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Dimes and Judas discuss Trump holding the President of South Africa to account for all the murdered Whites, James Comey announcing a new false flag with weird seashell math, and a tour through the failed scammers Dimes has known in his life. After discovering a study showing most English majors in college can't read properly, they swing into a review of the book “Stalin's War: A New History of World War II” by Sean McMeekin. An exhaustive exploration of Stalin's agitation of international conflict for the Soviet Union's benefit, it lays out a model for international relations that explains the role of Communism in the 20th century as much more realistically antagonistic. Lastly, on this edition of The Copepranos Society, Dimes welcomes back Clossington to discuss Alexander Hamilton, the Mingo Creek Association, and the violent history of taxes in America. Timestamps: 00:34 – Lesbian Backrooms 01:22 – Judas Never Wants to Make Money on a Handshake 02:46 – Fat Scammer Moron Dimes Used to Know 08:11 – Blithering Scammer Gugu Dimes Used to Know 12:31 – Patrick Bet David's Painting: Revisited and Reinterpreted 20:40 – Dimes Has an Obsessive Gay Krassenstein-Loving Rapist 24:50 - Guy Alert: The Liberal Who Says If He Was Gay, He Would Be The Gayest 26:12 – American History X is 20 Minutes Long 30:09 – Gay Black Satanism is Preferable to Hitler? 32:16 – James Comey Alerts to a False Flag With Seashells 38:13 – Trump Holds South African President to Account for White Genocide 44:17 – Most College English Majors Can't Read 58:29 – Blood $atellite Show News, Discussing Rich Hanania's Age of Consent Article 1:13:40 – “Stalin's War” Discussion Begins 1:19:11 – Staling was Not an Aberration in the History of Soviet Leaders 1:25:29 – The Red Army and Soviet International as an Offensive Force 1:33:58 – The Nature of War is Everyone's Getting Raped and Shot 1:38:25 – The Class-Against-Class Doctrine and Exporting Revolution 1:44:19 – Soviet Lebensraum 1:46:18 – Roosevelt Bullied by Stalin 1:53:10 – Stalin Refuses the Tripartite Act Unless Given All The Land 1:56:05 – The Lend/Lease Program that Saved the Soviet Conquest 2:01:06 – America was Already Infiltrated by Communist Agents Directing Action 2:05:01 - Discussions on How Much to Brutalize Germany 2:13:31 – Clossington Interview Begins

The belief that it's preferable for America to develop AGI before China does seems widespread among American effective altruists. Is this belief supported by evidence, or it it just patriotism in disguise? How would you try to convince an open-minded Chinese citizen that it really would be better for America to develop AGI first? Such a person might point out: Over the past 30 years, the Chinese government has done more for the flourishing of Chinese citizens than the American government has done for the flourishing of American citizens. My village growing up lacked electricity, and now I'm a software engineer! Chinese institutions are more trustworthy for promoting the future flourishing of humanity. Commerce in China ditches some of the older ideas of Marxism because it's the means to an end: the China Dream of wealthy communism. As AGI makes China and the world extraordinarily wealthy, we are [...] --- First published: February 22nd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MxPhK4mLRkaFekAmp/how-confident-are-you-that-it-s-preferable-for-america-to --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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Thank you to Amicus: Search and Recruitment for Sponsoring this episode. To find your next Finance or Accounting Role, head to https://amicus.ie/ and tell them that we sent you!*****In this episode, Paula talks about the different tax considerations related to Share Buybacks for companies, and the reliefs available when a company deftly manages whether CGT or Income Tax is required in each scenario.Topics Covered:Overview of Share BuybackGeneral explanation of share buyback.Context in exams - a case study where a company buys back shares.Income Tax vs. Capital Gains Tax (CGT) TreatmentDefault treatment as an income tax event under schedule F.Preferable treatment as a CGT event and why (lower tax rate at 33%, CGT reliefs).Conditions for CGT TreatmentThe company must be a trading company or a holding company of a subsidiary.Shares must be in an unquoted company.Shares must have been held for five years by an Irish resident individual.Redemption must be for the benefit of trade.Substantial reduction in the shareholder's interest (25% reduction, shares 30% or less post-redemption).Examiner's IndicatorsRecognizing share buyback questions in exam cases (e.g., shareholders not getting along, detrimental to the company).Tax Reliefs for Qualifying ShareholdersEntrepreneurial relief and retirement relief.Potential to pay no tax on share buyback.Treatment for Non-Qualifying ShareholdersTaxed under schedule F.Tax calculation: agreed buyback price minus nominal value of shares.Rate of tax at marginal rate.Withholding tax at 25% by the company.Special ConsiderationsDistinction from close company transactions.Capital loss for those taxed under income tax.Company's Perspective on Share BuybackPotential stamp duty liability.No stamp duty if shares are converted to redeemable preference shares first.Thank you for listening to Study For Tax in your Coffee Break! If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to leave a rating and review on your Podcast platform and share it with others to let them know you enjoyed the podcast.If you'd like to purchase the books from which the content of this podcast is made, head to https://paulabyrne.ie/tax-books/.Thank you to Matthew Bliss for editing and production of this episode. If you'd like him to edit your podcast, send an email to business@mbpod.com or head to https://www.mbpod.com/.#taxation #CGT #incometax #ireland #paulabyrne #stampduty #accounting

In this new conversation at the Review of Democracy, Adam Kirsch – author of the new book On Settler Colonialism. Ideology, Violence, and Justice – discusses the ideology of settler colonialism and how it leads idealists into morally disastrous territory; reflects on whether the application of this ideology to the State of Israel should be viewed as continuing the long, highly problematic tradition of antisemitism; considers whether there are valuable elements in this ideology that would be worth salvaging; and suggests preferable ways to think about the traditions of the oppressed. Adam Kirsch is a poet and literary critic.  He is an editor of The Wall Street Journal's weekend Review section and the author of a host of significant books that include The Blessing and the Curse. The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century as well as The Revolt Against Humanity. Imagining a Future Without Us. On Settler Colonialism. Ideology, Violence, and Justice has been published by W.W. Norton.  

Following on the previous UnMind series of three segments on aging, sickness and death, the Three Marks of Buddhism's worldview, we will expand our scope to the broader world of international conflict, characteristic of our modern world, where Buddhism's three conditions of existence are also manifested, if in a more universal form. Traditional definitions of these basic aspects of life are universal in scope: impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and no-self (Skt. anicca, dukkha, anatta). We can see clearly that in today's world, these givens of existence are not warmly embraced on the social level in America, let alone on national or global levels, which surely follows from their avoidance on the personal level. Beginning with Buddhism's “compassionate teaching” – the Dharma – we find that along with the three marks of aging, sickness and death, Buddha promulgated the “Three Poisons,” usually rendered as “greed, anger or hatred, and delusion or folly.” What a witch's brew is conjured, when we mix the six ingredients together. In the context of aging, greed becomes the longing for longevity, the overreliance on meds to avoid the ravages of illness, and extravagant, catastrophic efforts at prolonging life at all costs. Anger and hatred arise when we are denied the ability to forestall aging, when we are overcome by a pandemic, and when we blame widespread death and destruction on others. Delusion and folly ensue when we act on our mistaken beliefs, attacking others for the natural consequences of our collective and individual actions. The unexpected consequences threaten us all, whether in our dotage or full-flowering youth, with the Four Horsemen – plagues, famine, and the predations of war, and not necessarily in that order. Just who is to blame for this situation and how can we hold them accountable? In the worldview of Zen, everything, including charity, begins at home. To quote Master Pogo Possum, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” The first embrace of reality is to “study the self.” The second is to “forget the self,” as Master Dogen reminds us in his famous teaching, Genjokoan–Actualizing the Fundamental Point.Actualizing the fundamental point of existence requires that we embrace our own aging, sickness and death – the close-up-and-personal reality of impermanence, imperfection and insubstantiality, including our precious self – while recognizing that greed, anger and delusion are fueling the fires of discontent, leading to blaming others for our personal predicament. Sometimes, others are to blame for making things worse, of course, just as we are to blame for making their world more crowded. Stop the world and let me get off. Would it were so simple. The blame game can range from blaming our parents for our birth, on one extreme, to blaming those others most distantly related to us by blood. I read somewhere that the furthest removed any human being can be from any other human, biologically speaking, is something like 26th cousin, if memory serves. One wonders, with the growth in population, whether that tenuous kinship is getting closer, or further apart, as time goes by, with 8 billion people and counting. I also read of a laboratory experiment, some years back, where they used the classic maze of rats to find out what happens when you simply keep adding rats to the maze, without letting any escape. At one point of increasing density, the rats begin attacking each other. They “blame” the others for their own discomfort, apparently. The analogy to human population should not be lost on anyone. The anxiety and outright hostility associated with immigration on a global basis is too obvious a parallel to ignore. Or we can aim all of our blame at the political system, or the candidate du jour. Now that the “debate of the century” has landed with a thud, the rats are having a hard time deciding which of the two leaders of the rat pack is most at fault. Much of the anger and hysteria we witness on ideological and political fronts of the public discourse seems motivated by underlying fears, exacerbated by perceived worsening conditions, including density of population. The identified “foreigners” – bringing unintelligible languages, peculiar cultural customs, and bizarre belief systems – induce anxiety, stereotyping and suspicion amongst native populations, triggering the threat of the privileged being “replaced” by them in the great scheme of things. This probably arises from a tribal, protective social instinct, linked to the survival of “our kind.” Hyped to the max by political opportunists, into the bargain. But on a more personal level, this anxiety, amplified by mob hysteria, surely finds its origin in the triple threat of aging, sickness and death, that is inborn with each individual. Birth is the leading cause of death, after all, like it or not. This perceived threat, however irrational, is tied to what biologists call the survival instinct, or imperative. Reality is not a respecter of persons. But biology is designed to privilege survival of the species over all comers, adapting to ever-changing circumstances. Natural and artificial changes in context often outpace and outmaneuver biology, engendering threats to survival, to cycles of “extinction panic,” or to actual extinction of the species, potentially including humanity. Cultural evolution – our ability to pass on technological advances to the next generation, and their ability to further improve on their cultural inheritance – is ensconced in the social sphere. But it likewise runs into trouble when it is not agile enough to keep up with the rate of change of conditions to which it is adapting, in the natural and universal spheres. Such as climate change. Aye, there's the rub. “Survival of the fittest” is the shorthand catchphrase for dumbing down Darwin's elegant and complex theory on the “Origin of Species.” To find a cogent example of society's collective resistance to this notion that we privilege the fit, we need look no further than the recruiting, drafting and conscription of young men and women – the “fittest” – into the modern military – the main mechanism oriented to societal survival – across the globe. Civilian leaders, and those at higher command levels, manage to keep a safe distance from the front lines, so as to return to fight another day, one assumes. But the survival of the oldest is not Nature's way. It is not natural to put younger members of the species at risk to protect older members. Witness the wolf pack. This biological imperative dictates an age-related triage, protecting those most likely to survive, to survive longer, and to reproduce. Yet humans do the opposite in wartime, and did it again in the face of the pandemic, by sending younger first responders into the fray, while protecting elderly and senior leaders through isolation, quarantine and access to medical care. Notwithstanding how miserable a failure that effort turned out to be, the point is still well-taken. Of course, from a practical perspective, the young provide the necessary numbers, and the vitality, needed on the frontlines. Even if senior members of society were willing to take point in crisis conditions, the question would be whether or not they are able to. Setting aside such considerations of the neurotic societal implications of turning younger generations into cannon and virus fodder, what will it take to finally bring about world peace? Can we beat our swords into plowshares, turn intercontinental ballistic missiles into spaceships, cyberwar into cyberfun? The current national debate is styled as a contest between democratic governance “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” striving toward a “more perfect union” of the republic; versus power elites exerting autocratic control over a hopelessly divided populace. The appeal of the latter is understandable for the “haves,” those who already enjoy a relative elite status of economic and social privilege. They stand to come out on top, liberated from the messy business of compromise with those on the bottom end of income equality. Likewise, the uneasiness of the “have-nots” is easy to understand. They see themselves as already victimized by the unlevel playing field, touted as equal opportunity for all. This, it would seem, is the real wall that is being built, not on the border, but right down the middle of the country. Its building blocks consist of the institutions installed by the founding fathers, rearranged to reassert the original privilege of white, land-owning males. But is all this – the daily fare being served up by the media and opposing forces – really the root of the problem? Whether or not we believe in an eternal soul, or reincarnation, as did the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Hindus, or resurrection, as do modern Christians, we finally come to face our mortality, in person. In Zen, the only mate who will accompany us to the grave is our deeds. Whatever wealth, honor, or powers of reasoning we have accumulated in managing and manipulating the vagaries of behavior and vicissitudes of fortunes encountered in life, they serve us little in the face of death. The same may be said of family, though better to die surrounded by loved ones than alone, or surrounded by hostiles, I suppose. On the cushion we sit “without relying on anything” as Master Dogen reminds us in his version of “Needle for Zazen (Zazenshin),” including all the tricks, trash and trinkets we have assembled in our toolkit. Try as we might to think our way to enlightenment, or to reason ourselves into insight, we find ourselves failing again and again. Finally we must surrender to the chaos of not knowing, and abandon reliance on reason itself, spawn of philosophy and the other kind of Enlightenment. We find verification of our practice in “making effort without aiming at it.” Needless to say, this is a very uncomfortable place to find ourselves, at a pass that is not really negotiable, in any ordinary sense. All the stages of grief prove futile in the face of the relentless process and progress of biology. We need to confront reality when we are young and vigorous, as in “Stamp life and death on your forehead, and never let it out of your mind,” paraphrasing a truth long lost to attribution. Life takes its meaning in the context of death. If you find that too morbid, just imagine what life would be like if we did not die. Its meaning would be entirely different, and not entirely positive. When the grim reaper arrives, we may want to embrace her / his relentless, unsympathetic and unforgiving scythe, as being not at all different from the sword of Manjusri, hopefully cutting through our final delusions. Just as hopefully, the passing pageantry of life, particularly the concurrent social-political dimension, will have little or nothing to do with the circumstances surrounding the last breath we take. Preferable to die on the cushion, of course. * * *Elliston Roshi is guiding teacher of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and abbot of the Silent Thunder Order. He is also a gallery-represented fine artist expressing his Zen through visual poetry, or “music to the eyes.”UnMind is a production of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center in Atlanta, Georgia and the Silent Thunder Order. You can support these teachings by PayPal to donate@STorder.org. Gassho.Producer: Shinjin Larry Little

On this episode of The Blue Crew, Jonny Lazarus, Avery Zaretsky and Cody Frankel talk about Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final and what the New York Rangers need to fix. Then, they welcome on former Ranger, Sean Avery who shares his concerns on why Matt Rempe needs to be in the lineup for Game 2.

The DEA is likely to change its federal designation for cannabis in the coming months. It's a good sign for research and for the ability of Americans to receive medical treatments involving the plant, but descheduling and ending federal prohibition is still a worthy goal. Jeff Singer explains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TSN Edmonton Bureau Reporter and Got Yer Back Podcast Host Ryan Rishaug joined OverDrive to discuss Connor McDavid's lower-body injury and the team's approach as the season winds down, the Oilers' potential playoff matchup, the depth focus on the blue line and more.

Monday, March 11, was my birthday, as I mentioned in the last segment of UnMind. Wednesday, March 27th, happens to be my late brother's birthday. So in his honor, let us continue exploring the theme of Time — its seeming passage and constant presence. He was a professional jazz pianist and teacher of music, and so was fully immersed in time. Once upon a time, while discussing time signatures in music, such as four-four time, three-four time — the familiar waltz tempo — and so on, he leaned toward me, a mischievous smile on his face, saying that, “You know, there is also ‘one-one' time” – counting off with his forefinger: “One-one-one-one.” He and I had many such dialogs at the intersection of music theory and Zen thinking. He has since passed on, sitting in with that great jazz combo in the sky. I bet he draws a crowd. (Some of the material in what follows originally appeared as my Dharma Byte of the month, titled “Swords into Plowshares,” in 2020, when the pandemic was in full swing.) In that message, and at that time, I made the point that privileging the survival of the oldest is not Nature's way; it is usually the survival of the fittest. It is not natural to put younger members of the species at unreasonable risk, in order to protect the older members. This goes against the natural order, as we witness in survival strategies of wildlife, as well as in social structures of the earliest human tribes. The survival of the species dictates age-related triage, in favor of those most likely to survive, to live longer, and to reproduce. Exceptions always arise to prove the rule; Nature is not simple. Yet humans reverse this natural logic, in wartime as in the example of the military draft, as well as in recruiting methods for police officers and firefighters. People in their late teens and early twenties often enter into dangerous occupations, in service to the larger community. Those who study such things tell us that neurological networks, including the brain, are not yet fully formed at that age, recognition and fear of mortality typically arising about the mid-twenties, when the brain finishes wiring, as we say. We were doing it again in the face of the pandemic, sending younger first responders into the fray, while protecting elderly and senior members by isolating and quarantining them. I have reported on my own encounter with COVID 19, which dragged out for the better part of a year, beginning with a three-month up-and-down sickbed recuperation from congestion and other flu-like symptoms, followed by slow recovery of lost strength, flexibility, balance, energy, and the kind of “brain fog” associated with “long covid,” the lingering effects on the nervous system. As part of that recovery, I developed an aggressive approach to the sitting posture and its relationship to the breathing process of Zen meditation, as well as to walking meditation, with its focus on physical balance. At about the time I began returning to morning meditation sessions, the new era of private billionaire space exploration was heating up, with more frequent launches than ever seen in the history of NASA. Perhaps this was a subliminal prompt to my beginning to count my breaths down to zero, in contrast to the usual counting up from one to four or more, and avoid counting beyond ten, as are common recommendations in Zen. With an initial, deep inhalation, I would hold the breath for a count of eight or so, while doing a full-body crunch, tensing the core muscle groups, as well as my newly stiffened legs, and weakened arms and shoulders. With the exhalation, I would intone “nine,” then “eight” for the next cycle, and so on, down to “one,” and finally, “zero.” After repeating this pattern for a half-dozen times or so, I would settle more quickly and deeply into the period, while the counting and muscular effort naturally subsided. A curious thing began to happen each time I would reach zero in the count. By then, my breath would have slowed to five or so cycles per minute, and I could feel my heartbeat. So I found myself counting my heartbeat, instead of my breath. Or rather, noticing how many heartbeats accompanied each cycle of breath. The heartbeat is clearly the metronome of our instrument, the body. And number, or counting, is clearly fundamental to our worldview, intrinsic to all design thinking and measurement, and basic to Zen's nondualism: “leaping aside from the one and the many,” as Master Dogen reminds us. As my breath slowed to a lower, slower tempo, my pulse also slowed, synchronizing with the breath. This resulted in a profound degree of stillness in both posture and breath, as well as fixed gaze, affecting my overall sphere of attention, reminding me of Matsuoka-roshi's comment that the “real zazen” is manifested when the posture, breath and attention all come together in a “unified way.” And that it feels as if you are “pushing the crown of your head against the ceiling” — “mountain-still” stability. I began to feel that unification viscerally, encompassing the apparent “outside” and “inside” dimensions of awareness. Familiar, but more intense than ever before. I call this “returning to zero.” There are many phrases in the lexicon of Zen that seem to be pointing to this same kind of experiential phenomenon, such as Master Dogen's “backward step”; the ancient phrase “Shi-kan” meaning something like “stopping and seeing”; the “shamatha-vippasana” pairing of insight meditation; et cetera. The process of letting go — primarily of our own preconceptions, interpretations, and opinions of direct, sensory experience; and by extension, of our concepts and constructions of the world, trying to explain this reality to ourselves — seems inherent in all major systems of cultivating realization. That the method is so quintessentially physical, is what is striking about the Zen approach to just sitting still enough, straight enough, for long enough. The idea, or concept, of “zero” has philosophical and psychological implications as well. The common trope of the “zero-sum game” is a case in point. The definition online: A zero-sum game is one in which no wealth is created or destroyed. So, in a two-player zero-sum game, whatever one player wins, the other loses. Therefore, the players share no common interests. There are two general types of zero-sum games: those with perfect information and those without. This amounts to another version of the meme: that if there are winners, there must be losers, so there can be no actual win-win. This ignorant assumption unfortunately informs much of what passes for political discourse, and socially conservative ideology.I refer you to the lectures of R. Buckminster Fuller for a fuller exposition of the limitations of the view that there is not enough to go around, and the survival of the fittest means that we must, above all, ensure that we get ours, to hell with the losers. Such innovations as the guaranteed minimum income are beginning to crack the facade of this fundamental error. The last line, concerning the dual nature of the zero-sum game being dependent upon “perfect information,” may provide a clue as to how the notion of winning and losing connects — or doesn't — to the personal practice-experience of Zen. Beyond a direct “return to zero” — the personal dimension of awareness on the cushion — there is a returning to zero on the social level, as well as within the natural and universal spheres. In his rephrase of a Ch'an poem, Zazenshin, meaning something like “lancet” or “needle” of zazen, Master Dogen wraps up the penultimate stanza with: The intimacy without defilement is dropping off without relying on anything.
The verification beyond distinction between Absolute and Relative is making effort without aiming at it. This experience of “intimacy without defilement” is the zero sum point of zazen: nothing to be gained and nothing lost; nothing excluded and nothing extraneous, nothing to share with others – it is too intimate, too close in time and space. The fact that at this point we cannot rely on anything, is another aspect of Zen's “zero” sum. We sit “without relying on anything” as Master Dogen reminds us, including all the tricks and trinkets we have painstakingly assembled in our toolkit. Our toolkit is exhausted, the tools we usually rely on, relatively or absolutely useless. “Absolute and Relative” constitute one of the last resorts of dualistic thinking; the fundamental bifurcation of “truth” in Buddhism is usually stated as absolute truth versus relative truth. So this “verification” must be of a different order altogether, one that is immeasurable. So far beyond any measurement, is this realization — though there is continuing effort, it is no longer aiming at anything. This means that there is ultimately nothing of significance to gain or lose in relationships in the social sphere, nor do we have to distort our relationship to biology, our connection to the resources of Natural ecology. In terms of resolving the Great Matter of life and death, we can embrace the inevitability of aging, sickness and death as the central koan — one that comes bundled with birth — the illogical riddle of existence itself. We no longer have to rely on life, itself. Here and now, we arrive at the final zero-sum game. Whether or not we believe in an eternal soul, and its resurrection, as do modern Christians; or in reincarnation, as did the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Hindus; or rebirth as taught by Buddha, as a corrective to reincarnation; we finally come to face our mortality close-up and personal. It is natural, and universal, whatever its interpretation by the social milieu in which we find ourselves. According to an old Zen metaphor, the only “mate” who will accompany us to the grave, is our deeds. Whatever wealth, honor, power, or powers of reasoning we may have accumulated in managing and manipulating the vagaries of fate and vicissitudes of fortune encountered in life, they serve us little in the face of death. Try as we might to think our way to enlightenment, or to reason ourselves into insight, we find ourselves failing again and again. Finally, we must surrender to the chaos of not knowing, and abandon our reliance on reason itself — spawn of philosophy and that other kind of Enlightenment, the triumph of reasoning over belief. Instead, we find verification of our Zen practice in “making effort without aiming at it.” Needless to say, this is a very uncomfortable place to find oneself, at a pass that is not really negotiable, in any ordinary sense. Paraphrasing Seikan Hasegawa, a Rinzai master, from The Cave of Poison Grass, he reminds us that putting off confrontation with this particular koan of aging, until we find ourselves on the death-bed, is futile: “like eating soup with a fork.” We need to confront this koan when we are young and vigorous — “Stamp life and death on your forehead, never letting it out of your mind” — another Zen pearl of wisdom long lost to attribution. Life takes its meaning in the context of death. If you find that too morbid, just imagine what life would be like if we did not die: Its meaning would be entirely different, and not entirely positive. When the grim reaper arrives, we may want to embrace her relentless, unforgiving and unsympathetic scythe, as being no different from the sword of Manjusri, cutting through our final delusion. Preferable to die on the cushion, of course. As Kosho Uchiyama reminds us, our whole world is born, and dies, with us. “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” In contemplating our inevitable demise as a loss of something, we have to remember that it amounts to returning to where we came from, a kind of null hypothesis that the effect we are dreading is not measurable, or sums to zero: In scientific research, the null hypothesis is the claim that the effect being studied does not exist. Note that the term "effect" here is not meant to imply a causative relationship. That last caveat calls to mind the famous Zen koan concerning Baizhang, or Hyakujo, and the fox. The point goes to the question of whether or not an enlightened person would be subject to, or free from, the law of causality. The ancient master responds: “Free from,” and is condemned to be reborn as a fox for five hundred (fox) lifetimes. Baizhang kindly corrects his confusion with something like: “One with causality” or “We do notignore causality,” which liberates the old man. If we fear death — or, conversely, seek it out; fearing life, instead — we have made an assumption that we know what life is, but do not know what death is; or, conversely, that we prefer death over life; or vice-versa. Either side of this formula ignores the fact that the overall equation inevitably sums to zero. I came across a pamphlet titled “The 11th Hour,” in my brother's hospice care clinic, wherein its Christian, female author clarified: Birth is the death of whatever precedes it; death is the birth of whatever follows” — refreshingly without bothering to define the “whatever.” In the next segment — speaking of zero-sum games — we will return to pick up the monthly thread of “Election Year Zen,” now that we have surpassed Super Tuesday, in this year's endless campaign cycle. This, too, is the Dharma.* * * Elliston Roshi is guiding teacher of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and abbot of the Silent Thunder Order. He is also a gallery-represented fine artist expressing his Zen through visual poetry, or “music to the eyes.”UnMind is a production of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center in Atlanta, Georgia and the Silent Thunder Order. You can support these teachings by PayPal to donate@STorder.org. Gassho.Producer: Shinjin Larry Little

Would you rather build your life on what's preferable or reliable? What if we could have both?

I talk about my migration from Adobe Photoshop Elements to digiKam as photo catalog software, or DAM Digital Asset Management as it often is referred to nowadays. My latest was release 14 which I bought 2015, which also was when I migrated from Windows to macOS. Photoshop Elements is without hesitation a good software. One major drawback is that is a proprietary software from which I cannot export data on my conditions. After a few of years on release 14 the geotagging stopped working. The error message told that this was caused by a change by Google. Adobe Photoshop Elements had a fix for this error - but only incorporated in the next release of the software. No fix was planned for my release. So to get geotagging working again, I would have to buy a new release. I also got problem that it now and then crashed and needed to be restarted. Something needed to be done. I considered if I should buy a new release of Photoshop Elements or change to any other software. At the same time I also became more attracted to Linux. I also became more interested in free and open software. A big drawback with changing to something else than Adobe is that I most certainly will loose some of the work I have put into photos in Photoshop Elements. The Photo editing data and raw conversion settings for individual photos will be lost. This is almost impossible to migrate between software. What can be done is to save what I have edited as new photos. I am fine with this, it will not stop me from changing software. Meta data is very important to me. Meta data contains not only information about the shooting from the camera itself. But also my tags, description texts and more I had added in Photoshop Elements. Meta data also includes face tagging. This goes both for digital camera photos as well as digitized analog photos. Criteria for my new software: Preferable free and open source Available on multiple platforms, in particular available on macOS and Linux That meta data can be migrated including face tagging The one that I found to best meet my criteria is digiKam. DigiKam is mostly known for its catalog capabilities. But digiKam also includes import and export functions as well as raw conversion and photo editing. My migration. Photoshop Elements stores the data in a data base. It is possible to export metadata to files and sidecars. But not all data. Face tagging cannot be exported. The name of the person can be exported but not the coordinates of the face tag which only is stored in the data base. The data base itself cannot be read by other software, except by Adobe software: Adobe Lightroom Classic can import the data from Photoshop Elements data base into its own data base. This was very important for my migration success. Lightroom can export also the face tagging. I discovered an issue with the time- and datestamps. In Photoshop Elements it is possible to give incomplete date and time, for example only state the year if I do not know all details. Already Lightroom had problem to interpret this information correctly and I had to implement a workaround with tags. In general, several time and date attributes exist and it is something to understand what is what and how each of the is defined, displayed and managed in the software. From Lightroom Classic I exported meta data including face tags to files and sidecars. And migration to digiKam worked good enough. I still have access to my Photoshop Elements database if I want to go back and check anything. My next step was to migrate from digiKam on macOS to digiKam on Linux. This migration was relatively easy. My current settings in digiKam is to always write data to sidecars, in addition to the digiKam data bases. So I copied photo files and sidecars from macOS to Linux. I took the opportunity to rearrange my folder structure. Then I imported into digiKam and digiKam built new data bases in Linux based on photos and sidecars.

In this week's episode we address a listener's question about retropulsion in people with Parkinson's. In the show we define retropulsion then provide a plethora of ideas for you to try with your clients to help them restore their ability to move backwards without falling! Sit to Stand (STS) and Standing Postural Issues: Biggest issue: inadequate weight shift forward Factors contributing: “off” medications, low medication with increased bradykinesia, dyskinesia “on” medication Postural changes are a cornerstone of Parkinson's Disease (PD) Perceptual and visual changes, smaller base of support can impact retropulsion Medication Discussion: Importance of discussing medications with neurologists Hard to out-exercise being undermedicated Treatment Ideas: Weighted Vest: Balance Based Torso Weighting Exaggerate feeling by adding more weight behind or in front Aerobic Exercise: Intense, engaged, elevated heart rate Preferable on treadmill, multi-directional movement STS Treatment: Provide a target in front Encourage body awareness Challenge on different surfaces to augment error Use Blazepod for external cues and motivation Resistance Band Exercises: At the hips, pulling backward Secure attachment, various directions Include targets and external cues Repetition, variety, dual tasks, eyes closed Reactive Balance Training: Backward steps in various positions Posterior activation in quadruped, walking, tall kneeling, prone Clock Yourself App: Use front or back half of the clock for different movements Compensatory Strategies: Staggered stance, wider stance Conclusion: Encourage problem-solving and empowerment Highlight the importance of repetition, variety, and external cues Let us know if you have more questions by sending us a DM @neurocollaborative or posting inside the NeuroCollaborative Professionals Facebook group!  

Anyone who says that America is the best country to live in obviously has not traveled very much! Many other countries have a superior standard of living, including lower cost of living, better, unpolluted food, free or affordable medical care, and many other quality of life factors that make living abroad more enjoyable.Tristaforsheriff POLITICO DEMOCRATS ONLY DEMOCRATS ONLY - MEME GROUP ASU MSW Students DEMOCRATS UNITED FOR DEMOCRACY DEMOCRACY SUPPORTERS UNITE Democrats Seeking Sanity MeidasTouch Tucson What's Up NPR Politics Podcast Group Trista Justice Politics, Current Affairs, News & Commentary Politics News & Updates POLITICS TODAY Democrats Col. Rey Lopez for Congressman Supporters LDS womens union Trista Di Genova Democratic America Democrats of Arizona AZ Latinx Caucus AZ DEMOCRATS LABOR CAUCUS AZ Hispanic Community Forum azcentral Azcentral Politics azcentral opinions Tucson CLUCKS TucsonSentinel Tucson Democrats Long Island Audit Inc. Police The Police Politics Today Politics Girl POLITICS TODAY Women Warriors WOMEN IN POLITICS Women In Politics Democrats Abroad Taiwan Latest News Updates Latest News Update Latest News Updates Tucson Artists HuffPost Politics NYT Politics Washington Post Politics I shall be posting daily missives on substack now! Find me at "TRISTA FOR SHERIFF". My goal is to network with my favorite writers, and eventually contribute to all my favorite publications kind of like self syndication. Substack is where real writers hang out if you didn't know! I wonder who will be the first person to follow me there

This weekend the Ravens will face off against the Chiefs with a shot at the Super Bowl.  Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes will battle in the 7th instance of former MVP's meeting in the conference championship and though Mahomes is the defending Super Bowl champ, is this actually the preferred opponent for Baltimore?

Tyler Ribeiro is a fourth-generation farmer from Tulare, California. He's amassed nearly 80,000 social media followers sharing life on the farm and daily moments in his rural community. He joins host Kim Olson to talk about the work being done in his community and beyond to break down rural stereotypes and keep small communities vibrant. Check out Rootedintomorrow.com for more stories of incredible farmers!Follow Land O'Lakes Inc at:Facebook: www.facebook.com/LandOLakesIncInstagram: @LandOLakesIncLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/landolakesinc/Follow along with our other businesses. Dairy: www.landolakes.comAnimal Nutrition: www.purinamills.comCrop Protection: www.winfieldunited.comSustainability: www.truterraag.com

Namaste. So beginning the second Adhyāya of the Kaṭhopaniṣad, Death has accepted Naciketā as a student after testing him to see whether he still has material desires or if he is actually fit to receive the absolute knowledge. Naciketā has passed Death's test and now Death is going to explain how and why he accepts him as a student. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shivadyuti/message

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First, Jack and Aram talk Jesús Luzardo and his ascension to front-line star before floating Dylan Cease to the Astros. Then, Walker Buehler joins the fold to talk through who he believes are the hottest arms in the game right now. Check out our LinkTree! Use Code "JUSTBASEBALL" when signing up on BetMGM Check out Homage Apparel and Use Code "JUSTBASEBALL20" at Checkout! FOLLOW OUR TWITTER ACCOUNT! Use Code "JustBaseball" for Deposit Match on Prize Picks Check out our website: https://www.justbaseball.com/ Personal Twitters: @peterappel23, @jack_mcmullen11, @aramleighton8 Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor 75 and use my code justbaseball50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Is there a prohibition of Histaklus of a woman staring at a man performing? What about “Kol Ish” in hearing a man sing? Is there a problem posting videos of women singing online? Does a “Kol Isha Warning” help? Do female performances not reflect “yiddishe values”? Where do we draw the line of Tznius in public? ***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman *** Author of "Making it Work", "Making it ALL Work" (for women) and 10 other Seforim, Maggid Shiur, Yerushalayim with Rabbi Anthony Manning – head of a seminary and popular speaker – 14:27 with Rebbetzin Esti Hamilton – popular lecturer and teacher, London – 42:15 with Rabbi Zev Leff – Rav, Posek and Rosh Yeshiva –  1:05:15 with Mrs. Bracha Jaffe – popular performer – 1:21:41  מראי מקומות  

Mosquitoes are excellent hunters. Anopheles gambiae—the mosquito in sub-Saharan Africa that spreads malaria—in particular loves to feast on humans and, it turns out, relies heavily on peoples' scent to track them. Hopkins researcher Conor McMeniman talks with Stephanie Desmon about his team's new study looking at the molecular components of human scent that are most attractive to mosquitoes, and how learning more about these alluring scent signatures could help in the fight against malaria.

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‘Mindfulness' misses the mark as a translation of Pali sati. Preferable is ‘recollection.' (9/2/2022)

This week, hear the latest tales from the Krays of Norfolk, Brad has a truly awful new method for attracting a mate, and we list all the things we would prefer to see make a comeback over Boris Johnson. For more advice and news about parenting, head to dadsnet.com For more great podcasts like this, check out the other Dadsnet podcasts at dadsnet.com/listen Stay up to date with everything from Dadsnet by joining our mailing list, at dadsnet.gr8.com

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The RenMac team discusses Powell's preference for a recession rather than an inflation policy mistake, the Fed's preferred PCE measure running much lower than CPI, reading the reaction function of the Fed, the potential for a political pause or a lower rate hike pre-Midterm, a Supreme Court setback for ESG investors, handicapping the 2022 midterms, and why healthcare remains a good defensive play.

Mishlei 22:1 - A Good Name is Preferable to Wealth (Part 2)נִבְחָר שֵׁם מֵעֹשֶׁר רָב מִכֶּסֶף וּמִזָּהָב חֵן טוֹב:This morning (4/29/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we revisited the pasuk we learned yesterday. In contrast to yesterday, not only did we come up with several ideas on our own, but we also learned some ideas from the meforshim! Note: towards the end of this shiur, I was in the middle of explaining an idea, when some aniyim came in. I nodded to one of the dorm guys to take care of the tzedakah distribution, and he indicated that he didn't want to interrupt the flow of the idea. I said some words (which you'll hear) and got up to give tzedakah myself. The dorm guy in question immediately regretted his decision, and went to give them tzedakah as well. I paused the recording, and when we resumed, I went over an idea from Mishlei about how interrupting our activities to give tzedakah is a virtue. Afterwards, I asked if we can keep this part of the recording intact, and the dorm guy agreed (because he recognized the value of the "Mishlei moment"), on the condition that I include an explanation of what happened, and made sure to point out that he usually DOES immediately respond to the needs of the aniyim, but was just so caught up in our learning that he wasn't thinking. ----------מקורות:משלי כב:א; לא:יט-כמאיריר"י נחמיאשמלבי"םרמב"ם - מורה הנבוכים ג:נד----------The Torah content from now through Lag ba'Omer has been sponsored by Adam and Estee Goldberg in honor of Savta Shoshana Sham'eh bat Menachem. May her memory be a blessing.----------If you have questions, comments, or feedback, I would love to hear from you! Please feel free to contact me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail.----------If you've gained from what you've learned here, please consider contributing to my Patreon at www.patreon.com/rabbischneeweiss. Alternatively, if you would like to make a direct contribution to the "Rabbi Schneeweiss Torah Content Fund," my Venmo is @Matt-Schneeweiss, and my Zelle and PayPal are mattschneeweiss at gmail.com. Even a small contribution goes a long way to covering the costs of my podcasts, and will provide me with the financial freedom to produce even more Torah content for you.If you would like to sponsor a day's or a week's worth of content, or if you are interested in enlisting my services as a teacher or tutor, you can reach me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail.com. Thank you to my listeners for listening, thank you to my readers for reading, and thank you to my supporters for supporting my efforts to make Torah ideas available and accessible to everyone.----------Patreon: patreon.com/rabbischneeweissYouTube Channel: youtube.com/rabbischneeweissBlog: kolhaseridim.blogspot.com/"The Mishlei Podcast": mishlei.buzzsprout.com"The Stoic Jew" Podcast: thestoicjew.buzzsprout.com"Rambam Bekius" Podcast: rambambekius.buzzsprout.com"Machshavah Lab" Podcast: machshavahlab.buzzsprout.com"The Tefilah Podcast": tefilah.buzzsprout.comAmazon Wishlist: amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/Y72CSP86S24W?ref_=wl_sharel

Mishlei 22:1 - A Good Name is Preferable to Wealth (Part 1)נִבְחָר שֵׁם מֵעֹשֶׁר רָב מִכֶּסֶף וּמִזָּהָב חֵן טוֹב:This morning (4/28/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we began a new pasuk comparing wealth with a good name and good favor. The good news is that the pasuk is fairly straightforward. The bad news ... is that the pasuk is fairly straightforward. Metzudas David barely commented. The Meiri gave a very general interpretation. Rabbeinu Yonah provided us with what to work with, but we weren't able to figure out what he was saying. We're going to tackle this again tomorrow and hope to find at least ONE significant chidush.----------מקורות:משלי כב:אתרגום רס"גמצודת דודרבינו  יונהמאיריקהלת ז:א----------The Torah content from now through Lag ba'Omer has been sponsored by Adam and Estee Goldberg in honor of Savta Shoshana Sham'eh bat Menachem. May her memory be a blessing.----------If you've gained from what you've learned here, please consider contributing to my Patreon at www.patreon.com/rabbischneeweiss. Alternatively, if you would like to make a direct contribution to the "Rabbi Schneeweiss Torah Content Fund," my Venmo is @Matt-Schneeweiss, and my Zelle and PayPal are mattschneeweiss at gmail.com. Even a small contribution goes a long way to covering the costs of my podcasts, and will provide me with the financial freedom to produce even more Torah content for you.If you would like to sponsor a day's or a week's worth of content, or if you are interested in enlisting my services as a teacher or tutor, you can reach me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail.com. Thank you to my listeners for listening, thank you to my readers for reading, and thank you to my supporters for supporting my efforts to make Torah ideas available and accessible to everyone.----------Patreon: patreon.com/rabbischneeweissYouTube Channel: youtube.com/rabbischneeweissBlog: kolhaseridim.blogspot.com/"The Mishlei Podcast": mishlei.buzzsprout.com"The Stoic Jew" Podcast: thestoicjew.buzzsprout.com"Rambam Bekius" Podcast: rambambekius.buzzsprout.com"Machshavah Lab" Podcast: machshavahlab.buzzsprout.com"The Tefilah Podcast": tefilah.buzzsprout.comGuide to the Torah Content of Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss: kolhaseridim.blogspot.com/2021/04/links-to-torah-content-of-rabbi-matt.htmlAmazon Wishlist: amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/Y72CSP86S24W?ref_=wl_sharel

Woman impersonates a doctor for three years. Study says people prefer to have a threesome with a sex robot. Police in Spain bust largest illegal taxidermy collection. // Weird AF News is the only daily weird news podcast hosted by a comedian and recorded in a closet. Show your SUPPORT by joining the Weird AF News Patreon where you'll get bonus episodes and other weird af news stuff http://patreon.com/weirdafnews  - WATCH Weird AF News on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/weirdafnews - check out the official website https://WeirdAFnews.com and FOLLOW host Jonesy at http://instagram.com/funnyjones or http://twitter.com/funnyjones or http://facebook.com/comedianjonesy or http://Jonesy.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Join Ian Stone, Adrian Clarke, and James McNicholas for some company following that shocking defeat against Palace. This week: cack. There's no other word for it. Adrian and James dissect the fall out from the result in South London including how the injuries to Tierney and Partey will affect the line up going forward - will Saka be a full back again? Will Nuno Tavares get a game again? And just why does this sort of performance happen from seemingly nowhere? We also talk about Unai Emery after he spoke to The Athletic about his time at Arsenal and we talk fashion - here's the must see catalogue where Adrian makes an appearance RUNNING ORDER PART 1 - Preferable mundane tasks: 01:00 PART 2 - Crystal Palace 3-0 Arsenal - tactics and what next: 04:00 PART 3a - Unai (m)Emer-ies: 28:00  PART 3b - Fashion and football: 37:00 

Join Ian Stone, Adrian Clarke, and James McNicholas for some company following that shocking defeat against Palace.This week: cack. There's no other word for it. Adrian and James dissect the fall out from the result in South London including how the injuries to Tierney and Partey will affect the line up going forward - will Saka be a full back again? Will Nuno Tavares get a game again? And just why does this sort of performance happen from seemingly nowhere?We also talk about Unai Emery after he spoke to The Athletic about his time at Arsenal and we talk fashion - here's the must see catalogue where Adrian makes an appearanceRUNNING ORDER PART 1 - Preferable mundane tasks: 01:00PART 2 - Crystal Palace 3-0 Arsenal - tactics and what next: 04:00PART 3a - Unai (m)Emer-ies: 28:00 PART 3b - Fashion and football: 37:00  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As you all who watch/listen to this show know, I am adamant about saving money for both emergencies and for large purchases that we expect. This episode is all about how we can take our saving abilities to a whole different level by implementing a few simple tactics. Living a life with no financial buffer in the bank as insurance against tragedy in your life is a tough place to be. This means any unforeseen thing that comes up in your life will require you to borrow money (which we know is not what is best for you financially). All this to say, if you find yourself in need of stronger savings/savings habits, this episode will help you tremendously!   Begin your path to financial freedom today: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjyCApAbHBN0Jtw5bAehbRg?sub_confirmation=1   Don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave comments below as I would love your feedback. Be sure to check out the podcast of these shows if you are more of a listener than a watcher, and follow the show on any social media outlet (FB, Twitter, & Instagram) @mnowithdylan (Money's No Object with Dylan Howell) [All links in description]. Don't forget to check-in every weekday (Monday-Friday) for new videos which will be uploaded each day at 6 a.m. CDT. Thank you, guys, for tuning into this episode of Money's No Object. I'm Dylan Howell. God Bless!   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mnowithdylan/   Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/mnowithdylan/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/mnowithdylan     (Please keep in mind that I am not a financial advisor. I create these videos for educational purposes only. You and only you are responsible for the investment decisions that you make.)

No one is safe from this man's tongue - Steve Allen takes to the airwaves on LBC every Monday to Friday morning from 4am. Hear all of Steve's show with the news & travel taken out.

David Dash is an instructor at the North Carolina School for the Arts, and is currently on a one-year assignment with the North Carolina Symphony.  In James' interview with David, you'll hear tips on balancing self-criticism with music-making, dealing with performance anxiety, effective practice strategies and much more! As a reminder, we invite you to subscribe to our email newsletter. It is what is called “infotaining”. It contains valuable information related to your music/business career, in a fun, digestible format. Kind of like eating a hot dog and getting the nourishment of broccoli. At any rate, type in http://trumpetdynamics.com (trumpetdynamics.com) into your browser to subscribe to James' newsletter, and to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player.  In this episode, you'll discover: -When "good enough" is better than great...02:54 -David's start and early influences on trumpet...09:57 -What's the root cause of "performance anxiety"?...18:55 -Expression vs. criticism...22:47 -Effective practice strategies...26:55 -The two golden rules to getting and keeping the gig...35:41 -How the Apex Trumpet Symposium came about...39:34 -And much more! © 2022 JNS Media, LLC

Aaron chats with Packers fans worldwide as the team awaits a decision from its franchise quarterback.

Have you ever had an internal struggle (or maybe even have one now)…that NO ONE knows about…and it's preventing you from reaching your full potential?? But you tell everyone that everything is ok…yet you continue to silently struggle?   This is what I refer to as…THE MASK!   Definition of ‘The Mask': a well-decorated display of a hidden internal struggle   The Masks we wear are SILENT KILLERS!!   As a physician I'm familiar with certain diagnosis that are silent killers. For example, Hypertension (aka High Blood Pressure) is silent killer. You can't see it, feel it, hear it or witness it. But it effects every organ and system in the body…and can ultimately result in death if left untreated. The masks we wear work the same way. They are silent…no one knows about the struggles we hide…but ultimately it's killing our faith, relationships, and destroying our ability to live out or greatest potential.    Here are some examples of the masks we wear:   Faith: Attend church with a smile…yet distant in your relationship with God Marriage: Happy couple pictures on Facebook…yet living a lustful lifestyle Fatherhood: Attend kids sports events…yet an angry or otherwise absent father Health: Saying you gonna get in shape…but struggling to maintain healthy diet and exercise habits Wealth: Nice house, car, and vacations…yet struggling to make ends meet monthly Career: Great job or business…but unfulfilled & failing to grow and advance   Listen!! I get it!! This was my story! I wore the mask of a successful doctor and business owner…happily married man with awesome children! But behind that mask was a man that was barely holding it together. I was winning in ONE area…my career. Beyond that, I was struggling in my faith, as a husband, as a father, and living far under my potential in my health. Add on top of that…I lacked clarity on what my purpose was in life.     The problem with the mask is that it causes…PROLONGED PAIN!!   It prolongs pain in 2 ways: Pride: A false sense that you can ‘fix you' all on your own, with no help Persuasion: A false sense that “I'm not that bad off”   The mask does not protect you! The mask prevents you from growing and developing…by keeping you quiet and silent!     The mask is made to keep you quiet for several reasons: Influences you to feel like you are the only one to go through your type of struggle, and that nobody else is dealing with what you are dealing with False! Plenty of men have a very similar struggle! Pressure to keep up with the Joneses and live the model life…The ‘Everything is Great and ain't nothing wrong' Life The truth is…everyone is going through something! Worried about what other people think. Fueled by #2 above     THE SOLUTION: CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION   Confidential communication is being able to discuss your issues with someone you can trust and without judgement and condemnation.   This allows you to take off the mask and stop being suffocated by it!! This is THE BEST step to take to safely remove the mask, overcome your struggle, and ultimately fulfilling your greatest potential!   Here are the steps to Confidential Communication: Surrender to the idea that you can ‘Fix You' all on your own. Reach out for help. This is NOT WEAKNESS…IT'S WISDOM!! Share: Share with God your struggles and ask him for clarity and guidance Share with someone you trust to be vulnerable with and will not judge you!! Preferable someone who can provide some guidance as well. Do #1 and #2 regularly!! This is not a one-time process…this is part of a healthy high-performing lifestyle.   If you follow these steps, here is what you can expect: FREEDOM! And the path to fulfillment & growth to the person you were designed to be   Surrender and Share today!!! If I can help…hit me up. But regardless, share with someone!!   Book a 1:1 discovery call with me at https://drbradmd.com  Talk to you soon, Dr. Brad P.S. If you want more consistency in your faith, work, and personal life, then learn how to win each day, by winning your morning. Enroll now in the FREE ELITE Power Hour Morning Routine training at elitepowerhour.com It's a free training on how to create an unstoppable morning routine that will increase your performance and productivity in your faith, work, and life. Enroll now at elitepowerhour.com

Discover what's possible when instead of teaching someone to fish, you ask them what they like to eat.  The CEO and Founder of the Global Autism Project, Molly Ola Pinney, is back on the show to talk about the motto that drives our work: #DoWithNotFor.  For almost 20 years, the Global Autism Project has been providing sustainable clinical, administrative, and leadership training to autism centers seeking guidance around the world. Our SkillCorps volunteer program is an opportunity for self-advocates and professionals to travel to our international partner sites and collaborate with their local teachers and therapists.  If you'd like to learn more about the Global Autism Project's history and mission, please listen to my conversation with Molly in episode 2.  In today's conversation, we discuss:  The meaning of doing with others and not for them The "Essential, Preferable, Preferable to Me" framework  Doing with the Autistic community The importance of listening  We also make two big announcements that we think will have a huge impact on the autism community. Stay tuned until the end to hear them!  To learn more about our organization and the work we do, please visit globalautismproject.org.  Watch Molly explain on the TEDx stage why doing things for others doesn't help.  ----more---- Applications for SkillCorps® 2022 are open now! If you're a self-advocate or a professional in the field of autism services, visit globalautismproject.org/skillcorps and reserve your spot today.  Doors to our Global Autism Community platform are also open! However you're connected to autism, there's a place for you at community.globalautismproject.org. Join a group of passionate changemakers and transform how the world relates to autism.  ----more---- We appreciate your time. If you enjoy this podcast and you'd like to support our mission, please take just a few seconds to share it with one person who you think will find value in it too. Follow us on Instagram: @autismpodcast Join our community on Mighty Networks: Global Autism Community Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Global Autism Project  ----more---- We would love to hear your feedback about the show. Please fill out this short survey to let us know your thoughts: Listener Survey. 

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“First ask ‘What is the conflict of interest?’,” Ben Miller Ben Miller Bio See Episode #19 Show Notes (cont.) Ben Miller talks about lens for risk (2:30)Think about scenarios that “could go wrong” (2:45)World class downsiderWhat if the developer goes bankrupt?Planned for downturnIn 2017 he thought it was too frothySeth Klarman thinking (3:45)Inversion thinking- What’s the worst that could happen? (4:10)Dynamics in private market are different than the public markets (5:00)Process of investment (5:50)Invest as a secondary or preferred lending investment- 55%-80% (6:30)Preferable to invest in equity on a wholly owned basis (7:30)Not interested now in JVs as alignment is not in focus (7:50)Aim to have a direct relationship with developer/owner (8:30)Fundrise only a 1% feeJV structure of 90/10Real estate deal is much more efficient now due to marketing to perfection (10:00)Vertical integration efficiency is the optimum (11:45)The most vertically integrated companies are most “antifragile” (13:00)Benevolent Dictatorship (15:00) Real Estate Market Perspectives Avoid cyclicality of specialization (16:00)Staying in one product type is a flaw (17:10)More multifamily developers (18:00)Have to be “on trend” and look at the future to invest (18:50)Difficult for developers to be agile among product types (20:30)Not normal in real estate to be flexible (21:15)Core Office and luxury apartments are the next “suburban office” and will decline in value (21:40)Multifamily is mostly neutral in performance (22:40)Core customer doesn’t  want to be in small units except due to cost  (23:00)Shift away from small spaces will cause it to suffer (23:45)What does customer want? (25:10)Move south (25:20)Not in major citiesSpreading to whole different regions (25:50)What happens when technology devalues location? (27:00)It’s easy to see what deteriorates but not easy to see where it appreciates (27:35)Adopt the work from home model (28:10)Iterate first hand opportunities to work from home to test it out (28:30)Ride the trend and figure it outCustomer wants to be successful without doing harm (29:45)Wouldn’t sacrifice return to benefit societyLast mile industrial (31:25)Last mile data- 5G will be everywhere in 24-36 months (31:40)Infrastructure (32:40)Real Estate slips into the background (32:50)Most real estate has been built for Excel Spreadsheets (33:10) Fundrise Team and Platform Iterate on team (34:10)Smart peopleLow EgoAttitude to “dig the ditch” (34:50)Knowledge less importantDesire to learn-Intelligence is “smarts minus ego” (35:30)Discount your desire (36:15)Recruiting and hiring is a privilege (36:30)Learn and listen to find out internal motivation (37:00)Look for candor (37:30)Platform success-Luck and chance (38:10)Getting on the right trend (38:40)

J Mintzmyer spoke with Frontline's CEO, Robert Hvide Macleod, last week about how the tanker market is shaping up amidst a lot of commodity price moves and investor interest. Topics Covered 1:00 minute mark - What has changed in the market YTD compared to initial setups? 3:00 - Have we seen something like this in the market before? 4:30 - Preferable data source or metric for global storage balance? 6:30 - Discussion of ‘oil on water' metric 10:30 - What is LR2 clean/dirty split? What is driving LR2 spike? 11:45 - What time charter offers are available in the markets? 15:00 - Fixtures available anywhere for FRO? Indexes accurate? 18:45 - Comments on Saudi flotilla? What happens if destinations change? 21:00 - How does cash payment flow work for spot vs. TC? 23:30 - Any concerns with CP risk? Precedent for this? 25:15 - Chance of shifting terms of spot market payment? 26:45 - Risk factor of ‘famine' on the other side of the curve? 31:00 - IMO 2020: Spreads are down, will they come back? 36:30 - Capital allocation priorities now? Any newbuildings? Consolidation? 41:15 - Formally swearing off newbuilds? Yes! 42:30 - What is holding back the tanker stocks in these markets?