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Our guest this week is Matt Hulett, a veteran of the Seattle tech community and the author of the new book, Unlock: 5 Questions to Unleash Your Company's Hidden Power, published by Page Two Books. A former executive with companies including Expedia, Mpire, Rosetta Stone and RealNetworks, Hulett is now the CEO and president of PetMed Express, a publicly traded, Florida-based online pet pharmacy.  We talk about finding the right market segment to pursue, how startups and investors should approach the potential of an economic downturn, tips for competing with tech giants, the role that private capital can play in turning around struggling businesses, and how to think about competition, among other topics. Read our notes on the discussion here. Related Stories Book Excerpt: 5 questions that will help unleash your company's hidden power Expedia Group unveils new tech platform for travel industry, and scoring system for hotels Facing NASDAQ delisting, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser makes bid to take company private Startups, superheroes, and the economy at a crossroads: Voices from Seattle's tech community See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Few things wag my tail like meeting with a CEO who puts talent at the top of their agenda. Here's one. Matt Hulett is CEO of publicly-held PetMeds, America's most trusted pet pharmacy with 11 million customers. Matt has driven more than $2 billion in value creation as a four-time public company CEO/President and a two-time private company CEO.  He's led multiple turnaround successes at companies you know, including Rosetta Stone, RealNetworks, and Expedia. And this week, he released his new book “Unlock: 5 Questions to Unleash Your Company's Hidden Power” - It's fantastic, regardless of your company's stage. I just had the chance to speak with Matt about what role Recruiting has played in his personal success & that of his companies. Arf! Arf!

The best and brightest people can make truly stupid decisions and terrible predictions. What can we learn from them? This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.No matter how secure or encrypted a system is, the human element is always vulnerable. What is the “language of passwords,” and how did it compromise hundreds of scandalous celebrity photos in 2014?-Nexo is a secure crypto exchange and crypto lending platform. Buy 40+ hot coins with your bank card in seconds and swap between exclusive pairs for cashback. Earn up to 17% interest on your idle crypto assets and borrow against them for instant liquidity. Simple and secure. Head over to nexo.io and get started now. -This episode featured George Frankly. It featured music by Jared Rubens and Gurty Beats, with editing by GF. Art for this episode was provided by Mateo Vistocco/Unsplash and was modified by Dare to Be Stupid.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Managing rural and urban travel with my set of abilities. Roots, dips, inclines, Roman roads, elevators. falls. We did 170 miles (I did 70). A hoot and a half. Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Watch the video here Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my blog and podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript)   Please comment and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, Arranger Web and Social Media Coach Kayla Nelson @lifeoflesion The views and opinions presented in this podcast and publication are solely my responsibility and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute®  (PCORI®), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. Danny van Leeuwen (Health Hats) Sponsored by Abridge Inspired by and grateful to Linda and Mike DeRosa, Kate Higgins, Mary Lawler, Ann Boland, Ed Lomotan, Kara Ayers, Carole Blueweiss, David Bourne, Simon van Leeuwen, Portugal Green Walks, Progressivecare, LDA Links Portugal Green Walks The Camino de Santiago for People with Disabilities Walk the Camino. Customers with Disabilities Accessible Camino   Related podcasts https://health-hats.com/pod165/ https://health-hats.com/pod164/ https://health-hats.com/pod162/ About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge.  Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements.  Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show I'm back. What an adventure along the coast of Portugal and Spain to Santiago de Compostela.  I have hours of material that I will produce over the next few months. Today, a very brief episode about accessibility. Remember, I have Multiple Sclerosis, which affects my stamina, balance, and vision.  I can stand, I can walk. Unless I'm in a small room, I need forearm crutches for walking or an electric wheelchair. I can fold my wheelchair, roll it, and assist in getting it in and out of the car. I am not wheelchair dependent. I walk a minimum of 3500 steps a day, every day. Not all at once, but in segments.  I fatigue, but I can recover relatively quickly. I manage my double vision, most of the time. I can hear with hearing aids, sometimes too much. I can breathe, talk, eat, and toilet unassisted. My disabilities and pain levels are mostly moderately annoying. I describe a personal adventure with my extended family and those I've met along the way. Clearly, your adventure would be different.

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We're back for part 2 of our discussion with a panel of thought leaders from iconic manufacturing brands to discuss how Industry 4.0 is transforming their operations, how the workforce is evolving, and how training and certifications can bridge the skills gap.Catch up on part 1 here: https://techedpodcast.com/manufacturing-leadership-panel/This week is all about Industry 4.0 Education & Training Efforts with leaders from:Sargento FoodsAshley FurnitureSC JohnsonRockwell AutomationSmart Automation Certification Alliance (SACA)3 Big Takeaways from this episode:Bridging the skills gap requires a collaborative industry-education effort: Developing the next generation of skilled talent for Industry 4.0 is going to take education and employers working on large, collaborative projects together to ensure students have the right skills and exposure to pursue careers in advanced manufacturing.The incumbent workforce needs to be reskilled: As companies invest in more automation and smart technology, incumbent workers will need to be rapidly reskilled to work with this technology. The formula for success? In-house training + technical college partnerships + SACA certifications.SACA certifications create a common language for Industry 4.0 standards: The efforts of education and employers are wasted if they aren't aligned. SACA standards are that "Rosetta Stone", the common language that can align what education teaches with what industry needs.Show NotesThe Smart Automation Certification AllianceSACA is a nonprofit organization that develops and deploys third-party credentials for advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0 skills - both knowlege-based and hands-on.What makes them unique? These credentials are designed, built and validated by industrial employers. Employers from this week's episode all took place in technical work groups that determined SACA standards.SACA certifications are stackable, transferrable and can be utilized in education and industry. To learn more visit https://www.saca.org.Manufacturing Panel:Anne Troka - Community Engagement Manager, Sargento FoodsAnthony Ebio - Dierctor of Industry 4.0 Learning, Ashley FurnitureKen Evans - Associate Maintenance Manager, SC JohnsonMichael Cook - Director of Global Academic Partnerships, Rockwell AutomationJim Wall - Executive Director of the Smart Automation Certification Alliance More ResourcesWebinar video: https://youtu.be/6QucCDjxhMgEpisode page: https://techedpodcast.com/manufacturing-leadership-panel-part2/

Lost my wheelchair charge on Day 1. OMG. Busted. Until angels stepped in. Grateful, grateful, grateful Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Watch the video here Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my blog and podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript)   Please comment and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, Arranger Web and Social Media Coach Kayla Nelson @lifeoflesion The views and opinions presented in this podcast and publication are solely my responsibility and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute®  (PCORI®), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. Danny van Leeuwen (Health Hats) Sponsored by Abridge Inspired by and grateful to Linda and Mike DeRosa, Kate Higgins, Mary Lawler, Ann Boland, Ed Lomotan, Carole Blueweiss, David Bourne Links The video version of this episode Related podcasts https://health-hats.com/pod156/ https://health-hats.com/pod154/ https://health-hats.com/days-6-12-camino-de-santiago-rejuvenated-inspired-not-yet-peaked/ About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge.  Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements.  Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show Okay, let me see if I could tell you a story while I'm going. So it's the story of angels. And I started the first day on our trip. I realized that for whatever reason, I didn't have my charger and I had a Plan A, Plan B and a Plan C. With a Plan A was that we find somebody in Porto that could sell a charger that was appropriate. Plan B was somebody who would rent me a chair that had a charger. And I just take the charger and Plan C I guess I had a plan D. Plan C was to take just to rent a chair, another chair, and then the plan was to have my son Simon get one from. The plan D was, he did get the charger from the company in Austin. When I got my truck, well plan, they didn't work. Nobody had plan B didn't work because. Like there's nothing to rent because I would've had to bring the chair back to the Porto from Santiago de Compostella. Plan D was that the company ForceMech couldn't ship it directly because they weren't allowed. So I, we ended up calling like all these different companies. I didn't, I actually, I called nobody, my wife, Linda few people call companies the hotel that we were staying at. Nothing. So I started arranging with my son to have the chargers sent to him in Boston,...

We discuss Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson's groundbreaking new book, TRACED: Human DNA's Big Surprise. The “Rosetta Stone” of human history has been discovered and it confirms the history starting in God's Word and makes stunning discoveries about who we are, where we came from, and what happened to our ancestors. Daily podcast, relevant articles on issues pertaining to Christians and more can be found on Stand Up For The Truth.

Carlos F. Gaitan Ospina is the Founder and CEO of Benchmark Labs, which provides IoT-based weather forecasting solutions for the agriculture, energy, and insurance sectors worldwide using proprietary machine-learning software. Chad talks with Carlos about creating the company, the hardware they're producing and what it is doing, and where the machine learning comes into play. Benchmark Labs (https://www.benchmarklabs.com/) Follow Benchmark Labs on Twitter (https://twitter.com/labsbenchmark), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/benchmarklabs/), or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/benchmark-labs-inc/). Follow Carlos on Twitter (https://twitter.com/cfgaitan) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-felipe-gaitan-ospina-3765808/). Follow thoughtbot on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of Giant Robots! Transcript: CHAD: This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Chad Pytel. And with me today is Carlos Gaitan, the Founder and CEO of Benchmark Labs, which provides IoT-based weather forecasting solutions for the agriculture, energy, and insurance sectors worldwide using proprietary machine-learning software. Carlos, thank you very much for joining me. CARLOS: Thank you for the invitation, Chad. It's a pleasure to join you here. CHAD: You work in a variety of different industries with weather forecasting solutions using machine learning. I'm really curious, at a high level, how did you get to where you created Benchmark Labs today? CARLOS: Oh, thank you, Chad. That's a great question. I think that in many ways, it's a combination of life experiences and lots of user feedback. As a background, my mum worked for 28 years in the National Federation of Coffee Growers in my native Columbia. And we experience basically the effects of weather, La Niña, El Niño, local conditions, pests on the coffee growers. I remember growing up looking at the price in The New York Stock Exchange if the pound of coffee was going to be more than $1 or not [laughs] and so on. So, you know, we had a very severe drought in Colombia, and Colombia was heavily dependent in hydropower at that time. And I remember that we even had to study with candlelight and move to a spring savings time for the first time in the country. The country is in the equator, so you can imagine moving the clock was unheard of. So since then, I was always passionate about hydrology, the water cycle, why this happened, how weather can affect the economy at that level that people have to change their working habits. I did civil engineering hydrology, then studied these new applications of machine learning technologies, hydroinformatics, did my studies there in Columbia, my bachelor's, my master's. Then I was fortunate to go to The University of British Columbia to study my Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences. And then, after I finished, I moved to The United States to work at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton with close collaboration with the NOAA, the USGS. And that gave that perspective also of understanding how weather climate models were done at the Department of Commerce level but also to understand the users on how they interact with weather data or climate data and what were the needs that they were expecting from the National Weather Service and the Department of Commerce and NOAA that not necessarily were fulfilled with the current information. So then I moved to the private sector, joined a hardware company, and met my co-founder of Benchmark Labs there then moved to California to work on consultancy of climate change assessments. But since the time at the Department of Commerce, it became very clear that what farmers and what users wanted was weather information that was more actionable, that was tailored to their specific location, especially for specialty crops. Think about wineries, or coffee growers, orchids, stone fruits; they depend heavily on weather, and the information from the National Weather Services was just too coarse for them. And sometimes, there are huge errors in terms of temperatures that were recorded from their farm versus what the National Weather Service was doing. And that's why we decided to create Benchmark Labs to basically solve that problem, correct those errors, and give the information that the users needed when they needed it. CHAD: Did you ever just consider becoming a TV weather person? CARLOS: [laughs] CHAD: It seems it may be easier. CARLOS: [laughs] Nah. That's a very good point. CHAD: [laughs] CARLOS: And I have great respect with my colleagues that went into forecast meteorology and TV persons. I remember some of my lab mates practicing in front of a green screen when we were doing the Ph.D. CHAD: [laughs] CARLOS: That was an interesting scenario. [laughs] However, growing up in Colombia, the weather forecasts were not very, let's say, accurate to a certain extent, and we did the opposite than the weatherman suggested. CHAD: [laughs] CARLOS: So I guess that steered me towards following that path. [laughs] CHAD: So it totally resonates with me this idea that, you know, especially for...I've been on the West Coast before where you go over a hill and the weather it's like 20 degrees hotter and sunny and on one side of the hill, it was cold and foggy. We went on a great company trip many years ago to visit some Napa vineyards, and I was surprised by that. So I can imagine how that local information just doesn't match the global information that farmers might be getting. So what is the hardware that you're actually producing, and what is it doing? What does it look like? CARLOS: [laughs] Great question. So I will go back to your story about Napa and Sonoma, and the reality is that's exactly a problem that growers face; national weather agencies give averages over a big region. They divide the world in boxes, and everybody inside of a box receives exactly the same forecast. And if you are especially in the coast or you're in specialty agriculture, you understand that weather changes with elevation. Depending on which side of the mountain you are, you could receive all the rain or no rain at all. If you are near the shores, you could also get more wind, different types of clouds, all of those situations affect the conditions at the farm. And going back to the situation of Napa and Sonoma, Burgundy or the Mediterranean Basin, they all believe in the value of what they call the terroir, that is what makes also unique their products. They're indigenous, and they understand at a very fundamental point how the local conditions from the soil, from the vegetation, makes their farm unique. So what we do is we use IoT sensors, basically hardware sensors that monitor environmental variables. We refer to them in the atmospheric science world as weather stations. I had a talk with some users when I said the term weather station. They imagined a big construction or a building with a TV station on a radar or something. But in this case, there are IoT devices that are totally portable, the size of a Wi-Fi modem in some cases. And we use those sensors as ground truth that will basically tell us the local conditions. We use the information from the National Weather Services and the information from those IoT sensors and correct the forecast as they come. CHAD: And is that where the machine learning comes in because it's actually correcting the forecast being received? CARLOS: Exactly, our machine learning aspect of it is fully operational, non-linear correction of weather data as it comes in from the National Weather Services to correct it to the conditions that are experienced at the farm level, at the sensor level. And a farm could be also an agricultural farm, or it could be a solar farm, a wind farm. Or, as we talk with some users in ski resorts that actually they consider as snow farmers, it's also affected by microclimates. So at the end, it is about providing value to all these areas affected by microclimates that are not being resolved correctly by the current generation of forecast from the National Weather Services. CHAD: Are most customers able to get the coverage that they need with one weather station, or are they deploying multiple ones? CARLOS: So that's a great question, and the answer probably is it depends. Our customers, original customers, have thousands of stations over multiple fields under management. For specialty crops, it's common to have multiple IoT sensors in one acre. For other scenarios, they might have only one station or one sensor every 10 acres or so on, so it depends on the condition. It depends on how technologically inclined are the users if they already invested in these IoT sensors or if they are looking into buying IoT sensors and then scaling up the number of sensors in their farms. CHAD: How do all the sensors report their data back? CARLOS: That is a very interesting question because they are, let's say, tens of hardware manufacturers globally. We also created kind of a Rosetta Stone that puts all the sensors to communicate to our back-end systems. We integrate different languages of each hardware manufacturer. It has its own ways of naming the variables. So we do the translation in our end. We receive the data via an API. These IoT devices are Internet of Things in many ways because they transmit data via Wi-Fi, satellite internet, you know, cellular. CHAD: Cell, yeah. So different manufacturers might have different ways of actual communication, not just the protocol, but one box might be using Wi-Fi, and another one might be using a satellite. CARLOS: Exactly. And sometimes, many manufacturers give you the options of connecting even using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth for IoT sensors that are near, let's say, a farm that has internet connectivity. If they are on the field farther away, they might need to get access to a data plan from a cellular carrier, 3G usually or 5G. In some areas, there is limited coverage so far. And if it's a very remote area, there are options to get satellite coverage. CHAD: Now, I'm asking somewhat naive questions based on my understanding. And so if I start butting up against proprietary information, just tell me, "No." That's totally fine. CARLOS: [laughs] CHAD: So when we're thinking about the amount of data coming in from all of these different weather stations that your customers have, is it a lot of data? Is it a lot of data points? CARLOS: [laughs] It's a great question. So in many ways, yeah, each weather station communicates at different frequency. Sometimes what we are offering now is hourly transmission rates, but we also have access to government stations that sometimes only refresh once per day. So yes, it's a lot of data coming in, most of the data from the weather stations. Fortunately, it can be transmitted as a txt file, or it's only for one location. So the files are not big, but they are many per day. And so, we have probably done millions of operations already to assimilate data and provide the forecast. While on the other hand, The National Weather Service provides one forecast for the globe, let's say every...some models are every hour, other models are every six hours, and so on. So that is more, let's say, a bigger data set because it's a global data set that then you have to query to extract the information locally that is relevant for your servers, for your users. CHAD: Yeah. And I think it's neat how this is all happening centrally from all the data coming in, right? CARLOS: Yeah, exactly. We get data coming in for each specific location. We do the corrections, and we provide the forecasts. So there are lots of operations involved in the data handling activities, pre-processing, post-processing, but it's very rewarding at the end to provide the forecasts that are tailored to specific locations. And we had seen users that they basically told us, "Okay, we are using provider B or C; can you beat them? Show us that you can beat them, and the contract will be yours." So we showed them, and then they are like, "Yeah, that's fantastic. This is exactly what we have been looking for, information that is more accurate for our farms," so yeah. CHAD: Now, does your system correct itself based on what actually happened in an area after the modified forecast goes out? CARLOS: That's not a very relevant question because some of the models are static. I used my experience when I did an internship in Environment Canada, and I found that they were adjusting their models, let's say four times per, at least the operational models they had, four times per year. They kind of tweaked them to the local, let's say, spring, summer, fall, winter conditions. In our case, we make our models to correct themselves as more data comes in so they can adjust to weather events and have short-term memory, let's say, of what they will wait heavily on and forget the distant past. CHAD: I mean, it seems obvious, not necessarily easy but obvious, that you've made a prediction about what the weather is going to be, and you have all the data coming in from the stations to confirm whether your prediction was correct or not. So I'm sure it's not easy to adjust the model based on that. CARLOS: [laughs] CHAD: That seems obvious to me. CARLOS: Yeah, it's just a different approach in many ways. As you said, it's obvious because the users usually care about a specific location, at least our users. We understand that for national security or aviation, they require a model that provides coverage over a wider area, like sometimes continents. But for agricultural users, they care about their farms, and the farms will not move in space. So -- CHAD: Well, technically, they are moving in space; it's just the weather goes along with it. CARLOS: [laughs] So yeah, I guess that it's just a different way of tackling the problem. We focus on doing these forecasts to each specific location instead of having a forecast done for the whole globe that could be used in many different locations or for many different industries, but it's not necessarily tailored to any industry-specific or location-specific. CHAD: Yeah, that's great. Mid-Roll Ad I wanted to tell you all about something I've been working on quietly for the past year or so, and that's AgencyU. AgencyU is a membership-based program where I work one-on-one with a small group of agency founders and leaders toward their business goals. We do one-on-one coaching sessions and also monthly group meetings. We start with goal setting, advice, and problem-solving based on my experiences over the last 18 years of running thoughtbot. As we progress as a group, we all get to know each other more. And many of the AgencyU members are now working on client projects together and even referring work to each other. Whether you're struggling to grow an agency, taking it to the next level and having growing pains, or a solo founder who just needs someone to talk to, in my 18 years of leading and growing thoughtbot, I've seen and learned from a lot of different situations, and I'd be happy to work with you. Learn more and sign up today at thoughtbot.com/agencyu. That's A-G-E-N-C-Y, the letter U. CHAD: So have you managed to bring it full circle now, and are there coffee growers in Colombia that are using your solution? CARLOS: [laughs] I hope so. We have talked with coffee growers for sure. They care about temperature gradients. And I really think that going to Colombia as we scale will make the whole platform easier to use. I think that we can go full circle soon, sooner rather than later, into Colombia. We got support from the World Trade Center here in San Diego to do commercialization assistance to translate our solution from English to other languages. So we will be tackling Spanish, French, Italian in the very near future because it's important to offer the forecast also in a way that they could interact natively without having to have the limitation of using an English language platform into their day-to-day life. But yeah, full circle probably we'll be going full circle soon. CHAD: So language is one barrier to scaling and to adoption. Are there other ones that are typical barriers of adoption for your customers? CARLOS: We are very competitive here in the North American market, the European markets. Our prices are in dollars. But that by itself is a problem for emerging economies; for example, you know, $100 here is not the same thing as $100 in other countries. We have to take into consideration exchange rates or the amount of disposable income that they will have for their operations. CHAD: And I'm not super educated about it, but I know that there are certain industries in agriculture where the growers are particularly pressed for margins, and coffee is one of them, right? CARLOS: Exactly. So, fortunately, in many ways, for the bigger crops, specialty crops they are traded, and the prices are linked to U.S. dollars so that can be translated, our services can be absorbed, let's say. For the smaller crops that are not traded or that just stay locally, the price is not linked to the U.S. exchange; then it's definitely a bigger barrier for them. But hopefully, we will get to a point if we have a sufficiently large adoption in North America and the developed world; these technologies could be subsidized or made more accessible in other economies. CHAD: What are some of the concerns that growers have? Take the specialty crops, for example, is it a matter of are they doing this because they want to make the best product possible, or is it because they want to prevent crop loss? CARLOS: It is both, actually. The uses of weather information in agriculture varies, as you said. There are many different applications; one is to get more actionable alerts. For example, we saw what happened in Burgundy last year where a substantial part of their region lost their crops, close to 80% maybe. I don't remember the number, but it was definitely substantial. And so, having more accurate forecasts and alerts gives them an opportunity to adapt better, to get cover, protect their fields to a certain extent. Weather information affects also pests and disease models, so application of fertilizer with spraying is also affected by local conditions. In many ways, for the operations that are very, let's say, sophisticated, some of them even link the sugar content on the fruit to weather conditions. And understanding how these weather conditions affect sugars could tell them when is the optimal time for them to, let's say, harvest? And the difference in the sugar content might determine the difference between higher margins or so-so margins [laughs] for their yield. So yeah, it's a combination of quality of the product. It's a combination of preventing loss of the product. And it's also labor scheduling and activities, for example, that are regulated by OSHA that prevent farm operations to maybe don't, let's say if they are like temperatures above 95 Fahrenheit or 100 Fahrenheit. So having that extra information in alerts will also help them with farm management operations. CHAD: So can you give me a sense of the stage you're at or the scale you're at now with the business and where you see your next stages of growth being? CARLOS: Thank you. Yeah, great. So we are fortunate to have scaled this solution beyond California. We are now a global platform. We are providing forecast to Spain. Recently, we got contacted by some growers in South America, so we are testing for avocado growers in Brazil and Colombia, for example. So I'm not serving yet coffee growers in Colombia, but the avocado growers in Colombia, it seems that they got a hold on what we do, [laughs] so it is getting there. And now we have the resources, the ability to go global and offer this anywhere in the world that is connected with an IoT device. So it's fully operational. And we are now in the midst of fundraising to scale the team, provide the customer success operations, and to support growers in different geographies, to support growers of different crops. And I think that if we are going to be successful globally, it starts with customer support, customer success, and understanding your users' needs, so they don't feel that, again, they will receive a one size fits all vanilla-like solution and that we really care about why specialty crops are special. CHAD: So when you were just starting out, who was the first team member that you added to the team? CARLOS: Oh, it was great. So in many ways, I thank the Economic Development Council of San Diego for funding a set of interns in data science, weather analytics, and business development. So our first hires, in many ways, were supported thanks to the Economic Development Council. We were the two founders, and then we got support in business development to understand which, for example, specialty crops really care about weather. Then some data science interns, data scientists that helped us with grants that we did for the National Science Foundation, and NASA that we got...we supported one of the grants. During COVID times, we participated in a very interesting opportunity to know the effect of COVID on forest fires, for example, and that was in collaboration with NASA. So first hires were interns, entry-level positions in data science, in back-end engineering, and then front-end business development. Now we are very excited to be expanding the team. We recently hired a Chief Product Officer with ten years of experience in Bloomberg, experience with visualizations, and talking to customers and users. So I think that for us, it's very important to, again, I reiterate, to have the ability to provide a great user experience, to provide meaningful information for specialty crops so they feel that they are special. CHAD: You mentioned that you got some business development help using those grants. But right now, is the actual sales work being done by the founding team? CARLOS: Yeah, at the beginning, as a founding team in a small startup, you have to wear multiple hats. So yeah, it's very common, and in many ways, I appreciate that we didn't rush to hire in terms of sales too early because it's important that the founding team understands the user perspectives, their needs, what they call the pain points to understand how to steer product into that direction. And then sales will follow once you have a solution that is highly needed, that users really like and that it can be shown that it can be scaled globally. So we are working on scaling, on accuracy of the forecasts. And yeah, next hires will be to get somebody that will help us in sales and can bring us to the next level. CHAD: What does the sales cycle look like for the kinds of customers you have now? Do they tend to be smaller, or do they tend to be larger enterprise customers? CARLOS: So, in the beginning, we worked with smaller enterprises to understand how to use the data, for example, connect the data from one or five sensors transmitted online. So dealing with smaller enterprises, farmers was optimal at that point as a company. And now, we are focusing more on businesses, farm managers, or management companies that have hundreds, sometimes thousands of sensors on their management. So we deal with more like business to business instead of going direct to grower at this stage because, as we were mentioning earlier, we're a small company, and going direct to grower requires lots of support and dedication in terms of dedicated agents and sales teams. CHAD: Do those companies tend to have long sales cycles? CARLOS: The bigger ones, yes. If you are talking about publicly traded companies, they will want to start with pilots then validate them. And you can move at different timescales with them that are not necessarily aligned with the startups at this stage. But there are some farm managers that have a way higher frequency of decision making. So their sale cycle could be one month, two months instead of having to build a relationship for years. CHAD: You mentioned the pilots, and you mentioned earlier telling the story about a customer that said, you know, "If you can provide us with better data," but I think companies as they scale or as they talk to potential customers, you also don't want to take on too much work that you should be charging for to be able to do that pilot. How do you strike that balance? CARLOS: It's a fascinating question. And I think that from a founding member perspective, let's say, it goes as a function of the stage of the company and what other, not necessarily monetary, benefits you can get from these pilots. We have been even recommended to not have unpaid pilots anymore, for example. I think that it's important at the beginning to get access to the information that you need to validate the technology with users that really care about what you're building. And sometimes, there are different ways that these pilots can be structured in a way that the final user might give you a reference or might spend time with you doing the quality control, quality check, saying what kind of features they like, so that's also very important as a young startup. As you grow, probably once you have that validation, there is no need necessarily to take into endeavors that will lead to unpaid pilots that you don't know if there's a clear end to that. And you can move to a more structured pilot program that has clear deliverables, and at the end of window, a decision will be made depending on the set of topics that were agreed between the companies. CHAD: You might even be able to get away without pilots if you can make a strong case by showing other case studies that are relevant to that potential customer or where you explain, oh, you know, these people had a similar situation to you and here's how it's solved, and here's the success that they had. CARLOS: Totally. You nailed it. It's in many ways to sometimes build credibility, find analogues in the sector, or a use case that can be comparable to the pain point that another user might have. And it could be, let's start with the avocado growers in Brazil, and they have probably the same pain points that they have with avocado growers in Colombia. Once we have that sorted out, then we probably can go and talk with avocado growers here in California or Mexico, Central America and tell them, "Hey, this is the value that we've unlocked in Brazil. Do you have a similar problem?" CHAD: What I have found is that this is one of the important reasons why you have to have a good product which is part of what you've been saying all along, you know, you really wanted to focus on making sure the product was working and that it was good. Because when you do, then you can also use referrals, you know, not referrals, but like, hey, you want to talk to this avocado grower, and they'll be happy to talk with another potential customer because they're excited about what you've done for them and been able to do with them. CARLOS: Totally, totally. And agriculture is always open to new technologies, but they are traditional in many ways. And it's a small circle, and I think that it is very important to build products right and really care about what you're doing and your end-users. Build together. Don't come necessarily with assumptions saying, "Hey, here agricultural grower A, I have a solution that will change your life," without knowing necessarily where are they coming from and their life experiences, and how they interact with products before. So yeah, I totally see the benefit of referrals. Word of mouth is very big, going to conferences with agricultural growers. There are big networking events that could help us more than just going and doing a Google ad campaign, for example, at this stage. CHAD: I think that's probably an important lesson that not only applies in agriculture but in a lot of industries. And I really appreciate you stopping by to share with us. And I really wish you the best of luck as you progress in your journey at Benchmark. CARLOS: Oh, thank you very much. I really appreciate it, and I hope that we can continue the conversation here. Just count with us anytime that you need to talk about weather, agriculture, IoT sensors. Happy to help the audience too, and always discuss what's out there to help the Giant Robots community. [laughs] CHAD: Carlos, if people want to get in touch with you or find out more about the company, where are the best places for them to do that? CARLOS: Go to benchmarklabs.com and then fill out a form there. And we will definitely be in touch with all of you. I will personally answer all the queries. I'm very, very happy to share our technology, share what we are building. And we are so excited because by having this technology, you can help save water, energy, and even pesticide use, and that's a huge contribution to the environment as we move forward. So yeah, thank you very much again for the invitation, and I'm here; count with me as a future resource. CHAD: Wonderful. And you can subscribe to the show and find notes and links along with an entire transcript for this episode at giantrobots.fm. If you have questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. And you can find me on Twitter at @cpytel. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. Thanks for listening, and see you next time. ANNOUNCER: This podcast was brought to you by thoughtbot. thoughtbot is your expert design and development partner. Let's make your product and team a success. Special Guest: Carlos F. Gaitan Ospina.

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Woke Capital. Secret ingredient to Leftist Power? Rosetta Stone to understanding modern American politics? How firms like BlackRock and Vanguard subvert the savings of the American People. How the small managerial few can manipulate Middle Class money against the interests of the Middle Class. Checking helpful commentary from Vivek Ramaswamy. Lessons learned from Elon Musk's ongoing effort to purchase Twitter. Former "intel officials" make a plea to preserve Big Tech Monopoly Power. Ah yes, the ever-predictable Deep State. Time for some Trust Busting? Meanwhile, latest updates from Colonel Douglas Macgregor on Ukraine. Increasingly hopeless scenario. Is the Biden Administration exploiting the good people of Ukraine? We're afraid so. Regime propagandist Marie Yovanovitch inadvertently admits Putin would not have invaded under Trump. Also, CEO Larry Fink of BlackRock gets a big raise. More for them, less for you -- that's their deal. Carpetbagger Liz Cheney raises 90% of her campaign funds from outside Wyoming. Notes on Dinesh D'Souza's forthcoming "2000 Mules." Plus, anticipating "The Northman" film about Vikings. Vignettes on host family's need to purchase a new couch. We've reached that point. With Listener Calls. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heading to Portugal. Ready. Listen to last episode from '19 Spanish Camino. Sounds of tapping of my canes, white storks, cathedral bells chiming. Stay tuned. Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my blog and podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, hard-of-hearing or deaf? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on transcript) Proem.. 1 Advantages of progressive illness 03:20. 1 Heading out shortly 04:45. 2 Week 2 06:01. 2 Inspired 07:14. 2 Quieting my mind 09:31. 3 Tap, tap, tap of my two canes 11:58. 3 Mobility package 15:45. 3 White storks in Portomarin 16:14. 4 Santiago de Compostela Cathedral 16:39. 4 Heading home to Boston 17:35. 4 Reflection 17:56. 4 Links Rien MacDonald's Hope Initiative podcast Maria Xenidou's Impact Learning podcast Regina Holliday's Cinderblocks conference Marly Camino Guided Tours Related podcasts Camino de Santiago Episodes Please comment and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, Arranger Web and Social Media Coach Kayla Nelson @lifeoflesion The views and opinions presented in this podcast and publication are solely the responsibility of the author, Danny van Leeuwen, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute®  (PCORI®), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. Sponsored by Abridge Inspired by and grateful to David Bourne, Carole Blueweiss, Rien MacDonald, Maria Xenidou, Regina Holliday, Mary Lawler, Ann Boland, Mike and Linda DeRosa, Kate Higgins, Cynthia Meyer About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to the blog https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge.  Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements.  Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show Proem I'm getting ready to go on a pilgrimage to Portugal and Spain. It's the Camino de Santiago. And for those of you who've been following me, know I've been podcasting about it. I've been podcasting about my previous trip in 2019 when we went to Spain and my training. I've gotten a lot of comments on these episodes, and mostly they're attaboy comments, but some asked me if I'm afraid. Aren't I scared? I think that's a good question. At first, I just wanted to dismiss it. What could happen? I'm going with friends, lots of other people are on this pilgrimage. It was safety uneventful in 2019 when we went. But to be honest with you, yes, I have some fear. I have a “what if” kind of thing. What if this, what if that, what if I have an exacerbation of my MS? What if I fall?

What is EdTech? Are you using it in your classes? Is your teacher using it to teach you English? Explore the topic with Gav & Em's guest Charlie from charlieslessons on Instagram and Youtube. And catch LaDoris' pronunciation practice to improve your ability with the long and short "e". So, get your tech-head on and follow us down the digital path of enlightenment in this week's How to English Pod. Transcription with audio: https://share.descript.com/view/SPJZLnqVLqj Charlie's links: https://www.instagram.com/charlieslessons/ https://www.youtube.com/c/CharliesLessons Charlie's website and his new blog: http://charlieslessons.com/ LaDoris' links: https://www.instagram.com/improve_my_pronunciation/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUptngBTAf1V5KJApw2DOmA Gav's memes presentation on Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSL1vZHg5FNm3sspA7yGJVjgwbCMpEWZanaSIMHKiDXVRhxsgiON_uAhNTaMHy2lu7Tm3MK6OS2xhig/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 Nearpod: https://app.nearpod.com Apps for learning languages: (https://www.usnewsglobaleducation.com/) 1. Rosetta Stone (https://www.rosettastone.co.uk/) 2. FluentU (https://www.fluentu.com/) 3. Hello English (https://helloenglish.com/) 4. Duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com/) 5. HelloTalk (https://www.hellotalk.com/) Zoom: https://zoom.us/

The Rosetta Stone is famous as an inscription that let us read Egyptian hieroglyphs again, but it was created in the first place as part of a long history of signage as performative multilingualism in public places. Choosing between languages is both very personal but it's not only personal -- it's also a reflection of the way that the societies we live in constrain our choices. In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about language policy and how organizations and nation-states make language decisions that affect people's everyday lives. We also talk about the excellent recent lingcomm book Memory Speaks by Julie Sedivy, the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (currently ongoing!), and many ways of unpacking the classic quote about a language being a dialect with an army and a navy. Read the transcript here: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/682191718408388608/transcript-episode-67-what-it-means-for-a Announcements: In this month's bonus episode we're getting enthusiastic about word games and puzzles with Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer of Spectacular Vernacular! We talk about patron questions, including lots of Wordle content: what Ben and Nicole learned from interviewing the creator of Wordle, our favourite Wordle variants such as IPA Wordle and Semantle, and comparing our Wordle solving strategies with a demo game on air. www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm Join us on Patreon to listen to this and 60+ other bonus episodes. You'll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can play and discuss word games and puzzles with other language nerds! www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm For links to all the things mentioned in this episode: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/682191350734667776/episode-67-what-it-means-for-a-language-to-be

On this episode of the Traction podcast, host Lloyed Lobo of Boast.AI welcomes Matt Hulett, CEO and President at PetMeds, and Author of Unlock: 5 Questions to Unleash Your Company's Hidden Power. Previously, Matt was the President of Expedia and Rosetta Stone.   Whether you're starting a new business or bringing an existing one to the next level, it can be daunting.   Instead of wasting months and large sums of money on an extensive strategic planning process, join Matt as he walks through his five-step strategy to determine how to unlock value in a company and drive growth.   In this session, Matt shares:   1:04 - How he got into company building and investing 5:37 - Why every business can't be a star 6:14 - 5 key questions: TAM, Timing, Track Record, Plan, and Momentum 11:04 - Timing, the most difficult thing to get right 14:40 - The science around growth 18:53 - Assessing your competitiveness 26:41 - Keeping up momentum as a company 35:15 - What are the key traits of a company that attracts capital? 39:15 - What are key indicators of product market fit? 42:42 - What are the essential key hires that you need in order to scale? 44:56 - What key traits does a good product manager have? 49:42 - The priorities of a CEO, day in and day out 52:55 - Keeping everyone across the company aligned with overall strategies and goals during scaling 59:25 - Matt's book recommendations   Learn more at https://tractionconf.io Get Matt's book, Unlock: 5 Questions to Unleash Your Company's Hidden Power at: https://startupwhisperer.com    Connect with Matt Hulett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthulett/   This episode is brought to you by:   Each year the U.S. and Canadian governments provide more than $20 billion in R&D tax credits and innovation incentives to fund businesses. But the application process is cumbersome, prone to costly audits, and receiving the money can take as long as 16 months. Boast automates this process, enabling companies to get more money faster without the paperwork and audit risk. We don't get paid until you do! Find out if you qualify today at https://Boast.AI.   Launch Academy is one of the top global tech hubs for international entrepreneurs and a designated organization for Canada's Startup Visa. Since 2012, Launch has worked with more than 6,000 entrepreneurs from over 100 countries, of which 300 have grown their startups to seed and Series A stage and raised over $2 billion in funding. To learn more about Launch's programs or the Canadian Startup Visa, visit https://LaunchAcademy.ca    Content Allies helps B2B companies build revenue-generating podcasts. We recommend them to any B2B company that is looking to launch or streamline its podcast production. Learn more at https://contentallies.com

Our new patterns include the rosetta stone.  This pattern provides a path to link disparate systems and their data formats.  It comes from the historical rosetta stone which was a multilingual text used to decipher ancient languages.  We use this as a sort of pathway to a common language for our application. The Rosetta Stone Pattern Defined Modern software often has multiple other systems that need to be integrated with.  That means we need to pass data back and forth.  The format and structure of the data we send can be challenging to map across multiple systems.  The rosetta stone pattern approaches this problem by designing a single format that all of our data will transform into or be exported from.  Thus, we always map to one set of data when pulling from other systems.  Likewise, we have one format we generate that other systems are provided.   That avoids us having to map from each disparate system to every other system.  We create a hub and spoke rather than a mesh network.  Therefore, we have a dramatically reduced number of integration points that need to be addressed.  Also, we have a set format to convert new systems into.  Applying The Pattern There are two main ways to apply this pattern.  One can either build a master format that combines the data from all of the desired integration systems or build what the solution needs as the master.  The latter approach tends to be better as it focuses on the solution rather than other systems.  We also are driving the format and structure instead of reacting to other systems.  Finally, we have a static universal format that does not change based on external factors. Challenges Data types and labels are always a challenge for this pattern.  Date-related fields in particular have a number of challenges including time zone mappings and a multitude of formats.  When the central structure is created it helps to make it as similar as possible to the external systems.  However, organizations and lines of businesses use that data in different ways and often have different views of the related labels. For example, take a field called "name."  That can be the name of many things and likely is helped by a qualifier.  The disparate systems may all have only one thing that is named in their data set while we have dozens.  The more external sets we have to inform our central creation, the better.

Engaging patients differs depending on the role. Those on national Boards lead, strategize, advocate, communicate. Adam Thompson is on the Board of NQF. Listen in. Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my blog and podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript) Proem.. 1 Introducing Adam Thompson 02:38. 1 Patient-caregiver advocates on national Boards of Directors 04:21. 2 Activist, Advocate, Conduit, Leader 06:15. 3 The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program 09:42. 4 Pulling the curtain back. Feeling our oats. 13:52. 4 The right place to make a difference and re-charge 18:26. 5 Learn, coach, mentor 20:43. 6 Listen, reveal, shout 25:50. 7 Levers of power. Drunk the Kool-Aid. Now what? 30:56. 8 Transparency. The sausage gets made. 34:17. 9 More on conduits 39:39. 10 Engage, dissemination, act 41:02. 10 Is seeking public comment enough? 42:54. 11 Reflection 45:00  11 Please comment and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, Arranger Web and Social Media Coach Kayla Nelson @lifeoflesion The views and opinions presented in this podcast and publication are solely the responsibility of the author, Danny van Leeuwen, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute®  (PCORI®), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. Sponsored by Abridge Inspired by and grateful to Nikki Montgomery, Matthew Pickering, Jan Oldenburg, Danny Sands, Matt Hudson,  Dana Gelb Safron, Nakela Cook, Christine Goertz, Kristin Carman, Luc Pelletier, Jan Oldenburg, Sharon Levine, Kara Ayers Links Adam Thompson, LinkedIn National Quality Forum (NQF) PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) Dr. David Nash Ryan White program Dolores Dockrey Dr. W Edwards Deming called it profound knowledge. Related podcasts https://health-hats.com/pod110/ https://health-hats.com/pod145/ https://health-hats.com/pod153/ About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge.  Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements.  Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show Proem As a nurse, I studied individual health. Then I became a student of organizational health. That led me to management and leadership - all with the mind to get stuff done. Done for people, with people, by people -patients, caregivers, and direct care clinicians. My role changed at each step.

6:56:48 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Weasels 89 as a Rosetta Stone, The Doors, timeline entanglement, banking, many synchronicities, Entertainment Weekly ceases print publication, Ernest in the Army (1998), Gary synchronicity, a deep dive into Weasels 89 part 1, garage, thunderstorm, new phrase “Lang-Kenobi”, obscure restaurant conflict, Waikiki, animal, vegetable, or mineral, […]

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In addition to being an examination of how much chance determines the person we become, as well as something of a Rosetta Stone for the work of Krzysztof Kieslowski, BLIND CHANCE also plays like the 1980s version of a multiverse story, making it a clear precursor to Daniels Kwan and Scheinert's new EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. But Kieslowski's film has different ideas about fate, determination, and the invisible forces that shape our lives as much as the choices we make, all of which we attempt to unpack in our conversation, along with what connects BLIND CHANCE's three timelines, what about the politically minded film invited resistance upon its release, and the significance of that opening scream. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about BLIND CHANCE, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net. We may respond to it on our Patreon (patreon.com/NextPictureShow), where you can also find bonus episodes, a weekly newsletter, recommendations, and more.  Outro music: Talking Heads, “Once In a Lifetime” The Tale of King Crab opens April 15th at New York City's Film at Lincoln Center before expanding to cities across the country. Find theater, tickets, and more at kingcrab.oscilloscope.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Chris Kohler explores the evolution of niche fan culture from analog to digital through stories from his book Final Fantasy V (Boss Fight Books Book 18). “Young Chris” learns uploading to America Online makes it live forever, all the cool games stay in Japan, you can use Mario Paint as a Rosetta Stone for Japanese, and searching the internet for information about Final Fantasy has no results. “Now Chris” manifests Frank into existence with his thoughts and will always have his back. See more from Chris Kohler: Twitter: @kobunheat Website: www.chriskohler.biz Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Chris-Kohler/e/B001IOFJPI%3F Video Game History Foundation: Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

Not about walking miles & managing shoes. My training includes mobility and audiovisual prep. Bear with my experiment. Podcast, YouTube, & article. A bit rough. Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Watch the video here Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my blog and podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript) Proem.. 1 Training Day 1: Cold 01:21. 1 Walking, pushing my chair 05:46. 2 Day 1 Training Debrief 06:37. 2 Crossing a busy street. 07:35. 2 Reflection 08:31. 2 Please comment and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, Arranger Web and Social Media Coach Kayla Nelson @lifeoflesion The views and opinions presented in this podcast and publication are solely my responsibility and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute®  (PCORI®), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. Danny van Leeuwen (Health Hats) Sponsored by Abridge Inspired by and grateful to Linda and Mike DeRosa, Kate Higgins, Mary Lawler, Ann Boland, Ed Lomotan, Carole Blueweiss, David Bourne Links The video version of this episode Related podcasts https://health-hats.com/pod156/ https://health-hats.com/pod154/ https://health-hats.com/days-6-12-camino-de-santiago-rejuvenated-inspired-not-yet-peaked/ About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge.  Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements.  Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show Proem In the background, you hear my wheelchair as I train for our 200-kilometer Portugal's north coast to western Spain hike coming up soon. I feel 10-years-old and 70.  Ten, because I'm jumping up and down in my head and want to sleep in the car till we go. Seventy because I am a two-legged, cisgender old white man of privilege who gets around with his Forcemech electric wheelchair and Ergobaum forearm crutches. My training is not about walking miles and managing my shoes but includes mobility and audiovisual prep. So, bear with me as I experiment with both. You'll be hearing about my mobility training during the podcast and video and watching the results of my audio-video experimentation. It's all a bit rough. And fun, fun, fun. I'll take you through a couple of training days in varied weather and on different paths. I'll post show notes with a transcript for you readers and a link to my YouTube channel for you watchers. Training Day 1: Cold Hey, there.

In this episode, Nathaniel T. Jeanson ushers us into the wild and emerging field of historical genetics, revealing how these recent discoveries on the fate of ancient civilizations end up uncovering the story of the whole world. His new book Traced: Human DNA's Big Surprise will inspire, not only budding historians, archaeologists, geneticists, linguists, and anthropologists, but anyone interested in the marvelous and messy story of humankind. Resources mentioned in this episode: Traced: Human DNA's Big Surprise Find out more: AnswersInGenesis.org The Shaun Tabatt Show is part of the Destiny Image Podcast Network. 

"Hello again Word Lovers!" A little diversion today as we are going to look at Etymologists rather than Etymology! How many etymologists are there in the world? Do people actually get paid to explore the history of words? We take a look at the figures in history that can be considered the fathers, grandfathers and God Fathers of Etymology, from Vedic scholars in India and ancient Greek philosophers all the way through to the Brothers Grimm and the race to decode the Rosetta Stone. Full article available on our website https://www.bulldogz.org/post/interesting-etymologies-44-etymologists

The Rosetta Stone of eCommerceCraig Reed is the GM of Cross-Border at Avalara and has watched the industry develop over the last 20 years. He's truly one of the godfathers of cross-border eCommerce.An HS code is the code that an individual country expects you to give them to tell them what you're importing. This is important because all the other rules and restrictions flow from HS codes. Craig likes to label HS codes as “The Rosetta Stone of eCommerce.”The way we think about goods is different for every country and is different in every country.“A marketing description of a good and a country's description of a good are vastly different things, and they don't work well together. But getting that description is important. Getting to that Rosetta Stone is important, and that's the art behind trying to do cross-border eCommerce well.”- CraigIf you're doing anything cross-border, it is all about having the right information, and the right data.“It's about having good data and providing the right data to the right party at the right time, whether that's the consumer, whether it's a government, whether it's your suppliers, etc. You really need to have good data.”- CraigCustomer expectations have changed, which means that the cross-border customer expectations have shifted. It's important to provide a good buying experience because the buying experience is also the shipping experience.“The way that you deliver your customer supply chain is your customer experience” -BrianAssociated Links:Want to learn more about going cross-border? Download our free Step by Step guide!Get connected with Avalara!Learn more about Craig ReedListen to our other Step by Step seasonsFind our other Future Commerce episodes on our websiteHave any questions or comments about the show? Let us know on Futurecommerce.fm, or reach out to us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn. We love hearing from our listeners!

I had the opportunity to sit down with the king of frameworks and digital marketing expert, Dennis Yu. We discuss many of the frameworks that have led to his success and journey to creating 1 million jobs. Dennis shares stories and pieces of wisdom throughout his time working with Yahoo!, The Golden State Warriors, and many different social media celebrities. Guest Bio Dennis has been building brands and teaching marketing for over 13 years. He specializes in helping young adults grow into leaders of tomorrow by confidently developing their marketing skills through training programs and seminars with enterprise clients like The Golden State Warriors, Nike, and Rosetta Stone. #BetterWealth Free 15 Minute Clarity Call: https://bttr.ly/ytclarity (https://bttr.ly/ytclarity) The And Asset Book: https://bttr.ly/book (https://bttr.ly/book) BetterWealth Quiz: https://bttr.ly/quiz (https://bttr.ly/quiz) AndAsset.com: https://bttr.ly/andasset (https://bttr.ly/andasset) BetterWealth Youtube - https://bttr.ly/bwyoutube (https://bttr.ly/bwyoutube) Financial Advisor, Agent or Coach: https://bttr.ly/advisor (https://bttr.ly/advisor)

The Fallout from Hunter Biden's Laptop. Rosetta Stone to globalist Ukraine corruption? Why did the New York Times belatedly "authenticate" the laptop from hell? Speculations are in order. Gotta be a major furball behind this one. Very bad look for the 50 former "intelligence officials" who claimed the laptop was "Russian disinformation." Looking closely at the usual suspects Clapper, Brennan and Panetta. Assembling a broad range of commentary from Jen Psaki, Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, Liz Harrington, Christiane Amanpour, Miranda Devine and others. Does anyone still want to trust the Deep State on anything? Including election integrity? Meanwhile, Rachel Campos Duffy of Fox News talks "Monroe Doctrine" and the possibility that the U.S. has "provoked" this war in Ukraine. Worth contemplating. Plus, author Yuval Noah Harari says "humans are now hackable animals." No more free will? What methods might elites use to "hack" into humans? Is propaganda part of the plan? We advise the Red Pill response. With Listener Calls.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Decision aids with Dr. Daniel Matlock. Complexity of decisions, agency of decision-makers, timing, the black box, answering questions as they arise. Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my blog and podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript) Proem.. 1 The fragility of life strengthens 01:50. 1 Early health decisions for the family 04:22. 2 Endless questions about decision aids. Who, why, what, how? 06:18. 3 Stakeholder participation developing decision aids 10:17. 4 Biased to what? 11:08. 4 As the stakes go up, enter the caregiver & family as stakeholder 11:35. 4 Changing level of agency. So many decisions, like putting in a kitchen 13:12. 5 Who are decision aids for? 15:07. 5 Shared decisions 16:21. 5 One-time decisions, ongoing communication 18:50. 6 Tracking decisions and their impact 19:51. 6 We decided what? How'd it gone? A black box 25:35. 7 Design decisions – in the clinic or outside 27:32. 8 Where do I go to get questions answered when I have them? 27:32. 8 Reflection 31:49  9 Please comments and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, Arranger Joey van Leeuwen Quartet playing Mou's Blues Web and Social Media Coach Kayla Nelson @lifeoflesion The views and opinions presented in this podcast and publication are solely the responsibility of the author, Danny van Leeuwen, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute®  (PCORI®), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. Sponsored by Abridge Inspired by and grateful to Geri Baumblatt, Jodyn Platt, Josh Richardson, Janice McCallum, Lacy Fabian, Michelle Lenox, Michael Mittleman Links All of our team's decision aids are freely available at www.patientdecisionaid.org. Dan Matlock's email Sharing Decisions About Systemic Therapy for Advanced Cancers Related podcasts Health Hats Series: Young Adults with Complex Conditions Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Medical Care Health Hats Series: Choices About Your Health with Your Team About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge.  Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements.  Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show Proem Welcome to another installment in my series on medical decision-making. I doubt this series will ever end. How can it? Our experiments of one or societal experiments of medica...

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights – Baabiitaw Boyd's Gift for Sharing the Beautiful and Complex Ojibwe LanguageOn today's show, we talk with Baabiitaw Boyd (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) who is is the Mille Lacs Band's Deputy Commissioner on language revitalization initiatives. Her work includes the Anjibimaadizing program, which has developed a partnership with Rosetta Stone and published five Ojibwemowin books of stories collected from first speakers. Baabiitaw Boyd was also awarded a Bush Leadership Fellowship in 2017. In our conversation, Baabiitaw shares her path of awakening to her purpose: helping to revitalize the Ojibwemowin language for the benefit of the larger community.  We are inspired by Baabiitaw's motivation and enthusiasm for learning her ancestral language and the wisdom it carries.  We appreciate Baabiitaw's deep passion for helping others learn and speak Ojibwemowin, and her efforts to change both habits and systems, to better support and sustain the gifts of our Ojibwe culture. Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/

Rosetta shares us some beautiful lyrics, and explores how living in many places may affect your sense of belonging. It may inspire you to move somewhere random to find yourself aswell, hearing how Rosetta found herself in Paris from 12 years old, and now finds herself back in Auckland to grow even more with yall listeners :)

Why measure health outcomes? What information comes from outcome data? What action does the information motivate? How do disparities figure in? Why risk adjust? Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my blog and podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript) Proem.. 1 Knowing enough to be dangerous 02:21. 1 Why measure health outcomes?  04:28. 2 Information from measurement 05:20. 2 Action from information (plus money) 06:07. 2 How do disparities fit in? Look past your nose. 08:12. 2 Risk adjustment 10:29. 3 Reflection 11:44  3 Please comments and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, Arranger Joey van Leeuwen Quartet playing Black Narcissus by Joe Henderson Web and Social Media Coach Kayla Nelson @lifeoflesion Photo by Elise Wilcox on Unsplash The views and opinions presented in this podcast and publication are solely the responsibility of the author, Danny van Leeuwen, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute®  (PCORI®), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. Sponsored by Abridge Inspired by and grateful to Matthew Pickering, Cary Sanders, Rebekah Angove, Lina Walker, Adam Thompson, Ben Zola, Amanda Brush, Ellen Schultz, Laura Marcial, Juhan Sonin, Jennifer Bright, William Lawrence Links Risk Adjustment - Factors Affecting Adjustment CMS Physician Cost Measurement and Patient Relationship Codes Technical Expert Panel National Academy of Medicine DIgital Health Learning Collaborative, National Quality Forum's Cost and Efficiency Standing Committee  GoInvo Determinants of Health Related podcasts https://health-hats.com/pod145/ https://health-hats.com/pod140/ https://health-hats.com/pod133/ About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge.  Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements.  Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show Proem Can grasping risk adjustment contribute to a profound understanding of health inequities and motivate action to improve? Whaaattt are you talking about, you ask? As I write this episode, I'm preparing to join an NQF (National Quality Forum) Risk Adjustment Special Populations focus group. Understanding health disparities through measurement and experience and then acting on that information to improve equity ranks high on my list of advocacy priorities. I'm holding my nose,

Dennis Yu talks about the excellence of implementation. Dennis is the CEO of BlitzMetrics, is on a mission to create a MILLION jobs, an international speaker, digital marketer & agency builder who has worked with Jake Paul, Golden State Warriors, Nike, Rosetta Stone, & much more. So many tips shared in this episode! Make sure you check it out! - Key Discussion Points: The power of mentors Learning English by getting into Ecomm Has ran 20+ marathons Yahoo was a place for failed entrepreneurs The excellence of implementation The Netflix for Marketing The Ultimate Grand Daddy Mama of checklists The Great Resignation Cash is Thrash Learn how to harness the tools available - Help Support The Show - Buy Me A Coffee - Thank you in advance! - Quick shoutout to our sponsors for this show: Tranquil Turtle Massage Fast Corporate Credit LLC Craft Holsters CoffeeJunkiez PizzaJunkiez Scared Rabbit Vickers Graphics Tigatu (use code "TopRatedMMA" for 10% off) Combat Flags - Flag Backdrop INTERESTED IN BEING A SPONSOR OF OUR SHOW? DM US FOR MORE INFO. - Be sure to FOLLOW Dennis Yu - Facebook Instagram Twitter Website Be sure to FOLLOW BlitzMetrics - Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube - Thanks for watching! Check out another playlist on my channel: The Erik Allen Show Podcasts Featuring Erik Allen Voice Over Work Product Reviews Fun - FREE Resources to help you

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Gio Gardelli, Senior Director, Ads Targeting, Identity, & Trust at Yahoo, joins the Real Identity podcast to discuss the balance between the complexity of the advertising space and the current disruption happening in the identity and consent world. Identity is at the center to enable better advertising reach, but it also requires trust. Yahoo takes a consumer-first approach to identity that enables advertisers to reach their audience in a privacy-safe way, and utilizes Acxiom's infrastructure to create a seamless customer experience. Acxiom's partnership with Yahoo helps advertisers improve activation and measurement to create a unified view of campaigns and performance across all channels.

On this episode, we decode the previously impenetrable ancient language known as “business jargon.” Like your own personal Rosetta Stone, we plunge headfirst into the deliberately confusing language of business and break it down for you piece by piece. Click here for the transcript and other episodes of the Steal the Show podcast: https://StealtheShow.com/podcast/s4e2-how-to-speak-the-secret-language-of-business-jargon/  

Rare diseases as a health equity group. Rare doesn't mean never. Commonalities & differences.Learning from tiny populations. Chat with Doug Lindsay. Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my blog and podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript) Proem.. 1 The fragility of health for Doug Lindsay 01:57. 1 Personal medical consultant finding answers 04:10. 2 Rare disease as an equity challenge 05:31. 2 Commonalities of people with rare diseases 09:46. 3 Helicopters, zebras, interns' disease in physician training 11:13. 4 Undiagnosed disease programs 14:24. 4 Categories of differences across rare diseases 15:28. 5 Comparative effectiveness methodologies 17:31. 5 Using existing models in new fields. Learning from tiny populations 20:59. 6 Leave us with something 23:59. 7 Rare doesn't mean never. Questions mean an opening 25:21. 7 Rare disease as a health equity group 27:04. 7 More than 25-30 million people have a rare disease 28:11. 8 Rare Disease Day 28:48. 8 NORD National Organization for Rare Diseases 30:45. 8 Reflection 33:07. 9 Please comments and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, Arranger Web and Social Media Coach Kayla Nelson @lifeoflesion The views and opinions presented in this podcast and publication are solely the responsibility of the author, Danny van Leeuwen, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute®  (PCORI®), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. Sponsored by Abridge Inspired by and grateful to Lynne Becker, Morgan Gleason, Marnie Cartelli, Jill Johnson-Young, Adriana Mallozzi, Wesley Michael, Lauren Reimer-Etheridge, Sara Lorraine Snyder, Alexis Snyder, Jill Woodworth, CJ Rhodes, Rebecca Archer, Shiri Ben Arzi, Lisa Deck Links Doug Lindsay LinkedIn Opinion piece Rare Disease Day PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute)'s Rare Disease Advisory Panel. Castleman's disease, David Fajgenbaum, the physician at UPenn who found his own cure and wrote the book Chasing My Cure NORD National Organization of Rare Diseases Esquilax Related podcasts https://health-hats.com/rare_disease_research/ https://health-hats.com/lead-by-example/ https://health-hats.com/a-zebra-not-a-horse-rare-patient-voice/ About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge.  Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements.  Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com.

With a hint of magic and the lure of buried wisdom, Ancient Egypt has, like a mysterious and powerful magnet, for millennia pulled on the collective imagination of the West. But almost as gripping as the story of Egypt itself is the story of Egyptomania, the tale of how that fascination took hold, the bold adventurers who unearthed antiquities, the clashing empires that fought over these ancient prizes, and a pair of brilliant linguists who cracked the ancient code of the hieroglyphs.

You might know Rosetta Stone as the program that teaches different languages–but its true origins lie in Egypt, and it was an actual stone that was carved with a declaration. Anthony T. Browder begins today's Black History Month lesson with a discussion on the Rosetta Stone and its relation to death, resurrection, and Kemetic masonry. Anthony is an author, publisher, cultural historian, artist, and educational consultant. He is the founder and director of IKG Cultural Resources, as well as the director of the ASA Restoration Project, and has devoted 43 years researching ancient Egyptian history, science, philosophy and culture. For more information from Anthony Browder: IKG-info.com OR asarestorationproject.com Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com

SHINING THE LIGHT ON SPECIAL GUEST: Anthony Russell: Psychic Medium, Expert Tarot Card Reader, Show Host and a true LightMystic! Mayume and Manjeet had such an amazing time with this guy and can't wait for you, Lightworker Listeners, to connect with him in any way you can. He's the real deal... a Native with a natural born gift of psychic mediumship as well as the gift of gab -- and so much more. The ladies could not get enough of him! You must listen all the way to the end as he pulls a card spread for both M&M! About Anthony Russell: Anthony Russell embodies the romantic vision of a psychic from New York city –  sophisticated, well-traveled, articulate, and a master of several mystery traditions reflecting the melting pot of his locale. He is well-known as a highly sought-after reader – and also as the owner of the former “Zodiac Lounge.” Anthony discovered the Tarot when he was 9 years old. “I was drawn to the cards from across the room,” he says. “I was fascinated by the colors and the composition – when I got closer to them, they almost appeared to be moving– they were very fluid to my vision.” Anthony read Tarot as a way to support himself through his university degree and his post-graduate degree.  He then left the occult world to pursue a career in music.  He began by writing Pop and R&B, eventually transitioning into World Beat, where he was able to travel the world and learn the sacred music of many cultures thus bringing sacred energy to the dance floors.  After he closed the Zodiac Lounge, Anthony focused on his readings and pursued an advanced degree in clinical psychology at age 61; not to open a practice – but to give better counsel in his readings. Anthony has been a natural medium since childhood and says that he often gets “disincarnate beings," often a relative, who joins in on his psychic readings in order to give advice to his clients.  “I liken my role to that of a multi-lingual bike messenger,” he says. “I have a document for you in a language few are fluent in.  It is my job to interpret it for you. My cards are my Rosetta Stone, and they're always on the money.” Anthony can be found at www.anthonycentral.com  Subscribe, Rate and Review! Lightworkers, Unite Podcast and Social show - hosted by @mayumenmanjeet https://linktr.ee/lightworkersunite

In true Joyful Warrior fashion, Tiffany highlights parents and leaders on this week's podcast. First up we talk with Andrew Gutmann and Paul Rossi, recent co-authors of an Op Ed in the WSJ titled “Inside the Woke Indoctrination Machine”. After watching hundreds of secret private school professional development trainings they share what they call the “Rosetta Stone” of diversity, equity and inclusion work happening in our country today. Tiffany highlights Dad and hopeful NC District 73 representative Brian Echevarria , who gave an impassioned speech at his community's school board and Pat brought a guest to “Chat with Pat”, Kourtney O'Hara, Lexington County. You won't believe the cross examination that Kourtney got when she spoke at her South Carolina State House Education Committee hearing in support of curriculum transparency. 

Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we enjoy another fascinating, yet sleepy, historical exploration. The discovery of Egypt's Rosetta Stone was a key moment in our understanding of the ancient world and we'll hear all about how it happened.

Data is not info is not action. Data, cooked into Info could lead to action. People add context, values, culture, experiences, history, biases to data and info. Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my blog and podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript) Proem.. 1 Introducing Bryn Rhodes and Laura Marcial 04:02. 2 Realizing the fragility of health 06:41. 2 We made which decision? How did it turn out? 09:52. 3 End point? Decision, action, continual learning? 13:26. 4 What data to collect? When to collect it? 14:32. 4 Who does this work for in real life? 15:48. 4 Context matters for blood pressure 18:14. 5 Ongoing learning post research 22:32. 6 Spanning the gulf between specialized expertise 23:52. 6 Data needs infrastructure to become information 26:15. 6 Summarizing for the Public 30:17. 7 Hubris. Satisfied with stopping at results. 33:45. 8 Reflection 39:21. 9 Please comments and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, Arranger Web and Social Media Coach Kayla Nelson @lifeoflesion The views and opinions presented in this podcast and publication are solely the responsibility of the author, Danny van Leeuwen, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute®  (PCORI®), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. Sponsored by Abridge Inspired by and grateful to Lauren McCormack, Bill Lawrence, Lygeia Ricciardi, Cynthia Cullen, Juhan Sonin, Cheryl Damberg, Jack Needleman, Matthew Pickering, Aaron Carroll, Greg Merritt, Wesley Michael Links Health eDecisions Clinical Quality Framework Initiatives (CQF) FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). Healthcare Triage Podcast Triage Science Culture and Reproducibility Series An excellent series about the challenges of research industrial complex values and priorities. So much to learn here even for me, eyeball deep in research funding. Related podcasts Health Hats episodes about Clinical Decision Support https://health-hats.com/clinical-decision-support-technology-still-human/ https://health-hats.com/humanity-before-technology-clinical-decision-support/ https://health-hats.com/a-zebra-not-a-horse-rare-patient-voice/ About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge.  Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements.  Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show Proem

On today's episode, I'm excited to welcome my good friend and colleague, Stephanie Sotelo, who also happens to be my backup parenting coach. Stephanie blows my mind over and over again as we talk about accessing our “Whys” as parents, and tapping into our values, which act as our compass on this journey and give us the courage to hold firm in our parenting choices when others may question them. We explain how knowing your “Why” can help you understand yourself better as a parent, as well as your partner and even other parents who may have the same “What,” but a different “Why.” We also discuss the ways your “Why” can change over time, and the importance of finding your own authentic voice in a world where so many other opinions are thrown at you. We talk about choosing connection with your child above all else, encouraging your child to advocate for themselves and find their own strong voice, and why authenticity, confidence, and consistency are your most important tools as a parent. If you are constantly looking at how others live their lives, and their “Whats” on social media, it's easy to get overwhelmed and feel like you're losing yourself in parenthood. Today's conversation will help silence all the noise, opinions, and scripts around you, so that you can grab hold of your own inner voice and parent based on the “Whys” that feel true to who you are. Thank you for your listening, and I appreciate your patronage more than I can say. For more information on my potty training and parenting resources, please visit the links below. You can also visit Stephanie Sotelo's website at www.StephanieSotelo.com or on Instagram @consciousparentcoach.   The Finer Details of This Episode: Today I speak with my friend and backup parenting coach, Stephanie Sotelo We begin by revisiting my story about taking Pascal to see Green Day, and Stephanie shares her thoughts on my “Why” - the true reason why I made this parenting decision She also explains her “Why” is relation to her 5-year-old son's passion for sports Your values are your compass as to how you're going to parent (for example, with sports, commitment is very important or it may just be about being social) It's a bit more difficult for dads to access those emotions and tap into their “Why” This can make it hard for partners to get on the same page But knowing your “Why” and being strong in your values gives you courage Stephanie values respect and manners for her son, but also wants him to be able to advocate for himself and be able to tell other adults when he feels uncomfortable with something Her story of implementing an allowance for her son and having him earn a special toy by doing chores This allowed him to decide whether he truly wanted the item and it was a game-changer for Stephanie It's not the “What” but the “Why” - Parents have different “Whys” and this is why we judge each other, even when we have the same “What” (for example, two different parents may agree that children need an allowance, but one implements this to help teach money management while another may be trying to teach their child about work ethic) The other parent's ‘Why' is just as good as my ‘Why' Understanding this helps you understand other parents and not judge them, or more importantly, yourself Your ‘Why' can also change as your kids get older Encouraging kids to advocate for themselves versus being disrespectful Parents can also practice finding their own voice, which can help you sort it out from all the other voices that can be overwhelming in the gentle parenting world In tricky situations, remember connection with your child goes a long way (this can be hard when you simply want to get your chores or tasks completed) Doing parallel chores can help you connect while actually getting a few things done Kids really enjoy playing with everyday items like tape or simply running water on the tap We can get hung up on the cost or waste of this, but in reality, it's way cheaper than toys and it teaches valuable life skills If you're constantly looking at other people's lives and not your own, this is where things get lost and you feel like you're on shaky ground As a parenting coach, Stephanie does not want to be another voice that's telling someone to do something that doesn't fit well for them or their family (example of encouraging a mom to go against her instincts to be playful in favor of being more firm) It's important to honor your voice and adjust based on what works for you The “What” is so much based on the “Why” As a parenting coach, we cannot give an exact script that will work every time as it will always depend on your ‘Why' Bedtime issues have been very common throughout the pandemic As a parenting coach, Stephanie cannot get hung up on the “What” because there is always so much more to it - parents whose children are not going to bed at night may not want to simply say goodnight and leave because they've been apart all day Authenticity and confidence are huge - when you have that confidence and courage, kids are more likely to listen to the boundaries  Pick your hill to die on, and if you're going to cave, cave early and be authentic to what it is you really want to do You need to align your approach with the “Why” behind it With kids under 5, you can't change your “Why” on a daily basis as they need consistency It's also important to keep your child's age and developmental stage in mind, and shift your expectations for them accordingly We all feel like we want to be perfect, and we all see the “What” out there in the world on social media, but the “Why” is so much more important Finding it can help you feel authentic in who you are after perhaps feeling like you've lost yourself in being a parent   Quotes “That values chapter is so important because it's really your compass to how you're going to parent.” “I literally said, I think we unlocked the Rosetta Stone of parenting.”  “In general, the families I work with - dads find it a little harder to access all their emotions, they find it a little harder to access those values. And so when I go to do those value exercises, a lot of times with dads it's a bust.” “Your ‘Why' may be good, but it may not be good right now.” “I know my ‘Why.' My ‘Why' is really important to me - it's that I want him to be social.” “Respect is very important. Obviously I teach him manners and everything, but advocating for himself is my biggest ‘Why' because I'm not going to be around him all the time.” “This is why I'm giving him an allowance. I'm going to put $5 in an envelope, and I'm going to tell him, Okay, you've got some money back home. Do you want to use your money, or you can do some chores and earn it? And that was like a game-changer for me.” “It's not the ‘What' but the ‘Why'.” “I hope this is as mind-blowing to you as it was to me... This is it. This is why we f-cking judge other parents, because their ‘Why' is different than our ‘Why'.”  “I like that I know I can change that when he is eight. Maybe my ‘Why' does become money management.” “Pascal is - he's spoiled in the sense that I have one kid and disposable income, but he's not entitled. He doesn't - he's never gotten his way. He's never tantrumed for something.” “This really can help you sort out your voice from the other voices. Because one of the problems with modern day parenting is you have too many f-cking voices.” “I started to be like, Oh my God, this is not how you do chores. I'm going to tell him not to. And then I'm like, Wait, nope. I just want to connect with them. I'm not going to jump in, I'm going to watch and see what he does.”  “Yes, I wanted a happy, connected moment. And I wanted my dishes done.” “Sometimes we're so focused on this script, or how it needs to be done, or the ‘What.' And we don't look at the ‘Why'.” “You don't want to just take somebody's lens… That's how I think of it is almost like a frame with a lens. And if you are constantly listening to other people's lives and not examining your own, that's where you get lost, and that's where you feel on shaky ground. And that's where things don't work.” “I feel like that as a parent coach, too, I don't want to be another voice that's telling somebody how to do something that doesn't fit well for them.” “The ‘What' is just so much based on the ‘Why,' and once I figured that it was so helpful.” “When you have that confidence and that courage, I think that's when the kids really listen to the boundaries.” “Whatever you do, you have to be consistent with it. And you have to recognize that if you change from that consistency, it f-cks everything up, and then you have to start over.” “What I love about it is that it does make you feel authentic in who you are.” “Figuring out my ‘Why' is really where that's my own inner voice coming in and grabbing on to the ‘Whats' for the reasons that feel authentic to who I am as a mom.”   Links: Jamie's Homepage -  www.jamieglowacki.com Oh Crap! Potty Training – https://www.amazon.com/Crap-Potty-Training-Everything-Parenting-ebook/dp/B00V3L8YSU Oh Crap! I Have A Toddler -  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Oh-Crap!-I-Have-a-Toddler/Jamie-Glowacki/Oh-Crap-Parenting/9781982109738 Jamie's Patreon Page:  www.patreon.com/join/jamieglowacki?  Stephanie Sotelo's Homepage www.stephaniesotelo.com

A Rosetta Stone for understanding Donald Trump's style, mindset, and every action, made up of over one hundred interviews with his closest associates and adversaries over the last 15 years. To his critics, Donald Trump is an impulsive, undisciplined crackpot who accidentally lucked into the presidency. But in The Method to the Madness, reporters Allen Salkin and Aaron Short reveal that nothing could be further from the truth. This objective, nonpartisan oral history shows that Trump had carefully planned his bid for the presidency since he launched what many considered to be a joke candidacy in 1999. Between 2000 and 2015, when he announced his candidacy in the lobby of Trump Tower, he was able to identify an unserved political constituency, hone a persuasive message that appealed to their needs, and deliver it effectively, despite intense media opposition. Through candid conversations with more than 100 subjects close to the President, Salkin and Short make the case that Donald Trump's ostensibly erratic approach to politics is consistent with his carefully honed personal and professional style of information gathering, opinion seed-planting, and conclusion sharing. His business, media, and political dealings from this era serve as a guide for understanding the man, his mindset, and his every action. The Method to the Madness is an accessible and unbiased oral history that brings readers into the private rooms where decisions are made, confidences are broken, strong words fly, and not all eye-witnesses see the same scene in quite the same way. Full of scoops both large and small, this is the first book to bring Trump, the politician, into focus.

A Rosetta Stone for understanding Donald Trump's style, mindset, and every action, made up of over one hundred interviews with his closest associates and adversaries over the last 15 years.To his critics, Donald Trump is an impulsive, undisciplined crackpot who accidentally lucked into the presidency. But in The Method to the Madness, reporters Allen Salkin and Aaron Short reveal that nothing could be further from the truth. This objective, nonpartisan oral history shows that Trump had carefully planned his bid for the presidency since he launched what many considered to be a joke candidacy in 1999.Between 2000 and 2015, when he announced his candidacy in the lobby of Trump Tower, he was able to identify an unserved political constituency, hone a persuasive message that appealed to their needs, and deliver it effectively, despite intense media opposition.Through candid conversations with more than 100 subjects close to the President, Salkin and Short make the case that Donald Trump's ostensibly erratic approach to politics is consistent with his carefully honed personal and professional style of information gathering, opinion seed-planting, and conclusion sharing. His business, media, and political dealings from this era serve as a guide for understanding the man, his mindset, and his every action.The Method to the Madness is an accessible and unbiased oral history that brings readers into the private rooms where decisions are made, confidences are broken, strong words fly, and not all eye-witnesses see the same scene in quite the same way. Full of scoops both large and small, this is the first book to bring Trump, the politician, into focus.

Healthcare decisions affect you and others. Complicated for everyone. Knowledge waiting to be implemented. Join this chat with Dr. Talya Miron-Shatz. Blog subscribers: Listen to the podcast here. Scroll down through show notes to read the post. Subscribe to Health Hats, the Podcast, on your favorite podcast player Please support my blog and podcast. CONTRIBUTE HERE Episode Notes Prefer to read, experience impaired hearing or deafness? Find FULL TRANSCRIPT at the end of the other show notes or download the printable transcript here Contents with Time-Stamped Headings to listen where you want to listen or read where you want to read (heading. time on podcast xx:xx. page # on the transcript) Proem.. 1 Introducing Dr. Talya Miron-Shatz 00:50. 1 Genetic counseling and medical decision-making 04:27. 2 Personal goals, exploration, universal truths, and decision-making 06:52. 2 Consequences, risks, benefits, and alternatives 11:22. 3 Decisions with family caregivers 16:21. 4 Cost of decisions 20:37. 5 COVID, vacation, depression 28:48. 7 Tracking decisions and outcomes over time 29:52. 7 Action, implementation, rather than a new study 35:54. 9 Top three takeaways 39:03. 9 Reflection 41:22  10 Please comments and ask questions at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email DM on Instagram or Twitter to @healthhats Credits The views and opinions presented in this podcast and publication are solely the responsibility of the author, Danny van Leeuwen, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute®  (PCORI®), its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee. Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, Arranger Web and Social Media Coach Kayla Nelson @lifeoflesion Sponsored by Abridge Inspired by and grateful to Adrian Gropper, Janice McCallum, Michelle Lenox, Amy Price, Ginny Meadows, Lauren McCormack, Glyn Elwyn, Gregory Makoul, Z Colette Edwards Links Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/talya-miron-shatz/ Twitter: @TalyaMironShatz Website Buy Your Life Depends On It Deliberation before determination: the definition and evaluation of good decision making https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22618581/. Shared Decision Making: A Model for Clinical Practice Nobel Prize Winner Richard Thaler Z Colette Edwards Related podcasts Health Hats episodes about Clinical Decision Support About the Show Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this. To subscribe go to https://health-hats.com/ Creative Commons Licensing The material found on this website created by me is Open Source and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Anyone may use the material (written, audio, or video) freely at no charge.  Please cite the source as: ‘From Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats. (including the link to my website). I welcome edits and improvements.  Please let me know. danny@health-hats.com. The material on this site created by others is theirs and use follows their guidelines. The Show Proem The COVID pandemic highlights the impact of our choices about health and habits on ourselves and each other as well as the impact of others' choices on us. Think crowding, masking, vaccinations, collaborative problem-solving. Our lives depend on the choices we and others make. Sometimes our choices have little impact; rather, policy, employers, community culture, work and home settings,

Orbit in Sonic Gravity and see the universe through the eyes of a madman.  Enter my mind and stand beside me atop the Rosetta Stone of the Universe and you will understand why black holes are causing the universe to expand faster than five times the speed of light at 5 mega-parsecs, and much, much faster at greater distances.  And, you will learn the solution to the Clay Mathematics Institute's $1,000,000 Millennium Prize Solution to the Yang-Mills Mass Gap that has puzzled the theoretical physics community for more than a century. 

David Icke is an English writer, public speaker, and former media personality best known for his views on what he calls "who and what is really controlling the world". Describing himself as the most controversial speaker and author in the world, he has written 20 books explaining his position, dubbed "New Age conspiracism", and has attracted a substantial following across the political spectrum. His 533-page The Biggest Secret (1999) has been called the conspiracy theorists Rosetta Stone.Icke was a well-known BBC television sports presenter and spokesman for the Green Party, when he had an encounter in 1990 with a psychic who told him that he was a healer placed on Earth for a purpose. In April 1991 he announced on the BBC's Terry Wogan show that he was the son of God and predicted that the world would soon be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes. The show changed his life, turning him practically overnight from a respected household name into an object of ridicule.He continued nevertheless to develop his ideas, and in four books published over seven years - The Robots' Rebellion (1994), And the Truth Shall Set You Free (1995), The Biggest Secret (1999), and Children of the Matrix (2001) - set out a moral and political worldview that combines New-Age spiritualism with a passionate denunciation of what he sees as totalitarian trends in the modern world. At the heart of his theories lies the idea that a secret group of reptilian humanoids called the Babylonian Brotherhood controls humanity, and that many prominent figures are reptilian, including George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, Kris Kristofferson, and Boxcar Willie.Icke has been criticized for arguing that the reptilians were the original authors of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - a 1903 Russian forgery purporting to be a plan by the Jewish people to achieve world domination - a claim that has attracted the attention of the far right and the suspicion of Jewish groups. Icke strongly denies there is anything antisemitic about this. He was allowed to enter Canada in 1999 only after persuading immigration officials that when he said lizards, he meant lizards, but his books were still removed from the shelves of Indigo Books, a Canadian chain, after protests from the Canadian Jewish Congress.David Icke has been writing for nearly 30 years of a coming global Orwellian state in which a tiny few would have control of the rest of humanity through the tools of finance, government, media, and a military-police. He has said that “physical” reality is an illusion, and what we think is the “world” is a holographic simulation or “Matrix” created to entrap human perception in ongoing servitude.Icke's view of New Age Conspiracism dawns at the fact that the universe is made up on vibrational energy and that the reptiles have controlled the Earth and human beings from times immemorial. He claims that they even manipulate global events to keep humans in a constant state of fear. Icke believes that the only way this influence can be defeated is by humanity waking up to ‘the truth', and filling their hearts with love.You can find more information on David Icke at: https://davidicke.com/