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Expanding SMEs in Europe and Asia with Kathryn ReadWelcome to another episode of the Asia Business Podcast. In this episode, we are delighted to have Kathryn Read, an accomplished consultant who aids SMEs in expanding their reach into Europe and Asia. With a rich background in the food and beverage industry and extensive experience in infant nutrition, especially concerning China, Kathryn offers invaluable insights into the evolving business climate of Asia.Introducing Kathryn ReadVisit Kathryn's WebsiteKathryn Read is a consultant specializing in guiding small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the complexities of expanding into diverse Asian markets. Her journey began in Austria, where she transitioned from being a linguist to an influential figure in the infant nutrition sector, specifically targeting China. Her wealth of experience comes not only from her professional roles but also from her firsthand navigation of cultural and business environments across Asia.The Impact of Scandals on Market DynamicsReflecting on the infamous 2008 infant formula scandal in China, Kathryn highlights how such incidents have reshaped consumer trust and market opportunities for foreign brands. This crisis created a significant opening for foreign companies, which were then perceived as more trustworthy compared to local brands. However, Kathryn notes that over the years, China has strengthened its regulations and consumer attitudes have shifted, leading to increased competition for foreign brands.Evolving Consumer Trust and Brand StrategyChina's path from skepticism toward local products to embracing "Made in China" again is a testament to the country's evolving trust landscape. Kathryn stresses the importance for foreign brands to adapt by understanding local consumer preferences and establishing a unique selling proposition (USP) that resonates locally. Success hinges not just on being a foreign brand but offering a narrative and product that aligns with the market's premium or niche tastes.Localizing for Success in Asian MarketsKathryn emphasizes that brands must carefully navigate the balance between preserving their global identity and localizing effectively to appeal to specific Asian markets. Localization can involve adjusting product packaging, altering flavors, or even adapting marketing strategies to suit regional consumer sensibilities. This strategic approach allows brands to maintain their global image while simultaneously penetrating new markets.The Role of Strategic PartnershipsBuilding robust partnerships is a critical strategy for entering Asian markets. Kathryn insists that brands should invest time in cultivating partnerships with local distributors and sales channels. Through shared resources and mutual goals, such partnerships can significantly enhance a brand's market entry and growth processes.Case Study: Crafted Success in KoreaHighlighting an Australian brand's success story, Kathryn shares how Vonderberg Brewed Drinks expertly positioned themselves within Korea by capitalizing on their authenticity and unique packaging. Their strategic entry into high-end bars and cafes, coupled with a compelling brand narrative, underscored the importance of a strong brand identity tailored to local tastes.Navigating Logistics and DistributionKathryn advises that understanding local logistics and leveraging established networks is essential for navigating the complex infrastructure of Asian markets. Working with an importer who can manage distribution nuances and align with the brand's overall strategy is often key to successful market penetration.Future Opportunities and TrendsLooking ahead, Kathryn identifies wellness, affordable luxury, and sustainability as emerging sectors with significant potential for growth in Asia. As consumer preferences towards ethical and health-conscious products grow, brands can find unique opportunities in these evolving sectors.Final Thoughts and Contact InformationKathryn Read brings her extensive expertise to businesses looking to prosper in the Asian markets. Active on LinkedIn and available through her website, kathryneread.com, Kathryn remains an accessible source of knowledge for brands aiming to expand their global footprint.Thank you to Kathryn for sharing her insights, and listeners eagerly glean from such discussions to refine their strategies in the Asian business arena. If you're looking for further engagement with Kathryn or specific insights into Asian market strategies, be sure to reach out.Timestamps00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome00:38 Kathryn's Background and Experience02:58 Infant Formula Scandal and Market Impact05:06 Changing Consumer Trust and Brand Strategies09:40 Localization and Market Entry Strategies18:11 Sales Channels and Partnerships23:23 Success Stories and Case Studies27:13 Distribution and Logistics Challenges38:31 Future Opportunities and Trends40:33 Conclusion and Contact Information ProducerJacob ThomasFollow UsLinkedInApple Podcasts

Karlaa Gregory is transforming industrial marketing with AI, streamlining content creation and localization across global markets. By training a custom GPT with product catalogues and documentation, she ensures campaigns align with regional needs while maintaining brand consistency. Her AI-driven approach also includes persona-based marketing, tailoring content for engineers, procurement specialists, and other key decision-makers. Beyond content generation, Karlaa is using AI-powered automation for analytics and reporting, integrating tools and ecosystems like Zapier and Google to track campaign performance in real time. She emphasizes that AI isn't replacing marketers, it's making them more effective. Tune in to hear how she's pushing the boundaries of AI in industrial marketing.

Ryan Andrews is the CFO of Hiatus Homes, a small-scale development company in Bend, Oregon. He is also the CFO of the Hiatus Capital Fund, which helps Bend locals invest in development projects in their own community. He's managed more than 20 investment funds and syndications across real estate debt, equity and venture capital, and he specializes in capitalizing construction and development projects. In this episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution, Andrews discusses the importance of local investment and explains how to fund small-scale development in a way that channels profits back to locals, instead of outside investors. He and Tiffany discuss the success this model is having in Bend and how it could be replicated in other cities. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES Feeling inspired? Vote for Bend in the Strongest Town Contest! Local Recommendations: Crosscut Pub Mount Bachelor Community Inc. Hear more about Hiatus Homes: “The Bottom-Up Revolution Is...Making a Big Impact With Tiny Homes” (podcast) Hiatus Homes (website) Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram) Do you know someone who would make for a great The Bottom-Up Revolution guest? Let us know here!

Hello!New week, new episode for you!We are soon approaching the period that is in Greek Orthodox (and not only) Church the Big Lent! Forty days of fasting before the Holy Week (more and severe fasting here!) and Easter Sunday.The abstinence of meat and dairy products it's something that the first monks practised; some of them for many years. Slowly, gradually these solemn personal "traditions" of how to step closer to God, Jesus, or saintliness, passed down to the canon of the Church and many monasteries all over the Christian world followed some sort of fasting rules throughout the year. Some with more rigour and fanatical devotion to meagre portions of food than others. So the question I had all this time in my mind was "what did the monks eat throughout the year and where they've found their produce?"Let's explore all this and more on today's episode!Also, this week's recommendations:"Localizing 4000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt":https://elephantine.smb.museum/?lang=enWhy 5 Of The World's Priciest Salts And Spices Are So Expensivehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Myw4fYyBMAbundance London:https://abundancelondon.com/Enjoy!The Delicious LegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. If you love to time-travel through food and history why not join us at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

9 Tips to Unlock Free Leads with Google Business Profile (2025 Edition)(Go here for full YouTube video version: https://youtu.be/BAJDiEVsBfU)Discover 9 actionable tips to optimize your Google Business Profile and generate free leads for your real estate business. Learn practical strategies for daily updates, photo management, Q&A optimization, using chat GPT and Google Gemini for content ideas, leveraging reviews, and more. This comprehensive guide will help you enhance your profile visibility and attract more warm referrals. Whether you're a real estate agent or small business owner, these tips will help you get in front of more search traffic on Google's top search portal.-----------------------------------------------

Tony Pataky, Director of SEO and Marketing Performance at Procore Technologies, delves into mastering international and topical authority in SEO. Effective international SEO goes beyond translation. It entails adapting everything, from the images used to the CTAs, with careful consideration of cultural nuances to build trust and deliver a relevant user experience across diverse markets. Today, Tony discusses successfully localizing international SEO content. Connect With: Tony Pataky LinkedIn // WebsiteThe Voices of Search Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lucas Lovell, VP of Product at Paddle, shares his journey from launching a startup in Australia to scaling a SaaS company in Europe. With a focus on global market expansion, Lucas discusses critical considerations for entering new geographies, leveraging local partnerships, and using payments infrastructure as a growth lever. Packed with actionable insights, this episode is a must-listen for SaaS leaders navigating the complexities of international growth.Key Takeaways:Market Expansion StrategyMarket size and access are key to identifying expansion opportunities.Operational challenges, like legal and regulatory barriers, need thorough evaluation.Localizing for cultural norms and customer expectations is crucial for success.Leveraging Payments as a Growth LeverOffering region-specific payment methods boosts conversions significantly.Partner with payment platforms like Paddle to simplify tax compliance and payment localization.Missteps in payment infrastructure can result in high drop-off rates despite strong intent to purchase.Tactical Entry into New MarketsConduct roadshows and spend time on the ground to understand the local ecosystem.Leverage accelerators, incubators, and local networks for insights and partnerships.Hiring local talent provides essential market expertise and operational efficiency.Balancing Global Consistency with Local FlexibilityUse foundational playbooks but adapt pricing, messaging, and distribution strategies to local markets.Understand cultural nuances, such as Germany's data consciousness or the business formality in Europe.Localization isn't just about language; it's also about tone, style, and relevance.Lightning Round Insights:Work-Life Balance Tip: Set boundaries with notification management to avoid work distractions during personal time.Advice to Past Self: You learn best by doing—don't hesitate to dive in and experiment.Book Recommendation: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt for mastering strategic thinking.About Paddle: Paddle simplifies payment infrastructure for SaaS businesses, enabling global expansion by handling tax compliance, payment localization, and more. Their platform helps companies turn operational complexities into growth opportunities.Connect with Lucas Lovell: LinkedIn | PaddleChapters:00:10 – Introduction01:00 – Lucas's Journey in SaaS06:30 – Choosing France for Market Expansion10:00 – Operational Barriers to Entering New Markets15:00 – Using Payments as a Growth Lever20:00 – Localization Strategies for Success25:30 – Building Partnerships for Distribution30:00 – First Principles GTM Strategies for New Geographies35:00 – Lightning Round InsightsVisit our website - https://saassessions.com/Connect with me on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilneurgaonkar/

We present gradient routing, a way of controlling where learning happens in neural networks. Gradient routing applies masks to limit the flow of gradients during backpropagation. By supplying different masks for different data points, the user can induce specialized subcomponents within a model. We think gradient routing has the potential to train safer AI systems, for example, by making them more transparent, or by enabling the removal or monitoring of sensitive capabilities.In this post, we: Show how to implement gradient routing.Briefly state the main results from our paper, on... Controlling the latent space learned by an MNIST autoencoder so that different subspaces specialize to different digits;Localizing computation in language models: (a) inducing axis-aligned features and (b) demonstrating that information can be localized then removed by ablation, even when data is imperfectly labeled; andScaling oversight to efficiently train a reinforcement learning policy even with [...] ---Outline:(01:48) Gradient routing(03:02) MNIST latent space splitting(04:31) Localizing capabilities in language models(04:36) Steering scalar(05:46) Robust unlearning(09:06) Unlearning virology(10:38) Scalable oversight via localization(15:28) Key takeaways(15:32) Absorption(17:04) Localization avoids Goodharting(18:02) Key limitations(19:47) Alignment implications(19:51) Robust removal of harmful capabilities(20:19) Scalable oversight(21:36) Specialized AI(22:52) ConclusionThe original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: December 6th, 2024 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nLRKKCTtwQgvozLTN/gradient-routing-masking-gradients-to-localize-computation --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:

Welcome to ELI, your daily dose of entrepreneurship inspiration! In this episode, we speak with Karan Ahuja, co-founder and CEO of AiVANTA, a cutting-edge B2B SaaS platform that helps enterprises optimize video production costs by up to 80%. Karan shares his insights on leveraging AI for video production, bridging the gaps in enterprise-grade solutions, and the future trends in video communication for businesses. Karan discusses AiVANTA's innovative approach to AI-driven video production, the platform's use cases in BFSI, healthcare, and insurance, and how businesses can scale video personalization and localization to enhance communication.

Localizing digital product content is challenging on its own. When you add the need to communicate about sensitive financial topics to very specific audiences, the complexity of the work quickly grows. Stephanie Pereira is a content design manager working on the Google Payments product. She deftly balances a range of internal compliance and design concerns with the very specific hyper-localization needs of her audience.  (We had an internet connection issue around 28:00 - apologies for the break in continuity.) https://ellessmedia.com/csi/stephanie-pereira/

Guest Batool Almarzouq Panelist Richard Littauer | Amanda Casari Show Notes In this episode, hosts Richard Littauer and Amanda Casari are joined by Batool Almarzouq, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool and Research Project Manager at the Alan Turing Institute. They discuss Batool's work in open science, including her involvement in the Open Science Community Saudi Arabia, localization efforts, and the challenges of connecting global and local open science initiatives. The conversation covers Batool's efforts to make research more accessible and open in the Arab region, the concept of localization vs. translation, her experiences with translation management systems, and the importance of community and mentorship in advancing open science. Batool shares insights from her collaborations with various groups and the influence of Latin American communities on her work. Press download now to hear more! [00:02:11] Batool explains her roles at various institutions and how she promotes open science in Saudi Arabia and globally. [00:03:31] Batool discusses the difficulties Arab researchers face in engaging with open science, including language barriers and the Western focus of many initiatives. [00:04:50] Amanda asks about the vision for open science in Saudi Arabia and Batool talks about open science values in the Arab world and the cultural significance of knowledge sharing pre-colonization. [00:07:56] Batool talks about localization efforts and bridging the gap between Western and Arab scientific norms. [00:11:04] There's a discussion on how Batool connects researchers and community leaders in Arab countries, the grassroots nature of the Open Science Community Saudi Arabia, and the importance of local engagement. [00:14:20] Batool details the technical tools used for localization, challenges with translating right-to-left languages, and the importance of building open source tools for internationalization. [00:20:20] There's a conversation on the difficulties in securing funding for localization efforts and the importance of empowering local communities to take charge of their own knowledge production. [00:23:43] Batool shares insights on working with Latin American communities, shared challenges in open science, and the importance of community-led initiatives. [00:25:33] We hear Batool's thoughts on the importance of mentorship, community, and collective action in creating meaningful change. [00:27:51] Find out where you can follow Batool and her work online. Quotes [00:06:56] “One of the things is that science used to be more transdisciplinary.” [00:11:18] “We have our own full-time jobs, there's no system that we use in place recording or creating things. It's more about connecting people and creating that space for this discussion to grow.” [00:25:51] “There's two places I get a lot of value from outside of academia: engaging with community practice and finding mentors.” [00:27:17] “Finding people who relate to you, relate to your ideas, and also help you articulate them better and see what other people are trying to do gives you a lot of power.” Spotlight [00:28:27] Amanda's spotlight is PyLadies. [00:29:22] Richard's spotlight is American Atheists. [00:30:14] Batool's spotlight is Alycia Crall, Richie Moluno and Goodnews Sandy. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) richard@sustainoss.org (mailto:richard@sustainoss.org) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/tags/sustainoss) Open Collective-SustainOSS (Contribute) (https://opencollective.com/sustainoss) Richard Littauer Socials (https://www.burntfen.com/2023-05-30/socials) Amanda Casari Linktree (https://linktr.ee/amcasari) Batool Almarzouq LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/batool-almarzouq-093366a1/) Batool Almarzouq Website (https://batool-almarzouq.netlify.app/) The Alan Turing Institute (https://www.turing.ac.uk/) The Turing Way (https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/index.html) Open Science Community Saudi Arabia (https://osc-ksa.com/) Open Science Community Saudi Arabia-Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/communities/1231231664/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest) Ramsey Nasser-GitHub (https://github.com/nasser/) Translation management system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_management_system) Crowdin (https://crowdin.com/) JSQuarto (https://github.com/Open-Science-Community-Saudi-Arabia/JSquarto) PyLadies (https://pyladies.com/) American Atheists (https://www.atheists.org/) Alycia Crall (https://carpentries.org/blog/2021/07/introducing-the-carpentries-director-of-community/) Richie Moluno (https://realrichi3.github.io/) Goodnews Sandy (https://goodnewssandy.netlify.app/) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Batool Almarzouq.

Stan Golovchuk, Marketing Manager at Raisin, discusses strategies for localizing content to achieve quick wins on sister sites. In this episode, Stan shares his perspectives on: enhancing SEO performance through localized content on sister sites, key factors to consider for content localization for quick wins, relationship between localized content and organic growth in various markets, best practices for maintaining brand consistency across multiple sites, case studies on successful localized content strategies. Show NotesConnect With: Stan Golovchuk: Website // LinkedInThe Voices of Search Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Niko Caparisos, Principal at Prosperity Benefits and Program Architect for Community-Owned Health Plans, joined the show this week to share what it means to re-localize healthcare. We talk why he's started focusing so much on community-owned health plans, why the community has embraced it, and how he's built his agency for his lifestyle.  Niko is also a huge fan of stoicism, and we talk about how his life and business have changed as he's followed its principles. ▶▶ Download our free training: https://www.completegameu.com/landing-page-1

Lords: * Ryan * https://www.instagram.com/ryanikeaudio/ * Alicia Topics: * How do I ask people what they're into without sounding like a pervert? * Arctic Expeditions and the stupid beauty of man's hubris * Asterix Park * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_Astérix * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK3Yr80lPOY * I Won't Call You Pretty, by L.E. Bowman * https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/tghmy9KF.png * I sent this poem to my wife and she immediately responded by writing one addressed to me that was just as good, so, that's the person I married. Microtopics: * How to work as a freelance creative without burning yourself out. * The me who comes up if you google me. * The black egg who knows all. * A huge egg with a second smaller egg in it. * The chickens who got no credit for inventing the Matrioshka doll. * Pluto: still a planet, because a dwarf planet is a kind of planet. * Team Moon. * Ancient Occult Magicks that you can check out from the library. * Giving up on the fairy smut everyone is recommending because it isn't smutty enough. * The air I just breathed. * One of my Top 5 Zeldas. * How many goes you get at being alive. * Luring Moongrum into the rolling boulder trap. * Bracing to hear about some online stuff. * Conference season in the game industry. * Meeting someone at a conference and asking them a question that Black Philip would ask. * How to Unfuck your Sales. * Content you Enjoyed. * Who are the coolest hangs in game dev? * Working with people you know and trust. * The Pervert's Mound. * Imagine if I was cool. * Wearing a sandwich board with the word "MONOGAMY" on it so the woman you're talking to knows you're not hitting on her. * Refusing to answer random innocuous questions so that it's not a tacit admission of guilt when you refuse to discuss an accusation. * Birthday bookshop tours. * Climbing as an act of disrespect to the mountain. * The HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus. * Peak British Colonialism. * Ignoring the locals' advice about what parts of animals to eat. * Sledging around your silverware. * Getting lead poisoning from the canned food you brought with you to find the Northwest Passage. * A cool pantsless mummy. * Paradoxical Undressing. * Having a hard time climbing Mount Everest because the path is choked with corpses of white people who blew it. * Oops, All Antarctic Ship Crashes. * Getting excited about bookshelves again. * Stepping forward into whatever the next grift is going to be. * Asterix the Gaul. * Localizing a book that is full of puns to dozens of different languages. * Not getting jokes in the English version of the Simpsons because the Swedish version of the Simpsons uses a completely different set of pop culture references. * What would an Asterix theme park look like? * Riding in a big inner tube down the lazy river. * Elder Millenials learning about Skibidi Toilet. * Asterix Park is the world's 12th largest economy. * My brain beans are really getting steamed, here. * Building an empire on that mustache. * Watching POV rollercoaster videos with your five year old. * Refusing to get in the sea. * Going up to strangers and asking what percentage of the sea is fish piss. * Weekend at Bernie's-ing your friend's corpse to Asterix Park. * What style of underwear Zeus is wearing today. * Who makes Zeus's underwear? * Eating the boar sandwich at Asterix Park. * Tasting the terror sweat on the wild boar you just hunted down. * The little bald kid from the comics page has a theme park?? * Pirates of the Carabiner. * Sailing through a diorama. * The theme park ride with the sudden drop into a pool of mercury. * The Haunted Garfield Theme Park. * DeFuncoland. * Jon trying to get with the veterinarian lady he's into and Garfield ruining it. * Let's-plays as a service. * You won't believe what happens when these Muppets swarm Treasure Island. * A movie recap that is 80% of the length of the movie. * Flirting tricks. * The violence of being struck by Cupid's arrow. * Complimenting someone on something they have no control over. * Good luck getting any continuity out of me!

How do we figure out what large language models believe? In fact, do they even have beliefs? Do those beliefs have locations, and if so, can we edit those locations to change the beliefs? Also, how are we going to get AI to perform tasks so hard that we can't figure out if they succeeded at them? In this episode, I chat to Peter Hase about his research into these questions. Patreon: patreon.com/axrpodcast Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/axrpodcast The transcript: https://axrp.net/episode/2024/08/24/episode-35-peter-hase-llm-beliefs-easy-to-hard-generalization.html   Topics we discuss, and timestamps: 0:00:36 - NLP and interpretability 0:10:20 - Interpretability lessons 0:32:22 - Belief interpretability 1:00:12 - Localizing and editing models' beliefs 1:19:18 - Beliefs beyond language models 1:27:21 - Easy-to-hard generalization 1:47:16 - What do easy-to-hard results tell us? 1:57:33 - Easy-to-hard vs weak-to-strong 2:03:50 - Different notions of hardness 2:13:01 - Easy-to-hard vs weak-to-strong, round 2 2:15:39 - Following Peter's work   Peter on Twitter: https://x.com/peterbhase   Peter's papers: Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09932 Do Language Models Have Beliefs? Methods for Detecting, Updating, and Visualizing Model Beliefs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13654 Does Localization Inform Editing? Surprising Differences in Causality-Based Localization vs. Knowledge Editing in Language Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04213 Are Language Models Rational? The Case of Coherence Norms and Belief Revision: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03442 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Easy Training Data for Hard Tasks: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06751   Other links: Toy Models of Superposition: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/toy_model/index.html Interpretability Beyond Feature Attribution: Quantitative Testing with Concept Activation Vectors (TCAV): https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11279 Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT (aka the ROME paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05262 Of nonlinearity and commutativity in BERT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04547 Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03341 Editing a classifier by rewriting its prediction rules: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01008 Discovering Latent Knowledge Without Supervision (aka the Collin Burns CCS paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03827 Weak-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities With Weak Supervision: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09390 Concrete problems in AI safety: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565 Rissanen Data Analysis: Examining Dataset Characteristics via Description Length: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03872   Episode art by Hamish Doodles: hamishdoodles.com

Another artist on the pooood! This is an exciting one with painter, designer, and creative technologist, Simon Zhu. In this Teatime with Jesse, we delve into different art styles from ancient Chinese landscape painting, Western oil painting, and even AI-generated digital images. Simon and I chat about how technology influences creativity, art, and the democratization of media. Oh, and we might have some mercy coming! Try the Tibetan Dark Tea: https://jessesteahouse.com/products/tibetan-dark-tea Get the Taiwan Oolong Sampler Box: https://jessesteahouse.com/products/jesse-in-taiwan-mystery-tea-drop Join Jesse's Tea Club: https://jessesteahouse.com/products/jesses-tea-club-subscription-service?variant=43241340567777 #aiart #artificialintelligence #chinesepainting #chineseteaculture #tibetandarktea #tibetantea #tibetanart #looseleaftea #gongfucha #gongfutea #kungfutea 0:35 Meet Simon 01:00 We're designing a tea set and merchandise 01:50 Jesse's tea set is legit 02:22 Lots of influencers, not enough tea people 03:00 Learning from Tibetan art practice 03:40: Tibetan black tea 04:07 Tibetan tea is salty 04:34 Tibetan tea smells creamy 05:10 Yak butter tea 05:30 Where do I get yak butter in Southern California 06:00 Black tea, dark tea, etc 07:00 Tibetan tea would be so good with milk 07:44 Growing up with Buddhism and being drawn to the art form 09:13 The history of trade between the US and China 12:00 What is a thangka 13:16 Thangkas are scrolls, rolled-up paintings 15:50 Learning different styles of painting 16:28 Localizing art 17:40 Traditional art and modern digital art 21:06 Understanding art and designing a product 22:07 Western art vs. Chinese art 22:42 Impressionism 23:00 Expressing feelings in art 25:00 Jesse got started during COVID 28:30 Chinese painting styles 29:08 Song dynasty landscape paintings 30:34 There's a reason for everything 31:25 Designing landscapes from a technical standpoint 35:00 Fine art vs. performance art vs. design 36:50 As an artist you have to sell something 37:31 AI and Artists 38:18 There is always a human element in the art process 39:30 Does AI technology enhance artistry 40:17 Fear of AI is valid 41:39 The importance of transparency when we're using technology 43:12 The Internet is always hungry 44:00 Misinformation around AI 45:23 What is art 46:30 Traditional art will make a comeback 46:44 The democratization of art 47:44 Chalets in Yunnan 48:13 Yunnan is like Switzerland 49:10 Jesse's tea tours 49:30 Mushrooms from Yunnan 52:00 Qing dynasty trends 53:08 Hair volume 53:33 Are tea trees bushy 56:04 Scale and perspective in Chinese art 57:03 Han Chinese roofs 58:10 The illusion of passing through space and time 59:00 We want the tea set out by Christmas 59:32 Jesse is not a fashion designer 1:00:28 What kind of merch should we have 1:01:50 Should we make a tea journal 1:06:00 Lightning round 1:04:46 Is there a tea god 1:07:08 Realism and subjective ideas in art 1:07:48 Don't be replaced by AI 1:08:10 Gifting Simon a tea pet 1:09:10 Join Jesse's tea club to try new tea

Episode 42 of Venture Everywhere is hosted by Chris Bergman, Partner of The Fund Midwest, as part of Everywhere Ventures, and founder and CEO of Gylee Games, a company that makes premium games for PC and console. He chats with Kieran Donovan, co-founder and CEO of k-ID, a global compliance engine ensuring the safety and privacy of kids and teens online, providing age-appropriate and market-specific feature access in over 200 markets worldwide. Kieran shares his journey from law to entrepreneurship and how k-ID's innovative solutions are shaping the future of digital safety, providing a safe and rewarding environment for children.In this episode, you will hear:k-ID's integration of regulatory requirements into games without compromising user experience.Empowering parents with informed decision-making tools, not restrictions.The complexities of designing online platforms for youth across different regions.Localizing features like chat functions and AI interactions to meet varied regulatory standards.The startup community's supportive 'rising tides' attitude and network-building strategies.Benefits of recognizing and accommodating youth audiences on online platforms.Learn more about Chris Bergman | Everywhere Ventures | The Fund Midwest | Gylee GamesLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismbergman/Websites: https://everywhere.vc/ | https://www.thefund.vc/ | https://gyleegames.com/Learn more about Kieran Donovan | k-IDLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kieran-donovan-06399819/Website: https://www.k-id.com/

 Figgy watched game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals when history was made, could the Texans be next winning it all?

Maya Malik, co-founder of KIMAenergy, joins host Rosie Barnes to discuss local content in offshore wind. Drawing on examples from the UK, Denmark, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, they explore policies to encourage domestic manufacturing. Maya shares insights on the key factors for success, including providing certainty on project volumes, offering incentives and infrastructure, and exploiting the potential for low-emission manufacturing in Australia's growing offshore wind industry. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Rosemary Barnes: Welcome to a special episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Rosie Barnes, and I have with me today, Maya Malik, who is the co founder of KIMAenergy. Thanks for joining us, Maya. Thanks, Rosie. Happy to be here. So today we're going to be talking all about local content and how countries can try to get more manufacturing in their region when they're going to be installing a lot of wind energy. So I know this is an area that you've worked in a lot. Would you be able to just give us a bit of background about the kinds of work that you've done in this industry over the years? Maya Malik: Yeah, sure. So I have a 20 year background in energy and offshore wind. Actually I first started in, in petrochemicals working in Australia and Europe and Asia. On the construction projects and 13 years ago, I moved to offshore wind. So I worked on projects in the UK, in Europe and Asia. And then together with my business partner, we started up KIMAenergy, which we are an advisory company focused on offshore wind in APAC. And I guess our niche is doing offshore wind in new markets. For most of our careers, we've basically worked on projects that are, pioneering in nature in the countries that we've worked in. Now we are based in Melbourne and yeah, continuing to support other developers with their projects in new markets. Rosemary Barnes: Okay. So you've worked a lot on a lot of different offshore wind projects all around the globe. I know that from the conversation that we've had before, before this recording. Can you tell me about yeah, just a little bit of A few examples of some interesting offshore wind projects that you've worked on. Maya Malik: Most interesting and I guess most impactful for me was working on projects in Taiwan. I'd worked on projects in Europe but there, the industry developed quite organically over, a period of two decades projects, getting incrementally bigger and technology incrementally improving. And Taiwan, I would say was the first market outside of Northern Europe to implement offshore wind and also was doing it in a way to accelerate the industrialization. So go from, doing commercial scale projects over a period of multiple years to, a handful of years. Yeah I I moved there together with another colleague from my company, and we were essentially there to win projects and, do a show in for the first time in in Taiwan. And yeah, it was a really It was a cool experience. Yeah, just really not having, the suppliers, not having the experienced people on the ground and just, it was down to, you and what you knew and, the resources you could personally call on. To do to do projects. Yeah, it was a real growth experience, I think for all of us in the industry at that time. But yeah, super, super great achievement. Rosemary Barnes: You're Australian, but you started in Australia. And then Europe,

Where does the feeling of Inadequacy come from? 0:00 - 2:02 : Intro 2:02 - 5:30 : The Lymph 5:30 - 19:15 : Gene Key 48 on transforming inadequacy 19:15 - 25:25 : Sleep & Nasal Breathing 25:25 : Localizing the food system www.joinpeel.com The 7 Day Sleep Challenge: https://myempirica.com/pages/7-day-sleep-challenge Deanna and Dyhanna Essentials on Lymph: https://dhyanaessentials.com/

Interview with Robin Dunbar, President & CEO of Grid Metals Corp.Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/grid-metals-tsxvgrdm-50-million-plan-to-unlock-high-grade-lithium-mine-4516Recording date: 30th May 2024Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV:GRDM) is a compelling investment opportunity in the critical minerals space. The Canadian exploration and development company is advancing two highly prospective battery metal projects in mining-friendly Manitoba.Grid's flagship asset is the Donner Lake lithium project. Donner Lake hosts a 7 million tonne spodumene resource which is modest in size but boasts strong grade consistency and favorable mineralogy. The real opportunity lies in Donner Lake's proximity to existing infrastructure. Grid is pursuing toll milling agreements with nearby facilities as an alternative to constructing a concentrator on site. This strategy could slash years off the development timeline and save hundreds of millions in capex.Permitting is a key near-term catalyst for Donner Lake. Grid expects to secure an advanced exploration permit imminently, allowing for development activities. The company is targeting a full mining permit in H1 2025, positioning it to move quickly into production in a recovering lithium price environment.While Donner Lake is the near-term focus, Grid's MM nickel-copper project offers significant upside. The MM Project has a 47.7Mt resource with 317 million pounds of copper, 263 million pounds of nickel and 452,000 ounces of combined palladium, platinum and gold, with an estimated $4 billion worth of metals in-pit. Grid sees potential to expand the resource to 80-100Mt, which would make it attractive for a major mining company to get involved.Upcoming catalysts for MM include exploration results from drilling planned for late summer/fall 2024. Grid will also look to bring in a strategic partner to help develop the asset once it reaches critical mass.The company's projects are located in Manitoba, one of the world's top mining jurisdictions. Manitoba boasts excellent infrastructure, a streamlined permitting process, and a long history of mining. This combination of asset quality and jurisdiction safety is a key competitive advantage for Grid.Importantly, Grid's assets are a fit for the times. The global transition to clean energy is driving unprecedented demand for critical minerals like lithium, nickel and copper. Localizing supply chains has become a priority for western governments and automakers. Grid aims to be part of the build-out of a North American battery metals supply chain to meet this need.Grid Metals currently has a market capitalization of just C$15 million. This valuation appears far too low based on the quality of the company's assets, the strength of its management team, and the significant upside potential offered by upcoming catalysts. As the company advances its projects and proves out their potential, there is strong potential for a re-rating of the stock.In summary, Grid Metals offers investors a unique way to play the critical minerals boom. With two quality assets in a top jurisdiction, a pragmatic development approach, and multiple near-term catalysts, the company is well positioned to create value in the rapidly growing battery metals space. As CEO Robin Dunbar stated, "The industry and market are going to wake up to this." Grid Metals may just be one of the best-kept secrets in the junior mining space, but it likely won't stay that way for long.View Grid Metals' company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/grid-metals-corpSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

Welcome back to our fifth episode of a five-part miniseries exploring how a focus on local food builds relationships with people and the environment.  If you haven't followed this miniseries, you may want to go back and listen from episode 26, Localizing the Regional Food System. In this episode of Root Words, we'll explore how Vermont Farmers Food Center's reopening will help usher in, not only regenerative agriculture, but a regenerative way of life for the region.  And we'll wrap up the series by hearing how a vibrant and well supported community food web creates a more circular, localized economy where we all thrive together.  Let's start by checking back in with the Vermont Farmers Food Center.   In 2019 VFFC completed a USDA Funded feasibility study and business plan for the campus with the purpose of developing the additional buildings into infrastructure that supports small food business access and creates local jobs.  In 2021, VFFC received federal grants to renovate its buildings so it can fully implement its business plan. However, one of the initial requirements in this process was an environmental review, which revealed harmful contamination from the site's industrial past that would need to be addressed before any renovation could begin. Unfortunately, in January 2022, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, VFFC had to close Farmers Hall, the central gathering space for the local food community.  While these dual challenges were a temporary setback, it has not deterred VFFC.   After two years, the doors will be reopening.  VFFC board member Phillip Ackerman-Leist says that two years of pandemic challenges, remediation, and expansion efforts have provided a wealth of lessons learned, and he is excited to see the organization continue to grow.  Relocalizing our economies creates a future of thriving communities.  A future full of potential and opportunity.  A future of community and civic engagement, and environmental and physical well-being.   It has taken generations for us to arrive at the unaccountable global system that we have.  It is not an easy road back and we'll all have to actively center local food and businesses to push back against the entrenched centralized power of global corporations.   It seems like a lot, and it is.  The good news is that there's a lot of ways to work for change, and everyone is needed and can find purpose in this work.   Do what you can to support your local farmers and organizations like Vermont Farmers Food Center.  If you're in Vermont consider joining your local hunger council.  We've compiled localization resources from this mini series on VFFC's website at vermontfarmersfoodcenter.org/local   This miniseries was produced by Stephen Abatiell and Julia Anderson. Special thanks to Philip Ackerman-Leist, Heidi Lynch, Greg Cox, Steve Gorelick, Shane Rogers, and Lyle Jepsen, as well as all of the folks who spoke with us throughout this series. Root Words is produced in the heart of Rutland County Vermont and is made possible by generous support from listeners like you.  You can support Root Words by visiting us Online

Today we're joined by Peter Hase, a fifth-year PhD student at the University of North Carolina NLP lab. We discuss "scalable oversight", and the importance of developing a deeper understanding of how large neural networks make decisions. We learn how matrices are probed by interpretability researchers, and explore the two schools of thought regarding how LLMs store knowledge. Finally, we discuss the importance of deleting sensitive information from model weights, and how "easy-to-hard generalization" could increase the risk of releasing open-source foundation models. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/679.

Localizing games from Japanese to English (or vice versa) can be a delicate process, and sometimes yields results that are strange enough to become cultural phenomena on their own. This week, Greg Moore joins us to look at five famously weird localization decisions, after which we'll get into Freedom Planet 2's console release, (still more) Dragon's Dogma 2, a report that older games are taking up the bulk of everyone's game time, and the home console repairs or hacks you're proudest of. Question of the Week: Inspired by Matt's shameless Sonic IHOP plug, what's your favorite videogame/other brand cross-promotional tie-in of all time?  Break song is Invasion of the Gabber Robots by The Laziest Men on Mars. Vidjagame Apocalypse theme by Matthew Joseph Payne.

Tony Pataky, Director of SEO and Marketing Performance at Procore Technologies, delves into mastering international and topical authority in SEO. Effective international SEO goes beyond translation. It entails adapting everything, from the images used to the CTAs, with careful consideration of cultural nuances to build trust and deliver a relevant user experience across diverse markets. Today, Tony discusses successfully localizing international SEO content. Connect With: Tony Pataky LinkedIn // WebsiteThe Voices of Search Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components, published by Neel Nanda on March 18, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. Authors: János Kramár, Tom Lieberum, Rohin Shah, Neel Nanda A new paper from the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team, from core contributors János Kramár and Tom Lieberum Tweet thread summary, paper Abstract: Activation Patching is a method of directly computing causal attributions of behavior to model components. However, applying it exhaustively requires a sweep with cost scaling linearly in the number of model components, which can be prohibitively expensive for SoTA Large Language Models (LLMs). We investigate Attribution Patching (AtP), a fast gradient-based approximation to Activation Patching and find two classes of failure modes of AtP which lead to significant false negatives. We propose a variant of AtP called AtP*, with two changes to address these failure modes while retaining scalability. We present the first systematic study of AtP and alternative methods for faster activation patching and show that AtP significantly outperforms all other investigated methods, with AtP* providing further significant improvement. Finally, we provide a method to bound the probability of remaining false negatives of AtP* estimates. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

Listen in as we tackle the intricate world of e-commerce internationalization, with a particular focus on the contrasting landscapes between North America and Europe. I'm joined by David Simoas, an expert in the field hailing from the Czech Republic, who shares his rich experience navigating through the complex terrain of culturally diverse European markets. We dissect the ease of conducting e-commerce in the States and how it starkly differs from Europe's language barriers, currency variations, and a maze of regulations that could befuddle even the most seasoned entrepreneurs.Venturing across borders in the digital marketplace brings a slew of unique challenges and solutions that we unravel in our conversation. David and I exchange insights on the necessity of localizing content, from sales messaging to adapting to cultural norms and payment methods that vary from one country to another. We highlight the effectiveness of translation tools and AI in bridging communication gaps, ensuring your online store resonates with international audiences. Whether it's dealing with credit cards, bank transfers, or local payment peculiarities, this chat lays out the essentials for a smooth cross-border e-commerce operation.Rounding off our discussion, we dive into Shopify's journey of capturing the European market amidst strict privacy laws and regional preferences for homegrown digital solutions. David offers a unique perspective on the hesitation surrounding platform adoption like Shopify, sharing strategies to shift the e-commerce mindset in favor of such versatile tools. From the value of local expertise to the surprising impact of marketing budgets, we cover all bases, offering valuable advice to merchants eager to make their mark in Europe's dynamic e-commerce landscape. Join us for a wealth of knowledge and practical tips from the frontline of international digital commerce.Show LinksShopify Translate & AdaptSounds Good AgencyDavid on LinkedInSponsorsFree 30-day trial of Zipify OCUIntelligemsNever miss an episodeSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsJoin Kurt's newsletterHelp the showAsk a question in The Unofficial Shopify Podcast Facebook GroupLeave a reviewSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsWhat's Kurt up to?See our recent work at EthercycleSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelApply to work with Kurt to grow your store.

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Welcome back to our fourth episode of a five-part miniseries exploring how a focus on local food builds relationships with people and the environment.  If you haven't followed this miniseries, you may want to go back and listen from episode 26, Localizing the Regional Food System. In our last episode we explored some relationships that people have with their foodways and some of the impacts that are felt when these relationships are damaged.  And we heard how some folks are restoring their communities' relationships with the land and with each other. If the community food web relationships are strong and vibrant, it may become possible to create a physical space that can be an active center to the web, providing enough general use attributes for the entire web to thrive.    In this episode, we'll explore Vermont Farmers Food Center's plans to rejuvenate the historic buildings at 251 West Street in downtown Rutland, Vermont and build an urban food center on the site of the former Lincoln Iron Works. Buildings aren't usually what comes to mind when we envision a vibrant local food system.  We may picture a densely cultivated field or perhaps a farmer chatting up customers at market, but like many background players, buildings- physical spaces to work, gather, warehouse, and create- play a vital role in our food system.    In a globalized food system, buildings like this are often faraway and out-of-sight, increasing energy demands for transportation while decreasing accountability to the community of consumers. Likewise, our own towns and cities often have “out-of-sight” spaces that fall into decay after their initial era of usefulness has waned, sometimes even becoming dangerous liabilities for the community if left inactive for too long.  251 West Street in Rutland, Vermont is just this sort of site.  The 2.9 acre industrial site hosted many forms of manufacturing over the past 170 years.  Notably, the Lincoln Iron Works centered a thriving community that anchored families and adjacent businesses to Rutland, but like many manufacturing centers in the U.S. the gears eventually ground to a halt when the globalizing economy shifted this work elsewhere.   Local historian, Jack Crowther, has researched this site's rise to prominence and subsequent fall into disuse.  Adaptation and reuse of aging infrastructure provides a path forward that revitalizes neglected, once-thriving areas, and protects open spaces from unnecessary sprawl.   Lyssa Papazian has been working for 30 years in historic preservation and is now based in Putney, Vermont. Vermont Farmers Food Center brought her in to assess the eligibility of the buildings at the 251 West St. site for listing on the national historic register. Lyssa says that historic preservation and adaptive reuse are starkly different.  Preservation is important in some instances, but its use is narrowly appropriate. Today in Rutland, a local food movement is reigniting the community and the people that fill the historic architecture with purpose will adapt it to further use, ultimately keeping the spaces relevant.   My grandfather Peter worked in the Lincoln Ironworks during its last great phase of output for the war effort.  My great grandfather Pasquale worked in the Lincoln ironworks even before that in the 20's.  During Pasquale's days at the Iron Works, the factory workers unionized and joined the American Steel Workers to push back against the power dynamics of that day's economy.   Farmer and Vermont Food Center founder, Greg Cox, has shown similar determination that those fellas would have respected by having the audacity to revive an aging factory through a driven community effort, ultimately pushing back against the centralized power of today's global food system. In 2012, when area farmers and food producers needed more space, Greg saw the potential of 251 West Street.   Farmer, author, and VFFC board member, Philip Ackerman-Leist, has learned that providing opportunity in the middle of the food system is a critical component to overall food system resiliency, and that a large former factory might be an ideal location for a community food web hub. In many ways 251 West Street is the ideal location.  Unfortunately, sometimes our past catches up to us, and we are faced with confronting it.  Before Vermont's farmers ever created organic food guidelines that pushed back against conventional chemical agriculture, that industrial chemical legacy was already entombed at 251 West Street from a long history of manufacturing and subsequent neglect. In 2021, as VFFC was furthering the reuse efforts of the site, an environmental assessment of the property revealed trichloroethylene or TCE contamination. TCE is a known carcinogen, and was likely left behind from industrial degreasers used in the mid 20th century.   After the contamination was discovered VFFC shut down the old Iron Works building, now called Farmers Hall, on the 251 West Street site.  This forced the winter farmers' market to relocate in the middle of the season and caused disruptions to the pandemic-era prepared meals program.   The plan to adapt this piece of the city's industrial past to create new local food opportunities, seemed to be in jeopardy.   The board and staff of Vermont Farmers Food Center had their work cut out for them.   The folks at VFFC are addressing more challenges left over from an outdated globalized economy than they initially set out to, utilizing state money and grant money to do so.  Lyle Jepsen, Executive Director at the Chamber and Economic Development for the Rutland Region is optimistic about the effect a food hub will bring to county wide redevelopment efforts. This time around the site's closure didn't stop all momentum and lead to further decay, this time there was a network built around the continual use of this space. Today's community food web was strong enough to overcome the weight of the site's history.   On the next Root Words we'll hear how Vermont Farmers Food Center's remediation and adaptive renovation efforts are set to support the community food web and create a more circular, localized economy where we all thrive together.   This episode was produced by Stephen Abatiell and Julia Anderson. Special thanks to Jack Crowther, Lyssa Papazian, Philip Ackerman-Leist, Greg Cox, Lyle Jepsen, and all of the people who have brought life to 251 West Street over the years.  If you would like to learn more about the history of the Lincoln Iron Works in Rutland you can find a link to Jack Crowther's Rutland Historical Society report on Vermont Farmers Food Center's website, under the “About” tab.  You can also see VFFC's building renovation plans, visit their website at www.vermontfarmersfoodcenter.org  Root Words is produced in the heart of Rutland County Vermont and is made possible by generous support from listeners like you.  You can support Root Words by visiting us Online

ITL Hour 1: If Texans lost like SF, what would be the hardest pill to swallow? Is Kansas City the long-term threat they're cracked out to be? OG Passing Thoughts through localized lenses.

ITL Hour 1: If Texans lost like SF, what would be the hardest pill to swallow? Is Kansas City the long-term threat they're cracked out to be? OG Passing Thoughts through localized lenses. ITL Hour 2: Which would be easier to take in the big game, a DeMeco or Stroud choke job? Did Kelce choke away his clout? The HITS are LIT and the Super Bowl was awesome. ITL Hour 3: What do the Texans need to get to last night? LunchTime Confessions on the final Reaction Monday of the 2023-24 season. The long-term layout of the Chiefs and the hurdles to overcome. ITL Hour 4: Deshaun Watson impact on the Texans future still exists and NFL drama in multiple ways. CJ Stroud argues, Landry calls fake and a hilarious Swift message.The final words of the 2023-24 season.

Seth and Sean localize opening night by reacting to what Kyle Shanahan and Justin Reid had to say about the Texans and DeMeco. They also discuss if Brock Purdy has too much healthy perspective to win a Super Bowl.

HOUR 1 - Seth and Sean are live from Las Vegas, they extract Texans tidbits from Super Bowl opening night, assess if Brock Purdy has too much life perspective, and go through the day's Headlines.

Abdominal cavity examinations can be complex and expensive. This means they are often highly inaccessible for many people. OUI Medical was founded by Dr. Adarsh Patil in 2023 with a singular vision: to revolutionize the way abdominal examinations are conducted. Driven by a passion for innovation and a dedication to excellence, his team has set out to develop a solution that addresses the challenges of traditional diagnostic methods. The current standard involves laparoscopy, a minimally invasive surgical procedure, sometimes referred to as keyhole surgery, as it uses a small incision to gain access to the body. There are currently estimated to be more than 14 million laparoscopic procedures performed annually worldwide, with this number anticipated to grow significantly in the years ahead.Despite this projected growth, the need for general anesthesia in current abdominal procedures makes this a resource intensive operation, placing a burden on healthcare systems. Pressures on Medicare spending, and a lack of access to surgical facilities in many countries, mean there is a strong need for innovation in this space. OUI Medical is pushing the boundaries of medical technology to create products that are not only effective but also accessible and user-friendly. Their initial product, the P-Scope, can be used with a local anesthetic administered, making abdominal diagnostic procedures more efficient, less invasive, and more affordable. From his home base of Bangalore, India, Adarsh has networked to build an engaged team, including a fantastic group of advisors, and truly leverage the ecosystem to help bring the product to market. He is proving that distance should not be a barrier to bringing great innovation to market. If you want to learn more about how this game changing technology could localize access for billions of people, tune in so you can be inspired and informed.

ITL Hour 1: The acknowledgment of the loss and understanding of present and DeMeco LIVE. The future and the recent performance by the Texans. Localizing the state of the Texans. 

ITL Hour 1: The acknowledgement of the loss and understanding of present and DeMeco LIVE. The future and the recent performance by the Texans. Localizing the state of the Texans.  ITL Hour 2: CJ Stroud speaks for the final time of the season and ITL discusses what he needs around him. What is the ideal outcome for the Slowik thing? The HITS are too LIT. ITL Hour 3: The Texans list might be bigger than you think. LunchTime Confessions and the greeting that was. CJ Stroud speaks with the media for his exit interview. ITL Hour 4: Around The NFL and the activity of the weekend that was very competitive minus the game of interest. The Internet Goes Nutz and Laremy Tunsil gets into it online. 

Localizing the state of the Texans.

In this episode, host Alyssa Watson, DVM, welcomes back Kate Barnes, DVM, MS, DACVS-SA, to talk about her recent Clinician's Brief article, “Localizing Pelvic Limb Lameness on Orthopedic Examination in Dogs.” Dr. Barnes presents her stepwise approach to evaluating a patient with possible pelvic limb lameness and includes tips for assessing patient gait as well as joint function. She also shares how to grade patellar luxation and why braces might not be the best treatment for stifle injuries. Listen to learn the acronym Dr. Barnes uses to make sure she doesn't miss any findings when palpating the joints.Resource:http://cliniciansbrief.com/article/pelvic-limb-lameness-canine-dog-bone-joint-orthopedic-examContact us:Podcast@briefmedia.comWhere to find us:Youtube.com/@clinicians_briefCliniciansbrief.com/podcastsFacebook.com/cliniciansbriefTwitter: @cliniciansbriefInstagram: @clinicians.briefThe Team:Alyssa Watson, DVM - HostAlexis Ussery - Producer & Multimedia Specialist

Welcome back to our third episode of a five-part miniseries exploring how a focus on local food builds relationships with people and the environment.  If you haven't followed this miniseries, you may want to go back and listen from episode 26, Localizing the Regional Food System.   In our last episode we explored the community food web, a local alternative to the globalized food system that centers our relationships with our communities and with the land.    In this episode, we look at some relationships that people have with their foodways and some of the impacts that are felt when these relationships are damaged.  Then we'll hear how some folks are restoring their communities' relationships with the land and with each other. At the end, we'll hear what Vermont Farmers Food Center is doing to help build back those community relationships in Rutland.   Steve Gorelick, Managing and Programs Director for Local Futures, believes that the globalized accumulation economy has isolated us from true community.  Steve says that before globalization, our agriculturally based communities were inherently more interconnected, and that this isolation has many serious effects.   Farmer and Vermont Farmers Food Center founder, Greg Cox, believes that global agribusiness' goal is yield, and that individual and community health has suffered in the wake of this approach.     Shane Rogers of Food Solutions New England, believes that social inequities have been exacerbated by an unaccountable global food system, and that communities are their own best experts for rebalancing the power dynamic that a globalized system creates.   Many communities that have been marginalized by the global yield-based economy are rebuilding their relationships with their foodways and creating more just systems while doing so.  We have explored many of these stories on Root Words over the past few years.   In episode 4, Sugaring in Vermont, Vermont Abenaki chef Jessee Lawyer describes his experience practicing traditional indigenous maple sugaring.  In episodes 10, 11, 15, and 16, We explore the Vermont Abenaki's quest for food sovereignty and preservation of their cultural food traditions, and hear from some allies in these efforts.     In episode 18 Taking Space, Vermont RELEAF Collective, I spoke with Olivia Pena, founder of Vermont RELEAF Collective, a network by Black Indigenous, & People of Color advancing Racial Equity in Land, Environment, Agriculture, & Foodways.  This Vermont BIPOC network amplifies and lifts marginalized voices, while building community and sharing opportunities around foodways and land stewardship.     If you haven't listened to our older episodes, they show some real depth to our communities' cultural and social practices around food, and they are worth a listen.   Instead of replaying a segment from one of these earlier episodes, I'd like to play a piece from an unaired interview I did with Rich Holshuh in October of 2021.  Rich is a citizen of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe, and working on the Atowi project that hopes to create balance with communities and with place.  Forced removal separated indigenous people from their land and foodways abruptly.  This and the cultural genocide that followed makes it very difficult for indigenous people to maintain their relationship with place and with their food system.  Rich's Atowi project is doing some really amazing work in partnership with the Brattleboro Retreat Farm and SuSu ComUNITY farm to address this reality.  Stay tuned for more on this work in future episodes of Root Words.   Many BIPOC organizations and networks are leading the way to reestablish relationships between communities and with place.    To learn about the work of Atowi and of SuSu CommUNITY Farm, check out atowi.org, and susucommunityfarm.org.     Here in Rutland, farmer and VFFC board president, Greg Cox feels that most people no longer know where our food comes from and we've been detached from our connection to place and to seasonal change because of it, resulting in poor mental and physical health for us as individuals and for our communities as a whole.  Greg feels that communities can be saved by rebuilding economic viability, beginning with a local food economy.  This belief led Greg and others to create the Vermont Farmers Food Center in 2012.     By focusing on seasonal community gathering around food, VFFC creates the space for authentic community connections and empathetic relationships between people and sets the stage for healing and restoration while reconnecting people to their home's natural cycles and rhythms.  By using local food as common ground, VFFC facilitates a place-based culture that engages the community.   Heidi Lynch is the executive director for Vermont Farmers Food Center.  Under Heidi's guidance, VFFC leads a grassroots effort to become more connected to community and place by gathering around local food.    A built awareness around our connections to nature and community through a local food web creates space for dialog, understanding, and healing.  We are all connected to place by our food and to each other through our community food web.  When you become a supporter of VFFC, you establish a local relationship with farmers, food producers, and community members.  You establish a relationship with place.  For more information on becoming a member of the community at VFFC, visit VFFC's website at vermontfarmersfoodcenter.org.    Food is the heart of one of our most intimate relationships with nature. We have the opportunity to connect with the land, the farmers, and our community when we restore relationships through the foods we choose to eat. Through a shared sense of place we can build trust and start healing our relationships with each other.   Rebuilding trust and our relationships with each other and with the land we occupy creates a strong foundation for food web resilience, but in order to bring the food system home you need a physical place, and it needs to be big and accessible. On the next Root Words we'll hear how a grassroots community effort worked to rescue an aging piece of the community's industrial past.     This episode was produced by Stephen Abatiell and Julia Anderson.   Special thanks to Steve Gorelick, Shane Rogers, Rich Holshuh, Greg Cox, and Heidi Lynch.   To learn more, check out the Atowi project at atowi.org, and SuSu CommUNITY Farm at susucommunityfarm.org.     For more information on the community at VFFC, visit vermontfarmersfoodcenter.org.  This Root Words series has been underwritten by Windswept Farm and Rutland Fluoride Action.    Barry Cohen of Windswept Farm strongly supports VFFC and is very encouraged with the Food Hub plan. Barry says, “My farm as well as my partner, The Squier Family Farm, expect to use the food hub facilities with it benefiting our process and profit.”   The folks at Rutland Fluoride Action are dedicated to ending fluoridation of the Rutland City water supply, learn more at RutlandFluorideAction.org. Root Words is produced in the heart of Rutland County Vermont and is made possible by generous support from listeners like you.  You can support Root Words by visiting us Online

Root Words returns with a special five-part series to take a closer look at the growing effort to localize our food system. Localized food systems are gaining regional and national attention for the benefits that go beyond food production and consumption. Rural and urban communities across the United States and the world are building local food networks for greater resilience, stronger local economies, better health, and social well being. Vermont Farmers Food Center is a food hub that's creating an alternative to the existing food system by rooting food production and access in a particular place. In this series we're going to explore how a focus on local food builds relationships with people and the environment, and we'll discuss how a local food center can contribute to the regional and global impact that localization may have on our economic and environmental sustainability.  Localizing the regional food system is the Vermont Farmers Food Center's stated mission. In our first episode in this special series, we are taking a deeper dive into why localizing the food system is important and why it's so important now. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines localization as, “the process of organizing a business or industry so that its main activities happen in local areas rather than nationally or internationally.” Today's guests will help us understand why localization is needed now and how it creates change to the existing nationalized food system.  A localized food system, built at the community level that balances the strengths and needs of the community creates more economic autonomy, empowered civic participation, and community well-being.  On the next episode of Root Words we'll explore a local alternative to global consolidation, the community food web.  This episode was produced by Stephen Abatiell and Julia Anderson.  Special thanks to Steve Gorelick, Shane Rogers, and Ellen Kahler.  To learn more, check out Steve Gorelick's films and books at Local Futures, www.localfutures.org/  Root Words is produced in the heart of Rutland County Vermont and is made possible by generous support from listeners like you.  You can support Root Words by visiting us Online

Dr. Randall Brown discusses his NeuroByte, "More Than a Wink -Identifying and Localizing Horner Syndrome". Show references: https://learning.aan.com/diweb/catalog/item?id=11182519 

On SurgOnc Today®, Jeffrey J. Pelton, MD, and Randall P. Scheri, MD, discuss the use and efficiency of four-dimensional CT scanning in preoperatively localizing adenomas in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism prior to cervical exploration. The discussion includes: The anatomic body planes and the “fourth dimension” of CT scanning. How the 4D CT scan is performed and how this achieves localization of abnormal parathyroid glands. The role 4D CT scanning plays in the pre-operative work-up for primary hyperparathyroidism. What the surgeon wants to know from the radiologist on a 4D CT report. Potential risks and pitfalls in interpreting a 4D CT scan prior to proceeding with surgical exploration. Dr. Pelton and Dr. Scheri also discuss what the literature has reported on this subject, how they approach surgical exploration using the information and their own experiences with this test.

Have you ever heard of gas technology? And how it impacts our everyday life? Well, Linde's gas and technologies are used, among other things, in Coca Cola, for oxygen masks and... to cool and freeze pizzas! In this latest episode of the Globally Speaking podcast, Jordan Cockrell and Dora Jakopović sit with Lauren Wojtaszek and Manja Konschak-Steffes to talk about how they trained over 8,000 employees in a bit more than a year with their internal eLearning programme and why making it available in local languages played a key role in engaging learners and helping them feel seen and understood.

Desiree Grace is the President of the Americas for Cembre and Andrea Olson is an author and Customer-Centricity expert. 

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ITL Hour 1: The light was seen and DeMeco was the face and the Astros showed the light in a matter of minutes. Lopez insight, bad speeches of past and the OG buzz kills movie classics. Localizing the QB lessons from around the league and Stroud process, Texans make cuts.

Localizing the QB lessons from around the league and Stroud process, Texans make cuts.

In this episode, host Alyssa Watson, DVM, is joined by Kate Barnes, DVM, MS, DACVS-SA, to discuss her recent Clinician's Brief article, “Localizing Thoracic Limb Lameness on Orthopedic Examination in Dogs.” Dr. Barnes covers how to assess gait for forelimb lameness. Then, she shares multiple practical tips for conducting an effective examination. Do you remember how to do a Campbell's test?Resource:https://www.cliniciansbrief.com/article/localizing-thoracic-limb-lameness-orthopedic-dog-canineContact us:Podcast@briefmedia.comWhere to find us:Youtube.com/@clinicians_briefCliniciansbrief.com/podcastsFacebook.com/cliniciansbriefTwitter: @cliniciansbriefInstagram: @clinicians.briefThe Team:Alyssa Watson, DVM - HostAlexis Ussery - Producer & Multimedia Specialist

Clean energies used to be a novelty a mere 2 decades ago. Now they're a highly essential part of the bottom-line, enabling industries and corporates to manage their demand economically. Join us, as we discuss this and more on localizing energy supply chains, manufacturing, jobs and economics in a candid chat with Russ Bates, Founder and CEO of NXTGEN Clean Energy Solutions, a consulting one-stop-shop firm acting as a single touch point for small and large business owners who want to take advantage of renewable energies. Host:  Chris Sass Additional Reads:NXTGEN: https://www.nxtgencleanenergy.com/Securing Clean Energy Supply Chains: https://www.iea.org/reports/securing-clean-energy-technology-supply-chains

If the U.S. is to be less reliant on global supply chains, businesses and consumers are going to have to change expectations. Rana Foroohar joins us to discuss what it'll really take to rebuild the economy at "home." Rana Foroohar and Jack Beatty join Meghna Chakrabarti.