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A company who has created an AI patient care system that can eliminate inefficiencies in patient appointments has taken the top prize at the National Enterprise Awards. SPRYT is a virtual assistant that can liaise directly with patients on appointments via simple SMS communications to ensure appointment completion and can effectively reallocate appointments in real-time to eliminate no shows and doctor and consultant wastage. The company was set up by Neill Dunwoody and Daragh Donohoe in 2022, supported by Local Enterprise Office Monaghan, and pilots of the company's ASA tool with the NHS have seen a 160% increase in appointment conversion rates. They have also seen a 260% increase in patient engagement using this tool, while removing 80-90% of the administration around appointments. The Awards, which are an initiative of the Local Enterprise Offices to celebrate the best small businesses in Ireland, were held at the Round Room in the Mansion House in Dublin in what is their 25th year. Alan Dillon,T.D., Minister of State for Employment, Small Business and Retail ,announced this year's winners in front of representatives from the Local Enterprise Offices, Enterprise Ireland and the Local Authorities and small businesses from across the country at the event. Announcing the award winners at the Mansion House Minister Dillon said, "The National Enterprise Awards are a celebration of the innovation, resilience, and ambition that define Ireland's business community. Each year, the calibre of finalists continues to rise, reflecting the extraordinary talent and determination of entrepreneurs across the country. These businesses are not only creating jobs - they are shaping the future of our local economies and communities. "Tonight's winners represent the very best of what Irish enterprise has to offer, and we remain committed to supporting them as they grow, compete, and thrive on both a national and global stage. These businesses are at the core of every town, village and community and are vital to our economy. We will ensure businesses continue to get the support they need to grow, prosper, and remain competitive," Kieran Comerford, Chair of the Local Enterprise Offices, said; "The National Enterprise Awards are a celebration of the very best of what Irish enterprise has to offer. It highlights those companies who are primed to take those next steps and scale up into international markets and it also highlights excellence in key areas of business development such as digitalisation, sustainability and exporting. "We will no doubt see the winners here go on to do great things over the coming years but for every business that has made it to this point, it is validation that they have created an outstanding business. Entrepreneurship is the road less taken but we have to encourage more people to take that leap, and show them the benefits it can bring. "We have some amazing people across the country and many have started businesses that are taking on the world. Look at some of our previous winners like Pestle & Mortar, Bevcraft and Advanced Cosmetics. As the Local Enterprise Offices we will continue to encourage and support great ideas and new businesses because we have the entrepreneurs to make amazing global companies." There were several other category winners announced on the night. Innovation Award The winner of the Innovation Award was MoneySherpa, supported by Local Enterprise Office Louth. Moneysherpa provide a complete home buying service including mortgages, surveys, and conveyancing in one place and also provide software to the property industry to integrate the home buying journey. Best Export Award The winner of the Best Export Award was Seabound Engineering, supported by Local Enterprise Office Donegal. Seabound Engineering is Ireland's only SCMS-certified aluminium shipyard, specialising in custom-built vessels for the aquaculture, inshore and offshore fishing, and marine sectors, including Ireland's largest aluminium ...

What if you were told there's better concrete out there with more limestone than what's used in Type IL cement mixes? Sounds crazy, right? But that's exactly what we're exploring today with John Guynn and John Kline. In this episode, we explore ACI 211-7R and its potential to reduce cement content without sacrificing performance. Learn how adjusting particle size distribution, using admixtures, and understanding the water-cement ratio can improve workability and strength. Plus, get insights on the challenges and benefits of low carbon concrete, real-world applications, and the regulatory hurdles that must be overcome to make these innovations standard in construction. Don't miss it! What's Inside: Limestone reduces cement content in concrete mixes. ACI 211-7R provides guidelines for using mineral fillers. Particle size distribution and admixtures optimize performance. Real-world applications demonstrate the benefits of reduced cement mixes. Low carbon concrete excels in strength, workability, and durability. Regulatory challenges exist around water-cement ratios and limestone classification. Smarter material use can reduce costs and improve sustainability. Ongoing research is key to advancing concrete technology. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction to Concrete Innovations 02:56 Understanding ACI 211-7R and Its Implications 06:06 The Role of Limestone in Concrete Performance 08:56 Balancing Performance and Cost in Concrete Mixes 11:58 Water Demand and Its Impact on Concrete Quality 15:00 Particle Size Distribution and Its Importance 17:59 Admixtures and Their Role in Modern Concrete 21:06 Real-World Applications and Case Studies 23:54 Feedback from Finishers and Practical Considerations 29:27 Performance of Low Carbon Concrete 32:13 Regulatory Challenges and Water-Cement Ratio 35:02 Innovations in Cement and SCMs 38:47 Field Testing and Real-World Applications 46:04 Durability Testing and Future Prospects LISTEN NOW – Every concrete contractor & engineer needs to hear this one! Guest: John Guynn Company: Roman Cement Email: john.guynn@roman-cement.comWebsite: www.roman-cement.com‍Guest: John Kline Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kline-18003010/============================= Take Your Knowledge Further – Join Concrete Logic Academy! Gain exclusive access to expert video courses, live Q&A, and cutting-edge industry insights. Earn Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and elevate your expertise! Learn More: https://www.concretelogicacademy.comSupport the Podcast – Be Part of the Concrete Revolution! Donate: https://www.concretelogicpodcast.comBecome a producer & get recognized on our next episode! ============================= Recommended Resources: ACI 211-7R.20: Guide for Proportioning Concrete Mixtures with Ground Calcium Carbonate and Other Mineral Fillers: https://www.concrete.org/Portals/0/Files/PDF/Previews/211.7R-20_preview.pdfProducer: Jodi Tandett Music by: Mike Dunton Instagram: @Mike_Dunton Stay Connected & Watch More! Host: Seth Tandett Email: seth@concretelogicpodcast.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-tandett/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@concretelogicpodcastPodcast Website: https://www.concretelogicpodcast.comLIKE, SUBSCRIBE & SHARE for more expert concrete insights!

Summary: Romeo Oriogun, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University, joins Dean Michael Horswell in our latest edition of In Conversation. They discuss poetry, migration, and the role of African literature in global literary discourse.Romeo Oriogun is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University and explores themes of migration, queerness, and survival in his poetry and nonfiction.A Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, Oriogun is the author of Sacrament of Bodies, Nomad, and The Gathering of Bastards. He has received the Nigeria Prize for Literature, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, the Nebraska  Book Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 

Summary: Romeo Oriogun, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University, joins Dean Michael Horswell in our latest edition of In Conversation. They discuss poetry, migration, and the role of African literature in global literary discourse.Romeo Oriogun is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University and explores themes of migration, queerness, and survival in his poetry and nonfiction.A Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, Oriogun is the author of Sacrament of Bodies, Nomad, and The Gathering of Bastards. He has received the Nigeria Prize for Literature, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, the Nebraska  Book Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 

In this episode of the Concrete Logic podcast, host Seth Tandett speaks with Larry Sutter, principal engineer at Sutter Engineering, about the development of standards and specifications for supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) like fly ash and slag. They discuss the differences between standards and specifications, the role of fly ash in improving concrete durability, and the challenges of variability in materials. Larry also highlights emerging test methods for evaluating SCMs and the importance of performance-based specifications in the industry. Takeaways Standards are documents developed through a consensus process. Specifications serve as contracts between buyers and sellers. Fly ash is the most used SCM in concrete. SCMs improve concrete durability by reducing permeability. Variability in materials is a constant challenge in concrete engineering. Performance-based specifications are preferred over prescriptive ones. Emerging materials require new performance-based specifications. Understanding the reactivity of SCMs is crucial for concrete performance. The industry must adapt to evolving standards and specifications. Future specifications aim to encompass a wider range of SCMs. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Standards and Specifications 03:09 Understanding Standards vs Specifications 10:17 The Role of Fly Ash in Concrete 18:03 Mechanisms of Durability Improvement 22:52 Emerging Test Methods for SCMs 30:21 Challenges in SEM Usage and Specifications 35:37 Performance-Based Specifications for SCMs 39:43 Future Directions in SCM Standards ***Did you learn something from this episode? Would you like to support the concrete industry's favorite podcast? If so, donate at https://www.concretelogicpodcast.com/support/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . When YOU donate to the show, you will be listed as a producer of the next episode that is released! Join the Concrete Logic Academy! Enhance your learning from our podcast with engaging quizzes that test your knowledge and help you earn Professional Development Hours (PDHs). Support Concrete Logic and take your education to the next level!

Professor of English Oliver Buckton joins Dean Michael Horswell in our latest edition of In Conversation to discuss his research on World War II espionage and his new book Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction (2024).Oliver Buckton is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University, and has taught at FAU since 1994. He teaches courses in Victorian and modern British literature, film, literary theory, and espionage fiction. His recent research explores the intersections of intelligence history, political history, and espionage fiction.  He is the author of Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography (1998), Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body (2007), Espionage in British Literature and Film Since 1900: The Changing Enemy (2015), The Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever: James Bond on Page and Screen (2019) and The World is Not Enough: A Biography of Ian Fleming (2021) and 

Professor of English Oliver Buckton joins Dean Michael Horswell in our latest edition of In Conversation to discuss his research on World War II espionage and his new book Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction (2024).Oliver Buckton is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University, and has taught at FAU since 1994. He teaches courses in Victorian and modern British literature, film, literary theory, and espionage fiction. His recent research explores the intersections of intelligence history, political history, and espionage fiction.  He is the author of Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography (1998), Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body (2007), Espionage in British Literature and Film Since 1900: The Changing Enemy (2015), The Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever: James Bond on Page and Screen (2019) and The World is Not Enough: A Biography of Ian Fleming (2021) and 

In this episode of the Concrete Logic Podcast, Seth and Joe Shetterley discuss the innovative technology of liquid fly ash (LFA) and its implications for the concrete industry. Joe explains the differences between traditional fly ash and LFA, highlighting the challenges faced with conventional supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) and the importance of water management in concrete mixes. The conversation delves into the testing and implementation of LFA, its benefits in stabilizing concrete properties, and the future of concrete materials, emphasizing the role of nanoparticles in enhancing performance.Takeaways • Liquid fly ash is a new technology aimed at improving concrete performance. • Traditional fly ash has quality issues that LFA seeks to address. • Water management is crucial for the success of concrete mixes. • Testing is essential to determine the right mix of LFA and traditional SCMs. • The concrete industry needs to adapt to new materials and methods. • Nanoparticles are becoming increasingly important in concrete technology. • Chemicals in concrete mixes can lead to more problems than solutions. • The future of concrete may rely on innovative materials like LFA and nanoparticles.Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Liquid Fly Ash Technology 02:56 Understanding Liquid Fly Ash vs Traditional Fly Ash 05:01 Addressing Problems in Concrete Mixing 08:25 The Role of Liquid Fly Ash in Concrete 11:06 Testing and Protocols for Effective Use 12:28 Finishing Challenges in Concrete 15:05 The Impact of Water Management 18:44 Internal vs External Concrete Issues 22:33 Balancing Water in Concrete Mixes 25:32 The Future of Concrete Materials***Did you learn something from this episode? Would you like to support the concrete industry's favorite podcast? If so, donate at https://www.concretelogicpodcast.com/support/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . When YOU donate to the show, you will be listed as a producer of the next episode that is released!***Episode ReferencesGuest: Joe Shetterley | E5 | https://www.e5nanosilica.com/contact Guest Website:⁠ https://www.e5nanosilica.com/Producers: Jodi TandettDonate & Become a Producer: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.concretelogicpodcast.com/support/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music: Mike Dunton | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.mikeduntonmusic.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mikeduntonmusic@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Mike_Dunton⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host: Seth Tandett, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠seth@concretelogicpodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-tandett/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.concretelogicpodcast.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/concrete-logic-podcast*** Elevate your concrete expertise and join a community of passionate professionals who drive industry innovation at the Concrete Logic Academy! Learn more at https://www.concretelogicacademy.com/ ***

In this episode of the Concrete Logic Podcast, Seth and Tyler Ley delve into the intricacies of Type 1L cement, discussing its significance in the construction industry and the challenges associated with its use. They explore the evolving landscape of blended cements, the importance of consistent performance, and the need for better evaluation tools. Tyler emphasizes the necessity for industry professionals to take control of their materials and establish performance standards to ensure quality in concrete production. The conversation highlights the future of concrete technology and the role of measurement in achieving desired outcomes. Takeaways Type 1L cement is a significant development in the concrete industry. Blended cements are becoming more common and offer various benefits.Curing practices greatly influence the performance of concrete. Not all cements perform the same; variability exists between suppliers. The float test is a practical tool for evaluating concrete workability. Future concrete production will require more precise measurements. Industry professionals need to establish clear performance standards.Understanding the properties of materials is crucial for quality control. The use of admixtures and SCMs will increase in concrete mixes. Continuous learning and adaptation are essential for success in concrete technology.Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Concrete Logic Podcast 02:17 Understanding Type 1L Cement 05:05 Challenges and Variability in Cement Quality 11:40 Tools for Evaluating Cement Performance 18:26 Future of Concrete Testing and Measurement 25:50 Blended Cements and Their Implications 32:23 Call to Action for Concrete Professionals***Did you learn something from this episode? Would you like to support the concrete industry's favorite podcast? If so, donate at https://www.concretelogicpodcast.com/support/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . When YOU donate to the show, you will be listed as a producer of the next episode that is released!***Episode References Guest: Dr. Tyler Ley | Concrete Freaks Guest Website:⁠ https://www.concretefreaks.com/Producers: Jodi Tandett Donate & Become a Producer: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.concretelogicpodcast.com/support/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music: Mike Dunton | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.mikeduntonmusic.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mikeduntonmusic@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Mike_Dunton⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host: Seth Tandett, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠seth@concretelogicpodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-tandett/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.concretelogicpodcast.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/concrete-logic-podcast ***Elevate your concrete expertise and join a community of passionate professionals who drive industry innovation at the Concrete Logic Academy! Learn more at https://www.concretelogicacademy.com/ ***

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University and the University of Puerto Rico join Dean Howrsell's In Conversation Podcast to discuss how communities in South Florida and Puerto Rico are adapting to climate instability.  As climate instability has major public health implications, from extreme heat to changing disease patterns, these researchers examine how health systems and communities are adapting to new health challenges.  They also explore how cultural factors shape people's health-seeking behaviors and the resilience of health systems in the face of climate-related threats.We welcome Dr. Adriana M. Garriga-Lopez, Dr. Katherine Rynkiewich, and Dr. Patria C. Lopez to our latest edition of In Conversation with Dean Horswell!Dr. Adriana M. Garriga-Lopez is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Prof. Garriga-Lopez holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (2010) from Columbia University in New York. Dr. Garriga-Lopez is the lead Principal Investigator on this project. Garriga-Lopez previously received an NSF (2021-2024), Award #2049565 on “Ethics of Care and Compounded Disaster”. She joined the faculty at the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters in 2022. Garriga-Lopez is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico.Dr. Katharina Rynkiewich is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Prof. Rynkiewich holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (2020) from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A. in Social Sciences (2013) from The University of Chicago. Dr. Rynkiewich is the Co-Principal Investigator and has worked with Dr. Garriga-Lopez on establishing The Ethnographic Lab at Florida Atlantic since her arrival in 2022. Dr. Rynkiewich is originally from Mt. Vernon, Indiana.Dr. Patria C. Lopez de Victoria Rodriguez is Associate Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey campus. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics in health from The Pennsylvania State University (2016) and is the PI of this project's collaborative nexus. Lopez de Victoria has received funding from NIH (Award #R21MD013701; 2018-2020) and the Alzheimer's Association (Award #AARG 20-685407; 2021-2024). She also leads a team of undergraduate students from diverse disciplines carrying out research with older adults in Puerto Rico.Dr. Patricia Noboa Ortega is Professor of Social Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey campus. Dr. Noboa Ortega holds a PhD in Psychology (2005) from the University of Puerto Rico. In 2017, Prof. Noboa Ortega co-founded the Legal and Psychological Clinic resulting from ethnographic research carried out in Puerto Rico on the psychosocial effects of Hurricane Maria. Her work has been published in the anthology, “Aftershocks of Disaster” (Haymarket Books). Dr. Noboa Ortega is Executive Director of PICSI: Proyecto de Integración Comunitaria San Isidro (San Isidro Community Integration Project). 

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University and the University of Puerto Rico join Dean Howrsell's In Conversation Podcast to discuss how communities in South Florida and Puerto Rico are adapting to climate instability.  As climate instability has major public health implications, from extreme heat to changing disease patterns, these researchers examine how health systems and communities are adapting to new health challenges.  They also explore how cultural factors shape people's health-seeking behaviors and the resilience of health systems in the face of climate-related threats.We welcome Dr. Adriana M. Garriga-Lopez, Dr. Katherine Rynkiewich, and Dr. Patria C. Lopez to our latest edition of In Conversation with Dean Horswell!Dr. Adriana M. Garriga-Lopez is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Prof. Garriga-Lopez holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (2010) from Columbia University in New York. Dr. Garriga-Lopez is the lead Principal Investigator on this project. Garriga-Lopez previously received an NSF (2021-2024), Award #2049565 on “Ethics of Care and Compounded Disaster”. She joined the faculty at the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters in 2022. Garriga-Lopez is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dr. Katharina Rynkiewich is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Prof. Rynkiewich holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (2020) from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A. in Social Sciences (2013) from The University of Chicago. Dr. Rynkiewich is the Co-Principal Investigator and has worked with Dr. Garriga-Lopez on establishing The Ethnographic Lab at Florida Atlantic since her arrival in 2022. Dr. Rynkiewich is originally from Mt. Vernon, Indiana. Dr. Patria C. Lopez de Victoria Rodriguez is Associate Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey campus. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics in health from The Pennsylvania State University (2016) and is the PI of this project's collaborative nexus. Lopez de Victoria has received funding from NIH (Award #R21MD013701; 2018-2020) and the Alzheimer's Association (Award #AARG 20-685407; 2021-2024). She also leads a team of undergraduate students from diverse disciplines carrying out research with older adults in Puerto Rico. Dr. Patricia Noboa Ortega is Professor of Social Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey campus. Dr. Noboa Ortega holds a PhD in Psychology (2005) from the University of Puerto Rico. In 2017, Prof. Noboa Ortega co-founded the Legal and Psychological Clinic resulting from ethnographic research carried out in Puerto Rico on the psychosocial effects of Hurricane Maria. Her work has been published in the anthology, “Aftershocks of Disaster” (Haymarket Books). Dr. Noboa Ortega is Executive Director of PICSI: Proyecto de Integración Comunitaria San Isidro (San Isidro Community Integration Project). 

In this edition of In Conversation, Dr. Michael Horswell engages with Professors Dr. Carol Bishop Mills & Dr. Kevin Wagner, Co-Directors of the PolCom Lab in the College of Arts & Letters at Florida Atlantic University. The PolCom Lab investigates and analyzes public opinion and political trends nationwide, focusing on Florida.   Dr. Carol Bishop Mills is a Professor and Director of the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and the co-director of the FAU PolCom Lab. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University and is known for her extensive research in relational communication, particularly in complex dynamics such as teasing, bullying, harassment, and frenemyships. Her recent work focuses on bullying within academic settings, providing critical insights into how these behaviors impact both individuals and institutions. Dr. Mills has published widely on these topics and previously co-chaired the National Communication Association's Anti-Bullying Task Force and served as the editor for the newsletter for the Global Listening Centre.Kevin Wagner is a Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the PolCom Lab and Associate Dean of Research in the College of Arts & Letters at Florida Atlantic University. He teaches courses on American politics, political organizations, public opinion, judicial politics, and media in politics. Wagner's research has primarily centered around understanding political change in democratic systems including shifts caused by technological developments. His expertise has been featured in leading publications including the New York Times and American Review of Politics. Dr. Wagner earned a J.D. from the University of Florida and previously worked as a practicing attorney before earning his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at the University of Florida.

In this edition of In Conversation, Dr. Michael Horswell engages with Professors Dr. Carol Bishop Mills & Dr. Kevin Wagner, Co-Directors of the PolCom Lab in the College of Arts & Letters at Florida Atlantic University. The PolCom Lab investigates and analyzes public opinion and political trends nationwide, focusing on Florida.   Dr. Carol Bishop Mills is a Professor and Director of the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and the co-director of the FAU PolCom Lab. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University and is known for her extensive research in relational communication, particularly in complex dynamics such as teasing, bullying, harassment, and frenemyships. Her recent work focuses on bullying within academic settings, providing critical insights into how these behaviors impact both individuals and institutions. Dr. Mills has published widely on these topics and previously co-chaired the National Communication Association's Anti-Bullying Task Force and served as the editor for the newsletter for the Global Listening Centre.Kevin Wagner is a Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the PolCom Lab and Associate Dean of Research in the College of Arts & Letters at Florida Atlantic University. He teaches courses on American politics, political organizations, public opinion, judicial politics, and media in politics. Wagner's research has primarily centered around understanding political change in democratic systems including shifts caused by technological developments. His expertise has been featured in leading publications including the New York Times and American Review of Politics. Dr. Wagner earned a J.D. from the University of Florida and previously worked as a practicing attorney before earning his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at the University of Florida.

There's been a lot of debate about what the relationship should be between videographic criticism and writing. Some have wondered if video essays could function as stand-alone scholarship and break free from having to be framed by text-based explanations such as creator statements or peer reviews. But even if one acknowledges the role of writing in advancing videographic scholarship, another question emerges: which writing?  At this year's SCMS annual meeting in Boston, videographic scholars Evelyn Kreutzer and Alan O'Leary observed that several video essay presentations would cite texts from feminist film studies, genre film studies, global film studies, etc.  But there wasn't so much reference to existing writing about videographic scholarship. And it got them thinking, why aren't videographic scholars giving more attention to writing about video essays? Haven't there been examples of written scholarship that are worth referencing, in shaping our thinking about the form? Is it that they aren't known well enough or established enough to be cited? And how can we start to get a better appreciation of the role of writing in video essay scholarship?  Evelyn and Alan recorded this conversation to get into these questions. Evelyn asked Alan to come up with two written essays that could be especially helpful in understanding videographic scholarship. Alan came up with about 6 or 7, which can be found in the show notes. From those they picked two to discuss in depth, leading to a rich and contentious conversation about what scholars want from video essays, and what role writing has in determining the answers to that question. This episode is the sixth in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Written Essays Discussed Binotto, Johannes. In Lag of Knowledge. The Video Essay as Parapraxis. in: Bernd Herzogenrath (Ed.): Practical Aesthetics. London, New York: Bloomsbury 2021, S. 83-94. de Fren, Allison. ‘The Critical Supercut: A Scholarly Approach to a Fannish Practice', The Cine-Files, Vol. 15, 2020, http://www.thecine-files.com/the-critical-supercut-a-scholarly-approach-to-a-fannish-practice/. Garwood, Ian. ‘From “Video Essay” to “Video Monograph”? Indy Vinyl as Academic Book', NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2020, https://necsus-ejms.org/from-video-essay-to-video-monograph-indy-vinyl-as-academic-book/. Two articles by Susan Harewood:  ‘Seeking a Cure for Cinephilia', The Cine-Files 15 (2020), http://www.thecine-files.com/seeking-a-cure-for-cinephilia/ ‘Canon and Catalyst in Video Essays', ZFM 2023, https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/en/online/videography-blog/canon-and-catalyst-video-essays Two articles by Miklós Kiss: Videographic Criticism in the Classroom: Research Method and Communication Mode in Scholarly Practice. The Cine Files 15 (2020), http://www.thecine-files.com/videographic-criticism-in-the-classroom/. What's the Deal with the ‹Academic› in Videographic Criticism? ZFM (2024), https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/en/online/whats-deal-academic-videographic-criticism. Follow the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more at the pod's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠free newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Music by Ketsa.

It’s Radio Convention season and we’re bringing some of the Alabama Broadcasters Convention to you. Live from the Renaissance Ross Bridge Resort, we’re meeting with engineers and radio equipment reps as this ABA Convention draws to a close. One of our highlights is visiting with Steven Westbrook from the Alabama Historical Radio Society. We also get cameo appearances from Bob Mayben, Jeff Welton, and Jim Armstrong. Join us for some fun conversation while we learn a few things about both new and old technologies and some personalities that shaped - and are now shaping - radio tech. Show Notes:Alabama Historical Radio SocietyAlabama Broadcasters AssociationBob Mayben’s Good Time GoldSummit Technology Group Guests:Bob Mayben - Broadcast Engineer, Sales at SCMS, Inc, and Host of Good Time GoldJim Armstrong - Director of Eastern US Sales at Telos AllianceHugh Price - Sales at Broadcasters General StoreMicah Dempsey - Wireless Manager at MaxxKonnect WirelessJeff Welton, CBRE - Regional Sales Manager, Eastern U.S.Paul Stewart - President at Summit Technology GroupSteven Westbrook - Alabama Historical Radio Society Host:Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas BroadcastingFollow TWiRT on Twitter and on FacebookTWiRT is brought to you by:Nautel and the HD Digital Radio Test DriveBroadcasters General Store, with outstanding service, saving, and support. Online at BGS.cc. Broadcast Bionics - making radio smarter with Bionic Studio, visual radio, and social media tools at Bionic.radio.Angry Audio and the new Rave analog audio mixing console. The new MaxxKonnect Broadcast U.192 MPX USB Soundcard - The first purpose-built broadcast-quality USB sound card with native MPX output. Subscribe to Audio:iTunesRSSStitcherTuneInSubscribe to Video:iTunesRSSYouTube

In this episode of Investing In Integrity, Ross Overline speaks with Steve Quirk, Chief Brokerage Officer at Robinhood.  While the democratization of finance makes investing more accessible to a broader investor base, Steve emphasizes the importance of responsible investing behavior, especially for novice investors. The conversation also touches on the innovation and evolution within the finance industry. Steve and Ross also explore the topic of industry leadership and the strategies essential for navigating disruptive changes. Steve emphasizes the importance of passing wisdom and experience to the next generation of finance leaders while emphasizing the importance of integrity, authenticity, and financial literacy. Steve Quirk oversaw the strategy and deployment of initiatives for Trading at TD Ameritrade. He also served as a member of the company's Senior Operating Committee, which shaped the organization's strategic focus. Under Steve's leadership, TD Ameritrade debuted the Investor Movement Index® (IMXSM), a proprietary, behavior-based index aggregating Main Street investor positions and activity.  Steve focused on teaching the next generation of investors and has championed the creation of the TD Ameritrade U program to bridge the gap between academia and reality. Before that role, Steve was responsible for developing new trading tools and technology enhancements for the thinkorswim® trading platform.  Steve's trading career began in 1987 on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). While at the CBOE, he served on the exchange's Index Market Performance Committee and the Arbitration Committee. He partnered with SCMS for seven years, trading options on index products. He also led the Chicago operations of Van der Moolen USA. Content here is for educational purposes only. It is not individualized tax or investment advice. Consult a tax or investment adviser regarding your specific situation. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Reference to actual stocks or symbols is for illustrative purposes only and is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any specific security. The Robinhood Investor Index (RIX) is not a tradable index and individuals cannot invest directly in any index. Data is intended for informational purposes only and nothing referenced with regard to the Robinhood Investor Index is a recommendation of a security, account type, trading or investment strategy. For more complete statistical information and our index methodology, you can visit the RIX website. Views and opinions expressed here are those of the participants and do not necessarily represent those of Robinhood, its employees, or its customers. All investments involve risk, including loss.

In this episode of Investing In Integrity, Ross Overline speaks with Steve Quirk, Chief Brokerage Officer at Robinhood.  While the democratization of finance makes investing more accessible to a broader investor base, Steve emphasizes the importance of responsible investing behavior, especially for novice investors. The conversation also touches on the innovation and evolution within the finance industry. Steve and Ross also explore the topic of industry leadership and the strategies essential for navigating disruptive changes. Steve emphasizes the importance of passing wisdom and experience to the next generation of finance leaders while emphasizing the importance of integrity, authenticity, and financial literacy. Steve Quirk oversaw the strategy and deployment of initiatives for Trading at TD Ameritrade. He also served as a member of the company's Senior Operating Committee, which shaped the organization's strategic focus. Under Steve's leadership, TD Ameritrade debuted the Investor Movement Index® (IMXSM), a proprietary, behavior-based index aggregating Main Street investor positions and activity.  Steve focused on teaching the next generation of investors and has championed the creation of the TD Ameritrade U program to bridge the gap between academia and reality. Before that role, Steve was responsible for developing new trading tools and technology enhancements for the thinkorswim® trading platform.  Steve's trading career began in 1987 on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). While at the CBOE, he served on the exchange's Index Market Performance Committee and the Arbitration Committee. He partnered with SCMS for seven years, trading options on index products. He also led the Chicago operations of Van der Moolen USA. Content here is for educational purposes only. It is not individualized tax or investment advice. Consult a tax or investment adviser regarding your specific situation. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Reference to actual stocks or symbols is for illustrative purposes only and is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any specific security. The Robinhood Investor Index (RIX) is not a tradable index and individuals cannot invest directly in any index. Data is intended for informational purposes only and nothing referenced with regard to the Robinhood Investor Index is a recommendation of a security, account type, trading or investment strategy. For more complete statistical information and our index methodology, you can visit the RIX website. Views and opinions expressed here are those of the participants and do not necessarily represent those of Robinhood, its employees, or its customers. All investments involve risk, including loss.

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Annette LaRocco,  an associate professor in FAU's Department of Political Science. In this upcoming episode, Dr. LaRocco discusses several topics, including conservation politics, how studying abroad helped shape her career,  and her new book, The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana.Why do states choose to set aside land for national parks and other protected areas? How do these decisions impact their citizens and structure their economies? How and why do states decide to make governing their environments a political priority? These are questions explored by Annette LaRocco in her book The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and years of extensive fieldwork in Botswana, LaRocco argues that the seemingly mundane processes of conserving landscapes and wildlife are, in fact, deeply political acts that are essential to state-building for many countries in the postcolonial Global South. Conservation itself is political and impacts human populations and societies, irrespective of its ecological or biological impacts. In her new book, she explores how conservation is a way that states exert their authority over people, places, and resources and how it structures economic relationships at local, national, and global levels.  Dr. LaRocco,  Ph.D.,  teaches classes in African politics, environmental politics, the politics of global development, and international relations at Florida Atlantic University's Department of Political Science. . Her research interests include the study of political implications of biodiversity conservation and other environmental policies, specifically in regions of the postcolonial Global South. She has conducted fieldwork in southern Africa for over a decade, most recently as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Botswana and Zimbabwe. 

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Annette LaRocco,  an associate professor in FAU's Department of Political Science. In this upcoming episode, Dr. LaRocco discusses several topics, including conservation politics, how studying abroad helped shape her career,  and her new book, The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana. Why do states choose to set aside land for national parks and other protected areas? How do these decisions impact their citizens and structure their economies? How and why do states decide to make governing their environments a political priority? These are questions explored by Annette LaRocco in her book The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and years of extensive fieldwork in Botswana, LaRocco argues that the seemingly mundane processes of conserving landscapes and wildlife are, in fact, deeply political acts that are essential to state-building for many countries in the postcolonial Global South. Conservation itself is political and impacts human populations and societies, irrespective of its ecological or biological impacts. In her new book, she explores how conservation is a way that states exert their authority over people, places, and resources and how it structures economic relationships at local, national, and global levels.  Dr. LaRocco,  Ph.D.,  teaches classes in African politics, environmental politics, the politics of global development, and international relations at Florida Atlantic University's Department of Political Science. . Her research interests include the study of political implications of biodiversity conservation and other environmental policies, specifically in regions of the postcolonial Global South. She has conducted fieldwork in southern Africa for over a decade, most recently as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Botswana and Zimbabwe. 

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Kyle Prescott, a Professor of Music and a Conductor at Florida Atlantic University.   In this upcoming episode, Dr. Prescott talks about his recent experience conducting the iconic Rhapsody in Blue, a 100-Year Tribute to Gershwin's American classic at the Festival of Arts Boca.Dr. Kyle Prescott  holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin.  He's presented his research internationally at peer-reviewed conferences, including once for the National Security Agency, regarding research into US Navy Band Musicians in the world of cryptology in the mid- 20th Century.In demand as a teacher of conducting, Dr Prescott has worked with over 450 professional conductors in the refinement of their craft. He is President-elect of the Florida Collegiate Music Education Association, a past Florida Chair of the College Band Directors National Association, Past President of The Symphonia Orchestra, is Conductor and Music Director of the professional Florida Wind Symphony and FWS Jazz Orchestra, as well as the Boca Festival of the Arts Jazz Orchestra, whose inaugural performance included the original 1924 version of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue discussed in this ‘In Conversation' podcast with Dean Horswell.

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Kyle Prescott, a Professor of Music and a Conductor at Florida Atlantic University.   In this upcoming episode, Dr. Prescott talks about his recent experience conducting the iconic Rhapsody in Blue, a 100-Year Tribute to Gershwin's American classic at the Festival of Arts Boca.Dr. Kyle Prescott  holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin.  He's presented his research internationally at peer-reviewed conferences, including once for the National Security Agency, regarding research into US Navy Band Musicians in the world of cryptology in the mid- 20th Century.In demand as a teacher of conducting, Dr Prescott has worked with over 450 professional conductors in the refinement of their craft. He is President-elect of the Florida Collegiate Music Education Association, a past Florida Chair of the College Band Directors National Association, Past President of The Symphonia Orchestra, is Conductor and Music Director of the professional Florida Wind Symphony and FWS Jazz Orchestra, as well as the Boca Festival of the Arts Jazz Orchestra, whose inaugural performance included the original 1924 version of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue discussed in this ‘In Conversation' podcast with Dean Horswell.

Bust out your fancy headphones for this episode, folks. In one our best episodes ever from an audiophilic perspective, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick talks with Jacob Smith about his recent experimental audiobooks, ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene and Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves, both of which are available as open access files on the University of Michigan Press website. Then Chris and Michael chat about the gratification of SCMS volunteering, wish you a happy eclipse, and tout the glories of NCAA women's basketball tournament.

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Stephen Engle, an award-winning history professor with over 32 years of experience in teaching and writing about nineteenth-century America.This episode of In Conversation delves into Dr. Engle's new book, In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew.  Stephen and Dr. Horswell discuss John Albion's one profoundly radical idea: that all men truly are created equal. He championed lost causes, loathed America's racial prejudices, and sought justice for the lowly, even when the fight was wholly unpopular. His story (from the 1830s through the 1860s) places slavery and abolition at the center of America's history and affirms that a life driven by justice and conviction can be timeless.Like Lincoln, his career was a reminder of the national tragedy that ensued from standing up for such beliefs, as opposing factions shaped divergent paths toward their vision of the “more perfect Union” that the founding fathers had charted in the Constitution. Throughout his life Andrew watched as the expanding republic struggled to endure half slave and half free. He recognized that slavery was incompatible with the Christian notion of inalienable human rights (as well as free-market capitalism), yet he lived in a strident era when sectionalism was shaping questions of territorial development and challenging Americans to decide whether God or man had relegated African Americans to human chattel. Slavery's expansion heightened the young idealist's political awareness.When the Civil War erupted just four months into his first term, Andrew considered the conflict not only a contest to restore the Union but also to advance the progress of the human condition in America. He advocated for emancipation during the war and persuaded the Lincoln administration to allow him to raise all-black regiments to fight for the Union and thereby demonstrate African American fitness for citizenship.Andrew spent his life following Theodore Parker's axiom. “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one,” said Parker, “my eye reaches but little ways, I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight: I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”  Andrew saw the war as the opportunity to redefine the republic by embracing racial progress by ending slavery and bending the arm of the moral universe. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. would repeat Parker' words more than 100 years later in seeking racial justice. Dr. Stephen Engle  has received numerous awards throughout his career including being named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians, a Fulbright Scholar for a year, a Gilder Lehrman Fellow, and a Huntington Library Fellow. He has lectured extensively in the United States and Germany, has appeared in c-span's Lectures in American History, and most recently lectures for the Smithsonian Institution as a part of the Smithsonian Associates Program. He is widely published in the genre of 19th Century American, having authored numerous books, essays, articles, and reviews including the prizing-winningGathering to Save a Nation (2016) and In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew (2023). 

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Stephen Engle, an award-winning history professor with over 32 years of experience in teaching and writing about nineteenth-century America.This episode of In Conversation delves into Dr. Engle's new book, In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew.  Stephen and Dr. Horswell discuss John Albion's one profoundly radical idea: that all men truly are created equal. He championed lost causes, loathed America's racial prejudices, and sought justice for the lowly, even when the fight was wholly unpopular. His story (from the 1830s through the 1860s) places slavery and abolition at the center of America's history and affirms that a life driven by justice and conviction can be timeless. Like Lincoln, his career was a reminder of the national tragedy that ensued from standing up for such beliefs, as opposing factions shaped divergent paths toward their vision of the “more perfect Union” that the founding fathers had charted in the Constitution. Throughout his life Andrew watched as the expanding republic struggled to endure half slave and half free. He recognized that slavery was incompatible with the Christian notion of inalienable human rights (as well as free-market capitalism), yet he lived in a strident era when sectionalism was shaping questions of territorial development and challenging Americans to decide whether God or man had relegated African Americans to human chattel. Slavery's expansion heightened the young idealist's political awareness.When the Civil War erupted just four months into his first term, Andrew considered the conflict not only a contest to restore the Union but also to advance the progress of the human condition in America. He advocated for emancipation during the war and persuaded the Lincoln administration to allow him to raise all-black regiments to fight for the Union and thereby demonstrate African American fitness for citizenship.Andrew spent his life following Theodore Parker's axiom. “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one,” said Parker, “my eye reaches but little ways, I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight: I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”  Andrew saw the war as the opportunity to redefine the republic by embracing racial progress by ending slavery and bending the arm of the moral universe. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. would repeat Parker' words more than 100 years later in seeking racial justice.  Dr. Stephen Engle  has received numerous awards throughout his career including being named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians, a Fulbright Scholar for a year, a Gilder Lehrman Fellow, and a Huntington Library Fellow. He has lectured extensively in the United States and Germany, has appeared in c-span's Lectures in American History, and most recently lectures for the Smithsonian Institution as a part of the Smithsonian Associates Program. He is widely published in the genre of 19th Century American, having authored numerous books, essays, articles, and reviews including the prizing-winningGathering to Save a Nation (2016) and In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew (2023). 

This week on the Pro Audio Suite, we've taken a deep dive into the evolving landscape of voiceover auditions, with a particular focus on a new directive from the MEAA suggesting auditions be conducted solely via phone. We debate the potential impacts, from audio quality to AI protections, and whether this levels the playing field or sets the stage for mediocrity. Our journey didn't stop there; we ventured into discussions about the surprisingly good quality of smartphone mics, particularly the iPhone, and pondered if the consumer really notices or cares about audio fidelity. The conversation naturally flowed into the realms of audio tech history, reminiscing about anti-piracy measures in CDs and the quirky side of recording hacks. Join us as we explore these topics and more, including: The concept of the "mequalizer" in voiceovers. Potential implications of recording auditions on smartphones for AI training. A look back at anti-piracy efforts, from tape biases to digital watermarking. 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And they want talent to do auditions only on a phone. I can kind of see why they're thinking of that, but the issue I've got is that phones are not that bad. Speaker A: There's too many roadcasters in this conversation. : We got to move away from the default bank in China. Speaker A: So what is the reason, Andrew, did they say? Is it because they think that the crappy quality is going to, well, supposed crappy quality would be my opinion. Going to make people think twice about just using it? : That is correct. It's going to be MP3 from your telephone purposely made bad. : But is it really? Speaker A: I mean we've talked about this on the show before. I mean the iPhone in a micro. Sorry, the microphone in an iPhone is spectacularly good. So what's the point? : Or is it more that the consumer doesn't care anyways? : Meant to be an equalizer so everybody sounds equally mediocre. : The me equalizer is that the Joe. : Meek mediocre, the meequalizer will inherit the voiceover industry. : Or you were saying so that they purposely don't use the audition for the job. : Correct. : Yeah, it's like protection. : I guess it makes sense. I mean, I know in the states people love it when they get their auditions lifted and they don't have to record it again. : Yeah, it happens all the time. : Or you record them anyways and you still use the audition. : Oh, that happens too. So that's fascinating. So did you get a direct answer as to why? Or is it just a mandate don't ask questions? : It kind of came via my agent who's forwarded it from the union. There's also a disclaimer form as well to protect you so that you have to read a disclaimer on your audition saying that my voice cannot be used for AI and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it's all about AI, but it's kind of like the more I thought about the iPhone thing, particularly iPhone and an iPhone 15, you can get away with using that actually for broadcast, really? : If it's done correctly. Yeah. If you record in a quiet, well tuned environment, you're going to have a very good sounding iPhone recording. Speaker A: Yeah. : A well placed iPhone will sound better than a poorly placed U 87. Speaker A: Absolutely. There you go. Well, so maybe that. Maybe the directive should have been stand on your local street corner and record on your phone. Maybe that should have. : Or just ask Robert. Speaker A: Just listen to the pro audio suite, any episode, just check out Robert and you'll get a good idea of what to do. : You should run the Hoover or the vacuum cleaner while you're doing an. Speaker A: Or you could record in, my know, kids screaming toilets, know all the fun stuff. : There you go. Speaker A: That's right. : Or toilets screaming. Speaker A: Yes. And kids. : Yeah, that's fascinating to me. So what medium are you recording with just to the voice memo app on. : Your phone, I'm assuming. So I used the phone once to muck around with when I bought a rode microphone that plugged into your phone. : Right. : I think I use garageband from memory. I can't remember off the top of my head, but I never record on the phone anyway. But if this is the new directive, I don't really know whether it's going to achieve much because. All right, so someone's not going to use it for the real job, so you're not going to get it stolen. They can still use it for AI. Because if you're training a robot, then doesn't matter what it sounds like. Really? : Good enough to train an AI bot. Speaker A: Yeah. : And then again, the other thing is, of course, send in an audition that sounds like shit. You don't want the person at the other end to go, oh, God, their studio is awful, I won't be using them. Speaker A: Well, this is the thing. Are they going to be told that you're auditioning on your phone or are they just going to get your audition expecting that you're going to be in your booth, in your home? : Well, I don't know. And the other thing is, of course it's a directive here. But I mean, what if I'm auditioning for another country? : Why don't they just take all the auditions and run it through a plugin that makes it sound like crap? : Boy, you could do that as well. : Yeah. Just give it a 4K low pass, be done with it. Speaker A: Yeah. : So just real sounds like a telephone. Speaker A: Yeah. : How about this. Okay, I got it ready. When they post it, they just put a little watermarker in there that goes voice jungle. : Do you remember? This is probably a long, long time ago. But there was a point at one stage they were worried about records being bootlegged and they used to put something. There was some kind of weird frequency. When you tried to record, dub something across, it would have had this weird frequency through it. Speaker A: Oh, really? : Yeah. I think on tapes they tried to do something that would mess with the bias of a tape. : The bias. : You couldn't make a dub of it. And then later in CDs, you found that with the. Remind me of the code spitiff had the Src. There was a setting when you'd master a CD, it would only allow one digital generation to be made and the second digital generation could not be copied. Src or something. What was that called? : Yeah, I don't remember, but yeah, I. Speaker A: Know what you're talking about. : It's a sample bit, like, people would call it sample bit, I think. Speaker A: Yeah. : When you master a CD, you can actually enable a bit that will prevent that disk from being copied. Yeah, I remember that in my recording in like, wavelab or whatever I was using to master or burn the master, you could say, do not make this disk copyable. : And then if you had a professional dat machine, it wouldn't give a crap and it would copy it anyways. Speaker A: Yeah. : Was that connected via AES or via SPDif? : SPDIF or AES, I believe. Well, definitely. No, no. Spdif because Sp Diff carried more metadata than AES, I believe. I don't know that if it was carried over AES, because SPDIF was the. : Consumer protocol and AES was the pro correct protocol. : And then there was another change to it, because then after that, when recordable CDs came out, the music industry wanted its royalties for all the music that was going to get bootlegged. So they made special, more expensive recordable CDs. So that then when you bought a consumer CD recorder, you had to buy these more expensive CDs, like Phillips came out with the 870, and it was a cheap CD recorder, but you could only use these expensive discs. But then everyone figured out that all you had to do was you bought one expensive disc and you put it in the machine and you primed it for record. And then you waited and you just grabbed your fingernails underneath the CD tray and you pulled it out and you switched the disc with a cheap disc and you pushed it in without triggering the closed motor so it didn't notice. Start its cycle up again. Speaker A: Wow. : That's a hack. : And then you could just record on cheap discs and you didn't have to have an expensive recorder, because if not, you were buying like, an HHB or like, a $1,000 CD recorder instead of a $300. Speaker A: Wow. Well, there you go. Wow. Wish I had known that hack all those years ago, but there you go. : And then the other thing that you don't remember on the CD was the pre emphasis bit. That would raise the high end. Right? That's what preemphasis did. It raised the high end a little bit extra. Speaker A: Yeah. : I don't remember why, but I do. : Remember that it had that to compensate for shitty playback systems. : I don't know, because there's the RIA EQ curve on phonographs. : It was almost like. It's like that was pre emphasis. De emphasis. Yeah, scums. That's what they called it. Scms. Serial copy management system. Yeah, they would call it scum because they hated it. That was annoying. : Well, I mean, based on that scum, why don't we have a scum in our daw? So we just hit that when we record. So it sounds great, but no one. Speaker A: Sends it out on CD. Send it. : People are talking about things like this, like trying to find a way to be able to track the media from even where it all goes. So, for instance, if you have a sound effects library, the sound effects can be seen inside of the mix that they are, and then somehow the person gets royalties. I don't know. It's a pretty hard problem to solve. Seems like there's a thousand ways to get around it and only one way to make sure it works. Right? Speaker A: This phone thing, going back to that just for a second, because it's just occurred to me, does it sort of smack of desperation to you that this sort of clutching its straws of sort of like, well, this is the best we can do? Does it feel to you like it does to me that maybe they're just getting desperate with this whole thing? : To me, it smacks of. I didn't know there was that big of a problem with pilfering auditions, that this is necessary. : Yeah, I'm shocked. I mean, I would never have thought of this as a solution, but I would have thought of another way to do it. But this is a super. It's a thing that anybody can do because everybody has a smartphone at this point, and it doesn't fix the fidelity problem necessarily, because you can still record really great sounding files, even more so. : You can now up res stuff. I'm sure this is going to hit for audio, but someone brought me a SD. It was DVD, but it might as well have been a VHs. It just looked like shit compared to all the video that we're used to, right. And took it to AI and it made it look like proper HD. It just interpolated everything, all the missing bits. It just like. I know it would have been here. Here's the nose hair. Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. I suppose you sort of got to be. These sort of unions and stuff have to be seen to be doing something, but I don't know that they're really doing anything. : I can't see it making any difference. I mean, you've just got to be really careful about who you audition for. They've just got to be trustworthy and they've got to be a signatory of a union so they don't break the law, otherwise they lose their membership to the union. I mean, I can't think of any other way of doing it. There's got to be some kind of way of punishing. But if someone wants to do it, they'll do it anyway. Yeah. : Is it that there's too many desperate voice actors, just desperate to find any kind of work and they just don't care. They just want to get any opportunity to work. So they set themselves up to be. : Ripped off and then next thing you know, they take a gig where they're just, like, reading the dictionary and all of a sudden their voice is cloned, or it's part of a clone that you don't know it's in, and they've just been part of a. Because this is like a big data war is really what it boils down to. And how do you protect your data when your data is just, like, coming off of you like light? Speaker A: Well, I mean, when you think about how many auditions people do every day, how much sort of unused voiceover is actually floating around out there, there must be craploads of it. : So much. Well, did I tell you what we want to do with the echo servers? We don't really want to do this, by the way, so don't worry. But we just thought it'd be funny if we ever just took a recording of all the junk that gets set into echo. Speaker A: Imagine what people check. Yeah. This fucking piece of shit. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. : God damn it. Speaker A: Why does my mic sound like shit? What's going on? Yeah, all that rubbish. Yeah, that'd be hilarious. You could do a rap song out of it or something. Just sound. : There's like a lot of material there. Speaker A: Absolutely, yeah. The source elements. Twelve inch or something. : Echo roulette. Speaker A: Yeah, there you go. Echo roulette. : Echo blue. Speaker A: You could have fun with that. You could actually tell people. You could sort of have a competition. The person who leaves us the best line for our remix wins a twelve month subscription to Nexus or something. There you go. : That would be a really fun one. I mean, right now it's like we don't run the queue manager because it would just fill up in an hour and then the computer would explode. : Yeah. Speaker A: Interesting. There you go. It's funny, isn't it? I mean, AP and I were talking about subjects we were going to talk about today and I was flicking back through our catalog of shows just looking for ideas and it goes back as far as like 2020. We were talking about AI back then. It's been an overriding sort of shadow over the industry for so long, hasn't it? : But in the last two years it has gotten. Speaker A: It's gotten worse. But you can go back to 2020 and we were talking about it then. It's just been this big black cloud hanging over the industry for so long, hasn't it? It's just weird. : Don't worry, there won't be any industry anymore. So it's all, well, God. Speaker A: Oh, that's reassuring. It's crazy, isn't it? Thanks to George's influence, I've been delving into AI a little bit and, man, some of the stuff just images even conjure me up this image and bang, there it is. It's just crazy. : Thing is, I recognize all those images that you post as being AI generated. Speaker A: I'm sure you do. : It has a very distinct style. It's a signature to it, if you know, you know, I guess is what I'm saying. Most people could care less, but yeah. : It'S a slippery slope that we're sliding on down into the depths of God knows where. No work. Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. : Of the slurp. Speaker A: Yeah. Well, who knows? : Yeah. Splash. Speaker A: Well, that was fun. Speaker C: Is it over? Speaker B: The pro audio suite with thanks to tribooth and austrian audio recorded using source connect, edited by and repeaters and mixed by Voodoo Radio imaging with tech support from George the tech Wittam. Don't forget to subscribe to the show and join in the conversation on our Facebook group. To leave a comment, suggest a topic, or just say g'day. Drop us a note at our website, theproaudiosuite.com. #ProAudioSuite #VoiceOverTips #AudioEngineering #SmartphoneAuditions #AITechnology

Recorded live on the scene! (so please forgive any less-than-ideal audio quality) Convening at the 2024 SCMS conference in Boston and gathering “after dark” on the conference eve (i.e. after the opening reception and its free bar, which might have made us all a little giddy), Chris and Michael chat with longtime Conference Manager Leslie LeMond and new president Vicky Johnson about what goes into choosing a conference city and what the future may hold, as well as some of the unique challenges the organizing team faced this year (yes, they talked about the awards situation). We then welcome Aniko (Madison friends, update your pronunciation) Bodroghkozy, who tells us about the new Television and Radio History Scholarly Interest Group. And we end with a few suggestions from Michael for sites to see, things to eat, and horrific animal scenes you may encounter while in Boston.

In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw welcomes Elaine Willis to the podcast to discuss Unilock's focus on sustainability.  Unilock is North America's premier manufacturer of concrete interlocking paving stones and segmental wall products. For 50 years, Unilock has been helping people create beautiful outdoor spaces. Elaine embarked on her career at Unilock over 25 years ago, leveraging her blend of sales and design expertise. In 2023, she embraced a new opportunity as the inaugural Director of Sustainability, steering Unilock towards carbon neutrality while fostering a legacy of beautiful landscapes that enhance our lives and health and champion environmental stewardship. Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode: Simple definition of sustainability: meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Areas Elaine is looking at: Water use in the manufacturing process Solar panels installed at Unilock's plant in Ohio as a pilot project Move toward electric vehicles and forklifts Investigate chemical technologies SCMS – alternative binding materials Percentage of cement in the concrete mix Permeable pavers, joint spacers and the benefits of an open graded base to allow water to filter down Architects and designers can have a significant impact throughout the construction phase of a residential or business hardscape project by addressing the issues of embodied carbon before construction begins. What is the role of designers and architects in this process? Unilock was the first concrete paver manufacturer in North America to offer a Transferable Lifetime Guarantee Now breaking new ground with their Sustainability Statement They are committed to becoming a carbon-neutral company and have implemented initiatives that minimize their use of fossil fuels, recycle and harvest water and replace cement in our products. By working toward this goal, they are making their products and company more sustainable. Find more information about Unilock: Website: www.unilock.com Instagram: @unilock Facebook: @unilock Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne via her website: down2earth.ca Down the Garden Path Podcast On Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.  In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing distill their horticultural and design expertise and combined experiences in helping others create and maintain thriving gardens into one easy-to-read monthly reference guide. Get your copy today on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube.

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, an associate professor of Spanish at Florida Atlantic University. In this episode of In Conversation, Alejandra and Dean Horswell discuss her book,  Between Bronze and Oblivion: Heroism and African descent in Colombia, Brazil and Cuba.  They explore the unsung heroes of Black History Month (February 1st- March 1st). María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles has a doctorate in Latin American Literature and Gender Studies from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her research, with an interdisciplinary approach, explores discourses of racial and gender differentiation, as well as politics of contestation in Latin American cultural production. She has published academic articles on poetry, narrative, and theater from Brazil, Colombia, and the Hispanic Caribbean in Latin American Research Review, Latin American Literary Review, and Afro-Hispanic Review. She participated in the edition by María Mercedes Jaramillo and Betty Osorio titled Cantos y Poems: Critical Anthology of Afro-descendant Authors from Latin America, published by the National Library of Colombia in 2020. Her article “Heroism and racial consciousness in the work of the poet Afro-Cuban Cristina Ayala” has been awarded the Harold Eugene Davis Prize awarded by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) and the Ibero-American Prize for 19th Century Academic Articles (LASA).

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, an associate professor of Spanish at Florida Atlantic University. In this episode of In Conversation, Alejandra and Dean Horswell discuss her book,  Between Bronze and Oblivion: Heroism and African descent in Colombia, Brazil and Cuba.  They explore the unsung heroes of Black History Month (February 1st- March 1st). María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles has a doctorate in Latin American Literature and Gender Studies from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her research, with an interdisciplinary approach, explores discourses of racial and gender differentiation, as well as politics of contestation in Latin American cultural production. She has published academic articles on poetry, narrative, and theater from Brazil, Colombia, and the Hispanic Caribbean in Latin American Research Review, Latin American Literary Review, and Afro-Hispanic Review. She participated in the edition by María Mercedes Jaramillo and Betty Osorio titled Cantos y Poems: Critical Anthology of Afro-descendant Authors from Latin America, published by the National Library of Colombia in 2020. Her article “Heroism and racial consciousness in the work of the poet Afro-Cuban Cristina Ayala” has been awarded the Harold Eugene Davis Prize awarded by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) and the Ibero-American Prize for 19th Century Academic Articles (LASA).

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Bogdan Ștefănescu, a professor of English, a literary translator, a journalist, and a cultural diplomat.  He has taught at the University of Bucharest since the fall of communism in Romania, in 1990. Ștefănescu is a professor of English, which for him has always meant a language of freedom, as opposed to the wooden lingo of political dogma and of captive minds. For him, the key to understanding human culture and history is discourse. He loves the idea that humans are discursive animals and he feels that our lives span two interrelated universes: one is a space-time-motion continuum, the other is a speech-thought-action continuum.   He teaches literature and cultural studies from a comparative perspective. For him, true knowledge is always comparative, which means not so much comparing different things from a single perspective, as comparing different perspectives on the same thing. His recent research is concerned with the rhetoric of national identification, and with the similar way in which cultures strive to reconstruct their self-images that were traumatized by the competing Western and Soviet colonial systems. 

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Dr. Bogdan Ștefănescu, a professor of English, a literary translator, a journalist, and a cultural diplomat.  He has taught at the University of Bucharest since the fall of communism in Romania, in 1990. Ștefănescu is a professor of English, which for him has always meant a language of freedom, as opposed to the wooden lingo of political dogma and of captive minds. For him, the key to understanding human culture and history is discourse. He loves the idea that humans are discursive animals and he feels that our lives span two interrelated universes: one is a space-time-motion continuum, the other is a speech-thought-action continuum.   He teaches literature and cultural studies from a comparative perspective. For him, true knowledge is always comparative, which means not so much comparing different things from a single perspective, as comparing different perspectives on the same thing. His recent research is concerned with the rhetoric of national identification, and with the similar way in which cultures strive to reconstruct their self-images that were traumatized by the competing Western and Soviet colonial systems. 

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Marina Banchetti, Ph.D.,a professor of philosophy in FAU's Department of Philosophy.  They discuss Dr. Banchetti's expertise in the philosophy of science and how humans'  perception of nature and the universe has evolved over time.We invite you to join us as we take an in-depth look at the science and history of philosophy.Professor Banchetti's research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science with a recent focus on the history and philosophy of chemistry.  She has recently published two books on these topics: The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence (Oxford University Press, 2020) and From the Atom to Living Systems: A Chemical and Philosophical Journey into Modern and Contemporary Science (Oxford University Press, 2023), co-written with the Italian chemist Giovanni Villani.

Dr. Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Marina Banchetti, Ph.D.,a professor of philosophy in FAU's Department of Philosophy.  They discuss Dr. Banchetti's expertise in the philosophy of science and how humans'  perception of nature and the universe has evolved over time.We invite you to join us as we take an in-depth look at the science and history of philosophy. Professor Banchetti's research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science with a recent focus on the history and philosophy of chemistry.  She has recently published two books on these topics: The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence (Oxford University Press, 2020) and From the Atom to Living Systems: A Chemical and Philosophical Journey into Modern and Contemporary Science (Oxford University Press, 2023), co-written with the Italian chemist Giovanni Villani. 

Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Ivy Ashe, Ph.D., an assistant professor of multimedia journalism at FAU's School of Communication and Multimedia Studies. They discuss the mystique of an often overlooked yet fascinating discipline of journalism: travel journalism.  We invite you to join us as we journey to exotic destinations and experience nature's stories told through the lens of an innovative, pioneer journalist.Ivy Ashe teaches photojournalism, multimedia journalism, and sports communication. Her areas of research focus on travel media and visual communication. Before entering academia, Ashe worked for local newspapers in Massachusetts and Hawai‘i. As a former community news reporter and photographer, she is deeply invested in research investigating journalism's role in structuring the public's sense of place, particularly places best known as tourist or seasonal destinations. 

Hello everyone welcome to the Dr Nirvana Podcast™, I'm Dr. Nirvana!  There's a certain type of light that I wanted to discuss today that's vital to our body's healing powers.  Known for its remarkably powerful form of energy, red light provides incredible benefits to your body. On today's episode I discuss which parts of your health it impacts, how and my favorite red light device on the market today.Sources: (1)  1Jiang, M. et. al. (2017). A prospective study of the safety and efficacy of a combined bipolar radiofrequency, intense pulsed light, and infrared diode laser treatment for global facial photoaging. Lasers in Medicine and Science, 32(5):1051-1061(2)  Kim, Hee-Kyong. (2017). Effects of radiofrequency, electroacupuncture, and low-level laser therapy on the wrinkles and moisture content of the forehead, eyes, and cheek. Journal I Physical Therapy and Science, 29(2): 290–294.(3)  Pinar, Avci. Low-level laser (light) therapy (red and near-infrared light) in skin: stimulating, healing, restoring. SCMS, 32(1): 41-52.(4)  84Barolet, D. (2009). Ba Regulation of Skin Collagen Metabolism In Vitro using a Pulsed 660 nm LED Light Source: Clinical Correlation with a Single-Blinded Study, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 129(12): 2751-2759.(5)  Wunsch, A. (2014). A Controlled Trial to Determine the Efficacy of Red and near-infrared light Treatment in Patient Satisfaction, Reduction of Fine Lines, Wrinkles, Skin Roughness, and Intradermal Collagen Density Increase. Photomedicine in Lasers and Surgery, 32(2): 93–100.(6)   Fabiana do Socorro da Silva Dias Andrade et al. (2014) Effects of low-level laser therapy on wound healing(7)  Jiang, M. et. al. (2017). A prospective study of the safety and efficacy of a combined bipolar radiofrequency, intense pulsed light, and infrared diode laser treatment for global facial photoaging. Lasers in Medicine and Science, 32(5):1051- 1061.(8) Thyroid Health https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20662037/(9) Hair Growth https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(06)03382-2/fulltext, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24474647/(10) Liver Regeneration https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/pho.2009.2756(11) Depression/Anxiety https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19995444/For questions on this episode or other inquiries please feel free to contact me at Instagram or Facebook page.For appointments, please click here.

Host Sean Lennon welcomed Promoter/ Pro Wrestler for Squared Circle Megastars Eddie Ramirez to the PWE Report Podcast to discuss their upcoming event "The Mega Games" happening this Saturday in The Berwyn Eagles Club.Featuring the MEGA Rumble Saturday Night the first 40 Man Rumble in the midwest independent scene and more!Eddie talked about why Squared Circle Megstars came to be one of the top promotions in the midwest curently, The uniqueness of the "Mega Rumble" and having 40 participants for the first time ever in the midwest with the winner recieving a SCMS Championship opportunity, SCMS Mega Champion "The Golden Lion" Lennox Leone along wth his manager "Big Buisness" Levi Mcguire, the SCMS Champon Kobra who faces Prince Amed, having Drew Hernandez making his debut against BOW Saturday, Tag Team #1 Contender's match between 1000 Horsepower and Bear Kingdom, Blake Blanks vs Shaq Jordan plus more! Bringing in talent from all over the country, Eddie discusses why SCMS is the destination to be!Squared Circle Megastars presents: Mega Games!!!! SCM Brings you its summer spectacular with over 40 Wrestlers on a Stacked Card like no other, Tickets are selling fast, All Tickets $15 at Eventbrite.com or At the door on the night of the event!!! Its going to be on fire at the Legendary Berwyn Eagles Club!!!Check out SCMS "The Mega Games" 7pm CST at Berwyn Eagles Club in Berwyn, ILGet your tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/.../scm-presents-mega-gamesFor the Official PWE Shirt shop at -https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/pro-wrestling-enforcer-logo.htmlFor Exclusive Pro Wrestling Articles and Updated Results for WWE, NXT, AEW, and Impact WrestlingLike the Facebook Page-https://m.facebook.com/PWEPodcast/And Support your favorite Independent Wrestlers by buying Shirts and More at https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/

Host Sean Lennon talked to the New Squared Circle Megastars Mega Champion "The Golden Lion" Lennox Leone managed by "Big Buisness" Levi Maguire as he will be in action in the MEGA Rumble at SCMS presents The MegaGames on Saturday August 19th at Eagles Club in Berwyn, IL! He defeated Alex Romero at SCMS Redemption to win the Mega Championship back in May. Lennox wrestles for MAW Northland Pro, River City Championship Wrestling and more! Lennox discussed how important it was defeating Romero to become the SCMS Mega Champion, a conterversial finish on Alex Romero, Northland Pro Wrestling where we saw him King Trell Team up as The Conglomerate Of Establishment Finesse to defeat the Alpha Zeta Zeta at Road to Redemption, joioning Aron Arsonal as The Gentlemen's Club in MAW and their victory Garrison Creed and Leonard Literacy last month, preparing for the 40 Man Rumble at the Mega Games and why does Lennox and Levi feel SCMS Mega Games will be a night to remember for Chicago Wrestling fans, and more!Facebook.com/SquaredCircleMegastarsFor the Official PWE Shirt shop at -https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/pro-wrestling-enforcer-logo.htmlFor Exclusive Pro Wrestling Articles and Updated Results for WWE, NXT, AEW, and Impact WrestlingLike the Facebook Page-https://m.facebook.com/PWEPodcast/And Support your favorite Independent Wrestlers by buying Shirts and More at https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/

Return with us to our live taping at the SCMS conference in Denver in April 2023 as we talk with outgoing SCMS president Priscilla Peña Ovalle about the past and future of the SCMS conference. What are the hopes and challenges of conferencing for the Society in the post-pandemic world?

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Causality: A Brief Introduction, published by Tom Everitt on June 20, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. Post 2 of Towards Causal Foundations of Safe AGI, see also Post 1 Introduction. By Lewis Hammond, Tom Everitt, Francis Rhys Ward, Ryan Carey, Sebastian Benthall, and James Fox, representing the Causal Incentives Working Group. Thanks also to Alexis Bellot, Toby Shevlane, and Aliya Ahmad. Causal models are the foundations of our work. In this post, we provide a succinct but accessible explanation of causal models that can handle interventions, counterfactuals, and agents, which will be the building blocks of future posts in the sequence. Basic familiarity with (conditional) probabilities will be assumed. What is causality? What does it mean for the rain to cause the grass to become green? Causality is a philosophically intriguing topic that underlies many other concepts of human importance. In particular, many concepts relevant to safe AGI, like influence, response, agency, intent, fairness, harm, and manipulation, cannot be grasped without a causal model of the world, as we mentioned in the intro post and will discuss further in subsequent posts. We follow Pearl and adopt an interventionist definition of causality: the sprinkler today causally influences the greenness of the grass tomorrow, because if someone intervened and turned on the sprinkler, then the greenness of the grass would be different. In contrast, making the grass green tomorrow has no effect on the sprinkler today (assuming no one predicts the intervention). So the sprinkler today causally influences the grass tomorrow, but not vice versa, as we would intuitively expect. Interventions Causal Bayesian Networks (CBNs) represent causal dependencies between aspects of reality using a directed acyclic graph. An arrow from a variable A to a variable B means that A influences B under some fixed setting of the other variables. For example, we draw an arrow from sprinkler (S) to grass greenness (G): For each node in the graph, a causal mechanism of how the node is influenced by its parents is specified with a conditional probability distribution. For the sprinkler, a distribution p(S) specifies how commonly it is turned on, e.g. P(S=on)=30%. For the grass, a conditional distribution p(G∣S) specifies how likely it is that the grass becomes green when the sprinkler is on, e.g. p(G=green∣S=on)=100%, and how likely it is that the grass becomes green when the sprinkler is off, e.g. p(G=green∣S=off)=30%. By multiplying the distributions together, we get a joint probability distribution p(S,G)=p(S)p(G∣S) that describes the likelihood of any combination of outcomes. An intervention on a system changes one or more causal mechanisms. For example, an intervention that turns the sprinkler on corresponds to replacing the causal mechanism p(S)for the sprinkler, with a new mechanism 1(S=on) that always has the sprinkler on. The effects of the intervention can be computed from the updated joint distribution p(S,G∣do(S=on))=1(S=on)intervenedmechanismp(G∣S) where do(S=on) denotes the intervention. Ultimately, all statistical correlations are due to casual influences. Hence, for a set of variables there is always some CBN that represents the underlying causal structure of the data generating process, though extra variables may be needed to explain e.g. unmeasured confounders. Counterfactuals Suppose that the sprinkler is on and the grass is green. Would the grass have been green had the sprinkler not been on? Questions about counterfactuals like these are harder than questions about interventions, because they involve reasoning across multiple worlds. To handle such reasoning, structural causal models (SCMs) refine CBNs in three important ways. First, background context that is shared across hypothetical worlds is ex...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Causality: A Brief Introduction, published by tom4everitt on June 20, 2023 on LessWrong. Post 2 of Towards Causal Foundations of Safe AGI, see also Post 1 Introduction. By Lewis Hammond, Tom Everitt, Jon Richens, Francis Rhys Ward, Ryan Carey, Sebastian Benthall, and James Fox, representing the Causal Incentives Working Group. Thanks also to Alexis Bellot, Toby Shevlane, and Aliya Ahmad. Causal models are the foundations of our work. In this post, we provide a succinct but accessible explanation of causal models that can handle interventions, counterfactuals, and agents, which will be the building blocks of future posts in the sequence. Basic familiarity with (conditional) probabilities will be assumed. What is causality? What does it mean for the rain to cause the grass to become green? Causality is a philosophically intriguing topic that underlies many other concepts of human importance. In particular, many concepts relevant to safe AGI, like influence, response, agency, intent, fairness, harm, and manipulation, cannot be grasped without a causal model of the world, as we mentioned in the intro post and will discuss further in subsequent posts. We follow Pearl and adopt an interventionist definition of causality: the sprinkler today causally influences the greenness of the grass tomorrow, because if someone intervened and turned on the sprinkler, then the greenness of the grass would be different. In contrast, making the grass green tomorrow has no effect on the sprinkler today (assuming no one predicts the intervention). So the sprinkler today causally influences the grass tomorrow, but not vice versa, as we would intuitively expect. Interventions Causal Bayesian Networks (CBNs) represent causal dependencies between aspects of reality using a directed acyclic graph. An arrow from a variable A to a variable B means that A influences B under some fixed setting of the other variables. For example, we draw an arrow from sprinkler (S) to grass greenness (G): For each node in the graph, a causal mechanism of how the node is influenced by its parents is specified with a conditional probability distribution. For the sprinkler, a distribution p(S) specifies how commonly it is turned on, e.g. P(S=on)=30%. For the grass, a conditional distribution p(G∣S) specifies how likely it is that the grass becomes green when the sprinkler is on, e.g. p(G=green∣S=on)=100%, and how likely it is that the grass becomes green when the sprinkler is off, e.g. p(G=green∣S=off)=30%. By multiplying the distributions together, we get a joint probability distribution p(S,G)=p(S)p(G∣S) that describes the likelihood of any combination of outcomes. An intervention on a system changes one or more causal mechanisms. For example, an intervention that turns the sprinkler on corresponds to replacing the causal mechanism p(S)for the sprinkler, with a new mechanism 1(S=on) that always has the sprinkler on. The effects of the intervention can be computed from the updated joint distribution p(S,G∣do(S=on))=1(S=on)intervenedmechanismp(G∣S) where do(S=on) denotes the intervention. Ultimately, all statistical correlations are due to casual influences. Hence, for a set of variables there is always some CBN that represents the underlying causal structure of the data generating process, though extra variables may be needed to explain e.g. unmeasured confounders. Counterfactuals Suppose that the sprinkler is on and the grass is green. Would the grass have been green had the sprinkler not been on? Questions about counterfactuals like these are harder than questions about interventions, because they involve reasoning across multiple worlds. To handle such reasoning, structural causal models (SCMs) refine CBNs in three important ways. First, background context that is shared across hypothetical worlds is ex...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Causality: A Brief Introduction, published by tom4everitt on June 20, 2023 on LessWrong. Post 2 of Towards Causal Foundations of Safe AGI, see also Post 1 Introduction. By Lewis Hammond, Tom Everitt, Jon Richens, Francis Rhys Ward, Ryan Carey, Sebastian Benthall, and James Fox, representing the Causal Incentives Working Group. Thanks also to Alexis Bellot, Toby Shevlane, and Aliya Ahmad. Causal models are the foundations of our work. In this post, we provide a succinct but accessible explanation of causal models that can handle interventions, counterfactuals, and agents, which will be the building blocks of future posts in the sequence. Basic familiarity with (conditional) probabilities will be assumed. What is causality? What does it mean for the rain to cause the grass to become green? Causality is a philosophically intriguing topic that underlies many other concepts of human importance. In particular, many concepts relevant to safe AGI, like influence, response, agency, intent, fairness, harm, and manipulation, cannot be grasped without a causal model of the world, as we mentioned in the intro post and will discuss further in subsequent posts. We follow Pearl and adopt an interventionist definition of causality: the sprinkler today causally influences the greenness of the grass tomorrow, because if someone intervened and turned on the sprinkler, then the greenness of the grass would be different. In contrast, making the grass green tomorrow has no effect on the sprinkler today (assuming no one predicts the intervention). So the sprinkler today causally influences the grass tomorrow, but not vice versa, as we would intuitively expect. Interventions Causal Bayesian Networks (CBNs) represent causal dependencies between aspects of reality using a directed acyclic graph. An arrow from a variable A to a variable B means that A influences B under some fixed setting of the other variables. For example, we draw an arrow from sprinkler (S) to grass greenness (G): For each node in the graph, a causal mechanism of how the node is influenced by its parents is specified with a conditional probability distribution. For the sprinkler, a distribution p(S) specifies how commonly it is turned on, e.g. P(S=on)=30%. For the grass, a conditional distribution p(G∣S) specifies how likely it is that the grass becomes green when the sprinkler is on, e.g. p(G=green∣S=on)=100%, and how likely it is that the grass becomes green when the sprinkler is off, e.g. p(G=green∣S=off)=30%. By multiplying the distributions together, we get a joint probability distribution p(S,G)=p(S)p(G∣S) that describes the likelihood of any combination of outcomes. An intervention on a system changes one or more causal mechanisms. For example, an intervention that turns the sprinkler on corresponds to replacing the causal mechanism p(S)for the sprinkler, with a new mechanism 1(S=on) that always has the sprinkler on. The effects of the intervention can be computed from the updated joint distribution p(S,G∣do(S=on))=1(S=on)intervenedmechanismp(G∣S) where do(S=on) denotes the intervention. Ultimately, all statistical correlations are due to casual influences. Hence, for a set of variables there is always some CBN that represents the underlying causal structure of the data generating process, though extra variables may be needed to explain e.g. unmeasured confounders. Counterfactuals Suppose that the sprinkler is on and the grass is green. Would the grass have been green had the sprinkler not been on? Questions about counterfactuals like these are harder than questions about interventions, because they involve reasoning across multiple worlds. To handle such reasoning, structural causal models (SCMs) refine CBNs in three important ways. First, background context that is shared across hypothetical worlds is ex...

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Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Marquese McFerguson, Ph.D. as they discuss navigating race, culture, and gender with poetry and spoken word.Marquese McFerguson is an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication, in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.His work explores the interconnected dynamics of race, culture, gender, and media. His essay, "When Hip Hop Speaks, We Listen" won the John T. Warren Top Paper Award in 2018. Last year he won the Art Bochner Outstanding Doctoral Research Scholar Award from the University of South Florida. He is a master of Slam Poetry and Spoken Word.

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