Podcasts about Locus

Bite into General Tso's Bok Choy with Arley Sorg as we discuss the difficulty in getting the help you need as a beginning writer when you don't know what you don't know, the serendipity that got him a job at Locus, how to inhabit the community that is while envisioning the community that could be, why an agent might prefer in-person pitches over email, the importance of doing things without an agenda, the way we learned to deal with both rejecting and being rejected, how to make sense of the myths and rumors of science fiction publishing, why he feels comfortable in his role as an agent, plus much more.

People and animals have lived together in lots of ways for thousands upon thousands of years -- and humans, as we know, will attempt to pack-bond with anything. But what does the domestication of animals mean in worlds that might have fantastical creatures or critters who can talk? Guest John Wiswell joins us to discuss the friend-shaped beings that inhabit our fantasy worlds. When did your culture domesticate animals, and which ones, and why? What distinguishes a merely domesticated animal from a true companion? Which creatures might be normal pets, and which ones are more off-beat or even taboo? What does it mean if you can tame a dragon, or if your kitty familiar can talk to you? And then, of course, writers also need to consider what role these animals play in the story: Do they serve a narrative purpose? Or are they just there to fill out the world and acknowledge that, yes, humans generally love animals and want them around? [Transcript for Episode 185 TK] Our Guest: John Wiswell is a Nebula-winning and Locus-winning author who lives in the middle of the woods. His debut novel, SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, was released from DAW Books in the U.S. and Arcadia Books in the U.K. in April 2024. John's work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, LeVar Burton Reads, Nature Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, the No Sleep podcast, Nightmare Magazine, Cast of Wonders, Podcastle, Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and other fine venues. He has been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. His fiction has been translated into ten languages. He graduated Bennington College in 2005, and attended the Viable Paradise 17 workshop in 2013. He has multiple disabilities including a neuromuscular syndrome, and thinks healthy people's capacity to complain is very funny. He finds a lot of things very funny and would like to keep it that way. He is frequently available for interview and for talks at conferences. He has done panels at places such as Worldcon, the Nebula Awards Conference, and the World Fantasy Convention.

This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome back Michael Damian Thomas, to talk about Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! About Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!: We have something special planned this year, Space Unicorns. Along with it being Year 13, this year will feature our DIAMOND Issue 75! In celebration of this milestone, all of the solicited fiction contributors and two of the solicited essayists for Issue 75 have previously won an award for their Uncanny story or essay. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!? Welcome back, Space Unicorns! Editor-in-Chief/Publisher Michael Damian Thomas and Team Uncanny Magazine have run successful Kickstarters for the eight-time Hugo Award-winning, World Fantasy Award-winning, and Locus Award-winning Uncanny Magazine Years One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, and Twelve. We promised to bring you stunning cover art, passionate science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, and provocative essays by writers from every conceivable background–not to mention a fantastic award-winning podcast featuring exclusive content. Through the hard work of our exceptional staff and contributors, Uncanny Magazine delivered on that promise every single year. Stories from Uncanny Magazine have been finalists for or winners of Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Awards! The Space Unicorn Ranger Corps, our name for the Uncanny Magazine community, made it possible for our remarkable staff and contributors to create this wonderful art for all of our readers via the web or as eBooks. THANK YOU, SPACE UNICORNS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! If you've been looking for an opportunity to join or re-up with the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps, now's your chance! We need your help to continue this mission for another year. This is your magazine, Space Unicorns! Let's make Year 13 happen! Though Uncanny continues to have multiple ways to support us, we still need the help of the Space Unicorn Kickstarter community to keep bringing you this amazing content. Unfortunately, there is a less-than-celebratory side to this Kickstarter. Recently, a very large online eBook retailor changed its terms again, and we lost all of our subscription earnings. YOUR support, specifically, makes it possible for us to make our magazine freely available on our website and to pay our contributors and staff. We need your help more than ever, Space Unicorns! About Michael Damian Thomas: Michael Damian Thomas is the eight-time Hugo, British Fantasy, World Fantasy, and Parsec Award-winning co-publisher (with Lynne M. Thomas) and editor-in-chief of the Locus Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Michael was a Hugo Award finalist as the former Managing Editor of Apex Magazine (2012-2013), co-edited the Hugo Award finalist essay anthology Queers Dig Time Lords (Mad Norwegian Press, 2013) with Sigrid Ellis, and co-edited the anthology Glitter & Mayhem (Apex Publications, 2013) with John Klima and Lynne M. Thomas. Michael was additionally a contributor to the SF Squeecast podcast (with Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, and Catherynne M. Valente), a contributor to the Down and Safe- Blake's 7 podcast (with Amal El-Mohtar, Scott Lynch, and L.M. Myles), and is currently the Content Editor (with Lynne M. Thomas) of the It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton podcast. Michael was formerly the full-time caregiver of his late daughter, Caitlin. Caitlin had a rare congenital disorder called Aicardi syndrome. This week's picks: Michael #1: AEW Wrestling Michael #2: Scotland History Tours (YouTube) Michael: Ruth Aisling: Discovering Scotland (YouTube) Tracy: The Chameleon (Big Potato Games) Patrick: Platform Decay: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Links: Uncanny Magazine Year 13 on Kickstarter Tracy Townsend on BluSky Patrick Hester on Instagram The Functional Nerds Patreon Page © 2026 Patrick Hester The post Episode 710-With Uncanny Magazine's Michael Damian Thomas appeared first on The Functional Nerds.

Susan Guthrie turns to a subject that keeps more people up at night than almost any other one in divorce: money. Specifically, how to protect it, and how to stop spending it in the wrong places. Heather Locus is a CPA, certified financial planner, and certified divorce financial analyst with a rare gift for taking the most complicated financial pieces of divorce and making them feel manageable. In this episode, Heather shares her top strategies for saving money in your divorce, from the common mistakes that quietly drain your settlement to the smart moves that keep more of your hard-earned dollars where they belong, with you. Together, Susan and Heather walk through her five ways to save money in a divorce, from getting organized early and assembling the right support team, to keeping business and emotion separate, to using her Settle Smart projections to see the road ahead. As Heather points out, these are critical points whether you have millions in the bank or are living paycheck to paycheck. What You'll Learn Why something as simple as setting up a separate email for divorce communications can save real time, money, and stress What discernment counseling is, and how pausing to consider it can save money in your divorce negotiations, even if you still end up divorcing Why having laser focused priorities, for yourself and for your spouse, is the key to smart negotiating How to assemble the right support team, and when mediation, collaborative divorce, or traditional litigation is the better fit Why remembering "it's business" helps you make financial decisions instead of emotional ones What Settle Smart is, and how modeling your financial future helps you know what to accept, and what's worth continuing to negotiate for Episode 3 of 8 in the Divorce & Beyond Summer Essentials Series. This summer, Divorce & Beyond brings back 8 the episodes listeners reach for most, the conversations with the clearest, most practical guidance for anyone thinking about, going through, or rebuilding after divorce. New Essentials air every other Monday all summer. Follow the show so you never miss one.  About this week's special guest: Heather Locus Heather founded the National Divorce Practice Group at BDF Private Wealth to help divorcing individuals consciously navigate their divorce's emotional and business aspects. From hiring the right fit attorney through their SettleSmart™ analysis, then implementing the divorce decree and auditing it annually, Heather ensures you have the resources you need to start your next chapter on a firm footing. Heather founded our Women's Service Team in 2006 to help female executives and business owners, widows, and women transitioning through divorce. After going through her own divorce in 2011, she realized how much more we could do to support divorcing women and men with a practice dedicated to serving their unique needs. Heather is driven by deep empathy to help divorcing individuals have clarity and confidence in finalizing their divorce. A Forbes “America's Top Women Advisor,” Heather is a nine-time “Five Star Wealth Manager” according to Chicago magazine, was named an “Influential Women in Business” by The Business Ledger, a “Top 200 Wealth Advisor Mom” by Working Mother, and an InvestmentNews “Woman to Watch.” Heather is an author of two books on divorce and has contributed to leading publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Crain's Chicago Business, Family Lawyer Magazine, and Divorce Magazine on multiple topics. She is a CPA, CFP® practitioner, and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®) professional and has completed intensive executive coaching and divorce mediation training. Heather loves learning from her teenage son and daughter and working with organizations she is passionate about, including After School Matters, The Lilac Tree, Between Friends, and Make-A-Wish Foundation. For more information on Heather: Call/Text Heather at 312-312-2144 or email hlocus@bdfllc.com if you or a friend are contemplating or in the middle of a divorce. Financial Issues in Divorce: A Client Handbook: Heather's latest book written for the American Academy of Matrimonial Attorneys. Listen to Heather's prior episode of Divorce & Beyond:   Negotiating Your Financial Future: Key Factors to Consider with Leading Divorce Financial Professional, Heather Locus" on The Divorce & Beyond Podcast with Susan Guthrie, Esq. #114 If This Episode Helped You Follow Divorce & Beyond so you never miss an episode. Share it with someone who needs clear, reliable guidance right now. And if you have a moment, a five-star review makes a real difference in helping the show reach the people who need it most. Follow Divorce & Beyond Website: divorceandbeyondpod.com Instagram: instagram.com/divorceandbeyondpod About the Host: Susan Guthrie, Esq. Susan Guthrie is one of the nation's leading family law and mediation attorneys, with more than 35 years of experience helping people navigate divorce with clarity and strategy. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, a best-selling author, and a sought-after speaker and trainer. Susan recently appeared as the featured expert on The Oprah Podcast and has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Town & Country, The Washington Post, NewsNation, and NBC Chicago Today, among others. As the creator and host of Divorce & Beyond, ranked in the top 1% of all podcasts worldwide with more than 1.3 million downloads and an Apple Top 100 Self-Help designation, Susan brings together leading legal and mental health experts to help listeners move through divorce and into what comes next. Learn more at divorceandbeyondpod.com/about.   Disclaimer: The commentary and opinions shared on this podcast are for informational and entertainment purposes only and do not constitute legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney in your state regarding your specific situation.  

What is your Locus of Control?

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast with Matt and Erin! In Episode 304, we are continuing our sub-series on how different temperaments navigate healthy, holy conflict resolution using the PACE Framework (Pause, Assume Goodwill, Clarify, Engage).Today, we are shifting into the introverted temperaments to focus on the Melancholic.Melancholics have a beautiful, rich interior life, but when it comes to conflict, their deep analytical minds can easily derail them. Instead of working toward unity, a melancholic might find themselves over-preparing, scripting imaginary arguments, and holding others to unspoken, black-and-white "ideals."In this episode, Matt and Erin break down:The Melancholic Profile: Understanding how slow-activating, long-lasting emotional responses can fuel long-term resentment.The "Should" Trap: How rigid ideals can become measuring sticks used to bludgeon relationships rather than build them.Maximizing the Pause: Why using the FACE Protocol (from Episode 300) and physical journaling is vital to break the rumination loop.Locus of Control in Communication: Learning to co-create ideals with others rather than manipulating them into conforming to yours.If you are a melancholic—or love someone who is—this episode offers highly practical, compassionate guardrails to help you stop rehearsing arguments and start restoring communion.If this episode helped you gain self-awareness, please like, subscribe, and share it with a friend!Send us Fan MailSupport the show____________________► Make sure to SUBSCRIBE to the Metanoia Catholic YouTube Channel!► Discover How God Is Speaking to You In Prayer► Find out your temperament: Take the Free Quiz► Get the Conversation Starter Guide (FREE) ► Take the Quiz: WHAT TYPE OF COACH ARE YOU?► GET THE DAILY SEVEN JOURNAL!This interactive journal will help you transform your life from the inside out by teaching you how to grow in gratitude, set healthy goals, and gain mastery over your thoughts.► JOIN THE ACADEMY!Your online resource of classes, tools, and community to ramp up your growth and really change your life. Learn from the Metanoia Catholic coaches in webinars, live coaching calls, Lectio Divina, and more with your monthly membership.____________________► SUB...

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Alix E. Harrow at www.alixeharrow.wixsite.com or on IG at @alix.e.harrow   Carrie and I are still reading and resting on our summer hiatus but we are continuing our summer replay series of award winners!   This week we are going way back in the archives to the fall of 2019, the first season of our podcast.  We took a roadtrip from Louisville to Berea, KY to meet up with Alix E. Harrow, a Hugo and British Fantasy award winner and a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, and Goodreads Choice Awards.  And she is a New York Times best-selling author.  At the time of our interview, her debut novel The Ten Thousand Doors of January had been released and one of her short stories had just won the Hugo.  Currently her most recent novel The Everlasting is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The Hugo is science fiction and fantasy's most prestigious annual award.   Because this interview was recorded in a library with tall ceilings, not in a studio, and because we were definitely newbies at podcasting with a different format, this episode will sound a lot different than those today. But we hope you'll enjoy hearing Alix talk about her influences and her view of sci-fi fantasy early on in her writing career.   We will be back July 22 with an all new episode.  Happy Reading!  

In this Sustainable podcast episode by AgriBusiness Global, Jason McGarrh, VP of Agriculture at Locus FS, delves into recent innovations in the biosurfactants space, how biosurfactants can address challenges like resistance management, and more.

Do you feel like you're in the driver's seat of your life, or does it feel like life is just happening to you? Empowered people have an infectious confidence and energy, and a lot of that personal agency comes down to a powerful concept in psychology: locus of control. Do our choices, habits, and actions shape our future? Or are we at the mercy of luck, circumstances, other people, and forces beyond our control? Your answer has a major impact on your confidence, resilience, motivation, mental health, relationships, success, and optimism. In this episode, we unpack the difference between an internal locus of control and an external locus of control, why some people feel empowered while others feel stuck, and how our childhood experiences, upbringing, and life circumstances can shape the stories we tell ourselves about what's possible. Tune in to hear: What the concept of locus of control is in psychology The difference between an internal vs. external locus of control Why locus of control influences confidence, resilience, happiness, motivation, and success The connection between external locus of control and anxiety/depression/stress How high performers often develop a stronger sense of personal agency How childhood experiences, parenting styles, and socioeconomic circumstances shape our beliefs Why your locus of control may differ across areas of your life Strategies to feel more empowered and build confidence in your abilities Whether you're navigating anxiety, building self-confidence, or trying to feel more empowered in your life, this is a powerful framework for understanding how your mindset shapes your reality. I believe in you!! For advertising and sponsorship inquiries, please contact Frequency Podcast Network. Subscribe to my Substack:teachmehowtoadult.substack.comFollow us on the ‘gram:@teachmehowtoadultmedia@gillian.bernerFollow on TikTok: @teachmehowtoadultSubscribe on YouTube

This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Sam J. Miller, author of Red Star Hustle. About Red Star Hustle: Aran, a happy-go-lucky high-class escort, is on the run after he's framed for the assassination of his famous filmmaker client. The last thing he needs is to fall for the studly and noble clone of a murderous puppet monarch while he's trying to stay one step ahead of an ace bounty hunter, who is trying to keep a fatal secret from her toxic boss/mom, which means she can't stop to worry about a little thing like whether her target might actually be innocent. Set within a universe of epic mech battles, and billions of human-made wormholes that make traveling to a distant star as easy as walking through a door or scheduling car service. About Sam J. Miller: Sam J. Miller‘s books have been called “must reads” and “bests of the year” by USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among others, and have been translated into nine languages. They've also been banned in Florida, and stolen by AI. His work has won the Nebula, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Awards. He's also the last in a long line of butchers. Sam lives in New York City. This week's picks: Sam: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Tracy: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite Patrick: Song Sung Blue (Netflix) Patrick: Kinder Marinades Links: Sam J. Miller on Instagram Tracy Townsend on BluSky Patrick Hester on Instagram The Functional Nerds Patreon Page © 2026 Patrick Hester The post Episode 708-With Sam J. Miller appeared first on The Functional Nerds.

Here’s the audio from the June 10th, 2026 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading with guests Nicholas Kaufmann & A.C. Wise, recorded live at the KGB Bar. Support the Fantastic Fiction at KGB series by clicking here!​​​​​​​​​​​​ ​ Nicholas Kaufmann Nicholas Kaufmann has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Thriller Award, and the Dragon Award. Two of his novels, 100 Fathoms Below (co-written with Steven L. Kent) and The Hungry Earth, were Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com bestsellers. His latest book is the collection Monuments in Darkness. He also co-hosts the strange-but-true science podcast Spooky Science Lab with author David Wellington. & A.C. Wise A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling, Hooked, and her most recent, Ballad of the Bone Road, published in January 2026. She’s also the author of various novellas, collection, and short stories, and her work has won the Sunburst and been a finalist for the Nebula, Stoker, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Locus Awards, among others. Along with her fiction, she contributes regular review columns to Locus and Apex Magazine.

In this episode Mark interviews Premee Mohamed, a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, Locus, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. Prior to the interview, Mark shares comments from recent episodes, a personal update, and a word from this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by the Show, Don't Tell Writing Podcast with Suzy Vadori. In this weekly show, Suzy brings you writing techniques, best practices, motivation, inspirational stories from real live authors out there making it in the world, and actionable advice that can help you turn that book you're writing into the bestseller you know deep down that it can be. In their interview, Mark and Premee talk about: How Premee introduces herself as a writer in different contexts The snobbery that can exist in the CanLit spaces in relation to sci-fi/fantasy/horror The generous umbrella of the term "speculative fiction" Being drawn to write in the speculative genres because that's what she liked to read The first completely partially illustrated story Premee remembers finishing when she was eight years old The Stephen King anthology (authorized stories set in the world of The Stand) was the most Premee had been offered for a short story ever The agent Premee found for selling her first book and having worked with them for almost nine years The common response of a multi- or cross-genre book confusing publishers who liked it because they didn't know "where to put it" on the shelves How the awards Premee has won so far haven't really moved the needle at all in terms of increasing book sales Premee's forthcoming books that are coming from the big five publishers Loving the writing anyway, and how Premme would write even if she wasn't publishing Premee's experience as a Writer in Residence at the Edmonton Public Library Advice Premee would offer to writers looking for a publisher to sell their writing to How she used to be a pantser but is now a completely converted outliner How Premee's only self-publishing experience being a painful experience because it was work she did not enjoy, but how it led to her selling enough units of the ebook that it helped cover a trip to Dublin for a World Con The powerful impact of Canada's PLR program for writers And more... After the interview Mark reflects on a few items that came up in the conversation. Links of Interest: Premee Mohamed's Website EP 478 - The Pinocchio Problem EP 475 - Writing Emotions and Making the Reader Feel with Jeff Elkins Substack Article - Hat Switch on the Highway: A Tale of Two Marks Manuscript Report (Mark's affiliate link - use MARK10 to save 10%) Buy Mark a Coffee Patreon for Stark Reflections Mark's YouTube channel ElevenLabs (AI Voice Generation - Affiliate link) Mark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup) Stark Realities Book An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries The Relaxed Author Buy eBook Direct Buy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for Authors Wide for the Win Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story) A Canadian Werewolf in New York Stowe Away (Novella) Fear and Longing in Los Angeles Fright Nights, Big City Lover's Moon Hex and the City Only Monsters in the Building Once Bitten (Novella) The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation I Think It's A Sign That The Pun Also Rises   Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, Locus, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Crawford awards. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence, and she has taught at establishments including the Banff Institute for the Arts, the Clarion Workshop, and the Carl Brandon Society. She has judged short fiction contests for CBC and Alberta Views Magazine and can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com. She is represented by Michael Curry of DMLA.   The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast ("Laser Groove") was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Critiques de jeux de société récemment sortis : Bella Vista, Moon Colony Bloodbath, Locus, Red Notice, All In Predictions et Matchy Matchy.

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Every genre has a shadow canon — the writers who don't make the syllabus, don't sell out on Amazon, and rarely get the Netflix series. In science fiction, that shadow canon is where some of the most intellectually adventurous, politically serious and formally daring work of the twentieth century was done. Having opened the series with the big names — Wells, Verne, Poe, the Mount Rushmore of the genre — John and Ezri jump forward to the late 1960s and 1970s and turn to five authors most listeners won't know: Kate Wilhelm, Joanna Russ, John Sladek, John Brunner and Christopher Priest. Feminist SF, satirical SF, dystopian SF set in a Britain going to the dogs. The thread that connects them is "prescience", a word that keeps coming up. Were these writers really predicting the future – or just paying close enough attention to the present? In this episode: Why 1969 makes such a strange hinge point — Apollo 11 and the realisation of Goddard's cherry-tree dream, set against the assassinations of 1968, Vietnam, Prague, Altamont, and the first wave of environmental science Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell, and the New Wave: Moorcock's New Worlds, Ballard's "inner space", and SF's discovery that it could not avoid politics Kate Wilhelm — Hugo, Nebula and Locus winner for Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, a co-founder of the Clarion Writers' Workshop who is now better known as a mystery writer Joanna Russ — The Female Man, written in 1970 but unpublished until 1975, and How to Suppress Women's Writing; a Westinghouse Science Talent Search finalist who chose literature as her weapon John Sladek — the satirist whose robot in Tik-Tok has had its "asimov circuits" go on the blink, and whose hoax book on a thirteenth sign of the zodiac proved people will believe anything stated with enough confidence John Brunner — the "Club of Rome Quartet", the novel that coined "worm" for self-replicating code, and Stand on Zanzibar, set in 2010 and unsettlingly familiar by the time we got there Christopher Priest — Fugue for a Darkening Island and A Dream of Wessex, the racial framing Priest himself later grappled with, and The Prestige (with David Bowie as Tesla) The big question under all of it: what is the difference between prescience and prediction — and is it significant that "prescience" contains the word "science"? Links and resources: Website: techimaginarium.co.uk Instagram: @tech.imaginarium Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnHelmerConsulting Music by Nick Dwyer recording as Flintet. The Tech Imaginarium is a Learning Hack podcast, produced and hosted by John Helmer and written by John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach.

Our guest on this week's episode is Hannah Hurckes, Founder and CEO, Boss Lady Logistics. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on a case that could end up changing the freight industry as we know it, especially the brokerage part of freight movement. Hurckes shares the details and the impacts of this landmark ruling with DC Velocity Senior Editor Victoria Kickham.The buzzword of the season in supply chain software right now is agentic AI. But that technology, and artificial intelligence overall really, is still so new that there are probably more questions than answers about how it will affect each user's own business processes. This week Senior News Editor Ben Ames traveled to Las Vegas to attend the Manhattan Associates Momentum conference, where much of the discussion focused on some new tools to help users implement agentic AI into their workflows and deal with the “blackbox” problem.Warehouse robotics and automation company Locus Robotics said this week it has acquired Nexera Robotics. Nexera is a Vancouver-based developer of advanced robotic grasping technology. This is a big deal because it will help advance Locus' newest offering—its Locus Array system--which it released at the MODEX show in April. Victoria Kickham reports.Articles and resources mentioned in this episode:Boss Lady LogisticsManhattan Associates launches marketplace of AI AgentsManhattan tool explains the why behind agentic AI decisionsBlue Yonder launches AI agent testing systemLocus Robotics acquires Nexera RoboticsVisit DC VelocityVisit Supply Chain XchangeSend feedback about this podcast to podcast@agilebme.comThis podcast episode is sponsored by: Werner

In Folge 11 von Locus Criminalis rekapitulieren Toni und Marco nochmal Marcos gefeierten Studienabschluss und enthüllen dunkle Wahrheiten über Buchausleihen, versäumte Rückgaben und gruselige Bibliotheksgebühren. Annis Folterkammer lehrt die beiden diesmal auf Grundlage von Hans Talhoffers Fechtbuch und Heinrichs von Neustadt Versroman ‚Apollonius von Tyrland‘ alles zum gerichtlichen (Ehe-)Zweikampf. Nach über einem Jahr in Bochum dürfen wir Philip Flacke endlich bei uns im Podcast begrüßen. Philip promoviert bei uns an der RUB im Graduiertenkolleg 2945 „Wissen – Glauben – Behaupten“ zu Wahrheit und Unwahrheit bei Hans Sachs. Heute hat er uns nicht nur ein kreatives Geschenk mitgebracht, das ihr in unserer Story sehen konnt, sondern gleich eine Szene für unsere Storytime geschrieben! In dieser Folge schickt er uns ins 16. Jahrhundert: Nürnberg, 1527, unmittelbar nach den Bauernkriegen. Toni, Marco, Anni und Philip leihen ihre Stimmen Hans und Kunigunde Hergots Geschichte. Was Hans an seiner Druckerpresse druckt, ist kein Gebetbuch, es ist ein Pamphlet, das von einer Welt ohne Adel und Klerus träumt. Nur Gott soll noch herrschen. Das Urteil, das ihm dafür ergeht: Enthauptung. Sein Werk wird durch seine Frau Kunigunde fortgesetzt, die nach seiner Hinrichtung die Druckerei weiterführt und die Schulden abträgt.

The intelligent party in a conversation with a frontier model is not the model. Both the people building these systems and the people warning against them assume otherwise, and that shared assumption is the same error the nineteenth century made about gold once the telegraph arrived: mistaking the part of the work a new technology does for the whole of it. Intelligence turns out to be a property of a loop rather than of a system, and the loop only produces knowledge when something inside it pays the constraint.

History underpins so much of what we do in the fantasy genre, directly and indirectly. So how do we make that history feel real in an invented world? What makes it feel old and settled as opposed to a culture that popped up out of the snow like a daisy to give the protagonist their story? Guest Shannon Chakraborty joins us to chat about why we love history, how we study it, and how we weave it together with the fantastical. History's not only about what was, but what is, how a society constructs the myth of itself, shapes its values, claims legitimacy, and that means it's not just the source of tomes of lore -- it's so much of what influences who your characters are, how they think, and what obstacles are in their way. Depicting history is also a commentary on today, part of an ongoing project of how we shape our ideas of ourselves and whose stories get to be heard. That makes it a powerful tool to use in crafting fantasy narratives. [Transcript for Episode 181 TK] Our Guest: Shannon Chakraborty is the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of The Daevabad Trilogy and The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and nominated for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, Crawford, and Astounding awards. You can find her online at www.sachakraborty.com or on Instagram at @SAChakrabooks.

Join hosts J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown, and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including stories about Hollywood, Hachette Book Group, and AI Slop. Then, stick around for a chat with Shannon Chakraborty! Shannon Chakraborty is the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of The Daevabad Trilogy and The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and nominated for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, Crawford, and Astounding awards. You can find her online at www.sachakraborty.com or on Instagram at @SAChakrabooks. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to the Health Marketing Collective, where strong leadership meets marketing excellence.In today's episode, we delve into the barriers to technology adoption among older, higher-risk populations and how innovative companies are reframing the narrative around “tech hesitancy” in healthcare. Joining us is Harry DiFrancesco, CEO and co-founder of Carda Health, who brings real-world insights from building virtual cardiac and pulmonary rehab programs designed to meet patients where they are, especially those traditionally underserved by hospital-based care.After caring for his own parents and seeing firsthand the challenges of accessing rehabilitation in rural America, Harry founded Carda Health with a personal mission: to make advanced, supportive care available at home for those who need it most. In a landscape awash in new technology and AI-driven solutions, Harry DiFrancesco argues that trust more than tools or tactics is the critical factor for patient engagement and health outcomes.In this conversation, Sara and Harry unpack common misconceptions about seniors and technology, discuss the real sources of adoption friction (it's not what most people think), and share best practices for designing tech-enabled healthcare that earns genuine trust. They also explore the right and wrong ways to leverage AI in healthcare, emphasizing that technology must enhance value and human connection to truly succeed.Thank you for joining the Health Marketing Collective, where we explore the leadership and marketing strategies shaping the future of healthcare.Key Takeaways:Challenging the "Tech Hesitant Senior" Narrative: Harry DiFrancesco pushes back against the widespread assumption that older adults simply can't or won't use technology. Instead, he highlights that tens of thousands of seniors engage daily with Carda Health's virtual rehab solutions, proving it's a matter of design and support not innate reluctance. The true barrier is that most tech is built for younger users, not that older users lack the capability or willingness.Designing With Empathy and Intentionality: Success with older populations requires adapting design choices to meet their needs: larger fonts, simple navigation, and reducing unnecessary complexity (like having apps pre-downloaded and minimizing device setup). Harry DiFrancesco emphasizes listening to end-users, removing friction, and maintaining a deeply empathetic mindset leveraging staff who are trained to step in and help when human intervention is needed to overcome anxiety or confusion.Trust Is Earned Through Value and Transparency: Trust, especially in healthcare, hinges on communicating clear, relatable value and maintaining transparency, particularly around costs. Carda Health works to advocate for fee waivers, proactively communicates about copays, and offers price estimates upfront, knowing that unexpected bills quickly erode confidence and engagement. Brands must ensure their users feel informed and see immediate benefits from participation.AI as an Efficiency Layer (Not a Replacement for Care): Harry shares a realistic perspective on AI in health: it should support clinicians, improve efficiency, and free up time for meaningful patient relationships not replace human care. He critiques Silicon Valley's fear-driven AI messaging, suggesting it breeds mistrust. At Carda Health, AI is used for device monitoring, automating coverage decisions, and relieving clinicians of administrative burdens, enabling them to focus on patient connection.A “Locus of Control” Mindset Drives Adoption: Rather than blaming patients for non-adoption, Harry advocates for companies to internalize what they can change about their own products and processes to remove barriers. The fundamental adoption driver isn't age or skepticism; it's whether the product delivers more value than friction. Companies that actively seek out, understand, and refine the factors contributing to user anxiety or hesitation can win trust and long-term engagement.Thank you for being part of the Health Marketing Collective, where strong leadership meets marketing excellence. The future of healthcare depends on it.Mentioned in this episode:Health Marketing Collective is Powered by InprelaThe Health Marketing Collective is powered by Inprela: a communications firm built for health brands determined to lead, not follow. We partner with marketing innovators who aren't just chasing attention—they're building movements. Connect with the audiences shaping the future of care and lead the conversations that move your market. Ready to rise above the noise? Visit inprela.com. Let's create something that moves the market.Inprela Communications

This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Amal El-Mohtar, author of Seasons of Glass and Iron. About Seasons of Glass and Iron: Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar. With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose. Full of Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Hugo Award-winning and nominated stories, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories includes “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” “The Green Book,” “Madeleine,” “The Lonely Sea in the Sky,” “And Their Lips Rang with the Sun,” “The Truth About Owls,” “A Hollow Play,” “Anabasis,” “To Follow the Waves,” “John Hollowback and the Witch,” “Florilegia, or, Some Lies About Flowers,” “Pockets,” and more. About Amal El-Mohtar: Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines including Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, Stone Telling, and Mythic Delirium; anthologies including The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (2017), The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (2016), Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014), and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011); and in her own collection, The Honey Month (2010). She is co-author, with Max Gladstone, of the multiple award-winning This is How You Lose the Time War. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, NPR Books and on Tor.com. She has been the New York Times’s science fiction and fantasy columnist since February 2018, and she is represented by DongWon Song of HMLA. This week's picks: Amal #1: Clues by Sam – Puzzles Amal #2: Heated Rivalry (HBO) Amal #3: Goin for a Walk Amal #4: Time of Iron book series by Sarah Rees Brennan Tracy: A Short History of Stupid by Bernard Keane & Helen Razer Patrick: Marty, Life Is Short (Netflix) Links: Amal El-Mohtar’s Newsletter Tracy Townsend on BluSky Patrick Hester on Instagram The Functional Nerds Patreon Page © 2026 Patrick Hester The post Episode 702-With Amal El-Mohtar appeared first on The Functional Nerds.

Well, there are a lot of people, "furious," "outraged" and "incensed" by the FBI raid against Senator Louise Lucas...but as "angry" as they might be... no one who knows Senator Locus is terribly surprised. The real question is what happens next, because she is the only Virginia Democrat being investigated...Share your thoughts with us about the podcast today!Complete the short survey here: https://form.fillout.com/t/f5gcmWuGoLus-----GET YOUR MERCH HERE: https://shop.nickjfreitas.com/BECOME A MEMBER OF THE IC: https://NickJFreitas.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickjfreitas/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NickFreitasVATwitter: https://twitter.com/NickJFreitasYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NickjfreitasTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nickjfreitas3.000:00:00 – FBI raid on Virginia Senator Louise Lucas00:01:04 – Steve Descano's lenient policies on illegal immigration00:04:03 – Nick's personal run-in with Louise Lucas rules00:07:53 – Recounting past controversies and the Norfolk riots00:11:30 – Investigating potential Medicaid grifts and business corruption00:16:24 – Documenting violent crimes ignored by Fairfax authorities00:23:04 – Why Virginia Democrats cannot pass a budget00:26:14 – Louise Lucas complains about Pornhub age verification00:30:56 – Exposing Democrat incompetence in governing the Commonwealth00:34:54 – Confronting student protestors and useful idiot narratives00:44:16 – Rebutting leftist narratives on the rule of law00:47:14 – Lessons learned from the Indiana primary victories00:51:43 – Final thoughts on fighting progressive woke ideology

In Episode XCIII Mandi tosses Suz a Trick Taking Gauntlet. They discuss two roll-and-writes: Daydream and Locus, and chat Fruit Boss and the Under Starry Skies expansion for Faraway. The Game Pie of the show is a wistful "Games from 2025 we really want to play". Thank you for listening! Please take a moment to rate us on your podcast listening platform.BGG Guild: https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/4131Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/saltandsass.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SaltandSassGamesTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/saltandsassgamesEmail: SaltAndSassGames@gmail.com

Welcome to this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast. Kevin chats with Kait Peterson of Locus Robotics live from MODEX 2026. The conversation centers on Locus Array, a new autonomous system built to move beyond pick-assist robotics. Peterson explains how Array was built to answer those demands while working within standard racking and tote environments. This episode offers a close look at where fulfillment automation is heading.Learn more about our sponsor Dexory's Storage Health here. Follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.Support the show

Franca Rizzi Martini"Parole d'acqua"Diciotto fontane per TorinoNeos Edizioniwww.neosedizioni.it Diciotto racconti per diciotto fontane di Torino (e dintorni): opere d'arte a cielo aperto che, umili o magnifiche, nascondono un cuore di sapienze. Antiche o contemporanee, in ogni loro zampillo vivono epoche, storie e personaggi colti con talento in queste pagine. Cascate, rivoli, polle, zampilli. Fra i loro giochi si muovono figure come due commissari che cercano la soluzione dei loro casi tra simboli alchemici e chiavette USB. Alcune fontane narrano con aristocratica ironia o toni burberi, vicende di cui sono state testimoni; altre custodiscono destini fragili: il disabile che cerca la libertà perduta, un ingegnere innamorato o un anziano che torna al suo toret per misurare la distanza tra l'infanzia e il presente. Ci sono amori che sul bordo dell'acqua sfidano il tempo, sospesi tra leggenda e realtà, incontri inattesi e colpi di scena. E poi desideri antichi, come quello dell'esule valdese, o battaglie moderne, per riattivare o ripulire fontane trascurate.Ogni autore, con il proprio stile – noir, introspettivo, umoristico, storico – ci conferma che l'acqua delle fontane non è solo un piacevole chiacchiericcio di fondo, ma custodisce storie, emozioni e segreti, restituisce identità e scorre anche quando tutto sembra fermarsi.Le fontane sono simboli viventi della memoria storica e culturale di Torino, uniscono passato e presente, evocano ricordi di persone, eventi e trasformazioni urbane. «Come ogni opera d'arte, anche le fontane sono espressione del loro tempo, per cui possiamo ammirare lo stile medievale della Fontana del Melograno, rifatta, è vero, ma molto evocativa, quello barocco dalle linee sinuose delle fontane di Nereide e dei Tritoni dei Giardini Reali e del Grand Rondeau di Villa della Regina, lo stile razionalista delle fontane ottocentesche di piazza Statuto e dei Giardini Sambuy, o quello Rococò e Liberty della Fontana dei Dodici Mesi, fino alla Fontana Angelica e al Po e alla Dora di epoca fascista, dal classicismo monumentale, mentre gli anni Duemila propongono linee e materiali poveri, come l'Igloo o strutture cinetiche, come il Locus of Rain del Lingotto o la fontana interattiva del Parco Di Vittorio. Oltre a Torino, ci siamo spinti anche nella provincia, dove risaltano la fontana monumentale di Rivoli, il piccolo specchio d'acqua immerso nella simmetria del giardino alla francese della Reggia di Venaria, la fontana del Nettuno nella bella piazza moncalierese e la fontana di Pragelato che ricorda l'antico dominio francese» (Franca Rizzi Martini). A cura di Franca Rizzi MartiniRacconti di: Rinaldo Ambrosia, Giovanni Balcet, Ada Brunazzi, Loredana Cella, Silvana Copercini Cazzaniga, Licia Guiati, Maria Montano, Eva Monti, Patrizia Monzeglio, Francesco Oriolo, Bruna Parodi, Aida Pironti, Giorgio Pogliano, Elisabetta Rava Granozio, Nella Re Rebaudengo, Franca Rizzi Martini, Franca Santagiuliana, Alessandra Zanettini.Copertina di Tina SalvatoI diritti d'autore saranno devoluti a sostegno delle attività umanitarie di International Help onlus. Le fontane che ispirano queste pagine: Fontana di Nereide e dei Tritoni, Fontana di Santa Chiara, Fontana del Grand Rondeau, Fontana del Traforo del Frejus, Fontana Angelica, Fontane Dora e Po, Fontana del Giardino Sambuy, Il Toret fontanella cittadina, L'Igloo, Fontana del Melograno, Fontana dei Dodici Mesi, Fontana del Parco Ruffini, Fontana Locus of Rain, Fontana interattiva del Parco Di Vittorio, Fontana del Giardino a Fiori - Venaria Reale, Fontana del Castello di Rivoli, Fontana di Granges, Fontana del Nettuno, Moncalieri.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

In this episode, Neil delivers a straightforward, fluff-free dive into the psychological concept of the Locus of Control. He challenges listeners to examine whether they are governed by external factors such as the demands, opinions, and expectations of others or by their own internal standards. Neil pulls no punches, explaining how an external locus of control makes you vulnerable to "energy vampires" and people looking to exploit your time.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Understand the difference between an external locus of control (people-pleasing, seeking validation) and an internal locus of control (living by your own rules and standards). You must put your own interests first. If you don't, others will naturally view you as a resource to be exploited for their own agendas. Protect your time and focus from people who intrude on your day just to complain. Often, they don't want a solution; they just want you to join their "misery fest." True ownership means being able to respond to your problems and steer your own ship, rather than acting as a victim of external circumstances. Define what success and happiness look like for you, and hold yourself to those standards regardless of what the rest of the world thinks. BEST MOMENTS "I'd recommend hugely that you please at least yourself. Because if you do that, you can be sure that at least one person is happy." "The truth is that other people are unlikely to put your interests first because, to other people, by and large, you're just a resource to be exploited to serve their purposes." "They usually don't want the problem fixed. They just want to bitch about it. They want you to join in the misery fest so that they feel strangely normal." "Breaking the word up into two parts gives 'response-able,' meaning able to respond. Owning something, especially a problem, sounds rather more like you're stuck with something." "You know what's most valuable to you and you don't give a wet slap about whether the rest of the world likes it or not." VALUABLE RESOURCES www.Neilcowmeadow.com info@neilcowmeadow.com HOST BIO Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years' experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil's invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS! This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media. https://disruptivemedia.co.uk/ 

Jeff Dudan's free digital copy of his book: https://podcast.homefrontbrands.com/en-us/discernment Are you running a good business when a great one is within your reach? In this episode of Franchise Friday, Jeff Dudan - founder of Homefront Brands and operator across 8 franchise brands with over 800 franchise owners - breaks down the 4 Cs that trap small business owners at the first level of success: Comfort, Competence, Commitment, and Capital. Jeff explains why comfort is the most dangerous place a business owner can be, how your greatest strengths may actually be capping your growth, what true commitment looks like when you're willing to remove distractions and train like a business athlete, and why capital is easy when your fundamentals are right - but impossible when they're broken. He closes with a powerful concept from Dr. Ben Carson on personal responsibility and the internal locus of control that separates operators who reach their potential from those who hand their power to external circumstances. Whether you're a franchise owner, small business owner, entrepreneur, or someone evaluating your first business investment, this episode will challenge you to stop operating on cruise control and start building something truly great.

Jeff Dudan's free digital copy of his book: https://podcast.homefrontbrands.com/en-us/discernment Are you running a good business when a great one is within your reach? In this episode of Franchise Friday, Jeff Dudan - founder of Homefront Brands and operator across 8 franchise brands with over 800 franchise owners - breaks down the 4 Cs that trap small business owners at the first level of success: Comfort, Competence, Commitment, and Capital. Jeff explains why comfort is the most dangerous place a business owner can be, how your greatest strengths may actually be capping your growth, what true commitment looks like when you're willing to remove distractions and train like a business athlete, and why capital is easy when your fundamentals are right - but impossible when they're broken. He closes with a powerful concept from Dr. Ben Carson on personal responsibility and the internal locus of control that separates operators who reach their potential from those who hand their power to external circumstances. Whether you're a franchise owner, small business owner, entrepreneur, or someone evaluating your first business investment, this episode will challenge you to stop operating on cruise control and start building something truly great.

Co když se charakter nepozná v názorech, ale v tom, co uděláš ve chvíli, kdy se nikdo nedívá?V tomhle díle s prof. Janem Háblem rozebíráme Komenského ne jako školní pomník, ale jako živý zdroj velmi současné otázky: jak si udržet lidskost v době, která umí skvěle kurátorovat obrazy, ale hůř nese vnitřní integritu? Mluvíme o tom, proč člověk není hotová bytost, proč naše lidskost není dokonalá, ale ani ztracená, a proč se dobro neláme v abstraktních deklaracích, ale v drobných, konkrétních činech.Silná je i linka smyslu. Hábl ukazuje, že velké poslání se často nehledá skokem, ale přes něco menšího, co dává smysl už teď. A že charakter není to, co víš, ale to, co skutečně uskutečníš. Ne to, co si o sobě myslíš. Ne to, jak vypadáš před lidmi. Ale to, co se stane, když přijde půlnoc, lednička, únava, pokušení a nikdo se nedívá.Je to epizoda o svědomí, otevřenosti člověka, morálních dilematech i naději, že i když jsme každý nějak poškození a nedokonalí, pořád v nás zůstává prostor pro práci na sobě. Ne skrze pózu dobra, ale skrze poctivost, malé kroky a vztahové dobro, které se pozná podle toho, že je skutečně prospěšné i pro někoho druhého.

In this podcast, Eric LaRocca talks about his writing Rituals for Wretch, writing two books per year, horror theatre, and much more. About Eric LaRocca Eric LaRocca is a 2x Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. Named by Esquire as one of the “Writers Shaping Horror's Next Golden Age” and praised by Locus … Continue reading

In this podcast, Eric LaRocca talks about Wretch, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw, grief horror, and much more. About Eric LaRocca Eric LaRocca is a 2x Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. Named by Esquire as one of the “Writers Shaping Horror's Next Golden Age” and praised by Locus as “one of the … Continue reading

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Premee Mohamed.Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ursula K. Le Guin, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, and Crawford awards. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence. She is the author of the ‘Beneath the Rising' series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.In this episode, you'll hear:about the unity of impressionhow Premee determines if a story idea has legsPremee's way of setting up emotional arcs using an "end-feeling" with short form fiction and how this differs from her approach to novel length storiesabout inspiration and the trick to avoid falling down the rabbit holePremee's approach to writing interiorityPremee's advice on how to hone your writing craftabout Premee's latest book, THE FIRST THOUSAND TREESabout the cool winning of a rockthe easy yet addictive recipe for secret popcorn sauceFor more storytelling content to your inbox,⁠⁠⁠ subscribe to our newsletter. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk story or snacks!A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find more of her creative work on Spotify.As ever, thank you for listening, Beasties! Please consider leaving a review to support this podcast.Be brave, stay beastly!

This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome John Chu, author of The Subtle Art of Folding Space. About The Subtle Art of Folding Space: Ellie's universe?and this one?is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a coma; her sister, Chris, accuses her of being insufficiently Chinese between assassination attempts; and a shadowy cabal of engineers is trying to hijack the skunkworks, the machinery that keeps the physics of each universe working the way it's supposed to. Daniel, Ellie’s cousin, has found an illicit device in the skunkworks?one that keeps Ellie’s comatose mother alive while also creating destabilizing bugs in the physics of this universe. It’s not a good day. If she can confront her mother's legacy and overcome her family's generational trauma, she just might find a way to preserve the skunkworks and reconcile with her sister…but digging into her family's past is thornier than it seems, and the secrets she uncovers will force Ellie to choose between her family and the universe itself. About John Chu: John Chu is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer, translator, and podcast narrator by night. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming at Boston Review, Uncanny, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Tor.com among other venues. His translations have been published or is forthcoming at Clarkesworld, The Big Book of SF and other venues. He has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte Awards, won the Best Short Story Hugo for “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere.” and won the Best Novelette Nebula for “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You.” His novel, The Subtle Art of Folding Space will be published by Tor in April, 2026. This week's picks: John: Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi Tracy: Japanese Curry Blocks Patrick: The 13th Warrior Links: John Chu’s Newsletter Tracy Townsend on BluSky Patrick Hester on Instagram The Functional Nerds Patreon Page © 2026 Patrick Hester The post Episode 697-With John Chu appeared first on The Functional Nerds.

Send me a messageWhat happens when last-mile delivery stops being a logistics function and starts becoming a strategic differentiator?It changes how you think about cost, resilience, sustainability, and even customer retention.In this week's episode of the Resilient Supply Chain Podcast, I'm joined by Nishith Rastogi, Founder and CEO of Locus, to explore why last mile has become one of the most consequential decision layers in modern supply chains. For leaders focused on supply chain resilience, sustainability, risk, data, and visibility, this matters because delivery is no longer just about moving goods. It's about making better decisions, faster, in environments where complexity keeps rising and customer tolerance keeps falling.We break down why traditional TMS and routing models struggle when delivery networks span stores, warehouses, captive fleets, 3PLs, gig capacity, and rising service expectations. You'll hear why “more data” is not the answer on its own, and why the real advantage now comes from turning that data into real-time decisions that improve cost, service, and emissions in parallel.We also get into the growing role of AI in logistics, the limits of rules-based automation, and why resilience increasingly depends on optionality, adaptability, and reducing dependence on tribal knowledge. One of the sharpest ideas in the episode is this: if you miss a linehaul slot, you lose a day; if you miss a customer delivery slot, you may lose the customer.

Why do some people take ownership of outcomes while others blame circumstances, luck, or other people?In this episode, Bernice Casserly and Rich McCarthy explore the concept of Locus of Control, the belief system that shapes how we interpret success, failure, and responsibility.They discuss how this mindset influences leadership behaviour, team culture, and performance, and how leaders can develop a stronger sense of ownership and accountability.If you've ever wondered why some teams take responsibility and move forward while others stay stuck in excuses, this conversation is for you.

On episode 220 I am delighted to be joined by performance Coach Lúcas Ó'Ceallacháin currently contracted to rugby, triathlon, ballet and a number of business leaders in the corporate sector under his registered company Locus of Control. Lucas is originally from Clare. He would go on to study Russian in Trinity College. A unique opportunity would arise to move to Kazakhstan and lead to a career in rugby coaching and playing in Kazakhstan. He has since relocated and moved to the Gold Coast in Australia where he has worked with Australian Triathalon, Australian Institute of sport, and the Australian synchronised swimming programme during the 2024 olympic cycle. We discuss his career, how studying Russian led to a trip with Trapattoni and the irish soccer team, communicating in conflict, meetings, checking in with your audience, torytelling in sport, and more. This was a fascinating conversation. Watch a documentary series on his time in Kazakhstan Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dho3ZOOBegConnect with Lúcas here https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasoceallachain/https://www.hintsa.com/company/our-people/lucas-oceallachain/ Follow The Sideline Live Social Media channels and the host Orla here: https://linktr.ee/TheSidelineLiveRecorded using Samson Q2 microphone, Edited using GarageBandIntro music, Watered Eyes by a talented Irish artist, Dillon Ward check him out ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ . If you are looking to set up your own podcast get in touch with the Prymal Productions team ⁠⁠⁠www.prymal.ie⁠⁠⁠ 

In today's episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros question the belief that success requires certainty. Many people wait for perfect clarity before they act. That mindset quietly caps growth. The next level demands something different. It requires the ability to move forward when the outcome is unclear and the pressure is real. As your tolerance for uncertainty grows, so does your capacity for leadership, progress, and long-term success.If you want to strengthen your mindset and build the resilience required to pursue bigger goals, this episode will shift how you think about discomfort and the unknown. Hit play and start developing the capacity most people never build._______________________Learn more about:Track the Work. Earn the Results. To know more about the "Next Level Fitness Accountability Group," reach out.Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/Alan: https://www.instagram.com/alazaros88/Book Alan's Business Breakthrough Session. Your first 30-minute coaching call is FREE. Learn how to prioritize success and let your quality of life become the byproduct. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-sessionWhere learning turns into action. Join “Next Level Book Club”  every Saturday:https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkcuiupjIqE9QlkptiKDQykRtKyFB5Jbhc_______________________NLU is not just a podcast; it's a gateway to a wealth of resources designed to help you achieve your goals and dreams. From our Next Level Dreamliner to our Group Coaching, we offer a variety of tools and communities to support your personal development journey.For more information, check out our website and socials using the links below.

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Vajra Chandrasekera.Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His novels THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS and RAKESFALL have between them won the Le Guin, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, Crawford, and Otherwise awards, been selected as New York Times Notable Books of 2023 and 2024, and been nominated for many others, including the Hugo. He is one of the 2025-2026 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.In this episode, you'll hear about:how Vajra conceptualizes storylistening to your instincts and not killing your darlingsleaning into your strengths the inspiration behind THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORSusing the full fantasy toolkitFor more storytelling content to your inbox,⁠⁠⁠ subscribe to our newsletter. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk story or snacks!A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find more of her creative work on Spotify.As ever, thank you for listening, Beasties! Please consider leaving a review to support this podcast.Be brave, stay beastly!

Brandt and Eric whine about the weather before moving on to reviews of ORBIT, Locus, Jibber Jabble, and Wine Cellar. The D12 of Fate rolls along to force a discussion on Boardgame Inserts, and our Doubles Review is Garphil Games' recent card game Spirited. 00:31 - Winter is Still Here 02:08 - ORBIT 04:49 - Locus 09:38 - Jibber Jabble 12:39 - Wine Cellar 19:29 - The Big Roll: Boardgame Inserts 34:04 - Doubles Review: Spirited ___ Check out our Sponsor: https://grandgamersguild.com Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/RightBrainRollers Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/914270393090805 Discuss in our BGG forum: https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/4193

Stop accepting less than you're capable of. In today's episode, Kevin and Alan break down how lowered standards quietly become your normal and why comfort slowly erodes performance. They challenge distorted self-perception, weak discipline, and passive habits that limit long-term growth.This conversation centers on self-awareness, personal responsibility, and identity-driven execution. It reinforces the importance of clear standards, consistent action, and ownership of results. Do not just listen. Raise your baseline and operate at the level you were built for._______________________Learn more about:Alan's coaching, “Business Breakthrough Session.” Your first 30-minute call is FREE. This call is designed to help you identify bottlenecks and build a clear plan for your next level. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-sessionJoin our private Facebook community, “Next Level Nation,” to grow alongside people who are committed to improvement. - https://www.facebook.com/groups/459320958216700Track the Work. Earn the Results. To know more about the "Next Level Fitness Accountability Group," reach out via Instagram.Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/Alan: https://www.instagram.com/alazaros88/_______________________NLU is not just a podcast; it's a gateway to a wealth of resources designed to help you achieve your goals and dreams. From our Next Level Dreamliner to our Group Coaching, we offer a variety of tools and communities to support your personal development journey.For more information, check out our website and socials using the links below.

Mystery-Clad Being The Primal Rhythm of Being and the Heart of All Reality by Doug Scott, LCSW I. The Nature of Mystery We have just heard [previous presenter] speak beautifully about the theme of mystery. I want to build on that foundation with a particular question: What is the nature of the mystery that we are exploring? Mystery is not that which cannot be known. Mystery is that which can never be exhausted in all the ways of knowing. It is infinitely knowable—which means we can spend eternity exploring it and never arrive at complete comprehension. Not because it withholds itself from us, but because it is inexhaustible in its richness. This is a crucial distinction. Mystery is not ignorance. It is not a wall we cannot penetrate. Mystery is an ocean we can swim in forever, each stroke revealing new depths, new currents, new wonders. The fullness of mystery—what we might call gnosis—is not a destination we arrive at but a horizon that recedes as we approach, always inviting us further. Ra describes this with precise language when speaking of the fundamental rhythms of intelligent infinity: "The basic rhythms of intelligent infinity are totally without distortion of any kind. The rhythms are clothed in mystery, for they are being itself." (27.7) Clothed in mystery. Not hidden by mystery. Clothed in it—the way a body is clothed, the way we wear our appearance. Mystery is not what conceals being from us. Mystery is being, wearing its own inexhaustibility. So tonight I want to ask: If being itself is clothed in mystery, can we nonetheless discern something of its shape? Its flow? Its fundamental rhythm? Can we, while honoring the inexhaustibility, trace patterns that appear consistently across Ra's teachings—patterns that might illuminate something primal about the nature of reality itself? II. Being as Verb: Does It Have a Shape? Notice that Ra says the rhythms are being itself. Not that being has rhythms. Not that being does rhythms. The rhythms are being. This is being as verb, not as noun. Not a thing that exists, but existence itself as dynamic, self-processing oscillation. What does Ra tell us about the shape of this rhythm? In Session 27.6, we find a remarkable description: "Intelligent infinity has a rhythm, or flow, as of a giant heart beginning with the Central Sun... the presence of the flow inevitable as a tide of beingness without polarity, without finity; the vast and silent all beating outward, outward, focusing outward and inward until the focuses are complete. The intelligence or consciousness of foci have reached a state where their, shall we say, spiritual nature or mass calls them inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality." A giant heart. Beating outward, outward... then inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the shape of being itself: a circulation. Not linear progression, not random chaos, but rhythmic circulation—emanation and return, expansion and coalescence, systole and diastole. III. The Primal Desire: Joy Seeking to Know Itself But why? Why does being beat outward and then inward? What drives the circulation? Ra gives us the answer in the most fundamental teaching of all: "The Creator will know Itself" (27.8). This is the First Distortion, the primal movement from undifferentiated unity toward manifestation. Not "wants to know" as if lacking something—but will, an active, ongoing, generative drive. Here is the crucial insight: This desire is not experienced as lack. It is experienced as Joy. The Creator's desire to know Itself is not a hunger born of deficiency but a fullness seeking to express and discover itself through infinite perspectives. Joy is the fundamental affective quality of being itself. And this Joy can only be fulfilled through experience. The Creator cannot know Itself through static contemplation. Self-knowing requires circulation—going forth into differentiated expression and returning enriched by what the journey has gathered. This means experience is circulation. The going forth and the returning are not separate from experience—they are experience itself in its most fundamental form. IV. The Heart as Locus of Circulation If experience is circulation, and circulation has a pattern—outward, inward, coalescence—then we can ask: Is there a center to this circulation? Is there a locus where the three movements meet? Ra speaks directly to this in Session 82.7: "There is a center to infinity. From this center all spreads. Therefore, there are centers to the creation, to the galaxies, to star systems, to planetary systems, and to consciousness. In each case you may see growth from the center outward." A center from which all spreads. This is the ontological definition of a heart—not merely an organ that pumps blood, not merely a chakra that processes emotion, but the locus of circulation itself. Wherever being localizes—whether as universe, galaxy, star, planet, or person—there exists a heart: a center where the three forces of circulation operate. The Three Forces Outward Flow (Emanation): From the heart, energy emanates. The Original Thought—the Creator's desire to know Itself—pulses forth from this center into manifestation, seeking, exploring, differentiating. Ra speaks of the vast and silent all "beating outward, outward." Inward Flow (Return): To the heart, experience returns. The spiritual nature or mass of the foci "calls them inward, inward, inward." This is what Ra elsewhere calls "spiritual gravity"—the attractive force drawing consciousness back toward center, back toward Source. Coalescence (Integration): Within the heart, what went forth and what returns are integrated. Ra uses several terms for this: coalesced (27.6), distilled (18.5—"distilling from them the love/light within them"), and in other passages, the image of atoms finding "precise distances from each other" to "produce a lattice structure which we call crystalline" (29.23). Coalescence is not mere combination. It is integration that transforms. What went forth as seed returns as harvest. What emanated as question returns as lived answer. The heart distills, processes, and prepares the next arising. V. The Modes of Joy: Yearning, Longing, Rejoicing Now we can go deeper. The three movements—outward, inward, coalescence—are kinetic. They are movements. But what generates them? What is the affective quality that drives the circulation? I want to suggest that the three movements are responses to three prior conditions—three ontological yearnings that are themselves modes of Joy. These yearnings do not cause the movements mechanically; they are the movements in their affective dimension. Yearning (to go forth): At the primal level, yearning is not lack. It is eager desire, anticipation, the joy in becoming. The Old English giernan means "to strive, be eager, desire"—and shares roots with the Greek chaírein, "to rejoice." Yearning is rejoicing—no lack, only eager delight in the adventure about to unfold. This generates the outward flow. Longing (to return): Once consciousness has gone forth and differentiated, a new quality of desire emerges. Longing is desire stretched across the distance that experience has created. The Old English langian means literally "to grow long, to lengthen"—stretching toward what is distant. This is the memory of home pulling homeward, joy stretched toward reunion. This generates the inward flow. Rejoicing (in union): When outward and inward meet in the heart, there is consummation. Rejoicing, from the Latin gaudēre, originally meant "to possess, to enjoy possession of, to have fruition of." It is the joy of completion, of harvest gathered, of distillation accomplished. This generates coalescence and seeds the new arising. And throughout—enjoying. Being in joy. The Old French enjoir means literally "to be placed within joy, to dwell in joy." This is the medium through which the entire circulation occurs. There is no moment outside of joy, because joy is being itself in its affective dimension. VI. The Two Energies Within Us This cosmic pattern is not distant from us. Ra tells us it operates within our own energy system. In Session 49.5-6, Ra describes two types of energy operating within the mind/body/spirit complex: "The most important concept to grasp about the energy field is that the lower, or negative pole, will draw the universal energy into itself from the cosmos. Therefrom it will move upward to be met and reacted to by the positive spiraling energy moving downward from within." "Meanwhile the Creator lies within. In the north pole the crown is already upon the head and the entity is potentially a god." Two flows: one rising from below, drawing universal energy from the cosmos; one descending from within, where the Creator already dwells. The place where they meet—this is what Ra calls kundalini, "the meeting place of cosmic and inner vibratory understanding." This meeting point is our heart, in its deepest sense. The cosmic rhythm that beats through all creation beats through you. The yearning that sends energy outward, the longing that draws it back, the rejoicing where they meet—these are not metaphors. They are the actual dynamics of your being. VII. The Pattern Appears Everywhere This pattern of three forces—outward flow, inward flow, coalescence—appears throughout nature and science. Not because science "proves" metaphysics, but because the same pattern that constitutes being manifests at every scale. Physics: White holes (cosmic emanation) and black holes (cosmic return). The Big Bang as universal outward flow, gravitational collapse as universal inward flow. The strange attractor in chaos theory—which we will watch in a moment—reveals how apparent chaos organizes around a hidden center. Chemistry: Dissipative structures maintain organization through constant circulation of energy—taking in, transforming, releasing. Living systems are precisely such structures. Biology: The heartbeat itself. Systole (contraction, emanation) and diastole (relaxation, reception). Breath: inhalation drawing the world in, exhalation releasing transformed air. The cell taking nutrients in, processing, releasing waste. Psychology: Attachment theory describes the child moving out into the world (secure base), returning to the caregiver (safe haven), and being transformed by the cycle. We spend our lives circulating between independence and intimacy. Neuroscience: The brain itself can be understood as a torus on its side—two hemispheres longing for each other across the corpus callosum, which functions as both veil and bridge. The left hemisphere specializes in focused analysis; the right in holistic context. Neither is complete without the other. The longing between them is the mechanism of integrated consciousness. VIII. Strange Attractor Contemplation   Watch the point move through space. It never repeats. Never traces the same path twice. And yet—it does not wander randomly. Something draws it. Something organizes its apparent chaos.   This is called a strange attractor. "Attractor" because the system is drawn toward it. "Strange" because it has a shape that can never be fully occupied—the trajectory approaches infinitely close but never lands. The point spirals around one wing... then crosses to spiral around the other... then crosses back. Two centers. One circulation. The pattern never settles, never completes, never exhausts itself.   Watch how each spiral tightens toward center... then releases... and is drawn across to begin again. This is what longing looks like when mapped in phase space. The memory of center draws the wandering point. Not forcing—luring. The attractor does not compel. It invites. The point is free at every moment—and at every moment, it is being called.   You are watching the shape of yearning made visible. Going forth... being drawn back... crossing over... spiraling in... releasing out... and being drawn again. The outward is contained by the inward. The inward is activated by the outward. Neither exists without the other. This is circulation. This is life.   Now notice: there is no visible center. You cannot see the attractor itself. You see only the response to it—the endless spiral dance of something being drawn, being lured, being loved into pattern. The attractor is known only by its effects. It is mystery-clad. Present everywhere in the system. Visible nowhere except in what it organizes.   Ra said the rhythms of intelligent infinity are "clothed in mystery, for they are being itself." This is what it looks like when being wears its mystery: infinite complexity, perfect order, inexhaustible novelty—all dancing around a center that can never be possessed, only approached.   Feel how this is also your life. Going forth into experience... being drawn back toward something you cannot name but cannot forget... crossing between worlds—outer and inner, manifest and hidden—spiraling closer, then releasing, then spiraling again. You have never been lost. The attractor has always been calling. Every apparently random movement was already part of the pattern—the inexhaustible pattern that clothes the Center in visible mystery.   The heart beats. Outward, outward... inward, inward... until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality. --- IX. Consolation: We Are Never Alone Before we turn to practice, I want to offer something pastoral. If the cosmic rhythm is yearning-longing-rejoicing, and if this same rhythm operates in you... then your own yearning and longing are not separate from God's. Your ache to return, your restlessness for something more, your homesickness for a home you cannot quite remember—this is God's own longing operating within and through you. You are inside divine longing even as it is inside you. Whitehead called God "the fellow sufferer who understands." But it goes deeper than that. God is not watching our longing from outside. God is longing through us, with us, as us. The yearning you feel is not evidence of God's absence but of God's presence within that very yearning. This means: You are never alone. The sense of alienation—the veil's deepest effect—produces not separation itself, but the felt conviction that separation is absolute. Softening that conviction is the heart of spiritual practice. Not replacing it with certainty of connection—that would be another kind of grasping—but allowing the possibility that we are not alone, that we have never been alone, that aloneness was always appearance rather than reality. And the restlessness? The ache that never quite goes away? This is not meant to be eliminated. It is meant to be tended—like a wound that is healing, like butterfly wings that are still wet, like an infant in arms. The tender, aching place is holy ground. It is where the longing lives. And the longing is the connection. X. Feeling the Torus Within I want to share from my own personal experience, because perhaps you have this too—and if you do not, you can, because it is simply a latent sense organ. You and I have five sense organs that perceive third density space/time: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. But did you know that we also have subtle sense organs? These are latent—not often used consciously—but they do arise in us through intuitive knowing and through the empathic connections we make with others. I'd like to share that you can begin to feel a sense of circulation around you. For the past five years or so, I feel this all the time. At my core—at the heart, the central axis of my personal torus—I feel a clockwise circulation spinning within me. But there is also an outward field around me, and this outer field circulates counterclockwise. I feel it. It is my subtle skin. I feel this most acutely when I am connecting with someone else. As a counselor—or simply as a friend—when I am fully aware of what I am doing, I will intentionally extend my toroidal field and connect it with the other person. Sometimes I extend it so far that it encompasses them entirely, depending on what I feel called to do in the moment. When I do this, I essentially become the other person. We are all one self, other-selves in one body, and this is a transposition of consciousness. In the counseling moment, it is myself—Doug—who connects with my client, and then I become embodied inside of their experience. I become that person, in a sense, through the energy. Through this flow, through this exchange of information on the subtle realm, I feel intuitively the blockages or the places of freedom within their aura, within their energy centers, as if they were my own. And so I am able to almost surgically connect with the other person through verbal speaking—articulating what I myself am feeling as if it were my own body on the other side. Because when I join that field, it is my own body. You can learn to do this too.   XI. Living from the Heart To "live from the heart" is not sentimental advice. It is an invitation to conscious alignment with the very structure of being. The heart already functions as this center—it cannot do otherwise, for this is what hearts are. But we can dwell there consciously or unconsciously, harmoniously or in resistance. The center was never absent. The rhythm never ceased. What awakens is not the heart itself but our recognition of it—our willingness to inhabit the center we never left, to feel the pulse we always were, to dance the rhythm that dances us. The yearning that sent you forth on this journey—it was already joy in the guise of anticipation. The longing that draws you homeward—it is joy stretched across the distance you have traveled. And the rejoicing that awaits in the meeting—it is joy consummated, the fullness you have always been moving toward. The heart beats. The mystery clothes itself in rhythm. And we—mystery-clad beings ourselves—pulse with the same life that pulses through all creation. Outward, outward... inward, inward... until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality. This is who we are. * * * Appendix: Key Ra Quotes Referenced Ra 27.6: "Intelligent infinity has a rhythm, or flow, as of a giant heart beginning with the Central Sun... the vast and silent all beating outward, outward, focusing outward and inward until the focuses are complete. The intelligence or consciousness of foci have reached a state where their, shall we say, spiritual nature or mass calls them inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality." Ra 27.7: "The basic rhythms of intelligent infinity are totally without distortion of any kind. The rhythms are clothed in mystery, for they are being itself." Ra 27.8: "In this distortion of the Law of One it is recognized that the Creator will know Itself." Ra 82.7: "There is a center to infinity. From this center all spreads. Therefore, there are centers to the creation, to the galaxies, to star systems, to planetary systems, and to consciousness. In each case you may see growth from the center outward." Ra 49.5: "The most important concept to grasp about the energy field is that the lower, or negative pole, will draw the universal energy into itself from the cosmos. Therefrom it will move upward to be met and reacted to by the positive spiraling energy moving downward from within." Ra 49.6: "Meanwhile the Creator lies within. In the north pole the crown is already upon the head and the entity is potentially a god." Ra 18.5: "[T]o experience all things desired, to then analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them." Ra 29.23 (Question and Answer summarized): "[A]s the atoms form from rotations of the vibration which is light, they coalesce in a certain manner sometimes. They find distances, inter-atomic distances, from each other at precise distance and produce a lattice structure which we call crystalline." Ra 36.7: "The mass increases, shall we say, significantly but not greatly until the gateway density [7th]. In this density the summing up, the looking backwards—in short, all the useful functions of polarity have been used. Therefore, the metaphysical electrical nature of the individual grows greater and greater in spiritual mass." Ra 52.12: "This octave density of which we have spoken is both omega and alpha, the spiritual mass of the infinite universes becoming one central sun or Creator once again."

In this episode of The New Warehouse Podcast, Kevin Lawton welcomes Gina Chung, Vice President of Corporate Development at Locus Robotics, for a wide-ranging conversation on how warehouse automation is evolving and why flexibility has become a defining requirement for modern fulfillment operations. With more than a decade of experience leading innovation initiatives at DHL before joining Locus, Chung brings a unique perspective shaped by firsthand exposure to large-scale warehouse environments. The discussion explores how automation adoption has matured, why rigid systems no longer fit today's supply chains, and how Locus is approaching the next phase of robotic fulfillment as the industry looks toward 2026 and beyond.Find more information about our sponsors here: Peak Technologies, Masterplan Communications, TGW Logistics, YMX Logistics Learn more about The Brecham Group here. Follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.Support the show

Ep. 171 Ritesh Patel: It Takes Longer Than You Expect This week, our hosts talk about their favorite music festival or rave experience, Katie tries to explain the difference between a club and a “big dance party”, and Josh shares his conversation with Ritesh Patel. Ritesh shares how and why he got started in ticketing and music festivals.   Ritesh Patel (@ritlocus) is the co-founder and CEO of Ticket Fairy (https://www.ticketfairy.com/) and the creator of LOCUS, a producer of underground electronic music festivals.   Follow us on social media and let us know your thoughts and questions - https://linktr.ee/nobusinesslikepod Our theme song is composed by Vic Davi.

This episode of RiskCellar features a deep dive into the psychology behind jury decisions, covering why verdicts have surged 116% in just one year, alongside a breakdown of the shocking 200-person overnight raid by Howden on Brown & Brown's Minneapolis operations.Host Brandon Schuh and co-host Nick Hartmann examine the litigation chaos while interviewing Christina Marinakis, CEO of Verdict Insight Partners, who reveals how jury composition has fundamentally shifted toward anti-corporate sentiment, particularly among millennial jurors. The conversation exposes the data-driven science of jury selection, the rise of polarized deliberation rooms, and what defense counsel must understand about modern juror psychology in an era where median verdicts have jumped from $21 million to $51 million in just four years.Chapters00:00 - Introduction05:00 - The Howden Raid Breakdown: Brown & Brown Story 14:00 - Hayes Companies History & $750M Acquisition Details 15:00 - Jim Hayes' Journey & Relationship with Howden 18:00 - Minneapolis Benefits Exodus & Covenants Discussion 22:00 - Court Victory & Temporary Restraining Order 25:00 - Settlement Values & Account Damages 28:00 - Howden's Strategy Backfire & Client Relationships 35:00 - Guest Introduction: Christina Marinakis 36:00 - Jury Consultant Background & Gene Hackman Comparison 40:00 - Mock Trials vs. Real Trials & Shadow Juries 45:00 - Verdict Inflation Trends: $21M to $51M in Four Years 50:00 - Locus of Control: Core Predictor of Juror Bias 58:00 - Anti-Corporate Millennial Generation & COVID Impact Takeaways1. Nuclear Verdicts Are Accelerating: 135 nuclear verdicts ($10M+) in 2024 represent a 52% increase over 2023, with the median verdict jumping to $51 million from $21 million in 2020, driven by advertising, social media anchoring, and third-party litigation funding.2. Locus of Control Is the Strongest Predictor: The most reliable indicator of a plaintiff vs. defense juror is internal vs. external locus of control, whether jurors believe individuals or external factors determine outcomes, more predictive than demographics or experience.3. Millennials Are the Anti-Corporate Generation: Millennials experiencing economic hardship (home ownership, debt) and exposed to corporate scandals (Enron, Wells Fargo) now dominate juries with significantly higher anti-corporate bias than prior generations.4. COVID Destroyed Government Credibility Defense: Pre-COVID, "FDA/EPA approved" arguments worked; post-COVID, jurors distrust government agencies and dismiss regulatory compliance as a defense strategy due to shifting messaging around masks, vaccines, and guidance.5. Jury Polarization Is Creating Contentious Deliberation Rooms: Hung juries increased from 2-3 annually (pre-2022) to 12 in 2022 alone, with escalating incidents of jurors being excused due to verbal conflict, reflecting broader societal polarization bleeding into the jury box.Connect with RiskCellar:Website: https://www.riskcellar.com/Christina MarinakisCEO, Verdict Insight PartnersEmail: christina.marinakis@verdictinsight.comWebsite: verdictinsight.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-marinakis-18328410Brandon Schuh:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552710523314LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-stephen-schuh/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schuhpapa/Nick Hartmann:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickjhartmann/

Hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros challenge a belief that quietly limits progress. When results stall, the issue is rarely what most people point to. The real constraint often sits closer than expected and goes unnoticed for years. This episode creates a sharp shift in how responsibility, effort, and progress are understood. It redirects attention away from external noise and toward what actually drives long-term outcomes.If you are serious about building lasting results in your life, business, health, or relationships, this episode will change how you evaluate your own growth. Listen carefully. The leverage is closer than you think.Learn more about:Join our private Facebook community, “Next Level Nation,” to grow alongside people who are committed to improvement. - https://www.facebook.com/groups/459320958216700Your first 30-minute “Business Breakthrough Session” call with Alan is FREE. This call is designed to help you identify bottlenecks and build a clear plan for your next level. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-sessionIf you want to start, grow, scale, or monetize your podcast? Join our “Next Level Podcast Accelerator” – Round 21 – Starting January 6, 2026. Use promocode: NLULISTENER, for 30% off - https://www.nextleveluniverse.com/group-coaching/_______________________NLU is not just a podcast; it's a gateway to a wealth of resources designed to help you achieve your goals and dreams. From our Next Level Dreamliner to our Group Coaching, we offer a variety of tools and communities to support your personal development journey.For more information, check out our website and socials using the links below.

In this podcast, Eric LaRocca talks about his influences for the Burnt Sparrow trilogy, short stories, repeated choruses, and much more. About Eric LaRocca Eric LaRocca is a 2x Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. Named by Esquire as one of the “Writers Shaping Horror's Next Golden Age” and praised by Locus as … Continue reading

For our year-end discussion of 2025 books, we're joined by Locus reviewers Ian Mond and Alex Pierce, and distinguished critic and novelist James Bradley. As usual, we mention a lot of authors and titles, and probably forget to mention many deserving others. But you'll no doubt find some suggestions you hadn't thought of, and some of our usual digressions about familiar questions of genre, literary ambition, and books that at least some of us think have been overlooked. Alex's list Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shroud Claire North, Slow Gods Darkly Lem, Transmentation | Transgression EJ Swift, When There Are Wolves Again Alastair Reynolds, Halcyon Years Emily Tesh, The Incandescent The Isle in the Silver Sea, Tasha Surii Ian's list Mark Danielewski, Tom's Crossing Alex Pheby, Waterblack Isaac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author Nick Mamatas, Kalivas! James's list Claire North, Slow Gods EJ Swift, When There Are Wolves Again Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel Nina Allan, A Granite Silence Sarah Hall, Helm Catherine Chidgey, The Book of Guilt. Gary's list Alix Harrow, The Everlasting Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel Natalia Theodoridou, Sour Cherry R.F. Kuang, Katabasis Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Bewitching Jonathan's list Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting EJ Swift, When There Are Wolves Again Emily Tesh, The Incandescent Nina Allan, A Granite Silence Silvia Park, Luminous After a very busy end of the year, that's the final episode for 2025. See you all in early 2026 with something new! And thank you to Alex, Ian, and James for making time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode.  

In this podcast, Eric LaRocca talks about his influences for the Burnt Sparrow trilogy, short stories, repeated choruses, and much more. About Eric LaRocca Eric LaRocca is a 2x Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. Named by Esquire as one of the “Writers Shaping Horror's Next Golden Age” and praised by Locus as … Continue reading

If you're listening to this during the Christmas holiday week and feeling a little on edge, this episode is for you! In today's episode of Boss Bitch Radio, I'm sharing a real coaching call conversation about control - the sneaky kind that looks like being responsible on the outside but feels like anxiety on the inside. Yep, that kind. We talk about why so many women struggle to let go, how trying to control people and situations steals our peace, damages relationships, and keeps us from being present in our own lives. I share personal stories (including my days as a reformed control freak), signs you might be holding onto control without realizing it, and simple mindset shifts to help you release what's not yours to carry! This is a gentle reminder that you don't have to manage everything, fix everyone, or hold it all together to be worthy or safe. Sign up for the Main Character Energy Activation Masterclass on January 13, 2026 - this is where the real shift begins → https://www.bossbitchradio.com/masterclass Join the newsletter for more behind-the-scenes tips, cheat sheets, and practical tools → https://www.bossbitchradio.com/newsletter #mentalstrength #overthinking #anxietyrelief #mindsetforwomen Key Takeaways: 00:24 Holiday Stress + Why We Try to Control Everything 00:55 A Real Coaching Call Conversation 01:59 Quick Reminder: Main Character Energy Masterclass 02:57 Mentally Strong People Don't Obsess Over Control 04:46 Real-Life Control Freak Stories (Yep, Me Too) 06:51 Doing a Control Check-In (Be Honest) 09:45 Why Asking for Help Is Actually Powerful 13:25 How to "Bless and Release" in Real Life 17:41 Locus of Control Explained in Plain English 25:44 How to Influence Without Controlling 27:36 Acceptance, Letting Go, and Finding Peace 30:52 Choosing Calm Over Chaos 34:47 Final Thoughts + Masterclass Invite Links Mentioned:  Join me for the Main Character Energy Activation Masterclass on January 13, 2026 - this is where the real shift begins → https://www.bossbitchradio.com/masterclass Join the Iconic Coaching Academy! Limited 1:1 spots available - https://www.bossbitchradio.com/iconic-coaching  I'm loving this Cathy Heller's program is packed with gems. Check it out here! https://cathyheller.samcart.com/referral/thisabundantlifebycathyheller/kLZu9Gj7RIEtBF2Q Hey! Have you heard of ClassPass? They're giving an exclusive free trial (with 20 bonus credits!) only available to friends of mine. https://classpass.com/refer/U37R31GQ30