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What do you need to start customizing the next generation of Oracle Fusion Apps? How do you create new pages for business processes? What level of expertise do you require for this?   Join Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham as they get answers to all these questions and more from Senior Principal OCI Instructor Joe Greenwald.   Survey: https://customersurveys.oracle.com/ords/surveys/t/oracle-university-gtm/survey?k=focus-group-2-link-share-5   Develop Fusion Applications Using Visual Builder Studio: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/develop-fusion-applications-using-visual-builder-studio/138392/   Build Visual Applications Using Oracle Visual Builder Studio: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/build-visual-applications-using-oracle-visual-builder-studio/137749/   Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/   X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   --------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript:   00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started. 00:26 Lois: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Team Lead of Editorial Services. Nikita: Hi there! You're listening to our Best of 2024 series, where over the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting four of our most popular episodes of the year. Lois: Today's episode is #2 of 4, and we're throwing it back to another episode with our friend and Senior Principal OCI Instructor Joe Greenwald. This episode is all about extending Oracle Cloud Applications that are being built using Visual Builder for the front-end. 01:04 Nikita: Right, Lois. We began by asking Joe to explain what's happening with the redesign and re-architecture of Oracle Cloud Applications using Visual Builder Studio, or VBS.  Joe: That's right, Niki. Oracle is redesigning and rebuilding its entire suite of Fusion Cloud Applications, over 330 different products, utilizing over 60,000 engineers — that is “60,” not “16”—at Oracle to develop the next generation of Oracle Fusion Applications. What's most exciting is that the same tools the engineers are using to accomplish this are available to our partners and our customers to use to extend the functionality and capabilities of Fusion Applications to meet their custom needs and processes.  01:45 Lois: That's pretty awesome! We want to use this time today to ask you about extensions, the types of extensions you can create, and how to use Visual Builder Studio to create those extensions. Nikita: Yeah, can we start with you telling us what an extension is? I've gotten the sense that Oracle uses the term extension as both a noun and a verb and that's a bit confusing to me. Joe: Yeah, good catch, Niki. Yes, Oracle does use the term extension in two ways: both as a noun and a verb. As a noun, an extension is a container for the code changes that you make to your applications. Basically, it's a Git repository that Oracle creates and manages for you. So, the extension container holds the code changes you make to your page layouts: the fields, their positioning, showing and hiding fields, that sort of thing, as well as page functionality. These code changes you make are stored in the extension and it is this extension with your code changes that is merged with the main Git branch eventually and then deployed using continuous integration/continuous deployment jobs defined in Visual Builder Studio, which manages the project and its assets. Your extension is a Git branch that is an asset of the project. Once your extension code is merged with the main branch and deployed, then the next time someone brings up the application, they'll see the changes you've made in the app. 02:59 Lois: And as a verb? Joe: As a verb, extension means to extend the functionality and the look and feel of the application, though I prefer the term customization or configuration to describe this aspect, as the documentation does, and to avoid confusion, though I'll admit I'm not always consistent about the terms I use. 03:16 Lois: What types of customizations, or extensions, and I'm using the verb now, are available for Fusion Apps in Visual Builder Studio? Joe: There are three different ways Fusion Apps can be customized effectively, configured, or extended. The first way is what we call a basic extension, where you're rearranging hiding, or showing, or moving around fields and sections on the page that have been set up to be extendable by the Fusion Application development teams. Things like hiding fields, showing fields, hiding sections, showing sections…  03:45 Nikita: So fairly basic actions… Joe: Yeah exactly and they can be done in Visual Builder Studio Designer by people with minimal VB training, Visual Builder training. And, most recently, if you have access to it, you can do it in the new Express mode, where the page shows you just those things you can work with and just the tools you need to work with the page. This is new and makes it much easier for folks who are not highly technical to make basic changes to the page layout. 04:09 Lois: People like me! That sounds easy enough. Joe: And the next type of extension is more of an intermediate change and requires some training with Visual Builder Studio because you're creating rules that govern the display of layouts based on certain conditions on the page. These are highly flexible, powerful, and useful for creating customized page layouts based on a variety of factors from page size and orientation to the role of the person using it to values in the actual fields on the page itself. These rules can be combined to create complex rule-based conditions that display exactly what the user should see, given the conditions of the page and their role. I would also include making changes to action chains, which execute sequences of behaviors and navigation, and the actual structure of the application, but this is more advanced.  Lastly, is creating mashup applications, which are stand-alone Visual Builder visual applications, which use data from Fusion apps, and customer data sources, like their own database tables, and potentially third-party APIs to create brand new pages and applications with new functionality, new processes, new procedures, new displays, all of which look just like Fusion Applications and use the same data as Fusion applications. 05:18 Lois: Joe, how do I get started if I want to extend a page?  Joe: The easiest way to do it is to open a page in Fusion Applications and then select Edit Page in Visual Builder Studio from the Profile menu. You're then prompted for a project to hold the Git repository for the extension container. And since there's probably already one that exists, after you select the project, an extension Git container is assigned to you. Unless this is the very first time the application has been extended in which case it creates an extension for you. When creating customizations or configurations, we recommend that each application be done in its own separate project. So, for example, if you're working on Customer Experience Sales, you might do it in Project A and if you're working on extensions with HCM, you might do it in Project B. And if you decide to create your own pages and flows in your own app, you might do that in Project C.  06:04 Nikita: But why do you need to do this? Joe: That's just to keep things nice and separate and organized. The tool, Visual Builder Studio, doesn't really care, but it makes for cleaner development and can help with the management of the development teams. 06:14 Nikita: Ok, Joe, I have a question. How do I know if the page I'm on in Fusion Apps can be edited in Visual Builder? I know there are a lot of legacy pages still out there and they can co-exist with the new VB-based pages. Joe: If the URL of the page you're on has the word /Redwood in it instead of /faces, then you know this is a page that was created using Visual Builder Studio and you'll be able to extend it and make changes to it using the Edit in Visual Builder Studio option. So, if you select Edit in Visual Builder Studio, then the page you are on opens inside Visual Builder Studio Designer and you can make changes to any part of the page that has been explicitly enabled for extension by the development team. 06:53 Lois: That's an important part, right? The application is not extendable by default.  Joe: That's right, Lois. It is all locked down and you can't make any changes to it by default. The development team must specifically enable certain parts of the page: sections, fields, layouts, variables, types, action chains, etc. as extendable for you to be able to make changes to it. This ensures the changes the development team makes to the application in the future won't break your extensions. And conversely, the development team can choose to not extend portions that they do not want you to touch or mess with. Then if they do change that bit of the app in the future, it won't break the application and you won't get a big surprise. So, using the Edit page in Visual Builder Studio, you can make both basic changes, like moving, showing, and hiding fields and sections, as well as the more intermediate types of configurations, like using dynamic components to create rule-based layouts that change dynamically based on several conditions such as page size, roles of the user, and field values on the page itself. 07:51 Nikita: What happens if two developers make changes and essentially overwrite each other's customizations — say one hides a field and another later exposes it? Joe: Well, whoever commits their changes and deploys last wins. The other developer's changes get overwritten. So, this is something the team would want to consider carefully. It is possible to roll back to an earlier version if one must. And this can be done in Visual Builder Studio — the part that manages project assets like Git repositories. And there are Oracle blog posts about how to do that if you're interested in learning more. 08:20 Lois: Joe, earlier you mentioned creating new pages and flows, but so far you've only talked about modifying existing extendable pages. How do I create new pages and flows? Joe: In a Visual Builder extension, a set of pages and flows is called an App UI. When I use the terms pages and flows, what I'm talking about is a set of pages that are logically related—whatever logical means to the designer and developer—in a group called a flow that you can navigate between. But you can also navigate between flows and even between applications. So, without getting too technical, each application has a default flow, which has a default page where that flow starts when the app first comes up. So, you can think of an App UI as a collection of flows and their pages, and a URL that accesses the default flow and its default page. That's the page you would see first when accessing that URL. Of course, this can be configured and changed by the developer, as needed. Now, when Oracle creates the original application (for example, digital sales, helpdesk, or something like that), we create an App UI, which contains the pages and flows for that application and is the “entry point” into the app, accessing that App UI's default flow and its default page and then things flow on from there. Partners and customers can create their own application extensions that are dependent on an Oracle application and even create their own App UI – their own sets of pages and flows to accommodate their own processing and workflow needs. This gives them the ability to add their own processes and rules, and still leverage and navigate to the core application that Oracle built. For example, say Oracle delivered digital sales as an Oracle Cloud Application built using Visual Builder to a customer and the customer needs to add a few pages to do some validation or other type of business processing before entering the digital sales application. What the customer does, in this case, is create a new extension of the Oracle Digital Sales app and an App UI of their own, which would be the set of pages and flows that contain the processing they want to start with before then navigating into the digital sales app to use Oracle's application. 10:22 Nikita: Wait, did I hear that correctly? We're creating an extension of an extension or creating an extension on an existing extension? Joe: I know, right? I realize this can sound confusing the first time you hear it or the second time or even the third time. It took me a while to get my head around what they're talking about. Let's start with a Fusion application. In a Fusion application, everything is an extension of something. This is just how the code base and the architecture are organized and how they manage the Git repositories and the code base itself. So, Oracle created a base application called the Unified App. The Unified Application contains the basic page structure and common functionality needed for all applications. For example, it contains the header at the top that has the profile and the footer at the bottom of the page that has that little Ask Oracle icon. Within that page, between the header and the footer, are the pages that are created by the developers, whether they be Oracle engineers or partners or customers. They display the contents of the page with the data and the layouts and all of that. In a sense, you can think of the Unified App as an index page, the starting page of the web application. Though that's not completely true technically, it's good enough for illustrative purposes. So, Oracle starts with the Unified App and then a development team extends that Unified App to build their product. This is how digital sales did it. This is how customer experience did it. This is how helpdesk did it. They start with the Unified App and they extend that and create an App UI that contains the flows and pages for their specific application, and then add functionality for all the pages and flows, as needed for the design. Partners and customers can then create a new extension that extends the Oracle Application and add their own App UI and their own URL if they want their pages accessed first, before navigating to the Oracle application. For example, if the digital sales application has functionality you'd like to leverage, like it has data services or fragments or page layouts that you want to reuse or other things, you extend the digital sales application, and this extension holds your code changes. You could then create a new App UI, and once deployed, users can use that URL for the new App UI to access your new pages. And your page can then navigate to the Oracle app when it needs to. Though I will say to date, we're really not seeing much demand for this particular use case, but it is possible. 12:33 Lois: Is that the only option available to customers and partners—to extend an existing Oracle application? Joe: No, Lois. We're seeing customers and partners create brand new Fusion applications of their own, based on the Unified App Oracle created. In a sense, doing the same thing that our development teams here are doing.  Remember, I said an Oracle development team starts with the Unified App, which has common functionality and look and feel for all applications, and then extends that to add business rules processing, flows, App UI, whatever they need for their specific Oracle application. We're seeing our partners and customers wanting to build their own applications. Maybe a customer or partner wants to create a Time & Expense application and leverage the Fusion application data and the APIs available, but define their own flows, their own pages, their own processing. This is very easy to do. They'd start by extending the Unified App just like the Oracle development teams do, and then build their own App UI and within that, their own flows, pages, and custom processing. The nice thing about it is that the application looks and works and feels just like a Fusion application and it appears alongside other Fusion applications, because it is a Fusion application. 13:43 Did you know that the Oracle University Learning Community regularly holds live events hosted by Oracle expert instructors. Find out how to prepare for your certification exams. Learn about the latest technology advances and features. Ask questions in real time and learn from an Oracle subject matter expert. From Ask Me Anything about certification to Ask the Instructor coaching sessions, you'll be able to achieve your learning goals for 2024 in no time. Join a live event today and witness firsthand the transformative power of the Oracle University Learning Community. Visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started.  14:24 Nikita: Welcome back! So Joe, it sounds like there are two different paths or life cycles to create extensions for future applications in Visual Builder Studio. Is that correct? Joe: Yes, exactly. So one path to extending the functionality of Fusion apps is to edit the page in Visual Builder Studio, which opens the page in Visual Builder Designer, and you then make changes to the existing pages, depending on what the development team has made extendable.  14:49 Nikita: But you can't create new pages and flows in this scenario, right? Joe: This is strictly about modifying an existing page. The other path is creating a new application extension, which is a new application from scratch or extending an existing Oracle application or even an existing partner or customer application. Again, we're not seeing this typically being done too much. Most partners and customers create new applications or make customizations to existing pages. But the architecture does support it. So, your partner might create a new application based on the production app released by Oracle, and you could extend their application. Or a development team at your site could extend Oracle's application and you could then extend that team's application. This is mechanically possible, although I question the use case behind that. Usually, we see our apps being extended – becoming a dependency when there's code that can be leveraged or reused for a new app and its new App UI. 15:40 Lois: Joe, what did you mean when you say one extension is a dependency of another? Can you talk a bit about dependencies, what that means, how it looks to the developer? Joe: When you extend an application, it becomes a dependency to your application, and you get access to all the resources within that dependency that are marked as extendable by the developer who created that extension. Most useful are things like service connections to REST APIs from Fusion apps data sources, reusable code fragments, and layouts that you can leverage in those cases where you want to create a new App UI. When an extension is listed as a dependency, you'll see this graphically in Visual Builder Studio Designer. When you see an extension listed as a dependency, it means you can reference any of that extension's resources that have been marked extendable by the developer. Recall all resources are closed off or hidden by default, but development teams can mark resources as open to being extended and reused, and then you can see and use those resources. So, you can easily add and remove extensions as dependencies in Visual Builder Designer as needed. Now, this can be a nice way to modularize and reuse your resources and assets. To summarize: I can modify an existing page – this is most common, extend an existing application and create a new App UI, which is not common, or I can extend the unified app to create a new app and a new App UI and add other extensions as dependences, as needed, to leverage their services, fragments, and layouts when building my own pages – this is pretty common as well. 17:04 Nikita: There's one thing I'd like to come back to, Joe. You mentioned something called a mashup application earlier. Can you tell us a little more about that? Joe: To recap: I mentioned a couple of different ways that you can extend Fusion applications. One is changing layouts or creating rule-based layouts. You can also extend existing apps and create your own App UI on top of them or create your own Fusion app from scratch. But these are Fusion apps and they have restrictions.  These can only run within the Fusion applications ecosystem, which means they can only be accessed by people who are registered in the Fusion application ecosystem, and there are some other restrictions (for example, in terms of the APIs you can access). And you also have no access to customer data tables. Mashup applications use the stand-alone Visual Builder Cloud Service, which enables you to create custom visual applications. These are visual applications that run outside the Fusion apps ecosystem. Users only need to be identified to the Identity Cloud Service, IDCS, and then they can get access to these mashup apps, depending on the roles and privileges given to them, of course. These mashup applications can access Fusion apps API data, as well as customer database tables, Excel spreadsheet data, CSV files, and third-party APIs. And all this data can appear on the same page, in the same app, using the same Redwood components, so they look and work just like Fusion applications. 18:22 Lois: I know in the past there's been some friction to making changes in Fusion applications. Partner and customer developers use different tools than the ones Oracle engineers use and there have been some deployment issues. To wrap up things, can you tell us why customers should use Visual Builder Studio to customize Fusion apps? Joe: Glad to, Lois. The big benefit to customers is that they are using the exact same tools, Visual Builder Designer for page design work and Visual Builder Studio for project and code management, to build the customizations and extensions that Oracle is using to create the applications and extensions that are delivered to them. I can't emphasize enough how big a deal this is and how wonderful it is for the customer. We're constantly making the Visual Builder Designer interface easier and easier to work with. We're currently releasing a new version of Visual Builder Designer—the Express mode version. This version of Designer is lightweight and has only the necessary features required to allow you to make changes to pages and layouts, and create and manage dynamic rule-based layouts. If you need more (for example, you need to create service connections, fragments, and do a lot more of that type of advanced work), then use the advanced version of the Designer. Both are available to you, assuming that your user has the appropriate permission and the Fusion app you are using has implemented Express Designer. 19:37 Lois: OK Joe, what courses does Oracle University offer for me if I wanted to learn more about developing extensions for Fusion apps and creating mashup apps using Visual Builder Studio? Joe: Oracle University has several courses. We have the Develop Visual Applications Using Visual Builder Studio, which focuses on creating the stand-alone custom bespoke mashup visual applications. We also have our Design and Develop Redwood Applications course, which goes into detail about working with the Redwood page templates and components. All these courses are free and available today. And all you need to do is log in to mylearn.oracle.com to get started. 20:10 Nikita: We hope you enjoyed that conversation. Just a quick reminder before we close about the short survey we've put together to get your thoughts on the podcast. It'll take just a few minutes and will help us make the podcast even better. Just click the link in the show notes to participate. Join us next week for another throwback episode. Until then, this is Nikita Abraham... Lois: And Lois Houston, signing off! 20:33 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. 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What do you need to start customizing the next generation of Oracle Fusion Apps? How do you create new pages for business processes? What level of expertise do you require for this? Join Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham as they get answers to all these questions and more from Senior Principal OCI Instructor Joe Greenwald. Develop Fusion Applications Using Visual Builder Studio: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/develop-fusion-applications-using-visual-builder-studio/122614/ Build Visual Applications Using Visual Builder Studio: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/build-visual-applications-using-oracle-visual-builder-studio/110035/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. -------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this  series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular  Oracle technologies. Let's get started. 00:26 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor. Nikita: Hi everyone! Last week, we were introduced to Visual Builder Studio and the Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit, also known as JET. Lois: Our friend and Senior Principal OCI Instructor Joe Greenwald is back with us today to talk about how to extend Oracle Cloud Applications that are being built using Visual Builder for its front-end. Nikita: That's right. All Fusion Applications are being redesigned and rebuilt using Visual Builder. And we'll find out more about that from Joe. Hi Joe! Thanks for being with us today. Joe: Hi Lois! Hi Niki! My pleasure to be here. 01:09 Nikita: Joe, tell us a little about what's happening with the redesign and re-architecture of Oracle Cloud Applications using Visual Builder Studio, or VBS. I hear some very exciting changes are coming that are important for our customers and partners. Joe: That's right, Niki. Oracle is redesigning and rebuilding its entire suite of Fusion Cloud Applications, over 330 different products, utilizing over 60,000 engineers — that is “60,” not “16” — at Oracle to develop the next generation of Oracle Fusion Applications. What's most exciting is that the same tools the engineers are using to accomplish this are available to our partners and our customers to use to extend the functionality and capabilities of Fusion Applications to meet their custom needs and processes.  01:54 Lois: That's pretty awesome! We want to use this time today to ask you about extensions, the types of extensions you can create, and how to use Visual Builder Studio to create those extensions. Nikita: Yeah, can we start with you telling us what an extension is? I've gotten the sense that Oracle uses the term extension as both a noun and a verb and that's a bit confusing to me. 02:15 Joe: Yeah, good catch, Niki. Yes, Oracle does use the term extension in two ways: both as a noun and a verb. As a noun, an extension is a container for the code changes that you make to your applications. Basically, it's a Git repository that Oracle creates and manages for you. So, the extension container holds the code changes you make to your page layouts: the fields, their positioning, showing and hiding fields, that sort of thing, as well as page functionality. These code changes you make are stored in the extension and it is this extension with your code changes that is merged with the main Git branch eventually and then deployed using continuous integration/continuous deployment jobs defined in Visual Builder Studio, which manages the project and its assets. Your extension is a Git branch that is an asset of the project. Once your extension code is merged with the main branch and deployed, then the next time someone brings up the application, they'll see the changes you've made in the app. 03:08 Lois: And as a verb? Joe: As a verb, extension means to extend the functionality and the look and feel of the application, though I prefer the term customization or configuration to describe this aspect, as the documentation does, and to avoid confusion, though I'll admit I'm not always consistent about the terms I use. 03:26 Lois: What types of customizations, or extensions, and I'm using the verb now, are available for Fusion Apps in Visual Builder Studio? Joe: There are three different ways Fusion Apps can be customized effectively, configured, or extended. The first way is what we call a basic extension, where you're rearranging hiding, or showing, or moving around fields and sections on the page that have been set up to be extendable by the Fusion Application development teams. Things like hiding fields, showing fields, hiding sections, showing sections…  Nikita: So fairly basic actions… Joe: Yeah exactly and they can be done in Visual Builder Studio Designer by people with minimal VB training, Visual Builder training. And, most recently, if you have access to it, you can do it in the new Express mode, where the page shows you just those things you can work with and just the tools you need to work with the page. This is new and makes it much easier for folks who are not highly technical to make basic changes to the page layout. 04:18 Lois: People like me! That sounds easy enough. Joe: And the next type of extension is more of an intermediate change and requires some training with Visual Builder Studio because you're creating rules that govern the display of layouts based on certain conditions on the page. These are highly flexible, powerful, and useful for creating customized page layouts based on a variety of factors from page size and orientation to the role of the person using it to values in the actual fields on the page itself. These rules can be combined to create complex rule-based conditions that display exactly what the user should see, given the conditions of the page and their role. I would also include making changes to action chains, which execute sequences of behaviors and navigation, and the actual structure of the application, but this is more advanced.  Lastly, is creating mashup applications, which are stand-alone Visual Builder visual applications, which use data from Fusion apps, and customer data sources, like their own database tables, and potentially third-party APIs to create brand new pages and applications with new functionality, new processes, new procedures, new displays, all of which look just like Fusion Applications and use the same data as Fusion applications. 05:27 Lois: Joe, how do I get started if I want to extend a page?  Joe: The easiest way to do it is to open a page in Fusion Applications and then select Edit Page in Visual Builder Studio from the Profile menu. You're then prompted for a project to hold the Git repository for the extension container. And since there's probably already one that exists, after you select the project, an extension Git container is assigned to you. Unless this is the very first time the application has been extended in which case it creates an extension for you. When creating customizations or configurations, we recommend that each application be done in its own separate project. So, for example, if you're working on Customer Experience Sales, you might do it in Project A and if you're working on extensions with HCM, you might do it in Project B. And if you decide to create your own pages and flows in your own app, you might do that in Project C.  06:13 Nikita: But why do you need to do this? Joe: That's just to keep things nice and separate and organized. The tool, Visual Builder Studio, doesn't really care, but it makes for cleaner development and can help with the management of the development teams. 06:23 Nikita: Ok, Joe, I have a question. How do I know if the page I'm on in Fusion Apps can be edited in Visual Builder? I know there are a lot of legacy pages still out there and they can co-exist with the new VB-based pages. Joe: If the URL of the page you're on has the word /Redwood in it instead of /faces, then you know this is a page that was created using Visual Builder Studio and you'll be able to extend it and make changes to it using the Edit in Visual Builder Studio option. So, if you select Edit in Visual Builder Studio, then the page you are on opens inside Visual Builder Studio Designer and you can make changes to any part of the page that has been explicitly enabled for extension by the development team. 07:02 Lois: That's an important part, right? The application is not extendable by default.  Joe: That's right, Lois. It is all locked down and you can't make any changes to it by default. The development team must specifically enable certain parts of the page: sections, fields, layouts, variables, types, action chains, etc. as extendable for you to be able to make changes to it. This ensures the changes the development team makes to the application in the future won't break your extensions. And conversely, the development team can choose to not extend portions that they do not want you to touch or mess with. Then if they do change that bit of the app in the future, it won't break the application and you won't get a big surprise. So, using the Edit page in Visual Builder Studio, you can make both basic changes, like moving, showing, and hiding fields and sections, as well as the more intermediate types of configurations, like using dynamic components to create rule-based layouts that change dynamically based on several conditions such as page size, roles of the user, and field values on the page itself. 08:00 Nikita: What happens if two developers make changes and essentially overwrite each other's customizations — say one hides a field and another later exposes it? Joe: Well, whoever commits their changes and deploys last wins. The other developer's changes get overwritten. So, this is something the team would want to consider carefully. It is possible to roll back to an earlier version if one must. And this can be done in Visual Builder Studio — the part that manages project assets like Git repositories. And there are Oracle blog posts about how to do that if you're interested in learning more. 08:29 Lois: Joe, earlier you mentioned creating new pages and flows, but so far you've only talked about modifying existing extendable pages. How do I create new pages and flows? Joe: In a Visual Builder extension, a set of pages and flows is called an App UI. When I use the terms pages and flows, what I'm talking about is a set of pages that are logically related—whatever logical means to the designer and developer—in a group called a flow that you can navigate between. But you can also navigate between flows and even between applications. So, without getting too technical, each application has a default flow, which has a default page where that flow starts when the app first comes up. So, you can think of an App UI as a collection of flows and their pages, and a URL that accesses the default flow and its default page. That's the page you would see first when accessing that URL. Of course, this can be configured and changed by the developer, as needed. Now, when Oracle creates the original application (for example, digital sales, helpdesk, or something like that), we create an App UI, which contains the pages and flows for that application and is the “entry point” into the app, accessing that App UI's default flow and its default page and then things flow on from there. 09:40 Joe: Partners and customers can create their own application extensions that are dependent on an Oracle application and even create their own App UI – their own sets of pages and flows to accommodate their own processing and workflow needs. This gives them the ability to add their own processes and rules, and still leverage and navigate to the core application that Oracle built. For example, say Oracle delivered digital sales as an Oracle Cloud Application built using Visual Builder to a customer and the customer needs to add a few pages to do some validation or other type of business processing before entering the digital sales application. What the customer does, in this case, is create a new extension of the Oracle Digital Sales app and an App UI of their own, which would be the set of pages and flows that contain the processing they want to start with before then navigating into the digital sales app to use Oracle's application. 10:31 Nikita: Wait, did I hear that correctly? We're creating an extension of an extension or creating an extension on an existing extension? Joe: I know, right? I realize this can sound confusing the first time you hear it or the second time or even the third time. It took me a while to get my head around what they're talking about. Let's start with a Fusion application. In a Fusion application, everything is an extension of something. This is just how the code base and the architecture are organized and how they manage the Git repositories and the code base itself. So, Oracle created a base application called the Unified App. The Unified Application contains the basic page structure and common functionality needed for all applications. For example, it contains the header at the top that has the profile and the footer at the bottom of the page that has that little Ask Oracle icon. 11:16 Joe: Within that page, between the header and the footer, are the pages that are created by the developers, whether they be Oracle engineers or partners or customers. They display the contents of the page with the data and the layouts and all of that. In a sense, you can think of the Unified App as an index page, the starting page of the web application. Though that's not completely true technically, it's good enough for illustrative purposes. So, Oracle starts with the Unified App and then a development team extends that Unified App to build their product. This is how digital sales did it. This is how customer experience did it. This is how helpdesk did it. They start with the Unified App and they extend that and create an App UI that contains the flows and pages for their specific application, and then add functionality for all the pages and flows, as needed for the design. Partners and customers can then create a new extension that extends the Oracle Application and add their own App UI and their own URL if they want their pages accessed first, before navigating to the Oracle application. For example, if the digital sales application has functionality you'd like to leverage, like it has data services or fragments or page layouts that you want to reuse or other things, you extend the digital sales application, and this extension holds your code changes. You could then create a new App UI, and once deployed, users can use that URL for the new App UI to access your new pages. And your page can then navigate to the Oracle app when it needs to. Though I will say to date, we're really not seeing much demand for this particular use case, but it is possible. 12:42 Lois: Is that the only option available to customers and partners—to extend an existing Oracle application? Joe: No, Lois. We're seeing customers and partners create brand new Fusion applications of their own, based on the Unified App Oracle created. In a sense, doing the same thing that our development teams here are doing.  Remember, I said an Oracle development team starts with the Unified App, which has common functionality and look and feel for all applications, and then extends that to add business rules processing, flows, App UI, whatever they need for their specific Oracle application. We're seeing our partners and customers wanting to build their own applications. Maybe a customer or partner wants to create a Time & Expense application and leverage the Fusion application data and the APIs available, but define their own flows, their own pages, their own processing. This is very easy to do. They'd start by extending the Unified App just like the Oracle development teams do, and then build their own App UI and within that, their own flows, pages, and custom processing. The nice thing about it is that the application looks and works and feels just like a Fusion application and it appears alongside other Fusion applications, because it is a Fusion application. 13:52 Did you know that the Oracle University Learning Community regularly holds live events hosted by Oracle expert instructors. Find out how to prepare for your certification exams. Learn about the latest technology advances and features. Ask questions in real time and learn from an Oracle subject matter expert. From Ask Me Anything about certification to Ask the Instructor coaching sessions, you'll be able to achieve your learning goals for 2024 in no time. Join a live event today and witness firsthand the transformative power of the Oracle University Learning Community. Visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started.  14:33 Nikita: Welcome back! So Joe, it sounds like there are two different paths or life cycles to create extensions for future applications in Visual Builder Studio. Is that correct? Joe: Yes, exactly. So one path to extending the functionality of Fusion apps is to edit the page in Visual Builder Studio, which opens the page in Visual Builder Designer, and you then make changes to the existing pages, depending on what the development team has made extendable.  14:58 Nikita: But you can't create new pages and flows in this scenario, right? Joe: This is strictly about modifying an existing page. The other path is creating a new application extension, which is a new application from scratch or extending an existing Oracle application or even an existing partner or customer application. Again, we're not seeing this typically being done too much. Most partners and customers create new applications or make customizations to existing pages. But the architecture does support it. So, your partner might create a new application based on the production app released by Oracle, and you could extend their application. Or a development team at your site could extend Oracle's application and you could then extend that team's application. This is mechanically possible, although I question the use case behind that. Usually, we see our apps being extended – becoming a dependency when there's code that can be leveraged or reused for a new app and its new App UI. 15:49 Lois: Joe, what did you mean when you say one extension is a dependency of another? Can you talk a bit about dependencies, what that means, how it looks to the developer? Joe: When you extend an application, it becomes a dependency to your application, and you get access to all the resources within that dependency that are marked as extendable by the developer who created that extension. Most useful are things like service connections to REST APIs from Fusion apps data sources, reusable code fragments, and layouts that you can leverage in those cases where you want to create a new App UI. When an extension is listed as a dependency, you'll see this graphically in Visual Builder Studio Designer. When you see an extension listed as a dependency, it means you can reference any of that extension's resources that have been marked extendable by the developer. Recall all resources are closed off or hidden by default, but development teams can mark resources as open to being extended and reused, and then you can see and use those resources. So, you can easily add and remove extensions as dependencies in Visual Builder Designer as needed. Now, this can be a nice way to modularize and reuse your resources and assets. To summarize: I can modify an existing page – this is most common, extend an existing application and create a new App UI – which is not common, or I can extend the unified app to create a new app and a new App UI and add other extensions as dependencies, as needed, to leverage their services, fragments, and layouts when building my own pages – this is pretty common as well. 17:14 Nikita: There's one thing I'd like to come back to, Joe. You mentioned something called a mashup application earlier. Can you tell us a little more about that? Joe: To recap: I mentioned a couple of different ways that you can extend Fusion applications. One is changing layouts or creating rule-based layouts. You can also extend existing apps and create your own App UI on top of them or create your own Fusion app from scratch. But these are Fusion apps and they have restrictions.  These can only run within the Fusion applications ecosystem, which means they can only be accessed by people who are registered in the Fusion application ecosystem, and there are some other restrictions (for example, in terms of the APIs you can access). And you also have no access to customer data tables.   Mashup applications use the stand-alone Visual Builder Cloud Service, which enables you to create custom visual applications. These are visual applications that run outside the Fusion apps ecosystem. Users only need to be identified to the Identity Cloud Service, IDCS, and then they can get access to these mashup apps, depending on the roles and privileges given to them, of course. These mashup applications can access Fusion apps API data, as well as customer database tables, Excel spreadsheet data, CSV files, and third-party APIs. And all this data can appear on the same page, in the same app, using the same Redwood components, so they look and work just like Fusion applications. 18:32 Lois: I know in the past there's been some friction to making changes in Fusion applications. Partner and customer developers use different tools than the ones Oracle engineers use and there have been some deployment issues. To wrap up things, can you tell us why customers should use Visual Builder Studio to customize Fusion apps? Joe: Glad to, Lois. The big benefit to customers is that they are using the exact same tools, Visual Builder Designer for page design work and Visual Builder Studio for project and code management, to build the customizations and extensions that Oracle is using to create the applications and extensions that are delivered to them. I can't emphasize enough how big a deal this is and how wonderful it is for the customer. We're constantly making the Visual Builder Designer interface easier and easier to work with. We're currently releasing a new version of Visual Builder Designer—the Express mode version. This version of Designer is lightweight and has only the necessary features required to allow you to make changes to pages and layouts, and create and manage dynamic rule-based layouts. If you need more (for example, you need to create service connections, fragments, and do a lot more of that type of advanced work), then use the advanced version of the Designer. Both are available to you, assuming that your user has the appropriate permission and the Fusion app you are using has implemented Express Designer. 19:46 Lois: OK Joe, what courses does Oracle University offer for me if I wanted to learn more about developing extensions for Fusion apps and creating mashup apps using Visual Builder Studio? Joe: Oracle University has several courses. We have the Develop Visual Applications Using Visual Builder Studio, which focuses on creating the stand-alone custom bespoke mashup visual applications. We also have our Design and Develop Redwood Applications course, which goes into detail about working with the Redwood page templates and components. All these courses are free and available today. And all you need to do is log in to mylearn.oracle.com to get started. 20:19 Nikita: Thank you so much, Joe, for joining us today. This has been so educational. Joe: It's been lovely talking to you both. Thank you. Lois: Yeah, my brain is full. Thanks Joe. Until next week, this is Lois Houston… Nikita: And Nikita Abraham, signing off! 20:32 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. We'd also love it if you would take a moment to rate and review us on your podcast app. See you again on the next episode of the Oracle University Podcast.

Ouch! If you're a parent, there will surely come a day when your child injures herself. How you respond in the moment is important! Tune in to hear some tips from Miranda about keeping your kiddos (and maybe yourself) calm in the heat of a *painful* moment. And, speaking of painful moments, Mel shares about how a beer chicken gave her a full-on Zombie arm... weird right?? But the weirdness doesn't stop there (it never does!) because Mel teaches us about the unusual history of Band-Aids! Mel tells us the things we never needed to know about the product we never knew we needed... until we did! So throw a wine cooler in your first aid kit (it doubles as an ice pack, right?) and let's get going! Spotlight:PROJECT CURE (Commission on Urgent Relief and Equipment) Since 1987, Project C.U.R.E has been delivering life-saving medical equipment and supplies to hospitals and clinics throughout the under-resourced world. We are the world's largest distributor of donated international medical relief—touching the lives of children and families in more than 135 countries. On average, each week Project C.U.R.E. delivers three to five semi-truck-sized containers packed with the medical equipment and supplies so desperately needed by local hospitals and clinics.www. projectcure.org Sources:Mel- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3601883/ https://www.jnj.com/our-heritage/18-facts-about-the-history-of-band-aid-brand-adhesive-bandages https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-band-aid-1991345Miranda-https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrijmvCf8Zl0TwBwjpXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzIEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1708717250/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.aftertheinjury.org%2f/RK=2/RS=mWbuC4L476ctW7Ds56kMnX8UG.k-https://www.todaysparent.com/family/4-ways-to-comfort-your-injured-child/https://www.fatherly.com/parenting/how-to-calm-down-injured-kid-teach-bravery Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listeners are in for a treat as veteran host, Dr. Angela is interviewed by new co-host, Rev. Liz Testa. As Liz got to know Angela and listened to past episodes, she realized the wealth of insight sitting behind the mic that people needed to hear about. You don't want to miss hearing Angela share how she got involved with CBE (hint, it connects with her doctoral work), what led to the creation of this podcast, and highlights of her most intriguing learnings from her guests along the way. Most importantly, hearing Angela's vision of intersectionality as part of God's reconciling work in the world is a true inspiration. You will leave this episode with fresh ideas for creating healthy, compassionate spaces of inclusion and equity in your context... and most likely a desire to go back and relisten to a previous episode or two!    Learn more about Dr. Angela's Streams in the Wasteland mentioned in the podcast at https://www.streamsinthewasteland.org/.     Bios    Rev. Dr. Angela Ravin-Anderson, a native Texan, is an ordained minister with a true passion for seeing the people of God become an authentic expression of God's love in the world.  Dr. Ravin-Anderson created the Streams in the Wasteland Leadership Institute, a training program to equip and prepare transformational Christian leaders, especially women, based on their unique personalities, passions, and spiritual gifts to minister to the marginalized. She is also a facilitator for Project C.U.R.A.T.E., a faith-based initiative to bring about racial reconciliation and social justice reform within the Christian community. Dr. Ravin-Anderson is an adjunct professor at Abilene Christian University within the Bible Department teaching courses in Old and New Testament Studies, Christian Leadership, and Spiritual Formation. At Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church where she serves as part of the clergy team, she gives leadership to the Social Justice ministry and develops curriculum for adult Christian education and discipleship training programs. She holds a BA in Behavioral Science from Rice University, an MBA and MHA from the University of Houston-Clearlake, received her Master of Divinity degree, Summa Cum Laude from Houston Graduate School of Theology, and her Doctor of Ministry in the area of Pastoral and Missional Church Leadership from the same seminary.  Rev. Elizabeth (Liz) Testa, raised bi-culturally in New York and Spain, is a pastor, speaker, creative visionary, and community builder who is passionate about encouraging people to embrace their gifts and usher in a vision of God's reign as women and men of all backgrounds serve together, freely and fully. She currently serves the Reformed Church in America as the ministry executive for Women's Transformation and Leadership and Equity-Based Hospitality.  In this capacity, she helps the RCA pursue a vision for the full inclusion of women's gifts, influence, and leadership in all areas of the church and equips faith communities to develop equitable, hospitable practices that build and strengthen the body of Christ for mission in the world. Liz is the founder and host of the Lavish Hope: Stories of Resilience and Overcoming, a podcast that engages fresh perspectives from women and people of color. Rev. Testa holds a BFA (magna cum laude) from Syracuse University, and an MDiv from the Drew Theological School, where she was the John Heston Willey awardee for excellence in Pulpit Oratory and Manner. Her first career was as a professional actress and spokesperson, and she delights at how God uses those experiences to enhance her calling in ministry. Rev. Testa is currently a doctoral student in transformational preaching at New Brunswick Theological Seminary, NJ.    Learn more about Dr. Ravin-Anderson and Rev. Testa's passions and projects:  Streams in the Wasteland  Project C.U.R.A.T.E.  RCA Women's Transformation and Leadership and Equity-Based Hospitality  Lavish Hope Podcast      Related Resources    Intersectionality: The Narratives that Shaped Us with New Co-Host Rev. Liz Testa    Intersectionality: Diversity as God's Design: A Conversation with Rev. Michelle D. Williams – Part One    Intersectionality: Words Matter! Freedom through Lectionary and Bible Translation with Rev. Dr. Wilda C. Gafney    Disclaimer:     The opinions expressed in CBE's Mutuality Matters' podcast are those of its hosts or guests do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of CBE International or its members or chapters worldwide. The designations employed in this podcast and the presentation of content therein do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of CBE concerning the legal status of any country, area or territory or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers.  

Bienvenidas y bienvenidos a Recarga Activa, el podcast diario de AnaitGames en el que filtramos lo más relevante de la actualidad del videojuego en pildorazos de 10-15 minutos:1️⃣ Sam Barlow anuncia Project C y Project D2️⃣ Los servicios online de Nintendo 3DS y Wii U dejarán de funcionar el 8 de abril3️⃣ Death Stranding: Director's Cut llegará a (algunos) dispositivos de Apple el 30 de eneroSuscríbete para recibir el siguiente episodio en tu gestor de podcasts favorito. Puedes apoyar nuestro proyecto (y acceder a un montón de contenido exclusivo) en Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anaitreload♫ Sintonía del programa: Senseless, de Johny Grimes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Blessing is joined by the developer of Immortality and Telling Lies, Half Mermaid's Sam Barlow, to chat about two new games they just announced, layoffs at Riot, and the status of the games industry. Follow Sam Barlow: https://twitter.com/mrsambarlow Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping We're proud to announce that we've teamed up with the indie exchange for the ULTIMATE spring game showcase! The game submission deadline for the MIX/KF Spring Showcase is Feb 2nd. Head to kindafunny.com/SpringShowcase to get your game submitted. 2 new reviews are up right now! Tekken 8 Review is up on Kinda Funny Gamescast and Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth Review is up on Xcast. Youtube.com/KindaFunnyGames A new Kinda Funny podcast is up where the crew ranks the days of the week. Youtube.com/KindaFunny The Roper Report  - - Half Mermaid Productions teases two new titles – ‘Project C' and ‘Project D' - Ad - Riot lays off 530 staff and Riot Forge shutting down - Games industry leader predicts 2024 will be ‘the year of closures' - We may have Death Stranding 2's full title - A Pastel Pink Joy-Con set will launch alongside Princess Peach Showtime - Wee News! - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow's Hosts: Greg & Tim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast by project managers, for project managers.  Project C.U.R.E. has become the world's largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and dying in more than 135 countries. Dave Maddux, shares invaluable project insights on addressing the critical shortage of medical resources worldwide. Table of Contents 02:15 … Project C.U.R.E.03:59 … Dave's Role as Special Projects Manager05:14 … International Projects07:06 … Switching Between Strategic and Urgent09:59 … International Teams12:12 … Team Highlights and Lowlights14:24 … Selling the “Why” behind C.U.R.E17:03 … Establishing Long-Term Volunteer Loyalty18:34 … Sponsor Relationships21:13 … Spreading the Word23:51 … Assessing the Project Scope25:54 … Meeting the Customer's Needs29:18 … Technical Support for Equipment31:25 … Dave's Lessons Learned on Projects33:23 … “What I wish I had Known”35:07 … Find Out More36:40 … Closing DAVE MADDUX: ...there's a giant difference between agreement and alignment. You know, we can all agree on what our end goal is, but I think if we're not all aligned in the same goal, the results aren't nearly the same. WENDY GROUNDS: Welcome to Manage This the podcast by project managers, for project managers, I'm Wendy Grounds. With me are Bill Yates and Danny Brewer. We love bringing you project stories and today's project story is one that we are so excited to share with you. Our guest's name is Dave Maddux, and Dave is the special project manager at Project C.U.R.E. Before that, he spent eight years as a field project supervisor for the Home Office of Sam's Club and Walmart doing new store rebuilds and remodels. We're excited to hear his story about Project C.U.R.E. Now Project C.U.R.E. “C U R E” stands for Commission on Urgent Relief and Equipment. Project C.U.R.E has become the world's largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and the dying in more than 135 countries. One of the things I found on the website that they say is ultimately they believe where you live shouldn't determine whether you live. BILL YATES: That's impactful. Project C.U.R.E.'s Cargo program delivers 40 foot cargo containers that are stuffed to the top. Sometimes the value is between 350,000 and 400,000 dollars worth of donated medical supplies and equipment. Dave will describe more about what's in there. And it's being sent to under-resourced hospitals, clinics and community health centers in developing countries. One of the things that Dave shares with us is over the lifetime, Project C.U.R.E. has delivered over 1 billion in medical supplies to these needy locations. Dave has a background with the Navy. He's done a lot of project management work, as we mentioned, Sam's Club and Wal-Mart. He brings a unique perspective to this not for profit role that he's in now. We're going to hear some great advice from Dave. WENDY GROUNDS:  Hi, Dave. Welcome to Manage This. We are thrilled to have you here. Thank you so much for being our guest. DAVE MADDUX: Thank you very much for having me. Project C.U.R.E. WENDY GROUNDS:  Can you describe for our listeners a little bit about what Project C.U.R.E. is and just the scope and the reach of your programs? DAVE MADDUX:   Project C.U.R.E. got started in 1987 by Jim Jackson, who did wealth Management similar, and he went to this little neighborhood in Brazil on one of his trips and just realized in one of the medical clinics that they had nothing. They were rerolling Band-Aids and they were reusing needles and things like that. He came back to Denver and got with a friend of his. And they started with $50,000 in a garage full of medical supplies and decided to start shipping all over the world. At this point, what we focus on is 40 foot Conexes for everything that we do. And we've been to 135 countries around the world. Everything comes from hospitals,

The podcast by project managers, for project managers.  Project C.U.R.E. has become the world's largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and dying in more than 135 countries. Dave Maddux, shares invaluable project insights on addressing the critical shortage of medical resources worldwide. Table of Contents […] The post Episode 192 – Project C.U.R.E. Delivering Health and Hope appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach.

This episode of the MGMA Insights podcast features an interview with Janet Thomason, the Director of National Procurement at Project C.U.R.E. Project C.U.R.E. was founded in 1987 to address the staggering shortage of medical resources around the world. Since its beginnings in a garage in Colorado, Project C.U.R.E. has become the world's largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and dying in more than 135 countries. Resources: About Project C.U.R.E.: https://projectcure.org/about-us/ Get involved: https://projectcure.org/take-action/ Ways to Give: https://projectcure.org/take-action/donate/ Sponsor: Physician Business Training https://physicianbusinesstraining.com/ This course is for early-career physicians or physicians who need a comprehensive understanding of the business of medical practices. The course is 7 hours long and broken into 9 modules. It was developed by Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and leaders from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. This course awards 7 hours of CME credit. Additional Resources: MGMA Stat: mgma.com/stat Ask an Advisor: www.mgma.com/ask-an-advisor MGMA Membership: www.mgma.com/membership MGMA Advocacy: www.mgma.com/advocacy MGMA Consulting: www.mgma.com/consulting/overview If you would like additional tools and resources related to medical practice leadership or you have stories to share with us, email us at podcasts@mgma.com or email Daniel Williams directly at dwilliams@mgma.com. Thank you again for taking the time to listen to the MGMA podcast network.

In this interview, you'll learn why proactive planning is so important. Julee Yokoyama is a Succession Planner for business owners. One of my favorite parts of the interview is that she explains why people are afraid to plan for what happens if they die or get sick and what people need to support their loved ones. Highlights from the interview: How she dealt with the passing of her grandfather and how it encouraged to go into succession planning.Why she become such a keen observer of the world around her.Her family's lack of planning shaped how she viewed her career.How she avoided the negative patterns that she grew up witnessing.Breaking things down so you take action.Identifying what is in the shadows that is holding us back from taking action.Probability and impact matrix.Letting go of the tasks and projects that aren't going to help us build our businesses.Making things actionable so you do them instead of procrastinating.The practice of ranking projects and tasks so we have a clear priority list.Avoidance is not a strategy. It is a crisis in waiting.Proactive planning in your business.Why aren't we more proactive about your succession plan in our business?Why we are afraid to dream big.She discusses the fears we have around succession planning.She has had a lot of losses in her life and how it's influenced her work in succession planning.Why she had the thought, “What if I died on this plane?” and how it changed her life.How Yoga helped her process her feelings.What it's like to sit down with someone and talk about death.How a client dealt with a major fall from a horse and the mental health issues she had.The importance of being rooted in your why.Most shared book and favorite podcast.  You can learn more about Julee Yokoyama over at Project C.Y.A. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn and Instagram.  As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I'll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

In this interview, you'll learn why proactive planning is so important. Julee Yokoyama is a Succession Planner for business owners. One of my favorite parts of the interview she explains why people are afraid to plan for what happens if they die or get sick and what people need to do in their absence. Highlights from the interview: How she dealt with the passing of her grandfather and how it encouraged to go into succession planning.Why she become such a keen observer of the world around her.Her family's lack of planning shaped how she viewed her career.How she avoided the negative patterns that she grew up witnessing.Breaking things down so you take action.Identifying what is in the shadows that is holding us back from taking action.Probability and impact matrix.Letting go of the tasks and projects that aren't going to help us build our businesses.Making things actionable so you do them instead of procrastinating.The practice of ranking projects and tasks so we have a clear priority list.Avoidance is not a strategy. It is a crisis in waiting.Proactive planning in your business.Why aren't we more proactive about your succession plan in our business?Why we are afraid to dream big.She discusses the fears we have around succession planning.She has had a lot of losses in her life and how it's influenced her work in succession planning.Why she had the thought, “What if I died on this plane?” and how it changed her life.How Yoga helped her process her feelings.What it's like to sit down with someone and talk about death.How a client dealt with a major fall from a horse and the mental health issues she had.The importance of being rooted in your why.Most shared book and favorite podcast.  You can learn more about Julee Yokoyama over at Project C.Y.A. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn and Instagram.  As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I'll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

This week, as we continue, our series of Be the Blessing podcast interviews, Pastor Nate sits down with Al Youngdahl to talk about his ongoing work with Project C.U.R.E. and the ways that serving with this organization has strengthened Al's faith over the year. Project C.U.R.E. is a locally-based organization that gathers and provides medical supplies to different organizations throughout the world that are in need. Listen in as Al describes the incredible work Project C.U.R.E. does throughout the world and the ways that you could be involved with Project C.U.R.E. during Bethany's Be The Blessing event on 10/21.

Rev. Angela Ravin-Anderson welcomes new co-host, Rev. Liz Testa, and together they reflect on intersectionality and why it's an important aspect of what shapes them as women, believers, and leaders. Angela and Liz reflect on their faith journeys and some of the narratives within their home or early development that shaped them, as well as how they have experienced being at the intersection of race, gender, and religion and navigated through the challenges and opportunities. Their lively conversation concludes with honest sharing about how God has called them to show up in the midst of the complexities of today's world, and how they believe God is desiring women in general, and them in particular, to show up and make a positive, lasting impact. Bios Rev. Dr. Angela Ravin-Anderson, a native Texan, is an ordained minister with a true passion for seeing the people of God become an authentic expression of God's love in the world.  Dr. Ravin-Anderson created the Streams in the Wasteland Leadership Institute, a training program to equip and prepare transformational Christian leaders, especially women, based on their unique personalities, passions, and spiritual gifts to minister to the marginalized. She is also a facilitator for Project C.U.R.A.T.E., a faith-based initiative to bring about racial reconciliation and social justice reform within the Christian community. Dr. Ravin-Anderson is an adjunct professor at Abilene Christian University within the Bible Department teaching courses in Old and New Testament Studies, Christian Leadership, and Spiritual Formation. At Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church where she serves as part of the clergy team, she gives leadership to the Social Justice ministry and develops curriculum for adult Christian education and discipleship training programs. She holds a BA in Behavioral Science from Rice University, an MBA and MHA from the University of Houston-Clearlake, received her Master of Divinity degree, Summa Cum Laude from Houston Graduate School of Theology, and her Doctor of Ministry in the area of Pastoral and Missional Church Leadership from the same seminary. Rev. Elizabeth (Liz) Testa, raised bi-culturally in New York and Spain, is a pastor, speaker, creative visionary, and community builder who is passionate about encouraging people to embrace their gifts and usher in a vision of God's reign as women and men of all backgrounds serve together, freely and fully. She currently serves the Reformed Church in America as the ministry executive for Women's Transformation and Leadership and Equity-Based Hospitality.  In this capacity, she helps the RCA pursue a vision for the full inclusion of women's gifts, influence, and leadership in all areas of the church and equips faith communities to develop equitable, hospitable practices that build and strengthen the body of Christ for mission in the world. Liz is the founder and host of the Lavish Hope: Stories of Resilience and Overcoming, a podcast that engages fresh perspectives from women and people of color. Rev. Testa holds a BFA (magna cum laude) from Syracuse University, and an MDiv from the Drew Theological School, where she was the John Heston Willey awardee for excellence in Pulpit Oratory and Manner. Her first career was as a professional actress and spokesperson, and she delights at how God uses those experiences to enhance her calling in ministry. Rev. Testa is currently a doctoral student in transformational preaching at New Brunswick Theological Seminary, NJ. Learn more about Dr. Ravin-Anderson and Rev. Testa's passions and projects: Streams in the Wasteland Project C.U.R.A.T.E. RCA Women's Transformation and Leadership and Equity-Based Hospitality Lavish Hope Podcast

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Dr. Douglas Jackson's dad filled the family garage with medical supplies and equipment to donate to ragtag hospitals and clinics in poverty-stricken countries. Today, 36 years later, Doug continues the family mission of delivering help and hope to the world with Project C.U.R.E., providing container loads of life-saving medical equipment and supplies to hospitals and clinics in under-resourced countries. The organization is the world's largest distributor of donated international medical relief, touching the lives of children and families in more than 138 countries. Doug leads the efforts of the $130M nonprofit with wisdom, compassion and inspiration. Click here to learn more about Project C.U.R.E.: https://projectcure.org/ Original air date: August 24, 2023.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo–that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd–he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the full legacy of the Birmingham photo? And of the campaign it stemmed from? In You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live, Nonfiction author and journalist Paul Kix takes the reader behind the scenes as he tells the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's pivotal 10 week campaign, Project C, as it was known― in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time, he also provides a window into the minds of the four extraordinary men who led the campaign―Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, and James Bevel. Join us when journalist Paul Kix shares the story of Project C, which provides a crucial understanding of our own time and the impact that strategic activism can have. Be a Friend: Twitter - https://twitter.com/lopate_leonard Support the Station (select the Leonard Lopate at Large from the pulldown menu): BAI Buddy: https://wbai.wedid.it

This episode is all about charitable giving – and we had the honor of having the CEO and Founder of Project C.U.R.E., Dr. Douglas Jackson, to join us. He explains what his organization does and how we can give money to charities like his. Not only does our money go to great causes, but we can also take advantage of tax benefits that can positively impact us as well. Want to donate to Project C.U.R.E.? Follow their link below!   Hosts: Alan Holman, CFP®, Wealth Advisor Brian Wiley, Financial Advisor   Guest: Dr. Douglas Jackson, PhD, JD Founder of Project C.U.R.E.   Donate to Project C.U.R.E. https://projectcure.org   The Real Money Pros: https://www.therealmoneypros.com   ————————————————————— SPONSORS:   Academy Mortgage: https://academymortgage.com/?lo=dave-perry&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=show_sponsor   Lively (HSAs and FSAs) https://livelyme.com/pro   Tree City Advisors of Apollon: https://www.treecityadvisors.com   Apollon Wealth Management: https://apollonwealthmanagement.com/   Advisor Insurance Solutions: https://advisorinsurancesolutions.com/ —————————————————————

Leif Nilsson, CEO of Surge Copper (TSX.V:SURG - OTCQX:SRGXF) joins us to recap the maiden PEA on the Berg Project in BC, released June 13th. We discuss the key metrics of the PEA and how it stacks up to other large copper development assets. We also have Leif breakdown what work come next to improve the economics and possible exploration.   If you have any follow up questions for Leif please email us at Fleck@kereport.com or Shad@kereport.com.   Click here to read over the full news release reporting the PEA.  

XL aflevering met als gast een van de succesvolste cannabisondernemers van Europa, Boy Ramsahai en zijn zoon Shai, die in zijn voetsporen treedt. Boy richtte begin jaren negentig uitgeverij Discover Publisher op, met als eerste uitgave HighLife Magazine. Hij pionierde met de Highlife hennepbeurzen en de HighLife Cannabis Cup. Nadat hij Discover verkocht startte hij Royal Queen Seeds, later volgden Zamnesia, Cibdol, Bitcanna en SeedTech. Zoon Shai (29) is het nieuwe gezicht van Royal Queen Seeds en vertelt hoe het is om op te groeien met een cannabisondernemer als vader. We bespreken het belangrijkste cannabisnieuws, o.a. de nieuwe Amsterdamse Stay Away campagne, de sterke daling van het aantal opgerolde wietkwekerijen, de dood van Raphael Mechoulam en Leafly's afscheid van de journalistiek. Bovendien hebben vader en zoon Ramsahai een aantal primeurs in petto… Nog iets nieuws? Amsterdam lanceert Stay Away campagne, gericht op Britse mannen van 18 tot 35 jaar oud https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6257210/amsterdam-wil-met-nieuwe-campagne-af-van-jonge-britse-toeristen-stay-away.html Minder wietkwekerijen opgerold, Nederlander verklikt illegaal wiethok minder vaak, AD 16 maart 2023 https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/minder-wietkwekerijen-opgerold-nederlander-verklikt-illegaal-wiethok-minder-vaak~a42a1baf/ Bredaas cannabisbedrijf Project C claimt 90 miljoen euro van de staat (en alsnog een vergunning), Brabants Dagblad, 30 maart 2023 https://www.bndestem.nl/breda/bredaas-cannabisbedrijf-project-c-claimt-90-miljoen-euro-van-de-staat~adbc3361/ Raphael Mechoulam, the 'father of cannabis research' who discovered THC, has died, WBFO.org, 27 maart 2023 https://www.wbfo.org/2023-03-27/raphael-mechoulam-the-father-of-cannabis-research-who-discovered-thc-has-died Leafly stopt met journalistiek, column Derrick 27 maart 2023 https://www.cnnbs.nl/column-groot-verlies-leafly-stopt-met-journalistiek/ Handel en verkoop HHC verboden in Oostenrijk https://cannabisindustrie.nl/handel-en-verkoop-van-hhc-hexahydrocannabinol-in-oostenrijk-verboden/ Switzerland tries slow-mo cannabis revolution, France24.com, 27 maart 2023 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230327-switzerland-tries-slow-mo-cannabis-revolution?ref=tw Taliban leader bans cannabis cultivation in Afghanistan, Trtworld.com, 19 maart 2023 https://www.trtworld.com/asia/taliban-leader-bans-cannabis-cultivation-in-afghanistan-66283 Interview Boy en Shai Ramsahai Website Royal Queens Seeds: www.royalqueenseeds.nl Website Zamnesia: www.zamnesia.nl Website Cibdol: www.cibdol.nl Website SeedTech: www.f1seedtech.com De Ouwe Doos Mensen op maandag: kwartaalblad voor hasjroker, Trouw, 12 augustus 1991, via Delpher: https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=Boy+Ramsahai&coll=ddd&sortfield=datedesc&page=2&identifier=ABCDDD:010824360:mpeg21:a0044&resultsidentifier=ABCDDD:010824360:mpeg21:a0044&rowid=5 Luisteraarsreacties Heb je een vraag, een suggestie voor een gast of een cannabis avontuur dat je met ons wil delen: mail naar info@highteapotcast.nl of laat je luisteraarsreactie achter in de comments. Elke aflevering belonen we een luisteraarsreactie met een prijzenpakket van een van onze sponsors. High Tea Potcast Kweekhoekje Website De Gouden Gieter: www.degoudengieter.nl Instagram: @degoudengieter Basis uitleg over buiten wiet kweken vind je op https://www.veiligthuiskweken.nl/buiten-kweken/ Tune Onze herkenningstune is ‘Mary You Wanna' van de Nederlandse band Mooon. Website: http://www.mooonband.com/

Teatime with Miss Liz joining and coming to share a deep, strong T-E-A is Ruth G. Sanchez, Executive Director of ProjectC.U.R.E, a nonprofit supporting international humanitarian relief and aid workers. April 13th, 3 pm EST LIVE SHOW STREAMING ON MULTIPLE PLATFORMS AND PODCASTS STATIONS APPS Ruth G. Sanchez has extensive 25+ years of experience in corporate and business development, fundraising events, major gifts, diversity, PMP Project Management, Team training, Six Sigma green belt, Medical Assessments, and ASU non-profit business management. Prior to joining as Executive Director with Project C.U.R.E, Ruth held several leadership positions with American Express for 16 years. Her areas of expertise were in Credit, Fraud Operations, Risk Management, and Business Partner Leader, supporting multi-national corporations with large-scale credit card programs and launching new Credit Card programs in partnership with AMEX Marketing. Ruth was awarded during her tenure with top honours: Chairman's Award for excellence and Great Citizen's Award for nonprofit work. In following her passion for serving children with special needs, Ruth managed development teams supporting Special Olympics chapters in Arizona, Northern California and Nevada, successfully raising over $8M.Ruth is currently the Executive Director of Project C.U.R.E. in the Tempe Chapter. She brings high excellence, leadership, business acumen and passion to Project C.U.R.E. She is focused on supporting international humanitarian work by providing medical equipment and supplies to over 135 countries. Her leadership role is to engage local community members and leaders in serving as volunteers, donors and procurement partners. During her first year at Project C.U.R.E., Ruth shipped 40 (40ft) containers to countries in Africa and Central America. She currently supports 36 container projects, 2 for Ukraine, intending to raise $1.7M. Ruth is a 20+ year volunteer radio broadcaster for Sunsounds of AZ, a radio reading station for the blind and disabled. Her radio program, Angels, includes spiritual, inspirational and motivational stories. https://projectcure.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/misslizsteatimes/message

Project C in 1963 Birmingham stood for Project... Children? No, Project (non-violent) Confrontation to end segregation. Children across the city did march and altered the trajectory of the Civil Rights Movement. Next, Kat teaches about identical twins Sabina and Ursula Eriksson who folie à deux'ed their way onto the British version of COPS in a shared psychosis.  Night Classy Store https://linktr.ee/nightclassy

Rotarians Steven Caine and Laura Lee (Burnt Bills Ballston Lake Rotary) visit Radio Rotary to tell about their efforts to help bring medical facilities to Muchila Center, an isolated village in Zambia—the nearest hospital is two hours away. In addition to assistance from the Rotary clubs of Kusinta and Lusaka, the new clinic uses equipment supplied by Project C.U.R.E. Much needed dental facilities and transportation are also part of the nonprofit Muchila Access Project, which will serve over 43,000 persons in the Muchila region. Burnt Hills Ballston Lake Rotary is working on a Rotary Foundation Global Grant directed primarily toward providing maternal and child health and disease prevention and treatment, including dental health. As many as 1 in 13 women die from maternal related causes in regions like Muchila, compared to 1 in 4,000 in developed countries, and about 80% of the population in the region suffers from oral disease. Learn more: Burnt Hills/Ballston Lake Rotary: https://bhblrotary.org/ Rotary Club of Lusaka (Zambia): https://lusakarotary.org/ Rotary Club of Kusinta (Zambia) on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KusintaRocks/ Muchila Access Project: https://www.muchilaaccess.org/ Project C.U.R.E.: https://projectcure.org/ CATEGORIES Health International Programs Rotary Club Projects Rotary Foundation Words to List: Zambia, maternal and child health, disease prevention and treatment, Rotary Foundation Global Grants --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/radiorotary/support

In this episode we interviewed Mike Lampe who was in a couple of Buffalo hip hop groups in the early 90's / Late 80's ) Even though mike is a hip hop head he was very connected to the hardcore scene. We talked to Mike about his early days making music and how a hip hop group like his ended up playing hardcore shows. Mike also recorded some ealy music by band you've probably heard of like Solid State and others. Enjoy!

In this episode we interviewed Mike Lampe who was in a couple of Buffalo hip hop groups in the early 90's / Late 80's ) Even though mike is a hip hop head he was very connected to the hardcore scene. We talked to Mike about his early days making music and how a hip hop group like his ended up playing hardcore shows. Mike also recorded some ealy music by band you've probably heard of like Solid State and others. Enjoy!

In this episode, I share the audio from a recent video I created. The short video highlights four different examples of nonprofits and NGOs applying Lean principles and concepts to social challenges in the local community. I also announce our new Lean courses: Lean Introduction and Lean Fundamentals. The Lean Introduction course can be accessed for free using coupon code "KICKSTARTLEAN-LSSE" The 4 nonprofits highlighted in the video: St. Bernard Project (New Orleans, LA) Learn more at https://planet-lean.com/lean-construction-new-orleans-katrina/ Food Bank For New York City Learn more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EedMmMedj3M Free Geek (Portland, OR) Learn more at http://www.sustainableengineer.org/free-geek-named-2021-excellence-in-sustainable-development-award-winner/ Project C.U.R.E. (Houston, TX) Learn more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIXDQAUSJD0 Links Video: Applying Lean Thinking and Process Improvement to Nonprofits and NGOs Case Studies LeanSixSigmaforGood.com - Case studies of nonprofits and governments applying Lean and Six Sigma for the greater good Free Lean Introduction course - Use coupon code "KICKSTARTLEAN-LSSE" at checkout Need help in your organization? Let's talk! Schedule a free support call BIZ-PI.com LeanSixSigmaDefinition.com Have a question? Submit a voice message at Anchor.fm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leansixsigmabursts/message

If you know us you know we love hiop hop. Most of us are firmly rooted in the older style but we appreciate some of todays stuff as well. We decided to have a draft style episode/discussion where we talked about out favorite albums from the 90's in Hip Hop. As we like to with drafts we enlisted some help we had Mike Lampe from Project C and we had "Wildcard" Kelly on as well. Through research for this episode we discoved that there is a whole lot more gold to be picked so we will definitely revisit the 90's in the future! Epsiode Music is "Looking At The Front Door" by Main Source

If you know us you know we love hiop hop. Most of us are firmly rooted in the older style but we appreciate some of todays stuff as well. We decided to have a draft style episode/discussion where we talked about out favorite albums from the 90's in Hip Hop. As we like to with drafts we enlisted some help we had Mike Lampe from Project C and we had "Wildcard" Kelly on as well. Through research for this episode we discoved that there is a whole lot more gold to be picked so we will definitely revisit the 90's in the future! Epsiode Music is "Looking At The Front Door" by Main Source

Project Cure CEO Douglas Jackson, PhD shares the mission of Project Cure in a wide ranging discussion that illustrates the incredible supply chain expertise of Project Cure.Project C.U.R.E. was founded in 1987 to address the staggering shortage of medical resources around the world. Project C.U.R.E. has become the world's largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and dying in more than 135 countries.Each week Project C.U.R.E. delivers approximately three to five semi-truck-sized ocean containers packed with the medical equipment and supplies desperately needed to save lives in hospitals and clinics in resource-limited countries. In addition, each year hundreds of healthcare professionals travel with Project C.U.R.E. to provide medical treatment to communities in need and training to those dedicated to serving them. Project C.U.R.E. is supported by over 30,000 volunteers annually and operates distribution warehouses in seven U.S. cities.

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has entered its third month with no end in sight, taking a heavy toll on the population. Many are asking how they can help. We'll answer that question today on MoneyWise. The U.N. estimates that more than two million Ukrainians are now refugees as they flee the violence in their country. Mostly women, children and elderly men, they have a critical need for basic commodities. The National Christian Foundation hasprepared a listof U.S based organizations mobilizing to provide that aid. These charities have already been approved to receive grants through NCF's Giving Funds. We'll talk about a handful of them here in no particular order. CHARITIES HELPING UKRAINIANS Aerial Recovery Group: This organization with former U.S. Military Special Operators now use their unique skills to assist people after natural and man-made disasters. They perform high-risk extractions of orphans and the most vulnerable who are in imminent danger from the Russian invasion and subsequent fighting. They've also set up a food and supply distribution network. That's the Aerial Recovery Group. AmeriCares: They provide support for refugees and migrants and they have an an emergency response team in Poland to support health services for families affected by the escalating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. Their experts are coordinating large-scale shipments of medicine and relief supplies and mobilizing emergency medical teams to help in hospitals inside Ukraine. That's AmeriCares. International Rescue Committee: For nearly a century, this group has provided disaster relief around the world. That includesemergency aid, health and sanitation, and psychosocial support to refugees and migrants. On the ground in Poland, they're providing emergency support for families fleeing Ukraine, including economic assistance, survival supplies, and protection services. That's the International Rescue Committee. Medical Teams International: MTI provides life-saving medical care to people in crisis due to war or natural disasters. They provide care in frontline clinics, refugee camps, and remote villages. MTI says donations will allow them to coordinate with multiple partners to ship crucial medical supplies to Ukraine. That's Medical Teams International. Mission to Ukraine: They've been working in that country for 25 years serving women facing crisis pregnancies and children with disabilities each year and sharing the gospel. With the Russian invasion they're now providing food, medicine, diapers, heating oil, and emergency refugee resettlement and housing. That's Mission to Ukraine. Samaritan's Purse: Samaritan's Purse has a major presence in Ukraine. They've set up an emergency field hospital there with an operating room, intensive care unit and pharmacy. They've staffed the mobile facility with doctors and nurses who see 100 patients a day. They've also supplied 100 tons of relief materials, including medical supplies, hygiene kits, winter coats, blankets, and other items to help those fleeing the escalating conflict. That's Samaritan's Purse. Project C.U.R.E: The world's largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment, and services to doctors and nurses. In one week alone they shipped to Ukraine 10 tons of medical aid, including trauma supplies, airway kits, sutures, gloves, surgical gowns, and surgical supplies. That's Project C.U.R.E. World Relief: They work with churches to provide food, shelter, and supplies to those in the most vulnerable situations. They're helping to resettle Ukrainian refugees and providing assistance to those already in the U.S. who are desperately trying to reunite with their families. Many of these organizations are faith-based, providing not only basic human services, but also spreading the Gospel. Some are more keenly focused on sharing God's Word, such as theAmerican Bible Society. They've had a strong presence in Ukraine since the end of World War II. For the last decade, they've focused on expanding Bible-based trauma healing work in Ukraine. They're now working close to the frontlines helping families who've lost loved ones and are searching for truth and comfort during the ongoing conflict. There are many more worthy organizations providing desperately needed help in Ukraine. We just couldn't name them all. Again, you'll find a more complete listhere. On today's program, Rob also answers listener questions: ●Does it make sense to sell a newly-built home? ●What is the best way to start investing on behalf of young pastors in training? ●What can a person do as a government employee to invest for the future? Remember, you can call in to ask your questions most days at (800) 525-7000 or email them toQuestions@MoneyWise.org. Also, visit our website atMoneyWise.orgwhere you can connect with a MoneyWise Coach, join the MoneyWise Community, and even download the free MoneyWise app. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1085/29

In this episode, Jordan interviews Douglas Jackson, President and CEO of Project C.U.R.E., a humanitarian effort providing life-saving medical devices & supplies throughout the under-sourced world. Douglas details how he got started with Project C.U.R.E., how his company provides support worldwide, and how his upbringing led to a career of helping those most in need.

On today's episode Dooner and The Dude are talking to NASA's Abdiel Santos-Galindo about the wet dress rehearsal of the Artemis 1 and NASA's Space Launch System, which is the most powerful rocket it's ever built.Brian Bourke, chief growth officer at Seko Logistics, talks about how his company is working with Project C.U.R.E. to send support to Ukraine.Jill Rice, partner at Port X Logistics, discusses women in leadership in logistics.Tom Fogarty, CEO at Bestpass, smites toll citations.Plus, a Highway Angel saves a pair from burning to death in a car; when protesting rocks; and how truckers adjust to office life.Visit our sponsorSubscribe to the WTT newsletterApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsElectric fleets are the future. Are you ready? Discover why ChargePoint is the right partner to take your operation electric to reduce fueling costs, eliminate emissions and help you turn e-mobility into a competitive advantage. Visit chargepoint.solutions/freightwaves

On today's episode Dooner and The Dude are talking to NASA's Abdiel Santos-Galindo about the wet dress rehearsal of the Artemis 1 and NASA's Space Launch System, which is the most powerful rocket it's ever built.Brian Bourke, chief growth officer at Seko Logistics, talks about how his company is working with Project C.U.R.E. to send support to Ukraine.Jill Rice, partner at Port X Logistics, discusses women in leadership in logistics.Tom Fogarty, CEO at Bestpass, smites toll citations.Plus, a Highway Angel saves a pair from burning to death in a car; when protesting rocks; and how truckers adjust to office life.Visit our sponsorSubscribe to the WTT newsletterApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

Given the recent events of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing war there, we decided we wanted to dedicate our first ever country profile episode to Ukraine and the brave individuals fighting for their country, including former Olympians, and of course highlighting the history of amazing Ukrainian athletes who have competed at both the Olympics and Paralympics, from the Soviet era up to the current day. Check out Project C.U.R.E, a nonprofit that is assisting Ukraine by sending medical supplies. Our website: gamesodyssey.com Find us on Facebook at The Games Odyssey Podcast page On Twitter Games Odyssey On Instagram Games Odyssey Sources: Holodomor - Stuff You Missed in History Class | iHeart Holodomor - Stuff You Missed in History Class | Apple Podcasts Ukraine at the Olympics - Wikipedia Ukraine | History, Flag, Population, President, Map, Language, & Facts | Britannica Tatiana Gutsu - Wikipedia Larisa Latynina - Wikipedia Larisa Latynina - An Orphan Seeking Beauty - Gymnastics, School, Ballet, and Dreamed - JRank Articles Boris Shakhlin - Wikipedia Boris Shakhlin - Sports Reference Boris Shakhlin | The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame Larisa LATYNINA | Olympics.com Leonid Zhabotinsky - Wikipedia Valeriy Borzov - Wikipedia Ludmilla Tourischeva - Wikipedia Yana Klochkova - Wikipedia Ukraine at the Paralympics - Wikipedia Viktor Smyrnov - Wikipedia Russia-Ukraine war: Olympian Stanislav Horuna joins Ukrainian military effort, asks for support amid invasion | Fox News

On today's show, chief medical officer Dr. Steve Stites talks to Jane Ott, Vice President, Supply Chain of the health system and Kristin Robinson, Executive Director, PROJECT C.U.R.E., Kansas City. The health system works with Project C.U.R.E to send supplies to support care in Ukraine. The health system's relationship with Ukraine is not new. Details of supplies and efforts in this episode of Open Mics with Dr. Stites.

Ann Rohmer speaks with Dr. Roger McIntyre - Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, University of Toronto about the lifting of the mask mandate; is it too soon? What if you prefer to remain masked? On the anniversary of the WHO declaring COVID19 a pandemic (March 11-2020), Ann Rohmer discusses the Pandemic with York Region's Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barry Pakes. Tina Cortese looks into how Air Canada, Airlink, Project C.U.R.E. and GlobalMedic have joined forces to directly help Ukrainian refugees arriving in Poland and those still in Ukraine. A special humanitarian cargo charter flight, operated by Air Canada onboard a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, will transport medical equipment from Airlink and Project C.U.R.E. including hospital beds, vinyl mattresses and other humanitarian supplies. GlobalMedic will be sending medical supplies, trauma dressings and wound care supplies destined for a hospital in Lviv, Ukraine. The flight will depart Toronto Pearson for Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday evening, March 9, 2022. Kevin Frankish has details of a recent KPMG poll which finds that nearly half (49 per cent) would buy an EV made by a major technology company (Google, Apple, Amazon, Huawei, Samsung), a trend that automotive executives are already anticipating. Jim Lang is with author Tanvir Bhangoo who's book THE PRO Business Mindset — which hit #1 Amazon Best Seller in multiple categories, and #6 Hot New Release across all Management & Leadership Books. He applied leadership lessons from sports(championship footballer at McMaster), based on what he had learned on the football field, to help organizations adapt and transform amid disruption and chaos. How can principles built from a world of sports apply to leadership in business?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Letter From Birmingham Jail - Episode 3 - The Radiant Stars Of Love And Brotherhood   I'm Christy Shriver and we're here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us.    And I am Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast.  This is our third episode in this series discussing Dr. King's leadership in the Civil Rights Movement most specifically in his iconic and historically important Letter From Birmingham Jail.  Next episode, we will extend our discussion of King to the origins of his story.  In Dr. King's speech to American from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial he said this,    In a sense we have come to our Nation's Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our great republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.  This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  This promissory note was again revisited during the days of Abraham Lincoln with the Emancipation Proclamation and then the Gettysburg address in 1863.  Next week, we will discuss this great address which Dr. King recalls occurred 100 years before his days in that Birmingham jail.       As we look back through the lens of history, we can see that lot happened very quickly after those 8 days in the Birmingham jail until Dr. King would make those very remarks on the steps of the Lincoln memorial.  It was in August of that summer that he would stand, “in the symbolic shadow” to use his words, of president Lincoln and open the eyes of the millions watching the address that he had a dream- a dream that would become the dream of the millions to hear or read his words. This same year would also propel him in December to be recognized most significantly across the Atlantic in Oslo, Norway.  On Dec. 4, 1964, Dr. King stood in front of the largest crowds to ever jam into the festival Hall of Oslo University.  Hundreds of students who could not get into the hall waited outside shouting “Freedom Now!” And “We Shall Overcome” as they watched him arrived with his wife Coretta to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  As he began his acceptance speech, something you can still watch today if you go to the Nobel Prize website, he can be heard audibly choking up as he uttered the words “the tortuous road which has led from Montgomery, Alabama to Oslo.       It WAS tortuous- it led through, among other places- Atlanta, Georgia; Selma and Birmingham, Alabama.  Today we will finish reading paragraphs 27-50, or the second half of the letter, but before we do, we need to tell the story of the amazing events that were to happen after Dr. King gets out of jail.  Remember, after 8 days both Rev. Abernathy and Dr. King wee bailed out.  Immediately after being released, Dr. King assembled his team and made the extremely controversial decision to enlist even more teenagers and children- up to this point they had included students, but now they were going to recruit even more.  Of course, this caused protests from every corner of the political spectrum.  To some it seemed cruel and unnecessary.  Many, both white as well as African-American accused King of “using” children.  In his book, Why We can't Wait, King  recalls one incident of a child, eight years old, who marched alongside his mother.  A policeman looked down at the child and asked him, mockingly, “What do you want?” to which the child unable to even pronounce the letter r responded, “F-ee-dom”.  If this moment wasn't for the future- for the children, from Dr. King's perspective- then what was even the point.  The day would be called D-Day, of course borrowing the language used by the fathers of the movement from their days in World War 2 not even twenty years before.    Except, instead of descending on the banks of Normandy, D-Day in this case meant “ditch” day- as in Ditch School day.  The date would be May 2.  The numbers vary from source to source, but around 4000 children did just that.  They ditched school, demonstrated and over a fourth of them, or around 1000, ended up in jail.     Yes, and they next day more joined their ranks.  It wasn't long before 2500 children were jailed.  These students would demonstrate in schools.  They walked defiantly into  libraries they were not legally allowed to enter and sat in them.  They marched without a permit, and they also got arrested.   Per Connor's direct orders, they were hosed down with massive fire hoses.  It got ridiculous in scope.  Students were singing “Freedom” as the force of the water knocked them to the ground.  The police literally rented school buses to haul the children to jail.  But undeterred, the non-violent campaign continued until it worked. On May 4, there were newspapers all over the country and even across the world with pictures of men and children laying on the ground and policemen bending over them with clubs.       Oh, and it was going to get worse. Bull Connor very famously ordered out police dogs along with the fire hoses to attack the marchers.  Bull Connor pressed and pressed until even his own police force could not stand to enforce his vicious policies sometimes refusing to turn the waterhoses onto the crowds of marchers.      Bull Connor, along with the world all the way to the Soviet Union could feel the reality that the days of the segregated world were over.  By May 8, a moratorium had been issued in Birmingham. Birmingham would begin the process of de-segregation.  The more the leadership of Birmingham submitted to the “tension”- to use the word King uses in his letter, and were willing to negotiate, the more dangerous things got for Dr. King and the other leaders.  A bomb was planted near the Gaston Motel  the day after the integration plan was announced.  This motel had been the center of operations for Project C as well as where Dr. King was staying.  His brother's home the Rev. A.D. King was bombed, but the determination of the African American community in Birmingham only increased.  Segregation was dying; everyone knew this.  The question was, what kind of damage would be caused on its way out the door.      Well, we know the answer to that question.  On September 15, 1963, five young girls were in the basement of the church before Sunday morning services excitedly talking about Youth Day because they were going to be a part of the services.  A bomb went off.  Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley were killed.  Addie's sister, Sarah survived but lost her right eye.  Dr. King would send a telegram to Governor Wallace stating and I quote, “The blood of our little children is on your hands.”  It would not be until 2002 that the last of the four bombers would be convicted for his part in this brutal murder.    By the time of the September bombings, Dr. King's letter had circulated across the country.  The march on Washington had already occurred on August 28 and astounded the world with the sheer volume of people who showed up to hear Dr. King speak.  Dr. King looked out across that crowd, and as he recalls, knew the world was changing because he was not looking at only African-American faces.  There were faces of every color God has created.  He was looking at American faces.  With Abraham Lincoln behind him,  Dr. King spoke to the world of a dream where he envisioned a world where he famously said, and I quote “my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”    It was a vision most of America was willing and ready  to embrace, but those who were to oppose would do so violently to the end.  As we think about the lengths those that opposed him were willing to go, it is more amazing than ever that he insisted on a path of loving his enemies.  It's also amazing that HE is the one who was considered an extremist.  Let's jump back into the letter where we left off last episode.   Let's begin reading paragraphs 27-30.    Read paragraphs 27-30    Remember, he is addressing clergymen who directly accused him of being too extreme.  In these paragraphs he cautions his accusers against calling him extreme.  His path is the middle way and his way is rejected, blood would definitely run in the street.      True, so on the one hand, he will say, I'm definitely the one on moderate path here.  But on the flip side he does want to reiterate, that even if he really were an extremist, that wouldn't really be a bad thing.  Extremism, at times is not only very American, but also Christian.  To support this claim he cites the names of all kinds of American and Christian heroes who had been exactly that in their day-extreme.  Christy, read that famous paragraph 31 full of allusion after allusion to the heroes of Christian and American history.  We will skip paragraphs 32-35 for time's sake, but in those paragraphs, he extends the list of heroes beyond just the past, but into the present moment, citing name after name and honoring the white activist after white activist who not only supported the movement in the South, but had been jailed for it.       These men and women, not the ministers writing him, were on the spiritual and moral high ground.  He then, takes off his hat as historian, and puts back on his hat as a preacher.  With the authority of a doctor in theology who knows his Bible but who is also a doer of the word not just a speaker of it,  he chastises the white minister for their lack of political involvement.   Again this is an area of where many Christians simply do not agree.  Where is the role of the church when it comes to politics.  Many ministers agree that church and state should be totally separate. Dr. King completely disagrees with this view.  Let's read his view on the topic of if a Christian minister should engage in politics.    Paragraphs 37-42    And although Dr. King's perspective is entirely understandable; it's also understandable why many and perhaps the majority of Christian ministers today are extremely hesitant to get involved in politics and in fact take a firm stand that it is not their role to do so- for many reasons, and many reasons that are historical.  What is the role that religion should play in politics?  The American position has always been that church and state are separate.  That God does not have a political party and the church should never tell a person how to vote or engage politically.  In other words, the traditional American position is that an American should be able to be a Christian democrat or a Christian Republican or a Christian socialist or a Christian libertarian.   You can be a Christian and engage in any number of ways politically.    So true, but having said that, and the point Dr. King is harping on is that one's faith should absolutely inform one's politics.  Perhaps the church should not tell you exactly what candidate you should vote for, but for a practicing Christian and a practicing, faith defines morality.   It provides definitions for what is right and wrong, and what is good and evil.  Of course, there is There is always room for disagreement- and there is no end to the different denominations and sects of the respective faiths- but there are also commonalities that ground all Jewish and Christian faiths- and it is to these shared common values that Dr. King points.  On some things, there is no room for disagreement.  Dr. King  reminds these ministers that they share with him the value of human life as given by a Holy God, the nobility of the human soul, and the God-given gift of free choice.  These things are not debated between the African-American and white Christian churches.  The heritage of America itself is grounded on the idea that it is the will of God that all men live in freedom and equality- for King these values are embedded in the Christian gospel.  Let's read his religious argument in direct reference to the church and its posture in the face of politics.  That would be paragraphs 42-44.    Paragraphs 42-44    His hope IS the church- that is clear- it's not in the state- I love that he finishes- the grand finale- so to speak- outraged by the outlandish idea that in the face of so much unsolicited police violence, the clergyman actually commended Bull Connor's police force.  Let's read paragraphs 45-46    Paragraphs 45-46    I find it interesting here that he absolutely contradicts the moral relativism of many political leaders and the natural order of politicians as exposed to the world by Nicolo Machiavelli in the 15th century.  Machiavelli suggested that in politics morality is relative; that the ends justifies the means.  Every student of political science studies this in their first political science class.    Heck, most high level high school students will study the same thing either in history or English class.      And yet, Dr. King takes Machiavelli to task.  He says to use moral means for immoral ends is wrong.   He also quotes TS Eliot by saying to do the right deed for the wrong reason is treason.  Which by the way, people are always using that quote of Eliot's, where does it come from.    It comes from Murder in the Cathedral which is a play about the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket ironically.      The final paragraphs of his letter look to the future.  He speaks of James Meredith.  Garry, before we read these final paragraphs, tell us who is that is?    In the fall of 1962, the year before the Birmingham marches, James Meredith tried to enroll in the University of Mississippi.  Around here we call it “ole Miss”.  It's just an hour south of Memphis.  James Meredith was not a teenager.  He had served honorably in the air force in Japan.  He was married.  Because of his admission, riots broke out.  Hundreds were wounded, two died.  Eventually 31,000 national guardsmen were called out to enforce the order that Meredith be admitted into the university.   The armed forces would occupy university town of Oxford for ten months.  The end of the story for Meredith is good.  He eventually graduated from Columbia University with a law degree and enjoyed an important law career.  But at the time of this letter, again, that future was not certain.  Dr. King was a visionary, and we see that at the end of this letter, and we will see it again in the Dream speech.  He could see an integrated world, and through the power of his voice, his will and his rhetoric, so can the rest of us.  Christy, let's read to the end.    Paragraphs 47-50    Dr. King's righteous indignation surfaces here at the end.  We can see his disappointment, but we can also see that he does not despair.  And what is more miraculous, he still believes in forgiveness.  The final sentence of this letter speaks of the radiant stars of love and brotherhood.      The Civil Rights Act of 1964 would be one year away.  It was the nation's premier civil rights legislation. The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.  It required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and guaranteed the right to vote.    Of course,  it did not end discrimination.  Dr. King knew that only love and forgiveness could do that, but it did open the door to further progress.      And may his words continue to speak…words of love, brotherhood, and forgiveness…as we pointed out that he said from the beginning of his career at age 26 and those early bitter days in Montgomery.  In that regard his message never changed…brotherhood and healing starts with anger but ends with love.  Wow.      Thank you for listening.  We do have one more episode in this journey through American political discourse.  Next week we will visit the battlefield of Gettysburg with President Lincoln and the context of the Gettysburg address.  After that we will change directions completely and explore the mysteries of Agatha Christie- she is always a lot of fun.  As always, please feel welcome to connect with us however you communicate: email, Instagram, fb, twitter or Linked in.  If you enjoyed this episode, give us a five star rating on your podcast app, and most importantly, share an episode with a friend.  It is through word of mouth that we grow.  Thank you for your support.    Peace out 

Martin Luther King Jr. - Letter From Birmingham Jail - Episode 2 - There Are Just And There Are Unjust Laws   Hi, I'm Christy Shriver and we're here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us.    I'm Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast.  This is our second week discussing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the letter that some consider today to be one of the most significant political documents to emerge from the American continent in the last 300 years, ranking with the founding documents, the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation.  Last week, we spoke a little, although very briefly, about Dr. King's growing up years.  We focused on his rise to political prominence through his political activism in Montgomery with the MIA and Rosa Parks as they led a community to boycott public bussing system for 381 days protesting the unfair bussing practices in Montgomery.   These efforts resulted in legislation that would begin the process of unraveling a 100 years of Jim Crow laws across, not just Birmingham, but the entire South.      We also discussed Project C, C, btw, stands for Confrontation.  Project C was the name given to the program that was designed to combine economic pressure with large scale direct action protest in order to undermine the very rigid system of segregation in place in the Southern city of Birmingham, Alabama.  The project was multi-faceted and by that I mean, it had various moving parts.  It consisted of strategic sit-ins, mass meetings, economic boycotts, and of course “parading” primarily without a permit because no permits would be given.      Yes, and one significant component of this project was planned for Good Friday, April 12 1963.  It would be on this auspicious day that two political and spiritual leaders, Reverend Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., would step out in faith in front of the Sixth Avenue Zion Hill Church to march down those prohibited streets.  And, leading by example, proving that they would never ask anyone to do something they would not do themselves, they walked into what they knew would be a guaranteed confrontation with Bull Connor's tightly controlled police force.  As they marched, they were met by a police barricade, so they changed directions and marched a different way; however, it wasn't long until they got to a second barricade.  At this one, Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Conner's clear orders could be heard and I quote, “Stop them…Don't let them go any further!”   They were arrested, and let me add, this was not the first time these two were arrested, nor would it be the last.     Dr. King and Ralph Abernathy, according to Abernathy's own words were closer than blood brothers.   There was a deep trust between these two men.  If you remember, they had been leaning on each other since those early days in Montgomery, Alabama where Abernathy was pastor of Montgomery's First Baptist Church.  This support would continue even after Dr. King's assassination where Abernathy would follow through with the support of Memphis' sanitation workers that had brought Dr. King to Memphis on the day he was murdered.  Abernathy and King eventually would be jailed together a total of 17 times. Both they and their families would be targets of multiple assassination attempts.      As we think about these two men leading this march on April 12, it's also important to highlight the many different people- both men and women- who were also involved in this campaign that changed the world.  One man who would make history in ways he did not anticipate quite the way it happened was Dr. Clarence Jones.    Oh yes, Dr. Jones.  Dr. Jones is not a native Southerner.  His parents were domestic workers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and although they worked for some of the most affluent people in the United States, the community was an anomaly and had been integrating voluntarily even during Jones early years. Jones attended Catholic boarding school and then became a notable graduate of two prestigious universities: Columbia University and Boston University where he received his law degree.  Dr. King asked him to come to Alabama to be a member of his legal team in 1960, from there they not only worked together but also became personal friends.  After Dr. King was arrested on Good Friday, Jones, as his lawyer, was permitted to see him on that next day.    What is interesting to me, is that for Jones, in that initial meeting in that solitary confinement cell, helping Dr. King get out was not first and foremost on his mind.  He felt they had a even greater problem.  Very controversially, Dr. King had encouraged children to join the movement and there had been many children who had followed Dr. King, most of them were from lower-income families.  Those children were not behind bars, and their parents were yelling at him demanding that Jones get the money to bail out their children.  In later interviews, Jones would say that the parents of those kids were waiting outside the jail asking, “What are you doing to get our kids out?”  When Jones went to visit King, this was his concern.  He wanted a list of names and telephones of people to call who had money to get this bail thing figured out.  But King had something else on his mind.  When Jones entered the cell, King said, “Have you seen this?”  He was livid.  A full page ad had been taking out in the Birmingham Herald calling him an outsider, lecturing him, demanding that he be patient.  Jones remembers that Dr. King pulled out his copy of the newspaper and there was writing all over it, on every scrap of blank space between the ads.  He had continued writing on any scrap piece of paper in that jail cell, paper towels, napkinds, anything.  King gave these scraps of paper to Jones and Jones smuggled them out in his pocket, under his shirt, anywhere.      Yes, and over the next five days twice a day, Jones would bring more paper to Dr. King.  King would write and Jones would smuggle them out under his shirt.  Remember, this is before 9/11 when everyone was patted down.  Dr. Jones was not patted down. He would take the scraps of paper to Wyatt Teel Walker, King's chief of Staff, and a woman by the name of Willie Pearl Mackey was given the talk to put it all together.       What about the children, what did King and Jones decide to do about that?     It's actually an interesting part of the story and would likely be more famous if it hadn't been overshadowed by the letter itself, but Jones was able to raise money to get those children out of jail.  The famous actor Harry Belafonte got involved.  He called Nelson Rockefeller's speechwriter, a man by the name of Hugh Morrow, who was a supporter when he found out about what was happening in Birmingham.  That Saturday, Jones flew to New York City, and even though it was Saturday, he met Morrow and Rockefeller at Chase Manhattan Bank, and walked out with $100,000, enough to bail out every one of those children.     Wow- well Jones wasn't the only one who had no idea how important the letter King was composing would become.  Neither Mackey nor Walker did either even as they stumbled through the very challenging task of putting the pieces of handwritten paper together, apparently reading Dr. King's handwriting, in the best of circumstances, wasn't that easy to do.  But in this he had been writing furiously, basically in the dark, relying on his encyclopedic memory, quoting Shakespeare, the Bible, Dr. Augustine, Voltaire and many other philosophers and theologians. Some of it was on newspaper, plain paper, paper towels all kinds of different scraps that had to be pieced together.  And Mackey, who claimed all her life to not being a “fantastic typist” typed it up and prepared the manuscript for public circulation.  If you look at the original version which today resides in the library of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama you will see that the typed copy concludes with the initials MLK:WM noting the letter's author and woman who typed it, the amazing Willie Pearl Mackey- her personal story  is amazing in its own right as she had been fighting segregation herself from her early days in Atlanta, Georgia where, and this is just one example, she quit her job at a hospital in protest because they refused to treat an African-American gentleman who had suffered a heart attack because it was a whites only hospital.    And again- I think highlighting all the people who contributed- like Jones, and Mackey and Walker is important to understand.  When events happen in history, the perception is often they were accidental or caused by the stars or something, but that is never the case.  And in this case, thousands of children, men and women took great personal risks, and they did it honorably for a long time before things changed.  So, as we get into the letter, last episode we finished by reading the first three paragraphs.  I did want to point out that the version I read, the one most commonly found in textbooks today, has been abridged from the original, not necessarily to revise the content, but just to make it more manageable for students.  Today we will read from the original, as preserved in the papers of Dr. George Bagley, Dr. Bagley as a white pastor was the Executive Secretary of the Alabama Baptist Convention and a likely recipient of this original version, although it's not totally certain how he received his copy. This original version is 21 pages long as typed by Mrs. Mackey.  It was released originally to the media in May following King's arrest on that good Friday in April.  It wasn't officially published until June in the large-scale publication Christian Century, a magazine out of Chicago.      So, let's jump back into the letter.  If you are a student, I would encourage you to pause the podcast for just and second and number the paragraphs so you can follow along and reference the exact text we are quoting from.  There are fifty paragraphs in this unabridged version and we will reference the specific quotes by paragraph.  Last episode we read paragraphs 1-3; I hope you can recognize the anger, and the sarcasm embedded in the language.     Read paragraph 1-4    Of course, Dr. King did not see  these men as being of “genuine good will” or if they were, they were  some of  the most mis-informed or willingly blind ministers in the great state of Alabama.  Either way, as professed religious leaders in their communities- bold enough to take a public stand against racial integration- they were about to get a lesson in history as well as Judeo-Christian theology.  Starting with Dr. King assuming the role of apostle, subtly or not so subtly comparing himself to the greatest of all Christian apostles, the apostle Paul who penned the majority of the New Testament, the Sacred Text of all Christian faiths.  In the introduction of his response, he  compares his response in Birmingham to the apostle Paul's famous response to the call for help in the Bible from the people of Macedonia.  In this famous Biblical text, the Apostle Paul had a vision from God, and in this God-given vision, he receives the commission from God, and I quote Acts 16:9 here,  “During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us'”.       No, and this wouldn't be the last allusion to the Bible, Dr. King would make, but it informs the reader that Dr. King's authority will not be coming just from himself, but his arguments would be founded upon the words and principles of the Sacred Text they shared in common.      True, and another great strategy Dr King uses, is not only does he use words and principles form the Holy Bible, Dr. King, very successfully and quickly, starting here at the beginning of the letter, uses the ministers own hypocritical words against them.  These men were quick to demand that Dr. King and his followers live by a set of rules that they themselves very conveniently did not apply to themselves.  This will be called out over and over and over again.     Starting in the very next paragraph he quotes these ministers before challenging their words.  They have accused him of meddling in the affairs of others- somewhere where he was not invited to come- which is ironic considering most Christian denominations see evangelism or proselytizing as part of their mandate.  He confronts the hypocrisy of calling him an outsider directly.  He boldly states that whatever happens in Birmingham affects everyone.  He famously claims, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” and that “whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly” he says anyone living inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.    Well, the “outsider” accusation is addressed pretty quickly and decidedly in the first four paragraphs, and he is ready to move on to the second complaint, the one claiming that HE is the one in Birmingham stirring things up.  Let's read, paragraphs 5-8.    Paragraphs 5-8    He confronts the power structures here directly and highlights the intentionality of what is being done in the face of ongoing violence.  Well before he arrived there was a long history of injustice and the turning of the blind eye by the “city fathers”. I love that he uses that term to refer to the men running the city- it highlights the role they should have played in protecting their citizens.  A good father would never turn a blind eye to his child being abused.  The inference is that  negligence occurring on a broad scale in this city is no different than dead-beat dad who abandons his children and allows other men to hurt them.     He is then ready to open the movement's playbook and describe the thinking and process behind what these men are belittling.  He again quotes the letter from the ministers.  In their letter they asked for negotiation, to which he responds, the purpose of direct action IS negotiation.  He explains the paradox that the only way to have negotiation is to create a tension so great that the power structures are ready to negotiate instead of just ignore.      He compares the tension they are creating in Birmingham to the positive tensions of the mind referenced by Socrates.  When we pick up the reading again in paragraph 11- paragraph 14 as Dr. King describes the purpose of the direct action campaign as well as paint a picture of the degrading experiences of  Jim Crow laws experienced by millions of African-American citizens of the South. Christy, read those paragraphs for us.    Paragraphs 11-15    He starts by comparing the election of Mayor Albert Boutwell to the return of Jesus Christ.  It totally highlights the ridiculousness of those who have hope that a segregationist mayor will bring justice to African-American citizens.    For those who don't understand the Biblical allusion, let's break it down.    So the New Testament of the Christian Bible ends with the book of Revelation, and in this book, there is a vivid description of the end of the world.  Even if you aren't a Christian, you are likely familiar with a lot of the imagery because it shows up in lots of dystopian movies- this is where we see things like the famous number 666, or the reference to the anti-Christ or the mark of the Beast.  The book describes a planet earth that has gone out of control through totalitarian controllers leveraging every available technology to control human behavior.  It's a very dark book, but at the end of it, according to Revelation, Jesus  returns to earth as a ruler, he destroys the totalitarian dominance and leads humanity to a period of divine peace.  What Dr. King sarcastically says here, is do you honestly think Albert Boutwell is Jesus and ushering in Christ's reign on earth- the man is a segregationist, exactly like Bull Conner.  He is not coming to bring divine peace.  Instead Boutwell is a part of the existing power structure that is reigning in terror.  He then begins to vividly describe the realities of a segregated world for African Americans, highlighting the psychological trauma it creates specifically in children.  How it builds, by its very essence, resentment, fear, under confidence, and ultimately rage.      It's very hard to read these paragraphs without feeling sadness and anger.  After describing the experiences of being denied admission into white only locations, or being made to sleep in a car,  he juxtaposes two kinds of laws and the differences in breaking an unjust law versus enforcing an unjust law.     Read paragraph 15     In paragraph 15  he says, “You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws.  …..”  Of course this is something they were all familiar with, but he goes on to school them on the difference between a just law and an unjust law citing St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, and Lutheran philosopher Paul Tillich.  Let me remind us that he is citing all these men and their works from memory.   He reminds us of something all of these men know, if you are a person who accepts the idea of a higher law given by God to man, and that God's law is above man's civil law is subject to the laws of God and when these two things class, it is not only man's right to stand up to an unjust law, but as a leader and teacher of God's law, these men have a divine responsibility to not only know the difference between these two things, but always be on the side of higher law.  He says, “I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court, for it is morally right; and I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong.”    And of course, in case you don't understand the reference, the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court that he is referring to is Brown versus Board of Education where the Federal Government determined that segregated schools were illegal.  A law, which of course, George Wallace defied with his “segregation forever” line.  But I want to go back to his theological argument because this something every government student needs to be aware of, in the judeo-Christian tradition, laws must uplift the human condition.  The terms Martin Buber employs are difficult for us to understand like an I-thou relationship versus an I-it relationship, but the idea is something most of us feel intuitively.  Laws must apply equally to everyone; what applies to me should apply to you- because under God were are the same- created worthy of respect, and if there is a law that applies itself differently to different groups of people for whatever stated reason, this is an unholy or an unjust law.  Under this theological premise, every Jim Crow law by definition is ungodly and unjust.       Well, it is difficult to follow the deductive reasoning, he is tracing and applying thousands of years of theological thinking to modern day situations.  He explains the nuances of the moral complexities in paragraphs 19-22 by giving examples, examples his minister colleagues would be very familiar with.  Let's read those paragraphs together.    Read paragraphs 19-22    Shadrach, Meshach and Abedego are references to some of the earliest examples in the Jewish and Christian sacred text when in the book of Daniel in the Bible, they were put in fiery furnace for not praying to King Nebuchadnezzar, and for which God himself appeared in the fire with them and kept them from getting burned.  Of course, he references the early Christian martyrs who were thrown into the Roman Colosseum but closer to their present moment, he references that everything Adolph Hitler did was absolutely legal as was all the persecution of Christians that was going on at that very moment in Communist Russia.  For those who aren't familiar with what happened, Stalin rounded of Christians in the middle of the night and they were never seen again.  He took their children, put them in orphanages and subsequently raised by the state to have all the proper views and beliefs.     We have to keep in mind that for us reading this letter in 21st  century, Stalin's communist regime and Hitler's Nazi one are a long time ago and part of history.  But when Dr. King was writing, he was referring to things that had happened during the lifetimes of the people who were reading the letters.  Things, that they not only knew about, but had participated in.  It was they themselves, their brothers and fathers, many of whom had died, who had gone to Europe to fight Hitler's injustices.  It was their Jewish friends and literal family members who had fled here from across the ocean who had been victims to the gravest expression of man's inhumanity to man- the legal racism of the Nazi regime.   It was their Christian brothers and sisters with the same exact beliefs that they had, who were being thrown into prison and slaughtered under the heavy authoritarianism of Soviet communism and legally enforced atheism.  There is NO way any of these Christian or Jewish ministers could defend the idea they had just proposed- the idea that a Christian should ALWAYS obey the law because government by its definition is Godly and infallible.  There is no way they could defend the idea that according to Judeo-Christian values treating people differently and claiming that certain laws or rules apply to some but not to others  is a defensible position by Christian and Jewish ethical and moral standards and their lives and actions in other places on earth was proof they knew better.        We will end today by reading and discussion paragraphs 23-26.  In these paragraphs King references the use of the sanctimonious term “moderate”.  Of course, King was accused of being a radical extremist, and as such, by definition everything he does it wrong.   He'll revisit the accusation of being an extremist  in paragraph 31, but he is first going to address the term “moderate” because that term sounds like something we should all strive for.  After all, that word is positive if you are a “moderate drinker” or “moderate eater” or “moderate exerciser”.      And on the other end of the spectrum, of course, in most things, being extreme is not that great.  You don't want to be an extreme drinker, or eater or sometimes even extreme exercise is too much.  In most political discourse, for example, most of us shy away from being labeled extreme right or extreme left.  But, Dr. King is going to hone in on how these terms, moderate and extreme are labels that people use for other things.  And as such, it is not good  to be a “moderate” if that word is not really being used to mean “moderate” but could be replaced with the word “apathetic”.  Truth be told, by most objective standards, Dr. King, very much, was a moderate.  His methodologies were controversial for that very reason.  There were many civil rights activists that were promoting violence and other extreme courses of action, and he will speak to all of that.   But this term “white moderate” as King explains was often  a cop out term used to disguise apathy to the plight of the African-American in the face of obvious and brutal oppression.  Let's read paragraphs 23-25.    Paragraphs 23-25    On an aside, for those of us who appreciate beautiful rhetoric for the sake of the artful craftmanship of the words and sentences in and of themselves, there is a lot to appreciate in this entire speech.  In fact, if you cross-reference Dr. King's letter with the glossary  from my old AP Language and Composition textbook, you will see that King uses every single rhetorical device and strategy in the glossary.  His craftmanship is diverse and colorful both in his word choice as well as his sentence structure.   But just here, look how he builds his rhetorical climax through the repetition of the phrase I had hoped, I had hoped, notice how he creates beautiful paragraphs by explaining the difference between a positive peace and a negative peace, notice how he creates a vivid simile comparing segregation to a boil that cannot be healed unless it is exposed to light- and even light itself is an archetypal symbol of truth that dates over 6000 years to the beginning pieces of human discourse- and those examples are the ones from paragraph 24.    I like to see you get excited about things like parallelism and similes.    It does come across as nerdy, but it's really brilliant and I think it's worth pointing out that this piece is remarkable not just for WHAT King says, but by HOW he expresses himself..it's done with extreme craftmanship.    True,  I wanted to highlight where we see both the craftmanship of the language intersects with the depth of the ideas- here he compares  the idea of negative peace and the idea of positive peace- because we don't think like that.  What the heck is negative peace- that is an oxymoron.   But he will correctly make the argument that all peace isn't the same and peace in and of itself isn't the goal and in fact, has never been the goal.  What we want is positive peace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect by the authorities, for sure, but also by each other.  Violence will occur inevitably when there is a transgression of this dignity and respect.  It doesn't matter if it is between two people,  or one people against another people, but also by an outside force oppressing everyone.  That is what Bull Connor was enforcing in Birmingham, even among the white population.  Bull Connor was so committed to segregation that if a white citizen resisted Jim Crow by taking down the “Whites Only” sign on his own private property, he would be cited and fined by the city.  If you are a white person and complied, you wouldn't have a problem but you also wouldn't have peace.  King does not encourage negative peace- negative peace may look like peace but it is when everyone is being subjugated, oppressed, and silenced.  For King that is not the goal.  He will also claim that when you have negative peace, the power structures can enforce this negative peace for a while, but eventually tension will build below the surface and violence will emerge.      And positive change without violence is King's goal.    Yes, furthermore, he also going to reference this terrible practice that people in power tend to do and that is to blame the victim when they do things that violate their own stated rules or principles.  These series of rhetorical questions highlight what today we often call gas-lighting.  It is this idea that as a person in power, I do something to create  a no win scenario for you, so that no matter what your reaction is in the face of my obvious unfairness or cruelty, I will blame you for the result of whatever happens.  Everything will always be YOUR fault.      And he again uses example after example of this happening, ultimately landing on the example of Jesus Christ.  Because as every Christian knows, Jesus was falsely blamed and ultimately crucified for making statements that were not acceptable by the political structures of his day.  He was accused of inciting violence.  The authorities claimed it was his fault that he was crucified because his devotion to God made people jealous.  It was his fault that he made people want to crucify him.  It's this twisted way people have of blaming victims for the violence on themselves.    Well, it is, and of course, in paragraph 26 he quotes a letter he received from a white gentleman in Texas, claiming that African-Americans just needed to wait, that change takes time.  King's response to this man is succinct but not without controversy. King claims that time does not heal wounds.  Time is neutral, it is what we do with that time that will heal or not heal.  Let's finish today by reading this paragraph.     Paragraph 26    The beautiful imagery of describing racial injustice as quicksand, and building a picture of we as people pulling people out of it unto the solid rock of human dignity, of course, draws from the Biblical parables of Jesus Christ as he commands his followers to build their lives on the rock.  And although, the exigence of the moment, requires Dr. King to rely heavily on the Sacred Text of Christianity and Judaism, his logical explanations appeal to men and women of all faith traditions as well as the many with no faith tradition.      Next week, we will finish the letter as well as discuss what happened in Birmingham when Dr. King was bailed out by local millionaire, the African-American businessman AG Gaston for $5000.      We will also revisit, the controversial practice, Dr. King had of encouraging children to protest along side their older brothers and sisters.      Yes, and we will see, that it was this controversial decision to put the lives of children on the line, and allow Bull Connor to publicly unleash violence on these little ones, that led to complete outrage and dissembling of the apathetic or “moderate whites” from around the United States, around the globe and even in Soviet Russia.    So, as always, thank you for listening to our discussion today on paragraphs 1-26 of the Dr. King's Letter from Bham Jail.”  Next week we will finish the letter.  If you enjoyed the discussion, please give us a five star rating on your podcast app, also, please reach out to us on any of our social media platforms- fb, insta, twitter, linked in or our website www.howtolovelitpodcast.com.  Don't forget, on the website, you will also find teaching supports if you are an instructor.    Peace out.     

Martin Luther King Jr. - Letter From Birmingham Jail - Episode 1 - Dr. King Reaches Out Of His Jail Cell To Touch The Heart Of A Nation!   I'm Christy Shriver and we're here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us.    I'm Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast.  Today we are going to start a three part series on a man who changed the landscape of political protesting- demonstrating that positive change can occur without massive loss of life.  He won the Nobel Peace Prize when he was 35 years old, at the time he was the youngest to ever receive the award.  His life became synonymous with civil disobedience- taking it farther than Thoreau ever dreamed possible. He radically and controversially claimed the role of a Christian political resister was not only the role to resist injustice.  This was not enough, to be successful one must accompany resistance with love- loving the persecutor- a claim that would be put to the test over and over and for which he would be martyred.  On Jan 20, 1986, the US Federal Government proclaimed a national holiday commemorating his life and message. Today over 955 (that number is likely small), but there are at least 955 major street, boulevards and thoroughfares that carry his name not only across the United States but across the world.  If you haven't figured it out yet, we are talking about the life, literature and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Specifically, the iconic letter that moved a nation from apathy to change, the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” It was written on April 16, 1963 and famously addressed to “My Dear Fellow Clergyman.”      Indeed, and yet, so many students or really people, who hear that name know so little about the movement itself.  Growing up first in our nation's capital, Washington DC and then Brazil, I'd heard of Dr. King.  I knew he stood for non-violence, but I ignorantly thought he literally just walked around preaching and protesting, carrying signs, singing and marching.  I had NO idea how calculated the entire Civil Rights moment was.  I had no idea the amount of strategy and genius that went into the planning and execution of one of the most effective non-violent movements in the world- or even how many years it was in the making.  I just thought, Dr. King got up one day and just started protesting.      Well, I think most people don't, even people of good faith who try to mimic some of his basic strategies.  It's really difficult to wrap our minds around the complexity involved, not to mention the sheer power of King's personal rhetorical charisma that carried the movement from a few thousand African-American Christian protesters in Montgomery, Alabama to 250,000 people of all ethnicities and faith and the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.  The changes in legislation and the implementation of laws that had been allowed to be ignored for a century were a direct result of this movement we are discussing over the next few episodes.     So, let's get started beginning with some terminology that we hear  when it comes to Civil Rights, words that many of us who aren't originally from the South may not be familiar with- for example what are Jim Crow laws.  Who was Jim Crow and what are his laws?    Sure.  Jim Crow was not a real person.   He was a character created by a famous white comedian in the 1850s.    This white comedian painted his face black with charcoal and called himself Jim Crow and did comedy- it's what today we call black face and, of course, is derogatory and highly offensive.  That term later was adopted to refer to the laws that went into effect starting in the 1880s-these laws, of course, are also derogatory and highly offensive- so the term remains appropriate.  They refer to legislation that specifically targeted African-Americans to keep them from upward social mobility and fully participating in American life with the rest of the mostly white population.  Let me remind you that all of this occurred AFTER the end of the Civil War and after the Union troops left the South where they had been forcing Southern cities to integrate against their will under the direction of President Ulysses Grant- this period has been called Reconstruction.  After 1877 Reconstruction ended partly because the North was exhausted from trying to enforce the rights guaranteed by the 14th and 15th amendments. The north abandoned the South and the south will remain a third world part of the country for decades to come.  Jim Crow laws stayed in effect literally all the way until success of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.     Let me give you an example, in 1891, 25 years after the Civil War,Georgia became the first Southern state to pass a Jim Crow law.  The Georgia legislature passed a law that railroads had to provide equal but separate accommodations for black and white passengers.  In other words, the African Americans would not be allowed to sit with the white Americans.  After this first attempt at dividing the races was allowed- there soon were others- there began to be black and white bathrooms, black and white water fountains, hospitals, schools, swimming pools, prisons, barber shops, parks, movie theaters, sports arenas, telephone booths, lunch counters, libraries even graveyards.  In his letter Dr. King refers to these signs as “nagging”- that of course is an understatement.  They were degrading and psychologically damaging.  Racism in the United States during the Jim Crow period was worse than in any other period of history, including today.  There was a famous case, Plessy versus Ferguson in 1896- five years after that first sign in Georgia- that created a legal precedent saying that these laws were okay- The courts said that if the facilities were equal then it was not illegal for people to be separated by race.  This was a blow to African-Americans as well as the railroad industry actually, which didn't want to segregate their railcars.  It was an enormous financial burden- beyond being offensive and unnecessary- they now had to provide two of everything.  But Jim Crow laws went on for years, and of course the facilities were never equal, but even if they had been, the message was still derogatory, and the entire system obviously unjust which caused many advocates of social equality both African-American as well as white to continue to mobilize and advocate for change.  During WW2, President Harry Truman desegregated the US military in 1947,  which was a huge advance in Civil Rights.  Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in professional sports in 1947, but it wasn't until 1954 that there would be another landmark ruling of the Supreme Court that would address this issue.  In 1954, in a case known as Brown versus Topeka Board of Education,  lawyers Richard Ellis and Michael Birzer successfully argued that things were separate but not equal, and in fact, the facilities for black children in schools were always inferior.  In a unanimous decision, the court agreed saying that separate learning facilities were by their very definition unequal and this had a detrimental effect on minority children because it is interpreted as a sign of inferiority.  This was a big deal.  The legal precedent had been set.  This was the finally justice in the courts, but now, how does that play out in classrooms across the country.  Who is going to force almost half the schools in the United States to integrate students of both races?  And when would they be required to make this happen?  In every state in the South, Segregation was actually the law- a school couldn't have been integrated even if they had wanted to.  Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas was the first southern school to even attempt integration in 1957. So, The short answer is -not immediately.    Well, and as Dr. King pointed out in his letter, entire African nations were being decolonized faster than American students were being allowed to integrate in local schools.      And it is here that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rise to national recognition emerges.  At the young age of 26, he is newly married and has recently moved  to accept a job as the pastor of the Dexter Street Baptist Church in the southern town of Montgomery, Alabama.  It would be here that he would meet another seemingly inconspicuous woman but powerful woman by the name of Rosa Parks.  Together, they were about to change their world.     So as we set this up, let's introduce Dr. King's life before entering the political scene in 1956- and let's try to keep the dates straight- that's kind of hard for those of us for whom numbers don't come naturally.  So, Dr. King was born in 1929 in an upper-middle class African-American family in Atlanta, Georgia.  One interesting detail was that his birth name was Michael.     That's right, his father later changed his name to Martin Luther, perhaps because of a trip he made to Germany to study the great theologian who also changed the political landscape of his day during the ProtestantReformation, but that is still slightly speculative.       His father was a very popular Baptist pastor, the pastor of the successful and well-established Ebenezer Baptist Church.  King was privileged to have received a high level of education- likely one of the most educated Southern African-Americans at this time period.  He attended the very elite Morehouse College there in Atl,  and then Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania and finally Boston University.  So, you can see, he had the opportunity to ignore the plight of the majority of African-Americans.  He had job offers at various universities in prestigious locations.  Another important point to notice is that while in Boston he met a rising star vocalist by the name of Coretta Scott, and he fell in love with her.  They got married in 1955.  It wasn't long after that, he took the pastorate in the much smaller town of Montgomery, Alabama and moved their with Coretta and their baby, _______.  Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, btw, is located just a stone's throw from the state capitol building in Montgomery- the heart of state government.  Then, on December 1, 1955, something happened that changed Dr. King's life forever as well as the entire world.  A woman by the name of Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white gentleman on a bus.  She had entered the bus through the front door instead of the back door, as required by those Jim Crow laws.      This hadn't been an accident, the practice of forcing women to give up their seats had been going on for years, and several women protested to no avail, but for the highly and morally reputable Rosa Parks, it would be different.  The national spot light was heading her way- but it wasn't accidental.  This was a highly intentional and strategic play.      Let me go back and say, Dr. King had personal experience with being forced to stand against his will on a bus. When he was in high school, he won a speaking contest in a town 90 miles outside of Atlanta.  He and the teacher who went with him to the contest were riding on a bus back to Atlanta, super excited when white passenger got on.  The white bus driver ordered King and his teacher to give up their seats, and cursed them. King wanted to stay seated, but his teacher urged him to obey the law. They had to stand in the aisle for the 90 miles back home.  King stated later that that was the angriest he had ever felt in his life. If you can imagine.  So, of course he could understand emotionally as well as cognitively what was happening every day in buses in Montgomery, Alabama as well as across the South.   But what do you do?  That's the question.  Later on in Dr. King's life, someone asked him that very question- how do you manage your anger.   I want to quote King here, "A destructive passion is harnessed by directing that same passion into constructive channels."  And that's what he did in this case.   Yes- next very next day, after Park's arrest, on December 2 ministers, including a man by the name of Rev. Ralph Abernathy who would be the one to go to jail with Dr. King, met at King's church to organize and publicize a bus boycott.  Relying in part on Dr. King's eloquence, they mobilized the African-American community almost in full.  On December 5, 90 percent of Montgomery's African-American citizens stayed off the buses.  Dr. King was also elected as the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association or the MIA- the organization spearheading the boycott.  According to Rosa Parks, the reason they chose King to be the president of the MIA was because he was so new to Montgomery, no one knew him.  He had no friends but also no enemies.      The evening that Dr. King spoke at Holt Street Baptist Church,  this is what he said. “I want it to be known that we're going to work with grim and bold determination to gain justice on the buses in this city. And we are not wrong.… If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong”.    And what is striking is that when you see what they were demanding, these demands are not crazy, they are not even unrealistic or difficult to implement.  They wanted courteous treatment by bus operators, first come first serve seating on public buses, and they wanted African-American bus drivers to be hired to work the routes that were in areas where mostly African-Americans were living.  The demands were not met, and the boycott went on for 13 months- now think about that, even in the South, that is a lot of walking in a lot of bad weather for a long time.  And this came at a huge personal cost to the thousands of African-Americans who were working or studying all over Birmingham but living across town in the segregated section for African Americans.  Large complex carpool systems were created of over 300 cars to support the boycotters.  People with cars offered rides to the walkers.  The city government resisting, going so far as to punish African-American taxi drivers for offering rides at reduced rates.  80 leaders of the boycott were jailed under an old law from the twenties for  “conspiracy that interfered with lawful business.”  King himself was tried, convicted and ordered to pay $500 or serve 386 days in jail.  King's house was bombed while he was at church.  On the day of the bombing, King rushed home to see that Coretta and his baby were okay.  This would not be the last big test on his ability to remain non-violent, but it was an important moment in his public career.  Many people were outraged that someone had cowardly tried to murder the family of their leader, and they showed up on his porch with weapons ready to defend King and go after the assailant.  King, although still personally affected, famously and calmly stood on his front porch and told everyone to go home.  The mandate of Jesus was to love their enemies.    So, when he talks about loving your enemies in his letter, he's. not just saying these things.  He lived this idea and practiced it risking his own life, the life of his wife and the lives of his children.  He  believed  so deeply in the life of Jesus Christ in the power of redemptive love through Jesus Christ that he put his life on the line.  A point I want to make because it is something that I have thought about and he speaks to is what to do with the anger.  How do you avoid the inevitable hate that has to emerge in your heart?  I don't care who you are or what your religious faith is- the hate and rage and anger are justifiable and unavoidable.  Of course, I'm not the first person to have this question and Dr. King spoke about that many many times later on during his life.  I'm not sure he had a working theory at the age of 26.  But by the time he was writing books, he did have an articulate vision on how this could work.  For Dr. King, anger was a part of a process.   It IS part of the process.  He said you  have anger then forgiveness then redemption then love.  That was the order.  It is what he believed and that is what he practiced to the best of his ability- although, and he speaks to this honestly in his biographical work, he struggled with anger his whole life.    Well, the Montgomery Boycott as well as King's trial got national new coverage.  A man by the name of Glenn Smiley visited Montgomery and offered King advice and training on Gandhian techniques of nonviolence.  These two men discussed how to apply Ghandian techniques to American race relations.      King later said, ““Christ showed us the way, and Gandhi in India showed it could work”.  King and his team would combine Ghandhi's methods with Christian ethics to create a model for challenging segregation all over the South.    So, follow the chronology- On June 5th, 1956, remember, Parks was arrested on Dec 1st, but by the beginning of June, the federal district court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional.  That's HUGE but not the last word- in the United States, people have a right to go up the chain to the next court to see if a different court will overrule the first one.  Since this was a possibility, The boycott could not nor did not end until December 20, 1956 when the case made its all through the appeal process all the way to the final court- the Supreme Court- when the decision was NOT overturn- then the boycott ended.   The boycott lasted for a total of 381 days, if you can imagine.     And here's a fun side- note- The day after it ended- Ralph Abernathy, Ed Nixon and Glenn Smiley- now let me add that Glenn Smiley is white- but these three men  got on an integrated bus together- for the very first time- how satisfying would that have been.      King famously had this to say about the boycott: “We came to see that, in the long run, it is more honorable to walk in dignity than ride in humiliation. So … we decided to substitute tired feet for tired souls, and walk the streets of Montgomery”.      You can already see that metaphorical language that he's so famous for in both his speaking and writing.      True and speaking of writing, he wrote up his experiences from Montgomery in a book called Stride to Freedom and in 1958, set out on a book tour across the United States.  He wasn't as famous obviously as he would eventually become, but he was a well-known figure.  On September 20, 1958, a 42 year old apparently deranged African-American woman plunged a letter-opener into his chest.      So, Dr. King's methods were not always well-received by either side.     No- Non-violence is controversial because it's obviously unfair.  Why do I have to practice non-violence when the opposing side is not?  It's a fair question and one which King spent his lifetime discussing.  Non-violence is paradoxical – it doesn't seem like it would work.  Its power lies in its ability to contrast so sharply with violence that you strip away any pretense that the violence is justified. It's also very slow.  You have to have a tremendous amount of patience, trust, and stubbornness.       And King was moving forward- but he was absolutely fed up with the pace of the federal court system.   Remember, the courts mandated that schools be integrated in 1954, but still, here they were in 1963, nine years after Brown vs. Board of Education, and only 9% of African-American students were attending integrated schools.      1963 was going to be the year.  1963 was the 100 year anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation- the day Lincoln pronounced that slaves were no longer slaves- for Dr. King, Rosa Parks, Fred Abernathy and the thousands of others willing to put their lives on the line- 100 years was enough time- and the chosen place for this confrontation of forces and will would be Birmingham, Alabama.  Garry, why Birmingham?  This was not a coincidence.  This movement was not spontaneous; it did not just blow up.  It was planned and as Julius Caesar would tell you - selecting the location for the confrontation is key to success. is     Well, Dr. King tells us in his writings.  The whole thing was highly orchestrated.  Birmingham was the largest industrial city of the South.  It had been a symbol of bloodshed in the past when African-American trade unions tried to form there.  Because it was an industrial city, the financial interests and the political interests were intertwined.  Birmingham was one of the most segregated cities in the United States- the entire city was an expression of Jim Crow- from hospitals to schools to parks to jobs to everything.  Brutality towards African-Americans was an undisputed reality headed up by a man who prided on keeping African Americans, to use his words, “in their place.”  His name was Eugene, but this man, the Commissioner of Public Safety went by the nick Name, Bull- Mr. Bull Connor.  Under his reign or leadership depending on how you view his leadership, between 1957-1963 there had been 17 unsolved bombings of African-American churches and homes of Civil Rights leaders.  Bull Connor was so radical that one time a white United States Senator visited Birmingham to give a give a speech and was arrested because he walked through the door marked, “Colored.”  This guy was ruthless, and he ruled both African-Americans and whites alike with fear.  He was accompanied and supported by a segregationist governor- Governor George Wallace who is famous for saying at his inauguration, “Segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!”     Goodness, history likely does not shine favorably on these remarks.      No, nor on any of these defenders of segregation, of which Bull Connor was one of the most publicly vicious, but I will say, Bull Connor played a very important role in disrupting segregation because he played the part of the villain so well and so predictably.  He was the perfect foil.  After it was all over, JFK famously told MLK at the White House following the signing of the Birmingham agreement, “Our judgement of Bull Connor should not be too harsh, after all, in his way, he has done a good deal for civil-rights legislation this year.” Connor was the absolute perfect foil for nonviolent protest.     Meaning, he was so terrible, it became morally obvious to any fool who was right and who was wrong.      Exactly, and after it was all said and done, President Kennedy could say that, but in April of 1963, that was not so obvious.  Bull was on a rampage; he was in control; and he was winning. On the third of April in 1963, segregationist Albert Boutwell became the new mayor of Birmingham.  Mr. Boutwell was a likeable person; he was not like Bull Connor so some people thought he was the better choice.  They were even glad he had won, but in the words of Fred Shuttlesworth, he was nothing but a “dignified Bull Connor.”      Now, you're starting to throw out some names that will show up in the letter.      Yes, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth was one of the local leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.  Remember, he had been involved in Montgomery.  He had organized an organization called the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, otherwise known as the ACHR.  Now, this becomes important because as we're going to read in a minute, Dr. King is accused of being an outsider and meddling into somebody else's business and starting trouble.  To which he is going to respond that he was invited to come, and Reverend Shuttlesworth is one of the local leaders who had invited him.  All of this becomes very important in understanding the context of the letter.  So, at this time, the ACHR was holding weekly meeting in churches all over Birmingham.  At these meetings they were mobilizing African-Americans to boycott business that displayed jim crow signs, or refused to hire African American workers except as janitorial staff.  As a result, many stores and businessess around town were losing as much as 40% of their business.  Shuttlesworth, became a problem for the status quo, and as a result, he had been jailed, his home AND his church both had been bombed.    In the now famous room 30 of the Gaston hotel, Abernathy and King among others launched what they called “Project C”. The goal was to pressure Birmingham businesses to integrate and remove those horrible Jim Crow signs that said “White Only” or “Colored”.  The intense boycotts and demonstrations were to start on the first week of March and would continue all until April 14, which was Easter and the Easter season is a big season for shopping, especially for clothes.       What is interesting to me, and something I think is lost on a lot of students, is that they didn't just go around and drum up angry people to hold up signs and such, they required them to participate in workshops and daily evening meetings.    Everything that happened in these weekly and later nightly meetings was intentional.   Everything had a purpose.  They would start the mass meetings by singing old negro spirituals they called freedom songs.  These songs were adaptations from the same negro spirituals slaves had sung 100 years previously.  These songs were old and inspirational, they had been transformed from songs of sorrow song by one's great-grandparents to becoming battle hymns.      Singing together is psychologically bonding under any circumstances, but the power of the history of the music as well as the spirituality of the songs is difficult to explain in words.      Every single volunteer was required to sign a commitment card where they would pledge their body and soul to nonviolence in the face of violence.  This was explained in full.  They developed ten commandments.  The first commandment was to daily meditate on the teachings of Jesus Christ.  The 8th was to refrain from violence of fist, tongue or heart.       Yes, the idea was the prepare every person psychologically to expect and withstand abuse.  When they started to march, when they entered a restaurant labled whites only in a to sit-in, when they were arrested, they needed to be prepared to do what they had been trained to do- resist peacefully.  It is counter-intuitive to human nature.  On April 6th, they marched orderly two by two without banners or singing.  Bull Connor, right on cue, emerged and arrested 42 marchers for “parading without a permit”.    And this became the pattern.  After ten days, between 400-500 people were sitting in jail.  Dr. King and Ralph Abernathy decided that on Good Friday, they would lead the demonstration and submit to being arrested, as they most assuredly would be.  They left their church and walked with around 50 others – they had been denied a permit to march, so they were guilty of parading without a permit.  Of course, that day when Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy began walking down the street in Birmingham, Alabama, many bystanders lined the streets.  The marchers began to sing. The bystanders joined in the singing and sometimes burst into applause.  As if on cue, Bull Connor emerged, his officers grabbed Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy by the back of their shirts and hauled them off to jail.  Dr. King was held in solitary confinement for over 24 hours.  Not even a lawyer was allowed to visit with him.  He was not allowed to telephone his wife.  Several violations of civil liberties all at once.    Coretta, by Monday, stressed out of her mind, placed a call to President Kennendy.  It wasn't but a few minutes from her trying to contact the president that his brother Robert Kennedy, who was at that time the Attorney General of the United States,  called her back promising to intervene.  The president called himself a few hours later.  He called the officials in Birmingham, and amazingly the conditions of Dr. King's imprisonment changed significantly.      He was in jail for eight days, and it was during that time, that a public letter was written to him and signed by 8 leading clergyman in Alabama.     Again, these men have their names signed on the wrong side of history and this has to be embarrassing at this point.  But, oh well, they wrote a public letter- and on the surface this letter sounds so reasonable.  It is another example of someone saying something cruel in the nicest way possible.  It is accusatory- in a polite way- and it enrages Dr. King.   We started the podcast today talking about what do you do when you are enraged- really righteously enraged- this is what Dr. King did- he channeled this energy to become this laser-sharp rhetorical monster and it became uncontainable.  Let's read the public letter written by these fellow clergymen, and then let's begin Dr. King's response that changed the world.        What are some of the things we need to highlight- first of all- what are their main points  King is an outsider= he's come from the outside to agitate    They acknowledge that they understand why he might feel impatience, but they are encouraging him to let the system work and not incite unrest.  They should trust the courts.      They go so far as to commend the police- remember that is Bull Connor.    Yes- and this is to a man who's family has been targeted to be murdered and arrested unfairly.      Exactly, before we read his response- let's look at who signed it.      Read the names and where they are from    When Dr. King responds to these ministers- he makes it a point to cite a theologian from each of these specific religious traditions, and may I point out that he does it from memory since he is in a jail cell.    Next week, we will analyze and discuss how he systematically demolishes the specious arguments and challenges on principles of Judeo-Christian faith the inconsistencies in the words and lives of “My Dear fellow clergyman”.    Okay, we have a lot to look forward to.  I hope you have enjoyed this discussion on the background of this important piece of American literature and history.  As always, thank you flr listening, if you feel so inspired, please give us a five star rating on your podcast app.  Connect with us on social media be it fb, insta, twitter or linked in.  Also, if you are an educator, check out our instructional materails on our website. 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Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on several elements of public life, the job market included, with so many people being made redundant and businesses closing down.So it's a nice change of pace to hear a story about someone who has recently started a new venture that is thriving. Particularly when that new venture brings together sustainability and sport.Vanessa Nord has done exactly that, and in a short space of time has brought sustainability to the forefront of the mind of organisations like FC Bayern Munich and the German Boxing Association.She has also created a networking group of some of the German sports industry's most forward-thinking minds, called Project C, to discuss and find solutions to some of the sector's most prominent issues.During the episode, Vanessa explains:Why the time was right to launch a sport and sustainability start-upHow her work caught the attention of sports brands like FC Bayern MunichWhat her sustainable sport event guide is – and how she put it together

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This week on Exposure, your host Stephanie focused on supporting others by promoting groups such as Spartan Support Network and Blueprints of Pangea. To end the episode you will hear from Chelsie and Danny for the science side of things!Spartan Support Network is a group of students that discuss mental health and provide a safe place for students to talk about what's going on in their lives. Stephanie was joined by Jonah, Megan and Nicole as they talk about their role in SSN as well as the importance of mental health. If you need a place to go or just want to have fun, go to their meetings or enjoy one of their Kickback Friday events!Up next is a group of students that are working to collect and transport unused medical supplies! Blueprints for Pangea partners with Project C.U.R.E to bring medical supplies to countries in need. Check out the work they are doing and see how you can get involved!On The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny spoke to Kate Wierenga about her research on autoimmune diseases, specifically how Silica, Lupus and Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acids are related to them.

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