Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark Tucker

The RISE-UP project is a transformative initiative to revolutionize rehabilitation services for underserved populations, focusing on racial and ethnic minorities. Dr. Mari Guillermo and Dr. Mark Tucker, Project Directors at San Diego State University's Interwork Institute, highlight how this project seeks to drive systemic change through state agency partnerships and tools like QA Advisor Plus. RISE-UP strives to reshape vocational rehabilitation and improve employment outcomes nationwide by fostering equity, inclusion, and access.   Listen Here   Full Transcript:   {Music} Mark: QA Advisor Plus, a tool that agencies can use to check their RSA 911 data for errors and to help facilitate or expedite analysis of their own data.   Mari: How do we close this gap? Where are people not being served, what populations specifically are not being served? And the emphasis is on systems change because we can't improve these outcomes without really looking at what needs to change within that system.   Mark: So we hope that when you see information about the survey coming out, that you take a few minutes to fill it out and can provide us with information both about what they see as needs related to serving underserved populations. But also, we're asking folks to identify any promising practices that they're aware of with respect to providing effective services to underserved populations.   Intro Voice: Manager Minute brought to you by the VRTAC for Quality Management, Conversations powered by VR, one manager at a time, one minute at a time. Here is your host Carol Pankow.   Carol: Well, welcome to the manager minute, Dr. Mari Guillermo and Dr. Mark Tucker, are co-project directors with San Diego State University Interwork Institute. And they are joining me in the studio today. So how are things going in San Diego, Mari?   Mari: Uh, well, it's warming up. It's going to be in the 90s by tomorrow, but it's also the start of the semester at San Diego State University. We're in our second week, so things are still trying to settle down, but it's been quite a good busy two weeks for sure.   Carol: Oh, good for you. Well, I was in San Diego back in June and I'm going, okay, why isn't it warm here now? It was warmer in Minnesota than it was in San Diego. It was so crazy with that kind of, I don't know, marine layer or whatever hangs out. Yeah. How about you, Mark? How are things going for you?   Mark: Going well, yeah, That marine layer in June we that's like a typical thing June Gloom we call it. And then we pay the price in September. September is usually warm for us, but we'll get back to our normal San Diego weather in October.   Carol: Nice. I do love your fair city though. It is really awesome. Well, I thought, and I'm so glad I could get you two because I've been trying to snag you. I think I've been talking to you since last December, but now is finally the sweet spot. I thought it was super timely that we talk about the project given you're at the end of year one. October is also National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and I really think the project that you guys are embarking on could have a significant impact on the employment arena for underserved populations. As a little side note, we're super happy as part of the George Washington University team to be a partner on this project. So I want to give our listeners just a little bit of background. Over a year ago, RSA competed a discretionary grant, and the grant was specifically related to section 21 of the Rehab Act, as amended by WIOA, which requires RSA to reserve 1% of the funds appropriated each year for programs under titles three, title six, and seven to provide grant, contract or cooperative agreement awards to minority entities and Indian tribes to carry out activities under the Rehab Act. Secondly, minority entities and Indian tribes to conduct research training to or a related activity to improve services provided under the act, especially services provided to individuals from minority backgrounds. Or thirdly, state or public or private non-profit agencies or organizations to provide outreach and technical assistance to minority entities and American Indian tribes to promote their participation in activities under the Rehab Act. I learned a whole bunch. I know for our listeners, you're getting a whole history lesson, but I thought this was cool. And so under this priority, the department provides funding for a cooperative agreement for a minority entity or an Indian tribe to provide training and TA to a minimum range of 5 to 15 state VR agencies over a five year period of performance, so they are equipped to serve as role models for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in the workforce system by implementing policies, Practices and service delivery approaches designed to contribute to increasing competitive, integrated employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities from underserved populations. And the other cool part is that you also need to contribute via our research and really good practices that promote access, and this will be really of great benefit across the whole country. So I'm super excited. Let's dig in. So, Mari, typically our listeners like to know a little bit about our guests, your backgrounds. So can you tell a little bit about yourself and your background?   Mari: Yeah, I'm originally from Hawaii, born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. I moved to San Diego in the late 80s to as a graduate student in the rehabilitation program at San Diego State University. So since moving to San Diego, I haven't moved very far from San Diego State University and our rehab counseling program. I'm currently faculty in our graduate program, but I've been with the Interwork Institute since its beginning, when it was started by doctors Fred McFarlane and Doctor Ian Champion, and just worked with some incredible number of leaders in our rehabilitation field. And upon graduating from the master's program, I started working with Doctor Bobby Atkins. And for those of you who few of you who are not familiar with Doctor Atkins, she is a leader. When we look at all diversity initiatives and in fact, when we look at section 21, that was started with her groundbreaking research looking at the involvement and participation of African Americans in vocational rehabilitation. But I worked with Doctor Atkins upon graduating from the program in the capacity building projects funded by this same pool of money. And Doctor Atkins was the national director for the Rehabilitation Cultural Diversity Initiative, which then morphed over into the Rehabilitation Capacity Building Project. So I worked with her from the 90s. All the way up to like 2015 I think is when the project ended. So a lot of the work that we are doing in Rise Up really builds on the foundational work that we did with Doctor Atkins back in the 1990s. So it's an incredible honor.   Carol: I think that is very cool. You've come full circle. Oh my gosh, I love that. I had no idea. And for our listeners too, I just want to say a word about Doctor Fred McFarlane. Fred had passed away this summer. Fred has been a good friend to many, and many of our listeners have benefited from Fred's work with the NRLI and the Leadership Institute. Fred was the founding person developing that and really did such an amazing job touching so many VR professionals over his career. And his legacy definitely lives on. So I just I needed to say that because Fred is definitely missed. So, Marc, how about you? Why don't you tell us a little bit about your background.   Mark: Sure, I've got a Master of Science in rehabilitation counseling, and I'm a certified rehabilitation counselor. And in fact, you know, when I was applying to the graduate program in rehabilitation counseling, Fred interviewed me. Uh, that was a few years back. But that...   Carol: Yeah, 1 or 2.   Mark: Yeah, but he was there right at the start for me. And then kind of in the profession, I got my start in community based non-profit agencies and then from there joined the Rehabilitation Continuing Education program for region nine at Interwork and SDSU in the early 2000. And when I was there, was involved in all kinds of different technical assistance, training and research projects, while also kind of teaching in an adjunct capacity in the Rehabilitation counseling graduate program at SDSU. And then eventually the Rehabilitation Continuing Education programs transitioned into the Technical Assistance and Continuing Education centers. So I continued doing that same type of work with what were called the TACE centers, and then in 2014, joined the Rehabilitation Counseling Program faculty at SDSU full time. So that's sort of where I spend a lot of my time. But I still continue working with, you know, Interwork. The two are just so intricately joined. It's really difficult to be part of one without being part of the other. So I continue doing work at Interwork. One of the recent projects that Mari and I were both involved in a few years back was the California version of the Promise Projects. It was a 5 or 6 years of work with transition age youth who were recipients of Supplemental Security Income. Presently, I'm the coordinator of the Rehabilitation Counseling program at SDSU, and do that while maintaining connections to a variety of projects at Interwork.   Carol: Yeah, you're always wearing about 40 hats. I always think of you, Mark, as being the data guy though, too, because you love the data. I mean, everybody likes data, sort of but you love the data. I mean, you've done some really amazing things with our national data.   Mark: Thank you. I enjoy that. I appreciate being able to bring that to a lot of the projects that I'm involved in. Yeah, you're right. I think I find it fun maybe at times where other people are like, oh, we'll leave that to somebody else.   Carol: Yeah, absolutely. Oh my gosh. So why don't you guys tell us a little bit about your project? I know it's called Rise Up. Maybe you can tell our group like what's that stand for? Everybody's got their fun acronyms and what you're trying to accomplish.   Mari: The name really captures the overall vision for this project, and we have to give a shout out to Doctor Chaz Compton because after several failed acronyms, as we were writing the proposal, it was Chaz who came up with the name. And RISEUP stands for Rehabilitation Improvements in Services and Employment for Underserved Populations. And so that really captures what we're aiming to do, improving the services and in the process of improving services, improving the outcomes for underserved populations, in competitive integrated employment, in careers, in academic achievements and accomplishments now underserved populations. There's many ways we can look at that, but RSA has defined it for us and it concentrates on race and ethnicity. So it encompasses individuals who are black, Latino, indigenous, Native American persons, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and other persons of color. And so that is the specific focus for this grant and the population that we hope to impact ultimately with the work that we do with the state agencies. An important component of the project is the partnerships that we aim to build with ten state agencies. And that partnership is really important because while we think about this work is okay, we'll do training and technical assistance and all these different topics and how it intersects with these different populations based on evidence based practices and promising practices. But we can only do so much with training and technical assistance. We really have to look at, okay, how does this then translate into the work that goes on in the agency and not just in the agency? How does that look at the different levels within the agency? How a director would translate the training will look different than how a counselor or a technician would translate. We hope that it complements each other, but everyone has a different role in this process. And that's the other part of the project, is that we want to really look at the whole agency and all the different levels, and being able to provide that support to them where they need it. And really looking at how do we close this gap? Where are people not being served, what populations specifically are not being served within a state or a section of the state? And the emphasis is on systems change, because we can't improve these outcomes without really looking at what needs to change within that system. And there's different components that we're going to be incorporating into the project in our partnerships with the state agencies to look at what are the strengths and weaknesses within your agencies and what are the opportunities and gaps. And while there are big challenges that we all are aware of, there's also some great things going on and we want to highlight that, and we believe we'll be able to find that also within each of the state agencies.   Carol: I like a couple of things about what you just said. Well, I like it all, but a couple things stick out to me because holistically, we've seen it as we do TA and as people put in new initiatives in place. If you really get the whole agency going in the same direction, it is the rise or fall of that project for sure, because maybe the director is all in, but the mid-level managers and the counselors are like, I don't even understand what's going on. You're asking us to do this other thing? I don't get it. It seems weird. It's extra. I don't want to. I'm not going to. And then it doesn't happen. And so you really have to get everybody in sync. So I think you're smart to look at the whole organization and how everybody interprets the information and the training and how it actually gets implemented, because it isn't the director implementing it. It's the boots on the ground folks, it's your counselor. You need your line folks engaged and involved and giving you feedback and understanding what's happening. So that I think that is brilliant. Secondly, the data I think it's been interesting and I think Mark, it's some of the work that you've done over the last couple of years that I've known you as well, that as people start to get better about looking at their data, I think folks were looking really high level, not getting into the real intricacies and seeing the maybe the disparities that are happening in employment as you start looking at different races and ethnicities and who's getting what kind of work and what those outcomes are. And then we've seen states be completely shocked, like we didn't know we have a huge problem in this area. So I think getting at the data is super important. So I know, Mark, you and I had spoken to and you talked about this special wrinkle, and we're not using wrinkle in a bad way. It was in a good way. But you have a contractor called Encorpe and they're bringing something special to the project. Tell us a little bit about that.   Mark: Sure, and this relates a bit more to the data aspects of the project that we were just talking about. So Encorpe is a partner on the project. It's an organization that's headed by a couple of individuals with considerable experience with the public VR program, and they offer a tool that's known as QA Advisor Plus. So this is a tool that agencies can use to check their RSA 911 data for errors and to kind of help facilitate or expedite analysis of their own data. So users of the tool can run custom queries on their data. They can do things like track changes from quarter to quarter in things like population served on a variety of measures that might include things like applications or eligibility plan services, competitive integrated employment outcomes. Those are the kinds of things that are of interest, particularly to us as part of the Rise Up project and built into this project is that Rise Up will pay for one year of QA advisor Plus for participating agencies if they elect to use it. So agencies aren't required to use QA Advisor Plus if they don't want to. We have other strategies for helping and assisting with data analysis if they elect not to use it, but that's there as an offer. Rise Up will cover one year of the cost of that service. And I think one of the things that we're trying to get at is that through the project is to kind of help facilitate kind of long term attention and ongoing attention to things like population served and differences in services and outcomes, and to use that for more data informed planning, in our case, particularly around underserved populations. But agencies can certainly pretty easily extend that out to other groups of interest or other aspects of the rehabilitation process. That may not be maybe the central focus of what Rise Up is doing. And one of the things I sort of want to underscore here is that the project is intentionally designed to make considerable use of data that the state agencies are already gathering and reporting to RSA anyway. So if agencies are interested maybe in participating in Rise Up, but they're like, oh, I don't want there to be like an additional heavy burden on my data folks or my direct service folks. Our intention is that things will be fairly light with respect to those kinds of demands, because we'll take advantage of existing data that's already being gathered, and then we'll either use QA Advisor Plus or some of our own staff to assist with the analyses.   Carol: That's the beauty of this project really, I love that because it isn't like you're going, okay, state, we're knocking on your door to like, come and do this thing. And then you need to add like ten positions to pay attention to this. And I think it's great because I got a chance to look at that QA Advisor Plus. I saw the Encorpe guys at, CSAVR and they were like, hey, do you want to see a little demo of this? I was like, oh my gosh, I know as being a small blind agency director, we had one data person who's doing a million things, and so we were very surfacey. We got a little bit of stuff, but it was really hard. You have one person there doing a million things, and so that tool, I liked how it kind of rose up little things. It had that cool feature and it would just flag something for you to go like, hey, what's going on in this particular area? That would have been so lovely because I know a lot of our programs are small, so you might just have a half a position or one position that's working in this area. They don't have a whole team that's got all this really developed deep skill set in there. I just think having that added resource is amazing and could really take that level of sort of your data analytics to a whole different place than what you've been able to do so far and not, you know, not disparaging anybody's current skill level at it. It's just that people don't have time because there's so many demands. So when you can add like a feature to help with analyzing that data, it really is a great gift. So who are your agencies that are currently participating in the project?   Mari: So we've had initial conversations with a number of agencies, and certainly there were a number of agencies who had written letters of commitment when we wrote the grant, and that was really important. I don't want to mention the states yet until we have agreements in place out of respect for the agencies, our goal is to have by the end of year two, our goal is to have six agreements in place and by the end of year three, another four. So that will be a total of ten. But we've already started to have that conversation and people are at different starting points, right? And trying to map out how will this make sense and be of value to your agency and mapping that out in an individualized agreement with each of the states? So maybe we'll be invited for a second visit a year down the road, and I can at least give you a few more names more specific than what I'm giving you now, Carol.   Carol: No,  that's totally fine. Absolutely. I wasn't sure if, you know, like, are you needing some people? Because sometimes our listeners are like, hey, I want to be part of that project. I want to be in.   Mari: No, absolutely. And we're more than happy to talk to agencies throughout this whole process, because really the intent is we targeted ten agencies because we want to make sure that with the resources that we have available to us, that we use that in a way to really make that impact, to really try to get to that systems change because again, change doesn't happen overnight and it doesn't happen on a zero budget, right? But the hope is the lessons that are learned from the ten agencies in this work will be relevant to the rest of the country.   Carol: That's what I've loved about all of these different discretionary grants that RSA has put out, because I've been talking to people for the last year, and there is such cool things being done and demonstrated that now they're sharing out, you know, with other people and just that wonderful plethora of ideas. It makes it super fun. And everybody gets really excited planting the seeds of a different way of looking at things and doing things. So you are at the end of year one, and I love it when I talk to all our grantees that have gotten these grants, like, what have been your challenges this year?   Mark: I would say some of the challenges that we've encountered are things that it's not like they're not doable. It's just that they're the time and process demands are, you know, things have sort of taken longer, I guess I've started to come to kind of expect it. But still, when you're anxious to kind of get going and get rolling, these things sort of surface as challenges or frustrations. And so some of them are, I think, very predictable things like fleshing out the project staff, developing and executing subcontracts. I think Mari, she's nodding her head often. It's a little bit more complicated or involved than you think it might be. We've been working on things like establishing the technical infrastructure for the project, information management, information sharing systems, and we have a website that's in development that will ultimately use to share information coming out of this project, with many more than just the ten state agencies that we work intensively with. So there will be kind of dissemination of project learning far beyond those ten. We've been comprehensively surveying the literature related to underserved populations in VR, and it's not really just a challenge. It's just kind of a time consuming thing that we're kind of working our way through. We are going to be implementing a national survey of state VR staff around both challenges and opportunities related to serving underserved populations and the instrument development process is always a little time consuming, and you get a lot of feedback and you make revisions and there's several feedback and revision stages. So that's something that will be surfacing in the near future. That's just it's taken time, but we'll get there. Or going through things like the human subjects institutional review process, just to make sure that everybody's, you know, treated well and treated ethically. So those are all, you know, just things that have moved along or are moving along and we're squaring them away. But for those of us who are like, would like to just get going, all of that process stuff at the beginning is a little bit of a challenge. One thing that I think the team is wrestling with a little bit, and this is something that I think were a challenge that we will contend with going forward, and I've got confidence that we'll be able to address it, but it's just going to require some thought is that, you know, as Mari indicated earlier, the underserved populations of interest are defined by race and ethnicity. And we know already from looking at our data over a long period of time that our clients, like everybody else, often are multiracial, and they check a whole bunch of boxes So we're not going to necessarily be able to look at clients who are folks don't fall neatly into very convenient categories, right. So I think we're going to have to be very sensitive to that dynamic in the process and probably develop multiple ways of looking at race and ethnicity, so that we don't kind of miss any really important lessons that are coming out of this project.   Carol: Absolutely. And regarding that national survey, is there something our listeners can do to be of help in that or something they should be looking out for?   Mark: We're still in the process of piloting it like we want to get it right before it goes out, but we will be working with one of our project partners, which is CSAVR, to disseminate this national survey. It'll be an electronic survey, and it's really designed to go to VR staff at all levels. Like we talked about earlier, involvement of folks, feedback from folks at all levels in VR system really important. So VR staff at all levels, folks like SRC members will be disseminating it through CSAVR. And we would encourage everybody to, you know, I know we survey ourselves all the time in society here in the US. But this one is important. And to me and I think to the overall intent of the project. And so we hope that when you see information about the survey coming out, that you take a few minutes to fill it out and complete it. It will be anonymous. It won't be linked back to you. So we hope people will respond candidly and provide us with information both about what they see as needs related to serving underserved populations. But also, we're asking folks to identify any promising practices that they're aware of with respect to providing effective services to underserved populations. I think both of those types of information can be really helpful to us in terms of planning out the future of this project, designing effective training, effective technical assistance efforts. So we see it as one way of kind of triangulating that information. We will look to triangulate it with other forms of information, but really critical to kind of building some of the key infrastructure to the project.   Carol: Good.   Mark: Yeah.   Carol: And we definitely can be a help to in passing out the word when the survey comes out. I know Chaz, he'll be like, Carol, can you get that out in our email groups too? We have lots of different ways. We communicate out. We have different COPs. We've got lots of mailing lists and such, so we can help kind of promote the word to get at the different groups of folks. So you get kind of a wide range of participation. So I know, Mark, you've alluded to a few things that really you've learned so far this year. One, because always year one's a learning year because people don't fall neatly in boxes. Are there any other kind of learnings you've had from year one so far, or Mari, too. either of you?   Mark: Yeah, I'm going to defer to Mari on this one.   Mari: We've learned a lot. And when you say, what have you learned so far? It's almost what has been confirmed. The whole reason why this funding opportunity is available because there's a gap there, right? And so what the conversations that we've had with agencies is just confirmed that there's a lot of work that we need to do and that we need to do better. But every agency is at a different starting point. Who they consider underserved will vary from state to state, or even from city to city within the same state. Right And where those gaps and inequities occur will also vary. For some states, it's just getting the outreach to communities to that door exists in their area, to certain populations dropping out before they even reach the point of developing an EIP, and other agencies are seeing where the EIP is developed. Things start to roll out and then for different reasons that we want to dig into, we lose people, you know, in certain populations compared to the overall populations being served. And so one of the things we are learning is that we really need to direct the training and technical assistance to where each agency wants to start, but also helping them and working together using that data that Marc talked about to confirm or not confirm whether these actual inequities at different points in the process are occurring. And then of course, the environment and the climate that agencies operate under impacts what they're tackling, something that we've heard repeatedly. And I'm sure, Carol, you've heard often, is the staffing challenges that our state agencies are experiencing upwards to 40% of unfilled positions, and that will certainly impact the work and the progress and the impact when we start to work with the agencies. Some agencies are further along in the process where they've really looked at the data from their comprehensive statewide needs assessment and saw a hole there and actually started to develop a goal to address that. And so they've already have that beginning understanding and now are at the stage of, okay, what do we do with this information? What kind of training and technical assistance can we provide our staff, and how can you help with this. And getting us to move the needle, at least move the needle forward, right? And I know we're going to get a lot of new information or confirming knowledge from the national survey, but also using that national survey to start the conversation with each of the individual agencies. You know, how does this national data look for you? Is it true or how different it is? And so I think we've learned a lot, and there's a lot more that we're going to unravel in this process.   Carol: I love it. The CSNAs, you know, I think states for a long time did it as a check the box. We have to do the thing. We're going to contract to somebody to do the thing. Here's the thing. It's 300 pages. All right. We put it on the shelf. It's in the electronic folder. But I have noticed this over the years we've been doing the QM work. People are really taking the CSNA and actually paying attention to it and starting to put all the dots together, linking that as the basis for then what flows into the state plan flows into goals and priorities and really connecting and spending more time. The thing I've been very hopeful of is spending time with direct staff so that they understand the whole process, because staff will hear about this stuff, but they don't really understand it or what is that about? And now people are linking like, here's why we're doing all of this. We're actually finding out what's the situation in our state, and we're taking this and we're putting together goals and priorities within our state plan based on this data, this information. So it all links together, because I think people feel like everybody's just doing these random activities, but they actually all come together.   Mari: Yeah.   Carol: So that I have seen as a change, definitely in the five plus years I've been doing TA work now, I've seen a big swing and I've loved it, because now people are digging down in the organization and including not just your executive leadership and middle managers. They're including the line staff and having them have an understanding of what's going on so that they can understand their contributions to this overall big picture. So I love that.   Mari: Yeah, and we learned that from the Cal Promise Project We had this whole large, comprehensive database and our team were able to put together, I guess, reports of here's what the data is looking like, here's how your region is being impacted, and the transition specialists, the people who are meeting with the families and with the students, like we've never seen this before. We're always feeding data to our supervisor. Our boss is always asking for data, and so we give it to them. But we never know what happens to it. And now it makes sense. This is how my work is impacting people.   Carol: Absolutely. It's mind blowing to the staff because when you go out, you're talking and you're like, okay. They're like, well, why is Congress doing all this crazy stuff with our money or whatever is going on? I always tell them, I go, the only way your story can be told because they don't know all your anecdotal, really neat. You got Joe, a job like this is awesome and it's a great career and you know, all this great things are happening. They don't know any of that. They only know by the data you put in the system. And when you put data in the system, that isn't very good. That's the picture, the story that your agency is telling. This is the only way for other people to make decisions. You just see this. Aha. Like people are like, oh well this stuff actually does matter. And it is being used for something and then they can figure it out. And I love it when you get down in regional levels because then they go like and they'll know what's going on. Sometimes up here the management's like, oh they're trying to figure out what's happening in that region. Talk to the staff. They see boots on the ground, what's going on. So the data confirms what's been happening in that area. And then the whole agency having that conversation, it's really exciting and super empowering and energizing. I feel like for their customers and what's going to happen for their people, I love that. The other thing I was going to say, Mari too, is we've been seeing a slight improvement in staffing levels. Now it seems like things for some reason, because we work with a load of states and we talk a lot about this particular issue, the staffing levels, it's been leveling off with that whole people leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving. And now I've had a couple agencies in the last year where they were sitting at 25, 30% now. They're at 5% and 8% turnover. Like there have been significant changes because of all of the things they put into play to not only get staff, but to keep them, to retain them. So we've been trying to do some efforts on our end and we can't say it's all us, you know, but people have been putting a lot of strategy into this, and it's really fun to see on this other side, this more encouraging landscape for the staff out there.   Mari: Wow, that's great to hear.   Carol: Yeah. So I'm hopeful for you guys as you're carrying this out. So now what are your plans for year two as you go into year two? What are you guys hoping to accomplish this year?   Mark: I think it'll be a busy year for us. I think one of the major efforts, you know, we've already kind of alluded to a little bit, which is get the national survey out there to get that information back, have our team kind of start analyzing the results. We'll use that data. As I said before, we'll triangulate that with other information sources that we have our team working on. You mentioned comprehensive statewide needs assessments and state plans. Our team is doing an analysis of that specifically through the lens of underserved populations to see what can be gleaned from those statewide reports. And they're triangulating that also with kind of other forms of published literature around underserved populations. So there's a lot of kind of building that kind of database of information will be focused on executing agreements with the first of the agencies that are going to be involved with kind of the intensive phases of Rise Up, while at the same time kind of establishing the groundwork for agencies that we will add to the Rise Up group, you know, to as we work towards our goal of getting to up to ten state agencies. And then I think as we work with each of the agencies, kind of to begin to identify the populations that they want to focus on for, you know, kind of sustained efforts to enhance getting folks in the door, getting them into plan, getting them services. The outcomes will also begin to kind of roll out. You know, one aspect of Rise Up will be training. Some of it will be technical assistance. That will be kind of systems change focused efforts. We'll begin to roll out initial training. Some of those will focus on topics like cultural humility And then we'll be using the literature search, the national survey, consultation with the agencies that we're working with to lend direction to the development of additional trainings that will be kind of targeted towards all levels of the organization. And then within the agencies that we begin to work with, we'll also begin kind of identifying the targeted and specific areas of need for technical assistance that will be unique to each of the agencies. So I see those as kind of the major tasks that will be kind of getting into in the beginning of year two and then kind of sustaining through the next year.   Carol: That is super exciting. I'm really excited about this. I would love to talk to you guys too, again at the end of like next year to see where things are at. Now, I understand you to, I believe, or somebody coming to CSAVR and people may want to chat with you. Is there a way folks could reach out to you if they are interested in talking to you about the project?   Mark: Sure.   Mari: Yeah   Mark: Yeah, so we will be at CSVAR, our project coordinator, Letty Vavasour will be there. Mari will be there. I will be there. So we're certainly kind of approachable there. As we mentioned before, CSAVR is a project partner of ours, and we mentioned encore. I think they're going to be there as well at CSAVR. And one other partner we haven't mentioned, but we should give them some credit, is a major partner with us is the George Washington Center for Rehabilitation Counseling, Research and Education. They're also a project partner with us and will be instrumental in kind of our efforts. So CSAVR is one place where folks can connect with us. Our team is working on a website, so we should have that up kind of in the near future. That's another way to get a hold of us. Email is always a good way to get a hold of us. I'm easy to get a hold of by email at MTucker at SDSU.edu and Mari is MGuillermo@SDSU.edu. So those are kind of really easy ways to get Ahold of us. And then of course Interwork Institute and the VRTAC-QM, we're sort of housed right there and involved in a number of those projects going on there so folks can track us down through Interwork or the QM.   Carol: Excellent. And, Mari, would you mind, Mari, would you spell out your email address? Just in case, because like me, it's like, how is that spelled?   Mari: And for those of you who know Spanish, my last name is Guillermo, which is William in Spanish, but it's m g as in George. U I L L E R M as in Mari o at SDSU.edu.   Carol: Excellent. Thank you. I really appreciate you taking the time. I'm super excited. And I wish our listeners could see like, the excitement on both of your faces about this project because it makes me like, super happy. I mean, the project couldn't be in better hands. You guys always do really good work out of Interwork, and I'm really excited to see what comes. So let's definitely chat again down the road.   Mark: That would be great.   Carol: Thanks for joining me.   Mari: Absolutely. Thank you Carol.   {Music}   Outro Voice: Conversations powered by VR, one manager at a time, one minute at a time, brought to you by the VR TAC for Quality Management. Catch all of our podcast episodes by subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening!

Sean bienvenidos a otro nuevo Spaces aqui en Twitter. Esta vez vamos a realizar un análisis de la película falso documental La Conspiración. Les sugiero que si no han visto la película lo hagan antes de escuchar nuestro análisis ya que vamos a destriparla completamente. Digamos que será no solo un spoiler de lo que podrían ver allí si no mas bien un desmenuzamiento de sus partes. Intentaremos desmontar la película trozo a trozo. Vamos a entrar en la sala del despiece del toro, je, je, je. Para ello utilizare un extracto de lo que nos dice chat GPT de esta película. 1. Introducción El documento "The Conspiracy" comienza con una cita significativa de Benjamin Disraeli, Primer Ministro británico de 1874 a 1880, quien mencionó que el mundo es gobernado por personajes muy diferentes a los imaginados. Esta cita sirve como punto de partida para adentrarse en la temática central del texto: la conspiración. La introducción plantea la idea de que la humanidad, en su conjunto, no es libre y que la supuesta libertad que se percibe es solo una ilusión creada por aquellos en el poder. Esta ilusión de libertad y elección es una de las primeras ideas que se presentan para cuestionar la realidad en la que viven las personas. El texto introduce al lector en un ambiente de sospecha y desconfianza hacia los poderes establecidos, sugiriendo que los individuos no son más que piezas en un juego manejado por otros. Esta premisa establece un tono sombrío y desafiante, aludiendo a la manipulación de masas y al control social que se ejercerían desde las sombras. 2. Fenómeno de las Teorías de la Conspiración El documento continúa explorando el fenómeno de las teorías de la conspiración, describiendo cómo estas han capturado la atención de las personas no solo por las teorías mismas, sino por el comportamiento y la mentalidad de quienes creen en ellas. Se hace énfasis en que las teorías conspirativas representan un fenómeno social fascinante que debe ser entendido para poder ser disipado. Este apartado discute la atracción que ejercen las teorías de la conspiración sobre ciertos individuos y cómo estas teorías crean una comunidad de personas que comparten una visión alternativa del mundo, una visión que cuestiona las narrativas oficiales y que busca desentrañar lo que perciben como una verdad oculta. La creencia en conspiraciones no solo afecta la percepción de la realidad de los individuos, sino que también tiene un impacto significativo en el comportamiento social y político de estas comunidades. 3. Encuentro con Terrance G. Uno de los personajes centrales del documento es Terrance G., un conspirador local cuya vida y creencias son exploradas a través de la narrativa. Se introduce al lector al entorno de Terrance, que se describe como un lugar donde él ha acumulado y organizado una vasta cantidad de información relacionada con diversas teorías de la conspiración. Este espacio, denominado por Terrance como "El Cuarto de Guerra", está lleno de recortes, documentos, y conexiones que él ha trazado entre eventos históricos y decisiones políticas, todos los cuales, en su visión, forman parte de una gran conspiración global. Nos lo muestran casi como un vagabundo, una persona desaseada y con una vida al borde del colapso en una casa descuidada. El "Cuarto de Guerra" de Terrance es emblemático de cómo los conspiracionistas organizan y procesan la información, buscando patrones y conexiones que, en muchos casos, son interpretados como evidencia irrefutable de sus creencias. Este entorno refleja una mentalidad profundamente analítica y a la vez obsesiva, donde cada nuevo dato es insertado en una red preexistente de suposiciones y creencias, reforzando aún más la visión del mundo que tiene Terrance. 4. Ejemplos de Conspiraciones Gobernamentales El documento menciona varios ejemplos específicos de lo que se presentan como conspiraciones gubernamentales, las cuales Terrance y otros como él creen que son parte de un plan más amplio de control y dominación. Estos ejemplos incluyen: Ley de Comisiones Militares (2006): Se describe cómo esta ley permite la detención indefinida de ciudadanos estadounidenses en lugares no revelados, lo que es visto como una herramienta para silenciar la disidencia y mantener el control social. Proyecto de ley H.R. 645 y los campos de FEMA (2009): Este proyecto de ley autoriza al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional a establecer una red de campos de internamiento en caso de una emergencia nacional. Terrance interpreta esto como una preparación para la implementación de la ley marcial y el control total de la población. Estos ejemplos son utilizados por Terrance para ilustrar su argumento de que existe una conspiración generalizada para restringir las libertades individuales y centralizar el poder en manos de unos pocos. Terrance conecta estos eventos legislativos con una serie de otras acciones gubernamentales y eventos históricos, sugiriendo que todos son parte de un patrón más grande y siniestro. 5. La Comunidad Conspiratoria en Línea Un aspecto crucial del documento es la descripción de la comunidad conspiracionista en línea. Este grupo de personas, que interactúa principalmente a través de foros y salas de chat virtuales como el "Café del Conspirador", es visto como una subcultura unida por su devoción a descubrir "la verdad". Esta comunidad utiliza Internet no solo como una herramienta para compartir información, sino también como un espacio para reforzar sus creencias y conectar con otros que comparten sus perspectivas. El documento destaca cómo Internet ha jugado un papel dual en la propagación de teorías conspirativas. Por un lado, permite la difusión rápida y masiva de ideas que cuestionan la narrativa oficial, desafiando los medios de comunicación tradicionales que históricamente han controlado la información. Por otro lado, Internet también facilita la vigilancia masiva, lo que refuerza la percepción de un control omnipresente por parte del "Gran Hermano". Un ejemplo concreto dentro del texto es la descripción de un video viral que muestra a Terrance compartiendo sus ideas, lo cual provoca no solo burlas sino también un sorprendente número de comentarios de apoyo. Este episodio ilustra cómo las teorías conspirativas encuentran un eco en sectores de la población que están dispuestos a aceptar narrativas alternativas, especialmente en un entorno donde la desconfianza hacia las instituciones es alta. 6. Teorías Clásicas de la Conspiración El documento explora varias teorías de conspiración bien conocidas que son parte integral del discurso de Terrance y de la comunidad conspirativa en general: Reserva Federal y control financiero: Se argumenta que la Reserva Federal es una institución que manipula la economía imprimiendo dinero sin respaldo, manteniendo al gobierno de los EE.UU. perpetuamente endeudado y bajo el control de poderes financieros ocultos. El Gran Hermano y la vigilancia: Terrance señala que la profecía de George Orwell sobre un estado de vigilancia total se ha hecho realidad, pero de una manera que el propio Orwell no anticipó: los ciudadanos mismos han creado y aceptado este sistema de vigilancia, especialmente a través de las redes sociales y la tecnología digital. Militarización y el papel de las milicias: Se discute el papel de las milicias en la historia de los EE.UU. y cómo, según Terrance, la constitución del país fue defendida inicialmente por milicias, no por un ejército regular. Este argumento es utilizado para justificar la existencia de milicias modernas que se preparan para resistir lo que perciben como un gobierno tiránico. Principales grupos conspirativos mencionados: El documento enumera varios grupos que son recurrentes en las teorías de conspiración, incluyendo el Grupo Bilderberg, los Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, el Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores CFR, y figuras como los Rothschild y los Rockefeller. Estos grupos y familias son vistos como los verdaderos poderes detrás de los gobiernos y las instituciones globales. Estos ejemplos de teorías conspirativas son fundamentales para entender el marco mental de Terrance y su comunidad. Cada teoría representa una pieza de un rompecabezas más grande, que juntos forman la visión de un mundo gobernado en secreto por una élite poderosa y despiadada. 7. Eventos Históricos Relacionados con Conspiraciones El documento también analiza varios eventos históricos que han sido reinterpretados por la comunidad conspiracionista como pruebas de conspiraciones masivas: Incidente del Lusitania y la Primera Guerra Mundial: Se menciona cómo el hundimiento del RMS Lusitania, un barco de pasajeros, fue utilizado como pretexto para que Estados Unidos entrara en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Terrance sugiere que este evento fue deliberadamente provocado para justificar la entrada del país en el conflicto. Incidente del Golfo de Tonkin y la Guerra de Vietnam: Similarmente, el incidente del Golfo de Tonkin es presentado como una fabricación destinada a justificar la guerra en Vietnam. Un documento desclasificado de la NSA que indica que el incidente nunca ocurrió es utilizado como prueba de esta manipulación. El 9/11 y sus teorías asociadas: El ataque del 11 de septiembre de 2001 es interpretado como un "ataque de falsa bandera", un evento creado o permitido por el propio gobierno de los EE.UU. para justificar la guerra en el Medio Oriente y la expansión del control interno a través de la seguridad nacional. Estos eventos históricos son fundamentales para el discurso conspirativo porque proporcionan precedentes de cómo, supuestamente, los gobiernos han manipulado a sus ciudadanos a lo largo del tiempo. Al conectar estos eventos, los conspiracionistas como Terrance construyen una narrativa que sugiere un patrón continuo de engaño y control. 8. Desaparición de Terrance En un momento determinado los documentalistas no logran ponerse en contacto con Terrance. Al final el casero les abre la puerta y ven que hay evidencias de lucha en la casa y que alguien ha desordenado las cosas de Terrance. Este no esta y sin embargo se ha dejado su tablón de recortes, que obviamente es un objeto muy valioso para el. Uno de los dos documentalistas, Aaron, decide llevarse los recortes de Terrance a su casa. Todo parece ir bien, hasta que en un momento dado algo hace click en la mente de Aaron y decide montar el puzzle que estaba haciendo Terrance. Su amigo ve lo que esta haciendo y cree que este se ha vuelto loco. Pero empieza a atar hilos y da con un patrón que lo lleva al club Tarsus. 9. Investigación sobre el Club Tarsus Uno de los hilos conductores más intrigantes del documento es la investigación sobre el Club Tarsus, una organización secreta que, según Aaron uno de los documentalistas, está detrás de muchos de los eventos más importantes del mundo. Esta organización es presentada como un retiro exclusivo para la élite global, donde se toman decisiones que afectan al futuro de la humanidad. El pseudo documental relata cómo Aaron descubre un patrón en las fechas de reuniones del Club Tarsus, las cuales preceden a eventos mundiales significativos. Un artículo escrito por un tal Mark Tucker y publicado en la revista Time en 2003, menciona estas reuniones y sugiere que los asistentes al Club Tarsus han jugado un papel en la configuración de la política global. Aunque el artículo fue censurado en su momento, la información que contiene es suficiente para que Aaron empiece a conectar puntos y formular una teoría de conspiración que gira en torno a esta organización. El Club Tarsus es descrito como un grupo de poderosos individuos que, desde la sombra, manipulan los mercados financieros, la política exterior, y otros aspectos críticos de la vida global. Se hace una analogía con la manipulación que ejercen las grandes corporaciones y las figuras políticas que participan en estas reuniones, sugiriendo que estos son los verdaderos gobernantes del mundo. 10. El Culto a Mitra En su investigación, Aaron también descubre lo que él cree es una conexión entre el Club Tarsus y el antiguo culto a Mitra. Este culto, que data de más de 4,000 años, tiene sus raíces en Persia y se extendió por todo el Imperio Romano. Según el documento, el culto a Mitra era tanto una asociación secreta como un culto religioso, y sus rituales y creencias podrían haber influido en las sociedades secretas modernas. El culto a Mitra es conocido por su ritual central, en el cual Mitra mata a un toro, una imagen que es comparada en el documento con la crucifixión en la cristiandad. Este rito de matar al toro es visto como un símbolo de poder y dominación, y se sugiere que las sociedades secretas modernas, incluyendo el Club Tarsus, podrían estar emulando estos antiguos ritos. El documento también menciona cómo algunas de las costumbres y prácticas de estas sociedades secretas podrían haber sido adoptadas de los mitraistas, como el apretón de manos, que según el texto, se originó en las ceremonias mitraicas. Este simbolismo refuerza la idea de que las élites modernas están conectadas con antiguos cultos y que su poder está enraizado en prácticas esotéricas. 11. Rituales del Club Tarsus Uno de los aspectos más oscuros y enigmáticos del documento es la descripción de los rituales que, según Terrance, tienen lugar en las reuniones del Club Tarsus. Se narra cómo los documentalistas logran infiltrarse en una de estas reuniones y grabar en secreto parte de un ritual, lo que supuestamente revela prácticas que van más allá de simples reuniones políticas o económicas. El ritual mencionado en el documento involucra la caza y masacre de un toro, un acto que es interpretado como una continuación de los antiguos rituales del culto a Mitra. La descripción del ritual es perturbadora y sugiere que estos actos tienen un significado profundo para los participantes, posiblemente relacionado con la reafirmación de su poder y control. La infiltración en el Club Tarsus, sin embargo, no solo revela los rituales, sino también el alto nivel de seguridad y secretismo que rodea estas reuniones. A pesar de la captura de imágenes y la obtención de información, el documento deja claro que quienes intentan exponer estas prácticas son rápidamente silenciados o desacreditados, manteniendo así la invisibilidad y el poder del Club. 12. Entrevista con William Jensen En una parte del documento se detalla una entrevista con William Jensen, fundador del Club Tarso Internacional, quien ofrece una perspectiva diferente sobre las acusaciones de conspiración. Jensen reconoce que el Club Tarsus ha sido objeto de numerosas teorías de conspiración, pero sugiere que estas teorías son simplemente una respuesta al hecho de que personas poderosas se reúnan y tomen decisiones que afectan al mundo. Jensen también discute cómo la globalización y la era de la información han creado un ambiente donde cualquier persona con una idea puede compartirla con millones, lo que ha facilitado la propagación de teorías de la conspiración. A pesar de esto, Jensen no niega que el Club Tarsus tiene influencia global, aunque trata de minimizar las acusaciones sugiriendo que lo que el club busca es una comunidad global unificada, un "Nuevo Orden Mundial", pero sin las connotaciones siniestras que le atribuyen los conspiracionistas. Esta entrevista es importante porque presenta el lado oficial de la historia, donde las reuniones del Club Tarsus son vistas como una fuerza positiva para la cooperación internacional y la creación de un mundo más interconectado. Sin embargo, para aquellos que ya están convencidos de las conspiraciones, las palabras de Jensen pueden parecer solo un intento de encubrimiento. 13. Conclusión El documento concluye con la desaparición de Aaron, uno de los investigadores que intentaba descubrir la verdad detrás del Club Tarsus. Esta desaparición, junto con la de Terrance, deja un sentimiento de inquietud y de preguntas sin respuesta. Se sugiere que aquellos que se acercan demasiado a la verdad son eliminados o forzados a desaparecer, lo que refuerza la narrativa conspirativa. La reflexión final del documento se centra en la idea de que, aunque estas teorías puedan parecer descabelladas, el hecho de que tantas personas crean en ellas indica una profunda desconfianza en las instituciones y un deseo de entender el mundo de una manera que las narrativas oficiales no pueden satisfacer. La película/documental cierra con un mensaje sobre la necesidad de cuestionar la realidad y estar alerta ante las fuerzas que podrían estar trabajando en las sombras para manipular a la humanidad. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Me gustaria hablar de catacumbas cristianas, hipogeos o Mitreos de culto a Mitra y como ambas religiones estuvieron juntas durante por lo menos 300 años y lógicamente se produjo una colusión entre ambas. Lo que podríamos denominar como sincretismo entre el cristianismo y el culto a Mitra. Veamos algunos aspectos en los que ambas religiones coincidían y no solo en la ventana temporal y el culto subterráneo, dado que el cristianismo inicio su andadura perseguido por Roma y el culto mitraico se celebraba en cuevas para festejar el nacimiento de Mitra en una cueva. Digamos que en ambos casos, Jesucristo en un pajar con animales y Mitra en una cueva, eligieron sitios poco elegantes para nacer. El mitraísmo tenía rasgos de profundo simbolismo moral como el cristianismo. Era un culto totalmente cerrado, cofradía, que en eso recuerda al cristianismo de los primeros siglos, con sus agrupamientos exclusivos y su culto enteramente secreto. El secreto del mitraísmo no era la fe sino los ritos. Ritos de sacrificio y mitos de sacrificio como en el cristianismo. Cristo entregado a la muerte para borrar los pecados de los hombres. La trinidad cristiana, a diferencia del dios único del judaísmo, se asemeja a la trinidad de los cultos politeístas mitríacos, Padre Zeus en grecia u Ormazd en Persia, Mitra y el toro, o sea Padre, hijo y espíritu santo. El joven dios era hermoso, valiente, puro y enseñaba una moral austera que practicaba él mismo como Jesucristo. En el mitraísmo, existían siete niveles de iniciación, que pueden estar relacionados con los siete planetas de la astronomía de la época (Luna, Mercurio, Venus, Sol, Marte, Júpiter y Saturno), en este mismo orden, según la interpretación de Joseph Campbell. La mayoría de los miembros llegaban únicamente, hasta el cuarto grado (leo) y solo unos escogidos accedían a los rangos superiores. Los niveles, conocidos gracias a un texto de San Jerónimo que confirman varias inscripciones, eran los siguientes: Corax (cuervo); Cryphius (κρύφιος) (oculto). Otros autores interpretan este rango como Nymphus (esposo); Miles (soldado). Sus atributos eran la corona y la espada; Leo (león). En los rituales presentaban a Mitra las ofrendas de los sacrificios; Perses (persa); Heliodromus (emisario solar). Sus atributos eran la antorcha, el látigo y la corona;. Pater (padre). Sus atributos (el gorro frigio, la vara y el anillo) recuerdan a los del obispo cristiano. En los ritos, los iniciados llevaban máscaras de animales relativas a su nivel de iniciación y se dividían en dos grupos: los servidores, por debajo del grado de leo y los participantes, el resto. Parece ser que el rito principal de la religión mitraica era un banquete ritual, que pudo tener ciertas similitudes con la eucaristía del cristianismo. En algún momento de la evolución del mitraísmo, se utilizó también el rito del taurobolium o bautismo de los fieles con la sangre de un toro. Se prometía la expiación de los pecados por el efecto del baño. Solo en este culto se unía al bautismo la imposición de un signo en la frente, como en la Iglesia cristiana. Los alimentos ofrecidos en el banquete eran pan y agua, pero los hallazgos arqueológicos apuntan a que se trataba de pan y vino, como en el rito cristiano. Esta ceremonia se celebraba en la parte central del mitreo, en la que dos banquetas paralelas ofrecían espacio suficiente para que los fieles pudieran tenderse, según la costumbre romana, para participar del banquete. El día sagrado del mitraísmo era el domingo, y no el sábado. El día natalicio del sol era celebrado por los mitraicos el 25 de diciembre ya que conmemoraba el nacimiento de Mitra. Los atributos del pater —máximo nivel de iniciación en el mitraísmo— eran el gorro frigio, la vara y el anillo, muy similares a la mitra, el báculo y el anillo de los obispos cristianos. Si. Por si no lo sabéis desde los primeros Padres de la Iglesia todos los obispos y papas han llevado un sombrero llamado Mitra arriba de sus cabezas. Invitados: 丂卂ㄒㄖ尺丨 ㄖ卩乇尺卂 @Satori_Opera111 ... pues haber elegido pera A veces hago #spaces , no censuro ningún credo e ideología. Todas las opiniones desde el respeto son bienvenidas …. macaco @10macaco10 de relax y en vuelo …. Niño Jeromín #EnfocandoEnPositivo @BronsonJeromin No hay más sordo que quien no quiere ver, ni más ciegos que quienes no quieren escuchar. A pesar de todo, por aquí seguimos metiendo caña... Grupo O+. …. Ira @Genes72 …. Nunkálo Zabras @NZabras ALL WAYS WHAT XING …. No pos si @sonbienviboras Mexicano, norteño, por un futuro mejor, primer Campeón de karaoke …. Dani @DanyHobbit 43 conejos. Sin ciencia no hay Conan. Topo que viene del futuro como Terminator. Ya no ratifico nada …. Pierpaolo @Perapau71 Hasta que siga la obsolecencia programada no me toqueis la moral con que los pedos de vaca son la causa de la contaminacion. #yosoytu …. Dra Yane #JusticiaParaUTP @ayec98_2 Médico y Buscadora de la verdad. Con Dios siempre! No permito q me dividan c/izq -derecha, raza, religión ni nada de la Creación. https://youtu.be/TXEEZUYd4c0 …. UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: Hilo en Twitter película "the conspiracy", la conspiración https://x.com/tecn_preocupado/status/1829445870376399247 The Conspiracy | 2012 | SUBS: russian, spanish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRUXh8Gn4KY Película "the conspiracy", la conspiración https://www.burbuja.info/inmobiliaria/threads/pelicula-the-conspiracy-la-conspiracion.2141409/ Sintonía Alfa 4x08 - Hipogeus (Hipogeos) Culto a Mitra https://www.ivoox.com/sintonia-alfa-4x08-hipogeus-hipogeos-enric-puig-audios-mp3_rf_26520071_1.html PODEMOS, LOS PITUFOS Y EL GORRO FRIGIO https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/11/27/podemos-pitufos-gorro-frigio/ Mitraísmo https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra%C3%ADsmo Los misterios de Mitra https://x.com/AmurakaHidden/status/1835514957707800983 Escaneo de iris: Empresa arriesga multa por hacer esto en Chile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6AsJ8KSkDE ………………………………………………………………………………………. Música utilizada en este podcast: Tema inicial Heros ………………………………………………………………………………………. Epílogo Ole Ole - Conspiracion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjuhCBHCGwo

Mark Tucker and Allen Firstenberg celebrate 200 episodes and four years of Two Voice Devs! In this special episode, they reflect on the journey so far, the evolution of the AI landscape, and what excites them most about the future of development. Join them as they discuss: 00:00 Four years ago... 00:10 The evolution of large language models (LLMs) and how the landscape has shifted over the past year. 03:10 The emergence of new players in the AI model space and how Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are vying for dominance. 05:30 The growing trend of smaller and locally deployable models and the future of AI development. 08:00 The ongoing quest for seamless integration of conversational AI with web experiences. 10:30 The need for a convergence of traditional NLU concepts with modern AI approaches. 11:30 The pressing need for sustainability and responsible development in the AI space. 14:00 The importance of integrating AI tools with existing methods and workflows . 16:00 An open invitation for developers to join Mark and Allen as co-hosts and share their perspectives on AI development. 18:00 A reminder that learning is at the heart of the developer experience and the importance of community. 20:00 The highlights from their favorite episodes over the past four years. 23:00 The value of connection and friendship within the developer community. 26:09 Four years ago... Don't miss this milestone episode as Two Voice Devs look back and look forward!

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Brother Mark Tucker shares his testimony of how God helped him overcome many struggles and called him to the ministry.

In this episode of Two Voice Devs, hosts Allen Firstenberg and Mark Tucker discuss Gemini, Google's latest name for its Generative AI... stuff. Originally known as separate products including Bard and Duet AI, Gemini encompasses a suite of AI tools, including chatbots, product-specific assistants, models, and APIs that developers can use for various tasks. The discussion covers how Gemini compares with offerings from other companies such as OpenAI and Microsoft, including visible similarities and differences. The show concludes by answering the question about why developers should care about this rename with a call to explore possibilities with AI tools like Gemini to let us create more natural and user-friendly interfaces. Learn more: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-update-sundar-pichai-2024/ https://blog.google/products/gemini/bard-gemini-advanced-app/ 00:04 Introduction and Catching Up 00:55 Exploring the Gemini Model 04:09 Gemini vs OpenAI: A Comparison 10:20 Understanding the Gemini Branding 12:00 The Developer's Perspective on Gemini 17:46 Closing Thoughts and Future Discussions

In this episode of Two Voice Devs, hosts Allen Firstenberg and Mark Tucker discuss the CSS Speech Module Level 1 Candidate Recommendation Draft, a standard that enables webpages to talk, developed in collaboration with the voice browser activity. They explore its features including the 'aural' box model concept, voice families, earcons and more, drawing parallels with SSML and highlight its innovative approach to web accessibility complementing screen readers. Despite acknowledging its potential, they address some of its key omissions such as phonemes and the lack of a background audio feature. 00:04 Introduction and Welcome 01:14 Exploring the Concept of Webpages Talking 03:00 Deep Dive into CSS Speech Module 03:48 Understanding the Scope of CSS Speech Module 04:27 The Evolution of Voice Interaction 05:22 Comparing CSS Speech with SSML 07:13 The Power of CSS in Voice Development 22:49 The Impact of Voice Balance Property 29:20 The Limitations of CSS Speech 39:37 The Future of CSS Speech 42:50 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

In this episode of 'Two Voice Devs', hosts Allen Firstenberg and Mark Tucker discuss updates made to Alexa Presentation Language (APL) version 2023.3. They highlight conditional imports, updates made for animations, and more, including APL support for different devices and how to "handle" backward compatibility. Learn More: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/alexa-presentation-language/apl-latest-version.html 00:08 Introduction and Welcome 00:17 Alexa Presentation Language (APL) Overview 01:02 Understanding APL and its Components 03:23 Exploring APL's Functionality and Usage 05:22 APL's Versioning Strategy and Device Compatibility 09:23 New Features in APL 2023.3: Conditional Imports 15:22 New Features in APL 2023.3: Item Insertion and Removal Commands 18:05 New Features in APL 2023.3: Control Over Scrolling and Paging 19:43 New Features in APL 2023.3: Accessibility Improvements 20:36 New Features in APL 2023.3: Frame Component Deprecation 22:23 New Features in APL 2023.3: Data Property for Sequential and Parallel Commands 25:07 New Features in APL 2023.3: Support for Variable Sized Viewports 26:47 New Features in APL 2023.3: Support for Lottie Files 28:33 New Features in APL 2023.3: String Functions and Vector Graphic Improvements 30:11 New Features in APL 2023.3: Extensions and APL Cheat Sheets 37:26 Strategies for Backwards Compatibility in APL 38:40 Conclusion and Farewell

Allen Firstenberg and Mark Tucker, hosts of Two Voice Devs, reflect on the year 2023, discussing significant changes and trends in the #VoiceFirst and #GenerativeAI industry and where their predictions from last year were accurate... or fell short. They discuss the transformation and challenges Amazon faced, gleaning predictions from hints at large language models (LLMs) from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. They also mention the shift of Voiceflow towards LLMs and recall the notion of retrieval augmented generation. 00:04 Introduction and Welcome 00:12 Reflecting on the Past Year 01:13 Amazon's Progress and Challenges 01:59 Exploring Amazon's Monetization and Widgets 08:45 Google's Journey and the End of Conversational Actions 11:53 The Rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) 17:04 The Impact of Voiceflow and Dialogflow 20:48 Closing Remarks and New Year Wishes

In our latest podcast, Ken Rundle talks to Yara's Head of Agronomy, Mark Tucker, about this year's CropTec event, why you should visit our stand and also join our ever-popular seminar looking at how we are helping growers make informed decisions about fertiliser use. 

Mark Tucker and Allen Firstenberg delve into the recent changes made by VoiceFlow. We explore how VoiceFlow, originally a design resource for Alexa Skills and Google Assistant Actions, has evolved and shifted to include chatbot roles and generative AI responses. Highlighted too are the implications of VoiceFlow's decoupling and transition to 'bot logic as a service'. We look at the necessary technical adjustments and solutions required in the aftermath of these changes, and Mark shares how he created a Jovo plugin as a hassle-free 'integration layer' for handling multiple platforms, taking advantage of Jovo's generic input output. More info: https://github.com/jovo-community/jovo4-voiceflowdialog-app 00:04 Introduction 00:54 Introducing VoiceFlow 01:44 Exploring VoiceFlow's Evolution 03:13 Understanding VoiceFlow's Changes 05:39 Explaining the VoiceFlow Integration 14:39 Discussing the VoiceFlow Dialog API 25:42 Conclusion

On this episode, Mark Tucker and Allen Firstenberg dive deep into the latest announcements by OpenAI. They discuss various developments including the launch of GPTs (collections of prompts and documents with configuration settings), the new text-to-speech model, upcoming GPT-4 Turbo, reproducible outputs, and the introduction of the Assistant API. While they express excitement for what these developments could mean for #VoiceFirst, #ConversationAI, and #GenerativeAI, they also voice concerns about discovery solutions, monetization, and the reliance on platform-based infrastructure. Tune in and join the conversation. More info: https://openai.com/blog/new-models-and-developer-products-announced-at-devday 00:04 Introduction and OpenAI Announcements Edition 00:52 Discussion on OpenAI's New Text to Speech Model 02:15 Exploring the Pricing and Quality of OpenAI's Text to Speech Model 02:52 Concerns and Limitations of OpenAI's Text to Speech Model 06:24 Introduction to GPT 4 Turbo 06:48 Benefits and Limitations of GPT 4 Turbo 09:27 Exploring the Features of GPT 4 Turbo 18:52 Introduction to GPTs and Their Potential 22:22 Concerns and Questions About GPTs 32:14 Discussion on the Assistant API 37:32 Final Thoughts and Wrap Up

In our latest podcast, Ken Rundle talks to Yara's Head of Agronomy, Mark Tucker, about crop nutrition in the autumn and how applying P and K now may not be the best option. 

In our latest episode, Ken Rundle talks to Mark Tucker, Yara's Head of Agronomy about New Season and what farmers need to be considering with the different options of fertiliser available to them. 

Is it a Jolly Rancher, or is it whiskey? Mark Tucker from Windsor Block Bar sips this flavored take on Conor McGregor's flagship whiskey and gives his honest opinion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Tucker from Windsor Block is back to review a regional whiskey from Fort Collins, Colorado. The Old Elk Port Cash Finish. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We invited Mark Tucker from the Windsor Block Bar to help us review Burning Chair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Ken Rundle talks to Mark Tucker, Yara's Head of Agronomy about nitrogen management and efficiency and how technology can help farmers plan fertilisation strategies. 

Two veteran observers of emerging markets, Surendra Rosha, Co-CEO APAC, HSBC, and Mark Tucker, HSBC Group Chairman, examine the current environment, exploring inflation, the possibility of a recession, strengths, downside risks, and more. The speakers take a deep dive into particular regions and the effects of current geopolitical events, making for a fascinating and comprehensive conversation on the subject that is not to be missed. Emerging markets spotlight is a podcast miniseries created and hosted by HSBC that seeks to explore and understand the complex and critically important issues facing the world's emerging markets. For further insight and information around emerging markets, visit Accessing Emerging Markets | HSBC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Traditionally private market opportunities have only been available to accredited investors, but the industry is reshaping, driven by retail investors seeking alternative sources of returns and a greater emphasis on investment diversification. What are the key drivers, growth opportunities and operational implications behind this trend? Dechert's Sabina Comis leads a discussion with Rothschild's Jessica Sellam and KKR's Mark Tucker on the latest developments and considerations relating to the “retail revolution” of private equity in Europe. 

In this week's episode, Ken Rundle talks to Mark Tucker, Yara's Head of Agronomy about how best to minimise risk as farmers potentially face all kinds of challenges this autumn.

In this week's episode, Ken Rundle talks to Mark Tucker, Yara's Head of Agronomy and Liam Wilkinson, Limagrain Technical Specialist to discuss what can be done to give oilseed crops the best start this autumn and grow a crop worth looking after.

The Amazon Alexa Live event for 2022 introduced a couple of dozen new features for developers, new revenue-sharing agreements, and is ushering in a new era of simultaneous voice assistants.  The Two Voice Devs, Allen Firstenberg (Google Assistant GDE) and Mark Tucker (Alexa Champion), along with Voicebot's Eric Schwartz and Bret Kinsella break down the announcements and sort through the type of impacts we can expect. 

Google announced it will be sunsetting support for third-party conversational actions–the voice apps that work with Google Assistant–in June 2023. It decided there was no point in maintaining a separate app store just for voice and it is encouraging conversational action developers to port their experiences over to Android apps. This special edition of the Voicebot Podcast showcases Allen Firstenberg and Mark Tucker, both active developers of conversational actions and other voice app experiences. Firstenberg is a GDE for Google Assistant and Mark Tucker is an Alexa Champion so both have some notable accomplishments in the space. They are both also well known in the voice developer community in part from their Two Voice Devs podcast and YouTube show. We discuss the impact on the Google Assistant and Alexa ecosystems and how this will shape the future of voice assistants. 

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In today's episode I am joined by Mark Tucker, former pro MMA fighter, the highest ranking black belt in Cornwall, a former Royal Marine, former close protection officer, and somebody who's got more black belts in more martial arts than I care to imagine. Mark is the head instructor at the Combat Athletics Academy based is Liskeard, Cornwall. In this episode we discuss his time in the Royal Marines, his introduction to BJJ, fighting pro MMA, running a mixed martial arts school and much more.

Generally, wheat and oilseed crops are looking promising and with harvest prices firming growers need to think carefully about the final nitrogen application to make sure they don't miss out on yield.  So, in this episode, Ken Rundle talks to Mark Tucker, Yara's Head of Agronomy to ask what growers can do to make sure they get the best return on their investment in nitrogen fertiliser.  

As thoughts turn to new-season planting of potatoes and field vegetables, there should be no need to remind growers of the importance, and value, of achieving top quality.  So in this episode, Ken Rundle talks to Mark Tucker and Oscar Thacker to learn more about the role of calcium and boron and to ask what growers should be doing now to improve the quality later in the season at harvest.

Live Verdure (ASX: LV1) general manager of skincare Mark Tucker joins Small Caps to discuss the company's hemp-based 8 Seeds skincare brand under development. As the former managing director of L'Oréal Australia, Mr Tucker is leading development, sales and marketing of 8 Seeds, which is a premium plant-based dermatologically focused skincare range to be sold in Australia and overseas. Under Mr Tucker's leadership, L'Oréal Australia's revenue grew from $12 million to more than $400 million.Article:https://smallcaps.com.au/live-verdure-trulife-distribution-sell-seeds-products-us-record-growth/For more information on Live Verdure:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/LV1/

With the recent focus on nitrogen prices, some growers may have overlooked the important role of sulphur in allowing plants to utilise nitrogen.  So in this episode, Ken Rundle talks to Mark Tucker, Yara UK Head of Agronomy, to remind us of the importance of sulphur today and find out how growers should plan sulphur and nitrogen applications to maximise the return on their investment in nitrogen.

The upcoming COP26 meeting is likely to have far-ranging implications for businesses across many sectors. Listen to Mark Tucker, Chair of HSBC, Nicola Brewer, NED at Iberdrola SA, and Emily Farnworth, Co-Director at the Centre for Climate Engagement, as they explore the critical role that non-executive directors and boardrooms have to play in the coming global transition. This session was hosted by Chapter Zero, an organisation dedicated to helping non-executive directors lead discussions on climate change.To find out more about HSBC's Business Plan for the Planet, click here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The upcoming COP26 meeting is likely to have far-ranging implications for businesses across many sectors. Listen to Mark Tucker, Chair of HSBC, Nicola Brewer, NED at Iberdrola SA, and Emily Farnworth, Co-Director at the Centre for Climate Engagement, as they explore the critical role that non-executive directors and boardrooms have to play in the coming global transition. This session was hosted by Chapter Zero, an organisation dedicated to helping non-executive directors lead discussions on climate change.To find out more about HSBC's Business Plan for the Planet, click here Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, "Art and Soul" is about the performance arts. WEMU's Lisa Barry talks with Ann Arbor artist and University of Michigan lecturer Mark Tucker and one of his students, Nia Rae' Echols. They've been creating light-up, performance-type visual art for a "pop-up" art event Friday night, October 28th in Ann Arbor.

The fertiliser market is dramatic, to say the least at present. Many growers have questions about what's going on and wondering what they should do.  So in this episode, Ken Rundle talks to Mark Tucker, Yara UK Head of Marketing and Agronomy and Natalie Wood Yara's chief arable agronomist, to discuss the reasons behind market volatility and to ask how growers should adapt their fertiliser programmes to manage costs while still maximising the economic returns.

Because of recent volatile nutrient prices, some growers may be questioning phosphate and potash applications.  So in this episode, Ken Rundle talks to Mark Tucker, Yara UK Head of Agronomy, to ask the reasons behind this volatility and find out how growers should adapt their fertiliser programmes to manage costs but avoid damaging soil fertility or losing yield.

This episode is a little different. Roger was interviewed by the Two Voice Devs podcast a couple of weeks ago. In this podcast within a podcast, Roger's interview by Mark Tucker and Allen Firstenberg, of Two Voice Devs, is embedded within the Bixby Developers Chat podcastBecause of vacations, the regular Bixby Developers Chat format will be back in about a monthRoger and Mark Tucker DiscussRoger's tech background and how he got into voiceRoger's work for Samsung as a Bixby Developer EvangelistHow Bixby Development is differentCross platform voice development and tools like JovoThe Open Voice Network, what it is, and what work Roger is doing for it.If you are not subscribed to the excellent Two Voice Devs podcast, you should subscribe today. It's available on your favorite podcast player/voice assistant or on the web at:anchor.fm/two-voice-devsLinks from the ShowTwo Voice Dev's Podcast - anchor.fm/two-voice-devsGetting Started with Bixby Development - bixbydevelopers.comKeeping in TouchMark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuckerm/Mark on Twitter: @marktuckerAllen  on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/allen-s-firstenberg-950130/Allen on Twitter - @afirstenbergRoger on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/rkibbe/Roger on Twitter - @rogerkibbeHost: Roger Kibbe(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for SamsungEpisodesAll Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:bixbydev.buzzsprout.comMore about BixbySamsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopersBixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopersBixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopersBixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/Support the show (https://www.bixbydevelopers.com)

Now that this season's potato crop is in the ground and hopefully starting to emerge it is a good time to check on its nutritional requirements.  In this episode, Ken Rundle talks to Mark Tucker, Yara's Head of Agronomy to discuss how nutrition can influence not just the yield but also the quality and return from the crop.

Between 2 Wheels Podcast: Cycling News, Commentary, and Analysis from NorCal; Host Tyler Janke, Curt Mills and Chris Flower. Episode 236 - Today we analyze a criterium video from Mark Tucker and Shaun Bagley during the Chowchilla Crit where Mike Sayers and Tucker go head to head. We also cover the start of the Giro. #MikeSayers​ #MarkTucker​ #B2WPodcast​ EP 236 video on Facebook EP 236 video on YouTube Subscribe to our Podcast YouTube Channel.  Give us a rating and comment on iTunes, Stitcher, Overcast.fm, GooglePlay or Podbean IHEART Radio and now also on Tunein Subscribe on Android Follow and share us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/between2wheels/ Find us on twitter @b2w_podcast or Email: admin@between2wheels.com Website: www.between2wheels.com

Fox 2 News Elliott Davis joins Brian Kelly to preview tonight's report on the St. Louis County Council's effort to replace county state auditor Mark Tucker. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Roger talks with voice development expert and thought leader Allen Firstenberg.Allen is a developer and project manager for Objective Consulting and is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for many Google products. Allen slso co-hosts with Mark Tucker, the must listen to Two Voice Devs podcast.Allen and Roger discuss:What Objective Consulting doesWhy companies should be building a voice presence now and how a voice presence can be a competitive advantageWhat is a Google Developer Expert and how one becomes a GDE? And how important developer relations and "super developers" like GDE's are to technology companiesAllen's history of working with voiceThe promise, the success, and the failure of Google Glass and lessons learned that are relevant todayVodo Drive: Allen's creation which allows reading and writing to spreadsheets via voice and the promise it holdsVoice in businessTrue personalization in voice, putting the capital "A" in assistantThe Two Voice Devs podcastSamsung's vision for voice and the promise it holdsTruly contextually sensitive voice assistants and the futurePredictions for voice in the near term and longer termAllen's favorite voice experiences. . . and much moreLinks from the ShowObjective Consulting - spiders.com Vodo Drive - vodo-drive.comTwo Voice Devs Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWYqZpPY2U_wn2P72FUpBA andhttps://anchor.fm/two-voice-devsKeeping in TouchAllen on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/allen-s-firstenberg-950130/Allen on Twitter - twitter.com/afirstenbergHost: Roger Kibbe(@rogerkibbe) is a senior developer evangelist for Viv Labs/SamsungEpisodesAll Bixby Developers Chat Episodes available on your favorite podcast player and at:bixbydev.buzzsprout.comMore about BixbySamsung Bixby is a next-generation, AI platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational AI experiences for the Bixby Marketplace, and Bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more.Bixby Developers Homepage - https://bixbydevelopers.com/Bixby Developers Github - https://github.com/bixbydevelopersBixby Developers YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/bixbydevelopersBixby Developers Twitter - twitter.com/BixbyDevelopersBixby Developers Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BixbyDevelopers/Bixby Developer News/Blogs - https://bixby.developer.samsung.com/Support the show (https://www.bixbydevelopers.com)

Between 2 Wheels Podcast: Cycling News, Commentary, and Analysis from NorCal; Host Tyler Janke, Curt Mills and Chris Flower. Episode 223 - Is Mark Tucker the only person racing in the USA? It seems like it. He joins us to give an update on his cross-country trip to do a race. We discuss his racing in 2021, improving race IQ, crit positioning and overall enjoyment of bike racing. EP 223 video on FacebookEP 223 video on YouTubeSubscribe to our Podcast YouTube Channel.  Give us a rating and comment on iTunes, Stitcher, Overcast.fm, GooglePlay or Podbean IHEART Radio and now also on Tunein Subscribe on Android Follow and share us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/between2wheels/Find us on twitter @b2w_podcast or Email: admin@between2wheels.comWebsite: www.between2wheels.com

In the second part, Bethanie Mayo joins us along with Mark Tucker to give a full ride along her wonderful year, and as special as the first part was, the heart can't help but smile on this one.https://www.facebook.com/talkaboutitoutdoorshttps://linktr.ee/talkaboutitoutdoorshttps://www.instagram.com/talk_about_it_outdoors/https://swisupreme.comHunting, outdoors, fishing, turkey, camoflauge, camping, deer, tactics, southeast, campfire, bowhunting, 

Episode 14 is better than we could have imagined, and gets better with each minute. Coty Mayo and his beautiful family along with friend Mark Tucker join us in studio for a revving good time, as well as a full feel of this past years hunting. Where they came from, where they are going, and tales from the lovely Mayo girls give us all the laughs and heartfelt stories we could handle.https://www.facebook.com/talkaboutitoutdoorshttps://linktr.ee/talkaboutitoutdoorshttps://www.instagram.com/talk_about_it_outdoors/https://swisupreme.comHunting, outdoors, fishing, turkey, camoflauge, camping, deer, tactics, southeast, campfire, bowhunting, 

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During our QuakeCon At Home Community Showcase, he we had the great  pleasure of sitting down with Bethesda's Mark Tucker and Ferret Baudoin  to for an in-depth interview about Wastelanders, the future of PVP,  what's next for CAMPS and more. Here is the full interview we only had  time to show you a portion of at QuakeCon! Audiobooks.com - Get 3 FREE audiobooks (2 VIP!) https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100173810-11099382?sid=fhub Get 15% off Lootcrate! Use the link: https://www.tkqlhce.com/click-100173810-13902093?sid=fhub And the code: ROBOTSRADIO ABOUT THE FALLOUT HUB: Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefallouthub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefallouthubpodcast/ Website: https://robotsradio.net/ Email: thefallouthubpodcast@gmail.com FOLLOW MR ROBOTS: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRtCSeN1UrmgTvZiRkMPeHw Twitter: https://twitter.com/robots_radio Fallout Lorecast: https://anchor.fm/fallout-lorecast FOLLOW KENNETH VIGUE: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4NZlzYR8taNHr_WCaxUyCA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fchadfallout76 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/chadfallout76podcast CHAD: A Fallout 76 Story Podcast: https://anchor.fm/fallout76podcast FOLLOW DAVE CHAFINZ: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa7VnQCroPQ-A54gjwFokRg Twitter: https://twitter.com/MysteryTimeLive Mystery Time Live: https://anchor.fm/mystery-time-live/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-fallout-hub/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features Jennifer Powers and Mark Tucker discussing the peaks and valleys of life and how it's only the difficult times that give us the perspective we need to achieve times of happiness. For more information and additional resources, please visit our MI University webpage.

To Peat or Not to Peat     @Benromach ‏  @TheBourbonMafia @FineSpirits_FL Co hosts : Good ol Boy Harmeet, Good ol Boy Justin, Made Man Maury, Made Man Brent, and Made Man Bob SIPS Episode – A distillery takeover featuring Benromach Single Malt Scotch. Possibly the worst fake Scottish accent ever on this episode. Harm learns a sense of time and size from the rest of the cast. Any show with the words Brent and peat are always entertaining.  We cover a good lineup of products that you can find widely available:   Benromach Organic SIPS - 3 Benromach 10 SIPS – 3 Benromach 10 Imperial SIPS -4 Benromach 15 SIPS-4 Benromach Peat Smoke SIPS -4     Sips, Suds, & Smokes™ info@sipssudsandsmokes.com @sipssudssmoke Sips, Suds, & Smokes™ is produced by One Tan Hand Productions using the power of beer, whiskey, and golf. Hosted online at Spreaker and available on iTunes, Google Play, PRX, TuneIn, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and YouTube. Our thanks to Mark Tucker for providing the product samples for this episode.   and also presented by Fine Spirits Wine & Liquors, home of the Enomatic machines. www.finespirits.net       The Bourbon Mafia is a fraternal organization of whiskey aficionados.   Enjoying that cool new Outro Music, it's from Woods & Whitehead – Back Roads Download your copy here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/woodswhitehead2      You can now download our Android app to enjoy the show anytime on your Android device.

Samantha Ravich hosts a cyber warfare conference featuring Mike Rogers, Juan Zarate, Steven Chabinsky, Mark Dubowitz, Michael Hsieh, and Mark Tucker.