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Keith discusses the new power shift in the housing market, where buyers now have more power in the Northeast and Midwest.  Ken McElroy joins us to discuss the current state of the real estate market, highlighting a significant decline in apartment building values and a predicted further drop in home ownership rates, potentially below 60%. They note that while some states, like Arizona, have surpassed pre-pandemic housing supply levels, others, like the Northeast and Midwest, still face shortages. Ken emphasizes the importance of affordability and the shift towards renting, predicting a significant increase in renters. He also shares insights on strategic property investments and the benefits of buying at current market lows. Resources: Use the discount code "KEN10" to get a discount on the Limitless Expo event. 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Well, it's the opinion of today's qualified guest that it's going to get even worse from here. We'll also discuss why rents in the Phoenix area are declining, and a bold prediction on a collapse in the home ownership rate and the hordes of renters that that will create all today on get rich education.   Mid south home buyers, I mean, they're total pros, with over two decades as the nation's highest rated turnkey provider, their empathetic property managers use your ROI as their North Star. So it's no wonder that smart investors just keep lining up to get their completely renovated income properties like it's the newest iPhone. They're headquartered in Memphis and have globally attractive cash flows and A plus rating with a better business bureau and now over 5000 houses renovated. There's zero mark up on maintenance. Let that sink in, and they average a 98.9% occupancy rate, while their average renter stays more than three and a half years. 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Ah, I'm just another slack jawed mouth breather with a mic here. Before we get to today's guest, Ken McElroy, let me tell you about housing's new power shift and where we're at today. Three to five years ago, sellers held all the power in virtually every market because the housing supply was so miserably low everywhere. So you had more one tours of real estate and few that were willing to sell. That is still mostly true on a national level, but the new power shift is about the fact that the Northeast and Midwest are replete with home buyers. Queues of buyers are lining up for the few available properties like I've touched on before, and look low available housing supply in these areas, the Midwest and Northeast, that's not a symptom of mass in migration. Hordes of people are not stampeding into Buffalo for the nightlife. It's all due to chronic under building, partly from strict regulation, especially in the Northeast. A big part of the power shift, though, is that we now have fully 10 states that are above pre pandemic supply levels, and you'll notice that none of these are in the Midwest and Northeast. The 10 states are Arizona, which we'll talk about more today, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Hawaii, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Washington. Here in these places, is where the tables have turned, because supply is catching up with demand in those 10 states. So that's where we're seeing softer home price growth and where buyers have the power, these are some of the states where you can find better deals. Motivated sellers and builders in these places will often buy down your mortgage rate, give you closing cost credits or reward you with incentives, like a free year of property management. In fact, our GRE investment coaches guide you for free to exact property addresses where builders will buy down your mortgage rate to 5% today, one of them will even give you a $9,800 post close credit instead, if you so choose. Often do. Those like that are in those 10 states. They're elsewhere too. You can get started at GRE investment coach.com, conversely, 40 states have less for sale housing inventory than they did as compared to pre pandemic times. This is where sellers still have the power some of the most competitive markets in the nation are buffalo, Hartford, Providence and Boston, where more than 10 active home buyers vie for every single listing. That's per Zillow. That's sort of the real estate equivalent of a Taylor Swift or Beyonce ticket queue. At the other end of the spectrum, shoppers have an easier time in Miami with only 2.6 shoppers per listing, followed by Houston at 3.4 New Orleans at 3.5 and San Antonio at 4.3 nationally active listings are up 31% over last year. That's quite a bit, but we're still 12% below pre pandemic, 2019 inventory levels. And is all this good news or bad news? It totally depends on who you are. If you're holding property in the Northeast and Midwest, you're pretty happy about this strong appreciation in the single family space, but in the southeast, appreciation is non existent. There's even mild depreciation, especially in parts of Florida. If you're looking to own more property in the nation's southeast quadrant, you're now enjoying less buyer competition. In fact, sellers are competing for you, and let's avoid being too assuming. Here I've been talking about things on the state level. States are not monoliths. Philadelphia is not Pittsburgh, Seattle is not Yakima. Cities have different supply situations. Even within one city, the scenario varies, of course, really the bottom line here is that today's recovery from 2022 national supply abyss has been an uneven recovery, where builders are frozen, appreciation soars, where builders hustle, buyers win. So if you're looking for deals, find that short queue.    Today's guest is a familiar one to GRE listeners. He's based in Scottsdale, Arizona, which is the Phoenix Metro. Arizona, though it's fast growing, is still just the 14th most populous state, but Arizona is an interesting market, because we're going to get to see what happens when you have an overbuilt condition, like we do there. We'll discuss that market and the national market as well. Get a key gage on the direction of rents, occupancy and prices, first in the single family space, and then we'll talk about apartments. Anyone that's paid attention to real estate that past few years. Knows that when mortgage rates spiked in 2022 single family values have held up, apartment values plummeted due to their interest rate resets. We'll get insight on if the beleaguered apartment space has bottomed out price wise, or if apartment values still have further to fall.    I'd like to welcome in frequent GRE guest, and he was also one of our earliest back in 2015 Ken McElroy. Ken authored a bunch of successful books, both within and outside of the rich dad series. He's also a well known, successful apartment syndicator with over 10,000 units across several states, and he's also in other parts of the commercial real estate sector, including billboards and self storage. So it's really great to have back on the show. Ken McElroy   Ken McElroy  8:57   good to be here, Keith, thank you. It's been 10 years, man, since we've been doing   Keith Weinhold  9:01   this? Yes, 10 years back in episode 25 since you were first here, more than a decade of this. So we know each other's work really well, and it's such an interesting time in the apartment space. I want to get to that later in our conversation today and really find out if you think that the apartment space has bottomed out. But before we do that, let's talk about the single family space. The audience should know that you can meet both Ken and I in person, as we're both faculty members on the spectacular real estate guys Investor Summit C, which is actually underway now. We're recording this just before the summit. So let's discuss the direction of rents and occupancy. We'll get to price later and Ken although most states still have a housing shortage statewide, Arizona's active housing inventory for sale is 24% above pre pandemic levels. That's what realtor.com tells us, and this. Deeply due to a lot of building, a lot of building usually does not bode well for price growth or rent growth. So tell us about rent, direction and occupancy in the single family space in the Phoenix Metro.   Ken McElroy  10:15   There's a bunch of things happening in the Arizona market. First of all, one is we've had a lot of people move here right in the last 4,5,6, years. Yeah, post pre pandemic, post pandemic, all of that. We are a pretty small state. You got Phoenix, got Tucson, you got Flagstaff, a bunch of other small cities that kind of surround some of those. But it's not like a Texas or a Washington or a lot of these California, like a lot of states, and have a lot of cities to draw from. If people move to Phoenix, that's pretty much where they're they start a lot of times, not every time, but and so it's really interesting. When we have net in migration into Arizona, it really moves the needle for most of these cities. Is kind of the point. And so we're always going to be affordable, we're always going to have great weather, it's safe. We got pretty normal politics, I should say, as compared to some of the others, we really do have a growing population. And so what happened? We had a nice run on the real estate. As you do, you know, we had a nice run on the apartments. We had a nice run on the single family that tapered off when the interest rates went up, essentially, right? You know, we actually built too much. We built too many apartments. We built too many houses. When interest rates went up, people kind of pulled back. That's what you're seeing now. So right now, it's a great time to be a home buyer. It's a great time to be a renter in most of those cities in Arizona specifically. And why would that be? It's because they have a lot of choices. So on the single family side, the listings have gone up, and therefore some of the prices have you know, people are starting to negotiate a little bit more. Now here's the interesting thing, Keith, if you measure it on last year or the year before, it has huge numbers, like you just quoted, you know, 24% but what's happening is things are on the market like 40 days, you know, you know what I mean, like from a week or two, it's doubled or tripled, as you know, that's still not a very realistic market. The market is still, in my opinion, pretty healthy. It's not unbalanced, and before it was a seller's market, and so it's just normalizing. And normalizing, to me, if you go over year, over year, over year, is I think MLS says four to six months of inventory, right? I think things are just normalizing. But if you've been through the run, this is like the end of the world, right? But it's not. It's just things are settling down, and it's the greatest time because they're supposed to be a little bit of friction between the seller and the buyer. I believe there should be just about right. It's never just right, as you know, it's usually pulls on one harder on one side or the other. But we just went through an incredible time where the sellers pretty much got whatever they wanted and the landlords pretty much got whatever they wanted, and so this is just pulling back, you know, the tide's going back out. There's no cause for concern, at least in my world at all. It's supposed to be this way, and we need affordability. We need people to be able to buy homes. We need people to be able to rent. Yeah, I'm in the landlord business, but I don't want rents to run. There needs to be a balance there, even though it's good for me, if it does, but it's not good, because what happens is, then the government gets involved, and what they need to get involved in is adding supply, right? And not capping the rents. You know, what they need to do is just work with developers. And you know, because we're growing here in Arizona right now, we're seeing a pullback, but I think it's needed. There's nothing wrong with this. It weeds out a lot of, you know, realtors that weren't doing much, that just got their license, were hanging around, say, with mortgage folks and title people and lazy contractors and all that stuff. So whenever there's a pullback, the professionals win.   Keith Weinhold  14:01   Well, this is some really good perspective here. We're all victims of the recency bias, and, yeah, you're talking largely about market normalization. What sure wasn't normal or healthy, in a lot of ways, was back in 2021 when you might have had 50 offers for one available property, and people had to bid 50k over the asking price, and they might have waived their inspection, which is typically not a good idea when we talk about rents in the direction of rents, especially there in the Phoenix metro with single family homes, which I know your wife, Daniil, is pretty intimately involved with. Typically, this new supply increases competition. It increases the competition for landlords competing for more of those tenants, which is something that typically is not good for rents. Have we seen declining rents in the local market there in Phoenix?   Ken McElroy  14:54   Of course, yeah. And I'll tell you, there's a bunch of factors. So there's always cross currents. People want one. Answer, but there's not right, like, so let's just pick on a whole bunch of things that went wrong at the tail end of all of this. It was Airbnb. Like, Phoenix and Scottsdale are a huge Airbnb market. I've rented Airbnbs there. Sure. It's incredible, right? And so what happened was a lot of people said, oh, I can buy this house, throw some furniture in it. And, you know, I can get 10,15, 20 grand a month in rent out of these things. And they were right. And then what happened was, there just was too many, so became oversaturated. So you're definitely seeing those back on the market. And so interesting fact, Heath, all you got to do is look at the pictures. And if you see bunk beds. You know, it used to be an Airbnb like, you know what I mean? So that was the one, but two, let's don't forget this run that we just had put a lot of people into the rental market for the first time on the single family side too. So we never really had this many landlords on the single family side as well. And so there's all these mistakes that people made. They bought incorrectly. They had capex work. They bought with floating rate debt. And when rates went up, they weren't cash flowing. They wouldn't know how to manage them. So So there's all this stuff that was kind of going on behind the scenes, on the apartment side of the equation, which is where I hang out. Mostly, I watch all this. And because my class A buildings are competing for single family. They have single family typically wins because it has a yard, has a garage. Nonetheless, I gotta pay attention to it. So it's been interesting to watch. At one point you could not find a home in the Scottsdale area under 500 grand period like nothing. And now, of course, those are starting to come down a little bit more, and there's some softness in the rent, so the renters are have more choices. Now, why is that? There's a couple reasons. If you're a renter and you're looking for a place, you know, I'm sure you're considering a house, but not everybody wants a house, especially if you're single or maybe it's just you and somebody else, and maybe you don't have a pet. There's a lot of reasons that people just don't want to have to a home. So you've got condos and you've got apartments and you've got homes, and then you have school districts. So people definitely want to be in certain school districts based on their children. So you have all these cross currents going on, on where people want to be. And so what does all that mean? What that means is there are certain markets, from a rental standpoint, that are doing extremely well, still, both on apartments, on condos and houses. And then there are other markets that absolutely are not just depends on the concentration of all those things and all those factors that are going on. The one thing that's actually disrupting a market more than anything is apartments and condos. Because, for example, Danielle just had a condo that she owned, and the condo was worth, let's say, 300 grand, but it's probably 25 years old now, yeah, and there's apartments going up, you know, a block from there, right? So her renter is said, you know, I'd rather go over here. Brand new amenities, nine foot ceilings, brand new fitness center, all this stuff. So apartments really do reach into that rental market a little bit. And so there is some spillover between that. But primarily what's going on in Phoenix is there's a lot of new construction. And not just Phoenix. This is Tucson and Greater Phoenix. There's a lot of new construction that was started when rates were low. They were started in 2122 and you know, like, because I'm a builder, it could be a year to 18 months when we're opening a project from the time we put our the shovel in the dirt, we're not even open for a good 18 months. So there's a lag period. And those started opening in 23,24 and certainly 25 and these big projects, two, 300 unit projects, which I have several going right now, they're one to two year lease ups, so you could be looking at two or three year lag on some of the housing that's being provided. So that's all here now that is been good for renters. There's a couple horror stories going on, and I'll just explain. So downtown Phoenix, there was a whole bunch of apartment projects and condo projects that were built trying to attract people to live in downtown Phoenix? Well, there's challenges for downtown Phoenix too, and we won't have to get into that. I don't particularly think that there was ever the real demand for the amount of housing. So what you've done is people build a lot of housing in concentrated areas around the stadium in West Phoenix, near the Cardinal Stadium downtown Phoenix, you know, right in the heart of the business district. So if you were to rent something today, it would be four months free on a 12 month lease.   Keith Weinhold  19:48   Wow, that's about the steepest concession I've ever heard of in my life.   Ken McElroy  19:54   Yes, that's today. So all you gotta do is Google it and you'll see. And the only reason that happened, Keith, is. Is because there was too many units delivered at at a short period of time, and there was the demand, wasn't there? Gosh, now go 10 miles up to Tempe, go to Chandler, go to Scottsdale. No concessions, right? So again, you know, when you look at a market, you're going to see that it typically a lot of these concentrate in certain areas. And so there's a lot of areas in Phoenix where the consumer or the renter has an upper hand a lot. And so they're driving their choices based on their monthly rent. All of that plays into this thing, but the there's areas that are rock solid. And you know that would be Scottsdale, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, and there's areas that are over built that would be the west side, downtown Phoenix, the south side, there's areas that there's pockets that you know are in disruption you can kind of pick your poison, right? Like, if you're a landlord, there are areas that you want to buy in areas that you don't want to buy in. And as a renter, you have the same kind of choices. So when you blend it all together, you guys get the national news. But really it's pretty pocketed, just like it can be in any market.   Keith Weinhold  21:12   Well, you bring up so many good points there. Some of these markets that have done more building than usual are in this situation where there is landlord competition for tenants. Now, nationally, we're still under built, so it's interesting to talk about one of these overbuilt conditions in that competition for tenants, like we've been talking about, in general, a tenant prefers a single family home, and it's privacy for sure. They can't always afford that, but the apartment market and the single family rental market are somewhat interrelated, because if there's so much new apartment supply, it's got the appeal of being brand new, and there might even be concessions given, like you've mentioned there Ken and that can make it very attractive for a potentially wannabe single family home renter to go ahead and rent an apartment instead. So this glut of new apartment supply actually can affect the single family rental market somewhat, and competition is really interesting. I mean, certainly in my real estate investment career, I've experienced that. The first time I ever experienced that was that I owned several doors, and they were about 25 years old, and they had garages, each one of them a new apartment complex was built close to those so brand new, and you had to drive by this new apartment complex. Everything nice, shiny new, painted new parking lot, everything a prospective tenant had to drive by that in order to get over to look to my units. That softened my rent somewhat. The one thing that saved me a bit is that my running units were in Anchorage, Alaska, I had the garages with my units. The new apartment building didn't. They only had carports, so I did have a differentiator to help soften the blow in a rental market that became more competitive. Tell us more about the competition for tenants there in Phoenix, whether that's on the single family side or the apartment side can with concessions. And does that mean that you're altering the length of leases there in the local market? Or tell us more about how you're doing that competition?   Ken McElroy  23:10   It's a great question, yeah. So I would say generally, a home is going to be about 1000 bucks more on the average, like if you were just to put a number on it, three bedroom, Rambler type home with a garage in a yard. It's going to be maybe three grand. That apartment, the equivalent was is going to be maybe two grand. So roughly, those are kind of the numbers. But what happens if you're going to rent a house, you're definitely going to pay more money, that's for sure. And of course, depending on the area, depends on the on the rent. Now what's happening in a lot of these markets, like West Phoenix, for example, where you have 1000s of units being added at once, and you get this one month, two month, three month, and the extreme, of course, being four months free, if you're a renter and your rent is two grand, but you get three months free, let's say or four, you're going to take that deal, right? Because your your your average rent is, what 12,13, $1,400 a month, not 2000 so all of a sudden, it's going to impact those single families. So what's happening right now is the apartments that got delivered in in a lot of these geographic areas, these sub markets are definitely impacting the single family rental market. Now, if you're a family and you've got kids and you got pets and you want to be in a school district, you're not even looking you're basically just trying to find the best deal on a home. I get that. But if you have a choice, the rents are about the same, you're going to take the house, sure period I would, you would. So now what's happening is there's, there's such a difference between the rental price of a home versus the rental price of a brand new apartment that people are going to gravitate to the apartments, because those landlords trying to fill those things up are scrambling and marketing to anybody. And everybody and cutting whatever deals they can, because they're just trying to get out of those construction loans. It's a weird market right now. And of course, there are areas Keith that this does not exist at all, right, like you go into like Tempe, and you're not going to have because it doesn't have the available land, you know, which is around Arizona state for example, the Arizona State University. You go into North Scottsdale, you're not going to find this because North Scottsdale doesn't like apartments. And, you know, the homes are a million bucks and up, but there are definitely pockets where this is happening. So if you're a renter and you have choices, this is a great time for you and and to be honest, it's about time, because it was a seller's market and a landlord's market for a long time, and so it's just reverting back to the mean.   Keith Weinhold  25:46   Let's wrap up the discussion about rents and occupancy with what's happening nationally. Ken, since in apartment buildings, you invest in multiple states there, we know, for example, that the home ownership rate recently fell from 65.7% down to 65.1% fewer homeowners means more renters. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're all going to be absorbed immediately, either. So talk to us about that.    Ken McElroy  26:13   There's an affordability problem, right? We haven't seen a massive adjustment with house prices now you have in areas, of course, I saw your recent podcast on Florida. You know how right the price of a house is, is less than a car today? Yeah, you're right, like so, but what's happening is there are markets that are pulling back, right. There are markets that had a bigger bubble than others, and they're pulling back. And so there's great deals in those markets. A lot of areas in Florida being one of those markets, there are other markets where you don't have that. So we are definitely seeing the same thing. And so we're having, in my opinion, it's the greatest time, because you have people that are, I think, should be able to buy a home. But interest rates seem to be holding at Six 7% and the pricing, albeit, hasn't run like it has, but it's certainly not pulling back like crazy either. It's still over 400 on the average, you know. So if you look at the delta between what it costs to buy a home just mortgage only, and you look at what it costs to rent, it's never been bigger. So the difference between your rent, the rent and a mortgage, has never been bigger. And the other thing Keith, that doesn't get talked a lot about are everything non interest rate and everything non mortgage. So let's start talking about insurance. Let's talk about property tax. Let's talk about, you know, capex. So there's a really good survey that bankrate.com did that said that right now, the average cost to own a home, not mortgage, is 1500 a month. So now that's average. I'm sure there's some that's less. I'm sure it's some that higher. So when you take 1500 a month to own it, plus the mortgage you're talking about quite a bit. It's a heck of a financial commitment when you can just rent for 12, 1314, 1500 and call it a day, you're going to move the needle twice as fast, and you're going to be able to get out of whatever financial situation you're in twice as fast when you don't have all those other costs. So what's really going on now? And the reason why you're starting to see this home ownership rate go down, and I actually make a prediction, gonna do it right now on your show, I think it's gonna go down below 60. I think for the first time in our history, we're gonna see home ownership in the 5050 nines, which is a massive statement. But if you take a look at under Obama got up to 69 and then it was, first of all, it was Clinton, and before that, and then kind of ran, but then it kind of got pulled back under the Bush, and then Obama kind of took the brunt of it. You know, when all that stuff was falling out, but it's been falling, and it's falling. Why it's falling? Because people can't afford a home, and they need to be able to afford a home. So we can't build affordably. The single family market is not affordable, and inflation surpassing wage growth, so you have this massive shift of people, in my opinion, moving from home ownership to the rental side. And there was a time where 1% shift Keith was 1 million people,   Keith Weinhold  29:27   1 million new renters, with every 1% drop in the home ownership rate   Ken McElroy  29:32   was 1 million people. So imagine that it doesn't sound like much when you go 65.7 to 65.1 right? That's a lot of people. When you got about 142 million people in the US, or a billion, right? 340   Keith Weinhold  29:46   350 million in 300 Yeah, about 145 million houses,   Ken McElroy  29:51   45 million, yeah, something like that. So you start to take a look at these numbers. They're massive. So these little 1% movement. It is a lot of people. I think we're going to continue to see it. People need to put their stake in the ground here and get on the landlord side of this, because we're going to see a massive shift of people because they can't afford they're going to be permanent renters, renters for life. And it's not good. I'm not advocating, but it just is what it is, with wage destruction, with inflation, with the affordability, the way it is, people are going to be forced into the rental side of the equation, whereas before, we were always kind of working on the fluctuations of the interest rates and the policies of the President, let's say, or whatever it was, to try to get people to be homeowners, or whatever it might be. Now, we might be in some kind of a permanent state unless something really changes, because we're four or 5 million houses short in the US as a result of the last 20 years. As you know,   Keith Weinhold  30:54   I recently saw a media article that was titled The hidden cost of home ownership, and they were talking about hidden costs as things like maintenance, property taxes, property insurance, utilities. I don't know how in the heck those costs are hidden. Any prospective homeowner needs to be aware of those costs, and inflation impacts those costs, where inflation cannot impact your fixed rate, principal and interest payment. There we have it a brazen prediction from Ken that the home ownership rate will drop below 60% in this cycle and the hordes of renters that that's going to release, we're talking about the direction of rents and occupancy in both Phoenix and the nation at large. We're going to come back after the break and talk about the direction of real estate prices. You're listening to get rich education. Our guest is Ken McElroy. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold.   the same place where I get my own mortgage loans is where you can get yours. Ridge lending group and MLS, 42056, they provided our listeners with more loans than anyone because they specialize in income properties. They help you build a long term plan for growing your real estate empire with leverage. 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So if you're like me and tired of your liquid funds just sitting there doing nothing, check it out. Text family to 66866. To learn about freedom. Family investments, liquidity fund again. Text family to 66866   Naresh Vissa  33:25   this is GRE real estate investment coach. Naresh Vissa listen to get rich education with Keith Weinhold, and don't quit your Daydream.    Keith Weinhold  33:32   Welcome back to get worse education. We're talking with seasoned investor Ken McElroy, and he's also been one of the most recurrent guests here on the show. He's just consistently got some of the very best perspectives in the entire nation on the real estate market. And Ken the Fred data, which pulls their numbers from Kay Shiller, it shows that the value of a mid tier single family home in Phoenix, Metro wide, has basically been flat for the last year and a half. I know your wife, Daniil, deals with single family rentals there in Phoenix. Can you corroborate Is that what you're seeing as far as values go there on the ground, or is it different in the sub markets    Ken McElroy  34:20   it's definitely different in the sub markets, but I would definitely concur that it is flat, Keith, it's a very interesting time. People are used to selling things fast. Oh, I'm going to sell this and it trades, and then they're moving it right to something else. They're not used to the markets that you and I grew up in, right which is, you remember the old days where we would list something and it might be on the market for three or four or five months. These people, these kids, these let's last 10 years, they have never seen anything like that. So for me, I think we're just moving back to what I would consider to be normal. I don't see a problem with flat at all. In fact, I think homes are unaffordable and. And flat isn't necessarily bad. That means that both sides are kind of doing deals. That means the seller doesn't hold the cards, and it means the buyer doesn't hold the cards, and so right now is a great time to buy because if a seller is sitting on something for even a couple months, they're not used to it. There's deals to be had right now. And it's, I think, if you have the dry powder and you have the ability to move, is a great time to buy.   Keith Weinhold  35:26   You had mentioned, when we were talking outside this show, that your wife, Danielle has made some interesting moves in her single Yeah, yeah, tell us about that.   Ken McElroy  35:36   It's a fantastic move. I mean, one of the greatest, obviously, I'm doing these big apartment deals, she can't relate, and she's doing these small houses, which she loves. She doesn't like debt. She likes to pay them off, and she manages them all herself. And so she bought this condo years ago, and it's worth about 300 grand, and she paid like 164 years ago, and the rents have dropped. You know, per our last conversation, they were used to be around 1900 now they're around 1700 but the same time, rents have dropped. And why would rents drop? Because there's more competition. There's new apartment buildings being built around the area. The tenants have more choices. Again. There's, you know, rents came down a little bit. So she lost couple 100 bucks a month there, and the HOA hit her with costs. Our insurance went up, our landscaping went up, so all of a sudden their HOA fees started going up. So the rents came down, and the HOA costs went up, squeezes on, yeah, so all sudden she's got this squeeze and so she's looking at it. And I said, you really ought to take a look at your what we call imputed equity. In other words, she has no debt on this thing, so she literally has another way to say it is she has 300,000 sitting in a condo, an asset. What does it matter? What it is and she gets maybe, what does she make it 500 a month, maybe $6,000 okay? Net Cash Flow a year, right? Nothing. So you take your 6000 you divide it by your 300 and it's not a very good return. Yeah, eight. Okay, so she's looking at what we call imputed equity. What's your return on the equity you have? Okay, so she said, I'm going to start looking at these homes that have, like you said, the garages and the yards, because again, we know that should be able to get closer to $3,000 a month on those so she started scouring, and she found one, and it was about 450 grand. So she had to come up with another 150 grand. And so what she did was she sold the unit, the condo she had that had rising HOA and lowering rents for 300 she did a 1031 exchange into the $450,000 house, and then she had to come up with another 150 but her rent now is three grand, and she was able to increase her cash flow By almost $1,000 for a month. So that extra 150 generated about $12,000 of net cash flow gain. And so again, she just purely looked at the math on one and did a 1031 moved it into another one. And now she's super happy it's in a home. And as you know, in a lot of these homes, not always, but you tend to have people that don't move as much. So this the guy that moved in has his son. He has him in a local school. He's young. He's probably going to be there for years, so she's probably not going to have the turnover that she would in a condo project. That's really more like an apartment building. That's what she just did. And so don't forget, when prices are high, you're exiting high and buying high. When prices are in flux, a little bit like they are flat, you're going to be able to find deals. So it's a really good time to take a look at imputed equity and what's your real, true return, and is there a better asset class for you to be able to move that money into? Because this is truly about managing money and maximizing your return on your own dollars. And that's a move that she just made, and she's going to be on the cruise. She'll see you, and I'm encouraging her to actually do a talk on it, because there's a lot more detail to how she pulled it off. But it only took her, like, four or five months to do it, and it worked perfectly.   Keith Weinhold  39:22   Yeah. Well, congratulations there. I'm a fan of debt around here, as you know, on the summit, Daniel and I'll have to have a chat, and I'll talk about why financially free beats debt free and all of that. But I would love to hear her reply. She probably has some really good, sound reasoning for that can nationally apartment values have followed perhaps an astounding 30% because the way I see it is that three or four years ago, there were tons of new apartment starts with those freakishly low mortgage rates like you touched on. Start to completion of an apartment building can be as long as two years. So those starts have now become completion. Dollars, and they need to be leased up. So that's the glut, and that's why apartment vacancies are common in a lot of American markets today, with higher mortgage rates now, we have fewer starts and with less new future apartment supply coming onto the market, which would have been completed in 2025 to 2027 I mean, that's something that could portend well for the future, but the current apartment glut still needs to get absorbed by tenants. So talk to us about that.   Ken McElroy  40:29   That's a great, great tee up for me. Okay, so I'm going to do seven transactions this year. Now, that's all 200 plus units. So I bought 360 unit building and brand new in Las Vegas. We just closed on a 282 unit in north Scottsdale. We bought 152 unit in Phoenix. And on and on and on and on and on. We're really, really, really busy right now, because, to your point, why would we be doing that now? Here's why apartments are valued based on how they're operating period. So high vacancy, high concession, flat rents, high expenses. That's all bad if you own it, it's really good if you buy it. So you want to buy at today's numbers, and that's what we're doing. We're buying at today's numbers, and we think that there's a little window that we've got through 26 to be able to acquire a bunch of apartments at these low values. To your point, they've definitely dropped. There's another case as to why, because the next piece is when the mortgage rate's high, cash flow is less. So when your mortgage payment is higher, all things being equal, your cash flow is less. So when rates went up, then people could pay less, and that drove values down. So if we could lock in today with all this disruption, so that's what we've been focused on. And it's been a very exciting year for our company. And in addition to that, to your point, but you and I have never spoken about, we just broke ground on another deal, and we're just leasing up on a deal down in Tucson that we're we're a 300 unit building that we're just finishing, and we just broke ground on a 312 unit, and we got a couple more slated because we're trying to break ground today. And why would we would break ground today because there's not a lot of subcontractors bidding on the stuff. So we're getting better pricing. The interest rates are high. This is true. That's not necessarily a positive, but we're breaking ground in anticipation of opening in two years, when all this stuff gets absorbed, we're going to be opening and so, you know, if we could time it today with 25 we break ground, we're going to open in 27 this stuff will be absorbed by then the blood will be in the streets in 25 and 26 and maybe early 27 and then it's going to shift again, Keith, and you know, people are slow to react. And so we think we're going to hit this little window at optimal time to be able to open up brand new product in two years.   Keith Weinhold  43:05   That's great. Ken we've been having these conversations for over a decade now, I know, and the way that I see it is that MC companies, your company, was built exactly for times like this. Is that to say that you think apartment values have reached their bottom,   Speaker 2  43:22   so I actually don't think they have yet. That's a funny comment, and here's why, because we also went through this extend and pretend time with lenders, right? So the lenders, whoever bought something, was trying to hold on to it forever. But now, with this new administration and the battle with the, you know, Powell still in office for another year. Who knows really, what's going to happen with rates? Maybe a quarter here, quarter there, whatever. But the reality is, there's no relief in sight. It doesn't appear. Because now we have this high vacancy, we have high expenses, and I don't think there's going to be a lot of interest rate relief. And so I think the lenders are going, you know what? We're gonna start listing these. So we're starting to see just in the last few months, brokers call. I got a call the other day from a broker out of San Antonio. He said a lender called me. They gave me nine deals. He said the keys, they gave me the keys on nine deals now and then I got another one in Dallas. It was 35% occupied, and the loan was 25 million, and the guy said they would take 14, so that's an $11 million haircut to the lender. So you're starting to see these. These are coming into my emails, right? Because they flooded. We are kind of deal. Yeah, it's so good. Now I've passed on everything so far because I think the knife is still falling a little bit, and so I think we're in the first few innings of seeing these kinds of deals, and there needs to be a lot of them, right? Like they need to be everywhere. And then when they're everywhere, everything's listed, and people are looking at them, and there's all this interest, then I think we're going to be at the bottom, but we're darn close. I mean, we're darn close, I would say. Right? We're probably by end of the year close. That's why, if a prudent investor, is getting their dry powder together, now they're meeting with their broker relationships, now they're meeting with their lender relationships, now they're putting together their LPs, and they're starting to go out and look at deals. Now, even if it's no no, no, no, no, no, no. This is the time for you to build relationships and be ready to strike when you start to see stuff this year, toward the end of the year, will will be the bottom and then I also think next year is going to be rocky for a lot of things. Then you're going to see a lot of lender write offs.    Keith Weinhold  45:37   This is really good guidance for what you the listener, can accidentally do if you are a prospective apartment building buyer. Great insight there. Ken. Ken, yes, you and I are about to be together on the real estate guys Investor Summit to see but there's another great event that begins at the end of next month that you put together.    Ken McElroy  45:59   Tell us about that. This is great. I have now we have about 4000 investors. So these are all high net worth people that invest with us. And you know, this is our 24th year in business. So when I meet with all of them, we used to do these investor summits, they would say, What about gold? What about silver? What about oil? What about water? What about timber? What about self storage? What about Office? What about retail? So I'm like, I'm going to create a conference where I can have everything in one spot, and we can invite high net worth, accredited people be able to come there and listen to the best of the best. So no professional speakers, just people that are really doing deals. You know, like we have guys that are building wellness spas and hospitality. Obviously, we have some single family. We got multi family. Got a retail guy, industrial guy, commercial guy, office guy. We got a gold panel. And then we got these economists, and you probably know some of the names. So we got George gammon coming. We got Jeff Snyder, who's unbelievable Euro dollar University. He's coming. We got Brent Johnson, who created what's called the milkshake theory. And just Google it, you'll see it's all about the central banks. We got Jim Rickards, who wrote currency wars and a new case for gold. And we got Lawrence Lepard, who just wrote this book called The Big print. All coming as speakers unpaid, and they're just going to try to deliver the best value they can to the people. Because I tell you what, Keith, I don't know about you, but it's confusing. I'm reading about tariffs, I'm reading about inflation. I'm reading about unemployment. I don't know where interest rates are going. I'm feeling it at the street level, at the main street level, with my apartment buildings, they're harder to manage. The expenses are going up. I try to create this environment to where people can show up and hear real real things, and they can make real decisions and course correct, right, and also take advantage of of some other things. We're also having a manufacturing panel, and I got a whole panel just on the Trump tax bill, because the opportunity zones, the bonus depreciation, all the stuff, these are things that you can do to be able to take action. So this is limitless expo.com. Since we're on your show, they can do KEN10. KEN10, which is a discount, the prices do go up. Obviously they're the highest. They are in July, because that's when the event is but in June, they're still lower. So I would suggest that people go this year, especially with this new administration, and everybody's like, what is going on? Hopefully we can it's starting to clear up some of the confusion that we all have right now and try to figure things out.   Keith Weinhold  48:36   It seems like all we do know is that we don't know limitless ought to help clear some of that up. It is July 31 to August 2. Tell us where it's taking place.   Ken McElroy  48:47   Yeah, it's at the gaylord in Texas, in Dallas, Texas. It's called the Gaylord Texan. It's limitless expo.com. Now we did it last year. There'll be 2000 people. We have 50 speakers. We have five stages, 50 speakers. It's a really high end event. What I mean by that is these are real people doing real deals with real businesses, real investors. It's been fantastic. I haven't had to pay speakers because of the quality of the attendee. That says a lot. It's really been interesting and great. And by the way, I don't really think having big speakers to sell tickets is the way to go. I'd rather have a real quality event, and it's really interesting once you set your mind on something. Because my investors and other investors show up because they do more than invest in just what we do. Like real estate. Everybody wants a little piece of real estate, but they also want to know about Bitcoin. They also want to know about gold, you know. And these are things that I'm not that proficient in, you know. I want to hear from experts in those fields. So it's really been a great, great event.   Keith Weinhold  49:48   You kind of crowdsource the need. You listen to what your audience was asking about, and then you delivered it for them. Limitless expo.com, use the discount code KEN10 to get. Get a discount. Ken McElroy, it's been great chatting about the direction of rents and prices in the both single family space and apartment space. It's been great having you back on the show.   Ken McElroy  50:09   Yeah, for sure. Keith, always great. Man. Good seeing you.   Keith Weinhold  50:18   Yeah. Ken, decidedly bullish on buying real estate, even calling it a great time to buy. He basically believes that because buyers have more power than they did three and four years ago, and they have more options, an emphatic prediction that the home ownership rate will fall below 60% there is profundity here. I mean, the census figures on this go back to the 1960s and the lowest it's fallen in all that time was 63% by the way, homeownership peaked in 2004 at 69% apartment values have crashed about 30% and It's probably going to get worse. So the worst isn't over, but likely will be by about the end of this year. So in Ken's opinion, most of the worst is over. I'm reading in between the lines there on that one. Hey, I hope you've been enjoying this show lately. Next week, we're going to change things up somewhat here. Recently, we've had rather prominent guests on the show, like the father of Reaganomics, David Stockman, then Russell gray last week, this week, the owner of 10,000 running units, Ken McElroy. And you know their perspectives and experience and influence, they are terrific. And I trust that you've learned from them. Next week, we'll have two GRE listeners here on the show, regular listeners, perhaps people more like you, because you can probably relate well to their stories. Until then, I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, don't quit your Daydream.   Speaker 3  51:59   Nothing on this show should be considered specific, personal or professional advice. Please consult an appropriate tax, legal, real estate, financial or business professional for individualized advice. Opinions of guests are their own. Information is not guaranteed. 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Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the oldest writing system in the world.In the 19th Century, European scholars began to translate inscriptions found on ruins and clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia - an area of the world between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that encompasses modern Iraq, as well as parts of Syria, Iran, Turkey and Kuwait. The script they deciphered became known as cuneiform, and this distinctive wedge-shaped writing system is perhaps the oldest in the world. The earliest cuneiform tablet is in fact over 5,000 years old.These clay tablets reveal much about the daily life of people in this part of the ancient world, recording everything from the amounts of beer sold by brewers and the best way to ask the gods for advice, to squabbles between husbands and wives and even the lullabies used to get babies to sleep. The first recorded epic poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh, is also preserved thanks to cuneiform. This episode traces the history of cuneiform, exploring how this script worked, who used it and what they used it for, what it tells us about the inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia, and how it was finally deciphered.This is a radio edit of the original podcast episode. For the full-length version, please look further back in the feed.Hosted by: Greg Jenner Research by: Hannah Cusworth and Matt Ryan Written by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse, and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Production Coordinator: Ben Hollands Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse Executive Editor: James Cook

Šeimos ūkį Birutė ir Vladimiras Kobcevai kūrė porą dešimtmečių. Telšių rajone Dirmeikių kaime dirbta nelengvai, nes pradėta nuo nulio, o dabar yra 300 hektarų ir 150 galvijų. Svarbiausia, kaip sako Birutė, užauginti sūnūs perima veiklą ir vienas ūkininkas jau “iškeptas”, o kitas dar mokosi ūkininkavimo. Apie šeimos ūkį, prioritetus ir ryžtą likti kaime kalba ir šeimos ūkio vairą perimantis, agronomijos mokslus baigęs “iškeptas” ūkininkas Mantas.Dryžius ir Tigris- asilas ir žemaitukų veislės arklys gražiai sutaria, būdami voljere, ūkininko Antano Bezaro sodyboje. Šiaulių rajone netoli Kuršėnų įsikūrusio ūkininko biografija ypatinga: gimęs tremtyje, baigęs Lietuvos žemės ūkio akademiją, ūkininkavo ir politiku gerą dešimtmetį buvo. Ta proga draugai jam ir asilą padovanojo. Kam jam asilas dabar, kaip atrodo žemės ūkis, pasitraukus iš aktyvios politikos?Lenkijos ūkininkų gyvulius irgi puola vilkai. Kaip sako LRT radijo bendradarbis iš Vroclavo Laurynas Vaičiūnas, pernai fiksuota 2000 atvejų. Lenkijos ūkininkai nepatenkinti, nes vyriausybės politika ne mažinti vilkų populiaciją, o mokėti kompensacijas už vilkų padarytą žalą.Ved. Arvydas Urba

Soms heb je van die teksten. Van die teksten waarvan je eigenlijk niet wilt dat er staat wat er staat. Bijbelteksten die beter verborgen hadden moeten blijven. Teksten, visioenen met een enorme impact. Visioenen die geleid hebben tot vervolging, martelaarschap, sektarische zelfmoord. Tja, gelukkig de mens. Gelukkig de mens die nooit een visioen heeft. Luister nu de nieuwste aflevering van Gelukkig De Mens: Visioen via #spotify, #pocketcasts, #applepodcasts, www.gelukkigdemens.nl/179-visioen in je eigen podcastapp. Daniel 10 In het derde jaar van koning Cyrus van Perzië werd aan Daniël, die Beltesassar werd genoemd, een boodschap geopenbaard. Het was een betrouwbaar bericht over een grote strijd. Door een visioen begreep hij het bericht. In die dagen was ik, Daniël, drie volle weken in de rouw. Smakelijk voedsel at ik niet, vlees en wijn kwamen niet in mijn mond, en ik wreef mij niet in met olie tot er drie weken verstreken waren. Op de vierentwintigste dag van de eerste maand, toen ik mij aan de oever van de grote rivier de Tigris bevond, sloeg ik mijn ogen op en zag een man, gekleed in linnen, met om zijn heupen een gordel gemaakt van goud uit Ufaz. Zijn lichaam was als turkoois, zijn gezicht leek een bliksem en zijn ogen waren als fakkels van vuur. Zijn armen en voeten glansden als gepolijst brons en zijn stemgeluid leek door een mensenmenigte te worden voortgebracht. Alleen ik, Daniël, zag de verschijning. De mannen in mijn gezelschap zagen die niet, maar werden wel bevangen door een grote angst, zodat zij wegvluchtten en zich verborgen en ik alleen overbleef. Toen ik die indrukwekkende verschijning zag, verloor ik al mijn kracht; ik werd lijkbleek en was niet in staat nog iets te doen. Ik hoorde het geluid van de stem, maar zodra ik dat hoorde verloor ik het bewustzijn en viel voorover op de grond. Een hand raakte mij aan en deed mij bevend op handen en knieën steunen. De man zei tegen me: ‘Daniël, geliefde man, luister naar de woorden die ik tot je spreek en kom overeind, want ik ben naar je toe gestuurd.' Nadat hij dit gezegd had, stond ik bevend op. Toen zei hij: ‘Wees niet bang, Daniël, want vanaf de eerste dag dat je inzicht probeerde te verkrijgen door je te verootmoedigen voor je God, is je gebed verhoord, en daarom ben ik gekomen. Maar de vorst van het Perzische koninkrijk heeft mij eenentwintig dagen tegengehouden voordat Michaël, een van de voornaamste vorsten, mij te hulp schoot toen ik daar, bij de koningen van Perzië, alleen stond. Ik ben gekomen om je inzicht te geven in wat er aan het einde van de tijd met je volk zal gebeuren; want dit is opnieuw een visioen dat over de toekomst gaat.' [...]

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 216 - Innovation and Games without Guard Rails (Look Mom, No Hands!) Look mom, no hands! Brendan and Pete are diving into a discussion without guard rails (games) and then review Carl Chudyk's, Innovation. Timestamps Show Business - 0:00 Games without Guard Rails - 3:08 Innovation - 20:54   Games Mentioned lost ruins of arnak, Keyforge, Magic: the Gathering, Tigris & Euphrates, Modern Art, Root, and Innovation Preplanners Game design discussion on balancing for player count hosted by Paul coming up soon?! Also, "wow" factor in games!   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Intermission Music: music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0   Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!

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Na'hum. (consolation). Nahum, called "the Elkoshite," is the seventh, in order, of the Minor Prophets. His personal history is quite unknown. The site of Elkosh, his native place, is disputed, some placing it in Galilee, others in AssyriaWhat is the purpose of this book? The book of Nahum is devoted to the announcement of the destruction of the city of Nineveh; the prophecy gave hope to the people of Judah who had long been terrorized by Assyria's constant and ominous threatBefore I get into this study, I continue with our study on what the Capital Building is all about. Was the Capital design to be a Temple set up by the founders of the New World Order? I go into the Apotheosis and the Dome. Apotheosis is a Greek word that means ‘to raise to god like stature' or the glorification of a person as an ideal. Webster's 1829 dictionary defines apotheosis as “the act of placing a prince or other distinguished person among the heathen deities.” Heathen is an Old English term meaning “not Christian or Jewish”. It is compared to “pagan”. Indeed, Brumidi has Washington surrounded by the most powerful pagan gods of antiquity.Beginning with this Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 we read of Nineveh's destruction.The prophet Nahum, having foretold the destruction of Sennacherib, we now read of him how the enemy of Judah is wholly cut off, then goes on to describe the destruction of Nineveh, and with it of his whole kingdom, and, under it, of antichrist and Satan.Here is foretold,(1) The approach of the enemy that should destroy Nineveh, and the terror of his military preparations 1-5.(2) The taking of the city, the captivity of the queen, the flight of the inhabitants, the seizing of all the wealth of it, and the mighty consternation it should be in, verses 6-10.(3) The true cause of all this, their sinning against Yahweh, and Yahweh's appearing against them, verses 11-13.2  the LORD = Yahweh. Let us not forget that this ruin shall fall on Nineveh because Yahweh is mindful of his chosen people, whom Assyria has oppressed.hath turned away = restoreth, or is on the way to bring back. In the Hebrew manuscripts we see that fantastic word ‘eth', that Aleph/Tav. By inserting this Hebrew ETH we see that it is truly Yahweh's hand into this destruction of Nineveh.the excellency = “gaw-ohn'”pre-eminence, could also mean pride.  for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches = The plunderers (the enemy) have plundered the Jews.  Yahweh will do this, because plunderers have plundered them (the Israelites), and destroyed their vines, cast them to the ground; that Yahweh may avenge the reproach cast upon His people. The plunderers are the heathen nations, especially the Assyrians. The vines are the Israelites; Israel as a people or kingdom is the vineyard; the vines are the families, and the branches are the members.3  mighty men = ghib-bore'; powerful; by implication warrior, tyrant, mighty ones, or warriors.4  The chariots shall rage in the streets = The chariots rave, dash madly about the open ways in the suburbs, or in the plains of the country.5  He. = The king of Assyriarecount = bethink himself of. worthies = nobles, who may assemble their troops6  gates = flood-gatesthe rivers. = Nineveh lay on the east (or left) bank of the Tigris. The Khusur (a perennial stream) ran through it; also a canal from it to the Tigris ran through the city. opened: = i.e. by the enemy. Join me as we go Chapter by Chapter, Verse by Verse, Unraveling the Words of Yahweh!Have any questions? Feel free to email me; keitner2024@outlook.com 

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 213 - Top 10 Games of All Time of All Hosts in 2025 All four hosts are here to share the first half of our top 10 games of all time lists. That is Paul, Pete, Jake, and Brendan counting down games number ten through six of our lists. Timestamps 0:00 - Show Business 4:05 - Modern Art 6:32 - Imperium deck builder 9:53 - Wonderlands War 13:46 - Civolution 17:05 - My City 21:57 - Age of Innovation  25:49 - Miyabi 28:52 - Broom Service 32:25 - BattleCON 37:56 - Inis  42:48 - Lunar Architects  46:35 - Nokosu Dice  50:58 - Cascadia 53:12 - The Crew: Mission Deep Sea 57:53 - Warsaw: City of Ruins 1:00:47 - Challengers 1:05:23 - Tigris and Euphrates 1:10:15 - The Resistance: Avalon 1:14:45 - Specter Ops 1:17:34 - Magic: the Gathering   Preplanners Next week's episode will finish counting down our four hosts' top 10 games of all time!   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Intermission Music: music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0   Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!

Unraveling Snow: A Deep Dive into 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'Join hosts Roe and Allorah in this week's episode of The Plot With A Twist as they explore the intricate layers of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. From Coriolanus Snow's tragic backstory to the psychological nuance of the Capitol's most notorious villain, no stone is left unturned. Delve into themes of nature vs. nurture, social conditioning, and mental health. Packed with spoilers and mature themes, listener discretion is advised. Additional discussions include notable characters like Tigris, Sejanus Plinth, and Lucy Gray, as well as the historical significance woven into Collins' narrative. Sip on The Covey cocktail as you listen and enjoy this bookish journey.00:00 Introduction and Podcast Overview00:26 Exploring the Villain: Coriolanus Snow01:41 Shea's Departure Announcement02:26 Casual Chat and Event Recap03:13 Discussion on The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes04:12 Nature vs. Nurture in Snow's Upbringing08:36 Capitol vs. District Youth Treatment14:57 Character Analysis: Lucy Gray19:01 Snow's Inner Conflict and Manipulation30:23 The Mentor Games and Capitol Politics47:23 Debating Snow's Heart47:46 Snow's Selfish Ambitions49:40 Snow's Fear of Nature50:51 Snow's Haunted Past52:11 Snow's Descent into Villainy53:41 Snow's Manipulative Nature59:10 Snow's Poisoning Era01:04:08 Snow's Sociopathic Traits01:11:07 Historical Significance in the Book01:16:40 Side Characters and Their Impact01:29:37 Strabo's Social Status Game01:30:21 Character Integrity and Survival01:30:49 Comparing Characters: Katniss, Peeta, and Others01:31:14 Ma Plinth's Backbone and Family Dynamics01:32:54 Snow's Manipulative Tactics01:33:54 Mentors and Tributes: A Closer Look01:37:48 The Career Pack and Arena Strategies01:40:36 The Covey: Found Family and Loyalty01:42:17 Snow's Influence on the Hunger Games01:45:10 Parallels Between Characters01:53:06 Final Thoughts and Reflections02:02:54 Cocktail Recipe: The Covey02:05:36 Closing Remarks and Social Media Shoutout

In Episode 246 we look like the games that we feel obligated to play but aren't really excited about. The mandatory assignments that we've missed.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction00:34 The unfortunate required coursework of the board game designer04:33 Twilight Imperium 4th Edition06:11 Tigris and Euphrates10:40 The Crew: Deep Sea, The Crew, The Fellowship of the Ring: The Trick Taking Game13:19 Food Chain Magnate15:58 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game20:47 Caverna: The Cave Farmers22:41 Puerto Rico25:25 Concordia, Lisboa29:55 Android: Netrunner, Magic: The Gathering36:11 Blood on the Clocktower37:58 Terra Mystica40:52 Civilization43:18 Commands and Colors: Ancients46:00 Gloomhaven, Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion, Frosthaven52:44 Diplomacy54:59 Final Thoughts and Honorable Mentions: Cosmic Encounter, The Great Zimbabwe, Mage Knight, Slay the Spire: The Board GameIf you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/boardgamehottakesFollow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/boardgamehottakes.bsky.socialJoin our Board Game Arena Community: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=11417205Join our Discord server at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/vMtAYQWURd

Na, no! Megint itt a KK Nano! Grath egy szívmelengető történetet hozott ember és állat közti barátságról, ami igazán kevés járulékos kárral járt (a kulcsszó: cafrang). Mazur megint a horrortémazsákba nyúlt és egy hírhedt középkori farkasemberről mesélt, akit utólag talán már rehabilitálhatunk, hiszen kínvallatás alatt annyi hülyeséget mond az ember. Végül Stöki az autóversenyek egy korai zsákutcájába kormányozta be a KK járgányát, ami ugyan szörnyű képzavar, de még így is kisebb baromság, mint a deszkalécekkel fedett körpálya.

Elif Shafak's award-winning novels are celebrated globally. Her work has been translated into 58 languages, and her latest, There Are Rivers in the Sky, is a testament to the power of storytelling across borders and cultures. This is an epic story of interconnection. Spanning ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary London, Shafak charts the lifespan of a raindrop, as it is consumed, subsumed and transformed across continents and centuries. This sweeping narrative is anchored by the lives of three characters, all of whom live on the banks of the Thames or the Tigris. Their lives are all touched by the Epic of Gilgamesh, a poem written during the late second millennium BC. In April 2025 Shafak was be joined by historian Peter Frankopan on the Intelligence Squared stage. In his acclaimed The Earth Transformed, Frankopan explores how the natural environment has shaped the development and demise of civilisations across time. Here he joined Shafak to shed light on the history of ancient Mesopotamia and the weaving of epic narratives across time and place. ------ If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Want to learn more SQLite? Check out my SQLite course: https://highperformancesqlite.com In this episode, Carl Sverre and I discuss why syncing everything is a bad idea and how his new project, Graft, makes edge-native, partially replicated databases possible. We dig into SQLite, object storage, transactional guarantees, and why Graft might be the foundation for serverless database replicas. SQLSync: https://sqlsync.dev Stop syncing everything blog post: https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-syncing-everything Graft: https://github.com/orbitinghail/graft Follow Carl: Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlsverre LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlsverre Website: https://carlsverre.com/ Follow Aaron: Twitter: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondfrancis Website: https://aaronfrancis.com - find articles, podcasts, courses, and more. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro and Carl's controversial blog title 01:00 - Why “stop syncing everything” doesn't mean stop syncing 02:30 - The problem with full database syncs 03:20 - Quick recap of SQL Sync and multiplayer SQLite 04:45 - How SQL Sync works using physical replication 06:00 - The limitations that led to building Graft 09:00 - What is Graft? A high-level overview 16:30 - Syncing architecture: how Graft scales 18:00 - Graft's stateless design and Fly.io integration 20:00 - S3 compatibility and using Tigris as backend 22:00 - Latency tuning and express zone support 24:00 - Can Graft run locally or with Minio? 27:00 - Page store vs meta store in Graft 36:00 - Index-aware prefetching in SQLite 38:00 - Prefetching intelligence: Graft vs driver 40:00 - The benefits of Graft's architectural simplicity 48:00 - Three use cases: apps, web apps, and replicas 50:00 - Sync timing and perceived latency 59:00 - Replaying transactions vs logical conflict resolution 1:03:00 - What's next for Graft and how to get involved 1:05:00 - Hacker News reception and blog post feedback 1:06:30 - Closing thoughts and where to find Carl

On today's episode, Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid sheds light on the history of Ancient Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, gave rise to writing, literature, astronomy, and law - shaping human history in ways that still resonate today. Drawing on her new book Between Two Rivers, Al-Rashid brings to life the stories of ordinary people from thousands of years ago: working mothers, enslaved individuals seeking freedom, and even a princess who may have founded the first museum. In conversation with archeologist and author Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Al-Rashid discusses the earliest written records, from economic tallies to personal letters, and explores how Mesopotamians grappled with timeless human concerns - love, illness, ambition, and the quest for knowledge. Why does Mesopotamia often remain in the shadow of Egypt and Greece? And what can we learn from this ancient civilization today? Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Oxford's Wolfson College, where she specialises in the languages and history of ancient Mesopotamia. She has written for academic and popular journals, including History Today, on topics as diverse as mental illness in ancient Mesopotamia to Late Assyrian scholarly networks. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“If a person is entrusted to care for a building and decides to tear it down, there's a moral imperative to disclose whether there are people inside. There are 20.6 million people and 566,000 children living inside PEPFAR.” PEPFAR is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. And as of March 25, 2025, its congressional reauthorization has expired. For more than two decades, its website states, “the U.S. government has invested over $110 billion in the global HIV/AIDS response, the largest commitment by any nation to address a single disease in history—saving 26 million lives, preventing millions of HIV infections, and accelerating progress toward controlling the global HIV/AIDS pandemic in more than 50 countries.” Now, some estimate that over 20 million people will lose access to antiretroviral drugs, which may result in up to 1,650,000 deaths over the coming year. In this episode, Mark Labberton speaks with Mindy Belz, an award-winning journalist and longtime war correspondent, to explore the urgent moral and humanitarian implications of PEPFAR's uncertain future. Drawing on Belz's deep reporting experience in conflict zones and her time covering global health efforts, their conversation traces the remarkable legacy of the U.S. government's investment in HIV/AIDS relief, the stakes of congressional inaction, and the broader questions this crisis raises about American moral leadership, Christian charity, and global responsibility. Together they discuss: Mindy Belz's background as a journalist and war correspondent The significance of PEPFAR in the global battle against HIV/AIDS The pivotal leadership role the U.S. government has played in supporting AIDS relief efforts for the past two decades The devastating impact that losing PEPFAR would have on human life around the world, particularly in Africa And, perspectives on charity, moral conscience, and faith in American Christianity Helpful Links mindybelz.com Mindy's Article about PEPFAR: “1,650,000: How killing a global program to fight HIV/AIDS kills”: “PEPFAR contracts ended under Trump mean 20 million people on treatment now face HIV disease again. Without more reinstatements that could lead to a death toll of 1.6 million in a year's time.” About PEPFAR, the “President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief”: Through PEPFAR, the U.S. government has invested over $110 billion in the global HIV/AIDS response, the largest commitment by any nation to address a single disease in history – saving 26 million lives, preventing millions of HIV infections, and accelerating progress toward controlling the global HIV/AIDS pandemic in more than 50 countries. From ThinkGlobalHealth: “PEPFAR Misses Reauthorization Deadline: What's Next for Global HIV Fight?” Mindy's book They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run from ISIS with Persecuted Christians in the Middle East Follow Mindy on X @mindybelz Follow Mindy on Substack: Globe Trot About Mindy Belz Mindy Belz is an award-winning American journalist. For over two decades, she has covered wars and victims of conflict in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan and the Balkans. She recounts some of her experiences in a 2016 award-winning book, They Say We Are Infidels. Her work appears in The Wall Street Journal, Plough Quarterly, and other publications. The New York Times calls her “one of the bravest and best foreign correspondents in the country.” Mindy currently is editor of the 2024 Christianity Today Globe project. Her news roundup, Globe Trot, is read by thousands each week and available on Substack. She speaks internationally and has taught journalism courses in Uganda, India, Hungary, and the United States. She is the former senior editor at World Magazine. A mother of four and grandmother of three, Mindy was married for 40 years to Nat Belz, who died in 2023. She lives in North Carolina. Show Notes Mindy Belz: A Journalist in the Trenches Mindy Belz and her career at World Magazine Mindy's coverage of the AIDS pandemic in East Africa and the war in Sudan The rise of Islamic extremism, Al-Quaeda, and crossing the Tigris into Iraq Her early experiences in journalism and what drew her to war reporting How she came to report from the Middle East and other conflict zones The challenges Mindy faced as a woman journalist “We've all experienced some of the conflict in the world. We've all experienced some terrorism and violence … this is a part of life in a broken and fallen world, and so learning from women, from men, from children incredible resilience in the face of terrible breakdowns is that I just consider a real privilege of my work.” Working with a Sudanese NGO—finding starving people, barely surviving “For Americans, we always get to walk away. I'm really aware in whatever hard situation I'm in, there's little voice at the back of my brain that's saying, ‘Don't forget you get to go home.'” What is PEPFAR? “ President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief,” developed by George W. Bush in 2003 Trendsetting program to battle HIV/AIDS Anti-viral drug program to prevent the spread (but not cure) the disease “We still don't have a real cure for HIV.” “You have 20 million people who are currently taking antiretroviral drugs that are funded under PEPFAR and most of those people just suddenly could not have access to their medicine and, and that means that we are watching even now the disease grow.” “The Trump administration has basically shuttered the program and they have done so without the oversight of Congress.” Nicholas Kristof's NYT March 15 article estimates that 1.6 million people could die over the next year. Link: “Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn't True.” “The scale of the devastation is mind-bending.” What can we do? “Congress is not exercising its oversight responsibilities right now.” “If a person is entrusted to care for a building and decides to tear it down, there's a moral imperative to disclose whether there are people inside. There are 20.6 million people and 566,000 children living inside PEPFAR.” What is the role of our government? “I've also seen PEPFAR working and working incredibly. I routinely and in lifesaving ways.” Understanding moral conscience “We are needing to call our nation not to a Christian identity, which I think is the, the false attempt of Christian nationalism, but to a moral identity. That people of faith, little faith, no faith, other faiths, can enter into and share. And I think some element of that has been operational in the United States for a very long time. And now all of that is being dismantled and being labeled, as you say, by a really cheap word like charity, as though there's no wider frame than simply compassionate sentimentality, as opposed to something that's really taking the moral realities of the world and all of their urgency seriously. And not pretending that we need to be (as we've sometimes tried to be as a nation) the healer of the nations, but to say that we should actually be a force for taking these issues with great national seriousness, and not just repudiating it because it's not inside the boundaries of our own country.” “Use the influence and the economic force of the United States to fund local programs.” “ We have the resources to go and make a difference in this situation. And by doing that we set an example for others to do it.” “We  have adopted an attitude of scarcity.” The impact and efficacy of antiretroviral drugs to improve the lives of people with HIV/AIDS—”To suddenly cut them off is an act of cruelty.” “This is a system, not just medication.” “If we're suddenly saving $5 billion a year, what is that going to be used for?” ”If these things are all happening by executive decision, and Congress does not have a meaningful role, then essentially the people are cut out of the conversation.” “People who become sicker with HIV will become more likely to have tuberculosis, more likely to be suffering from other diseases than side effects of the virus itself.” Where Is God in All of This? “It's a dangerous world. Go anyway.” “We have to trust that the hand of God is there and that it will meet us in the midst of those hard situations.” Production Credits Conversing is produced and distributed in partnership with Comment Magazine and Fuller Seminary.

In dieser Folge widmen sich Michi und Moritz einem spannenden Kapitel der altorientalischen Geschichte: den Amoritern und ihrem bekanntesten Vertreter, König Hammurapi. Ursprünglich als Nomadenvolk im Gebiet zwischen Euphrat und Tigris unterwegs, stiegen die Amoriter zur dominierenden Macht in Mesopotamien auf. Besonders unter Hammurapi erreichten sie ihren Höhepunkt und schufen das erste große babylonische Reich. Was machte die Amoriter so erfolgreich? Und warum ist Hammurapis Gesetzeswerk bis heute legendär? Michi und Moritz gehen diesen Fragen auf den Grund und beleuchten den Aufstieg der Amoriter von der Steppe zur Stadt.

In dieser Folge widmen sich Michi und Moritz einem spannenden Kapitel der altorientalischen Geschichte: den Amoritern und ihrem bekanntesten Vertreter, König Hammurapi. Ursprünglich als Nomadenvolk im Gebiet zwischen Euphrat und Tigris unterwegs, stiegen die Amoriter zur dominierenden Macht in Mesopotamien auf. Besonders unter Hammurapi erreichten sie ihren Höhepunkt und schufen das erste große babylonische Reich. Was machte die Amoriter so erfolgreich? Und warum ist Hammurapis Gesetzeswerk bis heute legendär? Michi und Moritz gehen diesen Fragen auf den Grund und beleuchten den Aufstieg der Amoriter von der Steppe zur Stadt.

Daniel's Terrifying Vision of a Man10 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision. 2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks. 3 I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks. 4 On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris) 5 I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. 6 His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude. 7 And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves. 8 So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me. My radiant appearance was fearfully changed, and I retained no strength. 9 Then I heard the sound of his words, and as I heard the sound of his words, I fell on my face in deep sleep with my face to the ground. 10 And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees. 11 And he said to me, “O Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you.” And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling. 12 Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words. 13 The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia, 14 and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.” 15 When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and was mute. 16 And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength. 17 How can my lord's servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me.” 18 Again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me. 19 And he said, “O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.” 20 Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come. 21 But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince. The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Da 10:1–21.

We've spent a lot of time over the years singing the praises of the games we love, but they can't be perfect right? Surely there's something, one little thing, that bugs us - a small blemish in our otherwise most beloved games? Before we come clean, we talk about Classified Information, Starline Hill, Panda Spin, and SHASN: AZADI. 03:13 - Classified Information 11:54 - Starline Hill 13:35 - Panda Spin 25:32 - SHASN: AZADI 41:56 - Things we hate about games we love 42:39 - Throught the Ages: A New Story of Civilization 44:14 - Tigris and Euphrates 44:36 - Archipelago 45:09 - Cthulhu Wars 45:17 - Cosmic Encounter 45:57 - Diplomacy 46:09 - Innovation 48:28 - El Grande 49:26 - Age of Steam 49:26 - Arboretum 49:26 - The Estates 49:26 - Fresh Fish 50:28 - Marvel Champions: The Card Game 51:22 - Brass: Lancashire 51:30 - Barrage 51:38 - Agricola 53:57 - Blood on the Clocktower 54:08 - A Feast for Odin 56:22 - Sidereal Confluence 56:22 - Stationfall 56:22 - Alchemists 57:30 - Yellow and Yangtze Get added to the BGB community map at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/map Send us topic ideas at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/topics Check out our wiki at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/wiki Join the discussion at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/discord Join our Facebook group at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/facebook Get a Board Game Barrage T-shirt at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/store

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the oldest writing system in the world.In the 19th Century, European scholars began to translate inscriptions found on ruins and clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia - an area of the world between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that encompasses modern Iraq, as well as parts of Syria, Iran, Turkey and Kuwait. The script they deciphered became known as cuneiform, and this distinctive wedge-shaped writing system is perhaps the oldest in the world. The earliest cuneiform tablet is in fact over 5,000 years old.These clay tablets reveal much about the daily life of people in this part of the ancient world, recording everything from the amounts of beer sold by brewers and the best way to ask the gods for advice, to squabbles between husbands and wives and even the lullabies used to get babies to sleep. The first recorded epic poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh, is also preserved thanks to cuneiform. This episode traces the history of cuneiform, exploring how this script worked, who used it and what they used it for, what it tells us about the inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia, and how it was finally deciphered.If you're a fan of historical puzzles, amazing archaeological finds and the intimate details of everyday life in the ancient world, you'll love our episode on cuneiform.If you want more from Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid, check out our episode on Ancient Babylon. And for more ancient history with Phil Wang, listen to our episodes on the history of Kung Fu and the Terracotta Warriors. You're Dead To Me is the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Every episode, Greg Jenner brings together the best names in history and comedy to learn and laugh about the past. Hosted by: Greg Jenner Research by: Hannah Cusworth and Matt Ryan Written by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse, and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Production Coordinator: Ben Hollands Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse Executive Editor: James Cook

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 206 - What We Talk About When We Talk About If Games Can Be Mean Pete, Brendan, and Jake debate whether games can be mean with our usual sense of decorum and mastery of the oral argument.  Timestamps Can Games Be Mean - 0:00   Games Mentioned In the year of the Dragon, Terraforming Mars, Magic: the Gathering, Barrage, Root, The Resistance, Tigris and Euphrates, Catan, The Estates, Game of Thrones: the Board Game   Preplanners Guild of Merchant Explorers will be our next deep dive.   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Intermission Music: music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!

Slaget vid Gaugamela är ett av de största och mest intressanta slagen under antiken. I den mån vi har tillförlitliga källor av slaget visar Alexander upp en iskyla och ett taktiskt sinne som var oöverträffat. Men det var ingalunda givet att Alexanders taktik skulle lyckas. Med numerärt underläge var hans agerande återigen ett vågspel med mycket små marginaler.Efter att Alexander den Store skördat vinsterna efter sin seger vid Issos 331 fvt vände han söderut mot Egypten. Målet var att stänga Levantens hamnar för den persiska flottan, fylla på förråden och sen återuppta jakten efter Dareios III som flytt från Issos och sedean slutgiltigt förgöra det persiska imperiet.I detta avsnitt fortsätter idéhistorikern Peter Bennesved och professorn i historia Martin Hårdstedt berättelsen om Alexander den stores persiska fälttåg fram till slaget vid Gaugamela och intagandet av Babylon.Första stoppet blev Tyros, en rik handelsstad i dagens Libanon, och en nyckelstad i handeln mellan öst och väst. Här möttes han av hårt motstånd av stadens styresmän, och det skulle ta sju månader innan belägringen slutgiltigt lyckades. Det blev en av de kanske märkligaste och mest mytomspunna belägringarna i antikens historia. Under belägringen visade Alexanders armé upp sin ingenjörsmässiga uppfinningsrikedom, men även Alexanders förmåga att driva på sina trupper i svåra lägen. Vändningen kom när delar av den persiska flottan vände sig mot Dareios III och kunde hjälpa Alexander under belägringen.Efter Tyros väntade motstånd i Gaza och ännu en belägring, men motståndet skulle visa sig svagare här. Marschen gick vidare till Egypten. Här blev Alexander vänligt mottagen och skulle vänta i nästan ett år hinnan han gick vidare. Satrapen i Egypten hade sedan länge legat i tvist med den persiska kungen och därav kunde Alexander överta makten utan konflikt. Detta var första och sista gången Alexander gick in i Egypten, men hans arv skulle bli beständigt i form av grundandet av Alexandria. Alexandria skulle bli medelhavsområdets absolut främsta kulturella centrum under århundraden efter hans död.Under sin tid i Egypten mottog Alexander flera fredspropåer från en alltmer desperat Dareios, men Alexander vägrade att förhandla. I juli 332 f.v.t. lyfte Alexanders armé återigen mot Tyros för att sedan vända mot mellanöstern och Irak i sökandet efter ett avgörande. Efter övergången vid Eufrat möttes persiska och makedoniska truppstyrkor, men det blev först på andra sidan Tigris, straxt nordväst om Arbela (dagens Erbil i Irak), som de två kungarna slutgiltig skulle mötas. Vid byn Gaugamela ställde Dareios upp sin här och inväntade Alexander.Slaget vid Gaugamela är idag inskrivet i historieböckerna som ett av de största och mest intressanta slagen under antiken. I den mån vi har tillförlitliga källor av slaget visar Alexander upp en iskyla och ett taktiskt sinne som var oöverträffat. Men det var ingalunda givet att Alexanders taktik skulle lyckas. Med numerärt underläge var hans agerande återigen ett vågspel med mycket små marginaler.Lyssna också på Alexander den store och slaget vid IssusBild: Slaget vid Gaugamela, Jan Brueghel den äldre, 1602 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TAGALOGTuklasin ang kaakit-akit na kasaysayan at sinaunang alamat ng Pilipinas sa "The Philippines: The Land of Gold - Unveiling Ancient Legends." Sumama kayo sa amin sa isang nakakabighaning paglalakbay habang sinasaliksik natin ang mga mitikal na koneksyon sa mga kayamanan tulad ng Paraiso, Ophir, at Chryse. Sa pamamagitan ng mga kamangha-manghang aerial na visual at mga makasaysayang pananaw, sinasaliksik natin ang mga kwento ng mga kilalang manlalakbay, mula sa mga heograpo ng Roma hanggang kay Marco Polo, na inilarawan ang Pilipinas bilang isang lupain na sagana sa ginto at kayamanan. Alamin ang kahalagahan ng ginto sa kulturang Pilipino at kung paano ang mga alamat na ito ay patuloy na umaantig hanggang sa kasalukuyan. Huwag kalimutang i-like at i-share ang video na ito upang ipakalat ang mahika ng Pilipinas! #Pilipinas #MgaSinaunangAlamat #Ginto #Ophir #PamanangKultural #travel-documentaryBALANGKAS: 00:00:00 Mga Pulo ng Ginto at Alamat 00:02:25 Pagmamapa ng Gintong Kapuluan 00:06:55 Mga Bulong mula sa mga Sinaunang Teksto Mga Bulong mula sa mga Sinaunang Teksto 00:08:16 Ophir at ang mga Hangin ng Kalakalan sa Silangan 00:09:08 Ginto sa Tapestry ng Kultura Ginto sa Tapestry ng Kultura 00:12:03 Mga Alingawngaw ng Chryse at Argyre 00:12:59 Isang Pamana na Ginintuan ng Ginto Para sa aming buong posisyon, na walang sinuman ang maaaring hamunin nang hindi talaga nire-review (napaka-bodong iyon!), basahin ang aming mga internasyonal na libro na available sa Amazon, International Bookstores, at Shopee PH:Ang Paghahanap sa Kayamanan ni Haring Solomon sa Ingles, Tagalog, o Ilokano (libre sa eBook);Garden of Eden Revealed: The Book of Maps; at ang aming Bagong Paglabas, Ang Misteryo ng Tatlong Hari (sa Ingles o Tagalog, libre sa eBook) Mga link sa:OphirInstitute.comAt panoorin ang Solomon's Gold Series sa Tagalog:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLru2qbCMGOi5gGdrUwpqEa1fkXE_Jmhw_Para sa mga agad na nag-iisip tungkol sa lokasyon ng mga Ilog mula sa Eden na hindi kailanman inilarawan sa Bibliya bilang ang Okultong Mito ng Paglikha sa Mesopotamia, iyon ang pinagmulan, tiyak na hindi kailanman ang Tigris na hindi umiiral bago ang Baha ayon sa Gen. 2; hindi kailanman ang Israel sa anumang kahulugan dahil ang Bukal ng Gihon ay hindi isang Ilog, at ang Ilog ay hindi maaaring nasa Israel ayon sa Genesis 2 maliban kung ililipat ang Israel sa Africa (na walang kaalaman); at hindi kailanman natagpuan sa India sa kabila ng pagkalito ni Josephus sa Ganges bilang ang Pison na dahilan kung bakit ang mga mapa noong Unang Siglo ay talagang naglalarawan ng Ganges sa Indochina. Oops!Mga Ilog Mula sa Eden Serye:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLru2qbCMGOi4psX493Wok20BN6aacr-sASa wakas, bakit Lanzones bilang ang Ipinagbabawal na Prutas? Walang banal na kasulatan ang tumutukoy doon bilang isang mansanas. Gayunpaman, inilalarawan ng Aklat ni Enoc ang bungang ito. Panoorin:Forbidden Fruit?: https://youtu.be/-zDrflASad8Bakit sina Adan at Eba Medium Brown sa pabalat? Ang sinumang tumatawag sa kanilang sarili na isang iskolar o akademiko na hindi alam ang "alikabok" kung saan nabuo si Adan ay "pula" ay hindi nagsagawa ng pananaliksik. Alamin kung ano ang sinasabi ng Bibliyang Hebreo. Panoorin: What Color Was Adam?: https://youtu.be/bVDmWI-Q_5MTangkilikin ang paglalakbay. Isang huling bagay, ito ang aming channel, at ang aming mga patakaran. Walang debate sa isang 8-min brief ng pananaliksik na nagmumula sa higit sa 1,000 nai-publish na mga pahina na sinusuportahan ng isang 300-pahinang Sourcebook, at 100+ na mga video. Ang mga magtatangka nito ay i-mute nang walang abiso. Nakasagot na kami sa malamang na bawat isa sa mga pagtutol na iyon sa kabuuan ng aming pananaliksSupport the show

Dieses Jahr hatte ich das Vergnügen, gemeinsam mit meinem Freund Marc die Esxence in Mailand – die weltweit größte Parfümmesse – zu besuchen. Doch wie kommt man eigentlich als Nicht-Creator auf ein solches Event? Welche Eindrücke hat Marc gesammelt, und welche Learnings nimmt er aus dieser einzigartigen Erfahrung mit? Genau darüber sprechen wir in dieser Folge! Natürlich konnten wir als echte Duftjunkies nicht widerstehen und haben uns durch unzählige Parfums geschnuppert, stets auf der Jagd nach den neuesten Trends. Unsere persönlichen Highlights, die spannendsten Neuentdeckungen und natürlich unsere duftenden Mitbringsel aus Mailand stellen wir euch heute vor. Doch das ist noch nicht alles: Wir haben exklusive Parfüm-Proben im Gepäck, die offiziell noch gar nicht auf dem Markt sind! Seid gespannt auf unseren ersten Eindruck, ehrliche Reviews und vielleicht sogar den ein oder anderen Geheimtipp. Freut euch auf eine duftende Reise zur Esxence 2025 mit Marc und Luke! (Unbezahlte Werbung wegen Markennennung und einem Gratisflakon) Dufthiglights:Marc: Maraviglia-Profumo di FirenzeLuke: Matelda Profumo di Firenze, Tulua Kietic, Amber Ameenah Düfte:- Thirsty-Fugazzi-Les Folies du Parfum (22.22, Korè, Tigris, BX)-Fusion Sacrée - obscur Majda Bekkali-Mareos-Acqua di Sardegna-The Spirit of Dubai àneue Interpretationen von Aamal, Haibah und Diwan (noch nicht auf Parfumo verfügbar stand 10.03.2025)-Dubai –Oud The Spirit of Dubai-Profumi di Polignano (Crema Limone, Wow, Immense acque)-Kinetic-Tulua-Royal Amber Birkholz, Incense N' Fire, -Len Say Sakura -LEN The best Offer (noch nicht auf dem Markt)-LEN dirty candy (noch nicht auf dem Markt)-Onyx Al-Jazeera (Marks Zhor Duft) -Quandoley 805-Maison Noir- Tiziana Terenzi-Iddu -Tiziana Terenzi-Kirke Overdose (noch nicht auf dem Markt)-Pernoire (Anelo, Kama, Tierra) -Parfums d'Elmar Velvet Paradise, Purple Rain (noch nicht verfügbar)-403 MyrrhShadow-Bon Parfumeur

«Water remembers. It is humans who forget.»En vanndråpe finner veien fra oldtidens Mesopotamia til en gategutt i London på 1840-tallet, så videre til en yazidisk familie i dagens Irak. Tre personers liv og skjebner bindes sammen gjennom to elver – Themsen og Tigris – og vannet som renner gjennom dem.I romanen Det er elver på himmelen (til norsk ved Bente Klinge) vever Elif Shafak sammen svunne riker, kolonitidens plyndringer, moderne konflikter og læren om vannets kretsløp, i en handling som strekker seg fra oldtiden og frem til dagens konflikter i Midtøsten. Med spenning, humor og et dyptloddende språk, er Det er elver på himmelen en bok som begeistrer og fascinerer, og har blitt hyllet av forfattere som blant annet Ian McEwan, Arundhati Roy og Mary Beard.Tyrkisk-britiske Elif Shafak er en av verdens fremste forfattere av historiske romaner. Gjennom sine fjorten romaner på tyrkisk og engelsk, har hun utforsket kulturelle spenninger og sosioøkonomiske ulikheter mellom øst og vest. Hun har i tillegg vært en aktiv stemme i kampen for ytringsfrihet og kvinners rettigheter, en samfunnsaktivisme som preger både skjønnlitteraturen og sakprosaen hennes. Hun bor i selvvalgt eksil i London, etter stadige rettslige trusler i Tyrkia mot virket hennes som forfatter.På Litteraturhuset møtte Shafak journalist og forfatter Marte Spurkland til en samtale om tid, aktivisme og vannets hukommelse.Samtalen er på engelsk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

«Water remembers. It is humans who forget.»A droplet of water finds its way from ancient Mesopotamia to a street urchin in 1840's London and on to a Yazidi family in present day Iraq. Three people's lives and destinies are connected by two rivers – the Thames and the Tigris – and the water which flows through them.In the novel There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak weaves together lost empires, colonial plunder, modern conflicts, and the study of water in a plot stretching from ancient time to the present. With thrill, humour and evocative language, There Are Rivers in the Sky is both enthralling and fascinating, and has been lauded by authors such as Ian McEwan, Arundhati Roy and Mary Beard.Turkish-British Elif Shafak is one of the world's foremost writers of historical fiction. Through her fourteen novels, she has explored cultural tensions and socioeconomic inequalities between East and West in historical and contemporary settings. She has also been an active champion of the freedom of speech and of human rights, particularly women's rights, an activism evident in both her fiction and non-fiction. She lives in London in self-imposed exile, after past and continuing threats in Turkey against her work as an author.At the House of Literature, Shafak meets author and journalist Marte Spurkland for a conversation on time, cultural conflicts, and the memory of water. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discover the enchanting history and ancient legends of the Philippines in "The Philippines: The Land of Gold - Unveiling Ancient Legends." Join us on a captivating journey as we explore the mythic connections to treasures like Paradise, Ophir, and Chryse. Through stunning aerial visuals and historical insights, we delve into the accounts of renowned explorers, from Roman geographers to Marco Polo, who depicted the Philippines as a land rich in gold and wealth.Learn about the cultural significance of gold in Filipino heritage and how these legendary narratives still resonate today. Don't forget to like and share this video to spread the magic of the Philippines! #Philippines #AncientLegends #Gold #Ophir #CulturalHeritage #traveldocumentary OUTLINE:00:00:00 Islands of Gold and Legend00:02:25 Charting the Golden Archipelago00:06:55 Whispers from Ancient Texts00:08:16 Ophir and the Eastern Trade Winds00:09:08 Gold in the Tapestry of Culture00:12:03 Echoes of Chryse and Argyre00:12:59 A Legacy Gilded in GoldFor our full position, which no one can challenge without actually reviewing (now, that is nonsense!), read our international books available on Amazon, International Bookstores, and Shopee PH:The Search For King Solomon's Treasure in English, Tagalog, or Ilokano (free in eBook); Garden of Eden Revealed: The Book of Maps; and our New Release, The Mystery of the Three Kings (in English or Tagalog, free in eBook)Links at our new website on: https://thegodculture.org/And watch Solomon's Gold Series:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLru2qbCMGOi4PhVocfJEi1oZRRj0AWnzxFor those immediately thinking about the location of the Rivers from Eden which are never represented in the Bible as the Occult Creation Myth in Mesopotamia is that origin, certainly never the Tigris which did not exist prior to the Flood according to Gen. 2; never Israel in any sense as the Gihon Spring is not a River, and the River cannot be in Israel according to Genesis 2 unless one moves Israel into Africa (which is illiterate); and never found in India despite Josephus' confusing the Ganges as the Pison which is why maps in the First Century actually illustrate the Ganges in Indochina. Oops! Rivers From Eden Series:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLru2qbCMGOi6Xt-ts2C1QVz-ZnAZxicWJFind the Garden of Eden Series:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLru2qbCMGOi4KPuAcFq4Bx4A2l8dmcfxPFinally, why Lanzones as the Forbidden Fruit? No scripture ever defines that as an apple. However, the Book of Enoch describes this fruit. Watch:Forbidden Fruit?: https://youtu.be/-zDrflASad8Why are Adam and Eve Medium Brown on the cover? Anyone calling themselves a scholar or academic that are not aware the "dust" from which Adam was formed was "red" has executed no research. Learn what the Hebrew Bible has always said. Watch: What Color Was Adam?: https://youtu.be/bVDmWI-Q_5MEnjoy the journey. One last thing, this is our channel, and our rules. There will be no debate on an 8-min brief of research that stems over 1,000 published pages supported by a 300-page Sourcebook, and 100+ videos. Those who attempt so will be muted without notice. We have already responded to likely every single one of those objections throughout our research and we are not entertaining trolling in ignorance. Go review the evidence, because an 8-min. brief is not such. One should know better. We invite you to review the full position even with skepticism. No one has proved these conclusions wrong in over 8 years now since 2017 when our first video went viral. Scoffing and ridicule are not positions, nor is "nuh uh." Yah Bless.TheGodCulture.comSupport the show

I'm not sure why you'd make a hall of fame that's not also a sidewalk, but that's exactly what BoardGameGeek have gone and done - they've curated 25 games into their hall of fame, and we're here to judge them for their choices. It's weird that they didn't come to us first, honestly. Before we deck the halls, we talk about Arborea, Beyond the Horizon, and Taiwan Night Market.  02:49 - Arborea 10:32 - Beyond the Horizon 20:43 - Taiwan Night Market 32:00 - BGG Hall of Fame  38:57 - Diplomacy 40:35 - Acquire 41:55 - Cosmic Encounter 43:25 - Civilization 45:05 - 1830: Railways and Robber Barons 45:46 - Magic The Gathering 48:02 - Catan 49:03 - El Grande 49:58 - Tigris and Euphrates 51:04 - Ra 52:07 - Carcassone 53:29 - Power Grid  53:49 - Ticket to Ride 54:16 - Caylus 55:26 - Twilight Struggle 56:26 - Through the Ages 58:17 - Agricola 59:35 - Brass 01:00:25 - Race for the Galaxy 01:01:53 - Dominion 01:02:38 - Pandemic 01:03:39 - Seven Wonders 01:04:51 - Castles of Burgundy 01:05:14 - Terra Mystica 01:06:54 - Concordia   Get added to the BGB community map at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/map   Send us topic ideas at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/topics   Check out our wiki at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/wiki   Join the discussion at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/discord   Join our Facebook group at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/facebook   Get a Board Game Barrage T-shirt at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/store

Betoverende bestseller die zich afspeelt rondom de rivieren Tigris en de Theems. Uitgegeven door Wereldbibliotheek Spreker: Beatrice van der Poel

not me pronouncing her name wrong for half the episode... anyway...In this episode, The Hunger Games content continues as Celeste delves into the chart for Tigris, the once beloved cousin of Coriolanus Snow, and one of the women who helped to raise him after his parents passed away. AstroFic will continue its Hunger Games series through the next book release.This podcast stands against colonialism and fascism in all of its forms. Free Palestine. Free Congo. Free Sudan. Free Tigray. Free Hawai'i. Free Guam. Free Puerto Rico. Land Back.Resources have been included in Celeste's linktr.ee below. They also share all the information and resources that they come across on her personal socials. You can also find links to donate to families in need.Celeste's Links:https://linktr.ee/celestialbinch

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 201 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Action Point Systems It's a throwback to the early days of Decision Space. Jake and Brendan have a wide-ranging, loosely planned conversation about a topic in board games. Today that topic is action point systems, which we've explored recently in Tikal and Mexica. We also bring cooperative games into the conversation and think about implication of action points for game design. All aboard! The Interdecisional Spaceship sets off for the next 200 episodes.   Games Mentioned Tikal, Mexica, Torres, Pandemic, Arkham Horror: the Living Card Game, Tigris & Euphrates, and more.   Preplanners Age of Innovation and Fromage coming up soon as deep dives!   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Intermission Music: music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!

Transcript:Hello, this is Pastor Don of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Our God is a God of abundance and generosity. This is seen in who He is and in all that He does. Just consider something as common as the earth God created, the ground we all walk on. It's made of dirt and rock. It's so cheap and mundane we trample it underfoot without thought. It's just “dirt”! Yet, that dirt is so rich and diverse in its elements that we can dig into it and draw out materials to produce stunning works of art and powerful supercomputers. We can fashion its elements into cars and smartphones. We can use it to construct buildings so tall they literally reach the clouds. We can split the atoms of some of these elements to create power for modern civilization. We can use other elements to make spaceships that explore the outer reaches of our solar system. This inherent abundance is why in Genesis, God commanded humans to “cultivate” the earth (Genesis 2). The word cultivate implies a generous potential hidden in the dirt under our feet—that God created the earth in such a way it can be developed and fashioned into something greater than it is. In this we see we need not have a scarcity mindset with the resources God has given to us. We can have a generosity abundance mindset, giving our stuff away to the glory of God, “cultivating” it, knowing God is able to return it multiplied to meet our every need. Something to think about from The Kingdom Perspective. “After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying: ‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts, great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.'”~Jeremiah 32:16-19 (ESV) “Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.”~Genesis 2:10-15

** VIDEO EN NUESTRO CANAL DE YOUTUBE **** https://youtube.com/live/puxD_KIwDzg +++++ Hazte con nuestras camisetas en https://www.bhmshop.app +++++ En el tercer milenio antes de Cristo, Sumeria estaba dividida en multitud de ciudades-estado que peleaban por la hegemonía política y económica. Pero en el curso medio del Tigris y el Éufrates, surgirá una nueva potencia, de cultura mesopotámica y lengua semita: los acadios. Haciendo uso de sus famosos arqueros, provistos de un militarismo más férreo, los hombres del norte serán acaudillados por una misteriosa figura: Sargón. Será el fundador de uno de los primeros imperios de la Humanidad. Tras la caída de esta dinastía, Ur será de nuevo un importante centro de poder en el sur. Nacerá el gran ziggurat, y algunas de las manifestaciones artísticas más impresionantes de este periodo. Un poder, sin embargo amenazado por enemigos externos: los guti y los martu. La ciudad caerá en medio de un gran lamento. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mesopotamia es la serie sobre la Historia de las civilizaciones entre los dos grandes ríos. Presentada por David Nievas y Aitor Céspedes Suárez para Bellumartis Puedes darnos un extra en: https://paypal.me/davidnievas o en BIZUM (+34) 611 / 27 / 53 / 20 COMPRA EN AMAZON CON EL ENLACE DE BHM Y AYUDANOS ************** https://amzn.to/3ZXUGQl ************* Si queréis apoyar a Bellumartis Historia Militar e invitarnos a un café o u una cerveza virtual por nuestro trabajo, podéis visitar nuestro PATREON https://www.patreon.com/bellumartis o en PAYPALhttps://www.paypal.me/bellumartis o en BIZUM 656/778/825

A 2025-ös évet, hagyományszerűen, inverz vakfolttal nyitjuk meg, vagyis olyan filmekkel, amelyek nemhogy nem pótolnivalóink, hanem többször is láttuk őket, mint illene. Ezúttal két távol-keleti filmmel készültünk, illeszkedve az évadunk tematikájához, amik az ezredforduló környékén készültek: Ang Lee Tigris és sárkány (2000) című alkotását, illetve Zhang Yimou Hős (2002) című filmjét választottuk. A két műről egy-egy órában beszélünk. Milyen volt a két film fogadtatása a nemzetközi közönség előtt? Mitől látványosak és mennyire költőiek a harcművészeti jelenetek, és ezek hogyan viszonyulnak a cselekményhez és a drámához?  Milyen különbségeket lehet felfedezni Zhang Yimou és Ang Lee hozzáállásában az akciójelenetekhez? Kiknek köszönhetők a pazar koreográfiák? Beszélünk arról is, mennyire máshogyan ábrázolák a szerelmet, és mennyire más a léptéke a két filmnek. Különböző értelmezéseket nyújtunk a Tigris és sárkány fináléjára, és a Hős kalligráfia-metaforájára is. Ezekről és még sok másról beszélgetünk az adásban, tartsatok velünk! Ha tetszett az adásunk, támogass bennünket a Vakfolt Extrával! Csatlakozz a Facebook-csoportunkhoz is! Mostantól Vakfolt logós pólót és egyéb kellékeket is szerezhetsz magadnak a webshopunkból! További linkek A Vakfolt podcast Facebook oldala A Vakfolt podcast az Instagramon A Vakfolt podcast a Twitteren Vakfolt címke a Letterboxdon A Vakfolt podcast a YouTube-on A Vakfolt podcast a YouTube Music-on A Vakfolt podcast a Spotify-on A Vakfolt podcast a Google podcasts oldalán A Vakfolt az Apple podcasts oldalán A főcímzenéért köszönet az Artur zenekarnak Emailen is elértek bennünket: ezitt@vakfoltpodcast.hu  

Explore the pivotal role of agriculture in shaping human history in our latest episode. Journey back to the ancient Near East, where the Fertile Crescent is celebrated as the birthplace of agriculture. Discover how the domestication of plants and animals in regions like Mesopotamia and the Levant led to the first large-scale cities and empires. This cradle of civilization, enriched by fertile soil and rivers like the Euphrates and Tigris, witnessed innovations such as artificial irrigation, crop rotation, and the use of plows, which transformed semi-nomadic groups into permanent agricultural societies. Delve into how agriculture's surplus production was essential for the emergence of urban centers and complex societies. In Mesopotamia, cereal grains became a cornerstone for taxation, supporting centralized governments and enabling trade and urbanization. The podcast underscores how agriculture not only sustained growing populations but also laid the foundation for specialized trades and empires, ultimately fueling human progress and civilization's advancement across the globe. Written and read by Jan van der Crabben. Original article: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/9/agriculture-in-the-fertile-crescent--mesopotamia/

SKEPTICS OFTEN claim that the Hebrew Bible must have been copied from older Mesopotamian texts. Frankly, this is lazy thinking by people looking for excuses not to deal with God. Our Iron and Myth crew joins us to discuss the relationship between the Bible and Mesopotamian religion: Doug Van Dorn (www.douglasvandorn.com), author of Giants: Sons of the Gods and Brian Godawa (www.Godawa.com), best-selling author of Chronicles of the Nephilim, Chronicles of the Watchers, the theological thriller Cruel Logic, and a forthcoming novel based on the period of the Maccabees in Judea. Sadly, Dr. Judd Burton (www.BurtonBeyond.net) was unable to join us this month. We discuss the parallels between creation stories from different cultures, including Mesopotamian and Mesoamerican myths, and the implications of these similarities for understanding the Bible. We dig into the nature of myth and history, the importance of context in biblical interpretation, and the need for a nuanced approach to understanding ancient texts. There is an intricate relationship between myth and history, particularly in the context of biblical narratives. It's important to understand ancient texts through the lens of genre and cultural context, and at the end of the day the Bible's authority does not negate the value of other literature.

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 188 - Top 10 Games of the '90s In this episode 3 copilots take on a tall task - rank the top 10 best euro-style board games of the '90s. We try out a wacky new format, it is kind of confusing, but don't worry because Brendan catches on eventually.  This episode may be best enjoyed in video format which you can see only on Patreon (free trials are available)! Timestamps Intro - 0:00 What we were ACTUALLY playing in the 90's - 1:45 90's Trends - 6:36 Number 20 through 11 - 13:45 TOP 10 - 18:29 NUMBER 10 (Bohnanza/Schotten Totten) - 20:10 NUMBER 9 (Schotten Totten/Lost Cities) - 23:30 NUMBER 8 (Through the Desert/High Society) - 25:40 NUMBER 7 (Tigris & Euphrates/6Nimmt) - 30:25 NUMBER 6 (Lost Cities x2) - 34:14 NUMBER 5 (Modern Art/High Society) - 37:00  NUMBER 4 (Tigris & Euphrates/High Society) - 43:00 NUMBER 3 (RA x2) - 44:09 NUMBER 2 and 1 (Tigris & Euphrates/El Grande) - 49:34 Complete List and Reflections - 55:01 Preplanners Brendan and I have been playing Burgle Bros and Mexica lately, so these are likely deep-dive candidates.   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Instagram @DecisionSpacePod and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!

====================================================SUSCRIBETEhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNpffyr-7_zP1x1lS89ByaQ?sub_confirmation=1=======================================================================EL FASCINANTE LABORATORIO DE DIOSDevoción Matutina para Adolescentes 2024Narrado por: Mone MuñozDesde: Buenos aires, Argentina===================|| www.drministries.org ||===================24 DE OCTUBREMENSAJE 2«Lo siguió un segundo ángel, que decía: "¡Ya cayó, ya cayó la gran Babilonia, la que emborrachó a todas las naciones con el vino de su prostitución!"» (Apocalipsis 14:8).LA ANTIGUA CIUDAD DE BABILONIA FUE considerada una joya de la Antigüedad, (situada entre los ríos Tigris, Éufrates, a unos 96 km de la capital iraquí, Bagdad) una de las mayores urbes de su tiempo y un importante centro cultural y político.La ciudad alcanzó su apogeo bajo el reinado de Nabucodonosor, que dominó varias naciones, entre ellas el reino de Judá. En esa época, Jerusalén fue atacada, el Templo destruido y el pueblo llevado cautivo. En 2019, investigadores de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte, Estados Unidos, hallaron evidencias de la conquista de Jerusalén por los babilonios, (cenizas, flechas y pedazos de vasijas) tal como está descrito en la Biblia. Babilonia fue también un importante centro de paganismo, y propagó el culto a sus dioses por toda la región. Pero en 539 a. C., la ciudad fue conquistada por Ciro el Grande de Medopersia.Cuando Juan escribió el libro del Apocalipsis, la ciudad de Babilonia era apenas una sombra de lo que había sido. Entonces, ¿cuál es la gran Babilonia, cuya caída es anunciada por el segundo mensaje angélico? Babilonia había sido para el pueblo de Dios un símbolo de opresión, confusión y paganismo. En el libro del Apocalipsis, tiene el mismo significado. Por lo tanto, el mensaje del segundo ángel es un mensaje de esperanza para el pueblo de Dios de que la oposición mundial a su ley y la confusión religiosa pronto llegarán a su fin. Dios nos ha dado la misión de llevar el mensaje de los tres ángeles a todas las personas, sin distinción. ¿Cómo difundirás hoy este mensaje? 

Episode: 1254 A new look at the wheel: the problem of rotation.  Today, another look at the invention of the wheel.

This week we are going to cover the rules for Tigris & Euphrates. Tigris & Euphrates is a game designed by Reiner Knizia and is illustrated by Bascu, Christine Conrad, Doris Matthäus, Tom Thiel, et.al.. The game is published by Hans im Glück.Tigris & Euphrates is a part of the Knizia Tile-Laying Trilogy (Samurai, Through the Desert, Tigris & Euphrates).About Tigris & EuphratesExpand your empire with the help of your four leaders along the Tigris & Euphrates River and take establish temples to build the most prosperous civilization.Chapters:00:00 Introduction02:26 Game Components04:46 Setup06:49 Object of the Game09:04 Turn Structure35:49 Game End and Winner36:42 Advanced Game Rules41:55 MCG Thoughts

Psalm 137 is a poignant and emotionally charged song of lament that expresses the deep sorrow, anger, and longing of the Israelites during their exile in Babylon. It is one of the most vivid depictions of the pain of exile and the yearning for Jerusalem in the entire Bible. This psalm contrasts sharply with others that express joy and thanksgiving, instead focusing on themes of suffering, loss, and a desire for justice. Structure and Themes: 1.The Sorrow of Exile (Verses 1-4): The psalm opens with a scene by the rivers of Babylon, where the Israelites are depicted as sitting and weeping when they remember Zion (Jerusalem). The rivers likely refer to the Euphrates and Tigris, which surrounded the land of their captors. •“By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.” (Verse 1) The weeping of the Israelites shows the depth of their grief, not only for the destruction of their homeland but also for the loss of their connection to the temple and their cultural identity. In exile, they are asked by their captors to sing “songs of Zion,” but they refuse. They find it impossible to sing songs of joy and worship in a foreign land, highlighting the dissonance between their current reality and their spiritual heritage. •“How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?” (Verse 4) 2.The Yearning for Jerusalem (Verses 5-6): These verses reflect the deep connection between the people and Jerusalem, especially as it was the center of their religious and national life. The psalmist declares a vow to never forget the city, emphasizing that Jerusalem holds a central place in their hearts and memories. •“If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you…” (Verses 5-6) These strong words express the psalmist's undying loyalty to Jerusalem. Forgetting Jerusalem would be akin to losing a fundamental part of their identity. The right hand represents the ability to work or create, and the tongue represents the ability to speak or sing, both of which would be rendered useless if the memory of Jerusalem were lost. 3.A Cry for Justice and Vengeance (Verses 7-9): The final verses shift in tone, moving from sorrow to a cry for justice, even vengeance, against the enemies of Israel. The psalmist calls upon God to remember the actions of the Edomites, who are accused of encouraging the Babylonians to destroy Jerusalem, and to bring judgment on Babylon itself. •“Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. ‘Tear it down,' they cried, ‘tear it down to its foundations!'” (Verse 7) The most challenging part of the psalm comes in verses 8-9, where the psalmist invokes a curse on Babylon, wishing for the destruction of their enemies and even the violent death of their children. This is a raw expression of the pain and anger felt by the exiles. •“Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” (Verses 8-9) These verses reflect the harsh realities of war and exile, as well as the deep desire for retribution against those who caused immense suffering. Though jarring to modern readers, this cry for vengeance must be understood in the context of the brutal experiences of the Israelites during their conquest and exile. Significance: Psalm 137 captures the raw, unfiltered emotions of a people in deep distress and exile. It is an expression of grief, longing for home, and a plea for divine justice in the face of suffering. The psalm reveals the psychological and spiritual toll of being uprooted from one's homeland and oppressed by foreign powers. •Themes of Memory and Identity: The psalm emphasizes the importance of remembering Jerusalem, symbolizing the persistence of faith and cultural identity, even in the face of suffering and displacement. •Lament and Justice: The desire for justice, even in the form of vengeance, reflects the human need for resolution after great wrongs. While the violent imagery is difficult, it illustrates the depth of pain and anger the Israelites felt, calling upon God to address the wrongs done to them. In summary, Psalm 137 is a somber reflection on the agony of exile, the longing for home, and the desire for justice. It is a powerful reminder of the emotional and spiritual costs of displacement, while also pointing to the importance of memory and identity in maintaining hope amid suffering.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sendme-radio--732966/support.

Today's Tigris and Euphrates don't match the description of the rivers of Eden. So why do they have the same names?

Daniel Chapters 6-10 Q&A: Lions, Beasts, and Angelic Beings, Oh My!In this episode of Sacrilegious Discourse, your favorite heathens dive into the bizarre and bewildering chapters of Daniel Chapters 6-10. Buckle up as we unravel the madness of lion's dens, cryptic visions, and angelic encounters that leave us scratching our heads and questioning our sanity.We kick things off with Daniel Chapter 6, where Daniel's infamous trip to the lion's den gets an unexpected twist. Why were the families of Daniel's accusers punished so harshly? It's a question that even the Bible doesn't seem to answer. We then transition into Daniel's surreal visions in Chapters 7-10, featuring beasts with multiple horns, a bear with ribs in its mouth, and a leopard with four heads and wings. Confused? So were we!Chapter 7 introduces us to four mysterious beasts representing different kingdoms, each more perplexing than the last. We break down the symbolism and attempt to decode the cryptic messages hidden within these visions. Moving on to Chapter 8, we encounter a ram and a goat in a prophetic showdown that leaves us pondering the historical and future implications.Chapter 9 brings us to Daniel's intense prayer and the infamous "70 weeks" prophecy. Is it weeks, years, or something else entirely? We try to make sense of the convoluted timeline and its supposed connection to the coming of the Messiah. Finally, in Chapter 10, Daniel has a terrifying encounter with a celestial being by the Tigris River, setting the stage for even more divine drama in the chapters to come.Whether you're here for the theological deep dive or just the laughs, this episode has a bit of everything. Tune in as we dissect Daniel Chapters 6-10 with our signature blend of skepticism and humor.Visit us at: SACRILEGIOUSDISCOURSE.COM and join us on Discord, where we interact the most AND have live episodes every Wednesday: https://discord.gg/VBnyTYV6nC Join Acast+ to enjoy our podcast adfree! https://plus.acast.com/s/sacrilegiousiscourse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, we were joined by Booker Prize-shortlisted author Elif Shafak to discuss There Are Rivers in the Sky, her centuries-spanning new novel that follows three historical characters connected by ancient bodies of water. We cover matters great and small, from the idea of water as a holder of memory to whether Elif is the type of person who will dispose of a tea mug or article of clothing once there is visible damage to it. We explore her relationship with The British Museum, inevitably weighing in on the much-politicised Elgin Marbles debate, and whether cultural artefacts belong to a region's government or its people. Finally, we discuss Elif's years of investigation by the Turkish government following the publication of The Bastard of Istanbul, with its depiction of the Armenian Genocide, and the surreal nature of seeing your fictional characters be put on trial in a court of law.Hosted by Ryan Edgington and Matt Hennessey.

Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 22. Welcome back to the Tigris-cast featuring Tigris. This week, special guests Nina and Thom stop by to chat about Gundam, the Tiger of Space, yet another stoic 30-something-year-old antagonist with a lesson to impart, and the worst group project ever. Plus we talk about names both new and old, inexplicable translation changes, and a turtle with pretty good energy. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment. You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, visit our website GundamPodcast.com, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com. Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photos and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licenses. All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it. Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com

Show Notes Friends, Tigris, our 18-year-old podcat, has been very sick all week and we're not sure at this point whether she will be able to pull through. Between worrying about her, taking care of her, and making sure she can see a veterinarian, we haven't had much time to work on the podcast. We're hopeful that we'll be able to share good news with you in the episode next week. For now we hope you all have a good week, and if you have pets of your own, please let them know how much you love them. Thank you for your patience and your support, Nina and Thom

Art critic and journalist Kaelen Wilson-Goldie joins us for a sweeping look at the life, writing, and art of singular Lebanese author-artist Etel Adnan (1925-2021). Kaelin Wilson-Goldie's Etel Adnan is available from Lund Humphries.Adnan's Time, translated by Sarah Riggs, is available from Nightboat Books.The Beauty of Light, a collection of interviews with Laure Adler, is available from Nightboat Books in Ethan Mitchell's translation. It was initially published in French, as "La beauté de la lumière, entretiens," by Éditions de seuil, in 2022.An excerpt from Adnan's “Jebu” is available in the single issue of the magazine Tigris, hosted on ArabLit.Sitt Marie Rose is available in Georgina Kleege's English translation from the Post-Apollo Press.Adnan's essay “On Small Magazines,” where she writes of meeting Abdellatif Laâbi, is available on Bidoun.Adnan's “To Write in a Foreign Language” describes her journey with and through languages.All the images used in promotion of this episode are courtesy of the Sfeir-Semler Gallery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 175 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Progression It's a what we talk about episode on progression and the two ways it shows up in board games -- progression through games and progression in games. Decisionaughts, let's rock!   Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Progression (WWTA) - 2:49 Games Mentioned Magic: The Gathering, Spirit Island, Challengers!, 7 Wonders, Dominion, Modern Art, Dune Imperium, Twilight Imperium, My City, Can't Stop, Scythe, Age of Innovation, Findorff, Samurai Spirit, Hey That's My Fish, The Castles of Burgundy, BattleCon, Blood Rage, Blue Lagoon, Great Western Trail, Tigris & Euphrates, Raiders of the North Sea, and The Quest for El Dorado.   Pre-Planners Dominion   Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Instagram @DecisionSpacePod and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!

Hey Now and welcome to episode 299 of The Secret Cabal in which the gang gets deep into a bunch of the games they've been playing including Skyrise, Cascadero, Tigris and Euphrates, Zoo Vadis, Masters of the Universe Clash for Eternia, and feature Fractured Sky by Max Anderson, Zac Dixon, and Austin Harrison. Then Tony T gives us his world-renowned tabletop gaming new segments followed by a short topic extravaganza including oversaturation, exclusives, and our favorite games that we rarely play. Fractured Sky 01:06:52, News with Tony T 01:43:09, Short Topic Extravaganza 02:35:16.

Al despuntar el siglo VII el imperio romano de Oriente, más conocido desde hace tres siglos como imperio bizantino, era lo más parecido al centro del mundo. Su capital, la ciudad de Constantinopla, tenía más de medio millón de habitantes y era un emporio comercial y cultural de primer orden, el más importante del Mediterráneo. Desde allí se gobernaba un imperio inmenso que iba desde la costa sur de Hispania hasta los desiertos de Oriente Medio y desde el valle del Danubio hasta el del Nilo. Como poder hegemónico Bizancio marcaba las modas y extendía su influencia mucho más allá de sus fronteras. Pero el trono lo ocupaba un emperador no especialmente popular, Focas, un militar que en el año 602 había depuesto a Mauricio, el último emperador de la dinastía justiniana. Fue en ese momento cuando apareció Heraclio, hijo del exarca de África que alentó una revuelta contra Focas y reclamó el título imperial. Heraclio heredó un imperio en crisis, amenazado por los persas sasánidas por el este y los ávaros por el norte, pero tenía voluntad de devolver a Bizancio su antiguo esplendor. No fue asunto sencillo. Durante el reinado de Focas el imperio había perdido el pulso y cedía en todos los frentes. Los persas de Cosroes II se habían apoderado del Levante y se habían abierto camino por Anatolia hasta el Bósforo. La mismísima Constantinopla llegó a estar bajo asedio, pero la ciudad estaba bien protegida por sus imponentes murallas y una gran armada. Heraclio rechazó a los persas y pasó al contraataque. Pero era mucho el trabajo pendiente. Reorganizó el ejército y se lanzó contra los persas, a quienes terminó venciendo tras una serie de campañas victoriosas que consumieron varios años. Llegó incluso a tomar y saquear el palacio de Cosroes en Dastagird, a orillas del Tigris. Aquello le costó la corona al emperador persa, que fue derrocado por su hijo, Kavad II, quien suplicó un tratado de paz a los bizantinos. Heraclio fue magnánimo y se lo concedió, pero sólo a cambio de que se retirasen de todos los territorios que habían ocupado. Se reservó también el título de rey de reyes que tradicionalmente llevaban los monarcas persas. Esa victoria le consagraría como el gran restaurador que aseguró la pervivencia del imperio. Para celebrarlo devolvió la Veracruz a Jerusalén y adoptó el título de Basileus, una palabra griega que significa soberano y que los emperadores de Bizancio utilizarían durante ocho siglos. Pero la prolongada guerra entre persas y bizantinos dejó exhaustos a ambos. Apareció entonces otra amenaza en los confines sudorientales del imperio, la de los árabes que, acaudillados por el califa Umar, penetraron en territorio bizantino y conquistaron en un periodo muy corto de tiempo Siria, Egipto, Armenia y Mesopotamia. El imperio persa sucumbió, el bizantino consiguió resistir, pero despojado de sus regiones más ricas y pobladas. A pesar de las pérdidas territoriales, Heraclio dejó un magnífico legado que permitió que Bizancio sobreviviese al huracán desatado en el desierto arábigo a mediados del siglo VII. El islam se expandió en todas direcciones, pero no consiguió rendir a los bizantinos, en buena medida por las reformas militares y administrativas que Heraclio puso en marcha. A él se debe, por ejemplo, que el griego se convirtiese en la lengua imperial por encima del latín, o que el corazón del imperio se trasladase a Anatolia y el sudeste de Europa. El Bizancio medieval nació con él y su dinastía. Durante siglos los reyes latinos de Occidente le profesaron una rendida admiración, le consideraban el príncipe cristiano por excelencia y así lo hicieron ver en cuadros y esculturas. Todos en mayor o menor medida se sentían herederos de Heraclio, al que tenían como el primer cruzado. Pues bien, para abordar esta interesantísima figura nos acompaña hoy en La ContraHistoria José Soto Chica, un sabio de nuestro tiempo que ya ha pasado por el programa en otras ocasiones, una de ellas hace un par de años para hablar del imperio bizantino. José es especialista en historia de Bizancio y, además de eso, un divulgador extraordinario. Bibliografía: - “Bizancio. Los primeros siglos” de John Julius Norwich - https://amzn.to/3RqiOZW - “Historia de Bizancio” de Emilio Cabrera - https://amzn.to/4cjYMrM - “Constantinopla” de Isaac Asimov - https://amzn.to/45liMbx - “Breve historia de Bizancio” de David Hernández de la Fuente - https://amzn.to/3VDEggv - “El imperio bizantino” de George William - https://amzn.to/3XluuRg Los libros de José Soto Chica: - "Imperios y bárbaros" - https://amzn.to/3Vq6mKZ - "El águila y los cuervos" - https://amzn.to/3Rtcvoh - "Leovigildo" - https://amzn.to/4cm0ppg - "Los visigodos" - https://amzn.to/3VGtINC - "Egilona" - https://amzn.to/45F1giJ - "El dios que habita la espada" - https://amzn.to/4ciCE1g - "Bajo el fuego y la sal" - https://amzn.to/45mNAZk Y de propina... - "Metafísica de la victoria" de Ciro Alejandro Aníbal Soto - https://amzn.to/4ejcGfR Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals