeah, absolutely great.   Trevor Freeman  40:17 Okay, last question for you here, Scott, what is needed, maybe from a regulatory or a policy lens to encourage more implementation of district energy systems. How do we see more of these things happen here in Canada or in   Scott Demark  40:32 North America? The best way to put this, the bureaucracy has been slow to move, is, is what I'll say, and I'll use Zibi as that example. When we, when we pitched the district energy system at Zibi, we had to approach the City of Ottawa, and we had to approach the city of Gatineau, the City of Ottawa basically said to us, No, you can't put those in our streets. Engineering just said, no, no, no, no. And so what we did at Zibi is we actually privatized our streets in order to see our vision through, because, because Ottawa wasn't on board, the city of Gatineau said, Hmm, I'm a little worried. I want you to write protocols of how you will access your pipes, not our pipes. I want to understand where liability ends and starts and all of this kind of stuff. And we worked through that detail slowly, methodically, with the city of Gatineau, and we came to a new policy on how district energy could be in a public street and Zibi streets are public on the Gatineau side today. You know, come forward 10 years here, and the City of Ottawa has a working group on how to incorporate District Energy pipes into streets. We've been able to get the City of Ottawa to come around to the idea that we will reject and accept heat from their sewer. You know, hydro Ottawa, wholly owned company of the City of Ottawa, has an active business in district energy. So Trevor, we've come really far, but it's taken a long time. And so if you ask me, How can we, how can accelerate district energy, I think a lot of it has to do with the bureaucracy at municipalities. And you know, we're we see so much interest from the Federation of Canadian municipalities, who was the debt funder for ZCU. We have multiple visits from people all over Canada, coming to study and look at this as an example. And I'm encouraged by that. But it's also, it's also not rocket science. We need to understand that putting a pipe in a street is kind of a just, just a little engineering problem to solve, whereas putting, you know, burning fossil fuels for these new communities and putting in the atmosphere like the genies out of the bottle, right? Like and unfortunately, I think for a lot of bureaucrats, the challenge at the engineering level is that that pipe in the street is of immediate, complex danger to solving that problem, whereas it's everybody's problem that the carbons in the atmosphere. So if we could accelerate that, if we could focus on the acceleration of standards around District Energy pipes and streets, the rights of a district energy company to exist, and not to rant too much, but give you an example, is that a developer is required to put gas infrastructure into a new community, required, and yet you have to fight to get a district energy pipe in the street. So there needs to be a change of mindset there, and, and we're not there yet, but that's where we need to go.   Trevor Freeman  43:54 Yeah. Well, the interesting, you know, in 10 years, let's talk again and see how far we come. Hopefully not 10 years. Hopefully it's more like five, to see the kind of change that you've seen in the last decade. But I think that the direction is encouraging. The speed needs a little bit of work. But I'm always encouraged to see, yeah, things are changing or going in the right direction, just slowly. Well, Scott, we always end our interviews with a series of questions to our guests, so as long as you're okay with it, I'll jump right into those. So the first question is, what is a book you've read that you think everybody should read?   Scott Demark  44:29 Nexus, which is by Harari. He's the same author that wrote sapiens. Lots of people be familiar with sapiens. And so Nexus is, is really kind of the history of information networks, like, how do we, how do we share and pass information? And kind of a central thesis is that, you know, information is, is neither knowledge nor truth. It is information, and it's talking a lot about in the age of AI. Uh, how are we going to manage to move information into truth or knowledge? And I think it, you know, to be honest, it kind of scared the shit out of me reading it kind of how, how AI is impacting our world and going to impact our world. And what I thought was kind of amazing about it was that he, he really has a pretty strong thesis around the erosion of democracy in this time. And it's, it was, it was really kind of scary because it was published before the 2024 election. And so it's, it's really kind of a, both a fascinating and scary read, and I think really something that everybody should get their head around.   Trevor Freeman  45:47 It's, yeah, there's a few of those books recently that I would clear or classify them as kind of dark and scary, but really important or really enlightening in some way. And it kind of helps you, you know, formalize a thought or a concept in your head and realize, hey, here's what's happening, or gives you that kind of the words to speak about it in this kind of fraught time we're in. So same question, but for a movie or a show, is there anything that you think everybody should watch.   Scott Demark  46:16 That's harder, I think, generally from watching something, it's for my downtime or own entertainment, and pushing my tastes on the rest of the world, maybe not a great idea. I if I, if I'm, if I'm kind of doing that, I tend to watch cooking shows, actually, Trevor so like, that's awesome. I like ugly, delicious. I love Dave Chang. I like, I like mind of a chef creativity partnership. So those kind of things I'd say more so if there was something to like that, I think somebody else should, should watch or listen to, I have, I have a real love for Malcolm Gladwell podcast, revisionist history. And so if I thought, you know, my watching habits are not going to going to expand anybody's brain, but I do think that Malcolm's perspective on life is really a healthy it's really healthy to step sideways and look at things differently. And I would suggest, if you have never listened to that podcast. Go to Episode One, season one, and start there. It's, it's, it's fantastic.   Trevor Freeman  47:26 Yeah, I agree. I'll echo that one. That's one of my favorites. If we were to offer you or not, but if we were to offer you a free round trip flight, anywhere in the world, where would you go?   Scott Demark  47:38 That's hard, so much flight guilt. You know.   Trevor Freeman  47:42 I know it's a hard assume that there's carbon offset to it.   Scott Demark  47:47 It's an electric plane.   Trevor Freeman  47:48 That's right, yeah.s   Scott Demark  47:49 My family, had a trip planned in 2020 to go to France and Italy. My two boys were kind of at the perfect age to do that. It would have been a really ideal trip. And so I've still never been to either those places. And if I had to pick one, probably Italy, I would really like to see Italy. I think it would be a fantastic place to go. So probably, probably Italy.   Trevor Freeman  48:12 My favorite trip that I've ever done with my wife and our six month old at the time was Italy. It was just phenomenal. It was a fantastic trip. Who's someone that you admire?   Scott Demark  48:25 I have a lot of people. Actually have a lot of people in this in this particular space, like, what would I work in that have brought me here to pick to pick one, though I'd probably say Peter Busby. So. Peter Busby is a mentor, a friend, now a business partner, but, but not earlier in my career. Peter Busby is a kind of a one of the four fathers, you know, if you will, of green design in Canada. He's an architect, Governor General's Award winning architect, actually. But I think what I what I really, really appreciate about Peter, and always will, is that he was willing to stand up in his peer group and say, Hey, we're not doing this right. And, you know, he did that. He did that in the early 80s, right? Like we're not talking he did it when it cost his business some clients. He did it when professors would speak out against him, and certainly the Canadian Association of architecture was not going to take any blame for the shitty buildings that have been built, right? And he did it, and I remember being at a conference where Peter was getting a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian architects Association. And so he's standing up, and people are all super proud of him. They're talking about his big life. And he. He, he, he kind of belittled them all and said, You're not doing enough. We're not doing enough like he's still he's still there. He's still taking the blame for where things are, and that things haven't moved fast enough, and that buildings are a massive part of our carbon problem, and probably one of the easier areas to fix. You know, we're talking about electric planes. Well, that's a that's a lot more difficult than it is to recover energy from a factory to heat a community, right? I admire him. I learned things from him all the time. He's got a great book out at the moment, actually, and, yeah, he'd be right up there on my in my top list, awesome.   Trevor Freeman  50:44 What is something about the energy sector or its future that you're particularly excited about?   Scott Demark  50:48 You wished you asked me this before the election. I'm feeling a little dark. Trevor, I think there needs to be a price on pollution in the world needs to be a price on pollution in America, in Canada, and I'm worried about that going away. In light of that, I'm not I'm not super excited about different technologies at the moment. I think there are technologies that are helping us, there are technologies that are pushing us forward, but there's no like silver bullet. So, you know, a really interesting thing that's coming is kind of this idea that a small nuclear reactor, okay, very interesting idea. You could see its context in both localized electricity production, but all the heat also really good for district entry, okay, so that's an interesting tech. It obviously comes with complications around security and disposal, if you like, there's our nuclear industry has been allowed to drink like, it's all complicated. So I don't see one silver bullet in technology that I'm like, That's the answer. But what I do see, I'll go back to what we were talking about before is, you know, we had to turn this giant ship of bureaucracy towards new solutions. Okay, that's, that's what we had to do. And now that it's turned and we've got it towards the right course, I'm encouraged by that. I really am. You know, there are champions. And I'll, I'll talk about our city. You know, there's champions in the City of Ottawa who want to see this happen as younger people have graduated into roles and planning and other engineering roles there. They've grown up and gone to school in an age where they understand how critical this climate crisis is, and they're starting to be in positions of power and being in decision making. You know, a lot of my career, we're trying to educate people that there was a problem. Now, the people sitting in those chairs, it, they understand there's a problem, and what can they do about it? And so I am, I am excited that that the there is a next generation sitting in these seats, making decisions, the bureaucracy, the ship is, is almost on course to making this difference. So, so I do think that's encouraging. We have the technology. We really do. It's not rocket science. We just need to get through, you know, the bureaucracy barriers, and we need to find ways to properly finance it.   Trevor Freeman  53:22 Great. I think that's a good place to wrap it up. Scott, thanks so much for your time. I really appreciate this conversation and shedding a little bit of light, not just on the technical side of district energy systems, but on the broader context, and as you say, the bureaucracy, the what is needed to make these things happen and to keep going in that right direction. So thanks a lot for your time. I really appreciate it.   Scott Demark  53:43 Thank you, Trevor, good to see you.   Trevor Freeman  53:45 All right. Take care.   Trevor Freeman  53:47 Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the think energy podcast. Don't forget to subscribe. Wherever you listen to podcasts, and it would be great if you could leave us a review. It really helps to spread the word. As always, we would love to hear from you, whether it's feedback, comments or an idea for a show or a guest, you can always reach us at thinkenergy@hydroottawa.com.

Quantum - The Wee Flea Podcast
Quantum 366 - Black Sabbath, Danny Kruger, Cambodia and John Macarthur

Quantum - The Wee Flea Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 46:30


This week we look at the death and significance of Ozzy Osbourne;  Danny Kruger's Speech to Parliament; King Charles and Islam; Christopher Hitchens warning about Islam; The Epping Protests; Australian Government pays mothers to kill their babies; the health benefits of coffee; Hulk Hogan; England v Italy womens football; The Argentinian economic miracle; Ireland's record abortion figures; Country of the week Cambodia;  Thai/Cambodian war threat; Children voting in the UK; Kathleen Madigan on being Catholic; The Chinese Church and Surveillance; Some reflections on the life and ministry of John Macarthur;  Amazing Grace - the Film; Final Word - Ephesians 2:8-10;  with music from Black Sabbath, Khmer music and the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. 

Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs
Danny Kruger and Christian Restoration in Britain

Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 72:24


Church of England vicars with a difference Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the biggest events in church and state. This time:Danny Kruger and his address on Christianity to an empty House of Commons. Woke and Islam are the religions poised to take over, but is there anything that can be done about it?Protests and counter-protests in Epping over migrant hotel flash point.And Labour move to lower voting age to 16.All that and much much more as ever!Subscribe to Jamie's blog Signs of the Times! https://signsofthetimesblog.substack.comBuy Jamie's Book! THE GREAT RETURNYou make this podcast possible. Please support us!On Substack - https://irreverendpod.substack.com/On Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/irreverendBuy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend To make a direct donation or to get in touch with questions or comments please email irreverendpod@gmail.com!Notices:Daniel French Substack: https://undergroundchurch.substack.com/Jamie Franklin's "Good Things" and "Signs of the Times" Substacks: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com and https://signsofthetimesblog.substack.comIrreverend Substack: https://irreverendpod.substack.comFollow us on Twitter: https://x.com/IrreverendPodFind me a church: https://irreverendpod.com/church-finder/Join our Irreverend Telegram group: https://t.me/irreverendpodFind links to our episodes, social media accounts and much more https://www.irreverendpod.com!Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com Support the show

Wildest Kruger Stories
59 - Greater Kruger Highlights and Letting Nature Be Nature

Wildest Kruger Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 75:00


Catching up on the highlights from our recent 10 day photo safari in greater Kruger, leopards rasping, cheetahs climbing, white lions and more!Follow us on:Wildest Kruger Safaris - @wildestkrugersafarisKarolina - @karolinanoreewildCraig - @craig_reid_wildlifeFind Karolinas editing course, prints and e-book on karolinanoree.com

Blood Origins
Episode 578 - John Luyt || Limpopo Elephant Hunting Update

Blood Origins

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2025 31:40


John Luyt is one of the professional hunters that works in the APNR - the Associated Private Nature Reserves of the Kruger National Park. These reserves were setup to incorporate into Kruger National Park and allow for more movement of wildlife. With the dropping of fences, Kruger's burgeoning elephant population has spilled into the APNR, where legal, highly regulated hunting of elephants occurs. The hunting of elephants in this area has gone through significant upheaval since 2021, when Humane Society International put a court interdict in place stopping export of elephant trophies. Today, we get a huge step forward towards returning to pre-2021. John brings Robbie breaking news out of the Limpopo Province of South Africa that now, for the first time in quite some time, international hunters may now hunt nonexportable elephants in the Limpopo Province, along with a history of why this is such a significant clawback of ground after several battles in and out of court. Get to know the guest: https://www.instagram.com/johnluyt/?hl=en Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Bar JP Safaris: https://www.barjpsafaris.com/  Cabassa Safaris: https://cabassasafaris.com/  Robin Hurt Safaris Namibia: https://www.robinhurt.com/hunting-safaris-namibia.html  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Vacay Podcast
South Africa

The Vacay Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 28:03


In this unforgettable episode of The Vacay, we're heading to South Africa, a destination known for its spectacular contrasts. From vibrant cities and rugged coastlines to world-class safaris and stunning mountain ranges, South Africa truly is a world in one country. Sophie is joined by Claire Dalby from Helloworld, who shares her insider tips on where to go, what to pack, and how to get the most out of your South African escape. Whether you're dreaming of a luxury safari in Kruger, exploring in Stellenbosch, or spotting penguins at Boulders Beach, this episode has something for every kind of traveller.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shofar East London Sermons
Leaving A Legacy | Sonika Kruger | 20 July 2025 - Sunday

Shofar East London Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2025 40:38


True legacy isn't built in one big moment, but in the daily choices to be diligent, real, and present.What will you leave behind?In this message, Pastor Sonika Kruger provides fresh perspective on how to leave something eternal to the next generation

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Illini Basketball Podcast
Episode 268: Kevin Kruger Added to Staff & Euro Player Updates

Illini Basketball Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025 38:38


We break down the Kruger addition to Brad's staff, the latest on Euro player travel, B1G projections from Barttorvik, and more.LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! Follow our Social Media Accounts: MERCH: https://illinibasketballpodcast-shop.fourthwall.com/ - http://www.X.com/PodcastIllini - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/illini-basketball-podcast - http://www.facebook.com/illinibasketballpodcast - https://www.youtube.com/@illinibasketballpodcast - http://www.X.com/EthanCarterSW - http://www.X.com/tbramleyibp - https://www.instagram.com/illinibasketballpodcast/?igshid=Zjc2ZTc4Nzk%3D

Nuus
Oorskot van vermeende renosterstroper in Kruger gevind

Nuus

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2025 0:16


Die liggaam van ʼn vermeende renosterstroper is die naweek in die Krugerwildtuin gevind. Hy is vermoedelik in ʼn skietery met veldwagters dood. ʼn Woordvoerder van SANParke, Reynold Thakhuli, sê die liggaam is ontdek nadat drie veldwagters op patrollie op drie vermeende stropers afgekom het. Hy sê die veldwagters het die drie beveel om te stop, maar die vermeende stropers het op hulle losgebrand en hulle het teruggeskiet:

Accelerate Your Business Growth
Financial Processes That Scale with Jason Kruger

Accelerate Your Business Growth

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 31:48


Are you confident your business is as profitable as it should be? In this insightful episode of Accelerate Your Business Growth, host Diane is joined by Jason Krueger—partner at Citrin Cooperman and former Deloitte audit manager. With over twenty years of financial expertise, Jason reveals the blind spots that trap business owners, sharing actionable advice on navigating cash flow, optimizing expenses, and preparing for the unexpected. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, you'll learn how to measure, manage, and maximize your business's financial health. Don't miss these practical tips for building profitability and long-term sustainability! If you are a small business owner or salesperson who struggles with getting the sales results you are looking for, get your copy of Succeed Without Selling today. Learn the importance of Always Be Curious. Accelerate Your Business Growth is proud to be included on the list of the 45 Best Business Growth Podcasts. We are also honored to be selected by FeedSpot as one of the Top 10 Growth Hacking Podcasts, Top 25 Evergreen Podcasts and Top 50 Business Growth Podcasts on the web. Each episode of this podcast provides insights and education around topics that are important to you as a business owner or leader. The content comes from people who are experts in their fields and who are interested in helping you be more successful. Whether it's sales challenges, leadership issues, hiring and talent struggles, marketing, seo, branding, time management, customer service, communication, podcasting, social media, cashflow, or publishing, the best and the brightest join the host, Diane Helbig, for a casual conversation. Discover programs, webinars, services, books, and other podcasts you can tap into for fresh ideas. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode and visit Helbig Enterprises to explore the many ways Diane can help you improve your business outcomes and results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shofar East London Sermons
Dreaming with God Part 3 - Fragrance of Faith | Andre Kruger | 13 July 2025 - Sunday

Shofar East London Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 50:36


Dreaming with God Part 3 - Fragrance of FaithGod delights in the beautiful fragrance of surrendered hearts in worship and prayer. Prophetic dreams realign us with His purity, drawing us closer to His heart. In this message, Pastor Andre shares how to uncover the Fragrance of Faith as we learn how to interpret divine dreams to explore the depths of God's mysteries! Don't miss this illuminating message! Sermon Notes:https://www.bible.com/events/49461138#ShofarEastLondon #andrekruger #dreamingwithgodEnter our doors and step into a vibrant community of everyday people. A place where authentic relationships are formed and nurtured. A place where hearts are anchored in the fullness of Christ and bodies are mobilised for others to receive it.This is home. This is family. This is Shofar East London.Connect with us on one of the following platforms.Website: www.shofaronline.org/eastlondonFacebook: www.facebook.com/shofareastlondonInstagram: www.instagram.com/shofareastlondon

AJP-Heart and Circulatory Podcasts
Allostatic Load and Cardiometabolic Health

AJP-Heart and Circulatory Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 37:50


How can we better understand the developmental nature of cardiovascular disease across the life course and improve the health of people who experience chronic early life stress? In this episode Dr. Nathaniel Jenkins (University of Iowa) interviews lead author Dr. Annemarie Wentzel (North-West University, South African Medical Research Council Unit for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease) and expert Dr. Romain Harmancey (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) about the study by Wentzel et al. which found that stress, expressed as a cumulative allostatic load score, impacted the microvasculature, macrovasculature, and central cardiac structure and function on a preclinical level in otherwise healthy emerging adults. The authors also found that the composite allostatic load score was particularly accurate in predicting masked hypertension and pre-diabetes in their study population. The composite allostatic load score incorporates multiple physiological biomarker systems and can offer clinicians an additional tool to use in addressing root causes of chronic stress. Is your hardware for managing stress where it should be developmentally? Listen now and learn more.   A. Wentzel, W. Smith, E. Jansen van Vuren, R. Kruger, Y. Breet, E. Wonkam-Tingang, N. A. Hanchard, and S. T. Chung Allostatic load and cardiometabolic health in a young adult South African population: the African-PREDICT study Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, published February 24, 2025. DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00845.2024

AlbertaBETTER
C-Suite Unplugged: Rich Kruger, President and CEO, Suncor

AlbertaBETTER

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 55:44


BCA President Adam Legge is joined by one of the most iconic leaders in Canada's energy sector, Rich Kruger, President and CEO of Suncor, for a very special interview on C-Suite Unplugged. Rich talks about a career in the oil and gas industry that spans over 40 years and some of the roles that took him from Minnesota to Texas to the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and now here in Alberta.  Adam and Rich talk about philosophies of life and leadership, including lifelong learning, embracing similarities across continents and cultures, and the 'living organism' of a multinational company. Rich also shares some of his own entertaining stories, including how a phone call on a beach in St. Lucia pulled him out of retirement to lead one of Canada's largest energy companies, why a group of Canada's energy leaders wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, and what Rich is setting out to accomplish before he retires for good. Rich and Adam also analyze the pivotal moment Canada finds itself in and what it will really take to make Canada an energy superpower for the world. --------------------- About The Business Council of Alberta The Business Council of Alberta was founded on a simple idea: to make life better for all Albertans. We believe that business has an important role in improving society, and that when business does well, we all do well. We work with the chief executives and leading entrepreneurs of Alberta's largest enterprises to understand the big, long-term challenges that Albertans are facing and work with industry, government, and civil society to solve these problems and build shared prosperity for every person who calls Alberta home. Check out more of our recent work: https://bit.ly/3JG9ifS Check out recent episodes of AlbertaBETTER: https://bit.ly/3bHlfFB Subscribe to our monthly newsletter: https://bit.ly/3BPxDhv Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://bit.ly/3P7pgB0 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3Qx6B2J LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3QaetHE YouTube: https://bit.ly/3QswqAV

Any Questions? and Any Answers?
AQ: Danny Kruger MP, Caroline Lucas, Sir Anthony Seldon, Karin Smyth MP

Any Questions? and Any Answers?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2025 52:12


Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Frogham in Hampshire, with Conservative MP Danny Kruger, the shadow minister for work and pensions; former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas; the historian Sir Anthony Seldon; and Labour MP and health minister Karin Smyth.

Play Your Position with Mary Lou Kayser
Jason Kruger on Designing a Financial Roadmap for Entrepreneurs

Play Your Position with Mary Lou Kayser

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2025 55:14


What if the key to unlocking your business's true potential lies in understanding a language most entrepreneurs never learn?  Today I'm talking with Jason Kruger, a financial expert who has navigated the complex world of business ownership, accounting, and strategic growth. Jason shares his journey from building and selling a successful analytics firm to helping entrepreneurs unlock their true potential by mastering their financial infrastructure.  Jason reveals the often-overlooked secrets of scaling a business, the transformative power of understanding your numbers, and why human insight remains crucial in an increasingly AI-driven world.  Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned business owner, or simply curious about what it takes to turn financial challenges into opportunities, this episode promises to be an eye-opening exploration of business success from someone who's been in the trenches and emerged victorious. Connect with Jason Kruger on his website: https://www.citrincooperman.com/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-kruger-a0b159b/  Email: JKruger@CitrinCooperman.com  = = = = = Extra Stuff: I'm exploring what it means to stay grounded in an accelerating world. You're welcome to follow along. For more depth, I share my best ideas at gobeyondthescroll.com AI is moving fast. That doesn't mean you have to feel behind.Explore my AI Literacy Training for smart people who want clarity, not chaos. Details at: https://maryloukayser.com/ai-literacy-training/  Books: https://maryloukayser.com/books-by-marylou  Get in Touch: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlkayser/ Instagram: @maryloukayser Email: https://maryloukayser.com/contact-mary-lou-kayser/ 

The Marketing Playbook with Mark Friedman
Ben Kruger - CMO of Event Tickets Center

The Marketing Playbook with Mark Friedman

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 38:58


Ben Kruger, the Chief Marketing Officer of Event Tickets Center, adds his page to the Marketing Playbook. Hear how to use AI to become more efficient, how to avoid being complacent, how to fight for what you want, how to deal with tough clients, and the taboo business Ben worked in in high school. Connect with Ben at EventTicketsCenter.com and on LinkedIn

Intuitive Homeopathy Podcast
Eugenie Kruger on future trends in Homeopathy

Intuitive Homeopathy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 89:06


Join host Angelica and special guest Eugenie Kruger as they explore emerging trends and the future of homeopathy. Eugenie, host of her own popular homeopathy podcast, shares insights on:• The rise of intuitive and protocol-based prescribing • Exciting new remedies being developed• Integrating homeopathy with other modalities• Using technology like radionics in practice• Ancestral healing through homeopathy• The potential of psychedelics in homeopathic treatment• Developments in potency and prescribing methods• Water memory and remedy creation innovations

The RPGBOT.Podcast
WARHAMMER FANTASY ROLE PLAY Pt III: Example Play - Bring Gloves, Trust No One, and Never Sniff the Daisies

The RPGBOT.Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 89:50


If you've ever asked, “How do I actually play Warhammer Fantasy Role Play?”—this episode is your crash course, chaos crash cart, and comedy club all rolled into one. Grab your dice, pack your herbs, and don't forget your gloves. Things are about to get weird in the woods. Thank you to our sponsor, DM Adamantine! If you're ready to play with an expert GM in a one-of-a-kind setting, check out Dungeon Master Adamantine at dungeonmasteradamantine.com or find him on StartPlaying for custom sessions in Greece or online! In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, the crew dives headfirst into the brutal, baroque, and frequently blood-soaked world of Warhammer Fantasy Role Play (WFRP). If you're curious how to actually play this wonderfully grim system, this episode is your map through the muck. Starting from character creation and setting expectations, all the way to navigating the forest of chaos (literally), the group explores what makes WFRP so distinct: the constant tension between survival and corruption, competition and camaraderie, comedy and catastrophe. The party's in-character quest for the rare herb Bitterknot becomes the perfect showcase for WFRP's mechanics and tone. Along the way, they meet eccentric NPCs, battle chaos-touched creatures, and argue about gloves—a classic day in the Empire. Whether you're a grizzled veteran of the Old World or thinking about picking up the dice for the first time, this episode shows you how to embrace the grit, gallows humor, and genuine strategy of Warhammer Fantasy. Key Takeaways Setting & Tone Warhammer presents a grim, dangerous world filled with corruption, chaos, and questionable hygiene. Altdorf acts as a central hub for player activity and plot progression. Survival, suspicion, and dark humor are essential ingredients to the game's tone. Character & Story Characters come with detailed backstories that influence gameplay decisions. The party dynamic (rivals for a master's favor) fuels roleplaying opportunities and in-game tension. Motivations matter—success often depends on how well characters leverage their personal goals. Low resources and high stakes force creative problem-solving and resource management. The Quest for Bitterknot The search for the rare herb Bitterknot ties together exploration, negotiation, and danger. Players interact with memorable NPCs like the allergy-prone Old Marla and helpful friend Kruger. Preparation, like acquiring gloves and supplies, plays a huge role in staying alive. Exploration & Conflict The Blood Pine Woods are filled with beastmen, warp-tainted terrain, and the occasional dead horse. Exploration includes clue-finding (claw marks, glowing signs) and evasion through stealth. Highwaymen introduce social conflict, resolved through intimidation or diplomacy. Combat & Mechanics Initiative rolls set the pace; positioning and terrain influence the outcomes. Combat emphasizes both tactical planning and the chaos of dice-driven randomness. Environmental strategy can be key to survival. Warpstone introduces a risk-reward dilemma: magical power at the cost of corruption and mutation. Corruption & Consequences Corruption checks protect characters from warping into something... less than human. Warpstone may grant power, but repeated use can change characters in dramatic ways. Decisions in combat and exploration ripple through the story and character arcs. Humor & Group Dynamics Unexpected moments like daisy allergies and potion mishaps add levity to grim adventures. Player banter and team dynamics are essential to the fun and flavor of the game. Return to Altdorf provides a moment of reflection—and the kind of closure only WFRP can offer. If you enjoy the show, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. It's a quick, free way to support the podcast, and helps us reach new listeners. If you love the show, consider joining us on Patreon, where backers at the $5 and above tiers get ad free access to RPGBOT.net and the RPGBOT.Podcast, can chat directly to members of the RPGBOT team and community on the RPGBOT.Discord, and can join us for live-streamed recordings. Support us on Amazon.com when you purchase products recommended in the show at the following link: https://amzn.to/3NwElxQ How to Find Us: In-depth articles, guides, handbooks, reviews, news on Tabletop Role Playing at RPGBOT.net Tyler Kamstra BlueSky: @rpgbot.net TikTok: @RPGBOTDOTNET Ash Ely Professional Game Master on StartPlaying.Games BlueSky: @GravenAshes YouTube: @ashravenmedia Randall James BlueSky: @GrimoireRPG Amateurjack.com Read Melancon: A Grimoire Tale (affiliate link) Producer Dan @Lzr_illuminati

RPGBOT.Podcast
WARHAMMER FANTASY ROLE PLAY Pt III: Example Play - Bring Gloves, Trust No One, and Never Sniff the Daisies

RPGBOT.Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 89:50


If you've ever asked, “How do I actually play Warhammer Fantasy Role Play?”—this episode is your crash course, chaos crash cart, and comedy club all rolled into one. Grab your dice, pack your herbs, and don't forget your gloves. Things are about to get weird in the woods. Thank you to our sponsor, DM Adamantine! If you're ready to play with an expert GM in a one-of-a-kind setting, check out Dungeon Master Adamantine at dungeonmasteradamantine.com or find him on StartPlaying for custom sessions in Greece or online! In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, the crew dives headfirst into the brutal, baroque, and frequently blood-soaked world of Warhammer Fantasy Role Play (WFRP). If you're curious how to actually play this wonderfully grim system, this episode is your map through the muck. Starting from character creation and setting expectations, all the way to navigating the forest of chaos (literally), the group explores what makes WFRP so distinct: the constant tension between survival and corruption, competition and camaraderie, comedy and catastrophe. The party's in-character quest for the rare herb Bitterknot becomes the perfect showcase for WFRP's mechanics and tone. Along the way, they meet eccentric NPCs, battle chaos-touched creatures, and argue about gloves—a classic day in the Empire. Whether you're a grizzled veteran of the Old World or thinking about picking up the dice for the first time, this episode shows you how to embrace the grit, gallows humor, and genuine strategy of Warhammer Fantasy. Key Takeaways Setting & Tone Warhammer presents a grim, dangerous world filled with corruption, chaos, and questionable hygiene. Altdorf acts as a central hub for player activity and plot progression. Survival, suspicion, and dark humor are essential ingredients to the game's tone. Character & Story Characters come with detailed backstories that influence gameplay decisions. The party dynamic (rivals for a master's favor) fuels roleplaying opportunities and in-game tension. Motivations matter—success often depends on how well characters leverage their personal goals. Low resources and high stakes force creative problem-solving and resource management. The Quest for Bitterknot The search for the rare herb Bitterknot ties together exploration, negotiation, and danger. Players interact with memorable NPCs like the allergy-prone Old Marla and helpful friend Kruger. Preparation, like acquiring gloves and supplies, plays a huge role in staying alive. Exploration & Conflict The Blood Pine Woods are filled with beastmen, warp-tainted terrain, and the occasional dead horse. Exploration includes clue-finding (claw marks, glowing signs) and evasion through stealth. Highwaymen introduce social conflict, resolved through intimidation or diplomacy. Combat & Mechanics Initiative rolls set the pace; positioning and terrain influence the outcomes. Combat emphasizes both tactical planning and the chaos of dice-driven randomness. Environmental strategy can be key to survival. Warpstone introduces a risk-reward dilemma: magical power at the cost of corruption and mutation. Corruption & Consequences Corruption checks protect characters from warping into something... less than human. Warpstone may grant power, but repeated use can change characters in dramatic ways. Decisions in combat and exploration ripple through the story and character arcs. Humor & Group Dynamics Unexpected moments like daisy allergies and potion mishaps add levity to grim adventures. Player banter and team dynamics are essential to the fun and flavor of the game. Return to Altdorf provides a moment of reflection—and the kind of closure only WFRP can offer. If you enjoy the show, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. It's a quick, free way to support the podcast, and helps us reach new listeners. If you love the show, consider joining us on Patreon, where backers at the $5 and above tiers get ad free access to RPGBOT.net and the RPGBOT.Podcast, can chat directly to members of the RPGBOT team and community on the RPGBOT.Discord, and can join us for live-streamed recordings. Support us on Amazon.com when you purchase products recommended in the show at the following link: https://amzn.to/3NwElxQ How to Find Us: In-depth articles, guides, handbooks, reviews, news on Tabletop Role Playing at RPGBOT.net Tyler Kamstra BlueSky: @rpgbot.net TikTok: @RPGBOTDOTNET Ash Ely Professional Game Master on StartPlaying.Games BlueSky: @GravenAshes YouTube: @ashravenmedia Randall James BlueSky: @GrimoireRPG Amateurjack.com Read Melancon: A Grimoire Tale (affiliate link) Producer Dan @Lzr_illuminati

Grace Church of Ocala
Can a collection of ancient writings still transform lives?

Grace Church of Ocala

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 50:51


What We Believe, 2 of 11 from June 29th, 2025 "We know God and live for Him by practicing what He has written." The Bible by Michael Lockstampfor (@miklocks)SUMMARYThis sermon explores the nature, authority, and interpretation of the Bible as God's Word. It emphasizes that the Bible is God's chosen method of communication with humanity, containing diverse writings that reveal His character and actions throughout history. Pastor Michael stresses the importance of trusting, studying, and applying Scripture in our lives, guided by the Holy Spirit, to know God and live for Him.REFLECTION & DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Dave and Jeremy's Infinite Rewind Watch Party
Vincente Minnelli's TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN (1962)

Dave and Jeremy's Infinite Rewind Watch Party

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 80:04


“You can't entirely dislike a man who's tried to kill you.” Old Hollywood's gift for complicating rugged individualism is on vibrant display in this late-period work from Vincente Minnelli, about a cracked-up actor getting a second chance at fame by rescuing a troubled film shoot in Rome. Edward G. Robinson plays the tyrannical old director Maurice Kruger, who by the end of the second act has taken ill and is in need of the kind of legacy-rescuing only a suffering former protege can provide. Kirk Douglas is Jack Andrus, fresh from the sanitarium, who tempers his pride, his cleft chin, and his raspy snarl into instruments of firm compassion, calmly slicing through clouds of empty glamor and toxic ambition as he takes Kruger's place and wrestles the volatile production back on schedule. Dave and Jeremy marvel at the fraught path to redemption the movie lays out, rife with spite and malice even as forgiveness and acceptance prevail. When that path puts our hero behind the wheel of a top-down Maserati for a raving one-car death race through nighttime Roman streets–by which our hero hopes to affirm that he is NOT suicidal–the subtext is clear: reckless emotional intensity is the solution to–and the cause of–all of life's problems. Pack your bags (and your Oscar™ statuette, if you're as hungry for past glory as Jack Andrus) and join Dave and Jeremy for TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN.Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, leave a rating or review, and share this show with your friends.We'll be back next month with Dave's reply.Music by Jeremy Donald.Find Dave here:https://linktr.ee/davedwelling

The Filmmakers Podcast
Jerry Bruckheimer & Joseph Kosinski join Stephen Followers to talk F1, Brad Pitt, AI, Action, Race Cars and making movies!!

The Filmmakers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 32:04


The legendary producer Jerry Bruckheimer (The Rock, Top Gun) and ace director (and returning guest) Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun Maverick) join Stephen Follows to talk their latest movie F1. From launching careers and creating timeless hits like "Flashdance" and the original "Beverly Hills Cop" – and its recent hit sequel, "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F" – to the iconic dogfights in "Top Gun" – and let's not forget the absolute juggernaut that was "Top Gun: Maverick" – Jerry Bruckheimer knows how to make movies that hit hard and stay with you! With a career that spans over five decades and an eye-watering $16 billion at the worldwide box office, Jerry is not just a producer; he's practically a cinematic institution. His projects are all about that sleek style, that relentless energy, and that incredible knack for knowing exactly what audiences want. He's the force behind countless films and shows that have shaped modern cinema, a true visionary who understands how to deliver pure, unadulterated entertainment. And joining Jerry today, we have the visionary director who, in my humble opinion, is one of the most exciting filmmakers working right now! This is Joseph Kosinksi a director who's consistently pushed the boundaries of visual storytelling, known for his meticulous design, breathtaking practical effects blended seamlessly with cutting-edge CGI, and an incredible knack for capturing speed and intensity on screen like no other in "TRON: Legacy" , the sci-fi mystery of "Oblivion" and "Only the Brave" And of course, he absolutely blew us away with "Top Gun: Maverick".More recently, he directed the compelling Netflix sci-fi thriller "Spiderhead." Now, he's once again teaming up with Jerry Bruckheimer to bring us back to the racetrack for what promises to be one of the most immersive racing films ever made: "F1." This highly anticipated movie, which he directed, was written by Ehren Kruger from a story by himself and Kruger. The legendary Claudio Miranda, also from "Top Gun: Maverick," Huge thanks to Stephen Followers for hosting. Check out StephenFollows.com And GO GO GO watch F1 in cinemas NOW! OTHER LINKS FOOD FOR THOUGHT documentary out NOW | Watch it HERE. A documentary exploring the rapid growth and uptake of the vegan lifestyle around the world. – And if you enjoyed the film, please take a moment to share & rate it on your favourite platforms. Every review & every comment helps us share the film's important message with more people. Your support makes a difference! PODCAST MERCH Get your very own Tees, Hoodies, onset water bottles, mugs and more MERCH. https://my-store-11604768.creator-spring.com/   COURSES Want to learn how to finish your film? Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSE https://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/   PATREON Big thank you to: Serena Gardner Mark Hammett Lee Hutchings Marli J Monroe Karen Newman Want your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on film-making? Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides, and feedback on your film projects!   SUPPORT THE PODCAST Check out our full episode archive on how to make films at TheFilmmakersPodcast.com   CREDITS The Filmmakers Podcast is written, edited and produced by Giles Alderson @gilesalderson Logo and Banner Art by Lois Creative  Theme Music by John J. Harvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reportage Afrique
Quand l'Afrique du Sud donne ses rhinocéros à ses voisins africains [3/3]

Reportage Afrique

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 2:21


L'Afrique du Sud a signé en 2014 un accord avec le Mozambique, pour s'accorder sur la stratégie de conservation du parc Kruger qui chevauche la frontière, et fait partie, avec le Zimbabwe, du nouveau parc transfrontalier du Grand Limpopo. Ce genre d'accord permet notamment de s'accorder sur les standards de sécurité face au braconnage. Une collaboration qui permet aussi le déplacement d'animaux sauvages d'un pays à un autre, pour repeupler des parcs dans le besoin, et rééquilibrer l'écosystème. C'est dans ce contexte que l'Afrique du Sud vient ce mois de juin de donner dix rhinocéros noirs au Mozambique qui en manque cruellement. Billie est un rhinocéros sud-africain. Une femelle d'environ une tonne placée dans un box en métal, direction le Mozambique. « Normalement, on ne donne pas de noms à nos animaux, mais ils en auront un pour le transport. Si quelque chose se passe mal sur la route, on doit pouvoir les identifier », explique Vuyiswa Radebe, qui travaille pour Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, l'organisation qui gère les parcs publics de la région. Elle est venue assister à cette opération hors norme. « Le déplacement en lui-même est très éprouvant, mais on sait pourquoi on le fait, c'est pour leur survie. Nous avons besoin d'avoir plein de petites Billie partout dans le monde, et j'ai hâte d'entendre leurs histoires », confie-t-elle. Et c'est tout l'objectif. L'Afrique du Sud, et particulièrement ce parc Hluhluwe, est le berceau des rhinocéros africains. Antony Alexander et la fondation Peace Park coordonnent donc des relocalisations d'animaux sauvages. « Peace Parks n'a commencé à soutenir le gouvernement mozambicain qu'il y a dix ans. On devait d'abord prendre le temps de rétablir des bons systèmes de sécurité là-bas. Et de s'assurer que l'environnement était adapté pour faire venir des animaux sauvages », raconte-t-il. Des transferts qui se multiplient ces dernières années, notamment grâce à des techniques qui évoluent, explique Kester Vickery, de la fondation Conservation Solution. Il rentre à peine du Rwanda, où il a déplacé 70 rhinocéros sud-africains en avion. « Nous pouvons maintenant déplacer des animaux en gros groupes sur une durée de 48 heures, en toute sécurité. C'est plus ou moins le temps qu'il faudra pour déplacer ces rhinos jusqu'à Zinave », détaille-t-il. Zinave, c'est le parc mozambicain qui s'apprête à recevoir Billie et les autres. Pendant près de 40 ans, ce parc n'avait plus aucun rhinocéros. Ils sont de retour depuis peu grâce à une autre opération de ce genre. Drapeau mozambicain brodé sur sa veste, le vétérinaire Hagnasio Chiponde s'apprête à prendre la route : « Je représente la Wildlife Mozambique Alliance, et le pays en général. Nous cherchons à développer notre population de rhinos. Je suis fier de faire partie de l'équipe. » Les dix rhinocéros sont arrivés sains et saufs à Zinave. L'objectif, c'est donc de faire grandir cette population, pour ensuite en envoyer dans d'autres parcs du Mozambique, et ainsi repeupler le pays entier.  À lire aussiRéintroduction de dix rhinocéros au Mozambique: une opération à haut risque [2/3]

Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living
Part 221 - Chris Kruger on Optimizing Your Hormones Naturally (No TRT or HRT)

Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 82:56


Chris Kruger returns to Peak Human for an electrifying, no-nonsense breakdown of why the calorie paradigm is broken, how hormone health is the real foundation of lifelong fitness, and what he calls the “Forever Jeans” formula — a simple, powerful way to track your health without lab work or complex diagnostics. In this episode, host Brian Sanders returns after an eight-month hiatus with an update on his documentary 'Food Lies' and a deep dive conversation with fitness expert Chris Krueger. They discuss the myths surrounding diet and exercise, emphasizing the importance of natural hormone optimization over artificial supplementation like TRT. Krueger outlines a holistic approach to health that targets core strength, mobility, balance, and proper nutrition. The conversation also covers practical, actionable insights for achieving optimal health and fitness without the need for extensive gym workouts or rigid diet plans. The episode concludes with practical tips, such as leveraging whole foods and natural supplements like oyster capsules, to naturally boost essential hormones. Show notes: 00:00 Intro – What's New with Brian Sanders & Food Lies 02:15 Hormone Optimization Over TRT – Why Natural Matters 04:25 The Forever Jeans Formula – Waist-to-Height Ratio Simplified 08:55 Hormones vs. Willpower – Why You're Not Broken, the System Is 14:40 You Don't Need a Gym – The 14-Minute Workout That Changes Lives 21:10 Hunger Means Hunter – Rethinking Hunger, Leptin, and Satiety 28:00 The Leptin Trigger – Why Protein is the Key to Real Satiety 33:00 Snacks Are for Fat Kids? – Fasting, Insulin, and Hormonal Wins 35:00 The Flywheel of Hormonal Momentum vs. the Spiral of Willpower 44:20 How Women Can Optimize Naturally – Fat Loss and the 28-Day Cycle 48:00 The Billionaire with a Heart Attack – A Cautionary Tale 55:00 Helpful vs. Unhelpful Foods – A Simpler Way to Think About Diet 01:02:00 The Fitness Industry's Scam – What Really Works   REGENERATIVE PRODUCTS: NosetoTail.org Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

M&A Masters
Jason Kruger | Getting Ready to Sell? Don't Miss This Step

M&A Masters

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 44:20


Most business owners think accounting is just a necessary evil—until it costs them millions.What hidden traps are killing the value of your business before you even go to market?In this episode, Jason Kruger, Partner at Citrin Cooperman's Business Process Outsourcing Practice, exposes how overlooked accounting gaps can sabotage your exit—and how precision financials can supercharge your company's valuation.You'll discover…Why “good enough” bookkeeping could quietly slash your business sale priceThe secret financial move that doubles your company's EBITDA multipleHow deal momentum evaporates—and the one invisible risk that keeps buyers up at nightThe new evolution in rep & warranty insurance that's changing deal dynamics for small and midsize firmsWhat top buyers always spot in financial statements (and how you can make your next sale a “no-brainer”)

Reportage Afrique
Réintroduire les rhinocéros en Afrique du Sud: Amos, le protecteur de rhinos [1/3]

Reportage Afrique

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 2:25


Le braconnage est un problème majeur en Afrique du Sud. Et il touche particulièrement les rhinocéros, qui, selon le mythe bien répandu en Asie, ont des cornes aux propriétés aphrodisiaques. Résultat : des centaines de rhinocéros sont tués chaque année. Le célèbre parc Kruger a ouvert la voie récemment en décidant de couper préventivement les cornes, une stratégie payante, puisque le braconnage a chuté. Un autre parc fait régulièrement les frais de cette chasse illégale, le parc Hluhluwe dans le KwaZulu Natal. Là-bas aussi, on écorne depuis peu, en plus de se doter de nouveaux équipements ultra-modernes. Portrait du responsable sécurité du parc avec notre journaliste Valentin Hugues. À notre droite, dans la voiture, le volant entre les mains, Amos Tembe : « Vous voyez ces arbres ici ? On a de grandes chances de trouver un rhinocéros noir pas loin ».   Lunettes noires, une voix qui porte et une énergie débordante, c'est un spécialiste des rhinocéros : « Regardez sur la route, vous voyez cet amas de terre ? C'est le signe de leur passage. Ils ont marqué leur territoire. Je peux vous assurer qu'ils vont revenir ici aujourd'hui ». Chez lui, à la maison, il a deux enfants, et à Hluhluwe parc… des milliers d'autres : « Quand un rhinocéros se fait braconner, j'ai l'impression de perdre un membre de ma famille. Parce qu'avec le temps, je me sens connecté à eux. Vous savez, j'ai commencé ici avec l'unité anti-braconnage. Je me souviens d'un jour où on était tombé sur six braconniers. Et on n'était que deux. Il n'y avait aucun signal ! Aucun moyen d'appeler des renforts… On a pu en arrêter deux. Les quatre autres ont été neutralisés. Ce n'était pas notre objectif, mais ces gars-là veulent vous tuer ! ». Quinze ans plus tard, Amos a rangé son fusil pour rejoindre l'équipe de direction. Il est monsieur sécurité. Et pour mettre fin aux affrontements dangereux avec les braconniers, le parc a une nouvelle stratégie : « On met en place une clôture connectée autour du parc. On a aussi des drones et des caméras. Comme celles-ci, regardez, vous pouvez à peine la voir, elle est entièrement camouflée ».  Sifiso, assis dans la salle de contrôle : « Si vous cliquez sur “léopard”, vous avez les photos de tous les léopards détectés par les caméras. Et vous pouvez aussi sélectionner “humain”. Là par exemple, c'est un braconnier repéré hier ». Mais face à l'urgence, le parc a aussi pris une décision drastique : couper les cornes des rhinocéros, pour prévenir le braconnage. « Regardez celui-ci. On lui a coupé la corne, mais elle va repousser. On s'assure de couper au bon endroit. On espère qu'après trois ou quatre ans, on n'aura plus à faire ça. C'est simplement le temps de stabiliser notre stratégie de défense ». Pour l'instant, grâce à l'écornage, le parc n'a perdu qu'un seul rhinocéros au mois de juin. « Quand on fera un mois sans braconnage. Ce jour-là, croyez-moi, je ferai un gros barbecue, et je boirai un bon coup ! ». Une trentaine ont été braconnés depuis janvier, c'est trois fois moins que l'année dernière à la même période.  À lire aussiAfrique du Sud: l'écornage des rhinocéros contribue à réduire fortement le braconnage, selon une étude

Every Nation Somerset West
Every Nation Helderberg - Ten Words to Live By - Sermon Series - Tammy Kruger

Every Nation Somerset West

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 39:37


Every Nation Helderberg - Ten Words to Live By - Sermon Series - Week 5 - Tammy Kruger 15/06/2025 CCLI License Streaming Number 95796 View the Video on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/EveryNationHelderberg

School for School Counselors Podcast
Why School Counselors Feel Like They're Failing (Even When They're Not)

School for School Counselors Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 17:10 Transcription Available


Still feeling unsure- even with experience under your belt? This episode explains why doubt might be the best sign you're doing the job well, not a reason to second-guess yourself.In this episode, we're pulling back the curtain on what that uncertainty in school counseling really means. We'll talk about the invisible labor of school counseling, what the research says about feedback-poor environments, and how self-doubt often shows up right when your skills are leveling up.You'll learn:Why experienced counselors question themselves more, not lessHow silence and lack of validation chip away at even the strongest counselorsWhy messy, imperfect work is often the most effectiveAnd how to chase credibility instead of certaintyYou're not failing; you're growing. And you're not alone.Mentioned in this episode:School for School Counselors MastermindFree School Counselor PlannerReferences:Culbreth, J. R., Scarborough, J. L., Banks‑Johnson, S. B., & Solomon, T. (2005). Role stress among practicing school counselors. Professional School Counseling, 9(2), 106–112. Dunning, D., & Kruger, J. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(6), 1121–1134. Falender, C. A., & Shafranske, E. P. (2010). Psychotherapy‑based supervision models in an emerging competency‑based era: A commentary. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 47(1), 45–50. Hill, C. E., Sullivan, C., Knox, S., & Schlosser, L. Z. (2007). Therapist self‑disclosure: Research-based suggestions regarding clinical training, practices, and ethics. Psychotherapy Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 44(4), 392–407. Hochschild, A. R. (1983). The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling. University of California Press. Jennings, L., & Skovholt, T. M. (2016). In T. M. Skovholt & K. Rønnestad (Eds.), Master therapists: Exploring expertise in therapy and counseling. Routledge. Skovholt, T. M., & Trotter‑Mathison, M. (2016). The resilient practitioner: Burnout prevention and self‑care strategies for counselors, therapists, teachers, and health professionals (3rd ed.). Taylor & Francis. (Original concept described in earlier editions as an “ambiguity‑rich, feedback‑poor environment.”) *********************************⭐️ Want support with real-world strategies that actually work on your campus? We're doing that every day in the School for School Counselors Mastermind. Come join us! ⭐️**********************************Our goal at School for School Counselors is to help school counselors stay on fire, make huge impacts for students, and catalyze change for our roles through grassroots advocacy and collaboration. Listen to get to know more about us and our mission, feel empowered and inspired, and set yourself up for success in the wonderful world of school counseling.Hang out in our Facebook groupJump in, ask questions, share your ideas and become a part of the most empowering school counseling group on the planet! (Join us to see if we're right.)Join the School for School Counselors MastermindThe Mastermind is packed with all the things your grad program never taught you I

Squared Circle Podcast
MLW War Chamber 2025 Review | Mr. Thomas' Rise, Free Agent Fallout & Match Breakdown

Squared Circle Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 52:55


Welcome to the Squared Circle Podcast! I am your host Maire Shadows!If you love the content, help me pay the bills — free or paid, your support keeps this going.1. https://marieshadows.substack.com - free wrestling newsletter2. https://youtube.com/squaredcirclepodcast/join - monthly .99 cents memberships3. https://buymeacoffee.com/marieshadows - one-time payments, no commitments4. https://campsite.bio/marieshadows - all my linksMarie Shadows and Dos Evil return to break down MLW War Chamber 2025 in full. From the opening street fight to the closing cage war, this episode dives into the stories being told, standout performances, faction shifts, and the impact of key free agents leaving MLW. They also discuss fantasy bookings, division rebuilding, the future of Mr. Thomas, and the unique chemistry between MLW's unlikely alliances.

Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe
Childhood - The One and Only Murphy Kruger & The Great Train Adventure

Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2025 52:02


“When are you supposed to let your children march off alone? When are you supposed to let them learn from their mistakes” On today's episode, two stories about childhood. And Jess talks about how one of her own childhood dreams has recently come to fruition - with the making of the upcoming Vinyl Cafe: The Musical! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next Best Picture Podcast
Interviews With "Yellowjackets" Stars Christina Ricci & Steven Kruger

Next Best Picture Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 46:53


"Yellowjackets" has continued to evolve and has remained a buzzy show through its third season. Despite suffering a drop off in Emmy nominations from the first to the second season, the third season has come back roaring, looking to break back in with the Television Academy. Two performers who delivered awards-worthy work this Eason were stars, Christina Ricci and Steven Krueger. Both of them were kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on the series, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is now available to stream in full on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

947 Breakfast Club
Keeping it real with Psychic medium Cindy Kruger!

947 Breakfast Club

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 24:59


Cindy is a psychic medium. She works to bring comfort, love, help and healing through messages from those on the Other Side. She is guided by her instinct, the person being read, and those in spirit who wish to communicate and help their loved ones on earth. Her compassionate approach brings comfort and gives hope. It guides direction and purpose. Despite the nature of the readings, Cindy keeps the sessions light-hearted. You’lll be surprised to find there can be lots of laughter in between. She draws on her own life experiences to assist during the sessions and believes that each experience teaches a lesson. “Your life experiences can become the greatest tool that helps you guide another through similar experiences.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

#teakink with Dominatrix Eva Oh
Kyron Kruger: Behind the Latex

#teakink with Dominatrix Eva Oh

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 33:55


In this episode of #teakink, Eva sits down with Kyron Kruger — performer, provocateur, and latex-drenched shapeshifter — to talk evolution, ambition, and the kink of it all. Kyron shares how he got started, what latex means to him, and how he navigates the sex industry as a cis man. They unpack everything from gatekeeping to dealing with trolls, the Eva-Kyron dynamic, and their big creative dreams — including fetish film, Europe, and beyond. This is Kyron Kruger, for now.Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/evaohMore on Eva Oh: https://eva-oh.comHIGHLIGHTS:Here are the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.(00:00) - Welcome. What is #teakink(00:21) - The Origins of Kyron Kruger(03:55) - Latex(05:00) - A Fluid Evolution(10:10) - Challenging the Trolls(11:20) - Plans for Europe(12:50) - Advice on the Hustle(16:40) - Is there space for Gatekeeping(20:15) - Being a Cis-Man in the Sex Industry(23:20) - The Eva-Kyron Dynamic?(25:50) - Fetish Film Dreams and Plans(30:30) - Eva's Asia-Australia Plans(31:30) - A Wrap on Kyron Kruger, for now...

At Home with Gary Sullivan
Gary talks critters with our friend Ron Kruger 5/31/2025

At Home with Gary Sullivan

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2025 23:26 Transcription Available


At Home with Gary Sullivan
Gary talks critters with our friend Ron Kruger 5/31/2025

At Home with Gary Sullivan

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2025 23:26 Transcription Available


An Old Timey Podcast
56: JC Penney Loses *Almost* Everything (Part 4)

An Old Timey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 119:47


The Great Depression hit James Cash Penney hard. It decimated his finances. It worried him. It humbled him. After some soul searching, he came to realize that he could make a comeback. JC Penney the man proved to himself, and the world, that he still had something to offer. But the story didn't end quite as sweetly for JCPenney the store. Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from: Currey, Mary Elizabeth. Creating an American Institution: The Merchandising Genius of J.C. Penney. Dissertations-G, 1993. Kruger, David Delbert. J.C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Penney, James Cash. Fifty Years with the Golden Rule. Harper and Brothers, 1950. Are you enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Then please leave us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts! Are you *really* enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Well, calm down, history ho! You can get more of us on Patreon at patreon.com/oldtimeypodcast. At the $5 level, you'll get a monthly bonus episode (with video!), access to our 90's style chat room, plus the entire back catalog of bonus episodes from Kristin's previous podcast, Let's Go To Court.

Cofield and Company
5/22 H2 - Kruger & Company

Cofield and Company

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 44:52


UNLV Basketball color commentator, Curtis Terry joins Cofield & Company to recap the Indiana Pacers' come-back victory over the New York Knicks in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, review the impact of draft picks for an NBA franchise to become a contender, and give his thoughts on Oklahoma City Thunder's Shai Gilgeous Alexander winning the 2024 NBA MVP. Reviewing the off-season moves for the Denver Nuggets. Top trade-landing destinations for Giannis Antetokounmpo. Media personality and former NFL running back, Doc Holliday joins Cofield & Co. to discuss Chip Kelly forcing Ashton Jeanty to change his running back stance heading into his rookie season with the Las Vegas Raiders, detail the importance of a running back's stance for his success on the field, and review how Ashton Jeanty's skill-set will transfer to the NFL.

An Old Timey Podcast
55: JC Penney Becomes Rich *and* Cool (Part 3)

An Old Timey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 104:54


James Cash Penney had an ambitious dream. He wanted to own 50 Golden Rule stores. Over the course of just a few years, he achieved that dream and then some. But tough lessons in his personal life taught him that financial success wasn't everything. So, he pulled back. He reevaluated his life. He travelled. He sought counsel from his pastor. He even bought a ticket on the Titanic! Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from: Currey, Mary Elizabeth. Creating an American Institution: The Merchandising Genius of J.C. Penney. Dissertations-G, 1993. Kruger, David Delbert. J.C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Penney, James Cash. Fifty Years with the Golden Rule. Harper and Brothers, 1950. Are you enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Then please leave us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts! Are you *really* enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Well, calm down, history ho! You can get more of us on Patreon at patreon.com/oldtimeypodcast. At the $5 level, you'll get a monthly bonus episode (with video!), access to our 90's style chat room, plus the entire back catalog of bonus episodes from Kristin's previous podcast, Let's Go To Court.

The HC Insider Podcast
Renewable Natural Gas Now with Ben Kruger & Warren Feather

The HC Insider Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 51:33


Today, we return to the subject of Renewable Natural Gas, which could be as much as 15 % of global natural gas supply by 2050, offering significant advantages both in its carbon intensity as well as driving a powerful circularity, capturing waste methane that would otherwise go into the atmosphere, driving biodiversity and providing significant optionality in trading. What is RNG? Where does it sit today in terms of  global policy support and participants and what does its future hold? Our guests are Warren Feather and Ben Kruger. Warren was a Managing Director of Cargill and led their global oilseeds processing and renewables solutions businesses before joining Roeslein as a board advisor while Ben Kruger has joined Roeslein and Associates as the SVP of Renewables after a 25 -year career at Cargill, where he latterly was Director of Renewable Natural Gas and Specialty Oil Seeds. Roeslein itself is a global technology and engineering company that, through its Roeslein Renewables Group, is now developing projects around the world in renewable natural gas, offering turnkey solutions to agricultural customers,including finance and all technical aspects of project development. 

The David Alliance
Knowing you Don't Know is worth Knowing!

The David Alliance

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 7:40


Garth Heckman The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com    Talking to a young man lately who plays guitar and he plays on a worship team. I told him I was going to be teaching a short 2 hour class to the guitar players at our church… he interrupted me and said “I am a good guitar player… And they he said it again as if I did not believe him. I kindly nodded. Now he can play guitar and he can play some rock songs… but who knows if someone is good or not right? But when he asked me what exactly I was going to be teaching my guitar players on my worship team - the first thing I said was “Diatonic harmony”… which believe it or not if you are in fact a good guitar player you would know what that is. He stared at me blankly and asked what it was. I kindly assured him he was not in fact a good guitar player. Now I have told this young man as I tell many people - You may not like what I say to you, but I will never lie to you! EVER. I will try to say it nice… most of the time - but who else will be honest with you. And today what if you can't be honest with yourself because… well you just can't. Have you ever heard of the   The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Blindness of the Incompetent Wheeler's lemon juice story inspired researchers David Dunning and Justin Kruger to study this phenomenon in greater detait. The research-ers were intrigued by the obvious difference in people's actual abilities and how they perceive these abilities. Dunning and Kruger hypothesized that incompetent people suffer from two types of problems · Due to their incompetence, they make flawed decisions (such as robbing a bank while covered in lemon juice). · They are unable to realize the fact that they make Flawed decisions. (Not even the video footage convinced wheeler of hjs inability to be invisible he claimed that it was faked ) The researchers tested the validity of these hypotheses on a sample of participants. First they laid out a test measuring their abilities in a certain domain (logical reasoning, grammar, and humor). Then, the par- ticipants were asked to assess how good their abilities were. The research- ers discovered two interesting findings The least competent people (labeled incompetent in the research) had a tendency to significantly overestimate their abilities. In fact, the less competent they were, the more they overestimated themselves. For example, the more painfully unfunny an individual was, the funnier they thought they were. this eftect was elegantly described by Charles Darwin years ago ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge' The second interesting finding was that the most competent participants had a tendency to underestimate their abilities. Their under- rated results can be explained by the fact that if a task seems easy to them, they will have the feeling that the task is easy even for other people. In another part of the experiment, participants had the possibility to review the test results of other people. They were subsequently asked to conduct a self assessment again. Competent participants realized that they were better off than they had thought. Thus, they modified their self assessments and began to evaluate themselves more objectively.     So where am I going with this… David says something profound in Psalm 139:23-24 KJV. Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. David is not saying this as a type of challenge to God… ok, God see if you can find anything wrong in me. NO NO NO he is saying it as one who realizes he can't see everything in his life clearly.  He knows that he is blind to many of the sins, flaws, inconsistencies and choices he makes that are not Godly. WHAT A POWERFUL INSIGHT TO KNOW YOU DONT HAVE INSIGHT. RIGHT?  Meaning, how powerful it is to know that you don't know everything -especially about you. 

The Great American Folk Show
Episode 38 | Jeffery Broussard, Tony Kamel, Brandon Kruger, Reema, John R. Miller

The Great American Folk Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2025 58:59


Episode 142 features Zydeco legend Jeffery Broussard, Grammy Award nominated singer Tony Kamel, North Dakota musician Brandon Kruger, London singer-songwriter Reema, and Americana artist John R. Miller.

An Old Timey Podcast
54: JC Penney Was a Hustler! (Part 2)

An Old Timey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 97:11


Say what you will about James Cash Penney Jr. Just don't say he didn't work his booty off. After he left his hometown, James tried desperately to succeed as a businessman. He found work as a sales person. He bought a struggling butcher shop/bakery. With each effort came failure. Then he discovered a new kind of business. It was called the Golden Rule Dry Goods Store. The store featured low-priced goods in a clean environment. The store owners treated their customers with respect. James went to the store, hoping to be hired. He knew that if he could get his foot in the door, he'd one day find success. Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from: Currey, Mary Elizabeth. Creating an American Institution: The Merchandising Genius of J.C. Penney. Dissertations-G, 1993. Kruger, David Delbert. J.C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Penney, James Cash. Fifty Years with the Golden Rule. Harper and Brothers, 1950. Are you enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Then please leave us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts! Are you *really* enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Well, calm down, history ho! You can get more of us on Patreon at patreon.com/oldtimeypodcast. At the $5 level, you'll get a monthly bonus episode (with video!), access to our 90's style chat room, plus the entire back catalog of bonus episodes from Kristin's previous podcast, Let's Go To Court.

An Old Timey Podcast
53: Is JCPenney the Best Department Store? (Part 1)

An Old Timey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 82:46


Normie C starts this series with a bold claim: That JCPenney is the best department store ever. This raises a lot of questions. Questions like… Really? Has Norm been to other department stores? Also, really?? In Part 1, Norm loads us up with all the context we'll ever need about James Cash Penney Jr. A poor farm boy from Missouri, Penney would eventually create a chain of department stores with more than 2,000 locations worldwide. (If you're able, please listen to this episode while wearing your finest St. John's Bay polo.) Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from: Currey, Mary Elizabeth. Creating an American Institution: The Merchandising Genius of J.C. Penney. Dissertations-G, 1993. Kruger, David Delbert. J.C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Penney, James Cash. Fifty Years with the Golden Rule. Harper and Brothers, 1950. Are you enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Then please leave us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts! Are you *really* enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Well, calm down, history ho! You can get more of us on Patreon at patreon.com/oldtimeypodcast. At the $5 level, you'll get a monthly bonus episode (with video!), access to our 90's style chat room, plus the entire back catalog of bonus episodes from Kristin's previous podcast, Let's Go To Court.

Low Value Mail
Pol Pot Was A Hilarious Dictator | EP #94 | The Funniest Call In Show on The Internet

Low Value Mail

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 122:28


The Bathhouse is a live call-in show from the green room of The Stand one of New York City's best comedy clubs.FOLLOW THE GUESTS: MARITO LOPEZ, RYAN O'TOOLE AND DOUG URAM.Call 1-888-949-2969 to join the hang.Chapters:3:00 - Air canada sucks6:30 - Lag10:27 - E-Coli13:15 - Kruger calls in / Denver airport21:47 - How do I make it as a musician?!29:17 - Sean from Pittsburgh - Question for Doug31:30 - Rafe calls / India v. Pakistan38:44 - Slav calls but Marito puts the hammer down41:45 - Pablo calls - He's seeing aliens / Alex Jones was right about chemtrails55:26 - James the Irishman calls - Hitler's nephew / Dictator Dating Game1:05:56 - Mark - Very colorful episode1:13:30 - Rubestar the Ratings Man1:33:57 - Retarded cat wants to talk about aliens1:39:35 - Jared calls - UFO's are junk - Jews1:50:00 - Joe The Lawyer Calls In

History of South Africa podcast
Episode 221 - Free State Judges, the Transvaal Civil War and the Architecture of Deliberation

History of South Africa podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 17:27


This is episode 221, 1863, the midst of the Transvaal Civil War. As you heard in episode 220, this was the making of a new president and one who'd take the Trekker Republics into the 20th Century, albeit in the midst of the Anglo-Boer War. There had been a rapid and real effect — as the farmers took up arms against each other, the Transvaal's economy collapsed. This weakened the government's ability to back up its stated authority. By now the tiny independent States of Lydenburg and Utrecht had joined the Transvaal accepting the authority of the Transvaal. They had been outliers since the trekkers first arrived in those regions, fifteen years earlier. To recap - In 1859, Transvaal President, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, was invited to stand for President in the Orange Free State, many burghers there now wanted to unify with the Transvaal. They were mainly worried about how to deal with King Moshoeshoe of the Basotho. The Transvaal constitution that he had just enacted made it illegal to hold office abroad, still Pretorius won the Transvaal election, then Volksraad attempted to side-step the constitutional problems by granting Pretorius half-a-year of leave. They hoped some kind of solution would be found — Pretorius left for Bloemfontein and appointed Johannes Hermanus Grobler to be acting president in his absence. Up stepped Stephanus Schoeman from the Marico region who unsuccessfully attempted to use force to supplant Johannes Grobler as acting president. Schoeman believed that the presidency should have been granted to him as the new Transvaal constitution stipulated that in the case of the president's dismissal or death, the presidency should be granted to the oldest member of the Executive Council. Schoeman was three years older than Grobler. Forward fast to 1863, Kruger had defeated Schoeman at a skirmish outside Potchefstroom. He had also managed to convince some of the supporters of rebel in the Heidelberg district to switch sides, and had ridden back to Pretoria with a local farmer of high standing, Jan Marais. There a council of war determined that rebels like Schoeman were taking advantage of a disagreement between the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The two fledgling Boer Republics could not agree on where the boundary lay between them. Transvaal President Van Rensburg duly assigned Kruger the duty of riding to the Free State to settle the question of the border - and he left almost immediately, taking a group of burghers with him as security. Further West, the Marico district was a hotbed of rebel activity and the commandant there, Jan Viljoen, heard about Kruger's mission and organised a commando. On the way to Potch, a spy warned Kruger about what awaited. He changed course, and set off with a small detachment to confront Viljoen while Kruger's 2 IC, Veld kornet Sarel Eloff dashed forward to seize a nearby kopje - the all important high ground. Viljoen is so happened, was also on his way to the very same kopje. One of the aspects of this conflict which is interesting is how Kruger used his spies or messengers as he called them. They were feeding him information daily, information about what Schoeman and Viljoen were up to. The capacity to recon an enemy was one of the defining strengths of the Boer military system, and would be sharpened constantly over the coming century and a half. Folks, there are remarkable resonances in this apparently distant little civil war. When the Union of South Africa was achieved, Bloemfontein was nominated as the seat of the Supreme Court of the union. Cape Town and Pretoria shared power, parliament in Cape Town, Pretoria the seat of government. The Free State is slap bang in the middle — so they got the Supreme Court. These historical instances reflect a legal and political philosophy that, in the aftermath of internal conflict, prioritising national healing through amnesty can be more beneficial than widespread punitive actions.

The Real Time Show
Fiona Kruger Ponders The Role Of Destiny Throughout A Glittering Career

The Real Time Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 61:49


Send us a textSend us a textFollow the hosts on Instagram @alonbenjoseph, @scarlintheshire, @davaucher and @robnudds.Thanks to @skillymusic for the theme tune.