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Vision in Action, Live! - Work & Employee Development Jim Boswell discusses Work & Employee Development with guests Ms. Francine Jane, Terawatt Group Coaching & Dr. Stephen Long, Long Training+Research What's Your Vision? So, do you have a vision for your life that satisfies your concept of a life well lived? How are you progressing with it? Can you articulate your goals and progress towards fulfillment? Would you like to be able to? Or are you just frustrated, confused, and unfocused? What's In It For You? Whether you label it happiness, fulfillment, satisfaction, or actualization, you can act genuine to your nature and calling, you can author and direct your personal achievements, and you can build strengths, tenacity, and focus. You will be in control of realizing your fondest dreams. Join Jim Boswell for Vision in Action, Live! Watch the video on YouTube
Vision in Action, Live! - Work & Employee Development Jim Boswell discusses Work & Employee Development with guests Ms. Francine Jane, Terawatt Group Coaching & Dr. Stephen Long, Long Training+Research What's Your Vision? So, do you have a vision for your life that satisfies your concept of a life well lived? How are you progressing with it? Can you articulate your goals and progress towards fulfillment? Would you like to be able to? Or are you just frustrated, confused, and unfocused? What's In It For You? Whether you label it happiness, fulfillment, satisfaction, or actualization, you can act genuine to your nature and calling, you can author and direct your personal achievements, and you can build strengths, tenacity, and focus. You will be in control of realizing your fondest dreams. Join Jim Boswell for Vision in Action, Live! Watch the video on YouTube
Matthew Pantelis speaks with Stephen Long, Senior Fellow, Australia Institute about a proposed 2% gambling levy. Listen live on the FIVEAA Player. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thanks to a $125,000 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, the East Hampton Historical Society has launched a new “augmented reality” app at Mulford Farm that gives users an interactive way to learn about the history of the American Revolution. The app, 1776AR, features a 3D avatar of Hugh King, the East Hampton Town and Village historian, sharing the history of the Mulford family before, during and after the American Revolution. Stephen Long, the executive director of the Historical Society, and King joined the editors to talk about the new app and its mission.
Two experts join the Mongabay Newscast to discuss the decline in koala populations in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), even as city councils and the government green light development projects on koala habitats that aren't being replaced by biodiversity offset schemes, ecologist Yung En Chee of the University of Melbourne, explains. Meanwhile, the promised Great Koala National Park has been delayed by NSW Premier Chris Minns, even as his state allows logging of koala habitat within the park borders while he tries to set up a carbon credit scheme to monetize the protected area, says journalist Stephen Long with Australia Institute. “I'm not sure how long this failure has to persist before we decide that we really ought to change course,” says Chee of the biodiversity credit schemes, which seem to be based on outdated data, and don't come close to satisfying their ‘no net loss' of biodiversity goals. See related coverage: How a conservation NGO uses drones and artificial intelligence to detect koalas that survive bushfires, here. If you want to read more on biodiversity offsetting and 'no net loss,' please read this resource from the IUCN. If you enjoy the Mongabay Newscast, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing. Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet, and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage, mongabay.com, or follow Mongabay on any of the social media platforms for updates. Please send your ideas and feedback to submissions@mongabay.com. Image: Gumbaynggirr Country is home to the dunggiirr, the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), one of the totem animals for the Gumbaynggirr people. Koalas numbers are estimated to be in the tens of thousands in the state of New South Wales. Image by Steve Franklin via Unsplash (Public domain). -- Timecodes (00:00) Introduction (01:34) The Koala Crisis in New South Wales (04:33) Where is the Great Koala National Park? (06:39) Logging Activities and Government Delays (09:53) The Problem with Carbon Credits (16:46) Interview with Yung En Chee (18:38) Biodiversity Offsets: Concept and Criticism (20:15) Failures in Biodiversity Offset Implementation (31:23) Double Dipping and Offset Market Issues (35:22) Conclusion
Capitalism is dying, but not in the way you might think. That's the argument of academic economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who proposes capitalism has mutated into a far more sinister, feudal system on the back of sophisticated algorithms and big tech. On this episode of Follow the Money, recorded live at the State Library of NSW, Varoufakis speaks with the Australia Institute's Ebony Bennett and Stephen Long about his proposition and his new book, Technofeudalism. This episode was recorded on Tuesday 12 March. australiainstitute.org.au // @theausinstitute Guest: Yanis Varoufakis, Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 and former Greek Finance Minister // @yanisvaroufakis Host: Stephen Long, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, the Australia Institute // @StephenLongAus Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey Additional editing: Emily Perkins Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot SessionsSupport Follow the Money: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Albanese government came to power with big expectations around climate action, but are the government's actions falling short of their rhetoric? On this episode of Follow the Money, former President of Kiribati Anote Tong joins Walkley Award winning journalist Stephen Long to discuss the Australian government's “disappointing” record on climate, the role of China in the region and the prospects of a Pacific UN climate conference hosted in Australia. There are still tickets available to see Anote Tong in conversation in Melbourne on Wednesday 13 March and in Sydney on Friday 15 March. australiainstitute.org.au // @theausinstitute Guest: Anote Tong, former President of the Republic of Kiribati Host: Stephen Long, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, the Australia Institute // @StephenLongAus Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey Edited by: Emily Perkins Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot SessionsSupport Follow the Money: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Clive Palmer, one of Australia's richest men, is suing Australia for at least $41.3bn, claiming it breached the ASEAN free trade agreement in relation to coal exploration permits. But he's doing so...as a foreign investor? Stephen Long explains how Clive Palmer's controversial legal strategies challenge Australia's trade agreements and environmental laws. Stephen Long is a Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor at the Australia Institute, and Walkley Award winning journalist, previously at ABC's Four Corners. This was recorded on Tuesday 28th November 2023 and things may have changed since recording. australiainstitute.org.au // @theausinstitute Guest: Stephen Long, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, the Australia Institute // @StephenLongAus Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey Edited by: Emily Perkins Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot SessionsSupport Follow the Money: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today, we welcome Stephen Long, the brain behind Sacred Tension Substack and its podcast. We're in for a deep, meaningful discussion about internalized homophobia and how it affects the LGBTQ+ community. But, we're not stopping there, we're delving into the nitty-gritty; the politics of relationships, religion's role in society, and the evolution of identity language. We grapple with the terms "gay" and "queer", and the generational gap in their interpretations. We discuss the daily struggle of reconciling deep religious beliefs with homosexuality, and how queer people of faith endure a constant battle of making peace with conflicting aspects of identity. We'll also be touching on the complexities of activism and the loss of personal growth caused by internalized homophobia.To wrap things up, we'll refocus on religion's role in society. We'll bring in perspectives from the Satanic Temple, a non-theistic religious organization emphasizing compassion, empathy, and human rights. We'll dissect the elements of religion, its challenges, and how it can add structure and meaning to lives. This is an episode packed with boundary-pushing conversations, norms challenge, and enough self-reflection to spark meaningful change. Make sure you like and subscribe to Deep Dive with Shawn C. Fettig on your preferred podcast platform; you won't want to miss this one!Mentioned:On Liberty – John Stuart MillThe Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State - Graeme WoodThe Identity Trap – Yascha Mounk-------------------------Follow Deep Dive:InstagramPost.newsYouTube Email: deepdivewithshawn@gmail.com **Artwork: Dovi Design **Music: Joystock
In this episode of The Sales Compensation Show, Stephen Long, Head of Global Sales Compensation at Blue Yonder, joins host Nabeil Alazzam to explore the role of sales comp in driving business growth and the importance of end-to-end involvement of the sales comp team, from the design to the implementation of the go-to-market strategy.
As construction firms across the country collapse, thousands of people are losing their life savings, their businesses and homes. The cascading effects of surging costs, worker shortages and rising interest rates include home dreams turning to nightmares and subcontractors often left hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket. Today, Four Corners reporter Stephen Long on his investigation into the ailing sector and what could be done to fix it. Featured: Stephen Long, Four Corners reporter
The Apex Leadership Institute, with Shelby Jo Long, Dave Nordel, Melanie Schwarze, and Jennifer Reiser, looks to elevate the conversation about leadership and community. Based in Billings, Montana, they will host their launch event with Dr. Stephen Long on August 18th of this year.Register for the event here: https://www.apexleadershipinstitute.com/
Today – we're catching up with Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins about a new partnership between the ski industry and Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat to quickly train lift mechanics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We used to think of it as the Spirit of Australia, but in recent years we've had much more of a love-hate relationship with Qantas. Now, the man who's been at the helm for 15 years is on his way out. Today, ABC investigative reporter, Stephen Long, on how Alan Joyce changed our national carrier, and whether our flying experience will improve, now he's going. Featured: Stephen Long, ABC investigative reporter
We used to think of it as the Spirit of Australia, but in recent years we've had much more of a love-hate relationship with Qantas. Now, the man who's been at the helm for 15 years is on his way out. Today, ABC investigative reporter, Stephen Long, on how Alan Joyce changed our national carrier, and whether our flying experience will improve, now he's going. Featured: Stephen Long, ABC investigative reporter
The T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology, edited by Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long (T&T Clark: 2020), provides a wide-ranging survey and analysis of the Christian Church. This foundational text explores the scriptural foundations of ecclesiology, historical and confessional aspects of the topic, contemporary and topical themes. Compiled and written by leading scholars in the field, this accessible volume covers a range of key topics in the context of their development and importance in each stream of historic Christianity and the confessional traditions. Your host, Ryan Shelton (@_ryanshelton) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen's University Belfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
The T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology, edited by Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long (T&T Clark: 2020), provides a wide-ranging survey and analysis of the Christian Church. This foundational text explores the scriptural foundations of ecclesiology, historical and confessional aspects of the topic, contemporary and topical themes. Compiled and written by leading scholars in the field, this accessible volume covers a range of key topics in the context of their development and importance in each stream of historic Christianity and the confessional traditions. Your host, Ryan Shelton (@_ryanshelton) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen's University Belfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history
The T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology, edited by Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long (T&T Clark: 2020), provides a wide-ranging survey and analysis of the Christian Church. This foundational text explores the scriptural foundations of ecclesiology, historical and confessional aspects of the topic, contemporary and topical themes. Compiled and written by leading scholars in the field, this accessible volume covers a range of key topics in the context of their development and importance in each stream of historic Christianity and the confessional traditions. Your host, Ryan Shelton (@_ryanshelton) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen's University Belfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion
The T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology, edited by Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long (T&T Clark: 2020), provides a wide-ranging survey and analysis of the Christian Church. This foundational text explores the scriptural foundations of ecclesiology, historical and confessional aspects of the topic, contemporary and topical themes. Compiled and written by leading scholars in the field, this accessible volume covers a range of key topics in the context of their development and importance in each stream of historic Christianity and the confessional traditions. Your host, Ryan Shelton (@_ryanshelton) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen's University Belfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology, edited by Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long (T&T Clark: 2020), provides a wide-ranging survey and analysis of the Christian Church. This foundational text explores the scriptural foundations of ecclesiology, historical and confessional aspects of the topic, contemporary and topical themes. Compiled and written by leading scholars in the field, this accessible volume covers a range of key topics in the context of their development and importance in each stream of historic Christianity and the confessional traditions. Your host, Ryan Shelton (@_ryanshelton) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen's University Belfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies
The T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology, edited by Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long (T&T Clark: 2020), provides a wide-ranging survey and analysis of the Christian Church. This foundational text explores the scriptural foundations of ecclesiology, historical and confessional aspects of the topic, contemporary and topical themes. Compiled and written by leading scholars in the field, this accessible volume covers a range of key topics in the context of their development and importance in each stream of historic Christianity and the confessional traditions. Your host, Ryan Shelton (@_ryanshelton) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen's University Belfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When you hear the term 'the spirit of Australia', your mind might turn to Qantas. But is the airline living up to the title it uses in its ads? Not according to Qantas pilots, engineers and baggage handlers, who've described a ruthless regime of cost-cutting and out-sourcing. The airline defends its record on safety and staffing, although it concedes thousands of jobs have been shed over the three years of the COVID pandemic. Today, reporter Stephen Long on his Four Corners investigation into concerns that the situation at Qantas could ultimately compromise safety for passengers. Featured: Stephen Long, reporter, ABC TV Four Corners
When you hear the term 'the spirit of Australia', your mind might turn to Qantas. But is the airline living up to the title it uses in its ads? Not according to Qantas pilots, engineers and baggage handlers, who've described a ruthless regime of cost-cutting and out-sourcing. The airline defends its record on safety and staffing, although it concedes thousands of jobs have been shed over the three years of the COVID pandemic. Today, reporter Stephen Long on his Four Corners investigation into concerns that the situation at Qantas could ultimately compromise safety for passengers. Featured: Stephen Long, reporter, ABC TV Four Corners
Things aren't going so well for Australians who've invested in cryptocurrencies. The digital currency world, buoyant for so long, went into meltdown this month, with prices collapsing to near historic lows, and over a quarter of the global market evaporating. It's the crash of an unregulated market full of inherent risks, but it's also a market increasingly being used by criminal gangs around the world. Today, ABC Four Corners reporter Stephen Long on cryptocurrency's dark side. Featured: Stephen Long, reporter, ABC Four Corners
On FSCast 215 we'll get to know long-time developer Joe Stephen. In addition to his work on JAWS, he does manual labor on his family farm in rural Tasmania and manages to find the time to add accessibility support to some handheld ham radios. Then Toby Willis will be here to talk about Expedia and their current initiatives to make booking travel more inclusive. Text transcript at blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast
Jessica Long is an elite athlete with a jaw-dropping string of accomplishments and awards. The path to that lofty status, however, has not been without frustration. Along with her 29 Paralympic medals, Jessica has had to endure 25 surguries as a result of fibular hememila, a cogenital limb deficiency that led to the amputation of both legs below the knee. Born to teenage parents in Russia, Jessica also had to learn to forgive her birth mother for giving her up for adoption. Instead of succuming to the anger that she acknowledges characterized her early years, Jessica transformed the power of that anger into determination and used it to fuel her wildly successful career as a Paryalympic swimmer. Along with her own determination, Jessica credits her adoptive parents, Marylanders Beth and Stephen Long, and her Christian faith with making her the person she is today. This is Jessica's story and we're honored to share it on Mainstreet. The Mainstreet Podcast is sponsored by Your Pet AuPair! For the second year in a row, Harford County Living's Choice Award Winner for Best Pet Services Company. Visit belairaupair.com and and use promo code "Mainstreet" on the Get A Quote form to receive $10 off your first invoice of over $100.Watch Long Way Home the documentary about Jessica' s life on Peacock. Purchase Unsinkable: From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion on Amazon.Please subscribe to, like, and follow the Mainstreet PodcastFacebook: @USAmainstreetWebsite: https://themainstreetpodcast.com/Email: info@themainstreetpodcast.comPlease consider supporting ushttps://www.patreon.com/user?u=19619915&fan_landing=truehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/williammooNAnd please consider giving us a five-star rating and review on Apple podcasts and Spotify. In other words, just show us some love. Like to sponsor an episode of Mainstreet? Contact us and we'll discuss your best options. The Mainstreet Podcast is sponsored by Your Pet AuPair! For the second year in a row, Harford County Living's Choice Award Winner for Best Pet Services Company. Visit belairaupair.com and and use promo code "Mainstreet" on the Get A Quote form to receive $10 off your first invoice of over $100.Support the show
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Historical Events 1779 Birth of William Baldwin, American physician, and botanist. William is remembered as one of the first botanists to explore Georgia and Florida and parts of Latin America and the West Indies. William was brought on as the botanist for Stephen Long's 1819 expedition to find the headwaters of the Missouri River. Six months later, William Baldwin died at Franklin, Missouri, at the age of 40 and was buried on the banks of the Missouri River. Today we know about William mostly from his dear friend, the botanist William Darlington, who wrote his biography. The two men became close after William nursed Darlington back to health after an illness when the two were young men. Darlington reflected on William's death decades later when he wrote these words: His gentle spirit forsook its frail tenement, in a region far remote from his anxious family, - and the wildflowers of the West, for more than twenty years, have been blooming on his lonely grave: But the recollection of his virtues continues to be fondly cherished by every surviving friend, - and his ardor in the pursuit of his favorite Science will render his memory forever dear to the true lovers of American Botany. William Darlington learned from a colleague that floodwaters had washed away William Baldwin's grave the following year. Baldwin's milkwort (Polygala balduinii "puh-LIG-ah-lah bal-DEE-nee-eye") was named in honor of William Baldwin. Baldwin's milkwort is one of only a handful of white milkworts found in Florida. 1913 Birth of Ronald Stuart Thomas (published as R. S. Thomas), Welsh poet and Anglican priest. Here's an excerpt of his poem The Garden (1963). It is a gesture against the wild, The ungovernable sea of grass; A place to remember love in, To be lonely for a while; 1969 On this day, work was finished on a kimono-inspired garden in Japan called Yûrin no Niwa ("Yer-EEN no nee-wah") in Kyoto. The garden was initially designed to accompany the building for the Association of Kimono Manufacturers. The famous garden designer Mirei Shigemori ("Me-ray Shig-ah-mor-ee") designed the garden, which was celebrated in a ceremony the day after work was completed. But thirty years later, the area was redeveloped, and the building was set to be demolished. Iwamoto Toshio ("E-wah-mo-to To-see-oh") was a student of Shigemori's, and he decided to rescue the garden so that it could be relocated to a new home. When Shigemori's hometown built a new town hall, the garden found its new home. And so, over 80 truckloads of rock and stone were painstakingly brought to the new site, where they were reassembled to make the second incarnation of the Yûrin no Niwa garden. This second garden ended up being just a bit larger. The garden features a shallow kimono-shaped pond, and the water brings out the colors of the red and blue stones that make the strips of the noshi bundle on the kimono. The garden's name was a blending of the two names - the name of the man who developed the silk-dying process for the kimonos and the name of the painter who inspired the kimono designs: Yûrin no Niwa. 2021 On this day, as Brits were enjoying the end of their COVID lockdown, Out and Out shared an article called, five things to do to get your garden ready for March 29th. The tips included: 1. Smarten up your lawn There is something so appealing about a lush, vibrant green lawn, so make this your first job. Give your lawn a good raking to get rid of any fallen debris and shake over some grass seed if you notice any patchy areas. 2. Wash away winter ...get everything scrubbed up nicely – you don't want to take the shine off your gathering with grubby surroundings. Give your patio and decking areas a good going over with a jet wash and blast away winter's deposits. 3. Organize your seating Place garden dining furniture in a large enough area that there's space to walk all the way around and for guests to comfortably get in and out. If you have a garden lounge set or garden sofas, lay them out so you can comfortably converse with guests while enjoying the satisfying garden views. 4. Spring planting If you didn't get round to planting spring bulbs last year, you can always add instant colour by picking up some established plants at the garden centre. Shrubs such as Camellia, Japanese quince and Forsythia also look their best during the spring months. Pop some into borders and create container displays for the patio to give your garden an instant lift. 5. Finishing touches For alfresco dining, set the table with colorful crockery and beakers which will take you through to BBQ season too. For sunny weather, invest in a parasol, and for cooler days and evenings patio heaters and some chunky throws will be very welcome additions. Don't forget solar lights either, to keep the conversation going after nightfall. Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Homegrown Tea by Cassie Liversidge This book came out in 2014, and the subtitle is An Illustrated Guide to Planting, Harvesting, and Blending Teas and Tisanes. I have been waiting to share this book with you. Now, if you don't know what a Tisane is, it's an infusion: take dried or fresh herbs and infuse them into liquids, and then you have a beverage that you can drink just to enjoy or get some medicinal benefit from it. A sample Tisane might be made with Juniper berries or white peppercorns with grapefruit and orange peels. That's a great little drink. Juniper is outstanding and is a common ingredient in a Tisane. Now, one of the things that I want to say about Cassie's book right off the bat is that it's stunning. This is a St. Martin's Griffin book. There are so many beautiful photos. I love illustrated guides because they are so helpful. Sometimes, when you're exploring a new topic or venturing into a new area of gardening, you need lots of photos to find your way and serve as inspiration for you. Now Cassie is a huge tea fan, and she sees the garden through the lens of tea. When Cassie sees a garden, she sees a living tea cupboard because there are all kinds of plant materials that you can harvest to make your own teas and tisanes. As Cassie says in her introduction, Homegrown Tea is a gardening book for tea lovers. It explains how to grow a large variety of plants from which you can make your own teas and tisanes. your garden, your balcony, or even your window sill could become your tea cupboard. Now, one of the other things that I love about how Cassie approaches this is, she also shares some of the history of tea and how some of these ingredients have been used over the years. Her sample drinks include plants like rose hips, mint, sage hibiscus, and lavender and plants like chicory or angelica, apple geranium, and lemon verbena. One other thing that I want to tell you about Cassie is that she's a garden girl. She grew up in her parents' plant nursery, so she knows about plants - they're in her DNA. And that's why Cassie is so thoughtful and so knowledgeable about plants in the garden and how you can incorporate them into teas. And by the way, her debut book was called Grow Your Own Pasta Sauce, and that book is excellent as well. But if you are a tea lover, you've got to get this book. And if you have a friend that loves tea, this would make an excellent gift or even just a wonderful hostess gift. It would be great to give this book to a summer party hostess and a few teabags of your own concoctions. This book is 288 pages of tea in all its glory and fresh from your garden. You can get a copy of Homegrown Tea by Cassie Liversidge and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $16. Botanic Spark 1942 On this day, a twenty-six-year-old ethnobotanist named Richard Evans Schultes arrived at the Kofán village of El Conejo, where a shaman welcomed him. Richard had just finished his Ph.D. at Harvard, and his mission was to find indigenous arrow poisons used in the Amazon rainforest. The goal was to see if the poisons could be used as muscle relaxants in surgical procedures. The trip set Richard down a path of meeting with shamans and discovering the plants they used medicinally and in their holy traditions. Richard gleaned so much on this trip. He learned about special leaves that were heated with smoke and then laid on the forehead to relieve headaches; orchid bulbs that were chewed for energy on long trips; shamrock leaves that were gargled for throat pain; pepper plant poultices applied to insect bites; the leaves of a white orchid that could be packed around a sore tooth or eaten mashed with sugar to heal a broken heart. The list goes on and on. Overall, Richard's trip was a success. It seemed charmed from the start. On his first day in Bogata, Richard discovered a new orchid. He pressed it in between the pages of his passport. It was later named Pacyphyllum schultesii in his honor. Richard later reflected on the opportunity and wrote, I had just earned my Ph.D. at Harvard, and I had been offered two jobs. One was as a biology master at a private school in New England; the other was a ten-month grant... to go to the Amazon region to identify the plants employed in the many kinds of curare the Indians use for hunting. I decided on the Amazon—which is fortunate because otherwise, I would probably still be a biology [teacher]! Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.
Stephen and I discuss: Pitching Sven decks at Thorpe Park, how he met and started working with Derren Brown, their writing process, the history of Hector Chadwick book, Equivoque, what's the most useful piece of advice in the book, what from mentalism he'd put into Room 101, the three things he's most proud of and more. https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/mentalism/the-definitive-mental-mysteries-of-hector-chadwick/
This week Matt and John break down the idea of truth. What is truth? Does it feel like our culture is very susceptible to lies? John discusses a book he has been reading called, "Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World" by D. Stephen Long and how the concepts are shaping his thinking. They also discuss how we are to live as Christians in a world that can seem to exist in many different realities. Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World
Stephen Long the CEO of Motere Consulting shares how to execute strategy more consistently. Get more info at https://MotereConsulting.com/
In a special episode of our Focus on Finance podcast series, Stephen Long, Louise Lundberg and Eugene Tarzimanov of the Banking team join host Carolyn Henson to discuss the prospects for banks around the globe as government economic support measures start to unwind and banks brace for a substantial rise in loan defaults. Many economies are set to rebound this year but banks must factor in continuing uncertainty over the future course of the pandemic.Related content:Banking System Outlook - South Africa: Weak economy, deteriorating loan quality and profitability drive our negative outlookBanking System Outlook Update – Mexico: Negative outlook on prolonged recovery and deteriorating government supportBanking System Outlook Update – Japan: Long-running structural challenges in a weak economy drive negative outlookBanking System Outlook Update – India: Potential weakening of government ability to provide support drives negative outlookBanking System Outlook Update – Germany: Outlook for German banks remains negative
Ketamine: a no-drama drug? Hard to believe when so many clinicians seem scared to use it, but maybe we've all been thinking about this NMDA antagonist the wrong way.In this episode of Pedipal, Sarah and Dan pour themselves a heaping bowl of Special K as they sit down with two ketamine aficionados, Dr. Stephen Long and Dr. Anu Agrawal, from UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. Follow us down the k-hole as we discuss pharmacology, gastronomy, and how to convince your hospital that it's okay give a 1980s club drug to children.Links to things we mentioned in the show:UCSF Oakland Ketamine Infusion Protocol: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W_BM-4T5ON_AECs8TJ2y65Y96ENE_scR/view?usp=sharingTheme music: "Sneaky Adventure," by Kevin MacLeod (2009)
We, as individuals and as a people, need to consider how we have let politics replace truth with power. In an age where the truth is increasingly being contorted to suit our agendas and desires, the challenge of a “Post Truth World” is more complex and difficult than we might imagine. It requires a response that isn't driven by grasping for some earthly power, but rooted in deep discernment. How can the Church take a stand against the stranglehold of mistruths in our politics?Joining us for the last conversation of our Faith & Politics series is Dr. Stephen Long, Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. A scholar and United Methodist minister, Long works in the intersection between theology and ethics and has published over fifty essays and fourteen books on theology and ethics including the book “Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World.” Dr. Long joins Chris and Eddie to engage a frank, complex conversation that beckons us toward a deeper conversation on politics than is offered through the 24 hour news cycle and social media. Recorded the day after the insurrection at the United States Capitol, they reflect on the event as an example of the deep-seeded issue of prioritization of power and the depths to which truth continues to be under attack by the current political climate. Resources:Learn more about Dr. Steve Long here.Check out Dr. Steve Long's book Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World here.Follow Dr. Steve Long on social media:https://www.facebook.com/dstephen.long https://twitter.com/dstephenlong Episode Links:https://linktr.ee/theweightpod
Dr. Stephen Long is the founder & president of Motere Consulting, a performance enhancement firm providing management assessment and management development services specializing in human performance, leadership effectiveness, talent optimization and strategic execution. Dr. Long has unlocked the potential of exceptional leaders, champion athletes, fighter pilots, military special operations personnel, elite producers and corporate executives through his statistically based predictive model of Human Performance & Leadership. His model has been successfully applied to thousands of people and dozens of organizations in business, military, academics, athletics and the arts. His clients average 115% improvement in financial performance on average with a zero failure rate. Dr. Long began his career as a college football coach at the University of Virginia and the University of Delaware. He earned his PhD from the University of Kansas where he was honored as the Most Outstanding Doctoral Student while serving as the Director of the KU Peak Performance Clinic. Dr. Long then served as the Head of Performance Psychology in the Human Performance Lab at the US Air Force Academy studying strategic execution, high performance, performance plateaus and choking under pressure though field research. A University of Utah independent study identified Dr. Long as one of North America's top applied performance psychologists. Author of several books including GOLD! Mastering the Psychology of Execution, The Incumbent: Stories of Leadership Transformation/Vol.1 and Long on Leadership: How Human Nature Determines Character, Change, Creativity Culture and Crisis Management. And What You Can Do About It. His books may be found at moterepublishing.com Dr. Long competes as a master's swimmer in his free time and is an accomplished marathoner. He played one season in a 50+ baseball league where he hit his first dinger since Little League. “learn how you work best. What are your tendencies? But it's hard work for entrepreneurs because they are so action oriented most of the time. Because learning how you work best is a fairly introspective process so that's a challenge for most entrepreneurs. But I can guarantee it will pay off for them”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7KI
Dr. Long examines the right to religious freedom as a right that originates with God and should be acknowledged by the state as a fundamental human right.
Dr. Stephen Long has a PhD in sports psychology and is the founder of Mortere Consulting. Dr. Long has been identified as one of North America's top 10 performance psychology consultants. With more than 30 years experience Dr. Long has seen it all, Whether he is dealing with Fortune 500 companies or dealing with athletes ranging from College All- Americans, Heisman Trophy finalists, Olympic athletes or NFL MVPs Dr. Long has seen it all. In this episode we discuss what it takes to truly succeed in everyone's day to day life. You can find out more about Dr. Long and Motere Consulting at https://motereconsulting.com/ #whatdrivesyou #success #psychology #performance #winner #driven #mvp #motere #consulting #fortune500 #allaspects #olympics #nfl #allamerican #psych #sportspsych #highproducer #gamechanger #leaders
Our crew today: Hosts Dr. Steph, Captains Nick and Jeff, Producer/Director Liz. Join us for the latest in aviation news, your feedback, and this week's Plane Tale: "You Couldn’t Give 'Em Away!." Photo Credit: Nick Anderson [00:03:17] NEWS [00:03:37] Two are injured after plane crashes against airport fence in Bragança Paulista, SP [00:08:16] BBC News: Isle of Man Plane Crashed Trying to Avoid Horse [00:12:31] Final Report - Incident - Piper PA 28 and Robinson R22 Helicopter Collision [00:20:27] 1 Dead and 2 Injured When Small Plane Crashes in New York City - CBS News [00:25:48] Kelowna Flight Cut Short After it Took Off with Concrete Tie Down Attached [00:30:23] Work for Laid off Pilots in Australia [00:37:55] Delta To Retire All Its Boeing 717s And 767-300ERs [00:41:08] SAMAD Aerospace Unveils Luxury Q-Starling Personal Air Vehicle [00:45:04] GETTING TO KNOW US [01:14:10] COFFEE FUND [01:15:52] FEEDBACK [01:16:30] Dave - Airbus A340 Video [01:19:09] Pasadena Brian - TABfabric.com, Discount Code is LOVEAPG [01:22:41] Rob and Hillel - Flying Rescue Dogs [01:50:38] Stephen - Long flights in C172 [01:53:35] Texas Anla'Shok - Brand New Fighter? [01:59:49] PLANE TALES - You Couldn’t Give ‘Em Away! [02:25:21] Texas Charlie - Evidence That This Had All Happened Before [02:26:35] Hamish - NRT Airport [02:31:38] Joel - Just Catching Up [02:35:54] Steffen - Callsign Readback Regulations [02:42:56] Kyle - Seen on I-75 [02:43:47] Henry - Captain Jeff....Could Be??? [02:46:41] Brian H - 717 Stall/Unusual Attitude Video [02:50:04] Steven - Flight Crew Style [02:53:30] Capt Dave - Two Pilot Airliner VIDEO Don't see the video? Click this to watch it on YouTube! Looking for the older episodes? You can find them by going here: All APG Episodes Feed ABOUT RADIO ROGER “Radio Roger” Stern has been a TV and Radio reporter since he was a teenager. He’s won an Emmy award for his coverage in the New York City Market. Currently you can hear his reporting in New York on radio station 1010 WINS, the number one all-news station in the nation. Nationally you can hear him anchor newscasts on the Fox News Radio Network and on Fox’s Headlines 24-7 service on Sirius XM Radio. In addition Roger is a proud member of and contributor to the APG community. Audible.com Trial Membership Offer - Get your free audio book today! Give us your review in iTunes! I'm "airlinepilotguy" on Facebook, and "airlinepilotguy" on Twitter. feedback@airlinepilotguy.com airlinepilotguy.com "Appify" the Airline Pilot Guy website (http://airlinepilotguy.com) on your phone or tablet! ATC audio from http://LiveATC.net Intro/outro Music, Coffee Fund theme music by Geoff Smith thegeoffsmith.com Dr. Steph's intro music by Nevil Bounds Capt Nick's intro music by Kevin from Norway (aka Kevski) Doh De Oh by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100255 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Copyright © AirlinePilotGuy 2020, All Rights Reserved Airline Pilot Guy Show by Jeff Nielsen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
"On the one hand, we assume students already have some sense of ethics before they arrive, which is why we hold them accountable for their behavior from their first day on campus … on the other hand, we also assume that students should reflect on ethics across the curriculum, and that assumes that ethics needs to and can be taught. How do we make sense of both these assumptions?” -excerpt from Ethics at the Heart of Higher Education Grab a cup of coffee, pop on your headphones and join us for an engaging, live conversation between Professors Rita Kirk and Steve Long. The topic: can ethics be taught in today’s colleges and universities? D. Stephen Long, Ph.D., is the Maguire Chair in Ethics and author of “Can Ethics Be Taught? Connecting the Classroom to Everyday Life,” a chapter in the newly released book Ethics at the Heart of Higher Education. Rita Kirk, Ph.D., an editor and author of the book, serves as the William F. May Endowed Director of SMU’s Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility.
Oldie, Rones and the two Daves’ are back this week, chatting further about the state of the industry currently. Plus, Oldie Talks The Great Customer Experience Program with Stephen Long & Penny Holmes and Rones talks to Justin Muskett from Johns Lyng.
In today's episode, Amanda interviews the notorious BIC of Keller Williams Realty Elite in Winston-Salem, NC. This episode is packed full of some great advice for your life and business as well as some of Stephen's classic humor :). Also be sure to check out Stephens Real Estate School's website as discussed in the episode.https://nccrewacademy.com
Get to know these successful thought leaders and find out how they present themselves and their crafts as experts in their fields. Deborah Dubree (http://aha.pub/DeborahDubree) is the founder and CEO of ClearEDGE. She offers elite performance strategies and expertise to high achievers, including C-suite executives, top-performing entrepreneurs, NFL players, and pro golfers. Deborah’s wit, compassion, and straightforward style make her a highly sought-after coach, trainer, and speaker. Her national and international speaking engagements, training programs, and development workshops have consistently received rave reviews for containing the right mix of learning, laughing, and real-life practical results. Deborah is raising-the-bar on the outdated leadership model. She trains leaders and their teams how to WIN more often and more consistently. If you’re ready to catapult your influence, impact and income, reach out to Deborah Dubree by visiting her website https://deborahdubree.com. Dr. Stephen Long (http://aha.pub/StephenLong) is the founder and president at Motere Consulting. Stephen specializes in human performance, leadership development, talent optimization and strategic execution consulting services for business leaders based on his statistically based predictive model of Human Performance & Leadership. His model is composed of valid measurements and proven educational programs helping financially underperforming, plateaued or special situation organizations where strategy might be sound, but execution is lacking. Stephen is dedicated to helping his clients be equipped with the skills to execute strategy consistently to the best of their ability. If you want to achieve a specific goal for your business but feel there is a leadership gap, reach out to Dr. Stephen Long by visiting his website at https://motereconsulting.com/. Kimberly Svoboda (https://aha.pub/KimberlySvoboda) is the founder and CEO of Aspiration Catalyst, group leader at ProVisors, contributing writer at Forbes Coaches Council, accredited Vistage keynote speaker at Vistage Worldwide, Inc. and Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Better Business Bureau. Kimberly conducts leadership development coaching programs for leaders. She helps them improve their leadership skills so that they can take their businesses to the next level. Kimberly is passionate about helping her clients to improve their leadership skills so that they are able to achieve better results faster and easier. If you are looking for #LeadershipDevelopment programs to train yourself and your leaders to hit your goals and upscale your business, consider reaching out to Kimberly Svoboda by visiting her website https://www.aspirationcatalyst.com/. Global Credibility Expert, Mitchell Levy is a TEDx speaker and international bestselling author of over 60 books. As The AHA Guy at AHAthat (https://ahathat.com), he helps to extract the genius from your head in a two-three hour interview so that his team can ghostwrite your book, publish it, distribute it, and make you an Amazon bestselling author in four months or less. He is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. He’s provided strategic consulting to over one hundred companies, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. Mitchell has been happily married for thirty years and regularly spends four weeks in Europe with family and friends. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: Mitchell Levy Present AHA Moments: https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ Thought Leader Life: https://thoughtleaderlife.com AHAthat Radio: https://AHAthatRadio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Matt sits down with Stephen Long to provide album commentary on for the new eleventyseven album, Basic Glitches. Basic Glitches on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp. Rock Candy Studios Discord Channel Facebook Group Rock Candy Store Signing up for our Mailing List will ensure that you never miss an eleventymoment.
Matt sits down with Stephen Long to provide album commentary on for the new eleventyseven album, Basic Glitches. Basic Glitches on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp. Rock Candy Studios Discord Channel Facebook Group Rock Candy Store Signing up for our Mailing List will ensure that you never miss an eleventymoment.
Matt sits down with Stephen Long to provide album commentary on for the new eleventyseven album, Basic Glitches. Basic Glitches on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp. Rock Candy Studios Discord Channel Facebook Group Rock Candy Store Signing up for our Mailing List will ensure that you never miss an eleventymoment.
Part one: A true story about getting re-gayed. It’s entitled “Do you need lube to go with that that?" Part two: A quick visit to the Homo No Mo Halfway House. It was 17 years ago this month Peterson Toscano first premiered this Ex-Gay Exposé. Through eight characters in 90 minutes he comically critiqued America’s most notorious conversion therapy program. Part three: a sound slice: The Citadel Military College, Charleston, SC Bubble&Squeak is a podcast with uncanny sounds, funny interludes, and stories—most weird, many true. Created by Peterson Toscano and for his Rock Candy Recordings comrade, Stephen Long. Our theme song is Worthless by The Jellyrox from the Bang & Whimper album. You also heard two songs from EleventySeven. Hour Glass from the Rad Science album and Letterman Jacket from their brand new Basic Glitches album. You can find these songs on iTunes, Spotify, of wherever you listen to music. To watch the entire Doin Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House, go to Amazon Prime. In Part Two Chad mentions a PFF, "A Phallic Fruit Fetish," is can be found if you search at www.urbandictionary.com Peterson on Twitter @p2son Logo design by Christine Bakke Bubble&Squeak is part of the Rock Candy Network www.rockcandyrecordings.com Learn more about Peterson at www.petersontoscano.com
Matt sits down with Stephen Long to provide album commentary on for the new eleventyseven album, Basic Glitches. Basic Glitches on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp. Rock Candy Studios Discord Channel Facebook Group Rock Candy Store Signing up for our Mailing List will ensure that you never miss an eleventymoment.
In this episode I speak with D. Stephen Long, who is the Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of some of my favorite theology books of the last decade or more, such as Speaking of God: Theology, Language and Truth (Eerdmans, 2009), Saving Karl Barth: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Preoccupation (Fortress, 2014), and The Perfectly Simple Triune God: Aquinas and His Legacy (Fortress, 2016). He’s on the podcast to talk with me about his most recent book, Telling Truth in a Post-Truth World.
As the early church continues to grow, seven men are chosen to help minister and serve the growing congregation. Acts 6 tells us that Stephen is one of the seven chosen and he turns out to be a very important part of the revolution that is the church. His life and death stand as a transitional part of the book of Acts. After his death, the church falls under a lot of persecution. However, rather than bringing the revolution to a halt, it has the opposite effect. The church rapidly expands from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria and ultimately, the whole world.
Preserving capital and enhancing value for your company is paramount. That is why there are people like Dr. Stephen Long who exist. In this episode Dr. Long, the Founder and President of Motere Consulting, teaches us how he goes about with his Strategic Execution method for making teams and companies more successful. He introduces and breaks down the two elements that he uses – management assessment and management development components. With these methods, he promotes not only teamwork but also identifies risks. On the side, Dr. Long also talks about potential and shares some of his significant leadership-related experiences in the military. — Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Management Assessment And Development: Behavioral Analysis Method For Growing Teams with Dr. Stephen Long Our guest is Dr. Stephen Long. He’s the Founder and President of (https://motereconsulting.com/) here in Colorado Springs. Steve, thank you so much for taking the time to come by and be a guest on the show. It’s my pleasure, Bob. Thanks for having me. If you could, tell us a bit about your business and who you serve. I’m the President and Founder of Motere Consulting, which is a performance enhancement firm that helps manage risk, preserve capital and enhance value through management development and management assessment services. I built a predictive model of human performance and leadership while I served as the Head of Performance Psychology in the Human Performance Lab at the Air Force Academy. The model has been successfully applied to business, athletic, academic, military and artistic performance. My business clients average 115% improvement in financial performance on average with a zero-failure rate. Basically, it’s a data company. For the business owner that’s reading, I could do with the 115% improvement on pretty much anything at any time. If I’m that business customer and I go, “What is it that I should expect if I hire you to come in and evaluate my leadership team and my company?” What should they expect? You’ve got to learn things about your people that you don’t know about them. Basically, what my behavioral analyses do is it’s a shortcut mechanism. Particularly with the clients I serve, what they find out in two to three weeks would normally take them two to three years to find out. And they usually find out under dire circumstances. I’m your prospective new client and I’m getting ready to do whatever or I’m trying to hire and you come through the door, what time frame should I expect and what steps do you take to go through and arrive at a conclusion? There are two elements. There is the management assessment component and the management development component. The management assessment component and what I’m doing there is I measure the behavioral factors of Strategic Execution. Strategic Execution is simply the ability to execute the strategy. There are some strategies that are better than others. There are some managers who execute strategy better than others. When you put a good strategy with a good manager, that’s when you blow the doors off. You had the visionary versus the operational person? You can combine the two. I don’t do anything with strategy. All my degrees are in education. That’s what the MBA is to determine as far as what to do. What the research has found is that strategies only deliver 63% of what they promise. Let’s say you got a proposal for $100 million. Lock that 30% or 40% off right from the start because at best they’re only going to get $60 million to $70 million. Then you combine the inability to execute strategy and it goes down significantly. This is where people don’t understand as far as what they should do because it’s what I call the Strategy Execution Paradox. When things...
We chatted with Stephen Long who was the journalist on the ABC Four Corners program: Digging into Adani to get an idea for how the Adani Group operates and how it has performed financially, environmentally and legally in the past, particularly with its projects in India. Vivien recorded a speech by the Wangan and Jagalingou people about their battle upholding native title. And we spoke with Jenny Weber, the Campaign Manager at The Bob Brown Foundation, about the long running protest movement against the Carmichael mine that has come to define the climate change movement in Australia, about how it has evolved to combat changing tactics by the Adani group.
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In this episode of The Treasury Career Corner Podcast, I’m delighted to be joined by a good friend of mine, Stephen Long, the Group Treasurer at Williams Lea Tag. Stephen is an experienced treasury professional having worked within the treasury field for over 20 years. He has specialist knowledge in international cash management, six sigma, project management, and treasury management to name just a few! Williams Lea Tag (WLT) is the leading independent provider of Marketing and Communications Services. Every day, they help organisations transform business processes, enhance their customer conversations and realise the potential of their brand. Founded in 1820 as a company providing printing services to the financial industry, Williams Lea Tag went through a number of changes to its business model and now provides services including mail processing, bulk mailing, printing, and page layout. On the podcast we discussed… Stephen shares stories from his existing and previous treasury roles How the ACT has helped people who start out in finance move into treasury An insight into Steve’s recruitment methodology The role of communication in the treasury industry How technology and machines can help assist treasury teams in the future The importance of grabbing opportunities that present themselves and learning from the people around you You can get in touch with Stephen and connect with him via his LinkedIn profile. Are you interested in pursuing a career within treasury? Whether you’ve recently graduated, or you want to search for new job opportunities to help develop your treasury career, The Treasury Recruitment Company can help you in your search for the perfect job. Find out more here. Or, send us your CV and let us help you in your next career move! If you’re enjoying the show please rate and review us on whatever podcast app you listen to us on, for iTunes click here!
Greetings Congregation! Sorry for the late arrival..but I had to wait for this weeks guest-- Stephen Long! Stephen joins Jed for a riveting Today I Learned about exploding Hippos, they discuss some recent justice and more. Then, Jed and Stephen do a deep dive into Satanism and the most human debate of all time...Does God exist, or is there nothing? Jed and Stephen go toe to toe..mono e mono...person to dude...superman to shazam. Only one Deity is left standing. Well, not really but it was a VERY fun conversation. sacredtension.podbean.com churchandotherdrugs@gmail.com patreon.com/churchandotherdrugs
Key Takeaways from the 2019 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium with Dr. Stephen Leong The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Welcome to the ASCO Daily News podcast. I'm Lauren Davis, and joining me today is Dr. Stephen Long, associate editor of ASCO Daily News. Dr. Long is associate professor in the division of medical oncology and is a translational researcher in the GI and developmental therapeutics programs at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Dr. Long, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. Dr. Long, you've just returned from the Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. How was this year's event compared with previous years? First of all, I love you GI ASCO. I always find it informative. And I love the format of the talks and presentation. This year there was no significant practice changing presentations like in years past. However, there were still some excellent presentations and talks. And what were some of the presentations that stood out to you? There were some reports of a couple of clinical trials that sort of intrigued me. One was KEYNOTE-181. This was a phase III study comparing pembrolizumab monotherapy versus standard chemotherapy in patients with local events and metastatic esophageal cancer in the second line setting. They reported a significant improvement in overall survival in patients with PD-L1 combined positive score of greater than 10. And these patients received 9.3 months overall survival compared to 6.7 months for those who received [INAUDIBLE] choice of chemotherapy, which then consists of paclitaxel, docetaxel, or irinotecan. In addition, pembrolizumab was better tolerated and had a better safety profile. What made it really intriguing was of the total 628 patients that were enrolled in the trial, 64% of them had squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus, which is unusual, especially in a phase II setting. And even though the study had a statistic overall survival benefit, in the squamous cell carcinoma cohort, there was a non-statistical trend in overall survival of 8.2 months versus 7.1 respectively. Pembrolizumab did boost the objective response rate compared with chemotherapy in the PD-L1 CPS greater than 10 and a response rate of 21.5% versus 6.1%. And then squamous cell carcinoma, it was 16.7% versus 7.4%. That leads to a whole bunch of questions. One, should we improve our PD-L1 scoring by including a CPX score greater than 10 and making our predictions based off that? In addition, should pembrolizumab expand its indications to include squamous cell carcinoma, since presently in the United States, pembrolizumab is only approved for adenocarcinoma. Also, there were the reports of the phase II ROAR study, which was looking at biliary tract cancers with BRAF V600E activating mutations. And these patients received a combination of dabrafenib, a BRAF inhibitor, and trametinib, a MEK inhibitor. There were 33 patients. And they had an objective response rate of 42%. All of them with partial responses. And 7 of the 14 patients with responses had the responses lasting more than six months. And adding those with stable disease, they had reported a disease control rate of 88%. They looked at survival data. And the median progression free survival in this cohort was 9.2 months with an overall survival of 11.7 months. And to put this into context, usually second line biliary tract cancers we rarely ever see survival being more than five months. And these PFS and overall survival is very comparable to the first line setting for gemcitabine cisplatin, where the original study showed a PFS of eight months and overall survival of 11.7 months. So this potentially could be another treatment option for people with V600E biliary tract cancers. And then there were the preliminary results of a single phase II study at Memorial Sloan Kettering, which was evaluating pembrolizumab in conjunction with trastuzumab HER2 antibody with CAPOX and those with HER2 positive metastatic esophageal gastric adenocarcinoma. They had 32 patients with the overall response rate of 87%. They reported three CRs and 25 partial responses. And then when you factor in the stable disease, they had 100% disease control rate. And all the patients had some degree of tumor regression. The PFS were 11.4 months with an overall survival having not been met after six months. This is extremely exciting, and this has already led to the development of a global phase III study, which will be known as KEYNOTE-811. That's great. That sounds very promising. Were there any research presentations that you were interested in? Oh, yeah. There was a lot of great preclinical work. One of the most intriguing was in pancreatic cancer, where the Canadians did a study known as COMPASS, where they took advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, and these patients underwent whole genome sequencing, as well as RNA sequencing of their tumors, prior to the initiation of first line chemotherapy with either modified FOLFIRINOX or gemcitabine and abraxane. Treatment outcomes were then compared to their molecular characteristics. The data suggests that chemotherapy differs depending on the transcription features of the tumor. So for example, the best survival data came out of those patients with the classical ductal adenocarcinoma subtype that were treated with FOLFIRINOX. And they had a median survival of 7.17 months. And when they were compared to the basal-like subtypes and were treated with FOLFIRINOX, they had a median progression free survival of 2.5 months. Now, patients with the basal-like subtype actually had a better response to gemcitabine and abraxane, which had a PFS of 5.65 months compared to the classical subtype, where they had median progression free survival of 4.93 months. So in summary, those with the basal-like subtype actually had a resistance for FOLFIRINOX. In addition, the researchers also mentioned that GATA6 RNA expression significantly correlates to the PDAC classic and basal-like molecular subtype. So it could actually be used as a marker in determining subtypes. And all this put together means that we could potentially identify patients who have a better chance of responding to FOLFIRINOX versus gem abraxane in the first line setting in pancreatic cancer. And obviously there needs to be more work to validate this, but this actually is quite intriguing. Also, there was data from the amino scoring testing, which was looking at its test in high risk stage 2 colorectal cancer patients. And for those who are not familiar, patients with stage colon cancer have a poor prognostic if they had a T4 disease, had fewer than 12 lymph nodes removed, had a point differentiation subtype, and also had evidence of vascular emboli, lymphovascular invasion, perineural invasion, or actually had a presentation of bowel obstruction or bowel perforation. And these patients are often offered adjuvant chemotherapy following curative resection due to their high risk of recurrence. The amino score test measures the density of CT3 positive T cells, as well as cytotoxic CDH cells within and surrounding the tumor to gauge the strength of the host immune response at a tumor site. So therefore a high amino score indicates a high anti-tumor immunity, which correlates with a low risk for disease recurrence. And these investigators looked at 1,130 patients with stage two colon cancers. And their conclusion for time to recurrence was those with high risk disease with high amino scoring compared to those with low risk disease had a very similar five-year survival of 87.4% versus 89.1% respectively. In contrast, if you have a high risk disease and a low amino scoring, your five-year time to recurrence was only 72.2% in the absence of adjuvant therapy. So this could potentially be used as a prognostic tool for those who are high risk stage two in the future. What about education sessions? Were there any that caught your attention? So my favorite was the neuroendocrine session. Neuroendocrine, as most people know, is a pretty rare disease population. However, there has been significant advances in the past few years with new drugs, new understanding of the biology, new diagnostic procedures, as well as testing. And it was a great panel of leading experts to help us navigate the new landscape of neuroendocrine and understanding how we should be approaching this. So that was my favorite session. Were there any other takeaways that were important during the symposium? There were a few other presentations I thought that were quite interesting. The Japanese presented their Prep-02 or JSAP-05 trial. And this was the first study to ever demonstrate the efficacy of neoadjuvant therapy in resectable pancreatic cancer. And their neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimen was a combination of gemcitabine with an oral drug S1. And they showed that it met its primary endpoint of overall survival of 36.72 months in those patients who received neoadjuvant therapy versus 26.65 months in those who went from upfront surgery. And for the Japanese, which tend to do upfront surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy in the past, I think this may be a shift in their paradigm, where this could be the new standard in Japan of using neoadjuvant therapy prior to surgery. Also, there was the oral drug trifluridine and tipiracil, which was studied in a phase III metastatic gastric and GE junction adenocarcinoma for those who have received two previous line of therapies. And they were randomized to the drug versus placebo. And it demonstrated a 2.1 survival benefit over placebo. And their main concern was a lot of these patients end up getting gastrectomies. But being an oral drug, could that affect its efficacy? And it seems like this benefit was also seen in those who had a gastrectomy versus those who didn't as well. So this potentially could be another option for those in the third line setting for gastric cancer. However, the big debate is even though it met its overall survival, is 2.1 months clinically significant? And I guess we'll have to have more data regarding safety and tolerability before we can make that decision. There is also the French GRECCAR-6 trial, which was evaluating the optimal time to surgery following chemoradiation for rectal cancer, where patients who underwent neoadjuvant chemoradiation were randomized to waiting 7 or 11 weeks prior to a mesoresection of the rectal cancer. They demonstrated that they had very similar path CR rates between the two. But more interesting, they found that if you had a good disease response to chemoradiation, there was no difference in disease free survival if you waited 7 weeks versus 11 weeks prior to surgery. However, if you were a bad disease responder, you had a poorer disease free survival if you waited more than seven weeks. However, this was not statistically significant. And then the authors concluded that we shouldn't be waiting more than seven weeks prior to surgery following neoadjuvant chemoradiation for rectal surgery. Thank you so much. Again, today my guest has been Dr. Stephen Long. Thank you for being on our podcast today. And to our listeners, thank you for tuning into the ASCO Daily News podcast. If you're enjoying the content, we encourage you to rate us and review us on Apple podcast.
Stephen Long, host of the podcast, Sacred Tension, discusses his evangelical background, his internal dichotomy between scientific reason and a hope in a personal God, and his participation in a Satanic Temple. Believe me, it’s not what you think. This one is sure to have you thinking. https://sacredtension.podbean.com
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I interview an interesting and unique guest who is easily one of my most intriguing, diverse, and favorite conversationalists--Stephen Long, of the Sacred Tension podcast. We cover a few paradoxes. We discuss our default "operating system", being born into our Nationality as much as we are our Religion. I think he may even have me beat with the depth of the most fringe elements in his take on christianity. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
High performing management teams apply counter-intuitive thinking to execute strategy. Each displays a high level of Execution IQ enabling them to realize the promise of their strategy. Experience with Dr. Stephen Long as he shares his philosophy that when you go long you gain in enhanced consistency, innovation, decision-making, problem solving, task flexibility, reasoning, planning, organization and execution. Lesson Learned: Talent doesn’t equal productivity High execution will take you over 63% productivity. Strategizing for your company is like coaching a football team. Attitudes change behavior AMAZING GUESTS * AMAZING LISTENERS * AMAZING NETWORKS Premium binge worthy content. The Up or Out Network is reaching over 150m listeners each week. And we’re not done yet… We can be heard on… Be sure to subscribe, you don’t want to miss any of the good stuff. · C-Suite Network · iTunes · iHeartRadio · SiriusXM · Stitcher · Multiple online networks · 1,900 analog stations in 145 Countries. Let us know what you would like and need to hear on a future episode. We are here to help entrepreneurial leaders achieve excellence and Be Unstoppable Together. Support the podcast at www.uporout.com Register to become a guest at www.uporout.com Subscribe to Up or Out with Connie on iTunes Book Connie to speak at your next event: UnstoppableSpeaker.LA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, we revisit New England’s most devastating weather event, the hurricane of 1938 — and find out what we’ve learned about protecting against storms. We’ll also learn about the new deal struck by Northeastern states to combat climate change, and about a big battery that could be the future for energy storage. Plus, we hear the music of the White Mountains and make some noises only a moose could love. A farmhouse in Willimantic, Conn. among acres of blowdown after the hurricane of 1938. Photo courtesy of the US Forest Service Energize NextEra site manager Ben Pierce and project manger Jeff Plew at the company’s new “grid-scale” battery array on Cousins Island in Maine’s Casco Bay. Photo by Fred Bever for Maine Public We've reported on the need to find storage for the extra energy that is sometimes produced by wind or solar plants to conserve it for other times when the sun isn’t out and the wind’s not blowing. Giant “grid scale” batteries are one way to store that energy, and they’re getting cheaper and more sophisticated. Maine Public Radio’s Fred Bever has more. For more stories about the growing role of renewable energy in our region, check out the New England News Collaborative series, “The Big Switch.” The RGGI program follows a cap-and-trade model. Companies bid for trade-able credits that allow them to release a limited amount of carbon into the atmosphere. Photo by nathanmac87 via Flickr Earlier this month, The nine states of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) announced a plan to cut power plant emissions by an additional 30 percent between 2020 and 2030. The move is being hailed by environmental groups as one of the biggest efforts taken by states since President Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. However, the negotiations did include a push and pull between some New England States that wanted deeper emissions cuts, and Mid-Atlantic states that run on a different energy mix. Our guest Katie Dykes is chair of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in Connecticut, and chair of the Board of Directors of the Regional Geenhouse Gas Initiative. Hurricanes at Home Workers with the CCC wet down hurricane slash in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. With so much lumber on the ground, fires were a major concern. Photo by the United States Forest Service Hurricane Harvey marks America's biggest rain event and one of the most destructive natural disasters in history. Here in New England — while Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy caused major damage — the worst storm to hit our region came without warning on September 21, 1938. This hurricane hit Long Island first, and continued up the Connecticut Valley, plowing through Western Massachusetts and Vermont in a matter of hours. The storm took 600 lives, and destroyed a thousand square miles of forestland. That environmental damage is the focus of the book Thirty Eight: the Hurricane That Transformed New England — out in paperback on September 21. We’re joined by author Stephen Long. Aerial view if the New Bedford Hurricane Barrier, New Bedford, Mass. Photo courtesy of the US Army Corps of Engineers After getting slammed by hurricanes several years in a row, New Bedford, Massachusetts built a massive barrier across its valuable harbor in the 1960s. But as the climate changes, city leaders know the wall can only hold back the sea for so long. As part of the series “Climate Change in Massachusetts,” WBUR’s Lisa Mullins reports. The Hills are Alive… Steve Wilkes recording on the summit of Mt. Tecumseh in the White Mountain National Forest. Photo by Sean Hurley for NHPR Steve Wilkes is a drumming professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He's also a former member of Blue Man Group and has toured the world with The Empire Brass Quintet. But for his latest gig, Wilkes won't be making music. Instead, he's recording the sounds of the forest and compiling the first ever audio map of the White Mountains. New Hampshire Public Radio North Country reporter Sean Hurley joined Wilkes on a recent sound-gathering trip. You can listen to all of Wilkes’ recordings and track his progress at heartheforest.org. Competitors imitate moose mating calls at the North Country Moose Festival. Photo by Chris Jensen for NHPR Not all of the sounds of the forest are soothing, as reporter Chris Jensen learned when he visited the North Country Moose Festival, held last weekend in the adjoining towns of Colebrook, New Hampshire and nearby Canaan, Vermont. He sends an audio postcard from the festival’s moose calling competition. About NEXT NEXT is produced at WNPR. Host: John Dankosky Producer: Andrea Muraskin Executive Producer: Catie Talarski Digital Content Manager/Editor: Heather Brandon Contributors to this episode: Fred Bever, Lisa Mullins, Lynn Jolicoeur, Sean Hurley, Chris Jensen Music: Todd Merrell, “New England” by Goodnight Blue Moon Get all the NEXT episodes. We appreciate your feedback! Send praise, critique, suggestions, questions, story leads, and recordings of your sexiest moose calls to next@wnpr.org. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Reach Us Here: Doug- @DJDoug Strickland- @NiceGuyonBiz @stevelong24 On Facebook: The Nice Guys Community page Show Notes by Production Assistant - Anna Nygren Intro Patreon and on and on! Changes of Season 7 out of 10 people have the same mindset When there's an elegant change, a person associates it with natural forces Because it feels like the right thing to do We cannot predict potential Goal setting is overrated! Dreams are goals with wings Champions are abnormal and therefore the mindset of champions follows Closing Lines Check out Stephen's Motere Consulting Nice Guys Links Support the podcast at www.Patreon.com/NiceGuys Subscribe to the Podcast Niceguysonbusiness.com TurnkeyPodcast.com - You're the expert. Let us help prove it. Podcast Production, Concept to Launch Book Doug and/or Strick as a speaker at your upcoming event. Amazon #1 Best selling book Nice Guys Finish First. Doug's Business Building Bootcamp (10 Module Course) Survey: Take our short survey so The Nice Guys know what you like. Partner Links: Amazon.com: Click before buying anything. Help support the podcast. Interview Valet: Get interviewed on top podcasts and share your message. Acuity Scheduling: Stop wasting time going back and forth scheduling appointments Promise Statement: To provide an experience that is entertaining and adds value to your life. Don't underestimate the Power of Nice.
Some people have given me a hard time about calling myself a critical thinker but not being willing to cast a critical eye towards some of my own beliefs. Well, I’m happy to hear anything anyone has to say that can convince me to change my mind about just about anything and when it comes... The post Sensibly Speaking Podcast #98: Problems with Atheism and Faith ft. Stephen Long appeared first on The Sensibly Speaking Podcast.
How do you feed 7 billion people? How do you grow that much food? That's the question that confronts plant biologists. Over the past sixty years, our understanding of genetics has allowed us to increase yield of crops hugely. This, by taking an edible plant, and increasing the relative biomass of the part you can eat—a bigger grain of rice, for instance. Or a bigger bean from a soybean plant. But as the world population continues to grow, and change, researchers like Dr. Stephen Long are looking for more ways to grow more food, more quickly. Plants with high “photosynthetic efficiency” (PE) are plants that efficiently convert sun energy into plant biomass. Understanding and improving PE has been the object of Dr. Long's whole career. Most plants average a surprisingly low PE: 1%. Even high-PE plants only get up to 3%. Long sees an opportunity to up that number to 9% by editing the genes of plants Tune in to hear more about Dr. Long's research. Subscribe, review, and if you can, consider donating a few BitCoins to the cause.
As founder and president of Motere Consulting, Dr. Stephen Long applies an educative, rather than rehabilitative, consulting model resulting in an average of 115% financial performance improvement for his clients with a zero failure rate. Through his work with exceptional leaders, champion athletes, fighter pilots, military special operations personnel, top salespeople, high performers and corporate executives, Dr. Long has helped permanently raise productivity from adequate to outstanding. Applying his strategies and techniques, Dr. Long has helped a variety of companies realize a significant increase in performance through management team execution specifically management succession, turnarounds, performance plateaus and change management practices. As a primary source, Dr. Long provides a breakthrough social operating system that immediately enhances an organization's productivity and efficiency. Dr. Longs 30 years of experience and expertise has earned him a reputation as one of the world's leading experts in performance psychology. Armed with a legacy of success from a broad array of industries, Dr. Long's expertise in behavior change, psychometrics, and collective belief systems equips client firms with the skills that are neglected by other consulting firms, leaving executives with temporary improvement rather than the long-term success they require. Dr. Long's strategies provide rapid improvements followed by long-term success.
This is Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.A clinical trial of a gene-editing technique on advanced lung cancer patients in China has aroused world attention in medical circles.The potentially revolutionary CRISPR technique allows scientists to selectively edit genome parts and replace them with new DNA stretches, in the hope that certain diseases including cancer could be cured.CRISPR is a collection of DNA sequences that direct a certain gene where to cut and paste. The gene can edit DNA, allowing the alteration of genetic patterns by genome modification.The trial began in late October as a group of oncologists at the West China Hospital of Sichuan University started injecting genetically modified cells into a patient with aggressive lung cancer.The editing therapy treatment will last from eight to 13 weeks, while the whole trial could last more than a year.Experts around the globe have been discussing the pros and cons of the groundbreaking medical technology.Carl June, a clinical researcher in immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania, told the journal Nature that the Chinese scientists' trial is "an exciting step forward".The United States is also planning trials that would use CRISPR for cancer treatment. U.S. experts applauded the work of the Chinese scientists and hoped that China's research, as well as the healthy competition worldwide, could improve modern medical science and finally benefit patients.This is Special English.Renowned Chinese developer of hybrid rice Yuan Longping has set a new world record. A hybrid rice project headed by Yuan has achieved an annual yield of 22 tonnes per hectare of farmland.According to authorities in south China's Guangdong Province, the amount of the double-cropping rice is equal to that produced over three seasons in the past, marking a big breakthrough.An academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering told the Xinhua News Agency that this is the fifth generation of hybrid rice technology, and the quality of the rice is as good as Japan&`&s renowned Koshihikari rice.Known as China's "father of hybrid rice", Yuan began theoretical research around 50 years ago and continued to set new records in the average yields of hybrid rice.The Ministry of Agriculture officially launched a hybrid rice breeding program in 1996.Around 65 percent of Chinese people depend on rice as a staple food.You&`&re listening to Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.The International Space Station has gained three new residents, including the oldest and most experienced woman to orbit the world.A bit of Mars also arrived, courtesy of a Frenchman who brought along a small piece of a Mars meteorite.Launched from Kazakhstan, the Russian capsule docked at the 250-mile-high outpost and delivered a U.S. astronaut, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut. They joined three men already on board, one American and two Russians.This is the third space station mission for NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson who, at 56, is older than each of her crewmates.She already holds the record for the most time spent in space for a woman, almost 400 days during her various missions. By the time she returns next spring, she should have broken the record for any American, man or woman.A biochemist by training, Whitson will celebrate her 57th birthday in the orbiting lab in February. Until Thursday, no woman older than 55 had traveled into space.November 20 marked the 18th anniversary of the launch of the first space station piece. Now the space station is as big as a football pitch, with a mass of 1 million pounds and eight miles of electrical wiring. Whitson and company represent its 50th full-time expedition crew.This is Special English.Scientists in the United States have hacked a plant&`&s genes to make it use sunlight more efficiently, a breakthrough that could eventually dramatically increase the amount of food grown.Scientists say photosynthesis is how plants convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into food. But it&`&s a very inefficient process, using less than 1 percent of the energy available.By genetically modifying part of the plant&`&s protective system, which kicks into gear when too much sunlight beams down, scientists were able to increase leaf growth between 14 and 20 percent in experiments with tobacco plants. The study has been published in the journal Science.Lead author the study Stephen Long said it won&`&t be too difficult to do it with other crops too; and if the technology is applied to crops around the world, it would increase the yield of many millions of tons of food.Long said that&`&s still at least 15 years away, but this is the first time scientists have been able to do something like this.An agriculture professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said the study makes sense, but cautioned the yield might not be quite so high for conventional food crops. But he added that still, the study remains a breakthrough.This is Special English.Shanghai will implement stricter tobacco control rules, banning smoking in all indoor public places, workplaces and public transport from March next year.The Standing Committee of the Shanghai People&`&s Congress, the local legislature, has passed an amendment to existing smoking control regulations that took effect six years ago.While the existing version allows designated areas for smokers in indoor areas of hotels, restaurants, entertainment venues, as well as airports, trains and ports, the amendment closes such loopholes.In addition, smoking will be prohibited outdoors at certain public venues visited by children, including schools, after-school education institutions and children&`&s hospitals. Outdoor auditoriums in stadiums are also subject to the ban.China has 300 million smokers, with another 700 million exposed to second-hand smoke. Last year, more than 700,000 people in China were diagnosed with smoking-related lung cancer.At least 16 Chinese cities, including Beijing, have passed their own tobacco control rules.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Mark Griffiths in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to newsplusradio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That&`&s mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues.The island nation of Kiribati has established a large shark sanctuary that will help ensure the creatures are protected across much of the central Pacific.Vice President Kourabi Nenem said at the sanctuary&`&s launch ceremony that his country was committed to protecting sharks from exploitation and overfishing.Kiribati has banned commercial shark fishing in the sanctuary which is about the size of India.Palau established the first shark sanctuary in the region in 2009, followed by the Marshall Islands, French Polynesia and other countries.One hundred million sharks are killed each year by commercial fisheries. Sharks are vulnerable to overfishing because they&`&re slow to mature and reproduce.Sharks are prized by some for their fins, which are used in shark fin soup.Ben Namakin, who was born in Kiribati and has pushed for the sanctuary, said he first began to consult elders and community groups with the idea four years ago. He said some people were resistant at first because Kiribati has a tradition of catching and eating sharks.But he said the elders didn&`&t like the way commercial operators were fishing for the creatures and understood their plight more when they were told of their unusual biology.Namakin said they came to realize that the shark sanctuary was important to protecting their culture.This is Special English.In a ghost town of dead coral off a remote Pacific island, scientists have found a bit more life.In excursions a year ago and then last April, scientists examined the normally stunning coral reefs around the island of Kiritimati and pronounced it mostly a bone yard of dead coral. Around 85 percent of the coral was dead, 10 percent was sick and bleached but still technically alive, and only 5 percent was doing OK.The same scientists returned this month and found that 6 to 7 percent of the coral is alive and not bleached.Many of the fish that rely on the reef and had been absent seem to be back.Hot water, mostly from El Nino, the natural occasional warming of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide, and man-made global warming had made the area one of the worst hit coral spots in the world. Later, nearby Jarvis Island was even more damaged. And the death of 85 percent of the coral of the better known and much larger Great Barrier Reef has been reported.Scientists say that despite the mass mortality, there are a few small signs of hope, and it is clear that coral reefs have great resilience and the coral there is trying to recover.This is Special English.The skeleton of a dodo bird is about to take flight, at least at an auction in the U.K.Summers Place Auctions is selling what it describes as a rare composite skeleton of a dodo bird, a creature once found on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.Sailors hunted the species into extinction in the 17th century and it has come to symbolize the harsh impact human beings can have on the world&`&s ecosystems. The bird&`&s name recognition was enhanced by Lewis Carroll, who included a dodo in "Alice&`&s Adventures in Wonderland".You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Mark Griffiths in Beijing.The government of north China&`&s Shanxi Province has published a circular with details of more than 4,000 Great Wall sites in the region in an effort to enhance protection.The circular includes the names, location, dates, and protection areas of the Great Wall sections, as well as areas where construction is strictly controlled. The sites are spread across 40 counties and districts in eight cities in the province.Within the protected areas, no dismantling or reconstruction of the Great Wall is allowed. Construction projects and underground mining are also prohibited.Within the construction control areas, construction projects should not affect the historical style of the Great Wall, and construction blueprints should be approved before projects begin.The Great Wall was built between the third century B.C. and the Ming Dynasty that ended in 1644. With a total length of 9,000 kilometers, the existing sections of the Great Wall were mostly created during the Ming Dynasty some 400 years ago.In 2006, a national regulation on Great Wall protection was released, but the sheer size of the structure has posed a challenge to enforcement. Less than 10 percent of the wall is considered well-preserved, while around 30 percent has disappeared.This is Special English.（全文见周六微信。）
Increasing efficiency in photosynthesis has been one of the desired goals of plant biology. A recent paper in the journal Science presents work by a team led by Dr. Stephen Long from the University of Illinois/University [...]
The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families
The origin of Port and Starboard Victoria Reibel reads stories about Anne Bonny, and Stephen Long's unusual dragon-like steamboat, the Western Engineer. Tamerlane Trio performs original song "Big Ol' Boat" (song recorded by Rob Collier) Quiz time and more! **Correction: in Anne Bonny, in regards to her death, we say 1881, but we mean 1781, as you'd probably guess from our framing it around the American Revolution - sorry!**
July 21, 2016 at the Boston Athenæum. The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was arguably New England’s most damaging weather event ever. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people and destroying roads, bridges, dams, and buildings that stood in its path. Not yet spent, the hurricane then raced inland, maintaining high winds into Vermont and New Hampshire and uprooting millions of acres of forest. In this lecture, Long will share excerpts from his book Thirty-Eight, which is the first book to investigate how the hurricane of ’38 transformed New England. Drawing on survivors’ vivid memories of the storm and its aftermath, and on his own familiarity with New England’s forests, he will share with the audience how the storm brought about social and ecological changes that can still be observed today.
Steve Long shares PMH theory pyramid building. Nikola Tesla discovered what the modern electromagnet really does and why, Tesla wrote about electricity and magnetism as magnetricity. Albert Einstein ,said the universe was push and pull, and Ed Leeskalnin , wrote plant ,animal, mineral, and a book about equal forced magnetic current but when Rockerfeller offered to pay of Ford's mass production in an exchange to run gas powered motors the truth was buried. Magnetic poles equal because of zero perfect push and perfect pull . The modern electromagnet makes electrons and protons. This is similar to the yen and yang effect of zero is the line between.the electron and proton are born from the one pole, torn into 2 unequal parts.Stephen Long born in USA lives in Cedr Rapids, Iowa and has prophetic dreams that inform him of the sams as TA. Ed Lleedskalnin showed us many times Saturn and the crescent moon over and over, when you understand that as the sun moves it is also push, and as the planets follow in the suns wake they are full. Moon light is a strong reflection of sun light and on either one of earth's 2 crescent moons the moons crescent show man when the suns power is weakened, and as Saturn's crossing with the smallest moon it helps pull the stone up, but the best part is Ed Leedskalnin PMH (pmh) as a magnetricity holder or perpetual motion holder [electromagnet holder]. Ed taught us that magnets not electrons were in fact in everything, living and dead. That the earth was a magnet and that we live within its flux. Ed used the pmh to recharge the stone and give the stone poles ,but as in nature one pole inside and one pole outside. The pmh allowed Ed to keep the charge and turn it inside out. So, between flipping the poles of the stone and Saturn's crossing with the crescent moon the stones lifted and were pushed into place with wood. Explaining this is showing pre-flood technique.
Dr. Stephen Long is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his BS (1st Agriculture) at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and his PhD in Plant Sciences from Leeds University in the United Kingdom. Steve served on the faculty in Environmental Physiology at the University of Essex before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois. Steve has received a number of awards and honors during his career, including being named a Fellow of the Royal Society. Steve is here with us today to tell us about his journey through life and science.
Unless you're new to Spartanburg, you've most likely, at some point in the past few years or so, heard of an organzation called . But what is Hub-Bub? If you're not "in the know," you might not have any idea, but after today it'll be safe to officially call yourself an expert. On this podcast, we sit down with the organization's Executive Director, Cate Ryba (also member of City Council) and the Hub-Bub Showroom Director, Stephen Long to talk about the organization's history, and its place in the local community. Along the way we also get the skinny on some of Hub-Bub's great events coming up in the next few weeks, including a featuring a presentation by a member of our fearless podcasting duo, City Communications Manager Will Rothschild. Listen and Enjoy!
Welcome to the second edition of Podcast Pending! "Zero Dark Pod" The members of Podcast Pending give their picks for the upcoming Oscars. (00:47) We discuss the PS4 announcement from the past week. (14:30) Do you mind having to use your full name on certain sites online? (17:40) What announced features do we like/hate ? (18:40) When did you first realise you were an adult? (25:00) We all agree that we have grown to hate young people. (30:30) This week's panel are Thomas Atkins, Shaun McGuinness, David Roche, Ciaran Shanahan, Brian Cullen and Stephen Long. Contains some use of strong language. Feel free to try out the rest of the Podomatic account for stuff cut from the episode. Please feel free to recommend a topic or question for the next podcast!
It’s the first episode of Talking GAA for 2012 and what a show we have in store. Joining Dave is Armagh and radio legend Damien McCullough. The Kerry duo of Eoin O’Shea and Ailbe O’Reilly are included along with Meath’s David Sheehan. Dave also gets a preview of the Waterford Crystal and Walsh Cup from Beat Fm’s Stephen Long. ..... On the show: Round up of the NFL games Why are they stopping Sean Johnston’s move Waterford Crystal and Walsh Cup games ..... Talking GAA is by the fans for the fans. If you would like to advertise, sponsor or just be involved with the show, drop us an email to TheWorldsTalking@gmail.com Don’t forget to ‘like’ the show on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Worlds-Talking/191923120895223 And follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TheWorldsTalkin
The incredible minute-by-minute story of the sinking of a tall ship. On Sept. 11, 2008, the "Asgard II" sank in the Bay of Biscay. Student radio producer, Stephen Long of DCU, tells the story of that night through eyewitness interviews.
This time out we celebrate the best in not leaving well enough alone with BEST REMAKE/REBOOT! Join Damon Shaw, Mike Ortiz, Paul Kowalski, thechrisbrown and Stephen Long as they find out if New Coke tastes better than New Trek! Will Nolan's Batman be kryptonite to Byrne's Man of Steel? Does modern Galactica find a home in the finals? Can Dawn of the Dead's fast zombies make a run for the finish line? Can John Carpenters The Thing shapeshift to victory, or will Scarface make it say hello to his little friend? It's a parade of capitalizing on someone else's ideas!
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