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Interview with Alain Lambert, CEO of Prismo Metals Inc.Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/prismo-metals-csepriz-junior-explorer-targets-deep-porphyry-system-in-arizonas-copper-triangle-6645Recording date: 23rd April 2025In a recent interview, Alain Lambert, CEO of Prismo Metals, shared insights on political developments and commodity markets affecting the mining sector. With over three decades of experience in junior capital markets since 1987, Lambert provided valuable perspectives for resource investors navigating current market conditions.Lambert predicts the upcoming Canadian federal election on April 28, 2025, will likely result in a Liberal majority government under Mark Carney, continuing similar policies to the Trudeau administration. He attributes this political shift to anti-American sentiment in Canada, particularly in response to comments from US President Trump about Canada becoming "the 51st state." Despite current US-Canada trade tensions, Lambert expresses confidence these issues will be resolved once the new Canadian government is formed.On US trade policy, Lambert views Trump's tariff strategy as a negotiation tactic aimed at reducing trade deficits, addressing government spending, and managing national debt. He anticipates these policies will ultimately benefit the US economy, predicting "an historical economic boom."Lambert references a March executive order directing US government departments to streamline approvals for critical mineral projects, including copper. This policy environment could accelerate development timelines and improve capital access for companies operating in the US resources sector.Regarding metals markets, Lambert acknowledges gold's dramatic price increase from approximately $2,000 to $3,400 over 15 months but expects a correction. He notes mid-cap producers have benefited from the price rally, while junior explorers haven't seen proportional gains. Lambert cautions that any gold price correction could disproportionately impact junior exploration companies.Lambert is particularly optimistic about copper market dynamics, highlighting artificial intelligence as a significant demand driver that is often overlooked. "One thing they don't talk about enough is the impact of AI on electricity demand and the need for more electricity," he stated, adding this factor could be "more pronounced than demand because of electric vehicles."Prismo Metals is strategically positioned with a large copper exploration target approximately 40km from the Resolution Copper project (Rio Tinto/BHP joint venture) in Arizona. Lambert reports significant interest from major mining companies in US copper projects, creating potential partnership opportunities for companies like Prismo in jurisdictions set to benefit from favorable policy developments and strong underlying copper demand.View Prismo Metals' company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/prismo-metalsSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com
Join us as we talk with Nir Sadeh, Head of Product at Wix Studio, about the platform designed specifically for web professionals. Nir breaks down how Wix Studio differs from the traditional Wix editor by offering advanced capabilities for agencies and freelancers. Learn about their newest feature—AI-powered visual sitemaps and wireframes—that helps designers quickly create site structures and get client approval. We also explore how Wix balances no-code solutions with developer flexibility, their approach to responsive design using AI, and opportunities in the Wix app marketplace. Nir shares valuable insights about product development, user research methods, and his perspective on the impact of AI on the future of web design.Show Notes00:00 - Intro01:00 - Journey to becoming Head of Product01:48 - Transition from individual contributor to manager02:21 - Team structure at Wix03:42 - Goal setting and KPIs04:36 - Overview of Wix Studio06:08 - Web-based application functionality07:03 - Code editing experiences in Wix Studio08:07 - Client control and access capabilities09:02 - New features: Visual sitemap and wireframes10:57 - AI integration points in Wix12:35 - AI generating layouts and websites14:50 - Upcoming roadmap items15:54 - User creativity surprises16:12 - Wix app marketplace17:34 - Design trends and components18:59 - User research approach20:57 - Data-driven decision making22:16 - Balancing user preferences with brand goals24:02 - Career advice for aspiring product managers25:40 - Balancing customization and consistency26:44 - Mobile responsiveness and browser support28:06 - Native apps and business management28:37 - SEO tracking and analytics29:45 - Picks and PlugsLinks and ResourcesWix Studio - The professional website creation platform discussed throughout the episodeVelo by Wix - The robust code solution mentioned at 06:45Visual Sitemap and Wireframes - The new AI feature launched by Wix StudioWix App Market - The marketplace where developers can build and sell appsVS Code integration with Wix StudioWix Studio AI Assistant - Mentioned as a coding help featureFigma to Wix - Mentioned as having import capabilities to Wix StudioPicks:Severance (TV Show) - Nir's pickRemix Dev Tools (becoming React Router DevTools) - Brad's pickAeroPress - Amy's previous pick (referenced)Prismo filter - Amy's previous pick (referenced)Milk frother - Amy's current pick
Interview with Alain Lambert, CEO of Prismo Metals Inc.Recording date: 30th January 2025Prismo Metals (CSE:PRIZ) is advancing its flagship Hot Breccia copper project in Arizona, where the company aims to test a large geophysical anomaly that could represent a significant porphyry copper and skarn system. The project, located in a prolific copper mining district, sits just 40 kilometers from Resolution, one of the world's largest undeveloped copper deposits.Led by CEO Alain Lambert, Prismo has identified what it believes could be a major copper system at Hot Breccia. The project was previously explored by Kennecott (a Rio Tinto subsidiary) in the 1970s, but historical drilling didn't reach sufficient depths to test the heart of the system. Recent surface sampling has returned values up to 5.6% copper in mineralized fragments, which the company interprets as evidence of a deeper porphyry system.The company has completed surface mapping, geophysical surveys, and obtained necessary permits for a planned 5,000-meter initial drill program. Prismo has also employed artificial intelligence to reprocess geophysical data, which has helped refine drill targets. While the company had hoped to raise $3 million to begin drilling in early 2024, challenging market conditions have delayed the financing.Beyond Hot Breccia, Prismo holds two projects in Mexico: Palos Verdes, a silver project adjacent to Vizsla Silver's holdings in Sinaloa state, and Los Pavitos, a gold property in Sonora. However, the company's primary focus remains on Hot Breccia, where success could attract interest from major mining companies already operating in the region, including Rio Tinto, BHP, Freeport-McMoRan, and Grupo Mexico.The project's location in Arizona provides significant advantages, including excellent infrastructure, proximity to existing mines and smelters, and a supportive mining jurisdiction. This positioning could prove crucial as global copper demand continues to rise, driven by the energy transition and electrification trends. Industry forecasts suggest a potential 10-million-tonne annual copper shortfall by 2035, highlighting the need for new copper discoveries.Prismo's strategy is focused on discovery rather than development. As Lambert states, "It's going to be a big boy game at the end. We want to find the prize and let somebody else develop it." This approach aligns with the company's goal of delivering value through exploration success and potentially selling to or partnering with a major mining company for development.The company is fully permitted and has a drilling contractor lined up, ready to begin work once financing is secured.Learn more: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/prismo-metalsSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com
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Erik Wetterling, Founder and Editor of The Hedgeless Horseman joins us to discuss three companies: First Nordic Metals, Prismo Metals, and Inflection Resources. First Nordic Metals has new targets at the Storjuktan Project in Sweden, while Prismo Metals offers a high-risk, high-reward copper exploration in Arizona. Lastly, Inflection Resources utilizes advanced ANT surveys for porphyry targets in Australia with AngloGold as an exploration partner Click here to visit Erik's site - The Hedgeless Horseman.
MSD introduces Prismo Metals and their Hot Breccia Project in the copper heartland of Arizona. Newly appointed President Steve Robertson joins Trevor in Frankfurt for a follow-up interview following a recent site visit. Steve talks about the newly formed theory of Hot Breccia on the back of exploration success from Resolution Copper. He explains the similarities and how the company is planning on going after deep targets with an initial drilling program.
Prismo Metals Inc (CSE:PRIZ, OTCQB:PMOMF) has embarked on an ambitious journey with promising exploration projects in Arizona and Mexico. In an exclusive interview, Proactive's Angela Hermantis is joined by Prismo Metals chairman Alain Lambert to delve into the company's strategic initiatives for 2024. Lambert tells Proactive that Prismo Metals is at the forefront with three key projects: two in Mexico aimed at silver and gold, and one pivotal copper project in Arizona. The spotlight shines on the Font Breccia copper prospect in Arizona, a prime location within the renowned copper belt. With a strategic plan to initiate extensive drilling, Prismo Metals is on the verge of potentially uncovering a significant porphyry system. Furthermore, collaborative efforts, notably with Vizsla Silver, highlight the potential of their Palos Verdes silver project in Mexico. With optimism buoyed by stable gold prices and a palpable excitement within the sector, Prismo Metals is poised for a transformational year. #PrismoMetalsInc #MiningExploration2024 #CopperProspects #SilverAndGold #ArizonaMining #MexicoExploration #MiningInnovation #ExplorationInsights #ProactiveInvestors #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews
GC13 and David discuss Cheers from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. And now we've seen the big showdown. Thank goodness Simon is on a first-name basis with a deity, or that could have got real ugly. Even as it was things didn't so great and it was up to Prismo to send in the cavalry—just don't … Continue reading
GC13 and David discuss Prismo the Wishmaster from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. Ah, now we're getting into the good stuff. Fionna and Cake find themselves in Ooo oh so briefly before being sent out to the multiverse. Not to explore though, oh no! They're running for their lives, and thanks to the too-eager self-sacrifice of … Continue reading
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Fionna and Cake Ep. 4 - PRIMSO IS MA BOY! We finally get to see what ole' Prismo has been up to all these years and by gosh has he been donkin' it up.
Fionna and Cake Ep. 3 - This was a fun one, and we finally got to see Cake the Cat come into a voice of her own, while also destroying a whole little village of vendors. But after this, we have to see where they done got zipped off by Prismo!
This week, Amy and Matt get into an episode of Fionna & Cake that feels like it was written just for them. And that little gem is titled "Cake the Cat". Then the plot really starts kicking in as we discuss "Prismo the Wishmaster". Don't miss episode 100 next week! It's gonna be boonoonoonoos. For Amy's episode predictions, we present... Caroline's Handy Dandy Grading Rubric: -Does the prediction contain the same characters as the actual episode? -If I worked at A.T. corp. would I produce this episode idea? -How much creative effort was put forth while coming up w/ this prediction? -Do the prediction and the actual ep. follow the same archetype (i.e. love & loss, heroic adventure, self-discovery, etc.)? -Would this story aide in the development of the overall plot and/or character development? -Do the events of the story seem plausible in regard to character traits (i.e. It would not be plausible for Finn to do something evil)? -Does a similar story line occur at some later point in the show? -Has a similar story line already occurred in a previously reviewed episode? Leave us a voice message! And if you're feeling especially adventurous, give us an impression of a character from the show! The number is 216-260-GLOB (or 216-260-4562). We'll play your message over the next episode! Rate us on Apple Podcasts! itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/oh-my-glob-an-adventure-time-podcast/id1434343477?mt=2 Facebook: facebook.com/ohmyglobpodcast Contact us: ohmyglobpodcast@gmail.com And that Twitter thing: https://twitter.com/ohmyglobpodcast Amy: https://twitter.com/moxiespeaks Trivia Theme by Adrian C. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ohmyglobpodcast/message
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S5E2 - As we wrap up our 3 part episode arch about the multiverse, Enchirideon, and Farm World, we drive it home with some awesome Prismo hanging, cosmic pickles, and a not so happy Lich.
S5E2 - As we wrap up our 3 part episode arch about the multiverse, Enchirideon, and Farm World, we drive it home with some awesome Prismo hanging, cosmic pickles, and a not so happy Lich.
Bruno e Benji assieme agli uomini della Prismo mettono a punto un metodo per massimizzare la produzione di trementina dai larici della valle, ma qualcosa va nel verso sbagliato.
Il rimedio contro la perdita dei sensi funziona. Bruno e Benji avviano la produzione assieme ai laboratori della Prismo.
La rivolta degli abitanti della foresta divide i due fratelli: Bruno vuole proseguire con il progetto della Prismo mentre Benji si schiera a fianco della popolazione locale. Toccherà alla madre portare nuovamente la pace tra i gemelli.
Mike Shirinian and Dave Fansler welcome back Nick Marziliano owner of Sam's Italian Deli & Market for some great stories from his most recent trip to Italy. On the plate: Chef Mike Vernon from Prismo's serves and amazing branzino and polenta with Fusilli pasta in seafood stock and a tomato ragu. And then, the Squid Ink pasta with seafood stock with shrimp and crab and a little tomato rice... and yeah, little calamari. The meal is paired with a bottle Mike brought in of a fabulous Occidental Pinot Noir. The team talks cruises, when in Rome, gondolas, speaking English in Italy, bucket list things, wines, Googling Yacht names, epic cave wine cellars, Michelin Star dining, incredible new experiences and more. Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Restaurateurs' on all platforms: The Restaurateurs Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts and wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- Website https://therestaurateurs.com/ --- KMJ Socials https://www.kmjnow.com/ https://www.facebook.com/kmjnow https://twitter.com/kmjnow --- More KMJ Original Podcast's https://www.kmjnow.com/podcasts-3/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We introduce Prismo Metals and CEO Craig Gibson today. Prismo is also working in the Panuco district in Mexico adjacent to and in collaboration with Vizsla Silver. Craig spends some time talking about the Palos Verdes project, previous work done, and a look at what the 2023 exploration strategy looks like.
Prismo Metals (CSE: PRIZ | OTCQB: PMOMF) is going all out for exploration this year. CEO Craig Gibson shares important updates with Global One Media as the company follows up on the groundwork for the Palos Verdes, Los Pavitos, and Hot Breccia projects.Prismo Metals started 2023 with a whole stack of good news, from new investment and property acquisition to new drilling permits and strong assay results. Craig emphasizes that the company will drill in all their properties this year and is fully funded for this massive venture. He is also optimistic for Prismo Metals' valuation as they accelerate their work.Find out more about Prismo Metals: https://prismometals.com/
O bate-papo de hoje foi com o duo de rock experimental Lumee//Prismo, que lançou seu primeiro álbum Ovis Aries em 2021, juntamente com o clipe de uma das faixas, “Human Again”. Produzido pelos músicos Luma Garcia (Lumee – vocais, piano e synths) e Guilherme da Matta (Prismo – guitarra), o disco leva o selo Maxilar, do Gabriel Thomaz (Autoramas) e Henrique Roncoletta (NDK), lançado em fevereiro de 2021 com foco na diversidade musical. Confira o vídeo no YouTube: https://youtu.be/jzblQp0ttXY
Michael Konnert, CEO of Vizsla Silver, joins the podcast once again this morning to talk about the year 2022 in review and the strategy at the Panuco precious metals project in 2023. The company recently closed a new strategic investment with Prismo. Michael talks about the importance of this investment and its structure.
Lots of news out this morning filled with new drill results from the sector. We have the latest from Brixton Metals, Magna Mining, Revival Gold, Goliath Resources and Tinka Resources. New Pacific Metals published their PEA for Silver Sand. Vizsla closes its deal with Prismo. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Western Copper and Gold is focused on developing the world-class Casino project in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Casino project consists of an impressive 11 billion pounds of copper and 21 million ounces of gold in an overall resource. Western Copper and Gold trades on the TSX and the NYSE American with WRN. Be sure to follow the company via their website, www.westerncopperandgold.com. ASCU is an early-stage copper developer and explorer of the Cactus Mine and its satellite project, Parks/Salyer, both situated on a 4km mine trend on private land in Arizona's porphyry copper district. Opportunity for significant growth and scale exist along the trend, while future capex requirements outlined in the Cactus PEA benefit from significant onsite and nearby access to infrastructure. The Company is led by an executive management team and Board which have a long-standing track record of successful project delivery in North America. For more information, please visit www.arizonasonoran.com. Fireweed Metals is advancing 3 different projects within the Yukon and Northwest Territories, including the flagship Macmillan Pass Project, a large zinc-lead-silver deposit and the Mactung Project, one of the largest and highest-grade tungsten deposits in the world. Fireweed plans to advance these projects through exploration, resource definition, metallurgy, engineering, economic studies and collaboration with indigenous people on the path to production. For more information please visit fireweedmetals.com.
Mike Konnert, President and CEO of Vizsla Silver (TSX.V:VZLA - NYSE:VZLA) joins me to recap the a couple news releases from December, including drill results from the Tajitos-Copala and Napoleon resource area, as well as a strategic investment in Prismo Metals. Starting with the December 14th news release highlighting the drill results from the Tajitos-Copala resource area we discuss the importance of this area to the overall Panuco Project. The headline results was hole 205 intersecting 2,640 grams per tonne (g/t) silver equivalent (AgEq) over 5.30 meters true width (mTW) (2,101 g/t silver and 9.54 g/t gold), including 4,563 g/t AgEq over 0.58 mTW (3,080 g/t silver and 23.60 g/t gold. We then focus on the strategic investment in Prismo Metals, who holds the Palos Verdes Project. This Project is to the east of Panuco. Mike explains the corporate strategy behind this investment which includes a right of first refusal to purchase the Palos Verdes Project. If you have any follow up questions for Mike please email me at Fleck@kereport.com. Click here to visit the Vizsla Silver website to read over the news releases we discussed.
Prismo Metals (CSE: PRIZ | OTCQB: PMOMF) Executives Craig Gibson, CEO & Founder, and Allan Frame, Director of Business Development, join Global One Media with host Ashleigh Barry to talk about the company's unique capabilities, extensive experience of the founders and management in mineral exploration and public companies that bring forth good financial health for Prismo. Allan and Craig proudly share the milestones and potentials of both Palos Verdes and Los Pavitos projects, and the many exciting things both current and potential investors may look forward to.
Prismo Metals is engaged in the business of mineral exploration and the acquisition of mineral property assets in Mexico. Its objective is to locate and develop economic precious and base metal properties of merit. Further to this objective, the Company entered into an option agreement, effective May 7, 2019, pursuant to which it was granted the option to acquire a 75% interest in the Palos Verdes Property, which constitutes the material property of the Company.Over the next 12 to 18 months, the Company intends to complete its recommended exploration program on the Palos Verdes Property and its initial commitments thereon.
Prismo Metals (CSE: PRIZ | OTCQB: PMOMF) Director, President, and CEO, Craig Gibson speaks to Global One Media about how the mineral exploration company was founded in 2019. He also discusses their current exploration projects in Mexico, which are the Palos Verdes and Los Pavitos projects.
In this episode, we cover: Mauricio talks about his background and his role at Pismo (1:14) Jason and Mauricio discuss tech and reliability with regards to financial institutions (5:59) Mauricio talks about the work he has done in Chaos Engineering with reliability (10:36) Mauricio discusses things he and his team have done to maximize success (19:44) Mauricio talks about new technologies his team has been utilizing (22:59) Links Referenced: Pismo: https://pismo.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pismo/ TranscriptMauricio: That's why the name Cockroach, I guess, if there's a [laugh] a world nuclear war here, all that will survive would be cockroaches in our client's data. [laugh]. So, I guess that's the gist of it.Jason: Welcome to Break Things on Purpose, a podcast about Chaos Engineering and reliability. In this episode, we chat with Mauricio Galdieri, a staff engineer at Pismo about testing versus exploration, reliability and resiliency, and the challenges of bringing new technologies to the financial sector.Jason: Welcome to the show.Mauricio: Hey, thank you. Welcome. Thanks for having me here, Jason.Jason: Yeah. So, Mauricio, you and I have chatted before in the past. We were at Chaos Conf, and you are part of a panel. So, I'm curious, I guess to kick things off, can you tell folks a little bit more about yourself and what you do at Pismo? And then we can maybe pick up from our conversations previously?Mauricio: Okay, awesome. I work as a staff engineer here at Pismo. I work in a squad called staff engineering squad, so we're a bunch of—five squad engineers there. And we're mostly responsible for coming up with new ways of using the existing technology, new technologies for us to have, and also standardize things like how we use those technologies here? How does it fit the whole processes we have here? And how does it fit in the pipelines we have here, also?And so, we do lots of documentation, lots of POCs, and try different things, and we talk to different people from different companies and see how they're solving problems that we also have. So, this is basically our day-to-day activities here. Before that, well, I have a kind of a different story, I guess. Most people that work in this field, have a degree in something like a technical degree or something like that. But I actually graduated as an architect in urban planning, so I came from a completely different field.But I've always worked as a software developer since a long time ago, more than [laugh] willing to disclose. So, at that time when I started working with software development, I like to say that startups were called dotcoms that back then, so, [laugh] there was a lots of job opportunities back then, so I worked as a software developer at that time. And things evolved. I grew less and less as an architect and more as an engineer, so after I graduated, I started to look for a second degree, but on the more technical college, so I went to an engineering college and graduated as a system analyst.So, from then on, I've always worked as a software developer and never, never have done any house planning or house project or something like that. And I really doubt if I could do that right now [laugh] so I may be a lousy architect [in that sense 00:03:32]. But anyway, I've worked in different companies for both in private and public sectors. And I've worked with consultancy firms and so on. But just before I came to Pismo, I went working with a FinTech.So, this is where I was my first contact with the world of finance in a software context. Since then, I've digged deep into this industry, and here I am now working at Pismo, it's for almost five years now.Jason: Wow. That quite a journey. And although it's a unique journey, it's also one that I feel like a lot of folks in tech come from different backgrounds and maybe haven't gone down the traditional computer science route. With that said, you know, one of the things you mentioned FinTech. Can you give us a little bit of a description of Prismo, just so folks understand the company that you're working at now?Mauricio: Oh, yeah. Well, Pismo, it's a company that has about six years now. And we provide infrastructure for financial services. So, we're not banks ourselves, but we provide the infrastructure for banks to build their financial projects with this. So basically, what we do is we manage accounts, we manage those accounts' balances, we have connections with credit card networks, so we process—we're also a credit card processor.We issue cards, although we're not the issuer in this in the strict sense, but we issue cards here and manage all the lifecycle of those cards. And basically, that's it. But we have a very broad offering of products, from account management to accounting management, and transactions management, and spending control limits and stuff. So, we have a very broad product portfolio. But basically, what we do is provide infrastructure for financial services.Jason: That's fascinating to me. So, if I were to sum that up, would it be accurate to say that you're basically like Software as a Service for financial institutions? You do all the heavy lifting?Mauricio: Yeah, yeah. I could say that, yeah.Jason: It's interesting to me because, you know, traditionally, we always think of banks because they need to be regulated and there needs to be a whole lot more security and reliability around finances, we always think of banks as being very slow when it comes to technology. And so, I think it's interesting that, in essence, what you've said with trying the latest technology and getting to play around with new technology and how it applies, especially within your staff engineering group, it's almost the exact opposite. You're sort of this forefront, this leading edge within the world of finance and technology.Mauricio: Yeah. And that actually is, it's something that—it's the most difficult part to sell banks to sign up with us, you know? Because they have those ancient systems running on-premises and most likely running on top of COBOL programs and so on. But at the same time, it's highly, highly reliable. That they've been running those systems for, like, 40 years, even more than that, so it's a very highly reliable.And as you said, it's a very regulated industry, so it's very hard to sell them this kind of new approach to banking. And actually, we consider this as almost an innovation for them. And it's a little bit strange to talk about innovation in a sense that we're proposing other companies to run in the cloud. This doesn't sound innovating at all nowadays. So, every company runs their systems in the cloud nowadays, so it's difficult to [laugh] realize that this is actually innovation in the banking system because they're not used to running those things.And as you said, they're slow in adopting new technologies because of security concerns, and so on. So, we're trying to bring these new things to the table and prove them. And we had to prove banks and other financial institutions that it is possible to run a banking system a hundred percent in the cloud while maintaining security standards and security compliances and governance compliance and all that stuff. It's very hard to do so and we have a very stringent process to evaluate and assess new technologies because we have to make sure it complies with those standards and all those certifications that we need to have in order to operate in this industry. So, it's very hard, but it doesn't—at that same time, we have lots of new technologies and different ways we can provide the same services to those banks.And then I think the most difficult part in this is to map what traditional banks were doing into this new way of doing things in the cloud. So, this mapping, it's sometimes it gets a little confusing and we have to be very patient and very clear with our clients what they should expect from us and how we will provide the same services they already have now, but using different technologies and different ways. For instance, they are used to these communications with different services, they're used to things like webhooks. But webhooks are not reliable; they can fail and if they fail, you lose that connection, you lose connectivity, and you may lose data and you may have things out of sync using webhooks. So, now we have things like event streaming, or queues and other stuff that you can use to [replay 00:09:47] things and not lose any data.But at the same time, you have to process this, and then offline in an asynchronous manner. So, you have to map those synchronous things that they did before to this asynchronous world and this world where things are—we have an eventual consistency. But it's very difficult but it's also at the same time, it's a very fascinating industry.Jason: Yeah, that is fascinating. But I do love how you mentioned taking the idea of the new technology and what it does, and really trying to map that back to previously—you know, those previous practices that they had. And so, along with that, for folks who are listening again, Mauricio and I had a chat during Chaos Conf a while back, and he was sharing some of the practices that Pisma has done for Chaos Engineering. And I always liken that back to, you know, Chaos Engineering really is very similar to traditional disaster recovery testing, in many ways, other than oftentimes, your disaster recovery would never actually, you know, take things down. Mauricio, I'm curious, can you share a little bit more about what you've been doing with Chaos Engineering and in general, with reliability. Are there any new programs or processes that you've worked on within Prismo around Chaos Engineering and reliability?Mauricio: Well, I think that the first thing to realize, and I think this is the most important point that you need to have very clear in your mind when we're talking about Chaos Engineering is that we're not testing something when we're doing Chaos Engineering; we're experimenting with something. And there's a subtle but very important distinction between those two concepts. When you test for something, you're testing for something that you knew what will happen; you have an idea of how it should behave. You're asserting a certain behavior. You know how the system must behave and you assert that, and it makes sure the system doesn't deviate on that by having an automated test, for instance, a unit or integrated test, or even functional tests and such.But Chaos Engineering is more about experimenting. So, it's designed for the unknowns. You don't know what will happen. You're basically experimenting. It's like a lab, you're working in a laboratory, you're trying different stuff and see what happens, you have an idea of what should happen and we call this a hypothesis, but you're not sure if that is how we will behave.And actually, it doesn't matter if it complies with your expectations. Even if it doesn't behave the way you expect it to behave or the way you want it to behave, you're still gaining knowledge about your system. So, it's much more about experimenting new things instead of actually testing for some something that you know about. And our journey here into Chaos Engineering at Pismo, it all began about a year-and-a-half ago when we got a very huge outage on one of our major cloud providers here. And we went down with them; they were out for about almost an hour.But not only we were affected by it, but other digital banks here in Brazil, but also many other services like Slack, Datadog, other observability tools that were running at that time, using that cloud provider went down, together with them. So, it was a major, major outage here. And then we were actually caught off guard on this because we have lots of different ways to make sure the system doesn't go down if something bad happens. But that was so bad that we went down and we couldn't do anything. We were desperate because we couldn't do anything. And also we can even communicate properly because we use Slack as our communication hub, so Slack was down at that time, also, so we cannot communicate properly with our official channels.Also, Datadog that we were using at a time also went down and we couldn't even see what was happening in the system because we didn't have any observability running at the time. So, that was a major, major outage we had there. So, we started thinking about ways we could experiment with those major outages and see how we could find ways of still operating at least partially and not go down entirely or at least have ways to see what was happening even in the face of a major disaster. And those traditional disaster recovery measures that were valid at the time, even those couldn't cope with the kind of outages we were facing at that time. So, we were trying to look for different ways that we can improve the reliability of our services as a whole.So, I guess that's when we started looking into Chaos Engineering and started looking for different tools to make that work, and different partnerships we could find, and even different ways we could experiment this with our existing technology and platform.Jason: I really love how you characterized that difference between testing and Chaos Engineering. And I think the idea of being more experimental puts you into a mindset of having this concept of, you know, kind of blamelessness, right, around failure. The idea that, like, failure is going to happen and we want to be open to seeing that and to learning from it. More so than a test, right? When we test things, then there's the notion of a pass-fail and fails are bad, whereas with an experiment, that learning is, if it didn't happen the way you expect, there's learning around that and that's a good thing rather than a bad thing, such as failing a test.Mauricio: Yeah, and that works in a higher framework, I guess, which is resilience itself. So, I guess, chaos experiment, chaos engineering, and all that stuff, it's an important part of a bigger whole that we call resilience. And I guess a key to understand resilience is that this point exactly, the systems never work in unexpected ways. They always behave the way it is expected to behave. They're deterministic in nature. So, we're talking about machines here, computers. We told them what we want them to do.And even if we have complexity and randomness involved, say if a network connection goes down, it still will behave the way we programmed them to behave. So, every failure should be expected. What we have here is that sometimes they behave in ways we don't want them to behave. And sometimes they behave in ways we want them to behave. So, it's more of a matter of desire, you know? You want something, you want the system to behave a certain way.So, in that sense, success should be measured as a performance variability, you know? So, sometimes it will work the way you want and sometimes it will work your way in ways that you don't want it to behave. And I guess, realizing that, it's key also to understand another point that is, in that sense, success is the flip side of failure. So, either it works the way you want it or it works the way you don't want it. And what we can do to move the scale towards a more successful operation, the ways you can do this, you must first realize also that—let's go back a little bit then say, if you have a failure and you look at why it happened, almost never it is the result of one single thing.Sometimes it is, but this is very rare. Most of the failures and even mainly when we're talking about major failures, they're most likely the result of a context of things that happened that led to this failure. And you can see that the same thing, it's valid for successes. When you have a success at one point, it's almost never the result of one thing that you did that led to a successful scenario. Most of the time is a context of different things you did that maximizes your chances of success.So, to turn this scale towards success, you should create an environment of several things, of a context of things. And this could be tooling, this could be your organizational culture and stuff, all of those things that you do in your company to maximize their chances of success. It's not, you cannot plan for success in the sense because planning is one thing you can do, and planning doesn't involve strategy, for instance. Because planning should be done thinking about things you can do, tasks you can perform, while strategy, you should be turning tables to [laugh] think in terms of strategy. So, you have to put all of this in the same way in a table and try to organize your company and your culture, your tools and your technology in ways you maximize your chances of success and minimize your chances of failures.Jason: That's such an interesting insight. So, I'm curious, can you dive into some of the things that you and your team have done to maximize your chances of success?Mauricio: Okay. When we started working with Chaos Engineering, it was in this sense of trying to do one more thing to maximize our chances of success. And we partnered up with Gremlin and we saw that working with Chaos Engineering, using Gremlin mainly, it's so easy—that is, it's also easy to lose track of what you're doing. It's easy for you to go just for the fun of it and break things down and have fun with it and stuff. So, we had to come up with a way to bring structure to this process.And by doing so, we should also not be too bureaucratic in the sense of creating a set of steps you should take in order to run a chaos session. So, one way we thought about was to come up with a document. That is the bureaucratic part, so this was a step you should take in order to plan for your chaos session, but there is one part of it—and I think it's one of the most important parts of this chaos session planning—is that you should describe what you're going to test, but more importantly, why you're going to test this. And this is one of the most important questions because this is a fundamental question: why you're doing this kind of experiment. And to answer that, you have to think about all the things in context.What are the technologies you're using? Why it fails in the first place? Do the fails that I expect to see are actually fails or is it just different ways of behaving? And sometimes we consider failure in a business rule that was not complied, that was not met. So, this is an opportunity to think about, are those business rules correct? Should we make it more flexible? Should we change those business logic?So, when you start asking why you're doing something, you're asking fundamental questions, and I think that puts you in context. And this is one of the major starting points to maximize our chances of success because it makes every engineer involved in running a chaos session, think about their role in the whole process and the role of their services in the whole company. So, I think this is one powerful question to ask before starting any chaos session, and I think this contributes a lot to a successful outcome.Jason: Yeah, I think that's a really great perspective on how to approach Chaos Engineering. Beyond the Chaos Engineering, you mentioned that the staff engineering group that you're part of that Prismo is really responsible for seeing new technologies and new trends and really trying to bring those in and see how they can be used and applied within the financial services sector. Are there any new technologies that you've used recently or that you're looking at right now that has really been fruitful or really applied to finding more success as you've mentioned?Mauricio: Yeah, there are some things we're researching. One of those already went past research and we're already using it in production, which is data—cloud-based, multi-region databases and multi-cloud—also—databases. And we're working with CockroachDB as one of our new database technologies we use. And it's a database built from the ground up to be ultra resilient. And that's why the name Cockroach, I guess, if there's a [laugh] a world nuclear war here, all that will survive would be cockroaches in our client's data. [laugh]. So, I guess that's the gist of it.And we have to think about that in different ways of how we approach this because we're talking about multi-cloud data stores and multi-region and how we deal with data in different regions. And should we replicate all the data between regions and how we do partition data. So, we have to think in different ways, how we approach data modeling with those new cloud-based and multi-region and globally distributed databases. Another one that we're—this is more like of a research, is having a sharded processing. And that is, how we can deal with, how we group different parts of the data to be processed separately but using the same logic.And this is a way to scale processing in ways that horizontal scaling in a more traditional way doesn't solve in some instances. Like, when we have—for instance, let me describe one scenario that we have that we're exploring things along those lines. We have a system here called ‘The Ledger,' which keeps track of all of the accounts' balances. And for this system, if we have multiple requests or lots of requests for different accounts, there's no problem because we're updating balances for different accounts, and that works fine. And we can deal with lots and lots of requests. We have a very good performance on that.But when we have lots of requests coming in from one particular accounts, and they're all grouped for this particular account, then we cannot—there's no way around locking at some place. So, you have to lock it either at the database level, or at a distributed locking mechanism level, or at the business logic layer. At some point, you have to lock the access to this account balance. So, this degrades performance because you have to wait for this processing to finish and start another. And how can we deal with that without using locks?And this was the challenge we put that to ourselves. And we're exploring different ways, lots of different ways, and different approaches to that. And we have lots of restrictions on that because this system has to respond quickly, has to respond online, and cannot be in an asynchronous process; it has to be synchronous. So, we have very little space for double-checking it and stuff. So, we're exploring a sharded processing for this one in which we can have a small subset of accounts being routed to one specific consumer to process this transaction, and by doing so, we may have things like a queue of order transactions so we can give up locking at the database and maybe improve on performance. But we're still on the POC on that, so let's see what we come up with [laugh] in the next few months.Jason: I think that's really fascinating. Both from a, you know, having been there, having worked on systems where, you know, very transaction-driven, and having locks be an issue. And so, you know, back in my day of doing this, you know, was traditionally MySQL or Postgres, trying to figure out, like, how do you structure the database. So, I think it's interesting that you're sort of tackling this in two ways, right? You've got CockroachDB, which is more oriented towards reliability, but a lot of the things that you're doing there around, you know, sharding and multi-cloud also have effects for this new work that you're doing on how do you eliminate that locking and try to do sharded processes as well. So, that's all super fascinating to me.Mauricio: Exactly. Yeah, yeah. This is one of the things that makes you do better the end of the day, you know? [laugh].Jason: Yeah, definitely. As an engineer, you know, if anybody's listening and you're thinking of, “Wow, this all sounds fascinating and really cool stuff,” right, “Really cool technologies to be working with and really interesting challenges to solve,” I know, Mauricio, you said that Pismo is hiring. Do you want to share a little bit more about ways that folks can engage with you? Or maybe even join your team?Mauricio: Yeah, sure. We're hiring; we have lots of jobs open for application. You can go to pismo.io and we have a section for that. And also, you can find us on LinkedIn; just search for Pismo and then find us there.And I think if you're an engineer and looking for some cool challenges on that, be sure to check our open positions because we do have lots and lots of cool stuff going on here. And since we're growing global, you have a chance to work from wherever you are. And this also imposes some major challenges for [laugh] for new technologies and making our products, our existing products, work in a globally distributed banking system. So, be sure to check out our channels there.Jason: Fantastic. Before we wrap up, is there anything else that you'd like to promote or share?Mauricio: Oh no, I think those are the main channels. You can find us: LinkedIn and our own website, pismo.io. Also, you can find us in some GopherCon conferences, KubeCon, and other—Money20/20; we're attending all of those conferences, be it in the software industry or in the financial industry. You can find this there with a booth there or just visiting or participating in some conferences and so on. So, be sure to check that out there also. I guess that's it.Jason: Very cool well thanks, Mauricio for joining us. It's been a pleasure to chat with you again.Mauricio: Thank you, Jason. And thanks for having me here.Jason: For links to all the information mentioned, visit our website at gremlin.com/podcast. If you liked this episode, subscribe to the Break Things on Purpose podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast platform. Our theme song is called “Battle of Pogs” by Komiku, and it's available on loyaltyfreakmusic.com.
Lost In Dreams covers the newest in future bass, melodic dubstep and vocal-driven dance music. Tune in to hear new tracks from ILLENIUM, SLANDER, Said The Sky, Blanke, Rossy, Highlnd and Prismo, highlighted by a mini-mix of the brand new Lost In Dreams 'Gateway' Vol 2 compilation! Connect with Lost In Dreams @ITSLOSTINDREAMS #LOSTINDREAMSRADIO
For Thanksgiving, we're bringing you something a little different—an episode of Rational Security, our light, conversational show about national security and related topics. This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined by special guest, Quinta's co-host of the Arbiters of Truth series on the Lawfare podcast feed Evelyn Douek! They sat down to discuss:—“Getting Rittenhoused”: A jury recently acquitted 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse of murder charges for shooting two men in what he claimed was self-defense during last summer's unrest. What does his trial and its aftermath tell us about the intersection of politics with our criminal justice system?— “Now That's a Power Serve”: A global pressure campaign by professional tennis players has forced Chinese officials to disclose the location of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, who disappeared after publicly accusing a former senior official of sexual assault. Is this a new model for dealing with Chinese human rights abuses?— “Duck Say Quack and Fish Go Blub—But What Did Fox Say?”: Two prominent conservative commentators have resigned from Fox News over its release of a Tucker Carlson film that they say spreads misinformation and promotes violence. Will this be enough to force the network to curb its behavior?For object lessons, Quinta endorsed her favorite pie dough recipe. Alan in turn made an unorthodox recommendation of what to put in that dough: sweet potato pie. Scott encouraged listeners to follow up that big meal with a cup of coffee, made on his beloved Aeropress with a Prismo filter attachment. And if that doesn't work, Evelyn suggested folks tuck in for a nap with her favorite weighted blanket from Bearaby. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
For Thanksgiving, we're bringing you something a little different—an episode of Rational Security, our light, conversational show about national security and related topics. This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined by special guest, Quinta's co-host of the Arbiters of Truth series on the Lawfare podcast feed Evelyn Douek! They sat down to discuss:—“Getting Rittenhoused”: A jury recently acquitted 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse of murder charges for shooting two men in what he claimed was self-defense during last summer's unrest. What does his trial and its aftermath tell us about the intersection of politics with our criminal justice system?— “Now That's a Power Serve”: A global pressure campaign by professional tennis players has forced Chinese officials to disclose the location of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, who disappeared after publicly accusing a former senior official of sexual assault. Is this a new model for dealing with Chinese human rights abuses?— “Duck Say Quack and Fish Go Blub—But What Did Fox Say?”: Two prominent conservative commentators have resigned from Fox News over its release of a Tucker Carlson film that they say spreads misinformation and promotes violence. Will this be enough to force the network to curb its behavior?For object lessons, Quinta endorsed her favorite pie dough recipe. Alan in turn made an unorthodox recommendation of what to put in that dough: sweet potato pie. Scott encouraged listeners to follow up that big meal with a cup of coffee, made on his beloved Aeropress with a Prismo filter attachment. And if that doesn't work, Evelyn suggested folks tuck in for a nap with her favorite weighted blanket from Bearaby. Be sure to visit our show page at www.lawfareblog.com and to follow us on Twitter at @RatlSecurity. And Rational Security listeners can now get a committed ad-free feed by becoming a Lawfare material supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
ALL ADVENTURE TIME ALL THE TIME our most focused episode ever tries to unravel the mysteries of Time Travel and Kumail Nanjiani's Prismo for like a really long time and we pretty much only talk about that. Eric and Sean also name this their FAVORITE episode, so don't miss this one! You can support the podcast by kicking us a few pennies at https://anchor.fm/adventureguyspodcast. Follow us! www.instagram.com/adventureguyspodcast/ www.facebook.com/AdventureGuysPodcast twitter.com/AdventureGuysNY And email us at didyouseethemail@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you. :) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adventureguyspodcast/support
Los Angeles-born and Texas-raised artist YI is an electronically-influenced music producer and DJ. YI has expanded his growth throughout Texas and beyond, starring in the show “Polaris Primetime (2017)” on DisneyXD/D|XP as the show’s DJ. Yi was also named the 2nd Top College DJ (2017) of the United States by “CAMPUS DJ,” a nationwide collegiate DJ competition, and has opened for a variety of artists since including Fetty Wap, Prismo, Alison Wonderland, Prince Fox, Bowling For Soup, and more. As a producer, he's worked with the rising Austin rapper "Wrawkstar," and has even worked outside his genre with the rising Folk-Americana band "Christian Sparks and the Beatnik Bandits."This episode completely caught me off guard! It was a great time talk to Yi, learning about his journey is a pianist, musician, and DJ. It was also cool hearing about his experience acting on t.v. alongside Jimmy Wong and others. We talk about everything from beats to Bach, don't miss it!Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6sKrkOQrrh4TuzSIAd2bjOFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialyimusicTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/officialyimusicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialyimusicTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/officialyimusicTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialyimusic?lang=enSoundcloud: https://www.soundcloud.com/officialyimusicYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3MooJfPGfXtunrPev1Hg6Q/featured
"Keep your workout music fresh all year long and crank up this high intensity party for your pavement! This heart pounding playlist will provide you with all the entertainment & motivation you need to amp up your sweat session courtesy of R3hab, Tropkillaz, Standerwick and so many more! Tracks like ‘Wild Side’ by Prismo will inspire you to crush your fitness goals! “Your successes give you extra energy. Keep striving, because when you achieve one success, you’re excited to meet another.” “Small, daily achievements spark the process of self-discipline. When you want to learn something new, start mastering the smallest details and work your way up.” “Don’t aim for success if you want it: just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” “You didn’t climb all this way to ignore the view and just keep walking to the next place that is a goal for you.” – Jennae Cecelia “All your desires exist on a frequency. Vibrate higher.” “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” – Reba Mcentire “A mistake that makes you humble is much better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.” “Every day is not a success. Every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.” – Reese Witherspoon “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh “Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not going to give it five years.” – Meghan Markle “When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.” – Martin Walsh “What comes easy won’t last long, and what lasts long won’t come easy.” 00:00 - Mic Break 01:47 - Every Little Thing (Bazzflow Extended Remix) - Deepend feat. Deb’s Daughter 05:43 - Revolution (Manbeat Remix) - R3hab & NERVO & Ummet Ozcan 10:20 - Honey (Radio Edit) - D.O.D 12:47 - Mic Break 12:54 - Toca Na Pista - Tropkillaz & Heavy Baile feat. Mc Carol 15:44 - Wild Side - Prismo 19:16 - Icebear (Extended Mix) - Sem Thomasson 23:13 - Mic Break 23:24 - Into The Deep (Extended Mix) - Standerwick 29:13 - Ghost ‘N’ Stuff (Matroda Remix) - Deadmau5 33:20 - Elevate - RetroVision 36:18 - Mic Break 36:24 - Back To Life - Navarra 40:43 - Gotta Give Me (Original Mix) - Tuff London & Ben Remember 47:05 - Mic Break 47:13 - Prophet (Farius Remix) - Pete K 53:22 - Last Summer (Original Mix) - Sebjak, Bedmar & Adrien Rux 56:56 - Mic Break 57:01 - Something In Insomnia (Ivan-Skicin Mashup) - Faithless vs. Dr Shiver feat. Kazi 62:53 - Attitude (Original Mix) - Rene Amesz & Lena Estetica 68:48 - Mic Break 68:55 - Discoteca (Original Mix) - Block & Crown, Luca Debonaire 74:51 - The Right Direction (Original Mix) - Luca Debonaire 80:36 - Mic Break 80:42 - Magic (Extended Mix) - JØRD, LOthief feat. Santti 85:39 - We Are One (Original Mix) - Grum feat. Chris Sevier 92:11 - Mic Break 92:19 - Cola (Mousse T. Glitterbox Mix) - CamelPhat & Elderbrook 98:53 - Thanks A Million (Extended Mix) - Jay Hardway 102:19 - Mic Break 102:25 - Found Love (Original Mix) - Mazza feat. Tenashar 104:52 - Danger Zone (Original Club Mix) - Sergey Smile 108:26 - LoVe U - Marshmello 111:44 - Mic Break 111:49 - It Was Nothing (Extended Mix) - Luca Debonaire & Arnold Palmer 116:43 - Mentality (Original Mix) - Dosem 122:45 - Mic Break 122:51 - House Dawgs (Original Mix) - CamelPhat 128:19 - Impossible Love (Extended Mix) - West.K & Danijel Kostic feat. Weldon 133:24 - Nine To Phife (Original Mix) - Robosonic & Ferreck Dawn 138:22 - Mic Break 138:37 - Calling On You (Marcus Santoro’s Sunset Extended Remix) - Mike Shiver 145:02 - Get It Right (Original Club Mix) - Antdot 151:03 - Mic Break 152:22 - Were There (Original Mix) - Robosonic & Ferreck Dawn feat. Donna Lugassy 158:52 - Company (Extended Mix) - Axollo feat. Ralph Larenzo 162:44 - Finish "
"Keep your workout music fresh all year long and crank up this high intensity party for your pavement! This heart pounding playlist will provide you with all the entertainment & motivation you need to amp up your sweat session courtesy of R3hab, Tropkillaz, Standerwick and so many more! Tracks like ‘Wild Side’ by Prismo will inspire you to crush your fitness goals! “Your successes give you extra energy. Keep striving, because when you achieve one success, you’re excited to meet another.” “Small, daily achievements spark the process of self-discipline. When you want to learn something new, start mastering the smallest details and work your way up.” “Don’t aim for success if you want it: just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” “You didn’t climb all this way to ignore the view and just keep walking to the next place that is a goal for you.” – Jennae Cecelia “All your desires exist on a frequency. Vibrate higher.” “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” – Reba Mcentire “A mistake that makes you humble is much better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.” “Every day is not a success. Every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.” – Reese Witherspoon “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh “Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not going to give it five years.” – Meghan Markle “When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.” – Martin Walsh “What comes easy won’t last long, and what lasts long won’t come easy.” 00:00 - Mic Break 01:47 - Every Little Thing (Bazzflow Extended Remix) - Deepend feat. Deb’s Daughter 05:43 - Revolution (Manbeat Remix) - R3hab & NERVO & Ummet Ozcan 10:20 - Honey (Radio Edit) - D.O.D 12:47 - Mic Break 12:54 - Toca Na Pista - Tropkillaz & Heavy Baile feat. Mc Carol 15:44 - Wild Side - Prismo 19:16 - Icebear (Extended Mix) - Sem Thomasson 23:13 - Mic Break 23:24 - Into The Deep (Extended Mix) - Standerwick 29:13 - Ghost ‘N’ Stuff (Matroda Remix) - Deadmau5 33:20 - Elevate - RetroVision 36:18 - Mic Break 36:24 - Back To Life - Navarra 40:43 - Gotta Give Me (Original Mix) - Tuff London & Ben Remember 47:05 - Mic Break 47:13 - Prophet (Farius Remix) - Pete K 53:22 - Last Summer (Original Mix) - Sebjak, Bedmar & Adrien Rux 56:56 - Mic Break 57:01 - Something In Insomnia (Ivan-Skicin Mashup) - Faithless vs. Dr Shiver feat. Kazi 62:53 - Attitude (Original Mix) - Rene Amesz & Lena Estetica 68:48 - Mic Break 68:55 - Discoteca (Original Mix) - Block & Crown, Luca Debonaire 74:51 - The Right Direction (Original Mix) - Luca Debonaire 80:36 - Mic Break 80:42 - Magic (Extended Mix) - JØRD, LOthief feat. Santti 85:39 - We Are One (Original Mix) - Grum feat. Chris Sevier 92:11 - Mic Break 92:19 - Cola (Mousse T. Glitterbox Mix) - CamelPhat & Elderbrook 98:53 - Thanks A Million (Extended Mix) - Jay Hardway 102:19 - Mic Break 102:25 - Found Love (Original Mix) - Mazza feat. Tenashar 104:52 - Danger Zone (Original Club Mix) - Sergey Smile 108:26 - LoVe U - Marshmello 111:44 - Mic Break 111:49 - It Was Nothing (Extended Mix) - Luca Debonaire & Arnold Palmer 116:43 - Mentality (Original Mix) - Dosem 122:45 - Mic Break 122:51 - House Dawgs (Original Mix) - CamelPhat 128:19 - Impossible Love (Extended Mix) - West.K & Danijel Kostic feat. Weldon 133:24 - Nine To Phife (Original Mix) - Robosonic & Ferreck Dawn 138:22 - Mic Break 138:37 - Calling On You (Marcus Santoro’s Sunset Extended Remix) - Mike Shiver 145:02 - Get It Right (Original Club Mix) - Antdot 151:03 - Mic Break 152:22 - Were There (Original Mix) - Robosonic & Ferreck Dawn feat. Donna Lugassy 158:52 - Company (Extended Mix) - Axollo feat. Ralph Larenzo 162:44 - Finish "
On Episode 140, we feature a wide variety of undiscovered music ranging from future bass bangers to hip-hop influenced trap beats. Tune in for new music from N3WPORT, Egzod, Prismo, Synchronice, and many more! Tweet your questions & comments at @AllTrapNation with #TrapNationRadio. Don’t forget to rate and review on all of your favorite podcast apps. Follow Trap Nation on YouTube - youtube.com/alltrapnation! 01. Synchronice - Alone 02. William Black x Rico & Miella - Here At Last 03. Unknown Brain & Rfen - Distortion 04. Nitti Gritti & Jupe - Famous 05. Neo Noir - Made For You (feat. Brooke Wiliams) 06. Khamsin - My Way (feat. MOONZz) 07. Gazzo - Holdin On (ft. Raj Chrome) 08. Enthic - The Way (feat. Calin & URBAN) 09. SLUMBERJACK & QUIX - Vision (ft. josh pan) 10. Snareskin - Smoke (feat. Indigou) 11. Morgan Madison - Care No More 12. Prismo - Smile 13. TWERL & Devault - Lishu 14. AWAY - Honest To Gød (feat. Charity) (Eliminate Remix) 15. William Black & Fairlane - Butterflies (ft. Dia Frampton) (N3WPORT Remix) 16. Fedmate - Decor 17. Hopsteady - Feel Me (feat. Elora Zamar) 18. Egzod - Ride The Wave
On Episode 107, we feature a wide variety of undiscovered music ranging from future bass bangers to hip-hop influenced trap beats. Tune in for new music from Coopex, Prismo, xChenda, Bonnie X Clyde, and many more! Tweet your questions & comments at @AllTrapNation with #TrapNationRadio. Don’t forget to rate and review on all of your favorite podcast apps. Follow Trap Nation on YouTube - youtube.com/alltrapnation! 01. ILLENIUM - Broken Ones (ft. Anna Clendening) 02. Coopex & Kuoga - What’s Right (ft. Tim Moyo) 03. Cosmo Sheldrake - Birthday Suit (xChenda Remix) 04. 32Stitches & Hoober - Astronomia 05. Gallant - Sharpest Edges (Airmow Remix) 06. Rival - Walls (ft. Bryan Finlay) 07. Haywyre - With You (Prismo Remix) 08. Sakuraburst - Goddess (ft. BABii) (polyfawn Remix) 09. elijah hill & rx Soul - 3 nights 10. VOSAI - Lost 11. Tarro - Blood Moon (ft. Micah Martin) 12. Blanke - Flatline (with Calivania) 13. Coopex & Besomorph - On The Line (ft. Galvanic) 14. Major Lazer & Khalid - Trigger (Yonexx & xChenda Remix) 15. Halsey - Graveyard (Unzam & Despotem Remix) 16. Serhat Durmus - Mirror 17. Bonnie x Clyde - Curse 18. Flume - Rushing Back ft. Vera Blue (Petit Biscuit Remix) 19. Death Cab for Cutie - I Dreamt We Spoke Again (Louis The Child Remix)
On Episode 95, we feature a wide variety of undiscovered music ranging from future bass bangers to hip-hop influenced trap beats. Tune in for new music from N3WPORT, Prismo, Slushii, and many more! Tweet your questions & comments at @AllTrapNation with #TrapNationRadio. Don’t forget to rate and review on all of your favorite podcast apps. Follow Trap Nation on YouTube - youtube.com/alltrapnation!
Show Summary: (Full Transcript Below) Screen readers, Refreshable Braille, Magnification, Audio Books, Computers and Smart Devices are just a few of the Tools for Success that are available to the Blind/Visually Impaired community. From education to the workplace, Assistive Technology enables people with a visual impairment to do just about anything they want to and apply for the jobs and the careers that they want. State Services for the Blind has a technology Unit that makes assessments and help clients determine what assistive technology would best suit their needs as they set their educational and career goals. Jesse Anderson is an Assistive Technology Specialist at State Services for the Blind (SSB) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In this podcast, Jesse will take you through the assessment process and how assistive technology choices are made and individualized for each person and their educational and career goals. Jesse admits he is a nerd and loves technology. Jesse loves Accessible Gaming and Advocates for accessibility in the gaming industry. You can find out more about Jesse and accessible gaming on his YouTube Channel, Illegally Sighted. If you want to find out more about State Services for the Blind. You can call (651) 539-2300 Find them on the web. Outside of Minnesota, search for your state agency/Vocational Rehabilitation Services in your state and find out what they can do for you. Contact: Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the App Store. Full Transcript Full Transcription: Jeff Thompson: Be sure to check out the blind ability scill on your Amazon device. Just say, "Enable Blind Abilities." {Music} Jesse Anderson: We're not just looking at, okay, how can we get you through your classes that you're currently in. We're actually looking at more of a long-term goal. Jeff Thompson: Meet Jesse Anderson. Jesse Anderson: They use Windows PC's typically in many office environments. Jeff Thompson: Assistive Technology Specialist from State Services for the Blind in Minnesota. Jesse Anderson: Mac is in a lot of the more artistic areas, so maybe audio, video production, maybe some web design. It's good for people to learn that experience as well, to kind of know how to find ways to fix problems. If you are low vision, how would you do that? If you are blind, how would you do that? Well, I might take my phone and use it as a magnifier. Or if I am blind, I might take my phone or my laptop, and snap a picture of it and have it read aloud with my Bluetooth headphones. Jeff Thompson: Welcome to Blind Abilities. I am Jeff Thompson. Today we're going to be talking about assistive technology. About the tools for success. The tools that will help you level the playing field in the job market, in employment, and in education. We'll be talking about the services that your state agency can provide to you, and how your participation is vitally important towards your success. So be sure to check out your state agency, your voc rehab, your state's services for the blind and see what they can do for you. Jesse Anderson: Have the technology skills and knowing those skills well I think is just a really good thing to do, no matter what you are going to be doing in your employment or education. If you are low vision, you may be a Zoom text user, but you know what? It might be a great idea to learn Windows Magnifier, because a. It's free, b. It's built into Windows. Jeff Thompson: If you wanna find more podcasts with a blindness perspective, check us out on the web at www.blindabilities.com, and check out our extensive library. From job insights, TVI Toolbox, iPhone 101, and our tech show, Tech Abilities, where we cover the latest developments, the latest innovations and the technologies that will enhance your opportunities for success. Jesse Anderson: I am into a little bit of everything but I am definitely still a nerd. Jeff Thompson: Please welcome assistive technology specialist, Jessie Anderson. We hope you enjoy. Jeff Thompson: Welcome to Blind Abilities. I am Jeff Thompson and today I am at State Services for the Blind in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I'm talking to assistive technology specialist, Jessie Anderson. Jessie, how are you doing? Jesse Anderson: I'm doing pretty good. Thanks for having me on today. Jeff Thompson: Great. Jessie, I wanna thank you for taking the time out of your day to come on the Blind Abilities and share with our listeners the services that you provide here at State Services for the Blind as an assistive technology specialist. Jesse Anderson: Yeah, there are actually five assistive technology specialists at SSB and we all work out of the St. Paul office. How it works is we are assigned to specific counselors who cover specific areas of the state. For instance, I do cover the [inaudible] Cato area, and then you have all the other tech specialists covering the different other parts of the state. And the last couple years, my role has changed a little bit because I am starting to work a lot more with transition age students, and that's a little bit more statewide. So I do a lot of metro, but I am traveling around the state a fair bit as well. So I will do assistive technology assessments. Meet with students in the schools or at SSB or wherever we need to. And there's a lot of stuff going on with the transition program. Jeff Thompson: Well that's a good age, 14 to 21. Students that are transitioning from high school to college where they really wanna hone in on some accessible technology to gain employment. Jesse Anderson: Yeah. During one of the ... when I meet with a students, it could be anyone between eighth grade on up in school, and like I said, if they are in the area, sometimes they'll meet here at SSB and if they are local, that is really helpful because we do have quite a few more types of devices in our technology lab or our resource center here. But I do go on the road a lot especially to greater Minnesota. So a lot of times, we'll set up a meeting to meet in the student school during some time that they can meet either during study hall or something, like that. And when I meet with people, some of the things we look at ... we're not just looking at, okay, how can we get you through your classes that you are currently in? We're actually looking at more of a long-term goal. So even if you're eighth, ninth grade, we're still going to kind of be looking at, well maybe you want a summer job. Maybe you want to work a little bit after school, or maybe you are participating in some transition related activities through SSB or other organization. Jesse Anderson: And then moving onto maybe what are you thinking after graduating high school? Are you going to go to college? You kind of maybe have an idea what type of degree. Maybe you wanna work with computers or people or animals. Maybe you don't wanna go to college and maybe you just wanna look for work right away. So those are the kind of things that we look at and then what types of technology would kind of best work to meet those types of education or employment goals based on their vision. Jeff Thompson: Covers a wide spectrum of low vision to totally blind from whether it's their braille, or if they are going to be using a lot of brail, to if they are using more audio. You do a full assessment of what would probably work best for those type of goals that they are seeking. Jesse Anderson: Absolutely. We work with people who are blind, who are low vision, who are deaf-blind, and I have met with people of all those groups. Blind, deaf-blind, and low-vision. And it could also be an accommodation thing. You may have a low-vision user who has some usability vision but honestly, it's much more affective for them to primarily listen to audio and maybe they even know braille. So, instead of maybe you have a very, very limited field of view or very, very low-vision and so visual is just not practical. So we may still look at brail displays. We still may look at a lot of audio. Yeah, it could be anywhere from computer software to smartphones, tablets, braille displays, note takers, portable devices, CCTVs. Any kind of number of things. Jesse Anderson: And so when we get a referrals from the counselor and just kind of get an idea of the person's vision and kind of what they are thinking of doing, then we can kind of help them identify what would work best for them. Jeff Thompson: And that's great because people are coming in. They're probably trying to set up an employment program. And so they are working with counselor and then you have a transition team, and your part of this is when it comes to technology. So what is an assessment? When someone does in come for that assessment, how long do you spend with them? And where do you start? Jesse Anderson: Well, when we do an assessment, usually I tell people that I kind of schedule things for, I would say, between an hour and a half to two hours. I usually block off a two hour block of time, and then even have a little bit of extra time after, if needed. Because I always let people know that if we go through things quickly and end early, or if we go a little bit longer, that's totally fine. My main thing is, I don't want to rush people through everything. We're going to cover a lot of different topics. A lot of different types of technology during that assessment as it is, and so I wanna give people enough time to ask questions, try out some of the technology and not rush through everything. We'll have the information from the counselor's referral and I'll just kind of ask some general questions. What is your vision? Is it stable? Because we also wanna look at, maybe your vision is like this, but oh, maybe it was a little bit better six months ago. And is it stable or is it expected to deteriorate over time? Jesse Anderson: And so we want to look at if that is the case, you may be able to use some large print now, but you may also kind of want to look at using more speech or gradually, especially if someone is not used to it, getting used to using more audio and maybe braille or something like that. Because as their vision changes, they'll need to do that. We look at what their needs are. How they like to best process information. Are they a visual learner? Do they have to physically read it either visually or tactilely through braille? Or do they prefer audio? What's most efficient? If we're looking at employment, we're looking at even things like, yes, okay, I might be able to read visually, but it's not really that fast and if I was in a fast-paced work setting where I had to get my job done quickly, maybe I am talking with customers on the phone. I need to access client information at a customer service job, maybe print isn't the fastest and you do have to look at audio because you also have to look at level of productivity that makes sense. Jeff Thompson: My experience out in the work force and businesses and corporations and all that, it seems like a lot of companies are PC based or they are Microsoft based through their databases. I see a higher percentage of people using JAWS or NVDA on their computers that are in the workforce. I mean, Apple is good with voiceover and your phone. A lot of people use that, and the Androids. But predominately in the workforce, I see Microsoft based computers. Jesse Anderson: Yeah. That's actually what we see a lot too. It's actually really interesting in education because in high schools and stuff right now, we have a pretty good mixture. I'll meet with some students and some schools will use iPads a lot, especially for special education. You'll see some schools that try to use Chromebooks which, they do have accessibility built into them. I don't have a lot of experience with it. I really need to get my hands on a modern Chromebook to play with that a little bit more. But, a lot of people do find even though they do have accessibility built in, they find it a little bit more restrictive. So they would like to either use more of a PC or a Mac, but you have some schools, it'll have PC. Some will use Mac. Some will use iPads. And it's just a wide variety of things. Jesse Anderson: And then when you get To college, it's kind of a free for all, because everybody has their own way to take notes or write reports. You can use your Mac. You can use your PC. But like you said, in the work world, and this is even if somebody is in high school and if they are like, "Oh, I wanna be a psychologist", or, "I wanna work in an office", or, "I wanna work in some type of setting like that", I do let them know that, like you said, they use Windows PC's typically in many office environments. The main place where I would see Mac is in a lot of the artistic areas. So maybe audio, video production. Maybe some web design. But that could go either way. Jesse Anderson: So I mean, we do recommend some Mac packages. Or if somebody is maybe you do have a technical position but maybe somebody is wanting to ... they are a programmer and they need to develop for Mac or iOS. You have to pretty much have a Mac to do that. So there are cases where we do recommend, but yes. In a lot of business settings, I would say, I can probably count the number of actual office settings on one hand that would use a Mac, as it's all been pretty much Windows. Jeff Thompson: Yeah. Well that's the unique thing about what you do here at State Services for the Blind, is you develop programs for individual for their needs. What works best for them to succeed. Jesse Anderson: Correct. Jeff Thompson: So Jessie, say someone does acquire a piece of equipment and it's working for them, but they wanna learn a little bit more about it. What do you suggest to them to do at that point? Jesse Anderson: Well, when we meet with people during the original assessment, we'll kind of also look at what their computer skills are. Not just computer skills, but how well they use the computer. If they are using an iPhone or an iPad, Android device, or whatever technology that is that they need or are currently using, and we'll let them know that we do have a couple of on-staff trainers that can work with them for some tasks and then we also have some certified contracted trainers that we work with throughout the state who can meet individually, one-on-one, with people for technology training. And that can happen at SSB. That can happen at the client's home. That can happen at the job site. Like I said, in addition to assessments, we will also go ... let's say somebody gets a job offer, and the company says we're using this software. Is this going to work with JAWS, Zoom Text or NVDA? Something like that. Jesse Anderson: And so we can work with the user and we can work with the business and we can set up a time to go to that business and get the demo of JAWS, or Zoom Text, let's say, installed on those machines, and have somebody at the job who knows what that position requires, and then they'll walk us through kind of what that person would be required to do, and then we can test how that assistive technology works with their software. Are there any problems? And if there are, what kind of things can we do to get around them or fix them? Yeah, there's a lot involved. With training, or with assessing job sites. All kinds of different things. Jeff Thompson: So they are not alone. Jesse Anderson: No, no. And if somebody has ... we got some equipment for them, or they have equipment already. Like I said, there is a training part of it, and then let's say somebody gets ... receives some technology with the assistance of SSB. We give them an assistive technology resource guide, and that's kind of a long document that has all kinds of helpful information. It'll have all of their device information. Their serial numbers of their devices. It'll have some common tips for different things. A lot of times we have a few cheat sheets for some programs like using some of the built in accessibility features of Mac and Windows. And then there's also in this resource guide, we also provide contact information for a lot of the common types of devices that we recommend. So be it a computer, a brail display, Zoom Text or JAWS. Something like that. Jesse Anderson: And we do encourage them. Yes, we are definitely there to help but we also do encourage them to contact ... let's say they have a computer program. Their computer just died, or they have a weird JAWS behavior problem or they have whatever issue. To also encourage them to learn how to contact some of the manufacturers and get some of their technical support too, because some of the really strange bugs, maybe some things that even we can't quite figure out. Or maybe there's a hardware issue, where they will have to kind of send it in. And so it's good for people to learn that experience as well to kind of know how to find ways to fix problems. Jeff Thompson: Oh yeah. And that's a life-long skill because all the way down to your job, career, whatever you are doing, you're going to come across problems and develop advocating for assistance, help, maintenance, whatever it is, pays off in the long run. So, Jessie, you've talked about going to college but employment seems to be the big thing. For people who are looking for employment, what suggestions would you have for them in regards to technology and maybe an employer not understanding what AT, assistive technology, is? Jesse Anderson: There are a few things that I will kind of tell people are as we are discussing things during the assessment or as we we're meeting in general. When we're talking about transition, the common sort of issues is that, well, this assistive technology is cool, but I don't really wanna look different. Like okay, I've got this CCTV or I've got this brail display and people are like what the heck is that? And we all know. I mean, I went through it. You went through it. Kids can be mean. When you're in high school, junior high, high school, kids can do some really mean things. And so they are kind of worried about looking different or standing out. And we just try to encourage them to ... if this makes your life a lot easier, like if you are really struggling to read that assignment, if you are really struggling to see the white board at the front of the room or to write that report or whatever it is for school, yeah, you might look a little bit different. But everybody uses technology in the room now. I mean, you've got people using their smartphones and tablets and laptops and things. Jesse Anderson: So you might have a few little bit different things, but if it's going to make your life a lot easier and more efficient, speed up what you're doing, and spend half an hour instead of three hours on an assignment, don't worry about it. And when you get to college, not only will people not care, but that's actually a really interesting conversation starter, because then people go, "Oh, dude, what's that?" And then you can show them stuff. Then they also get more of a positive impression of, "Oh, okay. You are going to college. You are going to look for work." Kind of gives them more of a positive impression on blindness or low-vision as well. Jesse Anderson: One of the other things that I would talk about is that when you are at that employment stage, I think it's just really important to treat the job search as a full-time job in itself. You know, I mean, a lot of people might kind of expect, "Oh, well SSB is here and they are going to help, or they are going to find me a job. Oh, they are going to get a job for me." No, we're definitely here to help you, but you definitely have to do your part as well. I'm speaking from experience, I got my undergrad degree and after that, I was unemployed for three and a half years. But that wasn't for lack of trying. I basically set aside anywhere between six, eight hours a day on weekdays, and sometimes weekends if I found a good job lead. And I would apply for jobs. I would look for jobs. Jesse Anderson: I had a whole jobs folder where I would have several types of templates for resumes and cover letters, where maybe I am applying for help desk jobs. Maybe I am applying for a web design job or a customer ... Any type of job, so I could just quickly get those out there. And then I would even have Excel workbooks, because I was applying for so many jobs, it's so hard to keep track. And so I would put, okay, I applied for this business, this position. I applied for it on that date. Did I get a response? Did I get an interview? What are the things [inaudible], because otherwise, I was not going to remember it. In that three and a half period, I got so many rejection letters, I jokingly would tell people that I could wallpaper my apartment with them. So it's just you really do have to put in the work and treat the job search as pretty much a full-time job to really get good results. You really gotta put in, especially since we have to prove ourselves. Hey, we're blind or vision impaired, or deaf-blind, but we can do things too. Jesse Anderson: The other thing that I would ... I kind of recommend as far as technology goes that can be really helpful is, okay, so you get an interview, and I didn't do this right away but what I found to be helpful as I started doing later on, was I would bring some ... not everything, but I would bring a couple of commonly used items with me to that interview. It could be my laptop in a laptop bag. It could be my ... now it would be my iPhone and you'll be doing the interview, and by that time, they will probably know that you have a vision impairment and they may ... employers will have concerns. "Oh can you do this part of the job?" Or, "How would you do this part of the job? Can you do it quickly enough?" And not only bringing the technology to the interview, but even having some documents on your laptop ready or some tasks in mind that you could do, so someone says, "Okay, we're in a meeting and we need to hand out these memos that we want people to read and we're going to discuss. Okay if you're low-vision, how would you do that? If you're blind, how would you do that?" Jesse Anderson: Well, I might take my phone and use it as a magnifier. Or if I am blind, I might take my phone or my laptop and snap a picture of it and have it read aloud with my Bluetooth headphones. How do I access the Internet? Well, let me bring up my phone or let me bring up my laptop and go to a website that you know, go to something fairly complex so that they can see that you are using the sites that everybody does. Go to Amazon. That's a pretty complex. There's a lot of information there. Pretty complex site. And just kind of showing them some of those things, offer to kind of show them so that way they think, "Oh, okay. Not only can you do it, but you can do it well." And know your assistive technology. That's the other thing. Know your assistive technology. Jeff Thompson: That's a good point. Because sometimes you may get the equipment, but you don't know how to use it and that takes a lot of time to get familiar with it so you can use it efficiently. And that's a great point when you're at a job interview because that person there, their internal monologue is wondering, can they do this? They're not saying it, but their thought bubbles are, I don't know if they can access a computer. So you're actually breaking that ice and it's showing them and just opening the door for the possibilities like, wow I didn't know that. Because a lot of people don't know what we can do with assistive technology. Jesse Anderson: Absolutely. And I would say that a lot of people really underestimate. That's one thing that I see in education. That's one thing that I see in employment. Just kind of everywhere. A lot of it isn't the ... as long as we're doing everything that we can, we're capable. But there's a lot of low expectations or just people just don't know that, oh ... I've had people ask me, actually it was very recently. I was getting my, I think I was getting mail and somebody at my apartment complex was like, "Oh so do you work?" And I'm like, "Yeah." "Oh, okay. That's interesting." I said, "Yeah. Not only do I work, I work full-time and I do this and I do that." It's just kind of even people that kind of see me around, they're like, I didn't know really what you could do. So yeah, we encounter that a lot. It's just a lot of low expectations. But something like that can help a lot. It's just being prepared. Jeff Thompson: That's the great thing about state services for the blind, because when you're in the predicament, maybe you just lost some eyesight or maybe you've been blind and you are looking towards transitioning to college to the work place, you can come here, get a counselor and you'll meet up with someone like Jessie, an assistive technology specialist, to find the tools for success that'll help you level the playing field basically. Put you on an even keel with everyone else. And like Jessie mentioned, employment. They have employment specialists as well that can help you look for jobs, teach you how to look for jobs, teach you some skills of resume building. Jesse Anderson: Mock interviews as well. Jeff Thompson: Mm-hmm (affirmative). There are so many services here that you can get at state services for the blind. Your state agency, your vocational rehab, wherever you are, check them out and Jessie what advice would you give to someone who is transitioning from college to high school to the workplace? Jesse Anderson: Really, it's just kind of a matter of look at what you wanna do. I've had people come in and say, "Well, what are some blind jobs I could get?" And yeah, there are certain things. I'm not going to become an airline pilot or a driver or something like that, but if you wanna work on mechanics, if you want to work in an office, if you wanna do ... work in education, there's probably ... especially with all of the services and all of the technology and different things, there's probably a way to make it happen. So don't pigeon hole yourself into necessarily like, oh, these are ... I can do customer service, or I can do tuning pianos or I don't know if that's even a thing anymore, but you know? And like I said, knowing your technology. Learning those technology skills as early as possible I think is really helpful because not only just for employment but I mean, for independence, I mean, just being able to look things up on the Internet. I mean, Amazon Prime is wonderful and evil at the same time, because it's so easy to buy things but I can research products and shop. Jesse Anderson: I can pay my bills. I can do all kinds of things with my phone or my computer. Whatever. So just having the technology skills and knowing those skills well, I think is just a really good thing to do no matter what you are going to be doing in employment or education. Jeff Thompson: Great. Jessie, on a daily basis, what tools do you utilize? Jesse Anderson: In my job, I use a lot of different tools myself, because I am indeed legally blind. I have some vision, but I am legally blind. So, I actually use a combination of magnification and speech. I find myself using Windows Magnifier actually, quite a bit. Especially in Windows 10. Windows 10 has Windows Magnifier built in. It also has some high contrast features that I've been ... especially in the latest October update. They've really fixed some things and added some things so it's worked better. But I'll use Zoom Text from time to time. But honestly, I use a screen reader. I use speech a lot. I use NVDA a lot. I do still use JAWS sometimes. But NVDA and even System Access, I really like the way System Access works on the Internet. So NVDA, System Access, JAWS, those are things I use all the time. I also use my phone. Jesse Anderson: I have an iPhone and I use the built in magnifier to read short little documents or serial numbers. Things like that. I use other magnification apps. I will use things like Seeing AI, or Prismo, or KNFB Reader to OCR a document really quick. I use Voice Dream Reader and BookShare books, and BARD, and I mean just reading books for recreation or even part as my job, I wanna keep up on technology and things like that. So I read a lot of technology related books and information. So there's all kinds of apps I use on my phone, but that's probably one of my most used tools is my phone. Jeff Thompson: And in the world out there, especially in the job market and having more tools in your tool box, [inaudible] that's a catchall phrase, but having different angles of attacking at certain solution problem is a screen doesn't read to have a couple things that you could draw from is probably a good skill to have. Jesse Anderson: I'm really glad you brought that up because I totally forgot about that. That is absolutely what we recommend as well. So if you are low-vision, you may be a Zoom Text user but you know what? It might be a great idea to learn Windows Magnifier because a. It's free, b. It's built into Windows. It doesn't cost anything, but you're not always using your computer. Maybe you go to a library, a computer lab, a friend or family's place and they don't have Zoom Text installed. You can still have magnification if you are a speech user, you may be a JAWS user, but guess what? NVDA is free. It runs on a thumb drive. You can use that. You might be able to get by with using Windows Narrator and of course Apple has its voice over for a screen reader. You have Zoom built into the Mac and iOS both. Yes, knowing more than one screen ... I regularly, professionally, I regularly switch between multiple tools. Like if one OCR app doesn't work, I'll use a different one. I might visit a website with JAWS and it doesn't work, and so I use NVDA or NVDA doesn't read something and JAWS does. So absolutely knowing more than one tool, especially nowadays with the way things move so quickly. Absolutely important. Jesse Anderson: It's really interesting being an assistive technology specialist right now, because things move just so much faster. Back in the day we had, maybe you had Magic and Zoom Text or you had JAWS and WindowEyes and now you've got the Windows stuff. You've got Mac. You've got iOS. Android. And then that's not even getting into people ask about smart appliances like Google Home and Alexa or the Amazon Echo. There's so many different platforms and they all can have good uses for them, but there's a lot to keep track of. Even we can't keep up with it all. I mean, I try to. I am a nerd, and I'm into that kind of stuff, but I can't even learn everything. Jeff Thompson: Especially, I'll go on my wife's PC and I'll hit the VO keys. Well there are no VO keys on that, the PC laptop, so it's kind of fun that ... going back and forth, for me, I can do it but I have to think about it for a little bit and staying up to date with stuff. So I'll use a Mac. I can use the PC. I can use a couple of other things and that's an asset that I do. But, it does take a little bit of work to get my brain wrapped around it again. Jesse Anderson: Yeah. Definitely. I want to say, especially if you are totally blind or if you are a speech user, magnification, you can kinda figure things out because the interface might be a little bit different, but you can kind of, oh I can click around and stuff. But me being a long time PC user and just learning Mac a few years ago, I'm still not a great Mac user, I'll admit it. But I know enough to kind of get around and do some damage. Yeah. The way that you would think of navigating a Windows screen reader is kind of a bit different with voice over and that took me a lot of time to kind of get used to. So people go, "Well I wanna use a Mac because I've heard it's good for blind people." Or, "I'm using a Mac and maybe I gotta learn [inaudible] a PC", and some people might have the mistake and impression, oh, well they are both speech. You just learn a few commands and you go. Yeah. Some can take a little more time to transition because some of the way you navigate and stuff can be a bit different. Jeff Thompson: Now in your position, a lot of us out here, we have friends in the community and stuff. We get to sample things once in a while. Try and kick it around the block a little bit here and there. Now, in your position, you probably go to conferences or events where they are displaying stuff or people want to show you stuff. Vendors and all sorts of stuff, so you probably get a whole onslaught of different tools and accessible devices to sample. Jesse Anderson: We do work with quite a few of our vendors. We do have vendors who come into SSB and show the tech specialists news devices or updates to new devises, but we also do periodically have events that are opened to the public where you'll have a vendor come by and they'll show their devices and device demonstrations and we've had people come in to do that. People come in to watch that as well. We also do, if we can, we will sometimes try to get down to the CSUN conference in California. Usually it's in March and that is kind of the premier assistive technology conference. You do have things like closing the gap in ATI, but those don't really focus on blindness as much, I think as they used to. I've gone to CSUN now twice and absolutely love it. They are actually going to be in a new hotel or a new venue this year. So that'll be interesting. I'm not going to be going to that unfortunately this year, but it's a fantastic conference if you're into assistive technology. If you're a tech specialist. If you're a user. Whatever. It is pretty fun. It's pretty informative. Jeff Thompson: So Jessie, this is your day time job. What are some of your hobbies that you do? And what's your interest in? Jesse Anderson: Well, I'm into a little bit of everything, but I'm definitely still a nerd. Like I said, I still do some technology stuff at home. Technology, gaming, I like music. I'm trying to teach myself the drums. Mess around with the guitar a little bit, that kind of a thing. But I do, like I said, I still do some technology and even game accessibility stuff in my spare time. For the past several years, I do run a YouTube channel called Illegally Sighted, and that's going pretty well. And I'm really trying to advocate, like I said, everything ... my day job is all about work, but there's more to life than just work and especially video games and VR. Virtual reality, augmented reality. Those things are all becoming quite popular in the mainstream world, and blind and low-vision users would like to be included in some of that, too, and so as I've been doing the YouTube channel, it's kind of turned into this ... I've really started working more with advocating for game accessibility and I have a VR headset at home. Jesse Anderson: So I've been trying to use that as a way to like hey, approach developers. We don't have standards yet for virtual reality officially, because everyone is still trying to figure it out. So if we can get someone in there to say, "Hey, you're trying to figure things out. Let's get accessibility as just one of those standards from the beginning because it's much easier to do it from the beginning than it is to bolt it on later." So I've been trying to advocate for that and as part of that, I did a presentation in fall of 2017 that's archived on my channel. I did a presentation for #id24, Inclusive Design 24, on VR accessibility for low-vision users, and in March of this year, I was actually invited to be a presenter, part of a panel, at the third annual game accessibility conference. GACon, as it's kind of referred to online and on Twitter. And you can go to gaconf.com and it's a one day conference that's held in San Francisco and I was able to get things lined up and working so I am going to be going down to that conference for the first time this year and be a panel speaker, and hopefully I'll be able to meet some developers, and a lot of the people that I have been kind of socializing with on social media, on Twitter and things like that. Jesse Anderson: So I'm really looking forward to it, and hopefully it can result in just getting another voice out there and making more developers and stuff realize, hey, it may not be as difficult as you think it is, but blind people, low-vision people are a market too, and we do have money to spend and we wanna do, we wanna participate in games and such as well. So, that should be really fun to see how that goes. Jeff Thompson: Jessie, thank you for being an advocate for everyone, because I know a lot of people out there that want to hang onto that or have the possibilities of playing games. It's a big market out there, and thank you for doing what you are doing. Jesse Anderson: Sure. No problem. Jeff Thompson: Great, well Jessie Anderson, I wanna thank you very much for coming on to Blind Abilities. Taking the time out here at SSB. That's State Services for the Blind of Minnesota. Thank you very much. Jesse Anderson: All right. Thank you. Jeff Thompson: Be sure to check out your state services, your state agency, your vocational rehab, and see what they can do for you. And be sure to check out the Blind Abilities scale on your Amazon device. Just say, enable Blind Abilities. And you can listen to the Blind Abilities on the Victor Stream. Just go to their favorites list and find Blind Abilities. There you go. You can search for Blind Abilities in any of your favorite PodCatchers. Just type in, Blind Abilities. That's too words. Blind abilities. And you can always download the free blind abilities app from the Apple store, or the Google Play store. And like I said, it's two words. Blind abilities. Jeff Thompson: I want to thank you for listening. We hope you enjoyed and until next time. Bye-bye. [Music] [Transition noise] -When we share -What we see -Through each other's eyes... [Multiple voices overlapping, in unison, to form a single sentence] ...We can then begin to bridge the gap between the limited expectations, and the realities of Blind Abilities. Jeff Thompson: For more podcasts with the blindness perspective: Check us out on the web at www.BlindAbilities.com On Twitter @BlindAbilities Download our app from the App store: 'Blind Abilities'; that's two words. Or send us an e-mail at: info@blindabilities.com Thanks for listening. Contact: Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the App Store.
Prismo, also know as Zach Burgett, has explored vast grounds in the dance music terrain and is one of dance music's most dynamic talents recognized for his emotional vocal presence, song-writing ability and production prowess. Fueled by his roots in alternative rock, hip-hop and pop music, Burgett has delivered an eclectic catalogue for his fans. His releases have garnered support from tastemakers such as Indie Shuffle, Earmilk, Impose Magazine, ThisSongIsSick, and more. In recent times his eclectic sound and resonating top line vocals have captivated hearts across the globe. His releases with YouTube juggernaut No Copyright Sounds and his self-released covers of “Heathens”, “Too Close” and “Careless Whisper”, among the rest of his catalogue, have combined for over 100 million streams across all platforms. The future is bright for this young talent of only 21 years. Keep watch as he continues to push boundaries. ------------------ Check out Prismo: http://www.facebook.com/PrismoMusic http://twitter.com/prismomusic http://soundcloud.com/prismomusic http://www.instagram.com/prismomusic ------------------ Listen to more exclusive mixes: iedm.com/blogs/iedmradio www.youtube.com/c/Iedmradiopodcast www.mixcloud.com/iEDMradio/ iedmradio.podbean.com/?source=pb Need the hottest in EDM apparel? Buy the latest here: iedm.com/ ------------------ Discover more: www.facebook.com/iEDMOfficial www.twitter.com/iEDMofficial instagram.com/iEDMofficial iEDMofficial.tumblr.com www.youtube.com/c/IEDMhomeoftherave
Episode 46 features all the bangers you’ve heard over the years at the biggest festivals. Turn up! Tweet your questions & comments at @AllTrapNation with #TrapNationRadio. Don’t forget to rate and review on all of your favorite podcast apps. Follow Trap Nation on YouTube - youtube.com/alltrapnation! 01. Keys N Krates - U Already Know 02. TroyBoi - ili 03. The Chainsmokers ft. Daya - Don’t Let Me Down (Illenium Remix) 04. G Jones & Ekali - Dark Matter 05. TroyBoi - Afterhours ft. Diplo & Nina Sky (QUIX Remix) 06. RL Grime - Core (Prismodified by Prismo) 07. NGHTMRE - Holdin On To Me (KLAXX Remix) 08. Krane & Graves - Forgotten 09. Dr. Dre - The Next Episode (San Holo Remix) 10. Dark Matter - Hyphy 11. Jack Ü - Mind (feat. Kai) (Ekali & Gravez Remix) 12. Boombox Cartel - Moon Love (KELLZ EDIT) 13. TroyBoi - O.G. 14. Keys n Krates - ALL THE TIME (TOVE LO FLIP) 15. Mr. Carmack - Pay For What (Alexander Lewis Trombone Flip) 16. RL Grime - Core (Crystalize Flip) 17. G-Eazy - But A Dream (Vanic Remix) 18. Rufus X What So Not X Flume – Neverbloom (Ekali Remake) 19. Big Sean - Bounce Back (Vanic Remix)
Intervistiamo Valerio Mattioli che oggi si occupa del coordinamento della rivista online NOT. Parliamo di nuove forme editoriali e di un giornalismo originale.
Nice Hair with The Chainsmokers 045: April 6, 2018 Electric Area Ch. 52
Florian is back in the mix with a selection of the finest music from the likes of: ATTLAS, D.O.D, Calvin Harris, Prismo and GTA. Make sure to subscribe to The Guernica Project by Florian Picasso and follow him @florianpicasso on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Timothy Small ci parla di tutte le sue esperienze professionali. Direttore di VICE Italia dal 2005 al 2012, Head of Content di Alkemy. Capiamo gli errori che ha commesso e i suoi consigli.Ha anche co-fondato e direttore l'Ultimo Uomo, fondatore e direttore di Prismo, Il Tascabile (con Treccani), The Towner (con Moleskine). Da qui proviamo a capire i nuovi giornalismi e se sia un modello di business sostenibile l'appoggiarsi ad un grande brand.Infine non mancano consigli per stimolare la lettura e tools utili.
Episode 021 - Vacations, Goiters, & Robots Welcome back guys! It has been a long two months without the Jake and Joe Show, and we're so excited to bring you the beginning of another season. Buckle up for 20 more action packed episodes, rife with brand new segments and tons more laughs. Check us out on Facebook! Song of the Week tracks Believer by American Authors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYj40-cZ5vI In the Garage by Weezer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEm-AQdfWSU Credits Intro Voiceover by Jody at Vining Creative https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWa3yghz9ivhqmBcvmQwucg Outro Pamgaea by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Easy Listening Track Hold On by Prismo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7E-jPMolJ0 Find out more on the The Jake & Joe Show website. Check out our podcasting host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free, no credit card required, forever. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-954d1c for 40% off for 4 months, and support The Jake & Joe Show.
Just a slowed down version of Prismo - Heathens #Music #housemusic #EDM #dubstep #musicpromotion #Electronic #Dubstep
Simone e il Pregianza chiudono in bellezza la prima caldissima stagione di Tutto tranne il Calcio e lo fanno consigliandovi tutto (o quasi tutto) il Bauhaus da scaricare gratuitamente, il meglio del meglio dei Monty Phyton disponibile su YouTube e un videogioco che è la storia dei videogiochi. E anche qualcosa di più. Come sempre alla consolle Costanzo Raiser di «Prismo». E soprattutto nei nostri cuori le persone che ci hanno accompagnato in questa prima stagione: Paolo Papandrea e la sua voce, Fabio Bozzetto e le sue basi, Darth Von Trier e il suo rock dei padri, Claudio Serena e Matteo Scandolin con la loro pazienza, Querty e la sua accoglienza. E soprattutto voi, anche quelli lì in fondo che si nascondono, per averci seguito in queste 32 puntate. Da Simone e dal Pregianza è davvero tutto. Tranne il calcio. ARTEBauhaus at Monoskop: Nove pubblicazioni indispensabili, da Gropius a Kandiski, per conoscere il Bauhaus. Funzionali e funzionaliste. (GRATIS)https://monoskop.org/BauhausVIDEOGIOCHIDeus Ex - Il passato del videogioco è ancora meglio del presente del videogioco (1.74 €)http://store.steampowered.com/app/6910/CINEMAMonty Python su YouTube: i Monty Pyton sono arrivati sul Tubo e stanno pubblicando il loro meglio. Del meglio. Del meglio (GRATIS)https://www.youtube.com/user/MontyPython?gl=IT&hl=itCOS'ABBIAMO ASCOLTATOhttps://open.spotify.com/user/latrasmissione/playlist/08KQCjbmAxgHTuTTFWK9qThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2MsF3sTftg
Simone e il Pregianza chiudono in bellezza la prima caldissima stagione di Tutto tranne il Calcio e lo fanno consigliandovi tutto (o quasi tutto) il Bauhaus da scaricare gratuitamente, il meglio del meglio dei Monty Phyton disponibile su YouTube e un videogioco che è la storia dei videogiochi. E anche qualcosa di più. Come sempre alla consolle Costanzo Raiser di «Prismo». E soprattutto nei nostri cuori le persone che ci hanno accompagnato in questa prima stagione: Paolo Papandrea e la sua voce, Fabio Bozzetto e le sue basi, Darth Von Trier e il suo rock dei padri, Claudio Serena e Matteo Scandolin con la loro pazienza, Querty e la sua accoglienza. E soprattutto voi, anche quelli lì in fondo che si nascondono, per averci seguito in queste 32 puntate. Da Simone e dal Pregianza è davvero tutto. Tranne il calcio. ARTEBauhaus at Monoskop: Nove pubblicazioni indispensabili, da Gropius a Kandiski, per conoscere il Bauhaus. Funzionali e funzionaliste. (GRATIS)https://monoskop.org/BauhausVIDEOGIOCHIDeus Ex - Il passato del videogioco è ancora meglio del presente del videogioco (1.74 €)http://store.steampowered.com/app/6910/CINEMAMonty Python su YouTube: i Monty Pyton sono arrivati sul Tubo e stanno pubblicando il loro meglio. Del meglio. Del meglio (GRATIS)https://www.youtube.com/user/MontyPython?gl=IT&hl=itCOS'ABBIAMO ASCOLTATOhttps://open.spotify.com/user/latrasmissione/playlist/08KQCjbmAxgHTuTTFWK9qThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2MsF3sTftg
BRWL - Seize(Icemoon rmx) Beastie Boys - Girls (Brahm Bootleg)(Icemoon rmx) Iceman - Bells (Icemoon rmx) Snafu - Runnin' out of Time ft. Messinian(Icemoon rmx) Hantise ft. Princess Superstar - M.A.G.I.C. (Brashlee Remix)(Icemoon rmx) Headhunterz & Crystal Lake - Live Your Life ($unday $ervice Remix)(Icemoon rmx) Surce - Dale Mambo(Icemoon rmx) Aeonphaze - Rambunctious (Icemoon rmx) Decade! - Ugly Ass (Rickyxsan Remix)(Icemoon rmx) Flechette - The Belly Dance (Icemoon rmx) human? - Don Corleone (Icemoon rmx) King Peanuts x Juke Ellington - SLAP (Icemoon rmx) human? - Don Corleone (Icemoon rmx) Vivanco - Nigga Bounce (Icemoon rmx) Snelle Jelle - Rock The 150 (Icemoon rmx) Peacemakers - Gonna Party Like (BARENHVRD Remix)(Icemoon rmx) uAnimals - Get Phucked Up (DivClass VIP)(Icemoon rmx) Furo - Dutty Gurl (Icemoon rmx) Duck&Bear - Travel (Icemoon rmx) Seth McCarthy - Shadows (Icemoon rmx) Taylor Swift - Bad Blood ft. Kendrick Lamar (Vice City Remix)(Icemoon rmx) Prismo x High Zombie - Juiced (High Zombie VIP)(Icemoon rmx) Ezu - International (Icemoon rmx) Kybba - Girls A Ruin Me ft. Red Rat (Icemoon rmx) Bailo Beatz - That Booty (Icemoon rmx) Blitz - Flute The Police (Icemoon rmx) Blitz ft. Rayna - Cherry Red(Icemoon rmx)
A quanti frame al secondo girava il Tannhäuser di Wagner durante la sua prima rappresentazione? PC master race o Gesamtkunstwerk? Ce lo chiediamo con Costanzo Colombo Reiser di Prismo e Federico Ercole de Il manifesto. Con loro parliamo di CRITICA videoludica (ma non solo), del genio di Suda51, di gamergate e, inevitabilmente di The Division. […]
Tutto Tranne Il Calcio diventa Speciale e si trasforma per una volta nella Vostra Rivista di Videogiochi Preferita ospitando direttamente dalle pagine di PRISMO Costanzo Colombo Reiser, che si lancia in un testa con Il Pregianza.
Emission spéciale consacrée à Prismo Perfect. Première partie
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